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Roethlisberger, Harbaugh return for opening of indoor sports center SPORTS

GRACE REMINGTON SPORTS EDITOR

Hundreds of Miami fans flocked to the David and Anita Dauch Indoor Sports Center (DISC) for the official opening of the new training facility Saturday.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (’12) and Ravens head coach John Harbaugh (’84), both Super Bowl winners and Miami alumni, helped introduce the center.

“There’s no better place,” Harbaugh said after the ceremony.

“There’s no better facility anywhere, in pro football or in college football.

That means it’s real; that means this is tangible evidence of where the program is going.”

The ribbon-cutting ceremony featured speeches from Director of Athletics David Sayler, President David Hodge, Roethlisberger, Harbaugh, Miami alumnus and lead DISC contributor David Dauch, Miami soccer captain Haley Walter and Miami football defensive back Heath Harding.

The 91,000 square-foot facility, which was 20 years in the making, was built and funded entirely by donor contributions. Dauch (’86), a former Miami football player, and his wife Anita are the namesakes of the building.

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for Miami football, Miami athletics and Miami University,” Dauch said during the ceremony.

The $13 million facility features a full 120-yard football field with a synthetic field turf surface similar to Yager Stadium’s. Other amenities include netting for baseball, softball and golf use, four 100yard sprint lanes, a high jump area and long jump pit, storage space and an observation deck.

“Think of the places we would’ve went if we had this,” Roethlisberger said, reminiscing on his time at Miami as he admired the structure. “We would have been able to practice more. We wouldn’t have had to go on AstroTurf as much. You can practice here all the time, whether it’s winter conditioning or bad weather. It’s such an awesome facility. I know being

with the Steelers, we have an indoor facility, so you can always get a day’s worth of work in. So it’s great for all students in all sports, that’s the neat part about it, it’s not just football.”

The field is named after Roethlisberger, who donated $1 million toward its completion.

“This is my school,” Roethlisberger said. “It’s an honor to be a graduate and an alumnus. It’s something that I was hoping for that in 10 or 15 years, my kids would come back and see their name on the field. So now it means something to them, too.”

Miami student-athletes began using the facility on Feb. 9. It allows intercollegiate, intramural and club athletes to participate in training year-round.

Harbaugh said he wishes he could have had the opportunity to use a fa-

cility like the DISC during his tenure as a RedHawk.

“It would’ve been more comfortable — we wouldn’t have had as many turned ankles, maybe,” Harbaugh said with a laugh. “I told the guys we practiced on this very same field, but it was just more like a cow pasture back then. Miami’s a great place, I’ll treasure it forever.

This takes it to another level. This is a statement that Miami football and Miami athletics are big-time.”

When Miami held its Pro Day in the center on March 12, several scouts and coaches commented on the impressive edifice and compared it to NFL facilities. Both Roethlisberger and Harbaugh said they had heard the stories before visiting.

“There were coaches and scouts that came to me and said, ‘This indoor facility, wait till you see it. It blows away a lot of places, multiple NFL and colleges,’” Roethlisberger said. “If I would have had this on my Pro Day — I mean, I was outside on the AstroTurf, you get bad weather.

Hopefully this facility can help get more players here, raise the football program here and in other sports and get more Miami guys in the NFL.” Head coach Chuck Martin said he believes the indoor sports center and the support from big names like Roethlisberger and Harbaugh will be an advantage in recruiting.

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Dance Theatre performance honors alumna six months after her death

Miami Dance Theatre Company performs As We Are in 2007, (pictured left) and again on Saturday and Sunday (pictured right). Hannah Copeland Neal, a 2009 alumna who passed away last year, is pictured on the left as a performer. She choreographed the dance her sophomore year at Miami.

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GRACE MOODY NEWS EDITOR

The Miami Dance Theatre Company performed a dance dedicated to Hannah Copeland Neal, a Miami alumna (’09) who died of melanoma in the fall, during its annual spring concert on Saturday and Sunday.

After battling cancer for over two years, Neal passed away in October. According to Lana Kay Rosenberg, the director of Dance Theatre, Neal was very passionate about dance and always showed up to the studio with a smile on her face.

Because of Neal’s positive impact on Dance Theatre, the company performed a dance tribute to her.

“We wanted to do something in honor of her memory,” Rosenberg said.

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Neal originally choreographed this dance in 2007, during her sophomore year at Miami. It was first performed in April 2007 by a cast of 10 members, including Neal. The dance was reconstructed and restaged this spring to be performed a second time, with a different cast. The dance is titled “As We Are” and was performed with the song “Wonderwall.”

Rosenberg individually selected members of the current company to imitate the cast members in Neal’s original dance. She chose them based on re-watching a videotape of the original dance.

“Each of the current dancers, to the best of our abilities, were following someone in the original cast,” Rosenberg said.

Published in the concert’s program were words from Neal about the dance. She described the theme of the dance as friendship.

“The theme is roughly based around friendships and how they seem to change over time,” Neal wrote.

Taylor Sieve, a senior in Dance Theatre, said the performance was amazing. Sieve choreographed another dance in the concert and did not participate in “As We Are” herself, but spoke highly of the hard work of the 10 dancers who were involved.

“I would come in and they were always there and were very focused on what they were doing,” Sieve said. “I think a lot of them felt very connected by the time they got to perform it on stage.”

Rosenberg said she received much positive feedback from the dance. She said emotions were high within Hall Auditorium during the performance.

“When you lose someone at such a young age who has lost her

DEATH

KRISTA SAVAGE NEWS EDITOR

Bernard Phelps, age 93, died at The Knolls Retirement Center Friday, April 24. Phelps served as the founder of Miami University’s Hamilton branch campus, and former Oxford mayor.

“It is difficult to capture the fullness of the life Dr. Phelps lived and his impact on Miami University, Hamilton and Oxford,” said President David Hodge.

A former veteran, Phelps moved to Oxford in 1956 and began teaching within the speech department in 1948. He quit teaching in 1967, when he began planning the Hamilton branch campus.

Phelps had a significant impact on Miami through serving as Hamilton’s first executive director. He and his wife established the Bernard and Margaret Phelps Scholarship Fund for Miami Hamilton students.

Nearly two-thirds of the buildings on campus today were constructed during his tenure.

One of them was named after him (Phelps Hall).

Throughout his life, Phelps was extremely active in the Oxford community. He became mayor along with serving as chairman of the charter commission. Beyond these duties, he served as the first chairman of McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital. He also had a large role in planning the arrival of The Knolls of Oxford.

“What comes through, above all else, was his enthusiastic and caring personality, along with his amazing creativity and resourcefulness,” Hodge said.

“On behalf of the entire Miami community, I extend our sympathies to his family and friends as we remember and honor his legacy.”

Many feel the same way about the death of Phelps. Miami University Associate Provost and Dean of the Regional Campuses G. Michael Pratt expressed his condolences.

“Dr. Phelps was the driving force behind Miami Hamilton for the first 16 years of its existence,” Pratt said. “Dr. Phelps was devoted to the Hamilton campus and its students. He started Miami Hamilton, and today’s students are part of his lasting legacy.”

Dick Keebler, former mayor of Oxford and council member of eight years, knew Phelps and his family during his term as mayor.

“He was such an upstanding individual,” Keebler said.

“He had an amazing work ethic and personality. His legacy will life on.”

A memorial ceremony for “Bernie” Phelps will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 at the Knolls of Oxford.

On April 28, 1910, The Miami Student reported on Ohio’s State Oratorical Contest. Charles Heeter, Miami’s representative, won the tournament’s preliminary round. The contest boasted a first place reward $75 and a second place prize of $50.

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life to cancer, it is very moving,” Rosenberg said.

Friends of Neal were at the concert, and hugged and cried together at the end of the piece.

After Neal’s graduation in 2009, she and Rosenberg stayed in touch and saw each other for the last time in August. Neal had gotten married and wanted Rosenberg to meet her husband.

“They drove from Atlanta to Oxford in August of 2014 so I could meet him and she could be in the dance studio again,” Rosenberg said. “It was so beautiful. It meant a lot to her to be back at the studio in Miami. She really loved it here.”

Neal is deeply missed by family and friends. Rosenberg said she is grateful for Neal’s positive character and passion for the arts.

“For many who knew her, you miss her in a very heartfelt kind of way.”

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Meth lab bust reveals Ohio issue CRIME

BRETT MILAM ONLINE EDITOR

One-pot cook labs, like the one found by Oxford Police Department (OPD) April 16 at the Butler Inn hotel, are the the new face of methamphetamine addiction.

In this Butler Inn incident, James R. Bowman and Crystal N. Dieffenbach, both 24, were arrested and charged with illegal manufacture of drugs and illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs.

Sometimes referred to as “shake and bake,” this one-pot cook method combines anhydrous ammonia, the pseudoephedrine tablets, water and the reactive metal (like Lithium) into one container. After the container is used, what remains is the poisonous brown and white-like sludge, according to the Department of Environment Protection in West Virginia.

Such cooks also contribute to Ohio’s reputation as one of the leading states in the country for seized labs.

In 2015, there have been 61 such seizures in Ohio thus far, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) using numbers from the National Clandestine Laboratory Seizure System database.

According to MSHP, seizures entered into the database include operational laboratories, chemical/equipment/glassware seizures and dumpsites.

The Butler Inn seizure by OPD would fall under the second category, as they found a Gatorade bottle containing a red sludge for a “one-pot cook,” according to an earlier report in The Miami Student.

John Detherage, fire chief of the Oxford Fire Department, said they were at the scene and that they decontaminated Bowman and Dieffenbach.

Detherage also said they assisted the Regional Narcotics Unit by providing fire suppression capabilities and lighting while they removed the chemicals from the buildings and neutralized them.

They did not, however, decontaminate the scene.

Mark Lawson, the property manager at the Butler Inn, stated the room wouldn’t be operational for at least 30 days. Even though the “shake and bake” method would contaminate the room, it’s not as bad as if it were a hot cook.

“We stripped the carpet, padding and we’re throwing away the bedding,” he said. “There’s no mandate in Ohio for what’s required to clean it up.”

Lawson is correct. According to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH), they only offer voluntary cleanup guidelines for “cleanup contractors, industrial hygienists, policy makers and others involved in meth cleanup.”

No national standards exist either. There’s only the Metham-

Ohio came in at fourth again with 1,010 seizures.

Only four years ago, Ohio had a reported 364 seizures.

The rise in meth lab seizures can be attributed to these smaller, more mobile “one-pot” labs, according to the White House’s Ohio Drug Control Update report.

Along with the permeation of one-pot cooks, meth’s availability ranks a seven on a scale of 10 for ease, according to a report from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

“You need to know someone to find meth. It would take two phone calls,” a participant in the report said.

The problem is that meth’s use

In 2015, there have been 61 such [meth lab] seizures in Ohio thus far ... In 2014, Ohio ranked fourth [in the nation] with 913 seizures.

phetamine Remediation Research Act, passed in 2007, which requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to establish those voluntary guidelines.

Moreover, a traditional cook would spread meth vapor residue throughout the room, whereas the one-pot cook decreases the amount of chemicals involved, according to ODH. Lawson said he was also busy with other reservations for Miami.

While meth is sparsely used when taking the longview of national numbers — just around .02 to .03 percent monthly users since 1999, according to the Drug Policy Alliance — the regional breakdowns help bring the issue into better focus.

Neighboring Indiana leads the country this year in reported seizures with 107 and Illinois behind it with 72.

Ohio coming in at number three for seizures this year holds with similar patterns in past years. In 2014, Ohio ranked fourth with 913 seizures. The year prior,

is most concentrated in the rural areas among mostly white, young people, according to community professionals and law enforcement officials.

“We’re not hearing too much about meth; it seems more prevalent in the rural areas and across the border [in Kentucky],” a law enforcement official in the report said.

In the 2011 fiscal year, a plethora of Ohio coalitions, officially known as Drug Free Communities (DFC), received grants from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

One such DFC is the Butler County Coalition for Healthy, Safe and Drug Free Communities.

Overall, in fiscal year 2010, Ohio received over $200 million in such grants for things like school-based drug testing programs, reintegration of exoffenders and focusing on high intensity drug trafficking areas.

Bowman and Dieffenbach were released April 24 by court order.

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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn, both winners of the Pulitzer Prize, address an audience in Armstrong Student Center at the Women in Leadership Symposium.

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MU officials able to access student and faculty emails SECURITY

SARAH KNEPP

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In the wake of 2016 Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, Miami University students may want to watch what they are sending over their own email accounts. Miami has its own method of monitoring and accessing students’ accounts, including email activity.

Eight people in IT Services are able to access information in an email account belonging to anyone on campus, including students, faculty and staff. Typically, these employees access email accounts to recover an account on a computer that crashed, not for the violation of a university policy.

Joe Bazeley, an IT Services security manager, intervenes when a member of the Miami community misuses his or her Miami email account.

“I only access email accounts of students, faculty and staff when Miami is conducting an investigation,” Bazeley said.

He added that these investigations can originate from the Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution, the Office of Equity and Equal Opportunity, the Department of Human Resources or the Office of the General Counsel.

Both the Student Handbook and the Miami University Policy and Information Manual dictate what is subject to be worthy of an investigation by administration, academic departments and IT Services.

The Student Handbook clearly lists specific activities that are strictly prohibited to participate in using a Miami email account. These include, but are not limited to, hacking into an account, accessing and editing an unauthorized file and breaking any federal, state or local law.

The Privacy and Security Section of the Policy and Information Manual further describes the way in which any activities of these types would be monitored and even discovered in the first place.

According to this section, all of our activity on Miami email accounts is, to some extent, being

monitored — either through logging activity, data caching, backing up the system, monitoring patterns of usage or any other action that is needed to keep the system running smoothly.

In terms of individual security, the university has the ability to monitor the activity of an individual if he or she is in violation of one or more of the rules in the Student Handbook.

If someone is suspected to be violating the law, authorities such as Bazeley step in and find proof.

He uses a specific process to try and

Eight people in IT Services are able to access information in an email account belonging to anyone on campus, including students, faculty and staff.

find information that the university is looking for.

“Before I go into someone’s account, I will have keywords and dates that I am searching for,” he said.

Once he enters those keywords regarding a certain email account, he will get a result. He reports his findings to whomever was requesting he access someone’s account in the first place.

“If the given keywords and time ranges do not provide any hits, I’ll communicate that back to the requesting department,” he said.

Sophomore Molly Green said she considers this practice invasive.

“It’s kind of an invasion of privacy, but almost everyone knows the university does it, so if [students] want to send bad stuff through email they would do it through another account,” Green said.

However, some students, like sophomore Tina Jokerst, think the practice is justified.

“They’re administered through the school, so it makes sense that they would monitor our activity,” Jokerst said.

M.I.A.M.I. Women Symposium featured Pulitzer Prize winners, TV personalities EVENT

TALI HUNT

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Pulitzer Prize winners, TV show hosts and successful Miami alumni shared their stories and experiences for the second annual Miami Initiative for Advancing, Mentoring and Investing in (M.I.A.M.I.) Women in Leadership Symposium April 23 and 24.

The symposium opened Thursday night in the Armstrong Student Center with a sold out keynote speech by Pulitzer Prizewinning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. They told stories from their most recent book, “A Path Appears.”

WuDunn and Kristof explained two factors that could be changed in order to improve the unequal opportunies that exists around the world: a parenting gap and an empathy gap.

The parenting gap refers to the different types of parenting styles that are implemented in different households. WuDunn said some parents are more authoritative in hopes of teaching their children self-reliance, but studies have shown that children with affectionate parents tend to be more successful.

WuDunn described an experiment performed with rats and parenting styles that shares a direct correlation with human behaviors.

“The mother rats who were licking and cuddling their baby rats raised them to be much more secure and smart,” said WuDunn.

Kristof talked about the empathy gap that divides people in the country by wealth. He spoke of the poor giving more time and money to help others compared to people who have more financial wealth. Kristof

explained this phenomenon by describing how the rich tend to be more insulated from exposure than the poor.

On Friday, the symposium continued with events held in the Shriver Center. Connie Dieken, author of “Talk Less, Say More,” kicked off the day with a keynote address held during a sold-out breakfast. Three sets of breakout sessions followed.

“We need to change the way we communicate,” Dieken said.

Dieken led the session by speaking about three habits of great communicators: connecting with people, conveying information with clarity and convincing people to take action.

“Her humor made it more relatable and interesting to listen to,” said junior Kelli Amrhein.

The second set of breakout sessions featured “The First Five Years After Graduation:

Young Alumnae Panel.” The five alumnae shared insight about how to make a student’s time at Miami beneficial. They encouraged those in attendance to network and take advantage of student organizations and Miami plan courses.

“Know your worth,” said LaDavia Drane, director of federal and regional affairs for the Office of the Mayor of Washington, D.C. Drane’s advice related to work ethic and receiving the benefits one deserves because of knowledge or past career experience.

Rachel Rudwall, host and producer for the Discovery Channel, discussed networking and involvement in activities, groups and courses that relate to students’ areas of study.

“Everyone you meet has something to teach you,” Rudwall said. “You never know when

you’ll learn something new.”

Tamika Richeson, an assistant professor of history at Oberlin College, and Kate Loeffelman Black, an executive director for American Women, were also on the Young Alumnae Panel.

At lunchtime, the symposium hosted a sold-out Q&A with a Miami alumna and host of “The Kitchen” on the Food Network, Katie Lee. She talked about her time at Miami and how she nurtured her love for cooking while living in an apartment in Oxford.

Lunch was followed by a third pair of breakout sessions: “The Competitive Advantage: Business Etiquette and Self Awareness and Leadership: Being a Leader.”

The symposium concluded with a book signing with Connie Dieken and Katie Lee at the Miami University Bookstore in the Shriver Center.

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CAS narrows dean search to three ADMINISTRATION

ABBEY GINGRAS NEWS EDITOR

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) will be finalizing its choice for a new dean in the upcoming weeks, to replace Phyllis Callahan, who now serves as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.

The three remaining candidates are Christopher Makaroff and John Bailer of Miami University and John Griffin of the College of William and Mary.

The Provost Phyllis Callahan in consultation with President David Hodge will make the final decision. They hope to name the new dean by the end of May. Makaroff is currently serving as the interim dean for CAS while teaching as a professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

Bailer, the other Miami candidate, is serving as chair for the department of statistics and is a distinguished professor for the university.

Griffin is the dean of undergraduate studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at William and Mary. He also serves as a professor in the department of biology.

Makaroff, Bailer and Griffin will be presenting separately in the next few weeks to both students and faculty. The search committee encourages everyone to attend these presentations to become involved in the decision making process.

Sophomore Catherine Mazanek is interested in the candi-

dates, but feels that the time of year will prevent her and others from being more involved in the process.

“I would love to go to the presentations but the reality is that it’s getting down to finals week and I don’t have time,” Mazanek said. “But I think its great that they’re asking for student input and want to be focused on student opinion. It’ll help foster growth in the college.”

Anyone interested in offering their voice to this decision is encouraged by the CAS to submit a form online offering comments on the finalists. These forms are due by May 14.

Associate Provost Ray Gorman, who is chairing the search committee, has certain qualities in mind for the new dean.

“Certainly we’re looking for relevant experience, so someone who understands what it is to be a college administrator,” Gorman said. “Someone who would understand what the College of Arts and Sciences is all about, particularly the scope of the college.”

The dean of any college at Miami has significant responsibilities in that particular school.

Their job description ranges from hiring new faculty to overseeing the budget, policy changes and fundraising. For the CAS, the dean needs to understand a variety of majors from chemistry to communications to political science.

In addition to grasping a wide range of fields, Gorman and the committee hope the new dean

will take the CAS to new heights. “[We want] someone who has a sense of vision of what the college could be in the future and would want to think about how to move the college forward,” Gorman said.

While two candidates hail from Miami, one comes from Virginia.

Gorman believes both the inside and outside perspectives have their benefits and drawbacks.

“I think when they’re an inter-

[We want] ... someone who would understand what the College of Arts and Science is all about, particularly the scope of the college.

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nal candidate you kind of know them better than you would otherwise,” Gorman said. “We have a pretty good idea of what we’re getting when we hire that person.

At the same time, there’s always a possibility that a new candidate from outside [Miami] will bring some fresh ideas on how we do things.”

All three candidates will be speaking separately to both faculty and staff and undergraduate and graduate students beginning next week. Times and locations of these presentations can be found online at Miami University’s website.

Nearly Naked Mile streaks through campus

POLICE BEAT

Intoxicated Miami student charged with assault At 10:02 p.m. Saturday, OPD was dispatched to 207 W. Church St. in response to an assault in progress.

The alleged assailant, a 23-yearold Miami University student, fled the scene before officers arrived. OPD spoke with the victim, who claimed he was engaged in a verbal argument with the male when the suspect began punching him in the face.

The victim described the aggressor as “very intoxicated,” and quoted him saying, among other things, “If I ever see or talk to you again, I’ll fucking kill you.” These threats were corroborated by a roommate who was witness to the altercation and recalled hearing, “I’m going to kill you.”

According to the complainant,

after the assault, the manic suspect yanked a garbage bag containing glass bottles from a nearby receptacle and began violently smashing it against the ground near the victim’s car. While the victim claimed the suspect attempted to slash his tires with a shard of glass, OPD determined all four tires were unscathed, though a halo of broken glass surrounded the vehicle.

The suspect had left the scene in a grey Toyota to his residence at Oxford Commons, where he was apprehended the next day thanks to an anonymous tip. Having no recollection of the past night’s events, the suspect patiently listened to OPD’s account and “respectfully refused to answer any questions,” according to OPD. He was charged with assault and taken to Butler County Jail.

Woman confronted by man while walking alone At 3:32 a.m. Friday, officers responded to the Oxford Post Office, 5145 Brown Rd., in response to an alleged assault.

After a night Uptown and a brief visit with friends on N. College Ave., the victim was walking alone to her residence at Hawks Landing, further down Brown Rd. when she claimed to have been approached from behind by an unknown black male. The suspect placed his hand on her shoulder and reached across her chest. Frightened, the female whipped around to face the man who said, “Hi.” The female screamed and shoved the man, who, in response, pushed her and fled toward W. Sycamore St. The victim described the man as possibly college-aged and sporting what might have been cornrows.

According to OPD, the female was unsure of the male’s intentions, as he did not reach for her purse or make explicit sexual advances. In-

deed, despite being grabbed, the female said no contact was sexual.

The following day, OPD received a call from another female who, also walking alone to Hawks Landing, claimed she was followed on W. Sycamore St. by a white SUV when a male occupant offered her a ride. She declined, and after progressing down Brown Rd. was approached by a different male who she believed may have been “hiding behind a bush.” He allegedly followed the female to her apartment while attempting to make conversation. She shut and locked the door in his face and he left. According to OPD, the male in question matched the description of the suspect from the night before – though in the more recent incident, he wore a hoodie.

According to OPD, the officer believes the incidents related. There is a suspect; he is not a Miami student. The investigation is ongoing.

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ELLIE CALLINAN

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One of Miami’s student organizations has stripped away the norms of an otherwise traditional sport by asking students to run a mile wearing as little clothing as possible.

Miami’s Running Club, (they call themselves the Striders) hosted their fourth annual Nearly Naked Mile Friday, April 24, on Central Quad.

Approximately 40 participants stripped down to the bare necessities to run the one-mile race. The runners were then encouraged to part with their tossed attire.

Members of the club collected the runners’ discarded clothing, coming away from the event with two trash bags full of shirts and shorts. According to the event’s Facebook page, the donations will be distributed to a local thrift store run by the Oxford Family Resource Center.

According to its website, the Oxford Family Resource Center assists low-income families through a variety of services. It provides clothing and household items to those in need.

Rory Uhler, Family Resource Center’s thrift store manager, expressed his gratitude for the Running Club’s contributions.

“The thrift store would not exist if it weren’t for donations from Mi-

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ami students and the community,” Uhler said.

Although there was a registration fee, the fundraising focus rests within the clothing donations.

Senior and president of Striders, Peter Stubbings, explained how the funds are allocated. He said the registration fees go toward the Striders’ liability insurance for the race.

This insurance is necessary, of course, because the bare butt cheeks of thong-wearing Miami males can be highly distracting, putting participants at high risk of tripping or falling.

Spirits were high among race participants, despite the minimal clothing.

There was a neon-colored trend with the female participants’ attire. The majority of the girls were decked out in brightly colored spandex and sports bras, while the male runners went shirtless and sported various styles of short-shorts.

As ever, American-themed apparel was popular among several men who chose to express their patriotism. They all seemed eager to sport the red, white and blue.

The laidback atmosphere and near-nudity at this event set the Nearly Naked Mile apart from other running races on campus, but the length of the race was also unusual.

Stubbings said the short distance of this event helps attract participants.

“People often get scared away when you say there is a 5k on cam-

pus,” Stubbings said. “This event is definitely more fun.”

While the lack of clothing allowed runners to avoid wind resistance, most runners in the Nearly Naked Mile weren’t shooting for a certain finishing time.

However, prizes were awarded for first and second place finishers in the male and female category.

The runner sporting the most ridiculous outfit was rewarded as well.

This year, the best dressed was junior Joey Landers, who embraced his inner animal and bravely donned a cheetah print thong in a quad made up of mostly all-female dorms.

Most race participants are members of the Running Club, but the event also attracted students who were interested in running for a good cause.

“I heard about it because I have a few friends in the Running Club and we ran it last year, so we thought we would come out and run it again because it was so fun,” said senior Nicole Santabarbara.

She, along with the other competitors, took off below the Sundial at the sound of a horn.

Right before the race started, some participants were setting their watches, while others were laughing about the possible reactions they’d get from spectators.

The Nearly Naked Mile brings about runners of all ability and helps out a good cause, even if they do get a few odd stares from other students and campus visitors.

Crew of shoplifters taken to Butler County Jail At 1:53 a.m. Friday, OPD responded to Walmart, 5720 College Corner Pike, in response to a female shoplifter in custody.

According to reports, the female and two male companions attempted to buy beer, underwear, jeans and T-shirts. As it was past 1 a.m., Walmart could not sell the trio alcohol, and after learning this, they stated they weren’t going to buy anything.

Employees told them to leave the merchandise in their cart. However, the female said, “We aren’t rude people,” and insisted on putting back the merchandise herself. This was, however, a ruse, and as she meandered around the store “replacing” merchandise, she shoved Grand Theft Auto, a PS3 remote and a PS3 headset in her purse, according to OPD. Upon arrival, officers were distracted by a male’s loud argument with store employees.

The officer immediately identified the argumentative man as a “frequent flyer” and asked for ID. The male handed the officer an Ohio driver’s license belonging to someone else. The officer told the male he knew who he was and had interacted with him in the past. Still, the male insisted he was who the license said he was.

As the officer held the ID, the male was able to state his “name.”

When asked “his” birthday, the suspect asked to see the ID. The officer moved to handcuff him, but the suspect immediately vamoosed toward the exit. After a few steps, the officer tackled the suspect and handcuffed him on the ground. In so doing, the pair broke the antitheft sensor that caught the female and for which Walmart is seeking restitution.

Officers found his state ID, as his driver’s license is “perpetually suspended,” and discovered an active warrant for his arrest out of Middletown.

Unprompted, the female explained she doesn’t like using a cart, and prefers the zipped depths of her purse. After the officer told her she was seen perusing the store, all the while pushing a cart, the suspect handed the officer her credit card and offered to pay for the merchandise, totaling $117. She claimed to work at Bob Evan’s, and since it was past midnight she had “probably” been paid and could afford her purse’s bounty.

As she had passed all points of sale, this tactic shockingly did not work, and it took two officers to handcuff the woman, who was charged with theft and resisting arrest. The male was charged with certain acts prohibited and obstructing official business. They were taken to Butler County Jail.

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The Uptown store, which sells repurposed items and gifts, is closing and selling everything in store at discounted price.

Cincinnati restaurant apologized after naming a hot dog menu item the “Bruce Jenner 2.0” mocking the celebrity’s gender transition.

— The Enquirer

The governor of Maryland declared a state of emergency, and called in the national guard to handle riots that injured seven police officers.

— The Associated Press

The death toll of the Nepal earthquake on Saurday waivers near 4,000 as rescue crews struggle to reach remote villages.

— Journal-News

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When the crowd of students gathered around Brick Street’s stage started chanting for another song, the band members of the synth-pop band COIN looked at each other, puzzled.

They didn’t have an encore planned.

They talked among themselves for a moment as the crowd continued to cheer, lifting their half-empty plastic cups in the air, before Chase Lawrence, the band’s lead singer, stepped up to the mic again.

“We haven’t played this song in two years,” Lawrence laughed, before drummer Ryan Winnen tapped out a beat and the four musicians slipped into another swirly, enigmatic tune.

Lawrence and Winnen, along with their bandmates Joe Memmel (Guitar and Vocals) and Zachary Dyke (Bass), started performing together in 2012, but with the June 9 release of their self-titled debut album, a performance at Chicago’s famed music festival Lollapalooza, and shows with Passion Pit, Betty Who and Neon Trees on their calendar for 2015, COIN is just arriving on most listeners’ radar.

Their April 23 performance at Brick Street was their first stop.

The band, based in Nashville, Tennessee, found its beginning in a classroom at Belmont University.

Memmel and Lawrence first met in a music theory class. Winnen’s then-girlfriend, who sat next to the pair, overheard the two talking about forming a band and volunteered Winnen as their drummer, passing along his phone number to Memmel.

After Dyke shot a music video for the trio, they realized that the producer, musician and fellow Belmont student would be a perfect fit as their bassist.

“We basically asked him to be in the band that day,” Winnen said.

“I think, to this day, he’s probably thinking, ‘This is crazy I got forced into this thing.’”

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Although Lawrence and Dyke completed their degrees at Belmont, Memmel withdrew from school as the band started to pick up, and Winnen did not attend college.

“If you’re an artist and you’re playing shows you need to go out there and play shows. You need to play at a club for ten people and understand what it’s like to fail,” Winnen said. “Me being removed from school, it kind of helped us have that gritty work ethic.”

The men of COIN have paired that gritty work ethic not with seriousness, but with a commitment to carefree abandon.

Their three-track EP, “1992,” was named for the year in which all of them were born. Their sound, which has been influenced by bands like New Order, The Cure, The Killers and The Strokes, isn’t reminiscent of tunes from the ‘90s. Rather, the swirly, danceable tracks capture the worry-free, fun-loving mindset of being a kid.

After he heard of a friend naming his band after a racehorse, Lawrence started looking through the names of horses from the early ‘90s and came across one called Lucky Coin.

“The horse actually performed pretty terribly,” Winnen said. “It wasn’t very lucky, as we like to say, but it was a good name for us to keep.”

Noticing their penchant for the ‘90s, a lot of interviewers ask them

what their obsession is with Saved by the Bell, Full House and other cultural icons of the decade, Winnen explained. But that’s not what COIN is all about.

“This band is the essence of our youth,” Winnen said.

The music video for their single “Run” shows the band boldly performing death-defying stunts around a city, from dangling off the edge of a bridge to standing on the roof of a car as it zips down the highway.

“It’s about this period of life — post-teenage, pre-adulthood — when you’re just figuring everything out and you’re so excited that you feel like nothing can stop you,” Winnen said.

The EP and the new album’s allwhite cover art also speaks to this idea of navigating the real world as a hopeful twenty-something.

“It’s like painting your bedroom after moving out of your parents’ house,” Winnen said. “You’re writing your own story, you’re painting your own picture, and you have a blank slate.”

For the emerging band, this year is like a blank slate, too.

“We’ve been a band for two years, but this is the first time that people will be really hearing us,” Winnen said.

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Orchestra to feature concerto competition winners MUSIC KARA PIETROWSKI THE MIAMI STUDENT

The final Miami University Symphony Orchestra (MUSO) concert of the semester will be held 7:30 p.m. April 29 in Hall Auditorium.

This year’s finale will feature the winners of Miami’s annual concerto competition.

Each winner will perform one movement from their respective concerto with MUSO in a semesterclosing performance that will also highlight Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture and a brass fanfare.

Twelve Miami students competed for the opportunity to perform their concertos with an orchestral accompaniment in November.

The 12 competitors were the best from the preliminary rounds held for their respective sections: brass, woodwind, strings and piano. Final audition decisions were not made by filling a quota per section, but rather based on the individual performances.

“We need the best, so we base our decision on the musicology, the focus and the technical ability of the student,” said Ricardo Averbach, MUSO conductor.

The competition provides the students with the opportunity to perform alongside an orchestra. According to Averbach, without this competition, it would be very difficult logistically for students to play

a concerto with an orchestra.

As the concert approaches, this year’s winners, Kaila Washington, Opal Harrod and Christian Sugarev, continue to practice and perfect their concertos. Each seems driven by the prestige of the honor as a finalist.

Winning the competition boosted the confidence of Washington, a graduate student in pursuit of her Masters of Performance.

“It’s important for me to know I can stand up and play in a high pressure situation,” said the Kentucky native who will be playing the Khachaturian Concerto for flute and orchestra. “The concert is important to me because I will be showing off my life’s work.”

Washington has been playing the flute for 15 years and said she discovered her passion to pursue music during her senior year of high school, when she had the opportunity to play with the U.S. Army Field Band. In the future, she plans to join the Army Bands and one day hopes to play the piccolo in an orchestra.

Harrod, an Oxford native, excitedly awaits the concert and the opportunity to share Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto with a larger audience.

“Sharing this beautiful and inspiring piece of music with the audience is definitely the best part,” she said.

Harrod has been playing the piano since she was five and, shortly after, discovered that playing a con-

certo with an orchestra was one of her dreams.

“Music will always be a part of my life in some way,” Harrod said after revealing that she is a botany major and a music performance minor.

She plans to attend graduate school to study in the field of organic/sustainable agriculture and plant breeding. Still Harrod insists music has helped shape him as a person.

“Music is one of the biggest aspects of what makes me who I am,” he said.

The final featured performer, Sugarev, is working towards his Masters of Music Performance and will be performing Forsyth’s Viola Concerto in G minor.

A graduate from the National Academy of Music in Bulgaria, Sugarev is no stranger to performing with an orchestra accompanying him. This will be his fifth time performing with an orchestra accompaniment, but he is just as excited as the other winners.

“Every musician wants to play with an orchestra and have their moment,” Sugarev said.

He started playing the violin when he was seven, but later switched to viola in the fifth grade.

In his spare time, he branches out and learns other instruments, like guitar and harmonica.

Sugarev said he hopes to stay in the United States and pursue his doctorate before working as a performer.

EVENTS APRIL 29

MAY 1

MAY 1

“Happy Hour Yoga”

Annual Spring Ice Show

Men’s Glee Club Concer t

5:30 p.m.

7 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Community Arts Center

Goggin Ice Center

Hall Auditorium

My main concern before leaving the U.S. for Luxembourg was that I wouldn’t be able to make friends. I worried about not having anyone to travel with on the weekends or, even worse, that no one would want to go where I wanted to go, and I’d be forced to go alone.

But as it turned out, making friends was easy. Planning weekend trips around Europe wasn’t difficult either.

The hardest things, for me, have been the small differences between life at home and life abroad.

Like not being able to let my mom know when I got to my host family’s house on the first night in Luxembourg because there was no WiFi. Or asking for lemonade at a restaurant in Greece only to find out that it was carbonated. Doing laundry at the Chateau and realizing that European dryers don’t actually dry anything. Getting used to planning my day around the train schedule.

Having to flag down waitresses for the check at restaurants because they assume you’ll sit there for hours.

The most defeating experience I’ve had in Luxembourg took place at the grocery store.

It was the second day of classes and Katie, our student activities coordinator, planned a group trip to the closest Cactus.

Cactus is the Luxembourgish Walmart — a big, bright warehouse divided into familiar sections. But as I stood in the laundry detergent aisle, I’d never felt further from home.

None of the labels were in English — something I was entirely unprepared for. How did it never occur to me that simple things would be in different languages? I couldn’t tell if

the words I was seeing were French, German or Luxembourgish. I stared for a while, hoping that I would magically figure out which detergent would clean my clothes the best.

Before the semester started, I spent two and a half weeks traveling in the United Kingdom and Ireland with my grandmother. I convinced Nana that the best way to see Ireland was by driving through it. We got all the warnings about how difficult it is to drive in the UK. My aunt begged us to take trains instead, saying that was the way people in Europe traveled.

We rented the car anyway. Which is how I found myself driving on the left side of the road instead of the right, in a giant ‘C’ from Belfast to Dublin.

It isn’t as difficult as everyone says, just different.

When I pulled off the ferry in Belfast, I felt like I was 15 and learning how to drive all over again.

The warnings left out the fact that, because the driver’s seat is on the right side and not the left, your entire concept of the car on the road is backwards. And everyone failed to mention that stop signs are a rarity in Ireland.

Living abroad is like driving on the other side of the road. At first, everything seems the same. Then you look around and realize that it’s all just slightly off.

But you learn. You figure out, by trial and error, how to cook yourself chicken nuggets or lasagna in the microwave at the Chateau. Dinners out become more enjoyable because you’re not rushed or asked how your food tastes every 10 minutes. You no longer have to check the train schedule before leaving your house in the morning because you have the times memorized. And, now that you think about it, carbonated lemonade isn’t actually so bad.

I adjusted so well to driving in the UK that, when I arrived in Luxembourg and was driven to my host family’s house, it felt weird to be back on the right side of the road.

Now, after four months in Europe, I wonder what it will be like to go home in a few weeks. Will everything feel normal again? Or have I adjusted so well to life abroad that finally being back in Ohio is what will feel slightly off?

BRITTON PERELMAN

PERELMBK@MIAMIOH.EDU

‘Ex Machina’ is first great film of 2015 FILM JACK RYAN

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Technology is scary. Cell phones, televisions and computers are necessary to everyday life, to the extent that our lives essentially revolve around these pieces of plastic and metal. So what will happen when Apple or Google creates something even smarter than a smartphone?

Will it even be distinguishable from another human?

“Ex Machina”, the directorial debut from “28 Days Later” screenwriter Alex Garland, is a complex, intelligent and often funny psychodrama that challenges the line between man and machine, as well as the growing power of technology in our world.

Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is a young programmer at Bluebook, a Google-esque company. He wins a company-wide lottery, which earns him the unique opportunity to spend a week with the creator of the company, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac) in his secluded estate. Upon arrival, Nathan reveals that Caleb has been brought to run a ‘Turing test’ on an A.I. he has created: Ava (Alicia Vikander).

In this experiment, Caleb interacts with Ava and determines whether she is truly sentient or merely pretending to be, based on whether Caleb can tell if he is still talking with a computer. This is made very interesting by Ava’s visual design, as it is blatant that she is a machine.

Besides having a human face and hands, she is gorgeously robotic, with wires and mechanisms moving like veins and arteries inside her translucent shell. The question then

becomes, how can something so obviously synthetic be anything more than the sum of its parts?

As Ava talks and interacts with Caleb, she demonstrates compassion, humor, even sexuality, creating an uneasy feeling in our stomachs as we, like Caleb, begin to compulsively treat her character as a human. This deception is brought about by Vikander’s amazingly controlled acting, which seems equal parts real and processed, forcing us to consider whether Ava’s responses are automated or honestly emotional.

Of course, nothing is quite as it seems in “Ex Machina.” Ava knows more than she lets on, revealing secrets to Caleb in ominous blackout periods when Nathan cannot supervise their sessions. Nathan seems outgoing and friendly at first impression, but we quickly learn that he is a reclusive alcoholic as well as a bit of a sarcastic misanthrope. Even Caleb, an obvious audience surrogate, has some issues that aren’t initially revealed. Garland’s withdrawn direction works perfectly for these ominous points, keeping us at arms length from important information and forcing us to question everything sent our way.

Above all else, it is a movie about the increasingly blurred line between men, machines and gods. Ava is clearly an adaptation of the biblical Eve and the high-tech facility buried in a cocoon of nature feels like a futuristic Garden of Eden. Nathan is a perfect personification of the narcissism of man, equating himself to a god while he is obviously more of a Dr. Frankenstein type.

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tute. Ultimately, Rah’s goal is to return to the NCBA National Championships and win the gold medal next year. He will accomplish this the same way that led to his current success: hard work, dedication and focus.”

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hopes for himself and the club in 2016.

“The biggest thing I need to work on next year is dealing with longer opponents and realizing I can’t counterpunch everything,” he said.

“At Nationals, you had clubs that were like a second family to their boxers. Everyone was committed and had the same

goal in mind. In the future, I’d like to see our club get a higher member return rate going and establish a competitive mentality in the club of wanting to get to Nationals and win a championship. Not just come for the shirt and we never see you again.”

The competitive season resumes in October.

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“The performances were really good, said Phillips.

“The team came to perform well, but they were disappointed when it was rained out.”

Several RedHawks were not at home over the weekend and competed in away meets.

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watch when we turn on the draft? What are we tuning into watch this season?

We watch as four or five network talking heads discuss the potential careers of 22-year-olds.

Not only do we watch, but we also get emotional!

Fans boo and hiss as the wrong picks are made.

Entire fan bases explode if a team makes the boom pick.

When the Cleveland Browns chose Johnny Manziel last season, we witnessed something absurd.

Browns team president Alec Scheiner told ESPN last year that from the moment Manziel was selected through 5 p.m. the next day, the team sold over 2,300 season tickets for the 2014 season.

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men’s team competed in the Penn Relays. Junior Joe Stewart ran a 14:14.10 in the 5k, a career best.

Four athletes from the women’s squad competed in the Drake Relays, a meet Phillips calls “prestigious.”

Junior Amelia Strickler placed first in the shot put, extending her first place streak to four meets.

“It’s always a lot of fun competing against the best,” said Strickler. “I love seeing good track and field.

It was great.”

The men’s team returns to action Saturday at the Kentucky Relays in Lexington, Kentucky. The women’s side will travel to West Lafayette, Indiana for the Dave Rankin Invitational.

who bought season tickets head with that one, Mr. because of Manziel were Kiper. (un)fortunate enough to Kiper also said Jimmy watch him start an aston- Clausen was the fourth ishing one game. He threw best player in the 2010 35 passes. draft … where is Clausen In other words, Manziel now? threw one pass for every I mentioned Kiper is an 65 season tickets. expert, right?

Good on you Cleveland, All mocking aside, the good on you.

NFL Draft is one of my We see incredible busts favorite events of the year. year after year, but on draft The NFL has done an night these players are de- amazing job of marketing clared the next best thing. the event and makes it a They are anointed the sav- must-watch TV program, ior of the franchise. at least for two days.

Take JaMarcus Russell, When the draft begins for example, who was tak- next Thursday, I’ll be en number one overall by tuned in, like all of you, the Oakland Raiders in the watching grown men walk 2007 NFL Draft. across the stage to get a hat Russell was lauded as and jersey while they hug the Raiders’ messiah. another man and take picMel Kiper Jr., the ESPN tures. draft expert, said Russell Why? Because it is footwould be the equivalent of ball, baby!

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Same-sex marriage equality is a national prerogative, not for states to contest EDITORIAL

Today, the United States Supreme Court will hear same-sex marriage cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.

The court will decide if bans on gay marriage are constitutional and whether the Constitution requires states to recognize valid same-sex marriages performed in other states.

The legalization of gay marriage in the United States has been held over the back burner for the last two years as the Supreme Court has denied hearing such cases; however, the court’s actions today may have a galvanizing effect on a response that is long overdue.

Same-sex marriage should be a constitutionally protected right under federal law and the decision whether same-sex couples can marry should not be left up to the states, whose individual, unique belief systems can alienate LG-

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

BTQ and minority individuals.

Although the opposing argument — that people should be able to define marriage how they wish based on their belief systems or personal opinions — is legitimate,

held bans. However, a geographical difference on gay marriage does nothing but sectionalize the United States. It is intolerable that a samesex couple can be legally married in New York, but if they were to

Same-sex marriage should be a constitutionally protected right under federal law and the decision whether same-sex couples can marry should not be left up to the states ... same-sex marriage is a human rights issue, one that should be protected by law.

Same-sex marriage is a moral right that should not change from one state to the next.

As of today, several states have legalized same-sex marriage, while others, including Ohio, have up-

move to Ohio, that same marriage would go unacknowledged by the state.

This seems arbitrary. The United States Constitution prevents states from prohibiting interracial marriages. Why does this not apply to same-sex marriage as well?

One of the common points that

Miami is nothing without its history, so utilize it HISTORY

DEAR ABBEY Old Miami, New Miami. We’ve heard it sung hundreds of times, our alma mater declaring love and praise for days of old and days to be. But it seems with each new construction site on campus, Old Miami will cease to exist in a matter of years.

I was deeply saddened when I learned last week that the university plans to demolish Patterson Place, home to the Western College Alumnae Association, in exchange for a new dorm.

The reasoning seemed thin; David Creamer and the univrsity press relesea cited a need for 600 additional beds, more opportunities for juniors and seniors to live on campus and that somehow $500,000 in renovations was too expensive, yet $27 million in new construction was not.

Part of Miami’s ceaseless allure is its history and traditions. We wondered as wide-eyed incoming students about the folklore of an Upham Arch kiss. We were puzzled by the mysterious disappearance of student Ron Tammen 62 years ago. Perhaps most obviously, we strolled on Slant Walk to and from Uptown as we gazed with adoration at the ancient trees and beautiful academic buildings surrounding us.

I chose Oxford, Ohio to be my home for four years because of these subtle quirks and unique qualities that make Miami what it is. I could’ve gotten a degree in communications from almost any school, but I chose this one. And slowly but surely, red fences and bulldozers are destroying the place I call home.

I’m not at all against progress, nor are many of my peers. New academic facilities and updated dorms are wonderful and great to point out on tours with prospective students.

But these are just shiny new things that every university has; they don’t set us apart from the rest. They aren’t

ing space on campus is easily sufficient— not to mention the amount of unused off-campus housing.

Next, I don’t claim to know how the university decided it needed 600 more beds by 2017 — but I’m going to roll with it. There is plenty of space on campus currently that could easily

Miami aspires to be eco-friendly and claims to cherish its past, but seems to act to the contrary. So I have some solutions for the university, if anyone in charge ever gets around to reading this. what make Miami special.

Last spring I stumbled into the McGuffey House because I was under the impression that it contained the bloody door from the Reid Hall murder in 1959. Instead I learned the door is actually housed in the campus archives, but the lonely tour guide was all too excited that a student had come to see the McGuffey museum and legacy.

That day I spent time learning about some Miami history I knew nothing of prior to entering the quaint home on the corner of Spring and Oak. It wasn’t what I had planned for my afternoon, but it was an eyeopening experience that made me realize how much we underutilize our roots.

Miami aspires to be eco-friendly and claims to cherish its past, but seems to act to the contrary. So I have some solutions for the university, if anyone in charge ever gets around to reading this.

First and foremost, the school wants more opportunities for juniors and seniors to live on campus. It’s nice that you’re thinking of us, but once we are upperclassmen, we’re more than ready to say goodbye to our dorms in exchange for houses.

The amount of upperclassman liv-

be renovated to meet these needs.

Take, for instance, Hamilton Hall.

It housed a dining hall on the first floor up until a few years ago, and now most of the first floor is empty.

The space could readily be turned into numerous dorm rooms, and I have a feeling Scott Hall across the quad is in the same state.

As for the fate of Patterson Place, I think Miami could take a lesson from the University of Virgina’s Lawn. The historic part of the Virginia campus is revered and respected; students must apply to live there and it’s considered an honor to be chosen.

I would personally like to see Miami better utilize it’s historic spaces for special housing, or maybe a new Living Learning Community, similar to UVA. We already use Stoddard and Elliot Hall for Scholars students, I’m sure Patterson Place and other older buildings could be used in the same manner.

New Miami will be nothing without Old Miami, and we should work to preserve our history before we jump at the chance to greet our future. A single wall dedicated to old Western in a new dorm isn’t enough.

ABBEY GINGRAS

GINGRAA@MIAMIOH.EDU

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The Miami Student: A ‘heartbreaking’ news source In her column Friday, 4/26/15, Maddie Laplante-Dube called “heartbreaking . . . the way some news organizations have begun to fail us.”

I feel that way about The Miami Student this year. On the front page of that same issue was “A Retraction and Apology” for printing “The Baron of Brick Street” on April 21. Because of shoddy reporting and ethical breaches, The Miami Student could no longer stand behind the piece. I applaud Editor-in-Chief Reis Thebault for the retraction.

Still, I recall an issue this year in which a Miami Student reporter was linked to articles that had been plagiarized from other publications. Last fall the Miami Student published an inflammatory letter to the editor that made broad generalizations about Miami’s inter-

national students. The letter was said to be from a faculty member who wished to remain anonymous, which I understood. What I didn’t understand was that the Miami Student published the letter without anyone on the staff knowing the identity of the writer.

Last fall a profile appeared in the Miami Student about one of our beloved Oxford coffee shops, Kofenya. I was glad to see this piece about a thriving, community friendly business founded in 2004 by two Miami seniors. I was, however, puzzled that the co-owner who was quoted extensively hadn’t been associated with Kofenya in five years. Had the bulk of that article been cribbed from another one in The Miami Student years before? What kind of lazy journalism was going on?

As the oldest university news-

paper in America (established in 1826), The Miami Student needs to do much better in reporting and upholding ethical journalistic standards. Students, faculty, staff and citizens of Oxford rely on The Miami Student for news of the university and community. Citizens can’t look to The Oxford Press anymore for such news. The publication is a mere four pages, a shadow of the once vibrant small-town newspaper it was decades ago.

We need a well-written, accurate university newspaper that publishes articles that are interesting, timely and stirring. I encourage The Miami Student to reclaim high ethical standards of journalism and reporting. Your readers depend on it.

TOM ROMANO

ROMANOTS@MIAMIOH.EDU

opposers of same-sex marriage legalization flout is the money lost to state income tax returns. However, think about the money various states are losing by denying samesex couples the right to marry.

For every same-sex couple that marries in New York, the District of Columbia or any other state that protects their right to wed, Ohio loses $50 in marriage license fees.

Today is another stepping stone in the strive for marriage equality.

If the court rules that the marriage bans in the 14 remaining states are unconstitutional, marriage equality will be the law of the land.

Despite potential shifts in federal law, churches will still be able to turn away same-sex couples. The definition of marriage in a religious sense is not what is up for debate.

What is up for debate is definition of marriage under the law.

There is no legal justification as to

why same-sex marriage should not be legalized. In fact, the opposite stands. Thomas Jefferson’s proposition of a seperation of church and state has been a constant throughout the history of the United States.

Individuals can be married under the law, but not legally under a religious institution, unless they have first obtained a marriage license from the government.

The right for individuals to marry who they love is an inalienable right — the pursuit of happiness. To deny someone this right is to deny them everything that Americans belive to be wholesome and just.

The Supreme Court should take into acount that this country is the United States of America. The current state of same-sex marriage in the country serves only to alienate a significant demographic of fellow Americans and must be amended.

Patterson demolition highlights MU’s egocentric priorities MONEY

MADDIE’S MATTERS Since I moved off Western campus my freshman year, I’ve felt an impending sense of doom as to its fate. My first college home, Mary Lyon, is one of the smallest dorms on campus, with beautiful double windows and old, polished hardwood floors. Living there made me feel like I was a part of something important, part of the long line of women who had walked its floors while they attended Western College before it closed in 1974. I thought that the worst thing that Miami could do to Western is overshadow Mary Lyon with the looming, mismatched-stoned dorms that just open this year. I was wrong.

The scheduled destruction of Patterson Place is the worst thing that Miami could do to Western, and itself as a whole.

When I read Elizabeth Greve’s article on the slated razing of the museum that welcomes students onto Western in favor of a dorm that would house 300 more beds, my heart actually dropped. Western’s little skyline has been continually altered throughout my time here as a student, and it’s been somewhat exciting to see the little improvements and alterations that Miami’s long term plans are making on campus. Sure, the grounds surrounding the new Western dorms are goodlooking. But I am so disappointed in the decision to take down Patterson Place as a way to meet the needs of this ever expanding business disguised as a university.

Vice President for Finance and Business Services David Creamer (as quoted in Greve’s article) said that Patterson Place’s “preservation is a cost students end up bearing and we need to measure what students can afford now and in the future.”

I wonder if this careful consideration of what students can afford was taken when the university charged $100 per semester from each student to fund Armstrong.

I wonder if this careful consideration of what students can afford

was taken when it was deemed necessary to charge students $100 extra for each credit they took in Farmer’s School of Business.

I wonder if this careful consideration of what students can afford was taken when the decision to charge freshmen living in the newly-renovated Anderson $300 on top of room and board was made. (The building has since had multiple issues, including one incident that flooded the basement with the residents’ own sewage.)

Students already cannot afford college. They cannot afford books, they cannot afford housing, and they cannot afford the credits they take. Even more so, they cannot afford to be a scapegoat for the administration.

Miami University is the most expensive public school in Ohio, and according to the US Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center, it is the No. 1 Public University in the United States (four year or above) with the highest net prices by a margin of $2000 dollars. Even with scholarships granted, affordability for the students is so clearly put on the backburner that Creamer’s statement is almost entirely moot.

The destruction of the historical Patterson Place cannot be put entirely on the students. This demolition project is less about affordability (renovating the museum would cost $500,000, whereas building a new dorm would cost $27 million) and more about relevancy. Instead of remaining relatively selective, Miami has chosen to hand out beds to an even bigger incoming freshman class.

I love my school. I love my experiences here. I love Western. But I am increasingly disappointed with the way Miami chooses to spend its money and treat its students, whether it be by closing off its regional campuses or by using a feigned concern for what the students can afford as an excuse to tear down something historical.

The slated destruction is an aggressive symbol of the university’s priorities to its own roots, of its egocentric ideas of improvement, and of its inherent need to stick to a renovation plan over all else.

MADDIE LAPLANTE-DUBE LAPLANMM@MIAMIOH.EDU

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‘Yes means yes:’ equalizing language codified into law Dear members of the Miami Community, In this paper on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, Brett Milam brought forward the argument that feminists are responsible for removing agency from women regarding their sexual experiences. We provide the following points as counter argument: Serial rapists are real, but they are not the scary, dark figures Brett makes them out to be. They are our classmates, friends, brothers, etc. It is on us to not allow the behavior that lets them continue. It is on us to report this behavior when we see it happening.

While these serial rapists are a small percentage, we are all surrounded by rape culture.

This kind of culture conveys the meaning that men are aggressively sexual, that women who accuse someone of rape are lying, and that women who want sex are sluts. We all see this culture and participate in it when we comment about a “walk of shame,” implying it’s shameful for women to have had sex the night before, where we call a man doing the same thing a “stride of pride.”

By insisting on verbal and nonverbal consent in sexual relationships, we assure that any people having sex are doing it willingly and we disrupt the narrative that women aren’t supposed to want sex and that men always have to want it.

Women should be allowed to own their sexual experiences.

Feminism holds the belief that women should and can own their

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sexual experiences.That means that when anyone has sex, that individual should be allowed to consent to it enthusiastically and affirmatively. Rape culture tells us that when women want sex, they are sluts. When men want sex, it’s considered normal; when they get sex, it’s celebrated. Don’t get us started on what rape culture tells us about those who don’t fit into those gender categories. Brett’s assertion that we are infantilizing ourselves is absurd and parrots back the ideas of men’s rights activists who claim that women are responsible for their own assaults.

We challenge Brett (who has called himself a feminist in the past [on September 30, 2014, to be exact]) to join us for an FWord meeting, Tuesday nights at 6 p.m. in the Community Room in Armstrong. Join us for a discussion of the intersectional feminism we believe in and live for.

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Affirmative consent prevents poor excuses In the recent opinion piece for The Student, the author expresses her belief that “teaching men not to rape” might propagate the problematic notion that rape arises out of a misunderstanding. We agree wholeheartedly that the oftentouted ‘grey area’ of rape, which has been referenced in several ill-informed opinion pieces written previously for this paper, is a harmful but common misconception about the dynamics of acquaintance rape.

Despite popular belief, rape is not a ‘murky’ crime, a ‘bad decision’ by ‘good guys’ who simply crossed the line because of miscommunication. In fact, research has concluded that young people are extremely able to understand refusals no matter how politely or obliquely they are manifested, and when perpetrators do not respect a softened “no,” it is because they are choosing to do so (O’Byrne 2008, Kitzinger 1999).

Furthermore, college acquaintance rapists, who often go undetected (i.e. not arrested or prosecuted), differ in tactics but share much in common with incarcerated sex offenders. They are predatory individuals who tend to be serial and multi-faceted offenders, and who share motivational characteristics such as anger and hostility towards women, hyper-masculinity, generalized aggressiveness, a high degree of narcissism and entitlement, little empathy for others, and even psychopathy.

But here’s the catch: Rapists, especially those who target acquaintances, do not see themselves as rapists, even when admitting to legal acts of rape. For the last three

decades the research on these ‘undetected rapists’ has made that crystal clear. These young men will admit, even brag, about how they force and intimidate women into sex, or use unconscious or close-to-unconscious women for their sexual gratification. Just as troubling is that this failure to see acquaintance rapists as rapists extends widely through our society.

Thus, while the vast majority of people admit unreservedly that rape is wrong, they simultaneously believe that many if not most acquaintance rape victims are lying. This is clearly reflected in both widespread societal victim blaming and the fact that sexual assault is largely an unpunished crime, with only 3 percent of rapists ever spending a day in jail.

This is why education is an important facet of efforts to reduce rape. If we educate people about what rape really looks like, and about its devastating aftermath, we will see more enforcement of rape laws, greater discouragement of rape behavior, and even an increase in understanding in that defective minority of the male population who believe that “scoring” by whatever means necessary enhances their masculinity.

Miami is already implementing bystander education and the ‘It’s on Us’ campaign that encourages good people to intervene if they see predatory behavior, and for that they should be applauded. In addition, Miami should also be proactive in educating its students on the rape myths and misconceptions that permeate our society, as well as the effects of rape trauma that destroys too many of our young peoples’ futures.

Furthermore, given some of the troubling conversations we have personally overheard, Miami needs to emphasize to their students that there is no “perfect” victim, that in fact, perpetrators are more likely to target vulnerable women and men who have been drinking or are seen as promiscuous because they know that society will believe them less and blame them more. Rape is that premeditated.

Miami should also follow in the footsteps of universities across the nation and adopt an affirmative consent policy that creates a baseline for enthusiastic and affirmative consent to sexual activity. As Jaclyn Friedman, co-editor of Yes Means Yes” notes, “Misunderstandings are the exception and not the rule. The vast majority of rapists are not confused as to whether or not they had consent. ‘Yes means Yes’ stops making excuses for those guys. It changes the culture so that anyone engaging in sex should be genuinely into it.”

Finally, while we agree with the author that we could focus more on our reactions to sexual assault, it is on us to shift the culture so that we are reacting to rapists in the form of strong sanctions, not more “rape prevention” for women that has ultimately proven to be utterly ineffective in reducing sexual assault rates for the past 30 years.

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FSB RAISES GPA REQUIRMENTS TO The Farmer School of Business raised their GPA requirments from a 3.3. to a 3.5.This means spots in the business school will be more exlusive, but it also means more communications majors.

BRIAN WILLIAM’S WEB OF LIES GROWS The months-long investigation of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams found that Williams exaggerated details of his reporting at least 11 times.

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the majority of the audience probably had no idea who they were. Looking over at the patrons milling around Brick Street’s bar, he shrugged and smiled. They would still get all of them up front dancing, he said.

First-years Leah Marshall and Lisa Poyar were two of those audience members who, although not familiar with COIN prior to their stop in Oxford, got caught up in the quartet’s charisma and genuine enthusiasm.

“COIN puts on a really great show, and you can tell they do it for their love of music,” Poyar said. “Those guys are really living out their dreams.”

Even after their amplifiers were unplugged and their illuminated “COIN” sign dimmed, the men of COIN didn’t retreat backstage. They took pictures, chatted about music, about Oxford, about how surreal it was to be kicking off their tour — and they couldn’t stop thanking everyone for coming out to listen.

“They didn’t seem like they were talking to us because they had to,” Marshall said. “They were excited.”

“That’s why we’re playing music,” Winnen added. “We’re trying to connect with people and give them a little bit of joy.”

only as a warning for the future, but also a chastisement of the present. In our current world — especially in colleges — we treat our phones as equals, allowing them to be substitutes for people and equating meaningless messaging for true human interaction. We’ve already begun to fail at distinguishing man from machine, as proven by a marketing technique where several fake ‘Ava’ profiles appeared on the popular dating app Tinder before premiere of the film, and managed to keep the attention of potential lovers.

The production design of “Ex Machina” is extremely effective, trading an overly complicated laboratory of robot movies past for a simple, yet deceiving complex that at times feels like a sci-fi version of Overlook Hotel from “The Shining.” This hidden duality becomes extremely apparent as the facility occasionally blacks out, replacing the calm, slightly blue lighting with a dread-inducing red underlight.

“Ex Machina” is many things: an original, thrilling picture in its own right, a true beacon of light at the end of the garbageridden tunnel of movies from earlier this year, a great showcase for two upcoming “Star Wars” actors and an extremely impressive directorial debut from Alex Garland. Simply put, “Ex Machina” is the first great film of 2015.

said. “Sweeping Ohio on the road is tough to do, and it’s a big series for us but we got production from other people.

Remy [Edwards, senior third baseman/pitcher] had a nice offensive weekend and Kelsey [Fredericks, sophomore pitcher] was good on the mound. It was a total team effort. We’re in a good spot and we like where we’re at.”

The Red and White reached a 3-0 lead over Ohio in the first game with a sac fly RBI from McCarver in the first and a two-run homer by McIntyre in the third.

The Bobcats got on the board in the bottom of the inning with an unearned run, but the RedHawks picked up another run in the sixth with a sac fly RBI from junior utility player Hailey Reed.

Marshall went 2-4 with a run scored, and junior designated player Tanya Busby went 2-3.

Logemann allowed two hits and no earned runs in another complete game effort.

Miami got on the board in the second game with a two-run shot by freshman designated player Kaitlyn Gliha in the second, but Ohio answered with a run of their own in the following

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inning. The score held at 2-1 until the last two innings when the ’Hawks reeled off eight runs.

McCarver went 3-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored, McIntyre went 2-4 with two RBIs and a run scored, and Gliha went 2-4 with three RBIs and a run scored. Junior outfielder Taylor Shuey added two RBIs and a run scored.

The trio of Fredericks, Edwards, and Logemann had a strong showing on the mound, holding the Bobcats hitless in six innings.

“It was a huge weekend for us. It’s been a few years since we swept a weekend in the MAC,” Logemann said. “If we play our game, we’re an unstoppable team. If we can keep the pitching, defense, and hitting going, we can keep the winning going. Against Northern Kentucky on Tuesday, they’re a team that we can play with and beat … I’ve done it before, and I just come out and do it for the team. This weekend, I kept on going and did what I needed to do and what I was asked to do, and the team supported me with some runs and defense.”

The RedHawks continue their road stand as they take on Northern Kentucky University in a doubleheader. First pitch is 2 p.m. Tuesday.

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“You can brag about them as alums, but when families and kids hear that they’re actively involved — you know we love the fact that Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes and Ara Parseghain and John Pont and all these famous people coached here — but [Roethlisberger and Harbaugh] are the tie to these high school kids,” Martin said.

“There’s not many high school kids who know who Bo and Woody are anymore, but they know John Harbaugh as the head coach of the Ravens, and they know Ben Roethlisberger as the Hall of Fame quarterback for the Steelers. So that’s our bridge to these kids, and it really helps us in recruiting.”

Despite their NFL teams’ rivalry, Harbaugh and Roethlisberger share a bond through Miami. The Super Bowl winners hope to stay involved with all Miami athletic programs and contribute to future generations of RedHawk greats.

“Before every game we talk to each other at midfield, and 99.9 percent of the time it’s about Miami and the football program and what’s happening,” Roethlisberger said, in reference to his and Harbaugh’s regular season NFL meetings.

“People talk about the rivalry that is Baltimore-Pittsburgh — and no doubt it’s there — but there’s also Miami. And that trumps all of it.”

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The Miami University women’s t e n nis team captured its third straight Mid-American Conference Tournament and fifth overall this weekend. The RedHawks (16-6) downed Eastern Michigan University 4-1 in the semifinals Saturday and Ball State University 4-0 in the finals Sunday at the Hepburn Tennis Courts.

The win clinches MU a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

“We just let them go out there and do it,” first-year head coach Yana Carollo said. “We got them motivated before the game and kept encouraging them, starting with doubles. The match went like we expected it to, with Ball State coming out fighting, but we did a good job of executing and we knew what to do. … It

was our goal to make it through the first round of the NCAAs, and if we play consistent and stay focused, we can do it.”

In Sunday’s doubles matches, senior Christine Guerrazzi and freshman Nelli Ponomareva triumphed 6-2, while the tandem of senior Alix Thurman and freshman Hannah Shteyn won 7-5.

Shteyn and Guerrazzi made quick work of their opponents in singles, winning 6-2, 6-3 and 6-3, 6-3 respectively.

Thurman’s 7-5, 6 - 3 victory clinched t h e berth to the NCAA Tournament.

After the match, Thurman and Shteyn were honored as members of Miami’s all-tournament team. Thurman was also named tournament MVP for the second consecutive year.

“We had some great fight today,” Thurman said. “It was an exciting match to be a part of. After coming back to take the first set [in singles], I knew I was going to win and it was important to win my court. We’re able to overcome anything, and that’ll help us in the NCAAs.” On Saturday, EMU won the first doubles match 6-0, but Miami took the doubles points after Thurman and Shteyn prevailed in a 6-4 match. Senior Ramona Costea and sophomore Andreea Badileanu also won their match, 6-1.

Badileanu picked up the first singles victory for the ‘Hawks in a 6-3, 6-1 decision. Costea and junior Ana Rajkovic put the match away for the Red and White with respective 6-4, 7-6 (1) and 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 victories.

The NCAA Tournament begins Friday, and the field is announced Tuesday.

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Guyon leads Miami boxing to national victories FEATURE

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Thanks to the efforts of sophomore Rahsaan Guyon, the Miami University boxing club finished in the top ten in the National Collegiate Boxing Association’s national tournament April 12. Guyon won the silver medal in the 147-lb weight class and was named NCBA All-American.

For the Cleveland native, the victory is recompense for years of hard work.

Guyon tried out for the Miami boxing club after picking up some mixed martial arts experience in high school.

He used this experience to capture a gold medal at the regionals competition in spring 2014. Guyon continued to the quarterfinals of the national tournament, where he fell to the eventual overall runner-up.

In summer 2014, Guyon suffered

through an eye surgery that kept him stuck at home and away from boxing in the fall semester.

Despite not returning to With-

An eye surgery and a one-semester break from the ring didn’t halt Guyon’s boxing success. row Court until January, Guyon resumed where he left off and reached nationals again. He defeated boxers from Shippensburg University and the University of California-Davis before falling to a foe from University of Washington.

“At Nationals this year, he fought an attacking style in the quarterfinals that completely dominated his opponent,” Buller said. “However, in the semi-finals, he switched to a counter-punching style that surprised his opponent who had

Mocking the NFL draft COLUMN

TAYLORMADE The best time of the year is football time. And in 2015, that’s the entire year.

In January, we were knee deep in playoff football. February is, of course, the Super Bowl. In March, we watch college players wear the weirdest clothing Under Armour can provide while they run 40-yard sprints and jump as high as they can. Then April roles around, and we focus on the draft.

May ushers in days two and three of the draft, which is followed by speculation for an entire month. June is relatively quiet, providing only offseason workouts that the NFL Network will cover 24/7. Mini-camps in July bring the new season to life, and the preseason begins in August.

The sports world is pretty much dominated by the NFL all year.

Despite all of the misdeeds the players have been guilty of (mur-

der, domestic abuse, rape) the NFL remains atop the sporting pyramid in America.

That’s all fine and well from August through February, but why do we care about the months March through July? Simple. We are addicted to football. The addiction cannot be broken.

One of the key cogs in the NFL’s world dominance plan is the draft and the events that lead to it.

When the sport is in its most vulnerable position, the draft keeps the base fueled up and ready for the season.

During this time, the NBA and NHL are playing their respective two months of playoffs, and the MLB is just beginning. All three sports are turning at once, and what dominates a huge chunk of ESPN coverage?

The NFL Draft.

According to the Nielsen Company, 32 million people tuned in for the first round of the NFL Draft last year.

The peak viewership for the NBA last year was the finals game, which 22.4 million watched.

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prepared for Rah’s attacking style.

In fact, after the bout, the opposing coach indicated it took his boxer by surprise and led to a slow start from which they never really recovered.”

The southpaw psychology major was elected president of the club in the spring 2014 and has been an ambassador for the club since arriving in Oxford.

“The amazing thing about Rah as a boxer is his ability to fight any style,” head coach Eric Buller said. “Though he prefers to sit back and use his natural quickness as a counter-puncher, he also is able to be very aggressive and attack his opponent if the styles dictate such.

He is a very strong puncher and prefers to attack the body first to slow down his opponent, then mixes in punching combinations to both the body and head.”

Despite his own progress, Guyon is dissatisfied with his second place finish and seeks improvement.

“Nationals went well enough,”

Guyon said. “I came in second of the top eight guys from around the nation and earned All-American honors. Obviously, second place just means I’m the best of the losers, so I’m not satisfied with that. It was a three-day tournament and on the first day I felt great, but as the days progressed and the third fight rolled around, I was so tense and didn’t perform how I should have and overthought the punches entirely too much, costing me the fight.”

Buller believes Guyon and his leadership can carry the boxing club to further success.

“The next step for Rah is to continue his leadership in the club and serve as a role model for other members,” Buller said. “Not only has he excelled in boxing, he also has worked hard in a business venture and attended LeaderShape, a six-day leadership retreat offered through the Wilks Leadership Insti-

JORDAN RINARD

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After dropping four of five games in mid-April, the Miami University softball team has won five of its last six games to remain in second place in the Mid-American Conference.

This weekend, the RedHawks swept both the University of Akron (1-0, 3-2, both in 10 innings) and Ohio University (4-1, 10-1) on the road. It was the first time Miami (2920, 12-6 MAC) went 4-0 in conference play since 2012.

“It was a great weekend for us,” head coach Clarisa Crowell said.

“We had to fight through a couple of 10-inning games against Akron.

Our pitching and our defense kept us in the ballgames, and we put together some offense against Ohio.

I’m proud of the way our kids competed, grinding out with Akron and the pitching between Amber [Logemann, junior pitcher] and [Zips junior pitcher Erin] Seiler.”

After nine scoreless innings in the opening game, Miami broke the tie in the top of the tenth when senior shortstop Kylie McChesney scored on an Akron error.

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Logemann nailed down her 22nd win of the season in the bottom of the inning with two groundouts and her 12th strikeout of the game.

The ‘Hawks had eight hits on the day but also stranded eight, including two runners in scoring position.

The Zips broke the scoreless tie in the fourth inning of the second game with a home run and an unearned run, but Miami knotted it up at 2-2 with RBIs from sophomore second baseman Eryn McCarver and senior first baseman Shanyn McIntyre.

The score held until the tenth when senior outfielder Tiyona Marshall scored on an error by the third baseman.

All four Miami pitchers saw time on the mound. Logemann closed the game in relief with two groundouts and a flyout and allowed two hits in six innings.

Marshall went 3-5 with two runs scored, while McCarver went 2-2 with an RBI, a walk and a run scored.

“I was worried for Ohio since we finished late at Akron and Saturday’s game was moved up [to 11 a.m.], but we were hungry and we had a winning mentality,” Crowell

The Miami University track and field team competed in the RedHawk Invitational, their third home stand, Saturday. The meet was halted due to thunderstorms, and fewer than half the events were completed. Overall team scores were not awarded.

Men’s head coach Warren Mandrell believes the weather played a detrimental effect in his team’s performance.

“The marks weren’t spectacular,” said Mandrell. “The conditions were pretty unpleasant, which hurt our performance.”

However, members of the men’s squad placed highly in the few events that were still open.

Junior Andrew Vollett placed third in the shot put with a throw of 50.10-75 and finished first in the discus with a throw of 144-10.

Miami’s long jumpers separated themselves from the rest of the collegiate competitors and swept the podium. Sophomore Grant Cole finished first with a leap of 21-7.50, and senior Sam Spallinger placed second with a 21-7.50 mark. Cole won the tiebreaker because his leap was on an earlier attempt. Freshman Kenny Glenn rounded out the top three with a jump of 21-06.25.

In action on the track, senior Sam Chester placed first in the 110-meter hurdles with a 14.71 time.

Members of the women’s team also reached the podium several times.

Sophomore Brenna Poulsen placed first in the 5k run with a 17:34.92 time, while freshman Sarah Starrett placed fourth with a personal best 17:57.38 time.

A 5-04.25 leap gave junior Jessica Baker third place in the long jump. Sophomore Arionna Darling achieved a career best in the hammer throw with a heave of 39-07.75.

Head coach Kelly Phillips was disappointed by the rain, but thought her team performed well given the circumstances.

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