The Miami Student | August 18, 2022 by The Miami Student

Miami University is getting ready to welcome the class of 2026 after a record number of applications.

On the fifteenth day of the fall semester, the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness will take a snapshot of the number of students who enrolled and that number will be used to set the number of students in theOutclass.ofthe students currently enrolled, about 2,500 are from Ohio, a little over 1,500 are out-of-state U.S. residents and around 100 are international students.

QB Brett Gabbert Hopes To Build On Last Season’s Success

As the leader of the oﬀense, Gabbert understands what it means when he plays well.

Method One: Find a better deal

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Although Gabbert would love his stat sheet to shine bright, he is a team-ﬁrst player. The St. Louis, Missouri native values team wins over individual dominance.

“For my genetics class, I have to buy the ﬁfth edition of a textbook. [The campus bookstore] has it available for about $160 or $111 used,” Boley said. “But I can just go to Amazon or straight to the publisher, and instead of those prices [the textbook] is just $92.”

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playing in a bunch of diﬀerent games. It has a big impact on myself and our oﬀense. Especially as guys get older, we don’t get as rattled when things don’t go our way.”

Out of the applicants, about 26,000 were admitted, and as of Aug. 15, 4,136 have enrolled.

Gabbert wants to play the best he can in every game to lead his team to victory. To have a more successful season, he aims to limit the turnovers.“My job as a quarterback is to take care of the football, and minimizing turnovers is a key part to winning,” Gabbert said. “I would like to throw zero interceptions this year. That would be a big goal of mine.”

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Boley said he uses this method to save money on many of his required textbooks but cautioned that it’s good to check with the professor before buying from a diﬀerent website.

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Ben Bross, a junior mathematics major, tries to ﬁnd used editions of textbooks whenever he can.

Going into 2022, Gabbert plans to build on last season’s success.

“Buying used is always a good option,” Bross said. “I also double-check if a professor is like, ‘You need this [speciﬁc] edition,’ and if not, I always try to buy older textbooks with the same exercises in them.”For getting used books, Bross also recommends skipping the Miami University bookstore.

“Take a few seconds to look past the Miami bookstore,” Bross said. “A good website is Thriftbooks.com, and Amazon sometimes has decent deals on used textbooks.”

Internet piracy is a crime deﬁned as using the internet to illegally copy content that is copyrighted by someone else. While some websites, like project Gutenberg, are fair use, others such as z-library are generally not.A

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“It’s always awesome to throw for a lot of touchdowns [and] throw for a lot of yards, especially as a quarterback,” Gabbert said. “Your job is to control the game. The ball is in your hands 90% of the time.”

“I deﬁnitely made some strides in certain areas of my game that were better than my freshman and sophomore year,” Gabbert said. “Kinda looking forward to building oﬀ some of those things from last year and trying to get better throughout this upcoming season.”

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“It speaks to Miami’s strength as an institution, it speaks to Miami’s brand as an institution, and I think it’s a really great thing,” Shock said.

most passing yards in a two-game span in school history.

Miami sees a record number of applications for incoming ﬁrst-year class

“There really is no added expectations or added pressure,” Gabbert said. “I just gotta go out there and be myself. I think, at the end of the day, everything will take care of itself.”

Shock said the number of students enrolled will most likely de-

College is expensive, and textbooks are no exception.

With college textbook prices rising more than 1000% from 1977 to 2015, some students believe the prices of textbooks are a bad deal at best, and at worst, completely ridiculous.To deal with these high prices, students at Miami University have used diﬀerent methods to save money. Some are smart, and some are risky, some legal and some not. Here are three methods for saving money on textbooks that some students have used to great eﬀect.

This year’s applicants came from all 50 states and more than 120 countries. Bethany Perkins, direc-

In a close road loss at Ohio, Gabbert recorded a career-high 55 passing attempts and finished with 492 passing yards (third-most in school history) and five touchdowns. In the following week, he was surgical in a blowout home victory against Buffalo, connecting on 75% of his dimes to tally 351 yards and four touchdowns.

For junior microbiology major Ethan Boley, skipping the campus bookstore and buying directly from the publisher is the way to go.

In an email to the Miami Student, the Miami Ecampus bookstore wrote that they “can’t speak on other company’s [sic] pricing and policies” regarding the prices of textbooks on the online store.

senior computer science major who preferred to remain anonymous said he saved a lot on textbooks last semester employing this method.

“I always try to be a team guy,” Gabbert explained. “I love to win, but I absolutely hate to lose. I would love to go 12-0, go to the MAC championship, [and] go to a bowl game.”

“I don’t know if I bought a single textbook last semester,” he said.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Miami has not required students to submit ACT test scores with their application. Out of the scores submitted (by about 40% of all applicants), the average was a 27. The average high school GPA of applicants was a 3.88, which is up from the average of last year’s incoming class at a 3.84.

Brent Shock, vice president of enrollment management and student success, said more than 31,500 high school seniors submitted an application to Miami. Shock said the Oﬃce of Admissions is excited about this record number.

The way Gabbert prepares for games did not change from his ﬁrst seasons. The junior credits his age as the biggest reason for his on-the-ﬁeld improvements.“Nottoomuch change in my routine per se,” Gabbert explained. “I think my maturity, just me getting older [and] the experience I’ve had

Gabbert’s play at the end of the schedule gave the ‘Hawks a chance for a MAC title game berth. If the RedHawks had beaten Kent State in their final game, they would have been in. Unfortunately, his 405 passing yards and five total touchdowns were not enough, as he threw a game-losing incompletion during a twopoint try in OxfordNorthoverballwithendedRedHawksThankfully,overtime.theseasononahighnoteaFriscoFoot-ClassicbowlwintheUniversityofTexas.Tohelpbringhome its first bowl win since 2010, Gabbert, the game’s MVP, went 22/31 for 230 yards and two scores.

All eyes are on Gabbert to take the next step in his development this season. He is among the players on the pre-season Maxwell Award watch list, an honor given to the most outstanding player in college football. Additionally, he was voted as the pre-season First-Team All-MAC quarterback.Gabbertdoesn’t allow the pressure to get to him.

tor of admissions, said the Oﬃce of Admissions has admitted the highest numbers of students of color, ﬁrst-generation students and underrepresented minority students in Miami“We’rehistory.really excited about the number of students that have been admitted to Miami who identify in those populations,” Perkins said.

“The danger [of buying from another website] is, of course, that the book that you’re buying isn’t exactly the one on the Miami Brick and Ivy website and doesn’t have the exact access code or something,” Boley said. “You almost want to wait to ask the professor and be like, ‘Hey, this is what I’m buying, is this okay?’”

Method Two: Get books for free

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A MAC championship is not an unrealistic goal. Last season, the ‘Hawks were a completed pass away

Some students aren’t satisﬁed with saving a few dollars on their textbooks.Instead, they become pirates.

“I just looked up the ones I could ﬁnd online — the strategy is always to just search up the name of the textbooks and you do .pdf after, and

crease due to students that may decide to “Evenunenroll.though we have students that have said they’re coming to Miami, there’ll be some that change their mind here in the next few days,” Shock said.

Miami University quarterback Brett Gabbert had a successful 2021 campaign. In the ten games he started, he threw for 2,648 yards, 26 touchdowns and only six interceptions.However, Gabbert probably wouldn’t have been honored with a Third Team All-Mid-American Conference (MAC) selection if it was not for his absolute tear at the end of the conference schedule. Although the RedHawks split the win/loss totals down the stretch, Gabbert put up historicThenumbers.four-game stretch started with two back-to-back dominant performances where he threw for the

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There are also multiple websites where students can compare prices, such as Slugbooks or Bookﬁnder.

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MARTHA CASTAÑEDA RECEIVED THE PRESIDENT’S MEDAL IN 2021 FOR HER DEDICATION TO THE MIAMI COMMUNITY.

Brad Bundy, vice president for University Advancement, accepted the position in mid-April, breaking Miami records during his ﬁrst 90 days. The university passed its goal weeks after he started and raised another $20 million through June.

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The Division of University Advancement shattered previous fundraising records after raising $98.7 million from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The division surpassed its initial goal of $75 million in April.

“I love working with the students who are curious and eager to become teachers,” Castañeda said.

“I just wanted to know more about how students learn languages and what role technology could play in helping students learn languages,” Castañeda said.

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best versions of ourselves as teachers," Suddith said. "I couldn't imagine a better mentor, professor and eventually, colleague."

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For Bundy, this accomplishment was more than just ﬁnancial.

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“My wife and I have sent four kids to Miami, so I’ve watched ﬁrsthand the experience that they achieved and the opportunities that has aﬀorded them,” Bundy said. “I feel very good

strained. However, support actually grew over the past two years.

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Of the nearly $100 million, $45.5 million consisted of cash donations, and $46.8 million will fund scholarships for students. Donations will also be used for academic support and capital projects, such as the construction of a new academic building.

The amount of scholarship fundraising resonated with Jessica Rivinius, interim vice president for university communications.

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Miami relies upon alumni support, as opposed to corporate and foundation support. After the isolation of the pandemic, Bundy said he feared the alumni relationship was

The record-breaking year was topped with one of the largest gifts in the university’s history, which will be announced this fall along with the university advancement’s comprehensive campaign for the 2023 ﬁscal year.“We are hopeful that our record-breaking year will help build momentum as the university heads toward its most ambitious fundraising campaign yet,” Rivinius wrote.

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Through curiosity and passion, Martha Castañeda, professor and director of foreign language education at Miami University, has dedicated her career to furthering her ﬁeld.

she began a job as a professor at DePaul University. There, she taught for some years before moving to teach at Miami.Castañeda is interested in the theory of how languages are learned and appreciates Miami’s teacher-scholar model. Just as she never intended to become a Spanish teacher, she didn’t originally plan on becoming a professor.“It was mainly out of curiosity to learn more about my ﬁeld,” she said.

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Erin Fetters, a senior in Miami’s foreign language education program, said Castañeda’s dedication beneﬁts her students’ education. Fetters said because of Castañeda’s skills and education, she provides her students with opportunities for professional growth.“Our education doesn’t just stop in her classroom,” Fetters said. “She’s giving us ways to continue our education and become better educators when we leave college.”

Castañeda was born in Honduras and went to college in Florida to begin her undergraduate academic career. Though she originally wanted to be a math teacher, her ﬁrst job was teaching Spanish at a high school in Florida. From there, she completed a master's degree at the University of Florida, motivated by a desire to continueFollowinglearning.her master’s, Castañeda began teaching Spanish at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, where she was inspired to pursue greater knowledge.

“I rarely run into a Miami alumnus that did not have an amazing experience here,” Bundy said. “When you are working with that kind of satisﬁed consumer base, in many ways they appreciate and understand how important it is that they give back so other students can experience the same type of educational opportunities that they had.”

Caleb Suddith, who graduated from the foreign language education program in April, took classes with Casteñeda and also had her as his academic

“I think this shows how scholarship support is a priority, and the university is committed to making a Miami education accessible for more students,” Rivinius wrote in an email to The Miami Student.

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Miami University raised nearly $100 million in the 2022 ﬁscal year, and almost half of it will go toward student scholarships.

After the makeup of the union is determined, the next step in the process will be a vote. If FAM earns 51% of all votes, it will be oﬃcially recognized by SERB and the university. Once recognized, the union can begin contract negotiations.

Shock said the students that have been admitted are talented and prepared for college academically.

“What [Miami has] done is they’ve made it really clear to non-tenure track faculty and librarians that they don’t value them,” Wagner said.

While getting cheaper books or pirating them are generally the popular ways for students to save money on their textbooks, there is one other method: don’t get the textbook at all.

One student majoring in physics and philosophy said another way to get free books was to use the library.

sions is excited about the incoming class because its staﬀ has gotten to know incoming students.

But Miami’s legal counsel has ﬁled an objection to which faculty should make up the union.

In February, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) announced it would attempt to form the ﬁrst faculty union at Miami. It pushed to include full-time tenured and non-tenured track (NTT)

“In order to learn something you need to be exposed in different ways over and over again,” Nietfeld said. “[My students] see the material in class with me, read it in their e-textbook, look at videos in the chapters and use two different online homework tools … [They are] exposed in a lot of different ways because students learn in different ways.”

When he isn’t pirating them, that is exactly what the senior computer science major tries to do.

Shock said the Oﬃce of Admis-

and tenure-track faculty in the union.

Assistant professor of economics Carla Nietfeld said requiring an online textbook helps her students learn the material better and succeed in class.

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“I have a really big passion for the environment and nature,” Holthaus said. “I was scared I wouldn’t really be able to learn more about [the environment] in college [because I’m majoring in psychology].”

“When I [visited], I loved the red brick campus, and I loved the environment there,” Holthaus said. “I visited some other colleges, and [Miami] was just the one that felt the best to Holthausme.” said one thing she is excited about is her acceptance into the Prodesse Scholars program under the nature and environment theme.

Another way to potentially save money on buying a textbook is simply waiting a week to see what books are actually required, especially if students are confused about what books to purchase.“Ifyouhave questions regarding which textbook to buy or anything regarding what’s best for you, I would recommend emailing the professor and asking them,” Boley said. “However, professors almost always discuss what they expect every student to have on the ﬁrst day of class … Waiting to purchase [textbooks] until after the ﬁrst lecture might be advisable for many students who are unsure about what to purchase for their class.”

“People who are NTT have to ﬁght so much every day for respect, credibility, for the right to be at the table,” Newberry said.

Tired of paying so much for textbooks? These methods can help.

“They don’t care about what they want, they don’t care about their voices.”Patricia Gallagher Newberry worked at Miami for 25 years as a senior lecturer and area program coordinator for the journalism department before retiring from teaching and returning back to the journalism ﬁeld.

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Nietfeld also said the online textbook helped her track the progress of students in her introductory-level economics classes, Economics 201 andAmanda202.

Miami objects to some faculty being included in the union

King library if possible. The Miami Student does not endorse the usage of any illegal methods to acquire textbooks.

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On July 14, SERB recognized FAM had met the 30% support requirement for the authorization cards.

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“I’ve never bought books for any of my humanities classes,” he said. “I just rent them from the library. Since you can’t scribble on those books, I just take notes on my computer or annotate them with post-it notes.”

He did provide some strategies to do this with less risk to one’s grade, however.“Usually, you don’t even need a textbook in a lot of classes,” he said. “Before looking at books to get, I look at Rate My Professor to see if the book is actually mandatory because sometimes reviews will show that it isn’t.”

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“[Miami] is a challenging institution in terms of academics, and so we feel that the folks that we have admitted are very strong and gifted, and they will represent some of the very best high school graduates,” ShockCarasaid.Holthaus, is an incoming ﬁrst-year psychology major from Germantown, Ohio. Holthaus said she chose to attend Miami because it felt like the right ﬁt for her.

faculty members and librarians in its bargainingLeadersunit.calling for the union, known now as Faculty Alliance of Miami (FAM), said faculty members have been overworked, underpaid and do not have a voice in the governance at Miami. Since then, FAM has started the legal processes it takes to be recognized as a union. The ﬁrst step was having faculty members and librarians who were eligible to be in the union sign authorization cards saying they would support unionization.

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to our students, Miami believes the experiences — and terms and conditions of employment — across these various groups vary drastically and would not allow for an eﬀective collective bargaining agreement to be reached if a faculty union was established,” Rivinius wrote.

“It’s just dumb that I have to pay that much money for books,” he said.

Before the RedHawks have the opportunity to compete in a conference title match, the squad has to withstand a competitive 12-opponent schedule. However, entering the season after last year’s bowl win, Gabbert believes the team has a good chance of adding to its previous success.

Next steps on the road to unionization

Newberry was considered a non-tenure track faculty member her entire time at Miami. She found Miami’s objection “disheartening” and “cynical.”

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BRICK AND IVY MAY HAVE A CONVENIENT LOCATION, BUT IT’S NOT THE CHEAPEST OPTION FOR STUDENTS LOOKING FOR TEXTBOOKS.

has an idea of what it takes to get to the next However,level.Gabbert focuses on the upcoming season, not his professional aspirations.“Iworkreally hard toward that dream,” Gabbert said. “But, at the end of the day, [it’s] not a focus of mine right now. It won’t be until this season is over. I’m just tryna be a better person [and] football player for Miami.”Two weeks into fall camp, there is a lot of conﬁdence in the locker room that the team can achieve more than it did last year. Gabbert can start building oﬀ last season’s success in week one, when the RedHawks travel to the University of Kentucky on Saturday, Sept. 3.

Cards certiﬁed, but Miami objects to union make-up While the cards were being collected, Miami’s legal counsel sent an objection to who should be included in the union. Speciﬁcally, Miami wants to exclude librarians and NTT faculty like visiting assistant professors and clinical lecturers.Inastatement sent to The Miami Student, Jessica Rivinius, interim vice president for university communications, wrote that these groups remain a valuable part of Miami’s community, but the university had a responsibility to propose a more appropriate bargaining unit.

The student said that at the end of the day, there was no shame in resorting to “[Ifpiracy.Ican’t use the library], I can try to use z-library,” the student said. “My tip for students is to just use the library, but go illegal if you have to.”

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from an appearance. Gabbert intends to use the loss as motivation throughout the season.

“Because individuals in these groups are not eligible for tenure,” Rivinius wrote, “there are signiﬁcant diﬀerences in terms and conditions of their employment, including the expectations of continued employment, termination/grievance procedures, salary range, workload, performance evaluation process and opportunity for Butpromotion.”FAMsupporters and organizers feel Miami’s distinction between tenure-track and NTT faculty only divides the university. Cathy Wagner, a professor of creative writing and lead organizer for FAM, said there is historical precedent for including NTTs

FAM needed at least 30% of those signing the cards to express support. After that, the union would be able to hold a vote.

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Why Have Textbooks in the First Place?

McVety, a professor of history, agreed that textbooks can help students get crucial contextual information when taking an introductory-level course. She doesn’t require textbooks in some of her upper-level courses but found that requiring a textbook for an entry-level American history course helped with student learning.“[Students] read a chapter and took low-stakes quizzes every week, and I wouldn’t at all reiterate the chapter and instead explore speciﬁc issues during lecture,” McVety said.

“Having an e-textbook gave them context and access to primary sources … It seems to actually help them better see the bigger picture, so I’ve stuck

If Gabbert duplicates his high-level play from the end of last year throughout this season, there is a possibility that he could toss the pigskin in the NFL. With his brother, Blaine, being a former ﬁrst-round pick, he

If SERB ﬁnds in favor of Miami, Wagner said NTT and librarians will still have a chance at unionization. The groups could ﬁle for their own unions if they’re not included in FAM’s.“We’re kind of in a waiting game,” Wagner said. “The only thing that’s holding us back from voting is that Miami continues to object to the unit the faculty want.”

“I usually just try to avoid getting the textbook at all because I probably won’t read it anyway.”

withBothit.” professors encouraged students wanting to save money to go ahead and do it. Nietfeld recommended taking the same professor and seeing if they required the same textbook for a subsequent class, while McVety advised trying to get textbooks from

Organizers for Miami University faculty’s eﬀorts to unionize have been busy this summer. And their work may be paying oﬀ as the group moves on to the next step in the unionization process.

Wagner said while FAM’s lawyers ﬁled their own petition against Miami’s, the university will get another opportunity to make its arguments on Aug. 25. But FAM organizers remain hopeful the Ohio State Employment Relation Board (SERB), the body that handles unionization, will ﬁnd in FAM’s favor.

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“[The oﬃce] reads every single application, and they read top to bottom so they get to know the students that are coming to Miami pretty well, and there’s some amazing students from a broad diversity of backgrounds,” Shock said. “[We’re excited about] the strength of the class not only academically but in diversity and also geographically.”

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“[The bowl win] brings better energy,” Gabbert said. “Hopefully, we continue to build oﬀ that last win in our upcoming season.”

Julie Alexander is an assistant teaching professor for the ﬁrst-year integrated core for the Farmer School of Business. Alexander, an NTT faculty member, said when Miami’s objection came up, she and her colleagues felt “Iangry.think we were all very disappointed to see that Miami doesn’t feel that we also contribute to their mission in the same way,” Alexander said. “It was just really discouraging to hear.”Theuniversity continues to hold that NTT faculty are still part of Miami’s“Whilecommunity.eachof these roles plays a critical part in furthering our mission and delivering academic excellence

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Merhout, who graduated in May with a degree in music composition and is currently working toward an undergraduate certificate in business analytics, started using the SCS in fall 2020. She said the fee will deﬁnitely be worth the students’ money.

“I would love to not have to pay for part of her loan … but I don’t think it’s right for the government to just eradicate all that student debt,” Prate said. “I think they should focus, not so much on forgiving debt, but change the cost of college across the board. It has just become unattainable for most people.”

Miami advances mental health services with six new full-time positions

Students can schedule an in-person initial consultation with the SCS by calling 513-529-4634 from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Counselors also oﬀer teletherapy options for students residing in Ohio. Students can also apply for academic accommodations through the Miller Center

“I hope what this fee does is really highlights and articulates for our community how important mental health is, that we are a university that values student mental health,” Large said. “We understand it, we take it seriously and we’re committed to improving and protecting our student’s mental health.”

Steve Large, assistant vice president of health and wellness, said the fee will cover three categories: treatment and ongoing support, prevention and response. For the first year, the fee will go primarily to hiring new staff.Under treatment and ongoing support, two new therapists will be brought in. These therapists will work individually with students who need temporary mental health support. The hope, Large said, is that this will lead to shorter wait times and therefore allow more students to use the Johnservice.Ward, director of Student Counseling Services (SCS), said on student satisfaction surveys students always ask to add more staff to increase“I’mavailability.justreally pleased that everyone was able to get on board to meet this need that our student population has,” Ward said.

“We’re probably going through one of the most trying times that we’ve had in a long time, and we’re still sort of in it,” Wood said. “[It’s] just kind of one of those things that it seems all hands need to be on deck to help as many students and as many people as possible.”

“They just called me up one day and asked me a couple of questions, and I was hired,” Burke said.

ideally create so that we can try to help students learn about positive mental health and mental health hygiene, and how to best care for

“I took my loans out through FAFSA, and I took the maximum amount I could take for those student loans, which for last year I think was about … $7,000,” Sutter, a sophomore biomedical engineering major, said.

“As much as it gets busy and crazy sometimes during the day, I would say if you can keep up with a pace like that then it’s your best bet for being a student and working.”

“$10,000 is like paying your interest on the $100,000 loan that you might have,” Tara Prate, a mother of a Miami student, said. “It’s almost not even worth it.”

cesses federal loans. She also suggested lowering interest rates and simplifying repayment plans for borrowers.

“We think that the research and evidence behind peer-to-peer education is so impactful, and there’s so much eﬃcacy about it that this fee will allow us to really expand that into the mental health programming,” Young said.

On-campus work appealed to Burke because she expected ﬂexibility scheduling shifts around her classes. Now a shift lead at the Shriver Starbucks, she said she got what she was looking for.

The inaugural mental health fee for incoming ﬁrst-year students at Miami University has created six full-time positions to support mental health on Thoughcampus.COVID-19 has aﬀected the mental health of students, Jayne Brownell, vice president for student life, said increasing demand for counseling services has been an issue since early in her time at Miami.

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Finally, two new positions will be created under the response category. This includes a disability accommodations coordinator for the Miller Center and a case manager in the Dean of Students oﬃce. Large said the Miller Center has seen more students seeking accommodations for mental health issues, so the coordinator position would be specially trained to help those students.

The case manager position will help students who are experiencing a high level of distress, need support navigating campus resources or may need help with something such as the medical withdrawal process.

“Scholarships are typically funded by the university and loans are funded by the federal government, so when a student graduates, we don’t even see what happens with the student and their loan,” Johnson said. “It’s between them and the servicer, so it’s out of the school’s hands at that point.”Johnson said she doesn’t have an opinion to share on student loan forgiveness but suggested other ways the government could help reform the borrowingJohnsonprocess.recommended eliminating origination fees, an expense the government takes out when it pro-

After discussing her financial situation with Miami’s OneStop, she got a new offer but realized that attending any higher education institution would be difficult without extra help.

When Emma Sutter was accepted to Miami University last year, she opened her ﬁnancial aid oﬀer and was quickly overwhelmed by the price.

“My stepdad went to Miami, and he kind of knew the owner, Gary [Franks],” Halloran said. “So when I went to Miami I was like, ‘What if I ask for a job there?’”

“Miami is an expensive school, but they try hard to make it accommodating for all students, especially the lower income ones, the students who are actively trying and showing them that you need the extra help.”

Alex Wood, a 2013 Miami alumnus, will serve as the new Dean of Students case manager. Wood said he’s grateful for the opportunity to be a resource and support for students.

munity overall,” Ward said. “Even if [an] individual student said that they wouldn’t necessarily need the support, I can guarantee that there are the classmates, the roommates, the suite mates, the sorority sisters … that would need this type of service and this level of access. And when everyone — or more people — are doing well, it just makes things better for all of Heatherus.”

“I think it’s going to a good cause,” Merhout said, “And compared to the entire tuition, $50 a semester isn’t too much … It’s not ideal, but I think for the cause that it’s going to, a lot of students will need that and [will] deﬁnitely get their money’s worth out of Largeit.” said his overall hope is that the fee helps to destigmatize mental health at Miami.

Over the years, more students with increasingly complex issues have been brought to the attention of the Dean of Students oﬃce. This means more students taking medical leave and registering with the Miller Center for Student Disability Services with diagnoses of anxiety and depression.“Wewere seeing strain on the system as a whole,” Brownell said. “So given that whole conﬂuence, we decided that the time might be right to try to propose a fee that could bring in more resources, not only for counseling, but for the whole system of student support around mental health and wellbeing.”

Like Sutter, Prate’s daughter took out the maximum amount she could, and although she has been making payments, she still owes more than

Among the 16 institutions, Ohio State University had the most undergraduate students with loans, while Ball State University had both the highest percentage with loans and the highest average loan value.

Although Prate doesn’t believe that the $10,000 will make a big dent in her daughter’s debt, she did appreciate the pause in interest rates and said it helped her get ahead on her payments.“That was a huge help for a ton of people … I didn’t have to worry about paying my interest or my daughter’s interest, and I was able to just continue to put money toward my loan,” Prate

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Bethsaid.Johnson, director of the Ofﬁce of Student Financial Assistance, said she is aware of the conversation surrounding loan forgiveness but hasn’t heard any details from the Department of Education.

While all Miamians will be looking for places to study, eat and relax this year, some students will be looking for an extra place — one that makes them some money. For junior audiology major Fiona Halloran, ﬁnding that place came down to old Halloranconnections.started a job at Bagel and Deli in her ﬁrst year after retracing some roots.

She interviewed smoothly and began putting in hours at the little shop between Skippers and the Den, which she said has a “very positive environment.”EachBagel and Deli employee works one weekday and one weekend shift every week, but Halloran prefers the weekend for the more student-centric crowd.

“Everyone who comes in … you can have a conversation with them,” Halloran said. “I’ve made a lot of friends with customers who just come in and talk to us.”

Johnson said the Oﬃce of Financial Aid is passionate about helping students aﬀord college and can connect students with resources about loans. However, loans are typically taken out privately through FAFSA, a

university’s on-campus Starbucks.

To all student job-seekers, Halloran oﬀered this advice: “Be bold,” she said. “Walk in and introduce yourself … I think most people like that. Just make yourself known.”

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of this role will explore the intersection between the diﬀerent required modules for ﬁrst-years. Young said this will also help to expand the HAWKS Peer Health Educators team.

Forsaid.some borrowers, $10,000 is just a fraction of a much larger total.

Miami community anticipates the government’s plan for canceling student debt

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“I think the government should help with student debt because college is one of the things that has gone up exponentially with inﬂation,” Sutter said.One of the conversations surrounding student loan forgiveness is Biden using executive action to forgive $10,000 in student loans dependent on the borrower’s income.

While the money is nice, Burke also appreciates her coworkers.

Even with her scholarships, she was still shocked at the bill.

The fee, passed by the Board of Trustees in December and approved by the Ohio Chancellor of Education in February, is $50 a semester per student starting with the class of 2026. Current students will not have to pay the fee due to Miami’s Tuition Promise. As more money comes into the pool with new incoming classes, the four-year spending plan will be implemented and adjusted according to student need.

Ward echoed this sentiment and said it’s important to remember that the fee is helping to boost the overall health of the Miami community.

$20,000 for the two loans combined.

As the date nears, President Joe Biden has implied that his administration is considering a student loan forgiveness initiative. Although Biden has yet to confirm what this plan might look like, Sutter said it could benefit students like her significantly.

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“Even if the student feels as if it’s not something that they would need, I think about the health of our com-

Sutter said regardless of what the government decides to do with student loan forgiveness, she encourages students who might be hesitant to take out loans to discuss their ﬁnancial situation with OneStop.

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bank or other private companies.

In a comparison group of 15 institutions chosen by Miami, the university ranked similarly to other schools.

“You could do only 2 hours at a time if that’s what your schedule allows … or if you want a lot of hours, there’s usually people who need their shift covered,” she said.

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Another two positions will be housed under the prevention category. The ﬁrst is an assistant director of mental health prevention and promotion in the Oﬃce of Student Wellness, which will oversee a mental health prevention program.

Large said Miami has prevention programs for sexual and interpersonal violence and drug and alcohol use, but it doesn’t have a coordinated prevention program for mental health“That’sissues.what this person will

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Her manager even penned her a letter of recommendation for a study abroad application last year.

“Everyone’s ﬁnancial situation is diﬀerent, but for me, eliminating $10,000 would really help, even if it is split up into $5,000 for one semester and $5,000 for another semester,” Sutter

Prate’s daughter will be a senior this year. To help fund her education, she took out student loans and a Parent Plus loan through FAFSA.

To combat the $1.6 trillion racked up in student debt across the nation, the U.S. Department of Education paused interest rates from accruing on student loan payments in March 2020; however, the moratorium is set to expire August 31.

The cooperative scheduling system stems partly from a diﬀerence in management — Burke works for Miami rather than the Starbucks Corporation. The company Aramark assumed control of Miami’s dining operations over the summer, and Burke said her wages increased by a dollar per hour.

By the time Sutter graduates in 2025, she will be about $25,000 in debt.Sutter isn’t the only Miami student that has had to borrow money to fund their Accordingeducation.totheIntegrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 5,849 undergraduate students — about 34% of Miami’s undergraduate student population — were awarded federal student loans for the 2019-2020 school year. The average amount awarded to undergraduate students was about $6,200.

Rather than walking Uptown in search of “hiring” signs, Burke turned to Miami’s student employment site for options. Along with a friend, she applied for a job at the

“It’s a good way to meet people,” she said. “I have a couple friends that I’ve met at Starbucks.”

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Gabby Burke’s job has afforded her similar connections, though the senior primary education major went a different direction with her job search as a first year student.

“I honestly am glad [orientation] was in-person because I like the per sonal connection of being able to have that face-to-face conversation,” Frank said.Emily Brace, junior English edu cation major and Student Orientation Undergraduate Leader (SOUL), said it was clear that last year’s virtual ori entation wasn’t perfect.

“I thought that was really helpful because I could take a picture of these five or six QR codes … and it made things really easy and interactive,” Frank

“It worked pretty well for most of the general population, but I know for some people they didn’t take it as seriously, they put in joke answers,” Frank said. “I could be guilty of that as well. It worked well for getting the points across but it was just kind of a distraction.”

the program includ ed a game of multiple choice and fill in the blank questions which students could answer on their phone. These questions covered commonly asked

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HAWKS offers by-request in formational seminars on personal responsibility to residence halls and other student institutions. Wood clar ified that Nellie Craig Scholars will serve this model a different purpose.

While working with departments across campus to make sure students were getting clear messages about how the pandemic would impact their college experience, UCM was impacted as well. Most of Hunt’s staff worked from home at the start of the pandemic, and she didn’t meet sever al people on her team in-person for months.

“I have found her to be -Brentcollaboratecreativetalentedextraordinarilyandandeasytowith.”Shock BY

person after two years of being virtual

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on campus that we should be telling now?’ Sometimes they’re looser, like ‘What’s your favorite podcast?’ We use that to spur a conversation and get to know our colleagues.”

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McNeill spelled out why Nellie Craig Scholars has a greater potential for lasting success in comparison to Miami’s past DEI initiatives.

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“It is so important to understand the diverse cultures that exist around you and learn how to be most inclu sive to identities you do not hold,” Wood said. “A large part of DEI is unlearning a lot of what was taught growing up.”

coming back after a couple weeks, so it was just all these empty desks and cups of coffee sitting out. It was very eerie.”

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The two-day orientation program normally allows incoming first-year students to get acquainted with cam pus while meeting and mingling with their peers. Brace said during last year’s orientation, participation was lacking.“Alot of [students] wouldn’t turn their cameras on or wouldn’t even talk to us … so that was discouraging,” BraceElizabethsaid.

Rivinius started her job in UCM four months after Hunt came to Mi ami. Even though they both started during the height of the pandemic, Rivinius said Hunt worked hard to make the staff feel like a team.

Jaime Hunt, Miami University’s vice president and chief marketing and communications officer, accept ed a new job this semester at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

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On many days, Hunt was the only person in the UCM office in Nellie Craig Hall. It felt almost like an apoc alypse, she said.

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QR codes were also included throughout presentations during orientation meetings. They helped to make resources more readily avail able to the students.

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“This new [program] has institu tional support,” she said. “It is highly specialized; it requires a certain type of student in terms of critical thinking and skill-level to be able to engage in conversation and be effective in their role.”Students can express interest in this paid opportunity by visiting the formstack.

“We want to make sure that peo ple are trained meticulously, and that they’re quality programs that aren’t going to do any harm,” Brownell said. “We won’t hire all the students at the same time because we want firstyears through seniors for continuity over the Onceyears.”there’s someone to write the modules and facilitate them to peer leaders, their order of approach will be determined by students. The pro gram’s long-term goal is for students to want to ask questions and confide in an increasingly well-rounded cam pusAccordingcommunity.to Brownell, the uni versity hopes to prepare students for the world post-graduation, making them globally competent and consid erate of all there is to learn. No mat ter how a student’s thinking aligns, the program will be non-judgmental and meet them where they are upon admission.LeslieHaxby McNeill, assistant director of the Office of Student Well ness and advisor to HAWKS Peer Health Educators, believes DEI be longs to “Diversityeveryone.intersects with every thing we do,” she said. “More impor tantly, personal bias concerns us, be cause it never stands alone.”

“They would make those connec tions … then I would see students hang out the entire night, where I wasn’t able to get that at all when [orientation] was online,” Brace said.

“There were all these empty desks,” Hunt said, “and everybody had left thinking that they would be

When Rivinius steps into the in terim position, she said she’ll take with her what she’s learned under Hunt.“She said to me, ‘It’s never a bad idea to be the calmest person in the room,’ and I think that guides her,” Rivinius said. “It guides me. It guides

Walsh, director of Ori entation and Transition Programs, said meetings with SOULs and ad ministrators were held over Zoom, and a Canvas course was available for students to work through at their own pace.“I think our online product was as good as it could have been,” Walsh said.Although this year’s orientation was in-person, some virtual elements introduced in the past two years were included. Before arriving on campus with their families, first-year students had to complete an online Canvas course. Originally, this course was

Before the pandemic, the orienta tion program included a first-year so cial where students could make per sonal connections prior to move-in.

One of Hunt’s most important collaborations was with the Office of Admissions. There, she worked with Brent Shock, vice president for en rollment management and student success, to make sure Miami’s re cruitment efforts were successful.

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Every way the university reaches out to prospective students, whether it’s email, printed material or digital websites, flows through UCM, Shock said. He’s worked with Hunt several times a week since she came to Mi ami.“I have found her to be extraor dinarily talented and creative and

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Beyond leading the university’s communications efforts throughout the pandemic, Hunt has also led several oth er initiatives. These in clude a placement strat egy to position faculty members as experts in local and national me dia and developing a new, cohesive brand platform the university is rolling out this se mester.Beyond her own de partment’s initiatives, Hunt and her team collaborated with every other department on campus to help them effectively communi cate and market their messages.“There isn’t an area that we don’t have some sort of connection to or touch,” Hunt said.

easy to collaborate with,” Shock said. “We both have similar mindsets in terms of the idea that collaboration is important and produces better out comes … and I’m going to miss her when she’s gone.”

created to replace in-person orienta tion, but this year it became a supple mental“Theresource.Canvas course is sort of our COVID keep,” Walsh said. “We didn’t have an orientation Canvas course before the pandemic … and it ended up being something that we are really proud

Every Wednesday morning, Riv inius said the staff comes together for a 15-minute “Idea Cafe.”

“Everything that we do needs to be communi cated for the most part.”

questions about campus life and tran sitioning to college.

Miami’s vice president for communications leaves for Old Dominion

Still,said.the majority of orientation this year was focused on giving stu dents the opportunity to explore and learn about campus through personal experiences.“Therewill always be things that we add, adjust, change based on the changing needs of students, the changing needs of campus,” Walsh said. “But no major changes and over all [I’m] very satisfied with how this summer went and excited to welcome the class of 2026.”

The idea was first pitched in spring 2021 to a one-time funding commit tee but was rejected because its bud get wouldn’t be self-sufficient after its first year. Eventually a division of campus leadership signed on, but the program remains in its planning phase until the university concludes its nationwide search for a qualified supervisor.JayneBrownell, vice president for Student Life, said the launch of Nellie Craig Scholars will be treated as a pilot.

After two years of online-only first-year orientation, in-person ori entation returned to Miami Universi ty thisForsummer.incoming students like Dylan Frank, a first-year business major, it was a good experience.

“We just stand in the kitchen, and one of us leads the prompt,” Rivinius said. “Sometimes it’s totally work related, like ‘What’s the best story

Hunt’s first day at Mi ami was Sept. 1, 2020. It started, she said, with an 8:30 a.m. meeting about the status of COVID-19 at the university. That semes ter, on-campus students didn’t move in until Sept. 21, but problems were al ready“Weemerging.hadhad a lot of students test positive the day before, and I was just thrown right into, ‘Okay, COVID is here. We have a lot to do to communicate about it,’” Hunt said. “It was a very intense way to start a new job.”

our approach. There might be issues that get people riled up, like how can we speak truth and context and ease anxiety? I think keeping communi cation clear and transparent is a way through.”Huntwill start in her new role at the beginning of Old Dominion’s fall semester. There, she said she expects her colleagues from Miami will want to visit for the proximity to the beach.

Miami University is implement ing a new peer-led diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) educational pro gram called Nellie Craig Scholars. The program, projected to start in spring 2023, is named after Nellie Craig Walker, the first black graduate of Miami in Dasha1905.Wood, director of the Cen ter for Student Diversity and Inclu sion and creator of the organization, highlighted the benefits of student-fo cused leadership and explained that its strategy will be similar to that of Miami’s HAWKS Peer Health Edu cators.“We believe that in order to get the information out in a way that stu dents will receive it, it has to come from someone they can relate to,” Wood said.

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First-year in-

At Old Dominion, Hunt will be the vice president for strategic communica tions and chief marketing officer. Jessica Rivinius, Miami’s director of news and media relations, will take on Hunt’s position as interim vice president and lead University Com munications and Market ing (UCM) while Miami launches a formal search for applicants.

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“That indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim, and we go somewhere we’ve never been before.”

This happens within the ﬁrst ﬁve minutes of the movie — nothing to do with Thor. I expected nothing less from a Marvel movie, to throw in an interesting plot point then toss it in the trash before anyone questions its meaning.

“Lady Bird”

Maggie doesn’t think I (Sean) should put this on the list because “it’s not about college.” Wrong. This movie includes not one but TWO diﬀerent anthropology students working on their dissertations. It doesn’t get more educational than that.

The world’s greatest movie distribution company also made the best ever Graduation Eve comedy. Good for a watch at the start and end of each school year, if only to make you sentimental about high school.

“Sex Education” Boobs! Vaginas! Penises! STDs! Condoms!

With this line comes the view of the screen, and what should be playing but “Jurassic World,” a ﬁlm that made over a billion dollars at the box oﬃce.

Set aside the question of why Kidman would choose to only watch ﬁlms from 2015-2017 — is she watching these ﬁlms back-to-back?

AMC airs this particular video in front of every showing of every ﬁlm that plays in their theaters, and has been since at least last year, though it feels like much longer. As such, each repeated viewing reveals new oddities to pick up on — the particulars of the ﬁlms, where she chooses to sit, how a drink magically appears and disappears at one point, her attire, why Kidman is never shown leaving.

Starting oﬀ a new school year sucks sometimes. Luckily, there’s no shortage of movies and TV that try to capture the magic and joy of high school and higher education. They aren’t all successful, but

Jane ﬁrst appears in a medical chair receiving chemo alongside another patient. She reveals to a friend that she’s only shared her stage four cancer with one person, and needs to search out an alternate solution or a miracle, such as Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir.

“Dear Evan Hansen”

In middle school, I (Maggie) wore the same loose, gray sweatpants at least three days out of the week, complete with a soccer jersey and rainbow tennis shoes. Plus, I had bangs that made me look like Dora the Explorer. In short, I was Maya Erskine when I was her age.

For Oxford residents craving a movie theater experience, the closest option is the AMC Classic Hamilton 8, located about 15 minutes away by car. After making the drive, buying tickets, ﬁnding a seat and waiting through the trailers, most would be ready to settle in for a few hours of entertainment.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home”

“The Politician” We all remember the kid from high school who wanted nothing more than to be a politician. Well, here’s your chance to get a dramatic look into that kid’s life. Plus, Ben Platt actually excels at acting in this show.

“We come to this place for magic.”

Jane’s beauty and increased height was also insulting to her character and people who’ve dealt with cancer. In order to be seen as a hero, she must alter her physical appearance to be the ideal woman. She is a renowned scientist who discovered countless new scientiﬁc phenomena, but people will only remember her as Mighty Thor, the pretty blonde woman with muscles and a hammer.

“High School Musical 2” Undoubtedly the best of the High School Musical movies. Do not watch unless you have the extended edition — missing “Humuhumunukunukuapua’a” would be a tragedy.

This incentivizes large groups to split the cost between themselves instead of one person paying the whole fee.

I have many issues with Jane’s cancer, but the main three things that I couldn’t get out of my mind are how her cancer was represented, her physical changes after becoming Lady Thor and the self-sacriﬁce that occurred from her incurable disease and desire to become the hero.

You should deﬁnitely stand on your desk in all your classes during syllabus week and start reciting poetry. Professors love stuﬀ like that.

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In the middle of battle, Jane is stripped of her powers, revealing the stress and fatigue of a patient consumed by cancer. She still has her hair, an unrelatable detail for most cancer patients, and lacks any implant for consistent chemo treatments (her veins would be destroyed after six months of consistent injections).

Is Ezra Miller trending for all the wrong reasons currently? Yes. Does that make this movie any less perfect at capturing the apprehension of going oﬀ to college and leaving your friends for the ﬁrst time? I haven’t watched it since Miller’s recent headlines, but my guess is no.

“Dazzling images on a huge silver screen. Sound that I can feel.”

Rating: 2/10

An obsessively close reading of AMC’s Nicole Kidman promo

“The Perks of Being a Wallﬂower”

This reveal does lend credence to the second possible conclusion: That Kidman is renting out a theater for a private showing. This is a practice that became increasingly popular in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with theaters (including the AMC chain) oﬀering both new releases and older favorites.

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“Pen15”

After the fallout from Ragnarok and Endgame, Thor has decided to renew himself by teaming up with the Guardians of the Galaxy on what he calls “classic Thor adventures” where he saves the day just in the nick of time. Marvel fans love Thor’s himbo energy, but it drifts more toward toxic masculinity and stereotypical male standards for a pretty boy like Thor.

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This movie contains one of the best musical soundtracks in recent memory. Zac Efron plays the perfect Link, Elijah Kelley sings like an angel and John Travolta sings a love song to Christopher Walken. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Lady Bird doesn’t want to go to college in California, she wants New York, and she’s willing to put her family in debt to do it. Little did she know Oxford, Ohio is home to one of the eight original Public Ivies. If she did, she would’ve come to Miami, obviously.

“Dead Poets Society”

I could discuss the multi-layered villain that got a proper ending, Thor’s erratic character development or the CGI that tried to distract everyone from the lack of plot in “Thor: Love and Thunder.” But I’m not going to, because I’m on hiatus from Marvel content after watching this movie.

Nothing will make you feel more incompetent at the start of the semester than watching a dramatized version of Stephen Hawking’s life, including his time at college.

these ﬁlms and shows are perfect to start romanticizing your college career and make the start of the semester bearable.

The plot of this movie wouldn’t exist if Peter Parker weren’t trying desperately to go to college with his friends.

‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ reminds women that they’re remembered for their looks and not their brains

The tender moment that happens between Gorr and his daughter right before her death left me heartbroken, especially since Gorr’s planet was plagued with climate change and drought. He then begs the god he worshiped his whole life to bring his daughter back, but he’s only met with laughter and then violence. Taking up the sword from a recent kill, he slays the false god who failed him, vowing to purge all other gods from the universe.

“Animal House”

Then She shows up.

“Pitch Perfect”

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Combined, these four ﬁlms would run 526 minutes, or about 8.77 hours. Being charitable and taking the earliest projected times of sunset in the continental United States (usually around 5 p.m.) as Kidman’s starting point, she would leave the theater between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. the next day.

Matt Damon wrote and starred in this movie, and it shows. But the sappy 90s music, Bostonian accents and beautiful Minnie Driver make it worth it. And if you watch this the same day as “Dead Poets Society,” you can have a Robin Williams double-feature.

“Midsommar”

Were you a hot mess in high school? Did you embarrass yourself and your family on a weekly basis? If so, 1) We’re sorry and 2) you may want to stay away from this one to avoid ﬂashbacks … Devi does not hold back on the second-hand embarrassment.

A full dissection of this advertisement could take all the ink devoted to a single newspaper and more. It is that strange and dense.

“Good Will Hunting”

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If Marvel becomes less gory and more appropriate to a wider audience, let me know. If you need me, I’ll be rewatching the Batman movie that came out earlier this year.

One of the funniest movies out there, and for all the wrong reasons.

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And to restate: Kidman is here by herself.

“Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this. Our heroes feel like the best part of us.”

I couldn’t keep track of anything in this movie; character development, plot details, even the villain lacks depth even with such a powerful backstory.

And for anyone growing tired of it: AMC recently announced they were extending Kidman’s contract another year.

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But before Thor even appears on screen, a revenge-driven psychopath named Gorr the God Butcher gains a necrosword. He was my favorite part of the movie, and not in the rooting-for-the-villain kind of way.

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A smile appears on Kidman’s face as she stares at the glowing red AMC sign aﬃxed above the entryway. She narrates her way through a hallway of numbered screens and ﬁnds her way into one to reveal a completely empty theater, stepping up to the top row as the projector kicks on behind her.

WE COME TO AMC THEATERS TO LAUGH, TO CRY AND TO CARE, AND NICOLE KIDMAN IS WITH US EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

“Hairspray”

I (Maggie) didn’t care much for this movie, honestly, but I felt it would be an injustice to leave it oﬀ a list about school movies.

There’s also the cost of renting out four private screenings. Taking AMC’s lowest price, given to ﬁlms they designate as “Fan Fave Films,” that’s $289 per ﬁlm for a theater seating up to 40 people (which is what the theater in the video appears to be), coming to a total cost of $1,156.For the average person, this is an unfathomable price. But Kidman is no average person.

One, Kidman is going to see a less popular ﬁlm that would have less appeal to a general audience. Unfortunately, this theory is quickly debunked.

I (Maggie) have never been in a college a cappella group, but I imagine their lives are much the same as those in “Pitch Perfect,” complete with riﬀ oﬀs and shower duets of “Titanium.”

“The Theory of Everything”

With a projected net worth of around $250 million, $1,156 is a drop in the bucket for Kidman. If she wants to rent out a theater for a solo evening of non-stop movies, there’s not much stopping her.

“Stories feel perfect and powerful. Because here … they are.”

“We come to AMC theaters to laugh, to cry, to care. Because we need that — all of us.”

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It’s not my ideal Sunday afternoon to sit across the theater row from a family with small children while Thor murders a bunch of other gods, spurring gold, glittery blood from their wounds. I’m not sure what Marvel or Taika Waititi were thinking with “Thor: Love and Thunder,” but nothing in this movie should be seen by Warning:kids. pointless spoilers ahead.

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As a cancer survivor, I know the complexities of cancer, courses of treatment and depressive episodes that occur in the aftermath of distressing news. I would have enjoyed this movie so much more if they hadn’t made Jane’s entire character about sacriﬁcing herself to become a beautiful, tall, blonde superhero who isn’t dying of cancer.

If there’s one thing that angered me more than anything, it was the representation of Natalie Portman’s character, Jane Foster, as Lady Thor. I was never a fan of Jane as a forced love-interest for Thor, but this movie somehow made my disdain worse.

Given the subject matter it shouldn’t be this full of laughs, but Ben Platt’s acting is so bad it’s worth it.

“Booksmart”

“Never Have I Ever”

It takes place in a high school. It has banger songs. It’s the last Disney Channel Original Movie from the golden era… And I (Maggie) personally think Miami should invest in a Mel’s Lemonade vending machine.

It does come at a cost though, with AMC themselves charging at least $150 for an older ﬁlm and closer to $200 for more recent choices.

In the time between the ﬁnal pre-movie advertisements and the ﬁlm itself, a video begins playing of a dark road covered in puddles, quickly broken by a pair of heels walking through. A woman slowly removes her hood, revealing a face many moviegoers will instantly recognize: Australian icon Nicole Kidman.

Therelow. are thus two potential explanations.

Less than halfway through this bizarre promotional video, several questions already come to mind. Firstly: When is Kidman arriving at thisMovietheater?theaters do most of their business in the evening, once the responsibilities of work or school have concluded and people are looking for something to do with their free time. The likelihood that Kidman could show up at peak hours and get a showing all to herself is incredibly

“Not just entertained but somehow reborn together.”

“Lemonade Mouth”

In fact, it appears “Jurassic World” is not even the only ﬁlm Kidman is watching. With the next few cuts, we see her in (presumably) the same theater enjoying “Wonder Woman,” “La La Land” and “Creed.”

ar every single afternoon. My daily routine was drinking a cup of Keurig coﬀee at 9 a.m., eating a measly salad and green apple from the Armstrong emporium at 12:40 p.m. and immediately heading back to Armstrong around 3 a.m. to cure my cravings.

The amount of money that I have given to the Miami Misﬁtz, Phi Mu or Zero Waste Oxford is unbelievable. I am a sucker for a homemade brownie wrapped in plastic. Or a blondie, if it was my lucky day.

One thing you’re probably not imagining, though, is France.

With all that in mind, I set out to put Eiffel Pizza through a very strenuous test (read: I ordered a slice of cheese pizza). As someone imminently qualified to review food (I’m not), I can gladly say that this pizza passed.The first thing that caught my attention was the price. A single slice of plain old cheese pizza costs $3.99, and while I’m sympathetic to inflation and Miami’s desire to squeeze every last penny out of the student body, that’s still steep.

I park my car in the back of a ﬁlled parking lot.

First thing: I oﬀer a little wave to the Campbell’s Soup can hanging from the ceiling. Then, I make my way over to the cheese department to get some Oaxaca, a Mexican melting cheese that’s perfect for hot chocolate.Iusually skip the alcohol section, though they have a whole dedicated section AND separate checkout for alcohol, so I’d recommend it if that’s your thing. By this point, even if I don’t have to go to the bathroom, I at least make a pitstop to marvel at its beauty (I won’t spoil the fun, but let’s just say a porta-potty in a store is unironically funny).

I had ﬁnally understood my eating habits. I looked back on my spring semester: constant headaches and cravings for caﬀeine and sug-

Most of the items on the shelves I can’t read. I am not ﬂuent in any language except English, so when I am picking out ramen and cookies, I use context clues and hope for the best. This is the fun of the store — going with friends, buying an assortment of random foods and then going home and trying them. Or, as my boyfriend and I do, having mystery ramen nights for dinner (no, not all of them are Whilewinners).you’re walking around, don’t forget to take in your surroundings. There are obvious animatronics all over, including The General Mill’s and Jungle Jim’s “Cereal Bowl Band,” complete with the Trix Rabbit on Keyboard, the Lucky Charms Leprechaun on a four-leaf clover guitar and the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee on a honeycomb drum set.

In spite of that, the slice I got was a quarter of a whole pizza, not the standard eighth. I’m not sure if that’ll continue through the semester, but I wasTheimpressed.realtest, though, was the sogginess.With a comparison point like Sundial, I was optimistic that my meal wouldn’t be nearly as limp as the oﬀerings of past semesters. Thankfully, I was right. The crust was thin but well cooked, not burnt or raw and wet. Another win.

• Sol or Corona brand Colombian hot chocolate

Anyway,Heaven. after I stop drooling and limit myself to one bakery item, which is usually a slice of the Jungle Jim’s-brand pumpkin roll, I go to the produce section. I usually skim this area because I’ve been there so many times, but on a ﬁrst visit, I would recommend checking out all the exotic fruits and vegetables they oﬀer.

But of course, I can’t just walk straight to the Colombian aisle. Jungle Jim’s is a journey.

FRE201 and FRE202), but they have a reputation for knowing food, even if that food is Italian.

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Yes, in the middle of the store.

The cheese-to-sauce ratio leaned

Whether you’re a new student looking for something to do, or you’re a senior cherishing your last year in Oxford, Jungle Jim’s is the place to go.

• Jaﬀa Cakes (UK cookie)

As I make my way across the lot, I hear the sound of rushing water and clamoring monkeys. Ahead, I see the heads of giraﬀes, gorillas and elephants. The defunct monorail hangs overhead and I wonder — was it always just a decoration, or did families before me enjoy a short ride in the smallFinally,cars? I walk through the auto-

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I can’t speak to the rest of Eiﬀel Pizza’s menu, which is set to include pastas, salads, wings and cheese bread. But if my slice of cheese pizza is anything to go by, I’m optimistic that it’ll all be a solid option for a Wednesday lunch, just not something I’ll miss when I’m home on winter break.

If Aramark really wants to impress, though, they’d better have a good location in mind to replace Toasted Bagel, and even then I’m not sure if I’ll forgive them for getting rid of it.

So much bread. So many cakes. So many cookies.

After this is the seafood department, which I also skip because I dislike the smell of ﬁsh. Though it is kind of like walking around a little aquarium (the ﬁsh are still alive).

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matic doors and am greeted by the one and only Swinging Campbell’s SoupAndCan.that doesn’t even scratch the surface.Jungle Jim’s International Market is exactly what it says it is: an international market. What’s missing from the name are all the quirks inside that make it more than just a grocery store.Oxford is in the middle of nowhere, Ohio, and if you’ve lived here for any period of time, you know it can be pretty easy to run out of things to do around town. If you’re like me and only like the party scene during

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Picture this: Pizza.

the night (sorry darties), then Jungle Jim’s is a great place to spend a Saturday afternoon.

And that’s on top of the fact that they’re sitting on a gigantic boat named the S.S. Minnow.

Maybe you’re thinking of Domino’s or SDS. Maybe Little Caesar’s. Pizza to you could be a Chicago deep dish. It could have pineapples or banana peppers or bacon or no toppings at all.

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I’ll admit that getting back into the habit of eating healthy meant gaining weight, which is hard to see — really hard. But if that’s what it takes to love my body overall, I have to understand that that’s okay.

So imagine my surprise when I learned that Miami University’s own Sundial Pizza was overhauled this summer courtesy of a new dining deal with Aramark, and that Armstrong’s new pizza option is named EiﬀelConfusingWeird.Pizza. branding aside, I’m not mourning the loss of Sundial. Sure, the Bosco sticks were good, but I’ve never had a limper slice of pizza than what they served. No amount of cheese-ﬁlled bread can make up for the disappointment of a soggy piece of fork-pizza.AfterIlooked into the new dining website, I had a bit more hope for the new location. The chef, Mohamed, studied at the Ecole Française de Pizzaiolo in Paris, which is literally the French School of Pizza-Making. I don’t like France for personal reasons (thank you, FRE101, FRE102,

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Finally, after the ﬁsh section, you can breach the truly international part of this international store. With aisles organized into countries and/ or regions, this is where you can kill a whole day.

In terms of taste, the pizza was serviceable. It was miles ahead of the dining halls or Sundial, and I’d put it on par with most delivery places and ahead of Little Caesar’s.

• Ichiban brand ramen

that plays a new MJ song every time you hit it. Or the little movie theater, with a curtain and seats sponsored by Kraft, that tells the origin story of Jungle Jim’s.

• Jungle Jim’s pumpkin roll

more toward cheese, which I appreciate. It almost reminded me of those pizzas that get rid of the sauce entirely, and I’m a fan of that concept. There was also hardly any grease, maybe a contributing factor to the rigidity of the slice.

One of my favorite sections to browse is the, shall we say, unique drinks/pops. Some standouts include the line of dictator sodas (Stalinade, Nuclear Orange Bomb) and butter soda. There are also some more “normal” sodas, such as bubblegum and sour green apple.

This semester, caring for my body will be waking up early, eating breakfast, lunch AND dinner, going on walks as much as I want to and maybe a weekly trip to UDF for ice cream.Awholesome lifestyle looks incredibly diﬀerent for everyone, so ﬁnd what makes you happy, and give your body some love.

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• Icelandic brand water (the bottle is cool and the water is genuinely delicious)

Her words changed my life.

There are also tons of hidden gems around the store, like the Michael Jackson button (as I call it)

While the discussion of weight, working out and eating was happening between my mother and sister, a young mom adjacent to us on her own Golden latte outing overheard our conversation and kindly oﬀered up her unsolicited advice. She told us the story of her eating disorder: it took her 35 years to realize that you just need to eat what your body wants. A number doesn’t matter, calories don’t matter and miles don’t matter; eat what makes you feel good.“If you’re craving sweets all the time, then you’re not giving yourself enough love,” the woman said.

I decided to spend the rest of the summer giving myself some love, and it was amazing. I started eating breakfast and cut out a lot of meat and dairy (with the exception of cheese, because I eat an excessive amount of cheese) — not for any special reasons, but because I realized my body just didn’t really want it and I had stopped enjoying it.

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My mother, sister and I sat on orange adirondack chairs outside our local organic grocery. I was drinking a wonderful Golden Goddess (a gut healthy latte packed with turmeric, ginger, cinnamon and cardamom) which I promptly ruined by exchanging almond milk for whole and adding a shot of espresso. We were enjoying a beautiful May day on our quiet street in the foothills of the BlueThen,Ridge.my sister — tan, thin and the midﬁelder for the Varsity lacrosse team — proclaimed that she’s gained weight and she needs to go on a diet.Like almost every single woman on the Earth, I’ve disliked my weight, my legs, my arms and my everything for years. I stayed quiet when my sister mentioned dieting, but my mother, a lawyer who tapes up people’s problems for a living with an ENTP personality type, immediately jumped into settling my sister’s distress with a mother’s love.

A love letter to Jungle Jim’s

I have a long-standing love for the store. Every year since I was a child, my family has gone to Jungle Jim’s around Christmastime to get the ingredients for a Colombian classic: hot chocolate with cheese (and bread for dipping). My dad is Colombian, so it’s a special treat to enjoy together around the Christmas tree.

By the time you’ve made it to the movie theater, you’re just about wrapping up a complete circle around the store, but there’s still plenty to explore.

• Colombina brand Arequipe (dulce de leche)

• Cacique brand Oaxaca cheese

• La Fe brand obleas (spread Arequipe on one and add another to make a delicious sandwich!)

I was also a big fan of the little box my slice came in. Sundial had triangular boxes for individual slices. Those were fun, but Eiﬀel Pizza has tiny little square boxes for individual slices which are even better. It would’ve been cool, though I’m assuming highly impractical, to have a tiny little pizza to match the box instead of an oversized slice, but that’s beside the point.

The summer I turned into a foodie, and a ﬂexitarian

Next comes the candy section, where you can peruse a multitude of classic and crazy candies, all while being serenaded by a large animatronic ElvisRightmonkey.next door to this little concert stage is the bakery. This is the best section of the entire store.

By this point, I am usually just about ready to leave. The only sections left are organic (not my vibe) and frozen. I usually check out the frozen aisles, but then I head for the checkout.Ialways end up spending more than I wanted, and I always leave with way more snacky things than I would like. But the joy I get from being in that store plus the memories I create each time I go are worth it.

I can’t oﬀer much tangible advice on how to navigate the lay of the land, but I will oﬀer this: Take. Your. Time. And have fun!

There’s nothing wrong with craving sweets, but there may be an underlying reason as to why. I had horrible headaches everyday, never had the energy to do anything and would take a nap almost every afternoon. I never understood why, but now, thinking back on it, it’s pretty obvious.Iwasn’t giving my body any love. I wasn’t treating it right. I wasn’t treating myself right.

Recommendations:

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Sundial is dead, and I’m not too mad about it

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Sophomore midﬁelders Reece Wearren and Carlie Servis could be in line for breakout seasons. The two were tops in shots on goal last year among the team’s role players.

“I’m hoping to help raise the level of competition for everyone this year,” Perese said. “There’s pressure on us as defending champions, but that’s something we’re ready for.

the RedHawk oﬀense one of the most productive in the MAC. Both Bester and Shelton dealt with achilles injuries last season.

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The gray-jersey kicker lines up 35 yards away from the ﬁeld goal. He calls for the snap, and he rushes forward and launches the football into the air with a swift kick. But a red jersey bursts through the oﬀensive line and slams the ball into the ground. A volcano of cheers erupt from the red jerseys on defense.

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“What we’re really here for is to try and win the league.” -Chuck Martin

In 2020, when Perese was the ﬁrst team All-MAC goaltender, she had her best season so far, saving 75% of shots and allowing just 1.27 goals per

What makes this upcoming season so exciting for RedHawk football is the strength of its non-conference

Miami’s most successful sports team (in recent years at least) is shooting for its sixth consecutive Mid-American Conference (MAC) title this fall.

MIAMI PLAYERS POSE WITH THE FRISCO FOOTBALL CLASSIC TROPHY AFTER BEATING NORTH TEXAS TO FINISH LAST SEASON.

Kam Butler to Virginia.

“He’s getting better everyday,” he said.Nine starters from last season are returning on the RedHawk oﬀense. This experience plus the returns of standout running backs Jaylon Bester and Tyre Shelton will make

“[The players] come to work, they compete, they have energy,” he said.

Notable Players:

Backing up Gabbert will be freshman Aveon Smith. Coach Martin said he’s excited to see what Smith can do.

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Last year, Miami ﬁeld hockey’s season ended with a heartbreaking loss in the NCAA tournament round of 16. With two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter against No. 2 Michigan, the RedHawks were up 2-1. But the Wolverines did their best Boston University impression and scored two in the ﬁnal minute of regulation to win it.

up front in Garcia. If the RedHawks see just a couple players step up to produce points, there won’t be much that can hold them back from that sixth straight MAC title.

While the oﬀense can be deﬁned by its experience, the defense is more of a work in progress, according to Coach

“What we’re really here for is to try to win the league,” he said. “So you got four really cool opportunities before league play and then you got the conference schedule.”

ties Northwestern has with Miami, especially with former coach Randy Walker.

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The ‘Hawks lost a few key players in the transfer portal including linebacker Ivan Pace Jr. to Cincinnati, linemen Lonnie Phelps to Kansas and

Star junior quarterback Brett Gabbert will lead the RedHawk oﬀense. Gabbert is coming oﬀ a stellar year in 2021 in which he threw 26 touchdowns with only six interceptions. He was selected to Third Team All-MAC.

However, the goal of the RedHawks is to make it back to the MAC championship for the ﬁrst time since 2019. The team will have to battle familiar foes Ohio, Ball State and Bowling green, among others. Coach Martin said winning the MAC championship is the ultimate goal for the team.

This isn’t the ﬁnal play of a bowl game. It’s a Sunday morning practice three weeks before the 2022 season starts for Miami football.

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The 2022 team has some improvements to climb back to the top of the MAC oﬀense.

Brett Gabbert (QB, Jr.) last season’s stats: 2,648 yards, 26 TD, 6

That’s the ﬁrst thing an observer notices about the RedHawks practice. The practices feel tense and simmer with energy. Coach Chuck Martin said that is one of the strengths of the 2022 squad.

Some transfers to Miami will help take their place. Sophomore Corey Suttle and junior Brian Ugwu will shore up the d-line. Suttle played at Iowa State in 2021 and Ugwu at Rutgers.Coach

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On defense, Miami returns excellent seniors Macy Mchale and Madison Workman, plus Jenna Kirby, who immediately looked at home playing division one during her ﬁrst two seasons.Thisteam is set up to succeed. An experienced goaltender and defense core, plus a game-breaking player

“It was motivation for this year,” Perese said. “With only a minute more we would have advanced to the elite eight, and that’s really inspiration for this season. We know that we can compete with any team in the country.”

The ﬁnal challenge of the nonconference schedule will be a Big Ten matchup at Northwestern. Coach Martin said this game stood out to him because of the many

Coach Martin and Redhawks Football Gear Up For The Season

schedule. The team opens its season with an SEC matchup at Kentucky. Coach Martin said he’d rather start with a challenge then look for an easy win in the ﬁrst game.

Head Coach Iñako Puzo’s teams are always excellent defensively, and that starts all the way in the back, with Perese.

“Kentucky will expose us to everything we’re doing wrong,” he said. “I don’t mind playing the really goodTheteams.”schedule doesn’t get much easier from there. After a game at home versus Robert Morris, Miami goes to Cincinnati in the annual Battle for the Victory Bell. The alltime record of that series is 59-59-7, so the RedHawks will look to climb back on top.

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A couple of last year’s most consistent point producers, midﬁelders Morgan Sturm and Lexi Nugent, graduated. The RedHawks will have to replace their production,

Martin said the strong oﬀense will give the defense time to make“Earlyadjustments.onouroﬀense will have to carry us,” he said. “We’ll have some growing pains on defense.”

but luckily star midﬁelder Claudia Garcia, who exploded for 18 goals and nine assists as a sophomore in 2021, is back for another year.

“We’reMartin.inexperienced at defense, but we’re getting better everyday,” he said.

INTMac HippenHammer (WR, Sr.) 786 yards, 5 TD Matthew Salopeck (LB, So.) 112 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss John Saunders Jr. (DB, So.) 13 tackles, 3 INT

Gabbert has been named to multiple quarterback watchlists including the Davey O’Brien award, Walter Camp award and Maxwell award.

Notable Matchups: September 3, @ Kentucky September 17, @ Cincinnati September 24, @ Northwestern October 8, vs. Kent State (Homecoming)October22, vs. Western Michigan (Family weekend/ Senior Day) November 22, vs. Ball State (Fan Appreciation)

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game. Last year her stats regressed a bit, but a lot of that can be attributed to just a couple of bad games against North Carolina and Northwestern. If the RedHawks want to continue their reign of MAC dominance, Perese will have to play a big part. It’s a challenge she’s ready for.

The team kicks oﬀ the season Saturday, Sept. 3, at Kentucky.

But Isabele Perese, Miami’s star senior goalie, thinks that experience was good for the RedHawks.

Pressure Builds As Field Hockey Aims For Sixth Straight Title

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Miami football is coming off a solid season. Last year, the team went 7-6 and capped off the season by winning the first Frisco Football Classic over North Texas.

A few transfers will support the oﬀense as well. Senior oﬀensive lineman John Brekke arrived from Holy Cross and junior wide receiver Miles Marshall transferred from

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Jonathan Brand, the RedHawks most recent ace, also joined the pro ranks this summer when the Boston

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BRAND WAS SELECTED

Red Sox drafted him in the eighth round. Brand’s 1.40 ERA in 2021 was third in all of Division I. After a strong showing in the Cape Cod League, the premier summer collegiate league in the country, the Red Sox made Brand’s pro dreams come true.

There’s another recent RedHawk who’s been pitching well in the minors this year. Grant Hartwig, who was solid in 11 starts for Miami in 2021, has pitched to a 1.91 ERA this summer across three diﬀerent levels in the Mets organization. He even threw eight scoreless innings at AA, just a couple of steps away from the majorLandonleagues.Stevens and Jacob Webb basically round out the list of former RedHawks seeing success in the minors this year. Stevens, a 2020 grad, has a .353 on base percentage and 19 home runs in the Braves organization this summer. And Webb, who was drafted in the 14th round by the Red Sox in 2021 has a 3.15 ERA and 63 strikeouts in just 40 innings at A ball this year.

Last summer, star Miami pitcher Sam Bachman made history when he was selected 9th overall by the Los Angeles Angels in the 2021 MLB draft. Bachman pitched 14.1 pro innings in 2021 and pitched to a 3.77 ERA with 15 strikeouts and just four walks.So far in 2022 Bachman has had a good season in the AA southern league around a two-month injured list stint for reported back spasms. The Angels’ number two prospect has a 2.01 earned run average (ERA) in seven starts even though his strikeouts are down and his walk rate has nearly doubled from last season.

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RedHawk Baseballers Make Miami Proud in Pro Ranks

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Despite struggling this season, the Angels declined to trade two-way star Shohei Ohtani at the trade deadline, so Bachman’s chance to eventually play with the two best baseball players in the world, Ohtani and center ﬁelder Mike Trout, remains intact. With how much their pitching staﬀ has struggled this season it seems likely that Bachman could be up in the big leagues later this year or next.

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Creating an inclusive space for all depends on each of us, and we continue to identify and act on additional actionable short and long-term ways to bring about cultural transformation and change at Miami. Some of our structural eﬀorts and changes can be seen in the recent reorganization and work in the Oﬃce of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and plans for the upcoming climate survey, progress on DEI Taskforce Recommendations, new programming in the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion (CSDI) and increased resources in the Student Counseling Service. We will continue to listen and work on bringing about systemic change where it is Further,needed.many of these posts describe interactions between individuals in informal spaces, when those present in the moment could have spoken up to make a

I always hated summer. I know that that puts me solidly in the minority of children, for whom I generally consider summers to be ﬁlled with rays of sunshine, dips in the pool, friendship, freedom and laughter.

They miss Miami because they’re bored with their summers, just like I was at times as a child.Most of them have internships or jobs they can’t wait to end. After all, when you’re sitting in a cramped cubicle researching screws or staring dead-eyed into your computer camera on Zoom meetings for eight hours a day, suddenly the promise of late nights on the brick roads of Oxford seems a lot more enticing.Orthey’re tired of their families, of sharing a room again with their little sister or driving their siblings everywhere because they become the family chauﬀeur the moment they return home. Roommate squabbles pale in comparison to family ones, and suddenly you can’t wait to yell at your roommate for leaving their dirty dishes in the sink for one day too long or bringing over unannounced guests again.In retrospect, it seems simple. If you love your summer, you won’t want it to end. If you hate your summer, school can’t come fast enough.AsI enter my senior year, though, I’m glad I had one last great summer in college. After all, we might be losing our summers to internships and the rapidly approaching onset of the real lives we’re about to begin, but we’re still college students. I’m still a college student — for one more year. And I’m determined to make the most of that.

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It’s picture-perfect, and I don’t want this summer to end.

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In early February, I wrote an article claiming that we, the generation entering young adulthood during a global pandemic, are a Lost Generation: a generation with battered spirits and deprived souls, all aimlessly wandering in confusion.Ayearago, I read “The Sun Also Rises,” written by Ernest Hemingway, and sympathized with the main character’s feelings of lost identity after losing his young adulthood to World War I.

I Gave Gertrude Stein Too Much Credit: We’re Not Lost; We’re Found

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If you thought that we are a Lost Generation, like me, think again, and be found.

But, I realized that it gave

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Now, a year later, I realized

In talking to his wife about the conversation with Stein, Hemingway states, “I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be.”

The restrictions set me into a major depressive state that I thought would be impossible to get out of. I was so terriﬁed of being alone, living an abnormal quiet college life, that I created a cynical, hopeless world for myself.

positive difference. We urge every Miami community member to be an ally and intervene when you can. We offer anti-racism education, SafeZone trainings, additional resources for training and reporting that you can take advantage of to help you in these efforts.

I received texts from my friends aﬃrming the claims that I made, telling me how I placed their feelings of directionless wandering in the world into words.

have expressed. We steadfastly believe that change must be systemic, transformative and ongoing for students to learn, grow, thrive and experience belonging in our community. While Miami has taken signiﬁcant steps to make changes, work remains to be done.

Letter To The Editor

Happy school year, Miami. Let’s make the 2022-2023 school year the best one yet.

During the summer of 2020, Miami University students created the @dearmiamiu Instagram account. The account shared anonymous posts from students and alumni describing their experiences with racism, homophobia and other forms of

AMES RADWAN OPINION EDITOR

Jayne Brownell, Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Moore, Dean of Students

With our first day of the 2022-2023 school year less than a week away and rapidly approaching, the student body’s thirst to return to the hallowed red brick halls of Oxford is growing more and more unquenchable. Personally, I’m on the fence, for once. Sure, I want to get back to Miami, to classes and study rooms, to Pulley omelets and Bagel & Deli, to country night and The Miami Student. (Shameless plug). But I am starting senior year, and the oncoming final year of college is, not to mince words, terrifying. The longer it takes to start, the longer it takes to end, right? Plus, this has been the best summer of my life — I’m finishing up the last weeks of an immersive language learning experience in Vermont, and it hurts to know by the time this column is published, it will be over. My summer has been full of Portuguese language and culture lessons, singing and dancing, trips to the lake, hikes up the Vermont mountains, late-night adventures and the friendship, freedom and laughter I so craved during childhood midsummers. I’m even writing this column from a chic little Vermont coffee shop, sipping on a frozen lavender lemonade and working side by side with my best friends.

My own love for the summer of 22 got me wondering, though — I understand wanting to get back to the most beautiful campus that ever there was, but why do college students so romanticize the ending of summer and beginning of school when all we did growing up was dread it?

I had my fair share of all those during the summers of my youth, of course, though my focus on academics also landed me inside and alone a fair amount of the time, studying the textbooks of the year that was to come so I could come out ahead of my classmates when school started in the fall.

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me a chance to look inward and, instead of being lost in the trials of young adulthood during a pandemic, I found myself. It only took two years. In the past, I wrote on the state of liminality, claiming it was this state in which we were eternally stuck, and I wasn’t wrong that we were in limbo, but I was wrong about it being a bad thing. Liminality is an enlightening time when you are with yourself and your mind, something that my extroverted ego couldn’t grasp.We should be thankful for this experience to slow down, to process what it means to live in a society where sometimes we’re forced to be alone, and that’s okay.

Cristina Alcalde, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion

Liz Mullenix, Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Aﬀairs and Provost

hate, marginalization and exclusion as well as stories of sexual and interpersonal violence on Miami’s campuses. After a two-year hiatus, the account has become active again this summer. With the anonymous nature

that Gertrude Stein was wrong, my Latin teacher was right and Hemingway knew it all along.This summer I decided to study the extensive genre of creative nonﬁction, and I started with “A Moveable Feast,” not surprisingly, by ErnestAlthoughHemingway. published posthumously, “A Moveable Feast” is Hemingway’s memoir on living in Paris in the 1920s; in the third chapter he writes on this famous conversation with Stein, a chapter where I realized that context is everything.

He goes on with, “But the hell with her lost-generation talk, and all the dirty, easy labels.”Allgenerations go through it, all in diﬀerent ways, and labeling it only places us in a positive feedback loop of hopelessness and negativity. We’re not lost — if anything, we’re found. The restrictions of the pandemic gave us the time to slow down. Although we felt alone, we weren’t. We were given time completely to ourselves, our deepest thoughts and the people, plants and animals around us.

The answer that I have found has come from my own friends and their experiences with summer. Those that seem to be texting me the most about how they can’t wait for school to roll around, about how bored they are and about how they wish we were all back at Miami already, aren’t doing so just because they miss Miami.

But as an extrovert who thrives oﬀ being surrounded by people, summers were boring for me; the ﬁrst day of school was the best every year, back among the people with whom I belonged.NowI’m entering my senior year of college, and suddenly, it seems like everyone around me now shares the mindset I always had during childhood. My friends’ Instagram stories are full of longing for ye olde Brick karaoke nights, roommate squabbles and study movie nights of lore.

Along with these aﬃrmations, I received a text from my mentor and high school Latin teacher. He congratulated me on my publication, but told me that he hoped I didn’t believe my words to actually be true. Which, truthfully, angered me. He was exactly part of an older generation which I truly believed didn’t understand what we were going through.

Dear Miami U, We Are Paying Attention To Change

We thank those sharing their stories through posts, acknowledge the bravery and pain involved in sharing these experiences and understand that many others will choose not to speak up publicly. We see you. We care. We are committed to change. And we will keep working with and for you, to make Miami a better, more welcoming place, every day.

of these posts, we are limited in our ability to respond to any single experience described through this account. However, as administrators, faculty and staﬀ, we recognize and acknowledge the continued pain and hurt students

Starting Our Lives, But Losing Our Summers

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GRAPHIC BY OWEN BERG

In a conversation with American author Gertrude Stein, living with expats (Hemingway included) in Paris, she told Hemingway that he and his peers are all a lost generation. I took that quote and ran with it, believing Stein’s words to be true, seeing history repeat itself with Gen Z, claiming that we were stuck in a depressive, liminal state that the pandemic brought upon us.

Those same people that are part of the Miami community around you are the ones speaking up on the @ dearmiamiu Instagram page. So, your actions matter.

I taught myself to be comfortable being alone when not being alone isn’t an Lettingoption.myself enjoy the outdoors or have an incredible once-in-alifetime experience, instead of sulking in my house waiting for the summer, crafted me into an entirely new person. Learning to enjoy life when not out with my friends has become a crucial part of living.

By the time I sit down to write my last letter to the community, I want to look back and see the path the 20222023 Miami community carved. I want to see how we’ve pushed past the uncomfortable and the ugly to take a step in the right direction. I want to be proud of the legacy we hand down year after year, even if it’s just the beginning of something bigger to come.

Do I loathe the very act of being home because I’ve detached myself from this archaic, high school way

Now, I admit, my situation is a bit on the deep end of things. Not everyone ends up hanging out or talking to virtually none of their high school friends after two years of college.However, as we enter the fall semester, full of ﬁrst-years roaming the “the most beautiful campus that ever there was,” knowing that there will be moments to yourself is

No More Lonely Nights (Summer)

Whatever that means for you might not be the same as what it means for someone next to you, or your roommate, or the person you keep seeing in Armstrong, or the professor of the class right before yours or the friend you made in class that you never see elsewhere.

There is so much room for growth and reﬂection this year.

Whether it’s your ﬁrst time here, one of your last or anything in between, welcome to the school year. A new academic year provides for so much opportunity, and I can’t wait to be with The Miami Student’s staﬀ again and be ready to tell your stories.

guntercr@miamioh.edu@cosettegunter

I can’t say that before this summer I had gone to a concert or a movie theater by myself, or taken so many walks and hikes by my lonesome.

Hey Miami community —

DEVIN ANKENEY ASST. OPINION EDITOR

I chose the latter.

It’s important to be kind, as elementary as it sounds. And here’s one of many good reasons to do so:

These moments alone that you’ll come to appreciate for the few seconds of peace and quiet, or for the time it gives you to catch up on a show you love. These moments are diﬀerent from that of high school and before.College will be the most adult self you will have yet experienced. Take these moments to yourself to learn more about who you are, how to be comfortable with being by yourself and creating boundaries so you don’t overstretch yourself when out with friends (that one’s for you, my fellow introverts).Takethese moments as the blessing of introspection rather than the curse of loneliness. You’ll come to appreciate and enjoy the thousands of moments together much more.

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I am saddened and angered by the things I have read on that account, but hopeful that their presence will spark more conversations and evoke change.

A rather common notion, I’m sure. However, the change is one many students don’t talk about until it happens. Going from feeling like a minnow, tossed into the ocean, to

Two years into college, two years to go. It’s safe to say that my life has adjusted to living in Oxford more than anywhere else.

So, this summer, I faced realizing one of two things.

Put simply: enjoy yourself.

All students, faculty and staﬀ at Miami should be able to feel safe and welcome here. I hope this year provides that for everyone, and I hope you choose to make this campus a better place by being a part of it. We all want better for our community, and that starts with paying attention andOverlistening.the last three years of my time here at Miami, I’ve been so grateful to have been part of The Student because I’ve been able to be part of the storytelling that fosters conversation and connection within a community. I step into my last year both as a student and as one of the many leaders of this organization who take campus climate issues seriously.

I’ve been lucky to meet so many people here that I know will change the spaces they go into after school, because they changed the space they were in WhoeverThat’stoday.thegoal.you are and however much time you have left at Miami — take care of those around you, as well as yourself. Life is better for everyone when we’re mindful of the spaces we inhabit and are prioritizing kindness.

Letter From The Editor

ankenedw@miamioh.edu

I can conﬁdently tell you now that I am a much fuller person than I ever had been before.

My. friends live in Ohio while I spend these summer months in New York. I didn’t keep the relationships I had in high school because, well, frankly, they mostly sucked.

valuable knowledge.

Be it going to a Paul McCartney concert and sitting alone, taking an ever-popular “hot girl walk” (or a couple dozen) or going to see a movie at the theater by myself, I paved the way for enjoying myself for myself.

of my life, or do I make the most of it and ﬁnd a way to enjoy myself even if it truly is just that: myself?

months, returning back to where I live

It matters that you make the choice to call out disrespect and injustice when you see or hear it. It’s important to address diversity, equity and inclusion issues when it comes to all aspects of student life, including in the classroom, campus leadership and student organizations. You deserve to be heard if you are the one who has shared a traumatic or hurtful experience.Disseminating important stories is what we do here at The Student, and I can testify that the power of sharing experiences with others, especially the stories that often don’t get told, makes room for more empathy and a better world.

I write this to you, the class of 2026, to say this: there will be an inﬁnite number of nights out with friends, a plethora of experiences of which you haven’t yet dreamt and worlds full of people to meet every day in a more plural community than you’ve ever yet experienced.

I’ve found myself halfway through my undergraduate education feeling like I’m vacationing at home for three

feeling more like a stranger at home than you do at school is… unexpected. You start school as someone from somewhere, with friends, stories and a life based “back home.” Then you’re thrown into living the ﬁrst years of what all our parents call “the best years of your life,” to something totally diﬀerent.

There will too, though, be moments to be by yourself.

Russian History Professor Attacks Taxidermy Bear in Upham after Mistaking it for a Soviet Spy

Russia and Ukraine Reach Peaceful Settlement; Sources say “It is Because of White Women’s Instagram Posts”

TEDDY JOHNSON CO-HUMOR EDITOR

I know you were told on your tour that if you rub the turtles it would give you luck on your exam. However, people urinate on them late at night. So I would stay away.

and start the whole process over again!

Do: Bring an Ax to Move In There are a limited number of carts available for moving in so using an ax to fend people oﬀ will help you snag one right away. When the crazy mom tries to grab the cart away from you, ﬂash that ax her way and she’ll keep her distance. An ax comes in handy when you lock yourself out of your room as well.

LateIf you do not get along with your roommate, coming home late at night will help annoy your roommate enough to move out or earn you another roommate.

Don’t: Refer to The Woods Bar as New Bar Trust me, nobody calls ‘The Woods,’ ‘New Bar’ anymore. That is such an outdated name and all the upperclassmen started calling it ‘The Woods’ again. Calling it ‘New Bar’ is a sure way to stick out as a freshman. I would also advise you to order a ‘Garbage Can’ there, as it is a refreshing drink served at every bar in Uptown.

Horse Girl Confused When She’s Told Riding Horses is “An Instant Red Flag”

Pre-Med Student Swallows AirPod Confusing It For Her Antibiotic

Don’t: Wear Shower Shoes

It took me a little while to understand the Spanish fashion. I pulled up with my flip flops, baseball cap, and American flag tank top because Travel.com rated Barcelona as one of Europe’s best beach towns. So if you see me this fall in sophisticated pants and sweaters it’s because I am a more cultured person now. Ac-

Dear Incoming Freshman Class, Being the generous humor editors we are, we have decided to compile a list of Do’s and Don’ts for you youngins. We deﬁnitely could have used some of these do’s and don’ts during our freshman year.

Do: Press the Emergency Call Buttons AroundThereCampusisnothing the Oxford Police love more than random tests on the emergency call buttons. Plus, if you are fast enough to press every button on campus before the police catch up to you, you win a prize. Good luck!

PATRICK SULLIVAN CO-HUMOR EDITOR

After spending four months in Europe I feel like I have grasped a better understanding of the United Nations and the world community as a whole. Did you know there were wars before the American Revolution? All this time I thought we invented democracy, but apparently an old Greek dude did.

Amount of Disc Golfers Inhabiting Oxford Sparks Controversy Among Community Miami’s COVID-19 Response Team Threatens Mask Mandate To Overthrow the Oligarchy Running Miami University Opinion: Mentally Unstable People Make the Best Music Opinion: Nobody Cares That You Went to FreshmanLollapaloozaBoySacriﬁced by Cult Dedicated to Worshiping the Crawford’s Golden Retrievers SLAM Majors Are Found to

I don’t know if you knew, but that is spanish for Hello friends!

I feel so culturally appreciative and a better person for it. I’m not saying I’m better than you, but I do know how to order alcohol (or as the locals say, alcohol) in two diﬀerent languages now.

humor

RushWhat is more fun than waiting in line for 30 minutes for dinner only to be told they are out of everything. You will deﬁnitely get everything you want and they will have you out of there in no time!

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¡Hola amigos!

I am back from my four months studying in Barthelona (the natives speak with a lisp that I must’ve developed). And let me just say: Studying abroad changed my life.

cording to the one Spanish blog that I received in English, the fashion of Spain is soon heading to the Estados Unidos, or United States. Before you know it, Brick Street will be ﬁlled with sweaters.Donot worry though, I will not be the stereotypical abroad kid who won’t shut up about how studying abroad changed their life. I will only bore you with my experiences when I feel like it would beneﬁt the entire group. For example, if my friends are talking about football (American football), I will have to explain that in Europe, futbol is American soccer. And naturally this will lead to my story of when I went to a futbol game while studying abroad in Barcelona.

Patrick Sullivan (Patrick Sullivan) sulli293@miamioh.edu

Lululemon Plans On Opening a Store In Oxford, Costs Less to Have A Store Than Ship Thousands of Packages to Miami

Breaking: Monkeypox found in 93% of Frat Basements

Don’t: Buy Textbooks or Notebooks

Don’t: Take it Easy on the Charra Margs Fiesta Charra makes some of the best margaritas you will ever have, however they are incredibly watered down. Pounding a pitcher of a strawberry margarita will not get you the buzz you are looking for. I’d recommend adding a few tequila shots or ordering two margaritas to get your night going.

King Library Librarian Admits to Using the Library as a Front For Her Drug Cartel

Don’t: Rub the Turtles on the Sundial

Opinion: Drinking Celcius Doesn’t Make You Healthy

The bathrooms in your residence halls are incredibly clean. Wearing shower shoes brings in germs that definitely weren’t there in the first place. Even if there are germs in the bathroom it would build immunity to pink eye when it ravages campus during the Second Semester. It’s not like people are puking on the shower floor every night after a night out. Don’t be the person who wears shower shoes.

Despite having to retake all my classes, I am so looking forward to this next semester. Apparently “becoming more appreciative of other cultures” is not a good enough excuse for missing all of your midterms to go to Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day. Also, I am going to try my hardest to get rid of the lisp I have obtained since basically becoming a Barthelona local. ¡Adios! (Bye!)

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It wasn’t all smooth sailing, however. The beginning of my journey proved to be especially diﬃcult. Firstly, there were no tacos in Spain. I packed my sombrero and souvenir Taco Bell cup leading the locals to shoot me some weird looks. I learned after a couple of weeks that Tacos are in fact Mexican, and not Spanish.

Joe Biden Admits to Taking Bike Lessons After His Disastrous Fall

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The sweat and booze-caked ﬂoors of Brick work wonders on white shoes. The so-called “Brick Juice ‘’ turns those white air force ones into a brown color that can be found nowhere else in the world. A pattern unique to you appears on the shoes each time you go. If you want more color on your shoes, hit the dance ﬂoor! If you like the current shade of brown, go smoke some cigs outside! Once you are tired of your design you can throw them in the wash

Do: Start Writing for The Miami Student TMS is a great community, provides valuable experience and I need humor writers!

Do: Be the Roommate Who Comes Home

Do’s and Don’ts of Freshman Year fromLetterHome

TEDDY JOHNSON AND PATRICK SULLIVAN CO-HUMOR EDITORS Be the Most Attractive Majors

2022 Rise in Heartbreaks Leads to a 10% Increase In Gym Bros

Going to Country Concerts in the Summer and Posting About It On Instagram Now Means You Are Cool

Why You Shouldn’t Drunk Text the Girl You Like

Tips on How to Get Sent Home From Your Own Family Vacation

Unless you like murdering trees don’t buy any books. I didn’t take notes at all last semester and it turned out ﬁne. All of the info you need is on Chegg anyways.

Do: Go to the Oxford Chipotle At the Dinner

Do: Wear White Shoes to Brick Street

87 Year Old Leads Riot in Response to Hazardous Working Conditions in The Oxford Knolls Nursing Home

Before you all say ‘Daddy’s money’ paid for this I will let you know that I paid for it myself . . . I just used Daddy’s credit card. But I only used his card for emergencies. I had to use it to book flights, rebook flights I missed, and buy new ropas. Sorry, I mean clothes. It’s almost like I’m bilingual now. After I spent all my babysitting money by day five, how else do you expect me to pay for things?

For guidance on how to address disruptive behavior, visit Community Standards site for faculty and staﬀ.

STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES

CENTER FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, ACTIVITIES, AND LEADERSHIP (SEAL)

THREATS AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR

MILLER CENTER FOR STUDENT DISABILITY SERVICES

If the concern is primarily academic and the student may benefit from academic-oriented interventions, the Rinella Learning Center helps students build skills to succeed in and out of the classroom. They offer subjectspecific tutoring, Supplemental Instruction, academic counseling, and academic coaching. They can also help identify possible learning concerns or disabilities.

RINELLA LEARNING CENTER

outpatient medical care. Services include general medicine, injury care, and immunizations, as well as gynecology, laboratory, and psychiatry services.

STUDENT WELLNESS

If the student discloses a disability/diagnosis or asks for accommodations in the classroom, the Miller Center for Student Disability Services provides services and reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to education and campus life at Miami.

If the concern relates to a student’s wellness choices (sleep, substance issues, or diet), the Oﬃce of Student Wellness provides education, resources, and services to promote student health and wellness. They raise awareness, coordinate programming, and inﬂuence policy that results in healthy choices.

TITLE IX RESPONSE

STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER (EMSS)

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If the student expresses a desire to speak with someone conﬁdentially or discloses mental health concerns, Miami’s Student Counseling Service provides individual and group therapy, substance use assessment, workshops, and outreach to students. Students may also wish to call the H.O.P.E. Line (Help Over the Phone Everywhere) at 855-249-5649 to speak to a licensed mental health counselor at any time.

If the student is not making meaningful connections or is expressing a lack of involvement, Student Engagement, Activities, and Leadership promotes student involvement, leadership development, and community outreach. Their SEAL Ambassadors can help students ﬁnd their place and get involved at Miami.

ONLINERESOURCESINTERACTIVEMAPOFCAMPUS:

If a student discloses information that falls under Miami’s duty to report policy or expresses concern related to personal safety, please refer them to the Title IX Oﬃce. Sexual and interpersonal violence prevention and response is crucial to creating a safe, supportive, and healthy environment. Title IX programming includes topics of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.

If the student discloses an illness or exhibits a need for medical attention, Student Health Services provides

STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICE

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For signiﬁcant disruptive or threatening classroom behavior, call Miami Police at 513-529-2222 or 911. You should also report the incident to the Oﬃce of Community Standards.

If the concern is a complicated issue that involves academics and/or a Miami policy/process, the Student Success Center focuses on advocacy, problem-solving, and retention. Staﬀ can help students untangle and resolve complex problems and assist with navigating Miami policies and procedures.

Jake is a junior from Portland, Oregon double-majoring in journalism and economics with a minor in photography. He got his start at TMS writing news and working his way up as a photographer. Hoping primarily to one day be a “photojournalist,” Jake would also settle for the career path of “guy with job.” He’s an avid coﬀee addict enthusiast, Trailblazer fan and casual frisbee thrower/catcher, all while battling a growing ﬁnancial problem which is probably not related to his budding camera collection. And, to answer your burning question, he came 2,000 miles to study here because his parents are a Miami Merger.

Sean is a junior from Pittsburgh studying journalism and urban and regional planning. He started writing for the newspaper’s Campus & Community and Entertainment sections his freshman year and has since become an editor for each section. He also co-hosts TMS’s entertainment podcast, Pop Culture Convos, with Maggie Peña. This summer, he was the government and politics intern at The Cincinnati Enquirer. Outside of the newspaper, you can ﬁnd him either reading a book or walking around Oxford’s nature trails.

Lexi Whitehead is a senior from Toledo, Ohio, double majoring in journalism and American studies. Lexi joined TMS her ﬁrst semester on campus. She’s written for Campus & Community, Opinion, Entertainment and Style, and hopes to write for every section by the time she graduates. In addition to running TMS’s largest section, she is also a co-social chair. This summer, Lexi interned at The Cincinnati Enquirer as a breaking news reporter. After graduating, she hopes to pursue a career in news writing. When she’s not studying or editing stories, you can ﬁnd her jamming to Taylor Swift, devouring a Chipotle bowl or losing at Top Deck trivia.

Lexi Whitehead, Senior Campus & Community Editor

Macey is a junior from Cleveland, OH studying communication design and fashion. Macey began as a designer during the spring of her freshman year, rising to assistant design editor last fall and ﬁnally design editor in the spring of 2022. This spring, she also took over as Art Director for The Miami Student Magazine (so be sure to check that out too!). On campus, Macey also designs for UP Magazine and works as Graphic Design Student Assistant for the Miami University Art Museum. PS- Alice’s fun fact is 100% truth! Funny how life works out.

Jake Ruﬀer, Photography Editor

Soren Melbye, Design Editor

Soren is a senior from right down the block in Cincinnati, OH, primarily studying communication design in addition to studio art and anthropology. He joined The Miami Student as a sophomore, composing graphics on the design team before becoming a design editor the following semester. Outside of the newsroom, Soren can be found juggling various jobs and art projects in a larger pursuit to make a full-time career out of illustrative work. He also likes running, hiking, and sightseeing to compensate for the rest of the time he inhabits his room.

Cosette is a senior from Farmersville, OH majoring in Strategic Communication and Professional Writing. She joined TMS her first semester on a whim and hasn’t left the bright green newsroom since. Outside of TMS, Cosette is the business manager for Inklings Arts & Letters, Miami’s premier literary magazine, and she enjoys being outside, being with her pets and her family and going to garage sales and thrift stores. After graduation, Cosette hopes to manage communication efforts for non-profit organizations, and to generally be happy. Cosette is looking forward to a great final year at Miami with her staff at TMS!

Advice: Not everything has to be planned out. Spur-of-the-moment decisions are often the best ones… like dyeing your hair at 2 a.m. or joining a school newspaper on a whim.

Advice: Never ever ever go out on an empty stomach. Not even one time. And write for the sports section! (please)

Ames Radwan, Opinion Editor/Food Editor

Advice: Interact with people in Oxford beyond the university! The town has so many interesting people, some who aren’t aﬃliated with Miami at all, but you’ll never meet any of them if you stay on campus all year.

Advice: Step outside of your comfort zone by learning to say yes and know your limits by learning to say no.

Jack Schmelzinger, Sports Editor

Macey Chamberlin, Design Editor

Cosette Gunter-Stratton, Editor-in-Chief

Advice: Don’t listen to Jack Schmelzinger’s advice. Edit: nevermind I read it, those are good suggestions.

Devin Ankeney, Asst. Opinion Editor/Business Manager

Advice: Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there for opportunities! Apply for the internship/job/scholarship, because you’re probably more qualiﬁed than you think you are.

Abby Bammerlin, Managing Editor

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Advice: Get to know your professors! Most are really fascinating people and want to help you get to where you want to go in life. And if you can’t think of what to talk about in oﬃce hours, asking for advice never hurts!

Real advice: Wear shower shoes, eat the buﬀalo sandwich at SoHi, and don’t go to the Rec. It’s already too crowded.

Jack is a junior from Orchard Park, NY studying journalism and economics. He started writing for TMS in the fall of 2020, and he became the sports editor last spring. He spent this summer washing dishes at a high-end Italian restaurant in his hometown, so he is ready to study really hard this semester! He’s a huge Buﬀalo Bills and New York Yankees fan, and anything less than a championship each this year would be a crushing disappointment for him. When he’s not writing sports, you can probably ﬁnd him watching sports, defending Drake’s newest album, or playing a ludicrous amount of MLB the Show.

Abby Bammerlin, a senior at Miami, is studying journalism and political science. She joined TMS the first day of campus and has been writing for the newspaper ever since! TMS helped her learn the basics and hone her skills and she has been able to intern at Ohio Statehouse Bureau for all of Ohio’s 27 Gannett newspapers. Outside of TMS, she’s a Netflix movie enthusiast, a reader of all things nonfiction, and a collector of antique cameras. When she’s not on campus, you can find her outside rock climbing, kayaking or hiking!

Devin Ankeney is a junior Media & Communication and Journalism double major with a History minor from Scarsdale, New York. They began writing for TMS spring semester of their freshman year, instantly realizing their love for sharing their opinions as a part of the Opinion section. As well as being the Assistant Opinion Editor, Devin started as Business Manager spring semester of their sophomore year, because of their dear love for math and money and deﬁnitely not just because it came with a paycheck…. When not working or writing for TMS, you can ﬁnd Devin cramming homework in last minute while binging an entire band’s discography in one sitting or fast asleep in the middle of the afternoon.

Advice: Don’t shy from the unfamiliar. One way or another you’ll develop new interests or deepen your present ones. Growth comes in diﬀerent forms!

Sean Scott, Campus & Community Editor

Staﬀ advice for ﬁrst-years

Advice: Always just pursue what you want to do. Take any opportunity that will get you closer to your goals!

Ames Radwan is a senior Spanish and linguistics double major with an anthropology minor, hailing from Tampa, Florida. They are also obtaining their master’s degree through a BA-MA program. Joining TMS was a spur-of-the-moment decision at their ﬁrst-year Mega Fair, and they quickly found a home in Opinion, later discovering Food during their junior year. Outside of TMS, they are also involved with the MU Marching Band, the Student Foundation and the Dropouts skydiving club. Ames also works as a Miami tour guide, so they might love this school a bit too much. When they’re not swamped with schoolwork or club activities, Ames can be found in their kitchen testing new recipes for their recurring food column, the Weekly Veg, or just baking up a storm.

Advice: Try to accept change as it comes in the next couple years of your life — a lot changes, and viewing change as the enemy makes it harder to grow through.

Alice Momany, Asst. C&C Editor

Reagan is a junior economics and data analytics major with a history minor from Glen Ellyn, IL. She began writing news stories for TMS her freshman year and became assistant editor as a sophomore. Outside of TMS, Reagan works as a consultant for the Howe Writing Center and is a member of the Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority. When she’s not writing or studying, Reagan can be found reading, reviewing movies on Letterboxd, solving crossword puzzles, or (trying to) explain to people what exactly data analytics even is.

Advice: Make friends by asking people lots of questions. People LOVE talking about themselves.

Megan is a junior journalism and psychology double major from Overland Park, KS (Go Chiefs!). She joined The Miami Student as a Culture writer during her first week at Miami before becoming Instagram Coordinator and, eventually, Social Media Editor during her second semester. After graduating from Miami, Megan hopes to go to law school. Outside of the newsroom, Megan is a member of Kappa Delta sorority, and – although she spends most of her time studying or planning online content for The Student – she also enjoys drinking iced coffee (even when it’s cold outside), watching “The Great British Baking Show” and FaceTiming her dog, Pippa.

Hannah Horsington, Video Editor

Advice: No one expects you to have it all figured out! You’re going to mess up, and that’s okay, just don’t give up!

Advice: Try new things, but don’t overextend yourself. Find a few things you like and stick with them!

Advice: Take some time for yourself. College is busy, and making friends is incredible, but spending quiet time with yourself to decompress is important!

Sarah Grace is a senior from Birmingham, AL studying journalism and social justice studies student. Sarah Grace began writing for the paper in her first few weeks as a freshman but quickly fell in love with the audio section. She has written for news, culture, food and style, but she is most passionate about producing and editing the Student’s multitude of podcasts. This summer Sarah Grace worked with a start-up company to develop two podcasts from inception to publication. When she isn’t working on the podcasts you can find her cooking, watching Auburn football, or driving to the Hamilton AMC for any and all new movie releases.

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Maggie Peña is a senior journalism and American studies major from Lebanon, OH. Her first year, Maggie found a home in her Writing Scholars class and began to write for TMS her first semester. She was a multimedia editor for two years, and has written for the food, campus and community and entertainment sections. In addition to editing for two sections, Maggie is the DEI chair for TMS, and outside TMS, she is the president of Choraliers (treble choir). When she’s not avoiding her homework by lounging in the newsroom, Maggie can be found going to her local movie theater by herself (a favorite pastime so nobody can talk to her during a movie), hanging out with her family or playing video games.

Megan McConnell, Social Media Editor

Advice: Do not pursue any dream halfheartedly.

Advice: Balance is key. Give yourself permission to take a break.

Maggie Peña, Asst. C&C Editor / Entertainment Editor

Alice is a junior from Toledo, OH studying journalism and political science. Alice began writing with TMS as a first-year student and has enjoyed it ever since. While she typically writes for Campus and Community, Alice has also written for the Style section. Outside of TMS, Alice is also an editor for UP Magazine, and you can usually find her listening to music or getting her second cup of coffee for the day. Fun fact: Alice and design editor Macey joined TMS together after they covered their entire dorm ceiling in TMS newspapers!

Reagan Rude, Asst. C&C Editor

Mihaela is a junior journalism and ETBD major. She started off writing for Style during her freshman year in 2020, with topics covering local to international fashion. Recently, she has taken an interest in fashion history and has written articles to explore where trends and iconic pieces come from. Mihaela has also written for UP Magazine and was featured in their “From Student to Start-Up” article. Outside of studying and catching up with friends, she will most likely be designing clothes and working on her small business.

Shr-Hua Moore, Asst. C&C Editor

Co-Humor Editor Teddy Johnson studies Sports Leadership and Management with a Concentration in Sports Journalism. Teddy began writing for TMS last semester and found a new passion for writing humor articles. Some of his favorite activities at Miami include hanging out with friends, sitting front row at hockey games and meeting new people. Outside school Teddy enjoys outdoor activities, being with his dog and all things physical fitness. If you need to find him he is probably at Kofenya or the Rec center.

Advice: Take a breath and relax. At some point just take a step back and make sure, on top of everything else, that you are being true to yourself.

Sarah Grace Hays, Audio Editor

Advice: Participate in classes! I hate talking in front of people, but contributing to conversations and asking/answering questions has enhanced the quality of my education.

Advice: There are countless communities of people at Miami. Finding your people and your community can help make your time here amazing!

Co-Humor Editor Patrick Sullivan studies Business with a concentration in Marketing and Entrepreneurship and has a minor in Creative Writing. He began writing for the Humor Section of TMS in his effort to expand his horizons and fell in love with it. Outside of TMS, Patrick is also the fundraising chair for Delta Sigma Pi and an avid member of the Miami Comedy Club. His passions are all things humor and making the world a brighter place.

Advice: Love the friends you make at Miami extra hard, because one day way too soon you’ll all be seniors and wondering how you’ll live without each other.

Shr-Hua is a junior from Oxford, OH, a town that should sound familiar. He is studying English Literature and Political Science; he started writing with TMS as a first-year and is going into his second year of being an editor. He usually writes for Campus and Community, but he does like to write about the various places (Hidden Gems?) that Oxford has to offer outside of Miami University. When he’s not writing, you’ll frequently find him doing chess and trivia — go check out the Miami University Quizbowl team or Chess club and you’ll find him playing bullet chess games or answering obscure literature questions.

Patrick Sullivan, Humor Editor

Mihaela Manova, Style Editor

Hannah Horsington is a senior journalism and international studies major with an anthropology minor from Hebron, OH. She joined The Student her first few weeks at Miami and wrote for campus & community before eventually moving on to help start the video section. In addition to creating video content, she also works as a co-social chair, an assistant editor for The Miami Student Magazine and is the president of Miami Television news (no, she never sleeps). This summer, Hannah worked as a PR intern at the Ohio State Fair. When she is not working on student media you can find her listening to true crime podcasts, waiting in line at Starbucks, or making party invitations on Canva.

Teddy Johnson, Humor Editor

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