April 11, 2017 | The Miami Student

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Volume 145 №33

DEAN OF FARMER SCHOOL TO LEAVE MIAMI

Miami University — Oxford, Ohio

WSU student seriously injured at Oxford party

ADMINISTRATION

BONNIE MEIBERS NEWS EDITOR

Matt Myers, current dean of the Farmer School of Business, will leave Miami University at the end of June to become dean of the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Myers said the main reason for the move is for his family. “Our girls are different people than they were when I accepted the Farmer School position back in 2013, and Dallas offers them the kind of environment they need,” he said. “This doesn’t mean the decision was easy, though. Miami and Oxford are incredible in their own right.” Myers, who took over for former dean Roger Jenkins, has been dean of the business school for three years. In that time, the Farmer School was ranked as the 25th best undergraduate business school in the nation by College Choice, enhanced student diversity, created the first truly integrated core curriculum in business education and almost doubled the size of the School’s endowment in gifts and bequests. Myers also oversaw the launch of DEAN » PAGE 8

Basketball player fractured spine INJURY

EMILY WILLIAMS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

First-year Wright State University student Ryan Custer was seriously injured at a party at 305 S. Main Street on Saturday afternoon, April 8. Custer was flown to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where he underwent surgery that night. Custer, a basketball player at WSU, was falling or diving into a shallow makeshift pool made from a blue tarp and hay bales. According to Oxford Fire Chief John Detherage, Custer collided with another person’s knee when he slid into the pool, causing the injury. Bystanders said Custer was facedown in the water for about 10 to 15 seconds before others removed him from the pool. According to a Facebook page created by Custer’s family, he has no feeling from the waist down. “The doctors hope in time he will continue to get feeling, but there is a long road ahead of him,” reads a post INJURY » PAGE 8

A.J. NEWBERRY THE MIAMI STUDENT

Stills from the upcoming in-depth news documentary, “High-risk,” premiering Friday, April 14 on miamistudent.net

In fight against blacking out, Oxford, Miami are left with hands tied Lack of home rule stifles city’s efforts to control bars JAMES STEINBAUER EDITOR-AT-LARGE

This spring, facing alcohol-related crises on multiple fronts, university administration partnered with officials from the city of Oxford to host several open forums. The goal of the forums was to confront a drinking culture at Miami University that many have come to see as a public health epidemic and to assure the community that Miami is “commit-

A drinking town with a college problem ted to doing all that we can to help ensure the well-being of all of our students,” as Miami President Gregory Crawford put it. And yet, even as Miami administrators and Oxford officials talk up their determination to tackle high-risk alcohol consumption, the

MUFD STUNS WITH ANNUAL FASHION SHOW KIRBY DAVIS HANNAH WILLIAMS THE MIAMI STUDENT

RYAN TERHUNE PHOTO EDITOR

Kenia Viezcas, a third-year ITS major, was first on MUFD’s new runway modeling Liz Whitney’s Tonalita di Bianco collection.

On Saturday night, Millett Hall was teeming with audience members anxious to witness Miami University Fashion & Design’s 11th annual show. Family members and alumni squeezed around the runway, weaving through the venue, and students crowded the seats above the floor. A little girl at the edge of the runway, hair pulled back in a flowery headband, strained against her mother’s grip as she tried to escape and locate someone she knew. Behind her sat a guy clutching flowers to be delivered after the show. Black-clad photographers crouched at the edges of the crowd and hoisted their cameras up as Millett’s overhead lights went down. Piano notes fluttered from the corner of the room, and spotlights were thrust upon the runway. Sparks and smoke drifted from behind the curtain concealing the models and designers under the fluorescent “#MUFD” sign. MUFD » PAGE 5

consensus behind closed doors is clear. In most ways, their hands are tied. In fact, many Oxford officials concede there has not been an explicit focus on trying to solve the problem at City Hall. At the heart of the problem is a lack of home rule

and a sense of powerlessness in the face of state liquor legislation that the city has little control over. But economic factors are also at work, and the fear of being seen as anti-business stifles many efforts the city could make to control large, non-restaurant bars, whose competitive drink specials facilitate the high-risk, binging-to-blackout style that defines Miami’s drinking culture today. ALCOHOL » PAGE 3

Political climate affects international application numbers MU admissions sees first decrease in years INTERNATIONAL

JACK EVANS MEGAN ZAHNEIS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

If Rebecca Guan could do it all over again, she wouldn’t choose to come to Miami. “No,” she said simply. “I would have stayed in China.” The sophomore, who’s from a northern part of China, said that the decision international students make to study abroad in the United States is already a difficult one. Now, it’s increasingly fraught with uncertainty brought about by a spike in anti-immigration sentiment since the 2016 presidential

election. And were Guan a high school senior back in China today, those issues would convince her not to pack her bags and travel to Oxford — or elsewhere in the U.S., for that matter. It’s a conclusion many more international students may soon be reaching, as universities nationwide have seen numbers of international student applications drop this year. Miami University isn’t immune to that trend, according to data provided by admissions staff. INTERNATIONAL » PAGE 8

NEWS p. 3

CULTURE p. 4

FOOD p. 6

EDITORIAL p. 10

OP-ED p. 10-11

SPORTS p. 12

DRINKING IN OXFORD: A HISTORY

‘THE LATEST SHOW’ STOPS IN OXFORD

OXFORD’S NEXT GREAT BAKER

TO THE NEXT STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT

ADVOCATING FOR DISABLED STUDENTS

CLUB TENNIS TAKES NATIONALS

It wasn’t always so easy for students to access alcohol Uptown.

The Independent Artist Series play masquerades as a real talk show.

Baker Allyson Moore whips up gluten, egg and dairy-free treats.

Focusing on attainable goals will help ASG make the biggest impact.

Unfortunately, universities have a history of excluding people with disabilities.

On Thursday, the team will travel to Orlando to compete.

The Annual

SEVENTH INNING STRETCH

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