Spooky Miami: a guide to historic campus tales By Lauren Ceronie Paranormal Editor
LISA GEHRING THE MIAMI STUDENT
Roger Sales’ bloody handprint is visible on a door from Reid Hall housed in the University Archives.The handprint was allegedly made by Sales after being shot in 1959.
Hallo-weekend is almost upon Miami University. Students have carefully planned their costumes, bought tacky decorations and made arrangements for parties. But in order to really get into the spooky spirit, students may want to know some of the creepier aspects of the campus they live on. Over the past 200 years,
This 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. Miami has accumulated quite a few ghost stories and eerie tales. Here are a few of them for your spooking pleasure.
Reid Hall The story behind the infamous bloody handprint begins in Reid Hall. May 9, 1959, a student named Herbert Lucas went to Reid Hall looking to confront another student by the name of James Walker who had started dating Lucas’ exgirlfriend. When Lucas found Walker, he shot and wounded Walker. Hearing the noise, resident assistant Roger Sales came to
investigate. Lucas shot Sales in the head and the chest. Legend holds that Sales fell into a nearby door, leaving his bloody handprints forever emblazoned in the wood.
Ron Tammen Perhaps the most famous Miami mystery
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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1974, The Miami Student reported that dorms had changed rules regarding private parties held in public spaces in dorm buildings. Parties where 3.2 beer was being served had to be approved by hall government and the hall manager. Parties also had to be scheduled with the coordinator of campus events before 1 p.m. on the Wednesday before the party. Another rule indicated that one keg of beer could be ordered for every 75 guests up to five kegs.
MU slow to comply with textbook law By Emily Balch
For The Miami Student
Miami University will soon be required by law to disclose the nature and price of course materials, including textbooks, for the purposes of class registration. A representative sampling of BannerWeb course listings by The Miami Student shows this has not yet been fully implemented. The Higher Education Opportunities Act (HEOA) was signed into law in August 2008. Beginning July 1, 2010, the law gave universities a three year period to fully implement the textbook provisions, requiring them to list the ISBN and prices of textbooks. Textbook information from individual departments was due to the Miami University Bookstore by Sept. 19, before registration for spring semester opens for students, according to material sent to faculty members. Many departments have internal deadlines beyond Sept. 19, and some professors don’t even know what courses they are teaching by then. English 373 Professor James Bromley submitted his book selection on Oct. 3 to the English department, which forwarded it on to the Miami bookstore as well as Follett’s Co-Op Bookstore and Dubois Bookstore on Oct. 11. When registration began on Oct. 17, the textbook portion of Bromley’s ENG 373 course listing still said “to be determined.” Bromley said he was not made aware of the Sept. 19 deadline and he did not receive the request for book orders until the last week in September. Bromley was one of the first professors to have his book order into the department assistant, according to English department assistant Trudi Nixon. “I understand the desire
to know the books and the costs prior to registration so that students can make informed decisions about the courses that they take,” Bromley said. “But the implementation has possibly been a little bumpy.” Once information is received from departments, the bookstore then processes and posts the pricing data. But according to Miami Book Sales and Rental Manager Sarah Thacker, this process is more difficult than it seems. “The law was established without taking into account how much time it takes and how difficult it is to have [the books] all online before registration,” Thacker said. The process was first introduced at Miami for the summer 2011 semester. The process starts with the teachers who select their books and then submit them to the academic assistant of their department, who passes the request to the bookstore. Only 75 percent of courses have books turned in to the bookstore, according to Thacker. “The bookstore is trying as hard as we can,” she said. Thacker said the “to be determined” label was created so that parents and students know that books are needed for the course, but not which books or how much they cost. The bookstore struggles to upload these requests on time because faculty often don’t submit their orders until classes begin. Another holdup is with textbook publishers. “There is a delay because publishers don’t release new editions until late summer or late October,” she said. There is talk of the Ohio government putting together a report at the end of this academic year in which every university would submit its HEOA compliance statistics,
according to Thacker. She said the report would be for informational purposes only. “There are no fines or anything concrete,” Thacker said. However, compliance with HEOA – determined by a report due July 1, 2013 – is a requirement for schools receiving federal student financial aid. Sophomore Mackenzie Ashbrook said Miami is not doing enough to fully implement HEOA. “I would not have registered for mythology if I would have known how expensive it was going to be to have to buy all the books,” Ashbrook said. “I think if you are deciding between a couple classes, it’s only fair to have as much information up as possible.” Associate Provost Dick Pettitt said with such a big change, he knew there would be complications along the way. According to Pettitt, he decided to give everyone a year to really get moving on this and he said he would talk to people along the way to see how Miami can improve the implementation of this law. “When I begin to get information, there are going to be conversations with deans and departments and they can explain to us why this department can do it and this department can’t,” Pettitt said. “It will get better as we go along, but we are not there yet.” Even though some course listings still say “to be determined,” that still counts in fulfilling HEOA requirements, according to Pettitt. “The language [of the law] permits institutions to use the ‘to be determined’ designation if the specific ISBN or other relevant information is not yet available,” Pettitt said. First-year Dan Levy thinks Miami is not complying fully
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THE NEXT KING AND QUEEN ... OF OXFORD?
Local children participate in the 65th annual Oxford Lions Club Halloween Parade local costume contest Thursday night in Uptown Park. These participants are dressed as William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
‘Intense’ English program to help incoming international students By Adam Giffi
Senior Staff Writer
There are some in Ohio who likely cannot point to Miami University on a map; but if the plans of those behind the American Culture and English (ACE) program are fully realized, Miami will one day be recognized globally as a hot spot to learn English as a foreign language. Robert DiDonato, director of global initiatives, said this semester Miami has implemented an intensive English program that is currently geared towards international students who have not performed high enough for admittance into Miami on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and/or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). He said there are three main goals of the program, one being to generate revenue from both the tuition of students in the program and from the
students who then apply and are admitted for full-time status upon completion of the program. Additionally, another goal is to raise English proficiency among international students on campus. “I can remember when I started at Miami in 1987, the Asian presence was very miniscule. Now look at the Asian presence and how the campus has really become open to international students,” DiDonato said. “Now imagine if we can increase that with a Latin American presence, South American presence, presence from Arabic countries and places like that. It would be terrific.” Felice Marcus, associate director of ACE, which just received a formal name change from the American English and Culture Program, said prospective international students are currently required to have a 72 TOEFL score out of 120 or a 6.0 IELTS score out of 9. Meanwhile, for admittance
into the program designed to heighten English language and American cultural skills, students need to have between a 65-71 TOEFL or a 5.5 IELTS. Beginning with the fall 2013 semester, the regular minimum admission requirement will be 76 TOEFL/6.5 IELTS and the ACE requirement will be 65-75 TOEFL/5.5 or 6.0 IELTSA. In 2014, the requirement for general admittance will be up to 80 for TOEFL. According to Marcus, based on what they have seen, the old standards have not always reflected that students are adequately prepared, especially as it applies to verbal skills, and therefore some students have not been able to excel to the best of their abilities. Marcus said Miami’s new standards are more comparable to those of other leading schools. Another goal is to diversify the international student population. This will be achieved
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Miami University libraries have new decorations to promote access to free scholarly journals for International Open Access Week.
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Open Access Week locks up King Library By Andy Martin
For The Miami Student
International Open Access Week has put Miami University’s King Library on lock down. Chains and giant red padlocks wrap around the pillars in the entrance to help bring awareness to the increasingly expensive toll scholarly journals are having on university libraries worldwide. Unbeknownst to many Miami students, scholarly journals – which are needed for subjects ranging from English literature to particle physics – are not free. Judith Sessions, dean of Miami libraries, said scholarly journals cost Miami and other universities a great
deal of money, which comes directly from library budgets. “International Open Access Week is meant to bring a larger awareness to students and faculty alike,” Sessions said. “We are trying to break the cycle of scholarly publishing and show that there exists another choice.” Jen Waller and Andy Revelle, two members from the Scholarly Communications Committee, explain more about the increasing price of journals and the purpose of International Open Access Week. “This is the first year Miami has celebrated International Open Access Week and this year, it’s all about
bringing awareness,” Waller said. “Students need to realize that if access is shrinking then research will become more limited. This ultimately affects everyone.” While library budgets have been dwindling, prices of academic journals have been inflating. Libraries around the world are beginning to suffer the consequences. According to Revelle, this causes a great problem for both the faculty who write the journals and the students who research them. “Faculty members write journals to hopefully be cited in other scholarly journals,” Revelle said. “That’s how quality in the academic world is measured. If access is
becoming even more restricted because of price, other scholars can’t cite the journals.” Sophomore Elaina Ostrow agreed with International Open Access Week’s message. “The library should not have to pay for something that is needed to do our school work,” Ostrow said. Junior Stormy Leugers said she frequently uses library resources and believes the library should not have to pay exorbitant prices for them. “I am working on a paper right now and I just spent a few hours today searching the library for scholarly journals,” Leugers said. “It is ridiculous
that they would have to pay for them. The library is trying to offer us as many resources as they can so we can expand upon our knowledge and that should be priceless.” Revelle said students need to realize that this endless expanse of information is not available outside of the university. “We teach you to use scholarly journals, but then you leave and you can’t use them because they aren’t open to the public,” Revelle said. To spread awareness of the need to open academic journals to the public, the library has created a splash page featured on the library website presenting a lock and the
question “what if you had no access to the library?” The library is also passing out flyers with QR codes compatible with most mobile devices, buttons and business cards all offering more information. Waller and Revelle said they have been Tweeting nonstop about International Open Access Week and the members of the Scholarly Communications Committee have all posted blogs on the subject on the libraries News and Notes section of the website. To learn more about open access to scholarly journals, students and faculty should visit openaccess.org or scholars.muohio.edu/openaccess.
Hundreds counter-protest WBC; Miami student group aims picket passes without incident to empower people of Haiti By Sam Kay
Editor in Chief
Hundreds of students gathered on Central Quad and at the corner of Maple and Spring streets during a visit from four members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) from 4:15 to 4:45 Tuesday. The crowds at Shriver and on Central Quad ebbed and flowed from 4 p.m. onward, but the largest group gathered near the Shriver Center. The 600-700 person strong crowd congregated at the corner of Maple and Spring Streets outside of the Shriver Center chanted slogans at the WBC members, repeatedly shouting “USA! USA! USA!” WBC members were sequestered behind metal barricades. Miami University Police directed vehicular and pedestrian traffic and
kept crowds from spilling into the street. Some onlookers toted their own signs, bearing messages such as “God hates figs,” “Hate is not in Miami’s curriculum,” “God hates kittens,” “Yays for gays,” “Honk for love,” “No signs allowed,” “Haters gunna hate” and various passages from the Bible. About a dozen motorcyclists bearing American and POW/MIA flags rode up and down Spring Street, parked and joined the counter-protestors with flags in hand. As the WBC members left, onlookers followed them to their van, singing “Hey, hey, goodbye,” by Steam, and making farewell gestures. At the Unite Miami rally on Central Quad, Luke Williams, one of the lead organizers, welcomed the crowd and then introduced Student Body President Nick Huber, who said
about 1,200 people had signed the “We’ve Got Your Back” pledgeorganizedbyAssociated Student Government. Williams said he was pleased with the turnout at the Unite Miami Rally. “I am very happy, we keep getting more and more people,” Williams said. “We’re coming together as a community and having a really good time doing it.” Senior James Trotier came to Shriver see what would happen. “Overall, I feel proud of the students uniting, even if it’s at a protest,” Trotier said. “It makes me feel good that students all think these people are crazy … I also thought it was really cool that [the bikers] came to support the students.” Taylor Dolven and Felicia Jordan contributed reporting
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Students react peacefully to the WBC picket by giving out free hugs on Central Quad.
By Chelsea Davis
For the Miami Student
Wednesday, the Miami University student organization Lespwa 4 Haiti (L4H) will host the event “Restavek: A Day in the Life” from 4 to 7 p.m. in the MacMillan Hall Lobby. Lespwa, which means “hope” in Creole, is a nonprofit organization that aims to empower the people of Haiti through education and provide knowledge and resources to help individuals lift themselves out of poverty. “[It] was started last September by my brother and I,” said senior and Lespwa President Krista Mollette. “A Haitian friend of mine was kidnapped and beaten in Haiti. When my brother heard about this, he wanted to do something to help individuals, like my friend.” According to Emily Crane, first-year and public relations coordinator for L4H, the organization works to provide selftaught home tutoring programs for children, adult literacy and English classes and skilled trade classes throughout the course of the year. They also hope to have 100 book bags, complete with lesson plans, made for never-schooled children, Crane said. There are also many opportunities for individuals in the organization to have a more
hands-on experience. “There are opportunities throughout the year for teams of individuals to travel to Haiti,” Crane said. “[They will] take part in hands-on service projects, teach ESL … as well as meet the children and adults whom we’ve been supporting.” The group is small, with only 18 members, but it has a lot of big dreams. One of the goals right now is to expand and become a registered non-profit organization. The event being held Nov. 2 is an interactive exhibition that will give people a chance to get a glimpse into the life of a child slave in Haiti. According to Ninette Sosa from CNN World News, there are an estimated 300,000 children enslaved in Haiti. “Restavek translates to ‘stay with,’” Mollette said. “It is the word Haitians use to describe a child slave … one out of three homes in urban areas have a child slave.” One of the reasons L4H is hosting this event is to increase people’s knowledge on the subject of Haiti and increase their involvement, said Mollette. “Most people do not know anything about Haiti,” Mollette said. “In fact, a good portion of individuals believe Haiti is a country in Africa; it is not. It lies three hours south of
Miami, Florida.” The group is trying to get the word out on this event and the organization in general. So far, it is being met with positive feedback from the student body. “I’ve never really heard of the organization before,” said junior Evan Burch. “But it sounds really cool … it sounds like they’re doing some really great stuff. I’m considering attending.” L4H is partnering with the Center for American and World Cultures and the Restavek Freedom Foundation in Cincinnati to host the event. According to Crane, there will be representatives from the Restavek Freedom Foundation and L4H available to answer any questions and provide information. It takes about a half-hour to walk through and refreshments will be provided. The main goal of the organization is to give a voice to those in Haiti who suffer from the country’s social issues, like poverty, child slavery and lack of education, according to Mollette. “We represent the voice of millions of children in Haiti who cannot attend school and do not even have the basic necessities in life,” Mollette said. “We want to raise awareness on this campus and further for the needs of the people in Haiti.”
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BEAT Gas heaters have hidden danger Female tries to cover up beer at Brick Street At 1:30 a.m. Saturday, officers were doing a routine bar check at Brick Street Bar and Grill. While doing their check up, they observed a female with an open bottle of Bud Light. She was walking towards the officers when she noticed them. When she noticed them, she turned right around and tried to walk away quickly. The female made her way to a wall where she set her bottle down on a window ledge. She tried walking away and the officers stopped her. Officers identified her as Miami University first-year Cassandra Nolloth. Officers issued her a citation for underage possession of alcohol.
Male fails multiple sobriety tests, receives OVI Around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oxford Police Department officers saw Miami University senior Christopher Andrew turn left in front of another vehicle at the intersection of College and Locust Streets, crashing into the other vehicle. The crash investigation revealed that Andrew turned left in front of another vehicle traveling south on College Corner Pike. Officers asked Andrew if he had been drinking and he said that he had. Officers performed the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test at the scene and noticed six out of the six clues. Officers placed Andrew under arrest for Operating a Vehicle under the Influence and other sobriety tests were performed at the station. Andrew refused to submit to chemical tests. Officers also issued him a traffic citation for OVI and right of way violation when turning left.
Vandals leave crude drawing on side of house Around 1 a.m. Wednesday, the house manager of a fraternity was advised by a house member that there was spray paint on the fraternity house. The spray paint drew a crude picture of a penis on the side of the house. There were paint cans collected on the ground nearby that were old and rusty. The complainant thought it might have been recent because nobody had reported it before. The members of the house have no idea how long it has been there.
Thrown brick damages door at fraternity house Around 3 p.m. Tuesday, fraternity member called police to make a property damage report. At approximately 2:30, a resident who was upstairs heard a loud crash from the lower level of the building. The resident discovered that someone had thrown a large brick through a window/ door on the east side of the building. Several residents of the house responded to the noise but did not find anyone in the area. There was no damage and there is no known suspect.
By Morgan Schaffer
For The Miami Student
The coming of cold weather means a new risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide is a deadly gas that can infiltrate without warning. Everyone knows that leaving a car running in a garage with the garage door down can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning within the home. What people may not be aware of is the fact that when the heat is initially turned on in a house, condo or apartment, carbon monoxide gases can permeate if the appropriate
measures are not taken. According to John Detherage, fire chief for the Oxford Fire Department, carbon monoxide can be an issue in certain homes, but it is avoidable. When asked, some students were unaware that carbon monoxide vapors could be released in this manner. Travis Peraza, a first-year at Miami University had his own input. “I had no idea, and I do not know the effects of carbon monoxide on health or if I should be worried to turn on the heat when I have my own apartment,” Peraza said. Detherage gave his own
advice for preventing carbon monoxide from invading. “You need to make sure your [chimney] flues are clean. If they are not, that can cause carbon monoxide in the house,” Detherage said. So is this a problem in offcampus apartments here in Oxford? Neither the Miami Village Apartments nor the Fox and Hound Apartments have had any reports of carbon monoxide. Detherage also noted that as long as the apartments have individual carbon monoxide detectors, there will not be a problem. Some local apartment complexes are taking the
appropriate measures to avoid issues dealing with carbon monoxide. Amy Mathews, property manager of Fox and Hound Apartments, had information on her own apartments. “All of our apartments have carbon monoxide detectors in them,” Mathews said. Maintaining the detectors is also important. Different types of carbon monoxide detectors do exist, but the most accurate are those that plug into the wall with a backup battery, according to Detherage. He said this is the most accurate because it runs on power; however,
if the power happens to go out, the detector has that backup battery. Is this a concern for students looking to live off campus? It can be if proper precautions are not taken. Detherage said problems tend to occur in complexes that have individual furnaces. Renters of any apartment complex should make note of what the policies are within the complex before cranking up the heat. Carbon monoxide poisoning is extremely dangerous, but maintaining the furnace and water heater and having a detector will allow for this issue to be completely avoided.
Local attractions offer options Paper mill closures for students looking for a scare may affect student job opportunities By Michelle Rowley
For The Miami Student
With Halloween fast approaching, many themed activities are available for students within and outside of Butler County. While the children of Oxford are trickor-treating, Miami University students can chose from a variety of haunted attractions. In Cincinnati, the historical Dent Schoolhouse is open for business through Sunday and tickets are only $20. For a top-rated scare, the USS Nightmare located in Newport, Kent., is another option for students looking for an adrenaline rush. The USS Nightmare has been rated number one in the greater Cincinnati area by City Blood Ohio Haunt Reviews, as well as one of the top 13 attractions in the U.S. by Hauntworld.com, according to manager Allen Rizzo. The USS Nightmare consists of a 25 to 30 minute walk through the 288 foot steamboat, which was fully
functioning and fully staffed for 50 years. Now, the steamboat is in its 20th haunting season and is scarier than ever. For those who aren’t scared easily, the USS Nightmare is having an “Extreme Show” Saturday at midnight. There will be more characters, more mysteries and an extra twisted plot. The last show is set for this upcoming Monday (Halloween). “This is for those who want a really good adrenaline rush,” Rizzo said. The steamboat will be open from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. and tickets are $16 per person. In Middletown, students can enjoy a series of haunted houses and trails called “Triple Fright.” The Middletown Haunted Trail, the Temple of Horror and the Haunted Estate offer discounts for those who would like to venture through all three or even just two if that is all they can handle. Middletown also offers yet another haunted house called “The Chambers of Horror.” This is a good
option for penny-savers, since coupons are offered on their website, thechambers.org. However, the closest Halloween attraction is open year round and located on campus: Peabody Hall. Rumors of Helen Peabody haunting the hall have circulated Miami’s campus for decades, but of course, nothing has ever been proven. The benefit to this haunted attraction: it’s completely free. However, only select floors are open to students as it is a dorm, so venturing through the halls of Peabody would be better suited for those with friends who actually live there. For those looking for Halloween fun, but not up for a scare, Butterfield Farms is located in Oxford on Oxford-Trenton Road. While there are no haunted attractions to be found here, Butterfield Farms offers a seven-acre corn maze for $5. Butterfield Farms also offers hayrides, as well as a vast pumpkin display. Butterfield Farms is open from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Liberty Township development project runs into funding issues By Kelly Stincer
For The Miami Student
Liberty Township officials recently met to discuss moving forward with planning the $177 million entertainment, retail, housing and office development that is proposed to be built on Interstate 75. The project, called the Liberty Town Square, was originally proposed back in 2008 and was put on hold in part due to the recession and lack of funding. This allowed further development of the plan. Steiner and Associates, the projected developers for this project, were responsible for shelving the plan when the recession hit in order to prevent funding complications and instead wait for a more stable economy. “Steiner and Associates proposed the plan in 2008 to get the zoning in place and the preliminary development plan was passed,” Economic Development Director for Liberty Township Caroline McKinney said. “However, there is an expiration date of three years for the final plan and July 2011 marked the three years. Steiner and Associates came back and asked for an extension of the
plan and were granted that. Now we are in the stages of planning for the rest of the project.” McKinney also said Butler County would benefit from this development in terms of the job market. She said in the construction phase of the project, a projected 3,200 jobs are expected, and the anticipated number of full-time jobs upon completion is estimated at 4,600. Steiner and Associates plan to mirror a development like that of Easton Town Center in Columbus and the Greene in Dayton, both of which Steiner and Associates are responsible for building. “The next step for the developers is to gather commitments from department stores and businesses that are to be included in this Town Square, get the financing in order and still handle some legislation that is being dealt with at the state level in order to keep moving forward,” McKinney said. Steiner and Associates have proposed $55 million of the $177 million be in public dollars. Tax Increment Financing and the New Community Authority are two
options of possible funding tools for this development. The Executive Director of Butler County Port Authority Mike Campbell further explained potential funding options. “They are also talking about the possibility of issuing bonds,” Campbell said. “I think the PID could do it. There are a bunch of different revenue steams that would come into the project, though it’s still in the early stages of how that funding will take place and the specifics of all the details are not set in place yet.” Butler County native and Miami University first year Taylor White commented on the new plans that she was especially enthusiastic about. “This development will provide more jobs and will bring more people into Butler County which will boost our own micro-economy. And it’s a close location for Miami students to shop,” White said. According to the Liberty Township Administration, the predicted opening for Liberty Town Square is sometime in 2014 and the goal for ground breaking and construction is hoped to be late in 2012 and early in 2013.
By Emily Seiders
For The Miami Student
SMART Papers Holdings LLC, which employs around 200 people in Hamilton, announced last week plans for an “orderly wind-down” of its paper services involving a search for new buyers, according to a company statement. The announcement comes after another companyissued report of Hilco Industrial’s acquisition of “certain assets,” namely equipment, formerly owned by SMART Papers, according to SMART CEO Andrew Howley. SMART is not the only paper mill that has faced the possibility of closure or downsizing. The Beckett Mill branch of Mohawk Fine Papers Inc., also in Hamilton, will be gradually closed over the next two months. This closure will affect 137 union and salaried employees, according to a company statement. Mohawk’s main locations are in New York. Meanwhile, SMART’s Hamilton branch is the company’s only mill. The leadership of SMART is still in the process of formulating a plan to transition to new ownership or begin downsizing production, leading to eventual closure. No layoffs have yet been made, nor is there a schedule of layoffs regarding the mill’s 200 employees, according to Howley. Howley and his fellow CEOs at SMART hope to find new buyers, but if they cannot, Hilco Industrial has the right to sell the mill’s equipment. Jonathan Kerr, executive director of Miami University’s Paper Science and Engineering Foundation, said changes including closures in the Ohio paper mill industry are not surprising for several reasons. Kerr said one reason is the age of most mills’ equipment (Mohawk’s technology is about 47 years old) along with larger trends in the paper business. “The United States paper industry is in a period of ‘correction’,” Kerr said. This is a result of increasing investment in papermaking technology from competitors in Europe and China. American mills must either revamp their equipment, or risk being shut out by national and international competition. And if they don’t have the funds to compete,
closure comes sooner. SMART and Mohawk have suffered specifically because of the nature of their production: both produce specialty grade papers and cater to printing and writing markets. Kerr said these markets, unlike the one for tissue and towel production, are not the ones growing across the industry. Despite uncertainty for individual mills and their employees, Kerr is not worried about the future careers of Miami University’s 60 current paper engineering majors. These students, distributed among concentrations of chemical engineering, engineering management and mechanical engineering, have continued to find internship and permanent job placements annually. “Everyone who wants an internship gets one,” Kerr said. Current students act as co-ops or interns at Graphic Packaging in Middletown and Appleton Paper Company in West Carollton. Students outside the paper engineering major may be unaware of such opportunities available to their peers that might benefit other majors. Miami senior chemical engineering major Amy Miller feels that scheduling engineering co-ops or internships during the school year is a difficult task. “I wish there was an adviser in the department specifically to help schedule internships,” Miller said. Miami engineering graduates succeed after they leave the university, as well. According to Kerr, the paper engineering program has had a 100 percent employment rate for graduates who enter the job force, and a graduate’s starting salary is around $64,000. “[The recent local closures] aren’t going to impact our students directly, but there will be a ripple effect,” Kerr said. SMART and Mohawk were internship sites as well as permanent employers for Miami graduates in the past. However, Kerr maintained that Miami’s paper engineering students shouldn’t fear a lack of job opportunities as the industry’s baby boomers retire and as mills continue to improve their technology to combat international competition.
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County begins informing parents of student arrests By Samantha Callender Staff Writer
The Butler County Prosecutor will now send notification letters to the parents of those who have been charged with underage alcohol possession and/or consumption. This new parent notification initiative began around Oct. 10 and outlines the legal process that his or her son or daughter will have to undergo. According to Butler County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Gmoser, the letter notification is to make the parent aware that a charge has been made and the procedures that will follow. No action is required on the part of the parent, however, this part of the initiative is to have parental intercession on their son or daughter’s alcohol use. In addition to the parental notification, another aspect of the initiative Butler County is hoping to implement its legislation that will have harsh consequences for those charged with possession of or under the influence of alcohol under the age of 21. Gmoser said he has seen the policy play out in a positive way. “We’re hoping that getting parents involved will help students think about the consequences of their actions before they make a decision,” Gmoser said. “Though there isn’t a way right now to really gauge the success rate of the initiative, we’re hoping that the number of underage alcohol related charges decreases significantly in the coming months.” Miami University’s role in this new initiative is to continue to educate students on the consequences of the underage alcohol abuse. “The university notifies parents if their underage son or daughter has been found guilty on charges related to alcohol or drugs, “ said Susan Vaughn, director of ethics and student conflict resolution. “At present, no policy changes have been made. If we do make any
changes to the policy regarding alcohol, those would roll out in the spring (the start of next semester).” According to Vaughn, Miami and Butler County are strongly enforcing joint procedures. The new initiative is to bring heightened awareness to the fact that consumption of alcohol under the age of 21 is not only dangerous, but also illegal. “Student safety is our top priority. We are in the process of assessing all of our programs and activities regarding alcohol use and abuse by students to help them make positive decisions and be successful at Miami,” said Barb Jones, vice president for student affairs. “The university has worked with Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser and recently included a letter from the prosecutor in the Parents Newsletter.” Gmoser said enforcing underage drinking laws is a priority. “We’re not out here trying to be ‘big brother,’ but we are simply trying to uplift and enforce the law, and charge those who chose to break it,” Gmoser said. Some Miami students feel otherwise about the new initiative. “I feel that if students are over the legal age of 18, their parents should not be notified by the authorities,” said junior Kyle Strait. “If the kid is old enough to vote, go to war and go to jail they are old enough to deal with their own mistakes. Whether they want to include their parents in that process is up to them.” Junior Kelcey Broomfield feels similarly. “I think that it’s ridiculous because as a college student over the age of 18 you are considered an adult,” Broomfield said. “You are responsible for your own decisions and if you are caught in possession or under the influence of alcohol that’s your own fault. Parents don’t need to be informed by the university because parents will not be able to bail you out. You make the decisions, you receive the consequences.”
Kabbaz suggests reinstating Scholars Program By Jenni Wiener Campus Editor
Four years ago, Miami University’s Scholars Program stopped admitting students, but today, there is talk of creating and reinstating a new Scholars Program to attract the best and brightest students. While details of the potential Scholars reboot are largely still up in the air, the new program would be a university wide scholarship program focused on all five academic divisions at Miami, according to Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management, Michael Kabbaz. “The whole notion is to attract strong academic students who are looking at top schools around the country,” Kabbaz said. “We would work with the specific schools and programs to create unique opportunities such as internships and projects that would help us recruit those students to Miami. The Scholars program would entice students
with special opportunities, whereas they would just be one of many students at other schools.” The previous Scholars program started as an attempt to yield a more high ability program by offering students with strong academic backgrounds a $1,000 scholarship for each of their four years at Miami, said the Director of the Honors and Scholars Program, Carolyn Haynes. “The problem was that students in the Scholars Program didn’t get the same benefits as students in the Honors program,” Haynes said. “They felt that the Scholars Program was second tier to the Honors Program.” Haynes went on to say that the old Scholars Program couldn’t offer enough, and that students in it wanted the same advantages that the Honors Program had. “This new program would incorporate multiple academic programs in multiple divisions on campus to yield the specific needs of the
Staff Writer
Next semester, Deedie Dowdle will become the new Associate Vice President (AVP) of University Communications and Marketing. After the former AVP, Dionn Tron, retired last year, Miami University embarked on “an extensive national search” for someone to permanently fill the position, said interim AVP, Lisa Dankovich Dankovich said Dowdle’s 25 years of experience was evident during an “intensive” two day interview process with 50 other candidates. “Her experience is outstanding,” Dankovich said. “She is really going to be able to make a difference here.” Dankovich stressed how important it was to find the appropriate person because of the position’s visibility. “It’s a very important position.” Dankovich said. “You are basically representing the entire university with our division of university communications and marketing.” Dowdle comes from Auburn University where she worked in a similar position. “The position at Miami is very much the same scope of responsibilities that I have here at Auburn,”
Dowdle said. “It’s overseeing the communications and marketing efforts and working with campus leaders to try to advance Miami in many different audiences.” Dowdle will oversee a 21 person staff and create brand marketing strategy by working with news, media relations, websites, communications, broadcasts, advertising and marketing.
By Matt Levy
Senior Staff Writer
THOMAS CALDWELL THE MIAMI STUDENT
TWO HANDTOUCH (if you know what I mean) The Miami University club football team plays Xavier University.
students for success in life.” According to Dankovich, Dowdle will work closely with the associate vice president for enrollment management, the vice president for university advancement, the director of institutional relations and the director of intercollegiate athletics, in addition to many others. Dowdle said she believes that the best way to begin her
I do want to talk to everybody and find out what about Miami they most love.” Deedie DOWDLE
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING
Dankovich said the position is about “advancing and enhancing the image of the university.” “What is Miami University known for?” Dankovich said. “Student success, personalized experience, the outcomes, the graduation rate, as you talk about the image of the university, we’re not just talking about marketing and branding that just regionally, we’re talking nationally as well and getting the word out that we’re a premiere institution that prepares academically ambitious
program. To recruit great students and enhance the already great education we offer, it takes time.” Kabbaz said the new program wouldn’t only target different majors, but also different academic programs such as prelaw, pre-med and more. He said he does not know when the program will be implemented, but the timeline should hopefully be created in the spring. Senior Mark Fellows who used to be in the Honors Program said he thinks there are a lot of benefits to the new program. “I think it’s a good idea because if you participate in it, you can get more interaction within your own program or major,” Fellows said. “Participants will be able to more closely work with other participants in the same academic division. Honors students aren’t always in the same major, so it will be beneficial for the Scholars students to work together within the same program.”
ASG breathes sigh of relief after WBC visit
New PR administrator aims to enhance Miami’s image By Allison McGillivray
student,” Haynes said. “It would not be a part of the Honors Program.” Although the new Scholars Program would be independent of the Honors Program, they would still complement each other. “It would be in close collaboration with the Honors Program but would be completely separate,” Kabbaz said. “Students in the Honors Program could possibly have the ability to also be in the Scholars Program.” If implemented, Kabbaz said he would try to tie a scholarship opportunity to the program to be competitive with other schools and other programs. Although Kabbaz is beginning discussions on this topic, he said it is still only a concept with no substance behind it yet. “We are beginning conversations with the academic divisions to identify programs interested,” Kabbaz said. “Then we would make a timeline in order to put together a strong and thoughtful
new position is by listening. “There will be a lot of listening going on,” Dowdle said. “I am interested in talking with the deans and department heads and student leaders as well as senior administrators. I do want to talk to everybody and find out what about Miami they most love what direction they might think would be good.” Sophomore Katie Derickson works for university communications. She said that university communications plays an important role that
often goes unnoticed. “Without these people at the university, so many things would go unnoticed,” Derickson said. “They want to share both inside and outside the university the great things that are happening.” Derickson also said university communications works hard to keep the record straight. “They really keep things organized and they keep everyone’s stories grounded,” Derickson said. “All these rumors circulate and at the office these ladies and gentlemen work so hard to make sure that the story is true and that they’re not hiding anything and also that they’re not giving anyone any grounds to further speculate.” Dowdle said she is looking forward to her move to Miami, though she thinks the weather will be an interesting change. “The campus is just stunning,” Dowdle said. “I just found it beautiful and the people were very warm and welcoming, it seemed like they were all very willing to partner and move forward and get the word out about Miami. I am really looking forward to it. I understand that I need to buy some snow boots. We don’t get a lot of that down here.”
With the highly controversial visit from members of the Westboro Baptist Church now behind them, members of Miami’s Associated Student Government (ASG) took time to reflect on the church’s visit to campus at their meeting Tuesday night, as well as attend to other business. Student Body President Nick Huber listed estimates of those who participated in the counter-protest of the church’s picket and students who came by merely to observe. “Despite our best efforts, there were nearly 1,000 students who showed up today,” Huber said, referring to ASG’s “We’ve Got Your Back” initiative that sought to starve the church of any attention it might have sought in its Oxford visit. “At any given point there were about 500 students at Shriver watching the protest,” Huber said. “There were four members from the church there.” According to Huber, local media outlets had varied responses to the church’s presence in Oxford. The Cincinnati Enquirer did not cover the protest at all, while the Hamilton JournalNews sent a reporter but no camera crew. Huber also said two nonstudent counter-protest groups came out Tuesday afternoon. As of press, only one group, Journey 4 Justice, has been identified. It is a common occurrence for multiple groups to counter-protest pickets that the Westboro Baptist Church announces it will hold. Senator Tom Hohman asked if any post-picket plans had been announced yet. He suggested ASG sponsor resolutions thanking the City of Oxford and Miami University police departments for their efforts at the protest. “I was talking with another
senator and we would like to write some sort of resolution thanking all the police departments that were there. They went above and beyond what they needed to do,” Hohman said. According to Huber, there were no arrests or known threats of lawsuits as of Tuesday night, alleviating one of the major fears many have expressed about what the Church’s visit would entail. “We had very compliant students in terms of cooperating with the police forces that were there and school officials that were there,” Huber said. Following discussion of whether a hypothetical second visit from the church would stir up the same amount of emotion or not as the first, ASG moved on to the election of a new off-campus senator to replace the spot vacated by former senator Lot Kwarteng, who is now serving as a Student Trustee for the university. After hearing from candidates Dave Scott, Brendan Gillespie and Kristina Jiminez, members of Student Senate voted in a closed executive session and declared Jiminez the winner. Jiminez, a junior finance/ marketing major, has experience serving as the senator for Ogden and Swing Halls as well as involvement as president of her former community council and a mentor for diversity affairs. The meeting closed with a warning from Student Senate President Pro Tempore Brandon Patterson that some student senators had been missing their mandatory office hours and nine were to receive warnings. “There’s some of you who as soon as you miss another meeting, you’re in the censure zone,” Student Senate President Tom Kirkham said. “You guys have made a commitment to the university and your fellow students.” According to Patterson, some of the missed hours came from senators who have since resigned.
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Editors Noëlle Bernard oriana pawlyk
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Satire should not be used as an excuse for opinions lacking substance
MADELINE HRYBYK THE MIAMI STUDENT
EDITORIAL The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.
Miami must act quickly to better comply with textbook law With the passing of the Higher Education Opportunities Act (HEOA) in August 2008, Miami University and other universities nationwide were required to begin listing textbook ISBN numbers and prices online before students register for classes. As of July 1, 2010, the law gives universities a three year period to revise and implement a system requiring all course material information to be provided prior to student purchase. Miami has not fully complied with this law. The Miami University Bookstore set Sept. 19 as the deadline to submit textbook information prior to the spring semester of 2012. The goal was to set this date prior to registration. However, departments haven’t stressed the importance of this deadline. Another contributing factor is some professors may not know what courses he or she is teaching by the time
the textbook submission is due. Since Miami has fallen short with these provisions, students are lacking the opportunity to make educated decisions regarding courses to register for and where to purchase textbooks. The law is beneficial to students because it allows them to do individual research about how much a course will cost. Instead of providing students with complete online access to course materials, Miami uses the listing of “to be determined” for unknown materials, which does not serve a purpose for students. The editorial board of The Miami Student suggests that Miami go beyond the minimum requirements of the law. The law was designed to help students get ahead. By having a detailed list of needed course materials, students can decide which classes are beneficial according
to their budgets. By knowing the cost of textbooks, students can research lower prices from several different bookstores on campus or booksellers online. During the 2011 summer semester, Miami introduced this resource but because of the lack of organization by departments, the HEOA report deadline is fast approaching. This board urges Miami to revise its current issue by the next registration term. All departments need to be aware of the importance of meeting the deadline for submitted course materials. It is not reasonable for one department to be prepared and others not. Incentives should be awarded to departments that comply so that more do in the future. Ultimately, this law is not enough to lessen the financial burdens of course materials but it is a step in the right direction.
Rule of Thumb Alumni homecoming band We love to welcome back former Miami marchers so they can relive their glory days!
Anticipated cold weather this weekend We might have to adjust our costumes for the colder temperatures.
Clinique counter in the bookstore An advantage of being open now is being open for Breast Cancer Awareness month!
WBC being gone Students stood up against hate without dangerous incidents that would’ve funded WBC through litigation.
Carbon Monoxide poisoning Talk to your landlords, install detectors and stay safe this winter.
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Jay Bilas, ESPN’s college basketball expert, has more than 167,000 followers on Twitter. Every single one of those followers was directed to an opinion essay published in The Miami Student entitled, “Students should respect the Miami [University] stereotype, embrace its reputation.” The student who wrote the opinion essay undoubtedly views himself as being at least somewhat “aesthetically pleasing,” a skilled communicator, hard working and “showy, but in the right way.” How then and more importantly who is the intended audience of this “tongue in cheek, satire?” A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm. This “militant” irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack. In categorizing the article as satire, is the author trying to say that Miami students actually lack these four advantages?
The apology/defense used seems to try and embrace some of these advantages, while downplaying others. It is clumsy and a clear sign that the author is perhaps writing some rules as he goes on. In satire, vices, follies, abuses and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming society itself into improvement. The article does not attempt to vilify Miami’s stereotype by over exaggerating it, but instead seeks to replace it with a false one. The only debate that this article has created is one of two polar opposites, “Miami kids are pretentious” vs. “Miami kids are actually awesome” — hardly a stimulating conversation about stereotypes. Please don’t let the author hide behind satire as an excuse for the people he offended. This article was intended to soften the Miami stereotype as opposed to denouncing it. It attempted to create a false narrative of Miami students
and instead reinforced the negative stereotype many have towards Miami. The definition of ostentatious is, “Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display.” This article was full of pretenses. This was an opinion essay and the author begins his explanation for the article by, “fully apologizing to all who were offended by my recently published opinion.” When Jonathon Swift argued in 1729 that impoverished Irish families might ease their economic troubles by selling their children for food, he was not giving his opinion. Rather, he was writing ironically in order to voice his repugnance to England’s policy towards Ireland. Perhaps the author should have considered how people would react to an opinion essay before writing something so inflammatory and lacking a definite purpose.
James Holman
holmanjl@muohio.edu
University community should take responsibility for tainted reputation Even though Mr. Kent’s essay in last week’s Student was satirical, it did allow us to assess how our actions have created Miami University’s negative reputation. In my opinion, our reputation reflects how low Miami students value their own college experience. We all must work together to fix Miami’s stereotypes. Professors must do a better job of forcing students to actually pay attention and learn in class. The university must take a tougher line on Greek organizations and shut down those that promote illegal behavior. The City of Oxford must crack down on underage drinking on a much
larger scale. They can start by eliminating Green Beer Day, which is a huge embarrassment to the city and the university, and having the police actually combat the binge-drinking epidemic that we suffer from. But most of all, Miami students must take their education seriously. This is the best way we could show how valuable the Miami experience truly is. College is not one gigantic four year party; if you are lucky, it’s the place you go between the ages of 18 to 22 to become an educated member of society and gain the skills necessary to get a good job and build a good life for your future.
So study on Thursday night for the Friday test and write your papers before midnight the day it’s due. Remember that you or someone you love is paying a lot of money for you to be here, so care that you get a good education. Start building your own life, because after you leave that’s the only thing you did in college that really mattered. Only when everyone at Miami University takes responsibility for themselves will we be worthy of the reputation that we love to claim we have.
Michael Salvadore salvadmc@muohio.edu
Thanks toTau Kappa Epsilon fraternity for helping the Oxford Community Garden The Oxford Community Garden and the Family Resource Center extend their thanks to the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity for all the help weeding, plowing and putting our community garden to bed for the winter. Thanks to Chris Bailo, Logan Brennan, Thomas
Delves, Forbes Dever, Trevor Harris, Michael Kline, Matt McKee and Alexander Reinhardt for all of their hard work. This is not the only time the TKE’s have offered their services. Last spring, members of the fraternity helped with preparing the
soil and planting some of the community garden. It is reassuring to see university students become involved in the community and give some of their time to make a difference to others.
Marilyn Elzey
marilynelzey@gmail.com
Acupuncture article suffers from fuzzy science, lacks regard for research I was disappointed to see the very naive article in The Miami Student on Oct. 21 about the availability of acupuncture through McCullough-Hyde Wellness Center. Contrary to what the article says, acupuncture does NOT “... help patients with their pain and other symptoms.” Scientific research has
repeatedly shown that acupuncture is a placebo, i.e. something that makes people think that their symptoms have improved when in fact they have not. Patients report the same “improvement” in their symptoms whether they are given acupuncture or poked with a toothpick at random points on their
skin. Please check out actual scientific/medical information before credulously accepting and propagating the claims of unproven or ineffective treatments.
Susan Hoffman
Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology hoffmasm@muohio.edu
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strategically speaking
ESSAY
JESSICA SINK
SARAH TITLE TITLESE@muohio.edu
Moving from the past to the future: Is this the 21st century we wanted? “Meet George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy and Jane, his wife.” In a land of tomorrow, the Jetsons lived within a world of flying cars, holograms, elaborate robotic contraptions and whimsical inventions. Life was leisurely, and tasks were completed at supersonic speed. Although this cartoon was based on imagination, in reality, predictions about the future were not so different. At the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, Washington, thousands flocked to see the world of tomorrow, where they heard predictions of what the world would be like in the year 2000. The Seattle World’s Fair, known as the Century 21 Exposition, showed the simple people of 1962 what life would be like in the “glittering world of the future.” Visitors were in awe of inventions like supersonic air travel, which would allow people to circumnavigate the world in minutes, gyrocopters and air-cushioned “flying” cars, homes with private heliports, wall to wall televisions, the
ability to rotate toward the sun and rapid transit jetpropelled monorail systems. My personal favorite is the prediction that the school of tomorrow will have “walls made of jets of air, its tables standing on invisible legs, its floating canvas roof controlled to catch the sun.” How exactly the idea was supposed to work, I have no idea. It is understandable, looking back at what these people had seen and experienced just a few years before, that they would be open to worldwide change. In the 40 years leading up to the 1962 fair, the world had seen the invention of the television, super glue and penicillin. Not to mention that the globe had survived the Second World War and witnessed the dropping of the atomic bomb. Overall, innovators of 1962 seemed to think that by the 21st century, we would be working shorter hours, have more time for art, sports and hobbies and have computers do most of our work for us. In fact, it seems the thought of the
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New developments in Fiji may lead to medical cures, scientific revolution
michelle ludwin ludwinma@muohio.edu
There is usually one word that is attached to Fiji: paradise. Perfect weather, perfect beaches and the perfect place to forget about all of your worries. But now Fiji could be attached to a new word: discovery. Scientists are running to Fiji to find new habitats that potentially have anti-cancer, anti-malaria and antibacterial drugs. These groups are going to places where beds, electricity and dependable drinking water are non-existent. They fight off sharks and eat poisonous food to examine coral, seaweed and other marine animals. For one group, a table was used to butcher meat, catalog data, eat dinner and also use a bed. With this research, there is an increased rate of discovering possible medicines. They have even found 33 previously unknown bioactive molecules from red seaweed, and these molecules
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time was that by the year 2002, the world would closely resemble that of the Jetsons. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. So what happened on the way to the 21st century? How come we don’t have supersonic air travel and schools made of air? Like George Costanza said in an episode of Seinfeld, “Wait, weren’t we all supposed to have flying cars by now?” In 1962, people saw the future as an age of ease and comfort, with efficiency and productivity at the highest levels possible. Yet, unlike what was predicted, as we became more productive, we increased our workload. Because computers could do so much, we could get more done in a shorter amount of time. Plus, as far as the flying cars, the technology just didn’t advance as quickly as predicted. From the beginning of time, man has been trying to predict the future. There have been many innovations that have greatly changed the way we interact and understand; but as far as the transformation of the globe
Scientists are constantly discovering new species of animals, and with each discovery, there are endless possibilities to what these species could do to help the world.” can be the answer to developing particular drugs. This type of discovery is a significant step in the scientific and medical communities. Though the drugs have to go back to labs for testing and be approved by the appropriate communities, there is still a possibility of finding drugs to help detrimental diseases currently claiming too many lives. Scientists are constantly discovering new species of animals, and with each discovery, there are endless possibilities to what these species could do to help the
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world. These scientists are also willing to go to great lengths to find new discoveries. They are going up against a bull shark that could attack at any minute; eating a fish that could be poisonous; diseases that could claim their lives. Some sort of credit should be given to these men and women who are willing to put their lives on the line to discovery new drugs. There should also be credit to institutes and foundations that help fund the research needed to complete these
into a robotic controlled world where humans live in lazy-boy chairs, similar to that in the movie WallE, that never happened and probably never will. Although we are increasingly becoming more and more dependent on technology, I would like to believe that the human spirit would never accept a world where computers do everything. While supersonic jets and flying cars might be nice, the possibility of these ever becoming a reality is a very distant dream. Who knows what the future will hold. By the year 2080, we may have invented new and great technology to make life easier. Perhaps the best-paid jobs will include force field installers and mind reading therapists. But for now, instead of looking to the future and wishing for what might be, live for today and what is. Live one day at a time and what will come will come. In the end, maybe it is a good thing those flying cars stayed on the ground. The maintenance on them would be awful.
explorations. Institutes such as the National Institutes of Health have a hand in getting lab study results patented, thus giving a chance for them to become important drugs. Just imagine decades ago when scientists were discovering a way to prevent people from getting polio, small pox and other detrimental diseases killing off sections of the population. More hospitals and labs should donate money to these scientists work in remote places. Even if they cannot donate money, donating supplies and more equipment could have an immense effect on the research being done. The more we support these causes, the more of a possibility of finding a cure for cancer with these drugs. Someday, we might see Fiji as more than a vacation destination. We can call it a place of discovery and a place of a scientific revolution.
Turning 21 allows for path of self-discovery Birthdays are important. Anybody who knows me knows how strongly I feel about birthdays. While some write them off as unnecessary and self-absorbed, I believe celebrating yourself for one day never hurt anyone. Plus, you’ve made it this far, why not take a load off and enjoy yourself? I take all birthdays seriously. Not just my own, but those of my friends as well. Work and classes on one’s birthday are just not acceptable and you absolutely, 100 percent need to be wearing some kind of sash or tiara (well, except the boys), so that everyone knows it’s your special day.
legal drinks you’ll be drinking. You can kiss those super long lines goodbye for good. When you’re 18, you may legally be an adult, but you’re still in high school. You’re about to start out on a new adventure where you may be a completely new person without even realizing it. You’ll make all new friends and discover what path you want to take for your life. Discovery and realization about oneself do not seem like adult-like tasks. Adults seem more secure in themselves and they have an idea of where they’re going and started taking steps toward getting there. Kind of sounds a lot
You’re not a freshman anymore, with your awe-widened eyes with a thousand choices for friends and majors before you. You’re also not a complete adult yet.” While every age is some kind of important milestone, I believe they all lead up to one, big, fantastic and ultimate day: your 21st. A 21st birthday is the day every college student dreams of. When you hit 18, you think “only three more years until I’m 21!” and so on every year after that. It’s your biggest celebration, the moment you’ve been dying for. Why the entire spectacle? Why is “The 21st Birthday” a bigger deal than every other birthday? Because one of my best friends is turning 21 this next week, I began to think about what this magic number means. Being 21 can bring you confidence. Not necessarily in your appearance (getting older never does that) but “Uptown confidence.” You’ll be able to feel the jealous eyes of “the unders” following you as you walk into a bar. After flashing your legal ID at the bouncer you can head in knowing that no cop is going to be coming after you anytime soon. Also, the only cash you need in your pocket is for those first
like being 21. Twenty-one-year-olds are settled in school. They’ve made close friends. They know where they are going. Twenty-one just sounds more “adult.” Now don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to be learned and there’s still a lot of childish things you’re still going to secretly enjoy (Disney or Nickelodeon anyone?). But that right there is the beauty of being 21. You’ve really got the perfect blend of everything you could want out of life. You’re not a freshman anymore, with your awe-widened eyes with a thousand choices for friends and majors before you. You’re also not a complete adult yet. Thinking of all the consequences and making the best decision may not be something we’ve all mastered, although we’d like to think we have. But it’s okay because we aren’t responsible for other people yet. Only ourselves. So 21-year-olds, consider yourselves as lucky. You really do have the best of both worlds (hello, Disney Channel). Oh, and you’ve got a nice ID to carry along with you.
‘Rural way of life’ reality TV is disappointing to American culture
BOWMANAJ@muohio.edu
There is an endless amount of pointless television, and it may be hard to believe, but MTV isn’t the source of it all. Not all of them are reality shows or animated cartoons created by Seth McFarlane, but nonetheless are still graphic, crude, lewd and mind numbing. Yet, one genre of television snuck up and is taking up a large amount of space on network stations that are supposed to be about learning. The latest batch of producer concocted shows focus around hillbillies, rednecks and trailer park trash. It’s unlikely there is another way to describe the shows in a more politically
correct way. Maybe “shows for the rural way of life” might apply but even that is a loaded statement. Can you name them all? How about just on Animal Planet, Discovery Channel and History Channel? Hillbilly Hand Fishin’, Swamp People, Hogs Gone Wild, Call of the Wildman, Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads, Hairy Bikers, Mounted in Alaska, Ax Men and somehow several more. These shows aren’t tearing up the ratings, according to Nielsen’s ratings for the week of Oct. 17, since none of them even made it to the top watched 15 cable shows. So
why are there so many? It started with shows like Deadliest Catch, a show about the hard life of crab fishing in Alaska. Survivor Man is another example; it teaches you how to survive if you are ever stranded in different regions. The original shows had some scholastic merit, since they gave viewers information on professions and situations, otherwise unheard of. Then, before we knew it, there was Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men. Yes, just what the American public needs, shows condoning large-scale logging and potential for making a quick buck with the risk of losing your life.
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The success of the survival and profession based shows led to the excuse to create the bizarre, Swamp People and Hillbilly Hand Fishin’. Like many other hours of worthless television, these shows have no merit, and therefore shouldn’t be on channels such as Discovery. Allegedly, those channels are supposed to be reserved for science, arts and related fields. Of course, there are other misnomers in television, like MTV’s biggest show, Jersey Shore, having nothing to do with music. At least there are animals in most of those shows, even if they do end up dead. Yet we expect more out of
Discovery, History and Animal Planet, with the complete understanding they are businesses. As a business, they know they can make money through pure entertainment rather than thought provoking material. Regardless, we expect them to teach us, take us places and stimulate our creativity, through entertaining means. This new wave of shows provides no advancement for the progression of the human species. If anything, it retracts from the march of science and technology, a true hallmark to America’s innovation. Besides, most of the shows don’t affect today’s American
lives. Hardly any of us need to know how to trap and kill alligators or how to pan for gold. So why are shows about the backwoods way of life continually being created and forcibly consumed? Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, History Channel, the viewers are disappointed. You had an opportunity to impress by mentally stimulating the population. Instead, you found people even Jerry Springer wouldn’t put on his show, stuck a camera in their face and tried to tell us it was educational entertainment. We want Egyptology, not real life examples of Jeff Foxworthy jokes.
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involves the disappearance of Ron Tammen. In 1953, Tammen vanished from his room in Fisher Hall, leaving all his possessions. To this day, police have not found Tammen or his remains. Twice, Miami students invited a psychic to figure out what happened to their classmate. The first psychic saw nothing, but the second one claimed to have a vision about Tammen. The psychic claimed to see Tammen leaving his room to investigate a noise coming from the basement. “…And I see a room with two men in it,” the psychic said, according to an old copy of The Miami Student. “And they are men of evil. I see the young man (Tammen) now with his hand on the door. He’s opening the door. He’s stepping into the room. He sees only one of the two men. The other is behind him. The student is asking the one he sees what he’s doing, what he’s up to. The one he doesn’t see is bending to the floor. He’s reaching down to pick up a heavy object. He’s raising it above his head. He’s walking quietly behind the young man and he hits the young man once, twice, a third time and the young man falls to the ground. He’s laying there. The men are talking back and forth to each other. What should they do with him? They have reached a conclusion. One on each side of him, they’re bending down. They’re lifting him up. Now I see them dragging him out of the room into the corridor, to an outside door. They open it and drag him out into the darkness. I see no more.”
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with this new law. “If it doesn’t show the explicit costs of the books, it doesn’t give full rights to the students,” Levy said. The Miami Student surveyed several dozen courses through BannerWeb to check the status of book listings. There was no discernible pattern to which classes had full listings and which did not. Some departments, such as geology and botany, provided information for
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FROM PAGE 1 partly by broadening the focus of the program. If this is successful, Marcus and DiDonato said anyone from an international business person with limited knowledge of the English language that is looking to heighten his or her competitive edge to someone with literally zero knowledge of English will attend the program and pay tuition along with those looking to get into Miami as students. As the program expands towards this, the length will be more flexible, ranging from a single semester, the current length of the program, to multiple semesters for those learning from scratch, with the specifics still to be determined. This broadening will require additional staff, such as teachers trained to instruct a student with no knowledge of English, to be hired. DiDonato said another initiative of ACE is to provide faculty and staff with more tips and strategies with handling the cultural differences that crop up when interacting with international students. These tips are partly on feedback from faculty. “The tone of faculty feedback runs from very gentle and very nice all the way to frustration sometimes,” DiDonato said. “This occasionally stems from the fact that they feel that they need to spend more time with international students, for instance, and that these students occupy their office hours more than is customary.” DiDonato stressed that the frustration does not characterize the
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While some might believe the vision of the psychic is credible, other theories exist on what happened to Tammen. These theories range from a fraternity prank gone horribly wrong to a plot by the mafia.
Peabody Hall According to stories, Peabody Hall is haunted by Helen Peabody, the woman who oversaw the building when it was part of the Western College for Women. Peabody was an avid opponent of coeducation and now haunts the hall, angry with the men who live there. Peabody Hall has the distinction of housing two ghosts. In the late 1800s, a young woman allegedly hung herself in Peabody’s attic. Now students claim they sometimes see a light coming from the locked, non-electrically wired attic. In the 1980s and 90s, apparently several public safety officers resigned after inspecting some of Miami’s buildings. One officer in particular inspected Peabody’s attic and resigned immediately after. He never spoke of the incident again.
Thobe Fountain What is now the Kappa Kappa Gamma Circle off Slant Walk used to be a fountain for dogs created by university bricklayer Harry Thobe. When the fountain was torn down after Thobe’s death a dog allegedly fell in the well underneath the fountain and was killed. Today, if you stand on the circle and call Thobe’s name, you can hear a dog barking. more classes. In some cases, some sections of one course had information posted but other sections taught by other teachers did not. This was true with the Introduction to American Studies class, AMS 205. There were a variety of different classes that didn’t comply. First-year Katie Solon is disappointed by what she sees on BannerWeb. “There are students who can’t afford textbooks and it is only fair that the prices are up a few months in advance so students can pick classes they can afford textbooks in,” majority of feedback. He said faculty are very open and very accepting. Senior Qin Zhang, an international student from Shanghai, supports Miami’s decision to move in this direction. “It will be very good progress. Because they have listening and oral section in the tests, if those that struggle can come too,” Zhang said. “Also, Miami can get money from this program.” Sophomore Chloe Toman is excited by the benefits this program will provide Miami students and international students. “I think it is very important for international students to come to Miami,” Toman said. “I think it increases our diversity, gives those that can’t go and study abroad to get a cultural view from the boundaries of Miami. But I also think it is very important for those that do come to Miami from international countries to learn our language, not so that that they can be more adapted to our culture for our sake, but so that they can easily communicate with professors, understand assignments more fully, and be able to comfortably learn and interact.” DiDonato said the individual interaction is now international. He said that prospective students can soon look forward to a unique campus experience. “It’s like going to a city that has incredible ethnic diversity and going through all the neighborhoods,” DiDonato said. “Except you will be doing it on a world scale and you will be doing it here at Miami University.”
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Don’t Forget about dysert
Andrew Luck, Landry Jones, Matt Barkley and Robert Griffin III. These are some of the premier quarterbacks in college football this season, but this list is missing one name: Zac Dysert. Dysert has thrown for over 1,800 yards this season through seven games and is currently third on Miami’s all-time career passing yards list, behind only Josh Betts and Ben Roethlisberger. In addition, Dysert ranks fourth among college football’s non-senior quarterbacks in career passing yards, behind only Oklahoma University’s Landry Jones, Baylor University’s Robert Griffin III and the University of Southern California’s Matt Barkley. Dysert is also only one of five Miami players in the modern era that has been a team captain for more than one season. After Miami’s stellar season last year, where the RedHawks went from worst-to-first and won their first Mid-American Conference title since 2003, there were many calls from fans for Austin Boucher to take the starting quarterback role from Dysert, who was knocked out for the season after lacerating his spleen in week 10. While Boucher is a tremendous quarterback who has great potential, fans forget what Dysert has meant to this team. He has been one of the most prolific passers in Miami history and has been one of the key leaders in a locker room that has seen three coaching changes in four years. Dysert should not lose his starting role because of a fluke injury that he suffered last year — his play on the field should determine where he fits into the lineup each week. However, the last thing that this team needs is instability.
Fans can argue about whether Dysert or Boucher is better, but the fact of the matter is that they are very comparable quarterbacks when it comes to winning games with two very different skill sets. Boucher has done a tremendous job protecting the football and methodically moving the ball down the field for the RedHawks, while Dysert has the capability to make plays, especially when the protection breaks down, and is more of a gunslinger. Ultimately though, both are great quarterbacks who give Miami a great chance to win. Head Coach Don Treadwell was in a very tough position this summer when deciding who he would name as Miami’s starting quarterback. Analysts always say how having two great quarterbacks is a good problem to have, but in reality, it is a terrible problem to have. Not only do you always feel like you are wasting the talent of one of your players, but as soon as the starter struggles even in the slightest, loudmouth fans start to call for the backup. But this trigger-happy approach does nothing but create instability, which is something that Miami most definitely cannot afford. Boucher has two additional years of eligibility compared to Dysert’s one, so Miamians will hopefully get to see both lead this team within the next few years. However, fans must appreciate all that Dysert has accomplished thus far in his career and the potential that he has to lead this team to another MAC Championship. And as for the Miami faithful who find it hard to believe that anyone not named Roethlisberger could be considered one of the premier quarterbacks in college football, you had better start believing.
RedHawks hope to end 6 match skid By Tom Downey
For The Miami Student
The Miami University RedHawks women’s volleyball team has a home series this weekend against Ohio University and Kent State University. The game against Kent State will be 7 p.m. Saturday and the game against Ohio University will be 3 p.m. Sunday. The games were pushed back a day in order to better accommodate the homecoming festivities. The Ohio Bobcats currently stand at 15-9 overall and 7-3 in Mid-American Conference (MAC) play. They are currently the No. 1 team in the MAC East and the only one with an above .500 record in the division. The Bobcats enter the weekend riding a two match losing streak. In their earlier matchup this year in Athens, the Bobcats swept the RedHawks 3-0 (14-25, 20-25, 16-25). “Ohio is one of the top teams in our conference,” Head Coach Carolyn Condit said. “We need to gen-
erate an offensive game that is much stronger than the one we’ve had lately.” The Kent State Golden Flashes record stands at 8-17 overall and 1-9 in the MAC as they enter the weekend. They are currently in the midst of a five match losing streak. The RedHawks swept the Flashes when they met at the start of MAC play, 3-0 (25-18, 25-16, 29-27). “They have one of the younger teams in the conference,” Condit said. “We’re just going to have to play our game in order to win.” The Red and White are currently 12-12 overall and 3-7 in the MAC. They are currently on a six match losing streak. The team is being lead on defense by Madison Hardy, who has been averaging nearly five digs per set. Amy Kendall has been averaging nearly seven assists per set. This will be the team’s second to last home series before MAC Tournament play begins.
Miami prepares for Bulls
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Sophomore running back Erik Finklea gets around an Army defender Oct. 8 in Miami’s 35-28 victory. Finklea and the RedHawks are looking to make their homecoming weekend a special one with a win over the University at Buffalo Bulls.
By JM Rieger Staff Writer
The Miami University football team (2-5, 1-2 MidAmerican Conference) will look to notch its third victory of the season this weekend against the University at Buffalo (2-6, 1-3), after suffering a 49-28 beat down last week at the University of Toledo. Despite being under .500 in the Mid-American Conference this season, the RedHawks still have a chance to win the MAC East Division. “The MAC East is still wide open,” redshirt junior defensive lineman Jason Semmes said. “We feel like we control our own destiny. The coaches keep preaching that it is still a one-game playoff every week.” Miami has struggled to protect both the football and the quarterback this season. The ’Hawks are giving up nearly four sacks per game,
and that number jumps up to over five per game against conference opponents. Meanwhile, the Red and White are tied for 91st in the nation in turnover margin, and Head Coach Don Treadwell emphasized how Miami’s three turnovers last week demonstrated a continued lesson to protect the football that the RedHawks must learn. Buffalo’s senior quarterback Chazz Anderson, another dual-threat quarterback, will present a familiar challenge for Miami’s defense. Anderson has accounted for nearly 68 percent of the Bulls’ offense this season and shutting him down will be a big focus for the ’Hawks defense this week. “Their offense is certainly highlighted by their quarterback,” Treadwell said. “He’s a very talented young man and I think he has really energized them being there with
them. We’ve faced a number of these types of guys so that’s going to be a great challenge for us because he himself can make plays.” Sophomore tailback Branden Oliver will also be a huge focus for a Miami defense that is giving up over 190 yards per game on the ground. Oliver has eight rushing touchdowns on the year and is averaging over 100 yards per game through eight games. “[Buffalo’s] offense is similar to what we’ve seen before,” Semmes said. “It helps the defense prepare. Every team is a little different but we have faced five dual-threat quarterbacks this year, which helps a lot [to prepare for this game].” Offensively, Miami will try to establish a balanced attack, something that has been a work-in-progress up to this point in the season. The RedHawks have the
worst rushing offense in all of college football and have been reliant on a dominant passing attack to move the ball down the field this year. The Bulls enter Saturday’s matchup ranked 20th in the country in passing defense. Redshirt freshman cornerback Cortney Lester, who has played very well the past few weeks and has racked up 41 tackles so far this season, leads the Buffalo defense. Look for the Red and White to utilize their strong passing attack early and often on Saturday to create space for their running backs. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Yager Stadium. Saturday’s matchup is Homecoming Weekend for Miami. Tailgate town starts at 1:30 p.m. on the south lawn of Millett Hall. Fans can listen to the game on Miami’s IMG Sports Network or on WMSR at www. redhawkradio.com.
Seniors make final home game special By Daniel Wheeler
For The Miami Student
Senior Amanda Seeley finished her career in Oxford this Sunday with a bang, scoring a last-minute goal on Senior Day for the Miami University field hockey team. With 1:27 remaining in the second half and the game tied at 5-5, Seeley beat the Kent State University goaltender off a penalty corner opportunity. Miami preserved the lead during the final minute to defeat the Golden Flashes, 6-5. “All game we were chipping away at their defense trying to find the cage. Finally, I turned the defender and slipped it in the opposite
corner,” Seeley said of the game-winner. Miami sophomores Emily Gruesser, Sid Marcum and Kaitlin Evans respectively scored three unanswered goals in the opening nine minutes to bury Kent State in an early hole. However, Kent State’s Debbie Bell responded with two goals of her own — one in the 13th minute and another in the 22nd. Then seven minutes later, ’Hawk midfielder Olivia Miller found the net for her team-leading tenth time to advance the lead to two goals. By the 60th minute, Miami’s once comfortable advantage had disappeared. With a 4-4 tie, Miami
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senior Kylie Landeros scored her season’s first goal in a most appropriate occasion to push the Red and White into a lead once again. After another Kent State goal and countless penalty corner opportunities by both sides, Seeley cemented the meaningful Miami victory. “As a senior, I have a responsibility to be the sound back bone of the team,” Seeley said. “I only expect to be relied to be a clutch player. It’s my last home game I can’t be soft, I intend to go out with a bang.” The Red and White found extra motivation, facing the team that had defeated them a year ago in the Mid-American Conference
championship game. Needless to say, that match had not been forgotten. “We always have unfinished business when we face Kent,” Seeley said. The RedHawks will look to carry this momentum into the season’s final game next weekend. “We have a team that has unexplainable motivation and drive for each other,” Seeley said. “We know what it feels like to put a 70 minute game together of solid Miami hockey and we have that move us past Missouri.” Miami concludes their season next Saturday in Springfield, Miss. against the Missouri State University Bears.
Lakers sink ’Hawks in overtime The Miami University ice hockey team fell short in overtime against the Lake Superior State University Lakers Thursday night at Goggin Ice Center. The Lakers won the game 3-2. Miami’s first goal of the game was scored by senior Cameron Schilling, his eighth career goal. Sophomore Byron Paulazzo scored the second goal off assists by Schilling and freshman Tyler Biggs. The game went to overtime.The gamewinning goal was scored on the power play by the Lakers’ Zach Trotman. Miami falls to 0-3 in conference play and 2-5 overall. Puck drop for Friday’s game is set for 7:35 p.m. at Goggin.