November 18, 2011 | The Miami Student

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Proposal aims to give student trustees vote

By Catherine Ubry For The Miami Student

Students serving as trustees for Ohio public universities may gain equal voting rights on all university matters at their respective institutions thanks to new legislation proposed by State Representatives Mike Duffey (R) and Mike Stinziano (D).

According to Stinziano, there are currently two student members on university boards of trustees, although they do not have voting powers, cannot attend executive sessions and cannot be counted towards a quorum. But with the new proposal, Stinziano and Duffey are hoping to change that.

“The issue of allowing student trustees to serve as full voting members … has been around for nearly decades … my father, former State Representative Mike Stinziano, sponsored the original legislation and championed it for 18 years until it was signed into law allowing students to serve in a non-voting capacity on boards of trustees decades ago,” Stinziano said via email.

Stinziano and Duffey proposed this bill in the hopes of giving students more of a voice on university trustee boards and have already received a large amount of support on the issue.

“When I was in college, I learned that student trustees didn’t have the right to vote and I wanted to do something about it,” Duffey said. “But it was just a thought in my head.

When I was elected this year, I thought ‘what can we achieve with students?’ Representative Stinziano and I are younger,

we identify with the youth of Ohio and we’re very similar in our thinking.”

The representatives have been working with the InterUniversity Council (IUC) on the legislation and have come to the understanding that the council will remain neutral on the legislation but will serve as a resource for members of the General Assembly, according to Stinziano.

The representatives have reached out to several public universities, receiving mixed feedback. Some universities have expressed concern or reservations regarding the legislation, ranging from the caliber of students being selected to issues regarding conflicts of interest. Ohio State University’s President, Gordon Gee, has already expressed his support for the legislation, according to Stinziano.

Not all universities have decided to support or oppose the legislation yet, but with the support of Gee, the Representatives are hopeful that the bill will create the change that they want to see. And if the bill passes, boards will not have to face too much change, according to Stinziano.

“Boards will now have to meet a different number of members to hold quorum and will have two new members on the board voting,” Stinziano said. “That said, it is my understanding that most boards already work closely in many official capacities with their student trustees, so it would not create a significant change for the operation of the Board.”

According to Randi Thomas, director of Institutional Relations at Miami University, at the moment not everyone

at Miami is supportive of the idea.

“Our initial thoughts are that it may create conflicts of interest,” Thomas said. “We’re not really sure how that may rule out. We want to consider and be mindful so students have positive experiences with the board.”

Current Miami University Student Trustee Lot Kwarteng said in an email, “The student trustee voting rights bill introduced in state legislature is intriguing and should be thoroughly reviewed. As the junior trustee, I am unable to take a definitive stance considering my short time in the role.”

Miami President David Hodge is also ambivalent on the issue.

“I have complete confidence that our student trustees, if they could do this, would do well,” Hodge said. “But I worry greatly about potential conflicts of interest and being put in a difficult situation with respect to their peers.”

Stinziano believes the benefits of giving student trustees the right to vote outweigh the risks.

“This will give students an official say in the operation, direction and future of the university and their education,” Stinziano said. “The commitment of financial resources and time by students more than necessitates the need for equal representation on each university’s governing body.”

The representatives are still waiting for the first committee hearing on the legislation, but they are hoping to work with members of the General Assembly and university leaders to pass the legislation quickly, according to Stinziano.

POWERING IT UP AND IN

Senior forward Julian Mavunga looks to score over Josh Parker (left) and Matt Kavanaugh of the University of Dayton Tuesday night at Millett Hall. Miami won in overtime for their first victory of the season. Article on page 10.

Sophomore Quinton Cook said he thinks having the ability to vote is the natural next step for student trustees.

“The students are already able to voice their opinions on issues to the board, which is great for the student body,” he said. “Letting them have a vote though on the issues brought up to the board will allow them to not only voice their opinion but have an effect on the outcome of the issue. I strongly believe that letting them have their vote is a good idea.”

Duffey said he is encouraging student support of the legislation.

“I encourage any student interested in this legislation to email, call or even write letters to their representatives … we want student support,” Duffey said. “Public universities are there to put students first. We believe that students come first.”

ASG discusses course retake policy changes

By Matt Levy

Senior Staff Writer

Among proposed changes coming from Miami University’s administration, including major changes to the academic calendar and the Miami Plan, Associated Student Government (ASG) discussed a large anticipated revision to Miami’s course repeat policy during their weekly meeting Tuesday night.

In his weekly report, Student Body President Nick Huber brought to student senate’s attention that the university has begun reexamining its course repeat policy and University Senate wanted ASG’s input on the matter.

According to Huber, many of Miami’s current course repeat policies would be altered, including allowing a maximum of only 12 hours of credit to be retaken. Students would only be allowed to retake classes during their first 64 hours of class credit at the university, with the reasoning behind it being academic forgiveness should be given during a student’s first two years at the university.

“Often what happens is a student takes a course in their first few semesters that

will be really detrimental to their GPA, and it can sometimes discourage students,” Huber said.

Other changes include requiring students to earn a Cor lower in a class in order to retake it and applying normal fees and tuition regardless of how many times a student repeats a course.

Huber also said with the new system, a retaken class grade would be the only grade to appear on a transcript, unlike the current system, in which an average of the original and retaken course grades is what appears on a student’s transcript.

According to Huber, these would be put in place to help boost Miami’s retention rate among its first and secondyear students, a demographic traditionally at risk for becoming discouraged when they receive bad grades early in their college careers.

Response to the policy was vocal, with many ASG members were confused or apprehensive about the proposed new system. Others saw many benefits in it.

Huber wrote down senators’ concerns over the issues they brought up to send back to University Senate.

“I know a lot of schools

that have policies like this in place, and they’re ranked a lot lower than Miami,” ASG Treasurer Michael Trivelli said.

Many senators wanted to know what sort of impact the 64 hour cutoff would have on transfer students who upperclassmen who wanted to retake a course.

“I think maybe we need to look at who we’re retaining,” Senator Tom Hohman said. “We should focus on who we want to retain instead of retention just for the sake of retention.”

Huber said the adminis-

freshman year in a couple of classes, if I had had this, I would have felt a lot better and more welcome at Miami,” Senator Peter Dougherty said. “All Miami students have gotten in because Miami wanted them to be here, and we need to remember that before we start saying ‘I don’t want to keep that person because of their 2.5 GPA.’” ASG’s next meeting will be held Nov. 29, after Thanksgiving break.

To read other highlights from ASG’s meeting, visit www.miamistudent.net These include: auditing

Often what happens is a student takes a course in their first few semesters that will be really detrimental to their GPA, and it can sometimes discourage students.”

NICK HUBER

STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT

tration likely wants to retain all its students, as they have all gone through the university’s admission process, and to lose a number of students would be against Miami’s best interests.

“Speaking from someone who screwed up my

SCOTT ALLISON THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami’s Motorsports club, censuring Off-Campus Senator Ryan O’Toole and tabling a resolution to thank the Miami, Oxford and Hamilton Police Departments for keeping order during the Oct. 25 visit of the Westboro Baptist Church to Miami.

City Council to have more Miami ties

By Kaila Frisone

For The Miami Student

Miami University employees continue to show their dedication to the city of Oxford.

Two distinguished Miami employees were elected to Oxford’s City Council Nov. 8.

Steve Snyder and Kate Rousmaniere’s term on council will last four years.

Snyder currently serves as executive assistant to the president and secretary to the Board of Trustees for Miami University.

He will be retiring from Miami next month after 39 years.

Snyder was on Oxford’s City Council from 1981-1990 and said he is very pleased to serve the Council once again.

“I’m hoping my experience will help with the city affairs and the issues we’ll be facing,” Snyder said.

Rousmaniere, going on her 19th year as a resident of Oxford, is a professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami. She will be stepping down after nine years of serving as the chair of the department.

Rousmaniere said her position as chair is a big responsibility but now that she is stepping down, she will have time to devote to City Council.

However, she will continue being a professor for the department.

She looks forward to working with the city staff and learning more about the city.

“I am really interested in university-city partnerships, especially around the subject of sustainability,” Rousmaniere said.

Snyder said some of Council’s responsibilities include setting city goals, approving the annual budget and appointing city leaders.

Bobbe Burke, coordinator of off-campus affairs and Miami Tribe relations,

said City Council will always need to be aware of economic development in Oxford.

“I think the biggest issue they are going to face as a council is going to be the ongoing decline of funding,” Burke said.

Rousmaniere said the problem regarding the budget is not that Oxford is overspending, but that Ohio is withdrawing funds. Rousmaniere suggests sharing resources between the city and township of Oxford to save money.

Junior EJ Corporan said having a Miami perspective is great for Oxford.

“I think it’s wonderful that Miami will be represented on City Council,” Corporan said.

Rousmaniere is impressed by the increasing involvement of Miami students with the Oxford community. She encourages more students to engage in the community because as students of Miami, they are residents of Oxford.

Snyder and Rousmaniere are not the only members of the seven-person council associated with Miami.

Richard Keebler, Oxford’s Mayor, is a retired Miami staff member. Kenneth Bogard also serves on City Council and retired from Miami.

Snyder said it is important for members of the Miami community to be on the council in order to keep the lines of communication open.

Snyder and Rousmaniere agree that Miami’s presence on City Council represents the good partnership between Miami and Oxford.

“We have very talented people who think it really matters to try to give back to the community.

We want Oxford to be a strong community, and we want Miami to be a strong university and those two things go hand in hand,” Snyder said.

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Athletics to install new scoreboard in Millett

By Kaler Hazen Staff Writer

The scoreboard at Millett Hall is finally making the leap into the 21st century with the help of the Miami University’s Athletic Department and Daktronics’ scoreboards.

According to Steve Cady, senior athletic director, the current scoreboard being put to use in Millett Hall came to the university after the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

The athletic department establishes a life cycle for most of its equipment, and the scoreboard has reached the end of the line. According to Cady, the operation staff expressed

concern over the condition of the current board, to the point where the senior administration agreed that there was no point in trying to fix it.

The new board is scheduled for installation sometime between Dec. 20 and Jan. 6. “[Scoreboard] technology has changed significantly in 15 years,” Cady said.

The new board will run many facets of the game through a video program, and feature improvements like LED lighting and new software, which will be compatible with what the stats crew uses at the scoring table, Cady said.

“It’s part of a long range

facility master plan that we have,” Cady said.

He said the new board comes as a significant im-

certain parts of it could be used as backup for the other scoreboards on campus.

Cady said he did not know

[The scoreboard] is part of a long range facility master plan that we have.”

Steve cady

SENIOR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

provement over features like screw-in light bulbs and “list based” information that is displayed on the current board.

According to Cady, the old board will be recycled in terms of parts and metal, and

exactly where the money for the project was coming from, but that the university as a whole sets money aside annually to replace and repair facilities. The new scoreboard will cost roughly $600,000.

According to Cady, scoreboard technology can be viewed in terms of general computer technology, making the system being used in Millett relatively archaic. In an attempt to reduce costs, the university purchased a scoreboard of similar size to the one being replaced, so that the board can be placed in the same spot inside Millett Hall.

Student sentiment about the replacement was optimistic, though some expressed concern over the cost of the new board.

“Since one of our dining halls is called Scoreboard, I think there’s a definite need to keep the technology up

to date,” sophomore Shelby Miller said. “After all, if we can integrate this technology into the culture of our campus, it should at least be up to date.”

First-year Jackie Joseph was more skeptical about the purchase.

“Despite the improvement to the university, I think we’re kind of obligated to question any purchase with a value that high,” Joseph said. “[The amount] is a lot of money and the university needs to make sure they’re putting it in the right place. I’m not saying they aren’t, but it should be examined closely.”

RHA examines lighting quality on campus Groundbreaking nears

By Kathryn Bakaly For The Miami Student

In addition to the obvious safety measures provided by the university such as the Miami University Police Department and Student Health Services, there is one safety measure that is often overlooked, yet, is still significant in the protection of Miami students: campus lighting.

Although the importance of lighting is often taken for granted, the university’s physical facilities team puts in a lot of time and effort to ensure the campus is well lit.

In order to get feedback directly from students on campus lighting, members of the Residence Hall Association (RHA) performed a “lighting

tour” put on by the General Assembly in late September.

Each year, the General Assembly conducts this tour.

The tour consists of an evaluation of the existing bulbs as well as problem areas that have been flagged as needing additional lighting.

RHA Community Service Director Grace Pozniak said she and the General Assembly “divided and conquered” in order to properly evaluate the noted problem areas. This year, RHA is making sure that Physical Facilities is taking the critique from the lighting tour seriously. “[RHA] has set up a system with Physical Facilities so that when a light is fixed, they will notify the community service director and organizer of this program,

which ensures that RHA has more oversight in the process of determining lighting on campus than in years past” Jessica Easterly, president of RHA, said.

Project manager and architect Robert Bell shed light on other ways in which suggestions concerning the lighting on campus can be put forth outside of the annual lighting tour. Students are encouraged to call in with suggestions, especially when a particular project is taking place in a designated area on campus, most prevalently around the student center or engineering building, according to Bell. Along with student suggestions, Bell said night shift staff members check around campus in search of problem areas.

Some students still feel unsafe walking home at night.

Sophomore Amber Tagg said she is satisfied with the quality of lighting on busy streets such as High Street and Spring Street, but dissatisfied with the lighting of pathways that students often use to cut through campus on their walks home.

“I always find myself looking over my shoulder because I get nervous walking by myself,” Tagg said.

The university continues to encourage student suggestions. However, according to Bell, “it is impossible for the entire campus to be lit up at night so students are encouraged to use the sidewalks that provide an ample amount of lighted safety.”

JULIA ENGELBRECHT THE MIAMI STUDENT

YOU’VE GOT A MINUTE TO WIN IT

Teams competing in Alpha Omicron Pi’s “Minute to Win It” philanthropy prepare to move to the next round Monday night in Millett Hall.

Classes bring Chinese language, culture to local youth

By Kelsey Jones

For The Miami Student

The Oxford Community Arts Center and the Miami University Confucius Institute are co-sponsoring Chinese for Children, an after-school class on Chinese language and culture for children in the third through fifth grades.

The classes are held at the Oxford Community Arts Center (OCAC), located at 10 S. College Ave., from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. There is a one time class fee of $50 per student. Busing from Kramer Elementary School to the OCAC is provided.

Felice Marcus, the associate director for the American English and Culture Program, came up with the idea for the language and culture class and began making plans for it over the summer.

Marcus said learning Chinese is an important skill for

today’s world, especially as China increases its role in the global economy. For Oxford and Miami University in particular, where there has been a growing Chinese population, understanding Chinese language and culture would be very useful, Marcus said.

OCAC Executive Director Caroline Croswell also said she sees value in teaching children about languages and ways of life outside of their own experience.

“Broadening their horizons about different cultures is very important,” Croswell said.

Marcus currently teaches the class along with Singyun Song, the associate director for Miami’s chapter of the Confucius Institute, a worldwide organization devoted to enhancing Chinese learning.

The Confucius Institute provided $500 in grant money for transportation to OCAC from the elementary school.

Song said her role in the class is to teach students more about Chinese culture, which she plans to do through handcrafts, paper-cutting and even Chinese folk songs.

Despite the many benefits of the class, enrollment has been rather slow, according to Marcus and Croswell.

However, neither of them said they are discouraged by the low numbers.

Croswell said most of the classes offered at OCAC have trouble gaining enrollment at first, but that interest usually picks up over time. She said she believes enrollment will increase in the spring.

Part of the lack of interest, Marcus said, might have its roots in the belief that Chinese is a hard language.

“The spoken language isn’t terribly complex,” Marcus said.

While the written form of Chinese may be intimidating,

Marcus said Chinese characters are not just words, but an art. Approaching Chinese with this in mind makes learning the language less daunting and more fun.

Miami sophomore Yvonne Chen, a student from China, plans on helping Marcus and Song with the class once enrollment picks up. Chen said she has not met many American students who seem interested or know much about Chinese culture. As a result, she said she and her Chinese friends tend to keep to themselves in their small group.

Chen said she is excited about the prospect of not only teaching Chinese to children, but also increasing her own knowledge of American culture.

“My English will be improved a lot,” she said.

The next session of Chinese for Children will be on Nov. 30.

as companies bid to build new dining hall

By Abby Russ

For The Miami Student

With the wide variety of food Miami University has to offer, it seems hard to believe there is a new dining location preparing to make its groundbreaking.

The plans for the Maple Street Station have been in the works for quite some time now, and with just two more weeks left for the construction companies to bid on the project, the construction can begin soon.

While the groundbreaking was originally scheduled for several weeks ago, Pete Miller, associate vice president for auxiliaries, said the groundbreaking is on time because construction companies are still bidding.

“We have to go through the process of bidding to get the ‘Miami look,’” Miller said.

The Maple Street Station is going to take the place of both Scott dining hall and Hamilton dining hall. The new location will be in the unused parking lot across from Scott Hall on Maple Street, fittingly.

According to Nancy Heitdman, director of dining and culinary support services, the new dining facility will consist of seven different venues.

“They will appear as individual restaurants,” Heitdman said. “And will be supported by one, behind the scenes central kitchen and our state of the art Culinary Support Center.”

Out of the seven venues, there will be two anchor restaurants, which include the “Pacific Rim” where students can grab Asian inspired food and the “Americas” where South and Central American cuisine will be served.

The other five venues include “First Stop” which will serve pancakes, crepes and omelets all day, Heitdman said it will be a hit with the on trend

breakfast fare.

“Patisserie” will cater to those with a desire for specialty bakery treats made with fresh fruit and gourmet ingredients, according to Heitdman.

“Encounter” will be all about building your own burger, Heitdman said.

Students will be able to choose from veggie, turkey or organic fresh ground beef options to create their perfect burger.

“De-lish” will be a quick service Jewish-American Deli. Students will have many options to build their own sandwiches and taste soups and salads.

And finally, “Red Brick Pizza” will allow on the go students can pick up a slice of their pizza of choice and grab a salad as well.

Heitdman and Miller both said students will love wide variety.

“I’m most excited about the diverse menus this particular design allows us to bring to Miami students,” Heitdman said.

Students like first-year Maria Pohlman share their excitement.

“I love the idea of having separate restaurants with different types of food,” Pohlman said.

Hopefully with the groundbreaking in the near future, Miller said he expects the project to be completed in the fall of 2013. The cost of the new Maple Street Station is also projected to be in the neighborhood of $18 million.

However, Miller explains that there is no way to tell until the university decides on a construction company.

Miller and Heitdman said they are excited for the construction of Maple Street Station to get under way so students can enjoy all that it will have to offer.

“It’s what we do – provide great food for great people,” Heitdman said.

Maple Street Station Meal options • • • • • • •

“First Stop” - Will serve pancakes, crepes and omelets all day “Patisserie” - Will serve bakery treats made with fresh fruit and gourmet ingredients “Encounter” - Will serve burgers that stdents can build themselves.

“De-lish” - Quick service Jewish-American Deli; Students will have the option to build their own sandwiches and taste soups and salads.

“Red Brick Pizza” - Grab and go option; students can pick up a slice of pizza and salad.

“Pacific Rim” - Will serve Asian inspired food.

“Americas” - Will serve South and Central American Cuisine.

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POLICE

BEAT ‘Occupiers’ march through Oxford Student calls police on roomate marijuana use Around 1:20 a.m. Saturday, Oxford Police Department officers responded to building “G” at the Hawks Landing apartment complex due to a complaint of an odor of burnt marijuana. When the officers arrived, one of the tenants said he called the police on his roommate because he believed his roommate had been smoking marijuana in their apartment. The officer could smell an odor of burnt marijuana and was directed to the roommate’s room. The officer knocked and a male identified as Miami University sophomore Thomas Martin answered and was accompanied with a friend.

Police reports indicate it was obvious they had been smoking marijuana.

Martin initially refused that he had been, then relented and showed the officer a small plastic bag of marijuana and a glass pipe.

Martin was charged with drug possessionand drug paraphernalia offenses.

Male given underage drinking citation after vomitting uptown Around 1 a.m. Sunday, an Oxford Police Department officer was working a special detail assignment at Skyline Chili. Employees alerted him that a male had just vomited all over a table in the dining room. The officer made contact with the male and identified him as Brett Triantafilou, a 19-yearold University of Cincinnati student. The officer noticed he had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, slurred speech and very unsteady on his feet. When asked how he became so intoxicated while being underage, Triantafilou responded that he made a “poor decision.” He was cited for underage drinking.

By Justin Reash Community Editor

Amid the nationwide “Occupy Wall Street” movement sits Oxford, Ohio. Nov. 17 marked the day of action for many chapters of the Occupy movement, including Oxford’s. The “MU Occupy” chapter took to Uptown Park today in a show of solidarity for the movement nationwide. Starting at noon, a group of six protestors held signs, spoke aloud about their cause and were even waving an American flag.

The “MU Occupy” chapter has worked through Facebook and other social networking sites in the lead up to this rally, according to Miami University sophomore Alex Finch.

“Occupy Oxford is a show of solidarity with all the other occupy movements,” Finch said. “It’s a broken system. I don’t want to graduate and not have a job.”

The group was also trying to raise awareness of how bad the economy actually is, especially for students.

“There are lots of things that apply specifically to students, I mean student loans how overpowering that system is, and how students are graduating with $60,000 in debt and can only find a job

JULIA ENGELBRECHT THE MIAMI STUDENT

Protestors march through Oxford and Miami University’s campus in support of the nationwide “Occupy” movement Thursday afternoon.The protestors were demonstrating against high tuition and high unemployment, amongst other issues. flipping burgers at McDonalds,” Justin McCollum of Hamilton, Ohio said.

Finch said the movement isn’t just students.

“It’s not only students,” Finch said. “ If you look at the town of Oxford and see how many people are below the poverty line, which are thousands, it’s people who are trying to make their living and haven’t been able to find jobs in years”.

According to McCollum, the movement is also about

how rights for Americans have been eroding slowly but surely over time.

“We don’t have control over our government, and for a long time, people have been saying, ‘oh it’s been good’ but I completely disagree,” McCollum said.

McCollum went on to explain that he would reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which effectively introduced modern banking reforms, that was repealed in 1999.

“Basically, it prohibits banks from engaging in negative transactions that are bad for the investors but good for the CEOs”, McCollum said.

“I want to see it reinstated so that high-frequency trading will be stopped”.

Montana Luken is also from Hamilton and came to Oxford to support the movement. According to Luken, the biggest issue facing young adults is the high cost of college education.

“The schools raise tuition

rates which causes you to pay back loans, which makes college a for profit system,” Luken said. “The lack of access is part of the reason that the American workforce is less valuable then it used to be.”

As the Occupy movement enters into its second month of existence, it is hard to discredit the amount of manpower it has generated, especially as seen through the “MU Occupy” chapter’s demonstration.

United Way chapter to start on Miami’s campus

By Taylor Dolven

Asst. Campus Editor

A student-led United Way organization is working closely with Oxford United Way to create a larger impact.

The organization sprung from the Living Learning Community titled “government relations network” from Stanton Hall, according to Jerome Conoly, president of Oxford United Way and assistant dean of Miami University libraries.

While the Oxford United Way has a fundraising goal

of $226,000 for this year, Conoly said the group is more interested in students’ time and talent than their money.

“Our students are giving time that is priceless,” Conoly said.

Sophomore Stephen Hostelley is the coordinator of the 12-person group comprised of two firstyears, nine sophomores and one senior.

Miami students only contribute 5 percent of local United Way funds, yet they live on campus for nine months of the year, according to Hostelley.

“We want to boost support from students to be more involved in the community we take part in every day,” Hostelley said.

Conoley said the board of directors embraces student support.

“We are excited about what students are doing and how they are contributing,” he said.

Sophomore Ryan Karbula serves as the chair of the finance committee for the group. He thinks Miami students could do a lot more to support he Oxford United Way. “I feel that our support

could be far more substantial than it has been,” Karbula said. “I know they appreciate all the support we do offer but I think they realize it could be much greater.”

Karbula said the goal of the group is to increase the support of the Miami community for the Oxford United Way. “I think it is a very worthwhile project,” he said.

In addition to encouraging hands-on involvement in the 22 local United Way agencies such as the food pantry and the family resource center, the group is

also planning a big fundraising event for March, according to Hostelley.

“We are teaming up with the theater department to raise funds for the local United Way,” Hostelley said.

Conoly is impressed by the student group’s progress thus far with planning the event.

“The theme of the United Way is ‘live united’,” he said. “A group of freshmen coming together to try their best to make the life of another person better today than it was yesterday, it’s hard not to support that.”

Oxford City Council votes on final budget for 2012

Students launch website to connect businesses with community

By Sarah Sidlow

By Trey Frame

Community Editor

Oxford City Council met this past Tuesday The crowd was unusually large, filled mostly with the families of two of the newest additions to the Oxford Police Department, who were sworn in at the meeting.

The main focus of the meeting was the approval

Most notably, a $7,000 allotment for the City Manager’s citizen survey was removed and reapportioned among city agencies.

The Oxford Choice Pantry received $5,400 and the Oxford Senior Center received $4,000 for transportation.

Funding for the Community Arts Center was reduced by $4,596.

Oxford Mayor Richard

In the coming year, we’re going to need to have some philosophical discussions among council. Ultimately, we’re responsible for the taxpayers of the City of Oxford.”

Richard keebler OXFORD MAYOR

and finalization of the 2012 city budget. City Council worked hard to provide funding to many of the city agencies that required assistance without increasing the total amount of funding, according to City Manager Doug Elliott.

Keebler warned Council and the public that it was necessary to take a hard look at which agencies were being funded.

“In the coming year, we’re going to need to have some philosophical discussions among coun-

cil,” Keebler said. “Ultimately, we’re responsible for the taxpayers of the City of Oxford.”

Councilor Greig Rutherford was glad that city agencies were still receiving funding, and urged resourcefulness and support from the Oxford community.

“These are difficult times,” Councilor Greig Rutherford said. “I’m very proud of the [Oxford Community Choice Pantry] for going to other districts that they serve and asking for money… These agencies are part of what we call quality of life. But tax dollars alone cannot meet all of these needs. It’s about making it happen in your community. These agencies need your funding.”

City Council will be holding a special meeting Nov. 29 to welcome the new council and to elect the new mayor and vice mayor of Oxford. Kate Currie and Greig Rutherford, the two council members who will retire from service, will also be honored.

For the Miami Student

It is not uncommon to hear uptown Oxford referred to as “Ox-Vegas,” a term that refers to the location where most of the popular restaurants, bars and clubs are located.

As a result of this, a team of Miami University students have decided to take this moniker and create a website called theoxvegas.com. The site’s purpose is to get many of the various restaurants and bars uptown to compile their information about specials and events on one website, according to sophomore Harshet Jain, one member of the team who has worked to complete this project.

The site was started by students in an entrepreneurship 201 class, which involved the group starting their own business.

Jain, along with sophomore JP Harris, seniors Stefana Rafiroiu and Megan Perry, and juniors Josh Sneed and John Anevski decided it would be a great idea to link all of Oxford together. And the idea for the website www.theoxvegas.com

was born.

The Oxvegas site will be available beginning today. Students and residents of the local community will be able to see what sort of special deals will be given by the assorted restaurants and bars in the community. The

student everyone knows we are looking to save some money,” he said.

The website will also include community service and volunteer work events from anyone who is looking to get their information out to the student body,

People will finally be able to understand when the best deals are, thus leading to more people coming out and enjoying themselves without breaking the bank.”

Alex Franco

MIAMI UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORE

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Miami’s main activities and information will be updated in real time, so that at any given moment, the students here will be able to know what is going on around campus.

Miami sophomore Eric Navarro is excited about the project.

“The website sounds like an awesome idea, it is something that I would be likely to utilize on many occasions, as a college

this even includes events from Oxford City Council, according to Jain.

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“This will be great for the bar in terms of them getting more service. People will finally be able to understand when the best deals are, thus leading to more people coming out and enjoying themselves without breaking the bank,” he said.

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Opponents of gay marriage succumb to faulty logic

MADELINE HRYBYK THE MIAMI STUDENT

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

Students should share voting rights with board members The proposal for students to gain full voting rights alongside their respective institutions’ board of trustees represents a step forward for Ohio public universities.

Thanks to new legislation proposed by State Representatives Mike Duffey (R) and Mike Stinziano (D), students have the potential to be considered for voting rights during board of trustees meetings. Currently, even with two student members on university boards of trustees, these students do not have voting powers, permission to attend executive sessions or consideration for being a part of a quorum.

The editorial board of The Miami Student respects the positive results that may

come with this accomplishment, if students and their respective board of trustees can cohesively and decisively negotiate for the same outcome.

These students should not just be “another body” in the room — their voiced opinions need to go beyond mere “consideration” by the other trustees. Therefore, voting rights will give them representation, however, there are still reasons for concern.

The editorial board agrees that with these voting rights come pressures from the student body; therefore the students chosen for the board of trustees should be most willing to not only represent their fellow peers, but to also learn the responsibilities gain the

expertise necessary to make informed votes.

Not all Ohio universities have decided to support this legislation, nor have they decided to oppose it, yet Ohio General Assembly has a big decision on its hands. Students who serve need to understand their due diligence to this position, not only as a job per se, but also as a true, responsible commitment.

If passed, the boards need to understand that these young intellectuals have a reason to contribute — if these students fill all of the requirements as standard to the board, then their votes should not be approached with caution. The students should be trusted to do well, and especially, the right thing.

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I am writing in response to Olivia Brough’s essay “For Our Generation, old litmus tests could be a distraction” in Nov. 15’s edition. Brough and others who share her views on homosexuality, use bad logic to argue their cases. In the article, Brough argues that changing the definition of marriage to include homosexual couples would open up the definition to other changes, such as the inclusion of polygamous marriages and makes the institution of marriage arbitrary.

This argument is called the slippery slope and is recognized as a logical fallacy.

Saying that allowing homosexuals to marry opens the institution up for worse things, such as polygamy and bestiality, is avoiding the issue. By saying that gay marriage should not be allowed because it may open the way for polygamy only says that polygamy is wrong, and gay marriage can’t be institutionalized because polygamy is the issue at hand. It is not a valid reason for why homosexuality itself should continue to be banned. And there is no reason for people like Brough to fear that polygamy will become the next object of debate in the national discourse because it has already been discussed multiple times in the course of American and world history. And if it truly is such an offence to the institution of marriage, Brough

should have no fear that her arguments will continue to stand up against it, as they have long before she became aware of them.

Polygamy has been illegal in this country for decades. National opinion does not support its institutionalization and shows no signs of changing. I also doubt there is little chance that bestiality will soon become up for national debate, as it is illegal in most societies around the world, including this one, and is never mentioned unless Republicans are making an argument against gay marriage.

Brough also argues that religion has become synonymous with backwards thinking and is “used by some as an easy excuse to dismiss and not tolerate someone else’s opinion.” A point that pro-gay marriage advocates have not yet made, but one that seems glaringly obvious to me, is that other than logical fallacies, the only reasons standing behind the defense of marriage are religious. America’s government is fundamentally secular, where one person’s religion cannot be imposed unwillingly upon another. The fact that religious people and religious groups are telling others that they have to adhere to the marriage laws and customs dictated by one religion is the enforcement of religion and violates the

First Amendment rights of every American who is not a Christian.

It is not that religious people are inherently wrong in their way of life, or in their personal values and beliefs, but that they are wrong by enforcing those beliefs upon people who don’t want them. Unless those against gay marriage can come up with a secular argument that does not defy logic, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the definition of marriage are unconstitutional violations of people’s rights. Brough also makes the claim that America has more lenient views on homosexuality than a country like Iran and therefore homosexuals should count their blessings. Just because rights in America are being violated a little less than in other societies doesn’t mean that rights aren’t being violated.

But there is one point on which I do agree with Brough: gay rights are being worked out over time; they are being worked out as we speak with people who are advocating for legislative and social change, such as the overthrow of DOMA and the federal legalization of gay marriage.

When these changes are made, then gay rights will be worked out.

Marjorie Schinner schinnmk@muohio.edu

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This summer, I had the pleasure of seeing Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams and directed by the infamous Woody Allen. Gil (Wilson) is a lost screenwriter in dire need to “find himself” in Paris, wishing he could live among the brilliant minds like Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and all the great artists of the 1920s. These novelists and artists really saw Paris, shaped it in some way, giving it its cultural appeal for aspiring artists like Gil in today’s era.

Unfortunately for Gil, his fiancé’s subconscious crush, Paul, ruins his blissful reverie saying, “Nostalgia is denial denial of the painful present ... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.”

To us, nostalgia is where our heroes exist. To us, the past dictates who we become in our future, and we look to our role models to guide the way. Is Gil wrong in thinking his dreams can become reality? What would happen if we went back to our most coveted era and discovered the people we admire for who and or what they really are?

In a recent CNN Op-Ed, “America, a nation without

ESSAY J. Daniel Watkins watkindj@muohio.edu

The swirl of sentiment against the proposed pieces of legislation titled “PROTECT IP” and the “Stop Online Piracy Act” warms my heart. As a citizen of the web, one with active participation and use, it’s a terrifying aspect how much power can be moved to a third party. These acts seek to disrupt the way in which copyright infringement and piracy occur on the web and put a stop to it. Obviously, the people most supportive of these measures would be the ones who benefit financially (major movie studios and record companies). The common call? “They want to censor the Internet.” While not entirely true in theory, as per usual it is the practice that is important.

The current piece of legislation that exists on the

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It wasn’t a good night to walk across campus. From my home behind the Recreational Sports Center to Western Campus Lodge, it is a trek no matter how fast you walk. It was also raining fairly hard that night, which did not make my walk to go to the Lodge and interview people for an article any more enjoyable. I remember praying during the walk over that God would open up the hearts of the people I was about to talk to, whoever they would be, because I was writing on a hot topic, which will continue to be one: homosexuality and the Church.

I can already see spines stiffening, hearts turning and

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Living in nostalgia: comforting or getting lost in translation?

Andy Rooney’s position on life’s irony: what is with all this cotton?

We advertise whom we admire and we mask those whom we don’t behind rumors - what defines the modern day hero? heroes,” LZ Granderson highlights these questions saying, “Imagine if TMZ or Twitter was around when Marilyn Monroe was singing to President Kennedy or if smart phones were available to capture video of Mickey Mantle getting drunk in bars and picking up women. Our opinions of those iconic figures would certainly be different. And we wouldn’t be behaving as if things have somehow gotten worse. We would know that the country was never as pious as we like to think it was.”

What have the people of America shaped the country into? Something admirable?

Or are we just in a state of perpetual downfall? Granderson does make a point in saying our current media and social network outlets exploit the modern-day individual and his or her flaws, but where is the line drawn? We advertise whom we admire and we mask those whom we don’t behind rumors — what defines the modern day hero?

Granderson never goes on to define who his heroes

are, or if he has any left. But I suppose it doesn’t hurt to keep the heroes of the past in our future. So Marilyn Monroe wasn’t exposed for who she “really” was until years later. So some of our presidents had hidden indiscretions. Our Founding Fathers weren’t perfect either … does that mean we neglect what these people have done for our country?

If we want to look to heroes, look to the people overseas, protecting us from harm and keeping us in good relation with our allies. There are leaders, and among them walk frauds, but we must remember all human beings make mistakes. It’s in our nature; whether it’s an honest mistake or choice that puts us to shame. Heroes are defined by the choices they make — they rise above. We should still admire those who made a difference in our cultural, social and historic society.

We can choose for ourselves who our heroes are, but we can also be like Gil and see that sometimes, our heroes can truly be rendered in soft memories.

“Do I have opinions that piss people off? Yes. That’s what I’m here for.”

Writer and commentator Andy Rooney never shied away from sharing his views on a variety of topics. Living in an imperfect world that he loved to complain about,

He completed 1,097 bits of commentary.

Rooney’s bite-sized segments on 60 Minutes were typically filled with humorbased observations about the world and the people in it. He was a voice of reason and logic in a world that

The world and your experiences are what you make of it. You have to find the joy, the humor and the beauty in each day.

Rooney used metaphors, wit and criticism to make his points. He covered topics of all kinds, ranging from faucets, obscure inventions and the cotton in medicine bottles, to presidential elections and national tragedies. Although sometimes controversial, he was always honest with viewers, earning him a warm spot in their hearts.

The loss of Andy Rooney on Nov. 4 marked the end of an era in television and radio.

Born in 1919, the life of the iconic commentator was long and expansive. He served in the U.S. Army, wrote humor for The Gary Moore Show and authored numerous books.

The gray-haired, bushy eye browed writer never failed to entice readers and viewers with his musings, and he worked loyally for CBS until his retirement in October.

sometimes took itself too seriously. He knew and understood that life often doesn’t make sense and sought, in Mark Twain fashion, to make fun of the ironic. In one piece, he railed against the cotton in most pill bottles. “I don’t know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in medicine bottles. Why in the world do they do it? What’s with all this cotton?”

His honesty often drew controversy as well, offending many different groups of people with his statements.

Yet overall, the cranky, critical voice of Rooney resonated with audiences across the country. He transformed the awful, tedious moments of life we all face into laughable moments, minutes of relief from the struggles of daily life.

Every day, there are

challenges to face. It is easy to get caught up in the stress and worry of life, working only to get done with a project or make it to the next vacation.

But sometimes working only with the end in mind compromises the satisfaction and importance of the journey along the way. Thinking of life as only a series of checklists and duties limits reflection on what makes life grand.

Life is full of ironies: Iceland is green while Greenland is ice, a television “set” only includes one TV, nice guys finish last and the innocent are often victims of terrible crimes. The biggest irony might be that the short time endowed to us during our time on earth is often squandered and wasted.

The world and your experiences are what you make of it.

You have to find the joy, the humor and the beauty in each day. Daily tasks can be monotonous, but life does not have to be. Try to keep perspective on what really matters, and find time to laugh. Sometimes you just have to laugh. It feels better than crying.

Andy Rooney knew the importance of laughter better than most. He made fun of the ironic and mocked the ridiculous, the silly and impractical.

He brought perspective to the world through simplicity and taught great lessons in hope and perseverance. Lessons we can all learn from, even if his opinions sometimes pissed people off.

Worrying about privacy leads to worries of Internet censorship matter is known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which allows for a key principle. This is known as the safe harbor protection.

That is to say, if there is an infringement to be found, it is not the fault of the Internet Service Provider or content holder (example, YouTube).

The introduced legislation seeks to create third party police forces by making ISPs responsible for what content sites have come up.

Worse still, the process by which one can get content taken down is not very stringent. Such has already been an issue in the case of Viacom v. YouTube. The content host (YouTube) did not sift through each and every piece of content that was uploaded in order to determine whether or not any of it violated

copyright. According to Viacom, in that case, it wasn’t good enough. By the end though, the ruling came down in support of YouTube. YouTube did not have an obligation to seek out the copyrights related to the content uploaded. This obligation belonged to the copyright holder. To make it even murkier, there were claims in the midst of the trial that Viacom was using agents to upload the material to YouTube in order to make claims against the site.

Where we are now, though, is something more intense. If copyright holders do not think existing statutes are enough, then we get to the proposed legislation. Enforcement is key, but how can we get it without it reaching beyond its intended bounds? The biggest fears are that these means

will be abused to a form of Internet censorship that benefits only those making the financial claims. This happens when copyright holders are able to make the claims and hold the ISPs and websites responsible for the infringing content. Each business then has self-interest to intensely vet every piece of content in order to prevent itself from being shut down. Even though the amount of illegal material verses legal material is by no means close. A 99 percent legal website performing legitimate purposes is at risk here, and benefit again arises only to those with copyright holdings.

The issue surely isn’t that people want to protect their property, but the means by which they seek to do so.

Think of it this way: You walk

into an open market run by a company, one with a section with plenty of useful products and information that people bring to give away. But there are some, which are run down and paid no heed. This company provides people with a means to pursue their end. That is to say, they want somewhere to display what they have.

At first, it sounds like a flea market (eBay), but think of it more as an open exchange.

There’s one problem: someone has brought in something that they don’t own, and they are giving it away as such.

The question then is who is to blame?

Should the market have checked each person and what they bring in, or not?

If they should have, according to the new legislation, the

entire operation can be cut off.

The mostly good goes away because a small party found a little bit of bad. Again, not the issue that the real owner finds their things being given away without permission, but that all the other benefits must too go, because the entire venue now operates illegally according to that one owner perceiving a wrong.

Relate vendor to ISP or content host and products exchanged to Intellectual Property and people to copyright holders. The providers pay huge fines for that little mistake. And when money is on the line, people are obviously willing to go to restrictive means. It’s a dark time to be had when everyone wanting to share loses the means to do so because a few did the wrong thing.

Listening to others brings about better understanding and acceptance arguments forming in your mind. Just to loosen the tension: I am not about to write an apologia. That would take a full fledged book to discuss rather than a 700 word opinion essay. Yet what I learned from going there will stick with me for the rest of my walk in my faith.

When I arrived at the Lodge, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) association pot luck dinner filled the room with the smell of fried chicken and pasta salads. Plates were piled high, and the dinner was held to better incorporate students and faculty who supported LGBT. I felt led to sit next to two gentlemen, Andy

Zeisler and Bruce Adkins, who sat across from one another. As we started talking, Andy started getting into the discrimination he faced at Miami University in the 1980s when he was socially castigated by his teammates for being seen with his men’s volleyball team jacket at a gay bar — which in the end led him to winning a silver medal at the gay Olympics (I didn’t know there was such thing until then). His partner Bruce talked a lot about his struggle because he was raised in a Southern Baptist church denomination, which, as Bruce said, “made it very clear by their preaching that homosexuality was

not allowed.” His words were heavy as he recalled his experience in coming out to his family, who said they thought he was going through a phase of disillusionment and fantasy. Bruce said he had known since he was in third grade, and that he didn’t come out until he was 21 for fear of being cut off from his family.

It was incredible to hear the conversation that ensued after I listened to their stories. We had a deep, long talk about Jesus and God and the essence of life — but it wasn’t just the fact that, in my eyes, seeds were planted which made me excited.

What made me so excited

was how open they were and how authentic and honest they were in talking about it. They both expressed not feeling judged in the least even though I gave them what are my true convictions (which run hard against the grain of society). As I wondered why, I saw that it was in getting their stories, listening to them, and then sharing in a mode of gentleness and respect which allowed the deeper conversation. It by no means implies that I watered down to them my belief, but: what is truth without love?

And conversely, what is love without truth?

When I later interviewed Pastor Jeremy Carr, he also

said something which hit me — he mentioned the inability that the Church as a whole has had in befriending those who disagree with them. His point was that the Church has strayed away from deep relationships with people who do not share the same system of beliefs, when, as Carr said, “Jesus laid His life down for an entire group of people who did not believe him.” It comes down to the words of St. Francis of Assisi: “O Divine Master … grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand.” It was in understanding them that they understood me.

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HGH needs to be addressed by the nfl Every athlete is constantly looking for an edge. Something that will make him better than the competition. A little extra that will drive him to the next level. But what if there was an easier way to get an edge? A factor that could enable an elite athlete to train at a higher level, stay healthy, and in doing so, get bigger, faster, stronger. And while technically illegal in the United States, there would be no way of detecting it because it wasn’t tested for.

This would not be something easily passed up by many athletes. If you’re thinking steroids at this point, unplug your Walkman and get out of the 1990s. The drug that I’m talking about that can do all of these things but is still not tested for in the NFL is HGH, human growth hormone.

HGH is a hormone produced naturally by the human body in the pituitary gland.

Without going into a litany of terms that you would cover in a cell biology course, such as MAP Kinase pathway and insulin-like growth factor, HGH works basically by causing cells of the body to “build up.”

This can then help athletes recover faster and also build up muscle and bone mass, which is why it is popular in sports that punish the body.

The test for HGH is a blood test that has been instituted by the World Anti-Doping Agency since 2000, but the NFL Players Association has been stalling in the implementation of HGH testing. It was supposed to start this season, but while Roger Goodell has expressed disappointment at the delay, it’s hard to blame him for letting it slide when the league is bringing in billions of dollars in revenue. A scandal similar to the steroid “problem” in baseball would be bad for business.

The current tactic used by the NFLPA is that they believe their players naturally have higher levels of growth hormone than the normal population. Thus, testing by the normal levels would not suffice because their players are so masculine it would be like comparing apples to oranges.

I was skeptical so I asked my physician, Dr. Chris (he asked for anonymity), who asserted that claim was hogwash (he used a more colorful term, but this is a student newspaper). It may be tough for some NFL fans to swallow, but it’s possible that the union is protecting its players because they know the players will test positive.

As fans, we often want to believe that our favorite players are also perfect people; that they would never cheat or act unethically. We enjoy being blissfully unaware of any wrongdoing in our favorite sports. Football, which has become America’s game, is no exception to this. We want to see players make huge tackles and score points for our fantasy teams. Getting busted for using human growth hormone to improve their performance is not supposed to be part of the athlete-fan agreement. But in an age where there seems to be a scandal behind every locker room door, this hope has become a fairy tale.

The NFL will probably continue to overlook this problem and allow the NFLPA to stall until forced to do otherwise.

But if we are to believe the union, which claims that “The players of the National Football League are unequivocally committed to ensuring that football is played by men who do not use performanceenhancing drugs,” then it needs to take this small step and make it a clean game. In which case, this fairy tale will not have a happy ending.

RedHawks fall to Broncos Loss drops Miami out of MAC East title race

By JM Rieger Staff Writer

For the second straight week, the Miami University football team gave up a season-high seven sacks, including six in the second half, contributing to a close 24-21 loss Wednesday night to Western Michigan University (6-5, 4-3 Mid-American Conference).

It was senior night and the final home game of the year for the RedHawks, who honored 13 seniors before kickoff.

“They were getting a lot more pressure [on us], and it was disrupting the flow of our offense,” redshirt junior quarterback Zac Dysert said.

“We couldn’t get into a rhythm in the second half, and you could really tell.

They did a great job with the pressure in the second half, and that helped them come away with the victory.”

The loss drops the RedHawks to 4-7 (3-4 MAC) on the year, knocking them out of the race for the MAC East Division and putting their bowl hopes out of reach with only one game remaining on their schedule.

Offensively, the Red and White dominated the skies once again. Dysert threw for 413 yards and three touchdowns, completing a whopping 42 of 54 pass attempts.

Sophomore wide receiver Nick Harwell once again led the RedHawks with 14 catches for 138

yards and three touchdowns. Redshirt senior wide out Chris Givens had season-highs in both receptions and receiving yardage, catching 13 balls for 141 yards.

The Red and White had 53 yards rushing against the Broncos, but the majority of that came from two reverse hand-off plays to redshirt freshman running back Willie Culpepper.

Meanwhile, Miami struggled all night to find an answer for a dominant Western Michigan passing attack, which used a fivewide receiver set and a nohuddle offense throughout most of the game.

The Red and White were forced to rotate defensive players in throughout the game and used various defensive schemes to try to slow down the Bronco air attack.

“They’re a great offense,” senior safety Anthony Kokal said. “They are probably one of the best passing offenses that I have ever played against.

You have to give a lot of credit to them — they are good at what they do.”

Miami’s defensive backs were forced into single coverage against a great receiving corps multiple times in Wednesday night’s contest, which played into the hands of Western Michigan.

The ’Hawks came out firing on their first drive of the game, driving the ball 79 yards down the field all the way to the Western Michigan

1-yard line, but were unable to come away with any points following a missed field goal on fourth-andgoal by sophomore kicker Mason Krysinski.

After both teams failed to put points on the board in the first quarter, Dysert connected with Harwell twice in the second quarter, giving the RedHawks a 14-10 lead at the half.

Western Michigan made some key adjustments at the half though, picking up Miami’s blitzes and picking apart the RedHawks’ secondary, which had begun to play a zone defense. The Broncos were able to methodically work the ball down the field, hitting their speedy receivers underneath the coverage.

The Broncos scored 10 unanswered points to start the second half and Miami was not able to get on the board until late in the fourth quarter, when Dysert connected for the third time with Harwell, hitting him in between triple-coverage to cut Western Michigan’s lead to three with three minutes remaining.

The Red and White were unable to get the ball back though, as the Broncos picked up two first downs and ran down the clock, killing Miami’s hopes of another comefrom-behind win.

In addition to the seven sacks given up by Miami, the RedHawks also made foolish mistakes Wednesday night, including committing six

penalties for 55 yards, which set them back against one of the best offenses in the MAC. “Offensively, it’s the little things that you have to address to win ball games,” Head Coach Don Treadwell said. “You can’t have turnovers or penalties. That will set our team back. We continue to work on becoming a balanced ball club. We have to establish this balance and when we do that, we will get to where we want to be.”

It was a tough way to go out for a senior class that has gone through so much adversity, including three coaching staffs in four years, and their ability to adjust and continue to lead this team was instrumental in the success that Miami has experienced.

“I can’t say enough about this senior class,” Treadwell said. “Their leadership was a staple to this team. I am their third head coach. I have never been on a staff where a senior class has had to work as hard to adjust to so many different coaching styles during their college careers.”

Miami will now try to bounce back next Tuesday when they face off against their archrival, the Ohio University Bobcats, in the annual Battle of the Bricks.

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. in Athens, Ohio. Fans can listen to the game on Miami’s IMG Sports Network or watch the game on ESPN2.

Volleyball rides 4-game win streak into MAC Tournament

Mavunga helps Red and White soar past Flyers in overtime

By Tom Downey

By Josh North

For The Miami Student

The Miami University RedHawks women’s volleyball team continued their strong play as of late by winning both matches last weekend. They beat Bowling Green State University (BGSU) 3-1 (25-19, 25-23, 20-25, 25-18) Thursday and then upset Western Michigan University (WMU) 3-2 (25-27, 25-21, 20-25, 25-23, 15-11) Saturday. The wins moved the RedHawks from the Mid-American Conference Tournament bubble to being the No. 7 seed.

The RedHawks trailed in the first set until they went on 6-2 run to take a 10-9 lead.

The Falcons would take the lead back and go up 14-12, but the Red and White would eventually go up 16-14.

They never gave up the lead and went on to win 25-19.

With the second set tied at 5-5, the RedHawks went on a 6-0 run to take an 11-5 lead.

Miami never gave up that lead, although BGSU battled back and trimmed the lead to one, at 24-23. However, the RedHawks won the next point to take the set.

The third set saw the Falcons jump out to a 5-1 lead.

The ’Hawks would battle back and keep the set close, with BGSU up 14-13. How-

ever, Bowling Green went on 5-2 run to take a 19-15 lead.

They went on to win the set 25-20. The RedHawks controlled the fourth set, extending their lead to 14-9 and then to 21-14. They went on to win the set and the match 25-18.

Jenn Caylor led the Red and White’s offensive attack with 15 kills, while Amy Raseman had 11 and Cassie Farrell had 10. Madison Hardy again led the team in digs, with 19. Amy Kendall had her third straight doubledouble, with a game high 38 assists and 10 digs.

The match against Western Michigan marked Senior Day for the RedHawks. The Broncos jumped out to a 4-1 lead early in set one, but the RedHawks would tie the game at six. Things remained close, until the Broncos finally won the set 27-25.

Set two saw senior Colleen Loftus, who missed the season with a knee injury, serve as the crowd gave her a standing ovation. After falling behind 4-0, the RedHawks battled back to take a 7-5 lead.

While WMU would respond to take a 12-10 lead, the Red and White fought back to go up 18-14. They would go on to win the set 25-21.

With the score knotted up at six in third set, WMU went on a 9-5 run to take a 15-11

lead. The Broncos never gave up that lead and won the set 25-20.

Down 4-8 to start set four, the RedHawks battled back to tie the score at 11. After falling behind 22-20, the RedHawks took five of the next six points to win the set 25-20.

The ’Hawks fell behind again in the fifth set, this time 6-2. However, the RedHawks went on a tear to take a commanding 12-7 lead. They went on to pull the upset by taking the final set 15-11.

“Winning both games builds momentum, I couldn’t have asked for anymore from the team,” Head Coach Carolyn Condit said. “We’re being the team we need to be right now. They’re fighting hard.”

Farrell had a career high 22 kills, leading the team, while Raseman and Caylor each had 14 against the Broncos.

Meg Riley had 34 assists while Kendall had 33. Hardy had 26 digs, once again leading the team.

The RedHawks are now 16-14 overall and 7-9 in the MAC. They ride a four game winning streak into the MAC Tournament. They will be playing Ohio University for the third time this year.

“We look forward to playing the Bobcats and we believe we can get them in the third matchup,” Condit said.

For The Miami Student

The Miami University men’s basketball team opened Head Coach Charlie Cole’s 16th season with a 72-67 overtime victory over the University of Dayton Tuesday night. Senior forward Julian Mavunga led the team with a huge second-half performance with 17 points, 11 rebounds and four assists.

“I think I started from the outside in,” Mavunga said.

“Once I got an inside basket, I got going. Plus, I have great teammates and they helped me throughout the game.”

Miami started out slow offensively, shooting just 33 percent in the first half, but the RedHawks were kept afloat by some of the new faces on the team. Freshman Brian Sullivan led the team with a 10 point first half and finished with 14 on the night, including making four three-point shots.

“I was a little nervous in the scrimmage, but in this game, I just wanted to come out and put on a solid performance and knock down the open shot,” Sullivan said.

Sophomore Bill Edwards, a transfer from Penn State University who had to sit out last season, played a key

role for the ’Hawks as well.

In his first game as a member of the team, Edwards had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds and played extremely well off the bench with Sullivan. Sophomore guard Josh Sewell also contributed 10 points and was the Red and White’s fourth double-digit scorer.

Coles pointed to the team’s effort defensively as the main reason that Miami was able to stay in the game early, despite the off shooting night. Dayton’s leading scorer from last season, junior forward Josh Benson, who averaged 21 points per game last season, was held to eight points and only six shots. Miami also forced the Flyers to commit 22 turnovers.

“I didn’t have any idea what the outcome would be because of the makeup of our team this year,” Coles said. “We needed a great effort and energy was one thing I thought that we could give.”

The RedHawks were down 30-28 at the half, at which point they only had 10 points in the paint. Miami began to shoot better as the inside game began to develop. Mavunga had eight points in the second half, including many clutch free throws.

Neither team was able to pull away in the second half, as the score was deadlocked on 10 separate occasions as each team wasn’t able to hold a lead more than five points. The squads were tied 59-59 at the end of regulation. Miami was able to break away from Dayton in the overtime period with clutch play on both sides of the ball.

Mavunga again led the team late with seven points, including a huge pull-up three to put the team ahead by five late. Sophomore forward Jon Harris, who started and had seven points on the night, iced the game with two free throws with 17 seconds remaining. Coles also mentioned sophomore guard Quinten Rollins who, despite coming in cold off the bench due to foul trouble, made a lot of big plays for the team with a basket and defense in overtime.

The team continues their season Friday when they travel to Cincinnati to take on nationally ranked Xavier University. The RedHawks edged out the Musketeers last season at Millett Hall in a thrilling 75-64 victory.

“We beat them last season and it was a great victory for us,” Mavunga said.

“We look forward to playing them Friday.”