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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016
Volume 144 №50
Miami University — Oxford, Ohio
JENNIFER MILLS THE MIAMI STUDENT
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
TUBMAN TAKES TWENTY
Petition spurs meal plan changes
STUDENTS REACT TO TREASURY
DINING
PROFILE
MEGAN ZAHNEIS
MARY SCHROTT
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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LAURA FITZGERALD SENIOR STAFF WRITER
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.”
TYLER PISTOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
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
EDITORIAL BOARD TAKES STANCE ON GENDER PAY GAP
MU FOOTBALL OPTIMISTIC AFTER SPRING TRAINING
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
Head coach Chuck Martin said he’s seen noticable improvement since last season