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TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013
VOLUME 140 NO. 46
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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1982, The Miami Student reported that over 900 students graced the halls of the Shriver Center, admiring the wooden lattice archways, sparkling water
fountains and old-fashioned streetlamps set up for that year’s Charter Day Ball. Though the event resulted in a $200 to $400 monetary loss, Program Board President Steve Mills said the dance’s success was worth it.
Candidates reach out to student body in presidential and vice presidential debate BY REIS THEBAULT STAFF WRITER
The second student body presidential and vice presidential debate aired live on MUTV Thursday, providing candidates with another way to reach out to Miami University students. The event, broadcasted from Williams Hall, was not your typical debate, but rather a series of extended campaign ads. Each candidate had 90 seconds to answer each question asked by senior host Curtis Werner, but were informed they were not to refute and they should only promote their own platform, not argue against their opponents.’ The ten candidates filled the room with nervous energy as the broadcast crew attached their microphones and trained the candidates on which of the four cameras to look in to. The debate’s first question required each candidate to list their numerous qualifications for the job. Junior presidential candidate Forrest McGuire began by citing his student government and leadership experience as qualities that made him the most desirable candidate. Along with becoming pledge class and sophomore president of Chi Psi fraternity, McGuire’s résumé boasted an appointment to chief of staff in Associated Student Government (ASG). Junior presidential candidate Charlie Schreiber followed up McGuire and gently insinuated that McGuire’s experience is too focused on one part of the school. “Our connections with so many
different people of campus is really what makes us most qualified for this position,” Schreiber said. “Experience is great, but being so contained in one group is not what the student body president is all about.” The other three presidential candidates, juniors Calvin Davis and Max Swartz and first-year Anik Chaudhry, followed the same vein, though Chaudry announced March 24, that he and his running mate, first-year Ben Cederoth, were withdrawing from the race. One topic, that the presidential candidates addressed specifically, was the inclusion of next year’s JTerm and how the future president will ensure its success. McGuire emphasized the importance of garnering student feedback for the new term. “Because this is our first time doing the J-Term, we need to ask the students, ‘Where did you go? What did you do? What could be improved? What do you see that you wish you could have had more of?’” McGuire said. “And so with the second J-Term coming in 2015, we really want to engage the students and make sure that we get as many opportunities as possible to them.” Following that, Schreiber expounded on the need for education. “The students need to know what they can get out of their J-Term,” he said. “The administration, along with the student government, needs to educate the students on the abilities of this J-Term.” Davis, agreeing with Schreiber, sees promotion of the J-Term essential to its success. “We have to make sure that the
average Miami student doesn’t just view this as an extended winter break,” Davis said. On a different note, Swartz advocated the need for real conversations with students and professors, as opposed to just surveys. “That’s how we find out what students truly want,” Swartz said. Lastly, Chaudhry, like the candidates before him, said that feedback about the J-Term would be key and that he wants students to know they can contact ASG to give such feedback. After each candidate gave their closing remarks, a summation of prior answers, they stepped down and the vice presidential debate immediately followed, following the same rules. The vice presidental candidates are McGuire’s running mate, junior Lot Kwarteng; Schreiber’s running mate, Courtney Bernard; Davis’ running mate, Brooke Shirley; Swartz’ running mate, Alexander Nixon; and lastly, Chaudhry’s running mate, Cederoth. All vice presidential candidates are juniors, except Cederoth, who is a first-year. Vice presidential candidates addressed similar questions as the presidential candidates and responded in a similar fashion. When asked what they would do to prevent Miami from falling in national scholastic rankings, many cited a need to improve academic advising and foster Miami’s reputation among current students and in the eyes of national rankings. After closing remarks, the vice presidential debate concluded. Students will be able to vote for candidates from noon, March 27 to 7 p.m., March 28.
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CELEBRATE THE RAINBOW Students celebrate the Holi Festival Saturday afternoon in Central Quad at Miami University.
Data shows higher retention rates among Greek-affiliated students BY LIBBY MUELLER SENIOR STAFF WRITER
From the flags flown high outside fraternity houses to the myriad of event flyers stamped with Greek letters, Greek life leaves its mark on Miami University’s campus and on retention rates as well, according to data that shows higher rates among Greek-affiliated students than non-Greek students. In 2010, the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life reported 100 percent retention from first-year to sophomore year for sorority women compared to approximately 81 percent of non-affiliated women and 87 percent of non-affiliated women academically eligible for membership in a sorority—those with a GPA greater than 2.49. The Cliff Alexander Office also
reported 99.8 percent retention from first-year to sophomore year for fraternity men compared to approximately 83 percent of non-affiliated men and 90 percent of non-affiliated men academically eligible for membership in a fraternity—also a GPA greater than 2.49. Barbara Jones, vice president for Student Affairs and co-chair of the Retention Steering Committee, said surveys have shown there are three common reasons students transfer: personal or social reasons, academic reasons and financial reasons. She said social reasons include family issues or feelings of not fitting in on campus. According to Jenny Levering, director of the Cliff Alexander Office, fraternities and sororities connect students to campus, which may
account for the higher retention rates. “Once students get involved, it connects them to Miami at a deeper level,” Levering said. “I think they’re more likely to come back to school if they have something they care or are passionate about. That sense of belonging and commitment to an organization is part of the reason people come back their sophomore year.” Senior Trent Gilchrist, president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, said he thinks the higher retention rates among Greek-affiliated students are attributable to social activities. “I would say that it’s probably directly related to just the social aspect of Greek life, whether it be parties or all those events,” Gilchrist said. “Another smaller portion of it would just be the academics, professional development and
philanthropy [opportunities].” First-year Alex Harris said she thinks the higher retention rates among Greek-affiliated students have to do with the sense of community sororities and fraternities offer. “I think they have higher retention rates because they have a community that they are specifically a part of at school while people who aren’t a part of Greek life don’t necessarily have that community,” Harris said. According to Jones, overall, Miami’s retention rate is among the highest in the country for public institutions. In 2011, the overall retention rate was 88.9 percent, according to the Office of Institutional Research (OIR). The retention rate is defined by the OIR as the percentage of a group of first-time college students in the fall semester, a cohort,
who return to the same institution the following year. However, Miami still tries to improve overall retention. According to the Retention Steering Committee Report, President David Hodge charged the committee in 2011 with the goal of increasing the retention rate for undergraduate students, particularly for first and second years, and achieving a graduation rate of 85 percent. The current graduation rate stands at 81 percent, according to Jones. The graduation rate, in contrast to the retention rate, tracks an initial cohort, composed of full-time students, for six years. It is the percentage of this cohort that graduates within six
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Gunnery Sergeant receives Marine award Two former MU students BY KATIE TAYLOR NEWS EDITOR
Marine Gunnery Sergeant (GySgt) at Miami University, Francisco Corona, recently received the Assistant Marine Corps Officer Instructor (AMOI) of the Year award, naming him No. 1 in his position across the nation. Miami President David Hodge presented the medal to the Iraq war veteran at the March 4 ceremony in Millet Hall. According to Corona, he always knew he wanted to be a Marine, and after joining after high school graduation, his experience as an infantryman reinforced that.
“As an infantry guy, we’re on the ground, we’re patrolling; just the camaraderie we built in our platoon of knowing that you’ll do whatever it takes for the guy to your right and your left,” Corona said. “I got to witness that and see it; it’s an awesome experience I think.” After his experience in combat, Corona began looking for other ways to serve. “I think as Marines you’re always looking, ‘What else can I do to improve myself?’ and I think [becoming AMOI at Miami] was my next challenge with this duty,” Corona said. “This duty up to this point has been outstanding.” Corona said the AMOI position
involves preparing first-year and sophomore midshipmen for military life, which he has done at Miami for nearly three years now. “We do physical training three times a week on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays,” Corona said. “And then on Tuesdays we have what we call our drill period where we cover required training or sometimes we’ll do events that just kind of build teamwork.” In addition to the physical and team building exercises Corona runs, he teaches a land navigation class in the spring, a practical
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charged for changing grades
Two former Miami University students were charged with a first-degree misdemeanor of multiple counts of attempted, unauthorized use of a computer system Monday, according to Miami University Police Lt. Ben Spilman. According to Claire Wagner, Miami director of communications, the students were charged for changing their grades, along with 50 other students’ grades in an attempt to cover their tracks. Spilman said the criminal charge was filed following an investigation and the students could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine on each account. According to Spilman, he does not know how long it will take until a trial takes place and the students are prosecuted. Wagner said the students have been dismissed and are no longer enrolled in the university, and now the university is taking a lot of steps for pretecting electronic grading systems, such as Niihka and Bannerweb. “[Now we are] taking several other steps to increase security,” Wagner said.
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Hodge initiates Great Seal writing contest BY ALLISON GNAEGY FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
Miami University will open the Armstrong Student Center (ASC) Feb. 6, 2014, a building designed specifically for the student body. President David Hodge is asking students to leave their mark on the ASC through a unique writing contest featuring a cash prize of $2,000 for the winning submission. According to Hodge, the center of the building will house the Bicentennial Rotunda, measuring twelve feet across and set three feet beneath the floor in glass casing, housing a replica of Miami’s Great Seal. The Great Seal includes three elements: an open book to symbolize the accumulated wisdom across centuries, the globe to represent the present moment shared by all peoples and the telescope to point to the future yet to be discovered. The purpose of the writing contest is to fill the open pages of the book with a writing piece by a student on the values, beliefs and experiences that connect “Old
Miami” and “New Miami.” Howe Writing Center director, Kate Ronald, has been instrumental in the development of the writing contest, and provided advice on where students should draw inspiration for their entries. “If you start with the new student center, it is literally the ‘new’ coming out of the ‘old,’” Ronald said. The contest is partnering with the university library system. Resources on Miami’s history including photographs, essays and more are available to students to pull inspiration from for their submissions. “The thing I’m looking for is timelessness,” Hodge said. “What we’re looking for is things that are true from generation to generation.” The contest is open to all Miami undergraduate students across the Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown campuses. According to Hodge, there will be a finalist from each of the graduating classes. A committee of Miami faculty, staff and students will select finalists, and winners will be selected
by an online vote by the student body the week of April 26, 2013. “Having students vote on the winner of the contest is an interesting approach,” junior Abby Pautz said. “It seems like a good way to get the rest of the student body involved.” The winning submission will be printed on the open pages of the book in the rotunda, and the other three class winners will receive $1,000 in cash. Other submissions will be printed on the remaining pages of the book. The contest is available to undergraduate students of all majors and departments, and is not exclusive to students with experience in writing or writing-related coursework. “I am not interested in the contest,” first-year Matt Breitenbach said. “But I think it’s a really cool opportunity for anyone who is interested in writing.” The submission deadline is April 2, 2013, and pieces must be 1809 words or less. For additional information on workshops and how to submit, students can visit the Howe Writing Center website.
Miami Metro to burst ‘Oxford bubble’ BY EMILY GLASER SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Miami University students who take the red and white Miami Metro buses are in for some change. Beginning next year, on-campus transportation will be taken over by Butler County Regional Transit Authority (BCRTA) and will transport students and community members alike. There will no longer be the color routes on the red and white buses to which students are accustomed. Instead, there will be both Oxford area routes and regional routes on BCRTA’s buses. Currently, the university has a contract with a private transportation company, First Transit. According to Lieutenant Ben Spilman of the Miami University Police Department (MUPD), the change is to ensure that more people use the buses and students have a chance to travel between cities of Butler County. “[BCRTA is] going to better gage the size of vehicles needed to operate these routes so that we have added capacity without empty vehicles as much,” Spilman said. Spilman said the new system will be publically accessible, so people not affiliated with Miami can pay the customary fare of two dollars. Meanwhile, Miami students, staff and faculty ride for free by presenting their Miami IDs on campus, between campuses and on regional routes. Kate Rousmaniere, professor of educational leadership at Miami and Oxford City Council member, said she is excited about the partnership with BCRTA, particularly because it will decrease traffic and parking congestion and allow students and community members to ride together.
“There’s a lot of Oxford that students don’t see,” Rousmaniere said. “I think public transportation would allow students to see some of the greater aspects of Oxford that they don’t normally see, like the city pool and community park.” Senior Cole Tyman, secretary for on-campus affairs for Associated Student Government (ASG), said he believes regional transportation
We have the stigma of the ‘Oxford bubble,’ and it’s good to give students a chance to get out of here...” COLE TYMAN
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is one of the greatest benefits of the new system, as students without cars generally have no way to get around. “We have the stigma of the ‘Oxford bubble,’ and it’s good to give students a chance to get out of here and breathe different air for a little while,” Tyman said. Junior Maddy Broda said she uses the Miami Metro frequently and has mixed feelings about the new system. “I think that changing it to public transportation takes away from the purpose to serve the student use,” Broda said. “A really big plus is that mostly students use it, so I feel like students are more comfortable.” However, she said she believes expanded transportation around the county and Oxford will be an improvement. Broda said one of the most frequent questions she gets as a campus tour guide is about transportation to Walmart and out of Oxford.
“I think that there are students that take classes at Hamilton and Middletown campuses, and with gas prices rising they will use opportunity to take transportation to and from,” Broda said. “And even just to get out of Oxford maybe on the weekends, I can see students utilizing the new system.” Spilman clarified that some routes will be longer than others and some will remain short loops. “There’s not just one vehicle on the route necessarily,” Spilman said. “There may be multiple vehicles on a route moving at the same time. BCRTA uses GPS technology, and I expect that they will be rolling out some sort of application that will allow riders to track when the next bus will be arriving.” Broda said she uses the current Miami Metro application, and would definitely use any offered by BCRTA. The greatest change for students will be learning the new routes, according to Tyman, who said he wants to make sure the new routes are still efficient for them. “Sometimes you have to go all the way to Kroger when you get on a bus just to go to your next class,” Tyman said. “I want to make sure the bus routes are reasonable and beneficial to students.” According to Spilman, current Miami Metro bus drivers work for First Transit, the private company Miami partners with now. However, as they are all local residents, they will be the largest applicant pool for the new system, which will require several new vehicles and drivers. Spilman said the new routes will begin at the start of next semester. More information about the new system and routes can be found at www.MiamiOH.edu/ Parking?NewTransitRoutes/.
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First-year Logan Liptak competes at Miami University’s first home handball event at Withrow Court Saturday, March 23.
New honors requirements may raise student retention BY JORDYN GRZELEWSKI
FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
The Miami University Honors Program (UHP) is undergoing some changes that may affect the program’s retention rates. Kari Taylor, associate director of student development for the UHP, said it is still too early to tell how these changes will impact retention rates, but they could increase retention because there are now fewer requirements to meet. Honors students have originally had to complete honors experiences, which are approved learning opportunities such as honors courses, that allow students to fulfill certain learning outcomes. Students are required to write reflections about their learning experiences and add these reflections to an e-portfolio. According to Taylor, the program’s ability to facilitate its eportfolio requirements has taken a hit with the departure of an assistant director in August and an associate director in December. Since there are fewer staff members to support the 1,700 honors students, the program has had to scale back some of its requirements. The UHP now requires students to write fewer reflections, a decision based partially on the reduced staff size and partially because students did not consider their e-portfolio entries a meaningful component of the honors experience, Taylor said. Junior honors student Karli Grazman agreed the reflections were not the most useful aspect of the program. “I was going into the honors program with these expectations of writing 23 e-portfolio entries,” Grazman said. “I kind of want that, but practically speaking, I need time...It’s time that I could make, but it would be extremely stressful.” The UHP has been retaining
students at high rates, according to the program’s Annual Assessment Report for the 2011-2012 school year, with 79 percent of the Class of 2013, 86 percent of the Class of 2014 and 97 percent of the Class of 2015 still in the program as of last school year. According to the report, the main reasons students dropped the program include wanting to devote more time to curricular and co-curricular activities, wanting to focus on major requirements and wanting a more structured approach to education. However, sophomore Jeff Townsend said he plans to stay in the program because of perks such as living in the honors dorms, not having to fulfill Miami Plan requirements and priority registration. He also said he likes taking honors classes. “The cluster and being in a couple Honors classes is nice because the classes are smaller and maybe a little more challenging,” Townsend said. Taylor said another factor driving the retention rates is that way the program has honors students fulfill the liberal education requirements. Prior to four years ago, students completed the Global Miami Plan and added honors onto that. Now, if they drop the program, they may not be able to graduate on time because they would have to complete the Global Miami Plan courses that were not required of them as honors students. Grazman expressed some frustration with the changing requirements. “They’ve changed the requirements of the honors program so many times that I don’t know what they want me to do,” she said. However, Grazman said she plans to stick with the honors program. “I really like that I’ll be able to say I graduated from one of the top public colleges in the country, especially with this Honors distinction,” she said.
University librarian increases online accessibility and wins award BY MACKENZIE GARNER FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
Miami University user experience librarian, Jason Michel, was recently named a 2013 Mover and Shaker Tech Leader by the Library Journal. The 12th annual award Michel won two weeks ago identifies 50 emerging leaders making a difference in the library world. According to Michel, he graduated from Simmons College Graduate School located in Boston, Mass. six years ago after attending Ohio State University for his undergraduate degree. He has been working at Miami University since 2007. Before Michel arrived on campus, students had to post on a bulletin board inside King Library to reserve study rooms. Michel created
the online system in which students can reserve their study room for any on-campus library. On one of his first projects, Michel worked with Miami University Digital Initiatives Librarian Elias Tzoc. Michel said the project was aimed at providing easy access to local photographic collections on external sites. He said automatically uploading the photographs to Flickr made it easy for people to find the photos on Google or other search engines. “It was my first big project,” Michel said. “We need to get our service and our materials into the new technological environment.” According to Tzoc, the Flickr project remains as one of the most successful social media outlets
that Miami University Libraries has implemented. Assistant dean for Miami University Libraries, Lisa Santucci, praised Michel’s work. “He is always thinking about the way students think,” she said. “If people are using Twitter he reaches out to them and asks them if they need help.” Santucci said Michel has created computer software that alerts the librarians whenever a tweet comes from someone located near Miami’s Oxford campus with keywords in it such as “study,” “exam” or “final.” Once alerted, the librarians can reach out to the students. Santucci added that Michel is an employee who is always willing to pursue new ideas. “As an employee he is engaged,”
Santucci said. “He has a plethora of ideas at all times. You almost have to keep him focused. He is creative, flexible and very knowledgeable.” Michel’s colleagues have emphasized his abilities to be innovative, think like a student and come up with plausible solutions. Sophomore Eric Seeger, said he has had several frustrating episodes trying to find an open computer in King Library. “As a student, I have experienced several frustrating moments where I have walked into King Library and spent the majority of 30 minutes searching for an open computer to sit at,” Seeger said. “The past couple times I’ve gone into King I have gone straight to the screen to see which computers are available. It has saved me plenty of
time and stress.” Seeger explained that Michel established a touch screen system in King library to show which computers are accessible. It is even color coordinated; Red represents computers already in use while green signifies available ones. Outside of his work for Miami, Michel has also managed to recently complete his first book titled Web Service APIs and Libraries. This book shows readers how to integrate software tools into library websites. Michel said his work is a collaborative effort from the Miami library staff. “Everything that has been done was done with my colleagues,” Michel said. “Everyone is forward thinking, trying to come up with advancements in technology.”
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Miami University’s annual graduation ceremony is a perennial parental pilgrimage, drawing in a large influx of visitors, which Oxford’s small crop of hotels have difficulty fully accommodating. According to Kathy Butterfield, general manager of the Best Western Sycamore Inn, 6 E Sycamore St., every year people begin calling the day after graduation to book one of its 61 rooms for the next year’s ceremony. “They start calling a year in advance,” Butterfield said. “But the way our system is set up, we can’t take reservations until 11 months in advance. We have a specific call-in date.” According to Butterfield, it is all hands on deck as she and four other desk clerks take reservations on the call-in date. For the 2014 spring commencement, reservations can be made starting at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, June 23. “We will sell out in 15 minutes and then we take a waiting list,” Butterfield said. “We each take 10 names and that’s forty people. And that sells out in the next 15 to 20 minutes, so then we start referring people to other hotels.” The Courtyard by Marriott in Hamilton, 1 Riverfront Plaza, holds
their call-in date on June 1, according to Shawn Stidham, director of sales. However, Stidham said requests for the following year’s graduation consistently begin before the current year’s ceremony. “Because our reservation system will only let you make a reservation about 48 to 50 weeks out, we set June first as the date we tell everybody we’ll be taking reservations for Miami graduation,” Stidham said. “We will sell out by the end of the day and we’ll take a waiting list.” Butterfield said once they are fully booked, she refers potential patrons to other hotels she knows still have room. “I’m not going to send someone up to The Elms if they’re already booked,” Butterfield said. While Hamilton has a couple of motels, the 120-room Marriott is Hamilton’s only hotel, according to Stidham. “We are the closest Marriott hotel to Miami and I think we are the closest hotel not in Oxford,” Stidham said. “Anytime there’s anything at Miami that fills up the hotels there, we are usually the first hotel outside of Oxford to fill up based on the overflow.” Once the Marriott fills up, people start going to West Chester, Fairfield and Middletown,
according to Stidham. There are unconventional lodging accommodations as well. Tari Spurlock’s Presidio Pines Bed & Breakfast, 3152 Oxford-Trenton Road, is located on a little farm three miles from campus. “I have five rooms and this year I’m renting out two of my guest rooms up at the house,” Spurlock said. “I have families that come and rent the whole house so they can have parties and bring the whole family in.” Spurlock said she books her bed and breakfast as far out as a family would like, and is currently booked until 2016. She emphasized the flexibility of Presidio Pines and her distance from the house, maximizing the number of available rooms. “I’m very flexible,” Spulock said. “I fix them a nice four-course breakfast. They can come and go as they want.” For those choose to book a hotel, Stidham said they receive cancellations as people find out someone’s not graduating or discover they can get a room in Oxford. “At special events, we charge their credit card 45 days prior to graduation and we see cancellations 45 days out, but we’ve got a waiting list of people who are ready to jump right on,” Stidham said.
Butterfield said the number of cancellations vary. “I’ve been here for 22 years and there’s been a couple times where we haven’t had any cancellations,” Butterfield said. “For example, last year we had several cancellations and we were able to get to the waiting list, so it depends.” Butterfield said some hotels such as The Elms, 75 S. Main St., consider loyalty when accepting reservations for overbooked timeslots. “If you stay so many nights at her property during the year then that’s how she calculates,” Butterfield said. “So it also depends on the property.” Senior David Ruedi’s family has been able to book rooms easily because they have stayed at The Elms since his sister was at Miami in 2009. “My family gets priority because they’ve stayed there so many times,” Ruedi said. “But I still think they reserved rooms for graduation at the very beginning of the year.” For those who are not as fortunate, Butterfield has some recommendations, most importantly, to be persistent. “If the line is busy, keep trying to call back,” Butterfield said. “Even if we are sold out we can still put you on the waiting list or at least give you another hotel option to call. Be patient.”
Miami mentors give aid to ‘Loave’ and honor: Oxford local high school students baker delivers fresh goods BY NICOLE WILLSEY FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
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Miami Connections, a mentoring program ran by Miami University to aid struggling Talawanda High School (THS) students, has mutually benefitted the university and THS students since its 2010 inception, according to Leah Wasburn-Moses, project manager. The program is open to Talawanda ninth and tenth graders who need additional assistance in academics, according to Wasburn-Moses. They are recommended for the program by their teachers but also must consent to participate. Miami Connections is one of the many programs composing the broader Talawanda and Miami partnership, Jean Eagle, director of clinical field experiences and school partnerships at Miami, said. The partnership officially began in 2001, but the ties between the Talawanda School District and Miami have been strong for decades, according to Karen Montgomery, Miami’s liaison to Talawanda. The Talawanda student participants spend half of their school day in Boyd Hall, where education majors at Miami tutor them. They are also mentored by Miami students who provide one-onone emotional support, according to Wasburn-Moses. From the standpoint of the education majors who are tutoring the students, it is a win-win situation
because they are able to get direct, precise feedback on their tutoring in a personal setting, as well as helping the student in a meaningful way, Wasburn-Moses said. Wasburn-Moses teaches the mentoring and educational psychology class, EDP 450, which is open to all students. This one-credit class meets monthly and anyone enrolled is able to have a mentoring position within the program. Research tracking the GPAs of the Talawanda student participants has shown significant improvement across the board, which is evident from data taken in the last couple of years, according to Wasburn-Moses. Aside from the academic progress that has been made, the connections and communication that takes place with everyone involved has been a reward in itself, Miami student mentor, senior Rachel Von Holle, said. “Even though I have tutored students and enjoy tutoring, mentoring is great because our mentees can see us as more than just being there for their grades…we truly care about them and they see that through our casual, but meaningful conversations each day we visit them,” Holle said. Holle said she has learned as much from the mentee as they have from her. “He will probably never know the impact he has made on my life, so I believe that an hour a week is the least I can do for all that he has given me,” Holle said.
BY KATHRYN ROWE FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
Oxford is now offering Miami University students a little slice of home-cooking, with a new bakery opening its doors and serving a convenient delivery service. Kim Coffey, owner and head baker at Loaves—a small business operated straight out of her kitchen in Oxford—bakes and delivers bread around the city to local residents. Coffey got her start making bread in 2009 when her and her sister-inlaw were shocked by the perfect condition of a month-old loaf of store-bought bread. Disgusted by the unnatural baking processes, Coffey said she decided to fully commit herself to researching and experimenting with wild yeast, as opposed to commercial yeast, in order to produce the most natural, fresh bread. “I do everything by hand, and although it’s a lot of work, what comes out of it can really be appreciated,” Coffey said. “My first loaves were truly awful, it was a huge learning curve.” The learning curve proved to be worth it once business started to pick up, according to Coffey. Once Coffey created bread she thought was good enough to share, she began giving it to her neighbors to try. One of her neighbors refused to take the bread without paying her and insisted Coffey she owed her for the treat. This moment prompted her to start the business in 2011. In order to spread the word, Coffey established a network of friends who were interested in the bread. The network, which began as an email list and word-of-mouth marketing, really helped get the word out about her business, according to Coffey. Husband of the baker, Ben Coffey, said his wife’s customers get excited when receiving the bread. He also described his wife’s rigorous schedule, which includes baking every Wednesday and Friday at 3:30 a.m. and then making all of the deliveries.
“There is no comparison in the process of bread making, I had no idea how complex it can be,” Ben Coffey said. “It really is an amazing and evolving process.” For now, he said his favorite types of bread are Cinnaraisinut and the Vermont Sourdough, which he swears are the best. Kim Coffey receives email orders for bread as well as apple, cinnamon and blueberry muffins, which she now bakes every week. Miami professor, Bob Setlock, has been a friend of Coffey’s for many years and is now a devoted customer. According to Setlock, the bread has become a staple of family meals. “The wild yeast that Kim uses is in part collected in the air, her bread is unique to Oxford and wouldn’t taste the same if it were made anywhere else,” Setlock said. “She does a lot to help people, this is as much a community outreach for her [as] it is a business.” Currently, Kim Coffey makes nine different kinds of bread and rotates through them based on customer demand. The flavors include Good Graincious, Cinnaraisinut, Vermont Sourdough, Chocolate Cranberry Black Forest of Delight, Olive a Good Thyme, Carried Away Caraway, Oh My Wheat! and Herban Legend. Upon hearing of the bread business through word of mouth, sophomore Lindsey Crowl said she thinks the delivery service could prove to be useful for Miami students. “This bread would be great for upperclassman living off campus who no longer have ample access to dining halls and markets…who doesn’t want to eat fresh bread in college? We’ve all grown up eating bread,” Crowl said. Kim Coffey said she shares Crowl’s excitement, and has growing optimism for the future of the business. Students and faculty interested in Kim Coffey’s bread and muffins can visit her website at http://www. breadandwood.com/loaves#.
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A$AP Rocky surfs Brick Street crowd BY BILLY RAFAEL
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Brick Street Bar treated Oxford to an unforgettable concert experience Wednesday bringing in A$AP Rocky to blow the roof off. Rocky has been blowing up recently after releasing his debut album in January and appearing on tracks with hit artists like Drake, Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz. The show featured a mix of songs from Rocky’s older mix tape, like the trippy anthem “Peso,” and his new album, like the laid-back “Goldie,” produced by Hit-Boy. He also mashed together several tracks of other rappers that he appears on, such as Schoolboy Q’s “Hands on the Wheel.”
dances from a few girls hand selected to come on stage as well. “What made A$AP’s concert an experience wasn’t just his music, but his stage presence,” Miami University first-year Bobby Vlasic said. “He was always engaging with the audience; he could feel when he needed to hype the crowd up and he was just really, really cool with everything.” Joining Rocky for the show was A$AP Ferg, another part of the A$AP Mob, who did some of his own stuff and helped Rocky with a new song they haven’t released yet. The crowd received it well, catching on to the hook quickly and cheering along with it. Rocky closed with his most recent club banger “F**kin’ Problems” much to the enjoyment
He was there to have a good time and made sure all of us did.” JORDAN DIAMOND
Rocky proved to be quite the showman as well. In addition to consistently pumping up the crowd with a call and response chant of “ASAP,” he crowd surfed, broke up a little scuffle on the floor and invited a birthday boy on stage for a couple private
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Brick Street Bar hosted music artist A$AP Rocky Wednesday night. Rocky played hits from both his new album and old mix tape. He also crowd surfed and broke up a scuffle.
of the crowd, who was clearly waiting for it the entire night. Despite the lack of an encore, fans seemed thoroughly satisfied with the concert, making sure to keep the chant of “ASAP” going for a while after he left the stage. Miami sophomore Jordan
Diamond, who writes for the online music blog Sunset in Rearview, put the concert at the top of his list of favorites. “It was obvious that people knew A$AP’s newer music compared to his old, but he made up for that by having fun with the
crowd,” Diamond said. “I’ve been to a good amount of shows and the way A$AP connected with us was crazy compared to other artists. He was there to have a good time and made sure all of us did.” Brick Street still has a full
lineup left for the rest of the semester, including up-and-coming hip hop artist Joey Bada$$ April 10, country musician Thomas Rhett April 24 and reggae jam band Rebelution on April 25. For more information visit http:// www.brickstreetbar.com.
Timberlake brings ‘Sexy Back’ with new album BY BILLY RAFAEL
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Graduate student Vanessa Graham features her MFA Thesis Exhibition in Hietand Galleries.
“Asian Starbucks” celebrates opening BY LAUREN KIGGINS STAFF WRITER
Oxford’s own Teapioca Tea & Coffee will celebrate its first month in business this week. Teapioca specializes in a wide variety of bubble tea, a blended drink of tea, milk and tapioca pearls. They also serve small, authentic Chinese dishes. “This is our version of a coffeehouse,” senior Jason Pan, marketing director of Teapioca, said. “It’s an Asian Starbucks.” According to Pan, the Asian population on campus felt there was an increased need for a venue that catered to their social and study needs. The Miami University Office of International Education quoted an 18.6 percent increase in Chinese student enrollment last fall. While targeted at an international
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audience, Teapioca serves a steady flow of American students, according to Pan. “Teapioca is a good cultural experience for anyone,” dietetics student and Hong Kong native, Christina Cheung, said. “The drinks are really similar to what you get in China. It feels like home.” According to Pan, while multiple restaurants Uptown offer Chinese cuisine, Teapioca provides an experience unique to the area. “I eat at Teapioca because it is more suitable to me than the other Chinese restaurants around,” firstyear Yinghao Huang said. “The atmosphere is more comfortable and relaxed.” Pan collaborated with two international Miami graduates and one current international student to make their Teapioca business plan a reality.
“We want to make a memory in this town,” Pan said. “The past four years have not been enough; we want to leave something behind.” Teapioca replaced the fast food joint Thanksgiving Dinner 365 (TGD) in January, leaving little time for interior renovation. TGD’s leftover bright red booths provide the majority of seating, while the walls are adorned with a potpourri of pictures and paintings. What the coffee shop lacks in décor, it makes up in friendly and ambitious management. Pan said the Teapioca team is looking to introduce a second location near the University of Cincinnati and eventually hopes to franchise at malls and airports. Teapioca is open 11:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 11:30 a.m. to 12 a.m. Friday through Sunday.
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Friday and Saturday night’s productions of Grand Night showcased Miami University’s top performers.
It’s been seven years since we’ve gotten an album from Justin Timberlake, key player in the golden days of boy bands and puppet-themed pop albums. After a musical hiatus to expand his film career, starring in films such as “Friends With Benefits” and “The Social Network,” Timberlake has made his return to the microphone with “The 20/20 Experience,” released March 15. Timberlake has two other solo studio albums to his credit, and you can hear elements from both pop up in various tracks, but the most striking attribute of his new album is the sheer length of the songs. Coming in at 70 minutes between ten tracks, 80 minutes between 12 tracks if you’re into deluxe editions, the songs all equal out to be between six to eight minutes, which is abnormally long for a pop album, let alone a nightmare for whoever is in charge of editing and condensing down for the radio. The longer song lengths allow for them to be structured in movements, much like classical orchestral music, taking an idea and warping it into different situations to where one song can easily be mistaken as three different ones. Others take the route of classic rock bands like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, who also were known for putting out longer songs, merely taking a theme and vamping on it for as long as deemed necessary. This song-within-a-song style has its benefits, but the risk Timberlake took was that a listener could both like and hate a single song’s different parts. This runs true particularly in tracks with very contrasting parts. The tying element between all the tracks is the lyrical content. Disguised in complex metaphors at times but always fairly obvious, every track is tied back to the themes of love and sex, something that Timberlake is quite familiar with—I mean, his last album was titled “FutureSex/ LoveSounds.” Timberlake has made it public that several songs are even directly written about his now-wife Jessica Biel.
My initial impression upon first listening was the album holds true to its namesake in truly being an “experience.” It’s meant to be listened through from start to finish, not randomly thrown on shuffle at a party or in the car. While certain songs definitely stand out as singles more than others, they each carry their own weight, providing something that no other track on the CD does.
Fans should take solace in knowing they won’t have to wait another seven years for another album from Timberlake, as the artist has stated that the second half of “The 20/20 Experience” is set to release this fall with another ten tracks.”
The list of other big names appearing on the CD is fairly light. Long-time Timberlake collaborator, Timbaland, shares a producer credit for the album and Jay-Z pops up on the album’s first single, “Suit & Tie,” which got the public amped up for Timberlake’s return. Other standout tracks include the opening futuristic “Pusher Love Girl,” the playfully sexy “Strawberry Bubblegum,” the no-nonsensejust-swoon of “That Girl” and the album’s second single “Mirrors,” which manages to be both a pop ballad and a pop anthem during its eight minute runtime. Fans should take solace in knowing they won’t have to wait another seven years for another album from Timberlake, as the artist has stated that the second half of “The 20/20 Experience” is set to release this fall with another ten tracks. The big question will be whether Timberlake plans on taking his newly developed production style further or will seek to contrast it with something different. Regardless of the answer, Timberlake will have the world waiting on the edge of their seats to find out.
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logged 31:33 minutes of playing time and 12 saves on 16 shots, while Williams recorded nine saves on 11 shots in relief. “We got a little frustrated,” senior forward Curtis McKenzie said. “We didn’t play the way we’ve been playing, and they took it to us from there.” After a period riddled with defensive breakdowns and subpar play from a number of individuals, Miami bounced back and nabbed two goals, one by freshman forward Sean Kuraly at the end of the second period, and a power play tally by McKenzie in the opening minutes of the third period. Michigan added two more of their own, bringing the final score to 6-2; the same score as Miami’s CCHA Semifinals loss to Western Michigan University
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013 just one year prior. Though the loss was a tough one for the RedHawks, and cost them a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, there were also some bright spots on the weekend. Sophomore forward Austin Czarnik was named CCHA Player of the Year, the third RedHawk to receive that honor in the past four years. Freshman linemate Riley Barber was awarded CCHA Rookie of the Year, and Blasi was named CCHA Coach of the Year for the fifth time, the second most all-time of any coach in the league. All three awards recipients are quick to mention that their recognition is not due to individual talent, but rather a collective, team effort – something the RedHawks have maintained all year, and something that is conducive to success in the post-season. “You’ve got to be poised, you’ve got to stay composed,
and you’ve got to be disciplined,” Blasi said of his team’s strategy heading into the tournament. “You’ve got to play with a sense of hunger, but yet, still do your job. That will be the lesson we continue to preach throughout the week. This is a resilient group, and let’s not forget, this is a team that won the CCHA Regular Season Championship, so let’s not feel sorry for ourselves here. I know we learned a big lesson, and we’ll move forward.” Miami has drawn a No. 2 seed in the Toledo region, and Saturday’s game against No. 12 Minnesota State University marks the eighth straight NCAA Tournament appearance for the RedHawks. The Red and White are 1-0-1 all-time against the Mavericks, who are 24-13-3 entering into just their second ever NCAA appearance. The puck drop is set for 5 p.m. Saturday at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio.
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Olowinski played great for us.” The Illini were led by junior guard Amber Moore, who scored 25 points. Also in double figures for the Illini were senior guard Adrienne Godbol who put up 15 points and senior forward Karisma Penn who dropped 20. After the ’Hawks started the game on an 8-0 run the Illini replied with a 14-0 run of their own. Illinois scored 25 points off of the RedHawks’ 26 turnovers. The ’Hawks shot just 33.9 percent from the field, while Illinois shot 44.3 percent. Miami was trailing 37-22 at halftime but came roaring back in the second half and pulled within three points with 10:37 left in the game but Illinois outlasted the ’Hawks. “Playing on the road against a Big Ten team is a challenge,” Fantanarosa said. “They were just more athletic than us.” Osborn and Olowinski experienced an emotional night as they played their last game for Miami. “After the game as I walked off the court for the last time I felt proud of my time at Miami,” Osborn said. “The part I will miss most is spending every day with the coaches and players.” Osborn demonstrated a great sense of pride for her four years in the Red and White. “One word to describe my time at Miami would be resiliency,” Osborn said. “The first two years for [Olowinski] and I, we were at the bottom of the MAC and it sounds cliché but it was hard to see the light at the end of tunnel. We never gave up and we overcame adversity.
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in the 800 meter race as seniors Jack Spilman and Jarrod Eick and junior Wade Coffin finished second, third and fifth respectively. “That’s a really strong group,” Mandrell said. “They’ve been working very hard. Spilman broke his personal record.” Senior John Cantwell recorded his personal best in the triple jump as he finished second place with a 14.31-meter jump. Cantwell also broke his personal record in the long jump, finishing fifth overall, as he jumped 7.2 meters. The men’s 4x100 relay team finished second, and Mandrell said junior Jahquil Hargrove, the anchor for the RedHawks, passed the anchor for the University of Louisville to give the ’Hawks second place. The ’Hawks 4x100 team included freshman Jason Bailey, sophomore JaShawn Combs, junior Sam Spallinger and Hargrove. Mandrell said the meet was, “all in all a great first meet.” The women’s track and field team also travelled to Nashville, Tenn. in hopes of warmer weather, and although disappointed, Head Coach Kelly Phillips said she did not mind the weather. “We wanted 60s or 70s, but what we had was fine,” Phillips said. “I have no complaints.”
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win. Williams finished the game with six innings pitched, allowing just three runs on seven hits and retiring five batters. Elble finished the doubleheader 3-for-8 with three runs scored and four RBIs and was named MAC East Player of the Week for his efforts. “The guys have been working hard since the fall,” Simonds said of his squad, specifically the batters who have heated up lately. “Hitting is timing, and for some they get going right out of the box. For others it takes a little while, and we’ve got a few guys that just needed to get some at bats to get their legs underneath them, get their timing right, and see the ball.” The RedHawks will return to action 3 p.m. Friday, when they travel to take on the University of Toledo for a three-game series. The other two games are slated to start 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. No one ever gave up.” Fantanarosa said she was disappointed with the loss, but satisfied with the way her seniors played. “We’re glad they played well in their last game. You never want it to end for two seniors who have done so much for our program and Miami,” Fantanarosa said. “This season has been enjoyable; the team has continued to develop, overcoming adversity and growing all season. We were a better team [on Thursday] then we were one month ago. This team has been selfless and committed to success.” The ’Hawks were led by Osborn and Olowinski all season as the senior duo accounted for 46 percent of the RedHawks points. Osborn was the top scorer for the RedHawks in 22 of 32 games, and Olowinski was the leading rebounder in all but three games, recording double-digit rebounds in half of the RedHawks games. Twin junior guards Haley and Hannah Robertson were key contributors for the RedHawks, averaging seven and 9.6 points per game, respectively. Junior forward Erica Almady chipped in eight points per game. They will likely be heavily relied on next season to replace Osborn and Olowinski. The ’Hawks longest winning streak of the year was five games, and their longest losing streak was three. The ’Hawks finished six games above .500 despite starting ten different players throughout the season due to injuries. The ’Hawks will likely enter the off-season reflecting on the record breaking careers of their dynamic duo, but also wondering how they will be replaced next season. Phillips was more than satisfied with the way the RedHawks performed in the non-scored meet. “We did really well, much better than where we thought we would be at this point,” Phillips said. “We are better than we were at this time last year.” The ’Hawks most successful race was the 3000 meter where sophomore Anna Lamb took first place with a time of 9:48.48 and finished five seconds in front of the second place runner. Sophomores Elisa Frazier and Jess Hoover finished sixth and ninth. “They all ran well in the 3000,” Phillips said. “[Lamb] did a really great job.” Junior Tori Pattera won the javelin throw for the RedHawks with a throw of 46.95 meters; her closest competitor threw 39.77 meters. Senior Layne Baggett finished second in the first heat of the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 13.69, just milliseconds out of first place. Miami was trying a new team in the 4x100 and was disqualified from the race. “We dropped the baton, when we have new people in a relay it happens,” Phillips said. “We can make mistakes now so they don’t happen later.” Both teams will compete in the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational March 29 and 30, in Cincinnati.
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EDITORS EMILY ELDRIDGE NICOLE THEODORE
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013
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The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.
The Miami Student endorses the McGuire, Kwerteng ticket The General Election for the Student Body Elections will be this Wednesday on the Hub. The election will start at noon and go until 7 p.m. Thursday and then the runoff is from noon to 7 p.m., April 3 to April 4 . Major issues overlapping platforms included Medical Amnesty, improving advising and DARS, providing better communication between ASG and students and safety on campus. The Editorial Board of the Miami Student was able to meet with the candidates, hear their platforms and ideas and ask the candidates questions about their major goals if elected. The following endorsement reflects the majority opinion of The Miami Student Editorial Board. The board has decided to endorse Forrest McGuire and Lot Kwerteng as president and vice president of the student body after they demonstrated their leadership experience, passionate dedication and focus on critical issues would lead the way towards positive steps in the present and future of every student’s Miami experience. Though we all unanimously agreed that every candidate raised critical points about many key issues, we saw a little something different within the McGuire/Kwerteng ticket. They have the experience needed in order to hit the ground running and immediately begin enacting change. Their focus on issues surrounding what the Miami student needs to be successful within their four years here was more than impressive. It gave us hope that the future of the students here will be held in good hands. McGuire and Kwerteng’s roles as leaders in Associated Student Government (ASG), and multiple other organizations, also proves that they not only have the connections to get issues such as Medical Amnesty enacted within the next year, but also have the passion and know-how to
understand what students need to progress academically. This team’s commitment to updating the age old DARS system and improving the academic advising system was something the board saw as a crucial issue. All the candidates hit many key points about academics very well in different ways, but the board felt that McGuire and Kwerteng’s push to better retention and graduation rates would take a further step in bettering the academic experience for students after they graduate. McGuire and Kwerteng, if elected, would immediately go after their goal of making Medical Amnesty go into effect by next year. We, the editorial board, believe that this would improve students’ safety and well being as a whole, while also protecting those that may be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Knowing the ins and outs of ASG is another reason why we believe these candidates have the knowledge to actually take their ideas and create change. They also demonstrated the need to provide College of Art and Science (CAS) students more opportunities for internships and jobs, and to push for the administration to pay more attention to majors that are often overlooked. The board was ultimately impressed by the fact that there would be no such learning curve for these candidates, and the issues they stood for in their platform were not just surface problems for Miami students. The issues they want to tackle hit home for many of us as students, no matter how different we are. We were impressed with all the candidates’ professionalism, knowledge and passion to pursue their issues by being elected as student body president and vice president. McGuire and Kwerteng just touched on something more for us as an editorial board. We wish all the candidates luck in the race and we encourage students to take part and vote this Wednesday on the Hub on MyMiami.
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Schreiber, Bernard ticket shows a platform of service to every Miami student Elections for student body president and vice president foster a field of candidates, which has presented us with platforms and policies that have the potential to lead the students to a better university. Among the field, there is one ticket that proves to have confidence and action within a platform of realistic policies for the students. Presidential candidate Charlie Schreiber and VicePresidential candidate Courtney Bernard’s “Empower Miami” platform is a catalyst for action that taps the resources and will of the Miami student body for the betterment of the university. Through the course of hearing Charlie and Courtney sell their platform in the debates and campaign forums, what I have found astonishing is that the “Empower Miami” platform has constructed policy initiatives that are capable for implementation within a single term administration. Additionally, the Schreiber/ Bernard ticket reflects what the typical Miami University student wants from their student government. It is not a platform of lofty policies that are misunderstood by the average student, but a platform designed to serve the
students through ASG. The “Empower Miami” platform goes directly to the heart of issues on this campus that other tickets do not touch. A platform that touches issues paramount to the service of students on this campus. Its initiatives to make this campus safer for all students, appreciation for diversity, and advancement of students taking pride in the work they do inside and outside of the classroom. Their landmark promotion issues such as social, scholarship, sustainabilityand safety all touch on policies that every Miami student looks to when considering the betterment of this university. Charlie and Courtney believe that this campus has students who have the potential to make the Miami University community better, and a student government that is filled with the ability to serve the student on this campus. The message of Charlie and Courtney genuinely show that they are the bridge between this divide. Their platform reflects the fact that students will have ability to see their interest put into policy through a Schreiber/Bernard administration. It is no surprise that the
Schreiber/Bernard ticket has constructed a platform of service to the students because it reflects the narrative of Charlie and Courtney. Presidential and vice presidential candidates have a combined total of involvement in twenty-five different student organizations between them. Furthermore, they have showed themselves as leaders within those organizations. Look at their experience, and you will see that both Charlie and Courtney are within the fabric of the Miami student body that no other ticket can lay claim to. Their connection to the students of the university only furthers the expla nation for their call to service. They show passion for the students that other tickets do not wear on their sleeves. Charlie and Courtney want to ensure that all students are reaping the benefits and services of the university and the student government. The “Empower Miami” ticket has the ability to tap the resources and leadership already within ASG only for the benefit for the students they serve. Charlie and Courtney seek to execute every branch of ASG for the advancement of student life at Miami. While other tickets may be
critical of a Schreiber/Bernard ticket because of their “lack of experience” within ASG, it should be noted that experience boasted by other tickets do not necessarily translate into the ability to act. Sitting as a member of ASG should not be considered requisite experience to hold the seat of Student Body President. I have
students, administration and the student government in order to bring the needs of the students to the forefront of conversations. Charlie and Courtney bring a genuine passion and concern for the student body with their campaign, and take pride in the fact that they want to be a representation of the university. They take ownership
Their platform reflects the fact that students will have the ability to see their interest put into policy through a Schreiber/Bernard administration.
full confidence that the energy, involvement and initiative put forth by the Schreiber/Bernard ticket is requisite experience enough to serve the students of Miami. “Empower Miami” binds a true, student-oriented platform that reflects the will of those they wish to serve with a robust and effective Associated Student Government. Charlie and Courtney have clearly shown that they can engage in dialogue with the
of a platform that touches every student on this campus, and especially those who have been underrepresented within the university through the past few years. They truly see a university rich in tradition and full of potential, and wish to bring about concrete initiative that can be seen directly by students within their term.
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Proof that expierence and leadership will go Empower Yourselves with the far by electing candidates McGuire, Kwarteng selection of Schreiber, Bernard Forrest McGuire is many things; he is a candidate for student body president. He is the current chief of staff of the Associated Student Government (ASG), working directly with our current student body president.
His resume alone, and the experience he brings to this university, qualifies him for the presidency two times over. He is the former president of Chi Psi fraternity. He has drafted legislation that is now the basis for his competition’s platform. Forrest McGuire is a leader.
His resume alone, and the experience he brings to this university, qualifies him for the presidency two times over. However, his understanding of the workings of our student government is not his most admirable characteristic, and is not the reason why I believe in his campaign. Forrest McGuire is a role model. His dedication, his drive and his devotion are the endearing qualities that make him my choice for student body president. All of these characteristics render Forrest a role model in every sense of the word. He brings these characteristics into everything he does, and he will do so as your student body president. In the three years I have known Forrest, he has demonstrated these characteristics in our friendship, and my admiration and respect for him grows everyday. Forrest’s devotion to those he mentors, those he loves and everyone he meets, correlates
directly to his devotion to this university and every student here. I look up to Forrest McGuire. Our student body president, the one who will write legislation, represent their fellow students and dedicate this next year to these students, should be someone you look up to, someone you respect and admire. That man is Forrest McGuire. He has the irrefutable experience, which leaves the resumes of his competition in the dust, but most importantly, he is whole-heartedly devoted to Miami University and its students. This Wednesday and Thursday, vote McGuire-Kwarteng and vote for two people who have not only proven their dedication, drive and devotion to this university, but to every student here. Vote for two gentleman who are truly role models at Miami University.
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Miami Students, It is with complete confidence that I hereby endorse Charlie Schreiber in this week’s Student Body President election. In the years that I have known Charlie, he has never backed down from an important issue. He fights for what he believes in and will do anything that it takes to realize his goals. Some leaders have great personalities and other leaders have the ability to get things done. Charlie truly possesses both of those qualities. He manages to achieve real results, while also being the nicest, friendliest person in the room. When I met Charlie Schreiber, my first thought was, “There is no way anyone can be that happy and friendly all the time.” Now, more than two years later, I could not have been more wrong. Charlie’s contagious personality and intense work ethic make me entirely confident supporting him for this position I applaud Charlie’s realization that many issues cannot be accomplished in a single year. Too often, elected representatives fall into the trap of reaching for unattainable goals and allowing real opportunity to fall by the wayside. Instead of choosing one area and implementing a complicated strategy that will take years to
develop, Charlie and Courtney have found areas for attainable improvement. They seek goals that can actually be accomplished during a one-year term.
Charlie’s contagious personality and intense work ethic make me entirely confident supporting him for this position. Beyond a doubt, I know that Charlie Schreiber will be a successful Student Body President. He possesses not only the personality and work ethic of a great leader, but the vision as well. Charlie has my complete confidence and respect, and I ask you to empower him with the ability to empower all of you. Love and Honor, Tom Kirkham President of the Student Senate, 2011-2012
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years, according to the OIR. According to Miami professor Carl Paternite, who served on a larger retention committee at Miami, a smaller steering committee is now implementing the strategies developed by the larger committee. Strategies include initiatives specifically aimed at first-year students on the Oxford campus, Paternite said, in order to keep them coming back to Miami. One of these initiatives includes the University Studies program, started last fall, which is comprised of students who are undecided about a major and students who did not receive direct admission to the business school, according to Paternite. These students are assigned faculty advisors who work with them from summer orientation until they ultimately select a major, Paternite said. According to Paternite, another initiative to improve university retention is a campaign or communications strategy that helps faculty and staff understand the key ingredients for academic success. There are four
items that increase the likelihood of students completing their college degree, including discovering they can be successful, feeling connected to the university community, understanding themselves in the context of a diverse world and engaging in personal reflection about their place in a changing world. “We sent out a communication to students early this year with some tips about being successful at Miami called ‘Succeed at Miami,’” Paternite said. “There were eleven suggestions that we offered to students about what they themselves can do. We had a similar set of messages that we sent to faculty and staff about what they can do and the Office of Student Affairs also had a similar correspondence that they sent to parents.” Paternite said these initiatives are too new to assess their impact on retention or graduation rates. Gilchrist said he thinks Miami can better address overall retention by providing students with more social events that are open to everyone. “I think that maybe if CAC [Campus Activities Council] had more concerts, more events that all students could go to, something
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that’s not just a fraternity party, that would help a lot with the social aspect,” Gilchrist said. “Students would be more inclined to stay if they had more to do.” Harris said many students are eager to get involved at the beginning of the school year, but become less involved as the year progresses or as they get older. She said Miami could do a better job of keeping students committed to their clubs and activities throughout the year and keeping upperclassmen involved. She also said the social aspect of Greek life could be made more open to all students in order to improve retention rates. “I think a lot of people who aren’t in Greek life are intimidated,” Harris said. “They don’t go to the parties that sororities and fraternities put on because they’re intimidated by the fact that they’re all Greek people, so maybe [Greek parties and events could be] more open to everyone.”
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to high standards as well. “It has been tough for me with my duties here at the ROTC program, trying to deal with academics and then I have a family as well,” Corona said. “So it’s been a little bit challenging to juggle all three.” Captain Joleen Young, Marine Corps Instructional Officer, wrote Corona’s recommendation for the award, which was limited to a onepage write-up of his achievements from the year of 2012. “Man, I could’ve said so many great things about him … He just is a great, all-around American man,” Young said. “He has pride in his country, he has pride in the job he does and he has pride in his family and I wish I could’ve said a lot more about him.” Corona said he was surprised to receive the award. “To be picked as the number one is humbling,” Corona said. “I have a lot of good friends who do this duty, I guess I honestly don’t think I deserve it over them because I see how well they’ve worked and how hard they’ve worked— it’s an honor.” Young said she was not surprised by Corona’s reaction to receiving the award. “It’s really funny because he is so humble, he’s like ‘I don’t want this to be a big deal, I really don’t want to be in the limelight’ … ” Young said. “He wouldn’t be the Marine he is if that wasn’t part of who he is.” According to Young, it is Corona’s ability to train the midshipmen while pursuing a degree and supporting a family that shows he deserves the award. She said she could not have picked anyone better. “He really has taken it upon himself to go above and beyond involving other entities in the university and to [show] who we are and how we operate as an ROTC unit,” Young said. According to Corona, he plans to continue representing the Marine Corps by making himself available whenever and wherever he is needed. “I’m going to hit my 14-year mark [in the Marines] in June, so I’m definitely going to do at least six more years, I’ll do my 20 years at least,” Corona said. “From here I’m just going to take some classes here at Miami until next summer, the Marine Corps will give me orders and I’ll go to wherever they send me.”
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problems class in the fall and is one of the advisors for Miami’s Pistol Club. According to Lieutenant Michelle Calarasu, who has worked with Corona in training Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) students, he has gone beyond even those responsibilities. “He not only does all the responsibility any other [GySgt] would do, but he does a lot of outside things,” Calarasu said. “He will assist and formulate and run practices for three different varsity sports teams to help give them a bit of Marine Corps training there.” Along with the women’s volleyball, basketball and lacrosse training sessions, Corona involves his midshipmen in various fundraising activities such as Kiwanis Club of Oxford, Wounded Warriors and local food drives. “I feel like we should try to help out with the community and give back,” Corona said. “So some of the things we’re looking at trying to do is more community relation projects. I know it’s difficult because we already do have a busy schedule, and there are certain events and charities that we give to, and just kind of looking at what else we can do to help out.” Along with community service, Corona stressed the importance of the strict yet, understanding, philosophy he follows when training ROTC students. “You’ve got to demand of them; you’ve got to give them goals and you’ve got to give them standards,” Corona said. “So if you hold them to the standards, … they’re going to hold their future Marines and sailors to those same standards.” According to Calarasu—who sometimes refers to Corona as ‘Gunny,’ short for GySgt—though demanding, he keeps from crushing students’ spirits as other GySgts often do. “Gunny has brought a completely different feel to the unit where he’ll let you know if you screwed up, but not make you feel so bad that you’re not going to go tell him,” Calasaru said. “He understands they’re learning too.” With a five-month-old daughter at home, working on a degree in criminal justice and training the midshipmen, Corona holds himself
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PUSHING THE ENVELOPE: THE GREED OF THE NCAA
“Change happens; if you fight change, you’re going to lose.” ESPN’s Senior Vice President for College Sports Programming, Burke Magnus, explained last year to Sports Illustrated’s Andy Staples how this change has driven conference realignment and lucrative television contracts in college athletics. However, this change is not simply a result of new technology, more money or better college athletes but a result of media and conference executives’ greed, and the unrealistic expectations of fans. And now, these expectations and greed could lead to the collapse of the NCAA. An antitrust lawsuit filed against the NCAA by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon and other former athletes, resurfaced last week when Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany filed a court declaration stating that if the plaintiffs won, the Big Ten would drop to Division III. Division III schools do not offer athletic scholarships, and a victory by the plaintiffs would likely force the NCAA, member conferences and institutions to pay millions of dollars in damages. University of Texas Men’s Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds, Wake Forest University President Nathan Hatch and other university officials across the nation also filed declarations explaining how a class-action win for the plaintiffs would adversely impact athletic programs, forcing these institutions to drop out of Division I or to cut sports. The O’Bannon case has major legal and monetary implications, and as The New York Times’ Katie Thomas reported in 2010, “The case is drawing attention because it gets to the heart of a highly contest legal question: when should a person’s right to control his image trump the free-speech rights of others to use it?” Meanwhile, the future of the NCAA and college athletics hangs in the balance. The NCAA was founded upon the principle of amateurism, but with caveats. Injuries, corruption and one-upmanship dominated collegiate athletics for some time, and the NCAA, founded in 1906, had little actual power until the 1950s. Players received benefits, coaches recruited as they pleased and school administrators let it all happen. But in 1951 that all changed, when the NCAA’s new Executive Director, Walter Byers, persuaded the University of Kentucky to suspend its basketball team for the 1952-1953 season, even after it won the National Championship the previous year with legendary Head Coach Adolph Rupp. Byers’ action became monumental, as the NCAA gained legitimacy and power overnight, soon controlling television rights for football and basketball games. The Supreme Court later ruled the organization’s control of football revenue was unconstitutional after the Universities of Georgia and Oklahoma realized they could make more money by working directly with television networks. Civil-rights historian Taylor Branch documented this history and how the NCAA evolved since the 1950s in an October 2011 article in The Atlantic, appropriately titled “The Shame of College Sports.”
The NCAA is a hoax. Everything from its arcane rules to its usage of the term “studentathlete” is completely baseless. Byers even noted in his memoir how the NCAA invented the term student-athlete to avoid legal issues, and Branch detailed in his 2011 article how this language protected the NCAA, rather than member institutions or the athletes it claimed to serve. Meanwhile, universities continued to blur the line between their non-profit academic mission and the profit-driven model of professional sports. SI’s Staples reported as much last August, detailing how conference commissioners, university presidents and television executives exploited fan expectations to create some of the most lucrative contracts in television history. A single game today is worth almost as much as the entire 1984 football season, according to Staples. Universities have pushed the envelope since the advent of college sports, and that trend only accelerated following apparel contracts in the 1970s and the Supreme Court’s ruling in 1984. Now content control is everything. Conferences no longer need to even partner with networks, as the Big Ten did with Fox. The Pac12 recreated that model with the Pac-12 Networks, the latest revolution in big-time college athletics. Headed by Commissioner Larry Scott, the Pac-12 controls all the content while assuming all the risk, with the potential for record profits. Meanwhile, ESPN’s profit margin has decreased over the past few years as the network has tried to expand content rights to guarantee a share of future conference networks. Conferences are now based on television markets. The Big Ten poached the University of Maryland and Rutgers University to capture the nation’s fourth largest media market; the Southeastern Conference stole the University of Missouri and Texas A&M University to pick up statewide media markets, even as it ignored Clemson and Florida State University right in its own backyard. Purity no longer exists in college athletics, but perhaps it never did. The NCAA investigates “studentathletes” for minor infractions while letting university administrators off the hook, so institutions will not abandon the organization. There may never be a level playing field in college athletics, but it is due to university presidents, not the NCAA. Universities have always competed with one another off the field, and the NCAA’s inability to control this has led to the downward spiral in college athletics. The NCAA is bad; university presidents are worse. The O’Bannon lawsuit could force institutions to begin paying student athletes. But pay-for-play is not the answer. Rather, universities must deemphasize athletics, like the University of Kentucky did in 1952. Only then will college athletics begin to align with the non-profit mission of higher education. The question is whether university presidents will do what the NCAA has failed to do for more than 100 years: work for student-athletes.
BASEBALL & SOFTBALL GAMES POSTPONED The Miami University baseball and softball teams have postponed games that were scheduled to be played Tuesday due to inclimate weather. The baseball team was set to play Xavier University 6 p.m. and the softball team was to play a double header against Morehead State University 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Make-up dates have not been announced.
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RedHawks fall in CCHA Semifinals to Wolverines
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Miami University senior forward Curtis McKenzie leaps into the boards after a goal as freshmen forward Riley Barber and sophomore forwards Blake Coleman and Austin Czarnik look on.
BY JOE GIERINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The top-seeded Miami University hockey team (24-11-5) was aware of the challenge that the seven-seed University of Michigan posed, but when the two teams collided Saturday, it was all Wolverines for the majority of the afternoon as the Maize and Blue cruised to a 6-2 victory. Riding an eight game unbeaten streak, the Wolverines stormed into the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) semifinals as arguably the hottest team in the country. Though freshman goaltender Steve Racine posted a disappointing .895 save
percentage up to his most recent game, he had only allowed 10 goals in his six wins leading up to the Detroit matchup against the RedHawks. On the other end of the ice, freshman Ryan McKay was coming into the contest with the best goals against average and save percentage in the country, but those stats would count for little. After a scoreless first period, the Wolverines jumped to a 4-0 lead, with three of those goals coming within 2:11 of each other. “I thought we tried to compete hard tonight,” Miami Head Coach Enrico Blasi said in the post-game press conference. “Obviously, Michigan has a goalie, and they took it to us there in
the second period and that was pretty much the game.” The Wolverines’ offensive explosion started early in the second period with a shorthanded goal from freshman forward Andrew Copp, which was facilitated by a blocked shot from senior forward Kevin Lynch. Copp added one more at 9:22 of the frame, and junior forward Luke Moffatt and senior forward A.J. Treais joined in on the offensive rush. Miami’s McKay was pulled for the first time in his career after goal number four in favor of classmate Jay Williams. McKay
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BASEBALL
Red and White sweep Eastern Michigan BY JOE GIERINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER
In the wake of a three-game skid, Miami University opened up Mid-American Conference (MAC) play with three straight wins over Eastern Michigan University this past weekend. The RedHawks (10-10, 3-0 MAC) played shut-down defense in Friday’s 4-0 victory over the Eagles, (9-13, 0-3 MAC) a night that saw senior pitcher Brooks Fiala (3-2) extend his shutout streak to an astounding 25.2 innings.
Fiala is 20th in the nation in strikeouts, with 46 on the season thus far. He holds a 3-2 record with a 2.51 ERA and has walked just 11 batters in 43 innings. “Brooks Fiala is certainly a talented kid,” Head Coach Dan Simonds said of his ace. “He continues to get better all the time. You talk about one of the hardest workers on our team; he really applies himself day in and day out. That’s pretty special going that many innings without giving a run up in college baseball.” The Miami batters came alive
in the first feature of Saturday’s doubleheader, as the Red and White cruised to a 13-6 win. Senior outfielder Alex Johnson recorded three hits in the outing, as did junior infielder Dan Walsh and junior catcher John Crummy. Senior catcher Nate Bowles attributes the increase in productivity to the fact that his team is starting to come together nicely now that the season is in full swing.
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
’Hawks season ends with loss in WNIT BY JUSTIN MASKULINSKI FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
Two record breaking Miami University seniors played their final games as RedHawks Thursday. Women’s basketball forward Kirsten Olowinski and guard Courtney Osborn finished their Miami careers in a hard fought loss. The RedHawks (19-13, 10-6) fell to the University of Illinois (17-13, 9-7) by a score of 73-60. The ’Hawks came out early and led the Illini 8-0 right out of the gate, but 26 turnovers ended
up being the deciding factor for Miami. “We came out and [junior guard] Haley Robertson hit two quick threes, but then Illinois turned up the pressure and picked up the intensity because they realized we were there to win the game,” Osborn said. Head Coach Maria Fantanarosa said she believes that lack of execution led to the defeat. “Illinois is fourth in the nation in causing turnovers, and we also didn’t hit three pointers when we got good looks,” Fantanarosa said. “Illinois is a very athletic
and talented team.” Osborn led the ’Hawks, scoring 19 points and grabbing seven rebounds. She is career leader in points with 2,166 at Miami. Olowinski, the career leader with 1,154 rebounds at Miami, had 12 rebounds and eight points. The Red and White outrebounded Illinois 42-31. “We did a good job of controlling momentum; there were a lot of momentum changes,” Fantanarosa said. “Osborn and
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TRACK & FIELD
Miami satsfied with opening meet results BY JUSTIN MASKULINSKI FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
Both Miami University Track and Field teams headed to Vanderbilt University for its first competitive outdoor track meets of the year Friday and Saturday at the Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invitational. Despite the weather not being as warm as they had hoped
for, men’s Head Coach Warren Mandrell was satisfied with the RedHawk’s performance as they battled the same chilly weather they have been training in. “It was a very good first meet for us,” Mandrell said. “Considering how crappy the weather has been [for training] it was a pleasant surprise. The weather [at Vanderbilt] may have been a slight factor for explosive races.”
Junior Rob Stein placed first in the discus throw, with a distance of 50.52 meters. “That was a pleasant surprise, there were a lot of good throwers at the meet,” Mandrell said. “It was a good solid mark for [Stein].” The RedHawks also dominated
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