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Alumni bear burden of fraternity suspensions

MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIO

City officials suspect MU dining behind waste influx CITY

JAMES STEINBAUER OPINION EDITOR

PRIVALI KOTHAKOTA THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Alpha chapter of Sigma Chi was suspended in 2012. Last year, Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) occupied the house.

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MAGGIE CALLAGHAN THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University has attracted attention this fall as the university cracked down on three fraternities after incidents from last semester.

Due to those sanctions, three more fraternity houses, plus the four other houses already sanctioned, sit vacant in Oxford.

Of the 25 fraternities represented on Miami’s campus, seven have been forced to leave their houses by the university, their fraternity’s national headquarters or both. Sophomore members of the fraternities sanctioned last spring or this summer currently live in dorms.

Those who live in the fraternity house are responsible for paying the dues that go toward the maintenance and operations of the house.

When members are not living in the house and pay for on-campus housing rather than fraternity housing, alumni carry the burden of covering the mortgage and maintenance of the fraternity house. This is a huge financial burden for alumni, as some fraternity houses in Oxford cost upward of $1 million.

Jenny Levering is the director of Student Activities and the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. Levering said that,

depending on the situation, the Cliff Office will facilitate discussions between the Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution (OESCR) and the Greek organization’s national headquarters to ensure that every party is informed about the situation. The H.O.M.E office is then responsible for notifying sophomores about changes to housing, if necessary.

Three of those seven fraternities, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Nu and Kappa Sigma, have sophomore members living in Miami University dorms this year because their suspensions began in the spring or summer.

According to the Butler County Auditor website, the Sigma Nu house on Tallawanda Road is valued at $1,134,830. The Sigma Nu chapter at Miami University was officially suspended on April 20 of this year, and will not be recognized again until March 2018. No members are living in the house during this time.

Austin Worrell, one of the sophomores in Sigma Nu, expressed his disappointment about not getting to live in the fraternity house.

“The Sigma Nu house became like a second home for us last semester and now we are missing out on living there with over 50 of our closest friends and brothers,” said

Worrell. “It sits empty, filled with history and tradition, that for this year we cannot be a part of nor contribute to.”

Because members of Sigma Nu are not paying dues during their suspension period, alumni members have had to step in. According to public documents obtained by The Miami Student, this was one of the main concerns of Miami’s Sigma Nu alumni board.

In a letter to Rose Marie Ward, chair of the University Appeals Board, the alumni board said Sigma Nu’s annual housing costs run between $80,000 and $90,000.

These costs come from mortgage payments, real estate taxes, utilities, general maintenance of the house, long-term vendor/provider contracts and building security, according to the letter.

“Our non-profit organization is unable to meet these costs without any corresponding revenue,” they wrote.

In a separate letter written to Ward, junior and former Sigma Nu president Will Ives said that, before suspension, these housing costs were met by rent payments from student members, which amounted to $400,000 annually.

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PRIVALI KOTHAKOTA, TYLER RIGG THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami’s Kappa Sigma and Beta Theta Pi chapters are suspended. Beta (right) rents its house to two fraternities.

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Oxford officials believe Miami University could be improperly disposing its food waste, putting unnecessary stress on the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

This year, the city’s treatment plant has experienced an increase in suspended solids — miniscule waste particles floating in water.

Although small, these particles can have harmful consequences on Oxford’s wastewater treatment plant.

The treatment plant was designed to process water with suspended solids levels around 250 mg/L and city sewage comes at or under this threshold. Samples from under Sycamore Street and Brookview Court show suspended solids levels of 255 mg/L and 190 mg/L, respectively.

Sewage from Miami dining facilities, however, contains levels nearly 10 times higher — 2,235 mg/L from Miami’s Western Dining Hall and 1,700 mg/L from Garden Commons. Oxford Director of Public Services Michael Dreisbach said the amount of suspended solids was not as high last semester.

“Something has occurred between spring and fall semester to put the system out of whack and give us these increased numbers,” he said. “Clearly, Miami’s dining facilities are contributing to this

problem.”

Dreisbach said Miami’s systems should be catching this waste long before it gets to the city’s treatment plant.

“This waste should not be entering the sanitary system,” he said.

“It’s prohibited and should be removed by their filters, but that does not appear to be working properly.”

City officials are concerned because this influx of suspended solids is causing an imbalance in the heart of Oxford’s wastewater treatment plant. Increased waste means an increase in biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), the amount of oxygen aerobic bacteria needs to break down organic matter in water.

In other words, without oxygen, iron will not rust — the same goes for the decomposition of food waste.

Oxford’s wastewater treatment plant relies on this process. The plant uses a series of redwood slabs covered in aerobic bacteria that feed on and destroy microscopic waste particles in the water. If the balance between these bacteria and the waste’s BOD is upset, the wastewater treatment plant could lose its federal permit.

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Staff cuts responsible for slow maintenance results FACILITIES

JACK CHRISTIANSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

Tasked to repair everything from bed rails to circuit breakers, the maintenance works of Miami have become increasingly understaffed, and as a result, their request system has become unorganized.

Mike Seebock, a customer services coordinator in the Facilities Operations Center, sees the morale among his employees fall every year. “[Physical facilities] is the most dysfunctional group I’ve worked with, [and] I’m 43,” Seebock said.

When Seebock started at Miami 12 years ago, there were 16 people in his department. Now, there are only four. Receiving over 150 work orders a day and 1,600 a week, the workload is even more overwhelming when a coworker calls in sick.

David Creamer, director of finance and business services, said the staff was reduced to better implement efficiency and keep tuition more affordable.

Seebock also said physical facilities has become less organized over the years.

“I wish it went back to [division

by] residence hall,” Seebock said.

Assignments used to be divided north or south of High Street. Now, requests cover all of campus.

Seebock offered insight into the prioritization of maintenance requests.

“If the student submits a normal request, I glance at the request and schedule them for a repair,” Seebock said. “If [the student] sends an urgent request, my manager is notified and [the problem] is fixed as soon as possible. If it’s important, they’ll call.”

“I’m surprised we haven’t had more complaints this academic year,” he added.

First-year Jake Carlson had a disagreeable experience with physical facilities. When he arrived on campus the first weekend, his top bunk bed had no protective rail, so he placed a maintenance request.

“Two weeks passed and I still had no railing. I fell out of my bed one night and placed another request, this time as urgent. I went another two weeks without a railing until I came back to [my] room and saw it installed.”

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Miami aims to improve advising system ACADEMICS

EMILY CULBERSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Academic Advising Office is undergoing some structural renovations.

According to Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, Carolyn Haynes, the academic advising system is introducing changes. These include a new adviser training system and the implementation of the University 101 course which helps students explore DARS, a Degree Audit Reporting System that assists students in their course selections.

“Over the years, we have participated in major national surveys that ask our students about their [college] experiences, and we were not as happy as we could be about the results relating to advising,” Haynes said.

“So we took those things seriously and we thought [that] we

needed to make some shifts.”

One of academic advising’s biggest reforms is its new academic adviser training modules, first implemented in May. This training course consists of five modules. Four out of the five are completed online and one in a face-to-face training session.

60 percent of advisers have already completed the training, and according to Haynes, there are colossal benefits to a centralized training system.

“We needed to make sure we had advisers who were well trained as much as possible [and] try to have some consistency in advising,” Haynes said. “We tried to make sure [the training] was really easy to use and able to use over and over again”.

After her unsatisfactory academic advising experience, sophomore Sarah Marcum hopes this expansive adviser training will make advisers more knowledgeable.

“My adviser just wasn’t helpful at all,” Marcum said. “She would tell my roommate something completely different from what she told me even though we were in the same major.”

Haynes said she agrees that

We needed to make sure we had advisers who were well-trained as much as possible [and] try to have some consistency in advising.

CAROLYN HAYNES UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATE PROVOST

advising in the past hasn’t been consistent. She believes collective training will help fix this problem.

“We have lots of good pockets of advising but it wasn’t consis-

Controversial housing development approved CONSTRUCTION

EMILY TATE

MANAGING EDITOR

Trinitas Ventures will move ahead with its plans to construct Fields at Southpointe, a housing development proposed along Route 27, following approval at Tuesday’s Oxford City Council meeting.

The Fields at Southpointe will include 82 buildings, with 22 single-family units, 54 duplexes and six townhomes. In total, it will offer 668 bed spaces across 13.6 acres of green space.

This decision — and the land in question — comes with a history. In the last decade, the space has been rezoned several times by Butler County and Oxford, and in the last year, Trinitas’ housing project has prompted a lawsuit and public dissent from residents and students alike.

Councilor Steve Snyder spoke during Tuesday’s meeting about the decade-long path that led to Trinitas’ proposed development. In spring 2014, when the area was again rezoned, Sny-

LEAH SHAW

THE MIAMI STUDENT

It’s 3 in the morning and Oxford residents are awoken by the horn of the Amtrak train making its way through town. Soon enough, students will be able to hop on board this train.

Within the next few years, Oxford plans to have its own Amtrak station for students and residents to take from Oxford to Chicago and beyond. The city of Oxford received approval last week from Amtrak to submit the proposal to build a stop here.

In November 2014, Oxford city officials met about creating an Amtrak in Oxford for students to use when traveling to other cities.

In December 2014, The Miami Student reported that Southwest Regional Director of All Aboard Ohio, an organization that promotes rail travel, had a two-part effort — getting an Oxford stop on

DARS, a planning resource that allows students to look at their required credits needed for their major through BannerWeb, is also making academic advising more efficient as more students

LAURA FITZGERALD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

CONNOR MORIARTY PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

A new housing development will be constructed on Route 27. der said members of city council were promised it would not result in student housing.

Instead, they hoped for more family or senior housing.

But now, with Trinitas’ proposal, it’s clear the new housing development will primarily attract students, said City Manager Doug Elliot in a separate meeting.

Although the amended proposal that passed Tuesday includes several townhouses and dozens of duplexes, Elliot said permanent residents wouldn’t choose to live

in such close quarters with students.

“Families don’t want to live near students,” Elliot said.

“They’re loud.”

Snyder said he doesn’t want to see any more student housing in Oxford.

“Personally, I don’t think this community needs additional student housing,” Snyder said. “I also think we don’t need vape stores and hookah bars and that TRINITAS » PAGE 9

the existing Cardinal line that goes through Oxford, and then having Amtrak expand its existing Hoosier State line to include Oxford and other Southwestern Ohio stops that would provide more service here with better times.

Many students and Oxford residents are eager for the project to be finished, like sophomore Carlin Piper.

“I wish we had this now,” Piper said. “I live in Philadelphia, so finding a ride home is really hard and flying is way too expensive. So this would give me a chance to get home easier.”

Alan Kyger, project manager of Oxford’s economic development, said it is going to be several years before the Amtrak stop is put in place.

Kyger said even though the possibility of the Amtrak is still several years away, it will be beneficial to both students and the residents of Oxford.

The Cardinal Amtrak currently

goes west from New York through Oxford and ends in Chicago. However, it doesn’t make a stop in Oxford or anywhere.

“There are a lot of students here that are from Chicago or surrounding Chicago, and this could be very beneficial to them and for other students to not have to fly,” said Kyger.

The downside of the Amtrak is that it comes through Oxford now at around 2 or 3 a.m. each day, so if someone were to ride it, that’s likely the time they would have to get on it.

“The hours of pickup could be very inconvenient for students,” said Kyger, “but it is still faster than if a student were to take the buses and cheaper than taking a plane.”

A year after the initial discussion, the city of Oxford has gained a lot of support from the community for the train station. Now, it is just a matter of waiting for Amtrak to approve the proposal so concrete plans can be made.

Greek chapters at Miami are generally held to a higher standard when it comes to social media, but that hasn’t stopped several chapters from posting inappropriate content on their accounts.

Recently, the Alpha Delta Phi (ADPhi) fraternity’s Instagram account, “AlphaDeltaPhi_Miami,” included explicit references to sexual acts and alcohol. A member of the fraternity said it was not officially affiliated with the chapter, despite the depiction of the fraternity house and its members in all the photos and frequent comments from members.

A recent post mentioned ADPhi’s win in Greek Week. The post also referenced getting the fraternity’s Greek Week chair a “handjob,” a tweet from the Interfraternity Council (IFC) congratulating them on the win and a “warm nati,” or Natural Light.

The page was taken down last Monday.

Most Greek chapters have individual media policies regulating what their members can and cannot post. However, rigor of these guidelines varies between chapters, from not allowing alcohol in any captions or pictures to the explicit reference of it, such as the ADPhi Instagram account.

Senior Zach Scheid, IFC president, said he was not aware of the ADPhi account. IFC does not monitor individual chapter’s accounts, as each chapter has its own policies for regulating social media. IFC only intervenes with a specific chapter if an issue is brought to its attention.

IFC is in the discussion phase of adding a position to specifically monitor chapters’ social media accounts. IFC does have a vice president of public relations, who manages IFC’s Twitter and Facebook pages.

However, other chapters’ social media guidelines are stricter.

Olivia Vandervoort, vice president of standards for Kappa Delta, said her sorority reminds its members to create a positive media presence for themselves, their organiza-

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become aware of this advising supplement. Although not a recent development, students have had access to this resource since spring 2013. According to Haynes, more students are learning about the convenience of DARS, which allows students to have easy access to their class requirements for their major.

“The nice thing about the DARS is that it allows the student to see what’s ahead for them and [allows them] to be able to make some decisions and plan,” Haynes said. “It’s a really great and important tool for advisers and for students.”

Senior Jenna Toms said that with DARS being easy to access and easy to use, she was able to go into her academic advising meetings feeling prepared and knowledgeable.

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tently implemented as well at it could be,” Haynes said. “We didn’t have clear outcomes, we didn’t have a clear approach so that is why we did a very comprehensive and intensive shift.”

Along with training, the

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tions and employers.

“Anyone, including potential employers, can see what is posted online, so it’s important to be mindful,” Vandervoort said.

Sophomore Jacquie Edwards is a member of Kappa Delta with Vandervoot. She said she doesn’t think the policies are difficult to follow.

“The only things that they don’t ask us to do is stuff that’s illegal, like wrist bands and drinking,” Edwards said. “So, that’s really not too much to ask, I don’t think, if we’re not supposed to be doing it anyway, regardless if we’re in a sorority or not.”

As the vice president of public relations for the Panhellenic Association, senior Alexis DeBrunner manages Panhellenic’s Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and website.

Anyone, including potential employers, can see what is posted online so it’s important to be mindful.

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The accounts feature sorority events and other promotional features, like Undercover Leaders, which features women who do not hold a leadership position in their sorority but other members feel they should be spotlighted for their contributions.

DeBrunner said language is crucial when posting. For instance, instead of writing “Panhel,” she uses “Panhellenic.” Or instead of “babies” to refer to girls in the newest pledge class, she uses the term “new members.”

Lately, Panhellenic’s posts have been featuring promotional pieces for sorority recruitment in the spring, DeBrunner said.

DeBrunner said she has never had a problem with inappropriate activities with whole chapters’ social media, but students should be mindful of the image they project on social media.

“Anything that you wouldn’t want your parents or employers to see, [is] probably not the best thing to put on social media,” DeBrunner said.

Director of Student Activities Jennifer Levering manages MU Greek’s Instagram and Twitter accounts. The accounts feature Greek events such as philanthropy events.

Levering said the accounts are aimed at both current and potential Greek members to try to promote engagement within Greek life.

“It’s really just to promote the Greek community,” Levering said. “So anybody that’s looking in can see all the great stuff that Greeks do.”

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McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital to renovate ER CITY

EMILY O’CONNOR

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital (MHMH) received a $1 million donation for extensive renovations that will begin this week.

The donation from Gerald and Marie Katz was the largest single donation received in the hospital’s history.

Bryan Hehemann, president and chief executive officer of MHMH, said he hopes their generosity will inspire additional giving.

Marie Katz, formally Marie Bruns, grew up in Brookville, Ohio.

Her grandmother was a cousin to the Hyde family, who donated a large portion of the money that helped build the hospital in the 1950s.

Per a request from Katz, the new emergency department will be renamed after her parents, Howard and Mary Jane Bruns.

Thanks to their donation, the campaign is more than halfway to its $2 million fundraising goal.

The hospital, which affiliated with Cincinnati-area health system TriHealth earlier this year, recently launched a fundraising campaign to help cover some cost of the expansion and renovations. The total price tag on the project is over $12 million.

TriHealth also contributed approximately $2.5 million to the project. The remaining costs are being funded by loans and hospital operations.

Doug Elliot, the Oxford city manager, said the improvements are long overdue and have been discussed since the partnership with

7,000 square feet. The hospital is expanding the ER department by cutting into existing space such as the lobby, waiting rooms and surrounding hallways.

The operating rooms will be renovated but will not be expanded.

“What is exciting is that the operating room project will increase the

The donation from Gerald and Marie Katz was the largest single donation received in the hospital’s history.

Pulley Diner in the Armstrong Student Center is open 24 hours.

TriHealth.

“These renovations will update the hospital and provide a better patient experience,” said Elliot. “We are very pleased and they will be a good edition to the community.”

Hospital officials hope the project will take 22 months. The first phase of renovations will be an emergency room expansion and, after that, operating room renovations.

“We hope the first phase will be completed by the late summer of next year,” said Hehemann. “The second phase are hoped to be completed by the spring of 2017.”

The emergency room is undergoing an expansion of 3,000 square feet, said Hehemann. The current emergency room is approximately

number of rooms,” said Hehemann.

“There will be a lot better work areas around the OR [operating room] areas. This means better work flow as well as better patient flow.”

Hehemann hopes the renovations will provide a more efficient and pleasant experience for those coming into the ER and OR. The renovations feature a new design that is more modern and thought out, said Hehemann.

Sophomore Jill Stinson said she thinks the renovations to the ER will benefit the Oxford community and Miami students. Stinson said her experience with the ER was positive, but the facility was very crowded.

“I think the expansion will be really helpful,” said Stinson.

Upcoming Janus Forum to discuss women’s equality in America EVENT

ELIZABETH GLOVER THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami will host the sixth biannual Janus Forum on Oct. 28, with discussion centering on the question “Are Women Equal in America Today?”

The forum, designed as a conversation about a timely issue from two opposing viewpoints, will feature Riku Sen, the president of Race Forward, and organization centered on racial injustice innovation, and Christina Hoff Summer, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Sen is an award-winning publisher of Colorlines, a magazine focused on race and culture, while Summer is a retired professor who critiqued feminism in the 20th century.

Riley Cook, president of the Janus organization, said they chose women’s equality as the forum’s topic because of its presence in the political climate, and because it resonates well with students.

“We want to make sure pressing issues are talked about,” Cook said.

He added that he wants them talked about openly and with two sides to

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the story.

According to a 2014 article in The Miami Student, just over 100 years ago, Miami saw its first females graduate from the university with diplomas in hand. Over half of Miami’s student body consists of women, and to boot, recent studies show women often times don’t apply for leadership positions such as president because they don’t feel qualified enough.

Although the number of women in leadership positions has risen in the past few years on campus, there are still organizations that are mostly male dominated.

Other universities in the area have implemented programs to bridge the confidence gap for women in leadership; Miami is new to the game.

Andrew Giesler, an employee of the Janus Forum, works to make sure every event goes smoothly. He enjoys that two speakers are present.

“One person talking can feel like a ‘doctrination,’” Giesler said.

The Janus Forum is unlike the typical “speech in a can,” according to Director of Political Science Department Patrick Haney. He noted that the goal of the forum is, “To help increase and elevate political

discourse on this campus.”

Modeled after similar forums at Brown, the Janus forum does just that.

Haney explained the Political Science Department at Miami works closely with booking agencies and speakers to secure the event. He articulated that after he has secured the speakers, it is solely student run and operated.

The speakers come in and have to adjust their speech from about 45 minutes to about 20 minutes. He acknowledged that it makes for a more diverse presentation.

“We want this to be for everybody,” Haney said.

That is why they open each forum up for a candid Q&A at the end of the talk. Cook added they always have extra questions on hand if there’s a dry spell, but also noted the live Twitter feed full of questions usually eliminates the need to use them.

Haney has high expectations for this forum and has “heard a lot of buzz about it on campus.”

The event will take place at 6 p.m. on Oct. 28 in Wilk’s Theater. Tickets, which are free and available at the H.O.M.E. office, are required.

ASC board considers cost, aims for building efficiency UNIVERSITY

JANE OETGEN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Since it opened in January 2014, the Armstrong Student Center has been available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, Miami officials are now interested in exploring whether or not the expenses of Armstrong reflect its value and are worth students’ constant access to the building.

To operate Armstrong, Miami pays an average $24,890/month in electric bills, $13,142/month in steam bills, $11,635/month in waste and sanitation costs and $8,779/month in chilled water costs, according to Cody Powell, associate vice president of facility planning and operations.

While engineering the building, Miami’s utility staff made several adjustments to cut back on these operational costs, Powell said.

The university installed occupancy sensors in the construction of the student center, he said. The occupancy sensors help control the heating, ventilation and airconditioning when certain spaces are not occupied. This helps reduce the cost of operation during the late/early morning hours of the weekdays when the building is lightly occupied.

Katie Wilson, the director of Armstrong, keeps track of how and where the building is occupied at different hours of the week. Although many students can be found in Armstrong during the day, Wilson said that number dwindles during the late hours of the night.

Typically, students clear out of Armstrong between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. on Sunday through Thursday nights, and Wilson said it is not rare for no students to be in the building during these hours.

“I spend most of my time at Armstrong during the day, but I know a lot of my friends who go late at night and find it really helpful,” said first-year Hannah Greulich. “I’ve been to Late Night Miami events there, too.”

Greulich thinks it’s beneficial to keep Armstrong open 24/7.

Armstrong provides students with several dining options, quiet study rooms, meeting rooms, offices for the many student organizations on campus and ample lounge space. A large portion of the student center’s costs come from the dining services operations.

According to first-year Angel Spanos, Armstrong’s Pulley Diner is a favorite among students at Miami.

“I go to Armstrong after midnight sometimes and especially love going to Pulley on the weekends,” Spanos said. “I think it is definitely worth it to keep Armstrong open all the time.”

Spanos said she thinks Armstrong is much more popular during weekend nights than weekday nights.

Senior Chris Curme is chairman of the Armstrong Student Center board of directors, which did extensive research and planning when the building was still a work in progress.

Curme said the board is aware of these financial questions and is certainly interested in looking into the subject. However, he said the university prides itself that Armstrong is open all the time.

According to Curme, it is important for the board of directors to observe other student centers across the country.

“When we were doing preliminary research during the development of [Armstrong], no other college’s student center was open 24/7, and we were quite proud of that,” Curme said.

Survey shows decrease in the number of students who receive flu shots HEALTH

REBECCA HUFF

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Flu (influenza) season is back.

Running nose, coughing, fever, chills and body aches have resurfaced.

However, while the flu runs the rampant among the student body, the number of college students arming themselves against the virus is low.

For the 2014-2015 flu season, The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that starting at six months to 23 months of age, 74.6 percent of children received the vaccination; but only 33.5 percent of 18 to 49 year olds did.

The decreasing number of vaccinations with the increase of age holds true for the Miami student body as well.

Of 167 Miami students surveyed, 71 percent said they grew up getting flu shots but only 46 percent contin-

ue to get them.

The habits of college students getting the flu shot are based on a variety of factors. These factors include parent influence, cultural norms and the transition from living at home to being an independent college student.

Sophomore Sunny Suo is one of the 46 percent who don’t get the flu shot anymore.

“I don’t think it’s very necessary and because I’m not going to get the flu,” Suo said. “I’m healthy and so, I don’t have that sense that I need to take it annually.”

First-year Josh Pullman grew up getting the flu shot too, but says it was only every other year.

“My parents didn’t want me to get the flu but they also wanted to space it out,” he said.

The tradition follows him to college. He explains that yes, getting the flu shot may be parent influenced but concludes with why he still gets

the shot.

Pullman and Suo come from different backgrounds and cultures that may influence their habits surrounding the flu shot.

Pullman grew up in a Chicago Suburb with his friends and family all getting flu shots; whereas Suo, grew up in Shanghai, China.

“In my country not everybody does that. They’ll get it but not annually,” she said.

Junior Christopher Randall describes a different reason why college students aren’t getting the shot — practicality.

“I think a lot of college students consider themselves too busy and especially the ones who are out of town and don’t have cars on campus,” Randall said. “They don’t get flu shots because it’s not practical.”

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Orchestra celebrates Laptop stickers show student personalities 100th anniversary MUSIC

EMMA SHIBLEY THE MIAMI STUDENT

One hundred years of the Miami University Symphony Orchestra.

Fifty years of The Sound of Music.

Twenty years of Global Rhythms.

On Oct. 17, all three anniversaries will be celebrated in Hall Auditorium by more than 300 musicians and dancers — many of them international artists, all of them performing music from across the world.

Tickets were sold out 10 days before the show.

“There’s going to be so much energy. There’s going to be so many people [involved] for just one song,” first-year Lucas Conant said.

Conant will perform with Miami University’s percussion ensemble in the upcoming concert, and played the surdo de mayo drum in a Brazilian samba piece during the Sept.

17 iteration of Global Rhythms, “Windmills of Our Minds.”

“It’s almost overwhelming,” said Ashley Overby, the Orchestra’s vice president and associate principle violist. “It’s really impressive even getting that many people on the stage.”

It’s the norm to have two unique Global Rhythms concerts every fall, the first event being smaller with less student involvement. In addition to the Percussion Ensemble, Saturday’s concert will feature the Miami University Jazz Ensemble, the Orchestra, and singers from Miami’s new musical theatre minor.

Leading the operation is Srinivas Krishnan, director of the Global Rhythms music ensemble. The Miami alumnus founded Global Rhythms 20 years ago, and now he travels the globe performing and teaching world music.

Everyone calls him Srini.

“He’s really passionate about helping students realize their potential … he’s always so generous,” said Overby.

As the event is an incredible feat, it takes innumerable hours of work in coordination over the span of a complete year for Srini and Ricardo Averbach, the director of the Orchestra and a key player in planning Global Rhythms.

“The music we perform for Global Rhythms takes a little bit different mindset to get it up to the standard we normally have,” said Gigliotti.

In rehearsal last week, Averbach coached the Orchestra in playing flat, just slightly out of tune.

“The orchestra has to stay together, or else it’ll be really out of tune,” he explained to their confusion. “It’s not random.”

The whole point of the exercise was to practice what it’ll be like playing with an alpine horn — the big pipes that people blow from mountaintops and cause avalanches in cartoons. They’re made from natural materials, resulting in some unpredictable variances in pitch.

“We’re largely accompanying these [guest] artists,” Overby clarified. “I’ve found that they have a more fun approach to music … they have a different attitude, it feels more spontaneous.”

Each piece and its origin culture is unique. Averbach and Srini decided together that the concert would be collage style — meaning one piece goes right into narration, which goes right into another piece, with no applause in between.

But the concert will be far from fragmented.

The melismas — a type of melodic embellishment — repeated in one choral song are mirrored by violins in a subsequent orchestral piece, featuring two members of the Cincinnati Ballet. The rhythms of an Indian dancer’s feet align with the beat of two-dozen African djembe drums.

The stories behind the musical selections take the audience from the Swiss Alps to the Balkans, Bulgaria to Uzbekistan, illuminating the relationships between musical traditions and sovereign histories like crisscrossed lines on a map.

“I had come to Miami knowing about Global Rhythms — I wanted to be in it so badly,” said junior Chandni Chandiramani, the concert’s project coordinator.

As project coordinator, Chandiramani acts as the point of contact for the guest artists that Srini selects — sending emails, meeting and speaking with the internationallyrenowned musicians.

She introduced herself to Srini early in her first year on campus and has been working with him ever since.

The Miami Unviersity Orchestra will be performing at the 20th anniversary Global Rhythms show at 7 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 17 in Hall Auditorium.

‘Sicario’ achieves a slummy kind of grandeur FILM

JACK RYAN

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

“You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now.”

This line from “Sicario,” the latest release by French-Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve, could easily serve as an epigraph for the film.

No, this is not an uplifting tale of the underdog upsetting the cruel status quo, nor is it an in-depth examination of the socio-political tensions of a tumultuous region. Rather, “Sicario” is a caution sign, a film concerned with the disturbing relationship between the Mexican cartels and American government.

Following a series of brutal events surrounding a kidnapping raid, honest FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt), volunteers to work for a federal task force run by Department of Defense adviser Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and his mysterious associate Alejandro (Benicio del Toro). The primary objective of the group, in Kate’s eyes, is to find and eliminate the high-ranking cartel responsible for the opening scene’s savage crimes.

The three leave on what Kate originally thinks to be an investigative trip to El Paso, but, to her surprise, they end up in Mexico on a mission to extract a drug lord.

As they weave their way in and out of their hostile environment, it becomes clear that there is no order in “Sicario.” This anarchistic tone

seeps though the film like poison, as soldiers hover the line between mercenaries and marines, seemingly just agencies and persons have private agendas and gunfire and murder feel routine in broad daylight and bleak night alike.

Anyone familiar with Villeneuve’s previous English-language releases, “Prisoners” and “Enemy,” knows how he likes his films — gritty, dark and surprising — and “Sicario” is no different. In attaching us to Kate as our main protagonist, Villeneuve forces us to share her confusion and innocence, adding to the gravity of violence and corruption around her. Here, plot is sacred, and is much better experienced than discussed.

The acting trio of Blunt, Brolin and del Toro is simply amazing.

Blunt is beautifully disturbed as a by-the-books agent who is in way over her head. Brolin is at his best when he plays sarcastic assholes, but he’s even better when those assholes have serious power. However, del Toro steals the show with his ominous Alejandro, whose stoicism is only disrupted by the reek of sorrow like alcohol on his breath throughout the film.

“Sicario” is good when it makes us fear for these characters, great when it makes us fear the characters themselves, and damn near perfect when it accomplishes both at once.

Villeneuve showcases masterful restraint in “Sicario,” reaching SICARIO» PAGE 5

AMANDA WANG THE MIAMI STUDENT

What do your laptop stickers say about you? Miami students decorate their computers to represent facets of their personalities, experiences, and favorite brands.

STUDENT LIFE

MACKENZIE ROSSERO THE MIAMI STUDENT

I purchased my first laptop sticker two weeks ago.

It’s a dreamcatcher, adorned with feathers, beads and loopy Zentangle designs. It reminds me of the dreamcatcher hanging over my nightstand back home — my dad gave it to me when I was younger.

Since then, I have been fascinated with the image of the dreamcatcher.

And, like many students, I think, in a way, the sticker on my laptop represents me.

At 8:34 p.m. on a Monday night, the Armstrong Family Room is buzzing with the conversations of students caught in the unproductive stage between homework and socializing.

Many sit with open laptops, though few are actually touching the keys. Roughly half of these laptops are decorated with stickers.

There are many representing Miami

and some promoting TV shows like “Friends” or “The Office.” All hold a deeper meaning for their owners.

When I approach Amanda White, she is quick to clear a seat and welcomes me to sit among her friends. Her laptop is covered with stickers, the majority of which are Disney-related.

Amanda chuckles and explains why she enjoys the “punny” Monsters University sticker. It reads “Future MU Alumni,” something she will be next spring, despite graduating from Miami University, not Monsters University. The marathon Amanda ran last winter is commemorated in another sticker.

“I did a marathon in Disney World in 2014. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Amanda says. “I’m very proud of it.”

Amanda points to her cross sticker. “I am a Christian,” she says.

“It’s the No. 1 part of my identity.”

Sara Rudokas sits on a bench in Upham, eating an early dinner and balancing a laptop on her knees. A

sticker of her dog Duke, a HuskyAustralian Sheppard, is in the top right corner.

Saif Alnuaimi sits with his legs crossed at the ankles, his laptop screen reflected in his glasses.

Stuck on the back of his laptop are four Apple logo stickers. They are strategically placed — turned at different angles but still mirroring each other. He explains that he got them with the purchases of his iPad and MacBook back home in United Arab Emirates. Saif’s remaining stickers are Oxford-related. Two are Miami logos. And, barely visible under the case, Saif has a picture of himself wearing traditional head wrap from his country.

Vicky Mordzinski is a member of Delta Zeta sorority. Her “big” got a double order of stickers and shared them with her. Many are of New York, though Vicky has never been there.

Andrea Lupariello laughs and it STICKERS »PAGE 9

Expensive food choices, a challenge for students FOOD

NOAH ANTONNEAU THE MIAMI STUDENT

Shopping List: Cherry Tomatoes — $2.79 Apple — $0.99 Pear — $0.99 Potato — $0.89 Pack of 5 Cheese Sticks — $3.95 Cinnamon — $1.99 Pack of 6 Tortillas — $2.60 Total — $14.20 I was recently presented with the challenge of making three meals in a day for $15, using only ingredients from MacCracken Market.

I figure the most efficient way to go about shopping is to start grabbing ingredients I can use for each meal.

Starting with breakfast, I browse the aisles looking for anything that might catch my eye.

I find fruits starting at $0.99, probably the best deal at MacCracken. I purchase an apple and a pear, which I will cook in a bit of water on the stove top and finish with a sprinkle of cinnamon.

For lunch, I see a potato hid-

ing in the back behind the fruits.

Naturally, I grab one, imagining it will be relatively inexpensive.

This is the point at which I have to start thinking thriftily. I buy a six-pack of tortillas, thinking I may use them for dinner, along with five cheese sticks for $3.95, which seems like a steal compared to the block of cheese for $7. I will roast a potato in the oven, and wrap it up with cheese in a tortilla to make a nice lunch burrito.

Now that my shopping bag is starting to fill up, and given my already shallow budget, I face the challenge of creating the largest meal of the day — dinner.

Thankfully, I know I will still have leftover tortillas and cheese sticks from lunch. So the only other ingredient I buy for dinner is grape tomatoes.

I can dice up the tomatoes to use as “pizza sauce” on a leftover tortilla, and top with cut-up cheese sticks. This is something I’ll be able to easily throw in the oven for 10 minutes to get a delicious result.

With the leftover tortillas, I know I’ll be able to make cinnamon toast by sprinkling them

with cinnamon and putting them in the oven for a few minutes.

I begin checking out and am immediately concerned. The first item was cherry tomatoes, which, at $2.79, drains a chunk of my budget.

Much to my relief, however, the fruits were cheap and allowed me to stay under budget by a whole $0.80.

The cooked fruits with cinnamon for breakfast were by far the best meal I made. There’s something appealing about warm fruit, especially when it’s cheap and easy to make.

Compared with breakfast, lunch was less than satisfactory.

My burrito was decent at best, though I think I undercooked the potatoes. Not to mention that they were a real pain to clean up since I forgot to cook them on wax paper.

Dinner was good, but not flavorful. It was a bit like having grilled cheese, and definitely resulted in me going to bed hungry.

The cinnamon toast weren’t too flavorful either.

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Up for a challenge? Try to make three meals using only $15 and food you can find in the campus markets.

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bounces off the walls in Armstrong’s living room in small echoes. She’s been collecting stickers since June and has five on her Toshiba.

Her favorite is the logo for 3E Love — similar to the handicapped sign, but with a wheelchair shaped like a heart. The company’s name, 3E Love, stands for embrace, educate and empower.

“I promote disability awareness,” Andrea says.

Tanner Speakman’s sole sticker is of Boba Fett’s helmet, from “Star Wars.” It glows — the Apple logo on his MacBook shining from beneath.

Sophomore Marta Stewart sits at a table in a gray baseball cap. She is alone, but talking animatedly to

BUDGET MEALS » PAGE 5

lars — I could’ve bought more cheese sticks to make nachos instead of cinnamon toast.

Saving money means being creative. So, utilize your leftovers. The four extra tortillas I had were easily made into cinnamon toast. Try to buy ingredients that you know you will be able to use later in a meal.

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year, it listed out every class that you could take and you could click on it and see a description and that made [using the DARS] really easy,” Toms said.

However, Haynes still stressed the importance of face to face meetings with academic advisers.

“The DAR doesn’t tell you everything,” Haynes said. “Like what [a] class [is] really going to be like in terms of the expectations [or if it’s] going to fit well

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everyone around her.

Her computer is open — a golden retriever puppy set as her desktop background. There are seven stickers decorating her purple laptop case.

Her first, a small Miami “M” is peeling in the bottom right corner.

Marta also has two stickers to remind her of Michigan, where her family goes every summer. Showing me a sticker that reminds her of Miami football, Marta shares her passion for sports and the pride she feels for the Miami teams.

There’s also a big, paisley “M” that she added today — meant to stand for Marta, but it could stand for Miami, too.

“They are important,” Marta says of laptop stickers. “They define people.”

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for grotesque minimalism rather than the graphic overkill typical of crime-action films. In one particular scene, Alejandro walks into an interrogation room with nothing but a water cooler, clearly preparing for some monstrous torture. Instead of letting us visually witness the inevitable atrocity, Villeneuve chooses to divert our eyes to a slow zoom into a drain, backed by composer Jóhan Jóhannsson’s petrifying score, effectively forcing us to imagine the horrors for ourselves.

Roger Deakins once again dis-

plays his world-class cinematography in “Sicario,” balancing dismal imagery of the underworld with breathtaking landscape shots of the borderlands. He turns conventional into exceptional — shots like that of a traumatized Kate looking into a fogged mirror are equally gorgeous and moving. He will undoubtedly be a contender when Oscar season comes around, eyeing his thirteenth nomination, and, hopefully, a long deserved first win.

The final act of “Sicario” is particularly harrowing to say the least, taking twists and turns to depths that seem shocking for even a film of

this severity. Fortunately, Villeneuve never crosses the line between dark and depressing, with anxious undertones always keeping the story (and our minds) moving.

The thematic core of “Sicario” is most evident in a late pre-raid scene — a battalion of renegade soldiers is enveloped in the silhouetting dim of dusk, as the red, white and blue sky hovers over them like a flag lowering at retreat. As day fades, order dies with it, and, under the cover of darkness, the wolves rise at last for the hunt.

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Finally, if you want to eat healthy, but don’t want to spend too much, fruit is your best option. Priced reasonably at $1, you could buy all the pears, apples and oranges you want for a low price.

All in all, cooking cheap and substantial meals from markets on campus is doable, it just takes a good amount of creativity and dedication.

service. He said he believes the maintenance request system needs to improve speediness, and tend to the urgent requests first.

“They didn’t tell me when they were going to install [the railing], which was the main reason I filed another request.”

Physical facilities are often on their own, and Seebock wishes that the housing department would do more on its end to low-

er the number of requests.

“Housing needs to tell residents that rooms only have 20 amps in a circuit. [Residents] can’t run a microwave and hair dryer at the same time,” Seebock said.

The H.O.M.E. office declined requests to comment, saying they had little to do with physical facilities and only help students set up requests.

However, the H.O.M.E. office sent out an email Oct. 5, instructing campus residents on how to

with the other classes that you picked for that semester. That’s why you need the adviser.”

Toms said she agrees that having the support of an academic adviser helps tremendously in making tough scheduling decisions.

“It’s just nice to have someone there that can confirm that you are on the right track,” Toms said. “[I] know that [I] can always ask questions.”

DARS is still a relatively new implementation, and according to Haynes, many students still

don’t know how to access and make use of DARS. Because of this, the University 101 class, commonly known as UNV 101 was created and is being piloted this year to help inform first years about this program and many other resources offered to them on campus. Currently 56 percent of first-year students are taking this course and according to Haynes, this class is a great supplement to formal academic advising.

“In [the UNV 101] course students learn about the advis-

ing system, how to find out who their adviser is, how to read a DAR, how to access their DAR, what the Global Miami Plan is and their own requirements because it just shifted,” Haynes said. “Normally students learn from upper class students but in this case they need to know it because it’s different [than in the past].”

With all these changes being made, Haynes said she knows the whole system may not work perfectly at first but knows that these changes are steps in the

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conserve heat in this undulating weather.

“Heating season [is the busiest time] for our department, as students want air during the day, and heat at night. It’s the worst time of the year for us,” Seebock said, adding that residence halls automatically switch from cooling to heating when the temperature goes under 50 degrees.

While the H.O.M.E. office appears to be aiding them in small ways, physical facilities simply cannot keep up with demand. right direction.

“We hope that this will all work out beautifully but I’m not naive enough to say that there won’t be issues that we need to address,” Haynes said. “But in my view there is nothing more important than advising and nothing more rewarding than to sit down with a student, hear about their dreams, their goals, even their struggles, and be able to help them become full owners of their own educational experience so that when they leave Miami they are well prepared.”

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With empty storefronts, editorial board brainstorms ideal Uptown EDITORIAL

Last week, at Oxford’s city council meeting, Council Member Steve Snyder reminded us of what the city does not need.

“Personally, I don’t think this community needs additional student housing,” he said. “I also think we don’t need vape stores and hookah bars, and that we have an overabundance of niche restaurants.

But that’s not up to me. That’s decided by our free market system.”

That meddling free market system aside, there are a couple suggestions that we would like to propose — some things Oxford does need.

A bookstore. Not a textbook store — not another Follets or Duboise. What we’re calling for is something greater than the New York Times bestsellers and Miami apparel. What we’re calling for is a cramped, dusty, quirky, independent, mom and pop bookshop that

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board. sells new and used books, magazines, records and maybe a cup of coffee on the side.

A bakery. Oxford lacks a classic bakery, complete with the smell of fresh bread wafting out early in

marble just doesn’t cut it. Sometimes you need something special.

From cinnamon rolls to scones, having a bakery conveniently located on High Street would be a pretty sweet deal.

Craft beer and Casablanca would be ideal. So would an old-time facade (cough, cough).

the morning and inviting passersby to come inside. A place to grab a homemade muffin or a croissant for breakfast, if you don’t like the generic taste of Starbucks, or pick up a toasty baguette for dinner on the way home.

Or what about a place to order a unique birthday cake for a friend?

Nothing against Kroger cakes, but sometimes chocolate, vanilla or

A juice bar and smoothie shop.

Aside from on-campus stops like King Café and Armstrong, there is nowhere in Oxford that supplies smoothies. For those who don’t want to break the bank paying five bucks a cup, these frozen drinks are a rare splurge. The juice-andsmoothie-serving tent at the weekly Oxford Farmer’s Market seems to be successful, and there is no

Morality is not rooted in religion, but humanity RELIGION

MILAM’S MUSINGS Not too long ago, I used to be one of those condescending and arrogant atheists that would look down upon religious people as stupid.

Fortunately, I grew out of that because it became clear to me that religious people, not surprisingly, had much to offer to the discourse.

In particular, the book, “Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense,” by N.T. Wright turned my mind around.

I completed the book in one sitting back in 2009 because it captured my attention that well. Here was someone that held an ideology I just don’t, but he was making sound arguments for his ideology. I better grasped Christian theology after reading his book.

Then last winter, a reader of my Musings also recommended and loaned me Timothy Keller’s, “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.”

“The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die

immigrants, Syrian refugees, the people killed in the Doctors Without Borders bombing in Afghanistan and even brutal murderers facing the death penalty.

We could all do with a little more Jesus-like forgiveness, understanding and love.

But I can already sense the more aggressive atheist types thinking, “Why would you, an atheist, even bother reading the case for Christian theology?”

The answer is obvious, is it not?

The answer to why Connor Moriarty, in his piece, “Walking on eggshells: Being an atheist in a religious society,” said he respects the beliefs of religious people is obvious, is it not?

Because a great many of our fellow human beings believe in Christianity and it’s a strong part of their core being. That is reason enough to try to understand their beliefs and where they’re coming from.

To dismiss that from the start, as I used to do, is showing a kind of antiintellectualism I find rather repugnant. I most certainly have critiques of Wright, Keller and other Christians, but the critique isn’t reduced to, “You’re stupid.” There is always something to be learned from those we disagree with.

Because if God is the determinant of right and wrong, then that moral framework seems hardly inseparable from subjectivity.

for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me,” Keller said.

Keller’s thinking overlaps with N.T. Wright in the overall idea that Christianity is not so much just about God forgiving one’s sins, but about making the world and thereby, creation, right again. It’s like a sort of restorative justice. And the impulse for wanting to right injustices makes sense. We all want that.

And whether one thinks Jesus is divine or not, there’s still something powerful to take away from his life.

I relate strongly to Jesus’ mingling with the lepers and the prostitutes of his time, speaking up for the outcasts.

I understand why Christians are so drawn to the story of Jesus and more particularly, his sacrifice. It’s viscerally powerful to imagine Jesus dying for all of mankind and as Wright believes, opening a connection between God and his creation.

Then when he’s on the cross, he cries out, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34).

Even as an atheist, that gets me amped up because that’s a paradigm I think, as humans, is worth aspiring to, i.e., being able to have such an abundance of forgiveness and understanding even in the face of unabashed human cruelty.

Applications for that in modern society are endless, whether it’s giving empathy to so-called illegal

I don’t know about you, aggressive atheist reader, but I’m not willing to push aside the thoughts and opinions of 5.8 billion people.

Admittedly, I did have a strong reaction to Grace Moody’s piece, “Being a Christian in an increasingly atheist society,” but not because she’s a Christian. Not because I don’t think she genuinely feels she’s walking on eggshells as a Christian in an ever-changing cultural milieu.

But because I disagree with the premise. There’s a tendency to equate an abatement of privilege in society as persecution, when it’s just that: a receding of a once upheld privilege. There’s a sense of that, too, among males, as feminists continue to make in-roads with equality, hence the connotation of feminism with man-hating.

The milieu in the United States has changed slightly enough that the evangelical side (some would suggest fundamentalist is a more accurate term) of Christianity simply isn’t as strong as it once was. But Christianity overall still remains the predominant force in the country, even as its share of the population declines. From 2007 to 2014, according to Pew, the share of the Christian population dropped from 78.6 percent to 70.6 percent, but that 70.6 percent still qualifies my statement of “predominant.”

I don’t think legalizing same-sex marriage, marijuana and people having sex before marriage changes

that dynamic much. If anything, I would make the theological argument that those are representative of Christianity and Christians getting closer to the Jesus paradigm.

Nonetheless, I would also add a bit of nuance to Connor’s piece, too. Science most certainly has a lot to offer to society and I’m with him in that I, too, draw a sense of spirituality from realizing that we are quite literally made of stardust.

That spirituality is a hard thing to articulate, but it’s mostly that feeling of connectedness and shared experience one gets when gazing into the cosmos.

With that said, it’s important to establish a moral identity, too. One of the charges atheists sometimes get is that without the theist framework, there is no morality. I want to reject that and add a third dimension to the discussion between Grace and Connor: one can be an atheist that believes in the spirituality and fact-based evidence of science while also having a strong sense of morality.

After all, science doesn’t have anything to say about morality.

Here’s a simple example: science can help a coroner to figure out how someone was murdered, but science has nothing to say about whether it was wrong for that person to be murdered. Rightness and wrongness don’t exist in the physical sense out in the world to be measured. You can’t put rightness and wrongness in a test tube. It’s something we have to get at with different tools than science can give us.

Likewise, though, I don’t need God as a moral foundation to decide that murder is wrong. I believe there exists an objective Truth out there, in which humans have to figure out how to get to and decide what is right and what is wrong. And if there is a God, then this moral objective reality would have to exist separately.

Because if God is the determinant of right and wrong, then that moral framework seems hardly inseparable from subjectivity. For could not God decide tomorrow that murder is acceptable?

And subjectivity means no more morality because then I have no basis in which to say, “murder is wrong,” because for the murderer, subjectively, it was clearly right.

Do people who hold to moral subjectivity really want to make the question of murder or rape tantamount to which flavor of ice cream one prefers?

I don’t want to get too into the weeds here (as there’s much more to say regarding the ontology of this objective morality), but my point is, there’s wiggle room where one can present a strong moral foundation without the assistance of either science or God. However, as we all try to figure out what is right and wrong and how to live the good life, there’s much we can learn from each other, atheist or theist, or somewhere in between.

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doubt in our minds that a full-time shop would do even better.

Miami students would line up out the door for menu items like pure fruit and vegetable juices to promote a healthy lifestyle, or smoothies spiked with double scoops of whey protein. We’d drink to that.

A noodle shop. Pasta is basically the bread and butter of college students’ eating habits. It’s cheap, fast and easy to make, and provides a one-pot comfort meal. But boiling noodles on our own stovetops might not be letting them live up to their full potential. Noodles are versatile, and a noodle shop would offer endless options. Italian spaghetti, pad thai, Asian stir-fry, or all American mac ‘n’ cheese could all be available in one wonderful place.

A movie theatre. The recurrent debacles at The Princess have left

Miami students and Oxford residents without a local movie theatre.

The closest are in Hamilton, Northgate and Westchester.

Instead of a revamped apartment project, the historic Princess could have been renovated to the benefit of the entire community. Many cities are turning historic buildings into hip, bar/movie theatre combinations that serve classic cocktails and show old and indie movies.

This could be a laidback response to outlandish bars like Brick Street and The Woods. Craft beer and Casablanca would be ideal. So would an old-time facade (cough, cough).

With the plethora of closed storefronts Uptown, from the vacant windows of Bill’s Art Store to the empty tables of Morning Sun, Oxford has an opportunity to promote unique businesses that will help the city thrive.

U.S. should adopt international precedent on gun control SHOOTING

MADDIE’S MATTERS The police in the Republic of Ireland don’t carry guns. They’ve got batons, they can carry pepper spray, but guns are just not part of the deal. In Northern Ireland, the police, or Garda, carry firearms. But that is a result of civil war qualms. They are, in fact, the only part of the U.K. that allow their officers to carry. It’s something that, as an American, I simply can’t wrap my head around.

And that in itself is entirely pathetic.

As it turns out, Ireland is not alone in this trend. The U.K. (with the exception of Northern Ireland), Iceland, Norway and New Zealand are all on the same wavelength. In fact, Ireland’s gun policies are so strict that they ask potential private gun owners for a ‘good reason’ of ownership (that ‘good reason’ is assessed by the Garda), ask that they belong to a police-approved pistol or rifle club and perform actual thorough background checks.

Guns themselves are not glamorized in Ireland as they are in the U.S. They have little draw. And I cannot say it enough, mostly because I’m so fascinated by it: the police don’t carry them.

What’s best for Ireland, a coun-

Guns are a special freedom in the United States and have been since the Constitution was written up, but there is also something to be said about the privilege to feel safe. The right to bear arms and the privilege to feel safe used to be one in the same, but we’re no longer in the Revolutionary War era.

The original intent of the Second Amendment is no longer applicable to our society.

Of course, part of the problem, or perhaps most of the problem, is the National Rifle Association (NRA) and their support of policies like the Gun Show Loophole (not a myth, as many conservatively-leaning publications claim it to be) and the war against policies like the Fix Gun Checks Act, which asks that “individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the national instant criminal background check system and require a background check for every firearm sale.”

But who could think it would be any other way when the association itself is run by Wayne LaPierre, a man who, during an NRA press conference, said, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

The lines have blurred. This is not the Wild, Wild West. We are not all Clint Eastwood fighting against some morally unambiguous, two-dimensional common enemy. Good guys today don’t bring guns to schools. They don’t bring guns to movie theatres. They don’t

How many more deaths ... do we need in order to impement something as simple as more in-depth background checks?

try about the size of Maine, is not necessarily applicable to a country the size of the United States. But gun control laws are hitting so close to home now (and have been for the past few years), especially with the most recent horrifying massacre in Oregon. Chris HarperMercer, the gunman who killed nine people and then himself at Umpqua Community College, reportedly owned or was connected to no less than 14 legally-obtained firearms, according to CNN. He was also reported to be suffering from mental health issues, was discharged from the Army and, in a twist of irony, had a possible fascination with the Irish Republican Army — a violent and intensely nationalist group who raged most especially during the Troubles.

How many more deaths at the hands of police and at the hands of the unmonitored and essentially insane do we need in order to implement something as simple as more in-depth background checks?

bring guns to shopping malls. Only bad guys do. And the only way to get the bad guy is to stop him even before he can start, with stricter policies and a value and empathy for human life over profit.

Coming from a world where even the idea of the policeman, the “protector,” is morally ambiguous, the unarmed Garda here seem almost laughable. But in a way, it is also comforting to know there is, at some level, a semblance of continuity in the Republic of Ireland’s government, with the police and the people being at the same level of the law.

Gun control and gun ownership do not have to work against each other, contrary to what many in the U.S.’s didactic political culture might believe. But it’s time that policies are put into place before all this senseless killing numbs us to the core of our very culture.

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Same weekend habits, different location LIFE

GRETA HALLBERG THE MIAMI STUDENT

Last weekend was amazing. I flew out to Denver with a friend to visit my brother. We went hiking twice. We explored the city.

We shopped. We met my brother’s friends. We ate a lot of Tex Mex. Our adventure in Colorado was a win.

My brother’s friends asked us what the occasion was for visiting.

We explained that it was our “fall break,” so we decided to come out to Colorado for the weekend.

But that’s just it. Fall break is just a normal weekend. There is not actually a break involved with “fall break.”

I do not have class on Fridays anyway, so the day off is nothing new. Every weekend is a threeday weekend, not only for me, but also for a lot of students on campus.

Fall break is an excuse to travel with friends or go home. The campus quiets down and the lines for the bars are shorter than usual.

But, by any other standard, it’s a normal weekend.

Well, a normal weekend that probably involved binge drinking somewhere that isn’t Oxford.

Snapchat and Instagram revealed Miami students partying in Co-

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lumbus, Nashville, Las Vegas and Chicago. Undoubtedly fun, but not a relaxing weekend away from destroying your liver and stressing out for the week ahead on Sunday. The only real difference is the travel time.

Miami calls our long weekend “Mid-Term Break.” Our longweekend-that’s-actually-just-aregular-weekend might be in the middle of our semester, but it is not any sort of academic reprieve.

Students know it is hardly a vacation from exams. The workload for “fall break” is the same as any other weekend.

We also don’t have a set week for midterm exams, so it isn’t fair to call it a “Mid-Term Break.” By next week, I will have taken one midterm a week for a month. My exams and assignments are spread out throughout the semester. It sounds nice, but when you’re given a set “break” by the school’s schedule, you kind of expect it to actually be a break from, well, school.

I took an economics midterm on Monday morning. This is the same Monday that I took a redeye flight home and landed in Cincinnati at 5 a.m. Sure, it’s my fault for scheduling a late-night departure, but I’m also a poor college student trying to save money. Convenient flights are expensive. Regardless,

I was hardly in the best mental state to take an exam that counts for a significant part of my grade.

Compared to some of my friends, my week is easy. They have Monday exams, presentations and group projects all due the week after our “break.”

The best part of last weekend was our morning hike on Sunday.

We spent a few hours with our phones in airplane mode, solely for pictures. We got to sit on the top of a mountain and see the world stretch out for miles. We had no obligations or schedule.

We had nothing to do but walk.

Everybody needs that kind of pause from the world and responsibilities once in awhile. Simply existing, instead of always doing, is the best way to recharge.

Taking that kind of a break is difficult to do with the threat of an imminent exam or paper looming over your head. I had a peaceful moment. But as soon as I got back from the hike I hit the books.

If you’re going to call a long weekend that isn’t actually longer than any other weekend a break, give us an actual break. Give us time to disconnect from our inboxes and textbooks. Give us the time to relax and recharge without worry for the week ahead. Because with a Monday exam right after a “break,” what is the point?

The walking dead: Technology’s mindless control over our lives TECHNOLOGY

KIRSTEN HALLER THE MIAMI STUDENT

We never look up anymore.

I encourage some of my friends to do it because it’s truly fascinating. Everyone is glued to a screen. It’s like the walking dead — masses of students amble toward their respective classes every day, mindlessly staring at their iPhones, oblivious to what is happening around them. If you look up from a seat in the back row, a lecture hall is a sea of online shopping websites, Facebook feeds and strings of iMessage conversations.

Observing these 21st century zombies may be entertaining but it makes you question the power that technology holds over our lives. Fundamentally, phones, laptops, tablets and myriad other emerging technological advancements are meant to connect people. However, the increased ability to know the every waking moments of our acquaintance’s days, the less we connect with the people physically around us.

Technology is sufficiently ruining the way we communicate.

The cons of our communica-

willing user under the similar assumption of a casual hookup in your general vicinity for you to either accept or reject. You are given a few chosen pictures, an age, a location creepily measured in terms of how many miles away they are from your and, lastly, a short bio.

Within a few minutes anyone can be on his or her way to meet up with someone who was a stranger yesterday. And the cynics think romance is dead.

Real dates are a rarity and have somehow evolved into meeting up at bars and coming over to “Netflix and chill.” Dating has become an all encompassing game of hard to get, mixed signals and the ultimate desire to avoid getting tied down where the reward for winning is simply the empty praise #relationshipgoals.

Human interaction is slowly being valued less and less and creating a desirable image of a virtual reality through Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook is becoming the social precedent.

It doesn’t matter if you had a good time as long as it looks like you did.

Every aspect of our lives has become exponentially more pub-

Anything that causes a small army of girls to assemble in efforts to decode a single cryptic, half-assed text from a hung-over frat bro is nothing short of the devil’s work.

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A gay blood donor’s dilemma GLBTQ

ANONYMOUS STUDENT THE MIAMI STUDENT

Like a majority people on this planet, my blood type is O positive, which means the red stuff in my veins can be used by nearly anyone who needs it. My height and weight maintain a healthy relationship, and I have never injected anything into my body that was not prescribed by a doctor.

These factors make me an ideal

in comparison to the feelings to helping my fellow man. Yet each time I give, I am forced to lie about who I am in order to serve a common good.

For this reason, I have chosen to write this letter anonymously, as I wish to continue to save lives. Let me be clear — this is the only reason I have chosen not to reveal my identity.

My blood is not dangerous, and there is no need to turn away donors like me who are ready

If a gay male knows his blood is healthy and he is willing to donate, why should he be prevented from saving lives?

blood donor for the American Red Cross. There is just one tiny problem — I am gay.

During the AIDS epidemic that rocked this country in the 1980s, the Red Cross began asking all potential donors if “from 1977 to the present, have you had sexual contact with another male, even once?” Answering yes to this question results in your name being placed on a lifetime ban list from giving blood.

I am proud to say that I have given blood twice in the last year, totaling enough blood to help six complete strangers. Though my efforts have been rewarded by free sugary snacks along with a sticker and chance to win tickets to the zoo, these prizes all pale

and willing to give. It may be true that gay men are statistically more likely to be infected.

Yet, this blanket rule perpetuates a dangerous assumption about the LGBTQ community.

Besides, the Red Cross already screens all donations to make sure that no bad blood is used in hospitals nationwide.

It is also true that black people are statistically more likely to suffer from Myelodysplasia, a bone marrow condition that stunts the production of red blood cells.

Why then does the American Red Cross not turn away potentially healthy donors based on the color of their skin?

The need for blood is constant.

If a gay male knows his blood is

healthy and he is willing to donate, why should he be prevented from saving lives? If a registered organ donor who just so happens to be bisexual were to die in an automobile accident, why should his heart and kidneys not be used to prevent another premature death? I highly doubt that those in need truly care about a donor’s sexual preference.

The FDA advised the Red Cross last December to accept blood from gay and bisexual men who have not had sexual contact within the last year, a policy similar to preexisting rules on foreign travel or recent tattoos and body piercings. While certainly a step toward equality, this is still unreasonable discrimination. Straight people are just as vulnerable to contract AIDS from a sexual encounter.

Under this proposal, men currently in a monogamous relationship would continue to be unfairly punished for their lifestyle. Those willing to give blood should not have to make the choice between saving lives and having an active sex life.

Nevertheless, the Red Cross continues to enforce this medically outdated policy, and until it is changed, countless gay and bisexual men will continue to lie in the name of humanity. I highly encourage anyone who is physically able to give blood, regardless of your sexuality. A healthy human body generates more than enough blood to get by, and the temporary dizziness is more than worth the sacrifice.

tive technologies today outweigh the pros in almost every way when it comes to personal relationships. I maintain my longstanding theory that texting was, in fact, created by Satan himself with his creational encore of readreceipts. Anything that causes a small army of girls to assemble in efforts to decode a single cryptic, half-assed text from a hung-over frat bro is nothing short of the devil’s work.

Speaking of timeless romance, Tinder is gaining popularity on college campuses almost as fast as the subsequent spread of the directly related venereal diseases.

If you have never heard of this app, good for you, it essentially gives you a picture of another

lic than it has ever been before.

Though the current collegiate population is relatively young in the grand scheme of things, there is definitely a marked difference in where we were collectively in middle and early high school and now in terms of how much we use technology.

Because it’s so widespread, so much of our self-esteem is tied into how we are perceived by our peers on social media. Technology is taking over our human interaction with the people around us and is controlling our emotions more than it should. Log out of Tinder and join a club, go to places for the experiences not the pictures and take a second to look up every now and then.

‘Yes means yes’ may blur the lines of proper disciplinary protocol SEXUAL ASSAULT

RICHARD ERLICH THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Associated Press reported that Governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation aimed at making California the first state in the nation to bring into a number of high schools lessons about sexual consent required at California colleges and universities.

This mandate follows action in California and then New York State to require colleges and universities to apply an “affirmative consent” or “yes means yes” standard when investigating campus sexual assault claims.”

That policy says “sexual activity is only considered consensual when both partners clearly state their willingness to participate through ‘affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement’ at every stage.”

The mandate for high school training in the meaning of consensual sex should also call close attention to the implementation of it in California and New York at the affected colleges and universities.

I taught for 35 years at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and performed much of the “service” portion of my job as a faculty member for the Student Affairs Council.

I spent a fair amount of that time helping to write rules for our Student Handbook and, now and then, check up on how the rules were

explained and applied by our Division of Student Affairs.

The Student Affairs Council of Miami University (SAC) wrote rules and sent them on to the Trustees for approval and that was usually that.

Only on rare occasions did the Trustees need legal opinion, and for many years that could be handled by someone on the staff of the Ohio Attorney General, or by a contracted local lawyer.

That will not be the case for Affirmative Consent, where university regulations will be difficult to write. More difficult still will be preparing brochures and presentations advising students on “legally safe sex.”

Generally, the Affirmative Consent discussion has assumed vanilla heterosexual sex between two unmarried young people “hooking up.” Married students can commit and suffer rape and sexual assault; guidance for legally safe sex would have to set up guidelines that would include married couples, and it will be tricky for state institutions to involve themselves with guiding the sex lives of married people.

It will be both difficult and awkward to advise on legally safe sex of non-vanilla varieties. On the one hand, I’m not sure I’d like to write rules or put together a brochure or website entry for sexual encounters involving handcuffs and a ball gag, especially if the major objective of SEXUAL ASSAULT »PAGE 9

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“We want to make certain, and I’m sure Miami does too, that the city does not violate its permit,” Oxford City Manager Doug Elliot said. “It hasn’t done that yet, but it has caused us some concern because our treatment plant was designed to handle residential waste, not napkins.”

Elliott said that over time, the increased number in suspended solids would have an impact on the plant’s performance and would cost the city more money.

Dreisbach said the city should have been consulted on this issue before now.

However, Cody Powell, Miami’s associate vice president of facilities, planning and operations, said Miami always works closely with the city.

“All of our projects are required to be reviewed by the city engineer’s office,” Powell said.

“We have monthly meetings, we share information, they review the drawings, they comment and they let us know of things they want to be changed.”

However, Oxford City Engineer Victor Popescu, surrounded by hundreds of blueprints and plans in his office, said not one of them concerned Miami’s wastewater procedures.

“The only thing that I’m sure of is that I did not review any-

thing that has to do with sewage that is produced, whether it is from toilets or food,” Popescu said.

In many Miami dining halls on campus, food waste, napkins and the occasional stray fork are ground up in food disposals known as “pulpers.” The remaining pulp, roughly the size of coarse coffee grounds, is rinsed with water. The water goes down the drain and the leftover pulp is put in the trash.

“All but one of those pieces of equipment were in place when the students left and the city didn’t have a problem,” Powell said.

That one machine is the new EnviroPure food waste disposal system at Miami’s Garden Commons, a system Miami is testing out. This, city officials say, could be part of the difference between prior semesters and this one.

The EnviroPure works much like a human digestive system: Food waste is chewed in a pulper and pumped into a 600-gallon, stainless-steel refrigeratorlooking vessel where it is mixed with biomix — a cocktail of B6 and B12 amino acids that accelerates the natural decomposition process. This mixture then goes down a drain where it mingles with the rest of Oxford’s sewage.

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in dining halls across campus, like Maple Street, Armstrong Student Center and the Western Dining Commons.

Despite sampling by the city of Oxford, Powell said the source of the increased suspended solids is still unknown.

“The numbers that [the city] is sharing with us indicate that they have a huge amount of solids that exceed any type of level we could possibly produce,” he said. “We don’t even feed that much weight in pounds of food to students, much less throw it down the sanitary system.”

However, Tina Rotundo, the executive manager at Garden Commons, said students’ leftovers can add up pretty quickly.

“This machine is set up for 475 pounds of waste a day, but we’re producing over 600 pounds,” Rotundo said.

To accommodate the extra waste, Rotundo said Miami is going to add another 600-gallon tank to the EnviroPure system in Garden Commons.

Oxford and Miami are now working together to take daily sewage samples at dining facilities in an effort to locate the crux of the problem and, possibly, confirm city officials’ suspicions. Powell, however, said that the university is doing nothing wrong.

“There is absolutely nothing for us to hide,” Powell said.

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student members, the alumni chapter will find it difficult to survive,” Ives wrote.

Additionally, members of the alumni board said they had spent more than $250,000 in the last two years, renovating and improving the Sigma Nu house. This, they said, made up the majority of alumni contributions. “[That money] has been reinvested into the chapter house to improve the living conditions and enhance safety and security for our resident student members.”

However, unlike Sigma Nu, when Beta Theta Pi was suspended in 2012, the house — located at the corner of Campus Avenue and High Street — had been paid in full, with no mortgage for the alumni to pick up. The value of Beta’s two housing properties — $690,020 and $341,480 — amount to more than $1 million.

But in order to keep the house, Beta was in good enough financial standing that the members used money that was left in their reserves to pay for maintenance, taxes and insurance, while the house sat empty for a year, according to Phil Fernandez. Fernandez is a Miami and Beta alumnus (’06) and is now the Director of Advancement for Beta Theta Pi National Headquarters.

“We were blessed to receive $34,000-plus in donations from our generous alumni to help keep our chapter afloat,” said Fernandez.

Although some alumni are displeased when their chapters misbehave and need alternatives for bearing the costs, they believe the brotherhood that exists among members of their fraternities is more important than any check or deposit.

“Once the shock of the closure wore off, the bigger picture began to set in … alumni rallied around the long-term viability of the chap-

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ter, knowing it was more important,” Fernandez said.

The fraternity national headquarters have also stepped up to cover the costs for the fraternity house and ease the burden for alumni.

One solution to the problem was renting the house to other fraternities.

Two other fraternities currently occupy the Beta Theta Pi houses — Alpha Sigma Phi and Lambda Chi Alpha Similarly, the Sigma Chi house on Sycamore Street was occupied

by Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) last year — after the FIJI house on High Street burned down and before its renovations were completed this year.

Although these fraternities do have safety nets in place to keep their houses running and in good condition, a simpler alternative is to keep the chapters out of trouble in the first. Most fraternity national headquarters have risk management directors and guidelines in place so their chapter houses don’t sit vacant.

Most fraternities have risk management outlines that clearly state the policies enforced by their national headquarters. Chapters also have people responsible for working directly with their members to ensure these policies are followed.

According to Michael Wahba, the Director of Chapter Services for Phi Delta Theta — one of the fraternities founded at Miami (and still recognized on campus) — every chapter is visited by one of its leadership consultants twice a year, who educate and guide chapters to ensure their operations are up to the standards of the organization.

“The best approach is to educate our members and equip them with the tools to make the best choices and give them the confidence to intervene in situations that do not reflect our values,” said Wahba.

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the game is domination and silent submission. On the other hand, it is naïve to think that no students at any time are going to engage in 20-shadesof-off-white S&M, one of the more popular perversions.

Alternatively, advising students that sexuality of non-vanilla varieties is legally risky is a possible course, but it is problematic to have state involvement in the details of people’s sexuality and to return indirectly to concepts of sex crime.

Even with the usually-envisioned young, unmarried, heterosexual couples there are complexities. When does requesting affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement at every step become sexual harassment? When advising students on legally safe sex, what should campus authorities advise on when to start asking explicit questions?

In an ideal world, young people would go up to someone they find attractive and say, “Hi, I find you sexually attractive. Would you like to talk a bit and see if we’d FROM HOCKEY »PAGE 10

loss like that,” Kuraly said. “I’m happy with how the guys responded.

It was just about flipping the page and trying to get better.”

After five minutes of scoreless play in overtime, the game was officially called a 2-2 tie, and both teams earned one NCAA point.

The teams then sent out three players and a goalie each to begin the first ever NCAA three-on-three overtime period, which didn’t even

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both like to go over to my place or yours for sex acts we’d both enjoy?” In an ideal world such a conversation would be unremarkable, but that is not a world we live in.

There are also deeply ingrained, if generally unconscious, theological and moral considerations influencing much sexual behavior.

Even vanilla sex among unmarried people is fornication, and Miami University is far from unique in having a lot of young students brought up on “Just Say No” to fornication.

“Good Kids Don›t.” To paraphrase a Miami philosophy major channeling George Carlin, what good kids do is “Get drunk, get stupid, get laid, get penitent, get absolved — and repeat.”

This student was highly sophisticated, but the theology she argued is straightforward, especially for a traditional Catholic.

To get drunk and get animalistic is to engage in bestial sins abhorrent to puritanical cults and subcultures. But wordless, drunken, animalistic rutting is less sinful than getting demonic by warping one’s divine reason and will

with “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.”

Falling into sin is one thing.

Consciously choosing sin and articulating your choice is literally willful disobedience and an enactment of Satanic Pride.

Brochures and presentations on Affirmative Consent would have to advise unmarried students to engage in conscious, mortal sin or give up on sex. Such advice can be framed, but it will take very clever lawyers and student affairs officials to avoid either entering a theological thicket or acting in bad faith and denying that theological issues exist.

It could also require a willful blindness to the function of drugs in human sexuality, alcohol especially — since at least the time of Gilgamesh for beer (ca. 2100 BCE) and Euripides›s The Bacchae for wine (405 BCE).

Indeed, «Yes means yes; no means no; and maybe means maybe.» Going beyond that to «›affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement› at every stage» raises difficulties that should be watched with care.

last two minutes.

After a long shift and tenacious forecheck, Kuraly laid a hit on the boards in the offensive zone, knocking the puck to the middle of the ice to connect with freshman forward Josh Melnick. Melnick found a hole and shot the game-winning goal, giving the RedHawks a 3-2 victory.

Kuraly remained modest about his role in the overtime winner.

“I was just trying to finish my hits all night,” Kuraly said, “[Melnick] has been working hard and he’s be-

ing rewarded for his hard work.

That’s the bottom line.”

Melnick returned the favor to his captain.

“If you watch the clip of that last goal, it was all my teammates’ hard work,” Melnick said. “Sean won a battle on the left side, and I just kind of stepped into the middle and took a shot that trickled in.”

Miami continues non-conference play next weekend in a home-and-home series with Ohio State University.

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cal for students without a car, the health center does offer vaccinations at a $35 fee that is usually covered by most insurance providers.

Scott Sellers, Kroger pharmacy manager, guesses out of roughly 800 shots given yearly, only 150 of those are Miami students and that’s because of parent influence.

“I would encourage college students especially the ones living in dorms that are in close quarters with each other and even [students] living in houses to get the flu shots,” he said.

Getting the flu shot does not increase the chances of contracting the flu and does not infect the person with the virus. The vaccine is created with antigens from strains that are specific to the season, which means the vaccine changes from year to year. The CDC recommends getting the flu shot annually to protect against the current year’s strains.

Although the CDC, physicians and pharmacists recommend getting the flu shot, Pullman explains the hesitance.

“There’s been a lot of controversy about the vaccinations recently and how they’re bad for you,” Pullman said. “From the evidence that I’ve seen it’s overwhelmingly not a cause for alarm.”

that bounced over the keeper and trickled into the net.

Weathers was astonished the goal went in.

“I mean, I was trying to find my teammate Rachel Marble,” she said.

“Then the ball just bounded over the keeper’s head.”

MU’s matchup against OU on Friday was another tough match.

Neither team saw a scoring chance until the 22nd minute, when senior midfielder Haley Walter sent a shot wide.

In the 35th minute, Dillon slipped a pass to Walter in the box, who delivered a pass to freshman midfielder Katie Sauder. Sauder sent a shot into the back of the net, putting Miami up 1-0.

The RedHawks totaled five shots on goal to the Bobcats’ two.

MU continues conference play against Western Michigan University and Northern Illinois University next weekend.

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but that isn’t going to happen.”

Councilor Edna Southard reflected on her decision to rezone last year, but said she knows she can’t change it.

“We can’t turn back the clock,” Southard said.

Mayor Kevin McKeehan echoed the others.

“We’re just wishing we could revisit the zoning change from a few years ago,” McKeehan said. “Hindsight is always perfect.”

Despite their regrets, the councilors found a silver lining.

Before the amended proposal was passed Tuesday, Trinitas Ventures took the city to court over the development. In the end, they settled on a different plan — the plan that was accepted Tuesday.

Councilor Richard Keebler said he thought the mediation process made the proposed development stronger and better. Councilor Bob Blackburn agreed.

“Through the mediation process, we gained a lot,” Blackburn said.

“Wider streets, more green space, two- and three-story buildings where we were going to have one-story buildings. And I think it’s going to be, really, a better project. We stood up and said no, and we kind of got what we wanted.”

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Elliot expressed his own disappointment in the continued housing growth.

“It’s no secret,” Elliot said, “that even though [Oxford is] dependent on Miami University, there are folks in town that really don’t want to see any more student housing — be it Uptown, the old Wal-mart site, Southpointe. We struggle with that a bit.”

Elliott acknowledged the student housing surplus in Oxford, but he said new developments continue to crop up because builders believe they can build a better complex that generates higher demand than current facilities. That, he said, is likely why Trinitas decided to build here.

“They feel they are going to have a superior product,” Elliot said.

The main themes from Tuesday’s meeting were those of regret and resignation. One by one, the councilors said they wished they’d voted differently last year when deciding to rezone the land, but that they ultimately have to live with their decision.

“I regret my voting for the rezoning,” Snyder said. “I’d like a do-over,

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cal for students without a car, the health center does offer vaccinations at a $35 fee that is usually covered by most insurance providers.

Scott Sellers, Kroger pharmacy manager, guesses out of roughly 800 shots given yearly, only 150 of those are Miami students and that’s because of parent influence.

“I would encourage college students especially the ones living in dorms that are in close quarters with each other and even [students] living in houses to get the flu shots,” he said.

Getting the flu shot does not increase the chances of contracting

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The RedHawk defense took a hit in the second quarter when one of its leading tacklers, sophomore linebacker Paul Moses, was ejected for a controversial targeting penalty.

Martin said though he felt bad for Moses, it helped Miami. Redshirt freshman Brad Koenig filled in for Moses and notched four solo tackles, including one for a 3-yard loss.

“No. 38 played unbelievable,” Martin said. “He was probably our best football player.”

MU finished with 253 total offensive yards, while OU totaled 428 yards. Murphy collected 78 yards on three catches, and freshman running back Maurice Thomas gained 44 yards on three carries.

Junior quarterback Derrius Vick led the Bobcats, completing 21 of 33 passes for 243 yards, one touchdown and one interception. His favorite target was junior wideout Sebastian Smith, who totaled 91 yards on nine catches.

The Red and White continue conference play next weekend against Northern Illinois University.

the flu and does not infect the person with the virus. The vaccine is created with antigens from strains that are specific to the season, which means the vaccine changes from year to year. The CDC recommends getting the flu shot annually to protect against the current year’s strains.

Although the CDC, physicians and pharmacists recommend getting the flu shot, Pullman explains the hesitance.

“There’s been a lot of controversy about the vaccinations recently and how they’re bad for you,” Pullman said. “From the evidence that I’ve seen it’s overwhelmingly not a cause for alarm.”

10 SPORTS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER13, 2015

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MU splits series with national champion Providence HOCKEY

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After a devastating 7-3 loss against Providence College in its Friday home-opener, the Miami University hockey team took to the ice Saturday and beat the defending national champions in the first ever NCAA three-on-three overtime.

Miami opened the two-game series with a power play goal from the highly-touted freshman forward Jack Roslovic. The visiting Friars answered with three straight goals, closing the first period with a 3-1 lead.

Roslovic added an assist in Saturday’s game to finish his first NCAA weekend with two points.

Head coach Enrico Blasi thought his team looked solid in the beginning of the game, but was disappointed with the drop-off.

“Maybe in the first ten minutes of the game we had some jump, but after that they showed why they won the national championship a year ago,” Blasi said. “I just thought they

outplayed us in every aspect of the game.”

Miami opened the scoring in the second period when junior defenseman Colin Sullivan scored his first NCAA goal 1:35 into the frame.

Providence netted the next four straight goals, extending their lead to 7-2.

In the dwindling moments of the third period, another first gave the fans at Goggin something to cheer about. Freshman forward Josh Melnick tipped in a goal with under eight minutes to play for his first collegiate score.

Senior goaltender Jay Williams had a tough night, giving up seven goals on 25 shots. He was replaced by his senior counterpart Ryan McKay with 11:36 to play. McKay made one save on one shot.

“Our compete level has to be better, we have to start winning battles,” Blasi said. “We’re not going to sugarcoat anything. It wasn’t very good.”

Senior forward Alex Gacek agreed.

“Top to bottom, we weren’t good

Bahl’s four interceptions lead to 34-3 loss at OU

tonight,” Gacek said. “Period.”

Gacek said the RedHawks did not present their best work.

“We had a good week of practice,” he said. “Today we didn’t show it at all. Tomorrow will be a big test for our team to show how we can turn it around and come back.”

And the RedHawks did just that.

On Saturday, Miami overcame a 2-1 deficit in the third period and fought its way to a 3-2 overtime victory, though the result is recorded as a 2-2 tie.

Blasi was pleased with the team’s play during game two.

“I thought our guys really stepped up their game,” Blasi said. “All-inall, it was a good response to last night and we’re pleased with it.”

Miami opened the scoring again on Saturday. Sophomore defenseman and alternate captain Louie Belpedio struck first for Miami just over 13 minutes into the game. He finished the weekend with one goal and one assist.

Providence scored the next two goals, one in the first period and one

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Junior defenseman Colin Sullivan fights for the puck against Providence. in the second, taking a 2-1 lead heading into the final period of the weekend.

But the RedHawks refused to leave empty handed.

Senior forward Chris Joyaux, who did not dress on Friday, knotted it up with less than seven minutes remaining. The game would end tied at 2-2 and headed to overtime.

Coach Blasi was glad with his

team’s ability to bounce back.

“Our guys just dug deep and started to play our game the way we want them to play and they could feel it,” Blasi said. “We were using our speed and just making simple plays.”

Senior forward and team captain Sean Kuraly echoed Blasi.

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The RedHawks’ lone score was a 34-yard field goal from senior Kaleb Patterson.

A 2-yard touchdown run from senior running back Daz Patterson, a 6-yard junior wideout Sebastian Smith TD catch and a redshirt senior Josiah Yazdani 50-yard field goal gave the Bobcats a 17-3 lead at halftime.

And it didn’t get any better from there.

Bahl opened the second half with a pick-6. His pass intended for sophomore receiver Sam Martin was intercepted by sophomore linebacker Quentin Poling and returned 25 yards for a touchdown. The extra point gave the Bobcats a 24-3 lead with 14:46 on the clock.

Despite the turnovers, there were positive takeaways from Bahl’s first start. He showed his arm strength on several deep passes, specifically a 45-yard completion to redshirt sophomore Jared Murphy. The QB finished 8-for-23 for 150 yards.

“Obviously a mixed bag, but more bad than good,” Martin said. “But OU’s a very experienced team … it’s not great when you play a freshman quarterback, and I’m not going to throw him under the bus. But on the other hand, we can’t win a game if he’s going to throw four picks. He’s gotta get better in a hurry and learn from today.”

Martin said the run game was another area that hurt the team. The Bobcats held MU to 87 total rushing yards on 24 attempts.

The Miami University women’s soccer team improved its conference record to 5-1 (9-4 overall) after beating both Ohio University 1-0 Friday and Kent State University 1-0 Sunday. Ohio fell to 2-7 on the season, while Kent State fell to 7-52.

The RedHawks have won seven of their last eight games, and the credit goes to their defense and netminder. Junior goalie Vic Maniaci has six shutouts on the season. Kent State (7-5-2, 3-3 MAC), entered the game as the highest-scoring team in the MAC, but did not score a single goal on seven shots.

Maniaci praised her teammates after the game.

“It’s really exciting,” Maniaci said. “I owe a lot to my defenders and my midfielders and really everyone all the way up the line. I didn’t even have to do much today.

My teammates made it really easy for me. I’m just really excited for the rest of the season.”

Junior defender Dana Miller shut down KSU’s star and leading scorer, junior forward Jenna Hellstrom.

Miller was proud of the way she and her co-defenders played.

“We came out with a lot of energy,” Miller said. “We had a good, hard practice week. We knew it was going to be tough for us. We didn’t want to let anything up. We had a shutout on Friday. We knew they were the top team in our MAC division so we knew the game was going to be a battle.”

Each team traded possession for much of the first half in Sunday’s game. At the end of the half, Miami led in shots by a margin of 7-3, but neither team had scored.

The second half continued much like the first, but MU controlled the possession. Junior midfielder Stephanie Dillon and freshman midfielder Korrie Saunder both had great opportunities to score in the second half, but game remained tied at 0-0 at the end of regulation.

With the ’Hawks leading in shots 14-5, the game headed into sudden death overtime.

Miami caught a break with 3:06 on the clock when freshman forward Ashley Weathers lofted a pass

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Freshman quarterback Billy Bahl chats with a referee before the OU game.

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For several Miami University veteran players, beating Ohio University when it was ranked No. 23 in 2012 is their favorite memory. The RedHawks didn’t have a chance to replicate that memory Saturday, as four Billy Bahl interceptions destined them for a 34-3 loss.

“We have to protect the ball when we throw,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “We can make plays in the pass game … there’s a lot of ability with our quarterbacks and our skills guys and our running backs and our tight ends. There’s not a shortage of talent. Now, shortage of experience and know-how? Heck yeah.”

Despite the true freshman’s shaky performance, Martin said Bahl is Miami’s new starting quarterback.

“We’re making that move,” Martin said. “The talent level of Billy we feel gives us the best chance in the future … he can obviously make those big plays down the field. He showed us that today.”

Bahl’s first collegiate start seemed to be going well as he completed his first two passes for a combined 20 yards. However, he was hit by redshirt junior defensive lineman Kurt Laseak during his next attempt, sending a wobbly off-target pass that was intercepted by OU redshirt senior cornerback Ian Wells.

The first half remained bleak for Miami, as they gained five first downs and 106 yards to Ohio’s 15 first downs and 267 yards.

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HEATH HARDING POSITION: Cornerback

Year: Junior

Hometown: Englewood, OH

How long have you been playing football?

I’ve been playing football since fifth grade. I was never the corner — I played running back in fifth grade and for the offense pretty much my whole life. I got switched to corner when I got here at Miami.

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Hud — those guys are always funny. Murph’s funny when he’s telling stories. Sam Martin’s pretty funny.

Pretty much the receivers, they’re all jokesters. Paul Moses, too.

Do you have a pregame ritual?

I have my game day mix that I listen to. And before every game I listen to that Ray Lewis motivational speech. I’ve listened to that since my junior year of high school.

If you could spend the day with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?

Tupac. He’d be a cool person to talk to and listen to stories.

So which was your favorite position to play?

What is something people don’t know about you?

I mean, don’t get me wrong, offense is always near and dear to my heart.

I played it my whole life, and I did have 102 touchdowns in my career in high school. But, you know, corner is starting to grow on me.

I’m obsessed with Pretty Little Liars. I won’t miss an episode. I watch it religiously every Tuesday at 8 p.m. when it’s in season. And I’m a sap for my love stories, like Nicholas Sparks movies. I kid you not. A Walk to Remember, the Notebook, the Last Song, Safe Haven, Dear John.

Favorite Miami memory?

Any Chuck [Martin] moment.

Funniest teammate?

We got a lot of funny guys. It depends what kind of humor you want, honestly. T Reid, Akeem,

If you could have a superpower, which one would you choose?

If I could read minds, that’d be pretty cool.

SCOREBOARD FRIDAY

SUNDAY

FIELD HOCKEY

FIELD HOCKEY

Ball State, 0 Miami, 3

SOCCER

Rugers, 1 Miami, 7

SOCCER

Ohio, 0

Kent State, 0

Miami, 1

Miami, 1

SATURDAY VOLLEYBALL Miami, 0

Northern Illinois, 3

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