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A ‘BRICK’ HOUSE The Weisman-owned Brick Street Bar has been an Uptown Oxford staple since 1989 when it replaced a movie theater in the iconic facade.

With recent win, women’s tennis team aces MAC title WOMEN’S TENNIS

JORDAN RINARD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A new era for The Miami Student A new team of editors takes the reins at the Student this week.

The slate is led by Reis Thebault, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a Journalism/Individualized Studies major.

Thebault will be the editor-in-chief.

“It’s both an honor and an immense responsibility,” Thebault said. “I’ve been with the paper since my first days at Miami and I’ve seen it improve in quality and influence. I’m excited to continue the upward trajectory.”

Assisting Thebault will be two managing editors, Emily Tate, International Studies/Journalism, and Victoria Slater, Professional Writing/ Journalism.

All three are rising seniors.

The editors plan a number of changes, all geared toward improving community news coverage, starting with a merging of the old “uni-

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versity” and “community” pages.

“There need not be a wall separating campus and community,” Thebault said. “But, rather, The Miami Student must reflect the integration of town and college. It is all news.

We report for everyone.”

Leading the news section will be Krista Savage, Journalism/Creative Writing, Grace Moody, Strategic Communications/Spanish and Abbey Gingras, Strategic Communications/Professional Writing. Emily Williams, Journalism/Marketing, will be helping them out as the assistant news editor.

James Steinbauer, Journalism/ International Studies, and Kelsey

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Maloney, Journalism/Anthropology, will lead the opinion section.

Steinbauer and Gingras, rising juniors, swapped positions.

Grace Remington, Sports Journalism, will assume the sports editor position.

Britton Perelman, Journalism/Media and Culture, is going to take over the culture section, which will begin printing twice a week next year.

Connor Moriarty, Journalism/ Comparative Media Studies, as the new photo editor, is in charge of all things pictures.

Architecture student, Kyle Hayden, as design editor, leads a team of three other page designers.

The Miami University women’s tennis team clinched its 20th outright Mid-American Conference title with a 4-3 victory over Ball State University in Hamilton on Senior Day. The RedHawks (14-6, 8-0 MAC) won their 13th straight MAC match and ninth consecutive match overall as it went unblemished in conference play for the first time since the 2012 season.

“We won the match, but we’re not there yet,” head coach Yana Carrolo said. “We did a good job of pulling together for the win and we had exceptional performances from our seniors. We’re not happy with our overall performance as a team.

With the MAC Tournament, we need to be focused on competition, since teams will be coming after us.

So we’ll have to bring extra fighting, extra guts, and extra hits.”

In doubles play, senior Christine Guerrazzi and freshman Nelli Ponomareva downed the No. 74 tandem of sophomore Rosalinda Calderon and junior Courtney Earnest 6-3.

Sophomore Andreea Badileanu and senior Ramona Costea fell 6-2 to sophomore Toni Ormond and senior Ashlyn Rang.

Freshman Hannah Shteyn and senior Alix Thurman clinched the doubles point for Miami with a 6-4 victory over juniors Bethany Moore and Courtney Wild. The pair finished the regular season 8-0 in MAC doubles.

Ball State tied the match 1-1 af-

ter Badileanu lost the No. 2 singles match 6-2, 6-2 to Earnest. However, Shteyn won her eighth straight match in a 6-3, 6-2 decision over Moore at No. 5 singles to retake Miami’s lead. Shteyn is undefeated in MAC singles. Ponomareva’s 6-2, 6-2 loss to Rang at No. 4 singles tied the match again.

The remaining three points were decided by MU’s three seniors.

Guerrazzi dropped straight sets to Ormond at No. 3 singles. Her 6-4, 6-1 decision loss gave the Cardinals their first lead of the match. Costea took her match 6-3, 6-4 over freshman Olivia Large at No. 6 singles to tie the match up once again.

Thurman’s 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 No. 1 singles win clinched the match for the RedHawks.

“It was a good match for us, showing us that we can be better,” Carrolo said. “We were good in doubles, where we’ve been at our strongest all season, but we need to be more focused in our singles.”

Miami faces the winner of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Toledo 10 a.m.

Saturday in the semifinals of the MAC Tournament.

“I believe that yesterday’s match was a great preparation for what we’re going to encounter in the MAC Tournament,” Costea said.

“Our opponents fought hard and were determined to do whatever it was necessary to shake up our confidence. However, I think we did a great job at striking back and dealing with pressure on each court in both singles and doubles, and that is

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Miami graduates travel, work with Peace Corps ALUMNI

EMILY O’CONNOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Peace Corps releases an annual list of the top volunteerproducing universities throughout the country, and Miami University has made it on the list for the past eight years in a row.

Kelly Muenchen (‘13) and Christie Gingras (‘13) are two Miami alumnae who joined the Peace Corps after graduating. Both are working in Asia ­­— Muenchen in Kyrgyzstan and Gingras in Mongolia.

Muenchen left the United States in April 2013 and was sworn into the Peace Corps that June. Gingras left for Mongolia in May 2014 and was officially sworn in a few months later, in August.

Muenchen said her interest in the Peace Corps began with an adveristment. She remembers passing it on a bulletin board outside one of her international studies classes at Miami.

“Seeing that poster always gave me a sense of excitement, a desire to see where life would take me, if I first took the risk,”

Muenchen said.

Gingras, who graduated with an education degree, said she decided to apply for the Peace Corps because she wasn’t fully ready to commit to teaching in an Ohio classroom for 40 hours each week.

“I wanted to travel more. I wanted adventure,” Gingras said.

“But I still wanted to teach.”

For students like Gingras, the Peace Corps offers benefits after completing service, much like the military. The Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program partners with 80 schools to provide scholarships and financial aid to Peace Corps volunteers so they’re able to afford graduate school.

Muenchen noted that everyone who volunteers with the Peace Corps has a different experience, even for those who serve in the same country.

Muenchen lives in a 500-person village with her host family.

Her typical day begins around 6:30 a.m., when she milks the family cow as part of her daily chores. Hundreds of miles away, Gingras wakes up at 6:00 a.m. to build a fire by her ger, which is a typical Mongolian home.

While both Muenchen and

Gingras spend their days teaching English at local schools, there are many other options for Peace Corps volunteers.

Many join for medical or engineering purposes. The volunteer work also depends on the indi-

son plans with other teachers and plans English compositions. She is a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (T.E.F.L) volunteer.

Muenchen returns home around 4:00 p.m. and spends her evening interacting with her

With Peace Corps, you really get a deep understanding of the country’s culture that you can’t get anywhere else.

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vidual needs of the country.

Muenchen teaches with a local counterpart and is currently working on a project called GLOW on the Go! This project trains six female students on self-esteem, diversity, goal setting and gender.

The students will eventually provide the training to other schools in the region.

Gingras, who works with grades four through 12, teaches four to seven classes a day, holds English clubs, makes les-

host siblings and helping her host mom cook dinner over a small fire. The food they make is called lagman.

“My host mom has become one of my best friends here, and she is actually more like an older sister because she’s only a few years older than me,” Muenchen said. “It’s great to spend time talking about our days together as we cook.”

Gingras usually returns home around 5:15 p.m. Once home,

she grades papers and works on lesson plans along with spending time with her host family, which is called khashaa in Mongolia.

She also interacts with friends at other sites, reads books and watches American television on her computer.

Both Gingras and Muenchen recommend volunteering for the Peace Corps to Miami students. While Muenchen warns against going with any expectations, Gingras said she does not regret joining the Peace Corps after graduation, despite missing some of the luxuries of home.

“Don’t get me wrong, there are days when I want to go back to America, the land of running water and Chipotle,” Gingras said. “But Mongolia is beautiful. The people are helpful, generous, hardworking and kind.”

Muenchen said she is most fond of the experiences she’s had learning about how other people live.

“With Peace Corps, you really get a deep understanding of the country’s culture that you can’t get anywhere else,” Muenchen said.

“It’s a personally rewarding experience.”

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APRIL SHOWERS While the near constant rain showers in Oxford have sent students running for cover over the last few weeks, it has produced beautiful spring flowers.

Miami University Press author, Tote Hughes, visits campus for book reading EVENT

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A high-energy physicist by day, an acclaimed author by night, 25-year-old Tote Hughes visited Miami University to read from his prize-winning novella, “Fountain,” on April 13.

“Fountain” won the annual Miami University Press Novella Prize last year. The 200-page novella is a metaphysical mystery about plagiarized manifestos, cryptic clues and secret cults.

“It is a novella with a lot of ideas and people talking about weird things,” Hughes said. “It is a good kind of weird, and it can come across very funny.”

Hughes grew up in Denver, Colorado, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, and now studies high-energy physics for his Ph.D. at the CERN lab in Switzerland, where he tries to isolate “unknown” particles such as dark matter.

“Science is cool, science is great, and it definitely has had an influence on my writing,” he said.

Hughes has nurtured a passion for both science and writing throughout his life, and said he finds that each interest complements the other well.

“I have always been creatively writing my entire life. I think I read a lot, and that has had a big influence on me,” he said. “I think from

my love of physics, I have strong opinions about writing. Either you should write fiction or you should write something logical. Sometimes I like to take a break from being logical and so I write fiction.”

It took a few years for Hughes to write “Fountain,” his first substantial work, whose shorter length met the requirements for the Miami University Press Novella Prize.

This contest, which the Miami University Press founded 10 years ago, is one of the few of its kind to offer publication, marketing and reviews to a novella writer, according to creative writing professor Joseph Bates.

“This is one of the only prizes in the country that publishes the novella as a standalone book,” said Bates, who judged and chose “Fountain” as the winning submission last year. “Publishers for a very long time had no idea what to do with a novella. They’re very concerned with the bottom line, and they believe full length-novels are the way to go … We wanted to give a novella author the opportunity to have his or her work published as a standalone book rather than being absorbed in a larger work.”

Bates added that the Press receives hundreds of submissions from all around the world each year for the contest. Hughes, for instance, submitted his work while he was in Switzerland. He said he stumbled upon the contest when he saw an advertisement in a magazine, and it immediately

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piqued his interest.

“I thought it would be a really cool way to get published for the first time,” he said.

Senior Samantha Edmonds, an editorial intern at the Miami University Press, helped edit the winning submission after it was chosen. She said she loved the peculiarity and metaphysical humor “Fountain” employs.

“I loved ‘Fountain,’” she said.

“When I first read it, I was really confused by it, but the more I read the more I fell in love. It’s a crazy story, but it is so good.”

Hughes said he was ecstatic when he learned he had won

the contest, and “Fountain” would be published.

“It was actually weird because the day before, I was outside of Chicago with my father, we went to the Hemingway Museum there, and while we were there, he took a picture of a rejection letter from Hemingway and sent it to me. And the day after I did that, I found out I had won the prize,” he said.

A year after winning, Hughes visited Miami University and read excerpts from “Fountain” to a crowded Shriver Bookstore. He said his experience writing a novella prizewinner has inspired him to continue pursuing his passion.

“Now I am working on a fulllength novel, and it will be just as interesting as ‘Fountain,’” he said.

The Miami University Press publishes poetry, poetry in translation, novellas and books about Miami University. Recent titles include: “Monetized,” which received praise from The New Yorker; “Hafez: Translations and Interpretations of the Ghazals,” which was awarded the 2014 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize; and “Finding Freedom: Memorializing the Voices of Freedom Summer,” which provides detailed information about the Freedom Summer monument on campus.

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Miami alumni donate $50 million in gifts to university ALUMNI

MARIAH SCHLOSSMANN THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University recently ranked 14th out of all large-sized universities in the country in terms of alumni participation rates. In the past two years, Miami alumni have donated over $50 million to the university.

To achieve this, every Miami graduate is solicited annually for financial contributions.

“The support we have from our alumni is enormously high, for which we are very grateful,” said Brad Bundy, senior associate vice president for University Advancement. “Alumni are always encouraged to give to the part of the university that they’re most interested in.”

With over 4,000 different gift accounts that people have donated over the years, the donations end up in a broad range of places in the university budget.

Caroline McClellan, associate director of Development for Annual Giving, explained the range of gifts given by alumni.

“The donations could be as broad as giving support to the college that they graduated from, as specific as the Department of Journalism, or it could be even smaller, donating, for example, to a certain club or student organization that the donor may have been involved in,”

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McClellan said.

According to Bundy, alumni have the option to choose where they want their gift to go, but more often, the alumni will give their gifts as unrestricted.

Unrestricted donations give the university the responsibility

others,” Bundy said. “When campaigning for the indoor athletic facility, we looked at athletes, parents of current student athletes, or season ticket holders.”

An indoor practice facility located near Yager Stadium is currently in the works and was mostly funded

“The support we have from our alumni is enormously high, for which we are very grateful.”

BRAD BUNDY SENIOR ASSOCIATE VP FOR UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT

to allocate the money where they see fit. These donations are often put into The Miami Fund, a general fund that is used at the vice president’s discretion.

The Miami Fund is a vital source for meeting the university’s needs, whatever they may be and whenever they arise. On average, $2 million in alumni donations are put toward The Miami Fund anually, Bundy said.

The university looks especially to alumni who were involved in intercollegiate athletics during their time at Miami, or others who expressed interest of athletics in the past.

“Over years people indicate their preferences of what aspects of the university they support more than

by alumni. Ben Roethlisberger, an alumnus, recently donated $1 million toward the new indoor practice facility.

Another project that focuses its soliciting on a specific alumnus is a $100 million scholarship campaign for different colleges within the university, of which $19 million was provided on behalf of alumni.

“Support for each academic division is always very high,” Bundy said. “We find the most success when soliciting individuals to support the college that they graduated from.”

Miami University is on target to have roughly 37-40,000 gifts made to the school this term, upon completion of the fiscal year.

POLICE BEAT

Breaking bad hits home: Meth Lab in Butler County Thursday, two OPD officers searching for a fugitive were directed to room 25 at the Butler Inn, 5235 College Corner Pike, whereupon they found not the suspect, but a meth lab.

According to OPD, the dispatcher advised the officers of suspicions the room’s occupants were involved in the manufacture of methamphetamine. The manager provided OPD with the renters’ information and said certain residents of the trailer park come and go from the room at all times, day and night. He said his suspicion was piqued when a drug-fueled degenerate known to OPD visited room 25 the day prior. When asked by officers if the occupants may be manufacturing meth in the motel he manages, he replied, “It’s possible.”

The manager indicated he checks the rooms routinely, but the occupants often took a great deal of time to let him in. Indeed, when OPD knocked, they were greeted by a drawn-out, singsong “Who is it?” as the male and female occupants delayed opening the door. After requesting the male, by name, to exit, the suspect slipped through the door and stood on the threshold in his boxer shorts.

Finding this Breaking Badesque display unsavory, the officer asked the suspect if he would like to put on a pair of pants.

As he did so, the female stood before a barely open door and made small talk with an officer.

The male consented to a search of the room, and also made incessant small talk throughout.

As the suspects stood watch between the two beds, officers

found the room in disarray. The small talk abruptly ended when an officer lifted a suspiciously lumpy blanket to reveal a jug of chemicals. When asked its purpose, the man became extremely nervous and froze, according to OPD. As the pair’s genius “hide it under the covers” ruse collapsed before their petrified eyes, OPD found several additional containers containing chemicals used to cook meth.

The smoking gun was a Gatorade bottle containing a red sludge, indicating to officers the duo was making a “one pot cook” (also called “shake and bake”). This method produces a smaller batch of meth than a riskier large cook. The male suspect persisted in his “nervous, frozen demeanor,” according to OPD, and was placed in handcuffs along with his partner, ironically named Crystal.

OPD asked a nearby occupant to vacate his room and the fire department was called and advised of the situation. The Butler Undercover Regional Narcotics (BURN) taskforce arrived and processed the scene. According to OPD, “one Oxford Police officer sustained a minor injury from exposure to the chemicals involved.” The Fire Department decontaminated the suspects and placed them in chemical suits, a simultaneous finishing touch and coup de grâce to their Breaking Bad illusion. They were each charged with Illegal Manufacture of Drugs and Illegal Assembly of Possession of Chemicals for the Manufacture of Drugs. They were taken to Butler County Jail.

Men escape from brawl outside Skyline AMANDA WANG THE MIAMI STUDENT

THE BIRDS Naturalist Shawn Conner and his Red Tailed Hawk, Colonel, visited Oxford for Earth Fest Saturday.

Michael Dantley named new dean of College of Education, Health and Society FACULTY

MARISA PHILLIPS THE MIAMI STUDENT

After devoting 25 years of teaching to Miami University, Michael Dantley will be returning June 15 as the dean for the College of Education, Heath and Society (EHS).

Dantley has many goals to enhance and improve EHS, and a strong vision to heighten the society around Miami by becoming a leader in issues of diversity.

Dantley envisions, “using the components (departments) of the College of Education, Health and Society to impact the everyday lives of boys and girls in society.”

He said he would like to broaden the work of EHS by partnering with the schools and the community surrounding Oxford, to positively impact the lives in society through education.

“The one thing that is exciting to me is the part of our name that is ‘society,’” Dantley said. “It’s exciting to me … because it says that the work we are trying to do

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in the college has an impact that is much broader than our fields, much broader than the academy, but it really is going to impact the lives of the human beings.”

Dentley said, as he continues to pursue his career in education, his excitement and ideas will bring a new, positive aspect to the College of Education, Health and Society, as well as to the future of Miami.

For almost as long as he remembers, Dantley said education has been of the upmost importance to him.

“Since I was a child, I always wanted to go into education,” Dantley said. “I think it was in second grade. I know it’s strange, but I knew I just wanted to be a teacher. Education has been a part of my life forever.”

Dantley holds a B.A. in history and education from the University of Pennsylvania, a M.Ed. in educational leadership from Miami University and an Ed.D. from the University of Cincinnati.

While pursuing his B.A. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, Dantley, along with other male students, petitioned the Col-

lege of Arts and Science to allow males to obtain a degree in education, as this was only a major allowed for females at the time.

Through this petition, Dantley and his peers got the school to accept males into the education major. This was the first time males were permitted into the program.

Shortly after graduating, Dantley started teaching English and history/social studies at the middle school and high school levels.

He continued to pursue becoming a professor when he moved to the collegiate level in 1986.

Dantley accepted the position as an assistant professor at Miami University in 1986. In addition, Dantley also served as the associate dean for the College of Education, Health and Society from 2006-08, as well as the associate provost and associate vice president for academic affairs from 2008-11.

In 2013 Dantley was named the dean of the School of Education at Loyola University. After devoting about two years to Loyola, he now looks to spend the coming years to Miami University.

At 12:08 a.m. Friday, an OPD officer working a private detail at Skyline Chili, 1 E. High St., was alerted of an active, unspooling brawl on the sidewalk.

He found five to six men entangled in a Looney Tunes-esque cloud of fists and elbows. The officer requested several times the males stop fighting. As the punching, pushing and shoving continued, the officer restrained a white male.

As the officer restrained the man, another turned and violently charged the two, punching the restrained male and barely missing the officer who ducked out of the way. In a game of degenerate musical chairs, the officer then grabbed the other suspect and got

him to the ground. Meanwhile, a second officer broke up the remaining men, who managed to elude the officers’ eyes and blend into the Friday night crowds.

The restrained suspect, after claiming “You have the wrong guy,” admitted consuming alcohol that evening and added he would not have attacked the male had he realized he was being held by a police officer, despite the officer’s introduction, badge and repeated commands for the scuffling to cease.

Officers also discovered a fictitious driver’s license on the suspect. He, a Miami student, was charged with Offenses Involving Underage Persons, Prohibited Acts and Disorderly Conduct.

Male taken to Butler County Jail for possessing instruments of drug use Around 7 p.m. Friday, an OPD officer at 5201 College Corner Pike observed a male he recognized from a Butler County probation violation warrant out for his arrest.

As the officer approached the suspect, the man immediately plunged his right hand into his right pocket, extracted a hypodermic syringe and threw it roughly five feet away from his person.

When the officer asked why he

did so, he said he was “just trying to get rid of it.”

Despite his intentions, he was charged with Possessing Drug Abuse Instruments. According to OPD, the suspect had been charged for the same offense on Feb. 27, 2014; hence, this latest charge was escalated to an M1 misdemeanor. He was taken to Butler County Jail, from which he had just been released around four weeks prior, according to OPD.

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McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital and the Coalition for a Healthy Community host fair on April 25 to promote healthy activities this spring.

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A man confronted bank teller on 2:43 pm Monday.

He demanded money, leaving with an unknown sum.

2013 Winner of the Boston Marathon, Lelisa Desisa, won again this year. He improved his time by 00:1:05.

The Saudi-led military attacked Yemen on Monday morning. This was another in a series of daily bombings over the past three weeks.

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Living for the Weekends TRAVEL

GREAT BRITTON Great Britton is a weekly travel column by Britton Perelman, a junior studying abroad this semester in Luxembourg.

This week she describes a typical weekend in Lux — though those weekends rarely happen in Luxembourg at all.

You’ll decide, weeks in advance, where you’re going. Munich, Vienna, Paris — somewhere you can reach using your Eurail pass. You book a hostel, figure out which train will be the best and research things to do. On Thursday night, you’ll cram everything you need into your backpack and hope that you didn’t forget socks or deodorant. It amazes you how little you need for a whole weekend in a city you’ve never seen.

Class on Friday morning will drag on and you’ll keep checking the time on your phone, ready to dash for the door at noon on the dot.

You’ll fight the other 120 students to meet your small group of friends, then head for the next train into Luxembourg City. You’ll arrive — along with what seems like every other Miami student — at the only station in the city, grab sandwiches for the ride and find the platform with your train on it.

The train ride is two hours, or eight, or even 14. You’ll find four seats together, eat the snacks you’ve shoved in your backpack, and chat with your friends while

the train carries you off to another country. You’ll tell yourself you’re finally going to read for that history class. Instead, you listen to music, look out the window, or sleep on and off in uncomfortable positions.

You’ll make your changes at train stations across Germany or France, navigating your way through the hordes of people to find your next train like a pro. At this point, well into the semester, you’re an expert. Eventually, exhausted, you arrive.

Your weekend will be non-stop, crammed with as many things to do as possible, but you won’t plan it completely. Instead, you’ll venture out with a vague list of what you want to do in the back of your mind and a folded map tucked in your pocket or purse to be used only in emergencies.

Each weekend will be a blur, a collection of moments tied together by a single place.

Paris: You discover that the lights of the Eiffel Tower sparkle every hour on the hour, and it feels like your first trip to Disney World; you dash into Chipotle because it’s one of the only branches in Europe and it tastes just like home; at the Louvre, you’re disappointed that the Mona Lisa is so small, but you’re delighted by her passive smile; in the Catacombs, you’re chilled by the eerie silence; at Versailles, you bask in the afternoon sun.

Munich: The rumble of conversation and laughter at Hofbrauhaus; the strong, sweet smell of strawberries at Viktualienmarkt, the market right around the corner from the main square; bright sunrise through the trees when you get up at 6 a.m. to go to Neuschwanstein Castle; breathless wonder as you gaze into a snow-covered valley.

There will always be

something unexpected.

Dinner at a restaurant full of locals in Vienna where the waiter practically throws your wiener schnitzel at you. A conversation with a stranger in one of the most famous bookstores in the world that will leave you thinking long after it’s over. The time you ignored the “No Trespassing” signs to hike up snow and ice to Marie’s Bridge for the best view of Neuschwanstein Castle.

At some point, a simple thought will occur to you. You’ll notice that everyone around you is drinking beer before noon and no one is objecting. On a train somewhere, staring out the window, you’ll be struck by just how far from home you really are. Strolling Parisian boulevards will make you realize that in some cities, the way they make you feel is more important than how they look.

Before long, you’ll be boarding a train back to Luxembourg. It’ll take all day, but you have to make it back by 11:50 p.m. Sunday to catch the last train from the city to your host family’s house.

Then you’ll unpack, knowing it’s pointless since you’ll have to do it all over again in four days.

You’ll post pictures on Facebook, add a new magnet to your growing pile and hurt your hand trying to journal about everything you just experienced.

It’ll be very late when you finally fall into bed. You’ll wish the weekend had been longer as you set your alarm for far too early in the morning. Your feet might ache from all the walking, but you know it was worth every single step.

The countdown to your next weekend begins.

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‘The Last Man on Earth’ thrives on originality TELEVISION DEVON SHUMAN

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Lackluster sitcoms are a dime a dozen. In today’s competitive world of television, it seems that almost every producer is attempting to get their own pilot picked up by imitating the success of “Friends” and creating a show in which a group of people who live or work together show up each week to compete for the affection of an overplayed laugh track.

What sets apart “The Last Man on Earth,” the new comedy created by and starring Will Forte (“Saturday Night Live,” “Nebraska”), is its sheer originality. “The Last Man on Earth” takes all of our preconceived notions about what a sitcom is supposed to be and throws them out the door.

The show opens in the year 2022, after the outbreak of a virus. We meet Phil Miller (Forte), one of the only apparent survivors. He is driving around the country in search of human life and spray-painting “Alive in Tucson” on billboards. When he fails to find anyone, he returns to Tucson to wait, hoping that someone has seen his message.

What makes Phil such an interesting character is that despite being possibly the last person on the planet, he is not actually that great of a guy.

In fact, it is difficult to empathize with him.

We root for Ted on “How I Met Your Mother” because, although dorky, he is a compassionate and genuinely nice human being. We root for Michael on “The Office” because even though he does not

appear to have any normal boundaries, he truly cares about his friends and his employees. When it comes to Phil, however, trying to find a reason to root for him is like trying to find a needle in a haystack of horrible vices.

For one, Phil is an alcoholic. He wastes his days away finding new and creative ways to consume drinks, of which he now has an endless supply. “There’s really no incorrect way to use a margarita pool,” he explains in one episode.

Phil is also a slob. He litters his house to the point where walking through involves wading through a foot-deep mess of empty beer cans.

He uses a swimming pool as a toilet.

He collects pornographic magazines and leaves them lying around his property. Put simply, the last man on the planet is a sleaze.

As becomes clear in the first episode, despite how original the premise is, a sitcom can’t be successful with just one character.

Simple loneliness isn’t enough to make us care about the meaningless escapades of Phil Miller. The show, like its protagonist, needs human interaction to survive.

Fortunately, Phil is not actually the only survivor, and as the others begin to see his signs, they start to flock to Tucson to meet him.

First is Carol (Kristen Schaal), a woman who is as tied to her morals as Phil is separated from his. After all of Phil’s prayers for a woman to share a bed with, he is rewarded with the one woman on the planet who still thinks they should have to get married before “repopulating the Earth.”

Her persistence and obsession with

rules coupled with his carefree attitude and exasperated sarcasm create for some hilarious scenes.

And just when Phil is starting to get used to Carol, just as he is beginning to accept the fact that although she might not be ideal, she is better than the alternative of no human interaction at all, the stunning Melissa (January Jones) arrives. Now tied down with Carol, Phil has no way to convince Melissa to “repopulate the Earth” with him. This creates for another unique and hysterical character dynamic.

“The Last Man on Earth” can get bogged down in repetitiveness.

There’s a streak of three or four episodes that are almost exactly the same in their basic plot structure, with Phil looking for new ways to lie and scheme his way around Carol and into Melissa’s pants. However, as a whole, the show is a refreshing move away from the stereotypical sitcom. It utilizes the post-apocalyptic setting while still putting the focus on the characters’ interactions. The humor itself is witty and offbeat, and the small cast brings originality and realness to their characters.

Hopefully, “The Last Man on Earth” is not just an anomaly and other producers will begin to take inspiration and create more original sitcoms and not just another laugh track-driven train wreck. Will Forte has the start of something unique here and given time to develop it further, he might be able to turn it into something great.

EMILY SABANEGH THE MIAMI STUDENT

‘Avenue Q’ ends first weekend, opens second THEATER

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THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University’s Department of Theatre debuted the Broadway musical “Avenue Q” Thursday, with three additional performances this weekend beginning 7:30 p.m., April 23.

After the first weekend of the production, director Saffron Henke was pleased with the quality and reception of the first three performances.

“I thought the show went well and the cast handled the opening night nerves beautifully,” Henke said. “It was fun to have responses to moments we’d been working for months.”

The music and lyrics from Avenue Q were originally written by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, while the book was written by Jeff Whitty.

In “Avenue Q,” the main characters discover in their young adulthood that they are not as special and able to conquer the world as their parents and television programs like “Sesame Street” assured them in their childhood.

The musical is unique in that many of the show’s characters are puppets, alongside human actors, poking fun at the concept of “Sesame Street’s” idealistic views on the world. While the puppets may look innocent and juvenile, they address outrageous, explicit content through many of the show’s tongue-in-cheek musical numbers, with titles including “What

Do You Do with a B.A. In English?” and “The Internet is for Porn.”

The main character is Princeton, a recent college graduate, facing the anxiety and uncertainty of the real world. Finding an apartment in Avenue Q, Princeton is introduced to a variety of colorful characters, banding together to embrace and satirize the struggles of young adulthood.

The show’s directors expressed that while the show stars puppets, the performance contains explicit language and mature themes and images and is not suitable for children.

“I think the humor is built into the script, and it is really fun to play it,” Henke said. “The audience enjoyed it and was very responsive.”

Beginning at the Vineyard Theatre in March 2003, “Avenue Q” was extended four times on Broadway, making it the 23rd longest tenured Broadway show of all time, with over 2,500 performances to date.

“Avenue Q” finished its Broadway run in Sept. 2009 and was reopened Off-Broadway for the New World Stages in October 2009. The musical has won three Tony awards, two Theatre World Awards and was nominated for a Grammy award.

Avenue Q won the 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Musical, after receiving critical acclaim and rave reviews.

The upcoming performances begin at 7:30 p.m. April 2325, and 2 p.m. April 26 at the Gates-Abegglen Theatre. Tickets are available online and at the Miami University Box Office.

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The Miami University Club of Fashion and Design (MUCFD) hosted its 9th annual fashion show Saturday night. With 28 designers, presenting anywhere from three to 12 pieces each, the show was a platform for creativity, with no aesthetic limitations placed by MUCFD. The fashion show was prefaced by fashion week, a five day agenda of a speaker and pop-up shops, among other events. This year was the first that the fashion show was associated with Miami’s Fashion Design minor, as well as the first year that President Hodge was in the audience.

I was super impressed with the talent and overall professionalism of the event. The aesthetics were amazing with all of the chairs, backdrops, and lighting combined with the upbeat music. It was exciting to witness such artistic creativity and genuine passion as the designers showcased their collections.

One collection called ‘Sehnsucht Nach Adonis [handcrafted metal work and adornments]’ by Joe Plecha was especially impressive. He created face and head accessories out of metal and it gave off a really high fashion vibe. The pieces were dark but really well done.

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It’s really all about this unobtainable ideal, and I am representing the ideal as the male form, along the lines of Greek representation of the perfect body, being the divine factor, sort of this transcendental thing.

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All the students involved in the show worked extremely hard and the final result was amazing. I felt like a real model walking on the runway with the photographers and lights and designs. It was one of my most memorable experiences at Miami.

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With that — the unobtainable — I’m using veils to obscure the mouth. The veil is sort of this sensual block that is supposed to make you imagine more. I’m doing that with lace, metal and black acrylic. The metal accentuate hard, masculine lines, the lace softens them up in certain places and the plastic is sort of both. It’s reflective but you also can’t really tell the shape all of the time because it’s so reflective.

We went with a fresh, airy and whimsical theme this year, keeping it really ‘Springy.’

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Forbes number one ranking undermines the Oxford outside of Miami EDITORIAL

You have permission to be proud. On a list of best college towns in America put out by Forbes this past weekend, Oxford was ranked number one.

Look around Uptown on a sunny Saturday, at the crowds at Brick Street and at the Farmers Market and the slew of festivals and events on campus, and it’s easy to see this was a list made for this town. Oxford is small and safe and young-person friendly. It’s a college town through and through.

But as we press the share button on that Forbes article, let’s think about what being the best college town really means.

The ranking was based on the quality of higher education, crime rates, the cost of living, the number of students per capita in over 200 cities. And we’re glad those things weigh in our favor at Miami.

In the most fundamental sense

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board. of the term, Oxford is a college town. Established and mapped in 1810, the city itself was a direct effect of the chartering of Miami university in 1809. In effect, the college is the town.

that the major activity is drinking on the weekends. Miami draws the same types of students over and over.

But what do we mean when we say “college experience?” Is col-

Does a small college town keep us from being culturally aware and expanding our minds to those who may be different from us?

Miami offers the quintessential college experience, almost as if it is a movie scene — and that’s why many students flock here.

However, the same factors that make for a great college town also inherently hold us back. By nature, a college town is removed from the real world. It’s limited and closed off. Oxford is so small

lege meant to be a place where we go to have a fun party experience, or is it a place where we go to gain educational experience — a place where we are exposed to the realities ahead of us?

Being in a small town keeps us from various distractions that are in big cities. But, is being closed off from the rest of reality prepar-

ing us for life after graduation?

If it were not for Snapchat, how many of us actually would have known that the Boston Marathon was yesterday?

Does a small college town keep us from being culturally aware and expanding our minds to those who may be different from us? Perhaps that is why there was such a poor response about the opinion piece The Miami Student recently published concerning off-campus house names. Closed mindedness or unoriginality is bound to happen if over 80 percent of the campus population is white.

We often seem to forget that there is a community within Oxford that is not Miami students.

What kind of childhood is it when young children walk around Uptown with their families and see drunk college students at Brickstreet every weekend? The students of Miami and the residents

of Oxford can be opposites at times. Do we ever take the time to get to know the stories of those who have grown up in Oxford?

What is their perspective? They may not have as much pride in their “college town.”

The classic college bars and the Forbes ranking do not come close to representing the Oxford community outside of immediate university area. The surrounding Cincinnati and Southern Ohio region is riddled with some of the lowest median household incomes in the country. Students joke about surrounding corn fields and the Oxford bubble, but have no idea about what is really going on around their home.

Had Forbes looked past the numbers and spent even two days they would have realized how stark the contrast between the students of Miami and the town really is.

‘Yes means yes:’ Bad language codified into law SAFETY

MILAM’S MUSINGS In an effort to clarify consent on college campuses with “yes means yes,” feminists have done just the opposite and codified bad language into law.

Last September, California passed SB 967, the first “yes means yes” law in the country for college campuses.

The law codifies affirmative consent, defined as, “Affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.”

Not necessarily terrible, although there should still be room for nonverbal cues. I find it hard to imagine that couples engaging in sex always, unequivocally get an affirmative, “Yes, let’s have sex,” before doing so. Body language is a form of communication, after all.

The next bit is where it gets more troubling, “Affirmative consent must be ongoing throughout a sexual activity and can be revoked at any time.”

Most certainly, a woman or a man ought to be able to end a sexual activity at any point in time.

Initializing doesn’t grant consent throughout.

However, the “ongoing throughout a sexual activity,” ought to raise eyebrows of any person who’s ever had sex. Under this definition of consent, almost every sexual encounter would be classified as rape.

Esquire magazine did a longform story on an illuminating incident that occurred at Occidental College in 2013. The names of the individuals were changed.

John, an 18-year-old, was drunk from a day of freshman-jock initiation games. Jane, 17, was also drunk. They met in John’s dorm room, where they were embracing. One friend described it as Jane “trying to kiss John and dance with him ... and John trying to get [the two friends] to leave.”

Then Jane did leave and they exchanged text messages, with John wanting Jane to come back and leave her friends. Below is the rest of the exchange, according to Esquire: JANE: Okay do you have a condom?

JOHN: Yes. JANE: Good give me two minutes.

JOHN: Come here.

JANE: Coming.

JOHN: Good girl.

Jane was the vomiting-in-atrash-can drunk. When they met in John’s dorm room, she again asked about a condom, then performed oral sex on him. Two different people interrupted and one of them repeatedly asked Jane if she was okay, to which she replied, “Yes, I’m fine.”

Afterward, Jane texted her

friends a smiley face.

The next day, neither one remembered much. Three months later, John was expelled by Occidental for sexually assaulting Jane.

The LAPD found “insufficient evidence to charge John with a crime” under criminal law. Unfortunately, the LAPD confirmed every fear a rape victim has about reporting to the police. When Jane went to report the complaint to them, a desk officer asked Jane if John had forced her into his room, to which Jane said he had not. The desk officer then said, “Well then, it’s not rape...”

It’s well-known at this point how awful police can be when dealing with cases of sexual assault and rape. However, turning that over to universities seems ill-fated. At the university level, they rely on the preponderance of evidence standard, “Is it more likely or not that something bad happened here?”

Quite the low standard for something as serious as rape.

Under Occidental’s ruling, John, just as drunk as Jane, was found responsible for his actions, even though it was acknowledged in the hearings that John was “more intoxicated than he had ever been” and that this level of intoxication impaired his ability to assess Jane’s incapacitation, “his state of

In other words, most rape on college campuses is perpetrated by repeat offenders, which speaks to the larger problem of college administrations being abysmal at getting these predators off the campus.

“Of the 120 rapists, 76 (63.3 percebt) reported committing repeat rapes, either against multiple victims or more than once against the same victim,” the study found.

These types of individuals, more broadly, are serial criminals. Beyond repeat rape, they also engage in other forms of interpersonal violence, like battery, physical abuse and other forms of sexual assault.

Furthermore, this helps to clarify the statistical discussion in this newspaper back in March over the one in 12 number, wherein one in 12 men have admitted to the legal definition of rape, cited by Emily Tate in her column.

As the co-authors noted in their study, their data gets at the seeming paradox here, where there’s a discrepancy between the high numbers of women sexually victimized and the low numbers of men admitting to the legal definition of rape. It’s because a small number of men are responsible for the high levels of victimization, i.e. serial rapists.

Aside from wanting to clarify the number dispute, I bring this up

It’s well-known at this point how awful police can be when dealing with cases of sexual assault and rape.

However, turning that over to universities seems illfated. mind had no bearing.”

For clarification on incapacitation, Scott Berkowitz, the president of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, told Esquire, “Generally it’s understood to mean that drugs or alcohol have had such an effect on [a victim] that they’re not in a position to express consent.”

It’s hard to see how John and Jane’s situation isn’t just a regretful hookup based on poor judgment. A bad hookup and/or drunk sex does not necessarily qualify as a rape.

And now John’s branded with a scarlet letter of rape based on a double standard applied to men and women.

Far from clarifying consent, feminists have gone too far in contributing to the muddled waters.

Indeed, it’s frustrating for a movement that traces its lineage back to the sexual liberation of women to take this track.

Furthermore, this bill is troubling because it obfuscates the problem of rape: it’s characterizing it as a communication problem.

David Lisak and Paul Miller co-authored a 2002 study that shows the real problem is with serial predation and rape on college campuses. They found that repeat rapists averaged 5.8 rapes each.

because it’s important to the discussion on consent, too. A serial rapist is not worried about whether the woman he’s about to rape will consent to him or not. Either through force or drugs and alcohol, they will assert their attempts at power and control regardless.

Rape is not a miscommunication problem, largely.

The “yes means yes” law is not only codifying confusing language over sexual assault, but it seems to muddle this understanding of serial rape.

Nevertheless, the bill does have good language that should be codified, to be sure. That the existence of a dating relationship doesn’t indicate consent or that someone can’t consent if incapacitated due to drugs and alcohol or if they’re asleep. But this other language conceives of sex too conservatively and takes autonomy away from women.

We can protect against sexual assaults and rape on college campuses while still respecting a more realistic understanding of sex.

Even more, we can do this while still maintaining the age.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Looking outside the Oxford bubble: Gentrification and why we should care Take a moment to think about your living situation in Oxford.

You probably live in a dorm, apartment or house and pay a certain sum to live there. As a paying tenant, you can guarantee that the university or your landlord will not kick you out of your home, correct? Well unfortunately, not everyone has this luxury. In cities that are not too far from here, people are being kicked out of their homes in order for new construction to take place. Cities want to attract higher paying visitors and residents to their cities, and are getting rid of run-down buildings in order to replace them with something more attractive to do so. The problem is that the residents of these old buildings are left with nowhere to go afterwards since they cannot afford the new high-end developments. This problem is known as gentrification, but as a college student living in Oxford, Ohio you may be wondering why you should care about this topic.

Gentrification is a problem that everyone should care about no matter where they live because it deals heavily with ethics. As future members of a working society, we are going to be called to make many ethical decisions in our careers. A good place to start with this is when considering the less fortunate.

In cities with over one million inhabitants, more than 28.6 thousand families live below the poverty line. The media depicts these people to be bums, druggies and alcoholics, but these people are actually like you and me. They have families, jobs, and are trying to get by in their day-to-day lives. When these people are asked to suddenly move and begin a new life elsewhere, this changes things especially if they do not have the proper funds to do so. A modern apartment complex or shopping

area may look good and attract people to an area, but unfortunately there are people that cannot afford this luxury lifestyle.

This does not mean that we have to cut out urban development altogether however. After all, our cities need to grow and thrive in order for anybody to economically stable. That is why citizens of a community have to work together in order to find a balance between ethics and growth. An example of this is the company 3CDC in Cincinnati. This company not only works to develop and fix up areas throughout the city, but they work with the Cincinnati Equity Fund as well to “support real estate development and compliment the low-income housing market by providing market-rate housing units to create mixedincome neighborhoods.” This is a great mission statement, but it is citizens like us who have to make sure that these practices are actually happening and are not just words on a piece of paper. Ways in which we can make sure that these practices are being sought out include writing letters to city officials, voting in elections, and simply just thinking about these issues while we are still in school.

The practice of ethics goes well beyond the topic of urban development as well. As college students going out into the real world soon, we have to make sure that ethics are being enforced in our work forces and communities. If these things are not happening, it could be detrimental for all us. No one wants to live in a corrupt society. Unfortunately, the whole world is not like our little bubble that is Oxford, Ohio. It is time to look at the bigger picture, Miami.

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Assessing the wave of 2016 presidential campaign roll-outs POLITICS

ANDREW’S ASSESSMENT 2016 presidential politics has officially begun with four individuals getting into the race for the White House. Since success as a candidate relies on having a strong rationale to run — a good answer to the “why should you be president?” question — looking at their first moves can be an easy way to decide who has given themselves a real chance to win.

The first in was Ted Cruz, a freshman Senator from Texas.

Cruz chose to announce at Liberty University of Jerry Falwell fame, explicitly and implicitly promising to treat America as a Christian nation. Cruz has chosen the siren song, “restore America,” approach to winning the Republican nomination. This idea relies on turning out the third of the country who considers themselves conservative and hoping almost nobody else turns out.

Cruz got in early to try to keep out other Christian conservatives. It remains to be seen if this will work, but it shouldn’t.

Cruz is the most disingenuous candidate in the field. One who poses as a populist when he’s as elite as it comes.

Second in was Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Paul’s roll out was notable for who he did not explicitly talk about. For a while now, Paul, whose father is a famous libertarian leader in America, has been trying to straddle the line between conservative and libertarian. Paul did not give his father a big shout out in his campaign speech — he simply thanked his mother and father — and has tried to identify himself more with the “constitutional conservative” crowd than his father’s friends.

This will be a problem whenever Paul decides to really talk about foreign policy. Will he be an isolationist? Or will he chart a realist course? This remains to be seen and will determine his ceiling in the race. At least Paul has a clear rationale, though — he is running for the cause of liberty — love it or hate it.

The third in is the albatross.

The second Hillary Clinton candidacy began similarly to her first.

She announced via a video on social media pretty much right when the Masters began on Sunday — showing she really gets America — and announced she was taking a bus tour through the American Midwest.

Clinton’s problems and strengths have been well established, but the one discussed less often is her rationale problem. As the hilarious SNL video mocking her announcement shows, it is hard to say exactly why she wants

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to be president beyond the fact that it is the feather in the cap of a long political career. Her agenda seems to be the same old boilerplate liberal ideas, but why is she the one who needs to be the leader of her party? Experience, maybe, but she better decide quickly lest she become the Democrat version of Mitt Romney.

Finally, Marco Rubio got into the race the day after Hillary.

Rubio’s rationale is the most optimistic and the one communicated with the most clarity. Rubio, with a nod to his neoconservative

Presidential elections are won by the candidate with the real positive message for the future.

The reality of genocide extends beyond the past HUMAN RIGHTS

I doubt the notion of genocide merely crossing somebody’s mind is a daily occurrence in Oxford, Ohio.

Though it is not the fault of the residents of Oxford.

I realize there are many important daily happenings that students at Miami do need to be conscious of.

There are many groups and student organizations that do their part in raising awareness regarding important societal and global issues. Miami University does an excellent job exposing students to new, worldly experiences, whether through an Oxford classroom or academic experiences across the globe.

Most of the time, we as Miami students, as byproducts of human nature, tend to shy away from the harsher or more controversial issues. There are the few brave individuals who will be standing on the sidewalk, handing out pamphlets in

their honest yet unfortunately, relatively ineffective way of educating the public sphere. (Just this month, x genocide stat.) Yet I only became aware of it through specific research.

This problem may not be affecting students directly, but it is a matter of human rights. Countless died in World War II, fighting the same evil, with no regard for direct influence.

It didn’t matter that it was happening across an ocean, it was a matter of defending the morality of humanity.

Right now West Africans are being victimized by this mindless slaughter, and it is our responsibility to keep it at the forefront of our focus.

Less than a month ago, Human Rights Watch described the West African genocides stating, “In Darfur, Blue Nile, and Southern Kordofan states, Sudanese military forces are leaving a trail of abuse.”

Change will come through education of the public, as human nature

will not allow us to stand by while conscious of these evils.

The difficult part is remaining conscious and finding those willing to educate. There is not a better setting for education than on a college campus, and Miami is the place to get the ball rolling. Upon asking my roommate how much or little he knew about genocide happening today, his response was, “I’m sure its happening, but I do not know where.”

This not only shows a lack of education but a lack of sensitivity toward a very serious topic. More student organizations, informative guest speakers, and even more articles in The Miami Student will all serve to combat genocide as it tries to hide under the veil of our community’s shortened attention span.

GEORGE EDISON EDISONGT@MIAMIOH.EDU

LETTER TO THE EDITOR friends, wants this to be the “new American century.” He’s communicating to those who still believe this is the greatest country on earth — the last best hope language of the Reagan years.

Unlike the other Republicans in the field so far, Rubio is the second choice of many conservatives. He’s not particularly polarizing. Nobody really hates him but the Paulites. He’s also, as I’ve detailed on these pages before, the best positioned Republican candidate because of how he communicates and the contrast he provides.

Presidential elections are won by the candidate with a real positive message for the future. All the other merits of their campaigns aside, think about the one line rationales for the winning candidates for the last thirty plus years.

In 1980 it was morning in America. In 1988 President George H.W. Bush talked about 1,000 points of light. President Clinton’s three-pronged message in 1992 went beyond the economy and into an idea about the future.

It ran “Change versus more of the same. It’s the economy, stupid.

Don’t forget about healthcare.”

The 2000 election went to George W. Bush who was a “compassionate conservative.” President Obama famously won his races with the simple “change” message in 2008 and “forward” message in 2012.

Whoever seizes on this important forward looking role in the 2016 campaign will likely win.

A positive message for the future does a lot to frame your campaign in a winning way. Can another Republican? That remains to be seen. But Democrats are in trouble if the Clinton machine doesn’t figure out how to do this again.

And fast.

Marijuana’s benefits: Blazing the trail to legalization Here at Miami, we are pretty much all capable of reading. We can sit down and look at a simple sentence and glean enough information from the words on the page to get an idea of what the writer meant. Especially when an idea is explicitly and obviously outlined. So already, at the ripe young age of 20, we are smarter than the 535 congressmen that run our country.

Exhibit A: the 1970 Controlled Substances Act. In the early 1900s, at a time when Mexican immigration was becoming a relevant issue at the forefront of politics, people began trying to understand the culture of these foreigners. One thing people started to notice was that these immigrants brought a strange plant across the border with them. One which had properties we Americans were becoming quite intrigued with. It was called “marihuana.”

It was no different than the cannabis that sat in the cabinets of almost every American home in a host of medications. But we were afraid. These people who we did not understand and could not get along with were intro-

ducing a part of their culture to us. They brought with them a medicine across the border that was so powerful, it could cure hundreds of the ailments we felt. So, naturally, we made it illegal. We didn’t like these people, so we surely were not going to let them bring some kind of hallucinogenic weed with them, no matter how beneficial it was to us.

Fast forward to the rebellious teenagers of the 1970s. Not only was marijuana illegal, but so were a host of other new, synthetic drugs these youngsters were experimenting with. So Congress created the brain child that fueled the biggest economic mistake of the 20th century: the Controlled Substances Act. Marijuana joined hard drugs like cocaine and heroin in the dark corner that was Schedule 1 substances. Ones that “have no currently accepted medical use in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision, and a high potential for abuse.” Translation: “we don’t have any scientific basis for this but we’re going to make it illegal anyway.”

Students of Miami, we are

smarter than this. At an institution that conducts 24/7 research and makes leaps in scientific studies across the spectrum of the fields we represent, are we going to stay silent? Are we going to let this injustice prevail?

No. Alzheimer’s disease, Epilepsy, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Arthritis, chronic pain, nausea, insomnia, the list goes on. Hundreds of illnesses can be treated or mitigated with the use of marijuana. Over 20,000 studies have been conducted, and the science speaks for itself.

Marijuana cannot remain illegal.

I understand I’m probably preaching to the choir on this one. But not many students know what we can do. I urge you: call your congressmen. Ask them to support bills that propose legalizing marijuana and create new ones if those are struck down.

Tell them to see what NORML. org estimates is over 20,000 scientific studies conducted about marijuana. We must legalize it.

JULIA PAIR

PAIRJA@MIAMIOH.EDU

ANDREW GEISLER

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RULE OF THUMB EU MIGRANT CRISIS ESCALATES This weekend, a boat carrying migrants bound for southern Europe capsized off the coast of Libya.The human toll, now expected to be near 900, is the deadliest European migrant tragedy in modern times.

ID CARDS TO INCLUDE BIRTH DATES Starting with the Class of 2019, the H.O.M.E. Office will issue birth dates on Miami ID cards. This is a wise choice; however, some of us may have liked not having our birthdays on our ID cards ...

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REDHAWK TENNIS TAKES MAC TITLE The Miami University women’s tennis team overcame the Ball State Cardinals, 4-3, for their 20th Mid-American Conference regular season championship title.

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year, Ragland thinks his running game is an asset that sets him apart from other QBs. “I can run the ball,” Ragland said. “I think I have good moves.

I’m still not where I need to be, I still have to work and get a little better, but that’s probably my strength that most quarterbacks don’t have.”

Though Martin does not anticipate naming a starter anytime soon, both Kummer and Ragland are preparing as if they will take the opening snap Sept. 5 against Presbyterian College.

“If someone clearly wins the job this spring, that’s fine, but I don’t see that happening,” Martin said. “Gus is just learning our offense, so if we were going to make a quick decision it would definitely be Kummer because he’s ahead based just on being a fifth-year guy rather than a true

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freshman. … We’re not in a hurry, our record’s not great. If we were fighting for a conference championship this year I think we’d want to name one.”

The coaches also have their eyes on Billy Bahl, an incoming freshman from Woodstock, Illinois. As team captain at Marian Central Catholic High School, Bahl led the football team to the state quarterfinals his senior year.

He earned honorable mention allstate twice and first-team all-area as a senior. Bahl threw for 2,080 yards and 18 touchdowns in his final season.

“We think he’s pretty good,” Martin said. “We wouldn’t mind getting him in the mix next fall camp. So it could be a three-way battle before this thing is all done.”

Both Kummer and Ragland will get some game reps in Miami’s spring scrimmage Saturday. The exhibition game begins at 1 p.m. in Yager Stadium.

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something that will help us heading into the weekend. We also have a great team chemistry that enabled us to pull out the close win, and as long as we maintain it throughout this upcoming weekend, we will have a great chance to qualify for the NCAAs.”

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Fifth-year senior Drew Kummer takes some reps at a spring practice inside the new indoor football field Saturday morning,.

Ever since senior Andrew Hendrix took his final snap at quarterback with Miami football in November, the name of his successor remains an unanswered question.

Fifth-year senior Drew Kummer and redshirt freshman Gus Ragland are the two leading candidates.

“The nice thing is they’re very similar style quarterbacks,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “They’re both good runners, they’re both above-average throwers, they both need to improve on consistency with accuracy … it’s one of the easier battles to compare because it’s kind of apples to apples. We can run similar plays when they’re both in there. It’s tougher when you have a drop-back and a run-around guy.

Then you have two different offenses, and it’s harder to compare.”

Neither contender has significant game experience. Kummer threw for 53 yards and one touchdown in two games in 2014. In 2013, he totaled 267 passing yards, one passing touchdown, 46 rushing yards

and two TDs on the ground in 12 games. Ragland has never seen a snap.

Martin has worked with each QB for only one year, so the coaching staff continues to observe progress and differences in both candidates.

“I think the game comes easier for Drew. He can take more things from the meeting room. Now, Drew’s older so he’s more experienced, but I just think Drew has a more natural feel to the game of football. Gus is more of a ‘teach it to me, let me rep it a few more times and I got it’ type of guy.

They’re both very competitive. I think Gus is one of the most overthe-top competitive people in this program, regardless of position.”

Kummer views his four years’ experience in team practices as one of his strengths.

“Knowing the offense and being able to adjust as defenses give us different looks,” Kummer said.

“Being calm out there, reading defenses and knowing what’s going on both sides of the ball.”

When Martin arrived at Miami last year, a new playbook arrived with him, so both contenders have

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The Miami University baseball team picked up its first MidAmerican Conference series victories since the March 20, winning two of three against the University of Akron.

Miami (8-28, 6-9 MAC) fought for a breakout weekend, and they reached it with the series victories over MAC East-leading Akron (18-19, 9-6 MAC). The RedHawks dropped Friday’s game 7-4, but bounced back to take an 11-9 win Saturday and a 8-7 win Sunday.

Manager Danny Hayden wants the team to continue to improve and hopes that the series victory can serve as a confidence boost looking forward.

“We’ve played really good ball the last couple of days,” Hayden said. “Our guys are figuring out that winning is pretty tough.”

Hayden said the attitudes in the dugout were completely different this weekend.

Senior Ryan Powers allowed nine hits and seven runs (six earned) in seven innings of work Friday.

The offense plated four runs, two of which were earned.

Junior southpaw John Valek III gave the Zips a solid outing, allowing four hits and two runs in seven innings pitched.

On Saturday, the ’Hawks rebounded with three runs in the ninth inning to take a

two-run victory.

Sophomore Jacob Banks had a rough day on the mound. Banks lasted two innings after giving up six earned runs on eight hits.

After Banks’ departure, sophomores Brad Schwartz and Ryan Marske and senior Will Schierholz combined for seven innings of six-hit, three-run baseball.

Schwartz pitched 5.1 innings, allowing all three runs and six hits, before transitioning to Markse, who bailed him out in the eighth with a double play ball.

The RedHawks came to the plate trailing 9-8.

With two out and two on, junior Jacob Wolf drove both runners in with a single to give Miami the 10-9 advantage.

Redshirt sophomore Adam Yacek played add-on with a double to score Wolf.

With an 11-9 lead, Hayden brought in Schierholz to close it out. Schierholz’s two strikeouts sealed the Miami victory.

The rubber game went to extra innings after three RedHawks runs in the eighth put them in a 6-6 tie.

The Red and White took a 7-6 lead in the 11th after senior Kendall Johnson grounded into a fielder’s choice, allowing the goahead run to trot home.

With two outs, the Zips fought against Schierholz and vied for the tying run.

Junior Jake Romano came up big with the go-ahead homer in the 13th to put Miami up 8-7.

Romano also made his mark

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the same amount of exposure to those plays.

However, Martin says sheer knowledge of the plays “won’t be an issue” when deciding the starter.

The quarterbacks continue to work on basics such as footwork and accuracy, but each candidate has specifics he is looking to improve in order to land the starting position.

“Getting in the film room, recognizing defenses,” Ragland said.

“Getting a little stronger in the weight room — my body still needs to get a little stronger to play at the level I want to play at. It’s just about getting in there every day and working hard.”

While Ragland learns the offense, Kummer works on how he can improve it.

“A few of the biggest things I’m working on are just being more consistent,” Kummer said. “No bad plays, no turnovers, which I think I’m doing a pretty good job at right now. Just executing on plays.”

After observing the RedHawk offense from the sidelines for one

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defensely, making what Hayden called “one of the best catches you’ll ever see.”

Akron runners reached first and second in the bottom half of the inning, but Schierholz got the pop out to right field, giving Miami the victory and series win.

Schierholz threw over 100 pitches in 6.1 innings of relief for Miami in an effort that had Hayden amazed.

“If we were still playing, he’d probably still be out there on the mound,” Hayden said. “I don’t think he’d let us take him out.”

Schierholz totaled a combined 8.1 innings of work in the three games. He allowed one earned run.

Despite the weekend victories, the team suffered a major loss when senior Matt Honchel suffered a lower-body injury Saturday.

Hayden wants Honchel to be checked by physicians in Oxford before speculating on the injury.

There is no timetable for return.

Honchel’s .383 batting average and 18 RBIs lead the team.

The RedHawks head to Wright State University for a single mid-week game.

Miami has lost both meetings with the Raiders (27-10, 13-4 Horizon League), 7-3 March 24 and 7-3 April 14.

WSU enters the game on a seven-game winning streak after taking the last two from Oakland University, both in 11 innings.

First pitch is 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday.

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After getting off to a slow start through the first two rounds of this weekend’s Boilermaker Invitational in West Lafayette, Indiana , the Miami University men’s golf team stormed back on the final day, jumping six spots to finish in seventh place.

The RedHawks overcame adverse weather conditions on Sunday, and their combined score of 292 was the second best round by any team that day.

The University of Illinois placed first, shooting a combined score of 35 under par for the entire tournament. Illinois is ranks sixth in the country and was ranked No. 1 earlier in the season.

“We’ve seen a lot of good teams throughout the year,” head coach Zac Zedrick said. “This was one of the stronger fields.”

After playing in perfect conditions on Saturday for the first rounds, Sunday presented cool temperatures. Coach Zedrick was happy with how his team adjusted and came out to shoot their best round of the tournament in the toughest conditions of the weekend. “[Sunday] was tough,” Zedrick said. “It was windy, it was cool, and then about nine holes in it started raining, kind of sprinkling at first and then just got worse and worse as the round went on. So for us to come out and have our best round on

[Sunday] and have only Illinois play better than us was a testament to our players’ resilience.”

For the fifth time in a row, freshmen Patrick Flavin shot Miami’s lowest combined score.

He tied for 12th individually with a total score of 217, one stroke over par.

“Pat has such an incredible passion for the game,” Zedrick said.

“He works incredibly hard. He knows his strengths and weaknesses, and he goes out and focuses on playing his game, playing the golf course the way he needs to play it.”

Seniors Brantley Kushner and Scott Cahill also finished in the top 50 individually. Kushner’s score of 70 in the final round tied for the lowest score of the round.

Four RedHawk golfers, senior Luke Shaughnessy and juniors Bud Radis, Daniel Schwarz and Bailey Truesdell will play as individuals at the Xavier Invitational Monday in Cincinnati.

The rest of the team will begin preparing for the Mid-American Conference Championships.

Coach Zedrick knows his team can improve in a couple areas for the MACs. “We’ve got to do a little bit better job individually, taking care of working on our fundamentals,” Zedrick said. “And then we just need to make sure that we’re competing against each other … just to keep our edge and make sure something’s on the line almost every day before we leave.”

The MAC Championships begin May 1 in Chardon, Ohio.

Miami places fifth in Illinois Twilight, travels for Drake Relays TRACK & FIELD

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For the first time in 15 years, the Miami University men’s track and field team competed in the Illinois Twilight at the University of Illinois this past weekend.

The Redhawks finished fifth overall with 65.5 points in a field represented consisted of mostly teams from Illinois. UI finished first with 247 points, Eastern Il-

linois University placed second with 125.5 points and Illinois State University finished third with 95.5 points.

Though the team did not return to Oxford until 3:30 a.m. the next day, men’s head coach Warren Mandrell said he and the team enjoyed to trip to Illinois.

“It was a nice experience to run against teams that we normally don’t play against, ” said Mandrell. “It was a twilight meet so the meet didn’t start until the

evening. It was a positive experience for the guys to compete in. It was a lot of fun.”

Sophomore Andrew Dusing finished third in the 1500-meter run with a 3:47.25 time, which Mandrell called “the highlight of the day.” Dusing’s time is his season best and the eight-fastest time in program history. Senior hurdler Sam Chester’s 14.43 time in the 110-meter hurdles was also a season high. Chester placed fourth in the event.

Four Redhawks on the women’s squad travel to the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa Wednesday.

Senior Anna Lamb, fresh off her first place finish in the 5k run at the All-Ohio Championship last weekend, is set to run the 5k.

Junior Amelia Strickler rides her three-meet win streak into the shot put, while sophomore Martha Szekely is lined up to compete in the hammer throw. Junior Laura Bess represents Miami in the 1500-meter run.

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“The Drake Relays are the Mecca of track and field,” Phillips said. “It is thrilling as an athlete. It’s televised. There will be Olympic athletes competing and thousands of fans watching in the stands.”

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