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CRAWFORD EARNS 14% MORE THAN HODGE

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PAY RANKS HIGH AT MU

NEWS EDITOR

Miami University was recently ranked second in the nation for its commitment to undergraduate education by U.S. News and World Report, behind only Princeton University.

The specialty list, compiled by the media conglomerate as part of its annual “Best Colleges” analysis, qualifies Miami as the top public university in the United States. Miami has placed in the top five in each of the past seven years.

Being named to the “Best Undergraduate Teaching” list, university spokesperson Claire Wagner said, is quite the honor.

I don’t know if there’s anything more significant we can say than [that] an outside source says when you come here, you’re going to get attention from faculty,” Wagner, Miami’s director of university news and communications, said.

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president, I don’t want university policy abridged in the classroom above students.”

During an interview with The Miami Student, Brooks received a phone call from a student who said she felt one of her classes was a shrine to Hillary Clinton.

Brooks spoke with another student who told him he feels uncomfortable when one of his professors starts each class with a tirade of Donald Trump.

Miami University President Gregory Crawford will be paid a yearly salary of $495,000, a more than 14 percent increase from former president David Hodge’s base pay of $432,022, according to Crawford’s employment contract.

The contract, obtained

by The Miami Student on Monday, shows that in addition to his base salary, Crawford will be paid a yearly, performance-based bonus of up to $75,000. Miami’s Board of Trustees will determine Crawford’s bonus during an annual evaluation each August.

In his 10th and final year as president, Hodge picked up a bonus of $86,404.

Miami’s former president declined his bonus every year before then, an act that other university presidents, including former University of Cincinnati President Santo Ono, have embraced.

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RENEE FARRELL PHOTO EDITOR

One week into fall and the trees in Oxford are beginning to change color.

A barrier to bias in the classroom POLITICS

GRACE MOODY

THE MIAMI STUDENT

This fall, Miami’s Office of the President sent an email to faculty and staff reminding them of the university policy that restricts professors from sharing their political beliefs in the classroom, anticipating political tensions on campus.

Some professors and students have voiced concerns that this policy of political neutrality has been breached

Policy of political neutrality seeks to pacify confrontational election this election season.

Douglas Brooks, a professor in the College of Education, Health and Society, said students have been coming to him with concerns of professors sharing their political opinions in the classroom. and, as a result, making students feel uncomfortable.

“I’m always mindful of students when they are uncomfortable, so students tend to

come to me when they are uncertain about something,” Brooks said. “I try to be sensitive to the student culture and what students are experiencing here at Miami.”

Brooks serves as a understanding voice to talk to when students are frustrated by politics in the classroom.

“My number one motive is students,” Brooks said. “I don’t care who gets elected

A grassroots effort to reduce housing density

Karlos Hill on ‘modern-day lynchings’

Oxford’s 13th neighborhood wants fewer students

Local police focus on community

COMMUNITY

The Quail Ridge Neighborhood of Oxford is seeking to join 12 others as Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Districts (NCOD).

Debra Allison, retired vice president of technology at Miami University, began the process in August of this year. She gathered signatures, knocked on doors and worked with the city to eventually have her petition heard in a Sept. 20 City Council Meeting.

The petition, aimed at addressing noise, traffic and parking issues, will be reviewed by Oxford’s Planning Commission on Nov. 8. If approved, it will be considered again by the full City Council.

If OK’d then, Quail Ridge would be Oxford’s 13th conversation zone.

“You have to applaud those (people) for going through this process,” Director of Community Development Jung-Han Chen said.

“It’s a very lengthy process and the neighbors need to be committed.”

Although the petition process seemed formidable at

the beginning — it includes 21 steps and takes at least six months — Allison said she has enjoyed it.

“It’s been a lot of fun learning how the city works,” she said.

These neighborhood petitions are the result of an ordinance passed in 2012, permitting Oxford homeowners to petition City Council to restrict the number of unrelated individuals able to rent a home. Chen provided the initial suggestion for the ordinance, and drafted it with the help of the Planning Commission.

Previously, a single-family home was defined as having four, unrelated persons living in one home. However, in order to reduce noise, cut traffic and limit trash buildup, owners have the option to petition City Council to change the definition of a single-family home to one with two unrelated persons, according to Chen.

Once passed, the petitions do not affect rental properties that have already obtained a rental permit. If a rental property does not have a permit, they must comply with the NCOD, Chen said.

Allison, whose neighbor-

hood contains two rental properties -- one housing students, the other a family -- said her neighborhood is seeking a NCOD only partly to decrease student rentals.

She said she learned about the opportunity from other neighborhoods, which had gone through the process.

“I think most people think [the petitions] are directed at college students, but they’re certainly not,” she said. “It’s funny, the students living in [my neighborhood] were actually the more desirable neighbors.”

Rental properties, especially those with owners who live out-of-state, can be less well kept, Allison said. So decreasing the number of individuals in rental properties should increase property values in Quail Ridge and make the neighborhood more desirable.

“If you drive around Oxford, you’ll see that many of the houses are not wellmaintained,” Allison said.

Allison said she received little to no community pushback about her petition. Only two out of the 19 Quail Ridge residents did not sign the

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RACE

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On Thurs. Sept. 29, Miami hosted Dr. Karlos Hill, assistant professor of African and African American studies at the University of Oklahoma.

Hill gave his lecture, “21st Century Lynchings? Meditations on Police Shootings of Unarmed Black People,” in reference to his recent book, Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory, published by Cambridge University Press in May 2016.

In light of recent events concerning police shootings of unarmed black people, Hill’s lecture brought context of the the current struggle across America to those who were in attendance.

“Given the frequency, as well as oftentimes the callousness in which these killings occur, black activists, namely the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as black people in general, have begun to refer to them as modern-day lynchings,” Hill said.

This context is the foundation for the title and content of Hill’s lecture.

While Hill made it clear that lynchings in the traditional sense are not at all the same as today’s issue of police shootings of unarmed black people, he also claimed these situations have far more similarities than differences.

“Framing police killings of unarmed blacks as lynchings, I would argue, is decidedly an attempt to draw atten-

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CRYPTOMNESIA: ACCIDENTAL PLAGIARISM

SLICE OF LIFE: A WEEKEND IN OXFORD

DIGGING DEEPER INTO MIAMI’S RANKING

THE MILLENNIAL WORK ETHIC

THE QUEST FOR MIAMI’S FIRST WIN

Psychology professor’s study says students can plagiarize without realizing it.

Students rally for a night out and one girl finds escape at a frat party.

Miami ranks first for undergraduate education, but what does that mean?

“Not to be the crotchety old senior, but kids these days are lazy as hell.”

After loss to OU, Miami football prepares to face Akron.

University of Oklahoma professor Karlos Hill on Sept. 29. tion to this phenomenon,” Hill said. “It is an attempt to imbue them with historical significance.”

As Hill addressed the social context for how the comparison came about, he posed the question of what the implications are of referring to these events in this way.

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Cryptomnesia: Absent-minded plagiarism EDUCATION

ELI PITTMAN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Plagiarism is a continual problem from the classroom to the music industry. It’s also a severe criminal act, that can impact anyone from a terrified freshman to Robert Plant of the band Led Zeppelin.

However, what if you didn’t know you were plagiarizing, because you’d forgotten you had already heard the idea?

Believing you have an original idea only because you forgot you had heard or seen it earlier is called cryptomnesia, and it’s becoming a widely accepted notion. Justifiably, this concept could scare college students who already have to worry about citing their sources in the correct format to avoid plagiarism.

Gayle Dow, a psychology professor at Christopher Newport University, did extensive research on the subject of cryptomnesia last year and believes college students should be aware about the concerns it could raise.

“Since cryptomnesia is inadver-

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petition, giving Allison the twothirds majority she needed to send the petition to City Council.

“Buying a home is the singlemost significant investment a person can make,” Allison said.

“So [the neighbors] are looking for ways they can help and zoning regulations are one way they can do that.”

Sue Jones, volunteer chair of the William Holmes McGuffey Museum and an Oxford resident since 1978, initiated the Olde Farm/Country Club neighborhood’s NCOD petition in August 2014. It became the third neighborhood to win one, with its passage in March 2015.

Eighty percent of the residents in the neighborhood, which con-

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cated and grow into the best person you can be. That is fabulous to be able to market that.”

Though its “Best Undergraduate Teaching” metric is relatively new, U.S. News and World Report has ranked colleges annually since 1983 on factors such as retention and graduation rates, financial resources, class sizes and faculty resources.

“U.S. News and World Report is the gold standard of university rankings,” Wagner said. “We’re not fooled by the fact that they want to sell magazines, just like Money magazine and Fortune and everybody else who does rankings, but they have had a very solid methodology for years.”

That methodology is explained on the U.S. News website as a peer review of sorts. College presidents, provosts and admissions deans who participated in its annual Best Colleges rankings were also asked to identify up to 10 schools specializing in undergraduate education. U.S. News then compiles the survey results in descending order of the number of nominations received. Schools had to receive at least seven nominations to be listed, and this year 20 met that mark.

But while pleased with the recognition, several faculty members involved in Miami’s advocacy chapter of the American Associa-

tent, it is generally a concern,” Dow said. “I found that in a higher level course students are more prone to cryptomnesia. Given that these students are entrenched in their major classes and are working close with their professors, any accusation of plagiarism is a concern.”

Brenda Quaye, the coordinator of Academic Integrity at Miami University, believes that the process of hearings a student goes through after plagiarism is detected would exonerate the student if they had a genuine case of cryptomnesia.

“Any type of plagiarism case is referred, and then handled on a case by case basis,” Quaye said.

As plagiarism is something students generally want to avoid, Dowe had advice on how she believed students could be less prone to cryptomnesia.

“First, train novice students to explicitly cite any sources,” Dowe said. “Second, limit the use of examples to novice students who are learning the foundation knowledge, and then taper off the use of example to advanced students who are learning more advanced content.

Third, we should try and reduce being mentally overwhelmed.”

Quaye echoed very similar sentiments.

“If you know you’re someone who is more prone to these things, write down what you read and think you may come back to in the future,” Quaye said.

While there are steps to avoid cryptomnesia, Dowe believes there should be a distinction between cryptomnesia and plagiarism.

“I think it is important to look at intent. Plagiarism is copying ideas with the intent to copy them,” Dowe said. “It is unethical, and sometimes illegal. Cryptomnesia, on the other hand, is inadvertent and unintentional.”

However,Quaye says intent is not factored into the hearing process after a student has allegedly plagiarized.

“Within the academic integrity policy here at Miami, intent and understanding are not taken into consideration,” Quaye said. “At the end of the day, if the end result is plagiarism, it is plagiarism.”

sists of 94 properties and eight rental properties, signed the petition.

Jones was concerned about traffic congestion, noise and excess trash in her neighborhood.

“Frankly, if there’s a large group of people living [in a house], whether they are students or not, if they don’t clean up it can get kind of messy,” she said.

Residents in Oxford’s “square mile,” the area dominated by student rentals surrounding campus, have the option to petition as well. However, Allison and Chen do not see that happening in the future.

“The mile is full of students [who are] transient, versus the west part of Oxford that has permanent residents who live there year in and year out,” Chen said.

“I don’t believe there is any portion on the square mile to do that.”

Although City Council has made the decision to keep this process a grassroots effort, Allison said Council has been helpful and willing to guide her throughout the petitioning process. She is impressed with Council’s focus on community development, she said.

“It’s interesting that this is something that is happening,” Allison said. “People recognize the negative effect [of rentals] on home values and want to protect the values of their homes.”

This story was produced in cooperation with patch.com, a community-focused website with content produced by Miami journalism students.

tion of University Professors were skeptical of the criteria used to determine U.S. News’ rankings.

“I’m really glad that Miami is being recognized [for its undergraduate education], because I can feel it among all the faculty that I know,” Cathy Wagner, AAUP vice president and professor of English, said. “We’re really committed to undergraduate education and I can see that the students value our teaching. I do think we’re a really good teaching school with a genuine commitment.

“Whether the statistics are correct is a whole other question because as I understand it, these statistics are very sketchy. They’re generated by asking a bunch of university presidents where they think good teaching is. These statistics are not very reliable. What they’re a measure of, I’m not sure.

They’re a measure of reputation.”

Her colleague in the English department, AAUP co-president Keith Tuma, concurred.

“I think we’re always happy to be highly rated. We’re glad to be recognized. But we’re not so naive [as] to imagine that number is the whole picture. What are those ratings really taking into consideration?” Tuma said. “I think they are the product of incentives and repetition as much as anything else.”

Tuma added that because Miami has appeared in U.S. News’

rankings so consistently, this year’s announcement came as no surprise to him.

“We haven’t changed,” Tuma said. “It’s like an alarm clock every year at this time, to hear that we are number two in the nation. That suggests that they’re looking at the same limited data set every single year.”

And while U.S. News cites Miami’s faculty-to-student ratio at 17:1, noting that 31.9% of Miami’s courses have 20 students or fewer, for Tuma, those numbers cloak some less positive developments at Miami.

“Those numbers can be an excuse to ignore some of the things that are going on here,” Tuma said. “We keep raising the number of students we are admitting, and we aren’t hiring enough additional tenure-track faculty [to accommodate that increase]. Most of these students are being taught by adjunct and visiting faculty.”

But Claire Wagner said that Miami operates on fewer resources than smaller, more elite schools like Princeton, whose resources per capita tend to be higher than Miami’s.

“I think people need to look at a big picture and go, ‘Wow, with their resources, with the size of the student body that they’re expected to nurture the right way and educate as fully as they can, [Miami is doing a] good job.”

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At a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 29, Carlos Hill spoke to Miami students about recent “modern-day lynchings.” from police »PAGE 1

“I do not think that the police shootings of unarmed black people are lynchings, at least not in the technical sense,” Hill said. “The most important part of this discussion, though, is what does this association reveal about what’s happening today?... When we dismiss the comparison, we dismiss the emotive context for how it came to be.”

According to John McCandless, Chief of Police for the MUPD, the current situation is not conducive to the future of policing in America.

“I’m hoping, as far as race relations, that we can all do better at listening and trying to pay better attention to what the other one is saying,” McCandless said. “We certainly can’t continue the way we are going. That’s kind of a simple fact there.”

From a local standpoint, McCandless said the MUPD has a strong relationship with the community, and wants to continue to encourage emphasis on connecting with the community.

“We really encourage our students to do ride alongs, we have officers embedded in student groups on campus. I think the more we can get to know each other, before there is ever a problem, it will help us down the road,” McCandless said.

John Jones, Chief of Police for the OPD, also said the OPD has a strong relationship with the Oxford community.

“We can’t police efficiently without partnering with the public. The public’s trust and confidence in the police is very important for us to do our job,” Jones said. “Community engagement is important. We’re doing a lot of things just to try and reach out and say ‘This is the community we police; tell us what we are doing right and wrong, what you would like to see done differently,’ to get some feedback.”

However, Jones feels the community could do their part to continue the conversation.

“We try so hard to reach out, and often aren’t always met in the middle. That’s really up to the community,” Jones said.

Hill said community outreach and better police training are not enough, however, to solve the issues plaguing America’s attitude toward policing.

“When protocols are breached, at the very least, a reprimand should be had. And oftentimes, it is not,” Hill said. “The only way this problem changes for the better, is police officers who clearly violate protocol are held accountable for using deadly force against nonthreatening, unarmed blacks.”

Jones said the issue of accountability for police is definitely up for debate, and saying police accountability is an issue is a fair statement to make.

“Transparency is important, especially when it comes to discipline

in general. We are trying to build in methods for self-policing, but if it ever came to it, we would rely on an outside investigation for any major issues,” Jones said.

Hill said the controversy surrounding body camera footage stems from the precedent of police departments concealing evidence from the public.

McCandless agreed with the concept of outside review.

“I think the best way, when you have these shootings, is that there needs to be an independent person looking into it,” McCandless said.

“In terms of releasing of body cam videos, I’m not sure that should be left to the police department.

I think if there is another entity who has to prosecute it or deny the prosecution, releasing the footage prematurely can cause problems.

But there needs to be a collective voice saying when the right time to release it is,” McCandless said.

However, many police departments around the country cannot claim to be as connected to their communities or as open to reform as the local departments here in Oxford.

Hill said the heart of the nationwide emotional response to police shootings of unarmed black people is the same emotional response that gripped the black community during the lynching era.

“Because of the emotional association between police shootings of unarmed blacks and lynchings, the issue refuses to die. In part because the wounds the black community has experienced continue to remain open and unhealed,” Hill said.

Xavia Hawkins, a sophomore transfer student to Miami, appreciated the reality presented by Hill’s lecture.

“The fact that it truly gave people perspective on what’s been going on in our country, that’s what I appreciated the most. It definitely wasn’t sugar-coated. That’s been an absolute problem in the past… sometimes the media only shows the violent crime of protesters and chooses not to show the people who are going around helping the police officers, giving them water and things like that,” Hawkins said.

Hawkins said she feels society could be talking about the various aspects of this issue more in order to truly come to a comprehensive solution, and be tolerant of others even if there is disagreement.

“I actually designed the poster for the Black Lives Matter vigil tomorrow, and we found it slashed today. Someone took a knife to it.

And someone else removed one of our posters. It just goes to show that by us trying to use our voices, it hasn’t solved the problem,” Hawkins said.

Hill’s lecture served as a reminder to the Miami community that work still remains to be done on truly bridging the divide when it comes to race relations in America.

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Miami senior accepts prestigious astronaut scholarship SCIENCE

KAITLIN PEFFER

THE MIAMI STUDENT

With stars in his eyes, Cameron Williams leans forward in his chair after sitting back for 20 minutes.

He energetically motions with his hands as he explains the implications that amoxicillin has in antibiotic resistance and how it affects the human immune system.

The night before, Williams accepted an award from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) presented by former NASA astronaut Michael McCulley in front of a full house of Miami students in Hall Auditorium.

The award that Captain McCulley presented — based solely on merit — is worth $10,000 and is given to 40 undergraduate students majoring in math and science related fields at 34 universities nationwide.

All candidates for this scholarship must be in their junior or senior year and must exemplify leadership, initiative and creativity in their fields.

Williams — a senior biochemistry major and mathematics minor — has been studying the effects of antibiotic resistance, among other subjects in professor Rick Page’s laboratory for the past three years.

He has contributed to five of Page’s publications and has accompanied him at conferences.

With Page’s guidance, Williams has been creating his own experiments to answer the various questions of the biochemistry world.

Williams said that the mentorship that he has formed with Page is one of the best parts about Miami’s biochemistry department.

“I really lucked out choosing Dr. Page to be my mentor,” Williams said. “Miami professors are here for more than just teaching the required material. They start your career.”

Along with all of his work in the laboratory, Williams has maintained a 4.0 GPA every semester.

Living only 15 minutes from Oxford, he continues his lab work over summer and winter breaks, logging more hours in the lab than any of Page’s other undergraduate mentees.

“Well, if you’re really passionate about something, then you’re going to do everything that you can to work toward your goals,” said Williams.

Because of this exceptional effort

by Williams, Page nominated him for the scholarship.

“Cameron is a tremendous asset to my lab,” said Page. “He has more raw intellectual talent and better research skills than any student I have ever mentored. I have no doubt that he will go on to a tremendously successful career in science.”

Page won the National Science

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From left to right: President Gregory Crawford, senior Cameron Williams and former NASA astronaut, Michael McCulley Foundation’s CAREER grant in January 2016.

During the presentation, Captain McCulley shared stories of his five-day space exploration on the STS-34 mission Atlantis to successfully deploy Galileo, a probe that explored Jupiter, in 1989. McCulley has experience in the Navy, NASA and the Empire Test Pilots’ School in Great Britain, as well as a Master’s of Science in metallurgical engineering from Purdue University.

For an astronaut, McCulley was ironically down-to-earth, making several jokes as the night pro-

gressed.

“Going to outer space is like going camping in a Winnebago for a week,” he said. “Except you don’t go outside.”

McCulley’s success did not come easily. It took three sets of three tries for McCulley to get accepted into college, NASA and mission specialist training.

But with every setback, McCulley was even more determined to succeed. Seeing the image of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon in 1969 while studying for his Master’s kept him motivated.

One of the greatest moments for Williams on Thursday evening was when McCulley pinned the ASF pin onto his jacket, officially inducting him into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

“Looking back, everything is still so surreal,” said Williams. “During dinner at Lewis Place, a president was on my left and an astronaut was on my right.”

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Slice of life: A quick glimpse at an Oxford weekend In search of an escape

Dorm room ‘strippers’ STUDENT LIFE

AUDREY DAVIS NEWS EDITOR

It’s a Thursday night. I sit alone on the second floor of Hahne Hall in the open study lounge that connects the guys’ side of the corridor to the girls’.

It’s around 9:30. Loud music blares from multiple rooms creating a weird jumble of rap music.

A guy wearing sweatpants walks past me and heads to the girls’ side. He stands in front of a door, hesitating until he finally knocks. The door opens soon after, and the music, once slightly muffled by the door, consumes the whole hallway.

“No! No! No!” a drunken voice yells from inside. “You are not wearing that to go out!”

“Yeah, well…”

“And you are definitely going out tonight,” she says.

“I can’t. Not tonight.”

She shuts the door on him and he deject-

edly heads back to his room.

For a while, the study lounge goes back to normal.

“Open the door, you slut!” a girl yells at the top of her lungs.

“Oh my God! What’s up, slut?” another girl yells as she opens the door. “I haven’t seen you in forever!”

They embrace in a hug while shrieking and laughing until the door closes behind them and silences them.

Three girls walk through the study lounge dressed in their Thursday night best — rompers that allow a preview of their butts and high heels that make their ankles wobble with every step.

They head to a guy’s room.

“Your strippers are here!” they yell together, joking.

People start to filter out of their dorms and head uptown. They travel in groups, loudly parading through the halls.

By 11:00, the hall is finally silent.

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EMILY WILD

THE MIAMI STUDENT

She needed a good night.

She needed an escape from the stress of finding her way around a new school after transferring to Miami from a different college for her sophomore year. She needed an escape from the stress of going to meeting after meeting, trying to find something that would suit her interests. She needed an escape from the stress of organic chemistry — the class that had already begun to consume her in its vortex of brain twisting information.

Her blood was already pumping with anticipation as she walked across the darkening campus on Friday evening to the party where she hoped she could find an escape from her stress, at least for the night.

As she approached the house, she could hear loud bass thumping from around back. She stepped quickly along the gravel

driveway until the throng of partygoers on the back patio came into view.

She had been told it was a highlighter party and to wear bright, obnoxious colors.

Her outfit of choice was an oversized, neon yellow t-shirt that she had purchased on clearance at Walmart specially for the occasion. She had paired it with a purposefully unattractive white “skort” in hopes that it would elicit humorous remarks from other girls who had also taken the theme to an extreme.

But as she scanned the crowd, she realized that her clothes contrasted grossly from the tight, dark-colored ensembles that the other girls were wearing.

Her face reddened. Her pulse quickened.

She allowed herself to be swept into the crowd moving through the back door into the basement, and her insecurities vanished.

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Making lemonade: NBC turns sour into sweet with “This Is Us” TELEVISION

ALISON PERELMAN

ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR

Warning: This review contains major spoilers for episodes one and two of “This Is Us.” NBC’s hit show “Parenthood” ended almost two years ago, simultaneously breaking our hearts and filling us with joy. Since then, while the TV landscape has blossomed, there’s been a void for a feel-good family drama that could live up to Braverman standards.

But now, we have “This Is Us.”

I first watched the trailer when it was released in May and was immediately hooked.

Now only two episodes in, the show is living up to the hype.

“This Is Us” follows the intertwining stories of five people as they navigate their way through life’s struggles. The first episode plays out over a single day — Jack, Kevin, Kate and Randall’s 36th birthday.

Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and his wife, Rebecca (Mandy Moore), celebrate by awaiting the arrival of their triplets. Kate (Chrissy Metz) struggles with her weight. Kevin (Justin Hartley) questions his career. And

Randall (Sterling K. Brown) makes the decision to finally meet his biological father.

It may sound similar to any other family drama, but this isn’t the simple format everyone expected.

Episode one ends with a surprising twist — Kevin, Kate and Randall are siblings, and Jack and Rebecca are their parents.

The reveal is cleverly executed as the camera zooms out and the hospital is shown with a big box TV in the corner, passersby sporting long hair and denim and a nearly smokefilled room. The only previous indication of the deviated timeline is

the first shot, in Jack and Rebecca’s apartment, of a cardboard box labeled “‘79 photos.”

So far, both episodes have had twist endings. And while this format can’t last an entire series, it does keep the audience on their toes in what would otherwise be a predictable show.

The deviated timeline in each episode (Rebecca and Jack in the past during some point of their parenting; their kids in the present in their late 30s) allows the characters to further develop as we see them at different stages in their lives.

Jack and Rebecca are deeply in

love, but that doesn’t mean they are a perfect couple. They struggle to raise three eight-year-olds, including one of a different race, while still trying to be there for each other.

Ventimiglia and Moore have just the right amount of chemistry to make the relationship believable, as evidenced in a simple scene in which the two have a discussion about their parenting while sitting on the floor outside their bedroom.

Metz gets endless applause for stripping down to her underwear in order to step on a scale as Kate.

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Editors’ pop culture picks The things we watched, listened to, read and streamed during the first few days of October “TV (THE BOOK)” BY ALAN SEPINWALL AND MATT ZOLLER SEITZ Apparently I’ve reached the point in my television obsession where now when I’m not watching TV, I’m reading about it. In “TV (The Book),” two seasoned television critics sit down and pick the top 100 shows of all time. Their expertise is evident as they analyze each show in its own extensive essay, considering topics such as innovation, influence, consistency and storytelling. Woven throughout are more specific miniature lists such as the “Best Series Finales” and the “Best Theme Songs.” While I agree with many of their choices, I am completely taken aback by their choice for the best show of all time, as it‘s a show I have never seen before. That being said, their accompanying essay has convinced me to give it a shot. While critics have been listing the best movies of all time for ages, it’s refreshing to finally see a compendium of the greatest television shows as well. (Devon Shuman, Culture Editor)

“SONGS FROM A ROOM” BY LEONARD COHEN I haven’t ever really liked singer/songwriter material before, nor do I listen to lyrical or melodic music much, so a review of Leonard Cohen should surprise a careful reader.

There isn’t a bad track on “Songs From a Room,” Cohen’s second full-length release from 1969. The album contains those crank-artistic traits some people pull from The Beatles — they sound oddly contemporary. This is a characteristic music critics have tried to nail down for a while, but for some reason I don’t think they’ve ever reached a conclusion on just what is the essence of timeless music. Cohen exhibits this dead on.

These older tracks sound like something that would get a “Best New Music” on today’s pop-music blogs, without the expectant over-polished studio quality. Cohen is often called “Canada’s Bob Dylan,” but his brooding, intensely measured songs convey a whole lot of power without yelling (like Dylan). I’ve also been reading Cohen’s book of collected poetry and he’s also an author of several novels. When I first heard “It Seems So Long Ago, Nancy” it was the most haunting song I’d ever heard, and recently I’ve been listening to it over and over. (Kyle Hayden, Design Editor)

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“Students shouldn’t have to listen to diatribes from their professors for or against either candidate,” Brooks said. “No matter what they’re teaching, professors can’t weave this presidential race into assignments and hold students accountable if they don’t agree with their particular philosophy.”

Brooks said the policy restrictions were not designed to prohibit professors’ freedom of speech, but rather, to help them recognize their audience.

He said his concern stems from students being a “captive audience” because they are required to gain credits and enroll in particular classes to fulfill major, thematic sequence and Miami plan requirements. University professors, he said, shouldn’t take advantage of their “captive audience” by sharing political views in the classroom.

“I just don’t want students to feel diminished or silenced because the professor has a political stand and feels comfortable sharing that with the class,” he said.

Based on student concern he has heard, Brooks said often the problem starts with a phrase a professor says, which then leads to a class discussion. The most problematic issue, he said, is when students fear their grades will be negatively affected if they hold different political

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Crawford will also earn $30,000 a year in deferred compensation — a total of $150,000 that will be paid to him when his five-year contract with Miami expires on June 30, 2021.

According to data collected by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the median base pay for presidents at public colleges in 2015 was $384,115. Typically, a public college president receives 89 percent of his or her compensation as base pay, The Chronicle reported in July. Other compensation includes bonuses and deferred compensation.

Wright State University President David R. Hopkins topped the list of Ohio public university presidents last year with a total compensation package of $854,220, according to the Wright State University’s pay database.

Data collected by the Chronicle of Higher Education indicates that Ono earned $525,000 in base pay and $625,000 in total compensation last year, before he left UC for xxxx. Michael Drake of Ohio State University received the highest base pay at $800,0000.

Although the 2015 base pay of Ohio University’s president Roderick Davis and Kent State University’s president Beverly Warren were higher than David Hodge’s base

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merous ears across campus that are willing to listen. Whether it’s to complain about a class you just can’t get that A in or to discuss the heavy sadness you just can’t get rid of, there will always be someone to talk to. I firmly believe that talking and writing are one in the same.

However, receiving a reaction or a couple words of wisdom in return can be a very comforting process. For example, this past week, I was struggling with an internal conflict. The conflict built up, creating a great amount of stress, af-

views than their professors.

Brooks said he has talked with a few students who are sometimes reluctant to attend class because of a discomfort with the professor’s political comments.

Brooks said professors and students alike are obliged to honor university policies of teaching and learning. Too often, he said, professors are “washing their hands in impropriety.”

“If a student has become uncomfortable attending the class because of the political activity of the professor then something’s out of whack,” Brooks said.

When students voice these concerns, Brooks directs them to submit an anonymous report. This form is hosted on EthicsPoint Inc. and ensures anonymity for students.

At the beginning of the semester, all students received an email from Student Affairs explaining how to make an anonymous report on the EthicsPoint platform if a problem arises. The university then decides if it wants to investigate and follow up on the report.

Provost Phyllis Callahan said has not yet received any anonymous reports from students regarding issues with professors sharing their political views in the classroom.

The Office of the President did not return request for comment by the time of publication.

pay -- at $465,000 and $450,000, respectively -- Crawford’s salary exceeds all but Ono and Drake’s 2015 base pay wages among Ohio public university presidents.

Crawford’s contract also shows that, in addition to Miami’s standard employment benefits, the university will provide him with a life insurance policy worth almost $1.2 million.

For transportation, Crawford can choose between an automobile allowance of $750 a month or a package that includes a universityprovided Chrysler, Ford or General Motors car with free insurance, maintenance and gas.

Crawford’s wife, Renate Crawford, will also draw a salary this academic year. At their meeting June 24, the Board of Trustees elected her university ambassador and adjunct professor of physics. She will be paid a yearly salary of $30,700.

Greg Crawford will be officially sworn in as Miami’s president during an inauguration ceremony on Oct. 10.

He joined Miami on July 1 from the University of Notre Dame, where he most recently served as vice president and associate provost.

This story was produced in cooperation with patch.com, a community-focused website with content produced by Miami journalism students.

fecting my relationship with my school work and friends. As I sat in my dorm room, I dreaded faking a smile for my roommate once again.

But as she entered the room after her long, restless day, she asked if I wanted to talk. Once my mouth began moving, it didn’t stop. The amount of weight that was lifted off my shoulders from a stream of conscious was so immense. The power of talking clears mind, heart and body.

And if you can’t find someone who will listen, I certainly will.

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based on both merit and financial need. Williams received the Undergraduate Summer Scholars Award — a living stipend that he used for his internship this summer at the University of Califor-

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ed over the pumping music while raising his hand for a high five. She giggled and smacked her hand into his, soaking up the attention.

The basement was dimly light with black lights, under which her neon shirt gleamed. The walls were black and splattered with neon paint. Toward the back

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Metz is able to connect to Kate on a personal level, flawlessly portraying her desire to feel good about who she is on the inside, while also struggling to change on the outside.

Kate wants to eat the birthday cake in her fridge, but is one step ahead of herself as it is one of the many food items with slightly comical post-it note warnings and repellents. She sighs in disappointment and annoyance, as if she didn’t already know they were

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set three, Miami gathered itself and came back to claim a 7-6 lead.

The Red and White then went on a 7-0 run behind four consecutive Tomasic kills, widening the margin to 14-6. The squad then pushed the lead to 23-11, eventually claiming a relatively uncontested 25-14 win in front of an energetic parents’ weekend crowd.

“The atmosphere in Millett was so fun to be a part of. Ohio and Kent are really good teams and having all that support definitely helped us win both games. Volleyball has so many momentum changes during a match and having a great home crowd really does keep our opponents on their heels,” Tomasic said.

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his first career touchdown.

“I think that we are gonna be alright this season. I mean, we have to stick with what we are doing and we have to pick Billy [Bahl] up, obviously, and we have to pick Noah [Wezensky] up. Hopefully Billy is feeling better later this week,” Smith said.

Smith finished with four receptions and 22 yards in addition to the touchdown.

Standout senior receiver Rokeem Williams checked back in after a two-week absence. The fifth year senior hauled in a 22 yard pass in his only play of action.

Penalties were an issue once again for Miami, as the RedHawks racked up 10 penalties for 99 yards, compared to OU’s three penalties for 29 yards.

Saturday continued another trend, as Miami outgained its opponent for the fourth time this season.

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to gain confidence. Miami will treat each practice like its own match, including head-to-head battles between teammates. After making the necessary adjustments in practice, Zedrick hopes to see the work pay off in upcoming tournaments.

“We are going to play and score our golf balls,” Zedrick said.

“Since we’ll be playing a lot of golf this week, we’ll figure out ways to get the ball in the hole faster. That will translate to the tournaments

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nia, Berkeley’s Department of Energy.

Williams is still a normal Miami student. He waited tables at Steak & Shake and Bob Evans up until his junior year at Miami. Currently, Williams is a physics, calculus and chemistry tutor at Rinella

Learning Center.

Williams plans to use his ASF scholarship toward financing his spring semester at Miami. After graduation, he hopes to pursue a Ph. D. in biochemistry with the ultimate goal being education.

Williams wants to become a pro-

fessor of either biochemistry or mathematics at a university and encourage young students’ passions for the sciences just as his professors did for him.

Even if Williams doesn’t become an astronaut himself, the sky is still the limit.

“Coming to Miami has been the best decision I’ve made so far,” said Williams. “It was just the right stepping stone I needed from my humble beginnings at a public high school and will transition me nicely into any prestigious postgraduate institution.”

wall, she spotted a wooden bar covered in red solo cups and began to push her way through the tightly packed crowd.

“Excuse me! Excuse me!” she shouted, hardly able to hear herself over the din of low, male voices and roaring music.

She did her best to dodge sweaty biceps and sloshing drinks, but it was to no avail. By the time she reached the bar, she

reeked of vodka and body odor.

“Vodka sprite, please,” she shouted at the bartender, and, after second thought, “Make it two.”

Within minutes, her first two cups were gone, and a third and fourth were being poured. Soon after, she could feel her limbs begin to loosen, her words begin to slur and her smile begin to widen.

“I want to dance!” she yelled

ecstatically to anyone who would listen. Several people followed her toward the DJ. “Play this song,” she said, shoving her phone in the DJ’s face.

Taken aback by her demanding tone, he obliged. As soon as her favorite pop tune began to blare from the speakers, she let loose.

She whipped her frizzy blonde hair back and forth. The contents of her drink spilled over the edg-

es of the cup as her body flailed in time to the beat. Her wide, toothy smile shone bright white under the black lights.

She danced, a vision of pure, carefree happiness that only the perfect amount of alcohol and the perfect song at the perfect time could elicit.

And for the moment, her stress faded to a faraway place in her mind.

there.

Toby (Chris Sullivan), Kate’s almost-boyfriend, is the comic relief in her life. Metz and Sullivan play off of each other like good friends while showing the beginning of a relationship that is grounded in helping each other become their ideal selves.

Hartley is convincible as the pretty boy who’s used to things going his way, but he is also able to dive deeper into Kevin’s character. Hartley masters the muddled expression that plagues Kevin’s face as he goes through what can

only be described as an existential crisis on his birthday that leads to a meltdown while shooting his TV show.

Brown might take the prize, though (and he did take a prize at the 2016 Emmy’s for his role in “The People v. O.J. Simpson” two days before “This Is Us” premiered), for his ability to portray Randall’s picket-fence, put-together life with incredible composure.

It’s clear that there is a lot going on behind Randall’s eyes as he strives to be a good person

and provide his wife and daughters with the best life. Brown approaches this with sophisticated seriousness until Randall’s life starts to no longer make sense and he breaks down into laughter.

The second episode ends with another twist, but I won’t give that one away — partly because I’m still trying to come to grips with it myself.

The main characters are easy to love, but what I love most is how “This Is Us” seems to take its own advice.

In episode one, in what is easily

the best moment of the episode, Dr. Katowsky (expertly played

by Gerald McRaney) tells Jack to “take the sourest lemon that life has to offer and turn it into something resembling lemonade.”

Each character is dealing with their “sourest lemon,” and, in making a show that perfectly portrays the trials and tribulations of adulthood, parenthood, careers, life and love, NBC has made lemonade.

Catch the third episode of “This Is Us” at 9 p.m. next Tuesday on NBC.

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earned an advantage in penalty corners with 14 to Indiana’s four.

Heras again led Miami with seven shots while Portugal took six. Senior goalkeeper Alysa Xavier made seven saves in the

game, bringing her total to seven saves all weekend.

Miami field hockey will face Longwood at home 4:30 p.m.

Friday in another MAC matchup.

The ’Hawks had a season-best .330 attack percentage, making only eight hitting errors in the entire match.

Tomasic led the way with 11 kills and five blocks, finishing the game with a .381 attack percentage. Zielinski finished with 15 assists, while McDonald led the defensive effort with 11 digs.

The win puts the RedHawks at 12-4 for the year, including an undefeated 4-0 conference record. The Golden Flashes fell to 9-7 overall and 2-1 in the MAC. The Red and White now travel away from Oxford for their next four matches as they hope to continue their impressive streak. The road trip begins 6 p.m. Friday against the University of Buffalo.

In MU’s five games and losses, Cincinnati has been the only opponent able to tally more offensive yards.

OU starting quarterback Greg Windham led the Bobcats in the air and on the ground. The redshirt senior threw 18 times for six completions and one interception, as well as 19 carries for 31 yards and a touchdown.

Miami was piloted offensively by redshirt sophomore running back Alonzo Smith, who chipped in 59 yards for a 4.2 yards per carry average. Sophomore wideout James Gardner also left his mark on the game, snagging four receptions for 63 yards.

Redshirt junior Heath Harding led Miami’s defense with nine tackles, including one for a loss, and an interception.

Miami will continue its quest for its first win 3 p.m. Saturday on the road against Akron University.

and we will continue to improve on the road.”

The University of Iowa hosted the tournament at the Spirt Hollow golf course, ranked the second best course in Iowa by Golf Digest and Golfweek. Ohr said the course was in good shape and had a lot of elevation change from the tee box to the greens. However, the fairways were open, and it was a very scoreable course.

The ‘Hawks will return to action October 10 at the Mountaineer Intercollegiate in Bridgeport, West Virginia.

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Miami’s top undergraduate ranking could breed complacency The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

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ast month, U.S. News and World Report listed Miami as the number one public college in the country for commitment to undergraduate teaching. We were ranked number two overall, just behind Princeton University.

At first glance, this recognition seems to be an excellent achievement earned by the university and all of its constituents. And for what it’s worth, Miami professors and administrators deserve our congratulations and appreciation for their work.

However, in order to fully understand the full scope of this distinction, we must analyze it further. Taken with a grain of salt, it may not necessarily seem so prestigious.

To start, this award was not based upon any empirical or comprehensive review of data or numbers. Rather, it is based on the opinions of college officials.

U.S. News and World Report asked college presidents, provosts and admissions deans last spring to nominate 10 colleges based upon their commitment to undergraduate teaching as a part of a larger survey.

As the methodology behind the list says, these “rankings are based solely on the responses to

this separate section of the 2016 peer assessment survey.”

This ranking is hardly scientific, more resembling a college football poll than an objective assessment of the nation’s best undergraduate programs. Again, the fact that Miami was mentioned so frequently by these officials is

an all-too-comfortable groove where we don’t strive for any progress. If any problems do exist within our undergraduate teaching programs, rankings like this one dissuade the Miami community across the board to ignore them and sweep them under the rug. If we are already number

less. However, when such a list is based on unquantifiable criteria, (i.e. asking people what school they think is best), the pursuit for truth becomes futile.

In other words, education analysis needs some metrics, but turning it into a game of who is the best based on opinions

The danger in relying on such arbitrary rankings is settling into an all-toocomfortable groove where we don’t strive for any progress.

cause for some celebration. However, we must put it into context to know just how much water the designation holds.

Some who see this news may think that there is no reason for anyone at Miami to critique, or otherwise put in a negative light, this development. Why should we complain about being highly ranked? The problem, though, with this line of thinking is that it opens up our school to a slippery slope of the status of our academics standards.

The danger in relying on such arbitrary rankings is settling into

two, then there comes the feeling that we need not improve or add anything to our educative efforts. And, as pointed out, the ranking of second in the nation is based on subjective nominations.

This problem does not apply to Miami alone. When rankings like these come out, they truly don’t do schools, and consequently students, any service. Those at the bottom of the list complain that they are not factual, while those at the top simply sit pretty for their donors. Not every single quantification of undergraduate effectiveness via list is so point-

Americans should educate themselves: JASTA bill admonishment of things to come

defeats this purpose.

Additionally, the perennial nature of these rankings suggests that the method used to make the calculations may be outdated and not relevant to today’s students, as many staff members pointed out to The Miami Student. Patting ourselves on the back every single year for this mention may feel good for everyone at the time, but it does nothing to actually improve the status of our student-professor relationships.

Again, there are numerous aspects of our undergraduate studies that are measurable and

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No one stands to lose more from the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) than the United States. Our dignity and our dignitaries, our financial interests and our integrity, our foreign assets and our foreign relations are all at risk.

Senator Chuck Schumer D-N.Y., one of the bill’s sponsors, illuminates the unfortunate divide between Obama’s presidency and his reactionary congress.

“The White House and the executive branch [are] far more interested in diplomatic considerations,” Schumer says. “[Congress is] more interested in the families and in justice.”

Need these two forums preclude each other? They certainly cannot if the government is to function as intended. We must understand our citizenship as contingent both on domestic and foreign policy, bipartisanship and conviction, justice and judiciousness.

Repercussions are already surfacing, both intended and unintended.

CNN reports Stephanie DeSimone filed court documents Friday accusing the Kingdom of knowledge and material support for the September 11th attacks. This, despite the fact that the 9/11 Commission Report exculpates the Saudi government as an institution. It is unclear how the legal proceedings under JASTA would explicitly play out, but it is likely the same institutions and techniques that have absolved the Kingdom of wrongdoing in the past that will now fail to produce a substantive account that proves their involvement. Complicating the legal process are countries now on sovereignty tenterhooks and methods that will most likely fail to provide closure or meaningful compensation to families.

Furthermore, the Arab Project in Iraq, a lobby group, has recently threatened to file lawsuits seeking compensation for violations by U.S. forces following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. According to Al Arabiya Network, they are urging an investigation into the deaths of civilian

targets, property violations, torture and mistreatment of individuals. Al Jazeera Media Network also reports that Gulf Cooperation Council states are likely to back Saudi Arabia and that estimates of official Saudi assets in the United States are between 500 billion and 1 trillion USD. If withdrawn, these holdings could seriously impugn the United States’ financial security.

On Sept. 23, Obama warned of the specific losses Americans may face under JASTA. In a memo, he said that “the United States has a larger international presence, by far, than any other country …

[JASTA] threatens to undermine these longstanding principles that protect the United States, our forces and our personnel.”

Under this “dangerous precedent,” United States soldiers, who give up their freedoms and lives to serve the United States, including 9/11 victims, could face incarceration and indictment for violations of the laws of the countries they occupy. The White House also warned that waiving sovereign immunity “only” in the case of Saudi Arabia would by no means protect

Narrowing the bill’s implications to refer only and explicitly to the September 11th attacks, as rueful lawmakers have suggested, only places a limit on the bill’s implications from within a narrow context understood only by the United States. No such justification for overriding sovereign immunity to target particular cases (excluding genocide) exists in other countries. We assume that international law does and ought to take the United States’ experiences and interests as a default, when in fact no such default exists in the nebulous space that transcends borders.

It is disheartening that bipartisan support can only occur in the most superficial, politically expedient cases and that we find something so rotten in the state of collaboration. JASTA valorizes conspiracy, redefines the right to justice as exclusively American, betrays armed servicemen, jeopardizes foreign relations, threatens national interests, compromises U.S. assets in foreign countries, menaces the U.S. economy and embarrasses our political system in an already dysfunctional election season.

To put foreign policy in the hands

To put foreign policy in the hands of litigants is inadvisable; to place it in the hands of Congress and ask them to handle it with equanimity and common sense is also apparently too much to ask. the United States from retaliation in other countries. This specificity, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell R-KY, called a “failure to communicate,” chastising Obama for not discussing the ramifications of the bill earlier. Apparently efforts on behalf of the Obama administration to block the bill as early as April, according to New York Times coverage, were also insufficient.

Less than 24 hours after the Sept.

28 congressional override of President Obama’s veto, both Republicans and Democrats expressed a desire to narrow the effects of the bill.

However, nothing less than a complete repeal of JASTA will suffice.

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of litigants is inadvisable; to place it in the hands of Congress and ask them to handle it with equanimity and common sense is also apparently too much to ask.

The JASTA debacle reveals the broken system we will expect to check the power of either a President Clinton or a President Trump.

Indeed, we must view our future president as more significant than our founders intended her to be, unless we would like his tyranny to fall on the same oblivious body of representatives.

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that we can all be proud of. Miami’s faculty-to-student ratio is 17:1 and about 32 percent of Miami’s courses have 20 students or fewer. These numbers are encouraging, and show that there is certainly some level of truth to Miami’s high rank.

However, as we continue to admit more students and expand the university, unless the number of educators is also expanded, we run the risk of losing the facultyto-student ratio that has consistently earned Miami a place on the U.S. News and World Report’s list.

The bottom line is that the state of our university cannot be boiled down to a number, especially a number that is contrived from the opinions of officials. We must continue to grow and improve in our efforts to provide a great education to students, and as we continue to see tight budgets and decreased funding, these efforts are as important as ever.

A good ranking may look attractive to prospective students and perhaps even donors, but we should also take it as a challenge to continue to offer the best service spossible to our students in order to progress the educational goals of Miami as a university community.

TO THE EDITOR On Sept. 27, in the article “I wrote this essay by hand,” columnist Kyle Hayden stated: “No one stops to ask if the technics (sic) in the classroom are having an adverse effect on learning or if the speed of instruction is making the assignments feel more or less like ghosts passing through us rather than bits of useful material that stick.”

As a faculty member at Miami, I want to assure Mr. Hayden and all Miami Student readers that the vast majority of faculty and instructors are very concerned with student learning (far beyond getting “bits of useful material to stick”) and there are multiple processes in place to evaluate the effect of teaching on learning.

I assume you are aware that every class has a student evaluation where the student has the opportunity to rate the extent that the class affected their learning. In an annual review process, faculty, lecturers and instructors are evaluated on teaching (as well as research and service, depending on their rank).

If there are instances in which the student evaluations demonstrate, on average, that learning is not occurring, a plan is put into place to help that professor/lecturer/instructor to improve their teaching. If improvement is not made, then contracts are not renewed or tenure is not earned (which is the same as being fired).

But this is not the only process in place for evaluating the relationship between teaching and learning.

All tenure track faculty must implement multiple forms of evaluation of their teaching. You may have experienced a Small Group Intervention Dialogue (SGID), in which someone from the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) comes into the classroom and asks the students (without the teacher present) what aspects of the class are (or are not) contributing to their learning. The CTE provides a detailed report to the teacher, presents the information in a one-on-one meeting and helps the teacher think about ways to improve their instruction.

Another form of teaching evaluation that many faculty implement is observation from someone at a higher faculty rank, who then provides feedback on what they are doing well and what needs improving.

Beyond these methods for evaluating the effect of teaching on learning, every B.S., B.A., Master’s and Ph.D. program has to provide an annual assessment and report docu-

menting the extent that the students in the program are learning. If the results are poor or stagnant, then the program works at the departmental level to make improvements.

Additionally, every department has “Program Review” every few years.

This is an extensive yearlong process evaluating the success of teaching, learning, scholarship and service at the department level. It concludes with a team of outside reviewers (faculty from the same discipline at another institution) spending 2-3 days gathering information from faculty and students and then providing a report detailing what is going well and which areas need improvement.

These processes are all designed to answer the question that Mr. Hayden claimed no one is asking.

Before closing, I would also like to provide an explanation for why faculty, lecturers and instructors often expect students to learn on their own outside of class via videos, readings or other means.

Mr. Hayden seems to think this is a bad thing, but there is a good educational reason for that expectation. In “Bloom’s Taxonomy,” a framework to understand lower and higher levels of learning, the lower levels are remembering and understanding, which teachers often expect students to do in preparation for the class.

If students spend time engaging in learning outside of the class (through videos, reading, note-taking and studying), they accomplish remembering and understanding so that class time can be spent with the teacher helping students engage in higher levels of learning such applying, analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing.

If students do not hold up their end of the learning process by doing the work outside of class, in-class learning must become reduced to those lower levels, which seems to be exactly what Mr. Hayden does not want.

I hope this information clarifies the extent that faculty, lecturers and instructors go to in order to ensure students are receiving the best possible learning experience. When students contribute to the learning process in significant ways as well (which many Miami students do), then deep, meaningful learning can and does happen.

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Shimon Peres was a war criminal, not a peacemaker FOREIGN AFFAIRS

AUSTIN LANGDON

THE MIAMI STUDENT

On Sept. 28, the former President and two-time Prime Minister of Israel Shimon Peres died. The world was split, as it often is. Numerous articles were published with headlines that read “Shimon Peres: Peacemaker or War Criminal?” or “What is Shimon Peres’ Legacy?”

The world was split on how to write his legacy. Much of the Western media (with some dissent) painted a portrait of a man of peace. Arab media portrayed an image of an occupier and a villain.

So, as the articles asked: was Shimon Peres a peacemaker or war criminal?

What is Shimon Peres’ legacy?

Was he a moderate, as John Kerry told us? In a way, yes. That’s sort of how the reaction to Shimon Peres’ death and the subsequent attempt to write his legacy exemplifies the conflict.

He was a moderate war criminal, if you’d like.

Seeing how the world is trying to capture the essence of Shimon Peres’ legacy should scare people.

The fact that a man who was a war criminal, and could only be called “moderate” in relation to his fellow Israeli leaders, is then rightly grouped in with “the moderates” in Israel, should tell you something about the conflict.

To be sure, let’s go over his record.

Shimon Peres was not a peacemaker. He was a firm supporter of Israel’s illegal settlement policy and contrary to what Israeli author Amos Oz said at his funeral, Peres did not support a Palestinian state.

He, like his political ally Yitzhak Rabin, supported an entity “less than a state” which would end up a non-contiguous series of Bantustans with less autonomy than the South African model. Incidentally, it was Shimon Peres who sought to sell nuclear weapons to the apartheid regime in South Africa.

As far as the peace process goes, Shimon Peres was scattered. He opposed the diplomatic efforts of Henry Kissinger to reach an agreement between Egypt and Israel after the Yom Kippur War and he preferred the Jordanian Option as a means to dismiss Palestinian rights at the negotiating table. That said, he did back the first steps to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization as the representative of the Palestinian people.

Peres at the negotiating table was no friend of the Palestinians, regardless of the fact that Peres was probably one of the better options the Palestinians would be presented with. But Peres at war proved to be a worthy competitor to the other, less moderate, Israeli leaders.

Peres authorized Operation Grapes of Wrath, which was launched on April 11th, 1996. Historian Avi Shlaim wrote in The Iron Wall, “Their thinking [while planning Grapes of Wrath] was based on linkage politics of the cruelest kind.”

The objective was to push the civilian population to the north of Lebanon. Some rather brutal methods were taken to pursue this objective. In doing so, unofficial understandings were reached where, if Israel attacked Lebanese civilians, it would justify Hezbollah retalia-

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tion against Israeli civilians, and vice versa.

Peres wanted to prove his strength with this operation, Shlaim argues in his book. The killings were in part to satisfy the Israeli public, “who was thirsty for retribution.” Its purpose, he writes, was to “recast Peres as the hard man of Israeli politics ahead of the crucial general elections. The United States tacitly supported Israel’s aggression against its defenseless neighbor.”

Hezbollah at this point had about 300 full-time fighters. Their main weapon was a Katyusha rocket, which was “obsolete, inaccurate and had a maximum range of about twelve miles.” In fighting this foe, Peres’ operation killed 113 Lebanese civilians and made 400,000 refugees.

When the Middle East correspondent for the Independent, Robert Fisk, heard about the passing of Shimon Peres, he wrote: “When the world heard that Shimon Peres had died, it shouted ‘Peacemaker!’ But when I heard that Peres was dead, I thought of blood and fire and slaughter.”

Robert Fisk in his piece in the Independent referred to the massacre at a refugee camp in Qana, Lebanon run by the U.N., which he recounts in his book, Pity the Nation.

“They were the gates of hell.

Blood poured through them, in streams, in torrents … There were legs and arms, babies without heads, old men’s heads without bodies, lying in the shouldering wreckage of a canteen. On top of a burning tree hung two parts of a man’s body. They were on fire. In front of me, on the steps of the barracks, a girl sat holding a man with grey hair, her arm round his shoulder, rocking the corpse back and forth in her arms. His eyes were staring at her. She was keening and weeping and crying, over and over: ‘My father, my father.’”

106 Lebanese civilians – half of them children – died in that attack.

The United Nations had repeatedly told the Israelis that the camp was filled with refugees. Everyone in Lebanon understood as it had for over a decade, that the U.N. compound sheltered masses of civilian refugees.

So why was the U.N. compound hit? Before Qana was hit by the Israeli shells, Israel asked the U.N. for permission to defuse a set of mines in the area. Instead, Israel sent in an army unit to lay boobytraps near a supposed guerrilla infiltration trail near Qana. Hezbollah saw the Israeli soldiers and opened fire on them. The Israeli soldiers called for fire support. Soon Israeli shells were falling on the U.N. compound.

“Peres didn’t want his soldiers killed in advance of the election he was to lose,” Fisk writes.

Soon, video footage of the attack was public. The United Nations and Amnesty International both concluded that the attack was intentional.

It should help put things in perspective for people to know that the Peres described above is among the representatives of the “moderate” wing of Israel.

I cannot think of a better way to explain why the conflict seems to have no end.

College is stressful: Miami can help EDUCATION

HANNAH MEIBERS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Through the laboring classes, important meetings, time consuming relationships, hours of homework and social expectations, it’s easy to forget about your mental and physical health in college.

There are warnings all over social media about the stress that comes with the freedom of college. However, there’s no way to prepare for the stressful days and nights in and out of your dorm room.

Miami University is spreading awareness the week of Oct. 3 through its Suicide Prevention Week. For a stressed college student, this week is very important and very valuable. Through various activities and talks, students can learn different stress relieving techniques for themselves and for their friends.

As a college freshman, without mommy and daddy to tend to my every need, college is already a strenuous time. Being away from home during times of stress is even more difficult. Once on Miami’s campus, I had to tweak some of my personal stress relieving

techniques. Luckily, my favorite and most effective strategies are easily accessible.

Music.

Music is all over Miami’s campus. Whether it’s blasting out of Brick Street’s speakers, billowing out of a dorm resident’s window, or blaring out of a radio as a car

or nod your head.

Hobbies.

Miami University offers every opportunity. Whether it’s volunteering for Crossroads, playing Ultimate Frisbee, horseback riding or dancing for a team or simply in the bars, Miami gives you the chance to always be involved.

As a college freshman, without mommy and daddy to tend to my every need, college is already a strenuous time.

zooms by, there is no scarcity of my dearest friend: music. Beyond simply hearing my favorite Kanye song or The Fray album, I love making music. The majority of the dorms on campus are home to a community piano. Having access to such an instrument is a stress reliever in itself. When I waltz into the basement of my residence hall, I’m always greeted with a talented pianist playing their favorite tune.

Even if you deny the therapeutic effect of music, you can’t deny the way it makes you move your hips

Personally, my hobby is writing.

Writing for the The Miami Student is therapeutic in itself, but beyond the newspaper I also keep a journal. Contrary to belief, I don’t spill all my juicy secrets onto paper.

However, I do spill my imagination onto paper. Simply exhuming your creativity will rid your body of great amounts of stress.

Talking.

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Stop being lazy, millennials LIFE

MADDIE’S MATTERS MADDIE LAPLANTE-DUBE EDITORIAL EDITOR

Not to be the crotchety old senior, but kids these days are lazy as hell.

There are countless studies done by the Baby Boomer Generation on Millennials. Obviously, these studies essentially act as negative reviews of what actually is a paradigm shift in general world culture. It is rare that these studies will suggest anything positive about Millennials (I cringe at the word), especially in terms of commitment.

More and more, Millennials are revealing that they are uncomfortable with the lives that were forged by their parents — that is, lives that were stable, settled and built on their grandparents’ blue-collar efforts to find financial stability in the wake of the Great Depression.

Millennials are uncomfortable with buying their own cars and houses, they don’t necessarily think marriage is a component of a full life and they feel like staying in a job for more than three years is too long.

All that is fine, honestly. I even wrote last week on why I think marriage — the traditional idea of marriage — is outdated. And I see a lot of myself in these so-called studies (which in some cases appear to be nothing more than a list of complaints and whinings hidden under a blanket of skewed science) that describe Millennials’ “issues.” But if there is one thing I can grab a beer and bitch about with a Baby Boomer, it’s the Millennial Work Ethic.

Anti-commitment in large pur-

chases or long-term relationships is one thing. But anti-commitment in something you’ve already committed to, like a class, club or job obligation, is an entirely different animal.

I serve on the two executive boards for clubs on campus, one for which I am currently writing, and I also work as a UA and a writing consultant. In these four positions, it’s gotten hard to ignore a disheartening trend: Millennials don’t care about anything that doesn’t immediately benefit them.

There are plenty of theories as to why: first-world Millennials grew up watching the way technology immediately provided them with

ate teaching (see staff editorial) but Miami students can’t even reciprocate that commitment in their own studies. And it could be something as simple as sitting and reading directions for an assignment. These things simply seem beyond the general Millennial’s capabilities.

There are, of course, exceptions, and many of the students I work with are among those. But the general apathy about personal development for personal development’s sake is honestly unnerving, not to mention out of place, considering Millennials make up a revolutionary generation that is generally passionate about social issues, more so

You would think a generation that can enact all this change could also submit an assignment correctly.

answers, entertainment and an escape from the “difficulties” of their lives. The moment that self-serving convenience is taken away, they get upset. Here’s an example: a friend of mine went to Ghana over the summer with a number of Miami students and watched as they complained about the food that was generously offered them, about the lack of WiFi, about the heat.

As I’ve worked with students this year, I’ve noticed the way they shy away from anything that could require effort, or get really stressed when they need to expend that effort. I’ve seen how they try minimally on assignments in order to get things done instead of sitting and actually taking the time to absorb the information that is being offered to them. Miami has this incredible commitment to undergradu-

than any other generation. We’ve begun the LGBTQ+ revolution, we’ve uprooted the status quo (hey, hipsters), we are the most informed generation thanks to our intimate relationship with social media and the internet, many of us become entrepreneurs and more people in our generation will have college degrees than any generation before us.

We are redefining racial and sexual identity, we are unafraid to speak up and out and we don’t just ruffle feathers: we enact change.

You would think that a generation that can enact all this change could also submit an assignment correctly. But that’s none of my business.

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Hill, Tomasic power volleyball to 11th straight victory

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MU falls in Battle of the Bricks, drops to 0-5

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Senior middle hitter Paige Hill attacks the Ohio University defense. Hill finished the match with 10 kills and six blocks.

VOLLEYBALL

KYLE STEINER

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University volleyball team made a clear statement this weekend that it is the team to beat in the Mid-American Conference.

With wins over in-state foes Ohio University and Kent State University, the RedHawks continued their remarkable win streak, as they have now won 11 games in a row. The Red and White have also won 23 consecutive sets, which is the second highest set winning streak in school history.

“We are really playing together as a team and focusing on what is happening on our side of the net. We try to look at each game as if it is the MAC Championship, which gives us motivation throughout the matches,” junior libero Maeve McDonald said.

The weekend action began with a Thursday night matchup against the Bobcats of OU. In a highly contested first set, junior right side hitter Katie Tomasic got things started for the RedHawks with two early kills to build a 5-3 lead. OU eventually gained a 9-6 lead, but MU was able

to regain control, eventually taking a 23-22 advantage. Sophomore outside hitter Stela Kukoc and junior right side hitter Olivia Rusek then recorded consecutive kills to close the game out for MU. In the second set, Ohio jumped out to a 13-12 lead in what was another tight set. Down by one, a Tomasic kill propelled the ’Hawks on a 5-0 run, giving them a 17-13 advantage.

Kills by Rusek and junior middle hitter Meredith Stutz helped finish off the RedHawk run, securing a 25-19 victory.

MU jumped out to a 10-3 lead in the third set, but OU managed to rally, slimming the RedHawk lead to 1612. However, Miami responded with kills from Rusek and Kukoc, helping to push the lead to 24-18. Senior middle hitter Paige Hill then locked up the ‘Hawks tenth consecutive win with a devastating kill.

The RedHawks hit a blistering attacking percentage of .302, while holding the Bobcats to .125 for the match. Ohio now stands at 6-9 overall and 2-1 in conference.

Hill and Tomasic led all Miami players for the match with 10 kills.

Freshman quarterback Noah Wezensky scrambles against the OU defense.Wezensky threw 14 passes for 25 completions totaling 154 yards and a touchdown.

Rusek contributed seven kills, while Kukoc, Below, and Stutz each finished with five. Redshirt sophomore setter Mackenzie Zielinski led the ’Hawks with 18 assists, while McDonald finished with eight digs on the night.

On Friday night, the Red and White returned to action against their fiercest conference challenger, the Kent State Golden Flashes.

A block by Hill and two kills by Kukoc instantly set the tone for MU in the first set. Later, clinging to a 1312 advantage, Stutz delivered two big kills to help the RedHawks pull away with a 12-4 run, giving the squad a 25-16 win.

In the second set, Tomasic recorded three early kills as the ’Hawks jumped out to the lead. Yet, the Golden Flashes once again rallied to tie the match at 13 apiece. The RedHawks then went on a 6-0 run highlighted by a crafty Zielinski kill that forced a Kent State timeout. Stutz led the way from there, recording a kill and a block to secure another 25-16 victory.

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Field hockey defeats IU, Missouri State FIELD HOCKEY

EMILY SIMANSKIS THE MIAMI STUDENT

Seemingly unstoppable, the Miami field hockey team emerged from the weekend with two victories, including an important Mid-American Conference win.

The RedHawks won 1-0 Friday against Missouri State in Missouri, earning their fifth shutout win of the season and second MAC victory. The Red and White also won 4-3 in overtime Sunday against Indiana University at home, extending their winning streak to four games.

Miami is 7-5 on the season, 2-0 in MAC play, 2-2 at home and 4-3 away following the successful weekend.

Missouri State falls to 1-7 on the season, 0-1 in MAC play and 1-3 at home.

Patience was essential for the RedHawks’ play Friday afternoon, as constant pressure was required to crack the solid MSU defense. The only goal of the contest was scored in the 63rd minute by junior midfielder Mariona Heras on a pass from senior forward Carla Romagosa “We knew coming here that we would need to take a big number of shots to get on the scoreboard,” head coach Inako Puzo said. “Missouri State is a team that plays a strong and disciplined defense inside their defensive circle. The key was to control the frustration and keep insist-

ing. We stayed confident and kept working as a team.”

Miami took its first shot in the seventh minute and didn’t stop, dominating Missouri in the shot count, 23-1. The Bears’ only shot was taken in the 55th minute.

Both Missouri State goalkeepers, sophomore Feli Heinzel and senior Megan Drew, made five saves, while the rest of MU’s shots were blocked.

Heras ended the game with 10 shots while Paula Portugal, a sophomore midfielder, took four.

The RedHawks also earned 14 penalty corners — seven in each half — while Missouri earned none.

“What we take away is that every MAC game is a battle,” senior back Kelsi White said. “We want to put in all the effort so we can beat those Big 10 teams.”

The Sunday matchup between Miami and Indiana proved to be much more of a back-and-forth game, with the Hoosiers and the RedHawks exchanging goals before Romagosa scored in the 13th minute of overtime from a penalty corner to end the game at 4-3.

“We’re winning games and we’ve won the last four but we have to keep consistent and playing strong for the whole 70 minutes,” White said.

“Most of the time, we’ll hit a dip for five or 10 minutes and that’s when they come in and score.”

Indiana’s Ciara Girouard, a freshman forward, opened scoring in the

23rd minute from the rebound of a save from a penalty corner. The rest of the first half was scoreless, though Miami outshot Indiana 5-3.

Indiana got a quick start to the second half as a RedHawk turnover led to a Hoosier score a mere 40 seconds into the half.

The RedHawks would not be discouraged, however. The deficit motivated Miami to rally and tie the game off of Heras’ goal from Romagosa in the 40th minute and Portugal’s goal, again from Romagosa, in the 46th minute.

Miami took five shots and allowed none after their second goal, sustaining its intensity before freshman back Kirsten McNeil took the lead for the RedHawks in the 58th minute.

Indiana, however, responded to this pushback with four shots of their own before tying the game once again in the 65th minute. The clock wound down and the game went to overtime.

Several shots were exchanged between the RedHawks and Hoosiers as both teams desperately battled for a win.

Back-to-back penalty corners in the 83rd minute proved to be all Romagosa needed. She dribbled to the left, shot and scored off of the second penalty corner to secure the win for Miami.

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The Miami University football team lost to Ohio University (3-2) in the Battle of the Bricks for the fourth consecutive time, this year by a score of 17-7. The loss, which came in front of a large parents’ weekend crowd at Yager Stadium, dropped MU to 0-5 this season.

In a matchup that saw a 34-3 rout at the hands of OU last season, coming this close to winning for the ‘Hawks seems to have stung even more for the program.

“Yeah… yeah, tough one to lose. I loved our kids’ effort. We did everything after the first eight minutes to win a game. Defense played fantastic all day -- gave us a chance,” head coach Chuck Martin said.

The four turnovers committed by the RedHawks, including on their first three possessions, were critical in the outcome of the contest, as those giveaways led to 10 points for the Bobcats.

Three of those turnovers, one fumble and two interceptions, were

committed by sophomore quarterback Billy Bahl on the first three Miami possessions.

OU linebacker Chad Moore caused problems all afternoon for the ‘Hawks offense. The Columbus native finished with nine tackles in addition to forcing Bahl’s fumble.

Another powerful Moore hit late in the second quarter led to the withdrawal of Bahl, who is now diagnosed with an undisclosed upperbody injury.

Bahl’s absence led to the entry of reserve freshman quarterback Noah Wezensky, who took his firstever snaps at the college level. The Fort Wayne, Indiana native threw 14 passes for 25 completions, totaling 154 yards and one touchdown through the air.

“There’s plenty of stuff. He’s super smart, he’s super intelligent, he’s calm, he got the ball. He played good,” Martin said.

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Golf places 10th at Golfweek Conference Challenge GOLF

RYER GARDENSWARTZ THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s golf team wrapped up the Golfweek Conference Challenge Sunday in Burlington, Iowa, but didn’t get the results it wanted. After playing for three straight days, the team placed tenth overall with a final score of 22over par. The University of Kansas won the 12-team tournament, which was composed of programs from different conferences around the nation.

Head coach Zac Zedrick believes his team still has a lot of room for improvement. Zedrick saw flashes of potential throughout the weekend, but the team performance wasn’t consistent throughout the tournament. Both he and the players know that they can perform at a much higher level. Coach Zedrick also felt that the RedHawks beat themselves on the course.

“Its ourselves,” Zedrick said.

“We’re just not quite over the hump of letting ourselves play the golf we are capable of. We’re doing a better job of putting our own expectations aside, which are really high, but we

could still do a better job of it.”

Redshirt sophomore Brian Ohr led the RedHawks with another solid performance, finishing one under par and tied for 12th individually.

Senior Greg Conrad, junior Patrick Flavin and freshmen Callahan Elzey and Cam Solomon were the other MU representatives in Burlington.

“I performed great,” Ohr said. “My putting lacked a little bit, and I didn’t make as many putts as I wanted to, but I stayed pretty calm especially when I faced adversity. I felt like I was able to grind out good rounds all three days.”

Ohr believes that the RedHawks need to play with more confidence and a better mentality, even though the team’s confidence has already significantly improved this season.

“The team got better compared to the first two tournaments. Overall our mentality and attitude have gotten a lot better. The team is more confident out on the course. We’re just a little afraid of failing and playing bad, so we need to trust ourselves to play well” Ohr said.

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