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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1991, The Miami Student reported that the City of Oxford spent $42,000 on an undercover drug investigation that resulted in 15 drug-related arrests.

According to Oxford Safety Director and City Manager Dennis Stuckey, $15,000 of the money spent went toward drug purchases. “I hope we can recover most of it ...” Stuckey said.

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Chuck Martin joins the cradle of coaches

BY TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

LAUREN OLSON PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Miami’s new head football coach Chuck Martin addressed the university community during a press conference on Wednesday.

Miami University’s newest head coach is Chuck Martin, a former Notre Dame offensive coordinator who won two national titles as a Division-II head coach.

Athletic Director David Sayler said Martin’s contract is for five years, with a base salary of $450,000. There are also potential academic and athletic performance bonuses.

Martin spent four years at Notre Dame, serving as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for two of them, and as a defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator for the other two. Before heading to South Bend, Ind., Martin served as the head coach at Grand Valley State University, where he replaced current Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly in 2004.

Grand Valley State was nothing short of spectacular during Martin’s time at the helm. The Lakers went 74-7 under Marin, taking home a pair of Division-II National titles.

Sayler said Martin fit all the criteria Sayler wanted in Miami’s 36th head football coach.

“Everyone heard me say it loud and clear, what the criteria was: Someone that’s been

a sitting head coach and someone that’s had experience at the Division-I level,” Sayler said.

“Those were the two key factors in this process. I’m happy to report that we found someone that checks all those boxes, and then some, in terms of the belief in the academic mission, the kinds of things they believe in personally, the family situation. It was perfect from the time I met Chuck the first time.”

In addition to his offensive coordinating experience, Martin was the defensive coordinator for a year at Grand Valley State and was a defensive assistant coach there for three years.

Martin said he has started trying to put together his coaching staff, but that he will take time to make sure he adds the right people.

We’re working through that right now,” Martin said. “Obviously, there is a process to go and hire anybody. I have reached out to some people that I’d certainly like to join our staff, but at this point, I respected the schools they are working at and obviously the process here. There are no names at this point…

I think there is about half the staff that we can get in place fairly quickly.”

Martin called the plays for a spread offense the past two seasons at Notre Dame, and

would like to install a similar offense at Miami.

“We’d definitely like to spread the field and make defenses defend the length and width of the field,” Martin said. “We’d like to push the ball downfield vertically and make you defend down field to try to not let everybody be in the box. But we’d also like to stretch the field horizontally and make you defend the length and width of the field and that’s what spread offenses do.”

However, Martin said being able to win the battle in the trenches will be a priority as well, and that Miami won’t always be to air out.

With regards to recruiting, Martin said recruiting the state of Ohio will remain a focal point for Miami, but that getting the right type of players is what is important.

“We want to get a lot of really good players,” Martin said with a smile. “The nice thing when it comes to recruiting, we are in the top state in the Midwest as far as football. And not only football talent, but also passion for the game of football. Those are two things that we’ll be looking at for sure.”

Martin has a notable recruiting

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Students face deadly effects of prescription drug addictions

BY VICTORIA SLATER CAMPUS EDITOR

As his dependence on prescription drugs increased, Miami student Alex, whose name has been changed to protect patient confidentiality, found himself struggling to foot the bill of his expensive habit. The average price of pills — $1.20 per milligram — would easily break his scanty college student budget. But with his addiction nagging at the corners of his head, he asked his dealer for the next best, and cheapest, thing: heroin.

“I was heavily addicted to Xanax and heroin,” Alex remembers. “At first, all I could think about was scoring dope and getting high.”

Alex is not alone. The National Institute of Drug abuse estimates that in the U.S., 9 million people suffer from prescription drug addiction, while 200,000 people suffer from heroin addiction.

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Board certified psychiatrist at the Miami Student Counseling Services (SCS) Dr. Joshua Hersh said he treats such addictions every day.

“I have seen hundreds of people, during my career, both [at SCS] and at my private practice, with dependence,” Hersh said. “About half of their addictions to prescription drugs started when a doctor prescribed them often after a minor surgery. The

other half happened when people were experimenting.”

While addiction may indeed be growing, recovering addict Tyler, whose name has also been changed to protect patient confidentiality, believes it lurks seemingly unknown among the student body.

“The crazy thing about prescription drugs is that your best friend or co-worker can be an addict and you will never know,”

Tyler said. “People I attend classes with would be shocked to find out I am a recovering painkiller and heroin addict.”

While Tyler contends that drug abuse and addiction does not discriminate, Hersh argues that some are more vulnerable than others.

“Drug addiction is a disease,” Hersh said. “For someone with a predisposition to addiction, you are prescribed that, there is a chance you will get an

addiction to that.”

Predisposition is identified after an examination of a patient’s genetics and family history, Hersh said. Addiction, like many other diseases, can follow a lineage of generations. If a family member develops an addiction, his kin are more susceptible.

But even if a user is not predisposed, once dependency or addiction occurs, the habit is hard to break. Tyler remembers the agony of his addiction and seeking to break it.

“Being addicted is torture,” Tyler said. “You wake up every morning feeling ill and have to get your fix before doing anything, whether it is class or eat.”

And, like Alex, Tyler often found that fix in a much more dangerous place — heroin.

“Prescription abuse is a major problem because it is very easy to spiral out of control and upgrade to heroin,” Tyler said. “It takes a lot of time and resources to accept recovery once you are

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CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT?

Soul2Souls, an all-men’s a cappella singing group, opened for Pi Sigma Epsilon’s Date Auction at Sidebar Tuesday night.The Date Auction raised money for breast cancer awareness.

Miami reflects on five student deaths this year

MU extends financial aid options for winter term

BY LIBBY MUELLER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

BY EMILY CRANE NEWS EDITOR

The bells at St. Mary’s Catholic Church pierce the cold Oxford night with a mournful clanging. Ding.

Dong. Ding. Dong. The last students file in and find seats in the church’s packed sanctuary. It is Wednesday, Nov. 20 and Jaclyn Wulf’s memorial service is about to begin. Most of the rows are filled with Jaclyn’s sisters from the Alpha Xi Delta sorority who came to know Jaclyn when she participated in rush last January.

“I knew the minute we hung out she was so much more than the shy, sweet girl I met during the preference round,” Jaclyn’s “Big,” Hanna Weigel, wrote in an email interview. “I couldn’t have asked for a better ‘Little.’”

It was through the process of pledging Alpha Xi Delta that Jaclyn met sophomores Jane Spooner and Brooke Sabatelli who became her close friends and roommates in Swing Hall this year.

“She had a gift of being able to tell if her friends were upset just by looking at us,” Spooner wrote. “If we were upset for whatever reason, she would do everything in her power to make us happy.”

Together, the three enjoyed late-night dance parties in their room, hockey games and whole grain goldfish.

“Jaclyn stood up for those around her,” Hanna wrote. “She was fiercely protective and wasn’t afraid to tell others her feelings.”

Though Jaclyn always had a full social calendar, she was a driven student as well. She was a psychology major with aspirations of going on to

study neuropsychology in graduate school, Brooke said. Nonetheless, she always made time for midnight ice cream runs, trips home to visit her nephews and leaving notes on her roommates’ desks.

Four nights before, several of the students now crammed into St. Mary’s had been with Jaclyn at a party. The following morning, she was found unresponsive in her room.

Her Resident Assistant (RA), Ashton Spann called the Miami University Police Department, reporting that she had “had a lot to drink last night.” MUPD sent the Oxford Life Squad to transport Jaclyn to the McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital where she was declared dead at 9:42 a.m.

Jaclyn is the fifth Miami student to die in the last 12 months.

Ding. Andy Supronas. Dong. Nicole Sefton. Ding. Sean VanDyne.

Dong. Jake Jarman. Ding. Jaclyn Wulf. One last peal from St. Mary’s bells and then all is silent.

A year of loss “There is nothing so horrible as the phone call that comes to tell me about a student death,” Miami University President David Hodge said.

“As a president and as a parents, it’s horrible, devastating. There are no adequate words to describe the sense of grief.”

Hodge has received five such phone calls in the last year, beginning with the call about Andy Supronas Dec. 3, 2012.

Andy Supronas At first glance, Ainas “Andy” Supronas may have come off as intimidating to some, weighing in

at 250 pounds of pure muscle. But behind the built exterior was a man who loved his cat, Ducky, and made regular trips home to Mason, Ohio to visit him. He loved fast cars and long workouts and never missed a party, according to his roommates.

Originally from Lithuania, Andy’s family moved to Ohio when he was in high school. A natural athlete, Andy started his career at Miami on the men’s swim team, but later dropped out to play water polo recreationally. As a first-year, he pledged the Phi Delta Theta fraternity where he met two of his closest friends, Thomas Goldberg and JT Corcoran.

“He had a heart of gold,” Thomas said. “He was loving, kind, generous. He was always the person to go to.”

Andy was the sort to look out for his friends at any cost.

“One time, there were these two girls he knew and this guy was being way too physical with them, so Andy took him on and all his friends and got two black eyes and a broken nose,” Thomas said.

“He didn’t even hit the guy at first,” JT chimed in. “He was shielding the girls and the guy decked him.”

Though Andy was always the life of the party, he had a quiet side he embraced in his budding career as a software engineer. He didn’t let his academics interfere with his social life but his natural affinity for learning got him good grades nonetheless. He even had an internship lined up with IBM for the summer, Thomas said.

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Miami University’s first winter term offers new opportunities for classes and study abroad experiences, but these opportunities come at a price. In order to alleviate the financial strain on some students, the Office of the Provost has made institutionallybudgeted money available to assist students with financial need.

Director of Student Financial Assistance Brent Shock said the level of financial need is based on student responses on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

The financial aspect of winter term can be daunting to some students, according to Shock.

“The financial pieces could be a challenge,” Shock said. “Under federal guidelines, federal, university and state aid is apportioned for the fall and spring semesters and there are maximums students can receive per year, so when you add a winter term, that may mean that there’s not additional aid available to students.”

But Miami is making some extra support available, Shock said.

“We are awarding some additional aid to students who have financial need,” Shock said. “It’s simply based on their level of need.”

According to Shock, the university has recently started identifying these students and informing them of the additional aid they will receive.

“We’re looking at students who have already enrolled in winter term, looking at the level of financial need and notifying

via e-mail,” Shock said. “There’s no application. We’re trying to make it as easy as possible.

We want to make sure students know about that aid before the billing cycle.”

According to Shock, the total level of financial aid Miami will give is not yet known because winter term enrollment continues to fluctuate.

David Creamer, the vice president for finance and business services, said the implementation of Miami’s winter term achieves both financial and holistic goals for the university.

“The goals have been both financial and offering more opportunities for students,” Creamer said. “When we built the budget, we didn’t really build much expectation of revenue beyond what it would take to cover the costs of the program.”

Creamer said the additional revenue Miami receives will be small compared to regular fall and spring academic terms.

“Institutions across the nation are looking for more flexibility rather than the rigid academic term,” Creamer said. “Students are seeing if options work for them.”

Creamer said the university recognizes student concern over the affordability of winter term.

However, winter term could lower the total cost of education in the long run for certain students, according to Creamer.

“One of the ways we’ve looked at this over multiple years [is] students taking advantage of

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ASC for the students, paid by the students

BY NICOLE THEODORE EDITORIAL EDITOR

The nautical chandeliers are lit in the Shade Family Room, the soda fountains at the 24-hour Pulley Diner are ready for use and construction workers are putting the final touches on the interactive glass seal, located at the heart of the Armstrong Student Center.

The intricate threads of ASC are seemingly coming together to reveal a masterpiece, yet there is still a key part missing.

Well, $1.7 million in yearly fees, to be exact.

A $110 ASC fee will appear on upcoming spring bursar bills for all undergraduate students.

This goes toward the $1.7 million and will remain an annual fee for upcoming semesters, like fees for the REC center and Goggin Ice Center.

Approved in Sept. 2010 by the Miami University Board of Trustees and Associated Student Government (ASG), the fee will cover the bonds that constructed the center and future operating costs.

“There was a financing plan put into place that was a mixture of each students fee plus funds

to be raised to fund the center,” said Associate Vice President for Budgeting and Analysis David Ellis. “The fee covers about 43 percent of phase one construction, and the remainder is covered by donations.”

ASG has been rallying since the 90s to convince the administration to build a new student center, but understood that, along with fundraising and donations, students would also have to chip in.

“I understood that in fact, with

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Brownell appointed VP for student affairs

BY NICOLE THEODORE EDITORIAL EDITOR

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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

First-years Maya Johnson and Christy Finney prepare for the their first college finals in King library.

Miami University has appointed Jayne Brownell as the vice president for student affairs, according to a university press release. She will officially assume the position March 1.

Brownell, a Columbia University graduate, currently serves as the assistant vice president for student affairs at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York. In this

position, she is responsible for more than 13,000 students.

Miami’s vice president of student affairs must oversee a division of more than 150 employees in residence life, student activities, among others. Brownell has worked in depth in such fields, and because of this, President David Hodge said he believes she is an ideal candidate for the position for Miami’s vice president of student affairs.

“Dr. Brownell’s leadership and broad, innovative experiences are paired with her sincere warmth and enthusiasm for students,” Hodge said in a press release. “We welcome her to Miami.”

Hodge said, as vice president of student affairs, one of Brownell’s top priorities is to provide programing about bystander intervention as a well as establishing a venue for non-drinking student activities.

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POLICE Oxford welcomes new city mayor

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Young girl holds séance, claims to be possessed Wednesday evening, OPD officers responded to Ambassador Point Baptist Church, 5450 College Corner Pike, to assist the Oxford Life Squad with a juvenile female. The girl was clinging to her own neck, and appeared to have trouble breathing.

Upon arrival, officers were flagged down by bystanders and directed to two females, both of whom were crying. A male bystander said one of the females had punched him, OPD said.

As the officer approached the girl, she clenched her fists and screamed at the officer she was not going to jail, according to OPD. The officer grabbed both of her arms, spoke to her and attempted to calm her down.

There was a momentary lull in her hysteria before she lunged and attempted to punch the officer. With the help of another officer, the girl was handcuffed and placed in the cruiser.

Officers were told that the juvenile was 12, and suffered from PTSD, which caused her to lose control of her emotions. The other female was distraught her friend needed help and no one would help her. She told the officers the girl was possessed by demons, but was fine now.

The officer asked if she had taken any narcotics, and she said she had only taken an iron pill. She stated she was 14 and asked to call her mother. When contacted by officers, the mother said she was afraid her daughter may have taken illegal drugs and asked she be taken to a hospital, according to OPD. The mother told OPD her daughter had held a séance after school, during which a demon possessed her body. The suspect then told the officers the demons had made her run around a field and roll on the ground while screaming curses. She said she remembered nothing at the church.

Another woman arrived on scene and told officers the suspect and her friend had been at her home for dinner that night.

She took them to church, and went inside before them. She then stepped outside and found one girl crying and the other running around frantically, cursing.

When the girl was told police were coming, she stopped her manic behavior and said she was fine, and not to call her mother.

She then sprung, and punched the man in his stomach.

At the hospital, the girl told a nurse she was mentally abused by her mother. She warned officers that her mother, en route to the hospital, could be violent.

She told officers she cut her wrists and her mother refused her therapy, OPD said.

Her mother, when she arrived, told officers her daughter was a compulsive liar, and that she had arranged counseling for her. The daughter then admitted her entire episode was an act and that she had lied. She tested negative for narcotics and was released.

BY JESSICA JELINEK STAFF WRITER

Kevin McKeehan and Kate Rousmaniere have officially moved up the ranks in Oxford’s City Council. The seven members of Oxford’s City Council elected McKeehan and Rousmaniere as mayor and vice-mayor.

Richard Keebler, who just ended his four-year service as Oxford’s mayor, was among the council members who voted to instate McKeehan and Rousmaniere on Nov. 25.

“Kevin had been very involved in the community before he got on council,” Keebler said. “He knows the city well, and I think he

will do a good job.”

McKeehan has considerable experience. Over the past four years, he has served on Oxford’s Housing Advisor Commission and worked on issues like economic development. Now McKeehan is taking on a new role as Oxford’s mayor.

“In the back of my mind, I have always wanted to be mayor,” McKeehan said. “I am always looking for ways to help the city.”

With two years of city council experience under her belt, Rousmaniere said she is ready to take on her duties as vicemayor and continue her previous council work.

“Throughout my whole career,

and pedestrian paths is one of the many projects Rousmaniere hopes will strengthen the relationship.

Despite their new titles, McKeehan and Rousmaniere will still be working closely with their previous commissions and the rest of the city council members, including Keebler. Now a member of the city council planning commission board, Keebler said he expects another great year to come. “[The city council] has worked so well together as a diverse group, particularly these last two years,” Keebler said. “Almost every vote on council has been unanimous. My hope is that this will continue, and I believe under Kevin it will.”

Miami alumnus works to save local polluted stream

BY STEVEN S. PERKINS II FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Spanning 28.4 miles from its headwaters in Butler County through Hamilton County and downtown Cincinnati into the Ohio River, the Mill Creek is one of the most polluted streams in the United States.

But 200 years of pollution won’t discourage Miami University graduate Bruce Koehler. Koehler is the chair of the Mill Creek Watershed Council of Communities and the “commodore” of the restoration of Mill Creek.

According to Education Director of Groundwater Cincinnati-Mill Creek Lora Alberto, the main cause of the pollution today is Combined Sewage Overflows (CSO).

These CSOs, as described by Alberto, consist of polluted storm water as well as untreated industrial waste from sewers. Chemical and industrial companies can legally dump to the sewers, but when storm water runoff overflows these systems all the waste is released into the creek.

But that is not the only source of pollution in the creek. Industries do have accidental spills and are fined for them. The penalty is currently unclear but there are bills on the floor of both the Ohio State House of Representatives and Senate that would make offenses felonies with a minimum penalty of $10,000 fine and three years in prison.

“I think businesses are losing touch with how they affect the environment so it’s nice to see someone taking control of the problem and the fact that he’s a RedHawk makes it that much cooler,” Miami University first-year Adam Olson said.

Koehler, a 1976 graduate with a degree in Urban Studies, said he actually remembers a time when the creek was dirtier than it is now. It was after industrialization but before the Clean Water Act, Koehler said.

“There were sludge banks,” Koehler said. “The sewage had piled up on the bank of the creek and there were piles of garbage bubbling. It was really like something out of a horror film.”

But Koehler and his organization are taking action. They are seeking grants for floodplain wetlands, which act as natural water filters, organizing volunteer events such as clean ups and invasive species removal as well as heading the Mill Creek Yacht Club, Koehler said.

The Mill Creek Yacht Club is the name given to the educational canoe and kayak outings on the creek.

So far, there have been 98 voyages with a total of 568 people participating, and there will be a celebration for the 100th voyage when it is scheduled.

The Mill Creek Watershed Council works closely with Groundwater Cincinnati- Mill Creek. Groundwater Cincinnati- Mill Creek is a non-profit organization with five staff and hundreds of volunteers.

They are currently working to restore a few specific locations near Cincinnati.

Alberto explained that it is a very long process. She said she never expects the creek to be pristine because of its location in an urban area, but she said it is an “environmental justice” to clean it up.

“Mill Creek is posing a challenge to us,” Koehler said. “It is a 28-mile test of local character and civic pride.”

For those wanting to help, there are many ways to become involved. Koehler suggested students volunteer with the clean ups, invasive species removal and steam monitoring.

For those wishing to fully immerse themselves into the project, Koehler suggested students volunteer at the water quality monitoring lab or intern for the Watershed Council. He also recommended students check out the social media and website for the Mill Creek Watershed Council of Communities.

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I’ve worked to be engaged with the city,” said Rousmaniere. “[Being vice-mayor] Gives me a better opportunity to intensify my engagement and work with the city.”

Among their other goals for the city, McKeehan and Rousmaniere said they wish to strengthen the bond between Oxford and Miami University. Both agreed the relationship between the city and the university is fairly strong, yet the duo is pushing to move the relationship from good to great.

“I want to help Miami as much as anyone else,” McKeehan said.

“We are always looking for new ways to work with Miami.”

The city and university’s recent collaboration dealing with bike

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HAPPY HANUKKAH

On Monday, students and community members came together to celebrate the lighting of the menorah, lit by Miami University Board of Trustees member Dennis Lieberman.

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Audience members applauded and sang along with country singer Kip Moore at Brick Street Wednesday night.

Oxford creates holiday cheer with santa, raindeer

BY MATTHEW RIGALI FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami students and Oxford community members alike will be able to get into the winter spirit this weekend at the annual Oxford Holiday Festival in Uptown Park.

Weather permitting, the festival will kick off Friday evening and will continue Saturday afternoon.

The two-day festival is put on by the City of Oxford as a way to bring the community together for the holiday season, City of Oxford receptionist Darlene Hacker said.

“It’s probably been 10 or 11 years since we’ve been doing the Festival,” Hacker said.

Hacker said the community seems to enjoy the festival and what it has to offer.

“We do it to bring Christmas cheer to everybody in Oxford. It’s a great event,” Hacker said. “The choir sings, Santa comes, they light the menorah and have a good time.”

The City of Oxford is bringing in several live reindeer from Whitetail Acres Nursery, located in Indiana, and will provide free horse-drawn carriage rides.

Employee at Whitetail Acres Kevin Priessman said the animals are popular among all age groups.

“We really enjoy bringing the reindeer to Oxford,” Priessman said. “Not only do the students get a kick out of it, but even little kids and older adults do. A lot of people think that the reindeer are fictitious animals, and they don’t believe they’re real. And we get to see their

faces light up.”

Priessman said Whitetail Acres and Oxford have worked together before and is excited for the event.

“We are very familiar with Oxford,” Priessman said. “A lot of people in Oxford come and get Christmas trees from us, so we recognize a lot of the people there at the festival. It’s just fun to see the gleam and glitter in everybody’s eyes when they look at the reindeer.”

Santa will also make an appearance, with the Oxford Fire Department escorting the big man to the park by fire truck to take pictures with attendees. Following their visit with Santa, children will receive a free stuffed animal, courtesy of the City of Oxford.

According to the Oxford Visitors Bureau, local music groups, including the Oxford Community Band and the Talawanda Choruses, will perform Christmas songs throughout the festival.

Anybody is welcome at the weekend festival, with a wide range in age of attendees expected to turn out.

“We have quite a few students who show up,” Hacker said. “I think they see Uptown that something is going on in the park, and they stop by. It’s really nice.”

Miami sophomore Sean Neri said he attended last year and is looking forward to this year’s event.

“I stopped by last year for the hot chocolate and the cookies,” Neri said. “I’m hoping to stop by again this year.”

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hooked.”

A 2012 study conducted by NBC News that investigated the addiction histories of about 100 heroin users found that Tyler and Alex’s instances are not uncommon. In fact, every single heroin user NBC interviewed had arrived at the drug in the same way: they started with prescription drugs, especially opiates.

Hersh said the upgrade to heroin is an easy one. Expensive prescription drugs do not look as appealing to a drug that can give a better high for a smaller price — $3 to $10 a bag.

“This is how heroin addiction starts: People are swallowing pills. Half of them are getting them from physicians initially.

They build up a tolerance to that.

They end up snorting the pills because that bypasses the liver, it is absorbed well,” Hersh said.

“Snorting the pills becomes very expensive, so they often resort to snorting heroin, which is now a lot cheaper. The next progression is injecting heroin.”

While most users never imagined resorting to heroin, as soon as they become dependent on pill popping, Hersh said the progression to the illegal street drug is very likely.

“A lot of people say, ‘I will never get addicted to heroin. I might mess around with a little Vicodin but I will never use heroin.’ Well it doesn’t start out that way. It starts out by people getting addicted to pills,” Hersh said.

And once a user is hooked on heroin, without treatment, there usually is no return.

“The average lifespan of an IV heroin addict after developing the addiction is about 17 years, because of chances of overdose, Hepatitis and other complications,” Hersh said.

The Ohio Department of Health reports that, in 2011, 44.7 percent of unintentional drug overdoses in Ohio resulted from heroin. Oxford is particularly familiar with these kinds of deaths.

According to the Butler County coroner’s records, from 2011 to 2013, eight people died after overdosing from heroin or opiate ingestion in Butler County. Last December, 21-year-old Miami student Andy Supronas died of a heroin overdose.

Hersh stresses that prescription drug abuse, in general, can be just as deadly. Drug overdose, ac-

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pedigree, and was named one of the top-25 recruiters in the nation in 2011 by ESPN. He’ll need that ability to restore a fallen program that has lost its last 16 games and has had one winning season since 2006. Sayler said the time is now for everyone to support the Miami football program.

“At Miami, we always talk about Love and Honor,” Sayler said. “It’s very important, it’s something that is the core of what we believe in here at this University at this institution.

Love is unconditional. Honor stands for high moral standards of behavior. These are things that are a part of our everyday life here. It’s time for all of us involved in this football program, everybody; studentathletes, fans, alums, donors, staff, administration, everybody needs to galvanize around this coach and support this program unconditionally.

“We need to move forward.

Those Tangerine Bowls were a long time ago. We’ve gotta start thinking about bowl games in the future and getting Chuck here and going is the first step for us.”

Martin is just the second FBS head coach hired this season, joining the hiring of Steve Sarkisian at the University of Southern California. Sayler getting the right head coach hired quickly to avoid the impending chaos that is the college football coaching carousel was all part of the plan.

“It’s great when a plan comes

cording to the Ohio Department of Health, is the leading cause of non-injury death in Ohio.

“60 percent of drug overdoses in Ohio can be traced back to prescription opioids or benzos,” Hersh said. “But it can also be a combination of drugs. Seventyone percent are overdosing on a combination and that usually involves alcohol.”

Tyler said he remembers performing CPR on a friend who overdosed.

A Miami graduate whose name has been changed to Joe to also protect his patient confidentiality, dealt prescription drugs in the past in the Oxford area and knew several users who died.

“I personally went to six funerals of my friends who overdosed,” Joe said. “But I heard of many more.”

A less deadly, but still damaging side effect of drug abuse stems from the legal system. While misusing a legitimate prescription obtained by a doctor is not illegal, posseassion of prescription drugs without a prescription is a felony, said Oxford Police Department (OPD) Sgt. Jon Varley.

“We have seen a sharp increase in the amount of prescription medication we find on people, especially Adderall,” he said.

“What many students don’t know is that possessing this without a prescription is a felony and could mean jail time.”

According to Ohio law, the potential punishments an alleged offender can face for drug trafficking depend on the kind and amount of drug he or she possesses. Generally, if a person is found drug trafficking in Ohio, they will receive a prison sentence from six to 18 months and/or fines up to $5,000.

Joe, the former Oxford dealer, believes OPD and the Miami University Police Department (MUPD) are oblivious to the immense underground web of dealers and buyers at Miami.

“I really don’t know how to help law enforcement. I would up my order from my supplier every time and I had them sold in the blink of an eye,” Joe said. “The demand here is just too high and the minute they touch this campus they disappear and are ingested by the student base quicker than the police will ever catch on.”

Getting Clean For months, Alex was nursing an addiction that was spiraling together,” Sayler said. “When we made the change mid-year [to fire Don Treadwell], as difficult of a decision as that was, it was made in such an attempt to get a head start… and close this thing up as quickly as we can after the season is over.”

Martin said he knows many will want a timetable for a turnaround, but that sticking to the process is how to build a program.

“If we stick to the process and we get the right people involved in our football program, from coaches to players, we’ll get to where we want to go,” Martin said. “If that is a year, that’s awesome, if it is two years, three years, four years whatever it takes, we’re gonna keep chipping away and we’re keeping feel good about the process.”

Martin doesn’t have any connections to Miami; he hasn’t coached or played at Miami before, but the aura of The Cradle of Coaches is not lost on him.

“You think of the Cradle of Coaches and the people that have come through here,” Martin said. “I grew up a south side Irish Catholic and one of the biggest Notre Dame fans. I know, in this state, Woody Hayes is the king of the Cradle of Coaches.

Up in Michigan, it’s Bo Schembechler. But for us in Notre Dame it was Ara Paresghian. I was getting my hair cut yesterday and (Parseghian) was in the same seat I was the day before talking about how Miami has to get this one right. ‘We’ve got to get it back.’ Just the fact that Ara Parseghian is still talking about the job I was about to take sends chills down my spine.”

out of control. What began as recreational pill popping led to reliance on heroin.

The pills he once turned to for happiness, tranquility, an escape from the grueling pressures of college and adulthood eventually provided anything but.

Now he is fighting back.

“No one plans on getting addicted,” Alex said. “You try something once, like it, do it again and again and again and again and then you’re addicted.

But once you’re addicted, it’s a really hard journey to treat the disease.”

But he has to try.

Currently at the SCS, Hersh treats patients with an ongoing prescription drug addiction.

Hersh said SCS offers a variety of treatment options for users seeking help, depending on the kind of drug they abuse.

Treatment at SCS begins with a series of assessments, which determine the kind of treatment a patient needs. From there, SCS offer group therapy, individual counseling, medication-assisted treatment and if problem is serious enough, referrals to off-campus rehabilitation centers.

For Tyler, rehab was a necessity.

“I went to rehab this past summer,” Tyler said. “Rehab saved my life, however I will always be in recovery because addiction never sleeps.”

Now both Tyler and Alex benefit well from the medication-assisted treatment. For opiate users, medication like Vivitrol halts the effects of certain drugs once ingested, thus the user will not experience a high.

“Vivitrol is a shot administered once a month,” Hersh said. “It stays in your system a month. It blocks the receptors in your brain so that drugs like Percocet won’t have any effect. It helps with cravings as well.”

Hersh notes that currently there are no substantial medication-assisted treatments for prescription stimulant and sedative addicts.

However, group therapy meetings and organizations like Narcotics Anonymous (NA), which are offered within the city of Oxford, can help provide the support addicts need to get clean.

The biggest obstacle for both addicts and the SCS is that addiction is never completely cured. It is a danger addicts carry for the rest of their lives.

“No one recovers from an addiction,” Hersh said. “Even if you

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a way to win. I think that’s a positive that we were able to play a full 40 minutes.”

Robertson led the way for the RedHawks, with 15 points, eight rebounds and four assists in 32 minutes of action. Robertson has led the ’Hawks in scoring in three straight games and Wright said succinctly, “That is her role.”

Sophomore guard Maddie McCallie drained four three-point buckets for the RedHawks en route to a 12-point night.

“Part of [McCallie’s] role is to get

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Montgomery is a pretty good technician and he understands what needs to be done. They’ve got a D core that’s as good as any in the country, their goaltending is great and they’ve got some veteran forwards that are really good, so it’s going to take us playing our best hockey to be in the game and make sure we’re giving ourselves the best chance to win.”

Denver’s defense is ranked fourth in NCAA in points allowed, giving up just 1.86 a game. On the other side of the puck, Miami is ranked 13th overall in total offense, netting 3.44 goals per contest. They’ll need that firepower to be in full effect Friday night; Pioneer senior

are sober and haven’t relapsed for years, you will never be rid of this disease and you will always be in recovery.”

And for Alex and Tyler, recovery starts simply with admitting they need help.

“If you are an addict, don’t be embarrassed,” Tyler said. “Forgive yourself and seek help. It is nearly impossible to do it alone.

You have to build a network of support to stay clean.”

Lowering in the Dose Given his work, Hersh is fully cognizant of the growing prescription drug epidemic, and maintains that the nation, as a whole, could better address the issue and improve drug education.

At Miami, the Office of Student Wellness, situated at Student Health Services, works to draw attention to drug and alcohol abuse. In partnership with Health Advocates for Wellness Knowledge and Skills (HAWKS), the Office of Student Wellness “serves to enhance the community by providing educational resources and services that promote the health and wellness of Miami students,” according to its official website. Each year they host AlcoholEdu and tobacco prevention programs.

Rebecca Baudry, assistant director of the Office of Student Wellness, said students can request material about safe prescription drug use from the undergraduate HAWKS mentors, who also host information sessions about prescription drugs to student organizations and residence halls. In addition, AlcoholEdu facilitates education about prescription drug abuse through its program for first-year students.

Baudry said the Office of Student Wellness concentrates, for the most part, on advising students to look out for one another.

“We, as well as the Student Counseling Services, with the new I Am Miami Campaign, we are trying to focus on how we should take care of each other, how we should look out for each other and how we should be accountable for one another,” Baudry said.

The Office of Student Wellness also presents different topics during the first Wednesday of every month, called “Wellness Wednesdays.” In October, the topic for Wellness Wednesday was prescription drug abuse.

Even with these efforts, Hersh believes, at Miami, too much focus is on alcohol.

“We talk a lot about alcohol on Miami’s campus. We talk about medical amnesty, but we talk about that in terms of alcohol,” Hersh said. “1,500 deaths occur in the country each year as a result of alcohol poisoning. But last year, over 40,000 deaths occurred each year due to prescription drugs and opiates. My question is, why do we focus so much on alcohol and not more on prescription drugs, which are leading to a lot of deaths?”

Hersh argues the key to combatting prescription drug abuse is to educate first-years as soon as they enter Miami’s doors.

“I absolutely think Miami could do a better job at educating students about this issue,” Hersh said. “I would love to see Miami integrate some of this education into the orientation experience and to the first-year student experience.”

Baudry noted that Miami does address prescription drug abuse to a certain degree at orientation, primarily during the student safety and community expectations program with students and families.

However, Joe asserts that Miami could do more to inform firstyear students about the dangers of prescription drugs.

“The university needs to educate freshmen about how common drugs are on this campus and the dangers,” Joe said. “I had no idea how addictive these drugs were the first time I touched them. Students need to be made aware of it.”

Withdrawal Facing addiction issues for the rest of his life, Alex knows the road ahead may be long and obstacle ridden. Not long ago, he used prescription medication to get high, to float away from world and to focus on school.

Now he uses prescription drugs to stay clean.

A paradox, maybe. But Alex says he is happy.

“I couldn’t be happier with the treatment and care I am receiving for this disease,” Alex said.

And even after a prolonged, brutal struggle to get where they are now, the three — Alex, Tyler and Joe — know everything has just begun.

“Getting clean is the easy part,” Tyler said. “Now comes life.”

open looks,” Wright said. “She had some open looks tonight and she was able to knock them down.”

Senior guard Haley Robertson played 32 minutes and contributed nine points, five rebounds and three assists. Brandt scored nine points and dished out a team high five assists, including the game winning dime.

The RedHawks have a short turnaround as they head to Highland Heights, Ky. for a 7 p.m. tip-off Saturday night against Northern Kentucky University (4-3).

“We’re off [Thursday], we only get one day of prep since we played on Sunday,” Wright said. “We’ll get

ready to travel to Northern Kentucky on Saturday.”

The Norse are led by junior forward Melody Doss, who is averaging 21 points and eight rebounds per contest seven games into the season.

The RedHawks plan to take the momentum from Wednesday’s win into Saturday’s game.

“I think we can build on the fact that we know we can play our best,” Robertson said. “We can come to play as focused and as energetic on the road as we should, and we can find a way to win. We just need to do the things we know we can do on the road, and bring that for a full 40 minutes.”

goalie Sam Brittain has been impeccable between the pipes this year. The senior is tied for third nationally with a .945 save percentage, and boasts a 1.66 goals-against average, good for fourth among active netminders.

Brittain also leads the nation in shutouts with three, a distinction he shares with Miami sophomore goalie Ryan McKay. “For us, it’s been kind of the same message for the past eight weeks,” Blasi said. “We’ve played teams that have had this caliber of player. I think we know what we need to do, we’ve just got to be ready to go on Friday.”

A couple of incomplete games and bad bounces have knocked Miami down in the rankings the past few weeks, but for the Brotherhood, it’s all in the past.

The thing they’re focused on is this weekend, a series Caito said would be a huge step in the right direction heading into 2014.

“This league is not easy, you’re going to play strong teams every weekend,” Caito said. “It would be huge to finish of this first half [of the season] with two big wins.”

Friday’s puck drop is scheduled for 7:35 p.m., renewing a 27-yearold, casual rivalry that pits these two teams in a conference game for the first time. Miami and Denver have squared off eight times in their history, and the result has been an even 4-4 split. The RedHawks have won the most recent three meetings, however, starting with a 5-2 win on Oct. 6, 2006 – a game that marked the opening of the current Goggin Ice Center.

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On Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, Andy had made plans to get together with JT. “I kept texting him, I thought he was just ignoring me,” JT said. “He tended to sleep really late.”

Andy never woke up. On Dec. 3, 2012, the Oxford Police Department found Andy dead in his off-campus apartment. The toxicity report and autopsy revealed large amounts of heroin in his blood stream and determined that to be the cause of his death.

He would have been 23 today.

Nicole Sefton Ever since Nicole Sefton suffered a back injury playing catcher for her softball team in high school, she knew she wanted to be a physical therapist. She watched in amazement as her own therapist carefully, gently helped her gain back the ability to play her favorite sport. That is what she wanted to do. She told her mother, Tina Sefton, she had decided she wanted to work with children to restore them to physical wholeness.

She never looked back.

“Nikki didn’t waffle a lot,” Tina said. “She knew where she was going.”

Nicole knew a long and arduous road lay ahead of her. She applied and was accepted to several universities but chose Miami because of its proximity to home. Though her parents supported her, they told her she would have to pay her own tuition, but Nicole was undaunted. She worked two jobs and commuted to Miami’s Oxford and Hamilton campuses from her home in Shandon, Ohio.

“Nothing in life is free,” Tina said.

“My kids have learned that if you want to achieve something, you have to work for it.”

With the help of her first-year adviser, Nicole laid out her plan to one day become a physical therapist and delved into the athletic training major.

“She had a great adviser,” Tina said. “I wish I knew who it was and I could tell them thank you. They were clearly in the right profession. They helped her break down her long-term goals into short-term steps.”

Nicole had just paid her second tuition bill when she lost control of her car and died in a single-vehicle car crash Jan. 24, 2012. The toxicity report revealed her Blood Alcohol Content to be 0.210.

Sean VanDyne Sean VanDyne could be spotted at a distance wearing his bright red Toms shoes. Hope McClain, his coworker at Skyline Chili in Hamilton, looked for those shoes whenever she had a shift.

“You knew it was going to be a good day when you walked in and saw Sean,” Hope said.

His quirky sense of humor and strong work ethic made him a fun person to work with. He could often be heard spouting words in Mandarin he was learning at Miami as a part of the Farmer School of Business’ (FSB) China Business Program.

“He’d come in here and talk in Chinese to the customers, yelling ‘zain jin!’ as they were leaving,” Sean’s coworker and childhood friend Jon Lee said, laughing at the memory. “He always wanted other people to have a good time.”

Sean had become something of a legend around Hamilton High, as an academic and an athlete, and he could most often be spotted with his best friend, Ben Flick and his girlfriend Rachel Hildebrand. He married her in August, 2013 after dating for five years.

“He just really loved to help people,” Rachel said. “You could call him literally at 3 a.m. or 5 a.m. and he’d be there.”

They moved into a house of their own in Hamilton and both enrolled at FSB, Rachel studying management and Sean studying accountancy.

Sean had always dreamed of becoming an FBI agent someday, according to his parents.

A few weeks into his first

semester, his old friend, Ben Flick, came to Miami on the University of Cincinnati football squad to play at Yager stadium. After the game, Sean, Ben and two of Ben’s UC friends went for a drive through Hamilton’s hilly roads. They never returned.

Sean, who was driving, lost control of the car when it flipped on Stahlheber Road. The crash killed Ben immediately and Sean died two days later in the hospital. The Hamilton County Coroner’s office has not yet completed his toxicity report.

Jake Jarman Jake Jarman had a knack for certain things. Anything to do with mountains came naturally to him, having grown up in the mile-high city of Denver, Colo. He loved climbing them, summiting the 14,000-foot Longs Peak with his father, and he loved zooming down them, competing in mountain ski racing and freestyle skiing.

“He loved sports and anything fast,” his mother, Kathleen Jarman, wrote in an email interview.

But he also had a knack for selling things, “for making people see things his way,” Kathleen wrote. As a child, he was the ringleader of the neighborhood, pulling the other children along with him in whatever endeavor came to his mind, whether it was selling lemonade and snow cones or playing street hockey on the cul-de-sac. In high school, he sold Cutco knives door-to-door and excelled at that.

He loved storytelling, which and was pursuing a degree in English and Film at the Colorado University, but he decided to put his knack for persuasion to good use with a marketing degree and transferred to Miami after his freshman year. Getting into FSB became his first goal.

“He planned his classes and Miami Plan around the goal of getting into the Farmer School of Business,” Kathleen wrote. “He wrote his GPA goal on each of his notebooks.”

He had registered for a film studies course over winter term and was contemplating rushing a fraternity.

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even one course during that time may be able to shave a semester off until they graduate depending on how you use the summer term [and] how you use the winter term,” Creamer said. “In the end, you could actually lower cost.”

Kriss Cassano works in the Office of the Bursar. She said costs for courses offered during winter term are the same as courses offered during fall and spring semesters, and total cost is even slightly lower.

During the regular school year, fees are divided into instructional and general components. During

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our tremendous co curricular experience, not having a student center was a pretty big hole,” said President David Hodge. “I was convinced by ASG presidents and the student body that was this a critical thing to do. This wasn’t our idea—this was students hammering the administration.”

In 2007, ASG hired the program management firm Brailsford & Dunlavey Inc. to conduct a campus-wide survey. Results indicated students desired increased study space, office space for student organizations, an updated lounge and new dining options.

The firm conducted another survey in 2009 to assess and analyze students’ ability to pay for the new student center.

According to the results of the survey, 75 percent of 1,816 students surveyed were in favor of a $100 fee.

“Our fees are not only paying for the construction of the building but also paying for continuing operations,” said ASG President of the Student Senate and Chair of ASC Board Nick Miller. “Part of the staff and students working there and extra student activities in the center will also be taken care off with these fees.”

When the economic crisis swept the nation in 2008, it also affected the university. As the university

“Jake was growing up and figuring things out,” Kathleen wrote.

But in the early hours of the morning on Oct. 26, Jake was standing on the railroad tracks between South College and South Poplar when a CSX train came rumbling through.

The impact killed him on the spot.

The Oxford Police Department has not yet determined why Jake was on the tracks and the Butler County Coroner’s office is performing a toxicity report and autopsy to determine whether any substances were in his system at his time of death.

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Looking forward With each passing student death, Hodge has been visiting and revisiting the question, “what can we be doing?”

“I’d like to believe and still believe that we can do something about this,” Hodge said. “The best thing we can probably do is develop bystander intervention. We can be doing a lot more. We have to be responsible for each other.”

Increasing education and programming on campus about bystander intervention has become a top priority for the administration, Hodge said.

As a faculty member, journalism professor Patricia Newberry has long been demanding that the administration do more to educate its students about how to care for themselves and each other.

“It is the responsibility of our institution to share information that can help us all make better decisions,” Newberry said. “For this reason, I would like to see the university be more proactive and transparent about sharing the cause of death.”

This is particularly important, Newberry said, if the cause of death is substance-related, like it has been shown to be in the cases of Andy and Nicole.

“We have to do something to counter the lure of drugs and alcohol, to help our bright, young students make better choices,” Newberry said.

After the five deaths of this past year, Newberry has decided to take up the issue in her classes.

“I am not at all adverse to talking to my students about alcohol anymore,” Newberry said.

The university’s latest approach has been the I Am Miami initiative.

“That’s what the Code of Love and Honor is all about,” Hodge said.

“The student body must embrace the notion that we can help each other…

I implore our students to embrace that notion.”

In Andy’s case, Thomas and JT said they had no idea he had a heroin problem, though the Butler County Coroner’s report reads that he had a medical history of opiate dependence.

“We lived in the same room sophomore year, and I never would have guessed,” JT said.

But even in cases where students might be aware that a friend is in trouble, many students would choose not to get the authorities involved, Thomas said.

“They’re afraid to call 911 because that medical amnesty bill isn’t always upheld,” Thomas said. “Students tend to think it’s Oxford and the university versus the students.”

This is precisely what Hodge and Interim Dean of Students Mike Curme are working to change.

“We must first make sure that every member of our community knows the Miami University values, and the related Code of Love and Honor. That, I think, is the easy part,” Curme said. “The harder part is empowering each of us to help prevent another from acting in ways inconsistent with those values, or to intervene when we witness concerning behavior.”

In this spirit, Hodge and the office of student affairs are developing focused programming on bystander intervention, slated to appear in the standard regimen of first-year programming next fall.

“There’s a lot of grief, but a lot of positive energy,” Hodge said. “Grief is a reflection of a community spirit. If every student is asking that question ‘What could I have done?’ then out of these tragedies can come a deepening of that culture [of respect].”

the winter term, one comprehensive fee is paid. The comprehensive fee includes both instructional and general components, but the general fee portion is lower, according to Cassano.

“Students pay a cost per credit hour and that’s the same,” Cassano said. “There isn’t any additional cost. During the school year, students pay the metro and technology [fees]. None of that will be charged during the winter, so actually costs are lower.”

Junior Allison Gnaegy is one student who chose to partake in a program offered during the winter term. According to Gnaegy, cost was a major factor in deciding to enroll in a winter term pro-

gram, especially since she pays for college herself.

However, she ultimately chose to confirm her acceptance into the NYC Media program offered through the Journalism Program Department.

“I was definitely worried about the cost,” Gnaegy said. “My program fee aside from tuition is $635.”

Gnaegy said the program allows students to have one-onone interviews with journalists in various media outlets such as TV networks and newspapers.

“The opportunity outweighed the cost for me,” Gnaegy said. “I pay for college myself, so I’ll be expanding my loans.”

faced layoffs and budget cuts, the Armstrong Center became prohibitively expensive. New initiatives such as utilizing older buildings like Gaskill and Rowan Hall saved millions of dollars.

“But we still couldn’t get there without the student fee,” says Hodge. “Since the project was already the idea of students, it is reasonable.”

However, according to the second survey found in the legislation for ASG’s Student Financial Analysis in 2009, the survey showed “an important minority of students exist that do not support the building of a student center” for reasons such as not worth the price or fee, satisfaction with the Shriver Center and would not use the student center. However, the survey failed to mention the actual percentage of students who did not support a new student center.

Miami University senior Emily Johnson fell within that percentage of students.

“Unfortuantly, not every student has the means to pay this unexpected fee. I could be using my money for more important things,” she said in a tweet, responding to a question from The Miami Student Twitter account.

There is also a strong possibility for the fee to decrease throughout the years. Just as the REC fee and Goggin Center have decreased since they were built, this will hold true for ASC.

“It could decrease just as the REC has over time,” Miller said.

“There will be further analysis on that number moving forward and assessing student’s desires of services and what they are willing to pay.”

As spring semester bursar bills began rolling out as early as Dec. 3, students are reminded of what their fee is covering.

“I think it is fair, you pay for the semesters that you are here and you if you don’t choose to use it than that is on you, but it was intended for student use,” senior Aimee Madrigrano said.

The money to pay the bonds and facility costs had to come from somewhere though, and that somewhere is on student bursar bills.

“A lot of the students are excited for it, but they have to expect the money to come from somewhere,” Miller said. “We tried to get as much as we could through fundraising but the rest students have to pay for.”

The president said he sees it as an investment towards Miami’s future for years to come.

“At the end of the day, it is the student center,” he said. “And the fact that its 100 percent devoted to student use and governed by a student board is amazing. This is for the students, and it’s enormously important for the university. Co curricular life is so important here.”

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Since 2002, when the need for an improved and updated student center was first recognized, Miami University has been developing the idea of what is now the pristine, state-of-the-art Armstrong Student Center. Nearly 12 years and $46 million later, Armstrong will be open to students upon their return from winter break.

The following information was provided by several officials involved in the construction and development of the Armstrong Student Center, including director Katie Wilson, university architect John Seibert, executive manager of ASC dining services Tina Rotundo, senior director of dining and culinary support services Nancy Heidtman, executive chef Eric Young and Miami senior and member of the ASC board Stephanie Spetrino.

Armstrong Student Center by the numbers Costs

Phase 1 - $46 million $40 million in construction $6 million in design Phase 2 – approximately $21.5 million (coming soon) The building was funded half by donors and half by ASG-approved student fees By renovating the former academic buildings that occupied the space rather than tearing down and restarting, the university saved $50 per square foot

Seven new food concepts Over 600 seats for all dining areas 460 seats in the Commons 145 seats in the Bob and Doris ’52 Pulley Diner The Commons has two kiosks, where students can place their food orders through a computer and receive a text message when their food is ready to be picked up Dining services has already hired 159 students and about 50 full-time employees

Student organization space

Size

Phase 1 – 153, 849 square feet Phase 2 – approximately 63,000 square feet Comparatively, Shriver is about 137,000 square feet

Donations

The Armstrong Student Center has received more than 10,000 donations from alumni, friends, and family $200 donors have their names engraved on the glass wall of Slant Walk $2,000 donors have a tile dedication on the floor of Slant Walk $20,000 donors have a tile dedication surrounding the Great Seal on Slant Walk $25,000+ donors have a room bearing their name $15 million donors have the entire student center named after them (Mike and Anne Armstrong of Miami ’61)

Technology

Dining and food

Four short throat interactive media projectors (smart boards) One 12-screen video wall 22 digital monitors, plus 3 touchscreen monitors 8 video projectors in big event spaces Portable capture video equipment to stream video from one room, like the Pavilion, to other rooms for an expanded audience 167 computers

12,500 square feet of space dedicated to student involvement 78 student organizations have been accepted to move into the ASC in the spring 6 offices for the big-name student organizations on campus, with room for more ASG, MUSF, MAP, DAC, The Miami Student and Greek governing councils 20 shared offices (2-3 groups) 51 desk spaces for smaller organizations

Miscellaneous

It has been more than 38 months since the student center’s groundbreaking ceremony in fall 2010 There are 16 meeting rooms that can be rented out as quiet study rooms There are 18 students on the ASC board The future boards will have 15 students, each serving two-year terms 5 students will be appointed from ASG automatically, 1 from MAP, and 9 will be brought in from outside interviews There are 1,937 chairs in the building The Harry T. Wilks Theater has both balcony and floor level seating, totaling to more than 500 seats An additional 54 students have been hired for positions outside of dining services Pavilion It can be divided into 3 separate rooms (like Shriver’s MPR) This room is 8,000 square feet, compared to Shriver Multi-Purpose Room’s 6,000 It seats 850 people for lecture-style events and 550 for banquets The kitchen is 40 percent bigger than Shriver’s

Signature Spaces Bob and Doris ’52 Pulley Diner This 50’s-style diner serves breakfast, burgers and milkshakes 24/7 in a setting that will make you think you’ve gone back in time. Inspired and donated by Miami Mergers Bob and Doris Pulley, whose first dates were held in similar venues, this facility boasts bright-red bar stools and booths with classic black-and-white tile. Seating for the diner also extends out to the Joslin Family Terrace, a secondfloor patio complete with trees, chairs and tables. With its late hours and authentic atmosphere, this dining option is expected to be a hot spot for Miami students.

Slant Walk Running right through the heart of the Armstrong Student Center, just as its namesake runs through the heart of Miami’s campus, Slant Walk was built to make all parts of the building accessible from a central location. It starts just beyond the lobby with a massive staircase that passes through the food court and levels out at the Great Seal, following under the offices of student organizations. As the university’s architect John Seibert said, Armstrong was built with transparency in mind, and Slant Walk is a key component to providing that transparency.

Shade Family Room Formerly the Navy/ROTC building of Rowan Hall, this portion of Armstrong is considered the “living room of campus.” The room is furnished with dozens of couches and chairs, intended to provide a comfortable setting for students to socialize and study. The walls depict Miami life, both then and now, in many different ways: Miamians in military, Miami academic traditions, Myaamia tribe, Oxford, Miami architecture, Miami societies and organizations, RedHawks athletics and Miamians in public service. The room is complete with gold, outlined letters of Miami’s fight song and a cozy gas fireplace.

The Commons This area is essentially Armstrong’s food court, with many unique options catered especially to Miami students’ desires. Before construction began, the Associated Student Government approved all of the food concepts for this facility, furthering the idea of Armstrong being “for the students, by the students.” The Commons includes a bakery/café option called Haines’ Boulangerie, a Mongolian and Asian grill called Mein Street, a build-yourown Mexican restaurant called Serrrano, pasta and pizza options at Sundial Pizza Company, and a coffee and ice cream shop called Miami Ice. These dining facilities were created to emphasize two priorities – customizable and healthy/fresh – which are the main desires of today’s Miami students.

The Pavilion Comparable to Shriver’s Multi-Purpose Room, this space can accommodate just about any event, from lectures and performances to banquets and weddings. At 8,000 square feet, it is not only 25 percent larger than the Shriver MPR but it is also the largest event space on Miami’s campus. Not even open for us and the room has already been booked for several major events, including a wedding and the student-targeted SnowBall in January. Like Shriver, the Pavilion can be divided into three separate sections; this allows several groups to use the room at once and smaller groups to use the space effectively.

Wiikiaami Room Meaning “house” or “dwelling” in the Myaamia language, the Wiikiaami Room is a circular room that was built to encourage interaction and engagement. With its capacity of only 46 people, this room is suited for smaller events and activities but can still be rented out. The lodge-like room has two rows of wooden seating with intricate carvings and designs, handmade by a member of the Myaamia tribe. The Myaamia center has been working with Miami students from the tribe as well as with the art museum to include pieces that educate the campus community on the history, traditions and culture of the Myaamians.

Alumni Richard and Emily Smucker donated this room.

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Workers assemble all the components of the 3D seal that will act as a the heart of the new Armstrong Student Center.

Get your seals straight!

When the ASC opens, Miami will have not one but three “seals” on-campus.

The two-story bicentennial rotunda room greets students as they enter the Armstrong Student Center (ASC) from the Hub. The middle of this grand room is home to the Miami University Great Seal.

The seal, driven three feet below the ground, is 12 feet wide with a thick glass case over top of it. It is a real-life replica of the university’s seal, a Miami signature since 1826.

ASC’s seal has three different elements that are symbolic of Miami: an open book, a telescope and a globe. The open book represents wisdom and continued learning, the telescope is a symbol of the future and the globe signifies the present. Above the three elements is the Miami motto that reads, “Prodesse Quam Conspici.” In other words, “To accomplish without being conspicuous.”

“Bob Keller, former University Architect, has dreamed this thing down to every detail that it just symbolizes Miami in every possible way.” Katie

One of the key components of Miami tradition, legend has it that if you step on this seal, you will fail your next exam. Students can be seen surreptitiously giving it a wide birth.

The 3D seal Modeled after the original seal in academic quad, this seal will bring together several pieces of Miami’s history and tradition in the intricately-designed centerpiece of the new student center. This seal will be covered by a thick pane of glass; will it be safe for students to tread across? Only time will tell!

The SEAL This refers to the Center for Student Engagement and Leadership: 12,500 square feet of office space located on the second floor of the ASC for Miami’s hundreds of student organizations.

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Be sure to stop in to The Miami Student’s new office on the second floor of the Armstrong Student Center. or wave hello as you pass by.

people were interested [in the contest] so I didn’t expect anything.”

Hodge notified her of her victory in a personal email.

Accompanying the 12 essays in the book are 12 drawings by twin sisters Sophia and Madelyn Delgado.

Both are senior architecture majors at Miami University. They said it took them two weeks to draw 12 iconic buildings from Miami’s campus.

“We are starting a small business,” Sophia said. “We are in the process of getting our drawings for the book licensed.”

The Delgado twins plan on turning their drawings into stationeries and postcards to be sold in the Miami University Bookstore.

Wilson, Hancock and the Delgado twins all plan on being present at the grand opening of the newest campus building, where their hard work and dedication will be on display.

“We are really excited about the opening of the building,” Madelyn said. “ We haven’t met everyone who has been a part of creating the seal and we are looking forward to meeting them at the opening.”

SEAL binds student orgs together

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FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Hub.

Wilson, Director of the Armstrong Student Center, said.

The globe is from a Miami academic building, Wilson said, while the wood that supports the globe came from a tree that fell on campus.

Other details include bricks from two of Miami’s oldest buildings and a celestial map from Feb. 18, 1809— when Miami was chartered—as the seal’s backdrop.

The open book is the facet of the seal that boasts the most student participation. In March 2013, President David Hodge asked Miami students to partake in a writing contest that would fill the pages of the book. Essays had to be 1809 worlds or less, and the content was focused on the connection between “Old Miami” and “New Miami.”

There were 84 entries in the competition and faculty members and students picked the 12 finalists anonymously. Junior Amanda Hancock won the grand prize of $2,000 and her essay is on the open page of the book.

“I knew it was a long shot that I was going to win,” Hancock said. “Lots of

The Armstrong Student Center (ASC), due to open in January, has much more to offer than new dining and study space. The ASC will act as the hub for all Miami student organizations, and the new Center for Student Engagement and Leadership (SEAL) will offer student organizations a central location on campus within Armstrong, according to Director of the ASC Katie Wilson.

The idea behind the SEAL, Wilson said, is to create a special place where student organizations can come together and find new ways to collaborate, a place where Miami can capitalize on the energy student organizations bring to the campus.

“We used to have a concentration base of student organizations in the bottom of MacMillan and some offices in Shriver, but now there will be a central place for them all to be located,” Wilson said.

While Shriver was built for the number and needs of students in 1957, today’s students have different needs, and ASC is going to meet them, Wilson said. Student organizations will no longer use the offices in MacMillan and Shriver. Instead, they will migrate to the 12,500 square feet of office space on the second floor of the ASC. The SEAL space will be different from other areas on campus.

“There is a lot more public space,” Wilson said. “It’s hard to imagine, because we are used to

having everything done behind closed doors.”

Student organizations have been assigned space within the SEAL through a committee-reviewed application process. A rubric was used to determine if organizations would receive shared offices or desk space.

Miller worked with Wilson to select the student center board of directors for Armstrong.

“Dr. Wilson and I reviewed the applications and narrowed it down from 50 applications to 15 students to join the Student Center Board of Directors,” Miller said.

From this board, the SEAL committee was created. This committee determined where all the student organizations would be located.

“They received applications from student organizations, and decided which organizations needed the space,” Miller said.

Student Body Vice President Courtney Bernard serves as the Vice Chair of the Student Center Board of Directors and sits on the SEAL committee.

“We designed the application process for student organizations who wanted space in the Armstrong Student Center,” Bernard said. “We kind of mapped out and formulated clusters that we envisioned within the office and desk space.

The SEAL committee is filled with a diverse group of students, and throughout the application process there was always a representative from Student Activities, ASG and the Student Center Board of Directors present, Bernard said.

Now the space is assigned, the SEAL committee met with leaders in all the organizations the week after Thanksgiving break to prepare them for the transition to ASC, Bernard said.

Blaire Mikesell, a member of Miami Activities and Programming (MAP), works on the arts, culture and entertainment board.

“I think that the Armstrong Student Center will allow us to attract more exciting entertainment acts because of the new space in the auditorium and ballroom,” Mikesell said. “The spaces are nicer and bigger than what we have now, I think people will want to come enjoy it.”

The older facilities cannot compare to the ASC, Mikesell said.

“It’s a big improvement over Shriver and will accommodate Miami as we grow as a school. I’m really excited to get inside and start using it,” Mikesell said.

One of the most talked-about aspects of the SEAL area is the idea of collaboration between student organizations, and the ASG sees this potential.

“We want to be innovative, creative and collaborative,” Miller said.

“Its not something we’ve seen or experienced before at Miami; it would be great to see student orgs come together in new ways to create new opportunity for Miami students.”

Sophomore Kevin Krumpak is another excited student and thinks

SEAL,

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Meet the Armstrongs:The couple behind the new student hub OLIVIA BRAUDE

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

On Miami University’s campus, the name ‘Armstrong’ is synonymous with innovation and advancement, generosity and vision, development and success. The name is known, but the faces behind the name elude us. Who are the Armstrongs?

“They’re warm, they’re caring, they’re engaging,” President David Hodge said, “They want to make a difference in everything they do.”

President Hodge has worked with Mike and Anne Armstrong, whose $15 million donation named the new student center, since the beginning of his presidency.

“These are the people you hope you get a chance in your lifetime to be with,” Hodge said.

Mr. Armstrong graduated Miami University with a business degree in 1961. During his time as an undergraduate, he was dorm president and Commander of Sigma Nu Fraternity.

He said he believes it is important for Miami students to have a cultural, developmental and social center dedicated to them, and that the Armstrong Student Center will serve to be a key forum of activities enabling

students to realize their potential. “[Miami] provided education, maturity, motivation and balance to run as hard as I could in [my] career and life,” Mr. Armstrong said.

And run hard he did.

After graduating, he started working as a systems engineer at IBM and moved through the ranks for 30 years until retiring as chairman of IBM World Corporation.

In the meantime, Armstrong married his wife of 52 years, Anne Armstrong, who graduated from Miami in 1961. According to Mr. Armstrong, he and his wife began “going steady” when they were 14 years old.

“She lived 16 doors down the street in the city of Detroit, Michigan,” he said. “We went to grade school, high school and college together.”

The couple donated $14.7 million in 2007 for the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies (AIMS), which, according to President Hodge, was a vision of Mr. Armstrong, who pushed for the program to be university-wide.

“The purpose of AIMS is to strengthen the transfer of knowledge in Miami’s curriculum through the use of digital and online technologies,” Armstrong said.

According to the AIMS Mission Statement, the program “develops new approaches in the creation and application of digital technologies that empower individuals and organizations to invent, innovate and collaborate in novel ways.”

Besides providing Miami students with one of the oldest newmedia programs in the country and a state-of-the-art student center, Mr. Armstrong keeps himself busy by giving back to universities, to the medical community for research and to the disadvantaged.

He is currently contributing infrastructure projects to the Mayan Mountain Villages of Guatemala’s San Martin Region.

“We have a team on the ground bringing fresh water to villages, building schools, building and installing stoves, providing teachers, conducting clinics and funding scholarships,” Armstrong said.

President Hodge said he believes it is wonderful to have the name of such inspiring, generous people for the student center.

“One thing you hope when you put a name on a facility is that that CONTRIBUTED BY MIAMI UNIVERSITY name is going to stand for something Mike and Anne Armstrong can take pride in the state=of=the-art student special,” President Hodge said, “And center made possible by their $15 million gift.

I believe we have a home-run.”

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OPINION

EDITORS EMILY ELDRIDGE NICOLE THEODORE

FRIDAY DECEMBER 6, 2013

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Stress tips from the editorial board in time for finals week With most of the Editorial Board of The Miami Student being upperclassmen, we wanted to share our best stress management tactics with our readers, especially those who haven’t been fortunate enough to experience their first week of college finals yet.

Stress eating was the first thing that came to most of our minds. But in reality, there are a lot healthier, more productive options that will do your mind and body a favor.

Now, the ultimate way to avoid high levels of stress would be, well, to manage your time well enough to where you don’t have to rush to get things done. But sometimes work piles up and we’re bombarded with six-page study guides and group projects that just haven’t gone as planned.

And, before we begin, try not to be one of those people who acts like their stack of paper is higher than everyone else’s. Let’s face it – we are all busy.

One of the most stressful jobs in any newsroom is the role of Editor in Chief. Our EIC, Katie Taylor, has quite a simple approach to dealing with her stress: sleep. She jokes that she “curls up in a ball” and “eats lots of food.” But in all seriousness, sleeping it off and waking up refreshed and ready to tackle your to-do list will never fail. Just make sure you don’t oversleep. Sleep drunkenness, according to Dr. Lisa Shives from Evanston, IL., is a real thing. Severe cases of sleep drunkenness, she says, may put oversleepers in a weird state of mind where they won’t be able to make basic decisions. But for most of us, it’s a ‘blah’ feeling, resulting in more cups of coffee or a shower to fully wake us up.

While Katie rests, Nicole Theodore, Editorial Editor, runs to keep her mind clear. Leading up to finals, she can be found running around Oxford listening to techno music.

“As music can absorb our attention, it acts as a distraction; at the same time, it helps to explore emotions.

This means it can be a great aid to meditation, helping to prevent the mind [from] wandering,” according to psychologist Jane Collingwood for Psych Central. While most of us would assume classical music reduces stress, it is up to you to decide which music works best.

Like music, a TV break also seems like a popular way to reduce stress.

Victoria Slater, Campus Editor, said she watches shows like Grey’s Anatomy to get her mind off the serious stuff. Shows that make us laugh can keep our spirits high. While movies may be a bit long for a study break, watching just one short episode of your favorite show can put you in a better mood in no time.

Retail therapy actually works according to research from University

of Michigan marketing professors Scott Rick and Katherine Burson.

This gives Emily Eldridge, Editorial Editor, some relief. She says nothing relaxes her more than a quick trip to the mall. Spending money isn’t necessary. Just the pure joy of making buying decisions, “can help consumers restore a sense of control and reduce sadness.”

For guys, a trip to the mall may not be as rewarding, but Sports Editor Tom Downey says he does his best work under pressure; dealing with stress for a shorter amount of time is his approach. Europe’s “The Final Countdown” comes to mind when we think of this tactic. We know adrenaline can help you maximize your workout. But the adrenal glands also release something called noradrenaline, according to the Department of Medicine and Neurology. This noradrenaline chemical and adrenaline, “work together to raise heart rate, increase respiration, dilate the pupils, slow down digestion and—perhaps most importantly—allow muscles to contract.” Our brain isn’t a muscle, but we think Tom is on to something.

But the most sensible approach comes from our Campus Editor Reis Thebault, who says he meditates and stretches when he feels the weight of finals approaching.

Though he doesn’t know many yoga poses, simply stretching and enjoying the silence of an empty room does the job.

Adho Mukha Vrkasana, or handstand pose in yoga terms, could be something Reis would enjoy. In fact, our News Editor, Emily Crane listed this technique as her top stress reliever. What Emily might not know is handstands are proven to regulate the production of T3 and T4, which affects metabolism and can even help with detox by putting pressure on the illeocecal valve, according to Livestrong.com. But for stress relief, Livestrong reports, “[a] handstand brings blood to the adrenal glands to help reduce production of cortisol, the ‘stress hormone’ that is released when we are on a deadline or moving through heavy traffic.”

We all develop our own ways of dealing with stress. But it is important to be familiar with the warning signs of chronic stress. It is typical to feel overwhelmed during crunch time. But chronic stress, if not dealt with properly, can have long-term effects like obesity, depression and sleep disorder. If you feel like your stress has more of a grip over you than you think it should, talk to a counselor, friend or family member.

You can also visit www.units.muohio.edu/saf/scs/current/ for more information on stress management.

Good luck with finals and remember to take a break—or do a handstand—every couple hours.

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LETTER FROM THE NEWS EDITOR

There is no instruction manual on covering death I hang up the phone and sit in silence as two big tears roll down my cheeks. I wipe them away, annoyed.

I’m a journalist, I’m supposed to be tough as nails, relentlessly pursuing the truth, always looking to tell the best story. Death shouldn’t phase me; it should be just another story to tell. But it isn’t.

As I listen to a heart-broken mother tell me about how her daughter used to raise prize-winning goats and dreamt of working in physical therapy with children, the daughter goes from being a name in a coroner’s report to being a person. As her mother describes her to me, I see her take shape in front of me. How can I not grieve at the task in front of me—to write about her death?

I have taken nearly all the journalism courses there are to take at Miami. I have written dozens of stories for The Miami Student and even worked as a reporter for a few months in Egypt, covering protests and police brutality. But no task has been harder for me than to write the stories of the students who have died this semester. They have to be written; I believe that with my

whole heart. And somebody has to write them, and I guess that somebody is me. But there is no instruction manual for how to do it. No amount of coursework can prepare you for the day you are assigned to write about the death of your fellow student. There is no guidebook for how or when to call a grieving mother, a heartbroken wife or a shocked roommate.

I have been faced with a long series of ethical dilemmas: How long should I wait before contacting loved ones? What names should I include in my stories? Do I really have to ask them that? On the one hand, I have deadlines and editors wanting all the facts, and my journalistic integrity to uphold. On the other hand, I have real people, people who are hurt and angry and shocked. I have attended two memorial services this semester and have spoken to the family and friends of all five students who died.

And it hasn’t gotten easier as I’ve gone along either. Writing about death is hard and I’m not sure if I’m doing it right. I’ve sort of been figuring it out as I go.

Decisions made in real time are

rarely perfect, but this is what I’ve come to learn. First, my top allegiance has to be to the public. My foremost job is to report the truth accurately, fairly and to the fullest extent possible—even if that means asking a really difficult question, or printing unpleasant information.

Second, I must protect the right of private citizens to privacy by not prying at them or invading their personal space. This doesn’t mean I mustn’t call grieving family members or friends; it just means that I respect them if they tell me “no.”

And I must say that there has not been a case yet when I have asked someone to help me tell the deceased person’s story and they have refused. Third, even though compassion hurts, it is right. It is right to take on the grief of those I talk to, to let it affect me and my writing.

Maybe it’s not objective, but at least it’s real. And finally, in telling about a person’s death, I must not fail to tell about their life. Often, it is in the life of a person that we have the most to learn.

EMILY CRANE

NEWS EDITOR NEWS@MIAMISTUDENT.NET

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MILAM’S MUSINGS

White privilege blinds us to the systematic discrimination minorities still face Gap’s new holiday advertising campaign features a Sikh actor wearing a turban and sporting a beard, as part of his faith, alongside a woman, which was later defaced with racist remarks.

The adBRETT vertisement MILAM released across the United States is part of Gap’s “Make Love” campaign.

Valarie Kaur, filmmaker, civil rights advocate and interfaith organizer, writing for CNN, remarked on the uniqueness of the ad in presenting for the first time in a mainstream, national advertisement, a turbaned man, Waris Ahluwalia, as beautiful and sexy, next to model and filmmaker Quentin Jones.

“He is not a suspect, but a model; not a terrorist, but a person with dignity; not a foreigner, but an American,” she said.

On a subway wall in New York City, vandals crossed out “Make Love” to read “Make Bombs.”

Underneath that was written, “Please stop driving TAXIS.” Gap heard about the defaced advertisement because New York photographer Robert Gerhardt took a picture of it and sent it to Arsalan Iftikhar, senior editor at the “Islamic Monthly,” who then tweeted it out, according to Yahoo News.

Afterwards, Gap replaced the defaced ad, changed their Twitter and Facebook background images to the ad in question and released a statement.

“Gap is a brand that celebrates inclusion and diversity,” read the statement.

This advertising campaign is a poignant way to celebrate how wonderfully diverse Americans actually are and to further dispel disparaging stereotypes.

However, the issue of

stereotyping turbaned men as terrorists goes beyond a defaced Gap ad. In other words, writing this incident off as the work of vandals and leaving it at that would be shortsighted.

After 9/11, for instance, the New York Police Department (NYPD) began “blanket surveillance” of mosques. Uncovered files showed that the police had designated entire mosques as “terrorism enterprises.”

The NYPD sent in “mosque crawlers” to monitor sermons before any evidence of criminality had even been found.

Moreover, there have long been calls for racial profiling of Muslims, Sikhs or really anyone that supposedly fits the image of a “terrorist” since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) took over security screening at airports.

“TSA does not conduct ethnic or religious profiling, and employs multiple checks and balances to ensure profiling does not happen,” according to the TSA website.

Yet, Sikh entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley created the app FlyRights to better file complaints directly to the TSA. Since its inception, 200 complaints have been filed, which is a discrepancy from what the TSA reports to Congress.

The app has been updated now to include filing the complaints directly to members of Congress and comparing airports, according to the LA Times.

Amardeep Singh, co-founder of the Sikh Coalition that helped create the app, told the LA Times of how often he is profiled when going through airports. He is always asked to go through a secondary screening where they pat down his turban and check his hands for traces of chemicals.

“There is no positive association of a person in a turban, of someone like me who’s a regular American,” he said.

After his picture went viral, Iftikhar said Gap is helping minorities and underrepresented fashion models to challenge how we

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Gap’s new Make Love campagin posters, featuring actor Waris Ahluwalia and model and filmmaker Quentin Jones, have been defaced and vandalized in New York City. superficially define beauty.

“Because, as the year 2014 inches closer to us, I want to live in an America where a fashion model can be a handsome, bearded brown dude in a turban,” he said.

I believe it is hard for those of us – white people, males specifically – to understand what it is like to face secondary screenings and the humiliation therein from the TSA or to have our article of faith mocked when we are the privileged political, social, cultural and religious position in society.

Imagine, for instance, if Christian children were bullied for wearing a cross. Or since most mass shootings are by the hands of white men, if we started profiling them accordingly.

Recently, I took a trip to New York City. As a white male, I did not have to worry as much about being a target of the NYPD’s Stop and Frisk program because 85

percent of those stopped are either black or Latino.

Did any other white American president have to continually demonstrate via his birth certificate that he was in fact born in the United States, as President Obama had to do?

Moreover, we are the dominant image in movies, television and other media, such as fashion advertising, along with being seen as an autonomous voice on important issues.

“White guys tend to assume white males are individual voices, whereas blacks, women, Hispanics and others always speak for the entire group,” Caryl Rivers, American novelist and journalist said.

Certainly, though, even referring to something as obvious as this brings those out of the woodwork to suggest this subgroup – white people – are being unfairly victimized and scapegoated for the

ills of society, but that misses the point entirely.

Stop being so defensive and recognize the reality; I am not suggesting that all whites are racist or even that most whites are racist. However, I am suggesting that avoiding a discussion about how systematically pervasive white privilege is only serves to allow it to continue.

I do not have to worry about being called a terrorist because I am white. If Gap put me on one of their advertisements, I would not have to worry about it being defaced with racist epitaphs because I am white.

We, especially us white males, are the default and the norm and it blinds us to the plight Sikhs, like Singh or other ethnicities routinely face.

MILAMBC@MIAMIOH.EDU SENIOR, PHILOSOPHY MAJOR

NICOLE’S TWO CENTS

With a sea of red and orange, annual corruption index signals alarming problem For those who complain about the United States being corrupt, you might want to hold your breath because things aren’t as horrible as you think….at least compared to some other places in the world.

TransparNICOLE ency InterTHEODORE national, a movement with more than 100 chapters throughout the globe aimed to fight corruption, released its annual Corruption Perception Index and were right on the money with their findings.

Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia were tied for most corrupt while New Zealand, Denmark and Finland rounded out the top three for least corrupt. The U.S. came in at number 19, tied with Uruguay.

Corruption, defined by the United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime (UNODC), is “the improper use of a

public or official position for private gain.” What comes first to mind to most, especially Americans, is that corruption typically involves political and public figures. But the worst kind of corruption is often hidden and tied within everyday life and can truly effect the way people live, such as those living in Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia.

In Afghanistan, corruption has been seared into common social practices often involving patronage and bribery. According to a 2013 UNODC corruption report on the country, 68 percent of citizens consider it acceptable for a civil servant to top up a low salary by accepting small bribes from service users, while 67 percent also sometimes find it acceptable for a civil servant to be recruited on the bases of family ties and friendship.

Education also suffers from corruption in Afghanistan, at first a seemingly unlikely place for it. The number spiked from 16 percent in 2009 to 51 percent in 2012 for those who had paid or bribed a teacher.

This sort of corruption however is not limited just to the Middle East

— I saw this same trend in Kosovo, where students had joked about how easy it was to pay off college professors, and some even admitting to knowing someone who did for a final term paper or grade.

As corruption is worsening in the world’s conflict areas, with Syria at the top along with Libya, Yemen and Iraq, there is no question that there may be a direct correlation to corruption and conflict. Just from last year, Syria dropped 24 places as it’s civil war rages on, essentially limiting normal government functions and making an easy transition for black markets to pop up throughout the country. It’s also no secret that President Bashar Assad has the system rigged to elect friends and family, a typical type of corruption in authoritarian governments.

Currently in Kosovo, ranked 111 out of 175 of the most corrupt nations, ongoing trials of accused organ trafficking plague the small country of 1.8 million, stemming back from the devastating 1999 war with Serbia where some former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) members have been accused of harvesting organs

during the conflict.

The current Prime Minister of Kosovo Hashim Thaci is among the accused, and possibly could be the leader of a network of illegal activity

As the ones that are rated the highest are plagued in civil war and widespread violence, I have to wonder if corruption will ever subside in these countries.

But the worst kind of corruption is often hidden and tied within everyday life and can truly effect the way people live, such as those living in Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia.

involving prisoner abuse and organ trafficking during the war.

In 2008, Former Kosovo health secretary Illir Rrecaj and prominent Pristina urologist Lutfi Dervishi include some of the accused that face up to 20 years of prison in a scandal at a local health clinic in the capital.

No matter what type of corruption and how serious, the scariest thoughts may lie in that out of 175 countries, there are 55 that are highly corrupt, and 39 that are close to becoming highly corrupt according to the index.

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I look at Kosovo, a post war country where I lived for a summer, and instantly shake my head absolutely not.

Whether or not it is the United States’ problem to deal with in the case of helping crack down on corruption throughout the globe, I can’t help but still wonder what will happen to these countries in the next 10 years, and how it will effect our own country.

THEODONC@MIAMIOH.EDU

SENIOR, JOURNALISM & PSYCH. MAJOR

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Bernard said.

In addition, ASC will help encourage students to go to on-campus events with advertising and reaching out to individual students.

“It’s an amazing concept we’ve never had before, not dedicated to just academics, but dedicated to the Miami experience,” Bernard said.

“That’s the goal.”

There are also many rooms that will be available to reserve, whether or not a student is involved in an organization.

“What I am really motivated about is that Armstrong is definitely a place for all students to use,”

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the space will improve the way ASG runs.

“As a senator in the Associated Student Government, it’s really exciting for us to have the opportunity to be more visible to the students so that we can be more representative of them,” Krumpak said. “It’s what our organization is supposed to be doing in the first place, so Armstrong is really going to help.”

According to Bernard, the hope is that students are out and about, utilizing the open area within ASC. “Having everyone in one space is something that has never

target audience perspective.

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Corron serves as the co-chair for the SEAL committee.

“It’s really great to have such a large space dedicated to student organizations,” Corron said. “The diversity on Miami’s campus will be represented within the home that is for all students. I view Armstrong as a student hub for all students.”

The Armstrong Student Center will be officially dedicated at 2 p.m., Feb. 7, 2014, with a special event welcoming the Miami community and the more than 10,000 alumni and friends who supported the effort.

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SPORTS

EDITOR TOM DOWNEY

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2013 ANDREW GEISLER GOING LONG WITH GEISLER

MIAMI FOOTBALL HIRE MOVES PROGRAM IN THE CORRECT DIRECTON Athletic director David Sayler made the right call when he relieved Don Treadwell of his head coaching duties after an 8-21 record on the job, including an 0-5 start this year. And though the firing didn’t save the RedHawks from an embarrassing 0-12 season, Sayler sent the right message in firing Treadwell.

The school that has had coaches like the father of modern offensive football in Paul Brown, legends like Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and many more darken its doors, expects to win.

It’s well-trodden ground to bring all of this up, but wins have been in short supply down at Yager Stadium as of late.

The RedHawks have had only one winning season since 2006, but all of us should be reminded of where our football program, which is the winningest in MAC history, has been and take pride in that. The days haven’t always been so dark.

But good news broke Tuesday when Notre Dame offensive coordinator Chuck Martin was announced as the new RedHawk head football coach.

Martin is a Brian Kelly protégé, serving as a coordinator on both sides of the ball (and as recruiting coordinator at Notre Dame for two seasons) for Kelly at different stops, but most importantly, taking over for him as head coach at Division II Grand Valley State when Kelly left for greener pastures in 2003.

He won two national championships and went 74-7 as head coach before joining back up with Kelly at Notre Dame in 2010.

“Chuck was 74 and 7 as a head coach, plus coordinator experience at Notre Dame, plus believes in academic mission….. check, check, and check,” athletic director David Sayler tweeted after the news of Martin’s hiring broke.

Sayler knows Martin has proven he can win, not just gameplan.

This was probably Treadwell’s main deficiency. When he was hired by the now departed AD Brad Bates in 2010, Treadwell, who’s an alum, called it a dream come true to return to his alma mater as the head football coach.

He understood the history, but his head coaching experience was all of two games, when he filled in for Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio when Dantonio suffered a mild heart attack during the 2010 season. This lack of experience showed.

The folly in handing over the reins of the Cradle of Coaches to a coach who’s never been the

head guy is crystalized best by Utah State’s head coach Matt Wells, who took over for Gary Andersen this year after serving as his offensive coordinator.

Wells said, in part, about becoming a head coach during a recent interview, “there is really no Cliff Notes version for it. . .but it’s just kind of going from week to week and having a plan and sticking to it.”

There is truly no substitute for having the buck stop with you, and succeeding in that role.

Some coaches don’t do well with it. Treadwell, who was a solid offensive coordinator in East Lansing, proved he couldn’t handle it.

When the offense couldn’t move the ball, Treadwell and the staff made the call to switch their entire offensive system, trying out a pistol veer package, without installing the typically corresponding run and shoot pass game with it. A mid-season switch in offensive systems, no matter how bad you are, is almost always a terrible idea unless your name is Darrell K. Royal.

Fortunately for the future of the program, Chuck Martin has proven he can win. It doesn’t matter if it was at a smaller school.

Just look at Brian Kelly; Grand Valley State, Central Michigan, Cincinnati, and now at Notre Dame—he’s won everywhere he has been because it is what he expects to do.

So what if he’s not an old Miami guy? That didn’t turn out so well last time with Treadwell, and anyone can get excited about following in the footsteps of legends.

“You think of the Cradle of Coaches and the people that have come through here,” Martin said at his press conference. “I know, in this state, Woody Hayes is the king of the Cradle of Coaches.

Up in Michigan, it’s Bo Schembechle. But for us in Notre Dame it was Ara Paresghian. I was getting my hair cut yesterday and (Parseghian) was in the same seat I was the day before talking about how Miami has to get this one right. ‘We’ve got to get it back.’ Just the fact that Ara Pareseghian is still talking about the job I was about to take sends chills down my spine.”

It won’t be easy to turn a team around from an embarrassing winless season, but we should all be glad Sayler brought in a coach who’s been around a proven winner for much of his professional coaching career, and had great success when he was the man in charge.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

RedHawks rally for first victory in comeback

BEN TAYLOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University senior guard Quinten Rollins finishes at the rim with a finger roll. Rollins put up 11 points in Miami’s 76-71 comeback victory over IPFW.

BY ZACH MACIASZEK FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s basketball team (1-4) earned its first win of the season in dramatic fashion, overcoming a 16-point halftime deficit to stun the Mastodons of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (6-4) 94-87 Tuesday night.

Senior forward Will Felder scored a career-high 26 points, with 17 of them during MU’s second half surge.

Felder was joined in the second half by senior guard Will Sullivan who keyed the RedHawks’ run with a career-high 23 points, who also put up 17 of them in the second half.

The Mastodons sank 12 of their 17 attempts from three-point range in the first half on their way to compiling a 52-36 lead. Senior guard Kevin Harden banked in a running three from about 30 feet out as the horn sounded, a fitting end to a first half in which it seemed the Mastodons couldn’t miss from deep, as several balls went in both off the glass and after friendly bounces on the rim. “[They] shot the ball unbelievably well in the first half,” head coach John Cooper said. “Not only did they make their open ones, they made

their contested ones … You’re saying to yourself, ‘How do we make sure that we keep the team in it?’ because we hope and believe that they can’t shoot that ball as well in the second half.”

The RedHawks came out of the locker room with a lot more energy and it showed on the court. MU employed a full court press which took the Mastodons out of their rhythm, and the threes that IPFW was hitting in the first half were not falling as often, as they connected on only three of their 11 three-point attempts.

The RedHawks had been playing catchup all game until a Sullivan three-pointer with 3:48 remaining on the clock gave MU a 79-77 lead. The teams traded the lead before sophomore guard Geovonie McKnight nailed a three-pointer to give the ’Hawks a 88-87 lead with 1:01 left.

Miami would not surrender that lead as IPFW was forced to foul and the ’Hawks buried all six of their free throws in the closing seconds.

Sullivan, coming off the bench for the first time this season, finished 8-9 from the field, including 4-5 from three. He scored 15 points in a fiveminute stretch in the second half

which turned the tide of the game.

“Once I saw that first one go in … my confidence just kept going higher and higher,” Sullivan said. “It was just one of those nights. I’m grateful; I was blessed to have it.”

Cooper said he was happy for the hard-working Sullivan.

“When you do what he does and you have his habits, you want him to have a good game,” Cooper said.

“Certainly he’s not the only one on the team who works hard, but you sincerely feel that he’s selfless about this whole thing. It is literally about what is best for the team and the program.”

The RedHawks go for their second win of the season when they hit the road to take on Evansville University (5-3). The Purple Aces are on a three-game losing skid. The primary challenge for MU will be to contain sophomore guard D.J. Balentine. Balentine is fourth in the nation in scoring, averaging 25.3 points per game. The next leading scorer on the team is sophomore guard Adam Wing, who averages 10.8 points per game.

Tip-off is scheduled for 2:05 p.m. Saturday.

HOCKEY

’Hawks host Denver in NCHC series

BY JOE GIERINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

For the No. 12 Miami University hockey team, this weekend’s series isn’t only a National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) showdown that could shape both team’s futures – these two games will be the last regular season contests for 34 days.

The Brotherhood (8-6-2; 2-4-00 NCHC) is slated to skate twice against the University of Denver Pioneers (7-5-2; 3-2-1-1 NCHC), who are riding a six-game unbeaten streak that dates back to Nov. 2. It’s the first

home stand for the RedHawks since they split their series against Wisconsin Nov. 15-16.

“These are two really big games for us,” sophomore defenseman Matthew Caito said. “These are league games, which means these points will be very important down the road. We need to keep building on this momentum from last weekend and keep moving forward.”

The ’Hawks ended a four-game winless streak last Saturday, thanks in large part to the heroics of junior forward and captain Austin Czarnik and his five-assist night. The career

best point total for last year’s Hobey Baker finalist boosted Miami to a 6-3 win over Bemidji State University, and recaptured the confidence of a reeling RedHawks team.

“It was a good way to go into our final week before break and exams,” head coach Enrico Blasi said. “It’s the way you want to go into your last two games, and these are league games … and this is going to be a huge challenge.

“Their new coach, coach [Jim]

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

RedHawks knock off Penguins for win

BY JUSTIN MASKULINSKI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University women’s basketball team earned its second win of the season Wednesday with a 70-67 win over the Youngstown State University Penguins (1-5).

“I thought we executed well at the end,” Miami head coach Cleve Wright said.

The RedHawks battled throughout the entire game, but the Penguins held a 67-61 lead with two minutes remaining.

The RedHawks were able to slow

Youngstown State’s happy feet and pull to a 67-67 tie with 52 seconds to go in the game.

With just 14 seconds left, Miami junior guard Kindsay Brandt found senior guard Hannah Robertson on a laser beam-like pass for what would be the game winning layup.

“It was a play that we had set up in our offense,” Robertson said. “We had run it a couple of times earlier in the game so we kind of knew how they were going to play it. It couldn’t have been a more perfect pass from [Brandt].”

The Monday before the game, Robertson said the goal for the Red and White was to put two good halves together, and despite the win, Robertson thinks the RedHawks have room for improvement.

“The first half we came out a little bit slow,” Robertson said. “We weren’t really talking much and executing the way we were supposed to.

We did something we haven’t been able to do in the past, which is find

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