April 23, 2013 | The Miami Student

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TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

VOLUME 140 NO. 54

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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1951, The Miami Student covered a talk given in Benton Hall by American poet Robert Frost in which he shared tidbits of advice with students in the midst of their college careers. Frost said, “The only thing you need to learn is to bear boredom and injustice,” the boredom being lectures and the injustice being grades.

Miami students recall their firsthand experiences at the Boston Marathon

BY CATHERINE MONCEAUX CAMPUS EDITOR

While many Miami University students may have followed the recent Boston Marathon bombing news coverage, four students experienced the tragedy firsthand.

Seniors Kristen Figas, Nicholas Kelly and Jeremy Miner, along with junior Adrian Kimmett, members of Miami’s running club, qualified for and ran in this year’s Boston Marathon.

According to Figas, Kelly, Miner and herself had finished the race and were a couple blocks away, walking back to their hostel, when the bombs went off.

According to the others, Kimmett had remained at the race in order to meet up with her mom. Kimett was unavailable for comment.

“Nick and Jeremy had heard a noise and I must have been dazed from the race still or something because I don’t remember hearing it, but I do remember hearing them say, ‘What was that?’”

Figas said. “It wasn’t super loud, but we were walking right by the subway, so they thought ‘Oh, maybe that’s a train.’”

Kelly said he remembers hearing a loud noise, but attributed it to the subway station.

“We were like two blocks down when we heard a loud bang,” Kelly said. “…It sounded like a gunshot or explosion, but it was one of those times when you think you heard something like that, but it’s never actually a gunshot or an explosion or anything like that.”

Miner also said he recalls hearing the explosion.

“I remember when we were walking back from the race I heard a loud sound,” Miner said. “I don’t think I heard more than one, but I didn’t really think anything of it until later on. I didn’t really see anyone like running from the area or anything like that.”

Figas said after returning to their hostel and showering, runners in the hallway asked if she had heard about the bombings at the finish line.

“It was hard to think about it in my head because you go from being so ecstatic and just blissful,” she said. “It’s just an amazing experience because so many people come out to support, and then it was just confusing to even hear that and it’s hard to think about it as the same event. It’s just really, unbelievably sad.”

Kelly said, after returning to the hostel, he received a text message from Kimmett, who was

CONTRIBUTED BY KRISTEN FIGAS

Junior Adrian Kimmett and seniors Jeremy Miner, Nicholas Kelly and Kristen Figas ran in this year’s Boston Marathon April 15. None of them suffered injuries as a result of the bombings. still at the finish line looking for her mom.

“She was like, ‘Explosions and police,’ and I’m like, ‘Are you ok?’ and then cell service had dropped out at that point, so I never got a text back from her,” he said. “It was kind of scary for a while, but fortunately she showed up at the hotel within like 10 minutes, so she was alright.”

According to Figas, they then went to a television room in the

hostel where the news was on and it was packed with marathon runners trying to figure out what was going on.

“At that time, they were trying to locate more explosives and there were rumors that they found more under the stands and things like that, so everything was just going haywire,” Figas said. “Everyone was freaking out trying to hook up with their families, but, of course, cell service was out.”

Both Figas and Kelly said experiencing the bombings firsthand has made them think about similar events differently.

“It just seems surreal,” Figas said. “All events of this nature, to a certain extent, seem surreal to me. I just can’t imagine that someone would do that and that that could happen. Being

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MU sees 866 percent debt Swimming and diving head coach retires increase over past 10 years after making a splash as MAC champion

BY JUSTIN MASKULINSKI STAFF WRITER

JM RIEGER THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University debt is financing numerous projects including the $50 million Armstrong Student Center (ASC).

BY JM RIEGER

EDITOR AT LARGE

The following article is part three of a three-part series on education at Miami University.

Facility improvements over the last decade have led to record debt levels while Miami University students are often left footing the bill, according to analysis by The Miami Student.

Miami’s total debt grew from more than $44 million in 2002 to more than $427 million last year, an 866 percent increase and the fourthhighest debt total in Ohio, while total interest owed grew more than 1,100 percent, before adjusting for inflation. Rising debt levels have funded facility improvements that will eventually cost the university between $600 and $700 million.

Meanwhile, long-term debt increased more than 263 percent during that time and grew nearly 39 percent between 2002 and 2008, compared to 12 percent nationally, according to a report published last year by Bain & Company and Sterling Partners. Rising debt has created a “liquidity crisis” in higher education, as many institutions are now overleveraged by excessive costs, according to the report.

Miami’s operating expenses, funded largely by student tuition and fees, increased more than 38 percent between 2002 and 2012, while in-state tuition increased more than 85 percent and out-of-state tuition increased more than 70 percent. Meanwhile, academic spending increased 36 percent while total state support decreased less than 15 percent during that time, from $82 to $70 million.

Declining state support and soaring university debt have led to rising

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Miami University Athletics will have some large shoes to fill as women’s swimming and diving Head Coach Dave Jennings announced that he will be retiring.

Jennings led the RedHawks to 16 Mid-American Conference (MAC) championships in his 31 years of coaching.

“It was a hard decision,” Jennings said. “The main reason was that I am ready to move on and spend time with my family. I feel like I have accomplished a lot of the goals I have set for myself and I’m ready to move on to different things. Coaching, like any other job, takes up lot of your time.”

Jennings will retire as a MAC Champion as he coached the ’Hawks to first place just under two months ago. He led the RedHawks to first or second place MAC finishes in 25 of his 31 seasons.

“It’s nice to make this decision and go out on my own terms,” Jennings said. “[The MAC Championship] is just icing on the cake.”

Senior Stacie Clagg, who competed in the breaststroke and individual medley, said Jennings did a great job connecting with the athletes. “[Jennings] wasn’t focused on just swimming, he cared about each athlete as a person,” Clagg said. “By the end of my senior year I had done things I never thought I could do.”

Senior Bekka Westrick, who qualified for the NCAA championships in the 100 freestyle, said Jennings helped her succeed.

“I think [Jennings] helped me build confidence in and out of the pool,” Westrick said. “He just cared about us a lot; he wanted all of us to succeed.”

Miami Athletic Director David Sayler had great praise for Jennings. “[Jennings] embodies everything we hope this athletic department to be,” Sayler said. “He is an exemplary employee; he has a lot to be proud of.”

Jennings finished his coaching career with a dual meet record of 265-105, a .716 win percentage.

The classes of 1986, 1987, 1988, 1999 and 2005 won every MAC Championship they competed in

under Jennings. He coached 104 athletes to individual MAC Champion finishes.

Despite being Miami’s winningest single sport coach, Jennings did not say winning was his favorite part of coaching.

“Favorite part [of coaching], huh?

That’s a hard question,” Jennings said. “I would say working day to day with the student athletes and seeing them develop is my favorite part, it’s a lot of fun.”

Sayler said Miami will begin a nationwide search for a replacement in the future.

“We have to post the position and have interviews in the next month or month and a half,” Sayler said.

“We would consider the assistant coach a candidate, but we will cast an open net.”

Sayler said the job opening should be an attractive one due to the program’s success. “[Jennings’] print is all over the program and his presence will be felt, he has left a long lasting legacy,” Sayler said. “We’re going to miss him.

He’s a great coach, a great teacher, and more importantly, a great man.”

Students face drug trafficking charges Five young men, including three Miami University students, were arrested in Oxford Thursday on counts of drug trafficking, according to Sgt. Mike Hackney of the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.

Over five pounds of marijuana were seized, along with large quantities of molly, hash butter, THC suckers, mushrooms, over $10,000 in cash and a 2008 Mercury Mariner, according to Hackney.

Of all five taken to Butler County Jail, four have posted bail, according to Hackney. An 18-year-old Fairfield native, Noah Moore, has posted bond.

Moore was charged with one count posession and one count permitting drug abuse, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.

According to the Butler County Sherrif’s office, sophomores Kwasi Yeboah, 19, Evan Gregory, 20, and John Lincoln, 20, have also paid bail.

Gregory and Lincoln were charged with one count trafficking each. Yeboah was charged with two counts trafficking and one count posession.

The remaining man, Markel Morrison, 28, is an Ohio University student and was charged with one count trafficking and one count posession.

An investigation by the Butler Undercover Regional Narcotics (BURN) task-force lasting over a month led the arrests. When asked whether a tip sparked the investigation, Hackney declined to comment. There may be additional charges and arrests, according to Hackney, who said the group faces a preliminary trial this Thursday.

Hackney said there were two Oxford residences from which drugs were trafficked and where seizures occurred: 100 W. Sycamore St. and 521 Lincoln St. Gregory and Lincoln lived at the former address, Yeboah at the latter.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

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Tennis captures fifth straight MAC title

BY JORDAN RINARD STAFF WRITER

The Miami University women’s tennis team closed regular season play in a triumphant fashion as they downed Mid-American Conference (MAC) foe Northern Illinois University (NIU) 5-2 at the Boylan Tennis Courts in Rockford, Ill. Saturday to improve its winning streak to seven matches and clinch its fifth straight regular season conference title.

“This weekend, we stayed focused and competed well to win the MAC championship,” junior Christiana Raymond said. “It has been encouraging and amazing to see how much our team has grown this year. Starting off with a loss to Ball State was

tough, but it lit a fire in us to work that much harder.”

In doubles play against Northern Illinois (14-10, 0-7 MAC), Miami won its fifth doubles point in conference play this season. Junior Nimisha Mohan and sophomore Alix Thurman started off doubles by defeating freshmen Cristina Alvarez and Maria Rozo 8-5 for their seventh straight victory, although NIU would respond with an 8-3 win by sophomores Nelle Youel and Arantza De La Torre over sophomore Christine Guerrazzi and freshman Ana Rajkovic. Raymond and junior Ramona Costea claimed the doubles point for the RedHawks by earning an 8-5 win over sophomore Stephanie McDonald and junior Haley Dekkinga to

push their record as a pair to 6-2.

The ’Hawks extended their lead to 3-0 in singles, where Guerrazzi snapped a two-match skid with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over sophomore Mary Malkin while Raymond defeated De La Torre 6-0, 6-2 to finish the conference regular season unbeaten in singles play. The Huskies responded, however, as Youel earned an NIU record 27th singles win on the season with her 6-4, 6-0 victory over Mohan, but Costea clinched the match for Miami as she snapped a two-match drought of her own by downing McDonald 6-2, 7-5. Rajkovic extended her winning streak in singles to five matches with a 6-4, 7-5 triumph over Alvarez, but Northern Illinois closed the match with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 victory

by Dekkinga over Thurman.

“We’re happy with our doubles play,” Head Coach Anca Dumitrescu said. “We executed the game plan with Raymond and Costea.

In singles, we competed well overall, but we were not consistent with our competitive attitude and our game plan. We need to be more consistent with those things on every single point.”

Raymond discussed the team’s optimism heading into next weekend.

“We’re looking forward to competing in the MAC Tournament,” Raymond said. “We will be getting back to work on Monday in practice in preparation for the weekend. We have really improved in both doubles and singles, and I am

confident we can keep it up going into the tournament.”

The RedHawks (11-12, MAC 7-1) will now travel to Muncie, Ind., the site where they sustained their lone conference loss of the season, for the MAC Tournament to face the winner of the match between the fourthseeded Ball State University and fifth-seeded Western Michigan University in the semifinals 10 a.m. Saturday. The final round will be held 12 p.m. Sunday. The Red and White will be looking for redemption in the postseason as they have bowed out in the finals of the conference tournament to the University of Akron the last two seasons after claiming a tournament championship in the 2010 postseason.

President poses possibilities for Shriver

BY ASHLEY LAUGHLIN FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

As construction continues on Miami University’s Armstrong Student Center (ASC), many look forward to its grand opening next spring. In the midst of the new student center’s hype, The Phillip R. Shriver Center seems to have been forgotten.

The Shriver Center opened its doors in 1957, making the structure only 56 years old. With the Haines Food Court, Spring Street Market, Miami University Bookstore, banking and student activities offices, it currently plays an important role in students’ day-today lives at Miami. With ASC’s opening less than a year away, students are beginning to question what is in store for Shriver.

Sophomore Max Schulman is

one of those students.

“I can see Shriver being more of a study place,” Schulman said.

“The upstairs portion can be converted into a place where students can go to do work in a quiet place. In a sense, it can be a little like the library.”

Chelsea Petrasko, a senior graduating this May, said she suggests Shriver be a central location for Career Services.

“I would have loved a campuscentral location during the internship and job application process,” Petrasko said. “For interviews, it was a pain to walk [to the Campus Avenue Building] since you can’t park without a pass. More buses go past Shriver. I feel that job placement should be more focused on campus.”

Schulman also said he suggests enlarging the market to better

Senate reviews Miami’s current fiscal standing

BY JORDYN GRZELEWSKI

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University Senate heard a report from Rebecca Luzadis, chair of the fiscal priorities and budget planning committee, about the university’s fiscal situation at its meeting Monday.

According to Luzadis, Miami is currently in a strong fiscal position, but needs to continue cutting costs.

The university is ending the fiscal year with a surplus and has a solid budget for the next two years. This is due in part to the fact that enrollment was stronger than expected and health care costs were lower than expected. However, after the next two years, the future is less certain, according to Luzadis.

“The thing we have to remember is that as soon as we run into a bad period like we did a couple of years ago, we could be back in the soup again,” Luzadis said, regarding the university’s enrollment rates.

Luzadis said that while many people think raising revenue is the key to maintaining financial stability, this solution is not sustainable. She said the university will have to cut costs in addition to raising revenues.

One reason for this is that state funding is being cut.

According to Luzadis, the state gave Miami around $15 million for major construction projects and about $5 million for renovations every two years for the past 10 years. Between 2011 and 2012, however, Miami received no money for renovations.

This means the university will have to set aside about $7 million per year to maintain buildings.

Luzadis said intercollegiate athletics are responsible for a large hole in the budget.

“There are expenditures in intercollegiate athletics, and right now, even though intercollegiate athletics...is supposed to be defined as self-supporting...which means they balance their own budget... that’s not the case, hasn’t been the case for quite some time,” Luzadis

said. “They are heavily subsidized, and that is a concern. We’re going to have to look very carefully at how much money is going into intercollegiate athletics.”

Luzadis said the new athletic director will have to strike a balance between competing and balancing the budget.

“He is really between a rock and a hard place because he was hired into a position where he is expected to have successful programs and to compete,” Luzadis said. “But, we don’t have the budget to hire coaches at the salary levels that the schools we want to compete against pay.”

Luzadis ruled out one way to improve Miami’s financial situation.

“We can’t raise our price,” she said. “In the short run, it’s going to have to be trade-offs.”

She talked about a few ways the university can do this, such as subsidizing fewer programs and cutting athletic funding.

“At the end of the day, it’s going to have to be hard choices,” she said.

Luzadis also talked about enrollment management and how it affects the budget. According to Luzadis, retention is a crucial component of enrollment. She also recommended that the university expand its international recruitment to a larger number of countries and provide additional support to international students.

The Senate also approved the addition of a new co-major in comparative media studies.

Ron Becker, a professor of communications, presented this proposal.

“The idea is to try and leverage a core sequence of courses in comparative media studies, which is trying to get students to think about media in a much broader way,” Becker said.

The co-major will focus on media analysis and production, and will be administered within the new department of media, journalism and film.

The Senate also heard an update from Phyllis Callahan, dean of the College of Arts and Science, and James Kiper, a professor of computer science, about the Miami 2020 Plan.

serve the needs of students with on-campus meal plans.

President David Hodge said the bookstore, bank and large event spaces, such as The Heritage Room, will remain and continue to serve their intended purposes.

“We need [these spaces] very much,” Hodge said.

Sophomore Charlie Meyer said he is excited about the new student center, but recognizes the importance of Shriver.

“The best parts of the Shriver Center are the food options such as 1809 and the 24-hour market,” Meyer said. “I think students enjoy having the various dining options but the Shriver Center isn’t very ‘homey’ for prospective students.”

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DAMIEN WATSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

ROUND AND ROUND WE GO

Senior Ron Albritton and junior Hannah Howser take a ride during Springfest on Cook Field Thursday, April 18.

Film festival gets ‘reel’ with student entries

BY KENDALL HUTCHISON

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Art and empathy is the theme of the upcoming student-sponsored film festival at Miami University hosted by junior Leah Powers, with help from the Miami Association of Film Makers and Independent Artists (MAFIA).

The festival will feature a variety of original films submitted by students, which must abide by the theme and be under 10 minutes long. It will take place 11 a.m. April 27, in Williams Hall, and is expected to last around three hours, according to Powers.

Powers, a painting major and interactive media studies minor, said she was inspired to host the festival after she received the Gilman International Scholarship, which allowed her to study abroad and required a follow-up project. The festival fulfilled this requirement.

She said she had never been to a film festival at Miami and saw an opportunity to start one in order to

fulfill the final requirements of her scholarship program. Powers began looking into starting the festival earlier this year, but said she did not think she was prepared to put one together until now.

Senior Kayla Gholson said she finds the idea of a film festival appealing.

“I think that it’s a really cool idea because we don’t see very many events like this here at Miami, and it will be positive for our community,” Gholson said.

Powers further discussed her motivation behind the film festival.

“I wanted other students to be more exposed to public works of art and to feel more comfortable expressing their own works,” Powers said.

According to Powers, the theme for the festival will give students common ground on which to share their films. For some, this will be their first film-making experience where they gather with others who have similar interests.

Powers herself will have one of

her own films featured in the festival. The short film titled “Give Me Life,” will be shown alongside about ten other films. Her animated film is in black and white, but eventually turns to color as she presents a girl who wishes to stray away from the norms of society.

Powers said the festival-goers will receive pamphlets that introduce the productions by giving a short synopsis of each film and a profile of the directors. Refreshments will be included following the films, as guests are invited to stay and discuss the films after viewing them, according to Powers.

Junior Elizabeth Moore, a social justice studies major, said she is interested in attending the event with friends.

“A film festival would be cool because I’ve never been to one and the theme is interesting,” Moore said.

Powers said she hopes the festival will bring together the student body in a creative environment where they can enjoy films and meet new people.

Program takes a big bite out of hunger

BY JACINTA SPINOLA FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

A pilot program will be launched for a new student organization, ComMUniFEED, Tuesday, April 30 at the Oxford Bible Fellowship. The goal of this organization, according to its website, is to implement a sustainable program within the greater Oxford area that will work to relieve food insecurity by connecting excess food resources from Miami University’s dining system to families in need.

The USDA defines food insecurity as “consistent access to adequate food [that is] limited by a lack of money and other resources at times during the year.”

One statistic the group is using to rally people is that parents of low-income families in the Oxford community will skip, on average, ten meals a month, according to ComMUniFeed.

This program is a student effort

working through Miami’s Entrepreneurship Institute in collaboration with Miami’s Housing and Dining Services. The students were all in a social entrepreneurship class (ESP 464) taught by Brett Smith, director of Miami’s Institute for Entrepreneurship and founding director for the Center for Social Entrepreneurship, as well as a professor in the Farmer School of Business.

Smith said his class gives students hands on experience to use entrepreneurship principles to organize, create and manage solutions for social change.

“On a broad level, [the class is] innovative solutions to social problems,” he said. “It asks how do we best use the innovation and creativity to solve problems such as hunger and poverty.”

According to Smith and David Rosenthal, a professor of marketing who used to teach the class, the students’ desire to help the community in a meaningful way set the

project in motion.

“It was students who came up with this idea, students who jumped on it and said, ‘We can make a difference,’” Rosenthal said. “Faculty added support, but it was the students’ idea. Miami and Food Services want to do this. And it’s not an easy thing to do, although it may seem easy. If we do this in the right way, we have the potential to make a significant difference in the long run.”

According to Rosenthal, he and Smith had written a case study four years ago on the Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati about a project they were involved with and the efforts they were taking to provide better and more food for the needy in the region. This sparked the students to ask what they could do for their own community.

“The students decided they wanted to make a difference by finding

COMMUNIFEED, SEE PAGE 8

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POLICE Students go lengths to give locks

BEAT

BY CHRISTINA LUNDIN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Miami University’s Central Quad was temporarily transformed into an outdoor hair salon from 1 to 3 p.m.

Sunday as Pantene’s first university campus Beautiful Lengths hair donation event took place. A partnership between Pantene and The American Cancer Society, the event drew 101 donors, surpassing the initial goal of 85.

Representatives from corporate sponsors Pantene and Proctor & Gamble were in attendance, all who hailed the event as a success.

DJ “Steve the Greek” supplied fresh beats while junior Drew

Doggett emceed the event. Laura Klaserner, a representative from The American Cancer Society, also spoke.

According to junior Jenna Pilipovich, an intern with Pantene, Pantene takes the donated ponytails, turns them into wigs, and distributes them to women who have lost their hair by chemotherapy. Since its founding in 2006, The Pantene Beautiful Lengths Program has donated over 400,000 ponytails to make over 260,000 wigs, Pilipovich said.

According to Pilipovich, the idea to bring Beautiful Lengths to campus was proposed last year during a case competition through the Farmer School of Business, and

MICHAEL CHIORAN THE MIAMI STUDENT

Sunday in front of MacCracken Hall, sophomore Ashley Charles feels the weight of her hair one last time.

won.

Three interns were appointed in January to plan and carry out the event. Pilipovich of Phi Mu sorority worked on marketing and promotion, sophomore Rachel Seminara of Gamma Phi Beta handled external relations and junior Marley Balog of Delta Zeta was event coordinator.

Funding for the event was provided by Proctor & Gamble, while representatives from Pantene in New York guided the team of interns through the planning process until the day of the event, according to Pilipovich.

The trio has been meeting biweekly since the start of the semester, conducting conference calls and tackling various responsibilities, whether designing a t-shirt or recruiting volunteers via social media sites, Pilipovich said.

A kickoff party was held Feb. 27 to get out the word and introduce added incentives to donate. Prizes included a spa day for an entire organization at Luna Blue Spa and a session with a professional photographer.

According to Pilipovich, the event recruited 35 girls to pledge hair donations. That number more than doubled between the kick-off and Sunday through outreach efforts, including a YouTube video, posters, a flash mob and a brief segment on Fox News, according to Pilipovich.

“We were very fortunate to have Colton Kidwell of Openview Cinema, produce a promotional video for us,” Pilipovich said. “The three minute video has reached over 3,500 views on YouTube.”

Rotha Penn, an employee of

Proctor & Gamble for eight years, was present at the event.

“I actually donated hair at the first event in 2006, so it’s great to see how far we’ve come since then,” Penn said. “I always look forward to this event because it is close to my heart.”

Marcela Bequillard, a representative at Pantene, was also in attendance.

“This has been a humbling experience. Our goal of 75 donors was surpassed, and that makes us all very excited,” Bequillard said. “The crowd here is so enthusiastic, and I’ve heard so many touching stories.

Some are donating just to help, and others have a personal connection to the cause.”

First-year Melissa Johnson donated her hair at the event.

“It was a really great experience seeing so many people come together for such a great cause.”

Johnson said. “It was even better being a part of it because it was the first time a college campus has held and event like this…I would definitely do it again.”

Another donor, sophomore Ashley Spellacy said she viewed the event as an opportunity to honor those close to her who have battled cancer.

“I chose to donate my hair... because I have watched people close to me suffer through cancer and have to lose their hair,” Spellacy said. “It makes me feel good knowing that I will help another woman feel beautiful and confident with a new wig made from the eight inches of hair I donated today.”

City planners shift gears Middletown man to run with possible bike paths against Boehner in 2014

BY OLIVIA HNAT

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Oxford city planners and Miami University’s physical facilities department are in the early planning stages of implementing bike paths on city and campus streets.

Miami published a circulation master plan in September 2011 that examined modes of transportation on campus. The physical facilities department is using this plan to construct on-street and off-street bike routes. The first bike route addition was constructed along the psychology building to the Miami Inn along Patterson Avenue, according to Vincent Cirrito, a landscape architect and designer for Miami. “[The circulation master plan] laid out the locations of where we should have bikers and also looked at what types of bikers they should be, whether they would be on-street, off-street or shared use,” Cirrito said.

“That master plan also included the city of where… they could put [bike paths] through the city grid.”

To incorporate off-campus bike oaths, city planners are using the circulation master plan and a city plan called “Shifting Gears” that was drafted by a graduate student of the Institute of Environment and Sustainability, Anna Dragovich, according to Sam Perry, a city planner in the community development department.

“I was very much interested in circulation planning,” Dragovich said.

“It was important to me that it wasn’t just another plan to be kicked around or added to the pile. It was important to me that it could be something the city could use.”

The planning commission is using these plans and their own data to create a city plan for bike routes and improved curbs and crosswalks, Perry said.

“The city is analyzing this plan to see what in here is feasible from an operational standpoint,” Perry said.

“And then also, taking where we set up safety corridors on the map.

So we made our own map that is a little different than Anna Dragovich’s plan and a little different than the Miami circulation plan because it involves things off campus.”

Bike paths will be added to Spring Street between Campus Avenue and

Patterson Avenue by the physical facilities department. The city plans on incorporating that into their plan and continuing bike paths off campus, according to Perry.

“We would like to do a street scape project for Spring Street, so improvements of sidewalks, curbs and planted areas,” Cirrito said.

“As part of that, our goal is to put an on-street striped bike lane from Patterson to Campus Avenue as part of that project.”

According to Perry, adding an offcampus bike line on Spring Street past Campus Avenue would require eliminating parking spots between Patterson and Campus Avenues, widening the street or widening the sidewalk to allow for pedestrians and bikes running both directions.

She said there is a trade-off between eliminating street parking, which would be inconvenient, or widening the street, which would be messy.

“We are looking at [having] those spaces possibly relocated,” Cirrito said. “We do have a parking garage that is used on Campus Avenue that is underutilized.”

Perry is working with the community development department, the police department and the service department for the City of Oxford to develop a plan to utilize more modes of transportation along Spring Street and other main corridors in Oxford. “...There are high densities of students west of Campus [Avenue] that are trying to get to campus,” Perry said. “Now, the realities of putting an on-street bike lane on Spring Street would probably involve some changes to the landscape.”

Sophwomore Joel Griffith bikes to class. He said bikes paths are a good idea to get bikers off the sidewalks.

“I think it is a great idea,” Griffith said. “I don’t really know anyone that parks on [Spring Street].”

The city plan to develop off-campus bike paths and routes is still in the works. The community development department presented their first interim report to the planning committee April 9. A second interim report is scheduled for September.

The various departments for the city of Oxford will move forward with bike path plans once a final recommendation is taken to and voted on by city council.

BY JENNA PILIPOVICH FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Middletown resident Andy Hounshell announced April 12 his intent to run as a democratic opponent to republican John Boehner, current Ohio District 8 Representative and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

A military veteran, husband, father of triplets and Miami University Middletown alumnus, Hounshell said he believes he will be a viable option when voters approach the ballot box in 2014.

Hounshell is the vice president of International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 1943. In such capacity, he represents the interests of over 1,600 Middletown AK Steel employees.

The 37-year-old AK Steel employee announced his candidacy for the 2014 election at Forest Hills Country Club in Middletown, Ohio.

“In 2012, when I went to the ballot to vote, it was disheartening to see there was no one else on the ballot,” Hounshell said.

“I thought that’s not democracy as we know it with only one person to vote for.”

Kathy Wyenandt, central committee chair of the Butler County Democratic Party, said Hounshell is an appealing candidate because he was a republican for most of his life and thus understands the republican point of view.

Hounshell said he grew up identifying as a Republican, but that after looking more closely at certain Republican positions, he realized his views were out of sync with those of the party. Hounshell wrote a piece “Why I’m a Democrat,” in which he discussed this revelation.

Hounshell introduced President Barack Obama when he spoke in September at Eden Park in Cincinnati.

“People naturally avoid conflict,” Hounshell said. “People don’t jump into conversations that involve conflict and politics is one of those types

of conversation.”

Hounshell said he wants to encourage people to get involved and take the time to sit down and look at what exactly their party believes and how their beliefs compare. He said he hopes people will look at policy and really look at how their representatives vote.

Hounshell said the age of current Speaker Boehner versus himself also plays a factor.

“The Speaker is 63 years old,” Hounshell said. “When he was in college quite some time ago, things were a lot different. Not that I’m a whole lot younger, but at 37, I’ve always been a nontraditional student.”

Hounshell said an issue of particular importance to him is higher education and the many pitfalls and spirals that can consume students, leading to financial ruin and wasted time.

It’s time to end the process of universities consistently raising tuition, taking advantage of guaranteed loans and adding to the mountains of debt students must bear, according to Hounshell.

Hounshell also serves as a United Way Fundraising Director, EAP Chairman, Grievance Committee Chairman and Political Action Committee member for the Local Masonic Lodge.

Junior Rebecca O’Neal said it is great to have someone step up to the plate and give people the choice to vote.

“People want options,” O’Neal said. “In today’s day and age, especially in the younger generation, we want the choice to choose who will represent us in Congress. Having another name on the ballot can give us that option.”

Hounshell is looking for interns to work on his campaign.

“Anyone that would be interested in helping out on basically any level, whether it be with social media or with stuffing envelopes that would be helpful,” Hounshell said.

Students interested in more information can email info@andrewhounshell.com.

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Vine branches out, partners with Twitter

BY BILLY RAFAEL

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

It seems almost destined for social media to one day hit a standstill. We already have countless ways to share your stream of conscious with everyone through text and pictures, from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram and now the app that everyone hates to love, Snapchat. When Snapchat added its video function, it seemed like there would be no further way to keep expanding the concept of keeping the public updated on your every thought.

Cue Vine. According to the Vine

development blog, “With Vine, capturing life in motion is fun and easy.” Users create an account where they can post successions of videos that will loop endlessly.

When the camera is up, Vine will only record while your finger is on the screen, allowing you to remove your finger to stop recording and resume on another focus.

A bar above informs you of how much time you have left, filling up as you record and allowing you to post once the bar is at least a third full. Posts can be up to about six or seven seconds long.

So what does this allow you to do? Users have found many ways

to make use of this fun function that puts a spin on social media.

Most common functions are people simply making a collage of an event, combining several half-asecond clips to capture a moment.

This can be as mundane as cooking breakfast to the most exciting concert experience. Others create panoramas, 360-degree views, or stop motion videos by treating it as a still-motion camera, simply tapping the screen at each image.

Others are capitalizing on the same offer Twitter gave them in trying to be a comedian in 140 characters or less by using those seven seconds as preciously as possible to

create an attempt at humor. Whether they succeed or not varies on a case-by-case basis.

Vine was acquired by Twitter, which makes sense as both companies are about getting your point across as briefly as possible.

You can link your Twitter account with your Vine, although an existing account isn’t necessary, and see which of your Twitter friends already have Vine accounts.

So realistically, what should you expect to find in your Vine feed?

Mostly the same thing that you find in every feed you subscribe to. Likely a mix of drunken excursions and unnecessary updates

from your friends, celebrities living lives you envy and needle-ina-haystack normal funny people that can brighten your day without even knowing you. If this doesn’t cut it for you, an “Explore” section lets you see what’s popular (what has the most likes), what’s trending (which hashtags are rising the fastest) and the editors’ picks, a mix of humor, creativity and visual impressiveness.

Vine has struck something with this addition of simple video editing, and by teaming with Twitter they gain quite an advantage, but time will only tell if it really will be the social media of the future.

Dementia patients feel forgotten emotion Underrated show feeds viewers viking violence

BY LAUREN KIGGINS STAFF WRITER

Opening Minds through Art (OMA) celebrates another successful year of art and student-elder relationships through an end-of-year art gallery exhibition.

Founded in 2007 by Elizabeth Lokon at the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University, OMA is an intergenerational art program for people with dementia.

“People with dementia were not well-served,” Lokon said. “It seems to me that people don’t understand how to meet the needs of dementia.”

Lokon used this injustice as inspiration for her doctoral thesis as well as the creation of OMA. She studied top programs geared toward people with dementia at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Florida and in Amsterdam for models but said she didn’t see anything educationally sound.

“OMA is based off of one-on-

one relationships,” Lokon said.

“Grounded in this relationship, the elders with dementia are willing to take risks and express themselves creatively. Creativity doesn’t happen if you don’t have that kind of trust.”

The program is implemented at nine facilities and has group sessions of up to 12 people with dementia, along with 12 trained volunteers who assist in art projects in pairs of two.

“We put a big emphasis on more abstract pieces of art,” senior Ashley Malin, an OMA student leader, said. “We never say ‘Paint a picture of a house dog.’ That’s too hard and frankly not interesting.”

The weekly art projects are often designed using a combination of watercolors, acrylic paint, sponges and brushes.

“People with dementia do still have autonomy and still have creativity,” Malin said. “They just have to be given the right vehicle to

express it.”

The OMA art exhibition, featuring the work of the elders, is being held at the Oxford Community Arts Center as an open gallery until May 3.

According to Malin, the artists’ reactions to their art are positive. They remember the emotion associated with the painting even if they do not remember the moment.

“I’m going to hold this picture by my heart all day,” an OMA artist said of their artwork.

Each year 200 Miami students volunteer as OMA assistants or hold positions as student leaders.

“OMA is an opportunity to see and build connection with someone completely different from oneself,” Lokon said. “If you see what life is like at the end, you appreciate yours a little more.”

To become involved join the OMA Club, students can register for HON190 or GTY154 or contact Lokon at lokonej@miamioh.edu.

Oldest student org shares ‘gleeful’ history

BY BILLY RAFAEL

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

“Weave the story.”

This small excerpt from Miami University’s alma mater has been the inspiration for a new display at the Oxford Community Arts Center set to celebrate the rich history of the Miami Men’s Glee Club.

“The amount of information we have as an organization is staggering,” junior Matt Cramer said, vice-president of the MUGC. “Few organizations have such an impressive historical record. It’s fascinating to see how everything has progressed from 1907 to 2013.”

Much of the credit for these impressive records goes to Kevin Kuethe, the MUGC historian who has spearheaded this exhibit. Kuethe received his masters in history from Miami in 1995, but remained a student while he was an active member of the Glee Club from 1996 to 2001.

“I’ve always been interested in history and in the 90s, when I was

an active brother of club; I discovered how rich the history was,” Kuethe said. “The more I dug, the more I found how rich it was, and with a four-year turnover of members, there’s a constant need to retell the story.”

According to Kuethe, the idea spawned when showing some old programs to a friend who saw them as a thing of beauty. When he began to dig up pictures from the organizations founding, it was important to him to keep the picture’s relatable, he said.

“Within the context of the university, the Glee Club played a critical role in the saving of the school,” Kuethe said. “The members were ambassadors for Miami and the Glee Club would go on to be the big brother of every other musical organization around today. The marching band, orchestra, Collegiate Chorale and more all spawned from the formation of the Glee Club.”

The exhibit was also a chance for the Glee Club to give back to the community.

“The Glee Club historical display is an opportunity for the community of Oxford to understand our past,” Cramer said. “It tells the story of this really unique organization through pictures and posters and programs and explains how it has been connected to Miami and Oxford as well.”

Older members in the group feel the display will not only benefit the community, but the younger members in the glee club.

“We are one of the oldest student organizations on campus and one of the oldest glee clubs in the nation,” senior Jarod Garel said, a member of the MUGC. “It’s been very insightful for current members to hear the story of the founding and see how the glee club has evolved and how our traditions were born.”

The Glee Club Historical Exhibit is on display through May 3 at the Oxford Community Arts Center, located at 10 S College Ave. The OCAC is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is free and open to the public.

BY JOE GIERINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Over-stylized violence has been done time and again on the big screen. Historical war epics and gritty action thrillers have saturated the film industry since the 1980s, and we’re so used to seeing them that we now anticipate blockbusters every summer that fulfill that need for adrenaline. But how often is this done successfully on television?

The short answer is not very. But, March 3, a new show premiered on the History Channel that changed that in a very significant way. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer partnered up with the U.S. based channel to create the historical drama, Vikings.

As the title suggests, Vikings is about the beginning of the Viking Age in the late 800’s, and follows the accounts of an ambitious young Norseman who wishes to explore and raid the lands southwest of his Scandinavian home. This warrior, Ragnar Lodbrock (Travis Fimmel), is of significance to many Norse legends as the man who began raids in modern day France and Britain, ravaging their kingdoms for almost a half century before his death.

While many scholars believe that Ragnar, whose stories were passed orally for 200 to 400 years before being written down, was a combination of many men and their exploits, creator Michael Hirst (Tudors) says that due to gaps in the records and conflicting accounts, it is nearly impossible to achieve historical accuracy with his show and this frees him to pursue his artistic vision, by combining these legends to shape Ragnar, his shield maiden and wife, Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick), his brother, Rollo (Clive Standen) and his friend and ship maker, Floki (Gustaf Skarsgård).

While the so-far impressive cast has been relatively unknown in the acting world, the production has been top-notch, and a focal reason for Vikings’ ever-growing fan base.

The series is shot in Ireland and features some of the most beautiful forested settings I’ve ever witnessed

on screen. Towering waterfalls, Nordic-looking fjords and dense, dark woods transport the viewer to the era as we are introduced to the Viking culture, laws and lifestyle.

As a friend of mine put it, Vikings represents a simpler time, when a man was a man – and I couldn’t agree more. The aggression of these raiders is coupled with their equally violent, yet compassionate religion, which is made even more intriguing by the introduction of Athelstan (George Blagden), an English monk captured by Ragnar early in the series. Athelstan speaks

Towering waterfalls, Nordiclooking fjords and dense, dark woods transport the viewer to the era as we are introduced to the Viking culture, laws and lifestyle.”

the vikings’ language and forms a strange friendship with his captor as they learn about each other’s native tongues, religions and cultures.

I was a little wary at the onset of the series, as the tone was uneven and the storyline a bit confusing, but as the season finale approaches, April 28, I can say this series has quickly become one of my favorites. Vikings is not a celebration of sex and violence like so many of its predecesors, but rather a study of a culture that depended on such things. The costumes and makeup are remarkable and the direction of each episode feels unique, keeping the viewer wondering what could be next.

April 5, History renewed Vikings for a ten-episode second season, promising that we can all get our fix of this ferocious Nordic demi-god for at least another year.

But for now, head over to http:// www.history.com/shows/vikings to catch up on the most underrated show on television.

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New student center should be an extension, not replacement The building of the Armstrong Student Center (ASC) is no secret to anyone at Miami University and the surrounding community.

The excitement has been building among students and faculty as the months go by, all anticipating its January opening. The new features in the ASC will certainly foster student relationships with other students, but have we already, as a Miami community, forgotten about our previous central hub Shriver Student Center?

Shriver Center will still remain as an open building across from the ASC and will become home to student services and organizations such as Career Services and The Rinella Learning Center. The Heritage Room and PNC Bank’s home office will still remain in the building as well, something the ditorial board believes is extremely beneficial to students. There are also hopes to expand the bookstore into a larger Apple Store that will accommodate cell phone plans.

Hopefully Shriver will become more of a central meeting place for students and a chance for organizations to provide services.

The Miami Student Editorial Board believes that the ASC should be more of an extension of Shriver Center, and should not simply replace Shriver in it’s entirety. As the community has seen with Shriver Center, not every service, organization and office can fit into one central building. Even though the ASC will become a central place for students, the board believes that Shriver Center should still remain central to student life.

This is a great chance to utilize two buildings to give students everything they need right across the street from one another. The services that are staying in Shriver

as well as the ones that are being moved there next year are integral to student life. For services that are moving out of Shriver Center, there could be great use for study spaces in those locations to further enhance student life in the building.

The Shriver Center should be kept as important as it is now and not forgotten with the addition of the ASC. The board also hopes that Shriver Center will keep Tuffy’s and some kind of food market so that students and faculty still have the convenience of being able to enjoy themselves while in the building just as they did before.

There is also much space dedicated to kitchen and dining use in Shriver, and we hope that these spaces can somehow be utilized to benefit students. They could be put to good use, but if they are not, it will become another wasted space in a building that really can foster the relationship between Miami and its students.

Either way, the board understands that the ASC will be extremely beneficial to the Miami community, but we still hope for next January that Miami still emphasizes the importance of Shriver with not only current students but with the upcoming first-year class.

Miami has a chance to use these two buildings to further build and foster relationships between students and the Miami community.

However, if Shriver just becomes another building without a central purpose to student life, there is a chance we will end up being right back to the problem of limited space in one student center.

The ASC should be looked at as more of an addition of Shriver and not a replacement in order for great things to happen within these two buildings.

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Approaching tragedy from the wrong angle, jumping to conclusions based on media As two of my colleagues have both recently written, in my opinion, wonderful and honest takes on the Boston Marathon bombings; I was skeptical whether or not to write RACHEL my own colSACKS umn on the same subject, but as the incident grows to a close, and yet continues to dominate media attention and speculation, my take on the matter varies from the media coverage and American’s perseverance.

Something that has been present in the time between now and when news first broke of the bombing is that of speculation.

The media and citizens alike were jumping to conclusions as to who would do such a devastating thing and attack innocent people.

And due to recent political events spawning from the 9/11 attacks and the following invasion of

Afghanistan and Iraq, many people seemed to be coming to the same conclusion as to who the bomber was—or at least their nationality or religion.

Then, almost three days after the bombing, a shooter was reported on the MIT campus and the city was shut down the next day as a manhunt ensued. Once again, fingers pointed to the same type of person as the suspect.

While the suspects for the marathon bombings and MIT shootings have been identified and caught, the issue of Islamophobia is still a pressing matter.

Looking back at shootings that have affected the country thus far, there has been a pattern in the perpetrators; more specifically, in how the media portrayed these people. The Colorado movie theater, the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, the Newtown elementary school and as far back as Columbine were all shootings involving white males as the suspects. Mainstream media portrayed all of them as mentally ill or unstable, whether medically proven or not. How do we

know whether or not these men were trying to make a political statement against the U.S. somehow?

The majority of non-white or people of color shooting suspects have been characterized as terrorists or a threat to our country’s national security, a representation made even more likely if the suspect looks even remotely as if they have descendants or are directly from the Middle East. How do we know whether or not these men were mentally unstable as well?

Terrorism works two-fold in that the imposing country is trying to terrorize another group of people, usually for political purposes, and that a state of fear is implemented back onto the people of the imposing country.

Between mainstream media categorizing suspects based on supposed race or nationality and the state of fear that the war on terrorism has implemented into the people of the U.S., accusations and assumptions come out of nowhere with little to no merit.

We live in a current state of

heightened fear and uneasiness regarding our safety, which leaves us pointing fingers at wrongly suspected people and too quick to judge someone based solely on appearance.

While the suspects of the marathon bombings are descendents

even though they both are. The mainstream media did not know at first whether to humanize them as misled white boys or treat them as Middle Eastern terrorists.

We are living in a different world, where national security and any threats to that securi-

The mainstream media did not know at first whether to humanize them as misled white boys or treat them as Middle Eastern terrorists.

of ancestors from Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia, and devotees of Islam, these are not the characteristics on which people have been focusing on. Their names are foreign and look difficult to pronounce; and their skin and hair are slightly darker, enough to raise suspicion as to whether these boys are American citizens,

ty are at the political forefront these days. Yet, the national lens through which both Islam and Muslims are being portrayed is extremely narrow, hateful, disrespectful and severely skewed.

In the absence of reliable information, who we assume to be responsible ends up saying a lot more about us than it does about anyone or anything else.

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Dove beauty campaign focuses on appearance Studying abroad can improve more than importance of women’s inner beauty your chances of landing a job Only a few days ago, my Facebook newsfeed was plastered with the lauding and endorsing of a Dove Real Beauty Campaign video. I didn’t think too much of it initially. I had seen some of the previous campaign movies, namely the Dove Evolution video, depicting the tremendous amount of editing and photoshopping behind the creation of an ideal woman’s face. Admittedly, the short film is fascinating, and the concept is pertinent. “No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted,” reads the screen at the video’s conclusion, and viewers think, yes, our society does have an idealized and unrealistic concept of beauty.

The idea isn’t necessarily new. We’ve all heard how the media and celebrities are consistently influencing our view of beauty and women. Advertisers and marketing teams are portrayed as big and bad, due to their sexualization of women and implication of the importance to be pretty to succeed. Dove and its Real Beauty Campaign are attempting to combat the “beauty stereotypes” by using “real” women in their commercials and advertisements as well as through self-esteem programs to help young girls develop a positive relationship with their bodies, a cause we can all get behind.

So, I watched the new video.

Yet, as the credits began to roll, I felt as though Dove had somehow missed their intended mark.

Labeled “Real Beauty Sketches,” Dove’s latest short film follows several women, differing in age as they enter into a large warehouse. Each woman enters a room, sits in a chair and is

asked to describe her appearance. Alongside her, separated by a curtain, is a renowned criminal sketch artist, who, based on each woman’s self-description, attempts to draw her face. The women are asked no further questions and then leave. Next, a random stranger enters and is asked to describe the appearance of the previous woman, whom they met briefly in passing on the street.

Yet, as the credits began to roll, I felt as though Dove had somehow missed their intended mark.

The film’s true revelation comes when all women return and review their own described appearance’s sketch, compared with that done based on their description by a complete stranger.

The sketches bear stark contrasts as most women described themselves negatively, and their drawings show them to be haggard and tired, with emphasis on their scars and fine lines. Meanwhile, the drawings based on stranger’s descriptors portray each woman to look young, light and happy.

The women are amazed, ecstatic and bewildered that a stranger could view them in such a positive light. They exclaim that now they know they are beautiful and they will be more grateful for that fact. Then, as the music builds

and the film concludes, one of the study’s participants shares her final thoughts, “I should be more grateful of my natural beauty. It impacts the choices and the friends we make, the jobs we go out for, the way we treat our children, it impacts everything.

It couldn’t be more critical to your happiness.”

Really? So, this is the final message Dove wishes to leave us? That it’s okay ladies, you are really more physically attractive than you think you are? I assumed that the “Real Beauty” campaign meant to not help us feel as though we fit into a stereotyped ideal, but to break out of such a stereotype by expanding what beauty truly means, inside and out. According to this message, beauty is one of the most important things in our lives, and it impacts life’s every aspect.

I disagree with this message.

Beauty, as this commercial sees it, seems to equate to physical attractiveness, which should have no bearing in the choices we make, the jobs we apply for or our parenting style. Our happiness should have no dependency on something so superficial. We must celebrate other aspects of our being, such as intelligence, kindness and dedication.

We are beautiful, and, as Dove suggests, we are more beautiful than we know, but we are also far more than that. We possess so many other wonderful traits, and beauty, unlike Dove makes it seem, should never be our top priority.

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In the globalized economy of today, people and businesses from different cultures are interacting more than ever. As a result, studying abroad is a great line to include on résumés and can help students find a job.

“Recruiters want to see students stretching themselves,” Terri Barr, Senior Director of International Programs, said.

“When you study abroad, you demonstrate the ability to step outside your comfort zone and to move beyond your own culture and work in a different environment.”

Going to a culture completely different from your own can be hard at times, but overall it will be a great experience.

This involves challenging yourself and learning to adapt to new situations. As a result of your experiences, you are left with new viewpoints and a greater understanding of the world.

These benefits are even greater when you study in a culture very different from your own.

However, leaving your comfort zone is no easy task, as I learned during my semester in South Korea. One situation that can be frustrating while abroad is adjusting to a different academic system.

Junior Minami Hoashi, a Japanese student at Miami University, said, “Here you think a lot, studying in Japan is memorizing and reading.”

Besides getting used to a new system, you may have trouble understanding lectures. Although I took English classes in South Korea, it took me a few weeks to get used to the Korean accent.

This should not deter you from studying abroad, though. Adjusting to classes in another country shows recruiters you will be able to overcome obstacles and adjust to their corporate culture.

Other challenges include the way people interact and communicate.

Ah-Ra Kim, an exchange student from South Korea, said students in America “just need more space.”

From my time in her country, I can vouch for the closeness most Koreans prefer. This can involve sitting and standing close to people, but in the U.S. we like to preserve our personal bubble. It was awkward at first, but I grew accustomed to it as I got to know the culture.

Something else I adapted to was Koreans asking about my age and my religion. While these are taboo subjects in the U.S., they are just polite questions in that culture. I was asked my age so that people would know how to address me: younger or older.

Although these situations can be awkward, adapting to them gives you a greater understanding of people and shows recruiters you can work with diversity.

Going to a culture completely different from your own can be hard at times, but overall it will be a great experience. The worst parts of culture shock do not last.

“I’m not afraid of spending time in other countries because I know what culture shock is and I know I can get over it,” Hoashi said.

I can relate because even though Korea was difficult, my awesome memories overpower the frustrating ones. Culture shock is also easier when you know what you’re getting into.

“I think the more you get ready and accept the changes in your mind, the easier it will be for you to survive in a new place and also enjoy the new things and people you are going to meet.” Senior Sunita Yousuf, a Miami student from Bangladesh, said.

When you study abroad, you have fun, make friends, learn more about yourself and develop new interests. Will your entire stay be easy? No. But overcoming those challenges and adapting to the culture will make you stand out from other candidates and can help you get a job.

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a way to repurpose the food that was thrown out at the end of the day by dining halls and make it possible to donate it to the needy,” Rosenthal said.

According to Rosenthal, about 150 families in the Oxford area use the Oxford Community Choice Food Pantry.

“Nationwide, roughly one person in six will be food insecure at some point during the year,” Rosenthal said. “This is not just an issue with homeless or unemployed. Food insecurity/hunger occurs in urban and rural settings, for all ages including small children and the elderly and everyone in between. My bet is that there are Miami students who have the problem, and don’t let folks know about it.”

According to Rosenthal, the ComMUniFEED organization partners with The Campus Kitchens Project, which convinced Miami administrators to put their support behind this endeavor. It works through the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act that minimalizes the liability of food donations to nonprofits in accordance to the law.

Rosenthal added that Miami was hesitant about being involved

with something like this in the past because they wanted to make sure they did not provide tainted food in any way. They took a conservative stance to keep anyone who would receive the food safe and healthy.

“What the university has to do is be very careful, making sure that whatever is done with the food is done in a responsible way,” Smith said. “They have to make sure the food is taken care of properly.

There’s a huge risk when it comes to the food safety issue.”

Nancy Heidtman, an administrator in Housing, Dining, Recreation and Business Services, said the program is beginning to take shape.

However, she said aspects of the program are yet to be completed.

“The students need to address the food items deemed safe by the Ohio Revised Code for distribution in a timely manner for consumption,” she said. “Stringent criteria must be met, refrigerated vehicles a must.”

When ComMUniFEED partnered with Campus Kitchens, they were able to set the Miami administrator’s minds at ease. By showing Miami that other campuses were successful with this, the university jumped on board, according to Rosenthal.

Senior Abby Sapadin, who has previously worked in the dining halls, said she thinks this is a great

opportunity for Miami to do something positive for the community.

“I think it’s great,” she said. “It’s sad that they didn’t do it sooner because it’s such a waste, but if they’re putting that food to good use, there’s always a way to give back. Once the rest of the student body can see how they can make a difference, hopefully it’ll encourage them to also do something.”

Rosenthal said he thinks this can be beneficial to many people at Miami, from students to administrators.

“Obviously the needy can be benefited by this, I also believe that Miami, as a member of the community can benefit,” he said.

“The students who can be a part of the solution to a nationwide problem are benefiting. Educationally, we can learn how to move a project forward using social entrepreneurship methods.”

Smith added that the program allows the student body to become more cohesive as they work together to better the community.

“I think in a big picture level, the neat part is that students can make a huge difference in the world and their community,” he said. “Students are coming together to work with the university and the Oxford Bible Fellowship, it’s a wonderful example of the kinds of things that can be done.”

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Hodge also mentioned several other ideas being considered for Shriver’s future, which include moving the Rinella Learning Center into the current Associated Student Government (ASG) office space in Shriver in order to make it more centrally located on campus. There is also talk of moving Career Services to Shriver Center or Culler Hall and expanding the Apple Store in Shriver to accommodate phone service and other amenities. According to Hodge, these services are critical for students and the goal is to move them to a space better-located for student life.

Hodge said he is excited for ASC’s opening.

“Having a real focal point for all of our co-curricular activities is going to add a rather huge plus to the energy on the campus,” Hodge said. “I am excited to walk into that building and see students everywhere and know that it has become a central meeting place.”

Meyer also said he looks forward to the new student center and he hopes it makes up for the areas in which Shriver lacks.

“In its current state, the Shriver Center is a ‘wanna-be’ student center, which is truly sub-par compared to the student centers of most other prestigious universities,” Meyer said. “When the new center is up and running, students are going to count on a number of services that currently fall short on campus such as more group study rooms, meeting areas for student organizations, advising and tutoring services and common areas for off-campus students to socialize.”

Meyer said, because tuition dollars are so valuable for students, he hopes Miami administration efficiently uses ASC to best serve student needs and to pick up where Shriver Center left off.

Schulman said he has hope for what Shriver can become.

“In all, Shriver has a good location and is versatile with what it can be developed into,” Schulman said.

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there, it makes it even more so. I can’t even think about it as one event still—I’m having trouble reconciling the race with the explosions.”

Figas went on to say how personally the attack has hit the running community as a whole.

“It has a significance I guess also because it hit the running community, which I’ve always been a part of and probably will be for a very long time,” she said. “I re-qualified at this race to run Boston next year and I really want to do it. I want to do it

because it’s this awesome experience with such supportive people, but I feel like it has another layer to it now, where I want to do it to support Boston…I’m going to be repping Boston forever.”

Figas, Kelly and Miner all said they appreciate the support they have received, and that the support they have seen other runners receive has meant a lot to them.

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tuition, according to economists, although oftentimes students are paying more for less, hurting the classroom experience.

“We have gotten ourselves locked into [an] amenity arms race, which is an incredibly expensive game to play and it’s almost like Division I athletics, where it gets more and more expensive each year to play it,” James Brock, a Miami economics professor said. “You have doubled your expenditures for … essentially the same number of students. At some point it’s not sustainable … universities seem to be focused on the revenue side rather than the cost side.”

As costs increased over the last decade, university enrollment and instructional faculty hiring remained relatively flat. Miami’s undergraduate enrollment decreased nearly 3 percent over the last 10 years, while total enrollment increased 4 percent and the number of instructional faculty increased less than 10 percent, according to the Common Data Set. According to university officials though, decreased state funding has led to rising costs while facility improvements are necessary for upkeep and to give Miami a competitive advantage.

“Students, families evaluate us based upon rankings; rankings are heavily based upon how much institutions spend per student, so it’s difficult to compare that then to affordability if you look at it solely in what’s the least expensive way to provide a baccalaureate education,” Vice President for Finance and Business Services David Creamer

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said. “So our challenge is always trying to figure out how do we balance between those [factors]? At the same time, we have to take into consideration the financial impact this has for students.”

As costs and debt have increased at Miami, wealthier students and record student-debt levels have helped finance facility improvements as tuition nationally continued to capture a larger percentage of median family incomes. Cumulative debt grew nearly 55 percent while more than 30 percent of last year’s freshman class reported family incomes greater than $200,000.

Meanwhile, analysts are increasingly questioning the financial strength of institutions amid concerns of higher education’s return on investment.

Miami’s total liabilities increased more than 370 percent over the last decade, while the university’s equity and expense ratios decreased between 2002 and 2008, indica tors of financial strength. However, like 40 percent of the colleges and universities analyzed in the Bain report, Miami was financially sound in 2008, although its total debt has increased nearly 92 percent since then. This debt has financed campus projects including the $35 million Goggin Ice Center, the $50 million Armstrong Student Center and the $84 million East Quad renovation.

But according to officials, the university has controlled costs and improved facilities, providing a strong student experience and return on investment.

“If we make it so affordable that the long term benefits are diminished, then I think we will have

failed; if we make it so expensive that no one can afford the experience, then we’ve also failed,” Creamer said. “The reality was, while we had taken very good care of those buildings, the average age was over 60 years since there was a major improvement made, and it was simply a necessity that we make a significant investment if we’re going to continue to provide an appropriate residential experience.”

But as administrative costs outpace instructional costs, critics question if universities are allocating resources appropriately as they increasingly compete for top rankings.

“I’m afraid it is almost entirely all about rankings,” Brock said. “It’s all about hype and PR and boasting and rankings … I think we rank highest in terms of our insanity over rankings. I think if we got back to concentrating on the game we play on the field and in the court rather than focused on the scoreboard of rankings, I think we would probably be happier and healthier; we’d also have lower costs.”

According to student leaders though, facility improvements are not only necessary, but help Miami remain competitive in Ohio and nationwide.

“It’s important to create reasons why students want to come to a campus,” Miami’s incoming Student Body President Charlie Schreiber said. “If you don’t constantly keep building, keeping up with the times, then you’re going to lose a large percentage of people that actually want to come to a school. So I think by taking on this debt, by building these new buildings, it’s actually an investment for our future.”

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FINDING EXCELLENCE AMID MIAMI MEDIOCRITY

Prodesse Quam Conspici.

The English translation of Miami University’s Seal, “To accomplish without being conspicuous,” exemplifies excellence, represented by Miami and its athletic department.

But the changing nature of college athletics threatens this excellence.

Trapped in a failing system, Miami is continuously presented with conflicting priorities: compete at the highest level while graduating students, enhance the university’s brand without losing on the field, develop players holistically but invest more in facilities, meet compliance measures yet attract top recruits.

Achieving athletic excellence at Miami is hard, if not impossible.

Given limited resources, much of the university’s continued athletic success on and off the field boils down to resource allocation rather than the hiring/firing of coaches or recruiting top classes.

Traditionally, Miami has represented what is right in sports. It develops student-athletes, values academics and produces champions, but a broken system is challenging the university’s integrity.

No longer are college athletic decisions based on what is best for athletes, and Miami is slowly following this trend. An emphasis on winning is important, but not when student-athletes suddenly become expendable commodities.

Today, Miami’s athletic integrity centers on resource allocation. Successful athletic program’s evaluative criteria are now big-name coaches, state-of-the-art facilities and lucrative television contracts, each pouring money into institutions craving top rankings rather than outstanding academic experiences.

But Miami is different; it values the academic experience.

As college athletics become more commercialized, Miami should stand out as the shining university on a hill. Unlike many institutions, Miami student-athletes not only graduate, but are also part of the academic excellence that defines this university and represents the ideal of a balanced life.

Over the last four years, coaches ranging from Coles to Fantanarosa to Kovach Schoenly to Jennings represented this athletic integrity and coaches like Blasi, Kramig, DeGirolamo and Dumitrescu continue this legacy of excellence.

The value of sports is the unrivaled face it gives humanity.

In his final Miami Student column last year, my colleague Brian Gallagher wrote, “Sports don’t give us an escape from life; they allow us to experience life in ways you can’t find elsewhere.”

This experience defines sports, and college athletics ideally combines this experience with the academic excellence that comes from an institution of higher learning.

But excellence in college athletics is now misconstrued solely as how often a program wins.

However, this is not the benchmark of success. Rather, it is the excellence programs like Miami have represented in the past and will hopefully represent in years to come.

Over the last four years, I have had the privilege of having a front-row ticket to this excellence.

Whether it was witnessing conference championships, celebrating off-the-field success or meeting student-athletes, I can confidently say in my final column that what happens on the field is only one part of what an athletic program is all about.

The University Seal represents Miami’s ideals, but a new athletic emphasis on winning on the field, facility investment and improving revenue streams threatens them.

Miami’s Athletic Department, like students, should never step on the seal, but it is closer to doing so than ever before.

Excellence is not simply found through experiences symbolized by banners hanging from the rafters though, but is found through those indefinable experiences that have traditionally defined Miami athletics.

To achieve excellence, Miami must begin with the integrity found in the University Seal.

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Miami tabs Wright as next member of Cradle

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Cleve Wright speaks at his introductory press conference. Wright replaces Maria Fantanarosa as women’s basketball head coach.

BY TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

Miami University has hired Cleve Wright as its new women’s basketball head coach, Athletic Director David Sayler announced Friday.

Wright comes to Miami from Division II Gannon University, where he went 233-100 in 11 seasons at the helm.

“What I liked particularly about his winning percentage was that in the last month of the season his winning percentage is 75 percent,” Sayler said. “What that really tells you is that when it gets down to the end of the season, when you’re playing conference foes and important tournaments, he’s been able to win. That’s really critical, to win down the stretch.”

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Red and White split with Ball State

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The Miami University softball team split a double header with Ball State University Sunday. The RedHawks defeated the Cardinals 3-1 in the first game and handed Ball State its first Mid-American Conference (MAC) loss.

“For us to come out of there with the split was huge,” Head Coach Clarisa Crowell said. “Ball State, right now, is the best team in the conference, and we were able to give them their first conference loss while we were on the road.”

The teams were scheduled to play Saturday and Sunday, but poor field conditions forced a double header.

“It was kind of frustrating having the games pushed back and delayed, but I was just happy we got the games in,” sophomore outfielder Tiyona Marshall said. “I definitely think we went out with all our energy in the first game and really got after it.”

However, Ball State turned it around in the second game to take a 6-0 victory. Miami is now 10-4 in the MAC, 17-24 overall. The Cardinals

Wright is the first full-time male coach in Miami women’s basketball history. Randy Roberts served as interim coach for 10 games in the 1997-1998 season. Excluding Roberts, Wright is just the sixth coach in program history.

“It is an institution that I am used to recruiting to,” Wright said. “It has those same types of philosophies, those same types of goals and challenges about being a student athlete.

So I’m super excited about that.”

Wright led Gannon to NCAA Tournament appearances in five of the past seven seasons, including a Final Four run in the 20092010 season. Prior to his time as head coach, Gannon had gone to the NCAA Tournament four times in 28 seasons, winning one tournament game. Gannon went 37-1 that

season and Wright was named Division II Coach of the Year. He is the all-time winnigest basketball coach at Gannon.

“Everywhere he has been….. he’s been a winner and that’s something we’re excitied to bring to Miami,” Sayler said.

Wright also spent time as an assistant coach at Northwestern University, Butler University and Duke University. He was a graduate assistant at Ball State University.

Wright said he is looking forward to putting together a coaching staff.

“I have some people that I am hoping [to get],” Wright said. “I think one or two of my assistants from Gannon will be coming. That will be good, because they know me a little bit. They’re still young but they know me and I’ll have some comfort with them.”

Wright said he would like to run an up-tempo type of offense, but will make the best use of the current roster.

“I would prefer to push it up the court and get the best open look that we have early,” Wright said. “If that’s not there; then we are an inside-outside team. Our post players will see the ball, will touch the ball. If you do that, then the guards can become more involved.”

Wright will face the tough task of having to replace two of the most talented players in Miami history in departed seniors Kristen Olowinski and Courtney Osborn.

“I think we’re really excited,” rising redshirt senior forward Kristin Judson said. “We all know it’s a new opportunity. We’re just ready to see what else unfolds.”

Terms of Wright’s contract were not announced.

Wright said he is looking forward to the challenge of competing in the Mid-American Conference and is excited for the opportunity he has been given.

“A week and a half ago, I didn’t see myself standing here,” Wright said. “And I am amazed. I’m so happy, so excited that I’ve been called here, given this job and given this task and this challenge.”

are 13-1 in the MAC, 29-13 overall.

In the first game, freshman Jenna Modic pitched 3.1 innings and gave up two hits and one run. Junior Paige Myers finished the game by shutting down the Cardinals offense with no hits or runs.

“Pitchers did a great job and defense played really well that first game,” Crowell said. “For us to only give up two hits and only give up one run to the best hitting team in conference means the pitchers definitely executed the game plan and the defense played behind them.”

Miami was able to out-hit Ball State in the first game 12-2. Both of the Cardinals’ hits came in the first inning. Crowell said she was surprised by the low score of the first game as the team had prepared for more scoring from both sides.

The teams switched roles in the second game, as the RedHawks were only able to get two hits and Ball State put up 10 hits for six runs.

“That score of the game was not indicative of the way we played the game and we might have given up 10 hits, but they were able to find the holes on the field,” Crowell said.

“We hit the ball hard all game long,

but we just couldn’t find the holes.”

The second game was tough for Miami but Marshall was able to get two hits and finished the doubleheader with a total of five hits.

“Definitely not our best game as we were a little flat, since we didn’t hit as well as we did the first game, but the game just didn’t go as planned,” Marshall said.

Marshall said she still feels proud of their victory in the first game and is looking forward to facing them in the MAC tournament.

“It was a big win, obviously not getting swept by Ball State is a big deal, and beating them shows that we can beat any team we play, so we are ready for the rest of the season and post season,” Marshall said.

Miami continues play when they face off against Eastern Michigan University Friday, followed

by Central Michigan University Saturday and Sunday.

“We had all four today, we pitched, we played defense, we scored when we needed to and we had a little bit of luck, and when you put all four of those things together you can definitely win some games,” Crowell said.

BLASI SIGNS 10-YEAR EXTENSION Miami University hockey Head Coach Enrico Blasi signed a 10-year contract extension, Athletic Director David Sayler announced Monday. The new contract will keep Blasi at the helm of his alma mater through the 2022-2023 season. The 10 year extension adds six years to his previous deal that was set to expire following the 2016-2017 season. Blasi will begin next season in his 15th season at Miami, where he is the all-time winningest hockey coach. The contract comes following a season in which Blasi guided the RedHawks to a Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) regular season title in the conference’s final year of existence. Blasi was also named CCHA Coach of the Year.

’Hawks take two of three in series with Cardinals

BY JOE GIERINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Ball State University might have edged out Miami University 10-9 in scoring in this past weekend’s three-game series, but the RedHawks ultimately took two games and the series.

The Red and White (18-19, 9-6 MAC) struggled to get anything going offensively Friday, as sophomore right-hander Scott Baker allowed just five hits in a complete game for the Cardinals. He suffered his first loss of the season though, after two balks and a ground out drove junior infielder Dan Walsh in for the only score of the game.

Senior right-hander Brooks Fiala struck out 12 batters through eight innings for Miami, one “K” shy of his career record. Fiala (5-4) was pulled in favor of sophomore closer Ryan Powers, who worked his way out of a bases loaded jam in the final inning to conquer the Cardinals, 1-0.

Saturday was less successful for the RedHawks, as they fell 5-2. Senior pitcher Matt Thoreson took the loss to fall to 3-5 on the year, allowing five runs in just over five innings of work. Junior Charles Zubrod took the mound and surrendering just three hits and no runs for the remainder of the game.

“We were trailing when I came in and that was the second time I’ve come in a few weeks where I came in with the bases loaded and

one out,” Zubrod said. “I just had to come in and throw strikes, and go right at them. It was my job to keep us as close as we could.”

The final game in the series was the deciding one. Ball State would not go quietly, and as Sunday’s game wound down, the RedHawks got out of several jams and finished off its foe, 6-5. Six pitchers were used in various capacities for Miami. Senior pitcher Cory Klenke, the fifth RedHawk to take the mound, earned his second career win. The Cardinals stranded 14 runners on base throughout the game, as Klenke and company stifled any chance of a Ball State comeback.

“We had some guys step up this weekend,” Walsh said of his teammates. “Cory Klenke came up big, and Brooks [Fiala] was outstanding on Friday, which was great to see. We’re fortunate to get a couple wins in close ball games that we really needed.”

Walsh said he looks forward to the rest of the year.

“We’re going in with a better mindset to just play our game,” Walsh said. “If we play well, we’re probably going to win the game.

That’s a good feeling … knowing that we control our own destiny.”

The RedHawks return to action with a mid-week home and home against the University of Dayton. The ’Hawks will play at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Dayton and 6 p.m.

Wednesday, in Oxford.