The Miami Student Oldest university newspaper in the United States, established 1826
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013
VOLUME 141 NO. 12
MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIO
TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1980, The Miami Student reported that Scott Dining Hall was being shut down indefinitely after 20 employees contracted salmonella from an unidentified source. Sophomore student employee Melanie Werren said, “[Taking legal action] may be the thing to do, but I’m not going to bother with it.”
Treadwell fired, Bath promoted LAUREN OLSON PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Miami football head coach Don Treadwell was fired Sunday by athletic director David Sayler, five games into Treadwell’s third season. Quarterbacks coach Mike Bath was named interim head coach.
BY TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR
For the first time in the school’s history, Miami University has fired a football head coach during the season. Athletic director David Sayler fired Don Treadwell after a 0-5 start to Treadwell’s third season at his alma mater. Quarterbacks coach Mike Bath was named interim coach for the rest of the season. The RedHawks lost their last 10 games under Treadwell, who went 8-21 during his tenure at Miami. Sayler said he was concerned with some of the game planning, results and recruiting, but the decision to let go of Treadwell came down to the best interests of the football players. “I just think, obviously, the statistics bear out where we were and some things on the offensive
side of the ball and defensive side of the ball that I thought we needed to get fixed,” Sayler said. “When I looked at our kids, I just saw kind of a hopeless feeling. We were all frustrated, everybody was, Don was too. But we didn’t seem to have a plan to correct it, to fix it, that the kids believed in. That’s when I knew I had to step in, that was the tipping point ultimately.” Sayler said he told Treadwell of his decision Sunday and Treadwell did not put up a fight for his job. “He handled it unbelievably well, with class and integrity the way you would expect,” Sayler said. “Don is a great man, and he handled it as well as possibly it can be handled. I gained even more respect for him as man than I had going in.“ According to his contract, Treadwell’s buyout will cost
roughly $933,333. However, Treadwell is contractually obligated to make “reasonable and diligent efforts to obtain employment.” Any salary Treadwell receives if he is hired by another team will reduce the amount Miami must pay him. Sayler said the buyout did not give him any pause in the decision, but said it’s time for Miami to get back to its winning ways. “I think he’s appreciative of the opportunities he’s been given here at Miami, and he also knows that we have a pretty ambitious plan for fundraising and building facilities and to do that we need positive momentum … ” Sayler said. “Don is a good man and he did a lot for Miami, but we just need to get back and get that chip on our shoulder and get our program back to winning conference championships; it’s what we are about here.”
Offensive coordinator John Klacik was also fired. Klacik came to Miami following a stint as head coach at his alma mater, Lock Haven University. Klacik lost his last 32 games at Lock Haven, and, according to USA Today, he was the highest paid offensive coordinator in the MidAmerican Conference. Bath has been quarterbacks coach since 2011 and was a quarterback at Miami. He’s now the head coach at his alma mater and became emotional at times during his introductory press conference. “I’m like every other football coaching alum or basketball coaching alum … we all want to be a head coach at Miami,” Bath said. “This is the cradle of coaches. That’s one of the reasons why I did get emotional at the beginning. Gosh, having played for Randy Walker who was an alum and Terry Hoeppner, who was
basically an alum, who was here for 20 years, this is special. This is the cradle of coaches. It’s special to me. This is home.” Sayler said he has faith in Bath as the interim head coach. “We are fully behind Coach Bath,” Sayler said. “He has the full support of our administration, our staff. He is the head coach of this program for the rest of the year…” Bath will remain quarterbacks coach and will also call the plays for the RedHawks. He declined to comment on potential offensive scheme changes, but did say Miami was going to start putting a product on the field to be proud of. “These young men are going to fly around the football field, they’re going to be
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Policy change cuts Police Beat names Miami students shocked by Kenya mall shooting CHRIS CURME
COMMUNITY EDITOR
The Miami Student will no longer publish names in the Police Beat column, effective immediately. The Police Beat has been an integral part of the Community section and the newspaper as a whole. The Miami Student staff has concluded that the witholding of names is appropriate. Local attorney Susan Lipnickey said published Police Beats present a problem when one has sealed his or her record. “[When one’s criminal record is sealed] one can report ‘I don’t have a criminal record,’ because that’s what a sealing allows you to say,” Lipnickey said. “And then people do background checks and say ‘What do you mean? It says here you were charged with x, y and z.’” Lipnickey said she has dealt with numerous cases in which someone with a sealed record is still plagued by the publication and accessibility of a Police Beat regarding their case and containing their name. “We’ve had to help them write letters to their employers explaining what a sealing is and how only certain people are eligible to seal their records and there are some criminal charges that you can’t seal,” Lipnickey said. “But the majority of incidents that are
reported in the police beat are sealable offenses because they’re mostly tied to things like possession of marijuana, alcohol related offenses.” The Miami Student publishes online Police Beat content in a way that prevents one from searching a suspect by name. However, according to Lipnickey, the problem remains. Sometimes the story is picked up by other students on Facebook or other media outlets, which has occurred in the past, one story being published on the Huffington Post. There was a time when The Miami Student’s Police Beat column included a suspect’s name and his or her address, including residence hall and room number if applicable. Lipnickey said she sees such exposure as counterproductive, especially when those exposed are students. “We have students who are here to go to law school, medical school – to go somewhere – and they made a mistake because they held a beer on High Street before classes started; they just turned 18,” Lipnickey said. “It’s a crime in the state of Ohio, but does that mean they should have their right to have their record sealed taken away? And that’s essentially how I see it.” According to Lipnickey, a majority of student offenders make one mistake and then learn their
lesson. Yet, that lesson continues to follow them through a time in their life in which they are trying to make a name for themselves and find a job. According to Lipnickey, diversion programs, in which students have the opportunity to attend a class, pay their costs and have their charges dismissed, embrace an understanding that college students make mistakes. Also, Lipnickey said the Police Beat may be incomplete or inaccurate since it is published so soon after an arrest has been made. According to Lipnickey, misunderstandings of identity or circumstance may not be resolved until after a report has been written. However, despite the legal and personal inconveniences of having one’s name published in the Police Beat, one Oxford Police Department (OPD) officer said he sees the threat of a published Police Beat as proper deterrent to common crime. “The one thing people worry about is the Police Beat,” OPD Sgt. Gregory Moore said. Moore, clarifying that he spoke as an individual and not on the behalf of OPD, said publishing names in the Police Beat does a public service. “It’s integrity, it’s personal
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ALEXIS DEBRUNNER FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
For the shoppers at Westgate Mall in Nairobi Kenya, Sept. 21 was a day of terror as eight gunmen attacked the building, leaving at least 68 dead and more than 150 people injured. While the impact of this shooting on the immediate community was obvious, students on Miami’s campus felt the pain of this attack as well. “All of my family is back in Kenya,” Secretary of the African Student Union Zelda Wasao said. “While we’re not that close to where the shooting happened because we live in a suburb on the other side of the city, my dad works for the UN, which is very close to that mall, and that mall is also where I would go with my friends to go and watch movies and stuff.” Wasao, who was born in the United States but raised in Kenya, was told of Miami by an English teacher back in Kenya who had taught on this campus. While she is miles away from her home city, she said the fear of any of her family and friends back home being in the mall that day was very real. “When I heard about it, it
was concerning because I didn’t know if my friends were there, a lot of my friends frequent there,” Wasao said. “It’s a mall, you can’t really tell who has gone to the mall or not, no one really knew who was in there so it was scary because you don’t know if any of your friends were in there or not.” Another student on campus, senior Katana Kazungu, was born and raised in Nairobi and said he also knew the feeling of worry for family and friends inside of the mall. Kazungu said the shooting happened only ten minutes from where he lives back home. He and his sisters spent several panicked hours trying to reach their father, luckily discovering that he was alright. Kazungu knew someone who was held hostage in the mall for hours. She described some of the horrifying experiences she went through inside the mall to his family. He counts himself lucky to have not been apart of the attack itself, but is hit by the knowledge that it was close to being him. “In addition to people we personally know being affected, the
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