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Identity crisis: Considering regional campus autonomy University officials push for progress at regional campuses ACADEMICS EMILY TATE

UNIVERSITY EDITOR

Oxford:

Tuition

In-State Out of State $25,122

$41,229

Regional Campuses:

Miami University is reIn-State Out of State evaluating its relationship $17,059 $7,819 with regional campuses Miami University website based on 12 credit hour workload in Hamilton and Middletown. The goal is to allow both schools enough autonomy to further develop their four-year degree programs and build their own identities.

In 1966, Miami spearheaded the creation of reWith high school gional campuses in Ohio Diploma or GED Miami University website with the establishment of Miami University in Middletown (MUM), and in 1968, Miami’s campus Majors/Degrees in Hamilton (MUH).

Originally, these regional campuses were intended to allow students associate degrees with specific economic bachelor degrees and circumstantial limiMiami University website tations the opportunity to take college courses.

Then, after earning an associate The answer was the College of “Things have not moved as quickdegree from a regional campus, Professional Studies and Applied ly as we had hoped, we haven’t students could choose whether to Sciences (CPSAS). built as many degrees as we go on and complete a four-year The CPSAS offers degrees stu- had hoped.” degree in Oxford. dent would not find on Miami’s Today, the regional camA few years ago, however, Oxford campus, such as justice puses offer eight associate dethis dynamic was significantly and community studies, engineer- grees — compared to commureconstructed. “In 2008, this ing technology and nursing. nity colleges across the country situation changed quite dramatiThe university recognizes that boasting hundreds — and only cally,” President David Hodge regional campuses, though a part seven bachelor degrees, signifisaid during Friday’s Board of of Miami University and thus cantly fewer than most of Ohio’s Trustees meeting at Marcum deeply related to the Oxford cam- regional campuses.

Conference Center. “Change that pus, market to an entirely different Though Miami has been workwe welcomed.” student population and offer an ing with this issue since the conThe change Hodge spoke of entirely different university expe- versation began in 2008, Hodge was in regards to the degree pro- rience, Pratt said. said several studies have indicated grams offered on Miami’s re“Regional campuses are open that a different approach might be gional campuses — they would be access institutions,” he said. “That the answer. moving away from two-year de- means we pretty much have to ad“Those studies, and an eargrees, leaving that task to commu- mit anyone that applies, provided lier one, attempted to recognize nity colleges, and begin offering they have a high school [diploma] the changing higher education four-year degrees, as instructed by or GED. The regional campuses landscape and the need to prothe state. are not selective like the Oxford vide more flexibility for the Dean of Miami’s regional cam- campus is.” regionals,” he said. puses Michael Pratt said that in The regional campuses also In June of this year, Miami bethe first few years following this have notably lower tuition rates, gan to explore the setup of Indichange, several decisions were which reaches out to a wider group ana University (IU) and one of made to alter the status quo. First, of potential students, Pratt said. its regional campuses, IU-East. the Hamilton and Middletown Their goal is to reach students in- A team evaluated the model in campuses, which had previously terested in higher education but place at IU-East and considered operated independently of each perhaps lacking certain means to how it might succeed or fail if other, came together under a sin- attain a typical, residential univer- implemented with Miami and its gle regional campus dean. sity experience. regional campuses, then made Then, the two schools had The problem with all of recommendations as to how Mito actually create bachelor this, however, is the shift from ami could move forward with degree programs. two-year to four-year de- this knowledge.

“The next step was to develop grees has moved much slower While the IU-East model is a new college, a new division, to than expected. well established and successfully house and build academic degrees “There had to be some structuron regional campuses,” Pratt said. al changes to do this,” Pratt said.

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Oxford:

66.7%

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100%

Majors

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Acceptance Rate

Oxford: 110

Regional 8 Campuses: 7

Acclaimed author of “Orange is the New Black” to visit Miami PREVIEW Author, activist and former prisoner Piper Kerman is speaking at Miami University next week as the first installment of this year’s Lecture Series events.

More than a decade ago, Kerman served a year-long sentence in the Danbury Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Connecticut, for a brief brush with drug trafficking in her youth.

The experience prompted her to write a memoir, “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” which was recently adapted into an original Netflix series by the same name.

Both the book and the online series, on its second season now, have gained national attention and wide acclaim.

PIPER KERMAN Kerman’s lecture at Miami, entitled “Orange + Black = Gray: Injustice in the Criminal Justice System,” will discuss some of the same issues addressed in her memoir. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29 in Hall Auditorium. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at Shriver Center box office; there is no charge, but seats are limited.

Friends and family remember deceased MEMORIAL JAMES STEINBAUER UNIVERSITY EDITOR

Miami University student Aaron Lakes died the morning of Monday, Sept. 15. Paramedics transported him from his home on South Vine to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital.

According to his friend, senior Andrew Hoelscher, Aaron was found at his home Monday morning after a two-day absence drew the suspicions of fellow O’Pub employees.

“From what I have been told, Aaron was found on his couch with fluid in his lungs,” Hoelscher said. “He had had a flu for weeks and was constantly having to take off work.”

Lakes, from Germantown, Ohio, was a junior studying

Kinesiology at Miami’s regional campuses. He spent a large part of his time working at O’Pub in Oxford, where friends would come specifically to be with him.

“I was always excited for any chance I had to see Aaron,” Hoelscher said. “I was with him almost every weekend and he would make up crazy drinks and serve them to you. He loved to be creative in his work.”

For many of his friends, Lakes’ work as a bartender led to some of the most memorable nights of their college experience.

“He wasn’t just a bartender.

He was a huge part of the Oxford community and part of the best memories that I have of Miami.”

Miami University alumna Katie Bray said. “When I think of Aaron I think of him teaching us the Cat DEATH »PAGE 9

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Suicide prevention week raises awareness University urges students to get involved, utilize resources HEALTH SARAH BUOP

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Support Suicide Prevention Week is Miami’s way of bringing awareness to suicide prevention efforts.

Sponsored by a number of organizations on campus, Miami is hosting a variety of activities on the Oxford and Hamilton campuses for the week-long event, which began Sept. 17.

Miami’s Student Counseling Services (SCS) made a point to create awareness on enhancing the understanding of mental health and wellbeing on campus. Psychologist and director of SCS Kip Alishio spoke up about college student suicide rates and spreading the awareness of the cause.

“Let me first say that actually rates of suicide among college students have been coming down since the early 1990’s and have stabilized during the 2000’s, according to research studies,” Alishio said. “This is good

news and seems to speak to efforts like this across the country which try to make all in the community aware of what to do and who to call when a student or someone a student knows is thinking about suicide.”

According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), studies conducted over the years report that the high rates of alcohol use and heavy drinking on college and university campuses are a concern due to the close association with mental health problems.

Psychologist and Coordinator of Outreach and Programing Jennifer Young, expanded on some of the other factors that can induce the feelings of suicidal and depressed thoughts.

“Generally, environmental stressors and/or genetics play a role in mental health concerns but there are many reasons why someone would want to end her/his life,” Young said. “When someone is anxious or depressed, they attempt to use coping strategies — talking to friends, exercise — to work through their

emotions. The unique stressors of college oftentimes call for new coping strategies since what once worked in high school may no longer be working as well in college.”

Stress is a fact of life, but being able to have resources that will provide some relief, especially in college, is fantastic.”

MEGHAN REED

MIAMI UNIVERSITY SENIOR

Changes in a student’s lifestyle and the learning environment can increase stress and emotion, however there are many resources, such as Miami’s Student Counseling Service website, and many coping strategies to diminish these thoughts and feelings.

“There are many resources for students with suicidal thoughts including the Student Counseling

Service on the Oxford campus as well as counseling centers on the Middletown and Hamilton campuses,” Young said. “We are here to help and provide mental health services to anyone coping with suicidal thoughts and depression. Additionally, as part of Miami University’s Code of Love and Honor, we encourage fellow students to take responsibility for one another by taking action when they see peers in distress and assisting them in seeking out support and resources.”

Alishio said it is important to know the thoughts of suicide are often time limited, and with seeking help, the emotional pain will ease. Many sponsors such as, SCS, the Office of Student Wellness, Peer Advocates for Total Health and others, would like the university as a whole to join the cause and break the silence about mental health, offering support to students and preventing suicide.

“This is why we and others nationally have called this campaign ‘break the silence,’” Alishio said.

“The less stigma there is about having suicidal thoughts, the more likely one is to talk with someone about them and the more likely that person is to reach out and ask for help and support from professionals such as we have here at the Student Counseling Service.”

Senior Meghan Reed said Miami does a great job raising awareness about suicide prevention and providing resources for students.

“Stress is a fact of life but being able to have resources that will provide some relief, especially in college is fantastic,” she said.

There are many ways for students to get involved with suicide prevention. Suicide Prevention Week will continue until Sept. 26, and events such as yoga, pet therapy and interventions are open for all students to experience.

“The next step I think is to make sure that as many people as possible know about all the resources available and really start asking what they can do to be involved in suicide prevention,” Reed said.

MU raises bar as applicant pool grows ACADEMICS MARIAH SCHLOSSMAN FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami has become more selective in its admissions process over the last few years, as it continues to draw in tens of thousands of high-caliber students while retaining its average class size.

As the ACT average has steadily increased and the acceptance rate has dropped, student interest in Miami University has steadily climbed.

Interim Director of Admission and Enrollment Communication Susan Schaurer said a clear distinction needs to be made between the words applied, admitted, accepted, confirmed and enrolled.

Schaurer said “applied” refers to the number of applications the university receives,

“accepted” and “admitted” refer to the students that the university has offered admission to, and “confirmed” and “enrolled” describe the students who ultimately enter the institution.

According to the Enrollment Management Update presented at the Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, Sept. 18, Miami has seen a 12.3 percent increase in applied students and a 10.8 percent increase of students admitted, but a 0 percent increase of those confirmed from the 2013 data versus the 2014.

Although in the last five years, there has been a 50 percent increase in applications, the confirmed amount of students remains at 0 percent because of Miami’s dedication to admitting an incoming class of about 3,600 students.

“The consistent incoming size of 3,600 is something that, after

research and logistics, the leadership at Miami has decided is the right number for the natural selectivity of the university and to stay true to the critical Miami experience,” Schaurer said.

With the average 3,600 class maximum, there is an increased selectivity in accepted students.

According to the 2014 enrollment data and data from 2009, the average ACT increased from 26 to 27.7 and the acceptance rate is now 66.7 percent when in 2009 it was 80.4 percent.

Miami can accredit a large portion of the significant increase in applications to the strides they have made in the recruiting process. The university places regional recruiters strategically across the country in various locations.

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NO FLASH IN THE PAN Greek Life, already a staple on Miami’s campus, is only becoming more popular. Last year, more than 850 girls joined sororities. The number is expected to rise.

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Greek life, already an influential force on Miami’s campus, is about to become more dominant. At least, that’s what the numbers for women’s formal recruitment indicate.

In the last few years, there have been consistent increases in the women of Miami “going Greek.” At Miami, there are 17 official sorority chapters, governed by the Panhellenic Association. Each year, Panhellenic collaborates and establishes a number or quota that defines the number of each incoming pledge class; it sets the bar for the number of bids offered to potential new members by each sorority.

“Since 2010, we have seen a consistent increase in the number of women registered for

Panhellenic Recruitment,” Panhellenic Vice President of Recruitment Bianca Misiti said.

In 2010, the bid quota was set at 45. The following year in 2011, the quota rose to 52. In 2012, the number set by the Panhellenic council was 47. Fifteen out of 16 sororities participating in formal recruitment surpassed this quota. The following year in 2013, the bid quota rose to 56 and then to 59 in 2014.

The quota continues to rise because of demand — more girls are seeking spots, so Panhellenic is pushing up the number chapters can accept. Between 2010 and 2014, there has been a 31 percent increase in the quota number. Fifteen chapters bringing in 59 new girls means 885 more sorority women in each year’s pledge class.

“With the rise of numbers, our pledge class sizes go up which just means more sisters,” Recruitment

chair of Alpha Omicron Pi Lesley Spaeth said. “In my mind, what could be better than giving someone the chance to be a part of something that I love so much?”

The Panhellenic Association has yet to decide the exact quota for this spring’s recruitment. The number will come out after Jan. 1, when registration for formal recruitment closes. However, the council foresees the growth in Greek life to continue at Miami and a need for even higher quotas in the future.

Excitement is in the air for this year’s women’s formal recruitment on both sides of the fence — existing chapter members and those hoping to gain membership this spring.

“Recruitment is truly about finding your home,” Spaeth said.

With Panhel pushing up quotas each year, it makes the already dominant Greek presence and culture on campus even larger.

Students typically complain about having to go to their professors’ officer hours. Sitting in a small room, talking with the professor one-on-one about class work is not something students generally look forward to.

However, for one class at Miami, students are uncharacteristically enthusiastic about their professor’s office hours: he holds them in a bar.

BIO 244: Viticulture and Enology — or, as many students have come to call it, “the wine tasting class” — is a course that studies vines, grapes, the winemaking process and, eventually, wine itself.

“It’s really a lot of a horticulture course because we spent two entire weeks talking about grape growing and all the various things that go into grape growing,” Jack Keegan, the professor for BIO 244, said. “[Tonight’s class] was all wine making … then [later on] we’ll talk about

how grapes are grown and wines are made around the world for much of the rest of the semester.”

Keegan covers the chemistry of wine, too, making the course truly interdisciplinary. And though most of the students in the class are seniors, and about half take it on a credit/no credit basis, they all treat it like any other academic class.

“I’ve probably had close to 5,000 students in this class over the years, and really … I’d say 99.9 percent of them have taken it seriously,” he said. “I’ve never had a problem. I really have not.”

Still, the atmosphere of the classroom is relaxed. Keegan’s easygoing personality and passion for the subject translates in his lectures, and the students find it easy to both banter with Keegan and ask him thoughtful, educated questions.

Keegan also makes it interactive in ways other than tasting wine. Though the students have not had wine yet this semester, he provided them with grapes and WINE »PAGE 9

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Professor Jack Keegan teaches BIO 244 last Tuesday, Sept. 16.

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Fiji fire factor in new safety mandate SAFETY SAMMIE MILLER

COMMUNITY EDITOR

The City of Oxford plans to require building owners to install a certain type of smoke detector in order to protect the safety of Oxford residents.

In March, Oxford City Council and City Manager Douglas Elliot felt the city was in need of an upgrade in the Oxford Property Maintenance Code in order to strengthen smoke alarm requirements. As a result, a decision was made to replace all of the previous residential smoke alarms with a safer model.

“The City of Oxford is mandating all rental properties to go from ionization type smoke alarms to photoelectric type smoke alarms,” Lisa Colwell, a member of the city’s Community Development

Department reported.

Colwell explained there is an explicit reason for the mandated change, which stems from the difference between ionization and photoelectric type smoke detectors.

“Ionization type smoke alarms are very good at picking up particles from fast fuel-burning fires,” Colwell said. “On the other hand, photoelectric type smoke alarms pick up particles from smoldering fires, which are much more common in homes.”

According to Colwell, a smoldering fire is a fire that begins as an abundance of smoke before the actual fire occurs. She explained that something as small as a cigarette being set on a sofa and the resulting accumulation of smoke could cause a smoldering fire.

“These types of fires are much more common on college campuses and in residential areas,

which is the reason for the change,” Colwell said.

According to the city’s website, the fire that destroyed the Fiji house in May 2013 was one of the major deciding factors regarding these changes. While there were no major injures or fatalities as a result of the fire, City Council agreed that proper safety measures should be taken into effect.

In addition to the Fiji fire, there was another highly publicized fire in Oxford in 2003. According to city reports, three students died in that fire.

“There were 20 ionization type smoke alarms in the house that that fire occurred,” junior Casey Wood said. “None of those alarms went off and three people died.”

Wood is working with fellow members of his Marketing (MKT) 325 class on a project that aims to raise awareness to students and

realtors about replacing their current smoke alarms with photoelectric type alarms.

“We are working as more of an advocacy group than anything else,” Wood said. “We want to use social media and other methods to teach students how to check their smoke alarms and prevent future fires.”

Wood’s group encourages students to take a look at the smoke alarms currently in their homes. If the alarm is labeled with a “P”, it is a photoelectric type alarm and a safe choice.

Community Development Director Jung-Han Chen explained there are specific places in the home that these new smoke detectors must be installed.

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Uptown Chinese Festival

Confucius Institute throws community celebration EVENT CALLIE FURNAS

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FRANKIE ROSKAM THE MIAMI STUDENT

CUP OF JOE Students gather outside of locally-owned coffee shop Kofenya between classes to socialize and study.

Miami University’s Confucius Institute is hosting its first Chinese Festival this Friday, Sept. 26 as a celebration of global Confucius Institute Day (CI Day).

The Oxford Visitors’ Bureau is partnering with the Confucius Institute to host the event, which will be free to students and community members.

According to Chen Zhao, the director of Miami’s Confucius Institute, the event is being held in honor of the 10th anniversary of the organization’s establishment of over 1,000 branches across the globe. The Miami Confucius Institute was the first of four established in the state of Ohio.

The event will commence on campus at 2 p.m. at Cook Field with Tai Chi training and a performance to follow. Zhao said there would be white kites flown in from China that attendees of the event will decorate and fly to conclude the on-campus portion

of the celebration.

“This event is not just for Miami staff, faculty and students but also for the entire local community” Zhao said.

The Institute also invited eight high schools from the Dayton and Columbus area to attend.

“250 students and teachers are coming to Oxford to celebrate,” Zhao said “These teachers will be taking their Chinese learning students to meet us on CI Day.” According to Jessica Greene, the director of the Oxford Visitors’ Bureau, the event will then move to Uptown Park at 5:30 p.m. beginning with, “all kinds of Chinese cultural activities, games, food tasting, and Chinese language learning.”

“Booths are run by high school students who have learned all about Chinese culture” Zhao said. “This gives them the opportunity to show off what they have learned.”

Those attending the festival will have access to a wide range of activities.

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Combustion Construction: Fire station to be renovated $425,000 construction in store for Oxford Fire Department in next six months CONSTRUCTION DEVON SHUMAN

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University campus will not be the only Oxford location under construction in the upcoming months. The Oxford Fire Department is set to undergo some much needed renovations throughout the next half-year.

According to Vice Chair of the Oxford Planning Commission Richard Keebler, the two-story addition will add living quarters to the firehouse located at 217 S. Elm St. This will include beds, bathrooms, a kitchen facility and additional space for meeting and storage.

Keebler, who served 35 years at the Oxford Fire Department, including 30 years as Assistant Chief, explained the additions are necessary now the department has

full time workers.

“When the station was built in 1963, it was all volunteers. Nobody lived there,” Keebler said.

“Starting four or five years ago, people started working around the clock, so the station needs more space.”

In addition to the living quarters, the two-story addition will include other facilities such as a locker room for turnout gear and a new training room. According to the City of Oxford website, this accounts for “approximately 2,100 square feet of additional needed facilities.”

Fire Chief John Detherage agreed the expansion is necessary now there are firemen working all day and night.

“Right now, the training and living quarters are all in one room, so the addition creates separate facilities,” Detherage said.

Oxford Service Director

Michael Dreisbach explained that the construction will be completed

by JK Custom Homes LLC and should begin very shortly.

“The building permits have been approved,” Dreisbach said.

“We will start laying out construction this week.”

Dreisbach explained the construction should be completed within about six months.

In addition to the new training and living facilities, the renovations will include another important addition.

“We will also be putting a fire suppression system throughout the entire building as part of the project,” Dreisbach said.

This suppression system, otherwise known as a sprinkler system, will protect the firehouse itself from fires.

Keebler explained the sprinkler system is an important addition, considering a fire destroyed a

volunteer fire department in Mount Eden, Kentucky in early August of this year. In addition to burning the firehouse to the ground, the Kentucky blaze claimed four fire trucks as well as gear and equipment and accounted for well over one million dollars in damages, according to WDRB News.

The addition of the fire suppression system will increase the total cost of the project.

Dreisbach said that the city will be spending about $425,000 on the renovations.

This breaks down to $350,000 for the main building construction, $38,000 for the sprinkler system, and an additional $37,000 for an alternate option for a full basement which would be used for storage.

However, despite the cost, Keebler believes the renovations will be beneficial not only for

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POLICE BEAT Chest bumping a cop is not a good idea

At 2 a.m. on Saturday, a female outside 21 E. High Street yelled “F*** you!” at a passing police officer on routine patrol. The officer stopped his vehicle and asked the female if she was having a problem, to which she repeated the statement loudly to him. The officer told her to cease using such language, as it might be offensive to others in the area, and prepared to move along.

The female then repeated the statement again, this time directing it to the officer’s partner. The officers exited the vehicle, at which point she provided them with her ID, but then tried three times to grab it back from the officer. She was placed under arrest, though she fought against being placed in handcuffs.

Upon arrival at the police station, the female refused to sit in a chair, chest bumped the police officer then kicked him in the chest. The officer was forced to restrain the female on the floor, at which point she scratched at the officer, breaking the skin. The female was charged with Disorderly Conduct, Obstructing Official Business, Resisting Arrest and Assault of a Police Officer transported to Butler County Jail.

Kick and Run

At 2:17 a.m. on Friday, an officer was on patrol on South Poplar when he observed a male student kicking a garbage can, which then fell over and spilled its contents into the street.

Upon seeing the police officer, the male fled down the street, at which point the officer followed him in his vehicle and was forced to activate his overhead emergency lights. The officer repeatedly advised the male to stop running, as he was under arrest. The male fell several times and continued running until he fell in the yard of a house on East Walnut Street, where the officer was able to exit his vehicle and apprehend the male. His speech was slurred and breath smelled of alcohol. He was unable to provide the officer with identification and refused to say his name. The officer called the Life Squad, as the male’s multiple falls had incurred injuries on his knees and head. The male gave the EMTs his name and date of birth, and the officer found the male was only 19-years-old. He was charged with Offenses Involving Underage Persons, Criminal Mischief, Resisting Arrest and Obstruction of Official Business.

Bouncer brawl

At 11:15 p.m. on Thursday, an officer on patrol observed a male student engaged in a heated verbal altercation with the bouncer at The Woods bar. The officer exited his vehicle and approached the situation.

The bouncer was refusing to allow the male inside the bar. The male claimed he had no identification on his person. The officer told the male to follow him to his vehicle, and the male stumbled over to the vehicle, where the officer noticed an odor of alcohol on his breath. The male admitted that he was only 20 and had consumed alcohol that evening. The officer issued him a citation for Sale and Use by Underage Persons and released the male to his roommate.

IN THE NEWS OXFORD Two men killed in Saturday morning plane crash The men, both enthusiastic fliers were reported to be brothers.

–Oxford Press

Warren County teen faces death penalty Austin Myers, 19, could face the death penalty for robbery and murdering a Wayne Township teenager.

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Portland man hides in church to avoid deportation After immigration authorities tried to detain him, man hides out in Portland church.

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200,000 flee from ISIS in Syria A sudden flood of refugees is being called the biggest displacement to date in the Syrian conflict.

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‘This Is Where I Leave You’ captures true family FILM BRITTON PERELMAN STAFF WRITER

You probably thought your family was complicated, that is, until you saw “This Is Where I Leave You.” Led by Jason Bateman, who plays Judd, “This Is Where I Leave You” follows the Altman family through the seven days after their father dies. His final wish was to have his four grown children sit Shiva for him, forcing them to spend more time together than they have since they all left home.

The dramedy opened this past weekend with one of the most star-studded casts currently in the box-office. Jason Bateman plays his typical character as Judd Altman, a 30-something who recently lost his wife, his house and his job in the same day. His siblings Paul (Corey Stoll), Wendy (Tina Fey) and Phillip (Adam Driver)

are all amusing stereotypes of their roles in the family. Paul, the oldest, is the most traditionally successful one; Wendy, the only girl, is the mothering one; and Phillip, the youngest, is the family screw-up. Their mother Hillary (Jane Fonda), a successful author, has used her own family’s — often embarrassing — ­ stories to make a living, a fact that still mortifies her children.

number of characters ended up being the film’s weakest point.

With at least 10 major characters, no one got an adequate amount of time for backstory or very much depth at all. I can see how this wouldn’t have been a problem in Jonathan Tropper’s novel, but it didn’t translate as well in the screenplay. Tina Fey’s role, for example, was good, something different for her, but there wasn’t

(The movie) reminds us that, while family may be complicated and crazy, there is beauty in that dysfunction.”

BRITTON PERELMAN STAFF WRITER

But “This Is Where I Leave You” wasn’t solely about the Altman children; it was about their spouses, their kids, their neighbors and some old high school acquaintances as well. The sheer

enough time spent explaining important aspects of her character’s past. We got snippets, but not enough to fully understand or connect.

Despite the number of characters,

the Altman family was everyone’s family. It didn’t matter that we didn’t fully know the history of each character, because it was the family as a whole we were supposed to relate to. The individual characters needed more, but the family itself felt very real. “This Is Where I Leave You” reminds us that, while family may be complicated and crazy, there is beauty in that dysfunction. It’s amusing and funny to watch this film, but underneath the jokes and comebacks there is a true message about finding perfection in the imperfection of our family.

At one point in the movie, Judd, whose life has been turned upside down in less than a month, says, “I’ve been chasing this idea about a perfect life, but life is unpredictable and irrational and complicated and I want a complicated life.” I think, though we might not all realize it at first, we’re all like Judd. We want the complicated, the unpredictable, and the irrational because it’s

way more exciting and interesting than a life that goes exactly as planned.

No matter what it is, you’ll be able to find something in “This Is Where I Leave You.” Maybe it’s seeing your family reflected in some way on the screen, maybe it’s learning a lesson about enjoying the little things in life from the toddler who just really loves to tote his little kid toilet seat around with him and do his business in the front lawn, maybe you just need Jane Fonda to tell you that whatever emotional reaction you have to stressful situations — crying or laughing — it’s okay.

The power in movies like this one lies in the fact that everyone in the audience can find something to connect to, something that will leave them thinking of their own beautifully complicated life.

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MUSIC MADNESS After successful electronic and country concerts Tuesday and Wednesday night at Brick Street, Thursday’s Sage the Gemini concert was canceled due to a missed flight.

A ‘Destiny’ that falls slightly short

There’s a moment when playing Destiny, when you look out into the distance. You see the beautiful world around you and just marvel at it. That moment is a microcosm of the game as a whole. That world looks beautiful and you want desperately to explore it, but you can’t go beyond the built-in boundaries. In a game that does so much right, Destiny falls slightly short of achieving its potential.

Destiny comes from Bungie, the makers of the immensely popular original Halo trilogy. Destiny has become the best-selling new game in history. Bungie merges the sci-fi, first person shooter (FPS) elements of Halo with some massively multiplayer online (MMO) elements of World of Warcraft. Your character is a nameless Guardian, revived from death after an undetermined period of time in the middle of a post-collapse society in the distant future. You’re tasked with fighting off “the Darkness,” the enemy of “The Traveler,” a foreign being who protects the last city on Earth. It is the Traveler who arrived and pushed Earth into a “Golden Age” that lasted until the Darkness nearly wiped everything out.

If the plot sounds confusing and boring that’s because it is. Bungie falls short on the plot and story. One

of the major characters in the plot has no name, but is simply known as “the Stranger” and offers vague comments that tease a greater story.

Bungie created a companion app that helps fill out the backstory, but Destiny acts as nothing more than a prologue. Your main companion is a tiny robot, a Ghost, voiced by Peter Dinklage (thus called Dinklebot).

Bungie created Cortana for Halo, arguably the greatest A.I. companion, and Dinklebot falls well short of Cortana’a benchmark. Bungie forgot the number one rule of A.I. companionship: you don’t make the robot robotic. Dinklage’s delivery is too robotic and lacks life.

It’s not the plot or characters that draw you into the game, because you don’t care about them at all. However, the gameplay is what keeps you coming back.

Destiny plays as one of the best FPS in recent memory (with a few fun moments of third-person action thrown in too). The controls are tight and fluid. It plays a lot like Halo, which is a really good thing.

As expected from a Bungie product, the score and visuals are nothing short of spectacular. The game looks and sounds amazing.

The MMO element isn’t as perfected. The strike missions, where you team up with two others, are great and the online multiplayer is fun. The multiplayer is a little shallow, but Bungie has said they’ll keep it fresh throughout. Destiny relies heavily on a loot system to acquire

and upgrade guns and gear. It’s both frustrating and rewarding. The loot drops, the good ones at least, are rare and you often feel like you deserve more. But when you get that legendary gun helmet, it is a great feeling. The lack of a true matchmaking system for strikes and raids is sorely missed.

Bungie has promised constant new activities and events to keep the game fresh and to get players to keep coming back. They need those desperately, because the game gets repetitive quickly. The gameplay is great, but replaying the same missions over and over gets boring. On top of that, the missions that are different are structured the same. Fight this wave of enemies, wait for Dinklebot to slowly decode something, take down this huge boss and so on.

On the bright side, the enemies vary greatly. There are four difference races and each have different strengths, weakness, attacks and defenses. They aren’t simply clones of each other, which help keep things fresh.

Destiny does a lot of things well, but the lack of a plot and excess repetition prevents it from becoming legend (as its tagline says). But it is ultimately a great experience with the potential to keep users come back for more. Destiny is a victim of its own hype in many ways, but it is a fun experience and that’s what you ultimately want out of a video game.

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For the third year in a row, the Translation Symposium is headlining at Miami University. The Translation Symposium is an opportunity for all students, regardless of interests and studies.

It doesn’t matter if you’re studying linguistics or a soon to be graduate in accounting, the Translation Symposium held at 4 p.m. September 29 in Bachelor Hall Room 337 is an event for all students.

Cathy Wagner, coordinator of the event and director of the creative writing program at Miami said the goal of the symposium is to bring in those students and faculty interested in what exactly happens to a text when it is translated into English. At the Translation Symposium, the panel will discuss the problems they face when translating a text.

Because of previous and current funding provided by the Humanities Center, the Havinghurst Center, the French and Italian department and the GRAMELAC program, the Translation Symposium is able to host a diverse group of translators and writers.

This year, three well-known and distinct translators and writers are visiting Miami’s campus: Philip Metres, Nathanaël and Kazim Ali. They are traveling from Cleveland and Chicago as translators of works from Russia, France and Iran.

Philip Metres has translated the collected works of Lev Rubinstein, a conceptual poet who began writing in the Soviet period and is now a journalist and political activist.

Nathanaël is the translator of the handwritten journals of Herve Guibert, a writer and photographer who was the good friend and biographer of Michel Foucault and was involved in early AIDS awareness activism in France.

Kazim Ali brings us the work of Sohrab Sepehri, an Iranian poet born in 1928, very famous

in Iran.

“I attended the Translation Symposium last year because as a student pursuing a career in writing, I had a lot of questions concerning word choice and sentence structure, especially the ones translated into my native language, English,” sophomore Emily Westerfield said. “I had always wondered if the fairy tale stories that I grew up memorizing and believing have been accurately translated in English. For all I know, Beauty and the Beast could be a horror story. I want to know how translators are so sure about the stories they translate.”

I had always wondered if the fairy tale stories that I grew up memorizing and believing had been accurately translated in English.”

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Wagner said because English is the most powerful language in the world, it’s imperative translators make it readable and understandable in the English language. The role of a translator is to distinguish between what is important to carry across to English and what is better to be preserved.

As the program continues to develop, people are investing more time and interest in the idea of a Translation Symposium remaining on campus Wagner said.

“I’d like someday to build on the Translation Symposium and offer a class in translation and someday a thematic sequence with a study-abroad component,” Wagner said. “I’d love to work with foreign-language departments to create such a course.”

With high attendance and student and faculty interest, the Translation Symposium has the potential to become something larger and brighter than an annual event, staying in Oxford on Miami’s campus for good Wagner said.

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each level that exceeds 1,200 square feet of area,” Chen said.

“Any new or replacement smoke alarms installed within a sleeping room after that date must be photoelectric type detector.”

According to Chen, these implementations were made effective on March 1, 2014 and all final replacements for ionization type alarms must be completed by 2017.

“In the next year and a half, we will require all property owners to implement these changes,” Colwell said. “By 2017, all properties should have the photoelectric type smoke alarms.”

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they are treated like a celebrity on campus, and given a chance to play in the NFL. When a player excels at the professional level they are given almost anything they want.

Becoming an NFL star is not something that happens overnight; it is a long process that is full of pressure.

Some people are not cut out to handle the pressure of being a star.

One of the most important parts of this job is being a role model for children. It sickens me that somewhere, a father or mother might have to explain to their young child why they should not wear their Ravens No.27 jersey anymore.

At the same time, this made up Ray Rice jersey scenario is one that needs to happen. If the professional athletes are not accepting their job as role models, someone else needs to. Children will look up to an athlete growing up, which is normal.

I grew up following professional athletes like Dominik Hasek and Ryan Miller, but they did not teach me one thing about being a man.

Those lessons came from my father and grandfather. That is why

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burden these new smoke alarms will place on property owners.

However, Wood pointed out that during their research his marketing group discovered the photoelectric type smoke alarms were a mere $2 more than the ionization type alarms, leaving property owners with very little excuse for not replacing them.

Sarah Rodbro, Managing Partner at Red Brick Property said a letter was issued to their business in April with explicit dates and information regarding the switch to photoelectric type smoke alarms.

Rodbro explained that because permanent changes will not be mandated until 2017, that takes the financial burden away from property owners because they can slowly replace the current ioniza-

tion type smoke alarms.

In addition to the new smoke alarm policy, the city is also requiring property owners to install carbon monoxide detectors in certain Oxford homes.

“In any residential property that has either fossil fuel burning equipment or an attached enclosed garage, a carbon monoxide detector must be installed in the immediate vicinity outside of each sleeping area,” Chen said.

According to the city’s website, these mandated changes are not meant to be a burden on property owners, but to prevent future fatalities and accidents from happening.

“Protecting lives has always been the highest priority for the Oxford City Council,” Chen said.

the issue of domestic violence and developing “the future of America” is an issue that stretches out much farther than the NFL. The thought of violently attacking a woman is simply disgusting.

It is just wrong. The horrible week that the NFL had is putting a bright light on the subject of domestic violence. Hopefully this spotlight causes the nation to reflect more on a crime that needs to be taken seriously.

Those affected by violence from the hand of NFL players need justice, but the 1.3 million women affected by domestic violence annually also need justice (stat from the American Bar Association).

Please understand the small percentage of immature “professionals” do not represent the majority of the NFL, and it is a shame that a man like Peyton Manning shares, or used to share, the same title of “NFL player” with a man like Ray Rice. These so-called professionals need to begin acting professional.

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had a head of steam, so the kid from Cincinnati didn’t stand much of a chance.”

The Bearcats responded with 17 unanswered, giving them a 24-14 lead at the half. UC scored with just 31 seconds left in the half thanks to a fumble by Scott.

“We played our tails off in the first half, and you look up and it’s 24-14 at half and you can’t even believe it,” Martin said. “Can’t even. It’s 17-14 and I was already ill and then we basically said, ‘we’re getting the ball let’s run a couple plays.’ We couldn’t take a knee, we’re trying to get the ball to half time and then we fumble the dang thing. Then they take advantage cause they’re good on offense.”

Miami came out strong in the second half, scoring on its first possession, courtesy of a 74-yard touchdown catch by Frazier.

Miami had several chances to tie the game or take the lead, but were unable to capitalize on them. Kiel threw his second TD pass late in the third, extending

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include things such as “ace painting, calligraphy, small outdoor games for children, and other fun things,” Zhao said. “We will also have authentic Chinese food for tasting”.

There will be a photo contest, which is open to anyone who attends and takes photos of the event.

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the fire department, but also for the Oxford community and Miami students as the improved living conditions will help the firemen be better prepared to the Bearcats’ lead to 10. Miami trimmed the lead to one score following a 49-yard kick by junior Kaleb Patterson.

“It looked like one of my drives, the Kaleb field goal,” Martin said. “Low, burner, slicing like crazy. We’ll take it. There are no style points in this game.”

That was close as the RedHawks could get, as Patterson missed a 30-yarder following a Hendrix sack with 5:40 left in the game. UC ran out the remaining time to make it nine straight Victory Bell victories.

“Short term, it’s hard enough not to just cut your head off and slam it on the ground,” Martin said. “But long-term, I couldn’t be happier with where we’re at.

I seriously think we’re a year ahead of. If you had asked me in the spring, I’d have said no chance of competing with three of the first four teams we played, based on where we were at. Big picture, I’m elated.”

Miami’s next matchup is on the road against the University at Buffalo, where its current losing streak began.

$30. Photos must be sent to the Confucius Institute by 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27 in order to participate in the contest.

The evening will conclude with Chinese cultural performances including Miami students playing authentic Chinese music.

The Confucius Institute encourages students to attend more of their upcoming events including a Chinese movie night and lecture tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. respond to calls.

“I think that it has been a tremendous asset to have people on duty 24 hours a day and seven days a week,” he said. “I think that it is important that they have better living facilities.”

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better,” Kramig said. “But I felt like our kids worked hard, committed themselves to the game and showed some poise closing it out.”

Dinges thought the narrow weekend wins exemplified the heart the RedHawks possess. “[These wins] are huge for our team, and it’s huge to say we can hold a lead,” Dinges said. “We have a lot of fight in us and a lot of passion.”

Miami fell to both Marshall and Illinois State on the road last year and for Kramig, it was special to turn the tables, especially on senior day against ISU. “What a great way to honor our senior class with a top-notch result like this,” Kramig said. “It says everything in the world about them, their character, their dedication to this team, their willingness to work hard … I can’t think of a better way to honor their effort than today’s result.”

The Red and White take the field again 4 p.m. Friday as they welcome Eastern Michigan University to Oxford.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

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Student body needs to stop exhibiting ignorant mentality toward diversity EDITORIAL

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

Anywhere you walk on campus, you probably see a reoccurring theme: a lot of students look exactly the same, not just in their manner of wardrobe choice, but in their ethnic background. The students who don’t fit this image, whether they are a minority student or someone who dresses outside of the “J. Crew U” standard, tend to stick together.

According to Miami’s website, our student body is roughly 82 percent white. While at first this seems unusually high, both Ohio University and Ohio State University have similar percentages, according to their websites.

We at The Miami Student believe this high percentage has created a bubble of closed-mindedness.

We spend four years at a university where we are supposed to learn new perspectives and how to work well with those who are different from us, but does that really happen? We, as The Editorial Board, think the answer is sadly, more often than not, no.

At the end of last year, two

events happened regarding racial (and as a whole, diversity) issues at Miami. In May, Miami student Samantha Callender wrote a story for USA Today College called “Racist commentary at Miami University prevalent on anonymous app ‘Yik Yak.’” It detailed the anonymous social media posts she felt honestly showed how racist the campus can be. Right around the same time, three Miami students made a YouTube video where they discussed their experiences being minority students at this school.

Both of these incidents sparked our interest, because we were able to see the perspectives of students who we see in classes and on campus, but clearly have extremely contrasting experiences.

Callender’s account is correct, to a degree. How often are the most popular posts on Yik Yak about mocking either minority students, exchange students or students who are different from our social norms?

Students are the ones who are

posting and “up voting” these statements, so what does this say about our student body as a whole?

Take exchange students, for example. We could cite numerous examples of jokes being made regarding students who are not from America. We need to alter our perspective on our fellow students. Miami’s curriculum is challenging enough as is, but imagine having to learn economics in a foreign language, surrounded by strangers and isolated from family and friends.

These students deserve more credit than they are given. And The Editorial Board believes we, as a Miami community, need to be more aware of the challenges these students — and any students who don’t fit the Miami stereotype — face.

Perhaps being closed-minded and making off-hand comments about race go unnoticed at Miami, but it won’t be that way for long. Graduation will come, like it or not, and soon we will all be

scattered across the country and around the world, in cities and in suburbs, in corporate offices and innercity schools. When that day comes, being closed-minded won’t be tolerated anymore.

Miami might be a bubble, but the real world is certainly not – and it won’t tolerate a closed-mind and cruel displays of mockery.”

The university has done a great job in the past few years providing students with opportunities to experience diversity, whether it be on-campus speakers and events like UniDiversity Festival or studying abroad in foreign countries.

However, it’s up to us as students to take full advantage of these opportunities and to see the reason we should. We can’t hide

in our circle of look-a-like friend groups forever. Being ignorant and closed-minded is a choice. Being oblivious to the full meaning of racist Yik Yak posts and judgmental stares in the classroom is also a choice.

Miami might be a bubble, but the real world is certainly not — and it won’t tolerate a closed-mind and cruel displays of mockery. We urge students to step outside their comfort zone and meet people who are different from themselves.

We encourage students to not only attend events that celebrate other cultures and to travel somewhere completely different from Oxford, but also to take a look outside of what they know in any way possible.

Racist Yik Yak posts and diversity statistics don’t define this university, and we know that to be true. But it’s time that we step up and learn to accept and understand those who are different from us, because at some point we’re all going to be the odd one out.

It’s not what you think: There is a place for everyone in Greek life DEAR ABBEY GREEK LIFE There are a lot of opinions floating around about Greek life, fraternities, sororities and the conflict surrounding these organizations.

People, sometimes including my friends and family, make jokes about sorority girls and being Greek, mocking the hand signs and our songs and chants.

These people that mock our organizations have probably never been a part of something quite like a fraternity or sorority, so I’m here to set the record straight.

I am a sorority woman. I went through a tiring and confusing twoweek process known as recruitment when I was a freshman, and on an overwhelming Sunday known as Bid Day, I suddenly had 200 girls who all wanted to be my friend.

Two hundred girls who all wore the same letters, who sang the same songs, who were all completely different but somehow completely similar welcomed me into a sisterhood that would be mine for the rest of my life.

This system can seem strange from the outside, and honestly it can feel strange on the inside, too. Some girls, and I assume guys, had that feeling of belonging right away from the first round of recruitment. I didn’t have this experience. My entire recruitment process left me confused. I

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wondered at every turn which sisterhood was the best one for me, and if I was letting my friends’ choices cloud my own judgment.

On Bid Day, I was excited about my sorority but still apprehensive about whether or not being a member would be everything I imagined it would be. The overwhelming atmosphere of Millet Hall crowded with thousands of sorority girls didn’t help ease the knots in my stomach.

However, over the next few weeks, I experienced something I will never forget. Girls who I had never met were inviting me out to dinner or to King for a study group followed by a late-night snacking fest. I got my “big,” and the rest of extended family inside my sorority. Family dinners became a regular

event, as did spending time with all of my sisters.

All of my first semester at Miami, I kept extremely busy. I had an oncampus job, I went to my classes and I worked hard. When I had free time that usually meant going to the gym, studying or napping. Being so busy wasn’t a bad thing, but it did prevent me from making close friends that semester. Sure, I had friends in my classes and at work, but I didn’t have the friends I could call in the middle of the night to watch Mean Girls.

Some might say that joining a sorority is paying for friends, but I disagree. We pay for our T-shirts and our formals and our pins, but those aren’t the things that make friendships. My sisters became my friends through movie nights in our suite and

dinners at Armstrong.

As I adjusted to Greek life, I became more and more used to the idea these girls weren’t faking their sincerity and friendliness to me; they genuinely wanted to know me and help me in any way possible. I realized that any of my 200 sisters would bring me soup if I was sick or watch bad romantic comedies with me if I was sad.

Joining a sorority has been one of the best decisions I have made since coming to Miami. My sisters have encouraged me to be a better person and friend and to become more outgoing.

If I hadn’t gone Greek, I would still love Miami. I would still have made friends through another organization or club, and I would still be invited

to parties and dinners with friends.

However, I believe that no other organization on campus could give me the feeling of safety and home quite like my sorority does.

So to all of you first-years or sophomores who are contemplating the idea of going Greek: do it.

Join whichever fraternity or sorority makes you feel the most comfortable and the most at home. I promise you will find dozens of lifelong friends and four years of great memories along the way.

Greek life may not be the choice everyone makes, but there is a spot for anyone if they choose to be there.

ABBEY GINGRAS

GIRGRAA@MIAMIOH.EDU

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Recent opinion in The Miami Student don’t look at all sides of blacks in America There exists among some people, those often apt to express their opinions freely, a mindset that gravitates both toward certainty and insecurity in their feelings about specific topics. A person with this mindset is willing to overlook or deny obvious facts when the facts are incompatible with his worldview, whatever the worldview happens to be.

I’ve recently seen evidence of this mindset in the Opinion section of The Miami Student newspaper. It caused Steven Beynon, in his article “Police Starting to Serve and Protect Themselves,” to imply that a 15 percent rate of failure to find contraband in SWAT team raids is a high number. It also caused him to imply that police allowing Michael Brown’s body to lie in the street for six hours had something to do with police being wanton in their killing of civilians, rather than their commitment to

a thorough investigation of the shooting and the crime scene.

Numbers can be illustrative when building an argument, but his case might be better served by leaving out the numbers that speak against it.

In his article “Race is the Driving Force Behind the Ferguson Tragedy,” Brett Milam displays the mindset and downplays the present impact of illegitimacy in the black population by pointing out that the rate of blacks was 2.5 times the rate of whites in the early 20th century. However he and Professor Ruggles both miss the well-known fact that the rates of illegitimacy were very similar (12 percent for blacks vs. 4 percent for whites) in the early 20th century compared to the 21st century (68 percent for blacks and 30 percent for whites). Since we know from large bodies of research that illegitimacy is associated with

criminal behavior for people of all races, this is not unimportant.

And dwelling on the fact that it was 2.5 times higher for blacks early on is no less than deceptive since it overstates the significance of illegitimacy at that time, and especially because the point that Thomas Sowell was making is the dramatic rise (by more than 5 times) during the 20th century, which was ignored by Milam.

Milam also oddly dwells on the fact that criminals tend to victimize people of their own race in an effort to downplay the significance of black crime, and in the process overlooks the fact that blacks commit crime 6 times more than other races in America (Like illegitimacy, crime rates by blacks and whites were more similar in the early 20th century).

It’s also worth mentioning that black unemployment was lower than white unemployment in the

early 1900’s, while it’s been persistently over twice the rate of white unemployment for the last 20 years. I doubt anyone would argue that racism was less of a problem in the early 20th century, so this would (clearly) cause us to look for explanations for the plight of blacks in America in areas besides discrimination based on race or a “legacy of slavery.”

Whether or not Milam is aware of all these facts is unclear, but they are easy to find for anyone researching the topic. However if I’m correct about Milam’s mindset, then he would dismiss these facts because they don’t align with his worldview.

Interestingly, people with this mindset also tend to think about people as abstractions in an abstract world, rather than flesh and blood human beings. Steven Beynon admits his own prejudice when he states that he thinks

Michael Brown would still be alive if he looked like a Miami University student. His prejudice is assuming cops are racist (Don’t forget that being called racist is a pretty bad insult in this day and age). But this occurs because he is thinking of Officer Darren Wilson as an abstract racist cop, rather than a man with two eyes, a smile, a mother, and an expressed commitment to his town, who may or may not think ill of black people.

Beynon and Milam would do well to take the advice of James Baldwin, whom Milam quotes in his article, and face all sides of the debate about blacks in America. Perhaps then we could truly identify what policies have inflicted such bad circumstances on blacks in America and get to work changing them.

LEE FISHER

MIAMI GRADUATE STUDENT VIETNAM VETERAN

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

On love at first sight: A not-so-forgotten cliché AMANDA’S APPROACH LIFE Have you ever causally met someone, or maybe even just made contact with them, and then started planning out a whole future life with them?

Between the breaths of hi and my name is, you picture an entire Odyssey-lengthed love story starring you as the female lead.

It happens to me sometimes.

I think it comes with the territory of being a girl who’s watched When Harry Met Sally one too many times.

So, it might go like this. Seconds after this person shows up in my line of vision, I’m mentally picking out furniture for our townhouse together, which is slightly off the city limits of some southern town. I can instantly see it all, from the jittery first date to the flicker of candles at our one year anniversary dinner. I imagine our lives together, me and this stranger. I imagine driving to the mall together in his Jeep and framed photos on the mantle and and wearing matching Christmas sweaters that are only cool in my twisted romanticized head. Well, this whole thing is only cool in my head though because, just a reminder, it’s all in my head.

I’m about to consider venues for the wedding reception when it hits me: I just met this person and I need to answer them about what kind of milk I want in my latte, because yes, he works at Starbucks – and the line is long. The woman behind me is tapping her too-tall high heels and my soon-tobe husband is looking at me with a sneer of annoyance. He just wants to know what letter to write down on my paper cup; he has no idea what’s going on inside the big bag of weird that is my brain. What’s his name again?

I know what you’re thinking.

There are certain clichés that belong in the back corner of the English language, that deserve to be tucked away in a lost library drawer and forgotten about. There are some flowery ideas too worn out by time, too overused in storybooks, too predictable after repeating plotlines from girly novels.

And on the top of that list is the notion of love at first sight.

This kind of happily-ever-after ideology, most of us young people tend to believe, probably doesn’t belong in our modern world, much less to printed in a newspaper. Love at first sight isn’t real, we easily

say, end of story. Even though talking about this kind of thing illicits immediate eye rolls and apathetic chuckles from my friends, there’s something about it I can’t let go of.

So, I’d like to dig this “love at first sight” notion up out of the forgotten pile, if you don’t mind.

Because I think it’s time to call out everyone’s bluff – well, at least a handful of us. As much as we play the nonchalant card, we tearfully watch these moments unfold on screens and wish they would crawl out of their fictionalized medium and into our lives.

Love at first sight is everywhere.

It’s at the heart of the songs we dance to on the floor of Brick Street and at the core of the quotes that clutter our Pinterest boards and in between the thoughts that keep our our minds ticking at night.

You may think that love at first sight is painfully old fashioned and only belongs in the confines of made-up stories, but wouldn’t it be nice if it actually happened?

If somewhere in the span of seconds of meeting someone, you just knew. If you could look back and pinpoint a moment that started it all.

Sometimes I get caught up in fake “love at first sight” moments.

I fall in love twelve times on the way to the grocery store, while I’m tying my shoe in front of the student center or when I’m glancing across a particuarly spacious room. Maybe not with an actual person, but I fall in love with the stories that bounce into my head.

I’m not saying that love at first is a sane way of forming relationships or that every girl is constantly waiting to be struck by a bright-red arrow. But I am saying we should probably own up to the fact that we want it to be true, that we look for it sometimes. It’s the reason we’ve shed far too many tears while watching Pride and Prejudice and the reason our insides sort of leap when we meet a new face. We are embedded with the slight hope that something, well, magical will come of it.

Don’t we all secretly crave someone to run across the city at midnight with a melodramatic song playing in the background or to wait for us atop the Empire State Building? Aren’t we conditioned to want that on some level?

So don’t be so quick to poke fun at that part of yourself – that inherent desire to believe in little, fleeting moments of sudden, not-quitelove. And I promise you this, if you do take ownership of that childlike thought, you can count on at least one person to nod her head and say, “me too.”

AMANDA HANCOCK

HANCOCAE@MIAMIOH.EDU

RULE OF THUMB HERMIONE FOR GENDER EQUALITY Emma Watson launched the HeForShe campaign this weekend. In her speech, she said, “It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two.”

ACCIDENTAL SELFIES Apparently, there’s been some troubles with the iPhone update. Its iMessage function has some users sending out mass selfies on accident. Oops.

LARGEST CLIMATE CHANGE MARCH More than 100,000 people marched through New York City on Sunday, demanding action prior to the UN Climate Summit this week.

IPHONE DROP The first person to buy the iPhone 6 dropped it on live television. It’s never fun to drop your phone, but probably worse when the whole world is making fun of you.

MIAMI ENTREPRENEURSHIP For the seventh year in a row, the Princeton Review ranked Miami’s Institute for Entrepreneurship on its “Top 25 Colleges” list.

PATRICK GEYSER THE MIAMI STUDENT

For silent sufferers, being afraid of public speaking is a hard thing to admit MILAM’S MUSINGS LIFE I’m fidgety and my self-awareness that I’m fidgety makes me even more fidgety. This is particularly the case in class and especially on the first day of class.

My head rests on my left hand, then my right hand; now hands on my lap, hands on the table, hands on my legs, and then hands in my pockets. For god’s sake, where do my hands go?

Sit up, then sit back, feet angle forward, then angle back under the chair. Then I’m sweating. For no reason. It drips down the middle of my back and my neck’s hot.

All of this is before the syllabus is delivered. I look around me and these weirdos are jovially talking to each other. They’re comfortable. Such is a foreign notion to me in a public setting.

Most find the first day of class routine. Get the syllabus, ask pertinent questions about the syllabus, joke with the teacher and move on with your day.

It is routine for me, but for a different reason. The first thing I do when encountering a syllabus is scan it for presentations or group work.

Others upon seeing a class has a presentation later in the semester want to know the details, when its due and so on. I want to know how to get out of it.

My world has just crashed down around me, as I have to figure out how I am going to survive this thing that isn’t going to happen for another 8 weeks.

Then it gets internalized. Well, what the hell is wrong with me?

Why does something so seemingly innocuous for other students seem like a ticking time bomb in my brain?

This routine — get the syllabus and peruse it for presentations — has been a fixture in my college career and earlier schooling. I’ve lost count of how many courses I’ve dropped over the years because I see the presentation menace on there.

Here’s the funny thing about humans. One of our pitfalls is that we’re better preachers than we are acting agents. This is no truer than

in my own experience.

I’ve used this space frequently to discuss the real problem of the stigmatization involved in mental health in terms of getting help or even speaking about it. Not only as it relates to a mental disease. If I had a headache, it would be normal to tell someone I had a headache. If my whole world comes crashing around me because I have to do a presentation in eight weeks, that doesn’t seem so normal to verbalize.

I found myself, when contemplating this article or considering ways to seek real help with social anxiety, afraid to do so.

Afraid that I’d be seen as weak.

Afraid that I’d be seen as a complainer. Afraid that I’d be looked at as somehow defective, a misfit.

Presentations, group work, these are a facet of a well-rounded education, right? Everyone hates public speaking, right?

According to Forbes, about 10 percent of the population actually enjoys public speaking. Freaks, I tell ya.

Doesn’t matter.

As I stand in front of the class of only 13 students, my knees are shaking so bad I’m afraid I won’t be able to stand. I try to shift my weight to my right foot to quell the shaking. My face is hot and the self-awareness that people can see my red face makes me sweat even more.

A subject I would love to discuss at length because I know it so well is instead clipped down to the fastest way I can deliver the important points. Points I deliver through a shaky voice where my lungs feel like they’re fighting to escape my chest.

Then just as soon as it started, it was over. My awareness of its brevity and immediacy doesn’t change how traumatizing it was.

Three minutes or 30 minutes makes no difference.

I rode in an airplane for the first time to an altitude of 10,000 feet two summers ago and then I jumped out of it. Yet, standing in front of 13 students for three minutes saying five short sentences

If I had a headache, it would be normal to tell someone I had a headache. f my whole world comes crashing around me because I have to do a presentation in eight weeks, that doesn’t seem so normal to verbalize.”

The majority, about 80 percent aren’t particularly fond of it, but they’ll survive it. The other 10 percent, which I seem to fall under, would be considered genuine glossophobics, those who are physically debilitated by even the thought of public speaking.

Naturally, I’ve read countless articles on public speaking; the “tricks” to surviving it and nothing has worked. I’ve been suffering through them for my entire schooling career. If those things worked — deep breathing, preparedness, repetition, that most people aren’t paying attention to you anyway — then I wouldn’t be writing this article.

The other day in my Black World Studies course, we had to do a current events presentation.

Only three to five minutes to discuss a current event and then pose a question to the class to spur on discussion.

I chose an article I was intimately familiar with having blogged about it numerous times.

I knew the subject in and out.

debilitates me.

Admitting that sucks.

The frustration that I can’t talk comfortably about a subject I not only know well, but am passionate about only adds to the self-hatred.

The frustration that I’ve had to work around a perpetually changing course schedule as I add and drop those courses that have the potential to terrify me adds to the self-hatred.

The frustration that I can’t just walk into a classroom and talk jovially with other strangers adds to the self-hatred.

Which is why I need to write about it. Hopefully someone can read this and think, “I’ve suffered silently with you, too,” and then I can do my small part to de-stigmatize speaking about these issues.

Instead of being the preacher with a hollow megaphone, I can be the acting agent affecting a different kind of change.

BRETT MILAM

MILAMBC@MIAMIOH.EDU

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that go into placing these recruiters. First, the university looks to the places where there are already a lot of enrolled students at Miami, such as Cincinnati, Columbus and Chicago areas. It is important to do this to maintain and develop the relationships that Miami has or will have with certain regions and high schools.

The second factor involves working with Wiche, a site that gives accurate projections on population increase and decrease, to find the places where there will be an increase of high school graduates in the coming years.

However, a more complicated issue that arises when discussing admissions is the amount of diversity present in the class sizes at Miami.

According to Ron Scott, Associate Vice President for Institutional Diversity, even with the gradual increase of applications and overall interest in Miami each year, additional steps can and should be taken in order to get increased diversity FROM DEATH »PAGE 1

Daddy dance craze and visiting him at Brick Street … to say he will be missed by many is an understatement.”

Lakes’ death came as a shock for his friends who knew him for having a goofy nature and being full of life.

He truly wanted to help others, even to the sacrifices of his own time and resources.”

KELLY LAKES

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“He lit up a room with his smile and huge heart,” Bray said. “He treasured his friends, helped them through rough times and made them feel like they were part of his family.”

Lakes’ devotion to others and passion for creativity was not limited to his work outside Miami, but encompassed everything FROM CAMPUS »PAGE 1

run, it may have certain weaknesses if placed in the context of Miami’s regionals.

“There are some things in the report that look like they could easily be implemented [at Miami], but there are other parts that don’t fit very well,” Pratt said.

“IU and its regional campuses have historically operated very differently than Miami and its regional campuses. For instance, because [Miami’s] campuses are so close together, students and faculty have been able to move around freely. At IU, you can’t

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in the future.

“It’s all about perception,” Scott said. “The nearby universities such as the University of Cincinnati and The Ohio State University are perceived as having significantly more diversity than us when, in reality, they don’t have that much more.”

According to FindtheBest. com, a website dedicated to comparing schools’ statistics sideby-side, 10 percent of Miami’s incoming class is considered diverse, compared to Ohio State’s 15 percent and the University of Cincinnati’s 13 percent.

Scott also mentioned the competition that Miami faces with these schools that have an easier way of promoting themselves. In order to reach the maximum potential of diversity and the best students possible, Miami needs to change their rhetoric and the way potential students perceive the university.

“In regards to the future, we are going to continue to recruit and enroll the brightest, best, and most diverse class across the country,” said Susan Schaurer. he did.

“For my two other children, and most kids I know, they just want to go to school and go through each class, getting it out of the way,” Lakes’ mother Kelly Lakes said. “Not Aaron, though. He had a passion for his classes and he always took pride in participating and being able to learn.”

Director of University News and Communications Claire Wagner expressed the University’s condolences.

“Anytime a young person is lost, we as the campus feel it because you never know the potential that he or she had, and what they might have done.”

Wagner said.

Funeral services for Lakes were held Friday, September 19 at Arpp and Root Funeral Home and Lakes’ burial followed at Germantown Cemetery.

“What I would like people to remember about Aaron is that he truly wanted to help others, even to the sacrifice of his own time and resources,” Kelly Lake’s said.

“He was a friend to everyone. He didn’t know a stranger.” do that.”

To continue this investigation and gather information from other models, Hodge has announced that he will be appointing a task force in the coming weeks.

Ultimately, Pratt said the university intends to adopt some of the ideas they find throughout this researching process.

“The primary goals are to provide much more comprehensive (baccalaureate) offerings on the regional campuses with a more distinct identity separate from Oxford,” Hodge said, “though still very much within the Miami umbrella.”

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other fruits to try, so that when it comes to actual wine tasting, the students can identify the nuanced flavors in the wine.

Often, when students initially hear about this course, they assume or are told it is a wine tasting class. However, once they talk to current or past students, they learn that it is geared toward a comprehensive understanding of viticulture. This revelation did not deter senior Theo Blomquist, Accounting and Finance double major.

“As a business major, it’s good [information] to know,” Blomquist said.

Kaetlyn Veluscek, Miami alumna (’14) and one of Keegan’s former students, also said knowledge of wine is a valuable trait to have in the business world.

“It won’t make or break an interview, but it’s good information to know that can set you apart,” she said.

Veluscek said the class helped even her in her new job.

“Every few weeks [at my company] there’s a casual after-work drink, where they tell me what to taste and it helps out with that.”

Keegan, however, pointed out that a deep understanding of wine helps people in more than just the business world. He said he has had former students email him saying they have used his course more than any other they took at Miami.

“I cannot tell you how many of my students say to me, ‘Oh Jack, my boss asked me to pick out the wine,’ you know, so … it can help, obviously not in a huge way, to give students a leg up especially in their first job or

two because they come across as knowing a little more, being a little more cultured,” Keegan said. “Or, like some students accepted to medical school, ‘Jack, I had my med school interview. We only talked about wine.’”

Keegan said a more appropriate colloquial name for the class would be “wines class” rather than the “wine tasting class,” since it really does focus on the process from the first seeds to the actual taste of the wine.

Clearly, it is valuable for any student looking to set themselves apart from coworkers or competitors. Any student from any major is welcome to enroll, as long as he or she is at least 21 years of age.

“This is a skill, an enjoyment they can do for the rest of their lives,” Keegan said. “And I think that’s really important.”

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RedHawk upset comes up short against UC FOOTBALL TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

Despite being 29-point underdogs, the Miami University football team nearly upset rival University of Cincinnati in a 3124 loss under the lights at Paul Brown Stadium. The RedHawks had the ball at the one-yard line late in the fourth quarter with a chance to tie the game, but came away empty handed in the school’s 20th straight loss and ninth straight Battle for the Victory Bell loss.

“By far the best we’ve played, in all facets of the game, against a really talented team,” head coach Chuck Martin said.

Fifth-year senior quarterback Andrew Hendrix said the near upset didn’t surprise Miami.

“I think we surprised everybody but ourselves,” Hendrix said. “We know within this program how good we are. And we’re nowhere near where we need to be, but we are a very good football team.

This one slipped away from us, we definitely could have, should have, would have won this game.

And that’s gonna stick with us and help us prepare next week for Buffalo moving forward. I think the cat’s out of the bag on us.

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Miami University head coach Chuck Martin patrols the sidelines during a Miami loss. Martin and Miami are searching for their first win of the season after losing to the University of Cincinnati 31-24. to play.”

Turnovers and mistakes once again cost the RedHawks. The ’Hawks allowed 14 points on three turnovers, gave up eight sacks and committed six penalties. One of those sacks game on 3rd and goal from the four-yard line on the RedHawks’ last possession of the game.

“We had a rookie mistake, but hey, we had a coaching mistakes and veteran mistakes,” Martin said. “Obviously everyone is going to talk about a sack, which obviously was a huge play, but we all had mistakes.”

Fifth-year senior cornerback Quinten Rollins continued his outstanding play, picking off two passes and breaking up two others. He also tied for the team lead with six tackles, one of which was a tackle for loss.

The RedHawks’ running game showed signs of life for the first time in a long time, as they picked up 102 yards on the ground. Excluding the eight sacks quarterback Andrew Hendrix took, the RedHawks had 156 yards on the ground.

The running attack came in a committee, as senior wide receiv-

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Amidst the excitement of alumni weekend and senior day, the Miami University soccer team picked up two hard-fought wins to move to 6-1 and extended its winning streak to four games.

Miami seniors Courtney Zanotti, Kelsey Dinges, Danielle Wiseman, Olivia Evans and Hailey Pleshakov were honored before Sunday’s kickoff against Illinois State University (6-4). All five started the game.

The RedHawks flew past the Redbirds early Sunday and took a 2-0 lead into halftime. ISU retaliated with two goals to even the contest until Miami senior midfielder Kelsey Dinges spurred her team to victory with a strike into the top-right corner of the net. Dinges

scored three goals this weekend and is riding a run of five goals in the past four matches.

“Kelsey Dinges may be the hottest player in NCAA soccer right now,” head coach Bobby Kramig said. “Those were three super high quality goals. Kels can do that — she’s dangerous from 30 yards in.”

In addition to another classy performance from Dinges, Sunday marked the emergence of Maggie Scott. The freshman midfielder scored a goal and was credited with an assist after her through-ball was finished by sophomore forward Rachel Marble.

“We’ve known Maggie is a good player all along,” Kramig said.

“She’s played in every game for us. She’s a great ballstriker. She’s a creative attacking player. It was just a matter of time before she was gonna get one, and what a good goal it was.”

Scott joined fellow freshmen Kat Zalar and Amy Malone as goal scorers early in their opening season.

“That was my first collegiate goal and assist, so it was pretty awesome,” Scott said. “It was a big win.”

Miami’s first weekend triumph came against Marshall University (3-3-2) in similarly tight fashion.

The ’Hawks were challenged by the Thundering Herd, but held on to seal the 2-1 victory. Dinges had both Miami goals Friday, one of which was a blistering 30-yard bending strike.

Although the ’Hawks didn’t play their best soccer against Marshall, they showed the ability to win with less than their A game.

“It wasn’t a work of art – I know we’re capable of playing SOCCER »PAGE 5

er Dawan Scott led the team with 50 yards on 10 carries. Spencer McInnis chipped in 48 yards on nine carries.

Senior wide receiver David Frazier was once again the top target for Hendrix, as Frazier reeled in five catches for 162 yards and two scores. He also picked up MAC East Player of the Week honors for his performance.

The RedHawks struck first in the game on a 23-yard touchdown pass from Hendrix to David Frazier. UC struck back with a TD pass of its own, as Gunner Kiel found Mekale McKay for a

27-yard score.

True freshman running back Paul Moses then gave Miami the lead back on an 18-yard scamper in which he broke four tackles. It was Miami’s first rushing touchdown of the season.

“It’s nice and, again, it starts with the push on the left side,” Martin said. “We got him to the second level. You saw late, when he ran into the linebacker in the middle of the backfield, it wasn’t so much fun for the kid. But we got him on a smaller kid, and he FOOTBALL »PAGE 5

STAT OF THE DAY

18 The number of sacks the Miami football team has allowed in four games. Only SMU, who has given up 21 in three games, has allowed more sacks this season.

Accepting the role of being a professional athlete LINSKI’S LIST COLUMN If you have been anywhere near a TV during the last week or two, you’ve likely heard about the numerous domestic violence issues surrounding the National Football League.

The goal here is not to add insult to injury for Roger Goodell, the men accused or the numerous people that are surrounding the debacle that is the NFL right now. The goal is to speak clearly about what role NFL players need to accept.

The men in the NFL are under

microscopes, and they should be.

The majority of the men seem to be well behaved and understand that they are under a microscope because of the massive number of people who admire them. The problem in the NFL is that some players are not mature enough to handle the privileged life that they have been given. These athletes are role models for a young generation and that is a role they need to not only accept, but also cherish.

When a young football player stands over his peers, he is respected and possibly feared. When a player is gifted in high school, they are rewarded with scholarship offers. When that same player continues to excel at the collegiate level COLUMN »PAGE 5

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