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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1970, The Miami Student reported that Stephen H. Butter, one of four draft lawyers in the country, visited Miami University to speak to the student body. He spoke of the youth population as “the leaders for the revolution for peace” and as the “conscience of America.”

Male charged with rape may face deportation BY Olivia Hnat Community Editor

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Fransisco Naupa Rivera, arrested on charges of burglary and rape Sept. 14 in Oxford, may face removal proceedings from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if he is convicted of current charges. Rivera is originally from Peru. Oct. 28, 2011 Rivera was booked in Butler County Jail for theft and receiving stolen property. After appearing in court, Butler County Jail received a hold on Rivera by ICE. This required Butler County to hold Rivera in jail under federal charges, according to Lt. Nick Fisher, warden of the Butler County Jail. After he was convicted in 2011 on charges of burglary and receiving stolen property, Rivera appeared before an immigration judge

in Aug. 2012. “An immigration judge granted him release from the 2011 removal proceedings. His status was subsequently adjusted to legal permanent residence,” Khaalid Walls, public information officer for ICE, said. Legal permanent residency is given to foreign nationals to live permanently in the United States. If Rivera is convicted, he will be in violation of this residency status, according to Walls. Before Rivera faces removal proceedings, he must first be convicted of the charges for the crimes that occurred in Oxford. Sept. 14, Rivera was arrested by the Oxford Police Department (OPD) in connection with a burglary on East Spring Street and a burglary and rape on East Spring Street. He was charged by OPD for burglary, aggravated

burglary and rape. “During that evening he broke into at least five houses that we know of and was seen in a house as early as midnight, however, no one called police,” Sgt. Jon Varley of OPD said. “The next time we know of his movements was at about 3:30 a.m. when he entered the house on East Spring and then after leaving entered the house on East Collins [Street] where the rape occurred.” The other burglaries that have not been disclosed are still under investigation, according to Varley. “As a result of the current charges, if [Rivera] is convicted he will enter removal proceedings,” Walls said. “None of that will affect his current criminal case. That will be fully adjudicated before the removal case starts.” Christina Lundin contributed to this report.

Storied home of Miami presidents receives historic marker award By Megan Thobe Staff Writer

The Oxford Historic and Architectural Preservation Commission (HAPC) presented a historic marker award to Lewis Place, the current home of Miami University President Hodge Thursday, Sept. 27. Lewis Place has been the home of the university President since 1903. The folder in the University Archives on Lewis Place is bulging with newspaper articles and handwritten notes dating back to the early 1900’s. Even before Miami began leasing the house, it held a strong place in Oxford society. According to a 1976 Oxford Press article about the building, Lewis Place is “the finest old house in Oxford.” First-year Carmen Wymer toured the building. “[When] I was inside I was impressed with the classic architecture and even more impressed by the story behind it,” Wymer said. The house was built by Romeo Lewis in 1839 in the style of a Florida plantation house. At one time, the front windows of the house opened like doors to increase air circulation in the hot summer months. The bullwhipped front porch and half circle walkway often served as the setting for summer parties held by the Lewis family, who lived in the home for 49 years and left a long history in their wake. Lewis’s wife, Jane, lived in the house for a time after her husband died and became well known for taking in orphans and widows and operated a stop on the Underground Railroad. Jane Lewis was affectionately called “Aunt Jane” for her hospitality and generosity. Valerie Hodge spoke about how today, a portrait of Jane Lewis hangs in her study. “She keeps an eye on things around here,” Hodge said. “We like to think that if she came today she’d recognize how the house is being

used because she had parties all the to get people to appreciate the many time and was a very hospitable per- historic buildings and sites in Oxford. son so I think she would approve.” Lewis Place will be awarded a A number of changes have been Tier 1 plaque, meaning it qualifies as made to the house including a ma- a historic structure. jor renovation project in 2007. The “The architecture is nice, but its Hodges have influenced the design position as housing the presidents has of the interior of the building in more value than the architecture,” little ways. Perry said. “The cultural heritage of “Elaine Brandner who is the se- the people who lived and have visnior interior designer, let me help ited there over the past years and the choose things so then it made the university presidents have shaped the house more personal,” Hodge said. culture of the university which has “All around the house you’ll influenced Oxford as a whole.” see these landscape paintings in the At the ceremony, awards will also MIAMI UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES rooms and some people like modern be given to the Stanton Bonham A photograph of Lewis Place dated 1870. art or portraits, but the president and House, the restored Sears House I, we like landscapes,” Hodge said. on Walnut Street, and David Swing “So we went over to the Miami Art House No. 2 which currently houses Museum and they let us borrow any the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. This story was shortened in print. Vispaintings we wanted.” One of the major renovation proj- it miamistudent.net for the full version. ects during 2007 was the addition of space and materials for catering staff. The Hodges host more than 80 events a year out of Lewis Place, so the renovators wanted to give catering exactly what they needed to make their jobs easier. “Before they did the remodeling there was no storage; there was no catering facility of any kind here, so every time we had an event they had to bring over all the food, all CARMEN WYMER THE MIAMI STUDENT the glassware and silverware every single time,” Hodge said. “When we planned for the renovations we asked catering ‘What are you going to need’ so they got just what they needed.” The kitchen and the catering rooms have a more modern feel although the dark wood cabinets remain consistent with the antique feel of the rest of the house. According to Hodge, this table is a great workspace for the caterers during events, and is also where the Hodges enjoy their breakfast cereal. The Oxford Historic and Architectural Preservation Commission started the Historical Plaque Program in 2009. CARMEN WYMER THE MIAMI STUDENT According to Sam Perry, planner for HAPC, the program was started Top left: Jane Lewis. Top right: A study in Lewis Place. Above: A comfy sitting room in President and Mrs. Hodge’s house.

University makes plans to hit Hollywood with immersion program By Rachel Sarachman

For The Miami Student

Get ready to be star struck. Miami University students will now be able to make their mark in Los Angeles, Calif. with a new immersion program called Inside Hollywood. David Sholle, an associate

professor of communication, is the lead coordinator of the new Inside Hollywood program. “The program will launch this summer from May 18 to June 8,” Sholle said. During the first two weeks, students will take tours of TV and film production sets, attend small group lecture sessions and talk to some of the Miami Alumni

working in Hollywood. In the final week, students will job shadow an employee on various film sets like a mini-internship. The program will likely be open to all majors without any prerequisite courses and will accept a maximum of 15 students, according to Howard Kleiman, mass communications professor and coordinator of a similar

Washington, D.C. immersion program, Inside Washington. “As long as a student can give me a good enough reason for being chosen as a participant, I will seriously consider their application,” Kleiman said. “We will have the entire spring semester to bring the accepted applicants up to speed.” Sholle and Kleiman will be

leading the application process. Sholle said the program will serve as a four credit class addressing multiple aspects of the TV and film industry such as TV and film preproduction, production and editing, script development, casting, entertainment law,

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Hub fluke gives alumni homecoming voice Katie M. Taylor

Senior Staff Writer

Voting participation for homecoming court, king, and queen increased this year as a result of the election being hosted by The Hub student activities website. But, alumni were mistakenly allowed access to vote. According to Katie Wilson, senior director of student engagement who set up the election using The Hub, the website allows her to choose an eligibility list which grants voting ac-

abled general access for it.” According to Wilson, Associated Student Government elections which were also held through The Hub, were set up with an eligibility list that only allowed residence hall members to participate. This eliminated the possibility of alumni voting. However, because no eligibility list was used for the homecoming elections, Wilson said anyone with a unique ID had access to vote. Whether that includes only

It’s a new system, and this is the first year we’ve had that issue come up.” Katie Wilson

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

cess to those specified. “There’s a place when I set up [the election] that I set up whether or not the eligibility list is used,” Wilson said. “[The homecoming co-chairs and I] didn’t talk about it, I just en-

2012 alumni cannot be confirmed, but since The Hub was set up at the beginning of last school year the assumption is that only that class would have known of the site’s existence and accessed it,

Wilson said. Though Wilson was unable to identify what portion of voters were alumni, the results showed 2,123 participated in the election for court, and 1,211 for king and queen. Alumni participation was an unintentional side affect of using the new system, according to junior Stephanie Spetrino, homecoming co-chair. “That’s just something we’ll have to work out with IT,” Spetrino said. “We had no idea that alumni were still able to get in there and [vote].” Because most alumni were unaware of their access, their participation was low and therefore probably had minimal affects on the results of the election, according to Wilson. “We certainly wouldn’t have had a way to advertise to alumni that they could vote, so the assumption would be that the majority of people who knew it was time to vote and that they could vote would have been current students,” Wilson said. According to Noëlle Bernard— one of the 2012 alumni that voted on The Hub—the only reason she even knew she could was because a

current student mentioned it. “I didn’t know that I could vote,” Bernard said. “I don’t remember seeing anything advertised about it.” Bernard said her alumni friends had also been unaware and therefore didn’t vote. Because of low awareness, alumni’s participation in the election would have had little to no effect on the outcome, Bernard said. Rebecca Zemmelman, this year’s homecoming queen, said it was a fluke that even she became aware that alumni could vote. “I guess one of my friends—I forget which round—she just told me ‘I saw a link on your wall and clicked on it and was still able to vote’ even though she had just graduated,” Zemmelman said. Spetrino dismissed the concern that nominees in Greek organizations would have been able to recruit former members to vote and that this would have given them an unfair advantage. “As far as the girls go for the queens all five of them were Greek, so if that was the case for one it would’ve been the case for all of

them,” Spetrino said. The Hub is still relatively new to Miami University, so issues are still being addressed, Wilson said. “One of the things we’re going to need to do is figure out how to graduate members from The Hub,” Wilson said. “It’s a new system, and this is the first year we’ve had that issue come up.” Wilson said every system comes with potential problems, and that The Hub has at least done an equal— if not better—job of legitimizing the voting process. “When they’ve done elections in the past through surveys where you circulate a link or through collection of paper ballots there wasn’t any particular way to verify eligibility that non-students were voting in those systems either,” Wilson said. Paper ballots used in previous years had their own set of problems, Spetrino said. “People were voting more than once which was something that we wanted to avoid,” Spetrino said. “At least with The Hub we know people can really only log in once to vote.”

Miami offers helping hand with audiobook resources By Melissa Girgis

For The Miami Student

College life can be overwhelming for any student, with seemingly endless amounts of papers to write, homework assignments to complete and textbooks to read. Often it feels as though there are simply not enough hours in a day. Add to that mix blindness, traumatic brain injury or learning disabilities and the process of keeping up with schoolwork and other activities gets even more complicated. This is where the Office of Disability Resources (ODR) comes in, to make sure that the needs of students with disabilities are being met. According to Andy Zeisler, director of ODR, Miami University has made significant progress in meeting the needs of students with disabilities since he began working at Miami in 1988.

Everyone should have equal access at Miami, whether it’s to buildings, classroom materials or opportunities on campus.” Andy Zeisler DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF DISABILITY RESOURCES

“When I first came to Miami, members of Alpha Phi Omega sorority were volunteering their time to read textbooks to students,” Zeisler said. This method was a start, but had its flaws, including the inability of these students to engage in independent study, Zeisler said. After observing progress by the Ohio State University, Indiana University and Wright State, Miami also began to make changes to better accommodate the needs of its students. A bigger operation began to take shape, according to Zeisler. Due to the level of technological expertise elicited in converting textbooks to audiobooks, a partnership with Information Technology (IT) Services developed. Today, textbooks are converted to audiobooks through an office housed in Miami’s print center, a part of IT services, called the E-text Services to Accessible Text Production Services. Cindy Hurley, who is the supervisor of the E-text Services, along

with 18 part-time student employees, carries out the process. “The process of converting textbooks to audiobooks is both a time and labor-intensive process,” Hurley said. “First, the spines are cut, and then the textbooks are scanned into the computer one chapter at a time, for conversion into a audible file.” According to Hurley, the E-text services currently has 18 PCs with a large capacity to archive files, two high-speed scanners for scanning textbooks, and a larger cutter for cutting the spines from books. A range of software programs, are used throughout the process including Kurzweil 3000, JAWS, Adobe Acrobat Professional and Microsoft Word. The software is used to clean files and put information in the correct order so that when a voice is added, the information is read from the top of a page to the bottom. JAWS is a screen reader usually used by the blind. Hurley said she estimates the print center receives requests from 50-70 students per semester from the Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown campuses, resulting in the conversion of 200-300 books each semester. To obtain an audiobook from the E-text services, students must provide a letter of accommodation from their counselor in the ODR. Senior Helen Diodore said she feels many students are not fully aware of the resources that are available to them through the ODR. “I am partially deaf in one of my ears and I know I sometimes miss key information in my lab classes as a result,” Diodore said. “It would have been nice going into college to know that this resource was available.” Computer programs including Kurzweil, JAWS screen reader and ZOOMTEXT magnifier/reader are also available for students at King Library in the adaptive learning lab. Laws are in place to assure that equal opportunities exist for students with disabilities, but Zeisler said that Miami is motivated to provide resources such as the E-Text services by principles that are even more deeply rooted. “Regardless of legality, it is the right thing to do,” Zeisler said. “Everyone should have equal access at Miami, whether it’s to buildings, classroom materials or opportunities on campus. These values make Miami a better place.”

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ASG applies student org funding cutback By Victoria Slater Senior Staff Writer

The Associated Student Government (ASG) met Tuesday and granted over $350,000 to student organizations, after a 15 percent cutback was applied. Vice President for Student Organizations Michael Trivelli emphasized the efficiency of student organization committee in funding this year, as more organizations are receiving financial assistance with a smaller cutback than last year. “We funded 40 more organizations this year than last year, which is really good to hear,” Trivelli said. “We were a little bit more stringent in the requests that we did approve. We approved 13 percent less capital than last year.” By approving less capital, the organization committee is preserving more money for use during second semester. Later in the meeting, Student Body President John Stefanski discussed the restructuring of ASG as a whole, and suggested abolishing the executive order for the restructuring passed last year by former Student Body President Nick Huber. Stefanski said the executive order was too vague and ambiguous. Stefanski proposed

a new four-year plan be adopted, that clearly outlines the goals, expectations and actions of ASG on a day-to-day basis. Stefanski further called

on to win the presidency. Subsequently, during his report, Secretary for On-Campus Affairs Cole Tyman said the university’s physical facilities department re-

We funded 40 more organizations this year than last year which is really good to hear.” Michael trivelli

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for reform of student body election protocols. He said the election rules will be solidified so that students can have a clear understanding of election procedures. “This culture and this pattern of constantly opening and closing loopholes for other people to run for positions is not sustainable for our student body,” he said. “I want to end the uncertainty that lies within the election process.” Stefanski also said primary elections for senate president and vice president should be eliminated. He discussed the impracticality of primary elections, as not one presidential candidate who lost a primary went

solved the issue of mice getting into Erickson Dining Hall within a few hours. “Physical facilities came out and apparently there was a space between the door and the step at Erickson, and that’s how the mice got in,” Tyman said. “They fixed the space, and no more mice should be able to get in.” The meeting concluded with a review of the ASG budget by Senate Treasurer Alex Busuam. He said ASG currently holds $111,000 in income. The budget will be voted upon at next week’s meeting. In addition, ASG will host voting registration Oct. 1 and 2 at the Shriver Center.

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POLICE Teen marijuana use increases

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The results of the Pride Student Drug Use Survey, conducted by the Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati, show that alcohol and tobacco use are declining among teens, w hile marijuana use has increased. Mary Haag, president and CEO of the Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati, said this is a biannual survey conducted over the past twelve years in the Cincinnati region. This is the first year, however, that the survey contained questions on the non-medical use of prescription drugs. The specifics of the prescription drug-related survey results will be part of a deep-dive analysis released in November of this year, Haag said. The 43 percent decline since 2000 in alcohol and tobacco use among teens is not the only encouraging statistic to come out of the survey. “Parental disapproval [of drug and alcohol use] is a key indicator that we track over time,” Haag said. “And that has improved as well.” Since 2000, parental disapproval

has increased by 7 percent for alcohol, 8 percent by tobacco and 7 percent for marijuana, Haag said. Another indicator that the Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati evaluates is whether teens think their friends would disapprove if they were using alcohol, tobacco or marijuana. In the survey, 65.7 percent of teens believe their peers would disapprove of drug and alcohol use, a 14.4 percent jump from survey results in 2004. A large portion of the survey measures environmental factors in teens’ lives, such as academic success and involvement in alternative activities. “Our whole coalition approach is that there [are] multiple influences in a child’s environment,” Haag said. “They all have an impact on what the norm is, what the availability is.” The most adverse survey result is the increase in teens who believe marijuana is not harmful to one’s health. According to the Butler County Coalition, there was a 4.9 percent drop since 2004 in the amount of teens that believe marijuana is harmful. “We’ve got to really put forth a

strong effort to get information [out] about what the effects of marijuana use are in the short term and also in the long term,” said Karen Murray, Director of the Butler County Coalition. “And also the implications of passing legislation that would legalize it for medicinal purposes.” Because of the results of the survey, the Butler County Coalition will put the negative effects of marijuana use at the forefront of their campaigns. “It’s got to become a part of our daily work plan,” Murray said. “Making sure we get the information back out there that marijuana isn’t harmless.” Butler County residents will see more activity at the county and local level working on this marijuana issue, Murray said. Miami University junior Anna Hartman, who reported about teen marijuana use in the Lakota East High School newsmagazine, said she was shocked at the high numbers she saw in the surveys of her peers. “I remember talking to my friends like, ‘Wow. Did you think that many people would have smoked pot before?’” Hartman said.

Hartman noted, though, that there is a difference in the amount of exposure to anti-drug campaigns that teens experience today than when she was in high school. “I see a lot more ‘Above the Influence’ ads on Facebook and TV,” Hartman said. “A lot more than I remember seeing even just a few years ago.” Hartman said that these ads can play a role in shaping parents’ approach with encouraging their kids to make good decisions. She said that these campaigns, though not always effective are still beneficial for young people. “It’s just a message that you hear a lot [and] become familiar with,” Hartman said. “And not that they are the most persuasive advertisements in the world, but I do think they are effective in communicating that it’s okay to say no.” Murray is the former director of Health Education at Miami and helped established AfterDark. “We need to support programs like this because you get these kids that want to make healthier life choices,” Murray said. “We’ve got to have these social venues for them.”

Butler County follows Door-to-Door receives Ohio’s high obesity rate mixed reviews from riders By Kaitie Espeleta For the Miami Student

A recent report predicts that Ohio’s obesity rate will climb to 59.8 percent by the year 2030. Accompanying Ohio are 39 other states that are projected to go down a similar path. The report that gathered these statistics, F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2012, was released earlier this month by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Butler County is no exception to the trend, with 34 percent of its residents classified overweight in 2008, a statistic that has stayed constant through January 2012. Heart disease, which can result in heart attacks, strokes, angina and arteriosclerosis, is the second leading cause of death in Butler County, with 26.6 percent of the states’ residents also diagnosed with high blood pressure, according to the Healthy Ohio Community Profile: Butler County, by The Ohio Department of Health. Heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and cancer are all correlated with obesity, according to Dr. Gregory Calkins, medical director of the Student Health Center at Miami University. Miami is a health conscious environment and Calkins said the campus is a positive influence on the citizens of Oxford. Junior Olivia Magnotta said she finds it is strange that Butler County has an obesity issue when Miami seems to have just the opposite. “It’s definitely ironic that we’re one of the most active campuses nationwide located in the middle of

great amounts of obesity,” she said. “But then again, Miami is also kind of like its own world in the middle of these cornfields.” Calkins said diet choice can be a leading cause of obesity. “High carbohydrate and high sugar foods are probably, in my opinion, worse than fatty foods to some extent, but the two go together,” Calkins said. He said that the general public tends to emphasize high carbohydrates in our diets, which can lead to problems. Amongst all this obesity, fast food businesses and restaurants are becoming more widely used. “I live uptown,” senior, Maggie Striebech said, “so it’s nice to pick something up quick on my way home when I don’t feel like cooking.” Obesity has many long-term affects, according to Calkins. “Unfortunately these things compound themselves, as you become obese, you sleep more, which can lead to sleep apnea,” Calkins said. “[Obesity] can lead to further health problems and it’s hard to break the cycle.” Decreasing cases of obesity can also affect our health care system. According to Calkins, the most expensive health care treatment is for chronic degenerative diseases, like diabetes. “A lot of our health care isn’t toward acute treatments or emergency procedures and [decreasing obesity] would make a huge impact,” he said. Calkins shared his advice to a healthier lifestyle. “Eat right, keep moving and stay young at heart.”

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By Mike Belden

For The Miami Student

Miami University students have a wide variety of transportation options this fall, ranging from the Miami Metro bus service to Access Miami and the Nighttime Door-to-Door Service. Lt. Benjamin Spilman of MUPD said the Miami Door-to-Door service has two purposes. “The first purpose is for people that are disabled or handicapped,” Spilman said. “They can use it to get from their residence to their class, or to get from a class to another class.” This service is called Access Miami and runs during the afternoon. In the evening, Miami uses the same shuttles for its Nighttime Door-to-Door service. “One or two students can use the bus to get from point A to point B in our service area,” Spilman said. According to the Miami Parking and Transportation website, the Door-to-Door service runs from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Monday to Wednesday, and from 6 p.m.- 4 a.m. on Thursday to Sunday Senior Ben Silver said he used the Access Miami service when he was injured. “The service was amazing,” Silver said. “I would call them and they would come to me in a matter of minutes. Plus, the drivers were really nice” Sophomore Brianne Kistler said she has had one experience with the Miami Door-to-Door service. “Last year, I lived on south quad and I had a friend who lived on east quad,” Kistler said. “It was late, and she was by herself and on the other side of campus. She used the Door-to-Door service and had no problems with it.” However, Kistler has also heard a few complaints about the service. “Some people have said that the shuttle comes late,” Kistler said.

Sophomore Courtney Kolodziej said she has used the Door-to-Door service once, and almost got into a fight with the bus driver. “I was walking back to my dorm from Uptown and my feet started to hurt and bleed” Kolodziej said. Kolodziej said she was not allowed to ride the bus because she was injured. “I called the Door-to-Door service, and when they came, they told me that I couldn’t board the bus because I was injured and had to go to the police,” Kolodziej said. “It made me very upset.” Spilman said there have been some complaints about the service, but many complaints come from students that don’t understand the intended purpose of it. “Most complaints are because the wait is too long,” Spilman said. “The main purpose of the service is for a student who is far away from their residence and doesn’t want to walk home alone.” According to Spilman, the Door-to-Door service can only be used by up to two people. “When there are three or more people in a group, there is larger amount of safety, so the bus shouldn’t be necessary,” said Spillman. Alternatively, students can use the Miami buses to get back to their halls or reach other destinations, according to Spilman. “The orange bus route is designed to cover the high density residential areas around Miami’s campus and in parts of Oxford,” Spilman said. The route, which covers Miami and Oxford from Western Campus and North Quad all the way to High Street and Locust Street, also goes to Walmart on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The orange route operates Monday through Friday and Sunday from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 a.m.

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Pay attention to news abroad, Springer not ideal choice for esteemed series learn about different cultures Monday evening the Miami University Lecture Series hosted media personality Jerry Springer, starting the 2012-2013 series of speakers. Although advertised as “Media Manipulation from the Master Manipulator” and the role media plays in society, Springer’s talk took a turn toward politics and chiefly focused on how a liberal path is important. He addressed the significance of a liberal path for the country, the war on the middle class and privileges of the wealthy. The Miami Student editorial board feels that, party lines aside, this speech was not appropriate for something as esteemed as the Lecture Series. We believe that this series should bring in speakers who will challenge viewpoints, open minds to new ideas and enrich education. From what we gather, Springer’s speech missed the mark. Students from both ends of the political spectrum expressed discontent with Springer’s speech. Springer was brought in by the university to discuss the media’s influence and role in society today. While the Lecture Series board obviously can neither control nor

direct what a speaker may say, Springer took an unnecessary deviation from the advertised topic. Springer is a very influential person in media and has many different life experiences to talk about. While he did not talk about the advertised topic of discussion, he could have chosen many of his other experiences that would have been fascinating. One of the boards’ main concerns, however, was Springer’s selection as the opening speaker of the series. While we acknowledge that Springer is a well-known and influential person in the world of entertainment, he is not the type of speaker that should be upholding the standards of Miami’s Lecture Series. The speakers who are brought in for these events should be based more on intellect and focused on academia, not on celebrity status. It seemed as though the Lecture Series Committee was going for celebrity over quality and focused on flash over substance with the inclusion of Springer as a guest speaker. In the past Miami has had many other notable and popular speakers, who were also able to

contribute thought provoking ideas and promote students to actively engage in discussion. Past speakers such as Condoleezza Rice, Christopher Hitchens, Bill Nye and the Dalai Lama were all “big name” speakers but discussed topics that encouraged students to broaden their minds. Though we need to push the envelope and some boundaries with the speakers that are chosen, we need to focus on someone who can broaden student’s minds, introduce them to new ideas and engage them in serious thought and discussion. The university should uphold the standards of the lecture series and speakers to introduce critical thinking both in and outside of academia, and remember that these lectures should have an enriching purpose for all those who attend. We believe that, over the years, the Lecture Series has been a huge success and a great benefit to students. One less-than-perfect speaker is not a reason to disregard the entire series; it is simply an opportunity for the committee to learn. We encourage the committee to remember this when selecting the Lecture Series speakers for next year.

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So as the election continues to rage on, and the op-eds seem to fall out of the sky on both sides of the political spectrum I’d like to take this opportunity to look at what is happening outside the United States. Lately the media has been abuzz with images of burning flags, riots and violence across the Islamic world, but as the mass media makes an attempt to try and convey the meaning behind all this outrage I cannot help but wonder what our job as students here at Miami University is when it all seems so far away from little old Oxford, Ohio. This past Tuesday I spent most of my time between classes watching the 67th General Assembly meeting of the United Nations in which our own President’s speech discussed messages like hope, tolerance and understanding (all wonderful things). However, the one idea that President Barack Obama kept coming back to that I believe applies to all sections of the political spectrum was the power of the student. From North Africa to the Pacific Rim, college students, very much like you and I, have been finding increasingly creative ways to help fight repressive regimes around the globe using networks like social media to both educate and connect people within their movements. My question then becomes, as an American college student what can I do? We live in one of the freest nations on earth and we don’t usually find ourselves in day-to-day struggles like those of Egyptian teens. Well, despite what I’m going to call, for all intents and purposes, student negligence there is one thing in particular that I’m going to stress here – engagement. Walk down any hallway in any building on this campus, I don’t care what major you are, you are bound to see hundreds of flyers lining the walls advertising for everything from student documentaries on cross cultural conversations in Morocco to Latin American festivals uptown. This past week I happened to

attend both these events, and not because I’m Latin American (which I’m not), or because I want to study abroad in Morocco, but because with all this recent violence abroad it has reminded me that it is important to take advantages of these sorts of things and to make an attempt to learn about other cultures and other people so that when it is our turn to run things we have a better understanding of the people we share this world with. The idea is often romanticized, but in my personal opinion one of the only ways, and one of the most accessible ways, is to work at these problems that face our nation abroad by learning firsthand about the people involved instead of depending entirely on sources like Fox News and MSNBC which I think people are doing a little bit too much of. It is entirely unfair to judge based on the media alone. In the past year or so, the power of the student around the globe has astounded me, and it worries me that I do not see enough people on this campus taking advantage of the wonderful opportunities offered by Miami and its organizations to take these steps in learning outside of class. There is so much to learn and so much to understand when cultures collide. It is for this reason that I am pushing you guys here to step a little outside your comfort zone and got to a talk on The Risk of War in Macedonia, or to go see a speaker from China come talk about human rights over in Farmer, because these problems are not going to just go away with mind probes and television, it’s going to be solved by educated and dedicated students like ourselves! So even if politics really isn’t your thing I’d be willing to bet you pick up a few things along the way, and at the very least you start to get your money’s worth for this outrageous tuition.

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Romney needs specifics on Crony capitalism, big government should be Iran to plan for nuclear future removed from America’s business sector A flash of blinding light, followed by a cloud of rising smoke, eight million people wiped off the face of the earth in the blink of an eye. This is the situation the world might be faced with should Iran become a nuclear power. This may seem far-fetched now, but one only has to look at the heated rhetoric used by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in nearly every single address he has given to the United Nations General Assembly to know that should the United States and the rest of the international community allow Iran to go nuclear the annihilation of the Jewish State is a real possibility. With just over a month left before election day and just days away from the first of three presidential debates, you would think the threat of a nuclear Iran would lead foreign policy to get more than a passing reference from both of the campaigns. While the economy is clearly issue number one – especially after one candidate claimed 47 percent of the population is completely dependent on the government and the other during his time in office let unemployment stay above 8 percent for forty consecutive months – it would be nice to hear more about how these two men view America’s place in the world. This criticism, while it could apply to both candidates applies more to Mr. Romney who lacks a foreign policy record altogether. Whether you agree with or disagree with the President’s decisions regarding foreign policy during his first term, he at least has a record the American people can look to before deciding on the next four years. This is more than Mr. Romney can say, as he failed to even mention the War in Afghanistan during his address to the delegates of the Republican National Convention and launched a distasteful criticism of President’s policy immediately following the death of Ambassador Stevens. There is still however time for Mr. Romney to right this wrong and tell the American people more than just the fact that he believes Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, as he did

during his now infamous summer trip, or that we will support our ally no matter what. Mr. Romney needs to tell the American people not that he will support them but how. Answer for the voter the question of how will a President Romney stop the threat of a nuclear Iran. Not with vagueness, like his now over-simplified five step plan to restore the American economy, but with very specific details that his original 59 point economic plan laid out. A plan that starts by telling the Iranians we will not stand by and let them go nuclear and that we will do more than issue economic sanctions if their centrifuges don’t stop spinning. Because, if we have learned anything from recent events, it is that we know despite four rounds of sanctions, our efforts to cripple their economy and halt their development of nuclear capabilities aren’t working. A point best illustrated by Tehran’s hosting of 120 nations for a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement. A meeting whose participants included economic powerhouses like India, whose delegation included the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It is pretty clear now to both Israel and 120 other nations in the world, that the economic sanctions put in place by both the Obama and Bush Administrations are no longer a severe enough deterrent to the Iranians. That’s why as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said a red line identifying a threshold, that should it be crossed military intervention will occur, must be articulated. Without clear boundaries and consequences should those boundaries be violated in place, we only give Iran a pass to continue what they are doing and add to the instability in the region that not only threatens our allies but also our already fragile economy. Since President Obama has consistently balked at drawing a red line, this means it is up to Mitt Romney to tell the American people what we need to hear. That America is strong and should a nation choose to challenge our allies and our way of life there will be more than just economic consequences.

Capitalism is the cooperation of rational self-interested individuals, each flourishing by producing what he or she is best suited for and exchanging this product with others in a free market. Before the 18th century and capitalism, most of the world was impoverished, and there existed only a few wealthy elite. The rise of capitalism gave people the opportunity to gain wealth by creating valuable services and products that others were willing to buy. Nations where capitalism wasn’t established remained impoverished. So why does capitalism now have a negative connotation? Why are more and more Americans accepting a mindset that preserves poverty — the mindset that one person’s wealth comes from making someone else poor? Americans are confusing capitalism with crony capitalism. Crony capitalism is a symptom of big government. The best way to curb crony capitalism is to limit the government. Let’s examine the relationship between crony capitalism and big government. The Renewable Fuels Standard, also known as the ‘food-to-fuel’ or ethanol mandate, requires a certain amount of corn to be sold for ethanol production. This past summer we had the worst drought in fifty years that threatened our corn crop. Normally, the price of corn would equate with supply and demand, but demand has been distorted by the ethanol mandate. Not only does this mandate cause price volatility, making it even harder for poor people around the world to buy corn, but it is also causing a shortage. Economist Murray N. Rothbard stated, “shortages are anywhere and everywhere creatures of government.” The government’s ethanol mandate creates an artificial market that most likely wouldn’t exist in a free market. If it can’t exist in a free market, that means people do not see its value and are not willing to pay for it. Because the government

mandates that a certain amount of corn be used for ethanol production, the low supply of the corn crop, due to the drought, is magnified. Not only does the ethanol mandate show how the government interferes in the economy, it’s also an excellent example of crony capitalism. Ethanol producers colluded with the government to create this artificial market. Congressmen from corn-producing states also benefit from this cronyism as they appear more re-electable to their corn farming constituents, since the corn farmers now have a guaranteed buyer, the ethanol producers. Further economic interference is the result of this collusion. Not

Protection Agency (EPA). Obviously this is not true capitalism; our individual freedom to decide to purchase or not purchase based on free market price is taken away. In Ethanol Vs. the World, an article appearing Aug. 11, 2012 in The Wall Street Journal, it states that the “USDA’s world agricultural outlook board estimated that global corn consumption will be off by 38.9 million tons, with the U.S. problems responsible for three-fourths of the shortage.” It went on to mention how ‘global bureaucracies’ have asked us to stop this mandate. The executive branch created the EPA. Thus, it can be assumed that the executive branch has

Capitalism isn’t one person’s wealth coming from making someone else poor.That’s crony capitalism.The ethanol producers gain wealth at the expense of other producers, consumers’ pocketbooks, and individual’s economic liberty. Furthermore, this wouldn’t be happening if the government interference was limited.

only does it distort supply and demand, but the government’s support of ethanol producers and corn farmers is at the expense of other producers such as beef and pork farmers, who must now pay more to feed their herds. The government picked the economic winner, corn farmers, and the losers, beef and pork farmers. Britain’s National Pig Association (NPA) has declared that pork shortages are unavoidable. And prices for food in general are predicted to reach record highs across the world in 2013. The government shouldn’t have the power to control and plan the multiple sectors of the economy. Such power was never intended by the Constitution. This power leaves the consumer with no choice as ethanol is put into our gasoline by a mandate from the unelected Environmental

authority over it. Does President Obama have the authority to get rid of this mandate or at least temporarily relax it for this year? If so, why hasn’t he? I hope he wouldn’t risk a global shortage because he’s afraid to take away the ethanol ‘entitlement,’ as I like to call it, and upset corn farming states that would be crucial for his re-election. Capitalism isn’t one person’s wealth coming from making someone else poor. That’s crony capitalism. The ethanol producers gain wealth at the expense of other producers, consumers’ pocketbooks, and individual’s economic liberty. Furthermore, this wouldn’t be happening if the government interference was limited. This election I will be voting for the candidate who understands the difference between capitalism and crony capitalism.

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The ‘Master Manipulator’ manipulates Miami: sly liberal agenda strikes academia The proverbial “liberal” agenda on college campuses has struck again, now choosing its next victim to be Miami University. I, like the many other students that were also forced by their journalism professors to attend the Jerry Springer speech, was taken aback by the strong political statements Spring made that clearly favored the liberal platform. No offense to MU, but Mr. Springer is not the only evidence of liberal favoritism here on Miami’s Campus. In early August, Miami University’s own alumnus, and Vice Presidential Nominee, Paul Ryan, came to speak at his alma mater, but what many of you don’t know: the University rejected him. As the Ryan Campaign contacted the conceiver of his undergraduate degree, elected officials at Miami quickly turned the event over to the Miami College Republicans, vehemently stating that they would have absolutely NO affiliation with the event—probably under the circumstances that they were pandering to political correctness and desire to remain a non-partisan entity. This decision was fine, until the

University paid for and publicized the Springer event. You would think that no matter what political party, any University would be proud that their former alumni was nominated for the Vice Presidential nominee. Miami should have looked at this opportunity through a different lens: The same university that we all attend right now, helped in the production of the next possible Co-Commander in Chief of this nation. Miami could have made this event a prideful example; an opportunity to motivate students so they realize that they too can achieve their dreams. Instead they bring in a staunch Democrat preaching political ideologies to students. Also, although everyone is entitled to their opinion and has the freedom of speech, another great disappointment from the liberal side, was the past opinion piece written by a Miami professor, Tom Romano. My understanding of a professor is that they are mentors in the subject area that they are passionate about, and are hired for their knowledge and ability to reiterate it to the next generation. Isn’t that what we’re all paying thousands of dollars for? A professor’s job is to teach a subject

and should leave out his or her own political activism on campus. Romano should focus on being a “professor” instead of “professing” his love for the Democratic Party to students. This past Monday night when Jerry Springer hypnotized the audience, opening his politically propagated speech claiming that “The world is liberal and the liberal cause will always prevail” is evidence and the cherry on top of the apparent liberal agenda on higher institutions of learning. The Lecture Series is primarily funded by the students, and just like our tax money being poorly distributed into unwanted social programs and “reforms” that the overall American people disagree with in the ‘real’ world, our tuition money was used to finance this political discrimination that plagued and demonized the seats of Hall Auditorium. But better yet, when an individual favoring the right side is brought here, it is equaled out to form a “fair and balanced” opinion, for example: The up coming former 2008 McCain internet advisor, Becki Donatelli, speaking about social media in elections against

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Pro-Obama blogger, Sam Felsom. Was it a coincidence that with 43 days left until the election, the University condoned the ex-Democratic Mayor of Cincinnati and allowed this indoctrination? It was as almost if President Obama brought his crony to the campus himself. I am a strong believer in the saying “If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything.” I have faith that those that attended the Springer let down, are competent enough to see through the manipulation and disgraceful demagoguery coming from the mouth of a man who has made his living off of giving paternity tests to America’s trash and referees fights between midget strippers on national television. Maybe Springer should find a hobby other than manipulating students on college campuses and castigating conservatives. While the President creates a new flag to replace the patriotic stars and stripes, continuously ignores the situations abroad and keeps the unemployment rate for young adults ages 18-29 at an absurd 12.7 percent, it is time we really question if he has held to his promises he made in 2008. So, in all fairness to Mr. Springer,

other than being the “Master Manipulator” there was ONE portion of his speech that was correct as well: “This election is the first one in your lifetime where you really will decide what kind of country we’re going to be.” To all the voters on this campus that are reading this, he is right. This is where we decide what kind of country we are going to be. President Obama has failed our generation and our country. If this country continues on the track it has been on the last four years, the next four won’t look any different. We will become a nanny nation. A nation with continued excessive spending, with irrevocably damaged foreign relationships, a nation where few or NONE of us have jobs after spending thousands on a degree, and most of all, a nation where Capitalism and the principles and freedoms that our fore fathers built this beautiful nation upon are destroyed. It is time we fight for the Republican Party that is embattled on our campus. If everyone “claims” Miami University is such a conservative school, like Mr. Springer said, well then let’s just show everyone it is this November at the ballot box.

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REPLACEMENT REFS PUT Nfl IN DIRE STRAITS Of all American professional sports, the NFL remains America’s sport because it is a league of honor; its players have a passion for the game unlike any other sport. Until the 2012 season, the NFL was the best-officiated sport in America. That reputation has changed over the past three weeks. Unfortunately for Commissioner Roger Goodell and co., the refereeing situation will continue to consume media outlets. Let’s be honest here: we have all seen calls go against the teams we support. The refereeing was nothing short of abysmal and an absolute embarrassment to the league and the players. The business of the NFL struggled due to the labor dispute – who wanted to pay money for tickets to watch a ref make a game-altering error when they can suffer at home watching it on TV? While I am not a Green Bay Packers fan, I could not help but feel sympathy for all the cheese heads after the disaster Monday night. In the last four minutes of the fourth quarter there were at least five calls that went against the Packers, inevitably leading to Seattle’s controversial Hail Mary catch and the creation of a new word: “touchception.” If anything positive came from the mistakes on national television, it is that the NFL and the referees resumed negotiations, not because they wanted to, but because they needed to. Had a game-reversing call like the final play of the Green Bay Seattle game happened in the playoffs, or even worse, the Super Bowl, how would the

league have responded to the outcries? In one moment, the integrity that is synonymous with the NFL would disappear like a plane in the Bermuda Triangle. Goodell and the rest of the owners took the established expertise of the regular referees for granted, they attempted to play hardball and move on without them but failed miserably. However, when commentators of all the major networks blatantly express their distaste for the replacement refs, there is a problem. Truthfully, I cannot understand why it took the NFL Referees Association and the NFL so long to resolve the dispute. After all, the NFL is a multi-billion dollar organization and the NFLRA was asking for a mere $3.3 million dollars. As a sports fan, I couldn’t be happier that both sides reached an agreement. It is a significant positive in an otherwise tumultuous season thus far. Football is drastically different when the wrong people are officiating. All parties deserve this resolution: the referees deserve it, the players deserve it and most of all the fans deserve it. The referees are set to make $205,000 come 2019 and will receive several benefits. They will be compensated, and rightfully so. After all, they are the best referees in professional sports. I understand the replacement officials did the best they could, but they were not up to the task. But, the real officials are back. Let the games begin, America.

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The Miami University football team (2-2, 1-0 Mid-American Conference (MAC)) heads to Akron, Ohio to take on the University of Akron (1-3) in a MAC East conference game. The matchup marks the RedHawks’ first MAC road game and the Zips MAC opener. “It is always tougher when you’re playing on the road,” Head Coach Don Treadwell said. “We’ve got our work cut out for us. It’s the next challenge up and it just happens to be another MAC game in our division as we move forward.” Akron made a splashy coaching hire in the offseason, bringing in Terry Bowden, son of coaching legend Bobby Bowden. “The first thing that comes to mind is the change they’ve made in leadership,” Treadwell said. “The name Bowden weighs heavy. There is so much respect for just that last name. The father, and then you look at Terry Bowden, a tremendous coach and I think if you look at his track record and I think he’s won just

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about everywhere he’s been in major fashion.” Akron has won only one game each of the past two seasons, but things have started to change under Bowden. “Because of Bowden’s influence, in my opinion, you see this team in four games really playing hard from the first quarter through the entire game,” Treadwell said. “And they are executing well.” The Zips have not beaten a Football Bowl Subdivision team since 2010 when they defeated the University at Buffalo. “They play hard,” redshirt senior quarterback Zac Dysert said. “They are not the same team they have been in the past. We have to take it seriously and we have to play hard.” Dysert enters the game as the reigning MAC East Player of the Week following his four-touchdown performance against the University of Massachusetts. “The most important thing is that we won,” Dysert said. “If you focus on the team, focus on the stuff you’re supposed to, the individual stuff will come.” Akron is currently ninth in the nation in passing offense,

averaging nearly 341 yards per game. “They’re very explosive and it will be a great challenge for us,” senior defensive back D.J. Brown said. “We’re excited to play them this weekend.” Leading the Zips passing attack is senior quarterback Dalton Williams, who transferred to Akron from Stephen F. Austin this year. Williams has thrown for 1,233 yards and 10 touchdowns this season, both of which eclipse his career mark at Stephen F. Austin. “They have a very dangerous passing attack,” Treadwell said. “They’ve got a very good and efficient quarterback.” Williams’ favorite target has been senior wide receiver Marquelo Suel, who has caught a team high 32 balls for 352 yards and three scores. Sophomore running back Jawon Chisholm leads the Akron rushing attack, with 51 carries for 242 yards. He also has two receiving touchdowns. Akron has struggled this year

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Miami hopes to extend streak against OU, KSU By Win Braswell

For The Miami Student

After winning its first two Mid-American Conference (MAC) games at home, the Miami University soccer team puts its 8-2 (2-0 MAC) record on the line in two weekend road games at Ohio University and Kent State University. Both the Bobcats and Golden Flashes enter with winning records at 6-4 (1-1 MAC) and 5-22 (0-1-1 MAC), respectively. “Better competition demands a better effort,” Head Coach Bobby Kramig said. “Things that we got away with this past weekend or against some of the weaker teams on our schedule, we’re not going to get away with. Both of those teams are capable of exposing a team’s weaknesses, but I think we’ll respond. The mood of practice this week is very confident, because our players know what they can do and what they’re up against.” The RedHawks face Ohio 4 p.m. Friday. The Bobcats are looking to bounce back after their six-game winning streak was snapped Sunday at Central Michigan University. If history is an indicator of things to come, this game will be close. The past three seasons Miami has beaten Ohio in overtime periods, coming from behind last season, as senior captain Jess Kodiak tied the game at one with just nine seconds left in regulation. “We’ve been harping on putting teams away early,” junior forward Katy Dolesh said. “We haven’t had the best of luck,

scoring right away. We’ve had chances, but haven’t capitalized all the time. That’s what we’ve worked on in practice the past few weeks.” Despite giving up just eight goals in 10 games, Kramig is asking his team to step up its defensive pressure. The ’Hawks face two squads that have shown they can score multiple goals in any game. “I think we need to be very good defensively on restarts,” Kramig said. “We especially need to be on our toes at Kent. They have a smaller field that makes everything more difficult. A throw-in can play like a corner there, so we need to be ready. Plus, the smaller field will present challenges for our speed. Our defense has kept us in games, where our offense struggled a bit. So, that’s going to continue to be our top priority.” As for the RedHawks’ starting goalie, redshirt sophomore Allison Norenberg, Kramig is confident she will continue her outstanding play. “The nice thing about having a team with the attacking players that we have is that Norenberg gets tested a lot more in practice than she ever does in games,” Kramig said. “She works hard, and is possibly the most improved player we have. That’s all credit to our conditioning and Nate [Lie], our defensive coach. The fact that she has five shutouts this year really shows the work she’s put in.” Kent State has been in several

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