Feb. 19, 2010 | The Miami Student

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Friday, February 19, 2010

In 1932, The Miami Student reported that in order to spice up the normal event calendar, a Leap Year Dance would be held Feb. 27.

In accordance with the holiday, female students were expected to ask the men out and buy the tickets.

MU faculty use leaves for research

By Catherine Couretas Editor in Chief

Investing in faculty is key, even facing very challenging economic times, Miami University Provost Jeffrey Herbst said.

One way this is done is through granting faculty leaves, for research and improvement purposes, which promotes their long-term professional development.

Herbst said the university was a little more conservative on granting leaves last year, so this year the number is up. However, he said this coincides with the normal variation of the number of faculty taking leaves.

Leaves, Herbst said, are a crucial part of faculty’s time at Miami.

“We have expectations regarding the accomplishment of scholarship,” Herbst said of faculty. “Leaves are critical for faculty to accomplish scholarship. It’s important for professional development.”

Keith Tuma, associate dean of the College of Arts and Science (CAS), said there are two types of leaves faculty can take, either assigned research appointments (ARAs) or faculty improvement leaves (FILs). As implied, ARAs are used for faculty to complete research as they are working toward tenure, while FILs give faculty more of a breather and time to catch up with their field.

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Junior Patrick Preston waits on two hungry customers Thursday evening at Will’s Pizza.

Brick Street owners try hand at tossing pizza, grilling burgers

By Molly Williams For The Miami Student

Oxford has an array of pizza restaurants, bringing a variety of tastes and options as well as raising the competition among new and old businesses.

The newest addition is Will’s Pizza, which opened Feb. 8 at 11 W. Church St. Owners Mark and Will Weisman are not strangers to the restaurant business in Oxford. The pair also owns both 45 East and Brick Street Bar and Restaurant, but they decided to try something new.

“Will’s is a good extension of our other restaurants, adding late night and delivery options,” Mark Weisman said.

Will’s Pizza is open late every night and is even available for delivery until 4 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.

The Weisman brothers wanted to offer something a little different to Miami University students and the Oxford community.

“We invested a lot of time coming up with sauces and spices,” Mark Weisman said.

“We have expectations regarding the accomplishment of scholarship. Leaves are critical for faculty to accomplish scholarship. It’s important for professional development.

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While on leave, whether it be on an ARA or an FIL, faculty are provided “release from teaching, full salary, the continuation of benefits based on full salary and eligibility for salary increment or promotion,” according to the Miami University Policy and Information Manual (MUPIM). The exception to this is faculty who are granted an FIL for an entire year, in which they only receive two-thirds compensation over the two semesters.

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Will’s Pizza offers a New York-style pizza that the brothers have worked to perfect. Their menu includes a variety of specialty pizzas, like buffalo chicken pizza as well as subs and chicken wings that Mark Weisman said people rave about.

Miami junior Caroline Furlong thinks the brothers made a great choice in opening the new business.

“Will’s seems to offer what a lot of people have been looking for: new and unique options compared to the other pizza places already in Oxford,” Furlong said.

The Weisman’s hope to continue to provide a unique dining experience.

“We’re focusing on offering a lot of value … and also more of a variety and other options,” Mark Weisman said.

Will’s Pizza is offering special deals for each weekday as well as an everyday deal. One of the specials offered is the Two for Tuesday that includes two sandwiches, two bags of chips, two drinks and

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Study concludes, analysis continues on women’s moods, habits

By Dylan Tussel Senior Staff Writer

Two Miami University faculty members recently concluded a series of sur-

XXX veys about college women’s moods and coping, and they are in the process of analyzing the collected data to determine if a relationship exists between alcohol consumption, sex and emotion.

Rose Marie Ward, assistant professor in the department of kinesiology and health, and Terri Messman-Moore, associate professor in the psychology department, collaborated to conduct the two-part survey of college age women.

Ward and Messman-Moore are in the process of analyzing data from the surveys, but have come to several conclusions.

The study indicated higher difficulties in emotion regulation are related to higher

negative emotions, which are related to using sex to cope. Those who use sex to cope are more likely to report being sexually active, having a higher number of sexual partners, having a higher number of hookups and having “friends with benefits,” according to Ward.

Ward defined emotion regulation as how aware one is of her own emotions, those of others and how to control them. Ward did not initially define “hooking up” on the survey, but the participants were later able to give their own definitions, which ranged from kissing to having sexual intercourse, she said.

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Finally, Oxford will have its own hookah bar! Celebrate!

Two Miami University alumni are filling big shoes as ambassadors to China and Haiti.

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Creator of Toms Shoes to discuss his successful business model with Miami students.

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BEAR HUG, PLEASE! FOOD TECHIES

Liz Caskey, Amusement assistant editor, reveals just how much she has in common with Bear Grylls.

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Updated dining halls offer students quick and easy self checkout.

HOCKEY SHOWDOWN Men’s ice hockey team to face off with University of Nebraska at Omaha in its last home series of the season.

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survey was 10 weeks long and began fall 2008. This part focused on the interplay of mood, emotional regulation strategies and drinking. Ward and MessmanMoore are analyzing the data from the first part of the study to determine if the three factors — alcohol consumption, sex and emotion regulation — co-varied and what the relationships between them were.

The follow-up survey, conducted one year later, focused on how stable the factors such as emotional regulation were over an extended period of time, Messman-Moore said.

“If the emotional regulation was bad in November of their junior year, will it still be bad a year later?” Messman-Moore said,

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MU HOCKEY LIVE! Watch our Web site as Catherine Couretas posts live updates from Saturday’s hockey game.

SPORTS SLIDESHOW Flip through photos from the men’s basketball game against Akron.

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Editors Courtney Day dayce2@muohio.edu Hope Holmberg holmbehh@muohio.edu Amanda Seitz seitzam2@muohio.edu

News Diplomats discuss issues BRIEFS Ambassador to China to speak on energy crisis

events Hip Hop scholar to speak on pop culture James Peterson, assistant professor of English at Bucknell University and founder of Hip Hop Scholars, LLC, will present “H.E.R. Story: The Narratives of Hip Hop Culture” at Miami University Feb. 24.

Peterson’s work focuses on Africana studies, narrative, graphic novels and Hip Hop culture. He began Hip Hop Scholars, LLC as an association of scholars who research Hip Hop, urban and youth cultures.

His talk will discuss the history of Hip Hop culture and its connections to Black diaspora and Africana studies.

Peterson has appeared as on CNN, MSNBC, ESPN and other television networks as an expert on Hip Hop culture, popular culture, urban youth, race and politics. He is also a regular contributor to The Root.com.

This event, a part of Miami’s Black History Celebration, is sponsored by the Black History Celebration committee and the Office of Diversity Affairs.

It will begin at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in 115 Shideler Hall.

Business school to host charity golf tournament The Farmer School of Business (FSB) will be hosting their third annual Farmer School Golf Classic on Saturday, April 24 at the Weatherwax Golf Course in Middletown.

After being inspired in a business course taught by Miami University graduate Pat O’Brien, two Miami business students started the tournament in 2008. Since then, the tournament has raised more than $30,000 for charities. This year, the committee has chosen to donate proceeds from the event to a local charitable organization, the Tri-State Habitat for Humanity. It will be a shotgun start at 1:30 p.m. with lunch beforehand at 12 p.m. The cost to participate is $50 for students, $70 for faculty and $100 for alumni and other friends of Miami. For more details, contact Mackenzie Bruce at (614) 570-0430 or bruceml@muohio.edu.

fyi Dean finalist meeting rescheduled The Miami University Hamilton open session to meet and greet regional dean finalist, David Pearson, has been rescheduled.

The original session, scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 17 is now rescheduled for Friday, Feb. 19 from 1-2 p.m. The location is to be announced.

David Pearson is one of the three finalists for the dean of regional campuses and hails from the University of Texas where he is the special assistant to the provost. Dean finalist Michael G. Pratt greeted the public in an open session held last week and dean finalist Kevin Corcoran open session details are to be determined.

By Dylan Tussel Senior Staff Writer

The Luxembourg ambassador to China, a Miami University alumnus, will discuss various perspectives on energy consumption and its environmental implications in a presentation on Monday.

The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies is sponsoring Carlo Krieger’s speech in hopes students will gain from it an understanding of global warming and become active in helping to solve related environmental issues, according to Karen Dawisha, director of the Havighurst Center.

As the Luxembourg ambassador to China and former ambassador to Russia, Krieger is bringing with him a diverse set of perspectives on international politics and financial markets related to energy, Dawisha said.

Krieger will discuss what needs to be done to move past Copenhagen and what the next step for the United States and China is in regards to the reduction of carbon emissions, Dawisha said.

“Copenhagen was a Chinese and American failure,” Dawisha said. “(So) what’s the next step?”

Copenhagen was a failure for China and the U.S. because the two countries did not come away in agreement about limiting the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, Dawisha said.

“There had been a protocol signed in Kyoto and it was running out,” Dawisha said. “The idea of Copenhagen was to get people to extend the work that had been done in Kyoto, which set targets for governments to limit the growth in greenhouse gasses.”

China, India and the United States, three of the world’s largest polluters, refused to sign the Kyoto protocol, and their greenhouse gas emissions consequently grew in excess, Dawisha said, explaining the reason Copenhagen was necessary after Kyoto. “(Copenhagen was) the second attempt to get these three huge polluters to sign on,” Dawisha said.

Dawisha said it is imperative students listen to Krieger and learn about the implications of pollution and global warming. “(Students need) a clear understanding of the reasons why Copenhagen didn’t succeed, but also (to know that) this problem is not going away – it’s only accelerating,” Dawisha said. “The generation that students live in is the generation that is going to be hit very, very hard by global warming … students generally

Miami alumnus serves as U.S. envoy to Haiti

need to educate themselves … and become active in helping solve (these issues).”

Chiou Chen, professor of electrical engineering, is part of the EnergyBased CurKRIEGER riculum Faculty Learning Community, which is co-sponsoring the event.

Chen said Krieger’s speech would be very important for students to hear because Krieger will discuss various perspectives from which to look at energy.

“We want students to take away that energy is not just a technical issue,” Chen said. “It’s also a diplomatic, economic and political issue.”

It is important for the United States to develop alternative energies because the U.S. depends on petroleum for 80-85 percent of its energy and currently imports 70 percent of the petroleum it consumes. The economic implication of this is that the value of the U.S. dollar depreciates as more dollars are spent outside the country, Chen said.

Next to China, the United States currently emits the second highest amount of carbon dioxide in the world. Issues of carbon emission will be addressed again by various countries at a meeting in Cancun at the end of the year, Chen said.

First-year international student Meng Zhang, from China, thinks the environment is a very important topic, but that Krieger’s speech will not benefit students.

“People talk about environmental degradation and pollution a lot, (but they still) waste a lot, especially in the U.S.,” Zhang said. “At first, it made me uncomfortable, but now I just accepted that people here waste energy.”

Zhang said that students cannot be taught to environmentally friendliness. “(In China,) we don’t have that much environmental education, but it’s just our human nature,” Zhang said. Children must be raised by environmentally conscious parents who lead by example, Zhag said.

“It’s useless, it’s helpless,” Zhang said, referring to her belief it is impossible to teach students to be environmentally conscious in their actions.

“This will only help people who already have good habits and already care about the environment.”

By Noëlle Bernard Staff Writer

Since the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti much attention has been given to the neglected country, known as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

The Miami University community has hosted several benefits and fundraisers with numerous organizations in effort to build awareness and support for the Haitian people. Kenneth Merten, United States Ambassador to Haiti and 1983 Miami alumnus, experienced first hand the disastrous earthquake that devastated the country, and his job has since accelerated.

When the earthquake hit, Merten had just arrived home with his family and guests from the U.S. He said he was hosting a reception when the ground suddenly began to tremble.

“The ground was shaking to such an extent that it was very hard to hold your balance, Merten said. “The house was literally shaking back and forth.

I was screaming out for my wife and daughters, who were still upstairs inside the house …

I remember running around to the back of the house. I used to be able to see the view of Hotel Montana, but I only saw dust where it stood. There were huge clouds of dust coming from the valley. So many people were screaming and shouting.”

Merten was appointed as Ambassador to Haiti in August 2009. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice first nominated him during the transitory state of re-election and he had to be reselected by the new presidential administration.

As Ambassador to Haiti, it is Merten’s job is to be the president’s representative to the Haitian government.

“That means I am responsible for our relation with Haiti, whether that is economical, political or social,” Merten said. “That means I have to be familiar with the country and decision makers to brief people about what is going on there.

I tell them what they need to know and decisions to make on what the government should be doing.”

As the U.S.’s representative, Merten is also responsible for looking after American citizens living in Haiti.

Merten said 40,000 to 45,000 American citizens lived in Haiti at the time of the earthquake. Since then more than 15,000 have evacuated.

“There has been a huge amount of interest in what is going on here,” Merten said. “The day after, President Barack

Obama called to hear about how the people were doing and to hear my assessment of the damage. There has been a huge amount of media interest.

There are a lot of folks MERTEN d o w n here from almost every agency here. I have to understand what they are doing here and what they can contribute.”

However, Merten has hope for the country and its opportunities. His job now is to help the U.S. government, the Haitian government, and nonprofit organizations rebuilt Haiti and recover the lost.

“There is going to be a lot of work and opportunity,” Merten said. “There’s a lot of money coming here and good will.

This is a way for a fresh start.

I think the Haitian people have been incredibly admirable. I have the utmost respect for the dignity, patience and good spirits in which they have dealt with this crisis. Everything is damaged.”

As a community, Miami has taken many steps to addressing Haiti’s crisis.

Sophomore Megumi Sugita, president of the on-campus organization UNICEF said, “We know Haiti needs money most right now. Everything they are doing now is taking care of people, and to get that done we need to raise money for them.”

Sugita said UNICEF sets up tables at the Shriver Center and other campus events to collect donations.

“It’s hard to say if the Haitian government can fix its problems,” said sophomore Tim Model, a diplomacy and foreign affairs major. “This is the worst that can happen. They need to get together and realize what is good and bad, mainly what can be improved. First, Haiti needs to fix its government. Second, they need to use the world’s aid properly. Third, the government needs to focus on the population and rebuilding homes. Haiti could have a chance.”

Merten said he encourages Miami to get involved with well-known organizations to raise money for the country.

“Don’t hop on a plane and come see what to do, because there are literally no places for people to stay,” Merten said.

“Do what they can to raise money and make sure people do not forget this even in the next 3 to 5 months.”

Campus job applications rise Mary Kate Linehan Senior Staff Writer

With the economy hitting families and students hard, Miami University has experienced a rise in student job applicants this semester. According to directors of the Recreational Sports Center (RSC), the Miami University Bookstore and Housing, Dining and Guest Services (HDGS), applications have increased significantly.

“I would say we have more applications than we’ve ever had before, we are employing the same amount but we have more applications, and more people are asking for job positions,” Doug Curry, director of the RSC, said.

Jim Simpson, assistant director of the Miami Bookstore in the Shriver Center said he has seen the

same trend in application increases for student employment positions.

“Applications for positions have increased but we do not have enough positions to fill,” Simpson said.

According to Simpson, the Miami Bookstore has neither increased nor decreased in numbers of employees employed this semester. Curry said in comparison to previous years, employment has been the same. “(Students may work) anywhere between 3 and 10 hours a week so it depends on the employee,” Curry said. “We really don’t hire for sub shifts because usually the employees fix those shifts within themselves.”

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Tuffy’s employee and first-year student Lauren Moore serves ice cream Thursday.

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More than 200 MU students volunteer for mentor program

By Amanda Seitz Campus Editor

With more than 200 volunteers annually, Miami University has forever shaped the Big Brother Big Sister (BBBS) program in Butler County.

Miami is the number one supplier of volunteers for the Butler County program and has had a large impact on how the program is run, said Julie Dichtl, vice president of development for BBBS. “The students definitely (have) had a big impact on how

we run our program,” Dichtl said. “We know that we’re not going face challenges like we do throughout the county when we’re in Oxford because the Miami students like our program.”

Miami students have opened the door to a new way to run the program. According to Dichtl, BBBS started a site-based program specifically for Miami students approximately 10 years ago. “(Miami students) are actually the reason we started out site-based program,” Ditchl said. “A lot of the Miami students don’t

have a car or aren’t here year round so we came up with our site-based program which was started at two elementary schools in Oxford, the program only lasts during the academic year.”

Students meet, as a group, their little brother or sister at the respective elementary school and play games, explore the traveling library that BBBS provides, eat snacks, work on homework or just hang out for an hour and a half after school, once a week.

“The program was so

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Senior Chelsea Allen, who participates in the Big Brother Big Sister program, enjoys a Christmas celebration with her little sister, Brianna Howard.

Dividend$, La Mia Cucina utilize touch screen technology

By Jessica Sink Senior Staff Writer

Most students have seen or used the selfcheckout services located in Wal-Mart, Kroger and other similar shopping centers, allowing customers to purchase several items quickly and efficiently, without relying on a cashier to complete transactions.

Systems like these are not just for shopping centers.

Self checkout systems are now in use at Dividend$, the dining option in the Farmer School of Business (FSB). Students can purchase items independently by using an automated touch screen which displays meal plans and payment preferences.

According to Michael Mitroi, associate director of dining and culinary services, this advance in dining technology is new to Miami University, as well as cuttingedge in the realm of college campuses across the nation.

Mitroi said the system works by using a one-barcode blueprint. This involves a label that is printed and placed on customized items and can be scanned by students at the self-checkout stations.

“We were looking for a way to become more efficient and provide faster service to students,” Mitroi said. “We are very proud of how the technology has worked so far.

We are hoping to eventually expand its use to the other dining services on campus.”

Mitroi said around 75 to 80 percent of student customers use the self checkout in Dividend$.

The innovative technology in use at the FSB has been successful not only with student customers, but also with the staff.

While the self checkout option still requires supervision from staff in case of complications, Mitroi said the easy-to-use screen allows students to scan their items without the requirement of staff intervention.

Marijo Nootz, senior director of Shriver Center, said the option of implementing

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A student at Dividend$ dining hall located in the Farmer School of Business uses a self-checkout touch screen scanner. self-checkout services in Shriver has been considered, but would occur over time due to the enormity of the task.

“It would be pretty complicated because every item has to have a barcode and there are many more food options here at Shriver,” Nootz said. “It’s possible that it eventually will happen because it certainly would make services more efficient, but it would take a lot of time to implement.”

First-year Jaimee Johnson, a zoology major, enjoys eating at Dividend$ where she has the self-checkout option.

“It’s nice because you have control over the transaction process,” Johnson said. “It’s

very efficient and I love it.”

With help from Information Technology Services, the touch screen devices are continually being updated and will hopefully get a facelift soon with new graphics and customized applications.

“These systems have performed tremendously, but we’re all about improvement,” Mitroi said.

Mitroi said that the system that was once in use at La Mia Cucina was a completely different operating system than the one that is in use at Dividends. The U-Scan system in use at FSB is by a company called Micros and that is the system that is

being updated.

“When we opened La Mia (Cucina) it happened to be a time when we were changing over the sale equipment,” Mitroi said.

Mitori said that there was never a touch screen option at La Mia Cucina.

Mitroi said that they have just received two new kiosks that will be put into place in the Scoreboard Market and Erikson Dining Hall. These will be touch screens on metal stands that will display menus for the day along with nutritional information about the food. He says that he believes these kiosks are the first of many that will eventually be at all dining areas.

Upham Hall transforms to changing academic needs

By Katie Jo Kohls Senior Staff Writer

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The Upham Hall North Wing is underconstruction for the remainder of the academic school year.

A shaky Pearson Hall is causing the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) to make a big move this summer.

According to Robert Bell, project manager to the Upham Hall North Wing Rehabilitation, said the department will move into Upham because vibrations and electromagnetic fields cause an interference with the microscopes in the current Pearson EMF labs.

Richard Edelmann, electron microscopy facility director, said electron microscopes are capable of very high magnification. They have the capability to look at moving comets.

Edelmann said the microscopes are very sensitive to the acoustics and electromagnetic fields in Pearson Hall.

“It isn’t suitable primarily because it is a science building,” Edelmann said. “There are a lot of incubators, refrigerators and equipment we use for all of the science experiments.”

Bell said many changes are being made in Upham to prevent future interference. Changes will include new wiring and piping, moving the location of the preexisting elevator, relocating vending machines and the installation of a three foot thick concrete wall around the EMF area.

“We will be using PVC piping opposed to metal or copper,” Bell said.

Bell said there are pros and cons to each material choice for piping. While the PVC piping will cause less interference in the electromagnetic field, copper piping is better for long-lasting maintenance.

Bell said the EMF will be moved in by August.

“So far they are still scheduled to complete when we thought they would in July,” Bell said. “Then we will have another six weeks to move furniture.”

The extended moving time will be necessary, Edelmann said. Each electron microscope will take about a week to move.

“We must take a lot of special precautions,” Edelmann said. “There are several different parts that need to be taken apart and put back together by special engineers.”

Among the microscopes being moved are a $650,000 scanning electron microscope and a $1.4 million transmission electron microscope.

“Specific reports testing different areas on campus for the EMF began in 2007,” Bell said.

The tests recorded the amount of vibrations and electromagnetic activity.

Edelmann said the decision to move to Upham was made in 2008, after testing different locations on campus.

“By moving to the basement of Upham, we will be below ground and won’t need to worry about vibrations,” Edelmann said.

Bell said the EMF was originally located in Upham Hall in the 1980s but moved into Pearson upon its completion.

“There have been interference issues since Pearson opened in 1986,” Edelmann said. “They built (Pearson) in a more cost efficient way, it is not as rigid.”

Edelmann said although Upham is older, it’s much sturdier.

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Missing drugs lead to domestic dispute Police were dispatched to College Corner Pike at 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday for a report of a domestic violence call from a neighbor.

Police said the neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, heard the residents screaming outside. When police entered the residence, the two said the arguing was only verbal.

One of the two residents wanted to report the theft of her prescription drugs Tuesday at around 11:30 p.m. The prescription pills included some form of oxycodone, a drug prescribed for general to severe pain, clonazepam, a drug prescribed for anxiety and panic disorders and epilepsy. Police said there is a suspect and are continuing investigation.

Student reports damage to driver’s side mirror At 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, police responded to 218 University Ave. in reference to the driver’s side mirror being broken off a female Miami University student’s 1998 Buick Century.

The victim said damage occurred Tuesday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., according to police reports. Damages amounted to $100 for the driver’s side mirror.

Couple finds footprints, discovers items missing A burglary was reported to police by an Oxford resident and his wife that occurred at 11 p.m. Monday.

The couple came home from work to find a trail of footprints from inside and outside of their front door, according to police reports. When they arrived at the door, it was already unlocked, police said.

The couple told police the back window had been pushed in and broken. All the drawers and cabinets had been reportedly rummaged through, with jewelry and various foreign currency missing.

According to police, the couple tried to track the footprints with no success. Damages amounted to $1,300 in jewelry and $283 in various currencies.

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Hookah bar to open

By Leslie Scott Staff Writer

For quite a while, the students of Miami University have been anxiously awaiting the opening of a hookah bar. The time has finally arrived.

“It is real and it’s happening,” Tony Edas, owner of Oxford’s Hookah Lounge, said.

Partners Edas and Alex Riahi came up with the idea of opening a hookah bar based upon their own interests. “(We) both were smokers and were constantly looking for places to go,” Riahi said. “Most (hookah bars) were far away.”

Edas said the growing popularity of hookah in the Cincinnati area also led to the pair’s business plan. “(We) saw the positive response hookah received from students, looked up locations online and took a drive (to Oxford),” Edas said.

The pair decided on opening their business in Oxford because of the atmosphere. “(We) love the feel of the city,” Edas said. “Everything is close by, everything is within walking distance and it is very cozy.”

According to Edas, the plan is to open before students leave for summer.

“That way students will be able to try the lounge out and get excited to return,” Edas said.

Riahi said the Oxford Hookah Lounge is planned to open by the end of March if everything goes smoothly. The lounge will be located where Bruno’s Pizza used to be, in the alley behind Quiznos Sub Shop, Chase Bank and Kofenya.

According to Riahi, the Oxford HookahLoungeplanstoofferitems outside of hookah. “(We will have) hookah with many different fruity flavors, drinks such as soda, juice and coffee, desserts and wireless Internet access,” Riahi said.

The bar will also have a gift shop in order for patrons to buy their own hookahs, tobacco and other accessories. The lounge will include artwork provided

by Greg Howell, a 2009 Miami graduate.

Howell said he offered his artistic talent after he saw the sign on the window. He is planning to create a mural for the back wall and his goal is to make the establishment have a calm, “lounge-y feeling.” “(It will be similar) to

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The Oxford Hookah Lounge is expected to open in the Spring, providing a new hangout for students and residents.

Starbucks with a huge added twist,” Howell said. “Students will be able to read, hang out and smoke. It is not like a restaurant … the owners are cool.”

Howell believes the lounge will fill a void in the uptown district.

“Oxford has been lacking a

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Miami gay community plans bar takeover

By Jillian Dickman Senior Staff Writer

Would you or your friends like the chance to have a night out with the gay community in Oxford? Well now you won’t have to travel all the way to Dayton or Cincinnati because there will be a gay bar takeover of an uptown bar Feb. 20.

Miami University senior Alex Conover recently advertised the event on Facebook.com called “Oxford Gay Bar Takeover.” The event is open, so anyone who wants to attend is welcome.

“We have been talking about this since last semester, but we couldn’t do what we really wanted to,” Conover said. “We got the details squared away at the beginning of this semester and decided to take it to the

next level.”

Oxford currently does not have a gay bar of its own. The nearest ones are in Dayton and Cincinnati.

“Because there is no gay bar here, we are trying to create more social events,” Conover said.

“The Drag Show occurs twice a semester, and we want this to be just as popular. In fact, we can have more of these bar takeovers and can create them last minute, which makes this event that much easier.”

The event will begin at 12 a.m. and the location of the uptown bar will be announced on the event page Feb. 20. Updates will be posted two or three times for those that wish to attend.

Demere Woolway, assistant director of the office of diversity affairs, said the event is not sponsored and is unaffiliated with any

university organization. It simply began through the use of Facebook.com.

Some students are embracing this event as the time approaches even though they may not be attending.

“I support this event and their efforts to expand the gay community here at Miami,” sophomore Rachael Clay said. “Though I probably will not be attending, I do not oppose this at all.”

Despite the message it may be portraying, others do not oppose the bar takeover either.

“People are allowed to do what they want,” senior Erin Mitchell said. “My only problem with this is the event is putting a negative spin on Oxford, saying that we don’t support gays.

I am in total favor of the gay community, but this seems to be a protest of something that is not accurate.”

Porsches 2 Oxford to become national event, aid local economy

By Hunter Stenback Senior Staff Writer

Back for a sixth year, the annual car show Porsches 2 Oxford will be going national this summer after an exceptional turnout and high praise from the Porsche Club of America.

According to Diana Durr, executive director of the Oxford Visitors and Convention Bureau, the event is looking to build on a rich five-year history in Oxford the weekend of July 30 to 31.

“Originally (Porsches 2 Oxford) was just a regional group of volunteers who were meeting up in Michigan for what they called a ‘casual Porsche weekend,’ and as the group got larger the town they were meeting in no longer sufficed,” Durr said. “One of the directors of the event, Brice Kadel, contacted me because two of his sons had gone to Miami and he wanted to bring the event here to Oxford, and that was about five and a half years ago.”

According to Durr, Porsches 2 Oxford has continued to grow since the first one five summers ago and Oxford has been a perfect fit for the event.

“Every year the event has grown in popularity, and the reason Oxford has worked so well is not only the layout of the business district with all the shops and the red brick streets and that charm, but also Ohio being centrally located was ideal for a lot of the people wanting to come in for the weekend,” Durr said. “As more attendees started coming in, the national organization decided to make a site visit two years ago, and the gentleman who was in charge of the national Porsche car owner’s association really loved the event and he wrote a really good article in their national trade magazine that year.”

According to Chris Rieman, media and publicity director for Porsches 2 Oxford, the continued growth has facilitated the expansion of the event toward a more national appeal.

“Every year the event has gotten bigger and bigger,” Rieman said. “As more and more people are coming to the event our pool of visitors is naturally growing from a regional type of event to a national event.”

As a result of the great fanfare for the event, Porsches 2 Oxford coordinators and the national organization decided to market the 2010 event to Porsche owners across the country.

“Every year they have (a Porsche event) on the west coast and one on the east coast and cities go out to bid because it is a great revenue producer for a municipality,” Durr said. “After some discussion the group decided to make Porsches 2 Oxford the only non-rotating Porsche

car event in the country because they liked the layout of Oxford so much because it is central in the United States.”

With the increased publicity for this summer’s event, planners have a lot of changes in mind to make the 2010 event even more successful.

“A lot more changes will happen as we develop this into more and more of a package weekend,” Durr said. “In the last couple years or so, the event has really expanded so there’s usually one if not more cars coming from all the different states.”

Durr believes the expansion of the event should bring Oxford extra revenue as well as national publicity.

“What’s good for Oxford is that the national event brings in more cars, but also it gets more national recognition,” Durr said. “Because of the national marketing we expect between 600 and 800 cars … and we’re estimating that in 2010 this will provide about $350,000 to the greater-Oxford area.”

Durr also said pending approval from City Council, the event plans include an outdoor party hosted uptown in Memorial Park where food and beer will be served to attendees of legal age.

“We’re still going to put forth a proposal to City Council for Memorial Park and we are going to make it open to the public, as those were some of the concerns the council originally had,” Durr said.

Durr said she will give the information to Doug Elliot, the Oxford city manager, and Elliot will submit a proposal to council as a resolution proposal for the March 2 meeting.

According to Rieman, the event has not had a presence on Friday in the past and this party is one way to help bring more revenue into Oxford for the weekend.

“Normally Friday has really been an open day for us,” Rieman said. “This year we’re trying to do something out in the plaza and trying to utilize the space to expand the event even further.”

Durr also believes an outdoor event on Friday will be important in order to successfully facilitate increasing attendance.

“On the Friday night of the event in the past we’ve done different things in different restaurants, but because the numbers are increasing so much we don’t have an inside venue that can really handle the numbers we’re looking at,” Durr said.

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Kroger Plus Card holders receive Shell station discount

By Kelsey Bishop Community Editor

Kroger partnered with 135 Shell stations in the Dayton and Cincinnati area so that Kroger Plus Card holders can receive fuel discounts at participating Shell stations in addition to Kroger fuel centers. The promotion began Feb. 15.

For every 100 points Plus Card holders accumulate from their spending at Kroger, they will receive 10 cents off every gallon of gasoline at select Shell stations. One point is the equivalent to spending $1.

“We have almost tripled the number of (fuel) locations that customers can get to,” Rachael Betzler, public relations manager for Kroger, said. “More people can easily

find a fuel center close to them if they don’t have a Kroger (fuel center) nearby.”

Plus Card holders can only get 10 cents off per gallon per visit at Shell stations. However, the number of points they acquire will be cumulative for getting discounts at Kroger fuel centers, Oxford Kroger Manager Ed Begely said. For example, if cardholders get 200 points, they will be able to get 20 cents off per gallon at Kroger fuel centers only.

Betzler said Plus Card holders can redeem their discount in three ways: by scanning their wallet-sized Kroger card, entering the 14-digit number on the back of their card or entering an alternative identification number, which is normally the cardholder’s phone number.

“We did a small market feedback of 12 (Shell) stores in

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Customers can now get 10 cents off per gallon at Shell stations when they earn 100 points at their local store.

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Cincinnati a while ago,” Betzler said. “We got positive feedback from customers so we decided this (partnership) would be a good thing to do.”

Other cities participating in the partnership are Knoxville, Nashville and San Diego.

“We are the largest tradition grocery store partnering with the number one provider of fuel,” Betzler said. “Everyone needs gas and groceries, so I think it’s a good partnership.”

Begely said that though he doesn’t know how long the partnership will last, he thinks the promotion is going well thus far.

“I think, for the most part, people are happy with it,” Begely said. “Now Kroger customers can drop into a participating Shell station if they’re not near a Kroger with a fuel center.”

Diane Brown, a frequent Kroger shopper and Plus Card holder, believes the partnership is definitely beneficial for Kroger customers.

“I will probably use the Oxford Kroger fuel center more often than Shell stations just because it’s closer to me, but I think it’s great that other people have the opportunity to get the same fuel perks at Shell stations near them,” Brown said.

Currently there are 51 fuel centers in the Dayton and Cincinnati division, Betzler said.

“Many negotiations take place in the city,” Betzler said.

“We were happy to open up more gas stations to the public.”

In 2009, the Oxford Kroger was denied having its own fuel center. Begely said the Oxford City Council wanted to implement a Kroger fuel center after denying it last year as part of the updates and expansion of Kroger.

“Part of the expansion of Kroger was to bring in the fuel center in order to compete and keep up with customers,” Begely said. “The city planning commissioners wanted to keep the business district thriving in this area.”

For those who shop at Kroger regularly, the fuel discounts are an added bonus.

“Even though there are so many gas stations in the area, I like that Kroger has a fuel center now because I can save a lot more on gas since I already shop at Kroger,” Miami University junior Erica Beekman said.

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Just ask: What would Bear Grylls do?

By Liz Caskey

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I never knew how much Bear Grylls and I had in common.

No, I’m not talking about his dashing good looks, his charming demeanor or his ever so sexy British accent. What I am referring to are his constant, epic battles against the wild.

Everyone knows the real reason they tune into “Man Vs. Wild” — besides a chance to catch a glimpse of those pale, English washboard abs — is to see what crazy stunt he pulls every week.

What jungle is he in now? What type of vessel will he build this week? What live animal’s head is he going to bite off? You know, those types of things.

However, after the past two weeks here at Miami University, I’ve come to appreciate a whole new aspect of Bear’s quest: His war on Mother Nature. Mother Nature’s a biotch … and she’s definitely not mad about it.

Bear not only has to search for food, water and a way out of the hell holes he drops himself in but he also has to deal with nature’s mommy dearest.

I used to feel sorry for Bear as he fought through rainstorms, windstorms and especially snowstorms, but I never fully appreciated the man’s relentless battle … until the glorious month of February hit Oxford. And by glorious, I mean wrathful.

Over the course of two weeks, Oxford’s been hit with more than 20 inches of snow in total. And it certainly hasn’t all been picturesque.

We’ve had whipping winds, rain, sleet it’s been the works.

Mother Nature’s been laughing in our faces as we’ve trudged to classes that just won’t cancel, slipped on invisible ice patches outside Skippers, gotten sprayed with dirty slush by snowplows

and, most sorrowfully, watched as our cars are towed up and down Spring Street — damn snow routes.

All this coldness and suffering leads a person to ask themselves just one question: WWBGD? (What Would Bear Grylls Do?) Well, I’ll tell you what he’d do: He wouldn’t put up with any of the student body’s whining crap for starters.

Buck up! Whining makes you weak and weakness gets you killed. That’s right: killed. So, step one is getting over the fact that it snowed. Bear Grylls doesn’t cry when its monsooning on him in the depths of the Brazilian jungle, so there is no room for your whimpering as you strut along the heated sidewalks of Miami’s campus.

Step two of Bear’s undeniably epic survival plan typically involves building some sort of transportation vessel to aid him in escaping Mother Nature. So, if Bear can create a raft to sail down the Amazon out of tree branches, snakes and his own leg hair, you can certainly walk your chilly little bum to the nearest bus stop.

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Luckily for you, your vessel comes pre-made. You can thank the Miami Metro — and whoever invented buses — for that.

Step three in Bear’s flawless plan almost always involves food, typically something grotesque. In order to combat his dehydration and hunger, Bear will most likely stumble upon some sort of freshwater pond where — after creating a fishing net out of sticks and his own pants (true story) — he will inevitably catch a pint-sized bottom feeder.

He will then plunge his fingers into the fish’s eyeballs and take a big chomp out of its withering body. Yum-O. Lucky for you, along your walk down High Street are approximately 100 (give or take a few) eateries of your choosing.

So while Bear is picking miniscule fish bones out of his teeth, you simply have to swipe that glorious piece of plastic that your Daddy gave you, “IN CASE OF EMERGENCIES.” If needing a delicious “Crunch and Munch” from Bagel and Deli in the middle of a snow storm isn’t an emergency, then gosh darn it, I don’t know what is. NOTE: They also deliver.

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Step four — the final and most important step — is to get the hell out of dodge. You heard me right. Bust a move people and get out of the damn snow. You better believe that as soon as Bear catches a glimpse of civilization he’s going for it, so you should do the same.

Get to class, get home and use those skip days or just plain get out of Oxford — a two week long spring reak, perhaps?

No matter what your master plan is, just get out of Mother Nature’s way, she’s one nasty old lady.

So the next time you sense a “you vs. nature” battle nearing, throw on those Uggs, get your war paint on and for God’s sake ask yourself, WWBGD?

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Oh, the things you learn in Rome

By Julie Roche

For The Miami Student

If you’re reading this right now, I want you to know today marks the 40th day of my study abroad experience in Rome. As I look back on the past month and some change, I try to pick out something really, really, really ridiculously awesome (you thought I was going to say good-looking, didn’t you?) that I’ve done, seen or experienced to write about so that when you read it, you can think “Wow! That’s so cool! She’s so awesome! I want to do that someday!”

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But to be completely honest, I haven’t been to Rome’s hottest club Gilda, smoked a legal joint in Amsterdam or gone wine-tasting in Tuscany. And as of now, I don’t really plan on doing these things, not because they don’t appeal to me, but because I have come to the conclusion that there is a lot more to this experience than going out and getting so schwasted that I start speaking a drunk version of Span-ital-ish to a cab driver (that the bartender had to call) picking up my blacked-out roommate at a club in the middle of Trastevere.

And no, I am not saying that’s it better to be a lame-ass and sit at home watching illegally

streaming footage of Chuck episodes on your laptop. Okay, okay … I’m guilty, but only a couple of times! I swear!

All I’m saying is it’s not just the “going out” part that makes this study abroad nonsense so much fun.

It’s learning to deal without the things you’re used to, while also getting adjusting to a completely new lifestyle (one for me that involves hang-drying all of my laundry and using a six oz. moka machine to make an itty bitty glass of coffee in the morning) that really make the experience what it is.

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Bear Gryll’s favorite pastimes ...

7. Naked push-ups 6. Crapping his pants 5. Sleeping inside of camels 4. Eating a zebra carcass 3. Drinking urine, usually his own

2. Taking off his clothes 1. Putting Jack Kerouac to shame

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Will pop continue to dominate indie rock in 2010?

By Andrew Klatzke Senior Staff Writer

In 2009, indie rock was dominated by the recurrence of a trend: indie rock bands going “pop.”

Bands like Animal Collective and JJ fused pop vocals with synth overlays to create a sound that would be mirrored by many and A Sunny Day In Glasgow released Ashes Grammar, an album that was praised by Pitchfork as a pinnacle of the dream-pop sound. Of course, trends don’t die easy.

There are some huge releases from indie-rock bands on the horizon for 2010. Jonsi, the front-man of Sigur Ros, is releasing his first solo album, and if the single is any indication, it will be an album full of the kind of spacey art-rock we’ve come to expect from Sigur Ros — in English!

No longer on the “horizon,” JJ’s 3rd album, JJ n3, furthers the electronic ridden atmosphere and ambiguous vocals of their first two releases. Songs like “My Life” bring the band to a much closer and more intimate setting than the previous two allowed.

Furthermore, they’ve brought the vocals to the forefront making the songs much catchier and poppier than the debut. The free track floating around titled “My Way” furthers their Weezy affixation by stripping his verse from a Trina track and making

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continued from page 6 bitty list of the top three most valuable and usable lessons I have learned thus far: No. 1: Forget the yodels and cheese-puffs; love on the fresh produce. Apparently, when I was kindly directed to the “international food store,” what they really meant was “the Italian and Asian countries’ food store.” Although I have found soy sauce, Asian noodles and even Wasabi, I have yet to find peanut butter, coffee creamer, American coffee, dressing or (surprise) Oreos.

Instead of Oreo heaven, I have tried to take advantage of all the

it their own.

How about High Places? Their take on female-fronted eclectic pop will surely win them a few fans, and from what I’ve heard of their release this year, I’ll be surprised if they don’t catch the eye of the blogosphere. Single track “On Giving Up” has the wellendowed vocalist singing over dark background noise before the song takes a turn for the spacey as it closes with reverbed vocals and sparse percussion.

Surely to be a front runner again this year, Animal Collective has plans to release another album in 2010. It may be a while off, but it will be worth it for that first gasp when you hear what-

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ever single they release. If it’s anything like “What Do I Want, Sky?” this album will help solidify them as one of the better bands releasing eclectic pop music of recent years — if 2009’s Meriwether Post Pavilion didn’t already.

Woodpigeon released Die Stadt Muzikanten in early January, and anyone that caught their whimsical 2008 Treasure Library Canada knows this band has what it takes to write swooning pop-hooks like the ones present on Love in the Time of Hopscotch. This album presents a much more stripped down and raw sound than their 2008 album and Woodpigeon, of course, tackles their new sound in the utmost elegance.

The songs have a rustic, antique sound to them that few bands can really channel in this day and age. Intricate yet intimate, this album has a charm that only Woodpigeon is capable of producing.

If 2009’s offerings were any indication, 2010 is going to be a huge year for the indie-rock underground. Sites like Pitchfork Media will be on the rise, and bands like Phoenix that no one knows about will end up in the spotlight.

I’m definitely not complaining. The releases I’ve heard from 2010 are looking great. We’re only a month in, but with some of the releases headed our way, I think it’s best to start the buzz now.

open markets in the streets here, which sell fresh veggies, fruits, bread, meats and even Limoncello every morning.

No. 2: Remember you’re a human, not just a pedestrian. Italians are crazy drivers. I know that is a stereotype, saying ALL Italians are crazy drivers, but it’s true! They park sideways, they drive without using lanes, and they WILL turn left onto the street even when their light is red and yours is green. At first, I’ve got to say this was pretty terrifying. I can’t tell you how many times I stopped in the middle of the road and ran backwards to the curb before I finally realized if I just keep walking like I’m supposed to, the drivers will realize my life is precious, and their cars will stop. Hopefully.

No. 3: Pay first, then order and don’t expect to-go cups.

Though this isn’t true for restaurants, when you walk into most cafés or bars to buy something like a cappuccino or Panini, you

pay first at the cash register. Then, you have to take your receipt to the bar, which is usually on the other side of the room and tell the barista what you ordered. Sound backwards? Yep, it is.

Oh, and apparently they don’t have to-go cups here. What’s that you say? No to-go cups!?! Whatever shall I do without my togo Starbucks cup!?! Well, you somehow learn to sit down and actually enjoy a cup of coffee here. Weird, I know.

So there you have it: The majority of what I’ve learned in 40 days squashed into three hundred words. More importantly, that means I have only 78 days left, so in lieu of the commencement of Lent, I have made a decision about my remaining time here.

For once, I plan not on trying to give something up (I’ve never lasted all 40 days), but to try to learn something new every day … and maybe also to never have a last line in an article be this cheesy.

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a look inside toms shoes a small vacation turns into an entrepenureal monopoly

By Michelle Ludwin For The Miami Student

The perfect vacation includes Argentina, polo and wine.

That’s what Blake Mycoskie, chief shoe giver of TOMS Shoes, did in 2006 when he wanted to get away and relax. In his YouTube video “TOMS Shoes - A History,” a small vacation would bring one of the greatest business ventures within the last decades.

In a part of the video, there were impoverished families without pairs of shoes.

Mycoskie saw people searching for shoes to hand out to families in need, but the shoes were already worn and tattered. The shoes were almost not worth giving the children.

From seeing the families without shoes, Mycoskie decided to produce alpargatas, a type of shoe, and sell them in the United States.

The kicker?

For every pair of shoes he sells, he will give a pair away to a child in need.

Mycoskie started off TOMS Shoes (Shoes of Tomorrow Project) with around 250 pairs of shoes, and now sells hundreds of thousands of pairs of shoes a year.

EDUN Live on Campus, Green Oxford, AIESEC, UNICEF and the Farmer School of Business (FSB) are bringing Mycoskie to Miami University Wednesday, Feb. 24.

Mycoskie is a young entrepreneur making a difference in the world, without being greedy or selfish with money. His business plan is a “one for one” model, meaning one sells and another is given away.

Mycoskie is coming to show the student body his business model, how successful it is and how it is helping the world.

Katie Mulligan, assistant director at the Center for Social Entrepreneurship in FSB, explained Mycoskie’s business concept. “(The customers) know when they buy a pair of shoes, they are directly helping a child in need,” Mulligan said.

According to Mulligan, customers are able to see where their money is going, which most people do not see after the purchase of an item. The company is able to make a connection with their customers because of the business model and how it works. When the shoes are delivered, Mycoskie and his team personally place each pair of shoes on someone’s feet. This also applies to the business model because of the physical component of him placing the shoe on a foot. Mycoskie is not having another team of people give the shoes to the community. A one for one business model is a way TOMS Shoes is now a competitor with other brands, such as Nike and Adidas.

Mycoskie’s concept has students interested in seeing his speech.

First-year Lili Eiteljorg plans to attend the event and praised his one for one model.

“You hear about people trying to better the community,” Eiteljorg said. “You can literally

tell he is helping people by personally placing the shoes on someone’s feet.”

Danny Sauter, the president of EDUN Live on Campus and the key figure of bringing Mycoskie to Miami, gave a small history of the shoes. The company started off with no shoelaces and simple colors for the customers to choose from. Now, after bringing out small innovations, there are choices of patterns, laces and a variety of heights for customers to choose from.

Comparing Web sites, the prices of the shoes are also reasonable compared to what a pair of Nike shoes would cost at a store.

When shopping for TOMS Shoes on their Web site, customers will find a type that is made mostly out of recyclable materials.

Stefan Linder, president of Green Oxford, gave a simple definition for social responsibility.

“Social responsibility is when a company should devote part of their time helping society,” Linder said, “not just want to make a large profit.”

Sauter said Mycoskie’s visit would be unique.

“While they have their place, some of the older business executives that visit for speeches are sometimes harder to see yourself in,” Sauter said.

Linder agreed. “(Mycoskie) will bring a really unique and sometimes misunderstood ideology,” Linder said. “That it is possible to have a successful business and do real good at the same time.”

A simple business plan and a young entrepreneur are just some of the key reasons why Mycoskie was chosen to speak on campus.

Sauter praised the company by being able to show that business success and philanthropy can be mutually exclusive. The company is surviving because of the charity TOMS Shoes is able to provide to other countries.

Sauter also talked about TOMS Shoes “street teams” all over the country. These teams connect with younger audiences at college universities and other places. The street teams put on events such as a “Style Your Sole” party. Each person involved is given a pair of TOMS Shoes that are white and are able to customize their own design.

First-year Gwen Gowins believes the campus will learn from Mycoskie.

“Miami can learn a lot about donating to countries and thinking about others before yourself,” Gowins said. “It will show the students something outside their comfort zone.”

The event will take place Wednesday, Feb. 24 at the Taylor Auditorium in the Farmer School of Business. The doors open at 3:30 p.m. and the first 100 people there will get a free shirt from EDUN Live on Campus. Prespeech entertainment, that is yet to be determined, will be provided and the speech will begin at 4:30 p.m.

TOMS Shoes Chief Shoe Giver Blake MyCoskie will speak Wednesday, Feb. 24 in Taylor Auditorium at the Farmer School of Business.

Doors open at 3:30 p.m.

Free T-shirts from EDUN Live on Campus will be given out to the first 100 people.

The speech will begin at 4:30 p.m.

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giving an example of the type of question the follow-up survey’s results would address.

Further data analysis is required before determining whether Ward and Messman-Moore’s hypothesis is supported.

“Our initial hypothesis was basically that emotion regulation, alcohol and sexual experiences would all be related,” Ward said. “(We predicted that) emotion regulation was something we could use as a gateway … something you could work on, and that it would have lasting impacts in regards to risky behaviors.”

Once the data is fully analyzed, the next step is to understand whether or not one or more of the factors can be a target for intervention to help women, Messman-Moore said.

“An intervention based on the study wouldn’t replace what’s out there, but it would supplement (it),” Messman-Moore said. “We certainly have good data … (but we) don’t really know if these hypotheses will be supported or not.”

Miami graduate and undergraduate students assisted Ward and Messman-Moore in the study. Senior Kristen Altenau, a psychology major, was one of the undergraduate research assistants working on this study.

“I worked with the data, so I basically helped organize the data and prepared it to be analyzed,” Altenau said. “(I made) sure it (was) organized and usable for our statistical program.”

Altenau said partaking in this type of undergraduate research was one of the highlights of her undergraduate years.

“It has really helped me see the inner workings of research in a way I never would have been able to understand it if I hadn’t worked on studies like this one,” Altenau said.

The issues this study focused on are relevant to college students, Altenau said.

“We, everyday, are battling with sexual health, alcohol use and learning to understand yourself, your emotions and what you’re feeling,” Altenau said. “And if you’re not personally affected by any one of those three things yourself, then you’re being surrounded by it … and so by doing this study, and by gaining the information we have from it, it’s really important because I think it can help college students better understand their own behavior and the behavior of their peers.”

Sophomore Savanna Bast, who works at Scott Dining Hall, said her hours had not been cut back, despite the supposed increase in student employees in dining halls.

Bast also said no employees at Scott have been hired as only substitutes and that there have been no overwhelming numbers of employees working at the same time, instead, that a lot of times, employees don’t show up for their shifts.

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Bast said she was also told that she would not be receiving a raise until the university is officially considered out of its financial crisis.

“But I love working there, the people there are great and they make working at Scott very easy,” Bast said.

According to Curry, hiring employees at the RSC is based upon program area and how many students would be needed at a certain time.

When visiting the RSC Web site in order to look for staff opening availabilities, “Sorry no openings at this time, please check back later,” is the only message for applicants.

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continued from page 3 Other departments will be moving around due to the renovations, Bell said. The department of mathematics and statistics has moved from Bachelor Hall, the department of anthropology will move from the south wing of Upham to the north and the department of history will also be affected.

Junior Kyle Molidor, who’s in the history honors program, said he is looking forward to the renovations in the North Wing.

“If you look at the Farmer School and then you look at us in Upham, it’s not even comparable,” Molidor said.

Molidor said the department of history needs better chairs and desks. Also, each of his classrooms only has chalkboards; he would like to see dry erase boards and projectors.

“We have some signs going up to show new locations,” Bell said. “We run into difficulties with people moving in at different times.”

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Most Miami students opt for the after school program, according to Kelley Eversole, BBBS match support specialist.

Eversole said there’s an after school program at Kramer Elementary, Bogan Elementary and Talawanda Middle School.

Because of the large number of college students, Oxford waitlists for a big brother or big sister do not last long.

“With the high density of students, our Oxford kids are matched first because we have that huge

“We usually take different amounts,” Curry said. “It all depends on the program area, I would say most of our hiring is done at the beginning of each semester, and then as need for each program goes then we would hire as needed.”

However, according to Cathy Pierce, senior director of administrative and human services, there has been an increase of employment on campus this year.

Pierce said in this pay period, as opposed to last pay period, at the same time this year as last year, there are 340 more students employed added to campus’s usual 1,800 student employees at a time. She believe this increase in

and statistics is marked by a computer made sheet, hung with masking tape.

Bell said there will be a major sign revision over Miami University’s spring break. A final revision will occur after each department has relocated.

“I have had to add an extra minute or two to my walk to class because so many entrances on the north wing have been closed off,” Molidor said.

Bell said funding was cut from the original proposal.

“We couldn’t pack in as many changes as we wanted on the upper floors,” Bell said.

Bell said construction bids came in low so there was extra money available.

“We are going to put in some teaching labs for anthropology with the extra space,” Bell said.

Bell said the committee is still in the process of figuring out what kind of anthropology teaching labs will be constructed.

“In the past two semesters I have had three of my classes in the exact same classroom,” Molidor said. “If there is extra space I would really like to see the department of history expand.”

Edelmann said students from 75 labs on

group of students,” Ditchl said.

However, this is not the case for most of the Butler County region, Ditchl said.

“We currently have 189 children that are waiting to be matched,” Ditchl said. “Typically we would have somewhere between 75 to 100 students, our program has been impacted by the economy.”

This waiting list is for the community-based program, where a mentor with access to a vehicle drives and picks up their little for a movie or other off-site activity.

Jessica Greene, vice president of development for BBBS, said the program does ask students if they can drive to meet their little brother or sister.

“If a Miami Oxford student can reach a population by car, we’re more likely to serve them

employment is because the economic situation is driving the student demand for jobs.

Likewise, the sudden increase in applications is believed to be for several reasons. Curry said the increase is due to the current state of the economy.

Simpson said the increase of applicants at the bookstore was because of international Chinese students.

“We have had an unbelievable number of Chinese students who have applied for jobs, and I think it’s good for them because a lot of them have never had a job before, their job has always been education,” Simpson said.

Miami’s Oxford, Hamilton, and Middleton campuses use the EMF. “Last year we had over 250 users,” Edelmann said. “There is a lot of research being done.”

According to Edelmann, the electron microscopes are used for researching things like how muscles move and how to make new efficient batteries. The lab is used by students from numerous departments including psychology, anthropology, chemistry, kinesiology and health, physics and zoology. “(Upham) will be a good fit, it is centrally located to many science buildings,” Edelmann said.

Besides being beneficial to numerous academic departments, Bell said the plans for the Upham Hall rehabilitation included an increase in the handicap accessibility.

“We will have a new ramp on the entrance that comes in from the hub,” Bell said. “We will also make the elevators bigger and nicer.”

According to Bell the reconstruction will be up to date with the American Disabilities Act code of construction.

“A lot of our buildings are older,” Bell said.

“This is something we like to do whenever we are renovating.”

quickly, if they can’t our wait list is six months to a year,” Greene said.

Miami junior Emily Jeffers is one of the students who travels to pick up her little weekly.

“I decided I was going to do (take a little) at the beginning of my junior year,” Jeffers said. “I got my little in October (2009).”

Jeffers’ little is 12 years old.

The two spend lots of time in Oxford together. Jeffers saw the program as an opportunity to help the Oxford community.

“I thought this was a new way I could get involved in the community and also help someone in the community,” Jeffers said.

Greene said the demographic of the region is vital to understanding why the program is so necessary.

“About 132 children in the

Oxford community participate,” Greene said. “Most of our families are from lower-income families and demonstrate some need for service.”

Because of the demographics of the region, Ditchl said Miami students are great role models to the children enrolled in the program who may have not thought about college before.

“One of the things about the Miami students that the kids like is they’re old enough for the kids to look up to but they think they’re cool because they’re college kids,” Ditchl said. ‘Many of our kids live in poverty, they don’t know a lot about the college experience. (Students) can share that it’s not just going to school, it’s not just taking tests. It’s being in a fraternity or being in this organization, it really opens up our kids eyes.”

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Opinion

Editors Thomasina Johnson johnsota@muohio.edu Sam Kay kaysj@muohio.edu

➤ EDITORIALS

The following pieces, written by the editorial editors, reflect the majority opinion of the editorial board.

Study analyzes how some women choose to cope

R

ose Marie Ward, assistant professor in Miami University’s department of kinesiology and health and Terri MessmanMoore, associate professor in the psychology department, have finished collecting surveys for a study on how women cope with their moods.

They are currently analyzing the data, but have concluded some women with negative emotions may use sex to cope.

The editorial board of The Miami Student supports this study and believes the findings could prove to be useful to both women and men. Most students have either dealt with the issues of emotions, sex and alcohol consumption or know of friends that have. Any connections that can be made between these can help many college students adjust to changing stress levels that result in new responsibilities or challenges. If new information surfaces, counseling services may be able better understand and help women who deal with stress, sex and alcohol. If the Miami community is made aware of the dangers of these negative emotions and coping badly, friends, both male and fe-

male, may be able to help their friend get the help she needs.

The board also agrees with Messman-Moore that more work needs to be done on this topic before any correlation can be made between emotions, sex and alcohol consumption.

There are many other factors that may provoke women to drink alcohol or have sex. Because women may do these activities, it doesn’t necessarily mean they have a high level of negative emotions or they are drinking or having sex just because they need an outlet for their emotions. Engaging in risky behaviors isn’t always a cry for help.

The board recommends a study on how men deal with sex, alcohol consumption and negative emotions be done. The current study on women is important and relevant, but a study on men would give more depth to the field of information and a broader insight on the differences and similarities between men, women and how they cope with negative emotions.

With this information on men and women, students dealing with these potential issues can more easily get help and lead healthier, happier lives.

Leave an important tool for faculty development

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fter fewer faculty leaves were granted last year, numbers are up again this year.

The editorial board of The Miami Student believes faculty development is key to the future of Miami University. The two types of leaves – assigned research appointments (ARAs) and faculty improvement leaves (FILs) – are each important elements of faculty learning.

Faculty are released from teaching duties and receive full salaries and benefits. This board believes that faculty research directly benefits the undergraduate experience.

Teaching classes and performing other departmental administrative duties is extremely taxing on time, making significant progress on research projects difficult. Faculty is also at risk of falling out of touch with the most recent developments in their disciplines.

Certain groups, such as business faculty, have seen an overall decrease in leaves while other departments have seen increases. This board believes that all

faculty should have the chance to take a semester leave on a relatively regular basis. Ideally, the knowledge and expertise faculty gain while on leave will more than offset the loss in teaching time. While it is important to keep class sizes low, it is also important to remember that quantity cannot make up for content.

Faculty conducting research also need time for travel and collaboration with academics and research teams at other universities. Weekends and breaks are simply insufficient for in depth field research.

Furthermore, successful research makes Miami look good. Although Miami’s focus is the undergraduate experience – we are not a major research university – research is still important for the recruitment of both faculty and students.

While absent faculty are a shortterm loss to students and departments, the long-term benefits of faculty development are undeniably worth the cost in time and money to the university.

Corrections ➤ The editorial cartoon in the Feb. 16 edition of The Miami Student incorrectly implied that student body president Jonathan McNabb used his office to seek free parking. Associated Student Government sought 10 red passes for use by various student organizations for their full price, to be paid by the student organizations receiving them. ➤ An editorial in the Feb 16. edition of The Miami Student incorrectly stated the new summer schedule is starting in summer 2010. It will start in summer 2011.

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➤ LETTERS

Readers must separate news, satire I’m writing regarding the letters to the editor featured in the Feb. 16 issue of The Miami Student. I find both of these letters, regarding the Amusement article entitled “Whore-o-scopes,” amazingly shortsighted. Satire has always been an effective means of exposing a negative trend and eventually effecting change. Often these pieces point out information that is not pleasant to hear. Clearly, the fact that Amusement is a satirical section was lost on Miami University staff member Cathy Edwards and secretary for off-campus affairs, Matthew Ciccone. It seems surprising the traditionally conservative Oxford and Miami community would be opposed to a critique of the moral fiber of our students. If these two individuals wish to pull this article and reprimand the author and editor, then it seems the idea of satire and journalism is lost on them both.

Its job is to report and make commentary on issues, however unfortunate, occurring in our community. If anyone should be reprimanded it should be Ciccone and Edwards. In his editorial, Ciccone exonerates the staff of another Miami publication, The Odyssey, as ‘courageous.’ The irony here is

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Kordny Rainey

➤ “Take advantage of academic advisers. Time management is important. I was stressed when I was a first-year, so have fun and get involved. Make sure you have a social life. Put in time to study, and utilize King Library and the writing center. Enjoy your first year.”

What are you loving about the Olympics? ➤ What advice do you have for first-year students? ➤

“I like watching the Moguls, they go so fast. It was sad when Shaun White fell.” ➤ “Go out when you don’t have homework, my brother passed that advice on to me.”

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EDITORIAL BOARD Amanda Seitz Campus Editor Kelsey Bishop Community Editor Erin Fischesser Community Editor Katie Giovinale Sports Editor Amelia Carpenter Features Editor Anna Turner Amusement Editor Samantha Ludington Photo Editor Hannah Miller Art Director

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overwhelming. In its initial publication, The Odyssey wrote articles celebrating drinking, ‘frat-ing’ and the dance floor make out.

However, it is not a satirical paper. The publication that Ciccone supports clearly supports the themes of Amusement’s satire.

Both Ciccone and Edwards also refer to the article in question as being unacceptable due to low enrollment rates, as potential students and their parents may have seen it. The last time I checked, newspapers were not meant to support business ventures or disguise the truth; we’ll leave that to North Korean publications.

Newspapers aren’t in place to help secure salaries, they’re here to expose, report and effect change. So in tradition of other, once hated satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, I recommend the next edition of Amusement should satire the non-democratic tendencies of a few Miami community members.

Erin Haley

like snowboarding and men’s ice skating is hilarious and flamboyant. I wanted to be an ice skater when I was little, but I was not nearly coordinated enough.” ➤ “Learn to balance going out and getting stuff done. You have to learn what is important and what is not.

Remember to have fun.”

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favorite Olympic athletes are Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn. My favorite Olympic sport is curling. It is such a unique and unusual sport.”

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➤ THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WILL

Turn to wilderness for solace The flame danced into darkness as I turned off the gas lamp for the night. It was the kind of complete darkness where you couldn’t see your hand in front of you if you tried. I didn’t try.

After a long drive through a snow-covered Will forest that looked Hoyt like Narnia’s distant relative, we had finally arrived at our remote cabin in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula outside of the town of Munising. Guided by Paul, a part Cherokee, my friend Frank and I would set out in the morning on a dog sledding trip through Hiawatha National Forest. There was no electricity, no cell phone reception and no hot water. Only barking dogs, lingering gas lamp fumes and the buzz of several flies that managed to escape the cold hovered above my bunk bed.

After a round of oatmeal infused pancakes we harnessed the dogs and set out on our respective sleds.

We each had a five dog team of Alaskan Huskies, a combination of wolf, mut and husky that evolved during the Alaskan gold rush. The dogs yelped and jumped in excitement before takeoff as I practiced my Cesar Milan techniques of dog whispering. When we eventually unhooked the sleds from the trees, the dogs took off pulling us at over 20 mph. We sled all day through the backwoods, stopping only for a fireside lunch and when we had to lead the dogs through a shallow but frigid creek.

All the while I couldn’t help thinking of what a stark contrast this was to my daily routine. The dogs didn’t need a GPS or iPhone application to find the way; they just followed the scent. Our guide Paul didn’t have a telephone in his cabin, much less a television to watch “24,” or a computer to receive e-mails from a plethora of listservs.

What he did have was time and lots of it. Time to read, time to explore and time to think. While I value my social interactions and daily exchanges, there was something charming about the way Paul lived. I understood why he did it.

He could do what he wanted, when he wanted to. Besides taking care of the dogs, he had total control over his daily schedule.

I felt a kinship with past nature enthusiasts like Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond and John Muir in the Sierra Nevada. It is amazing what a person can think up and accomplish when they have an unlimited amount time and beauty. I have long enjoyed the outdoors and adventure, but this complete isolation offered me a different perspective.

Paul looked like he was 24, maybe 26. We were shocked to discover that he was in fact 38, and the father of three children. His youthful appearance could be the result of his daily exercise forging trails and working with the dogs. Or maybe it was because of the removal from the many daily stresses of living in society. I think it was a combination of both. Whatever the case, it is a striking reminder of what peace of mind can do for our health, and a far cry from the already graying in their 20s overworked lawyers that you see at happy hour.

I am graduating in May and — like many seniors — will likely end up in an office position. It is easy to get caught up with work, relationships and the thousand other things that turn the daily grind.

However, as I do myself, I challenge everyone to maintain a bit of the wild in their hearts as they move forward through life. It can be achieved with or without five Alaskan Huskies yapping alongside, although the Huskies are highly recommended. Either way, you won’t regret it.

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➤ PERSPECTIVE

Love & honor Proudly we shall ever hail thee, over all the land ERIN FISCHESSER

As part of the third generation of my family to graduate from my high school, I have always been proud of my roots. After all, I knew my high school fight song soon after I learned to talk.

Needless to say, a sense of community and pride in my school was instilled in me at a young age and has stayed with me to this day. When I came to Miami University, I expected many students to have similar views about their future alma mater, especially after hearing friends and relatives who had attended rant and rave about it.

I quickly learned, however, that many students don’t attend sporting events and interest in school spirit is low. It seems the fervor for the school comes long after students move away from the red bricks of Oxford.

At hockey and basketball games, I see alumni in the crowd cheering much more than our poor excuse for a student section. During my first weekend as a student, I was “forced” with the rest of my first-year hall to attend a basketball game and it was like pulling teeth for our resident assistant to find enough students to participate in the half-time activities.

Today, my friends still cringe at the thought of joining me at a game and throw a fit when I insist on staying for the

playing of the alma mater after a RedHawk win.

While athletic support is far from the only measure of school pride, to my dismay, I witnessed the same lack of fervor at many bicentennial events throughout 2009. Overall, students were excited to attend the ball and some came to the official celebration, but an overwhelming sense of pride that may be expected from the student body at such occasions seemed to be lacking.

While I don’t expect every student to be completely thrilled about every campus event, a student body as large as Miami’s should be able to gather a crowd at a good majority of them. Even if students don’t cheer and scream at games, they can still respect the athletes as fellow members of the Miami community who work hard on a daily basis to represent our school. While they’re not expected to know the history of Miami, I do expect students to want to be part of its future and work hard to achieve things in its name.

By no means do I agree with everything Miami does, but I am proud to call Oxford home and I love learning about all of the history that comes with it. I appreciate the things that have led this

campus to where it is today and I look forward to its future accomplishments. I try to show my pride in Miami whenever I can and I try to teach others to do so as well.

My challenge to Miami students is to look to our alumni and try to plug in to the pride they share so publicly. Somehow, we need to find that missing link in what they see and what many of my fellow students are seeing. After all, we pay way too much money to take classes in a place with which we have no connection and about which we don’t care.

Until we make that connection, I encourage students to try something new around campus. Experience something for the first time. I’m sure you’ll find something to take pride in, whether it’s our No. 1 hockey team or the research being done in the psychology labs. There are so many things going on there is no reason everyone shouldn’t have something to be proud of Miami for.

I hope we can learn to live out a theme I have heard repeated throughout my Miami career: Old Miami, New Miami, OUR Miami. Let’s make this campus ours and show our love for it, my fellow RedHawks!

Fischesser is community editor for The Miami Student

➤ RULE OF THUMB Gay bar takeover!

Helping out by hanging out

The gay bar takeover Saturday evening will be a fun time.

Miami students mentor area children as Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

Excessive snow

Stop toying with us!

The sledding was fun at first. Now we’re ready for spring.

Is it a snow day or isn’t it? We don’t want to wake up for one class.

Compiled by The Miami Student Editorial Board

➤ ESSAY

Fillers destroy intelligent speech After I finished taking the public speaking class, communication (COM) 135, I felt both cursed and blessed. Before I took the class, I had been perfectly content with how I spoke. Little did I realize how often I said the words “like,” “um” or “uhh.”

I walked out of class feeling grateful I could speak better in front of others, but also very aware of the endless verbal fillers that everyone uses.

It is one of the most frustrating things I experience as a student. As I sit in class, I will often see a student raise his or her hand and respond with something along the lines of, “Like the main like reason the country, like does not have an adequate GDP, like is because of the um, like trade deficit that hit the country, like twenty years ago.” How many times have you heard something similar to that? Typing it out looks absolutely ridiculous. We have very intelligent people here on our campus with thoughts, discussions and ideas, but their phrases are chockfull of distracting verbal fillers.

Guys and girls are equally as guilty of this habit.

The next time you are in one of your discussionbased classes, listen to each student speak, instead of falling asleep, daydreaming or doodling. Count how many times a student says the word “like,” “um” or “uhh.” You might stop daydreaming one of these days and actually start paying attention, even if it is to these silly words. If you talk to any interviewer who interviews applicants for jobs,

grants or scholarships, you can ask them how this type of communication affects the applicant. You may hear him or her say it makes the interviewee sound less intelligent and uneducated.

We are paying thousands of dollars to go to this institution, and as students going out into the world looking for jobs, we can’t have Miami University on our resume and talk to employers or interviewers by using the word “like” every other sentence.

If you pay attention to leaders such as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, or celebrities like Peyton Manning speak, you will not hear unintelligent verbal fillers being used. Of course we all have our slip ups and sometimes stall when we are put on the spot by a professor or at an interview and have to say, “ummmm” while you regain you focus. Saying these fillers occasionally is not the issue. The real problem is how consistently you hear these words being spoken on our campus. We all use them: in the classroom, at the Recreational Sports Center, at Brick Street Bar or King Café.

Open up your ears and you will hear them. Don’t take your “like” business degree and “like” get a good job that “like” pays well. We should start learning not say verb fillers and to instead gather our thoughts before speaking. Thinking before speaking will only help us in the long run.

Kelly Dawes Smith

smithkd3@muohio.edu

The Miami Student is looking for essayists. e-mail Thomasina johnsota@muohio.edu.

➤ ESSAY

Students must keep identity in college We are a people in crisis.

We’ve spent a childhood making associations. Our family, friends, schools, social groups and environments all participated in shaping our sense of identity … until college. Fresh out of the womb of adolescence, we are stripped of these associative holdfasts and thrust into a completely new environment, almost entirely devoid of connections to our previous life. And with this, our carefully assembled card-house of associations is toppled.

How do we react to this dramatic change in setting? We grope in the dark, lunging at anything with which we can identify. We attempt to rebuild this lost identity by associating ourselves with social groups, fields of study and familiar ideas. This is a soothing moratorium that results in often unfitting and harmful commitments to majors, peers and groups that owe part of their existence to vulnerable first-years. An appropriate example of this may be a social fraternity that promises easy social networking, access to alcohol and social gatherings and guidance in return for a college-long commitment. Sometimes we get lucky and these affiliations fit us well, but oftentimes, we don’t.

This transition may be painfully difficult or staggeringly easy depending on one’s history and motives upon entering a new environment. Our names and physical makeup rarely changes, but their connotations do. It is common for incoming first-years in a new environment to feel a need to reshape this connotation if they feel some sort of resentment towards the identity they carried in high school.

While this craving for association is certainly natural, is it beneficial? Finding a sympathetic group of people can be very rewarding if done carefully. Identification with a congruous group of people can increase confidence, entice cooperative or mutualistic behavior and allow easy access to previously unavailable information.

In many cases, however, a shared social identity comes at a cost. It is necessary to make small sacrifices in order to become a group member. This sacrifice usually comes in the form of a small change in mindset, appearance, time expenditure or behavior. In essence, you are forfeiting a small piece of your personal identity for the cohesion of the group. This small trade can be harmless in moderation, however, it is all too common for vulnerable first-years to get carried away in the thrill of adopting a shared identity with a social group and become walking doppelgangers. Trust me, we’ve all seen it: the instant first-year transformation from a naïve and sensitive high school boy to a boat-shoe wearing, collar popping and beer jockey in a social fraternity. This change is sometimes inevitable.

But there is something backwards with this system. The key to successful identity preservation in college may be to wait until the Band-Aid-like sting of college exposure has worn off before joining groups, when we have amassed a stronger sense of collegiate perspective. What are these group identities that we pinhole ourselves with if not an average of its member’s personalities? It isn’t right to allow the temptation of group assimilation to change us. We have to fight it, dragging our personal identities into the mix, allowing the group to adjust to our presence. By wearing our personal identities into new situations, we are not only preserving our long-built senses of self, but are adding to the total richness and diversity of the system we join. We are toting 20 years of memories, experience and accumulated traits and deserve to accommodate our mental luggage and treat it well.

Bill York

yorkwj@muohio.edu

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010 ♦ 12

Butler County property owners receive tax bills with typos

By Jenni Wiener Staff Writer

More than 153,000 property owners in Butler County received tax bills with incorrect information on them due to misprinted levy titles.

The biggest issue was the two levy titles for “Mental Health” and “Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities” were not with the correct dollar amounts, said Nancy Nix, Butler Country treasurer.

Nix said the titles of the levies should have been switched.

“Two of the titles were misprinted,” Nix said. “For example, on my property tax bill, it says the amount of money going to Mental Health is $83.46 and the amount going to Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities is $170.29. It should actually be

the other way around.”

The second change that needs to be made is the “Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities” levy has changed its name to “Developmental Disabilities,” but it has not yet been modified on the tax bill.

According to Nix, the Butler County auditor is in charge of making sure the tax bills are correct even though Nix’s name is on them. Thus, the title switching was not caught by the auditor and was therefore misprinted. Also, the state has not yet changed the name, “Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities” to “Developmental Disabilities.”

Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds said, “Tax titles were switched for Mental Retardation and Mental Health. The Mental Retardation was not a typo — we listed it exactly how the state directed us.”

Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities is working on a public information campaign to stop using the word “retardation,” which is why they removed it from their name.

“I’m glad to hear the wording has been changed,” said Laura Horton, Miami University sophomore. “(The word) retardation has such a negative connotation in today’s society. It’s not politically correct anymore.”

Developmental Disabilities Superintendent Chris Hurr said she hopes the name will change soon, but realizes tax bills take a while to change.

“I think it was an honest mistake,” Hurr said. “I’m sure it will get corrected. People get the two names mixed up anyway.

Although I hope the change makes them realize the difference between mental retardation and developmental disabilities.”

There’s ‘snow’ place like home

There is really no remedy at this point, Nix said. Although the names are incorrect, the expenses are still the same.

Nix said people who received these tax bills probably didn’t receive a corrected version through the mail but it is available on the Web site at https://epay.butlercountyohio.org/.

“I don’t think anyone who received one of these tax bills is affected by this,” Nix said.

“They have the right total amounts. It is not an issue.”

Sophomore Molly Donovan agreed the mix-up is trivial for property taxpayers.

“Most people probably won’t even notice the difference,” Donovan said. “Many people don’t even know how to do their own taxes anyway.”

Property tax bill payments are due March 3.

HOOKAH continued from page 4

SCOTT ALLISON The Miami Student

Senior Dennis Grimm and Junior Ryan Dotson construct a snow fort Tuesday outside their home on Beech Street.

PORCHES continued from page 4

According to Durr, the cars will start arriving at 6 a.m.

Saturday morning and will remain on display until 3:30 p.m. at which time an awards ceremony will take place followed by a ‘Porsche Parade’

at 4:30 p.m.

Sophomore Ryan Morris, who works at Miami University Hockey School in the summer and walked among the cars summer 2009, said he couldn’t wait for this year’s event.

“It was really neat last summer and now that it is going national I can’t wait to see how big it will be this summer,” Morris said. “It should be a really cool weekend.”

Rieman believes this year has the potential to be the best Porsches 2 Oxford yet.

“Despite horrible weather last year, we had a little more than 400 cars and we were going to go past 500 cars if we had a dry day,” Rieman said. “We’re looking to hit that 500 car mark this year and at that point we’ll be maxing out the Oxford space, which would be fantastic.”

place like this,” Howell said. “All there is to do around here is get drunk. Hookah is just the thing to change (the routine) up.”

Edas agreed.

“It brings something different to Oxford,” Edas said. “It is a new face and a new culture.

Instead of ordering your regular latte, you could order your regular hookah.”

Edas hopes that the new establishment will achieve a more relaxed environment. “(I want it to be) a place where students can feel comfortable, get work done and socialize,” Edas said.

In order to understand if their business would be successful, Edas and Rihai surveyed students using tactics such as Facebook.com. The business currently has a fan page on the Web site where they plan to post updates, pictures and any news regarding the lounge. “(This) allows us to offer information to the student population,” Edas said.

Sophomore Jessie Rains said she really enjoys hookah although she hasn’t done it very much.

“I’m interested to try it more,” Rains said. “Bars know how to pack it well enough for you to get a buzz so it will be awesome to have access to that.”

Ohio’s smoking policies were a concern when it came to opening a business like this. The pair explained they received a lot of help from Alan Kyger, Oxford economic development director.

Kyger said 80 percent of sales must be tobacco products and the lounge must reside in a freestanding building.

“That can be difficult because student rentals are practically attached to everything,” Kyger said.

Kyger said he receives five to eight requests per semester for a hookah bar in Oxford.

According to Kyger, there is a common misconception many people have about how businesses can be established in Oxford. He said it is not true that the Oxford City Council would not allow a hookah bar.

“The city creates zoning districts,” Kyger said. “As long as it meets the zoning standards, it is okay. There are no rules on how many sub shops there can be in town; it is determined by the market place.

Businesses do not need the city’s permission.

Only permission needed is by the building codes. The content of the store does not matter.”

Kyger said he told Edas and Rihai the location of their business should not be a problem.

“As long as you’re uptown, people will find you,” Kyger said.

Kyger expects some opposition to the lounge.

“Although I think it will succeed, I know that some people will not endorse its uses,” Kyger said.

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FACULTY continued from page 1

There were many applications this year, Tuma said, and faculty who apply are not always granted leave.

According to MUPIM, for example, only up to 30 faculty can be granted an FIL in a single year.

Department chairs, then those at the divisional level, then the deans and finally the provost’s office, review each application, and they are both very competitive.

“If it’s an ARA, it describes the research they want to do,” Tuma said. “If it’s an FIL, faculty describe what they hope to do to reinvigorate their teaching.”

Tuma added leaves would not be granted if it puts a risk to teaching.

Ray Gorman, senior associate dean of the Farmer School of

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010 ♦ 13 Business (FSB), said fewer business faculty have been granted leaves due to a lower budget. Agreeing with Tuma, Gorman did not want put a risk to teaching either.

“We’ve cut back a little bit due to some budget cutbacks,” Gorman said. “We didn’t want to increase class sizes.”

Gorman said about four to seven faculty are granted one semester of leave each year, down from five years ago, when he said 17 faculty applied for leave and 10 received it. He said more faculty are granted ARAs, while FILs are more likely to be postponed.

“We tend to have more of those (ARAs) because we’ think it’s important to support faculty in that way,” Gorman said. “By having your teaching and service requirements reduced, you can really concentrate the way you need to on a large research project. Even during difficult times it’s important to

invest in the future.”

Kerry Powell, chair of the English department, said the number of leaves granted in his department is actually fewer than last year.

“We had a big year for leaves last year, seven or eight people altogether,” Powell said. “It was one of the best years we’ve ever had for leaves.

We’re kind of paying the price right now.”

During ARAs, Powell said the goal is for faculty to get a research project to completion or near completion. In the case of the English department, that may mean writing a book for a creative writer or putting together a book of scholarship on romantic poetry or fiction, for example, for a literature professor.

Powell said only three English department faculty were granted leave for next year, which was low considering how young the department is with a large number of pre-tenure faculty.

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continued from page 1 two covers for 45 East or Brick Street Bar. “Students are always looking for a good value,” Mark Weisman said. “Our specials are really compelling and a great deal.”

Mark Weisman said weekday promotions allow students to get a deal without keeping track of coupons or changing specials.

Will’s Pizza has also been sold uptown outside of both 45 East and Brick Street until 3 a.m. “Before now, the only option was paying $1.50 for a slice of cheese,” Mark Weisman said. “Selling pizza outside of both restaurants has been wildly popular.”

According to Mark Weisman, uptown consumers can now purchase more types of pizza for $1 per slice.

Oxford Economic Development Director Alan Kyger said selling outside of storefronts is an “iffy thing.” He said because Will’s Pizza is owned by the Weismans, the use of the sidewalk is permitted.

Kyger said the Oxford zoning code states that “commercial activity related to the principle use of the first floor storefront” is allowed.

While the Weisman brothers have just opened Will’s Pizza, they are already considering future possibilities for the restaurant.

“We are looking to add TVs, a sound system and possibly even receiving a liquor license to serve beer and wine with our pizza,” Mark Weisman said.

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the rim for another hoop late but the Zips responded on back-to-back possessions to sew up a victory.

Despite shooting a dreadful 0-15 from three“It was a really good ball game,” point land and snapping a streak of 55 contests Coles said. “That’s the bad part of with at least one swish from downtown, the Miami what we do is we got to win or lose.

University RedHawks basketball team showed It would be different if you knew you some growth Wednesday night in a loss to the were going to lose or win. We fought University of Akron Zips. hard for about 22 minutes of that A late run by the Red and White (11-15, 8-5 game. We played as hard as any team Mid-American Conference (MAC)) earned them I can remember us having at Miami. their first lead before it was quickly snatched away That intensity got really good. I was by stellar Zip (20-7, 10-3 MAC) defense, resulting on cloud nine because it was good in a 61-56 setback. to watch. In the last five minutes we “This team came a long way tonight,” Head Coach didn’t play smart or hard. Akron’s Charlie Coles said. “The average fan is not going to basketball I.Q. is very high.” see that. All they know is that we are 11-15. If you Hayes paced the RedHawks ofwere here, you saw us grow. I thought there were fensively with 16 points and 6 boards some beautiful things there. Effort was there for lonwhile Fletcher netted a dozen. Junior ger than we have had in a long time around here. I got Nick Winbush had a block party with to build on that. I have to convince these guys they’ve four swats in front of a large Millett got it. We can do the job. We just have to be a little bit Hall following. tougher and a lot smarter.”

“I thought we were going to pull The Zips zoomed to an 8-2 run as the first whistle it off,” Hayes said. “We had a nice sounded and were off to the races. Even shooting 42 crowd tonight and they were behind percent for the game was not enough to keep the Redus. We finally took the lead and we Hawks in it as they also committed 11 turnovers to just didn’t convert. It was tough. The just four helpers and they couldn’t buy a shot from only thing to do now is continue to downtown. Coles’ men kept an eye on the Zips and work and learn from this.” cut the deficit to two twice in the final 1:30 of the first The defeat pushes the RedHawks half, lastly on junior Rodney Haddix’s layup that sent two games behind the Zips in the MICHAEL GRIGGS The Miami Student MAC East standings, but they will them in to the lockers down 29-27.

Rodney Haddix evades the Akron defense to go for two.

An experienced Zips squad made a made a two look to turn it around Saturday, when point lead a nine point lead five minutes into the last act. The Red and White they host Southeast Missouri State University. The RedHawks will be batresponded with a 7-0 run to get back within two and reeled in the northern tling other RedHawks for an ESPN BracketBuster game at 2:30 p.m. foe to make it a ball game when they went down just 48-47. Seniors Kenny “The loss hurts and sets us back but we have to look on the bright side,” Hayes and Adam Fletcher lit the flame during the run with a Hayes layup sophomore Julian Mavunga said. “We still have something to play for. This is and a Fletcher stuff. Moments later, an Allen Roberts and-one gave the Red- a season that everyone thought was lost but it’s a season that we have revived.

Hawks their first lead of the night at 50-49. ’Hawk hustle kept them in the The No. 1 thing is for us to practice hard. We need to work collectively, make game but a 6-0 Zip run overwhelmed the home team. Roberts returned to sure we are on the same page and look forward.”

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Bilodeu gives Canada new hope with gold

By Adam Hainsfurther For The Miami Student

On Sunday night, the Canadian Olympic lore added a chapter, as Alexandre Bilodeu became the first Canadian to win Olympic gold on home soil.

Canadians can forget the awful showing in Montreal in 1976 and the sad outcome in Calgary in 1988. Bilodeu’s effort Sunday night in the men’s freestyle moguls has made him one of Canada’s most famous Olympians, and there are few people who deserve the title more than Bilodeu.

Bilodeu, 22, was born in Montreal, Quebec. He always wanted to be an athlete. He wanted to make his older brother, Frederic, who was born with cerebral palsy, proud. He was told he wouldn’t be able to walk by the time he was 10. Now at age 27, and still walking with some assistance, he serves as his older brother’s greatest inspiration.

“Even if it’s raining, I’ll take it, I’ll go train,”

Bilodeu has said. “He doesn’t have that chance, and he’s having a smile every morning he wakes up.”

When Bilodeu won his first World Cup in 2006, Frederic was right there with him on the podium. He was at last year’s World Cup final in La Plange, France to celebrate his little brother’s record-breaking season. But it doesn’t end there.

Bilodeu got into skiing because of his brother.

When the Bilodeu boys were young, they loved hockey. Alexandre would play, and Frederic and their sister Beatrice would watch. However, it soon became difficult for their mother, Sylvie, to take all three of the children from rink to rink.

So, after watching Jean-Luc Brassard take home Canada’s first freestyle gold in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway, Sylvie signed Alexandre up to start skiing, something the whole family could do.

Aside from it being the nation’s first home gold, it ended Canadian worries that they might not ever

see a Canadian athlete leave Canadian games with gold. On Saturday night women’s moguls favorite Jenn Heil took silver after being bumped from the top spot by American Hannah Kearney. Two Canadians learned just how good Apolo Ohno really is when Ohno’s bold move in the men’s 1500 semis bounced Canadian Charles Hamelin from the finals, and then in the finals when Ohno and fellow American J.R. Celski took silver and bronze leaving Canadian Oliver Jean in fourth. It appeared as if the nightmare was just beginning for Canada in 2010.

But then Bilodeu became Canada’s newest famous face, and all of those fears just melted away like snow in April.

“When Jean-Luc Brassard won the gold medal, we never thought the other gold medal would be Alex, but today it’s Alex,” his father Serge said, whose tearing eyes said more than anyone ever could.

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continued from page 16 advantage. The Brotherhood’s fourth-ranked 87.7 percent kill rate speaks for itself.

The Mavericks 26th ranked scoring defense has allowed just 2.79 goals per game, and their penalty kill (PK) unit finds success 83.4 percent of the time.

Faulkner’s prowess between the pipes was highlighted by his nod for the CCHA Goaltender of the Week, but the Sarnia, Ontario native has provided a dependable backbone for UNO’s defense all season.

Faulkner has compiled a record of 12-8-4 and owns 2.51 goals against average (GAA) and 0.907 save percentage (SP).

Finally, if it comes down to the last line of defense — as it might, against the Mavericks’ talented forwards — the Red and White typically have little reason to worry. Reichard tops nearly every national net minding category, including GAA (1.42), winning percentage (0.825) and overall goaltending. Knapp’s 2.06 GAA and 0.916 SP have put him in fourth place in overall goaltending, and the pair ranks first and second in the CCHA, respectively.

“They have a lot of depth on offense and we have depth all over the ice,” Wideman said.

“We have two good goalies, eight good defensemen, 15 good forwards. We can play anybody. They have a lot of depth up front and right now they’re one of the hottest teams in college hockey, so we’ve got to be ready for anything.”

The two teams are set to clash at 7:35 p.m. on Friday and 7:05 p.m. on Saturday. The Ohio News Network (ONN) will provide television coverage of the series, and fans can also listen in to WMSR’s live broadcast at http://www.redhawkradio.com.

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conference tournaments would lose their luster. Conferences like the Missouri Valley or Atlantic Ten could potentially be sending four to five teams, and conferences where the steamroller of the season gets beaten by a middle of the standings team on a hot streak might be sent as well (i.e. Patriot League, Summit League and Southwestern Athletic Conference). After all, the record would support them being sent and even the NCAA would not just send teams from the major conferences, as much as they would like to.

The last facet to all of this is the time schedule. A more understated weakness to this proposal is in the system we have right now, the college tournament is the perfect lead into Opening Day Major League Baseball, and National Hockey League/National Basketball Assocation (NBA) playoffs.

An added extra week means the whole time schedule is thrown off, times overlap and everyone finds themselves switching channels back and forth trying to catch everything. Along with the fact that these are indeed college students first, athletes second (even at the University of Tennessee), having one more week on the road in a far away destination is unfair pressure to put on students, most of whom are not going into the NBA or another professional league.

In a sports world where the fan’s biggest say is generally on all-star game balloting, there is not much that can be done to stop the big machine. Even so, it can be a bit disheartening when you realize that something you love will be tarnished and corrupted in the future.

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Junior forward Carter Camper’s Saturday night assist adds to his season tally of more than 30 points.

hockey

Miami gears up for UNO

By Erika Hadley Senior Staff Writer

A week after clinching the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) regular season championship, the No. 1 Miami University hockey team (19-1-4-2 CCHA, 22-4-6 overall) will look to continue its winning ways and extend its 22 game conference unbeaten streak with its final home series of the season v. the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) (12-11-3-2 CCHA, 16-12-6 overall) this weekend.

The RedHawks’ primary focus this season has been to win championships, beginning with the regular season title and ultimately hoping to achieve what slipped through their fingers on April 11, 2009 — winning the national championship. With the first goal checked off the list, Miami is now concentrating on securing a No. 1 seed to play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Regional in Ft. Wayne, Ind. “At the beginning of the year we sat down with the coaches and laid it all out on the table — we want to win three championships,” sophomore Chris Wideman said. “The first one was the conference title and that’s the only one on our plate right now. Now that we’ve accomplished that, we’re playing for the No.1 seed in Indiana. We want to play there in front of our fans.”

UNO possesses a lot of depth and momentum that is sure to make life hard for the RedHawks this weekend. The Crimson and Black are 6-1-1 in their last 10 games. Additionally, the Mavericks are under the fierce leadership of new Head Coach Dean Blais, who formerly led the University of North Dakota for 10 seasons and won a pair of national championships with the Fighting Sioux. Still, the Brotherhood is unbeaten in their last 11 meetings with the Mavericks and leads the all-time series 16-6-3. The Red and White are also currently on a NCAA-best 10 game unbeaten streak.

Both teams performed well last weekend

and were recognized for their achievements this week. Each week, the CCHA honors four players, and after outstanding performances v. University of Michigan (UM) and Bowling Green State University (BGSU), respectively, the Mavericks and RedHawks swept this week’s conference awards.

UNO freshman Terry Broadhurst earned the nod as the CCM Rookie of the Week for the second straight week after he tallied two power play goals — including the game-winner in Friday’s 4-3 victory over the Wolverines — and two assists in the Crimson and Black’s sweep of UM Feb. 12 and 13. Additionally, redshirt freshman goaltender John Faulkner was named the Reebok Goaltender of the Week for the second time this season.

Faulkner recorded a season-high 36 saves in the Mavericks’ 4-1 win over the Maize and Blue on Saturday and improved his record to 12-9-4 on the season.

Miami senior Jarod Palmer was chosen as the CCHA Player of the Week after he registered six points on three goals and three assists last weekend. The Fridley, Minn. native had a hand in all three of the RedHawks’ goals on Friday and scored the game winner with 3:23 left in regulation. On Saturday, Palmer posted one goal and two assists, and tallied a +4 on the weekend overall. The award was Palmer’s second of the year, as he was named the CCHA Player of the Week on Nov. 9, 2009.

The Red and White’s No. 1 defense performed just as well as its offense, and Wideman took home the defenseman of the week award after a solid showing v. the Falcons.

Wideman netted a goal in both games — including one shorthanded on Saturday — and tallied two assists in the series finale for a season high three points. In addition, he helped Miami kill off 11 of 13 BGSU power plays.

“We’re capable of scoring,” Miami Head Coach Enrico Blasi said. “We have three or four lines that can score. Defense is getting involved in it. Obviously it takes a team effort to

score 10 goals — it’s not one guy doing it.”

Though the Brotherhood has occupied the nation’s top spot for 16 of 18 weeks this season, this week’s individual awards are some of only a few that have been granted to Miami players this season.

“Well we haven’t had too many players of the week this year, and you can look at it two ways: one, where people could say that we’re not getting the recognition, but I look at it that this has been a team effort all the way,” Blasi said. “When the team’s doing well … everybody’s shining and everybody’s contributing in one way or another. No one really cares about players of the week — we want to hoist trophies as a team.”

It all starts with the forwards. Palmer boasts a team best +23 and is tied with junior Andy Miele for tops in points with 35. Four of Blasi’s boys — Palmer, Miele and juniors Carter Camper and captain Tommy Wingels — have 30-plus points this season and rank among the nation’s top 50 scorers.

The Mavericks play a solid all-around game as well, which prompted College Hockey News to name them this week’s team of the week. One of UNO’s greatest strengths lies with its forwards. The lineup features seven players with 20-plus points this season, which will pose a definite threat to the RedHawks normally airtight defense. Senior captain Jeric Agosta is having a career season and leads the team in goals with 14, tied with Miele for 10th in goals in league play.

Broadhurst is especially dangerous when the Crimson and Black have the man-advantage.

Broadhurst is tied for first on the team in power play goals and third in the CCHA. Defensively, Miami is nearly unparalleled by any other team. The Red and White have surrendered an average of just 1.69 goals per game. Seeing as the RedHawks rank second in the country in penalty minutes as well, it is vital that Miami fares well with the man-dis-

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golf

’Hawks take ninth in Rice Invitational

By Nick Bonaventura Staff Writer

After a three month break from play, Miami University’s men’s golf team began its spring season by finishing in ninth place at the Rice Intercollegiate in Houston, Texas.

Leading the way for the RedHawks was freshman Blake English with an overall score of 15-over par, good for a 22nd place finish.

Traveling became an issue for the team due to the numerous snowstorms that have bombarded the tri-state area in recent weeks, but Head Coach Casey Lubahn made sure the team stayed focused on competing once they arrived in Texas.

“Overall I’m very pleased with our performance,” Lubahn said. “We went through a lot of adversity this week. We had 40 hours of travel time through many flight delays and

cancellations. We didn’t get a chance to play our practice round, but the guys fought through it and that’s what this time of year is about.”

Following the first two rounds of play Monday, Feb. 15 Miami sat in 11th place in a tightly bunched field, just seven shots behind the fourth place team.

“It’s tough to come back to playing at a high level after such a long break,” Lubahn said. “You forget the little things that determine success and failure. The first day we struggled a little bit in trying to remember those small details.”

Junior Nathan Sutherland felt the conditions on the course played a large role in the team not playing well early on.

“In that first round we really got off to a bit of a bad start,” Sutherland said. “The course had some really tough conditions. Just the way the course was playing that day, on top

of all the wind and everything, made our jobs really difficult.”

The ’Hawks used a strong final round to move up in the standings, led by freshman Ben Peacock shooting an even par 72. Sutherland shot a 75 Tuesday to move up and finish tied for 31st at 16-over par for the event.

“In that final round we were pretty sharp,” Lubahn said.

“For a February tournament we played really well.”

Sutherland said overall the team could have performed better, but it was not a bad start to the spring season.

“We just kind of scrapped things together, not really bringing our A game,” Sutherland said. “We did some good things and some bad things, but I would only give us a B or a B-. We didn’t play our best, but it could have been much worse.”

So far this season, Miami has received solid contributions

from two freshmen, Blake English and Ben Peacock. Coach Lubahn stressed how important this can be for a team.

“It’s important for the freshmen to play well,” Lubahn said.

“We’re young, and they are certainly going to be an important part of what we do the rest of the semester. We also have phenomenal leaders at the top in some juniors and seniors.”

Sutherland echoed those sentiments, praising the play of the freshmen following the tournament.

“Obviously we aren’t going to be around here forever, so to get some freshmen in here playing well is great,” Sutherland said. “It really shows that the program is only going to be getting better. They’ve been so great for us.”

The Red and White will next be in action in a month when they travel to Orlando, Fla. for the Rio Pinar Invitational March 15 and 16.

That’s Debatable

or those of you who watch college basketball, and are enamored by students our age graced with superhuman jumping ability and mesmerizing athletic proficiency, I have some sad news for you: the greatest playoff bracket/tournament in sports will be expanded within the next 10 years to 96 teams, and there is nothing we can do about it.

A sad reality, but college and professional sports are driven by revenue and the endgame behind expansion — much like the idea to expand the National Football League season from 16 to 17, possibly 18 games — is that more cash will be raked in. The quick response from a gambler’s perspective is, “Now I have more games to bet on!” But most gamblers are avid sports fans first, and anyone who truly weighs the pros and cons realizes this is a very, very bad thing.

First let’s start with the most obvious issue.

If the field of 65 (formerly 64, see it’s been happening already) gets expanded to 96, a dilution of talent is inevitable. While having another week of the tournament seems appealing at first, watching undeserving teams compete is extremely unsatisfying. By nature, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a hierarchy; teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific-10 and Southeastern Conference are all going to get in before midmajors. But the potential “bracket busters” (ESPN has to have the patent on that) that fall short from making the tournament in the format we have now, generally do so because they are extraordinarily undeserving.

Let’s say “Team A” finishes the season 17-14 in one of the major conferences (having gone 4-8 in conference play) and loses in overtime in the first round of their conference tournament. Their RPI (a method of ranking) is mediocre and they have one big win over a conference heavy weight, several wins over competent mid-majors and one player who has professional scouts eyeing him. No way does this team get in using the current format. Appropriately so, I might add. College basketball’s large field is product of so many teams being eligible, and in its current playoff system deserving teams advance to the NCAA tournament.

This is in contrast to its flawed counterpart, college football, which had unworthy teams like Florida State University advancing to a bowl game with a 0.500 record (6-6) in 2009 and Notre Dame doing the same in 2008.

In college basketball, the last four teams accepted into the tournament generally need to have a strong showing in their conference tournament, or several monumental wins during the season that demonstrated they were deserving of the prestige that comes with postseason play. One of these two scenarios is usually a key variable. For example, if a team finishes among the top five in a big conference like the Big East, it is a lock. Regardless, finishing seventh in the Big East, or sixth in the ACC does show that a team has the tools to compete at the next stage, and almost always such teams are included.

This does not apply to teams who finished ninth in the Big East, or eighth in the ACC — teams which would advance if this new format is implemented.

“Championship Week” is not as revered nationwide as the tournament of 65, but for any college basketball junkie it does not get any better. Hell, even typing the words has me pumped that it’s coming up. Almost every conference has one, and if you are a midmajor it holds tremendous weight. The tools you gained during the season and the chemistry you developed with your teammates during the grueling stretch run all need to mesh quickly. If you win your respective tournament, then you receive an automatic bid to the big dance, no matter how bad your record is.

In a lot of conferences only one team will be taken, and even if one team was the juggernaut during the season, if it gets beaten by a team on a hot streak that is just how it works.

There is an excitement that comes with this, an energy to each game as many are decided by buzzer beaters and phenomenal one game performances by unknown stars (if you recognize the name Taylor Coppenrath, you know what I’m talking about). If a 96 tournament field were to be put into play, many

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