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MinGi Kang, a 20-yearold university studies major from Seoul, South Korea and Beijing, China, is dead after climbing and falling from the radio tower at Williams Hall last Thursday.

A Miami University Police Department officer responded to a 911 call at approximately 3:45 p.m.

Thursday, March 25, according to the incident report.

MUPD Capt. Ben Spilman said he could not elaborate on specifics, but the department is investigating the case as a suicide.

The official report from the Butler County coroner is pending.

Mike Curme, associate vice president and dean of students, declined to comment on the incident, but included a list of counseling and suicide prevention resources for students in his initial announcement to the university community.

“The loss of anyone in our community affects all of us,” Curme wrote. “We hope that you will not hesitate to take advantage of any resources that you need, and take care of yourselves and each other in the coming weeks.”

Claire Wagner, director of

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university news and communication, said the death of any student is a loss for the Miami community.

“The loss of a student is a tragedy for us now and in ways we can’t even imagine,” Wagner said. “We will never be able to know what that student could have gone on to do.”

In a 911 call last Thursday, Stephen Gordon, curator at the McGuffey Museum, told an MUPD dispatcher that someone was climbing the more than 350-foot radio tower.

“He’s so far away, but he’s dressed in dark and he’s probably 75 feet up on the ladder,” Gordon said. “So I don’t know, he could be a repairman, but he doesn’t appear to be a repairman.”

Steve Beitzel, the chief engineer at Williams Hall, said he had just left the building

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“The logical engineer in me said, ‘there’s a lot of cell antennas and transmitters up there and it has been raining all day, so something must have just gotten wet and broke off.’”

Richard Campbell, chair of Miami’s Department of Media, Journalism and Film, commented on the incident, which has left many faculty members in Williams Hall shaken.

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TESS SOHNGEN

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Many survivors of sexual assault may not be protected from their perpetrators on campus because they do not qualify for no contact orders.

A no contact order is a legal document issued by the Dean of Students that offers interim protection measures and prohibits the perpetrator from contacting the student.

It is one of the first steps Miami University takes when a sexual assault case is reported and further investigated.

When a student reports a sexual assault through Miami University, he or she has three choices of action thereafter: file a complaint against a student perpetrator at the Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution (OESCR), ask for a university-led investigation through the Office of Equity and Equal Opportunity or choose to take no action against the accused, said Rebecca Getson, Miami’s sexual assault response coordinator.

Survivors who choose to take no action against their perpetrator cannot file a no contact order because there is no proceeding action in their sexual assault case.

“The university can’t

For students, Tinder use a competition TECHNOLOGY

KELY BURNS KIRBY DAVIS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

According to its official website, Tinder is a place to meet friends, start relationships and potentially find your soul mate. But to most Miami students, it’s a game.

Founded in 2012, Tinder is a dating app that presents other users in your area on which you can swipe right or left, meaning you’re interested or you’re not, respectively. On each person’s profile is their first name, a short biography and mutual Facebook friends or interests.

Two people “match” when they both swipe right on each other, and from there they can send one another messages. While many opt for a simple “Hey,” others venture into riskier, or more inappropriate, territory.

Things like, “Is your name Daniel? Because damnnn,” and “I’ll have your panties dropping quicker than Jeb Bush drops an election” and “You look like the type of girl who would enjoy being pinned up against the wall and fucked.”

First-years Keaton Bass and Nico Katsafanas agree that the only consequence of sending messages like these on Tinder is the occasional

awkward public encounter with a match or the rare offended response.

Katsafanas says his ideal first message to a girl is something relatively offensive, but funny at the same time.

“It’s gotta be as dirty as possible,” Bass agrees.

Katsafanas says his forward approach yields a 75 percent success rate.

“There’s a surprising amount of good responses to awful things . . . I think that’s what they expect,” says Bass.

Katsafanas and his friends participate in a group chat where they send each other screenshots of the ridiculous messages. They laugh over the responses and the fact that they sent the messages at all.

Katsafanas is not selective in who he matches with. He simply goes back and forth between swiping left and right. Bass swipes right on almost everyone. He feels bad if he doesn’t.

Both students think the best use of Tinder is for pure entertainment, and while neither has taken it seriously, they don’t think the girls they’re messaging do either.

First-year Audri Johnson, who is two weeks into the Tinder game, isn’t using the app to find her soulmate. She’s just looking

sanction anyone without some disciplinary action,” said Susan Vaughn, the director of OESCR. “Whether it’s an investigation or an OESCR process, there has to be something that we will eventually do,” said Getson.

Getson is the primary point of contact for survivors and the Deputy Title IX Coordinator.

Only after reporting the incident can the survivor obtain an interim no contact order from the Dean of Students and later a no contact order after an OESCR hearing.

“I think it’s a shame that they don’t offer no contact orders for these victim-survivors, even if they don’t want to go through the OESCR or police,” said Jane, a senior at Miami.

Jane is a survivor of a sexual assault that occurred on a different campus before she transferred to Miami her sophomore year. Because she didn’t want to go to police or go through an investigation, she said the university told her, “You’re on your own … there’s nothing we can do about it.”

Miami offers forms of protection to those who don’t have a no contact order, such as making scheduling and

residency changes for the survivor, the accused or both.

Getson said this is trickier because there’s no legal action behind the university’s attempts to keep the survivor and the perpetrator separate.

With no contact orders, the burden falls on the accused to change class sections or residency or to leave a location when necessary.

One of Jane’s roommates had issues with a boyfriend who would become verbally abusive after drinking; he lived down the hall from them. Jane said he would bang on their door and yell at her roommate from the other side. After her roommate reported the issue, and the university moved the boyfriend to another residence hall, though the roommate had taken no legal action against him during the time he changed dorms.

“I think students just don’t know what their options are,” said Jane. “You don’t have to go through the OESCR office or the police to get help from the university.”

Jane now works with Getson through Women Against Violence and Sexual Assualt (WAVES), for which Getson is the advisor.

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Policy on minors on campus ignites controversy POLICY

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for a distraction and finds the messages she receives from boys amusing.

“It’s just such an uncomfortable thing but it’s so funny at the same time,” Johnson says. “ I think it’s hilarious to see how desperate guys are.”

Johnson humors those who dare to send her messages like “If I were a watermelon, would you spit or swallow my seeds?”, which she receives on a regular basis, but also refuses to respond to less creative ones that read “Hey” or “What’s up?”

Like Bass and Katsafanas, Johnson sees Tinder as a game.

On several occasions, she’s given matches directions to meet her around campus, but she never shows up.

“Something came up,” she says to the boys who continue to message her. She finds it hilarious.

Pick-up lines like the ones Johnson receives on Tinder are not what she would typically hear in a face-to-face

conversation. So, the question becomes: why do people send them at all?

Social psychology graduate student Ryan Walker points to societal gender norms and, more importantly, personality, as potential explanations for people’s Tinder-ing tendencies.

“I think a lot of it has to do with personality,” Walker says. “Tinder also makes it relatively easy to act that way.

It’s such a quick and easy dating site . . . It’s all based on superficial characteristics.”

It’s easy to find research conducted on social media titans like Facebook and Twitter, but little is known about the science or psychology behind newer apps like Tinder.

Walker says that, while most behavior on the app can be attributed to individual personalities, gender expectations and roles are likely affecting it as well. For example, boys are generally more willing to act brash or TINDER »PAGE 3

At its Feb. 22 meeting, the Miami University Senate reviewed a bill to approve the policy for allowing minors, or anyone under the age of 18 who does not attend or has not been accepted to attend Miami, on campus. The policy, put in place by Miami University’s General Counsel, has been active for years, but was never approved by University Senate.

“As far as I know, I’ve been breaking the rule for years,” said Leah WasburnMoses, a Miami professor of educational psychology who has three children between the ages of 7 and 15.

Maria Cronley, secretary of University Senate, said a motion was made to remove the bill from the consent calendar to allow senators more time to review and discuss the parts of the policy.

The policy outlines guidelines and rules as to how minors must be supervised on campus. According to the policy written by Miami University GeneraCounsel, no minor under the age of 14 can be left alone. Also, residents in the residence halls are not allowed to monitor minors in their rooms, but minors are allowed to ac-

company a parent to work only on a “bring your child to work” day. Furthermore, the policy suggests that children with child care emergencies should be left at home.

The minors on campus policy states, “Miami is not in a position to provide emergency child care, and no university space is to be used as an alternative to child care.”

The purpose, according to the policy, is to keep minors, a “particularly vulnerable population,” safe and to deter any concern. The policy was also set in place in order to protect university individuals from being falsely accused of abuse.

However, for Wasburn-Moses, this policy takes it too far.

“I think this stems from what happened at Penn State,” Wasburn-Moses said.

“They are trying to avoid a tragedy, which is commendable, but in my opinion, don’t ban children.”

In 2011, Penn State University football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was accused and later convicted of sexually abusing 10 young boys at a Penn State youth football camp over a span of 15 years. Penn State paid $57.9 billion in MINORS »PAGE 3

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Mascot raises health awareness in Oxford HEALTH

KIERRA SONDEREKER THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Oxford community now has a physical embodiment of health awareness in the form of mascot Rox the Fox — created by the Talawanda School District and McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital. While the mascot is new, the idea for it began two years ago.

In 2014, a coalition for healthy communities across the nation set up work groups in different areas in order to assess and address community health needs. These groups focused on three specific aspects: alcohol and other drugs, mental health and obesity prevention and reduction.

Director of Employee and Community Wellness at McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital, Sharon Klein, and Health and Wellness Coordinator for the Talawanda School District, Amy Macechko, teamed up through the Oxford obesity work group in order to find a positive, inviting approach to the topic of obesity prevention.

“We’re working with one of our coalition members and a professor at the university and some of her students to do an initial assessment just on awareness and recognition,” Macechko said.

From this came an idea for a social marketing campaign, which Klein and Macechko first witnessed in a similar health awareness program in a Kansas community.

A contest was held at Talawanda Middle School in which students were given free reign to design a

logo, slogan or mascot that would encompass the idea of healthy living. The winner of this contest was revealed in October 2014.

Created by eighth grader Autumn Tyler, Rox the Fox became the mascot for Oxford’s new health awareness initiative.

“There were a few ideas, but Autumn’s stood out as just very thoughtful,” Macechko said.

“She was really going for what our vision was.”

We want the image that if you see Rox, you know a healthy choice is being made...

SHARON KLEIN DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYEE AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS, MCCOLOUGH-HYDE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

A trip to a graphic designer brought Rox out of Tyler’s imagination and onto paper, but a costume designer allowed the mascot to come to life. The physical mascot was first introduced to Oxford during a community walk in Uptown park.

Rox the Fox has become an integral part of health awareness throughout the entire Oxford community and has gained considerable popularity despite being relatively new.

The mascot has participated in events ranging from a Miami University women’s basketball game to

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Members of the Oxford City Council meet with McCollough-Hyde Memorial Hospital health awareness mascot,Rox the Fox. being a judge for a local Halloween costume party.

Miami University’s Assistant Director of Benefits and Wellness, Cassie Wilson, recently worked with Rox the Fox on Miami’s Benefits and Wellness Fair and is excited about the progress the community coalition is making.

“They’re promoting health in a lot of different ways and to have Rox there giving people a visual, an actual mascot dedicated to the health of our community, was really good,” Wilson said. “I think a lot of people at Miami are used to seeing Swoop, but now they’re seeing a different type of mascot and it just creates a lot of dialogue around the community health work that Miami and the

coalition does.”

Rox the Fox advocates for a broad and diverse spectrum of health awareness, despite originating from the obesity prevention work group, and was made to appeal to all ages of the community. The mascot is often tied to simple, albeit important, health habits such as wearing a seatbelt or washing hands — giving the subject of health an element of fun for younger students and acting as what Klein refers to as a “rock star” in the grade school and elementary schools.

“We want the image that if you see Rox, you know a healthy choice is being made or something healthy is happening,” said Klein. “Even though he came out of the obesity

prevention, he’ll still be for mental health and alcohol and drugs.”

Both Klein and Macechko have visions of Rox the Fox being in grocery stores and on menus in restaurants, indicating healthy options and decisions throughout the community.

Klein commended the success of Rox thus far, especially in relation to the huge impact the mascot has had on the Talawanda School District.

The Oxford health initiative coalition hopes to continue the mascots progress and make him a permanent fixture in the community.

“I don’t know if his novelty will eventually wear off,” Wilson said.

“But right now he’s definitely continuing to grow in popularity.”

Miami alumnus opens old-fashioned barbershop in Uptown Oxford UPTOWN

ALISON PERELMAN

ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR

A familiar name and face has come back to town — Miami alumnus Keith Weiser returned to Oxford to open a new barbershop Uptown.

This will be Weiser’s second shop, with the first located in Nashville, Tennesse. The Bowtie Barber Club has only been open 10 months, but business is booming.

Weiser is hopeful about the success of his new shop and is glad to be back in Oxford.

“Every time I come up here I feel like I’m at home, and that’s a good feeling to have now that I’m opening a business,” Weiser said.

He has always called Oxford his home, especially when he attended Miami to play baseball. Weiser had received 32 Division I offers, but chose Miami so his parents could watch him play. And they never missed a game.

Weiser knew Miami would offer him a quality education, but never imagined the other opportunities he would receive.

“I have some of the best memories playing here, and then some of the best friendships that I’ve had in my life [came] from Miami,” said Weiser.

One of Weiser’s best baseball

stories is of when the team won the MAC championship — the last time Miami’s team did.

“It was cool to be on that team,” said Weiser. “I’ve never been on a team with such good chemistry and guys getting along.”

After only three years of playing for Miami, Weiser was given the opportunity to move up to professional baseball. He was drafted during his junior year by the Colorado Rockies.

“It’s kind of what I dreamed of from the beginning. Ya know, every little kid dreams of doing that,” Weiser said. “And it was everything that I thought it would be, everything that I wanted it to be. And I got to go and do so many cool things and meet so many cool people and see all these crazy, different places.”

Weiser owes his success in baseball to his father, Tom Weiser, who coached him since he started playing tee-ball at the age of 5.

His father built a baseball field in their backyard and held practice almost every day. Practices weren’t mandatory, but each team member showed up anyway.

The team only lost six games in five years, and won five straight City Championships.

“So it paid off,” said his father with a chuckle, speaking of his coaching methods.

But a baseball career can’t last forever and Weiser started looking to settle down into a more normal lifestyle after eight years with the Rockies.

His mother worried about what he was going to do; after baseball he was a little lost. He thought he wanted to be an athletic director, but was burned out on sports. Then the idea of the barbershop fell into his lap.

Weiser visited a friend’s barbershop and loved the experience. The owner suggested he open his own, so he did.

“I was probably more thrilled because I knew he had found another niche that was gonna make him happy,” said Patty Weiser, his mother.

There are pictures — even one of a young Weiser himself getting a haircut — hanging on the walls of the Bowtie Barber Club in Nashville, Tennesse and there will be copies in Oxford, too.

The pictures add to the nostalgic aspect of the shop, which mixes features from several eras to form a classic theme. The barbers will wear classy dress — black and white with bowties. Music from the 1950s will play overhead and it will feel like a 1920s speakeasy, especially because of the members’ lounge.

The private members’ room will include couches, a dart board, re-

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Barber Craig Dillinger sports the debonair attire that is a hallmark of the Bowtie Barber Club brand. freshments — things to make it a fun place to hang out or study.

Along with access to the lounge, members will also get five dollars off haircuts and 10 percent off retail products for only $10 a month.

The social aspect isn’t just for members, though. Weiser wants his shop to be a place where everyone — students, professors, staff, Oxford locals — can come to hang out, like in the old days.

“I truly feel that [in] this day and age people are wanting to go back to the way things used to be and slow things down a bit,” Weiser said.

While the Bowtie Barber Club fits into Uptown Oxford

as a small business, it offers a completely new experience.

Every haircut comes with a hot lather on the neck with a straight razor shave and a hot towel on the face with essential oils — a nice way for men to relax.

Weiser wants his customers to enjoy their unique experience and leave feeling good about themselves with a smile on their face.

“I think it’s something that Miami needs,” said Weiser.

The grand opening of the Bowtie Barber Club, located above Steinkeller, is scheduled for Friday, April 1. Free food and drinks will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Ohio primary reinforces Clinton momentum, offers opportunity to Kasich ELECTIONS

ELISE VASKO

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Ohio primaries for the 2016 presidential election resulted in wins for Hillary Clinton and John Kasich.

Charles Kennick, Secretary for College Democrats, voted for Bernie Sanders and is disappointed with the outcome.

“I’m kind of concerned he’s done. Personally, I don’t know if he’s going to have a chance,” said Kennick. “I’m starting to realize in the general election I’ll have to vote for Hillary Clinton and I’m not excited about that.”

While he won’t be happy about it, Kennick said he would vote Clinton over any republican in the field.

Ohio is the only state Kasich has won in the primaries so far.

Although Kasich may not be a

strong contender for the Republican Party nomination, his win in Ohio could still have an impact on Donald Trump’s campaign, according to political science professor Ryan Barilleaux.

“Governor Kasich not only won the Ohio primary but he won it decisively,” said Barilleaux.

According to Barilleaux, Kasich’s win will be important because the delegates Kasich won are delegates Trump can no longer have and may help to deny him a first ballot nomination at the Republican convention.

“Beyond the delegate math, Kasich’s victory represents symbolically that there are still a lot of Republicans who are unhappy with Trump,” said Barilleaux.

Professor and Director of Black World Studies at Miami, Rodney Coates, said he believes Kasich’s win represents a feeling of dissatisfaction with Trump on the part

of many Republicans and a general anxiety regarding Trump’s candidacy on the part of many Independent and Democrat voters.

“It demonstrated, hopefully, that Ohio is a little bit saner in that the mainstream Republican candidate won,” said Coates. However, some disagree with this praise of Kasich’s mainline ideals.

“It’s scary because people think on a national stage that John Kasich is some type of moderate when he’s just as hardline conservative as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio,” said Kennick.

Alex Cary, Treasurer for College Republicans, thinks Trump is the worst thing that could ever happen to the Republican party.

“I’m not a big fan of Kasich, but I’m very glad that he took Ohio,” said Cary. “I will not vote for Trump, I will not support Trump, I would not vote in the

general election.”

Coates said Trump does not have the solidified support of the Republican Party, but that the party has not presented a strong candidate as an alternative.

“On the other hand, the Democrats have not brought a particularly strong candidate either,” said Coates. “People are not particularly enamored with Bernie or Hillary but there are individuals who are willing to vote in order to keep Trump from the nomination.”

Barrilleaux said he believes Trump’s campaign has elicited such an extreme response from voters because he is willing to put an edge on all of his remarks that goes beyond what is considered normal for presidential candidates in the U.S. “Donald Trump’s campaign is mostly about attitude,” said Barilleaux. “The attitude he projects is

this kind of defiant, in-your-face kind of attitude. The response certainly shouldn’t surprise people, because when you say things in a provocative way you’ll get a provocative response.”

Coates said most of Trump’s support comes from the fringe elements of the Republican Party.

“The visceral response of individuals is that you have more individuals that are Independent and Democrat leaning than Republican leaning,” said Coates.

Barrilleaux said Trump’s candidacy has drawn more voters to the polls in the primaries.

“A lot of his success has come from drawing in votes from voters who are not necessarily traditional Republican voters,” said Barilleaux. “When candidates are able to draw a larger constituency in the primaries it’s, a lot of times, in places where they can bring in a lot of Independents.”

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University’s switch to recyclable plastic takeout containers draws mixed reviews from students ENVIRONMENT

PARIS FRANZ

THE MIAMI STUDENT

During the second week of March, the brown cardboard boxes used for takeout orders in campus dining halls were replaced by clear plastic containers, a recyclable alternative.

According to Jon Brubacher, interim director of dining services, Miami’s Oxford campus was going through about 45,000 of the brown cardboard boxes, sold under the name of Revive Brown Bio-box 3, per month — making the switch to recyclable containers key to being more environmentally friendly.

“They’re paper and they’re called bio-boxes. Originally, we thought they were sustainable, but those containers were not being recycled at all,” said Brubacher. “[By] switching to a plastic container, at least [we ensure that] all of [the containers] that make it into a recycling container do get recycled.”

When the Oxford campus first began using the brown boxes about 10 years ago, the intention was to compost them, said Yvette Kline, director of sustainability and energy conservation. A local composting company confirmed that the brown box, which is made out of 100 percent recycled cardboard, was compostable. However, within a year, all three compost facilities local to Oxford went out of business.

The compost operations were

then subcontracted out to a company based in Delaware, Ohio, increasing the cost of composting.

Meanwhile, Miami had been making efforts on its Oxford campus to increase the amount of brown boxes being included in the composting stream. Miami approached the brown box supplier and asked for the boxes to be visibly marked as compostable. The supplier informed Miami that the boxes did not meet commercial compost standards.

“Our jaws dropped at that point,” Kline said. “The whole compost process has evolved and there are standards in place now, whereby materials, if they are going to be composted at a commercial compost facility, could be designated as meeting those standards. So this product was not.”

Miami next approached Rumpke Waste & Recycling, which handles Miami’s trash and recycling, in order to confirm that the brown box was recyclable, if not compostable.

Rumpke found it was not.

“There is a plastic lining on that box, and that’s what made it noncompostable,” said Kline. “Some recycling centers do have the ability to recycle that type of product, but our recycler does not. So consequently, [the brown box] could only be trashed.”

Rumpke informed Miami that the brown boxes were not recyclable in November 2015, prompting a search for a new container that could be recycled. Brubacher found

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Miami recently transitioned to using clear plastic takeout containers after discovering that the brown cardboard boxes it previously used were not compostable or recyclable. a recyclable clear plastic container, and the switch was implemented.

Some students are not pleased with the new plastic container.

“It’s not as insulated as before, so when I go to grab the bottom [of the plastic container], it’s not as easy to carry around,” said sophomore Elizabeth Montgomery, whose takeout order at Bell Tower had been double-wrapped in two plastic containers.

Montgomery was also concerned about the environmental impact

switching to plastic would have.

Most students were not aware that the brown boxes were not, in fact, recyclable. “[The plastic container] is also not as environmentally friendly [as the cardboard], which is rough,” Montgomery said. “It’s the plastic versus the cardboard, and it is recyclable, but a lot of times, when it’s plastic, it’s not recycled.”

Kline agrees that Miami has progress to make on improving its recycling system, particularly in im-

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proving recycling capacity and the amount of recycling bins available.

However, she believes that switching to the recyclable plastic containers was the right choice.

“I don’t think we have a perfect solution yet,” Kline said. “But, I think, given that we didn’t have a compostable product or a recyclable product, switching to a product that, at least, can go into our recycling stream and is saving us money is probably the [right] thing to do for now.”

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than not is that the victim-survivor wants to move because they want that control back,” said Getson. “They want to say ‘no, I know where that accused is now … I’ll move so that the accused doesn’t know where I am.’”

Getson said no contact orders “create that peace of mind” for both parties, but the enforcement of the no contact order falls on the survivor.

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inappropriate on Tinder — a behavior Walker attributes to the traditional gender roles of society. Males are expected to court females, propose and generally make the first move. Females on the other hand, are generally expected to be on the receiving end of these gestures.

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young person either slipped or jumped from the tower,” Campbell said.

Kip Alishio, director of student counseling services, said that suicidal thinking is not as unusual as one might assume. In fact, he said, as many as one in 10 college students will seriously consider suicide in any given year.

“The important thing for students

pends on the student to let us know.

Unless someone tells us, we’re not going to know,” said Getson.

Jane sees the lack of effectiveness with no contact orders at the Middletown Municipal Court where she interns. She said many perpetrators continue to contact the victim-survivor even after signing the no contact order and some will even make phone calls to the survivor from prison.

“One of the biggest cons is that it is just a piece of paper … We find, though, for the most part, that

people adhere to it,” said Getson.

When a perpetrator breaks the no contact order, the university can find the person in violation of that no contact order and the code of conduct and can change the terms of the interim no contact orders.

“If [the survivors] don’t want to go through our process, they can go through a civil process or a criminal one,” said Getson.

Both criminal and civil processes offer versions of no contact orders the university police can enforce.

havior, personality is the driving factor behind the type of messages Tinder users send.

“There’s research that shows that those with lower personality trait conscientiousness are more likely to engage in riskier behavior when meeting an online dating partner,” Walker says.

Like Johnson, Bass and Katsafanas say they would never meet up with someone they met on Tinder.

“I awkwardly saw a girl once. I do my best to avoid [that], it’s really uncomfortable,” Bass says.

According to the boys, part of the reason they send the messages they do is because a screen separates them from the recipient of the messages.

Katsafanas said, neither one of them would say these things, even to their friends, in real life.

“You’re way braver behind a phone,” he says.

to know is that suicidal thinking and feelings are temporary. They don’t last. When we’re in that state of mind it feels like they’ll last forever,” Alishio said. “Those feelings should be a clue to reach out to somebody else, whether it be a friend, a family member, a faculty person, a resident advisor, a professional advisor or an anonymous person on the end of a hotline. There is hope and there are resources.”

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settlements to the victims’ families and $60 million to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

“The Penn State case was a genesis for universities across the nation. We realized there was a hole there that needed to be filled,” said Deputy General Counsel Mitchell McCrate.

Wasburn-Moses, who was notified about the University Senate bill from a colleague, reached out to General Counsel with concerns about the policy, but she never received a response.

Wasburn-Moses is concerned with the lack of flexibility for professors and parents alike, as it can be very difficult to find a babysitter, as well as the environment this policy will create on campus. She thinks many professors enjoy taking their children to work and she doesn’t want to see that change.

“I don’t want to be in a workplace where children aren’t wel-

come. It’s disconcerting that the university is not welcoming to children,” said Wasburn-Moses.

Although this policy has been set in place for years, WasburnMoses continues to bring her children to campus and has never been notified that she was breaking any rules. This policy will not stop her from taking her children to Miami, but she credits that to her job security and tenure and believes that newer professors might not want to bring their children to work because of this policy.

“I feel comfortable bringing my kids to campus, but I don’t feel as comfortable as I did before,” said Wasburn-Moses.

She hopes that changes can be made to the policy and believes that it will greatly impact the atmosphere on campus.

“This is a public place. It is supposed to be opening and welcoming to everyone….I’ve always felt like my children were welcome, you don’t want that to go away.”

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Slice of life: A case of the Mondays, around lunchtime

“House of Cards” regains its footing in season four

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The Seal — Audrey Two parents circle the Seal with their young son.

“Don’t you dare step on the Seal!” The mother warns. “Do you know how much time you’ll have to spend at the turtles?”

Every person who walks by avoids the Seal out of habit — some only by a small margin as they step on the concrete circle that surrounds the faded blue-green circle.

Two tour groups stop at the Seal.

“Watch your step here. That’s the Seal of the university,” one guide explains.

He describes the Upham Arch tradition next.

“My parents are Miami Mergers who’ve been married for 20 years.

I’m always proud to bring that up.”

Every few minutes, two new tour groups replace the old ones and give the same speech about Miami traditions.

A student steps on the Seal while looking at his phone. He neither notices nor cares.

“Some people take the Seal seriously,” a guide tells her group. “My friend accidentally stepped on the Seal, and we all watched him. We all failed our next exam, so yeah, I take it pretty seriously.”

One of the moms from the tour group laughs as the guide explains Miami Mergers.

“I have a friend who got engaged under the arch,” the mom says.

“But I think they’re getting a divorce now.”

“They probably stepped on the seal,” says someone else in the group. Everyone laughs.

A couple, probably in their thirties, walks by holding hands.

“I’m gonna step on it!” the woman says, grinning.

The man laughs nervously, holding an outstretched hand to her as she steps on the Seal.

By 1:09, what was once a busy area filled with tour groups and passing students is now completely empty.

MacCracken Market — Alison A car horn blares outside, but the noise disappears as soon as the door to the market closes.

It’s two minutes to 1 p.m., and seven students wait in line to buy their food. Others still meander around the store, while even more are just entering.

“Is this the line?” one girl asks, sounding slightly annoyed.

Another worker appears to help at the second register.

There’s a rhythmic “beep, beep, beep,” as items are scanned before being rustled into bags.

“Hi, how are you?” the cashier says with a smile, breaking the silent exchange. “Have a great day.”

Three girls walk around with items thrown in their baskets, one with her arms full. They must be restocking on food after the weeklong break.

A guy buys a bottle of shampoo, a stick of deodorant and a lot of different-flavored protein bars.

Only a few people get what actually looks like some semblance of a real lunch — most just buys chips, a drink and other snacks.

“Should we get tomatoes?” another girl asks her friend, picking up the small package.

“Yeah,” her friend responds, delayed and not paying attention.

A few seconds later she asks, “Wait, do they have tomatoes?”

“These little baby ones,” the first girl says.

Like usual, people aimlessly wander around the small market, looking slightly lost.

The guy buying the protein bars does this before returning to the same aisle to stare at the shelves again before heading up to the register.

At 1:11 p.m., “Take on Me” fades out from the speakers above just as the crowd in the market dies down.

Encounter- Kevin It’s the lunch rush, but the line is non-existent. I step up to the smiling cashier, her blond hair in a ponytail beneath a black cap.

I ask for pickles and tomato, substitute a pretzel bun. The Miami

“M” stamp is too pretentious for my taste.

“Cheese?”

“American, I guess.”

Order complete, I settle down at table 13. The shiny veneer hints that I am its first guest of the day.

I stare at the pop art cheeseburger on the wall as I wait for my own. It arrives within minutes.

Against the wall a student dines with his parents. The old-timers joke with their server as their son comes down from his spring break high.

I, too, return to reality as I pull out my laptop to plan my fall schedule before an avalanche of coursework returns.

Western Dining- Kelly Groups of students flock to Western Dining for lunch. The line is almost out the door.

A cashier scrambles to charge them and manage the line. A woman in a red shirt stands next to him, marking down the purchases.

Eventually, the line is gone. Everyone moves into the dining room to claim tables or join friends for lunch. The cashier sits down, clearly relieved.

A boy in a red sweatshirt comes up to him and they begin talking in Chinese. The boy sits next to the register and they look at the cashier’s phone until the next wave of students comes through the door.

Once again, the line builds up and the cashier abandons his friend to swipe them in. And, once again, the line dwindles until it disappears.

The cashier goes back to talking to his friend and the woman in the red shirt leaves.

This cycle repeats itself about every 10 minutes, and the dining room steadily fills up.

A line longer than any before loops around the custom order station.

Faculty and students claim tables for themselves and friends. Employees bustle through the aisles, picking up garbage and plates. Others stand behind the counters of food, replacing containers of food like clockwork.

A man walks past the various food stations. He doesn’t take any food, or even carry a plate. Instead, he snaps pictures of the food, workers and diners. No one takes notice of him.

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When President Frank Underwood first breaks the fourth wall in season four of “House of Cards,” he does so to tell his audience about Walter Wryson, a boy who lived down the street from him growing up. While casually making himself a sandwich, Underwood explains that Wryson was a timid boy who always ran away from home, one time going so far as to climb a tree in the Underwoods’ backyard and refuse to come down.

When Wryson turned away a plate of eggs that Frank offered him, Frank got angry.

“So I went into the tool shed, and I took out an ax,” Frank says.

“And I gave that tree a good whack, and Walter cried out, but I kept on. You’ve never heard screams like the ones coming from Walter. I just kept whacking away.”

Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Underwood is back.

Last year, Netflix’s political drama suffered from a terrible third season that reduced its once ruthless protagonist into a pitiful softie who faltered under the immense pressure of the American presidency. Showrunner Beau Willimon seemed to be trying to bring the show in a new direction, revealing a Frank that wasn’t as confident and surefooted as previously depicted.

Willimon failed to realize that what makes “House of Cards” so compelling is the coldblooded pragmatism of a leader who will do whatever it takes (meticulous plotting, deception, murder, etc.) to get his way.

Luckily, the show has gotten back to its roots this season.

Frank still has plenty of enemies — Russian president Petrov, the challenger for the Democratic nomination, Heather Dunbar, probable Republican nominee, Will Conway, and, most notably, his own wife, Claire. The difference is, instead of backing down from these obstacles, Frank once again brings the fight to them.

No more crying on the floor of the Oval Office. No matter how bad it begins to look, you can rest assured that Frank always has a plan in place to pummel his opponents into the ground.

The beauty of this is that Willimon has gracefully found a way to refocus his show without abandoning his attempt to make Underwood more human. Frank’s insecurities are still present, but they take the form of dream sequences. On the surface Frank is back to his merciless and manipulative ways, but his dreams highlight his insecurities, such as his newfound fear of Claire and the many skeletons in his closet.

With these dream sequences, Willimon can have his cake and eat it too.

While season four returns

“House of Cards” to its compelling roots, it also broadens its scope by introducing a new cast of intriguing characters. When Claire travels to Texas in hopes of beginning a campaign for an open congressional seat, she enlists the help of LeAnn Harvey (Neve Campbell, notable for her role in the “Scream” franchise), a smart and dangerous political consultant. She also renews her relationship with her mother, Elizabeth (Ellen Burstyn), whom we quickly learn is dying of cancer. Like Claire, Elizabeth is cold and pitiless, and Burstyn shines the brightest when she is revealing her harsh hatred and disapproval of Frank.

The most notable newcomer, though, is Joel Kinnaman, who plays Republican presidential hopeful, Will Conway. With his good looks, powerful stature and strong commitment to Republican values, Conway proves

‘No matter how bad it begins to look, you can rest assured that Frank always has a plan in place to pummel his opponents into the ground.’

himself to be not only a solid nominee, but also a formidable opponent for Frank.

“House of Cards” has always done a great job at balancing fiction and reality. Season four’s gun control storyline will certainly resonate with American viewers, and the rise of the Islamic extremist group, ICO, closely parallels that of real-life ISIS. But, what makes this season most interesting and relatable is watching Frank’s bid for reelection during a notably unorthodox election year. The show has never had a strong commitment to plausibility, but with political outsiders such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders dominating today’s headlines, Frank’s Machiavellian methods suddenly don’t seem so far-fetched. In this new context, “House of Cards” becomes compelling on a completely new level.

The bottom line is, if you managed to slog your way through season three, your resilience paid off, as season four could be the best one yet. The characters, both new and old, are superb, and the writing is once again utterly brilliant. An early plot twist caught me completely off guard even though the pieces were all there for me to see it coming. Willimon may have collapsed his house of cards in season three, but he has quickly built it together, this time larger and stronger.

Editors’ pop culture picks Things we watched, read, listened to and streamed while lounging on the beach or relaxing at home during Spring Break.

“MY FAVORITE THINGS” JOHN COLTRANE

It’s nicer out these days, which means A.J. Newberry is outside, listening to classy music. Specifically, “My Favorite Things,” by John Coltrane. He thinks it’s a nice album to hum along with, and listening to it is far less pretentious than blaring “New York, New York” through his iPhone speakers. There are a few trumpeter biopic films premiering soon, which A.J. is also looking forward to, but, until then, he’ll be playing John Coltrane in the newsroom.

“ONE TREE HILL”

With nine full days of Spring Break and no homework to do, Abbey Gingras did what any college student would do — watched Netflix. Instead of viewing “The Office” for the seventeenth time, she started fan fave “One Tree Hill.” She thinks it’s a little cheesy and a lot dramatic (pregnancies, proposals, basketball playoffs and any other cliched high school plot possible), but there’s plenty of heart beneath all the drama. Abbey is officially addicted, but she’s waiting until she gets through the next eight seasons before officially giving a thumbs up or down.

“CRIMINAL MINDS”

Like Abbey, Connor Moriarty turned to Netflix to fill his time off during Spring Break. He decided to binge-watch the hell out of “Criminal Minds” from the very beginning. He loves how the series doesn’t fall victim to the cheesy crime show BS that most others do. Connor’s still in the 2007 season, but give him a few days and he’ll catch up on the 10 years he’s behind. He’ll just have to shamelessly push through the Netflix notifications asking, “Are you still there?”

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The cashier sits alone at the entrance to the room, idly scrolling through his phone and waiting for the next wave of hungry students.

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A trio of girls suddenly walks in the door, each fumbling with hands full of different-sized packages. The girls struggle to bring the boxes to a large table in the back, drop them on top and proceed to walk to the ordering line.

Three boys sitting up front are all wearing red shirts and khakis, seemingly by accident, as they shoot the breeze and talk about the content of their phones.

Two girls beside me talk about a mutual friend.

“I was blown away,” one says.

“She always tweets the same thing,” the other responds, showing her friend her computer screen.

“Like what?”

“I’m trying to find a good one.

She doesn’t even tag people; she just says their name.”

“Oh, look at his. Oh, that’s dumb.”

“His tweets are pieces of shit.”

“My dad could have said that.”

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Soda tax in the UK sparks discussion about combatting obesity epidemic EDITORIAL

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

Last week, the United Kingdom introduced a tax on sugary soda drinks in an effort to combat childhood obesity, according to Vox News.

The majority of our editorial board applauds this decision and hopes to see similar legislature enacted at the state, if not federal, level here in the United States in the future.

Mexico and Berkeley, California, already have soda taxes in place. After approval by more than three-quarters of voters, Berkeley implemented a one percent tax on soft drinks in November 2014. Mexico has taxed sugary drinks since 2013, charging producers an extra peso for every liter of the beverage.

This amounts to “about a 10 percent price increase,” which is reflected as a higher list price, according to The New York Times.

Similar “sin taxes,” or extra taxes above the normal rates, exist on tobacco and alcohol — items known to have harmful health effects, but that people continue to buy anyway.

A little over one-third of U.S. adults are obese, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO) calls childhood obesity “one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century.”

Obesity increases the risk for health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. To reduce consumption of

soda, and potentially reduce the risk of obesity, a tax seems appropriate.

But will it work? While a soda tax sounds like a magical solution, it could also be insignificant in terms of consumer decisionmaking.

We need a multifaceted approach to fight obesity.

Will seeing a slightly higher price truly discourage someone from buying his or her favorite beverage? What about when a bottle of soda — including tax — is still cheaper than a water bottle?

Preliminary data in Mexico suggests that soda consumption is declining, The New York Times reported in October 2015. Between December 2013 and 2014, there was a six percent decrease in soda sales. However, as a decrease in sales is consistent with trends nationwide, it is uncertain whether the

taxes are the cause.

Hopefully, the new taxes will spark discussion and change the public’s mindset.

Higher prices will discourage at least some consumers from buying sugary, nonjuice drinks as often, and — as in the case of smoking — if the behavior becomes less common, it will also becomes less acceptable. Reversing trends takes time. Obesity rates climbed over decades, so they cannot be expected to fall overnight.

However, blaming the obesity epidemic entirely on soda is oversimplifying a complex issue. Obesity can be caused by a combination of genetics and lifestyle choices, including diet and lack of exercise.

True change will come only when we teach people how to live a healthy lifestyle, not just make it a little harder — or more expensive — to continue living an unhealthy one.

Consider how obesity rates disproportionately affect those in impoverished areas.

These people are less educated and have lower incomes, driving them to make unhealthy choices. Between getting their kids to school and going to work, they may not have time to cook a balanced meal for their families each night. They may not know buying fresh groceries is better than relying on fast food.

And they may not understand sugary drinks or snacks have harmful health consequences.

They do not know this because companies do not want them to know. Food manufacturers exploit people’s cravings for sugar and fat, which make food taste good and customers come back for more. And without the knowledge of what’s happening, people are helpless.

Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move,” campaign is an excellent example of proactive programming. “Let’s Move,” launched in 2010, is a comprehensive initiative focused on giving schools, parents and children information to help them lead healthy lifestyles.

Critics of the plan wondered whether it was going too far — shaming parents for allowing their children sugary snacks and questioning their authority. However, last April at the five-year anniversary of “Let’s Move,” Mrs. Obama said she felt her campaign helped to raise awareness about childhood obesity.

Again, we understand that a single campaign cannot solve one of our most serious health epidemics. We need a multifaceted approach to fight obesity. It will take time, and it will take the combined efforts of corporations, the government and individuals.

As with any behavior, responsibility for our health is our own. It’s up to us to make good choices and lead a healthy lifestyle. But interventions like a soda tax can be the push some people need to change their habits.

Prospect of current presidential candidates Donald Trump’s response to will create nostalgia for President Obama Brussels attack inappropriate POLITICS

MILAM’S MUSINGS BRETT MILAM COLUMNIST

As the 2016 presidential election rolls along, a startling thought occurred to me: I’m going to miss President Obama.

I’m assuming I’m not alone in this sentiment, considering Obama’s job approval is at the highest weekly average it’s been since May 2013, reaching 50 percent, according to Gallup.

Yearning for Obama to stay longer in the White House isn’t hard to understand, given that Americans are likely facing a Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton general election.

And before you start in on me, I want you to keep in mind two things: 1) I have no interest in repealing the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would eliminate term limits for the president.

There’s no good reason for any person, no matter what they’re doing in office and how well or not they’re doing, to have an extended stay there. The last thing I want is a repeat of the disastrous FDR presidency.

2) More importantly, my political philosophy is anarchism.

President Obama, like most presidents before him, has engaged in activities abhorrent to someone of my persuasion. When I judge a president, I judge them with that consideration in mind. In an ideal world, the office of the presidency wouldn’t even exist.

But still, compared to George W. Bush and Bill Clinton before him and his likely successor, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, President Obama is “least abhorrent.”

Here’s the thing. Anarchists like me — or just those who genuinely seek a more limited government — ought not to see it as a zero-sum game, wherein, we jump straight to limited government or everything is a bust.

Big government arrived here gradually over time and any “wins” we can put in the column of reducing its size and power are worth celebrating.

As such, let me briefly go over a few reasons why even anarchists and limited government-minded folks ought to be yearning comparatively for more Obama.

For the record, I could add counters and caveats to the areas in which I’m about to praise

Obama, especially on foreign policy, since I’m working from that baseline of abhorrence. But, for the sake of the discussion, I won’t do that right now.

Rhetorically, Obama says things about American power and foreign policy that are refreshing.

The Atlantic’s 2016 cover story, “The Obama Doctrine,” explores this extensively, but there are some important takeaways.

For instance, Obama disdains the foreign-policy establishment, saying, “dropping bombs on someone to prove that you’re willing to drop bombs on someone is just about the worst reason to use force.”

Or how tired he grew of watching Washington unthinkingly drift toward war in Muslim countries.

Or how he rightly says that ISIS is not an existential threat to the United States and that he repeatedly reminds his staff that “terrorism takes far fewer lives in America than handguns, car accidents and falls in bathtubs do.”

Or his recognition that the 2011 intervention in Libya didn’t work and that it’s a total “shit show”

During his presidency, Obama has granted 184 clemencies (as in, commuting the sentences of nonviolent drug offenders), which is more than the last four presidents combined, according to Fusion.

In 2015, Obama also used his executive power to “ban the box” on all federal job applications. On job applications, applicants will no longer have to fill in the checkbox regarding a criminal record.

Clinton certainly talks a big game now about criminal justice reform, but the only reason to think that is the case is because it’s now politically safe to do so. I have no confidence that she would actually be good on the issue if she gets in the White House.

Furthermore, despite the plethora of practical reasons to be against it, as well as the moral, Clinton still supports the death penalty.

For what it’s worth, Obama still supports it “in theory,” but at least he seems troubled by its practical implications.

As for Trump, he most certainly wants to get “tough” on so-called illegal immigrants by deporting them and building a wall. Trump

Likability matters to some degree, and Obama is at least likable. It’s inconceivable to say the same of Trump or Clinton.

right now. Unlike Clinton, on the other hand, who refers to it as a use of “smart power” and said “we didn’t lose a single person there,” overlooking the death and destruction for Libyans.

Moreover, Obama helped move the United States (at least marginally) forward on better relations with Iran and to a larger extent, Cuba.

All in all, Obama has demonstrated less willingness to use American military might.

The same most certainly can’t be said about Clinton. And, as for Trump, he’s a wild card, because who really knows what he believes? If we take Trump at his word, he’d like to bomb the families of terrorists, upgrade our torture methods and he continually makes the point that our military has been diminished (it hasn’t).

On the domestic side of things, the biggest area Obama has been a “win,” inasmuch as a president can be a win, is on criminal justice reform.

Obama visited a federal prison, a first for a sitting president. Yes, it’s a symbolic gesture, but optics in politics matter.

also said in one of the Republican debates that the police are the most “mistreated people in the country,” which made me chuckle when I heard it.

Finally, as much as people may disdain it, likability matters to some degree, and Obama is at least likable. It’s inconceivable to say the same of Trump or Clinton.

The state of democracy in America is a real “shit show” when the two leading candidates are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Is this the best we can do?

Is Mencken right that we deserve to get one of them through our blessed democracy “good and hard?”

Matt Welch had it right in Reason magazine when he said about Obama, “It’s a pathetic statement about contemporary American politics that a few short years from now, libertarians may start to feel nostalgic for the guy.”

I’m already feeling nostalgic, as the Obamas prepare to move out and the manure truck backs up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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MADDIE’S MATTERS MADDIE LAPLANTE-DUBE COLUMNIST

On Tuesday, March 22nd, yet another bombing rocked Europe.

Explosions in Maelbeek metro station and the airport in Brussels, Belgium killed a reported 35 people and injured upwards of 270 more.

The American government is attempting to track down just how many American citizens were in the country at the time, confirming at least a dozen American individuals were injured in the bombings. Four American deaths have been reported.

The morning of the attacks, Donald Trump discussed the bombings on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”

“I will tell you, I’ve been talking about this a long time, and look at Brussels,” he said. “Brussels was a beautiful city, a beautiful place with zero crime. And now it’s a disaster city. It’s a total disaster, and we have to be very careful in the United States. We have to be very careful and very vigilant as to who we allow in this country.”

He went on to say that Brussels is now an “armed camp.”

“If you went to Brussels 20 years ago, it was like a magical city,” he said. “Now you look at it, it’s an armed camp. You want to lead your life, you don’t want to be living in an armed camp for your whole life.

And there is a certain group of people that is making living a normal life impossible.”

So, not only is he using the death of upwards of 31 people as an “I told you so” for his campaign, he is also spreading false information about the still-running city of Brussels and country of Belgium. To say that the city has stopped dead is not true. To say that it is an armed camp is so far beyond the truth that I don’t even have space here to elaborate on it. The airport is closed. Maelbeek metro station is closed. The metro runs on a limited schedule.

Some schools are open, though many employees stayed home.

It is a city dealing with the shock of death and unprecedented violence. It is not an armed camp nor a campaign tool.

As Brussels-based Austrian diplomat Anton Zeilinger said to The New York Times, “A few bombs won’t destroy the way we live, even if they want to.”

All of Trump’s comments were made before any information was confirmed and as Brussels was still

trying to make sense of the mayhem. Now that we have more facts, let’s examine them closely.

The Belgian government recently released the names of the two suicide bombers. They were brothers, Ibrahim and Khalid elBakraoui, 30 and 27 respectively.

Ibrahim and another partner set off the explosions in the airport, and Khalid carried out the attack in the metro.

Despite what Donald Trump assumed immediately, these men were Belgian citizens. And despite his assumption that this was an attack on the West and a result of immigration, the Belgian bombings followed a series of five other deadly attacks in Turkey, Nigeria, Yemen and the Ivory Coast.

These attacks can’t be boiled down to something as simple — and an assumption as inherently racist — as immigration.

We can’t just build a wall on the Mexican border and waterboard whoever we want as if that (1) would give us credible information and (2) wouldn’t be a breach on human rights and think it will

These attacks can’t be boiled down to something as simple...as immigration.

change anything.

The terrible fact is this: ISIS is recruiting individuals from all over the world to serve its purpose.

They are less affiliated with Islam and more in line with blind hate.

Closing borders will not help defeat them. We live in a suddenly global world. It is not the one that Trump grew up in (money aside).

It is a world in which the Internet can reshape the way we think and spread love or hate respectively.

It is a world in which false information will cause paranoia and in which change can be mitigated if it is sought after effectively and fairly.

Since Trump was too busy insulting Brussels and spreading false information to send condolences, I will. As with Paris, our hearts go out to the victims and their families. May the third suspect in the bombings be caught soon.

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Harmful acts against members of LGBTQ+ are unacceptable on campus LGBTQ+

TO THE EDITOR: We write this letter to the editors of The Miami Student Newspaper as well as the larger Miami community.

Over the course of the academic year, several homophobic, heteronormative and/or homonegative events have happened — and continue to happen — on campus and to our students, faculty and staff.

Most recently, just before Spring Break, a painting located outside the Women’s Center was defaced with an anti-gay slur and violent markings through an image of two people kissing. Some of these instances were not intended to be hurtful, while others were malicious in their nature. But, despite the intention of these acts, members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Ally+ community were harmed.

We want to acknowledge these harms and express our unwavering support to members of the LGBTQ+ community and all the allies who support and affirm them. Gender and/or sexual minorities face a number of challenges on this campus and in the Oxford community,

but we want you to know that Spectrum (LGBTQ+ undergraduate student organization), GLBTQ Services, and 1809 LGBTQ Alumni support and affirm you.

We express support, care and concern for all students, faculty and staff who identify in the LGBTQ+ spectrum of identities at Miami University. These acts of hate and bias are unacceptable and disturbing. They do not reflect who we need ­— and expect — the Miami community to be. Our support extends to you as an impacted individual. This is a call to come together as a community in support of one another. We also acknowledge that other underrepresented groups on campus have been harmed over the same academic year and extend to them our support.

None of these acts of bias and/ or hate reflect the University’s written values and are not reflective of the Miami community many of us are committed to creating. Our LGBTQ+ community is varied, vast and beautiful. Each of you are someone worth respecting and affirming just as you are today and as you might be tomorrow. Our community thrives when all members

(students, faculty and staff) are accepted and celebrated for who they are, are discovering, or are becoming. We collectively want you to know that we are here for you, today and always. From across all our campuses, around the country, and throughout the world, we send support to all students at Miami, especially those in our LGBTQ+ family.

We have hundreds of Safe Zonetrained allies across campus and in the Oxford community who are willing to support and affirm you, if you just ask. While no single letter or acknowledgment can fix the harm that you may have experienced, we want you to know that we acknowledge that it has happened and that we are working daily to help create a campus that lives up to its values of inclusion and safety.

If you need help or support, please consider connecting with us or any of these services.

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In the wake of the primary elections (which won’t truly be finished until June, when all states have finally held their primaries or caucuses and delegates have been allocated), there has been sizable talk of one type of person in America and beyond: the Muslim.

Voter turnout is up in the primaries, almost to a level not seen since 2008, when current President Barack Obama ran a vigorous campaign on “HOPE.” We all remember the posters.

But turnout is up for disturbing, racist reasons. Rhetoric around Muslims and terrorism is mounting, and the more candidates put themselves on show, the more we must dissect and consider their depictions of others.

We must learn what it says about us, how our depictions of “them” are being turned around on us. In most cases, some feel that Republican candidate Donald Trump is doing the propaganda work of extremist groups in the Middle East, where leaders teach operatives that America is a racist, xenophobic and hateful nation bent on destroying the region and their bodies. So far, the candidates are proving extremist teaching to be correct.

Professor and author Steven Salaita visited MU earlier this month and gave a talk about indigenous communities in the United States.

His new book, out in October, is titled “Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine.”

However, he has authored other books on the topic of Arab world relations. His 2008 book “The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought” contains several essays written with rage

and clarity on how racist depictions of Arabs have robbed the United States of the political language necessary for substantive foreign policy discussion and action.

Salaita’s essays are just as important today as they were in 2008.

He writes: “The flippancy with which American media apply the word ‘terrorist’ to Arab populations reinforces the notion that violence in the Arab World is ahistorical and therefore senseless. Arabs in turn become a people without narratives who belong to a culture incapable of rationality. These perceptions skew Americans’ understanding of both the United States and the Arab World.”

These generalizations are created with the same rhetorical mechanisms as racism.

After almost two decades of racist vitriol against the people living in the Middle East, how else do we explain the violence imbedded in claims made by Republican nomination frontrunner Donald Trump (someone who has never witnessed trauma and violence, only fantasized about violent retribution through the lens of American military brutality)?

That we could “do waterboarding or worse,” or that “you have to go after [terrorists’] families. That’s the only way to really hurt them is if you go after [kill] their families.”

Believe me, I wish I were making these quotes up, too.

We have candidates on both sides advocating the monitoring, internment or murder of Arabs and Muslims in the United States and abroad — in a manner rather racist.

Trump is crude because he simply declines to use coded language. His language is blunt and overt. Salaita writes that the “neoliberal murdering class” (like Hillary-Clinton-as supported-by-Kissinger) would use

much more coded language to describe their racist tendencies in foreign or domestic policy.

Trump’s ideas wouldn’t unfold over decades, like our racist totaliziations and generalizations of people in Iraq that led to the deaths of over 120,000 civilians. The results of our actions are still unfolding there. How else do you get American troops to find it acceptable to degrade the people in the countries they invade than with these demagogues? How else do 120,000 Iraqi civilians end up dead? There has to be a concerted effort to dehumanize, that is, to take away the personhood of humans.

How else would it have been acceptable for American troops “guarding” Abu Ghraib in 2003 to torture, or oversee the torture of, people who were otherwise innocent, who were targeted simply because of their looks? I refer, of course, to information released by private contractors in the film “Iraq For Sale,” in which private contractors hired to do linguistics work and interrogation at Abu Ghraib discuss how local people were detained for no reason in particular and interrogated about their connection to local terror cells.

The film provides an honest depiction of these brutal state-sanctioned, corporate crimes. In one case, a man detained at Abu Ghraib during this time claims he was chemically sterilized “with a pill” and “can no longer have children.”

How do we not realize that stories like these are not fixed in time and place? They travel; people understand them. Particularly, dispossessed and victimized people in Middle Eastern countries get a-hold of these stories, or maybe they experienced them personally, and they react. This is, in part, how a terrorist is created: The murder of families, racism, indiscriminate bombing, drone killings and economic sanctions.

With the current state of Miami’s Greek system, many people outside the fraternity and sorority community are undoubtedly struggling to wrap their heads around the concept of a Greek organization. Why do so many people choose to be a part of a group that allegedly tortures their new members? What could anybody get out of being associated with a group of people that seemingly sends new members to the hospital every weekend?

While we do not condone hazing, nor will we ever condone it, we want to emphasize that the actions of a few should not tarnish an entire community. Greek life can have a tremendous impact on people’s lives.

A Greek organization has the ability to literally change the trajectory of a person’s life. One of those people is Sam Becker, a brother of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at Miami.

Sam Becker was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (CP) at a very young age, which forced him to grow up in a way many of us could not imagine.

From starting physical therapy at the age of two, to dealing with bullies for using a walker for a week in third grade following a surgery, Becker has consistently been put through trials that would understandably cause someone to give up. But not Sam Becker. From the moment he was teased by bullies when he was 8 years old, he has been motivated to be the best person he can possibly be. This continued into his college career, when he joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) fraternity.

In describing his fraternity brothers, Becker referred to them as “incredible” in helping him cope with his illness.

It’s not some unknowable “Evil” that is endemic to Arab peoples, as some assert.

So what’s the endgame here? Is it “sand glowing in the dark,” as Ted Cruz suggests (from ‘carpet bombing,’ which is by definition indiscriminate)? How is invoking war crimes a strategy for behaving in the world?

We have lost our sense of history. Any vestiges of sensitivity or humanity had disappeared when, at a rally last Wednesday, Bernie Sanders talked about the attacks in Brussels, proceeded to produce with his fingers a “peace” sign, hold it for about ten seconds along with almost everyone in the crowd he was speaking to, then immediately proclaim that, “We are going to crush and destroy ISIS!” What a short-lived peace it was.

Well, we better get to it. It seems like Governor Kasich is already ahead

“They treat it like I treat it; like it’s no big deal,” Becker remarked.

“It doesn’t affect who I am or what I can do.”

“They hold me accountable to make sure I can take care of myself and never let me use it as an excuse,” Becker said. “I am fortunate enough to have my CP to constantly compete against. Sure, I love to compete against others on the field or in the classroom, but my CP has always allowed me to compete against myself and force myself to do the best I possibly can.”

Becker believes being in a fraternity has helped him to successfully move past his disease and live like a college student.

“When I’m out with my brothers or studying at King, my CP tends to slip my mind,” said Becker. “It feels like I finally shed that label.”

Becker is also proud of how the Greek community has helped to propel his efforts to spread awareness about CP through philanthropic efforts and service projects as well as wellness talks.

“The Greek community has really propelled my efforts and been an integral part of my development and college experience,” he said.

Sam Becker is just a normal college student with some extra hoops to jump through. He still enjoys going out with his fraternity brothers, going to the rec center and getting good grades. A lot of that can be attributed to the support system his fraternity brothers and the Greek community as a whole have provided him with.

If you are interested in hearing more about Sam’s journey, he will be giving a talk on campus soon.

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of the pack, suggesting last week that instead of “watching a baseball game in Cuba,” Obama needs to “come home and take care of Brussels,” or as Kasich implied, get some “boots on the ground” in Syria.

We should stop referring to our soldiers as “boots on the ground” (another dehumanizing term, directed this time at ourselves) and start referring to them as what they are: meat sacks being sacrificed on the altar of corporate capitalism.

“Send in the meat sacks!” shriek the billionaires as they watch the profits roll in. Send in those willing to die like martyrs for the Greatest Country with the Greatest People and the Greatest Traditions on Earth.

Does this sound familiar?

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JULIA RIVERA This week the NFL will review a rule change to eject a player from a game after his second unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the same game. This proposal comes after the series of scuffles between New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and South Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman in a contest on Dec. 20 last season.

Though the proposal works in theory, putting it into effect during games poses a challenge the NFL must recognize. The new rule would work like the yellow cardred card rule in soccer, in which a player is ejected after two strikes.

The types of fouls that apply to the rule are throwing a punch or kicking (even if no contact is made), using abusive or threatening language or gestures and baiting or taunting acts.

Yes, the Beckham-Norman battle was disruptive and overly dramatic.

But, is the rule change an effective way to counter those kinds of behaviors? Probably not.

Often, unsportsmanlike conduct penalties occur after the play or behind the play, and the players are baited into committing the pen-

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alty. The instigator goes unnoticed and only the retaliatory behavior is seen, so there’s a real chance that the penalty will be an error. It could severely affect only one team and potentially punish the wrong one.

The outcome of a game is drastically changed if a star like Beckham is ejected from a game after being baited by an opponent. Say the Giants are on the brink of making the playoffs. If they lose Beckham, they lose the game and their playoff hopes.

“The last things we want to do is put the player out of the game,” former NFL referee Jim Daopoulos said. “That’s a competitive disadvantage.”

Well, yes, it is. But, that means watching the field puts even more pressure on officials to make the right calls.

The rule encourages more baiting from players who know their provoking of an opposing star like Beckham or Norman might get that star tossed. And why wouldn’t a player try to get the opposite team’s playmaker player ejected from a game?

Another issue with the change is the loose terminology of the rule’s definition. It’s up to the officials to decide if an action is worthy of being recognized as baiting or threat-

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I would say my favorite and funniest memories at Miami would be all of the different traveling and road trips we have taken throughout my four years. Every year we have had one traveling fiasco. Last year, we traveled to Orlando, Florida. The team had to get split up into different groups, and my group got stuck in the Washington D.C. airport for 23 hours. We created many memories there.

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ening and whether it crosses the line.

This poses a problem because not every referee will have the exact same definition of the rule. Dean Blandino, the league’s vice president of officiating, used the phrase “engender ill will” to describe the definition of ejection-worthy taunting. The issue with that phrase is that there is always ill will in football — it’s professional football, after all. Taunting, talking smack and doing anything you can to be intimidating are all part of the game.

“It’s kind of a slippery slope,” Daopoulos said, “and a lot of onus on officials.”

The league’s intentions, as always, are good. But on Monday mornings, people should be talking about the good plays from the night before, not the players’ bad behavior. It’s always entertaining to see a little scuffle or two. Though the Beckham-Norman incident was over-the-top, scuffles in games, more often than not, do not overshadow the game itself.

The league may be jumping to fix something that doesn’t need fixing, as the new rule will most likely start more arguments than it stops.

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SPORTS BRIEFS JOYAUX, MORRIS SIGN PRO CONTRACTS Kevin Morris signed an ATO with the Manchester Monarchs, the Los Angeles Kings’ East Coast Hockey League affiliate, on March 18. He has family ties to the team, as his father, Mark Morris, is the winningest head coach in Monarchs history. Morris scored his first professional goal in his first professional game March 19 in Elmira. The forward suited up for 153 games in four seasons for Miami, collecting 48 points on 22 goals and 26 assists and totaling 36 blocked shots in the 2015-16 season.

Chris Joyaux signed a 25-game amateur tryout contract with the St. John’s IceCaps, the Montreal Canadiens’ American Hockey League affiliate, on March 16. The defenseman played in 148 games for the RedHawks, blocking 156 shots and finishing +4 on the ice. He recorded 21 career points on five goals and 16 assists with a career-high four goals and six points in the 2015-16 season.

LIN PLACES SECOND AT NCAA MEET Junior diver Pei Lin finished as the NCAA-runner up in the three-meter dive March 18. She placed third in the one-meter dive March 17. Lin, who is a four-time All-American for the RedHawks, was named to the AllAmerican first team in every event this season.

She scored a 399.40 in the three-meter dive, missing first place by 5.30 points. Nevada’s Sharae Zheng (404.70), won both the three- and onemeter events.

Lin also placed second in the NCAA three-meter last season. The second-place finishes are the best finishes at an NCAA meet by a RedHawk women’s swimmer or diver in program history.

DARLING QUALIFIES FOR MAC CHAMP

BY BEN BLANCHARD, THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s and women’s track and field team returned to action at the first outdoor competition of 2016 in the Vanderbilt Black and White Invitational last weekend in Nashville, Tenn. after a month-long break.

Junior Arionna Darling won the shot put with a throw of 50-4 feet, giving her the top mark in the Mid-American Conference and an automatic qualification to the MAC championship. Though her throw missed her personal best by one foot, it ranks 37th in the country.

Freshman pole vaulter Matt Owens won his event with a personal best of 16-0.75 feet. Junior Vinnie Minosky finished first in the 400-meter hurdles in 52.5 seconds. Tying his personal record, senior Peter Stefanski finished second in the high jump with a leap of 6-8.75 feet.

In the women’s 4x400 meter relay, Miami finished in 3:47.37, good enough for second out of 29 teams.

FLAVIN WINS SECOND TITLE OF SEASON Flavin won his second individual title of the season after shooting a 70-66-69 to finish at 8-under par at the FAU Slomin Autism Invitational to earn co-medalist honors with two other golfers. His 5-under 66 in the second round set a new career low. He was also Miami’s top finisher at the Lone Star Invitational on March 21. He shot rounds of 72-76-73 and finished at 5-over par, tied for 11th at the tournament.

BASEBALL GOES 2-2 DURING BREAK Five RedHawks had multi-hit performances in the Miami’s 5-4 win and home opener against Northwestern University on March 23. Freshman right-handed pitcher Michael Hendricks picked up the win for the ’Hawks (9-12, 2-2 Mid-American Conference), working two innings in relief, and his fellow freshman righty Nick Ernst recorded the first save of his collegiate career. Miami beat Ball State University, 4-2, in its MAC opener Friday. Ernst and redshirt junior left-handed pitcher Ryan Marske combined to pitch the final five innings and held the Cardinals scoreless over that period. MU fell 9-0 Saturday and 9-6 Sunday.

’HAWKS ON SEVEN-GAME WIN STREAK Miami (17-11, 3-0 Mid-American Conference) extends its winning streak to seven games after sweeping Ball State University in a three-game series last weekend. In the first game on March 25, MU used a three-run bottom of the fifth inning to come from behind and win 4-3. Miami won both games of the doubleheader Saturday, 5-3 and 5-2, respectively. Senior outfielder Taylor Shuey led the series with five RBI and two runs on five hits, and freshman infielder Michaela Schlattman totaled three RBI and three runs on seven hits.

TENNIS DROPS TWO AWAY MATCHES

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The Miami University tennis team (5-8) lost to South Alabama University, 5-2, and No. 61 Old Dominion University, 4-3. South Alabama (164), ranked No. 45 in the country, is on a 14-match win streak after defeating Miami. MU’s sophomore duo of Nelli Ponomareva and AnastasiIa Vasiukhina won their doubles match, 6-3. Junior Andreea Badileanu beat against Monica Mitta 6-1, 6-2 in singles play, and freshman Emily Struble beat Clinta Maria Papke 7-6, 6-2.

The RedHawks faced off against No. 61 Old Dominion University, which is on a three-match winning streak. Miami began the day with an almost perfect doubles display from each set of players. The Ponomareva and Vasiukhina duo won 6-2, while Badileanu and freshman Anzhelika Shapovalova won 6-0. Sophomore Hannah Shteyn and Struble’s match went unfinished. Old Dominion overcame their deficit by taking the majority of the singles matches, but Miami had two singles wins. Badileanu won her match against Nataliya Vlasova 6-4, 6-4 and Ponomareva won her match against Nikol Hristova 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.

Miami takes on Ball State University (13-2) at 1 p.m. Friday. The ’Hawks defeated the Cardinals in the Mid-American Conference championship last year, 4-0.

Headlines beyond Oxford: Female golfer Lydia Ko is on pace to become the best in either the male or female side of golf.

The 18-year-old has 11 LPGA Tour wins. Tiger Woods didn’t get his 11th title until he was 23. Ko is five years ahead of his pace.