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DANCE THEATRE On Saturday, April 23 and 24 in Hall auditorium, Miami University’s Dance Theatre presented its 2016 Spring Concert. According to it’s website, the company’s style includes elements of modern to contemporary ballet, jazz and tap.

Niche graduate group takes one last shot

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Petition spurs meal plan changes

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Harriet Tubman — a leading African American abolitionist who escorted hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad — will oust Andrew Jackson, America’s seventh president, from the front of the $20 bill.

Jackson will reside on the back of the bill with the White House as the background. He is known for his championing of the common man and war time heroics, but also as a slaveholder who initiated the forced removal of thousands of Native Americans.

The U.S. Treasury is also making changes to lower denomination bills. Five women suffrage leaders will be depicted on the back of the $10 bill along with the treasury building. Three civil Rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr, will grace the back of the $5 bill along with the Lincoln Memorial.

The final designs of the bills will be unveiled in 2020, and the bills will reach wider circulation later in the decade.

Faculty and students expressed mixed emotions on the redesign of our nation’s currency.

Alexis Thompson, a junior at Miami and member of Black Women Empowered, said placing Tubman on the bill doesn’t create concrete change to improve the position of African Americans, it just puts a new face on a dollar bill.

“Seeing that the actual system behind our money

This is a corrected version of the article “ASG petition spurs meal plan change,” that ran on the front page of the Friday, April 22 edition of this newspaper.

Pressured by backlash from a petition circulated by Associated Student Government (ASG), Miami’s office of Housing Options, Meals and Events (H.O.M.E.) has issued changes for the 201617 academic year that will reinstate the offerings of declining dollar balances and buffet meals, and, in the opinion of many students, freedom of choosing where to eat.

In February, university administration announced changes to its meal plan system for current and incoming first-year students.

The revisions were aimed at alleviating concerns raised by students and parents, specifically regarding the $1,625 program assessment fee built into the current Diplomat plan.

The new plan called for a combination of buffet “swipes” and a declining balance to be used at a la carte locations and would revoke the current student discount — a 30 percent markdown at a la carte locations and a 50 percent payment at buffet locations.

Many students felt the new plan overemphasized buffet swipes, undermining the flexibility offered by a la carte dining locations.

An ad hoc committee of ASG senators wrote a petition to protest the changes, writing that because buffet locations are perceived as being less convenient, many “swipes” would go unused and would not roll over to

At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, a bottle of champagne popped on a front lawn off campus and five Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) majors toasted to their time together at Miami and to the day of crawling ahead.

A list of bars had been made and the group began to drink in their matching red tank tops that read “one last shot seniors 2016” in gold and featured a bottle of vodka with a hammer and sickle.

Senior bar crawls have been a tradition at Miami for many years as a way to make a final toast to friends, memories and the school and town that fostered it all. For the REEES bar crawl, unifying to celebrate graduation meant a lot in regards to the program itself.

“We are the largest group of seniors to ever graduate from the [REEES] program,” said Emily Walton, who helped organize the bar crawl for her and the eight other REEES seniors. “We make up close to

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As summer approaches, seniors prepare for final bar crawls

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half of all the [REEES] majors at Miami.”

REEES majors have never gone on an official bar crawl before, but graduating senior Denis Kontorovich said this specific class of majors have made a great effort to get to know one another and their professors.

“It’s a good time to reflect on the last few years,” said Kontorovich. The smaller group made for a relaxing day, according to Kontrovich, who described it as an overall success.

By 3:50 p.m. mimosas were finished and the group embarked on their crawl. They began at O’Pub where they met Lynn Stevens, program coordinator for the Havighurst Center, and her daughter.

“This particular group is really close,” said Stevens. Along with one other professor, Stevens showed up for the beginning part of the crawl after being invited by the students.

“I bowed out pretty early though,” said Stevens, though she was glad to be a part of the crawl and spend time with the familiar faces.

By 4:30 p.m. the group moved on to Steinkellers and ambitions changed.

“As soon as we left O’Pub, we threw the list out,” Walton said. “I kinda wanted to go to [all the bars] but I’ve already been to every bar. I’ve seen it all, but I was still glad just to be together.”

By 5:30 p.m. the group had finished their beer and moved

small group, we aren’t ratchet, we were with adults.”

By 8:45 p.m. the group had ventured to Side Bar then Bruno’s Pizza for dinner, but ended up back at Skippers.

Walton said energy levels were running low since the 2:30 p.m. kick-off and the crawl lurched to an end.

“It was a good way to celebrate,” said Walton. “We were

“We are the largest group of seniors to ever graduate from the [REEES] program…We make up close to half of all the [REEES] majors at Miami.”

EMILY WALTON SENIOR IN [REEES] PROGRAM

on to 45.

By 6:30 p.m. they crawled over to Skippers—Walton’s personal favorite stop of the day.

The group indulged in a beer tower and fried food. Walton said the relaxed atmosphere of Skippers made for the best conversations together.

“You see [bar crawls] all the time that just look crazy,” Walton said. “We were such a

all responsible, no one was chugging, it was a good size group and we could all talk to each other.”

Kontorovich has two more bar crawls this semester with different groups of friends.

“Oxford is special [in regards to bar crawls] because Uptown is simple,” said Kontorovich.

“It’s easy to get just one drink at bar and there are enough to continue hopping.”

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Well-known Uptown bar, Brick Street, is an essential stop among bar crawls as seniors commerate last memories together.

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NEW CABLE STREAMING SERVICE COMES TO MIAMI

STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES SAYS MUMPS AT MIAMI

OHIO BARN CONFERENCE HITS BUTLER COUNTY

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Philo, a wireless TV service, allows user to watch cable on mobile devices and PCs

Last Friday, a student in the Chick Evans scholarship house was diagnosed with the virus.

Friends of Ohio Barns met at Hueston Woods for a workshop and tour last weekend

Lawsuit sheds light on gender pay gap and male-dominated majors within FSB

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New wireless TV service to stream on-campus CAMPUS

KIERRA SONDEREKER THE MIAMI STUDENT

Later this month, all on-campus Miami students will have access to Philo, a TV platform that allows students to stream and record live cable TV. Two Harvard students, Nicholas Kras and Tuan Ho, came up with the idea for Philo. With a strong desire to watch TV without cable on campus, these students used tinfoil to pick up TV channels coming in over the air. They then streamed these channels to their laptops.

Philo has evolved since then, gaining more funding and recognition with big names in the media industry such as HBO. Philo is now being offered to universities across the nation, including the University of Alabama, Brown, Harvard, Ohio State and Clemson.

According to assistant vice president of IT Services, Troy Travis, the cable that Miami currently uses isn’t going anywhere.

“Philo is an evolution of the traditional cable. It adds capabilities.

We’re not dropping our cable TV, we’re just using a new distribution method,” said Travis. “The residential students can now launch cable to multiple places on multiple devices, such as their laptops,

phones and TVs.” Philo has a variety of options for viewers, including TV shows, live news and sports. It also has up to 20 hours of DVR capability, giving it the feel of streaming networks such as Hulu or Netflix and making it convenient for always-onthe-go college students.

“So if you’re over in Armstrong in between classes and you miss ‘The Walking Dead’ on Sunday night,” said assistant director for the Office of Residence Life Kyleen Ammerman. “You can pull it up on your recordings and watch, which is what I think is the exciting part.”

Philo also comes at no additional cost to students because it’s a part of the already existing cable services at the university.

Two months ago, a test run of Philo was initiated. Because this new TV platform affects residential students, the test run was made available to resident assistants, members of the Residence Hall Association (RHA), Community Leadership Teams (CLT) and professional staff.

“There were ten channels that we wanted you to play around with,” said Ammerman. “Students were able to test it out and if they had issues they would contact Philo and we would see how quick Philo was to respond to us and see how the streaming

worked. After that, they had to do an assessment.”

The initial assessments brought in overwhelmingly positive results, prompting voting delegates of RHA to unanimously vote in favor of Philo. The university then took the next steps to provide Philo for all on-campus students.

Access to Philo is obtained

have access to the campus cable TV service.”

An initial launch of Philo will begin on April 27 and subsequently be made available for all oncampus students for the remainder of the semester. Philo will officially become a part of Miami network services the following fall 2016 semester.

“It moves with you. We’re just catching up to your schedule.”

KYLEEN AMMERMAN DIRECTOR FOR OFFICE OF RESIDENCE LIFE

through the use of Miami login credentials and can be used anywhere on the campus network – Wi-Fi or wired. However, due to FCC regulations, Philo is only available on the Oxford campus network. Since it extends the campus residential cable TV to the campus network, it’s only available to students who live on campus.

“This new service is for our oncampus residential students,” said Travis. “We want to be really clear.

Our off-campus students won’t have access to it, as they don’t

“Next year is a hybrid year, and it’s a really exciting year,” said Ammerman. “North Quad, except for McFarland, will be exclusively Philo. Everyone else will have the opportunity to engage with Philo while still having access to the traditional cable.”

With this new TV platform, streaming will be made easier and faster, a must for busy college students.

“It moves with you,” said Ammerman. “We’re just catching up to your schedule.”

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Cherry blossoms bloom outside of the Center for Performing Arts, coloring campus as students prepare for the end of the year.

Mumps case confirmed at Miami HEALTH

MAGGIE CALLAGHAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The university has confirmed a student infected with the mumps, according to an announcement posted last Friday, April 22 on the myMiami page.

The infected student is a member of Chick Evans Scholars and lives inside their most recently constructed house. Blake Ryan, the president of Evans Scholars, explained that all members are taking precautionary measures.

“Our house is taking safety measures to ensure that everyone is vaccinated,” said Ryan. “The last thing our house wants is for more people to get mumps so we have sterilized every bit of our house and hope to be safe from it.”

According the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, mumps is a contagious virus that is spread through saliva or mucus when the infected person coughs or sneezes. The virus can also be spread through face-to-face conversation. The most common symptoms include fever, headaches and muscle aches. Symptoms typically last a week.

Miami requires all new students to provide proof of immunization for MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) as well as parent’s medical records before they arrive on campus. However, according to the CDC, vaccination does not mean someone is completed protected.

Two doses of the vaccination are only 88 percent effective against contracting the virus.

It is unclear whether this student was vaccinated.

The announcement made by Miami explained that medical providers may suggest to students, who may come in contact with possible affected individual, to get a third dose.

“The 3rd dose will not protect from a recent exposure but would protect a person with any new or future or exposure,” according to the announcement.

This is the second public viral outbreak on Miami’s campus this semester. Earlier this semester, norovirus, a contagious virus memorable for its gastrointestinal symptoms, spread across campus.

Claire Wagner, director of the News and Public Information Office, who published the announcement the MyMiami page, hopes that making students aware will hinder any further spread of the mumps.

“Sharing information on myMiami and elsewhere about not sharing drinks, washing hands, etc., is key to preventing spread of disease,” said Wagner.

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Students sit down to study in Armstrong Student Center’s Shade Family Room as natural spring light from large windows brightens up the space.

Community members join students in intramural hockey INTRAMURALS

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Hockey has been an integral part of life at Miami University since it was added to the roster of varsity sports in 1978. Students and community members alike enjoy cheering on the teams during their season, and many play for extracurricular enjoyment in Miami’s intramural leagues.

Miami’s intramural hockey league ranges in skill level from beginners to elite and includes a

women’s league. Both Miami students and Oxford community members can register a team, giving the league a variety of players.

In the advanced league, one team made up entirely of local community members, Delta House, has been playing in Miami intramurals for several years. Delta House is made up of 15 members, all from the Oxford area.

“I’ve been here two, three years and they play most seasons,” said Ben Chuha, assistant director of student programs at Goggin Ice Center.

The spring season, which is cur-

rently in session, runs from March 28 to April 30. Delta House has a 1-3 record, with two tied games as well.

“Personally, I haven’t played Delta House, but I have heard about them and that they are a good team,” said first year and intramural hockey player Connor Rechin. “They’ve got a lot of players, which is a good quality for an intramural team, and they bring some extra community fans to intramural games who might not come if it was just students playing.”

In the advanced intramural league, there are nine teams. This

league is for for teams whose players have played competitive or lower levels of amateur hockey and allow slap shots as well. Most teams play one to two games per week, with practices in between.

Within the league, Delta House is ranked seventh for points scored per game, with 3.17 and fifth for points scored against, with 4.17. In past seasons, the team has been undefeated and won playoff championships.

“I love that Miami allows nonstudent community members to play. It’s a great way to meet

new people and it’s a different type of competition than playing with other students,” said Ben Bustria, a first year student and intramural hockey player.

“In my opinion, it’s more casual,” said Bustria. “Playing with [Delta House] can be more fun than playing with other students. Some of the student players can take it too seriously at times where as adults are out there more to have a good time playing the game they love, which is why I play and to me that’s just great.”

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The Woods, otherwise known as New Bar, is one of many popular bars in Oxford’s Uptown area and is popular among the groups of seniors that participate in bar crawls.

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the next semester.

“Value is one of the largest selling points of this new plan, but the University anticipates and acknowledges that students will not use all of these meals,” the petition read in part. “These meals will not roll over, guaranteeing the University increased revenue from the unused meals. This concept of value is perceived, but will benefit the University more than it will benefit any students.”

“The convenience of a la carte locations allow for students to purchase and eat food quickly and efficiently, while buffet locations are more suitable for longer and more relaxed meals. Buffet locations are located on the outskirts of campus and cannot be utilized if students only have 10 or 15 minutes between classes, as most do.”

After the petition garnered over 2,700 signatures in four days, ASG representatives met several times with H.O.M.E. officials, who are now pushing out two new Diplomat meal plan levels, both of which utilize a greater number of declining dollars.

There will now be three premium Diplomat levels for returning students as well as Diplomat Standard and Minimum options.

For returning on-campus students, Diplomat Premium A features $3,000 in declining balance dollars to spend at any dining location at a cost of $2,850. Diplomat Premium B offers $2,500 in dining dollars for $2,500, and Premium C subscribers will receive $1,750 in dining dollars for $2,000.

H.O.M.E. Office Director Brian Woodruff said that the $250 differential between what students pay for and what they receive in the Premium C plan will go toward maintaining operations.

“The greatest value will remain in the levels that include buffet meals. However, these new lower[-priced] options have been added to help address concern that the original premium level for returning students [which costs $2,850] was too high,” Woodruff wrote in an email.

The returning Diplomat Standard offers 262 buffet meals (at $7.06 each) and $500 in declining balance credit for $2,350, and Diplomat Minimum offers 225 buffet meals (at $7.78 each) and $100 in declining dollars for $1,850. The Standard and Minimum plans also come with five

guest buffet meals.

For incoming students, Diplomat Premium will offer unlimited buffet meals (at a $6.44 value) and $800 in declining balance dollars for a total of $2,925. Diplomat Standard is listed as providing 262 buffet meals (at $7.25 each) and $500 declining balance credit for $2,400, and Diplomat Minimum as 225 buffet meals (at $8 each) and $100 in declining balance for $1,900.

All incoming student plans also come with five guest meals The initial meal plan controversy came after representatives from the H.O.M.E. office and ASG met in the fall to discuss potential meal plan changes, which led to the release of the new plan in February However, ASG Secretary for OnCampus Affairs Sammi Podolyan noted, she and her colleagues were not made aware of these changes prior to their release to the student body “We hadn’t even heard much talk about buffet swipes until January, when Brian Woodruff presented his plan,” Podolyan told The Miami Student in early April. “Once I got a hold of it, it was already implemented on the H.O.M.E. office webpage, and students were already signing up.”

Podolyan said that she and her team have been in frequent contact with Vice President of Auxiliary Services Kim Kinsel in the past weeks to devise a suitable solution, and are satisfied with the results.

“We are very happy with all the work the administration has put in these past two weeks to address student concerns,” Podolyan wrote in an email. “The conversation on meal plan is not over; we will be working with a small committee to get student feedback on the new plan and work to fix any issues that come up, as well as evaluate ways to improve the meal plan for the future.”

“We really do. We continue conversations,” Interim Director of Dining Services Jon Brubacher said in early April. “It’s not like we’re turning a blind eye to any of these comments. We really are taking everything into conversation. We’re always soliciting [feedback].”

Woodruff said his team is working to update Miami’s website and MyCard system to reflect the changes and will soon notify all students who had already signed up for a meal plan for 2016-17 to inform them of the new options.

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is not changing, just the face is changing. That’s not really making any actual change,” Thompson said.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2013, 67 percent of white students enrolled immediately, compared to only 57 percent of African American students.

Thompson said that the redesign of our currency should be paired with education and discussion over the issues of race in America today.

“So if we’re not coupling this with education, we’re not coupling this with conversation, then what are we doing?” Thompson said.

“We’re just making a statement, and not examining why.”

Thompson said that while she does not want to devalue Tubman’s accomplishments, there were many other influential African American leaders to choose from in American history.

“I think it’s kind of a slap in the face to choose Harriet Tubman, seeing as she is only one of many different influential leaders that were pioneers on the Underground Railroad,” Thompson said.

Jane Goettsch, director of the Women’s Center, had mixed feelings on the currency change. She said that while it’s important that these women have recognition on

something as important as our currency, there is still more work to be done in the area of women’s rights.

“It’s more complicated than that. It’s not a simple yay, rejoice because there is so much more work to do,” Goettsch said.

One area that women still face discrimination is the gender wage gap, Goettsch said. According to the American Association of University Women, for every dollar a white men make, white women earn 78 cents, and black women earn 64 cents.

Goettsch said that those women-Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and the five suffragettes--are good representations of the struggles of Civil Rights leaders and women, although there are many more figures that could have represented women and people of color.

There are still other ethnicities that are missing on our currency, such as Native Americans, Goettsch said.

“I think they’re good, but you always have to ask the question, who’s missing?” Goettsch said.

However, Goettsch said women are finally receiving the recognition in their place in American history.

“I think it does reflect a greater recognition that women have played significant and extraordinary roles in the history of our

country that for way too long have been missing,” Goettsch said.

Madison Simmons, sophomore public health and interactive media studies major and publicity chair of Feminists Working on Real Democracy (F-Word), said placing Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is a step in the right direction because it increases the visibility of people of color in America.

However, to place Jackson on the back of the same bill is offensive because he was a slave owner and caused the deaths of thousands of Native Americans on the Trail of Tears.

“Somebody who killed so many people and oppressed so many people is still on our currency.

Why are we commemorating him?” Simmons said.

Kimberly Hamlin, associate professor of history and GIC, said that we as a nation are still grappling with Jackson’s legacy, and the policies that he enacted would outrage us today. Keeping him on the back of the bill with Harriet Tubman’s legacy reminds us to keep those conversations on race, gender, and inequality alive.

“Putting valiant Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 shows who we want to think we are as a nation, while keeping Andrew Jackson on the back will remind us of what we have often been,” Hamlin said.

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Hueston Woods hosts annual barn conference

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The Friends of Ohio Barns held their annual barn conference in Butler County last weekend.

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Friends of Ohio Barns trekked to Hueston Woods from various Ohio counties for the annual Ohio Barn Conference last weekend.

Starting in 2000, the Ohio Barn Conference has been held in a different Ohio county each year. This year’s conference included a barn workshop Thursday, a barn tour Friday and a barn conference Saturday.

President Ric Beck sees the barn tour on Friday as a chance for barn owners to see different ways people have restored barns and learn about the history behind them.

“It’s a great opportunity for those interested in seeing someone else’s barn, what makes the barn function and how to work on them,” said Beck.

About 100 people each year join

the Friends of Ohio Barns for a tour around the designated county. Since this year’s conference was held in Butler County, participants got a look at settlement patterns in Butler County and how the barns played a role in the history of its agriculture.

“We talk about the history of the barn, what makes it unique and what we think it might have been used for,” said Beck. “We usually meet with one or two owners that the barn has been in their family for multiple generations. They provide some really rich history about life on the farm and in the barn.”

On Saturday, participants gathered for a conference to listen to multiple speakers.

Doug Reed, owner of Preservation Associates, Inc., a firm that specializes in historic structures, presented a slide show comprised of different restored barns from around the world.

The crowd, comprised mostly of

Friends of Ohio Barns, listened as Reed discussed the importance of barn restoration.

“About 1000 barns per year come down in the US,” said Reed. “In today’s throwaway society, people think new is better than old.”

Reed began with restoring traditional log houses in 1972. His main focus is saving run-down buildings from demolition and restoring them or repurposing them into something new.

He discussed the economic implications of tearing down these old barns. The higher paying jobs of barn restoration are lost to lower paying jobs of demolition.

“When you tell me it’s really expensive, I say, ‘Compared to what?’” said Reed as the audience laughed and briefly applauded, recognizing his passion.

Chuck Whitney, a barn consultant, hosted the first three Ohio Barn Conferences. Now, his daugh-

ter, Pam Gray, is carrying on the family tradition as the new Friends of Ohio Barns president.

“My father was getting old, so I decided I better move back home to spend time with him,” said Gray. “I worked with him the last five years and in doing so I realized I had the same passion.”

Gray, like her father, is a barn consultant and owns her own business, The Lady Barn Consultant.

Her motto? “Saving Our Agricultural Heritage — One Barn at a Time.”

She is carrying on her father’s mission of saving old barns and sharing their agricultural history. She has written two books — “Americanization of the Family Barn” and “Ohio Barns Inside and Out with the Barn Consultant.”

“I want to encourage people to save barns,” said Gray. “They’re so adaptable, especially as event centers today. You can just do anything with a little imagination.”

Gabby opens her bright pink planner and the month of April is littered with big “X”s from her purple felt marker, which she’d used to cross off one day at a time as the year progressed. There are only four boxes left for this month, and then only 13 after that.

There’s just half a month left and she is not ready to leave.

She’s not ready to leave her dorm on MET quad, with her second floor room and off-white walls and she’s not ready to leave Anne, the other occupant of the room.

Suddenly, she remembers to go to Walmart. Her decorations left the walls mercilessly scraped and she has to buy some touch-up paint before moving out. It’s added to the to-do list.

Taped to the back of the door is a crude caricature with the title, “Block Party 2015.” It’s from move-in day, or maybe Welcome Week. She can’t remember.

The drawing is of her and Anne, their faces bright with Sharpiesketched smiles and their names written in block letters across the top. The sketch was hastily drawn and doesn’t even resemble them — but they left it up all this time.

Anne moved in first. She beat Gabby by four days and chose the side of the room that didn’t have pipes weaving through the closet.

Anne was gone on the scheduled move-in day, leaving time for Gabby to get settled in. She only dropped by briefly to say hi.

Gabby knew right then that Anne would be a good match, and she was right.

Listening to friends tell nightmare stories about their horrid roommates, Gabby knew she lucked out. Anne never turned the lights on during a nap and loved to listen.

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ELIZABETH HANSEN

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April 24 — Cook Field — Audrey I sit alone in a Bobcat, monitoring the soccer tournament on Sunday afternoon.

“What a beautiful day for graduation!” a soccer coach says to me outside of the restrooms.

“I don’t think graduation is today, but it is a gorgeous day,” I reply.

“Are you sure? I’ve seen girls in graduation gowns walking by today.”

He walks away and I’m left confused. Did I forget graduation was today?

I turn toward Western Campus and see a group of girls posing for pictures in red graduation gowns.

How could I have missed graduation? I have friends who are seniors, and they never mentioned it.

I do a quick search on my phone to see when Miami’s commencement is — May 14. Today is only April 24. I have no idea what’s going on.

“Do you know how much this vending machine is? No, you wouldn’t, would you? You just use your Miami card,” says a man putting a random amount of quarters into a vending machine.

I watch as he enters quarter after quarter. He must put in at least 10 before he finally presses the button for Gatorade.

“It’s two dollars, in case you were wondering.”

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DANCING QUEENS Live dancing was just one of the events students enjoyed at Miami’s annual Springfest Saturday, April 24 on MET Quad..

Springfest: Ferris wheels and tasty meals STUDENT LIFE

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The group of girls picked up their pace as they crossed Patterson Street.

“Hurry up!” first-year Jess Statler called to her friends. “I want to get there before they’re out of T-shirts!”

The girls, five in all, hurried up Spring Street until they finally could see the Ferris wheel that towered between Irvin and Kreger Hall.

They had arrived at MAP’s an-

nual Springfest.

“Come on! Come on!” Jess said, pulling her friends past the Ferris wheel, several game booths, a photo booth, a DJ and numerous students.

The group walked under the blue arch to join the long line of students who were also waiting for their free T-shirts.

“Jess, we need tickets first,” firstyear Ashley Kemper pointed out.

“Oh,” Jess said with a disappointed look.

The girls stood there for a mo-

ment, unsure as to what to do.

“Let’s go off of that thing,” one of the girls said, pointing at the giant structure in the middle of the quad.

It was called the Freefall Double Jump. There were two towers connected to a giant inflated landing pad. Other students jumped from the towers, letting out screams of exhilaration before landing on the pad below.

Kemper and her sister, Courtney, climbed up the incline, placing Courtney on the taller of the two towers.

“Guys, I don’t know if I can do this!” Ashley called to Jess and the others, who stood at the base of the towers, ready to videotape the jump. “I’m afraid of heights!”

“Suck it up!” Courtney yelled.

The sisters jumped off and landed on the pad. They were temporarily lost from view as they navigated their way off the pad and back onto the ground.

Ashley was breathing heavily.

“I made it,” she said.

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They coexisted well together, but Anne did have her flaws. Or one flaw, primarily.

She had never seen “Titanic.”

They made plans to watch it one night and Anne, too impatient for movies of any kind (let alone three-hour rom-coms), opted to keep her eyes closed but her ears attentive. Gabby was pretty sure she was just looking for an opportunity to nap. It was rather disappointing and, now, their favorite joke.

They had so many jokes.

Like Anne’s hometown best

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The girls worked their way systematically through the festival, playing games and winning tickets until they got hungry.

They joined the long line of students who were also looking to get food. The group chatted, talking about how they wanted to ride the Ferris wheel and climb the rock wall that was set up in the street.

The line moved steadily until the girls were at the front.

“Can I please have chicken and potatoes?” Ashley asked the woman serving the food.

“Of course,” the woman said with a smile. She scooped the meat onto a bun and handed it to Ashley along with a basket of potato wedges.

Courtney ordered the same but was soon distracted by another delectable option.

“Oh my God! Funnel cake!” she yelled. Grabbing the rest of her food, she rushed down the line to claim the classic festival food.

Content with their meal, the group took a seat on a vacant section of sidewalk. The surrounding grass, sidewalk, street and curb were covered with students eating and enjoying the event.

When they were finished eating, the group walked back toward the T-shirt booth with their newly won

friend that everyone thought she was in love with.

Like their first night at Brick Street, when they forgot their Miami IDs and were rejected from the bar. They teetered home on thin heels only to realize that they were locked out.

Like the time that Gabby was caught in the rain and Anne came to the rescue, meeting her at Maple Street with an umbrella to share.

Or like Anne’s obsessive love for queso and the first time she was caught smelling a bag of Tostitos.

They are getting to the “lasts”

tickets. The line was long, winding back towards King Library. The girls sang along to the music the DJ was playing and eventually made it to the front.

They each claimed a pink tank top and held them up for the others to admire.

“Okay, now that Jess has her shirt, we can finally go on the Ferris wheel,” one of them said.

After riding the wheel, they moved to the only ride they hadn’t tried yet. It was similar to the tea cup ride at Disney World and many of the students riding it were spinning quickly.

“Yeah I don’t think I can do that,” Jess said, sitting on the curb.

Courtney and Ashley agreed and sat with her. The other two girls, Madi and Kelly, got on the ride.

“Okay, don’t spin too much though,” Madi said.

Kelly just laughed.

Jess and the others laughed from their seats as the pair on the ride spun faster than anyone else.

When the ride was over, they group got ready to leave.

“I’m gonna throw up,” Madi said, “I think I need to sit down.”

The group walked back the way they had come hours ago, clutching their free shirts and other goodies. Behind them, music, delicious scents and laughter filled the air as Springfest continued on.

of everything. The last midnight at Pulley. The last spontaneous dance party. The last of the late night talks. The last of approving each other’s makeup before leaving in the morning. The last time going out together and stumbling home in a cloud of giggles. The last time in room 225. The last night as roommates.

More and more, they seem to say, “Will your roommate next year do this for you?”

In the next 17 days, all of these “lasts” will come and go and this year will be over.

Gabby isn’t ready.

She is experiencing something

strange, something she can’t identify because it feels like she just moved in, but at the same time, she can’t remember a life before Oxford.

What will the summer be like?

What will next year be like?

Who will she share her mindless thoughts with before drifting off to sleep?

Next year, she will not live with Anne. They will live in different places, farther apart than the five feet between their beds now.

Will it change them? When they see each other, will they actually see each other, laugh and tell stories and not watch movies

like they used to? Or will it feel like the obligatory lunch dates of friends who have history but are no longer close? Their schedules are so busy, so opposite — could their friendship possibly last?

But then, how could it not?

In the past eight months, Gabby and Anne have become closer than any of their friends at home.

They know each other inside and out, are able to identify each other’s moods from their body language when they walk in the door.

This year, they became best friends.

And she has to hope that next year, that won’t change.

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rolling his eyes.

His grandmother scoffs and walks back to her car.

April 24 — Miami Beach — Elizabeth I walk by Central Quad on my way to Starbucks for a Sunday filled with homework. The sun is beating down on my shoulders and I know I’m instantly burning.

I look out onto the grass and pause for a moment. Scattered along the grass are girls laying out.

Is this Miami University or Miami Beach?

They continue to emerge from their dorms wearing bathing suits and carrying towels. They lay out a towel and throw down their backpacks. Most are reading a book or

doing homework on their laptop.

For a moment, doing homework is a treat in this hot Miami sun.

I pass through the grass. Some girls flip over — an even tan is a must.

I reach Starbucks and sit down at a table outside. I close my eyes.

The birds flying overhead could be mistaken for seagulls flying over the ocean.

For a moment, I think I’m in Florida.

I open my eyes to see the brick buildings and cars zooming through Maple Street — I realize I’m in a different Miami.

I look past Scott Hall to see the girls on Central Quad. They are still sunbathing on Miami Beach.

After an hour of sitting alone, I decide to get up and walk around the field.

A man with headphones on passes by.

“I got a beer in my hand, life feels good to me,” he sings loudly and off-key.

I admire him for choosing to sing in public.

“Do you know that kid who kicked you?” a grandmother worriedly asks her grandson.

“Yeah,” he replies, not amused.

He’s busy watching the game that’s being played on the field.

“I should have a talk with him.”

“It’s soccer, Grandma,” he says,

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FSB demographics highlight gender disparity in education, faculty pay The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

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Students should be willing to face ideas they disagree with POLITICS

MILAM’S MUSINGS BRETT MILAM COLUMNIST

T

he Student has reported twice in the past month on the gender pay gap with regards to a lawsuit brought agaisnt Miami University by two female finance professors, Kelly Brunarski and Yvette Harman.

Brunarksi and Harman earn $175,000 a year, while two male professors, David Shrider and Terry Nixon, are paid nearly $200,00 and $185,000 respectively. In the story “Finance professors sue Miami for gender discrimination” published on April 8, The Miami Student reported that “this pay disparity is not justified by seniority, merit or any other factors.”

Neither male professor holds seniority over the female professors and, to worsen the matter, Nixon and Shrider have contributed 4 publications since earning tenure, whereas Brunarski has 6 and Harman has 7.

The Farmer School of Business (FSB) fosters male-female inequalities not only among the hierarchies, but also among the students it serves.

According to the Office of Institutional Research, FSB educates 4057 students in majors like accountancy, business economics, finance and marketing — 2432 male, 1625 female, which amounts to a 60 percent to 40 percent breakdown. Within the aforementioned majors, the ratios between male and female are as follows: accountancy 55 percent to 45 percent; business economics 71 percent to 29 percent; finance 81 percent to 19 percent; marketing 34 percent to 64 percent.

Of course, when business, a historically maledominant field, is compared to the numbers in education — historically female-dominant — a similar trend in lopsided numbers arises (College of Education, Health and Society sees a 70 percent to 30 percent female to male). These numbers are indicative of a societal norm that has been begging for a solution for decades.

And, if these fields continue to show stereotypical gender participation, the pay gap might sway some, sure, but it will always return to the societal norm. Men stay in business-related, lucrative fields while women are bound to educational fields, where money is certainly nothing to write home about.

Some argue that women are not bound to these fields, that this is simply a social construct around which they must maneuver. After all, don’t they decide on their own?

Of course women are free to study and pursue the areas which their hearts so achingly desire, but the idea of social constructs is a challenge that diverts females from doing so. Through them, women are brought up with the notion that they are best suited to pursue paths like caretaker and educator. It’s only natural that women be excluded from the hierarchies of the world and earn 78 percent of that which their male counterparts earn, according to Vox.com. Or so society thinks.

It is clear that the factors that go into this issue are societal. The question is then begged of what the solution for closing the gap between men’s pay and women’s pay is. Well, if the problem is societal, the solution must be as well.

The gender roles that society bears on men and women are learned at a young age. Therefore, it is important for families to teach their children that both men and women can achieve the same sort of economic success in this country that should be offered as an opportunity to everyone.

Parents should raise their young girls to believe that they can go into more lucrative fields, aspire to manage and negotiate better pay just as men currently do more often than women, according to Vox. The ability to control one’s own destiny through assertion and ambition should not be tied to masculinity, but shared with all members of society.

There is currently hope that women may be able to further close the pay gap, as the rate of 27-year-old-women with college degrees in 2014 was larger than that of their male counterparts at 32 percent to 24 percent, according to the Labor Department. Hopefully with the passing of time and the progression of such trends, the disparity between men and women will decrease. However, these positive changes can only go so far if society does not change with them.

At Miami, the data clearly shows that this problem persists. Whether or not we start take the steps to fixing it is up to us.

The West should offer a helping hand to migrants in Middle Eastern refugee crisis GLOBAL

AUSTIN LANGDON GUEST COLUMNIST

Gabriel Hill is a Swiss photographer who’s having a pretty good year. She got engaged to her girlfriend, Rebecca, and saw quite a bit of success in the photography world.

In one of her latest projects, ImPORTRAITS, Hill was nominated for the 2016 Swiss Photo Awards.

ImPORTRAITS is a collection of refugees pictured with the sole possession they took with them on their flight from their war torn homes.

One of the subjects was a 23-yearold Eritrean named Ahmet, whose only possession was a piece of paper with a phone number. The caption for his portrait read, “I got on board of a ship in Libya which had to bring us to Italy. I couldn’t take anything with me except the clothes I was wearing and a tiny little piece of paper with the phone number of my family on it.”

Ahmet’s family told him to call them when he reached Italy. Only, his ship overturned on his way and over 250 had drowned. He lost the paper amid the catastrophe.

Ahmet reached Switzerland months later and found someone who helped him contact his parents, who thought he had died on his way to Italy. He said, “The piece of paper with their number was the most important thing that I owned.”

When we discuss the issue of refugees, we discuss them as problems. In the words of the British Sun Times columnist Katie Hopkins, “These migrants are like cockroaches.”

While it is not common for politicians and pundits to use such language, the image of refugees as some sort of infestation is quite pervasive.

For Katie Hopkins, using “gunships to stop migrants” is a reasonable headline for a column.

This kind of rhetoric doesn’t help discussion. Rather, it distracts anyone who wants to discuss accepting refugees from actually debating the

problem.

Maybe there are problems associated with accepting refugees — it’s important to contemplate and discuss such questions. Anyone unwilling to do so on either side is an obstacle to finding a solution.

If both parties see the refugees in a humanitarian light, it’s possible to genuinely discuss these problems, and art projects like Hill’s go a long way in getting us there. There’s plenty to discuss, too.

The most common concern with accepting refugees is the risk of ter-

ures, the issue remains: How can European economies handle an influx of nearly half a million migrants a year?

Many European countries have large welfare states, although accommodating thousands of refugees inflicts quite a burden on their economies.

But what’s the purpose of economics? Isn’t it to provide a better standard of living for the people? Clearly the most sensible solution would be to stop intensifying the conflict they are fleeing from, but that’s unlikely.

Government, by its definition, exists as a monopoly on force, violence and coercion.

rorism.

Immediately after the tragic bombing in Brussels that took the lives of 32 people, the focus was directed toward the influx of migrants coming into Europe — even before the identities of the terrorists were released. However, all but two of the terrorists were born in Brussels.

And the attacks in Paris — Charlie Hebdo — and San Bernardino were committed primarily by European citizens, not refugees.

Closing borders to curb the refugee crises doesn’t seem like a suitable solution to curbing terrorism in Europe, mainly because the refugee crisis is simply not to blame for terrorism.

Accommodation is another concern, and perhaps the most valid.

Marie Le Pen, the president of The National Front in France, has said that most migrants are economic migrants — not fleeing war, but pursuing benefits. She stated as her reasoning the frequent images of men being taken in as refugees and the lack of images of women and children.

While this statement stands at odds against United Nations fig-

In the meantime, in my mind, the humanitarian scale shifts in the direction of accepting refugees while accepting the economic burden of an excessive welfare state. Private sponsorship could help alleviate some of these concerns, though it wouldn’t absolve the situation of its many economic costs.

But as Amnesty International pointed out, “people are dying while governments spend billions on border control.” I can think of a lot of government programs we can and should cut, with or without a refugee crises. Money can be allocated more effectively.

With Middle-Eastern, Asian and African countries taking in over 80 percent of the refugees, the West can do more. But the conversations we have aren’t aimed at a solution, at least not for the people who really need one, As long as we continue to have these conversations with the right mindset, a solution could be found.

Gabriel Hill’s work could help give us some perspective on that mindset.

LANGDOAS@MIAMIOH.EDU

One of my biggest regrets in my time at Miami was signing a petition to keep Washington Post columnist George Will from coming to campus.

In June of 2014, Will wrote a controversial column in which he said colleges and universities, via the influence of Washington, had made “victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.”

Critics of Will said he suggested sexual assault victims on college campuses enjoy a privileged status in their victimhood.

When Will was slated to come to Miami in October of 2014, I signed a petition demanding Miami keep him from coming.

At the time, I had just started to get into the topic of rape culture on college campuses and it seemed logical to me that: 1. Rape culture exists on college campuses and that’s bad; 2. George Will said rape victims enjoy a coveted status as victims; 3. George Will, by saying that, is contributing to rape culture; 4. Therefore, having George Will come to campus is itself contributing to rape culture; 5. As such, George Will should be stopped from coming to Miami and contributing to rape culture.

The major problem in my logic at the time is two-fold, both of great consequence.

First, George Will never said sexual assault victims have a coveted status. See the quote above again.

Will wasn’t specifying sexual assault victims have a coveted status. There are other issues one can take up with Will’s column, but that one is a case of misplaced ire.

Secondly, even if Will’s detractors were correct in their characterization of his column, it should not follow that he be banned from speaking on campus.

As The Miami Student editorial board wrote ahead of his lecture, “We don’t agree with Will’s comments, but we think the university and its students should use this opportunity to generate discussion about sexual assault issues on our campus.”

It’s difficult to see what would be gained by removing the potential for such a dialogue and a learning experience, especially if one thinks Will had committed an egregious characterization of the sexual assault issue on college campuses.

I’m someone that believes college ought to be a space where intellectual disagreement is encouraged and commonplace, and where we regularly engage with those we disagree with.

So in signing that petition, I committed one of my greatest lapses in judgment and rationality.

Colleges and universities have given in to the mentality of safe spaces, banned lecturers and the like all too often lately. Unfortunately, I am partially a contributor to such a new wave of antiintellectualism and paternalism.

Kelly Moore, in a letter to the editor to our paper after Will’s lecture, wrote, in part, “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.”

But, I’m not sure it’s so axiomatic that even a Holocaust denier ought to be denied entry to Miami.

After all, in 2007, then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to Columbia University

as a noted Holocaust denier and homophobe, among other things.

Certainly, it is the case that freedom of speech doesn’t entail the requirement to provide a platform. However, I quite like Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger’s reasoning: “What is at stake is the ability to learn about the world and know about people, even dictators, even people who are highly repressive and highly dangerous, as Dr. Ahmadinejad,” Bollinger said.

And yet, according to Gallup, college students — two-thirds of them — believe there are times when restricting free speech on campus is acceptable.

Most troubling for people like me is that 59 percent of college students have little or no trust in the press to report the news accurately and fairly.

In fact, those two ideas — times when restricting free speech is acceptable and a distrust of the press — converged at Miami with the recent controversy over the Tim Fresch article.

No matter one’s view on the article, I would hope most would find it repugnant to think Miami’s administration should “do something about us,” or that the Student’s funding should be pulled or that the faculty advisor, Professor James Tobin, should be fired (despite not actually having any say, rightly, over what we print; he can only make suggestions).

College ought to be a space where intellectual disagreement is encouraged and commonplace, and where we regularly engage with those we disagree with.

Those are all comments I saw among the reactions to the article.

Even the calls to retract the article are misguided. What point would that serve, especially when it’s already in the ether? Instead, let’s talk about it in a robust manner, as has happened, although not always in a civil manner.

Nevertheless, I take solace in my lapse in judgment over the petition.

Not only do I now have a chance to use one of my last columns to repent, but also to actively make the case for another controversial campus appearance.

On April 30, Jeffry Smith, a firearm instructor and activist from Cincinnati, is planning an open-carry event through the campus and city of Oxford. As of this writing, according to the group’s Facebook age, 46 people are going, with 121 interested.

The aim is to campaign for concealed carry on Miami’s campus.

One of the biggest problems in our dialogues about guns is precisely that we don’t dialogue or even seek to understand the other side.

There is nothing inherent in owning, possessing and carrying a gun that makes someone violent.

Their presence on campus, much like Will’s or Ahmadinejad’s, ought to be seen as a learning opportunity.

Unlike what Evan Fackler said in his April 12 column on the subject, it would be in accordance with the ideal of college culture, not the antithesis.

Free speech and free expression (even if that entails armed expression) should not be feared, most especially when it involves a clashing of ideas.

MILAMBC@MIAMIOH.EDU

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Why conservatism is RIGHT: Business risks build our civilization POLITICS

ANDREA SLATER CLASS 0F 2016

On the political spectrum, it is fair to say that most college students are on the Left. The Left make up most of the staff on a typical college newspaper and even the population of most any campus, including this one.

So, as a conservative, I’m going to tell you that conservatives are RIGHT about pretty much everything. But, for once, I’m going to tell you WHY. By the end of my letter, I hope you will agree. But if you don’t, I’m okay with that, too.

Conservatives are right because conservatism is a more practical, generous and compassionate way to live.

There have been a bunch of academic studies on how those on the left and right approach problems.

They pretty much all come to the same conclusion: The Right tends to be risk-averse and more concerned about external threats, like tyranny and terror. Conservatives — get this — tend to be conservative. We are less likely to “play with fire” in just about every sense: financially, artistically, sexually and so forth. We are cautious about changing traditions — sometimes to a fault. Which is why we cling to that crazy U.S. Constitution we like so much, to our guns and to our religion.

We conservatives also focus on what we can fix and accept what we cannot, which is one of the many reasons we’re not obsessing over global warming. With radical Islam, we know what the threat is, and that it’s a lot worse than a few missing polar bears. I know that makes me sound mean (sorry, polar bears).

Liberals, the research tells us, are more outgoing and more

likely to try new stuff. They’re open to new ideas, not just ideas like school choice, flat taxes or market-based healthcare reform.

And liberals are less likely to feel threatened by unfamiliar things.

This is why, in general, they seem to have more fun. They are more likely to try drugs, for instance, which is fine so long as they don’t end up throwing up in my toaster.

In short, liberals are pretty liberal. They feel free to take risks that we risk-averse conservatives usually end up paying for, over and over, which explains the necessity for conservatism — we are the clean-up crew.

Liberals may seem to have more fun, and many do. But according to polls, they aren’t as happy as conservatives. And with all of the fun they’re having, I’ve never quite figured out how the angriest people I’ve ever encountered in my entire life have been liberals. Maybe because shortterm fun doesn’t translate into long-term happiness.

Marriage, families and religion do that, and those are the things that conservatives most value.

Liberals tend to live for now, Conservatives for later.

The risk-averse conservative is likely to save money, more likely to protect his investments, is more likely to protect property, advocate for rule of law and preservation of individual protections. And he offers no excuses for looting. Instead, he empathizes with the Asian, Arab and Black small businessman whose convenience store, laundry or restaurant goes up in flames during the riots that liberals reflexively endorse “as an understandable response to injustice”.

Of course, conservatives are not risk-averse in everything. But we take risks with our own lives, not

with society.

Conservatives risk all to build businesses. That risk, however, is rooted in a fact-based belief — not a faith — in the free market. If people want the product or service that you’re supplying at the price you’re asking, you’ll succeed and the risk will pay off.

Over time, it is conservative risk-taking that creates a civilization — by building families, businesses and nations — all of which creates more wealth. This is wealth that then can be used to help those in need.

You see, you need money to make money. But you also need money to GIVE money. Conservatism makes what Liberalism takes.

So, for example, for the Liberals to get their liberal wage hike, first we need conservatives to build businesses, to think like businessmen, to sacrifice their own salaries to pay others and to sleep on floors, if necessary, in order to break even. Then, when they make a profit and things are going great, when the calm sets in, Liberalism can appear and say, “How dare you not pay these people a living wage!” Once the tables are full of diners, the bills are being paid and you’re thinking about opening a second joint, Liberalism arrives to demand it’s cut. Think of it as a protection racket, sort of like the Gambino Family, but without loyalty or job prospects.

In short, Conservatism doesn’t compete with Liberalism. It sustains it.

For, now you see, without conservatism there is no liberalism.

And so when a liberal asks, “Why are you a conservative?” the answer is, “So you can be a liberal.”

ANDREA SLATER CLASS OF 2016

Judgement of Fresch’s lifestyle inappropriate in memorium article DEATH

TO THE EDITOR: I read your article on Tim Fresch and I just have to say that I am absolutely disgusted. The fact that this was allowed to be printed is downright disgusting.

Your writer, Ms. Audrey Davis, took a memoriam and turned it into a bashing on Tim’s character and used it as a form of publicity to shed negative light on the Greek community.

It is not your place or anyone else’s to judge someone on their lifestyle, especially since no one at your department seemed to have even known Tim. To say that he was lead down a bad path by the Greek community and fraternity life is nothing but pure bias against Greek life.

You have no right to put any judgement on Tim and what he did, as well as to use your article to provide a “warning” to other students. It’s nothing but ridicu-

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lous and disgraceful of you to portray Tim as some degenerate who’s only goal in life was to get blacked out and do drugs.

I am not saying what Tim did was right or that he made no mistakes, but you have no place bashing him for how he lived.

This piece is not a memoriam, its an insult and it’s pure propaganda, a way for you to hurt the status of Greek life and try to shed negativity on the Greek community.

The problem is that none of you understand what it’s like to be in a fraternity, none of you understand the lifestyle of the younger generation, and none of you understand that what you published is nothing but a disgraceful attempt of a memoriam.

Your story has gone viral, kids from colleges all over the country are reading your disgusting article on the death of Tim and there is nothing but outrage and disgust.

It sheds a terrible light on the Miami community all because you and the Miami University Board of Directors have a bias toward Greek life and want to see it go when you don’t know the first thing about what it is like to be a member of a Greek institution.

You guys need to take a long look in the mirror and realize that not only is this article nothing but wrong, that your view on Greek life, what it means and what we do, could not be more inaccurate. Next time try doing some real reporting.

I demand that The Miami Student be suspended and that the writer of this article be punished for the disgraceful and dishonorable article. I am not one voice, again this story has gone viral and there are thousands nationwide that agree with me.

Nothing but disgust.

MICHAEL DAAS DAASMA@MIAMIOH.EDU

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SCOTUS spot must be filled POLITICS

TO THE EDITOR: The current political stalemate around the Supreme Court nomination process is frustrating to see. I’m ashamed of Ohio’s own Senator Rob Portman for encouraging further obstruction of the process. While he plans to meet with Judge Merrick Garland, he has publicly stated that he doesn’t think the Senate should move forward on the nomination process in order to “let the people” decide in the November election.

Sen. Portman forgets that the people decided in 2012 to re-elect President Obama to another four-year term, which doesn’t end until the next president is sworn in early next year.

Just hours after the untimely passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, Republican senators announced that they would wait until the next president was elected before moving forward on a nominee. This obstructive position is unacceptable.

President Obama has fulfilled his constitutional duty by nominating an eminently qualified jurist to the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland — now it’s time for Senate Republicans to do their job.

I know that a majority of students on campus lean more conservative, but I think it’s clear to see that this action is nothing but political gamesmanship. There are some critical issues hanging in the balance, such as the President’s Clean Power Plan, and it deserves to be heard by a complete Supreme Court bench.

According to a recent report from ICF International, the transition to a clean energy economy will create up to 56,000 jobs in Ohio — including thousands of jobs in the construction sector — while growing the state’s economy by up to $9.5 billion. We need a full Supreme Court bench to get us there.

AHARON BROWN BROWNAC5@MIAMIOH.EDU

Administrative staff stands with Miami values ADMINISTRATION

TO THE EDITOR: As we approach the end of this academic year, we have been reflecting on a number of incidents that have been unwelcome affronts on our shared values (https://www.miamioh. edu/about-miami/leadership/president/values-statement/ and https://miamioh. edu/iammiami/about/index. html).

We would like to reiterate our steadfast commitment to these values, and the ideal of a diverse, inclusive, safe and healthy learning community where all members are able to participate productively and fully in the Miami experience. Incidents of bias, hostility or reckless and unhealthy behavior negatively impact the quality of the Miami learning, living and working experience for all of our community members.

As members of the Council of Academic Deans, we condemn such incidents as antithetical to our values, and in response we have strengthened our resolve to work even harder to ensure that all members of our community enact the values of civility, compassion, respect and inclusion that are integral to our mission.

Consistent with our shared values, we urge and expect every member of our community to support each other, challenge behaviors that violate our values and report incidents when they occur (https://www.miamioh. edu/phpapps/bir_form/).

Signed, Members of the Council of Academic Deans Phyllis Callahan, Provost & Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs Jerome Conley, Dean, University Libraries Michael Dantley, Dean, College of Education, Health & Society Marek Dollar, Dean, College of Engineering and Science Thierry Leterre, Dean, Dolibois European Center Chris Makaroff, Dean, College of Arts & Science Liz Mullenix, Dean, College of Creative Arts Matt Myers, Dean, Farmer School of Business Jim Oris, Associate Provost and Dean, Graduate School G. Michael Pratt, Associate Provost and Dean, College of Professional Studies and Applied Sciences Lindsay Carpenter, Budget Manager, Academic Affairs Maria Cronley, Senior Associate Provost and Assistant Vice President, Academic Affairs Mike Curme, Dean of Students, Student Affairs Carolyn Haynes, Associate Provost, Academic Affairs Michael Kabbaz, Vice President, Enrollment Management & Student Success Denise Krallman, Director, Institutional Research Beth Rubin, Assistant Provost, E-Learning Ron Scott, Associate Vice President of Institutional Diversity Cheryl Young, Assistant Provost, Global Initiatives

Gender pay gap op-ed devoid of accurate sources GENDER

TO THE EDITOR: As a frequent reader of the paper I must admit it is odd to see how quickly the quality of Miami Student articles fluctuate, but I usually enjoy them nevertheless. That is, until I reach the heavily biased, questionable-fact driven, two-page hell that many call the Opinion section.

A certain article on the far side of page seven caught my eye, “Tables starting to turn in gender discrepancy,” by columnist Greta Hallberg.

It wasn’t that hard to agree with her, because the whole article felt like a piece satirizing blatant pandering and the over utilization of un-cited statistics. Was the ultimate message really just inequality is bad (though getting better)? Who would disagree with that? Does The Miami Student staff really think their readership is that cheap to buy over?

The list of statistics range from the female-male ratio in certain departments at MU, the average ages of House and Senate members, the

controversial gender gap statistics and the number of women as CEOs in the top 500 companies. While I don’t doubt the trends that the “statistics” portray, the article left me asking: “where the hell did all of these come from?” I found it darkly ironic that somebody who labeled themself as pursuing a degree in journalism would allow themself to write such a statistic-driven article without any citation, and even include a cheeky “These statistics don’t lie” at the end of it all. Lie?! I don’t even know where or who they are coming from!

For all I know Vineyard-Vine wearing Chad Chadson from your mandominated econ class could have given you these statistics. When compared to the other opinion columnist piece of the day (by Brett Milam) that had consistently cited specific studies and actual quotations, the lack in professionalism in Greta’s piece really shines through.

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fully play the same way. It feels great to accomplish our sixth straight win and we hope to keep it going moving forward.”

Miami began the match against Western Michigan by gaining a point from doubles play. The pair of Ponomareva and Vasiukhina won their match 7-5, and Badileanu and Shapovalova won their match 6-4. Shteyn and Rajkovic were defeated 7-5 by firstyear players Denise Azcui and Meika Ashby.

Singles play finished with four wins from Miami players.

Shteyn, Badileanu, Struble and Rajkovic each defeated their opponents. Rajkovic defeated first-year Denise Azcui 6-4,6-4.

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during the scrimmage Saturday.

Redshirt freshman Gus Ragland is out with a lower body injury until early October and was using crutches Saturday.

Bahl looked solid on a few long completions, but at other times missed targets when under pressure.

“With Billy, we still got a long way to go,” Chuck Martin said. “He’s still super talented, but as you could see today, under duress, he doesn’t protect our football team.”

Jordan Martin finished with 40 yards and a long touchdown to sophomore tight end Ryan Smith.

Martin also looked good on the ground, picking up 20 rushing yards.

Running backs Freshman and Oxford local Maurice Thomas looked just as electric

honored the previous weekend for her four great years at Miami. She is 10-10 overall and currently on a three game winning streak.

“We are proud to continue the legacy of winning at Miami,” Head Coach Yana Carollo said.

“The team is excited; they want the rings. We did it for our senior Ana Rajkovic today, it was awesome to see her clinch the match!

We will work on specific things that we are struggling with for each individual player. Overall, we are ready to defend and take our title at the MAC tournament in Oxford this coming weekend.”

The first round of the MidAmerican Conference tournament begins Friday in Oxford at the Hepburn Varsity Tennis Courts.

as he was last season, collecting 31 yards and a touchdown on five carries.

“We’re very excited with where we’ll be heading with our running game,” Martin said.

Wide receivers Sophomore Sam Martin has been out all spring with a lower body injury sustained in the last game of the 2015 season. Redshirt sophomore Jared Murphy was on crutches Saturday after breaking his foot last week. Chuck Martin expects to have Sam Martin back by the start of the 2016 season and Murphy back in a few weeks.

Redshirt junior Rokeem Williams had a few long catches during 11-on11 play.

Offensive Line Martin said strength is still an issue up front, as four freshmen and one senior started all spring, but the size and flexibility the RedHawks

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Stewart’s performance places him second in the Mid-American Conference rankings and automatically qualifies him for the conference meet. Nationally, the senior ranks 68th in the NCAA and 36th in the East region. With this performance, Stewart now owns the eighth fastest 10,000m in Miami history.

In the 1500m, Miami competed in both the men and women’s races.

On the women’s side, senior Laura Bess finished in 4:27.17 for 21st overall, moving her to fourth in the Mid-American Conference this year. This moves her to 79th in the NCAA region.

In the stacked men’s race, ju-

nior Andrew Dusing finished 16th overall in 3:46.08. This moves Dusing to second in the MAC and 41st in the NCAA East region, right on the edge of qualifying. Additionally, Dusing climbs a spot on Miami’s top-10 all time rankings to seventh alltime.

The majority of RedHawks travelled to Columbus this weekend for the Jesse Owens Classic, a competitive meet featuring numerous national powerhouses, as well as several MAC programs.

Senior Kathie Wollney earned a personal best in the 400m hurdles with a time of 59.92, good enough for fourth overall. This ranks her third in the MAC. “It was a good meet, I’m happy I set a personal record but I was definitely looking to take a little

more time off. I’m glad I got to see some MAC people that I’ll be racing at the end of the year that I hadn’t seen yet, so hopefully that will be beneficial when the postseason begins” Wollney said.

In the 100m hurdles, junior Alexus Jimson-Miller took fourth in 13.79.

Senior Peter Stefanski was the highest finishing RedHawk of the weekend, tying for second in the high jump with a leap of 6-9.75.

In Virginia, freshman Danielle Collier finished seventh in the javelin with a mark of 1292. Junior Ashley Frahm finished eighth in the shot put with a heave of 45-0.25.

MU returns to action at home on the Rider Track Friday at the RedHawk Invitational.

need are there. He said play in the trenches has been clean and more physical.

“It’s learning how to work hard without being nice,” Martin said.

“This isn’t a nice sport. It’s still ‘that’s my teammate lined up, I gotta bury him. But I gotta do it clean and do it right so we both can get better.’”

Redshirt freshman Zach Swarts and sophomore Zach Hovey missed some spring practice with injuries.

Secondary Redshirt junior Heath Harding has been practicing during the spring, after missing most of the 2015 season with a lower back injury.

“Having Heath back changes the whole thing,” Martin said. “You go from losing your best DB – total run/pass defender, smartest, oldest, most confident, one of your best leaders – to getting him back, and exponentially you’re better.”

Martin moved freshman De’Andre Montgomery to safety, and likes who he already has there – sophomore Tony Reid, junior Buchi Okafor and freshman Josh Allen.

Martin said freshmen Allen Koikoi and Deondre Daniels and redshirt sophomore Bert Birdsall will be better after having gained experience last season.

Special teams Redshirt freshman Justin Martin was the frontrunner for punter until hurting his knee, but Chuck Martin said he isn’t too worried about it.

Justin Martin and freshmen Evan Jakubowski, Nick Dowd and Ryan Sandles are each capable to fill the kicking position, but the coaching staff hasn’t made a decision on the starter.

“Our kicking game right now is not very good,” Chuck Martin said.

“It’s gonna be the last piece of the puzzle to get right. But we’ll get it

right.”

The snapping game is solid, but punt and kick returners aren’t set in stone. Maurice Thomas is the most likely candidate for kick returns, but Chuck Martin said he wants to find a returner who won’t let the ball roll on punts.

“We’ll stick [junior offensive lineman] Colin Buchanan back there if we have to,” he said. “We’re gonna stick three guys back there if we have to.”

With the conclusion of spring ball, Martin is confident, but expects even more improvement after another summer in the weight room.

“We’re way better,” he said. “We’re gonna play better football. We’re gonna be tougher. We’re gonna play way smarter football. We’re gonna play way cleaner football. We’re gonna give ourselves a chance to win a lot of games.”

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trouble. It was good.

When Ben Roethlisberger and John Harbaugh visited Miami last year, they joked about how they’ll meet up in the middle of the field after games and talk about their time at Miami. Do you ever have moments like that with other former Miami players?

With Harbaugh, when I was coming out of college, I went to a visit with the Ravens before the draft, and we reminisced about Miami, Mac & Joe’s, stuff like that.

Right, he’s a Mac & Joe’s and CJ’s fan. [laughs] Right. So we talked about that, how they’re still here, the difference between when he was here and when I was here, stuff like that. And then pretty much from there, Austin Brown [Miami nose tackle, 2008-2013]

came to the Texans for a little bit, Andy Cruse [Miami wide receiver, 2008-2011] did, and also [Miami quarterback, 2008-2012, and current Miami Dolphins QB Zac] Dysert for a little bit. So you know, it was all good there, trying to show them around, telling them what to do and what not to do while they were there.

During your time at Miami, was there a coach or player that had an influence on you that still carries over to your professional career?

I’d say [Shane] Montgomery [head coach, 2005-2008] because he recruited me and he showed me what it’s like to be a college player and what I should expect out of myself. And then I’d say [John] Klacik [offensive coordinator, 2011-2013] as well.

He held me to a different standard when I was a senior. I always say he made me grow up.

He made me mature on the run, I’d say. So those two coaches had

the biggest impact.

Do you still keep in touch with them?

Yeah, I actually just talked to Sugar Shane not too long ago on Twitter. And then I talked to Klacik as soon as I signed with the Eagles. He just wished me congratulations and stuff like that.

The current team here has won five games in the last three years. What would you say to them to pump them up and motivate them to turn this thing around?

I think they got a great head coach with Chuck Martin at the helm. You know, just go out there and compete. Don’t be scared to dominate the man across from you. You really only get one chance to do this, so make the best of every opportunity while you’re out there. You don’t get this again. Play as hard as you can because you’ll definitely look back on it one day.

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value. This isn’t the first time, and probably won’t be the last that the league has taken a stand against discrimination. Last year Sacramento Kings guard Rajon Rando was suspended for using hate-speech against referee Bill Kennedy, who is a member of the LGBT community.

Silver said that although the NBA is looking to change venues, there is no rush to make a decision. Silver said “They know what’s at stake in terms of the All-Star game. But, I think, at least at the moment, constructive engagement on our part is the best way to go, as opposed to putting a gun to their head and saying ‘Do this or else.’”

It’s understandable that Silver is not pushing very hard against North Carolina. Since the game is still 10 months away, leaving plenty of time for him to find a different host city. However,

being too laid-back about the threat of moving the game could backfire. It opens the possibility that legislators will not take the threat seriously. The longer we wait for a decision the less time he has to re-plan the event.

Pulling the game from NC would have impacts on the community, specifically the Charlotte Hornets, who look to gain major media attentions from hosting the 2-day event. Other entertainers, like Bruce Springsteen, have canceled their North Carolina shows because of House Bill 2.

Silver needs to make a decision.

After announcing that the league is even considering moving, some kind of action needs to be made. If he keeps waiting who knows if it will even be possible to move the event.

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The Miami University tennis team (12-9) defeated both Northern Illinois University (6-13) 7-0, and Western Michigan University (17-7) 5-2 to wrap up their regular season this weekend.

The ‘Hawks dominated the entire NIU match from start to finish Saturday. The match began with undefeated doubles play from the pairs of first-year Anastasiia Vasiukhina and sophomore Nelli Ponomareva, first-year Anzhelika Shapovalova and junior Andreea Badileanu, and sophomore Hannah Shteyn and senior Ana Rajkovic. Shteyn and Rajkovic won their match by forfeit.

Shteyn, Ponomareva, Shapovalova, Badileanu, Struble and Rajkovic also all won their singles matches. Rajkovic won by forfeit. Ponomareva moved to 7-0 in MAC play by defeating sophomore Abigail Dekkinga 6-1, 6-1.

Sophomore Erin Rodriguez was very happy with the way her team played, and believes her team

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.Senior Ana Rajkovic and sophomore Hannah Shteyn powered Miami to its eighth-straight and 23rd overall MAC regular-season title this weekend. is ready for the upcoming MAC tournament.

“It feels great,” Rodriguez said.

“It lets us know that the hard work we’ve put in all season is finally paying off and gives us motivation

going into the MAC tournament.

We’re just going to go into the tournament with the same mindset we’ve had all season and hope-

Saturday afternoon marked the official end of Miami University football’s spring training season.

Head coach Chuck Martin said he’s seen noticeable improvement since the end of last year’s 3-9 season, which was scattered with poor game decisions and an excessive amount of penalties Martin described as “incompetence.”

“We’ll be good next year if we play clean football,” he said. “If we don’t play clean football, we’re gonna be hard to watch like we have been the last couple years.”

Miami will remain a young team, as it returns 15 upperclassmen and 70 underclassmen for the 2016 season.

“But our younger guys are more experienced than other people’s younger guys because a lot of our younger guys played last year. They

might be a returning starter,” Martin said. “I still think when next year’s sophomores are seniors, we’re gonna be really good. I don’t know that we’ll be really good yet, but all the pieces are there and we’re heading in the right direction.”

The highlight of the day was a ceremony before practice in which Brandon Brooks, who played offensive guard for Miami from 200811, presented a gift to the football program. He and Athletic Director David Sayler unveiled the new lockers to be used in the Gunlock Performance Center. Brooks, who now plays with the Philadelphia Eagles, will be the namesake of the offensive line team meeting room.

Below is a list of updates and observations at this point in the offseason.

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BEN BLANCHARD SPORTS EDITOR

The Miami University track and field program competed in three highly competitive meets this weekend; the Virginia Challenge, Stanford Twilight and the Jesse Owens Classic.

The majority of the RedHawks

traveled to the Jesse Owens Classic hosted by Ohio State, while a trio of Miami’s top distance runners traveled to Stanford and a small squad of female throwers competed at Virginia.

At Stanford, senior distance standout Joe Stewart qualified for the NCAA East Regional in the 5,000m in 14:04.40, a personal best by ten seconds. This finish

was good enough for eighth overall in a field of the top collegiate and post-collegiate runners in the country.

“The meet went great, I’m really happy to have qualifying times in both the 5,000m and 10,000m now. Definitely a lot of stress and weight off my shoulders” Stewart TRACK »PAGE 8

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Redshirt sophomore Bert Birdsall (28) chases down a reciever during war,m-ups prior to Miami’s spring game. Miami looks to cleaner play and increased strength and experience to improve from last season’s 3-9 record.

Headlines beyond Oxford: A New York federal appeals court reinstated New England Patriots quaterback Tom Brady’s fourgame suspension Monday, continuing the “Deflategate” saga. This overuled a lower judge and sided with Comm. Goodell.

Anti-LGBT law must change to keep 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte COLUMN

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In light of North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT law, the state, and specifically the city of Charlotte, may lose the opportunity to host the 2017 NBA All-Star game.

In a radio interview with ESPN’s “Mike & Mike” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the

league has made its stance on the law very clear. House Bill 2 prevents local municipalities from passing protections against LGBT discriminations. The law, which has already cost the state millions, also requires transgender people to use public restrooms that correspond to the gender they were assigned at birth.

“We’ve been working closely with the business community down there and the governor and

the legislators to make it clear that it would be problematic for us to move forward with our AllStar game if there is not a change in the law,” Silver said.

To see such a powerful organization take a stand on a very important issue speaks volumes.

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Miami vs. Pittsburgh Brief BASEBALL

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ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Miami University baseball was finally on the receiving end of a sweep this weekend. This ends the RedHawks’ impressive run of late, as they had won 8 of their last 9. That all came crashing down against the University of Pittsburgh, however. The three

games were scored in the Panthers’ favor to the sound of a 5-0 shutout, and two close 4-3 and 8-7 losses. While there wasn’t much for the ‘Hawks to be happy about, there were still some highlights from the road trip. Junior rightfielder Tyler Harris hit his 5th home run this year, going 4-11 with 3 RBIs and a double to round out the series. The pitching staff was under fire throughout the

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weekend, as Pitt scored 17 runs in three games. The only MU pitcher to not give up a run was freshman Andy Almquist, who pitched one shutout inning in the 1st tilt of the three game set. While getting swept is never a good outcome, it shouldn’t be the nail in the coffin on what has been a solid season thus far for Miami baseball. The RedHawks will face the University of Kentucky Wednesday.

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Brandon Brooks, offensive guard for the Philadelphia Eagles and Miami University ’11 graduate, talks with former sports editor Grace Remington about Brick Street Bar, his advice to the current football team and other Miami memories.

A third-round NFL draft choice by the Houston Texans in 2012, Brooks has been an NFL starter since 2013. After four seasons with Houston, he signed a fiveyear deal worth $40 million with the Eagles during the 2016 offseason.

Brooks played as an offensive lineman for the Miami football team from 2008-11 and was a member of the 2010 Mid-American Conference championship team.

Which dorm did you live in freshman year?

I stayed at MacFarland. I drove past it [Saturday] morning, and it

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did not look like what it does now … and I had no A.C. in my dorm room back then, just a fan. And they had a room phone in there back then, like a house phone.

Okay, so give me your craziest or wildest MacFarland Hall story.

Let’s see what I can say here on record [laughs]. A buddy of mine decided he was gonna scare some other freshman. He got out of the car and ran at them with a hoodie on and some sweatpants.

The dude had his girlfriend’s hand and threw her hand out and ran. That was probably one of the craziest – I was like damn, we see where your priorities are. You gotta live so you throw her down and keep running.

And what about Uptown?

Where was your favorite place while you were here?

Brick Street, for sure. It was like the athletes’ place to be. Will [Weisman] always looked out for us, made sure we stayed out of FLASHBACK »PAGE 9

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