February 14, 2012 | The Miami Student

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Cheezies aim for fame with first studio album

By Lauren Kiggins For The Miami Student

This past weekend, the phrase “cabin fever” assumed a whole new meaning to The Cheezies. The 16-member group spent 38 hours over the weekend cloistered in the Miami University Glee Club’s traditional pass-down house, the “Club House,” recording their first professional album, Front and Center.

The Cheezies, who have performed at such venues as the Bicentennial Charter Day Ball and a Detroit Lions football game, are one of Miami University’s all-male a cappella ensembles.

Over the past two years, The Cheezies have been raising money through performances and donations in anticipation of this project.

“The Cheezies are very driven and determined, so there are a lot of opportunities that come along with this group,” first-year Michael Wallace said. “We said from the get-go that we wanted this [professional album], and here we are.”

The 16 vocalists began recording at 2 p.m. Friday. Friday and Saturday night saw 3 a.m. wrap-up times and recording began very early on Saturday and Sunday.

According to senior Adam Saxe, being locked up in the house together has been an experience in itself.

“We’ve gotten closer musically and from the standpoint of being a group,” Music Director Chris Walsh said.

All tracks on the album have been arranged by a Miami student or professor. Tracks include “Domino”

by Jessie J, “Breakeven” by The Script and “Little Lion Man” by Mumford & Sons.

The ensemble worked with the founder of ACappellaPsych and noted producer Matt Caruso to produce the album. Caruso transformed the house’s attic into a studio for recording sessions.

“A big part of the recording process is the group’s preparation, and these guys put in the time before,” Caruso said. “It’s been great getting to know the guys and forming

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(From left) Producer Matt Caruso and Cheezies members Michael Wallace, Adam Saxe and Chris Walsh listen to a take of “Little Lion Man” while the second tenors record their parts for Front and Center, The Cheezies’ upcoming album, which will be available on iTunes and on CD. A release party is scheduled for March 29 at Top Deck. that comradery.”

For each song, Caruso recorded two vocalists singing only two bars at a time.

“You’ve never seen people get so excited about one person singing 10 seconds of a song perfectly,” Walsh said.

Because the recording process is unpredictable, the vocalists did not leave the house when they were

not recording.

“To relax and stay sane, we played lots of video games and watched sports,” Business Director CJ Blankenship said.

The group had big family-style meals and took care of their voices with hot tea, Ricola, and tablespoons of honey in between sessions.

“There were moments where people got through runs and there

were moments where people struggled,” Walsh said. “Born out of that is big success.”

The Cheezies are hosting a CD release party uptown Thursday, March 29 at Top Deck for a first opportunity to listen to the album.

Front and Center will be available digitally on iTunes and hard copies will be sold by members of the ensemble.

Miami’s endowment continues recovery, nears pre-recession levels

By Allison McGillivray Senior Staff Writer

Miami University’s Office of Treasury noted an increase in the university’s endowment in 2011.

The endowment had recently seen a decrease in 2009 due to the economic downturn.

As of June 30, 2011, Miami University reached a total of 2,000 endowment funds totaling almost $403.1 million, a 15.8 percent increase from 2010 and a 21.62 percent increase from 2009.

Miami has the 166th highest endowment of the 839 colleges and universities participating in the survey put out by National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).

Chief Investment Officer Bruce Guiot said Miami is starting to see more endowments again after a drop off during the 2008-2009 economic downturn.

“The economic difficulties brought on in 2008-2009, we saw a

big drop off,” Guiot said. “We saw out-standing pledges being honored but we weren’t seeing new commitments as much, there was a big drop there, and things have picked up from where they were in 2009.”

Miami’s endowment reached approximately $404.7 in 2008 but fell to only $315.9 in 2009 for a loss of 21.9 percent.

An endowment is a gift made to the university from a donor that is intended to be invested so that the fund grows over time. The earnings can be used to continually fund a project, according to Kevin Marks, senior director of development of campaign service for university advancement.

“Endowments” refers to individual gifts but a university is also said to have an “endowment” which refers to the total amount of money that has come from those endowments since the university began collecting them.

Once an endowment reaches a certain threshold, approximately

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4.5 percent of that endowment is distributed each year and used in accordance with the restrictions the donor has defined for that gift. Guiot manages these endowments.

An endowment is different from a current-use gift, according to Guiot.

A current-use gift can be spent right away, whereas an endowment will be invested and then the earnings on that investment will be used annually to fund a project for a long period of time.

According to Guiot, a currentuse gift is more likely to be used on construction, buildings and other short-term projects.

Guiot said most donors place restrictions on their gifts, which determine how their money can be spent.

“If someone says for example ‘oh you are sitting on all this money why don’t you just use it for x’. We can’t. We have to use it for the purpose that the downer intended us to use it for,” Guiot said.

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(TO FAIL RATHER THAN TO BE USEFUL)

Red and blue paint cover the Miami University seal, located in The Hub, Friday morning. The paint was removed Friday afternoon by members of the physical facilities staff. The vandals are unknown and the cost for the paint removal is unknown.

Guiot said a common restriction that donors place on their endowments is that they must be used for scholarships.

“When you look at those restrictions that are on all of those individual endowed funds roughly half of those donors said use this endowment for scholarships, so that’s the biggest impact,” Guiot said.

Junior Justine Furbeck received the Robert Keller Memorial scholarship from an endowment gift.

“I got a little bit of recognition in my own major with having that scholarship,” Furbeck said.

Furbeck said earning the scholarship helped her pay for Miami.

“I knew there were some departmental scholarships open in the English department for juniors and seniors,” Furbeck said.

“I had financial aid from Miami but not a lot so I could use the extra scholarships.”

Occasionally, a donor may make an unrestricted endowment, which means that they do not decide where the money will be used by the university.

Unlike current-use gifts, endowments have a minimum amount of $25,000 that can be donated.

Guiot said gifts smaller than $25,000 do not develop significant earnings, which are needed to continually fund a project.

However, the donor does not have to pay their full donation up front, according to Guiot and Marks.

Guiot said Miami receives a wide monetary range of endowment gifts from the minimum $25,000 to millions of dollars.

Marks said 54 percent of the $435 million worth of commitments brought in by the For Love and Honor campaign has been earmarked for endowments. This equals out to be $234 million over the life of the campaign.

Guiot said Miami has the third largest endowment of the public schools in Ohio, with the Ohio State University (OSU) being the first at roughly $2 billion, followed

by University of Cincinnati (UC) at roughly $1 billion.

The rest of the Ohio public universities are in the $150 million to $300 million range.

According to the NACUBO survey, Harvard University has the largest endowment with $31.7 billion.

Guiot said private schools like Harvard University have had historically better endowments.

“The private schools have made a greater effort towards fundraising, because that was a significant part of their financial well-being,” Guiot said. “They didn’t have the governmental support that many of the publics had.”

Guiot said it became part of the culture of private school alumni to donate endowments, whereas public school alumni assume a large portion of their school’s funding comes from government.

“It sort of becomes part of the culture for the alumni they know they are supposed to write a check every year,” Guiot said.

Guiot said over the last 10 to 15 years, many public colleges and universities have concentrated on fundraising as a result of decreasing governmental assistance.

Guiot also said public schools with larger enrollments are likely to have a larger endowment.

“If everybody gives just a little bit, it’s big dollars just because there are so many alumni,” Guiot said.

However, public schools with larger enrollments like Miami and OSU tend to have a lower endowment-per-student ratio.

Guiot said via email that Miami recently combined the two pools of its two endowment organizations in order to be more efficient and to provide stronger governance.

“We have two separate endowments,” Guiot said. “There is the university endowment and then there is the Miami University Foundation and that has an endowment too. [It’s] a separate legal entity it has a separate board of directors, and until this past summer we were managing those two investment pools separately.”

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Editors Lauren Ceronie JENN SMOLA

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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Tibet supporters to hold vigil, day of silence Nicole Weinrich

For The Miami Student

Although thousands of miles separate Miami University from Tibet, the two places are intertwined through the experiences of a handful of Miami students.

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) Miami will be hosting a candlelight vigil at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday on the Shriver Center patio in hopes of bringing awareness to the value of human life and rights.

This spiritually-centered event will include members of SFT Miami sharing inspirational quotes, poems and songs in memory of Tibetans who have died during a recent series of self-immolations, the practice of lighting oneself on fire, according to Samantha Musser, a senior involved in SFT. Musser studied abroad in northern India through the Tibetan Studies program in fall 2010.

Leading up to the vigil on Wednesday, SFT Miami invites

students across campus to participate in a day of silence as “a reminder of the power of one’s voice to give or take away worth of another,” according to SFT Miami member Sonam Tsomo, who is a Tibetan student studying at Miami.

SFT Miami largely draws its membership from Miami students who studied abroad in Dharamsala, India, the site of the Dalai Lama’s residence and the Tibetan government in exile. About a dozen Miami students studied in Dharamsala during the fall semesters of 2009, 2010 and 2011, according to Musser.

Miami students on the program split their time between living with Tibetan roommates at a Tibetan college and living with Tibetan host families.

Upon returning from this study abroad venture, many Miami students are struck by the issues facing Tibetan individuals and feel a call to action, according

The immolations show that we have suffered so much, but that isn’t going to discourage us from voicing our desire for freedom.”

Sonam tsomo

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to Musser.

SFT is an international organization that has taken root at Miami since the growth of the Tibetan Studies program. SFT Miami describes itself as a “spiritually and politically active and culturally diverse group, whose main goal is to bring awareness of human rights violations in Tibet to Miami’s campus,” Musser said.

Since March 2011, there have been 19 confirmed cases of Tibetans self-immolating to protest Chinese policies in Tibet.

Most of those involved have been Buddhist monks and nuns,

Tsomo said.

The self-immolations have made a huge impact on the Tibetan community around the world because Buddhism generally opposes violence, including suicide, according to Tsomo.

SFT Miami responds to the tragic cases of self-immolation in Tibet with both sadness and courage to fight on.

Tsomo, reflected on the cases of self-immolation.

“I see this as a way these people are wishing to voice how severe this issue truly is,” Tsomo said.

Tsomo, a junior, received a

scholarship to attend Miami through the Tibetan Studies Program. She was born in exile in northern India after her parents were forced to flee from Tibet.

“Everyone says home is where the heart is, but for me home is unseen and unknown. My mom talks about how wonderful Tibet it and has many stories of her childhood, but I have never been there. I kind of see Tibet through my mother’s eyes, but I want to go there and see it myself,” Tsomo said.

Tsomo is one of only three Tibetan students at Miami.

SFT Miami hopes to bring awareness to stories such as Tsomo’s, as well as the individuals who have chosen suffering as means of protest.

“For me, this vigil reminds me of how precious the human life truly is,” Musser said.

It is this message that SFT

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Rinella Learning Center tutors question what happens to session no-show fees

BY KAITLIN SCHROEDER FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

ANDREW BRAY THE MIAMI STUDENT

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Miami University Swing Syndicate hosts its annual MUDE (Miami University Dance Exchange) Swings last weekend at the Farmer School of Business.

At the Rinella Learning Center, if a student misses an appointment or cancels less than 24 hours from the appointment, his or her normally free session becomes a $10 bursar charge. Tutors at the Rinella Learning Center are wondering where the money from these charges is going.

Senior tutor Amanda Gaerke said many tutors are frustrated that despite these charges, the student workers are not paid for the full hour they set aside to work.

“It seems like if they are billed $10 to their bursar then we should still get paid. We don’t even get paid $10 an hour,” Gaerke said.

Gaerke, a tutor for the past four semesters, said she wrote a letter last November about the problem to be read at a Rinella Learning Center staff meeting but has not received any feedback yet from the higher staff.

Linda Dixon, associate dean of student retention and learning, said the center had no comment on the article.

The tutors can clock in 10 minutes before and after 15 minutes of

waiting, clock back out. She said as the semester continues, students are less likely to show up for their tutoring times.

Maria Fedyszyn, a sophomore who tutors physics and chemistry, said she tutored three clients in a row last semester and would need to clock out between clients if they did not show up.

“I only get paid for 25 minutes of my time, but I took out an hour block of my time to be there. It’s not that bad if I only have one client for the day and they no-show,” she said.

“But if you have multiple clients, you just sit there and wait doing nothing and unless you guess your client is not going to show up and bring homework.”

Fedyszyn said she appreciates her flexible work schedule but would like to be able to remain clocked in her entire time at the tutoring center.

“I would almost rather be clerical staff where I would have set hours and work the whole time,” she said.

“Tutoring fits with my crazy schedule, but it’s frustrating when people don’t show up. It kills your time.”

David Ellis, associate vice president of budgeting and analysis,

said the money from the no-show and cancelation fees go into the university general fund, into a revenue account containing $17,140.

His office is unable to tell how much is deposited from the fees into the account.

The Rinella Learning Center’s expenses totaled a little over $1 million for the last fiscal year, ending June 30.

The Howe Writing Center, which offers tutoring specifically for writing, does not charge a fee for noshows or late cancellations. There, a student tutor is allowed to remain clocked in if a student does not show and the tutor is waiting for their next client’s appointment so they can assist walk-in students at the center.

At the end of last semester, Kate Schindler, a sophomore and French tutor at the Rinella Learning Center, said she and the other first-time tutors had a chance to give feedback to the graduate assistants who work with the program. She said the students talked about how they would like a policy change on this matter.

“The graduate students didn’t really have much control over that,” she said. “I think they were going to pass it along to their higher ups.”

Media scholar Robert McChesney to Engineering Building takes visit Miami, discuss future of journalism name of former president

BY MEKENNA SANDSTROM

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

In the current era of budget cuts and newsroom downsizing, many media critics wonder whether American journalism’s best days have passed. But one man believes he may have the solution to this crisis, which could save journalism.

On Miami University’s campus Thursday and Friday, media scholar Robert McChesney will be speaking and facilitating roundtable discussions regarding the future of journalism.

McChesney is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has written several books and other pieces that focus on many aspects of communication, including how communication has shaped the media industry. He is the cocreator of Free Press (www.freepress.net), a non-profit organization that works to reform social media according to senior lecturer Patricia Newberry. “[McChesney] is probably the most renowned scholar on the topic of media reform,” Newberry

By Kaila Frisone

For The Miami Student

[McChesney] will highlight the role that the media plays, the important role of keeping us all informed citizens and why it’s important that there be support for the media going forward. ” PATRICIA NEWBERRY

SENIOR JOURNALISM LECTURER

said. “We’re going through a real crisis in journalism in our country with many of our traditional media companies under attack — under a great burden of debt of competing with the Internet and many of them are struggling.”

With this in mind, is there anything that could save the media industry from collapse? Robert McChesney believes there is a solution to this dilemma, which is highlighted in his 2010 book (co-written with journalist John Nichols) The Death and Life of American Journalism. McChesney believes through taxing, not bailouts, we could save the media and maintain its unique aspects, according to the fourth chapter in his book.

Joseph Frame, a first-year zoology major was asked what he thinks about McChesney’s idea of

taxing items such as cell phones and TVs to save the media.

“I think people will pay money to save their TV and phone because they want to stay in contact with the outside world,” Frame said.

Newberry said she hopes McChesney will “highlight the role that media plays, the important role of keeping us all informed citizens and why it’s important that there be support for the media going forward.”

Robert McChesney’s lecture will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Heritage Room at the Shriver Center. Friday, he will be interviewed by Jared Ball from Black Agenda Radio from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. in McGuffey Hall Room 322.

Following will be roundtable discussions for students and other guests to participate and share their thoughts and questions.

At the recommendation of the Naming Committee, the Miami University Board of Trustees voted February 3 to name the central section of the Engineering Building after James Garland, who served as Miami’s president from 1996-2006.

School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Dean Marek Dollár and several SEAS faculty members recommended to the Naming Committee that the central section be called Garland Hall.

Donald Crain, chairman of the board of trustees, as well as three former chairmen, recommended Garland’s name be given to that facility.

The Committee on Naming of Building Facilities serves as an advisory board that recommends suitable names for the buildings, facilities and programs to the Board of Trustees.

They recommend names to the Board for facilities on Miami’s campuses in Oxford, Middletown and Luxembourg.

The committee is comprised of three faculty and staff members

(at least one with emeritus rank), four alumni representatives, one current member of the Board of Trustees, and the Vice President for University Advancement.

The committee makes its recommendations on two criteria.

First, the name could pay tribute to an alumnus, faculty member, administrator, trustee or distinguished citizen for their service to Miami, according to Mackenzie Becker Rice, director of University Advancement Administration.

Second, the name could honor a donor who has made a substantial financial contribution to a building, facility or program.

The donor could have also provided the total cost of a component of a new or existing building, or made construction of a building or facility achievable, according to Rice.

The donor can be living or deceased, and the Vice President for University Advancement determines specific contribution levels upon recommendation of the Stewardship Committee of the Miami University Foundation, according to Rice.

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Miami hopes to share during the upcoming event.

Tsomo will share a poem that she wrote “for the people who burned themselves for freedom, for the sacred freedom,” she said.

“The immolations show that we have suffered so much, but that isn’t going to discourage us from voicing our desire for freedom,” Tsomo said. “We will march forward and struggle more and hopefully one day, we will get our freedom and return to Tibet.”

Emily Nick, a sophomore psychology student, is curious as to why the building for her major has not yet been named.

“I think the Psychology Building should be named after someone who had an impact on the psychology department here at Miami,” Nick said. “It would be nice to have a name like most other buildings on campus.”

Rice said the Psychology Building and other unnamed buildings do not currently have any prospective names.

According to Rice, the

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naming committee discussed naming a not yet existent residence hall after Robert Etheridge, former Vice President of Student Affairs who died June 9, 2010. However, it is too soon for the name to be approved.

The committee will not normally consider the person whose name may be honored until three to five years after his or her retirement, resignation or death.

“Rather than making a rushed decision, we allow some time to really think through what should happen, what’s the right decision, and what’s the right naming opportunity for that person,” Rice said.

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ROBERT E. STRIPPEL MEMORIAL CONTINUING DIALOGUE ON JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM Oxford campus

Thursday, February 16 LECTURE

MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY AND THE COMING UPHEAVAL 7:30 p.m., Heritage Room, Shriver Center

Robert McChesney, Research Professor, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Friday, February 17 SYMPOSIUM

MEDIA AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF DEMOCRACY: A CALL TO ACTION 9:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., 322 McGuffey Robert McChesney, Jared Ball (Black Agenda Radio), and local journalists discuss the future of journalism and facilitate roundtable discussions.

Jared Ball, Black Agenda Radio

These events are sponsored by the Robert E. Strippel Memorial Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human Rights in partnership with the Center for American and World Cultures and with support from the Black World Studies Program, the Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, the Department of Communication, the Department of Educational Leadership, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Sociology and Gerontology, the Humanities Center, the Journalism Program, Oxford Citizens for Peace and Justice, the Western Program, and the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute

For more information about this program, visit The Center for American and World Cultures at www.cawc.muohio.edu/spring-events Please contact the Office of Disability Resources, (513) 529-1541, at least one week prior to the event to request accomodations such as real-time captioning or sign language interpreters.

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Editors JUSTIN REASH LISA REYMANN

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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POLICE Candidates focus on Ohio

BEAT Male arrested after Officer sees penis

Around midnight Saturday, a male was fumbling towards the road on S. Campus Avenue. An Oxford police officer was in his cruiser and pulled up to the male as he attempted to urinate. The male’s genitalia was exposed in the open so the officer got out of his car. The male immediately put his genitalia back in his pants and waited for the officer to approach him. The officer observed slurred speech and identified the male as 20-year-old Tyler McCullough. McCullough was charged with underage drinking and disorderly conduct — public intoxication.

First-year flees after Bagel & Deli fight Around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, a male was described as a suspect in an assault that occurred at Bagel and Deli. An Oxford police officer stopped the suspect at the intersection of High and Poplar Streets and asked for identification. The male couldn’t provide any. The officer went to handcuff the male but he wouldn’t let the officer access his hands. The male tried escaping the officer so the officer took him by his upper body but the male got away and started to run on S. Poplar Street. The male continued to run and dove and landed on his face. The officer then landed on top of him. They were on the ground and he tried to escape again so the officer tried tripping him. The male broke free again and ran south then east on E. Walnut Street. The officer called for backup and police formed a perimeter. One of the officers heard males yelling and telling someone to get out of their house so they went over to check the scene and the male was there.

The officers met and identified the male as Miami University first-year Conner Ahlgren. The officers arrested him behind the Acacia house and brought him to the station. There, the officers noticed slurred speech. Ahlgren was charged with assault, resisting arrest, underage offenses and obstructing official business. The officer who first spotted Ahlgren suffered minor injuries.

Man can’t resist the lure of Brickstreet Around midnight Thursday, Brick Street Bar and Grill called Oxford police to report that a subject that was kicked out of the bar due to disruptive behavior had returned to the establishment. An officer responded to the call and warned the subject of criminal trespass should he decide to return. The subject’s information was put into the system and other officers were notified about the warning. The officer then saw the subject in the alley near the rear door of Brick Street and had to remove him once again. The subject would not willingly leave and had to be escorted out of the building. The officer stopped him in front of Brick Street on the High Street side and identified the subject as Max Talbot. The officer confirmed that this was the male that they warned about trespassing.

Talbot had an odor of alcohol on his breath while he spoke to the officer. Talbot said he was only 20 years old and admitted that he had consumed alcohol. The officer also noticed blood shot and glassy eyes and confused speech while questioning him.

Talbot was taken into the station and charged with criminal trespass and underage drinking.

By Rebecca Zemmelman For The Miami Student

Ohio is one of the 10 states holding its primary to select the Republican candidate who will oppose President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, on Super Tuesday, which falls on March 6 this year.

Vice President for Miami University College Democrats Laura Kretz said Ohio has an important role in any election.

“The political saying ‘So goes Ohio, so goes the nation,’ rings true in every presidential election cycle,” Kretz said. “All serious presidential campaigns are well aware of this and I think it is important that their campaigns focus on Ohio because it is such a swing state.”

Kretz said she thinks the primary is held later in Ohio because of this and allows more time to narrow the field to the strongest candidates.

David Kern, the Butler County chairman for the Ohio Republican Party, confirmed candidates will indeed be paying attention to Ohio and will be making appearances between now and March.

“When you consider the importance that Butler County had for President [George] Bush and Governor [John] Kasich’s elections, I can assure you the candidates will be here and actively engaged,” Kern said. “The phone calls, emails and contacts being made will be significant to the primary. The Republican

community of Butler County and Southwest Ohio has been very supportive of the candidates too.”

Kern said Kasich won his election by 100,000 votes, one third of which came from Butler County.

According to Kern, Rick Santorum will be attending Warren County’s Lincoln Day Friday and Brown County’s Lincoln Day Friday night.

Additionally, Mike Campbell, the Butler County Administrator, said

predict at this point who will win in Ohio. He said momentum could be a factor in the outcome.

“My sense is that Santorum did gain some momentum after last week’s sweep of Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota,” Marshall said.

“Santorum has said that he will campaign very hard and give Romney a run for his money in Michigan, which is more-or-less the home state for Romney. The Michigan primary

I think it is important that [serious presidential] campaigns focus on Ohio because it is such a swing state.” laura kretz

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Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have also already made appearances in southwest Ohio.

Campbell is preparing for the March 6 date with the Board of Elections.

“I’m looking at the management side of being able to provide the election poll workers and the funds for the polls to run and operate,” Campbell said. “We have approximately 1,200 poll workers and 100 poll places in Butler County. We also have an IT department which helps with the tabulations.”

Miami political science professor Bryan Marshall said it is difficult to

is the end of February, so if Santorum does make a competitive race in Michigan, this could pay dividends for him in Ohio.”

Kern recently attended the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) conference in Washington, D.C. where there was a large contingent of Miami students.

“It is great to see a group of so many inspirited and motivated young people,” Kern said.

Kern said although all of the fractions were represented during the CPAC, the Republicans were united as one, and will be in full support of whoever ends up on top.

Positive economic growth leads to jobs

By Catherine Ubry Staff Writer

For the first time in years, the state of Ohio may be on the mend in terms of what was once a struggling economy, according to Miami University Economics Professor James Brock.

“Overall things are getting better.

I use the analogy of a patient in a hospital. If Ohio’s economy were a patient, it would be out of intensive care, not all the way stabilized yet, but improving,” Brock said. “The trend of the economy is moving in a good, positive direction. It is apparent in the numbers. 72,000 new jobs were created in 2011.”

According to Benjamin Johnson, deputy director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Ohio’s total non-agricultural employment grew from 5,068,300 in January 2011 to 5,106,600 in December 2011, which was an addition of more than 38,000 jobs.

As for jobs in the private sector, employment grew from 4,291,300 in January 2011 to 4,334,800 in December 2011, which was an addition of more than 43,000 jobs, according to Johnson.

Areas where job growth has been the strongest within the last year include the manufacturing and education and health services industries, according to William Even, a Miami economics professor.

Due to the housing industry still recovering from the recent recession, the employment rate in construction

is not as strong, nor is employment in industries of leisure such as hotels and restaurants, according to Even.

Brock said, “I agree with Dr. Even in that manufacturing certainly improved. It served as number three in the country.”

The improvement in unemployment rates certainly serves as a positive for Ohio.

“If you look at the unemployment rate for the state as a whole, we’ve come down from 10.5 percent two years ago to about 8 percent in unemployment,” Brock said. “That’s why I say things are looking better than a few years ago.”

The unemployment rate in Ohio is currently less than the nation as a whole. Eight percent unemployment still shows there is room for improvement, but Ohio is doing surprisingly well, especially with the pleasant surprise of jobs in manufacturing returning in full strength, according to Brock.

Along with added employment in manufacturing, auto industries are also seeing a positive bounce back.

“The auto industry has seen an increase in sales as we start to see expansion too. People are buying cars again,” Even said. “After being hit hard during the recession, people are starting to bounce back a little.”

Surrounding states like Indiana saw an increase in employment in the leisure and hospitality industries.

Michigan saw a slight decrease in the same area, but Kentucky experienced an increase in leisure and hospitality

employment, according to Even.

“Nationally leisure and hospitality employment has picked up. During the recession those industries usually take a hit when people get hit in the pocket book,” Even said. “Overall growth is occurring. Consumers in general are becoming a little more willing to go out and feel more secure in spending money on cars and other things.”

As for citizens looking for employment opportunities, there are many new portals to help access new employment information. OhioMeansJobs.com for example, is a popular new website that compiles job openings posted online nearly anywhere in Ohio, including corporate websites, trade group websites, online newspaper classifieds and competing job sites like Indeed or Career Builder, according to Johnson.

Job seekers can post their resume, search job openings and apply for jobs for free.

“Years ago, the economy looked bad, but it has turned around and is looking good for the future. It looks good for students looking for jobs as well,” Brock said.

Miami Sophomore Nikki Boyer feels hopeful about Ohio’s economic situation as well.

“It’s good to see an improvement and it’s great timing for students like us who are going to be upperclassmen and also for those who will be graduating soon,” Boyer said. “The more jobs in the workplace that are available for us, the better.”

Hospital TRUST reaches $15 million

By Morgan Schaffer Senior Staff Writer

McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, the local hospital in Oxford, has finally reached $15 million in their TRUST, as certified by hospital CEO Bryan Hehemann.

Hehemann said the trust has been around since 1942 and has successfully aided the hospital over the years.

“The TRUST exists solely to support the mission of McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital. We have used it to build facilities, buy equipment and technology and educate staff,” Hehemann said.

TRUST, denoted in all caps, is written that way because it is the name of the office; instead of calling it a trust foundation, it is known as a TRUST, according to Judy Marcum, development coordinator for McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital.

“We have purchased such variations, but the three most recent include a critical care ventilator for respiratory, a fetal monitor for OB, and an electronic physician order entry system,” Marcum said.

Who finally helped it to the $15 million mark? And how are funds raised?

Former Miami University employee and volunteer for the hospital Jane Baer supplied the donation that put the TRUST over the $15 million mark, according to Director of Development for McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital Julie Nickell. The exact amount donated is left confidential, according to Marcum.

Nickell said the main donations to the TRUST were supplied by its founders, Daisy McCullough and Elizabeth McCullough-Heath. In 1951, the Hyde family supplied enough for McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital to finally be opened in 1957.

Marcum stated that the hospital also puts on a fundraiser every other year called Chef’s Celebration.

“The three pieces of equipment [previously mentioned] were able to be purchased because of the Chef’s Celebration,” Marcum said. “We net $100,000 in just this last [Chef’s Celebration] on November 19, to purchase that equipment.”

Both Nickell and Hehemann said the TRUST has been highly successful since it began in 1942, and envision that it will continue its success throughout 2012.

Marcum said that the amounts raised vary from year to year. “[In 2012], our goal for the trust is to raise about $425,000,” Hehemann said.

City Council retains Holzworth as police chief for 3 years

By Justin Reash Community Editor

Interim Oxford Police Department (OPD) Chief Robert Holzworth had his position made permanent by the Oxford City Council Feb. 8. Holzworth was named chief on an interim basis after long-time chief Stephan Schwein retired in Sept. 2011.

During his tenure as interim chief, the city employed an extensive nationwide search for a new Chief and received 89 applicants, according to City Manager Doug Elliott. The decision came down to two applicants and Holzworth was chosen for his knowledge, experience and familiarity within Oxford.

“The interview panel believed he was the most qualified for the job,”

Elliott said.

The panel consisted of Elliott, Economic Director Alan Kyger, Mayor Richard Keebler, Human Resources Director Donna Heck and Secretary to the Board of Trustees of Miami University Ted Pickerill.

Holzworth has signed a threeyear agreement with the city, which is renewed on a yearly basis.

Holzworth has spent his entire professional career in Oxford after graduating from Miami in 1973 with a degree in psychology. From there, he stayed in Oxford and began his career with the OPD as a patrolman until 1978.

At that time, he was promoted to lieutenant and eventually retired from the position in Jan. 2011. During his time as lieutenant, he attended numerous law enforcement

classes and workshops and eventually earned an associate’s degree from the Hamilton Campus within its Law Enforcement Educational Program. He also attended the Southern Police Institute in Louisville, Ky. After his retirement, he began working part time with the parking and transportation office at OPD, and then became interim chief.

“Excited is an understatement,” Holzworth said about his new appointment. “I have been working for the city for 39 years and could count on one hand the number of days I have not been excited to come to work.”

Though he has not had a formal staff meeting since his appointment, Holzworth said he will continue to cultivate the ongoing relationship between the OPD and Miami

University Police Department to improve law enforcement within the community.

“There has been an ongoing major initiative between the city and Miami University and I look forward to building on our relationship with them,” Holzworth said.

Oxford Mayor Richard Keebler concurs with Elliott on the decision to retain Holzworth for a permanent position.

“He was the best candidate for a number of reasons that include his experience, sense of community, that officers really like him and his great job of being interim chief,” Keebler said. “I think that by being a local his strengths have already been identified by the community, which was helpful in selecting him.”

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Editor MEGAN MCGILL

ARTS@miamistudent.net

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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Focus: Inklings, literary and art magazine This week, The Miami Student has chosen to feature Inklings, Miami’s longest-running and largest undergraduate literary and art magazine. Featured on this page are submissions from the Fall 2011 issue of Inklings, free copies of which are available at Kofenya, Shriver Center, and King Library. Inklings is proud to continue featuring the best undergraduate arts and letters Miami has to offer, and

copies of the magazine have travelled with graduates around this country and around the world.

Inklings is currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2012 issue. For your chance to be published, the Inklings staff asks that you submit your written work to inklingswriting@muohio.edu and your photography/ art work to inklingsart@muohio. edu on or before the March 12 submission deadline.

Shell games with death Colin matsumoto Senior Charcoal on paper

Selfish

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Two summers ago we were as similar as leaves. Selfso righteous. I

maria bee junior photography, photoshop

know that apples bruise when you drop them.

Still Life--Wasting

Just pretend we’re walking and and you don’t see me looking at our fingers.

A motley hue of fruit; turn gray and seep the juice of rotten pulp beneath the plums.

The skin of peach once soft to palm, now weep in shades of drab, unlike Chrysanthemums.

So I measure you by the spoonful, waiting to scrape the bag. I use milk past the date, plugging my nose and tastebuds depend on smell. This week I won’t empty my fridge.

Banana’s peel spot brown like drips of tea on tablecloth crocheted in cotton white.

The bunch of grapes to prune; an absent glee, a pear to fall to mush with every bite.

I will leave you now for another fish, no use crying over spoiled ‒ and do you like owls? Who who.

Ceramic leak a sap like maple oak, the fragile crack along the centerpiece to ooze the sour nectar pond and soak the napery; a swarm of gnats won’t cease.

It remains that when you talk your lips move.

An orange’s rind awry; a desert sponge surround the apple seed’s gradual expunge.

Stop that.

ASHLEY RONGYOS

Charlotte stauffer

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Single’s Valentine’s Playlist

By Claire Krieger Senior Staff Writer

Miami University students that have happily anticipated this commercialized day of love may be in the minority. Here’s a playlist to help those of you on that solo break-up ride pass the day, conveniently organized into the five stages of grief:

Denial “With or Without You” U2 “Apologize” OneRepublic “Back to December” Taylor Swift

Anger “Forget You” Cee Lo Green “You Oughta Know” Alanis Morissette “Gives You Hell” All American Rejects “Irreplaceable” Beyonce

Bargaining “If You Leave Me Now” Chicago “Please Don’t Go” Mike Posner “Please Don’t Leave Me” Pink

Depression “Everybody Hurts” R.E.M. “What Goes Around Comes Around” Justin Timberlake “Better In Time” Leona Lewis “Without You” Usher

Acceptance “Someone like You” Adele “Jaded” Aerosmith “Not Over You” Gavin DeGraw

Miami choirs to be featured in Kumler Chapel

By Billy Rafael

For The Miami Student

Sunday, three Miami University choirs will team together for a concert inWestern Campus’ Kumler Chapel.

Collegiate Chorale, Chamber Singers and Choraliers will each perform a set.

The Chamber Singers are particularly excited for this concert. “[Chamber Singers] will be performing Bach Cantata 106,” conductor William Bausano said. “We don’t frequently do a single long work, we typically do several shorter pieces. The work also features longer, more

We won’t be performing our typical unaccompanied music. We are going to have a small instrumental ensemble with strings, flutes and an organ.” branden baribeau

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prominent solos than normal.”

The title of this cantata translates “God’s Time is the Best Time.”

According to Branden Baribeau, vice president of the group, the concert will have another appealing element.

“We won’t be performing our

typical unaccompanied music.

We are going to have a small instrumental ensemble with strings, flutes and an organ,” Baribeau said.

According to Director Jeremy Jones, Collegiate Chorale does not normally share

concerts with Chamber Singers and Choraliers, but they are looking forward to test run several pieces for Chorale’s spring concert in April. Among their selections is a piece from local Cincinnati composer Howard Helvey.

“I think the audience will enjoy the contrast in tone and character between the three pieces,” Jones said.

The Choraliers, also under Bausano’s direction, will be performing Michael Haydn’s Saint Leopold Mass, another longer work.

The concert will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday in Kumler Chapel.

Admission is free to the public.

L.A.TheatreWorks presents story of Lincoln

By Christi Mueller For The Miami Student

“Four score and seven years ago” might be the introduction to President Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech, but it isn’t necessarily part of his greatest achievements.

In L.A. TheatreWorks’ production of The Rivalry, we follow the story of Lincoln in his debates with Douglas before he is considered a candidate for president. The two hash out their opinions on slavery in these debates “L.A. TheatreWorks came to Miami [University] about four years ago,” Patti Libratore, director of the Performing Arts Series, said.

“We were really excited to bring them here again because they were so successful before and the topic

of the play was really applicable to Miami.”

The performance style was a unique mix of traditional theatre and radio theatre with microphones scattered on the stage and a sound effects booth set up in the back.

“It was really moving how convincing they were,” sophomore Emily Thieman said. “Lincoln started out nervous, but grew into a great speaker.”

Before the show went up, L.A. TheatreWorks worked with students to help improve aspects of their own work.

Based in Los Angeles, L.A. TheatreWorks are devoted to education in many different ways.

They have an online library of their shows and give workshops to students in different fields from theatre to history to our very own

It was really moving how convincing they were.

Lincoln started out nervous, but grew into a great speaker.”

EMILY THIEMAN SOPHOMORE

Miami University Debate team.

From learning theatrical techniques to specific debate tactics used in the historical context of the play, working with L.A. TheatreWorks helped the Debate Team learn to be more effective in their own debates.

“We didn’t know what to expect [from the workshop], but they helped a lot with delivery and confidence.” Said Thieman, a sophomore member of the debate team.

“They talked a lot about projecting the voice and eye contact. I wanted to make a point that congress should take more action instead of just talking, so they had me pretend to be talking to congress members and really try to persuade them of that.”

Through their work as actors and as teachers, L.A. TheatreWorks proved to be a great asset to Miami.

Audio of their shows are available at latw.org.

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OPINION

Editors Noëlle Bernard ORIANA PAWLYK

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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EDITORIAL The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

Miami traditions demand respect despite indifference

PATRICK GEYSER THE MIAMI STUDENT

Friday, some Miami University students witnessed the defacement of the quintessential image of the university. The seal was painted over by a red and blue Yin-Yang-like symbol. The motive behind the action is unclear and the vandal is still unknown but the action disrespects the traditions of the university.

The seal is embedded in the sidewalk (in the Hub) adjacent to another famous Miami symbol, Upham Arch. For years, Miami students have heard the superstition that promises a failing exam grade if one walks across the copper circle. The tradition is to not step on the seal out of respect for Miami’s history.

Even if the threat is a myth, most students respect the significance and choose to awkwardly walk around the seal. Within the circle, there are three elements represented: an open book, a globe and a telescope. Together, each element symbolizes the university’s past, present and future.

Independently, each element asks questions about the meaning of life, success and man’s place in

the world. The circle also includes the Latin words: Prodesse Quam Conspici. These words translate into Miami’s motto, “to accomplish without being conspicuous.”

These words were apparently lost on the person who defaced the seal with paint. Instead, the act was conspicuously achieved.

The editorial board of The Miami Student recognizes that students are not supposed to deeply invest meaning in a piece of copper in the ground. At the same time, the seal is an icon with meaning. It represents the intangible qualities and esteemed legacy by the university with a tangible tradition. As minute as the act seems, marring the seal is disrespectful to the legacy of those who came before.

Even if a superstition seems silly, the seal was established in the 1950s as a symbol to encourage restoration between the traditions of old and new Miami. Next time, choose to respect Miami’s legacy instead of making an unknown artistic statement with symbols that encourage a state of balance.

Rule of Thumb Whitney Houston passing We will always love you, Whitney.

Ben Saksa getting his first career save in hockey MADELINE HRYBYK THE MIAMI STUDENT

It was nice to see the walk-on senior get some ice time, especially at the suggestion of his teammate.

LETTER TO The editor

Writers need to review all facts before making bold accusations “Churches seem to be eager to protest Planned Parenthood clinics, but not so willing to help the underprivileged and under-insured women going there to receive the medical services they deserve.” Without any data, or even anecdotal evidence, the author of Komen Foundation neglects public healthcare services makes an unfounded and absurd attack on churches; specifically Christian churches.

As The Miami Student is a trusted source of news and opinion for many students at Miami University, it is important that all claims be verified and supported by evidence. The above claim clearly is not. So, let’s look at some data that refutes the claim that churches are “not so willing to help the under-privileged…”

According to the “International Bulletin of Missionary Research”

by David B. Barrett and Todd M. Johnson, Christians and churches gave about $370 billion to charity in 2007. According to atheists.org, not exactly a group that is friendly toward churches, 18 percent of all hospital beds are operated by religious groups.

Going to www.missionfinder. org/orphanages.htm will point you in the direction of numerous orphanages, domestic and international, run by Christian organizations. These are just a few points of real evidence that demonstrate how willing churches are to help the under-privileged, especially those with little access to medical services. So take a look at where

church dollars and service hours go, if you have the time to do some research.

Given that I was able to research for all of 20 minutes and find data supporting my claim that churches and religious groups are very willing to help the under-privileged, I would like to pose a challenge to the author of this piece: either demonstrate, with data, that there is a group that is more willing, and does more to feed, clothe, and heal the poor than religious groups, churches, and the faithful, or retract the statement that you made in your op-ed.

Miami’s endowment increasing A 15.8 percent increase from last year is good news.

Scholar Robert McChesney coming to Miami this week We are enthusiastic about his speech on media reform.

The Cheezies making an album Now we can hear your beautiful voices on our iTunes!

Brian Clark

Professor of Management clarkba3@muohio.edu

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NOëlle’s Notions NOëlle BERNARD

Defining good hair: why is sleek straight hair preferred look?

One of my biggest fears is going to the hair salon. Ever since I was a little girl, I dreaded the tugging, brushing and tying of my hair.

To me the pain was never worth the end result. I resented all who muttered, “You have such beautiful and big hair,” which was code for “I feel sorry for you.” Over the years, my disdain for hair salons intensified and after this weekend, I almost gave up on them entirely.

The biggest reason for my hatred is that no one ever knows what to do. A stylists’ initial reaction when they see my hair consists of a gasp and the words, “Wow, you have a lot of hair.” The awkward pause that follows translates the statement to mean, “Crap, I’m going to be here all day and don’t know where to begin.” The moment I release my hair from its bind, I sink lower in the chair and apologize profusely. But why should I? Shouldn’t all hair stylists know what to do when an Esperanza Spalding walks through the doors?

No. A friend of mine said hair stylists have to take an extra class on styling African American hair. Ultimately, most choose not to spend the time or money to learn. Even so, in my 22 years of fleeing salons, I have yet to find a place that welcomes my Diana Ross do.

This weekend, I reluctantly accompanied my good friend to a salon in Oxford. She needed moral support and after some begging, I gave in. My last haircut consisted of me cutting my hair in the shower with a pair of steak scissors.

When I took my seat, I debriefed the stylist on what to expect with my cursed hair. As expected, she laughed off my fears promising she could handle it. False. About halfway through my cut she told me that she didn’t think her hair straightener could handle my “thick” hair. Did she have some cheap Conair tool? No, I was at a professional hair salon where high quality tools are mandated. So I laughed at her offensive remark anticipating that she would at least try. She didn’t.

Instead, she sent me away with wet hair and bill of $30. I was on the verge of tears because I have never had a stylist give up on me before. To make matters worse, my friend, who was still getting her hair styled, said after I left, my stylist sat down and read a magazine. To her I just didn’t have “good hair.”

The problem is not because of the stylist’s race. If I go to a predominately white salon, stylists pry through my hair in trepidation.

Straight hair is the ideal because it is easier. It takes less time to brush, style and even wash. Why should laziness be the reason an entire culture embraces the rejection of something natural? It’s time for women to embrace what is natural and stop succumbing to standards of society that can’t seem stop segregating what’s normal and not.

However, if I go to a black salon I am berated for never having a chemical relaxer. Everywhere I turn, my natural hair is seen as a problem that I am too lazy to fix.

In 2009, comedian Chris Rock introduced an insightful documentary called, Good Hair. This film was Rock’s attempt to answer his daughters’ question, “How come I don’t have good hair?” Comedian Paul Mooney is interviewed in the film with his answer, “If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy.”

As a child, my mother never turned me loose to hair stylists eager to burn my curls off to create the coveted straight, shiny, run your fingers through hair. Instead, my natural hair was protected from the violent treatments. As a woman of color, why should my

natural hair be a looked down upon and not celebrated? Last I checked, most people on campus have straight hair. Shouldn’t women like me want to stand out with our fluffy curls?

I was utterly shocked at how I was treated when I walked out of that Oxford salon. I kept hearing in my head, “Are you surprised?

There is not a place in Oxford for black students to get hair styled.”

Even so, it was the principle of my dismissal. It was as if I wasn’t worth the time. I walked out of the doors enraged and hurt, but I didn’t go home. I walked to the nearest salon and told them my story.

They were appalled and promised to take care of my wet hair.

Of course, they were obviously overwhelmed but they didn’t treat me like I was a foreign specimen. The most shocking part of

the experience was when the new salon did my hair, they discovered that the former stylist cut my hair unevenly. She was off by an inch on one side. Then after my hair was finished, I went back to show the first place that my hair was doable. They gave me my money back and I walked out a bit taller.

The point of my rant is to reiterate Chris Rock’s question of what constitutes “good hair.” Throughout my whole life, I’ve been told that good hair is straight and shiny, like 1970s icon Farrah Fawcett.

Everyone tells black women that straight hair is best. Look around and count how many black women have relaxers or weaves. Now don’t get me wrong, I love having straight hair. It’s more manageable and versatile.

However, friends, co-workers and hair stylists shouldn’t tell me it’s my best option for hair care.

Straight hair is the ideal because it is easier. It takes less time to brush, style and even wash. Why should laziness be the reason an entire culture embraces the rejection of something natural? It’s time for women to embrace what is natural and stop succumbing to standards of society that can’t seem stop segregating what’s normal and not.

The Contrarian

ESSAY ANDREW GEISLER GEISLEAJ@muohio.edu

What’s the real harm with distributing notes online?

Obama hides behind charisma to mask political blunders When campaigning for the presidency in 2007 and 2008, candidate Barack Obama drove the most uplifting and inspiring message of any candidate in the history of politics.

His landmark victory, at the time, seemed to promise a new age in American politics, one without so much partisan squabbling. One marked by a willingness to work together for the common good. The man appeared to be a transcendent and pragmatic post-partisan leader.

We then found out the sad truth about President Obama, he’s just like everybody else running things in our nation’s capital: cynically calculating and tragically detached from the rest of the country.

This political ethos has been on display time and time again throughout his presidency. During the campaign season last time around, he chose to opt out of the public financing system once he realized he could raise more money than Senator John McCain.

Early on in his presidency, he lost all of his centrist appeal and political capital when he pushed through an unpopular government takeover of health insurance and an $800 billion economic stimulus package. He then gave the postpartisan crowd another reason to distrust him when he rejected the common sense solutions laid out by the Simpson-Bowles fiscal reform commission he had formed.

Most recently, we’ve seen it on display in his decision to reject 20,000 American jobs and increased energy independence by rejecting the Keystone Pipeline in order to appease the environmentalists, an important part of his base for reelection. He’s asked private Catholic institutions “not to be Catholic” by forcing them to provide contraceptives as a part of their health insurance coverage for employees — an act of ridiculous “one size fits all” liberal overreach.

And finally, not only does he have the audacity to hope, but he also had the audacity to challenge the Supreme Court to their faces in his 2010 State of the Union on their ruling in the Citizens United campaign finance reform case, but then decided last week to support

a SuperPAC bankrolling his own reelection. The same SuperPACs, which, in his own words, “open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign companies — to spend without limit in our elections . . . I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests.”

The president doesn’t have a politically courageous bone in his body, if he did he would have advocated for a real balanced approach to deficit reduction (Simpson-Bowles), not just given lip service to the idea of one. He also would stop saying he wants fundamental tax reform, and then proposing more deductions that complicate our tax code further in the next sentence.

To be clear, none of these moves are wholly egregious for a politician, in fact almost all but the contraceptive decision have basically been politically smart decisions for a Democratic president trying, above all else, to please the left; but President Obama claimed to be a different kind of politician. He told us he was audacious and a majority of Americans believed him.

Simpson-Bowles and the SuperPAC issue specifically were opportunities for the president, opportunities for him to live up to his rhetoric from four years ago. Rhetoric like what he said to his supporters after Super Tuesday four year ago, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

While President Obama certainly has some notable accomplishments, he has refused to do anything on the domestic policy side that does anything but pander to his liberal base.

America was duped once into believing in the uplifting post partisan change rhetoric. This time Americans should remember, a vote for Obama is a vote for a conventional liberal politician, nothing more and nothing less. The one thing it certainly is not is a vote for a politically courageous post-partisan change agent. The candidate of change is no more than the president of business as usual, and it really is a shame.

Thanks to my intrepid American spirit, my automatic reaction to the statement ‘no, you aren’t allowed’ is both strong and negative. So on Feb. 9, when The Miami Student reported on Miami University’s actions to work on stopping illegal note sharing, I felt that gut wrenching moment. I’ve never used the services, but it bothered me that someone wanted to keep me from it. Naturally, after an initial reaction, it was time for questioning: Why was this activity harmful enough that the university wanted to keep students from participating?

The problem, in summary, is that students take a class and proceed to sell their notes online. Universities don’t like this (it was banned by Cal State in 2010), nor do most others with a major hand in content creation. Because the copyright arena is a puzzling beast all on its own, and I’m not a copyright attorney, I’ll focus instead on the message the university is sending.

The first side of that message, to educate students about copyright infringement, allows room for a student to slip up and never do it again.

A warning beats litigation and allows for the desired change to take place.

Miami’s General Counsel advises professors to clearly present what they say is copyrighted material, so that a student is aware of its actions. Again, awareness is the proper cautionary measure. After that first warning, things are not slated to go well.

While the article ascribed to the university a warning tone rather than warring, the hostility remains.

Does the university want students to stop participating in what it views as copyright infringement for the sake of the student, or for its own

In order for the university to be ‘losing’ due to note selling, it would have to make the argument that people selling their notes online are eliminating spending towards a university education by abusing intellectual property that belongs to someone else. gain? According to the website of the General Counsel, “It is important that Miami University properly manage intellectual property in order to maximize it potential revenue and eliminate the possibility of liability from infringement.” That’s a clear statement. Their goal is to use these tools to create more income for the university.

In other industries, people work on how to avoid paying for a product.

With selling notes online, students are paying for a complementary product.

In order for that product to be of value, they’d need to be taking classes.

That means they’re a paying student.

It seems to me then, if your goal is to increase revenue, you want more people paying for what you have.

Universities want more students to attend, and they want them to pay a premium for their education.

I’m unfamiliar with how many of these professors have a side business selling their notes to students in the class. Surely, that number of professors is practically non-existent because it’s already their job. Professors are paid to show up and teach students. In order for the university to be ‘losing’ due to note selling, it would have to make the argument that people selling their notes online are eliminating spending towards a university education by abusing intellectual property that belongs to someone else.

Even if the perceived damages hurt the professors and not the university, the situation remains that these notes being sold only work for people in class. Why on earth would people begin to buy notes to help study for exams they weren’t taking?

The university isn’t in the notes market, it’s in the degree market. Selling degrees has a much larger market than selling notes. In fact, note selling is dependent entirely on people being in classes.

In other industries involved with copyright use, companies have been accused of being “consumer hostile” due to actions that make things more difficult on the user’s end. Remember the hassle dealing with buying tracks on iTunes and using them elsewhere? That’s consumer hostile, and the company realized this so they changed it. It is advisable that if you think someone is doing you wrong, you don’t hurt the ones doing right in order to correct it.

By all legitimate means, educate students. If this is so harmful, why not create a program about it? For anyone on the receiving end, a warning only holds weight because of the potential, “I told you so.” I just hope that when Miami goes to say it, they aren’t doing it with their legal muscles flexed at students because of perceived damages that exist versus the shiny penny they’ve got their eye on.

Email Colleen Yates at yatescl@muohio.edu for more information.

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Sublet needed for Fall 2012 at 321 S. Main St.! $2600 per semester, separate spacious rooms, attached parking, and willing to pay utilities.

Contact Maya Winfield at winfieml@ muohio.edu if you are interested!

Roberts Apartments 2012-2013.

Great Location! One and Two Bedroom Apartments. Close to Uptown/ Campus. Well-Maintained/ Energy Efficient. On-site Laundry Facilities.

Off-Street Parking. Family Owned and Operated. www.roberts-apts. com 513-839-1426 info@robertsapts.com

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SCHOOL YEAR 2012/13- Uptown apt for 2 or 4 students. Washer/Dryer and off street parking available.

CORSO REALTY 513-520-1111 or 513-523-3520 ‘12-’13 school year Miami Properties 1, 2, 3, & 4 bedrm Houses/Apts.

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For Rent Studio 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom and 4 bedroomapartments available for the 12/13 school year. Check us out today! www.foxandhounds-apts. com www.oxfordrents.com call 513-523-2440 or text 513-335-7044 333 N Locust (between Vine & Sycamore) 4 Huge Bedrooms and 2 Full Bathrooms. Hardwood Floors throughout. Wooded Lot. Pristine Condition. Includes Summer of 2012 at no extra cost $1950 pp/per sem. www.redbrickoxford.com New, Spacious 4 bedroom/ 2 full bath house available for 12-13 school year. $2025 pp/per sem.

Contact Red Brick at 524.9340 Grad Student and Faculty housing located close to Campus. Prestigious Homes. Great Pricing. Call Sarah at 513.257.7034 2 Person House Available for 12-13.

Excellent location! 1 Block from Uptown, 2 Blocks from Campus $2,850 pp Call 524.934 We have singles available for next year. Contact Red Brick at 524.9340 or visit www.redbrickoxford.com

Large 1 bedroom apartments Pentagon Properties is now leasing for 2012/13. 1 bedroom apartments at 435.00 per month or 2,550.00 per semester.Location: 610 South Main Available May and August tbrandner54@yahoo.com or 513-896-7358 COURTYARDS OF MIAMI Too many roommates? The Courtyards of Miami might be just what you are looking for. Located on East Central Ave., between Campus Ave. and South Main St., the MU bus stops at our front door. We offer neat, clean, and colorful housing at affordable prices..2 bedroom apartments, shared by just 2 students $2500. per person-includes HEAT and water 1 bedroom + study for 1 person, $3500. All residents enjoy free offstreet parking, on site laundry, and yard space, with a shelter. Always upgrading, we are just down the street from the REC, and inside one block from the campus. On site office, flexible hours, and excellent upkeep, make the Courtyards a place worth looking at. Stop by, contact Carolyn at 513-659-5671 or www.thecourtyardsofmiami.com for more info Thank You!

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ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING

Houses 19 E. Collins House for Rent Avail ‘12-’13. Permitted for 4. 2 blocks from campus, 2 blocks from uptwn.

Washer/dryer. Privately owned and managed. UTILITIES INCL! $3200/ per/sem.Call John 513-708-8355 SCHOOL YEAR 2012/13- Large house for 6 or 8 students with two full baths, washer/dryer and off street parking. Great annex for Sorority or fraternity.CORSO REALTY 513-520-1111 or 513-523-3520

Roommate Needed ROOMMATE WANTED! For 2012-2013 school year. 4 bedroom 2 bath house. Great location, very close to rec! Rent $2950 a semester! washer/dryer, dishwasher, central air.

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The following houses are looking for roommates Next Year (12-13): Lofts at 1 W. High -1st semester 19.5 N. Poplar - 2nd Semester 126 Plum & 2nd semester Metropolitan Lofts, 4th floor & 2nd semester 26 E Central & entire yr217 N. Campus & entire yr For Pricing & to Arrange a Tour Call 524.9340.

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TUESDAY, FEBRuary 14, 2012

1809-2012 Celebrate.

On February 17, 1809, a university was born … OUR UNIVERSITY. Join Miami University Student Foundation (MUSF) in celebrating the birthday of the nation’s 10th oldest public university.

F E B R U A RY 1 5 , 2 0 1 2 Learn.

“Student Traditions at Turning Points of Miami History” Featuring Dr. Curt Ellison, Professor of History and American Studies Thursday, February 17OUR | 6:30 p.m. | Shideler 115 University Student On February 17, 1809, a university was born …

UNIVERSITY. Join Miami

Celebrate.

Foundation (MUSF) in celebrating the birthday of the nation’s 10th oldest public university.

And eat cake.

Learn.

Enjoy dinner at one of seven campus dining locations, and the birthday cake, specially prepared by our friends at Housing, Dining, Recreation and Business Services, is on us. Put on your party hats, and we’ll see you there!

“Development of Miami’s Architecture throughout Our Hall History” Bell Tower Place | King Café | Martin Dining Hall | Erickson Dining Presented byHamilton Bob Keller, University Architect andDining University Planner Dining Miami Hall | Harris Dining Hall | Alexander Hall Wednesday, February 15 | 6:30 p.m. | Engineering Building 270

And eat cake.

Enjoy dinner at one of five campus dining locations, and the birthday cake, specially prepared by our friends at Housing, Dining, Recreation and Business Services, is on us. Put on your party hats, and we’ll see you there!

Martin Dining Hall | Erickson Dining Hall Hamilton Dining Hall | Harris Dining Hall | Alexander Dining Hall

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Editor JM RIEGER

sports@miamistudent.net

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012 jm rieger

the rieger report

Sullivan’s treys breathe new life into redHawks The future of Miami University basketball is here.

Despite being seven games under .500, the Red and White have new life and it comes in the form of a freshman guard from Upper Arlington, Ohio, Brian Sullivan.

Sullivan was named the Inaugural Mid-American Conference (MAC) Freshman of the Month for January after leading the RedHawks with 15.1 points per game in eight contests, leading the team in scoring in four of those games.

The freshman phenom has been a stud from beyond the arc this season for the ’Hawks and is 13th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage, hitting over 48 percent of his shots. He also leads the MAC in three-point shooting.

In contrast, Duke University’s all-time scoring leader J.J. Redick only shot 39.9 percent from threepoint land as a freshman and shot 40.5 percent for his career.

In the month of January, Sullivan scored in double-figures in six of eight games and knocked down eight three-pointers, the third most in program history, on Jan. 2 against Vanderbilt University en route to a career-high 24-point performance.

Sullivan gives Miami a deep threat to compliment the inside presence of players such as senior forward Julian Mavunga and redshirt sophomore center Drew McGhee.

After a monster win Saturday afternoon against Central Michigan University, the Red and White have now won three of their last four games and still have the opportunity to pick up more momentum with six games remaining on their schedule before they head

into the MAC Tournament at the beginning of March.

Sullivan is averaging 10.3 points per game this season, which trails only senior standout Mavunga, who is averaging 17.1 points per game. Sullivan is also second on the team in field goal percentage.

He has averaged 10 points per game over Miami’s last four contests, and his production will be key for the Red and White down the stretch.

If the RedHawks can get consistent performances from players such as Sullivan, Mavunga and sophomore forward Jon Harris, this team has the potential to make a run in March.

Miami must continue to play strong defense, make effective halftime adjustments, and use a variety of looks on the offensive end of the court to begin to string wins together as the season draws to a close.

Sullivan and the ’Hawks other guards give Miami the ability to do this and they will be able to make a statement this Wednesday when the Red and White travel north to take on the MAC East-leading University of Akron Zips.

The Zips have two of the top three-point shooters in the MAC in sophomores Brian Walsh and Alex Abreu, and Miami and Sullivan’s ability to shut down and counter these two scorers will be one of the keys to the game.

Sullivan’s strong play early in his career is very promising for a team that has struggled over the past few seasons, and Sullivan’s potential alone should be enough to keep Miamians excited for the next few years.

’Hawks come up short against Northern Illinois

By Brian Gallagher For The Miami Student

A poor shooting performance doomed the Miami University women’s basketball team (17-7, 7-4 Mid-American Conference (MAC)) as they fell to the Northern Illinois University Huskies on Saturday, 70-58.

The RedHawks struggled all game to find an offensive rhythm, shooting just 31 percent from the floor in the contest, while Northern Illinois, who has now won five of its last six games, became only the second team to beat the ’Hawks at Millett Hall this season.

“Our shots just didn’t fall,” junior guard Courtney Osborn said.

“We left ourselves an opportunity but their intensity in the second half surpassed ours.”

Osborn scored 21 points, 18 of which came in the second half, to lead the ’Hawks and had to work hard for every one of them. The guard out of Fishers, Ind. played all 40 minutes and, along with senior guard Maggie Boyer, nearly sparked a second-half comeback.

Boyer added 14 of her 17 points in the second half, but the Huskies’ stingy defense was enough to clip the RedHawks’ wings.

“Northern Illinois’ defense was great,” Head Coach Maria Fantanarosa said. “They came out with a sense of urgency and continued to play that way for all 40 minutes, and once we got behind we did not have enough offense or defense to get back into it.”

Northern Illinois came into the game allowing only 58.8 points per game and was able to hold Miami to its third-lowest point total this season. While the ’Hawks struggled on the offensive end, the Huskies simply could not miss and shot 54 percent from the field.

Neither team started the game off sharp though as Miami was up just 13-12 after 10 minutes of

play. However, the ’Hawks were only able to muster three more points in the half, as NIU went on a 13-3 run to close the period and headed into the locker room with a 25-16 advantage.

The Huskies built their lead to 22 in the second half and with their backs against the wall, Miami went into full-court pressure and scored nine-straight points.

The RedHawks would get as close as 11 points at 60-49 on the heels of a Boyer three-pointer with 2:22 remaining, but Northern Illinois clamped down and kept the ’Hawks at bay.

For a Miami team that had been averaging 70 points a game and was looking to build momentum heading into the last five games of the season, the game marked the end of a tough stretch against MAC West division opponents.

“We had a lot of respect for the West going in and we knew it was going to be a challenge,” Fantanarosa said. “The important thing now is that we get back to fundamentals and back to unselfish play.”

There is no rest for the weary though as the RedHawks head back on the road for two games that will have them traveling a combined 22 hours over the span of four days.

The RedHawks will first head to Kent State University to take on the Golden Flashes (5-16, 4-7 MAC) on Wednesday. Miami bested the Flashes earlier this season at home and will look to get back to basics.

“We’re going to have to go forward and focus on us,” Fantanarosa said. “We’re going to have to go back like it’s the beginning of the season and just focus on fundamentals.”

Miami is 4-1 in MAC East games this season and the team must bounce back as they start their final push for momentum heading into the MAC Tournament.

Miami takes down CMU

Red andWhite have won three of last four games

BLAKE WILSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

Freshman guard Brian Sullivan pushes the ball up the court against Central Michigan University’s John Morris during Miami University’s 69-50 win Saturday. Sullivan is averaging 10.3 points per game this year.

By Michael Solomon For The Miami Student

Coming off a tough loss Wednesday night in DeKalb, Ill. against Northern Illinois University, the Miami University men’s basketball bounced back Saturday with a great all-around performance, giving them their third win in their past four games.

Sophomore forward Jon Harris scored a career-high 17 points while seven RedHawks finished with five points or more as Miami defeated the Central Michigan University (CMU) Chippewas Saturday 69-50.

“There were no letdowns really,” senior forward Julian Mavunga said.

“Everyone did their job. We got the shots that we wanted on offense and we did well on defense. That’s a good formula for winning basketball games. That’s why we came out on top.”

In front of their home fans, the Red and White got off to a hot start jumping out to a 10-3 lead. The Chippewas tried to cut into the lead, but Mavunga and Miami kept pushing, and eventually opened up a 22-7 lead on CMU with eight minutes remaining

in the half.

Defense was the key for the ’Hawks in the opening period, as they held the Chippewas to 3-20 shooting in the first half, allowing only 15 points to CMU by the half.

The second half started off well for the RedHawks as Harris and sophomore guard Quinten Rollins helped Miami open up a 39-21 lead.

The Chippewas wouldn’t get much closer for the remainder of the game, as Miami’s extended their lead to 22 at one point.

“We just had energy tonight from start to finish and it’s something that we have been missing all season,” Mavunga said. “It’s certainly something that we were missing on Wednesday in our loss, but we got the job done here tonight and it definitely feels good to get a win.”

Defense and balanced scoring was what put the ’Hawks on the winning end. Miami held CMU to 34 percent shooting from the field and held them 22 percent from the three-point line.

Offensively, Mavunga poured in 14 points, senior forward Adam Thomas added nine, freshman guards Will and Brian Sullivan each contributed eight, Rollins scored

seven and sophomore guard Josh Sewell added five off the bench for the RedHawks.

If Miami can continue to produce on offense, they will have a chance to improve their conference standing before the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament at the end of the regular season.

“I had a little more pep in my step,” Harris said. “I feel like I am not worried about missing shots; I just want to go play hard every possession and do whatever I can to help this team out. As long as shots keep going in I will be feeling good. My body is feeling good, and we are playing really good. I feel like if we can keep up this intensity and momentum that we have we can have a really solid finish to the end of the year.”

The Red and White will look to continue their recent strong play Wednesday when they travel north to take on the University of Akron.

Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. and students can listen to the game on Miami’s IMG Sports Network.

The next home game for the RedHawks will be Sunday when they host Tennessee State University in a non-conference game.

RedHawks sweep Chargers

By Tom Downey

For The Miami Student

The Miami University hockey team got a much needed sweep over the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH) Chargers over the weekend, winning the first game 3-1 and the second game 4-1.

In addition, senior walk-on goalie Ben Saksa made his second career appearance in Saturday’s game.

Junior forward Reilly Smith scored his 21st goal for the season during the first game, which leads the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). The RedHawks had a season-high 48 shots on goal in the Saturday game.

Since this series was a non-conference matchup, the RedHawks did not receive any CCHA points. As a result, the ’Hawks fell to seventh place in the CCHA despite improving their overall record to 17-13-2 (11-11-2-1 CCHA).

With a little over three minutes left in the Saturday game against UAH, Saksa entered the game to chants of “Saksa” from the crowd.

“He’s a great kid; he deserved it,” senior goalie Cody Reichard said. “He comes to practice every

day and works his ass off. He’s a great teammate.”

Saksa also made a 2-on-1 save, the first of his career. Head Coach Enrico Blasi said that is was Reichard’s idea to put Saksa in the game.

“I was really excited [to go in],” Saksa said. “I didn’t have my neck guard on, so I had to run back into the locker room to get the rest of my gear on. It means a lot to me.”

The RedHawks’power play, which has struggled at times this year, performed well during the series. They finished 2-10, while getting 18 shots on goal during the power play. Freshman forwards Tyler Biggs and Alex Wideman accounted for the power play goals.

Senior goalie Connor Knapp got the start in the Friday game, allowing only one power play goal. Knapp has held opponents to one goal or less eight times this season.

The ’Hawks allowed only 12 shots on goal the first night, a season low.

Biggs started the scoring in the first game on a power play goal, which would be matched by a power play goal by the Chargers.

However, Smith and sophomore forward Bryon Paulazzo would both score in the second period to give the

’Hawks a 3-1 lead, which is how the game would end.

The RedHawks had a huge fiveminute major penalty kill in the final period during which they prevented UAH from getting a single shot on goal.

“It was huge. If they scored there they are still on the power play and can tie the game,” Blasi said. “I thought our PK did a nice job of not giving them anything.”

The Chargers took the lead in the final game on a shot that appeared to surprise Reichard. However, Reichard would not allow another goal and finished with 14 saves on Swoop’s Stoop night, which benefited the charity Reichard created.

Alex Wideman scored on a power play to tie the game and senior forward Matt Tomassoni gave Miami the lead just 14 seconds later. The Red and White extended their lead when Paulazzo and senior forward Alden Hirschfeld scored less than a minute apart from each other in the third period.

The RedHawks will now prepare for their final home series of the year when they host the University of Notre Dame in a critical CCHA matchup Friday and Saturday.