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Miami University — Oxford, Ohio

REPORTING ON THE RISE:

Last year, highest number of sexual assaults reported at Miami SEXUAL ASSAULT

EMILY WILLIAMS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

when 40 percent of the people who utilize EMS services are students rather than tax-paying residents.

From Aug. 1 through Oct. 1 this semester, there have been 426 EMS calls, according to the OFD’s count record system.

Last year, there were 361 calls during the same time frame, and, in 2015, there were 355 calls.

“It could be a thousand different reasons as to why our calls have jumped,” Detherage said. “But the Miami population is bigger than ever and, personally, until the punishment fits the crime, I

Last year, 25 people reported being sexually assaulted at Miami University — the most to come forward since the university started releasing data on sexual assault in 2001. That figure is more than double the number of reports from 2015.

Those figures, though, don’t represent the number of assaults which actually occurred in 2016. Reporting numbers are classified by the year in which an assault was reported, not when it happened.

Of last year’s 25 reports, 11 incidents happened in 2016, and six occurred in 2015. The remaining assaults happened in previous years, with one report going as far back as 1987.

In the last three years, 2016 data shows the widest spread of dates in which reported assaults occurred.

In 2014, all but one of the 14 total reported assaults occurred in that year, and seven of the 10 reported assaults in 2015 happened that year.

Miami President Gregory Crawford pointed to the 2016 jump in reports as a positive: more people are reporting.

“We want people to report,” Crawford said. “It’s a positive when

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OXFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT RUSHES A PATIENT TO AN AMBULANCE ON A SATURDAY NIGHT UPTOWN BO BRUECK THE MIAMI STUDENT

Burnt out: OFD staff stretched thin FIRE DEPARTMENT

CÉILÍ DOYLE

ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Friday, Oct. 20 — 10:26 p.m.

The atmosphere in Oxford’s fire department (OFD) can go from zero to 100 in a minute on any given night.

One minute, six firefighters/paramedics and EMTs are gathered inside the firehouse trading jabs, making coffee, smoking cigars and stealing spoonfuls of one another’s ice cream sundaes from Spring Street Treats.

The next, someone’s radio sounds and the crackle of the Butler County dispatcher barks out a call. Three of the EMTs and one student volunteer training to be a paramedic board an ambulance. The night has just begun.

Trouble on the horizon “Our numbers are up,” Chief John Detherage said.

The OFD is under-resourced and overstressed. Not enough money is coming into the department to support the number of employees needed to care for both the city and the university, especially

New outpatient center provides Haven for students struggling with addiction MENTAL HEALTH

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THE OXFORD COPY SHOP AND ITS MANAGER, MATT RUPAL JUGAL JAIN ASST. PHOTO EDITOR

Oxford Owned: Oxford Copy Shop LOCAL BUSINESS

JACK EVANS

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There is a certain rhythm to the way that Matt Rupal compiles a coursepack.

“I can come here and say I need AMS 248,” he said, fingers punching instructions into the touch panel of the behemoth printer in the Oxford Copy Shop’s front room.

The inkjet whirs to life and starts spitting out pages — it can crank out 100 black-and-white copies a minute.

“Then I can just grab it from there,” he said. He picks up a bright yellow cover page and lays it over the pile of still-warm copies. He knocks the pages twice against the counter, squarCONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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thrilling nights of

HALLOWEEN DINNER

The room resembles most other university common areas.

Bean bag chairs and futons with throw pillows rest on the wooden floor. Flyers advertising on-campus events hang from the walls.

Autumn decorations adorn the cozy brick fireplace. Baskets of snacks and school supplies are available on various tables and desks.

On a central table lies a stack of small leaflets. At the top of each, above an illustration of crushed red party cups, reads the question, “Have You Had 1 Too Many 1 Too Many Times?”

This is The Haven at College, Miami’s new outpatient center for students struggling with addiction or alcohol abuse. Located on the second floor of the Interfaith Center at 16 S. Campus, The Haven offers a variety of recovery programs and outpatient services, including individual counseling, group therapy and student-led recovery programs.

However, the space also func-

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MUPD EXPANDING PRESENCE Miami’s force has added three new officers and upped weekend patrols.

tions as a safe, inclusive spot where any students can gather to study or relax.

“It’s a safe place, a haven, where they can come and hang out and live a college life,” said Janae Arno, a student care manager at The Haven at Miami.

The Haven is a national organization aimed at creating a safe and supportive recovery community for college students. It cur-

rently operates at five universities and was approached by Miami last October after the treatment and recovery work group of Miami’s Alcohol Coordinating Committee determined the university needed to offer better recovery services on campus.

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MUPD increasing patrols, expanding staff POLICE

AMANDA PAREL THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University Police Department has increased its bike and foot patrols with a focus on weekends and evenings.

MUPD has also expanded its staff, adding three new officers this year.

The increase in patrols began last spring, with student safety and police visibility being the main goals.

“Being on foot and on a bicycle is a much more approachable means of patrol for an officer than being in a car,” said MUPD Captain Benjamin Spilman.

Much of Miami’s campus does not face a drivable street, meaning a significant amount of the population can be missed by a vehicle patrol. Spilman said patrolling off the streets allows not only for officers to see and approach students, but for students to easily see and approach police.

Sergeant Andy Rosenberger, a bike patrol officer and day shift supervisor, said five officers recently completed week-long training with the International Police Mountain Bike Association; four completed the training two weeks ago. All MUPD officers have received this training, which goes over everything from bike maintenance to safety maneuvers.

“We increased the number of bike patrol officers because these young officers wanted to get involved on bikes, they know the aspects of trying to be active while on duty…it’s so much easier for an officer to ride up and talk to people on a bike than it is sitting in a cruiser,” Rosenberger said.

Five new police mountain bikes have also been purchased.

The response time for a bike can sometimes be quicker than for a vehicle, especially in less maneuverable areas like an alleyway or a residential quad. Rosenberger estimated a bike’s response time could take 30 seconds to two minutes, depending on distance.

The new hires will also be es-

sential to helping MUPD with other important duties.

To staff the football game against Buffalo this past weekend, Spilman had 14 officers hired from different agencies around the area just to do traffic control and another 14 inside the stadium that were a mix of MUPD officers and others from the surrounding area.

Additionally, another officer is stationed in Armstrong Student Center overnight Thursday through Saturday and other staff is needed for emergency response. Patrol staff varies by day of the week and time of day: there are two or three patrol officers assigned to each of the three 10-hour shifts, with half of the

second shift’s time overlapping with the third shift.

“As those demands continue to grow, we’ve kind of got to keep up staffing-wise to make sure that we can meet all those demands,” Spilman said.

One officer was hired at the beginning of October, and an officer returning to MUPD after leaving the department temporarily started last Monday.

Spilman also said that MUPD is still looking to fill an additional post.

“I think students are really going to notice more presence [and] the more visibility of officers being everywhere,” said Rosenberger. parelar@miamioh.edu

Students check their bias ‘Blind Spots’ DIVERSITY

DUARD HEADLEY

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Despite the gloomy weather, the organizers of the “Check Your Blind Spots” tour were out on Maple Street from noon to 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23 promoting awareness of subconscious, prejudicial biases.

The event was put on by CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion which partnered with the university to bring their tour to campus.

The event consisted of several stations, including a booth that handed out t-shirts, a painting station where artists colored a large banner for the event and a trailer filled with informational videos, quizzes and general tips to raise student awareness.

As students approached the event, they were led into the trailer, where they were shown a brief video informing them of

SENIOR LORELEI LANG PARTICIPATES IN THE “CHECK YOUR BLIND SPOTS” EVENTS. RYAN TERHUNE PHOTO EDITOR

their potential biases. Then they were given a quiz to see how much they really knew about bias in everyday life.

Organizers said biases toward people can be based upon a number of reasons, including race, ethnicity, gender and religion.

Videos at the event explained

that these biases can lead to snap judgments, and that being aware of prejudice is the best way to combat it.

Last summer, Miami president Gregory Crawford signed CEO Action’s pledge to promote discussions about diversity, inclusion and bias. This made Miami

New workshops help liberal arts students find jobs, internships CAREERS

BEA NEWBERRY

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Vocatio, a startup offering a “Career Hacks” workshop series specifically for students with liberal arts majors, arrived on-campus last week and comes to a close on Thursday.

It piloted its first six-session program spring semester of last year, with the goal of returning once a semester going forward.

Each session tackled what Miami alumnus and founder Patrick Jones saw as crucial to helping students identify and understand how their majors can be transferrable to a career, even when it seems unlikely.

Miami was chosen as the destination because Jones saw what his alma mater needed, starting in 2014, while working on the Alumni Advisory Board for the College of Arts and Sciences.

“Dean Makaroff and, before him, Dean Callahan were nurturers of this approach,” Jones said.

Jones said Vocatio specifically caters to liberal arts students, as future job titles are not in the name of their degree. Many students feel the pressure to choose a major with a clear career path.

The College of Arts and Sciences, in particular, has been on a mission to professionalize the passions of liberal arts students for about five or six years. Dean Chris Makaroff’s hope for these well-rounded students is for them to start to “explore academically, but do it a little bit more intentionally, with a career path in mind.”

“You’ll spend four years kind of thinking ‘Oh, my major, my department, my major, my GPA’ and as soon as you graduate… almost no one will ask you what your ma-

jor was,” Jones said. “They just want to know ‘What can you do?

What skills you got?’”

Gwinn echoed this sentiment. “[A lot of students] are coming in with this expectation that ‘I need to figure out what I want to do with my life,’” said Gwinn. “So, you still might be lost in where you want to be in ten years, but you don’t have to answer that question. We’re trying to figure out where you should be next year.”

Their company helps those who have been ushered along what Jones called the “moving sidewalk” of the education system.

They knew many students worry about their “return on investment” after college.

“You’re just trained to be curious about a problem. Period,” Jones said of liberal arts students. That mindset paired with the resources he provides, like connections between participants and companies, is a system that works.

The startup, limited to the beta trial stage over the past summer, has matched companies with 20 or so students, Vocatio reported. They anticipate getting 100 matches by the end of this semester and 500 by the end of the spring semester.

Jones emphasized the importance for students to determine whether a match generated by the Vocatio platform is truly a “good fit” for them.

The team made rounds to Emory University and will continue making coming to Miami. There are 28 schools on their target list, according to Gwinn.

The team felt that active engagement was necessary in job-hunting. They designed both in-person and online components so participants would not act solely as receivers of information.

The first session this semester was titled “Passion and Purpose”

with College of Arts and Sciences alumni as guest speakers. With a range of topics in between, the last workshop will act as a skills showcase in front of real employers.

Their on-the-ground approach in classrooms pairs with an online platform. After users give the site a small sample of their tastes, the discovery process begins.

Students’ aptitudes are matched up with suggestive, predictive real-world job profiles. Based on Vocatio’s own research and interviews, there are personal stories and more explicit breakdowns of the job.

The results listed are often appropriately applicable to entry-level jobs and internships.

Gwinn took the example of a student’s traits matching up with the aptitudes of an account manager, joking about its non-glamorous nature. ”Nobody wants to grow up and be an account manager. You don’t even know what that is until you’ve worked in a company that has one,” said Gwinn. “We kind of try to bring everything relevant and entertaining and informative about account managers into one spot.”

Exploring what specific industries may be of interest to an account manager-minded person comes next. Eventually students reach out to employers for job and internship opportunities, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to pure startups, nationwide.

Makaroff made clear his interest in this program.

“We want to let students know there are a lot of career opportunities if they major in the liberal arts, if that’s their passion.” newberbm@miamioh.edu

one of only a handful of universities to join in signing the pledge alongside organizations like 21st Century Fox, AT&T and the NBA. Crawford, who attended the event today, said he wanted to encourage other universities to join the discussion about diversity and inclusion and hoped the

event would be the first of many at Miami.

Michelle Thomas, the director of student organizations and diversity for the Farmer School of Business, was present at the event and helped to organize the tour’s stop at Miami.

“It’s our goal to get students to recognize that these biases aren’t intentional but that they’re there all the same,” Thomas said.

Thomas said that she hopes to see events like the Blind Spots tour continue to thrive at Miami.

Graduate student Ryan Bourgart, who participated in the event, said he hadn’t known about “Check Your Blind Spots” before walking by but felt it was an important topic and that deserved to be promoted.

“They’re doing a good job getting their message across,” Bourgart said.

You can find out more at CEOAction.com. headledd@miamioh.edu

ASG VOTES IN SENATOR ADLER, LOOKS TO RAISE CREDIT HOUR CAP ASG

LILY O’GORDEN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

ASG Senate voted Tuesday to elect Bobby Adler as off-campus student senator.

Senate also voted in support of raising the credit hour cap during registration from 17 hours to 20.

Three candidates pitched themselves to Senators with a brief presentation. In executive session, the senators discussed and took a vote, choosing the junior who also serves as treasurer of the College Democrats.

“I believe that my position is unique compared to other Senators because since all of my constituents are at least second year students, they are very aware of the issues students face on campus,” Adler said in his address to Senate.

“I look forward to constituents bringing all of the issues they experience to my attention so they can be swiftly and effectively addressed.”

To make it easier for these issues to be addressed, Adler suggested opening up ASG for more students to come, or creating a website for students to submit complaints or solutions to problems on and off campus.

The only resolution discussed in Senate this week — SR 021600, “A Resolution to Support Raising the Registration Credit Hour Limit” — was authored by Trent White and Molly O’Donnell and sponsored by nearly a dozen senators and cabinet members.

The bill would raise the credit

hour limit to 20 hours when first registering for classes.

One in five of students at Miami have double-majors or co-majors, which can make it difficult to graduate on time.

“I think the change helps students who need to take up to 20 hours to graduate on time pick a schedule that best works for them,” O’Donnell said.

While some might feel that this would not be fair because seats in certain classes could fill up faster with seniors or other upperclassmen, there are already protocols in place to prevent this from happening. Seats are held for freshman and international students, who cannot register for classes until after older students, and so it is guaranteed seats will be open.

Senate members voted in favor of changing the limit on credit hours, but the change must be supported by Miami’s deans before it will come into effect.

“The bill was passed with no opposition but a few abstentions. This bill should be passed because it contributes to the statewide and nationwide goal to improve college affordability,” Senator White said. “The best way to keep the costs of college down is to ensure that students graduate within four years. Additionally allowing students to pursue as many majors, minors, and even degrees as they can in their four year undergraduate career improves the ‘bang for their buck’ students receive.” ogordelm@miamioh.edu

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passed out in the second-floor bathroom, leaning up against one of the toilets.

She calls 911, and a couple minutes later, Fields and a couple of paramedics arrive in an ambulance.

Fields, Smith and Owens help lead the girl down the steps of the Brick balcony and out into the crisp, early morning air.

The girl seems utterly confused. Her makeup is smeared and the buckle to one of her shoes is ripped off. Smith props her up gently. “Do you know where you are?” he asks her softly. She remains unresponsive, staring vacantly at the ambulance in front of her.

No more than a minute passes when Fields receives another call. This time it’s a fire alarm at McBride in East Quad. The second fire alarm tonight.

don’t think things will change.”

Additionally, 35 percent of all calls are made for individuals aged 18 to 24. Whereas calls for those ages 60 and up only make up 33 percent of the total.

“We get more calls from college-aged students within the Miami population than the sick and dying residents of Oxford,” Capt. Jay Fields said.

11:40 p.m.

The first alcohol-related call of the night comes from Stanton Hall. An 18-year-old male in a Yankees jersey mumbles incoherently as full-time firefighter and paramedic Jeremy Smith prepares a finger prick to determine the student’s blood sugar.

The crackle of the radio sounds again and Fields turns his attention away from the scene and jogs to the ALS-1 transport vehicle, a car outfitted with a siren and equipped with various EMS medical supplies.

The dispatcher alerts Fields to an semi-conscious male standing in the alley behind Brick Street. The captain turns on the siren and starts speeding west on Chestnut before turning onto Main to head back Uptown.

“It’s a matter of when not if...”

“This place is one of the luckiest towns in the world,” Fields said. “That being said, we are always just one bad night away... when I’m literally forced to abandon my vehicle because all of our other ambulances are away on alcohol calls, what happens when there is actual fire?”

Safety is always a concern for every firefighter, but it’s especially true for Oxford’s firefighters and paramedics who are limited to three members on a crew when they are dispatched on an EMS call, the scene of a car accident or a fire.

“Hopefully I know I can trust my crew to get the job done,” Owens said. “But always in the back of your mind is the idea that there’s only two people to pull you out if something were to go wrong.”

For Fields, that day when something truly goes wrong is a matter of when, not if.

3:13 a.m.

OFD: past and present Up until 2008, the OFD was a volunteer fire department that relied entirely upon the town’s residents.

Capt. John Witt has been with the department for over 30 years. He recalls that only since the turn of the century has there been such a rapid increase in the number of runs the OFD does every year.

“As the calls began to increase, volunteerism began to seriously wane,” Witt said.

While there was always a chief employed full-time by the city, until 2008, the chief was the only full-time employee of the department.

Under Detherage, Oxford’s fire and EMS services have made progress toward modernization.

But Oxford remains one of Butler County’s busiest firehouses, with neither the staff nor the funding to manage nearly 3,200 runs per year spanning a territory of 53 square miles.

“Miami is such a huge demand on the resources we have,” Fields said. “The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) recommends that firehouses have 16 people on shift a day. We have six.”

The OFD has four employees on shift 24 hours a day and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, that number is increased to six a shift with an additional two student volunteer EMTs. In the neighboring Fairfield Township, (only a 28 minute drive away) the fire department has two firehouses, employs 12 people a day, covers 19 square miles and averages roughly 3,100 to 3,300 runs a year.

“Every single day, we’re being asked to do more and more with less and less,” Fields said. “Two weeks ago, there was a night where we made 16 calls, and all of them were for students.”

Saturday, Oct. 21 — 12:39 a.m.

While Fields talks to bar owner Ted Woods about enforcing the capacity limits of both The Woods’ and Side Bar’s outdoor patios, two additional calls are radioed within two minutes of one another.

One ambulance is sent off to field a call on North Quad while Fields runs to High Street. Sitting in a chair on the Bagel and Deli patio, a drunk kid streaked with blood from head to toe struggles to remember if he fell, someone punched him in the nose or if he hit his head on the back of his chair.

Student volunteer and sophomore Kyle Mashy reminds the blood-splattered student that the paramedics are not the bad guys (“We’re here to help you out, man”), but the kid refuses to admit how much he drank.

Further down High Street and to the left of Talawanda Road, another student is being picked up at McFarland Hall and transported to McCullough Hyde Memorial Hospital.

There have been nine calls to OPD so far, seven of which have been alcohol-related.

Part-time reality

OFD PARAMEDICS TREAT AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE ALLEY BEHIND BRICK STREET BAR PHOTO BY BO BRUECK

For Kim Owens, her part-time position as a firefighter and paramedic in Oxford is a way to get her foot in the door to eventually work full-time in Ohio.

“I work full-time at the Point Pleasant Fire Department in Northern Kentucky, but Kentucky’s state budget is so messed up I can’t make enough on salary there,” Owens said.

In order to support herself, Owens works both part-time in Oxford and fulltime in Kentucky and has been known to work 60 hours straight while juggling both jobs.

“My schedule this past week was a 24hour shift Tuesday,” Owens said. “I had Wednesday off, then I worked from 7 p.m. on Thursday through 7:30 a.m. on Sunday.

I’ll have 11 ½ hours off after that, but then I’ll be back in Oxford and that’s not even accounting for all of the commuting I do in between shifts in Oxford and Point Pleasant.”

Ultimately, the department does not have the funds to support taking on more employees or, at the very least, creating full-time positions for part-time employees, even though they are desperately in need of more bodies on shifts.

“We have a very high turnover rate because people get burnt out, for lack of a better term. This place is an anomaly,” Fields said.

1:00 a.m.

On the corner of Campus Avenue and High Street, a student in a black t-shirt and scuffed up Vans lies down on the sidewalk.

His eyes are bloodshot. His friend talks to Fields.

“I think he had about eight shots and some Four Loko,” she says.

Fields asks if the boy has taken any drugs.

The girl nods fearfully. Fields radios for backup from Witt, who arrives on the scene in the back-up emergency vehicle, a boxy, white truck that OFD employees have nicknamed the “Wonder Bread truck.”

At this point in the evening, all of the other ambulances have been dispatched to various alcohol-related calls, and Fields is forced to abandon his ALS-1 car as he and Witt begin to transport their eighth student of the night to the hospital.

Only 10 minutes pass before Fields gets

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another notification that there’s a call at Tappan Hall. Someone needs to be transported to McCullough-Hyde.

Barely getting by “I come from the time when we only had a volunteer fire department,” Oxford police department’s Lt. Lara Fening said.

“I think great progress has been made by Chief Detherage, but when you do experience those busy nights you start to think perhaps we should be stacked a little more, especially when we have to get other townships to come in because we don’t have enough ambulances.”

The city allocates $1.225 million toward the department, but the majority of OFD’s budget for vehicles, salaries and other miscellaneous expenses comes from the Oxford property tax.

The department also makes money off of the fee ordinances issued for each run made. For the 2018 projected fee ordinances there are three levels of EMS calls: the Basic Life Support (BLS), which costs $630, the Advanced Life Support (ALS) 1 which costs $910 and the ALS-2, which costs $1,130.

However, only $313 of each fee ordinance charged actually goes back to the department.

That $1.225 million combined with the $570,000 dollars accumulated from EMS runs contribute to the overall $1.95 million annual income of the OFD, yet their expenses almost match that — $1.755 million when all is said and done.

“If our runs start to outpace what we’re bringing in, we’re going to be in real trouble,” Detherage said. “Unless we get more jobs, things aren’t looking great as the university looks to bring in more and more students every year.”

Fening has heard arguments from the town that Miami should be forced to pay something to the department.

“I understand residents who are praying no emergency happens at their own homes while the fire department handles all of these alcohol calls for the students,” Fening said. “They’re anxious and they’re scared for that day.”

2:17 a.m.

Meanwhile, shortly after Brick Street closes, one of bar’s employees finds a girl

T H I S

Inside of Porter Hall, the Miami University Police Department (MUPD) is dealing with two alcohol-related calls in the same third-floor hallway.

They call Fields for backup.

One girl, who was mistaken for a student who had been carried up the stairs into her room, refuses medical help. The other girl, who actually had to be carried up the stairs, fights off the EMTs who have come into her room and swears in anger when asked to put on pants.

Her boyfriend stands in the hallway rocking back and forth on his heels while waiting for a female MUPD sergeant to come by. The officer present asks him how his girlfriend ended up with bruises on her face.

He shrugs his shoulders.

Eventually, the girl is forced into pants and led out of Porter Hall. She’s given the option of the hospital or jail. She chooses the hospital, but remains combative as the EMTs prepare an IV for her in the back of the ambulance.

There have been 17 calls within the past five hours. Thirteen of them have been alcohol-related.

Looking toward the future “You’d be a fool to think that that, with all of the media attention last year and the student death that happened, Miami and the city haven’t started to crack down,” Fields said.

But the runs have not slowed despite both the city’s and the university’s attempts to reign in the students’ alcohol consumption.

“The truth is we’re outnumbered,” Detherage said. “I don’t know what the answer is. I’m not sure what it’s going to take to get kids to stop.”

Solutions involving the university to help allocate funds to the department have been proposed to the city in the past, but the issue of how to get more money to OFD has become very political.

In the end, no matter how taxing or frustrating each Thursday, Friday and Saturday night can be, each and every one of the people who work for the fire department are committed to serving both the town and the students.

“People often don’t think about us until they have to,” Fields said. “But it’s our job to do what’s right for the citizens. What else are we supposed to do?” doyleca3@miamioh.edu

W E E K

Uptown Trick or Treat

Scary Movie Marathon

‘Improv of the Lambs’

Dent School House

Uptown park Thursday, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

Wilks Theater Friday, 6 p.m. - 1 a.m.

Pearson Hall 128 Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

Meeting at Shriver Center Circle Saturday, 5 p.m.

This community-wide event features Halloween treats and other festive family entertainment, but the real draw is Oxford’s annual Pet Costume Contest. Enter your own costumed canine in the or just join the crowd Uptown to appreciate the cuteness. The celebration is followed

by Oxford’s annual Halloween parade.

Start your Halloweekend with this quadruple feature. These four flicks get increasingly creepy as the night goes on. First, revisit Salem, MA for your old favorite, “Hocus Pocus,” followed by the Tim Burton classic “Beetlejuice.” This summer’s supernatural thrillers “Wish Upon” and “Annabelle Creation” round out the night.

There are sure to be shrieks coming from Pearson Hall this Halloween weekend — shrieks of laughter, that is.

Join Miami’s improv comedy troupe, Sketched Out, for their October show, the spookily named “Improv of the Lambs.” Get ready for goofy games, impromptu skits and more from this offthe-cuff comedy crew.

If a weekend in Oxford doesn’t satisfy your craving for Halloween spooks, join MAP on a bus ride to the Dent Schoolhouse. This house of haunts — formerly an actual schoolhouse — is ranked #5 on BuzzFeed’s list of “Craziest Haunted Houses in America.”

Tickets are $25, but MAP is offering discounted tickets for students at $10.

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John Mulaney brings ‘Kid Gorgeous’ tour to Cincinnati COMEDY

KATE RIGAZIO

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The opening chords of David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” blared, and audience chatter quickly dissolved into thunderous applause as comedian John Mulaney leapt onto the stage of Procter and Gamble Hall in Cincinnati.

Mulaney, a former writer for “Saturday Night Live,” is well known for his past stand-up specials “The Top Part,” “New in Town” and “The Comeback Kid.” He recently wrapped up a 15-week run of “The Oh, Hello Show” on Broadway with Nick Kroll, which is also available on Netflix.

He was in Cincinnati on Friday as a part of his “Kid Gorgeous” tour. The original 7 p.m. show sold out so quickly that a 10 p.m. show was added a few weeks ago.

Mulaney dressed sharply in a charcoal gray suit which flashed an emerald lining whenever the comedian got active during a bit, like when he pretended to beat Grandpa George from “Charlie and the Chocolate factory” with Mrs. Bucket’s laundry spoon.

Mulaney did a phenomenal job of filling the large stage by himself by acting out different bits as he told them. He also used different voices when telling a joke with multiple characters, helping to create more of a one-man show rather than a traditional stand-up set.

His physical animations were paired nicely with his deadpan deliveries. Mulaney satirically poked fun at everything from grade school stranger danger assemblies, to the time he had to write a song with Mick Jagger.

He even stopped his set to call out two audience members near the front who got up to use the bathroom. When the

JOHN MULANEY, STAND UP COMIC AND SNL WRITER FROM CINCINNATI FLIKR CREATIVE COMMONS

pair was out of the theater, he unplugged his microphone and organized a prank with the audience.

He arranged it so that when he said, “Well you know what they say in Cincinnati,” the audience would respond with, “we want milkshakes!”

The two audience members who had been in the bathroom were dumbfounded when the random exchange took

place, much to Mulaney’s delight.

Unlike many comics today, Mulaney chose to leave politics out of his set for the most part.

“I never cared much about politics… but then in November the strangest thing happened,” joked Mulaney.

He went on to equate our nation’s current political state to having a horse loose in a hospital. Without mentioning names

Students share their culture at ‘A Night in India’

of any political figures, he explained that no one knew what would happen next because horses didn’t belong in hospitals and no one had ever seen anything like it before.

Mulaney joked that the only thing worse than a horse in a hospital was a hippo 5,000 miles away with a nuclear bomb.

There were a few aspects to his set that could use some fine-tuning. His transitions from one joke to the next were not as seamless as they were in “The Comeback Kid,” and there seemed to be less of a calculated balance between a quick joke and the more thoughtful, observation-based stories.

This tour featured some of Mulaney’s trademark bits, with a tasteful amount of self-deprecating humor, highlighting some of his awkward physical qualities and personality quirks. He also chose to pick apart the absurdities of the film “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” similar to past bits he has done about “Back to the Future” and “Home Alone 2.”

His language and subject matter, possibly because this was not a taped special, was crasser than in the past. However, he was careful to find a balance between clean and dirty material and did not rely on crudeness to create the humor.

Overall, Mulaney did not disappoint with “Kid Gorgeous.” His notorious sharp wit created hilarious and relatable observational comedy, with detailed lead-ups that made for better punchlines. His timing and tone were always spot on, helping to reel the audience in even more.

Additionally, his minimal reliance on political humor proved that Mulaney is fully capable of keeping it fresh without straying from his wheelhouse.

Literature Program hosts ‘Fright Night’ STUDENT LIFE

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THE MIAMI STUDENT

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MAIA ANDERSON

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Armstrong’s Pavilion C filled with the sound of popular Indian music, laughter and conversation. The smell of traditional Indian paneer tikka permeated the room while some ate, some played trivia games and others received henna tattoos. Some were even wearing traditional Indian clothing.

The Indian Students Association held its second-annual “A Night in India” event on Saturday night with the goal of spreading awareness and understanding of Indian culture.

The room was filled with different stations with information on the country of India and the organization’s philanthropy projects, henna tattoos, a photo booth and a table of traditional Indian cuisine. Some members of ISA hosted trivia games with questions about Indian culture and history.

The Indian Students Association, or ISA, is a student-led organization consisting of roughly 70 students, Indian and non-Indian alike. They wish to both learn more about Indian culture and spread knowledge to other students on Miami’s campus.

“Miami is not the most di-

verse school,” said ISA president Shervani Patel. “We want to diversify it a little bit and bring our culture to Miami.”

For the last two years, ISA has hosted the “A Night in India” event in order to spread knowledge and understanding of Indian culture, as well as to raise awareness of their annual Diwali event.

Diwali is a traditional Hindu holiday, also known as the Festival of Lights, which signifies the triumph of light over darkness.

ISA hosts a dance event in Hall Auditorium in order to celebrate Diwali and teach Miami students the importance of the holiday.

Each year’s Diwali event has a theme. This year’s, called “How I Met Your Bhabhi,” is themed after the popular sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.”

ISA also hosts a large event in the spring in order to celebrate Holi, another Hindu holiday, which celebrates the arrival of spring. This event takes place in central quad, where participants throw colored powder at each other.

In addition to the events ISA hosts, it completes a philanthropy project each semester. This year’s project, which was advertised at Saturday’s event, is raising money to donate to World Relief in order to help the victims of the three hurricanes that rav-

aged Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico this summer.

ISA hosts a “Bridge to Asia” dinner every year in order to raise money for its philanthropy projects. At this event, members of ISA cook lots of traditional Indian food and charge $5 attendance. All of the money raised from the event goes to the philanthropy fund, which makes it possible for ISA to complete its projects.

ISA also hosts several smaller events throughout the semester, such as blood drives and fundraisers at Chipotle.

One of the organization’s main goals is to help Indian students maintain their traditions.

According to Tulsi Patel, the Diwali Co-Chair, she became involved with ISA for just that reason.

“I’ve always been a part of the Indian culture,” Patel said.

“I love dancing, and my culture means a lot to me. I was born and raised in America, but I really like having two different cultures.”

Students interested in learning more about Indian culture, or becoming more in touch with their Indian roots, can email the president, Shervani Patel, to express interest. ander198@miamioh.edu

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At the end of Western Campus Drive sits a log cabin. On the outside, Western Lodge exhibits an inherent creepiness, even during the daytime. Inside, the stone fireplace and lofts provide a cozy feel, but only when the lights are on. On Oct. 19, the lodge provided the perfect setting for a frightful event.

The Literature Program and the English Department hosted “Fright Night,” a night of ghost stories and socialization in Western Lodge on Thursday. Complete with eerie lighting, a fog machine and Halloween snacks, the event was an opportunity to indulge in the spooky season.

First on the agenda, Dr. Patrick Murphy read an excerpt from his book of ghost stories, “Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James,” adapted from the original stories of M. R. James, an English author and medieval scholar. His choice for the night was based upon James’s “Oh, Whistle, and I Will Come to You, My Lad,” about a professor who discovers a whistle during an archeological endeavor and consequently experiences an uninvited visitor.

“I got my interest in ghost stories while I was attending Denison University, when I wrote a story about a ghost that haunted one of the buildings at the University, and it ended up being extremely popular around campus,” said Dr. Murphy.

Especially during this time of year, people gravitate toward the creepy-crawly tales of ghosts and gore be-

cause they enjoy the adrenaline that comes with being truly scared.

“I think they are important because so many people believe in ghosts,” Dr. Murphy said.

Professor Katie Johnson, director of Literature, read a monologue from Caryl Churchill’s shuddersome play, “The Skriker,” about an ancient fairy who preys on two young mothers and uses clever wordplay to trap and seduce its victims.

Johnson was a large part of the manpower behind the existence of this event.

“This idea came from the students,” she said. “It was primarily a way to build community between the students in the Literature Program.”

Students were also encouraged to bring their favorite spooky tales to share with the group. Two students read from the “Scream” screenplay, acting out the movie’s startling opening telephone scene. Two more students each read their favorite ghostly poetry. All the while, the fog machine emitted a haze at every twist and scare in each story, dramatizing the eerie feeling in the room.

“This is something we will almost definitely do again next year,” Johnson said at the end of the night.

While some people prefer to celebrate the season by drinking pumpkin spice lattes non-stop or by watching “Hocus Pocus” on repeat, the literature students and faculty that participated in “Fright Night” enjoyed reading and writing bone-chilling literature that will keep you up at night. toolemb@miamioh.edu

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Prost! Miami German Club celebrates Oktoberfest

NEW MEMBERS OF MIAMI’S GERMAN CLUB GATHER IN IRVIN HALL FOR THEIR INAUGURAL MEETING. RYAN TERHUNE PHOTO EDITOR

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ERIN GLYNN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Oktoberfest celebrations have been going on for over 200 years and Miami’s German Club was eager to add to that tradition last Thursday evening.

Traditionally, Oktoberfest is a twoweek long folk festival held from late September to early October. It began as

a wedding celebration for Crown Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen that featured horse races, wine and beer tastings and children’s performances.

Today Oktoberfest has expanded dramatically to become the largest festival in the world that, in addition to its many restaurant and brewery tents, features costume and rifle parades, amusement rides and the now-traditional Chicken Dance, or Der Ententanz.

Miami’s own celebration was held in the backyard of Cincinnati’s Oktoberfest, which draws over 500,000 people each year and is second only to the original Munich festival, in terms of size.

The German Club had a lot to live up to.

They feted new members, old members and unaffiliated German culture aficionados with root beer, hand-made soft pretzels and the music of Schoenberg in the German flag-draped room 224 in Irvin Hall.

It was the club’s first meeting of the year and participants introduced themselves with their favorite aspect of German culture. Many were enthusiastic about Germany’s uniquely illustrious collection of composers and notable literature, particularly Faust. Others mentioned the incredible specificity of the German language, especially regarding emotions. It is, after all, the language that gave us “schadenfreude” (happiness at the misfortune of others), “angst” (dread about the human condition) and “wanderlust” (the strong desire to travel). And all were vocal fans of German food.

Miami’s German Club is a relatively young organization.

“There hasn’t been a formal German club on campus that I know of,” President Elianna Timmons said. “I know some students tried to make it before.

I’m just glad that I was able to bring this club to Miami.”

Thanks to the enthusiasm of Timmons and club treasurer, Jessica Bettridge, the club is expanding and expecting to offer some new events for this school year. In addition to continuing its popular “Kaffee im King” program, in which students and other Germanophiles have the opportunity to gather and practice speaking German in King Café, the club anticipates going on more trips this year.

“We hope to do some fun activities related to German culture in the future and possibly go on a trip to the historical village in Cincinnati,” said Timmons.

“They have beautiful Christmas markets in December.”

Students discussed plans to celebrate the upcoming popular German holiday, St. Martin’s Day, on Nov. 11 this year. The club contemplated observing the saint’s day by making and releasing lanterns in a procession, as is popular among German schoolchildren. Students also talked of organizing a possible trip in March to hear the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra perform its German Masters program, featuring selections by Wagner and Bruckner.

Timmons pronounced the first meeting a success: “I am glad that so many people came and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.”

Future monthly German Club meetings will be announced on the Miami University German Club Facebook page. glynnee@miamioh.edu

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STUDENT LIFE

CACHE’ ROBERTS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami’s Residence Hall Association hosted creative activities last week in an attempt to help students ease the stress of midterms. From making hand-crafted bracelets to creative, yet complex paper cranes, these activities proved to make those who participated forget about their midterm studying. However, I don’t know if it helped me relieve any stress.

RHA’s held its activities from Oct. 16 to Oct. 20 throughout Armstrong. On Tuesday, I joined RHA’s exciting spirits and took on the task of making effortless paper cranes and learning different Japanese-oriented origami techniques.

But who knew mastering origami for the first time could be so difficult? It proved to be stressful to anyone who was a beginner — their hopes of it turning out perfect would soon be crumbled. My hopes were crushed with the look of the crinkles and distorted wings of my lifeless paper crane.

RHA’s advocacy director, Anastasia Nelson, and programming director, Emily Myers were more than open to sharing some of their origami tips and skills with me. It’s hard to believe that a paper crane is only for beginners, so despite their help I still had a difficult time creating this paper crane.

It had me sweating bullets as I tried comparing it to Emily’s more advanced and eloquent paper crane. Frustration arose on my part, but only because whenever I would fold a new flap in the process, I realized it was the wrong flap

— therefore, another crinkle in my hopeless paper crane.

The funny thing is that this was causing the same amount of stress as studying for one of my midterm exams. All I wanted was for my paper crane to look like a paper crane, and I did not want to feel like a damsel in distress. But, of course, I did.

I did not want to finish my paper crane — it looked like an utterly troubled mess. One flap was facing left while the other was totally absent. My crinkled wings were disastrous compared to everyone else.

Was this what the midterm was going to be like? Was I going to feel hopeless and like a lost cause?

As I tried fixing my crinkled wing, I suddenly saw a glimmer of hope, a spark of inspiration, a light at the end of the tunnel. It was Emily’s paper crane tattoo.

It was done so precisely, yet had a witty spin on it. I saw that one of her tattoo’s wings looked almost as crooked as mine. In that moment, I realized the process of making this paper crane was more stressful than what the end result warranted, and sometimes it is about the journey rather than the outcome.

Yes, my paper crane was not as perfect as Anastasia’s and Emily’s, but it definitely had character.

It was bent out of shape, but it was my paper crane. The reassurance I was looking for was in the rips and creases of my wings. I proudly took my paper crane to my next destination, the library where I desperately needed to study for my upcoming Media and Culture exam. rober193@miamioh.edu

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Misophonia: Little sounds, large reaction ALYSSA MELENDEZ WEB EDITOR

There’s the old adage of nails on a chalkboard. Everyone who hears this sound hates it, but what if the annoyance was more pervasive than that? What if hearing nails on a chalkboard caused someone to become so irrationally irritated that they couldn’t control it? What if it made them scream for hours on end?

What if it caused them physical pain?

Misophonia is such an affliction. Misophonia International, a website created to build awareness of the disease, defines the sensory-processing disorder misophonia as “a neurological affliction that causes a fight/flight/freeze response to otherwise normal visual and audial stimuli.” In other words, affected individuals have a stronger than normal response to irritating sounds and, like ADHD or autism, it can’t be controlled.

A less formal definition comes from Chip Hahn, a clinical professor in Miami’s Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology.

“Misophonia is extreme sensitivity to a specific sound or type of sounds,” Hahn said. It’s not just that you’re annoyed by it, it causes psychological stress and trauma.”

Everyone with misophonia is affected differently by the condition, but those with the disease are angered and highly affected by specific noises. Specific triggering noises and respective reactions vary.

“I get so irrationally irritated by the sounds of people chewing,” said Brittney Greer, a second-year Art Education major. “But it’s not just that, it’s small noises, too, like someone crinkling a wrapper or squeezing a water bottle. It’s so bad to the point where if I’m watching a movie and there’s a dinner scene I will turn it off because the sound bothers me that much.”

She first started noticing signs of misophonia back when she was 12. Back then, she didn’t know the name of the disease and just thought she was overreacting.

The people around Greer telling her she was indeed overreacting didn’t make that assumption any better.

“Back then, it caused a lot of arguments with my mom because she didn’t acknowledge it as a real problem,” Greer said.

A year ago, when she was scrolling through Facebook, Greer’s mom found an article about misophonia and sent it to her daughter. That was the first time Greer ever heard the term.

“That’s me,” she thought. There was finally a reason for why she reacted the way she did to certain sounds.

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Saccocio’s mom reflected on one of the earliest signs of the seriousness of her son’s condition. When he was 12, she remembers them driving in their car in the pouring rain with the windshield wipers on. Her son kept saying that he wanted to jump out of the car and walk the five miles home in the rain because he couldn’t stand the sound of the wipers.

It was only after dragging him kicking and screaming to a cognitive behavioral psychologist that their family realized he had an incurable disease.

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comes from second-year Miami student, Alex Saccocio. While he doesn’t have misophonia himself, he is familiar with the hours of screaming it can induce because he grew up with a younger brother who has the condition.

His brother’s disease has affected his entire family to the point where Saccocio’s mom is now actively involved in several misophonia support groups and knows most everything about the condition.

“When someone says your son has an ‘incurable ailment,’ you’re gonna go crazy,” Saccocio’s mom said. “That’s when I learned everything I could about the disease and joined misophonia support groups.”

The repetitive, mechanical sounds like ceiling fans affected Saccocio’s brother the most.

When Saccocio’s brother was 12, he moved out and lived with his aunt for a year. This complete change of environ-

ment, a new neighborhood, new school, was meant to lessen the severity of his condition. During that year, Saccocio was responsible for the difficult task of regularly checking in on his brother.

“I remember a lot of screaming,” Saccocio talks about his brother’s condition.

“It’s shaped a lot of who I am as a person.

I was a sensitive child, timid. But if I can get through that year, I can get through anything.”

Today, misophonia is not something that a person can be officially diagnosed with. Most individuals including Greer are self-diagnosed. The problem is that many doctors and psychologists don’t even know what it is. Many of the professors and staff on campus are unaware of this condition as well.

“I think a lot of people [with misophonia] suffer in silence about it.” said Hahn.

“Misophonia is a very poorly understood condition that is not widely known or researched.”

Those who have been impacted by the disease themselves, whether indirectly or directly, wish this was different.

Greer wishes people would understand that sometimes she gets angry and she can’t control it.

“I try to be courteous of other people who don’t know what it is,” Greer said. “ I try not to get angry with them, but sometimes it just happens and I don’t mean to.”

Saccocio’s mom wishes more people come to know about the disease and treat it like an actual problem.

“People don’t take it seriously,” Saccocio’s mom said. “If someone had a peanut allergy, do you think it’s fun to give them a cookie with peanuts in it?”

Saccocio wishes more people knew about it so that those who do have it would realize they’re not alone.

“People who have it [misophonia] try to hide it, and that’s a problem,” Saccocio said. “I think if more people knew about it, the people who do have it would be more comfortable acknowledging it and then they’d realize that they’re not alone.” melendak@miamioh.edu

‘The Body Project’ aims to decrease body dissatisfaction felt by students CAROLINE CREEK

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University is known for its beauty, but this quality applies to more than its picturesque campus. In 2014, Business Insider ranked Miami first in both the “hottest guys” and “hottest girls” categories.

Ashley Wilson, a psychologist with Miami’s Student Counseling Service and chair of Miami’s eating disorder treatment team, believes that perception of Miami students’ physical appearance has contributed to body dissatisfaction.

“Miami students [according to that study] seem to struggle more with body image dissatisfaction than students at other universities across the nation,” said Wilson.

The Center for Eating Disorders defines body dissatisfaction as having a negative subjective evaluation of the weight and shape of one’s own body.

Data collected from the 2015-2016 academic year by the University of Michigan’s Healthy Minds Study revealed that out of the 1000 Miami students sampled, 8 percent screened positive for an eating disorder. That rate remains consistent with percentages at universities across the country.

Wilson contributes a large majority of these struggles to the pressure to conform to a certain look at Miami.

Laura, a sophomore, struggled with an eating disorder throughout her high school career. Although she remained healthy throughout her senior year of high school, freshman year at Miami presented challenges.

“In college it’s easier to compare yourself to others” said Laura.

Any major stressor, such as beginning college, can “trigger or re-trigger an [eating disorder] relapse,” said Wilson.

At Miami specifically, Laura said the “abundance of pretty, skinny girls” can alter one’s mental and health and body image.

This semester, April Smith, assistant professor of psychology, and senior Maddy Holbein brought an initiative to campus that aims to combat body dissatisfaction.

The Body Project is a national campaign that seeks to start a large-scale “conversation between women about body image, society’s expectations, and the thin ideal,” said Holbein.

This semester, the project is hosting four workshops led by trained peer leaders. Each workshop consists of two-hour classes that are held a week apart.

The final workshop of the semester will be presented from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Psychology Building, Room 302 on Oct. 29. Signup is required prior to the workshop and can be done online.

Throughout this week, The F-Word: Feminists Working on Real Democracy, is hosting Body Positivity Week.

Body Positivity Week aims to “celebrate the diversity of bodies and the forms they can take, to promote selflove and self-acceptance, and to promote positive visibility and representation of non-normative bodies,” said Hannah Alt, treasurer of The F-Word.

The organization is staging events such as Body Positive Yoga this Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Armstrong Student Center. The week’s keynote speaker, Kimberly Dark, will give a presentation titled “What I Learned From Fat People on the Plane” on Friday in the Armstrong Senate Chamber at 7 p.m.

Initiatives such as the Body Project and Body Positivity Week provide students with “tools and ways of combating the pressures women face in upholding a certain body image,” said Wilson.

These tools, Wilson said, include skills to promote positive body image, such as how to talk back to everyday “fat talk” and how to take a critical eye to the appearance ideals seen in media. creekce@miamioh.edu

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A symphonic reaction: Bridging the gap between science and music MAIA ANDERSON

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Most people wouldn’t think music and science go together, but senior biochemistry and piano performance double major Alex Danielson is proving that’s not the case.

Danielson is a fifth year at Miami and currently in the process of interviewing for medical schools.

He started playing the piano at the age of five, starting off with lessons from his grandmother. His parents encouraged him to continue taking lessons, and, in his senior year of high school, he made the decision to pursue piano further in college.

“It was kind of a last minute decision, but I really wanted to keep it a part of my life,” said Danielson.

Medicine was also a long-term love for Danielson. He knew he’d wanted to become a doctor since eighth grade when his mother, who is a primary care doctor, encouraged him to shadow an orthopedic surgeon to fulfill requirements for a school project. Many of his family members are also doctors, which allowed Danielson to gain a good idea of what it means to be a doctor.

“I think I want to go into orthopedics, but it’s hard to say before actually going through med school,” said Danielson. “People usually don’t decide until around their third year.

I may go into primary care, because it’s in high demand right now and I just want to go where I’m needed.”

Biochemistry and piano performance are wildly different fields of study, but according to Danielson, the skills he’s gained from being a music major have helped him greatly with his pre-medical studies.

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ferent from a lot of fields. You have to understand what the composer wants to say and how to convey it to the audience,” says Danielson, “You have to do similar things in medicine involving communication and working with the patients.”

Completing not one, but two, challenging majors takes a lot of dedication and commitment, but Danielson is in no shortage of them. However, according to Bobby Bennett, his childhood best friend, Danielson never complains about the amount of work he must take on.

“I’ve never met somebody with so much respect for the success of others and the understanding of their failures, and I think it’s because he understands what it takes to do something meaningful,” said Bennett.

His fellow music majors also notice the commitment Danielson has to follow his passions. Andrew Higgins, a fellow piano performance and pre-med double major, praised Danielson on his ability to balance such an intensive workload.

“He does it like no other: it requires balance and dedication that I haven’t amounted to myself,” said Higgins. “He’s very focused in his studies, which correlates to his fantastic results, musically and academically.”

Danielson is currently embarking on the interview phase of medical school application season and is hoping to attend either the University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University or Case Western Reserve University next year.

He also plans to continue playing the piano, one part of his dual passions.

“It will definitely still be one of my priorities,” said Danielson. ander198@miamioh.edu

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The science behind the spectacle: Chemical education research

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Outreach events can blast through the intimidating misconceptions surrounding the complexity of scientific research — if they’re effective.

Graduate student Justin Pratt researches chemistry outreach events conducted by undergraduate student-led chemistry organizations. From his post in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pratt specifically investigates whether the organization’s stated goals for these events are being met.

Outreach efforts involve a variety of activities, including public lectures and demonstrations, from explosions to tours around campus laboratories.

By studying undergraduate chemistry organizations from colleges across the country, Pratt hopes to uncover whether the event organizers understand the chemistry behind these activities and if the students are presenting the content accurately and effectively. His research is conducted with his mentor, Ellen Yezierski, professor of chemistry at Miami.

“We are studying why [college students] do chemistry outreach,” said Pratt. “They go to schools or museums and do demonstration or hands-on activities. We want to understand why and what impact is being made.”

The “why” aspect of outreach seems to be varied among these groups. Some of the organizations want their audiences to better understand chemistry. Others focus on increasing public exposure of chemistry to demonstrate that it is not intimidating but instead fun and enjoyable. Organizations also highlight how outreach can be inspirational for the next generation of scientists by showing people that anyone can become a scientist regardless of gender or racial identity.

While these outreach events do a great job of piquing interest in chemistry and science as a whole, Pratt’s research has shown that specific goals for these events may not be sufficiently met.

Some demonstrators have a poor grasp of the scientific principles on which their demonstration is founded. Many

presentations also show a lack of understanding of good teaching techniques and the processes by which people actually learn.

“If learning is your goal, but you are not structuring your event to foster learning, that is the problem,” Pratt said.

Most literature on science outreach events only describes experimental procedures, but not concepts of chemical education. However, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently provided a framework on how to execute an effective outreach event: set a goal, know your audience and evaluate the attainment of your goal. Pratt also supports this approach.

Pratt’s goal is to have his research spark more conversations about poor outreach by making demonstrators aware of potential disconnects between their goals and their outcomes. Once aware of this problem, outreach practitioners can better educate themselves on effective teaching methods, possibly leading to more impactful outreach events in the future.

Pratt points to education researchers who study how to best teach and facilitate learning as sources for guidance for anyone considering doing outreach or being in a teaching role.

Pratt’s findings highlight the important role discipline-based education researchers play in science: they study how to best help students learn. This theme is what initially attracted Pratt to the Chemistry Education Research program at Miami University. Pratt’s matriculation through the program has made him more confident in his researching abilities, teaching abilities and role as a chemist. His goal after earning his doctorate is to become a faculty member, teaching college courses as well as doing research on chemistry education.

“I want to be able to help students, whether that is in the informal environment with outreach or in the classroom teaching,” Pratt said. “I love chemistry because it is challenging. Teaching myself how to do something or helping a student get that ‘light bulb’ [moment] is what I like.” allegrml@miamioh.edu

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Personifying Pets & A Space Spectacle Is Your Fish Depressed? Maybe.

Even our gilled pets have feelings not so different from our own. Researchers at the University of Alabama have found fish can become depressed and actually serve as an promising animal model for developing human anti-depressant medication. Work with zebrafish suggests the neurochemistry between humans and fish is remarkably similar. The trigger for domestic fish depression is most likely a lack of stimulation, so treat your underwater friend to a few new tank amenities.

Fido Cares About More Than Food New research suggests dogs may really be man’s best friend. A study from the University of Portsmouth found dogs produce more facial movements when someone is looking at them. Dogs in the study were much more expressive — barking and sticking out their tongues — when a person was paying attention to them, regardless of the presence of food. Dogs’ sensitivity to eye contact reveals they pay attention to a person’s looks, not just the treat in their hand.

When Dead Stars Collide, Gold is Produced Early explorers were looking for their precious golden nuggets in the wrong place. Astronomers presume the collision of neutron stars, the shrunken cores of stars that have exploded and died, produces most of the heavier precious metals in the universe: gold, silver and uranium. The collision is known as a kilonova, and a new one was detected on Aug. 17 in a galaxy 130 million light years away. Astronomers have concluded the explosion produced a cloud of gold dust larger than Earth; it also yielded a storm of research papers that hit the publication sphere last week.

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from the organization came to campus for a week to talk with students, faculty and community members to get a sense of the drinking culture, the drug culture and the recovery culture.

One finding of the community mapping report was that substance misuse is “major issue at Miami University with a pervasive, highly visible and deeply ingrained drinking culture in which some administrators recommend students leave Miami or do not apply/matriculate if their lifestyle is not in alignment with this culture.”

“They’re not addressing it before they’re getting in trouble and going to OESCR, or they’re failing out of school or not feeling like they can abstain from drinking and stay at Miami,” east coast director of The Haven, Aly Reis, said. “We heard a lot about the Miami party scene and how that’s a big part of the culture and how if a student doesn’t partake in that, sometimes they will feel out of place.”

Coordinator of Substance Abuse Treatment with Miami’s Student Counseling Services, Dr. Ritch Hall, helped bring The Haven to Miami. In addition to the stellar reviews and recommendations the program received from the other universities where it operates, Dr. Hall was drawn to The Haven’s student-led approach, which he views as fundamental to reducing the prevalent stigma surrounding substance abuse.

“The drinking culture is not stigmatized,” Hall said. “It’s more stigmatized for a student to not be a drinker on this campus than for a student to be a drinker. That has to be broken down and in order to do that, it’s gotta come from the students up. We can’t do it from the top down.”

Ph.D. student JP Gonzales encountered this stigma when he arrived at Miami two years ago.

Gonzales, who is eight years into recovery, did not feel pressured to drink, but he did struggle to escape the prevalence of alcohol consumption on campus.

“It’s challenging,” Gonzales said. “I don’t go to parties or anything, but the culture is kind of everywhere you go. It’s hard to avoid. It’s hard to find friends who want to spend time and not drink.”

Gonzales is one of the main student volunteers at The Haven, helping to operate the space while

leading recovery support groups two nights a week. He also is working to develop sober weekend programming which will act as an alternative for students who don’t wish to go to the bars Uptown on Fridays and Saturdays.

The Haven differs from other recovery organizations, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, in that it does not require students to self-identify in order to attend. You don’t have to admit you’re an alcoholic or an addict; you don’t even have to have a problem. Anyone is allowed to come hang out.

Sherrie Kleinholz, a clinical director at The Haven, believes that in such a stigmatized environment, this sort of inclusivity will hopefully encourage students who are curious to come check out what the facility has to offer. Though The Haven has only been open for about a month, Kleinholz said they have already seen students coming around to talk and hang out.

“They’re very curious,” Kleinholz said. “They want to come, but they still feel that stigma, that nervousness. So they want to test the waters. Our students that work here are very good at making them feel comfortable.”

One of those students is sophomore Nick White. Though not in recovery himself, White fell in love with The Haven’s mission and signed up to volunteer. Having worked at Brick Street last semester, he said he’s seen the horrible effects alcohol can have on people.

“I’ve seen the ugly face of problems with alcohol being at Miami for a year and a half,” White said. “I’ve seen people get kicked out of school, get suspended, being in their worst condition…

I’ve seen the ugly side of things.”

White understands how alienating it can feel to struggle with alcohol abuse or addiction on Miami’s campus. He encourages anyone who thinks they might have a problem to stop by The Haven and hang out.

“You’re not alone,” White said. “There are so many more people than you think. It’s an invisible community for the most part... There are so many people out there who have conquered it and want to help you conquer it. It’s not something to be embarrassed about.” shumandb@miamioh.edu @DevonShuman

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ing the stack.

“Then I come over here and bind it with thermal tape,” he said. He feeds the edges into a machine that heats the black tape and adheres it to the paper.

A minute later, the coursepack is done. Any Miami student would recognize the block-lettered title and leathery binding that is so prone to being picked apart in the throes of midterm anxiety.

“It varies every semester, but this time we probably did about 5,000 coursepacks,” said Matt Rupal, 28, the store’s manager.

The Oxford Copy Shop has occupied its 10 South Poplar Street location since 1984, when Matt’s mother, Rhonda, and his father, J.C., founded the company.

“She typed resumes, term papers and theses for the university,” said Matt. “And then she met my dad and they decided to open a typing and print shop.”

With the Rupals at the helm, the Oxford Copy Shop weathered broad changes through its 33 years of operation to arrive at its current domination of the Miami coursepack market.

The boom of personal computing into the 90’s diminished the need for professional typing, so eventually the shop dropped that half of its services.

As personal computing blossoms into a digital society, day-today life, especially at a university, is increasingly paperless — an obvious threat to an industry built around printing.

“You wonder how much printing will be done in 10, 15, 20 years from now,” said Matt. “You just have to find ways to adapt and do more things and different things.”

Other than the Oxford Copy Shop, there is currently one other print shop in Oxford: Letterman

Printing, which is also owned by the Rupal family and does a lot of the larger printing that doesn’t fit in the small South Poplar Street storefront. The Rupals also own Lebowski Tees, an Oxford tee-shirt printing company.

“Twenty, 30 years ago, there was Paust, there was Copynation, there was us, and there was Miami,” said Matt, of the handful of now-defunct copy shops in Oxford. “So we have gone from four to one.”

The pressure put on local printers by the decreasing demand for copies has offered at least one boon to the Oxford Copy Shop — the closure of Miami’s in-house print shop a year ago has brought some extra business to the Rupal operation.

“We’ve seen a little boost from Miami closing their print center,” said Matt Rupal, “But other than that, stable with a slight downward trend — and that’s just the nature of printing in general.”

Connie Sparks and Cathi Current, 41, two of the four full-time employees at the Oxford Copy Shop, have each worked there for 23 years.

“We’ve seen the transition here from the old fashioned way up to digital,” said Sparks, who declined to offer her age. “I’m about to retire,” she laughed.

While black and white printing has declined in recent years, color printing has been growing, and the copy shop is looking to diversify into other kinds of printing, said Matt. Still, he admits, a large chunk of the shop’s business comes in the first few days of the semester, as students line up out the door to pick up their crisp new coursepacks.

“You don’t know what you might print,” said Sparks. “You’re making copies, as Cathi always says — you don’t know what kind of copies, but you’re making copies.” evansjm4@miamioh.edu

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more people are reporting and feeling comfortable with the process. When they report, we can then use our resources to help them.”

Statistically, the majority of college students who are sexually assaulted are still not reporting it. The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) estimates that only about 20 percent of college-age women who are sexually assaulted choose to report.

Nadia Dawisha, Miami alumna and co-administrator for the National Sexual Violence and Title IX Media Task Force, is an advocate for sexual assault survivors.

Delayed reporting of sexual assaults is very common, Dawisha said. Any sexual assault is a traumatic event.

“It’s difficult to get out of bed in the morning, let alone file a report with the police,” Dawisha said. “It’s a very exhausting and grueling process.”

It may take time, too, Dawisha said, for a survivor to even understand what happened, particularly if that person was using drugs or alcohol at the time of the assault.

Unreported assaults and delayed reporting of sexual assault, combined with the methods Miami and other universi-

ties use to record sexual assault reports, make deducing an accurate number of students who are sexually assaulted in a year an impossibility.

Under the Clery Act, data on campus crime, including sexual assault, is divided by where the reported offenses occurred. In 2016, of the 25 of the reported assaults, 12 happened in campus residence halls.

The remaining six occurred on what is called “non-campus property,” buildings and residences which are not located within Miami’s campus but are owned and controlled by organizations affiliated with and recognized by the university.

A fraternity house or any Miami study abroad location both fall under this category.

The figures which Miami is obligated to collect and release every year, mandated by the Clery Act, only include sexual assaults that happened on campus or in these “non-campus” locations.

When a Miami student is sexually assaulted in an apartment, off-campus house or other Uptown location, those reports are not included.

Lori Minges, Miami University’s Clery Act coordinator, said numbers of sexual assaults off-campus are excluded from Clery data to allow for comparisons between colleges.

“The Clery Act has definitions to hopefully allow the consumer to look

at each campus from an apple-to-apple comparison by having those geographic categories and certain definitions and rules,” Minges said. “But every campus is unique and dynamic on its own.”

In 2016, Oxford police recorded 20 sex offenses — rape, sexual battery, sexual assault or sexual imposition — but Oxford police do not designate on records when the victim of an assault is a Miami student, said Matt Stitzel, records specialist for Oxford Police.

Off-campus sexual assaults involving Miami students can be tracked, in part, through Campus Crime Alerts — an SMS or email designed to alert students, faculty and staff of dangerous situations on or around campus.

Although these alerts notify students of some reports of sexual assaults, these notifications do not represent all of the sexual assaults which are reported. The decision to send out the alert is based on whether an incident poses an immediate threat to others students.

Information about some off-campus sexual assaults, including two last semester and one on Sept. 2 of this year, are not sent out through the Crime Alert system but are briefed on the university’s myMiami homepage which is used by university students, faculty and staff.

Reports of sexual assault have been rising at other campuses, too. Clery data from the Ohio State University shows a

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jump from 25 reported incidents of rape in 2015 to 61 last year.

Ohio State accounts for that increase, in part, because of a new policy that includes sexual assault reports in its on-campus numbers when the exact location of the assault is unknown, but the possibility it occurred on campus cannot be ruled out. In 2016, that applied to 24 of the reported assaults.

Their administrators also point to the rise as a sign that efforts to encourage more reporting are working. According to their most recent Campus Climate survey, 77 percent of Ohio State students were somewhat or very knowledgeable about how to report sexual assault in 2017, compared to 48 percent in 2015.

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-tance to the defense. “He’s a battery.

He’s been down at times this year like everyone — he’s really fought this year and he’s doing everything he can to be a great leader.”

Missing in the defensive backfield Saturday was Reid’s partner in crime Heath Harding. According to Martin, Harding didn’t practice at all this week, but is hopeful to have him back for the ‘Hawks Halloween tilt at Ohio.

Taking the field at full speed this week was junior middle linebacker Junior McMullen, a key cog for this Miami team on the field and in the locker room.

“It’s obviously huge having Junior,” Koenig said. “He’s a stud in there. He’s our mike-linebacker, so it’s huge having him out there to give confidence for everyone else.”

Miami capitalized on the turnovers their defense caused, scoring twice in the third quarter. Most impressive of these scores was a 35-yard touchdown run by Kenny Young, bouncing a seemingly broken play to the outside and taking it to the house.

As the third quarter turned into the fourth, the Bulls offense managed to string together a few plays, punching the ball in the end zone with 2:52 remaining. On the ensuing play, the Bulls managed to recover an onside kick. In that moment, the storyline of not being able to close games rushed to the minds of everyone in Yager Stadium. However, the ‘Hawks defense flipped the script, turning Buffalo over on downs, ending the game.

“We’ve had some crazy endings to games,” Martin said. “our deal is to keep focused, keep doing what we can do. It was good to finish.”

With Saturday’s win, the RedHawks move to third in the MAC East behind Ohio and Akron. Miami will have a chance to make major statements the next two weeks as their next two opponents are none other than the Bobcats and the Zips. The RedHawks will look to take the next step to getting back on track next Tuesday in Athens, Ohio against their rival Bobcats. pfistejb@miamioh.edu

complete silence with another group of people for longer than 15 minutes. At church, a preacher will still be delivering his sermon while the masses remain silent in their pews. At the library, you can still hear faint chatter from group projects or overly-caffeinated students tapping away at their keyboards. Even at a funeral you can still hear faint sounds of sniffling and individuals offering their condolences.

No, the only time I have sat in what I believe to be absolute silence was January 9, 2016, immediately following the Wild-Card matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and the team from the wrong side of I-70 who shall not be named.

After Jeremy Hill’s inexplicable fumble, Vontaze Burfict’s stupefyingly bone-headed unnecessary roughness penalty and Adam “Pac-Man” Jones’ unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, the Bengals had successfully clutched defeat from the jaws of victory. Immediately afterward, the Bengals fans I was watching the game with proceeded to shut the television off and we sat in absolute silence for

seemed like an eternity. I believe there cannot be a worse feeling as a football fan.

Or maybe there is.

See, as painful as the Bengals’ loss felt at the time, there were still silver linings. The team had made the playoffs five years in a row, a record for the Bengals’ franchise. There were still players on the team who were young, about to enter their primes and were signed for the long-term future. Of course, there was also the sweetest consolation prize of them all -- it was still better than being the Cleveland Browns.

To go back to Lord Tennyson’s poem, the Browns are certainly the individual “never to have loved at all.” The Browns notoriously have never been to a Super Bowl, finished in last place in the AFC North seven years in a row -- with Year Eight not looking too great -- and have not been to the playoffs in over 15 years. There’s defining mediocrity, defining ineptness and then there’s whatever the Cleveland Browns have been attempting to do on a football field for the past 15 years.

Since the franchise was rebooted in 1999 -- after being unexpectedly and heart-breakingly shipped out to Baltimore by Art Modell -- the

Browns have put together a lackluster record of 88-207, good for the worst record in the NFL in that span. To make matters worse, the Baltimore Ravens, or the former Browns that Modell shipped out of Cleveland, have gone on to win two Super Bowls and become one of the most consistently successful franchises in the NFL. After moving back to Cleveland in 1999, the Browns have started 26 different quarterbacks, the most in the NFL, and the only quarterback to have started all 16 games for them in a season was Tim Couch in 2001 -- although Brandon Weeden came dangerously close in 2012. Other notable quarterbacks to have started a game for the Browns in that span include vaunted gunslinger Seneca Wallace, the always gritty Connor Shaw, whatever a Spergon Wynn III is/was and, of course, the one and only Johnny Manziel.

However, although the Browns have underperformed for longer than most incoming college freshmen have been alive, their fans remain one of the most loyal and diehard fanbases in all of sports.

Unlike Bengals fans, who have become overtly cynical through years of heartbreak, Browns fans seem to have learned the art of

tempering expectations going into each season. When fans expect to go 3-13, a 4-12 finish is a reason for celebration. When fans expect to go 12-4 and at least make it to the second round of the playoffs, a 10-6 finish with a first-round exit is a complete disappointment.

To bring everything together, I’m not sure if either situation is better than the other. Perhaps the solution is to abandon rooting for each team entirely and latch onto a successful and well-run franchise. Perhaps the solution is to remain loyal to each team through thick and thin. Remember, there was a point in time when the Patriots were a perennial doormat in the NFL. Or maybe the solution is to petition the NFL to ship both teams off to London and take away their burden on Ohio entirely.

Either way, at the end of the day, there will always be one point on which Bengals and Browns fans can both agree… a common hatred of the freakin’ Pittsburgh Steelers.

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my teammates because they are the ones who push me to get here,” Portugal said. “They make me work harder every day, so thanks to them.”

Freshman forward/midfielder Lexie Nugent notched her seventh goal of the season off

a pass from freshman forward Allie Grace Joyner at midfield.

Central Michigan tried to make a play on it, but Nugent beat her easily to finish scoring for the day.

The Chippewas had only four shots on goal which junior goalkeeper Maddie Passarella

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deflected with ease and athleticism. This is Passarella’s fourth shutout of the season.

Coming off of an impressive Friday performance, the RedHawks hosted the Cavaliers Sunday afternoon. No. 3 Virginia backed up their ranking by outshooting MU 30-5 and led in

penalty corners 4-3.

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-dio’s goal. The ’Hawks entered intermission with a 6-3 lead.

Riding the offensive momentum, a streaking Green put Miami ahead 7-3 only eight seconds into the third period. With freshman Jeremy Swayman as the new goaltender, Maine valiantly fought back, bringing the score to 7-4 at 2:49 and 7-5 at 10:03. The RedHawks held on defensively and killed two more penalties and Larkin kept his team in the game while facing 12 shots.

Miami ended with 38 shots to Maine’s 25. The RedHawks’ special teams were effective, going 4-for-5 on the power play and 5-for-6 on the penalty kill. Besides Green ending the night with five points, Melnick had three assists and Hutton and Sherwood had a goal and an assist each.

“Every team wants to score first and every team plays better with the lead,” Blasi said. “For us, the most important lesson to learn is to play the same game no matter what the score is. Play consistent, be focused on the game plan and on the team game and not really vary from shift to shift because things will happen in games.”

Friday’s success was not replicated and Miami’s effective game plan fell apart early on Saturday after falling behind 2-0 in the span of 2:22. The second goal came from sophomore defenseman Patrick Holway on the 5-on-3 man-advantage for Maine, spelling the end of Miami’s successful penalty kill.

The RedHawks killed off the second penalty, and managed a couple shots but freshman defenseman Brady Keeper and junior forward Perez beat Larkin at 11:53 and 10:38, respectively.

Looking to spark his team and relieve Larkin, Blasi put in freshman goalie Grant Valentine to make his NCAA debut.

Maine’s Swayman withstood several Miami shots, but another 5-on-3 helped Maine add to their lead with 2:13 left in the period. The Black Bears couldn’t keep the shutout into the second period, as a RedHawk power play resulted in Knies scoring his first career goal with 5.2 seconds left in the period. The goal came from Hutton and Green and the ’Hawks went into break down 5-1.

The second started with a ten minute long silence from the goal horn before Maine’s sophomore forward

Tim Doherty took back the five goal advantage at 9:35. Miami was given an opportunity to kick start a comeback with a five minute major penalty and game misconduct on Perez. A penalty with 2:11 left in the major gave Miami a 5-on-3. Hutton scored with four minutes left in the second, but the goal from Belpedio and Melnick to make it 6-2 would be the last of the period.

The third period began and the scoring stopped. Close to five minutes left in the third, Blasi pulled Larkin -- who returned at the start of the period -to give Miami an extra attacker and a chance at a comeback. A Maine penalty two minutes later gave Miami a 6-on-4 advantage. Hutton scored his second of the night and fourth of the weekend to make it 6-3 with 3:13 left.

Three goals in three minutes proved too ambitious for the ’Hawks and they split the series with the Black Bears.

Again, Miami outshot Maine 30-26 but went 3-for-6 on the power play and 5-for-7 on the kill.

“Sometimes you’re able to score first and sometimes you’re not, but staying focused on that game plan is really the most important thing,” Blasi said.

“We’ve got some work to do in that and good teams at the end of the year know how to play in every situation and they don’t get frustrated, they don’t get rattled. They just continue to play -- that’s something we have to continue to work on.”

Larkin faced 23 shots and made 18 saves, while Valentine faced three shots and made two saves during his tenure in net.

“I thought we did a lot of good things, our special teams in terms of power play were pretty good,” Blasi said.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do — it’s still a work in progress — but we’re going to continue to take steps forward.”

Hutton (5g, 2a) and Green (2g, 5a) lead Miami with seven points, enough for each to earn National Collegiate Hockey Conference Players of the Week. This is the first time Green has been named NCHC Player of the Week and the first time Hutton has been named NCHC Defenseman of the Week.

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ASG condom decision: Inconceivable to do anything else The following reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

ASG is engaging in some safe government — and we at The Student could not be prouder.

Will Ziegert, ASG’s secretary for on-campus affairs, announced during Senate last week that there are condoms being sold by the university: “Go check them out!” The particular prophylactic now offered in both residence hall vending machines and in Emporium is a three-pack of Trojan ENZ condoms — with premium lubricant, for you contraceptive connoisseurs.

The sale of contraceptives by the university is a big step for Miami and a significant achievement for student governance organizations like RHA and ASG (maybe it’s not their magnum opus, but it’s pretty good). Together, these two organizations are pushing sexual health initiatives: RHA is focusing on increasing access to feminine hygiene products on campus, while ASG is encouraging safe sex.

Previously, the university held out on selling condoms in marketplaces and vending machines because it could turn off tour groups, said Ziegert to ASG senators at their Sept. 12 session.

On the contrary, the new offering comes off as a mature way to address the fact that unprotected sex happens way too much on college campuses. Around 15 percent of the sex had by college seniors is unprotected, according to a researcher at NYU. We shouldn’t need to tell you why that’s bad.

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school’s marketplaces, maybe it’s time to have the talk.

Seriously — you’re out of the nest, flown the coop, and we at The Student hope we’re beyond the whole ‘abstinence-only’ thing these days. It doesn’t delay the onset of pregnancy and doesn’t encourage people to use contraceptives when they inevitably do it — and that’s a “when,” not an “if.” It happens.

So don’t worry, Miami — we’re really into it. Condoms don’t make students have more sex, the science says, they simply make existing sexual activity safer and less STI-prone. That’s a plus.

They’re not even that expensive, either: For $3.35 at Wells Hall’s vending machine, you can get a three-pack of pretty average condoms. On walmart.com, the same package costs $2.94. Considering Miami’s markets are

When it comes to gun violence, no one is right MAX MATSON COLUMNIST

How long will gun violence be an issue in the United States? As long as Americans are American and guns are our standard for coolness.

Ask a crowd of right-wing gun nuts what their favorite book is and they’ll almost certainly tell you it’s the Bible. Ask a crowd of gun-control favoring left-wingers what their favorite movie is and they’re just as likely to name some R rated shootem-up by Quentin Tarantino. The point is, when it comes to guns, we’re all hypocrites, it’s ingrained in our DNA. I’m not unaware of the fact that enjoying fictional violence does not necessarily imply an enjoyment of real-life violence. And while watching Keanu Reeves shoot people in the face is admittedly a treasured hobby of mine, I can’t help but feel that just as Jesus ~probably~ wouldn’t have supported the rights of average Americans to stockpile mountains of weapons in their living rooms, it can’t possibly be healthy for my psyche to watch geysers of blood spray on screen feet from my face every day… even if it isn’t real.

In an ideal world, guns wouldn’t even exist (before you type up that comment calling me a libtard, think about how non-controversial that statement actually is). Killing is not an unintended consequence of gun ownership, nor is it even the main intent of owning a gun… killing is a gun’s exclusive purpose. Just as a hammer is manufactured purely for the purpose of hammering, guns are manufactured exclusively for the purpose of killing. And while the argument is often made that gun collecting is somehow divorced from the reality of guns as tools for dealing death, I posit that it is no less ridiculous to own a collection of guns than it is to own a collection of hammers.

Just like hammers, if you’re using a gun for its intended purpose, you’ll only need one…

I want to make it clear that I am not the sheltered, middle-class SJW

that those who speak out publically against gun ownership are so often branded (whether accurately or otherwise). I grew up in a poor, single parent household with my mother and little sister… an upbringing which, by NRA standards at least, makes me the ideal candidate for gun ownership. The idea of a heroic man protecting the women in his life with a shotgun in his hand is one which I have never necessarily bought into. I love a good western, but I’m self-aware enough to know that I’m no Clint Eastwood.

If presented with a knife-wielding intruder I’d certainly like to imagine that I’d take them out with the efficiency of Jason Bourne, but in-reality I’d probably end up putting more bullets into the sofa than the bad-guy. In-fact, unless it’s literally your job to shoot people (i.e. active-duty military) I think you’ll find that if you’re being honest with yourself you probably wouldn’t fare much better in a home invasion… no matter how skilled you are at the gun-range.

The problem of gun violence in America isn’t so simple as to be broken down into a right side and a wrong side. While there are hard statistics that point to guns playing the role of escalator much more often than NRA members would like to believe, I understand the compulsion to want to protect one’s family and home. That said, it’s true that guns don’t provide real security. A gun in the hands of a 45-year old tax attorney at 3:00 am is every bit as useless as a paint brush in the hands of an accountant. Gun companies make their billions by selling the feeling of security… a feeling sought after by almost every single homeowner in America. It’s not wrong to want to “protect what’s yours” but just like most people would see buying a gun as a more efficient means to that end than taking up cross-fit, in all-likelihood you would be better off putting a sign for ADT up in your yard and avoiding the situation entirely. matsonrm@miamioh.edu

only called mark-ets because of their crazy mark-ups (a $4 Kroger pumpkin costs $14 at McCracken Market), a 12 percent markup for sexual health products is really not screwing us over that hard.

So, we really mean this, cross our hearts and hope to avoid pre-graduation pregnancies: Good job, Miami.

This is an impactful step in the right direction for treating current students like adults and looking out for our community’s health.

There’s a direct causation between condom use and the fact that Miami students still need tampons. RHA has you covered though: They’re distributing a survey and pushing the administration toward making feminine hygiene products more accessible.

Tampons are expensive, and they’re generally used by females. It’s effectively a tax on vaginas, and that’s not fair. They’re also easy to forget and pretty hard to conceal, which can get you into some sticky situations. Do you see people carrying toilet paper around? Wouldn’t that be embarrassing?

Do the right thing, Miami. You can empower more than half of the student body — and plus, all the people who care about equality.

What can you, as a normal but empathetic student, do? First of all, you can take the RHA survey about feminine hygiene products that closes next week. The link is bit.ly/hygiene-MU and you can take it no matter how often you use tampons.

Also, you should wear a condom. What’s $3.35 compared to the cost of another Miami tuition…for your baby?!

IS RENAMING SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE FIGURES WORTH THE COST? JILL TEITELBAUM

THE MIAMI STUDENT

What’s in a name? According to a growing number of people, some names can cause emotional distress warranting their removal. As such, there has been a recent push toward removing Confederate names and memorials across the country.

The latest case involves a public school in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis International Baccalaureate Elementary School is set to be renamed Barack Obama Magnet International Baccalaureate Elementary School beginning in the 20182019 school year.

The school is named after Jefferson Davis who was president of the Confederacy and a vocal supporter of slavery. According to the Civil War Trust, he was a slaveholder and operated his own cotton plantation in Mississippi. It’s understandable that people would be made uncomfortable by his memorialization by a school period, let alone one whose population is 98 percent black.

Removing the names of Confederates is well-intentioned and replacing them with the names of progressive role models is laudable.

However, the staggering costs associated with these changes requires a serious look at their feasibility, and more importantly, their opportunity cost.

Although the exact cost of the Davis name change is unclear, the costs for similar initiatives across the country range from $100,000 to over $1 million. For many of the schools involved, the amounts proposed to rebrand them could be desperately used elsewhere.

Mississippi is hardly an exception. According to the state Department of Education, the fiscal year 2017 budget allocation for Mississippi’s public schools will be $172 million below the threshold for full funding. In fact, those schools have not been fully funded since before the recession.

Mississippi also ranks last in public education among the 50 states and Washington, D.C. and has an academic rating of “D.” Even more tragically, Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of child poverty in the nation with a rate of 31.1 percent, according to the Center for American Progress.

Students living in poverty need even more resources than their more privileged peers. Unfortunately, the level of funding directly affects the quality of education. Underfunded schools, including many in Mississippi, fail to provide resources including: updated textbooks, after school programs, art classes and teaching assistants. Therefore, it is imperative that limited school funding be painstakingly prioritized.

President Obama said himself that “In too many school districts, we still have too many

schools that despite the heroic efforts of a lot of great teachers, are not fully preparing our kids for success because they don’t have the resources to do it.” Schools that cannot afford the basics should think twice before paying for rebranding.

After all, the cost of a name change is only made higher when considering the other alternatives.

David Williams, president of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, voiced common concerns over a similar name change proposal in Virginia, “Is it necessary for this name change to occur? Is this going to make our kids smarter? Is this million dollars that is going to be spent, could that be spent elsewhere? Could this be spent on books, maybe sprucing up the building or helping poor kids in the area get a better education or more school lunches?”

In addition to the financial considerations, another argument can be made that replacing the Confederate names also removes an opportunity to face our past and learn from it.

A professor of history at Yale University, David Blight, specializing in the Civil War and African American history cautioned that “There’s a danger here that we lose hold of learning from the past just by trying to make it feel and look better.”

The financial burden of renaming a school is fairly easy to determine, but the expected implicit benefits are difficult to measure. Morale will likely be improved, but if the school still lacks in basic resources and programs, will it be enough to justify the change?

It’s uncertain whether or not removing Confederate memorials will make a difference. Investing money in the schools themselves seems like a far more impactful move.

Since the renaming of Davis IB Elementary School to Barack Obama Magnet IB Elementary School has already been approved, it’s too late for the money to be allocated elsewhere. Hopefully, the change will at least bring attention to the schools across the South that are in desperate need of attention.

The reality is schools are struggling to provide basic resources and programs with limited funding. Prioritizing where funds are allocated will continue to be a source of debate. One solution to appease both taxpayers and those who seek to rename schools is seeking private funding to pay for any name changes.

Regardless, funding education should be the focus. If the name change initiatives cannot be funded privately or with minimal economic burden on taxpayers, the goal should be educating people about the past while investing in better educational opportunities for students. As George Washington Carver said, “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” teiteljh@miamioh.edu

‘Me Too’ movement positive, but a small part of bigger picture DARCY KEENAN COLUMNIST

Over the past week I have seen the words “Me Too” on social media platforms more times than I can count. This started after people began coming forward about the way that movie producer Harvey Weinstein had abused and manipulated them over the past few decades.

Many women and some men are using these simple words to speak out about the sexual assaults they have experienced in the past.

Some are adding their stories to their posts, and others are letting the words speak for themselves.

Obviously, it is terrifying how many women have already shared and how many will continue to share. There are too many people who have experienced such awful events. The mass amount of people coming forward brings sexual assault statistics to life – according to RAINN, every 98 seconds someone is sexually assaulted in America; every eight minutes, that someone is a child.

It is important to keep in mind, though, that not every person who has been assaulted will come forward and publicly declare “Me Too.” One reason someone might not share their stories is they do

not believe their assault was “bad enough” to warrant a “Me Too” post. They do not want to invalidate those who have gone through something traumatic with an event that has left them with no emotional or physical damage.

Veronica Ruckh wrote an article for the website Total Sorority Move that accurately depicts the thought process that many women go through during and after their sexual assault. Ruckh discusses the multiple times she has been assaulted and why she cannot bring herself to say “Me Too” even though she has been assaulted.

Another reason many women refuse to partake in the movement

is because they fundamentally disagree with it. They will still support those who are participate, but they find it unfair that the responsibility to end violence against women is once again falling onto those women who are being attacked.

“This isn’t about women. This is about male violence...How about the attackers post ‘I ignored it and I won’t anymore’ instead?” writes Heather Jo Flores of Independent.

Angeline Chapin of the Huffington Post writes, “Women can turn the whole internet into a list of ‘Me Toos,’ but it won’t make a difference until men ― all men ― acknowledge how they perpetuate misogyny and commit to making a

change.”

In both of these articles the writers admit that yes, sometimes women are the perpetrators and sometimes men are the victims.

But as a whole, men are allowing violence against women to continue, even if they are not partaking in it themselves. That has to stop.

I fully support the Me Too movement, but I can see where the ladies in the articles mentioned above are coming from. We are a long ways away from true equality and the end of violence towards women, but maybe this can help us close the gap. keenandm@miamioh.edu

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‘Death Tax’ does nothing to curb wealth inequality LUKE SCHROEDER COLUMNIST

As it was once written by Benjamin Franklin, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

Americans pay all sorts of taxes: federal income tax, state income tax, payroll tax, sales tax, excise tax and property tax, just to name a few. Nearly everything we do is impacted by taxes of some kind – for some, even their own death is a taxable event.

Those who inherit estates worth more than about $5 million are forced to pay 40% of the estate’s value upon the death of the owner.

Trust me, I know what you’re thinking. Five million? That’s a ton of money!

Who cares if the government takes 40 percent? However, here’s the reality: the death tax is a tax on success, a tax on hard work. Often, the full burden of the death tax hits family farms and businesses the hardest. The death tax is wrecking entities like these all across America. Why? Farms and family businesses are often “asset rich” and “cash poor”. Basically, this means that a farm or business is worth a lot on paper (due to valuations of land, machinery, buildings, inventory and so on) while also being short on us-

able cash (they often operate on meager profit margins).

For example, let’s analyze a U.S. farm.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average American farm spans 441 acres. According to OSU’s Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, farming land in western Ohio averages $9,190 per acre. Using these numbers, the land value for a U.S. farm is over $4 million.

What about equipment? A combine can easily list for $500,000. This doesn’t include the price of components required for corn and soybean harvesting – tack on at least $150,000 for those. The value of the farmhouse? Assume $201,900, the median price of homes listed for sale in the U.S., according to Zillow.

Add in the value of a work truck and a barn, and you’ve got a farm worth north of $5 million. Even though farmers sound rich, they often aren’t – they operate in a demanding, high risk, low profit margin job field.

When the owner of this farm passes away, under the death tax 40% of this farm’s asset value would be taxed – it’s highly likely that heirs would sell the farm just to foot the bill.

When liquid cash is short, heirs have to selling their family farm or business just to pay the tax on its value. This is

just wrong – no American should be penalized for the death of their parent. No American should devote their entire life to hard work, building a business for their children, only to know it will be gutted by greedy government policies when they pass away.

The death tax hurts the workers of these types of businesses; if heirs are forced to sell assets and close down operations, jobs will be lost forever. The death tax discourages economic activity, business investment, and job creation.

According to the American Family Business Institute, a repeal of the death tax would create 1.5 million private sector jobs. Another study from economists at the Heritage Foundation found the removal of the death tax would increase small business capital by over $1.6 trillion. These jobs and this investment capital would greatly benefit small towns across the nation.

You’re still thinking of that $5 million number, right? And what about income inequality? You’re probably under the impression that the death tax is an effective barrier to even higher inequality.

This isn’t the case.

Those who are very wealthy can afford highly skilled tax lawyers and accountants, people with the know-how to effectively structure assets in a way that

shields them from the tax. Trusts, LLCs and special life insurance policies are just a few of these tools.

The death tax doesn’t stop income inequality. Of those on the Forbes 25, the list of the wealthiest people in America, all but the Waltons (the Walmart family) are self-made. These types of people can use financial planning to effectively avoid the estate tax, a privilege not afforded to farms and small businesses.

The death tax is unacceptable. For its moral costs, and for the economic harm it causes, it returns much less than 1 percent of federal revenue according to the CBO. An analysis from the American Family Business Foundation even found that the death tax will cost the U.S. government $89 billion in revenue over the next decade.

A more business-friendly economy would benefit all – it would mean more jobs, more investment, and more innovative products that will improve our quality of life. It would also make the American dream even more accessible for more hardworking Americans. To strengthen America’s economy, let’s get rid of the death tax.

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RedHawks back on track in MAC East race FOOTBALL

BRADY PFISTER STAFF WRITER

Entering Saturday, the Miami football team appeared to be one loss away from falling apart — the RedHawks were nursing a threegame losing streak, including two gut-wrenching conference defeats to go along with a blowout at Notre Dame. With a loss Saturday, the Red and White would have moved to 1-3 in the MAC East with little to no chance for making a run at a division title. With that pressure in mind, the ’Hawks played an angry, physical and determined football game, defeating the Buffalo Bulls 24-14.

“There was a focus about our group,” Miami head coach Chuck Martin said post-game. “We weren’t fun to play today — they [Buffalo] knew we were coming after them every play.”

Evident from the start was the resolve of Martin’s team to play its brand of football, specifically on offense when junior quarterback Billy Bahl found fellow junior receiver James Gardner for a 57-yard completion on a stop-and-go route.

In the first quarter alone, the RedHawk offense amassed 175 yards on 20 plays, holding the ball for over 10 of the opening 15 minutes to go up 10-0 following one quarter of play.

Especially impressive on the offensive side of the ball was redshirt junior running back Kenny Young, rushing for a career high 125 yards with a pair of touchdowns to go

REDSHIRT JUNIOR RUNNING BACK KENNY YOUNG SIDESTEPS TWO BUFFALO PLAYERS ON SATURDAY AT YAGER STADIUM. ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

along with 29 yards on three receptions. Young’s effort was noticed in the league and nationwide as the tailback earned Conference Player of the week on offense, while receiving a “helmet sticker” on ESPN’s “College Football Final.” For Young, this performance was a culmination of an effort to take the next step as a tailback.

“Coach Martin had a meeting with me — he said ‘are you ready to get 10, 15 maybe more carries a game?’” Young said. “I said I was ready, so that’s what I did.”

However the early momentum

of the offense stalled following a 16-play drive which ended with the ’Hawks missing a field goal with 12:53 remaining in the second quarter. Billy Bahl and the rest of the Miami offense sputtered the rest of the first half, producing a mere 31 total yards in the second quarter. The Bulls managed a touchdown drive under the direction of true freshman quarterback Kyle Vantreese, putting the halftime score at 10-7 Miami.

Three points is the closest the Bulls would come the rest of the game as the Miami “Mob” defense

smothered the Bulls offense — Buffalo mustered up a mere 69 yards on the ground while Vantreese only managed to complete 17 of 41 passes and was sacked three times.

The tip of the spear for Miami was redshirt junior linebacker Brad Koenig, collecting eight tackles and a sack on the afternoon.

“We really didn’t do anything fancy,” Koenig said. “We were kind of lackadaisical the past couple weeks, and we really just tried to up the intensity, do our job, make sure we were hitting our gaps and doing what we were capable of.”

The second half also saw an increased emphasis on turnovers — the ’Hawks forced three fumbles in the second half, recovering one.

Senior safety Tony Reid added an interception, prying the ball away from Bulls receiver Anthony Johnson deep inside RedHawk territory despite having a cast covering all his fingers on one hand.

“The only good thing about the cast with Tony is he doesn’t catch many without it. He’s got a built-in excuse now,” Martin jokingly said before emphasizing Reid’s imporCONTINUED ON PAGE 10

Hockey splits high-scoring series with Maine HOCKEY

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Watch the equestrian hunt seat team in action at miamistudent.net. Macy Whitaker, The Miami Student

Field Hockey No. 1 in MAC FIELD HOCKEY

CHRISTOPHER BERRY THE MIAMI STUDENT

In commanding fashion, the Miami University field hockey team defeated Central Michigan 4-0 on Friday to clinch the MAC championship and an undefeated conference-play record (5-0). The Chippewas fell to 0-16 on the year while the RedHawks remain .500 (8-8) after falling to No. 3 Virginia on Sunday 4-0.

Miami’s perfect play in conference earns them the No. 1 seed in the MAC conference tournament.

MU will also be hosting the tournament next year because of their success this season.

“It’s an incredible feeling as anyone can imagine, especially getting [the MAC championship] at home with our fans,” senior back Makenna Colby said. “We had a huge student section here today, which really kept the energy up. It’s just a

rewarding feeling and it’s indescribable. We want to thank everyone who has helped us get to this point, and this is a way that we can do that so it is really important for us to bring home the championship.”

The RedHawks were simply the better team on Friday, outshooting CMU 25-7 and dominating in penalty corners (16-2) as well. It took MU less than four minutes to get on the board when junior midfielder/forward Paula Portugal scored her 12th goal of the season unassisted.

Once she got going, Portugal couldn’t be stopped.

She scored her second goal of the game less than 10 minutes after the first, and completed her hattrick in the 33rd minute of play. Her third goal of the game and 14th of the season was also her 100th career point, making her the fifth player in RedHawk history to reach that milestone.

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The Bengals, Browns and English poetry COLUMN

MITCH HAUSFELD THE MIAMI STUDENT

In 1849, esteemed British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, delivered one of the most poignant and oft-quoted lines in the history of the English language: “’Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.”

Now, in 2017, after years of struggling and countless disappointments, I believe I finally understand the true meaning behind Lord Tennyson’s famous line.

It has to be about the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cleveland Browns.

The Bengals, of course, are the team to have “loved and lost.”

Unlike the Browns, the Bengals have been to a Super Bowl — two of them in fact — but proceeded to lose both in historically heartbreaking fashion.

Since their deflating Super Bowl loss to Joe Montana and the 49ers in 1988, the Bengals have made the playoffs eight different times and pieced together a stunning record of 0-8 in these playoff games. For reference, the Browns have only made the

playoffs three times since 1988, but own a respectable 2-3 record in those trips.

Even in recent history, the Bengals compiled a 52-27-1 record from 2011-2015. However, despite piecing together a nice string of successful seasons, they then proceeded to lose in the first round of the playoffs five seasons in a row — a feat never accomplished before in the current NFL playoff format.

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In two high-scoring games, Miami hockey found themselves on both sides of the score as it split this weekend’s non-conference series against the University of Maine. Still struggling to battle back from deficits, the RedHawks (1-3) went up early in Friday’s game to eventually win 7-5 but fell behind early in Saturday’s game to ultimately lose to the Black Bears (2-2) 6-3.

“I think first and foremost, going on the road and being able to win Friday night was big for us,” head coach Enrico Blasi said. “We’ve got to take the lessons we’ve learned playing in a hostile environment, making sure that we focus and be a little more determined with the puck and away from the puck.”

In Orono, Maine, for the ’Hawks’ first win of the year, sophomore forward Gordie Green led Miami’s offense with the help of his five-point Friday night. Green scored two goals and recorded three assists — Miami’s first five-point game since Austin Czarnik had five assists at Bemidji State on Nov. 30, 2013.

In the first period of the weekend, the RedHawks would outshoot the Maine Black Bears 19-7. An early power play at 3:17 started the ’Hawks’ attack, as they took several shots that Maine fended off. The power play’s persistence paid off and sophomore forward Karch Bachman scored with a second left on the man-advantage.

Green had his first assist of the night after feeding Bachman, and junior forward Josh Melnick had the secondary assist.

Nineteen seconds later found Miami up 2-0 at 5:35 after Green found the back of the net.

Melnick fed a streaking Green who then beat Maine’s junior goaltender Rob McGovern.

Following the early Miami lead, sophomore goaltender Ryan Larkin fended off a handful of shots on the other end of the ice from a Maine team trying not to fall behind. The RedHawks matched and then

outshot the Black Bears, though their defensive onslaught was halted as they were forced onto the penalty kill at 15:43 and then to the 5-on-3 at 16:58.

The ’Hawks killed both penalties and a Maine penalty allowed the RedHawks to close the period with offensive momentum. Miami went to the locker room up 2-0 with 30 seconds of the man-advantage waiting for them in the second.

Maine struggled to gain momentum at the beginning of the second period. Killing off the leftover seconds of the penalty, the Black Bears went back on the kill 15 seconds later. Miami took advantage of Maine’s undisciplined play and Green fed Hutton for a one-timer that put the RedHawks up 3-0 two minutes into the second.

Six shots were fired at McGovern as part of Miami’s dominating offensive play, though Maine was given a chance in the form of a power play at 6:09.

Similar to Miami’s first goal, time expired on Maine’s power play but the Black Bears’ freshman defenseman Veli-Matti Tiuraniemi found the back of the net at 8:11 to put the Bears on the board. Sophomore forward Mitchell Fossier’s goal 1:31 later further cut into the RedHawks’ lead, as the score became 3-2 only halfway through the period.

Hutton found success again on the power play, this time via a slap shot with 7:27 left in the second. Senior defenseman Louie Belpedio and freshman forward Phil Knies assisted to make it 4-2. The back-andforth play continued, as Maine’s Fossier scored his second goal of the night to again bring his team within one with 3:41 left in the middle frame.

The RedHawks weren’t slowed by approach of the intermission. Junior forward Kiefer Sherwood and Belpedio scored a minute apart, and Belpedio’s goal came on the already impressive power play. Green earned an assist on Sherwood’s goal, as did freshman defenseman Rourke Russell — his first college hockey point. Senior defenseman Scott Dornbrock and Sherwood assisted on BelpeCONTINUED ON PAGE 10