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Envisioning MU in 2020 Discussing diversity:

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Lawyer rules actions of Miami officials non-discriminatory

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What will Miami University look like in 2020? That was the question Miami President David Hodge tried to answer his annual address to the university Thursday. During this address Hodge outlined his plan to continue to provide quality education in 2020 despite the troubles facing higher education today.

“While we cannot exactly know the future, we can still reasonably anticipate some of the major shifts that will change the higher education environment, and we can determine how we want to position ourselves to build an ever stronger, more impactful, and more highly regarded university,” Hodge said.

Hodge divided his address into three main parts: “how have we done?,” “building the future,” and “creating the Miami 2020 plan.”

According to Hodge, like most universities, Miami had a major crisis to contend with after the 2008 economic downturn.

“Our reserves were rapidly exhausted, our state funding was cut, and we were under-enrolled for the incoming class in the fall of 2009,” Hodge said.

As a result Miami had to focus more of its attention on its immediate economic needs. However, with the creation of the Strategic Priorities Task Force (SPTF) in March 2010, Miami was still able to plan for its future, according to Hodge.

SPTF created a list of five major goals Miami needed to accomplish in order to create a sustainable budget and become a more well-known university on a national scale. The goals included improving both the undergraduate and graduate experience at Miami, increasing scholarly accomplishments, contributing to regional, state, national and global communities and maximizing university resources.

According to Hodge, the SPTF goals helped Miami weather the changes to higher education, but in order to be prepared for the

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President Hodge makes his annual address to the university Thursday. upcoming years Miami must continue planning for the future.

“These changes [to higher education] are not temporary disruptions; they are, in fact, changes that are framing a new normal,” Hodge said. “Success in this environment requires anticipating these changes and effectively adapting them to the core missions of the university.

More specifically, success requires an inspiring vision, focused goals and high performance execution.”

Like Hodge, Provost Bobby Gempesaw, who also spoke at the address, encouraged the Miami community to meet these challenges head on.

“We have an enormous opportunity and challenge as we initiate the Miami 2020 Plan,” Gempesaw said. “We must anticipate and lead.”

Hodge also spoke of another five goals, the goals for Miami in 2020.

These goals include the creation of a learning environment to engage undergraduate and graduate students both inside and outside the classroom, to create an

environment for faculty and staff where they are rewarding innovative thinking and performance, to extend Miami’s global reach, to maintain financial sustainability and academic achievement and to keep improving service, learning, research and the future success of students.

There is one large Coordinating Team (CT) and several smaller Target Goal Teams (TGT) that will help develop these goals and make recommendations for the future.

One of the members of Coordinating Team, Associated Student Government (ASG) Student Body President John Stefanski, said the address helped present the 2020 plan to the whole university.

“I thought [the address] was really good,” Stefanski said. “I think this presents [the 2020 plan] for the entire university to see that we are going to be proactive looking forward in the next seven years.”

Stefanski also said the address was important for him to help make sure ASG has the same goals as the university.

Discrimination charges filed last school year by Kaeden Kass, a transgender male student, have been dropped. School policies go unchanged, but discussion continues.

According to Kass, controversy arose after he applied and received a job offer as a resident assistant (RA) last year and was denied his request to live in a male residence hall.

Kass said discussion began between Dean of Students Susan Mosley-Howard and representatives from the Office of Residence Life. According to Kass, he was informed shortly after he would be housed according to the gender listed on his birth certificate—female.

Kass said he was assigned to Flower residence hall in a suite with females, but turned it down.

According to Kass, he now lives off campus with another male.

“I didn’t want to be a part of a system that was rejecting me,”

“We’re ignoring their identities and making them live with people that they can’t identify with—a situation which can more often than not be alienating and hostile,” Kass said.

According to Olson, Parker— who declined to comment—is the school official that would normally handle such cases but could not oversee Kass’ after being named in the complaint.

Olson said as a result an outside party was brought in to do the investigation.

According to Kass, the investigation ended in May after being ruled non-discriminatory by a lawyer from Columbus, Ohio, Betty Stanton. Kass said school policy remains unchanged aside from the RA application, which now asks for students’ ‘sex’ rather than ‘identified gender’.

According to Mosley-Howard, there is no flaw in the system as Kass believes there to be.

“There are no other changes because the issue was not the policy or the process, so those things are still the same,”

There are no other changes because the issue was not the policy or the process, so those things are still the same.”

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Kass said. “If they’re not going to really stand up and think critically about what diversity means and challenge themselves to live up to their values then I don’t want to be a part of it.”

Kass filed a charge of discrimination with Miami University’s Office of Equity and Equal Opportunity against MosleyHoward as well as Robin Parker—general counsel in the Office of the President—and Jerry Olson, director of the Office of Residence Life.

“I had to name specific people who I thought were discriminating against me, but it’s really not a people thing; it’s a system thing,” Kass said. “It’s hard to change the system.”

According to Kass, the system in place does not accommodate certain students, including but not limited to homosexuals and transgender individuals.

Mosley-Howard said.

According to Olson, if a similar situation arose it is impossible to know if it would be handled the same way.

“I think every situation winds up being unique, and we want every student to have the opportunity to serve in leadership roles,” Olson said. “Whether [a different case] would wind up being exactly the same is hard to tell because every case is different, but there is no interest on the part of our department to limit who is eligible to apply, and who is accepted to be an RA.” Though he did not comment on the outcome of the case, Olson said he acknowledges Kass’ feelings.

“I don’t want any student to ever feel as if he or she has been

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Miami University President David Hodge outlined the three main points of his speech: how have we done?, building the future, and creating the Maimi 2020 plan.

Phi Tau national fraternity drops lawsuit

By Jenn Smola Campus Editor

After filing a $10 million lawsuit against Miami University last week, Phi Kappa Tau national fraternity has dismissed its stake in the suit.

The Miami chapter of Phi Kappa Tau, as well as the Phi Kappa Tau Housing Association, was also named plaintiff in the lawsuit. According to Claire Wagner, associate director of university communications, while the

national organization is no longer part of the equation, the other two organizations’ status in the suit isn’t entirely clear.

“The Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, the national organization, has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit,” Wagner said. “It is unclear if the other two plaintiffs, the Phi Kappa Tau Housing Association and the local chapter, are active or dismissed.”

Steve Hartman, chief executive officer of the Phi Kappa Tau

fraternity and foundation, said he also wasn’t sure of the other organizations’ current involvement in the lawsuit.

Hartman said the main goal of the Phi Kappa Tau national fraternity is to support the Miami chapter.

“The national fraternity generally needs to be supportive and advocate for the students in the chapter, and right now a lawsuit really doesn’t help meet that end,” Hartman said.

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Take-home exams test Miami students’ integrity

By Melissa Girgis

For The Miami Student

A collective “yes!” can usually be heard from students in the classrooms of teachers who administer take-home exams over course material. Their perceptions may be that this type of assessment is easier or that they are more likely to get an A, but in actuality, some teachers say that take-home exams can be even more time-consuming.

A recent scandal at Harvard University, where 125 students were caught cheating on a takehome exam by collaborating on answers, has gotten media attention. Although careful rules and regulations regarding academic integrity were in place, administrators there are being forced to re-evaluate these policies in attempt to make them more effective.

According to Phyllis Callahan, dean of the College of Arts and

Science, there are currently no policies in place regarding takehome exams at Miami University.

“A take home exam is no different than writing a paper,” Callahan said. “Policies on academic integrity are explicitly stated in the Student Handbook, and faculty include instructions about the proper procedures to follow. It is the responsibility of students to behave in an ethical manner both inside and outside the classroom.”

The Miami University Policy and Information Manual (MUPIM) briefly addresses the topic in section 5.4, the Statement on Good Teaching Practices, which states that it is the responsibility of instructors to confront students suspected of academic dishonesty.

Nutrition instructor Nancy Parkinson said she believes it is hard to monitor take-home exams to ensure they are fair.

“If anyone is going to cheat I consider it a matter of integrity that has to rest on their

conscience,” Parkinson said. “It is not something I have a lot of control over unless it is brought to my attention, in which case I have to do something about it.”

Parkinson said she handles the issue by using critical thinking questions in her exams that force students to apply the material learned in class and information from their textbooks. In regards to the ethical issues that come with this type of assessment, Parkinson said she has only had to question a student once, and the matter was resolved by talking to the students involved and taking appropriate disciplinary action.

Although take-home exams do not make up the majority of her tests, Parkinson said she feels that a big advantage of this type of test is that it allows students to be creative in their responses, and develop answers that are more

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Amidst loss, anthropology professor finds professional path

By Megan Thobe Staff Writer

Anthropology is the study of all things human. Anthropologists in a number of fields including global health apply their knowledge to imagine and implement strategies to solve humanity’s countless problems by integrating perspectives from many areas into their research.

The field of anthropology is organized into the fields of archeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. Within these fields there are sub-studies that use techniques from each field to understand their unique questions about humanity.

Medical anthropologist, Cameron Hay-Rollins understands the importance of integrating knowledge from multiple fields. She has anthropological field experience that changed the way she viewed the world.

Hay-Rollins has been a part of Miami University’s anthropology department since 2005 and currently teaches five different anthropology classes and is working on a committee to develop a new minor program in global health.

Abby Sapadin, a senior anthropology major, said Hay-Rollins uses anthropology to examine the world and pushes her students to do the same.

“In my mind, she is passionate, she is critical, and she pushes you to investigate deeply problematic issues in the world and decide for yourself how you will approach them,” Sapadin said.

Hay-Rollins has a tidy office

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with two chairs for visitors and large clear desk. She wears a pressed button down shirt and her square framed glasses and shoulder-length white hair give her the intellectual look of a professor.

Her warm smile and openness to conversation show another side of her that is more accustomed to working with unique people.

“I like people,” Hay-Rollins said. “In what other field do you get to go out and hang out with people, and watch what they do and figure out what their interests are without having necessarily an agenda of your own?”

Hay-Rollins said the field of anthropology is based on the powers of observation.

“Unlike other fields that do science based on experiments, anthropologists’ primary method is ethnography or observational research,” Hay-Rollins said. “We look at natural settings and see behaviors. Human and not human, we look at how they react in natural settings, which means we have very little control over what people do.”

Hay-Rollins did not originally have a huge interest in medical anthropology.

“I was a cultural anthropologist and I was interested in psychological issues – identity issues actually,” Hay-Rollins said. “I was trained in the biological questions during grad school and I loved the cultural questions or approaches to theory, but I wasn’t particularly interested in the biological portion. I wanted to study identity. And then I got into the field,” In a tiny village on the island of Lombok in Indonesia HayRollins’ plans for studying identity quickly evaporated.

“These people weren’t interested in their identity,” Hay-Rollins said. “They knew who they were; they didn’t care what anyone else thought about who they were!

They had no interest whatsoever in their identity!”

“What they were interested in,

In my mind, she is passionate, she is critical, and she pushes you to investigate deeply problematic issues in the world and decide for yoiurself how you will approach them.”

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what they talked about, what consumed a good portion of their lives was illness,” Hay-Rollins said. “I was in a community of 800 people and I went to a burial a week for two years.”

Hay-Rollins shared the loss and suffering with the people of

Remembering politicians of our past

By Emily Glaser Senior Staff Writer

Campus is buzzing with excitement as election season heats up and one of Miami’s own has a chance to become Vice President of the United States. But Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), a 1992 graduate, is not the first Miami alumnus to make political headlines.

In 1892, Whitelaw Reid, an 1856 graduate, ran unsuccessfully for the same office. He shared the Republican ticket with fellow Miami grad, Benjamin Harrison (1852), who was running for re-election.

The pair made history as the only two graduates of the same institution to date to run for president and vice president.

Each had a unique background.

Reid preceded his nomination for Vice President as a journalist and politician, serving as the War and Washington Correspondent for The

This article is part of a series The Miami Student is running about the University Archives. All information in the following article was obtained from the University Archives with the help of University Archivist Bob Schmidt.

Cincinnati Gazette and editor of the New York Tribune, as well as serving as Minister to France between 1889 and 1982.

Before Harrison became president in 1889, he was a Brevet General in the Union Army, one of several Miami graduates to serve in the Civil War. Although Oxford was north of the Mason-Dixon line, the line separating the Confederate states from the Union states, many Miami students’ hometowns were not. As a result, Miami can claim generals and congressmen from both the

Lombok and her experience shaped the future of her studies as an anthropologist. “This was what was salient for them,” Hay-Rollins said. “And so I became a medical anthropologist because that’s what mattered to them.”

The people of Lombok helped her realize that issues of suffering and resilience are central to humanity especially when dealing with issues like healthcare.

Hay-Rollins recalls the people in Lombok coped with illness and healthcare differently as a result of their culture and low level of access to medical knowledge.

“I came back to the U.S. and I realized that the Internet was making medical access more egalitarian,” Hay-Rollins said. “So I said ‘well, what’s happening with that, how does patient access to medical information online affect their illness experience and doctor patient relationships?’”

confederacy and the union.

Perhaps the most prominent is Joseph R. Davis, nephew of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Miami graduate of 1842, who served as a Brigadier-General for the Confederate States of America.

Another notable Union General was 1827 graduate Robert Cumming Schenck, although the Civil War was not his only political claim to fame. Schenck also served as the leader of the Ohio Whig Party in 1841-42, an Ohio congressman, and Minister to Brazil, Great Britain, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina.

Harrison, Reid, Davis and Schenck were all graduates of what is now referred to as “Old Miami,” the period of time between 1824 and 1873 before the school was shut down and reopened.

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After finishing her Ph.D program at Emory University, HayRollins went on to conduct postdoctoral research at the Center for Culture and Health at UCLA. More recently, Hay-Rollins has done research comparing the memory processes of

healers in various medical traditions.

Her research was recently published in a chapter of a book titled The Encultured Brain, which covers a new specialty field called neuroanthorpology.

“In my chapter,” said Hay- Rollins “I argue that healers or physicians in different traditions augment their mental memory skills to fit with the ideology of their particular tradition.”

She also has worked on a number of research projects that focus on various topics including empathy in clinical interactions, cultural competency in medical practice and an undergraduate research project on the experience of stress.

Upon coming to Miami University in 2005, she conducted an interdisciplinary research program on clinical decision-making that has been published in medical and health policy journals. At Miami she also continued to examine empathy as well as starting two projects that looked at student health.

Hay-Rollins’ studies have affected her on both a personal and professional level. She has won awards for her research and published work. However, she said she names teaching as her greatest accomplishment.

“Most of my classes don’t have any pre-reqs so I get a wonderful array of students that come in and each student brings in their own perspectives from their own lives and we get these great dialogues,” Hay-Rollins said.

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Key cards in halls reduce lockouts, increase security

By Alexis DeBrunner For the Miami Student

Since switching from keys to key cards in residence halls at the start of last school year, Miami University has seen a reduction in lockouts as well as increases in security at the benefit of its students.

Robert Abowitz, associate director of residence life, said he believes the switch to key cards has been positive change for Miami’s campus.

“Making the change from keys to key cards was driven by a number of factors, one of them being the increases in security that these cards provide,” Abowitz said. “In terms of numbers it’s very difficult to track how many lockouts there have been, because of the number of services provided to

students in the event of losing their card, but the key cards have been a positive change.”

Abowitz said The Office of Residence life has been unable to provide numbers because with the advancement in technology, students have been reporting their cards lost less often; therefore the office has been unable to accurately get a reading on the number of lost cards compared to the number of lost keys, according to Abowitz.

Assistant Director of Student Housing and Meal Plans Sherri Bowling also emphasized the number of options available to students if they lose their card as a positive improvement. With online webcard services, the “open

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treated unfairly—that’s awful,” Olson said. “I believe that Kaeden had felt he had been discriminated against, and we have to be able to respond well to students who feel that’s what occurred here at the university.”

According to Mosley-Howard, Kass was treated just as any other student would be.

“Each time a student applies to be an RA we look at the set of circumstances that they present, and then of course the process is exactly the same for every student,” Mosley-Howard said.

“The process is very consistent across the board.”

Along with frustration over the outcome, Kass said the controversy got a lot of unexpected media attention, which led to hurtful comments that had a damaging effect on him.

“With the media, it’s so easy for people to de-personalize stuff,” Kass said. “It’s so easy for people to forget that I’m an actual human being.”

According to Demere Woolway, Miami University’s coordinator of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (GLBTQ) Services, negative reactions like the ones Kaeden experienced often stem from peoples’ lack of familiarity with transgender individuals.

“When you’re born, ‘is it a boy or is it a girl?’ is the very first question you ask and it continues in elementary school,” Woolway said. “Girls line up here and boys line up there. We grow up in a world that says this is the way things are, and it’s hard to question something like that.”

Kass said he thinks people may have reacted differently if they understood his motivation behind filing the charges was not to hurt anyone, but to fight for his rights.

“I’m just a person who’s trying to live the best life I can, and who’s trying to be the happiest that I can be,” Kass said. “I think that everyone deserves that right—that’s why this is so important to me.”

According to Woolway, Kass’ case was not in vain.

“The end result was obviously not what he was hoping for,” Woolway said. “At the same time it has allowed us to have a conversation about how we are serving transgender students.

We have been able to talk a little more publicly about how we as a university can serve students who don’t fit gender binaries very well.”

Woolway said she is in touch with colleagues across the country whose universities are also looking for alternative ways to accommodate students in similar cases. According to Woolway, even before she came to Miami in 2009 there was discussion of expanding gender-neutral housing on campus, which would allow male and female students to

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According to Kass, this option should be in place in existing residence halls.

“How do you maintain a binary sexed system when the lines between sexes and genders are blurred?” Kass said. “You really can’t. That’s where a gender-neutral approach comes in.”

There are a number of genderneutral housing openings currently available in Hahne Hall for students with substantial reason to opt into it, but Kass said he does not feel that is acceptable.

“The ‘substitute’ that we’ve put in place to ‘deal’ with trans students is inadequate and virtually unknown,” Kass said. “The fact [that] it’s so underground is stigmatizing. It’s shoved in the corner of the university and is only available to second-year students and up.”

According to Vicka BellRobinson, associate director for the Office of Residence Life, last December the idea of offering gender-neutral housing in Heritage Commons was brought up prior to—not in connection with—Kass’ case.

Bell-Robinson said a survey was sent out Aug. 1 to Miami students asking their opinion on gender-neutral housing options being available in the future. According to Bell-Robinson, the survey results should be in by the end of September, and will hopefully help determine whether the option should be offered.

According to Kass, though this option will help accommodate transgender students, it does not address the bigger issue.

“We need to acknowledge trans students’ identities and stop treating them like freaks,” Kass said. “We also need to break down the sex-segregated system as a whole, which is the larger culprit that leads to discrimination like this.”

Kass said his case is not the focal point of the issue at hand.

“My case was a symptom of the real problem,” Kass said.

“People can’t forget about it. It will change if people keep talking.”

According to Woolway, the bigger issue is peoples’ refusal to accept and respect the identity of transgender individuals.

“Regardless of the decision in this particular instance, GLBTQ Services is going to continue talking about the needs of trans people—continue to push people to examine their policies and practices to make sure that we are doing our best to include everybody on this campus,” Woolway said.

According to Kass, changes to the system are necessary, and he realizes it will be a slow process.

“I know the issue is complicated and it’s hard to see where the problems are and what exactly should be done about them,” Kass said. “Because just as the issue is two-fold, the solution must be.”

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POLICE State launches law banning distracted driving

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By Freeland Oliverio For the Miami Student

Friday, Aug. 31, a ban went into effect that officially criminalized texting while driving in the state of Ohio.

The Ohio Distracted Driving Act (House Bill 99) is meant to combat the effects of distracted driving, which caused nearly 416,000 injuries and 3,092 deaths in 2010 alone, according to José Ucles, spokesperson for the National Highway Safety Administration.

The ban, which was voted on by the Ohio House of Representatives in an 88-10 vote in March of last year, serves as a secondary offense to drivers 18 or older. Police Officers cannot immediately pull someone over if they are 18 or older and seen texting while driving.

Rather, an officer must pull a person over for a primary offense, such as speeding or having a tail light out, before charging them for texting and driving, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A charge results in a minor misdemeanor with the possibility of a $150 fine. However, punishment is much more severe for those drivers under the age of 18, according to Ucles.

“While I was not part of the legislative process,” Lieutenant Anne Ralston, Public Affairs Commander of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, said “this law aims to make driving safer by eliminating distractions – in particular aimed at our youngest drivers who are our most at risk group when it comes to becoming involved in a traffic crash.”

Drivers 16 to 17 years old account for nearly double the crashes per mile driven that 18 and 19 year-olds do, according to Ucles.

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As of Aug. 31 texting while driving is a secondary offense for people over the age of 18.The Ohio Distracted Driving Act was passed March 2012.

For these reasons, drivers under the age of 18 are prohibited from using not only texting devices, but any electronic devices including Bluetooth, GPS systems and speaking on a cell phone. The use of such devices is considered a primary offense, which means that drivers who appear under the age of 18 and are seen using electronic devices while driving can be immediately pulled over, even if they aren’t committing another traffic violation, such as speeding.

If a driver appears below 18 and is doing any of the above, police officers are allowed to pull them over. If they’re charged, the first offense is a 60-day license suspension and a $150 fine. Subsequent offenses can result in a $300 fine and a full-year license suspension,

according to Ralston.

Although the law was officially put into effect Aug. 31, 2012, there is a 60-day grace period, which means that police will not enforce the law until that period is up.

“We will enforce [this law] like any other violation. If we see it we will take action.” Sgt. Jon Varley of the Oxford Police Department said.

According to Varley, the main concern of the Oxford Police Department lies with the amount of students that cross the street on a daily basis.

“We have a lot of pedestrian traffic as well as vehicular in a relatively small space,” Varley said. “Anything we can legally do to keep it a safe environment we will do.”

While many see this ban as a way to keep pedestrians and drivers safe, some are skeptical about the new law.

“I don’t think this law is set up well.” Sophomore Isaac Hughes said. “Even if it is a secondary offense, I feel as though police officers can merely pull you over and claim that you were swerving so that they can give you a ticket for texting and driving.”

While drivers such as Hughes find issues with the intricacies regarding enforcement of the law, Sgt. Varley and the Oxford Police Department concentrate on the bigger issue at hand, the safety of Miami Students and Oxford residents.

“I think it is a good bill,” Sgt. Varley said. “A lot of drivers do not realize how much distance they travel in a short period when they look away from the road even for a second, and in that time a lot can happen especially in an urban environment.”

Lengthy squirrel hunting City votes on local repairs season begins in Ohio for roof, streets and bridge

By Olivia Hnat Community Editor

Squirrel hunting season, one of the earliest and longest hunting seasons in Ohio, began Sept. 1.

Eli Aubihl, a sophomore at Miami University and an avid hunter said he has hunted since he was six years old with his father and grandfather in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

“I hunt a lot,” Aubihl Said. “More when I am at home because I don’t have a car here. [Squirrel hunting season] is at the end of the summer, it’s the first season that comes in. It is usually pretty fun. It is hard when the first season comes in because all the trees still have their leaves.”

The Pater Wildlife Area, eight miles south of Oxford, is one of the primary places for squirrel hunting in the Oxford and

Hamilton area. Bruce Terrill is the wildlife area supervisor there and in the Rush Run Wildlife Area.

“The areas that are good to hunt are in the hillsides and valleys along the creek,” Terrill said. “[Hunters] should look for more mature oaks and hickories with cuttings (nutshells) at the bases.”

Hunters are allowed to hunt on private property with permission from the property owners.

A person must have a hunting license to hunt squirrels in designated areas. Ohio hunters can kill up to six squirrels in one hunt during regular hunting hours from sunrise to sunset.

The main tree-squirrel species that are hunted are the fox, grey, and red squirrels, according to Brett Beatty,

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Tuesday, Sept. 4, Mayor Richard Keebler and the members of the Oxford City Council met and unanimously approved a resolution for the City Manger to enter into a contract with Robert McConnell DBA R&B Contractors to replace the roof and gutters at the Water Treatment Plant and Water Distribution maintenance facilities.

According to Service Director Mike Dreisbach, the current roof and gutters are not holding as well as had been expected.

During the meeting Dreisbach also brought forth a Resolution of Council to support a submission of a grant to repair the Dana Drive Bridge over Collins run in 2014, which was passed.

“We have been performing annual inspections on this structure, and recently we noticed more significant erosion on the bridge decking and the foundation,” Dreisbach said.

This erosion has been caused by debris, which has been cleared out by the city as much as possible. The replacement bridge is expected to perform the same way as the current bridge, letting through approximately the same amount of water.

City Council also passed two other routine resolutions, one to have Chestnut Street from Main Street to Oxford Reily Road resurfaced.

The other was the certification of the County Auditor to levy necessary taxes.

The City Council also

heard the first readings of two ordinances regarding housing in Oxford. The first ordinance is to repeal a zoning law on R-3 housing that hinders owners of apartments, such as Arrowhead, from redeveloping.

The new zoning law would allow the apartments to be rebuilt at roughly the same size with less available parking that must be provided by the landlord.

Community Development Director, Jung-Han Chen, explained that this is to encourage alternate forms of transportation such as biking, and landlords will be given the incentive of having to provide even less parking if they support alternative forms of transportation.

The second ordinance introduced by Chen, an ordinance adopting Oxford Code of Ordinances Chapter 1146.

“The neighbors want this as a way to maintain their neighborhoods character,” Chen said.

It would ultimately accomplish this by allowing for petitions by community members to place limits on the number of rental homes allowed in a community if approved by a two-thirds vote.

There is already a similar ordinance to this, which allows communities to petition for permit only parking.

According to City Council Member Kate Rousmaniere this ordinance would help to develop a sense of community as there would be more permanent residents and prevent the number of renters from growing too greatly.

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To the Miami University and Oxford communities, As student journalists, we at The Miami Student are trying our best to produce a paper that serves as a voice for the student body, the university administration, the community and other readers. We strive to fully inform our readers about what is happening on campus and in our community.

The editorial board of the Student would like to reiterate and share our policies regarding interviews, quotes and other ethical matters concerning the production and publication of the paper.

Over the past few weeks, the Student has received several emails from potential sources saying that they would not do interviews unless they were conducted over email

or if the questions were emailed to them beforehand.

We have a policy of no email interviews. This is a standard practiced by many journalists at both collegiate and professional newspapers.

Our duty as journalists is to report the most candid version of the truth possible. We are not trying to practice gotcha-journalism. By interviewing sources in person or over the phone, we hope to achieve more personal remarks than pre-approved statements. Over email, reporters do not have the opportunity for clarification or follow-up questions, both of which are essential to presenting an accurate and thorough story.

For these same reasons, we never quote articles or press releases.

Students have conducted email

interviews in the past but we can only account for this under extreme circumstances. For example, an interview was conducted via email with the Miami Board of Trustee member Michael Armstrong while he was abroad in Guatemala.

Administrators in particular should communicate with students, and one way is through the student newspaper. The administration has a duty to address concerns of the student body and to make public records, such as budgets, available.

If a source is too busy for a faceto-face or phone interview, we politely ask that we may be directed to another source who may be able to answer our questions.

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Obama’s play on words, not real numbers about economy, will cost him youth vote in re-election With the Democratic National Convention in full swing this week in North Carolina, opening speakers such as the eloquent Castro brothers, and the First Lady Mrs. Obama herself, seem to be highlighting a main theme – “Obama needs four more years.”

But between the many liberal deliveries that sentence in particular should resonate to voters as they ask themselves, are you better off than you were four years ago?

The reality is, we are not. This continued occurrence of Obama’s spending habits like that of a college girl with a maxed out credit card, has left the United States with a staggering $16 trillion deficit, with an unemployment rate of 8.2 percent and 46 million Americans on food stamps – all at the expense of taxpayer money.

You don’t have to be an economics major to see these numbers and know that there is an apparent problem. No matter the lack of interest college students may have in the political scene, and despite what the MUPD thinks, we aren’t stupid.

According to the U.S Federal Government Spending analysis, President Obama has racked up a bill of $5.3 trillion in his first term as President, significantly higher than that of the two term 4.9 increase from the Bush Administration. What will happen if we give him another year?

But anyone who researched

Barack Obama during his time in Congress could have seen this coming. As senator of Illinois, he cosponsored the restructuring of a bill, adding his signature on a welfare plan that uses approximately $20.5 billion dollars of taxpayer money.

On the contrary, his opponent Mitt Romney, created stores such as Staples and Sports Authority helping employment and the overall economy during his time at Bain Capital.

As governor of Massachusetts, he cut spending, which resulted in an elimination of $1.5 billion from the state deficit.

In hard economic times such as these, it seems as though it’s a no-brainer who is more qualified or rather, willing to, practice fiscal responsibility and turn the country around.

So, as college students, we can take the facts, the numbers and the data, and then ask our selves, are we really better off than we were four years ago?

If there are qualified professionals out there that have been in the “real world” with a college degree AND years of resume work that can’t even find a job, what makes us think we can?

Simple. Under President Obama, we can’t. Under President Obama, we won’t.

But as a whopping 23 million Americans are currently

unemployed, Mitt Romney’s experience seems to restore hope. He increased job growth and changed the unemployment rate from 5.6 percent to four percent during his term as governor of Massachusetts.

The youth vote is important to the presidency.

In a time when our overall economic health is incredibly ill, why would we assist the re-election of a President whose only presented budget plan for 2013 was shot down by the Congressional Budget Office?

This non-partisan entity claims that if it were used, the United States economy would “probably be considered a recession.”

Why would we re-elect someone that hasn’t significantly increased jobs for the working class American and has 46 million mouths on food stamps?

Does being jobless and foodrationed sound like the American dream to you?

President Obama’s play on words may have worked for the 68 percent amount of college-aged students who bought the “Hope and Change” gimmick.

But as he spends more money America doesn’t have, and with the job market feeble for recent college grads, it’s time we looked at the facts presented to us in statistics, rather than the fiction presented to us in the President’s rhetoric.

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As a policy we do allow people to look at the quotes the reporter wrote down during the interview, to check for misquoting, improper paraphrasing, to correct facts and to make sure nothing was taken out of context.

We do not send entire stories before publication, nor do we change quotes for style. This is another common journalistic practice to remain ethical.

We do our best to quote people as accurately as possible. Reporters will ask to record interviews in order to get more accurate quotes.

In the process of reporting and newspaper production, we have several people look at the story and the page before it goes off to print.

Stories will often go back and forth between the writer and several

editors before we allow it to leave our hands.

If someone has been misquoted they can contact us right away and we will be more than happy to correct the quote, if it is justifiable.

In regards to the policies of a group or individual against speaking with The Miami Student because of a previous error, we would like to remind our readers that the newspaper staff changes frequently, and the errors of past newsroom staff do not reflect the current personnel.

We are doing our best to serve the university and community. But in order to do this we need cooperation from administrators and the community.

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Rule of Thumb President Hodge’s speech Yesterday President Hodge addressed the 2020 plan for Miami

Over crowded Rec Actually work out or please go read Us Weekly somewhere else.

Home football game Good luck to the team as they play Southern Illinois this Saturday!

Cheating on exams Let’s not be like Harvard students.

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Democratic and Republican economic plans shortchange Americans

With the national debt looming around 16 trillion dollars, it’s no wonder that the federal budget and deficit-reduction plans have been a primary focus of this presidential campaign.

Several hours of research on the subject in an attempt to decide which budget plan is better confirmed a previously held opinion of mine: I hate politics.

Both plans inadequately address the problem because each side doesn’t want to upset the population of core voters on which they depend.

President Barack Obama’s plan to increase taxes for higher-income households and limit cuts to safetynet programs and non-defense discretionary funds is clearly a strategy to preserve votes from the population of voters that elected him in the first place.

Similarly, it’s obvious that Romney and Ryan’s solution to the problem, which curiously involves spending even more on defense, cutting both marginal and corporate tax rates, and not cutting costs from either social security or Medicare,

is designed to appeal to the older, wealthier population.

This is the group that the GOP needs if they are even close to serious about making a run at the White House.

In reality, both proposals are lacking because they are too stringent and misdirected to provide longterm stability.

Unfortunately, the best course of action would likely be unpopular enough to eliminate any chance of the proposing party to capture the presidency.

For reference, here are some numbers to consider.

Last year, the federal government spent about 3.6 trillion dollars, 24 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Tax revenue only covered about two-thirds of this total, accounting for about 2.2 trillion dollars. Except for 83 billion acquired from federalreserve assets, the remaining balance of approximately 1.3 trillion dollars was borrowed.

And of course, future taxpayers will pay interest on that 1.3 trillion.

Last year our country shelled out

north of 454 billion in interest alone.

So, the real questions: where does all of this money go, and how would it be best to allocate our resources?

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorites2, in 2011 defense (718 billion), social security (731 billion) and the three health insurance programs, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP; 769 billion), each accounted for about 20 percent of the federal government’s total expenditures.

The approximately 40 percent remaining was allocated toward interest on debt (six percent), safety net programs such as unemployment and low-income housing (13 percent), benefits for retirees and veterans (seven percent), infrastructure (three percent), education (two percent), science and medical research (two percent) and other places (five percent).

Although low-income voters are not the backbone of Republican Party support, it still makes me question the logic of Romney and Ryan if they expect low-income programs and non-defense discretionary funds

to absorb the deficit.

We are talking about funds for things such as Medicaid, Pell grants, K-12 education, infrastructure and law enforcement.

Look back over the numbers in the previous couple of paragraphs and try to make ethical and financial sense of this.

It’s hard to.

If long-term productivity and well being of the nation is the goal, education, for one, certainly has to be a priority.

In 2011, the U.S. accounted for 41 percent of the total money spent on defense by the entire planet. Fortyone percent.

This is nearly five times as much as China spent, which accounted for about eight percent of the world’s total defense spending, the second most of any country last year. Is this necessary? Also, since when did healthcare become a right?

Access to healthcare is a privilege, and while I am not opposed to the government at least subsidizing it, the sense of entitlement to it that we have as Americans has to go.

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Saving the world through subtle diplomacy Iranian nuclear ambitions have been a serious foreign policy concern for Israel, the United States and the entire global community for the better part of the past decade. Preventing the threats of a nuclear Iran has been a stated goal of the Bush and Obama administrations.

While Western supporters have stressed the importance of persevering with economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure, Israel itself has been pulled increasingly toward the military option.

The concern of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his compatriots is that Iran’s new nuclear facilities, which are being fortified in an underground laboratory, will soon be beyond the reach of their country’s military capabilities.

That’s why they need us.

At this point, Israel can either stay true to their aggressive rhetoric and launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear labs, or admit that said attack would be a very bad idea.

Let us analyze a scenario in which Israel, presumably with American support, does attack Iran.

Israel’s goal of halting its tormentor’s nuclear progress would be achieved, but for how long?

Iran will not simply reverse course or stop dead in its tracks, and Israel cannot simply launch an airstrike every time Iran comes close to nuclear technology.

In fact, such a scenario is likely to make the Iranians more determined to go nuclear, and even better prepared to defend against future attacks.

That assumes, of course, the best possible outcome of this situation: one in which Iran’s reaction amounts to little more than going back to the drawing board.

Unfortunately, this is wishful thinking.

Iran’s leaders, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have repeatedly insisted that they have no

least in a historical sense, but it apparently isn’t enough.

Maybe the real problem is that we need to reevaluate our values and priorities before we expect politicians to draft sensible plans with well being at the forefront of concern rather than popularity.

One thing I commend President Obama on doing during his first four-year tenure is investing in renewable energy and resisting pressure to heavily tap into the United States’ domestic oil supplies.

This is not to say that it wasn’t necessarily out of attempt for public approval, but more emphasis needs to be placed on long-term solutions.

I look forward to the day when we are shown advertisements during political campaigns that laud the opponent for commendable efforts, yet explain what their candidate will improve upon.

The competitive political climate as it stands is a terrible thing for all of us.

In the meantime, however, I guess I will shake my head along with many of my fellow Americans and choose the lesser of two evils.

intention of developing a nuclear weapon and desire only nuclear energy sources.

Their country is party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (which only India, Pakistan, North Korea and, ironically, Israel, have not signed).

Whether or not you trust their present intentions, their intentions following a military conflict with

A strike against Iran would essentially demolish the bridge with the Islamic world that we have been trying to build ever since the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001.”

Israel would certainly take a large step in the wrong direction.

Even if Iran does not use weapons of mass destruction, a war with Israel—which would inevitably pull in the rest of the world, especially the US—would be almost unavoidable.

But we’re good at winning wars.

The graver threat comes not from the government of Iran, or the government of any single country, but from the extremist elements of the Islamic world.

A strike against Iran would essentially demolish the bridge with the Islamic world that we have been trying to build ever since the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001.

The terrorist organizations that have caused so much pain and suffering have lost significant ground as the United States has made a concerted effort not only to combat them but to erode their support by gaining the trust of Muslims.

Sympathy for anti-western ideologies would skyrocket. Israel, already unwelcome in its part of the world, would be making itself into a target.

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States would multiply, putting our servicemen and women overseas, and indeed our average citizens, in extreme danger.

A second scenario, though difficult for Israel to accept, would prevent the world from spiraling into war or bringing about a new wave of terrorism: Israel swallows its pride and allows its threats of striking Iran’s nuclear facilities to go unfulfilled.

In this scenario, the United States, Israel, and the United Nations continue to apply economic and diplomatic pressure in an attempt to peacefully prevent a nuclear Iran.

In this scenario, a full-scale war does not erupt between Iran, Israel and their respective allies.

And, most importantly, this scenario does not fuel the fires of Islamic extremism and anti-western sentiments to unprecedented levels.

Perhaps this approach will fail.

Perhaps Iran will go back on their promise to pursue nuclear technology only for energy purposes, and develop a weapon after all.

This is where the United States needs to use subtle diplomacy, by making clear to Iran that it is prepared to exercise its full military strength if Iran moves toward nuclear weapons, and by making clear to Israel that any military engagement of Iran without sufficient reason will not receive American support.

The Iran-Israel dynamic is shaped by a balance of power. Iran will not attack Israel because it knows that would mean a swift and complete retaliation by the United States and its allies.

Israel will not attack Iran without the support of the United States because it knows it lacks the military strength fight such an enemy on its own.

It may not be an ideal solution, but Israel hasn’t left itself many options. In any case, I see it as a much better alternative to World War III or another 9/11.

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How a single vote can save America: take notice of issues With an excessive national debt, a national unemployment rate of 8.2 percent, and a tax code that’s thousands of pages long, one could argue that there are a lot of things wrong with America.

While those are certainly some of the biggest issues facing our nation, perhaps a bigger problem is the current state of our political system.

A system marked by issues like extreme partisanship and low participation, which unless we deal with them will come to define our generation.

To see just how big of a problem partisanship is, one only needs to look at the last three years in which Congress has failed to pass a budget. This however is not just a reflection of our unsound fiscal policy but rather a part of a larger problem – our inability compromise.

Gone are the days where Republicans and Democrats reach across the aisle and come to an agreement on legislation.

And in its place are the days of party infighting, where it is simply unacceptable to work with the other side. A point best illustrated

by Richard Murdoch’s successful primary challenge of Senator Dick Lugar earlier this year.

This tactic of criticizing those willing to compromise might be great for energizing the bases, but at some point we must all take a step back and ask ourselves, what are the effects this is having on our nation?

One answer is that this extreme partisanship has led to the extinction of healthy discourse.

It’s a shame, but unfortunately we live in a time where a person’s political persuasion and their views about issues as complex as government spending, healthcare, and abortion, can be gleaned by their views on global warming.

Practices like these, the result of partisanship, have eliminated the need for serious discussions and are precisely why healthy discourse is dead.

Instead of holding serious discussions about the complex issues we as a nation face, elected officials like Michele Bachmann, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, go before the national media and accuse other elected officials and dedicated public servants of being members of radical Islamic organizations.

Congressmen can now use both the words “rape” and “legitimate” in the same sentence. And if you

thought the blame rested solely on the shoulders of the Republican Party, let me remind you of Bill Burton, whose pro-Obama political action committee accused Mitt Romney of killing another man’s wife.

These wild accusations, which can only be described as noise pollution, fill the airwaves and the pages of our most acclaimed media outlets and have amplified the issues facing our nation.

Perhaps, this lack of discourse is not only the cause of our unproductive government but also the cause of our extremely low participation rates.

Perhaps, if we elevated the level of discourse beyond 140 character cheap shots on twitter to that of a serious national debate, participation in the democratic process would rise.

Or perhaps, if participation increased and candidates were forced to speak to a larger audience, the level of discourse would shift away from the political extremes and relocate itself more closely towards the middle.

Whether this happens in the near future or not, one thing is certain, at some point participation rates must increase.

We cannot forget the sacrifices our ancestors made when they forged this nation or the countless number of brave men and women who have laid down their lives to preserve this democracy and take for granted that most basic right of participating in the electoral process.

If we do this, and move from participation rates around 20 percent up to say 80 percent, we will hopefully solve the problem of extreme partisanship and move on to address the larger problems facing our nation such as getting our fiscal house in order.

We can do this in either one of two ways, make voting compulsory, as is the case in Australia, where citizens are charged a fee if they chose not to participate, or we can all take the initiative on our own and remember to do our civic duty and to also remind our fellow citizens to do the same.

For the foreseeable future, voting will not be compulsory and it will be up to concerned citizens to drive up turnout.

That’s why it is important though, that come this November, we as a nation go to the polls and cast our votes and help save our political system.

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POLITICS, But with the nomination of Paul Ryan, “New Miami” is forming its own set of well-known political currents.

Some of the more recognizable “New Miami” alumni are 1916 graduates Marvin Pierce and Pauline Robinson Pierce, also known to former United States President George W. Bush as Grandma and Grandpa.

The two Miami mergers are the

parents of former first lady, Barbara Bush.

In addition, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Miami class of 1981, is running for re-election to the United States House of Representatives.

Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine, class of 1969, is another Miami graduate currently in office. Dewine, a republican, has also served in the Ohio Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and the United States Senate.

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Beatty described some different hunting methods.

“There are different methods and different firearms for hunting squirrel,” Beatty said. “Sit under a nut-bearing tree that attracts squirrels and wait for squirrels to show up. Some [people] hunt with dogs that are able to track squirrels and tree them.”

Squirrel hunting is not only a recreation sport.

“Hunting squirrels provides a nutritious source of food. It is pretty tasty as well. [Squirrel is] low in fat and low in cholesterol,” Beatty said.

The Division of Wildlife, under the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, provides a wild game gourmet cookbook. It features a recipe for oven-fried squirrel.

“Squirrel brains are also a delicacy in Applachia,” Beatty said.

Whether you are hungry or looking for a hobby, you have until Jan. 31 to legally hunt squirrel this season.

reflective, insightful and better applied to the real world.

“It’s something that takes longer than an hour,” she said.

Senior Emily Mossler said she supports the idea of takehome exams, but she has some reservations.

“I think they’re a good way for students with test-taking anxiety to show their knowledge of the material being presented in class,” Mossler said.

“But I also think that many students see them as a way not to try as hard.”

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Students have found the “Open My Door” service, which allows them to use their phones to text their doors to let them in, the most useful when spending time in the residence halls, according to Clawson Hall RA and junior Jennifer Thomas.

“We’ve heard many positive comments from students related to the new door access system and the use of their I.D. cards,” Bowling said. “I think students appreciate using their I.D. card for room access instead of using a key.”

Thomas said she enjoys the new key card system as well.

“With the I.D. cards, I feel like less students lose them because it’s their life,” Thomas said. “Their laundry, food and room access is all on their cards so they treat them more as they would their state I.D.’s or drivers licenses. The cards are essential to their lives on campus.”

From an RA standpoint the cards have also made assisting locked out students easier, as well as made living in the residence halls safer, according to Thomas.

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“Accessing the master key for me is really simple, all I have to do is activate my master key online and then I have access to the door for a certain amount of time,” Thomas said. “The time limit [of activation], as well as emailing my advisor and the student a notification that my master key has been activated, are all just extra security measures that ensures the safety of residents within the hall.

Just to let the student know that we aren’t able to just open any door at any time.”

This idea of giving the student all the information they need to take their security into their own hands goes even past the email notification service, according to Abowitz.

One of the most important changes that came with the key cards is the ability of students to deactivate and reactivate their card if it’s lost at any time, Abowitz said.

“Students should be aware of their ability to disable their card online on the webcard service if it gets lost, and their ability to reactivate the card if found for no charge,” Abowitz said.

Junior Victoria Kleycamp said she agrees that key cards have been a positive change.

“All locking systems have their flaws, but I believe that the key cards are efficient for students to use,” Kleycamp said.

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Sapadin said that her classes with Hay-Rollins led her to pursue a career in urban or global medicine.

“In both her ATH 175H and medical anthropology courses that I have taken, she carefully chose readings and assignments that pushed me to ever stay openminded and to think critically about complex global issues,” Sapidin said. “She taught me to choose my words well, and to think twice before using ‘culture’ as a noun. I now go out of my way to find books by medical anthropologists.”

Senior anthropology major Brooke Warren hopes to use what she learned from HayRollins in her future work in human resources. Warren also said that Hay-Rollins has helped her form ideas about the world.

“Dr. Hay is a very intuitive, and profound professor,” Warren said. “She really has pushed me to think beyond what the eyes can see, what the ears can hear, what the hands can touch, and what the nose can smell. Your thoughts and answers in class are never wrong with Dr. Hay, they just sometimes need a little more digging. Dr. Hay loves to hear what we’re thinking and feeling, and we spend much of the time in class really digging deep into our readings and lectures through conversation.”

Sapadin and Warren are two of the many students who chose to use strategies from anthropology to learn more about the cultures in the world around them.

“I get enormous satisfaction at the accomplishments of my students,” Hay-Rollins said. “To think that I had a part in that is wonderfully satisfying.”

Next semester, Hay-Rollins will be offering a new course called “Doctors, Clinics and Epidemics”. The goal of this course will be to explore the biocultural aspect of contemporary medicine and the effects of communication variations on doctor-patient relationships.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

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Editor JM RIEGER

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 andrew geisler going long with geisler

’Hawks show signs of life in columbus It might seem silly to point out now, but our Miami University RedHawks had the mighty Ohio State University (OSU) Buckeyes on the ropes for a minute there last Saturday.

More precisely, 15 minutes.

The RedHawks marched inside the 10-yardline twice in the first quarter, coming away with only a field goal (their inability to get in the end zone was probably their kiss of death).

All while Ohio State had nothing going on offense — clearly struggling schematically with the way Miami defended its base formation, and go-to plays — and struggled to cover Miami’s 5-wide attack on the other side of the ball.

After the first quarter, Buckeye quarterback Braxton Miller and company turned on the jets, the defense recovered and the Scarlet and Gray never looked back, winning 56-10.

And though their coaches will tell them otherwise (as they should), the RedHawks’ collapse was wholly understandable.

It was us against the beginning of the Urban Meyer era, and the RedHawks competed for a spell.

That’s pretty much the best-case scenario in such a match-up.

The enthusiasm in the Horseshoe was palpable; Ohio State students are all convinced their team is going 12-0.

For better or worse this was a warm up game, and like all good warm-ups, at least the Buckeyes were forced to break a sweat.

Taking a step back from the score, the game was full of positives, giving fans reason to believe in a team that by and large played disappointingly horribly last year.

Miami quarterback Zac Dysert was incredibly impressive, racking up over 300 yards and 31 completions. But more impressively, he took a ton of hits and dealt with far too many drops.

However, he did not allow it to break his will against the vaunted silver bullets.

The defense played with some backbone, but OSU’s athleticism dominated after the first quarter.

And the offensive line, which struggled mightily last year, often held their own against the likes of Ohio State defensive linemen John Simon and Jonathan Hankins.

Finally, the game plan put Miami in a position to compete, and its five wide receiver sets worked especially well. These sets are the great neutralizer in football, especially when a team knows it cannot run the ball going into a game (unfortunately, when the field compresses in the red zone, this advantage is gone — here lies the reason the RedHawks could not score a touchdown early).

And defensively, the RedHawks certainly forced Meyer and co. to go further into their bag of tricks than they wanted to when they shut down the Buckeyes’ base set.

The RedHawks will not play a more physical team for the rest of the year. Nor will they play one that is better coached.

As long as they are not overly dejected from their big loss and take away some of the obvious positives, they are set up well to compete in the MidAmerican Conference.

They could even compete against a Boise State University team that looked good, but not great in its loss against Michigan State University last week.

Of course the team should not look ahead.

Miami can right the ship right here at Yager Stadium this weekend against Southern Illinois University.

If what the team showed against Ohio State was any indication, I’d say there is a good chance the ‘Hawks out on top.

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NEXT HOME GAME: 1 p.m. Saturday, vs. southern illinois

RedHawks migrate to Oxford for home opener

MIKE ZATT THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University redshirt senior quarterback Zac Dysert scrambles away from the Ohio State University senior defensive lineman John Simon Saturday during the RedHawks’ 56-10 loss. Dysert threw for 303 yards and one touchdown, the first time any player has thrown for over 300 yards against the Buckeyes since 2009.

By Tom Downey Senior Staff Writer

The Miami University football team (0-1) will look to win its home opener as it hosts the Southern Illinois University (SIU) Salukis (0-1) Saturday. The game marks only the eighth time the ’Hawks have played a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) school.

“Having coached in the FCS, I know that they are a tremendous team,” Head Coach Don Treadwell said. “Much like us, they have a tremendous tradition. They have a national championship under their belt.”

The Red and White will once again rely on the passing game, led by redshirt senior quarterback and co-captain Zac Dysert. Dysert is coming off an impressive performance against the Ohio State University when he threw for over 300 yards.

The RedHawks should have a huge advantage against the Salukis in the passing game. The Salukis gave up a school record seven touchdown passes in their season opener against Eastern Illinois University.

Musketeers hold off Red and White

BLAKE WILSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

Redshirt freshman outside hitter Sarah Chaney and the Miami University volleyball team host the Best Western/Sycammore Inn Invitational this weekend.

By Jordan Rinard For The Miami Student

The Miami University volleyball team put up a valiant effort, but in the end it could not overcome the Musketeers of Xavier University (XU), dropping a 2-3 decision.

The RedHawks (1-6) had impressive outings from junior libero Madison Hardy and sophomore setter/outside hitter Meg Riley, contributing a career high 32 digs and a triple-double (14 kills, 25 assists and 13 digs), respectively.

Other contributors for the ’Hawks included senior setter Amy Kendall, junior outside hitter Madison Dodd and redshirt freshman outside hitter Sarah Chaney.

Kendall recorded a double-double with 21 assists and 10 digs, Dodd accounted for 15 kills and 4 digs and Chaney pitched in with 6 kills and 11 digs.

The ’Hawks were evenly matched with Xavier and in the hotly contested first set the Red and White snagged a 30-28 victory

for its first point. The Musketeers then rebounded 25-22 to even it all up at 1-1.

After the break, Miami played its best volleyball of the night with scoring runs of 7-2 and 4-0 en route to a 25-21 victory in the third set.

However, Xavier responded with an 8-2 run of its own to clinch a win in the fourth set, 25-19. In the fifth and final set, the RedHawks struggled to score, falling behind 3-9 and could not recover as the Musketeers took the set 15-11 and the game.

“It was a tough match, but we did some things really well,” Head Coach Carolyn Condit said.

Condit is one win away from 600 victories over her illustrious career.

Xavier (5-3) was challenged by the Red and White but made the plays they needed to make down the stretch. XU senior libero Stephanie Vorherr recorded 20 digs, putting her at 1,735, the most in school history. Senior outside hitter Ame White also contributed to the cause with a double-double.

“The Xavier game was a huge heartbreak for us as a team,” Hardy said. “We showed a lot of fight and determination, but unfortunately, the score at the end wasn’t what we wanted. This game had many glimpses of the great team we can be when we don’t make unforced errors. The crowd’s support through a three-hour match just shows the amazing fans we have at Miami. We hope to see everyone back in Millett Hall this weekend for our first home tournament.”

Miami hosts the Best Western/ Sycamore Inn Invitational in Oxford Friday and Saturday. The ’Hawks start play 7 p.m. Friday against Indiana State University at Millett Hall. The Sycamores (1-6) have plenty of talent on the floor with senior middle blocker Shea Doran picking up 19 kills and junior outside hitter Molly Murphy racking up a double-double in a loss to Western Illinois University.

The RedHawks also face the Cougars of Chicago State University (CSU) 10 a.m. Saturday. CSU (2-7) is coming off a 3-1 win over Coppin State University, thanks in part to the 17 kills by senior middle blocker Sydney Van Munster.

The ’Hawks end the Invitational against Temple University 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The Owls (4-3) roll into Oxford as Big 5 Tournament Champions and along with them the Tournament Most Valuable Player, senior libero Chelsea Tupuola.

“Our match against Xavier showed us what skills we need to improve on, and this weekend we hope to put it all together,” Dodd said. “The three upcoming matches should be pretty exciting and competitive, and we plan on winning the tournament title.”

“It makes us feel kind of good,” Dysert said. “You can’t overlook them though. You only play one game a week, so every game is important.”

Junior wide receiver Nick Harwell should continue his strong play after catching eight balls for 120 yards and a score against Ohio State.

Harwell and the rest of the receiving corps are expected to bounce back after dropping over a half dozen balls last weekend.

The running back position is still unsettled, although it appears true freshman tailback Jamire Westbrook will see an increase in playing time after his performance against the Buckeyes.

The defense will also look to bounce back after giving up 56 points to Ohio State. It was the most points given up by the Red and White since 1942.

“We have to play our best game,” redshirt senior defensive end Jason Semmes said. “I thought last week we left some things on the field. We can’t do that anymore. Any team can beat us so we have to be on our game this week.”

Senior center JoJo Williams

missed the season opener with a leg injury he suffered in practice the week before the game. His status for the home opener is still in doubt.

“I think there is more of a chance of him playing than not or at least being ready [to play],” Treadwell said.

The team is hoping Yager Stadium will be filled for the home opener.

“We’re just excited to be back home and give the fans something to see,” Semmes said. “We love support, but we’ll play whether there are five people in stands or 500.

We would love the support of our college though.”

Treadwell has been encouraging an “All-In” mentality this year and hopes to see it come to fruition this weekend.

“It does provide a tremendous spark for your team to come out on the field and know they are appreciated by the fans and the alumni,” Treadwell said. “We’re going to be excited and hope that we will see a full house.”

Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. Saturday at Yager Stadium. The game will be a “white-out” and fans unable to attend the game can listen live on WMSR at www.redhawkradio.com.

Soccer starts season strong, finishes off Bruins

By Win Braswell

For The Miami Student

The Miami University soccer team (4-1) is off to its best fivegame start since the 1999 season, after topping Belmont University 2-1 in overtime Sunday.

The Bruins and Mother Nature tested the RedHawks, as they battled sloppy field conditions, heavy rain and strong crosswinds.

Despite the tumultuous playing conditions, Miami communicated and executed to near perfection in the first half, earning five early corner kick opportunities. Even with the aggressive start, the ’Hawks failed to capitalize on their early opportunities, as three of the five corner kicks were cleared by Belmont after falling within a few feet of the goal line.

“We left [Belmont] in it,” Head Coach Bobby Kramig said.

“We need to put teams away when we have the chance. I’m looking for us to be more coldblooded and cutthroat, especially on the offensive end.”

Miami quickly paid for its squandered opportunities when Belmont went up 1-0 in the 20th minute and carried that lead into the half.

The RedHawks were more consistent with their offensive execution in the second half.

Freshman forward/midfielder Haley Walter continued her goalscoring streak, leveling the score at one apiece in the 67th minute. Walter has scored three goals in the last two games.

“I’m just trying to take advantage of my chances,” Walter said.

“I blew a lot of goals in the first few games, so I’m trying to focus on putting them in.”

Sophomore midfielder Kelsey Dinges, who has scored more goals through five games than she did all last season, finally put away the game in the third minute of overtime as rain began falling sideways.

“I was excited to play in the rain,” Dinges said. “Even though I love the added challenge of playing in bad weather, I was pretty focused on taking the shot when I had it so we could get out of there with the win. If we’re going to play in bad weather, we at least want to win, so the bus ride home can be fun.”

Miami has three remaining games until its Mid-American Conference season-opener against the University of Akron.

Austin Peay State University faces Miami Friday in Oxford.

Kramig said conditioning and a 90-minute effort is key, but the RedHawks will have to make a concerted effort to be stout defensively against an aggressive offensive team.

“This game will be very entertaining,” Kramig said. “They have players who love to attack hard, coming right at you.”

Austin Peay has two very talented sisters from Columbia as well. Natalia and Tatiana Ariza played on the Columbian National team in the U20 World Cup and are extremely skillful.

“We’re going to have to be tougher on both ends of the field,” Kramig said.

Game time is set for 5 p.m. Friday.