The Miami Student Oldest university newspaper in the United States, established 1826
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2014
VOLUME 141 NO. 41
MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIO
TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 2000, The Miami Student reported two online student-startups had made it big, at least within the university community. With the annual pre-spring
break bash just around the corner, fifth-year Patrick Shore launched Greenbeerday.com. Two weeks after its release, he had already sold over 900 t-shirts.
TAYLOR WOOD THE MIAMI STUDENT
SPRING FLING
Students flocked to South Quad Saturday to partake in the Indian Student’s Association’s Color Festival ‘Holi’ to welcome spring with a burst of color.
Women’s team wins nationals
CONTRIBUTED B Y MORGAN McGRATH
The Miami women’s hockey team revels in its victory over Massachusetts to claim the Division 1 Women’s Club Hockey National Championship.
BY JOE GIERINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Four short years ago, three young women by the names of Natalie Dillon, Jess Wood and Liz Wardlow proposed that a women’s hockey team be incepted. Three full seasons later, the Miami University RedHawks have captured the pinnacle of Division I club hockey achievement – a National Championship. “It’s surreal,” head coach Scott Hicks said a day after his team won it all over the University of Massachusetts (UMass), 3-1. “It’s something we’ve always said was one of our goals. To tell the girls is one thing, it’s another to do it. It’s magical. To send our seniors off this way, it makes you want to do it again.” Miami jumped out to a first period lead after applying constant pressure and netted its first goal of the game just 11:05 into the opening period. Freshman left winger Cassidy Guthrie was credited with the initial strike after transitioning through the neutral zone on her on and beating UMass netminder Chelsea Corell with a low wrister. The RedHawks were not through, and just two minutes and change later, freshman center Jordan Hanson buried a laser top shelf on the blocker side, where grandma hides the thin mints. Miami entered the second frame with a 2-0 lead. “We came out flying,” senior goaltender Dana Lovin said. “I think it carried over from the semi-finals against Liberty, but we just played so well and the way our team came together was just fantastic to see. Everybody had the eyes set on that one goal to win that championship.” UMass battled back into the game with a shorthanded goal
that found its way past Lovin, but that was the only goal she would surrender. Going back on the offensive, Miami found point production from its freshmen yet again and Kaley Mooney buried any hope of a comeback. The third period was all Miami and when the dust settled, they walked away champions. An outpouring of support and love both online and in person was a large part of the success according to Hicks, and he couldn’t stress enough what it meant to him and his team. “To feel all the support they got was pretty special,” Hicks said. “From Twitter, to Hawk Talk, to emails from Tommy Wingels and then current [Miami] varsity players, it was great to bring joy to the university.” The RedHawks finished the year as champions with a 30-2-3 record and won the Central Collegiate Women’s Hockey Association regular season and tournament titles en route. A 127-goal differential – and yes, that’s not a typo – shows just how dominant these women were as they maintained the No. 1 ranking for most of the year. Lovin was named Second Team All-American and AllTournament, and maintained a .94 save percentage and 1.32 goals-against average to go along with a 20-2-3 record. The 10hour bus ride back to Oxford did little to wane the excitement, and according to Hicks, who himself still can’t quite believe it, the ecstasy of winning it all might take a while to wear off. Lovin could not agree more. “People slept,” Lovin said. “But for the first five hours, people were up and excited, and everyone was pumped up … Wow. It still feels surreal. I can’t explain it.”
Student suicides call community to action BY EMILY CRANE NEWS EDITOR
Lynn Anderson’s son was a physics fanatic. He always had a love for hard sciences and had a naturally brilliant mind. And when sophomore Andrew Salsman arrived at Miami, he discovered his place was in the physics lab. “He was awarded a scholarship in the fall of 2012 to conduct research on atomic, molecular and optical physics,” Anderson said, adding with a chuckle, “Whatever that means.” Salsman spent most of his waking hours in the Culler Hall labs, though he made frequent trips home to Springdale to see his mother. Toward the end of last semester, Salsman began coupling these visits home with a trip to the neighborhood pie shop, known to serve nearly every kind of pie a person could want, Anderson said. Though Salsman was typically a creature of habit when it came to his pie preferences, his mother noticed he began systematically making his way through the menu, sampling even the more grotesque cream-based pies. When his mother asked about this odd behavior, he simply told her he was exploring. But in fact, he was saying goodbye. On Dec. 16, Anderson found her son dead, a shotgun at his side. In the note he left her, he explained his
lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety had become increasingly unbearable, weakening his mind and rendering him incapable of conducting the research he loved. Though his mother, of course, knew of his diseases and had long worked to help treat them, his death completely surprised her. “Nobody anticipated this, not even his doctor,” Anderson said. “He used all his intelligence to carefully mask his intent.” Though Anderson applauded Miami’s existing programs that aid in suicide prevention, such as its Just In Case app for smartphones, its various hotlines and its counseling services, she said there was still a piece missing. There had to be or else her son would still be alive. “You know it’s been said it takes a village to raise a child. Well, I believe it takes a village to prevent a suicide,” Anderson said. “Suicide prevention programs and hotlines serve a useful purpose and save lives. But something is missing. We need a community of eyes and ears to look out for people who are masking.” The only way to prevent suicide is if an entire community is involved in actively looking out for its own. Sophomore Jaclyn Wulf was naturally good at this. “She was always looking out for people,” her father, Clark Wulf said. “She was happiest when she was helping people.”
After a loved one’s suicide rattled Jaclyn early in her life, she committed herself to joining the fight against it. She became heavily involved in the Suicide Prevention Education Alliance (SPEA) in Cleveland, joining in marches and rallies, hounding
The redemption to me in all of this is that the loss we suffer isn’t met with a shrug of the shoulders but with the question of how can we change things?” MIKE CURME
DEAN OF STUDENTS
her parents for donations and devoting herself to looking out for those around her she saw struggling with depression or anxiety. These were, after all, diseases she knew well herself—diseases that would ultimately play a role in ending her life. Early in the morning of Nov. 17, Jaclyn was found unresponsive in her Swing Hall dorm room. She was taken to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital where she died a few hours later. The Butler County Coroner ruled the death a suicide and the
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Students sell gear to match the beer
CONTRIBUTED BY TIMEFLIESMUSIC.COM
Timeflies performs at Brick Street Bar and Grille to an all-green crowd on Green Beer Day 2013.
BY ABBEY GINGRAS FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
Started in the 1950’s as a way to protest the university putting Spring Break over St. Patrick’s Day, Green Beer Day has grown into a nationally known collegiate event that Miami students look forward to every spring. This year, Green Beer Day was ranked the third best St. Patrick’s Day party in the nation by the website BroBible. Although the focus of the day is the green beer, the other iconic green item you’ll spot at all the bars is a Green Beer Day T-shirt. These shirts vary slightly in price depending on the distributor and design but average $20 each. Though it is impossible to accurately estimate the number of T-shirts sold every year, if even as few as one third of stu-
dents purchase one T-shirt each, they would generate well over $100,000 in revenue. With all this money, there is tough competition among student distributors to sell the most. Student distributers create original designs, order them through a number of different printing companies and then distribute them to students and organizations on campus via websites and Facebook pages. Some do it for a profit, others just do it for fun, but all compete to be the ones to see their designs on as many backs as possible around campus. The sellers from www.greenbeerday2014.com claimed to have made over $1,000 strictly in profit off 500 shirts. Senior Kyle Asperger of the Green Beer Day 2014 Shirts GBD Facebook page made a lot less than that, but he was not very interested in
the money. “I’ve made shirts before for other situations, which is why we felt comfortable starting this process. It just seemed like a cool idea to see your shirt all over Uptown, and it was a way for my work as a graphic designer to be seen on campus,” Asperger said. The T-shirt designs change every year, although shirts that were bestsellers the previous year are sometimes brought back. The shirts come in all different shades of green and usually reference a brand or current pop culture event. The people designing them say that coming up with creative shirts is a challenge. “We used our same Vineyard
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