November 1, 2011 | The Miami Student

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VOLUME 139 NO. 20

TUESDAY, November 1, 2011

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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1970, The Miami Student reported that Miami University’s physical education requirement would not be abolished immediately, but the required num-

ber of hours would be reduced. Concern was expressed that with a larger enrollment, students would get shut of physical education classes they needed to graduate. The university considered reducing the six-hour requirement to three.

On-campus pot violations high this year

By Jenn Smola

Senior Staff Writer

Marijuana violations at Miami University have more than doubled this year, according to records from the Office of Ethics and Conflict Resolution.

During the first three weeks of the 2010-2011 school year, there were reportedly seven marijuana violations at Miami. This year, during the same time frame, the number rose to 16.

“We know that nationally marijuana use is on the rise,” Chris Taylor of the Office of Ethics and Conflict Resolution said. “I imagine [the increase] correlates to that.”

He also noted that his colleagues at other institutions would report the same type of trend.

First-time offenders who are caught using or possessing marijuana usually have to complete a chemical abuse education program, as well as an assessment with a substance abuse counselor, Taylor said. Repeat offenders, however, will often be suspended.

Unlike alcohol violations though, sanctions aren’t mandatory and may vary.

The policy applies to all drugs, including illegal prescription drugs such as Adderall, Taylor said.

Despite the increase,

however, the university does not plan to change the sanctions or make punishments more severe.

“The sanctions, I think, work, because we don’t see a lot of repeat offenders,” Taylor said, adding that police and resident assistants (RA) may patrol an area a bit more if they are suspicious of marijuana use.

Although the number of violations has increased, the number of drug-related arrests has held steady this year, according to Lt. Ben Spilman of the Miami University Police Department (MUPD). But MUPD still receives plenty of drug-related calls.

“We get calls regularly, in some halls more than others,” Spilman said.

If a hall director or RA simply smells marijuana in a

had to make 13 calls to one building, but may not have to make any calls to other buildings.

The violations seem to be

We know that nationally marijuana use is on the rise. I imagine [the increase] correlates to that.”

CHRIS TAYLOR

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ETHICS AND STUDENT CONFLICT RESOLUTION

residence hall, the police get a call, he said.

The proportion isn’t always even, Spilman said, adding that MUPD has

occurring mainly amongst underclassmen, according to Spilman.

“Traditionally, because we have more freshmen

and sophomores on campus, that’s primarily who we’re dealing with,” he said.

For some Miami students, the increase in violations is nothing to worry about.

“I’m not bothered at all,” sophomore Kyle Rogers said. “I think marijuana is on its way to becoming legalized on a national level and [the increase] is just another effect of that … I think legally the university has an obligation to crack down on marijuana violations because it’s still illegal, but I don’t think it should take priority over cracking down on alcohol violations because alcohol use can be much more dangerous.”

Community often overlooks Oxford’s homeless population

By Justin Reash Community Editor

Though many students might not ever encounter a homeless person in Oxford during their time here, Oxford does have a homeless population. Over the past three years, the Oxford Family Resource Center (OFRC) has provided assistance for over 100 homeless or transient people. Whether they are people who are kicked out of their homes or homeless people just passing through the city, the OFRC provides for every type of case.

“For the homeless population, we provide food, hotel stays and transportation costs,” OFRC Client Services Supervisor Missy Thompson said. “We provide food vouchers for groceries or money for restaurants. We also have working relationships with local hotels that provide discount rates for up to a total of four nights.”

The OFRC is a non-profit organization that operates through city money, small federal grants and larger non-profit organizations like the United Way, Salvation Army and Kiwanis club and public donations.

However, the OFRC is not a homeless shelter, only a resource center that also contains a community thrift

store. There are no homeless shelters in Oxford, so the OFRC works with shelters in Hamilton and Middletown to provide homeless people with temporary stays.

“We try to get people to the right place,” Thompson said. “People sleep in their vehicles, parking lots and parks. Homeless people also try to go into whatever public places they can as soon as they open.”

Even though the homeless population is small, its impact on those affected is huge.

“For the 20 to 50 individuals that we do see, it is a huge issue. Sadly, it is what they must deal with everyday,” Thompson said.

According to Thompson, there have been 24 cases of homelessness thus far in 2011 in Oxford, compared to 35 total cases in 2010.

For the Oxford Police Department (OPD), homelessness in Oxford does not necessarily bring crime and is not a glaring issue.

“We do not usually run into homeless-related crime.

If we do, it is with repeat offenders,” OPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Varley said.

However, one individual is known by OPD to be a repeat offender. On Sunday Oct. 9, a homeless man stole

Busch Light beer from KDS Express with the intent of going to jail. He did this, according to police reports, to receive free medical attention in jail. Varley said the man was a repeat offender who suffers from psychological issues. This case, however, is not the norm but the exception for the OPD when they deal with homelessness in Oxford.

“We try to get them to a shelter, or if they need medical or psychiatric assistance we try to set them up with that,” Varley said.

Miami University students are surprised to hear that there is a homeless population at all.

“It is definitely unexpected that there are homeless people in such a small community,” Senior Emily Cameron said.

According to Thompson, the homeless population in Oxford almost doubled from 2007-2008. Cameron attributed this to the national recession of the economy.

“It’s definitely sad to hear that the recession has caused actual homelessness for anyone, let alone for citizens of Oxford,” Cameron said.

This week is Miami’s “Hunger + Homelessness Awareness Week.” For more information, visit www.units. muohio.edu/servicelearning/

LIZ HAERING THE MIAMI STUDENT

SITTING PRETTY Miami University President David Hodge rides in the lead car of the homecoming parade Saturday afternoon. The parade went from uptown Oxford to Yager Stadium.

Miami’s football team beat the University at Buffalo 41-13 in the homecoming game.

Miami offers discounted software, but overlooks free options

By Hannah Stein Senior Staff Writer

Students have many technology discounts at their disposal through Miami University that include partnershipswithMicrosoft,Apple and Dell.

The Miami Bookstore sells software, such as the Microsoft software, at a discounted price that is compatible with all types of computers including Mac, Dell, Toshiba or HP, said Cathy McVey, senior director of strategic communication and planning.

The two options for students with Microsoft come in the form of Mac software and the Windows software.

“We’re an education store and most of what we buy has an academic pricing,” said Joseph Martin, manager of the computer department of the Miami Bookstore. “IT Services signs a license with Microsoft that gives them the right to sell it to students.

[It’s] $70 for Mac software and $88 for Windows.”

Students can also buy an academic box, which includes all of Microsoft Office, for $99. Martin said that in other stores such as Best Buy, this could cost as much as $149.

The bookstore can also put in special orders for items not sold in the bookstore, Martin said. They make over 100 every month, but those are not

at a discounted price and are comparable with Best Buy or Wal-Mart.

The contract Miami has with Microsoft is aimed to be able to benefit all students, regardless of their

desktop suite to all institutionally owned computers,” McVey said.

Campus computers also get the Adobe software, but that isn’t available at a discounted price to students.

We’re an education store and most of what we buy has an academic pricing.”

JOSEPH MARTIN

MANAGER, COMPUTER DEPARTMENT OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE

computer type.

“The contract we have with Microsoft is for (the) Institutional Campus Agreement and it provides the

“We also have the Academic Select Agreement (with Microsoft) that allows faculty and students to purchase discounted software

for their personal computers,” McVey said. “Apple has the Apple operating system and that’s separate, but any other Windows computer can use the Microsoft operating system.”

Miami does, however, specifically benefit Mac and Dell users who buy their computers through the Miami Notebook program, which comes with pre-installed software.

“Usually about every two to four years they do a competitive bid where [the bookstore] says ‘this is how many we sell a year, what price can you give us?’” McVey said.

“Currently, we’re buying off the state contract for the Dell.

The year we started the program we had Dell and Apple

for two years, then we had HP and Apple, then we went back to Apple and Dell.”

The benefits for students who buy through the Miami Notebook program is that IT Services will fix the computers for half the price, fix it in half the time along with giving the student a loaner while it is getting fixed.

Junior Ben Cowley has an HP computer that broke earlier in the semester that IT Services couldn’t fix and was unable to give him a loaner.

King Library loans out computers in two-hour intervals to be used in the library.

“That was the biggest

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Book on mushrooms explores life’s secrets

By Amanda Hancock

For The Miami Student

Miami University students are surrounded by a campus rich in natural beauty, but how often do students take a second look and attempt to understand their surroundings? According to Miami University botany professor Nicholas Money, considering this can be “life changing … something of profound philosophical significance.”

In his new book, Mushroom, Money explores this complex relationship

between biological topics, such as mushrooms and the philosophical meaning of life.

The book contains eight chapters, or essays, which explain the many different ways that mushrooms inform about the broader meaning of life.

“Each chapter goes way beyond the biology and explores much wider, profound questions,” Money said.

For example, one chapter discusses recent studies involving hallucinogenic mushrooms. These studies reveal the depth of the experience and what it may suggest

about the existence of God and the foundation of the religious experience.

Another chapter delves into medicinal mushrooms and issue of herbal supplements. It discusses nonprescription drug interest in using mushrooms as a source of medicine in treating chronic illnesses.

However, Money suggests how little scientific evidence there is and his discussion serves as somewhat of an assault on this theory.

According to Money, his teaching experiences proved very beneficial in writing

Mushroom, as well as his four previous books.

“Teaching at Miami has been tremendously helpful because it continually helped to relate to a broader audience,” Money said.

After 16 years at Miami, research at Yale and undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol, Money has participated in extensive research involved in mushroom-forming fungi.

Additionally, as the Western Program Director, Money has gained experience with interdisciplinary practices, so the book concentrates on the

connections between science and philosophy.

For non-science majors, terms like “alkaloids” and “neocortex” that appear in the book may seem daunting, however, Money stresses that Mushroom goes way beyond just the science.

“It’s about how science informs the way we look at the world,” he said.

Money acknowledged the fantastical slant of his discussion, but also said just how important these clues are.

“It’s impossible to find out who you are and your place on earth without

comprehending the rest of life on earth,” Money said.

“There’s nothing more important than this beauty in science to me.”

He encourages Miami students to join the discussion by thinking about how botany relates to their own lives.

“Students need to expand their universe and consider our wider relationship here on earth,” he said.

Money is also participating in a lecture series called “Your Strange Universe” and will speak at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2 in 322 McGuffey Hall.

Bates becomes president-elect of the Vaughn recalls an Division 1 Athletic Directors Association ‘amazing’ experience

By Ellie Gonso

For The Miami Student

At the annual NCAA Athletic Directors’ Annual Meeting in September, Brad Bates, director of athletics at Miami University was named the President-elect of the Division One Athletic Directors Association.

For the 2011-2012 school year, Bates will lead the top athletic directors from 120 D-1 schools across the country. Bates currently serves as the vice-president and was nominated by the governing board to lead the association next year.

Since 2002, Bates has served as Miami’s Athletic Director after 17 years at Vanderbilt University. The Mid-American Conference recognized his development of the “culture of champions” vision and Miami’s women’s programs with the Jacoby Award and the men’s programs were awarded the Reese Trophy for best all-around men’s

sports programs.

“This opportunity that I have is really because of the great history and tradition of Miami and the prestige of the university, which is a by product of the coaching and staff. I’m very honored to have this position,” Bates said.

Over the past seven years, Bates’ leadership has led Miami to back-to-back football bowl game appearances for the first time in nearly 30 years, and has ushered in conference championships in football, women’s cross country, ice hockey, baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, soccer, tennis, softball and synchronized skating.

Due to his success, in 2007, University President David Hodge extended Bates’s contract for another five years at the university.

Bates believes his nomination as president of the athletic director’s association speaks to the national

prestige of Miami’s athletic programs and the success of his administration.

“It really is a reflection of the quality of people here, including President Hodge and the coaches. My new position provides Miami with a voice through the leadership of our staff and the administration at Miami University,” Bates said.

As president, Bates hopes to address several changes within the NCAA by determining what the conference realignment means and establishing higher goals for D-1 athletic directors.

Football co-captain Anthony Kokal has known Bates for years and says new position is well deserved.

“As a senior leader on the football team, Bates is one of the most engaging, driven, and ethical guys I’ve met. It doesn’t surprise me that he was nominated for this position because what he’s been able to do with Miami’s athletic programs,” Kokal said.

Miami and its athletic

programs have consistently ranked among the best D1 programs nationally, in particular with respect to its graduation rates for studentathletes. Through Bates’ vision and commitment to tradition, Miami’s athletic programs have earned a reputation for both athletic and academic success.

“Every time I’ve talked to him it’s not just about how it’s going with sports, he always asks about my classes.

He even wrote me a letter of recommendation so that I could get into graduate school,” Kokal said.

Senior cheerleader Christina Cook said that she admires Bates both personally and for what he does for Miami’s student athletes.

“With Mr. Bates, the focus is on the students and making sure that they’re getting what they need. I think he puts students first and I think that the emphasis on undergraduate education translates into our athletic programs,” Cook said.

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IF THE SHOE FITS...

First-years Samantha Von Hoene and Stephanie Fishman decorate their TOMS shoes at the TOMS “style your shoes party” Friday afternoon on the Roudebush Hall lawn.

Despite bans by other universities, Miami decides to continue selling energy drinks

BY Annie Stenback For The Miami Student

When The University of New Hampshire considered banning energy drinks on campus recently, it sparked a debate on colleges across the nation.

MariJo Nootz, senior director of the Shriver Center, said she believes Miami University will not take the step to stop selling energy drinks.

“I can’t speak for New Hampshire, but the way I personally look at it is that the students are adults and they have a choice of what they want to drink or what to eat, and it’s our job to present them with healthy alternatives or things that they can eat,” Nootz said. “But as far as limiting something that they could go down the street and get, I don’t agree with that on most items.”

Nootz is not the only

person who believes students have the ultimate choice on what they eat or drink. Assistant Director in the Office of Student Wellness Leslie Haxby McNeill also said she feels the university’s role is to provide students with choices.

“We’re in the office of student wellness and what we’re trying to promote is educating people to make choices that are good health choices in all areas of their life and make sure that there are options available to them,” McNeill said. “I’m not going to say ‘do or don’t sell energy drinks.’ If they do decide not to, then I’d support that. As long as there are choices and people are not abusing something like energy drinks, then there isn’t a huge issue.”

Though Miami gives students the option of buying energy drinks, the Office of Student Wellness

recognizes the health risks associated with consumption of these drinks.

“The thing that bothers me is that energy drinks are marketed to the youth,” McNeill said. “And I can’t remember the percentages now, I want to say it’s [about] 35 percent of college students regularly consume energy drinks and the health concerns for me are in taking all those stimulants.”

Energy drinks have a lot of sugar, caffeine and other kinds of stimulants. Some of the possible side effects of which are increased blood pressure, increased anxiety, panic attacks, gastric acid, bowel irritability and insomnia or trouble sleeping.

“Those are very real health risks and I don’t know that when people are college aged that they understand that there is immediate potential or effects,” McNeill said.

First-year Brooke Theisen regularly consumes energy drinks and knows the risks she’s taking.

“Sometimes, you just need something to help you get through a long day of school,” Theisen said. “Whether its coffee or an energy drink, I just drink it so I can study and get my work done.”

Though the University of New Hampshire later announced it would continue to sell energy drinks on campus, there is still talk of whether it’s okay to sell to students.

Miami University will continue to give students the option of drinking energy drinks, while trying to promote healthier options.

“The short take home message that I would want students to hear is that energy drinks are not a substitute for getting enough rest, good nutrition and good time management,” McNeill said.

By Rebecca Peets

For The Miami Student

“I’m sorry to tell you, you have been eliminated from The Amazing Race.”

These words were directed at Susan Vaughn, director of ethics and student conflict resolutions as a contestant on The Amazing Race in 2006.

Although she did not win the one million dollars, she won other kinds of personal rewards for running with her son in The Amazing Race, Seventh Edition.

Vaughn and her son, Patrick, couldn’t tell anyone where they were going or what they were doing for the seven weeks they were on the show. Vaughn took a leave of absence from work but could not tell anyone why besides to spend time with her son.

“My secretary was extremely worried about me,” Vaughn said. “We’ve worked together for a long time and when I came back, I was thinner from the strange eating and sleeping habits on the show. Finally, I had to tell her what was going on so she wouldn’t worry.”

Between filming and the premiere of the show, Vaughn still could not tell anyone anything about it.

“My daughter didn’t even know I applied until the final part of auditions,” she said.

While on the show, Vaughn’s husband would only receive phone calls once a week to say Vaughn and Patrick were okay, but gave no knowledge of their whereabouts or if they had been eliminated from the show.

“We were obligated for seven weeks,” Vaughn said.

“So after we got eliminated after four legs outside of Buenos Aires, we were put into sequester for the remainder of the filming. We were flown to a destination and had aliases. It was all very secretive.”

But for Vaughn it was worth it.

“We certainly didn’t win a million dollars. But Patrick and I had a great time together. We’ve always loved to travel and he and I are pretty competitive so that played into our interest with the show,” she said.

In order to be contestants on the show, Vaughn and Patrick had to submit a 20-page application and have interviews. Out of 24,000 applicants, only 11 teams are chosen for the show, according to Vaughn.

“There had never been a mother/son team before, and this part of the country was very popular with the show and hadn’t had contestants before either,” Vaughn said.

While on the show, Vaughn had the opportunity to face her fear of heights.

“One of your first challenges was to zip line over a 1,400 foot gorge from mountain to mountain, it was frightening,” Vaughn said.

Since then, she’s gone zip lining at smaller heights but still said she would not have done it before the show.

“It’s very mentally challenging to be able to manage throughout the show,” she said. “I’m not someone who travels with a backpack

Overall, it was a once in a lifetime experience.”

Susan Vaughn

DIRECTOR OF ETHICS AND STUDENT CONFLICT RESOLUTION

so for me to put my life in a backpack was quite funny.”

To her son’s disapproval, Vaughn packed a hair dryer, curling iron and make up.

“I took much more than I should’ve,” Vaughn said.

“My pack weighed 26 pounds, way over what it was meant to hold.”

Vaughn said she didn’t really expect the impact the show would have.

“Overall, it was a once in a lifetime experience. Going into it I thought ‘this’ll be funny, my friends will laugh.’

I didn’t expect the popularity of the show and how my life changed after the show,” she said.

Vaughn’s life after the show was filled with interviews, media and speaking events.

“Where most people’s middle age means going downhill, mine skyrocketed.

I gained a personal reward of doing something at that part of my life,” Vaughn said.

“My life didn’t get back to normal until after a year.”

As a graduate of Miami and administrator for 25 years, Vaughn made the list of top 20 most famous alumni after her appearance on the show.

“Having a faculty member on an international TV show puts Miami on the map, the map of legends,” said firstyear Justin Chu. “It’s good for Miami’s popularity,” said first-year Josh Midgley. “And can help bring more attention here.”

Vaughn is happy with the publicity she was able to bring to her alma mater.

“We didn’t go into this to win $1 million,” Vaughn said. “I was one of those 11 teams and only a limited number of people get the chance.”

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Governor’s order unlikely to BEAT affect animals in Hueston Woods POLICE

Traffic violation results in OVI, marijuana citations

Around 1 a.m. Friday, Oxford Police Department officers observed a gray Pontiac committing a traffic violation. The car was traveling southbound on South Campus Avenue and swerving to the left then the far right. Officers stopped the car and identified the driver as Miami University senior Andrew Klatzke, 20. Officers smelled a strong odor of alcohol in the car and Klatzke’s eyes appeared glassy, according to police reports. Klatzke was asked to perform field sobriety tests, which he failed. He was taken back to the station and on his way back, officers brought the K-9 unit to do a free air sniff. The canine detected that there was a controlled substance in the car, according to reports. Officers searched the car and found a small plastic bag of marijuana behind the driver’s seat. Klatzke refused a breath test and claimed he didn’t know the vehicle he was in or the passenger he was with. Officers charged him with operating a vehicle under the influence and possession of marijuana.

Klatzke was also placed under an administrative license suspension.

Female passes out on stairs near uptown bar, vomits Around 12:30 a.m. Friday, Oxford Police Department officers responded to Heavy Hands Bar due to a reported intoxicated female. When the officers found the female, she was passed out on the steps and very slow to respond. Officers woke her as people were walking past her on the stairs. The female got up slowly and nearly fell over. The bar had called for an ambulance, which arrived soon after officers got to the bar. Officers walked her to the squad and once inside, she immediately started vomiting.

The female was taken into the hospital for medical treatment and later identified as Miami University first-year Elizabeth Ward, 18. Ward was charged with underage intoxication and disorderly conduct.

Male says he went to party, forgot how to get home

By Sarah Sidlow Asst. Community Editor

On Friday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed an executive order to help deal with some of the state’s exotic animal issues. The order is a temporary measure until changes can be made to state law later this year.

The order comes on the heels of a recent incident in Zanesville, Ohio when dangerous animals were released by their owner before he committed suicide.

The order does not ban the ownership or sale of wild animals, but rather is in place to reinforce existing laws and regulations, according to Laura

appropriate entity to remove an animal, Jones said.

Any dangerous wild animals are subject to this executive order, said Jones.

While the order impacts private pet owners and sanctuaries, it does not seem that state parks in the area will be affected.

Hueston Woods State Park has wild animals including a mountain lion, bobcat and numerous birds of prey like eagles, hawks and owls, that are rehabilitated and used for educational purposes.

However, the state park does not have any exotic animals, that is, it does not have any animals from other countries or continents.

Hueston Woods also has all of the proper permits –

both state and federal – for these animals, according to Chad Smith, a naturalist supervisor for the southwest district of Ohio state parks.

The executive order would only come into play if the park did not have proper permits for its animals, or if the animals were exotic in nature.

Hueston Woods plans to continue with rehabilitation and rescue efforts.

“We don’t house any animal here unless [the animal] has no other options. The only animals we have here are animals that are unable to support themselves in the wild for a variety of reasons,” Smith said.

Miami University sophomore Curtis Brey thinks

the executive order is a good idea.

“I see no problem with it.

It seems like the executive order is only helping the animals,” Brey said.

Kasich’s executive order is by no means the end to Ohio’s exotic animals issue.

“This is more of a stop-gap measure, trying to ensure safety and welfare both of the public and the wildlife that are being kept,” Jones said.

“This is not a case of the permanent solution.”

The dangerous wild animal task force will have proposals that will be provided to the governor and the legislature, which will ultimately make the decision, according to Smith.

Redistricting plan Duke Energy proposal would allow patrons choice of provider remains undecided

By Catherine Ubry For The Miami Student

In the upcoming months, citizens of Oxford may be able to look forward to cost saving opportunities in regards to their electric bills if the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approves a proposal recently put forth

by Duke Energy Ohio, the main supplier of electricity throughout Oxford.

According to Duke Spokesman Paul Flake, Duke Energy Ohio currently has an electric security plan in place that will expire by the end of the year.

When the current plan expires, Duke will need a new plan for customers, which prompted Duke to recently file a new proposed plan. In order to get the new plan passed, Duke must wait for the PUCO to approve the new proposal.

“There is a settlement agreement where we get all of the partners and stakeholders in the company involved and we come up with an agreement on the proposal,” Flake said.

Citizens of Oxford currently have the freedom to purchase services from the electric supplier of their choosing. According to Flake, Ohio law requires that customers have a choice in their supplier seeing that it is a right of the customer. But if approved, the newly proposed agreement plan filed to PUCO

for approval will allow customers the opportunity to save money if they stay with Duke.

“With Duke, there is already a choice,” Flake said.

“There is a vibrant, competitive marketplace. This new proposal is about balancing all of the needs of the stakeholders. It will enhance the competitions that are already in place.”

Public Utilities Commission spokesperson Matt Butler said the proposed savings for customers.

“There will be a competitive auction that will

three years.

It is not uncommon for companies such as Duke and its commissions and stakeholders to work together and come to a middle ground. These plans take time to come up with approved agreements and once the PUCO approves the plan, the new plan will be able to aid customers throughout Oxford, according to Butler.

Miami University sophomore Jason Raju said, “I think this is going to be really good for Oxford because it will allow

This new proposal is about balancing all of the needs of the stakeholders. It will enhance the competitions that are already in place.”

Paul Flake

DUKE ENERGY SPOKESMAN

determine customer rates that don’t choose to stop for different suppliers,” Butler said. “If they choose to stay with Duke, they will be able to save. Duke is anticipating that the average customer would see about a $14 per month decrease.”

According to Butler, PUCO is expected to make a final decision on the plan within the next several weeks. If approved, the plan will go into effect January 1, 2012. The plan will be in place for the next

more competition for the company and it will also be really good for the citizens living in Oxford.”

Within the next few weeks, citizens of Oxford will know whether or not the proposal will come into effect by the beginning of the New Year.

“With how the economy is now, I feel like this would be really beneficial for Oxford citizens,” Rajo said. “I hope the proposal passes, I think it would definitely benefit the market.”

By James Rohaley For The Miami Student

A new Congressional district map for the state of Ohio, passed by GOP lawmakers last month, went from 18 districts down to 16. The loss of two districts was necessary as a result of slow population growth in the state.

Other districts must consequently inflate, said Associate Professor of political science Bryan Marshall.

“The loss of two seats must come from somewhere, and the state must expand to cover their loss,” he said.

According to Republican representative Margaret Conditt (District 55), this happens every decade.

“The legislation, H.B. 319, traditionally becomes law 90 days after the bill has been signed into law by the governor and will remain in place from Jan. 1, 2013 through Dec. 31, 2022,” she said via email.

Republican representatives Courtney Combs (District 54), Timothy Derickson (District 53) and Conditt insist the map is legal and fair.

“Currently, Ohio has 13 Republican and five Democrat congressmen and women. Under the new map, each party would lose one congressional seat: two Republican seats were combined into one, two Democrat seats were combined into one, and one three-term Democrat was combined with a first-term Republican. There is nothing

unfair about that,” Conditt said via email.

Conditt also pointed to the similarity between this and the 2008 elections.

“Democrats held a majority of Ohio’s congressional districts after the 2008 election (10-8) despite making the same claims in 2001 that the districts were ‘unwinnable’ for Democrats,” she said via email.

First-year Patrick Murphy said he is angered by the political arguments that he said are typical of the system.

“It is so frustrating that our elected officials can never seem to come to an agreement federally or statewide in order to serve their constituents,” Murphy said.

The political changes will not necessarily be felt in Butler County.

“Butler County under the new map will not likely see a change,” Marshall said.

Conditt agreed that the changes are subtle for Butler County.

“Currently, Butler County resides in the 1st district, but mainly in the 8th district, represented by John Boehner, and with the new map, will still be in the 8th district,” Conditt said via email.

If an agreement does not come, a federal judge will likely draw the map. As the result of this chaotic situation, elections may ask voters to select candidates statewide, which means someone across the state could be voting in your district.

Ohio adds second primary, increasing election costs

By Caitlin Jaynes

Around 7 a.m. Sunday, Oxford Police Department officers were dispatched to the First Baptist Church on Ringwood Road. Officers saw a male on a chair that needed assistance. The male was identified as Miami University first-year, Tyler Smith, 18. Smith told officers he had been at a fraternity party the night before and got lost walking home. Smith was outside all night in a pirate costume and said all he remembered was walking through a cornfield. Officers smelled alcohol on his breath and Smith said he was drinking Natural Light beer. Smith was charged with underage drinking.

Jones, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. “[The executive order] is about implementing and utilizing existing authorities to ensure that public safety is being considered and that animal welfare is being enforced. It is about helping local law and the humane societies to be able to do their job,” Jones said.

Humane societies have a broad authority as far as the ability to arrest or remove animals from a property that is suspected to be abusive or dangerous. This executive order helps provide state support as needed if the humane societies need a commissioned officer to go on site and issue a citation or an

For The Miami Student

The Ohio General Assembly decided last week that the state will run one primary in March and another in June 2012. The extra primary will cost Ohio $15 million.

The March primary will include state and local seats as well as U.S. Senate voting. That means voters will have to wait until June to vote in the presidential primaries.

Ohio is not the first state to ever hold two primaries, according to Butler County Board of Elections Director Jocelyn Bucaro. However, other states typically hold the federal primaries first.

Ohio is doing it backwards, Bucaro said.

The June primary date gives the state more time to come to an agreement over the disputed congressional districts map. The problems with that are the extra costs of this action and the effects on voters, according to Bucaro and Board of Elections Chairman Tom Ellis.

“Here in Butler County it’s going to add as much as 30 percent to our budget next year, which is already large,” Bucaro said.

States usually reimburse counties for special elections and this is no exception.

“We, of course, will be reimbursed as we understand it but we have to front the money at this time. There

are some concerns about that,” Ellis said.

The Board also believes this will be confusing for voters and may have an effect on turnout. When voters attend the March primary, they won’t see presidential candidates. They’ll have to return in June for that.

This makes Ohio the penultimate presidential primary, so the outcome will likely be determined and voters might not show up, Bucaro said. On top of that, Ohio voters are not accustomed to voting in June and many will be on vacation or focused on school being out.

Ellis agreed that these circumstances are undesirable but he thinks there is a chance turnout will be

just the same if not better than usual.

“The people who regularly vote every year will still vote and some people might take the second opportunity to vote if they missed the March one,” Ellis said.

Miami University sophomore Thomas Phillipps said he will vote twice if he has to.

“This is the first year I’m able to vote in a presidential election so yes, I’m probably going to vote in both primaries. But I don’t understand why it’s necessary,” Phillipps said.

There is a chance the House’s disagreements can be settled before the primaries actually take place, according to Ellis.

“I would think there would be tremendous pressures coming to bear on both sides to resolve this and come to a compromise,” Ellis said.

Ellis also thinks the state was faced with a firing date and made the best decision they could at the time. They had to either come to an agreement between Democrats and Republicans about the congressional districts map, or push the presidential primary back to June and decided the best way to do compromise was to hold two primaries.

“I, for one, do not think that the final chapter has been written, but we will have to wait and see,” Ellis said.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Editor MEGAN MCGILL

ARTS@miamistudent.net

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Taking Back Sunday takes Brick Street

By Claire Krieger For The Miami Student

Wednesday, Oxford experienced a rare treat: internationally known rock band Taking Back Sunday (TBS) played a show at Brick Street Bar and Grill. Brick Street regularly hosts concerts that are headlined by up and coming, popular artists, but to host a band with the experience and catalog of Taking Back Sunday is out of the ordinary for the club.

The band treated fans to a 17-song set and a one song encore. They were joined by openers The Bad Rabbits and The Maine.

While very few members of the crowd seemed to know who the Bad Rabbits were, that did not stop the quintet, who are originally from Boston, Mass., from putting on an entertaining, interactive show.

The second act of the night was the Phoenix based band The Maine. They also delivered an entertaining show and definitely had a following of fans there, many of whom sang a majority of their songs word-for-word.

As exciting and amusing as the first two bands were, as soon as their sets ended, fans became noticeably more tense and excited. There

was a surge of movement as everyone on the floor struggled to gain the closest spot to the stage possible.

When TBS took the stage, the crowd went crazy and did not stop until they left 18 songs later.

A highlight of the show was the overall energy pulsating from each member of the band. A performance of the song “Existentialism On Prom Night” — originally written by TBS members John Nolan and Shaun Cooper for their previous band Straylight Run, was a crowd favorite. Another favorite moment was lead singer Adam Lazzara’s promenade through the crowd to perform a few songs while standing atop the bar and downing a few shots.

Miami University junior Ellen DeFrance said that the concert for her was a blast from the past.

“Although I felt like I was some years late in seeing them, I wasn’t disappointed because they sounded like the same band that I fell in love with growing up. The energy levels from the band and the crowd [during the show at Brick Street] were so high that it definitely made it a memorable experience,” DeFrance said.

Taking Back Sunday has

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The Maine, a Phoenix based band, open for Taking Back Sunday Wednesday night at a packed Brick Street Bar and Grill.Taking Back Sunday played a 17-song set for fans. Brick Street hosts country artist Justin Moore Nov. 3 and Grammy award winner Gretchen Wilson Nov. 18. had a relatively unstable past as far as membership goes.

The band has cycled through eight different members in its nine year history. However, the lineup for this show, and their most-recent, selftitled album, is the original lineup responsible for releasing their first album “Tell All Your Friends.”

Bassist Shaun Cooper explained how it has been to play with the band’s original lineup and how this regrouping came about. According to Cooper, drummer Mark O’Connell had been unhappy

with the band for a few years and Cooper and singer/guitarist John Nolan’s band Straylight Run had ended. These events inspired O’Connell to get the original members to start talking again and rebuild their friendships. “[We met] to make sure we could reconnect as friends, as musicians and as song writers, and we did … we just knew it’d be great so we’re very happy to be back,” Cooper said.

According to Cooper, the band is in a period of revival and renewal.

“I genuinely think the band is making the best music of its career … we’ve been writing some new songs that are even better than the stuff that’s on the self-titled record. I think the live show has improved; there’s a certain energy that I think the five of us have when we’re on stage and we’re much better musicians than we were back in the ‘Tell All Your Friends’ days. We just love being on stage together and I think that translates to the live show. I think that our songs have gotten better and

the live show has evolved too ... we’re kind of firing on all cylinders,” Cooper said.

According to Cooper, the band members are getting along much better now than they did in the past. After finishing their tour, which extends early into next year, they plan on writing some new songs and releasing an album as soon as possible.

Cooper also said he thought Oxford was a “pretty cool town” and that, along with the Miami University atmosphere, made their time in Oxford memorable.

While catchy, Coldplay’s new OxACT features actors both Mylo Xyloto lacks depth, originality young and old in The Crucible

By Brian Sopher

For The Miami Student

The first proper song on Coldplay’s newest album, Mylo Xyloto, contains as its hook a reference to The Cure’s 1987 hit “Just Like Heaven.”

Here, however, Coldplay sings “Hurts like Heaven,” in a similar melody as the hook that The Cure made famous. But where “Just Like Heaven” was wrapped in the twangy guitars and new-age atmospherics of the day, Coldplay approaches the song with ample amounts of reverb-drenched guitars and hi-fi effects, atmospheric but offensively immediate and hardly striking. However succinct, this brief example sums up so much of the experience that this album holds.

Mylo Xyloto takes the grandeur, experimentation and finesse of alternative rock’s past and passes it through a filter of melodrama, pop sensibility and modernistic sheen that makes it digestibly bland on the surface, but hollow and farcical underneath.

Coldplay is a group which needs no introduction. Over their 14 year career, the London-based band have earned consistent No. 1 spots on UK charts as well as several Grammy’s for their brand of alternative rock. Of course that very sentence carries with it some irony: at what amount of Grammy’s is rock still “alternative?” It’s a fair question when you truly interrogate Coldplay’s output, which has largely consisted of fairly straight-forward pop rock, equally comfortable in Starbucks stores, iPod commercials and dentist’s offices.

In that regard, Mylo Xyloto is a particular slap in the face.

Coldplay’s previous 2008 album, Viva La Vida, bore a certain amount of genuine experimentation and a brazen attempt to step out of the band’s comfort zone, however small that step might have been.

But in the light of that album, Mylo Xyloto feels like a definite return to form.

The blatant return to a stark pop sensibility comes across most clearly on the album’s first single, “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall.” The title itself serves as a warning of the painfully trite melodrama that ensues. The vocal line in the verse, heard over acoustic guitar strumming and pounding 4/4 drums, sounds like it was ripped straight from the charts of adult contemporary and then beat over the head.

The sweeping chorus and guitar line sound forced as lead singer Chris Martin reminds us that “every teardrop” indeed “is a waterfall, is a waterfall, is a waterfall” ad nauseum. That sort of formulaic trick is pulled on almost every song on the album, becoming more and more tired, and thus it becomes hard to justify why the listener has to sit through over 40 minutes of it.

Yet the most obvious poppandering comes on “Princess of China” which features Rihanna. Yes, Rihanna. An exception to the guitar-pianodrums Bends-era-Radioheadworship that fills the rest of the album, the song is driven by programmed drums and an almost 8-bit synth line.

The announcement that Rihanna would be featured on the song came a few days before the album was released, and on its announcement the question was oft raised, “what is Rihanna doing on a Coldplay album?” With the release of the song itself, the question still remains. She provides little besides adding a little more enormity to the vocal refrain that is the track’s hook, and a verse that feels incredibly forced.

“Princess of China” feels like it was made for her to slip right into it, but that slip hardly feels natural; Rihanna’s presence is like that of a fish out of water. Her soulful vocals writhing on the bland, sandy shore. The song is a blatant pander for the Top 40 charts and message-board hype and nothing else.

Martin has described Mylo

Xyloto as a concept album, the story based around two lovers in a dystopian urban setting. Anyone who bought into the gimmick of Green Day’s American Idiot should find the framework of that story eerily familiar. But the story on Mylo Xyloto serves largely as a framework, its themes coming out in esoteric and more vague lyrical form. Themes of escape, flight and bliss pepper the lyrics on these songs.

But much like the story itself, the lyrics fail to hold any serious depth. “Paradise” exemplifies this trope perfectly, detailing a young girl’s escaping to “paradise” when she dreams.

But the song itself cannot escape from its own lyrical limitations, relying on imagery, poetics and rhymes that sound so clichéd it hurts, before falling onto the crutch of the chorus, which repeats “para-paraparadise” over and over. The lyrics might be anthemic, easy to latch onto and repeatable, but any repeat listen finds them falling from their stilts into a shallow pool of banal, melodramatic sludge.

That’s not to say this album doesn’t have any redeeming merit. The combination of almost hymnal catchiness and forgettable blandness means that it will likely fill charts for months to come, and doctors’ waiting rooms for decades further.

Martin was recently interviewed on The Colbert Report, where he was asked about the frequent comparisons that critics draw between his band and Radiohead. Martin said in response, “We are not as good musically, but much more attractive.” It was as if in one sentence the entirety of Coldplay’s gig was spilled on the floor, and their newest album is no exception. It represents the artistic death throes of styles past, caught in the net of corporate pop and dressed up neatly on the table for all to see.

But underneath all the dressing and spices, what’s left is still dead.

By Christina Casano For The Miami Student

The studio space at the Oxford Community Arts Center is much like many community arts centers around the nation: small, improvised and in an unusual setting.

To get to the seating area, audience members first had to make their way through an empty ballroom overlooking the street. Upon entering the darkened theatre, the audience was faced with rows of chairs behind a raked stage holding a few pieces of furniture.

It was in this setting that the Oxford Area Community Theatre (OxACT) opened its 2011-2012 season with The Crucible

by Arthur Miller. An allegorical play written in the 1950s, it’s a fictionalization of the Salem witch trials.

“It’s a play about truth, love, honesty and what can happen in a town when things start spreading,” said Bill Brewer, director of the production.

The play centers on a community afflicted with what they perceive to be witchcraft – teenage girls acting strangely and infant mortality as the major concerns. Led by Abigail Williams, the band of girls stoke the fires of the idea that witches are infiltrating their community, becoming major witnesses in the court proceedings and accusing members of the community.

OxAct’s production included a number of experienced and firsttime actors, who as a whole did well with the weighty subject matter and dramatic structure of Miller’s famous play.

In age the actors of this production spanned threefourths of a century. Playing Betty Parris at 11 is

the youngest, while the eldest couple, playing the nurses, are in their 80s.

“Some had never been a play before. It was a challenge as a director to deal with this variety of actors and experiences,” Brewer said.

Three Miami University undergraduate students were a part of the cast: Ryan Knapper, a theatre major, Kaan Kosler and Stephanie Pace. Miami graduate student Hannah Spirrison was also a part of the cast, playing Abigail Williams.

The interpretation of

costumes for what could be considered the higherclass characters. Farmers, children and the slave Tituba were dressed in more colorful clothes.

The action of the play was highlighted by warm lighting. The darker, warmer feel was more oppressive in a way that reflected the idea that the action was being witnessed by all, therefore making the stage space an area always under scrutiny.

OxACT is in its 32nd year, having been founded by a few members of the Oxford and Miami com-

It’s a play about truth, love, honesty and what can happen in a town when things start spreading.” bill brewer

DIRECTOR, THE CRUCIBLE

this production led to some very strong female characters, including stand out performances by Donna Stevens as Ann Putnam, Dixie Utter as Rebecca Nurse and Colleen Pence as Elizabeth Proctor.

They each had strong, clear motivations for their involvement in the story.

Brewer’s direction placed cast of townspeople as a part of the audience. Their seats were set off the painted stage floor in rows to mirror those watching the show. “[The townspeople] were witnessing it as well as the audience,” Brewer said.

The set design attempted to utilize the entire space, frequently triangulating action to the downstage corners of the stage and using a single anchor point upstage.

Theminimalisticfeatures of the set design was offset by the costumes which were much more realistic.

The design incorporated mostly black and white

munities who wanted theatre in the area with which community members could get involved.

“We rely on Miami students for the age group actors, tech help … it’s a little hard to find us. The musicals are easier to find students for,” said Susan Meikle, OxAct’s President.

OxAct encourages students that have an interest to contact them for more information.

The OxACT season continues with two oneact comedies titled Next and Adaptations, directed by Mike McVey, which will open in the last two weekends of February. In the spring, Prelude to a Kiss, directed

by Meggan Retterman, will be performed in the second and third weekend of April.

OxACT can be accessed through their website, www.oxact.org, where audition information is posted, and on their Facebook page.

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SOFTWARE, FROM PAGE 1

pain,” he said. “It was awful because I had to put everything on a flash drive and I always had to do my work in the library and I can’t go without a computer. And they also can’t fix my computer.

I kind of wish I had bought it through them but I didn’t really look into that when I bought my computer.”

Despite the benefits of the Miami Notebook program and the discounted software such as Microsoft, some students sometimes choose to not buy the discounted software anyway.

“I think some students do

TUESDAY, november 1, 2011 get by with products like OpenOffice (which is free),” Martin said. “I believe some students are unaware of the discounts and buy software from places like Best Buy or WalMart.”

In addition to OpenOffice, which was recently renamed LibreOffice, there are other free word processing options for students, such as Google Docs.

Director of computing labs and instructor of computer science and software engineering Scott Campbell said he thinks both options are good alternatives to expensive software such as Microsoft Office.

“It’s what I use on a

daily basis,” he said. “On my desktop, I use LibreOffice, that’s the one I’ve gravitated to. But at a camp I worked at, we used Google Docs.”

Campbell said both LibreOffice and Google Docs provide the same functionality that Microsoft Office would.

“It is a very similar package to Microsoft Office,” he said. “(With) LibreOffice you don’t need an Internet connection, and Google Docs gives the same functionality. It doesn’t have the same functionality for scientific papers, but for simple reports, it’s fine. I really like the collaborative editing feature (as well). I use it

a lot in class.”

Even though Google Docs requires an Internet connection while LibreOffice doesn’t, it is still similar to LibreOffice with its features.

Both LibreOffice and Google Docs have a word processing feature, a spreadsheet-like feature and features for presentations, all available to download for free.

Campbell said he thinks that around 4 to 5 percent of students use LibreOffice and a little more than that use Google Docs, but he anticipates that it is increasing in popularity and will go up in the future.

“I think right now, people

are using it in addition to Word instead of a replacement,” he said. “(But) I would guess it would go up to about 25 percent.”

Another open-source operating system option for students is Linux. However, students with Linux won’t receive the same technical benefits that students with Microsoft Office, LibreOffice or Google Docs would.

IT Services doesn’t provide formal support for students who have Linux, even though they do for other operating systems.

“We don’t offer formal support for Linux because there’s such a small number of people who use it on

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campus,” McVey said.

“They (IT Services) don’t really have any experts on staff who can help them. They’ll give their best effort but they refer Linux users to Google to search for answers to their questions. The Linux community is pretty active on the net and people can usually find answers to their questions on there.”

While the university does provide discounts on software such as Microsoft Office and has deals with Dell and Apple that benefit students, students can still save money by using one of the lesser-known open-source software systems that are free online.

ANDREW BRAY THE MIAMI STUDENT

CAROLINE COUNTY COMES TO BUTLER COUNTY Pop/country duo Caroline County (Matthew McGinn and Julia Sheer) performs Friday night in Oxford Memorial Park uptown as part of homecoming festivities.

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OPINION

Editors Noëlle Bernard oriana pawlyk

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2011

editorial@miamistudent.net

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

University should support cheapest software option, free

PATRICK GEYSER THE MIAMI STUDENT

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Erotic art is an expression that should be celebrated In the Police Beat section of the Student’s Friday, edition, a story detailed how someone had drawn “a crude picture of a penis” on the side of a fraternity house. While I believe that graffiti is a valuable — albeit illegal — art form, my problem lies with the writer’s choice of describing the drawing as “crude.”

Erotic art is one of the oldest art forms we have.

Archeologists have discovered Paleolithic cave paintings of penises — a genre eerily similar to graffiti — as well as carvings. The

Greeks, Romans, Japanese, Mayans and essentially all ancient cultures have examples of erotic art. Our ancestors embraced their sexuality and encouraged its depictions in sculptures and paintings.

Yet this publication degrades this art form by having the audacity to refer to a depiction of the phallus as somehow “crude.” The male body is an aesthetic triumph and the penis serves as both the focal point and the center of balance for the rest of the self. Its properties are visual and textual, engaging

with all the senses. Depictions of this are not only vital to medical professionals, but art lovers as well.

How can this, the “Year of the Arts,” say that one person’s art is crude or somehow invaluable is irresponsible? Art is chiefly about expression, and this expression of one of our most brilliant evolutionary adaptations should be considered beautiful. There is nothing crude about a penis.

Curtis Dickerson

People are “hillbillies, rednecks and trailer park trash” is offensive and stereotypical. The men and women who hunt alligators in the swamps of Louisiana are making a living for themselves and their families, and while they may not be as sophisticated or as well educated as Andrew, they don’t deserve to be looked down upon because their way of life is different from his.

If Andrew wants to find shows that do not focus on learning on an educational

products. But the issue is that the university is failing to advertise all possible software options, such as ones that are free to access. This board suggests the university should stop pigeonholing students by only offering the most popular computer product brands. With IT

ture dismissals. It is not reasonable for the university to neglect these students. If all students must pay the technological fee, then all students should receive equal treatment when working with IT Services.

Miami has a love affair with brand names but in this

Resources to support LibreOffice, Linux, Google Docs and other free software alternatives need to be available to avoid future dismissals. It is not reasonable for the university to neglect these students.

Services only supporting select software and programs, students who do not use Microsoft, Apple or Dell products are left to fend for themselves if technological issues arise. Resources to support LibreOffice, Linux, Google Docs and other free software alternatives need to be available to avoid fu-

case, is it a viable excuse to withhold free options from students? Currently, the university is searching for ways to reduce budget spending, even with these technology deals they are receiving revenue. But the university is here for students and saving money for students should be an obvious top priority.

Rule of Thumb Pot citations So far this semester, on campus marijuana citations have doubled since last year. Get it together, underclassmen!

Football winning but hockey getting swept Congrats to the football team for slaughtering Buffalo at Homecoming. But hockey needs to remember their glory days and the legacy of last year’s seniors.

dickercr@muohio.edu

Television shows portray working families, not made up I was disappointed with Andrew Bowman’s article in Thursday’s paper. His claim that television shows like Swamp People and Ice Road Truckers are “producer concocted” is baffling. Not only did the people in these shows actually have these professions long before they were the focus of a television show, in the case of Swamp People, it is a profession that their families have been involved in for generations.

His assertion that the people featured in Swamp

Miami University’s partnership with Apple, Dell and Microsoft provides students with discounts on software and computer products. The Miami Bookstore stocks these popular itmes, selling them as package prices rivaling competitors such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart.

While the university is offering discounts on necessary technological products, they are only carrying mainstream items. Moreover, since the university supplies only Apple, Dell and Microsoft products, IT Services only promises to service the computers and software the university supports. This lack of support raises issues with students who opt to use free, open-source software and operating systems.

The editorial board of The Miami Student understands that the university is trying to give students what they want in terms of

channel, he could focus on TLC, The Learning Channel, which features such shows as Kate Plus 8, Long Island Medium and Toddlers and Tiaras. These shows, and many others on that channel, have little to no educational value, and are on television for the purposes of entertainment only.

Yet isn’t that the purpose of television in the first place? To entertain?

Sara Nielsen nielsese@muohio.edu

The Miami Student Oldest university newspaper in the United States, established 1826

EDITORIAL BOARD Sam Kay Editor in Chief

JUSTIN REASH COMMUNITY Editor

Bethany Bruner News Editor

Lauren Ceronie Campus Editor

Noëlle Bernard Editorial Editor

Jenni Wiener Campus Editor

Oriana pawlyk Editorial Editor

Michael Solomon Sports Editor

All letters must be signed in order to be printed. Please send letters via e-mail to: editorial@miamistudent.net We reserve the right to edit for length, content and clarity.

Mushroom book Fungi are fun and interesting. Check out this book written by Nicholas Money.

Bug invasions The sporatic climate is forcing bugs to infest homes and apartments. The invasion is here!

Duke Energy savings A proposal from Duke Energy would mean energy savings for Butler County citizens and Oxford residents.

Crazy costumes Sightings this weekend of Cat-Dog, men and women wearing fishnet stockings and Santa Claus caught everyone Uptown off guard.

X-mas music being played already We haven’t even stuffed ourselves with turkey and pie and songs of Santa Claus coming to town are just confusing. The only exception is the Miami Marching Band practicing for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

11-1-11 Have the best luck ever today… until 10 days from now!

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ESSAY OLIVIA BROUGH BROUGHOL@muohio.edu

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2011 OP-ED

Economic concepts offer critical knowledge for all college majors

“Introductory economics logic behind such a concept is the gateway to a way of so that students can learn to thinking that provides pow- distinguish between correct erful insights into how and and incorrect assertions. why the world works the Second, the course exway it does.” This is how plores the market system, economics professor Gary which results in providing a Wolfram concluded his prosperous standard of livpresentation about teaching ing for society as a whole. introductory economics at a It is the cooperation of ratiofree market forum in 2007. nal self-interested individuBecause of our current pre- als, each “producing what carious economic situation he or she is best suited for and the spectacle of the and exchanging this prodOccupy Wall-street protest- uct with others.” To underers, I’ve been wondering stand the market system, why such a course is not the political system must commonly taught. be explored because it creWolfram’s “Intro to ates the environment for the Economics” course is de- system to thrive. The course signed to benefit both those would analyze what rules who are economic majors and institutions are necesand those who are not. It sary for markets to operate stresses concepts and the well or to operate at all. For workings of the economy, example, there not mathematical analyses.

There are obvious benefits for the economics majors, but it is significant to note that noneconomic majors also benefit by gaining invaluable knowledge necessary to be able to analyze complex global issues.

In his presentation, Wolfram had three main points: first, “Intro to Economics” explores two types of effects as defined by Bastiat — the visible effect and the foreseen effect. Bastiat explains that good economists “take into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.” With every issue, the person trying to make a solution must think of the pos- ERIN KILLINGER THE MIAMI STUDENT sible results beyond the desired result and the vis- are smart and hardworking ible result. Some may think people around the world, that raising the minimum but because of their politiwage will put more money cal system, they are trapped in the worker’s pocket, but in a cycle of poverty. Indiin reality, it may result in in- vidual liberty, defined as becreased unemployment. Of ing able to act according to course, “Intro to Econom- one’s own plan, is a crucial ics” would elaborate on the element to a market system,

ESSAY CHARLES LEE LEEC2@muohio.edu

With the advent of Facebook, there are numerous social networking mediums that are in the market, yet Facebook still dominates the scene. People often stress the benefits of these websites, but people are sometimes unaware of the harm they cause. I’m not talking about the obvious security issues from the term what we call Facebook ‘stalking,’ but I’m more concerned about the excessive phishing and spamming occurring on the website.

According to the Facebook Security homepage, a few months ago on Jan. 27, a federal court awarded Facebook $360.5 million in statutory damages and issued a permanent injunction kicking a known spammer, Philip Porembski, off Facebook for good. Yet Porembski is not the only one on the line here; Sanford Wallace is just another spammer who’s reached notoriety, calling himself the ‘Spam King.’ The selfnamed ‘Spam King’ or ‘Spamford’ was indicted Aug. 4 by a federal grand jury in San Jose, Calif., on

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because the market system relies on individuals choosing their own rate of consumption, production and labor force participation.

Thus, a political system based on individual liberty is the necessary environment for wealth creation.

A political system that interferes with individual liberty inhibits prosperity and economic growth.

Third, the course examines the concept of the voluntary exchange system, which ensures that no one is forced into exchanges or forced to purchase anything. In a proper market system, producers are not in control — the consumers are. Economist Walter E. Williams eloquently expresses this essential, self-regulatory concept when he recently wrote, “The pursuit of profits forces producers to be attentive to the will of their customers, simply because the customer of, say, a supermarket can fire it on the spot by taking his business elsewhere.”

Government interventions such as bailouts, targeted stimulus, overregulation, speculative loans and crony capitalism are symptoms of interference in the market system. This has resulted in an unintended but foreseeable ongoing sick economy.

Soon crucial decisions regarding America’s economic future will be made.

My concern is that voters and politicians who lack basic economic understanding will make these pivotal decisions. An economic course as described above would provide the understanding and the critical thinking skills for people to make informed decisions about their own future and economic liberty.

Social networking sites do not protect from the plague of spam various counts of electronic mail fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer and criminal contempt. He infiltrated Facebook accounts in order to spam its users. In his heyday, he was the head of CyberPromotions, a company that was responsible for sending 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s. It seems like the practice of spamming and phishing has evolved from phone lines and into the cyberspace.

I can’t deny it; I’ve been tricked into this scheme before. It all starts from a very enticing advertisement that say things like “free iPads if you ‘like’ this website,” and it turns out you have to do multiple things. It makes you take surveys, recommend to friends and input personal information. It’s really a contagion because everybody starts inviting each other to the Facebook page. Who would want to miss that kind of a deal?

Shortly after, I realized how easily this information could be used against me because the next day I got a suspicious voicemail resembling a phishing

attempt and I don’t think it’s a coincidence.

What they do with the gathered information varies. Sometimes they sell it to a third-party or they use it themselves to find ways to penetrate various firewalls in corporate companies. For example, credit card companies spend thousands of dollars managing their firewall systems and hiring professional security consulting firms.

There is one important thing that we should learn from this: while the Internet frees individuals into the massive realm of realtime information and data, it is most definitely up to the viewer’s discretion as to what kind of things they provide to the web. Naive Internet surfers are left preys to ill intent hackers and programs just waiting for the opportunity.

There are attempts from the Facebook Webmaster in trying to stop these viral spamming methods, but it seems like their efforts are fruitless because new hackers keep showing up to take advantage of the networking system.

ERIN KILLINGER THE MIAMI STUDENT

LIBERTY AND JUSTICE TY GILLIGAN

Religion not carte blanche for intolerance While most Republican candidates trying to appeal to Christian conservatives will inevitably build a candidacy on pro-life and anti-gay rights platforms, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has some positions that are dangerous, backwards and likely unconstitutional. To make the situation worse, it’s going unquestioned by other Republican candidates or the mainstream media.

On Oct. 24, Santorum stated that he supported anti-sodomy laws and believed that “[Americans] can’t have a constitutional right to consensual sexual activity.” Let’s review this statement — not taken out of context, but in the transcript verbatim — Rick Santorum does not believe two consenting adults have the right to sexual privacy and that just because sex is consensual doesn’t mean it should be legal.

Never mind that several major Supreme Court cases have established Americans have a legal right to sexual privacy. Several state and federal Supreme Court cases, about 15 that I could find, have directly struck down sodomy laws, citing that Americans have the right to sexual privacy.

Apparently, Rick Santorum knows what’s best.

Santorum is also not shy about his vehemently antigay views. According to Huffington Post and CNN, Santorum recently vowed to “die on that hill” fighting against same sex marriage.

He stated that allowing gay marriage would “shake the very foundation of our country, the family, what the family structure is going to look like.” Santorum has stated on several occasions that he believes being gay is a choice and thus doesn’t think there is such a thing as “gay rights.” However, Santorum, like most conservatives opposed to gay marriage, can’t provide any logistical or civil

reasons why gay marriage would be a “threat” to America’s families.

Additionally, according to the Associated Press, he has stated he doesn’t have a problem with homosexuals, but “a problem with homosexual acts.” What a coincidence Rick, I don’t have a problem with ignorant people; I just have a problem with ignorance.

To throw fuel on the fire, Santorum then went on to compare gay sex with incest and bestiality. At this point in history, I feel that comments like that are not only horribly offensive and backwards, but deserve an apology.

Luckily, not only are Santorum’s proposed policies ridiculous, but they’re also constitutionally illegal as far as many courts are concerned. The Supreme Court ruling of Lemon vs.

Kurtzman in 1971 established the “Lemon Test:” a set of requirements for determining legality of

people. Why can’t these Republican candidates do the same? Our constitution protects us from government infringement on our religious beliefs; it’s not a free-license to apply your religious beliefs to the entire country.

Santorum, as well as many other Republican candidates, Bachmann and Cain come to mind, would be hard-pressed to back up any of these ludicrous views with solid, secular policy. A functioning democracy requires arguments that can be debated.

Candidates must offer secular or logistical support for their policies, not just religious ideals.

Something I find fascinating is that during the Aug. 11 Republican debate, Santorum as well as the other Republican candidates criticized and called for stronger economic sanctions against the regime in Iran. According to the Huffington Post, Santorum

Our constitution protects us from infringement on our religious beliefs, it’s not a free-license to apply your religious beliefs to the entire country.

legislation regarding separation of church and state.

Government actions must have a “secular legislative purpose,” “neither advance nor inhibit religion” and “not result in an excessive government entanglement with religion.” Seems like many policies advocated

by Republican candidates violate all three of these criteria, so why is it going unchallenged?

I don’t want to seem that I am dismissing religion from politics; I’m religious and believe religion is very important in my life. However, I am able to recognize that my beliefs should only apply to me and not other

called this a “mullahcracy that tramples the rights of women, and tramples the rights of gays.” This is very hypocritical considering some of the religiouslyinfluences policies Republican candidates want to enact. The Republican candidates have criticized Iran for its Islamic theocracy, yet seem like they would like to establish a sort of Christian theocracy.

This type of hypocrisy has gone unchallenged by the media that is supposedly mediating the presidential primary process. How far will we allow these candidates to go before someone calls a timeout?

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THE ROLE OF THE TYRANT COACH Recently, the University of Arizona football team fired their head coach Mike Stoops.

A big reason behind this is, of course, the fact that the Wildcats opened the season with a 1-5 record. But when you look a layer deeper, you see the systemic issues with the way Stoops and other coaches of his ilk handle their programs and specifically the way they handle themselves on the sideline.

The role of a head coach is often similar to that of a chief executive. They rarely do much real hands-on coaching, but when they do, it is generally excellent because they have reached the highest point in their profession. They are basically the overseer, making sure that their assistants are doing their jobs and holding players accountable.

Now, there are the exceptions to this rule because some coaches consider themselves tactical geniuses and call either the defensive or offensive plays. However, even when they take on that role, it is in addition to the chief executive role and like an executive, in order to be an effective head coach, you better be an effective manager of people.

Managing people is no easy task; it requires a generally level head, with the ability to adapt based on the person. However, it also requires a basically consistent personality or style. Head football coaches like Mike Stoops, Brian Kelly of the University of Notre Dame and Bo Pelini of the University of Nebraska certainly have a consistent style, but is it a truly effective one?

These three have been the poster children for expletive filled tirades aimed at their players and assistant coaches over the past few years ever since they have risen to be the head men for some of the more prominent programs in college football.

And while these tirades may be accepted as a part of the game, especially at levels below the NFL, they are a poor substitute for doing the job coaches should be doing, especially when they happen with frequency.

A head football coach is using the great power he is granted at its best when his players take on his personality. There are the fiery Rex Ryan types who drop the f-bomb like it’s their job, there are the business-like Jim Tressel coaches who truly resemble the CEO of a company in their dealings

with players and there are the coaches who lose their heads on a regular basis.

In the real world, the first two types are often beloved and respected for different reasons. The Rex Ryan type is because he keeps it real with his players and the Tressel type because they are so respectable that you can’t help but respect them. Both operate off the respect they attain from their players and their programs are often molded in that image.

In the real world, men like Mike Stoops and Brian Kelly that just lose their shit and scream and yell may reach the heights of their profession, but their regime is based solely on fear and not respect.

And while fear can be somewhat of an effective motivator, the somewhat is the key.

People don’t respect angry crazy people. They are often afraid of them or they just at some point start to tune it out and the coach is no longer at all effective.

When I see Brian Kelly screaming at his players, completely red in the face and utterly out of control, I shake my head because when the player walks away, they are completely deflated. That’s not motivating, that’s going on a power trip and using your power ineffectively.

This isn’t to say coaches should never yell at their players. They should. But it should, as former President Bill Clinton would say of abortions, be “safe, rare and legal.” They should only yell at the players they know can handle it, only use it when there’s literally nothing to teach or the player has repeatedly made the same mistake and of course, yelling at players shouldn’t be outlawed, it should just be used more effectively by these tyrant coaches.

Winning, obviously, drives coaches at the college level, but they should also be about teaching their players how to lead the rest of their lives well.

They have an insane amount of influence over their players because of the way they monopolize their time.

Influence is what drives everything in life. Whenever you start to lose your influence, you know it’s time for a change. And when players start to tune you out or you simply have shot their confidence, it’s time to adjust the way you exert that influence.

Just ask Mike Stoops; I’ve heard he’s got a lot of time on his hands lately.

Lakers sweep RedHawks

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Senior co-captain Alden Hirschfeld races down the ice with the puck Friday as Lake Superior State University’s Kyle Jean looks on. Hirschfeld and the ’Hawks will have their hands full this weekend as they head north to take on Alaska Fairbanks.

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The No. 16 Miami University RedHawks were swept this weekend, losing to the No. 18 Lake Superior State University Lakers (LSSU) 3-2 in the first game and 5-3 in the second. The sweep marks the first time since 2007 that the Red and White were swept in a home series. It was also Lake Superior State who swept them that year.

The RedHawks jumped out to an early lead in the first game when senior Cameron Schilling scored on co-captain Alden Hirschefld’s missed shot at the 5:13 mark in the first period. Hirschfeld received his team-leading fifth assist of the year on the play and freshman Alex Wideman

was also credited with an assist. However, Lake Superior State would tie the game at the 18:25 mark in the first period on Nick McParland’s goal, just after a power play opportunity for the Lakers had expired.

The RedHawks would take back the lead just 1:06 in the second period on sophomore Bryon Paulazzo’s first goal of the season. He was assisted by freshman Tyler Biggs and Schilling on the play. The assist gave Schilling his ninth career multi-point game. McParland would score again to tie the game at the 10:50 mark in the second period on a power play.

Miami had three power play opportunities in the third period, but were unable to capitalize. Junior Steven Spinell was

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Cameron Schilling celebrates his first period goal Friday night which gave the RedHawks an early 1-0 lead.

called for charging with only 13 seconds left in the third, giving Lake Superior State a power play opportunity to start overtime. Forty-two seconds into overtime, Zach Trotman found the back of the net to give Lake Superior State the 3-2 overtime victory.

Goalie Cody Reichard finished with 20 saves for the game, while his counterpart, Kevin Kapalka, finished with 29 saves. The RedHawks killed four of the six power plays opportunities Lake Superior State had, while failing to score on any of their five opportunities. The ’Hawks led shots on goal, 31-23.

“We blew it,” Head Coach Enrico Blasi said. “They played great and they executed more than we did. We didn’t execute tonight and they did, they deserved to win. Our power play wasn’t very good.

We took an undisciplined penalty and they made us pay for it. We just got to keep playing.

We don’t have a choice.”

The RedHawks fell behind early in the second game and their furious rally comeback attempt fell just short as they lost 5-3. Lake Superior State took a 1-0 lead at the 8:45 mark when McParland scored his third goal of the series, getting the puck past goalie Connor Knapp. Lake Superior State would take a 2-0 lead when Kyle Jean scored, with McParland getting an assist on the play.

Just over two minutes into the second period, Colin Campbell scored to give LSSU a 3-0 lead. The RedHawks would turn the puck over right in front of their own goal, giving Lake Superior

State an easy goal and allowing them to take a 4-0 lead.

This led to a goalie change, as Reichard came in for Knapp. Hirschfeld would start the Miami rally, as he scored a shorthanded goal at the 11:19 mark of second period. It was his first goal of the season.

He was assisted on the play

by Spinell and redshirt senior Patrick Tiesling, who was given a game misconduct after the play. Biggs also scored a shorthanded goal, his first career goal, at the 15:42 mark in the second period. He was assisted by Spinell and senior Trent Vogelhuber. The two shorthanded goals also rejuvenated the home fans.

Freshman Blake Coleman trimmed the lead to 4-3, when he stole the puck, weaved through the defense and scored for an unassisted goal, his first goal of his career. With just over two minutes left, Domenic Monardo scored on a breakaway to put the game out of reach for the RedHawks.

The Red and White goaltenders would combine to have 24 saves, 11 by Knapp and 14 by Reichard. Kapalka would save 28 for the Lakers. The RedHawks again led shots on goal, this time 31-30.

They killed all four of Lake Superior State’s power plays, while going 0-2 on their own.

The team’s power play struggles continue, as they are now 0 for their last 21.

The sweep drops the ’Hawks fall to 2-6 overall and 0-4 in CCHA play. The RedHawks will go on the road next weekend, as they travel to take on the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

Miami dominates Buffalo, keeps pace in MAC East Division

By JM Rieger Staff Writer

The Miami University football team came ready to play Saturday. The ’Hawks scored on each of their first three possessions, en route to a 41-13 beat down of the University at Buffalo, improving their record to 3-5 overall and 2-2 in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and keeping pace with the MAC East Division leader, Temple University.

Junior quarterback Zac Dysert had a career day, completing 80 percent of his passes for 313 yards and tying a school record with five touchdown passes, a record held by Ben Roethlisberger and Sam Ricketts.

“Our o-line just did a great

job giving me a lot of time,” Dysert said. “They made me feel very comfortable back there and my receivers were making plays for me. I’ve got to give all the credit to the receivers and the o-line.”

Dysert was named the MAC-East Division Offensive Player of the Week and now ranks second behind only Roethlisberger in Miami history for career passing yards.

Miami played one of their best games of the year both offensively and defensively, containing Buffalo’s senior quarterback Chazz Anderson and limiting the Bulls to only 77 yards on the ground. “[It was] a good team win,” Head Coach Don Treadwell said. “We had a really good week of practice. Our kids

really brought a little extra juice … you could just see the momentum I think develop a little earlier in the week.”

After giving up two touchdowns to the Bulls on their first two possessions, the RedHawks clamped down and did not give up another score the rest of the game while forcing three turnovers.

Buffalo’s sophomore running back Branden Oliver, who came into Saturday’s matchup averaging over 100 yards per game, was limited to 47 yards on 24 carries.

Meanwhile, the RedHawks picked off Anderson twice, who came into this game with only six interceptions on the season.

“We know how we can play and things hadn’t been

rolling the way that we’re used to rolling,” redshirt senior linebacker C.J. Marck said. “[The] energy that we had — that’s how we play and we were back to the way we were playing last year and it felt great to be back out there doing what we know how to do and we just need to carry it the rest of the way.”

Miami scored on the second play from scrimmage and never looked back, leading 21-13 after the first quarter and adding another touchdown to take a twopossession lead into the half.

Dysert opened the game by completing his first 11 passes, and freshman wide receiver Dawan Scott had over 100 yards receiving by halftime, including a 71-yard touchdown reception to open

the scoring for the ’Hawks.

Senior running back Tyrone Jones had a great game as well, carrying the ball 16 times for 58 yards and picking up the first rushing touchdown of his career midway through the third quarter.

Thirty-six of those yards came in the fourth quarter, as Jones became the Red and White’s go-to back to run down the stretch.

Redshirt senior safety Anthony Kokal led Miami with eight tackles and one interception, while redshirt junior defensive lineman Jason Semmes had seven tackles to go with one sack and one forced fumble. Sophomore Dayonne Nunley played another great game, racking up six tackles and one interception.

“[I would] say it was one of the best games we have played this year,” Nunley said. “To keep it going, we have to come back tomorrow ready to go, just how we were last week.”

With Saturday’s win, the team now controls their own destiny in the MAC East.

They are a half game out of first place, but still must face MAC East Division rivals Temple and Ohio University on the road.

“As a senior on this team, we as seniors talked before the game [how] we have to have a playoff mentality right now,” Jones said. “It’s a door-die for us … I know all of my teammates were thinking the same exact way and I feel like that’s why we were so successful today.”