November 10, 2015 | The Miami Student

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The Miami Student TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 Volume 144 №21

Miami University — Oxford, Ohio

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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.” Skillings said the structure of the regional campuses’ REGIONALS »PAGE 5

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.” Today, the house holds the Myaamia Center and the PurHOUSE »PAGE 5

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NEWS EDITOR

ABBEY GINGRAS THE MIAMI STUDENT

CARLEIGH TURNER

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SEXUAL ASSAULT

ABBEY GINGRAS

SEXUAL ASSAULT

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

KATIE HINH PAGE DESIGNER

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.

MU hosts It’s On Us week

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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MIAMI FOOTBALL EARNS SECOND WIN AT HOME

Student-run Stage Left performs psychedelic musical, ‘Hair’

Board argues that future athletic endeavours should not overshadow academics

The RedHawks picked up another elusive win against perennial bottom-feeder Eastern Michigan

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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