April 18, 2014 | The Miami Student

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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 2000, The Miami Student reported three students were voluntarily arrested in Washington D.C. while protesting. “We were protesting the policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and how they’re affecting poor people,” said student Derek Coons.

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EGGING ON THE FANS

Country singer Brett Eldridge scatters golden eggs around campus with tickets to his sold-out show Wednesday night at Brick Street Bar and Grille.

Convicted Enron CFO to speak on ethics

BY LIBBY MUELLER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

ANDREW FASTOW

Former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Enron Corporation Andrew Fastow is coming to Miami University Monday, April 21 to speak on the topic of accounting rules versus moral principles.

Enron Corp. was an energy, financial services and commodities company based in Houston, Texas. In late 2001, it filed for bankruptcy after it was revealed a complex accounting

fraud scheme had allowed it to overstate its earnings by several hundred million dollars. Both Enron and auditing firm Arther Andersen LLP were implicated in the scandal.

Fastow pled guilty to conspiracy. He gave up $24 million and spent more than five years in jail for securities fraud.

Enron was not alone. In 2002, long-distance phone company WorldCom filed bankruptcy following a similar accounting scandal that buried WorldCom’s

deteriorating financial state. Following scandals like Enron and WorldCom, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed to further regulate financial practice and reporting as well as corporate governance to prevent another Enron or WorldCom. International Business Insights, Investment Banking Club and Delta Sigma Pi are the organizations planning the event April 21. If you think it seems oxymoronic that Fastow is speaking on ethics, you are not the only one.

International Business Insights co-president Michael Mitrakos said Farmer School of Business (FSB) declined to sponsor the event, but that it is important for students to hear not only the positive side of ethics but the consequences of ethical failures. “[FSB has] been trying to bring in speakers to accentuate the positive side of ethics, which this speaker would go against,”

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Senior saves scraps for simulation screen Just another day at MU: No high hopes for 4/20

BY LAUREN OLIVER FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

“There’s 104 days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it. So the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it.”

One could say the popular Disney Channel “Phineas and Ferb” theme song, which appeals to students trying to find fun things to do during the summer, actually pertains to senior David Gorley, creator of the Multi-touch Table Top. Gorley’s idea was born last summer after he watched a TED Talk by Pranav Mistry, the inventor of the wearable SixthSense device, which facilitates interactions between the real world and the world of data.

Gorley’s trackpad-like device, which he keeps in a research lab, was initially made out of trash items that were left over from Miami’s construction sites: cardboard, plywood and bricks.

The screen itself was made out of a window that was found on the side of the street.

“It’s an interactive touch surface that can be controlled by one or multiple users,” he said.

“Through the interface, they are able to explore virtual simulations that are otherwise restricted by more traditional devices, such as a mouse and keyboard.”

After reading several different books, Gorley taught himself the art of construction. Twelve different prototypes later, he shared the idea with a fellow student in his ecology psych lab and was advised to bring it in.

Now that the Multi-touch Table Top has been given funding for further production, it is undergoing major improvements, such as being able to pick up on infrared lighting.

Henry Cook, a graduate student of the psychology

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Senior David Gorley (left) shows off the simulation screen he spent all year creating with leftover construction materials. department, said he believes this type of device is a commercialized product that has the potential to be sold for around $10,000. “[However], with a projector, webcam, glass top drafting table, and a few techniques to distribute light, just getting this device to function as a simple touch screen alone was a victory in itself,” Cook said.

Although Gorley is a psychology major with an entrepreneurship minor, he has always had a passion for technology.

“I’ve always been kind of a hacker, and when I was young, I loved taking stuff apart and rebuilding it,” he said.

Gorley does not intend to incorporate the device into his post-graduation plans however.

It started off as a fun summer project, but nothing more.

“I feel a dissonance where I have things that I’m passionate about and would have no problem putting my blood, sweat, and tears into, “ he said. “But, there’s also my area of study that I feel very competent with [and] I haven’t found an opportunity that overlaps with both. I’m still

looking for it.”

Cook, however, would love for David to continue with the project, but looks at the bigger picture.

“Our lab’s motto is that ‘We produce colleagues, not clones,’” he said. “And though this process has crafted a project that Dave could continue as a graduate study, I believe the more important lessons and knowledge gained from his work is something that I always remind him to never lose sight of.”

Despite not continuing with the project, the one thing that Gorley wanted to accomplish was doing a research study with the device, but has run out of time.

Instead, it will be used in the lab for motor control and team interactions. Nonetheless, he is sad to have to leave it behind.

“I go into the lab and I’m probably there until three of four in the morning, just because it’s very easy and I’m very passionate about it,” he said. “Every time I go in there, there’s always improvements to make and I get very caught up in it because I love it.”

April 20 is weed culture’s highest holiday. But on Miami’s campus, the day seems to pass just like any other.

“I don’t think 4/20 is that big here, at least compared to other places,” sophomore and daily marijuana-smoker Nick Johnson* said.

This is peculiar, he said, because of the drug’s prevalence in Oxford.

“It’s weird because the majority of people I meet all smoke,” he said “It’s very rare to find a guy that doesn’t smoke.”

On the other hand, for sophomore Dillon Smith*, also a regular marijuana smoker, it is not just another day.

“4/20 is a day that, regardless of what’s going on, parties, school, etcetera, I expect to smoke more than any other day,” Smith said.

According to a Miami Student survey, in which 103 students were surveyed, 63 percent indicated they have smoked marijuana at least once.

This statistic surpasses the national average for 18 to 25 year olds. In 2010’s National Survey on

Drug Use and Health, 18.5 percent admitted to marijuana use.

This difference in percentage could account for Miami’s rank of 18th on The Daily Beast’s “50 Druggiest College Campuses.”

Lt. Ben Spilman of MUPD, however, does not see an overwhelming marijuana culture at Miami.

“I think there is a college-aged culture here, people who try out their freedom in many different ways,” Spilman said. “ I don’t think we have some big marijuana sub-culture going on here that makes us stand apart from other places.”

Possession of marijuana is typically a minor misdemeanor, Spilman said, resulting in a maximum fine of $150 and no jail time. It is illegal. However, marijuana’s illegality does not make 4/20 a field day for pot-related incidences.

“We don’t see any kind of increase in calls,” Spilman said.

April 20 is no different than any other day, as far as arrests go.

“We make drug arrests virtually

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4/20: A BRIEF HISTORY Four-twenty is a countercultural holiday that celebrates smoking marijuana. Its roots are often debated. According to the Huffington Post, the “holiday” traces its roots back to 1971 San Rafael, Calif. Five friends who called themselves “The Waldos” heard of an unattended plot of marijuana plants. The friends vowed to meet up after school and sports practice and drive around to hunt for the field. The designated meeting time was 4:20 and, only after smoking, they would begin their hunt. The Waldos never found the infamous free weed but, since their exploits, they have become an integral part of stoner legend.

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Plagiarism punishments enforced to end problem

BY EMILY C. TATE

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

BEN TAYLOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED

Navy SEAL and best selling author Eric Greitens signs his book,The Heart and the Fist:The Education of a Humanitarian,The Making of a Navy Seal., at his Wilks Leadership Lecture Wednesday evening.

Most college students would never steal someone else’s computer, wallet, phone or even something as insignificant as their pencil, but when it comes to stealing someone’s words, well, that might be a different story.

Plagiarism.org defines plagiarism as “the use of another’s original words or ideas as though they were your own.” Whether from a website, a book, an article or straight from another person’s mouth, failing to give credit to a source is considered plagiarism.

This has been a centuries-long dilemma, but as the expansion of the Internet has allowed academic journals, articles and student assignments to shift to online databases, the opportunity to plagiarize now presents itself more easily and more often.

“It’s so much easier to plagiarize

today,” Chair of Media, Journalism and Film (MJF) department Richard Campbell said. “But with the Internet, you can hardly get away with it.”

Technology has allowed students to make great use of the “copy and paste” method of plagiarism, which is executed exactly as it sounds – students copy part of a document from a source – often online – and paste it directly into their paper as if it were their own idea.

Though it is easier than ever to plagiarize, it is also easier than ever to get caught. Turnitin, a popular plagiarism prevention software company, compares students’ assignments with its Internet database of literally billions of web pages and articles to catch attempts at plagiarism.

Coordinator of Academic Integrity Brenda Quaye said this software is an effective means of catching perpetrators on Miami’s campus.

“A lot of our instructors use [turnitin.com],” she said. “A fair number

of our [plagiarism] cases are discovered that way.”

Quaye said about 200 cases come through Miami’s academic integrity office each year, with about half of those accounting for acts of plagiarism. However, this number is by no means sure-fire; plagiarism has some grey area, which leads to many unnoticed or unreported cases.

For instance, some students do not know how to cite a source from the Internet, so they may not quote properly or give correct attribution, Campbell said. While this is technically still plagiarism, it is usually innocent and unintentional.

For other students though, the act is deliberate.

“A good portion of [plagiarism] is intentional,” Quaye said.

“Students either don’t care – about the class, about their grade, whatever

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RateMyProfessors: creating reputations one teacher at a time

BY KELLY NICKELE

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

When registration rolls around every semester, students from 7,000 colleges rely on a controversial system called RateMyProfessors, a website that permits students to state their opinions about certain professors.

Students have the power to rate the overall quality, helpfulness, clarity, easiness, and interest level prior to attending class, textbook use, average grade and even hotness on RateMyProfessors. Professors are then given an overall rating between one and five, with one signifying mostly bad ratings and five signifying mostly good ratings.

Currently, 14 million ratings have been added and 1.3 million professors have used this website.

2,065 Miami University professors have been rated and its overall rating is a 3.72.

Gary Shulman, a Miami communications professor, has never

been rated on the site and said he does not see the site as a reliable tool for students.

“You should not base your scheduling decisions solely on information from unknown and probably biased sources,” Shulman said.

Sophomore Brooklyn Petty uses RateMyProfessors and said she thinks it is a helpful resource.

“I like to look at ratings because I like to be able to select three or four teachers that I would be comfortable with having so that when I schedule, I have multiple back up plans,” Petty said.

However, Petty said, although she uses RateMyProfessor, she realizes it can put students at a disadvantage since the website is based purely on opinion and may not adequately reflect the professor. Yet, Petty said she believes this website gives students a general idea of what a certain professor is like.

Sophomore Bryan Porter said the website could be useful but is also likely biased.

“I think these websites can give insights on teachers that potential students would not know about such as teaching style, difficulty and personality,” Porter said.

“Sometimes students may give poor remarks because they received a grade they didn’t want.”

Interesting to read, but unless you know how your taste compares to the reviewer you can’t really depend on the information to be accurate.”

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Although Porter said he believes RateMyProfessors can be beneficial to students, he refuses to use the website. Instead, he said he prefers to use Miami University’s grade distributions.

These grade distributions are

alphabetically categorized by class and date back to fall 1999. They can be found on the Office of the Registrar website.

Another factor that plays into a website like RateMyProfessors is the negativity and unfavorable comments that students post. Such comments may affect a professor’s attitude in class by lowering their self-esteem.

Because of this, some professors may choose to refrain from reading their ratings.

“I have not read my ratings on RateMyProfessors,” Shulman said. “They might be helpful to students to a limited extent insofar as it provides some information, which may be better than no information. The problem is that it is not truly representative information because most students don’t post to that site.”

Shulman said these ratings seem like movie reviews.

“Interesting to read, but unless you know how your taste compares to the reviewer you can’t

really depend on the information to be accurate,” Shulman said.

Perhaps a more accurate way to analyze a professor is through the use of course evaluations.

Petty has completed course evaluations throughout her time at Miami and said she has been completely honest in filling out the evaluations. Porter has completed approximately 10 evaluations and said he gave time and care on those he strongly about. On others, he has simply skimmed through.

Shulman said he believes Miami’s course evaluations are helpful to faculty since they deliver feedback from students that guide them to improvements in future classes, and can prove more effective than RateMyProfessors.

“The more students who respond, the greater the accuracy,” Shulman said. “The response rate under the new online evaluation system is low and therefore the results may be no more reliable than RateMyProfessors.”

Symposium welcomes former South Korea PM

BY EMILY CRANE NEW EDITOR

Former Prime Minister of the Republic of South Korea Un Chan Chung spoke yesterday on the uncertainties plaguing the Korean peninsula and the role of the United States in the region.

The Korean economy is 15th in the world in size and its democracy has been developing steadily over the course of the last three decades but the country’s future lies riddled with uncertainties, Chung said.

Korea’s first hurdle is to change its emphasis from development to research, Chung said.

“Right now, we’re focused on the D side of R&D; we need to switch to the R side,” Chung said “Korea finds itself now at the frontier of new technologies, but we need creativity to replace old engines of growth with new ones.”

The problem, however, is Korea’s educational system does not foster a spirit of creativity, but instead teaches memorization.

Chung argued that in order for Korea to move forward into its potential as an economic world power, it will need to reform its educational system.

The second pressing problem facing Korea is the growing income disparity and the disappearance of the middle class. Chung cited recent survey results estimating as little

as 20 percent of the population consider themselves to be part of the middle class. In addition, Chung said he was concerned about the lack of regulations in the market that have allowed big companies to take advantage of their market power to undermine smaller companies.

“I’m worried about the commitment of policy-makers to protecting SMES’s [small and medium enterprises],” Chung said.

Chung’s third and final concern for Korea’s future is his country’s continued tension with the North.

“North Korea poses the source of the most uncertainties in the Korean Peninsula,” Chung said.

“North Korea is often unpredictable with dangerous rhetoric and access to nuclear weapons.”

The best continued course of action for the establishment of stability in the region is the unification of the two Koreas, Chung said, though this would have to be a peaceful and gradual process. Unification would have positive economic implications stretching beyond the Korean peninsula, Chung said.

“The U.S. stands to gain from the diffusion of the biggest source of tension in this region and a lot of subsequent economic growth,” Chung said.

The U.S. ought then to continue to play a central role in the

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Students participate in a student wellness yoga eevent put on by HerCampus Monday in the ASC Pavilion.

‘Cool’ cause capitalizes on Greek custom

BY MEKENNA SANDSTROM

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Spring is here, and Greek formals are in full swing at Miami. And that means it is time for cooler painting, a longstanding tradition where a girl will paint a cooler for a fraternity formal she is attending and present it to her date.

This year, Nourish International is harnessing the popularity of the tradition to help reduce poverty around the world through a first-time event called “Coolers for a Cause.”

“Coolers for a Cause” is a drive that sells coolers and supplies to formal-going members of the Greek community. The items are available for purchase online at coolersforacause.weebly.com and can be picked up at Shriver. The coolers are already sanded, caulked and primed when people receive their order, so all they

have to do is begin painting. Cooler prices range between $32 and $45.

Adrienne Carey, a junior and member of Nourish International, explained the inspiration behind the drive this year.

“We knew a lot of people would be looking for coolers this time of year for formals,” Carey said. “So we bought them ahead of time in bulk so we could make a profit.”

What many people outside Greek life may not realize is how expensive and time-consuming cooler painting can be. Betsey Clark, who is a member of Delta Delta Delta recently attended a fraternity formal with a cooler of her own.

“I had a lot of time in advance so that helped with the process,” Clark said. “Painting is de-stressing for me so I would work on it part by part while I took a break from something else.”

Nourish International saw an

opportunity to make it easier for student to buy cooler supplies while also turning a profit to benefit their cause. Carey said the group looked at the math when considering the drive, and found they could have more than just a few customers.

“We looked at the number of men in fraternities and that meant that thousands of girls would be making coolers,” Carey said.

The sale began April 6 and so far, Nourish International has made around $1,000.

“This is our first year doing this [drive],” Carey said. “We did not expect so many people to be interested and we are definitely going to do it next year.”

Carey also said the group would order supplies even further in advance for next year’s formal season.

The drive will continue until formals have ended near the end of the semester.

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Student’s bank account is spring broken into At 12:13 p.m. Tuesday, a Miami University student said to OPD he believed someone had stolen $200 from his bank account.

He received from his bank a notice of withdrawal originating in San Antonio, Texas, despite the fact he had never been there.

The victim said his account information may have been stolen over spring break, during which time he was in Mexico with a group of friends. He also said several other people on the trip had experienced similar issues with their bank accounts.

There are no leads or suspects at this time.

‘Well, I do de‘chair’ you are under arrest’ At 2:25 a.m. Thursday, an OPD officer was travelling southbound on Campus Avenue when he noticed two males walking down the sidewalk carrying a red chair.

The officer pulled up to the duo and stopped and the male carrying the chair.

The male dropped the chair like it was hot and scrammed.

The officer began pursuing the male on foot and his partner also ran. A short chase ensued. The male was apprehended at the intersection of Main Street and Central Avenue and promptly arrested.

He was taken to the station and charged with obstructing official business and taken to Butler County Jail.

The fraternity from which the chair was stolen has not said whether they will be pressing charges.

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BRETT BRINGS THE BEAT OF THE MUSIC TO BRICK Brett Eldredge performs at Brick Street Bar & Grille, 36 E.. High St., Wednesday.

MUPD’s man behind the screen

BY CHRIS CURME

soon return. “[McCandless] had a good relationship with the director of If there ever were a man to the Secret Service; some of his make HAL open the pod bay children went to school here,” doors, it is Miami University Po- Schneider said. “I’m sure that lice Department (MUPD) detec- that helped, but I can’t really say tive Walt Schneider. Schneider for sure.” is MUPD’s computer forensic Schneider said he has put expert and has negotiated a fair his training to good use. He has number of unruly computers. helped individuals stalked online, “Lots of people don’t even re- and recently helped prosecute alize we have a computer foren- McGuffey Montessori ex-head sic expert,” MUPD Chief John of school Alfred Allen on child McCandless said. pornography charges.

According to McCandless, “Dealing with child pornograthe U. S. Secret Service extended phy is the worst part of the job, an invitation in 2008 to MUPD for sure,” Schneider said. “Child to send an officer to government porn cases don’t take as much funded computer forensic train- time [as financial cases], but ing in Hoover, Ala.. Homeland they’re much more taxing on the Security also provided MUPD person himself, because you’re CHRIS CURME COMMUNITY EDITOR with necessary equipment, which sitting there looking at these Miami University Police Department detective Walt Schneider has been on has since been updated. images that are just awful, all the force for 14 years.

He uses tens of thousands of dollars of equipment to “We were really pleased be- day long.” gather evidence of criminal activity on hard drives and cell phones. cause typically they were exWhile Schneider said some tending that offer to Detroit PD, cases are particularly disturbing, Cleveland PD, LAPD—big de- his favorite part of the job is send- officer—but I did my part to put the evidence gathered against partments—and they asked us,” ing a guilty offender to prison, him away.” the suspects by Schneider.

McCandless said. “So we jumped and that moment usually recurs Schneider also handed the Further, Schneider is able to at it … The government paid for with every case. now infamous case of two Mi- analyze cellphones. this uber-computer system that “To be able to prove, in a ami students who used discrete “I can take a SIM card out of a allows these detectives to do timely manner, ‘yes he was do- keyloggers to steal their profes- phone and pull up your last 25 to computer forensics.” ing this, yes he possessed this,’ sor’s Niihka login information 30 text messages as well as your and change grades. In so doing, phone contact list and most recent they also amassed a database of calls,” Schneider said. “If your old and new exams. According to phone was not password protectI follow a lot of stuff that comes up dead ends. The biggest achievement is when you actually make a difference Schneider, their acts did not take ed, I could just hook it up with a much skill. cable and pull off everything— for someone.”

“I invested about 140 hours thousands of text messages—and WALT SCHNEIDER over a two or three week period put it on a flash drive.”

COMPUTER FORENSIC DETECTIVE just looking at [their computers],” According to Schneider, this Schneider said. “Twenty-thou- technology is sometimes used sand files of images alone were to identify the owners of lost Schneider was chosen to at- was a big sense of achievement,” brought back [from deletion]. phones. However, if Schneider tend classes at the National Schneider said. “You’re prevent- Stuff that mom and dad may not finds any hints of illegal behavior Computer Forensics Institute in ing him from making anyone else be proud of.”

MUPD, 2008, and returned every year a victim. That wasn’t just me.

That case was prosecuted SEE PAGE 4 through 2012. He said he hopes to It took the detectives, the initial by Miami and Butler County on COMMUNITY EDITOR

Electric cars can park and plug in Oxford

BY SAMANTHA SILBER FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University’s Marcum Center parking lot on East Quad has a little known secret: it is home to a pair of electric car chargers, the only two of their kind in Oxford.

The chargers can be accessed from four parking spaces and have been functional for a year, according to Ritter Hoy, Miami’s media relations coordinator. It is uncertain how many people have used the station since its installation last April, as the SD card designed to track this number was not working.

It has recently been replaced.

However, Hoy said there are only three electric cars in Oxford.

One of them is driven by geography professor James Rubenstein.

Another electric car is owned by the husband of a faculty member.

The man works in downtown Cincinnati, where, according to Hoy, he could go four blocks in either direction without coming across an electric car charger.

That is not to say there are no electric car spaces in the area. A map made by the U.S. Department of Energy showed several

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chargers in the Cincinnati area as well as two additional stations in Butler County.

Miami’s spaces cost the university $26,000, according to the Dayton Daily News, but use of the chargers is free, although there are slots in the machine that Hoy speculated were designed for Marcum Center key cards.

When asked if she thought the university might start charging for the spots if electric cars become more popular, Hoy said, “Probably not.” Referring to guests of the Marcum Center, she said, “It only costs them like one dollar to charge a car.”

Hoy said charging stations are more efficient than their at-home equivalent, and can do in a few hours what typically takes closer to ten.

Hoy approximated the spaces had been finished in June, 2012, though it took just under a year to make them fully operational. The parking spaces were part of renovations made to the Marcum Center that finished in 2012. The project manager who ordered the spaces no longer works for Miami, Hoy said,

so there is no clear explanation as to why these spaces were ordered.

The chargers’ location allows those visiting Miami for conferences to travel in their electric vehicles, but Hoy said it would be difficult for anyone to travel a great distance in an electric car because of the need to recharge along the way.

Electric car drivers might also have trouble nabbing the spaces before a regular car does. Currently, the Miami University Police Department is not fining students for using the spaces, although the four orange cones around the machine suggest this may change in the future. Local lawmakers may have to set regulations on who can use these spaces as well.

When asked if she thought electric cars were going to become more prevalent, Hoy raised her hands and shrugged, “It’s hard to say. I don’t know; I really don’t.”

Hoy said, in the face of parking space cutbacks, there are no current plans to build additional electronic spaces. For now, two chargers should sufficiently accommodate the three electric vehicles cruising the streets of Oxford.

Crime Statistics April 9 - April 17 CRIMES COMMITTED: 33 PERSONS CITED: 20 Criminal trespassing Violating a protection order Warrant Possesion of drug paraphanelia Disorderly conduct Offenses involving underage persons Resisting arrest Assault Criminal mischief Open container Sales to/ use by underage persons

Failure to appear in court operating a vechicle without reasonable control Stopping after accident OVI Obstructing official business Miami Students cited

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TWENTY YEARS OF TALENT

The Miami University Steel Band celebrates its 20th anniversary with a performance.

ENRON, FROM PAGE 1

Mitrakos said. “One of our members has actually seen him speak.

It was definitely controversial, but he said it was fascinating to hear his viewpoint and what areas are still issues today.”

Mitrakos said although Fastow will not be speaking directly on Enron, he will be answering questions related to the 2001 scandal.

“He will be speaking on rules versus principles. He won’t be speaking on Enron specifically, but other examples similar to Enron in regards to accounting rules which gave the opportunity for [companies] to make those mistakes,” Mitrakos said. “There’s also a 45-minute Q&A afterward,

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FROM PAGE 3 in what he sees, he immediately stops until he has acquired a search warrant.

“I get a lot of lost and found phones that reveal drug trafficking and drug trade text messages,” Schneider said. “People are arranging to by marijuana and they’re texting their dealer, ‘hey, do you have an eighth I can stop by and pick up?’ If they’re buying, I’m not worried. If they’re selling, I’ll get a search warrant.”

Most of that information is turned over to the Butler County drug taskforce, according to Schneider. While he occasionally handles these local cases, he said he is often solicited by agencies in the wider area needing his expertise.

“Less than 10 to 15 percent are Miami cases,” Schneider said.

“My services are more for helping the county and local agencies.

so I think that’s going to be a huge part of it for students. In his main speech he won’t talk about Enron, but in the Q&A he’ll answer most of the questions.”

Digital Strategist for International Business Insights Mike Flores said there is a difference between complying with the law and upholding moral values.

“Generally [Fastow] tries to help students understand the difference between simply following the rules and keeping ethical principles,” Flores said.

If you want to submit a question for Fastow, the MU student organizations sponsoring the event are taking questions from students here. During the presentation, students can also submit questions on Twitter with the

hashtag #AskFastow.

Former Vice President of Finance for Delta Sigma Pi Sam Korach served on the committee that planned and marketed the speaking event. He said the goal of the event is for students to learn from the effects of poor ethical decision-making.

“I think it’s important for people to get real insights,” Korach said.

“A lot of times you focus on the good sides of business, but there are also some bad things that happen. Certainly [Fastow’s] been on the opposite side of ethical decision making. Bringing light to Enron or WorldCom is important. The end goal is that people learn from this.”

The event will be at 7 p.m. in Taylor Auditorium in the Farmer School of Business.

… I’m one of the most trained individuals for recovering [data] in this particular area. I do cases for Butler County, Preble County, and Warren County.”

Schneider opened a cabinet to reveal three thickly-packed manila envelopes, which he said continued three federal cases that had yet to even hit the logs.Once entered into MUPD’s crime logs, Schneider’s freelance work is listed as in conjunction with Homeland Security.

“I also am a task force officer with Homeland Security investigations,” Schneider said. “So, last Thursday, I went out on a search warrant with them, which resulted in doing a bunch of previews of computers in a house. I could tell which ones were hot computers or had child porn on them. It helped isolate which individual in the house we were looking at.”

According to Schneider, his most common cases are child porn, followed by financial and tax cases.

The federal government steps into

legal matters when state lines are crossed, which often happens in child porn cases due to dissemination on the Internet, Schneider said.

“I did a federal case that was just settled in Dayton that involved a company hiring and paying to import illegal immigrants,” Schneider said. “Basically, they were trafficking in illegal immigrants: bringing them across state lines, taking them to Dayton to work, and then sending them back.”

If the case is local, Schneider makes the case from computer evidence he gathers. In federal cases, he said he reads what the federal prosecutor is looking for, and roots through data in search. The prosecutor then builds a case from Schneider’s report.

“I issue more subpoenas than any other officer here, that’s for sure,” Schneider said. “But I follow a lot of stuff that comes up dead ends. The biggest achievement is when you actually make a difference for someone.”

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FROM PAGE 1 every day of the week,” Spilman said. “Our officers make a drug arrest almost any time of the day almost any day of the week.”

Visiting assistant professor Christopher Sarver, said he sees things in a similar light as Spilman.

Sarver said he noticed students do not celebrate 4/20 as openly and actively as they do other party holidays—Green Beer day, for example. Also, he said, it is difficult to judge 4/20’s affect on class attendance.

“There is a decline in attendance this time of the year anyway, so it’s difficult to attribute it specifically to that day,” Sarver said.

In fact, 4/20 may be as infamous for greater class attendance as Green Beer Day is for low attendance.

“If 4/20 were on a weekday, yes, I would go to class,” Smith said. “Would I go high? Yes. Not necessarily because I want to but because it is 4/20 and you feel obligated to.”

Apart from attending class under the influence, both teachers and students acknowledge that profuse smoking does have

adverse effects on schoolwork.

“It affects school a little,” Johnson said. “There are times when I can choose to either smoke or study and sometimes I choose to smoke.”

Sarver agreed that there are consequences.

“It does affect their motivation,” Sarver said. “If they’re getting high every day and coming to class, I’ve seen performance drop.”

According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), “Heavy marijuana users generally report lower life satisfaction, poorer mental and physical health, relationship problems, and less academic and career success compared to their peers who came from similar backgrounds.”

Smoke it or not, marijuana is illegal. Sarver pointed out this may be the cause of the campus’ subdued celebration of marijuana’s biggest holiday.

“It all comes down to what’s legal,” Sarver said. “[Marijuana] is illegal and it has to be done outside of the public eye.”

Evidenced by the high percentages of users and no spike in arrests, this could be precisely what Miami students are doing.

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If you like it, then you should wait to put a ring on it:Wait to tie the knot after college “Mawage. Mawage is what bwings us together today. Mawage.

That bwessed awangment. That dweam within a dweam.”

Yes, marriage is a wonderful thing. For many of us, we dream about our wedding day. Some may have their best man picked out.

Others may have a (very extensive) wedding board on Pinterest. But for a few Miami University students, this whole marriage thing isn’t just a thought – it’s a reality.

“Ring Before Spring” is a term often used to refer to college men and women who get engaged during the spring semester of their senior year.

And while the median age at which both men and women are getting married has risen since the 80s – up from 25 to 28 years old for men and up from 21 to 26 years old for women – there are still a handful of couples that are undergraduates.

The editorial board at The Miami Student has varying opinions on this concept. While the majority of us weren’t all too fond of pre-grad engagements, we all had different reasons as to why we felt this way.

Those of us who are in longterm relationships seemed to empathize more with this idea. Our campus editor, Victoria Slater, said, “It makes me happy to see a lot of couples at Miami who are happy with one another and are willing to commit despite being a part of the pervasive ‘hook up culture’ that seems to be dominating our age group these days.”

At the same time, some would say that if couples know they

60%

of marriages for couples between the ages of 20 and 25 end in divorce.

12%

Couples who wait until they are 30 to get married only face a

divorce rate.

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are meant to be together, why rush things?

“If you can see yourself marrying the person you are with, and therefore plan on spending the rest of your life with them, why not wait a few more years to make sure you are right?” Victoria added.

On the other hand, those of us who aren’t in relationships are big supporters for the idea that college is a time to enjoy being

independent. During our time at Miami, there are so many opportunities to meet and possibly date new people; we should take advantage of this responsibility-free chapter of our lives. Though some people find comfort in knowing they have someone by their side, people change.

And because we are all just trying to figure things out in college, we may end up going in different

directions after graduation.

When two students graduate from college, there are no guarantees that careers will land them in the same place.

Unless one of them has agreed to hold off on starting a career to follow their significant other, most of us won’t be settled in one place until our late 20s.

The editorial board agreed that couples who take their time getting

to the altar will benefit more in the long run.

But no matter our relationship status, we all agreed that it takes time for a healthy relationship to evolve, even if marriage isn’t on the agenda.

Not only is it a good idea to take things slow on a physical level, it is also beneficial to spend extended amounts of time getting to know your significant other.

For example, living with someone is a ginormous jump. While you may not mind doing your boyfriend’s laundry or making your girlfriend breakfast every now and then, living together…every single day…for the rest of your lives, is a lot different. Weird habits can surface, financial problems can arise; lots of things can change once two people live under one roof.

Also, if you haven’t heard, divorce rates are high in the U.S., especially among young couples.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 60 percent of marriages for couples between the ages of 20 and 25 end in divorce.

This day and age, the odds are stacked against us. Research shows that couples who wait until they are 30 to get married only face a 12 percent divorce rate.

Getting married to the man/ woman of our dreams is something a lot of us look forward to. And if you find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with before your 25th, we’d say you got pretty lucky.

But in the end, we still want to encourage younger couples to wait a while to walk down the aisle.

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Torture is being done in our name, citizens must read up on newly-public CIA report At long last, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s 6,600-page CIA torture report will be made public. Or at least about 500 pages of it will be. That is not nearly enough.

The committee votBRETT MILAM ed 11-3 to declassify the report.

However, only an executive summary of the report (the 500 pages) has been submitted to President Obama for declassification. The rest of the report will remain classified. Even then, the partial declassification is expected to take months.

More troubling, the CIA is said to have input into what will be declassified. Essentially, the CIA has the power to project whatever image they want. There seems to be a clear conflict of interest in the declassification process.

Barbara Feinstein, the head of the committee, recently wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post detailing the backstory behind the report. Her comments, however, leave much to be desired.

“Soon, the American people will be able to judge this for themselves. We have confidence that they will conclude, as we have, that this program was a mistake that must never be repeated,” she said.

While the American people should already be opposed to a systematic apparatus that enabled torture, they should still be privy

to all the details in the report.

Provided no information endangers any individuals in the field, I cannot foresee a compelling reason to keep the majority of the report classified.

Fortunately, the CIA has not been able to stop the flow of information entirely. McClatchy provides a slew of damaging examples of the CIA’s wanton disregard for the law, such as the damning finding that the CIA went beyond even the parameters set forth by the Justice Department in the pursuance of torture.

“The agency also repeatedly misled the Justice Department while stymieing Congress’ and the White House’s efforts to oversee the secret and now-defunct program,” McClatchy learned.

Despite claims to the contrary, like from Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, and other torture supporters, the Senate report also clearly states that torture was ineffective.

The report states that officials overstated the significance of alleged terrorist plots and prisoners, and exaggerated the effectiveness of the program by claiming credit for information detainees surrendered before they were subjected to duress, according to the Washington Post.

Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Jim Risch of Idaho, two of the three dissenters, believe the report would endanger lives and our relations with other countries. Yet, the CIA’s only concern has been factual errors and misjudgments. Even that doesn’t make sense, as Feinstein pointed out.

“How can the CIA’s official

response to our study stand factually in conflict with its own internal review?” she said.

Jeffrey H. Smith, general counsel of the CIA in the mid-‘90s, wrote in the LA Times that while oversight of intelligence agencies is crucial, nobody should be criminally charged for torturing. He cites that the program was “properly authorized and executed.”

People respond to incentives,

Soon, the American people will be able to judge this for themselves. We have confidence that they will conclude, as we have, that this program was a mistake that must never be repeated,” she said.

BARBARA FEINSTEIN

CIA SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

positive and negative. No better negative incentive exists to ensure this does not happen again than criminal prosecution. This issue should not be handled with kid’s gloves or in haste.

If nobody is criminally prosecuted for such actions, then how can we ensure, as Feinstein hopes, nothing like this occurs again? When another so-called “national emergency” occurs, will we fallback again on torture and rendition?

Dealing in absolutes appears to frighten people for that reason: What if? They want to treat torture as a cost-benefit analysis with the all-encompassing concerns for “national security” at the helm.

EMILY’S ANTICS

Oxford: A drinking town with a college problem Before you read this column, find a Miami University student and ask them to describe a typical weekend in Oxford.

Chances are their story will involve the mass consumption of watered down beer and/ or some variation of a 20 oz. mixed drink.

T h a t w h o l e EMILY drink-toELDRIDGE get-drunk thing, otherwise known as binge drinking, is increasingly popular among college students, yes, even at Miami. In fact, The Princeton Review ranked Miami ninth in the nation among top party schools in 2013. And though that isn’t something most of us are boasting, it is clear that Miami likes to drink…a lot.

To get a better idea as to why and how binge drinking has seeped into our university’s culture, I surveyed 128 Miami University students who live or have lived in Oxford.

For starters, 100 percent of respondents agreed that Miami students drink heavily. In addition, about 60 percent of respondents believed Miami students drink more heavily than students at other college campuses. I then asked respondents to describe their reasoning behind the binge drinking culture at Miami in a couple sentences. The answers to this question led me to three conclusions.

First, Miami is in the middle of nowhere. The closest mall is about an hour away. And if you choose to venture to Cincinnati or Dayton: Corn. Everywhere. I call this the farm effect. If you look at the rest of the top party schools on The Princeton Review’s list, you’ll notice most of them are located in communities

similar to Oxford.

For example, the biggest party school in the country, Iowa State (ISU), has about three times the residents as Oxford, but it too is in the middle of nowhere.

Outside of the city of Ames, IA, there isn’t much going on other than cow herding and corn picking.

Ohio University (OU) is located in Athens, Ohio and has a population almost identical to Oxford (around 22,000). According to The Princeton Review, OU is seventh among top party schools in the nation. Students at ISU and OU probably have their own variation of the “Oxford Bubble.”

Since Oxford is so small, almost all residences are within walking distance of Uptown restaurants and bars. For this reason, students can drink to the point of blacking out without worrying about driving, finding a ride home or venturing into a bad part of town like they would at OSU or UC. Though Oxford is a very safe place to attend college, it can get pretty boring pretty quickly because of its size. When students are looking for something fun to do with friends, our options are limited.

Next, Miami students have a tendency to drink just because.

At larger schools, students can tailgate at sporting events on Saturdays or sit at a bar with friends to watch their basketball team compete in tournaments.

That is not the case at Miami.

A popular topic of conversation is Miami athletics. And I hate to bring it up, but we are all familiar with last year’s disgraceful football record. A big part of a traditional college experience is attending these sporting events on the weekends, but Miami students just don’t get to experience this. Miami students compensate by drinking heavily with really no motive. Beat the Clock and Broken Clock are the best examples of this. When students

But we should be clear, focused and adamant about this.

First, forget the euphemism “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

That was an ingenious bit of obfuscation thought up by Bush administration officials. Secondly, we, as a country, should not torture. Not ever, under any circumstances.

Peter Van Buren brings my point home.

start chugging pitchers of beer at 1 or 2 p.m. and continue to do so until the sun sets, they are just drinking because, well, what else is there to do?

The point I’d like to make is that most college students at other universities have things to do on the weekends that are university-affiliated, like football or basketball games. We do not. So to keep us from going mentally insane from boredom, we go to Brick Street and The Wood’s to pass the time.

And finally, Miami’s binge drinking culture can be attributed to the businesses that serve the alcohol.

There are roughly 20 bars in Oxford and only a few of them restrict access to 21 and over.

And even at these 21-and-up bars, students can often slide by with a fake form of identification. Though it is irresponsible, and not to mention illegal, for underage students to use fake I.D.’s, many Oxford bars continue to serve them. You don’t see this at most colleges. If you have had the chance to visit schools like Michigan State University or the University of Dayton, for example, only students who are 21 or over go to the bars and it is much harder to get by with a fake I.D. Even if individuals under 21 enter a bar with an “X” on their hands, they often have of-age friends who are willing and able to purchase their drinks. Day drinking specials like Beat the Clock and Broken Clock also allow unders to drink at their leisure, though the bars are becoming stricter during the daytime.

I am happy to see Miami University off the 2014 list of top party school for various reasons, but I do believe binge drinking is still a part of our university’s culture. And unless we move the campus down to Miami, FL, I don’t see that changing any time soon for the reasons described above.

“The people who did this, whether the ones in the torture cell using their fists, or the ones in the White House ordering it with their pens, walk free among us,” he said.

Such a fact should be infuriating to us. The media lately has been fawning over former president George W. Bush’s paintings. Former vice president Dick Cheney and former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld still believe they were in the right. They were not.

These people should be lepers in our society.

Perhaps at this point, some are still thinking, “But maybe if…” Consider the Keram Report. Dr. Emily A. Keram, a

psychologist, released a report on the torture we initiated on one prisoner, Shaker Aamer.

Interrogators threatened to brutally rape his five-year-old daughter, going into explicit detail of how the deed would be carried out.

Imagine being made to stand for days, or not sleep for days, or being made to defecate and urinate on yourself for days, being minimally fed (if at all) and doused with freezing water for days. Now imagine that happening for 12 years. Such is Aamer’s life.

And if you believe his torture has ended under the auspices of the Obama administration, I would oblige you to consider his force-feeding at Guantanamo Bay to this day.

The Institute on Medicine as a Profession, an ethics group from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons issued a report stating that, among other acts, force-feeding was unethical.

Physicians for Human Rights and the International Committee of the Red Cross have also come out against force-feeding.

Torture is not just a Bush-era relic. Guantanamo Bay prisoners are clearly still being tortured to this day – a prison that should’ve been closed half a decade ago or sooner.

The United States for years hid its torture program behind distortions and only now, somewhat, is allowing us a peek into the program.

This torture was done in our name with the guise of protecting us. We should be adamant in learning the fullest extent of what was done in our name and that it never occurs again.

Rule of Thumb Island of Poveglia After being abandoned for 50 years, the “most haunted place on earth” is for sale.

Teenage huntress A 13-year-old Mongolian girl travels the Altai mountains with a golden eagle as her hunting partner.

Google Glass sells out The white model is now out of stock...not like you were planning on dropping $1,500 anyways.

No three-day weekend It’s hard for some students to spend Easter with their families when we have to be back at school Monday.

Power outages It’s great if class is canceled, but not so great if your alarm doesn’t go off.

Feeling old If you’re in the mood to feel ancient, watch the video of young kids using a Sony Walkman.

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it may be – and they’ll just copy and paste into their own paper. Or a lot of times when the students are rushing to get [an assignment] done, they just aren’t paying enough attention to notice it.”

Regardless of the reason, students reported for plagiarizing are calling to a hearing at the university, but the “hearing” is less of a criminal process and more of a meeting for those involved to discuss what occurred, Quaye said.

Rather than going through the Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution (OESCR), cases of academic dishonesty are heard by department chairs at the university. The instructor and student in question each have an opportunity to defend their own side before the department chairs make a decision.

Students found guilty of violating Miami’s academic integrity policies are then issued sanctions, which vary

based on the severity of the case.

“For a first offense, our most typical sanction is for a student to receive a 0 or an F on the particular assignment in question,” Quaye said. “If it’s a second offense, they still get that grade reduction or failed grade plus a minimum of one semester’s suspension [from school].”

While such consequences may seem harsh, sophomore Katie Poppe said because of the nature of the crime, it is necessary to enforce such punishment.

“At this level [of schooling], punishment should be really serious,” Poppe said. “You can get kicked out of the university for cheating, and plagiarism is practically cheating too.”

Poppe admitted she has been particularly “fired up” about this issue lately, due to an incident in one of her classes this semester. In a religion class she is taking, the professor assigned a big paper – the same one he assigns every semester, with the very same prompt.

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“She was saying she just swapped a couple sentences around,” Poppe said. “She announced it to the whole class, not even trying to hide it.”

Like the girl in Poppe’s class, students who get away with plagiarizing have not learned a lesson and are more likely to try it again.

Campbell said Miami faculty wants to stop “serial plagiarists.” To do that, plagiarism must be caught, reported and disciplined.

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MU prepares for Boilermaker Invitational Red and White look to clinch outright MAC title

BY JUSTIN MASKULINSKI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After a low finish in the Robert Kepler Invitational, Miami University’s men’s golf team will head to West Lafayette, Ind. for the Boilermaker Invitational.

The ’Hawks hit the links Saturday and Sunday and senior Mark MacDonald said the RedHawks will use their 14th place finish last weekend as a tool for this weekend.

“I think the biggest thing is that we use [the Robert Kepler Invitational] as a preparation for this week,” MacDonald said. “We each have something we need to work on to try to get better.”

The ’Hawks were able to end their previous tournament on a high note after recovering from a Saturday where they struggled.

“I think rebounding after [Saturday] and playing much better [on Sunday] is definitely a step forward,” Miami head coach Zac Zedrick said. “We played a really hard golf course last week, and we will play a golf course that is as

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happy with the team’s response.

Freshman pitcher Jacob Banks allowed the run, but was able to shut the door to preserve the win.

Banks threw 25 pitches in the ninth inning. He faced six batters, giving up three hits and one run.

“I think Banks did a good job,” Hayden said. “The biggest thing there is just not to give guys free bases and Banks did a good job.

I like our chances with most of our relievers on the mound with a four run lead. If they’re throwing strikes we’ll be alright.”

Sada led the team in RBIs Wednesday. He finished the night 2 for 3 with a double and three RBIs. “I was just looking for fastballs early in the count with guys on base,” Sada said.

Hayden said Sada has had a

difficult, or maybe more so next week. That’s going to be the best preparation we can get to get ready for our conference championship.”

The last time the ’Hawks golfed in back-to-back weekends, they finished fifth in a 27-team field at the Middleburg Bank Intercollegiate in Williamsburg, Va. MacDonald said the ’Hawks can benefit from the short turnaround.

“I actually think that the fast turnarounds are usually a good thing,” MacDonald said. “We had a pretty quick turnaround a couple weeks ago, and I think that we benefitted from it… It’s easier to get on a roll a little bit. Even if you didn’t play well in the previous tournament, it’s easy to turnaround kind of quickly and get ready for the next one. Everything is still fresh in your mind. Competition is a great thing.”

The ’Hawks were able to hang tough in the Robert Kepler Invitational, as they played against five nationally ranked teams.

Georgia Tech took the crown, shooting six-over-par as a team.

good season as a freshman.

“Steve’s been doing a really good job at the plate,” Hayden said. “He’s been doing a good job defensively too. He’s got a high motor and he’s having himself a really good freshman year.”

Sada said he’s been putting in all the effort he can.

“I’ve just been trying to work as hard as I can and hustle all the time,” Sada said. “It’s hard because you have to fight for your spot every game and just go out and show what you can do.”

The RedHawks have now won two games in a row and look to extend that to a full-blown winning streak as they face to MidAmerican Conference opponent Eastern Michigan University on the road this weekend.

“Going into the weekend we’re going to need to get some wins,” Sada said. “Especially in the MAC.”

The fifth-ranked Yellow Jackets had all five of their golfers in the top-20 individually.

The spring season for the RedHawks has not followed any certain pattern. During the fall season the RedHawks improved exponentially in every single tournament.

In the spring the RedHawks began with Mid-American Conference match play, where they won two matches and lost one.

After MAC play, the ’Hawks finished seventh out of nine teams and 10th out of 14 teams in consecutive tournaments.

The next tournament was the aforementioned fifth out of 27, the highpoint of the season thus far.

Although there is not a particular pattern appearing this season, MacDonald said the ’Hawks preparation is not likely to change as the MAC tournament draws near.

“This week will be similar to other weeks,” McDonald said. “We need to work on an individual basis, we need to find what we can do individually to get better. We’ll be ready to go this weekend.”

BY SADIE MARTINEZ FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University tennis team hosts Western Michigan University and Bowling Green State University this weekend. The match against Bowling Green is the RedHawks’ final match before the Mid-American Conference Championship.

The RedHawks (13-6, 5-1 MAC) are riding a three-match winning streak and are feeling confident.

“We have a lot of confidence going into this weekend,” senior Nimisha Mohan said. “It will be an exciting match because we are playing Bowling Green and Western Michigan, and it is senior day.”

Mohan and senior Christian Raymond will both be honored before Saturday’s match against the Falcons.

Bowling Green’s (10-6, 4-2 MAC) only two MAC losses came against the University of Toledo and Eastern Michigan

University – two teams Miami just beat this past weekend.

The Falcons enter the weekend riding a four-match win streak.

Western Michigan (13-9, 2-4 MAC) was defeated by Toledo and Eastern Michigan within the last three weeks. The Broncos have lost four of their last six matches.

“Right now were leading in the conference,” Raymond said. “Our goal is to keep our mind focused on each match, and not take anyone lightly especially on senior day.”

The RedHawks hold a halfgame lead over Eastern Michigan.

They can clinch an outright MAC title with a pair of wins this weekend. The ’Hawks control their own destiny.

The RedHawks host Western Michigan 1 p.m. Friday at the Hepburn Varsity Tennis Courts. Senior day is Saturday at 1 p.m., where Raymond and Mohan will be honored before the match against Bowling Green.

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SPORTS

EDITOR TOM DOWNEY

FRIDAY APRIL 18, 2014

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BASEBALL

JUSTIN MASKULINSKI LINSKI’S LIST

Bats push RedHawks past Eastern Kentucky

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Miami junior pitcher Charlie Suich delivers a pitch against Xavier University during a recent home game.

BY STEVEN PERKINS FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University baseball team topped the Eastern Kentucky University Colonels 6-3 behind the strength of its bats Wednesday.

The Miami (15-20) bats put up 12 hits and scored in five of the nine innings in the win over the Colonels (17-20).

Head coach Danny Hayden said he was happy with the whole team’s play.

“It was a pretty clean game,” Hayden said. “The pitchers did a good job throwing strikes for the most part and we swung the bats pretty well throughout the game

so it was good.”

Sophomore Wynston McMartin got his first career start for Miami. He pitched 3 innings, allowing three hits and two earned runs.

Also pitching for the RedHawks was junior Ryan Haynes.

He threw three scoreless innings to grab his second win of the year.

He now has the lowest ERA of any Miami pitcher, with a 1.64.

Haynes faced eleven batters and recorded three strikeouts.

In an effort to save some arms for its upcoming series against Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, EKU used a different pitcher in each of the nine innings.

“It’s a little bit of a challenge sometimes just cause you want to be able to get used to a guy,” Hayden said. “We handled what they threw us well.”

Freshman second baseman Steve Sada said it didn’t really affect the team much.

“Usually in a regular game you see two or three different pitchers anyway,” Sada said. “Most of them were 85 or 86 mile per hour right handed guys so it wasn’t too bad.”

The Colonels put up a run in the ninth inning in an effort to come back, but Hayden said he was

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SOFTBALL

’Hawks to host MAC East opponents

BY JORDAN RINARD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After stumbling last weekend, the Miami University softball team hosts Mid-American Conference opponents Ohio University and the University of Akron.

The Bobcats and Zips are first and third in the East Division, respectively. The RedHawks (17-20, 5-5 MAC) are 2-0 on the season against MAC teams with winning records (a doubleheader against Kent State University).

“We’re focusing on the process,” head coach Clarisa Crowell said.

“We need to continue to play and get better and not worry about the outcomes. We just need to play hard, have energy and have fun. We need to have good at-bats from our offense, and take it one pitch at a time and one play at a time on defense.

There were some points where we got too worried about making plays instead of taking it one play at a time. As we told the girls, we’re taking it brick by brick. There are 14 bricks in our clubhouse, one for each

conference opponent and we need to take things one game at a time.”

Ohio (22-18, 7-3 MAC) has lost four of its last five games, suffering defeats against Central Michigan University, the University at Buffalo and Ohio State University (twice).

The Bobcat offense is led by senior infielder Alexandria Basquez, who leads the team with 35 RBIs to go with her .523 slugging percentage.

Sophomore pitcher Savannah Jo

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TRACK & FIELD

Red and White ready for weekend meets

BY TYLER YOUNG

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s and women’s track teams are back in action this weekend as they start to prepare for the Mid-American Conference Championships. The men make a short trip down to Lexington, Ky. to compete in the second Annual Bluegrass Classic, while the women head west to Walnut, Cal. for the Mt. SAC Invitational.

Coming off an impressive performance in the All-Ohio Championship last week in Cincinnati, the men’s team is looking to keep their momentum going. For the men, this is their first time competing in the Bluegrass Classic.

“It’ll be nice to have the athletes go to a place they’ve never been, and there’s going to be some great competition so hopefully we can get some good things happening,” men’s head coach Warren Mandrell said.

The men’s team effort last weekend consisted of nine top-three

finishes, which boosted them to a third overall finish in the All-Ohio Championship with 129.5 points.

The RedHawks finished behind the University of Akron and the University of Cincinnati. Miami’s top three finish was highlighted by sophomore Peter Stefanski’s victory in the high jump. Stefanski cleared 6-11 1/2, which was the top mark in the MAC. The RedHawks and Mandrell are hoping to build on their performance from last weekend as they begin to prepare for the MAC Championship.

“The more opportunities we have the more opportunities they have to get some good marks,” Mandrell said. “This year’s been rough with the awful winter so it has been nice to actually be able to get out on the track and practice.”

The women’s team is sending seven athletes back to the Mt. SAC relays after a two-year hiatus from the event. The Mt. SAC Relays is a large event so the RedHawks are more focused on personal

times than where they place in the whole group.

“In a meet like this it’s really all about time, placing doesn’t mean anything because there’s so many athletes and divisions,” head coach Kelly Phillips said.

Like the men, the women claimed third place in the All-Ohio Championship last weekend. Junior Taylor Wickware and senior Tori Paterra, who both won events for Miami, led the RedHawks. Wickware won the 800-meter with a time of 2:12.30, and Paterra won the javelin toss with a throw of 172-4.

Phillips said the team is looking to build on last week’s performance as the push to make NCAA qualifying times heats up.

“From here on out it’s all about performance,” Phillips said. “Everyone’s trying to compete.”

The men and women’s teams have two events, including one home meet, left following this weekend’s events before both squads head to compete in the MAC Championships.

TMS STAFF PREDICTIONS FOR LORD STANLEY’S CUP

The most wonderful time of the year is in our midst.

Winter has had its last laugh (we think), the flowers are blooming and the Stanley Cup Playoffs are underway.

After a couple months of hardnosed battling, the most beautiful trophy in all of sports will be handed out: Lord Stanley’s Cup. The NHL Playoffs started Wednesday, and some Miami Student writers are giving their predictions.

(Disclaimer: All picks were in before the start of the first game) Each writer has predicted the conference finals and Stanley Cup Final matchups, the Cup winner and the Conn Smythe Trophy winner, which is given to the playoff MVP. Now that these are in print, all of our sport-related guessing credibility is on the line: Tyler Young Western Conference Final: Los Angeles Kings over the Chicago Blackhawks in 7 Prediction: In a rematch of last year’s Western Conference Finals, the Kings look to avenge a Game 5 loss that sent them packing. The Blackhawks return much of their Stanley Cup winning team from last year. Led by Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews the ’Hawks secondranked offense has depth throughout its four lines. The ’Hawks also carry a strong defense in their arsenal headed by blue-line stalwarts Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook.

The Kings are looking for their second Stanley Cup in three years after an improbable run as an eighth seed in 2012. The Kings will bank on star goalie Jonathan Quick continuing his impressive postseason play.

The Kings will use gritty defense and a grind-it-out style to slow Chicago’s offense in a series that will be physically demanding.

Eastern Conference Final: Boston Bruins over the Pittsburgh Penguins in 7 Prediction: The Bruins are looking to rebound from last year’s heartbreaking Stanley Cup Finals loss to the Blackhawks, while the Penguins look for their first Cup since 2009. Bruins captain Zdeno Chara symbolizes much of his team: mean and physical, yet talented; a combination no team wants to face in the playoffs. Pittsburg is easily one of the most talented teams in the NHL when healthy. Over the years, the Penguins have dealt with several injuries to key players, but this year the Penguins are reasonably healthy heading into the playoffs. The series hinges on the play of Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury who hasn’t had a postseason save percentage over .900 since 2009 when they won the Cup. Stanley Cup Final: Los Angeles Kings over the Boston Bruins in 6 Prediction: This would be the first time the Kings and Bruins meet in a Stanley Cup Final, and the series would contain winners of two of the past three Cups. During the regular season these two teams met twice, once in Boston and once in LA, with the home team winning both times. Tuukka Rask and Jonathan Quick are two of the best in the business and will battle it out to the end. These teams are neck in neck in terms of defense, with Boston having the edge on offense. The question will be whether or not the Kings can get an offensive spark from forwards such as Jeff Carter or new addition Marion Gaborik.

If Quick is on top of his game and the Kings can score they will win the Cup. Playoff MVP: Jonathan Quick (Los Angeles Kings) Quick became the winningest goalie in franchise history this year, and if the Kings win the Stanley Cup it will be mainly because of his play.

During their 2012 Cup run, Quick had three shutouts with a Goals Against Average of 1.41. If Quick pulls of a similar performance this year he will be a unanimous winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy.

Steven Perkins Western Conference Finals: Anaheim Ducks over the St. Louis Blues in 6 The Ducks are a deadly team.

They can put the puck in the net and they have a solid goaltending.

The Blues have a good team but they just don’t match up with the experience and leadership shown from guys like Teemu Selanne and Ryan Getzlaf.

Eastern Conference Finals: The Boston Bruins over the Pittsburgh Penguins in 7 Sorry Jackets fans, they’re going to lose. The Bruins have the brute and grit to win this series and make themselves a legitimate contender in the finals. The Penguins are an incredibly skilled team, but the Bruins have beaten skilled teams all year. Fleury just doesn’t match up against the garbage goals the Bruins can and will score in this series.

Stanley Cup Final: Anaheim Ducks over the Boston Bruins in 6 The Bruins enter the playoffs in possession of the Presidents’ Trophy, given to the team who finishes with the best regular season record, but the Ducks have hit their stride in the later part of the season. The Ducks and Bruins have deep rosters with fourth lines just as capable of first lines.

The Ducks are just so capable of scoring goals. From Corey Perry to Saku Koivu, all the way down to blue-liner Cam Fowler.

Playoffs MVP: Ryan Getzlaf (Anaheim Ducks) Getzlaf is an experienced player and leader and will lead his team to a Stanley Cup. Getzlaf can do it all and can adjust his game day by day to meet the team’s needs.

He can step up physically and defensively to settle down the Bruins bruising offense. He can also score goals and set up his linemates. He will lead his team through the West and past the Bruins to win the Cup. Justin Maskulinski Eastern Conference Finals: Pittsburgh Penguins over Montreal Canadiens in 6 The Penguins should have no problem taking down the Blue Jackets in the first round after sweeping the season series 5-0.

With the new playoff format, the Pens would play either the Rangers or Flyers in the second round, and although they struggled with these teams in the regular season this group will figure it out. The Habs have a solid team that can make a run to the conference final, but the Penguins are simply better. I have them beating the Red Wings in round two, which means I have the Bruins falling in round one. As a Sabres fan, I know the President’s Trophy guarantees nothing.

Western Conference Finals: Los Angeles Kings over Colorado Avalanche in 6 The Kings know how to play at this time of the year, and I think that will be the difference. It will not be an easy road, but I think the Kings will take down San Jose, Anaheim and Colorado en route to the Cup final. Colorado is a team that is on fire, and I think that can carry them to the conference final. The Kings’ experience will outlast the youth, but I’m sure the Avalanche will return soon.

Stanley Cup Winner: Pittsburgh over Los Angeles in 7 Both teams know how to win the Cup, but a very talented Pens team hasn’t been to the Cup final since 2009. The Pens goaltending in the playoffs was questionable last year, but now they have seemed to groom a quality backup in former Miami goaltender Jeff Zatkoff. Crosby has topped 100 points this season, and the Pens seem to have it all together. Riding on a hot offense, solid defense and reliable goaltending; I think the Cup goes to Pittsburgh.