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Prospective students question drinking at MU Miami’s Office of Admissions fields concerns from parents, students ALCOHOL

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OPD Lt. Lara Fening (left) and MUPD Sgt. Susan Tobergte (right) speak to a packed Wilks Theater about safety on Green Beer Day.

Sounds dangerous: Can Uptown bars In face of cause hearing damage? threats, a call for pride ployees experience sound Sound levels at bars HEALTH

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MU rabbi responds to anti-Semitism RELIGION

EMILY WILLIAMS

MANAGING EDITOR

Since the beginning of the year, 161 bomb threats have targeted Jewish institutions across the country, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Most recently, at least five institutions reported threats on Sunday, March 13, as the Jewish community observed the religious holiday of Purim.

This follows vandalism of Jewish cemeteries last month, including the toppling of over 75 headstones at the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Northeast Philadelphia and the damaging of about 100 headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery outside St. Louis.

Rabbi Yossi Greenberg of the Chabad Jewish Student Center at Miami discussed the recent uptick in anti-Semitic threats in a live Facebook video on March 2.

“Do we have the right to be upset? Absolutely,” Greenberg said in the video.

He went on to explain that, in a conversation with students about recent threats, they had asked themselves: What is does it take to make a bomb threat?

“All it takes is a phone and a phone call,” Greenberg said. “And we realized that we can do a positive

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

College students’ memories might not be the only thing they’re losing during nights out.

When someone stumbles out of one of Oxford’s bars unable to hear the people around them, their ears ringing, they’re experiencing genuine hearing loss. It’s only temporary, but long-term exposure

levels exceeding 85 decibels

could mean hearing for long periods of time is reloss for Miamians quired to offer them hearing to club music (which can hover around 100 decibels, as opposed to a normal conversation’s 60), can set them up for permanent hearing problems in the future.

Speech pathology and audiology professor Chip Hahn explained that in America, any workplace in which em-

protection. This rule does not extend to bars.

“So, students and others that are out having a good time don’t necessarily think about the fact that, ‘Oh, this music is so loud I can see the windows vibrating,’” said Hahn.

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This semester, Miami’s Office of Admissions has seen an increase in the number of students and parents concerned with student drinking at Miami University.

“We certainly have seen an increase in questions about alcohol on campus and questions about how the university responds to a situation like that, given the press,” said Susan Schaurer, director of the Office of Admissions, in reference to recent news coverage about high-risk alcohol consumption at Miami.

While the Office of Admissions has always received questions regarding alcohol, the number of questions has increased, and the types of questions have changed.

Before this semester, admissions staff mostly fielded questions about alternative activities to alcohol that the university provides. Now they field questions about what the university is doing to ensure that its students are safe if they are drinking.

Andrew Boehm, associate director of campus visits and events, says that he thinks everyone should be talking

about the issue.

“When you have the death of a student, you need to fix it so it never happens again,” Boehm said. “You have to bring it out into the open to get it solved.”

Since the Office of Admissions is in the process of transitioning admitted students to committed students, they have not been able to tell if the negative publicity has had an affect on the number of applicants who commit to Miami, said Schaurer.

“I think these are valid questions to be asked,” Boehm said. “Parents and kids deserve answers.”

Despite the increase in questions about alcohol to admissions staff, student tour guides have seen little to no increase in questions about the topic.

“I think parents don’t want to make it more difficult for the student [tour guide],” Boehm said.

Sophomore tour guide, Gabe Debiasi, said he rarely gets questions about alcohol from parents and students on tours.

“No more than usual,” he said.

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ASG, RHA host GBD forum

Candidates violate ASG election rules

GREEN BEER DAY

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Due to a number of high-profile incidents involving high-risk alcohol consumption here at Miami, University leadership is breaking from tradition this year when it comes to Green Beer Day. While students plan to celebrate on Thursday, March 15, Miami administration, faculty, staff and student organizations are taking an increased number of preventative steps to avoid the pitfalls that can befall students on such an alcohol-fueled day.

Students were handed green koozies and phone cases with the message, “Life is Priceless, You

The Worrell-Olvera and McCarthy-Creber ASG presidential and vice presidential campaigns have each received a violation from ASG’s election committee. The violations are classified as “level one,” resulting in a 24-hour ban on campaigning and a $50 budget reduction.

The Worrell-Olvera

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MU Junior Ryan Competti, one of two managers of MU Shirt Bros, shows off his designs.

Competition rises in GBD apparel sales GREEN BEER DAY

cated student.

MU College Democrats decided to craft their own GBD shirt this year to raise awareness about the policy.

As communications chair Nick Froehlich explained, they hope that the prospect of legal or economic troubles won’t prevent students from

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Perhaps the only thing more ubiquitous on Green Beer Day than dyed alcohol and glittery shamrock facial tattoos is Green Beer Day apparel — shirts, hats and other items melding topical

memes with the beloved Miami holiday.

After a recent spike in alcohol violations, some are also using the holiday to spread a message: the importance of the Good Samaritan policy, which exempts students from disciplinary legal action if they seek emergency medical assistance for themselves or another severely intoxi-

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The Worrell-Olvera ticket spent the most this week at $429.67.

Our editors recommend podcasts to listen to over spring break.

Every week, Miami Student staffers take joy in home-cooked food.

After meeting with this year’s candidates, we analyzed their platforms.

“If food is a cultural product, then it could not be a scientific enterprise.”

Miami will not be renewing head basketball coaches’ contracts for next season.

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RHA advocates for a good night’s sleep HEALTH

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Feeling fatigued? You are not alone.

Being privy to “study pills” and all-nighters, campus inhabitants are prone to a predominantly sleep-deprived norm.

The Residence Hall Association (RHA) hosted a sleep awareness event to promote the power of a good night’s sleep. Stuffed animals and sleep deprivation information were included.

Sixty-one students were lined up just before 4 p.m. in Armstrong’s Shade Family room on Wednesday, March 8. The event ran from 4 to 6 p.m., but just 40 minutes into the event, the supply of animals was depleted.

The deeper cause behind the inaugural event was best explained

by RHA advisory chair Courtney Rose, who had been planning since January.

“We have to keep ourselves healthy first. We’re not going to do well if we don’t keep ourselves healthy,” Rose explained.

Inspired and guided in the plan-

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RHA’s DIY teddy table was promptly ovewhelmed by popular demand. at Wednesday’s event.

ning process by Miami Activities and Programming (MAP) president Elsa Clenny, who previously hosted a Valentine’s Day-themed teddy bear event on February 14, Rose took the opportunity to pro-

mote national sleep awareness month on campus.

Participants saw its relevancy, too. First-year Madison Krell stated that students’ freedom to “stay up until 2 a.m. doing noth-

Oxford City Council passes resolution condemning Kasich’s budget

ing” epitomizes why she thinks that college students are so sleep deprived.

With mental exhaustion and booked schedules, the physical consequences of below recom-

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Oxford City Council believed Kasich’s proposal would undermine essential community services, including local emergency responders.

CITY COUNCIL

DEANNA KROKOS THE MIAMI STUDENT

On Tuesday, March 7, the Oxford City Council voted to oppose Governor John Kasich’s budget proposal restructuring the collection of municipal income tax through a centralized state system.

The council’s resolution argues that this restructuring would “cause a substantial loss of revenue needed to support the health, safety, welfare and economic development efforts of Ohio Municipalities” like Oxford.

The policy was included as a provision in House Bill 49, which is the present version of the State of Ohio 2017-2018 budget currently being examined in the statehouse. It proposes that the administrative authority for the collection of municipal income tax on business net profits

be transferred to the centralized Ohio Department of Taxation.

The municipal income tax is Oxford’s largest source of revenue, constituting large portions of the General Fund as well as the budget for Fire and Emergency Services. In writing the resolution, Oxford City Manager Doug Elliot says that this measure “will have a negative impact on the City of Oxford’s municipal income tax revenues and… negatively affect our ability to provide services.”

One of the more controversial facets of this proposal is the perceived intrusion on “homerule,” an idea laid out in the State of Ohio’s constitution that guarantees certain powers to local governments. City Council’s resolution condemns the state’s action as an “unnecessary intrusion” on their local power.

Other cities in Ohio have passed similar measures opposing policy, as part of a directive

from the Ohio Municipal League, who on the same day testified at the statehouse to request the removal of this provision from the overall state budget.

In that spirit, councilman Steve Dana also urged Oxford residents to make their opposition to the state’s action known by contacting their representatives in Columbus.

“If she hears from one person, that’s one person. But if she hears from seven, it’s beginning to be a little bit more serious,” Dana said.

The resolution to officially oppose a budget including the income tax restructuring provision has passed the Oxford City Council. Being a facet of the larger HB 49 Budget bill, this measure is still being discussed by lawmakers in Columbus, and must be passed before the end of the current fiscal year, which concludes June 30.

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Liberals, conservatives can agree on climate EVENT

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mended hours are distinctive. For some, they’re even instinctive.

First-year Deniz Tetkas admitted her body knows when it needs to “catch up and relax.”

Although naps are common tactics to combat drowsiness and act as “rewards” after class, Tetkas admitted those mid-day bouts of rest have the ability to disorient one’s whole day.

Another source of “fuel” for students, targeted specifically by Rose, is adderall or other drugs used to either stay awake or catalyze sleep. Side effects of frequent use of these drugs include memory loss, addiction and depression.

The National Sleep Foundation finds that 8.5 to 9.25 hours of sleep for young adults is healthiest. However, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 70 percent of this group does not meet the recommended quota on school nights.

Sleep deprivation can have both short-term and long-term effects.

A sleep-related study was recently published by a University of Pennsylvania professor in criminology, psychiatry and

In a world where political controversy can be found around every corner, people may doubt or entirely dismiss the claim that climate change is not ultimately political.

But that is what Michael Ranney, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, claimed in the lecture, “Come, Climate Change Skeptics!: Information that Boosts Conservatives’ (and Liberals’) Acceptance of Human-Caused Global Warming,” in Shideler Hall on Thurs. March 9.

“Red states, blue states — it really doesn’t matter,” Ranney said. “The interventions we have generated increase Conservatives’ acceptance of global warming at the same degree they do for Liberals’.”

So, if politics is not the largest obstacle to fixing climate change, then what is?

Ranney believes widespread comprehension of how global warming works is lacking throughout the country.

“How would you explain, you know, to an 18-year-old, how climate change occurs?” Ranney asked the audience.

No one in the audience immediately offered an answer.

Ranney proceeded to show the audience a short video meant to explain at a very basic comprehension level how global warming occurs.

“A lot of people think they know the basic mechanism of global warming, and it turns out they don’t,” Ranney said.

Due to the identified gap in climate change education, Ranney and a team of researchers at UC Berkeley developed five intervention mechanisms that increase people’s acceptance and understanding of humancaused global warming. They developed a website, howglobalwarmingworks.org, which provides these mechanisms in the forms of videos, essays, statistics and graphs to combat the lack of information in the general population.

Alessia Saul and Christina Haffey, both environmental science and zoology majors in attendance at the lecture, agreed with one another that the best thing to do to connect to those who deny climate change is to show them the website Ranney’s team created.

“I would say education is the best way to sway someone’s

opinion,” Saul said. “I like the whole idea of explaining it to them, because a lot of people sort of take a political angle and assume climate change is a hoax or something. But if you explain it to them and make sure they understand it, which is what [Ranney] emphasized, they’ll change their own opinion.”

Ranney touched on an aspect of fear that tends to accompany a climate change denier’s opinion by drawing comparisons between religious faith and nationalistic identity.

“The United States subscribes to the belief that God is on our side more than any other nation,” Ranney said. “There is a common theme of theistic Manifest Destiny with a bit of nationalism thrown in there in our country…. Some people deny climate change because they believe God wouldn’t let us burn up, along with similar claims.”

Not only are religiously-based fears and claims prevalent when it comes to dealing with climate change skeptics, but there is also a fear that by admitting to the problem, America must also admit to the economic consequences of changing the energy industry.

Ranney countered this economic fear with none other than one of his five mechanisms: statistics.

Ranney explained the economy would not suffer, as moving to complete reliance on solar and wind energy would only cost $45 trillion. Ranney admitted that sounds like an insurmountable figure, but it can be broken down: humanity spends about $5 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies every year.

“I liked when [Ranney] talked about how it’s actually not that expensive to invest in solar power, like it is actually possible without losing jobs,” Haffey said. “That is also a major fear and reason for people’s denial.”

Ranney hopes the information provided on the website he helped to create will engage people in a more informed dialogue when it comes to climate change and will reach a broad audience.

“If the recent election has taught me nothing, it’s that people need to be engaging with folks across the political spectrum,” Ranney said. “Well over one million people have already seen the information we have put out there…. Our modest goal is just to get over seven billion views. That’s all we ask,” Ranney concluded with aspirational hope and humor.

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Miami students vote in the ASG presidential primaries today, March 14. Presidents and their vice presidential picks,w clockwise from top left: Nick Froehlich and Bradley Davis, Maggie Callaghan and Luke Elfreich, Ryaan Ibtisam and Paul McCreary, Austin Worrell and Haley Olvera. Not pictured: Hannah McCarthy and Thatcher Creber.

ASG presidential campaign spending to date ASG

JAKE GOLD

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Between the dates of March 6 and March 13, the five ASG Student Body President/Vice President cam-

paigns spent a combined $993, and received a combined $0 in donations. To date, the campaigns have spent a total of $2952, and received a total of $124.50 in donations.

The Callaghan/Elfreich ticket spent $234.15 in the past week, spending a total of $953.64 over the

course of the election. They received $20 in donations last week, and none this week.

The Ibtisam/McCreary ticket spent $42.89 in the past week, spending a total of $60.97 over the course of the election. They have not received any donations.

The Froehlich/Davis ticket spent $0 this past week, spending a total of $73.90 over the course of the election. They have received $104.50 in donations last week, and none this week.

The McCarthy/Creber ticket spent $289.29 this past week,

spending a total of $1367.83 over the course of the election. They have received no donations.

The Worrell/Olvera ticket spent $429.67 this past week spending a total of $495.66 over the course of the election. They have received no donations.

Business students advance in venture capital competition MONEY

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THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami students beat out schools like the University of Chicago, Northwestern and Carnegie Mellon to win the regional round of the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), hosted in Chicago on Saturday, Feb. 25. It was Miami’s first time competing in the invitation-only competition, where the students were the only representatives from Ohio. This year, competitors in the international competition came from 78 schools, in 13 countries spanning three continents.

The team will proceed to compete in the global finals round, March 23-25, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Five students will represent Miami at Chapel Hill, while four others will provide analytical support from Ox-

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Hair cells lining our ears transmit sound to our brains, but they can be ravaged by blaring bar music if subjected for drawn-out periods of time. Hahn likened them to blades of grass in a yard, though grass can eventually grow back — hair cells in our ears can’t.

“If you mow a lawn, you can kind of see the tracks where the wheels are,” said Hahn. “After two or three days you don’t see them anymore, because the grass has stood back up, but imagine if you were mowing every two or three days; those hairs would never get a chance to fully recover, and you can actually see what is a temporary shift become a permanent shift, [which] becomes noise-induced hearing loss.”

Some people are predisposed to experience hearing loss through genetics or other circumstances.

Prolonged exposure to loud music, which can easily be achieved

ford.

The VCIC is unique in that it is the only undergraduate business competition that puts the students in the roles of venture capitalists, rather than the position of start-ups pitching an idea. The student teams are given business plans of three real start-up companies and must come up with an investment decision which they then present and defend to the judges, real venture capitalists.

“There are lots of business plan competitions, there are lots of case competitions, there are a lot of startup pitch competitions — there is only one venture-capital-related investment competition,” said Tim Holcomb, the Cintas Chair of Entrepreneurship and a member of the Farmer School of Business faculty.

Holcomb served as an advisor to the VCIC team. He developed a fiveweek training program to prepare the team for the competition.

The nine students spent half a day

every week for the first five weeks of the spring semester in Cincinnati at Union Hall. There they learned about venture capital, including how to value start-ups, procedures for conducting due diligence and different terms and conditions for investment deals.

The program allowed the students to learn from experts and actively practice what they learned.

Nine investors from six different institutional investment companies — including CincyTech, Maywic Select Investments, Blue Chip Venture Company and Thompson Hine — coached the students. In addition, five Cincinnati companies gave mock pitches to the group to help them get hands-on practice for the competition.

Jack Condon, a member of the team, thinks that having access to professionals through Miami’s professional network gave the team a competitive edge.

“That was the first step, reaching

out and learning from the experts about venture capital,” Condon said. “This is an industry that you don’t really learn a lot about as an undergrad a lot, if you’re in business, so I think the thing we did really well was because we know all these [venture capitalists] we learned a lot of what they wanted us to.”

Holcomb attributes the win to three main strengths: the team developed a rich understanding of the valuation of startups, analytically evaluated the startup ecosystem and collaborated well as a team.

Mary Dieglio, the assistant director of the Page Center for Entrepreneurship, believes that the judges were also impressed by the team’s professional conduct.

“I think that Miami’s team was best at putting forth that professional air, making it seem like they were an actually venture capital firm and not a group of students,” said Dieglio.

As the team prepares for the global finals, they are focusing on the question-answer sessions. They will have 12 minutes with each startup to ask questions, and they want to use the time to most effectively target specific concerns, said Matt Gordon, a student on the team.

While they continue to practice, the team is bolstered by the excitement from their win.

“I was really excited to win,” said Kasey Marenco, a member of the team. “ But we still have the next round to get ready for; so we need to turn our attention to focusing on that, and not slowing down in the interim just because we won.”

Shane Hitzler, also on the team, shares Marenco’s excitement and is optimistic looking forward.

“Obviously we are very happy that we competed in this for the first time in Chicago, and won,” said Hitzler. “We are extremely excited and extremely optimistic, and trying to back it up with preparation.”

by going out several times a week, can exacerbate this.

But pop music pumping through bars isn’t all detrimental to peoples’ health; there’s an upside. Comparative media studies professor Mack Hagood acknowledges that it can be damaging, but bar music also helps people dismantle communicational roadblocks and overcome social awkwardness.

“Everybody knowing the same songs is a way of confirming identity and confirming that you belong to some social group,” said Hagood. “It helps people break through social roles or social anxieties or hangings.”

Hagood pointed to research from one of his students that showed when students can’t easily speak to one another at noisy bars, they can communicate in other ways, like dancing.

Plus, both Hagood and Hahn agreed that blasting music in your earbuds is, ultimately, much more

damaging than going to Brick Street or New Bar a couple nights a week.

Hahn advises students to use two rules to determine whether something they’re listening to can damage their hearing. One, the “arm’s length” rule, dictates that if you can hear noise from someone’s earbuds an arm’s length away, it’s too loud.

The other is the “60-60-60” rule; this means never surpassing 60 percent of your music device’s volume while listening with earbuds and never listening for over 60 minutes without at least a 60-minute break in between.

Should students be concerned about hearing loss stemming from bar music? Probably, but more so regarding excessively loud earbud volume. The only way to avoid it completely, however, is abstaining from going out — maybe just use apps like these to stay mindful and do your best to abide by the rules of limited hearing loss.

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the university is taking to make sure students stay safe.

“Parents have expressed concern understandably, but every conversation has ended with the understanding that this is a national problem, not just a Miami problem,” Schaurer said. “We’ve tried to make it clear that we as a university aren’t just turning the other way.”

Boehm reaffirmed this stance.

“Every time I have that conversation with a parent, I want to make sure they know this isn’t something we’re taking lightly,” Boehm said.

that Miami provides since Miami made headlines for alcoholrelated issues.

“I usually try to bring up Late Night Miami on my tours, and recently I’ve felt like I’ve had more to say about that programming,” Debiasi said.

When tackling questions about the drinking culture at Miami, Schaurer also said that she makes sure the admissions staff is aware of that alternate programming and that they try to outline the efforts

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Double-cast duo: Opera singers share roles OPERA

“Even though their voices are very different to listen to, they are still both considered lyric coloratura sopranos.”

While the two have been doublecast for the past two opera shows, they also both performed in “Cosi Fan Tutte” in 2015, though in separate roles.

However, it’s not too coincidental that they’ve been cast in the same roles in their other shows, Davies said. Often, there are several people capable of playing a role well, and the directors want to give more students the opportunity to perform.

While essentially all the lead roles in “Street Scene” were double-cast, Anne Egerman was one of the only roles double-cast in “A Little Night Music.”

When being double-cast, the actors have to keep in mind that they’re still playing the same character. They receive the same direction for staging and movement and the same in-

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Senior Andrea Davies and junior Ali Rose Hotz are two different but equally talented singers. Yet, in Miami University Opera’s last two shows, they have been double-cast in the same part, meaning they’ve shared the role but have had different performance nights. They both played Rose Maurrant in last year’s “Street Scene” and Anne Egerman in last month’s “A Little Night Music.”

So what is it about these two that makes them the right fit for the same parts?

For one thing, they’re both lyric coloratura sopranos. According to vocal professor Alison Acord, who teaches both Davies and Hotz, these are sopranos who have a warm quality to their voice, but who can also sing lots of high notes.

“In the world of opera, roles are cast on the type of voice,” said Acord.

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The crowd was on their feet as the timer counted down, forcing the game into the first overtime. Miami was playing St. Cloud State, and the game was close: 2-2.

Even though the game was being held over winter break, the stands were nearly full. When Miami scored the winning goal, the crowd roared — erupting with applause and belting out the Fight Song.

But one man celebrated in a slightly different way, as he always does. He waved his red Miami flag, shouting, “Let’s go Redskins!” as he received cheers from the other fans around him.

Dubbed “Miami’s Ultimate Hockey Fan” by regular game attendees, Jim Bodmer hasn’t missed a home hockey game in over 30 years.

Most know him because of his ever-present support and affinity for shouting the school’s old team name, but many don’t know the story behind Miami hockey’s biggest fan.

Jim graduated from Miami in 1960 with a degree in marketing.

He was an active member of the Alpha Delta Pi fraternity and the Naval ROTC, and he played multiple intramural sports.

And he is still just as involved today. He continues to be active in his fraternity and is a member of its alumni board. Jim was the first

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president of the NROTC alumni board and even won the Naval Science Alumni Sydney Souers Award for Outstanding Alum in 2006.

But no matter how involved he remains in the Oxford community, Jim always spends most of his time on campus at hockey games.

Jim initially fell in love with the sport while growing up in Cleveland, home of the AHL Cleveland Barons at the time. He loves the non-

stop action and constant gameplay.

Throughout his years attending Miami’s games, he has come to know the parents and many of the players on the team, which has furthered his love for the sport.

For Jim, it’s hard to peg a specific memory to be his favorite. He has certainly been around for a few memorable games — when Jason BODMER »PAGE 9

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Andrea Davies (left) and Ali Rose Hotz have been double-cast in their last two opera shows.

Profiles in public transportation: Meeting the drivers of the BCRTA PEOPLE

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Because Miami students who live off-campus often face a long walk to their classes, many opt to use the Butler County Regional Transit Authority (BCRTA) university bus service. Although riding the bus may be just another part of the students’ groggy morning commute, the buses are operated by dedicated individuals who spend their days making students’ lives easier.

Kenyatta McCrary of Cincinnati has been driving for almost 13 years, though she has only been with BCRTA for two years. She got her start by giving driving lessons on weekends and driving tour buses of eighth-grade students on class trips to places such as the White House and Disneyworld. She also drives some Miami sports teams to their away games.

“My mom drove the city buses in Cincinnati for a living,” says McCrary. “So I guess it was instilled in me.”

Before she became a driver, she was a preschool teacher at The Goddard School in CIncinnati.

“I didn’t like dealing with the preschoolers parents,” she says. “I’d

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Kenyatta McCrary has worked for the BCRTA for two years. Before that, she taught preschool in Cincinnati. much rather work with eighth graders or college students.”

Shawnda Robertson has also been driving for BCRTA for about two years. Outside of work she likes to be outdoors, ride her motorcycle and dance.

“I’ve been dancing for as long as I remember,” Robertson says. “My mom has a video of me dancing when I was a baby.”

Robertson likes to play music

from a portable speaker on her routes. Her playlist contains a broad variety of music from Justin Bieber to Eminem, from country music to Ciara.

“I don’t put anything offensive on there,” she says. “None of that ‘kill your grandma’ rap.”

Additionally, Robertson volunteers with Ross Animal Shelter in Oxford, where she can sign a different animal out every weekend and

foster it for a couple days to get them out of the shelter.

Dan Bogan, or “Dan the Bus Man,” as he introduces himself, has been with BCRTA for three years and primarily drives the U3 route which goes around campus and to Kroger. He began driving after he retired. Before that he worked at Procter and Gamble doing formula design.

“Retirement isn’t what they make

it seem on ‘The Price is Right,’” Bogan said. “I wanted something else to do.”

Bogan has two adult sons in their late 30s and one adopted son who is 10 years old. With the sizable age difference Bogan’s adopted son is able to have a better relationship with Bogan’s eight grandkids, whose ages range from three to 10 years old.

Bogan is also very active in his church through which he is able to volunteer with older people.

According to the drivers, there are certain things that students can do to make their jobs easier such as using crosswalks, pulling the wire when they want the driver to make a stop, not running up to the bus when the doors are closed and being patient with the drivers as they are doing their best to stick to the schedule.

The drivers all agree that the best part about driving for BCRTA is the students.

“Just about every single one of them will greet me or talk to me on the bus,” says Robertson. “If they don’t I’ll ask them why not”.

Bogan also makes it a point to greet his riders when they get on and off his bus.

“Most of them are really good kids,” he says. “I just have to remind myself that I was in their place before.”

Editors’ spring break podcast picks ENTERTAINMENT

With spring break next week, many students are gearing up for long plane rides and road trips. What better time to get lost in the excitement of a new podcast? The sheer amount of great podcasts out there can be overwhelming, so here are our staff’s recommendations for what to listen to next.

“WHY OH WHY”

After following along weekly with show host Andrea Silenzi’s podcast about relationships, “Why Oh Why,” I feel like she and I are friends. Her frank conversations about how love

and sex intersect with technology are insightful, but the biggest appeal is in Silenzi’s own unabashed earnestness. Though some elements of the podcast build off one another — namely, the portions related to Silenzi’s personal life — most of the episodes can be enjoyed a la carte. My top picks: Ep. 8, “How Will I Know?” the story of Silenzi’s last breakup told in achingly honest detail, Ep. 9, “Just My Swipe,” a real-life dating game with bachelor contestants sourced from Tinder swipes and Ep. 19, “Dudes in Bars,” featuring conversations with men at 10 different bars around the country on the day of the Women’s March.

(Emily Williams, Managing Editor)

“WAIT WAIT... DON’T TELL ME” - Not My Job: Chance the Rapper Gets Quizzed on Saran the Wrapper

In this episode of “Wait Wait...

Don’t Tell Me,” host Peter Sagal subjects Chance the Rapper to a guessing game based off of saran wrapping, a derivative of his role as a rapper. This particular episode is light-hearted and features Sagal raving about one of Chance’s earlier hits “Sunday Candy,” which is about his grandmother. I feel like this podcast accurately reflects Chance’s earnest attitude about his career as a “niceboy rapper” who cares about his city and its people. Recently, Chance has skyrocketed in the music industry

and in Chicago politics. After winning three Grammy’s in February, Chance caught the eye of Illinois governor Bruce Rauner and requested a meeting to discuss funding for Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Chance has since pledged $1 million dollars to CPS in addition to paving the way for music as an unsigned artist whose mixtapes have been released free to the public since 2012. (Céilí Doyle, Senior Staff Writer)

“HEAVYWEIGHT” Tara

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“Heavyweight” didn’t appeal to me at first. In the show, Jonathan Goldstein finds out what went wrong in people’s lives or a specific thing they regret and makes them

address those things head-on. I didn’t want to hear other people talking about their problems, but as I listened to more, I started to contemplate my own relationships that I have with people. One that really stuck with me is about a young girl named Tara. In college, Jonathan watched an experimental video titled “Anger” that had a scene of a young girl sitting in silence while her parents sobbed, one talking about what it feels like to be intersexed.

Years later, Jonathan still thinks about the girl in the video and if she’s okay, so that’s what he seeks to find out in “Tara.” While some episodes are more light-hearted than others, they’re definitely all worth the listen.

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math alone. As the first team to ever make the tournament with 15 losses, Vandy has become a source of outrage for many of the Selection Committee’s critics. However, three wins against Florida, two hard-fought losses to Kentucky and a win over South Carolina have proven that this team is a legitimate threat. This upset pick is more centered around Vandy’s second round matchup with Gonzaga.

Gonzaga is a solid No. 1 seed, and a team that analytics love, but they may be susceptible to the giant-killing Commodores.

4. Wake Forest/Kansas State (11-seeds, South region)

These two teams will meet in Dayton for the First Four on Tuesday, and I believe that the winner of this game will be an upset threat to No. 6 seed Cincinnati, regardless of the outcome. Wake Forest solidified its tournament resume by knocking off a very solid Louisville team at home and was a pesky thorn in the side of multiple ACC teams this year. Kansas State started the year as one of the top teams in the nation, went on a severe skid, but steadied its roll recently, securing a victory over Baylor and playing a very close game against West Virginia.

Both teams should be difficult matchups for the offensivelychallenged Cincinnati Bearcats

once they advance.

My other potential sleeper teams to keep an eye on include: Oklahoma State: In my opinion, the Cowboys were severely under-seeded as a No. 10 seed against Michigan and have a run-and-gun style of offense that can be lethal in March.

UNC-Wilmington: The Seahawks can shoot the lights out of the gym and would be my favorite upset bid if not for a brutal matchup against a very, very good Virginia team.

Florida Gulf Coast: Everyone’s favorite Cinderella team from a few years ago is back and has a winnable matchup against an over-seeded Florida State team.

This is a fun matchup that you

should keep an eye on.

As its name would seem to indicate, March Madness is, indeed, a bit “mad,” so there is a strong chance that putting your faith entirely in my picks could sink your brackets. I would recommend taking a look at other sources and even analyzing some data yourself to see what trends you discover too. All in all, I wish you all the best of luck with your 2017 brackets (unless you’re competing against me), and may the best, or luckiest, bracket win!

Questions, comments, accusations that I am biased against your favorite team? E-mail me at hausfemj@miamioh.edu

“We wanted to create a campaign that would be something meaningful and something we could all remember,” said Reilly. “At the end of the day, your life, your friend’s life, is priceless.”

Billy Fitz, ASG secretary of offcampus affairs, opened the forum, saying “I have been fortunate enough to have lived through four Green Beer Days, and if you ever see me on a Green Beer Day, you know I’m having tons of fun... responsibly… which is key.”

Another forum was held simultaneously in Shideler Hall, titled, “It’s fun until…” which discussed the dangers of substance abuse and binge drinking found on many col-

lege campuses.

These forums are just two of the many events that are centered around preparing students for the festivities associated with Green Beer Day. Last week, a forum, “Just Call,” was held regarding the Good Samaritan policy on campus. Additionally, a Good Samaritan and Alcohol training workshop was held to prepare local taxi drivers and others interested in the training for the signs of alcohol poisoning and the steps to take once it has been identified.

But the University has expanded safety measures to off campus to make the Green Beer Day tradition

more safe. Miami enlisted the help of the surrounding community and law enforcement in the area.

For instance, alcohol permitholding establishments Uptown have agreed to open later than usual and have restricted access for those 21 and older in the earlier hours of the day, according to a brief prepared by Claire Wagner, university communications director.

The brief includes that OPD and MUPD have begun joint patrols that will continue throughout the Green Beer Day celebrations while MUPD, as well as ASG, will be handing out water bottles during the day on Thursday. Addition-

ally, various alternative activities have been arranged by the Office of Residence Life, BACCHUS, MAP and Oxford’s Religious Communities Association for students who are unwilling or underage to participate in Green Beer Day. “I cannot thank enough the many individuals on and off campus who have worked collaboratively to reduce Green Beer Day risk; we’re very grateful,” University President Greg Crawford said.

With preventative measures in place, the University hopes to continue the tradition of Green Beer Day without the recent trend of high-profile alcohol related incidents.

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where Lin, sophomore Harrison Moncino and senior Sean Sargent all competed. Lin qualified for the NCAA Championships in the three-meter dive, while Sargent finished 17th, and Moncino placed 19th.

On the second day of the Zone C diving competition, Pei Lin once again impressed and finished second in the one-meter diving event.

She will compete in the Women’s NCAA Championships starting Wednesday March 15 in Indianapolis.

The Redhawks look to get to work after this postseason and will try and improve for the upcoming season next winter.

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Make the Call,” along with contact numbers for MUPD, OPD and McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital printed on either side as they walked into the standing-roomonly Wilks Theater on Monday at 7 p.m. for the Green Beer Day forum.

“If there is one message that people could come away with, it’s that life is priceless,” said Zach Roebel, Residence Hall Association president. “Here’s some resources to do it, and give them something physically that they could touch and take with them.”

Maggie Reilly, ASG student body president, concurred.

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An ode to the dinner party Every week, Miami Student staffers find joy in home-cooked food

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or most college students, Sunday evenings mean the same thing: cramming a weekend’s worth of homework assignments, textbook reading and exam preparation into one night. The reality was no different for me. But then one weekend, I really wanted tacos. And I wanted to make them myself.

So, that Sunday, I woke up earlier, dragged out my textbooks, opened up Canvas on my laptop and chipped away at the day’s work so that, later that evening, I could spend my time in

the kitchen instead of King.

Whether it’s a soup smorgasbord, breakfast-for-dinner or a spread of Southern fare, since that first Sunday, every week I’m cooking or baking something that I never have before.

Sometimes, as was the case with ratatouille (see recipe below), I have never even tasted the dish before attempting to recreate it in my kitchen.

There’s something nostalgic about cramming people around my dining room table every week to share a meal.

For me, it reminds me of the Sunday nights I spent at my grandmother’s house packed elbow to elbow around

Emily’s Ratatouille EMILY WILLIAMS

MANAGING EDITOR

Ratatouille — just the French name may sound intimidating to novice cooks, but, though it’s difficult to spell, this Provencal peasant dish is surprisingly easy to make. The name comes from the term “touiller” which means to toss food and, as many people know, it became more widely known in the United States after the success of a Pixar movie of the same name about a cartoon rat with culinary aspirations.

This particular dish is not quite what the rodent chef Remy prepared in the animated flick of the same name. This ratatouille is made on the stovetop, not the oven, and though this one-pot dish may not be as artful as the oven-baked and intricately arranged variety, it holds a much larger allure, particularly for overscheduled students — it’s truly simple and very inexpensive.

Ratatouille was the first dish I ever cooked without having ever eaten the food before, so it was a welcome surprise when my first iteration wasn’t at all a disaster. Since then, I’ve tweaked several recipes to make my own version of the vegetable medley.

Ingredients 1 large white onion, diced 2 large red peppers, diced ½ cup olive oil 6 cloves of garlic, diced 2 cans stewed tomatoes 1 large eggplant, peeled & cut into ½ inch cubes ¾ cup dry red wine 2 zucchinis, thinly sliced (not peeled) 2 yellow squash, thinly sliced (not peeled) 3 sprigs rosemary 2 sprigs thyme Salt & pepper to taste

Dice onion and red peppers and saute in large pot with a ¼ cup of olive oil until they start to brown. Add diced garlic, stewed tomatoes and stir. Let the mixture cook as you prepare the eggplant. Don’t forget to peel it! The skin of the eggplant is very tough and will not soften well in this dish. Stir in the eggplant and add the remaining ¼ cup of olive oil.

After the eggplant begins to brown, pour in the red wine. It’s best if you use something dry, like merlot or cabernet sauvignon. I typically use the latter.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Stir and let it come to a boil.

Reduce the heat back to medium, stir and add the sliced zucchini and yellow squash. Pluck the leaves off of two sprigs of rosemary and one sprig of thyme and stir. Let the remaining one sprig of thyme and one sprig of rosemary rest on the top of the vegetables, and let the let the ratatouille cook, covered, on the stovetop for about 30 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.

Once prepared, the dish can be enjoyed several ways (which, in my house, can sometimes include shoveling a spoon right into the pot). My favorites? Spoon it over some rigatoni pasta and top it with a drizzle of olive oil and some shredded parmesan cheese or just serve it next to a piece of warm, crusty bread.

Keep it all to yourself and use it to make gourmet pre-prepared lunches and dinners for the week or impress all your closest friends by inviting them to your house for home-cooked French cuisine.

the table with my aunts and uncles.

Those dinners would usually end with my older sister and I polka dancing to old records with our greatgrandmother, and, though the dinners at my house in Oxford don’t involve any Polish folk dancing (at least, not yet), I’ve found that I’ve subconsciously retained many of the Williams matriarchs’ hosting habits: spending more time asking, “How’s your food?” than actually eating it myself, ending the night with dessert and a fresh pot of coffee, sending friends home with leftovers (when there are any) in Tupperware containers or sharing

long conversations with dinner party stragglers as we work through the piles of dirty dishes.

There’s something essential about sharing about sharing food with one another, and for me those Sunday night dinners have become just that: essential. So, give it try. Get a head start on homework, grab your friends, head down to the grocery store and give the old-fashioned dinner party a try.

Our staff at The Miami Student has collected some recipes to help get you started.

Toasting to family with the Sonhngen’s

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On Thanksgiving, whiskey sours are just as important as the turkey. Without it, we simply would not be paying tribute to our Irish ancestors. That last bit, I admit, may not be true.

My grandmother was raised to believe she was 100 percent Irish – the results from ancestry.com will come in by the end of the month, so we will all be holding our breath until then.

My mom first learned to make whiskey sours on Thanksgiving; she was 12 at the time and claims to have had at least a sip of the family tradition since.

I first learned when I turned eighteen and was re-taught last weekend when my grandfather passed away. Whiskey Sours are not just a Thanksgiving treat but a nostalgic toast to family members past. Although those at the table have changed over 50 years of the whiskey sour tradition, the recipe remains the same.

DIRECTIONS: 1 handle of good, Irish whiskey 1 box Bar-Tender’s Whiskey Sour Mix ice water 1. Fill a large pitcher 1/3 of the way with ice.

2. To the pitcher, add 1.5 shots of whiskey and 1.5 shots of cold water for every packet of sour mix. (The directions on the box will tell you 1 shot of water and 1 shot whiskey to each sour mix, but that makes for a toosour drink.

3. Mix everything together with a large spoon.

4. Add a splash of whiskey on top (this is where family members gain a “reputation” for their mixing skills).

5. Pour over ice in a sour glass, and enjoy.

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Evans’ Southern Style Gravy JACK EVANS

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By no means am I an expert on cooking. I need printed recipes for anything more complicated than an omelet, I couldn’t tell you the difference between a rib eye and a red eye and I consider any week in which I have ramen for dinner less than three times a success.

Don’t get me wrong — I love a good bowl of ramen. But, often my appetite and palate outweigh my laziness as a chef, and I find myself seeking out simple, but delicious recipes to whip up.

Lately, I’ve been turning to dips.

Dips are the quintessential communal eating experience. Whether at a wedding, a funeral, a barbecue or a birthday party, people of all backgrounds can come together at the dip station and share stories over a slathered chip or carrot stick.

Which brings me to my mom’s fantastic buffalo chicken dip. It’s only five ingredients and takes just 10 minutes of prep time, but the final product is a delectable creation, a molten concoction of spicy chicken and tangy sauce. This goopy dip is the perfect cornerstone to any afternoon spread — it quickly became a favorite of my high school friends when we would congregate at my house

to watch Bruins and Pats games.

So next time you’re in need of a quick and easy surefire crowd pleaser, give this buff-chick dip a try.

Ingredients: ½ cup crumbled blue cheese ½ cup blue cheese dressing 8 oz. softened cream cheese ½ cup of Frank’s Red Hot Sauce 2 cups of cubed chicken

First, grab a rotisserie bird from Kroger, and get cubin’. Combine all the ingredients in a dish and mix them together. If you’re looking for some extra pep in your step, or if you want to cool things down a bit, adjust the portion of Frank’s accordingly.

Bake in the oven at 425 degrees for 25 minutes. You’re looking for brown spots on top and some bubbling.

Serve with celery sticks, carrots and your favorite crackers (Triscuits pair quite nicely).

Dig in, and enjoy!

Sausage gravy is one of those dishes that can initially be a tough sell. To the untrained eye, its off-white base and brown sausage lumps can seem unappetizing. Those untraveled diners who have never ventured below Ohio’s southern border often have an especially strong aversion to the traditionally Dixie breakfast dish.

Thankfully, it only takes one bite to experience the euphoria of peppery, creamy gravy over flaky, buttermilk biscuits.

I first whipped up this favorite of mine several weeks ago.

I’ve had the recipe bouncing around my head for a while, but the force that encouraged me to get off my ass and actually cook it was Miami’s own Pulley Diner. I could no longer stomach their gluey, criminally sausage-less rendition. If you’ve never had biscuits and gravy before, do not start there.

What you’ll need: 1 lb. of pork breakfast sausage. I used Bob Evans’ “Naturally!” original recipe and it worked well. If you have both the funds and access to a butcher, I encourage you to get it directly from the source. For gravy, the fattier, the better.

In other words, DO NOT use Turkey sausage. Your gravy will taste like flour and boiled milk.

1/3 cup of all-purpose flour.

2½ to 3 cups of whole milk. The quantity here depends on how thick you like your gravy. Personally, I’ve found 2½ to be a sweet spot. 3 is too milky and 2 borders on concrete. Remember, fattier is better for gravy. 2 percent milk can do the trick if for some reason you’re looking to cut calories, but know that skim might not hold everything together.

Kosher salt to taste. If your gravy feels like it’s missing something, but you can’t identify what, add salt.

Ground black pepper to taste. A critical component.

Load up on this.

Crushed red pepper to taste. This one is a little non-traditional, but I think it adds some rounded heat and, frankly, some much-needed color for presentation.

Biscuits are a separate entity altogether, and one that I have not yet successfully experimented with. I used Grand’s Buttermilk that I bought from Kroger. Shameful, I know, but still tasty. Whatever biscuits you end up making, try to time them so that they come out around the same time as the gravy finishes up.

How to make it: This whole process will take about 15 to 18 minutes.

Start a pan over medium-high heat and crumble the sausage into it. Brown the sausage until all the pink is gone and there is fat in the pan. Make sure to stir consistently during this stage and break the sausage up into very small chunks, no more than a 1/3 inch across.

Once the sausage is browned, reduce the heat to mediumlow.

Next, gradually combine the flour into the sausage, whisking heavily.

After adding the flour, pour in the milk half-cup by half-cup.

Again, whisk heavily the whole time.

Continue to stir the gravy regularly over the next 10 to 12 minutes, allowing it to thicken up. Stir in your seasonings during this period. Halfway through this period is the ideal time to play around with flavor, so don’t be afraid to break out a tasting spoon and play mad scientist with the pepper.

Convince all of your friends that it really tastes great and no, it’s not like Thanksgiving gravy. Encouraging them to take a deep waft over the pan usually helps.

Serve the gravy warm over split buttermilk biscuits and enjoy.

PUMPKIN BREAD FOR ANY SEASON CEILI DOYLE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Ingredients: 3 cups of sugar 1 cup of vegetable oil 4 eggs 3 cups of all purpose flour 1 tsp of cinnamon ½ tsp of salt 1 tsp of nutmeg 2 tsp of baking soda 1 tblsp of baking powder 2/3 cup of water 2 cups of mashed pumpkin (15oz can) Instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix sugar and oil then beat eggs in one at a time.

Sift all dry ingredients together.

Add these alternately to sugar/oil/ eggs with water.

Add mashed pumpkin.

Stir well.

For 2 5x9 pans bake for 50 minutes approximately.

I remember crossing the finish line of my first fifth grade cross country race and breathing heavily as the world dizzyingly spun out of control. My vision blurred as the multi-colored flags that lined “the chute,” each runner

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crossed to finish the race, swirled together in my mind.

I ended up sitting cross-legged on the grass, and my mom came over to me to offer some water and the promise of pumpkin bread when I got home. I remember looking up at her and smiling, the only news that was worth sharing in comparison to my abysmal mile time.

For some reason I always associate my mom’s pumpkin bread with this day. The homemade bread has always reminded me of my family: whether it was fighting over the last piece with my sisters when we came home from school, or being able to taste a little piece of home when my mom sent me

a loaf during my first semester after a particularly brutal round of exams and papers right before my birthday.

This past weekend I got the opportunity to test out my, albeit never before seen, baking skills during our weekly Sunday Night Dinners, hosted by future B&B owner and TMS’ very own, managing editor Emily Williams. Our dinners are normally comprised of a hodgepodge of TMS staffers and Emily’s housemates and friends in PSE who all come together to enjoy home cooked meals provided by our fearless leader.

This weekend we took a new approach and actually tried to contribute to dinner rather than tear through food

cooked outside of a dining hall.

Despite the unconventional seasonal timing, my pumpkin bread baking in March was well-received. I thankfully was assisted by my friend and PSEr, Brian McDonald, and we proved to be a formidable duo in our corner of the kitchen. I cracked eggs and measured out mashed pumpkin in ½ cup segments while Brian perfected his stirring skills before pouring out the batter.

Our end result was very successful, not only had we avoided starting a fire in Emily’s kitchen, but I was happy I could share a piece of my Doyle family tradition with some of my best friends in our home away from home.

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“We knew we wanted to do something for Green Beer Day,” said Froehlich. “The t-shirt just coincides with our greater plan to just stand out by the Phi Delt gates and catch people on their way Uptown, hand out water bottles with the Good Samaritan policy attached and say, ‘Hey, know this, drink this also.’”

The front reads, “Enough is enough,” a quote popularized by Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaign last year, along with a sketch of Sanders’ signature tousled hair and glasses. The back urges students to, “Know the Good Samaritan Policy. Make the call.”

“We just want everybody to be safe on Green Beer Day and be realistic with your drinking and know when to call emergency services,

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know when to be a good bystander,” said Froehlich. “There are so many points where somebody’s life can be saved before we intervene.”

Long-standing Uptown establishments also offer an array of GBD merchandise, and compete with student-run companies amongst Miami’s population. But stores such as Bagel & Deli and Seaview Outfitters said, due to many still favoring the comfort and convenience of buying in-store rather than online, they don’t lose too much business from student endeavors.

MU Shirt Bros is one of Miami’s most successful student-run businesses. Junior Ryan Competti runs the company with his recently graduated brother, who crafts all of their shirts. Classic designs sell better than topical memes, so they don’t update their products often.

“Every year it’s good money and it’s fun,” said Competti. “But this year, I think it was tougher because

there was a huge influx of new competition, and a lot of good competition.”

Sales were slightly down this year, and while Competti can’t definitively trace that to Miami’s current inundation of alcohol problems, he suspects it’s a contributing factor.

“I definitely think there’s a new stigma this year that hands down did not exist last year and definitely years prior,” said Competti.

The Green Beer Day Company is one of MU Shirt Bros.’ competitors, offering products from Cubs stickers to hats featuring the Kermit meme (you know the one) drinking green beer instead of tea. Sophomores Grant Laning and Will Bafitis run GBD Co., and have expanded its brand beyond shirts to accessories such as stickers and hats.

“We were both interested in getting experience in starting our own business,” said Bafitis. “We thought it would be a feasible way to get

products out there that students would like, and it’s a perfect combination of getting experience in business and doing something we enjoy.”

After a social media marketing campaign, the duo managed to sell over 400 total units, and not just in Oxford. They received orders from Bowling Green, Kent State, Ohio University and even some from Chicago.

Laning and Bafitis are conscious of Miami’s recently publicized problems with alcohol, and noted that very few of their available items (only two out of 12 shirts) actually depict photos of beer. Laning and Bafitis hope to use the GBD Company to emphasize the tradition of the holiday more than the alcohol consumed during it, and make lasting products.

“You can wear them that day but also be able to pass them down,” said Laning.

ated by antisocial behavior breaking rules, swearing and combativeness. These aggressive tendencies are worsened when an individual is not well rested, so the cycle continues.

Rose expressed no surprise by that statement, but rather understanding.

“We have to keep ourselves

healthy first. We’re not going to do well if we don’t keep ourselves healthy,” Rose said.

students included bananas, chamomile tea, milk, aromatherapy and yoga.

Although only the tea was included in the event’s “goody bags,” the organizers also hoped to send participants home with an impressionable message on sleep health.

RHA’s parting message: “Get some zzz’s.”

Student health was precisely the focus for RHA’s event. Stuffing toy elephants and teddy bears was only a side attraction.

Alternatives to unhealthy sleep inducers that RHA suggested for

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thing with the phone by taking it out and doing something good.”

Whether that be calling a family member, making a positive post on social media or using a phone to read more about Jewish faith and traditions, those actions can make all the difference, he said.

“Every step back can — and must — become the impetus for a giant leap forward,” Greenberg said.

Last Tuesday, March 7, all 100 United States senators signed a letter urging President Trump’s administration to take action in supporting local law enforcement agencies in the protection of Hebrew schools, Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) and synagogues.

“These cowardly acts aim to create an atmosphere of fear and disrupt the important programs and services offered by JCCs to everyone in the communities they serve, including in our states,” the senators wrote in the letter.

Isaac Italiaander, president of Chabad at Miami, acknowledged that, unfortunately, these incidents are not uncommon, and were not uncommon even before the incidents of anti-Semitism seen this year which have been covered more extensively in the media as of late.

According to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of antiSemitic incidents, there were 941 total reported incidents in 2015, a slight increase (three percent) from the year before. Notably, 90 incidents on college campuses were reported in 2015 compared to 47 in 2014, and those incidents made up 10 percent of the total that year.

Though these incidents are disconcerting to read about in the news, said student Sam Popky, he hasn’t felt their effect personally.

Popky, who grew up in a strong Jewish community, said that he has not encountered these problems at Miami.

“We still feel safe here,” Popky said.

“It’s easy to pretend it doesn’t exist, especially in a place like Oxford,” Italiaander said.

There have been very few accusations of anti-Semitism at Miami, Greenberg said, but that does not negate the need for action and awareness.

“We need more Jewish pride, not less,” he said. “Less is giving in.

We will not give in.”

Jewish pride can be expressed differently by every individual, but Greenberg had a few suggestions for students, including wearing a yarmulke, a small round cap worn by Jewish men, hanging a mezuzah, a piece of parchment inscribed with Hebrew verses from the Torah, on the door, or wearing a Jewish necklace.

To Italiaander, increasing Jewish pride starts with educating people.

“I have a lot of Jewish pride. Judaism is really important to me,” Italiaander said. “There are a lot of misconceptions people have, but having pride and being positive are at the core of the Jewish philosophy.”

This call for positive action extends beyond the Jewish community, Greenberg said. Non-Jewish students can take this as an opportunity to voice encouragement to their Jewish friends, educate themselves about Judaism and spread awareness to support Jewish communities.

The Jewish community needs a clear message at this time, Greenberg said, and he himself has his focus on resilient optimism.

“We fight darkness with light,” Greenberg said. “That’s not a gimmick or slogan. It is real life.”

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Mallon scored a goal in overtime to lead the Miami Redskins to their first title in the 1993 CCHA Tournament, when Mike Glumac scored a goal at 4:59.9 into overtime to defeat OSU 1-0 in 2001 and when Andy Miele won the Hobey Baker Award in 2011.

Jim’s dedication to the game hasn’t only been noticed by other fans, but by the hockey team itself as well.

He was awarded the Seventh Man Award, recognizing his dedication as an ultimate fan, in the 2004-2005 season, for traveling all the way to Alaska for a game. He has also travelled to the University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, Bowling Green, Notre Dame and Ohio State. He attended the Frozen Four in Washington D.C. in 2009 and the Frozen Four in Detroit the following year.

And his loyalty isn’t stopping anytime soon. This year’s hockey season may be over, but Jim has already bought his season tickets for next fall.

structions on how to sing the music during vocal coaching. But of course, all people are different and no two character interpretations are alike.

“There had to be some very structural similarities or else the show wouldn’t make sense if we totally did them in two different ways,” said Davies. “Each of us did some of the things differently. Just the way we interpreted the character for ourselves was obviously different between she and I.” Being double-cast can be quite helpful for the actors. During rehearsal, while one person is on stage, the other will take notes on

the performance.

“If she does something that I don’t do in my scene, I can be like, oh, that’s kind of cool. I wonder what would happen if I did that,” said Davies.

Hotz agrees that being doublecast definitely has its benefits.

“It was especially nice as a freshman and sophomore to be able to have that other person to look up to and bounce ideas off of,” she said.

Hotz also added that being double-cast now can help her prepare for her professional career.

“It’s very possibly that I’ll be double-cast in the future or be cast as a cover,” she said. “To have three years of that experience already is good so that I know how to act. I know how

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to be professional about it.”

In addition to their professional roles, the two are also friends offstage. In fact, they met long before their time at Miami. Hotz recalls that they actually met in high school while performing in All-State Choir together, and then again when Hotz came to shadow Miami during her senior year.

So what’s next for the double-cast duo? They won’t be performing the same role again, at least not at Miami. Hotz still has another year left, during which she will perform in a still-to-be-determined opera. Davies, however, is set to graduate this May. She plans to take a gap year before applying to grad school, during which she’ll continue to study with

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campaign was punished for “the campaign’s inappropriate social media use in reference to one or more candidates,” according to an ASG press release by Sen. Cole Hankins. The McCarthy-Creber campaign was charged with distributing campaign materials in King Library, another violation in the ASG Elections Handbook.

The Worrell campaign’s violation was voted on by the election committee 5-4. The student court on an appeal from the Worrell ticket voted down the sanctions 5-4.

The McCarthy campaign violation vote was unanimous.

Overlooked by the elections committee are two signage violations: the CallaghanElfreich ticket, and, again, the McCarthyCreber campaign. The elections handbook specifies that all signs must show the date

Acord.

Davies and Hotz have also accomplished more than just their roles in Miami’s opera program. In December, Davies won Miami’s concerto competition and will perform with a full orchestra in early May. Hotz recently took second place in the Campus Superstar competition in Cincinnati, an area-wide vocal competition for college students.

Acord believes that, while opera is a difficult and precise discipline to master, Hotz and Davies are well on their way to success.

“It takes a while to get there and it’s a lot of hard work,” said Acord.

“But both of these young women have today exactly what it takes to do it.”

and location (miamioh.edu/hub) of the election. A Callaghan-Elfreich sign outside FSB fails to show both the date or website; a McCarthy-Creber sign in Brick Street Bar neglects the dates.

These offenses are categorized level one according to the ASG Elections Handbook, the same classification as violations charged against Worrell-Olvera and McCarthy-Creber. However, the elections committee has purposefully left the illicit signs uninvestigated.

“Any sign that is put up after today and does not include the date will be reviewed for violating the handbook,” reads a March 12 email to all campaigns from ASG Speaker Jack Fetick, indicating signs posted before March 12 are not currently considered violations. The email did not offer an explanation for this decision.

Fetick and other election committee members declined to comment.

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The Student’s take on ASG presidential candidates The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

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esterday on the Hub, the polls opened up, giving the student body the chance to vote in the primary elections for the ASG president. Before the polls close Tuesday night, it’s worth taking a closer look at some of the more competitive candidates.

The Student’s editorial board and senior staff writers had the chance to sit down with most of the tickets. (Hannah McCarthy and Thatcher Creber did not respond to our interview request, and therefore are not included here as we cannot accurately present our opinion on their campaign.)

First is the Ryaan Ibtisam-Paul McCreary ticket. In our interview with the two, Ibtisam declared on the record that he has experience dealing with OESCR because of a pending charge. Additionally, he discussed his outsider status with ASG and the fluctuating nature of his platform, which is focused on what students are most interested in at any given time, as strengths.

However, these traits border on the negative side, with a lack of knowledge about ASG and an inconsistent platform as potential problems. The Ibtisam-McCreary ticket is well-intentioned, but unreliable at best.

The Callaghan-Elfreich pairing certainly displayed its determination and understanding of current issues at Miami, namely that of Miami’s understaffed Student Counseling Services (SCS). Callaghan, personally affected by her own experience with SCS, wrote an open letter to Crawford

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last May and has encouraged open discussions about mental health issues. The two also suggested a keen idea to have campus maps and signs and other materials translated into Chinese for the often-overlooked yet significant Chinese international student demographic at Miami.

While this ticket’s fervor is evident and refreshing, Callaghan and Elfreich’s main goal of developing Oxford by virtue of, among other things, another Princess theater replacement is a daunting and unrealistic task (especially within one year of presidency). If this ticket advances, The Student will be looking to Callaghan and Elfreich for more concrete plans to meet their goals.

Nick Froehlich and Bradley Davis are the most vivacious, passionate duo of the candidates. Froehlich shows promise in his ability to galvanize the ASG senate and

spark activity in an otherwise sedentary group. Froehlich, for his part, has been collecting signatures (over 700 at this point) for changes in Miami’s dining services in the past few weeks and intends to put an end to a feedback cycle of student apathy.

This past voting season, Froehlich was responsible for registering a whopping 2,300 voters.

Competition comes for Froehlich and Davis in the form of Austin Worrell and Haley Olvera, two ASG veterans poised to make a difference. Worrell has fostered relationships with student government for three years now and also heads the Campus Culture Committee. Worrell said he also plans to require weekly cabinet reports in attempt to improve ASG’s transparency.

An interesting note is the approach of these slates to their presidential salaries.

While Worrell treats his ASG work as his

sole job and said he will be using the salary to pay for tuition and costs of living, Froehlich and Davis have pledged to donate their combined $11,000 in salaries to Student Counseling Services.

As generous as the two may be, though, it’s worth noting that Froehlich and Davis’ quasi naiveté and general inexperience stems from their sophomore status, as neither have lived off-campus. However, as they noted, their youth has also made them more in-tune to on-campus issues.

Though Worrell suggested that, if elected, he would require cabinet members to give regular reports to ASG’s senate, Worrel himself has rarely made appearances at this year’s senate meetings. He and his running mate were charged with a campaign violation on Monday, the day the polls opened, for inappropriate use of social media in reference to one or more candidates, but this decision was reversed by Elections Committee the same day. McCarthy and Creber were also charged with a violation for distributing campaign materials.

The Student recognizes that all of the candidates have ideas worth considering and even implementing. But the most important aspects to consider, we believe, are transparency, integrity and the ability to not only stick to a plan, but to follow through on promises. It’s up to the voter to decide whether any candidate has shown they possessed all of those qualities.

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ASG stonewalls The Student from public meeting James Oaks, the secretary of on-campus affairs for Miami’s Associated Student Government is heading to an ASG Oversight Committee meeting today, according to several sources close to the proceedings. Although Ohio Law mandates that it must be open to the public, The Miami Student’s reporter will be barred from the committee meeting.

On Sunday, the Miami Student made repeated requests for information regarding the time and location of the committee meeting and was stonewalled. In a face-to-face meeting with ASG leaders Monday night, The Miami Student asked whether or not its reporter would be able to attend.

Their response: that is not going to happen.

ASG leaders argued that they have their own constitution to follow, and it exempts them from Ohio’s open meetings statute.

The Ohio Revised Code Section 121.22 requires that all meetings of any public body be

open to the public at all times. The statute defines “public body” as “any board, commission, committee, council or similar decision-making body of a state agency, institution or authority.”

This includes any committee or subcommittee of these bodies.

Frank LoMonte, an expert in the First Amendment and media-law who represents student journalists for the Student Press Law Center, believes state law and court rulings are clear.

ASG’s constitution does not insulate it from Ohio law, and committee meetings must be open to the public.

“Student government associations are public bodies that are subject to state open-meeting laws,” LoMonte told The Student in an email on Monday. “They can’t exempt themselves from the state law by their own policies.”

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Dear Angela, What are your thoughts on cocaine? You seem like an anything goes kind of gal and I need some advice on this. I know someone who’s been thinking about dabbling in it, but said person also has some reservations and is kind of freaked out by it. Do you think it’d be ok? Asking for a friend …

Thanks, I have a Question about Coke Dear I have a Question about Coke, Your insights have me pegged.

I am an anything goes kind of gal.

When it comes to life, I’m about as chill as it gets. Think of a really cool sloth, but like, a Puerto Rican sloth, with really cool red glasses.

That’s me 87 percent of the time.

But I’m a passionate sloth, and there are certain subjects that make this sloth turn into a jaguartiger-lion-liger type of animal because they grind my damn gears.

Cocaine is at the top of that list.

Right after people who think Africa is a country and people who still wear Make America Great Again ball caps.

As I stated in a previous column, I strongly advocate for people to try new things in life. Try everything once. Try the things that scare you, things like cliff diving, swimming with sharks, jumping out of a plane (with a parachute obviously), trying Indian food, etc.

decided that a body that makes decisions and gives recommendations to a public body must comply with the public meetings law.

“So, even if the decisions made by a student government are not ‘final,’ their meetings must be public as long as they’re part of some chain of decision-making at the university,” LoMonte said.

The preamble to ASG’s constitution states that the governing body’s purpose is “to play a clearly defined and significant role in the formation and application of institutional policy affecting both academic and student affairs.”

ASG can no longer assert that it is a governing body that represents the students of Miami University one day, and then say Ohio law does not apply to it the next.

“If government agencies could just opt themselves out of open government laws by enacting ‘constitutions,’” LoMonte said, “then nobody would follow the law.”

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Try things that will force you to grow as a person. Don’t try things that are bound to ruin your life.

I don’t want to sound like that cringey coach from Mean Girls, but don’t do coke. Because it will mess you up something fierce.

The main issue with cocaine, as with many other hard drugs, is that it’s highly addictive. You snort a line and are transported almost immediately to Nirvana, a dimension far from the woes of reality. It’s a place where you’re always happy and it feels like there’s not a damn thing in this world that could possibly bring you down. You feel confident — like a peacock amongst pigeons.

You turn into the social butterfly you always knew you were.

Weightless might be a good word for it. Euphoric is best.

But then it wears off. You don’t float back down to earth, you crash-land face first into a pile of concrete. Your head feels like it’s going to explode, your brain feels like it’s sliding out of your ears and all you want to do is just have a little bit more so you can feel whole again, so you can feel happy again.

So you do some more. And just like that the world finally begins to spin the way it should. And then you come down from that.

And the vicious cycle begins.

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Miami’s excellently failing ACE program EDUCATION

TO THE EDITOR: International students whose English fluency is below Miami’s minimum proficiency requirement are conditionally admitted to a one-semester American Culture and English (ACE) program, where they take a number of classes. These classes, according to the program’s website, are “designed to help international undergraduate students develop the English language skills they need to succeed at Miami University.”

Six years into an ACE program that boasts a faculty of 26 instructors, something seems amiss...

The program enrolls hundreds of students each fall.

Viewed in terms of the extraordinarily high grades given in ACE classes (available online at the Registrar’s website), the

program is wildly successful: this past fall, half of the grades assigned in 13 ACE classes were A’s. In one class, 75 percent of the students enrolled received a grade of A+; in another class, 53

percent of the students were assigned an A+. For all ACE classes combined, nearly 40 percent of grades assigned were A’s. Judged by sky-high grades, these students are superbly prepared to succeed in regular Miami courses.

But the experience when they enroll in our introductory economics classes strongly suggests otherwise: many of them lack the rudimentary English fluency needed to pass the class and drop the course.

Six years into an ACE program that boasts a faculty of 26 instruc-

tors, something seems amiss: ACE grades tell international students they are exceptionally wellprepared to succeed at Miami, but their actual English-language ability and experience in regular classes tells them they definitely are not. As President Trump might tweet, “sad.”

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To change the drinking culture, we Being against genome editing must demand more from students means being against capitalism DRINKING

TO THE EDITOR: Miami’s drinking problem is about as well concealed as photos of students on Facebook with emojis edited over the Trashcans in their hands. We can see this crisis in the “Natty Light” cans erupting from lawns like spring mushrooms, jersey-clad students strolling Uptown on a sunny Saturday afternoon amid headlines reporting sexual assaults, injuries and death.

This year, our conversation surrounding recent tragedies has been earnest, compassionate and forward-thinking, but it has also continued to be disempowered by a firm student culture that sees blackout drinking as inevitable and individual. It doesn’t take a visionary to see that something is rotten in Oxford (besides the stench of skunk). A culture that individualizes and normalizes risk is more toxic than one individual’s behavior, but it doesn’t take a radical optimist to believe we can change.

So what can we do? We can certainly demand more from our administration, but we can also demand more from ourselves. We have the obligation to do so, for our university, our town and for our peers. It does require improving our current policies, such as pushing for alcohol education to be more realistic and ultimately taking responsibility for the culture of our student body. Unless we all invest in that culture, we will continue to lose our friends, our classmates, our roommates, our brothers and sisters.

As such, we demand the following: We demand that the university invest in mental health by allocating funding to Student Counseling Services. Until professionals

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once and becoming addicted to it.

I once knew a bloke who was addicted to coke.

He’s a guy whose name means nothing now, but I knew him my freshman year and thought he was “the one.” I had the blinders on when it came to his slew of issues, coke being one of the primary problems. It made him do some really stupid shit.

Person X had really nice eyes.

They were this intriguing electric blue — clear and piercing and always hiding a hint of mischief.

There was nothing scarier than waking up one day and realizing that his eyes weren’t blue at all.

They were hazy and dark and heavy-lidded. They were emotionless and impervious to stimulation. The only time they’d spark

are equipped to address the full extent of students’ mental needs and wellness, we cannot begin to tackle the issues at hand. Mental health is health, and the care we provide our student body through preventative care and stress management can mitigate dangerous alcohol use.

We demand that alcohol education be modified to take a more realistic approach by educating students about the medical signs of alcohol poisoning. In concert with teaching how to avoid drinking too much, we must empower students to act when they or a friend overindulge. We also demand that students take responsibility for their choices, and in doing so, realize that safety of an individual is a collective responsibility.

We demand a reevaluation of

recting the student accordingly.

Similarly, we encourage hosts of off-campus parties to serve alcohol responsibly by allowing everyone to mix their own drinks.

The university has the ability to jump start social change through student-oriented policy without compromising its own obligations.

If they are inclined to change, we believe that administrative policies can have positive social impact, but we also believe in the progressive ideals that back those policies.

Every one of us is accountable for embodying those principles, and when we fail, we preclude the success of policy decisions.

For 24 hours on Green Beer Day, a group of diverse organizations will be handing out water and information about the Good Samaritan policy to students re-

We can certainly demand more from our administration, but we can also demand more from ourselves.

the Good Samaritan Policy. Remove the single use limit, reduce the financial repercussions of mandatory alcohol education, adjust that program to be rehabilitating rather than punitive and limit the mitigating circumstances that can revoke immunity. When you or a friend needs emergency medical treatment, the financial and legal consequences of decisions you made an hour ago should never cross your mind. Make the call.

We also encourage Miami University to reconfigure its alcohol violation codes and focus primarily on the risk of the behavior, cor-

turning from and going Uptown.

However, what we’re doing is not about the water any more than drinking is about the alcohol. It’s about trying to find a community unique to our seven square miles.

It’s about healing, about, yes, love and honor, about safety, joy and purposefulness.

We demand an intentional, responsible culture.

at all was after he did a line, and even then they were dim. Then they’d look like I had remembered — blue — but it was always fleeting.

He cried to me one night, telling me he needed help, that he couldn’t look at his own reflection.

That was last year around this time.

To this day, he hasn’t stopped.

There’s absolutely no way I can ensure that you never touch this drug. If you make the choice to do cocaine, I hope you do so responsibly, but I truly feel that there’s no way to do coke responsibly.

There’s absolutely no way me telling you that it’s illegal will ensure that you never touch this drug, because it’s way too accessible on this campus for people to actually care about consequences.

There’s absolutely no way that

me telling you about the side effects — both long term and short term — will ensure that you never touch this drug, either.

But you asked for my advice, so here it is.

Please, please, please stay the hell away from cocaine. It has shown me that people really can do the unthinkable. That people can become exactly who you thought they never were. That they can do things they shouldn’t be capable of. If someone presents you with the opportunity to do a line, run in the other direction.

It’s so hard to stop doing a drug like that. And I hope you never start.

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Wendell Berry, who has written extensively about the use and abuse of the land in the United States, has described the problem with genome editing better than I could. When asked about genome editing, Berry said: “The inevitable aim of industrial agri-investors is the big universal solution. They want a big product that can be marketed everywhere.

And the kind of agriculture we’re talking about that leads to food security and land conservation is locally adapted agriculture. And they can’t do that. Industrial agriculture plants cornfields in Arizona; locally adapted agriculture says, what can we fit in this place that will not destroy it? Or what can nature help us to do here? That’s the critical issue.”

My problem is not with the “science” of genetic modification (GM); many have noted the toxic quality of the foods sold in grocery stores today including Scott Nearing,1 Murray Bookchin,2 and more recently Robyn O’Brien.3 This is not because of the “science” of GM, it is because of the economies of scale and the mentality that produces mass-marketed products.

This food is “safe” and standardized, otherwise fit for consumption by human beings or animals. Our food is “certified non-injurious to the human body,”4 — in other words “FDA approved” — but is the entire paradigm to which we are enslaved an unhealthy and untenable one? Can there be anything but a complete reevaluation and overhaul of our relation to food and our way of living?

Berry shows that the industrial ethos that legitimates corporate landholdings that destroy local communities and homes, disemploys farmers and puts people who eat at risk is ultimately bad for us. Is it any surprise that “the germs in our food have been replaced with poisons?”

We must be prepared to face the history and complicity of “Science” in the industrial revolution and the culture produced from it. This culture crudely sees nature as a separate entity over which its members assert “control” and dominance.

This culture has been excellent at provoking calamity.

What we need is a reevaluation of what our food system is and whom it is for. Is it for feeding humans? Or is it for making profits for a consolidating (read: monopolizing) number of corporations?

In what year will we finally have the One Greatest company that will bring all the “sustenance” we need in a blended liquid form with added “non-injurious” vitamins and minerals?

The Environmental Working Group takes data from USDA and other governmental organizations and conveys the data in graphics and reports. EWG released a report in early 2017 indicating that “feeding the world” on genetically modified foods is not only unlikely, it is a marketing scheme and a lie.

According to this report, “86 percent of the value of U.S. agricultural exports last year went to 20 destinations with low numbers

of hungry citizens and human development scores that are medium, high or very high, according to the U.N. Development Program.”5 Regions and localities must be in charge of their food systems. Academics call this “food sovereignty.”

This means that more people are allowed to engage in the practice of farming. This includes the masses of young people graduating from universities with debt who more than likely are disillusioned with their job prospects.

Many of these jobs only provide enough payment to sustain the transportation costs of arriving at work on time, the rent for the place they happen to fall asleep at each night and the payments to the institution that “afforded” them an education.

The work itself is not rewarding or even productive in any meaningful sense and is mostly dehumanizing. They are “misemployed.”

Because of this, more people in my age group choose to remain unconscious through “the best years” by gulping down highly potent (and literally deadly) mixes of liquor-and-energy drinks, indulging in compulsive shopping and ingesting prescription medication “in order to focus.”

The corporate food system has been legitimated over every American and most of the rest of the world in a plainly totalitarian fashion. Any break with massive solutions to “big” problems would essentially exclude the corporate control of genome sequences for plant varieties. A diversity of crops, methods and varieties, not a monoculture of crops, will protect the livelihoods of farmers and those who eat. Is there anyone here who doesn’t eat?

What I’m saying is that if people were in control of their food systems (that is, not a food system at all, but a cultural arrangement of growing, trading and distribution) they would not want or need to employ the use of genetic modification, synthetic chemicals and huge machinery.

Berry’s phrase, “food is a cultural product,” was made famous by Michael Pollan. I would add that if agriculture is a cultural activity, it could then not be a scientific enterprise.

If we can see no other possibility beyond the “modern” way of living and its food delivery system — one that privileges access to food based on how many bits of colored paper one happens to have, or how many numbers appear in a digital bank account — we are doomed.

1 Nearing, Helen, and Scott Nearing. 1979. Continuing the good life: half a century of homesteading.

New York: Schocken Books.

2 Bookchin, Murray. 1974. Our synthetic environment. Revised ed. New York, etc: Harper and Row. 3 O’Brien, Robyn, and Rachel Kranz. 2009. The unhealthy truth: one mothers shocking investigation into the dangers of America’s food supply- and what every family can do to protect itself. New York: Broadway Books.

4 Watts, Alan. 1971. Does it matter? Essays on man’s relation to materiality. New York: Vintage Books.

5 http://www.ewg.org/research/feeding-the-world

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MITCH HAUSFELD THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami hockey senior Anthony Louis is a RedHawk no more. Monday afternoon, Louis agreed to an entry-level contract with the Chicago Blackhawks that begins next season and continues through the 2018-19 season. Louis will now report to the American Hockey League’s Rockford IceHogs.

Louis was drafted 181st overall in the sixth round by the Blackhawks in the 2013 NHL Draft.

Before his last home game as a RedHawk, Louis had mentioned his plan to sign with the Blackhawks and play for Rockford.

The IceHogs (21-30) are currently last in their AHL division and will likely benefit from the speed of Louis, though he stands at a smaller 5’8” and lighter 160-pounds.

The 22-year-old from Winfield, Illinois played for four years at Miami. He finishes 20th in Miami history with 126 career points in 145 games -- 46 goals and 80 assists. In this senior year he led the RedHawks with a career-high 14 goals, 25 assists and a career-high 39 points in 36 games.

His assists rank him fourth and his points put him third in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.

Louis was selected to the First-Team All-National Collegiate Hockey Conference and is a finalist for the NCHC Forward of the Year.

During the 2014-15 season, Louis helped the RedHawks win the NCHC Tournament title and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. As a freshman, Louis received Miami’s Dr. Phillip Shriver Rookie of the Year award after he played in 36 games and finished with 25 points -- 12 goals and 13 assists.

Signing with the Blackhawks honors Louis’ draft status, as he decided against waiting until August to become an unrestricted free agent and sign with any professional team.

ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

Head coaches of Miami Basketball will not return for 2017-18 season BASKETBALL

EMILY SIMANSKIS SPORTS EDITOR

On Friday, it was announced that Miami would not be renewing the contract of men’s head basketball coach John Cooper and it would be relieving women’s head basketball coach Cleve Wright. Both changes were effective immediately.

The decision was announced by

Miami University’s athletic director David Sayler, who said, “With the support of Miami’s board of trustees and the president, we are making a commitment to Miami basketball. For years Miami basketball was the preeminent leader of the Mid-American Conference and we plan to take all necessary steps to make that happen once more.”

The men’s basketball team went 59-100 during Cooper’s time as

coach and was 29-59 in MAC play.

During his five seasons as head coach, the team did not win more than 13 games in a season. Most recently, the RedHawks finished 1121 and lost in the first round of the MAC tournament.

Women’s basketball went 35-87 during Cleve’s four-year tenure at Miami and 16-56 in the MAC. This past year, the Lady RedHawks also went 11-21 for the season and lost in

the first round of MAC tournament play. Miami’s 11 wins this year was the most during Cleve’s time at Miami.

The programs have won a combined 25 regular season championships and have advanced to the NCAA Tournament 18 times, in the past.

The athletic department is conducting a national search to fill the positions.

Swimming ends season, Lin looks to NCAA Championships SWIMMING AND DIVING

HUGH WEBSTER

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Men and women’s swimming and diving’s 2016-2017 season has come to a close after a successful run for the RedHawks.

The MAC Championships for the women started on February 22, when they finished fourth, tying with Ohio University. The two events for the day were the 200-meter medley relay and the 800-meter freestyle relay. The women finished off the day with a score of 56 -- 10 points behind third place Eastern Michigan.

The following day closed with a couple of RedHawk women finishing first. In the 500-meter freestyle relay, sophomore Ella Moynihan broke the Miami school record and won the relay with a time of 4:46.65.

Redshirt junior diver Pei Lin continued her successful season on day two, winning the one-meter dive for the third year in a row. The Red and White finished in fourth, again, after day two with a score of 205.

A rewarding day three came to the team, as the women finished second on the day behind Akron.

Some notable performances included freshman Carolyn Jungers who placed fourth in the 400-meter IM, earning 15 points for Miami.

Also earning 15 points was senior

Stephanie LeMire in the 100-meter breaststroke.

In the last day of the MAC Championships, Lin won the three-meter dive for the third straight year. Lin helped propel the Lady RedHawks all season and continued to show her talent in the MAC Championships. She won the Diver of the Year award for the third year in a row.

The Red and White finished fourth overall in the women’s MAC Championships.

For the men, their championships started on March 1 and continued through March 4. On the first day, the RedHawks broke two school records. First was the 200-meter medley relay team of sophomore James Wray, junior Thomas Blackstone, junior Peter Simcox and freshman Nicholas Ward. They beat the previous school record by one minute and 50 seconds.

The team of senior Lucas Brock, senior Jack Strauss, junior Ross Westrick and freshman Justin Andrews beat another school record in the 800-meter freestyle relay.

Despite these records being broken, the men finished fifth overall with a score of 60 on the day.

On day two, the RedHawks had a solid performance, ending up in fourth after the second day. Four swimmers finished in the top eight of the 50-meter freestyle -- Andrews, freshman Nicholas Wuko-

RYAN TERHUNE THE MIAMI STUDENT

Redshirt junior diver Pei Lin will compete in the Women’s NCAA Championships starting on Wednesday, March 15 vits and junior Ross Rybakowicz earned 20 points for the Red and White in the 200-meter IM. On the third day, the RedHawks remained in fourth place with a score of 379.5.

The notable race came from Wray who finished fourth in the 100-meter backstroke. Brock, Blackstone, and the 400-meter medley relay team also broke school

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Let me start this article off with full disclosure: March Madness is by most accounts, a full-on crapshoot. Successful brackets have been picked based upon mascots, color schemes, amount of syllables and occasionally have even been picked by animals themselves.

However, that is not to say that it is impossible to make smart picks and discover trends that could put you ahead of the crowd.

While it may not be a surefire way to pick a perfect bracket, it might be just enough to secure an edge in an office bracket pool or give you bragging rights within your fraternity (or sorority -- March Madness doesn’t discriminate!)

Recently, I decided to personally look into some previous tournament data from the past eight years, which I considered to be part of the “one-and-done” era of college basketball that we are currently a part of, and determine if there were any factors that stood out as indicators of strong tournament teams. After a quick compilation of data, a couple hours of data entry, and a few regression analyses, it was clear that a few key factors played a key role in tournament success: strength of schedule, offensive and defensive efficiency in away games, and the presence of a Wooden All-American or Wooden Award Finalist.

While I won’t bore you with the exact math behind these variables, I think it is important to note how all of these factors seem to make sense intuitively. It makes logical sense that teams who challenge themselves during the season, play well regardless of location, and have a go-to player would perform well in the tournament.

Obviously, there was a bit more analysis put into this work than explained above, so if there are any questions about my method, please feel free to reach out to my e-mail address at the bottom of the column. That being said, without further ado, I would like to reveal my seven favorite “sleeper” picks for the 2017 NCAA Tournament.

1. Middle Tennessee State (12seed, South region) This ranking is based almost as much on Middle Tennessee’s matchup as it is on Middle Tennessee itself. MTSU is paired up against a No. 5 seed Minnesota team that has floundered on offense this season on the road, and hasn’t played exceptionally well at home either. MTSU is a scrappy team out of the C-USA that has depth, shooting, and experience in playing role of “Cinderella” as evidenced in its upset of No. 2 seed Michigan State last year.

2. Rhode Island (11-seed, Midwest region) Rhode Island is absolutely one of the hottest teams going into the tournament. URI played itself off the bubble and into the tournament by soundly winning the Atlantic-10 and securing a matchup with No. 6 seed Creighton. While Creighton is far from a pushover, URI’s strong performance in road games and recent success are indicators that they will be the next Atlantic-10 team to make a run in the tournament.

3. Vanderbilt (9-seed, West region) In all honesty, this sleeper is based more on a combination of MARCH MADNESS »PAGE 5