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MU fails to embrace I Am Miami campaign Students point out flaws, say administration’s top-down approach kept campaign from catching on

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The administration-born I Am Miami initiative, aimed at encouraging students to embrace values of love and honor, has failed to gain traction with a large portion of the student body since its launch.

The I Am Miami initiative, a university-wide effort to describe the common values of the Miami community, began last year with the convocation of the class of 2017. It is based on the Code of Love and Honor, which encompasses qualities of the Miami community such as respect, integrity, acceptance and responsibility.

I Am Miami started strong — plastered on the walls in the Armstrong Student Center, passed out on holographic cards, presented to the student body at school functions — but has since seemed to fizzle, leaving many students, especially upperclassmen, who did not begin their time at Miami learning about the initiative, confused or unaware of its existence entirely.

“I think the biggest problem with it is that upperclassmen weren’t really standing behind the

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For all its publicity, the I Am Miami campaign has not made the impact administrators hoped it would. ASG Student Body President Cole Tyman said this is because of the top-down approach the university has taken in implementing the campaign. campaign and perpetuating it,” said Associated Student Government (ASG) Secretary for Public Relations Allison Gnaegy.

In fact, students were not behind the formation of the initiative at all, it was created by the administration, then presented

to the student community. This raised concerns from the student government, ASG Student Body President Cole Tyman said.

Tyman is the only student member on the I Am Miami committee, along with representatives from different departments throughout

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the university.

“Yes, I am the elected voice of the student body, but at the same time I am one student with one experience,” Tyman said. “I am a white male on this campus. That’s a lot different than some of these students who feel that there’s

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In November 1969, Simon and Garfunkel performed in front of a soldout crowd at Millett Hall. This performance was the first time the duo performed their hit song “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”

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Looking out at a crowd of over 11,000 people, Art Garfunkel, clad in a red pullover sweater and sporting his signature mop of unruly blonde hair, introduced their next song to the audience, one none of them had heard before.

Even though the duo debuted the Grammy-winning tune “Bridge Over Troubled Water” at Millett Hall 45 years ago, Miami alumni who attended the concert can still remember the record-setting

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performance vividly.

Lynn Morgan Gnaegy (’73) knew she was witnessing something special when she went to the concert during the fall of her freshman year.

“When they sang ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,’ all you could see was a beam of light that shone on Art’s face,” she said.

The song would not be released to the public until the following January as the title track of Simon and Garfunkel’s last album together. It would go on to win five Grammy’s, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Many consider the album to be their best work and their live performances that fall to

be particularly exceptional, despite the tension of the duo’s imminent split that followed soon after the album’s release.

As he shared in the documentary “The Harmony Game,” about the making of “Bridge of Troubled Water,” Paul Simon, after writing the title tune, did not think it would be a hit, calling it a simple “little hymn.”

Garfunkel, however, knew the song was something special the first time he sang it.

“It worked in just about every room I ever sung it in, small or big,” he said. “It’s a killer song.”

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a stereotype and don’t feel like they’re included in it.”

Another problem with the initiative, Tyman said, has to do with the wording. I Am Miami is seen by some students as individualistic, which combats the notion of the initiative — to establish a greater sense of togetherness.

When I Am Miami was initially presented to the community, people started asking questions and no one seemed to have definitive answers, so they became skeptical, Tyman said.

He said overall, faculty, staff and students agree to what I Am Miami stands for — respect, dignity, honor and tradition — but Tyman was not easily convinced the I Am Miami initiative was the best way to portray these values, especially because no students were involved in creating the initiative in the first place.

“Right now, it’s currently still in the ownership of student affairs and it needs to become a student-run initiative. I think that’s the most important part,” Gnaegy said.

According to Gnaegy and Tyman, ASG hopes to bring the initiative to the students, empowering them to take ownership of the values within the Code of Love

Miami University students have happily welcomed the addition of the winter term to the university’s calendar. With a total student enrollment increase of 29 percent from last J-term, the administration sees the addition as an overall success.

According to Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs David Sauter, there are changes being made to this upcoming winter term. “[There will be] increased online and hybrid classes, more study abroad and more entrepreneurial offerings by faculty” Sauter said.

Sauter said both students and faculty have found the additional term to be beneficial.

“If you research the report from 2014 winter term, you will see greater than 90 percent approval by faculty and students,” Sauter said. “Over 3,300 registered across all campuses, across the United States and across the world. The drop and withdraw rate was also less than a typical term.”

As of Nov. 3, the Office of the Registrar reported a total of 3,943

students registered for 5,128 sections — a total of 15,135 credit hours for the winter term across all Miami campuses.

Out of the 3,943 students registered for winter courses, only 1,787 of them are meeting in a classroom.

According to Sauter, there has also been the addition of 0 credit hour classes offered during the Winter Term. These were created and approved by the University Senate for all independent work and internships.

“The purpose is for students who wish to have a record on their academic transcript, but not to take a class for one or more credit hours, can do so,” said Sauter.

Sophomore Danielle Croff took advantage of Miami’s extra semester in its debut year, taking Business 102 in order to make additional room for other classes in her fall schedule. Croff said she highly values the extra semester. “[J-term] helps to get one or two classes in that you couldn’t fit in during the normal semester,” Croff said. “I am really involved at Miami so I don’t like to take more than 15 credit hours. J-term helps me stay on time and sometimes ahead.”

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Internships ‘virtually’ anywhere Virtual internships provide global opportunities on college campuses JOBS ALISON TREEN

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Monica Komer’s Facebook and Twitter pages don’t look like the accounts of most Miami students.

Pictures of protests and civil rights flood her screen, and almost all of the captions and comments are in Arabic. Although the junior International Studies and Journalism double major has studied Arabic for a few years, her social media isn’t set up this way as a mere language-learning tool.

Komer is one student among many who is involved in the growing field of virtual internships. While the traditional idea of an internship usually involves shadowing or office work during the summer, virtual internships have become popular among students for their convenience and opportunities.

Komer is a Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) eIntern for the U.S. Department of State’s Embassy in Bahrain. She spends about six hours a week monitoring social media to gather current events to share with her boss, a Foreign Service Officer at the Embassy who writes the annual human rights report for the country.

To stay up-to-date with current events in Bahrain, Komer reads state newspapers, follows international human rights organizations and has separate Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts for her research where she follows the small, Middle-Eastern country’s activists.

She also has to use a fake name to avoid possible political

for it. I was a little nervous at first; I think I was expecting the worst, but it really hasn’t been too much of a transition once I started the internship.”

Komer cited many benefits of her nine-month internship, especially the flexibility. Because her internship is entirely online, besides a weekly phone call to her boss, she is able to balance

You can do [a virtual internship] from wherever ...

It’s a good networking tool without having to go anywhere.”

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consequences, as Bahrain is a monarchy that does not tolerate political autonomy.

Komer said this gives meaning to her work.

“If it wasn’t for people like me, nobody would know that this person got arrested or beaten or something,” Komer said. “It’s nice to feel like you’re doing something meaningful.”

While Komer loves her work, she said she was not always so sure about it.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” she said. “It was probably the first virtual internship I’d ever heard of before and I just went

schoolwork and the internship, even while she studies abroad next semester.

“You can do [a virtual internship] from wherever, you can do the work at your own time, and it’s a good networking tool without having to go anywhere,” she said.

Komer also said the expense, or lack thereof, is another bonus.

While VSFS eInterns are unpaid, they do not lose money by participating. Traditional internships on the other hand, even unpaid ones, usually require some financial input including transportation, housing and meals.

Although virtual internships are convenient, they also come with drawbacks.

Komer, who also had a traditional internship in Washington, D.C., said that one of the largest contrasts between her former and current internships is the face-to-face aspect.

“It might be more difficult to get that personal connection so you have to reach out to make sure you are,” she said in regards to virtual internships.

This is likely the most striking difference between traditional and virtual internships, but Gabriele Bechtel, director of Miami’s Professional Writing department, expanded further.

“There is no immediate work environment, which means the intern may have a very sketchy or even distorted idea of the environment that exists at the other end of the line,” she said. “Interns may experience stress and frustration especially when there are communication problems.”

However, Bechtel also acknowledged the benefits of digital experience. “[Virtual internships] can help build good online communication skills that are vital in many areas because a lot of the work people do today is being remotely done,” INTERNSHIP »PAGE 8

Ben Rector croons for clean water CHARITY LIBBY MUELLER

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Senior Jordan Griebner started The Wells Project, the college branch of nonprofit organization Living Water International, as a first-year at Miami University. The Wells Project aims to raise awareness and funds toward ending the water crisis for the 730 million people worldwide without access to clean water. When she first started the organization, she never imagined it would bring Ben Rector, a soft rock singer-songwriter, to campus.

The MU Treblemakers opened for Ben Rector, who put on a concert for a roomful of cheering fans on Saturday, Nov. 8. in the Armstrong Student Center Pavilion. But he was not there simply to play good music; he was also kicking off The Wells Project 10 Days Campaign.

“The 10 Days is a really simple campaign where we ask you to sacrifice a little of your own comfort so people can have life-saving clean water,” Griebner said. “For 10 days, we challenge you to drink only water and give up that pumpkin spice latte or that afternoon pop WELLS »PAGE 8

Miami program ‘AIMS’ for technological advancement TECHNOLOGY MATT HARTSHORN

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Miami University’s Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies (AIMS) occupies a section of the second floor of Laws Hall, but to many students, the AIMS Center is somewhat of a mystery.

Professor Glenn Platt, the director of the AIMS Center, believes interactive media is important to every field of study.

“Interactive media studies is an interdisciplinary field,” he said. “We’re interested in how digital technology is disrupting traditional disciplines.”

That means that the AIMS Center’s focus is on how other majors are impacted by changing technology.

That was part of the reason the AIMS Center first started at Miami in 1995.

“The economy changed, and it was no longer sufficient to specialize in one field,” Platt said.

“Students needed a broad context, including an understanding of digital workings.”

Miami’s interactive media program’s wide range of applications makes it unlike any other program on campus.

The AIMS Center has several divisions that design and work with digital technology. Some

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Interactive media studies majors senior Jeremy Brinling (left) and senior Brian Beebe (right) ride a virtual roller coaster on a new virtual reality device called Oculus Rift in the Armstrong Interactive Media Studies Center. include game design, user interfaces, and digital marketing and business.

One of these centers is the Smale Interactive Visualization Center, which is concerned with 3-D images, video and motion capture. Professor Eric Hodgson is the director of the Smale Center, which is one of just a handful of other technological centers that focus on projects in mobile development, augmented reality, usability and educational gaming.

The Smale Center has a variety of technology, including handson digital nursing training and 3-D immersive virtual reality with a technology called Oculus Rift. The technology involves a

head-mounted set of “goggles” that allow the user to see a fully developed, virtual world.

One of the programs is a roller coaster running through a medieval village, and the visuals can cause feelings of uneasiness.

“We’ve had some people fall to the ground,” Hodgson said.

Another of the programs involves a constantly changing environment. When you look away from one area, the images change and a new world appears.

“It’s poised to be the next big thing in entertainment,” Hodgson said.

Facebook recently acquired Oculus Rift, and it and other virtual reality systems are shaping up to

be the next frontier in gaming.

Another technology at the Smale Center involves 3-D walking through the solar system, where you can spend time floating in the middle of the asteroid belt or admiring the rings and moons of Saturn.

Also, a hands-on training program for nurses teaches how to properly take care of a contaminated patient.

Students can become involved with the AIMS Center in many ways. Beside the interactive media major, there is also a comajor, minor, graduate studies and an MFA. “We have 65 different section offerings, 300 plus majors and

minors, one thousand students in our classes a year,” Platt said.

Student organizations and paid work are also available for interested students. IMS classes are held in various buildings across campus and are open to all students during open registration.

The Center also does a San Francisco program where students can spend a semester in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley working with startup companies.

Many more opportunities are on the horizon.

“In the near future, we plan to add a major in games and expand the San Francisco program to Cincinnati and Chicago in January 2015 and then New York and Austin in January 2016,” he said.

“We’re also looking to add more faculty and client projects.”

Client projects are a big part of the work done at that AIMS Center. Faculty and students have helped students such as Coca-Cola and Home Depot with digital work. Recently, AIMS assisted the CDC with an Ebola training program for nurses.

Director Platt welcomes students of all majors and if they are interested in AIMS, he can help them find a client project to assist with. He would like to see involvement from more students, in a field that has relevance for all majors today.

“It’s the foreign language everyone needs to know,” he said.

African Students’ Union to host second politics colloquium EVENT ROSIE CONNOR

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The second annual African Politics Colloquium will take place at 5 p.m. Nov. 13 in Pavilion C of the Armstrong Student Center. Miami University’s African Students’ Union (ASU) has invited Charles Romain Mbele to speak about neoliberalism, development and poverty in the Central African country of Cameroon.

Mbele is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, a community graduate school in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon.

“It is a great opportunity for students to listen to a new speaker about

a new topic and have a completely new and enlightened perspective on the world,” said Kimberly Agyekum, the special events chair of the ASU. “Usually people study abroad to become more culturally diverse, but now a piece of the study abroad experience is coming to you.”

Last year, the Ambassador of Senegal visited campus for the inaugural African Politics Colloquium, but president of ASU Lorraine Kudayah decided to change it up this year and invite a professor to speak at the event.

To select the guest speaker, the president and the ASU faculty adviser, John Cinnamon, narrowed down the potential speakers and had the organization’s executive committee vote for the final candidate.

Cinnamon and Mbele worked closely together in Cameroon several years ago, which is how the ASU was able to host him at Miami this year.

It is a great opportunity for students to ... have a completely new and enlightened perspective on the world.”

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In addition to the relationship between Cinnamon and Mbele, the help from the Family Special Events Fund solidified Mbele’s visit to Miami.

“Professor Charles Mbele already

had a trip planned to visit a conference in Indiana, so we asked him if he would like to make a pit stop while in America,” Kudayah said. “We are very lucky to have him here.”

The ASU has been on Miami’s campus for many years and currently has over 40 members, including students from the U.S., China and Africa.

The organization works to promote awareness of the diverse cultures within the continent of Africa.

The group strives to build bridges with other communities, organizations and programs to give students, staff and faculty the opportunity to discuss the issues of Africa, and host culturally rich events on campus.

“Joining the ASU is a great way to learn in depth about the politics,

culture and people of Africa, while meeting new people from all over the world,” Kudayah said.

Anyone with an interest in African affairs is welcome to attend the free event, Kudayah said; however, the ASU especially marketed the event toward the international studies, political science, French and black world studies departments.

Kudayah said she hopes the second Annual African Politics Colloquium will promote cultural awareness to the Miami campus.

“I want people to attend the event because it teaches politics and shows new perspectives about Cameroon,” she said, “but it also introduces topics about what is currently going on in the world along with the continent of Africa.”

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Walmart to sell halal meat option BUSINESS SAMMIE MILLER

COMMUNITY EDITOR

Upon the request of Muslim students at Miami University, Walmart recently made the decision to provide halal-certified meat at the Oxford location.

Store manager Elijah Woodard made a formal announcement on Oct. 21 that the store would be accomodating these requests.

“I appreciated the students bringing this interest to our attention,” Woodard said. “I am pleased to announce that we have set a halal meat section in the store.”

According to Woodard, the order for the halal meat was made immediately and would only take a few days for the first shipment to arrive.

In Arabic, the word “halal” means permissible. Halal meat is meat that has been slaughtered according to Islamic law, as laid out in the Qu’ran.

This particular type of slaughter is called dhabiha and requires that an

animal’s throat be slit swiftly with a sharp blade to ensure as little pain and suffering as possible. While this is being done, the person with the blade says a prayer to Allah, or at the very least invokes the name of Allah to bless the animal and give thanks for the food.

According to visiting assistant professor Tareq Hasan Khan, there has never been a location in Oxford that sold this type of meat.

“For halal meat, we needed to drive from Oxford to Cincinnati, around 40 miles one way, almost every week,” Khan said. “This long drive is very tiresome and takes about two hours only to go to Cincinnati and return back.”

Between Khan and members of the Muslim Student Association (MSA), efforts were made to convince Walmart to provide the Halal meat. Many students reached out directly to the management at Walmart.

In addition, a petition was passed around on the Internet. The petition acquired nearly 50 signatures and was directed at all Oxford grocers

including MOON co-op and Kroger.

Thus far, Walmart is the only provider who has responded to the requests of the Muslim students.

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“It is already hard to live in the United States as a Muslim, sophomore Rami Abu-Attiyeh said. “I would like to see halal food offered to students making it more convenient for them to have more options when it comes to eating at Miami University.”

According to Khan, the number of Muslim students and staff who come to Oxford to attend Miami University increases every year. Many of these people also have families with children to provide for, which is

hard to do when meat is so unavailable. For Muslim students living on campus, many have found it to be increasingly difficult to find halal options.

Senior Saara Khalid said that as a Muslim, it is hard to find halal options on campus, especially for those students who do not wish to be vegetarians.

In addition, students requested specific brands of halal meat to be provided in Oxford grocery stores.

“Since the Halal chicken and meat has to be certified, we strongly recommend the local stores to sell chicken products from Crescent Foods and beef products from Midamar,” Khan said.

Both of these brands are popular choices among the Muslim community.

Sophomore Trevor Snyder was more than happy to sign the petition that would make life easier for Muslim students on Miami’s campus.

“I signed because buying food should be convenient for everyone,” Snyder said.

Poetter loss disappoints Area democrats unhappy with election results ELECTION

and a half mile model train display for guests.

“This Event continues to delight the young and old alike,” Steve Ramsey, one of the event planners and member of the Butler County, Ohio Life with MS Group, said. “41 trains take the tracks through villages, carnivals, ski slopes, fireworks and many other wonderful scenery to amaze anyone coming to visit.”

According to Ramsey, Hoelzer’s home is filled with a modern art collection including works from Picasso, Rembrandt and Dali. He also has a huge collection of sports memorabilia including rooms of his home dedicated to Bengals, Reds, Steelers and Miami University. There is a video game room provided to entertain children attending the event with their parents.

The cost for the event is $10 per adult and $5 per child under ten. In addition to viewing Hoelzer’s home guests can enjoy baked goods and hot chocolate. On each day of the event raffle items including an iPad will be given away to guests.

Democrats around the country were discouraged Nov. 4 when many of their candidates lost elections — including Miami University’s Tom Poetter, a professor who ran for Congress against Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Many of the races were close, but according to the United States Elections Project, just 36.4 percent of eligible Americans voted, and numbers across the state mirrored this as 36.2 percent of Ohioans cast their ballots.

On Miami’s campus, many were cncerned with the fact Poetter did not campaign on campus, thus limiting students’ awareness and interest in his campaign.

Poetter’s response was fairly simple: it is against the law.

“As a state employee, you’re not allowed to use your state position to advance your political campaign, which I never did,” he said. “I can’t just set up a rally.”

Poetter said he was allowed to be invited to different schools and organizations, and he was. However, due to the short political season, and the fact that there are only eight weeks between the beginning of school and Election Day, it was very difficult to do sufficient campaigning within the university community.

In fact, only 38 percent (185,000 people) of general populous in Butler County showed up to vote — a significantly lower turnout than the 45 percent (210,000 people) in 2010.

Nevertheless, midterm elections usually produce low numbers nationwide, but the lack of voter turnout was more drastic for students, with many reporting they did not vote.

According to the Butler County Board of Elections, of the 4,546 people eligible to vote at Miami’s Shriver Center, only 219 cast a ballot.

Charlie Meyer, Chairman of the College Republicans, said although some Miami students did vote, he believes there is a lot more work to be done.

“I think we’re better than some campuses, but I think there’s a long

way to go for all the millennial generation,” he said. “I don’t think we vote nearly enough compared to the baby boomers and older generations. It’s really sad because we’re going to have to deal with a lot of the problems that we have to face in the future financially.”

Poetter said people will go to the polls for certain reasons, as well as stay away for certain reasons, but it may be more difficult for students.

“Not all students are going to vote, whether it be absentee because they live far way or they’re in transition with a new address,” he said. “It’s just really difficult.”

Junior Ari Simone, who did not vote in the 2014 Midterm Election, believed the lack of student voters was due to insufficient knowledge about the issues.

“I think a lot of kids don’t feel like voting in midterms is important because they either don’t know who’s running, or they don’t think it applies to them,” she said. “We live in on college campus, so things like taxes don’t really apply to us yet.”

Junior Lakia Kidd said voting should be made easier and more accessible to students. Although she was aware Oxford residents and off-campus students were able to vote at either Talawanda Middle School or Talawanda High School, she said she would have preferred a closer location.

“I don’t understand why there was no station for off-campus voters,” she said. “It would have been a lot easier had the voting been available to us in Shriver, as well.”

Kidd, who did not vote this year either, said a main factor in her staying home was because she was not aware of the issues and felt it would be wrong to vote for something she was uneducated about.

However, similar to Meyer, senior Jake Harvey said although certain issues may not apply to students now, they should do research and think about the future.

“I just think students don’t vote because of laziness and they don’t realize that they can make a difference,” he said. “However, Miami students would benefit from voting because their voice would be heard, and we will be paying taxes on our own before the next midterm.”

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NIGHT RUN Students gather in Uptown Park to run the Phi Chi 5K Glow Run/Walk on Wednesday, Nov. 5.

Holiday event to raise funds for MS patients EVENT SAMMIE MILLER

COMMUNITY EDITOR

The Butler County, Ohio Life with MS Group will host a Holiday Train Display Dec. 6 and 7 as part of the community’s efforts to raise money and awareness for those living with multiple sclerosis.

According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the disease affects more than 2.3 million people worldwide. Multiple sclerosis (MS) involves an immune-mediated process in which an abnormal response of the body’s immune system is directed against the central nervous system (CNS), which is made up of the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves.

The Holiday Train Display will be open to all students and community members during the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. during both of the event’s designated dates.

During this event, Ned Hoelzer, a local accountant and former Miami University professor will open his home to display his two

IN THE NEWS OXFORD Massage parlor busted for prostitution

Man found shot to death in vehicle

Asian Spa, located on Hamilton-Middletown Road, was busted for giving customers more than just massages.

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The man, found found in car on Bigelow Avenue, suffered a single gunshot wound to the head.

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Pot in NYC may soon warrant just a ticket, not an arrest It was announced that the city will change its policy on small amounts of marijuana.

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U.S., China agrees to new visa policy The agreement will allow citizens to travel between the two countries for up to 10 years on a single visa.

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POLICE BEAT Costume brawl at Brick Street At 5 p.m. Thursday, an officer went to the lobby of OPD in response to a female student who wished to make a report. She stated that she was involved in an altercation in the middle of the dance floor at Brick Street Bar around 1 a.m. on the previous Sunday.

She said that an individual dressed as Little Bo Peep approached her and hit her with her decorative cane and began pushing the victim. She stated that at some point, someone held her hands behind her back and Little Bo Peep punched her in the nose. The victim then went to McCullough Hyde Hospital, where she was informed her nose was broken.

The only other identifier the victim had was that the female suspect may have had brown hair. Little Bo Peep is still at large, presumably in Oxford.

Docile tresspasser just wants to be held At 3:50 a.m. Sunday, an officer responded to a home on Withrow in regard to a trespassing male student. The male was in a bedroom toward the back of the house and had a laceration on his chin which was bleeding heavily. When asked for identification, he produced a passport. He was extremely unsteady and required help standing still. He was unsure how much alcohol he had consumed but stated it was “a lot.” He also stated he was at his sister’s house on East Walnut, and called the officer a liar when the officer informed him that he was five blocks away from that location.

He then stated he was scared and asked the officer to hold him. The officer declined. The resident stated she had seen him on the porch, and when he saw her door open he entered the residence and immediately went to the back room.

He was not aggressive, and the female was not interested in pressing charges. The male was charged with Disorderly Conduct and Public Intoxication and transported to McCullough Hyde.

Third time’s the arrest At 11:06 p.m. Friday, officers were sent to Brick Street Bar to respond to an irate male who stated he had been kicked out of the bar “because [he was] black.” The officers advised him to go to another bar and left. At 11:26 p.m., dispatch received another call from the same individual. The officers arrived and told him 911 is for emergencies only, and he stated that it was an emergency because his civil rights were being violated. The officers warned the male to cease calling 911 unless it was an emergency or he could be arrested. At 11:52 p.m. dispatch received a third call from the male, though he did not speak and hung up on the dispatcher. The officers once again went to Brick Street, where the male stated he had not called 911 a third time, but later admitted he accidentally had when the officer checked his call history.

The officers took the male into custody and found a small bag of marijuana on the male’s person. He was charged with Misuse of 911 System and Drug Possession and transported to Butler County Jail.

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Churchill’s granddaughter carries legacy to Oxford EVENT MADELEINE LAPLANTE-DUBE

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Tuesday brings with it the second round of speeches at Miami given by Celia Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill.

Churchill, who was revered and widely respected in retrospect for his exceptional leadership as the UK’s Prime Minister during 19401945 at the height of World War II, and again from 1951-1955, will be examined through lenses that will look at him as not one entity, but many; that he was both a worldwide leader in a coalition, and also “Grandfather.”

At 4 p.m. in the Miami University Art Museum, Sandys will be covering the beloved hobby of the Churchill in her lecture “Painting as a Pastime.”

She will follow with “The Power of Words,” a 7 p.m. speech given in Taylor Auditorium, Farmer School of Business, as a reflection on Churchill’s astonishing and applicable leadership skills.

The main idea of the lecture series is to get a glimpse of Churchill’s humanity.

“I think I’m very lucky to have the chance to be able to tell people about my grandfather, who now very much is in the history books,” Sandys said. “So if I can bring him to life a bit because I knew him, I’m lucky to be able to do it.”

Sandy has authored five books detailing Churchill’s life.

“Winston Churchill saved Western civilization. Some people may argue about it, but he quite literally did that,” said Justin Reash, Miami graduate, chapter coordinator and recent addition to The Churchill Centre, the organization sponsoring the lecture series.

Reash has been responsible for rebranding and modernizing The Churchill Centre.

“It was founded in the 60s as a [group of] people that collected Winston Churchill stamps — then someone was said, ‘Well let’s start meeting together,’ and then we [eventually] had a magazine that

came out of that,” Reash said.

The legacy of Churchill, however, remains in the hands of later generations. The goal of The Churchill Centre is to preserve that legacy, and in order for that to be possible it has to be accessible to younger people.

“Students don’t want to pay for anything,” Reash said. “When I was a student I wanted to drink beer and I had absolutely no money, so I said we need to give students free stuff.”

The Centre provides free registration and gives out free books and magazines as a way to break down barriers between the younger generation and the older. The Churchill Centre is a point of convergence between what we have learned about leadership as a human race and how we can apply that knowledge, Reash said.

Sandys is the bridge between the two ideas.

Painting as a pastime became a meditation for Churchill.

“It gave him a way to relax and a way to escape from all the pressures that were going on around him. He lived a very pressurized life. He used to call his moments of depression his ‘Black Dog,’ and so this was his relief from [it],” Sandys said.

The stories behind some of Winston Churchill’s 500 finished canvases will be explained at 4 p.m. in the Art Museum, not lacking some fun facts.

“He painted a famous painting [when he was] in Morocco, which actually Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie own,” Reash said.

For The Power of Words, Sandys’ 7 p.m. lecture, Sandys hints, “I’m not going to say the speeches; he’s going to help me.”

The depth of the relationship between Churchill and the rest of his family cannot be fully articulated CONNOR MORIARTY THE MIAMI STUDENT

[Painting] gave [Churchill] a way to relax and a way to escape from all the pressures that were going on around him. He lived a very pressurized life.”

“I don’t consider myself to be a historian,” Sandys said. “I try to write about areas of my grandfather’s life which other people haven’t touched on, really. And I’ve been lucky that I’ve found various areas that have been pretty well virgin territory. For me that’s exciting and fun.”

In her journeys and adventures chasing Churchill’s legacy beyond that of a grandfather, Sandys’ highlighting of Churchill as a painter turns out to be as much of a part of the man’s identity as leading an entire country through a World War. “In the lowest point of his life, my grandfather discovered painting,” she recounted. “This was during WWI, after the big disaster in Gallipoli. One day he picked up one of his children’s paint boxes and started playing with it, and then decided he would try painting. And he loved it.”

CELIA SANDYS

CHURCHILL’S GRANDDAUGHTER

in an article.

Sandys’ lecture series will shed at least a little bit of light on the man — not the just the Prime Minister, but the man — that Winston Churchill was.

“Celia is actually quite like her grandfather in many ways,” Reash said. “When you see her at these presentations, she’s just so believable because she was there, because it happened. I think she really will connect with students.

Just the way she is — I can’t really explain it to be honest with you. She just has a presence, it’s very powerful.”

If viewers take away only one thing from her two-day series, Sandys said she hopes it will be “what [Churchill] said to the boys of Harrow, his old school, during the war when they’d been bombed, which is ‘never, never, never give in.’”

Timeflies comes ‘All The Way’ back to Brick MUSIC RACHEL TRACY

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Timeflies first performed at Miami in the spring of 2011. And since, they have ranked second on iTunes charts for their September 2011 album “The Scotch Tape.”

Timeflies is returning to Brick Street Wednesday.

Timeflies is a music duo that uploads covers and freestyle raps on YouTube every Tuesday. Cal Shapiro and Rob Resnick met at Tufts University in 2007 at a party. Resnick, also known as “Rez,” asked Shapiro to join his funk band, The Ride. After The Ride broke up, Rez and Shapiro stayed together and created their own music style.

“Miami is our favorite school to play at,” Shapiro said. “Our first time performing there was at Green Beer Day in 2011.”

You may know Timeflies from their freestyles they have done.

Normally, they will put topics in a hat and Shapiro will rap as

he pulls out the topics. Some of their most popular freestyles include their cover of “Cool Kids,” “Wayward Sons” and “Don’t Stop Believing.”

“I have a real problem remembering words,” Shapiro said. “So, my fall back is free styling.”

Those attending the concert will be streamed on TimefliesLive.com and have the opportunity to type in a freestyle topic. This topic will pop up on a screen inside Brick Street that Shapiro will rap about.

This concert sold out online within minutes, but Mark Weisman, owner of Brick Street, said there will be some tickets still available the day of the concert.

“We work in a studio for hours,” Resnick said. “To hear thousands of people sing those songs is awesome.”

Shapiro and Resnick say this concert is going to be bigger than their past performances at Miami.

“It’s going to be the best party of our whole tour,” Shapiro said. “Brick Street is our favorite venue to play at because they do something every year to improve

it. They don’t let the bar wear down, they keep making it better. Plus the girls there are very good looking.”

Shapiro and Rez look forward to going to Bagel & Deli and getting the Crunch and Munch while in Oxford.

“Anytime you put Doritos in anything is just awesome,” Shapiro said.

In the next two to three years fans can expect to see more music being produced that is bigger and better than before.

“Performing up on stage is like the end of ‘Toy Story’ for an hour,” Shapiro said.

“It’s like the speech in ‘Braveheart,’” Rez added. “It’s indescribable” Miami students are eager for the performance as well.

“I am so overly excited for this concert,” Katrina Wagner, Miami sophomore, said. “I have been a fan for years and I am so excited they take the time to perform here for us students.”

Tickets will be available the day of the concert at Brick Street.

Doors open at 8 p.m.

EVENTS NOVEMBER 11

NOVEMBER 17

Global Holiday Party

Classical Counterparts Concert

NOVEMBER 17

B.o.B Concert

7 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

8 p.m.

ASC Pavillion

OCAC

Brick Street Bar

CHORDS FOR A CAUSE Ben Rector performs at the 10 Days Kickoff Concert Saturday at ASC, which raised nearly $2,000 for The Wells Project’s initiative to provide Rwanda with clean water.

‘Interstellar’ soars above expectations FILM BRITTON PERELMAN STAFF WRITER

I have never wanted to be an astronaut. Even so, there’s still something intriguing to me about what lies beyond Earth. Maybe we’ve all been told too often that when we grow up we can be astronauts, but the pull away from Earth, to worlds we don’t inhabit, is ingrained in our society. “Interstellar” is the cinematic evidence of this.

Christopher Nolan’s latest epic is set in the distant future, when crops are dying and Earth is telling the human race to leave. A thick layer of dust has covered everything; the hope people once felt, the adventure of the unknown and the truth about past space explorations. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and his daughter Murphy (Mackenzie Foy; Jessica Chastain) uncover NASA’s hidden facilities using data from a gravitational anomaly in Murph’s bedroom. After meeting with an old professor (Michael Caine) and realizing he has no other option, Cooper makes the difficult decision to leave his family behind and travel with a team of scientists to explore other viable planets in order to find a new home for humanity.

Cinematically, this movie is astounding. The otherworldly landscapes and footage of outer space are gorgeous. Hans Zimmer’s score, though overpowering at times, beautifully accompanies each scene. The cinematography and editing is impeccable.

Nolan’s precision and care as a filmmaker is evident in every individual shot, each perfectly composed, staged, set to music and edited.

Though the premise is entirely grounded in science, “Interstellar” is, at its core, a movie about emotions, the human connections we have with one another, and our will to survive. It’s chock full of physics, astronomy and scientific theories I have no hope of understanding, but there’s an emotional poignancy behind everything.

Without realizing it, this film proves just how deeply our basic humanity is intertwined with science. I didn’t need to comprehend quantum physics or the reality of wormholes and black holes to understand what Cooper was feeling as he explored the universe.

That’s the wonderful thing about

emotions — they’re universal.

The characters were lacking, though this wasn’t something that proved detrimental to the film in the long run. McConaughey was at his best during emotional scenes, saying goodbye to his daughter, watching messages from his son after returning from a particularly harsh planet, driving away from his family. The scenes with his 10-year-old daughter (Mackenzie Foy) are by far the most heart wrenching of the entire three hours. Many of the other characters, like scientist Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), were underdeveloped and narrowly focused. The characters could have been more intricate and complex, but this story wasn’t primarily about the characters, it was about the journey they took.

This film proves just how deeply our basic humanity is intertwined with science.”

BRITTON PERELMAN

STAFF WRITER

“Interstellar” is intelligent and complex. It’s an experience, a fresh and innovative example of our obsession with space travel.

There’s more to it than there seems to be and a second viewing only makes it better, trust me.

Like any movie that attempts to explain how we move through time, “Interstellar” will have you scratching your head and questioning what you believe long after you leave the theater. Everything you’d expect from a Nolan film (“Inception,” “Memento,” “The Prestige”) is there; it’s immersive, thought provoking and just begging to be talked about on the car ride home. Bottom line — it’s what cinema should be. It reminds me of why I want to make movies myself.

I like to think of some films as roller coasters, and this is one of them. Christopher Nolan asks you to suspend belief, trust that it’s going somewhere worthwhile, that you didn’t wait in line for nothing. And you didn’t because “Interstellar” is one hell of a ride.

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and Honor.

ASG plans to develop a fund for students and student organizations that hold events reflecting the I Am Miami ideals. The idea is to incorporate the values Miami students hold into big events in order to foster a deeper sense of what it means to be a part of this community.

“This is an amazing institution and so everyone that goes here should feel that they have some role in making Miami as amazing as it is and that’s why I am Miami is important,” Tyman said. “That’s why the spirit of I Am Miami is something we should promote.”

Jayne Brownell, the Vice President for Student Affairs and a member of the I Am Miami committee, agreed students are the key to the initiative’s success.

“I really do believe it is not going to be part of the culture until students define it for themselves,” Brownell said.

When speaking with the

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As the footage shows, it definitely worked in Millett’s Assembly Hall. Gnaegy recalls the audience listening to Art’s soaring tenor in complete silence.

“You could hear a pin drop in Millett,” she said.

Over the years, Miami grad Nancy Shank Peltier (’73) recalls telling all of her children about the experience. Twenty-seven years after the concert, Nancy’s daughter made a surprising discovery during her freshman year at Ohio University.

“She stopped to check a street vendor’s merchandise one day and was amazed to find a cassette tape of the concert,” she recalled. “As she bought it, she told the vendor her mother had been there.”

Although the official recordings of the concert and the footage included in “The Harmony Game” label the date of the concert as Nov. 11, 1969, advertisements for the event from The Miami Student say that it was actually held on Sunday, Nov. 9. A photo from the concert also appeared on the front page of the Nov. 11 is-

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incoming class of 2018, Brownell challenged them to take responsibility for I Am Miami and what it means to belong to the university community.

This means standing up for what is right and trying to fix what it wrong, enacting change where change is necessary and inspiring others to do the same.

At convocation, students received holographic cards with the Code of Love and Honor, as well as pins. They also received shirts with the code. I Am Miami was integrated into the first-year bonfire and pep rally through speeches.

It has not received sustained attention, however, throughout the rest of the year.

According to Gnaegy, underclassmen received the I Am message, a pin and were told this is how we conduct ourselves here, but they weren’t really seeing it on campus.

One area exists that has outshined the others in promoting the I Am Miami values, according to Deedie Dowdle, associate VP for

university communications and marketing and an I Am Miami committee member.

Miami’s athletic department has taken several steps to present this challenge to student-athletes, including a KNH class that teaches students about I Am Miami, as well as a bystander training program called Step Up, run by the Hawks Peer Health educators to teach intervention skills for risky situations where college students may find themselves.

Such situations include preventing potential sexual assault or alcohol poisoning.

Jennie Gilbert, an I Am Miami committee member in athletics, stressed the education aspect of I Am Miami: teaching students intervention skills and embracing cultural differences to create an inclusive environment.

Although the initiative has taken off within the athletic department, it has not garnered as much change within other departments on campus.

A misconception about who is responsible for moving the

initiative forward — students or administration — is slowing the process down.

Dowdle said the administration’s efforts can only go so far.

“What is missing is the participation of student organizations, which is essential to inculcate a culture shift and ongoing internal awareness,” Dowdle said.

Brownell echoed her words.

“We don’t want it to be an administrative mandate. It doesn’t help for me to tell you that you are Miami,” she said. “You have to feel it yourself.”

But, according to Tyman, the administration needs to communicate with the student body in order for I Am Miami to be successful.

Student leaders and organizations have a major role to play in the I Am Miami initiative, according to Tyman.

So far, though, these leaders have not been invited by administration to come to understand exactly what this is.

He said, while ASG supports the initiative and will relay the message to students, the administration

sue with a caption about the record-breaking performance.

“The largest crowd ever to gather in the Assembly Hall (over 11,000) witness the old and the new sounds of a popular Simon and Garfunkel guitar-vocal duo,” it read.

As an article in the Sept.

20, 1969 issue of The Student described, the university hoped to attract large audiences with the concerts at the recently opened Millett Hall since ticket prices would be very low. Even at prices fifty cents higher than the usual fee, tickets to see the hit duo were only $3.50, $4.00 or $4.50.

For years after the S&G concert, Miami’s Millett Hall continued to attract popular musicians from Elton John to Fleetwood Mac to 50 Cent, but something seemed particularly notable to the students who attended Simon and Garfunkel’s concert there during the fall of ’69.

Not only was it during the peak of Simon and Garfunkel’s musical career, it also literally put a spotlight on two friends who were rapidly growing apart. Both hailing from Forest Hills, Queens, Paul and

Art have been friends since grade school. They met acting in a performance of “Alice in Wonderland.”

Paul was the White Rabbit and Art was the Cheshire Cat. They recorded their first song together at age 15, a minor hit called “Hey, Schoolgirl” that they released under the names Tom and Jerry.

Speculation still clouds their onagain-off-again partnership, but, according to Garfunkel, the main reason behind their official split in 1970 was his temporary move to Mexico for a role in the film “Catch 22.” Simon was originally cast in the film as well, but his role was cut from the script.

During their concert at Miami, the duo performed “So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright” a song believed to be a goodbye from Simon to Garfunkel who, before he decided to pursue music as his career, was an architecture major at Columbia University.

Simon cleverly used the name of famous architect Wright to allude to his impending separation from Art. Ironically, Art sings the melody of this song alone.

“I remember the nights we’d harmonize ‘til dawn. I’d never laughed

so long, so long, so long,” he sang.

The concert also fell during a time of social and political unrest. “Songs for America,” a CBS special filmed in part at the Miami performance, prompted many families to turn off their television sets when they realized it was not just an entertainment special; it was an anti-war political statement.

“It was my freshman year,” Peltier remembered. “What a year it turned out to be with the draft lottery, ROTC building sit-in, and the shootings at Kent; but that fall was still a time of innocence.”

The lyrics of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” that thousands of Miami students had the privilege to hear live for the very first time 45 years ago, delivered a very relevant message of hope. Even though Simon had once called the lyrics too simple, after seeing the how live audiences all over the country reacted to his song, he realized that its power was in its simplicity.

“When darkness comes and pain is all around, like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down. Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down.”

has to be active as well.

“Ultimately, we work for the student body, not the university,” Tyman said. “If the university wants something out there, they can’t expect that we’re just going to take care of it for them.”

ASG is willing to spearhead the efforts by establishing the I Am Miami fund as well as having a kick-off event, which, Gnaegy said, could be something like bringing a panel of Miami alumni to share their experiences at Miami and what it means to them to be a part of the Miami community.

As for now, Gnaegy said, “I am Miami” is a buzzword, not yet taking on a meaning of its own.

Its success will require collaboration between administration and students, something Brownell described as a “balancing act” with ultimately the same goal: the Miami community taking ownership of the initiative’s values.

“I have heard students say, ‘We didn’t start it,’” Brownell said, “but it’s yours to take, it’s yours to evolve, and that is when there will be success.”

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continue to take classes over the winter term because she finds it helpful to take a smaller number of credit hours — which gives her more time and energy to focus on one or two subjects — as opposed to a full schedule.

“I am taking another Winter Term class this year and I am actually excited about it,” Croff said. “I am only taking one threecredit hour class, and it is my first marketing class so I am happy to do this without the distractions I would have during the regular semester.”

Junior Ariel Wiley also took advantage of the addition of the Winter Term by taking GEO 121.

Wiley said she firmly believes in the continuation of the term.

“I think they need to continue with J-term only for the reason that they do not have enough classes during the semester for all the students here,” said Wiley. “Miami either needs to have more of the same classes taught at different hours or have a higher roster number allowed per class.”

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Voter turnout: So many complain, but so few show up to create change EDITORIAL

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

Last week’s midterm elections brought a troubling issue to our attention at The Miami Student — the utter lack of voter-participation during elections. We find this passiveness disheartening, and we aren’t exempt from our own criticism. When we discussed this issue at length, only three of our Editorial Board members actually cast a ballot last Tuesday.

In fact, in all of Butler County, the voter turnout was a paltry 37 percent. At first we thought that perhaps it was simply that this was a midterm election, and people are always more likely to vote in presidential elections than any other ballot. Unfortunately, statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau show that voter turnout in the last

four presidential elections has been lower than 60 percent.

So, what is causing voters — and from what we’ve seen on campus, college students — to ignore their right to vote?

We scroll through our Facebook and Twitter feeds and see dozens of our friends sharing articles and voicing their opinion on political and social issues as well as their feelings regarding certain politicians. We’ve seen how passionate our generation is in regard to the state of America today. So, why is it that so many of us that shout our opinions in Facebook posts and in class discussions are opting to not vote?

We believe some people find the process too much of a hassle.

phone as we walk to class to learn everything we need to know about issues and candidates.

Today, we don’t even have to wait in long lines at voting locations if we choose to have our ballot mailed to us. So with all this convenience available, and so many people seeming to be frustrated with our lawmakers, it makes absolutely no sense that so few of us voted.

This passive mindset needs to change, and it needs to change quickly. We may not see ourselves as adults yet, but whether we like it or not, we have the right to vote.

By ignoring our power to make change in America, we are saying that we don’t care what happens to our country ­— which is far

from true.

Maybe it is a hassle to mail away for a ballot, or to register to vote in a new state where you attended college, but it is a hassle that our ancestors earned for us and that we should respect. If you have the time to post an article on Twitter or write out a complaint about Congress on Facebook, then you have the time to vote.

Change will only happen if we make it happen, and now it is easier than ever to do just that. The Editorial Board hopes that more people will realize the importance of voting in the future, and that maybe in the next presidential election more than 60 percent will show up to decide the future of the United States.

What Love and Honor should really mean

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Remember veterans, but don’t forget their families As a Veteran, I am very appreciative of the thanks I receive for my service, very often from strangers, and always well-intentioned. I am very proud of my service and Veteran’s Day provides a perfect opportunity for my own personal reflection as well as an opportunity to recognize and remember those that served before, with and beyond me. In our country, military service is viewed as among the most noble, appreciated and respected professions. Countless commercials, videos and articles detail our collective appreciation for brave warriors that voluntarily operate in harms way on a daily basis. We may debate fiercely on whether military action is necessary or appropriate, but we never debate the courage and heroism exhibited by our fellow citizensoldiers. With that, we all will likely thank a Soldier, Airman, Sailor or Marine on Tuesday. For that, I thank you.

My own personal reflection on Veteran’s Day, however, shifts in a different direction. My father served for over 28 years in the Air Force. My older brother still serves in the Navy, approaching 30 years of service. My younger brother just retired from a distinguished career in the Air Force. I served twenty years in the Army. But more significant and meaningful to me is the passing of my mother on Nov. 11, 2008 — Veteran’s Day. My mother raised a family of service members and often did so as the lone parent while Dad was deployed to combat or stationed abroad on a remote assignment. My mother bore the brunt of sleepless nights while her sons were, themselves, deployed into combat. My father never lost sleep over our deployments; he understood, had been there and knew the

For out-of-state students, registering to vote in Ohio might be seen as too complicated. For in state students, some may choose to vote absentee, but never actually follow through with mailing in their ballot.

We at The Miami Student see this as a huge problem in America today. For a country that is so proud of freedom of speech and democracy, it’s shocking that so many of us simply disregard our truly valuable right to vote.

Living in the 21st century gives us more access to information and technology than ever before. We don’t have to sit down and listen to a speech on the radio at a specific time on a pre-determined station. We can quickly scan our

dangers and long ago resolved himself to them. Not so for my mother, who waited daily for a phone call letting her know we were still alive and well. My mother is who I think about on Veteran’s Day. My wife is also who I think about on Veteran’s Day. She filled the same critical role that my mother led for many years, raising our daughters while I was deployed, away for training or working late every night for months at a time.

My family lived in a “new normal” where it was expected that I would be gone for three to 18 months with little notice or time to prepare. It was her patience and adaptability that made my reintegration back into the family upon redeployment possible — allowing me to step in and parent when she had long ago figured out to handle it herself. I think about my sister who married into the Air Force and raised two daughters under similar conditions.

I think about my sister in-law who has raised two sons with my brother deployed more frequently than either of his service siblings. And always, I think about Mom, on Veteran’s Day — a day that celebrates her life and death — and she never put on a uniform.

Thank a Veteran — it is the right thing to do. But, more importantly, make sure you thank a Veteran’s family. They bear scars that are not as visible but just as deep. They bear badges of honor that are not worn on a chest or around a neck, but are just as admirable. Thank the family. Thanks, Sharon, Alex and Jessica. Thanks, Mom.

ERIC F. BULLER

LIEUTENANT COLONEL, U.S. ARMY, (RETIRED)

CAMPUS I looked up what Miami’s ‘Love and Honor’ slogan means and here it is verbatim: “The finest tradition of all being the Love we hold in our hearts for our college day and the Honor we feel in continuing our support of Miami.” It’s a warm, heartfelt sentiment.

Candidly, I thought it would be more of a commentary on the love we have for one another and the honor each Miamian so boldly embodies. I thought it would be a noble appeal to all that we aspire to be. But it’s nothing more than a statement of fact, which, granted, isn’t inherently a bad thing; it just left me flat.

I’m not here to disparage love of college days or the pride we feel in representing Miami — quite the opposite, actually. Instead, I’d like to see the meaning behind our familiar slogan to be extended. Let it be Love for our college days not just because we had fun in college, but also because we loved each other, respected each other. Let it be Honor for the high standards of morality and ethics we reverently observed. Let Love and Honor be not another platitude, a hollow attempt at encapsulating the college experience, but rather let it be declaration to employers, other universities and to each other of the unwavering commitment and dedication we have to a set of ideals.

When you look around campus, do you see Love? Love for the experience, sure, but not necessarily for each other. That Love — the love of the experience — is highly personalized, specialized to the individual, with no prerequisite of inclusion. People walk down the streets of this campus not knowing a single friendly

face, no welcoming smile. Does this seem overly sentimental? Of course. But should it? No. Why is love for one another, even a simple smile, such an audacious notion? Why is it that it’s weirder for a stranger to smile and say hello than it is for one to slam the door on our face or not say “Thank you” when we hold it open for them? Are we really that focused on ourselves that we can’t take the two seconds necessary to make someone’s day a little bit brighter?

When you look around campus, do you see Love? Love for the experience, sure, but not necessarily for each other.”

ERIC NIEHAUS JUNIOR

Nothing would make me feel more Honor in continuing my support of Miami than if Miami came to be known as a place of Love — true Love, not the incredibly narrow and individualized version touted on our website. That is a school I could stand behind. As it is right now — granted, not specific to Miami, alone — there is no Love. I find it incredibly difficult to stand proudly behind a university that has come to be known for discrimination, bullying, hazing, apathy, sexual assault, and the like.

We have some great programs and our teachers are fantastic, but those do little to make up for everything else. Moreover, those positives have hardly anything to do with Love.

What is perhaps most bothersome is not the bullying, not the hazing and not anything else that revolves around negative

action. What is most disappointing is the lack of positive action.

When was the last time a stranger smiled at you? When was the last time someone did anything kind for you with no possibility of repayment?

Farmer is known for being competitive, but I think all of university is competitive. And I think it has left us cold. We see each other as competition, threats to our future. We may verbally wish well, but those seemingly good intentions are undercut but a hidden, but no less potent desire for us to succeed, even at the expense of that very person whom we wished well.

Look, this isn’t difficult. In fact, it might be the easiest, most natural thing we can do. Were we born cold and willingly ignorant of others’ pains? Of course not.

We were born joyful and loving, caring for one another. We’ve been socialized to isolate ourselves and keep a tight circle, lest we get infected with the meek, unsuccessful, or awkward. But that’s crap. The greatest people to have ever lived on this earth included everyone; the worst people excluded.

We’re all Miamians, whether we feel like we fit in or not, so ‘Love and Honor’ applies to each and every one of us. Let’s not have it so that it only means Love of our individual experience and our individual Honors; let’s make it Love of our collective experience and our collective Honor. To teach that Love can be individually experienced is antithetical to the true nature of what Love is. Let’s make love universal, for everyone.

ERIC NIEHAUS

NIEHAUES@MIAMIOH.EDU

What happens when you try too hard to be perfectly and impossibly accomplished AMANDA’S APPROACH LIFE “A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages, to deserve the word [‘accomplished’]; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions.”

—Caroline Bingley, “Pride and Prejudice” This column will be the most perfect column of them all.

Perhaps, you can tell by the use of such a sophisticated opening quote that this column will accomplish something big. You know that one thing you’re superpassionately opinionated about and

nothing could ever slightly alter your perspective on? Prepare for your mind to be eloquently blown via this column. This column will make you really think, and even better, you will sit back and be impressed by the girl whose name is attached to this column.

Or maybe, you won’t. Maybe these words will yield zero results, will have no impact on you, your day or your life; maybe this newspaper won’t even make an audible thump as it hits the bottom of your trash can.

Wait, this isn’t going how I imagined. Would you mind terribly if I start over?

Ahem. So, have you bought the new Taylor Swift album yet? It’s pretty neat ... And now is when I realize I actually have nothing of value to say about the Taylor Swift album.

This is embarrassing. I think this is what happens when I add a few too many espresso shots to my latte.

Let’s move on, shall we? I have a few other ideas for this column, I actually have a long list of many

crazy, life-changing possible topics.

In fact, I briefly considered calling this column, “Things I almost wrote my column about.”

Cue the list, with explanations.

Things I almost wrote my column about: 1. “Why parking on campus sucks.” Because everyone can enjoy a good parking rant.

2. “Why we should all give our Christmas presents to our parents.” Because everyone likes a selfless extremist.

3. “Why bagels are the best.” Because everyone loves carbohydrates.

4. “Why anyone who reads this can have my car.” Because I just want you guys to like me.

See, I had a lot of ideas and each one will accomplish a variety of purposes in one fluid string of sentences, and maybe they will make you think I’m really cool.

But alas, I can’t decide. If I choose the wrong route, I fear I will ruin everyone’s day, I will let the team down, a child somewhere will start

inexplicably crying and I will end up alone and sad at age forty. In a whirlwind of sentence structure and movie references, I am stuck.

What I really want to say is I have no idea what to write about, no clue what I should type here in order to catch your eyeballs, to pull you along and hand over a small slice of insight that will in some way better the way you view the world. And so I start this column seven different ways, having no idea where the words will lead until I arrive here.

I decide that I will decide on none of these options, none of them are bold enough to really convey that big-ness.

Instead, I will set the scene.

My back is resting inside a chair that feels like an invisible hidden corner in a big room. There’s a Bon Iver song tingling in my ears and with the soft curves of a fire, set in its place, burning into my peripheral.

And I’m thinking that this moment is the sum of a series of chance encounters, of well-timed stoplights,

of rainy walks to class, of bad dates and going down the right aisles at the grocery store.

All of it unfolds in a messy, but functional, stack of things I have accomplished and things still on my list. I’m thinking that sometimes the world makes me feel like I could never do enough to please its definitions. I’m thinking about how it’s hard to produce genuinely lifechanging words when you’re trying too hard.

I’m thinking about the odd thing that happens when I start to think this way, when I force myself to look for ways to seem interesting or pretty or impressive to others. I’m thinking about how lost I get when I try to earn the title of accomplished and about the exhausting kind of perfection the world has come to applaud I’m thinking that this column would’ve been a lot better if I hadn’t tried to make it perfect.

AMANDA HANCOCK

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Anonymous letter called out the wrong group MADELEINE’S MATTERS CAMPUS Ah, anonymous letters; the Yik Yak of newspapers. It would be easy to attack the faculty member that submitted a letter to The Miami Student for being a coward who gave up on the purpose of his/ her job, but this letter also brings up the idea that Miami itself is not pulling its weight. For students, the next higher up is the professor, making them the easiest person to take out any anger on. For professors, it’s the administration of Miami.

Colleges are businesses, marketed with the framework of providing exceptional education. The cost of getting this exceptional education for non-Ohio residents at Miami University is currently $41,229, up a couple thousand from when I applied in 2012.

The infamous and extravagant Armstrong Student Center, officially opened in January of 2014, was funded in-part by Miami alumni with donations and costs totaling $53 million. Most obviously crucial to our social experiences in Armstrong are furnishings like the tripod lamps in the main lobby, which cost $1,035 apiece. And apparently, tens more millions will be invested in Armstrong come 2016 and 2017 (numbers taken from reports in the Dayton Daily News).

Meanwhile, Western Campus went through major changes in 2014 with the installations of the new Western Dining Hall, Beechwood, Hillcres, and Stonebridge, complete with fountains and grassy knolls. Sidewalks have been repaved, an indoor athletic building is being erected and Shideler Hall is being remade.

Across the street, the once-lively Shriver Student Center lays an empty shell, which begs the question of the eventual fate of Armstrong. Bachelor Hall, the English building, stands untouched with some of the poorest design on campus in the shadow of the bemarbled Farmer School of Business building (where students have to pay $100 per credit they take in conjunction with the school). On the other side of campus, students who are stressed and depressed have to wait weeks in order to

secure a counseling session with a therapist in the understaffed Health Center. Meal plans are running out because of the slow extinction of buffet-style dining, international students are thrown into classes with the expectation that they have a complete knowledge of the English language and no assistance, and still tuition to attend this school is rising.

What constitutes an education that is labeled as a Public Ivy? Is it the aesthetics of the institution over the quest for knowledge? Because that is what we are seeing as Miami students. Money-making majors are given priority, while departments like the Humanities, who provide some of the most intimate learning experiences, are swept under the rug.

Regardless of the misguided priorities of the Miami administration, however, professors here are given a job: to educate. The goal of English professors especially is to teach an understanding and appreciation of different styles of communication, therefore requiring them to understand and appreciate the different styles of communication they come in contact with.

At the basis of everything — business, science, math, history and English alike — there is transmission, there is writing and there is expression. To work with and sculpt these should be the mission of English department faculty, regardless of the student they will work with, regardless of the time they must allot to them and regardless of the student’s ability with a language. The “lack of engagement” in classrooms by international students as described by the anonymous faculty member is most likely a product of fear and confusion. You see this same lack of engagement in language classes taught to native students.

The ignorant description of international students as “dead weight” is misdirected. It is Miami University’s administrative policy that is the dead weight. A more constructive conversation should redirect its voice in the direction of the administration, rather than stripping international students of their humanity in such a deplorable way.

Words have a destructive power; as a professor, you should realize that by now.

MADELEINE LEPLANTE-DUBE LAPLANMM@MIAMIOH.EDU

RULE OF THUMB AMERICAN PRISONER FREED After being held captive for two years in a North Korean prison, Kenneth Bae returned home to the United States.

SCHEDULING We love making a new schedule and saying goodbye to our current classes, but avoiding a bad wifi connection and fighting for spots can be very stressful.

COLD WEATHER BLUES The more the temperature drops, the more likely we all are to avoid going out with friends in lieu of staying in with a movie and lots of blankets.

BERLIN WALL ANNIVERSARY It has been 25 years since the Berlin Wall fell as citizens of East and West Germany began to freely cross the divide.

DON’T FEED THE HOMELESS? Last week, a 90-year-old man was arrested for feeding a homeless person on a public bench. Then three others were arrested for the same crime. We don’t see why a good deed needs to be punished.

HUNGER GAMES COUNTDOWN We feel like we’ve been waiting forever to see the latest installment in the Hunger Games series, but we’re finally in the homestretch.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Faculty members disagree with anonymous letter As faculty and administrators involved in English language instruction, we strongly disagree with the opinion piece published on Nov. 4, 2014, “Admitting international students for the wrong reasons,” which unfairly and inaccurately characterizes international students as “academically unqualified.”

Far from true. Miami’s international students are unquestionably academically qualified, both in terms of standards for admission and in terms of their performance as students at Miami. International students are admitted based on the same academic requirements as domestic students. Their English language proficiency test scores, required for admission, are generally the same as or higher than those required at other public institutions in the state or at our peer institutions. The international students are not, as a group, “failing or low-performing students.”

Over the past three years, the average GPA for international students has been comparable to that of domestic students. And international students are achieving a comparable level of success while researching, writing and speaking in their non-native language, which to us is an additional marker of intellectual and academic prowess. They bring an incredible skill to the table — bilingualism, even multilingualism — that most other students do not possess.

As teachers we can certainly understand the frustrations faculty sometimes feel with students — domestic and international — who don’t bring to our classes the skills we expect them to have, or whose commitment to learning is questionable or who behave in disrespectful ways. Yes, we have all had some of those students (text messaging during class, chatting at inappropriate times, forgetting to bring homework, etc.), but in our experience these problems are not particular to any one demographic

— male or female, international or domestic, first years or seniors. To characterize any group of students as “unprepared” or “unqualified” is overgeneralized, unfair and biased. To call any group of students or any individual student “dead weight” is simply wrong, and against all tenets of teaching.

Here we must object vehemently to the disrespect the opinion writer is showing to students and to our mission as teachers.

We are uncomfortable with sweeping generalizations about any student groups because, as teachers, we recognize that every one of our students comes to us with varying strengths and assets and also with varying needs.

Our job as teachers is to praise and reinforce their strengths, assess their needs and problems and challenge them to become better. Some students might need more help with science, for others it may be designing digital projects, some struggle with math while others struggle with writing — and for others it may be developing fluency in written and spoken English.

Our international students come to us with strong academic backgrounds, but with varying levels of English proficiency. They are placed into the university system on the basis of that proficiency.

Some enter the American Culture and English program (where they have an intensive semester of English language instruction, both oral and written), some go directly into the English-as-Second-Language (ESL) Composition program in the Department of English, others are not required to take any ESL courses. The function of these entry programs and courses is to help international students develop their English language skills, both speaking and writing, to the level where they can succeed as students at Miami. That they are succeeding at the same level as domestic

students is true. However, it is also true that some international students continue to struggle with their English language proficiencies and need ongoing assistance to become more comfortable in this second language, just as some domestic students struggle with various aspects of their academic study.

From a language standpoint, demanding that learners of English speak and listen and write and read exactly like their American counterparts is unrealistic. Developing and using these skills in a second language is never like acquiring them in a first language.

Certain abilities improve faster than others, and certain features that are assumed to be “basic” by native speakers who have been using a language from infancy are not so basic to someone who took their first steps into the language in middle school. Second language development is an ongoing, lifetime process.

The writer of the Nov. 4 opinion piece claims to “welcome the diversity in the classroom,” but in fact the opposite point of view is dominant in that piece. What is implied throughout the letter is that students coming from nonUS cultural backgrounds and who were raised primarily with languages other than English should be expected to participate in classes in exactly the same ways that students raised in the U.S. who speak primarily (or only) in English do. In other words, they should be American students under different flags. This is not accepting diversity; this is requiring diversity to change to suit the dominant culture. Such a view rejects tangible, substantive diversity, which includes accepting ways of thinking and being that are different and productive. True welcoming of diversity means to engage it respectfully with a willingness LETTER »PAGE 8

Sincerely, TONY CIMASKO, PHD

HEIDI MCKEE, PHD

JAMES E. PORTER, PHD

LUMING MAO, PHD

JASON PALMERI, PHD

KATE RONALD, PHD

LECTURER IN ENGLISH COORDINATOR, ESL COMPOSITION

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND ASIAN/ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH DIRECTOR, HOWE WRITING INITIATIVE, FARMER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE COMPOSITION

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND ARMSTRONG INSTITUTE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA STUDIES DIRECTOR, AMERICAN CULTURE AND ENGLISH (ACE)

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH DIRECTOR, HOWE CENTER FOR WRITING EXCELLENCE

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potentially enhancing our academic quality and the overall value of the Miami experience. We say “potentially” only because we are not yet convinced that the university community at large has fully figured out how to engage this diversity and to

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she said. “Online communication skills are needed in many areas, including consulting and other client-based work.”

She also added that self-discipline, professional work ethic and computer skills are important assets that a virtual intern may develop through his or her experience.

“Overall, I think a virtual internship is something worth trying out, provided the intern works with a reputable and experienced company and is not a complete novice in internet communication, and it seems like a good way to find out whether one is made for this kind of work or not,” she said.

Komer said her internship has definitely helped her in terms of her future, and predicts that the popularity of virtual internships will continue to grow.

and use the money you save from only drinking water to donate to drilling wells in countries without access to clean water.”

Griebner, who serves as president of the organization, was inspired to start The Wells Project during her second semester at MU after learning a startling fact over Christmas break.

“I saw a video my freshman year around Christmastime that said Americans spend $450 billion on Christmas every year,” Griebner said. “To solve the water crisis, it would take $20 billion. That is just crazy to me that we could give up four percent of what we spend on Christmas every year so that everyone in the world could have clean water to drink. That inspired me to want to do something at Miami.”

Since its inception, The Wells Project has sent groups of students to Guatemala and El Salvador to

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learn from it. Faculty need better support, encouragement and even training to learn how to adapt their teaching approaches for diverse populations. The university needs to recognize and support the ongoing needs of international students and to do a much better job of welcoming those students and encouraging them to become full participants in the life of the campus and the community.

Collectively, we are not yet where we should be.

As the number of international students on campus continues to grow, the entire university is challenged, but we also see this as an opportunity to reach out, build connections across cultures, and together craft a vibrant university community where all students have full and equal opportunity to succeed. If the university is going to continue to increase international student enrollment at Miami, it needs to do a much better job of providing ongoing support for these students,

not just at the matriculation point and in their first year, but through their entire four years here.

At Miami we are fortunate to have a diverse and academically wellqualified student body that includes international students. International students have a positive effect on our campus and our community, making Miami University a stronger, better place, both culturally and academically. We welcome them gladly and enthusiastically.

drill wells and has brought artists Phil Wickham and Anthem Lights to campus to raise awareness and donations.

Griebner said she was excited to see the organization grow.

“It has evolved so much,” Griebner said. “We have grown and learned a ton. We have a group of students who are dreamers and we make big dreams happen. Each year we’ve planned bigger concerts, raised more money and reached more people.”

The concert raised over $1,800 for clean water, and it was just the beginning. The 10 Days campaign began Monday, Nov. 10, and students all over campus and the nation are sav ing the money they would normally spend on beverages other than water to donate to The Wells Project and Living Water International.

Senior Julia Schroyer, Event Coordinator and Treasurer of The Wells Project, was with Griebner since the beginning and helped plan the

concert this year.

“I’ve been involved in The Wells Project for three years,” Schroyer said. “It started as the passion of one of my friends [Griebner] and grew into a group of passionate people who are dedicated to ending the water crisis.”

Schroyer planned the logistics of the event, which offered free tickets to over 600 people with a suggested donation of $10 to The Wells Project.

“We had about 400 or 500 people for the Anthem Lights concert and we have definitely doubled the amount of people since the Phil Wickham concert,” Schroyer said.

Junior Jill Runser, who is also involved in The Wells Project, was excited to see Rector come to campus, but also to raise awareness for the water crisis.

“All his songs have such a good beat,” Runser said. “They’re upbeat and happy and real. But, I attended both for him and for The

Wells Project. I want to support the 10 Days.”

Runser said the concerts The Wells Project has hosted have attracted people from far away.

“We bring in pretty popular artists,” Runser said. “Anthem Lights is popular, for example. People drove from five or six hours away to come see them and it raised a lot of awareness for The Wells Project that we wouldn’t have otherwise had.”

Griebner said the goal of The Wells Project is not only to raise awareness and money to end the water crisis, but also to change the way students think about their resources and how they can be reallocated toward solving global issues.

“I hope that we are able to change the culture at Miami and really get people to think outside of these brick buildings and think about the world and the people in this world who are dying because they don’t have access to clean water,” she said.

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poor effort from Miami in second half performance, outscoring the RedHawks 44-23.

Edinboro took advantage of the poor effort from Miami in second half, outscoring the RedHawks 44-23.

“I think that prior to tonight we thought that a lot of things were just going to be handed to us,” Sullivan said. “We’ve worked really hard in the preseason, but when the lights come on everything is just a little bit different.”

The Fighting Scots were carried by their guard play.

Edinboro redshirt junior guard Will Marrow scored 26 points.

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another power play opportunity with a second remaining in regulation. Sophomore goaltender Emalee Wills stopped all 10 shots she faced, while the offense fired 49 shots on goal.

The first period against Denver turned into a parade of goals as McGrath, Baldwin, Guthrie, Williams, Augustine,and Guthrie found the back of the net. Williams and Augustine scored within 10 seconds of each other in the second to push the lead to 8-0,

He averaged less than four per game last season.

Junior guard Henri WadeChapman also enjoyed a successful day, putting up 20 points, six rebounds, two assists and two steals.

After sitting out last year due to NCAA transfer rules, junior guard Eric Washington had an extremely promising first outing.

Washington looked confident and intelligent while running the RedHawks offense.

He had had 16 points, five rebounds and five assists. Look for Cooper to use Washington in large doses this season.

Another new face for the RedHawks was junior forward/center

LJ Livingston Jr., who played 25 minutes. Livingston put up eight points and eight rebounds.

After claiming 53-52 lead, the Fighting Scotts never looked back. Edinboro was red hot in the last 6:57 of play. The Fighting Scott’s knocked down four three’s, and hit four of five from the free throw line.

Twelve different RedHawks played Saturday, although sophomore guard Jaryd Eustace did not play due to an illness. He should be ready to play in the season opener.

Miami’s kicks off the season against Southern Utah University. Tip off is set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Millett Hall.

while Hanson and Guthrie put the biscuit in the basket again late in the period.

Noble, Augustine, Booth, Baldwin and sophomore defender Catie Karpinski added goals in the third period.

The ’Hawks dominated shots on goal 78-13.

“It was a good weekend,” head coach Scott Hicks said. “We were able to display who we are to the rest of the country. It was a struggle offensively on Friday, but we had one of our better games of the year against UMass where

we played a whole game and sent a message to the country… Our goalies were great. Carly’s two goals were not her fault, but she came back with two shutouts.

They’re usually not tested, and that’s a testament to the team in front of them. It’s a big conference weekend for us this week, and this weekend was a good challenge for us.”

The RedHawks return to Goggin Ice Center this weekend as they hosts Adrian College 7:30 p.m. Friday and 5:10 p.m. Saturday.

Huge stats from quarterbacks are the norm in the NFL now. Rule changes have opened up the offense more than ever.

But, what Miami University alumnus Ben Roethlisberger has done is incredible.

The two games against the Indianapolis Colts and Baltimore Ravens have resulted in 862 yards and 12 touchdowns. Wow. How incredible is the performance? Well, 15 teams have 12 touchdowns or fewer this season.

The Bengals, Lions and Seahawks headline the list; throwing for 9, 11 and 11 touchdowns respectively.

The six touchdown games likely won’t become a theme from the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, but that is okay. He has had two awesome weeks and we need to admire the accomplishment.

Big Ben just did something that we will probably never see again.

We have just watched history. In a decade or so we’ll be talking about this streak when he is inducted into the Hall of Fame in Canton.

Roethlisberger has never been a top-three quarterback. He is not Manning, Brady, Rodgers or Brees.

But, that’s okay.

He is Ben Roethlisberger, a quarterback that cannot be cloned.

He is big and strong and that makes him nearly impossible to bring down.

He is the guy that plays hurt and dances around in the pocket. He tosses linemen around like they are children; and then proceeds to throw the ball 40 yards down the field to a wide-open Antonio Brown.

Receivers can only be covered for so long, and the ability to keep a play alive allows them to come free more often than not.

He does things Brady, Brees and Manning simply cannot do. They are all great quarterbacks, some of the best ever, but they’re not Ben Roethlisberger.

He is so unique. And teaching a quarterback how to do that is impossible. It has to be instinctual. With a defensive tackle trying to sack him, he throws them off. When facing a FROM HOCKEY »PAGE 10

“In the third period, instead of trying to go for another goal, we’ve got guys playing it smart,” Blasi said. “With good depth on the offensive blue line and being real team oriented. That’s probably the thing that we’ll take away FROM VOLLEYBALL »PAGE 10

outside hitter Olivia Rusek barely missed out on one of her own, with nine kills and nine digs.

Sophomore middle blocker Paige Hill also was in striking distance of having double-digit kills as she had nine, five of which came in the first set.

The Broncos had some success offensively as they had two players with double-digit kills and three more with a hitting percentage of .300 or higher. It was a group effort defensively for Western Michigan, as it had three players account for 10 or more digs.

“This weekend was huge for us,” Brakauskas said. “It’s tough

fast defensive end, he side steps past them.

He is not necessarily supposed to be a big stat guy, and that is what makes this explosion so much more impressive. He is a violent quarterback. Talk to linemen who play him and they dread it. They would much rather face Peyton Manning; he does not move, at all. If you get there he is going down.

Wrap Roethlisberger up with one arm and you’re going to be embarrassed.

The NFL hadn’t seen a quarterback like Big Ben, the smarts, toughness and pure ability was unmatched. And he dominated the Mid-American Conference before he took his talents to the NFL. Andrew Luck and Blake Bortles are two signal callers who are often compared with Big Ben. Bortles may grow into it, but he has to earn his stripes first. Luck, however, is about as close of a comparison. He wants to hurt guys, have you seen the hit he can lay after throwing an interception?

Success as an NFL quarterback is difficult. The running quarterback was viewed as the future of the position just a few years ago. But, I would take a Ben Roethlisberger-type over a Colin Kaepernick any day.

Big Ben was brought back to earth Sunday in a losing effort against the New York Jets. The defense was able to force Roethlisberger into two interceptions, bringing his total to a paltry five on the season. It is only his third game with a quarterback rating fewer than 100 this season. All three games have resulted in a loss for the Steelers.

The game Sunday spoiled the streak, but Roethlisberger is still well on his way to a career-best season.

He is pacing towards a season north of 40 touchdowns. His career best is 32 in 2007.

Roethlisberger is also in pursuit of a career best in yards. If he keeps his current pace, he will be near the 5,000 yard mark, a feat only accomplished by five quarterbacks: Dan Marino, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Matthew Stafford.

Big Ben is a special player, and it all started in Oxford.

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from this game tonight. Is that we started to play as a team.”

Miami hits the road next weekend to face the University of North Dakota in a critical NCHC matchup. UND (71-1) is No. 2 in the nation and was picked to win the NCHC in the preseason. when it’s late in the season and you’re facing a team you hadn’t seen before. Both teams came out strong and Western’s hitters came out hitting the ball hard, but we proved that we’re a team to look out for. Our right side and our middles did a good job and our passers were solid the whole match and kept our offense steady. We proved that we’re an amazing team and that we can win the MAC, and we can’t wait for these last games of the MAC season and we’re excited for the opportunity.”

The RedHawks finish off the regular season on the road as they take on Kent State University 7 p.m. Friday and Ohio University 7 p.m. Saturday.

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‘Hawks win ninth straight, earn first round bye

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The No. 7 Miami University hockey team notched eight goals in three periods against Colorado College, picking up its first National Collegiate Hockey Conference regular season sweep. The ’Hawks dominated puck possession and outshot the Tigers 82 to 37 during the two games.

The RedHawks (7-3, 3-1 NCHC) picked up a 3-0 win over the Tigers (2-6, 0-4 NCHC) Friday night, with all three goals coming in the final 10 minutes of the third period.

The scoring carried over into Saturday’s matchup, with Miami putting up two goals in the first period and three in the second en route to a 5-1 win.

“It comes so seldomly to get a sweep in this league,” junior forward Riley Barber said. “Especially at home, you have to take advantage of being here in front of your fans … its awesome to get the win, especially the sweep.

It’s huge in our league.”

Junior goalie Jay Williams

was strong in net both nights. He didn’t allow a single goal Friday and allowed only a power play goal Saturday. He picked up NCHC Goaltender of the Week for his efforts.

Both offenses had goals taken away after review in the opening game Friday, so the scoreboard remained blank until senior forward Alex Wideman notched back-to-back goals in the final period.

“Al’s been quietly having a pretty good year so far,” head coach Enrico Blasi said. “And nobody wants to talk about him.

He seems to be on the scoreboard every night.”

Junior forward Sean Kuraly added an empty net goal to close out the 3-0 win.

Blasi was happy with Miami’s effort Saturday.

“I thought we played well tonight,” Blasi said. “Probably as close to 60 minutes as we’ve played all year.”

It was freshman defenseman Scott Dornbrock who started the scoring Saturday, notching his first career goal. Dornbrock went to coast-to-coast for the goal after getting a pass deep in his own

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The Miami University volleyball team earned its ninth straight win Saturday as it defeated Western Michigan University 3-0 (2624, 25-21, 25-22) and secured a first round bye in the Mid-American Conference Tournament.

The RedHawks’ (18-8, 11-3 MAC) winning is their longest since the 2007 season, in which they also won nine consecutive matches on their way to a MAC Tournament crown and a NCAA Tournament appearance.

“Our backcourt passing really helped our offense shine,” head coach Carolyn Condit said. “It helped us beat a formidable opponent on the road. Meg Riley and Sarah Chaney were on fire, and we’re starting to become a more balanced offense that’s more difficult to defend. We have a number of left hitters challenging to be on the left side and that also is making us better. Krista Brakauskas showed her athleticism and competitiveness and has helped Meg get closer to her 1,000th kill by putting the ball in different locations. Annie

Reiswig has also shown some improvement and some savvy off the bench and Meg is only an assist away from her 2,000th.”

In the match against the Broncos (16-13, 7-7 MAC), senior setter/outside hitter Meg Riley was not far from a triple-double as she had 11 kills, 23 assists and nine digs on the night. Riley was named MAC East Division Player of the Week.

We’re starting to become a more balanced offense that’s more difficult to defend.”

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Senior outside hitter Sarah Chaney, posted 10 kills for the second consecutive match, with seven being tallied in the second set.

Sophomore setter Krista Brakauskas registered a double-double as well with 24 assists and 11 digs. Freshman VOLLEYBALL »PAGE 9

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zone from sophomore defenseman Taylor Richart.

“Scottie has made some big plays for us already,” Blasi said.

“Last week at Duluth he assisted on the game winner Friday night.

Tonight, we were kinda a little maybe not as sharp as we wanted to be and then he goes end to end and rips one.”

Junior forward Sean Kuraly notched the second goal of the game and later picked up an assist. Kuraly has been spectacular this season, scoring seven times.

“I thought tonight actually was probably his best game,” Blasi said. “He’s been scoring some goals but I think he cleaned up his game tonight. He did a nice job at both ends of the rink. And when you do that, you get reward.”

Junior forward Riley Barber also had a strong effort, tickling twine twice and adding an assist Saturday. Barber added an assist Friday night and was named NCHC Offensive Player of the Week.

Miami didn’t score in the third period Saturday, but Blasi was okay with that.

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In a somewhat shocking manner, the Miami University men’s basketball team was defeated by Division II Edinboro University 71-60 during a Saturday exhibition at Millett Hall.

“I can’t tell you how many layups we missed point blank in the paint.” Miami head coach John Cooper said. “ I want to say I counted six or seven … you can’t take for granted easy scoring opportunities.”

Miami left the first half with a 37-27 lead. A large portion of Miami’s success was due to its first half superiorly from downtown.

Miami shot 50 percent from behind the arc in the first 20 minutes of play, while Edinboro was held to a dismal 25 percent.

In the second 20 minutes of play, Edinboro improved its percentages in every shooting category. The Fighting Scotts went from shooting 25 from the three to 50 percent.

Edinboro also went from 34.6 percent to 53.3 percent from the in the first and second half, respectively.

Miami saw a decline in its shooting percentages in the second 20 minutes of play. After a good first half from three, Miami was flat out awful. The ’Hawks were 1 for 12 from behind the arc

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Division II Edinboro surprised the RedHawks in a Saturday exhibition game at Millett Hall. MU head coach John Cooper (far right) blamed the loss on missed opportunities. in the second half.

Miami struggled largely from the land of three last year, finishing with a 28 percent from 3-point land.

“It’ll be a much better shooting team (this year),” senior guard Will Sullivan said. “I know that

one of our better shooters Jaryd Eustace was out tonight, he was sick, and he’ll be back soon.

He’s been shooting the laces off the ball.”

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RedHawks roll past Minnesota, UMass and Denver in Colorado WOMEN’S HOCKEY JORDAN RINARD

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The sun came up, so the Miami University women’s hockey team must have won this weekend.

That’s what this season seems like as the RedHawks (11-0) continued to piled up the wins over the weekend in Colorado. The ’Hawks defeated the University of Minnesota 3-2, the University of Massachusetts 5-0 and the University of Denver 15-0. Miami has recorded shutouts in four of its last five games.

“It was a successful weekend for us,” sophomore right wing Rachael Booth said. “The team

bonded pretty well and we were able to get a lot of people involved in the scoring. Offensively, we were able to move the puck well and find the openings. What we take away from this weekend is that if we play as a team, we can play with tough opponents. We just need to have this attitude.”

After being held scoreless in the first period against Minnesota, Miami exploded for three goals in a little over two minutes in the second period. Sophomore forward Jordan Hanson scored at the 7:45 mark, junior forward Izzy Smith got a goal at 8:21 and freshman center Katie Baldwin found the back of the net a minute and 34 seconds later.

The Gophers rallied late as they

scored twice in the third period and were down 3-2 with 1:30 left, but the ’Hawks held on for their ninth win of the season. Freshman netminder Carly VanOrden stopped 14 of 16 shots, while the offense for the ’Hawks had 34 shots on goal.

The ’Hawks came out swinging against UMass. Freshman left wing Carly Noble, Booth and junior defender Morgan McGrath all picked up goals in the first period, with Booth’s coming on the power play.

Junior center Haley Williams scored at the 8:04 mark of the second period and junior defender Jessica Gould cashed in on WOMEN’S HOCKEY »PAGE 9