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Lecture prompts discussion of sexual assault Community comes together to voice opinions, question George Will’s controversial comments

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Seven hundred and forty nine — that is how many words make up George Will’s controversial article “Colleges become the victims of progressivism.” From the millions of words he has written in over 4,500 columns during the course of his journalistic career, those 749 words have sparked serious backlash over its statements about sexual assault on college campuses, backlash that. Will disclosed in a C-SPAN interview that he has never received backlash to such an extent from any of his other articles. On Thursday afternoon, Miami students showed they had some words of their own for Will.

“Nothing less than yes!”

“George Will is not Miami!”

“Yes means yes. No means no.”

Those were just a few of the statements chanted by protesters who, starting at around 4 p.m., gathered with signs and fliers outside the gates of the Farmer School of Business. The group included representatives from Men Against Sexual Assault (MARS), Women Against Violence and Sexual Assault (WAVES), Feminists Working on Real Democracy (F-Word) and other students and faculty members who oppose the opinions Will expressed in his column. Many of their posters pointed out one striking phrase in particular. “[When] they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate,” he wrote in the article.

In direct response to this statement, some protesters held signs

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that read, “There is no privilege in being silenced and shamed,” or, “Sexual assault leaves you with scars, not privileges.”

One participant, a member of WAVES and a survivor of sexual assault, Laura Uribe, was prepared to ask Will to defend his claim.

“I’m very interested as to what those privileges are and why I haven’t seen them yet,” she said.

Also a survivor of sexual assault, Mary Williams, the president of WAVES and a contributor to Thursday’s protest, felt that Will’s choice of words unjustly discredits the pain that real victims have to endure.

“We feel obliged to go in and defend ourselves to a man we don’t even know,” she said.

The nearer Will’s lecture approached, the larger the protesting crowd grew. Cars passing through the intersection honked their

horns in affirmation, initiating satisfied cheers from the protesters. In lieu of signs, some young women held up T-shirts made for this year’s Clothesline Project, an annual display of shirts made by survivors of sexual assault in the community.

If you’re not annoying someone when you speak, you’re not speaking properly.”

GEORGE WILL According to Alexis Doolittle, an intern at Miami’s Women’s Center, more T-shirts were made for this year’s project than ever before. She, along with Deanna

Williams, another intern for the Women’s Center, handed out neon fliers with sexual assault statistics to everyone who passed through the crowd. They had been working to spread the word via email to student organizations about the protest. Even though they knew there were plenty of students at Miami who felt strongly about the issue, they were impressed by the turnout.

“It’s empowering; it really is,” Williams said.

James Boyd, president of MARS, felt the protest was successful in making a statement to the Miami community.

“The protest was encouraging because it allowed us to say that we do not want our university to be a place that condones rape culture,” he said.

Although some of the protesters’ signs were critical of the

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University President (“Dear President Hodge, show us you care!

Survivors deserve love and honor, too!”), Hodge seemed to be proud of the effort students and faculty put forth to organize the protest.

He confirmed that he was pleased with how engaged students were in this issue.

“Obviously, these people here have thought a lot about this and feel very passionate about it,” he said. “I think it’s terrific.”

Melissa Thomasson, associate professor of Economics, and Lisa Ellram, professor of Supply Chain Management, were among the protestors, holding their own signs crafted out of pages from the Wall Street Journal. Concerned about what kind of message allowing Will to speak would send to Miami’s students, they felt their

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SISTER SMILES Senior Kaitie Espeleta and her sister Hannah enjoy a warm fall day near Central Quad.

Fun-filled weekend in store for MU families EVENT MARIAH SCHLOSSMANN FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

This weekend Miami University is hosting Family Weekend. Friday Oct. 24 to Sunday Oct. 26 will be filled with activities and events for students and their families to enjoy.

One of the highlights of the weekend will be the football game against Kent State at 2:30 p.m.

Saturday at Yager Stadium. Game day will be filled with tailgates, f ood and games.

With an advanced $60 purchase, Miami is offering a deal of four tickets to the game, four hot dogs, four soft drinks and four Miami baseball hats.

There will also be a number of musical and theater events to attend. Global Rhythms, a group at Miami designed to perform ethnic music from all around the world, will be hosting “Voyage of the Souls,” and “We are Together,” two musical performances. ““Voyage of the Souls” is a tribute to peacemakers by solo artists from around the globe,” Artistic Director of Global Rhythms Srinivas Krishnan said. “This is a project about the understanding of cultures. Cultures shape the way we deal with things, our behaviors and the way we emphasize the cross-culture representation on campus.”

“Voyage of the Souls” will be an even larger show.

“This concert is a way in which 500-plus students are communicating with each other and showing that everything and everyone is of equal importance by crossing the music of various cultures,” Krishnan said.

The two performances feature Grammy-award winning artists like Glen Valez and singing in over 10 languages.

“Voyage of the Souls” will be held in Leonard Theatre in Peabody Hall at 7 p.m. on Fri. Oct. 24 and We are Together will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 25 in Hall Auditorium.

Another musical event focusing on global interactions is the Collegiate Chorale and Men’s Glee Club Fall Concert, presented by the Department of Music. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday Oct. 24 at Hall Auditorium.

“For this fall concert, we are focusing on global music,” Sarah Mattina, Collegiate Chorale Public Relations Committee member said.

The choir consists of 80 members, both men and women. The fall concert will showcase nine globally diverse pieces that feature more than six different languages.

“We want the audience to take away the message of love and positive energy,” Choir President Gretchen Hathaway said.

The Department of Theatre will be hosting “The Little Dog Laughed” this family weekend. Evening performances are at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 to 25, with matinee shows on October

25 to 26 at 2 p.m. in the Studio 88 Theatre located in the basement of the Center for Performing Arts.

“The show is a comedy that satirizes the world of tabloid gossip, scandal, Hollywood and celebrities through the story of a rising young star who finds himself in the midst of an identity crisis,” Director Carly Mungovan said.

There are also a number of brunches occurring this weekend, sponsored by various student organizations on campus.

President David Hodge is hosting a brunch from 9 to 10 a.m. and 11 to 12:30 p.m. on Sunday Oct. 26 at the Goggin Ice Lounge. Brunch will be served and Hodge along with an unannounced keynote speaker will be giving remarks.

Throughout the weekend, there will be Family Welcome Centers at various locations to stop at for more information. At 3 p.m. Friday, the Family Welcome Center will be open in the Shade Family Room in the Armstrong Student Center. On Saturday, the welcome center will open at 8 a.m. at the Memorial Park, Uptown.

Both Welcome Centers will be offering free refreshments and Tuffy’s Toasted Rolls, along with more information on the weekends festivities.

A full list and more information on other weekend activities like ice skating and the Oxford Farmers Market can be found on the Miami University website.

Family Weekend Oct. 24-26 FRIDAY

Global Rhythms

7 p.m. Leonard Theatre, Peabody Hall

Super Hero Skate 9:30-11:30 p.m.

Goggin Ice Lounge

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Kent State Football Game

2:30 p.m. Yager Stadium

Oxford Farmer’s Market

9 a.m. Uptown Oxford Memorial Park

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Brunch with President Hodge 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Goggin Ice Lounge

The Little Dog Laughed

2 p.m. Studio 88, Center for Performing Arts

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Women break the ice with club First-ever all-women’s intramural hockey league at Miami INTRAMURAL SARA GUGLIELMO

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A group of women who play in the co-ed, beginner level intramural hockey league at Miami University rallied for the creation of an all-women’s intramural hockey league.

Lexi Marsh, Manager of Special Projects for Miami University’s College of Creative Arts, led this initiative for an all-women’s league, which started out with an all women’s team in the co-ed beginner level intramural league.

Marsh’s team has so far been a success. An official team for two years now, Lulu’s Revenge has a roster of 15 solely female players.

However, the team still faces obstacles because of its access to only

co-ed leagues.

“When we are with equally matched beginner teams playing in the co-ed league it’s fine, but oftentimes we are playing against teams that are not at the beginner level, which becomes very frustrating,” Amber Franklin, Miami University Assistant Professor in the Speech Pathology & Audiology department and member of Lulu’s Revenge, said.

Last summer, Lulu’s Revenge and its members got a taste of what an all-women’s league would be like when Marsh put together a women’s drop-in hockey session, which resulted in Marsh understanding how valuable an all-women’s league would be.

“Once I started talking about change and offering my time and support … the amount of support and understanding I received was

amazing,” she said.

The first season for the new all-women’s league at Miami is planned to begin with the start of the regular winter intramural season in February. The Assistant Director of Student Programs at Goggin Ice Center Ben Chuha said they are expecting two to four teams for the first season, which will lead to more of an “alternative league.”

“By ‘alternative,’ I mean … we are looking at this first season being closer to a dedicated drop-in for the women registered for the league where they will have game slots scheduled like a league, but the women will divide up into teams each game rather than playing the same team each game,” Chuha said.

Franklin claimed that while the

A representative from the student activities office stated that no group with the name of “West Fest” has applied to be an official student organization and, therefore, in the eyes of Miami, no such group exists. The representative also said that the only permissible way students can host events on campus is through the Hub. The Miami Student wants students to be aware of these

updates since it impacts the ability of West Fest 2015 to become a reality. Student reaction to the article was strong and many students are interested and excited about the possibility of a music festival. The Miami Student hopes the organizers of West Fest take the necessary steps to become a sponsored University organization so progress can continue for this opportunity for the Miami community.

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CORRECTION The day after The Miami Student published an article describing the preliminary plans for West Fest 2015, the group’s Twitter account was deleted. The staff of West Fest 2015, a proposed music festival at Miami University, was reported to be in talks with various music groups, including Twenty One Pilots and Panic! At The Disco, to perform throughout campus in the spring.

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Dating, relationships and all of the awkward unanswered text messages in between. Aziz Ansari’s upcoming book and previous show “Modern Romance” both hint that he will focus on these experiences and more tomorrow night during his family weekend performance.

His new show, called “Aziz Ansari Live!” has made a name for itself among audiences for being both thought provoking and interactive.

Ansari began performing this particular show in the last few months.

Ansari said in an interview with Philadelphia Magazine, “This new special, I hope, goes even deeper.

Not only about relationships, but new topics that I never hit before …

I hit topics I never would have had the skill to handle a few years ago.

And I personally think it’s my best set I’ve toured.”

Audiences seem to agree. Ninetyone percent of Ticketmaster online reviews of the set rated it at least four stars. Many of the reviews praise the fact that Ansari’s set incites thought about deeper world issues, while still maintaining a comedic atmosphere.

Aziz Ansari’s appearance is a collaboration between the Miami University Performing Arts Series and the student organization Miami Activities and Programming (MAP.)

Students involved with MAP establish a list of comedians they’d like to see at Miami, based off of feedback from their peers. After this process, the Arts, Concerts and Entertainment (ACE) board of MAP chooses a performer along with the Performing Arts Series staff.

“We tend to focus on comedians for family weekend because it’s easier to bridge the generations,” Director of Performing Arts at Miami Patti Liberatore said. “We needed someone who could work in an arena, which not many comedians can do.”

Luckily for Miami students, Ansari has no trouble with large crowds. He recently sold out Madison Square Garden with an audience of over 18,000, and added a second show the next night because of its huge success.

“A comedian selling out Madison Square Garden … It made the cover of the New York Times, it made the cover of the Rolling Stone, because it’s so astonishing,” Liberatore said.

His opening act for Miami’s show is an up and coming comedian, Moshe Kasher. Kasher has been featured on the Conan O’Brien Show and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to name a few.

Ansari will be performing at 8:30 p.m. in Millett Hall. Tickets will still be available for purchase at the door for $43. Parking is available in the lot surrounding Millett, or the North Campus Garage for $5.

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Teachers warn of Google Translate plagarism ACADEMICS KAELYNN KNESTRICK FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Many students use the readily available Google Translate when in a foreign language class. Google Translate may seem like an innocent homework helper, but according to the Miami Code of Conduct it can be considered cheating and plagiarism.

According to 1.5.B.2 of the Miami Student Handbook “cheating is using or attempting to use or possessing any aid, information, resources or means in the completion of an academic assignment that are not explicitly permitted by the instructor, or providing such assistance to another student. Plagiarism is presenting, as one’s own the work, the ideas, the representations or the words of another person/ source without proper attribution.”

Google Translate falls under both these categories because you are using an outside aid to finish an assignment and using words from another source.

“I think of Google Translate as an aid when a teacher isn’t there,” sophomore Nikolai Levisohn said.

“At times it doesn’t give you exactly

what you need but it can be helpful when there is no other aid. In class, your teacher is a human translator, so you should be able to use a translator when you aren’t in class.”

Google Translate and other such programs can be considered both plagiarism and cheating because the end work is not one’s own.

“The work is not your product, and it’s not your creative process since the computer is processing the information,” French and Italian Professor Gael Montgomery said. “You aren’t taking the different elements of language and trying to construct meaning with them. So, you won’t learn much, and the professor will know you’re a cheater.

It’s a lose-lose situation.”

Teachers say they are able to tell if a student used a translator more often than students may realize.

One way professors are able to tell if a student uses Google Translate or a similar program is because the translation is more accurate than they expect from students at that particular level.

“Another indication is that a translator may make mistakes that a person attempting to translate something wouldn’t make,” Montgomery said. “Translation programs

are now fairly sophisticated, but they’re not perfect, and they’re also not human.”

One of the main reasons teachers are able to tell if a students used a translator is because there was vocabulary or sentence structure that was outside the students level of the language, and another is that translators tend to use literal translations.

“I have felt that Google Translate was like a calculator in a math class. It was a tool made available to me, and I used it when I couldn’t do something on my own. If you know Spanish you should know when it makes an obvious mistake,” sophomore Kendall Powell said.

Google Translate may seem like a helpful tool, but in some cases it isn’t beneficial. Google Translate tends to translate each word individually, which can cause sentence structure to be incorrect.

“Online translators tend to use literal translations instead of stating it in the way it would be said in that target language,” Spanish Professor Heather Harper said. “For example, in Spanish, if you want to say ‘I am 20 years old’ you would say or write ‘Yo tengo veinte años’ where the literal English translation is ‘I have 20 years.’”

There are also worse repercussions to using Google Translate than students would think.

Students can receive a grade of 0 for the assignment or an “F” for the entire course. The grade received can depend on the type of assignment and the severity and specifics of the case. If the issue goes to an official hearing, students are charged with academic dishonesty/ misconduct and a letter goes into their file for the next seven years, Harper said.

only translate one word to better understand what I am supposed to be doing,” Powell said. “I have at times used Google translate to see if what I have written is structurally correct or that I am using the right type of word.”

If a student has doubts, it is always best to refer to The Student Handbook as well as consult an instructor about their specific policies.

“It bears pointing out that at Miami University a charge of academic misconduct does not have to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt,” Harper said. “If it is deemed more likely than not that you did use an outside source, then it is considered academic misconduct. For this reason, it is very important that students understand the policies of the department in which the course originates and university-wide regulations.”

Some of the recent changes made to accommodate the use of online translators have been adjustments to the rubrics that used to grade many assignments as well as modifications to the format of some assessments. In addition, there have been cases of academic dishonesty/misconduct resulting in hearings in the last few years, Harper said.

They’re not perfect, and they’re also not human.”

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LANGUAGE PROFESSOR

The entire assignment does not have to be translated in order to qualify as misconduct; it can be a few words or a single sentence.

“I tend to use Google translate to try and figure out what a question is asking me. I will usually

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SEALING THE DEAL Fall leaves crunch under students’ feet as they walk through the red brick campus on their way to class.

Action: Film studies major in the works ASG bill allows students to explore potential majors ACADEMICS

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This January, students may finally be able to officially declare film studies as a major. After multiple proposals began to surface in support of the program going official, faculty pursued the path of creating a film studies co-major in addition to the existing minor.

“We had a number of students over the years who expressed regret that we didn’t have a major or co-major program in film studies, and I think that minors — where as they’re a good program, and they satisfy the needs of a lot of students — the mere fact that you have a limited number of courses that you could include, limits the kinds of knowledge base that you can transfer to students,” Associate Professor and Area Coordinator of the Film Studies Program Bruce Drushel said.

It is important to note that, while already being offered as a minor, the program will be offered as a co-major and will require students to choose a second major that is

not also a co-major program. The film studies program, which now falls into the Department of Media, Journalism and Film, has been reshaped on several instances and has been considered by some to be nomadic — moving on numerous occasions from multiple departments including English, History and Russian Studies.

“When we restructured the department of communications and the journalism program, we took in the film minor, and then our faculty decided that they wanted to make that into a major,” Professor Richard Campbell, Chair of the Department of Media, Journalism and Film, said.

The process for creating a new major can be demanding. When a new co-major is first introduced, it must be approved on various levels — including all academic divisions of the university — before it can officially be declared a co-major.

Since the inception of a proposal suggesting a major change several years ago, the program has nearly completed its evaluation cycle and certified approval, and could be

expected to be offered to students as early as the 2014-2015 Winter Term. The current co-major proposal began in the fall of 2013.

Although there may appear to be major changes in the program’s overall appearance, very little will be changing for students interested in pursuing a film studies degree.

Instead, many of the changes will occur in relation to the program’s curriculum and what it offers.

“There really isn’t that much difference in view from the student’s perspective,” Drushel said.

“From a curricular perspective at the university, the difference is that it does not have distinct writing and quantitative learning component to it. In other words, those are things that are picked up in the other major, and that’s why you can’t be doing another co-major.”

Students interested in pursuing a Film Studies degree may also want to consider the Inside Hollywood program — a threeweek program offered during Winter Term and over the summer to students interested in obtaining an overview of the entertainment industry.

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The Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS) at Miami University only allows students to access their current major requirements.

However, Associated Student Government (ASG) passed what’s called the “What If DARS” bill Tuesday, to further access the settings for students to explore potential majors.

According to the Miami University website, 60 percent of all Miami students change their major at least once throughout their college experience.

The use of the current DARS system shows students’ completed course work and current registration, matched with degree requirements of their declared majors.

It identifies deficiencies and lists courses to satisfy specific requirements.

Junior Secretary for Academic Affairs Kirsten Fowler met with the named registrar David Sauter to learn more about what academic advisors can access with the DARS. “He showed me that this function of a ‘What If DARS’ exists, and your advisor can use it,” Fowler said. “I thought it was time students should be able to use it as well.”

The “What If DARS” bill points out that if a student wants to explore a change in major or minor, they would have to find the

requirements on separate departmental and divisional websites.

The “What If” Degree Audit would allow for all students to explore potential majors or minors and show them what has been completed already by the student, and what hours still need to be fulfilled.

This function exists with exclusive access to academic advisors — not to students, which is what the Bill seeks to change.

“I think it would be very helpful for students, especially considering so many students change their major at some point,” Fowler said.

Fowlers also said many students don’t know how to access or take full advantage of the DARS system as it is.

“I want to work with firstyear advisors to help give the students tools to be successful,” Fowler said, “And one of those tools is to be able to know how to read a DARS.” Now that the bill has passed, it will be presented to the Miami registrar to make any final changes.

The resolution of the bill asks Miami University to allow students to use the “What If” function of DARS. The only exception is that students must still physically go to the department to actually change or add a minor or major.

“I think they still need to physically talk to the department to make the change,” Fowler said, “But the ‘What If’ function will still help them get to that point.”

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POLICE BEAT Stolen Identity

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Text-a-Tip line leads to Kroger arrest CRIME MADDIE WOOD

At 12:26 p.m. Tuesday, a male came to the Oxford Police Department to report that his identity had been stolen.

When applying to rent an apartment Uptown, the rental company ran a credit check on the male which found that he owed nearly $1,000 to Verizon Wireless in unpaid bills. The male had called Verizon and they informed him that the account had been opened at the Verizon store in Oxford using his social security number and his previous address. The male he believed his former roommate was likely the one who had opened the fraudulent account. He also mentioned that he does have a phone from Verizon Wireless, but that it is registered through his family’s account. The investigation is ongoing.

The Scrapper At 2:06 p.m. on Sept. 20, an officer noticed a female at 21 E. High St. The female was being disorderly and shouting obscene comments at people walking down High Street. The officer stopped the female and asked her for her license. Upon handing it over to him, she tried to take the license back from the officer. The officer suspected the female was intoxicated and preceded to place the female under arrest. While he tried to arrest her, the female attempted to pull away and hindered officers in their attempt to handcuff her. The female was transported to the police station and she refused to sit down. She then attacked an officer by kicking him in the chest and scratching his arm. The female was charged with Assault, Disorderly Conduct, Obstructing Official Business and Resisting Arrest.

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On Monday, Oct. 13, the Butler County police department arrested and charged Jason Eichner, 27, with one count of felony robbery after he robbed a man at a Liberty Township Kroger.

The police found Eichner after receiving a tip via text message.

The robbery took place at Kroger Marketplace, located within the Liberty Commons shopping center in Liberty Township. The reported crime occurred around 7:15 p.m.

According to a news release from the Butler County Sheriff’s Office, Champak Rana, 62, of West Chester, went to the Kroger to pick up his wife when a hooded man entered the bathroom and proceeded to rob him. Eichner asked Rana for his wallet, alluded to possessing a gun and grabbed the wallet out of Rana’s

hand before reportedly running out of the store. The police considered Eichner armed and dangerous when investigating this case, even though Rana never saw a gun. The suspect was reportedly wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans, white gym shoes and a baseball hat.

We need help from citizens to fight crime in Butler County.”

RICHARD K. JONES

BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF

The police were able to apprehend Eichner due to an anonymous tip received via TipSubmit. TipSubmit is a system that was put into effect in Butler County last June by Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones.

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Through this technology, community members have the ability to offer anonymous tips on criminal activity happening in the community. People can submit their reports through the Internet or mobile phones. To submit a tip online, residents can simply log on to butlercountysheriff.org and fill out a detailed description of the crime committed. If the tipper would rather submit their tip mobily, an SMS text feature is also available.

To reach someone at the department, text the word COPS and the tip to CRIMES (274367).

TipSubmit allows citizens to have anonymous two-way conversation with the agency without requiring them to speak to an investigator.

“We need help from citizens to fight crime in Butler County,” Jones said. “From food stamp fraud to the apprehension of heroin dealers, many of our investigations start with information we’ve received from neighbors who are tired of crime in

their community.”

While TipSubmit can be very helpful to local agencies when fighting crime, the police department still advises citizens to call 911 in emergency situations or when witnessing urgent illegal activities.

Butler County police hope the user-friendly TipSubmit technology will encourage citizens to get more involved; especially young adults who may not have been aware of tip protocol before.

First-year Miami student Gaby Perez agreed with the department.

“I didn’t know [TipSubmit] existed, and now that I do, I feel much safer,” Perez said. “I think it was definitely a smart decision for Butler County to start using it, especially with how much our generation relies on technology.”

In addition to the Kroger robbery case, TipSubmit technology has helped agencies across the country make over 145,000 arrests.

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Community benefits from Family Weekend sales BUSINESS SAMMIE MILLER

COMMUNITY EDITOR

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Miami University’s annual Family Weekend brings in more than just herds of parents reliving their glory days on a college campus—it also brings with it a slew of extra business for many local shops.

For many students, bringing their parents to their favorite bars and restaurants is one of the best parts of the weekend.

According to senior bartender Alison LaDouceur, Brick Street (along with many of the other popular bars) will run its usual weekend specials, knowing the influx of parents will increase business substantially.

“I always notice the bars are way more crowded during parents’ weekends,” LaDouceur said.

“Mostly because parents are so willing to buy drinks for their kids and even underage students can drink as long as they are accompanied by their parents.”

Most bars ask that both the student and their parent give both of their ID’s together at the door of the bar before entering. They are then marked with special X’s to indicate that they are with a parent, even though they are underage.

“It’s so fun to see all of the drunk moms and dads reliving their college days,” Junior Andrew Fockler said.

“Even though my parents are here, family weekends are still one of the most fun weekends of the year.”

Local shop owners also look

forward to the arrival of students’ families and the influx of business they bring.

According to Jenny Ordway, owner of local boutique Juniper, she notices extra business whenever students’ families are in town.

“I look forward to my mom coming in town mostly because she always wants to go shopping at all the cute shops Uptown,” Sophomore Annie Shulz said.

In addition, other shop owners feel their businesses increase because their products are already more geared toward the Family Weekend crowd.

“A lot of our sales, outside of loyal local customers, come from parents who visit on Mom’s and Dad’s weekends,” Chris Hensey, owner of Main Street Gourmet said. “Parents tend to stop by and grab craft beers or finer wines during their visits more so than students who live here.”

Parents who are visiting town for Family Weekend are encouraged to take part in other community events held in Oxford outside of the bars and shopping.

According to Jessica Greene, director of the Oxford Visitors’ Bureau, the Farmers Market, held every Saturday in Uptown Park, is an excellent opportunity for families to experience the community.

She hoped to see lots of students with their families out enjoying the Oxford community for what it has to offer.

OXFORD FARMERS MARKET

Stop by one of Oxford’s favorite community events on Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to noon in Uptown Park. Hand select fresh produce and fresh baked goods.

OXFORD LANES BOWLING ALLEY

Oxford has its very own bowling alley, located at 4340 Oxford Reily Rd. There is open bowling every Friday and Saturday with glow bowling at night.

YOU’RE FIRED! POTTERY PAINTING

Create a masterpiece with Mom and Dad at You’re Fired! The studio offers pottery painting and is conveniently located on the corner of Beech Street. and High Street.

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GOODBYE STADIUM The old Stadium Bar is currently being torn down in order to make way for new apartment complexes.

Try out Oxford’s very own drive-in movie theater. The theater, located on 1816 Old Oxford Rd. is featuring a marathon of scary Halloween movies this weekend.

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CINCINNATI

NATIONAL

Local unemployment rate hits year-long low

Police seek suspects in downtown robbery

DNA tests solve old cold cases in Oklahoma

8,500 people are reported to be out of work dropping the unemployment rate to 4.5 percent.

–Oxford Press

Police are searching for three suspects after they robbed a man at gunpoint downtown Cincinnati on Oct. 14.

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Reactions to lecture hide widespread apathy, hopefully not only for a day EDITORIAL

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

On a campus that clings to its bubble-like armor and the simplicity of our own routines, it’s not everyday that something breaks the normalcy. It’s not everyday that students step out of daily todo lists, their own lives and look around to point out something that isn’t right.

But this week, when columnist George Will came to Miami, bringing the controversy of his views on sexual assault with him, our campus woke up. Our campus knew something was wrong and, at least a portion of us, pointed it out.

Emails were sent asking for the community to stand together, Facebook posts called students to action and casual conversations between peers went beyond the surface of “are you going out tonight?”

For one moment in time, our student body didn’t sit idly by when something challenging came knocking. We stepped up and we reacted, which was honeslty a nice

surprise compared to our usual approach: doing nothing at all.

So, as we reflect on this atypical week, The Editorial Board sees both good and bad points to take away from how the Miami community reacted.

The good: It’s comforting to know that we, as a student body, can tear ourselves away from our typically shallow pursuits, band together and support something.

Seeing the community come out to stand up for what they believe in was a sign of engagement in democracy. Passing by the crowd of people in front of Farmer and scrolling through hundreds of names on the petition was inspiring. It was something we rarely see happen here.

Even if it was a small percentage, our campus came together and voiced their opinion on an issue that plagues our us, sexual assault. So that is the upside, the part we can pat ourselves on the

back for and proudly call mom and dad about.

But this week also begs a few questions: why doesn’t this happen more? And why wasn’t a bigger majority of our community involved? Will’s lecture created such a bold response on our campus, and yet we continue to let the actual issue of sexual assault go on without nearly as much reaction.

It was clear that many of our students are still too immature to recognize what those protests were about, and why they were important. For each student who signed that petition, there were way more students who laughed it off.

It’s one thing for students to not be involved and to not engage in intelligent dialogue when it’s right in their backyard, but it’s another thing entirely to openly make fun of the protest – and we noticed plenty of jokes being thrown around this week. It comes back to the fact that Miami students

are perpetually stuck in a bubble and don’t really care, much less know, about what is going on outside of their own social sphere.

So, just in case you couldn’t see it coming, this is the bad side: our apathetic attitude.

We say we’re concerned about hookup culture and sexual assault at Miami, but we just continue to let it happen. Young women continue to be taken advantage of every weekend.

There are more people having sex within this one-mile square than any surrounding area we can think of – and people don’t really think anything of it. The same can be said for the drinking culture.

Going out to the bars, getting hammered and bringing back a stranger is just one of the social norms.

And until things like that change, sexual assault is still going to be hugely prevalent.

What will it take to actually confront the most prominent

challenges we face on our campus? What will it take to drastically change rape culture and our lack of motivation to stop sexual assaults?

It will take a collective attitude that is the opposite of apathy; an attitude we got a small slice of on this campus this week. Our hope is that these events might create momentum and spur actual discourse about sexual assault on campus – because that is what sits at the root of this whole controversy. We can’t let this week go by and forget what it was all about.

We need to remember that we’re all in this together as one student body – yes, High School Musical style – and we need to realize what we’re capable of.

We need more weeks like this past one, more moments where students speak out and others get behind them. We need more signs that our campus can wake up, be unified and make change happen.

LETTER TO STUDENTS

Veterans of Freedom Summer remind students to speak out On the final afternoon of last week’s Freedom Summer conference, veterans of the 1964 training in Oxford sat at a front table to offer wrap-up comments. About an hour in, David Goodman, the brother of one of the young men killed in Mississippi that pivotal summer, stood, turned to the rear of the room and asked all the students sitting in the back – dutifully scribbling notes for assignments or extra credit points – what they learned from the conference. Response was slow. Then one of the vets joined the call. “What are you doing here?” David Dennis asked, before rising from his seat, walking to the rear of the room, and escorting a scribbling student to his place at the front table. One by one, the other panel members did the same. In minutes, the faces behind the microphones were no longer the civil rights warriors of 1964, but Miami students of 2014. Several said that what they learned at the conference had moved and changed them.

Several said they were now inspired to become change agents in the world. Put on the spot, no one had a specific plan of action – but at least, in that moment, they acknowledged what the veterans were trying to tell them: It is time, past time, for a new generation to take up the work they started and continued over the past 50 years.

This week at Miami, students

organized to speak out on issues related to sexual assault. They gathered to recognize the mental health issues that affect so many of them and their peers, as they mourned a classmate lost to a mental health crisis. In this very paper, they debated the pros and cons of assisted suicide in thoughtful, respectful ways on the opinion pages, while celebrating and supporting members of the LGBTQ community in a full-page ad.

When the Freedom Summer conference ended, I planned to write this letter calling on Miami students to reassess their involvements – to commit more fully to the ones that make the world a better place, to shed the ones of lesser value and to remember that time is a precious resource that should be allocated wisely.

Given the events of this week – and the growing evidence that a goodly number of Miamians are, in fact, engaged in issues that matter -- I’ve got a slightly different POV: Remember that the veterans of Freedom Summer have been working for civil rights for five decades. Stay strong and energized for the years ahead.

PATRICIA GALLAGHER NEWBERRY

SENIOR LECTUREER, JOURNALISM, NEWBERPG@MIAMIOH.EDU

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A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

President Hodge responds to George Will protests Dear Miami Community, Bringing prominent speakers to campus provides unique opportunities for our students and community to engage with high profile, influential individuals. Many of these individuals are controversial and their positions often challenge us, especially when they appear to clash with our core values. Our values also dictate, though, that we protect “the freedom of inquiry and the right to hold and express disparate beliefs.” While the urge to suppress the voices of those with whom we disagree may be great, it is instead our responsibility to engage and challenge those opinions with evidence, reason and purpose.

This week, the appearance of George Will, who presented the Anderson Distinguished Lecture at the Farmer School of Business, challenged our community. Mr. Will, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, was invited to talk about “The Political Argument Today,” and he engaged the audience with a thought-provoking lecture.

However, it was his comments about sexual assault in a June 6, 2014, column that many found disturbing and painful, which became a central issue of his visit.

The response of the Miami community was respectful and constructive. Those who disagreed with the choice of Mr. Will as a speaker expressed their disappointment with thoughtful letters and petitions. Some who attended the lecture challenged Mr. Will on his opinions during the allotted question period. Those who protested his lecture effectively expressed their points. A teach-in at Cook Field provided a great deal of information about Miami’s efforts to educate students about sexual assault, to support survivors fully and sensitively and to take appropriate action against those found responsible.

Although the issue of sexual assault was not the reason for hosting Mr. Will, his lecture has resulted in bringing the issue of dealing with sexual assault — which is of paramount importance to all of us — to the forefront, engaging

the issues directly, and raising the dialogue about it to a much-needed new level. Let us be very clear on Miami University’s position regarding sexual assault. The impact of sexual violence is devastating.

Universities must constantly strive to find ways to effectively prevent, reduce and respond to sexual violence and rape. We must make our campuses safe. Nothing less is acceptable. I urge everyone to visit the website related to sexual assault http://www.miamioh.edu/campussafety/sexual-assault/ to learn about the resources available, and to become better informed on our efforts and commitment.

The events of this week, although challenging, have deepened that commitment while also demonstrating the value of the free exchange of ideas. We are resolved that the passionate dialogue around the important issue of sexual assault will be the catalyst for more ideas and positive change.

DAVID HODGE

MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

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Too many students jumped to a conclusion about George Will POLITICS Over the last few weeks, Miami students have been in an uproar over the inclusion of George Will as a speaker in the Farmer School of Business’s Anderson Lecture series. Stemming from his comments on sexual assault, reportedly nearly a thousand students threatened to protest Miami’s administration for not removing him as a speaker. Regardless of this, Miami stood firm, and refused to give in to the protesters. As a student who heard his speech and actually read the controversial article, I can only say that Will has been largely misrepresented by our university’s students. Not once has his side of the issue been considered, and the entire campus community is the worse off for it.

Many students, including myself, believed his negative image after reading the excerpts from his editorial that were printed in The Miami Student and other media sources. However, it is only fair to read the article in its original form before making judgment.

Two passages have consistently been quoted as evidence of his wrong doing, though these have rarely been put into the correct context.

The first passage, quoted as seen in the Oct. 21 edition of The Miami Student, is as follows, “Colleges and universities… are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous (‘micro-aggressions,’ often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate”. This quote appears to indicate that Will believes becoming a victim of rape is a coveted status and one that “confers privileges”. This ignores some very important aspects of the quote. The first is that it has been abridged. Will actually begins by saying, “Colleges and universities are being educated by Washington and are finding the experience excruciating.” When seen in the context of the title, “Colleges become the victims of progressivism”, the quote shifts from being about rape to being about the intervention of government into universities.

But isn’t he talking about rape victims? When asked this after his lecture, his reply was that, as the quote is the first sentence of the editorial, he had not yet introduced rape, and was speaking

of people attempting to achieve victim status without cause. He explained this by reading a letter written by minorities attending Princeton University who said they “barely survived” Princeton.

Will believes that, as they are attending an Ivy League university, they are privileged to such an extent that they do not have the right to claim victimization. He clarified again that he believes real victims of rape deserve all the help they can get, “regardless of the (financial) cost,” and that false victims harm those who are true survivors.

reporting rate is correct, the 20 percent assault rate is preposterous. Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute notes, for example, that in the four years 2009 to 2012 there were 98 reported sexual assaults at Ohio State. That would be 12 percent of 817 total out of a female student population of approximately 28,000, for a sexual assault rate of approximately 2.9 percent — too high but nowhere near 20 percent.” He never says rape is not a problem.

In fact, he says that even the modest number of “approximately 2.9 percent” is “too high”. When in-

I can only say that Will has been largely misrepresented by our university’s students. Not once has his side of the issue been considered, and the entire campus community is the worse off for it.”

The second quote alluded to in The Miami Student is one in which he questions rape statistics.

In his own words, “The statistics are: One in five women is sexually assaulted while in college, and only 12 percent of assaults are reported. Simple arithmetic demonstrates that if the 12 percent

vestigated further, his criticisms of the statistic have some backing.

According to fellow Washington Post writer Glenn Kessler, the statistic is based off a single webbased anonymous survey at only “two large public universities.”

According to Kessler, “This report showed that out of the subset

of seniors surveyed (1,402 women), that 19 percent (about 287) had experienced sexual assault…

In other words, information that is localized to the seniors at two colleges has now been extrapolated by politicians to the universe of college experience.” This is not to say rape is unimportant, but rather that it is simply wrong to apply such a small sample size to include the entire college population.

Rape is a serious problem at Miami and other universities.

Regardless of the accuracy of statistics, the role of government, or any other excuse given, rape should never be included as a tool in an argument. For this reason, George Will was out of line. However, academic debate is dependent on the mutual understanding of each party. By taking positions without hearing both sides, no accurate counterpoint can be made, and nothing is learned. Therefore, before taking a position, read and understand both sides, and make a deliberated decision on what to believe.

CHRIS SCHEREN

SCHERECB@MIAMIOH.EDU

We are being fooled by an old definition of freedom, need to change how we see it GOVERNMENT I think we have a misguided notion as to what, exactly, freedom is. People talk about it as if it’s something that’s nationally given; I think it’s individually achieved.

People act on it as if it’s something that will always be there; I think we’re losing it.

We’ve been lulled into a state of complacency because we’ve never not had freedom. And since we’ve never known a world without it, it’s insanely difficult for us to understand it — it’s like fish trying to understand water: not until you take it away will they fully comprehend what it is and how vitally important it is.

In a broad way, freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak or think as you want without hindrance or restraint. But already this definition is wrong: the hindrances and restraints act on every individual, albeit likely unperceived. From obvious economic and social constraints to non-obvious constructs, no individual is

free from all constraints.

We’re all slaves to a thousand different constraints, the binds of which can be at least significantly fractured simply by acknowledging them. Freedom from constraints, in a seemingly illogical but truly practical sense, is in part the acceptance of and operation within the structure of reality—the conscious assertion of one’s will within the confines of possibility.

In order to achieve true, practical freedom we must acknowledge our constraints. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever one wishes; it is building a house in whichever way you see fit, given the constraints of time, money, and materials. This acknowledgement and willingness to work within the confines of restraints is the first step toward personal responsibility and empowerment.

Freedom is cousin to independence — that being dependence on one’s self — which then necessitates personal responsibility.

Consequently, any action taken to remove all sense of personal

responsibility is an attack on freedom. To take personal responsibility from the hands of the people is to strip them of their right to be free. Freedom is only possible when people act on their own, as detached as possible from the influences of a third party.

As an example, our government has, for as long as it has existed, failed to make our society perfectly economically egalitarian.

It is therefore in the best practical interest of the individual to acknowledge this situation and to not rely on government — that dependence being counter to freedom, anyway — and to instead rely on his/her own capacities of determination, intelligence and hard work.

Freedom, as we perceive it, is the ability to make decisions without restraints. How possible is this if our citizens come to depend so heavily on government? What effect does this have but to incapacitate our persons, robbing them of the possibility of empowerment?

The role of the government is to empower its citizens, not —

Writing center is for questions, not quick-fixes EDUCATION “Let’s talk about writing” is the worst sentence ever. Upon hearing it, eyes glaze over, mouths fall open and ears tune out. Writing is uninteresting for many Miami students, and after getting their papers redpenned and ripped apart, it is also incredibly frustrating. Where might they find help?

Hundreds of students turn to the Howe Writing Center (HWC), based out of King Library, but for the wrong reasons.

“Many writers come to the writing center thinking that a consultant will just edit their paper,” says Kate Ronald, director of the HWC and head instructor of English 359, a class in which applicants are trained to be future consultants.

The problem with this idea is that it is based out of the notion that HWC consultants are editors. They are not. Consultants at the HWC are just that – consultants.

They meet with students to discuss and develop ideas for their papers, assist with structure and organization, help clarify the assignment, explain confusions, and make writers more comfortable with what they are trying to say.

Where professors are editors, consultants are peers. They work on the same level as the writers, and not just for one-time gain.

“We’re here to make better writers, not better papers,” says Ronald.

That’s not to say that a student’s

paper won’t benefit exponentially from a visit to the HWC. Every consultation is a conversation, typically lasting 45 minutes or less, at the end of which writers may walk away with knowledge on how they might shape their as-yet unwritten paper, create or whittle down their thesis, connect their points back to their main ideas, make their writing more readable, and even address grammar-level concerns.

Unlike editing, HWC consultations are discourse-based, and there is no specific formula that consultants follow. Each individual consultation is catered towards the writer’s specific needs and worries.

“It’s all case-by-case,” says Kate Francis, manager of the HWC and assistant instructor of English 359.

Usually, a session will begin with an explanation of the writing center, and a discussion about the writer’s concerns with their paper. The consultant typically asks the writer to read their paper out loud to them, a practice that may seem daunting to some writers but is actually extremely beneficial.

“It allows the writer to pick up on mistakes that they may not have noticed otherwise,” says Ronald.

It also gives the consultant an opportunity to listen and take notesThe session will continue on with teamwork between the writer and the consultant, touching on problem spots with clarification and questions.

Lots of questions – within one 45

minute session, it is not unusual for a consultant to ask over 50. It is this aspect of consultations that seem to catch many students off-guard.

The HWC has dealt with a few bad reviews because of the expectation that a consultation is one-sided, like that of an editing session. A consultation, however, is an exploration; it is a search for what the writer is truly trying to get across, and that search is pioneered by teamwork and question-asking.

Notice, too, that Ronald uses the term “writer” in place of “student.”

This is because of the idea in the HWC that what makes a person a writer is not their deftness with language or their love of the art.

It’s just that writers write. Students come into the Center with the idea that they do not know how to write, only to discover that they simply were getting stuck on something within their paper. A consultation is almost personal – the goal is to get the writer to feel confident in their writing.

As final papers and projects loom in the distant future, the HWC offers itself as a tool to make getting through the semester a less disheartening task.

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though admittedly, unintentionally — create incentives leading them to choose no work over work, or dependence over independence.

So, what is freedom? Is it something to be fought hard for once, penned into writing and then assumed to be forever held constant?

No, freedom, in this sense, cannot be given or in any way guaranteed — it is only through the assertion of one’s self in the form of separation from reliance on another — in this example, government — that one may attain what is closest to true freedom. Until that point, we are slaves under the guise of Free Men, working under the deceptive influence of an oppressive regime operating under the guise of an assisting and liberating government.

Let me be clear: this is not so much about government as it is about the nature of freedom. As persons, we crave security — it is safe, comfortable and consistent.

But security means secure, which is synonymous with ‘fixed.’ Perhaps the most potent question of all is this: do we, as people, even

want freedom? Do we not trade in our dreams for a little more “security,” clipping our own wings for the sake of “being realistic?”

We are averse to uncertainty and what is more uncertain than being free to have to make our own decisions? Maybe security is actually the antithesis of freedom, in one sense. We all at least recognize our constraints, but it is not until we willfully acknowledge and act on them that we begin to become empowered toward independence and thus freedom.

It is not until we joyfully embrace personal responsibility and cut the nurturing cord of security and dependence that we will ever truly achieve liberation. Until then, we are just fooling ourselves, fabricating a reality most conducive to the comfortable life we wish to lead — one of blissfully ignorant security. One in which we willingly forfeit freedom.

ERIC NIEHAUS

NIEHAUES@MIAMIOH.EDU

RULE OF THUMB FAMILY WEEKEND FUN The time is finally here to hang out with the parents on campus. Prepare to see plenty of “Miami Dad” sweatshirts and wait at least two hours to get a table at Patterson’s.

PITTSBURGH CANADIAN ANTHEM The crowd at the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game showed their respect for Canada by singing their national anthem following a shooting near the Canadian parliament.

BEN BRADLEE DIES We had to say goodbye to a great newspaperman this week. The Watergate-era editor died at the age of 93, leaving lots of well-told stories behind.

HALLOWEEN MOVIES Whether it’s Hocus Pocus or one of the scarier options, we’re pretty jazzed about the ABC Family movie marathon we have planned. Can someone pass the candy corn?

TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUM DROPS And so begins the incessant name-dropping about who Swift is singing about. No matter if you’re a T-Swift fan or not, we’re already tired of the song speculations. But, we’ll probably just shake it off.

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presence at the protest was imperative. They hoped to show that the faculty cares about making Miami a supportive environment for all students.

“I know a lot of faculty agrees this was not a good choice of speakers,” Ellram said.

By 5 p.m., the line of students waiting to enter FSB to get a seat for Will’s lecture was so long that its end almost reached the line the of protesters. Charlie Meyer, chairman of the College Republicans at Miami, arrived early for his entrance wristband. He and the other members of the organization held a meeting prior to the lecture.

According to Meyer, they wanted to focus on the journalistic credentials that got Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his stimulating political commentary, invited to speak at Miami in

the first place.

“We want to make sure he has some positive questions coming his way,” he said.

As for the issues raised by the protesters, he agreed sexual assault is a very serious issue that must be addressed. However, he said he feels Will’s statements about it have been misinterpreted and encourages other students to read his article carefully before forming their opinions.

“That people are trying to frame George Will as a person that is easy on people who commit sexual assault crimes is absurd,” Meyer said.

Before being admitted into the building, attendees had to allow their bags to be searched. Police officers monitored the lobby area.

By the time Will began his lecture, “The Political Argument Today,” every seat in the auditorium had been filled. Since the topic of

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his presentation was not related to the issue that was being protested, the following hour had a very different tone from the protest that preceded it. His lecture did, however, focus on the larger theme of his controversial article — the rise of progressivism.

He spoke of our increasing dependence on the central government, something he referred to as a “decadent democracy.” The unjust distribution of taxes, the rising number of children being born out of wedlock, the ever-increasing expenses of modern healthcare — his list of current national concerns was extensive.

“We can get better by choosing to get better,” he insisted. “I think our national character has not been changed yet, and I think the traditional American exceptional character exists.”

After Will concluded his lecture, the floor was opened to questions from the audience. A young woman on the balcony stood by the mic, waiting for her chance to speak to Will. It was Uribe, WAVES member and sexual assault survivor who had shared her question earlier that afternoon.

Once it was her turn, she asked Will to elaborate on what he had meant in his June 6 article about the “privileges” sexual assault victims receive. The audience, knowing that a question like this was bound to come but unsure how Will would respond, started to hum with whispers.

He said he believes suspending traditional due process of law in campus sexual assault cases is unjust.

“Our society has decided rightly that rape ranks close to and not far behind murder,” he said.

Therefore, he said, great care should be taken to ensure that the protections typically given those accused of other crimes apply to defendants in sexual assault cases.

Uribe recognized that, although he had given an overview of why he wrote his article, her question remained unanswered. She asked him again to clarify what he meant by victim “privileges.”

Will briefly referenced the attention that victims can receive before going into a

description of his opinions on campus speech codes restricting First Amendment rights.

The audience enthusiastically applauded.Although she never felt her question received a clear answer, Uribe appreciated having a chance to contribute to the discussion.

“I was grateful to have the opportunity to ask my question as a way to challenge his beliefs and stand up for my own,” she said.

The event concluded with a standing ovation from much of the audience. However, not everyone left the auditorium satisfied.

But, everyone left talking.

Richard Campbell, Chair of the Media, Journalism and Film Department and himself a former journalist was one of 1000 students and faculty members who signed a letter to Miami administration opposing Will’s stance on sexual assault as directly contradicting Miami policy. However, he said, he would not have signed it if the petition was in favor of not allowing Will to speak.

“I’m a believer in more speech, not less speech,” he said. “If he wasn’t coming, what would that accomplish?”

Regardless of whether the person stood in line for the lecture or on the street corner in protest, everyone seemed to agree on one thing. George Will started a discussion at Miami — a very important one.

“This is an issue that makes so many people uncomfortable.

The more we talk about it, the more progress we will make,” Uribe added.

From those seven hundred and forty-nine controversial words came so many more — spoken in conversation or chanted on the corner, written in articles and letters or on petitions and signs.

When he described his stance on speech codes, Will shared what he thinks about having the right to share unpopular opinions.

“The First Amendment does not say, ‘Congress shall not abridge freedom of speech unless the speech annoys somebody,’” he said. “And if you’re not annoying someone when you speak, you’re not speaking properly.”

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accustomed to seeing.

The ’Hawks tournament push fell short, but they were not done working. Some key moves were made this offseason to increase the average height and weight of The Brotherhood.

The RedHawks added 24feet, 8-inches and 838 pounds of hockey when counting freshmen defensemen Louie Belpedio and Scott Dornbrock, freshman forward Conor Lemirande and junior defenseman Colin Sullivan.

Dornbrock, at 6-foot-3, 224 pounds, provides a combination of size and skill the RedHawks need to succeed in the NCHC. Though the ’Hawks first four games Dornbrock leads the ’Hawks in two statistics often led by defensemen: blocked shots (10) and penalty minutes (15).

The cliché saying is still relevant though “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Through the first four games, familiar names are lighting the lamp. Junior forward Sean Kuraly leads the ’Hawks with three goals and six points, while Barber, Louis and senior Blake Coleman all have four points on the season.

The ’Hawks fell to Bowling Green State University in the first game of the year, but after that game they began to soar. The RedHawks are riding a three-game winning streak heading into this weekend and things are beginning to look like they did before last year’s uncharacteristic showing.

Another year is gone, and the ’Hawks can put their losing season behind them.

Another year is gone, and a new year with championship aspirations has begun.

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“I think that an alternative league is a fine idea,” Franklin said.

“We cannot expect the structure of the women’s league to match that of the co-ed league. We are hoping for beginner level players and to run more of a scrimmage style league, which will create more opportunity to practice and learn.”

Marsh said she believes this relaxed environment will attract newcomers who might have been too intimidated to play in the past.

“There are likely women who would like to be able to learn orplay hockey who do not feel comfortable playing with or against males,” Marsh said. “This league would give those women a comfortable place to learn this wonderful sport.”

It will also provide more evenly matched teams, which the co-ed intramural league does not always do.

Marsh also said she expects the intramural league to eventually expand enough that it would be generating additional revenue for Goggin.

Marsh said Goggin’s operational expenses are supported through the general student fee of $930 per year, and a women’s intramural league would give Miami’s female students greater access to a facility they are supporting financially.

There are many benefits to having an all women’s intramural league, and now, according to Franklin, all that is needed to get this league going is for female players to sign up.

“There is nothing else like a good game of hockey,” Marsh said, “And I am so excited that women, like myself, might have the chance to give it a whirl.”

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A new Brotherhood, but the expectations remain the same COLUMN LINSKI’S LIST

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The Miami University football team celebrates a touchdown during its lone win of the season, a 42-41 victory over the University of Massachusetts.

’Hawks host Kent State FOOTBALL TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

The last time Don Treadwell stood on the artificial turf at Yager Stadium was as head coach of Miami University Oct. 5, 2013. He was fired the next day following loss to Central Michigan University. Now, he returns more than a year later as the running backs coach at Kent State University to play his alma mater and his son on family weekend.

“We’re just both getting ready to play the game Saturday,” redshirt junior running back Spencer Treadwell said. “It’s exciting …

I’m sure my mom will be out supporting both of us.”

Treadwell is Miami’s fourthleading rusher, behind redshirt sophomore Spencer McInnis, senior Dawan Scott and fifth-year senior quarterback Andrew Hendrix.

He’s carried the ball just 14 times for 58 yards this season, but also has 73 yards on five kick returns.

He might see increased work against the Golden Flashes, because Miami’s running back depth is thin. McInnis is out for the game, and Scott won’t

be 100 percent.

“We’re getting thinner at running back,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “Thank god we don’t mind playing with four receivers and a tight end and a quarterback.”

Miami and Kent are both bottom-feeders in the Mid-American Conference. The RedHawks enter at 1-7 overall and 1-3 in the MAC. Kent is coming off its first win, a 39-17 victory over Army. The Flashes don’t have a MAC win yet this season.

The RedHawks aren’t good at running the football, but Kent State is even worse. Miami is 119th in the nation in rushing yards per game and Kent is 122nd.

The Golden Flashes have been hamstrung because they are missing their two best runners. Dri Archer is playing on Sundays with the Pittsburgh Steelers, while senior Trayion Durham hasn’t played all season due to a foot injury.

The squads have two comoon opponents: the University of Massachusetts and Northern Illinois University. Miami’s lone win of the season against UMass, a 4241 comeback victory. Kent didn’t have the same success against the

Minutemen, falling 40-17. Miami lost 51-41 to NIU last week, while the Flashes lost 17-14.

Martin said the matchup against Kent is an easier one than NIU. “You look at Northern Illinois and what they’ve done and Kent and where they are at, it’s gonna be more of a fair fight,” Martin said. “Scary thing is, Northern Illinois played Kent two weeks ago and Kent held them to two touchdowns and not a lot of yards. You look at those two games and you say, defensively, it’s not the same.

But we also scored a lot more points against Northern, so they could be saying the same thing on the other end; they scored 14 points and we scored 41.”

Vegas seems to think the fight favors Miami, as the RedHawks are favored by seven points. That’s the most the ’Hawks have been favored since 2012, when they were favored by seven against winless UMass.

The last time Miami was favored by that much against a team with a win was in 2008 against Temple University. Miami lost that game by 14.

Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m.

Saturday in Yager Stadium.

Fans can listen to the game on redhawkradio.com.

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After a victorius 3-2 (22-25, 25-22, 25-16, 21-25, 15-8) effort at home against the University of Toledo Thursday night, the Miami University volleyball team returns Friday to Millett Hall as it hosts Ball State University. The RedHawks are trying to stay in the hunt for a Mid-American Conference Tournament berth as they face their fourth straight MAC West opponent.

After dropping three of their first five conference matches, Miami has rebounded with three consecutive sweeps of Kent State University, Eastern Michigan University and Central Michigan University.

A contributor to its recent run of success has been redshirt junior middle blocker Jenny Ingle. Ingle has a MAC-leading .401 hitting percentage to go with 2.43 kills per set and 45 total blocks. Ingle was named MAC East Offensive Player of the Week after recording 19 kills and

two blocks against the Chippewas and the Eagles last weekend.

Senior setter/outside hitter Meg Riley has been doing it all for the ’Hawks, as she has recorded 2.16 kills per set, 5.74 assists per set, 2.75 digs per set, 42 total blocks and 15 service aces.

“We’re working on keeping our defense up this week and getting our offense flowing and having a winning spirit,” Riley said. “We’re trying to be more effective on offense.

We’ve been doing a good job with our blocks and our defense but we need to get our hitters going.”

Sophomore middle blocker Paige Hill has been doing work at both ends as well, with a team-leading 76 total blocks and 2.16 kills per set. Defensively, sophomore outside hitter Maris Below and freshman libero Maeve McDonald have made quite the tandem in the backcourt. Below has accounted for 2.31 digs per set, while McDonald is fourth in the MAC with 4.29 digs per set.

The RedHawks have been a strong defensive team this season,

as they lead the conference with 16.64 digs and 1.99 blocks per set.

They have also performed at a high level on offense, ranking in the top four in the MAC in kills, assists and hitting percentage.

Ball State (12-9, 6-2 MAC) is in second place in the MAC West after sustaining losses to Northern Illinois University and Ohio University earlier in the season. Senior middle blocker Hayley Benson has been an offensive force for the Cardinals, as she is second in the league with a .368 hitting percentage and has a team-leading 2.74 kills per set. Junior setter Jenna Spadafora has facilitated the offense with 10.06 assists per set, good for fifth in the MAC. “Ball State is still in the thick of it even though they lost a few matches,” head coach Carolyn Condit said. “They have a high intensity on defense, but we need to focus on what we need to do. We’re working on defense to make adjustments to different hitters and just strategizing for them.”

The RedHawks host Ball State 7 p.m. Friday in Millett Hall.

Another year of Miami University hockey is underway, and in many ways, this year is similar to last year. The ’Hawks begin the year highly ranked. Yeah, it’s not No. 1 in the nation, but receiving a ranking is an honor and privilege nonetheless.

Another year goes by and junior captain Austin Czarnik is now senior captain Austin Czarnik. Another year of saucy passes and beautiful dangling on the ice from the likes of Czarnik, junior forward Riley Barber and sophomore forward Anthony Louis.

Another year passed, and the same win-Miami’s-first-NCAAtitle-or-bust expectation resonates. It’s the expectation from people who attend the game, and likely the expectation within the locker room at the new and improved palace that is the Goggin Ice Center.

Another year gone, and somehow, the ’Hawks are better. In this case, bigger does mean better.

At many times last year the Brotherhood appeared to be the little brother in many outings as the team driven by finesse was driven into the ground. The ’Hawks were simply unable to physically hang with their new opponents in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.

Attendance began to shrink (as my friend Steven Perkins pointed out to all of you), and the ’Hawks were hopeless. The Red and White looked black and blue as injuries and a new league of competition made them drop eight of their last 10 regular season games. An empty Goggin is an ugly sight to see.

The few fans left at Goggin witnessed the fight against the University of Minnesota-Duluth at the home closer. It seemed to be a consolation prize for the fans that stuck around, but the ’Hawks had a fight brewing in them that was reminiscent of the Miami teams Oxford was COLUMN »PAGE 8

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The spread, according to Bovada, for the Miami-Kent State football game. It is the first time since 2008 that Miami is favored by at least seven against a team that has a win.

Miami prepares for critical MAC matchup FIELD HOCKEY SADIE MARTINEZ

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The Miami University field hockey team plays its penultimate Mid-American Conference game against Missouri State University (3-13, 0-4 MAC) 5 p.m. Friday in a game critical to the RedHawks’ MAC Tournament hopes.

Senior midfielder/forward Valentina Neira said the game against Missouri State (3-13, 0-4 MAC) will determine the RedHawks’ (410, 2-2 MAC) future.

“We have to win,” Neira said.

“We don’t have another choice.”

Miami is currently in fourth place in the MAC standings. The ’Hawks trail Central Michigan University (6-9, 4-0 MAC) and Kent State University (6-8, 3-0 MAC). They are tied with Ohio University (3-8, 2-2 MAC) and hold a half-game lead over Longwood University (6-10, 2-3 MAC).

Miami lost to CMU and Kent, but defeated Ohio and Longwoods.

Only the top four teams in the MAC advance to conference tournament.

The match against Missouri State is Miami’s third-to-last of the season. The remaining two

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games are against UC Davis (410, 0-3 Nor Pac) and Ball State (5-9, 1-3 MAC).

Missouri State sophomore goalie Megan Drew as a 57.7 save percentage. Miami sophomore goaltender Alysa Xavier has 67.2 save percentage.

The RedHawks have faced seven nationally ranked teams and Neira feels the MAC games are equally challenging as ranked opponents.

“Our conference is challenging,” Neira said. “I don’t think other teams will make it easy for us.”

The senior RedHawks are beginning to prepare for their last few games in Red and White. Senior back Shannon Regan knows the last three games won’t be easy.

“Going into the games this weekend we need to keep really focused,” Regan said.

“Every MAC game is hard.”

After the RedHawks travel to Missouri, they play against UC Davis noon Sunday in Oxford.

The game marks the Hawks’ senior night.

“Our goal right now is to make it to the MAC Tournament,” Neira said. “We are focusing on our next opponents right now.”

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