March 27, 2012 | The Miami Student

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VOLUME 139 NO. 49

TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012

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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1956, The Miami Student reported that Miami University’s Benton Hall would be taken over by the Music Department. The Student reported the hall would be converted into 14 teaching studios, offices, a classroom and a listening room.

Hub improves primary election process

By Allison McGillivray Campus Editor

Miami University Associated Student Government (ASG) decided to forgo the usual Blackboard announcement for this year’s student body elections and hosted the election on The Hub, according to Meghan Wadsworth, vice president of student organizations, and Student Body Vice President Matt Frazier.

“I think it went really well after the kind of catastrophe that happened last year with the old voting system,” Frazier said.

Last year it was rumored students were able to vote more than once in the election since students were able to fill out their ballot on Blackboard multiple times, though it was later discovered each student’s vote only counted once, according to Frazier.

The Hub only allows students to complete their ballot once, Frazier said.

The use of The Hub allowed students to be more confident in the accuracy of the results, Wadsworth said.

“People felt more confident that people only had one vote,” Wadsworth said. “It was much more securely regulated.”

Frazier said The Hub also allowed him to the monitor the election instead of IT Services, who monitored the last election.

“It was nice to be able to have full control of the election process,” Frazier said.

Frazier said he is confident elections will be held on The Hub in the future.

Last year there were between 3,500-3,600 votes in the primary election compared to 3,462 this year according to Frazier.

Wadsworth said this number

is disappointing.

“It’s disappointing that only 3,400 people had a say in [the primary election],” Wadsworth said.

Last year roughly 5,000 students voted in the general election, according to Frazier.

While The Hub did not generate demographic data about the voters such as gender or school year, it did track when students voted.

The highest percentage of students voted between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. at a rate of roughly 500 votes per hour, Frazier said.

Presidential candidate John Stefanski said there was some confusion among students about what The Hub was.

“I don’t think a lot of people realized what [The Hub] was,” Stefanski said. “I lot of the times I would get ‘Oh so we vote at the hub?’ and I would be like ‘no not the physical location it’s a website.’”

However, Stefanski said since

there were no technological issues with The Hub it served its purpose.

Former candidate for vice president of campus activities, Matt Turk, agreed.

“I think a lot of people had not used The Hub before, but I think it’s a good website,” Turk said.

Stefanski said this year’s election was the most competitive he has ever seen.

“Now is not the time for us to rest on our laurels,” Stefanski said.

“We need to go out and talk to more groups and talk to more people.”

The Stefanski, Litzow and Westfall ticket was the only slate to advance with all of their candidates.

“John and Lizzie are great candidates and we work well together and really cohesively and I think that’s one thing that’s going to set us apart from others,” Westfall said.

Stefanski said if he and Litzow are able to win the general elec-

tion they plan to start working with ASG on Friday.

“Lizzie and I fully anticipate working the very next day to start getting transitioned and working over the summer and calling administrators and working all year round to make sure that we can accomplish everything that we can,” Stefanski said.

Stefanski said he would like to work with the candidates who did not make it past the primary.

“I would be 100 percent open to working with them whether that would be in a capacity with them on my cabinet or in a capacity as student leaders in other organizations or in ASG in a student senator position,” Stefanski said.

Kidwell agreed, saying his next step is, “is getting the other candidates who didn’t make it through

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RICHARD MANDIMIKA THE MIAMI STUDENT

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

Miami University’s Opera performs a repertoire of songs from the 1920s and 1960s in Hall Auditorium Saturday evening at “Grand Night: The Big Band Era” presented by Miami’s Department of Music. The event, in its third year, featured over 100 vocalists.

University creates library smart phone application to assist students

Miami sophomore raises awareness about Kony

By Rebecca Peets

By Kaila Frisone

Staff Writer

Miami University has gone mobile. A smart phone user can now enjoy many benefits only available before with a computer.

Kent Covert, assistant director of Application Services, created the smart phone version of the MyMiami portal and is familiar with the smart phone technologies employed by the university.

“There are currently two different Miami mobile ‘applications,’” Covert said. “There is a Miami iPhone application that can be downloaded from the iPhone app store and a mobile website.”

One of the primary uses of the mobile website is through the library, according to Jason Paul Michel, library assistant at King Library.

According to Michel, users can search for books, request books and check their account.

It even has a feature where users can scan a book’s code and it will send them to other books by that author or similar books by different authors Michel said.

“This would be very helpful when trying to find books at the

library; you wouldn’t have to have a computer the whole time,” first year Joe Kowalkowski said.

There are also database-searching capabilities through JSTOR, EBSCOhost and Academic Search Complete.

We specifically target firstyear students to make them aware of the technologies we have.”

LISA santucci

ASSISTANT DEAN FOR INSTRUCTION AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

“One of the main advantages is the location,” Michel said. “Normally you would look up books on a computer and write down the numbers; with the mobile website you wouldn’t have to do that, you can take it with you.”

Lisa Santucci, assistant dean for Instruction and Emerging Technologies, agrees about the convenience of the mobile website.

“What I really like about the mobile site is if I’m in a different part of the library without my comput-

er I don’t need a pen and paper,” Santucci said. “If someone asks me a question instead of going back downstairs to my computer I can show them right on my phone.”

The mobile website has many features but is still not the same as on a computer, according to Santucci.

“Quite a bit of content is still not on the mobile device,” Santucci said. “We can’t link to non-mobile sites.”

There is overlap between the Miami app and the mobile website but they are not identical, according to Covert.

Jerry Gannod, professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, created the Miami iPhone app, according to Cathy McVey, senior director of Strategic Communication and Planning.

Gannod designed the app in cooperation with the University Communications, IT Services and Miami students, according to Covert.

The app allows users access to maps, library links, dining menus,

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For The Miami Student

In under a month, more than 85 million people have watched Kony 2012, a documentary by Invisible Children on the organization’s YouTube channel.

Maria Richart, a sophomore at Miami University and a former Invisible Children member, is bringing the documentary to Miami 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 10 in Shideler Hall room 115.

Kony 2012 is about Joseph Kony and his rebel force, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The film aims to “make Kony famous” in order to gain enough support to stop him.

Richart was involved in Invisible Children as a high school student at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy. She received an email from Invisible Children saying she could hold a screening of the documentary at Miami.

Richart took it upon herself to organize this event and she will be promoting it with the help of Miami’s International Justice Mission and Unified for UNIFAT organizations.

Sarah Rings, President of

Unified for UNIFAT, said the organization is not involved in the political aspect of the issues occurring in Uganda.

“We appreciate [Invisible Children] for bringing awareness to the issues in Northern Uganda,” Rings said. “We are not specifically supporting any one way to solve this problem. We have decided to focus on education and sponsoring the children in Uganda.”

The Great Lakes Region “roadies” from Invisible Children will be speaking at this event.

Danielle Discepoli became a roadie in January and the group of five is now on their 14 tour to spread their message.

“It’s a call of action to everyone to take a stand not only against Kony, but against all crimes to humanity,” Discepoli said.

The “roadies” have a Ugandan teammate, Olunya Richard, who is an engineer for Invisible Children working to rebuild schools destroyed by the rebels. Richard, now 29-years-old, grew up in Northern Uganda during this conflict.

Miami sophomore Kerry

KONY,

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CAMPUS

Editors JENN SMOLA ALLISON MCGILLIVRAY

TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012

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Incoming first-years to read marine’s tale

By Megan Thobe

For The Miami Student

The Summer Reading Program Committee, made up of 20 Miami students, staff and faculty, recently chose Shade It Black as the novel for the 2012 Summer Reading Program.

Shade It Black tells the story of Jess Goodell and her decision to join the Mortuary Division of the Marine Corp. Goodell was about the age of the incoming first-years when she made the decision to join the Marines.

After her tour in Iraq, Goodell returned to the U.S. where a community college sociology teacher approached her and helped her write

the book.

The committee thought long and hard about choosing this potentially controversial book, said committee Co-Chair Jennifer Kinney.

“It was chosen because it’s an important book told from a perspective and voice that we don’t often hear,” Kinney said.

This book is not a political story but instead tells the “raw and real” story about one woman’s experience according to Kinney.

John Jeep, committee co-chair, said choosing Shade it Black was a quick decision.

“What was neat about this book was that we hadn’t decided between Shade It Black and another book,”

It was chosen because it’s an important book told from a perspective and voice that we don’t often hear.”

Jennifer Kinney

SUMMER READING PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR

Jeep said. “We had been talking about it [Shade It Black] for about 45 minutes and we decided ‘probably this is the one.’”

Goodell will be speaking at the 2012 University Convocation held August 17. Jeep said the committee is excited to have Goodell speak.

“I have no idea how she will be as a

public speaker,” Jeep said, “we don’t tell her what to say, so her words will be her own.”

Goodell’s story is an important one to hear, according to Kinney.

“I’m hoping she talks about coming home and re-integrating in society and how education helped her with that,” Kinney said.

The 2012 Summer Reading Program Committee began reading and talking about potential summer reading program books in October 2011.

Between 50 and 60 potential books were read and discussed by the committee.

“There are some books that are great reads but aren’t right for the summer reading program,” Kinney said. “Sometimes we are on the fence about a book and need a second opinion.”

The student voice is given the most weight on the committee and no book is chosen without “passionate support

BOOK,

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New organization seeks to spice up campus events

By Jenn Smola Campus Editor

HATE IS NOT A LARAMIE VALUE

MiIKE ZATT THE MIAMI STUDENT

Stage Left performed The Laramie Project last weekend in Leonard Theater . The production follows the aftermath of the murder of a gay Wyoming college student.

Miami sees majority of Greek donors

By Emily Glaser

For The Miami Student

Connecting with Miami University alumni and getting those alumni to donate to the university has been a top goal of Miami administrators and student leaders alike. Over the years, Miami has found the top donors to the university are alumni who were actively involved as students and remain actively involved.

While most donors were involved in something at the university — whether they were Greek or in student government or the marching band — the university does not seek any particular type of donor, Senior Director of Development for Campaign Services Kevin Marks said.

“Miami typically doesn’t ask alumni for gifts specifically because they were involved in a fraternity or sorority, unless it’s for a project that might be relevant,” Marks said.

Despite this many donors are Greek.

According to Marks, the families of Richard T. Farmer, Mike Armstrong, Richard Forsythe, Roger Howe and Cliff Alexander are some of the most notable contributors,

whose names students recognize on buildings or institutions. All five of these men were actively involved during their time at Miami and are still active alumni. All five were also in fraternities, according to Marks.

Farmer, who graduated in 1956 was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and is well known for his contributions to the business school.

Richard Howe graduated a year after Farmer and was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He is best known for his contributions to the Howe Center for Writing Excellence.

Richard Forsythe, who graduated in 1961 and was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, was also an economics major. Like Farmer, he contributed to the business school giving students the Fortsythe Commons.

Alexander, ’56 and Armstrong, ’61 were also in Sigma Nu. Alexander is known for endowing the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.

Armstrong, who gave a $15 million gift to kick-start the new Armstrong Student Center, was an economics major and is still actively involved.

While many donors were Greek,

there are several prominent donors who were not. Harry Wilks, ’48, who is known for the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute, gave $9 million to the university and was not involved in a fraternity.

Lois Klawon, who graduated in 1939, left Miami over $16 million in her will. She was an accountancy major and not listed as being a member of any sorority.

Nick Huber, student body president, has had a chance to meet some donors including Farmer and Armstrong.

“It is really impressive that someone can accomplish so much, accumulate such wealth and resources and still be really humble and able to connect with others so easily,” Huber said he wants Miami students to recognize and appreciate the donors for their contributions to the school.

Senior Marissa Gerdes agreed.

“I love the business school. I spend all of my time there,” Gerdes said. “I think [Farmer and Forsythe’s] donations were very beneficial to the business students. It has shown to be a worthwhile investment.”

A new student organization is looking to liven up events on Miami University’s campus.

Collegiate Student Entertainment, headed by senior Su Dong and junior Jeremy Hill, hopes to provide audio, visual and special effects for all Miami events.

Dong said he wanted to create the entertainment organization to add to events put on by other student organizations.

“I wanted to have another group that works with [other organizations] to make events more valuable to students,” Dong said.

According to Hill, Collegiate Student Entertainment is seeking to “bring that added element” to make Miami events memorable.

“If there’s an event on campus we want to be involved,” Hill said.

Dong and Hill are known to many as DJ Sona and DJ Hilliard and have performed at various bars uptown. Dong even opened for Campus Activities Council’s (CAC’s) Lupe Fiasco concert last spring.

Despite their music expertise, Hill said Collegiate Student Entertainment is about more than just music. He said the group can provide lighting and special effects such as fog and lasers in addition to audio and sound.

Dong said he and Hill did a lot of research while creating the organization.

“We can customize any event,” Dong said.

The group was approved for funding by Associated Student Government (ASG) early in the semester.

“They met all the rules,” Meghan Wadsworth, ASG vice president of student organizations said. For an

organization to be funded by ASG it needs to have a constitution, an advisor and at least 10 members.

Student Collegiate Entertainment was given $6,713 in funding out of a total of $321,000 ASG distributed in its most recent funding cycle, according to Wadsworth.

Wadsworth said Collegiate Student Entertainment differs from other similar organizations in that it focuses on overall event planning. She said that with the organization offering DJ services, lighting, staging and sounds, they have a lot of possibilities.

“They’re a lot more all-inclusive,” Wadsworth said.

According to Wadsworth, other student organizations collaborating with Collegiate Student Entertainment could truly benefit. In the past some organizations have faced trouble and uncertainty dealing with contracts and prices involved with bringing in outside entertainment companies for their events but now student organizations could have a resource right on campus for all their entertainment needs Wadsworth said.

“We see a lot of opportunity for them,” Wadsworth said about the group.

The organization has about 20 members Dong said but they are looking to recruit more members to carry on the organization.

“We’re willing to teach anyone,” Dong said, “But they have to be highly motivated.”

According to Hill, the organization will be helping out with CAC’s SpringFest next month.

“We’re ready to get the ball rolling and work with people,” Hill said, adding that the organization is eager to help with events both big and small.

“The cool thing about us is we’re professional but we bring the fun,” Hill said.

MU StrEATS food truck brings on-the-go dining options to students

By Jenn Smola Campus Editor

Over the past few weeks Miami University were able to see the new food truck, known as MU StrEATS, parked at various locations around campus dishing out delectables to customers.

MU StrEATS, which is in its third week of sales, stops at different locations around campus during lunch time and late night hours for students to grab a sandwich or some sweet potato fries.

According to Scott Smith, general manager of concessions, food trucks have become more and more common on in cities and on college campuses.

“They’re the most popular thing in dining right now,” Smith said.

According to Nancy Heidtman, director of Dining and Culinary Support Services, dining services felt the food truck could be successful at Miami, especially after seeing the success of Miami’s “crepe cart”

last year.

“We felt the need for a mobile food service based on a demand from students,” Heidtman said.

According to Heidtman, the food truck uses Twitter to tweet its latest location and hours.

“With the busy lives of students wherever the truck is, they will find us,” Heidtman said.

Though the truck is still in the process of trying out new locations, Smith said some locations are already becoming more popular.

Smith said during weekday lunch hours, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the most popular spot for the food truck is outside the Farmer School of Business in the bus lane. The truck also has late-night hours 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday 8 p.m.

According to Smith, the most popular spot for the truck during these hours has been outside Benton Hall. Smith said both the lunch and light-night shifts see about the same amount of business.

According to Smith, the most popular item on the food truck’s menu is the “Pressed Cuban” — a sandwich with shredded pork, mojo sauce, pickles and mustard on a bun served with sweet potato fries.

According to Smith and Heidtman, MU StrEATS has been successful so far.

“Our sales have increased each day,” Smith said, adding the nice weather has also helped business.

Heidtman also said dining services has not seen evidence the new food truck is taking away business from other campus dining options.

“It’s been thus far well-received by Miami students,” Heidtman said.

Sophomore Wyatt Wukie has visited MU StrEATS several times since the truck hit campus.

“I thought it was cool,” Wukie said. “They had some good stuff.”

Wukie said he would most likely continue to visit MU StrEATS in the future.

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Christian Jaekle works in the MU StrEATS food truck Thursday night on Western Campus.The truck is in its third week of business.

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Editor BILLY RAFAEL

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Brick Street keeps the concerts coming

By Claire Krieger Senior Staff Writer

Wednesday night Oxford was treated to yet another popular recording artist at Oxford’s own Brick Street Bar & Grill. Jake Owen, who currently has two songs and his latest album on iTunes’ top charts, was joined by Florida Georgia Line and newcomer Chancie Neal.

Owen drew a sold-out crowd to Brick Street and did not disappoint his fans. He referred to Oxford as a “badass” town, and provided the audience with an anecdote about his first introduction to Miami University through one of his former girlfriends deciding to attend the school.

“Crowds like this make you want to wad them up into a little ball and stick ’em in your pocket,” Owen said.

It appeared he was enjoying the show as much as the audience was. A wide, toothy grin was rarely absent from his face the entire concert.

Another part of the show that helped him to win over the crowd even more was his incorporation of “Oxford” or “Ohio” into his songs whenever he could, replacing the names of other states and cities typically heard in his songs.

Owen played a 15 song set including fan favorites “Anywhere With You,” “Apple Pie Moonshine,” and “Startin’ With Me,” along with his current hits “Alone With You,” and “Barefoot Blue Jean Night.”

Fans were also treated to a collaboration between Owen and his opener, Florida Georgia Line.

They performed a mash up that included Sublime’s hit “What I Got,” the Ying Yang Twins’ “Get Low,” the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song, Tyga’s “Rack City,” and even a bit of freestyle rapping from Owen.

Owen and company also incorporated a few other covers into his set. These included “That Smell”

by Lynrd Skynrd and “Mountain Music” by Alabama - which was

part of Owen’s encore, merged with his hit “Eight Second Ride.”

While concerts such as these are mainly geared toward the Oxford and Miami University communities, they draw crowds from all over. “[The Concert] was amazing.

Probably the best country concert I have been to in a while,” Molly Schwab, a sophomore at Ball State University, said. “Jake Owen is sexy.”

Brick Street has had a successful year with concerts, hosting Gavin DeGraw and Three 6 Mafia already this semester and Gretchen Wilson and Taking Back Sunday earlier this school year. Brick Street has four more concerts on its calendar before the academic year comes to an end.

The remaining shows include Clayton Anderson Wednesday, April 11, Yelawolf Wednesday, April 18, Cris Cab with special guest The Movement Thursday, April 19 and the highly-anticipated Timeflies Wednesday, April 25.

LAUREN OLSEN PHOTO EDITOR

Jake Owen shreds with his guitarist last Wednesday. Owen performed to a sold-out crowd.

While these four artists span many genres and each offer something different to the concertgoer, the one thing they all have in common is they promise to perform unique, entertaining shows.

Tickets are still available for all four shows and can be purchased

in-person at Brick Street, or online at Brick Street’s website www. brickstreetbar.com.

More information on all of these artists, their shows at Brick Street and other events the bar will be hosting can also be found on the website.

Festival exposes students to new plays Miami men gear up for warm weather fashion

By Christina Casano Senior Staff Writer

A two and a half hour drive south from Oxford leads to a weekend of new plays and one of the most important regional theater festivals in America. For the spring session of Theater History II, it was a weekend spent in Louisville, Ky seeing four plays and exploring the city.

Theater majors are required to take a trip to the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theater of Louisville at least once during their college career. Through a grant from the Humana Foundation, the festival is in its 36 year.

This year, the Theater History II class, made up mostly of sophomore theater majors, drove to Louisville the afternoon of March 16. With specific weekends set aside for college visitors, the festival presents new plays each year as well as workshops, including monologue workshops and panel discussion with artists who work on the festival.

“Oh, Gastronomy!”, a series of vignettes about how food brings people together, premiered over the weekend. Performed by the Actors Theater apprentice company, the show used different conventions and styles to draw in the audience and get their message across.

Jordan Carlson, a sophomore theater major focusing in playwriting, found the show to be particularly unique.

“A scene we saw, with the support group [of food addicts], they broke the fourth wall by turning the house lights on, which is something you wouldn’t see here,” Carlson said.

The fourth wall is a convention of the theater that assumes there is a wall between the action of the stage and the audience, as if the audience is looking into something that is actually happening.

One of the challenging but exciting things about new plays in their first stages is how far they push new conventions, a precarious line the

GRAND NIGHT ENDS UP A SMASH

playwrights, directors, designers and performers have to tread.

Many students in the theater department are training as actors and had a great opportunity to see professional actors dealing with new scripts.

“It was interesting to see actors not necessarily on Broadway … we could see how what we are learning can be applied in a way that is not highly publicized,” Daniel Carr, a senior theater major said. “We’re able to compare what we’ve learned and analyze the performances.”

The three other shows performed that weekend included “Eat Your Heart Out”, about the emphasis on appearances not only in regards to attractiveness but also in terms of seeming normal, “The V****** Play”, based on an experience dealing with the customer service of a phone company and “The Hour of Feeling”, a play about the importance of the individual versus their roots and family, set in the midst of the 1960s conflicts in the Middle East.

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Senior Rachel Adams hits a high note at Grand Night: The Big Band Era this past weekend.

By Victor Fisher

For The Miami Student

As unlikely as it may seem, spring has returned to Oxford.

Almost overnight the heat had us trading in pants for shorts and sweaters for polos. Although we were not given a whole lot of time to adjust, it still behooves the men of Miami University to put a little thought into what they wear this spring.

If nothing else, make sure you address the most important elements of any guy’s spring wardrobe: color, fit and fabric. For a little extra guidance, I caught up with Miami’s own Up Magazine fashion editor, senior Zak Workman.

No element of spring style is as classic or essential as eye-catching colors. Frat guys in their pastel pinks and blues already know this. However, you do not have to stick to that formula. Stock up on t-shirts in various colors — especially if you find one you like. Do not be afraid to try bright pants or shorts and really make yourself stand out, but be sure not to blind anyone with a harsh pants-shirt combo.

Embroidered, brightly colored web belts stand out on a simple pair of khakis and even a colorful watch strap can make all the difference. Workman suggests finding a watch with a few cheap, interchangeable straps to “change up your outfit on the regular.” This is an easy way to keep bright colors rotating in your wardrobe without breaking the bank.

When it comes to fit, Workman advises Miami men “adopt a shorter inseam for summer.” Preferably, the hem will land at or above your knees. By giving up the long, baggy shorts of your youth and opting for short, slim ones, you achieve a summery silhouette — leaner,

taller and tidier.

Workman suggests a slim polo for the same reason and contends they “are a perfect summer shirt; worn high and tight, they’ll aid in showing off your summer form.”

Although seemingly basic, this slim polo with shorter shorts combo will aid in setting your warm weather outfits apart from the rest of the pack. Proper fit defines an

[Slim polos] are a perfect summer shirt.

They’ll aid in showing off your summer form.”

Zak worman

MIAMI UNIVERSITY SENIOR

outfit and makes a bigger difference than one might imagine.

The final thing to keep in mind is the fabric of your outfit. Workman proposes madras, seersucker and linen as “breathable options for the summer heat.”

Since we’ve already seen 80-degree weather in the last week, it is not a bad idea to start working these fabrics in. Whatever you do, avoid the winter wools and silks and try to stick to natural materials.

You can get shirts, shorts and even suits in these fabrics and the ties to compliment them. Cotton becomes essential as a spring and summer tie material — especially with bowties.

Warm weather gives you the perfect opportunity to show off your personal flair through your clothing and the tips above are only an outline.

If you keep your fits sharp, your fabrics light and your colors vibrant, there is no limit on the amount of fresh outfits you can put together in the coming months.

Oh, and don’t forget the Sperry’s!

Glee Club premieres new Alma Mater verse in Myaamia language

By Lauren Kiggins For The Miami Student

The Miami Men’s Glee Club will premiere a new verse to Miami University’s Alma Mater Friday at the Heritage Room in the Shriver Center in front of the Myaamia Tribe, whose native language the new verse is written in.

Miami President David Hodge, Dean of the School of Fine Arts James Lentini and other Miami administrators will also be in attendance.

The backbone behind and benefactor of this project is Dale Albertson, who possesses

deep interest in positively impacting Miami.

“Basically this project is about remembering Miami’s [Native American] past and acknowledging that they’re still here,” sophomore Matt Cramer, Glee Club’s secretary, said.

“We are working together to represent the relationship between the university and the Myaamia tribe.”

A committee of students, faculty and Myaamia tribe members was formed to write the verse according to Cramer. While it will be sung in the Myaamia language, it translates to, “Let’s go to the Miami land, our tracks are still on the landscape, we’re still here,

lets take each other by hand, lets learn from each other, lets go to the

and Miami correspondent.

According to senior

Chris

Basically the project is about remembering Miami’s [Native American] past and acknowledging that they’re still here.”

Matt cramer

MIAMI UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORE

Miami land.”

To prepare for the premiere, Glee Club has been working with Daryl Baldwin, Myaamia tribe member

Walsh, who also serves as a student conductor in the group, mastering the foreign language has proven difficult.

“Learning the pronunciation has been interesting because there are certain sounds that we don’t have in the English language; some words almost sounds German,” Walsh said.

Cramer also feels the text has been challenging.

“When looking at [the language], you notice how intricate the grammar and vocabulary is,” Cramer said. “It’s much more complex than we assumed.”

This collaboration was another product of Miami’s Year of the Arts, the ongoing effort to increase promotion of the arts on campus and throughout the community.

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Editors CATHERINE UBRY LISA REYMANN

TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012

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POLICE Warm spring tests local farmers

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Males holding hands face assault on street Around 12:50 a.m. Sunday two males were holding hands while walking on South Poplar Street. At East Church Street four unknown suspects approached them and called them “faggots.”

After they called them that, both males were assaulted. One of the victims stated he was struck once in the nose causing his nose to bleed and was also struck once above his left eye and five or six times on his body.

The Oxford Police Department officer observed no visible injuries to the victim. The victim did not disclose the name of the subject he was walking with at the time of the assault. The officer advised him that if the other subject wished to file an assault report he could.

Student urinates on statue by church Around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, an Oxford Police Department officer was in his cruiser when he observed a male by the Virgin Mary statue outside St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

The male could not stand and was swaying back and forth. When the officer got out of his cruiser he witnessed the male urinating on the bottom of the statue.

The officer approached the male and the male gave him his Miami University ID. There was no date on the card and the male claimed he was born in 1988. He then told the officer other dates and did not know where he was or how old he was.

The officer called Miami to get his real age and discovered he was 19-years-old. The officer then found his Chinese ID in his wallet and identified him as first-year Chengyang Shen. Shen’s speech was slurred and swayed back and forth while talking to the officer.

Shen was taken to the station where he failed the eye test and was cited with Offenses Involving Underage Persons and Public Intoxication and Disorderly Conduct.

Suspicious behavior results in interrogation Around 1 a.m. Sunday, Oxford Police Department officers were doing a bar check at CJ’s Bar when officers observed a youthful looking male walk by holding a Natural Light Beer.

After the male walked by the officers and was not stopped, he wiped his brow gesturing to others he almost had a “close call.” The officers immediately went to the male and asked him how old he was. He said he was 21-years-old.

The officers asked if he had any identification on him and he stated he lost his wallet. When the officers attempted to escort him out to properly identify him, the male started to pull away.

The officers sensed he was trying to get away so they told him he was being detained until he was identified. The officers placed one handcuff on him and he pulled away and began to fight the officers. The male was then wrestled to the ground with the help of the Oxford Fire Department Chief John Detherage and placed into custody.

The male was later found to have his wallet in his back pocket and identified as Miami University sophomore Daniel Torriglia.

Torriglia was charged with Underage Possession, Obstructing Official Business and Resisting Arrest and was then transported to Butler County Jail.

By Catherine Ubry Community Editor

Due to the unusually mild temperatures occurring throughout the past winter season, local farmers say there may be a very early season for summer produce this year.

Barbara Stewart Smith, Fresh Foods manager and chef of Moon Co-op said, “We work very closely with local farmers because we have a lot of their local products and there was actually recently a discussion about how if this early warmer weather continues, it will really be a bumper to the crops meaning there will be an unusually large harvest.”

According to Smith, many local farmers believe if the weather continues without a break there will be a bigger crop of plants that bloom early, which especially include peaches. A bigger crop would not be a problem unless the weather decides to break, meaning none of the fruit would be able to sell.

Most peach trees for example have already blossomed.

Farmers are worried if there is a break in the weather and any kind

of a freeze, the blooms on fruit trees such as apple trees will freeze. If the crops freeze there is a danger of not having any crop for the year.

“That will also drive up prices of produce,” Smith said. “It is a concern for local farmers. It has primarily affected the crops that have already set and blossomed. The later blooming crops may not be affected as dramatically but early blooming crops will be.”

According to Smith, other crops planted early include spinach, lettuces, potatoes and onions. The unusually mild weather could affect these plants as well as citrus fruits.

Another possible problem is the fact that the mild winter’s lack of heavy freeze days may lead to a larger bug population this summer, which could be a concern for farmers, according to Smith.

Larry Slocum, Oxford Farmers Market manager said, “There is nothing that is really ready to sell right now because everything is getting started but everything is two weeks early. Everyone is pretty nervous that we’ll get a frost. If we get

one it would be devastating.”

If the weather stays warm the crops will turn out all right, especially the peaches, Slocum said.

However Slocum said, “If we don’t have a frost we will have early peaches and everyone will be happy as can be, but if we have a frost we won’t be eating peaches locally, they will all be gone. It all depends, we have to wait for Mother Nature to figure out what is going on.”

Ray Arlinghaus, owner of local Loriridge Farm, raises peaches, apples, plums, regular tomatoes and cherry tomatoes and up until last year also raised flowers and a full range of vegetables. He is waiting to see what happens with the weather in order to see how his crops will turn out.

According to Arlinghaus, the warm temperatures in February and March caused the peaches and apples to bloom four to five weeks ahead of schedule. One positive aspect of the early blooming is that peaches could be ready by the first week of June this year rather than the usual second week in July.

Unfortunately, he said if a frost

occurs it will kill all the baby fruits.

Arlinghaus said the weather this year is unusually circumstantial and is something he has never seen before.

“Growing up we raised fruit and vegetables and I have never had a year where we see fruit bloom this early,” Arlinghaus said. “What I would call 50 or 55 years of what I can remember, I have never seen it this warm consistently which triggered the fruit to bloom.”

According to Arlinghaus, now farmers just have to wait and hope a freeze does not occur. And waiting on the weather is as risky as gambling.

“I always kid my wife and say that we don’t need to fly to Las Vegas to gamble, we can just stay at home,” Arlinghaus said.

However Arlinghaus said it is the risk in farming that he loves.

“The risk element is kind of challenging to me because you try to apply every ounce of experience and skill to the best that you can in order to compensate for Mother Nature but the thing is, you are always vulnerable,” Arlinghaus said.

Uptown updates: Oxford buildings get renovations

By Libby Mueller

For The Miami Student

Fluorescent orange cones and closed streets uptown have stirred students’ curiosity over how the city will change in the future.

The Oxford Press building at 15 S Beech St. will be demolished and rebuilt for both commercial and residential purposes. Currently, The Oxford Press is renting above Lebanon City National Bank in one of the offices, Oxford Economic Development Director Alan Kyger said. The purpose of The Oxford Press’ move is to consolidate the business.

“The Oxford Press, years ago, was an independent newspaper,” Kyger said. “They printed and distributed there and also did printing for places in the Oxford area. [The] Oxford Press was then purchased

by Cox Publishing. Now it is centralizing its printing and distributing and the papers are no longer printed in Oxford, so it is consolidating all its printing.”

The construction will likely start soon in order to be finished in August before students return in the fall, Kyger said.

The Oxford Press building is not the only one under construction.

“There is also a new hotel that is being constructed over at Stewart Square and that project is moving

forward,” Oxford City Manager Doug Elliott said.

The hotel, started in fall 2010, is currently under development.

In addition, the North Poplar Street side of The Woods is being renovated.

“At one time, back in the old days, The Woods in that location was all one business. They’re two separate buildings and there’s an opening,” Kyger said. “It used to be Lazarus, which then sold out to Macy’s. When Lazarus left that location, they bricked that opening up.”

The Woods Owner Ted Wood may be planning to reopen the bricked wall, Kyger said.

“I’m not sure if [Wood] plans to extend his business into the new building,” Kyger said.

Students and community members will soon be able to enjoy another new addition along the picturesque streets of Oxford: a new restaurant at 35 E Church St. “La Piñata, a Mexican restaurant, is going in next to Darbar [Indian Restaurant],” Lynn Taylor, Oxford Community development director said.

More construction will be related to new residential locations.

“At the Chase Bank building, there are two different owners,” Taylor said. “The construction that’s

Miami, City of Oxford try to line up summer events

By Kiley Flynn

For The Miami Student

The Oxford City Council will decide this week if the annual Thursday night Oxford Summer Music Festival concert will be moved to Friday, June 15 to coincide with a scheduled Alumni Weekend event.

The Alumni Association originally contacted the Oxford Visitors and Convention Bureau in an attempt to create a larger Friday night Alumni Weekend event and include the entire Oxford community.

“Combining forces would get the whole community involved,” Director of the Miami Alumni Program Michelle Martin said. “We want to make sure the citizens of Oxford know they are more than welcome to come to any Alumni Weekend events, and partnering with the Visitors Bureau would do so.”

If approved, the Summer Music Festival concert will coincide with the Alumni

Uptown Welcome Back Street Party. According to the tentative Alumni Weekend schedule, alumnus attending the party will be served dinner at Uptown Park and there will be several reunion class parties at various uptown locations.

“We want to reach out to the City of Oxford and the community so they know they are invited to be involved in any of the Alumni Weekend events,” Martin said. “They are more than welcome to attend this and any other Alumni Weekend event.”

The concert will be moved to Friday night for Alumni Weekend and all other summer concerts will still take place Thursdays, according to Diana Durr, executive director of the Oxford Visitors and Convention Bureau.

The Alumni Association and the Visitor’s Bureau expect to know by Wednesday if the Oxford City Council approves their request.

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The abandoned building next to The Woods is currently undergoing renovations., but plans for the space are still up for debate. going in is above Chase Bank, and that’s just going to be an individual’s home. That’s not going to be turned into student housing.”

The new projects in Oxford are signs of a flourishing and vibrant community to Miami first-year Katie Hunt.

“Seeing the new construction means positive changes that will

add to the ambiance of our already great university,” Hunt said.

For many Miami students and Oxford community members, transformation of the uptown area translates into a substantial amount of community pride.

“We have a lot of projects for a community of our size,” Elliott said.

OFD receives grant to install smoke detectors

By Sanam Sahni

For The Miami Student

The Oxford Fire Department (OFD) recently received a grant to install new smoke detectors in rental property units and single-family houses.

“We want to create safer apartments for students and those folks who live in single family houses,” Doug Elliott, Oxford’s city manager said.

These new electronic smoke detectors are good for detecting smoldering fires, according to John Detherage, OFD chief.

“It’s relatively new technology compared to ionic smoke detectors,” Detherage said.

After a 2005 house fire killed three Miami University students, OFD does not want anything like that to happen again, Detherage said. “[There should be] no more deaths related to fire,” Detherage said. With this new technology the fire department would also hopefully get early fire warnings, according o Detherage.

“It will make the community

safer,” Detherage said.

Detherage was the driving force behind this grant, according to Elliott. “[Detherage] wanted to apply for this grant,” Elliott said.

The grant was initially just meant for the rental property units but later it was decided to expand to singlefamily houses as well, according to Elliott.

Since OFD received permission to expand, 1,255 smoke detectors have been reserved for the single-family houses. “(The) original intent was just for apartments,” Elliott said.

Miami sophomore Jasmine Sandhu said, “this makes me feel that I’m living in a safer community.”

So far this plan is intended for the City of Oxford, but other cities have also embraced it.

“Other Fire Departments around the country had done similar things,” Detherage said.

Sandhu said the plan is all upside, perhaps even for traffic.

“Maybe I will see fewer fire trucks on Oxford’s streets now,” Sandhu said.

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

Kony 2012, Invisible Children raise awareness, get students to step out of ‘Miami Bubble’ Kony 2012, a documentary by the nonprofit organization Invisible Children, has received over 85 million views on the organization’s YouTube channel since being uploaded March 5.

Miami University sophomore and former Invisible Children member Maria Richart is bringing the documentary to Miami Tuesday, April 10. She will be promoting it with help from Miami’s International Justice Mission and Unified for UNIFAT organizations. Olunya Richard, a Ugandan who has lived through the conflict in Uganda and a team of Invisible Children representatives will also speak that evening.

Kony 2012 is about Joseph Kony and his rebel force, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The film aims to “make Kony famous” in order to gain enough support to

stop him.

The editorial board of The Miami Student commends Richart for her efforts to bring a world issue closer to the lives of Miami students, as well as Invisible Children for raising awareness of Kony and the LRA. While there has been skepticism and criticism over how Invisible Children intends to find and fight Kony and his child army and how the organization’s funds are distributed, as well as criticism from Ugandans themselves, we must realize the true intention of the video.

The Internet video and documentary are meant to raise awareness of Kony and his actions in the hopes that students will become active in gaining the help of elected officials to stop Kony and the LRA.

Many of us may remember first seeing the video or hearing about it through Facebook or Twitter over Miami’s spring break.

Invisible Children made an intelligent move debuting the video over social media, as this is what many students and people our age use on a daily basis. Social networking is arguably one of the best ways to gain attention in our fast-paced, connected world.

Overall, the video will by no means solve all the problems, but is indeed a step in the right direction. This is another way to find out what is going on in the world and to get out of our Oxford and university bubble.

The video allows people to take a step back and put things into perspective and to see the small efforts that add up to a solution for the bigger picture.

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Secretary John W. Stefanski is the best candidate for the Office of the Student Body President. I could easily — and legitimately — argue that his experiences as an Associated Student Government (ASG) Senator, the ASG Secretary for Public Relations, the President of Miami University Association for Public Administration and the head swim coach for the Canfield Swim and Tennis Club lend unparalleled credibility to his leadership aptitude. However, Secretary Stefanski offers the Miami community so much more.

I take pride in the work that I have done with ASG as Secretary for Diversity Affairs. ASG is responsible for so much of Miami students’ college experiences that it often presents its leaders with overwhelming responsibility. Secretary Stefanski has clearly acknowledged the faculties to and the impediments of ASG’s progress.

In doing so, he has designed a strong and effective plan for ensuring that students’ voices — every student’s voice — resonates with Miami’s Administration.

Secretary Stefanski has the necessary wherewithal to go to the administration on behalf of the student body and be the leader we need to identify a viable resolution to students’ issues.

I think this is so much more beneficial than the practice of using one’s position to individually determine the needs

of the people. Secretary Stefanski is democracy.

In working with Secretary Stefanski over the past few months, I have come to learn how well he respects the responsibilities he garners.

Invariably, the ASG Student Body President must objectively analyze multiple sides of an issue and understand others’ unique points of view.

I retain respect for my willingness and ability to defend the legitimacy of those righteous decisions difficult to support. Secretary Stefanski has impressed me with his courage and fortitude to do the same.

Secretary Stefanski’s goals are fresh, new and relevant to both the in-state and the out-of-state Miami student.

We all know the issues; we have an intimate appreciation for what affects us most — academics, financial commitments, interactions with one another and the community and place in society after graduation to list a few. I have full faith that Secretary Stefanski will improve the Miami experience with distinguishable finesse. His promotion to president should be no question: it is a non-issue.

Jonathan A. Wheeler

President of Diversity Affairs Council ASG Secretary for Diversity Affairs

Students, Oxford community members endorse Kidwell Former President of Pi Sigma Epsilon I’ve had the pleasure of working with Colten Kidwell in the professional business fraternity, Pi Sigma Epsilon, for over a year and a half and I cannot think of a better individual to have the responsibility of governing the student body of Miami University. Colten’s caring, approachable and adaptive personality will be an asset to his role as Student Body President. It is important for a leader to meet with students to determine how to

continually improve but also have the ability to manage effectively when issues arise. I am confident that Colten and his team will have a successful term, if elected, because of the aspects mentioned earlier but more importantly his passion for the university and its students.

Maggie Byrne

Former President of Pi Sigma Epsilon

Ohio State Representative I confidently endorse Colten Kidwell as a man of integrity and character and wholly capable of leading the Miami University Student Body. He has shown himself to be a hard worker, focused on his goals and able to mobilize and work with many peers.

The culmination of his efforts at his film company’s premier showing of Retribution was an

exciting achievement and demonstration of his commitment to projects and success. Colten Kidwell is a leader with a vision.

Tim Derickson

State Representative Ohio House of Representatives, 53rd District

Spectrum President Colten Kidwell’s experiential credentials to become ASG’s next Student Body President speak for themselves. Colten has the sharp intellect and inspiring vision to lead Miami’s student body into the future. His proven track record as a successful entrepreneur, executive board member of PSE and accomplished student provides a broad background of experience to enable truly excellent leadership.

Impressing me most, however, has been Colten’s willingness and decisive action to expand his view of Miami. He has proactively sought out new experiences

to understand on an intimate level those he wishes to represent, as well as their needs and concerns.

He has proven that he is unafraid to take a firm stance for what he believes is right, regardless of “what we’ve always done.” This honesty, integrity and assertiveness are the marks of a true leader. This is the type of person we need to create a revolution in ASG and lead Miami’s student body into the future.

Billy Price

Spectrum, President Student Director, Buck Rodgers Leadership

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Mad (Wo)Men: Popular television show depicts women in workforce

A woman’s choice in a man’s world: Leave our birth control alone

“If you don’t like what is being said, change the conversation.”

Mad Men’s leading ad man Donald Draper knows the importance of the art of persuasion.

In his 1960s world of advertising, business is all about strategic communication, determining the best message for a brand and then convincing consumers to believe it.

The hit show Mad Men recreates New York’s classic age of drinking, smoking, sex and drugs within the realm of marketing and advertising.

After a long break, the series returns to its fifth season this month, and continues the saga of American branding and the philandering lives of its ad men.

Although men dominated business in the era Mad Men portrays, women were slowly making advances in the ad world as well, asserting their own creativity.

Real “ad women” of the time existed, rising above sexist attitudes to fight for recognition.

These women paved the way for more gender equality in the advertising industry.

Today, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women hold two-thirds of the 71,000 advertising and promotions managerial jobs. They also hold nearly half, 46 percent, of advertising sales jobs and 43 percent of the marketing and sales manager positions.

Despite what many men might think, the female sex can be creative and persuasive.

Women have overcome significant obstacles to achieve levels of success in many different areas, not just advertising.

Labor Department wage statistics report that in forensic science, medicine and managerial positions, women on average, earn more than men.

This trend has revitalized discussion of gender in the workplace.

Currently, about 40 percent of working wives out-earn their husbands.

In America, opportunities for women have certainly increased since the 1960s, and the

sexism portrayed in Mad Men is no longer the status quo.

Women didn’t like what was being said and so they changed the conversation, asserting their rights for better equality. There are still debates about

Despite what many men might think, the female sex can be creative and pursuasive.” issues, but women toady have more opportunity to pursue successful careers than ever before.

They historically fought to break the bonds of dependency and strove for independence.

To be responsible for one’s own future and not rely on anyone else for security was one of the greatest achievements for women in the 20th Century.

Women might encounter certain challenges in male dominated professions, but gender should not be a deterrent or handicap.

It is ultimately up to women to effectively utilize their talents to earn success.

As Don Draper said in Mad Men, “You want some respect? Go out there and get it for yourself.”

Mad Men is more a soap opera than a marketing lesson, but it does illustrate the branding process and the creation of promotional campaigns.

For any communication or marketing student, it is an interesting way to see how products were advertised in the 1960s.

What is most significant though is seeing how far women have come since that era.

Advertising is all about persuasion, and women have shown they can be masters of the art.

It is no longer just a man’s world, but a woman’s world, as well.

Today, regardless of sex, you alone have the power to determine your future.

Work hard, stand up for what you believe, and if you don’t like what is being said, it’s time to change the conversation.

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Tempers have been flaring and GOP candidates have been grandstanding over President Obama’s controversial healthcare bill for over two years.

More recently, the debate has sharpened over a specific part of healthcare reform: coverage of birth control.

Primary season tends to polarize our already bipartisan system to toxic levels.

Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are rallying the deep-fried Southern U.S. with apocalyptic visions of the future of this country as it stumbles down a path of amorality right into the welcoming arms of socialism.

In Virginia, the state senate was forced to quickly revise the language of a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound of the fetus before the procedure.

According to The Guttmacher Institute, a sexual and reproductive advocacy group, the bill was designed to make women “confront” the fact that were carrying a fetus, causing emotional duress that would affect the woman’s decision to have an abortion.

Moving from abortion to contraception, the recent Obama Administration mandate regarding contraceptive coverage from health insurance companies has ruffled the feathers of a number of groups.

The controversy stems from the fact that this mandate means religious institutions and affiliated groups that provide health insurance will be providing birth control that is antithetical to their moral stance on contraception.

In a patriarchal throwback from a 1950s board meeting, a Congressional hearing was held in mid-February, designed to address the concerns of these groups; it was paneled by mostly men of the cloth and very few women.

Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who spoke on behalf of the medical

benefits of birth control for ovarian cysts and other disorders associated with female reproductive health, was later called a “slut” by the radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

Female lawmakers are not taking these attacks lightly. My own State Senator Nina Turner (D) from Cleveland, has recently introduced a bill strengthening the requirements necessary for men to gain access to erectile dysfunction medications like Viagra or Cialis.

Her proposed bill has eight steps, starting with a signed affidavit by the man’s sexual partner confirming the condition.

He would then need to go to a

needed to use the drug.

O’Reilly ignored female medical conditions like ovarian cysts, saying generic birth control is only $9 at Walmart so women should just go buy it themselves.

As much as I would relish 10 minutes in a fight-to-thedeath cage match with either Limbaugh or O’Reilly, I limit my anger to what I can channel through words.

And I’ll make it as simple as possible for the conservative base: a man’s opinion has no bearing on a woman’s body.

I’m on birth control because it’s a necessary precaution in college, and because it treats PMS symptoms. I would respect the opinion

As much as I would relish 10 minutes in a fight-to-thedeath cage match with either Limbaugh or O’ Reilly, I limit my anger to what I can channel through words.

And I’ll make it as simple as possible for the conservative base: a man’s opinion has no bearing on a woman’s body. I’m on birth control because it’s a necessary precaution in college.

state-licensed sex therapist and submit to stress tests to make sure he is healthy enough for sexual activity.

Then he would need to continue to undergo stress tests once every 90 days while on the medication and attend at least three outpatient counseling sessions.

The legislation is admittedly tongue in cheek, but the message to me is clear: women’s sexual health should not be held to a standard higher or more constrained than men.

Recently on The View another famous right-wing talking head, Bill O’Reilly, tackled the issue with his usual tact. He called ED a medical condition; meaning Viagra is necessary medication, after heavily implying he has never

of any man who has had such severe back cramps he couldn’t sit in a desk and take notes for class — because then he would know what women go through once a month.

If you want to say that birth control is not a medical necessity, I will easily argue back that not being able to get an erection is hardly a medical emergency.

Even if a woman doesn’t suffer from ovarian cysts, birth control still helps regulate a woman’s cycle to make it more manageable.

I know saying words like tampon or gynecologist are the easiest ways to kill those erections the male audience is so concerned about, but until you have to deal with it, you have no say in the matter. Period.

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‘The Hunger Games’ novel, movie inspires vigilance for freedom Two things frustrated me this past weekend. One, how the media criticizes The Hunger Games as being about violence, and, two, that people just repeat this criticism without reading The Hunger Games or watching the movie and then forming their own opinion.

The Hunger Games is about a totalitarian society — an unlimited government — which forces the teens to kill each other as entertainment and as punishment for a past rebellion. I have not heard one person in the media point this out.

This is especially significant since our own economic and political liberties are being threatened by an ever-expanding government.

A government looking to expand its power has three goals: to control education, banking and healthcare. Our government’s presence in the educational system is evident, and on Feb. 9 I wrote about its

influence in regards to high college tuition costs.

In the 2008 election, President Obama won by promising hope and change and fixing the economy, but what we got was unprecedented spending, government intrusion and, most noteworthy, an ongoing attempt to change our free-enterprise-based economy to a government-controlled one. If left unfettered, this change will eventually result in erosion of economic liberty.

It is important for people to realize when you give up your economic liberty you also give up your political and personal liberty.

March 26 hearings began about the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare.

Controlling the healthcare system seems to be this administration’s signature achievement, and it simultaneously gives a blow to economic

liberty. Never in history has our federal government forced citizens to buy a product or service.

The government will decide what treatments are available and who receives them. Like all universal healthcare systems, Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board will ration the care. It will not be about what’s best for your life, but about what saves the government money. And to take it to the extreme, but not the impossible, it can then regulate anything regarding your health. Since the government provides your health insurance, it can regulate what you’re able to eat, the amount you eat and how much you exercise and weigh.

The rights to life and to consume food become rights granted by the government. If you think such a situation is too absurd to be possible, one only needs to be reminded that in 1942 an Ohio citizen was sued

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by the Secretary of Agriculture for growing his own wheat for use on his farm.

The government is using the Commerce Clause to mandate Obamacare, but the Commerce Clause was meant to give Congress the authority to prevent states from erecting trade barriers on each other and, as James Madison wrote, it was never intended “to be used for the positive purposes of the general government.”

Not only are our economic and political liberties at stake, but so is the safeguard of those liberties — the Constitution. I do not believe the Commerce Clause supports Obamacare, and if the Supreme Court approves of Obamacare, then the government can act without limits through the façade of the Commerce Clause.

This makes the Constitution meaningless as a tool to limit

government and protect our liberties. It subjects us to a future where we would be defenseless to the dictates of an all-powerful central government, which could compel and coerce us to do anything.

Freedom or the pursuit of happiness does not come from the government. Any claim that you need government to make you free and happy is an illusion. A totalitarian government, like the one found in The Hunger Games, may seem impossible and ridiculous, but that’s not an excuse to lose vigilance.

Don’t ever allow any amount of your freedom to slip away, because you will most likely never get it back and eventually may even forget that it once existed. The constant drip of soft tyranny will continue to erode your freedom, slowly and over a long period of time, until you may think you are free, but no longer truly are.

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“We tried to think of scenarios that people might encounter while walking across campus with a mobile device,” Covert said. “For example, a new student, faculty or staff might want to know where a building is on campus. Therefore, we built in a maps feature that lets you look up buildings on a map.”

Another scenario might be someone walking across campus that is late for a meeting and they want to call the person they are meeting with to let them know.

“We built in the ability to look people up in a directory and click on their phone number to call them,” Covert said.

Kowalkowski said he uses the app.

“I find the application very helpful,” Kowalkowski said. “I like having all the information I can find on my computer in the palm of my hand.”

“We decided early on that we would only include items that were mobile-ready,” Covert said.

“For example, we didn’t link to the old Blackboard system in the first version because Blackboard did not have a mobile version. We added a link to Niihka because it does have a mobile version.”

According to Covert, the latest version of mobile MyMiami has the ability to track student usage of the mobile MyMiami site,

although the data has yet to be analyzed.

Santucci said there is currently not enough usage by students.

“We specifically target firstyear students to make them aware of the technologies we have,” Santucci said. “The Friday night before classes start each year the library hosts new students and the mobile website was part of that presentation.”

Gannod is working on a Miami bus app that puts a GPS router into the bus to see when the bus is coming to each stop according to McVey. First-year Sydney Powell said he is enthusiastic about the Miami bus app.

“Even though it would be free, I would be willing to pay for that app,” Powell said. “It would definitely be money worthy to know where the bus is and whether it is running on time or not.”

Other future plans are to create a mobile version to reserve study rooms at the library by next fall and also to be able to simultaneously release features on the mobile web page and iPhone application according to Santucci.

“For example, the iPhone application currently has information about the Miami Metro,” Covert said. “We’d like to add that into the mobile web page. In addition, we’ll look to add more features from MyMiami, Niihka, BannerWeb, etc. that people would find useful on a mobile application.”

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McGovern became aware of the documentary through Facebook.

“I think it’s a really important issue,” McGovern said. “I’d like to hear a Ugandan’s point of view who went through it and what they’re actually going to do to stop it.”

Discepoli said Invisible Children’s goal was to have 500,000 views of the film by the end of the year. To their surprise, the video received millions of views the first day.

The movement gained much publicity through social networking, but Richart said there is some cynicism around the movement.

She said this cynicism stems from ignorance.

“People may be looking at the facts but they’re not taking into account the reasons why the organization is doing what they’re doing,” Richart said.

McGovern hopes the movement will continue to grow but fears it will lose publicity.

Richart said it is possible for the movement to lose momentum.

“If there are enough people who really take to heart what is happening and actually want to change it, then there shouldn’t be a problem,” Richart said.

She said she hopes students will participate in Cover the Night, an event organized by Invisible Children that will be held at Miami as well as cities all around the world.

The event will occur April 20 and is an effort to further spread Kony’s name to make the world aware of his crimes.

“It’s going to be like nothing ever done before,” Discepoli said.

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the primary on board.”

Former presidential candidate Wadsworth said she will not endorse either slate because she wants each candidate to gather their votes for themselves.

“I don’t want to do an endorsement because I want people to be more educated and active in the process instead of me just passing my votes along or giving some type of endorsement,” Wadsworth said. “I’m not actively working on either’s campaign.”

Former presidential candidate Taylor Davis said she will also not endorse either Kidwell’s or Stefanski’s slate.

“Because I am planning on running again next year, I am not going to endorse either side,” Davis said.

“I think both of them are great but I don’t want to burn any bridges.”

E.J. Corporan, a member of the Make it Your Miami ticket with Wadsworth and vice presidential candidate Robert Harrelson, said he will choose to stay on his ticket instead of joining Kidwell’s and Kenney’s, who previously ran with Turk.

“There is a reason why I went with the Make it Your Miami ticket; they have ideas that I agree with and I still stand by those ideas re-

gardless of whether or not they’re still in the race,” Corporan said.

“It’s not so much in disagreement in what he’s doing it’s more so I want to leave the race the way that I entered it and it’s with those ideas still intact.”

Kidwell said he believes Corporan’s decision to stay with his party shows he has integrity.

“I think that shows he genuinely believes in their platform and he has integrity to stick with their initial ideas, and whether or not he wants to publicly support me, wherever I go I’m going to be supporting E.J.,” Kidwell said.

Fellow member of Kidwell’s and Kenney’s #Revolution Party Matt Turk did not advance with his teammates.

“I’m ultimately disappointed I would have loved to have moved on to the general election but I definitely know that my other two opponents are well qualified and will do an excellent job,” Turk said.

Turk said he will continue to support Kidwell and Kenney.

“Colten and Molly are both great people. I really enjoyed my experience in getting to work with them,” Turk said. “I am definitely going to do everything in my power to help them get elected. We all wrote the platform together.”

The general election will be held Thursday.

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IT warns of high numbers of email scams, students remain carefree

By Jessica Tedrick For The Miami Student

As people put more and more information online, Internet scammers are using it to their advantage.

Joseph Bazeley, the information security officer of IT Services is sending out more notices than usual this year even though the number of incidents is no higher than last year.

“It’s a constant problem,” Bazeley said. “We could post [notices] everyday.”

Even though there are a high number of cases, some students,

like first-year Christie Huidekoper, ignore or delete the notices that IT Services sends.

Bazeley said for the most part, IT Services hears about these scams through students.

If a scam is blatantly obvious students report it, but sometimes telling a scam from a legitimate email is not easy, according to Bazeley.

“We get messages sent to support asking if [the message] is real or fake,” Bazeley said. Scams can be something that everyone knows to look out for, like a Nigerian Prince asking for help, but some are much

less suspicious. According to Bazeley, the number of scams involving tax information is about to rise.

“Most of the scams revolve around greed or fear,” Bazeley said. “Scams claiming to be the IRS either informing the recipient of a bigger return or money owed become very popular around tax season.”

Some scammers want to gain access to the victims email in order to send spam mail, usually advertising pharmaceuticals that have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, through their email, according to Bazeley.

Bazeley said he recommends changing all passwords and security questions if this happens to ensure the scammer can no longer access your account.

Some scams will try to install software onto the victim’s computer.

Sometimes this software will give the scammer the ability to host a website on the victim’s computer but it can also be used for identity theft, Bazeley said.

“Keylogger [software] captures everything that you type on your computer,” Bazeley said. “All the scammer would have to do from that

point is to sit back and wait for the victim to check their bank account or order something online.”

A scammer who wants to steal your identity or gain access to your credit or bank account is likely to ask for personal information.

“They want your social security number, your name and your address.

All of the core pieces to identity theft,” Bazeley said.

According to Bazeley, most scammers are not prosecuted for their actions.

“99 percent of them slip through the cracks,” Bazeley said.

University Senate passes new AIMS major

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The Senate approved the creation of a new Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Media as part of the Armstrong Interactive Media Studies (AIMS) Program.

“We’ve had a lot of requests for a standalone major in this area of interactive media,” Peg Faimon, AIMS co-director said. Faimon also said no

new faculty, facilities or funding will be required for the major.

The Senate also approved a proposal for a new repeat course policy from the Academic Policy Committee.

According to Marketing Professor Maria Cronley, the current policy is if a student has not received credit for a class, he or she could retake it.

Additionally, a student can repeat a course once if he or she has received credit for it, but the hours would only count once towards graduation and both grades are figured into the student’s grade point average.

The new policy proposes that after

the Fall 2012 semester, a student may repeat up to eight credit hours within their first 64 hours at Miami as a way for incoming students to adjust to the rigor of college academics.

The senate approved recommendations from the Awards and Recommendations Committee involving minor changes to the guidelines for distinguished professor awards.

The senate also approved minor changes to the senate’s standing rules regarding election procedures and heard a review from the Budget Taskforce Technical Committee regarding the allocation of educational and general funds.

Students make networking app for alumni events

By Chris Harrison For The Miami Student

Five Miami University students have developed a new speed-networking application (app) for the Alumni Association for their spring semester capstone project in 2011.

Alumni Kevin Donnelly, Tom Campbell, Harry Talamini and Brenna Anderson, all Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) majors, worked on the “Chatter Hawks” app along with senior graphic design major Jason Walters under the guidance of CSE Professor Jerry Gannod.

Speed-networking allows participants of a social event to meet others in a more expedient fashion. The event facilitator can utilize the app on an iPad and forward its seating arrangements to the event participants.

The app was initially developed to make the Alumni Association’s social events run more smoothly, according to Donnelly.

Donnelly and his team developed an algorithm that seats all the participants. As the event continues, the algorithm handles rotations allowing everyone to meet as many people as possible with no seating overlaps.

Donnelly and his team met once a week with Alumni Association member Erin Taute to show updates,

mockups and working prototypes.

Donnelly showcased the app in its beta phase at an Alumni Association event in Chicago.

While Gannod helped manage most of the meetings, he left plenty of creative and technical freedom for the team to design the app the way they wanted according to Campbell.

“This was the second semester that we had been working together,” Campbell said. “We knew each other all pretty well by then and we knew how each other worked. So we all got along pretty well and everybody got what they needed to get done.”

“Chatter Hawks,” which seats five people at different tables, works more fluidly than the traditional “speed-dating” format, which typically only allows short one on one meetings and does not maximize the amount of people one can meet, Gannod said.

“We built Chatter Hawks to make sure that you meet as many people as possible, but also to help the facilitator manage the time,” Gannod said.

Gannod said the app is perfect for gathering alumni meetings and for individuals who are new to a city and who want to network and make new contacts, and even for use in the classroom, allowing students to study and network more efficiently.

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from students,” Jeep said.

Senior Adam Howe, a three year Summer Reading Program Committee member, presented Shade It Black to the group.

“I was on the edge about Shade It Black at first,” Howe said. “It was powerful, and I wasn’t sure if it was powerful in the way that we need it to be. I know that it’s something that needs to be shared.”

The 2012 Summer Reading Program is only the latest of a long standing tradition of introducing the new class of Miami students to liberal arts education.

According to Jeep, the potential pay-off of the summer reading program is to have students begin thinking about different ideas and points of view at a higher level.

Committee member, Kate de Medeiros, said Shade it Black is meets the need of the Summer Reading Program well.

“One of the goals of the Miami plan is to develop critical thinking in students,” Medinos said. “This book through all the complexity of topics, controversies and insights it provides for discussion, is an excellent starting point for just that.

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FROM PAGE 12 4:20s,” Miller said. “I didn’t think I’d break my record, but it’s definitely a good starting point. I think the challenge of getting better and setting new marks will be that much more fun now that I set the bar so high.”

Fellow senior, thrower Alexandra Roberts, kept her momentum going, placing third in the shot put with a throw of 51-5.75/15.69 meters, breaking her own school record set last season by nearly two feet.

TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012 SPORTS Last month Roberts set a new school record in the shot put, again breaking her previous 2010 record. Roberts has worked extensively with firstyear throwing coach Stacey Wannemacher on improving her strength.

“My main goal was to throw close to where I had ended indoors,” Roberts said. “The goal in the season is to get better and better, so if that means breaking my record multiple times, then I’m game.”

Roberts is looking to stay focused and not succumb to mounting pressure to improve.

“Success has the tendency to breed fear and insecurity because you always feel so much pressure to do better,” Roberts said. “But this weekend, I just went out there and I knew that I wanted to throw just as far.”

Junior hurler and defending MAC 100-meter hurdle champion, Layne Baggett, got off to a good start, placing second in the hurdles at 13.81 seconds. The time marks a new personal best for Baggett and moved her to fourth place in school history.

Senior sprinter Rachael Clay also set a new personal best in the 200-meter dash at

25.36 seconds.

All-MAC performer and senior sprinter Diona Graves cracked the top 10 in the record books as well, reaching the ninth fastest time in school history, placing third in the 400-meter dash at 55.84 seconds.

“My main focuses are still the 100 and 200 [meter dashes],” Graves said. “The 400 [meter dash] was just for me to get some work in and build more endurance for the 200 [meter dash].”

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Miami swept through doubles play then won five of six singles matches, giving the RedHawks a 6-1 victory over the Bulls Saturday afternoon.

In the match-up with Akron, Miami was swept in the three doubles matches then lost the first singles match, putting them at a 2-0 disadvantage. Freshman Alix Thurman put the RedHawks on the scoreboard with a 6-1, 6-4 victory, but Akron (14-2, 0-1 MAC) responded to open up a 3-1 lead.

From there the RedHawks took over, as senior Stephanie Danesis took the next match, defeating 2011 MAC Player of the Year Zara Harutyunyan, 6-2, 6-3.

Miami tied the score at three when sophomore Christiana Raymond came back in the following match, posting a 2-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-1 win over Angelina Jogasuria.

The game-deciding point was in the hands of freshman Christine Guerrazzi, as she won her first set 6-1, but Akron’s Ksenia Berestetska rallied to force a third, 6-3. The decider went all the way to a tiebreaker, with Guerrazzi dominating 7-1 to claim the final set, 7-6.

“I was proud of the way we fought out there today,” Head Coach Anca Dumitrescu said. “We started slowly in doubles but were able to find our energy in singles. Akron certainly put us under a lot of pressure out there, but we kept finding ways to persevere and eventually came through.

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It is certainly a good start to our conference season but we still have a long way to go.”

After continuing their journey an additional four hours from Akron to Buffalo, Miami won the doubles point for the fifth time in its last seven outings to open a 1-0 lead against the Bulls.

The team of Danesis and Thurman improved to 4-2 in doubles play with an 8-6 victory, and then senior Riekie Honiball and Guerrazzi combined for an 8-5 victory. Raymond and sophomore Nimisha Mohan completed the sweep with an 8-3 win.

In singles play, Thurman made the score 2-0 by posting her fifth straight singles win, 6-0, 6-2. The freshman now stands 16-8 overall this year, including 6-2 in dual matches.

Danesis registered a win, 6-4, 6-2, before Mohan finished off the Bulls 6-3, 6-0.

Buffalo (5-7, 1-1) picked up its lone point with a Marta Stoyanova victory over Honiball, 7-5, 6-1, but Miami answered with wins

by Guerrazzi (6-1, 6-4) and Raymond (4-6, 6-4, 10-6).

Guerrazzi’s win was also her fifth in a row and improved her overall record to 15-9.

“This weekend was a great turn around for the team,” Raymond said.

“We have been improving throughout the season and this weekend it really showed.”

The ’Hawks continue their road trip in the MAC next week when they travel to the University of Toledo and to Eastern Michigan University for matches Friday and Saturday, respectively.

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six degrees of separation leads back to miami There are many reasons to love the madness that accompanies the NCAA Tournament, but with Miami University dateless for the Big Dance this year, it may have been difficult for some fans to attach to a team.

Adding insult to injury, four other Ohio teams made the Sweet Sixteen last week. But three of the four teams have connections to Miami, so if there were any bandwagons to jump on it would have been those. The Miami football team may take greater pride in the Cradle of Coaches moniker, but the phylogenetic coaching tree created by former men’s basketball Head Coach Herb Sendek is beginning to rival it.

Like the Oracle of Kevin Bacon, which connects any actor you can think of to the Footloose star, the world of college basketball really is a small world after all. And each of the coaches at Ohio University, Xavier University and Ohio State University can all look to Miami for their coaching heritage.

Sendek was only at Miami for three seasons (1994-1996) but has created a family tree of successful coaches that belongs on Ancestry. com. During his tenure, he led the Red and White to three postseason appearances, including the second round of the 1995 NCAA Tournament, while picking up a Mid-American Conference (MAC) Title and a MAC Coach of the Year Award (both in 1995) along the way.

Sendek has since moved on to Arizona State University and while the Sun Devils were irrelevant this season, Sendek made his mark on the college basketball landscape through his former protégés, who have become the who’s-who of coaches.

“Herb is a tremendous coach and has been great about giving young coaches a chance,” Miami Assistant Coach Jermaine Henderson, who played under Sendek, said. “When people look back at Miami basketball he will be seen as one of the pillars that the program has been

built on.”

The first is none other than Charlie Coles, who was an assistant to Sendek at Miami before taking over the program in 1997 and becoming the winningest coach in Miami basketball history.

Under Sendek, Coles shared the bench with fellow assistants Thad Matta and Sean Miller. Matta, Ohio State University head coach, currently has the Buckeyes bound for New Orleans for the Final Four, his second trip to that stage, while Miller currently coaches the University of Arizona. However, before heading to sunnier climes, Miller was at the helm of Xavier University where he mentored current Musketeers coach Chris Mack.

The final connection includes the charged-up coach of Ohio University (OU), John Groce, who was an assistant to Sendek at North Carolina State University before leading the OU Bobcats on a Cinderella run this postseason.

“The names speak for themselves, as they are not just guys in the business but great coaches,” Henderson said. “Herb taught in a way that bred head coaching, and its easy to see why [his former assistants] have had success.”

There are 345 head coaching positions in Division I basketball but the available jobs are few and far between. And assuming you get the job, the coaching world is Darwinian at its core, where only the successful survive.

So the fact that three of the sixteen sweetest teams in the NCAA Tournament trace their heritage back to Millett Hall cannot be a coincidence, can it?

It could be something in the water flowing through the Miami River valley, but I give credit to Miami University for providing the foundation that has led to the success of the aforementioned coaches.

Miami’s name did not appear on any bracket this year, but its fans can at least embrace the RedHawk connections and wait for the next great coach to surface from Miami’s roots.

UML ends ’Hawks’ run Miami’s comeback falls short in NCAA loss

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The Miami University hockey team celebrates as freshman forward Tyler Biggs, junior forward Curtis McKenzie and senior defensemen Chirs Wideman come off the ice.The RedHawks return trip to the Frozen Four was derailed Saturday by the loss to the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

By Tom Downey Staff Writer

Despite a furious three-goal rally in the final period, the Miami University RedHawks came up just short against the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) River Hawks, falling 4-3 in overtime (OT) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Brotherhood seniors finish with 99 career wins.

“The loss stings as a whole,” Head Coach Enrico Blasi said.

“But we will celebrate our season as a team and community. I will put this senior class up against any class in the country.”

The RedHawks had a great chance with the game tied late in the third when the River Hawks were whistled for a five-minute major penalty. Despite several great opportunities and near goals, Miami was unable to score and UMass Lowell killed the penalty and then poked in a rebound to win the game in OT. “We were getting chances before the power play,” senior tricaptain Alden Hirschfeld said.

“We had opportunity after opportunity but could not capitalize.

Sometimes that’s the way it goes.

It was anyone’s game the whole third and overtime. Overtime goals are usually lucky; but it just didn’t happen for us.”

Senior goalie Connor Knapp finished the season with a 1.69 goals against average (GAA) and his career with a 1.94 GAA, setting the school record in both categories after having 26 saves in his final game.

Junior forward and Hobey Baker Award finalist Reilly Smith was unable to score or record an assist and had his career long 10-game point streak snapped.

After the loss, Blasi’s career NCAA Tournament record stands at 7-8 and the RedHawks are now 1-7 against Hockey East Association teams in the NCAA Tournament.

UMass Lowell converted on just one of their five power plays but the Red and White were unable to convert on any of their four power plays. The RedHawks also had a 33-30 shots on goal advantage, including an 18-6 advantage in the final period.

“They won the first 30 minutes,” Blasi said. “We won the last 30 minutes and in overtime,

anything can happen. We never gave up.”

The River Hawks capitalized on early Miami penalties and mistakes to take a 3-0 lead.

Freshman forward Tyler Biggs was called for a penalty just 1:25 into the game and UMass Lowell would score on the power play to take a 1-0 lead.

Two other RedHawk turnovers resulted in two more goals for the River Hawks, one of which came shorthanded.

“We didn’t stick to the game plan,” freshman forward Austin Czarnik said. “Unfortunately they got the goals and I made a horrible mistake. We battled back but came up short.”

In the third the RedHawks began a furious rally, starting with senior forward Trent Vogelhuber’s fourth goal of the year, giving him 21 career goals. Just 14 seconds later, Czarnik scored his 10-career goal to give the RedHawks hope.

Hirschfeld then tied the game on his 11 goal of the year and 35 of his career.

However, the Red and White were unable to score again and ended their season short of the Frozen Four.

RedHawks’ offense falters in series loss to Eastern Michigan

By Tom Downey Staff Writer

The Miami University baseball team won the first game of their three-game series against Eastern Michigan University but lost the final two, failing to win their opening Mid-American Conference (MAC) series.

“I think we played hard,” Head Coach Dan Simonds said. “I think we beat ourselves in a lot of ways.

We have to play more solid fundamental baseball.”

The Red and White are now 13-11 on the year and are 1-2 in the MAC, which puts them in a tie for third in the MAC East. Kent State is the only other MAC team with a winning record at 11-10.

All three of the RedHawks’ pitchers had solid outings. Junior Mac Thoreson got the start in the opener and went 7.2 innings, picking up the 9-1 victory. He struck out three batters while giving up seven hits and one earned run, improving to 3-2 on

the year.

In the second game junior Brooks Fiala pitched a complete game (8 innings), but the team lost 3-1. Fiala gave up eight hits and two earned runs while striking out five, dropping him to 2-3 on the year.

Senior Shawn Marquardt got the start in the finale pitching 6.2 innings and giving up four runs, three of which were earned. He struck out two in the 4-2 loss, dropping his record to 2-3 on the year.

“The pitching was tremendous,” Simonds said. “All three guys pitched great. They gave us a chance to win all three games.”

As the pattern has been for most of the year, the top of the order led the RedHawks offensively. Senior outfielder Ryan Brenner went 5-14 with four runs and one RBI from the leadoff spot and freshman Matt Honchel went 6-10 with one run and two walks while batting second in the order. Senior outfielder Bryce Redeker went 4-10 with three runs scored, two walks and four RBIs as the three

hitter and junior first baseman Kevin Bower cleaned things up, going 5-12 with one run and three RBIs from the number four slot.

The RedHawks opened the series with offensive firepower, taylling 15 hits and nine runs in the first game.

They jumped out to an early lead, going up 7-0 before the Eagles scored their first and only run. The Red and White scored two runs in the first, three in the third and two in both the fourth and fifth.

Despite Fiala’s strong performance in the second game, the RedHawks were unable to pull out the win, falling 3-1. The RedHawks outhit the Eagles 10-8 but left nine men on base.

The rubber match was plagued by mistakes as the RedHawks committed three errors and balked in a run as well. The mistakes turned out to be a major factor in the 4-2 loss.

The RedHawks return to Oxford for a three-game series against the University of Toledo, starting with a 6 p.m. Friday first-pitch.

JESSI THORNE THE MIAMI STUDENT

Junior pitcher Brooks Fiala rears back and fires against Morehead State University Mar.ch17. Fiala pitched a complete game Saturday against Eastern Michigan University but the ’Hawks fell 3-1 and lost the series 2-1.

Women’s tennis serves its MU hits the ground running in first meet way to weekend sweep

By Win Braswell

For The Miami Student

By Jordan Rinard For The Miami Student

The Miami University women’s tennis team swept conference foes University of Akron and the University at Buffalo over the weekend to continue their regular season 27-game league play winning streak.

Miami (7-9, 2-0 Mid-American Conference (MAC)) rallied from a 3-1 deficit to defeat the 65th-ranked Zips 4-3 Friday afternoon. The win avenges a RedHawk loss by the same score in the MAC Championship

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The Miami University women’s track and field team picked up where they left off in the indoor season, setting two new school records last weekend at Vanderbilt University’s Black and Gold Invitational.

The RedHawks got off to a running start with seven top three finishes. Despite inclement weather throughout the two-day meet,

Miami maintained its competitive edge.

Senior middle-distance runner Kelley Miller ran unattached this indoor season, having exhausted her eligibility, but finished as the runner-up in both the 1,500-meter and 800-meter runs. Miller clocked a 4:24.71 1,500 time, breaking her own school record of 4:26.39 from 2010.

“Running, unattached is such a hassle,” Miller said. “It’s hard to

focus on competing when you have to worry about driving yourself to meets and paying your own entry fees. It felt good to put on my Miami uniform again.”

Miller’s fast start to this outdoor season has given her the opportunity to achieve some lofty and challenging goals this season.

“I knew I wanted to run in the low

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