April 29, 2014 | The Miami Student

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TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014

VOLUME 141 NO. 50

MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIO

TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1983, The Miami Student reported the response to the experimental second-helping dinner policy put into effect that semester had cafeteria of-

ficials baffled. Business Administrator Adolph Haisler said, “We take the entrée with the lowest cost per portion and that one is the one we’re offering unlimited … Students are happy with the quantity of food but unhappy with the quality.”

Tennis takes second straight MAC title

BY SADIE MARTINEZ FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University tennis team defeated Eastern Michigan University 4-2 in the Mid-American Conference championship match, crowning the RedHawks MAC Champions for the second year in a row.

“Eastern Michigan is a very good team,” assistant coach Ricardo Rosas said. “Our girls were prepared.

They knew that it was going to be close, and I think that’s one quality that I see this team has developed, the ability to be tough when it really counts.”

Miami (17-6, 7-1 MAC) defeated the University at Buffalo 4-0 Saturday, which sent them to the MAC Championship Sunday.

In doubles action against Buffalo, senior Nimisha Mohan and freshman Andreea Badileanu won their match 8-4. Following their lead, senior Christiana Raymond and sophomore Ana Rajkovic took an 8-2 victory to grab the doubles point.

In order for Miami to clinch its spot in the MAC Championship, the RedHawks had to win three matches in singles.

Badileanu finished her match with a 6-1, 6-0 win. Rajkovic followed

her lead, winning 6-4, 6-2. Raymond finished the day with a 6-4, 6-2 victory to send Miami to the MAC championship game.

Mohan and Badileanu lost their match 8-2 in doubles. Raymond and Rajkovic won their match 8-4, but junior Alix Thurman and junior Christine Guerrazzi lost their match 8-6 giving the doubles point to EMU. Miami vs. Eastern Michigan was a battle, as four of the six singles matches went into a third set. In order to clinch the victory, Miami needed to take four matches.

The first match to finish involved Rajkovic, who fell to her Eastern

BEN TAYLOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami tennis players (from left to right, back to front) Diana Suarez, Andreea Badileanu, Alix Thurman, Nimisha Mohan, Christiana Raymond, Ramona Costea, Ana Rajkovic and Christine Guerrazzi celebrate their MAC title.

Michigan opponent 7-5, 6-4. Shortly after, Badileanu defeated her opponent 6-4, 6-4.

Guerrazzi gave Miami its next win, winning 6-3, 2-6, 6-1. Following Guerrazzi’s victory, Mohan gave Miami the 3-2 match lead with her come from behind win, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.

“I knew it was going to be a hard match, but I just believed I could do it,” Mohan said.

With Miami in the lead, the pressure was on for Raymond and Thurman, with just one of them needing a win.

Thurman and Raymond were both in their third set, as their entire team cheered them on.

Thurman responded to the cheers with a 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) tiebreak win to clinch the MAC title.

Thurman and Mohan were both named to the MAC All-Tournament team, with Thurman also being named MAC Tournament MVP. For Raymond and Mohan, their final match on their home court came with a MAC title.

“One thing about Nimisha, her strength is that we knew we could count on her, she’s not going to give up, she’s going to fight until the end,” Rosas said.

“She had a big part in the momentum change when she won that match.”

With the win, the RedHawks clinched a berth in the NCAA

To u r n a m e n t .

The ’Hawks will find out their opponent Tuesday, during the NCAA To u r n a m e n t Te n n i s selection show.

ASG’s Guaranteed Tuition Send-off week salutes seniors’ success Program may freeze fees

BY JAMES STEINBAUER AND EMILY C. TATE SENIOR STAFF WRITERS

BY KATHLEEN CLYBURN FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The new Guaranteed Tuition Program to prevent the increase in tuition during a student’s four years at Miami is in the works, according to student body president Charlie Schreiber and vice president Courtney Bernard.

Seniors Schreiber and Bernard, who began discussing the program in April 2013, worked all summer with Vice President for Financial and Business Services David Creamer to create a plan, which they used in their 20132014 presidential platform.

The Associated Student Government (ASG) passed the resolution supporting the program on Tuesday with a unanimous vote.

“The thinking behind this program is not to lower tuition,” Schreiber said. “It is to promote certainty and peace-of-mind for students.”

With the program, tuition will be raised initially for firstyears and transfer students by no more than five or six percent, and will remain at this same rate throughout their time at Miami.

According to Schreiber, this will ultimately be a less costly option for students since the university currently raises tuition by about two percent yearly, adding up to approximately eight percent over four years.

“The University of Dayton implemented a similar program and raised their tuition by 11-and-a-half [percent],” he said.

“This is an astronomical amount compared to the percentage raise Miami is discussing.”

ASG treasurer and co-author of the resolution Nate Lombardi said an initial raise this high is unlikely.

“Miami is in a very comfortable financial situation at the moment,” Lombardi said. “It

got through the worst of the recession and is in a healthy state now.”

The idea for the program came from talking to students about their concerns and realizing many of them have trouble paying tuition, especially when it is raised every year, Bernard said “There is only so much you can do when it comes to tuition costs,” Bernard said. “Tuition will never be lowered, but it can be locked into a certain price for the entirety of time a student is in school.”

President of the student senate and co-author of the resolution Nick Miller said the bill will help many students stay in school and graduate.

“It would be beneficial for students to know how much they need to save up,” Miller said.

“If they’re a student employee and they’re paying their own way, they don’t have to worry about the varying rates of tuition year to year. A number of students leave because they don’t feel fiscally secure and this shouldn’t happen.”

Lombardi said the guarantee would not only allow students and their families to budget in a more structured way, but also be a strategic move for Miami.

“Miami’s tuition is relatively high in comparison to other public schools,” he said. “This program will increase Miami’s competitiveness with other colleges, making it more desirable to prospective students because it will allow more flexibility for students and their family in budgeting.”

Key stakeholders and many administrators are in support of the program, Lombardi said.

“They think this would be a

TUITION, SEE PAGE 8

Starting this week, the Miami University Student Foundation (MUSF) is hosting Senior SendOff, a week dedicated to MU seniors in all their glory.

“One of the main things we do at MUSF is fundraising for students of past, present and future,” junior and co-vice president of MUSF Trevor Jordan said. “One of the present parts: Senior Send-Off week is about reciprocating back to the students all the hard work they have done over the last four years.”

MUSF kicked off the week with Ice Cream Monday, handing out sweet treats at the Hub.

Today, seniors are invited to give back for their success during Thankful Tuesday. Students can stop by the Armstrong Student Center and the Hub all day to send a note to the professors and mentors who made Miami memorable for them.

Next Monday, May 5, is “Wieners for Seniors,” where members of MUSF will be handing out free hot dogs at the Phi Delt gates to all seniors passing through.

To end the week, there will be a final event called “Senior Sign-Off” Wednesday, May 7, in which students of the class of 2014 are encouraged to stop

by Slant Walk and sign their class banner. There will also be free giveaways.

The events are directed primarily toward the senior class, Jordan said, but MUSF is also promoting an activity for the entire student body at Miami.

“This is meant for everyone,” Jordan said, referring to MUSF’s #HiddenMU Instagram Contest.

“Students can send in an Instagram picture and tag our Instagram account @MUSF1809, and the person with the most original ‘likes’ by May 9 will be picked.”

The students with the top three most-liked pictures will be awarded gift cards of $75, $45 and $15, respective to their photo’s ranking.

Jordan encouraged all students to participate in MUSF’s interactive social media activity.

PHILL ARNDT THE MIAMI STUDENT

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS (Left to right) Peter Jibbings, Will Murray, Jack Keller and Case Gallagher celebrate as they cross the finish line during the Nearly Naked Mile hosted by the Miami Striders Friday evening.

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CAMPUS

EDITORS REIS THEBAULT VICTORIA SLATER

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014

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Now hiring: MU begins search to fill positions

BY AMANDA HANCOCK FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The search is on to fill two major administrative positions at Miami University.

In early April, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Bobby Gempesaw announced his plans to leave Miami.

He is taking a position as president of St John’s University in New York City.

Along with Gempesaw, Carine M. Feyten, dean of Miami’s College of Education, Health and Society will step down at the end of semester.

Feyten was named chancellor and president of Texas Woman’s University, the nation’s largest university primarily for women, last week. Both Gempseaw and Feyten will start their respective jobs July 1.

As Gempesaw was an integral player in Miami’s 20/20 vision, President David Hodge said his ideal candidate for the provost position would be one who supports that plan.

“First and foremost, we would hope to attract somebody who gets excited about that and wants to make that happen,” he said.

For the dean of education

position, Hodge is looking for someone who is able to handle a transforming industry and see the school as unified.

“It’s important that these candidates understand the inherent strengths of Miami and our goals at the same time as acting as a change agent for helping us to think differently and advance what our core mission is,” Hodge said.

In order to find those candidates, University News and Communication Director Claire Wagner said the first step is to select a search firm. The university sent out requests for proposals last week.

The goal for the end of the semester is to assemble a search committee comprised of university officials that will work alongside the firm. Over the summer, the search firm will talk to the constituencies across the university and put together a prospectus about the positions, which includes the major attributes Miami is seeking.

This prospectus will be passed around the education network and posting in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. “The advertisements will produce a few good candidates, but our experience is that the best candidates are those that have

been referred to us and the search firm follows up on them and not just waiting for applications,” Hodge said.

Wagner said candidates for the provost position will hopefully be selected in the fall. At that point, a first round of review and confidential interviews will take place with the overall goal of making a final decision by late November.

The process for filling the Dean of Education spot will fall a few months behind and will most likely be made by next spring.

Along with conducting a national search, Hodge and Wagner agree current Miami faculty and staff members will be considered for both jobs as well.

“We’re always hoping we’re building up,” Hodge said. “We always want to encourage internal candidates to be a part of the process.”

All in all, he is confidant Miami will find great people to fill the shoes of both Gempesaw and Feyten.

“They are leaving really big holes,” Hodge said. “Because of their success, both at Miami and now being able to go on, I would think we would be even more attractive than ever for people to come into these positions.”

Five top-paid faculty and administrative positions 2011

2013

DON TREADWELL

CHUCK MARTIN

Football Head Coach $400,000.00

Football Head Coach $450,000.00

ROGER JENKINS

DAVID HODGE

Dean of Farmer School of Business $381,881.00

President of the university $409,209.00

DAVID HODGE

CONRADO “BOBBY” GEMPESAW

President of the university $380,000.00

CONRADO “BOBBY” GEMPESAW Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs $310,000.00

MU professor combats invasive Amur honeysuckle species in Western woods

BY REIS THEBAULT CAMPUS EDITOR

“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture,” the third President of the United States said.

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson had no idea how wrong he was. It is easy for us, here in the 21st century, to see how detrimental the blind introduction of foreign plants can be to America’s natural environment.

Miami University professor David Gorchov, to whom the USDA awarded a $375,000 grant in support of his research, is at the forefront of Amur honeysuckle studies. Miami professor of geography Mary Henry and Kent State biology professor Oscar Rocha also worked with Gorchov. Gorchov’s 2004 study, “The invasive shrub, ‘Lonicera maackii,’ reduces growth and fecundity of perennial forest herbs,” explores some of the impact on native plants when a non-native species, such as “Lonicera maackii,” otherwise known as Amur honeysuckle, is introduced.

“Biological invasion by nonnative species is considered one of the major threats to the global environment,” Gorchov said. “And invasive plants in particular are considered to have major impacts on plant populations, communities and ecosystems.”

In Ohio, this species of honeysuckle is especially prevalent. Miami’s Western Woods are a prime example of the ways in which honeysuckle can take over.

“It is able to photosynthesize in the fall and even more so in the spring,” Gorchov said, standing in

one of the Western Woods trails behind Peabody Hall. “These shrubs have an extended leaf phenology.”

In other words, Amur honeysuckle plants expand leaves earlier and remain green longer than most native species. In the late fall, there is little green to be found around campus. On these trails, however, there are thickets of green plants.

Amur honeysuckle made the long journey from Asia’s temperate regions to eastern U.S. but, once it got here, it did not want to leave.

It will change the whole composition of the forest.”

DAVID GORCHOV BOTANY PROFESSOR

“Why is it doing so well?” Gorchov said. “Why is this shrub from eastern Asia growing so fast, reproducing, becoming an invasive species?”

Well, according to Gorchov, in Asia, it has enemies, none of which are present here. It also helps that Amur honeysuckle has, as Gorchov said in his article, “plastic branch architecture.”

This means, that on top of having no real predators, this honeysuckle can change its shape in response to its environment and to the amount of light it receives.

It sounds like a super plant. It stays green for a long time and can easily and effectively alter in order to thrive in various environments.

Amur honeysuckle sounds like the perfect ornamental plant and, for a

while it was treated as such. The U.S. government, Gorchov said, even helped promote the plant, saying that it would be great for habitat restoration.

However, in America, this honeysuckle is invasive and it has a way of taking over an ecosystem, strangling the growth of the native plants.

“It reduces tree seedling growth and survival,” Gorchov said. “No species will be driven extinct, but a lot will be less abundant.”

Gorchov grew up loving nature in New Jersey. After a Princeton undergrad degree and a Ph.D. at University of Michigan, he landed at Miami.

One of his first grad students got him interested in the study of Amur honeysuckle. Honeysuckle piqued his interest and, as is its nature, invaded his studies.

He is still trying to solve the Amur honeysuckle problem, or at the least to understand it. He has advised eight Miami graduate students, and several undergraduate students, on honeysuckle projects, ranging from its impacts on wildflowers to the role of birds and deer in dispersing its seeds.

Locating the honeysuckle is simple. Getting rid of it is far more difficult. If you cut it down, Gorchov said, the stumps sprout new shoots.

Uproot it and other invasives will take its place and spraying herbicides has to be done carefully to avoid killing surrounding plant life.

Gorchov’s current and future studies will attempt to rectify the Amur honeysuckle crisis. A lot is on the line.

“It will change the whole composition of the forest,” he said.

Hockey Head Coach $319,923.00

DR. DAVID CREAMER

Hockey Head Coach $300,000.00

Vice President for Finanace and Business Services and Treasurer $284,100.00

*Information gathered from the Miami University Salary Roster

The art of majoring in the arts, putting passion first FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

REIS THEBAULT THE MIAMI STUDENT

ENRICO BLASI

ENRICO BLASI

BY SAMMIE MILLER

Miami University botany professor David Gorchov speaks to his class about the consequences of invasive species.

Executive Vice President of academic affairs $325,694.00

For most students at Miami, a night spent confined in King staring at endless PowerPoint notes and writing term papers seems like the key to success. For junior Haley Rice and other art majors on campus, however, their night of studying looks a little bit different.

“As an art major, my schedule is much different from other students’,” Rice said. “A night of hard work requires me to be in the art studio for many hours outside of class.”

According to the College of Creative Arts, art majors at Miami are required to actually apply and get accepted into a rigorous program in order to even major in art. The application process includes a portfolio and sometimes even an interview for acceptance into the School of Fine Arts.

“I think a lot of times people associate majoring in art with not having to work hard,” Alex Bishoff, a junior graphic design major said. “I know a lot of people majoring in art and the hours spent in the studio is hard to believe.”

It is difficult to cram for an upcoming project when students have to actually create something. Rice noted that she often spends 20-30 hours outside of class per week in the studio in order to get her paintings done.

At Miami, art majors can pick from a number of focuses within the college including 2-Dimensional work, which is mainly painting and drawing, or 3-Dimensional work including ceramics and sculpting.

“I am an art education major,” Rice said. “So technically I do not have to select a focus but I work mainly in 2-dimensional painting and drawing.”

FUN IN THE SUN

Rice’s work is a compilation of abstract design and work with collages. She has experimented with many media in her time at Miami because it is something each student is required to do in order to form skillsets in many types of media.

A lot of students choose their majors for the sole purpose of earning a certain salary or getting a specific job. To be an art major, dedication and time commitment are essential, but also a love for art itself.

Rice describes her great passion for art and how that passion directed her decision to major in art, and eventually teach art to young students.

“In high school I had no idea what I wanted to do in college, but the thing I looked forward to most was going to my art classes,” Rice said. “I think that it is important to major in something that you truly love, especially if you are planning on putting so much time into it.”

As Rice progresses into her senior year at Miami, she will be required to partake in a senior project. Each division of the art major requires something different, but in addition to her class work, Rice will also be required to teach an art class on Saturdays for an entire semester.

As an art major, studets are still required to take many normal classes where exams and paper writing are a major focus.

“It definitely is not easy,” Rice said. “I feel like it’s double the work because I’m studying for exams and spending so much extra time in the studio outside of class. You have to really be committed.”

After graduation, Rice intends to teach art, eventually at the college level as a professor.

“There are so many different things you can do with an art degree,” Rice said. “I want to share my love for creating with others.”

CONNOR MORIARTY THE MIAMI STUDENT

Matt Dunn and Emily Sabanegh enjoy the Honors Student Advisory Board Spring Festival Saturday.

EDITORS JANE BLAZER CHRIS CURME

COMMUNITY TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014

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POLICE

BEAT

Cops follow the yellow ‘slick’ road, find wreck Around 2 a.m. Friday, a group of pedestrians flagged down an OPD officer in the 200 block of N. Poplar St. to report a traffic crash. The group said they heard the screech of tires and a loud crash or impact noise.

Officers were able to follow a winding trail of telltale automotive fluid leading to a car in the 200 block of E. Sycamore St. Witnesses said a male on the scene had been driving the vehicle at the time of the crash.

An officer spoke with the male and noted a stench of alcohol slipped out from his slurred speech. When asked, he admitted to consuming alcohol earlier in the night.

The officer arrested the male under suspicion of OVI. The male refused the breath test offered him and was charged with OVI and stopping after an accident.

Dolla’, dolla’ bill y’all: Cop makes it rain ... justice Around 6 a.m. Friday, a concerned motorist called OPD to report an unscrupulous pedestrian he had driven past near West Chestnut Street and South College Avenue.

The motorist said he saw a male staggering down the middle of the street flashing wads of money and shouting at cars.

When the officer arrived, he found the white male waving a dollar bill at him in the 300 block of W. Chestnut St. After speaking with the male, the officer presumed him to be intoxicated and could smell booze on his breath. According to OPD, the male begged the officer for a ride home. The male was charged with sales to and use by underage persons. He was returned to his residence.

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Oxford man leads ‘ink’redible life

BY JANE BLAZER AND CHRIS CURME COMMUNITY EDITORS

Little hands, a blond mop and a big smile lurk at the bottom of the narrow white steps leading to Vertigo Tattoo and Body Piercing, 117 E. High St. “My name is Myles: M-Y-LE-S,” Myles Napier Cupp said while playing with an Angry Bird toy. “Dad, that picture looks like an angry bird!”

Myles stood on tip-toe to point at a painting of a parrot and looked to his dad, Steve Cupp.

“You can’t work here unless you are artistically talented,” Cupp said, gesturing toward a string of portraits, including Freddy Krueger and Jimi Hendrix. “All of the paintings you see here are paintings that I did. I’m kind of burnt out on them because I throw out like 30 in a year.”

Cupp has owned Vertigo since it arrived in Oxford 16 years ago, and said it will soon be a fully functional art gallery. Only two years beforehand was his first tattoo experience.

“I was in college... I took some of our slush money to take a speech class. I was married,” Cupp said. “[I thought], ‘If I get a tattoo, I can do a speech on getting a tattoo—and I can get a tattoo!’”

Those 18 years ago, when getting his tattoo, the artist asked Cupp if he wanted to learn how it was done.

“Of course I said no,” Cupp said. “Then he wouldn’t teach me for a long time because I wasn’t enthusiastic about it right away.”

Myles sang and hummed face down on the long, black tattoo bed on which his father has created myriad tattoos.

“I’ve done just about anything you can imagine,” Cupp said.

“I’ve tattooed people just about

every place you could think of.”

“Last Thursday, I came in and there was a lady, she was born in 1952.” Cupp chuckled. “She was so dry — her skin was so dry — it took me probably twice as long to keep from cutting her open.”

Cupp said the most bizarre tattoo he has ever given was a face tattoo.

“No, no,” Cupp said, when asked if it was a Mike Tysonesque tattoo. “But right after Mike Tyson lost his last fight, I did a portrait of Mike Tyson on a guy that worked at Skippers.”

Cupp said at first, he turned away a man who came to his parlor looking to tattoo half his face in order to look like a character from a “Star Trek” spinoff. “[I said], ‘Your life is over— it’s over; it’s finished if you get tattooed,’” Cupp said. “[But], He persisted and persisted and I ended up doing it.”

Cupp said he was worried when he saw the man return a couple of weeks later.

“I saw him coming and thought, ‘Oh man, he’s realized and he wants to yell at me,’” Cupp said.

“And he wanted me to add shading to it.”

Cupp said it’s been 10 years since he last saw him.

“I have not heard from him; I have not heard of him,” Cupp said. “In this business, word of mouth is key. You would think someone would come to me and say, ‘Hey, I saw that face tattoo you did.’ And that way I could ask them if he killed himself.”

Cupp’s phone rang in the front pocket of his short-sleeve button down. Myles tried to answer it, but Cupp smiled and told his son he was busy.

Cupp said Vertigo, located under Bagel and Deli, has left their mark at the bagel shop with one of their own sandwich creations.

“We have our own bagel up there. I don’t like it.” Cupp

CHRIS CURME COMMUNITY EDITOR

On a tattoo bed, tattoo-clad Steve Cupp sits his son Myles on his lap.

“We’re grooming him,” Cupp said, while Myles looked at art on the wall. shrugged. “It’s called The Vertigo. But I like the Italian.”

Cupp gestures to a wall of celebrity headshots opposite the wall of paintings.

“I’ve met everybody up there except Cesar Romero and Whoopi,” Cupp said. “[I] met Marilyn Munster, she was a sweet old lady. Butch Patrick was next to her. He played Eddie Munster. He was a jerk.”

When asked about a signed picture of a notoriously bundledup Randy from A Christmas Story, Cupp laughed.

“Weird kid,” Cupp said.

“I mean nobody cared about this guy.”

However, Goldberg’s headshot was a longer, more

flavorful story.

“Believe it or not, but at some point in time I was writing a book about soup,” Cupp said. “I went online and found everybody’s address that I wanted to ask initially and I sent them a form and asked them to fill it out: what kind of soup do you like? It was really stupid: nobody responded.”

A few months later, Whoopi sent back an autographed headshot and no soup form.

“I never asked her for it.”

“Where was I going to go with that?” Cupp asked. “It’d be a year of my life for nothing. And I only got like two good soup recipes anyway.”

Thankfully, Cupp stuck to tattooing.

J-walk yourself to jail: Cop finds man drunk At 12:41 a.m. Sunday, an OPD officer was on foot when he said he observed a male crossing the street at the northeast corner of Poplar and High Streets, despite a green light for oncoming traffic.

The male dodged in front of an eastbound vehicle, and then another. The second vehicle had to brake suddenly to avoid hitting the human leapfrog. The officer stopped the male and confirmed he was both intoxicated and under the age of 21.

Aside from obtaining his actual driver’s license, the officer also found a license that did not belong to the male. The suspect was charged with sales to and use by underage persons, certain acts prohibited and a pedestrian control signal violation.

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PEACEFUL PEOPLE PLACE PEACE POLE

Oxford Citizens for Peace and Justice and community members at-large gather Saturday afternoon to mark the erection of a Peace Pole, reading, “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in several different languages.

McCullough-Hyde Hospital: A suture above the rest

BY EMILY C. TATE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

On the morning of Tuesday, March 18, Miami first-year Amanda Mickus said she woke up to the worst pain of her life – a sharp, stabbing sensation across her abdomen with no obvious explanation.

By Wednesday night, the severe pain had left her completely immobile; she could not even reach her cell phone to answer a call from her anxious mother.

Fortunately for Mickus, less than a mile down the road from her firstyear residence hall was Oxford’s McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, recently recognized as one of America’s Best in Emergency Care by the Women’s Choice Award for 2014.

After two overnight stays and her first surgery, Mickus had only positive things to say of the McCulloughHyde staff she encountered and the care they provided her. The award could not have been given to a more deserving hospital, she said.

“The nurses were so incredible,” Mickus said. “My parents weren’t there, which was terrifying, so one of

the nurses, Sheila, was like my mom for the day. She came in, sat on my bed and held me while I cried.”

This level of attentive, personal care is nothing out of the ordinary for the staff of McCullough-Hyde, Vice President and Chief Patient Services Officer Pam Collins said.

“Our care is timely, it’s personal,” she said. “We recognize the emotional and spiritual needs of our patients and that’s part of the care we provide as well.”

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ports and personalized letters to the hospital, all of which bore positive feedback and statistics on the hospital’s treatment quality. The Women’s Choice Award used many of these documents when considering McCullough-Hyde for their award.

Approximately 3,600 of the 5,700 hospitals in the United States reported sufficient data to be evaluated for the award, Collins said. Of those, only 241 were recognized for it, including McCullough Hyde.

emergency department recommendation rate for first quarter of 2014

Though this is the first time McCullough-Hyde has received the award, Collins said the hospital staff have always focused on patient care.

In her office, surrounded by stacks of paper filed away into every cabinet and cubbyhole, Collins began to procure all sorts of surveys, data re-

“Now that’s pretty significant,” she said.

The Women’s Choice Award examined several factors when selecting from the hospitals in question.

For one, the hospitals honored with the Emergency Care Award had to be in the top 25 percent for their

emergency department’s performance, according to the Women’s Choice Award website.

Additionally, the hospital’s HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) ratings had to be high, Collins said.

“HCAHPS is a national patient satisfaction survey,” she said. “To be considered, we had to have solid HCAHPS ratings. Factors considered include communication with nurses and doctors, responsiveness of hospital staff, cleanliness of hospital and preparation for discharge.”

Collins said McCullough-Hyde focuses especially on providing safety, a comfortable environment, and courtesy and respect to their patients, which ultimately leads to overall satisfaction with the hospital experience.

“For example,” she said, “91 percent of our obstetric patients would ‘definitely’ recommend this hospital to friends and family. The national average [for obstetric patients’

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ARTS & EVENTS

EDITOR LAUREN KIGGINS

ARTS@MIAMISTUDENT.NET

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014

Dancer ranks worldwide

Peter Pan adaptation to show for college crowd

BY AMANDA HANCOCK

BY SAMMIE MILLER

After his first time watching “Lord of the Dance,” junior Kelcey Steele made a bold promise to his four-yearold self: he would pursue his Broadway-inspired Irish dancing dreams as long as possible.

For Steele, now a junior at Miami, that childlike perspective never drifted too far away. His silver watch is adorned with the familiar face of Mickey Mouse and tunes from the Lion King soundtrack often play on his iPod. But as one of the best Irish dancers in the world, Steele has grown to mean business.

Steele traveled to London for the World Irish Dance Championship two weeks ago and placed third — a feat16 years in the making.

Previously he placed seventh; however, Steele set his expectations lower this time around.

“I went into it knowing I didn’t have many collegiate competitions left so I just wanted to have fun and was shooting for maybe top 10,” he said.

When he came off stage, Steele was less than thrilled with his performance.

“I thought I was doing terrible; I thought I could’ve done a lot better,” he said.

So when he heard the positive results, his thoughts turned to the countless hours spent driving to Cincinnati, the exhaustive workouts and the sacrificing of any semblance of a social life for the last semester.

In an instant, it was all worth it.

“It was kind of an out-of-body experience; I just started crying,” he said. “It’s weird and oddly satisfying when you do well.”

His success did not come easily.

When Steele stepped onto Miami’s campus with a double major and a slew of activities to juggle, that youthful promise became harder and harder to keep.

“I came to college and I gained 30 pounds,” he said. “It was rough.”

He continued dancing and competing, but would often question his motives, especially when he was not getting the desired results. He drove to Cincinnati five times a week to practice at the McGing School of

Miami graduate student Laura Ferdinand, in combining history and theater, has single-handedly created a new adaptation of an old favorite — the classic play, “Peter Pan,” over the past year and a half.

The show premieres tomorrow night and its 10 cast members have been working around the clock for the past four weeks. But for Ferdinand, the journey to this upcoming performance started 18 months ago.

Ferdinand is directing the upcoming performance. She created the adaptation of an entirely new script for “Peter Pan” through extensive research about the original playwright, James Barrie, over the past year and a half.

“I traveled all the way to Scotland and England where Barrie wrote the original version of ‘Peter Pan,’” Ferdinand said. “It was extremely inspiring to feel that connected to the original places that he once felt inspired by.”

She combined a collection of Barrie’s interviews, speeches and diary entries and incorporated them into the original version of the play.

Ferdinand described her adaptation as a grown-up version of “Peter Pan.” “It’s appropriate for children of course, but is most definitely targeted at a college audience,” she said.

This new take on the classic has the student body excited.

“I’m really excited to see this version of my all time favorite play,” sophomore Alexa Berry said. “Even though I grew up being obsessed with the movie and play I don’t know that much about the history.”

For the past month, the actors have been required to attend daily four-hour practices.

At the daily rehearsals, the magic is in the air as the actors warm up their voices, exercising their vocal chords in perfect harmony.

Music blares and they

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Kelcey Steele poses with his third place irish dancing trophy in London.

Irish Dance, the same school he has gone to since he first started.

“For the first couple of years, it was difficult to remember the real reasons why I did it,” he said.

The main reason: Irish dancing is in his blood. Steele’s mother is a dance instructor and he started learning the steps from her. Along with playing basketball and other traditional kindergarten-age activities, Steele would suit up with sequined vests to dance the Irish way.

As a theater and public administration student, Steele is very involved on campus, including roles in shows, such as the recent “Next to Normal” by Miami’s Stage Left. With his performance-driven goals, he is often split between two career paths.

His fallback option for the future is to teach dance, but he is not quite ready to give up being on stage.

“I go back and forth between two completely different things all the time,” Steele said.

His four-year-old aspirations are still very much alive, though. With the mention of Broadway, Steele’s eyes lit up. He said he plans to move to New York after graduation and see what happens.

BEN’S BOOMBOX

Success is not just winning Music is a shade of various colors.

It is a universal language. The melody of a song can be played on any instrument as well as being improvised on. With a beat, a song can unite two people simply by the groove.

Although unique and BEN subjective, MEINKING music is a glorious moment of clarity.

Many stereotypes surround music and its genres. Is breaking those stereotypes a bigger battle than what it should be? Music is about the collaborative project of selected individuals to express themselves. Is it a purpose of breaking social norms and giving something different some air?

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis made their mark in the culture of hip/hop and R&B, but what did it take to get there? They produced a great album that centers on being unique and independent. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis created “The Heist,” which captured Best Rap Album at the 2014 Grammy’s, without the help of a label. Hailing from Seattle, the thrift-shopping duo managed to gain national notoriety in 2010 and have only become more popular. “The Heist” is bursting with an array of social stands and money problems.

Kendrick Lamar’s universally acclaimed “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” was “The Heist’s” biggest competition at the Grammy’s. Both albums were tremendous. They each were

unique and took stands on everyday issues. While Macklemore supports gay rights in “Same Love,” Kendrick Lamar uses his poetic language to stand against obsessive drinking in “Swimming Pools (Drank).”

While both of these artists show off their remarkable talent as modern-day poets, the competition between them is what society seems to focus on. Although the Grammy itself is an accolade to pin on the chest, it can cause more pain than it should.

No matter who wins, someone is going to lose. After Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won in January, a large part of hip-hop culture voiced a dislike of the duo, claiming Kendrick Lamar was snubbed. In reality, both artists deserve to be recognized for their greatness. What is the big deal about an award? Is the whole point of music to compete against one another?

In June 2013, Rich Nichols, the Roots’ manager, calls “black culture…difficult to have a point of view that’s not about winning,” when speaking about lyrics and music in an interview for the New York Village Voice. The Roots themselves are album artists centered in a singles world. Never materialistic, their lyrics are more based on politics and social oppression than what mainstream hip-hop has to serve up.

Personally, I can’t wait to see what is in store for next year. Both Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kendrick Lamar will be back in the studio getting great tunes back on the shelf.

They are great artists making great music. It’s like listening to the world through their ears, and what I hear is beautiful.

“I’ve never even been before, but I know that I’ll love the city and I just have to give it a shot,” he said.

Armed with big goals, he is motivated not by acknowledgement, but by the same flip that switched 16 years ago.

“I realize now that I dance just because I love dancing,” he said.

His stressful years at Miami have taught him to rely on the reasons behind the hard work.

“When you keep that in mind, it’s a lot easier to keep going and just do it because it’s fun for you,” he said.

After a few years of subpar results, Steele revitalized his training ritual with Insanity workouts and extended practice times.

“I decided I needed to do more; I worked out a lot more and started eating healthier,” he said, which he accounts as the key to his third place finish. “That put me over the edge.”

All in all, Steele is happy to be back at his prime and is already training again for another dancing season.

“It was really hard to keep going when I wasn’t being as successful as I wanted to be,” he said.

“Getting back there made it that much sweeter.”

move around the makeshift stage getting excited for the evening’s practice.

Tamara Ljubibratic, a junior theater major, will play Tinkerbell in the upcoming performance.

“It is extremely exciting for me to be a part of this production,” Ljubibratic said. “Growing up I felt so connected to the characters and the story of ‘Peter Pan’ and it’s amazing now being able to be a part of the story.”

Lauren Kammerling, one of two first-year actors participating in the cast feels a similar connection to the play.

“I actually played in ‘Peter Pan’ in high school,” Kammerling said. “I love the musical version of ‘Peter Pan,’ but Laura’s version is absolutely beautiful and has given me an even more special connection with the plays by incorporating the story’s history and Barrie’s point of view.”

From the script, to the set, to the costumes, everything about Ferdinand’s adaptation is meant to be authentic to the original story of “Peter Pan.” “The costumes are much more realistic than the more theatrical looks used in other adaptations,” Kammerling said. “For example, the costumes made for the Lost Boys are what they actually would have worn during that time period.”

The set is simplistic, yet beautiful and embodies the transformational themes of Ferdinand’s adaptation.

As the course of the play goes on, the set breaks apart in different ways that is sure to leave the audience on the edge of their seats.

As Ferdinand puts it, the show is sure to entertain any “Peter Pan” or general theater enthusiasts and will be chalk full of surprises.

The production will open 7:30 p.m. April 30 at the Studio 88 stage in the Center of Performing Arts.

Tickets are on sale at The Shriver Box Office, $7 students, $8 seniors, $10 adults.

ARTS & EVENTS CALENDAR TUESDAY APRIL 29 The Wind Ensemble will perform a concert including a series of dance pieces and works by Wagner and Percy Grainger. The free concert is at 7:30 p.m. in Hall Auditorium.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 30 The Brown Bag Recital Series will feature solo and group performances by faculty and students at noon in the Armstrong Student Center’s Shade Family Room.

SATURDAY MAY 3 The Oxford Farmers Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon Uptown. The market will offer fresh, local food and cooking demos.

THURSDAY MAY 1 Photojournalist Ron Haviv will present “Not in Our Name: Documenting Conflict, Violence and Genocide Around the World,” a series of short films interspersed with commentary and observations by Haviv. The event is at 7:30 p.m. in Farmer School of Business 1000.

SUNDAY MAY 4 Miami University Theatre Department will present an adaptation of “Peter Pan” utilizing shadow puppetry and other special effects. The 2 p.m. show is in Studio 88 Theatre, Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are available at the Shriver Box Office, $7 students, $8 seniors, $10 adults.

FRIDAY MAY 2 A free concert featuring local musicians will take place at 7 p.m. at Uptown Park as part of the Audio Engineers and Music Production Showcase.

MONDAY MAY 5 Kick off your week at “The Art of Yoga,” focusing on relaxation and deep release through the mind and body awareness.

The $10 class begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Oxford Community Arts Center’s North Parlor.

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EDITORS EMILY ELDRIDGE NICOLE THEODORE

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014

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

Powdered alcohol has potential to change college drinking scene “Let’s talk about the elephant in the room...snorting Palcohol.

Yes, you can snort it. And you’ll get drunk almost instantly because the alcohol will be absorbed so quickly in your nose. Good idea? No. It will mess you up. Use Palcohol responsibly.”

This was a message from Palcohol’s creators that appeared on the product’s website earlier this month. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) initially approved the product on April 8, but that approval was deemed an error just 13 days later.

According to Palcohol reps, “This doesn’t mean that Palcohol isn’t approved, it just means that these labels aren’t approved. We will re-submit labels.”

With all the hype surrounding this new adult beverage (powder?), there seems to be a lot of money to be made and lots of incentive for Palcohol creators to get this thing on the shelves – fast.

Palcohol is essentially alcoholic powder. Just add water, stir or shake and enjoy with friends – if you’re 21 of course. Consumers can choose from Powderitas, Lemon Drops, Mojitos and Cosmopolitans. The pouch contains 100 ml of powder and is about 51 to 58 percent alcohol by weight or compatible to one standard mixed drink.

The makers of Palcohol have not disclosed their process for making powered alcohol and have made it clear they do not intend to become a public company any time soon.

Though the TTB still hasn’t approved Palcohol labels, it is likely that of-age consumers will be able to purchase pouches of Palcohol by the end of 2014. With this in mind, the editorial board of The Miami Student wonders how this product will be used: if it will be a fad or if it will actually have a lasting effect on the way people consume alcohol.

A general concern we did have is the safety of the powder. Similar to other critics, we can see Palcohol becoming something people snort rather than drink as a liquid, like it is intended. When snorted, the alcohol in the powder is almost instantly absorbed and the effects are, well, immediate intoxication.

Frankly, we can see a lot of college students using this powdered alcohol to get drunker faster and that is concerning. Remember our editorial piece on Drunkorexia?

We think Palcohol will appeal to people who want to get drunk and consume as little calories as possible. A pouch of powdered alcohol

is 80 calories – and if you make the choice to snort it or mix it with water – that’s comparable to something like a Skinny Girl cocktail or a vodka soda, which are definitely appealing to calorie counting students. But like we discussed in the Drunkorexia editorial, your health and safety must be your top priority when and if you consume alcohol of any kind. Needless to say, snorting Palcohol isn’t good for your brain or your nostrils. The creators of Palcohol are trying to deter consumers from snorting their product. They said, “We have seen comments about goofballs wanting to snort it. Don’t do it! It is not a responsible or smart way to use the product.” They add, “To take precautions against this action, we’ve added volume to the powder so it would take more than a half of a cup of powder to get the equivalent of one drink up your nose. You would feel a lot of pain for very little gain. Just use it the right way.”

One of the biggest selling points for Palcohol is its discreteness and portability. Palcohol can be easily stored in a purse or even pant pocket – something you really can’t do with liquid alcohol. If a football fan wants to have a couple of drinks, he can whip out his Palcohol pouch and add it to a water bottle, just like you would with Crystal Light. For this reason, we see Palcohol as being very convenient for consumers that like to drink on the go without lugging around glass bottles or tin flasks.

But on the contrary, individuals under 21-years-old could use this to their advantage. Though you must be 21 to purchase Palcohol, it can be easily transferred to underage individuals who can then take the pouch to the bars where they could mix it with water without anyone knowing.

This is not to say underage students don’t scheme enough as it is, but Palcohol will make it easier to sneak the substance into a bar or restaurant if you’re not of age.

In the end, it is hard to tell if Palcohol is revolutionary or just a fad. We think the concept is unique and will definitely be a topic of conversation for quite some time.

But whether the product will stick around and have a lasting effect on the way people consume alcohol is something we can’t be certain about until it is actually made available for purchase. One thing we know for certain is that sprinkling Palcohol on your food is just bizarre.

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ANDREW’S ASSESSMENTS

Free enterprise is a privilege on college campuses It’s often been said America is the first country in the history of creation to be founded, not on the whims of a despot, but on an idea: the pursuit of happiness.

T h e power of this idea is self evident, and so too are the preANDREW ceding truths GEISLER found in the Declaration of Independence, but as Ronald Reagan knew, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Each generation must work hard to preserve the liberty protecting institutions our Founding Fathers fought to create. Each generation must make the case for the genius of republican government, all while considering how our country can maximize the happiness of her people.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is a Washington D.C. based think-tank committed to doing just that. AEI’s founding mission is to: “open inquiry, lucid exposition, vigorous debate and continuous improvement in the institutions of American liberty.”

AEI President Arthur Brooks has written extensively recently on how Americans can best pursue the happiness they may lack. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Brooks writes: “To pursue happiness within our reach, we do best to pour ourselves into faith, family, community and meaningful work. To share happiness, we need to fight for free enterprise and strive to make its blessings accessible to all.”

And, it’s important to note, free enterprise does not deserve the bum rap it gets from many in our ivory towers, in fact, as Brooks writes in the same op-ed of free enterprise, “This is hardly mere materialism, and it is much more than an

economic alternative. Free enterprise is a moral imperative.”

This year, AEI launched a campus program, of which Miami was on the ground floor. AEI On Campus, along with the JANUS Forum, brought in Jonah Goldberg, a syndicated columnist and AEI fellow, to discuss the role of government in a free society. In his book, “Liberal Fascism,” Goldberg writes: “The Government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.”

He brought this message to Miami by defending with vigor the merits of capitalism, federalism and the limited role for government in the American system.

The organization also joined with Project Green Room (PGR) to sponsor their inaugural case competition, which gave Miami and Ohio State students the opportunity to work in teams to fix our budgetary crisis. PGR is an organization founded by two Miami students who know our generation needs to be mugged by reality, as Irving Kristol would say, before our budgetary situation gets any worse than it already is.

The idea of free enterprise is far too often under attack on college campuses — organizations combating this bias against free market capitalism have an important role to play.

The animating principles of the modern conservative movement, which largely sprung from the pages of National Review, began with founder William F. Buckley’s book, “God and Man at Yale,” first published in 1951. The young Buckley argues that Yale, in the 1950s, did their students a disservice by focusing on collectivism, and not giving conservative alternatives a fair hearing.

The late Allan Bloom, the brilliant political philosopher whose book “The Closing of the American Mind” made the case that modern higher education “impoverishes the souls” of it’s students, writes that a

free mind, “requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.”

Weekly Standard editor William Kristol channeled Bloom this week in his column entitled “The Closing of the Academic Mind.” He argues the “commissars of Liberal Orthodoxy,” by “protecting the ‘university community’ from discomforting thoughts,” are not giving their student bodies the liberal education they deserve.

This phenomenon leads to a continuation of Bloom’s students with “impoverished souls.”

In order, to make sure free enterprise’s blessings are accessible to all; college campuses need voices making the case for the importance of it.

Especially at schools like Miami where, fortunately, it is not an uphill battle to freely discuss the big issues in our campus’ public square. Our school shows an admirable commitment to allowing students to hear a variety of perspectives on the issues of the day, and the big issues of the soul.

Students here are lucky our administrators do not suppress the free exchange of ideas like many around the country do today. Because of this, students should all mobilize around the ideas they believe in.

If free markets and open debate are ideas you believe in, consider joining AEI On Campus next year. Miami’s team will have an ambitious agenda to promote free enterprise — bringing in speakers, planning events and promoting these important ideas in every way possible.

For more information visit: http://www.aei.org/for-students/executive-councils/ SENIOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE GEISLEAJ@MIAMIOH.EDU

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Researching the mind of a pedophile is key to preventing crime against children Let’s talk about pedophilia. In talking about pedophilia, and believe it or not, in helping pedophiles, we help children.

For once, the cliché line “think about the children” is actually never more appropriate than in this BRETT discussion.

MILAM On a recent episode of the noted podcast This American Life, “Tarring and Feathering,” they dealt with public shaming. They presented two run-of-the-mill stories, albeit still interesting, but the third one focused on Adam (not his real name).

Adam is a pedophile. He’s also only 19-years-old. When he was 14, he self-diagnosed himself as a pedophile because he became aware of his attraction to children, mostly between the ages of eight and 11. To satisfy his attraction, he watched child porn.

I’ve never gone out of my way to research pedophilia before, so it was a mind-blowing concept to me that a pedophile could be so young and develop those attractions at that age.

Then, after Adam saw an 18-month-old in one video, he knew he had to stop. He had nowhere to turn to.

No group in society is more ostracized, and often for good reason, than pedophiles. So admitting that he’s a pedophile that watches child porn to his family

or a friend or even a psychiatrist was not something he wanted to do.

Again, let’s be clear here: He never acted upon his fantasies.

Being a pedophile does not actually mean acting upon your fantasies – it’s having the attraction to begin with. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders from the American Psychiatric Association, pedophilia falls under a paraphilic disorder.

To fall under a paraphilic disorder, you must meet two criteria: You feel personal distress about your interest, not just from social ostracizing and your sexual desire or behavior involves another person’s distress, injury or death; unwilling participants or those unable to give legal consent.

Given his depression, Adam met the first criteria and given the nature of pedophilia, in that children can’t give consent, he fell under the second criteria.

He took his self-diagnosis, eventually, to a real psychiatrist.

Predictably, she was alarmed and told his mother.

She was also interviewed by This American Life and treated it as, “Okay, here’s something we need to overcome together.” Her acceptance of Adam’s situation was encouraging.

As an outlet, Adam formed a support group for his peers — young pedophiles — and kept to a strict moral code: Nobody was allowed in if they had acted upon their fantasies and attractions.

Now, here’s the problem. As a society, we’re going to write off Adam because he’s a pedophile.

COMMENTARY

He’s only 19. Adam should not have to live the rest of his life like a pariah even though he has not acted upon his attractions.

Science is sorely lacking in the area of pedophilia for obvious reasons. Nobody wants to fund pedophilia research and no scientist wants to deal with the stigma therein. They fear being seen as a pedophile apologist.

pedophilia. We currently do not.

“Truthfully, I don’t think the psychiatric profession has much of a clue about pedophiles. Most studies are based on…the 5 percent who get caught—a very unrepresentative group.” Judith Herman, a psychologist who works with abused children, told The Daily Beast.

There are a few million pedo-

Pedophiles, when they are active, hurt children. If we want to help children, we need to understand pedophilia.We currently do not.

There is no cure for pedophiles like Adam, but perhaps there is a treatment. Some pedophiles, according to The Daily Beast, have been given medicine to stymie their testosterone levels.

Prevention seems paramount, but muddled by the law. Contrary to doctor-patient confidentiality, a psychiatrist must report a pedophile to the authorities, if he or she feels they are a threat to children. Meaning, pedophiles would be resistant to seek psychiatric help. And it puts a psychiatrist in an unenviable position of making a judgment call on whether their patient is a risk-factor.

But we should see this for the absurdity involved. Pedophiles, when they are active, hurt children. If we want to help children, we need to understand

philes in the United States. Yet, half of child molesters aren’t pedophiles. That is to say, they do not harbor sexual desires for children. Instead, they have some other psychological disorder or violent past.

Conventional wisdom would tell us that a pedophile probably suffered abuse when they were younger. Not Adam. According to him at least, he had basically a normal childhood.

In society, we detach ourselves from the worst of us. We dehumanize them to make sense of what they did. But that is the wrong approach. For one, across most violent acts, the perpetrator is someone the victim knew prior. A 2003 National Institute of Justice report found that 3 out of 4 adolescents who have been

sexually assaulted knew the perpetrator well.

Two, it allows us to forgo looking for solutions because they are just aberrational monsters.

Yes, there are some pedophiles that seek the dismantling of ageof-consent laws and that society accept their attractions. But most are like Adam and they want to control their desires.

This should be simple. By treating pedophiles as pariahs, we send them underground. Before they act, how long were they trying not to act? If we could’ve reached those individuals, then how many children could we have saved?

The Crimes Against Children Research Center found that 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys are a victim of child sexual abuse. Keep in mind, as with any sexual assault crime, underreporting is rampant.

A media campaign in Germany in 2005 launched billboards that said, “You are not guilty because of your sexual desire, but you are responsible for your sexual behavior,” and encouraged individuals to seek help.

Seems reasonable and that is the distinction we need to make as mature adults to ensure the protection of children.

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COMMENTARY

The multiple fallacies presented Hydraulic fracking could solve economic woes by liberals in progressive week Last week a column in The urban sprawl by developing a unemployment rate down to a naLast week, students walking through the Hub may have realized it was the College Democrats’ “Progressive Week.” Two themes expressed last week included state voting laws and healthcare. We would like to express our interpretation of each issue and address the outright lies that have been propagated by the College Democrats.

Voter ID laws are passed with the intention to secure the citizen’s right to have a fair say in the voting of his or her representatives, and prevent fraud and voter intimidation — which has been prevalent throughout the country, including Ohio. The College Democrats passed out literature on Thursday bemoaning the fact early voting in Ohio decreased from 35 to 29 days. This is hardly a burden on the average voter and ensures less fraudulent practices occur.

Americans have the opportunity to vote by abstentia or other means well in advance of the election without any intimidation or fraud; a truly free electoral process.

Another point of contention regarding voting laws is the requirement by some states to request a government issued identification to vote. The purpose of this is to eliminate fraud on Election Day. Those who oppose this regulation simply don’t understand the intended purpose. National Review writer and USA Today columnist Jonah Goldberg sees through the fog of hysteria stating, “disenfranchisement is something the government does to you. It’s not something you do to yourself.

If you can’t figure out how

to fill in the ovals or punch the chads — and some minority of voters will always botch it — that doesn’t mean your right to vote was rescinded. It means that you didn’t take your right to vote seriously enough to pay attention to the instructions.”

Our position is not to disenfranchise anybody, aside from fraudulent voters. Americans have the opportunity to vote by abstentia or other means well in advance of the election without any intimidation or fraud; a truly free electoral process.

The second fallacy promoted by “Progressive Week” is the Liberal plans to improve healthcare in the country. It should be noted that Miami College Republicans, just like the Republican Party in general, find it imperative people have access to healthcare resources, but the intervention of the federal government into the health sector has not and will not alleviate the healthcare problems in America.

The law’s consequences are extensive: If you are a young person, you will see your monthly premiums rise; for example, a 27-yearold man who pays $133 a month in premiums will see his premium hiked to $200 a month, or $188 if you include ACA subsidies, according to a Forbes methodology.

This is a 41 percent increase.

Millions of Americans will lose their current recommended health coverage even after they were promised they could keep their insurance.

Businesses in this country have cut hours, frozen hiring or even laid off employees entirely due to the uncertainty surrounding the law. Nine out of 14 economists polled recently by CNN believe that the act will stifle job creation in the U.S. because of the stipulation that businesses with 50 or more employees provide coverage. With these startling statistics, it is clear the health law will not decrease the burdens the current markets impose, but redistribute them to others.

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Miami Student editorial section celebrated “Earth Day” in the most appropriate way possible, by bashing hydraulic fracturing.

Created by the devil himself, hydraulic fracturing is contaminating your drinking water, causing earthquakes and most egregiously polluting the soundscape of Amish country.

Now I am not learned enough to tell you about noise pollution and how the hum of American industry will impact where one buys their handmade furniture and apple butter, but I would like to try my best to present a few alternative narratives to those told earlier this week.

Let’s start with Halliburton.

Sure it’s easy to demonize the company formerly run by Dick Cheney for their lobbying practices, but it’s just as easy to demonize solar energy firms like Solyndra. So rather than stay in the mud and take cheap shots at the former vice president, let’s focus on some of the true visionaries behind fracking.

The son of Greek immigrants, George P. Mitchell is commonly referred to as “the father of fracking” — please take note at this time that his name is NOT “Dick Cheney.”

In the 1980s, Mitchell, already a success by all measures, staked his personal wealth and reputation on fracking. At the time no one else in the oil and gas industry was using water instead of drilling fluids, but Mitchell gave the relatively new idea a try.

To the surprise of many in the field, his efforts paid off and he was striking oil 40 percent of the time he drilled – a far better average than his competitors using conventional drilling methods. With that success fracking caught on and now the U.S. has the means to become one of the leading producers of oil and gas.

Still, the story of George Mitchell doesn’t end with popularizing the technique of hydraulic fracturing, because to the surprise of many, Mitchell was also interested in being a good steward of the environment.

In the 1970s, he helped combat the problems associated with

planned community just outside Houston, Texas known as “the Woodlands.” Still there and thriving to this day, Mitchell’s development project was honored in 1994 by the Urban Land Institute whose core mission is, “advancing land use policies and design practices that respect the uniqueness of both the built and natural environments.”

tional low of 2.6 percent. Situated on the Bakken Shale formation, the state is producing close to a million barrels of oil per day. With that production, the census bureau noted that across the state, median household income rose. So as the oil industry booms the benefits are being shared with those across the state in a variety of support and service related industries.

But it should show that there are plenty of people in the oil and gas industry who are working to be a part of the solution and not a part of the problem.

And more importantly, on the subject of fracking, when asked

by Forbes Magazine about regulations, Mitchell said, “there’s no reason not to get it right…there are good techniques to make it safe that should be followed.” He went on in the same interview to talk about how the industry’s best practices could be used to write regulations that would help both the industry and the neighboring communities that support it.

Then again Mitchell wasn’t the only person concerned about the safety of the workers and the communities involved in fracking. Bill Weathersby and David Skinner recently founded Energy Water Solutions, a company dedicated to providing sustainable solutions that reduce the amount of water consumed during hydraulic fracking and that helps to make the removal of contaminated drilling water safer. With several patents to their name and successful test runs in Colorado, the pair are ready to introduce their technology to drilling operations in Eagle Ford and the Permian Basin.

Lastly, beyond overlooking the work of the industry to be good stewards of the environment there was curiously no mention of the economic impact these operations have already had.

In North Dakota, fracking has helped push the statewide

And if you think this is just another bubble waiting to burst, don’t hold your breath too long. North Dakota has extracted just 244 million of the estimated 6.5 billion barrels of oil it sits atop.

North Dakota isn’t the only oil and gas rich state in the land, they are just the first state to tap into its potential. Both California and New York sit atop large reserves of untapped oil, but thanks to political differences, the oil in these states remains in the ground.

Now all of this isn’t to say that there are not incidents that occur or hazards associated with production. But it should show that there are plenty of people in the oil and gas industry who are working to be a part of the solution and not a part of the problem.

It should show that perhaps there’s more to the issue than is depicted in films like “Gasland” or that flop of a movie starring Matt Damon and Jim from “the Office,” “Promised Land.”

And who knows, maybe if states like California (home to the Monterey Shale formation that contains an estimated 15 billion barrels of oil) were a little more like North Dakota, their unemployment rate might be lower than 8.1 percent.

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As for McCullough-Hyde’s emergency department, satisfaction levels are remarkably high as well.

“In this last reporting period, we measured about 35 aspects of emergency care provided on an ongoing basis,” Collins said. “For the first quarter of 2014, from January to March, recommendations of McCullough-Hyde emergency care services are 92 percent.”

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At that, she began digging through a drawer in her desk, flipping past several different tabs, and pulled out a letter written to the hospital. This particular letter was written by a parent about his son, a Miami senior at the time, who had been hospitalized at McCullough-Hyde after a night of excessive binge drinking.

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coming late in the game. Four of the RedHawk runs came in the ninth inning, when the game was out of reach.

In the Sunday rubber match, Toledo outhit Miami nine to five, but the RedHawks defeated the Rockets 5-3. Only one of the runs Miami scored was earned, as several Rocket errors doomed Toledo. “[We] got two out of three, that’s good,” Hayden said. “We’ll still be a little frustrated that we had as bad of a showing as we did yesterday, but to come out and bounce back and play a good one today was important for us.”

Senior Ryan Powers (5-3, 4.35 ERA) picked up the quality start and the win, going 7 innings with three strikeouts and two runs allowed (one earned) on seven hits and three walks. Senior Charles Zubrod (0-1, 7.43

ERA) picked up the six-out save, his fourth save of the season.

The defense was strong behind Powers and Zubrod, recording multiple double-plays to get the RedHawks out of a few jams.

Hayden credited Toledo for its pitcher performance, but said the RedHawk offense needs to do a better job.

“We have to go back to the drawing board a little bit, offensively after this weekend,” Hayden said. “We have to get back to what we’re good at. This weekend I think had probably our most sloppy at-bats that we’ve had this season, just in terms of what we’re trying to do the pitcher and the pitches we’re swinging … We gotta get back to work offensively. We’re too good of an offensive team for a weekend like this.”

The RedHawks host Indiana University Wednesday, with first pitch set for 6 p.m. Fans can listen to the game on redhawkradio.com/sports/listen.

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SPORTS

EDITOR TOM DOWNEY

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014 ANDREW GEISLER GOING LONG WITH GEISLER

HANDLING SPORTS’ ALL CONSUMING NATURE

There are days when I think today’s sports world can be a bit overwhelming and, at times, all consuming. The MLB season lasts 162 games, and its October Classic now ends in November. The NBA playoffs will take the next two months to conclude. The Super Bowl is pushing up against Valentines Day, and it’s clear Roger Goodell is primed to add more games — at the peril of the player’s health, but to the benefit of his wallet.

If the seasons seem long now, it’s almost certain to get worse.

Some view this as a good thing.

Sports are the fun thing you do at the end of the day when you don’t have to think about life’s problems — something a fan can’t get enough of.

But the length of season presents some interesting complexities for a fan who would like to adequately follow each of the major sports and ultimately empowers a wave of the sports world’s very own explanatory journalists, who somehow find the time to catch every moment of every game.

We may have reached a tipping point: we have too much of what we fans love. We live in an age where you can see every game of every major sport if you have the economic means. And the size of each league has ballooned to around 30 teams.

The NHL’s Original Six seems a quaint notion, but at least it was possible to know what’s going on.

Sometimes following sports feels like a full-time job. And some days this is great. ESPN makes this habit manageable, but you always feel

like you’re running behind.

Ultimately, striking the balance is hard, and picking and choosing becomes key. It’s tough to watch all your favorite baseball team’s games even if you’d like to. Right now, there’s really no way to sleep enough and watch all of these great NBA and NHL playoff games.

Football coverage in the fall renders me a Saturday and Sunday couch potato from late August through the Super Bowl.

Fortunately, with this expansion came a whole sports industrial complex. If you miss a game, somebody saw it and wrote about it. That write-up is easily accessible. And on a slow sports news day, listening to ESPN or ESPN Radio is like watching CNN ever since that plane went missing.

Nostalgia for an age I have only read about is something I must guard against. The sports industrial complex probably improves the quality of my life. But picking and choosing can be an unsatisfying strategy. I want to see all of the NBA playoff games, but I’ll never have the time.

The side interest of choice for the American male can eat too much time away. But life is all about choices between priorities. James Harden, somewhere along the way, decided defense didn’t matter to his ultimate success.

Maybe we could all learn from the bearded one in our sports consumption habits. Prioritization is the name of the game; sports are fun, but so is real life. We should all aspire not to be stuck on the couch as life runs by us.

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BASEBALL

RedHawks take two of three from rival Rockets

BY TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

Pitching and defense carried the Miami University baseball team past the University of Toledo in two of three games this weekend. The RedHawks defeated the Rockets 1-0 Friday in a pitchers’ duel that went Miami’s way. The ’Hawks lost 13-5 Saturday, but bounced back to take the Mid-American Conference series with a 5-3 victory Sunday.

Senior Seth Varner (6-2, 2.51 ERA) was nothing short of dominant Friday, striking out 12 batters in a complete game. He allowed just two walks and two hits. It was the first complete game for Varner as a RedHawk and the 12 strikeouts is a new career high. He was MAC East Pitcher of the Week for his performance.

“My stuff was working,” Varner said. “Fastball was down, had some life on it. Change-up was working well, threw some good breaking balls, some good cutters. Overall, had everything working.”

Toledo (17-25, 8-10 MAC) senior Ryan Wilkinson pitched a complete game as well, going 8 innings and allowing one earned run on seven hits.

That run one was all the RedHawks (20-23, 10-8) would need and it came courtesy of senior third baseman Dan Walsh, who drove in junior outfielder Scott Slappey for the game’s only run.

“I’d love to see us score more than a run, but Seth only needed one today,” manager Danny

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Senior pitcher Nathan Williams winds up during Miami’s 13-5 loss to the University of Toledo Saturday. Williams gave up eight runs in 2 2-3 innings.

Hayden said. “And we’ll take a win however we can get them.”

The two teams combined for just nine hits.

Miami’s bats stayed quiet in the second game, but Toledo came out swinging early and often. The Rockets pushed across 13 runs before Miami scored their first en route to a 13-5 victory.

Junior Nathan Williams (3-6, 6.68 ERA) had a rough outing, giving up eight earned runs on seven hits and two walks in just 2 2-3

innings. Freshman Brad Schwartz (1-4, 5.72 ERA) was not much better in relief, allowing five earned runs on four hits and two walks in 1 1-3 innings. Junior Ryan Haynes (2-0, 1.89 ERA) slowed the Rocket attack with 4 innings of scoreless, one hit baseball, but the damage was done.

Miami recorded nine hits in the game, with most of their damage

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TRACK & FIELD

’Hawks finish final home meet before MAC Championships start

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Freshman Arionna Darling prepares to throw the put during the RedHawk Invitational. Darling finished eigth.

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The Miami University’s men’s and women’s track teams wrapped up their final home meet of the season Saturday with the RedHawk Invitational. Both teams returned for the last home meet before the Mid-American Conference Championships.

The men’s team was led by a group of seniors, taking advantage of their last home meet in a Miami uniform. Redshirt senior Sam Spallinger recorded the best long jump of his career with a mark of 7.41 meters, which now leads the MAC. Senior Rob Stein took first in the shot put with a throw of 17.49 meters, while senior Jahquil Hargrove won the

400-meter dash with a time of 47.54. In other results, Seniors Wade Coffin and Kevin Brown finished second and fourth respectively in the 1500-meter run.

The seniors were not the only successful RedHawks on the track as freshman Vincent Minosky won the 400-meter hurdles with a personal best time of 53.78. Sophomore Matthew Pelletier placed

third in the 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:55.25.

The RedHawk athletes were able to compete at a high level despite the windy conditions the day brought.

“Oh it definitely affects them,” men’s head coach Warren Mandrell said. “The effects take even more of a toll on the distance runners who have to deal with it every lap, which just wears them down.”

The women’s team had a successful event as well, notching four victories and 15 top-five finishes. The four victories included junior Melissa Girgis winning the 5000-meter run, sophomore Megan Beaver winning the 800-meter run, senior Erica Howes taking the 3000-meter steeplechase and sophomore Adaora Anunike winning the discus throw.

Howes’ victory proved to be the most impressive as she won her event by 36 seconds, finishing in front of her teammate, junior Elisa Frazier. Howes, who has been injured much of the year, cherished her last home meet.

“It’s definitely bittersweet, it has been a fun run but it’s sad to

let go,” Howes said. “I have been injured a lot of the year, so I’m trying to get back into top for, and in terms of the conference championships all I can do is go out there and give it my all.”

Elsewhere on the track, the women’s team got solid performances from junior Jess Hoover who placed second in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:43.55, while senior Leah Coleman took third in the 400-meter dash and seventh in the 200-meter dash.

As the day concluded, however, one thing was clear to women’s head coach Kelly Phillips.

“It’s apparent that we don’t have an indoor facility,” Phillips said. “We don’t have many sprinters for that reason alone, and it effects overall performance as other teams with indoor facilities have a leg up.”

As the last home meet of the season has come and gone, the track and field teams have one last event, the Billy Hayes Invitational on May 2. After that, they head off to Athens, Ohio for the MAC Championships May 15-17.

SOFTBALL

Miami swept by Ball State, have now lost nine of last 11 games

BY JORDAN RINARD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University softball team failed to stop the bleeding against Mid-American Conference West Division leader Ball State University this weekend as it lost 2-1 Saturday and 9-1 in five innings Sunday. The RedHawks (18-25, 6-10 MAC) have now lost nine of their last eleven games.

In the first game against Ball State (29-16, 9-3 MAC) Saturday, Miami struck first in the top of the third inning as junior outfielder Taylor Shuey connected on a RBIsingle. However, the Cardinals

retaliated in the bottom of the sixth with two runs of their own. The offense for the ’Hawks struggled on the day as they only generated four hits, but senior pitcher Paige Myers put together a solid start on the mound with two earned runs and three strikeouts in 5 2-3 innings of work.

Ball State hit three home runs in the Sunday afternoon contest, including a grand slam in the third and a three-run homer in the fourth to set up a run-rule situation.

The RedHawks got their lone run in the fourth with a RBI from junior outfielder Bree Lipscomb while the pitching staff struggled mightily

giving up nine earned runs.

“Ball State is a great team,” head coach Clarisa Crowell said. “On Saturday, our pitching contained their high-powered offense and that was the game that we needed to win. They have great 3-4-5 hitters, including [senior outfielder] Jenny Gilbert who is one of the best players in the conference if not the country. On Sunday, we were not able to hold them down and we didn’t play well. They’re a team that’s competing for a MAC Championship right now. Paige Myers pitched great in the first game, held them down.”

Miami now has to regroup in order to take on Butler University

(23-25, 9-8 Big East) in a road doubleheader starting 2 p.m. Tuesday.

The Bulldogs, winners of six of their last seven games and currently in a three-way tie for second in the Big East standings, have a potent offense led by junior pitcher/outfielder Cassie Rupel.

Rupel has a .344 batting average, .410 slugging percentage and .403 on-base percentage.

Sophomore pitcher/outfielder Kristin Gutierrez has been solid on the mound with 18 complete games and 138 strikeouts.

The team has an excellent defense with the best fielding percentage in the Big East at .971.

“We played a good team,” Myers said. “We need to build off of each other and play together and we’ll be fine this weekend. We need to play with a lot of energy, especially against Butler.”

Following the games against Butler, the RedHawks return to Oxford to close out the regular season as they host MAC West bottom-feeder Eastern Michigan University in a Friday doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m., and the second-place team in the West Division, Central Michigan University, 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.

Senior day festivities will take place prior to Sunday’s game.