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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 2000, The Miami Student reported that the Liberal Education Panel was conducting its first external review of the Miami Plan since its implementation in 1992. A forum was to be held to allow students to voice their opinions. Member on the panel, junior Carolyn Hadikosti, said, “I hear students complain about it all the time. This is the time to let their complaints be heard by the people who can make a difference.”

Out cold: Professor leads Antarctica trips BY CONNOR MORIARTY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Nine thousand miles and one military cargo plane away, there is more than just ice and penguins in the polar desert of Antarctica. Miami University has been leaving its mark there for five years now. After a choppy helicopter ride through the vast Transantarctic Mountains, Miami Associate Microbiology Professor Rachael Morgan-Kiss drills into a frozen lake within an arctic valley. Her goal: to study the microorganisms she finds and learn how they live in the harshest environment in the world. Needless to say, her office hours vary. “It’s the ultimate ‘high’ adventure,” she said with a smile. After growing up in a small town on Vancouver Island in Western Canada, Morgan-Kiss enrolled in the University of Victoria on the same island for her undergraduate studies. She received her Bachelors of Science working primarily in plant biology research, but quickly took a U-turn in graduate school. “I went to the University of Western Ontario to work with Dr. Norman Huner to study crops that handle cold better than others,” Morgan-Kiss said. “But he wanted a student who would study plants in permanent

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cold environments.” So she worked with Huner and studied such plants. Once MorganKiss finished her Ph.D. project on Antarctica algae, she was hooked on the cold. After working on various

projects in many places across the United States, Morgan-Kiss ended up at Miami and she has been organizing annual trips to Antarctica for the past five years. “We have gone [to Antarctica] three previous times, took a year

Serving up sustainability: Western Dining Commons opens its doors

off, and are going for a final time in October,” she said. Morgan-Kiss typically travels with a team of four graduate students, but has taken undergradsuates who could work the trip into their schedule. At about

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BY JENNA TILLER

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For the past several semesters, Miami’s campus has been a flurry of loud and fenced-off construction sites. On Sunday March 30, however, another new building finally opened its doors to students; the new Western Dining Commons. Miami faculty watched nervously and excitedly as a disjointed stream of students entered the building for the first several meals, making last-minute adjustments to the layout and checking that everything was stocked. In spite of weather delays that almost pushed back the opening date, Miami staff is thrilled to see how students react to the newest campus addition. Located just west of Havighurst Hall and to the east of the pedestrian bridge, the Western Dining Commons is 46,000 square feet, seats 675 students, and hopes to be one of the more sustainable buildings on campus. According to Senior Director of Dining & Culinary Support Services Nancy Heidtman, the way the dining hall will run this year is not the way it will operate next fall. As of now, the building includes three venues: the Greystone market, the Tea Hive, and a buffet-style variety of options. The Greystone is similar to other markets at on campus with only

a few marked differences; it features a relatively large section of allergy-friendly and organic foods compared to the market at Alexander. Additionally, the Tea Hive, a café-style venue, is a completely new concept on campus. Students can purchase a variety of teas by the cup or pot, a selection of Starbucks products, bakery items, and an assortment of sandwiches at the a-la-carte location. This year, the buffet offers very similar options to the recentlyclosed Alexander. The Spice of Life international station is still open, as are Miami Spice, Vine Dining and Miami Traditions, the Campus Grill and the salad bar. Next year however, the Western Dining Commons will be completely re-done. Executive Chef Eric Yung said the most notable difference is that it will no longer be a buffet location, but a Bell Tower-type a-la-carte venue. Instead of a traditional buffet salad-bar, the ever popular Traders Greens will be implemented. Additionally, the Spice of Life will feature completely different options, and the Campus Grill will be converted into a Grill and Roast area where students can obtain various slow-roasted meats and vegetables, as well as a quick and custom pasta area. The most unique addition is that of an allergy-friendly bar opening next fall. It will feature food free of the eight most common allergies – gluten, tree nuts,

nuts, dairy, shellfish, egg, fish and soy. Yung said the main goal was to provide peace of mind for students who have to worry about the food they eat daily. “There is there is nothing in that station that they can’t eat… they certainly don’t want to stand out, so this gives them the opportunity to be with friends and eat the kinds of food they need to eat” Yung said. In addition to being the most allergy-friendly dining hall on campus, the building will also be one of the most sustainable. “Sustainability and energy efficiency was forefront in the minds of everyone involved in the building design,” said Connie McCarthy, the head project architect. Miami is hoping to achieve a silver LEED certification for the building. Upon completion, the Western Dining Commons will exhibit multiple energy-saving features. Daylight harvesting, or the adjustment of the lighting system based on the amount of natural sunlight available, is one technique being used. Additionally, McCarthy said a high percentage of the light fixtures will be LED, which reduces the amount of energy needed. All the food preparation technology is Energy Star to conserve more energy as well. The Western Dining Commons

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ASG candidates prepare for presidential election BY KATHLEEN CLYBURN

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$100,000 per person, though, this is not your typical abroad trip. “We travel through the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is the only program that funds people going there,” Morgan-Kiss said. “Each trip takes five or six years to plan.” Each venture to the outermost reaches of the world begins with a commercial flight to New Zealand. From there, the team piles into a military cargo plane that takes them to a U.S. outpost called McMurdo Station on the coast of Antarctica. Their final leg shoots them through the mountains by helicopter to camps within Antarctic valleys. At the camps where the team stays, Morgan-Kiss and the students spend each day on frozen lakes taking samples and studying the organisms that can survive in such cold surroundings, while simultaneously determining how climate change will affect these organisms. Morgan-Kiss’ main research focus is on organisms called eukaryotes, which are the ancestors of all animals. The students may be working on separate projects from what Morgan-Kiss is doing, so when the trip ends, they bring the samples they get from the lakes back

The April 9 primary Student Body President Election Day is fast approaching and the candidates are hard at work campaigning their platforms to the student body. Since there are three slates running this year, there will be a primary election April 9-10 before the general election April 16-17. If one of these slates earns 50 percent of the votes, the slate will be declared the winner and no general election will take place. Otherwise, the top two slates will move on to the general election. The three slates running for the positions of student body president and vice president are juniors Kyle Hees and Colleen Ryan, seniors Cole Tyman and Natalie Bata, and junior Luke Kohan and senior Mike Barth.

We hope to make ASG the representative body it is designed to be.” COLE TYMAN

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

Open campaigning began March 31 and the slates have been reaching out to the student body by visiting student organizations, Greek life and athletic teams, as well as using social media and sending out emails on list serves to students. Hees and Ryan are both Associated Student Government (ASG) members. Hees is currently Vice President of Student Organizations and Ryan is a senator. “We want to make the student body more transparent and more collaborative,” Hees said. “By embodying these two ideals, students will have access to more experiences and opportunities on campus. The more opportunities that

are presented to the student body, the more successful students will be at Miami as well as in their future endeavors.” Ryan said they plan on making this happen by improving upon the way ASG works and the way student voices are carried to ASG. Encouraging senators of ASG to reach out to their constituents and report any issues are methods of improving how ASG collaborates with the student body, Hees said. “We have both had such great experiences and want to make even more experiences for students now and students to come,” Hees said. Seniors Tyman and Bata are also members of ASG; Tyman is Secretary of On-Campus Affairs and Bata is a senator. “We hope to make ASG the representative body it is designed to be,” Tyman said. According to Tyman, he and Bata have created their platform through conversations with students from across campus about what they would like to see on campus. Their platform points include creating small recreation facilities in every quad of residence halls, creating a system of student peer advising for underclassmen and trying to implement a discounted meal plan option for off-campus students. “We will create a reporting structure to ensure that every cabinet member is representing their constituents to the best of their ability,” Tyman said. “We will also work to empower student senators to write more legislation that comes directly from their constituents.” Tyman and Bata said they want to focus on communication between the student body and ASG, reporting any issues and solutions to the administration. “We will better the student body by making sure their voice is

ELECTION, SEE PAGE 8

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Club sports: Companions and champions

CONTRIBUTED BY CALVIN FIX

First-year Bryan Kubota of the roller hockey team showcases a pair of filthy mitts as he prepares to bar-down

BY LIBBY MUELLER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Varsity sports at Miami University are extensively covered in both print and online news. You can track scores and read up on wins and losses with the tap of a finger or quick scan of a newspaper page. But there are a few unusual club sports you may not know much about—and their athletes find as much joy in team companionship as in victories. Club roller hockey vice president and treasurer Calvin Fix said the team has recently celebrated some major successes.

“We just finished our second season in which we were regular season champs of the MCRHL (Midwest Collegiate Roller Hockey League),” Fix said. “This is our second consecutive regular season title. We went 16-2. We made it to the regional championship game where we lost in double overtime to Central Michigan.” Although Miami is lauded for its ice hockey team, the Miami club roller hockey team is a force to be reckoned with as well. Because of their performance during the regular season, they are still going to the National Championships.

“All year, we were ranked in the top five in the nation,” Fix said. “We are going into our National Championships this year as the number five seed.” Nationals begin Tuesday, April 8. Fix said the team is anticipating triumph. “We fully expect to come out of it with a national title,” Fix said. “Our biggest competition right now is Central Michigan.” If you go watch a roller hockey game, don’t expect it to be exactly the same as an ice hockey match, but expect it to be equally exciting. “Instead of five-on-five, it’s

four-on-four, so there’s more space,” Fix said. “There’s no checking, so instead of a muscle game, it’s more of a finesse and skill game. It’s an exciting sport. Most people hear that there’s no checking, so they think it’s boring. But it’s actually really exciting and compared to ice hockey, there’s a lot more speed. The games are also extremely high scoring games. There are more goals.” Fix said rather than the thrill of a win, the best part of roller hockey is the team. “We get to travel, and the thirteen of us get to hang out, compete in the games and experience success together,” Fix said. Katie Hunt, vice president of the club women’s water polo team, agreed that the team is the best part of her club sport. “They’re family,” Hunt said. “It’s just great to go into the pool at the end of the day, even if it was long and full of exams, and release stress and talk to some of my favorite people.” Hunt said Nationals are rapidly approaching for water polo as well. “We gave Notre Dame and Grand Valley State tough competition, and those two have recently been the top teams in our conference, so it’s hopeful for Nationals,” Hunt said. “The team’s looking really strong. We play with intensity at practice, which translates into games more than ever before.” According to Hunt, there is a Midwest Division Championship

Saturday, April 12. The Miami water polo team will play rivals Notre Dame and Grand Valley State. If they win, they will go to Nationals. “Our goal is to win that conference and go to Nationals,” Hunt said. “It’s a big goal, but based on what I’ve seen, it’s attainable.” Media liaison for the Miami club dodgeball team, Sam Clark, said club dodgeball has had reason to celebrate as well. “We played a tournament against Towson University. We had only nine players and they had fifteen, but we actually beat them 4-1,” Clark said. Unfortunately, the MU team had to forfeit because at least 10 players are required, but that didn’t stop the dodgeball team from counting the tournament as a success. Clark said he hopes to raise more awareness about the club dodgeball team and recruit more players. Dodgeball is a way to tap into a competitive spirit and be part of team without committing too much time, Clark said. “The best part is having something structured and competitive to do that isn’t cutthroat,” Clark said. “I know a lot of guys on the team have a competitive atmosphere but don’t necessarily have time for a varsity sport.” The wide variety of club sports teams at Miami boast both talent and dedication to close-knit teams who, through wins and losses, have written their own unique success stories.

MU students break down From Uncle Phil’s, to students, with love summer reading with art BY OLIVIA BRAUDE STAFF WRITER

BY KAITLYN FOYE

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The Miami University Art Museum calls on students and members of the community to question reality in its current exhibition “Reality is Broken,” a display that spotlights student work created in response to the 2013 Summer Reading Program book. After convocation each year, students break into groups to discuss the summer reading, but the discourse usually ends there. “With this exhibition, we’re giving students the opportunity to continue the dialog, by putting it in visual terms,” said Jason Shaiman, the museum’s curator. Shaiman was an advocate for exhibiting the works in the spring rather than the fall. “[It] ultimately extends the importance of the summer reading program beyond the fall semester and makes it a year-long program,” he said. Having the exhibition in the spring also allowed students time to create and submit artwork during the fall semester. Eleven students participated, resulting in 14 chosen pieces, including sculpture, print works and a video game. Although the exhibit features pieces responding to the first-year reading assignment, not all submissions came from freshmen. In fact, most came from students well beyond their first year in college. Beyond the realm of creativity and art, the exhibition presents an opportunity for classmates to see what fellow students are doing and, if

nothing else, support their friends. “It will be really cool to see what people took from the book,” said senior James Cox, creator of “Children’s Day,” a digital game featuring original artwork and music by Colin Matsumoto (Class of 2013) and Alex Underwood (Class of 2012), respectively. Cox said he believes that the exhibition itself carries a strong message. “You don’t just have to make projects for class. You can actually go out and make things on your own – it kind of shows the potential that people have,” Cox said. “It’s also kind of cool because it has to do with games.” Fellow artist and senior Jenna Klein also offers positive remarks. “I think it’s really important to support student artwork. There’s not a lot of exhibitions on campus that really showcase what all the art students are doing,” adds Klein. “It’s good to have shows…in the art museum because it [provides] another way to look at the art in a more professional setting.” Faculty at the Miami University Art Museum have confirmed that a similar exhibition will be held again in correlation with next year’s summer reading book. This time, students of all disciplines will be invited to participate. More details will be released in the near future. The “Reality is Broken” exhibition aligns with the art museum’s many efforts to engage with the university, integrating art and academics. The exhibition will be on display through the Spring 2014 semester.

Garde Manger: Keeper of the food. It is the room where Miami University’s Demske Culinary Support Center makes the tasty and convenient Uncle Phil’s Express items found at most of the dining and market locations on campus. The organized chaos begins in the chilled Garde Manger room at 4 a.m. with the preparation of 200 yogurt parfaits to be delivered in time for the breakfast rush on campus, Adam Hamilton, chef for culinary programming, said. For the next six hours, the team at the Demske Culinary Support Center works to assemble, package and label the 16 different items in the Uncle Phil’s Express line. “There are multiple steps. It’s not just ‘take a bowl, put the salad

in it, put a lid on it, sticker it and here you go,’” Hamilton said. The sandwich wrapping and labelling process for the Uncle Phil’s sandwiches is reminiscent of the famous “I Love Lucy” scene in the episode “Job Switching” where Lucy and Ethel unsuccessfully try to wrap chocolate as it soars across a high-speed conveyor belt. The Uncle Phil’s sandwich wrapping contraption requires the skill of three or four workers who operate like a well-oiled machine to wrap and label the sandwiches as they come through at the speed of about 1.5 seconds per sandwich, Hamilton said. As Uncle Phil’s Express’ Ham and Swiss on Rye sandwiches fly down the conveyor belt, a wrapper is heat-sealed around them before quick workers snatch the items for

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It takes a team to wrap and label the thousands of Uncle Phil’s express items at the Culinary Support Center.

labelling: placing one on the front, one on the back. The entire process, for more than 100 sandwiches, takes mere minutes, Hamilton said. Luckily, the workers at the Culinary Support Center are more skilled than Ethel and Lucy and no sandwiches pass by without proper wrapping and labelling. Hamilton said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires Uncle Phil’s Express products to have a label with ingredients listed in descending order. It also requires a warning label stating that the facility uses peanut products. Nutritional information, such as calories, fat content and protein content are not labelled on Uncle Phil’s Express products. However, Hamilton said, that information can be found at Miami’s Dining Website. The Culinary Support Center enters the ingredients of their items into a system called Foodservice Suite (FSS), which generates a rough estimate of a recipe’s nutritional information. “Once we have a recipe put in and we have the ingredients defined, it will actually give us a nutritional breakdown,” Hamilton said. The nutritional information for each item in a recipe is found on its packaging label, company website or the US database. It is then entered into the FSS before appearing on Miami’s dining website in the form of a handy nutrition fact card, junior nutrition major Jillian O’Neil, a student worker at the Culinary Support Center, said.

UNCLE PHIL’S, SEE PAGE 5

Major ‘Mulaa’: Miami enjoys $440 million in endowment funds BY ALISON BLOCK

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A good name may be better than riches, but Miami seems to have both. The university’s endowment — which includes money used for scholarships, among other things — is now $442.8 million, a 9 percent increase since 2012, in large part due to the university’s recent decade-long fundraising campaign, or comprehensive campaign, which helped the university offset the decrease in state funding. The term “endowment” refers to any monetary gifts the

university receives that must be used over a period of time for a specific purpose, making them restricted funds, said Brad Bundy, senior assistant vice president and campaign director in the Office of Development. For example, a donor might hypothetically give the university $100,000 — the minimum value to establish an endowment being $25,000 — to be used as a scholarship for art students. The $100,000 would then be invested through the stock market, bonds or asset allocations to make money. The annual money accumulated is then awarded every year to qualifying art

students, and the original $100,000 never diminishes. In addition to the endowment, there are donated funds that are unrestricted. Bundy said these donations are known as expendable giving, which can be used at any time in any way the university sees fit. From 2002 through the end of 2013, Miami raised $535.6 million through active fundraising. In addition to endowed funds, this figure also includes expendable giving. Between 600 and 700 new scholarships were added to the endowment. Seventy percent of the campaign total came from

Miami alumni. “A large number of donations actually come from parents while they have a child enrolled at Miami,” Bundy said. Once the endowment money is solicited and received by the Office of Development, management of the funds goes to Finance and Business Services where a team decides how each fund is invested. A large number of students are able to attend Miami through endowment-based scholarships. Buildings are built in large part due to endowment funds and even some professors have their

positions here specifically because of an endowment fund, Bundy reported. “If there’s anything students should know [about the endowment], it’s that private support is very important,” Bundy said. Of the money raised in the last comprehensive campaign, Bundy reported $132 million was given for scholarships, $108 million for capital — physical entities such as the new Armstrong Student Center or Farmer School of Business buildings — $31 million to

ENDOWMENT, SEE PAGE 5

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POLICE Bartenders work hard day’s night

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Man drinks, pleads fifth At 2:13 a.m. Wednesday, an OPD officer reported to Brick Street Bar & Grille, 36 E. High St, in response to a male who refused to leave. The male was standing near the High Street entrance when the officer asked his name. He responded, “I plead the fifth.” When the officer asked him to leave, he nearly fell over and said he was “fine.” The officer noticed the male smelled of liquor and wore an over 21 wristband. He was placed in handcuffs and the officer located his wallet within his pants pocket. Inside, the officer found an over 21 Ohio driver’s license bearing a photo that did not match the male and an under 21 Illinois driver’s license that did match the male. He was taken to OPD and charged with sales to and use by underage persons and certain acts prohibited.

Drink spills into fight At 3:05 a.m. Wednesday, an OPD officer responded to McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital to take a report of a fight that had occurred early that morning at Brick Street. The victim said he was on the patio of Brick Street when three males approached him. One man spilled his drink on the male. The victim told the spiller to be more careful, and, in response, the spiller punched the male in the face. The other males proceeded to strike the victim and brought him to the ground. A bar employee told the aggressive males to leave the bar, which they did, and the victim went to the hospital to be treated for his injuries. The officer taking the report then went to Brick Street to ask the owner if they could view the footage of the incident, but the owner refused them entry into his office. The OPD is still seeking information about the suspects.

BY DANA HUMEN

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

It is 11 p.m. Tuesday night, and while most Miami University students would have been off work for hours, senior Kristen Sfaelos’s night is just beginning. It is ‘90s night at Brick Street Bar & Grille located at 36 E. High St. and although her shift began two hours ago, it is not until 11:30 p.m. the hard work really begins for Sfaelos. With the Backstreet Boys and Celine Dion blasting in the background, Sfaelos mans her post behind the crowded bar. It will not be until around 2:15 a.m. that Sfaelos is legally required to stop pouring drinks. Even then, her shift could last until 3 a.m. or 3:30 a.m. depending how long cleanup lasts. After applying last summer, Sfaelos began working the week before school started and has continued to work around three to five days per week. Employed as a bartender at Brick Street and working five to six hour shifts multiple times a week, Sfaelos plays a vital role in Oxford’s nightlife. Because Sfaelos was already 21, she was able to begin tending bar right away, although she said some younger employees start as bar-backs and work their way up to the bartending position. A few hours before her inaugural shift, Sfaelos was given a manual containing all of the drink recipes, on which she would ultimately be tested after the completion of her training. “They just kind of throw you in there, but it’s really easy,” Sfaelos said. After a two-week training period, new Brick Street bartenders are required to take an exam that tests them on all types of liquor, drink and shot recipes, prices and the pour count for different drinks. Senior Gretchen McCall also began tending bar at Brick Street last semester. McCall explained that after taking

TOTAL INDIVIDUALS CHARGED: 8 TOTAL CRIMES: 14

Misuse of 911 system Sales to and use by underage persons Certain acts prohibited Offenses involving underage persons Open container Warrant Failure to appear Miami students cited

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‘FORE’ SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO

Junior Joe McKinney hits rocks off the bulffs in Peffer Park as fellow junior David Mullen observes his followthrough.

their zip code correctly, Sfaelos said she has still had customers insist the ID is legitimate. “Sometimes it’s hard because you don’t get specific training on fake ID’s and stuff like that, but you can pretty much tell when one’s fake,” McCall said. “The crowd guys are supposed to take care of that initially.” If an overly-intoxicated customer tries to order from her, Sfaelos said she usually just gives them a cup of water instead and will call crowd control if the situation escalates. “It is basically babysitting when people are too drunk,” Sfaelos said. Both Sfaelos and McCall said they would rather be busy than working a slow night because they are having fun while they are doing it. If being a bartender at Brick Street means spending your Tuesday night listening to ‘90s music and serving your friends and peers, both McCall and Sfaelos agree that working until 3:30 a.m. isn’t all that bad.

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Saturdays during Beat the Clock because they are usually busy shifts. Certain nights, such as concerts or moms and dads weekends, also tend to mean better tips. “Monday night is the worst night to work because people do not know how to sing,” Sfaelos said, referring to Brick Street’s weekly karaoke night. While Sfaelos and McCall said a good bartender must be fun and outgoing in order to connect with customers and earn tips, both also said it is important to have a backbone when dealing with persistent customers. “You kind of have to have a little bit of an attitude to not be pushed around because people will beg you for drinks,” Sfaelos said. “Or when people have fake ID’s you just have to be able to tell them ‘no’ and not feel bad about it.” Sfaelos and McCall said that fake ID’s are generally easily identified, although underage customers will sometimes fight them on it. Even after failing to recite

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Kristen Sfaelos and Gretchen McCall make a living serving up drinks at Brick Street Bar & Grille.

First-year puts love of robots to good use

CRIME STATISTICS: March 30 – April 3

the seven-page written exam, she also had to pour different shot recipes to demonstrate what she had learned. According to the two, between memorizing recipes, enduring late nights and dealing with demanding customers, acclimating to the job was difficult for Sfaelos and McCall. “I’ve definitely gotten the hang of it now,” Sfaelos said. “But when I first started working, I was really stressed out.” After a few weeks on the job, both said the only con to bartending is the hours. As second semester seniors, the two said they prefer to work during the week so they can go out on the weekend. With just half a semester until graduation, McCall put in her two-week notice before spring break and will not be bartending for the remainder of the school year. Despite the hours, Sfaelos loves the exciting energy of the job. “It’s more of a fun job, especially if you’re not going out at night but you’re still in the environment and you see people that you know,” Sfaelos said. “And the people that work there are also really fun too so it makes the time go by.” According to the two, bartending pays around $3.50 an hour, although they said most of their income comes from tips. Sfaelos and McCall said customers generally tend to tip well—especially for female bartenders. McCall said many times female bartenders earn twice the amount of tips that male bartenders receive in a night. “It’s good money,” Sfaelos said. “You’ll work one night and come home with over $100. There were nights when I used to get mad if I got $70 on a Tuesday night, but, if I thought about it, I really just made over $10 an hour.” Sfaelos said her favorite days to work are Tuesday nights or

Though there may not be a robotics team at Miami University, that does not mean there are no robots. Campus is filled with highly qualified students who are interested in science, math, engineering and technology (STEM) fields, and somewhere therein lurks robotics. The Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering assists individual STEM scholars. Among these students is first-year Burke Halderman. Halderman’s interest in robotics began his first year of high school when he toured Miami with Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering professor Robert Setlock. “While we do not have a robotics team here, the class I take, called Project High Flight, with Bob Setlock, allows me to work on interactive projects,” Halderman said. Setlock is heavily involved in the coordination of the MME K-12 STEM outreach effort. Following his tour with Setlock, Halderman, with the help of a few others, started a robotics team at Eaton High School. “Bob Setlock is always willing to discuss robotics and engineering extensively,” Halderman said. “He has always encouraged me to pursue my interests in mechanical engineering.” Last year, Halderman and three others entered their robot, which successfully shot Frisbees through a goal after climbing a nine-foot pyramid, into a high school competition. The four-member group’s robot completed these tasks faster than any other group’s, whose

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A robot created with the assistance of Halderman bearing local Eaton, Ohio sponsorship. average size was around thirty. “It’s the competitiveness that makes these events so rewarding.” Halderman said. Now that Halderman is no longer in high school, he continues to devote his time to help design, build, wire and drive some of the Eaton High School team’s robots. Though there are some collegiate robotics competitions, according to Halderman, there are none that involve robots interacting with each other. Halderman said robot interaction is the most appealing aspect of the field. Halderman and other select students began working on creating a T-shirt launcher for the University of Cincinnati (UC) last September. They are continuing to develop the project. According to UC student Anthony Ogg, the team will complete the T-shirt launcher by early June. “The main goal of this project is to develop a robot that can successfully shoot T-shirts, with extreme accuracy at UC events, specifically sport events like football or basketball games,” Ogg said. Budding scholars like Ogg and Halderman said they value the unparalleled creativity and intellect required to succeed in robotics.

“Robotics could be described as the varsity sport of the mind,” Halderman said. Due to his leadership skills, academic achievements and ambition to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering, Halderman was awarded the 2013-2014 Youth Energy Leadership Award. The 2013-2014 Youth Energy Leadership Award is an exclusive $2500 scholarship, which is funded by Energy Optimizers, USA. It is awarded to talented young adults who are pursue a postsecondary education in a STEM field. Recipients are likely to contribute to the next generation of innovation. Halderman hopes to work for NASA as an astronaut after spending a fair amount of time in a machine shop to expand his technological experience. According to Miami first-year Morgan Olszewski, there is great value in STEM-related careers. “I have a high level of respect for students, like Burke, who are actively involved in the advancement of technology that can better our society,” Olszewski said. “It is because of dedicated and passionate minds like his that will truly make a difference in the future.”

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Senior Send-Off CELEBRATING THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 2014!

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The nutrition fact card found on the dining website uses symbols such as a carrot if the item is vegetarian and a milk carton if it contains dairy. It provides the calories, fat, carbs, protein and sodium per serving size along with a list of ingredients for students with health concerns or special diet needs. Rebecca Coats, a sophomore Nutrition major, works at the Culinary Support Center finding and inputting information for not only recipes in the Uncle Phil’s Express line, but all the dining hall on campus into the FSS to update Miami’s dining website. “Lately I’ve been working on a lot of recipes from Maple Street since that just opened this year and they have a lot of new recipes to be added. However, all the food items sold in the markets as well as the recipes for the dining halls are in FSS,” Coats said. And if they are not in FSS, it is Coats’ job to find them in the Culinary Support Center’s warehouse or email the manufacturer to get the proper information into the system so that it can be added to the website. “The dining website is also nice because health-conscious students are able to look up the calories,

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sponsor faculty, $10 million for Information Technology (IT), $16 million for research and $119 million for academic programs. Now that the campaign is over, Bundy said the university is back to focusing on annual fundraising goals. The goals are based on each fiscal year, and by June 30 this year the university hopes to have around $35 million raised. The yearly goals are much higher than in the past because of the recent decrease in financial support from the state to all public universities. Bundy stressed it is important for alumni to realize how much the university must now rely on

FRIDAY APRIL 4, 2014 protein, fat, etcetera for the recipes served here,” Coats said, “It’s really the students’ personal decision to make healthy choices from the options and the tools that they are given.” In addition to finding the nutritional information, Miami students are involved in the extensive food making process at the Culinary Support Center. A few students work as student managers and help with various tasks including marking the Uncle Phil’s Express items with expiration dates, Hamilton said. Standing in a freezer surrounded by mounds of freshly cut fruits and vegetables, Hamilton explained how the Culinary Support Center cuts and processes the produce used in the Uncle Phil’s Express items and the dining halls on site. “We process all the food in our vegetable processing room, then we assemble all the foods and turn them into salads,” he said. The Uncle Phil’s Express items are all made-to-order, the Director of Procurement and Purchasing, Jon Brubacher, said. The Culinary Support Center receives around $10 million in food, Brubacher said, but after including convenience store items and beverages, the total is closer to $16 million per year. A large amount of the purchased

food visits the Garde Manger room before being shipped out as an Uncle Phil’s Express item. “On a busy day, there are literally a couple thousand items that come out of here,” Brubacher said. This includes an estimated 9000 pounds of meat per week and one million pounds of fresh fruit per year distributed among the Uncle Phil’s Express items and the dining locations. Starting March 7, the Culinary Support Center marked select Uncle Phil’s Express items with QR codes for students to scan and win prizes such as Rec passes in honor of March being National Nutrition Month. The codes are found on the salads, the fresh fruit bowl and the veggie and ranch combo, Hamilton said. All four salads, five sandwiches and seven snack items in the Uncle Phil’s Express line are stacked on blue crates in the Garde Manger room, waiting among the hustling white lab-coated and hairnetted workers, to be transferred to a cooler before being delivered to campus. Looking around the enormous facility, the noise of the hectic Garde Manger room behind him, Hamilton said, “It’s a really special place. A lot of people just don’t realize what we do here.”

private gifts, and that recent alumni support is the reason the university was able to raise so much. He said students, in turn, must realize how much donations to the university impact their lives at Miami. “The university puts on activities and programs in effort to educate [students] on the importance of private donations at Miami,” Bundy said. In order to educate the student population on the matter, an annual “Day without Donors” event takes place on campus to raise student awareness about the endowment. This year’s “Day without Donors” was in February. Sophomore biochemistry and pre-medical studies major Nathan Burns has three endowed

scholarships. While he would have attended Miami without the extra support, Burns noted that the money was helpful. “It was a nice little incentive,” Burns said. “I also think it’s a good idea that we have to write thank-you letters. You should tell [the donors] that you appreciate their help.” Bundy urged students to consider donating to Miami after graduation, to ensure the university’s success into the future. “President Hodge has said, ‘Miamians must own the future of their university,’” Bundy said. “We hope to encourage current Miami students to understand the impact of donations and make donations when they are alumni.”

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struck out three. Another wild pitch scored Glass to pull the Bearcats closer 7-3. Cincinnati scored again after Schwartz walked freshman infielder Jake Richmond and hit freshman infielder Connor McVey. A Miami throwing error with the bases loaded meant that the Bearcats were down only one run, 7-6. Both teams went scoreless until Happ’s heroics in the bottom of the ninth ensured the victory for Cincinnati. “One big inning and it’s a whole new game,” Zubrod said. “Credit Happ at the end, he put a great swing on that curveball.” Schwartz (1-4) picked up the

loss for the RedHawks, giving up two earned runs in 2.1 innings. Freshman right-hander Austin Woodby earned the win for the Bearcats, allowing no runs in 2.2 innings of relief. The RedHawks now start a five-game homestand, starting with a three-game series against the University of Akron (13-12). Akron is 5-1 in Mid-American Conference play, compared to Miami’s 2-4 record. First pitch for Friday’s game is scheduled 6 p.m., Saturday’s game is set for 3 p.m. and Sunday’s for 1 p.m. All games will be played at McKie Field at Hayden Park. Fans can listen to the game live on redhawkradio.com. Additional reporting Charlie Clifford.

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Constructive conversation: Student suicide LETTER TO THE EDITOR Written in response to “Student suicides call community to action” Staff of the Miami Student, I think that article that you printed on March 18 about student suicides was for lack of a better word, pretty sh*tty of you, particularly the commentary about Jaclyn Wulf. I went to high school with Jaclyn and she was always a fun, upbeat, happy girl. Not the type to (purposely) commit suicide. You even acknowledged so in your article, by mentioning the suicide

awareness programs she was involved in. Though the death was technically ruled a suicide, it did not seem intentional like the word implies. Her parents did not approve of that ruling, and I guarantee that they do not approve of your printing this article and your exploitation of their daughter’s death to fill a column in your newspaper. To those who knew her personally, this is a slap in the face. Though I was not the best of friends with her in high

school, I still take major offense to what you did and feel the need to stick up for her in opposing the poor legacy you are sticking her with. It is cheap and bad journalism to spin an accidental suicide to fill a column in your paper. It is disgusting, insulting to her and her parents, and you should be ashamed.

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EDITORIAL The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board. A few days ago, the editorial editors received a letter responding to an article titled, “Student suicides call community to action.” The letter expressed deep concern and criticism of our coverage of two suicides at Miami. We respect the comments made in this letter and understand that the recent student deaths at Miami have struck a chord with hundreds of Miami students, families and faculty; the author of this letter probably expresses the feelings of many others. The editorial board wants to express its condolences to the family and friends of Andrew Salsman and Jaclyn Wulf. Over the course of this academic year, The Miami Student editorial board has struggled to make many tough ethical decisions regarding the coverage of student death — decisions that are neither easy nor desirable. As students ourselves, we make decisions as best we can with the information we have. We aren’t professionals, we’re learners. Writing about something as delicate as suicide is hard. Period. Our news editor, Emily Crane, gave a deep look into what it is like to cover death in a letter published earlier this year, “There is no instruction manual on covering death.” With the March 18 article titled “Student suicides call community to action,” the editorial board carefully deliberated over what information to include and spent a long time thinking about how to include it. The decision to print that article was a difficult one. We sought council from the university administration, from faculty members and from the parents of the deceased students.

In the end, we made the best decisions we could and ran the piece because we felt it had the power to grab people and provide them with important and needed information and to perhaps prevent something like this from happening again. If even one death down the road could somehow be prevented thanks in part to the information we provided in that article, then it was worth printing. That’s also the reason why the parents of both deceased students were highly supportive of us running the article and agreed to speak with us at length. We used great tact in reaching out to the families of the deceased. We went through the dean of students who asked the parents if they wanted to be involved in the writing of our article and both parents were eager to speak to us, eager to answer our questions and eager to help us in our goal: to turn these tragic deaths into an opportunity for learning and growth. Both parents reached out to us after the article was printed to thank us for running it. Though it was incredibly difficult for them, they wanted to speak to us about what their children went through and what they have gone through since because they, like us, are idealists. They too believe if even one life down the road could be saved through their child’s death, then that death could be redeemed. We don’t want Jaclyn and Andrew’s deaths to remain just deaths — we want them to be the beginning of something new and powerful and beautiful. It’s ideological, yes, but that’s the idea behind why we ran the article. We stand by those decisions now, but

we welcome continued criticisms and insights. We want to learn from this and grow from this. Only time and wisdom will tell us later on whether we handled this correctly, but we can promise we did the very best job we could possibly do. The Editorial Board wants our readers and the Miami community to take action in changing the stigma that surrounds depression and mental illness. The ideology that those with mental illness are weak or inferior must stop. No one should feel like they shouldn’t be able to seek help or treatment in fear of damaging their reputation with their friends, family or even the university. We encourage you to read Nicole Theodore’s column in this issue titled, “Anonymous letter challenges the effectiveness of suicide prevention.” Most of us on the editorial board realize how many people mask their struggles behind a smile. Sometimes, we may think we know a friend or relative well but it is often too late when we realize they were struggling with depression, for example, the whole time. Though it is sometimes hard to believe, almost everyone is fighting some type of battle — yes, even if their Facebook pictures or Instagram seem to indicate otherwise. The fact is that most people are very good at hiding their struggles. Everyone goes through periods of rough patches in their lives and need love, care, and support from others. Be alert. Be cautious, even overly cautious at times. Look out for each other and utilize the student wellness website or building for more help.

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Anonymous letter challenges the effectiveness of suicide prevention Her letter was difficult to read, as it was saturated with unanswered questions and resentment toward her own university. The pain and anger were blatant, and even though she chose to remain nameless, her 1,300 NICOLE word letter THEODORE represents thousands of Americans who feel they need to keep their mental illness a secret from the outside world. Anonymous is a faceless Miami student, and yet she is not. “For those in the throes of depression, Miami’s attempts to mitigate our ideation seems frivolous and almost seem to alienate some,” Anonymous said in “An Open Letter to Miami University about Suicide” submitted to The Miami Student through an online form. “I make this argument because for the past seven years I have thought about suicide frequently, and in the last two to three years, all while I’ve been at Miami, I have fantasized about committing suicide EVERY DAY.” Anonymous could be the girl who works at King Café, the person you sit next to in chemistry or even your best friend or sorority sister. To think that she is hurting this much while thinking about suicide, is a very serious and startling thought to have in the back of your head. Since I first read this letter, I find my self repeatedly asking, “Who are you and what can we do, as a university and student body, to help you?” Anonymous didn’t leave an email or any form of contact information and she wanted it that way. “I can’t even admit my name to you without worrying that someone will expel me or something,” she said. “Part of me hopes to be recognized, but part of me just wants you, whoever you are, to know that this is a much bigger problem than you thought. And that you have been thinking about it in all the wrong ways and from the perspective of a “rational person” who would never do something so heinous.” Since we could not contact the writer of this letter and she chose to remain anonymous, we cannot publish it in it’s entirety. However, it is such an important letter that I felt I needed to highlight some of it’s points in order to add to the multi faceted discussion of suicide and mental illness at Miami. The letter described a life at Miami that doesn’t represent the usual smiling brochure-like faces and

affluent, beautiful students that walk around campus. This campus provides a magnified view of beauty, money and intelligent people, full of perfectly bleached teeth and pressed Oxford button downs that look good on paper and in a picture. Of course, this isn’t everyone, but for someone who feels like they don’t fit in, it feels like everyone. For those who feel like they don’t fit into those neatly boxed guidelines, life at Miami can be hell. Anonymous may in fact look just like everyone else here, but how she feels is a completely different story. Miami’s culture is difficult for most students to handle — in a 1999 College Student Survey given to 526 recent graduates, 97 percent strongly or somewhat agreed that a Miami image does exist, but only 57 percent believed that they fit that image. “The shame is so great, about our illnesses, about our ideation, about missing class because, damn, going outside to face all those sunny, happy, Miami people is just enough to make us want to do ourselves in anyway, that we cover it,” Anonymous said. “We hide it. The university looks at those who are depressed as temporarily disabled happy/effective people. So often it is so much more debilitating than “Part of me hopes to be recognized, but part of me just wants you, whoever you are to know that this is a much bigger problem than you thought.”

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that. And we are punished for it.” Anonymous went on to describe her ongoing battle with depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), stemming from being beaten by her boyfriend, all the while dealing with issues at The Office of Disability and Resources at Miami and realizing she may never reach her dream of becoming a professor or get her Ph.D. She often writes suicide notes in class when she feels shut down by a professor and feels that no one understands what’s going on in her head, describing it as “a jumble of constant noise.” Anonymous is struggling, and even though Miami has programs out the wazoo for suicide prevention and offices, organizations and counseling services devoted to mental illness, it must not be working for everyone. Why? Why isn’t it

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Making sense of the Northwestern player union in more revenue than those that bring in less. Also, I expect sports men’s basketball to be the next sport targeted for unionization. What about Title IX? Honestly, I don’t know. This basically falls into the previous question. I’d expect people a lot smarter to me to figure out an answer. Are there tax implications? It looks like there will be, and Mr. Butler agrees. Since they are employees, their “wages” (scholarships) are subject to taxation. The players are also going to have to play union dues. That might come as a surprise to the players. However, I suspect there might be a creative way to get around the taxation element. I don’t know what it is, but there are people a lot smarter than me that should be able to figure it out. Is there a worst-case scenario or some type of nuclear outcome? Yeah and it’s not pretty. The worst case scenario is that the union gets too much power, focuses solely on getting more money, the Ed O’Bannon suit cripples the TV income as too much of it goes to the big players not everyone. As a result, schools like Duke or Vanderbilt or Northwestern go the route of the Ivy League and de-emphasize athletics. Little schools like the Miami or the rest of the MAC are forced to go to D-II or D-III because they don’t have the funds. Remember, most schools don’t make money off athletics – only a select few do. Those select few end up being the only ones that survive in this worst-case scenario. Schools like USC, Texas, OSU, Alabama and so on are the only ones that make and it becomes a classic rich-get-richer scenario. So will that happen? I really hope not and I don’t think it will. Maybe I’m naïve, but I think the players and schools (at least the smart ones) understand that college football is a good thing. Players get an education, fans get a great product and the universities get some money and great publicity. The NCAA needs reforms – that should be pretty clear. Hopefully, this is the first step toward progress, not the end of college football.

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reading them.) That’s something the NCAA has already shown interest in doing. For now, the players aren’t getting extra compensation than what the scholarships provide. But couldn’t the union movement become a money grab? Of course, and it very well might result in players asking for more compensation. In fact, I expect that to eventually be a goal of the union if it becomes as widespread as it could be. But that’s not what it is currently about, so don’t fall for the NCAA’s trap of pay-to-play. So if it’s not about getting paid, then what is it about? Essentially, this is about the players getting protected which is what the NCAA is supposed to be about. The players want health coverage, the ability to transfer like their coaches do and to be viewed as the employees they are. Heck, the players are arguing for the academics to be more important by increasing graduation rates and protecting the educational opportunities for athletes in good standing. OK, so since the players are employees, then can they essentially get fired now? Yeah, and they already do. Most scholarships are just one-year deals, so they can (and do) get pulled. It’s not common, because the PR hit would be awful but that’s not really going to change. In fact, the players are arguing for a fouryear scholarship guarantee to help protect themselves. So the players are just going to get whatever they want now? No, they’ll bargain just like everyone else does. In a perfect situation, the union won’t get everything but the universities and the NCAA won’t get everything. Is this going to get political? You bet it is. Democratic states and legislatures are going to be much more likely to approve the unions and Republican ones. And you better believe lobbyists for both sides are going to eventually make their way to Washington. How is this going to affect other sports, like soccer or golf or even scholarships for marching bands? This is where things start to get murky and there isn’t a clear answer. I talked with Tim Butler, an attorney who practices labor and employment law, and he isn’t sure where the line will be drawn. I’m certainly not a lawyer, but it would sense if some sort of line is drawn based on how much revenue is brought it from the sport. After all, smart employers tend to compensate those that bring

these are the students who are experiencing it for the first time, or where this is not routine. It scares them so much more. The exceptionally tortured individuals, those who have been mentally ill for years are so much harder to crack. We have no notions that you understand, nor do we even think your lifelines will help.” Again, anonymous represents millions of people in this struggle. Depression affects more than 14.8 million people in the United States and PTSD hits about 7.7 million Americans age 18 and up, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Of those living and dealing with mental illness, 85 percent of those people receive no treatment, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. This is a problem. I want to end this column with Anonymous’ description of maybe a typical day for her at Miami. Please remember that this is a fellow student, a friend and someone’s daughter or sibling. Depression isn’t being weak or not being able to deal with a bad day — it’s a real issue, and one that should be treated as such and it should be easier for people with it to talk about. “None of you understand what it is to want to kill yourself,” Anonymous said. “My head is just a jumble of constant noise. Any form of anxiety reduces me down into a non-operational lump of flesh. Sometimes any kind of perceived aggression, even from a television show or movie or book, will cause me to take off and find a small dark enclosed space to hide for a while. Walking back from class, every day, I feel my head exploding from a well-placed shot to the brain. Or I feel my lungs filling up with water. Or I see the ground rushing up to meet me. I see and feel all of this, and it seems as if it’s on rotation in my mind, constantly replaying and haunting me.”

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The potential of college football players unionizing is a game-changer, but not in the way many think. There are plenty of questions about what the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that the NorthwestTOM ern football DOWNEY players are employees mean for college sports and the NCAA. There are misconceptions out there as well. I don’t have the answers for everything, and people a lot smarter than me don’t have them either, but I’ll try my best to answer the questions and misconceptions I’ve seen out there on the internet. Are unions now present at every school, including Miami? No, and I’ve seen this as a minor misconception. The union ruling only affects private schools like Northwestern. It doesn’t affect public schools like Miami, Texas or Alabama. If players want to unionize at public schools, they’ll have to go through the state for that. Decisions like that are years down the road, especially since the Northwestern deal will likely have to go through a variety of appeals. Another important point: no one has to unionize right now. It’s a choice. So, does this mean the “studentathlete” term is dead? Essentially, yes. The term student-athlete was invented by the NCAA so that they could avoid the players being classified as employees, which meant they would have to pay workers’ compensation. The NLRB ruled the players are employees, and I’m cutting a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo here, because they provide a service (playing football) and get compensated (scholarship). When you’re putting in over 50 hours a week (or more) for football, that’s a job and you’re an employee. Is that a money grab by the players to get paid more? Not at all. Thanks to the NCAA’s PR, this has become a major misconception. The NCAA is trying to frame this a pay-to-play set-up. But it’s not that at all. The only monetary aspect the players are asking for in their 11 points is for the scholarship to cover the full cost of attending a school. (For those that haven’t had the chance to see exactly what those 11 points are, I strongly recommend

working for everyone? It’s frustrating! It’s never ending! What else can be done if there are countless programs and awareness campaigns towards stopping suicide and encouraging students with mental illness to reach out for help? It may not be working 100 percent because the culture and conversations of mental illness need to drastically shift and change. This isn’t just at Miami: this is a much larger issue in the mental health world. Those with mental illness are viewed as “weak,” and therapy isn’t an “OK” thing to talk about. Medication is often viewed as the “cure all.” Mental illness doesn’t work like a broken leg or a headache that is relieved with a signed cast and Advil— it is a deep wound in someone’s personal psyche that keeps them from engaging in life. Writers like Eric G. Wilson who documented his depression in several books, notably “The Mercy of Eternity A Memoir of Depression and Grace,” have shown how depression and mental illness is multifaceted and physically apart of the soul and not just a temporary issue. “When I embraced my sickness, no longer demeaning or ignoring it, I became healthy,” he said in a guest blog on Beliefnet. “No longer demonizing my depression, I accepted it for what it was, and is: a part of me like my lungs or larynx, an organ that has made me who I am, with all of my flaws and virtues.” What writers like Wilson and Anonymous in her letter are trying to get aross is that depression and mental illness aren’t as “fixable” as society thinks. It may linger and challenge those who deal with it for the rest of their lives. Conversations need to change about mental illness, and even though I do heavily applaud Miami in its programs and efforts to show students the resources available, the culture of the university needs to evolve in terms of mental illness. This doesn’t necesarily start with mental health services here, rather it should start with the student body and professors who are in contact with students who have mental illnesses. “Miami can’t improve its suicide prevention strategies until it starts to have real conversations with students about the nature of suicide and the nature of suicidal ideation,” Anonymous said. “Until those who are in power feel the complete agonizing torture of life that we feel when we want to escape from it, they will only ever have ineffectual policies and so-called safety-nets which do literally nothing. Some students might be caught, yes. But

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to Miami to work with throughout the rest of the year. Graduate Student Nick Ketchum traveled to Antarctica with MorganKiss in 2009, and loved it so much he went back in 2010. He did not know he would be traveling to Antarctica when he first started his work with Morgan-Kiss, but when the opportunity presented itself, he jumped on it. “I really got close with her and we immediately worked very well together,” Ketchum said. “She got the grant to go to Antarctica and I was one of the first students to go on the trip.” In the field, Ketchum collected samples to bring home for a graduate project. What he recalls most about the fieldwork is how stunningly quiet it was. “It feels like an alien planet, like you’re on Mars,” he recalled. “The only noise is you.” But experiencing this feeling does not come easy. Before beginning their work, Ketchum and his team needed to undergo safety emergency training, which included learning how to build

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igloos and snow trenches if a situation required it. Such training proved life-saving when the team found itself up against Type 3 weather: less than negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures, whiteout conditions and extreme wind. “It was a negative 60 degree whiteout,” Ketchum said. “Whenever I closed my eyes, my eyelashes froze shut. I would need to thaw them with my fingers.” To endure such weather, the team is equipped with extreme cold weather (ECW) clothes, which includes extra heavy jackets and multiple layers. The team definitely needs these clothes, because it can get very cold in the tents on the ground that they sleep in. But when the weather behaves more, Morgan-Kiss likes to Skype her two Microbiology classes that she teaches each semester at Miami via the “field cam.” It can be difficult to get a good enough connection to make the call but she loves to connect with her students back home and show them what she is doing. “When you’re a teacher at Miami you have multiple activities and responsibilities that split your time,”

Morgan-Kiss said. “But in Antarctica it’s just you and science. You feel like you’re the only person to ever be there.” Alongside the science, though, are Antarctica’s natural dangers. Before each trip, the team receives special safety training to help strengthen the buddy system and prevent injuries. Other than that, Morgan-Kiss said the only other down side to the trip is the isolation from family, or anyone else for that matter. “You need a really tolerant spouse,” she joked. But she is right, especially since these Antarctic trips last about two months. It makes sense then that one of Morgan-Kiss’ most memorable experiences from the trips is Thanksgiving in Antarctica. Each Thanksgiving, she and her team take a rare day-off to hike around a glacier and across another lake to meet with scientists of a separate camp for dinner. “It’s a time when everyone is missing their loved ones so much, so we definitely try to do that every year,” Morgan-Kiss said. Like Morgan-Kiss and her Thanksgiving experience, each trip member brings home memories that

will last a lifetime. Graduate Student Jenna Dolhi, who traveled to Antarctica in 2011 and 2012, collected Antarctic water samples to study back home. “Not only does [the trip] open doors for me, but we are doing hard and important work,” Dolhi said. “If I can go work in Antarctica, I can do anything.” Though she was happy to return home to eat better food, Dolhi said she could have stayed on what she called “a getaway” forever. “It’s the final frontier, and it’s so beautiful,” she said while reminiscing about her journey to the top of an Antarctic mountain. From hiking atop mountains in the most isolated part of the world to hearing nothing but sounds that are your own to laughing at dinner with dozens of the best scientists in the world, the Miami Antarctic teams led by Rachael Morgan-Kiss have gone places and done things most people will never do. The only question is, what’s next? For now, Morgan-Kiss is counting down the days until she can take the Southern plunge one more time. “I’ve never liked the heat too much anyways,” she said.

next year’s setup. Construction of the facility began in October of 2012, and the project was originally scheduled for completion on Jan. 1, 2014. According to Connie McCarthy, the senior project architect, the delay was largely due to the weather. “Last fall, a decision was made to add exterior paving to the project,” McCarthy said. “While it was hoped that this work could be completed by January, the harsh winter conditions did not allow it to occur until recently. Weather has had an impact on all exterior construction across campus this winter.” However, the dining hall did make its March 30 opening date, and has been fully functional since. Heidtman said so far, the dining hall has been a success. “The best thing is, when you see students walk in with a smile on their face,” Heidtman said. “Then you know you got it right.”

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and improving the food services by including a late night delivery food service from Armstrong. Prior to the open campaigning, Kohan said they tried to take full advantage of the soft campaigning, a time when no campaigning through e-mail or social media can be done, but students organizations can be visited. “The soft campaigning process not only provided us with the opportunity to meet and connect with multiple demographics of Miami’s population, but it was also a learning experience in terms of respecting, furthermore accepting, the views and opinions that our campus yearns to be heard,” Kohan said. The three slates will continue their open campaigning on and around campus up until the first Election Day, April 9. Students can vote in the primary election until 7 p.m. April 10, and in the general election until 7 p.m. April 17 online through Miami’s homepage.

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heard,” Tyman said. “It sounds cliché, but by having candid and honest conversations with students we will get to the root of the problems that impact them on a daily basis, and ensure administrators are aware these must be fixed in order to better serve students.” Kohan and Barth want to make feasible and realistic changes to help better the student body. “We have had the opportunity to experience many of the great traditions that Miami has provided for its students and we would like to take those traditions to the next level,” Kohan said. Kohan and Barth said they plan on taking Miami’s traditions to the next level by working with the faculty and staff to increase the availability of classes during registration, taking advantage of the new tailgating policy by incorporating concerts and philanthropy events

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