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Playing with fire: OFD fights flames with five Oxford Fire Department scrambles to serve region with a limited budget

SAFETY REIS THEBAULT NEWS EDITOR

An alarm cuts through the Oxford Fire Department late on a Friday night. The sound jolts five men from nervous sleep. A dispatcher’s voice rings from the PA system and tells the crew where to go.

They are all tired. Some are working the latter half of 48hour shifts. They try to sleep, but as soon as they shut their eyes, the alarm sounds. It isn’t a pleasant noise.

Once they’re awake though, they are alert, their movements deft and practiced.

Three of them load up an ambulance and set off. The other two stay behind, in case there is another call.

This is a typical weekend night for OFD. Because those nights are busier, five firefighters are on duty. During the week, there are just four.

Last year, the department responded to 2,274 calls — quite a feat considering the limited number of people on duty each night.

OFD has 66 employees and just one of their firefighters is fulltime — Chief John Detherage.

This makes Miami University the only Division 1 school without a full-time fire department in

LAUREN OLSON PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

(Left to right) Firefighters Scott Burrows and Jeff Matix are two of 65 part-time Oxford Fire Department employees. Last year, the department responded to 2,274 calls. On weekends the shift consists of five employees, during the week it’s only four. its town.

OFD’s budget can’t support full-time employees, or provide health insurance to the part-timers. Because of this, Oxford firefighters have to work other jobs as well.

“I’m not sure people realize what all these guys do,” Detherage said. “How many hours they put in to try to make a

living doing something they are really passionate about and they really love.”

Passion, though, can’t always make up for a lack of people.

“It’s definitely playing the odds,” Detherage said. “We’re definitely lucky. You can only do so much with four or five guys.”

And while OFD may be under-staffed, there is no

Professor perseveres with publication FACULTY VICTORIA SLATER ASSOCIATE EDITOR

A Miami University political science professor’s research into Russian President Vladimir Putin is now an open book thanks to perseverance.

After originally being denied by her long-time publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP), Karen Dawisha, director of the Havighurst Center for

Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, published her book, “Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?” today in the United States.

Dawisha’s research into Putin and his links to organized crime is a book five years in the making. It examines the controversial, yet powerful figure in Russian history and how he was able to secure his presidency, while also shedding light on the tumultuous crisis in Crimea.

“When Putin came into power

in 2000, he was elected, he was chosen,” Dawisha said in a March 2014 interview with The Miami Student.

DAWISHA “He has made choices. He could choose to go in one direction or the other. He chose to BOOK »PAGE 8

TYLER RIGG THE MIAMI STUDENT

STAY WRITE THERE Junior Elizabeth Spidel writes on a bench inside Upham Arch.

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shortage of things for them to do. The department responds to calls for fire, fire alarms, emergency medical service, hazardous material spillage and carbon monoxide.

“About anything you can think of,” Detherage said. “We go after it.”

Miami senior and volunteer firefighter Zach Butler said this is

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Student reports sexual assault on campus CRIME LIBBY MUELLER

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A female student recently reported to the Miami University Police Department (MUPD) she was sexually assaulted in her residence hall room in Southeast Quad. The male attacker was someone she knew.

Lieutenant Ben Spilman of MUPD said he is not at liberty to provide specifics other than that the incident occurred Sunday, Sept. 21, around 2:30 a.m.

“The most we can say is we have some concerns about issues of consent and whether there was consent involved,” Spilman said.

Consent is a clearly stated, positive and mutual agreement between two people to engage in sexual activity. Spilman said in this particular case, he could not say if alcohol was involved. However, he said in general, students should be aware that alcohol can lower inhibitions and impair a person’s ability to send clear messages about what he or she wants or does not want to do with a partner.

Spilman also said the victim is not pressing charges at this time.

“It is the victim’s wishes to not have the police investigate,” Spilman said. “The police are

taking as much of a role in this as the victim wants, but we need to make people aware even if the victim doesn’t want a police investigation.”

Spilman said when an assault occurs, MUPD’s process begins with the victim.

“The first concern is for the victim,” Spilman said. “We make sure the victim gets the support they need so that means following their wishes, whether they want to be involved in the prosecution of the case or not, or sending it through the student judicial process (Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution). But we also want to make sure that the community at large is aware that these kinds of things might happen so they can take appropriate precautions.”

Becca Getson is the Sexual Assault Response Coordinator and Deputy Title IX Coordinator for incidents involving sexual assault.

Title IX of the 1972 amendments to the Higher Education Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities, and also gives protection for those who have been sexually assaulted or harassed. Title IX Coordinators focus on notification, education and advising on Title IX protocol.

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In 1982, The Miami Student reported area adults who never graduated from high school could earn diplomas from home watching a television program being broadcast from Peabody Hall. The General Education Development Program included 34 episodes put together by the Kentucky Educational TV and the Cambridge Book Company.

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exactly why a well-staffed, wellfunded department is essential for the community.

“People don’t call 911 and request medical assistance unless they believe it is an emergency,” Butler said. “Fire departments that are understaffed and underfunded cannot realistically meet

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ASG modifies student organization funding ASG KELLY HIGGINSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Associated Student Government (ASG) Funding Committee has been funding more than 230 student organizations with the same budget for the past eight years. Today, with 100 more student organizations in need of funding than there were eight years ago, ASG has decided to allocate their budget in a different, riskier way.

If ASG chose to use the same funding cycle as last year, student organizations, activities and programs would have had to cut 40 percent of their funding.

Student organizations request the most money for their annual operating costs during the fall funding cycle.

Monday, Sept. 22, after several days of hearings in front of the ASG Funding Committee, more than 230 organizations received a total of $544,000 in funding for the 2014-2015 year. In addition, Club Sports received $300,000 to allocate across the 47 club sports organizations, according to the

ASG Fall 2014 Funding Cycle Press Release.

ASG Vice President of Student Organizations, senior Nathan Lombardi, spent hours trying to work out a method that would keep all student organizations funded.

“If we wouldn’t have changed

ASG will just have to be more efficient in how we classify our costs.”

NATE LOMBARDI

VP OF STUDENT ORGS

the allocation of our budget, the organizations would have not had nearly enough funding, effectively killing 220 student organizations,” Lombardi said. “I didn’t want that to happen.”

In an effort to maintain student organization funding, Lombardi decided to cut ASG’s operating budget by $20,000.

“ASG will just have to be more efficient in how we classify our costs,” Lombardi said.

Lombardi also said a change in Miami’s budget prompted student organizations to request more funding from ASG rather than various academic departments, which they have done in past years.

The hearings lasted a total of 36 hours and were heard by a committee of six ASG senators, as well as seven student body members.

“I feel this was the most efficient funding cycle as of yet, despite a new method of accounting at the university,” Lombardi said.

According to the press release, the cycle had a significant increase in both funds requested as well as the average amount requested by each organization.

Although Lombardi anticipates positive results from the new funding cycle, he also accounts for possible problems in the future.

“We might not have enough money swept back to fund everyone for next semester, which is when we will have to go into emergency funds,” Lombardi said.

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KIM PARENT THE MIAMI STUDENT

THE BOYS ARE BACK Fans cheer the Miami Hockey team onto the ice during the pep rally Friday, kicking off the new season.

Reach for the stars: MU student receives astronaut scholarship SCHOLARSHIP JULIA MAY

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Michael Markesbery, a senior zoology major and neuroscience and entrepreneurship double minor, is one of 28 students across the nation to receive a $10,000 academic scholarship from the Astronaut Foundation Scholarship (ASF).

The first step to becoming a candidate for the scholarship begins with a nomination from a faculty member. Miami University associate professor of biology Paul Harding served as Markesbery’s mentor and helped guide him through the

scholarship application process.

According to ASF, in order to be considered, nominees must be at least a second year college student, have excellent grades and have conducted a considerable amount of lab and research work in their field.

Students who are in the engineering, natural or applied science and mathematics fields are considered for this award, to hold true to the organization’s mission statement, which is rooted in the importance of science and technology in society.

“On a personal level, the scholarship means a lot because these very famous astronauts and scholars

believe in you and what you’re doing,” said Markesbery.

Markesbery’s interest in research began his first year at Miami and since then has only flourished.

“In Dr. Harding’s lab, I studied brown adipose tissue’s potential to combat obesity, diabetes and even cancer,” Markesbery said.

Brown adipose tissue, also known as brown fat, is responsible for producing heat in the body.

Humans lose most of their brown fat by adulthood and only contain small amounts in the shoulders and by the heart. Through modifying the fat cells, Markesbery and SCHOLARSHIP »PAGE 9

House-hunting helper: College Annex eases off-campus living HOUSING ALI PREISSING

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After doing some brainstorming during their senior year, two Miami graduates found a way to make finding off-campus housing a little less painful. College Annex was created by alumni David Spooner and Phil Shea in 2013.

The website allows students to easily find a place to live by pulling together all landlords and real estate agents on one site.

“It’s basically a marketplace

for students,” Spooner said.

“It streamlines property listing for students with the real estate agents. You can filter out certain things to specify your search.”

Students will not have to pay any fee to use the site or any of it’s other features.

“The service is free, but students can set up a relationship with their landlord to pay rent or lease online if they choose to do that,” Shea said.

According to both Spooner and Shea, the landlords and real estate agents have usernames and sign up for online accounts to check

up on their listing frequently.

“We have direct contact with the landlords and real estate agencies,” Spooner said. “They can track payments and finances, while saving the student and landowner time and money.”

Having first set up shop at Miami and UC, they now have listings at 32 universities nation wide, mostly in the Midwest.

The company is currently offering an internship program for students wanting to get involved in the business.

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RAINN DAY On Wednesday, WAVES received over 300 signatures from students, faculty and Oxford students to support ending violence and sexual assult.

Alumni named “18 Of 9” Miami alumni honored for accomplishments ALUMNI ALEXANDRIA MOORE FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Eighteen Miami alumni from the last nine graduating classes were formally recognized for their professional accomplishments and named “18 Of the Last 9” Honorees on Wednesday, Sept.

24. These young professionals represent some of most successful alumi from the 2005-2013 graduating classes.

Inspired by the format of “30 under 30,” a common award given to successful young college graduates. The name “18 Of the Last 9” (18 Of 9) is a tribute to 1809, Miami’s year of founding. The program is in its second year and has already expanded to include networking events in Columbus, Cincinnati and Washington D.C., where nominees are encouraged to meet their peers and establish connections both with each other and the university.

Already, 18 Of 9 has attracted attention; the program’s inaugural year garnered “silver winner” status for Best Alumni Relations Programs, awarded by CASE Circle of Excellence. It is considered among the most prestigious awards to receive in the field of Advancement.

Behind this success is Jonathan Moore, who has worked for Miami University since August 2012 as the assistant director of chapters and groups in the Office of Alumni Relations. Moore, who is a Miami alumnus himself, had a primary focus in connecting the stages of a Miamian’s academic and professional career.

In chartering this program, Moore and the selection committee had one core goal.

“We wanted to think about people who are building business, excelling in their chosen field, improving the world,” Moore said.

Through a social media blast, Miami’s alumni network and faculty were asked to nominate recent graduates who are excelling in their fields. The social media push percolated 140 unique nominations from a total of 180 submissions. The 18 Of 9 committee then read every submission and were asked to speak on behalf of who they believed to be the strongest candidates, and the voting process established the final 18.

Once the honorees were chosen, they were asked if there are any alumni whom they admired. This represents the next phase of the program, which is to connect further back and bridge the gap between established Miami alumni.

“The next crop are already doing great things but could be doing better with guidance and mentorship,” Moore said.

One such individual is Dan Hayes (’05), a 2013 recipient of the 18 Of 9 honor award, who is a

co-founder of Freethink Media, a creative agency and video production company focused on integrated multimedia campaigns and media production. He is better known as the director of Honor Flight, the 2012 critically-acclaimed documentary that holds the Guinness World Record for largest film screening.

“It was such an honor to be recognized,” Hayes said. “I loved reconnecting to Miami and everyone there, definitely hope to continue involvement with the program.”

This award is more than just an honor, though. Moore said it is also a way to connect young, accomplished alumni to their predecessors.

“A lot of times you communicate with people who are the destination, who graduated in ‘80 or ‘90 and it’s tough to understand how you get there,” Moore said.

“We wanted to really connect these young alumni who are still on the journey, who can talk to the students. It’s often easier to identify with those people.”

Among this year’s recipients are NBA basketball player Chester Mason (’05), stand-up comedian and television writer Beth Stelling (’07) and Cheryl Murray Miyamasu (’05), the CEO of Jeevan Aadhar Transformative Aftercare Services, an organization based in Mumbai that focuses on “holistic transitional care” for survivors of human trafficking. The list goes on, including musicians, business owners, physicians and educators.

We wanted to think about people who are building business, excelling in their chosen field, improving the world.”

JONATHAN MOORE

OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS

This diverse range of success establishes a strong network of young professionals across numerous disciplines. This was the primary goal of 18 Of 9, Moore said.

The nominees were whittled down to a group of 18 representatives from all the colleges, as well as different academic and career focuses. The result is an eclectic group that represents the wide range of success Miami alumni have achieved.

Despite this, trends and patterns arose among honorees, accentuating factors that act as catalysts for success, many of which trace back to their time at Miami.

“One of the big trends I noticed is that people exist on the line between two fields,” Moore said. “They weren’t just involved with one thing, they had a couple ALUMNI »PAGE 9

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POLICE BEAT Sittin’ pretty in throw-up city

PHILL ARNDT THE MIAMI STUDENT

SPOKES OF FURY Participants of Freewheeling Friday, hosted by BikeWise Oxford, gathered Uptown Friday afternoon following a long ride around town. The event commenced at 4:30 p.m. and bikers enjoyed refreshments and prizes afterward.

Break-ins spike Uptown, $30K heist has community concerned CRIME SAMMIE MILLER

COMMUNITY EDITOR

In a college atmosphere, locking up your doors seems to be the last thing on students’ minds before heading Uptown. However, with the recent wave of break-ins, students are urged to take precaution.

According to the Oxford Police Department (OPD) Records Office, five residential burglaries have occurred in the Oxford area in the past two weeks alone.

In each of these instances, students were targeted and personal

possessions such as laptop computers, textbooks and various electronic devices were taken from their homes.

“It’s something you would never expect in a college town like Oxford,” Senior Kelsey O’Brien said.

O’Brien’s home was broken into two Fridays ago. The break in that occurred in her home, located on University Street, was one of two that occurred that night.

According to O’Brien, a second break-in occurred right down the street. Both houses had thrown parties earlier in the night for their sorority’s so-

cial and had left for the party around 10 p.m. The break-ins occurred just hours later at approximately 2 a.m.

“Between both houses, there were about $30,000 worth of personal belongings that were taken,” O’Brien said.

In O’Brien’s house alone, three laptop computers, one Microsoft tablet, one Kindle, one pair of Ray Ban sunglasses, one Marc Jacobs watch and a backpack filled with textbooks were stolen.

O’Brien reported that their doors were unlocked and the perpetrator came in through their kitchen window.

“It was very clearly a forced

entry,” O’Brien said. “There were muddy footprints throughout the house, but when the police dusted for prints, there were none to be found.”

Police also speculated the burglar was a female because of the small nature of the footprints.

According to OPD Officer Jon Varley, in cases like these, OPD investigates by dusting for fingerprints and footprints in the home.

“We also contact pawn shops in the surrounding areas,” Varley said. “If any missing personal items turn up we can usually track that person down through HEIST »PAGE 5

Upcoming governor election heavily disputed in area ELECTION DRAKE LONG

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Ohio incumbent Governor John Kasich is up for re-election against Ed Fitzgerald and Anita Rios this coming November. The Ohio general elections will be held Nov. 4, with residents able to vote and decide an array of state offices, including Lt. Governor and Secretary of State positions.

Gov. Kasich entered office Jan. 10, 2011, after defeating incumbent Ted Strickland, D, in the Nov. 2 2010 election. While governor, Kasich approved a budget reducing income taxes for Ohio residents and cutting back taxes on new businesses. He also repealed the estate tax and used funding given by the

Affordable Care Act to expand Medicaid coverage. While these policies were successful, Ohio voters ultimately repealed a controversial law restricting collective bargaining and striking rights for public workers.

A statement by Kasich’s campaign manager, Matt Carle, maintains Ohio has experienced job and economic growth under Kasich. “As our governor, John Kasich has worked with the Ohio General Assembly to balance the budget, eliminate red tape and cut taxes by $3 billion, and Ohio’s businesses and entrepreneurs have responded by creating more than 238,000 jobs,” Carle said. “Even as our state continues to gain strength, Gov. Kasich won’t let his foot off the gas until every Ohioan who wants a job has a job.”

Democratic opponent Fitzgerald previously worked as county

prosecutor, city councilman and then as Mayor of Lakewood, Ohio.

He accuses Kasich’s budget and tax changes of benefiting only the wealthiest by their methods of lowering income taxes but raising state, local and property taxes. Fitzgerald is also running on a platform promoting investment in renewable energy industries, which Kasich froze during his term. “John Kasich is increasing taxes on the middle class, and balancing his budget on the backs of public schools and local communities,” Lauren Hitt, an aide for Fitzgerald said. “Women are being forced to discuss their healthcare with their politicians and their employers. Loving couples across our state are unable to get married. And intelligent, hardworking students are forced to take on hundreds of thousands in student loan debt just so they

can have a shot at getting a decent job after graduation.”

Green Party candidate Anita Rios or an aide for her campaign did not respond to an inquiry, but through press releases she describes her platform as one heavily opposed to incumbent Kasich’s. Rios opposes standardized testing, supports solar and wind energy investment and expresses interest in raising state minimum wage to $15 per hour. Rios entered the race through write-in, as minor political parties are no longer recognized in Ohio and therefore cannot submit tickets.

Other candidates up for re-election are Secretary of State Jon Husted, Attorney General Mike DeWine, Treasurer Josh Mandel and Auditor of State Dave Yost. All candidates are members of the GOP. Voter registration ends Oct. 6.

Upscale student housing to be available in 2015 The Miami Preserve apartments will feature fitness center, tanning facilities CONSTRUCTION

— only half a mile off campus — is set to be completed during the summer of 2015 and ready for the fall semester move-in date in August.

The apartments will come fully furnished with four bedrooms, each room with its own private bathroom and walk-in closet. Bedrooms will also each have a full sized bed, nightstand, desk, chair and dresser.

Kitchen areas will include all necessary appliances including refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves and stoves. The living spaces will feature couches, coffee tables, flat screen TVs and me-

dia centers. Apartments will also have a patio or deck and a clothes washer and dryer.

In addition to the fully furnished rooms, residents will also have access to various community amenities, such as a 24-hour fitness center, a clubhouse, quiet study lounges, free tanning booths, an outdoor picnic pavilion with fireplace, a 26,000-square-foot library, free wi-fi and more. The Miami Preserve is also leasing 22,000 square feet of on-sight retail space.

According to Robert Fiorita, Architect and Principal in Ownership, the average rental price per student will be about

$680 per month.

The Miami Preserve also has individual leasing, so residents are only responsible for covering their portion of the rent, which residents can pay monthly or in semester installments. Leasing will be available for spring semester of this academic year.

“Asset Campus Housing is our professional leasing company,” added Fiorita.

If residents do not have a roommate in mind, the Miami Preserve also offers a roommate matching service. Residents can complete a

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Health insurance costs to increase for area smokers

Cincinnati companies plan to add 100 new jobs

Boston City Council members weigh $25 K pay raise.

5 more bodies found on Japan’s Mount Ontake after eruption

Employees likely to experience a $1.6 million health insurance hike.

–Oxford Press

State-approved tax incentives will add more than 100 new jobs in the area.

–The Enquirer

The pay raise will bring their salaries more in line with New York and other major cities.

–CNN

The total number of bodies is now up to 36 after last Saturday’s volcanic eruption.

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Looking for somewhere new to live for the 2015-2016 school year? The new apartment buildings dubbed The Miami Preserve may just be your answer.

Although the Miami Preserve buildings are currently still under construction, the website boasts itself as being “Oxford’s newest, most upscale student living community.”

The Miami Preserve, located off Spring Street across from Kroger

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At 1:10 a.m. Friday, an officer observed a female student sitting on the sidewalk near a delivery truck. Upon closer observation, the officer noticed a puddle of vomit next to the female. He approached her and engaged in conversation with her, at which point she produced a valid driver’s license, and when she stood, she was unsteady and the officer smelled alcohol about her person. She stated that she had only had too much alcohol and she “felt much better” after vomiting and wanted to go home. She was cited for Public Intoxication and escorted to her residence.

Rock this town, rock it inside-out At 3:38 a.m. Friday, an officer responded to a call of property destruction by a male student.

Upon the officer’s arrival, the complainant stated that someone had thrown a rock through their living room window, at which point the rock hit the back of their mounted television. The rock broke part of the mounting, causing the TV to pitch forward, the force of which cracked the screen. The victim and his roommates stated that they did not know the perpetrators; however, earlier that evening one of the roommates had gotten into a verbal altercation with a group of unknown males on the street. None of the roommates knew what the altercation was about, but suspected that it was the same males. There is an open/pending investigation of Criminal Mischief.

High school never ends At 10:24 p.m. Friday, an officer observed a blue vehicle drifting in the lane it was driving in, first hitting the curb then drifting almost completely into the left lane. The officer stopped the vehicle as it was turning onto another street, and observed that the driver had a can of beer between his legs. The driver pointed out to the officer that the can was sealed, but the officer noticed another opened can of beer lying on the passenger’s side floorboard. The officer asked the driver to exit the vehicle and conducted a field sobriety test, which the driver passed.

The officer then noticed a third can of beer, which still had liquid in it, on the driver’s side floorboard as well as a 35mm film case. The officer asked the driver what was in the canister, to which the driver replied, “My weed.” The officer opened the canister and observed what appeared to be marijuana, and asked the driver if he had any other paraphernalia. The driver said no, he was hoping someone at Hueston Woods would have had some paper for him to roll with, and stated that he had been there for his 40-year high school reunion. He was charged with Drug Possession pending lab results and Open Container in a Motor Vehicle.

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Morpheus sustains student, professor collaboration MUSIC EMILY WILLIAMS

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The concert began in silence.

Performing without a conductor, the eight musicians onstage took their places, situated their instruments, shared a slight nod and began in unison. By the end of the performance, the select octet grew to include musicians of many ages and abilities — Miami faculty, graduate students, undergrads and future Miamians.

These musicians are all a part of the Morpheus Chamber Ensemble, a collaborative group of Miami’s string faculty and students. They performed their fall program this Saturday at Hall Auditorium, the group’s first performance at the venue.

The introductory piece, featuring four faculty members and four hand-picked students, was a risky but worthwhile venture. It was the Allegro from the Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden” by Franz Schubert. Harvey Thurmer, associate professor of violin at Miami and a founding member of the Morpheus Ensemble, felt it went very well.

“It’s difficult to get even four people playing it together,” he said. “We got eight.”

Selecting a piece of that level of difficulty relates to one of Morpheus’s central goals — exposing students to great string quartet literature which they may not encounter in any other context.

According to Thurmer, by pushing the students to try such challenging material, the faculty members have the opportunity to really mentor their students in a more intensive way.

“They see us work; they see us solve problems that come up in a chamber ensemble, and we’re able to show them how we come to solutions and get them to think about the same ways of working,” he said.

For the second piece, the entire chamber ensemble of current students joined the group onstage.

Amanda Simensky, a graduate music performance student who plays violin for Morpheus, was very satisfied with their performance, especially for having only four weeks to rehearse.

I think this is, by far, the best learning experience for string players here at Miami.”

MATT MILLER

MIAMI UNIVERSITY CELLIST

“It is always enjoyable to work with the string faculty here at Miami,” she noted.

Before the third and final selection, Thurmer addressed the audience for the first time, thanking them for their attendance, and invited their guests to the stage.

When the string faculty formed Morpheus about seven years ago, they intended for it to not only be a way for students and faculty to interact in a performance environment, but also a way to recruit prospective Miami students.

The high school students, recruited both locally and from out-of-state, ranged in age from

freshmen to seniors and, in the past, have come from as far away as Costa Rica.

Having received the music ahead of time to prepare, the students arrived at Miami at 10 a.m. on Saturday, rehearsed their piece with the students and faculty, ate lunch together and took the stage in that very afternoon.

The piece they prepared was a series of five dances, a selection that differed greatly from either of the previous selections.

The string faculty likes to mix things up for Morpheus’s performances, providing diversity in both style and genre.

“We like to make it accessible and not too difficult but yet to really stretch the students,” Thurmer said.

During the fifth dance, two men could be seen simultaneously nodding along to its lively tempo.

At the end, all of the faculty members made a point to shake hands with and thank each of their guests for sharing the stage with them.

Matt Miller, a cellist in the ensemble, recalled his own experience with Morpheus as a high school student.

“I participated in it as a senior in high school, and it had a positive influence on my decision to come here,” he said.

Miller also noted the part Morpheus has played in his experience as a student at Miami, thanks to the extra time and effort put forth by the faculty members in order to make these performances possible.

“I think it is, by far, the best learning experience for string players here at Miami,” Miller said.

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New show blurs line of realism, entertainment TELEVISION COREY BRUEGGEMEYER FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

ABC’s hit new show, “How to Get Away with Murder,” premiered Thursday to a stunning audience of 14 million people. “How to Get Away with Murder” is the culmination of ABC’s new “TGIT” (Thank God It’s Thursday) lineup, which also features “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal.” All written by Shonda Rhimes, these three shows combined to give ABC its highest-rated Thursday evening in five years.

“How to Get Away with Murder” is the story of fiery law professor Annalise Keating (played by Oscar nominated actress Viola Davis) and her intensive criminal law class actually called “How to Get Away with Murder.” This storyline is dichotomously contrasted by a look three months into the future as four students of Keating struggle to dispose of a body.

I just want to start out by saying this is probably one of the most poorly written episodes of television I have ever seen.

Within the first 15 minutes, the exact words “how to get away with murder” are said three times in a completely unnecessary context.

The dialogue in the show is cringeworthy, and the characters are shallow and unrelatable.

It became strikingly apparent within the first 15 minutes that almost no research was done in preparing to write this show. Regular legal lingo and courtroom conventions that can be seen in shows as primitive as “Franklin & Bash” are sacrificed here for the mass appeal of courtroom drama.

A first year law student getting a job at the defense attorney’s office within the first week of class and the main character using her personal affair as evidence in a case are only

a few examples of how this show completely recants realism in the face of entertainment.

While this show may not be a paragon of cinematic perfection, it does offer an entertaining concept that managed to keep me engaged for the vast majority of the hour.

Viola Davis showed outstanding range with her portrayal of the ethically-ambiguous Professor Keating, and the supporting acting was good for the most part.

Honestly, it’s fascinating to me that the network that hosts the Oscars would show three extremely similar shows consecutively that are all written by the same person. Out of all the amazing pilots that have come and gone, ABC continues to crank out late night soap operas to catch as many viewers as possible in their net of complacency.

I’m not saying that these shows are bad; I just think that some TV stations need to try a bit harder to find a unique, creative idea rather than just cranking out shows they know will get viewers. When television becomes more about the amount of views rather than the quality of the programs, it stops becoming an art form and starts becoming a business.

While “How to Get Away with Murder” was an enjoyable hour of television, it was more rooted in soap opera style drama than in the pragmatism that makes courtroom dramas great.

If you want to kick back after a long day and just watch an hour of television without thinking too deeply about the content, then this is the show for you.

However, if you want to see a show that stimulates the mind and truly resonates both on and off the screen, I would try “True Detective” or “The Wire.”

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Students and residents of Oxford will have the opportunity to see issues women face around the world with the Department of Theatre’s performance of “Emotional Creature.”

Director Rosalyn Benson will premiere the play Oct. 1 through 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. in the Gates-Abegglen Theatre.

A 5 p.m. panel will precede the Oct. 2 performance.

Originally a book titled “Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World,” the play offers an earnest examination of the pressure placed on women, not only in America, but in different societies around the globe.

Six characters star in this play, each representing a different country and embodying a real life issue script writer Eve Ensler observed during her travel and research. Ensler wrote “The Vagina Monologues,” an episodic play performed every year on campus that uses a similar format to tell its stories.

Other works by Ensler, a TonyAward winning playwright, include “The Treatment,” “The Good Body” and “Conviction.”

Miami University students Nora Papke, Natalie Santoro, Tamara Ljubibratic, Myka Lipscomb, Natasia Reinhardt and Meryl Juergens play the six unnamed characters of “Emotional Creature.” Papke described her character as an American girl transitioning into high school.

“Her big thing is she’s real insecure,” Papke said. “She also has two moms so that’s on her mind, too. She struggles a lot with needing attention; she needs validation for her actions and what she says. She’s also a leader. She starts the show, she starts

a game, she starts a dance. She’s always starting something. I feel like that’s born out of her insecurity, too.”

A second character featured in the show is an Iranian girl from the elite upper class. The Iranian status symbol of a nose job for young women is a pressure weighing heavily on Girl No. 2, and one not unlike stress girls face in more progressive countries. Benson described some of the challenges some other characters face and the monologues focusing on them.

“There’s a story about a woman from the Congo, who was kidnapped and held for two years,” Benson said. “There’s a Bulgarian girl, who was a sex slave and was sold into slavery by her father and a policeman, and there’s a story about a young Chinese woman who puts the head on Barbie dolls.”

Despite the serious challenges and oppression these characters face, Benson and Papke said “Emotional Creature” is ultimately a play about girls and women around the world taking back their agency.

“It’s about unity and empowerment and showing people you don’t have to live in a way where it seems you’re sorry for being who you are,” Papke said.

Benson went further with an interpretation of the play’s theme, talking about “Emotional Creature” as a discussion on how to be a girl in the modern world.

“It deals with some of the ironies in that,” Benson said. “One of the lines is, ‘How do I love my body when I’m supposed to be thin? How do I have a child when there are a billion-trillion people in the world?

Do I want to pay my college tuition or my health insurance?’ So it asks a lot of questions.”

Tickets for “Emotional Creature” are $7 for students, $10 for adults and $8 for seniors. They are on sale now at the MU Box Office.

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security footage.”

Varley said while there has definitely been a spike in break-ins over the past two weeks in Oxford, they have seen spikes like this before.

“The biggest thing students can do is to be aware that the break-ins are occurring and be extra conscientious of their belongings,” Varley said.

Varley said these types of break ins typically occur in situations where the residents living in the home have thrown parties earlier in the night.

“A lot of the cases we have seen in the past have involved the actual burglar being at the party,” Varley reported. “That person will scope out the house and come back later in the night when the residents are Uptown and they can easily grab valuable items.”

Varley also reported that in nearly every case of residential burglary, homes have been left unlocked throughout the night.

While there have not been email blasts sent out to students, Miami University’s website has posted updates describing the nature of the burglaries along with their locations. Each of the breakins have occurred on weekends late at night when students are most likely to be out.

The website also warns students to lock their doors at all times and make sure each housemate has a key to the home.

“I think in the college atmosphere a lot of students neglect

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to lock up their doors because they assume the area is totally immune to crimes such as these break-ins,” Miami University Police Department Lt. Ben Spilman said.

According to Spilman, students can protect themselves by being more aware of their surroundings and by paying extra attention to the crime reports posted by the university.

“We have an institutionalized response team here at the university,” Spilman said. “We try our best to notify students as often as possible when a crime is occurring in the area.”

Members of the community are also trying to urge students living in houses Uptown to protect themselves and their property.

Schmates home rentals, a local realtor, sent out a mass email to all of the residents living on their properties around town.

The email, in response to the recent wave of break-ins in the area, was composed of a detailed list of prevention strategies for students living in houses Uptown. Some of these tips included keeping all personal belongings inside the home and keeping doors locked at all times.

Schmates home rentals also urges all residents to leave lights on when they go out and to watch out for their neighbors’ homes.

“It’s disturbing that these crimes are occurring so frequently,” O’Brien said. “Ultimately, I hope people learn from what happened to us that it is so important to lock your doors even in a place like Oxford.”

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roommate matching form that helps the staff find someone who will be the best match.

Victoria Galbreath, a junior interested in the Miami Preserve housing complec asked an important question. “Is there going to be a bus stop for transportation to campus in front of the apartments?”

According to the Miami Preserve website, a county bus stop will be on-site to provide transportation to campus and around Oxford. There will also be parking for residents and visiting guests, along with garages with

attic storage.

Pets, however, are not allowed so residents can expect to leave them at home along with their furniture.

The Miami Preserve is located in close proximity to the train tracks. For many students this poses a problem because the noise factor might interfere with their living experience.

“The train tracks are close but trains are infrequent and travel at low speeds, therefore not loud, a couple of times during the day.”

Fiorita said.

For more information, visit miamipreserve.com or find them on Facebook.

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Brearkthrough in male birth control could create cultural changes on campus EDITORIAL

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

We’ve all seen the phrase splashed across Twitter or Facebook — “Why would you shoot a gun at a bulletproof vest rather than just unloading the gun?” — in reference to birth control.

The question makes sense: why have women been taking birth control for years when it would be more logical for men to be the ones preventing pregnancy?

Well the answer may be right around the corner: a non-profit called the Paremus Foundation has developed a male birth control called Vasalgel.

The medicine, which would be given by a one-time injection, is in trial stages, but is primed to be on the market in 2017.

If Vasalgel becomes available for the average American in the next few years, we wonder what the outcome could be.

Paremus describes their target market as males in their 20’s or 30’s who are dating casually, which seemingly would include the average college male as well.

Additionally, the company says that the injection would cost “less than the cost of a flat screen television.”

This is a wide range, but we assume they mean that the one-time injection would cost less than $1000.

For a company committed to developing low cost medical approaches, this seems like a steep price to the editorial board. Female birth control pills can be free depending on your medical insurance, and condoms only cost a few dollars. The convenience of a one time injection is certainly a factor, but how many young adults would pay for the injection? We doubt many college-age males would.

We at The Miami Student also question what Vasalgel would do to the condom market. Obviously this new male birth control does not prevent STDs, but if someone was with a partner whom they knew was STD-free, why would condoms be necessary? And if this new male birth control became mainstream, would buying condoms be coupled with the as-

sumption that you or your partner have STDs? Possibly the biggest question of all centers around whether or not females would be willing to trust males with the responsibility of birth control.

man in their 20’s or 30’s that isn’t in a committed relationship also has reasons to avoid fatherhood.

We believe that although Vasalgel could give men more control over their own sex life, women would still continue to take birth

Vasalgel, and the idea of male birth control in general, has a lot of possibilities. However, unless this new medication is thoroughly tested and widely available, we doubt it will have any real impact in

For years now, women have been taking birth control and controlling the responsibility of contraception.

Although condoms are also used regularly, it is typically considered a woman’s job to prevent pregnancy; form taking the pill, using condoms and even taking Plan B pills. Would Vasalgel change all that?

The Editorial Board thinks not.

Although it is indeed the woman who would become pregnant, any

ROUND TABLE

What do you think of how the football team is doing so far, and what would you change?

No matter the score, fan support is part of the conversation

control pills as a precaution. After all, it’s better to be over prepared than under prepared.

So where does this leave the average Miami student? If Vasalgel does become available in the next few years, we at The Miami Student don’t believe it would become commonplace on college campuses unless it becomes far less expensive.

That being said, college women

would still use birth control and condom use would continue to be the standard form of birth control and STD prevention.

Vasalgel, and the idea of male birth control in general, has a lot of possibilities. However, unless this new medication is thoroughly tested and widely available, we doubt it will have any real impact in the next five years.

In the meantime, students should take advantage of birth control methods that are available and continue to practice safe sex.

Miami University’s health center offers free condoms to students and nearby pharmacies at Kroger and Walgreens provide women a place to pick up their birth control prescriptions without having to go far away.

The Editorial Board thinks the Paremus Foundation has come up with something groundbreaking that could change cultural norms; however, only time will tell whether or not Vasalgel will become a useful tool in preventing pregnancy.

To me it has looked like they’ve played at the same level as their opponents. The team should go in with the attitude that they’re playing at Michigan or Paul Brown even if they’re at home against EKU or at Buffalo. I’m not questioning their will to win, I’m just suggesting preparing for each opponent with the same mindset each week.”

RAY WHITE

SOPHOMORE, ACCOUNTANCY

I really like what Coach Martin has done to change the atmosphere of the program so far. I would certianly like to see them win a couple, but the main thing I would like to see change is the fan support.

The team would be more motivated and would have something to play for there were more fans there cheering them on.”

ERIC RICE

SENIOR, MIAMI CHEERLEADER

They have a pretty bad losing streak right now.

Personally, I’d like to see fan support improve.

Seeing the kind of fans the PAC-12 has here, it would be really cool (and not to mention encouraging for the team) if Miami could rally around the team like that.”

ERICA HOWES MIAMI ALUMNA, GRADUATE STUDENT AT OREGON STATE

At the beginning of the year, I had a lot of hope they would be better. With more fan energy and more points on the board, we could start reshaping the Miami football tradition.”

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Standing with women in feminism fight: Let’s get over the wordplay MILAM’S MUSINGS EQUALITY In the American lexicon, feminism is often seen as a dirty word because it’s used interchangeably with man-hating.

Just as insidiously, it’s seen as an antiquated idea in 2014 America.

But let’s be clear. When 60 percent of rapes go unreported in the last five years and only 3 percent of rapists will see the inside of a jail, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, then we should know there is much work to be done in our patriarchal society and that feminism has the answer.

When people, including women, still ask why Janay Palmer would marry and stay with Ray Rice after what he did to her, then we should know there is much work to be done in our patriarchal society and that feminism has the answer.

If you’re wondering why it’s victim-blaming to ask that question, I’ll give you the short version.

Domestic abuse is about power and control; the proposition of leaving can be dangerous and in many cases, deadly.

Hannah Giorgis of The Guardian had it right in talking about a kind of secondary victimization wherein people are more interested in policing a victim’s victimhood than finding justice.

When men in power remain silent in the face of abuse, like with Steubenville and Penn State, among other examples, then we know there is much work to be done in our patriarchal society and that feminism has the answer.

Since feminism has the answer, then it should not be seen as a dirty word for women and more importantly, for men. Feminism is not out to get us and in fact, deconstructing the patriarchal society is beneficial to us, as my peer, Madeleine Laplante-Dube, opined in the last issue of the Student.

“Guys: you may feel that you are freer than women, but you are not in the context of gender roles,” she said.

Men, too, are collateral damage to a patriarchal society that overvalues machismo and anything that could be seen as emasculating is ostracized.

Emotions are the enemy to machismo because they make us weak or worse, “girly.” As Jessica Valenti said, being a woman is the worst insult.

“What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably

thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy.

I’ve even heard the term “mangina,’” she said in her book, Full Frontal Feminism.

Her style is blunt, but the point is obvious. In my own experiences, I’ve often been derided because I cry watching a movie or I enjoy going to a musical or because I write about women’s issues.

Wait, let’s unpack this phrase “women’s issues.” One of my favorite Ted Talks is Jackson Katz’s “Violence against women -- it’s a men’s issue.” Katz rejects the notion that sexual assault, sexual violence and so on are women’s issues, which “some good men help out with.”

These are men’s issues since it’s men largely perpetrating the violence and assault. Also, by framing it as a women’s issue, it allows men to zone out the problems.

Milam, this is purely semantics, you say. Language is the leverage by which a dominant group maintains its power. The way we talk about issues influences the way we act or more importantly, don’t act on issues.

Katz’s provides a readily understood analogy. Most people when they think about race associate it with minority groups -- blacks,

Latinos, Asians, etc. Most people when they think about sexual orientation think about gays. Most people when they think about gender think about women.

“In each case, the dominant group doesn’t get paid attention to.

Right? This is one of the ways that dominant systems maintain and reproduce themselves, which is to say the dominant group is rarely challenged to even think about its dominance,” he said.

The funny — but not so funny — thing about power is that those with it not only do not have to examine its contours, but they also do not have to relinquish it.

And then those with the power get to frame issues as they want them to be framed. Such as, sexism is a fringe element in modern society, not systematic.

Or, the “it could be worse” argument. Women in Saudi Arabia can’t drive without a man accompanying them. Women in Ethiopia and elsewhere undergo total or partial genital cutting.

Those issues are absolutely worth examining and solving, but the “it could be worse” argument is merely another way of zoning out real issues in the United States.

The bar in the United States for gender equality should not be, “Well, at least we’re not cutting off your clitoris.”

I get that some people have

no interest in entertaining labels, whether it’s feminism or others.

But if you’re rejecting feminism because you think it means manhating or because you think it’s passé, like you think the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is (which it’s not), then you’re rejecting it for the wrong reasons.

However, I see labeling yourself as a way of being heard against the power structure.

Therefore, I have no qualms or reluctance about declaring myself a loud and proud feminist.

I want to see a day where women’s bodies are respected, where women are not blamed for violence perpetrated onto them, and where men can be more openly liberal with the idea of masculinity.

This is not a battle of the sexes, but a battle for the sexes. This is not about men versus women, but about men and women.

This is about changing the status quo and that only happens when those in power go against the conventional wisdom of their peers.

When more men stand with women and let their voices be heard that the status quo is no longer acceptable, then maybe feminism won’t be seen as a dirty or antiquated idea.

BRETT MILAM

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Why I’m ready for my Gilmore Girls reunion AMANDA’S ANGLE LIFE For as long as I can remember, I’ve pinpointed only one person that I want to be like when I grow up. As much as my parents subtly nudged me to select an actual human to fill this role, time and time again I chose Rory Gilmore.

Although she only exists in the confines of my favorite television show, I’ve made several life decisions with the “What would Rory do?” mantra echoing in the corners of my pro-con lists.

If it wasn’t for Rory and her quiet, yet resolute persona, I’m not sure if I would be where I am today.

If I hadn’t seen her fan-girling over Christiana Amanpour, I’m not sure I would’ve pursued journalism. I’m not sure I knew that it could be cool for girls to enjoy reading and get good grades and be sarcastic and have big career-centered dreams before I watched Rory do it all on Gilmore Girls.

And when I felt the “Stars Hollow” vibe during my first Uptown stroll – that’s how I knew Miami was for me.

Through seven seasons and 153 wit-filled episodes, Rory and her mother Lorelai, who form the Gilmore Girls, quickly inched their way to a regular spot on my television screen and then claimed a permanent role in my heart. Gilmore Girls is one of those things — like an especially good chocolate chip cookie recipe or an awkward first-date story — that I can’t wait to share with my own daughter. It’s like a delicate and hilarious and life-shaping and slightly off-centered family heirloom, but filled with boot cut jeans and witty banter.

Gilmore Girls shaped me in more ways than a typical TV show is usually capable of. If I wanted to, I could probably trace the root of major aspects of my personality back to a scene from Gilmore Girls.

As I watched, I started an unhealthy relationship with coffee-drinking, I got bangs, I was editor of my high school newspaper, I started taking a book with me on random errands, I watched old movies, I quoted old movies and I always ordered pancakes for breakfast.

By simply clicking “play,” I was launched into a world that — in big ways and minor ways — molded my own life. If you,

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too, are a part of the microcosm of girls who consider Rory Gilmore to be her hero (and best friend), we should probably high five or something. Because, well, you just know. You know what it was like to finally see a teenage girl on TV who was similar to you — and how freeing that was.

You know when to tweet “Oy with the poodles already” for comic relief, you have a strong opinion on which of Rory’s male interests she truly belongs with, you’ve obnoxiously sang along to the theme song on more than one occasion, you’ve memorized Rory’s reading list and you know that Kirk has at least 43 jobs. To you, I probably don’t have to explain myself when I say all of this. If you’ve never seen the show (I’ll try not to judge you) though, you’re probably wondering what exactly the big deal is. Well, maybe you’ve heard recent rumblings about Gilmore Girls coming to Netflix this week — which is noteworthy, by any standard. But since you weren’t a cult-like follower of the show, you may have been surprised by how many people (and media publications) were talking about it — I counted at least a dozen Gilmore-related tidbits on BuzzFeed.

Whether you give Rory and Lorelai a try or not, you should take notice the impact this little show has had. For girls everywhere, who found a part of themselves while watching the mother-daughter duo walk arm-in-arm around the gazebo, who watched it with their own mothers, this show left a mark that lasted well beyond it’s finale.

When a series like that ends, (think Friends or How I Met Your Mother), invested viewers are stuck in a void. You’re hoping the characters’ lives will go on, hoping it will transcend that small 40-minute span of time and that square box. You’re sitting there missing these people that became a part of your weekly routine — and I was left to live a life not charted by my role model.

But all of that misery is now a distant memory, cured by the bliss that is internet magic.

So, even though it may mean the demise of my study habits, I look forward to signing onto Netflix and seeing their faces tomorrow. I can’t wait to joyfully quote each cleverly-written line (in a totally notannoying way) and being reunited with my dear friends, the Gilmores.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Miami Plan classes are a part of the experience I read the editorial staff’s comments about the Miami Plan and have some observations. When you write about developing a craft and being bored by having to take courses in areas you’re not interested in, I realized we are continuing to struggle with issues that go back many decades. The responses of the staff reflects a view of the university as, in fact, a trade school where you learn a trade or craft. You want your University to offer courses grouped around key areas, like the environment, to the exclusion of other areas. In Europe the educational system divides students early in their schooling into those taking a trade school path and those going to a university. Our egalitarian society merged those two and turned universities into both trade schools and higher education. We have a school of Applied Engineering, a Business School and a School of Education, all basically trade schools. In the early 20th Century, those wanting to teach could attend a two year normal school and receive a certificate to teach. These were expanded into four year colleges and then universities. Shouldn’t

a university be more than a trade school?

You objected to taking classes in geology. Yet, some 30 percent of American people believe in creationism, and some 43 percent believe human beings arrived on this planet just 10,000 years ago. Shouldn’t college students know the history of the planet, or how can you call yourself educated?

London for meetings and had a weekend free. He reported that he was bored because he didn’t know what to do with himself, and stayed in his hotel room to watch TV. If you call yourself educated over just being trained, shouldn’t you have a breadth of educational experiences where knowledge dispels boredom?

Your staff argued basically for

If you call yourself educated over just being trained, shouldn’t you have a breadth of educational experiences where knowledge dispels boredom?”

David Brooks wrote an op-ed piece for The New York Times on friendship and referred to Aristotle, Cicero and Montaigne. Do Miami graduates know and have read these people? What about Dante, Voltaire and Rousseau?

Should they?

My cousin, who is a graduate of a MAC school in Business, is now one of the vice presidents of an international corporation with a seven figure salary. He was in

Miami to be a trade school. I would argue that it should be a university with a requirement for a broad range of courses which would enable students to integrate their knowledge so they can understand humanity. If not, then it’s simply a trade school and doesn’t deserve to be called a Public Ivy. DEAN KALLANDER

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RULE OF THUMB GEORGE CLOONEY GETS HITCHED Okay, we guess it’s fine for Clooney to officially be off the market. He married Amal Alamuddin at a lavish ceremony in Italy, which topped tons of headlines over the weekend.

INVISIBILITY CLOAK IS REAL Scientists at the University of Rochester have made something similar to Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak a reality. Does this mean Hogwarts is real, too?

APPLE “BENDGATE” Customers have been complaining about their new iPhones bending in their pockets. Apple has assured consumers that this is a fluke, but it leaves us wondering if our phones will bend, too. Not cool.

BOSTON TRIBUTE TO JETER As baseball hero Derek Jeter played his last MLB game this weekend, he was met with a tribute in Boston, a town which is normally hostile (to say the least) toward New Yorkers.

WATCH MEAN GIRLS ON CAMPUS Wilks Theatre is on one of our favorite jokes from the movie. Grab some popcorn or gelato and catch all the teenage drama this Friday ... on Oct. 3. So fetch.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Women don’t actually make less money than men “Say something often enough and eventually it will become true,” is a saying that we used to hear by talking heads in regard to a certain phenomenon that occurs in politics.

Typically this accusation is levied against progressives. However I won’t be accusing anyone of this crime today because I don’t think that Madeline Laplante-Dube actually wants women to earn less money than men for the same job.

But Laplante-Dube, in her article “What Every Man Should Know About HeForShe Campaign,” repeats a falsehood that we’ve been hearing for decades: Women make less money than men for the same job. She even goes one step further and (incorrectly) specifies that women who attend Miami University’s Business School will get paid less for the same job upon graduation. This is particularly interesting because this is one of the few demographics where women earn more than men. Multiple studies show that college-educated childless women in their 20s make between 5 and 8 percent more income than childless college-educated men during their 20s. Another interesting fact is that never-married women over 40 years old who have bachelor’s degrees earn an average of 40 percent more than never-married men over 40 years of age who have bachelor’s de-

grees. It has been well-documented that when one compares apples to apples in the income category, men and women earn about the same, except for a few groups like these two. Why Laplante-Dube chose to pick one of the few cases where women earn more while repeating this falsehood is difficult to understand because, again, why would someone writing a pro-feminism piece want women to earn less money?

I suppose it’s possible that supporters of the women’s movement think it might be empowering for people to think that women are being shortchanged in the workplace, but it isn’t. In fact, a pervasive myth that men earn more than women could actually make women earn less. Warren Farrell, a former board member of the National Organization for Women, describes this phenomenon with the following example: A young and capable woman named Ann gets married to an equally capable man named John and after a few years they have a baby. Ann would like to continue working but because she thinks that John will ultimately earn more money, she chooses to stay home with the child rather than John. When Ann re-enters the workforce years later, she has lost momentum and years of job training so she earns less money.

The myth that men earn more for the same work sometimes causes men to earn more, albeit not for the same work.

A more productive approach to helping women earn more would be to tell them exactly what they can do make that happen.

A few examples would be get a degree in the sciences or engineering, work 45 hours per week instead of 40, move to an undesirable location, travel more for work, don’t take time out of the workforce, etc. It also couldn’t hurt to tell them that they should talk to someone who earns well and ask her how she achieved it.

Laplante-Dube’s inaccurate data point is a bit of silliness in an otherwise productive article (How many times will a person say that women earn 78 percent of what men earn before asking “If I could pay a woman less for the same job, why would anyone hire a man.”)

But silliness isn’t the harmful part. The harmful part is that this falsehood could cause some women to make decisions that will ultimately leave them less fulfilled, which is a sad outcome to those of us who want women to control their own destinies.

JONATHAN GULLY

GULLYJT@MAIL.UC.EDU

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go down the authoritarian road. I believe the main reason why he has done that was because he has a group around him of what the White House calls his ‘cronies’ who have risen up with him since the 1990’s.”

Last November, Dawisha sought publication with the CUP, a 500-year-old British publishing company with which she has previously published five books.

She sent her 500-page manuscript, a quarter of which is an accumulation of evidentiary footnotes, only to discover five months later her attempts had been denied.

“Given the controversial subject matter of the book, and its basic premise that Putin’s power is founded on his links to organised crime, we are not convinced that there is a way to rewrite the book that would give us the necessary comfort,” CUP Executive Publisher John Haslam wrote to Dawisha in a March 20 email, published in the Economist.

Haslam went on to argue in the email that despite Dawisha’s extensive research, several of her claims were potentially libelous, given their inability to be proven true. He also drew emphasis on the severity of Russian defamation laws.

Dawisha replied to Haslam’s email shortly after, claiming the publisher declined to “proceed with a book not because of its scholarly quality … but because the subject matter itself is too hot to handle.” This same reply she forwarded on to the friends at the Economist and it subsequently exploded across the American media the following days.

In response to the media attention, Dawisha received various requests from other publishers to view the manuscript. However, a month later, with help from the editor of the Economist, Dawisha got in touch with a renowned publisher Alice Mayhew, a specialist of investigative journalism who is perhaps most applauded for publishing the book “All The President’s Men.”

“My agent called me and asked me if I would do it and I said, ‘For Alice Mayhew, are you kidding? Absolutely!’” Dawisha said. “So I had a contract. It was just astonishing.”

Dawisha was perplexed by her sudden reversal of fortune, but when Mayhew set the book’s publication date for September, she was thrown back into her research work.

“I had no idea what that would mean, it was already April,” Dawisha said. “I had no conclusion and I had a very academic introduction. You know how boring that is. You have to pay homage to the Gods, those people who have come before you, you have to put footnotes on everything that has ever be written on this topic previously, and that is just not going to fly. I had to rewrite it on Crimea and Ukraine and what difference it makes and all of that.

I had to rewrite the chapters so I would demonstrate the story’s contemporary relevance.”

While her research centralizes on events that occurred 20 years ago, Dawisha said the book’s claims against Putin still hold weight in the context of today, especially given the situation in Ukraine.

“My argument is, what you see now is what [Putin] planned.

It wasn’t accidental. We didn’t stumble in to autocracy,” Dawisha said. “This is what they planned. We were still talking about democracy, but that’s not what they were building from the very beginning.”

She added that her rush to complete the book has paid off, and that her extra time and research has made a better story in the end, one worthy of publication.

“My agent told me the manuscript was fantastic, it read like a legal brief, that they could use it in court,” Dawisha said. “And I said, well, that’s the idea!”

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“They load the box and basically play man coverage on the perimeter,” Martin said. “At the end of the game, when I thought it was a two-minute situation, there were still eight guys in the box. I was shocked. I’m like ‘they’re giving us a chance.’ We just throw one-onone, make plays and we’re gonna tie the game.”

Miami’s run game showed life, thanks in large part to a 61-yard touchdown run by senior Dawan Scott. The RedHawks finished with 133 rushing yards on 22 carries.

“A little better in the run game,” Martin said. “We’re a three on the scale of 1-100. But we’re starting at least to be able to run the ball somewhat. Effectively at times, at least be able to manage the game better.”

Scott finished the game with five carries for 69 yards and a TD, but left the game with a leg injury. Martin said in his Monday press conference that Scott’s injury isn’t seasonending, but he isn’t sure if Scott will be able to play next week.

Miami’s next chance to end its losing streak comes Saturday against the winless University of Massachusetts.

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emergency relief funds in order to fully fund all the student organizations next semester, or risk a 30 percent cutback overall in funding.

If Lombardi had the chance to change anything about the funding situation, he said he would increase the funding for Club Sports, Miami Activities and Programming (MAP) and student organization funding.

“I am going to try to increase it this semester, but it is a difficult time to ask for money,” Lombardi said.

Although the money that ASG is allowed to allocate to student organizations is a small percentage of what they pay, Lombardi feels it is still worth funding them.

“For something as visible and prolific for student life at Miami, which are these student organizations and leadership positions… I am just not willing to cut them [student organizations],” Lombardi said.

main focuses.”

Of this year’s 18 honorees, 12 had a study abroad experience, which was perhaps the most common success factor. Many who did not study abroad cite this as their greatest regret from their undergrad experience.

Moore also noticed a trend of active pursuit and utilization of available resources.

“They didn’t wait for the perfect scenario or life opportunity, they did the best they could in their area, took advantage of or created an opportunity,” Moore said.

Hayes’s professional career is no exception, although it had humble beginnings; Hayes stayed in Oxford after graduation, working for the university in the office of health education, playing in a band and delivering pizza.

His first project as a documentarian was a biopic for Miami’s men’s glee club. His second year in Miami’s employ was spent traveling the world with the men,

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“The campus executive internship program is an on-campus program where entrepreneurial students are able to get first hand experience with a startup and really make an impact in the company,” Shea said. “We give them guidance and their own marketing budget to make students aware of College Annex and we will also have weekly meetings with the management team to discuss startup questions ranging from funding to creating a minimum viable product.”

Sophomore Caroline said she felt difficulty when trying to finalize the lease for next year.

Lester said she thought College Annex was a great alternative for students to use when looking for housing off campus.

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Getson said the university responds in multiple ways to sexual assault reports.

“Crime alerts is one; we work with MUPD to release that and it goes out to all members of the MU community,” Getson said.

“As soon as we receive the report, as the Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, I will reach out within 24 hours to see what resources can be given to the survivor to recover and let them know what the options and services are for them.”

These options and services range from methods of reporting to support, Getson said.

“There are several options in terms of reporting: criminal, university, investigation, things of that nature,” Getson said. “We also want to make sure they’re receiving healthcare or counseling or advocacy services they might need.”

According to Getson, cases like this one often involve people with whom the victim is acquainted.

“It’s actually the case for most sexual assaults that the survivor will know who the accused is in some fashion,” Getson said. “It could be an ex-partner, it could be someone they had dated or had been seeing or it could be an acquaintance or friend. National and statewide statistics tell us that about 90 percent of survivors actually know the perpetrator.”

Clawson Hall Resident Assistant (RA) Rita Kou said she

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However, College Annex is not the first website to try and streamline student housing markets. Made a couple a years ago by former Miami students, a site called Hutster had the same idea.

Unlike College Annex, the site quickly belly up and is no longer running. Shea’s and Spooner’s site is experiencing a much better return rate than Hutster had previously. The website is gaining a lot of headway throughout the nation with more and more hits every month.

“We have already helped thousands of renters find a place to live and we are seeing a monthly growth rate of 300 percent,” Shea said.

Created over a year ago, College Annex has found places for thousands of students around the nation. thinks when incidents like sexual assault, harassment or underage drinking occur, because they often involve people whom the victims or participants know, they may be afraid to report them. Kou said students should understand that RAs are there to help them.

“They should feel totally safe.

Part of our job is to help them when they need us and anything they share with an RA can be kept confidential,” Kou said.

When it comes to sexual assault cases, Kou said RAs can help the victim pursue any avenue of action she or he might want.

“I have heard of cases where students were drinking and want to hide that from the RAs because they’re worried about it or they [victims of sexual assault] know the person who did it and they don’t want to get that person in trouble, but the truth is, we don’t have to get them in trouble if they don’t want that,” Kou said. “We can contact the counseling center or find the resources they need.”

Whether they are going out with friends or strangers, it is important for MU students to be aware of the environment, stay safe and know what constitutes consent.

“We have a lot of prevention programming education that is trying to help students be aware of sexual assault and what consent is. We want to try to encourage safe and healthy environments,” Getson said. “It’s really important to look out for each other.”

possession of drug paraphernalia and failing to tell the network about it.

Bob Griese was suspended for a week for saying NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya was missing from the leaderboard in 2009 because he was “out having a taco.”

Brian Kinchen was suspended a week for making a gay joke during a college football game. He talked about how wide receivers need to “caress” and be “tender” with the ball before saying “That’s kind of gay.”

Bucky Waters was suspended from calling college basketball play-by-play in 2008 after saying “[UConn guard Jerome Dyson] just stole everything- fillings, hubcaps, the works,” and “I bet there weren’t any hubcaps left in the parking lot,” on-air after Dyson had nine steals in a game.

Rob Parker was suspended for 30 days for referring to Robert Griffin III as a “cornball brother” on “First Take,” suggesting that Griffin is not “down with the cause” because of his political leanings and saying that he is not really a part of the African-Amer-

ican community. He is no longer with ESPN as his contract was not renewed.

Colin Cowherd was not suspended for talking on his radio show about how John Wall’s father is the reason that he is not a “franchise player.” “Let me tell you something: I’m a big believer, when it comes to quarterbacks and point guards. Who’s your dad?

Who’s your dad? Because I like confrontational players, I don’t like passive aggressive. Strong families equal strong leaders. Talent? Overrated. Leadership? Underrated.” Screw this company.

documenting their experiences. He credits this as the learning experience he needed to develop how to effectively engage people digitally.

“The extra opportunities provided to me outside of the classroom — video production, particularly — really gave me tools I needed to experiment right out of college,” Hayes said. “The first step and the confidence to make the first film about glee club shaped me professionally and had a huge impact on my life.”

He remembers, too, his first foray into digital rhetoric, which began in King Library’s SIM Lab when he was tasked with creating a recruitment video for his fraternity.

“The simple process of putting pictures together to influence what people thought was how I learned the power of visuals and music in how an audience experiences something,” he said.

For Hayes and his fellow honorees, 18 Of 9 has been, and continues to be, an avenue back to their roots.

“18 Of the Last 9 is super exciting because it’s a great way to engage younger alumni,” he said.

“A lot of people either heard about or were nominated for the award and I definitely feel closer to Miami and reconnected. It’s been a great experience.”

The full list of nominees and honorees can be found at miamialum.org/18of9. The Alumni Association encourages students to join the on-campus reception on Nov. 5, 6 and 7, for which the honorees will pair up with their student organizations and favorite professors. Students, too, will have the chance to network with the professionals of their desired fields.

Hayes, too, knows the potential of this program, and sees 18 Of 9 as an important opportunity for students and alumni alike.

“The biggest blessing for young people is to get out there and do it,” he said. “There are so many reasons to tell yourself not to do it, not the right story or time, but I would definitely counsel against telling yourself that.”

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Harding hope to eventually eradicate type-two diabetes, obesity and cancer.

Fulfilling his minor in entrepreneurship, Markesbery has been working on developing a line of outdoors jackets with a modern twist. The goal of the jacket is to be able to use it in extreme winter conditions without having to layer up underneath. The company’s name, Lukla, is actually titled after a base camp at Mount Everest.

“We should be starting a kickstarter campaign in mid October for the line, it’s pretty cool to be doing on the side.”

Markesbery has already acquired a patent on his design and the jackets would feature insulation from AeroGel, an efficient thermal insulator.

In the near future, Markesbery hopes to pursue an M.D. as an endocrinologist, a doctor who specializes in diseases and conditions related to the endocrine glands and the hormones they release.

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“I understand that you can’t take away from everything else in the city to try and fund the fire department,” he said. “Everything else has to function too. If you said, ‘We’re going to take $1 million out of the police budget and put it in the fire budget,’ you would cripple them.”

Detherage said it has taken a while for OPD’s budget to get to where it is. The fire department, he said, will need to go through a similar progression in the future.

“I think that’s something that you’ll see evolve here,” he said.

“Maybe not as fast as I would like, but eventually it’s going to happen, it’s going to have to.”

As understaffed as they are, OFD seems to be on a different projection than other fire departments in t he area.

When Elliott began as city manager in 2007, the department was entirely volunteer. Since, it has progressed from three part-time people during the day, to four and five part-timers all the time.

Even this transition was a stress on the city’s budget. Elliott decided to raise the income tax .25 percent in order to fund the new positions. Today, that quarter percent generates most of OFD’s operating budget.

Elliott pointed out this expansion came at a time when other fire departments were cutting positions. Recently, he said, the city of Middletown laid off 11 fulltime firefighters.

“I can’t say this is the best time in the world to be trying to build

up a fire department,” Detherage said. “It has made it very tough.”

Despite budget constraints, Elliott said there is a possibility of additional OFD positions soon.

He presents his proposed budget to City Council Oct. 1 and said he has recommended the addition of more full-time supervisors. But nothing is guaranteed.

“We’re still working those numbers, but of course that will add to our cost,” he said.

Until then, OFD will continue to operate with four or five people on duty. And, many times that number is adequate.

Although, there are times — like the Fiji house fire in 2013 — when they simply don’t have enough people.

In these cases, the department has to use something called “mutual aid.” This alerts nearby forces to the situation and asks for their help. The only problem with that, Detherage said, is that it can take up to 20 minutes for another department to arrive on the scene.

Because of the petroleum-based materials used in modern furniture and houses, and its tendency to burn quickly, every minute is crucial.

For now, Detherage said, being under-funded and overworked is all part of the job — a job his firefighters will do regardless of the conditions, because they love what they do.

“When it comes right down to it, if you don’t enjoy helping people, you won’t do this very long,” he said. “It’s just too damn hard work.”

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community demands. Could you imagine calling 911 and have no idea when and if someone would show up?”

While Detherage said OFD does an exemplary job meeting the needs of the community, even just a few more people on duty would allow the department to better their service.

“If we had eight guys all the time, we would have a more efficient operation,” Detherage said.

The problem, however, boils down to funding.

“Do we have the money coming in right now to support that?

It’s not sustainable,” he said.

City Manager Doug Elliott said the lack of funds is due to various cutbacks at the state level.

While he would like to hire more people, he said the money just isn’t there.

“I’ve been in government for over 35 years and you can always make the case for more resources, but you have to do the best you can with what you have,” he said.

OFD’s operating budget is about $1.5 million and they are the sole provider of EMS service for an area of roughly 53 square miles (this includes Oxford, Oxford Township and Milford Township). Oxford Police Department, on the other hand, has an operating budget of around $3.5 million and 40 full-time employees. They are one of three police forces in the area.

Detherage, though, said he understands the city’s predicament.

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Miami University’s Mid-American Conference opener against Eastern Michigan University (5-21) was bound to be a challenge for the RedHawks (6-2). The ’Hawks fell to the defending regular season conference champions 2-0 Friday.

Despite the loss, Miami head coach Bobby Kramig thought the game was a great showcase of MAC soccer.

“I thought it was a very good soccer game,” Kramig said. “The Eastern-Miami game always is.

Give all the credit to Eastern – they’re a fine team.”

Play was balanced in the first half and it looked like the score

would be level going into halftime until the Eagles snatched a goal in the 45th minute.

“It was kind of a fluky goal,” senior defender Courtney Zanotti said. “It hit off the crossbar and barely bounced over the line.

There was nothing we could do about it.”

Miami came out in the second half determined to even the match but couldn’t find the critical final touch to get past EMU’s organized defense. Entering Friday’s shutout, the ’Hawks had scored a goal in every contest and scored at least two goals in each of the previous four games.

“We didn’t have a very good finishing day, that’s for sure,” Kramig said. “We’ve been on a roll here with our goal scoring lately, but sometimes you hit games like that.

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The percentange of passes quarterback Andrew Hendrix has completed this season, second worst in the FBS. Despite the low percentage, Hendrix is 33rd in the nation in passing yards per game.

You just gotta brush them off and move on.”

Zanotti chose to look forward rather than dwell on Friday’s defeat.

“This game is a hard loss, but we’ve got 10 more games to play and I’m not concerned about it,” Zanotti said. “I think we’re gonna get it back.”

As Zanotti predicted, the RedHawks rebounded and placed another mark in the win column Sunday and reversed Friday’s scoreline by defeating Bowling Green State University 2-0. Miami never let up as it sent 25 shots at the Falcons (1-8), who only mustered two shots of their own.

“I thought we were sharp in the first half,” Kramig said. “We were doing everything that we needed to do – we were quick,

we were opportunistic, we were aggressive.”

Junior forward/midfielder Haley Walter and freshman midfielder Maggie Scott found the net against BGSU. It was the second goal of the season for both players.

While Kramig was looking to get more out of the weekend, he is confident the ’Hawks will bounce back and contend for the conference title.

“I don’t think anyone’s ever gone through the MAC unscathed,” Kramig said. “We’re in good shape. We’ve got a good team. We’ll be there at the end – I’m not concerned about that.”

Miami continues conference play next weekend as it hosts University of Toledo 4 p.m. Friday and Central Michigan University 1 p.m. Sunday.

Last Wednesday night, Grantland.com creator and ESPN personality Bill Simmons was suspended for three weeks by ESPN for saying on his podcast that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is a “liar” in regard to Goodell’s claims that he did not know about what was on the second Ray Rice tape. Simmons also said that to suggest otherwise is “such f****** bulls***.” The suspension is important because other personalities at the network have done far worse than what Simmons did and have gone relatively unpunished by the folks at Bristol (and vice versa).

For starters, there were multiple alleged incidents where Mike Tirico sexually harassed ESPN employees. He was suspended for three months and continues to work for the network on “Monday Night Football.”

Keith Olbermann was suspended for two weeks for referring to Bristol, Connecticut (the home of ESPN) as a “Godforsaken place” on “The Daily Show.” He left for MSNBC before coming back to ESPN last year.

Stephen A. Smith was suspended for a week for discussing on “First Take” how women are responsible for preventing their own beatings: “In Ray Rice’s case, he probably deserves more than a two-game suspension which we both acknowledged.

But at the same time, we also have to make sure that we learn as much as we can about elements of provocation.”

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Miami University couldn’t stop the University at Buffalo’s ground game, as the Bulls picked up 273 rushing yards to hand the RedHawks their 21st straight loss.

“Defensively was a struggle basically start to finish,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “We had a very difficult time stopping the run. You give up [273] yards rushing, you can try to find how many teams have won a game in the history of football giving up [273] yards rushing, it doesn’t happen very often. You don’t have to look past that stat.”

The team’s first Mid-American Conference game had six lead changes, with Miami (0-5, 0-1 MAC) holding leads in the first, third and fourth quarters. The RedHawks were up 27-26 early in the fourth quarter, but failed to keep that lead.

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“Didn’t think we played bad at all,” Martin said. “I thought we played very well for three quarters and two minutes. We gotta execute in the fourth quarter, which we haven’t been able to do … We gotta win the fourth quarter at some point to win a game.”

Buffalo (3-2, 1-0 MAC) junior Anthone Taylor did most of the damage for the Bulls, picking up 222 yards and three touchdowns on 36 carries. It was a revenge game of sorts for Taylor, who wanted to go to Miami but had a scholarship offer revoked by Don Treadwell and his staff.

“I told myself if I ever got the opportunity to play against them that I’ll make them regret the decision,” Taylor told The UB Spectrum.

The offensive line, despite missing two starters for much of the game, had one of its better performances. But better isn’t good enough for Martin.

“They were probably a little better, but they aren’t close to being good enough to win a football

game,” Martin said. “We’re measuring against putrid, where they can’t run block or pass block to now occasionally they protect our quarterback. That’s one of many positions that played better, but we got to continue play better there and every where else if we’re ever gonna win one.”

Senior Andrew Hendrix completed just 12 of 38 passes for 238 yards and three touchdowns.

On scoring drives, Hendrix was an impressive 9 of 11 for 175 yards and three TDs. But on non-scoring drives, he was a woeful 3 of 27 for 63 yards.

“We need to be like 16, 17 or 18 for 38,” Martin said. “We’d have 300 yards and we win the game.

We didn’t need that many more competitions, but we needed more than 12.”

The RedHawks took plenty of shots deep throughout the game, because Buffalo’s scheme was designed to stop the run.

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