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SINGING WITH SHWAYZE Rapper Shwayze performed in front of a sold-out Brick Street audience Wednesday night. He is famous for songs like “Buzzin’” and “Corona and Lime.” However, he appeared without Cisco Adler, the man behind Shwayze’s most popular songs’ choruses.

ASG backs alcohol sales at Miami athletic events Bill calls for the investigation into alcohol sales at Millett, Goggin and Yager ALCOHOL

DEANNA KROKOS THE MIAMI STUDENT

This Tuesday, the Miami University Associated Student Government (ASG) approved a resolution calling for a university investigation of alcohol sales at athletic events.

Student Body President Cole Tyman, secretary for Off-Campus Affairs Kevin Krumpak and Senator Patrick McFadden authored the bill. The bill puts the formal support of the Associated

Student Government behind a university investigation to discover if the implementation of an alcohol sales policy at athletic events would be a realistic and beneficial venture.

“We’ve been talking about strategies to create a better environment around drinking on this campus,” Tyman said. “In my opinion, in order to do that, we need to give students a venue” The bill notes that an alcohol policy could provide Miami students with a “more moderate alternative for consumption than those available at Uptown bars.” In the

scenario backed by this legislation, students 21 and older would be able to purchase alcohol at Miami athletic events in Millett, Goggin Arena and Yager Stadium.

The proposal may have Miami students skeptical after the issues that arose last semester in regards to alcohol-related issues during tailgating at Yager stadium. The administration has consistently forbidden any alcohol related activities during athletic events outside the donor’s Red and White club tent at Yager stadium. The legislation considers the possibility that allowing alcohol sales could have a positive

effect on attendance.

“We should provide a venue where students can do that safely, legally and responsibly,” Tyman said.

The idea of alcohol sales in general seating areas isn’t uncommon. Several Ohio Division 1 schools have enacted similar policies to the one proposed by this legislation. Since 2009, the University of Toledo, Bowling Green University, Kent State University and the University of Akron have all implemented these policies.

“If they treat us like adults, I

think we might be able to surprise the administration,” Tyman said.

One of the requirements of a Division 1 team is that home football attendance has to total at least 15,000. Miami’s attendance for 2014 fell just below 16,000. ASG believes an alcohol sales policy could have a positive impact on game day attendance.

“I would love to talk to the same people who are at [Uptown bars] all the time and have them come to a football game,” Tyman said.“We can’t say for sure that this is going to increase attendance, but it can’t hurt.”

Two young Athletics receives $6 mil to adults dead, construct athlete rehab center one injured in The two-story facility will connect Yager Stadium and new $13 million Miami InOxford car crash KELLY HIGGINSON the door Sports Center, which was CONSTRUCTION

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AIR WASHINGTON Junior gaurd Eric Washington elevates over Kent State guard Kris Brewer. Miami defeated Kent 86-81 in overtime Tuesday night. Washington led the way with a career-high 24 points.

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Two people died and a third was transported to McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital after a single-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on Todd Road in Oxford. A male and female died at the scene. A second female, the driver, was taken to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital in Oxford. According to a statement released by the Oxford Township Police, the 2013 Nissan was heading northeast in the 6300 block of Todd Road shortly after 1 p.m. when it veered off the right side or the road, rolled several times and was ripped in half when it struck a utility pole. Police said speed may have been a factor. The deceased are believed to be in their late teens or early 20s. The identities are not being released pending notification of the families. The Oxford Township Police were not available for any further comment.

Miami University is planning to develop the north end of Yager Stadium into the Gunlock Family Performance Center, a studentathlete rehabilitation center set to open fall 2016.

Miami’s athletic director David Sayler said that in December, Randy Gunlock, a 1977 Miami alumnus and former Miami football player, along with his wife, Vicki, donated $6 million to build the facility, which was the largest single donation the athletic department has ever received.

In addition to the rehab facility, the building will also serve as an indoor weight room, football locker room, office space for coaches, a players’ lounge and team meeting rooms for student-athletes.

The plan to build a rehabilitation center for student-athletes has been in the works since Sayler took his position as athletic director in January 2013.

“I’ve always wanted to build an indoor rehabilitation facility attached to an athletic facility, so the football players and other athletes could all be in one building,” Sayler said.

completed last month.

The total cost for the two facilities is around $20 million dollars, Sayler said. The $6 million donated from the Gunlock family will allow the football team to centralize operations and free up space for athletes from other Miami teams at the Gross Center. The Gross Center, which is located between Millett Hall and Yager Stadium, was built in 2001 and caters to both academic and physical needs of the Miami student athletes.

Kevin Morris, the project manager for sports building projects, said the building is currently in the schematic design phase of the construction process. This is the initial programming and sight design phases where they will work side by side with the architects and engineers for the building and compile a series of sketches.

The architectural firm designing the facility is HOK based out of Kansas City.

“It’s very early in the process and we are just finalizing the design,” Morris said.

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In 1934,The Miami Student reported university night watchman, Walter Irvin, prevented a book heist. One hundred of the university’s most valuable books were found piled up on the floor of the library next to a broken lock box. Several minutes after the first attempt was interrupted, the intruder crawled in through a window to try again, at which point Irvin fired off two warning shots.

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Parking committee failed to include student voice ADMINISTRATION

BONNIE MEIBERS THE MIAMI STUDENT

Student representatives did not attend last semester’s Student Parking Appeals Committee meetings — not because they skipped, but because they were not invited.

Student representatives were not invited to join the Student Parking Appeals Committee meetings until two weeks ago, chair of the committee, David Beitz said.

The Associated Student Gov-

Appeals Committee is composed of students, faculty and staff.

Student members for the committee are recommended by the president of ASG and later approved by President David Hodge. This committee listens to and acts upon all appeals to parking citations for Miami University students.

ASG discovered they had been left out of meetings when students were receiving answers to their appeals, and the student representatives from ASG had not been included in these decisions.

“We just put two and two to-

We have a tough job here at the university. We are trying to regulate a very limited resource.”

BEN SPILMAN

LIEUTENANT, MUPD

ernment (ASG) was up in arms over the supposed slight.

“We were contacted at the beginning of the semester and all responded with meeting times that worked for us then were never contacted again after that,” said Maggie Reilly, ASG’s secretary for On-Campus Affairs.

The Student Parking Appeals Committee meets every other Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. Headed

by Director of Parking Services, Miami University Police Department Lt. Benjamin Spilman, the committee views appeals on student parking tickets and citations.

As stated by the Miami University student handbook, section 6.5 C, the Student Parking

gether,” Reilly said.

A misunderstanding between Miami’s Parking Services and ASG caused the situation.

“What we have found out now is that there was an apparent miscommunication between our chief of staff and the chair of the parking appeals committee,” ASG representative Elizabeth Beumel said.

Yet, the student representatives’ contact information was not sent to Beitz, but a different faculty member.

“I never received anything from ASG,” Beitz said.

Because Beitz didn’t receive that information, the email inviting student representa-

tives to Student Parking Appeals Committee meetings was never sent out.

According to Spilman, the Student Parking Appeals Committee reviews more than 2,800 appeals a year.

When student representatives did not come to meetings, the rest of the committee, made up of faculty and staff, Beitz included, had to push forward so that those asking for an appeal did not have to wait for an extended period of time.

The student representatives are now on the Parking Services Google calendars, and are made aware of every meeting.

At least one student representative from ASG attends every meeting.

Kevin Krumpak, ASG’s secretary for Off-Campus Affairs, was at the student parking appeals committee meeting last Friday.

“Whether that was their fault or our fault, that doesn’t matter, we have student representation now,” Krumpak said of the miscommunication.

Parking Services has a reputation of being quick to hand out parking citations and tickets among Miami students.

“We have a tough job here at the university,” Spilman said.

“We are trying to regulate a very limited resource.”

Spilman said he thought it important to convey Parking Services wants and values student participation on the Student Parking Appeals Committee.

“The more active student participation and feedback we get, the better parking system we can create,” he said.

JING LONG THE MIAMI STUDENT

MU decides to demolish Withrow Court Miami clubs, intramural sports teams forced to find new facility CONSTRUCTION

KAELYNN KNESTRICK THE MIAMI STUDENT

Withrow Court, Miami’s former recreational center and a building that has been standing on Tallawanda Street since 1931, is being demolished.

Once the current Rec cener opened on South Quad in 1994, the discussion surrounding the fate of Withrow began. After more than a decade of debate and evaluation, Miami decided to demolish Withrow, which is now used for club and intramural sports.

According to Interim Senior Director of Programs and Academic Partnerships Mike Arnos, the $4 million cost of renovating the building is too expensive, making demolition the best option.

Doug Curry, the executive director for recreation services, stressed that Miami students are the university’s main priority and that they are doing all they can to look for additional spaces to compensate for the loss of Withrow. In the mean time, the

student-athletes who have been using the building will be out of a practice facility.

The Rec center and nearby Phillips Hall are potential options for the intramural and club teams’ new location, but discussion is still underway.

However, Curry said the teams

It’s like they’re taking the ground from under my feet.”

DILUSHKA FERNANDO

JUNIOR, WEIGHTLIFTING CLUB

would have access to the new indoor sports center’s turf and track.

The access to this facility can be crucial to placing intramural and club teams.

“One of the biggest things that will be lost with the tear down of Withrow is the basketball courts,” Curry said. “ A way we are trying to counter that

problem is using Phillips Hall to maximum capacity.”

Junior Dilushka Fernando, a member of the weightlifting club and frequenter of Withrow, said she was extremely upset with the decision.

“It’s like they’re taking the ground from under my feet,” Fernando said.

However, first-year intramural basketball player Connor Huelsman disagreed, saying the decision to demolish Withrow is a good one.

“I believe tearing down Withrow is a good thing,” Huelsman said. “It would be nice to be able to play at Millett or the Rec center.”

One of Huelsman’s main arguments for the building’s destruction was that the displacement of these teams may give way to a newer, better location for them to practice.

“The intramural and club teams should also be provided with good quality facilities,” he said.

Additional reporting by Ryaan Ibtisam.

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OVER AND OUT Senior Michael Vostatek prepares his playlist for his radio show, CosBro, airing Monday nights at 6 p.m. on redhawkradio.com.

With record applicants, Miami enrollment objectives set sights high ADMISSIONS

ALISON TREEN STAFF WRITER

Miami experienced an unprecedented influx of 27,408 applications for the incoming class of 2019, according to Susan Schaurer, interim director of admission and enrollment communication.

This is an increase from the 25,301 applications received last fall, and from 18,485 applications from fall 2011 — a 48 percent rise in four years.

The top five feeder states for applications, in descending order, are Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and California.

The number of international applications has nearly doubled from 1,894 in fall 2011 to 4,548 for fall 2015. However, Schaurer said this increase demonstrates a national trend. The most international applications came from China (with over 3,000), India and Pakistan.

A Board of Trustees document from the Feb. 19 agenda indicates first-year objectives for admissions of fall 2015. The goals are set for an increase in non-Ohio resident enrollment to 42 percent, with non-resident domestic (out-of-state) projected to make up 34 percent and nonresident international to make up eight percent.

These objectives, however, are not the same as quotas, which are prohibited by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), a governing organization for college admissions. “[The objectives] really just guide us in our practices and our processes throughout the recruitment cycle,” Schaurer said. “We look at where we’ve been in previous years [and], with that, we shape what we feel like is a good composition of students.”

While one of the university’s objectives is to increase diversity, particular U.S. states do not outrank each other.

Schaurer stressed academic factors as the most important aspect of an application, and that Miami is need-blind in the admission review process. However, international students must provide documentation proving their ability to finance their education, Schaurer said.

“We certainly focus on Ohio students as part of our mission as an Ohio public institution,” Schaurer said, but added that Miami does not selectively prefer certain U.S. states to others.

However, Schaurer identified the decrease in Ohio high school graduates as worrisome.

“The declining number of [Ohio] high school graduates is certainly a point of concern for Ohio institutions, both public and private,” she said. “In the wake of the reality of declining graduates, schools have increased their

out-of-state recruitment as well.”

In order to recruit students from all around the U.S., Miami employs numerous methods.

This includes high school visits, college fairs and communication outreach efforts. The same is done internationally, with representatives stationed globally to meet with prospective students and families.

“We always try to get [prospective students] to visit campus,” Schaurer said. “There’s a high conversion rate. Once a student visits our campus, they see what the Miami experience is about.”

Sophomore Alex Staron from Athens, Ohio, said that is exactly what convinced him to enroll at Miami.

“I went to a ‘Make It Miami!’ and fell in love,” he said. “Since I grew up in a college town, I knew what I was looking for, but I wanted a school that was medium-sized, and I had to stay in-state.”

Staron said he knows multiple

We look at where we’ve been in previous years [and], with that, we shape what we feel like is a good composition of students.”

SUSAN SCHAURER

INTERIM DIRECTOR, ADMISSIONS AND ENROLLMENT

people from out-of-state, most notably from Chicago.

Sophomore Alex McKeon, from Quincy, Massachusetts, agreed and said he knows a lot of students from Illinois, too.

As Miami consciously keeps its efforts focused on Ohio student enrollment, its recruitment efforts are also influenced by data from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), which provides information on high school graduation rates in different areas of the country. These rates are growing the fastest in the Southwest and Southeast.

Schaurer said that balancing in-state, out-of-state and international students is important for a variety of reasons. However, a key benefit is enhancing education both inside and outside the classroom.

“A diverse community of learners provides an enhanced educational experience. Anytime you are able to bring together individuals from different backgrounds — geographic, racial/ ethnic, socioeconomic — the greater opportunity there is for students to learn from one another, to be exposed to different ways of thinking, and to discuss and debate different ideologies and belief systems,” she said.

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Drug-related death rate hits all-time high HEALTH

MADDIE WOOD

COMMUNITY EDITOR

Last year alone, 137 drug-related deaths occured in Butler County, according to a report from the Butler County Coroner’s office.

For the first time in over 34 years, drug-related deaths (137) surpassed deaths due to natural causes (136).

In this annual report released by the coroner’s office, drug overdose deaths came in No. 1 among cases accepted, exceeding natural deaths, suicides, vehicular accidents, other accidents, homicides and undetermined causes.

The number of drug-related deaths in Butler County increased by 19 from 2013 to 2014, while the number of natural deaths increased

by 10.

The high number of drug-related deaths relates directly to the spread of heroin across Butler County. The coroner’s report stated that over 100 of the 137 drug overdoses resulted

cases in 2012, 25 percent of the cases dealing with heroin. One of those heroin investigations resulted in the death of former Miami University student Andy Supronas, who was a senior at the time of his death.

Right now we are in the midst of a nationwide heroin epidemic.”

DR. JOSHUA HERSH STUDENT PSYCHIATRIST

from the use of heroin.

The heroin epidemic is evident throughout Butler County. Data from the Butler County Sheriff’s office shows that the Butler Undercover Regional Narcotics (B.U.R.N) taskforce investigated 238 drug

In 2013, there were 542 drugrelated investigations, 28 percent regarding heroin.

“Right now we are in the midst of a nationwide heroin epidemic. I think Butler County is following these trends,” said Dr. Joshua Hersh,

staff psychiatrist for the Miami University Student Counseling Service.

Though heroin use is not considered a widespread issue on Miami’s campus, Hersh wants students to know that there are services available if they find themselves in trouble with drugs.

“At the Community Counseling and Crisis Center’s Alcohol and Drug treatment program we offer counseling, urine drug testing, and medication assisted treatment,” Hersh said. “We also refer people to peer support groups such as AA or NA.” For more extreme circumstances, McCullough Hyde Memorial Hospital in Oxford offers treatment for those suffering from drug overdoses. Naxolene (Narcan) is a prescripDRUGS»PAGE 4

I Love Sushi chef: rolling sushi for a higher life BUSINESS

JAMES STEINBAUER UNIVERSITY EDITOR

A seamless square of dark green seaweed nori crackles as it’s snapped into two perfect portions. Snow-white rice is scooped from a fathomless steamer. Stainless steel surgically slices a thin piece from a hunk of vivid red tuna and — glimmer of the blade reflecting off the polished wood countertop. Simple ingredients are rolled into a mosaic of texture and flavor — and all within 45 seconds.

“I’ve trained myself,” Ryan Chung, the lone sushi chef at I Love Sushi, said. “I can make any roll on the menu in under two minutes. I’m super-fast.”

And he has to be on nights like this.

With more than 30 ravenous and intoxicated college students lined up outside the door and superimposing delivery orders, every second counts.

The phone rings for the second time in a minute.

“It’s going to be an hour,” Chung explains, adding a drizzle of eel sauce to his latest roll. “Do you still want it?”

He hangs up the phone and scribbles down another order.

“It’s like hell,” Chung says, laughing. “That’s my motto though, keep the customer coming back.”

Chung moved to the United States 12 years ago from Seoul, South Korea, where he worked as a computer crime investigator. He was studying criminal justice at the University of Toledo when he snagged his first job in the restaurant business at Uraku, a Japanese restaurant in Bowling Green, and fell in love. A year later, he purchased the restaurant.

“As a cop, every time I had to arrest somebody, every person I met, they weren’t happy at all,” Chung said. “But in a restaurant I found that everyone comes to me hungry and laughing and smiling. I get to make those people feel happy.”

After taking over Uraku, Chung’s previous boss, Young Gun Park, taught him how to make sushi.

Chung researched Japanese techniques, watched documentaries and read comic books to help teach himself and he would stay up for hours testing new skills and recipes until they were perfect.

In 2010, Chung began looking to expand his business and decided to take a trip to the college town of Oxford, Ohio.

“If I sell my customers good food nine times out of 10­— failure.”

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“It just snapped,” Chung said.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is the best place!’”

Four months later, he opened his restaurant, I Love Sushi, in a small shop on Poplar Street.

One thing that sets I Love Sushi apart from the other sushi restaurants in Oxford is its size. The restaurant’s lack of major storage means that Chung has to go to the market every morning for fresh vegetables, avocados and ingredients for his homemade sauces and entrees. A sushi restaurant’s most important ingredient, the fish, comes fresh twice a week from a wholesaler in Chicago and is never kept for long.

“If it’s not fresh enough, I don’t sell it,” Chung said. “If I sell my customers good food nine times out of 10 — failure.”

Another feature of I Love Sushi’s success is its clientele. While Sushi Nara, Oxford’s other major sushi restaurant, caters to formal diners and bar-goers looking for entertainment, Chung says that I Love Sushi caters to diners specifically interested in the food.

“I’m the best though,” Chung said. “If you taste my sushi here once, you can’t get it anywhere else in Oxford.”

Now, the line of college kids waiting to eat the “best” sushi in Oxford is growing, but Chung isn’t fazed. He just keeps rolling.

“I have fun now,” Ryan said.

“When I see a drunk college kid, I don’t have to worry about being suspicious anymore — I just have to worry about making them full. That makes me happy.”

Former patient remembers accident by donating socks EVENT

ELLIE CALLINAN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Ohio recently received a thank you letter accompanying a box full of 51 socks from Marne Kinney Parmelee, a Miami University graduate and a former patient of the hospital. Parmelee was involved in a serious accident 30 years ago from this past November, when she was hit by a drunk driver at night while walking back to campus from Uptown.

Parmelee and a group of her friends were crossing over High Street in 1984 when a truck drove right toward them and did not stop.

The driver, a then-university staff member, hit Parmelee, flipping her onto the hood, and she was thrown back onto the ground. He tried driving away, but someone in the group stopped him.

“They thought I was dead — they outlined me in chalk. My pulse was so low they couldn’t find it,” Parmelee said.

After realizing she was still

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alive, Parmelee was rushed to McCullough-Hyde where they identified several critical injuries.

She suffered three pelvic fractures, major facial contusions, a concussion and a fractured knee.

The doctors warned her about the seriousness of her injuries, explaining she may never walk again or have children, and may need major plastic surgery to repair her facial wounds.

Parmelee spent five days in McCullough-Hyde, where she

received care from several doctors and nurses.

“They bent over backwards to accommodate whatever I needed,” Parmelee said.

A combination of McCulloughHyde staff care and Parmelee’s commitment to recovery helped her overcome the accident, she said.

Parmelee has since defied the doctors’ predictions. She walks, she has two children and her facial contusions have healed. She said she now lives a normal, happy life

in Rochester, New York, where she teaches kindergarten in a violent and impoverished area.

When McCullough-Hyde first received Parmelee’s thank you letter and a box full of sox, they felt honored and appreciated to be remembered in such a positive light.

Pam Collins, vice president and chief patient services officer at McCullough-Hyde, and Katie Estes, executive assistant to the CEO, did their part to show the staff how much of an impact effective nursing can have. They made copies of the letter and personally delivered them to units where she may have been a patient.

“So often we never know about the difference that we make. We take care of patients every day, dayin and day-out. But in this case, even though these nurses may not have known her, it just fills up your cup and makes you want to continue to do the work that you do because of the difference that we make,” Collins said.

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Summit needed to get heroin issue solved

Pharmacy company BioRx sold for $315 million

About 60 community leaders gathered Monday in Middletown to discuss the area’s growing drug problem.

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The company, previously owned by Blue Ash, announced Thursday that it has been bought out by Diplomat Pharmacy, Inc. –The Enquirer

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Washington police fired 17 times at Mexican orchard worker The worker was shot 17 times and killed after he repor tedly threw rocks at the officers.

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INTERNATIONAL

Death toll at 168 from Afghanistan avalanches The avalanches have continued to devastate the area. Officials expect that toll to continue to rise in the next few days.

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POLICE BEAT Officers respond to domestic violence complaint At 12:37 a.m. on Feb 23, an officer responded to 222 N. Elm St. on a report of domestic violence. On arrival, the officer met with the victim who advised that her husband had assaulted her, taken her money and identification and left the home shortly before the police arrived on scene. As the victim spoke to the officer about the assault, the officer noticed one side of her hair was a completely different color than the other side. Upon further inspection, the officer realized the discoloration was actually a result of her head being covered in blood. The officer observed an approximated two-inch laceration on the side of her head along with a swollen lip and several other lacerations on the victim’s face. He radioed for a squad to come and further evaluate the victim’s injuries. Everything the officer observed was consistent with wounds from an assault. The victim advised that she and her husband had been arguing about circumstances she could no longer recall when he began striking her in the head and face with a closed fist. Oxford paramedics arrived on the scene and the victim agreed to be transported to McCulloughHyde hospital for treatment. The officers on the case located the victim’s husband at his mother’s house in Hamilton at which point he was transported to Butler County Jail. He was charged with Domestic Violence.

Coffee shop burglary, iPad, cash missing At 6:58 a.m. on Feb. 23, officers were dispatched to the Oxford Coffee Company at 21 Lynn Ave. in reference to a burglary. Both owners reported to officers that they had arrived to work at approximately 6:30 a.m. at which point they found the cash register had been forced open and change and cash were missing.

Also missing was an Apple iPad. According to the owners, the cash register drawer had been locked prior to the incident and there was now noticeable damage to the drawer. There was no forced entry observed to the store. Both the front and rear doors of the store were locked. The burglary appeared to have occurred between 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 22 and 6:30 a.m. on Feb. 23. The investigation is ongoing.

Fraternity house vandalized On Feb. 24, the Oxford Fire Department responded to a call from 310 Tallawanda St., the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, in reference to a fire alarm. When the officer arrived he found a group of males standing on the south side of the house. One of the males showed to officer two windows that had been broken and said he could hear water flowing from inside the house in the kitchen. The broken windows led into the kitchen, but the kitchen remained locked at all times and no one had the key. They had closed the kitchen this semester due to lack of funds to keep a chef on staff. He could not give a time frame on how long the window had been broken because no one used the kitchen and no one walks past it. The fire department had to force entry into the kitchen because no one had the key. The officers found a water pipe that had been ruptured due to the frigid temperatures in the kitchen. Upon further investigation, the officers came to the conclusion that the window had been forcibly broken a day or two prior to the pipe bursting. The fire department was able to shut off the power to the house, which forced the residents to move out temporarily. The officer located a broken bud light bottle underneath one of the windows, which presumably had been used to break the window.

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through a conceptual design phase that will ensure everything needed in the building has a place.

Along with the architectural plans for the building, Sayler has also been searching for private partners of health care companies that will help with rehabilitation space for the student athletes.

“We are still in negotiation with finding someone, but whoever the health care provider is will probably provide the biggest donation and satisfy the overall funding for the building,” Sayler said.

A good portion of Gunlock’s funding came from his real estate development company RG Properties, which has over 11 million square-feet of retail space throughout the Midwest, according to a Miami University press release.

In the press release, Gunlock explained how much it meant to him to donate the money for the athletic space.

“My time as a student-athlete was instrumental in preparing me for the challenges of entrepreneurship after graduation,” he said.

“The gift is given in the spirit of encouraging the next generation of Miami student-athletes to take full advantage of their time at the university.”

Rick Costello is an engineering designer for Miami’s building floor plans and was able to see the sideby-side floor plan renderings for the Gunlock building earlier this week.

“The building is going to really help the players,” Costello said.

“They can go straight from the practice field to the weight room to continue training and it should definitely help with recruiting.”

For the entrance of the building, Sayler is planning to have the hallway pay homage to the history of Miami football.

“I want all the current players and future recruits to walk in and see all the great things we’ve accomplished,” Sayler said.

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prescription medicine that reverses the effects of opioid overdoses, erasing almost all traces of drugs in the bloodstream. Oxford EMS also issues Narcan in response to drug-related calls.

Sharon Klein, director of community wellness at McCulloughHyde, said Narcan has successfully been around since the 60s and is nothing new in the medical community.

According to stopoverdose. org, “Narcan is an antidote to opioid drugs. Opioids can slow or stop a person’s breathing, which causes death. Naloxone helps the person wake up and keeps them breathing.”

Some of the opioids Narcan can reverse the effects of include heroin, morphine, oxycodone, methadone, hydrocodone, codeine and other prescription pain medications.

While many overdoses result in fatalities, McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital and counseling centers in the area are working hard to prevent drug-related deaths.

were for patients of the hospital who had to learn to walk again, just like her. She remembers that the floors were often cold and slippery.

Additionally, she has several family members who had to undergo rehabilitation and experienced swollen feet from walking without socks. Parmelee wanted to make sure that patients had comfy, warm and non-skidding socks.

Although McCullough-Hyde has yet to pass out the socks, the hospital staff anticipates a positive response. The hospital staff intends to make the socks more memorable by attaching small tags that tell Parmelee’s inspiring story.

They believe the socks and Parmelee’s story will create a personal touch to the hospital care that will encourage patients in their recovery.

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and White however.

Miami had a 15-point lead at one point, but allowed the Falcons to close to within two in the second half.

“It’s great to be in those situations so you can learn,” Wright said.

Junior forward Hannah McCue set the tone for the RedHawks with a double-double, scoring 14 points and adding 10 boards.

McCue had the hot hand behind the arc. She came in shooting just 18 percent, but knocked down 4 of 7 attempts.

McCue said the freshmen were into the game and played with intensity.

“When they [freshmen] start getting into it, it makes it so much more fun of a game,” McCue said.

The freshmen progression has helped Miami to creep up in MAC standings, and Wright said seeing the growth has been fun.

“It’s a credit to our team, how hard they work,” Wright said. “Our team sees this as a

foundation and we’re building that foundation.”

One of those freshmen, guard Baleigh Reid, had another solid night, finishing with a gamehigh 15 points and adding seven rebounds.

Senior guard Courtney Larson added 12 points.

Saturday is the last home game of Larson’s and fifth-year senior Katy Dolesh’s careers. They will both be honored in pre-game ceremonies.

The team has some added motivation for the home game, as it wants to give Larson and Dolesh a proper send-off.

“It would be really great to get a last win for those two,” McCue said. “They mean a lot to the team..”

The RedHawks host Kent State, a familiar foe.

The Golden Flashes (5-21, 3-12 MAC) were the first MAC win for the RedHawks this season.

Kent State lost a hardfought game to the University of Akron Wednesday.

The final score was 54-53.

A late Kent State foul allowed Akron to complete a threepoint play to take the lead in the final seconds.

Miami defeated Kent State 6953 Feb. 11.

The RedHawks shot 49 percent overall, including a 63 percent second half.

Reid scored a team-leading 15 points and went 6 for 6 from the charity stripe.

Junior forward Jessica Rupright also had a big night going 5 of 6 from the field and scoring 12 points.

Sophomore guard Larissa Lurken who was the lone Golden Flash in double figures, with 15 points.

Lurken is also the team’s leading scorer on the year, averaging 10.8 points per game.

The game is an important one for both teams, as they are tied in MAC standings. Much like the Bowling Green game, this could sway tournament seeding with the MAC tournament barreling towards the teams.

Tip-off is set for 1 p.m.

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Miami’s version of school spirit leaves sports teams hanging EDITORIAL

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

It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon in September, but Yager Stadium is empty. On any given day on Miami’s campus, you’ll see more students wearing University of Cincinnati or Ohio State University apparel than Miami RedHawks gear.

The basketball team won a huge game in overtime this week against Kent State, but there was hardly anyone in Millett to see it happen.

Whatever happened to school spirit? Thousands of us went to high schools where sports were everything — where the only thing to do on a Friday night involved the football game, and we loved every minute of it. But these spirited, fanatic students won’t be found at any Miami games.

We at The Miami Student have seen a growing problem in our student body, and it becomes more and more relevant as our sports teams become more irrelevant

in the eyes of our student body.

Why don’t we feel the need to go to any athletic events? If we attended schools like Ohio State, we would be at every football game no matter our schedules. And if we weren’t there, we would probably be anxiously checking the score of the game while sporting all sorts of Buckeye clothing.

Somehow, we lost this dedication when we came to Miami. Maybe some of us went to that first football game as first-years, but as soon as we saw the mostly-empty stadium we never came back. We learned that Beat the Clock was the “in” thing to do on our weekends, and we traded school spirit for $1 pitchers without ever looking back.

We know that students are out there who love sports. After all, we still wear various jerseys to class and Uptown and we definitely care about certain college and profes-

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Make Bishop Woods better without degrading it I read with interest the Letter to the Editor about Bishop Woods by Vincent Cirrito, Miami’s Landscape Architect, in Tuesday’s issue of The Miami Student. Mr. Cirrito does an excellent job summarizing the unique history of this piece of natural forest between Hughes Laboratory and Upham, Culler and Shideler Halls. I also applaud his leadership in drafting a plan to make Bishop Woods more accessible. While that plan was only briefly described in his letter, I saw a more complete presentation of the plan on Feb 11, when it was presented to members of Miami University’s Natural Areas Committee.

Mr. Cirrito’s statement that the restoration efforts “are supported by the Miami University Natural Areas Committee” might give readers the impression that our committee approved this plan.

We did not.

Members of the committee expressed concerns about some aspects of the plan at the meeting and in the following days.

Back in May of last year, we approved the general concept of making Bishop Woods more accessible.

But the brief outline we were shown at that time differs in some significant ways from version we were shown on Feb. 11.

Our major concern is the planting of lawn grass along all of the new walkways and in a large oval area in the center of Bishop Woods. The short document our committee was shown in May made no mention of planting grass.

Grass will inevitably spread from where it is planted to adjacent areas of natural vegetation.

The forest understory community has developed since the Board of Trustees resolved, in 1982, that the Bishop Circle Area is “deserving of permanent protection” (Resolution R83-26).

Bishop Woods is the remaining piece of what was a larger wooded area, the College Grove, which was valued by generations of students for its natural beauty and firewood.

In 1986, the mowing of Bishop Woods was suspended to protect existing trees from soil compaction and to allow for natural regeneration of trees and other native forest plants.

Many native wildflowers, including spring beauty and white trout lily, now grow in Bishop Woods, and the area is valuable to students in courses such as Field Botany. This biodiversity is most attractive in April, May and June, when most of the wildflowers are in bloom.

Grass will not only compete with these native species, but also raise the likelihood that

lawn mowers will need to make ever wider passes along the pathways to ‘chase’ the grass invasion. This mowing will damage taller wildflowers and kill tree seedlings. Lawn grass also requires fertilizer and pesticide, which will run off to impact the native plants and animals in the adjacent forest vegetation.

Committee members like the idea of a small open area in the center of the woods, where students could sit on benches in the shade and appreciate a slice of nature that is linked to Miami’s history. But we think the planting of native wildflowers, such as wild ginger, would be more sustainable than a grass lawn.

There are several features of the new plan that the committee favors, including the routing of walkways to avoid impacting the magnificent large trees, the cutting of dead trees that pose a safety hazard to pedestrians, the planting of native species that are not yet represented in the Woods as well as the removal of Amur honeysuckle, winter creeper and other non-native invasive plants.

These and several other aspects of the plan are consistent with the 1982 directive from the Trustees, as well as subsequent decisions: the University Senate resolution from 2004 to designate Bishop Woods as a Natural Area to be preserved in perpetuity, the 2008 management plan drafted by the Natural Areas Committee and the approval of this management plan, in 2009, by the Campus Planning Committee.

Planting grass and opening up views across the woods by cutting small trees, as also envisioned in the current draft, are not consistent with those directives.

In recent years, Bishop Woods has been the subject of undergraduate research projects, including the Honors thesis of Jillian Hertzberg (‘11), who not only carried out ecological studies, but surveyed student opinion.

Among her findings, 73 percent of respondents indicated that they wanted Miami to protect Bishop Woods.At Miami we are fortunate to have leadership that recognizes the importance of integrating sustainability with planning.

The Natural Areas Committee is formally communicating our concerns to the Landscape Architect, and we look forward to working constructively with him and others in refining the plan so that it maintains the integrity of Bishop Woods while making it more accessible to members of the university community.

DAVID L. GORCHOV, PROFESSOR, BIOLOGY

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sional sports. So, if all of this matters to us, why doesn’t Miami have students fighting for seats at games?

The Editorial Board knows most people would argue that games would be attended more if Miami’s teams were winning, which is definitely true. Men’s hockey attendance has increased a lot this year as the team’s performance has improved since last season.

However, consistently solid teams like the women’s soccer team don’t see a lot of attendance at events.

Isn’t this just a little bit sad, that the only way to get students to care about our athletic teams is if they’re winning? Even then, students don’t always care. The only time students were interested in going to football games in the past few years was when there were rumors about student tailgating being allowed.

That’s right — we only wanted

to go to football games if we could drink. Otherwise, why would we ever abandon the merriment of Brick Street on a Saturday?

This seems to be the main problem: students relate their Miami experience more to drinking than to school spirit and RedHawk pride.

When recent graduates return to campus, they’re excited to go back to their favorite bars rather than cheer on their alma mater. How many kids grow up rooting for the RedHawks? Probably none.

Miami gives students all the incentives to go to games — we get in for free with our student IDs rather than hoping to get tickets in lotteries or paying enormous amounts of money. Not only that, but concession stands take our meal plan money, and plenty of raffles happen at games for free T-shirts, gift cards and more.

Clearly, the university is pull-

ing out all the stops to get students interested in attending athletic events. So why isn’t it working?

We at The Miami Student believe the problem lies in the culture and mindset of our student body. In short, students only want to do things that are seen as socially acceptable by their peers.

Unfortunately, with the exception of hockey, this does not include going to most sporting events.

Unless students change their mindset, unless we make a collaborative effort as a student body to support our athletes, this culture won’t change.

First-year students will come in full of RedHawk pride, and in just a few weeks push their Miami T-shirts to the backs of the closet before heading Uptown to drink trashcans with friends — just as we all once did.

When friendship fools you: My best friend turned out to be a criminal and I didn’t see it coming RELATIONSHIPS

MILAM’S MUSINGS Willa Cather, one of the great American authors, said, “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

One of those few, but enduring, stories is the act of human betrayal.

History is replete with these tales and figureheads: Judas, Benedict Arnold, Guy Fawkes, Brutus, the Rosenbergs and more.

But I don’t need to rattle the saber of history to encapsulate my tale of betrayal.

The best, perhaps most unusual way to begin this, is with Ricky Jay, one of the world’s greatest sleight-of-hand magicians.

They’re your the-world-is-ending 4 a.m. text message, your comfort zone and your safe place of secrets unshareable with other bipeds.

In a way, friendship — a sort of love in its own right — is a sleight-of-hand, isn’t?

It’s a lot like how when you read over your own writing, your brain fills in the gaps, so that typos slip through.

With a friend, you tend to gloss over deficiencies, subsume them into your worldview of them.

Yeah, they have these blemishes, but you love them anyway.

After all, once you’re clicking, separation seems unthinkable.

This was my fatal flaw in my friendship with Mr. W. And it was the leverage he needed to betray me and others who knew him.

At present, Mr. W awaits trial under an FBI investigation for two counts of distribution of child pornography across state lines.

But, that’s merely what he got caught for.

In subsequently released public documents of the government’s

With a friend, you tend to gloss over deficiencies, subsume them into your worldview of them.Yeah, they have these blemishes, but you love them anyway.”

He’s an artist with hand movements, dictation and skill that deceive the eyes.

From an early age, I gravitated toward this kind of magic in my desire to know, “How did he do that?” The showmanship, the sleight-of-hands, the grandiose spectacle, all coalesced into, well, something magical, something to be seen, even if ironically, one wasn’t seeing all that there was.

As I entered my teen years, magic manifested in a nuanced way: the magic of the Internet.

Somehow, the combination of zeroes and ones produced videos, instantaneous messages and all the world’s information at my fingertips. Today’s science is yesterday’s magic, after all.

These zeroes and ones also redefined friendship.

Now, I could become friends with people I’d never seen in person. The virtual had become the reality. Through this medium, I met a group of friends that would become as real as any of my “real life” friends.

One friend in particular, Mr. W, had entered that undefinable nebulous rank of “best” friend. We conversed daily, sharing common interests, traded ridiculous humor and parsing serious issues. Queue Toy Story’s “You Got a Friend In Me.” When you step back from it, friendship is a lot like magic. It’s hard to put your finger on it, but with some people, you just click.

case against him, it’s revealed he had previously traded child pornography in 2010.

We met in person for the first time on April 6, 2013 in New York. He was arrested for the first time three days prior in Mobile, Alabama for “sexually assaulting a juvenile minor,” according to Alabama.com.

Court documents indicate those charges were dropped.

Court documents reveal the breadth of his Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde operation. His Dropbox account includes a folder entitled, “Been With,” — “which has 78 subfolders and 974 files of individuals he claims to have ‘been with,’ including several sub-folders that have images of boys who appear to be under 18 years old who are either nude or engaged in sexual activity.”

Documents also note that Mr. W admitted, “among other things, that he used his Dropbox and Gmail accounts to trade child pornography and that he is sexually attracted to minor boys.”

And, admitted to sexual activity with three minors. Discovering the arrest report in 2013 was enough to drop my jaw, but these explicit details made me queasy.

This was someone I turned to when I felt I could talk to nobody else. This was the person with whom I shared some of my most intimate of secrets.

This was someone I would’ve

done anything for. And here he is, laid bare by the FBI as this utter stranger to me.

I found myself like the kid growing up watching magic, asking, “How did he do that?” That soon became, “Why did he do that?” A college-educated, liberal, well-spoken, “best friend” had become the antithesis to everything I sought in a friend.

Worst of all, aside from the fact of the crime, is that I didn’t see it. In hindsight, it’s like watching Fox’s “Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed” and having that, “A-ha!” moment over and over again.

A part of me thinks someone with warier eyes to his act would’ve seen it; that I was too oblivious, an easy mark for a master carney. However, he had fooled a great many people beyond me. I was just one of the closest.

He was Ricky Jay. He was performing a masterful sleight-ofhand. That’s the faith I understand friendship, and ultimately, love to be built upon.

A certain sleight-of-hand, a certain acceptance that you’ll trust this person, even if your brain glosses over the gaps. A certain faith.

I had faith in my Internet-delivered friend. I trusted him. I thought he was my best friend. Now, I think, I could find 15 other people, probably more, who would say he was their best friend, too. He had that way about him.

Then I see his mugshot, his sunken eyes, his week-old beard, and the orange jumpsuit.

I see the stranger.

It’s simultaneously the realest thing I’ve ever been involved in and the most surreal, mind-bending, Dateline-special-fiasco.

Sometimes faith is rewarded in a lifetime of friendship and sometimes, it’s betrayed, as just another retelling of a familiar, all-too-human story.

After such a deep betrayal like that, it’s natural to ask whether you can ever trust someone else again.

Or perhaps more importantly, whether you can ever truly know someone. What lurks beyond the sheen of friendship? Of love?

In a way, that would be its own type of betrayal. To turn away from these lofty things — love, friendship, connection — that makes us human because it got too hard or because the connection with one was severed.

There are and will be more friends, more connections and more leaps of faith. There must be.

Anything else would be a sleightof-hand on ourselves.

And if there’s one person wise to our tricks, it’s ourselves.

BRETT MILAM

MIALMBC@MIAMIOH.EDU

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‘Carpe diem’ and all that jazz LIFE

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved to cook. For my eighth birthday my grandfather took me to a cooking class on French and Mediterranean herbs and out to dinner at our favorite restaurant, Shuhei, for sushi and tempura — a tradition we carry on to this day.

Over winter break, my grandfather and I participated in a cooking class at Sur La Table.

The theme for the class was “An Evening in Tuscany.”

It probably surprised the five other romantically involved couples when a 70-year-old and his grandson strolled in, clad in cooking aprons and carrying a bottle of Chianti. But what’d we care? We were having fun.

Halfway through the course, the instructor was blending a pesto to dress a faro, tomato and cucumber salad we had just been working on.

She took the class through the

The world is at our fingertips.The trouble is, we think we have time.”

steps of toasting pine nuts, how to properly peel garlic bulbs and adding green handfuls of pungent, fresh basil. Then, the instructor began to put the last ingredient into the food processor — a single anchovy in olive oil.

“You can’t put that in there!”

A lanky, elderly man with small square glasses shouted.

“Why?” the instructor asked quickly, taken aback and concerned. “Are you allergic to fish?”

“No,” the man said. “I just hate anchovies. They’re absolutely disgusting.”

When we were young our parents could get us to try new foods with a simple “it tastes like

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chicken” or “it’s daddy’s favorite!” When I was a kid, I hated broccoli. I hated the color, I hated the shape, but I didn’t hate the taste. I had never actually tried it.

It wasn’t until the dinosaur phase hit and my mom began calling broccoli “trees” that I decided I liked them.

I had little hope that either strategy would work with this “dippy-doop,” as my grandfather began calling him. Anchovies do not taste like chicken and I was confident the man was not prone to walking around the house like a velociraptor.

“Well,” the instructor said smartly, dropping the anchovy into the dish. “You won’t even know it was an anchovy to begin with. It’s just going to add some much needed saltiness to the dish. You’ll love it if you try!”

The man didn’t try the dish.

I think this is such a wholesome analogy, specifically for college students.

We are at the time in our lives when we should be hungry to learn and be better. The world is at our fingertips. The trouble is, we think we have time.

When I was a kid I would spend all day staring at pictures in National Geographic magazines or watching the Discovery Channel.

The pyramids at Cairo, nightlife in Tokyo, long winding streets in Marrakesh. I told myself that I was going to visit every single one of them. My only concern is that I thought I would have started by now. My mother would say that I have my whole life ahead of me, but all I keep thinking is how much little time I truly have.

Do we really want to spend the rest of our lives like this man — 50-something and still afraid to try a new food? Don’t let the fear of what you don’t know hold you back from trying all the things you may never know. I know what I want. I want it all.

JAMES STEINBAUER

STEINBJT@MIAMIOH.EDU

RULE OF THUMB LOVE AT NEW SIGHT We were feeling all hopelessly romantic this week when we saw the story that Allen Zderad could see his wife after being blind for 10 years thanks to technological advances and the Mayo Clinic.

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD Miami’s best track ahtletes are headed to their Indoor MAC Championship this weekend. Wish them luck at all that running, throwing and jumping!

SCOFF-EE CUPS KFC has partnered with Seattle’s Best Coffee to bring the UK “scoff-ee cups,” which are edible coffee cups made of biscuit and lined with chocolate. They sound kind of good, but we’re still skeptical until we can try it.

TOO LAZY TO EAT DESSERT Making dessert at home is on the decline, according to an annual report by research firm NPD Group. Americans apparently view baking brownies or cookies as too much of a hassle. But c’mon, there’s just something about that homemade taste!

IT’S NOT SPRING YET All of our Throwback Thursday photos were beach-themed and reminders of sunny days.

Because we’re really over this whole winter thing. Let’s go Ohio, let’s warm things up.

HOUSE OF CARDS THIRD SEASON If you’re a Frank Underwood groupie, remember to logon to Netflix this weekend for the third season of House of Cards.

Hey, can anyone let us borrow their Netflix password?

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Miami’s Best Kept Secret: Adjunct facuty are underpaid Miami University has received a lot of press lately; some laudable and some lamentable.

What has not received any public scrutiny is perhaps Miami’s bestkept secret: how much (or little) Miami pays adjunct faculty, meaning faculty members who are paid on a per course basis.

Miami adjunct pay in the Humanities hovers around $2,400 per three-hour course each semester, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Adjunct Project..

Assuming an adjunct teaches three courses in the fall and spring, it amounts to $7,200 per semester, or $14,400 a year, which might qualify them for food stamps and other government assistance.

Compare Miami’s meager stipend to other four-year public colleges in Ohio: Ohio State pays women’s studies adjuncts $4,683 per semester course and $4,000 for all adjuncts at its branch campuses in Lima and Marion. Ohio University’s compensation is $2,900 for all courses, and the University of Cincinnati gives it history adjuncts $2,900. Even these higher figures still amount to paltry paychecks.

In light of the fact that Miami

has the distinction of being the most expensive public university in Ohio, with an in-state tuition of $14,287.00, this discrepancy is as incomprehensible as “voodoo economics.”

Adjunct academics are highly educated and effective teachers.

Most have Ph.Ds. Those not in tenure-track positions comprise over 60 percent of faculty teaching on all Miami campuses, a figure on par with national averages.

Given their numbers, they are most likely responsible for Miami’s consistent reputation as one of the top four-year liberal arts institutions in the country.

Yet, adjuncts are often treated with disdain by their ivory-tower colleagues and administrators, creating a caste and class system that should be anathema to any institution of higher learning. They oftentimes work on a per-semester contract, with little advance notice as to whether they will be re-hired or let go.

They lack job security, benefits or in some cases even an office.

They rarely participate in shared governance or on search committees, are not included in regular

university e-mails and typically must cobble together multiple positions at two or even three different institutions just to ensure a livable wage.

This past Wednesday, college faculty nationwide engaged in a “National Adjunct Walkout Day” to bring attention to the abysmal working conditions of part-time professors. There was no one-day walkout at Miami on Wednesday.

Most adjuncts have adopted vows of silence about their situation, acutely aware that they belong to a cheap, replaceable labor pool. They are, in effect, the “scabs of academia.”

But this is the perfect “teachable moment” to share and educate all Miami stakeholders, especially students and their parents, who pay tuition and fees that are definitely not trickling down to most of their instructors.

The time is now to practice one of the four goals of Miami’s Liberal Education Plan: to “reflect and act.”

DR. SUSAN A. EACKER

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EACKERSA@MIAMIOH.EDU

Cowboys don’t cry: A middle school memoir LIFE

I spent nine years of my childhood at Saint Agatha School, a tiny redbrick Catholic k-8 institution of about 400 students, comfortably nestled in the pretension and prosperity of Upper Arlington, Ohio. Saint Agatha had all the characteristics of your quintessential Catholic school: God’s blessing and judgment, ill-fitting uniforms, brain washing issued after each Morning Prayer.

While I walked away from Saint Agatha full of warm and fuzzy memories, the summation of my experience there had to be my three-year-long tenure in the middle school drama club.

The middle school play was the zenith of preteen glory at Saint Agatha. Throughout our lowly elementary school years, we daydreamed of our participation in this holy event, the thought motivating us through blocked religion classes and Wednesday morning Masses. Aside from the ability to wear skirts instead of jumpers and to have recess in the gymnasium, the play was the mascot of middle school magnificence.

When I was in seventh grade, the drama department announced “Oklahoma!” as the musical, and while I was a bit peeved that I was yet again denied my debut as Annie, I was ready to brush up my Southern accent, and dazzle the play directors in my audition for lead cowgirl Laurey Williams.

Seventh grade was perhaps the most unfortunate in terms of looks for all three Slater sisters, and it sure had not spared me any of its awkwardness. There I was in all my bony, frizzy, bespectacled glory, my green plaid uniform skirt ballooning out from my yet-to-be hips in true Saint Agatha fashion. I was blessed enough to inherit my dad’s gene for blindness, and by age 13, I had advanced from slight nearsightedness to full out bat vision. My inch-thick oh-so-chic Coach brand glasses magnified my eyes so much I looked like a cartoon character. Oh, and don’t forget about the braces — I made sure those gems made their bright and shiny appearance in each school picture.

I was what they called an “early bloomer,” meaning I was one of the first in my class to graduate from a training bra to one with “more support.” By seventh grade, I was an inch or two taller than most of the girls in my class, although now I am dead average in height for women.

I was confident my maturity would give me an advantage in my audition; I was, of course, much more wise and womanly than my competitors. I would soon find out, however, how wrong I was.

The “dance” audition, a Zumba

or kickboxing class for preteens, was the first of a series of tryouts for “Oklahoma!” It was essentially the director’s way to assess the level of talent and acquiescence within the candidate pool. Looking back, I am surprised the uncoordinated like me did not pose a certain liability to this audition — one particularly robust kick from my lanky leg could easily result in broken teeth or flying eyeballs. However, none of the sort ever happened; I suppose my karate chops and sashays were never strong enough to cause any serious injuries.

The general audition, in which each candidate would sing a song of his or her choice and read a few lines from the script, took place a few days after the dance audition.

My best friend Claire and I decided to sign up for the same slot and sing a duet, as we were allowed to do.

My mother bought us an “Oklahoma!” songbook, and after skimming through the selections, we made the wise decision to pitch it and instead sing “Part of Your World,” from The “Little Mermaid.” Relevant, I know.

We practiced and practiced until we hit each note with perfect pitch.

We even integrated a bit of harmony into the melody to truly demonstrate our vocal skills.

Finally, the big day arrived. I remember standing outside the audition room, trembling on the retro red and black tiled floor where my friends and I had once played “hot lava,” ironically wishing I could go back to elementary school when life was just so much simpler. I had to nail this audition if I ever wanted to be cool. And I came out of that room thinking I did.

It took about a week for the director, Mrs. Snyder (or Mrs. Spider to us hooligans), and her co-director, the favorite seventh grade teacher Mrs. McCarron, to officially release the cast list. Between wavering shoulders and armpit gaps, I perused the page, my eyes scanning for my name like a metal detector. I felt a radiating sense of panic lick at my throat, my stomach performing acrobatic stunts, as I flitted past Laurey Williams and saw my classmate Katie’s name beside it. The hammer of my heart drowned out all other noise as I scanned the remaining members of the primary cast, and recognized my classmate’s names among them, but not mine. I didn’t see Claire’s name anywhere, either.

What were left were the secondary cast members, and I gave enough of a passing glance to see my name at the very bottom of the list, next to the character Ike Skidmore: a cowboy.

“A cowboy?!” I winced to myself, feeling waves of bitter defeat wash over me. A cowboy?! But I nailed that audition. I was so much better than that Katie! I’m not even

a boy! How did this happen? Fighting back angry tears, I caught up with Claire on the way out the door.

I felt guilty that I had pushed her to do the audition when she hadn’t even landed a part.

“So, are you in the chorus then?”

I asked her gently.

She looked at me, a smile gracing her freckly face. “No!” she said brightly. “I talked to Mrs. McCarron. They’re going to make me sound manager! I get to be in control of all the music and lights!

Isn’t that cool?”

I was completely perplexed. I didn’t know it then, but Claire, who was first chair flautist in honor band, was beginning her transition from country music loving, horseback riding, Harry Potter obsessed blonde, to angsty, alternative Fall Out Boy groupie. To her, getting the sound manager role was the same as me landing the role of Laurey Williams, but she didn’t even have to audition for it. How was life fair?

I dragged myself home to our four-bedroom home on Welsford Road, collapsing in defeat onto my mother’s warm and welcoming lap. She stroked my strands of brunette frizz, cooing to me in her soft Australian accent.

“Oh possum,” she said as I bawled my little heart out. “Everything is going to be all right.”

“But I am going to be a boy!” I wailed. “Do they think I’m ugly?”

“Of course not, you’re beautiful,” she said. “Women play men’s parts all the time. There are six boys in your class. What did you expect?”

She was right. Damn those mothers who sent their sons to Saint Andrew and Saint Brendan, the other Catholic schools in the area. This was all their fault!

“What do I do?” I sobbed. “I can’t be a cowboy!”

“Yes you can,” my mom said firmly. “You worked so hard on your audition. Be the best cowboy you can be, and who knows? You might have fun.”

She let me weep for a little while longer, rubbing my back while I considered her advice. Mothers have an uncanny way of shooting their words into your skull, where they invade your mind and conquest your reasoning abilities. So, I lay there in my mess of wet cheeks, snotty hair and foggy glasses, thinking miraculously that she was right. I needed to go up on that stage and be the best Ike Skidmore “Oklahoma!” had ever seen. The first step: stop being a baby. After all, cowboys don’t cry.

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honored in pre-game ceremonies.

The team has some added motivation for the home game, as it wants to give Larson and Dolesh a proper send-off.

“It would be really great to get a last win for those two,” McCue said. “They mean a lot to the team..”

The RedHawks host Kent State, a familiar foe.

The Golden Flashes (5-21, 3-12 MAC) were the first MAC win for the RedHawks this season.

Kent State lost a hard-fought game to the University of Akron Wednesday.

The final score was 54-53. A late Kent State foul allowed Akron to complete a three-point play to take the lead in the final seconds.

Miami defeated Kent State 69-53

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The RedHawks shot 49 percent overall, including a 63 percent second half.

Reid scored a team-leading 15 points and went 6 for 6 from the charity stripe.

Junior forward Jessica Rupright also had a big night going 5 of 6 from the field and scoring 12 points.

Sophomore guard Larissa Lurken who was the lone Golden Flash in double figures, with 15 points.

Lurken is also the team’s leading scorer on the year, averaging 10.8 points per game.

The game is an important one for both teams, as they are tied in MAC standings. Much like the Bowling Green game, this could sway tournament seeding with the MAC tournament barreling towards the teams.

Tip-off is set for 1 p.m.

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said. “We all want it and we all work really hard together to accomplish our goals.”

But Marchese, just like Monti, understands that success in the past doesn’t guarantee it for the future.

“You don’t ever want to get complacent because we set the bar in the collegiate division in this country,” Marchese said.

The collegiate team has worked hard to combat that complacency.

“We watched all the past collegiate teams that won national championships,” Marchese said.

“Just to kind of understand the history of being a part of the program and the legacy that we get to be a part of.”

Along with the collegiate team, the two other teams also have hopes of winning the title in each of their divisions. Senior Ashley Mulhern is a member of the senior team and she believes its skaters have what it takes to win the title.

“We are a very athletic team, especially by comparison to our competitors,” Mulhern said.

“We have a lot of speed on the ice which is something we are looking to capitalize on and we have two very exciting performances that all 19 of us absolutely love to perform.”

The senior team, which finished second in last year’s nationals, is seeking its first win since 2009 and fourth title overall.

The competition runs from Feb. 27 through March 1.

“I retired from a 20-plus-year career in the United States Army as an officer and was teaching Army ROTC at East Carolina University. I was hired to lead the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute here at Miami and since I had boxing experience as an athlete and coach, I assisted the coach at the time, Mike Argadine, who was a Miami grad and doing a great job coaching the club, while also working in Cincinnati. After the first year, he asked me to take over the club as he was getting married and it was increasingly hard to continue coaching the club. It must be noted that he and others did a phenomenal job coaching the club and it is a good example of a Miami graduate giving back to something he enjoyed while a student here.

I learned to box while a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point and was a Brigade Champion at 132 pounds.

When I went back to West Point to teach while still in the Army, I became an assistant coach for the West Point Boxing Club. In my last year coaching there, we won West Point›s first ever Collegiate Boxing Championship.

I am taking what I learned as both an athlete and coach at West Point and bringing it here at Miami as we develop elite collegiate boxers. Last year, we had two Regional Champions, four national qualifiers and two National All-Americans.

I love the sport of college boxing because it is a leadership and personal development activity like no other. It develops persistence and courage in our athletes, while also providing the foundation for a healthy physical life style. Each athlete trains with their teammates and alone.

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to push each other, challenge each and lead each other, while the individual nature of a boxing match forces each athlete to look deep within for the heart, courage and dedication to physically and mentally challenge another athlete one-on-one. When a boxer enters the ring and competes for the first time, they exit a different person: more confident, more self-aware, more prepared to take on difficult challenges in life and more prepared to lead others through difficult times. I often say “You don’t play boxing” so it takes a constant vigilance and dedication to prepare and compete successfully.

My commitment to college boxing is such that, in addition to coaching here at Miami, I also serve as the vice president of the National Collegiate Boxing Association, the governing body for collegiate boxing under USA Boxing. I, like all other college boxing coaches and officials, are volunteers. We do this work to develop leaders and elite athletes at colleges across the country.

My goal for Miami boxing is to compete successfully at the Regional and National levels and represent what it means to be a Miami RedHawk. But, I also want Miami boxing to be a home for any student that wants to learn the sport and experience it in a personalized way. We have three levels of participation, recreational, sparring and competitive, so there is a space for any student that wants to be involved. I also want the Miami Boxing Club to be a space for the development of leadership and character and its members to find success as student-athletes and continue their personal development as professionals in the career of their choice.”

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MU takes down Kent State in overtime thriller MEN’S BASKETBALL

JACK BREWER

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Miami University men’s basketball overcame a 19-point second-half deficit to stun Kent State University in an overtime thriller.

“There was a point in the second half where we had felt a bit exhausted, somewhat defeated,” Sullivan said.

“All of our energy was just kind of gone, and we had a substitution where we subbed out four or five guys out early in the second half, and that just kind of gave us a spark.”

Junior guard Eric Washington anchored the RedHawk (12-16, 7-8 Mid-American Conference) offense with 24 points, while three other RedHawks also reached double figures in scoring. Senior guard Will Sullivan put up 16, junior guard Geovonie CONNOR MORIARTY THE MIAMI STUDENT McKnight notched 14 and junior Junior guard Geovonie McKnight drives to the lane and lays in the game-tying guard Willie Moore came off the basket with 1.9 second left in regulation. McKnight had 14 points on the night. bench to contribute 12 points. The

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Two weekends remain in the regular season, and the race for the National Collegiate Hockey Conference title is as close as ever.

The No. 5 Miami University men’s hockey team continues its pursuit of the title as it travels to No. 7 University of Denver for a two-game matchup this weekend.

Miami (19-10-1, 12-7-1-1 NCHC) holds a 7-8 overall record against Denver after splitting the last series at home in late January. The ’Hawks captured a 4-1 win Saturday after a 3-1 setback Friday.

“Obviously, Denver won the NCHC last year, so they’re as good of a team as anybody we’ve played all year,” head coach Enrico Blasi said. “Most of that team is back and

they know how to play … they have lots of weapons, an unbelievable group of defensemen and a talented group of forwards.”

The Pioneers (18-10-2, 11-8-1-1 NCHC) have the nation’s sixth-best power play, posting a 22.8 percent success rate. The RedHawk penalty kill shut down eight DU man advantages in the last series.

“Denver’s power play is lightsout,” Blasi said. “They have [senior defenseman Joey] LaLeggia, who might be the greatest player in the country. You have to do everything you can do to disrupt their schemes and passing lanes.”

The Pioneers boast six players with at least 20 points this season, including the top three point producers in the NCHC. Freshman forward Danton Heinen leads the way with 35 points, while sophomore forward Trevor Moore and LaLeggia both have 31.

Senior forward Zac Larazza, who has collected 11 goals for Denver, is suspended for Friday’s game after an illegal hit to the head of a Colorado College player Saturday.

Miami returns to action after splitting last weekend’s series with then-No. 7 University of Minnesota Duluth. After a 3-1 loss Friday, the ’Hawks rallied from a two-goal deficit to an overtime 4-3 win.

“Anytime you pick up a win you feel a little better about where you’re at,” senior forward Blake Coleman said. “But regardless of the outcome of the game before, we usually put it behind us and believe in ourselves.”

The chase for the Penrose Cup resumes 9:37 p.m. EST Friday in Denver, Colorado. The series finale puck drops 9:07 p.m. EST Saturday.

“This is the best time of the year,” Coleman said. “The chance to win a championship — this is what you play for.”

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RINARD’S RUNDOWN While the snow is still falling in Oxford, the fists are flying in Withrow as the Miami Boxing Club is preparing for the Midwest Regionals at Iowa State March 13-15. I caught up with some of the club members for some insight into the college boxing world.

Sophomore Emily Davisson: “I started boxing because I knew that if I didn’t work out

with other people, I wouldn’t work out. I was not self-motivated enough to do that my freshman year and I was too cheap to pay for a fitness pass at the Rec. Plus, it was something I knew my parents wouldn’t really approve of, so that was a bonus at the time as well.

Competing in the women’s division is different because people don’t assume that girls can fight.

I remember at an invitational we went to in Cleveland, everyone saw me with the team and was shocked when we mentioned that I was also competing. It also leads to some difficulties in practice because there are fewer girls, which means I do spar males

most of the time in the gym.

Balancing boxing and schoolwork is challenging, but this semester I created a schedule that works and I have people outside of the team who will hold me accountable as well. The hardest part is motivating yourself to go the gym the extra four to five times a week outside of practice in order to ensure that you are in sparring condition. Waking up at 7:30 to go to the Rec when it’s freezing isn’t my ideal morning, but it’s better than getting your butt handed to you in the ring because you’re not as in-shape as the next guy.

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’Hawks handle Bowling Green WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

DANIEL TAYLOR

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University women’s basketball picked up a crucial win Wednesday night, defeating Bowling Green State University 59-51.

The RedHawks (6-20, 3-12

Mid-American Conference) needed a win to move out of the basement in the MAC, a place they have been all season. Coupled with a Kent State University loss, Miami is now in fourth in the MAC East.

The loss put an injured Bowling Green (9-17, 2-13 MAC) into the basement of the conference.

The RedHawks dominated all

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night, leading for over 38 minutes of the contest.

For head coach Cleve Wright, it was a nice learning experience to play with a lead for an entire game.

“Our team grew tonight,” Wright said. “We learned tonight.”

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game looked out of reach after the Golden Flashes (19-9, 10-5 MAC) went on a 12-0 run to go up 64-45 with 8:21 remaining in the game. The RedHawks then went on a 26-9 run to close the gap, which was fueled by seven points from Washington and back-to-back 3-pointers from Sullivan and sophomore guard Jaryd Eustace in the final minutes. Eustace hit a 3 with eight seconds left, and after Kent State missed a free throw with six seconds left, McKnight converted a layup to tie up the game at 79 at the end of regulation.

“We’ve been there before as a team,” Washington said. “I feel like when that opportunity arises our guys, at this point, don’t shy away from that.

I think that’s what kind of gave us the edge tonight. I think you can see when it got thick and the game started to get tight you could see Kent State start to tighten up, and that’s where we excel.”

The RedHawks shot a blistering 60.7 percent from the field in the second half, compared to just 28.6

percent in the first half. Miami was able to get to the free throw line for 23 attempts in the first half, making 17 of those, which helped them keep the deficit at just eight at halftime.

The RedHawks have now won four games in a row, including backto-back overtime games. The ’Hawks look to extend their hot streak at home Saturday against Bowling Green State University. For the third time in four weeks, Miami faces off against the MAC East leader. The last time the RedHawks and Falcons played, the ’Hawks defeated BG 67-56 on the road.

With three games left in the regular season, the MAC Tournament is rapidly approaching. Bowling Green is battling for a top-four seed and an opening round bye. Miami is fighting for an opening round home game.

If the season ended today, the RedHawks would be the last team to get that home game.

Tip off against the Falcons 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Millett Hall.

’Hawks on the hunt for 11th straight national title SKATING

JACK REYERING

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University Synchronized Skating is seeking its 11th straight title at the U.S. National Championships in Providence, Rhode Island this weekend.

In the collegiate division, Miami has won the title 10 straight years and 15 times overall. Along with the college squad, Miami’s junior and senior teams are competing this weekend.

Senior co-captain Lexi Monti is excited to try to make it 11

straight titles for the collegiate team, but understands the win won’t be handed to them either.

“We have to continuously stay motivated because we have won this competition ten years in a row and we have set the bar so high for ourselves,” Monti said.

Senior co-captain Melissa Marchese has been skating for the collegiate team for four years and said this year’s team is the best she’s seen.

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Red and White hit road for Fighting Camel Classic BASEBALL

DANIEL TAYLOR

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University baseball is looking to get the season back on track this weekend in the Fighting Camel Classic.

The team has been battling the loss of Seth Varner, who now pitches in the Cincinnati Reds system. Senior Ryan Powers said eventually one pitcher needs to step up into the role Varner had last season.

“He was the Friday starter,”

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Powers said. “It’s going to have to start with somebody stepping up to take that starting role.”

That starter may be Powers.

The 6-foot-5 right-handed pitcher threw six, no-hit innings last Friday in a 9-0 victory over the University of South Carolina Upstate.

“I knew that I had to get myself back on track,” Powers said.

“It’s really stressful trying to get that first win.”

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