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Volume 146 No. 11

Miami University — Oxford, Ohio

Climate Survey failed to gain enough response SURVEY

ANNA MINTON

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Campus Climate Survey closed on Nov. 3, after an extended deadline, due to lack of participation. Despite the extended time, the survey only received a 24.2 percent response rate, making it ineligible for an official analysis.

The survey was created to judge both the faculty and students’ perspectives of Miami’s campus climate, according to Denise Krallman, co-chair of the Campus Climate Working Group.

“Campus climate is how we perceive our comfort level, our relationships with each other,” said Krallman. “It’s part of the experiCONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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STUDENT’S SLUR SPARKED STORM ON SOCIAL MEDIA INCLUSION

JULIA PLANT

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A Facebook post made on Wednesday, Nov. 1 has raised significant attention to issues of racism and discrimination at Miami with over 500 likes and shares in the past five days.

“So, Miami University student, Thomas Wright, described black students as a ‘n----r’ in a GroupMe chat,” junior, Da’Vante Montgomery wrote. “There’s about 500 black students out of 16,000 at Miami. This is what we deal with DAILY! I dare all of the white students to hold him and the UNIVERSITY accountable.”

The post went further to discuss the steps the Miami community needs to take to address what Montgomery believes to be a racist culture on campus.

“Are we surprised? Hell no!!! But we are about to make him famous,” Montgomery wrote. “It’s time to have a serious conversation about being BLACK AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY.” Screenshots of Thomas Wright’s message were attached to the post.

Wright commented numerous times on the Facebook post that if anyone personally messaged him, he’d explain himself.

“I’ve talked to faculty and I’ve talked to students. I’m owning up to what I said.

I’m ashamed. I’m embarrassed. I’m sorry,” Wright said to TMS. “I want people to

know that I’m taking steps to learn from this and steps to educate those that don’t understanding the meaning of the word.

This has put things in perspective.”

When asked whether or not the university would take disciplinary action against Wright, Susan Vaughn, director of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution said in an email that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects students’ privacy with regards to disciplinary records.

For Montgomery, this issue is not about Wright, but rather a much larger institutional problem.

“Thomas Wright is just one person who represents a much larger problem,” he said. “We want to make famous the fact that these things are happening at our university and the fact that Miami is not holding people accountable.”

One of the active commenters on Montgomery’s post, sophomore Justinee Adams, also spoke out against the lack of accountability at Miami when it comes to racism.

“I was pretty shocked at the outright racism,” said Adams. “We’re supposed to be one community and it doesn’t make it easy when people voice different opinions like that.”

There will be a Black State of the Union forum at 7:11 p.m. tonight in McGuffey Hall 322 in response to this event and to continue the conversation about inclusion at Miami.

Ben Eaves: Forever a hockey player PROFILE

EMILY SIMANSKIS SPORTS EDITOR

Ben Eaves will always be a hockey player. He may sit at his desk above Miami hockey’s weight room as a student, on a medicine ball leading a workout as a coach or on press row watching a game as an analyst, but Eaves will always be a hockey player.

“It’s almost like your first sweetheart, your first love,” Eaves says. “You know it’s never going to last forever, but you just have the fondest memories and you

know it’s a great experience of your life.”

But then, of course, hockey players stop playing hockey.

Eaves, 35, is now Miami University Hockey’s Director of Human Performance and Wellness, a title that he even recognizes as too regal and very fancy.

Eaves works with players in the gym and on the ice as a development coach. He says he’s always learning and reading about teaching college players how to play the game they love.

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BEN EAVES LOVES BEING A COACH BUT WILL ALWAYS LOVE BEING A HOCKEY PLAYER. ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

Sophomore indicted for sexual assault charges CRIME

CÉILÍ DOYLE

ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Students were informed via an electronic campus crime alert from the Miami University Police Department that a sexual assault had occurred in Heritage Commons on Oct. 12. The initial email, sent out on Oct. 19, indicated that MUPD was still investigating and searching for a college-aged, Asian-American male with brown eyes and brown hair, around 6 feet tall and 180 pounds.

Two weeks later, sophomore Nicholas Cristescu stood for one of his first hear-

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ings on Thursday, Nov. 2 in the Butler County Area I courthouse in Oxford.

Cristescu appeared before the judge sporting an orange Butler County prisoner jumpsuit. Both his hands and feet were shackled.

Cristescu was initially charged with one count of rape and sexual battery, five counts of pandering obscene material to a minor, one charge of voyeurism, one charge of marijuana possession and one charge of marijuana paraphernalia.

The five charges for pandering obscene material were merged by the state into an amended class one misdemeanor for disseminating matter harmful to juveniles.

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Cristescu plead guilty to the misdemeanor as well as the charges related to marijuana possession and paraphernalia in the courthouse last Thursday. His sentencing for those charges was continued to Thursday, Dec. 14 at 1:00 p.m in the Butler County Area I courthouse.

However, the charges for rape, sexual battery and voyeurism were all dismissed by the state in the Butler County Area Court system, because Judge Robert Lyons cannot hear felonies in Oxford.

Instead, Cristescu was indicted by a grand jury in the Butler County Court of Common Pleas on one count of rape, one count of sexual battery and 11 counts of voyeurism, according to publicly avail-

able court records.

His arraignment hearing for the rape, sexual battery and voyeurism charges was held on Monday, Nov. 6 in Hamilton, OH at the General Division Court.

During the procedural-based hearing, Cristescu’s bond was set for $75,000.

As of right now, Cristescu is still registered as a student at Miami according to Claire Wagner, director of university news and communications.

Updates on Cristescu’s court proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas will be available at miamistudent.net. doyleca3@miamioh.edu @cadoyle_18

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Polls open today for competitive city council race ELECTION

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Nine candidates — including two incumbents — are running for four open seats on Oxford’s city council, making 2017 the city’s most competitive city council race in recent history.

The two incumbents (Edna Southard and Mike Smith) were elected in 2013. The other candidates are Drew Davis, Chantel Raghu, Jace Prows, David Prytherch, Sarah Vogel, Corey Watt and Austin Worrell. All are running to serve a four-year term in the city’s local municipal government.

Worrell is the most unconventional of the candidates: He’s a current Miami student majoring in political science with a minor in business legal studies.

The candidates had an opportunity to share their campaign platforms during a debate hosted by The Miami Student on Oct. 18 in the Armstrong Student Center’s Wilks Auditorium. Footage from the debate can be found at miamistudent.net.

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There, the contenders discussed several hot-button issues facing Oxford.

Candidates frequently asserted the need for the whole community – students, Miami staff and Oxford residents – to “come together” to solve the issues plaguing Oxford, particularly with respect to the prevalence of high-risk drinking at Miami.

Raghu and Prows reminded the audience that Miami’s drinking

culture is not unique, and that binge drinking is a problem on the national level. Prows was particularly adamant that Miami students should not be blamed for a problem not unique to them. He stated that the idea of withholding diplomas for alcohol violations is “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Another major theme of the debate was town-gown relations.

Smith emphasized the need to facilitate communication between

‘The Muslim Guy’ talks scapegoating, Islamaphobia LECTURE

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Scapegoating — blaming all societal ills on one group — is not new. Neither is targeting persons of Muslim faith, according to author, activist and human rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar.

“Islamophobia did not begin with Donald Trump and it will not end with Donald Trump,” Iftikhar said during a visit to Miami University on Thursday.

Iftikhar, author of “Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms” and the website TheMuslimGuy.com, highlighted discrimination on a global, national and local scale.

In a speech hosted by the Department of Media, Journalism & Film, Iftikhar laid out examples of modern-day xenophobia for an audience of about 150 faculty and students. Citing incidents from the “birther movement” surrounding former president Barack Obama to the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, Iftikhar said that the Americanness of Muslims is constantly called into question.

“We focus on the fact that Muslims are inherently foreign to the United States, even though we have been here since the country’s founding,” he said.

Rosemary Pennington, assistant professor of journalism, told the audience she has studied Muslims in the media with Iftikhar since 2008. Pennington talked about the terror attack on Oct. 31 in lower Manhattan, where a man plowed through a bike path for 17 blocks, killing eight people and injuring others.

“I saw the banner along the bottom of my TV, and I thought, ‘Oh no,’” Pennington said. “Because, now, in the era we live in, it’s generally one of two things: it’s either a mass shooting or it is an event that is likely to be labeled ‘terrorism.’”

In the aftermath of 9/11, hate began to manifest itself in everyday fallacies like “all Arabs are Muslim,” or “all Muslims are Arab,” Iftikhar said.

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The incidents come regularly, he said. Iftikhar himself has felt the sting of Islamophobia. In a 2015 CNN appearance, anchor Don Lemon asked him if he supported ISIS. During an appearance on Fox, an anchor complimented him for lacking an accent — seeming not to believe that a brown-skinned Muslim man could not be a native of Chicago.

Government and media are quick to call acts of violence terrorism if they involve Muslim individuals, Iftikhar said. He named similar acts — like the killing of Charleston churchgoers in 2015 by Dylann Roof and the October massacre in Las Vegas by Stephen Paddock — as acts of terror.

“We all know that if it were a Muslim who did it, we’d still be talking about it 23 hours a day and it’d be named terrorism in about 10 seconds,” he said.

“The term ‘terrorism’ has been co-opted, sadly, in America to only apply when Muslims commit acts of mass murder.”

Terrorism does not have to be motivated by a foreign ideology, he asserted. Neither is it exclusively practiced by extremists or extremist groups.

“Listen, ISIS will claim responsibility for anything. ISIS would claim responsibility for Hurricane Harvey if it could,” Aftikhar said.

Such claims — and the repetition of them in the media —turn Muslims in America into the “proverbial boogeyman.” He pointed to a Georgia State University study that showed Muslims committed 12.4 percent of all domestic terrorist attacks in the United State between 2011 and 2016 and yet received 44 percent of the total media coverage.

“It’s very important for us to humanize ourselves to one another,” Iftikhar said, to combat Islamophobia.

He also met with Miami’s Muslim Students’ Association.

They discussed ideological approaches to speak with those of other beliefs and suggested Muslim speakers to demystify the Muslim-American experience on campus.

That advice correlates well with the MSA’s goals of orienting new Muslim students socially and spiritually. Members make it a point to find ways to socialize in ways that uphold their values, according to MSA president Levent Yurdum.

“His talk was very chillingly depressing,” Yurdum said.

“I think that’s a good thing.

I think it’s good to, now and again, have our bubble burst in a shocking manner when we’re just going about our day.”

the university and the town, while Southard claimed that much of student involvement in Oxford life goes unnoticed.

Also discussed at the debate were Oxford’s zoning laws. Raghu criticized the laws as “hyper-regulatory” and Watt cited his own experience where he was disallowed from adding a decorative gable to his roof because of “illogical” zoning laws.

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ences we have, and our relationships we have, and is a much broader perspective.”

This survey has been done before many times at Miami University, according to Krallman. Starting in 1996, the work group decided to repeat the survey once every six years. However, after a low response rate in 2008 that made the data collected invalid, the group decided to stop.

The survey was brought back this year at the urging of President Crawford, according to Krallman. The survey was supported by an 18-month contract with Rankin and Associates, and cost approximately $120,000.

“We did a lot more publicity, and a broader outreach this time,” said Krallman, in regards to what changes were made from the survey in 2008 and now. “We had more posters, and sent out more emails.”

Despite the increase in publicity, only 17.3 percent of undergraduate students and 26.6 percent of graduate students completed the survey, according to a frequency analysis report sent out by Rankin and Associates.

“I think they could have done a better job at making the survey seem mandatory,” said firstyear Jessica von Zastrow. “Maybe they could have put holds on students’ accounts for registering for classes.”

One reason why some students did not respond to the survey was that many emails stated that the survey would take 25 to 30 minutes, according to first-

year Katherine Johnson.

“I know I haven’t taken it yet, because I haven’t had the 30 minutes that are required to take the survey,” said Johnson.

“I know a lot of students would rather study for their exams for 30 minutes rather than fill out a survey.”

“It’s a student decision to fill out the survey or not,” said Krallman. “It’s unfortunate that students thought they couldn’t take 30 minutes out of a multiweek time period to fill out an important survey. I think everyone involved is disappointed that they didn’t want to respond.”

Since the survey’s participation rate was well under 50 percent, it’s impossible to do the official data analysis that was paid for in the contract. However, since there was a 58.3 percent response rate among faculty, Krallman stated that some “statistical inferences” may be done.

“After the working group meets after the first of the year, we will have those discussions about what was successful,” said Krallman. “Then that information can be documented, and then we can use those thought processes to determine what to do from here.”

Until the work group meets again, it is uncertain if they will decide to do the survey again in the future.

“We didn’t want to make it feel like it was something that they had to do,” said Krallman.

“It was encouraged, but not enforced.” mintona2@miamioh.edu

NEW INITIATIVE AIMS TO PREVENT SEXUAL ASSAULT, HARRASSMENT AT BARS

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was marked with one major point of contention: Accusations of collusion between two “slates” of candidates caused a stir in online and in-person discussion. The two alleged blocs (Worrell, Davis, Prows and Vogel in one, with Prytherch, Raghu, Smith and Southard in the other) were claimed to have worked together in a nonpartisan race.

The Student reported that each bloc categorically denied collusion, but that each had received common aid — both financial and logistical support — for running their campaigns.

City of Oxford residents have other items on their ballots besides city council: Oxford Township trustee and fiscal officer, Talawanda City School Board, two state-wide issues and one Butler County tax levy.

Polls are open today, Tuesday, Nov. 7 from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Registered voters can vote with any form of government-issued identification, or other proofs of residency (including a utility bill, credit card statement or speeding ticket).

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Butler County’s Women Helping Women activist organization is looking to implement the Cincinnati chapter’s bartender training program with regards to sexual assault and harassment.

The program is meant to provide victims or potential victims of sexual assault with help to get out of uncomfortable or unsafe situations in bars. Women Helping Women is hoping to address this issue proactively in the Oxford bar community.

“When we met with people who work in the bar industry in Cincinnati, they very much felt this was a pressing issue,” said Kendra Massey, vice president of programming at Women Helping Women.

Massey has been advocating for various prevention methods in Cincinnati bars that allow potential victims to find help through bar staff, especially bartenders.

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tenders know what to look for so that they can see situations where someone might be uncomfortable,” Massey said.

One of Women Helping Women’s main strategies for decreasing sexual violence in Cincinnati is hanging up signs in the restrooms of bars so customers know they can ask the bartender for assistance in dire situations. The program is based off of the international “Ask for Angela” campaign.

The “Ask for Angela” campaign originated in Europe and allows customers to ask for a certain name of a shot at the bar in a threatening situation.

For example, if the sign in the bathroom said to ask for “Keith,” asking the bartender for Keith would indicate that the customer needs help.

“The owner of the second bar in Cincinnati to institute this campaign has had people come up to her and thank her for being part of this initiative,” said Massey.

The head of this training strategy in the Oxford community is Nora McVey, advocate for Miami University’s Women Helping Women chapter.

McVey hopes to implement similar campaigns to ensure that bar-based assault and harrassment is minimized.

Currently, Miami has many resources for survivors of sexual harassment or assault. However, the bartender training campaign would focus on preventing the issue before it happens, establishing bar staff as designated interveners in potentially dangerous situations.

“We know that there’s a high overlap of alcohol and these sorts of crimes,” McVey said. “If we can better train our bar staff to see this sort of behavior, that can only be helpful.”

Potentially dangerous situations like these vary in threat level and, therefore, often call for different solutions.

“Hopefully calling the police isn’t always the first response, because that’s not always what’s needed,” sophomore and Clara Guerra said.

“Sometimes they just need someone to talk to or someone to call a taxi.”

While most support this further advocation, some have pointed out that the bars may not be the source of the issue.

“I think Miami definitely has an issue, but I don’t think it occurs at the bars,” said sophomore Carson Myers, who works as a bouncer in Oxford.

Myers said he had not seen harassment or assault happen while working.

“We don’t over-serve people, so if someone’s clearly drunk and stumbling around and we see them getting into line, we tell them to get out,” Myers said.

Claiming that further education could not have a negative result, Myers said he supports further training on the issue.

Myers also said it would be more effective if the bars focused on not over-serving patrons, because when customers lose their inhibitions, it often leads to escalated situations.

Women Helping Women is looking to establish the program in various Oxford bars in the coming months.

In the interim, Miami continues to provide students with resources to aid survivors through organizations like Women Helping Women, the Sexual Assault and Prevention Response Services and the Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution. tilbear@miamioh.edu

ILLUSTRATION: CONNOR WELLS TEACHING

MEGAN ZAHNEIS MAGAZINE EDITOR

Ever since Donald Trump was elected president one year ago, Patrick Haney, Miami’s chair of political science, said he’s been adding three words to each of his lesson plans — “or maybe not.”

As in: “This is what the path of American foreign policy is — or maybe not.”

Or, as Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, a lecturer in the department of Global and Intercultural Studies, put it, “I had to redo a lot of my PowerPoints.”

So it’s been going in American higher education in the Trump era. The president’s mercurial temperament and scattershot pronouncements have thrown everything from foreign policy curricula to the institution of academic freedom into turmoil and uncertainty.

That change began, for some, in the classroom just hours after Trump’s victory over Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton was confirmed.

In Oxford, Stephen Lippman, chair of the sociology department, wondered how his students would react.

“I thought, ‘Geez, what does this mean?’ Is the polarization and contentiousness, the anger that seemed to infiltrate the election, is that going to carry over into my class now?” Lippmann said.

Lippmann and others questioned how — or whether — to broach the subject in the wake of an unusually divisive campaign cycle. As it turned out, though, Trump’s actions as president have provided an opportunity for many instructors to contextualize class concepts their students had previously viewed abstractly.

“I find it actually very useful. now that some time has passed and emotions have cooled down,” Godeanu-Kenworthy said. “Up until this point, it was a theoretical discussion, and I’ve had a sense that a lot of the students never encountered these questions outside our classroom. But now these are part of a national conversation.”

In fact, Haney said, that national conversation adds validity to the material he and his colleagues teach.

“It makes it easier for people to see the real-world implications of things like elections that they might not have seen as readily before,” Haney said.

“It’s still the same basic enterprise. The material just got a lot more complicated and, for some, unexpected.”

Complicated, unexpected and fraught with emotion: Haney said that faculty members have confronted these issues in classroom situations where students express strong political views, and fellow department chair Wietse de Boer (history), noted that the relevance of many political subjects to classes like his and

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B.E.S.T. Library, Alumni Hall flood, requiring repairs CAMPUS

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Torrential downpours in Oxford on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 5 resulted in a broken window, several dozen damaged books and other damages to two Miami libraries.

The storm’s effect on B.E.S.T Library was minimal: only one basement window and “a very small number of books”

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were irreparably damaged and must be replaced, according to Samantha Brandenburg, coordinator of library facilities and planning in the Dean’s office. “[B.E.S.T.] Library did have substantial flooding,” Brandenburg said in an email.

“Approximately a half inch of water covered a large portion of the basement. The pressure of the water build up also cracked one of the basement windows. [The Physical Fa-

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Haney’s compounds the situation.

“It’s become almost impossible to avoid situations in which, even if the current climate or current events are not directly mentioned, everybody in the room knows that we’re thinking about them,” de Boer said.

For de Boer, that ubiquity means it’s more difficult than ever for faculty members — especially those without tenured status — to express themselves freely. He’s observed his colleagues teaching and speaking with greater caution, not wanting to be accused of politicizing their work.

“Some faculty may also be watching their words, which is an unfortunate outcome of the current situation we find ourselves in,” de Boer said.

Fred Reeder, a visiting instructor of journalism and a former reporter, has always vowed to remain politically neutral in the classroom.

“No instructor that you have should be providing his or her opinion and trying to convince you that what he or she believes is correct. It’s not their job,” Reeder said. “Their job is to present information and to have students think critically about it, not to try to push them to believe what you believe.”

Instead, Reeder asks his students to form their own opinions on political figures and media outlets based on empirical research he presents in class — for instance, a Pew

study that charts news organizations based on their readers’ self-identified political persuasions.

Yet for Reeder, who teaches a class on reporting and news writing, it’s difficult to avoid his own predispositions.

“It’s hard not to be biased,” Reeder said, referencing a Trump tweet from February that called news media “the enemy of the American people.”

Dan Herron, a professor of business legal studies who is staunchly anti-Trump, doesn’t try to hide his bias, though he makes it known to his students that political persuasions will never impact a student’s grade.

To him, not discussing politics in the classroom in the age of Trump is a neglect of duty.

“One of the things that really bothers me is when people tell me, ‘You shouldn’t be talking about this in the classroom. You shouldn’t be talking about Trump and politics in the classroom,’” Herron said.

“Is that what we would have told teachers in the 1930s in Germany — ‘Don’t talk about Hitler’?

“As academics who believe in a liberal, free environment, we have an obligation to point out when someone is threatening that freedom and open environment, on both the left or the right.”

For de Boer, a breakdown in the kind of academic ideal Herron describes could be dangerous to higher education itself.

“Universities are supposed to be the spaces where we can have serious academic, critical debates on salient issues in a civil manner, but also in an open manner,” de Boer said. “It would be a serious situation if that kind of environment were impacted in the longer run by the current political situation.”

Godeanu-Kenworthy, of Global and Intercultural Studies, says that at least in her classes, students are working to avoid that fate by engaging in more politically-charged conversation.

“They all have the right to voice their opinions and think about and engage with ideas as long as they do it in a collegial fashion,” she said. “This is the privilege of working in a university, learning in a university as a free space where we can play with ideas and understand from things learned from the past and engage with one another.”

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cilities Department] quickly cleared all the water and today are working on repairing the window and cleaning the exterior drains. We have been working together to find a solutions so flooding like this does not happen again.”

In Alumni Hall, the flood was less destructive. No books were damaged and water only entered a study room and staff office.

Currently, the basement of B.E.S.T library is closed for

repairs with no timeline for reopening.

“At this time, PFD and the libraries are still assessing the damage to determine the time/money estimates [for repair],” Brandenburg said.

“But the full extent of the damage cannot be assessed until it is completely dry and the humidity levels are back to normal.” goldjb@miamioh.edu @jake_gold

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Oxford Community Arts Center Saturday, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Every Miamian should head to a Sketched Out! improv show at least once. With the stated mission “to provide the funny to those in need,” the 12-person comedy group regularly packs the Pearson auditorium with students and churns out the laughs.

Guests choose from a collection of bowls made and donated by students and Oxford-area potters. Then, diners fill their selected bowls with their choice of soup. It’s $10 (plus the handmade bowl), and proceeds go to the Oxford Community Choice Pantry.

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Humans of Oxford The girl who let go PEOPLE

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She takes down any pictures of him hanging on her dorm room wall and tucks them away in a neat pile where she can’t find them.

An entire semester of struggling to save her relationship — all for nothing. Her eyes are swollen and she grabs for a tissue. It’s a new semester now, and he’s a part of the past.

The last time she was in this room, on this campus, she’d been dating her best friend for over a year. Today, she feels ut-

terly alone.

An entire first semester of freshman year focusing on a boy instead of making new friends.

An entire first semester watching her classmates’ lives come together as hers fell apart.

How is she supposed to catch up now?

It’s her first night back and she hangs out with the girls down the hall for the first time in months.

Ten girls piled into a tiny dorm room. They eat popcorn and share stories from winter break.

They talk with excitement about the upcoming months.

For the first time in what seems like forever, she

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laughs. For a moment, maybe just a second, she even forgets about him.

She wonders what the future will hold. If she’ll find her place here, if she’ll ever be as happy as she once was.

But right now, in this mo-

ment, she’s okay. She’s surrounded by friends and laughter and an opportunity for a fresh start.

The next day, on a brisk January morning, she walks to her class with headphones in and a smile on her face. She becomes friends with the kid next to her

in class. She studies hard, joins a new club, applies for a job and goes to the gym.

She’s starting a new life, a new chapter, here at Miami. It just took her a semester to realize it. plantjq@miamioh.edu

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Just off the rainy Oxford streets, warm, inviting and smelling of freshly baked treats, is Insomnia Cookies. The jingle that plays each time the door opens mixes with the mellow tones of soft rock in the background, creating a welcoming environment for its night-owl patrons. For the employees, however, the scene isn’t always as inviting.

I stopped in around 1 a.m. last Thursday to see exactly what the late-night workers have to put up with.

“You eventually become desensitized to the kinds of people who come in here,” said Kayla, an Insomnia employee.

Kayla has worked at Insomnia Cookies for the past four months and is a veteran of numerous ridiculous late-night happenings.

“One time, this visibly drunk guy walks in, orders three triple chocolate chunk cookies and a cheese pizza, and gets really confused when he realizes that he isn’t in Bruno’s.”

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Dan, a veteran employee of two years, has even more stories to tell.

Among the many tales were instances of attempted theft of the store’s ice cream containers, countless intoxicated patrons stealing the dusty, windex-coated display cookies and drunken customers trying to get it on in the bathroom, only to tear the sink off of the wall.

“There are good days and bad days,” said

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Dan. “It’s not always the most enjoyable work, but you get by.”

Plus, he said, in exchange for dealing with drunkards, the pay is pretty great.

While there are plenty of obnoxious customers, there are also the occasional funny ones. Among these more good-natured patrons were a drunk man who once tried to sweep the floor for the workers and a man who, after trying and failing to unknowingly pay with a Buffalo Wild Wings gift card, apparently tipped exceedingly well.

While nothing quite as wild or wacky as

any of that happened while I was there, plenty of post-party patrons stopped in.

A man, slurring his words and fiercely insisting that the employees keep his 90 cents in change greeted me as soon as I walked in, and a group of raucous girls stumbled in shortly after, making drunken proclamations and revelations.

“Guys, how much do you bet that I can swim home?”

“OMG they call it Brick Street because the street is made of bricks!”

The employees behind the counter

seemed right at home in the presence of these inebriated individuals, as they simply rolled their eyes and went about their work, sweeping the floors and cleaning the counters while the group of girls up front cackled wildly.

Aside from dealing with customers face to face, the employees of Insomnia have to handle deliveries as well. When a call is made, it goes to a call center at a different location. Then the order is relayed back to the store and the delivery is made. Additionally, Dan says, customers often request that a message be written on the box.

“We get a lot of normal stuff, like ‘Happy Birthday’ and ‘Congratulations,’ but there are the occasional weird ones,” Dan said.

“Once, we got an order to put ‘We’re all just dinosaurs’ on a box. That was probably my favorite.”

After spending a night in Insomnia, I’ve gained a newfound respect for the people who work there. The workers behind the counter tirelessly endure the antics of drunk college students, and continuously serve up delicious cookies without so much as a sigh of annoyance.

Whether it’s after a hard night of partying, or a simple late-night cookie run, Insomnia remains the place to go for a fresh baked treat and a warm place to sit and eat it.

Just make sure to tip well. They definitely deserve it. headledd@miamioh.edu

Stage Left’s ‘Cry-Baby: The Musical’ will make you laugh until you cry THEATRE

MADELINE MITCHELL THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami’s only on-campus student-run theatre organization, Stage Left, will be putting on its fall musical, “Cry-Baby,” this weekend at the Wilks Theater in the Armstrong Student Center. With 21 cast members, this will be one of the largest musicals Stage Left has produced in its history, and the biggest production to go up in the Wilks Theater to date.

“Cry-Baby: The Musical” is adapted from the 1990 John Waters film of the same name. The story is set in Baltimore, where the audience meets two lovestruck teenagers, Allison and Wade, who are from different parts of town. The teenagers’ not-sofriendly gangs try to break up the duo in a fun-filled show of dancing, acrobatics, music and laughter.

“John Waters is like the king of camp,” said Alyssa Henkelman, the director of the show. “It’s just a very campy, fun show. It’s kind of like ‘Romeo and Juliet’ meets ‘High School Hellcats.’”

In addition to directing, Henkelman was the choreographer for the show, made costumes and bought and designed props for the actors. Of course, she did not act alone; junior Al Oliver participated as her assistant director throughout the process.

“Basically, Alyssa is in charge of the show and this is her show,” Oliver said. “I am here to emotionally support her and do anything that she needs help with.”

Henkelman, a senior, was given full reign by the Stage Left executive board to design the show to her artistic will. The production was given a budget, and Henkelman took it from there to decide what she wanted to see on stage.

“It’s full artistic freedom, which is scary,

but also fun,” Henkelman said. “I’ve had experience dabbling in about every area of theatre. It’s crazy, but it’s really cool to get to see all of that come alive onstage.”

Last fall, Stage Left had a huge success with its production of “Heathers,” which was the inspiration behind sophomore theatre major Rian Sondag’s excitement to audition this year.

“I saw ‘Heathers’ last year and it looked super fun,” Sondag said. “The department shows are a huge time commitment, and I thought that this would be just as fun without the big commitment.”

Sondag is one of only a handful of theatre majors involved with the production. For the most part, the students involved with “Cry-Baby” and with Stage Left as an organization are non-majors who wanted to keep artistic expression a part of their collegiate careers.

“We basically exist so that students who love theatre but aren’t majoring in it have a place to participate in creating that art form,” said Oliver.

This rings true for Thomas Gillotti, a freshman mechanical engineering and fashion design double major.

“My friends asked me to audition with them, so I said I would,” he said. “I’ve always done musical theatre, all throughout high school and middle school, and wanted to do some here, too.”

With only a few days left before opening night, the directors and cast put in extra rehearsals outside of their usual 13 hours a week to add technical elements and clean up transitions before they get an audience.

Although Henkelman cut over 50 percent of the people that auditioned, there were still 21 cast members to accommodate for during the rehearsal process, which is a lot, especially compared to cast sizes Stage Left has dealt with in the past.

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“The scale of the show was a big challenge,” Henkelman said. “Cast-wise this is one of the biggest shows we’ve ever done, if not the biggest, but also the amount of music and the amount of choreography. Fight choreography and blocking was a lot to get through and making sure we were working around people’s conflicts.”

The cast and production team agree that the people have been the best part of the process.

“We have bonded through movie nights, and we’ve gotten dinner together,” Sondag said. “And the director is a student too, so we’ve gotten to bond with her and the assistant director together, which is really cool.”

For Gillotti, “Cry-Baby” has been a way to connect with new people whom he now considers his closest friends.

“The cast is really close-knit,” he said.

“Some of the upperclassmen really took me under their wing, which is nice when you’re a freshman who doesn’t know anything, to learn from these people who have been surviving here.”

This outside bonding has been good for the rehearsals, too. By being comfortable with each other, the cast has been able to branch out and try new things onstage, which has enhanced the performance.

“Our cast is really funny and works really well together,” Oliver said. “And for the most part they’re not really afraid to just try goofy things, which is perfect for this show.”

Aside from being entertaining, “Cry-Baby” also aims to open a dialogue on race relations with the audience.

“The really cool thing about the show is that the main character is such an outcast, and there’s a racial dynamic to it,” Sondag said.

Henkelman agrees, and thinks that the humor in the musical helps add to the discussion of what it means to be an outcast.

“There are themes in it, matters of injustice and discrimination, and we get to work with a show that handles those things in a very fun and light-hearted way,” she said.

Gillotti’s wish for the audience is simple and sweet.

“I just hope they leave feeling better and happier than when they came in,” he said.

“Cry-Baby: The Musical” performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 9-11 in Wilks Theater. Admission is free and seats are firstcome, first-served. mitche49@miamioh.edu

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2017

WING-EATING CONTEST FOR A CAUSE STUDENT LIFE

ALISON PERELMAN CULTURE EDITOR

In the open space of Armstrong’s East wing, Delta Tau Delta members had set up 12 tables with two plastic plates, two red solo cups and a small stack of napkins each. A table in the middle held the main feature of the event: two metal serving dishes full of hot wings.

The fraternity hosted its first Wing Challenge for Children to raise money for Type 1 Diabetes research. Teams of two pledged $50 each, and the proceeds will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

“It’s our national organization for our fraternity, and we’re pretty passionate about it,” organizer and Delta Tau Delta member Will Hoff said.

Will darted around to answer questions and make sure everyone had what they needed as participants meandered in.

While waiting for the official challenge to begin, those who were ready decided to try a few practice wings. Harry Barnwell, a member of Theta Chi, called out to make sure his wing, which was now just bone, was considered fully eaten.

Once each participant sat in front of their wing-piled plate, Will started the timer, and soon everyone was digging in.

The first member of each team had to finish their 10 wings and get them checked before the second member could start in on their 10. The first team to finish all 20 wings would be declared the winner.

Several of the teams had cheerleaders surrounding their tables, taking pictures and shouting encouraging words.

The loudest group of supporters, however, seemed to be doing more harm as they forced the girl, attempting to eat as fast as she could, to pause to laugh and avoid spitting chicken bits.

Two teams showed a lot more frenzy than the rest, and it became clear that the competition came down to them.

Stephen Wainz, the first representative for Theta Chi, had orange sauce smeared on his cheeks after no more than a minute in. His strategy was to shove as much chicken meat into his mouth as possible. Harry, Stephen’s partner, had a napkin tucked into the neck of his shirt as a bib, ready to take on his half of the challenge.

“The bib definitely helped,” Harry claimed afterwards. “Not only is it aesthetically pleasing, but my performance was certainly enhanced.”

Casey Crow, from the opposing Alpha Sigma Phi team, was hot on their heels as scrapped bones started to pile on one end of his plate.

Harry was able to start in first, as Stephen continued chewing the chicken stuffed in his cheeks, but eventually, Casey and John emerged as the winners.

They managed to finish all 20 wings in around seven minutes.

“I don’t know if I’m particularly proud of the fact that I just won, but, hey, it was for a good cause,” Casey said.

Casey tried to credit John with their win as he’s an almost-professional spicy wing eater who does challenges weekly.

“I love spicy wings, so I had to rise to the challenge and represent my fraternity in this prestigious event,” John said.

Even though Casey was an alternate and isn’t as fond of spicy foods (but the wings weren’t too bad, he said), he stepped up and pulled his weight.

“I like wings and I can eat a lot of food, and I haven’t eaten all day...It worked out — I was hungry, I got free dinner and it was for a good cause,” Casey said.

That’s what the participants spoke to the most — how easy it was to give back through this event. Harry and Stephen were happy with second place because they were still raising funds for Diabetes research.

“Win or lose, we’re helping out people who need money more than us,” Stephen said.

And they had fun with it, after he was done choking, Stephen half-jokingly added. But he didn’t regret his eating technique.

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,” Stephen said, the sauce stains still visible among his facial hair.

The other teams continued to work on finishing their plates of wings as the different participants mingled and the organizers started clean-up. Stephen let out a loud burp. perelmak@miamioh.edu

SPRINKLES SPENDS SOME DOWN TIME IN A PASTURE AT MIAMI’S EQUESTRIAN CENTER SABIK AKAND THE MIAMI STUDENT

Sprinkles: A not-so-sweet treat PROFILE

MAYA FENTER

THE MIAMI STUDENT

When Lauren Martyn first met him, she thought he was too short. He didn’t look like he could do anything special, and he wasn’t particularly pretty either.

Four years later, he’s her favorite, and everyone knows it.

“Don’t say anything bad. That’s my favorite horse on the property,” Lauren will say to a rider having trouble with him.

She tells him good morning and goodnight whenever she’s at the barn. If he’s is lucky, she’ll have a peppermint for him.

Whenever his time at Miami is through, Lauren hopes to take him home with her.

His name is Sprinkles. It was given to him by his original owner, a name admittedly a bit humiliating for a male. He’s a light gray appaloosa pony, though people still ride him like a horse.

He’s about 15 years old and has been at Miami for over four years. Like many of the horses at Miami’s Equestrian Center, Sprinkles had been leased from an owner during the school year up until last year, when Miami officially bought him.

But not everyone loves him as much as Lauren does.

He’s the least favorite among students in Miami’s horseback riding classes, particularly the beginner ones.

He usually rides in two lessons everyday, one for a kinesiology class and one for the equestrian team.

He can sense the hesitation and lack of confidence in newer riders when they walk into his stall, and takes advantage of their vulnerability. Instead of greeting them, he’ll sometimes turn to stick his head out of the window, acting as though he is completely uninterested in being ridden.

Riders can’t expect Sprinkles to do everything for them. If they make a mistake, Sprinkles will pick up on it and act accordingly. He knows what he’s supposed to do well enough to do just the opposite.

Before and after the lesson, Sprinkles’ rider lifts up each of his legs and picks out any pebbles or other small objects stuck in his hooves, and sometimes he’ll step on the rider’s foot when he puts his hoof back down.

But he’d never do that with Lauren, or any member of the equestrian team for that matter.

His ears perk up when Lauren calls his name. He sticks his head out between the bars of his stall and watches her as she unlocks the door. He isn’t like some of the more friendly horses, who will rest their head on your shoulder, but he’ll always greet Lauren.

She walks into his stall and gives him a scratch on his neck — he loves those.

She puts on his saddle and bridle with-

out any problems. An experienced rider’s confidence tells Sprinkles that they mean business. It’s time for an equestrian team lesson, and he knows that he’ll have to do more than just walk and trot.

Sometimes he’ll try flipping his nose while she’s riding him, but she never lets him get away with it. Sprinkles knows Lauren doesn’t tolerate his antics.

Sprinkles competes in Hunt Seat Equitation in the flat classes and in Western Horsemanship, both of which judge the rider’s form while the horse walks, trots or gallops in various directions. The focus is on the rider, but it takes a well-tempered horse that is easy to ride to do well in these shows. Though the competitions can be physically straining for Sprinkles, winning a blue ribbon makes it worth it.

“He wants to prove that he’s fancy,” Lauren said.

He let’s people ride him while carrying a flag during the national anthem. Though most horses wouldn’t let a flag come near them, Sprinkles likes to prove that he can handle it.

One could say he has a bit of an ego.

“I mean, he’s a male pony named Sprinkles,” Claire Turner, another member of the Equestrian Team and barn staff, said.

“He’s gotta make up for that somehow.” fentermc@miamioh.edu

Indian Student Association prepares for Diwali show

FIRST-YEAR INDIAN STUDENTS CHOREOGRAPH A DANCE ON THEIR OWN FOR THE UPCOMING DIWALI PERFORMANCE JUGAL JAIN PHOTO EDITOR

STUDENT LIFE

MAIA ANDERSON

THE MIAMI STUDENT

On a weeknight when most students are studying, relaxing or hanging out with friends, members of the Indian Students Organization, or ISA, are devoting their time to dance practice. They spend hours perfecting their timing, coordination and dance moves in preparation for their annual Diwali show.

Diwali is a holiday celebrated by followers of Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and more.

The holiday takes place over a span of five days, around the time of the new year on the Hindu lunar calendar. Each day is devoted to different activities from cleaning, meant to represent the wiping away of sins, to holding family gatherings and eating Indian sweets, called mithai.

“The celebration of the holiday is comparable to Christmas,” said ISA member Saagar Patel.

Many activities incorporate light as a representation for good, including firecrackers, lanterns and candles. Some of the larger events even feature firework displays.

“The holiday is meant to celebrate darkness overcome by light, and the good over evil,” said Diwali co-chair Tulsi Patel.

Every year, ISA hosts its Diwali event, which features over 70 student dancers.

The event is structured similarly to a musical, with scenes of acting intermixed with large dance numbers.

“We choose to celebrate Diwali with dance because it is a huge part of the Indian culture, and we always like to celebrate by dancing,” said Tulsi Patel.

Each year the executive board members vote on a theme to design the performance.

The themes are always comedic, and serve to shape the premise of the play. This year’s is “How I Met Your Bhabhi,” based on the popular sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.”

Bhabhi translates to sister-in-law, and the play features an older brother explaining to his family how he met his wife. The dances will be interspersed between the scenes and feature dance styles from all different regions of India. The music mixes popular Indian and American music in an effort to bring together the two different cultures.

“We want to represent both Indian and American cultures,” said Tulsi Patel.

The members of ISA hold dance rehearsals for ten weeks prior to the performance, but according to Simren Cheema, one of the choreographers, the planning starts even earlier.

“We assign choreographers for Diwali at

the end of the previous school year, so we start working way in advance,” said Cheema.

Hosting the event requires a great amount of people including a different choreographer for each dance number, actors, scriptwriters and crew members.

In addition to the acting and dance aspects of the show, there will also be a fashion show highlighting styles from different parts of India. The Miami hip-hop team will also perform a number during intermission. The Indian Students Association has invited them to perform for the last several years, in order to represent American dance tradition along with Indian dance tradition.

ISA will be promoting its annual philanthropy project at the event with a table set up to collect donations. All donations will be sent to World Relief in an effort to combat the effects of the hurricanes that devastated Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico in the past year.

This year’s event will be held at 7 p.m.

Nov. 10, and 2 p.m. on Nov. 11 in Hall Auditorium. Tickets cost $7 and can be purchased at ISA’s table in Armstrong across from Emporium or from Miami University’s Box Office. ander193@miamioh.edu

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DAVE DABNEY PROVIDES THE VOCALS FOR THE GROUP, RAPPING TO THE BAND’S ORIGINAL TUNES LIKE “ANIMAL” AND “WE NEVER SPLIT” (TOP LEFT). ON KEYBOARD AND KEYTAR, NICK FROELICH PLAYS OUT A MELODY (TOP RIGHT). THE BAND WAS JOINED ON SATURDAY BY TRUMPETER LEE SHIBLEY. BO BRUECK THE MIAMI STUDENT

‘THE WRONG CROWD’ HITS THE RIGHT CHORDS JACK EVANS

MANAGING EDITOR

It’s a Saturday, and there is a sign on the front door of 504 South College street.

“Hello // Welcome to the Show,” it reads. “Glad to Have You Here // Please Go in Around Back // — Angus.”

If it wasn’t for the mention of a show — and the rainbow of pulsing light spilling out through the covered windows — you might think the serene note was an invitation to a dinner party. Or a book club.

You’d be wrong, but not by much.

Follow the path around the back of the house and you start to hear a baseline. Step through the open back door and you enter another world entirely.

Welcome to the Funk School of Business — only this FSB doesn’t charge an extra $100 surcharge per credit hour. They don’t even charge cover.

The faculty here call themselves The Wrong Crowd. They’re a group of musicians (all undergraduate students) who got together last fall. Since then, they have been developing their own mix of funk, jazz, rap and R & B. Among the seven of them, they have more than 70 combined years of musical experience.

“So, think again about getting oil again // I’ve already lost enough ken to prescriptions and poisonous // chemicals just ask Flint, Michigan,” raps junior Dave Dabney. The lyrics are original but they don’t bear the clunkiness of the amateur rapper you knew in high school.

Sophomore Angus Cady (the one from the note) is tall and stoic in the back of the room, thumping on the bass. Smiling wide from behind the drums, junior DK Dews carries the rhythm section.

Senior Sanchit Ram Arvind is hammering an acoustic upright piano. It has a mic on it, and it sounds incredible — warm and loud and round.

Hanging around the neck of junior Nick Froehlich is a second set of keys: a mini Korg keyboard, fashioned into a keytar with duct tape and rope.

Senior Noah Dean and junior Nick Sabet trade licks and solos on guitar. Froehlich describes Dean’s style as “just the right amount of spice,” and Sabet plays like a machine — fingers flying with no other visible bodily movement.

The Wrong Crowd’s debut show was on Sept. 30 and their second was on that Saturday, Nov. 4. They packed the house both times and brought an easy and humorous energy, unusual for house shows in Oxford.

“It’s a feedback loop where we play and then the audience gets into it,” Froehlich said. “The crowd’s very, very lively and that gives us a lot more energy, so we play better and that makes them even more excited, which gives us more energy, which makes us play better.”

The group began to coalesce last October around a Thursday evening radio show where Dabney freestyled and Froehlich and Cady improvised rhythms.

They kept picking up members and, by spring, The Wrong Crowd was solidified. The musicians began to work out original tracks, but it took Dabney until summer 2017 to come up with the politically-charged lyrics on display in much of the band’s set.

“I had the summer and I thought ‘What am I going to rap about, what am I going to write about?’ I had to find something to inspire me,” said Dabney.

He found his inspiration in Naomi Klein, a Canadian activist and writer. He sped through “This Changes Everything,” her criticism of capitalism’s effect on the climate.

Most of the The Wrong Crowd’s original songs — of which there are currently a handful — take a hard leftist stance against American politics and governance. However, all the members feel that making and playing live music for an audience comes before a specific, activist end-goal.

They’re not an activist band, insists Cady, but a “band of activists.”

“We don’t have the goal of spreading the message,” he said. “That just kind of happens because that’s who

we are — the music comes from the people in the band.”

And, just from a snippet of conversation, it’s clear the people in this band know their music: “I also want to focus on harmonization, unison lyrics,” said Cady. “If we started doing harmonization and chord extensions within the band…”

“We’re just trying to make our sound more complex,” said Froehlich.

“Can we get a horn section where we just play ‘The Chicken’?” asked Cady.

“I wanted people to be aware of what’s going on and what we can do about it.”

Dabney leans back a little during this exchange.

Out of all the members of The Wrong Crowd, he has the least musical expertise, the weakest chops in terms of explicit, technical, music knowledge. Instead, his skill lies in lyrics, which he slips into delivering every time he tries to explain them.

“I wanted people to be aware of what’s going on and what we can do about it. And not just going out and voting or something like that,” he said. “One of my lyrics is ‘It’d be stupid for us to wait for another vote,’ you know what I mean? ‘Cause the crown is secure but we ain’t.’”

The Wrong Crowd’s next public show is Dec. 2 at the Loft Society jazz club in Cincinnati. They plan on holding a Christmas show in Oxford before the end of the semester.

Nick & Jake’s HOT TAKES!

Read them online at miamistudent.net/hot-takes

Hot take: You can play Christmas music whenever you want.

Seriously, who cares what music you listen to. It’s totally fine.

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Sam Smith gets lost in ‘The Thrill of It All’

SAM SMITH PERFORMING AT THE LOLLAPALOOZA 2015 WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

BEN FINFROCK

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Sam Smith returned to music last Friday with his second studio album, “The Thrill of It All” — a sultry, emotional masterpiece that finds Smith dealing with heartbreak, romance, fame and sexuality.

“The Thrill of It All” finds Smith in the three years following his debut album “In the Lonely Hour.”

In songs on this new album such as “Burning,” he acknowledges the pressures that came along with fame, and states why he needed to take a break from music and live a “normal life” in order to write.

Most songs on “The Thrill of It All” such as “Burning,” “Palace” and “Midnight Train” are heartbreaking and dreary ballads that you’d expect from a Sam Smith album. However, some of the album’s best songs, such as “One Last Song” and “Baby, You Make

Me Crazy,” are upbeat and thrilling. With each note and lyric, the listener finds themselves dancing upon Smith’s vocal cords and lost in the emotion of his voice.

Unlike “In the Lonely Hour,” his new album feels old-fashioned. Smith admits that while creating “The Thrill of it All,” he was influenced by artists such as Aretha Franklin and Joni Mitchell. Their influence comes across clearly throughout the album as songs such as “One Last Song” and “Baby, You Make Me Crazy” remind the listener of 1970s Motown music, and songs such as “Palace” and “Burning” rely heavily on soulful lyrics and an acoustic guitar background, common in Mitchell’s music.

There’s also little use of electronic music or Auto-Tune in this new album. Smith relies solely on instruments and vocals to create each song, which is what makes

this album so unique. Smith is not trying to make music for this era, but for a much older one.

As for the subjects of the album, there is not a drastic difference between “The Thrill of It All” and “In the Lonely Hour.” Smith has not matured a lot since the first album, but he now admits to more of his mistakes and cites being young and foolish as the cause of them.

He still falls in love and gets his heart broken, and he still makes mistakes and has to apologize for them.

The only difference now is his fame. While he acknowledges the pressures of fame, he also describes the experience as being rather thrilling. He went from working in a bar to being a Grammy winner seemingly overnight.

This is why leaving the spotlight was so hard; he felt that everything he had worked for would go away as quickly as it came to him.

However, his time away was crucial for him, and when listeners hear “The Thrill of it All,” they’ll understand. Smith could not create this album in the public spotlight; he needed to leave it in order reflect and focus on the message he wanted to send to fans. Now that the album is out, Smith will embark on a new journey, from the 2015 Grammys’ Best New Artist to universally known superstar. finfrobd@miamioh.edu @Bfin98

Pumpkin Palooza: A taste test of pumpkin spice treats and eats AUDREY DAVIS DEVON SHUMAN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

It invades our lives every autumn. As a chill enters the air and the leaves turn vibrant red and golden brown, it creeps into our grocery stores, pops up unannounced in the most obscure aisles of our local Walmarts, inserts itself insidiously into every corner of society until it can’t be escaped, no matter how hard one might try.

Pumpkin spice season is upon us once again, and as seems to be the case every year, it feels like it’s growing out of control, as marketers capitalize on the phenomenon by adding the undeniably delicious flavor into every conceivable product. With everything from coffee creamer to Greek yogurt to hummus (yes, hummus) now available in pumpkin spice, we decided to embark on an important journalistic undertaking — to buy everything with “Pumpkin Spice” on the label and sample it, so you don’t have to. Here’s what we found: The Good Milanos - Beauty isn’t something that’s shouted. It’s not written in bold, block letters or blasted through subwoofer speakers. It’s subtle, nuanced, hidden around the edges. Pepperidge Farm understood this when they created their pumpkin spice Milanos. The pumpkin flavor doesn’t announce itself right away; it remains hidden behind the normal rich chocolate of the original cookie, waiting until the last moment before hitting you with the perfect amount of festive flavor. -DS Rolls - It came as no surprise that the Pillsbury pumpkin spice rolls made the top three. Their oven-baked, fluffy pastries are already delicious, but add a little pumpkin spice to those bad boys… Check please. But what was surprising was the addition of a pumpkin spice icing. Normally too much of a good thing can be overpowering, but that doesn’t apply here. The icing, while cloying on its own, accentuates the crescent rolls when drizzled over

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them, making for a delicious start to your morning. - DS Creamer - This may be the only product on the list that could be used every day without creating a lifelong aversion to all things pumpkin. It has the perfect amount of pumpkin, that combined with coffee, warms the soul and tastes like fall in liquid form.

- AD The Bad Hummus - Occasionally a product comes around with a flavor combination so absurd, you figure it has to be good.

Chocolate-covered bacon. Biscuits-and-gravy-flavored potato chips. Bagel & Deli’s Banana Surprise. It has to be tasty, you logic to yourself. They wouldn’t make that if it tasted as bad as it sounds. Pumpkin spice hummus is not one of those items. It tastes exactly like the flavors its name evokes — as if someone took a gob of pumpkin spice filling and added a pound of salt to it. When my roommate learned what I had eaten, he exclaimed, “Every day, we stray further from God’s light.” I fear he may be right. - DS Bottled PSL - When people think pumpkin spice, they usually think Starbucks, the company that practically pioneered the cultural phenomenon. The bottled pumpkin spice latte was high on my list before even twisting off the cap. I took a big sip, expecting to just finish the rest of the bottle.

As soon as it hit my tongue, I realized I’d made a colossal mistake.

It tasted like someone had burned a pot of coffee and added pumpkin spice to mask their brewing mishap. - AD Chobani Greek Yogurt - When something both looks and smells

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like baby puke, it’s usually a sign to avoid at all costs. Run away.

Don’t put that in your mouth.

But maybe, just maybe, my senses were deceiving me. Maybe I would be pleasantly surprised.

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If you’ve ever wanted to feel like you’ve been punched in the gut a dozen or so times, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” is the movie for you.

The second English language film by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Lobster”), “Killing of a Sacred Deer” is difficult to characterize as anything but painful in all the right ways, combining a dark sense of humor with the template of a psychological thriller to maximize its visceral effects.

Steven (Colin Farrell) is a lauded heart surgeon, who has befriended a teenage boy, Martin (Barry Keoghan), the son of a man who died on his operating table many years ago. Their relationship, seemingly centered around Martin’s desire to be a cardiologist one day, immediately seems strange.

Steven feels attached to this teenager, offering him money, buying him a watch and even watching his late father’s favorite movie with him and his mother (Alicia Silverstone).

However, it’s clear very early that the relationship between the two is built upon malicious action, but a strange paternalism, with Steven’s repressed guilt allowing Martin’s energy to develop into an antagonistic obsession of Steven. This simply cannot be, given the presence Steven’s family — his wife Anna (Nicole Kidman), daughter Kim (Raffey Cassidy) and son Bob (Sunny Suljic) — and Steven begins to reject Martin’s increasing invasiveness.

Suddenly, Bob’s legs stop working. Then Kim collapses in choir practice, and both are bound to hospital beds, with seemingly no antecedent for their conditions. Without revealing too much, a surreal conundrum is placed on Steven’s shoulders by Martin, with consequences for his entire family but no truly right answer, and “Killing of a Sacred Deer” spirals into a “Hamlet”-esque meditation on decision making.

As Steven, a self-proclaimed flawless man, stalls and searches for ways around the only path forward, we begin to truly understand the folly of human nature. While many critics have examined the God vs. devil nature of the film, this is an easily reached conclusion, and it carries a heftier message if we can view the majority of these characters as human.

Few actor/director combos seem to be as synchronized as Farrell and Lanthimos, and it shows here, with Farrell continuing to cement himself as a bona fide powerhouse through his careful movements and precise delivery. Kidman is great as well, enduring harsh treatment of her character with poise and a futile search for a sense of agency.

However, the true revelation of this film is Keoghan, whose

startlingly clear conscience contrasts with the havoc he wreaks. Not since Anthony Hopkins played Hannibal Lecter has there been an antagonist so self-assured in his motives and actions. This man makes eating spaghetti look horrifying, and that alone is worth an award of some kind.

Of course, this movie ultimately belongs to Lanthimos, who is quickly emerging as one of the most singular auteurs in the film industry today with a style perhaps as recognizable as Quentin Tarantino or Wes Anderson. Whereas those two respectively rely on wordy scripts and symmetrical, detailed sets, Lanthimos evokes his tone through short, simple sentences and plot structures that skip excess for an unsettlingly straightforward style, in content and delivery.

Moreover, Lanthimos, a master of tone, utilizes something seldom seen and even more rarely achieved in horror films: the ability to make us laugh, and to manipulate this laughter into fear. The terror of a scene later in the movie involving a dual mutilation is broken up by a rambling, stuttering sentence describing the clear metaphor and symbolism at hand. In many ways, Lanthimos’ biggest goal is balancing disturbing absurdity and a semblance of possibility.

The cinematography, done by frequent collaborator Thimios Bakatakis, is harrowing in its evocations and ceaseless in its motion. Perfectly centered tracking shots seem to chase Steven down the halls of the hospital, sometimes floating above like the spectre of death, and sometimes from a low angle, invoking the classic tricycle tracking shots that Stanley Kubrick utilized in his dread packed masterpiece “The Shining.” Uneasiness oozes from every frame of this film, until it begins to overpower the stoicism that characterizes each of the major characters.

As with any horror film, sound is vital to the tone of “Killing of a Sacred Deer,” and Lanthimos combines heavy orchestral movements with small, slightly unsettling sounds, and even the works of Ellie Goulding, to create a world and scenario that feels simultaneously Biblical and distant but locked to the contemporary moment.

“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” is not for the faint of heart or weak stomached; it is clear that to watch this film is to suffer with its characters, and to revel in their humanity as they learn to fail. Before you drop $10 on this experience, however, it may be best to hop onto Amazon Prime and give “The Lobster” a spin (for free), and use it as a taste test.

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dynasty, it would be irrational to not mark ‘Bama as America’s top team. “Alabama” has become synonymous with defense and 2017 is no exception.

The Tide are only surrendering 9.8 yards per game, the best mark in the country. Once again, the Tide’s defense is vaunted with future NFL players including defensive tackle Da’Ron Payne and defensive backs Minkah Fitzpatrick and Ronnie Harrison.

The scariest part is, ‘Bama hasn’t needed to stop many teams with the way their offense is rolling. The Tide has the most underrated asset in America under center, with sophomore quarterback Jalen Hurts who leads an offense that puts up nearly 41 points per game.

The one-two running attack between running backs Damien Harris and Bo Scarbrough makes defenses choose to defend either Hurts by dropping five or six in coverage, or stacking the box to stop the run. Either way, the Tide have proven to be potent and I don’t anticipate anyone in the nation being able to stop them.

2. Georgia The college football playoff committee placed Georgia ahead of Alabama for one reason -- Georgia handed Notre Dame their only loss. The story of the season for the Bulldogs has been freshman quarterback Jake Fromm, who has stormed on to the scene to pass for 1,459 yards and 15 touchdowns. Combined with the resurgence of running back Nick Chubb, Fromm leads an offense that puts up 36 points a game, while only allowing 11.7 points per game.

With these stats comparable to the Tide and a major win at Notre Dame, many ask why put them below Alabama? The difference in these two teams is sustained success — starters on Alabama have played in College Football Playoff games each year of their career. Quarterback Jalen Hurts went toe-to-toe with Deshaun Watson in last year’s National Championship. Defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick had the task of covering wide receivers Mike Williams and John Ross in the 2016 playoffs.

The Tide have hunger, talent and experience even the Bulldogs cannot match. Here’s the best part though: the Bulldogs will likely have the chance to silence doubters, like myself, in the SEC Championship game.

Until then, the debate will wage on.

3. Notre Dame Brian Kelly entered 2017 on the hot seat following an unacceptable 4-8 2016 campaign. The Irish have handled the pressure of rebounding. Much like the two teams ahead of the Irish, Kelly’s team has struck a balance on offense with underrated pieces running the show.

The anchor of the potent Fighting Irish offense has been junior running back Josh Adams. Adams has rushed for 1,191 yards on 137 carries -- averaging 8.69 yards per carry.

On paper, the Irish have one of the strongest resumes in college football — the lone team to hand Notre Dame a defeat is an undefeated Georgia team. Their wins in-

clude blowout victories over Michigan State, USC and NC State and yes, our beloved Miami RedHawks. Since that Georgia loss, no team has come close to the Irish.

The one question surrounding Notre Dame is if their defense will be able to generate enough stops to win close games down the stretch, as ND gave up 37 points to Wake Forest this week. By no means is the season over, and Notre Dame still has to defeat undefeated Miami and rival Stanford on the road. If the Irish can win out, I see no possible way to leave them out of the playoffs.

4. Oklahoma This is where the debate becomes fiercest. In my opinion, Oklahoma has made the strongest statements thus far and has the best player in America — Baker Mayfield. After the departure of long-time head coach Bob Stoops, Mayfield has been the glue of the program to carry them through such a transition, passing for an insane 3,226 yards and 28 touchdowns.

What really makes Mayfield special is the way he comes up big in games — in his road matchups at Ohio State and at Oklahoma State, the gunslinger passed for 386 and 598 yards, respectively.

Like Notre Dame, the Sooners have struggled at times to stop teams, having given up more than 30 points four times thus far. However, their quality wins and lone loss coming to a respectable Iowa State team is what makes Oklahoma a touch better than other suitors for the fourth spot.

Who’s Out and Why? Clemson: Clemson’s lone loss came to Syracuse. Yes, they went on the road and defeated Virginia Tech and NC State after knocking off Auburn at home. However, that Syracuse loss is by far the worst of any contending CFP teams. Unless Oklahoma loses, I cannot put a team that lost to Syracuse over a team that went on the road to beat Ohio State and Oklahoma State.

Miami: The Hurricanes certainly helped their case this week by defeating Virginia Tech, but there is still much unknown about them due to a weak schedule.

However, opportunities remain for the ‘Canes, as they could put the nation on notice with a win against Notre Dame. If Miami can pull that off, they will be in. But until that happens, the Hurricanes will remain on the fringes.

Wisconsin: Like Miami, the Badgers have an undefeated record, but find themselves outside the top four.

Why? Wisconsin simply has no trademark wins. Their most noteworthy victory has come at the expense of the Purdue Boilermakers.

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er penalty put Miami back on the kill with 37.9 seconds left in the period. Junior forward Josh Melnick and sophomore forward Gordie Green hustled in CC’s end, emptying the tank and attempting to drain the power play and period clock.

With seven seconds on the clock, CC streaked through the neutral zone before junior forward Westin Michaud beat Larkin top right corner from the left side with 0.1 seconds in the period. After 40 minutes, the ’Hawks found themselves down 2-1.

“I think their second period they were a little more intense, they were a little more determined to get pucks,” Blasi said. “They were moving their feet and we were kind of just letting them do whatever they wanted to do and we didn’t have an answer for it.”

The third period started with a surprisingly calm Miami team, one that went four minutes without a significant scoring chance.

A power play at 4:14 of the third attempted to set a comeback in motion. Senior defenseman Scott Dornbrock tried to blast a puck through traffic and Belpedio’s shot from the middle of the ice was almost redirected past CC goalie sophomore goalie Alex Leclerc.

In Miami’s own zone, Green and freshman forward Phil Knies pestered a CC player off the puck but the play was deemed interference and Green would take a seat. For 11 seconds, 4-on-4 hockey would be played.

Colorado’s junior forward Mason Bergh slapshotted his way to a goal, but officials reviewed the play and determined that a CC player interfered with Larkin and the goal was waved off.

A tripping penalty to Melnick gave Colorado a chance on the 5-on-3, but only for a faceoff -- the Tigers were whistled for holding off the faceoff and play would go to 4-on-3.

Arguably the hardest penalty to kill because of the open ice, Larkin came up big with two point-blank, bodied-down saves to kill off both man-disadvantages.

Miami tried for the tie, but chance after rare chance was shut down by either Leclerc

or big CC bodies. Penalties plagued Miami and, with five minutes left, the RedHawks had to take two minutes to kill CC’s power play. A shorthanded chance from freshman forward Ben Lown and noticeable physicality ended Miami’s PK. The ’Hawks had a game-changing opportunity with 1:01 left in the game as Colorado would take a turn in the penalty box, allowing Miami a man-advantage and the opportunity to pull Larkin for the extra attacker. A shot from junior defenseman Grant Hutton from the left side whizzed by Leclerc, but rang off the post.

The crowd rallied behind the RedHawks, cheering whenever the ’Hawks entered the zone. A final RedHawk rush wasn’t good enough to find the back of the neck and the tying goal. The game ended 2-1, good for Miami to split the series with Colorado after winning 3-2 in overtime on Friday.

“We tried to come back in the third,” Blasi said. “I thought we had some good chances, but their goaltender made some pretty big saves or we missed the net, and they did a good job.”

Colorado ended with 14 shots to Miami’s 27. CC also went 1-for-8 on the powerplay, whereas Miami went 0-for-6 on Saturday.

On the weekend, the Tigers went 3-for-14 and Miami went 0-for-8 on the man-advantage.

“You put a team on the power play and your flow starts to go south and that’s what happened,” Blasi said.

After their conference opening weekend, Miami sits in the middle of the NCHC pack -- fourth of eight teams with a .500 record overall and in conference play. CC sits at third in front of Miami after this weekend.

“We just let them back in it,” Blasi said.

“Credit to them, they did a good job getting back into it. We didn’t have an answer for it.”

Next weekend, Miami looks to answer against North Dakota. Puck drop is at 8:37 p.m. on Friday and 8:07 p.m. on Saturday.

Both games can be watched on NCHC.TV. simansec@miamioh.edu

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sota North Stars and Calgary Flames, is the head hockey coach at Olaf College. His younger brother Patrick, now in his 12th season in the NHL, plays right wing for the Anaheim Ducks. And his mother, Beth, has always supported Ben’s love of hockey.

As a high school senior at Shattuck-St. Mary’s Prep in Minnesota, he helped his team to its first national championship in 1999. He played at the hockey powerhouse that is Boston College, then was was drafted in 2001 by the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins. He landed in the American Hockey League and the Finnish Elite League.

Then, in 2010, after nine years as a pro, a severe concussion knocked him out of the sport. It took 16 months to recover.

If he was going to stay in hockey, he would have to make the difficult transition from player to coach.

“I still think like an athlete,” Eaves says. “I’m finding that balance between athlete and coach. For me, I don’t ever forget what it’s like to play and how hard it is.”

He speaks of this and holds your gaze with his blue eyes, leaning back in his desk chair. Floor to ceiling windows are to his left and sport psychology and biology books are stacked on various corners of his desk.

“When I ask them to do something, I make sure [the players] know that I’ve done this recently, or I’ve done this in the past, or this is what the science says behind it,” Eaves says.

Eaves starts his day with a workout at 7 a.m. and then will organize Miami hockey into groups with exercises intended to focus on specific muscles. Eaves regularly dedicates part of his day to reading the latest sport journals and articles in an effort to better serve his players. His quiet office space is disturbed when his players enter the weight room in the afternoon, only a staircase below his desk and extra jump boxes that serve as desk chairs.

His light-hearted work space is a reflection of his uplifting personality, though Eaves takes his job seriously. Mondays and Tuesdays, he attends the coaches’ meetings and intently watches tape comparing second halves of shifts to first halves, analyzing players’ movements and bodily limitations and noting every individual player’s strengths and weaknesses.

Eaves breaks down his job like he breaks down the tapes.

“When I look at these boys, I can see them as hockey players,” Eaves says. “I can assess their skill sets, the way they think the game, the way they process the game. When they come in here, that’s the foundation for how I want to work with them.”

Eaves recognizes that his contribution to the team is a small one, but one he hopes is important. His pas-

sion doesn’t go unnoticed by his players.

Freshman forward Phil Knies values Eaves’ perspective as a coach, but also his perspective as a former student-athlete. Knies played junior hockey in the United States Hockey League for two years before coming to Miami and notes the biggest change has been balancing school and the Division I hockey schedule.

Because of increased access to fitness facilities and coaches such as Eaves, Knies has noticed an increased fitness level since playing at Miami. Eaves is careful not to push his players to their limits, but asks them every day for 100 percent.

“I think that’s been the biggest thing he’s taught us – how to be good every day and how to continuously be able to reach peak performance,” Knies says.

Eaves touches on this when explaining his weekly routine. His workload lightens towards the end of the week, as he prepares players for game days. When Friday and Saturday arrive, he hopes that his conditioning in the weight room and skill development on the ice pays off.

Eaves knows how important it is to go on the ice feeling ready.

“As an athlete, I know how fragile your confidence can be game-to-game, week-to-week and I just want them to know that I’m going to be a foundational rock for them,” Eaves says. “I’ll be honest with them, but I’m rooting for them. I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure they’re in a good spot to go out and have success on the weekend.”

Eaves’ has a Bachelor’s Degree in English from BC and Master’s in Kinesiology from Minnesota, as well as certification as a National Strength and Conditioning Coach. For all his expertise, Eaves still considers himself a hockey player and draws his credibility from his authenticity. Half of his mouth pulls into a grin when he explains he’s still a hockey player – the mindset shift from player to coach, from athlete to academic hasn’t happened because it won’t.

“Coaching sucks compared to playing. Playing is so hard, it’s so fun,” Eaves says. “You don’t even want to compare the two because they’re on such different ends. You just hope, as a coach, you can have a positive influence on boys and help them find their best game.”

Senior defenseman Grant Hutton agrees with Knies. In previous years, Miami’s performance and wellness coach couldn’t understand what varsity athletes experience on a day-to-day basis. And, when it feels like work, Eaves tries to remind the players that it isn’t.

“We see his positive energy, whether it’s in the weight room or on the ice. He’s one of those guys who can brighten your day when you walk in,” Hutton says. “If things aren’t going well he’ll be the first guy

to speak up and say, ‘Hey, we’re going to play hockey today. You have a job and it’s pretty frickin’ fun.’”

And when a player has a day when he doesn’t love his job, Eaves is there.

“He’s very consistent, that’s what we love about him. He doesn’t have any bad days and if he does, he does a really good job of hiding it,” Hutton says. “You walk in the weight room and he’s always got music playing. He’s always coming up to you and saying hi and asking how your day’s going. He just says, ‘Let’s get to work.’”

When Eaves isn’t working he likes to road bike, explore Cincinnati and convince his coworkers to play him in tennis, ping pong and badminton. He spends free time with his girlfriend and, whenever he can, he visits his mom, dad and brother.

The only time Eaves spoke with greater fondness of something is when he spoke about his family. His warm smile wasn’t wider but softer.

His favorite hockey memories? Playing two years of college hockey with his brother and coaching alongside his father at Olaf College last year. His favorite professional hockey team? Whatever hockey team his brother plays on.

“Ben was a great kid. Adapted to everything,” mother Beth Eaves says. “To this day, he loves to learn. I have not met anybody who has a mind like his.”

Ben Eaves learned to adapt to different places, different cultures and different languages as his family’s 25 moves took him all over Minnesota, into Canada, out East and even to Finland. He would read two, three or four books at a time. He learned to love hockey and the sport that proved a common language.

On and off the ice, Beth Eaves attests to Ben being a hardworker, tenacious and an overachiever. Ben zeroed in on hockey at age 13 or 14 and Beth says Ben has always been a people-person -- his teammates were as important to him as his friends at home were.

“One thing that’s interesting about Ben is that he’s always mentored. He’s always done that,” Beth Eaves says. “I think that’s how the coaching plays into that, just to work with people so they can be the best they can be, not necessarily in hockey but in life.”

Ben Eaves, a hockey coach, goes to the rink every day wanting his players to get better. Ben Eaves, a hockey player, goes to the rink every day wanting to get better.

“Every day, I want to get better at what I’m doing,” Eaves says. “I want to be able to know that I used the day wisely to then work with our boys.”

Eaves is a hockey coach, but he will always be a hockey player.

“I’m a hockey player dealing with hockey players,” Eaves says. “For me, that will always be the foundation.” simansec@miamioh.edu

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The following reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

We’ve been receiving email after email about it for weeks.

It’s been promoted on just about every Miami social media

account. And likely, there’s a large population of students who saw the email float through their inbox and deleted it immediately or just ignored it.

Not enough of us filled it out. And that’s not ok.

Our climate survey failed, receiving just over 20 percent of a response rate, effectively making it ineligible for analysis.

For undergraduates, the response rate was 17 percent.

Generally speaking, the survey only takes 20, maybe 30 minutes to fill out. You can put a little more effort into it if you want, or you can skim through it, but hell, skimming through it would have been better than not responding at all.

So we have a question for the Miami students, the 80 percent, that didn’t fill out the survey.

Did you not have 20 minutes in your week, your month, to fill out a survey that pertains to every single student on this campus? How they feel about being here? Could you not spare one moment to give your feedback to Miami so our university, our home, can improve?

This survey cost over $100,000 to run. And we treated it like it was an irrelevant piece of dirt.

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Misconceptions surround the politics of abortion DARCY KEENAN COLUMNIST

Last week I was lucky enough to have Jacque Daugherty guest lecture in my human sexuality class (FSW 365). She is a sociologist and works with the Western Program (AKA Individualized Studies) here on campus. She came to class to talk about abortion, and it was so much more than I envisioned it being.

Dr. Daugherty’s first point was that most of us don’t even really know what abortion is – abortion is the term for the termination of any pregnancy at any time, for any reason. This means that a miscarriage is a type of abortion; miscarriages are called spontaneous abortions. The abortions that we often debate the legality of are induced abortions, which can be legally done in two ways.

First, there is the medical abortion, which is done with pills. The patient will orally take a pill at the office and then go home and insert a second pill into the vagina.

This causes contractions which causes the fetus to pass through the cervix and vagina. One cannot have a medical abortion more than 70 days after their missed period, which means that the fetus will be no larger than an inch and a half. The patient will need to go back to the doctor at least once in the following weeks for an ultrasound that will check if the fetus has been completely removed.

The second type is the surgical abortion. This can be performed at up to 24 weeks of gestation, but in many states (like Ohio) abortion is illegal after 20 weeks.

There are three different types of

surgical abortions: vacuum aspiration, dilation and curettage (D&C) and dilation and evacuation (D&E).

Vacuum aspirations are when the fetus is suctioned out of the womb, can be performed between five and 12 weeks, and takes 10 to 15 minutes; D&C abortions are when the cervix is dilated and a special instrument is used to scrape along the uterine lining and remove everything inside. They can be performed between four and 12 weeks, and it takes 10 to 15 minutes, although recovery time in the hospital may last up to five hours; D&E abortions require forceps to be inserted into the uterus to grasp the fetus and pull it out. They can be performed between weeks 12 and 24, and take about 30 minutes to complete.

D&E abortions are by far the least common types of abortions.

They are typically performed when the life of the mother is in danger or the fetus has some kind of abnormality that will greatly diminish its quality of life.

Daugherty then moved on to talk about what pro-life and prochoice actually mean, but she first made a point to tell us that she did not like those terms. Abortion is not a binary issue; it is more than yes or no. To be fully and truly pro-life means to think that life begins at the moment the sperm fertilizes the egg – before the zygote even implants in the uterine lining. Because of this, those who are pro-life are against all forms of contraception that involve hormones. Barrier types of contraception are a gray area for these people. Oral birth control, birth control patches, implants, IUDs,

and Plan B are all things that the pro-life side should oppose.

The facts she shared about the pro-choice side were more or less what I expected. To be fully and truly pro-choice means that you want women to have the ability to get an abortion if they want up to the third trimester, the age of viability. The pro-choice side does not have opinions on birth control or any other contraceptives – they focus solely on abortion.

Both sides, however, have a common goal: to decrease abortions. Daugherty shared some really interesting statistics about how that could be done. The first point she brought up was that in areas where abortion is illegal, the rates of abortions increase. This is because typically, the legality of abortion goes hand in hand with the education of abortion, which goes hand in hand with the sex education.

Countries that have criminalized abortion usually do not have good sex education, which means that people are less aware of how they can prevent pregnancy, how to take care of pregnancies and how to end them. With better comprehensive sex education comes more responsible citizens who understand the importance of contraception and practicing safe sex, which leads to less unplanned pregnancies, which leads to less abortion.

Abortions are going to happen if they are legal or not. Keeping them legal keeps them safe. Regardless of your political beliefs, I urge you to research abortion and question the facts that you believe and that shaped your views. keenandm@miamioh.edu

Professors are using software to monitor students during exams – and it needs to stop JOEY HART

OPINION EDITOR

The other day, I witnessed one of my friends doing something foreign to me. She was taking an online exam for a class, but instead of simply logging on and completing the assessment, she had to allow an internet program access to her webcam, hold up her student ID to the camera and completing the assignment under the eye of anti-cheating surveillance software.

I don’t wear a tinfoil hat on my head, and generally I trust that our school has reasonable people making policy decisions. And that trust stands with this development as well; the operators of this particular program likely intend only to help professors limit cheating.

However, there comes a point in which the positives of the general trend of increased surveillance are not worth the privacy that we are rapidly giving up for it.

We have a technological climate where it’s normal for people to look up your profile on Facebook and instantly know where you’re from and where your work. Snap-

chat friends can see where you are at any time through the app’s map feature, which came out this year. Other apps, such as Find My Friends, exist for the sole purpose of tracking your contacts.

What’s important to remember is that these developments aren’t the result of a man in a dark room sitting on a big swivel chair and stroking his poodle. They are the result of friends who want to see where the party is, parents that want to know their children are safe and people trying to stay in touch with each other more easily. But we don’t lose personal independence from dramatic, swift policy decisions; we lose it by nickel-and-diming our way out of it with good intentions.

Right now, the school may only use webcam surveillance for exams. But when that becomes the new normal, with another class coming in that will have only known online tests and quizzes that require video monitoring, maybe in five years they could go further. Could they eventually listen in on our conversations through our cell phones? Could they track our location on a night Uptown? Could they monitor our

text messages?

Again, these hypotheticals would come to pass not because of an abrupt power grab by university officials, but by well-intentioned parents, faculty and even students in the name of safety and compliance with student code of conduct. The problem is there may come a time when such powers fall in the hands of less reasonable or benign actors at any level of society, in which case, it will be too late to reverse our decisions. The only way to stop that result is to stop the whole process before it gets there, at the cost of a little less security, but with the value of our personal lives staying personal.

Arguing against the trend of increased surveillance and loss of privacy can seem like arguing against gravity, but I urge the school to stop monitoring students through webcams and stop the above process. I won’t put on a tinfoil hat, but I’ll definitely keep a piece of tape over my laptop’s camera lens. hartjt@miamioh.edu

mate. Maybe people don’t want to participate in a conversation about changing the culture of Miami. Maybe people didn’t understand what the survey was about.

And yes, email is probably the worst form of communication to try and get a student response. Our inboxes are all flooded beyond belief with Canvas notifications, newsletters and weekly emails from various listservs.

But if that’s the case, then our answer shouldn’t be to ignore the survey. It should be to call on Miami to change the way they reach out to us — the way they gauge our opinions on how we feel about this campus.

And there’s so many ways this could take form.

We could have students take the survey at the beginning or end of one of their classes. We could provide incentives for professors to give to students if they take the survey.

UNV 101, for example, would be the perfect class to try this out with students.

But for the university to spend that kind of money and have it not work out is unacceptable. And that’s on us for not filling it out.

This survey is the basis for important research about Miami and is even more important to giving the university feedback on what needs to be fixed on campus.

Jodie Sweetin hits the mark with talk on addiction DEVON SHUMAN

MANAGING EDITOR

I heard Stephanie Tanner say “fuck” last week. That’s just one of the many perks of being a newspaper editor.

Actually, actress Jodie Sweetin, who played the sassy middle child on the 90s sitcom “Full House,” swore quite a bit during her visit to campus on Monday to speak about her struggles with alcoholism, addiction and recovery.

Sweetin was equal parts academic and personable, just as likely to discuss stigmas or encourage people to “share their humanity” as she was to drop an F-bomb or joke that her kids like to act like little shits in the middle of Target.

I absolutely loved it.

Perhaps my favorite line came during Sweetin’s group seminar, a small gathering of roughly 25 student leaders on campus who had the opportunity to ask her direct questions.

One student inquired as to how she responds to the college partier’s common quip that “it’s not alcoholism until you graduate.”

Sweetin laughed. After a long-winded answer that eloquently touched on subjects such as the cultural allure of “high-functioning alcoholism,” the science of physical dependence and the unrealistic elements of the hit drama “Mad Men,” Sweetin dropped this one on us: “It’s a maturity thing, too, you know?

When you’re 30 and walking around and going, ‘I’m a high-functioning alcoholic,’ your friends are gonna go ‘shut the fuck up. Pull yourself together.’ When you’re 18 and saying that, people think it’s funny.”

The room erupted in laughter — partly because of the hilarious and familiar way Sweetin rolled her eyes and drew out the line, “shuuut the FUUCK up,” but also partly because we recognized it as true. We’ve all heard people lean on the crutch of “it’s not alcoholism until you graduate.” And whether we said anything or not, on some level, we all knew it was bullshit.

I had certainly heard the phrase before. I’d said it myself as a freshman and sophomore. Last year, I reported on it when researching the connection between mental health and alcohol consumption. But for some reason, as I listened to Dr. Ritch Hall and Dr. Kip Alishio of Student Counseling Services speak about the numbers and statistics that disproved that phrase, it didn’t have much of an effect on me, and I doubt it did on many of my readers.

When Jodie Sweetin said it, we all listened. And we all waited for more.

I’ve attended a lot of great events on campus during my four years here. I heard Piper Kerman talk about prison reform. I laughed at Aziz Ansari and Seth Meyers. I embraced my inner middle-schooler at an All-American Rejects concert.

But nobody had as powerful an impact on me as Jodie Sweetin. Sweetin carried herself with an immense grace, speaking honestly and openly about her years and years of pain and darkness.

She talked about the feeling of being uncomfortable in her own skin, a sensation she inherited from her alcoholic biological parents. She talked about the years she spent chasing the glorious numbness of obliterating her mind. She talked about learning to be uncomfortable, to be in pain, and to keep moving forward. She talked about being empathetic and patient when reaching out to those we’re concerned about. She talked about

the importance of sharing your story, of generating honest, open conversations surrounding an oft-stigmatized topic.

But she did all of this with a comforting and engaging ease. Not once in the hours I spent with her did I feel as if I was being lectured; these were natural conversations I could have been having with a roommate, or a friend from class.

This past Saturday, I celebrated four months since my last sip of alcohol.

Like Sweetin, from my first time being drunk, I knew I had a problem, that I would always struggle to stop drinking once I started. But rather than address the issue, I tried to control it. For five years I endured terrifying, self-hatred-induced cycles of blackouts and hangovers just hoping that I wouldn’t wake up one morning with my life ruined, or over.

I sat in Hall Auditorium last week with a sober mind, but if I hadn’t, if I’d still been caught in the throes of alcoholism, I can honestly say Sweetin’s talk would have encouraged me to take a closer look at myself. She was candid, genuine and sociable. She delivered the same message I’d heard plenty of times before, but she did so in a way that forced me to listen.

The research behind addiction and alcoholism is quite advanced at the moment; the scientific community has a great understanding of what causes people to keep saying “just one more.” If you’re so inclined, there are great books and articles out there for you to seek out. But, if you’re living the college dream, going out every night and painting the town red like you’re told you’re supposed to, what’s going to motivate you to do that?

In no way is this meant to discredit the phenomenal work of the researchers and counselors dedicating themselves to fighting back against this disease that has ruined so many lives.

What I’m getting at is that, in addition to their work, we need more voices like Sweetin. We need to create a culture of empathy, a society in which people don’t see their addiction as a personal weakness, but as a condition that can be treated, in which they see people like Sweetin and think, “hey, it’s okay to not be okay.” As Sweetin pointed out in her lecture, the more we share our stories, the more others will connect with our struggles and feel comfortable to take the first step toward recovery.

Miami has taken a fantastic step in the right direction by bringing to campus The Haven at College, an outpatient center for people struggling with alcoholism and addiction. Contrary to most 12-step programs, you do not have to self-identify or commit yourself to abstinence to go there. The Haven is a safe and sober space where anyone can come hang out. I encourage anybody with the slightest concern about their relationship to substances to head over there sometime soon. It’s exactly the sort of welcoming and judgment-free environment that we need to start cultivating throughout the rest of society.

I never hit my rock bottom. Through the guidance and support of my friends and family, I was able to seek out help before my life lost complete control.

Others aren’t as lucky. If Sweetin’s message reached one person and encouraged them to seek treatment, or at least to speak up about their struggles, then her visit was a success. shumandb@miamioh.edu

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2017

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WHY TWO BOXERS’ DEATHS ARE STILL RELEVANT TODAY MAX MATSON COLUMNIST

It’s 1983, and Roberto Duran is geared for a comeback following the large stain on his boxing record that was his “No Mas” fight against Sugar Ray Leonard. Over the years, Duran had fallen into a slump. He looked beat up, he looked old. But on the day of his championship bout with young Jr. middleweight champ from the Bronx, Davey Moore, Duran looked like a snarling animal, months of vigorous training culminating in one final moment of excellence. From the second the bell rung to the second that referee Ernesto Magana finally ended the beating in the eighth round, it was clear that Moore had no business being in the same ring as the elder Duran.

By the time that Magana pushed the two men apart, Moore’s right eye was swollen completely shut, his battered body slumping onto whatever surface presented itself in front of him (unfortunately for the majority of the eight rounds, that surface was Duran’s fists). It would be easy to romanticize Duran’s comeback as many people did at the time. But amid the celebration there was an uneasy tension in Moore’s locker room that night – not the uncomfortable silence that typically follows a loss, but something much worse. Davey Moore from the Bronx wasn’t the first Davey Moore to lose this way…

Let’s jump back in time to March of 1963.

Another Davey Moore is set to square off against Cuban ex-pat Ultiminio Ramos for the world featherweight title in Dodger Stadium. This Davey Moore was a native of Kentucky, approaching 30 years old – an old man in boxing years. He was a fouryear champion looking to finally cash in on his long and successful career, but his 21-year-old opponent had the same look in his eyes standing across the ring from Moore that Duran would have 20 years later. The ensuing fight is best encapsulated by Bob Dylan’s 1964 protest song “Who Killed Davy Moore”: Who killed Davey Moore Why an’ what’s the reason for?

‘Not us,’ says the angry crowd Whose screams filled the arena loud ‘It’s too bad he died that night But we just like to see a fight We didn’t mean for him t’ meet his death We just meant to see some sweat There ain’t nothing wrong in that It wasn’t us that made him fall

No, you can’t blame us at all Davey Moore never made it out of Dodger Stadium that night. It was a competitive bout, one which culminated in what appeared to be a routine fall by Moore following a torrent of strikes from Ramos at the tail end of the 10th round. Moore was on his feet and responsive before the count finished, but the fight was stopped shortly thereafter by the referee. Moore spoke to the press following the fight, and he appeared to be lucid and level-headed entering his locker room… but then everything changed. Moore began rubbing his scalp and complaining about a headache before suddenly slumping over in his dressing room. Rushed to the hospital, it was determined that Moore had severely damaged his brain stem. Three days after slipping into a coma, Davey Moore was dead.

Jump forward to June 1988, five years following the later Moore’s fight with Roberto Duran. Though Moore had survived the bout, he never recovered from the beating doled out to him that night, and by the time he was descending his driveway to grab the paper on the rainy morning of June 5, his boxing career was all but over. When his car suddenly began to roll down the driveway towards him, Moore froze. Anyone who’s seen the Duran fight can’t help but hold a sliver of doubt in their mind that had it been called earlier, Moore’s reaction time may have been enough to avoid his ensuing death from asphyxiation.

It’s an open secret that boxing kills. We all know the horrors that fighters experience in their old age, and as light has been shed on the true toll that brain damage takes on the human mind over time, the audiences for all but the most extravagant boxing matches have dwindled accordingly. Maybe the violence has grown distasteful for modern America…

Or maybe we just don’t like feeling responsible. Put two men in a ring and watch them beat each other to death for long enough and eventually the hand of blame comes back to the audience. Put those same men in brightly colored uniforms, pads and helmets and let them pound their brains into mush over the course of a season and you get the modern NFL. The next time you see a tailback wobble their way to the bench after a big hit, think about the two Davey Moores. How likely is it that they’ll meet a similar fate?

An analysis of the Republican Party’s new tax plan: Good, but not perfect LUKE SCHROEDER COLUMNIST

Last Thursday, Congressional GOP leadership finally unveiled their plan for reforming the U.S. tax code. The 429-page bill is called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). There are two major components to the TCJA – reforms to corporate taxes and reforms to individual taxes.

First, let’s take a look at the corporate side.

As I previously wrote in this publication, “the [current] corporate tax rates in the U.S. make our country one of the most hostile for business in the industrialized world.”

Under current law, U.S. corporations are taxed 35 percent at the federal level, on top of an average 4.1 percent state rate. The resulting national rate is a whopping 39.1 percent, nearly 15% higher than the average rate paid by corporations in other member nations of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Under the TCJA, the U.S. federal corporate tax is lowered to 20 percent, which would presumably result in an average 24.1 percent rate once state taxes are factored in.

This corporate tax rate places the U.S. on par with most other industrialized nations.

This is very good news – this will make the U.S. much more competitive in the global economy, and will lead to more domestic investment, more American jobs and less outsourcing.

Even better news: the TCJA would make the new 20 percent corporate rate immediate and permanent. This is vital for long term corporate investment in America, and a stark improvement over plans that suggested temporary cuts, which would have failed to create lasting impacts to the American business environment.

The TCJA makes more changes to the tax code on the individual side. Most notably, the current seven brackets would be reduced to four.

The standard deduction would also roughly double, from $6,350 to $12,000 for individuals and from $12,000 to $24,000 for couples. This would avoid raising taxes on the poor, and is meant to compensate for the eliminations of other itemized deductions. It will make the tax code much simpler for the average taxpayer.

Under the TCJA, the child tax credit also increases from $1,000 to $1,600. While this is a good step, it is less of an increase than some Republicans, including Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), had hoped for. I expect this credit will increase after bill mark-ups have

completed.

In addition, the bill also would create a tax credit of $300 for every adult dependent and parent, or $600 each for joint filers. In theory, a family of four (two parents, one young child and one young adult) could reduce their tax burden by $2,500. Like the child tax credit, this credit would phase out when the income of a family exceeds $230,000.

Luckily, the TCJA also phases out the death tax by 2024, ending the immoral practice of taxing death.

Additionally, the bill makes no changes to 401(k) plans, and makes 529 (education savings) plans easier to manage; the legislation would allow 529 funds to be used for high school tuition costs and would allow the accounts to be opened for unborn children.

To translate the number soup above: Speaker Ryan (R-WI) claims this plan would save the average American family of four (which brings in around $59,000 of gross income per year) $1,182 per year in taxes, leaving that family’s tax bill at only $400.

This, more money in the pockets of American families, is very good news.

A problem: the plan eliminates state tax deductibility. Under current law, taxpayers can deduct the amount of their state tax when filling out federal taxes. This effectively subsidizes taxpayers living in high-tax states such as California, New York, New Jersey and others. Eliminating this deductibility is a good thing – the federal government, should not subsidize high tax states at the detriment of states that are more fiscally responsible.

However, Republicans from those high tax states will have a hard time voting for this legislation, (rightfully) fearing the wrath of their constituents. Expect this issue to take up a lot of oxygen over the coming weeks as the House GOP whips votes.

Another (big) problem: these tax cuts will add about $1.5 trillion to the United States deficit over the next decade. While Republicans are right to cut taxes, they must also act to offset the resulting deficit by making spending cuts – they are supposed to be fiscal conservatives after all. Cutting spending is never easy (especially when addressing entitlement programs), but it’s long overdue and badly needed.

Another problem: many (including myself) would argue that these cuts don’t go far enough for individuals, and don’t cut enough special interest loopholes. However, at the end of the day, this bill is a good first step in addressing the mess of our current tax code. More improvements can always (and should) be made down the road. schroelm@miamioh.edu

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Miami field hockey MAC tournament champions FIELD HOCKEY

CHRISTOPHER BERRY STAFF WRITER

Miami field hockey took home the Mid-American Conference Tournament Championship for the third time in Kent this weekend after defeating Appalachian State University 6-1 on Friday and Kent State University in overtime 2-1 on Saturday.

MU finishes 11-8 on the year with an undefeated conference record 8-0 after their two victories this weekend. They dominated ASU for the second time this season, outshooting the Mountaineers 18-2 and leading in penalty corners 11-2.

“Our team this year has more heart than I think I’ve ever played on a team with,” senior back Makenna Colby said after the win Friday. “The will to win that we have is incredible, so I think that’s really what drives our confidence on the field.”

Sophomore midfielder Lexi Silver opened scoring less than a minute into the game off an assist from freshman forward/midfielder Lexie Nugent. Ten minutes later, freshman midfielder Neely Lochmoeller scored her third goal of the season, putting MU up 2-0 early. ASU scored their lone goal of the game in the 18th minute of play. After that, it was all Miami.

Silver notched her second goal of the game in the 41st minute of play, followed by freshman midfielder

Leonor Berlie’s sixth goal of the season in the 52nd minute.

Up 4-1, the RedHawks weren’t done yet. A minute later, freshman forward Allie Grace Joyner beat the goalkeeper after faking left and putting it away on the right.

To round out the day, junior forward/midfielder Paula Portugal added to her impressive 17-goal season. The remainder of the game ended in an overwhelming performance by the much better MU defense and the ’Hawks finished 6-1.

“I think it was great,” head coach Inako Puzo said. “The team really performed at a high level. We talked before the game --the key was going to be to keep the intensity for the entire game and don’t look at the scoreboard. It doesn’t matter what direction the scoreboard was going, we just had to keep running and keep playing hard and I think they did it.”

Carrying over their momentum, MU took Kent State the distance and then some in a performance not accurately represented by the score. Miami outshot Kent State 9-3 and held the Flashes to zero shots in the second half.

Kent State scored first in the 28th minute to make it 1-0, which would remain the score for almost 20 minutes until junior midfielder/ back Avery Sturm scored off an indirect pass from Portugal.

Portugal had her 18th goal of the season called back after a review in the 49th minute. The RedHawks didn’t let this dissuade them going

into overtime.

Portugal eventually got her 18th of the season after receiving a pass from senior midfielder/forward Henni Otten. She took the ball past midfield, into the circle herself and beat the goalkeeper, solidifying MU as the regular season and MAC tournament champions.

“I’m super happy,” Portugal said.

“It is amazing — we’ve been working for this all year. It’s just amazing. It was an amazing game by our team. The first half was a little harder, but in the second half we completely dominated.”

Colby was named the Tournament’s MVP, while goalkeeper Maddie Passarella, Sturm, Portugal and Colby were named to the all-tournament team.

“It feels great. It is great to see all of your players happy especially after all the time and effort that they put into practice, on the field and in the classroom,” Puzo said. “I think they value a lot in what they do and they value the process, but everybody enjoys winning and now they’re celebrating, they’re happy, they have smiles on their faces. For a coach, I think this is the biggest reward.”

The RedHawks will travel to Stanford University for the first round of the NCAA tournament on Wednesday, Nov. 8th at 5:00 p.m.

This is Miami’s first tournament appearance since 2013 and their fourth in history. berrycm2@miamioh.edu

Volleyball victorious during senior weekend

SOPHOMORE OUTSIDE HITTER TAYLOR DAIGNAULT (CENTER) HELPS VOLLEYBALL TO 3-0 WIN AGAINST OU ON SATURDAY AT MILLETT HALL. MACY WHITAKER THE MIAMI STUDENT

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CHRIS VINEL BEN PANZECA

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami volleyball kicked-off senior weekend at home with a win over Kent State in three straight sets on Friday and continued its dominance against Ohio University to win again in straight sets on Saturday.

The RedHawks improve to 19-8 overall and 11-3 in the Mid-American Conference after the weekend.

The wins tie them with Bowling Green for first place in the conference. This was their second win of the season against Kent State and a revenge win against OU after losing 3-2 early in the season to the Bobcats.

The loss puts the Golden Flashes at 5-19 overall, 3-10 in the MAC. The Bobcats are now 14-14 overall and 8-6 in MAC play.

Even with the victory coming from consecutive sets on Friday, the ‘Hawks were challenged by the Golden Flashes in the first two sets, winning the first 26-24 and the second 25-23.

After Kent State scored three straight to start the third, Miami responded with a 5-0 run and dominated the rest of the set, winning 25-16. “[Kent State] did some things differently tonight that we didn’t see on film,” Miami head coach Carolyn Condit said. “I’m proud of how smart they [Miami] are, how they made the adjustments and came back out and stopped the different look.”

RedHawks’ senior outside hitter Olivia Rusek led the way with a team-high 17 kills. She was also second on the team in digs, finishing with 15.

“I feel really great and super energized, and even more pumped to take on Ohio,” Rusek said.

Beside Rusek’s performance, senior libero Maeve McDonald led the team with 21 digs. Outside hitters Taylor Daignault and Stela Kukoc tied for second on the team with eight kills each.

On Senior Day, the RedHawks earned their third straight victory as they defeated the Ohio University Bobcats 3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 2513).

Sustained runs of dominant play,

College football playoff ranking predictions COLUMN

BRADY PFISTER STAFF WRITER

College football is a sport characterized by its uncertainty — right when a team makes a statement

and cements itself as the cream of the crop, it turns around the next week and drops a game to an underdog.

The madness of college football was once again on full display this weekend, specifically with our

a 6-1 in the first set and an incredible 14-2 run in the final set gave the RedHawks a victory against their state rivals. Rusek once again dominated on the attack, leading the team with nine kills on the day.

Daignault finished with 13 digs and three blocks.

Defensively, Miami forced Ohio into 22 attack errors, and also maintained the blocking advantage 10-9. Senior middle hitter Meredith Stutz was integral to the ‘Hawks victory, taking part in six of the team’s blocks (two solo, four assisted). The Bobcats only managed a .033 hitting percentage on the day.

“I really liked how we served tonight, we spread the offense around and we really shined in the blocking area,” Condit said. “There was a great sense of purpose tonight against a team that is very worthy, and we did not want to let them in the front door. I was especially pleased with how we closed out the third set.”

Next weekend, Miami closes its season on the road taking on Buffalo on Friday at 6 p.m. and Akron on Friday at 3 p.m.

“friends” to the north, the Ohio State Buckeyes. Urban Meyer’s squad mounted a giant comeback last week against Penn State, in which senior quarterback J.T. Barrett played a nearly perfect fourth quarter to overcome an 18-point deficit.

This week, the Buckeyes travelled to play a 5-3 Iowa team and entered the game favored to win by nearly 20 points, but were dominated by the Hawkeyes by a score

Inconsistent ’Hawks split conference series with Colorado

SENIOR DEFENSEMAN LOUIE BELPEDIO PREPARES TO SHOOT PAST COLORADO COLLEGE ON SATURDAY AT STEVE ‘COACH’ CADY ARENA. ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

HOCKEY

EMILY SIMANSKIS SPORTS EDITOR

Inconsistent play through 60 minutes led to Miami hockey falling 2-1 to National Collegiate Hockey Conference opponent Colorado College. Two second period Tiger goals and the RedHawks’ inability to finish plays in the third led to the teams splitting the twogame series.

“We’re at home and you have to come to play every night,” head coach Enrico Blasi said at his postgame press conference on Saturday. “Our conference is tough — you know that teams are going to be well prepared and they’re going to be ready to battle.”

The RedHawks (4-4, 1-1 NCHC) came out flying, looking to catch the Tigers (6-4, 2-2 NCHC) off their physical and fast game from Friday night. For the first six minutes, Miami forechecked and generated four shots while holding CC to zero.

A couple of power plays for the RedHawks afforded a handful of opportunities, but the Tigers were adept at clearing the puck and blocking shooting lanes to keep it a 0-0 game.

With just over four minutes left in the period, freshman forward Austin Alger made a play off his feet just inside the CC blue line to gain the zone. Alger found junior forward Ryan Siroky who then fed senior forward Conor Lemirande at the right faceoff circle. Lemirande buried the puck five-hole to put Miami up 1-0.

Not ten seconds later, a CC power play gave the Tigers the opportunity for a tying tally. Undeterred, senior defenseman Louie Belpedio won several board battles to allow the RedHawks to clear the puck and kill time. Junior forward Kiefer Sherwood managed to work behind CC’s net to feed sophomore forward Karch Bachman in front, though Bachman fanned on the short-handed shot.

A late penalty on Miami tested their defense again, but the RedHawks went into intermission with a 1-0 lead.

“I thought we had a good first period and I thought we had a lot of momentum,” Blasi said.

“The second and third periods were CC’s — they played extremely well in the second period, got the goal lead. Then we got into penalty trouble again, a little bit undisciplined and that’s the way it goes.”

Though Miami killed the leftover penalty, CC changed the tone of the game two minutes into the second period. Freshman forward Tanner Ockey’s one-timer from the slot was the result of a defensive zone turnover and resulted in a 1-1 tie at 2:05 of the second.

The RedHawks weathered the Tigers’ storm -- sophomore goaltender Ryan Larkin held pucks to earn necessary faceoffs, all four lines generated several chances and ’Hawks fans weren’t nervously holding their breath.

The air was sucked from the ‘Coach’ Cady arena shortly before the intermission, however. AnothCONTINUED ON PAGE 9

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of 55-24. After putting the state of Ohio on his back one week, Barrett sent Columbus into misery the next -- throwing four interceptions in a lopsided upset.

This is the nature of the sport, where the only things you can count on are uncertainty and debate. The source of this debate will resurface tonight, as the College Football Playoff Committee will release their second installment of rankings.

Inevitably, fans of teams ranked no. 5 to 25 will take up arms on Twitter after finding themselves on the outside looking in on the playoffs, while supporters of the topfour programs will furiously defend their teams. With that said, here is how I would rank the Top 10 teams at this point in the season.

1. Alabama At this point in the Nick Saban CONTINUED ON PAGE 8