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‘Bald’ statement: Student shaves head for research Sophomore Liz Bender raises awareness for childhood cancer FUNDRAISING OLIVIA BRAUDE

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Miami University sophomore Liz Bender stared at a picture of a childhood cancer patient.

“Look at him,” she said emphatically, turning her laptop to show her friend, sophomore Allison Kumnick.

Kumnick agreed with what Bender’s expression said for her; the bald-headed little boy, posing for a picture with his dad, was a tragic sight.

Of the approximately 1,655,000 new cases of cancer the American Cancer Society predicts for 2014, more than 15,000 will involve children.

The lack of funding for childhood cancer, coupled with the sympathy she feels for kids like the young boy in the photo, are two of the reasons Bender has chosen to do something many college girls would not dream of doing — shave her head.

Through St. Baldrick’s Foundation, an organization that both funds its own research for childhood cancer, as well as donates to other organizations fo-

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cused on the treatment of cancer in young patients, Bender has raised more than $600 in donations since signing up to be a “shavee” in August.

The venue of the original event kept changing, so Bender decided to set up her own time and date and have her head shaved in the presence of her friends, parents and younger sister. At 1 p.m. this Sunday in Peffer Park, Bender’s Phi Mu sorority sister will take a razor to her more than 12 inches of hair.

Bender said people have been supportive and overly generous, encouraging her and

donating to her donations page to help the cause. When Kumnick found out her friend was planning on shaving off her thick, brown hair, she was not the least bit surprised.

“It’s just Liz,” Kumnick said.

“Even if she’s never known a person with cancer a day in her life she would still do that, just because these people exist.”

And Bender admits, neither she nor anyone particularly close to her has been affected by childhood cancer, but she is doing this to show that cancer patients, especially children, are not alone.

“I’m like most people” Kumnick said. “And it would take a personal connection [to someone with cancer], unlike Liz. Liz doesn’t need a personal connection to help anyone.”

To prove her point, Kumnick reminded Bend er of a time she was upset about a person they passed who was blind, how she sympathized with the stranger and felt as if the difficulty was her own.

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Hitting it off: Vandalism persists Police reports track hit and runs

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According to police traffic reports, “hit and run” accidents around campus are fairly uncommon, but “kick and run” incidents are another story altogether.

One traditionally thinks of hit and runs as accidents involving two motor vehicles. However, recent police reports indicate that it is not people driving behind the wheel who are a threat, but rather the people walking on foot.

Data gathered by the Oxford Police Department (OPD) showed there were 40 “hit skip” incidents recorded between Jan. 1 and Aug. 4 of this year. “Hit skip” refers to damage, mostly to vehicles, in which the perpetrator leaves without a note. Of these types of incidents, 65 percent were motor vehicles in traffic lanes, and 30 percent were parked motor vehicles. One incident in this time frame involved a hit pedestrian. These incidents were recorded in the traffic system; in comparison, OPD maintains separate criminal mischief cases in their crimes database. Fifty-five of the 98 criminal mischief cases in this same time frame involved vehicular damage — some of these 55 entries listed damage to

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multiple cars.

These cases include cars being egged, keyed and having mirrors broken and tires slashed. Forty-five percent of the “hit skips” occurred on Saturdays and Thursdays, with the most incidents happening on Sycamore. Thirty eight percent of vehicle-related criminal mischief occurred on Saturdays and Thursdays, with the most incidents

happening on Poplar Street.

Senior Abby Cramer had a literal “kick and run” last spring. Cramer said she went to the REC center for an hour-long meeting on a Tuesday night at 9 p.m.

“I parked on Campus at a meter,” Cramer said. “When I came back out, I instantly noticed a dent in my HIT »PAGE 4

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(Left) Senior Kayla Orta browses the new, interactive Freedom Summer app with junior Michael Taggart (right).

Interactive app brings Freedom Summer to life CIVIL RIGHTS DAVID SHOEMAKER

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With the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, Miami faculty and students have collaborated to develop a location-based gaming app that will allow students to experience some of Western campus’ history.

The app immerses users in the two-week training session that civil rights volunteers experienced on the Western College for Women (now Miami’s Western campus) in June 1964.

In May, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Miami Associate Professor Anne Elizabeth Armstrong a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant of $59,964 for her idea to create the Freedom Summerfocused app.

Since the app is location-based, users will have to travel to specific buildings and landmarks on the Western campus where training sessions were held.

“I really wanted to create a way to connect the history of Freedom Summer to the actual Western College for Women landscape,” Armstrong said.

Although the app is a new platform for Armstrong, she has been creating ways to commemorate Freedom Summer since 2004 when she created the “Walk With Me”

Freedom Summer Walking Tour, a student-led interactive walking tour.

With the app, users take on the role of a volunteer and must acquire pictures, videos and notes.

They do this by undergoing training, accomplishing quests and speaking with the local Mississippi community.

[I] wanted to create a way to connect the history of Freedom Summer to the ...

Western College for Women landscape.”

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Filling their “inventory” with these documents will then allow users to board the bus to Mississippi.

In addition to the connections it makes on the Miami campus, Armstrong said she believes the app is interesting because of its ability for users to make choices.

“When you’re making those choices, it’s very different from when you’re passively witnessing a performance,” Armstrong said. “You have to make the choice to constantly move forward with the project.”

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In 1967, The Miami Student reported on “Hippie Philosophy.” The Student interviewed Pete Ryersbach, a man, “Nine out of 10 people” would identify as a hippie. Ryersbach said hippie philosophy is, “A very beautiful one. It’s where all man could love man for what he is, then there will be peace amongst all of us.”

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Entrepreneurship earns ‘Miami 10’ FSB program ranked top 25 for six years ACADEMICS LIBBY MUELLER

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PUPPY LOVE Therapy dog, Peaches, a Golden Retriever/Great Pyrenees mix, helps to relieve students’ stress during Suicide Prevention Week. The dogs visited Armstrong Student Center Monday, Sept. 22.

‘First Stop’ on road to digital dining DINING KAELYNN KNESTRICK FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

First Stop may not be the last stop for electronic food ordering at Miami University.

First Stop, the all-day breakfast restaurant at MapleStreet Station and in the West Lobby of Harris Dining Hall, is the only dining facility on campus that has students order and pay on iPads. Although it is the only dining hall that uses this system, it is also one of a select few who have workers serve students restaurant-style.

Since First Stop is one of the only dining options with a full service setup, rather than a stopand-go process, it was given the iPads for placing orders, Manager of Culinary Services Mary Barrera said.

“I love actually being able to serve people,” sophomore First

Stop employee Andy Tu said.

“The only difficult part is that the cards don’t always read and it takes multiple tries to be able to start someone’s order.”

Miami paid for the project using a budget specifically for electronic purchases and fees.

The iPads were not funded by students’ tuition dollars. Half of the project plan for First Stop was to be more high-tech and save on labor, and the other half was to produce faster service, Senior Director of Dining and Culinary Support Services Nancy Heidtman said.

Students either sit at a table with an iPad already stationed and ready to take an order or a server comes with a portable iPad to get the order. All tables serve drinks separately.

“I like being at the tables that allow you to order by yourself, it’s invigorating,” McElroy said. “It’s nice not having to wait for some-

one to take your order. You can do it at your own pace.”

Unlike traditional restaurants, at First Stop, you pay for your food before you order it. The dining services staff wanted the process to be as convenient for students as possible and to match the demands of students’ workdays, Heidtman said “We didn’t want students to have to pay for a tip from theimeal plan,” Barrera said. “We only want students to pay for their meals, not the service.”

Students are not on a tip-based wage at First Stop; they all receive a regular pay of $8.35, just like the student employees at other dining locations on campus. There is the option to tip, but it is not required.

“It would be nice to have the ability to get tips, but families will often leave a cash tip,” senior First Stop employee Sam Switch said.

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Miami University’s Institute for Entrepreneurship is home to all different kinds of people with one thing in common: They are not satisfied with the status quo. They want to change the world.

The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine recently released the results of an annual Princeton Review survey that rates the top 25 undergraduate and the top 25 graduate schools with the best entrepreneurship programs nationwide. Appearing on the list for each of the last six years and coming in at number 10 on the undergrad list this year was Miami University’s Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Farmer School of Business (FSB).

Jim Friedman, Professor of Creativity within the Institute for Entrepreneurship, said entrepreneurship is not so much an action or a field of practice, but rather a state of mind.

“Entrepreneurship is a mindset,” Friedman said. “There’s a joke that an entrepreneur is a person who works 100 hours a week so he doesn’t have to work 40 hours a week.”

Recently, the Institute for Entrepreneurship developed a new curriculum that focuses on creativity.

Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship Brett Smith headed the curriculum initiative.

“Brett sat us all down a few years ago and said if we were going to start teaching entrepreneurship from scratch, start all over again with a clean slate, what would we want to teach? How can we best prepare the entrepreneurs of the future?” Friedman said. “We have redesigned the curriculum to provide a very solid foundation.”

According to Friedman, the results of the 2010 IBM Global CEO Study, a survey of over 1,500 Chief Executive Officers across the globe,

found that creativity is one of the attributes CEOs value most in their employees.

“In the IBM study a couple years ago, 1,500 CEO businessmen were asked what the most important thing was for college students to have when they graduate and the answer was overwhelmingly we need them to think more creatively,” Friedman said. “The entrepreneurship program took that seriously. They put a whole curriculum around it.”

The creativity track is not the only route for students majoring in entrepreneurship. They can also choose startup, social or corporate entrepreneurship as their focus.

“Some people are interested in entrepreneurship because either they want to start their own business or they want to work in a new, young small business,” Friedman said. “Or they can go in the direction of social entrepreneurship where either they want to start their own nonprofit organization or effectively work in somebody else’s social organization.”

Friedman said corporate entrepreneurship is also known as “intrepreneurship,” a way of thinking outside the box within big businesses.

“You can go into major corporations that need to innovate in order to stay ahead of their competition. They need intrepreneurs,” Friedman said.

The Institute for Entrepreneurship, although it resides in FSB, has opened wide its doors to students of any major, from journalism to engineering.

“We have students from 80 different majors taking our classes,” Director Brett Smith said. “One key thing most people misunderstand about entrepreneurship is that it’s about starting a business. We do it as a mindset and a set of activities that can be applied anywhere.”

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First-year Chris Mattress takes advantage of one of the new touch screens to order food in First Stop on Tuesday, Sept. 23. First Stop is the first Miami dining center to offer electronic dining methods.

ROTC trains students in leadership, life MILITARY MICHAEL ITTU

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Walking through campus, it may be hard not to notice the many young men and women dressed in the uniforms of the United States armed forces.

These students are a part of an organization with a rigorous and demanding schedule that takes up a large portion of their time at Miami.

Nearly all of these uniformed students are a part of Miami’s Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program.

ROTC prepares students interested in joining the United States armed forces.

The program works to educate

young men and women on the various aspects of the United States military system and prepare them for their service. While providing a guaranteed job right out of college, the program aims to create a positive impact on the students within the organization.

Recently, Miami was named a Military Friendly School for 2015. Recognition calls for significant military support on campus and flexibility for military students, among other things.

The dominant military presence on campus is Miami’s ROTC program.

“It’s about taking somebody and developing them into a potential future leader — a commanding officer, a squadron, a seal of a ship, a division officer, potentially, all the way up to the

chief of naval operations,” Lieutenant Andrew Washburn, assistant professor at Miami University’s Navy ROTC, said.

For many students, this mission holds true. First-year Michael Glaze, member of the Air Force branch of ROTC at Miami, said the program provides a feeling of accomplishment and leadership he may not have otherwise had the chance to experience while in college.

“ROTC has given me a sense of purpose and a certain responsibility,” he said.

To other students, the program has introduced a new viewpoint of the United States armed forces and the dedication exhibited by those who serve.

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Oxford is widely known for its bustling nightlife. On any given night, there are a number of things to do, from house parties, to bars and everything in between.

Word of mouth and even just knowing the right people have traditionally been the best ways to make plans, but that could change with the simple download of a social media app.

WiGo (Who is Going out) is trying to change the way students make their plans. Developed by Ben Kaplan during his freshman year at the College of Holy Cross, WiGo lets college students know about an event taking place on their campus: where it is, and who in the area will be attending, regardless of whether the user is connected with the other people linked in to the app.

People can create events or join other events that are created on WiGo. They can also chat with each other on the app, allowing students to connect with each other.

WiGo has been taking off at various colleges across the country, such as Boston University and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. However, in order for a college and its area and events to be recognized by WiGo, 100 students from a particular college need to download the app and log in using their student email address and link their WiGo

account to their Facebook.

Miami currently has a WiGo presence, but not a strong one.

“There are a decent amount of people that have WiGo, but not many are using it to say where they are going on any given night,” junior Erin Bell said.

A few people post their whereabouts, but not many post consistently enough for WiGo to really be the way Miami students learn about where their peers are going. Because of this, WiGo brings about mixed reactions from students on this campus.

“I think it would be really cool if people used it more,” Bell said. “It would make the app a lot better here and it would be nice to know about various different places to go and who all is going there.”

Some students, however, feel differently.

“I don’t think it’s really necessary,” sophomore Emily Shindler said. “I feel like too many people would plug in the wrong information, and most people wouldn’t even need it in the first place.”

WiGo seems to have the potential to be a good thing at Miami, Bell said. It can allow students to meet people they otherwise would not and present a multitude of things to do. It simply needs to reach a greater audience.

“More people just need to know about it,” Bell said. “Once more people find out about it, they will download it and use it, and then it will be something that is used more regularly by a lot of people.”

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Art store relocates, loses business Bill’s Art Store relocates to College Corner Pike due to Sigma Chi renovation plan BUSINESS SAMMIE MILLER

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Students and community members may have noticed a lack of activity in the shops facing Uptown Park. Nail Depot, Varsity Barbershop and Bill’s Art Store, which run parallel to Smokin’ Ox, are among the now vacant businesses.

According to Allen Kryger, the city’s economic development director, the Sigma Chi Foundation owns the property for the entire strip. The foundation plans to demolish the entire “white part” of that area — the part of the building that encompasses Wild Berry’s headquarters, Nail Depot and Varsity Barbershop. Sigma Chi then plans to add on to the brick portion facing High Street.

“This is all part of an ongoing plan to create a larger, more accessible Sigma Chi museum,” Kryger said.

These renovations include

restrooms to both stories along with a staircase to the second floor for safety measures.

Business owners have taken a hard hit as a result of these plans.

“We were notified in the spring that we would have to move out immediately,” Barb Berry, owner of Bill’s Art Store said. “I think the abruptness of the decision was the hardest part.”

Berry said she had only a few weeks to move from the shop and was required to do so by the end of last May. She managed to relocate the shop to 5500 College Corner Pike and, as a result, business has declined.

“We’ve definitely seen a drop in business,” Berry said. “We will get the occasional architecture students who come in, but our drawing supplies have hardly sold at all.”

Julie Larbes, a junior art student, said she is worried about the store’s FRANKIE ROSKAM THE MIAMI STUDENT business as a result of the move.

“As a freshman and sophomore Last Spring, Bill’s Art Store was forced to relocate from their High Street location to College Corner Pike. Since, business ART »PAGE 8 has dropped dramatically.

Uptown MOON Festival to celebrate local farmers MOON Co-Op market will provide food and activities to community members this Sunday EVENT MEGAN MOONEY THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) will be putting on its eighth annual MOON Festival this Sunday in support of local farms and the people behind them.

The event is co-sponsored by the OEFFA Miami-Oxford Organic Network chapter and MOON Co-Op market and will provide plenty of entertainment and food options, as well as have an educational component.

“The festival is a celebration of local food,” said the local OEFFA chapter president, Harv Roehling.

The event is meant to bring people’s attention to Oxford’s vast local food resources.

MOON Co-Op market is one such resource. According to their official website, it is communityowned and sells organic, sustainably-raised food, including produce, meat and dairy products.

The market works side-by-side with local farmers to provide the community with fresh products.

for people to choose from.

According to Roehling, there will be informational booths set up, face-painting and other activities for children. In addition, there will be a petting zoo and free wagon rides pulled by a team of mules provided by Ogle and Paul R. Young Funeral Home.

The festival is a celebration of local food.”

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The event will kick off at 1 p.m. in Uptown Memorial Park with live music from the Jericho Old Time Band and vendors from the Oxford Farmer’s Market.

Plenty of activities will be provided

The wagons are handicap accessible and people can get their picture with the mules after a ride around the block.

Food demonstrations from Kona Bistro and MOON Co-Op

will take place at 2 and 3:30 p.m.

Also, educational speaker Beth Harnist of Adopt-A-Plant will present “Gardening for the BeesWe Need Them!” at 1:30 p.m. and will be followed later by Joe Streit from Double J Farm speaking on “The Advantages of Using Raw Milk.”

Of course, food will be available. Attendees can buy a lunch of soup, salad and bread for $5 and apple cider for $1 with refills for .50 cents. There will also be other snacks like popcorn, cookies and cake, as well as anything vendors bring for purchase.

The manager at the MOON CoOp hopes to “celebrate the harvest and raise awareness of local farmers” and help people understand where there food is coming from through this year’s MOON Festival.

Uptown restaurants stay open late for students NIGHT LIFE LEAH MARSHALL THE MIAMI STUDENT

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LEAF ME ALONE The leaves change color along the streets of Oxford as the weather finally begins to break.

On Friday and Saturday nights, High Street is at its busiest. Restaurants like Bruno’s Pizza, Insomnia Cookies and Bagel & Deli stay open until 2 a.m. or later, selling food to the post-bar crowd, while other restaurants like Chipotle and SoHi close at the same hours on the weekends as they do on weekdays — around 9 p.m.

Insomnia Cookies stays open the latest in town, delivering from 1 p.m. to 3 a.m. every day of the week, including the weekends.

Other businesses, like Bruno’s Pizza, take to the streets and sell straight from the sidewalk.

“We’re busy through supper, and then there’s a lull, and then we get busy again late,” Bruno’s owner Roger Perry said.

“I know we make a ton of money at the stands on the sidewalk between midnight and one in the

morning,” Bruno’s Manager Chelsea Parkston said. “And that’s just from selling single slices straight out of the box.”

Some companies with locations on High Street, like Chipotle, operate as a chain and have hours set firmly by corporate. Almost all Chipotle restaurants are open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Chipotle establishments are open past 10 p.m.

It’s not only established businesses taking advantage of the late night crowds. Church groups and other organizations set up post along Slant Walk, selling cookies and other baked goods to students walking home from Uptown. According to first-year Lisa Poyar, the convenience of the sidewalk sales is tough to ignore.

“I am never going to turn down a 50 cent brownie at 1 a.m.,” Poyar said. “Especially if it’s on my way home anyway.”

Although the late hours are

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Western Wrangle At 10:53 a.m. Tuesday, a male filed a report that he had been assaulted at Brick Street bar, 36 E High St., on Saturday night. The male informed an officer that he had been dancing on the dance floor with an unknown female when another male approached him and reportedly said “what the f*** bro.” The victim was then surrounded by three more males who began punching him repeatedly. The male believes that the other males assaulted him because the female was one of their girlfriends. The males were wearing western themed clothing, and continued punching the male until a bouncer broke up the fight and brought the male outside to give him ice. The male went to McCullough-Hyde Hospital to have his injuries inspected and was found to have a broken eye socket.

The investigation is still ongoing.

Two males burglarize home off campus At 10:38 p.m. Tuesday, a male filed a report that he had been assaulted while on the way to his friend’s house in the 100 block of S. College St. on Saturday night.

The male informed an officer that he had been walking by himself when he struck up a conversation with two males who were walking the same way. The male then invited the two males into his friend’s house and the next thing he remembers was waking up on the floor of the house. The male believed the two males had choked him out and then proceeded to burglarize the house. The investigation is ongoing.

Female transported to hospital for intoxication At 2:24 a.m. Wednesday, an officer was flagged down by a male in front of the Evan’s Scholars house, 216 E. Church St. and the male informed the officer that there was a passed out female on the front lawn. The officer tried to wake the female and ask her questions but she could not be awoken and mumbled unintelligible words. The officer noticed an odor of alcoholic beverage coming from the female and that she was wearing an over 21 wristband. The female began dry heaving and the officer called the Life Squad. The officer located a fictitious over 21 Connecticut driver’s license and a real under 21 Ohio driver’s license in the female’s purse that had the same name and photo on them. The Life Squad arrived and transported the female to McCullough-Hyde, when asked if she was aware why she was in the hospital, the female replied “because I’m drunk.” She was charged with Sales to Underage Persons, Intoxication and Certain Acts Prohibited.

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front bumper … about 10 inches long and four inches wide.”

After talking with her father, Cramer did not to file a police report of the incident.

She brought her car into a shop to have it evaluated, and left the dent due to repair costs.

“The mechanics decided it was from a foot,” Cramer said. “Someone had simply just kicked my car for seemingly no reason … They were not able to get the dent out, meaning I would have to completely replace [the bumper].”

When asked about parking at Miami, Cramer concluded that it is generally safe to park, though she added Uptown parking is often limited.

“Unfortunately, I’ve found that people don’t feel the need to leave notes after they hit a car,” Cramer said.

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Kumnick said.

Because Bender has not been personally affected, she said one of her biggest fears is that people will think she is shaving her head for the wrong reasons.

“Are people going to question my motives, think this is an attention-grabbing scheme? Are people going to think I’m sick?”

Bender asked, knowing already that it is likely people will assume she is ill.

But, if one childhood cancer patient can benefit, Bender said it will be worth the occasional stare.

In fact, she said the potential ogling from fellow Miami students does not phase her at all.

“People shouldn’t care if I have hair or not. Why would that matter?”

Bender’s head will be buzzed, almost completely bare, but her concern lies more with the winter weather than with the associated social risks.

“I am going to have to stock up on hats because I think it’s going to be pretty cold,” Bender said, laughing.

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Learning how to apply the entrepreneurial mindset requires a different class format than that which MU students are used to. Entrepreneurship classes are all about the handson learning experience, according to Friedman.

“The motto of the institute is, ‘Live it,’” Friedman said. “You don’t come into an entrepreneurship class and expect to sit in a classroom and take notes. You’re going to have hands-on experiences working with clients and customers and changing people’s lives.”

Both Smith and Friedman said student success in the entrepreneurship program can mean many different things. The Head of Global Operations at Uber, the mobile rideshare service, came through MU’s Institute for Entrepreneurship program, Smith said.

Other successes include former student Ashley VanBuskirk’s social entrepreneurial venture Flora, a

smile never leaving her face as she explained the importance of St. Baldrick’s and fundraising for childhood cancer. Awareness is one of her main priorities, and Kumnick does not think Bender will have any problem getting noticed.

“Liz is the most well-known person that I have met,” Kumnick said.

“That’s not true,” Liz interjected.

“No, she’s the most famous ‘not-famous’ person,” Kumnick insisted. “I’ve never met a person from Cincinnati, Ohio, that hasn’t at least heard her name.”

From across the table, Bender rolled her eyes and laughed as Kumnick recounted walking with her from their freshman dorm to the student center and having to make frequent stops along the way to talk with the many people Bender knew.

“I think you’ll see who your true friends are,” Kumnick said, the ones who are not embarrassed to walk with a girl who has shaved her head to make a statement for childhood cancer.

Her real friends, Bender said, ask a lot of questions about her going bald. Mostly, they want to know when they will be able to rub her smooth head.

“We should make it the new

good luck thing,” Kumnick joked.

Bender recognized she might need some good luck after she shaves her head, especially regarding people taking her seriously. Though, she argued, people undergoing chemotherapy who have no choice but to lose their hair should not be trivialized for it. In this way, Bender said, she is making a socio-political statement.

“This is something that mattered to me,” Bender said. “I hope that conveys.”

Sunday afternoon, after breakfast with her family, Bender will go to Peffer Park, sit down and watch locks of her hair fall to the grass beneath her.

When she looks back on the day, she said she hopes it will help her cope with the statistical probability of someone she knows one day being diagnosed with cancer.

“There are other ways to raise money, but I think this is going to be such a [growing] experience for me,” Bender said.

A multitude of reasons exist for participating in an event like St. Baldrick’s — from practicality to personal to social — but whatever the motive, she said the important thing is the cause: fundraising for research and treatment.

company that sells notebooks from which the proceeds go to women’s education in Kosovo.

But success does not necessarily mean success in the traditional sense. It can also include failure, Friedman added.

“The great thing about entrepreneurship is [you learn to] fail well,” Friedman said.

Senior Hannah Wheeler has an International Studies major and an Entrepreneurship minor. She is most interested in social entrepreneurship, but said she has had experience in her entrepreneurship classes working with both social and corporate business clients.

“In Social Entrepreneurship, I had the opportunity to work with Ashley VanBuskirk with Flora,” Wheeler said. “Something signature to the entrepreneurship program is real-world experience in every class. I learned what it’s like to work with a startup that has little resources but big success. I also did some marketing for BucketFeet in

Entrepreneurial Marketing.”

Wheeler said she wants to go into humanitarian work after college and her entrepreneurship classes have prepared her for that.

Currently, she is taking Creativity and Organization.

“I’d like to work in the humanitarian field after graduation and I am learning a lot in my creativity class with Dr. Friedman that will impact my leadership skills there,” Wheeler said. “I’m learning how to think creatively in any environment I’m in.”

Students and staff involved with MU’s entrepreneurship program firmly believe that no matter what field you go into, you can be a true entrepreneur.

“Entrepreneurs are driven by passion. Entrepreneurs are world-changers,” Friedman said. “There are three types of people in the world. There are people who make things happen, people who watch things happen and people who sit around and say, ‘What happened?’ Entrepreneurs make things happen.”

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Besides the technological side of the app, Center for Digital Scholarship for University Libraries digital initiatives librarian Elias Tzoc hopes volunteers’ stories of sacrifice and uncertainty will inspire users to step out of their comfort zone.

Although tweeting your support for a good cause is great, physically going somewhere and doing something might be better, even if it is harder, Tzoc said.

Tzoc also hopes that the app will influence other departments and faculty to collaborate with the newly founded Center for Digital Scholarship for University Libraries in the future, since the center was founded for projects like this, he said.

Under the guidance of Armstrong, Tzoc and Interactive Media Studies professor Bob De Schutter, students spent their summer in Oxford designing, writing and programming the app.

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“As a citizen, I have a new perspective on the military and a new respect for the flag and the country as a whole,” said firstyear Tomas Niedzwiecki, member of the Naval ROTC-Marine option branch.

This dedication and sense of patriotism may stem in part from the challenging schedule each member of ROTC must complete to comply with the program’s requirements.

For starters, every member of the program must participate in physical training twice a week.

Training sessions will generally last an hour, and twice a year students are tested on their level of fitness.

Along with the standard physical tests, the organization also places a major importance on academics, requiring students to maintain at least a 2.5 GPA. If the FROM IPADS »PAGE 2

“I enjoy having the iPad system. It’s easier for us when people are able to order for themselves, especially when it is busy. The overall system works really well and it’s a huge help in keeping things smooth for servers and for the cooks.”

Also, unlike regular dine-in restaurants, once students are finished with their meals, they can simply leave. Since they paid for their meals beforehand, they do not have to wait for a server to stop by with the bill before they are free to go.

“I like that you can leave once you are done eating,” first-year Ella Brumitt said. “You are able to leave on your own time instead of having to wait on the waiter.”

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Lt. Ben Spilman, reports like these often go unsolved.

“We record [these incidents] for statistical reporting and insurance claims,” he said. “Hit and runs are fairly uncommon; the most common are damage to vehicle reports, specifically parked vehicles. There are lots of people on foot.”

Spilman said these types of crimes—property damage without knowledge or consent from owners—are categorized as criminal mischief, and most are attributed to alcohol. In MUPD’s reports from Jan. 1 to Sept. 22 of this year, there were 28 traffic crashes, none of which were “hit and run” style accidents.

Of the 51 criminal mischief cases MUPD recorded at this same time frame, eight involved damage to parked vehicles, with half of the incidents occurring on outdoor university property. Like OPD’s records, MUPD’s criminal mischief cases involving vehicular damage included eggings and broken glass.

For sophomore Garth Herbert, the process of developing a game and watching it take shape was a great learning experience.

“At the beginning of the whole process, I wasn’t sure of how far we would get, but I played last week, and it was a lot better than I thought it would be,” Herbert said. “It was solid.”

Like Herbert, Armstrong said that developing a game is a long process due to “interactive play testing,” where people play the game and then give their feedback.

Armstrong hopes Freedom Summer veterans will be play test the game when Miami hosts the Freedom Summer conference in early October.

Until the conference in October, interested users can find Armstrong and her team from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. every Friday in Peabody Hall.

After the conference, users will be able to access the app on their own IOS-run devices. student goes below the 2.5 mark, he or she may receive a warning status, and if it continues for long enough without improvement or signs of improvement, he or she can be disenrolled from the program.

“The Navy is making a pretty substantial investment in these students and their future, and we expect them to take their school seriously,” Washburn said.

The members of Miami’s ROTC said they are gaining valuable principles and lessons that will prove beneficial in not only their time in the United States armed forces, but also in their everyday lives.

“As Winston Churchill once said, ‘All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope,’” first-year Joseph Hinojosa, member of the Air Force branch of ROTC, said. not the end of electronic ordering at Miami. This system will be introduced at Pulley Diner in the next semester and the culinary service has the goal of taking this system as widely across campus as they can. Funding will limit how many places can receive the electronic system.

Another goal is for kiosks, or remote ordering, to be implemented at Armstrong Student Center to help cut down lines and make overall service better and more efficient, Heidtman said.

“There is always good, bad and ugly parts of things, but our goal is to provide students and any customers with the best service they can have,” Heidtman said. “After all, students live with us and it is our responsibility to offer variety, quality and healthy options to eat.”

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“Freshmen 15” not just on campus; healthy eating is a struggle beyond college EDITORIAL

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

Your eyes scan the crowded shelves and colorful menus as your stomach’s gurgle noise alarms everyone in earshot that you skipped breakfast. You’re torn between the packaged celery sticks and one of those fruity granola bars, but your stomach is eagerly begging for more substance. There’s the aroma of warm pepperoni slices and overflowing pasta bowls wafting around you. You catch a glimpse of a case filled with slightly-stale bakery items, their drizzly goodness calling your name. The lit-up digits on your phone offer a subtle reminder that you have six minutes before your next class begins.

No more spare seconds to deliberate and certainly no options you want to add to your daily calorie count. You grab a bag of almonds and a diet Pepsi before rushing out the door, counting down the hours until dinner.

This is the all-too-familiar trap we fall into when it comes to our day-to-day eating habits while at Miami. Our schedules are filled to brim and our stomachs are empty.

If we truly want to eat healthy

on a regular basis, we grow tired of salads and fruit cups. And if we don’t have that concern, we might gradually begin to see our jeans fit a little tighter. No matter which way the cookie crumbles, we often don’t have time to think about it.

this is when the freshman-fifteen and the sophomore-seventeen (and so on) happens.

In the eyes (and stomachs) of The Editorial Board, eating healthy and eating often in college is no easy task. For many of us, it’s nearly impossible to rely on

The real world, you know, that alternate universe we are all seemingly ready for, doesn’t operate that way. It doesn’t follow you around reminding you to eat a banana instead of a Snickers.”

But when our lives finally take a pause and we finally get a moment to eat, we’re to the point of starvation. And no, we’re probably not going to gravitate toward a spinach and quinoa salad from Boulangerie. We want a burger and milkshake from Pulley, side of fries. Amidst everything else on our plate – the papers and the midterms and the meetings – we feel like we deserve to add a Reese’s Cup, we deserve to treat ourselves and not think twice. And

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SORRY, I HAVE A BOYFRIEND Even though we do have to resort to using this phrase sometimes, the joke is getting to be a little on the obnoxious side. Okay, yik-yakers?

NO TIME FOR NAPS At this point in the semester, we’re really missing that preschool notion of nap time.

Can we bring that back, please?

campus dining for the ideal kind of meals we’d like. We are quick to grab the fattening foods to fill us up. And even when we order seemingly healthy meals, there’s hidden oils and ingredients we have little control over.

Given the two paths, it’s much easier to eat poorly on campus.

However, we need to realize this might not be all Miami’s fault.

From the trail mix in vending machines to the various restaurant style dining locations and

websites detailing food contents, Miami stretches much farther than other colleges to give us healthy options. Usually, you just have to look for them long enough to skip over a lot other less-healthy possibilities. The occasional splurge is normal, but making healthy choices at our campus dining locations is entirely reasonable.

Sure, eating healthy is a bigger deal to some of us more than others. There’s a clear divide between those who meticulously look at nutrition labels and those who don’t second guess it. Miami, like many campuses, is going to be concerned with offering options for the majority.

There are truly healthy options everywhere, but in our franticness, we often don’t see past the pizza or the stir-fry or the milkshakes to notice the salads and yogurt parfaits.

It’s certainly challenging to be healthy as a college student, but it’s possible. And we have to remember that being healthy in the real world is probably not much different than it is now; it takes

making what you eat a priority.

It’s just like any other temptationresisting scenario: if you’re really health-conscious and care about what goes into your body, you’ll say no.

So maybe there’s a greater lesson in that hungry moment in between classes, and if you can silence your stomach for a moment you might see it. You can’t always lean on convenience and expect to find low-calorie, fully organic, whole grain choices everywhere you go. The real world, you know, that alternate universe we are all seemingly ready for, doesn’t operate that way. It doesn’t follow you around reminding you to eat a banana instead of a Snickers. The real world operates by you going to the grocery store and being flooded by even more overwhelming kinds of options than you might see at a dining hall. So, yes, with hollow stomachs, we admit that this is one more reason we’re putting the real world off as long as possible. And it’s a chance to think, hey, maybe we don’t have it too bad after all.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

We need more clarity about the Russia-Ukraine conflict In response to the article titled “Panel on Russia and Ukraine hits home for MU students and staff,” which was published in the Tuesday, September 16 issue.

I read the article on RussiaUkraine conflict with interest (regretfully, I was not aware of the panel event itself, otherwise I would have tried to attend).

The topic is fairly close to me, since I was born and raised in a Russian town less than 35 miles from the Russia-Ukraine border.

I have relatives still living there, as well as those who live on the other side of the border. I follow this war and the rapidly changing situation in both countries on a daily basis, via the US, European and Russian media, including multiple blogs written by Russians and Ukrainians living both in their countries and abroad.

I would consider myself fairly well versed in the history and the present state of this conflict.

What surprised me about the article was a flair of uncertainty or even equivocation. Now, predilection of us, academics, for careful critical analysis and intellectual investigation of matters in question is well known. However, we should also recognize those instances when matters in question are quite clear. In my opinion, it is, for example, the case

with the current Russia-Ukraine conflict - it can be summarized, quite simply, in one phrase: It is a war of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Moreover, to focus on one of the quotes from the article regarding “...America has lost the moral right to critique other people for their aggression” - it seems to imply the equivalence of the Russian actions in Ukraine and the US actions in Iraq. While such an equivalence is certainly being offered by the state-controlled Russian propagandist media, it would appear to me that the differences are significant and easy to see. The US did not annex Iraq, it did not expropriate Iraqi assets (such as the oil industry) and it did not make a secret of its plans to invade Iraq with the goal of overthrowing the dictatorship (which dictatorship already had the record of UN resolution violations).

Russia, on the other hand, did annex a part of Ukraine, did expropriate Ukrainian assets in the annexed territories and it continues to deny any official involvement of the Russian Army in the war against Ukraine, despite an abundance of proof to the contrary (while the UN resolution 68/262 clearly calls the Russian annexation of Crimea illegal).

Furthermore, the article notes with befuddling casualness that

“Both sides are guilty...” I would be interested to hear more - while the issues of the Russian annexation of Crimea, Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine with regular troops (including airborne and special operations forces) and transfer of Russian weapons (including tanks, heavy and rocket artillery, armored personnel carriers, etc) to the so-called “separatists” in Ukraine are sure indicators of the Putin’s government’s guilt, it is not easy to me to understand what exactly the Ukraine is guilty of.

In summary, I am glad Miami’s students are interested in this topic.

I believe, however, that there is more clarity in the issue of the conflict in Ukraine than the article seemed to have let on.

One example of an excellent resource in that regard, I believe, is a blog (written in Russian) of Andrei Illarionov, who is a former economic policy adviser to President Vladimir Putin and currently is a senior fellow at Cato Institute (he visited Miami with a lecture at Havinghurst in 2011): http://aillarionov.livejournal.com/

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What every man needs to know about the HeForShe Campaign EQUALITY This past Saturday, Emma Watson (you know, Harry Potter, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Noah and, as of six months ago, the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador) officially launched a campaign called HeForShe during a speaking event held at the UN headquarters in New York. And it totally rocks.

The HeForShe campaign is a modern movement in feminism – wait, keep reading – that is rooted in inviting boys and men to be a part of the “conversation.”

“This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN,” Watson began.

“We want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.”

So what’s the main goal of this movement? Men and women of the OxBox, why should you even care?

As always, ladies first (is that un-feminist of me?)

Watson outlined some astonishing statistics during her time

at the podium on Saturday, including one fact that stood out to me especially.

“No country in the world [today],” she said, “can say that they have achieved gender equality.”

Newsflash: that includes the United States.

Let’s use the girls of the Farmer School of Business as an example to outline this flooring fact – ladies, you are studying in the same classrooms, under the same professors and getting similar (or, statistically, better) grades as your male peers. You went to the same career fairs, joined the same business frats or investment clubs, and will enter the business world equal in your educations. As of today; however, when you join the workforce, your guy friends will, on average, earn more than you do.

Doing the same exact job.

On to the men! Why should you even care about feminism?

Question: Do you have a mother?

Aunts? Sisters, nieces, female cousins, a girlfriend, a wife, a daughter? Would you support

them in their ambitions and endeavors? Would you feel for them if they were hurt, or taken advantage of, or put down? For the influence of gender equality to reach an international scale, we must first recognize its importance on an individual scale. You love the women in your life. What’s wrong with supporting their rights?

Still not sold, guys? Listen to Emma: “I have realized,” she said, “that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing that I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.”

She continued: “Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either.”

And she is right. Where there are “roles” for women, there are opposing “roles” for men. Women have to be beautiful and sensitive; men must be tough and emotionally closed off. Women are given more credit for being a mother than men are given for being a father, when both parental roles

are vitally important to a child’s well-being.

Men have continually been transformed by society into insatiable sexual beings with no control over their desires, especially in the media. Guys: you may feel that you are freer than women, but you are not in the context of gender roles.

Take note that the HeForShe campaign is not saying that women need to rely on men in order to get what they want. Instead, as Watson puts it, it is an invitation of participation extended to men everywhere. Male support for women’s rights has a symbiotic effect on both walks of life. The ideals behind HeForShe are applicable in the times you gentlemen were uncomfortable during frat hazing, but stuck with it to make sure no one thought you were weak, or the time you and your girlfriend broke up and you were actually pretty sad about it, but never said anything. You should be able to feel okay speaking about what you feel.

Feminism is the belief that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities. It has taken on various meanings since its conception, but that’s its core ideal. Being a feminist is nothing to be ashamed or afraid of, nor should it be scoffed at.

Emma Watson and HeForShe reminds us that feminism is not just a feminine cause. Above all, we are human beings and we all need to work together to create a better world.

“Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong,” Watson said. “It’s time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, instead of two sets of opposing ideals.”

Tens of thousands of men from almost every single country around the world have already committed to helping voice the importance of women’s rights on www.heforshe. org. Be bold. Join the revolution.

MADELEINE LAPLANTE-DUBE LAPLANMM@MIAMIOH.EDU

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One whistle too far: Why I’m not putting up with it anymore LIFE A whistle. That’s what compelled me to write this article.

I was out for a run, nearing Cook field, when I passed by a green space. Two men—construction workers—were enjoying their break, sitting side by side on a bench. Close to the end of my run, sweat dripping into my eyes, I didn’t really give them more than I passing glance. I went past them, focused on finishing my run.

And then I heard something I have heard many times: a whistle. The whistle. The whistle you hear sometimes when you’re walking down a street, and guys poke their heads out of their spot cars to remark. Or that you hear when it’s summer and you’re wearing a tank top because it hot. Or, apparently, when you’re running.

The point is simple: no matter the circumstances, whistling happens.

It seems, even in this day in age— where we have women and gender’s studies, where women have a say and can vote and are constantly running campaigns of awareness about any number of ‘women’s issues’— it seems, women are still used to being whistled at.

A disclaimer: I don’t usually get stirred up about this sort of thing.

In fact, I am the very sort or person to brush it off. And don’t most of us do that? We tell ourselves something isn’t a big deal; we move on with our day. I am naturally shy; I am crazy enough that I will write fictional manuscripts, in my free time, before I will give speeches in front of people. I tend to keep quiet, even when something bothers me.

But something about this time was different. Maybe it was the fact that these were adult men, employed by Miami University. Maybe it was the way they were talking and laughing

like I was their entertainment for their lunch break. And maybe it was just that, finally, I’d had enough.

I went back running past them, and one of them said hello, asked how I was doing. Before I could change my mind, under my heavy breathing, I said answered as loudly as I could: “Don’t whistle at me. It’s disrespectful.”

From peeing in public to stealing, student antics don’t go unnoticed by Oxford community What do the locals have to say about us?

If we do not speak up, we are accepting the whistling, the labels girls get plastered on them: slut, whore, the like.”

MATT ARVIZU THE MIAMI STUDENT

In true Erin fashion, I ran off right after that, I kept going. I didn’t hear their reaction or see their faces, but I think it’s safe to say they were startled.

But why should they be? That, in of itself, is the heart of the problem.

If we do not speak up, we are accepting the whistling, the labels girls get plastered on them: slut, whore, the like. If we laugh it off, we are contending it’s a good joke.

And the thing is? It’s not.

Call me a prude, but I no longer will put up with whistling, or labels.

Women have worked hard over our nation’s history to earn respect and rights. Why should we relinquish that now? Have respect for ourselves, and for others. Have respect enough to treat as thinking human beings. Have respect not to whistle of label, and to speak out if you hear it.

ERIN JAMIESON

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COMMUNITY Whether we’re stealing bagels or getting in fights Uptown, Miami students seem to have a knack for finding new ways of getting themselves in trouble. While these tales of insobriety and absolute lunacy circulate through the student body like a virus, Oxford residents—of which there are over 22,000—see and hear about our antics as well.

Not surprisingly, those who work Friday or Saturday night shifts in the restaurants Uptown see their fair share of stupidity. Chris Jones, the owner of Oxford’s Skyline Chili, recalled how just two Saturdays ago he “saw a student get in a little wresting match with a cop.” Of all the people you could choose to fight, why a police officer?

Gary Franks, the owner of Bagel and Deli, found it particularly difficult thinking of the stupidest thing he had ever seen a Miami student do, but who can blame him?

He deals with “lots and lots of drunk people” being that Bagel and Deli is so popular with the late night crowd.

“I can tell you the weirdest thing I’ve seen this year though,” Franks said. “So these two girls we’re just so far gone. One of them passes out on that counter over there and I’m just like, ‘you can’t do that here.’ So they walk out and they both pass out on that bench there. They were there for like an hour. Although, now that I think about it, once we did have one

girl just pee in the middle of the floor with like 40 or 50 people around.”

Franks isn’t the only one to witness public urination. There’s a certain taxi driver students call “Hagrid” (which is most likely due to his bodacious beard). While he respectfully declined to reveal anything too outrageous that has happened inside his cab—it’s his belief that “what happens in the cab, stays in the cab”—he asked “which one do you want?” when asked if he had seen anybody publicly urinating. “The girl pissin’ outside Jimmy Johns? Or the one that got arrested for pissin’ outside by the dumpster at The Den?”

Ironically, even with all this inappropriate vomiting and urinating, the people of Oxford still appreciate us.”

Come on, people, let’s be considerate here and learn how to control our bladders. Good people like Hagrid have to clean up after us.

“I’ve had two people puke in my cab and another handful piss in it,” Hagrid said. “When that happens I have to fine you one-hundred bucks and I lose about an hour of business cleaning it up. I lose money. Not to mention it’s gross.”

If we’re drinking so much that we’re puking or peeing on somebody’s livelihood, perhaps we need to ask ourselves a few questions.

When do our actions go from being humorous to harmful? How stupid is too stupid?

Ask yourself that before you finish “just one more cup.”

Ironically, even with all this inappropriate vomiting and urinating, the people of Oxford still appreciate us. “The students are what make this town,” Clyde Sparks, owner of some apartments on East Sycamore Street, declared.

Jones from Skyline agrees. “We love the students. We love being here for them,” he said.

Whether they are selling us Coneys or bagels, or providing us with a place to live, or transportation when we need it, the people of this town are here for us. While they may find some of the ridiculous things we do to be funny, they really just want to see us succeed. Sparks put it best; when asked what one piece of advice he would give to the students he said that we should “learn as much as [we] can and do something with it.”

We should take note, and remember why we are here, but it is hard to focus on what’s important if we keep getting arrested for peeing in cabs or getting in fights with cops.

MATT ARVIZU

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However, Berry said she has brainstormed new ways to increase business at the new store.

“We now have a lot more space, which is nice,” Berry said. “We have the capacity to have our own studio and gallery space for students and professors to access.”

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get to our new store,” Berry said.

“I am not angry with the university and will still try to help our loyal customers in every way that I can.”

Berry is, however, angered at the way that the move out was handled.

“The Sigma Chi Foundation was very unhelpful during the abrupt move out process,” Berry said.

“Which is unfortunate because my brother Bill paid rent there for over 30 years before he passed away.”

Since the move last May, the Sigma Chi Foundation has placed very noticeable signs in the windows of the previous shops. The signs read “stuck in the past, afraid of the future.”

“I understand that [Sigma Chi] is upset that the university has not allowed them back on campus,”

Berry said. “But that’s not really the way to get the town to change their minds.”

Berry hopes to focus on the store’s future.

“I am hoping that with the help of professors and students that Bill’s will remain a place where students can come and feel welcome,” Berry said.

She has recently agreed to work with a marketing team within the Farmer School of Business in order to promote new business at the store.

“I am all for working with students and being a one-person operation I appreciate any help that I can get,” Berry said. “I am curious to see what the future has in store for us.”

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Miami senior Jess Hoover competes during the Miami Invitational Sept. 13. Hoover won that race and is Miami’s top runner this season.

Red and White hit the road for Roy Griak Invitational in Minnesota CROSS COUNTRY GRACE REMINGTON FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University women’s cross country team travels to Minneapolis, Minnesota for the Roy Griak Invitational at the University of Minnesota this Saturday.

The RedHawks began their season with a strong start and haven’t stopped since.

“I feel great. We’re fit and excited to run,” head coach Kelly Phillips said. “If we’re going to be ranked in the nation, this is where

we’re going to do it.”

This weekend brings the first opportunity for the ’Hawks to score the points needed to qualify for NCAA Regionals. Ideally, the team would like to achieve an automatic qualification at the end of the season for the Great Lakes region.

However, they will still be able to enter Regionals as a wild card if they don’t finish as region leaders.

Either way, the Red and White have their eyes focused on finishing big here in order to reach Nationals.

“The team is ready for a bigger challenge,” senior Jess Hoover

said. “We’ve had two smaller meets up until this point. Everyone is hungry for something bigger.”

Miami has never competed at this course before. According to Phillips, about 100 teams are participating in this well-attended meet. Schools from both the Great Lakes region and other regions will make an appearance.

In meets this large, Hoover said it’s important to go in confident.

“It’s easy to get caught up and think ‘Okay, there’s really good teams here, maybe we belong in the back,’” Hoover said. “No. We can compete with the best teams.

We belong in the front.”

The squad’s flight for Minneapolis leaves Friday morning. Hoover says this will give them 24 hours to relax before the race.

Hoover sees traveling as more of a motivator rather than a stressor. Neither she nor Phillips thinks travel time will have a poor effect on the runners’ performances.

“Traveling with your team is one of the greatest parts of college sports,” Hoover said. “You get to go somewhere you’ve never been, hang out with your best friends, and do what you love.”

Hoover added that though

traveling adds an “interesting element to the mix,” the older girls have grown accustomed to it.

“Virtually all the teams at this meet are traveling, we have to keep that in mind,” Hoover said. “We’re all in the same boat, so we’re not making that an excuse.”

Phillips expects to see Hoover joined at the top by fellow seniors Melissa Girgis, Anna Lamb, Elisa Frazier and junior Brenna Poulsen.

Star freshmen Sarra Taylor and Alex Cameron will also be joining the veteran runners.

The Invitational is set to begin at 2:10 p.m. Saturday.

MU looks to repeat as national champs ’Hawks face Providence and New Hampshire W. HOCKEY

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The Miami University women’s hockey team begins its national title defense this weekend as it takes on the University of Lindenwood-Belleville in two games at the Goggin Ice Center. The RedHawks have had a quick ascension to the top of the women’s hockey landscape, as the program has only been around since 2010.

Head coach Scott Hicks has built quite the program in such a brief period of time, compiling a record of 52-36-9 on his way to earning 201314 ACHA Coach of the Year honors and earning a spot as an assistant coach for Team USA for the 2015 World University Games.

“In practice, we’ve been working on paying attention to detail and working on the little things early on,” Hicks said of the team’s preparation for this weekend. “We have a really strong team returning, but we have to stay humble and possibly work even harder this year because

we have a target on us and we have to stay focused. We’ll be led by underclassmen, like last year, and we have lots of leadership and it’s not just from one person.”

The RedHawks will be returning 13 of the players that helped in bringing the national crown to Oxford with a 30-2-3 record in the 2013-2014 season, including senior forward Lindsey Ellis, junior defenders Katie Lincoln, captain Morgan McGrath, Jesse Gould along with junior forwards Izzy Smith and Hayley Williams.

Smith has accounted for 34 goals and 40 assists in her career as a RedHawk, which is good enough for second place in program history in both categories. McGrath has tallied 20 assists in her time in Oxford.

Smith is also the all-time leader for the ’Hawks with eight power play goals and 72 penalty minutes.

Sophomore goaltender Emalee Wills will see major action this season after recording eight wins in last season with a 95 percent save percentage and 0.7 goals against average. The team lost Dana Lovin, who earned 27 wins and made 1,378

saves as the netminder for the Red and White.

Lindenwood-Belleville is entering its inaugural season as both a program and a member of the Western Women’s Collegiate Hockey League.

The team is also unique in that there are only two players on the roster that are not freshmen: junior forwards Jaylene Anderson and Delaney Peters. Anderson was an assistant captain at Rainy River Community College, while Peters was a captain for Rainy River last season.

“We’ve been working on our communication and bonding with each other,” Ellis said of the team’s practices. “This team hasn’t been practicing for very long but we look forward to defending our national championship. As a senior, I want everyone to enjoy it and just have fun; that’s the foremost thing. It is just a game but the younger players need to understand that it’s an honor and a privilege to play here.”

Miami opens the season against the Lynx 10 p.m. Friday and face them again 1 p.m. Saturday.

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The Miami University women’s field hockey team is on the road this weekend, facing the University of New Hampshire (2-6) and Providence College (5-3).

The RedHawks are coming off of a 10-1 win over Appalachian State Saturday, and a 3-0 loss to No. 1 University of North Carolina Sunday. The RedHawks are currently 2-7 overall and 1-0 in their conference.

“Even though our record doesn’t really reflect it, we still have a lot to be proud of,” senior back Ali Froede said. “We’re in a really good spot right now.”

Froede feels the rest of the games they play will be equal in competition, compared to the previous games the RedHawks have played this season.

“We are in control of the rest of our games, and it’s going to

be hard,” Froede said. “It’s a 5050 chance, whoever shows up to play is going to come up on top.

We have to make sure we show up ready and I think we’ll have a good chance.”

Senior back Gabby Goldach feels the team is competing well with the highly ranked competitors they have been facing this season.

“As a team we are playing better than we ever have,” Goldach said. “Given our records and our opponents, we are doing well.”

Goldach said the RedHawks are trying not to concentrate on the name of their opponent, but their own game.

“We are going to continue to play our best and not let the name on the jersey in front of us sway how we play,” Froede said.

The RedHawks play the University of New Hampshire 6 p.m. Friday in Durham, New Hampshire and Providence College noon Sunday in Providence, Rhode Island.

’Hawks head to Columbus for Jack Nicklaus Invitational GOLF JUSTIN MASKULINSKI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

a lot from you, but in different ways. The Scarlet is probably going to play longer than Wolf Run did. It’s going to be another really strong test. I think we’re going to have good week of practice and we’ll be ready to go this weekend.”

Shaughnessy made the goal for the RedHawks very clear.

“We’re aiming to win this weekend,” Shaughnessy said.

“It’s a goal every single weekend and we’ve put in a lot of effort to make that happen. That’s our ultimate goal, but everyone’s going to take care of their individual business. At the end of the day, all we can handle is ourselves on the golf course. Even though we are a team, it’s an individual sport as well. So as long as we take care of what we need to do as individuals, we’ll definitely come together as a team.”

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Shaughnessy said the ’Hawks will have an advantage having played a tough course last week at the Wolf Run Intercollegiate. “[Playing tough courses] gets us really prepared,” Shaughnessy said. “We want to see tough courses and we want to play in good tournaments with good fields. These are the opportunities that we’re given and we’re trying to make the best of them. Having played a tough course this past week at Wolf Run will really prepare us, compared to other teams, because we’re used to the tough conditions. It won’t be easy for us, but I think we’ll be ready.”

Zedrick agrees the ’Hawks experience at Wolf Run can assist them at the Scarlet Course.

“I think it’s great that we were able to play Wolf Run,” Zedrick said. “The Scarlet is another demanding golf course, it demands

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After a seventh place finish in its first tournament, the Miami University golf team will look to improve Sunday and Monday in the Jack Nicklaus Invitational in Columbus.

Ohio State University hosts the invitational and it takes place on the Scarlet Course.

Some of the ’Hawks have seen the Scarlet Course before, and head coach Zac Zedrick thinks that can be an advantage.

“We’ve got guys with familiarity,” Zedrick said. “I think that familiarity is going to help whoever is going that has not played [the Scarlet Course]. We were just there in April competing, so I think our knowledge is going to

help us quite a bit.”

The RedHawks are not the only team familiar with the course, so Zedrick has them focused on their play rather than the course itself.

“There are several teams that are going to be [at the Jack Nicklaus Invitational] that have seen [the Scarlet Course] a lot too,” Zedrick said. “For us, it’s going to come down to minimizing our mistakes.”

Senior Luke Shaughnessy said after one tournament, he has found one area of his game he can improve on.

“I just need to improve on my wedge play to give me some more opportunities for birdies,” Shaughnessy said. “Driving it better will also give me more opportunities. Other than that, I think I’ll be more than ready for Ohio State’s Tournament.”

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Miami defensive backs Lo Wood and Heath Harding celebrate a special teams stop during a Miami loss. Neither player has won in a game at Miami, although Wood won plenty at Notre Dame.

Return of the #MACtion: ’Hawks travel to Buffalo FOOTBALL TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

The losing streak started on a cold, cloudy, grey November day in upstate New York in 2012. A field goal as time expired gave the University at Buffalo a 27-24 win over Miami University. The RedHawks haven’t won a game since. Miami returns Saturday with a chance to snap a schoolrecord 20-game losing streak where it started.

It is both team’s first MidAmerican Conference game of the season.

“It’d be nice if it happened out in the Millett parking lot against Jones Jr. High,” head coach Chuck Martin said of snapping the streak. “If we can get a win, we’ll take it. Heck yeah, it’s the next game in our schedule and we would love for the streak to end at Buffalo. If that makes it nice for an article, that things wrapped around, that’s great. For our guys, we just want to win a dang game.”

The two teams don’t resemble the squads that met nearly two years ago. However, Buffalo (22) has had two mainstays during the gap: head coach Jeff

Quinn and junior quarterback Joe Licata.

Quinn and Martin know each other well — they were both assistants under Brian Kelly at Grand Valley State. In fact, Quinn told the Buffalo News his oldest son used to babysit for Martin.

Licata got his first career start against Miami on that fateful Nov. 3 afternoon. The temperature was a frigid 38 degrees, and Licata rode a running game that produced 215 yards. He completed 13 of passes for 137 yards, two touchdowns and one pick.

He isn’t the same player now that he was then, as the Buffalo offense has relied more and more on him every year. For the season, he’s completed 64 percent of passes for 1,099 yards, 12 touchdowns and four picks.

“The win games because they play football the way it is supposed to be played,” Martin said of Buffalo. “They don’t beat themselves on defense, they don’t beat themselves on offense. They run the ball, they stop the run.

Those are all the things that good teams do. Obviously their quarterback, who led them to a great season last year is off to a phenomenal start this year, whipping the ball around.”

The last time these two teams

squared off was in Oxford, when the Bulls blew out the ’Hawks 44-7 in the penultimate game of the season. In another cold game (the temperature was 35 degrees), But this isn’t the same Miami team the Bulls saw six games ago.

Despite a winless season thus far, Miami has competed with Marshall University, the University of Michigan and nearly upset the University of Cincinnati last week. The RedHawks think this is the week to end the streak.

“We have to get it done this week,” senior wide receiver and reigning MAC East Player of the Week David Frazier said.

“Everybody is tired of it. I can tell from [Tuesday’s practice], everybody is pushing through practice, going real hard. I think we’re going to get that first win this week.”

Junior linebacker Kent Kern agreed. “The goal this weekend is to get a win,” Kern said. “We know we have what it takes to get a win this weekend, we just need to go out there, execute our game plan, play hard and we’ll win if we do that. We’re not focused on getting one, we want to put together a string of wins.”

Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Fans can listen to the game live on redhawkradio.com.

How I used my vote in the NCHC Preseason Poll and First-Team All-Conference Selection COLUMN

WHAT’S GOING DOWNEY Sometimes, I get to do cool things as a media member. This year, I received a vote in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference Preseason Poll and FirstTeam NCHC selection this season.

The official results were announced yesterday and they didn’t differ too badly from my submissions. I guess that means I didn’t screw up anything too badly.

Starting with the all-confernece selections, I voted for Miami senior forward Austin Czarnik, Miami junior forward Riley Barber, St. Cloud State senior forward Nic Dowd, Colorado College sophomore defenseman Jaccob Slavin, Denver senior defenseman Joey LaLeggia and North Daktoa senior goalie Zane McIntyre (formerly Gothberg).

The final results were very similar, with junior forward Johnny Brodzinski replacing his teammate Dowd. I don’t have any complaint with Brodzinski replacing Dowd.

Brodzinski is one heck of a player.

If I were a gambling man, and I am, I’d put my money on Miami capturing that elusive national title.”

McIntyre was a unanimous selection, which wasn’t too surprising given that he was clearly the top retuning goalie. However, he was the only unanimous selection, which does surprise me.

Czarink led the NCHC in assists and points last season, yet two voters failed to select him. It baffles me that Czarnik was not a unanimous pick.

LaLeggia is the returning NCHC defenseman of the year, so he was

another obvious choice. Slavin was the NCHC Rookie of the Year, and might steal the defenseman of the year designation from LaLeggia.

The addition of Barber means Miami is the only school with two First-Team selections.

My preseason poll went Miami, North Dakota, St. Cloud State, Denver, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska Omaha, Western Michigan and Colorado College.

My selections matched up exactly with the official poll, except for North Dakota and Miami. I wasn’t surprised North Dakota was picked to win, but I still think Miami will win the NCHC. The RedHawks didn’t lose much from last year’s squad and they are loaded with talent.

During my sophomore year, on a radio broadcast with WMSR, I said Miami would win a national championship before I graduated. I’ve got one year left for that prediction to come true. If I were a gambling man, and I am, I’d put my money on Miami capturing that elusive national title.

If the Mid-American Conference women’s soccer preseason poll came out today, it would be hard to bet against Miami University taking the title.

Miami is off to a red hot 6-1 start and has vaulted into the national picture as the No. 21 team in college soccer according to the NCAA RPI rankings. Victories over top-70 teams Purdue, Louisville and Illinois State have buoyed Miami well above its MAC competitors. The secondhighest MAC team in the RPI is University at Buffalo at No. 77.

When the conference’s preseason poll was released last month, the ’Hawks were voted No. 2 in the MAC East Division behind Kent State University. Western Michigan University and Eastern Michigan University were favorites in the West Division. As it stands now in the RPI rankings, Kent State sits at No. 193, WMU at No. 136 and EMU at No. 81.

Miami head coach Bobby Kramig has reiterated throughout the nonconference season his team’s main focus is the MAC. Even though the ’Hawks look capable of claiming a third consecutive East Division title, he is not about to take anything for granted.

“I think the MAC is going to be very, very competitive,” Kramig said. “There are some really excellent teams in the conference. Teams that do well in the MAC are teams that show up ready to play day in and day out. It’s a marathon – you gotta

be good all the time.”

Miami will line up against fellow conference heavyweight Eastern Michigan (4-2-1) this Friday, and Kramig knows it will be a test.

“Eastern Michigan is as good as any we’ll see all year, better than most,” Kramig said.

Last Friday, sophomore goalkeeper Vic Maniaci got the start against Marshall University and limited the Thundering Herd to one goal en route to the 2-1 RedHawk victory.

Her plan for MAC success is simple.

“We’re pretty excited but we can’t let [these wins] get to our heads,” Maniaci said. “We just gotta keep going.”

Maniaci’s solid performance in goal last weekend has put the Miami coaching staff in a predicament. Will senior goalkeeper Danielle Wiseman continue as the starter, will young Maniaci get the nod, or will Miami elect for an alternating goalkeeper by committee approach?

“Certainly D [Wiseman] has been playing very well and Vic is a great player too,” Kramig said.

“We’re gonna have to make a decision on this, and it’s not gonna be an easy one.”

In any scenario, look for the entire roster to be influential during the MAC season.

“We’ve got a situation on our team right now where everybody out there is prepared to put team first,” Kramig said. “We’re gonna keep using our bench and our depth and make it work for us.”

The RedHawks take on Eastern Michigan 4 p.m. Friday and face Bowling Green State University 1 p.m. Sunday. Both games will be played at Miami Soccer Field.

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The number of interceptions by Miami players recruited to play football at Miami. The RedHawks have four interceptions from players recruited to play basketball.

Miami begins MAC play VOLLEYBALL

BY JORDAN RINARD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After finishing its nonconference slate with a winning record, the Miami University volleyball team now turns its attention to the Mid-American Conference as it opens at the University of Toledo and University at Buffalo this weekend. Last season, the RedHawks (7-5) went 0-3 against the Rockets and Bulls.

“We’re ready for the MAC season,” sophomore setter Krista Brakauskas said. “We’ve been watching film and working on our defense, our serving and our passing. We know Toledo’s and Buffalo’s transitions and what they run and when they run it. We’re so excited to begin the MAC season after a hard preseason and show people what we’re made of.”

Toledo (1-12) has struggled mightily in the nonconference season as it opened its 2014 campaign with a 10-match losing streak. One of the few bright spots for the Rockets has been senior middle blocker Brooke Frazer, recording a teamleading 31 total blocks this season and a .242 hitting percentage. Junior setter Alex Hines has been a facilitator for the UT offense as she has registered 8.16 assists per set so far.

Buffalo (9-4) has won seven of its last eight matches and has looked strong under the tutelage of first year head coach and longtime University of Cincinnati coach Reed

Sunahara. Junior middle blocker Amber Hatchett and junior outside hitter Megan Lipski have been contributing on both offense and defense, as Hatchett has 2.36 kills per set and 36 total blocks this season while Lipski has 2.65 kills per set and 2.70 digs per set.

Miami senior setter/outside hitter Meg Riley is coming off of a strong showing in the Miami Invitational with two triple-doubles and a double-double. Freshman outside hitter Olivia Rusek has been growing as a college player as she leads the team with 2.70 kills per set and contributed 1.95 digs per set.

Redshirt junior middle blocker Jenny Ingle and sophomore middle blocker Paige Hill have been big for the Red and White as they have accumulated 209 kills and 70 total blocks between them.

“We’ve been working on getting our offensive patterns to be more efficient and putting new twists in our offense that aren’t yet on film,” head coach Carolyn Condit said. “We’re working on the bread and butter of volleyball, which is passing and serving with efficiency and consistency as well as putting the first ball down with our setters and right sides. We’re looking forward to MAC play and the challenge that it presents and we feel pretty prepared from our nonconference schedule.”

The RedHawks travel to Toledo to square off against the Rockets 7 p.m Friday and face Buffalo 7:30 p.m. Saturday.