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Sex talk: Trojan ranks MU 83 of 140 schools National studies assess sexual health across nation, reaffirm importance of sexual education at Miami HEALTH

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Seniors are half as likely as first-years to use condoms during intercourse, according to a recent study conducted

by Jonathan Marc Bearak at New York University.

His study collected data from 21 four-year universities and over 10,000 hook-ups.

Specific to Miami, the university ranked 83rd of 140 universities on Trojan’s 2014 Sexual Health Report Card. The report is conducted by an independent research firm, Sperling’s BestPlaces, and uses criteria such as contraceptive availability, STI and HIV testing and sexual health resource availablity to determine each school’s ranking.

Miami’s ranking suggests an improvement from last year’s 85th place and 2012’s 96th.

Director of Student Wellness Rebecca Baudry Young said her department has many programs working on raising the sexual health and education of its students.

One program, aptly titled “Healthy Relationships,” helps students determine what is and what is not healthy in their personal relationships.

“It helps students understand communication and how to

The most popular forms of birth control used by college students are The Pill and condoms.

32% of women have never masturbated as opposed to the 6% of males who say that they never have.

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84% of students consider themselves exclusively heterosexual.

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navigate boundaries and set expectations for a relationship,” Young said.

Young also spoke about another program, Crotch Goblins, which educates students about sexually transmitted infections and proper condom use. Young said the program educates students, “not only on protective barriers, but accessories like lubricants and how to use them in safe ways so that students can prevent the transmission of infection.”

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A third program, Sex in the Basement, addresses issues such as consent, boundaries in sexual interactions and alcohol’s role in sexual encounters.

Young said these programs are generally administered in first and second-year residence halls by the request of residence assistants in the building. HAWKS Peer Health Educators coordinate and operate these programs.

The Women’s Center also works to foster more positive

Miami professor runs for Congress POLITICS LAUREN OLIVER

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It is not every day students can say their professor is running for the United States Congress, but at Miami University, they can.

Tom Poetter, a professor in the College of Education, Health and Society, is running for Congress against Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Poetter said he has always had an interest in politics, but the Carter and Reagan administrations sparked his enthusiasm.

However, he never had the intent to run for any political positions, and soon after graduating from college, he married and started his own family. He then became the Director of Partnerships — a program focused on bringing different organizations together — at Miami in 2005.

In 2013, when the 2014 Congressional race commenced, Poetter felt it was time to do something, especially with no one declaring to run against Boehner for the second time in a row.

After mulling the decision over with his family — and taking into consideration any attacks that might come their way — Poetter made the jump.

One of the core concerns he wanted to address from the

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TOM POETTER beginning was what he called, Boehner’s lack of leadership, particularly during the government shutdown in October 2013.

“He could’ve led on the floor of the house by taking a clean vote on a budget bill — the first day — because nobody wanted to shut down the government,” Poetter said.

He said Boehner followed the tactics of the extreme right wing, and the shutdown was really due to the arguments over the Affordable Care Act. Boehner thought the threat of the shutdown would force President Barack Obama to make changes, Poetter said.

“It was a really bad idea,” he said. “And to me it showed a lack of real grounding in what this nation is about — working together, compromise, negotiation [and] consensus building. His tactics lacked vision [and] lacked any

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discussion regarding sex.

Anna Lucia Feldmann, a student intern at the Women’s Center and Social Activism Chair for F-Word, talked about the steps the Women’s Center is taking to increase safe sex and healthy sexuality.

Part of their efforts work in tandem with the HAWKS Peer Health Educator’s programs.

“The interns are working on creating a board about sex positivity to send to residence halls,”

Roethlisberger gives ‘Big’ donation to Miami

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Athletic director David Sayler (left) presents Ben Roethlisberger (right) with his Miami Athletic Hall of Fame certificate in February 2013.

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Big Ben’s donation to Miami University goes beyond the $1 million he gave to the Indoor Sports Center.

“He’s giving us a million dollars, so I don’t want to belittle that part, but my point to everyone is Ben being willing to attach his name to Miami football is worth a 100 million dollars,” head football

coach Chuck Martin said. “So, he gave us a 101 million dollar gift.”

Miami announced Monday that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and his wife Ashley will donate $1 million for Miami’s Indoor Sports Center and Miami will name the playing surface “Ben Roethlisberger Field.”

“This gift is a huge thank you to everything, on and off the field, that Miami University provided BIG BEN »PAGE 8

In 2005, The Miami Student reported that students expressed mixed feelings about the newest dining installment on the Oxford campus — Panache. Despite the trendy décor, sophomore Rebecca Spiller said the long wait, pricey menu items and poor service left her dissatisfied.

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sort of connection to deep ideas about what is really at stake, and I can deliver those things.”

Daniel Otto, the campaign’s field director, focused on the bigger picture of Boehner’s decision to use the government shutdown as leverage for the Affordable Care Act. “Trying to repeal a bill over and over again at the expense of the taxpayers is not leadership,” Otto said. “It’s just costing the taxpayers money for political points.”

Ellyn Needel, a junior intern on Poetter’s campaign, said Poetter is also more in tune with what the community desires from a representative.

“I don’t think John Boehner has had the interest of his constituents in mind when voting on policies,” Needel said. “I think Poetter’s main goal is to bring the people’s voice back into politics for District Eight.”

The second matter Poetter is focused on improving is congressional presence in the district.

After meeting with residents, Poetter said he found many were unsatisfied with Boehner’s ongoing absence.

Poetter said although Boehner has achieved a high rank as Speaker of the House, he has lost focus on being present and

16% of students do not consider themselves exclusively heterosexual.

Feldmann said.

Feldmann said the Women’s Center and F-Word are working on events that will open a discourse about sexual health and remove the social stigma surrounding sex.

“I think when we talk about the ‘walk of shame,’ and other subtle slut-shaming that happens on campus, it makes it a little more difficult to talk about sex in an open, gender-equitable way, and to seek out resources,” she said.

Past events such as Condom Carnival furthered a healthy discussion of safe sex on campus and Feldmann said she hopes the events planned for this year will do the same.

“People need to start talking about sex and keep talking about sex outside of the context of hooking up or being at parties,” Feldmann said.

Despite Miami’s low ranking in Trojan’s 2014 Sexual Health Report Card, Feldmann believes in the improvement of sexual health on campus.

“I know people on campus are working really hard to make sure that everyone knows that if they want to have sex, they should and that there are resources available for them,” she said. “I definitely think the potential is there. It’s up to the students to take the opportunity and run with it.”

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MU alumnus, senior ‘spin’ new web series ENTERTAINMENT LIBBY MUELLER

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Miami University alumnus Jeff Graham (’12) and MU senior Laura Palmer co-wrote a web series called “Spin” this summer in Los Angeles. The fast-paced comedy is about a young Hollywood star and his entourage who find themselves thrown in jail, and was discovered by an L.A. production company. Award winning director Ty Leisher, alongside Bam!PRODUCED, will finance the production of the series through crowdfunding.

“It’s ‘Arrested Development’ meets ‘Entourage,’” Palmer said.

“This young star named J.R. winds up in a Hollywood jail, and subsequently his entire entourage is thrown in jail with him.

In order to get out of the situation, they have to figure out how they got there. There are twists and turns and relationships, but ultimately they have to figure out how to spin their story so that it’s not detrimental to their Hollywood image.”

The project started with actors from Scott Sedita Acting Studio.

They had an idea for a web series that took place in a jail. One of those actors, Sheldon White, is a Miami alumnus (’12). He contacted Graham and Palmer and asked them if they wanted to write the script for the series.

“Our good friend Sheldon is out here as an actor and he’s at an acting studio with five other actors,” Graham said. “In this

media climate, it’s common for starting actors to generate their own content. Sheldon, with his other actors, said, ‘Hey, why don’t we create our own project?’

They invited Laura and me on to write for them.”

Palmer, who worked as an intern on the set of the “Late Show with David Letterman,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Conan,” is no stranger to comedy. She brought her background and comedic talent to the script.

“This is the first piece that Jeff and I wrote together and we wrote it in a Burbank Starbucks,” Palmer said. “He is really great at keeping the story going and keeping the plot and narrative strong.

My strength is in the comedy end of things. He’ll get the story going and establish relationships and I’ll be able to put in the comedic effect.”

At first, Palmer said she believed they would be producing the series independently, if at all.

“We were just reading it in our apartment with the cast and we didn’t think we’d have the resources,” Palmer said. “But through the course of the next week or two it found its way into the hands of Bam!PRODUCED. The producers came to a table read and picked it up. It kind of feels like magic when people are reading your script, when you see your characters come to life.”

Ty Leisher, working with production companies Bam!PRODUCED and Man of Silver Productions, will produce the web series alongside fellow

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UNLOCKING FAME Miami alumnus Sheldon White stars as Cody Montgomery alongside Meaghan Madson, who plays the character Avery Magnolia in the new web series Spin. award-winning producers Lex Edelman and Zach Silverman.

The project will be funded through the crowdfunding website IndieGogo. The IndieGogo account is set to launch in November, and donors will receive perks that may include digital downloads and signed merchandise.

According to Graham, the process of writing the script went well and he hopes for the chance to write a season two of “Spin.”

“Amazingly, the project has been pretty smooth,” Graham said. “Laura and I write really well together. We have good

creative chemistry and we banged out the series in about two weeks.

It’s changed a lot since our first draft, but there haven’t been many setbacks. Laura and I fell in love with the characters in Spin and I could see us trying to write more, especially if the series does well.”

Graham said everyone who is working on the project is passionate about its success, which he believes is one of the reasons there have not been many obstacles.

“It’s kind of a passion project for everyone involved,” Graham said. “It was the actors’ idea, so they’re excited, and the directors

and executive producers are excited about the project, as well.”

White, who has been acting since the age of 13, said that if someone has a passion, whether it is for writing screenplay, acting or something else entirely, the key to success is persistence.

“If you have a passion, persistence is key,” White said. “If you look at acting, for example, there are thousands of actors who come to L.A. every single day, but then there are thousands leaving every day because they’ve given up. If you have a talent and a passion, keep going for it.”

Discrepancies abound when ‘going Greek’ Sorority and fraternity recruitments differ GREEK LAUREN OLIVER

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FULL FORCE FAMILY WEEKEND Friday night, students and families enjoyed a game of bumper cars as well as inflatable courses, carnival games and free food on Miami’s campus.

Who is the ‘fairest’ of them all: Miami seeks fair trade certification ACTIVISM MATT HARTSHORN

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Many of the products Miami University students buy every day are made using the labor of modern-day slaves across the world. A new campaign on campus, Miami University Fair Trade Certification, is working to address this issue.

One of the student organizers of the campaign, sophomore Libby Roether, explained what fair trade actually means.

“Fair trade is a type of business model that provides a livable wage for workers and safe working conditions,” she said.

Launched through the World Fair Trade Organization, the Miami campaign seeks to bring increased awareness of this issue and products from companies that implement fair trade policies across campus. Once specific requirements are met, Miami can become fair trade certified.

Some of the most recognizable products include Divine chocolate and Green Mountain coffee. Notable clothing companies like Patagonia and designers like Kate Spade currently sell fair trade products.

Sophomore Miami students Libby Roether, Hannah Pfeifer and Allyson Cousino are spearheading this campus-wide movement, along with

their adviser, Glenn Muschert of the social justice and criminology department. They welcome assistance from all students interested.

Their desire to bring fair trade certification to Miami began in January 2014, when Roether, Pfeifer and Cousino traveled abroad to Costa Rica and Panama.

There, they visited local coffee and chocolate plantations where they saw signs stating, “We do not support the exploitation of children.” Their experience in Costa Rica exposed them to the reality that many adult and child workers across the world face unfair working conditions.

Visiting Costa Rica also gave them the fair trade campaign’s slogan, “Pura Vida.”

This past summer, Roether also traveled to the Dominican Republic with Social Entrepreneur Corps.

In particular, she visited a sugar cane plantation community where the employees must remain on the premises because their documents of citizenship were taken during racial tension in the 1930s. Roether participated in a documentation day to help those still enslaved to obtain the necessary citizenship documents.

“It was an eye opening experience,” she said.

Now that they have a clear vision for Miami, the campaign is starting

to take shape, but spreading their mission is a vital first step.

“Our first goal is to spread awareness and education,” Pfeifer said.

The campaign for certification is a long process, and is only in its initial phases. Speakers and fair trade products will have to be brought to campus.

Already, the group has contacted four speakers for next semester.

In addition, fair trade products are already on campus. Students can request fair trade coffee at King Library and Dividends. Fair trade chocolate is also available in the oncampus markets.

Roether, Pfeifer and Cousino are hopeful once word spreads about fair trade, the movement on campus will gather momentum.

“We would hope to get the certification within the next two years,” Cousino said.

Students can take small, but meaningful steps now to advance Miami’s fair trade campaign.

“Every little step can help in the campaign and help bring awareness to Miami’s campus,” Cousino said.

The group believes the fair trade campaign applies to students of all majors and interests, and that daily choices will have a major effect on how well their campaign does.

“Everything you buy is a vote for fair trade,” Roether said.

“Boys, booze, beliefs and bank accounts.” To many girls involved in a Miami sorority, these four B’s may sound familiar. Allegedly, these are the four taboo topics during formal recruitment — the four conversations girls should avoid.

Although formal recruitment for sororities and fraternities will not begin until next semester, the Greek organizations have already begun to prepare.

The Panhellenic Association at Miami University is hosting Sprite Dates for any girls who are interested in or considering joining a sorority.

Sprite Dates are the equivalent of meet-and-greets, where sororities host events for potential new members, and allow both sides the first organized opportunity to get to know one another. Conversely, this same process, hosted by the Interfraternity Council (IFC) is referred to as Coke Dates.

After familiarizing themselves with the Greek system and the various sororities or fraternities on Miami’s campus, women and men will have the opportunity to go through the process of formal recruitment early in the Spring Semester.

When Spring Semester rolls around, Panhellenic recruitment will be held Jan. 25 through Feb. 8, with most events taking place on the weekends. IFC recruitment will be held Jan. 26 to Jan. 29.

One of the main differences between the two recruitment processes, however, is that women are required to visit each sorority’s chapter during recruitment, whereas men are allowed to pick and choose which houses they are interested in.

“We do not require potential new members to go to every house because we want the recruits to have freedom

during their recruitment process,” Joe Weirtz, Executive Vice President of the Interfraternity Council, said.

Caitlin Duckworth, the president of Panhellenic Association, said their requirement is in place to promote equality among the chapters and ensure potential new members (PNMs) are exposing themselves to every available opportunity.

Bianca Misiti, Vice President of Recruitment for Panhellecic, said that it is also more feasible for women to be required to attend each sorority’s recruitment events, as they only have 16 chapters and men have 27.

Panhellenic encourages all women to go through recruitment with open minds.”

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“[Another difference is] the men are more able to actively interact with potential new members during the first semester, whereas Panhellenic has rules regarding contacting potential new members,” Duckworth said.

Duckworth said this is intended to prevent “dirty rushing,” which is essentially unfair recruiting.

“Panhellenic encourages all women to go through recruitment with open minds and not to allow previous experiences influence decisions about which chapter to join,” she said.

Isaiah Watts, a member of Theta Chi fraternity, said he believes that although the recruitment process may seem daunting, they just want to make sure both sides are a good fit for one another.

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POLICE BEAT Student damages city property

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LANE UNDERWAY The new branch of Lane Library is currently under construction on Locust Street. It is due to open in August 2015 and will feature an expanded Children’s Library and reading garden.

Ohio grant to improve local trails $500,000 Clean Ohio Grant awarded to Oxford Area Trail Systems last Friday

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Last Friday, the nonprofit group Oxford Area Trail System announced they are the recipients of a Clean Ohio Grant for the amount of $500,000.

Working in tandem with organizations like the City of Oxford, the Oxford Visitor’s Bureau, Miami University, Oxford Township and more, the Oxford Trails group has spent the past decade working toward the building of scenic, multi-use recreational trails around Oxford. The funds, awarded by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, will go toward the first phase of these plans.

The first phase of development will consist of two connecting trails, which will total 2.15 miles between them. The first trail is a bike path going from Kelly Road to Corso Drive, which will then continue along Corso Drive due to its low traffic vol-

ume.

This will then cross Oxford’s historic black covered bridge, following a second trail through a wooded area underneath the bridge on Morning Sun Road along Four Mile Creek. This will pass through Miami University Fryman Farm property before concluding at Leonard Howell Park on Bonham Road. Additionally, there are plans for signage to be added so that trail users can continue along Four Mile Creek on to the historic DeWitt log cabin, which is typically accessed from Highway 73.

These plans are in line with Oxford Area Trail System’s broader goal of creating a network of trails around the perimeter of the city. “[The trails] are part of the city’s comprehensive plan to have trail connectivity to both rural and urban sites around Oxford,” City of Oxford planner Sam Perry said.

Perry said these plans have been in the works for over a decade. Having been through multiple stages of

design, funds were raised to hire a consulting firm in 2007, after which subsequent efforts for funding failed to take off.

A 25 percent match is required for recipients of the Clean Ohio Grant, $35,000 of which Oxford Area Trail System has already raised.

The trails are part of the city’s comprehensive plan to have trail connectivity to both rural and urban sites around Oxford.”

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“This ended when last year, through the leadership of the Oxford Visitors Bureau, a committee was pulled back together to rekindle the effort,” Perry said. “The same plans were used to develop an application for a small portion of the overall trail plans.”

It was then that the funds were awarded. The Clean Ohio Grant is awarded yearly by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources with the purpose of Land acquisition for a trail, trail development, trailhead facilities, engineering and design.

Those looking to donate can do so by visiting http://www.oxfordfdn. org/donate.html and specifying Oxford Area Trails Fund, or by calling (513) 523-0623.

Although the process has been long, Oxford Area Trail System are optimistic about the future.

“Oxford and Miami have a wealth of scenic and historic resources,” said Oxford Trail’s member David Prytherch. “This trail will provide a key link between them, enhancing recreational opportunities for residents and visitors alike.”

Hail a Knight: Seniors found local pedicab service BUSINESS KELLY HIGGINSON

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Knights in Shining Armor co-founders Rick Snyder and Tony Partiva pose with their pedicabs, Oxford’s newest form of transportation. hoping to maybe take over the company once the boys graduate.

“That was pretty big, but right now [we] are trying to bug investors and create an alliance with businesses uptown,” Snyder said.

Local Oxford taxi companies have also shown a high interest in Knights in Shining Armor.

“The local taxi companies have tried to buy us out, it was pretty funny,” Snyder said.

As Knights in Shining Armor continues to pedal their way through Oxford, they hope to up-

grade their current cabs and get better, more efficient ones.

“It’s a lot of work pedaling up hills, especially Uptown is on a big hill,” Snyder said. “We’re trying to just keep it to rides home from Uptown.”

According to Snyder, there is a possibility they might expand this next semester and become an exclusive transportation provider for a restaurant Uptown.

“We also want to scale at other campuses,” Snyder said. “I have a friend that is super interested in

the idea and might try to start it at their campus.”

The company is currently paired with the Miami Venture Fund, which gave Knights in Shining Armor their loan to start the company. When Snyder and Pastiva graduate, they said they hope the company won’t die off.

“I think it is a great idea and I can see myself coming back in a couple years and seeing 10 cabs out every single night,” Snyder said. “It could be a unique thing for Miami.”

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13-year-old boy killed in ATV crash at Lake Geneva Trent Myers was killed in the crash last Saturday. The boy died from sustained injuries.

–Cincinnati Enquirer

Total of five victims in Washington State High School shooting The high school freshman reportedly lured his victims to the same lunch table via text message.

–The New York Times

Iranian woman executed for killing alleged rapist The woman was hanged on Saturday for killing the man she believed to have raped her.

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IN THE NEWS OXFORD Oxford hospital administrator retired after 45 years Sylvia Moore was honored last week for her 45 years of service to McCullough-Hyde.

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The unwelcome guest At 7:56 a.m. Saturday, an officer responded to a report of an unknown subject in a resident’s home. The resident also stated that the front door had been damaged, and the officer observed that it had been forced in. The resident located a male student asleep in a resident’s bed, and had difficulty rousing him. When the male finally became conscious, the officer took him into custody. He was very confused and stated he was “at a buddy’s house.” The officer informed him that he was in fact in a female’s home, and neither she nor her roommate recognized him.

The male smelled very strongly of alcohol and had apparently urinated on himself and the bed. He was taken to OPD and charged with Burglary, Criminal Damage and Disorderly Conduct, and transported to Butler County Jail.

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All it takes is an idea, some good friends and a lot of leg power to start a business in the small town of Oxford. That is what senior Rick Snyder thought when he pursued the idea of bringing pedicabs to town from his hometown in Manhattan, New York.

Knights in Shining Armor began in Oxford last spring when Snyder and Anthony Pastiva saved up and bought two electric pedicabs.

“Word of mouth spread right away and we were really overwhelmed at first,” Snyder said.

“We couldn’t handle the demand so we had to play it down a bit.”

Since starting last spring, Knights in Shining Armor has received publicity from Miami alumni, Oxford taxi companies and many students. Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 12 a.m. to 2 a.m., there is someone out on the pedicab driving students home.

“We have all of our roommates and our house, which makes seven of us driving, but it is hard to find consistent drivers,” Snyder said.

One of Snyder’s roommates is an accounting major and has helped finance all of the money that Knights in Shining Armor has earned.

This year, a Miami alumni approached Snyder as an investor

At 1:17 a.m. Friday, an officer heard the sound of a window breaking from the Municipal Building. As the officer approached the building, he observed a male student at the top of the exterior stairwell of the building. The male then descended and stood in front of the Municipal Building, where the officer confronted him. He repeatedly denied having done the damage, though the officer stated that he saw the male at the top of the stairs and that there were tiny glass shards covering the male’s shoes. He was taken into custody at OPD and signed his citations with “haha this is something illegible” instead of his legal name, and repeatedly stated his constitutional rights were being infringed. He was charged with Sales and Use

by Underage Persons, Criminal Mischief and Certain Acts Prohibited, and transported to Butler County Jail.

At 1:27 a.m. Saturday, an officer on patrol heard glass breaking to his immediate left and stopped his vehicle, whereupon he heard the sound again. He exited his vehicle and observed a broken window on the second floor and cracked window on the ground floor of a fraternity house. He eventually found the male suspect crouching behind a parked vehicle. The officer asked the male if he was the one who broke the windows. The male student replied he had broken the second floor window by throwing a golf club. He also stated that he had heard a female was assaulted in the home, and he broke the window as retribution. The male was found to be 19 years of age, in possession of a fake ID and a member of a different fraternity. He was cited with Criminal Mischief and Certain Acts Prohibited and will be charged by the victims for the damage.

WRITERS WANTED The Miami Student is looking for beat reporters and staff writers.

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Lena Dunham debuts in print LITERATURE ANNABEL BROOKS

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Lena Dunham is no stranger to stripping it down to the naked “truth.” In her new book, “Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she’s ‘learned,’” Dunham bares all, but it fails to be as intoxicating and engaging as her critically acclaimed HBO hit show “Girls,” or her successful independently produced feature film “Tiny Furniture.” Dunham’s new book, released earlier this month, unfortunately lacks the subtle and witty comedic slant that makes her other entertainment ventures so successful. “Not That Kind of Girl” instead often induces grimaces rather than laughter.

The book is made up of a series of vignettes, all autobiographical and hardly any presenting ideas and tropes Dunham has yet to present to us before. Because the fundamental themes behind each of Dunham’s essays seem so familiar, it is difficult for those of us who watch “Girls” to separate Hannah Horvath’s voice from Lena Dunham’s. This voice seems to be much more fluid and believable on the screen than on the page. Her tradition of being neurotic, insecure and out of control is much more interesting in interaction with the other characters in “Girls,” rather than in isolation.

Dunham’s book is instead a selfaware bundle of prose wrapped up in a pretty ribbon.

This isn’t to say that there isn’t

anything applaudable about Dunham’s literary debut. There are several independent thoughts inserted throughout the book which exhibit Dunham’s artistic control and expertise. At the end of her book, in the essay “Guide to Running Away,” she presents stepby-step directions for disgruntled nine-year-old girls who have just had enough. While doing so she notes, “You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from,” with the instructions of always being true to yourself, in the Nora Ephron style of accepting and celebrating your own quirky idiosyncrasies. The book ends with Dunham directing us to never stray from our true self, whoever that may be, “But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother, and you’ll see that later and be very, very proud.”

“Not That Kind of Girl” is a nhonorable stab at prose for Dunham. Her book presents a variety of ideas and themes that are, for the most part, interesting to reflect upon even if they are somewhat redundant. Lena Dunham’s book of essays may not have lived up to its reported $3.5 million advance, but it certainly lives up to Dunham’s name. While she may not be the universal voice of our generation, as Hannah Horvath expresses in “Girls,” she is indeed “at least a voice.”

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Dan + Shay = lively night of country at Brick MUSIC RACHEL TRACY

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Though they have never been to Oxford, Dan + Shay are no strangers to the top of country charts. The group best-known for their hit, “19 You + Me” is perfoming here for the fist time 9 p.m. Oct. 29 at Brick Street Bar. “We’re gonna bust out some fun toons,” Dan Smyers, one of the two lead singers of Dan + Shay, said. “We might throw out some 80s songs.”

Smyers and Shay Mooney met December 2012. Although they had both been recording separately since they were teenagers, their music came naturally, Smyers said. In the first couple months, the duo wrote roughly 80 songs. From there, they signed with Warner Brothers Records and were the opening act for Hunter Hayes and Blake Shelton.

Smyers said the band really bonded with both Hayes and Shelton, and they look forward to “passing that torch along” to new artists as they further their music career.

“I have to pinch myself,” Shymers said. “It’s so incredible and we’re so lucky to be here.”

Will Weisman, owner of Brick Street, said, “We booked Dan + Shay because they are consistent with our strategy to bring up-andcoming country artists.”

As a new band, Dan + Shay stay in touch with their social media and talk to their fans as much as possible.

“We love listening to our fans.

They are the best indication of how we’re doing,” Smyers said.

The boys spend much of their time talking one-on-one with their fans, including responding to tweets on a daily basis. Smyers says meeting fans in person has a huge impact on their inspiration to continue writing songs.

“We do meet and greets until our bus leaves,” Smyers said. “If you come to our concert, there is a way to meet us.”

Now on their own tour, Dan + Shay has creative mobility to make their show the way they want. While neither has been to Oxford, they both look forward to performing at Miami.

“All of the pretty girls from my high school went to Miami,” Smyers said. “I went to college and I know what the college life is like. I hear great things about Miami.”

“Students will enjoy this show because it appeals to country fans as well as fans of pop rock,” Weisman said.

For the years to come, Dan+Shay see themselves still putting out albums for their fans.

Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at www.brickstreetbar.com, 1-800-594-tixx or at Brick Street.

CHORAL COLLABORATON The Miami University Men’s Glee Club performed with the MU Collegiate Chorale in a sold-out concert, conducted by Jeremy D. Jones, Friday in Hall Auditorium.

‘Listen Up Philip’ falls short Alex Ross Perry’s new film loses audience in artistic overload FILM DEVON SHUMAN

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The world of film is filled with overly arrogant characters, characters that are so selfish and hurtful that practically everything out of their mouth aims to put down those around them. Think of Stifler from the “American Pie” series, or John Goodman’s Walter from “The Big Lebowski.”

However, as common as this archetype has become, few movies attempt to put one of these characters in the role of the protagonist — and perhaps for good reason.

Enter Jason Schwartzman (“Rushmore,” “Moonrise Kingdom”) as the title character in Alex Ross Perry’s third film, “Listen Up Philip.” Philip, a writer awaiting the release of his second novel, is not just a depiction of arrogance; he is the epitome. He is an image of everything you can hate in a person — pretentious, conceited, egotistical and, above all, selfish. As Philip says to his girlfriend Ashley, played by Elisabeth Moss, before abruptly leaving for the summer to spend time at a country retreat, “This will be good for both of us, but mostly it will be good for me.”

Philip spends the first portion of the movie bragging and shoving his new novel in the face of everyone he once called a friend, making it hard to imagine how an audience could ever sympathize with such a horrible human specimen.

Yet, Schwartzman comes to the

rescue, giving his character just the right amount of depth to make us enjoy watching him. While we might not ultimately root for him, Schwartzman’s mastery of deadpan humor and sarcasm makes Philip a character we love to hate.

In the absence of a traditional rise-and-fall plot structure, “Listen Up Philip” acts more as a character study, a glimpse into the troubled mind of a self-destructive artist.

Torn between love and loathing — of himself, of his work, of his girlfriend — Philip falls into a pattern of isolation and self-alienation, systematically ruining all his relationships and hurting those around him in the process.

Splitting the film into three acts, Perry follows each character individually, beginning with Philip, moving on to Ashley, and finishing with Ike Zimmerman, an older author who, seeing his younger self in Philip, begins to spend time with him in an attempt to impart some wisdom. Despite a wonderful performance from Moss, who brings just as much to the table here as she does on “Mad Men,” the first two acts become slow and repetitive. They are nothing more than a chance for Philip to throw out some egotistically witty one-liners.

Where the movie really picks up steam is in the third act. Ironically, the heart of the movie lies not in Philip’s story, but in that of his mentor. Ike, played by Jonathan Pryce (“Pirates of the Caribbean”), at first seems to be an accomplished, old writer.

However, as we delve deeper into his personal life we see that he is still just like Philip — alienated as a result of his own arrogant ways.

The ever-deteriorating relationship with his daughter, played by Krysten Ritter (“Breaking Bad”), is actually the movie’s most heartwrenching storyline.

The splitting of the film into separate acts has an air of Wes Anderson to it, and in fact, so does the whole movie. Perry seems to have taken inspiration from the master of idiosyncrasy. Everything about the film, from the omniscient narrator to the jazzy French score to the grainy 16mm shots, is reminiscent of “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”

This is a film about an artist, and it is indeed quite artsy.

Ultimately, this is where Perry loses us. He gets so bogged down in his creative techniques that he loses focus on the story itself.

With far too many close-up shots, the movie becomes claustrophobic, and the narration is simply unnecessary. We don’t need to be told that Ike is depressed; we can see that as he solemnly gazes out the window.

There is a great story in here somewhere. Unfortunately, it becomes suffocated by fancy cinematography and directorial techniques. In the end, “Listen Up Philip” fails because it ends up being just as pretentious and self-destructive as its miserable protagonist.

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Although students are presented with an array of contrasting opinions and may be nervous, Weirtz said he believes overall, the recruitment process can be a very positive experience.

“I only rushed one fraternity those four nights as a freshman, but I remember how accommodating everyone was and how many people I met and still am in contact with,” he said. “[It] helped me meet a lot of great people and find the right fraternity for me.”

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The possibilities of “West Fest” are endless, but more work needs to be done EDITORIAL

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

A few weeks ago, The Miami Student reported on the efforts of several students to create a music festival called “West Fest” that would take place in Oxford in the spring. This two-day event that would feature numerous musical acts would be similar to other festivals held at schools like Ohio University.

Unfortunately, after we ran the story the university confirmed that they had no role in the planning and the students who were organizing it have yet to respond with concrete plans for an event this spring.

The editorial board believes that an event like this would be a great way to bring publicity to the university and City of Oxford, as well as generate a lot of business for Uptown establishments.

As we already know, schools in Ohio presently have outdoor events and concerts such as this on a regular basis. The best examples of this are Ohio University’s

famed HallOUween event and their “fest season” in the spring, which consists of several weekends in a row with well-known music acts coming to perform.

Would it be possible for Oxford to follow suit and create an event that would bring together students for one weekend? We believe it could be, if the university and the City of Oxford willingly collaborated on the event.

Theoretically, the university wouldn’t need to be involved if the event was strictly off campus.

However, as we’ve seen with HallOUween, university involvement often makes the event much more regulated and safe. Ohio University restricts the number of visitors students can have on HallOUween weekend, and Ohio State University has started handing out wristbands for when students participate in the “Mirror Lake Jump” before the Ohio State v. Michigan football game.

Miami University becoming

involved in a potential music festival event would undoubtedly make the event more controlled and less of a liability for everyone involved.

On the negative side, we understand that the university and city officials would be concerned with the large amount of drinking, especially underage drinking, that

We at The Miami Student fully support efforts to make this theoretical event become a reality, but we know that will only happen with a lot of planning on the part of students and community members.”

For the City of Oxford, the event could become a huge draw for guests and potential students.

It would certainly increase sales at bars and restaurants in the surrounding area during the event, which would help business owners. Additionally, if the festival became large enough that event staff and maintenance workers would need to be hired, it could create temporary work for a fair number of people, including students.

may come with bringing an event like this to Oxford. However, if it was organized and regulated with a wristband system and police supervision, we at The Miami Student believe that these problems could be contained.

It’s important to note that Miami has not been drawing well-known musical acts for quite some time.

The biggest names we’ve seen in recent years have been brought

by Uptown bar, Brick Street,

and even those artists aren’t as prominent as ones that nearby schools like Ohio University and Ohio State University are able to obtain. With Miami’s prominence, we shouldn’t have an issue with booking musical acts for a potential festival.

Creating an event like this from scratch would be a lot of work, but after a few years it could become a big annual event that brings together students from all corners of campus. We at The Miami Student fully support efforts to make this theoretical event become a reality, but we know that will only happen with a lot of planning on the part of students and community members.

We believe that something like West Fest would be a hugely positive occurrence for everyone involved, and that the university and Oxford officials should attempt to work with student planners in order to create an event that everyone can enjoy.

Continuing the discussion: The role of faith in assisted suicide An editor’s response to Death with Dignity critics A few issues back, we published a staff editorial supporting the Death with Dignity Act, a law that lets terminally ill patients end their lives with the help of a doctor.

As an opinion editor at The Miami Student, I was responsible for writing the piece that reflected our board’s collective viewpoint and I wasn’t surprised when we received some negative reactions. Last week, one of our columnists, Greg Dick, wrote a response disagreeing with the Editorial Board’s opinion.

In this issue, a former editor for The Miami Student, Olivia Hnat, wrote a letter to the editor (see right) voicing her disapproval.

I’ve decided this topic warrants a response to Dick, Hnat and anyone who questioned our reasoning — but this time, with my own opinion.

As I read through their pieces before putting them into the newspaper, I enjoyed hearing their views, for the most part. More people need to be open minded about the perspectives of others; that’s one of the main reasons I love running the opinion page. Although, I respect and understand Dick’s and Hnat’s views, I have to stand by my own thoughts and, at the same time, stick up for our staff’s opinion.

First and foremost, it was not our intent to “promote suicide,” as Dick stated. I personally view medically assisted suicide and suicide as very different issues, but that is something for another column on another day.

We at The Miami Student understand suicide hits close to home for a lot of people, including myself.

Our intent was to start a discussion on an issue that tends to be forgotten, swept to the back of our minds as more prominent issues like gun

control and same sex marriage seize our attention.

I would also like to note that our piece was in support of people having the right to make their own choice about how they die, not in support of people taking their own lives. We certainly didn’t mean to discredit opposing opinions on the matter, as people like Maggie Karner and Lauren Hill (mentioned in Dick’s article) openly share.

For my personal opinion, I fully support the Death with Dignity agenda — even if it’s not necessarily a choice I would make myself.

I grew up in a strongly Catholic household. I attended church once a week, I went to religion classes and I became a counselor at a YMCA camp where faith is an important component of what we teach kids.

Even though religion has played a major role in my life thus far, I think it’s unfair to assume that faith alone is enough to get everyone through a terminal illness — especially people who don’t share the same religious values as I do.

In the past year, I lost my uncle and my great aunt to cancer, so I say this with personal experience.

They both battled their illnesses for years, and were aware in advance that their battles would be ending soon. For my wonderful and strong relatives, faith was enough. They fought until the end of their lives and were at peace with their fate thanks to their reliance on God. For them, and others like Karner and Hill, faith is enough. I think that’s something that is so amazing and should be supported. But, I don’t think faith should be a reason that we discredit the choices of some to end their lives rather than fight a terminal illness.

Hnat states, “‘Death with Dignity’ is another phrase for suicide, just as ‘Pro Choice’ is for abortion.” She’s right, in a way, that we have rephrased these things to sound more appealing. However, someone can be Pro Choice and not themselves support abortion, just as I support Death with Dignity, but would not commit suicide or ever encourage others to commit suicide.

I don’t know how death will come to me. I don’t know if I will end up with cancer when I’m in my sixties or Alzheimer’s when I’m in my seventies, or if I will be blessed to die naturally in my sleep at a very old age.

But, I do know that death is frightening for a lot of people. For some, like my relatives, faith and belief in God and heaven is enough to give comfort in times of fear.

However, not everyone finds faith in these things.

Just like Dick says, we can’t discredit people for choosing to keep living because of their faith, we can’t discredit people for choosing to die in a more peaceful manner than what their illness will give them.

Unless we find ourselves in a situation where we have to make this choice, I don’t think any of us can truly say what our views are on the issue. At the end of the day, had my relatives told me that they chose medically assisted suicide so that they could be with their loved ones when they passed away in peace, I can’t imagine denying them of that choice.

ABBEY GINGRAS

GINGRAA@MIAMIOH.EDU

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The Miami Student justified suicide and ignored religion A pretty phrase with capital letters does not hide the fact that The Miami Student’s editorial board justified suicide in 604 words.

The most disappointing and alarming parts of their editorial on “Death with Dignity” is their failure to even mention the word “morality” and their incorrect assumption that we live, or in this case die, for ourselves. In case they missed it — that is not what Jesus did.

I commend The Miami Student for weighing in on a controversial issue and appreciate that they recognized the can of worms “Death with Dignity” laws would open.

However, even after describing various scenarios, from the elderly with Alzheimer’s to minors choosing to end their lives, the board justified that these laws be expanded based on their belief that control over one’s death is “something everyone deserves to have.”

If this was published while I

was The Miami Student community editor, I would have quit.

The editorial board left the question of right versus wrong, and the meaning of life and death, at the door. Instead, they considered the choices between pain and comfort or uncertainty and control to justify a person ending their own life.

“Death with Dignity” is another phrase for suicide, just as “ProChoice” is for abortion. We cannot re-wrap and rename them to justify devaluing LIFE, with a capital L-I-F-E. It is dangerous and called moral relativism.

Unfortunately, The Miami Student editorial board was blinded by the rhetoric. They forgot that purpose is given to those who value, Love and Honor life, not to those who control it.

OLIVIA HNAT

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Pop culture presentation of race plays into issues on campus and in daily life DIVERSITY Whether it is the TV, the movie theater or the newspaper, the past few months have been a difficult time for anyone to avoid the topic of race in a modern-day United States of America.

Within the past week, the ongoing events in Ferguson, Missouri and the U.S. Supreme Court’s new ruling on voter ID laws in Texas have triggered discussions on political, criminal and judicial policies in the U.S. These discussions have focused on whether these policies disproportionately impact communities of color.

However, pop culture has initiated similar discussions that provide awareness to evident issues of identity, privilege and oppression in U.S. race relations.

On TV, ABC’s fall shows display this conscious diversity in stories that examine people of color’s experiences and formation of identity in a predominantly white environment.

Scholars and social activists use the term “people of color” to describe any group of people who do not identify as Caucasian or of European parentage.

As the U.S.’s Latino population continues to expand and thrive, ABC’s “Cristela” follows Cristela (Cristela Alonzo), a young Latina woman, who is at conflict with her tight-knit family’s values as she puts her desires for a successful law career first.

“Black-ish” looks into the life of the Johnson family, an uppermiddle-class black family living in the predominantly white Los Angeles suburbs and their struggle not to forget their roots. Unlike “The Cosby Show,” which was criticized for not discussing racism, “Black-ish” is nothing short of race-related insight.

Although all three shows may perpetuate cliché stereotypes to white audiences unfamiliar with black or Latino culture, they also illuminate the challenges minorities face to break these same demeaning stereotypes while still holding on to cultural values.

In “Cristela,” we see this when a white character mistakes Cristela for a maid and then for a valet. In “Black-ish,” a white coworker irritates Dre with a “Dr. Dre” nickname and obnoxious hip-hop ad-libs.

While these examples are not what we usually think of as brutish “racism,” these micro-aggressions, instances where a dominant culture says or does something

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that assumes a characteristic of any marginalized group, alienate and belittle these characters and their racial identity.

In addition to TV shows portraying problems in race relations today, a recently released movie with an in-your-face title contextualizes similar problems in a college campus setting. “Dear White People,” in the words of first-time director, producer and writer Justin Simien, “is not actually a rant towards white people” but actually focuses on “the difficulty of finding yourself in a place that doesn’t necessarily reflect you.”

Taking place at a fictional Ivy League-type school, the movie’s protagonist is Sam White, a spunky activist with a radio show called “Dear White People” that points out examples of microaggressions, hypocrisy and appropriation to the predominantly white student body.

In “Dear White People,” the movie’s main conflict and climax is a fraternity party with a “hiphop” theme that is in reality a disparaging blackface party.

Inspired by similar parties at the real-life Arizona State and UC San Diego universities, the blackface party exemplifies the ignorance, insensitivity and ironic appropriation that occur towards black culture.

This type of cultural appropriation occurs when one culture takes or copies certain aspects of another culture without asking permission of that culture and often times misrepresents it. Think of it as pop culture’s plagiarism of twerking, which was first developed by black New Orleans hip-hop artists in 1993 and that did not reach national popularity until Miley Cyrus’ famed twerking in 2013.

On our own campus, examples of micro-aggressions, appropriation and pure bigotry occur regularly.

With a domestic student body that is 81 percent white, many Miami students of color face similar situations to the characters in “Dear White People.” From posts on the anonymous app Yik Yak to a former twitter account called “Oxford Asian,” which tweeted degrading stereotypes about Miami’s Asian students, our school is proof that we do not live in a “post-racial” country.

Although there are overtly racist Yik Yak posts with racial slurs, many are micro-aggressions or what Simien calls “covert racism” that would include a past

post about “high fiving every black person after the Miami football team won.” Whether we, as the predominantly white student body, engage in this pigeonholing behavior or not, we need to realize its detrimental effects.

Those who recently watched The Daily Show episode with guest Bill O’Reilly understand that as the 81 percent, we benefit from white privilege, which in social context means we “get to wear whatever hat [we] want” as rapper Childish Gambino cleverly puts.

However, white privilege is more than not having a stereotype attached to you 24/7.

It is given to any person of visible Caucasian skin tone, no matter how poor or affluent, and stems from past systematic oppression towards people of color in our country.

Although all Caucasian people consciously or unconsciously benefit from it, white privilege does have varying degrees of significance relative to each individual in educational institutions, political and judicial systems and the entertainment industry.

Therefore, here is a self-conscious “Dear Miami Students” for us in the 81 percent. When we are watching one of the aforementioned shows or movies, we must understand that their goal is to illustrate the daily trials of defining yourself in a world that tells you who to be based upon the color of your skin.

Although we may feel uncomfortable or become upset, we must understand how uncomfortable or upsetting it can be for Miami students of color who want to be more than the “go-to” for math homework, pick-up basketball or expertise in racism.

With Halloween approaching, we should stay far away from costumes that inappropriate and offend people of color such as a “Native American princess,” “pimp daddy” or “member of ISIS.” If we see a bigoted post on Yik Yak or hear a friend spewing out prejudiced remarks, we must stand up for our fellow Miamians.

Finally, rather than assume, we must keep an open mind as we learn from our peers about their uniquely personal beliefs, interests and experiences.

RULE OF THUMB REIS THEBAULT AND KATIE TAYLOR A quick shout-out to two of our editors, who won The Miami Student staff tournament over the weekend. Practice pays off!

BIG BEN GIVES BACK Former Miami football player and current Pittsburgh Steeler Ben Roethlisberger has decided to donate one million dollars toward the Indoor Sports Center.

UNC ACADEMIC FRAUD A recent report revealed that over 3,000 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students commited fraud by taking “paper classes” designed to boost GPA.The university has yet to give a punishment.

AZIZ ANSARI We were laughing for hours after watching the Parks and Recreation comedian and his opener, but some of the jokes were a little awkward when we were sitting with our parents.

LOW GAS PRICES ABC News reported that gas prices across the U.S. are at their lowest point in four years. As gas prices continue to sink lower, we can’t help but be happy with a little extra money in our wallets.

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George Will’s presence on campus had a negative impact on rape culture at Miami In a recent opinion piece regarding George Will’s appearance at Miami University, Mr. Scheren concludes with the outstanding observation that, “Regardless of the accuracy of statistics, the role of government, or any other excuse given, rape should never be included as a tool in an argument.

For this reason, George Will was out of line.” I applaud this understanding. And yet, Mr. Scheren and Miami’s President Hodge both are congratulating Miami on giving this man a platform to further “public debate.” This is a dubious justification for a bad decision.

What Will did in his national opinion piece was to smear by grimy implication every single rape victim who has the guts to stand up and declare herself in order to protest rape and its attendant abuses. According to Will, we should assess all survivors as potential members of the class of “proliferating victims” who are questing after the “coveted status that confers privileges.”

Will has thereby thrown mud on the extraordinary courage it takes to publicly state one has been raped, and made it that much harder for the next victim to stand up and

report. During his appearance at your school, he made this worse by saying to a rape survivor’s face that only “real” rape victims deserve our support, reinforcing the notion that there exists some large pool of women who are fabricating their claims of assault.

Yet all credible studies of rape reporting put the percentage of false reports at between one and eight

his presentation (which were based upon this article: http://tinyurl.com/ ofc5nud). Will’s analysis confused the total number of rapes on and off campus with the lesser number that a school is required to report; he further confused reporting to college authorities with reporting to law enforcement.

When this confusion is corrected for, the numbers turn out to be ex-

What Will did in his national opinion piece was to smear by grimy implication every single rape victim who has the guts to stand up and declare herself in order to protest rape and its attendant abuses.”

percent (e.g., Lisak et al. 2010; Levitt et al. 2013).

Will further attacked the antirape movement with his “statistical” analysis, whereby he cast doubt (doubt gleefully taken up by rape apologists everywhere) on the twenty percent incidence of sexual assault.

But Will’s statistics were extremely sloppy, as was demonstrated by the flyers handed out at

actly what so many studies confirm — about one in five college women will suffer sexual assault. A Pulitzer-prize winner really must make sure he has his statistics right, especially when he is attacking a movement that has as its only goal the reduction of the appalling amount of violence against young women and men.

Both Mr. Scheren and President Hodge congratulate Miami

University for “sparking debate” by inviting Will, but Will’s kind of argument about rape and rape victims does not spark debate — it sparks victim silencing. The fact that over 100 students protested Will’s appearance is not something that University administrators should be proud of “sparking.”

We don’t need to invite a thug to Thanksgiving dinner and watch him beat up Uncle Joe so that we can all have a healthy debate about the value of family and the sanctity of the home.

The administration merely forced anti-rape activists to work overtime in order to try to counteract Will’s pernicious influence and horrible “misery queen” stereotype. We don’t need this kind of debate; we need solutions to the problem of sexual violence.

The vast majority of rapes on college campuses are committed by a small group of men, who commit their crimes over and over because they have been given a “social license to operate” by our culture (Lisak 2002; McWhorter, 2009). When you tar survivors with the filth of doubt, as Will has, you empower rapists and you validate their license to operate.

When you pay a rape apologist $48,000 to come to your campus because you just couldn’t say no to a donor, you send a message that money matters more than the women in your student body.

Civilized people don’t tolerate Holocaust deniers, because denying the Holocaust is a kind of obscenity that reduces that bonfire of courage and sacrifice and human suffering to a question to be debated. Will and his ilk of rape apologists have done the same.

They have politicized what should not be a partisan issue, and in doing so, have slandered the extremely brave young women and men who are on the front lines of this battle.

What President Hodge and everyone else should be doing is shunning rape apologists — Mr. Will included — and helping to change the culture that allow rapists to victimize so many of our young people.

Sincerely, Author, attorney and ally to the Title IX Movement KELLY MOORE

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me,” Roethlisberger said in a press release. “Attending Miami was one of the best decisions of my life and I am happy to play a small part in helping to rebuild this football program.”

Martin thinks bringing a future Hall of Famer in Roethlisberger back into the program will help recruiting.

“You have quarterbacks of the future, now that he’s gonna be really, really involved with our program hopefully, that can tap into his knowledge and that’s pretty incredible for the future of Miami,” Martin said.

The promise of improved

facilities, namely the Indoor Sports Center, also brightens the future of Miami football. Construction on the facility is well under way, with the project expected to be completed in January. All of Miami’s athletic programs will use the facility.

Miami lagged behind in the facilities arms race before athletic director David Sayler arrived in January 2013. Sayler has raised roughly $29 million in pledges and gifts in his last 20 months at the helm of Miami athletics.

“I want to thank Ben and Ashley for their support of Miami Athletics,” Sayler said in a press release. “This gift continues our vision to make a difference in

the lives of our student-athletes and that includes winning MAC Championships. I am thankful that both Ben and Ashley share in that same vision.”

While the Indoor Sports Center is priced at $13 million, Martin believes the addition of Roethlisberger is priceless.

“For me as a head football coach, and for recruiting and for our staff and for our players and for everyone that is really part of our football family, that his name is gonna be attached to our program forever, I don’t even know if a 100 million is enough,” Martin said. “You can’t put a price tag on that because it is Ben Roethlisberger.”

properly representing the people in his district.

“He’s not in the district very often, and citizens don’t have a chance to access him and we don’t get a sense that there are a lot of things coming back to Ohio that are a result of his work,” Poetter said.

Otto said he can attest to the scarcity of Boehner’s visits and his lack of involvement in the community. Otto was born and raised in Oxford and said he has never seen Boehner. He said he has written to his office on several occasions, but received only courtesy cards, never a personal response from Boehner himself.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people in this district who have never met him. He’s very rarely here, except for maybe a closed fundraiser, but that’s not open to the public,” he said. “He’s a very inaccessible representative.”

Poetter said, in many ways, he correlates his campaign to that of David Brat’s, a republican nominee who beat former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Brat, who is also a professor at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, spent the same amount of money on his campaign as Poetter — $160,000 — and shocked Washington after edging out Cantor, who had spent around five million. Boehner has spent around seven million on his campaign.

Despite differences in spending, Poetter said his campaign is holding its own.

“We know we’re not ahead, but we know that we’re close,” he said. “[T]he poll that we’ve taken shows the Speaker polling at less than 50 percent, and people should be talking about that. This race isn’t over, and I’m

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Even though Poetter is confident, running for Congress opposite Boehner is a daunting task.

To date, Boehner has successfully remained in Congress for 24 years and when not running unopposed — he has twice — he has dominated the competition, commanding more than 60 percent of the vote.

“I didn’t go into this thinking that we were going to win for sure, but I thought we could win,” he said. “You always have a chance.”

Win or lose, Poetter said the most significant point was to run in the first place, especially in a heavily Republican district that has voted for Boehner 12 consecutive times. In 2012, no one campaigned against Boehner and neither party had alternative candidates — Poetter said he believes that is not how democracy should work.

After the election, regardless of whether Poetter comes out the winner, he said he will remain true to who he is.

“I’ve always told people I’m a candidate. I’m not really a politician,” he said. “I’ve learned political language and how to present myself, but I’m a college professor — that’s who I am.”

However, as the election is one week away, Poetter still wants to make an appeal to voters. “[I]f people walk into the polling place on Nov. 4 and they vote for me, they’re not throwing their vote away. They’re not throwing their vote away —they’re really casting a vote for democracy,” Poetter said. “They’re speaking truth to power when they go into the polling place and they make a choice that is different from the one that has led to stagnation, gridlock, conflict and a lack of progress.”

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It was not as easy as saying “yes” to Miami, however.

Winters faced the same tedious process that all immigrants face in the United States: obtaining a visa. “[Getting my visa] was a bit of a pain in the butt,” Winters said.

“You can’t really do it anywhere in Canada- you have to go the border to U.S. Customs. Even my first trip down, it took a couple hours of paperwork I had to sign, even though I had already applied, gone through the whole background check process and everything. It is a lengthy process, but you gotta do what you gotta do, right?”

Through the difficult process, Winters looked to his parents, Lorne and Christine, and his high school guidance counselor, Brian Burke.

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Friday night is a very difficult place to play. That’s the first time we’ve ever beaten Akron on the road on a Friday night. I was very pleased with it. That’s a considerable streak that came to an end.”

Miami had to follow Friday’s 110-minute tussle with a trying trip to Buffalo. The Bulls entered the game with a one-point MAC advantage over the RedHawks and extended their lead to four with the victory, clinching the regular season conference title along the way.

“It was a little disappointing because we didn’t get the result we wanted,” Zanotti said. “Unfortunately, we went two goals down and to try to come back

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“We looked to [Burke] for all the information we needed on how to get here, and what I needed to do,” Winters said. “He was fantastic, he was able to really help us out.”

Now that Winters is where he lovingly refers to as “the States,” he feels comfortable.

Bromberg said that typically, adapting to the culture of the United States can be difficult for immigrants. Winters is one of the exceptions to the rule.

“I’m an hour north of Buffalo,” Winters said. “It’s just the little things that are different. Money’s different, you know we’re taxed a lot more up in Canada. Other than that, the culture and everything is pretty much the same.”

Winters is able to make his way home for Christmas and a few times in the summer, as his mom works for Air Canada and he can fly home at a low rate. He

was even able to make it home for spring break last year.

Winters said he will go wherever he gets a job after graduation, and he hopes he can play football professionally. He wants to be involved in sports, but he doesn’t care if that is Canada or the USA. Staying in the United States after graduation is not an easy task for immigrants. Bromberg said numerous factors are present when deciding whether an immigrant should be granted a visa to stay in the United States to work. The process for dual citizenship can take up to 10 years in some cases.

Winters said if he worked in the United States, dual citizenship would be ideal. Although he could be Canadian or American, Winters still roots for the Canadian side of sports.

This can be troublesome when both of his countries compete.

Junior running back and Winters’ roommate Spencer McInnis remembers a moment when the cultures collided.

McInnis and Winters were uptown watching the USA vs.

Canada Olympic hockey game and Winters was representing his home country.

“No one liked Mitch,” McInnis said. “They were throwing stuff at him. So, then he wore a [Canada] shirt, because he was like one against a thousand. Once [Canada] won, nobody wanted to mess with him because he’s so huge.

Everyone’s like, ‘Woah, that’s a big Canadian.’”

McInnis described Winters as a “physical guy who likes to hit” on the football field, but Winters’ teammate also painted a lighter side of the “big Canadian.” “[Winters] is one of the funniest guys I know,” McInnis said.

“He takes jokes and he’ll throw

them back at you. He’ll make fun of himself too; we’ll have laughs about that. We make fun of his head — it’s huge.”

Winters may be Canadian by birth, but he embraces the American culture like someone who was born in the heart of the United States. The pregame National Anthem is one of his favorite forms of American culture, and it is a symbol of the dual-identity that he and other immigrants embrace.

“I just take it in, the whole culture,” Winters said. “America’s an amazing country with amazing history and culture and, you know, the best football in the world. When you’re standing there and the National Anthem is playing, I just stand there and soak it in. I just think there’s no place I’d rather be then right now, going out to battle with the guys on this team, the great guys we’ve got.”

from that position on Buffalo’s turf against the number one team is just very hard to do.” Kramig shared Zanotti’s frustration.

“Buffalo’s a good team and I certainly don’t wanna take anything away from them, but it was disappointing to lose that game,” Kramig said. “I congratulate them on winning the league — they earned it.”

Miami has second place in the MAC secured regardless of the outcome of Thursday’s regular season finale against Ball State University. Though it wasn’t the original goal, Kramig thinks the ’Hawks are still in good position.

“Nobody goes into the season saying they hope they finish second,” Kramig said. “At the same time, I told the kids there are 10

other teams in the league that wish they were us right now. We just gotta shake off the loss and move on.”

Though Miami is no longer in the hunt for the regular season MAC title, the looming conference tournament gives the RedHawks plenty to look forward to. Miami owns the No. 2 seed in the upcoming tournament, which starts Sunday and continues through the following weekend.

“For us to have been able to lock in at the number two spot with a game left speaks volumes to the commitment of this team and how hard we’ve worked,” Zanotti said. “It puts us in a good position for the tournament — hopefully we can pull off some wins.”

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saw. The ’Hawks dominated puck possession as they had 42 shots on goal for the game. The team went 1-4 on the power play, while stymying the Panthers on the penalty kill by not allowing a score on any of the six opportunities.

It was quite chippy in the third period, as seven penalties were assessed as well as an ejection.

“It was a good weekend for us,” head coach Scott Hicks said. “We outplayed Davenport for most of the weekend and we’re getting more and more confident. It’s always good to get shutouts. We showed that we’re a tough team and we didn’t back down. I’m proud of our team. We can build off of this emotion, after rallying [in the third period] and it’ll catapult us forward and we can keep rolling.”

The RedHawks hit the road Nov. 7-9 as they take on the University of Minnesota, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Denver.

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goal at 13:53.

The third period was as tightly contested as the first, with the teams getting about five minutes each on the power play.

Williams led the Red and White in points with two goals and one assist, while Senden, Booth, sophomore right wing Cassidy Guthrie and freshman forward Alyssa Vissali each recorded two points in the game. Sophomore goaltender Emalee Wills picked up the shutout as the ’Hawks had 31 more shots on goal than Davenport.

Mooney came up big for Miami in the second game as she notched three goals in the first and second period, while Williams picked up two goals in the third. Also picking up multiple points were Booth with a goal and an assist and sophomore center Katie Augustine with three assists.

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Miami University fifth-year quarterback Andrew Hendrix plants and makes a cut during Miami’s 10-3 win over Kent State University. Hendrix racked up 104 yards on the ground and 120 through the air.

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Playing in front of the biggest Yager Stadium crowd since No. 10 University of Cincinnati visited in 2009, Miami University picked up a 10-3 win over Kent State University in a game that didn’t feature much offense.

The RedHawk (2-7, 2-3 MidAmerican Conference) defense had one of its best efforts of the season, limiting the Golden Flashes (1-7, 0-4 MAC) to 285 yards of offense. Only 79 of those yards came on the ground.

“Defense, obviously a big step forward as far as aggressive nature, confident, making checks, edging the ball …” head coach Chuck Martin said. “Much better tackling. I’m not sure they have the skill guys of Northern [Illinois University], but we were still more aggressive, regardless of who we were playing.”

Miami’s defense struggled mightily against NIU in its last time out, and sophomore Heath Harding said the ’Hawks were motivated to play better.

“Coming from the Northern game, we know we didn’t put up our best performance at all,” Harding, who had big interception at the Kent State four-yard line, said. “Our whole mindset this week in practice was just be aggressive and show everyone what our defense is really capable of because last week was not a good showing at all on our part.

We had a lot to prove this week. We played with a chip on our shoulder and I think that showed today.”

Miami’s offense didn’t have its best performance, putting up a merger 287 yards of total offense.

“We were in a similar game against EKU, and it was an absolute debacle on our sideline of anxiety and panic and kids that looked scared to death,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “Today we were calm. We were frustrated at times offensively, but our kids just kept plugging away.”

The lone touchdown of the day came courtesy of a 19-yard quarterback draw by Andrew Hendrix.

The RedHawks’ running game carried the team, as the ’Hawks put up 167 yards on the ground.

“The good news on offense was no turnovers,” Martin said. “We out

ran them again … I felt like we could have run for more … if we managed the run game better, we probably would have had 200.”

Hendrix completed only 11 of 28 passes for 120 yards, but did have a game-high 104 rushing yards on 15 carries.

“Andrew kinda had a day of a really good pitcher with bad stuff,” Martin said. “But he’s a really good pitcher. So he just kinda muddled through seven innings and found a way to keep the lead. He’ll tell you he didn’t play his best football or sharpest football. But, he didn’t turn the ball over, we didn’t go backwards, we didn’t have the sacks.”

The win is the first wire-to-wire win for the RedHawks since 2012.

“We’ve won one 42-41 and we’ve won one 10-3,” Martin said. “That’s Division I football. I learned quickly when I got into Division I that even when you’re the favorite, the team isn’t that much worse than you and when you’re the underdog you’re not that much worse. We’ve seen that this year.”

The ’Hawks’ next game is Saturday, Nov. 1 against Western Michigan University at Yager Stadium.

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It’s Oct. 4 and the fans at Yager Stadium are bundled up like it’s late November. After the National Anthem is played and the marching band forms a tunnel, the RedHawks enter the field. Many of the players chose to wear long sleeves on the brisk fall day.

Not Mitch Winters. He stood on the sideline drinking ice-cold water as the captains took the field for the coin toss. He wore no sleeves or leggings; he simply embraced the cold.

He embraced the cold because he grew up in it. The junior defensive lineman is from Mississauga, Ontario. The now 21-yearold Winters began his journey to Oxford in high school, when there was an athletic fork-in-theroad. The options were football and hockey.

“I basically just decided if, you know, I was gonna just focus on one sport and go anywhere with it to college I needed to put all my time into one so I decided just to play football,” Winters said.

In 2013, 990,553 immigrants either renewed or received a green card in the United States according to the Department of Homeland Security. Cana-

dians make up 1.3 percent of that number.

Chair of Miami University’s Spanish and Portuguese Department and Associate Professor, Shelley Jarrett Bromberg, Ph. D. said the immigration process and juggling of two cultures is easier today than it was in previous generations. “[Immigration] is different in one way,” Bromberg said. “Modes of transportation are much faster.

There wasn’t an opportunity to be bi-national in previous generations. It’s easier for people to have dual identities.”

Winters, who is majoring in sports leadership and management, grew up with a dual identity as an athlete, playing hockey and football through eighth grade. Once he decided that football would be the sport he would pursue, Winters had his eyes set on the United States. He would travel south for the summer to attend the camps hosted by schools in the Midwest in an attempt to be noticed and, in turn, offered scholarships.

Winters said he attended over 20 camps in the summer and hoped that his large frame and athleticism would allow him to play college football.

Winters, who wears No. 99 partially because of Canadian-

After a double-overtime 1-0 victory at University of Akron Friday, the Miami University soccer team ran out of gas Sunday and fell 2-0 to Mid-American Conference leader University at Buffalo (12-2-3, 8-0-2 MAC).

The weekend-opening win over Akron (6-11-1, 2-8 MAC) extended Miami’s unbeaten streak to eight games and increased its conference point tally to 22. The ’Hawks (13-3-1, 7-2-1 MAC) validated their dominant performance by finally finding the net in the second overtime period

(104th minute) when freshman Maggie Scott picked the perfect time to notch her fourth goal of the season.

“Maggie had a great header on goal and followed her shot to get us the points,” team captain Courtney Zanotti said. “We started off a little slow, but as the game went on we kept getting better and better and attacking more — that pressing is what got us the goal.”

Though Akron holds a subpar 2-8 MAC record, Miami head coach Bobby Kramig knew the matchup was going to be tricky.

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The Miami University women’s hockey team is still undefeated after it posted its second and third consecutive shutouts.

The RedHawks downed Davenport University 5-0 and 7-0. The RedHawks (8-0) find themselves at the top of the CCWHA, while the Panthers (6-2) are now in second place.

“This weekend was a really big turning point for us,” freshman defender Becca Senden said.

“We kept taking it to them, despite some low points, and we never stopped. They’re a difficult team

to deal with. With a big tournament coming up, we need to pick it up. This was a good team to work on, working on the little things and competing for 60 minutes.”

Following a scoreless first period for both teams Friday night, the second featured a Miami offensive explosion as it reeled off five goals in just over 10 minutes. Junior center Haley Williams opened the scoring at the 3:47 mark and found the back of the net again at 11:46. Also picking up goals were Senden at 6:22, sophomore right wing Rachael Booth at 11:31 and sophomore forward Jordan Hanson rounded out the scoring with a WOMEN’S HOCKEY »PAGE 9

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“Out of all the schools I visited, Miami just felt right,” Winters said. “Especially when you’re on campus, it’s gorgeous.

Just the way it felt, even when you’re around the stadium and the atmosphere, the Cradle of Coaches and everything was just a huge attraction. I loved it and decided ultimately that Miami was the place.”

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