October 16, 2012 | The Miami Student

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VOLUME 140 NO. 16

TUESday, OCTOBER 16, 2012

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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1930, The Miami Student reported on plans to erect the McGuffey Memorial on campus. The story said, “This memorial to William McGuffey, who wrote his famous readers while teaching here in Oxford, will take the form of a group of statuary with a suitable approach.” The committee in charge of choosing the memorial chose between three designs.

Rape advice flier garners national attention The evening of Oct. 8, a flier called “Top Ten Ways to Get Away With Rape” was posted in the men’s bathroom of McBride Hall. The flier told readers, “If a women’s [sic] window is unlocked sneak in and rape her to teach her not to do it again,” “If your [sic] afraid the girl will identify you slit her throat,” and “RAPE RAPE RAPE, its [sic] college boys live it up!!” among other suggestions.

The flier first gained attention when Kate Van Fossen, a junior at Miami University, posted a picture of the flier on Facebook. The flier has since been picked up by The Huffington Post and USAToday.

Van Fossen, who is also Vice President of Women Against Violence and Sexual Assault (WAVES), said the poster first came to her attention when a member of WAVES received an email from a Resident Assistant in McBride Hall with a picture of the flier.

“I knew right then and there that I needed to start telling the student body and the community about this,” Van Fossen said. “All the attention this has gotten is great. My main goal isn’t to make Miami look bad, it’s to bring attention to this situation.”

Monday morning, Miami released a statement on the e-report as well as

on the MyMiami website listing the university’s response to the situation.

The statement began, “Miami University finds this act and the message reprehensible. Miami University strives to create an environment and culture that is safe for all community members and is respectful of all individuals. Miami’s mission to develop successful students and model citizens is not reflected in this act, which may be the work of one person.”

Barbara Jones, vice president of student affairs said this incident does not represent the Miami student body.

“We’re sending the message that this is not acceptable on this campus,” Jones said.

After Miami found out about the flier, the incident was reported to the Miami University Police Department (MUPD) as well as the Office of Equity and Equal Opportunity. Both offices are investigating the incident, according to Claire Wagner, associate director of university communications.

Because of the ongoing investigation, Wagner said she could not say whether the police have an idea of who posted the flier. However, if the student or students who posted the flier are found, they will receive sanctions based off what is stated in the

Student Code of Conduct, according to Wagner.

Van Fossen said while she appreciates Miami publishing the incident for all students to see, she wished more had been done immediately after the incident.

“Miami just posted a statement after we’ve been pushing this all week,” Van Fossen said. “It’s great that they posted something on the website but I wish they had sent out an email. With technology our generation demands answers right away.”

Jones said she believes the university’s response to the incident was appropriate and that its priority was to focus on the students living in McBride Hall. The decision to release a statement to the entire student body was made after media picked up on the incident at Miami began to receive questions about the flier.

Van Fossen said her Facebook post A homemade flier found in a McBride Hall bathroom outlines ten methods of the flier generated over 115 shares for ‘getting away with rape.’ This photo was circulated around Facebook.. in two days.

Miami’s Sexual Assault Preven- ultimately decided not to take the Miami does provide a program at tion Coordinator usually heads position. The search for a new Sex- orientation for first-year students that WAVES, but that position has been ual Assault Coordinator is ongoing, deals with sexual assault, according vacant for a year, according to Jones said. to Wagner. This year, Miami added Van Fossen.

“We’ve been struggling to keep training for all students on sexual According to Jones, Miami did our heads above water and this poster RAPE, find someone to fill the position is a catalyst to bring this up,” Van SEE PAGE 8 about a month ago, but that person Fossen said.

Lane Public Library offers AD Brad Bates leaves ’Hawks for Eagles e-books, music downloads

By JM Rieger Sports Editor

BY Olivia Hnat Community Editor

With a Lane Public Library card, Oxford community members have access to more than the books, magazines and newspapers within the walls of the South College Avenue location.

Rebecca Smith, Oxford Branch Manager of the Lane Library, said the biggest changes over the years to the library are with electronic options for library card holders.

“We have e-readers and electronic books now,” Smith said. “That has really taken off. And starting in November we are circulating ereaders for patrons to check out.”

Library patrons will be able to load books onto their electronic reading devices, such as the Kindle and Nook. There is also free access to music downloads and digital magazines.

Various programs for loading electronic books are available through the Lane Public Library website.

“I think people have a perception that we are just books, but we are so much more than that,” said Smith.

Junior Kim Foster said she reads an average of one book a week and up to twenty books during winter break. She does not have a library card but does use a Kindle.

“I would be really interested

in getting books on my kindle from the library,” Foster said.

The library tries to keep a balance of traditional resources and new technology for patrons, according to Smith.“I think that the library for many people is a community center,” Smith said. “We have regular patrons that come here every day to read the newspapers and magazines...It is a balance between electronic books and paper books. ” David Dunn is one of Lane Library’s regular patrons. Dunn is usually the first one to arrive at the library every morning to read the paper, magazines and occasionally a book. It has been this way since the 1970s.

“I think [the library] is very important because it is a popular gathering place for the community,” Dunn said. “It is just a place to go to relax and read and think.”

Dunn is currently reading When the Hating Stops by Nancy K. Stozich about a family murder in Hamilton, Ohio.

The library also offers a series of programs for people of all ages, according to Smith.

One program the library offers for children is Read to a Therapy Dog. “Children that are struggling

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The Oxford Lane Public Library provides more than just books.

After 10 years at the helm of Miami University athletics, Brad Bates has left Oxford to become Boston College’s (BC) next athletic director. Bates replaces former BC Athletic Director Gene DeFilippo, who retired Sept. 30 after serving as the school’s athletic director for 15 years.

“I’d be remiss if I did not thank [Miami] President David Hodge and the wonderful family of RedHawks back in Ohio,” Bates said during a 1:30 p.m. press conference Tuesday.

“I want to thank [Boston College President Fr. William P.] Leahy for this exceptional opportunity and to publicly acknowledge how privileged I feel with your trust.”

Bates oversaw on and off the field athletic success at Miami, including an improvement in Miami’s student-athlete Graduation Success Rate (GSR), ranging from 83 to 90 percent, at least one championship in 14 of Miami’s 18 varsity sports and facility upgrades. In 2011, Miami had an overall student-athlete GSR of 89 percent, nine points higher than the national average.

“He’s viewed as a national leader [and is] really respected throughout the industry,” Hodge said. “He’s just a classy guy. It’s been a real joy and privilege to work with him.”

Senior Associate Athletic Director Steve Cady said Bates’ integrity and commitment to student-athletes made him a national leader.

“When he was here, he knew the name of every student athlete,” Cady said.

According to Mike Pearson, assistant athletic director for communication and technology, no one has had as great of an impact as Bates.

“Every moment of his time at work was thinking about how we could be better in athletics, in academics, in sending our student athletes onto success once they get off the field,” Pearson said.

After being introduced at Boston College Tuesday, Bates returned to Miami Thursday for the introduction of Interim Athletic Director Steve Snyder. Bates thanked the entire athletic department in a brief meeting, receiving a standing ovation after.

“Ten years is a significant amount of time,” Senior Associate Athletic Director for Business and Finance

Josh Fenton said. “That time I think reflects upon who Brad is as a person; his loyalty, his commitment, his core values, into what he believes in, in terms of what athletics should be in an institution of higher learning.”

The ninth athletic director in school history, Bates began the “Culture of Champions” 12-point model in August 2007, focusing on developing students and strengthening resources. According to Fenton, this plan has increased Miami’s student-athlete graduation rates and the number of athletic championships.

In addition, Miami had its three best fundraising years in athletic department history since the plan’s implementation five years ago.

Bates presided over Miami’s first Frozen Four and national championship appearance in hockey, its first back-to-back football bowl appearances in nearly 30 years and a run of eight straight Synchronized Skating national titles.

Bates also oversaw the 2006 opening of the Goggin Ice Center, a nearly $35 million project, and recently secured the lead $1 million gift for the Hayden Park Baseball Legacy Project.

“Brad’s tenure here has been excellent; certainly from an alumni perspective he has had a huge impact,” Executive Director of the Miami University Alumni Association Ray Mock said. “Those [alumni] who I have talked with expressed disappointment that he was leaving, but nonetheless wished him success and happiness [moving] forward.

Former Miami President James Garland hired Bates in November 2002 following the departure of former Athletic Director Joel Maturi. Prior to Miami, Bates served for 17 years in Vanderbilt’s Athletic Department.

Bates also served as the president of the Division 1A Athletic Directors’ Association from 2011-2012.

“I’ve worked with Brad his entire tenure here, and it was a pleasure to work with him,” Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Broadcasting Steve Baker said. “He is and always has been studentathlete focused first. His mission to the department was to have everything that we do be to the benefit of the student-athlete.”

Bates was first contacted about the Boston College opening

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approximately four weeks ago.

Hodge said Bates updated him regularly about the search. The senior athletic staff was informed Monday morning that Bates was leaving, according to Fenton.

Bates takes over a Boston College program that includes 31 varsity sports, 21 of which achieved perfect Graduation Success Rates last year, the most of any FBS school.

According to USA Today, DeFilippo earned over $600,000 in 2011, over three times Bates’ salary at Miami. However, the details of Bates’ new contract have not been released.

Bates was entering the final year of a five-year contract extension.

Bates’ yearly salary increased 29 percent from 2002 to 2012, although his salary remained flat from July 2008 to June 2011. Bates was set to make $193,800 this year and will pay $190,000 to Miami over the next year for early contract termination.

Since the 2008 contract extension that included a new incentive structure, Bates has averaged nearly $28,000 in annual bonuses, more than double the bonus he earned in 2007.

As a member of the Atlantic Coach Conference, one of the six Automatic Qualifying conferences in the FBS and one of the premier basketball conferences in the country, Bates will have the opportunity to grow BC’s program. “[He] has a brilliant future ahead of him and Boston College is really fortunate to have him on their team now,” Pearson said.

Following Tuesday’s announcement, Bates, who has begun using a new Twitter handle, @ BCBradBates, was immediately welcomed from members of BC’s Twitter community.

“Thank you to the BC community for the kind welcome. I’m excited to be part of this outstanding group of people, student-athletes & coaches,” Bates tweeted.

Hodge said Miami would conduct a national search for its next athletic director.

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Miamians look inside the ‘box’ for God

By Allison McGillivray Campus Editor

A box is a box is a box, according to God in the Box Director Nathan Lang, but sometimes a box can be a window into the minds of college students.

Lang presented a six-minute short film Wednesday, Oct. 10 where Miami University students discussed their religious views. The film is a recreation of Lang’s documentary God in the Box, which chronicles Lang’s cross-country journey to discover what God looks like and means to other people.

“We all have these questions, but how many have packed up their friends and a box and traveled across the country looking for answers,” Lang said in God in the Box. Lang and his friends would set up a box on the street and ask passerbys to go inside the box and explain their views on to the camera. The Miami box was set up at Shriver Center and received nearly 100 enthusiastic visitors during its 3-day stay Oct. 8 to Oct. 10 according to Senior Director of Student Engagement, Katie Wilson.

“We didn’t get a warm response from everyone, but [we had] a lot of people who were just really curious and interested,” Wilson said.

Lang said he has hosted the box on other campus settings including Indiana University, but the event was pulled off terrifically at Miami.

“The organizations that put this together really did a great job planning and promoting the event and they did it in a way that was truly both interfaith and inclusive of the secular community,” Lang said.

The God in the Box event was sponsored by Ford Family Initiative for Spirituality, Meaning, and Purpose, Student Activities and Leadership, Hillel, the Campus Ministry

Center, Lights on Campus and Secular Students, according to Wilson.

According to Lang, the college environment provides an interesting space to hold the God in the Box event because college students are often searching for answers to the very same questions that Lang asks in the documentary.

“I feel like the movie is really well inclined to appeal to people of this age because they will be thinking about these things and they are having lots of other people kind of tell them their thoughts at the same time,” Lang said.

Lang also said college students are typically open-minded to hearing alternative views on religion.

“It’s also a time when people have very open minds about hearing ideas that may not have been the ideas that they came to college with,” Lang said.

The box provided a private and vulnerable space for people to think through what they believe outside of a religious institution, according to graduate student Gordon Palmer who helped organize the event.

“People would come out of the box [and say] ‘hey, thank you so much for doing this. Thank you for having this space,’ because I think sometimes we don’t allow these conversations to happen outside of religious areas,” Palmer said.

While Lang said he clearly noticed a positive response to the box on Miami’s campus, he also noticed a “heightened level of sensitivity around religious subject matter.”

“I don’t know if it is that many people feel as though they are proselytized to or evangelized in ways or in places that they don’t want to be, but when people walked by the box there were many that reacted to it in a way that I hadn’t seen as much when we had taken the box to other places,” Lang said.

Lang said he thinks people saw the word “God” on the box and

worried that they were going to be evangelized to.

“What’s different about God in the box is that we are not evangelizing and we’re not telling people what to think we are asking people what they think,” Lang said.

According to Palmer and Wilson, between 80 and 100 people attended the screenings of God in the Box and the God in the Box Miami University films.

Palmer said he was impressed with the outcome of the film.

“I think [the short film] represented many opinions that might not get heard at Miami,” Palmer said.

Sophomore Kayla Parsh participated in the God in the Box event and attended the screenings.

“This was really enjoyable,” Parsh said. “I wish more people could come.”

Lang hosted a Q&A session after each film but said he found it to be more like a conversation.

“It wasn’t just a Q&A between the audience and me,” Lang said.

“It really was this continuous flow of discussion from students and academics and others around the room, sharing in those same subjects and kind of feeding off of one another, and exploring their own views of the conversation.”

According to Wilson and Lang, the Student Activities and Leadership Office might make God in the Box Miami University into a longer film.

“I think that’s really cool because they can use it for educational purposes,” Lang said. “And they can use it for creating and opening dialogues among people of different faiths and different backgrounds.”

Lang said he hopes the dialogue can continue through social media and other online interaction.

People can inquire through Student Activities and Leadership Office about seeing the God in the Box Miami University short film.

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Miami students answer the question ‘what does God look like to you?’ at ‘God in the Box’ held at Shriver Center, Oct. 8-Oct. 10.

BY REID GROTH THE MIAMI STUDENT

ASG discusses honors early registration MU Task Force identifies flukes, postpones CAC budget approval cost-saving measures

By Victoria Slater Senior Staff Writer

During a short meeting Tuesday, the Associated Student Government (ASG) discussed the infringement upon many students’ registration abilities that occurred Tuesday morning.

According to Treasurer Alex Basaum, the Bursar Office charged student accounts on Monday and left only hours for students to clear their fees in time to register for classes.

Senator and first-year honor student Kevin Krumpak said he was unable to sign up for classes on Tuesday because of outstanding fees, despite guaranteed priority registration.

“A lot of reasons students do the honors program is because of priority registration,” he said. “I was unable to register today because of what happened with Bursar so I may not be able to get in to some of the classes I need, like honors experiences. I may have to be forced to take a class that I really don’t want.”

While Secretary for Academic Affairs Nick Miller explained that it is impossible to change the registration process this year, ASG plans to examine the legislation regarding registration and improve upon it for future years.

Further into the meeting, ASG intended to vote on the Campus Activities Council (CAC) budget presented last Tuesday.

However, Student Body President John Stefanksi noted that, due to the issues ASG acknowledged in the initial budget, he and Vice

President for Student Organizations Mike Trivelli met with executives from CAC last Thursday to craft a new budget.

“CAC is working very hard to come up with a real legitimate budget, that is truthful and explains the direction they want to

non-voting students Board of Trustees hold two of the most prestigious positions at the university, as they provide student perspective and opinion to the Board that can greatly affect the impact the legislation has on the student body.

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I was unable to register today because of what happened with Bursar so I may not be able to get in to some of the classes I need...”

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go in terms of providing programs for this campus going forward,” Stefanski said.

Trivelli said that best course of action was for CAC to present the adjusted budget at next week’s meeting, as this will allow the organization more time to evaluate its spending. Trivelli also said CAC plans to display only their budget for this semester. Finally, Stefanski defended ASG’s scrutiny of the CAC budget, emphasizing that the criticism will yield positive results.

“I know some people might say that we’re on an ASG crusade to go and gut CAC’s budget, that really isn’t it,” Stefanski said. “We’re not here to take [their] money away from [them]. We just want them to be truthful and honest with us, and to make a real concerted effort to spend smarter.”

The meeting concluded with a presentation of the Non-Voting Students of the Board of Trustees Act. According to Miller, the

McGuire said because the nonvoting students are representing the Miami University student body as a whole, they must be present at Oxford or one of the regional campuses, other than Luxembourg, for the nomination period and the entirety of their two-year term. The legislation presented requires that if the non-voting students wish to study abroad, they must resign.

“What has happened in the past is that the two past Board of Trustees served on two year terms, but some members went on programs like Inside Washington which has caused them to serve only three quarters of their terms,” McGuire said. “So this bill states that they have to serve out the entirety of their two-year term, and if they are in any study abroad programs that require them to leave campus for an extended period of time, they will have to resign.”

ASG will vote on The Non-Voting Students of the Board of Trustees Act at next week’s meeting.

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By Libby Mueller Senior Staff Writer

Universities across the country were forced to reevaluate spending priorities after the economic downturn in 2008. As a result, in 2010 Miami University has been impacted by reduced state funding, and in order to combat its effects, the Strategic Priorities Task Force (SPTF) was created.

David Creamer is the vice president and treasurer for Finance and Business Services. He said the goals of the task force were to cut costs and boost revenue for Miami.

“The task force identified areas where costs could be reduced but also areas of new revenue that could replace historic places of revenue,” Creamer said.

Creamer said the SPTF was created by President David Hodge at a time when Miami was expecting reduced funding to Ohio public universities such as Miami. The SPTF drew up a five-year budget plan to reduce costs while still preserving things that are important to the university, according to Creamer.

The SPTF’s cover letter to the president identifies some of these important core values as quality education including enriching opportunities like study abroad, an exceptional faculty and high graduation and retention rates.

Creamer said the SPTF made a plan with over 30 recommendations to the university and that there have been results.

“We are now two budgets into that plan and we have reduced costs by a little over 17 and a half million dollars as a result,” Creamer said.

Most of the cuts have been focused on administrative areas, health care and energy costs, according to Creamer. Creamer said the cuts also focus on efficient use of Information Technology (IT), reducing the finance and human

resources budgets and reducing purchasing costs.

He said the task force also was able to generate new revenue for the university. One of the ways of increasing revenue was focusing on national and international recruitment.

“We have undertaken efforts to continue to recruit students from around the nation,” Creamer said.

The SPTF tried to make cuts and changes in such a way that Miami students do not see harmful effects from budget reductions, according to Creamer. “[There are also] certain international recruitment activities like the ACE (American Culture and English) program,” Creamer said.

“The program is designed to assist students who are academically prepared to enroll at Miami but don’t have the English language skills.”

The SPTF tried to make cuts and changes in such a way that Miami students do not see harmful effects from budget reductions, according to Creamer.

“Our goal was to minimize any effect [on students] and not have these reductions transferred to students in the form of higher tuition,” Creamer said. “We don’t want students to be negatively impacted. We hope we’ve done this in a way that has been transparent to students.”

He said Ohio has seen a 21.5 percent reduction in state support in the fiscal year 2012 compared to 2010, but that it is not alone in reduced state funding.

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POLICE VP debate won’t sway Ohio voters

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By Amanda Hancock Senior Staff Writer

In their only scheduled meeting this election season, Vice President Joe Biden faced off against Republican candidate, and Miami University alumnus, Paul Ryan, Thursday evening in a heated debate at Centre College, located in Danville, Ky. Amidst a quirky “Debate Festival,” a crowd of political enthusiasts from far and near enjoyed the frenzy of having Biden and Ryan, along with a slew of prominent media outlets such as CNN and USA Today in town.

Nearby an outdoor stage for MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” filmed live shows before and after the debate, locals sold homemade buttons for opposing parties, fire hydrants were adorned with red, white and blue paint and a coffee shop offered “Mint-Romney” and “Obama-Rama” drinks.

The small town charm was no remedy for settling the feisty debate though, starting with the first question from moderator Martha Raddatz about the Sept. 11 death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

As nearly two thousand people sat in lawn chairs in campus’s central quad, and viewed the debate on an outdoor screen, yells in favor or

opposition of the candidates’ points were plentiful.

Biden and Ryan exchanged attacks mainly over the economy and foreign policy, quickly highlighting the divisive nature of the campaign.

Lines were drawn nationwide, however, the V.P. Debate probably didn’t push many voters from one side to the other, said Brian Danoff, a political science professor.

According to Danoff, Vice Presidential debates usually have little affect on the outcome of presidential elections. He said Biden and Ryan both put on a strong show for their respective campaigns. “[Ryan] gave a solid performance that probably helped burnish his image as a rising star in the Republican Party, no matter what happens on November 6,” Danoff said.

While Biden was combative from the start, speaking about Mitt Romney’s videotaped statement that 47 percent of Americans don’t pay taxes, the 1992 Miami graduate defended Romney’s remarks and commented that the vice president should know “sometimes words don’t come out of your mouth the right way.”

“Biden’s forceful performance in [the] debate probably helped to re-energize a lot of Democrats who had become despondent after

Obama’s lackluster performance in the first debate,” Danoff said.

Throughout the debate, Biden didn’t hesitate to interrupt Ryan, which prompted Ryan to reference President Barack Obama’s previous debate performance.

“I know you’re under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground,” Ryan said to Biden.

As sophomore Wilson Pittman watched on Thursday, he said he was turned off by the lack of meaningful discourse.

“It was more just each candidate pushing their beliefs on each other,” he said. Pittman also found Ryan’s behavior to be more tasteful than Biden’s.

“I think they both did well, but Biden seemed rude and arrogant especially when he was laughing at Ryan,” Pittman said.

Later in the weekend, Ryan made a stop at the Bowling Green State University for the Miami football game tailgate party on Saturday.

Banoff said the visit might be a response to recent polls suggesting that Obama still leads in Ohio, but now by a slimmer margin.

“Without Ohio, an electoral college victory becomes very difficult for Romney,” Danoff said.

Danoff said some analysts think that Romney is perceived to be

out-of-touch with the concerns of ordinary Ohioans, which is why he is down in the swing state.

“By reminding Ohio voters of his Miami University connection, and by showing up at college football games and tailgate parties, Ryan is probably trying to signal that he is part of a presidential ticket that can relate to the lives and concerns of regular folks from Ohio,” he said.

Danoff said the Republican campaign is probably playing on Ryan’s alma mater to attract young voters.

“The recent image of a youthful Ryan playing cornhole while wearing a North Face jacket may be designed in part to help the RomneyRyan ticket appeal to college-age voters in Ohio,” he said.

Danoff said this type of plan is typical for both parties.

“In some ways, Ryan’s appearance at college football games is similar to Obama going on the Daily Show,” he said.

Despite the results of debate and the election, political science professor Christopher Kelley said having a Miami graduate on the ticket is a positive step for the university.

“Having one of our own in the mix is huge; Paul Ryan gives us national media attention and excites our students that much more,” Kelley said.

County collects 862 lbs of medication Field trips become old school

By Jenna Pilipovich For The Miami Student

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Butler County held Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Sept. 29, which encouraged people to safely dispose of their old and unused prescription drugs.

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The Butler County Coalition hosted Prescription Drug Take Back day Sept. 29 where County residents could drop off their unwanted and unused prescription drugs and other medications. A total of 862 pounds was collected in all of Butler County.

There were eight prescription drug collection sites throughout Butler County. Middletown collected the most drugs with 208 pounds, followed by West Chester, with 206 pounds. Oxford, which has collected 487 pounds during three past drug disposal events, opted out of supplying a drop box location in the fall.

The drop box in Ross Township was the nearest location for Oxford residents.

This is the fourth countywide drug take-back effort, and Karen Murray, director of the Butler County Coalition, said it was not clear what the turnout would be.

“We really went into the day not knowing what to expect, but we were pleased with the amount we got back,” Murray said.

Most of the collecting sites were in the lobbies of local police departments in Butler County.

“This is a great effort on local law enforcement’s part,” Murray said. “They’re the ones that make it happen.”

As expected, many of the drugs collected were painkillers and

anti-anxiety medications. There was not a large collection of Adderall, a drug used for ADHD treatment, but there was an increase in muscle relaxant collection, Murray said.

Brian Williamson, chief of environmental services at Butler County Health Department, said medications that are not being administered as prescribed should be disposed as a precaution for both undesignated use by other people as well as environmental harm through the public water system.

“It’s good to have them out of situations where they may end up in unintended takers’ hands, and there’s always that potential that you may have a product in a location where you didn’t want it,” Williamson said.

Butler County has been unique in how aggressive the coalition has been with its disposal efforts and reducing accessibility in the community, said Murray.

“Until two and half years ago, we weren’t collecting drugs like this,” Murray said. “I don’t know of any county surrounding us that has as many take-back drug boxes as we have.”

This take-back day is just one way to combat the epidemic of prescription drug abuse in Butler County and Ohio, Murray said.

In a recent survey of Butler County 12th graders, 9.7 percent have used medications that were not prescribed to them, 1.8

percent higher than both the regional and national percentage.

In 2010, the per capita dosage of prescription in Ohio was 67 pills.

House Bill 93, legislation passed in Ohio 12 months ago, was designed to decrease the supply of painkillers and had positive results, Murray said.

Murray has a simple three-step solution to eliminating unnecessary prescription medications in your home.

“Secure your medications, monitor them, and then dispose of them,” Murray said.

Junior Jay Macke said he has heard of students taking prescription medications not prescribed to them, such as Adderall, and thinks it can be harmful.

“Especially since drinking is so prevalent on campus, it can be really dangerous for people to take drugs they’re not prescribed,” Macke said.

There are five permanent prescription drug box locations in Fairfield, Middletown, Monroe, Ross Township and the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. The Butler County Coalition also anticipates a Trenton and Oxford location.

Macke said he thinks some students would use a prescription drug drop box if one was located on campus.

“I’m not sure if it would prevent [students] from giving it to other people,” Macke said. “It’s definitely just good to have.”

For those of us in college, field trips in grade school meant a day out of the norm. It meant taking a bus ride, packing a lunch and later coming home to tell your parents about the awesome place you went to that day. Today, a new form of field trips has taken the front seat.

Virtual field trips have become a new form of education for children in grade schools across America., this time through a computer screen on the Internet.

There is no worry about permission slips since children stay in their classrooms. They are exposed to several different places across the world, like a hurricane in the Caribbean that is affecting the coastline or a historical tour around the White House.

Talawanda High School began engaging in virtual field trips last year, according to Holli Morrish, Talawanda director of communications and public relations. Students engaged on virtual field trips to the Cincinnati Zoo as well as exploring a safari in Africa, Morrish said.

According to Morrish teachers are not taking an easy way out for field trips. The economy hasn’t been ideal for educational programs in the last five years, which has made it hard for schools to distribute funding.

“The lack of funding isn’t coming from parents, but the general school budget,” Morrish said.

“We don’t have the same spending privileges we had in the past.

With budgets getting tighter and tighter, virtual field trips [are] an excellent way to still share fun and educational activities with students.”

Junior Lilly Sedacca said for her, field trips meant leaving the classroom.

“It’s unfortunate children aren’t getting the same exposure to certain places, like Cosi, a hands on science center in Ohio, but instead have their eyes glued to a computer,” Sedacca said.

First year, Ryan Jun, also said he believes that first hand experience is the most beneficial thing for a student.

“Physically going on a field trip can allow the student to interact more because there are no limitations on what they can see and do,” Jun said. “When you go on a ‘virtual field trip,’ they are limited.”

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012

Students build in Ghana

By Billy Rafael

Arts & Entertainment Editor

While Europe is always a popular destination for studying abroad, last summer 16 students took a different route and traveled to Africa with a very clear mission. They were part of the Design/Build Ghana Summer Workshop, an intensive studio project popular with architecture and interior design majors.

The Cage Gallery in Alumni Hall is currently hosting a collection of work done by these students.

weeks. This allowed them to get a feel for the style of architecture. On the road, they designed in groups, drawing up several proposals that were presented to the village and decided upon. Once chosen, the students teamed up with ten of the local villagers to execute the plans.

“The masons and carpenters teach the students everything from mixing the concrete to installing roofs,” Elliott said. “All this is done without power tools during the rainy season, when it still can get over a hundred degrees. They build a building in 22 days.”

The biggest challenge was getting used to their construction methods and how they do things over there.

It’s much more rudimentary than what we’re used to.”

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This six-week program gives students an opportunity to design and build a community based building.

According to J. Elliott, architect and instructor in the Department of Architecture & Interior Design and director of the summer workshop since 2005, it has been going on since the mid-90s. This year the students traveled to Abrafo-Odumase, a village in Ghana, to document information on the community they would be building for before touring the country for two and a half

The building this year was a cottage for two single teachers. In the past they have built houses, classrooms with attached offices, a community center and a library.

“The biggest challenge was getting used to their construction methods and how they do things over there,” junior architecture major Jordan Osborne said. “It’s much more rudimentary than what we’re used to. We’re used to heavy machinery, their methods

are all hands-on.”

Although they exclusively use indigenous materials and building techniques, the program also tries to bring something to the design.

“We always try to introduce something new, whether it’s a piece of technology or building technique,” Elliott said. “But we don’t go overboard and do something inappropriate for the context. It’s not a big flashy project. It’s very tasteful and really a beautiful thing.”

This year they implemented a built-in form of ventilation that can be seen on the small piece of the house that has been rebuilt for the exhibit to hang from the ceiling. The rest of the gallery is filled with photos of the process, a model of the completed building, and the students’ reflective projects that are required. These projects are openended and can be in any medium.

“The biggest thing I took away from the experience was just seeing how the rest of the world lives and how truly fortunate we are,” Osborne said. “That has inspired me to want to work in urban settings and it inspired the whole group to be conscious of who you are designing for. It’s all about bettering the people in the community.”

The exhibit will be on display until Oct. 19 in the Cage Gallery located in Alumni Hall, which is free and open to the public weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Play focuses on struggle of Filipino-American identity

By Billy Rafael

Arts & Entertainment Editor

In the midst of fall and Halloween it is often underpublicized that October is Filipino American History Month. It is no coincidence that this month, the Theatre Department is putting on “Flipzoids,” a play that deals with Filipino identity.

“Flipzoids,” written by Ralph B. Peña, is the story of three Filipino immigrants in the United States all in different states of assimilation. Redford, a man in his twenties that came to America as a child has all but forgotten his Filipino culture. Vangie, a first generation Filipino-American is trying to forget hers. And Vangie’s mother Aying is trying to get her to hold on to it.

The show’s director, graduate student Ronica Arntzen, said she feels that the play’s main focus on identity is universal.

“There were a few cultural tidbits that I gave them throughout the rehearsal process, but I mainly wanted the cast to be able to relate to their characters,” Arntzen said.

“These struggles with identity, with alienation, with feeling alone in a crowded room – these are feelings everyone experiences throughout their life.”

Junior Brittani Yawn, who plays

Vangie, agreed that relating her character to her own life helped understand her role.

“I play a character who is very much trying to fit into the idea of the American dream,” Yawn said. “Relating Vangie’s life to my own was definitely an important part of the rehearsal process. I hope the audience will walk away not only having learned more about Filipino culture but will be able to relate with the aspects of identity addressed.”

While the play focuses exclusively on Filipino identity, Arntzen chose not to limit herself when casting the show.

“There’s a small Filipino population at Miami University, even smaller in the theater department,” Arntzen said. “I knew that coming into the role of director so I was very open to having a multicultural cast. I don’t think that the aesthetic of being Filipino is the most important part of this play. The play is really about not trying to be something you’re not while remembering where you come from,” Yawn said. “Your history is something that is a part of you.”

“Flipzoids” will take place 8 p.m.

Oct. 24-27 and 2 p.m. Oct. 27-28 in Studio 88, the Zimmerman Experimental Theater. Tickets are $6 for students and $9 for adults and can be purchased at the Shriver Center Box Office.

On-the-rise country act to headline Brick Street

By Claire Krieger Senior Staff Writer

Thompson Square, a country act whose popularity seems to be increasing by the minute, will play at Brick Street Bar & Grill Wednesday night. Thompson Square is made up of spouses Shawna and Keifer Thompson. The husband and wife duo has had a hugely successful past couple of years and hope to top off this year with some wins at the upcoming CMA awards shortly after their performance at Brick Street.

Among other nominations at the show, Thompson Square is nominated for “Vocal Duo of the Year.”

Other achievements the group has earned include over 20 nominations and wins at the GRAMMY awards, the Academy of Country Music awards, the CMT Music Awards, and the Teen Choice Awards. The duo also won three awards at the fanvoted American Country Awards, putting them in the company of artists like Carrie Underwood. Finally, their song “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” was the most played song on country radio in 2011 and was the Country Song of the Year on iTunes in the same year.

Even though they have achieved all of these accomplishments, Thompson Square is not just concerned with winning awards and commercial success. They have begun philanthropic ventures with organizations including ChildFund International and Purina Dog Chow.

A big dog fan, their own is named “Etta” after singer Etta James.

Thompson Square encourages fans to support children through ChildFund International by offering free autographed albums to those fans that sign up to sponsor a child at one of their shows. Thompson Square’s partnership with Purina aims to encourage fans to share stories about how their dogs have impacted their lives on Purina’s online community. Each post will mean a $1 donation from Purina to support Patriot Rovers, Inc., a military dog service organization.

In the past, Thompson Square has opened up for acts like Lady Antebellum and Brick Street-veteran Jason Aldean, but at Wednesday night’s show they will be the headliners. The opening act will be A Ray, who recently opened up for Eric Church.

Brick Street and Miami University students are very excited about Thompson Square’s

upcoming performance.

“When I heard Thompson Square was coming it was really exciting because its always amazes me what big names we can get here at Miami,” senior and avid country music fan Taylor Major said. “It’s cool to go to a school where you can get popular names who aren’t nobodies.

I hear their songs on the radio all the time so it’s exciting to get to go see them live in Oxford.”

“It’s exciting for us because, while we’ve had many country stars including Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Chris Young, Justin Moore, Jake Owen, among others, it’s the first time we’ve ever had a country duo and Thompson Square is really rising fast in the country music scene,” Mark Weisman, the owner of Brick Street, said. “This show is a continuation of our strategy to try to bring the up-and-coming country stars of the future to Brick Street to give the students and those in the surrounding area the chance to see such quality talent in an intimate setting.”

The owners put a lot of thought and research into the acts they bring to Brick Street. They use feedback from students and information from music agencies to identify acts they believe will rise to be major players in the country music industry. Their aim is to book acts that are hot a nd up-and-coming.

“It’s a neat opportunity for students to be able to walk uptown and see such a big act in an intimate setting,” Weisman said.

“We’ve built a real country following at Brick Street and we’re proud of that. We’ve brought in several acts that have gone on to do pretty amazing stuff in the country music scene. We’ve found that country shows at Brick Street are always a good time.”

The other country acts billed to play Brick Street this semester are Thomas Rhett with opener Clayton Anderson. As for the rest of the year, Brick Street is unable to confirm any specific acts at this point but plan to release their second-semester lineup at the end of this semester.

“We’re excited for Thompson Square,” Weisman said. “It’s something unique and it’s great for the students to have an opportunity to see acts that typically go on to very big things where they can say ‘Hey, we saw them when.’”

More information about the Thompson Square show and ticket information can be found at www.brickstreetbar.com.

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Halloween thrills thrive throughout Ohio

By Billy Rafael

Arts & Entertainment Editor

Miami University students are lucky to have a selection of amusement parks within reasonable driving distance, and a high quality selection at that. As the winter months approach, now is the perfect time to sneak away from campus for a day and take in the fall-themed attractions.

Those willing to make the trip up to Sandusky, Ohio can take part in Cedar Point’s “Halloweekends.” Every Friday and Saturday night through the rest of the month the park turns into one big PG-13 attraction. The staff transforms into an array of creepy figures including killer clowns, psycho murders and more. A live wax museum, haunted mansion and bloody nightclub are just a few of the themed attractions.

Thrill-seekers can also find refuge at the Millennium Force and Top Thrill Dragster, two of the park’s most popular roller coasters.

Kings Island’s “Halloween Haunt,” located in Mason, follows the footsteps of Cedar Point in transforming the park into one big nightmare on weekend evenings.

In addition to the freaks and frights walking around the park, they also offer haunted attractions including a slaughterhouse, a zombieinfested hospital, a “Carnevil” and something they are calling “Holiday Horror,” a take on some beloved holiday figures like you’ve never imagined them before.

Also be sure to check out “Blood Drums,” a Blue Man Group-esque punk rock percussion performance that will paint the walls red.

If the theme park route isn’t your style but you’re still looking for a scare, Ohio has plenty of haunted houses to choose from. The little

village of Lewisburg boasts the “Haunted Cave,” the world’s longest haunted house according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Located 80 feet underground in an abandoned mine, guests will confront bats, ghosts and ghouls. Costing only two dollars and lasting over an hour, this one is definitely worth the trip.

If long durations in small spaces aren’t your thing then check out the award-winning Dent Schoolhouse, dubbed Cincinnati’s scariest haunted house. Based around the story of a janitor that murdered and stored student remains in the basement, this attraction is guaranteed to scare your pants off.

Tickets are a little pricier at twenty dollars, but this also includes access to their newest haunt, Detention Hall.

Halloween is quickly approaching, so be sure to get your fill of frights before the season is over.

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services on the SPTF. She said the task force had the intention to cut costs, but also to make sure the rights things were prioritized in order to advance the university in appropriate ways.

McVey said the budget for IT services has been cut by about 20 percent and IT personnel has also been reduced by about 20 percent.

However, most of the personnel reduction occurred by cutting empty positions.

McVey said one of the future implications of the SPTF’s plans for the IT department will be a new governance system that will set priorities in terms of what IT projects are completed for the university as well as e-learning opportunities for students.

“Forward-looking, we’re working very closely with the faculty who are on the e-learning committee,” McVey said. “We’re looking at how to roll out online learning here at the Oxford campus.”

Emily Crane Staff Writer

Students have likely seen the words “Fair Trade” sprinkled throughout Miami’s campus, as a symbol on chocolate bars or a type of coffee in a dining hall, but many may not understand the meaning of Fair Trade.

Few recognize why Fair Trade is significant, according to junior Hannah Biggs, co-president of International Justice Mission (IJM) on Miami’s campus.

“I feel like people have a general idea of what Fair Trade is, but not why it’s necessary,” Biggs said.

“They recognize that it’s better ethically but they don’t know why.”

Emma Stueffen, a first-year social work major is one such student who had a difficult time defining the term.

“I think it’s the rights that farmers and producers have on what’s being sold.” Stueffen said.

In fact, Fair Trade is a worldwide movement that aims to empower communities and develop sustainability by developing an equitable trading model that will be beneficial to farmers and workers as well as the consumers and industries that they serve, according to Fair Trade USA’s mission statement.

IJM is one organization that concerns itself with raising awareness of Fair Trade and emphasizing its widespread importance.

Fair Trade plays a significant role in decreasing the prevalence of slavery around the world today, Biggs said.

“People have to support their family and are forced into slavery or live as indentured servants,” said Biggs. “If there are ways for them to make fair wages, they won’t have to settle for the alternative which is slavery.”

Jon Brubacher, manager of Purchasing and Operations for Housing, Dining, Recreation and Business

Services said Miami sells Fair Trade products such as chocolate and tea in The Greystone market in Alexander Dining Hall, Shriver Center and Market Street at McCracken. It also offers Fair Trade coffee at every coffee location across campus, making coffee the largest usage Fair Trade item available.

“We make students aware [of Fair Trade] just by packaging and labeling,” Brubacher said. “The problem is there simply aren’t that many Fair Trade items out there.”

The goal of Housing and Dining is to offer students as wide a variety of items as possible, according to Brubacher, but it is ultimately up to the students to make the decision.

Sophomore Halley Novak said she doesn’t think very much about buying Fair Trade.

“I feel like it doesn’t really affect my purchases much,” Novak said. “I don’t go out of my way to purchase Free Trade things; I go to the places that give me the lowest

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“The larger organization of International Justice Mission is very into promoting fair labor practices,” said Biggs. “One of the things we’ve been working on is putting together a curriculum to take into the dorms.”

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Election, government could jeopardize our generation’s ability to pursue happiness

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EDITORIAL

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

Former Athletic Director Brad Bates leaves behind legacy of student-athlete improvement Miami’s first-ever Frozen Four and national championship appearance in ice hockey.

The Miami Student editorial board would like to congratulate and wish Bates good luck at his new position with Boston College, and to acknowledge the impact he is leaving behind.

Although there have been mixed reactions toward his history with Miami, it is impossible to not recognize one of many people who helped to carry on Miami’s pride and tradition in athletics.

It is arguable that Bates made a significant impact on Miami and its athletic programs.

Under Bates’ supervision, the graduation success rate of

Miami University President David Hodge announced Tuesday, Oct. 9 through a press release on Miami’s athletic website that Director of Athletics Brad Bates had accepted the Athletic Director position at Boston College.

Since coming to the university in November 2002, Bates presided over a program that achieved back-to-back football bowl game appearances while also earning conference championships in football, women’s cross country, ice hockey, baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, men’s and women’s swimming, field hockey, women’s soccer, women’s tennis, softball and synchronized skating, along with

Miami student-athletes ranged from 83 to 90 percent, among the best in the Mid-American Conference. Improvements were also made to several facilities, such as Yager Stadium, the new Goggin Ice Center and a renovated field hockey complex.

As the athletic director Bates helped to improve current athletic complexes and put emphasis on the ‘student’ part of ‘student-athlete’ by focusing on the athletes schoolwork.

Miami’s history of athletic directors has been a rich one, with dedicated individuals who sought to improve Miami athletics, which is something all Miami RedHawks can appreciate.

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This election comes down to deciding the role of government, which ultimately affects what kind of economy and liberty we will have. Government having a big role in Americans’ lives results in a “collective liberty” while our traditional limited government does not interfere in individuals’ lives or liberty.

One of the questions in the first presidential debate was the role of government. Romney explained his view on the role of government using the language of the Declaration of Independence. He spoke of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

“We also believe,” he said, “in maintaining for individuals, the right to pursue their dreams, and not to have government substitute itself for the rights of free individuals. And what we’re seeing right now is, in my view, a trickle-down government approach which has government thinking it can do a better job than free people pursuing their dreams, and it’s not working.”

Romney is correct in asserting that individuals can think, decide and create things better than government can ever do. That is why limited government, inalienable rights and the free market are so valuable to liberty.

But just as liberty can be defined differently, so can the phrase “pursuit of happiness.” The key word in the phrase is “pursuit.” The Constitution set up the environment for the pursuit of happiness to occur because it limits government from interfering in an individual’s life. But happiness is not a guaranteed outcome.

So how does one pursue happiness? Happiness is satisfaction, which is different than contentment. Satisfaction comes from earned success as a result of one’s actions. For example, one is satisfied and happy after hours of studying resulted in earning an A on an exam, rather than just being content with the professor handing out an A. Happiness can be pursued when inalienable rights are protected and rule of law is established. That should be the extent of government involvement regarding the pursuit of happiness.

For example, a basketball game requires referees (rule of law), but the players should be free to reach their potential, each striving for points, cooperating for mutual points, and using their skills.

Nothing is worse than when a player’s skills are not being utilized. And no win is truly satisfactory if the referee colludes and favors one player or team over another. And certainly it would be ridiculous to make tall people play on their knees or to redistribute points in order to equalize outcomes. No one would keep playing.

Our generation is going to have a difficult time with our pursuit of happiness. The anemic economy staggers along under a veil of uncertainty, fear and strain as the government continues to interfere in it. If we can find a job, it may not be one in our field of study, and our skills may not be utilized.

We may be content with a source of income, but not happy or satisfied with our work.

It has been said that our future has been “mortgaged” as the government continues to spend money it does not have. But what does that mean? How does our national debt affect us?

When it comes to dealing with our national debt, the government has four options. It can raise taxes, borrow and print money, cut spending or grow the economy to increase tax revenue. Currently, the government is borrowing and thus printing money, which devalues the dollar, and threatening to raise taxes, which would hurt economic growth.

“More money,” Economist Lawrence Kudlow writes in The Investor’s Business Daily, “doesn’t necessarily mean more growth. More Fed-money won’t increase the rewards for risk, entrepreneurship, business hiring, and hard work. Keeping more of what you earn after-tax is the true spark of economic growth. Not the Fed. […] So at the end of the day, Obama’s economic program of tax, spend and regulate has been a dismal failure.”

Four more years of ‘Obamanomics’ will affect our generation’s pursuit of happiness as it consigns us to a future of declining incomes and rising living costs. But this bleak future does not have to be. It is not too late to change our direction in regards to reducing our national debt. There is a path for a real economic recovery. As Romney plans to do, we need to grow the economy and cut spending, ensuring future wealth creation and the pursuit of happiness for our generation.

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ANDREW GEISLER

Students should have greater understanding of how community is constructed, sustained through patterns, place, perception, time

Restraint must continue to guide Roberts court

We say that our cities are alive.

Words like living, breathing, dying, evolving all illustrate the notions of vitality and life that have become associated with both city composition and living, and encapsulate the single-mindedness of community.

But how is this community created? Is it the simple cohesion and action of survival principles, or do its origins lie somewhere deeper?

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being. Place carries our deepest meanings, feelings and thoughts and turns them into physical forms.

For us the building of our place begins with the internal orientation of ourselves within the world.

Signs and symbols become the physicality of being, and we are able to translate these signs and symbols into meaningful space through the use of perception.

Perception is composed of internal constructs and utilizes the

Only after a set number of layers occur can community generate, and then it grows as each new layer builds.

We started by asking how community is created; if it is simple or complex. The answer is that it is both; it is simply complex.”

scores the relationship of patterns and their inherent construction of all things. Alexander describes life as patterns that are generated by human activities, nature and time.

Out of these patterns, hierarchy begins to become established upon different scales, always working in conjuncture with one another to further the next.

What emerges is a crystallization of community.

Masked within the hierarchical construction of patterns the underlying utilization of need exposes this communal quality.

This need becomes associated as an embodiment of identity, and stands as a matter of interaction with community and environment. Thus communities which become centered on a common identity (religious, athletic, etc.), determine need and respond through construction. In this way, identity becomes grounded in place.

Place is a central component of life and can be described as a connection that exists between a person and their environment dependent on the personalization of meaning; a description of being within space.

Place is the external form of

external abilities of the body.

These abilities are translated into the haptic senses; those senses that deal with the strict physicalities of space. These senses allow a greater depth of connectivity and interaction between our surrounding environment and us.

Two predominant senses emerge: sight and touch.

Sight allows the individual to experience and interact with a wide range of elements allowing for a greater context of orientation within spaces.

Conversely touch reduces the breadth of the scope into a more personal relationship with individual elements. This allows us to ground ourselves by directly establishing a physical connection between the elements and ourselves.

The act of physical placement denotes the shift from internalization to externalization. Methods and techniques of placement begin to form a hierarchical construct that unifies the order of meaning within the space. It is within this unification that community begins to emerge.

This becomes evident as we examine the act of living. A person perceives the environment around them, which is already

shown in the way they construct place in terms of the environmental factors around them. Often, those environmental factors are of human construction. Thus the need to orient, define meaning and interact is still present only these now respond to the external inclusion of those that surround us.

It is within this inclusion that we begin to take into account the meaning and significance appropriated by another person.

Our actions then encompass both the meaning of ourselves and the meaning of those that surround us.

This is evident in the ways in which we both move and function within the community, as the establishment of hierarchical listing of professions and ideologies establishes the context for interaction.

The identification of singular placement within the communal context allows for both our own individual living and community survival.

Important to the emergence of community is the concept of time. The idea of time is a constant established as a determinate of community emergence.

Time, often seen as a constant flow, can instead be seen as a layering of the patterns generated through living, a layering of life.

As time passes, the layering of our places becomes more complex and intricate, with each new layer lending itself to an emergence of the next.

Only after a set number of layers occur can community generate, and then it grows as each new layer builds.

We started by asking how community is created; if it is simple or complex. The answer is that it is both; it is simply complex.

Perhaps too complex to ever fully understand, but by trying to offer some insight we can actively think and construct ourselves in a better manner.

This will lead to the construction of a better community, a community driven by the underlying nature of living, connectivity and interaction.

Community is created, sustained and grows as time layers itself over and over again.

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This June, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts shocked the country when he provided the fifth vote to uphold the heart of President Obama’s controversial and polarizing health care law then penned the majority opinion.

Apoplectic Republicans were quick to scream “RINO” (Republican in name only) at the Chief Justice, while liberals rejoiced — though their party was dampened rather quickly once they realized Roberts had greatly hamstrung their ability to ram through any more sweeping expansions of the welfare state because of his rejection of the administration’s commerce clause argument for the mandate.

And though modern day Republicans may never square with this fact — it was a great triumph of conservatism that Roberts acted as he did.

This assertion requires an explanation as to what the word conservative truly means.

Conservatism is often miscast these days as heartless, and equally as often, as blindly aggressive as its great ideological foe—the excessive in its nature liberalism. But conservatism is and should always be about liberty paired with a virtuous brand of humility and restraint.

The great Irish political philosopher and member of the House of Commons, Edmund Burke, commonly known as the intellectual forefather of conservatism, explained the essence of conservative thought the best when he wrote, “But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”

Humility and restraint, these two great virtues teach us to respect the wisdom of our forefathers, and to fight to maintain the institutions they so effectively designed which have endured over time.

These institutions have endured for a reason, and we don’t have all the answers, so let’s show a healthy amount of respect and deference to the construct of society.

While liberalism is quick to change, and is blindly ambitious, it often to leads to great mistakes; conservatism, on the other hand, understands the necessity of some change, but knows that reform should come slow. Conservatives must be the ultimate skeptics.

This leads us back to Chief Justice Roberts. His decision was a clear attempt protect the institution of the Supreme Court at a time when institutions in our country have taken a huge hit.

Public confidence in the Supreme Court sits at 24 percent, according to the Harris poll.

This is a travesty, and Roberts recognizes this. He also

recognized that a full strike down with dubious legal reasoning, and clear political motivations, would have caused a countrywide crisis of confidence in the Court, and our institutions cannot afford to continue to take such great hits.

The majority opinion Roberts penned certainly involved some legal jiu-jitsu, but at its core, it recognizes the limited reach the judiciary should have in changing statutes.

Roberts, in essence, told the

But Roberts took an important step last June by bucking the ideological tides, and instead deferring to his minimalist instincts.” people and the Congress to do their job, and not expect him to do it for them with fell swoop of the pen when he wrote of the Court, “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”

Chief Justice Roberts, as a life-long conservative Republican, would likely never vote for the Affordable Care Act as a legislator, but as an avowed judicial minimalist, interested in the institutional strength of the Supreme Court, knew he had no real grounds to strike down the law based on legal precedent.

Bad public policy is not always unconstitutional. Chief Justice Roberts deferred to his better judgment when he accepted this line of reasoning.

Now, the Roberts court has not always led in the tradition of judicial minimalism Roberts displayed last June. Though Roberts told Jeffrey Rosen in an interview before he took the bench that he was interested in getting to a unanimous decision as often as possible, this has rarely been the case since 2005.

This isn’t all Roberts fault; his four friends to his right and left are all pretty well dug in ideologically, and, all too often, so is he.

But Roberts took an important step last June by bucking the ideological tides, and instead deferring to his minimalist instincts.

A Chief Justice can easily make a court in their image—Earl Warren and William Rehnquist were often examples of this—the position can pack a serious punch if used effectively.

So as the Roberts Court takes on some contentious issues once again this term, lets hope the Chief Justice imposes his minimalist and humble style on the court. Refusing to give into the fast runners on his left, or, unfortunately, his right, instead, leading in a virtuously restrained direction.

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While this is not the first time an offensive flier has been posted in a residence hall, Wagner said this is the first one, to her knowledge, that has advocated criminal activity.

Van Fossen said some of the responses she has heard brush this flier off as a prank and a joke.

“Number eight on the list says, ‘If your [sic] afraid the girl will identify you slit her throat,’” Van Fossen said. “That statement goes beyond sexual assault and rape, that’s murder. There’s someone who that thought has crossed his mind and he’s walking around campus. That is so disturbing to me.

This should never be considered a joking matter.”

According to the Oxford Campus Clery Act Public Crime Log from Aug. 12 to Oct. 11, five sexual assaults have been reported to the MUPD this academic year.

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laying the bricks: the brad bates legacy Integrity.

If you asked athletic directors, coaches, educators and players around the country to describe Brad Bates, this would be the first word that comes to mind.

In fact, Miami University President David Hodge refers to Bates as “Mr. Integrity” and Miami athletics have become synonymous with the word.

The RedHawks’ former athletic director, who accepted the same position at Boston College last week, epitomized what college athletics is supposed to be about.

Bates’ accomplishments speak for themselves: increased graduation rates, multiple championships and facility upgrades. But these accomplishments do not show how Bates truly impacted the college athletic landscape.

Bates has always been focused on how to improve the studentathlete experience through winning championships and excelling in the classroom, and his dedication to this vision shined at Miami.

Athletic programs have become increasingly reliant on winning and on turning a profit. Student-athletes are now increasingly evaluated by how much money and publicity they can bring to their school.

Despite these factors, Miami has stayed true to its mission. The athletic department accomplished success the right way.

Bates was a driving force behind this.

Very few athletic directors are as well respected as Bates. This is why he was nominated last year as the president of the Division 1A Athletic Directors’ Association.

Bates has had numerous opportunities to move to bigger athletic programs throughout the country, and yet he stayed at Miami for 10 years, over two years longer than the average athletic director tenure.

Bates believes in his programs.

He believed in Miami’s vision of athletics. He believed in emphasizing the “student” in student-athlete.

The athletic director position at Miami is arguably one of the hardest collegiate athletic jobs in the country. Not only is the director expected to foster student development and enhance performance in the classroom, but they are also expected to win championships with limited resources. Very few schools maintain these high expectations.

It is difficult enough for programs to remain academically eligible while hiring and retaining the best available coaches, but to do this on an extremely tight budget is nearly impossible.

Yet this is exactly what Bates excelled at.

Five years ago Bates began the “Culture of Champions” strategic plan, during which time Miami has increased student-athlete graduation rates and increased the number of athletic championships. In addition, Miami had its three best fundraising years in the history of the athletic department during this time.

The biggest challenge facing Miami’s next athletic director will be resources. Miami does not have the fundraising or facilities of some of its competitors, and yet the RedHawks are competitive in nearly every sport every year.

Visionaries like Brad Bates are few and far between.

Bates is a one-of-a-kind athletic director who struck as close to a perfect balance as anyone in the industry of winning on and off the field.

Miami’s search for its 10th athletic director in school history is already underway, and will likely be decided within the next few months.

Let’s hope there is another “Mr. Integrity” around the corner for the Red and White.

Miami hires interim ad snyder Miami University hired former secretary to the Board of Trustees and executive assistant to the president Steve Snyder as

interim athletic director Thursday, replacing Brad Bates.

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Soccer sets record for most consecutive wins

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Miami University junior midfielder Kayla Zakrzewski pushes the tempo Sept. 23 against the University at Buffalo.The ’Hawks are 8-0 in the Mid-American Conference and have won nine straight games, the most in program history.

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The Miami University soccer team made program history over the weekend, extending its winning streak to nine games for the first time in school history while remaining unbeaten in the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

The ’Hawks outlasted Northern Illinois University 3-2 and shut out the University of Toledo 1-0 to improve to 8-0 in the MAC. The Red and White improved to 14-2 on the year with just three regular season games left.

Miami followed up its dramatic win over Eastern Michigan University with another last second nailbiter over Northern Illinois Friday.

The RedHawks were unable to put away the Huskies until the very end, despite jumping out to an early 1-0 lead in the 12th minute on a goal by junior forward Katy Dolesh. Freshman midfielder Jess Bronke set up Dolesh’s sixth goal of the season from a long throw-in to sophomore midfielder Kelsey Dinges, who headed the ball to Dolesh as she netted the ball with a header of her own.

“I like being under the pressure of being relied on to take shots when I have the chance,” Dolesh said. “One

thing we wanted to do was give ourselves a lot of chances by keeping the ball in their half. It’s what we’ve done all year on offense and it’s helped us score fast.”

Dinges added a goal of her own in the 25th minute from 18 yards out. Junior forward Kayla Zakrzewski tied the Miami record for single season assists with nine on Dinges’ goal.

The ’Hawks remained in control of the game until the 42nd minute.

Northern Illinois was able to find the back of the net on one of its seven first half shots, cutting the Miami lead in half.

The Huskies then evened the score in the 67th minute, and the game remained tied until the last five seconds of the game.

Miami earned its eighth and final corner kick opportunity with just 4.8 seconds remaining. Senior captain Jess Kodiak scrambled to send in the attempt, finding Dinges in a crowd of defenders. Dinges snuck a header over every Huskie player on goal for her second goal of the afternoon.

It was Dinges team-leading 10th goal of the season and her third multi-goal game.

“I didn’t think we played particularly well today,” Head Coach Bobby Kramig said. “Northern is

a very difficult place to play and a very tough team to play against.

However, our team showed great resilience and character in overcoming today’s challenges and I’m very proud of them for that. Kelsey Dinges has been terrific all year. She just keeps getting better and better. She’s playing with such confidence at the moment and deserves her spot at the top of the league scoring table.”

The RedHawks battled the Rockets Sunday through the wind and rain, posting the team’s eighth shutout of the year. The shutout gave sophomore goalie Allison Norenberg the 10th of her collegiate career, putting her second in Miami history.

Miami was under fire early and often, defending three Toledo corner opportunities. Dolesh scored the lone goal of the day from 25 yards out on an assist from Dinges. The game was a defensive struggle from that point on, as the Rockets outshot Miami 12-10.

“Winning on the road in this conference is really difficult and our girls are showing that they know how to compete and win the games when they’re not playing particularly well,” Kramig said.

With the win over Toledo, Miami clinched a home field game in the MAC Quarterfinals Oct. 28.

The Brotherhood sweeps opening series for 2nd time in 5 years

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Miami University sophomore forward Cody Murphy battles for the puck during the RedHawks’ 3-0 shutout win Friday.

By Joe Gieringer Staff Writer

The No. 8 Miami University hockey team swept its season opening series for only the second time in the past five years, shutting out Colgate University 3-0 Friday and besting them 5-1 Saturday at Steve Cady Arena.

The RedHawks came out strong

Friday with a goal halfway through the first frame, as one-touch passing from sophomore forward Alex Wideman and senior forward Marc Hagel helped sophomore line mate Blake Coleman light the lamp to gain an early lead. The physical play picked up throughout the game, with Miami asserting itself over the equally sized Raiders.

“It’s just part of our team and who

we are,” Blasi said of the physical play. “It’s been kind of our M.O. When we’re physical and we’re in the game and we’re skating, we’re effective. And that’s how we’ve got to play.”

Sure enough, big hits by RedHawk defensemen opened up big plays. At 6:41 in the second period, sophomore forward Austin Czarnik dished a blind pass into junior forward

Bryon Paulazzo’s feet, who kicked it to his stick and fired a five-hole shot to put the ’Hawks up two.

But hitting was not the only thing that energized the ’Hawks. Miami sent nine men to the box Friday night, yet still managed to successfully kill each penalty. They even capitalized on a 4-on-4 situation with just over one minute remaining in the second, when Coleman out-muscled a Colgate player to sneak a well-placed wrist shot by the goalie, picking up his second goal of the night.

The Raiders battled back in the third, but Miami rallied around freshman goaltender Ryan McKay, who turned aside 12 shots in the third period for 24 total saves and his first collegiate victory and shutout.

“I’ll take it any way I can get it, but starting out with a shutout is definitely a nice way to do it,” McKay said.

“I thought as a team we played well enough to deserve a shutout tonight.”

Miami continued to play two-way hockey Saturday, as Paulazzo tallied his second goal of the year off a picturesque pass from sophomore line mate Cody Murphy to tie the game at one. The RedHawks started the second period quickly when freshman

forward Kevin Morris buried senior Steve Mason’s rebound, putting the Red and White up 2-1.

Miami did not look back, scoring three times in the third frame, including two power play goals, to put the game out of reach. Freshman goaltender Jay Williams notched his first win, turning aside 20 of 21 shots, while 11 RedHawks tallied points in the matchup.

Blasi stressed the importance of special teams in the two wins over a formidable Colgate opponent, as Miami went 3-for-6 on the power play and was perfect on the penalty kill (PK) Saturday night.

“Our PK was great all weekend and our power play came alive,” Blasi said. “It gives us so much more confidence going into the week of preparation and gives us an idea of what we need to do. And besides that we got a couple of wins. You never know how big those are going to be at the end of the year. We’ll enjoy it for a little bit and then get ready to play next week.”

The RedHawks return to action this weekend, opening a two game series against Providence College Friday at Steve Cady Arena.