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Senate proposes Off-campus housing sees regional changes spike in noise, litter citations Faculty angered, seek more say in regional campus restructuring REGIONALS

MEGAN ZAHNEIS THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami faculty and administrators discussed potential changes to the regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown during yesterday’s University Senate meeting.

The changes have sparked backlash from many faculty members, who circulated a petition calling for increased faculty input in the process.

If passed, the legislature will split the regional campuses into larger, broader academic departments, with already-tenured faculty receiving new “dual appointments.”

John Skillings, the process coordinator for the proposed changes, delivered a report yesterday that is expected to be the last before Senate votes on the issue at its Nov. 23 and 30 meetings.

The effort to reorganize Miami’s regional campuses has been in the works since 2008, when then-Ohio governor Ted Strickland and the statewide Board

of Regents dictated that Ohio’s regional campuses should offer more four-year, bachelor programs.

In his address to Senate members Monday, Skillings said under the new infrastructure, both regional campuses would be placed under a single regional system with underlying departments added and restructured.

“We need to ensure that every faculty member at the regional campus has a departmental home,” Skillings said. “We’ve had significant dialogue about this topic.”

Current faculty would be offered a “dual appointment,” meaning they would be in an academic department at both Oxford and the regional campus, with their full teaching load coming at the regional campus.

“It’s important that we’re still all Miami,” Skillings said. “All regional campus faculty and staff will still be Miami employees.”

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CRIME

JANE OETGEN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

College towns are notoriously loud and messy, but, this year, Oxford has outdone itself, as Oxford Police Department (OPD) has doled out significantly more noise and litter citations this year than previous years.

From August to November in 2014, there were 41 litter citations and 24 noise complaints in Oxford.

During the same period this year, there have been 59 litter citations and 51 noise complaints.

The Associated Student Government (ASG) tried to inform students prior to Halloween weekend about the increase in citations and how to avoid experiencing this problem when hosting parties.

Kevin Krumpak, ASG Secretary for Off-Campus Affairs, said he thinks there are ways to avoid the current rise in citations, as well as safe methods of condoning parties that don’t attract the police.

“The numbers (of citations) are significantly up, and it’s interesting,” Krump-

ak said. “We want people to know what’s happening and how to avoid it.”

Krumpak said he believes many of the citations are a result of this year’s large first-year class. It is the largest first-year class

“Freshmen I know say that they just go from party to party until one works out,” Lupariello said. “They usually don’t even know who is throwing the party.”

As for the citations given out to hosts of house parties,

Home of two Miami presidents receives historical status in the state of Ohio HISTORY

Male student sexually assaulted, culprit unknown EMILY TATE

MANAGING EDITOR

Yesterday, old and new Miamians gathered outside the Stanton-Bonham House on the corner of Spring and Oak streets to unveil and celebrate the house’s new historical standing.

This weekend, the house was granted historical status in Ohio after officials applied for the designation in April, said curator of the McGuffey Museum, Steve Gordon.

Gordon said the house is significant for a number of reasons.

“Two Miami presidents owned and lived in the house,” Gordon said. “And also the fact that on November 9th, 1870, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who at the time was the foremost advocate for women’s suffrage came to Oxford to lecture and stayed in this house. It’s been well known for years as a very historic house.”

The two Miami presidents who resided in the StantonBonham house were Robert Stanton, who built it, and Robert McFarland. Addition-

A male Miami student was sexually assaulted by another, unidentified male at 1:30 a.m. Friday morning near Cook Field, according to a case report from the Miami University Police Department (MUPD).

The sexual assault survivor told MUPD he did not recognize his assailant, who attacked him in the grass east of Cook Field, toward the equestrian center.

He described the offender to MUPD as a six-foot white male with short dark hair and brown eyes. On the morning of the assault, the victim remembered his perpetrator was clean-shaven, wearing black jeans and red and black Nike shoes.

The student survivor reported the incident to Officer Chris Sopher at 8:01 p.m.

Friday, almost 19 hours after the assault.

Claire Wagner, director of university news and communications, said this is not considered a “late” report, as many sexual assault survi-

The state of Ohio granted the Stanton-Bonham House historical status this weekend. Built in 1868, the house is 147 years old. Two Miami presidents, Robert Stanton and Robert McFarland, resided in the house. ally, Elizabeth Cady Stanton stayed at the house when she visited campus to present a lecture in 1870.

Elizabeth’s brother-inlaw was university president Robert Stanton.

Although other houses in Oxford have been home to university presidents — including the Phi Gamma Delta house, the Beta Theta

Pi house and current presidential residence Lewis Place — the Stanton-Bonham House is the only one that was built by and for the president of Miami.

President David Hodge said during the dedication program that the house holds a particularly interesting history in relation to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her visit to

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the school 145 years earlier.

“She was coming to a school that was all boys, that was declining in enrollment, where things were looking very bleak,” Hodge said.

“And she delivered a very important message.”

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SEXUAL ASSAULT

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ASG members are unsure as to the reasoning behind their increase this year. However, they believe there are several social strategies to prevent the increase in citations.

Senior Megan Elam said she has had an issue with noise levels at a party, and an easy way to control this is to

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Stanton-Bonham House earns state recognition

Events raise awareness about sexual assault

This week, as part of a nation-wide initiative to put an end to sexual assault, Miami University is participating in It’s On Us Week.

This is the second time Miami has hosted a week dedicated to the It’s On Us campaign, an initiative that aims to raise awareness about sexual assault on college campuses. Nationally, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden launched the It’s On Us campaign Sept. 19, 2014.

Sexual assault has become a cause of national concern. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year, one in five women are sexually assaulted and the crime costs the United States $127 billion annually, more than any other than any other.

The week began with the showing of the It’s On Us

From August to November last year, Oxford saw 41 litter violations and 24 noise complaints. During the same span this year, 59 littler citations and 51 noise complaints have been issued.

Miami has ever had, and Krumpak thinks many firstyear students are the ones to get cited due to their lack of knowledge about party etiquette.

First-year Andrea Lupariello said she believes her peers may not know enough, but they aren’t the ones hosting the parties that are getting citations.

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vors will wait months to report the crime, if they report it at all.

Because the perpetrator is unknown and at large, he is considered a potential threat to student safety, Wagner said. This is enough to warrant a Campus Crime Alert, which MUPD sent to Miami students, faculty and staff in Oxford at 11:02 p.m.

Friday night.

Wagner said she doesn’t recall many male-on-male sexual assault cases in the last few years, and thinks they are rare at Miami.

“I think maybe it’s an opportunity to tell other students, no matter what your gender is, you have a support system here on campus,” she said.

Wagner cited Becca Getson, Miami’s sexual assault response coordinator, as one of the many resources available to sexual assault survivors, and said the fact that this student reported the assault is already a good sign.

“You can’t get help if we don’t know,” Wagner said. “I hope that the student reaches ASSAULT »PAGE 8

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On this day in 1981, The Miami Student reported that Miami’s civil service union was contemplating a strike against President Pearson, following the university’s rejection of all requests for employee health and welfare benefits. The university also denied a request for change in the meal plan, which charged employees for two on-the-job meals whether they ate two or not.

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Miami to honor 20th anniversary Ohio ranked fifth in nation for human trafficking of Dayton Peace Accords EVENT

SOUMYA TRIVEDI THE MIAMI STUDENT

Twenty years ago this month, leaders from warring Balkan countries converged on southwest Ohio for meetings that would eventually spawn the Dayton Peace Accords and end the Bosnian War. Nov. 16 to 18, Miami University will host a conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of that agreement and honor the deep ties its faculty and students have developed with the region.

The conference will coincide with a much larger one taking place in Dayton, which former president Bill Clinton, who signed the Dayton Peace Accords on behalf of the United States, will attend.

The Dayton Peace Accords were drawn in 1995 at the WrightPatterson Air Force Base, bringing an end to the Bosnian War that had plagued the former Yugoslav region for more than three years. The war broke out after dissolution of the Yugoslav federation in the early 1990s, when ethnic tensions fueled aggression and displacement in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia.

In 1995, the U.S. and other European countries stepped in to help end this war that had killed thousands. In November of that year, representatives from the United States, France, the United Kingdom., Germany and Russia, as well as the leaders of Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, gathered in Dayton. After weeks of negotiation, the Dayton Peace Accords were formally signed Dec. 14, 1995.

Miami has fostered deep connections with the Balkan states since the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords.

Since 2008, Miami journal-

ism and international studies students have attended a study abroad program in Kosovo, a newly-independent Balkan country. The director of the international studies program, Carl Dahlman, even wrote a book about genocide in Bosnia.

Chair of the Media, Journalism and Film department, Richard Campbell, has personal ties with the Balkans — he is half Croatian.

Miami has fostered deep connections with the Balkan states since the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995.

When his father passed away in 2012, he asked his mother if she wanted to visit Croatia since she speaks the language and has been there only once. He then organized a trip to Croatia with his mom, his brother and a few of his cousins.

“There, we found that one of our cousins was married to Kićo Gegić, who was a child soldier in the battle of Vukovar in 1991,” Campbell said.

This semester, one of the journalism senior capstones focuses solely on the Dayton Peace Accords. Patricia Newberry, senior lecturer in journalism, and Bill Steiden, who is the senior editor for shared content at Cox media, co-teach the class.

Monica Komer, a student taking the capstone, said the class provides a venue for her to combine her interests.

“I’ve really enjoyed this class,”

Komer said. “I’m majoring in International Studies and Journalism so I’ve really enjoyed that I’ve merged my two interests together, while also learning about an important event that took place in Dayton, Ohio, which is still relevant today.”

Both students and faculty have gained knowledge from this class.

“I have enjoyed it immensely. I’m learning something new and incredible every day about part of the world and the resilience of these people. It feels like we are running a mini news room in the class,” Newberry said. “We’re learning on a macro and micro level.”

Miami’s Dayton Peace Accords conference will feature three days of commemorative events.

Cartoon journalist Joe Sacco and graphic artist Zeina Abirached will kick off the conference with their talk “Drawing the Middle East” at 4 p.m. Nov. 16 in Wilks Theater. Later that day, photojournalist Ron Haviv will present “Propaganda, Media & Genocide: Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda” at 5:30 p.m. in Benton Hall 102.

On Nov. 17, a moderated forum will take place in Shriver, where conference panelists will join students in small-group discussions.

The next day, a series of panels in the Armstrong Pavilion will highlight the region’s history of conflict and resolution. Among others, the panel will feature Muhamed Sacirbey, former Bosnian ambassador to the United Nations, and Kićo Gegić, Campbell’s second cousin who was a child soldier in the battle of Vukovar.

The conference will end with the keynote speaker, Miami alumnus Kenneth Merten (’83), the former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, who will speak at 7:30 p.m in the Armstrong Pavilion.

From campus to consumption: The journey of recyclable materials

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EMILY O’CONNOR

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Ohio is one of the largest states for human trafficking reports, according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC).

The NHTRC Annual Report for 2015 showed that of the 19,547 calls to report trafficking, 809 came from Ohio. This makes Ohio fifth on the list for reported calls nationwide.

Sgt. Jon Varley of the Oxford Police Department said Oxford has not had any human trafficking cases to date.

However, Butler County is still under the supervision of two nearby non-profit organizations to help fight against slavery and trafficking: Abolition Ohio, out of Dayton, and End Slavery, out of Cincinnati.

Kelli Johnson, an English professor on the Miami Hamilton campus, began teaching a course several years ago that educates college students about the dangers, myths and forms of human trafficking. She said sex trafficking is often the only form of human trafficking people consider.

“But Ohio has a lot of victims of labor trafficking, specifically agricultural because of the abundance of farms,” Johnson said.

Students enrolled in the course focus on human trafficking data: the number of victims, area where the crime is most prominent and most popular forms of trafficking.

“It is a hidden crime,” said Johnson. “It is really difficult to count the victims.”

The course also touches on the myths and representations of the crime. To really understand trafficking, Johnson said people must get away from movie portrayals of it and focus on the real life crime that is committed.

Senior Catherine Lok, former

Oxford luncheon to raise money for homeless

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It’s Thursday night and first-years Carrie Beck, Jackie Challoner and a group of fellow students are studying for a Chinese oral exam the next morning with recyclable materials surrounding them.

Around the students, there are Starbucks energy drink cans, water bottles and Chinese study guides lying across the floor of the room, soon to be recycled by the students and placed in the blue bins in the hall.

It all starts with students and their recycling habits. Beck sees recycling as something important to do for the environment, but does not make it her first priority when it comes to good habits.

“I try my best to recycle things like my boxes, water bottles, cans and old papers,” Beck said, “but I don’t view myself as an avid recycler.”

Although usually not considered, recyclables on campus go through a journey, starting at Miami, before they are taken and transformed into another product and returned to a consumer’s hands once again.

Rumpke Waste & Recycling, one of the largest privately owned residential and commercial waste and recycling firms in the United States has trucks that take the recyclables to the Materials Recovery Facility, a 12-acre facility located in St. Bernard, Ohio, 39 miles southeast of Oxford. The recyclables go through a semi-automated sorting line, while employees take out trash and other non-recyclables from the belt.

The recyclables are then separated by cardboard, paper, aluminum, steel and plastics, compressed into compacted bales weighing 800 to 1,200 pounds each and sold to manufacturers to be made into new products. The entire process takes approximately 11 minutes to be completed.

Oxford will host its annual benefit luncheon, Empty Bowls, on Saturday. Empty Bowls helps to raise awareness about the local hunger crisis.

There are currently 11 homeless families in Oxford, according to Connie Malone, a graduate student services coordinator for Project Dragonfly at Miami. Hunger, however, is an even greater problem: 33 percent of students in the Talawanda School District receive free or reduced lunch.

Malone has played a critical role in organizing Oxford Empty Bowls since it was founded in 2002.

“One of the things about Oxford is that homelessness and hunger are often relatively invisible problems,” said Malone. “I think sometimes that because we have a relatively affluent student body, you’re not necessarily aware of this problem.”

The Empty Bowls luncheon seeks to educate community members about food insecurity in Oxford and raise money for locals who are hungry.

At the event, each attendee receives a handmade ceramic bowl, which they fill with soup prepared by volunteers. Guests get to keep their bowls so they are always reminded of their neighbors in Oxford who are hungry.

There is a $10 fee to attend the luncheon, though children who are 10 and under eat for free. In the past 12 years, Oxford Empty Bowls has raised over $60,000 for the Oxford Community Choice Food Pantry. All of the event’s proceeds go directly to the pantry.

“The food pantry is incredibly grateful, because this is our biggest event,” said Edna Southard, who is the pantry’s board presi-

EMILY SABANEGH THE MIAMI STUDENT

Sophomore Amber Hallman places paper in a recycling bin at the Rec Center.

Miami collects an average of 16 to 20 tons of recyclable materials each week.

All on-campus residence halls have small recycling bins that students can use to separate their trash from recyclables. Although recycling is accessible in the halls, many students don’t pay attention to where they are placing the recyclables and waste.

Matt Thiemann, one of Scott Hall’s custodians, makes sure the residence halls are clean by taking out the trash and recycling bins.

He sees first-hand how Scott Hall’s nearly 350 students recycle.

“I take out an average of 15 pounds of recycling materials from Scott Hall each day,” Thiemann said. “Most of the time, students put things like food and trash in the recycling bins, but it’s not up to me to separate any of the trash from recyclables.”

After the custodians take out the recycling from the residence halls and placed in blue recycling dumpsters, the recyclables are then picked up by Rumpke.

Yvette Kline, director of sustainability and energy conservation at Miami University Physical Facilities, works on increasing campus recycling. Rumpke sends Kline four reports a year about the amount of recycling material is collected from campus weekly.

“During the semesters, we collect, on average, 16 to 20 tons of recyclable materials per week from the recycling dumpsters,” Kline said.

After a long night of studying, students recycle their empty energy drinks and old exam papers, without thinking of the process their recyclables will go through next.

president of the International Justice Mission club, said Ohio is ranked so high because of the extensive highway system, its border to Lake Erie and a history of poverty.

Lok said although she has worked with the issue for years, she has never seen a case of trafficking near here — but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible.

“Statistically, it has to happen,” she said.

Since May 2012, the Anti-Human Trafficking program of the Salvation Army of Greater Cincinnati has served over 400 individuals through case management, outreach and crisis intervention in the Southwest Ohio area.

Bhumika Patel works for End Slavery Cincinnati and said his organization’s 24-hour hotline receives about 50 to 60 calls every month.

Johnson said Ohio has been slow to get on board with the fight against trafficking. There was no law against the crime until 2011. Before then, she said, trafficking would’ve been called, simply, “kidnapping.”

Many who fight against human trafficking say the media is an issue when trying to galvanize support.

“Due to the dominant media representation of a pretty and young girl being trapped and sold, sex is the only trafficking people look for,” said Johnson.

While female sex trafficking tends to dominate media coverage, 45 percent of the 21 million people who are trafficked annually are male. However, females do make up almost all sex trafficking victims, according to the International Labour Organization.

Lok said most trafficking is much more complex than people realize, and many people misunderstand it.

“The movies portray a vulnerable girl who is taken,” said Lok. When really, she said, human trafficking could happen to anyone.

dent. “It really brings in a huge number of people to contribute.”

While the main purpose of Empty Bowls is to increase awareness and raise money, art is also an integral part of the event. Each year, Malone relies on people from all parts of the Oxford community to supply bowls for the luncheon.

This year, the majority of the bowls were donated by students from Kramer Elementary School and Talawanda High School, local potters, members of Miami’s American Culture and English (ACE) program and a local cub scout den.

“It used to be Miami University ceramics students historically provided us with a base of about 600 bowls, but this year, they were not able to do that, [due to] curricular and health complications,” said Malone. “It was kind of a regrouping year.”

In 2014, over 900 bowls were donated for the luncheon. These bowls ran out in just 90 minutes.

This year, the coordinators of Empty Bowls anticipate an even greater shortage as the event continues to grow.

Malone said she believes the popularity of the luncheon shows just how tight-knit the Oxford community is.

“Everybody feels free to participate as a volunteer, and everybody feels free to come,” she said.

“I believe that Oxford Empty Bowls is one of the most inclusive events that Oxford offers for exactly those reasons.”

Southard agrees.

“There are so many people from all walks of life, and they’re all there and they’re all participating and sharing. It’s very much a community event.”

This year’s luncheon will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Oxford Community Arts Center.

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China amends one-child policy, allows two GLOBAL

TESS SOHNGEN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

China’s recent announcement overturning its one-child policy has proven controversial, but many Miami University Chinese students believe it is a positive change.

For 36 years, China’s one-child program limited each family to raising one child.

The Chinese government has been relaxing the policy since 2014, and announced Oct. 29 that Chinese families can now have up to two children.

The change is meant to combat the dwindling number of workers due to a low birth rate and more Chinese citizens

reaching retirement.

Although the impact this policy has on Americans is yet to be seen, it may impact the 1,954 Miami students from China. This year marks the highest number of international students from China and over three times the number of Chinese students enrolled in 2011, according to InterLink.

Sophomore Cecilia Keyao Xian said she thinks allowing families to have two children is a good thing. Xian is a nutrition major from the southern part of China and is an only child, like her parents and friends.

“It is lonely when you’re growing up and you are alone,” Xian said. “You don’t have that person to go through things with you and difficulties.”

Proponents believe the change will benefit China’s economy and aging demographic, as Chinese companies that sell baby products watched their stocks dramatically rise after the announcement of a two-child policy, according to StartUp China.

Advocates of the new policy also believe the change will alleviate pressure on Chinese families and reduce the number of female infanticide that resulted from the one-child policy. The gender ratio is 100 girls to every 117.6 boys born, making China the most gender-imbalanced country in the world, according to Investopedia.

“It is good for the labor [force] and our culture,” said Bo Gong, a first-year student from Beijing. “I think it is a really great idea.”

Gong said that the possibility of aunts and uncles would improve the Chinese culture and strengthen families.

Professor Liang Shi said the policy change is positive for Chinese citizens and their government.

He was born and raised in China before he moved to the United States and became a citizen. He now teaches Chinese and is the adviser to the Chinese program at Miami.

Shi said Western media tends to look for the negative in policies and stories related to China, and that looking for the negative outcomes of this policy change casts a shadow on the positive aspects.

“Chinese families are still free, and it gives them a choice

where they didn’t have one before,” Shi said.

Western media has a history of negative views of China’s family policy. The New York Times is one of dozens of media outlets to publish a story titled “China’s brutal one-child policy,” and Ma Jian wrote “China’s barbaric one-child policy” for the Guardian in 2013.

Republican presidential candidates have expressed dissatisfaction with the policy change, highlighting that forced abortions will still occur under the new legislation.

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A family affair: Inside Oxford’s local businesses BUSINESS

ANGELA HATCHER THE MIAMI STUDENT

Phan Shin Seven thousand, six hundred and forty-two miles. That’s how far Juan Lin, or Yvonne as she prefers to go by, is from her hometown in China.

“Seafood,” she said “That’s what Fujian reminds me of.”

As she stands behind the take out counter at Phan Shin, scribbling a customer’s order on her notepad, she has nothing but a big smile on her face.

She laughs with the customers and jokes with them, lighting up the room as she turns to give the order to the kitchen.

You’d never guess that she’s the owner of Phan Shin. She doesn’t hide in an office — she’s the face of the restaurant. She works in tandem with her other employees, not afraid to do the little jobs, always smiling.

“I don’t consider myself a great businessman, but I do love people, I love talking, meeting new people, just yakking my way ... my husband is the opposite, though,” she said. “That’s why he’s back in the kitchen and I’m up front. We complement each other, that’s why we work so well as a team.”

Lin came to the United States from Fujian when she was 10 years old, living first in New York City.

She didn’t always plan to own a business.

“My goal was to finish college and find an office job, sit in a desk — what do you call those?” she asked. “A stable job.”

She completed three semesters of college at the University of Toronto.

Her father, a construction worker, and her mother, a factory/supermarket worker, didn’t want her to have a job with a lot of physical labor.

They wanted her job to be simple and consistent.

“But then it all changed when I

met my husband,” she said.

She met John Yang in New York through one of her cousins. Yang worked in his family’s restaurants from a young age. He was familiar with the business The two began working at a family restaurant in Kentucky. A friend of theirs was planning to buy Phan Shin and told the two about it. Their friend decided against it.

Lin and Yang made the journey to Oxford, Ohio to take a look at the restaurant.

All it took was one look.

“It clicked,” she said. “We paid the down payment right there, even though we only looked at it for a day.”

Lin and Yang bought Phan Shin in April 2008.

“I believe in fate,” she said. “And this … was meant to be.”

And with that, Lin heads off to the counter to check on a customer’s order, smiling the whole way there.

Patterson’s Cafe Michelle Patterson grew up right next to Princeton University in Montgomery Township, New Jersey. There was a diner off campus that always had a line wrapped around the corner with dozens of people ready for classic diner food.

It wasn’t anything special.

Both she and her husband Michael grew up on the comfort food that East Coast diners had to offer.

They were shocked when they arrived in Oxford and found not a single diner-style restaurant.

The Pattersons were living the suit and tie, 9-to-5 life. Thirteen years ago, Michael’s corporate job took him to Cincinnati. They moved to Oxford, and Michael commuted everyday — he didn’t mind the drive.

But his corporate job? He didn’t like it.

Michael had been been working in the corporate world for

PHOTOS BY PRAVALI KOTHAKOTA THE MIAMI STUDENT

Top: Michelle Patterson, owner of Patterson’s Cafe, chats with her staff. Left: Phan Shin owner Juan Shin takes an order. Right: La Bodega is one of the many locally owned businesses in Oxford. nearly a decade. He wasn’t passionate about his job.

He began to think about what he wanted to do with his life, what would make him happy. He told Michelle that he wanted to quit his job.

The Uptown Bakery and Café was a little hole in the wall on High Street. It was the place where Michael and Michelle first ate when they came to Oxford. The duo noticed a “for sale” sign hanging in

the window. Michael wanted to buy The Uptown Bakery and Café.

“And that’s exactly what happened,” Michelle said.

Michael and Michelle quit their jobs. The dream had to be a team effort.

“Not one of us could do it, two of us had to do it,” she said.

The Pattersons purchased the café in December 2003 and opened in January 2004. They were there for about six years.

But when Stewart Square was built, the owner of the commercial property kept asking them to move into that space.

“We were afraid at first,” Michelle said. “Our first place was a shoebox that always had a line wrapping around the corner. This place was much bigger. We thought we would go bankrupt!”

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After vote, Oxford liquor permits to increase Organic lifestyles increase, come at high cost ALCOHOL

REBECCA HUFF

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Oxford voters granted three more local establishments a permit to sell liquor on Sundays, bringing the total number of Sunday liquor permits in Oxford to 42.

In a low turnout, voters approved Sunday licenses for The Wood’s, O’Pub and Left Field Tavern.

Sales at The Wood’s carried 61 percent of the vote. But, because of the bar’s atmosphere, junior Tommy Parizek, an employee at The Wood’s and Left Field Tavern, said the extra day of sales might not make much of a difference.

“I don’t think it’s going to have that much of an impact,” he said.

Parizek said The Wood’s has a different atmosphere than

O’Pub, which, he said, is more of an “up-scale bar” and Left Field Tavern a “restaurant.”

Bar owner Ted Wood said he was unsure what the results of the vote would be.

“I really didn’t know what to expect,” Wood said.

“I am extremely pleased with the results.”

According to Wood, the Sunday liquor permit at The Wood’s will only be used for certain occasions.

“We will only be utilizing the Sunday privileges on an as needed basis at The Wood’s — for instance, sporting events, or on the occasional three-day weekend when there are no classes on Monday,” Wood said.

O’Pub carried nearly 80 percent of the vote and Left Field Tavern 76 percent. Alan Kyger, Oxford’s economic development director, said these results mean less to the community and

more for the businesses.

“Let’s say, on a Sunday you want to watch the Bengals game and have a beer, you’ll do that regardless. But now, The Wood’s and Left Field Tavern will give you another option for you to do that,” Kyger said.

Parizek said the approval of the permits could mean competition for businesses who already sell alcohol on Sundays.

“There’s no other place that competes with [Buffalo Wild Wings] for a Sunday football atmosphere,” Parizek said.

Only 102 people cast votes on the issues for O’Pub and Left Field Tavern last Tuesday and just 32 for The Wood’s. Kyger said the low turnout is not unusual.

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FOOD

HAILEY MALLENDICK THE MIAMI STUDENT

Organic foods are trendy and Miami University community members are jumping on the “chuck” wagon.

According to the Organic Consumers Association, nearly 40 percent of Americans plan to work more organic foods into their diets, while 63 percent are already occasionally buying some organic products.

The United States Department of Agriculture cites that “organic” applies to products produced through approved methods, such as the protection of biodiversity and natural resources as well as the utilization of approved substances like natural pesticides.

The guidelines to be a certified

organic producer include obtaining a special license, not using synthetic pesticides or fertilizers and, in most cases, not genetically modifying organisms.

Taft Marsh, a sophomore botany major, has his own organic garden in which he grows a wide variety of produce. “[Organic foods] are better for the environment most definitely,” said Marsh. “Farmers are too reliant on chemicals like weed and pest control, before there is even a problem, and that is harmful on the ecosystem.”

Marsh does manage a large organic garden; however, he is not a certified organic producer.

“You have to get a license to grow certified organic products,” said Marsh.

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Stage Left’s production of ‘Hair’ brings back lost era THEATRE

ELIZABETH HANSEN THE MIAMI STUDENT

Enthusiastic singing pours out of a rehearsal room in the Center for Performing Arts, as students in Stage Left prepare for the upcoming performance of “Hair.”

“You are a part of Stage Left if you want to be a part of Stage Left,” said Daniel McClurkin, student director of “Hair.” “I’d say that about less than half of our members are theatre majors. We do it because we all have a passion for theatre.”

Stage Left, an entirely student-run organization, has members from all colleges and disciplines — anthropology to zoology, business to education.

The executive board of Stage Left interviews potential directors, who each pitch a different musical in the hopes theirs will be chosen.

“It’s based on the students and everyone is a lot closer,” said first-year Collin Shimrock. “The directors are friends, not professors, and you still learn a lot from them. We treat everyone with mutual respect because we just want to make art together, and that’s an amazing thing.

Taking place during the Vietnam War, “Hair,” is about two young men and their lives within the hippie culture. Shimrock plays the lead role, Claude.

“Claude’s not certain where he is in the world. He doesn’t want to work with the system like everyone else does,” said Shimrock. “He doesn’t want to go to war, but he also doesn’t know if the hippie life is for him as well. It’s all kind of up in the air as he tries to figure out what his purpose in life is.”

Considered a risqué musical when it first debuted, “Hair” deals with dark themes and sensitive material that contribute to its revolutionary nature.

“While all the characters are fun

and there’s all these great songs, they all have something really dark and just horrible inside of them,” said McClurkin. “The show itself is very tragic and full of childish hippies who can’t have actual relationships and are hopped up on drugs all the time.

Things aren’t good.”

With the use of psychedelic drugs being a central element in “Hair,” one of the challenges McClurkin faced was making sure the blocking would allow the audience to understand what is happening in the show.

“One of my jobs as the director is to decide how to present an infamously trippy show,” McClurkin said. “If you don’t know what is going on by the end of the show, then I have failed.”

In order to prepare, McClurkin had the cast members listen to music and read poetry from the 1960s and ’70s.

“A good part of the early rehearsal process was me going through and giving them stuff to work with,” said McClurkin. “I also had a speaker come in who was a Miami alum who actually went to Vietnam. He came and talked about the war and his obligation to the country.”

Even though “Hair” takes place in 1960s, the themes of war and racism are still prevalent in today’s society.

“The struggle with ‘Hair’ is that people find racism and the war to be more of an artifact of the past, but when really it is still talking about struggles that are very real today,” said music director Andrew Higgins. “Racism is clearly not gone today. We are struggling with trying to find all these different forms of equality amongst all kinds of different people.”

“Hair” will be performed at 7 p.m., Nov. 12 through 14 in Wilks Theater in Armstrong. Admittance is free.

Humans oƒ Oxford Tim Stiffler-Dean — serving coffee at Kofenya PEOPLE

EMMA SHIBLEY

THE MIAMI STUDENT

“Normally I would have a pipe. I really believe that some of the most well quoted people — authors, philosophers, politicians — all smoked pipes and cigars.

I really believe that the reason why they’re so well quoted is they would start talking, put the pipe in their mouth, take a few puffs, and then finish the quote.

And while they were taking a few puffs, they would actually think of this brilliant way of phrasing it. So I wish I had that right now.

As young people, a lot of times we experience things that we don’t realize are global pains. A lot of times as teenagers, when we feel alone, we believe that we’re the only ones who feel alone, especially in this social media-driven world where we see everyone else posting vacation meals and awesome parties and everything. As we age, we start to realize that other people feel a lot of pain, too. And we take that weight and we say, ‘I want to stop the pain. I want to end the suffering.’ And we have this grand vision of how we’re going to do that … The problem actually becomes that we end up causing more suffering for ourselves, because we’re taking the weight of the world on our shoulders. We’re trying to prove ourselves, and we’re trying to create a name to allow us to change more lives and go and do more amazing things. When really, all that it takes is: do you have the ability to invest in the individual person who’s in front of you right now, and have one single ounce of kindness for them? We try to

CBS debuts‘Supergirl,’ fails to escape evils of the overdone superhero genre TELEVISION

DEVON SHUMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

CBS’ new primetime series, “Supergirl,” has all the elements that make the superhero genre so popular — and that’s exactly why it’s not any good.

When it comes down to it, why is the superhero genre so prevalent on TV and on the big screen today? What makes “Iron Man,” “Captain America” and “The Avengers” so popular?

They are marked by gloriously unrealistic CGI effects, predictable storylines that always end in happy endings, flat characters and dialogue that is cheesier than a Green Bay dairy farm. They aren’t artistic explorations or indepth character studies, they’re moneymaking machines.

“Supergirl” follows Kara ZorEl (Melissa Benoist) who is the cousin of Kal-El, otherwise known as Superman.

Like her cousin, Kara was sent to Earth right before the destruction of the planet Krypton, but her ship fell off course and she took longer to arrive. She was raised by the Danvers family and decided to ignore her superhuman powers and enter a normal life working for a media conglomerate run by the rich and snobby Cat Grant.

However, at the time of the pilot, Kara starts to want more, to use her powers for good like her now well-known cousin does.

The idea of “Supergirl” was promising.

The superhero genre is undeniably a patriarchal one. It rarely includes female heroes and when it does (e.g. the Invisible Woman from “Fantastic Four,” Black Widow from “The Avengers”), they tend to take a back seat to their male counterparts. If the writers and producers at CBS

were willing to do away with this system and create a strong, female superhero as the focus and protagonist of their show, maybe they wouldn’t be afraid to ignore the traditional basic structure of the genre and develop a unique and intriguing series.

Unfortunately, “Supergirl” is just another bland addition to the pack.

Almost every character is flat, clichéd and overacted. The worst of the bunch is easily Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart), the egotistic head of the company Kara works for. Flockhart tries way too hard to model her character after Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada.” She hits us with a never-ending barrage of eye rolls and piercing glares, and her dialogue is filled with overthe-top exclamations of her narcissism — “I’m a girl and your boss and powerful and rich and hot and smart.”

As for Kara herself, any hope of her truly being a strong female lead was quickly diminished.

The writers could have taken the time to develop a new and interesting character, someone with a rich personality and intricate, emotional flaws. Instead, they just applied to her the same quirky and slightly reserved persona made popular by Zooey Deschanel in, “New Girl.” Melissa Benoist plays it well, but it’s nothing we haven’t seen before.

Characters aside, the storyline is bland and predictable.

The deciding point came when Kara first decides to exhibit her powers, using them to save a crashing plane with her foster sister inside. The writers had the opportunity to have her fail and have her sister perish in the crash, thus setting the stage for a deep, psychologically driven storyline in which Kara must overcome the emotional

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turmoil from letting her sister die in order to confidently use her powers again.

Unfortunately, they gave the scene a happy ending, allowing the series to resign itself to the typical superhero genre formula.

The show does have its bright spots. Mehcad Brooks is brilliant as Jimmy Olsen, Superman’s photographer who signs on to work with Grant. Juxtaposed against the over-exaggerated emotions of the rest of the actors, Brooks’ calm and subtle style is paradoxically dazzling.

Additionally, cheesy dialogue is one of the only tropes of the genre that can actually be pleasurable, and “Supergirl” does not disappoint. When an alien from Krypton who had been sentenced to prison by Kara’s mom begins to fight her, he boldly announces, “Well, I can’t kill your mother. I guess you’ll have to do.”

All in all, however, “Supergirl” is nothing but another addition to the superhero genre, a genre that, despite being uniform and predictable, continues to spurt out more movies and shows.

The only person to challenge the monotony of it was Christopher Nolan. With his “Dark Knight” trilogy, Nolan traded in special effects and formulaic plots for intriguing characters and an exploration of psychological themes. Despite the overwhelming success of his work, the blockbuster production companies have yet to catch on.

If they want to be fresh and original, they need to start seeking out new approaches to these stories, and, unfortunately, “Supergirl” is not a step in the right direction.

COLIN SHIMROCK THE MIAMI STUDENT

make everything a statement. We try to make every single action, every post have this grandiose meaning. Like, what if we just were kind to each other?

When we try to take the world on our shoulders, and we try to do all these amazing things, then we start comparing ourselves to other people. We start saying like ‘Oh, man, I wish I could be like that guy, who is an awesome leader in this movement,’

or whatever. Then when we fail, when we inevitably fail all that, then we condemn and we shame ourselves and we get embarrassed … Now we’re condemning ourselves, now we’re shaming ourselves, now we have regret. And what good does that do?

I’m going to have one tattoo on me. And it’s just going to say ‘free to fail.’ Free to fail. And free to walk on from there, totally confident and awesome.”

Bumping heads: Bumper Ball madness

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DMITRIY KIZHIKIN THE MIAMI STUDENT

On Friday, 11 teams competed in the intramural Bumper Ball tournament on Cook Field.

Games lasted 10 minutes and featured teams of four a side, all trying to kick a ball while clad in giant bubbles.

You can barely tell apart team members while they’re playing. Players, too, have a hard time seeing, their bubbles reducing their view to an array of blurry colors.

The very nature of Bumper Ball leads to intense tackles, causing players to tumble down and then feverishly try to stand back up.

“The best part is watching people fall over,” said Jennifer Lindahl, a first-year on team Quad Squad.

Like all the competitors, Lindahl had never practiced Bumper Ball, let alone spent time in a giant bubble before. Quad Squad lost in the the first round, Lindahl and her friends still had fun.

Every game looked similar — teams struggled to don their bubbles and kicked around the soccer ball, hoping to score. The bubbles seemed to level the playing field, as even the most experienced players struggled.

Duing one match, people were ramming into each other right and left, ricocheting off one another’s bubbles upon impact.

One girl flipped upside down and took 30 seconds getting back to her feet.

The same girl had possession of the ball and was rammed down once more by an opponent. This time, though, one of her teammates threw off his bubble and tackled the offender.

“He was targeting a girl,” said the boy who defended her. He thought his girlfriend was being targeted.

He was thrown out of the match and banned permanently.

“That doesn’t really happen often, especially because the bubbles are specifically there so that there is no pain involved,” said referee Rasheek Rayat. “No one is getting hurt, it’s just for fun.”

The tournament continued with more chaos — teammates rolled around the field after being knocked over and, at one point, were even stacked on top of each other.

“You don’t know what’s happening when you get hit,” commented one participant.

None of the teams had previous experience, given their inability to obtain four bubble suits, but that didn’t stop them from playing their hardest during the tournament.

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keep the speakers inside.

“It seems pretty obvious, but it makes a difference,” Elam said.

“It’s also good to go to the neighbors around the house the day before the party and give them our number. That way if there is a problem, they can contact us personally before they call the cops.”

Krumpak said communicating to neighbors, especially when they are Oxford residents, is important.

Roughly 18 percent of the mile square is occupied by full-time Oxford residents. Although the area is student dominated, local residents still have a voice “It’s sad because people can feel like they get pushed out of living FROM IT’S ON US »PAGE 1

promo video showing current leaders on campus showing their support for the campaign at the football and hockey games on Friday and Saturday.

Monday through Friday, students and passersby will have the ability to take the It’s On Us pledge and sign a banner to commit themselves to keeping women and men safe from sexual assault. They will also be able to pick up fliers with resources and statistics so visitors will know they are not alone and see where they could get help. As of press time, Miami’s It’s On Us organization has received over 150 signatures.

“It’s really encouraging to see students respond so well to this and it makes me glad that I’ve spent so much time and effort on it,” Lazarski said. “I’m really proud of my fellow students for taking their time and showing their support and acknowledging that this is a problem that we can solve.”

At 7:30 p.m. today in McGuffey Hall, It’s On Us will be hosting a viewing of the movie “Every Two Minutes,” a film from Michigan State that focuses on what happens to an individual when they report they have been sexually assaulted on a college campus.

After the video, students and oth-

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field goal percentage, shooting 44 percent from the field.

Below is a positional breakdown for who Miami will place on the floor this year.

Guards On a relatively young team, the backcourt is where the RedHawks get most of their age and experience.

Redshirt senior Eric Washington will lead the squad at point guard and is on pace to break into Miami’s top-10 career assist chart after just two seasons.

Washington, who was named to the Mid-American Conference East Division Preseason Team, ranked 25th in the nation in assists last season, totaling 176 and averaging 5.5 per game. He led all Miami scorers with 455 points (14.2 per game).

Starting right beside Washington

here as Oxford residents,” Krumpak said. “The community members really appreciate when people let them know they are having people over.”

Oxford resident Emily Murphee thinks the parties can get out of hand when it comes to noise.

“When we have these noise abatement situations, it always feels as if the DJ is in my bedroom with me,” Murphee said. “It’s amazing how the noise bounces off buildings and comes down South Main.”

Another important guideline to follow is to have a point of authority within the organization delivering the party to monitor the party and speak with the police if they were to arrive.

Krumpak said if there is someone

there that can handle the situation calmly, the police are less likely to give a citation. He also suggested having a sober monitor so they can manage any situations without the police needing to get involved.

“Believe it or not, the police have other things to do in Oxford besides just giving out citations,” Krumpak said. “There are plenty of things outside the realm of the mile square that need to be taken care of.”

But Oxford resident and Miami horticulturist Dan Garber doesn’t believe the litter and party problem is as big an issue as it seems.

“Some days I would be like ‘oh my God, how the heck are they gonna clean this mess up?” Garber said. “And they did. As far as I’m concerned it’s a non-issue.”

ers in attendance can participate in a panel with members of the Miami and Oxford community that handle reports of sexual assault reports.

Including representatives from the Miami Police Department, the Oxford Police Department, Miami’s Title IX Coordinator, a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, a sexual assault advocate and the president of Women Helping Women, a center that provides crisis intervention and support services for those who have survived sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking.

Nadia Dawisha, a graduate student and sexual assault advocate at Miami, organized the event and anticipates attendees will leave the panel with a better understanding of how reporting sexual assault works at Miami. The event will also allow the panelists to discuss how their offices collaborate and brainstorm how they may collaborate more efficiently.

“I hope that people in the audience understand what their options are and they understand that there are people there who are supportive and can answer their questions on how to better support survivors,” Dawisha said.

Wednesday, It’s On Us will be providing Step Up! Bystander Training at 7:30 p.m in Farmer School of Business, which aims to promote awareness while also

educating attendees on how to help someone if they disclose a sexual assault to them.

“I think a lot of times people don’t entirely understand that sexual assault is a problem that can happen here and anywhere,” Lazarski said. “If we acknowledge that this is something that can happen to all of us, it becomes something that we can deal with.”

Thursday, there will be another screening of “The Hunting Ground” in Farmer School of Business at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, It’s On Us will be hosting its first “It’s On Us Art Show” in Armstrong Student Center at 12:00 p.m.

“What I really like is the option of multiple events available [during It’s On Us Week]” Becca Getson said, Miami’s Title IX Coordinator. “Every [event] that we have has options for multiple people.”

Getson hopes the week will help students understand that it is on them to end sexual assault and they all have the ability and responsibility to act in sexual assault prevention and awareness in whatever way that each individual can.

“We need to come together as a society to tackle this,” said Dawisha. “We are losing so much human potential a year and as a society we really need to get it together.”

is 6-foot-3 redshirt senior Geovonie McKnight. McKnight started in all 32 games and averaged 10.5 ppg last season. Rounding out the senior guards is 6-foot-3 Willie Moore. Moore, who transferred from the University of Oregon two years ago, provides muchneeded depth to a Miami team plagued with injuries. He averaged 7.3 ppg and shot 37 percent from beyond the arc last year.

Debuting with the RedHawks this season are 6-foot-5 sophomore Abdoulaye Harouna and 6-foot-6 redshirt sophomore Dion Wade.

Harouna, a Niger native, started in all 34 games at the College of Southern Idaho last season and led the team in triples. While his style of play can sometimes be a bit raw, Harouna adds athleticism and a shot-making ability that will definitely be utilized this season.

Wade, a Belgium native and Auburn

University transfer, finished with 15 points and was 4-for-6 from downtown in the exhibition game against Ohio Midwestern University last weekend.

Miami will be deeper at the guard position if Wade’s recent performance is an indication of what to expect from him off the bench this year.

Although currently injured, redshirt sophomore Ali Barnes and sophomore Zach McCormick will add quality minutes off the bench.

McCormick averaged 4.2 ppg and 19.5 mpg, while Barnes, a West Chester native, was forced to sit out last season after transferring from Concord University. The 6-foot-3 Otterbein University transfer Jake Bischoff is also injured. Bischoff averaged 15.1 ppg and started all 26 games for the Cardinals. When healthy, he’ll be called upon to contribute off the bench as well.

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departments is also under review.

Under the proposed changes, several current departments will take on new names. For example, the Business Technology department will be rebranded as Commerce. Social Sciences and Education will be split into two departments: Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Education and Society.

Regional faculty members, however, feel they have not had an appropriate level of input throughout the process. In response to these complaints, the Miami chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) sponsored an online petition calling for a vote among all full-time regional faculty to express their explicit consent before the issue is brought before Senate.

AAUP Vice President Cathy Wagner, an Oxford-based English professor, said the AAUP recognizes the faculty members’ concerns, but doesn’t think the lack of faculty input represents purposeful negligence on the university’s part.

“I don’t think that we need to say, ‘People have been wicked and evil and [that] they’re trying to push things through,’” Wagner said. “I think it’s just a really complex problem that they’re trying to solve.”

John Krafft, a tenured associate professor of English at the Hamilton campus, sees the issue differently.

“The decisions that are being made about our fate are mostly being made by committees, occasionally with faculty representation, but without a general faculty voice,” Krafft said.

“Occasionally, some token effort will be made to take a survey, but these are not, by and large, decisions by the faculty about the faculty. This is being done mostly by administrative fiat.”

Krafft sees the proposed changes as detrimental to Miami’s mission, as well as a slight against regional faculty members. “[It] seems a half‑baked arrangement at best. The departments that are being formed are just slammed-together collections of roughly similar disciplines, and we’re still hustling about who will be grouped with whom in the departments,” Krafft said. “A lot of

chasing Department. Despite its change in purpose over the years, the home has not undergone any major renovations since its construction in 1868.

The Stanton-Bonham house earned the eighth historical marker in Oxford, joining the ranks of other sites such as the McGuffey House and Patterson Place.

George Ironstrack, Assistant Director of the Myaamia Center, said the marker was the 35th in Butler County and the 1527th in the state of Ohio.

The historical marker sitting on the north lawn of the Stanton-Bonham House was made in Ohio by Sewah Studios and cost over $2,000, which was covered in part by the League of Women Voters in Oxford and the W. E. Smith Family Charitable Trust.

Hodge concluded his portion of the presentation by reminding the audience about the importance of history, not only on Miami’s campus but to human existence.

“Why do we study history?”

Hodge asked. “The first is just the natural human fascination that we all have with it, and if there was no other reason that would be more than sufficient for us to devote a substantial amount of time to understanding our past. But, of course, we also know that understanding our past gives perspective to the present and, we hope, the future.” people are unsure about what’s going on, unsure about what should happen, and they’re confused, angry — some of them, depressed and demoralized.”

Part of the issue with the vote is that it seems to be rushed, a fact Skillings acknowledged.

“It’s a short timeline, but we’re working hard to get things done,” Skillings said in response to faculty concerns.

The university’s rationale is that enrollment is dropping, and the faster they can begin offering new major programs, the more quickly the finances will stabilize.

If the Senate moves forward with plans, the new departmental infrastructure will be in place for the 201617 academic year.

Forwards and Centers The frontcourt is an area of concern for the RedHawks, as only one player averaged more than four points per game last season. Sophomore Logan McLane anchors an inexperienced group that needs to quickly replace a solid core of graduated seniors. The 6-foot-9, 230-pound McLane averaged 14.3 minutes on the floor last season, shooting 51 percent from the field and averaging four points per game and 2.6 rebounds per game.

Senior Kalif Wright adds age and size (6-foot-7, 235 lbs.), but not a whole lot of experience to the squad. Cooper plans to have him on the floor as much as possible this season. Wright played 9.5 minutes per game last season, shooting 41 percent from the field and averaging 2.9 points per game.

Senior Brian Oddo is the only other big man on the team who saw time last year, averaging 4.8 minutes and one

point per game. Standing at 6-foot-6 and 205 pounds, Oddo can expect to see more time on the court after being developed by Cooper and company for the last three years.

The 6-foot-8, 217-pound senior Chris Bryant adds depth to the frontcourt, as do sophomore Rod Mills and senior Jere Vucica. Mills, a 6-foot-7, 208-pound Cincinnati native and St. Xavier High School graduate, averaged 5.3 minutes and 1.5 points per game last season. Vucica, a Croatia native, played at the University of North Alabama for three years and will sit out this season due to NCAA transfer rules. Rounding out the group is the 6-foot-10, 200-pound LJ Livingston.

He didn’t appear in a game last season but may see some extended minutes this year.

The season opener against Xavier University tips off at 7 p.m. in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Food Institute left in the dust as MU sows seeds for athletic endeavors EDITORIAL

After seeking 35 acres of available land north of Yager Stadium, Miami’s new Food Studies Institute was granted seven, a mere fraction of the total plot, which includes some of the most fertile soil in the county.

Since the area’s acquisition in 2007, Miami University has set it aside for a department of misplaced interest — intercollegiate athletics.

As of now, it is unclear why the athletic department wants this land or how athletics intends to use it. There are no blueprints for buildings, no time lines drawn up for construction, no donors waving money.

The Food Institute intends to use the small segment they received to establish an experiential garden, which will teach sustainable practices and techniques of organic farming.

Promoting these experiences would mix up the monotony of a typical lecture and get students out of the classroom and outdoors. By getting their hands dirty planting and harvesting crops, they would understand the importance of farming and would feel satisfied that they helped create something useful.

So, instead of devoting the area to unique educational opportunities, we are just going to build another sports field . . . someday.

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

Why are we reserving this land for uncertain uses when we could be doing something useful with it right now?

Miami is making a mistake. Instead of funneling money into athletics, something most schools have, why don’t we do something that would set us apart? We have an opportunity to create a curriculum not many other schools have, something

from alumni donations designated for a certain use, these donations are nonetheless solicited. Miami prioritizes sports centers and asks for funds to complete athletically oriented projects.

Furthermore, once these ventures are complete, they aren’t automatically paid off. Student fees support maintenance and upkeep of these buildings, arenas and fields, whether

Why are we reserving this land for uncertain uses when we could be doing something useful with it right now? that would put us a step above our competition, and would make students, alumni and the world of higher education take notice.

Recently, Miami has focused time, money and energy revamping and refurbishing athletic arenas. From a renovation of McKie Baseball Field at Hayden Park, to the addition of the $14 million Dauch Indoor Sports Center, athletics seems to be the getting most of Miami’s attention.

While quite a bit of the money that funds these projects comes

students use them or not.

In April of this year, The Miami Student reported that over 50 percent of the $1,860 general fee Miami undergraduates pay goes toward athletics. The exact amount each student gives to intercollegiate sports is $997.

According to the report, students pay “a combined $350 for the Rec center and Goggin Ice Center, leaving $513 to be allocated to Armstrong, Shriver, Millet, Health Services, Transportation Services, ASG, Lecture Series, more than 240 other

student organizations and several other services.”

If Miami had an exceptional athletic program, this might make sense.

If athletics were our main source of revenue, bringing in enough money to distribute over areas like academics, arts and other clubs and organizations, this would be a great idea. But we don’t have that type of athletics program, and it doesn’t bring us that kind of money.

Increased support for the Food Institute would positively impact the university as a whole. The program would be interdisciplinary, weaving together anthropology, biology and geography, and working with the Myaamia Tribe to grow native plants.

The benefits would reach far beyond the Miami and Oxford communities as well — as a nation, we are in the midst of an agricultural crisis.

Every five years, the United States Department of Agriculture surveys farmers across America. According to the most recent census, taken in 2012, the average age of farmers has increased, while the total number of farmers has decreased.

In 2012, the average farmer was 58.3 years old, up from 55.3 in 2002 and 53.3 in 1992.

The number of principal farm-

ers — who, as compared to second and third farmers are more likely to be primarily responsible for the functioning of the farm and to consider farming their full-time occupation — dwindled 4.3 percent from 2007 to 2012.

There is a misconception that farming is a job for the uneducated or unskilled, that it is an antiquated form of labor we no longer need. The reality is quite the opposite — farming involves specialized training, research and techniques to be done effectively. It is a necessary part of our society and one that is in danger of becoming obsolete.

People are largely uninformed about where their food comes from, and what’s more disappointing is that they don’t seem to care. Interest in sustainable farming is not what it once was.

Miami’s Food Institute has the potential to change that, if we let it.

Do we really need another sports facility? Do we really something geared toward only a small portion of the student body? Do we need something that other schools already have?

Or, do we want something that we can all use, that will benefit the community and will make Miami unique?

The free market’s lapse into crony capitalism Justice for BLM through education, POLITICS

MILAM’S MUSINGS On a good day, when I’m proffering my views, conservatives tend to mistake me for a progressive and progressives tend to mistake me for a conservative. However, looking over my Musings, I realize I may tend to take it easy on the liberal types.

I’ve written 40 “Milam’s Musings” since my first unofficial one Jan. 26, 2012 (stay away from the search bar; trust me, it’s terrible). Looking over what I’ve written, I tend to write about issues I’m most passionate about: feminism and sexual assault, social issues (race, transgender and Islamophobia) and war (drones, torture and the folly of intervention), along with issues personal to me.

Certainly, there were times when I went after progressives hard — mostly on guns and war, especially with respect to President Obama. But it’s time I flesh out the one area I’ve barely touched: free markets.

A small note on terms: “free market” is a better phrase than capitalism since capitalism is understood to be our present economic order, which is used interchangeably with the free market.

It also doesn’t help that conservatives call themselves proponents of the free market when they actually are not.

Only in two articles in more than three years have I written anything strictly related to an argument for the free market. In one, I rejected intellectual property laws. In the other, I argued for a profit-incentive in organ donation.

It’s no wonder that I was offered a writing position with Brickwork, a progressive-leaning magazine in Oxford. They thought me a progressive. I’m not a progressive in the sense of the term as it’s applied today. I’m closer to the classical liberalism of Adam Smith.

With my peers slobbering over Bernie Sanders and his socialism — although I would argue he’s not actually one — it’s high-time I offer a defense of free markets.

First things first, nobody in their right mind can truthfully claim the United States has a free market.

The government highly regulates the banking system and currency (most prominently through the Federal Reserve), utilities, the healthcare industry, the food

and pharmacy industries, landuse through zoning and building codes and has a virtual monopoly on the education system, roads and mail delivery. There’s also the problem of labor regulation through the minimum wage, occupational licensing and immigration policies generally.

Then there’s the pesky business of tallying taxes at all government levels, tax breaks and loopholes, and the various subsidies to higher education, farming, energy companies, the airline industry and so on.

The United States has crony capitalism: the collusion of government and business, where government picks winners and losers in business and creates an atmosphere of “too big to fail.”

For instance, bailing out the auto industry in 2008 does not a free market make.

It’s problematic to continue to confuse the American economy for a free market because when the economy crashes, like in 2008, it’s the free market that is blamed, bringing calls for even more government control.

Secondly, it’s important to understand that proponents of the free market are not proposing a panacea, wherein the free market will improve people’s lot in life overnight. We’re talking about

Government, by its definition, exists as a monopoly on force, violence and coercion.

reversing centuries of deep intervention.

And there are other interventions that would impact the economy and people’s lives that are not so readily obvious: the War on Drugs, prohibition on paid sex and perpetual war overseas.

The more government is involved in economy, the easier it is for the wealthy and companies to use the system in their favor. Why compete on the truly free market, where you have to deal with competition, when you can just get the government to craft the right piece of legislation for you?

Precisely what free market advocates like myself are saying is, yes, there is inequality, but the inequality derives from this practice of currying government favor, not from the mechanisms

of a free market.

Moreover, this is why it’s fallacious to say those who favor the free market are necessarily pro-business. I’m pro-free markets, not business. If a business goes out of business because it can’t compete, then it goes out of business.

But there’s no need to get too esoteric here. My philosophy is simply that I believe individuals peacefully and voluntarily engaging in mutual exchange is not only preferable, but leads to greater freedom and outcomes than government-directed central planning of our lives.

I know what my preferences are better than a bureaucrat. Government can’t legislate me to be more wealthy or more equal or better off. Government, by its definition, exists as a monopoly on force, violence and coercion. That’s not a moral framework I’m comfortable with, especially when it anoints itself the arbiter of good economic practices.

Perhaps a better way to understand it for progressives is to look at foreign policy. Many good progressives rightly deride our interventionist foreign policy, saying we can’t plan the Middle East and all its potential outcomes. We don’t know which rebel forces to give weapons to, for instance.

It’s the knowledge problem, i.e., it’s practically impossible to predict even an individual human action, much less millions and millions of them and to know whether intervening in this way and at this level will do this or that.

And yet, when it comes to the untold number of individual economic exchanges occurring in the United States, there’s a belief among progressives that the knowledge problem can be overcome and the economy with all its players centrally planned for the better.

The inverse obviously holds for conservatives who confess a desire to not centrally plan the economy (although I don’t believe them), but think they can centrally plan the Middle East.

Inherent in the quest to centrally plan the economy and the faith in government to do so is a lack of faith in humanity to better direct their own lives.

Erring on the side of freedom means pragmatically recognizing that we can’t know all the outcomes, nor should we want to, and that we’ll be better off for it.

BRETT MILAM

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experience, a diverse editorial board RACE

TO THE EDITOR: I am happy and surprised to hear that BLM leaders were brought to campus, and NOT surprised to hear that the anonymous comments on Yik Yak revealed some racist and discriminatory feeling around campus. That matches what has occurred around the nation. Anonymity breeds online harassment and hate speech.

But I wish that 18 years after my admission to Miami, the climate around race issues would show

How easy is it to fear what you are rarely or never exposed to? And how does that produce an environment that is worse for everyone? marked improvement. Enrollment of African American undergrads still is not cracking 4 percent, and given Miami’s position as a state institution near so many predominantly black cities, that should be a cause for concern.

BLM is also very much about the structural inequality that produces disparate life outcomes, and everyone at Miami should have a sense of how the history of the state shapes the school demographics. While I applaud your attentiveness to thinking about what it means to speak for other groups, an easy solution would be to have a more diverse editorial board.

But, I recognize that the demographics of the institution make that challenging.

As for what white allies can do, as someone who lived in St Louis and saw people of many different racial backgrounds at protests, I can say it is important to remember that this is an issue about justice.

Everyone has a duty to be informed about these issues as voters, potential jurors and good citizens.

While people often say that if people weren’t doing anything wrong, they would be fine, I think it is fair to ask those who make that claim if they think the penalty for any wrongdoing should be death.

They should ask themselves why police officers in other nations have different standards of force.

They should pay close attention to the law, which currently makes excessive force possible. The “reasonable standard” for the police is much lower, and they only need to demonstrate fear to be acquitted

of wrongdoing. And fearing black people is often seen as reasonable.

During my first year at Miami, a serial rapist was terrorizing the community, and a survivor identified him as black. Every black man on campus was harassed.

The light-skinned African American man who was eventually arrested did not vaguely match the initial description that circulated, and the university would eventually apologize for a climate that made every black student feel unwelcome. But this speaks to the demographic issue — how easy is it to fear what you are rarely or never exposed to? And how does that produce an environment that is worse for everyone?

And as someone who teaches about race, gender and sexuality, I would say that the other thing you can do is become educated.

There are substantive classes that help you understand history, law, sociology, culture and structural inequality. I am at a school with a large pre-med population, and many of our students find those classes invaluable, as understanding the challenges your patients might face — as well as your own potential biases — is essential to being a good doctor.

Everyone can be better served by being comfortable with a diverse population in their professional lives. Our diverse population is not going away.

Finally, I would say that while BLM is addressing the disproportionate state violence that African Americans face, white, middle-class students should not see the issue as something that is “over there” and affecting “those people.”

African Americans can be, as Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres have argued, examples of the “miner’s canary,” who demonstrate a problem that can affect anyone. Lisa Mearkle was just acquitted for shooting an unarmed white man she had tazered in the back while he was lying on the ground, unarmed. Nineteen-year old Zachary Hammond was white, unarmed and in possession of a joint when he was shot by a police officer in South Carolina. Whiteness, wealth and angelic behavior can insulate people from many things that “others” experience.

But that may not always be the case. And even if it is, who wants to be a person who turn a blind eye to inequalities others experience?

REBECCA WANZO

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My friend tapped into her Hailo app and called a cab. We’d just gotten off the plane from Cologne, Germany, and Dublin was conveniently experiencing a cold front. We huddled in our jackets and waited for our taxi driver. The app said his name was Francis.

Soon enough, a little cab with his hazards on drove up and we hurried in, ducking out of the wind. The car smelled warm. Francis’ picture and driver’s license number were on display on the dashboard so his passengers would know he was legitimate. I sat in the front next to him, looking at his headshot. We exchanged pleasantries, said thank you for picking us up and he maneuvered the car onto the highway.

“Where are you from?” he asked us. We said “America.” I asked the same thing. “Nigeria,” he said. He just got back from his home there, but “by the grace of God” would visit again in January.

“What brought you all the way up to Ireland?” I asked him.

“Have you ever heard anyone say a bad thing about the people of Ireland?” he asked. “Any military efforts they’ve made have been in terms of peace-keeping, except against England.”

“And nobody likes England.”

“Exactly. And in terms of spreading

Christianity,” I noticed a cross dangling around his neck, “the Irish are very good.

Wherever an Irishman goes, he is warmly welcomed. What other nation can you say that about?”

“Not many,” I said. I could feel my Americanness as if it were a weight.

“It’s a paradise without snakes,” he said definitively.

I asked him what it was like in his home

mer president was credited with strengthening Nigeria’s economy (making it the largest in Africa by 2014), he was also known to leave his people by the wayside. According to BBC, the same year Nigeria’s economy swelled to #1, over 4,000 Nigerians were killed by the Boko Haram. Violence, during Jonathan’s regime, became the norm.

“I’m going to tell you something that as an American, you may not believe,” said

He said it as a fact, not an insult. Yet, I still felt something inside me flinch. He must have noticed because he corrected himself. “Your country’s fault.”

country. He smiled without humor.

“With our new president, we are expecting things to take a turn for the better. But the last presidency was full of corruption. And of course there is, much like more of the world, the problem of Islamic extremists.”

A problem that we know all too well.

Nigeria’s former presidency under the infamous Goodluck Jonathan was riddled with scandal. The day of his inauguration in 2011, the West African Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram (translated to mean “Western education is a sin”) detonated three bombs near a military barracks in Bauchi, according to CNN. And it didn’t get better from there, because while the country’s for-

Francis, back in the cab.

“And what’s that?” I asked him.

“It is your fault that much of this terrorism is happening.”

He said it as a fact, not as an insult. Yet, I still felt something inside me flinch. He must have noticed, because he corrected himself.

“Your country’s fault.”

“Oh, I believe it,” I said to him. In fact, I knew it. Anyone who would deny that America had a huge hand in shaping Islamic extremism would either be ignorant of Middle Eastern and Central Asian history or kidding themselves.

“And, as an American, you accept that?”

Francis asked.

“Well somebody has to. The real issue is that people have been trying so long to figure out who’s to blame when really they need to figure out a solution.”

“The terrorist’s tentacles have spread out too far,” said Francis. “At this rate, it’s almost impossible to find a solution. It’s too deeply rooted now. It’s like everyone involved are bees. They keep stinging each other so much that it’s gotten hard to heal.”

Nigeria’s new leader, president Muhammadu Buhari, who was elected and inaugurated earlier this year, has stated that he will end Boko Haram’s attacks by December of 2015. But everyone knows that you shouldn’t make promises you can’t keep.

Sitting in the warm cab in a country that Francis called a paradise, I wondered why anyone would want to go home to a country so intimate with violence. Then again, home is home. I thought of the U.S. and of my brother, who is a fresh new member of the military, dedicating his time to defend his country, his home. Traveling made Americanness something new, something unstable.

We reached our street, our conversation dying down. I sighed.

“Why can’t everybody just love each other, Francis?” I asked. He laughed.

“Yes. We should just live as if every day is February 14th,” he said. “It really is that simple.”

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TO THE EDITOR: Dear New Bar, I love The Wood’s as much as the next Miami student, but I have to tell you that your use of the slur “redskin” as a drink name is reprehensible. I know you were trying to honor Miami by using our old mascot and that you probably don’t even know what the word really means, so I’ll educate you just a little bit about its history. Just a warning: the history is graphic and violent.

According to NPR, the word redskin originated as a self-identifier for Native Americans to tell themselves apart from white people. However, as decades passed, the word began to take on a negative connotation and was used by white people to degrade Native Americans. During this time, the colonial government offered payment for the heads and scalps of Native Americans and redskins became slang for these scalps.

A proclamation issued by King George II in 1755 offered 50 pounds for scalps of males over 12 years, 25 pounds for scalps of women over 12 and 20 pounds for scalps of boys and girls under age 12.

Over a century later, the slaughter continued: In 1856, The newspaper The Daily Republican printed “The State Reward for dead Indians has been increased to $200 for every red-skin sent to Purgatory.” Over the course of this century of American history, thousands of Native Americans were forcibly removed

from their land or killed. Today, one in four Native Americans lives in poverty. As someone with white immigrant ancestry, I feel using a slur, even to order a drink, is hypocritical and cruel.

If you still don’t believe redskin is a slur, don’t take it from me.

Take it from Tina Holder, a Cherokee, Blackfoot and Choctaw native woman who writes about the use of

suggestions that will appeal to Miami students. You can take one of them, or even set up a voting contest for a new, less genocide-y name. ◦ Hodgemopolitan ◦ FSD (Fun Sexy Drink) ◦ ASG (Actually Super Good) ◦ Vineyard Vines™ Juice (you might have some legal issues with this one) ◦ Obama Has Aged So Much For Only 7 Years in Office, Don’t You Think?

Using a slur, even to order a drink, is hypocritical and cruel.

◦ We Hate Ohio State ◦ Illuminati Eye

the slur as a team name, saying “So, you see when we see or hear that term ... we don’t see a football team ... we don’t see a game being played ... we don’t see any ‘honor’ ... we see the bloody pieces of scalps that were hacked off of our men, women and even our children ... we hear the screams as our people were killed ... and ‘skinned’ just like animals.”

This word has a violent effect that all non-Native Americans need to learn to stop perpetuating.

Now that we all know your drink name is offensive, I have no doubt you’ll take the swiftest action to rename it. I’ve taken the liberty to brainstorm some replacement name

◦ Sugary Red Nonsense ◦ Student Loan Forgiveness ◦ Existential Angst

The possibilities are endless!

Since this is an open letter, I invite all you Miami Student readers to come up with your own name suggestions and post them on the New Bar Facebook wall.

Seriously, racism isn’t cool or fun and should be kept out of our community establishments.

ANNA LUCIA FELDMAN FELDMAA4@MIAMIOH.EDU

Last Friday, the Miami University Choraliers and Chamber Singers performed their first concert of the year at Hall Auditorium. Dozens of concerts and performances happen at Miami every year, and truthfully, I doubt that this concert was significantly different from any other. But, as a first-year student and new member of the Choraliers, this performance was significant to me. It reminded me of why music is so special and influential, and why it so desperately needs to be kept alive.

In recent years, as school funding and finances are in limbo and many districts struggle to make ends meet, music and art programs are among the first to go. Countless articles have been written to rally support for the fine arts, providing generalizations and abstract statistics about its benefits, but this is not one of those articles.

I could talk about the 2007 study

by Christopher Johnson from the University of Kansas, which found that schools with superior music education programs scored 22 percent higher in English and 20 percent higher in math on standardized tests than schools with low quality or nonexistent music programs, regardless of socioeconomic standing. I could go on about the College Board’s study of the 2012 SAT, which showed that students who participated in music scored an average of 31 points higher in English and Writing sections and 23 points higher on the Math section than the average score. But I won’t. I don’t think music’s importance can be quantified in statistics alone.

I participated in several choral ensembles growing up, and although I knew I wouldn’t be majoring in music, I also knew that I needed to keep music in my life. That’s one of the coolest things about the ensembles at Miami: the majority of students in Choraliers are not music majors, yet we all come together from our diverse areas of study and work together to create something beautiful.

Choir has taught me about delayed gratification — that you have to work hard now to feel even greater satisfaction from the end result. It taught me about

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living in the moment, being completely present in what I’m doing and appreciating the beauty created in a final performance — done once and then it’s over. Choir has made me realize that we live in a society of consumers. It has allowed me to stop consuming and, instead, create something, to give something back to the world in the form of art.

There are many paradoxes in music. My high school choir director would always say, “I don’t care if it’s successful, I just want it to be significant.” I think he meant that it doesn’t matter if we sing every note perfectly and execute every dynamic marking, but what matters is if we can portray the message to the audience, to make them feel something, even in a small way. But I also believe he meant that it doesn’t always matter what the audience thinks, because sometimes the impact is even greater for us, the performers.

I am blessed to attend a university that values the arts. Many music ensembles here are open to all majors, encouraging students to stay involved with the arts. And, I do think that the Miami Plan’s fine art requirement is a valuable asset to students by pushing us to get a taste of the arts, which sometimes sparks an interest in further study.

However, the U.S. government, employers and schools are pushing the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) as early as the elementary level. In the technology age, people look to STEM careers as the future. This has caused schools everywhere to push for more advanced classes in STEM subjects.

While these subjects are no doubt important, this push will come at great consequence. When I’ve asked a number of students why they haven’t continued with the arts, the most common answer is they didn’t have room in their schedules. This age of technology is killing creativity by detracting from its importance and displacing it from our lives.

The true power of music and art cannot be put into words. In the coming months leading up to the holidays, try to find a weekend to see a show, go to a concert or check out the art museum. Go into a practice room and goof around on the piano. Pick up a paintbrush again. Don’t just consume, create something.

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La Bodega From the outside, La Bodega looks like the coolest, hippest deli in town. The neon signs in the window and brightly painted wooden door frame boast a polychromatic sense of fun and vibrancy.

From the inside, the view is even better. La Bodega has a cozy, down-to-earth atmosphere. The style is eclectic and one-of-a-kind.

It smells fresh. Everyone seems to be smiling.

No one knows La Bodega better than Samuel Markey. He worked there for 15 years before becoming the owner.

Despite the opportunity, Markey didn’t always picture himself as a business owner. He dreamed of being something a little more traditional.

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scoring shootout type of deal, but our defense played really well.”

Jones’ four sacks are single-game Miami record. He also notched seven tackles (six solo), including four tackles for loss. Senior defensive lineman Bryson Albright totaled three sacks and nine tackles (eights solo), including 5.5 tackles for loss.

“Coach has been harping on us that we need to rush the passer, that we need to make it a big part of our game,” Jones said. “That’s what we went for today … we try to make ourselves better every week, and it just fell into place today. We’re ran what we usually run, stayed focused, and today it all came together. It happened.”

Miami’s run game, which has been fairly inconsistent throughout the sea-

son, totaled 294 yards against EMU, a new season high. Entering Saturday, the RedHawks averaged 117.8 rushing yards per game.

“Obviously, running the ball is a great sign,” Martin said. “I know [EMU] doesn’t have a tremendous rush defense, but the fact that we can run it and gain some yards rushing is huge. And then running the ball at the end of the game when you have the lead is huge. Last year, we could have never done that.”

Eastern Michigan entered Saturday’s game allowing an average of 333.6 rush yards per game, and Miami wasted no time in taking advantage of the nation’s worst rushing defense.

On the first possession of the game, Miami traveled 75 yards in 3:37 minutes. Seven of the drive’s eight plays were run plays. Redshirt freshman

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mistake to assume this change in any way reflects a newfound respect for human rights by Beijing,” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) told LifeNews.

Other critics of the program argue relaxing the one-child policy will do more harm than good, especially in the short term, as retiring people will strain the shrinking work force, according to StartUp China.

However, Xian says many people are happy with the shift.

“When I ask all my friends if they would want a brother or a sister, they say yes,” said Xian.

products without synthetic pesticides that he sells at the Oxford Farmer’s Market.

Miami biology professor Alfredo Huerta said while organic farmers do not use the more harmful synthetic pesticides, they do use some natural pesticides.

“Their level of toxicity and mode of action is generally much more benign to the environment and to the people that consume those organic products,” said Huerta.

Although he acknowledged the benefits of consuming organic foods, retired Miami history professor and managing partner of Oxford Coffee Company, Robert Thurston said in his experience, he has observed some misconceptions around organic products.

“A lot of people really aren’t clear on what organic is and what organic means,” said Thurston. “Organics are great, but there’s a problem in how it’s presented.”

Producing food organically, he said, costs more money and is a lot more time intensive, meaning that certified organic products tend to come from bigger businesses now.

On smaller organic farms, workers often have to work much longer hours and for lower pay than on nonorganic farms to make up for the differences in cost and time.

Thurston also noted that, in some cases, growing produce organically comes with a higher risk of food carrying bacteria like E. coli.

A University of Minnesota study indicated that organically grown produce had 9.7 percent positive samples for the presence of E. coli

bacteria versus 1.6 percent for conventional produce. Organic lettuce was the produce with the highest rate of contamination at 22 percent.

However, Thurston noted that buying organic for some foods is more beneficial than others.

Organic.org compiled a list of the 12 foods with the highest levels of pesticide residue called the “Dirty Dozen.” According to this list, the 12 most contaminated foods are peaches, apples, sweet bell peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, pears, grapes, spinach, lettuce and potatoes.

“There are 47 different pesticides used on apples, 42 on strawberries and 52 on lettuce,” said Huerta.

With such high levels of contamination on those foods, it is recommended that people eat organic.

Among the 12 foods with the least amount of pesticide residue are avocadoes, bananas, onions, sweet corn and pineapple.

Senior Sam Sobecki usually does not buy organic products, primarily for financial reasons.

“I typically do not buy organic foods because I am a college student and am not willing to pay the higher price,” said Sobecki.

There is an increase in the costs of organic foods due to the way they are grown, but, according to Huerta, it is not as expensive as most people think. On average, the prices for organic foods are about 10 percent higher than non-organic, he said.

“It is important to consider the long-term consequences of the effects of the food that you eat and your body and the negative effects of food production on the environment,” Huerta said.

Forwards Seniors Hannah McCue and Jessica Rupright look to lead this year’s young group. McCue started in all 30 games last season. She led the team in rebounds (237), blocks (23) and steals (33) and was third in scoring (239 points). Rupright finished the 2014 campaign with 210 points and 108 rebounds.

In high school, freshman Kristin

Levering was primarily a wing and post player, a position she may lose to Richter this season. She averaged a double-double of 11.9 points and 10.1 rebounds with 4.1 blocks per game during her senior season.

Sophomore Megan Galloway redshirted last season to satisfy NCAA transfer rules. Prior to joining the RedHawks, Galloway played at the University of Detroit Mercy for one year and was named to the Horizon League All-Fresh-

man Team. Now eligible, Galloway may be able to upset McCue to become the team’s new leading rebounder, a position she held while at Detroit.

Tamira Ford returns for her senior season after totaling 45 points and 89 rebounds in 2014. Molly McDonagh returns for her sophomore season. She led the team with a 44.6 field goal percentage.

The season’s first tipoff is set for 1:30 p.m. Friday in Oxford, Ohio.

quarterback Gus Ragland capped off the drive with a 9-yard touchdown run.

On the RedHawks’ fourth drive, freshman running back Maurice Thomas set up a first-and-goal after an explosive 77-yard run. It was Miami’s longest offensive play of the year and the longest run since Thomas Merriweather’s 96-yard run in 2010. On the next play, redshirt freshman running back Alonzo Smith rushed over the left tackle for a 1-yard TD. The RedHawks’ largest lead of the season came after forcing an EMU three-and-out in the second quarter.

Bahl passed a perfectly placed ball to redshirt sophomore receiver Jared Murphy, who trotted into the end zone in front of his defender. The extra point put Miami up 21-0 at the 10:25 mark.

After senior Dylan Mulder’s 49yard field goal, Miami headed into

halftime with a 21-3 lead.

The Eagles started the second half strong with a seven-play, 75-yard drive that ended in a 2-yard TD run from senior running back Darius Jackson. Entering this weekend, Jackson ranked 21st in the nation with 99.3 yards per game, but MU held him to 47 yards.

Murphy’s second touchdown of the game came soon after on a 12yard completion from Ragland and put MU up 28-10 with 4:46 left in the third. The last time Miami scored four touchdowns in a game was against University of Cincinnati in Week 3.

Miami held the Eagles to 20 yards on their next drive, but Eastern Michigan cut MU’s lead to 28-13 with a 55yard Mulder field goal. Mulder’s FG was the longest in EMU history.

Bahl and Ragland split time and completed a combined 13 of 18 passes

for 150 yards. Murphy led in the air with 91 yards and two touchdowns on seven catches, while Smith led on the ground with 93 yards and a TD on 20 carries.

“The win is huge for us and gives us our head up,” Martin said. “I really feel like we’re getting a lot better. I don’t know, I could be wearing rose-colored glasses. I’m pretty critical usually. But we’re playing solid football.”

Miami improves to 2-8 (1-5 MAC) and achieves its first conference win of the season, while EMU falls to 1-9 (0-6 MAC).

The RedHawks prepare for Akron University next weekend. But tonight, while fresh off a rare win, the players have other plans.

“Party,” Smith said. “With the whole team.”

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non-presidential year with only local items to vote on, I’m actually almost surprised there were that many voters in that area,” Kyger said.

With the lowest turnout of all locations, The Wood’s is in what Kyger described as a student residential district, meaning few non-student community members could vote on the option.

Sophomore Matt DaCosta said he doesn’t think the results will affect many, but he said it’s nice to have the option.

“It won’t impact my Sunday but I think people should have the choice,” he said. “I would choose no; but the choice should be there.”

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bought the property in 2009. The move paid off — they still have a line of hungry customers, ready to eat.

Today, their 16-year-old son works on Saturdays and Sundays.

Their 9- and 11-year-old daughters come in and bus occasionally. Michelle’s mom even helps do payroll. It is, in every sense, a family restaurant.

“What separates us from the other restaurants that are not familyowned is that Michael and I are always here, genuinely happy when we see our regulars who wait for an hour to come inside and eat and say hi to us,” she said.

Their menu is littered with classic diner items: monte cristos, ham and cheese sandwiches and tuna melts.

“My personal favorite is the eggs benedict ... naturally, washed down with a mimosa,” Michelle said.

Patterson’s is a huge success, and Michael and Michelle love what they do, but it hasn’t been easy.

“It’s the hardest industry to work in. It’s highly stressful, there’s a ton of pressure,” she said, “but I don’t think we’d do it any other way.”

But life had other plans for him.

Markey, a self proclaimed Oxford townie, moved around quite a bit during his childhood until his step dad retired.

“I had military parents,” he said.

“I was used to going from place to place.”

Markey’s journey in the food industry began 20 years ago at DiPalo’s, owned by George DiPalo.

He worked as a dishwasher.

“The nice thing about DiPalo’s was that if you wanted to learn something, they would teach you,” he said. “That’s how I started to work my way up.”

He started with the cold foods, like salad and dessert, and eventually, made it to the big leagues: the hot foods. He learned how to sauté, fry, prep dinners and how to love cooking.

As he gained his badges of honor and progressed, he discovered his passion there.

Fast-forward five years and Michael was starting chapter two of his journey at La Bodega Delicatessen.

When the previous owner decided it was time to retire, the landlord asked Markey to take up the position, to become owner. He agreed to handle all the financial aspects of the business if Markey would say yes.

And so he did.

“If it weren’t for J.C. Rupel ... none of this would have happened,” Markey said. “He did the purchase, the remodeling and offered me the job.”

Markey’s story is reminiscent of Cinderella’s rags to riches tale.

Working behind the scenes for the majority of his career, enter the fairy godmother, giving Markey a successful business to run.

The only difference — Markey’s happy ending is a result of his own hard work, determination and dedication.

“Sometimes people think that owning a business means doing nothing,” Markey said. “It’s a lot of hard work. You have to make sure that it’s something you love to do.”Luckily, it’s something he loves to do.

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Defense sets school record in Miami’s second season win FOOTBALL

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The Miami University football team snapped its eight-game losing streak and claimed its long-awaited second win with a 28-13 victory against Eastern Michigan University Saturday evening.

For the first time since its Week 1 win against Presbyterian College, the team gathered in the middle of the field with the marching band and sang the fight song.

“It feels great,” redshirt junior defensive lineman JT Jones said. “We haven’t sung it since the first game of the season, so it feels great. All the guys love it, and it’s just amazing to have the band out there after the game and sing it. Just an awesome feeling.”

Redshirt freshman running back Alonzo Smith shared the sentiment.

“It feels real good,” Smith said.

“I mean, we lost eight in a row. So getting the win, it felt real good. The whole team – great effort by everyone.”

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The number of saves senior goaltender Ryan McKay had in Miami’s sweep of WMU this weekend. He was named National Collegiate Hockey Conference goaltender of the week.

RedHawk hoops: Men’s basketball season preview MEN’S BASKETBALL

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“Eastern hasn’t been super strong on defense, they’ve been strong on offense,” Martin said. “So we thought it was gonna be a higher-

The Miami University men’s basketball team begins the 2015-16 season Friday on the road against Xavier University.

John Cooper begins his fourth season as head coach of the program with an experienced squad that returns eight seniors.

QB Gus Ragland sprints around a teammate’s block. He completed three of four passes for 31 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 50 yards and a TD. Head coach Chuck Martin cited his team’s defense, which totaled nine sacks for a new Miami record.

The previous single-game record was eight sacks against State University of New York Buffalo in 1999.

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The RedHawks finished fifth in the Mid-American Conference East last season and tenth in the MAC overall with a 13-19 mark (8-10 MAC).

The RedHawks were 205th in the country last year in scoring, averaging 66.3 points per game, 321st in rebounds per game, notching 30.8 a game, 248th in assists per game, with 11.7 per contest and 136th in MEN’S BBALL »PAGE 5

Headlines beyond Oxford: After a series of racially charged events at University of Missouri, members of the football team joined the student protests calling for President Tim’s Wolfe’s resignation. Team members announced they would not participate in team activities until Wolfe was gone, and football head coach Gary Pinkel backed them. Wolfe resigned Monday morning.

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weekend. We lost the finals, but I could not have been more proud of my teammates and the character we portrayed on that field. We didn’t go home with a trophy, but we won in all other aspects of that game.

POSITION: Goalkeeper

Year: Junior

Hometown: Georgetown, Guyana

If you could spend a day with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?

How long have you been playing field hockey?

I’ve been playing field hockey since I was around 12. We started so late because we didn’t have little sticks at home, so until we were able to hold out a hockey stick in your one arm without letting drop, we were able to play.

Have you always played as a goalkeeper?

I’ve been a goalkeeper since I was 13. But I was a field player before I was a goalie. My teammate, who was goalie at that time, dropped out during a crucial time in our indoor hockey tournament, and I told my coach, “Put me in, I’ll gear up and play keeper.” After I did, he never let me gear down.

Who is your funniest teammate?

It would definitely have to be Angela [Amon]. She’s just a happy camper and she could make you laugh on your worst days.

Do you have any pregame rituals or superstitions?

I like to match my socks or shorts with my headbands, and I think everyone has a favorite team jersey they like to play in. Mine just happens to be my grey one.

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The Miami University women’s basketball team tips off the 2015-16 season this weekend against Northern Kentucky University. The RedHawks finished the 2014-15 season ranked fourth in the Mid-American Conference East Division with a 7-23 record. Cleve Wright begins his third season as head coach of the program.

Freshmen players composed most of last year’s squad and accounted for 53.4 percent of the total minutes played. This year, the team remains young. Of the 14 players on the team, three are upperclassmen.

Below is a positional breakdown for the upcoming season.

Guards After her freshman season, Baleigh Reid was named to the MAC All-Freshman Team. Now in her second year, Reid is determined to have a breakout campaign and looks to continue her reign as the team’s leading scorer. She totaled 320 points for an average of 10.7 points per game in 2014. Reid finished with a 35.6 field goal percent-

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I had played many sports growing up. Squash, cricket, table tennis, soccer, badminton. You name it, I probably played it.

What’s your favorite Miami memory?

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For the first time since the glory days of the “Big Red Machine,” the Cincinnati Reds had more than one Gold Glove winner in a season when third baseman Scott Rolen, second baseman Brandon Phillips and pitcher Bronson Arroyo were recognized for their fielding prowess.

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age, 86 rebounds and 31 assists.

Point forward Ana Richter returns for her sophomore year after finishing second on the team in rebounds (145) and third in field goal percentage (42. 4 percent). The Oxford local – Richter was a three-year letter winner at Talawanda High School – totaled 187 points and 31 assists last year. She’ll look to transition from guard to the forward position and will possibly see more time out on the wing.

Kendall McCoy and Leah Purvis will make their college debuts this year. Both were four-year letter winners at their respective high schools.

Purvis is the all-time leading scorer for The Buckley School in California, where she averaged 24.6 points, 9.5 rebounds, five assists and four steals per game. She also helped her AAU team to a national runnerup position in 2013. McCoy’s 1,265 career points rank third in Sylvania Northview high school history.

Other notables include sophomores Jazz Smith and Kayla Brown, who was second in total points (274), and freshmen Morgan Horvath and Nanci Hunter. Horvath finished as her high school’s career leading scorer with 1,070 points and second in career assists (253).

TODAY IN HISTORY

Junior forward Anthony Louis (right) celebrates after scoring his first goal of the season. Miami University swept Western Michigan University with a 2-1 win Friday and a 2-1 win Saturday.The RedHawks are 5-4-1.

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