November 15, 2013 | The Miami Student

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013

VOLUME 141 NO. 22

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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1990, The Miami Student published an article titled, “Fan attendance to frame football’s future.” In order for the Mid American Conference (MAC) to retain division I-A standing, five of nine schools in the MAC must have an average attendance of 17,000. With the last Miami home game around the corner, and only four other schools having met the requirement, readers were called upon to go out and support the team.

Victim of alleged rape takes Miami to court

BY KYLE HAYDEN THE MIAMI STUDENT

A female Miami student who reported being raped in 2011 is taking Miami University to court on charges of negligence by the university to discipline her attacker who had a history of sexual misbehavior.

According to court documents filed Oct. 24, attorney Eric Deters is representing the student in this case.

In 2009, Oxford Police investigated allegations by a different female student, along with statements by Antonio Charles’ thenfraternity brothers that he was videotaping his sexual encounters with females. In the statements made to OPD by Charles’ fraternity brothers, Charles was “known to film girls while engaging in sexual acts in his room.” Another fraternity brother claimed he “saw clips of the videos on Charles’ computer through PhotoBooth on his computer.” When asked what the videos contained, the student said: “Sexual activity between [Charles] and various girls.”

According to Deters’ statement to the Butler County Common Pleas court, Miami did not take action to punish or suspend/expel Charles in 2009. Charges were never filed by any of the females who reported having unwanted contact with Charles.

After the alleged rape in late 2011, the victim’s father sent an e-mail to Miami University President David Hodge. This led Former Dean of Students, Susan Mosley-Howard to revisit the previous complaints filed against Charles in 2009. Mosley-

Howard found through OPD’s investigation that “Charles violated Miami’s Code of Student Conduct, Section 103,” and he was “permanently dismissed” from the university.

The Student Code of Conduct (2009-10), in section 103 states if a student participates in “acts of voyeurism, including the use of video recording devices” he or she may be subject to sanctions: “Dismissal, suspension, or probation” among other possible punishments.

A letter from Hodge to the plaintiff’s father in January of 2012 explained why the university did not sanction Charles upon his first offense.

“While a person might suspect the recordings were not consensual, the law and our policies require that there be credible and reliable evidence that a crime or violation of the Code of Student Conduct has been committed before we can impose sanctions.”

This is because, according to the letter, “without revealing the identity of the victim and/or the willingness of the victim to participate in the process [of filing charges], our ability to pursue criminal charges or University disciplinary action against the alleged offender is severely constrained.”

Now, Deters, representing the female student, is taking the university to court, asserting that the university refused to take action against his client’s attacker in 2009-10, allowing him to remain on campus until 2011, when he allegedly committed rape.

In email correspondence with Hodge, the victim’s father repeatedly said that if his daugh-

ter’s attacker had been dealt with on his first offense in 2009, she would not have been raped two years later. This is the driving force behind their case against the school, according to court documents. Deters claimed the university did not take “immediate” action as the university president claims in the letter to the victim’s father, but rather, ignored the activity and allowed the attacker to remain.

Miami responded with a statement reading, “Miami University is committed to holding individuals accountable for their behavior, and to providing extensive support for victims of sexual assault.

The safety of our students is our highest priority. The claim that the University failed to take appropriate action or was somehow negligent is simply not true. While the University does not believe it is appropriate to publicly discuss the details of the case, the University emphatically denies that it could have prevented the assault of [the female student].

“When a victim reports sexual misconduct, Miami University moves swiftly, offers a vast array of support services to the victim and, with the cooperation of the victim, takes appropriate disciplinary action if the accused is a student. Within days of receiving a report, the university will often summarily suspend the accused student pending resolution of the disciplinary complaint. In [the female student]’s case, Miami responded immediately and gave Antonio Charles, the accused student, the maximum penalty and permanently dismissed Charles from the university.”

Sex talk: Not all students play it safe

BY EMILY C. TATE

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

College students are having sex, and a lot of it. According to the Guttmacher Institute, as of June 2013, more than 71 percent of 19-year-olds nationwide had engaged in sexual intercourse at least once.

Contraception is in high demand for this age bracket, many contraceptive methods on the market. The question being asked is, just how available are they to college students?

The Guttmacher Institute reported that, “the male condom is the most commonly used method at first sex and at most recent sex among both teenage men and women.”

However, at Miami, condoms are only regularly available at Student Health Services or at off-campus convenience stores and pharmacies.

The Office of Student Wellness, located in the Student Health Center, is home to the HAWKS peer health educators, who strive to educate Miami students on many relevant health issues.

“We have free contraceptives in the office – male condoms, female condoms and dental dams,” Vice President Rachel Schwarz said. “We give them out when we do one of our programs, like ‘Sex in the Basement’ or ‘Latex League.’”

These programs, she said, are often held in first-year residence halls, depending on when Resident Assistants (RAs) set up the meetings.

According to junior Elizabeth Cushnie, the office manager and program coordinator for the HAWKS peer educators, residence hall programs are the primary way they make themselves available on campus.

“We provide valid information … and try to engage students in these topics, then we allow them to make their own decisions from there,” Cushnie said. “They can use it to move forward, however they decide.”

Other offices in the Health Services building, such as the Gynecology department, offer contraceptives as well, according to the Women’s Health Center’s official website. Though students must first set up an appointment through the office, they do offer several types of contraception as well as emergency contraception from the pharmacy.

While it is helpful to have the HAWKS team as well as licensed medical personnel in Student Health Services, both are sequestered to a single building on campus.

Campus markets, like Spring Street Market in Shriver and Market Street in MacCracken, are centrally located and sell many common drugstore items – but not condoms or any other contraception.

“No discussion has ever been held on the matter of selling contraception at markets,” General Manager of Retail Operations in Merchandising Diana Byrd said.

“There is no rule against it, it just isn’t sold in our markets. The

topic has never been presented so we’ve never addressed it.”

Sophomore Katie Poppe said she believes it is time this topic be presented.

“They should definitely be selling condoms in the markets on campus,” Poppe said. “College students are going to have sex – that’s just a fact – so Miami should at least provide a way for them to do it safely.”

Sophomore Allie Medler (name changed to protect student’s privacy) said she agrees.

“I think more college students would buy condoms and use them if they were sold in the markets,” Medler said. “Guys don’t really know when [condoms] are going to be necessary, so they won’t go all the way to Kroger.

Plus, there is an inherent awkwardness in going to the health center to ask for condoms. If it were sold in the markets, though, and students could use their ‘fake money’ [MUlaa], I think people would be more proactive about getting some condoms and having it just in case.”

Reports from both CVS and Walgreen pharmacists indicated that students who find condoms inaccessible may be choosing to go without them and resort to emergency contraceptives, such as Plan B (the morning-after pill).

“We sell about 31 boxes of Plan B a week. We sell out of the product almost every weekend,” CVS pharmacist Renee Hayes

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‘What happened to my grandson?’ Miami student searches for an answer

CONTRIBUTED BY ROXANNE ELLIS

Miami Middletown nursing student Roxanne Ellis holds her grandson, Roy, after an unexpected seizure left him with brain damage.

BY REIS THEBAULT CAMPUS EDITOR

Roxanne Ellis has a question. She has a question and nobody seems to have an answer: What happened to her grandson?

Ellis, 41, is a Miami University nursing major and has been taking classes at the Middletown campus since 2010. She has taken this semester off to search for the answer to her question.

Roy “Roro” Ellis III, Ellis’ grandchild, was three years old when, one night, his body underwent what doctors could only classify as a “catastrophic event.”

On May 1, Roro became violently ill: he vomited, his blood sugar dropped and he began running a fever. This lasted through the night, until his other set of grandparents, with whom he was staying at the time, called 9-1-1.

That night, Ellis, with whom Roro has lived since birth, knew something was wrong.

“When I was getting ready to go to bed, I thought I heard him crying,” Ellis said. “I stopped myself and I was like ‘He’s not here.’ I went to bed and I immediately started crying like I knew there was something wrong with him. I knew.”

She was right. Roro was taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and had a seizure that lasted 48 minutes. Doctors put him in a medically-induced coma for a week to let his brain rest.

Then the tests began.

Doctors did an MRI and found the low blood sugar and seizures had taken their toll. He was diagnosed with encephalopathy, a broad term that means disorder of the brain. But still doctors could not deduce how or why this happened, what caused it or where it would lead.

“We were told that it caused brain damage to his entire brain, not just one area,” Ellis said. “They didn’t know what he would be like when he woke up, or if he would wake up.”

He did wake up and, in fact, made a lot of improvement.

“Within a week’s time, he was able to sit up by himself,” Ellis said. “He could actually take steps with therapy, he stood up out of his chair by himself.”

However, one night something happened. No one knows what, but his health declined again. This time it was worse.

“He can’t sit up by himself, he can’t do anything,” Ellis said. “He doesn’t talk, he doesn’t smile.”

That is one of the hardest parts, Ellis said. A smile never used to be far away.

“This was the happiest little boy there ever was,” Ellis said. “He smiled every day.”

And so the tests continued.

Doctors could not figure out what was wrong. They could not answer Ellis’ question. They put Roro through 428 tests and just one came back positive: the rhinovirus, or, in other words, the common cold.

Roro now has to spend most of his time in his room, with its walls covered in his favorite Disney movie characters and a television that is always on cartoons. The clutter of toys and games give it the feel of a typical four-year-old’s room. Except for the beeping machine beside his bed. Because he still cannot eat solid foods, it feeds Roro Peptamen Jr. through a tube that is connected directly to his stomach.

Ellis is, as she said, Roro’s, “24-hour caregiver.”

“I do everything for him,” Ellis said. “Daily life has changed. I don’t have a life; he’s my life. But he’s worth it.”

This has changed everyone’s lives, Ellis said. Roro was born when Roy Ellis, Roro’s father, was 16. Roy lets his mother, Ellis, do most of the talking, but it is apparent that he is frustrated as well.

“It just gets to me,” Roy said.

It only makes circumstances more difficult when Medicaid, a health program that, among other things, gives financial aid to those with disabilities, is reluctant to cover some of the special equipment Roro needs.

“They are not wanting to pay for his wheelchair or his car seat because the diagnosis isn’t a good enough diagnosis,” Ellis said. “It doesn’t make sense.”

The tests will continue.

Roro has an appointment with an eye specialist and follow-up appointments with neurologists and physical therapists.

In the meantime, Ellis has hardly had time to think about her future at Miami and what will come after, but when she does, she sees things differently. Ellis got her GED when she was 30 and began working at a nursing home before enrolling at Miami in 2010. She wanted to change career paths, but was not really sure which way to head. She now has a better idea.

“I never thought I would want to work with kids,” Ellis said. “But

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Salad at Traders Greens tosses up Maplestreet

BY KATHLEEN CLYBURN AND CAMPUS EDITORS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Associated Student Government (ASG) met Tuesday to discuss the university’s plans to put a new Traders Greens in the Americas dining hall on Maplestreet.

Senior Secretary for On-Campus Affairs Cole Tyman had information from the university on the Traders Greens project.

“Traders Greens is extremely popular, the line is enormous every day and the dining administration knows it is one of its more popular concepts,” Tyman said.

“The Americas is having a bit of a tough time so to give students what they want, they will be bringing the Traders Greens concept to the Americas on Maplestreet. It used to be in Scott dining hall last year, but since that closed, there has only been one available Traders Greens on campus this year.”

According to Tyman, Traders Greens should be available in the Americas dining hall by Monday, Nov. 18, but if electrical work is an issue, it will be ready for when students return from Thanksgiving break.

However, according to a Miami executive chef, Eric Yung, a Nov. 18 opening is optimistic.

“I don’t believe there is enough headway with electricity to be open on Monday,” Yung said.

The concept of Traders Greens was developed five years ago and implemented in Dividends at Farmer’s School of Business (FSB) as well as Scott Dining hall.

The customizable salad bar, Yung said, became very popular for students craving a healthy alternative to other dining hall foods.

“It was a brand new concept and was immediately popular,” Yung said. “It’s a really great concept for students and is a very healthy option.”

However, unlike Dividends in FSB, Yung said the Traders Greens at Americas will not offer soups or sandwiches.

Yung said Americas makes for a good venue to host a Traders Green because it is located in a busy, central area.

“Once we knew that Scott was closing and Maplestreet opening, we wanted to look for a place to put a Traders Greens,” he said.

“It’s a busy location that students really like and Americas has a lot of space.”

Traders Greens, Yung said, is an on-campus food staple and should remain a quick, healthy food option.

“For us, it’s been such a good station to have on campus because that’s a request that students make,” Yung said. “I want flexibility, I wantspeed of service as students are going from class to class and as that window tightens, it is a good option.”

Something smells phishy: Dangers in a digital world

BY EMILY CRANE NEWS EDITOR

When junior Kadie Henry checked her Miami email Friday, Nov. 1, she was greeted with the subject line “TERMINATION OF YOUR MIAMI WEB ACCOUNT.” The subsequent automated message informed her that someone had logged into her account from an unrecognized device in Nicaragua and prompted her to follow a link to validate her account.

“I just thought, ‘Wow! There’s someone in Nicaragua who has my info,’” Henry said.

In a mild frenzy at the thought of someone in Latin America using her Miami account for nefarious purposes, Henry hurriedly clicked the link and entered her information. She found it odd that when she typed her password, the actual characters showed up instead of the characteristic black dots. She also noticed the oddly unofficial “Make your own website” tagline at the bottom of the page.

But it was not until after she

had sent in her account information that she began to piece it all together. The phony looking site, the odd email—Henry had been phished.

Phishing is an all-too-common method of stealing consumers’ personal information and security credentials via fake websites and emails. More than 320,000 such emails were sent in the U.S. in 2012, according to the most recent Phishing Activity Trends Report published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group.

According to Miami’s Information Security Officer, Joe Bazeley, phishing is just one of many internet attacks to which Miami students are vulnerable.

“Students are terrible with their security systems,” Bazeley said.

Between weak passwords, antivirus software that is rarely updated and flippant internet browsing, students open themselves up to all sorts of attacks, scams, cons and hacks. Viruses are among the most

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Heating things up: Global Warming and Blakemore

BY JAMES STEINBAUER AND KYLE HAYDEN FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

NBC CORRESPONDENT BILL BLAKEMORE The Humanities Center, in coordination with the Department of Media, Journalism and Film welcomed former ABC News correspondent Bill Blakemore to Miami University Monday through Wednesday to speak on “Global Warming: Three Talks in Psychology, Journalism and Film.”

Blakemore began his career with ABC News in 1970, he covered several major conflicts including the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Appointed Rome Bureau Chief in 1978, Blakemore covered the pontificate of Pope John Paul II until his death in 2005 and was part of the ABC News team that won the DuPont-Columbia award for its live

coverage of John Paul II funeral.

In late 2004, Blakemore began focusing on climate change and started hosting ABC’s program on climate and environmental news, “Nature’s Edge,” in 2007.

In Monday’s lecture, titled “The Many Psychologies of Global Warming,” Blakemore identified the many elements in the climate story that have a psychological dimension.

During the lecture, Blakemore was adamant about the fact that he is a professional journalist, and therefore a persistent skeptic, not an activist.

“I am not an activist, I’m not trying to slow down global warming one second or save a single species, but trying to report,” Blakemore said. “The only thing I am an activist for is rigorous journalism and improving the quality of the conversation.”

One of the angles from which Blakemore looked at global warming was the inter-generational perspective.

“My generation has left you young students with an ungodly mess, and we are sorry,” Blakemore said. “I want to pass along as much [information] as I can.”

In the second of Blakemore’s lectures, titled “Global Warming and

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VP of Student Affairs search narrows to two candidates

BY REIS THEBAULT CAMPUS EDITOR

Miami University has identified the final two candidates for the long-vacant vice president of student affairs position and each have an open forum on campus in the coming week.

Jean Kim, former vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life UMass Amherst’s, session is from 1:30 to 2:10 p.m. Friday Nov. 15 in 100 Art Building.

Kim has extensive student affairs experience, working in offices at UMass Amherst, University of Colorado Boulder and Stanford University, among others.

In a letter to the Vice President for Student Affairs search committee, Kim expressed her vision.

“I am passionate about creating and maintaining an inclusive, diverse, and innovative learning community that leads to student success,” Kim said.

Jayne Brownwell, the current assistant vice president for

student affairs at Hofstra University, has her open forum from 1:30 to 2:10 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 19 in 001 Upham Hall.

Brownwell works as the assistant vice president for student affairs at Hofstra and, in the past has worked for University of Michigan and Columbia University.

On her résumé’s cover letter, Brownwell expounded on what she could bring to Miami.

“Passion for students remains the ‘true north’ by which I steer my efforts,” Brownwell said.

“Buut as [assistant vice president] at Hofstra, I have also found a new sense of reward in working with and mentoring staff to build a cohesive team with a common vision for our work on behalf of students.”

Miami University describes the ideal candidate as one who, “Will be a visionary, collaborative, creative and experienced professional who has strong administrative, financial and planning skills.”

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RED SOLO CUP, I FILL YOU UP ... WITH PENCILS

Tau Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Omicron Pi kicked off their Minute to Win It event with a pencil challenge Monday at Millett Hall. All proceeds of the event went to Juvenile Arthritis Research.

Rita Anderson keeps houses and hearts

BY MEREDITH BRAITHWAITE

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT Every weekday morning, Rita Anderson begins her day with a 20-minute drive to Miami University.

Anderson wears a beige uniform top with large white buttons, black pants and tennis shoes, but she brightens her outfit with a pair of hot pink earrings.

Her uniform is stitched with a Miami University nametag that reads, “Rita” in white, cursive letters.

Behind glasses and wild, shoulder-length, curly chestnut hair is 57-year-old Hamilton Hall housekeeper Rita Anderson.

On the outside, Anderson is a typical Miami University housekeeper, but others who know her see much more. With a sincere smile she says, “Hi honey,” to every person, regardless of whether or not she knows him or her.

“She is something else. There’s only one Rita,” Anderson’s coworker, Kathy Henry said.

Anderson has worked at Miami University for 27 years. Starting her career in dining, she eventually moved to rooming. As Building and Grounds Assistants for Hamilton Hall, it’s Anderson and Henry’s responsibility to maintain the cleanliness of this all-girl’s dormitory. A typical day for Anderson is, “Rush, rush, rush,” she said.

But to Anderson, her job description entails much more than that.

“I don’t feel like I’m just a housekeeper, I feel like I’m a mentor for the kids,” Anderson said. “They look up to me.”

For Anderson, it is not cleaning the stairways that is the hardest part of her job; it is getting attached to students too easily, knowing they will leave.

Anderson goes out of her way to help others. She saves large

cardboard boxes all year, knowing the students will need them for move-out day. In each bathroom she puts a basket full of candy and writes inspirational quotes, signed, “Housekeeping.”

She writes personalized Christmas cards for each student in her residence hall. A timely task considering her last residence halls, Minnich Hall, had around 250 girls.

Henry said she has witnessed her kind acts.

“She’s got a heart of gold,” Henry said.

Anderson’s helpful actions do not go unnoticed by the students either.

They give to her just like she gives to them.

Last year, one corridor gave Anderson a gift certificate to Luna Blue, a local hair salon in Oxford.

One student who contributed to the gift, Margaret Hansen, said the corridor wanted to show their appreciation for Anderson.

“Rita works so hard, and is so nice to everyone. We thought she needed to treat herself and relax for a bit,” Hansen said.

Anderson got a haircut and her eyebrows done with the gift card.

“I didn’t give my freshman dorm housekeeper a Christmas gift, but Rita is different,” Hansen said.

According to Anderson, her favorite gift from past students was a $100 bill from a corridor she cleaned in Flower Hall. She bought a pre-lit Christmas tree with the gift.

“They said they wanted me to buy a gift to remember them by. And it is true. Every time I plug it in, I think of them,” Anderson said.

Rather than buying a gift to show their appreciation, past students nominated Anderson for an award.

In 2011, Anderson won the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Leadership Award for Outstanding Faculty/Staff Member.

“I couldn’t believe they nominated me,” she said.

Anderson’s boss, Mike Jacquemin, was very proud of her, but not surprised.

Jacquemin, Senior Resident Hall Manager at Miami, has known Anderson for six years. He frequently sees Anderson conversing and greeting students in a motherly way.

“She’s always making sure the kids have coats, hats, and umbrellas on a rainy day,” he said.

A former student of Anderson’s, Mike Leonakis, invited Anderson to attend a formal recognition dinner with his family.

“I’m used to catering people, but they were catering me. I liked that,” Anderson said.

Leonakis’s mom told Anderson she is one of the reasons her son turned out so well. “It’s touching.

I got so many great memories,” Anderson said.

In 2001, Leonakis lived in a quad in Flower Hall, where Anderson previously worked. A year after he graduated, one of his roommates passed away.

While Leonakis tried to stay in touch with his former roommate’s family, he lost touch with time. But Anderson did not. Anderson stayed in touch with the boy’s mother, and always sent her Christmas cards.

According to Leonakis, whenever his roommate’s mother received a card from Anderson, it made her month.

“She loves the students, she’d do anything for the students,” Leonakis said.

While he does not speak with Anderson frequently, he always sends her a Christmas card.

“When I think back on my experience at Miami, I think fondly of her,” he said.

Leonakis also invited Anderson to his wedding in November.

“Of all the people he knows he invited me,” Anderson said. “They

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POLICE No levity for schools: Levies fail

BEAT OPD assists unresponsive, drugged-out male

At 9 p.m. Thursday, the Oxford Life Squad responded to a report of a drug overdose.

The Oxford Police Department (OPD) joined the Life Squad to assist. A male was home alone, and when others walked inside they found him slumped in a chair unresponsive and not breathing. OPD said upon their arrival he was breathing, but still unresponsive. Evidence of drug abuse was in the male’s proximity, according to OPD. The male was transported to McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital for further evaluation.

Classic mix up of coney and alcoholic beverage On Saturday around 2:30 a.m., an OPD officer noticed a young woman sitting in Skyline Chili, 1 E. High St., with a plastic cup of pink liquid and a dainty cocktail straw, resembling one purchased at a bar, OPD said. The OPD officer went up to the female and asked where she got the drink. She responded saying she got it at “New Bar,” officially known as The Woods.

She also admitted being 18 years of age, OPD said. She was then taken into custody. During processing, OPD found a fictitious driver’s license showing her to be 21 years of age, OPD said.

The female is a student at The Ohio State University. She was charged with sales to and use by underage persons, certain acts prohibited and open container.

Knock knock knockin’ on a strangers door Around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, OPD officers were sent to Village Green Apartments in response to an unwanted subject knocking on an apartment door.

The caller said they had told the subject to go away and he would not. When OPD arrived, they found the subject still in front of the apartment. He was interviewed and asked if he knew who lived there, and he said he did not know, according to OPD. Officers detected a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage, glassy eyes and slow, slurred speech.

When asked his name and date of birth, the male gave a name with the wrong spelling and a date of birth a few months off, OPD said. The officers found this information to be incorrect and when the suspect realized the police were not going to let him go, he fessed up to his real name and date of birth. He was found to be 19 years of age and lived in Flower Hall. The male admitted to consuming alcoholic beverages and was taken into custody, OPD said. While being transported, he continually asked why he was in trouble and said he didn’t know the resident of the apartment and believed he was lost. The male was charged with sales to and use by underage persons, disorderly conduct and public intoxication.

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BY CAITLIN P. LAMB FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University alumna Kim Eichold tutors English as a Second Language at Fairfield Central Elementary, one of two schools in the Fairfield School District that would have been slated for demolition had the district’s levy passed in last week’s election. Instead, both Fairfield and Middletown City Schools’ bonds were turned down at the ballot box. The demolition has been put off. “[Students] deserve to learn in an environment that isn’t full of asbestos and mold,” Eichold said, lamenting the bond’s failure.

Miami junior Lauren Scott currently student-teaches at Fairfield Central Elementary.

Projected to raise $61 million and grant access to $19 million in state funding, the bond would have replaced Central Elementary, which has been in operation since 1929, as well as the Fairfield Freshman School, built in the early 1950’s,

according to Scott.

“Fairfield Central Elementary doesn’t have air conditioning, and it’s really miserable,” Scott said.

While she was never a Fairfield resident, Scott said she was in favor of the bond.

According to Scott, while some may argue that the existing building simply be outfitted with air conditioning, Fairfield staff were told in a recent meeting that to do so would be more expensive than to build a new school.

“As a Miami alumna and employee of the Fairfield School District, I am affected as I see children sitting in classrooms that are 96 degrees and struggling to hear their teachers over the six fans in the classroom blowing around hot air,” Eichold said.

The bond would have cost a household valued at $100,000 about $91.70 per year. The decision about the levy divided the city during a time when people are tightening their already tight budgets, according to Fairfield City School Districts website.

Another local school district, Middletown City Schools, also had a bond fail that was intended to replace their 90-year-old middle school.

From Cleveland’s Westlake School District, which now faces cuts in art programs as well as in honors and Advanced Placement classes, to Columbus’s Westerville School District, that will soon have cuts in sports programs and teacher positions, districts across the state are deciding how they will tighten their budgets and hold on until another levy or bond may be put on the ballot, according to NPR State Impact’s website.

Out of the 193 school districts in Ohio that had bonds, levies or a combination of the two on the recent ballot, 116 saw success. Lakota School District was one of those winning districts.

“If the [Lakota] levy didn’t pass, more teachers would have been laid off, all of the busing would have been cut and students wouldn’t have the opportunity to take music, art

and Advanced Placement classes,” Miami junior Phu Nguyen, a Lakota West graduate, said.

Lakota’s successful levy prevented such cuts.

“We have been in a tight financial situation, and all of a sudden you realize that the wheel is about to fall off the cart,” Lakota School Board President Joan Powell said. “This is not a mandate by any means. It was a tight vote, which shows that we have work to do.”

The levy combination passed by less than 1 percent of the vote, according to the Butler County Board of Elections.

As families continue to be strict with their budgets, decisions and opinions regarding where money needs to be spent will only become more difficult.

“We most likely will have another bond on the ballot in May,” Middletown School Board president Marcia Andrew said. “We are holding back the kids if we can’t provide an educational environment for them to graduate competitively.”

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DON’T YOU HAVE CLASS TOMORROW?

Students boogied all night at the Barstool Blackout Tour at Brick Street Bar and Grill, 36 E. High St., Wednesday night.

“Dancing for Our Stars” Retailers open doors for features, supports disabled Black Friday sales Thursday

BY ANNA HOFFMAN FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Alex Brown, president of Miami University’s Best Buddies chapter, has been busy dusting off her dancing shoes with Hamilton resident David Campbell as they prepare for a night of dance and donations for those, like Campbell, with developmental disabilities.

The event will take place this Saturday in the “Dancing for Our Stars” fundraiser.

Friends of Citizens with Disabilities, a Hamilton-based political action committee, has partnered with Miami’s Best Buddies chapter to put on the event, which aims to raise money for the Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities (DD). In the end, Friends of Citizens with Disabilities hopes to raise $125,000 to help the Board work to pass a levy in 2015.

“The levy pays for early intervention services for children from birth to age three, residential services for people living in the community, nursing services for people in the community and day habilitation services and transportation for those served by the adult center,” spokeswoman Wendy Planicka said. “The Board of DD could not operate those services without levy funds.”

With the help of the Miami Shakerettes and senior Alex Tremaglio’s choreography, Brown and Campbell meet once a week to practice their routine. According to Brown, executive members of the Best Buddies program will be in attendance Saturday evening, awarding one vote for each dollar a pair has raised for the Board.

Campbell has been passing out business cards at Kroger where he works to help raise money for his and Brown’s performance.

Members of the public can also visit the Friends of Citizens with Disabilities website to vote for and donate to their favorite dancers. According to Planicka, people who are eager to get involved can attend

their monthly meetings where they plan future fundraisers.

The duo that has raised the most money by Saturday’s event will be presented with a mirror ball trophy.

The Best Buddies program is a global nonprofit organization that pairs students with individuals with developmental difficulties to create mutually beneficial relationships.

Students who wish to be a part of this program go through a casual interview process to get paired up with a buddy that matches their similar interests.

“We’ve been really lucky with matching people up…they seem to hit it off right away,” Brown said.

Co-membership coordinator of Miami’s Best Buddies Daniel Persson matches college students with local adults with disabilities.

“This organization really makes a difference in so many people’s lives,” Person said. “Not only does it help and support people with disabilities, but it also helps every college student that is involved. It teaches people to be open minded and to treat everyone as equals no matter how different they may seem. On top of that, Best Buddies shows us that no matter how different we may look, talk, think, or act, we are more similar then we are different.”

The program’s slogan states that it is “dedicated to the inclusion of all people and erasing the r-word from the vocabulary.”

The Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities maintains that all members of society have the right to be treated with dignity, adding that “all people have gifts and contributions to make to the community.”

Brown said she has always been passionate about helping those with disabilities.

“People tend to focus too much on their disabilities and not their abilities, so spreading awareness is important,” Brown said. “And befriending them is a way to remind people they are just like us.”

BY SHANNON O’CONNOR

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Bargain hunters looking for great deals on Black Friday no longer have to wait for Friday to begin their shopping at a number of department stores nationwide.

Despite historically opening the day after Thanksgiving, many businesses are now opening their doors for the shopping frenzy Thanksgiving evening.

One of the managers of Macy’s in Cincinatti Josh Moon said he wholeheartedly approves of the change given the current market.

“It is what it is,” Moon said.

“This is how business is conducted and there are a lot of great deals. This is the first time we’ve opened at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, so we’ve done a lot of research and marketing. We expect a pretty big turnout since there will be great deals on winter coats of all sorts.”

Employees at Sears are also expecting lines to wrap around the building. Cincinnati Store leader Karen Robinson said she is ready to assist customers in anticipation of the holiday season.

Robinson said she is opening the doors early because the store lost business by waiting until Black Friday morning to open in previous years.

“We wouldn’t be open this early if the other stores weren’t, but we must be competitive with the competition,” Robinson said.

“We’re all excited to open a few hours early. I’ve participated in Black Friday myself, so I’m looking forward to responding to customers’ needs and being there for them. This is the fun part of the business.”

Robinson said Cyber Monday is also an important event in the time leading up to the holidays.

Robinson said Sears projects a high number of sales from people making their purchases online.

“Cyber Monday is always one of our highest days of online sales,” Robinson said. “We expect it will be even more popular now.”

While the department stores anticipate large crowds and high sales with these earlier hours, it comes at the expense of less time spent with family.

“I don’t want to come out and say shoppers should be spending less time with their families, but this is how business is conducted,” Moon said.

These few extra hours are significant to Miami students hoping to put a dent in their Christmas list. Miami junior Caitlin Collins said she will be travelling the day after Thanksgiving, and is grateful she will nevertheless have the opportunity to go shopping.

“I’ll be leaving for the airport first thing in the morning, so I didn’t think I’d get to go this year,” Collins said. “But I will be going out to the mall as early as possible to get my shopping in now that I know the stores will be open!”

Regardless of projections of excited shoppers, a number of potential customers will not be participating in the festivities.

Miami junior Caitlyn Purdy said regardless of the hour, she does not think the department stores should be open at all on Thanksgiving day.

“Thanksgiving day is not the busiest time for shopping in general and should truly be spent with family,” Purdy said. “Nobody really wants to work on a day when all of their relatives come into town.”

Regardless of whether shoppers will be waiting in line for a department store or more turkey, the holiday shopping season will begin with Macy’s, Sears and a number of other department stores opening their doors 8 p.m.

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frequent culprits.

Miami’s IT Help desk receives about 100 computers with viruses a month, according to Senior Director for IT Communications Cathy McVey. Bazeley said the blame for viruses falls mainly on students who either fail to keep their anti-virus software up-to-date or who ignore the warnings it gives them.

“You want to watch that movie so you’ll click ‘Run’ even if your computer says it’s harmful,” Bazeley said. “[Students] don’t read the messages. Even if you were protected, you don’t read them and don’t pay attention.”

Students who have grown up in the internet age have become too comfortable with their presence on the web, Bazeley said. They often don’t realize how much information they’ve placed on display, information that could be discovered by future employers—or con artists.

A brief Google search followed by a glance at a student’s Facebook profile could give a criminal ample information to stalk him, impersonate him or impersonate someone close to him, Bazeley said.

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don’t forget who takes good care of them.

Even Miami University’s former star football player can’t forget Anderson. She formerly cleaned Flower Hall, where Ben Roethlisberger lived. When one of her students went to Pittsburgh, she asked him to have Roethlisberger sign a jersey for her. Not only did he sign it, but he also remembered Anderson.

Carl Anderson, her husband, died two years ago from cancer. She took the summer off to care for him during his illness.

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I was skeptical so I asked him to perform a cursory search using nothing but my name and the fact that I am a Miami student.

A few key strokes later and he had pulled up my resume (posted to the web as a requirement for a class).

Instantly, he had my phone number and home address which he subsequently looked up using Google Maps. He then loaded “street view” and perused my parents’ neighborhood right in front of me, pointing out a prime spot where he might park his car and observe my comings and goings if he felt so inclined.

He also pulled up my friends’ list, my list of favorite books and music and my list of relatives on my Facebook page. Between that and my resume, he could begin piecing together a solid picture of my identity.

If he wanted to go the extra mile, he could fill in a lot of the holes by purchasing information from the public record, such as my credit reports.

“The more I know about you, the more I could influence you,” Bazely said. “I could begin taking guesses at your password, or I could send emails posing as you.”

Such attacks are pretty rare, though. More often than not, internet security attacks come not from far-off hackers but from right under

the victims’ noses, according to Associate Director of Ethics and Conflict Resolution Chris Taylor.

“Most attacks come from people giving their passwords to others,” Taylor said.

Bazeley and McVey agreed. Most problems could be easily prevented if students were more careful with their passwords—and less trusting of their friends.

“Keep your password secure,” McVey said. “It’s the human element that’s the t dangerous.”

In addition to keeping one’s password secret, McVey recommended creating strong passwords, not using the same password for multiple accounts and not entering one’s password into any links received over email.

“No legitimate organization would ask you for your password over email,” McVey said.

Henry nearly learned this the hard way.

“Thankfully, I realized my mistake early on and changed my password,” Henry said.

The IT Help desk reassured her that that should be sufficient, but the experience left Henry shaken.

“I’ll think twice before clicking a link in an email from now on,” Henry said.

“I did everything I could for him,” Anderson said.

Carl worked at Miami for 28 years as a Senior Maintenance Repair Technician. He put a lot of work into their three-bedroom ranch house in Camden, Ohio. Now on her own, Anderson mows her five-acre land by herself. She could ask her nephews or uncle for help, but worries something would happen to them.

“As long as I’m able to do it, I will do it,”Anderson said.

Anderson is still saddened by the loss of her husband, but one would never notice from her friendly and loving demeanor.

“I still cry sometimes,” Anderson

said. “It took me a long time to sleep in my bed because of Carl,” she said.

“But I’m okay now.”

For retirement, Anderson said she hopes to travel the world.

“I have no desire to go to China or places like that, but I would love to go to Italy,” she said.

Anderson has one stepson, but no biological children.

“I do love kids, and that’s why I’m so close to the college kids,” Anderson said.

She is okay with having no kids, because the students she takes care of are her children.

“I feel like the kids have impacted me, but I’ve impacted them,” she said.

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Journalism: Great Story, Greatest Crisis,” Blakemore discussed how journalism covers global warming and why it has proved to be such a difficult topic to cover.

It is such a hard story to cover because there has never been one like it before, he said.

“This is a great story, but it is grossly under-covered,” Blakemore said. “It couldn’t be more consequential on what scientists have been telling us for a long time. [The world’s climate scientists tell us that] It is extraordinarily dangerous and already happening.”

Blakemore’s third lecture, “Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining,’ Great Art, and Global Warming.”

Blakemore began the lecture Wednesday with an epigram: “the past simply does not exist. Except in one and only one place, and that is the present tense instant

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said. “They are mostly sold on Saturdays and Sundays. They are also very popular after holidays or popular campus events, like Green Beer Day.” The Walgreens pharmacy sees similar trends.

“We can definitely tell when the big party weekends are,” Walgreens pharmacist Scott Collins said (name changed to prevent employment consequences). “Family and Parents Weekends we sell a lot less [Plan B].”

According to an online poll conducted by The Miami Student, out of 130 student responses, 32 percent reported using emergency contraception at least once. Medler aligns with the 32 percent.

“I have used Plan B once, in a situation where the guy’s condom broke,” she said. “I was also on birth control at the time.”

Collins said it is common for people to use emergency contraception despite already being on oral contraceptives.

“A lot of instances, it is used when girls just want to be overly cautious,” Collins said. “Girls who come [to Walgreens] and buy it tell me they are taking birth control pills, but they just want to be ‘extra safe.’ Birth control is more effective than Plan B, though, so I tell them that if they are taking it properly, they should be fine.”

Plan B, in addition to other brands of emergency contraception, does not carry more risk than a regular birth control pill if used as directed, Collins said.

“As far as anything dangerous, like with one or an occasional use, there is really nothing,” Collins said. “If you use it as its true intention – emergency contraception – there are no real long-term risks, just regular side effects like breakthrough bleedings, cramps, and nausea.”

The product should not be taken regularly as a means of birth control and it cannot be used to terminate a pregnancy. Emergency contraception serves to prevent pregnancy by halting the process of ovulation in women, according to the official website for Plan B. “If used within the first 72 hours after intercourse, it is 80 percent effective,” Collins said.

“If you have unprotected intercourse, it is recommended to use it as soon as possible.”

Medler said that the price of Plan B – about $50 on average – is a drawback but not a deal breaker.

“The price is a bit of a deterrent, but I think that encourages the use of other precautionary methods of birth control, like condoms, which are cheaper and easier to come by,” she said.

As for oral contraceptive methods, both availability and popularity are rising. Hayes said that CVS alone sells around 50 packs

of your mind.”

This “truism,” Blakemore called it, guided the entire lecture. Kubrick’s films, he suggested, have always been panoramic and universal in their approach to art. This is to say Kubrick was not only telling an immediate story– in this case, about a man who tries to kill his family in “The Shining,” but also making references to larger events Americans regard as too horrible to think about: The Holocaust, The massacre of Native Americans in early America, and a male dominated society and its dangers in relation to “The Shining.”

Blakemore said Kubrick purposefully constructed these references to convey to the viewer they should think about these horrors sometimes, as to not allow them to continue.

In “the jump” as Blakemore called it, to connect the uthe film to Global Warming, he suggested that Global Warming is becoming another atrocity civilization has allowed, but “no one meant for it to happen.” of birth control pills every day, adding up to several hundred by the end of the week.

For Walgreens, which is a bit farther off campus than CVS and thus even more out of the way for Miami students, the numbers are slightly smaller but still significant.

“We typically fill about, say, 80 [total] prescriptions on a Sunday,” Collins said. “Easily half of those would be birth control.”

Collins added that on other days of the week, the birth control prescriptions account for much less of their total prescription sales. He also mentioned that, although the condoms are not sold in his section of the store, he would guess that only one package is sold every few months.

With birth control pills so readily available and emergency contraception for back up, it is possible that condom use has seen a downturn. In Oct. 2013, the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada released a study showing that just over half (51 percent) of sexually active college students were using condoms during sex.

Medler is one who does not always use condoms.

“If it’s someone that I know pretty well, I generally just stick to my birth control [pills],” Medler said, “but if it’s a random person that I’m not very familiar with, I make him wear a condom because I really don’t know about his sexual history or potential STDs.” However, Schwarz said two methods are always better than just one.

“An oral method of birth control plus condoms would be better than birth control alone,” she said.

Trojan’s seventh annual Sexual Health Report Card, published in 2012, ranks the sexual health of college campuses in the U.S. by considering the availability of sexual health resources and information for students.

Miami University ranked 96th among the 141 campuses analyzed. Some specific categories taken into account during the analysis are contraceptive availability, condom availability, and programs on sex education, according to the PR Newswire’s follow-up article.

Other universities in the Midwest ranked significantly higher than Miami. The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and The Ohio State University in Columbus ranked 13th and 14th in the study, respectively. Some of Miami’s rival schools, like Ohio University and the University of Cincinnati, were more than halfway up the list from Miami, at 39th and 43rd respectively.

Not all college students are the same, that much is clear, but not all college campuses are the same either. Miami has fallen behind in its sexual health, which could result in long-term repercussions for its students.

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EDITORS EMILY ELDRIDGE NICOLE THEODORE

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

“I Am Miami” campaign attempts to instill values in student body With recent negative events including the nationally-covered “rape advice flier” in 2012, the Fiji fraternity house burning down due to suspected arson, several cases of rape and assault on campus and sororities and fraternities being kicked off-campus or put on social probation, the code of responsibility, good judgment and respect from student to student has been put at stake.

There are many subdivisions of the Miami student body; it’s hard to deny it.

Between the clear division of international students, those in Greek life, those not in Greek life, sports and pockets of other groups, we find ourselves wondering: is there anything that unites us besides this romantic notion of a Miami identity?

How can we gather under a single, overarching college identity to integrate all of these groups?

How can we learn how to respect each other and help other students in times of need, no matter what group, ethnicity, race, gender or sexual orientation with which they may identify?

These issues haven’t gone unnoticed by the administration.

They launched the “I am Miami” campaign, stressing a code of ethics and responsibility that students should have for one another based on their identity as Miamians.

Links such as Alcohol EDU, bias incident reporting, campus safety and security and sexual assault prevention line the side of the website home page for the campaign. Holographic cards have been passed out to students with one side displaying “I am Miami” and the back listing The Code of Love and Honor.

The back includes statements such as “I respect the dignity, rights, and property of others and their right to hold and express disparate beliefs” and “I exercise good judgment and believe in personal responsibility.”

The Miami Student Editorial Board thinks this is a step in the right direction for identifying and cultivating a unifying Miami identity between students, but how realistic is it really?

Beneath the ‘ra ra ra’ school pride, well-designed website and cool-cards is a deeply-rooted culture that is not easy to penetrate.

Taking a top-down approach may not be the most effective way to get students to respect and help one another. We believe the administration needs to take the approach from the bottom up, but this isn’t going to be an easy task.

It’s going to take years, waves of new first years. Somehow, the administration will need to plant the seed of the idea of I am Miami in students’ heads, but then let it go and hope it takes root. A grass roots approach is really the only chance I am Miami has.

Finding students during the admissions process who seem to have these values is another step towards achieving this lofty goal.

We think the admissions office should intentionally seek out students that seem to have these values by crafting admissions essays on the topic or finding students who volunteer and participate in clubs dealing with diversity or respect.

Getting student organizations such as MAP to incorporate “I Am Miami” into their programming is critical as well. Over 80 percent of students are involved in at least one on-campus activity or group. Reaching that 80 percent could be key, and the “I am Miami” message would be coming from fellow students.

The board applauds the administration for the thought, but in order for it to actually happen, it’s going to have to come from the students.

As Miami students, we have to challenge ourselves to stand up to racist and negative comments, defend our fellow classmates, not look on as a bystander when someone is in trouble and respect ourselves and our campus.

We at The Miami Student figure we should start with ourselves.

And so, we challenge you, our fellow students, to begin adopting this code because it isn’t going to happen top down. It’s going to start with simple everyday acts toward every student from all walks of life.

We challenge students to ask critical questions, to make judgments that would benefit others, to speak highly of Miami and it’s students and to respect one another. It’s not going to happen unless we do it as a university, together.

If you are interested in becoming apart of the “I am Miami” Student Coordinating Committee, applications are being accepted until Nov. 26.

Students selected for the committee will work directly with Student Affairs in order to design the goals and concepts the campaign seeks to spread to students.

This could be a step towards really mobilizing efforts within the student body, because students will be in charge of this movement.

PATRICK GEYSER THE MIAMI STUDENT

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Rape culture has a social license to operate I was very pleased to read the opinion piece challenging the offensive and poorly researched article written by Ohio University senior Tom Pernecker. As a Miami University alumni who is currently working with the Title IX movement, which aims to educate and spread awareness about sexual assault and harassment, I wanted to take this opportunity to expand on a few of the excellent points Brett Milam made in his column.

First, I applaud Milam’s inclusion of the fraternity email in which a student instructed his brothers to “get more alcohol, when all else fails” as a way to demonstrate that alcohol does not ‘cause’ rape but is actually used as a tool by rapists.

Research in the last few decades has indeed revealed the extent to which rape is a premeditated and calculated crime, and how college rapists—most of whom are serial predators—use alcohol as their “weapon of choice.”

David Lysak’s recent research, which spanned over 20 years, has revealed that the vast majority of rapes on campus are committed by a small group of predators who

are able to operate because a larger rape culture allows it and because institutional support for survivors is not in place. So an article like Pernecker’s, as was reiterated in Milam’s column, only gives these rapists the social license to operate, by ignoring years of research and instead questioning whether rape is simply due to an “accident” or “misunderstanding”.

Furthermore, the correlation between alcohol and sexual assault is not as strongly linked as one might suspect. Although rape has been declining in the general population—and has remained about the same at universities over the last few decades—binge drinking has actually increased.

And recent research has found that intimate partner violence decreases as societies move towards greater gender equality—not as alcohol use declines. That is not to say that alcohol isn’t a factor in sexual assault, as it can be used as a tool by rapists, but the point is that alcohol is just one of the many tools at the rapist’s disposal. Taking alcohol away from students isn’t a guarantee that someone won’t find other ways to commit rape.

Finally, I wanted to comment on the statistic that was mentioned about the rate of false accusations.

Milam cited that the number is between 8 and 10 percent, but keep in mind that that number includes cases that are dismissed because there isn’t enough evidence—such as a woman showering herself after the assault—and the survivor simply not wanting to go through with a legal proceeding. The FBI estimates the number of actual fake rape accusations is closer to 1 or 2 percent, which is the same rate as other crimes.

So this concern over “false accusations” pales in comparison to the concern we should be giving to the fact that only 37 percent of rapes are reported, and only 3 percent of rapists ever spend a day in jail.

As a Miami alum, I am proud that The Miami Student chose to respond to Pernecker’s damaging, poorly-written article, and I hope that my letter has helped to further illuminate the excellent points that were made in your response.

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The U.S. ought to recognize it’s active role in Iraq’s resurging sectarian violence Death in the form of suicide bombs and gunfire still plagues the cities of Iraq and nobody seems to care.

As recently as Nov. 13, Adnan al-Jalbawi, mayor of Fallujah, one of the largest citBRETT MILAM ies in Iraq, was gunned down. On that same day, 24 other people were killed in suicide bombings.

Nearly 6,000 people have been killed so far this year, according to the United Nations. In October alone, nearly 30 people were dying a day.

Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi’s prime minister, blamed the surge in violence across his country on neighboring Syria’s civil war and al Qaeda-aligned groups, according to the Washington Post.

“Terrorists came back to Iraq when the […] conflict started in Syria,” he said.

Washington seems to agree partially. In an Oct. 9 State Department press briefing, a foreign reporter brought up the 6,000 dead Iraqis and said Iraq is “not on your radar screen.”

Deputy Spokesperson Maria Harf echoed al-Maliki’s sentiment about overflow from Syria.

“It’s not the kind of sectarian violence we saw during the most violent years of the Iraq war. So it really is violence perpetrated by extremists,” she said.

Iraq is in the midst of its deadliest year since 2008. For Harf to brush it off as solely a problem of extremists is to wash the United State’s hands of helping to create that reality.

That is, sectarian strife between the Sunnis and the Shi’ites is in part an outgrowth of our mistaken, failed invasion in 2003.

In short, Saddam Hussein’s dictatorial government comprised mostly of Sunnis, ruled over the majority Shi’ite population and “kept a lid on sectarian strife,” according to Time Magazine.

Once the United States invaded in 2003 and overthrew Saddam, the Shi’ites led since 2006 by al-Maliki, took power. Many of the recent bombings plaguing cities across Iraq are the Sunnis rebelling against the government.

“If we start to see a full-on resurgence of [Shi‘ite] militias, that’s when we’re starting to talk more about civil war again,” said Stephen Wicken, a D.C.-based security analyst.

Certainly, I’m not suggesting that

the United States ought to re-engage with Iraq with respect to troops on the ground, but we ought to recognize the role we have played in that country’s violence.

“I think there is a sense among a lot of Iraqis that the U.S. is at least responsible for helping to unleash the effects of what we’ve seen in terms of sectarian conflict in the country,” said Adam Schreck, the bureau chief for the Associated Press in Baghdad While the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is operating in Iraq and responsible for the attacks, it is worth noting that al Qaeda was not present in the country prior to our invasion.

The last United States troops pulled out of Iraq in Dec. 2011.

In the peer-reviewed online journal, PLOS Medicine, a comprehensive report was published for the first time to ascertain the number of dead civilians attributable to the Iraq War. The findings ought to trouble every American.

Approximately a half million deaths in Iraq could be attributable to the war, according to the study, 60 percent of which are a direct result of the war and the rest associated with indirect problems such as failed infrastructure, communication problems and so on.

The study’s researchers

do caution the difficulty in pinpointing exact numbers. For instance, they suggest the death toll could be within a range of 48,000 to 751,000.

Not to mention the 4,500 American troops who died there, the more than 30,000 American wounded who have come home and the more than $2 trillion spent, according to the New York Times.

created a vacuum of violence. Still, whether observing Iraq from a pre-invasion, invasion or postinvasion standpoint, our fingerprints are all over.

To date, not one Bush administration official responsible for this long-lasting, violent war— the ripples of which are still on bloody display today—has been held accountable. Worse, their opinion still holds credibility

Certainly, I’m not suggesting that the United States ought to re-engage with Iraq with respect to troops on the ground, but we ought to recognize the role we have played in that country’s violence.

Iraq is in the rearview mirror, though, as Americans focus on Obamacare and the economy.

However, for those Americans and Iraqis that lost their lives in the last decade, we should care about the continued consequences facing the country.

None of this is to discount to the fact that Iraq had serious problems prior to our invasion and that any situation wherein Saddam Hussein was ousted from power would have likely

when asked about intervention in Syria or Iran.

We ought to look at Iraq and its unfortunately long trail of dead civilians and counting as a reminder of the follies of politically misguided war, the dangers of a complicit media and an apathetic democratic populace, not just as an unfortunate statistic in the annals of history.

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COMMENTARY

Boehner needs to stop spray tranning, come down to earth Probably the most frequently asked and mind-numbing question in Oxford is, “Are you 21?” In the eyes of society, turning 21 is a big deal. It signifies that you are now a responsible adult and will be held accountable for your actions. One

While not the oldest or longest serving politician in Washington, Boehner is no longer in touch with his constituents, much less this nation. would think serving 21 years, plus three more, in Washington confers the same thing, right? Not so, judging by the record of our Representative and current Speaker of the House, John Boehner.

Boehner entered the House of Representatives on Jan. 3, 1991.

Since most of you reading this were yet to be born, maybe even thought of, let me provide some background on the year: the Soviet Union still existed, Terminator 2 had just been released, the airbag was invented and gas was $1.12 per gallon. Much has changed since then, with the exception of the man occupying Ohio’s 8th Congressional District.

While not the oldest or longestserving politician in Washington, Boehner is no longer in touch with his constituents, much less this nation. He is an ineffective, detached and entrenched relic of a bygone era; no amount of spray tanning can change that.

Need examples? Boehner’s efforts to reign in his caucus have failed miserably. In fact, Boehner doesn’t control his caucus as much as his caucus controls him anymore. He has consistently defended absurd tax breaks for large corporations and the rich. We saw the House fail to pass the farm bill (look around—his district is 25 percent rural), enact a government shutdown and even threaten to default on America’s debt this past summer and fall. Even if one disagrees with the Affordable Care Act, we can all agree on the ridiculousness of Boehner’s staging of 46 votes to repeal or defund it, at a total cost of over $50 million to the taxpayer.

Yet, the point here is not that

Boehner is now a mere right-wing puppet. That much is clear. More importantly, he is not adequately representing his district. Less than a quarter of Ohio’s 8th are registered Republicans; the overwhelming majority (roughly 77 percent) of voters are Democrats, unaffiliated or “other.” Because of the inertia of the American political system, Boehner ran unopposed in 2012, garnering 99.7 percent of the vote.

He used this time to be everywhere but here, racing through 20 states for 75 fundraisers in October 2012 alone. Even when Boehner had an opponent, as he did in 2010, the Hamilton Journal News had to call on him just to come home and debate his opponent.

But this is not the worst of it; Boehner has a policy that those who give or help him raise $100,000 get “VIP access” to him.

Boehner’s conservative policies, which are only being dragged further and further right, don’t square with the current realities of his district. In the 8th district in 2011, 180,000 people (27 percent) were on Medicare or Medicaid, 90,000 people (13.9 percent) lived below the poverty line and approximately 70,000 households received Social Security benefits.

In 2010, over 30,000 households were eligible for the food stamp program and 20,000 low-income children were eligible for food and nutrition services. Yet, the most damning statistic is that nearly 90,000 of his constituents went without health insurance in 2011.

Clearly, very few in this district can afford to have access to the Speaker at his rate of $100,000, which amounts to more than double the median household income here.

In a representative democracy, if that still applies to the U.S. today, an official must be held accountable for his actions, and inactions, especially one who has been in office for three decades. Accountability is at the core of our system, and Boehner has proven himself increasingly unaccountable and irresponsible to this country and his constituents. We need change.

Luckily for us Miamians, it has arrived in the form of Miami education professor Tom Poetter, who will challenge Boehner next November. Join Mr. Poetter and the College Democrats as he kicks off his campaign at 6 p.m. this Tuesday, Nov. 19 at Uptown Park.

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Confined to that bed, the one with the Cars sheets, Roro can barely move his arms and makes minimal progress, but through his Facebook group “Hope for Roro,” he reaches hundreds. Ellis posts pictures and comments to the page, updating followers on Roro’s progress and activity.

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Despite all the apparent negativity, 78 days in the hospital and hundreds of tests, Ellis remains hopeful, confident, that doctors will answer her question.

“I’m not living in denial,” Ellis said. “I’m living on hope and faith that he will recover. It’s all I have.”

There will be a benefit for Roro and his family, from open to close Nov. 23 at Eli’s Sports Bar in Ross.

There will be games, raffles and a performance by country singer Ryan Broshear. All proceeds go to the purchase of Roro’s equipment and the funding of a second opinion.

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14-6 at half and giving the ’Hawks a fighting chance.

For much of the third quarter, the Mid-American Conference foes played back-and-forth football, each team giving the other little room to run. With minutes remaining in the third quarter, highly-touted NFL prospect and redshirt senior running back Dri Archer took over, capping off a 50-yard drive with a 20-yard run to make it 21-6. A fourth quarter field goal extended the Golden Flashes’ lead to 24-6, and it would remain that way until the end of the contest.

“It’s unfortunate,” interim head coach Mike Bath said of his team’s tenth-straight loss this season. “We missed too many opportunities. It’s very disheartening, and there’s a reason why you’re where you’re at.”

Despite the loss, there was no lack of positive reinforcement

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again Friday.

“It’s another tough weekend for our team,” Blasi said. “We’ve grown accustomed to that. Wisconsin is as good as anyone in the country. They’re very deep up front … and they’re obviously well-coached. We’re going to have to prepare our best this week and improve on some of the areas that we’ve been focusing on for the last four or five weeks.”

Those deep forward playmakers from Madison proved Blasi’s point in their last contest, as seven Badgers found the back of the net in the aforementioned sinking of the Lakers. Leading scorer Nic Kerdiles doesn’t even scratch the top-50 scorers in the country with eight points, but that’s of no concern for Wisco – its top seven scorers have combined for 46 points through just six games, and all but two players have recorded points on the year.

In six games against Top-10 opponents, the RedHawks have a 17-15 scoring advantage, and

and motivation on the RedHawk sideline, by both players and coaches. Each play was executed with the intensity of a football team playing for its conference championship, and a late, fourth down, goal line stop for the RedHawks boosted the team on what was a blatant attempt

by Kent State to run up the score with little more than 60 seconds remaining.

It’s moments like those that remind freshman cornerback Heath Harding, among others, why he committed to this program in the first place.

“What keeps us going? Each other,” Harding explained.

“Through everything, we just want to win … We deserve it, and we want to get that win for the seniors, because obviously they aren’t going to be here next year and we are.”

The next chance for the RedHawks to get that elusive first victory is Tuesday, when they take on 7-3 Buffalo at home. two of the three series were on the road. Miami is led by the nation’s top scoring duo, junior captain Austin Czarnik and sophomore linemate Riley Barber, who are both tied for third in NCAA scoring with 15 points.

Junior forward Blake Coleman has also been a big contributor for the ’Hawks, netting four goals and dishing out three helpers in his past three games at the Goggin Ice Center.

Czarnik said it it’s an honor to play such a tough schedule and to see how they compare to the competition. And it doesn’t hurt to be playing in front of the Red and White faithful, either.

“It’s always nice to get home and play in front of that home crowd,” the third ranked scorer in the nation said. “They’re some of the best fans in college hockey. Everyone’s really excited for it and we’re looking forward to playing Wisconsin, for sure.”

The first game in the series is scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. puck drop Friday, Nov. 15. The concluding game will start at 7:05 p.m. the following evening.

VOLLEYBALL

RedHawks ready for final matches of year

BY JORDAN RINARD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Coming off a weekend defeating the third-place team in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East Division and taking the best team in the East to five sets, the Miami University volleyball team seeks to close out the regular season on a high note as it travels to take on the University at Buffalo (16-11, 4-10 MAC) and the University of Akron (8-17, 2-12 MAC).

The RedHawks (11-15, 3-11 MAC) have been eliminated from MAC postseason contention.

They lost in four sets to Buffalo earlier in the season while having a repeat performance of the 3-0 victory over Akron.

The Bulls hope to stop the bleeding this weekend as they have dropped seven straight matches, with five of them going to extra sets. Sophomore outside hitter Tahleia Bishop has been productive on offense this season with 3.61 kills per set, the fourth highest in the MAC. Senior middle blocker Carissa McKenna and sophomore middle blocker Amber Hatchett have combined for 2.52 blocks per set this season, while senior libero Kelly

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guard Ivory James leading the way with 23 points. Junior guards Kim Dennings, Tay’ler Mingo and Abby Jump had 19, 16 and 12 points, respectively. James and Dennings each had seven rebounds in the Raiders’ win.

The RedHawks, sparked by Anderson’s play, won the rebound battle 40-32. After the RedHawks’ first game of the year, Wright said winning the rebounding battle would be the goal every game. “[Winning the rebounding battle] was a positive point; the two positive points on the stat sheet that I

Svoboda leads the conference with 5.74 digs per set. Bishop and Svoboda were named MAC East Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week after collecting 51 kills and seven digs per set last weekend, respectively.

The Bulls host Bowling Green State University, second place in the East, Saturday.

“We had one of our worst matches against Buffalo earlier this season,” head coach Carolyn Condit said. “They had a great offense with effective hitters and good blockers. Their platform skills were superb. We need to play as a team with good decision-making. We need to contain their outside hitters, set up a good block against their middles and serve tough.”

Akron is hoping to end its season on a strong note, after snapping a 13-match losing streak with wins over Buffalo and Ball State University. Freshman setter Karley Kusan has done well with running the Zips offense, registering 7.81 assists per set, which is ninth in the MAC. Akron is last in the conference in hitting percentage, opponent hitting percentage, assists, kills, blocks and digs. The Zips take on Bowling Green prior to hosting

Miami and are 1-7 against East Division foes.

Junior setter/outside hitter Meg Riley and senior libero Madison Hardy were honorary mentions for MAC Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week with Riley recording 31 kills, 49 assists and 17 digs during the weekend and Hardy posting 52 digs. Redshirt sophomore middle blocker Jenny Ingle has also done work on both ends as she hit .347 this season, which is third-best in the conference, and registered 57 total blocks this season.

“This week, we’re just working on our all-around skills,” Ingle said. “We’re doing a lot of serving… [Last weekend’s matches] were building blocks. It was a tough loss to OU, but we learned to always keep fighting, to fight in all situations and come back.”

The RedHawks are winless in MAC matches on the road this season.

“Last weekend, our middles weren’t as involved as we’d like,” Condit said. “We’re working on their shot selection and have the setters and hitters give them the ball.”

The RedHawks take on Buffalo 7 p.m. Friday and square off against Akron 5 p.m. Saturday.

saw were that we did outrebound them and we shot better from the free throw line,” Wright said.

The RedHawks were 20 for 25 from the charity stripe, shooting 80 percent. In their first game of the year, the Red and White shot 66.7 percent on 24 free throw attempts.

Also contributing for the ’Hawks was freshman guard Jillian Spurlock who made seven out of eight free throws en route to 13 points.

Senior guard Haley Robertson contributed 10 points on 4-9 shooting. Senior guard Hannah Robertson had eight points in 21 minutes on the court.

The RedHawks shot 31.3 percent on 16 attempts from behind the arc,

an improvement from their seasonopener where they shot 10 percent on 10 attempts.

“We need to continue to work on our aggressiveness and assertiveness on the offensive end,” Wright said. “We certainly need to be better passers.”

The RedHawks return to action Saturday, when they take on Chicago State University in Millett Hall at 2 p.m.

The RedHawks defeated Chicago State last season by a score of 71-37 in Chicago. Redshirt senior Kristin Judson led the Red and White with 12 points and senior Kelsey Simon scored 11 points in the RedHawks win.

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FOOTBALL

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FOOTBALL’S CULTURE NEEDS A NEW EMPHASIS

Soon-to-be former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito, a veteran with a long rap sheet, hazed Jonathan Martin, a second-year pro from Stanford, repeatedly since he joined the team.

Martin comes from a rich family and is African-American. Incognito is white, and the n-word is involved in the story.

Class, race, bullying and the culture of football; the Incognito-Martin saga hits too many hot topics to cover in one column (and many have written up their opinions on each), but the most personally disappointing side of Incognito’s senseless bullying and hazing of Martin is what it says about the state of our football culture.

Football, at its core, is the ultimate team game. Eleven men must execute their assignments perfectly for a successful play—it’s based on a reliance on your teammates and out of that reliance comes a sense of respect. Execution is how you win games, and if one teammate is struggling to execute, shaming them is no way to change their behavior on the field.

Every football team develops its own culture based on the team’s leadership. It has been reported the Dolphins front office and coaching staff, requested Incognito try to toughen Martin up. This happens all the time. Hopefully, what doesn’t happen all the time is that the toughening up reaches the level of abuse and barbarism to which Incognito took things.

And if it does, that’s an indictment on the culture of the game of football, which cannot sustain too many hits to it’s culture given the current fear surrounding the longterm effects of concussions.

Sports take their cues from the professionals. Coaches at all levels steal not only the professionals’ onfield strategies, but also their teambuilding, culture-creating strategies.

Those cues must move away from barbarism, and instead focus on the type of men football can produce.

Men who care about the guy next to them in whatever context, know the importance of hard work, and live their lives with integrity. Football cannot survive if team-sponsored, player-accepted bullying is seen as the norm, but it can if there’s an

emphasis on what football can do for our society.

None of the pundits who have weighed in on this topic can truly understand what the dynamic was between Incognito and Martin, or what the exact dynamic in the Dolphins locker room is. But the best assumption when you look at what’s been made public is that Martin was trying to fit in to the meathead norm culture of NFL offensive linemen despite the fact that he’s a Stanford graduate with two successful lawyers for parents. At some point, the shameful bullying culture got to Martin’s head, and he couldn’t take it anymore.

It’s easy to say: “this is just the NFL’s culture.” These guys are warriors. Get tough or get out.

Easy, but also idiotically barbaric and a slap in the face to what football should truly be about—football is about a brotherhood. Tearing down a brother in attempt to build him up is a faulty strategy and often the results are the complete reverse of what the bully is going for. Don’t believe me? Look at the numbers.

The Miami Dolphins’ offensive line, which clearly embraced a meathead, faux-macho, bully accepting culture, is the worst in the NFL. They’ve given up the most sacks (37), and they’re near the bottom in total rushing yards (25th in the league).

There are many ways to run a football team. Tony Dungy emphasizes love and respect. Pete Carroll emphasizes having a fun environment, which also harbors respect between players and coaches. The old-school style is also still quite prevalent in pro-football, and teams have great success when their head coaches are screamers.

It’s not my favorite style, but it’s a viable one because it causes players to band together and work hard to shut the crazy coach up, or make him happy. But when that screamer style trickles down to player on player action, it can paralyze a team.

The bullying culture is not essential to winning football games. In fact, it distracts from that goal. Accepting such a culture is the antithesis of a winning culture. And learning to win the right way should be the goal of every football coach and player from pee-wee to the NFL.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MU falls to Wright State

BY JUSTIN MASKULINSKI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University women’s basketball team lost its second game of the year and fell to 0-2 overall as they lost to Wright State University 90-63.

The Raiders forced 29 RedHawk turnovers as they improved to 2-0 on the year.

“I think part of it is decisionmaking and we need to make better decisions and be more assertive and aggressive on offense,” head coach Cleve Wright said. “I think we were a little passive, and that hurt us.”

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Anderson led the RedHawks, recording her first career double-double in her second career game. She scored 17 points and grabbed 16 rebounds in a team-high 31 minutes of action. Anderson was perfect from behind the three-point arc, as she made both of her attempts.

“I’m pleased with the way she played,” Wright said. “I’m pleased with the way she’s competing and I want her to keep competing like that.”

The Raiders had four players in double-digit scoring, with senior

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Miami drops to 0-10 with loss to Kent State

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Miami redshirt sophomore quarterback Drew Kummer scrambles during Miami’s 45-3 to loss to Bowling Green Tuesday Nov. 5. Kummer has gotten more playing time since Austin Boucher was injured against Ohio Univeristy.

BY JOE GIERINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Despite trailing by just one score for the vast majority of the game, the Miami University football team could not overcome an early Kent State University lead.

The RedHawks are now a program-worst 0-10 following the 24-6 Golden Flashes victory.

The RedHawks were actually the first to light up the scoreboard Wednesday, after snuffing out a fake punt. They drove down the field before being sacked on third down, giving sophomore kicker Kaleb Patterson a chance from 33 yards out. The attempt was right

down the middle, and Miami was up 3-0 at 8:34 of the first quarter.

KSU had different plans for its senior night, and drove down the field gaining all but two of their yards through the air. Junior running back Trayion Durham finished off the series with his 6-foot-1, 248-pound frame by bowling through a gap for a twoyard touchdown. After two Miami drives stalled in Kent State territory, a third attempt looked even more promising as the ’Hawks entered the redzone for the first time all game. It wasn’t to be, as a fumble extinguished what looked to be sure points.

The Golden Flashes rode the momentum of that turnover and drove 82 yards down the field, ending with a touchdown pass by redshirt freshman quarterback Colin Reardon that made it a two-score game.

Not to be outdone, Miami responded with a complete drive of its own, and reaching the redzone for the second time in the half, it was forced to attempt another field goal. Patterson put his second kick through the uprights on the night, making it

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Sun Devils handle ’Hawks with ease

BY ZACH MACIASZEK FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s basketball team (0-2) fell to Arizona State University (2-0) 90-54 on the road Tuesday despite a career-high 24 points from sophomore guard Reggie Johnson.

The ’Hawks struggled on both sides of the ball, shooting only 32 percent from the field while allowing the Sun Devils to hit on 55 percent of their attempts. The only other scorer to join Johnson in double figures was senior center Blake McLimans with 15 points.

Outside of the points scored by those two, the rest of the team managed only 15 points. Senior forward Will Felder was not his typical self as he finished only 1-9 from the field.

The Sun Devils had four players score in double figures. Leading the way was sophomore guard Jahii Carson and senior guard Jermaine Marshall with 18 points apiece.

Head coach John Cooper said

his team didn’t play well in many aspects of the game.

“We got it handed to us,” Cooper said. “We had some letdowns in many areas, but I’ll take a look at the tape and figure out ways for us to get better and go from there.

I thought they [Arizona State] shot the ball extremely well and I didn’t think we did a very good job in transition defense.”

The RedHawks stormed out to a quick 9-5 lead spearheaded by five points from McLimans and two baskets from Johnson. The Sun Devils battled back to tie the game at 11. ASU then went on a 20-2 run over the next six minutes. The first half ended with Arizona State leading 41-18.

Miami cut the ASU lead to 17 points with 16:19 remaining on the clock in the second half. However, the Sun Devils responded with 10 unanswered points to push the lead to 27 points with 13:03 left to play, putting the game out of reach.

Miami had great difficulty contending with the length of Arizona

State, getting outrebounded 48-27.

“There were a lot of rebounds to be had,” Cooper said. “We were one and done on our end of the court and they were able to get some offensive rebounds.”

The blowout loss to Arizona State comes on the heels of a much closer 74-62 loss to the University of Notre Dame. Johnson said he does not believe the ’Hawks took a step back in this loss to the Sun Devils.

“I don’t necessarily think we took a step back,” Johnson said. “Some of our key players like Will Felder just had off nights. I think that it was just one of those games where you just have to take it in the chest, learn from it, don’t dwell on it and get ready for the next one because we have a good team.”

Johnson was one of the lone bright spots in the game for the RedHawks.

He has scored career highs in points in back to back games, topping 20 both times.

MU travels to face its in-state rivals Xavier University 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 20.

HOCKEY

Brotherhood prepares to battle Badgers

BY JOE GIERINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Miami University freshman forward Anthony Louis tries to deke past a Cansisus College defender during Miami’s 5-2 win Nov. 2.

Talk about a stellar schedule – the Miami University hockey team is slated to square off against its fourth nationally-ranked opponent this season. The No. 8 RedHawks (6-3-1, 2-2-0-0 NCHC) have previously played then-No. 6 University of North Dakota, No. 8 Providence College and No. 4 St. Cloud State University.

For the RedHawks, a strong schedule is nothing new. Head

coach Enrico Blasi and his Brotherhood were used to a grinding lineup when they belonged to the now-defunct Central Collegiate Hockey Conference, but they’ve always competed against more than competent competition out-of-conference as well. Joining up with the National Collegiate Hockey Conference hasn’t changed that fact in the slightest, and it’s the No. 12 University of Wisconsin who provide their second ranked, non-league trial.

The 3-2-1 Badgers’ only two

losses came when they were bullied in Beantown by both Boston College and Boston University a month ago. Their only test in the last three weeks came in a weekend series against Lake Superior State University in the first two days of November. A come from behind tie on Friday set the stage for an 8-1 trouncing of the nowNo. 15 Lakers, and it appears that Miami will have its hands full

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