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Jersey Shore’s ‘Vinny’ talks mental health with Miami students

From the Midwest to the Southeast: Irma’s effects felt beyond storm’s path

MENTAL HEALTH

Nina franco

The Miami student

FIVE FLORIDA STATE STUDENTS ARE WEATHERING IRMA IN OXFORD, THANKS TO JUNIOR RYAN MACAVOY, WHO TOOK THEM IN FOR a WEEK. photo: JUGAL JAIN

HURRICANE IRMA

Céilí Doyle

Asst. News Editor

Hurricane Irma has been devastating the Caribbean, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands for the past week and is headed toward further destruction on the U.S. mainland in the coming days.

While the storm itself has been downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 3 hurricane, the southwestern coast of Florida was hit hard. The storm was eventually downgraded to a tropical storm in Tallahassee, but is expected to make landfall throughout the rest of the state as well as Georgia and potentially Alabama.

For the majority of Miami students, this storm, while a tragedy, remains a distant one, neither personally affecting them or their families.

For senior Ali Martin, alumna MarLyka Williams and junior Ryan MacAvoy, Irma is anything

but a far-flung disaster.

“The worst part for my family is that my grandpa has Alzheimer’s,” Martin said. “He’s not stable enough to travel and my grandma refused to leave him, so now they are both stuck in a hurricane shelter in Fort Meyers.”

Martin’s family members, who live in Chicago, reached out to the police and fire departments in Fort Meyers, as well as the retirement community where Martin’s grandfather lives, Shell Point, to see if there would be anyone still on-call in the path of the storm to help those who had not evacuated the area.

“My parents called the police and they basically told them, ‘We can’t do anything, we have to stay out of that zone,’” Martin said.

“And that’s really hard because they might be fine, but also if anything were to happen the police, the firefighters can’t get there.”

Williams, who is originally from Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, graduated

from Miami last May and moved to New York to start her career the same week the hurricane devastated her hometown.

“On St. Thomas, our only hospital has been destroyed, our only two main post offices have been severely damaged, our two high schools were severely flooded and partially destroyed,” Williams said.

Williams’ family and friends remained relatively unscathed from the storm’s destruction. Her family’s home is mostly intact, but there is limited cellular reception on the island, and the power is out for the foreseeable future.

One of MacAvoy’s friends from home (he is originally from a suburb outside New York City), Anthony Abbondanza, a junior at Florida State University (FSU), called MacAvoy to ask if MacAvoy would consider letting Abbondanza and four of his fraternity brothers stay with MacAvoy in Oxford.

“Anthony is one of my best

About 500 Miami students flocked to Hall Auditorium to hear former Jersey Shore star, Vinny Guadagnino, speak at the second annual Mental Health Forum led by the university’s Associated Student Government (ASG).

The forum was held on Thursday, Sept. 7 and was also organized by the Student Counseling Services (SCS), Interfraternity Council (IFC), Panhellenic Association, Miami Ac-

Student runs for Oxford City council CITY COUNCIL

IMMIGRATION

JACK EVANS

EMILY WILLIAMS

MANAGING editor

editor-in-chief

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students meet new career site As Career Fair looms, it’s time to get acquainted with ‘Handshake.’

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about 500 students gathered in hall auditorium to hear guadagnino speak. photo: JUGAL JAIN

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DACA students should not see change

After President Trump’s Sept. 5 decision to dismantle DACA, about 800,000 undocumented immigrants were thrust into uncertainty. However, undocumented Miami students should not expect immediate effects on their education.

“In general, and in accordance with the information currently available, DACA students should not expect any aspect of their engagement with Miami University to change,” reads an informational page about the DACA program on Miami’s website.

The university admits students regardless of their immigration status and, according to the page, will continue to do so.

Last Tuesday, Sep. 5, President Trump formally ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – an initiative which shielded about 800,000 undocumented immigrants from deportation. Crawford’s response to Trump’s dismantling of

tivities and Programming (MAP) and the Residence Hall Association (RHA).

Girls started lining up an hour before the forum, just to get as close as possible to the reality star they grew up watching on MTV. However, Vinny showed a side that opposed the “fist-pumping, mama’s boy” many people fell in love with on-screen during the early 2010’s.

Behind-the-scenes, he was struggling with severe stress and anxiety.

Vinny wasn’t alone.

At the start of the fo-

Miami footbal battled to a 31-10 victory over austin peay at Yager stadium on Saturday. photo: Angelo Gelfuso

’Hawks breeze by Austin Peay in home-opener Football

Brady pfister

the miami student

Miami’s RedHawk football program took the field Saturday at Yager Stadium for the first time this season, and controlled the game from start to finish. Following an underwhelming week one performance against the Thundering Herd of Marshall, a physical run game combined with opportunistic defense and sound special

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TAKING THE ‘BOOK’ OUT OF ‘BOOKSTORE’ The Shriver Center remodel focuses on e-books and online ordering.

teams led Chuck Martin’s squad to a 31-10 victory over the Austin Peay Governors (0-2, 0-0 Ohio Valley Conference).

From the opening kick, Miami (1-1, 0-0 Mid-American Conference) played the brand of football that Coach Martin has been preaching since his arrival in Oxford -- dominating the line of scrimmage and controlling time of possession. The Red and White held the ball for over 11 minutes longer than the Governors, while taking advantage of athletic re-

ceivers down the field.

Redshirt junior quarterback Gus Ragland only completed 11 of 23 passes for 145 yards on the afternoon, yet consistently gave his receivers a chance to make big plays deep. The most frequent recipient was the 6’4’’ matchup nightmare James Gardner. The junior wide receiver hauled in 5 catches for 117 yards and two touchdowns.

“He’s always open even if there’s a guy on him,” Ragland

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TRAVEL P. 6

STUDENTS ‘LIGHT UP THE NIGHT’

A WEEK IN THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS

Exercise event combines black lights, neon, kickboxing and Zumba.

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On the trail, a couple tests the strength of their relationship.

OPINION P. 10

Ex-‘SHORE’ star speaks on stress Despite lack of expertise, Vinny related to students’ experiences.

It was just after finals last semester when senior Austin Worrell, 21, decided to run for Oxford City Council.

“There was a morning I woke up and thought ‘You know what? Let’s go for it,’” he said.

A political science major and business legal studies minor, Worrell will be the first student, at least in recent history, to run for a seat on Oxford city council.

The first inklings of Worrell’s Oxford political ambitions cropped up in conversation with friends during his freshman year, and the idea built up steam during his time at Miami.

“I think I really analyzed all the questions that were holding me back and realized they were all based purely out of fear and conjecture and assumptions.”

Four of the council’s seven seats will be up for election this November, and Worrell is one of nine candidates in the running, including two incumbents: Councilmembers continued on page 2

SPORTS P. 12

THE made-up mailbag All the answers to the sports questions you never asked.

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Worrell RUNNING FOR OXFORD CITY COUNCIL

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ASG returns to session with new budget, money for orgs ASG

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Mike Smith and Edna Southard are both seeking reelection.

“Over the years a few students have pulled election petitions, but none have filed them,” said Oxford Mayor Kate Rousmaniere, commenting by email.

“I think the four-year commitment is an obstacle.”

To Worrell, the four-year term that Oxford city council members serve is no obstacle.

He sees it as a path for him to give back to the community that he calls home.

A week before he arrived at Miami, Worrell’s parents divorced. They moved into separate homes and told him he would have to find a way to pay for college on his own, to live on his own.

“I didn’t even have a bedroom in either of the houses, and so Oxford literally became my home,” he said. “It’s my safe space, it’s my home, it’s where I learned to become a young adult.”

If he wins election, Worrell plans work to for a local law firm after graduation in May and then apply to law school during his four-year term on the council.

During his time at Miami, Worrell has served as a senator and cabinet member in Associated Student Government, participated in Miami’s mock trial organization and completed a business internship and a law internship.

This isn’t the first time that young Ohioans have sought (or won) local public office. An Ohio University student, Austin Lu-

JACK EVANS

managing editor

IF He SECURES A SPOT ON city COUNCIL, WORRELL PLANS TO LIVE IN OXFORD AND WORK AT A LOCAL LAW FIRM. photo: jugal jain

cas, took a seat on Bethesda’s city council in 2015 and Luke Scott, 18 at the time, was elected to Wellston’s city council in 2010.

Despite these precedents, Worrell says he knows there is work ahead to prove he has the skills to guide the city in the face of concerns about his age or experience.

“My parents were like ‘What are you doing?’ and my grandparents still think I’m crazy,” Worrell said. “But for me, at the end of the day, this town is an incredible place. And I think I can do a lot of great work here.

Even if I don’t win, I think the experience itself, the people I get to talk to, the conversations

I get to start are definitely worth it.”

Though the process of running for office is daunting, Worrell hopes his youth and perspective as a student will eventually help him to act as a bridge on the council between full-time Oxford residents and the largely-seasonal student population.

“While it is scary in many ways, if there is one thing I have learned especially here at Miami, it’s to be bold, to make those decisions,” Worrell said.

“Instead of asking ‘Why not?’ ask ‘How?’” evansjm4@miamioh.edu

Amid the clamor of fists pounding wooden desks, Cole Hankins, Miami Associated Student Government’s speaker of the senate, gavelled in the fall semester’s first session of student senate on Sept. 5.

The smell of recent construction lingered in the brand new Joslin Student Senate Chamber as the body welcomed new senators, elected two representatives to the Student Affairs Council and debated its annual budget — which contained notable changes from previous years.

Absent from the proposed budget are line items for cabinet meals and gifts, marking the first time in recent years the two controversial inclusions have not appeared in an initial ASG operating budget.

The line items, which totalled about $1,800 for the 2016-2017 school year, were the subject of debate regarding the use of stu-

dent funds for food and personal goods. Former student body president Maggie Reilly and her administration removed them during the fall 2016 semester under pressure from ASG senate and the student body.

While ASG’s total discretionary allotment for the 2017-2018 school year totals $90,000, the body’s proposed budget lays out $83,270 in spending. The excess, in addition to rollover dollars from the previous school year, will be donated to student organization funding — a significant gesture in light of broad cuts this year to money for clubs.

Annual salaries for executive cabinet members — which range from $5,835 for the student body president to $900 for the speaker pro-tempore of the senate — did not experience their historical cost-of-living raise, which usually sits around 2.5 percent and is awarded to many university employees.

The only position to receive increased compensation was the continued on page 9

ASG leadership brings student senate into session for the 2017-2018 school year. photo: Ryan terhune

Students meet new recruiting tool, Handshake CAREERS

bonnie Meibers news editor

The Center for Career Exploration and Success introduced a new networking and recruiting tool to students this semester.

The service, known as Handshake, allows students to upload their resumes and coursework, search for jobs and message recruiters, among other features.

Handshake also allows employers to search for students at all 400+ schools that use the app.

“Overall I think the system is going to be really beneficial for students,” said Janie Spires, assistant director of Miami’s Center for Career Exploration & Success.

Handshake was created in 2014 by three students from

Michigan Tech. The university is located in a remote part of Michigan’s upper peninsula, and the students felt they weren’t getting enough recruiting traffic. They began developing Handshake as a way to address this problem.

Making the switch to Handshake from CareerLINK, Miami’s old recruiting tool, has made things much easier for employers and students looking for internships and jobs, Spires said.

Handshake has a newer, cleaner interface and is easier for students to use, Spires said.

The service can also help tailor students’ job search effort to their particular interests.

On Handshake, students can make personal profiles, similar to LinkedIn, and publish their skills, classes taken and outside

Handshake’s dynamics mimic social media and hope to attract students with sleek design Photo from career services

interests to their profile.

“In CareerLINK you were a resume. In Handshake, you’re a person,” Spires said. “That’s the biggest difference.”

Senior Kaitlyn Napoli is excited about that feature.

A sept. 11 remembrance flag hangs from a tree near the hub. photo: Jugal Jain

“I like how easy it is to different jobs,” she said. “I also like the ability to highlights what’s on my resume.”

Students are also noticing the changed interface.

“I think it’s almost the same thing as CareerLINK, except it is easier to use,” said junior Evan Helchen. “It’s smoother.”

Miami students now have access to 130,000 employers with Handshake, compared to 1,800 with CareerLINK. “I like that you can search for jobs outside of Miami’s network, because CareerLINK didn’t have that,” senior Madeline Zick said.

With CareerLINK, employers needed a different login for each university they recruited from.

Now, employers who use Handshake can upload a job opening once and all the schools that they recruit from can see it.

“Some employers used to have hundreds of logins. Now they only have one,” Spires said. “So instead of spending time reposting the same job over and over again, they can spend more time finding that perfect quality candidate.”

Spires said there are some workarounds from the Career Services side of things. For example, setting up meetings and appointments is more difficult than before. Instead of publishing one form, now they have to publish multiple forms.

“It’s just another click on our end,” Spires said. “Everytime you change things up, you’re going to have a bump in the road.

That’s just construction.” meiberbr@miamioh.edu @bmeibers

Miami university president greg crawford pets a dog after the conclusion of the mental health forum. photo: Heather Mccowan

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FARMER SCHOOL SEARCHES FOR NEW DEAN ADMINISTRATION

BONNIE MEIBERS NEWS EDITOR

The search for a new dean of the Farmer School of Business is underway after the former dean, Matthew Myers, left Miami University in July.

President Greg Crawford and Provost Phyllis Callahan appointed professor Marc Rubin to be interim dean.

Rubin said he won’t be taking the full-time position.

“I have not put my name in for the position [of dean], they asked me to and I said I wouldn’t,” Rubin said. “Whoever wants to do this job should look at a longer time horizon than I am willing to commit.”

Rubin is an alumnus of the university and joined the faculty in 1990 as an assistant professor in accounting. He was promoted to associate professor in 1993 and full professor in 1997. Before assuming the dean position, he was the chair of the accounting department. As interim dean, Rubin’s annual salary is $305,987, said university lawyer Robin Parker.

The search committee for the new dean has met with early preliminary candidates, but the search is still in a premature stage, Rubin said.

Their goal is to have on-campus

interviews with finalists later this semester and an appointment by January said Kirk Bogard, assistant dean for external relations of the Farmer School. The appointment date is subject to change depending on how the search goes and if the candidate is under contract until a later date.

The committee is chaired by Chris Makaroff, dean of the College of Arts and Science. The committee is made up of 10 voting members. Rubin is not involved in the search.

Faculty representatives on the committee are: Anne Farrell, from the Accounting department; Melissa Thomasson, from the Economics department; Rebecca Luzadis, of the Finance department; T.M. Rajkumar, from the department of Information Systems and Analytics; Tim Krehbiel, from the department of management; and Brett Smith, of the Marketing department.

David Meyer serves on the committee as the Business Advisory Council representative.

Marti Kyger is representing staff on the committee, senior Marilyn Zubak is representing undergraduate students and graduate student Michael Savnik is also serving on the committee.

Non-voting members are Stacy Kawamura and Ruth Groom.

Korn Ferry, an executive search and recruiting firm, will help the committee with the process of

remodel opens new chapter for bookstore CAMPUS

jake gold

Assistant news editor

The upper level of Miami’s central bookstore was demolished Monday, Sept. 11, in the second phase of Shriver Center’s overhaul.

“The bookstore is repurposing to be reflective of other campus bookstores across the country,” associate vice president Cody Powell said.

The original bookstore was “formed around the traditional model,” Powell said. Stacks of books sat on the shelves yearround, rotating for various courses and sections.

Many new campus bookstores, Powell says, aren’t keeping large quantities of books for students to peruse. Instead, they focus on e-books and online ordering.

Miami followed their lead, partnering with eCampus to restrict book sales to online orders. Students order all books on the website; the books ship from a remote warehouse and students can pick up their order at Shriver several days after.

Administrators believe the new model will result in lower costs for textbooks — and more capacity for other commodities.

The remaining space is dedicated to retail: improved and more diverse offerings for

technology, apparel and gaming. The expansion will include products “used throughout the course of the semester rather than a one-time shot,” Powell said.

The new bookstore will also include expanded services to improve customer experience, especially in the tech section.

Shriver’s expansion this year and Armstrong Student Center’s expansion over the summer represent a shift in the dynamic between the two buildings.

“Armstrong is intended to be the student center,” Powell said. “[Where] students really get together. Shriver is more for services,” like the Rinella Learning Center, Student Disability Services, the revamped package center and the admissions office.

Armstrong, meanwhile, is primarily student activity-based, with a number of restaurants, study rooms and student organization offices.

Facilities hopes that the second phase of Shriver’s renovation will be completed in May 2018 and will cost $9.5 million, according to Board of Trustees documents. goldjb@miamioh.edu @jake_gold

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the gates to farmer school of business display some of the key principles taught to students: leadership and integrity. photo: RYAN TERHUNE

picking candidates for the position. Ken Kring and Vickie Antolini from Korn Ferry have met with key individuals to develop the position description and ad that is being used to recruit can-

didates.

Miami has not yet determined the new dean’s salary, which will be dependent on the candidate’s qualifications and experience, Parker said.

meiberbr@miamioh.edu @bmeibers This story originally appeared on patch.com/ohio/miamiuniversity-oxford on Sept. 6.

‘Vinny’ opens up about mental health history at Hall Auditorium continued from p. 12

rum, Dr. John A. Ward, associate director of clinical services at Miami’s Student Counseling Services cited that last year, 11 percent of Miami’s student body sought out services at the counseling center.

Ward noted that myths such as having to be “crazy” to go to counseling or not being able to afford the services shouldn’t pull students away from getting the help they need.

“Sometimes we have a funny way of convincing ourselves that the feelings we have of inadequacy or sadness are incorrect or falsified that there is no reason to pay mental health any mind just because we can’t touch it, feel it or place a BandAid on it,” IFC president Cameron Synders said. “[But] it is imperative that we set aside the Band-Aids and reach for microphones and begin talking.”

ASG sought to entice the student body to talk about mental health through Vinny’s celebrity. They hoped more students would attend the forum if they could relate to the speaker.

Vinny’s mental health problems began long before he entered the first season of Jersey Shore in 2009.

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He remembered struggling with his first panic attack in a high school English class.

“I was just sitting in class one day, when the whole room started spinning. I was really embarrassed.”

Embarrassment over mental health issues is a key factor behind why students aren’t getting the help they need.

Vinny figured that out quickly, and his anxiety became so bad his first semester of college that he couldn’t take it and left.

[It’s important to treat [your] brain like [you] treat your body…whatever gives you a mental workout, stick with it,” he said.

Before he came to terms with his mental health issues and wrote the New York Times bestselling book, “Control the Crazy,” Vinny enjoyed his early adult life on “the shore” living in a wild atmosphere.

Sophomore Kate Melia wasn’t surprised that Vinny’s mental health began to deteriorate over time while he was a part of the series.

“Well, when you do nothing but fight, drink, have sex and go to the gym, how could that not cause problems?” Melia said.

By the reality show’s fifth sea-

son in 2011, Vinny had enough.

He made a tough call and decided to share his struggles with mental health on the show.

His fellow cast mates had a hard time recognizing what anxiety was, and co-star Pauly D. offered him a stripper to cope with his problems.

“My biggest struggle was ‘Who am I?’” Vinny said.

Vinny recalled that, during Jersey Shore’s initial reception, it was not a social norm to talk about mental health. However, his invitation to speak at Miami on Hall Auditorium’s stage was proof of how far we have come, he said.

While Vinny reiterated that he was no mental health expert or doctor, he didn’t hesitate to tell his younger sister to go to the counseling center when she was having panic attacks.

“I am not a guru, you know? I am just someone who has dealt with my own experiences,” he said. “The biggest responses I have gotten were from people just thanking me for mentioning the words ‘mental health.’” franconc@miamioh.edu

WEEK

Mindfulness Week

Free Uptown Concert

Homecoming Huddle

“Bring Home the Bell”

Started Monday, Sept. 11 Various times in McGuffey 128

Thursday, Sept. 14 7:30 p.m. in Uptown Park

Friday, Sept. 15 7 p.m. in Uptown Park

Saturday, Sept. 16 8 p.m. in Yager Stadium

Already feeling the stress of the semester? Head to McGuffey’s Mindfulness Center for daily events this week to help put your mind at ease. Learn how to eat mindfully, communicate mindfully, meditate and more.

Kick off Homecoming weekend with a free concert in Uptown Park.

Though you may not know the acts by name, it’s worth checking out these Cincinnati-based indie-pop acts, especially if you’re a fan of bands like COIN, Real Estate and Lord Huron.

Friday evening, students and alumni will flock to Uptown Park for free food, giveaways and live music from Americana trio, The Bundys.

Help out Irma victims by donating a t-shirt from another school.

In exchange, you’ll receive a 2017 Homecoming shirt.

Start the gameday festivities early with a student tailgate at 3 p.m. and a “Hawk Walk” to wish the team luck at 5:30 p.m. After last week’s victory against the Governors, let’s hope the ‘Hawks can secure a win against the UC Bearcats and bring home the Victory Bell.

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Light up the Night: Music, sweat and glow-sticks STUDENT life

kelly burns

the miami student

A neon crowd of girls stand in a black-lit room, yelling to each other over the pounding bass of the dance music. It could almost be a typical scene from a Friday girls’ night Uptown. There will be dancing, maybe even a punch or two thrown. But it’s 8 p.m. on Thursday night, and they’re not at Brick Street, New Bar or anywhere else Uptown.

The black light hits neon leggings, t-shirts and tennis shoes that occupy the space where workout equipment usually sits. They’re in a fitness room at the Rec. Two girls with glow-stick glasses and flashing rings break away from the group of over 20 girls. The music quiets and the neon mob falls silent.

“Hey guys! Thanks for coming to Light Up the Night. Who’s excited?” yells the dark-haired girl in glowing, blue glasses.

The girls respond with a half-hearted, “Woo.” “No, no, no,” the girl in the front says. “Not good at all, let’s try that again. I said ‘Who’s excited?’”

The woo drowns out all other noise this time.

“Better! Okay, I’m Meg and I’ll be teaching kickboxing tonight.

This is Morgan,” she points to the blond girl in matching glasses, “And she’ll be leading Zumba. Here we go.”

The music roars up again, and Morgan takes her place at the

front of the pack.

Everyone stares at their bright reflections in the mirror while they wait for Morgan to start.

She leads them through a warm up, then bursts into choreographed Zumba moves that she probably knows in her sleep.

The rest of the girls don’t know them quite as well, but they mouth the lyrics to the songs they know, throw their own spin on Morgan’s moves and snap pictures on their short water breaks.

The girls churn through mashups of Top 40 hits and latin jams — bass pounding through it all.

Every once in awhile, Meg tries to lead another “woo,” but as the hour goes on, the responses get quieter and quieter.

The glow-stick bracelets, rings, neon shirts, headbands and, in one case, bunny ears, illuminate the girls’ movements.

Meg and Morgan throw their glasses to the side whenever the difficulty level picks up, and almost everyone’s dance moves are getting more sluggish. But they smile through it all.

Then, about 45 minutes in, Morgan leads them back through some more basic exercises and thanks them, turning the class over to Meg. “Okay, guys, now we start the kickboxing portion of the class!

Here we go on four, three, two.”

Meg yells out directions while throwing hooks, jabs, crosses and upper cuts toward her reflection in the mirror. Before they’re through with the first exercise, the girls look tired. Even

Light Up the Night PARTICIPANTS SWEAT THROUGH CONSECUTIVE ZUMBA AND KICKBOXING SESSIONS Jugal Jain Assistant Photo EDITOR

Morgan is panting and gulping water.

A few girls start to trickle out, clearly exhausted. Meg keeps pushing the glow-in-the-dark girls behind her, yelling words of encouragement as the neon lights start to reflect off of the sweat dripping down everyone’s faces.

She leads them through kicks, squats, punches and cardio blasts. When she initiates a woo, no one but Morgan answers. But there are still smiles on their faces as they’re pushed through a brutal workout they know will have its rewards. The kickboxing portion only lasts for about 25 minutes before Meg leads them through a cool down.

“Thank you guys so much for coming, she says. “If you liked

Opposites attract: A relationship strained by election results relationships

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this, we have classes through the semester so make sure to check us out online!” Her audience looks up at her from where they stand, hands on hips, heads hanging down, trying to catch their breath.

“You guys were amazing, and be proud of yourselves. You’re better for doing this,” Meg says.

“Thanks again!”

kristin stratman the miami student

RYAN TERHUNE Photo EDITOR

of values. Their values had typically aligned with one another, and when they didn’t, they were always able to reconcile their differences. But in her eyes, Jon voting for Trump meant that he not only supported Trump’s policies, but his disposition as well.

Could she see herself with a man like that? Could she see herself raising a family with him? Would she be able to look at him as anyone else other than a person to blame for Trump’s election?

Should she stick to her word from several months before?

They stayed up late talking to each other on election night.

Jess felt pretty sure she wanted to end it then, but decided to wait a few days to think on it.

Through the strain the election had put on their relationship, they made an effort to see the other person’s point of view.

Jon considered why his decision bothered Jess. Jess consid-

ered how Jon’s lower-middle class upbringing influenced his decision. They respected the other’s opinion; they valued the other’s perspective. They considered their feelings and their history.

They decided to stay together.

Jon admits that he still stands by his vote, even though he disapproves of Trump’s actions so far. He hopes that the next few years will bring more good than bad.

Jess admits that if Jon had been a more intense Trump supporter, or had she not have invested so much time into the relationship already, things probably would have ended differently.

Jon thinks of election night as simply a hiccup in their otherwise steady relationship. He sees her as the yin to his yang — despite their differences, they balance each other out. fentermc@miamioh.edu

With that, the class is over, and a luminescent stream of girls flows from the room.

A girl takes a swig of her water and looks at her friend: “Oh my God, I’m so dead.”

Her friend nods in agreement before saying, out of breath, “Yeah, I think we should do it again.” burnskl2@miamioh.edu

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In a few months, Jon Buckel and Jessica Boemker will celebrate their two-year anniversary. But on Nov. 8 last year, they were unsure that they would reach this milestone at all.

They spent election night separately. Jess watched the results in her dorm room and Jon from his home in Mason, Ohio.

They had been texting back and forth throughout the night about the election and what the next four years might look like.

They both knew early on in their relationship that they fell on different places along the political spectrum. Jon identifies as a moderate, a little right of center. Jess, on the other hand, says she’s more on the liberal side.

Neither of them thought that it would be an issue. Jess didn’t think politics would get in the way of their relationship. They had been solid for 10 months before the election took place.

But a couple of months before the election, it was Jess who jokingly told Jon, “If you vote for Trump, it’s over.”

At the time, Jess didn’t think he would actually do it. She felt that Jon was simply being a follower.

It wasn’t until after Trump was elected that they told each other who they voted for, though neither of them originally planned to do so. Jess had only told Jon that she would never vote for Trump, and thought it was mutually understood that neither of them would. But after the final results came out, they didn’t see a reason to keep their votes a secret — not even the possibility that their answers wouldn’t match.

Jess blamed Jon for Trump’s election because in her eyes, he was responsible. Jon felt that she grouped him in with every other Trump supporter out there rather than seeing him as an individual. He was surprised by her level of frustration.

It didn’t take long though for Jon to decide that Jess was worth it, that he loves her. Jess, on the other hand, was apprehensive.

For Jess, the election wasn’t only about politics, but about the quality of the candidates’ character. It became an issue

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Some of the most interesting working artists in the area are coming to Miami’s campus this fall as part of the Contemporary Art Forum.

The forum, which is currently in its fourth year, doubles as a one-credit hour lecture course, ART 281, that is offered every semester. Students in the Department of Art are required to take the class three times in order to graduate. The course is also available on a pass/fail basis to non-majors interested in the subject matter.

Each semester, the Department of Art faculty reach out to artists around the country to speak for this lecture series about their own experiences in the art world.

The purpose of this semester’s forum is to allow undergraduate art majors at Miami to come in touch with working artists in all fields from sculpture, to fashion design, to environmental art.

Tracy Featherstone — an artist, the Foundation’s Coordinator at the Department of Art and the woman in charge of the forum — knows how important this is to students exploring the field.

“I think when art students come to college, they tend to know some about traditional renaissance art and things like that, but they know very little about artists that are practicing now,” Featherstone said.

“So that’s why the focus is on contemporary art because we want to get people that are alive that can talk about what they’re doing and the interactions that they have.”

Due to the isolated nature of

Miami’s campus, it can be difficult for art students to form professional connections in their field. Therefore, another purpose of the class is to bridge that gap by bringing the artists to the students.

Speakers attending the forum this semester include Raul Gonzalez, Gary Freeburg and Emily Moorehead. Gonzalez is a painter and performance artist from Houston. Freeburg is a photographer who also does nature advocacy work in Washington and Alaska. Moorehead is a sculptor and Miami alumna. One of her most interesting installments is comprised of a bicycle that powers a record player when someone rides it.

Featherstone encourages students to introduce themselves to the visiting artists in order to establish professional connections and get the most out of this experience.

Elizabeth Henn is a senior fine arts major who is enrolled in the class for her third and last time this semester. There aren’t as many lectures this semester that appeal to her focus on sculpture, but she has still learned some interesting points of view from lectures in the past.

Sidney Edwards, a second year fine arts major with a focus in painting, is currently enrolled in the class for the second time.

“It’s interesting to see how professional artists work today and what my own future may hold,” Edwards said.

The Contemporary Art Forum will be held from 5:50-7:05 p.m. on Thursdays in the Art Building in room 100. The exact dates and featured artist can be found on Miami’s Department of Art website. stratmkc@miamioh.edu

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Humans of Oxford Olive Overmoyer: Keeping beer in STEM people

kate rigazio

the miami student

Not many high school freshmen go on brewery tours with their parents. Fewer still find their life’s calling on one.

But, as she toured the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Del., Olive Overmoyer was not most interested in the Burning Man treehouse-turned-conference-room, nor was she dissuaded by the terrible smell of hops. Rather, Olive was enticed by the people brewing the beer.

“They get to work with their hands, not in an office, and they get to create something, but it is also very scientific,” said Olive.

Since then, she’s been hooked.

Her eyes light up behind her clear-rimmed glasses as she describes her own personal experiences in brewing beer.

Olive has used store-bought kits to home-brew her own beer — a process that involves a lot of boiling, pouring, straining and waiting. She brewed her most recent batch in the first week of August, and it was finally ready

to be tasted last week.

“My parent’s Facetimed me when they tried it. They said it was really good,” she said, with a tone of surprise.

Through laughter she explains that this was her first real success.

Olive hopes that through more experience she will build the confidence to brew with her own recipes. She would love to one day experiment with the modernization of recipes people used hundreds of years ago, which have recently been rediscovered through forensic science.

As for her long-term goals, Olive hopes to earn her Master Brewer’s License and open a small brewery of her own where communities can gather, relax and learn about the science behind beer.

“I want to do science projects for kids to get people more excited about STEM,” said Olive.

“I think that a lot of people only think of doctors and engineers, but there is a lot more you can do with STEM.” rigazikm@miamioh.edu

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Breaking the routine in nyc

On the Outer Banks, a sea of change is in the wind

the manhattan bridge frames the New york skyline from dumbo, brooklyn devon shuman managing editor

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I was exhausted as I made my way across the main floor of Grand Central Terminal, awkwardly pushing through the bustling throng of New Yorkers in my path. Navigating the station’s chaotic rush-hour foot traffic had become an annoying, yet necessary, part of my morning routine.

In my three months in this city, I’d adopted the aggressive tunnel vision essential to survival on the concrete streets of the Big Apple. Just get from point A to point B, the city seems to scream at you. Don’t get in anyone’s way. Don’t smile. If there’s a homeless person in your path, don’t you dare make eye contact.

I shielded my eyes from the rays of sun cascading down from the terminal’s towering skylights and lifted my thermos to my lips, forcing the scalding coffee past my tongue and down my throat, hoping the caffeine would propel me through the day.

New York breeds a particular routine. Every day, I woke up at 6:45, giving me just enough time to shower, get dressed, pack a lunch and make the 7:44 metro north commuter train into the city. From Grand Central, I walked three blocks over on 42nd street to the subway station in Bryant Park, where I caught the F train and took it nine stops into DUMBO, Brooklyn.

From there, it was only a five-minute walk to my office at Passion Passport, an online travel publication where I interned this summer.

As an editorial consultant, my days were spent reading travel blogs to research story contributors, interviewing professional travelers and writing stories about their adventures around the world.

It was not lost on me that I was doing all of this from a solitary desk in Brooklyn, never journeying

further than the coffee shop downstairs to which I would venture twice a day for a pick-me-up. In fact, the other interns and I would often lament the sad irony that our travel-focused internship involved so little travel. Repeating the same routine day in and day out, I often felt trapped within the confines of the biggest city in the country.

But whenever it began to feel overwhelming, I only had to step back for a moment to remind myself of where I was. I would stand on 42nd street and remove myself from the routine, take a second to pause and admire the rhythm of the city rather than feel lost among it, to remember that though I may follow the same schedule, I walk a different path every day in this city of intersecting dreams.

I may not have actually traveled much this summer, but I learned that no matter where we travel to, no matter where we end up in this world, we must never fall victim to the routine. We must never lose sight of the great movements around us and should approach each day not as if it were our last, but as if it were our first.

In today’s travel section, we’re bringing you a host of stories from students who spent their summers breaking their normal routine. Whether studying abroad in London, taking a personal road trip through the Outer Banks or embarking on an intense backpacking journey that tests the strength of a new relationship, all of these writers took advantage of their time away from Oxford and immersed themself in a new experience.

We hope that after reading their stories, you’ll be inspired to do the same. shumandb@miamioh.edu @DevonShuman

Seeking an ‘authentic’ experience in Ireland

Visitors to Dublin’s Trinity College Drink cider and watch rugby outside the campus bar A. J. Newberry The Miami Student

A. j. Newberry design editor Trinity College is located in the middle of buzzing Dublin, Ireland, and is semi-regularly swamped with tourists ducking in to see the Book of Kells, or just for a quiet sit. Founded in 1592, the school features Victorian architecture influenced by other institutions such as Oxford (UK) and Cambridge. The grass is cut very low like a golfing green, and the library is the largest in Ireland. In the center of the walled buildings is a campus bar, where students can grab a cider and watch rugby on a massive field. Compared to Miami, where King Library was built in the 1970s, Trinity’s campus is a sort of elite utopia without (most of) the snobbery. And the campus life is so nice — dorms are actually reserved for upperclassmen.

Outside the 100-acre campus lies a tourism-heavy city. A few years back, with Ireland recovering from the financial recession, visitors’ dollars actually became the number one source of income for the country, leading this writ-

er to feelings of pity and dismay.

Perhaps “authentic Ireland” may soon become as commodified as a Big Mac in Japan. But the Irish get along, accepting the new and varying outcomes of global capitalism.

They’re informed as much about British politics as they are Trump news, (our multi-national tour bus fell silent when James Comey testified before Congress) and rarely get bogged down by too many drinks. Facebook and Google even have major offices in Dublin.

As a potential visitor, your time spent in Ireland (and anywhere in world) should be about more than consumption, including the pursuit of ecstatic “experiences.”

Anywhere you go, it’s really about what you learn about the people who love their home. Many, including myself, identify as starkly “American” because our generation’s oral traditions were usurped by the modern world, replaced with seductive pop culture. The globalisation of culture teaches us to value an idealized ethos, rather than asking who our ancestors were, and how they lived in their time.

One afternoon, in the west coast city of Galway, our bus driver, Arnie, shared his life story. He had traveled throughout his 20s to over a dozen countries, collecting tattoos — some earnest, some whimsical — at many of his destinations. Driving the bus pays less than his uncle makes from unemployment checks, but not everyone can play the system. He recently settled back in Ireland with a few acres and a donkey.

He purchased the donkey dirt cheap at the market, but within a few days she was depressed. This could have been a result of a common practice to drug animals to appear temporarily gleeful, but a friend of Arnie’s suggested it just might be lonely. He now owns a dog, a dozen chickens, a donkey and a shetland pony with another on the way, and he’ll be staying in Ireland indefinitely, married to the land.

That is unless he finds a spouse, though in his line of work he only ever meets tourists. newberaj@miamioh.edu

SUNSET NEAR CAPE HATTERAS, NORTH CAROLINA WILL FAGAN The Miami Student

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Wanchese is a small fishing village, located on the southern end of Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Roanoke is a curious place — protected from the Atlantic tides by the Outer Banks, it was home to the first English settlement in 1585. Notoriously, the entire colony vanished without a trace two years later, and many legends circulate as to the fate of the colonists. Today, Roanoke is settled again, with the rather upmarket village of Manteo to the north and the working-class village of Wanchese to the south, where my parents recently purchased a 1910 farmhouse. It was from there I would begin my journey.

My planned road trip would take me from Roanoke Island to Ocracoke Island, 90 miles to the south, down along the thin strip of sand known as the Outer Banks, a popular tourist destination for many east coast families.

My motivation was ostensibly to get out of the house, but I was also struck by an urge to revisit the places of my youth, and predict their futures.

Stopping off at the local Duck Thru for cigarettes and soda, I saw pickups towing motorboats, cute girls in cutoff jeans stocking coolers with Bud Light while their heavyset fathers and husbands tended to their fishing poles.

My family had been coming down to the Outer Banks for years, my dad’s parents first coming in the 50s when the islands were more desolate than they are now. Back then it took a half-hour ferry from the mainland to reach the Banks; today the Washington Baum bridge allows passage in two minutes, if you don’t hit any red lights.

Once across the bridge, I reached the town of Nags Head, stopping off at Jennette’s Pier to enjoy the view of the water. The original, ramshackle 1939 pier had been pounded to smithereens by Hurricane Isabel in 2004.

The new structure is built to last, with solid, steel-reinforced concrete piers sunk deep to resist the harsh barrage of the wind and the waves. I give it thirty years, tops.

Hurricane Isabel was the first of several 21st-century storms to batter the islands. Driving south through Nags Head, I saw new beach houses, massive four-story monstrosities in garish pastel colors, each trying to outdo its neighbors for a glimpse of the ocean over the dunes. I knew that most of those houses would be knocked down when the next storm came, while their older neighbors, the original bungalows like the one my parents stayed in on their honeymoon, would stand strong.

Beyond Nags Head came the untouched splendor of Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Stretching 70 miles down the coast, it was untouched by the construction boom that domi-

nated most of the seaside towns.

But it couldn’t protect itself from the ocean waves that battered it mercilessly. In 2012, the state of North Carolina passed a law forbidding coastal communities from taking note of a climate change report that estimated a sea level rise of 39 inches within the next century. Effectively, they outlawed climate change.

Driving south, I couldn’t help but notice long stretches of the dunes that were severely compromised. These massive hills of sand serve to protect the islands from storm surges. Within the last fifteen years, however, the ocean has penetrated these dunes at multiple points, washing away Highway 12, and several houses along with it. Attempts to plant sea oats and other erosion prevention measures have met limited success.

Fifty miles later, I stopped off to have a look at Cape Hatteras lighthouse. At 193 feet high, it’s the tallest lighthouse in America. By 1990, however, it was in danger of collapse. The Atlantic ocean, originally at a safe distance, had advanced to within 15 feet of the lighthouse, threatening to overrun the historic structure.

In 1999, the structure was moved almost 3,000 feet inland, a momentous and costly undertaking.

The lighthouse is safe, for now: the shoreline has since receded another twenty feet.

I moved on, catching the two o’clock ferry from Hatteras to Ocracoke. Ocracoke Island could be called the jewel of the Outer Banks. As it’s only accessible by ferry or private boat, it sees less of a tourist infestation than the other communities. Blackbeard valued the land for its privacy, using it as a hideout and party spot until he met his end at the hands of English bounty-hunters off its shore in 1718. In the 60s, my dad and his parents spent summers in a small bungalow near the pirate’s haunting grounds. Today, its quiet streets are lined with old farmhouses and small, Momand-Pop stores.

I drove out to the old bungalow, and found it still standing, though surrounded by development. Across the channel, I spotted Portsmouth Island. Though once a prosperous fishing village, by the 60s the island was too inaccessible to survive. Today it’s a ghost town of rotting houses and collapsing docks.

Looking out toward that relic of these islands’s pasts, I suddenly grasp that I may in fact be looking at their future. Will the Banks be inhabitable twenty years from now? I don’t know the answer to that, but I know that until these islands vanish beneath the waves, I’ll keep coming back until there is nothing to come back to. faganwa@miamioh.edu

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Tuesday, september 12, 2017

Before the mountains MAX DAVIS THE MIAMI STUDENT

MAX DAVIS, PHOTOGRAPHED WHILE HIKING IN THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS ANGELA HATCHER The Miami Student

An adventure among the mountains angela hatcher opinion editor 6,594 feet high, standing among wispy, white clouds with the crisp mountain air caressing my cheeks, I looked out and saw nothing but mountains for miles.

It was noon, and we had summited Mount LeConte in four hours.

Four hours of navigating lush forest, steep sandstone steps and glistening rock faces. Four hours of readjusting the straps on our packs and stopping to chug water and catch our breath as we rapidly gained elevation on our ascent.

Four hours of being drenched in sweat despite the shade from the trees and the pleasant summer temperature.

Four hours of my most challenging, yet rewarding hike yet.

But while I stood at the top of Mount LeConte, I didn’t think about those four hours. I didn’t think about how sore my shoulders and hips would be tomorrow, or the blisters that were developing on my heels, or the sweat that was dripping down my back.

All I could think about was the fact that I was standing on top one of the tallest mountains in the eastern U.S. with my boyfriend at my side. And nothing, not muscle aches, physical exhaustion or bloody heels, could tarnish the moment when I rounded the last bit of trail and stood with Max at the top of Mount LeConte.

Now, before I tell you more about our Smoky Mountains adventure, let me give you some essential exposition. Max and I started dating five months ago, and at some point this past spring, I looked at him, very unsure of what his response would be, and asked if he wanted to go on a trip with me to Yellowstone National Park that summer. And Max, being ever so supportive of my insatiable wanderlust and love for the outdoors, said yes.

I thought it was a joke at first.

I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that not only was this amazing guy a part of my life, but that he actually would want to go on a week-long, no-cell-service, primitive wilderness adventure with yours truly.

But alas, we both tumbled

down the rabbit hole that is the U.S. National Park system. Neither of us had the level of preparedness to execute a backcountry trip to Yellowstone (according to many a park ranger) nor the resources to get there (according to our bank accounts) and thus, our Smoky Mountains adventure planning phase began.

I spent roughly two work days developing an itinerary down to the last minute. I had five days planned out for us, about 60 miles total, plus an additional day to explore the park — stopping at visitor centers, riding horses and eating a real, cooked meal, a novelty after a week in the woods.

But despite all my planning, I felt incredibly nervous. Max had never been backpacking before — in fact, he’d never even slept in a tent before. And despite saying otherwise, I was worried that we would get to the trailhead and start hiking, and he would hate every minute of it.

My mind was clouded with all the potential catastrophes: What if he hated not showering for six nights in a row or sleeping on nothing but an inch of foam? What if he hated me after not showering for six nights and smelling like complete dogshit?

What if he stared at me in horror when I told him he had to dig a cathole every time nature called in the wilderness? What if he got sick of me after spending 144 hours in the wild with no one but me to keep him company.

These are things you worry about in a relationship.

But nothing worried me more than the thought of him not loving backpacking. Because the world of backpacking, of sleeping in a tent in the middle of nowhere, waking up with the sun, putting on your backpack and climbing mountains day after day, was a world that I loved more than I can verbalize. And it was a world that I wanted — more than anything — to share with him.

My mind was slowly put at ease over the course of the summer, as we made our preparations. We went on practice hikes through the Miami trail system, drove to the REI store in Cincinnati and scoured the aisles for gear and

hiking boots and stocked up on copious amounts of jerky and power bars.

We were ready.

Our backpacks were expertly stuffed with sleeping bags, tent pieces, rations and everything else we needed to survive for five days in the wilderness. We started our journey in Chicago, setting out to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, the following morning for a brief tour and arriving in the Smokies just as the stars were beginning to peer out of the black sky.

I so wish I could take you through each day of our hike.

There simply aren’t enough pages in the entire newspaper that would do it justice. What I can tell you is that not a single day went as I planned it to. And that was okay. It was better than okay. It was amazing.

Our week was filled with laughter, bug spray, affection, a ridiculous amount of hand sanitizer, happiness, relief, injuries, replanning, campfires, grime, sweat, achy muscles and bones, surreal wildlife encounters and the unexpected. It might not have gone as planned, but I wouldn’t have changed a thing about that trip.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, can compare to traversing mountainsides with Max by my side — waking up and falling asleep next to him in a tent, with nothing but stars above us and mountains spread out before us. Nothing can compare to discovering that in him, I had a boyfriend, tent-mate and wilderness partner in crime.

Nothing can compare to looking at him at the summit of Mount LeConte, smiling, with his arms spread wide, breathing the mountain air and feeling absolute bliss.

We didn’t fight. We didn’t come close, really. We just hiked.

From belting “Mr. Brightside” on the trail to shoo away potential unwelcome furry friends to Max rinsing out my blistered and bloody feet with hydrogen peroxide to watching the sunset on the top of a mountain, this trip was the best adventure yet. And I was able to share every single moment with my Max. hatcheam@miamioh.edu @ang_hatcher

On a cold evening in February, my friend Jack and I took one of our frequent late night walks that are often catalyzed by some emotional trauma.

Tonight, however, the walk was to just get out. We sped from Elliott Hall down to Peffer Park, snipped off the end of fresh cigar, took a light to it and caught up. Jack had finally started dating this dynamite chick, Lindsay, and he was over the moon. We eventually made our way Uptown, to meet up with some of my friends at Cellar.

At the bar, I found my friends, Jack found his jacket he left there a week ago, and we decided to stick around for a bit. At some point, Jack left me to momentarily talk with some pals he found and soon motioned me over to meet them.

“Max, this is my friend, Angela.”

“Hi Angela, I’m Max.” Coffee date “When do I get to marry your friend Angela?”

“What?”

“Her ‘Go Green’ Ask Angela was hilarious” “You know what? Here: (XXX)-XXX-XXXX. Go call her yourself.”

“Bet.” Unlike my first meeting with Angela, our second was much more thoroughly planned. I mustered the courage to reach out and text her, and asked her out. Nothing too intense — just a cup of coffee and a chat at Kofenya. Simple though it sounds, I knew I was interested in seeing her more often, so I was naturally a bit nervous.

When she finally arrived 20 minutes late (Tardiness, I would soon realize, was as much a part of her as those dazzling red glasses), we found a table and didn’t leave for two hours.

We talked about classes. We talked about study abroad trips.

We talked about everything under the sun and, I swear to

you, I only felt like I was going to mess things up, like, twice.

Three times, max.

I still remember the flustered look on her face (she just dropped one of her residents off at McCullough-Hyde), and the yellow cardigan under her heavy outer jacket. We eventually left, and being the smooth criminal that I am, gave her a pat on the back as a parting gesture.

‘Are you a salad girl?’

“So what kind of eater are you?”

“What?”

“I mean, like, are you one of those salad-eating girls or do you actually enjoy food?”

“What?!?”

Cool as a cucumber.

After our coffee date, we started seeing each other more.

A netflix session here, a study session there, really anything I could do to see her more. I was hooked on Hatcher.

At some point, I invited her over for dinner, one that I said that I would cook. Coming from a largely Italian family, I knew exactly what to cook. I spent the hours readying for 7, retrieving the groceries, preparing the dishes and finally putting to work our rusty old stove.

Though predictably late once again, Angela eventually did make it to dinner. But, for whatever reason, the conversation did not come so naturally to me this time around.

I bumbled my way through attempting to neatly eat spaghetti (literally impossible) and speaking articulately (situationally impossible), but wound up sticking my size 11 shoe directly into my mouth with that absolute gem about her eating habits. Once again, my nerves got the best of me.

Not for a second Rarely, and I mean rarely, does someone randomly walk into your life and absolutely change it forever. I can’t say that there was any exact mocontinued on page 8

ANGELA HATCHER, PHOTOGRAPHED WHILE HIKING IN THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS CONTRIBUTED BY MAX DAVIS

Forgotten figures of the London Underground cÉilÍ Doyle asst. news editor The most striking visuals among the subway platforms and hidden hallways beneath London are not the train cars hurtling miles underground, known affectionately as the Tube, but rather the colorful characters who occupy the winding paths tucked beneath the city.

One woman in particular stands out.

She spends every day in the Bakerloo Tube station, it seems. Her crackled voice croons “are you out there?”

Her turquoise eyeshadow accentuates her dark electrified hair, frizzed at every end.

Her guitar case lies open with a smat-

tering of pence and single pound coins scattered among bits of rolled up paper, a half eaten baguette and forgotten lyrics.

One morning, another man strokes a guitar, gently singing a Spanish folk song.

The rush of the trains leaving Westminster punctures his lighthearted lyrics.

Suddenly, he is lost among the throngs of commuters crowding the platform, eager to clamor aboard to the next station.

The sweet lyrics of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” trail throughout the hallway of the Oxford Circus station.

The man with the beat-up acoustic guitar, whose sandy colored hair and worn out khakis blend into the wall, stands up slightly straighter as he leads into the next verse.

“Asking only workman’s wages/ I come looking for a job/ But I get no offers/ Just a come-on from the whores/ On Seventh Avenue/ I do declare/ There were times when I was so lonesome/ I took some comfort there…”

The sounds of a violin echo throughout the empty corridor of the Bakerloo station. A middle-aged man in a light blue Hawaiian shirt expertly plucks the strings before reaching for his bow.

No one seems to notice when he pauses, lifting his bow back down to glance

down at his watch.

He scoffs at the time and regains his composure, lifting his bow back up as the tears of the violin begin to well in the corners of the corridor yet again.

Her long, white-blonde hair nearly covers the entire length of her blue collared shirt. Her light brown boots tap to the rhythm of her breath. Her voice bellows under the flourescent lighting of the bustling entrance.

A quiet opera before the train departs. doyleca3@miamioh.edu @cadoyle_18

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friends from home and it was a chance for them to come out here and to give them shelter here at Stonehouse (the Sigma Phi Epsilon house at Miami) and show the good side of Greek life, because their frat house was evacuated,” MacAvoy said.

Chris Riano, a junior at FSU and a Miami, Florida native was shocked at how severe Hurricane Irma struck Florida.

“We knew once they started setting up FEMA tents it was going to be bad, our [university] president, Thrasher cancelled school for a week and most of our friends evacuated to New Orleans,” Riano said.

“There are still 45,000 people in Tallahassee without power.”

While the efforts of MacAvoy and his fellow fraternity brothers in Sig Ep to take in stranded college students from Florida are honorable, they are few and far between.

Martin spoke of the general apathy many have when tragedies like Irma occur, because many people do not have a personal connection to the storm or the chaos it creates.

“I know so many people down [in Florida] who just won’t have any homes to come back to,” Martin said. “We need to give back and donate whatever we can, even if this is not personally affecting you.”

For the U.S. citizens on the Virgin Islands, the situation is even more dire.

“What many don’t realize is that Caribbean people can’t simply evacuate in the event of a catastrophic storm. There are no roads leading them away from harm, they have no choice but to sit and wait the storm out,” Williams said.

As of right now U.S. warships have made their way over to the Virgin Islands and are rationing out supplies. Families on the island are limited to one 24-pack of water every three days, with authorities trying their best to equally dole out resources to the community.

Williams is frustrated by the lack of news coverage her home has been given in the days following the storm’s landfall.

“In places like the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. networks will cover an entire storm while only discussing whether or not it will impact the continental United States,”

Williams said. “My home is a U.S. Territory with over 100,000 U.S. Citizens, and the impact Hurricane Irma has had on our islands has gone largely ignored by major news networks.”

The five Phi Kappa Tau members from FSU have enjoyed their time at Miami so far, Oxford being the birthplace of their fraternity, but are still a little shaken by the whole situation.

“It was between here and Colorado,” Abbondanza said. “It was a much shorter drive to Oxford, we just had to go north.

They said [Irma] was going to hit [Tallahassee] anywhere between a Category 3 to a tropical storm, so we were just thinking the worst.”

Despite Martin and Williams’ anxieties and frustrations about not being able to physically protect or help their loved ones, they both urged the Miami community to step up in any way they can.

“What I find strange is how easy it is for so many to look to the Caribbean as their destination vacation paradise,” Williams said. “But when we need help such as relief or aid in the wake of a natural disaster they fall on deaf ears who no longer see the value because it no longer directly affects them.”

Williams suggested to those looking to make a difference and help the people of the Virgin Islands to donate to the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI).

“I feel helpless, because there’s nothing my family or I can do to evacuate my grandparents,” Martin said. “But even if every student at Miami donated money to any charity that provides relief we could start to make an impact.”

MacAvoy also added that while not many students are in the position to host five random guys from FSU, the Miami community should do anything they can to support the people who were hit hard by Irma.

“At this point it’s not just about us, it’s hurricane relief in general,” Abbondanza said. “Do your part, even if it’s just a couple dollars here or a can of food there, just donate whatever you can and help the people that are in extreme need right now because what comes around goes around.” doyleca3@miamioh.edu

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Before the mountains the beautiful views and the open-hearted conversations.

But you also get to see the other people in your group take shits in the wilderness, and sleep next to them and their smelly bodies in tents and shelters.

When we departed, some of these conflicts of excessive exposure to one another troubled her. She would ask me questions like “What if you don’t like it?

What if we don’t get along? What if we can’t stand each other three hours in?”

If you had asked me after I met her that first night if I could spend five days alone with her in the wilderness, I would have immediately said yes.

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the announcement was posted that evening.

Miami president Greg Crawford, following the Trump administration’s announcement, urged Congress to develop a plan to protect undocumented students attending college in the U.S. in a statement published online last Tuesday.

Introduced during the Obama administration, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program allowed young adults who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to work and study in the U.S. without fear of immediate removal.

Though U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will

not process any new applications for the program, Congress has a six-month window to act before the administration will start to phase out protections for those currently in the program.

Since its introduction, Miami’s administration has supported the DACA program.

In a 2013 letter, former Miami president David Hodge urged Ohio senator Sherrod Brown to support expansion of the DREAM act.

In December, Crawford, along with presidents from all 14 of Ohio’s public universities, signed a letter asking U.S. senators to support the BRIDGE Act, which would have allowed people who are eligible for work authorization and temporary relief from

deportation through DACA to continue living in the U.S. Miami students receive access to all campus services regardless of immigration status, and, since 2013, undocumented students who live in the state of Ohio have been eligible for in-state tuition.

Since the Trump administration gave few details in its initial announcement, Miami will “continue to monitor developments and consult with experts in this area,” according to the statement.

The university recommends undocumented students work closely with personal immigration counsel. Students in programs which require employment authorization, like a paid internship, should pay particu-

lar attention to developments of this decision that will affect their ability to be employed in the U.S. In the event that an undocumented Miami student would be subject to an order of removal from the U.S., Miami could not intervene, though the school pledges to “support and take steps to ease the student’s transition.”

“These students have enriched the learning environment and brought a wide array of talents and abilities to our state and nation,” said Crawford in the statement.

Undocumented students seeking legal assistance can go to https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org for more information.

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receiver. His production in the run game was the low volume, high variance kind and, on a day when he didn’t average 13.2 yards per carry, he likely would’ve had 15 to 20 rushing yards. However, 12 targets and eight catches in the passing game now seems sustainable.

The Chicago Bears -- who had a dearth of playmakers before the season ending injuries to wide receivers Cameron Meredith and Kevin White -- cannot afford to keep a talent like Cohen off the field. Especially after starting running back Jordan Howard’s receiving woes continued with a crucial drop on third-and-goal late in the game.

Expect continued work in the passing game and look to stash both him and Deonte Thompson on your benches.

Wide receiver Cooper Kupp’s week is most likely to be “just the beginning.” Despite being pegged by many to be fourth or even fifth in the pecking order for targets on the Los Angeles Rams, Kupp looked like quarterback Jared Goff’s favorite target. Kupp is a sure-handed and skilled route runner, and it appears that he will be Goff’s trusted security blanket moving forward. Look for consistent WR3 (top 36) performances from here on out in PPR (point per reception leagues).

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Miami freshman midfielder Leonor Berlie finished with a game-high six shots while junior goalkeeper Maddie Passarella had five saves.

Miami field hockey hosted Ohio State University on Friday, but lost to the Buckeyes in an exciting 3-2 match. The ‘Hawks’ comeback fell just short in the final minutes. MU is still winless at home (0-3).

“We have to work harder and that’s the bottom line, especially in the second half,” Puzo said.

“Ohio State changed gears and were putting much more pressure on the ball than the first half. That was our goal -- to put more pressure when we’re on defense and to attack and speed up the game.”

OSU outshot MU 19-6 and while the shot outlook is lopsided in favor of the Buckeyes, MU was dominant for the majority of the first half and toward the end of the second. It was that time in between that ultimately beat the RedHawks.

“Ohio State came here today and played to win the game. We just did that for a few minutes of the game,” Puzo said. “That’s unacceptable, especially when you’re playing at home. The image we gave today was not the image I was expecting from Miami, that we were all expecting from Miami.”

Miami’s senior midfielder/ forward Henni Otten started the scoring with an unassisted goal at 16:16 which Miami held onto for ten minutes before OSU scored with 8:02 left in the first

half, tying the game 1-1. This OSU goal was a turning point in the game for MU -- the shift in momentum helped OSU score one more with 1:23 left in the first half to go up 2-1 at halftime.

Miami played defensively and failed to capitalize on their scoring opportunities after the momentum swing toward the end of the first half, and this transition held for the majority of the second half as well.

OSU would score again with 15:45 left in the second half, putting the Buckeyes up 3-1.

About five minutes later, coach Puzo called a timeout to bolster some last-minute motivation into the team. It appeared to have worked because MU took control again and forced play into their attacking 25 until they notched another goal with

2:19 left.

Passarella was pulled following Miami’s goal to give them a player advantage for the time left.

“It doesn’t matter if you lose 3-1 or 3-2 or whatever. You lose or you win, that’s it. So we decided to go for it,” Puzo said. “With two minutes left to go on the clock and you have the ball, you got to give yourself the opportunity to tie the game and take the game to overtime. That was the goal.”

Miami opens up conference play this Friday at Ohio University at 3 p.m. followed by a game at Appalachian State on Sunday September 17 at noon. OU is 1-5 (0-0 MAC) while Appalachian State is 2-4 on the season. berrycm2@miamioh.edu

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A: That for all generic catchphrases commentators spout about offensive line play, they’re probably somehow underselling its importance. The Giants, Bengals, Seahawks, and Texans all had their offenses basically cancelled by porous offensive line play. The Texans allowed ten sacks for Pete’s sake! Ten of 12 games on Sunday hit the Under in Vegas, and poor blocking around the league had a lot to do with it.

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secretary of finance with a 42 percent raise to $5,075 due to ASG senate legislation passed in the spring 2017 semester which cited the intensive workload and significant responsibilities of the job.

Senators will make the final vote on the proposed budget at the Tuesday Sept. 12 ASG session.

ASG senate elected senior Austin Worrell and junior Brendan Greenlee to Student Affairs Council as student representatives. SAC advises Miami’s Vice President for Student Affairs and has a say in the rules set out by the university that regulate student conduct and other non-academic realms of student life.

An ASG senator and former cabinet member, Worrell is pursuing an Oxford City Council seat in this year’s Nov. election, while Greenlee is a member of ASG’s student court.

The Sept. 5 session was also the first meeting for 14 newly-elected on-campus senators, which represent eight different residence hall districts, as well the resident assistant community. evansjm4@miamioh.edu

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good idea, poor execution: vinny at mental health forum The following reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

Last Thursday, Vincent “Vinny” Guadagnino, former TV star on the reality show “Jersey Shore,” came to campus to serve as the keynote speaker for the university’s mental health forum. In front of a crowd of about 500 in Hall Auditorium, Vinny answered questions and spoke of his experience with severe anxiety throughout his life. His speaking portion of the evening lasted less than 30 minutes.

Vinny’s performance was, compared to the grandiosity of his name, underwhelming; he spoke for a short amount of time, he made jokes about doing shots with the audience and he showed up with little bona fide psychological expertise.

It’s easy to imagine that those in attendance expected more out of this celebrity speaker, and more out of the $20,000 he charged the university to appear last week.

These facts are concerning, and when it comes to a topic as important as mental health, the need to produce an effective and legitimate dialogue is an urgent one.

However, when it comes to this event in particular, to write it off as failure would not do justice to the larger context of the issue of mental health and the proximate results it showed.

The purpose behind selecting a person such as Vinny to come and speak to Miami students about mental health is a reasonable one. Events about serious issues, like mental health, generally do not draw enthusiastic crowds of young people; picking a celebrity such as Vinny, whose show current college students will no doubt remember from its heyday from 2010 to 2012, was a creative way to try to get the average Miami student to get excited about such a topic.

It’s no secret that a significant part of Miami’s social culture centers around drinking and partying, activities that Vinny partook in heavily on his show.

His story of having to look past those elements of his life and take care of his mental health is one that should resonate with many students at our school.

The evidence of the effectiveness of his billing for the event showed in the attendance. With a packed house, all those students, many of whom might have not come without his name on the ticket, were able to not only hear Vinny, but also his opener, Dr. John Ward, assistant director for clinical and men’s services, speak about the topic. Without Vinny, and the efforts of ASG, IFC, Panhellenic, MAP and RHA to get students to the auditorium, this event may very well have ended with many empty seats.

Of course, it would be best if college students didn’t need a reality TV star to draw them to such an event. But, we don’t live in the ideal, and sometimes going outside the box on speaking personalities can have a positive effect. Though Vinny somewhat disappointed in his speaking role, the potential for an engaging event

was there.

Vinny’s presence was a well-intentioned move, with positive results in terms of getting students to sit down and attend a mental health forum. As a professional partier for many years, Vinny has a story that many students could relate to.

Its execution, though, was lackluster, and with such a short amount of speaking time for such a high profile (and expensive) guest, it is no wonder that many in Hall Auditorium were left feeling like they deserved more. With Student Counseling Services in need of increased funding, spending so much money on Vinny is regrettable. But, that is in hindsight, and the effort to get people interested in the topic was effective.

The keynote speaker may not have panned out in the way its organizers and attendees hoped, but for the size of the event it created and the relatable message Vinny offered, it’s reasonable to look at the glass as half full.

DACA Opposition based on misconceptions, not facts Darcy Keenan columnist

“DACA is like a parent stealing a bike, giving it to their child and then pretending they should keep the bike because they’ve ridden it.” - Twitter user @ PolitiBunny, Sep. 4.

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DACA is unconstitutional: What now? luke schroeder columnist

On more than 20 occasions, President Obama asserted he did not have the constitutional authority to circumvent Congress in order to create his own immigration policy.

During one such occasion in 2011 he stated: “Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting ... But that’s not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. That’s not how our Constitution is written.”

In 2013, he echoed his earlier comments: “My job in the executive branch is supposed to be to carry out the laws that are passed … if we start broadening that, then essentially I would be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally.”

Clearly, Obama had a firm understanding that he should not exceed his constitutional mandate.

Then, just a few months later, he entirely changed his mind. Standing in the Rose Garden, President Obama sidestepped congress and announced what is now known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. DACA circumvented U.S. law to prevent the deportation of young illegal immigrants under certain circumstances. To have qualified, illegal immigrants must have attended or graduated from high school, entered the United States before the age of 16 and had a criminal record free of felonies or major misdemeanors.

At the time, many lawmakers raised concerns over the legality of President Obama’s action. The chief executive, many argued, should not hijack the rightful role of congress in crafting legislation, regardless of intent.

Many a time on the campaign trail, President Trump promised to terminate DACA “on day one” of his presidency—he ended up waiting until day 228. Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced

DACA’s termination with a sixmonth implementation delay.

This announcement has incited spirited debate in the political arena of our country, and has elevated emotions on both sides of the issue.

However, regardless of your opinion on what DACA has done, you must acknowledge that its nature of creation lies in direct contradiction to constitutional law. Regardless of its good intentions, regardless of the (temporary) peace of mind it gave to some illegal immigrants, DACA is, and always has been, unconstitutional.

Article one, section eight of the Constitution grants congress the power to establish the “rule of naturalization” for the United States; this alone makes congress the absolute authority in this area of federal power.

In our republic, it is congress who is responsible for creating law, not the president. No president, Republican, Democrat, or otherwise, should have the power to summarily create any legislation on a whim.

Every American should celebrate the checks we place on presidential power.

Two years after implementing DACA, Obama announced a similar program to shield older illegal immigrants. This program, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), was challenged by 26 states in federal court on grounds of unconstitutionality; a federal judge sided with the challenging states and halted the program. The case, United States v. Texas, eventually made it to the United States Supreme Court, where lower court rulings that DAPA was unconstitutional were reaffirmed.

This court decision may well have played into President Trump’s termination of DACA. Because of DAPA and DACA’s similarity, many believe that DACA is unconstitutional on the same grounds as DAPA—several states even promised to sue over DACA if President Trump did not take action.

Surprisingly, Trump appears to have no interest in deporting illegal immigrants protected under the DACA program—it seems as if he wants to make the policies of DACA law.

During the six month limbo before DACA termination takes effect, President Trump has made clear that he expects congress to pass legislation effectively codifying the policies of DACA into law. This nation’s most vocal immigration hawk suddenly supports what he once called illegal amnesty.

On Twitter, the president even hinted that he would reinstate DACA if congress does not act legislatively.

In the words of Fox News commentator Brit Hume, “The President opened a huge trapdoor in the whole thing when he said … that if Congress doesn’t act, he’s prepared to revisit the issue. It’s pretty clear that he doesn’t want to [deport anyone].”

Regardless of the President’s erratic stance on this important issue, one thing is clear: Immigration reform is past due in this country.

Most importantly, it is the role of congress, not the president, to set this policy. Immigration reform should result in a higher level of border security, ensure that violent felon illegal immigrants are imprisoned or deported, provide a pathway to citizenship for former DACA recipients and other qualified individuals, and vastly streamline our country’s legal immigration procedures.

Although this issue is one of the most politically charged in the nation, Trump’s stance on DACA may actually lead to some sort of bipartisan compromise. Imagine that— President Donald Trump signing an Obama-era immigration policy into law. What a time to be alive. schroelm@miamioh.edu

Let’s talk about the above comparison.

When someone steals a bike, or anything for that matter, they are directly impacting and hurting the person they stole from. Undocumented immigrants are not stealing anything from anyone. Straying from the idea of DACA, it is important to understand the parental figures of the Dreamers: there is this idea that undocumented immigrants are stealing jobs from the hard working Americans, but that isn’t true. According to CNN, Immigrants are taking laborious jobs that no one else wants, like farming and fishing, which means that American citizens do not face any real job competition with undocumented immigrants. According to a study published last year by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the idea that immigrants “steal” jobs from Americans make little to no sense. Even with the undocumented immigrants working in this country, there are still approximately six million jobs that remain unfilled in the country (CNN).

Another concern is that undocumented immigrants aren’t paying their taxes and doing their fair share to contribute to the economy. However, many undocumented immigrants are able to use the social security numbers of U.S. citizens, which means that they will have taxes and withholdings taken from their paychecks. When it becomes an issue is when the employers agree to pay their employees under the table, which happens often with citizens as well as undocumented immigrants.

Being undocumented

does not mean criminal, regardless of what President Donald Trump has said in the past, and it does not mean that your children are criminals either. The children of undocumented immigrants were given a second chance in 2012; these children were granted a renewable, two-year period to further their educations and get jobs without the threat of being deported.

Over 800,000 people were helped with this program; they are called Dreamers because of the DREAM act that was voted down in 2001. The name Dreamers also brings up the American Dream: The idea that anyone can thrive and be successful and welcomed in America.

The only reason that anyone would want the Dreamers to be sent back to their home countries is because they are racist and do not understand DACA. DACA beneficiaries do not have the same privileges as citizens, they are not eligible to receive federal public benefits such as (but not limited to) food stamps, welfare, federal financial aid, and though they pay social security they would not reap the benefits of it for decades.

The beneficiaries of DACA came to America when they were minors.

This most likely means that they had no choice in coming to America and many of these beneficiaries know little to nothing about their home country. They may not even speak the language of their mother country. It is beyond unfair to deport these people to their home country when so many of them have spent over half their lives in America.

The Dreamers are not hurting anyone. They are not stealing anything from American citizens. They are just trying to better themselves, along with the American economy and society because they consider themselves, as do I, Americans. keenandn@miamioh. edu

Farmer creates class to prepare students for corporate reality joey hart

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In an attempt to even further prepare students for the business world, Farmer School of Business is now offering Real Life Competency 101 for students.

Students will be immersed in a class that teaches them the more concrete abilities they need to succeed in corporate America.

The course will cover units such as How to Suck Up to Your Boss, How to Undercut Your Cowork-

ers’ Achievements and How to Get Away With Stealing Someone Else’s Lunch, among others.

Additionally, while the class is only worth three credit hours, students will be required to stay in class and complete their work once regular hours are over. Students will also be expected to dress in business casual attire and are liable to be “fired” (fail the class) at any time for reasons ranging from inadequate work to being annoying during meetings.

Senior and business management major Sam Levathon said

this course has opened his eyes to what is ahead of him in life.

“The class really shows you just how much there is to learn about the business world,” Levathon said. “For example, I never knew what a valuable skill it is pretending to do work on an Excel document until your lunch break. These are skills that will last a lifetime.”

Professor Dennis Shire, who teaches two sections of the course, said its lessons are essential for students who want to understand the business world.

“What we are providing to

students is a rudimentary understanding of the skills they will need once they clock in for that office job,” Shire said. “Computer science, business writing and economics courses are great, but if students don’t know how to have an affair with their coworker without their supervisor finding out or how to listen to someone else’s idea and then take it and pass it off as their own, they will not be successful in this field.”

At the end of the semester, students will be given a final grade that is based 50 percent on their

physical attractiveness, 40 percent on how loud they talk at meetings and 10 percent on the quality of the actual work they do throughout the semester. An automatic A is awarded if a student has a familial connection to the professor.

“It’s great,” Levathon said, “to know that we’re preparing to become the next generation of business leaders.”

The above is a work of journalistic satire. hartjt@miamioh.edu

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The complicated nature of white identity today maxwell matson Columnist What makes a person “white?”

For minorities, like myself, the idea of a monolithic characteristic called whiteness is all too real. Whiteness in the U.S. can be defined as a social system through which the presence of phenotypic characteristics which are characteristically European allows for an artificial or undeserved sense of superiority and elevated social standing. This definition of whiteness is of course only one of many, and as the issue has been discussed more openly in the public forum with the proliferation of identity-centered politics and the increased visibility of racist hate groups, the public consciousness has never been more divided regarding what it means to be white.

Whiteness has often served as convenient shorthand for colonialist forces from Europe. Under the powerful European empires of the 15th century and onward, people of Spanish, Portuguese, French, British and Dutch heritage introduced themselves to the rest of the world through invasion and subjugation.

It is this history from which the very idea of whiteness is derived. To add clarity to this point, imagine that there are two groups of European colonists who each claim ownership over the same parcel of land in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of the groups is Spanish, the other British. If both arrive at the same time, each believing that they have a right to the parcel, there will inevitably be competition over who truly has a right to the land. To the British, the distinction between their claim

and that of the Spanish couldn’t be clearer (and vice versa). However, despite any potential differences in the two European groups’ cultural expression and the tactics they use to acquire the land, they become unified within the native person’s mind as invaders and are thus rendered extensively indistinguishable.

Add on top of this that both invading forces are of a similar skin tone and the stage is set for the creation of a “white” race.

It is this loosely shared external identity that creates, in part, the modern definition of whiteness. The combination of roughly similar geographic origin and European physical features thus allows for the use of “white” as a generalization of people who originate from a region spanning 3.9 million square miles.

This definition of whiteness arises more out of convenience than malice. However, self-defined whiteness is much more complicated, and often much more damaging. Whiteness as an identity manufactured by “white” people themselves has historically been used to separate those who are privileged as a part of the European dominated establishment from those who are not. That’s not to say that such benefits are conveyed to all members of the “white” race, but rather that in a system based around racial subjugation, the Atlantic slave trade for example, racism becomes interwoven with what it means to be white. This is because simply by being white, one is exempt from the possibility of slavery. This artificial brand of whiteness that slave-owners labeled themselves with in order to justify their own exclusion from bondage and crimes against humanity is still at the core of our social

systems today. For those who fail to understand how history can manifest itself in a country’s systems over 152 years later, keep in mind that the racist systems the U.S. has employed in the last several hundred years have often been used as the roadmap for more contemporary injustices around the globe. Any U.S. citizen can see clearly that the stain of apartheid (inspired in part by Jim Crow laws in the U.S.) has left a permanent imbalance in the way that white and black South Africans are treated. Yet, it is somehow harder for many white Americans today to see the racist systems that surround them everyday.

While it is true that whiteness is a manufactured concept which has been created by non-white and white people alike, it is a fundamentally damaging concept in so far as it is used as a rallying call to unify people against others on the basis of their appearance. In no way do I wish to denigrate individual European history or culture. To point out the flaws in the purely skin-deep concept of whiteness is not to criticize the cultural identities of the 62.6% of U.S. citizens who identify as white. European identity is as nebulous and frankly non-existent as South American identity, African identity or Asian identity. While it is certainly not wrong to celebrate one’s own European heritage as a Spaniard, Italian, Brit, or any other combination of nationalities, to form one’s identity around a shared history of colonial rule, pseudoscience and exploitation will only lead to further injustice. matsonrm@miamioh.edu

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Welcome to the first installment of the Made-Up Mailbag.

Normally, mailbags are written because they’re an easy way to repeatedly cover a topic, and the author can sit back, relax and let the ideas roll in — all the while bragging about how engaged his or her readers are.

With the “Made-Up Mailbag,” I brag anyway and save my hardworking readers the trouble of topic generation, so join me each week as I respond to questions of questionable origin.

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16,000 fans supported miami football for the redhawks’ home-opener against austin peay. the ‘hawks went on to win 31-10.

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smiled and said after the game. “Sometimes even if there’s two guys on him, throw the ball high to him and that dude’s going to make plays. He’s a special player and he’s really fun to be on the field with.”

However, what made the passing game so effective was the balanced attack led by a tenacious offensive line. Redshirt junior running backs Alonzo Smith and Kenny Young combined for 120 yards rushing on the day.

The ‘Hawks kept the Governor defense guessing between run and pass while seeing risks pay off. Four times Chuck Martin decided to roll the dice on the fourth down, and three of those times his team delivered. “[We wanted to] send the message that we’re going to be on our toes, that we’re going to keep trying to be a great football team,” Martin said. “We’re not going to sit

back and relax.”

Part of the reason the ‘Hawks’ head man was bold enough to risk turning the ball over on downs was the stellar play of his defense.

“Obviously it was a defensive game,” Martin said. “Our defense is athletic. They have a playmaker mentality, and they have to make the plays that are their plays.”

Of such playmakers, none made a bigger impact than junior safety Tony Reid. Reid was good for five tackles, one fumble recovery and an acrobatic interception deep in Miami territory. He turned the tide of the game to Miami for good in the fourth quarter.

“He beat me inside a little bit,” Reid said of the interception. “But I just played the ball right through his hands, kept my eyes on the ball, and made a finish.”

The performance of Reid by itself is un-

doubtedly impressive, but even more impressive is the adversity he overcame to prepare for this game. Reid mentioned dealing with bleeding the past two weeks, while having a colonoscopy Friday -- one day before playing an outstanding college football game.

“I have Crohn’s disease,” Reid explained in a post-game press conference. “I’ve had it since 2010 so it’s been something that I accepted, but it’s not going to stop me from doing what I have to do. I love my teammates. I put my all out for my team.”

Reid will be looked at to continue to play well as the RedHawks return to action this Saturday, looking to go to 2-1 against the Cincinnati Bearcats in the battle for the Victory Bell. Kickoff is at 8 p.m. at Yager Stadium. pfistejb@miamioh.edu

Field Hockey’s weekend falls short to OSU and IU FIELD HOCKEY

Christopher Berry The miami student

Indiana University played host to the Miami field hockey team on Sunday which ended in a second consecutive 3-2 loss for the RedHawks. MU falls to 2-4 overall (0-0 Mid-American Conference) after the weekend, also losing 3-2 to Ohio State University on Friday.

“It was a good game of hockey,” head coach Inako Puzo said about the Indiana game. “We played very well and competed hard. We can’t let the scoreboard fool us. It wasn’t the result we wanted, but it showed a lot of good things and we can keep working forward together.”

The Redhawks were outshot 13-11 but tied the Hoosiers with eight penalty corners.

Sophomore back Kirsten McNeil scored first for the RedHawks in the 17th minute. IU tied it up in the 33rd minute with a goal from senior forward Maddie Latino.

Freshman forward Allie Grace Joyner put MU up 2-1 in the 55th minute with a goal off a rebound, marking her second goal of the season. IU responded in the 59th minute with another goal by Latino who would go on to finish with a hat trick by scoring off a rebound in overtime — securing the win for the continued on page 9

Q: I was sitting three rows behind you at the game against Austin Peay. When the Redhawks were on defense, it seemed like you weren’t even watching the game. You’d celebrate at odd times and kept muttering things about Heath Harding even when he wasn’t involved in the play. What on earth were you doing?

A: Well, the work Redshirt senior Heath Harding does will cost a pretty penny to enjoy live in a short 12 months, so I figured I would enjoy it while I still have the chance.

He is a first-round NFL talent many on campus are unaware exists on a football team they still think is awful. The casual observer may think the nickname of Biggie is ironic for a corner listed at 5-foot-10 and 190 pounds, but it was fitting on Saturday. In press-man coverage much of the day, he won the physical battle against the Governors’ larger receivers and re-directed their routes off the line of scrimmage. He allowed such little separation that on most plays, Austin Peay backup QB Jeremiah Oatsvall didn’t even look at Harding’s half of the field. He forced a turnover on downs with two splash run stops where he diagnosed the play and broke off coverage to deliver a big hit. The performance was worth a spot on Pro Football Focus’ MAC team of the week, and I was enthralled.

Q: Were the breakout performances by NFL rookies Kenny Golladay, Tarik Cohen and Cooper Kupp flukes or do you think this is just the beginning? Asking for my fantasy football team.

MIAMI FIELD HOCKEY FELL 3-2 TO BOTH OHIO STATE AND INDIANA UNIVERSITY OVER THE WEEKEND. PHOTO: RYAN TERHUNE

Golf places 2nd at Wolf Run Intercollegiate golf

Jill Cofskey

the miami student

Miami men’s golf competed in the Wolf Run Intercollegiate tournament in Zionsville, IN Sept. 8-10 and placed second, finishing at +26 as a team. This topped last season’s performance when MU came in at +46 and 11th place.

MU played a practice round Sunday, Sept. 3 to determine the lineup.

In a press conference on Friday, Coach Zac Zedrick announced the group competing would include Redshirt junior Brian Ohr, senior Patrick Flavin, sophomore Cam Solomon, freshman Charlie Nikitas

and freshman Jack Mortell, with freshman Jack Herceg playing as an individual.

Day one came to a close with MU sitting in fourth place at +6. Kentucky held the lead at an even par.

Throughout the weekend MU climbed from fourth to second, pushing aside Arkansas State and the University of Central Florida.

Flavin and Ohr maintained a consistent lead throughout the weekend, finishing at -2 and -1, respectively.

“We definitely carried ourselves like a team that belonged in that pairing today and competed really well,” Zedrick said.

“It’s one of the best golf courses in the Midwest. It’s one of those places that if you play well it rewards you

[...] but average shots can really get punished,” Zedrick said about the difficulty of Wolf Run Golf Club in Friday’s press conference.

Flavin placed first just one month after becoming the second player in history to win the Illinois Amateur and the Illinois Open in the same year.

“You have to be very focused on yourself otherwise things can get out of whack,” Flavin said. “It’s very important to just focus on one shot at a time.”

The RedHawks will head back to the practice course over the next week to prepare for the Inverness Intercollegiate Sept. 18-19 at Toledo, Ohio. cofskeje@miamioh.edu

A: Firstly, thanks for reading. To answer your question, it depends. Two touchdowns is certainly not sustainable for wide receiver Golladay, but his targets are. As late as the second half, quarterback Matthew Stafford was Detroit’s leading rusher with one carry for 15 yards. The Lions are going to throw the ball a lot, and Golladay likely cemented himself as the third option in the passing game with room to grow. Either way, JJ Zachariason, fantasy analyst for numberFire, was probably right about ‘Babytron’ catching on by week five. He is definitely worth a bench stash on your fantasy football roster.

Running back Tarik Cohen similarly will not continue to be the Bears’ leading rusher AND receiver. His production in the run game was the low volume, high variance kind and, on a continued on page 9

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