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Graduation speaker announced

Speed a factor, charges pending in Oxford crash DEATH

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EMILY TATE

SAMMIE MILLER

Miami University announced that it will host Paralympic medalist and acclaimed author Bonnie St. John at this spring’s commencement ceremonies.

St. John became the first African American to win an Olympic or Paralympic medal in ski racing in 1984, at the age of 20, despite having lost her knee at age 5.

After graduating from Harvard University, St. John worked under the Clinton administration, and has since been honored by Presidents George W. Bush and Obama.

St. John is the author of six books, covering themes of success, family, faith and overcoming obstacles. Her latest book, a No. 1 best-seller entitled “How Great Women Lead” and co-written by her teenage daughter, examines the lives and leadership of women like Hillary Clinton and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

St. John is scheduled to speak at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at Yager Stadium.

Last Thursday, Cherish Bolt, 18, of Liberty, Indiana was driving down Todd Rd. when her car spun out of control. After she struck a utility pole, the crash resulted in the deaths of two teenage passengers riding in her vehicle.

According to the Oxford Twp. Police Chief Michael Goins, Bolt may face charges.

According to police reports, Bolt’s 2013 Nissan was heading northeast in the 6300 block of Todd shortly after 1 p.m. when it veered off the right side, rolled several times and then ripped in half after it struck a utility pole, the chief said.

The two teens, who were pronounced dead shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday, were identified as Douglas C. Minton, 18, and Amanda H. Durham, 19, both of West College Corner, Indiana, according to the Butler County coroner.

The coroner completed autopsies Thursday, stating that both Durham and Minton died of multiple traumatic injuries. Bolt was transported to McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital after the single-vehicle crash. Details of her injuries are not available.

According to Goins, charges are pending against Bolt and will be determined once his department and the Butler County Traffic Crash Unit complete their investigation. Speed appeared to be a factor in the crash, however it has yet to be determined if alcohol or d rugs were involved.

Goins said Todd Road is not known for crashes, although it is sometimes busy.

“We’ve had a couple (accidents), but nothing of this magnitude,” he said. “It’s not one of our worst roads, but it leads into Hueston Woods, so it’s busy during the summer.”

Officers from the Butler County Traffic Crash unit and the Oxford Township Police Department are handling the investigation.

According to lawyers.com, most convictions for vehiclerelated deaths (often called vehicular homicide) are for manslaughter, the unintentional and unlawful killing of another person. Manslaughter is usually divided into voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. The driver’s actions and conduct at the time of the killing determine which crime the driver may be charged with.

If charged with involuntary manslaughter, Bolt’s license will be immediately suspended and the court may impose mandatory jail time.

Earlier this month, the town-

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FUSING OLD & NEW Students perform at the annual Fusion event Feb. 28 in Hall Auditorium. The show, hosted by the Asian American Association, drew a huge crowd and featured both traditional and modern dances. The event’s goal was to introduce the Miami community to the cultures of various Asian countries.

Required assessment has education students testy EDUCATION

LAUREN OLIVER THE MIAMI STUDENT

Although not yet mandated by the state of Ohio, Miami University is requiring that all education majors complete the Education Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) during their senior year, along with the Ohio Assessment for Educators (OAE), in order to receive their teaching license — much to the dismay of many Miami education majors.

Natalie Huffman, a senior Spanish education major at Miami, along with her fellow members of the Education Student Advisory Council, conducted a survey among 170 student teachers, and out of the 128 that responded, 72 percent disagreed/strongly disagreed that the edTPA enhanced their student teaching experience.

Ninety percent disagreed Miami should continue mandating the completion and passing of the edTPA, and 94 percent disagreed the state of Ohio should require the completion and passing of the exam, as well.

However, 22 percent of the student’s agreed/strongly agreed the edTPA provided a meaningful and holistic representation of their capability and readiness to teach, and

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20 percent agreed/strongly agreed the test enabled them to develop and apply knowledge of subject matter, content standards and subject-specific pedagogy.

The OAE is a content and theory-based exam, whereas the edTPA is a reflection and performancebased assessment. The edTPA was developed by faculty and staff of Stanford University and contains three parts: planning for instruction and assessment, instructing and engaging students in learning (which is a recorded video), and assessing student learning.

In order to have their submissions evaluated, students are required to submit a $300 fee.

Pearson Education, the authorizers of the assessment, uses the expense to hire and train evaluators from the ranks of retired teachers and administrators.

Along with being displeased with the payment, Huffman said she thinks the test is unnecessary due to the academic courses and fieldwork that most education students have completed. Unlike other majors where students can pursue various occupations based on their degree, Huffman said the main goal of education majors is to secure their teaching license.

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Synchronized skating wins 11th straight national title SKATING

JACK REYERING THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University collegiate synchronized skating won its 11th consecutive title Saturday at the U.S. National Championships in Providence, Rhode Island The title is the team’s 17th overall.

The senior team placed second, earning the right to represent the United States in the International Skating Union World Championships this spring.

Miami is one of three teams to contend for the U.S. Head coach Carla DeGirolama was proud of each teams’ performances.

“I thought all three teams did an outstanding job this weekend,” DeGirolama said. “We had goals coming in of really being aggressive and attacking the performances and leaving everything out on the ice, and I think all three teams accomplished that this weekend.”

The collegiate team won with a 94.12 score, besting second place University of Michigan by 8.43 points.

Senior captain Melissa Marches, who has achieved four consecutive titles with the col-

legiate team, credited the high degree of difficulty in the RedHawks’ routine as a factor that set them apart.

“Performance-wise, we were really able to put on a show,” Marchese said. “I also think technically we went for the most difficult elements and had the highest technical score as well.”

Despite the group’s consistent accomplishments, DeGirolama believes they must focus on regrouping and moving forward.

“It’s great to celebrate your successes,” DeGirolama said, “But then right away we turn around and think about what are we going to do next time.

How are we going to do this better so that we can continue to stay on top?”

She also acknowledged the dedication and attitude of the skaters.

“It’s an incredible honor to be able to win a championship, let alone 11 championships in a row,” DeGirolama said. “I think that’s really a testament to the athletes and the program, that we are able to maintain that high standard of excellence.”

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In 1993, The Miami Student reported there were eight cases of sexual harassment at the university in the 1991-92 academic year, according the Office of Affirmative Action. At that time, surveys conducted by the Center for Women Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. showed 20 to 30 percent of female students reported experiencing sexual harassment in college.

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Proposal is on the table for MU Food Studies Institute ADMINISTRATION

JAMES STEINBAUER UNIVERSITY EDITOR

Miami University’s Innovation and Interdisciplinary Fund is examining a proposal for a $250,000 seed grant to fund a new Food Studies Institute.

The program was first proposed Dec. 1, 2014 and was selected as one of the top 16 proposals among a pool of 56 applicants. The final proposal was sent in on Jan. 31 and the university is currently in the process of making a decision, which will be announced before

students and faculty thinking about their relationship to their community, their economic and social systems and to their planet and earth systems.”

If awarded, the grant will be broken-down into a threeyear planning and development process that would begin the fall of 2015.

The first year of the seed grant would focus on initiating a campus wide conversation on food sustainability by creating a public lecture series. Speakers could include Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” and

We can say that we want to be a green and sustainable univeristy and truly put our money where our mouth is.”

ALFREDO HUERTA

MIAMI BIOLOGY PROFESSOR

spring break.

Professors Alfredo Huerta and Peggy Schaffer of the departments of Biology and American Studies, respectively, co-wrote the proposal with support from a cohort of faculty members in the departments of International Studies, Anthropology, Women’s Gender Studies, History, Geography, English, Kinesiology, the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability and the Myaamia Center.

Schaffer said that the idea of a Food Studies Institute arose from her work with this year’s Altman Lecture Series on the Antrhopocene and the advent of the Global and Intercultural Studies program.

“I started thinking about how we could wed these two ideas and it just came to me. Food,” Schaffer said. “Food is central to student life on campus. It’s a really interesting entrée to get

Jennifer 8. Lee, author of “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.”

The second year would be devoted to institutionalizing the program by holding a faculty seminar and creating summer and winter workshops in both local and global communities.

Professor Charles Stevens of the International Studies department is reconstituting a summer workshop on sustainable food systems and food culture in the Commonwealth of Dominica, in the Caribbean.

His hopes are to provide students with the skills to solve real world problems, one of the largest being the present industrialized food production system.

“It is extraordinarily polluting,” Stevens said. “And while it’s economically efficient, it’s not very good at getting food to people who need it, despite the fact that we have more than enough for everyone on the plan-

et. There’s something inefficient about that.”

By the third year, a foundation for funding security would be in place. Possible external funding sources include grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, among others. Huerta and Schaffer also hope to find a corporate sponsor or alumni donor who would be interested in putting their name on a project like this.

Another feature of the third year, the creation of a multi-acre experiential garden, has commanded the interest of several departments on Miami’s campus.

“When they have their experiential garden in place it is expected that they will be doing some composting,” Yvette Kline, director of Sustainability and Energy Conservation at Miami, said.

“We are very interested in using some of our organic food scraps in that composting operation.

The greatest amount of leftover organics on Miami’s campus come from the food preparation process at the Demske Culinary Support Center, which sends about five tons of food scraps to landfills each week. Another two tons is collected from various dining facilities on campus every other week and is sent 130 miles north, to Delaware, Ohio, for composting.

Ideally, the food grown at the garden would then be sold to the culinary center for sale at dining facilities on campus.

The experiential garden would be completely organic and nonGMO, with an emphasis on native permaculture and vegetables.

Another area on campus, the Myaamia Center, is interested in the garden for this reason.

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MU Eco Reps conduct trash audits, spread awareness about student wastefulness SUSTAINABILITY

TALI HUNT

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Trash audits conducted by Miami University’s Eco Reps over the past few months found students on Miami’s campus are throwing away more than a quarter of their trash that could be recycled.

The Eco Reps formed a committee to plan the trash audits at the start of the 2014-2015 academic year. The trash audits began in October.

Scott Hall was the first residence hall to be audited by the Eco Reps. On Oct. 28, Eco Reps measured the 104 pounds of trash and 29 pounds of recycling gathered from Scott. The Eco Reps’ measurements showed 28 percent of the waste thrown in the trash could have been recycled. Similar results were found in Minnich Hall on Nov. 5.

Hahne Hall was audited on Nov. 12. The Eco Reps measured 98.8 pounds of trash and 36.3 pounds of recycling. Almost 37

percent of Hahne’s trash could have been recycled. This is the highest percentage of misplaced waste measured by the Eco Reps to-date.

According to Kelsey Ankerman, a sophomore and member of the Eco Reps trash audit committee, the Eco Reps decided to start doing trash audits because

We’re really trying to make a difference in opinions and actions on campus.”

CASSIDY VENEMA JUNIOR ECO REP

they were curious about students’ recycling habits and thought it would be a good way to raise awareness about how much recyclable material is wasted.

Miami’s Eco Reps attempted their first trash audit of the semester in Anderson Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 25. However, it was postponed when their scale broke,

making it impossible to weigh the trash or conduct the audit.

The Eco Reps decided that each semester, at least one residence hall from every quad will be audited. On the day of an audit, the housekeeping staff working in the selected residence hall collects everything students have thrown into the trash and recycling bins throughout the building.

Eco Reps then sort through the collected waste, a process which takes them about an hour.

“We train on what’s recyclable or not during our meetings to help trash audits run more efficiently,” Cassidy Venema, a junior and the Eco Rep leading the trash audit committee said.

The Eco Reps weigh the bags of trash before and after they sort through them.

According to Rob Abowitz, associate director of residence life and trash audit coordinator, the bags are weighed to give building residents a number to see how much waste they could have TRASH »PAGE 9

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FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY-FREE Alyssa Rhode and Drew Ritcher dance the night away at the MUDE Swings event on Saturday.

Bishop Woods awaits verdict, controversy continues ENVIRONMENT

BONNIE MEIBERS

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The dispute over Bishop Woods continued Friday Feb. 27, when a Miami University biology professor, David Gorchov, submitted a letter to the editor to The Miami Student. This letter, which appeared in Friday’s paper, stated the Natural Areas Committee’s concerns about tentative plans to add a grassy lawn and widen pathways in Bishop Woods, among other things.

The Natural Areas Committee is made up of mostly Miami University biology and botany professors as well as community members. They are concerned with keeping the area between Armstrong, Culler Hall, Shideler Hall and Upham Hall, also known as Bishop Woods, looking like a natural wood rather than a park.

Miami University’s landscape architect, Vincent Cirrito, proposed a plan to restore the woods by removing invasive plants and dead and dying trees, rerouting and widening pathways, installing LED lights along the paths and adding a grassy lawn to the center of Bishop Woods.

Gorchov, among others in the committee, has concerns about aspects of this plan. He communicated these concerns to Cirrito in a memo as well as this letter to the editor.

Chairman of the Natural Areas Committee, Douglas Taylor, said Gorchov had no authority to speak for the committee. He also thought the letter put Cirrito in a negative light.

“He acted like it [the letter] was a committee action, but it was not,” Taylor said.

“That letter implies that Vinnie [Cirrito] is a liar and he is not a liar.”

Cirrito is also a member of the Natural Areas Committee.

“It was inappropriate for him [Gorchov] to speak for the committee,” Cirrito said.

Since Cirrito is a member of the Natural Areas Committee, he said that he thinks of Gorchov, himself and the rest of the committee as a team and that he felt hurt after reading Gorchov’s letter. Cirrito fears this letter has caused unfortunate tension within the committee.

“I regret any negative connotations to Vinnie,” Gorchov said. “I highly respect him.”

The Natural Areas Committee shares Gorchov’s concerns, how-

ever, not everyone on the committee supports his sentiments.

“In places where I referred to ‘the committee’ in the letter I was referring to a memo we voted on on Feb. 23,” Gorchov said.

This memo outlined aspects of the plan that the committee approved of and aspects that they had concerns about.

Ten people voted “yes” on this memo, zero voted “no” and four abstained from voting. Cirrito is one of the committee members who abstained.

“The memo made points I make in the letter,” Gorchov said.

Also in his letter, Gorchov mentioned that in Cirrito’s previous letter to the editor, which

Grass is a major concern because it could spread into the woods and that raises the risk that mowers would mow a wider path.”

DAVID GORCHOV

MIAMI BIOLOGY PROFESSOR

appeared in the Tuesday Feb. 24 issue of The Miami Student, Cirrito made false comments.

Cirrito presented the Natural Areas Committee with a tentative plan in May of 2014. This plan outlined repaving and realigning paths, adding lighting, thinning of trees less than six inches in diameter, removal of invasive plants and providing a central area for gathering. This plan was unanimously approved according to both Gorchov and Cirrito.

On Feb. 11, Cirrito presented the Natural Areas Committee with a revised, more complete plan. In this plan there was a grassy lawn added to the center of Bishop Woods. The committee, however, Gorchov says, did not support all facets of this revised plan.

Gorchov and most members of the committee do not want grass to be planted in the center of Bishop Woods. They fear it will spread into other areas of the wood.

“Grass is a major concern because it could spread into the woods and that raises the risk that mowers would mow a wider path,” Gorchov said.

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Summit aims to solve area drug epidemic HEALTH

SAMMIE MILLER

COMMUNITY EDITOR

More than 200 community members and regional leaders spent a day learning, networking and exchanging knowledge about how to attack the heroin epidemic that has impacted this area for some time.

The 2015 Regional Opiate Summit, called by Interact for Health, convened last Monday and continued Tuesday at the Northern Kentucky University METS Center in Erlanger. This marked the second session this year.

They will meet in individual groups in the coming weeks, then gather again in April.

It is no secret that drug abuse heavily affects Butler County and the surrounding area. Last year, drug overdose was the number one cause of death in the county.

According to Middletown city manager Doug Atkins, Middletown spent $1.5 million last year

dealing with the affects of heroin.

The summit hopes to advocate fighting addiction from the “grassroots up.”

Representatives from the area’s hospitals, substance abuse clinics,

meeting each other,” Ann Barnum, senior program officer for Interact for Health, said. “I want people to go home from these sessions and figure out what they can do in their space.”

I want people to go home from these sessions and figure out what they can do in their space.”

ANN BARNUM

INTERACT FOR HEALTH

social workers, school officials, law enforcement, emergency medical responders, public officials, health departments and community coalitions including People Advocating Recovery from Northern Kentucky and Ohio listened and taught each other about their methods of handling the crisis.

“What are we doing here? People are talking to each other, learning from each other, finding out what is causing the most problems and

Dr. Jeremy Engel, a St. Elizabeth physician who has been at the forefront of the battle against heroin in Northern Kentucky, said this year’s summit is different from previous meetings he has attended about the opiate crisis.

“There has been an evolution in these meetings,” Engel said.

“Now, there are individuals who can set policy within their institutions, which are responsible for the health and welfare of this commu-

nity, who were not present before.

We are seeing a dramatic change in the ability to get work done.”

The ideas for solving the crisis included increasing access to naloxone (Narcan), a lifesaving pharmaceutical that can restore breathing in a heroin or drug overdose victim.

Andrea Boxill, deputy director of Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services, outlined several programs Ohio has started, including its naloxone distribution, and urged physicians to write “standing orders” that allow people to get naloxone from pharmacies without having to be seen by a physician.

The topics discussed, including some for education credit for health-care professionals, included law enforcement’s tactics in reducing the supply of opiates, methods of treatment, community response and advocacy for addicts, and the integration of substance use disorders into primary medical care.

“This is the only way to get it solved,” Atkins said.

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EGG-CELLENT SERVICE Miami Students participate in Service Saturdays by stuffing Easter Eggs for Oxford Parks and Recreation in preparation for the Egg Scramble Event in April.

Purely delicious: Hamilton tap water top notch in nation MUNICIPAL

KRISTA SAVAGE THE MIAMI STUDENT

Hamilton, Ohio was named the best tasting municipal water at last weekend’s Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Contest in West Virginia. More than 100 water samples were sent in from around the globe, and the city of Hamilton took gold again for the fourth time.

Since 1995, Ohio has dominated the charts in the municipal water tasting portion of the competition. Kent, Montpelier, and Hamilton, Ohio have been reoccurring contestants in the top five places.

The contest is judged by a panel of 11 judges, who go through a blindfolded taste test. Then, they score the categories on taste. The categories are best municipal water, non-carbonated bottled water, carbonated bottled water, drinking water and the People’s Choice for Package Design.

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In 2009, Hamilton won best municipal water in the United States, but was beaten out by Clearbrook Waterworks District, British Columbia, Canada for best overall. This was the first year that Hamilton entered the contest.

Since then, Hamilton has proven to be a solid contestant. In 2010 and 2012 it received the gold medal, but failed to enter in 2011 because the water sample was lost in the mail. However, Hamilton made a comeback, taking home the gold in 2014 and 2015.

This year was big for the city of Berkeley Springs, as well. Laura Smith, administrative assistant for the Berkeley Springs Travel Bureau, spoke on the significance of the contest to the city.

“This was a huge deal for us, being our 25th Anniversary.

The contest is always great for tourist attraction,” Smith said.

“It also helps us get the word out about the importance of water conservation.”

John Bui is the Water Production Superintendent for the city

and he explained the reasons behind Hamilton’s excellent reputation for water.

“We have pretty typical city water overall, but the big difference is that we use chlorine dioxide, rather than chlorine gas or sodium,” Bui said. “This is why our water tastes so pure.”

However, Hamilton, home to some fellow Miamians, is not the only city with impressive water quality. Oxford, too, may have room to boast.

“There are a lot of beneficial minerals in the water [in Oxford], primarily magnesium and calcium, which are essential minerals in water,” David Weihrauch, manager of the Water Treatment Plant in Oxford, said.

The Oxford Water Treatment Plant supplies all of the water to Oxford residents, including Miami’s campus.

“The plant distributes the hard water, and it is up to individuals to then modify it. I believe Miami softens all of the water on campus,” Weihrauch said.

However, some students (primarily those living off campus) say they’ve noticed the appearance of black residue in their toilet water. Senior, Katie Forrester, is one of those students. She lives in Level 27 Apartments and stated that she regularly sees the black residue in the toilets.

There are some rumors among students that the reason for the residue in the toilets is due to an excess of minerals in the water.

However, the treatment plant denied the black residue having any connections to this.

“I’m not certain of any reasons why the black residue would be apparent in the plumbing system.

It could be related to the functioning of the toilet or due to improper care of facilities, but not minerals,” Weihrauch said. “And it is certainly in no way connected to the drinking water side.”

The black residue in the toilets remains a mystery, but it appears Miamians can rest assured knowing there are no health risks involved.

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Proposed state budget may be issue for Talawanda schools Kasich’s 2015 education budget will mean significantly less funding for the school district.

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Man arrested in rape of 13-year-old girl

Unarmed L.A. man shot, killed by police

ISIS releases some Christian hostages

Lancaster Etse of Sycamore Twp. was arrested Sunday by the Hamilton County Sheriff ’s Office.

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The man was already on the ground when police officers shot him on Sunday. The incident was caught on video.

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POLICE BEAT Shoes stolen from female’s apartment At 12:54 p.m. on Feb. 24 officers were called on the report of a theft at 215 N. Main St. The female who made the call reported that her and five of her roommates had entered their home that evening to find that there were five pairs of shoes missing from the front door area and dining room area of their apartment. She stated that the thefts occurred over the period of a few weeks and they had noticed the missing shoes two weeks prior. She stated that neither her nor her roommates had any idea who would steal their boots and had not had any issues prior to this this incident.

The investigation is ongoing.

Grand Theft Insomnia At 10:45 p.m. on Feb. 27, an MUPD officer attempted to stop a female in a black vehicle who did not slow down for him around the area of 33 E. High St. He noticed there was a delivery tent on the top of the vehicle that looked like it belonged to either Jimmy John’s or Insomnia Cookie. When the MUPD officer lost track of the vehicle, an OPD officer was able to stop the driver. The officer confirmed that the delivery tent was from Insomnia Cookie. Upon receiving this information, another officer entered Insomnia Cookie and asked the manager which of her drivers drove the black vehicle that had just been stopped.

Another worker behind the counter claimed the car was his and it was supposed to be parked across the street. He claimed in the midst of rushing orders he had left the keys in the car. The officer who had stopped the vehicle questioned the female driver, whom the owner of the vehicle did not give permission to take the car. The officer issued a field sobriety test to the female, which she failed. She was taken into custody and charged with Grand Theft of a Motor Vehicle.

She was transported to Butler County Jail.

Sweet Dreams at Subway At 11:17 p.m. on Feb. 27, EMS and OPD was dispatched to the Oxford Walmart in reference to a male passed out inside the store. When the officers arrived, employees pointed to a male lying on the ground next to the counter inside the Subway restaurant portion of the store.

He was using a Lay’s potato chip bag as a pillow. The officer attempted to wake the male up.

When he awoke, the male stated to the officer, “you’re cute.” He asked the male what he was doing sleeping on the floor and the male responded that he had been at a party and someone had put something in his drink. When EMS arrived on the scene, the male asked to go to the hospital. The officer noticed the male smelled strongly of an alcoholic beverage, had glassy eyes and was having trouble standing.

EMS transported him to McCullough-Hyde Hospital. When the officers arrived at the hospital, the male was charged with Disorderly Conduct.

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MU Wind Ensemble Concert to be based around Bach MUSIC KARA PIETROWSKI THE MIAMI STUDENT

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LIBRETTO LYRICS The Miami University Opera presented Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte,” an18th century opera exploring and navigating the joy and pain of love.The Italian-language opera was performed in English.

‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ falls flat FILM DEVON SHUMAN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

R-rated comedies are unique.

Unlike the censored world of PG13’s and PG’s in which the ruthless MPAA reigns supreme, movies with R ratings give their writers and their actors full comedic freedom.

They can utilize their whole arsenal of humor, including sexual innuendoes and all the beautiful swear words the English language has to offer, to get the audience to laugh.

In fact, most of the best comedies of the past few years have come with R ratings: “The Hangover,” “Stepbrothers,” “Superbad,” just to name a few.

This is why “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” was such a disappointment. Even with free roam, the writers and actors resorted to cheap humor that included, but was not limited to, long, adlibbed insult challenges that were reminiscent of grade school “Yo Mama” fights.

Let’s get one thing straight. The original “Hot Tub Time Machine” was good. It wasn’t great, and by no means did it warrant a sequel, but at least it was unique. The story followed four friends: Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), Lou (Rob Corddry), and the younger Jacob (Clark Duke) who, after one raucous night in a ski resort hot tub, wake up to find themselves in 1986. Now back in time, they had the opportunity to relive a particularly memorable weekend that had a major effect on all of their lives.

Cheesy? Of course. But at least it wasn’t afraid to put a new spin on

the time travel genre. Movies about time-travelling hot tubs are not inherently bad.

This time around, the boys have all been getting rich by going back into the past and ripping off future ideas before they happen. Lou creates Lougle, an online search engine. Nick steals pop songs from artists who haven’t even written them yet. Basically, since we have last seen them, these characters have been participating in the most extreme form of plagiarism.

At one of his extravagant parties, Lou is speaking to all of his guests when, in an Agatha Christie-esque turn of events, the power goes out and a tuxedo-clad mystery guest steps forward and shoots Lou in his genitals. In order to find out whom the mystery killer is and stop him, Nick and Jacob travel to the future, where Lou is still alive, and search for him. If you think that none of that makes any sense, then you are not alone.

Where “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” immediately seals its own fate is in the decision to not bring back John Cusack. Although I am sure Cusack was just itching to film a sequel for a movie that must have just done wonders for his career, his character was written off as being “on a trip of self-discovery.”

While Cusack might not be a particularly strong comedic actor, he at least brought experience to the table. He was able to add lots of emotion to some of the original movie’s more poignant scenes.

Without him in the mix, we are left with a group of B-list actors who struggle to make us laugh and only make us cry when we look at

how much we paid for the movie ticket. Corddry, Robinson and Duke are all decently funny when they find themselves in big, ensemble casts (e.g. “The Office,” “This is the End”), but unfortunately, without any stronger actors or comedians to feed off of, they are left out to dry. The only times I found myself laughing were at their awful attempts to recreate the emotion and nostalgia found in the first film.

The movie wasn’t all bad; it had its high points. For one, it at least attempted to utilize more complicated time travel techniques. Comedies do not always make such risky moves. However, here the risk did not pay off as it failed to accurately explain the complex time travel to the audience. After much reflection, one can piece it all together, but let’s face it: if the moviegoer wanted to think deeply about the movie, they would have seen “Interstellar,” not “Hot Tub Time Machine 2.”

Also, the addition of Adam Scott to the cast had a positive impact.

As always, Scott was wonderful.

Throughout his career, Scott has proven to have a quality rarely found in comedic actors: range.

He can play the douchey jerk as in “Stepbrothers” and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” or he can play the nerdy loser as in “Parks and Recreation.” Here he performs the latter, playing Adam YatesSteadmeyer, Adam’s son. This Adam is timid, geeky and boring, a stark contrast to the party-hard nature of the other characters. Scott nails it as usual and even manages to add some humor to the movie at HOT TUB »PAGE 5

‘House of Cards’ Season 3 released on Netflix Show’s opener prepares viewers for 13-hour movie TELEVISION JACK RYAN

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If you haven’t gotten around to binge-watching through the first two seasons of the Netflix drama “House of Cards,” stop reading now and go stream them.

This review contains spoilers from past seasons and this is your fair warning.

“House of Cards” season premieres tend to have shocking thematic statements that pave the way for the season to come; season one’s opener started with a neck snap and season two’s had the infamous subway shove. Season three’s start doesn’t involve a big, violent moment; rather it begins with a slow trickle. Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) is literally pissing on the grave of his own father. This defacement of family not only reinforces the malicious attitude of the new President, it sets the tone for the Underwoods’ current situation.

Where the past two seasons have focused on Frank’s corrupt path to

the top, it becomes apparent that season three will be about fighting those beneath him, in the name of holding power and creating legacy.

Following the symbolic, whatthe-hell moment and the always gorgeous title credits, we are taken

And at the end of the day, no matter how many reintroductions or clear plot setups we have to sit through, it still feels fantastic to be back with the Underwoods.”

away from the First Family in order to check in with the recovering Doug Stamper, who was nearly beaten to death at the end of season two. He has major physical issues as a result and is clearly becoming a ticking mental time bomb as the Underwood administration moves forward without him. Following Stamper’s recovery is interesting at first, but dedicating almost half the episode to him uninterrupted

feels excessive. The most we see of Frank in this half hour is on a special episode of “The Colbert Report,” where Stephen Colbert roasts Frank’s presidency and impending bill, like the good old days. However, Stephen’s bit runs a little too long, adding to the anxiety of getting back to the Underwoods’ current events.

By the time we get back to the White House, we learn that things aren’t exactly going well for the Underwoods. Frank’s approval ratings are worse than his predecessor, there’s obvious unrest amongst his associates, and an ambitious Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) is failing to find support for her campaign to become a UN ambassador. The rest of the episode, save the ending, is equal parts important exposition and monotonous reminders. Remember Remy and Seth? They’re big players in the Underwood regime now, thanks to their loyalty.

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The Miami University Wind Ensemble (MUWE) will be performing their first concert of the semester at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hall Auditorium. The free concert will feature music transcribed and inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Open to all majors to audition, the MUWE is comprised of roughly 50 musicians, including wind and percussion instruments, to create a unique dynamic and sound between the players.

“The diversity [of the ensemble] makes for many different and interesting combinations,” MUWE conductor Gary Speck said.

“I think this concert will have a unique atmosphere compared to other concerts,” senior music performance and marketing double major Emily Stibich said.

French horn player, Stibich, has been in the ensemble all four years of her college career and describes it as a very unique experience.

“It’s 50 musicians pouring out their soul to each other through music,” Stibich said. “It’s incredible.”

The students have been preparing music transcribed and inspired

by J.S. Bach since the beginning of the semester.

“Some of his music was originally for organ and had to be transcribed for a whole ensemble, and it might be hard to believe but it

sounds good,” sophomore alto saxophone player Erin Williams said.

Bach is very influential figure in the music world and created many of the conventions that became the fundamentals for music composition, according to Speck.

“Bach is one of the greatest composers in history,” Speck said.

“I wanted the students to have an encounter with Bach, and it developed into doing Bach for the concert.”

The MUWE musicians share Speck’s enthusiasm for the program.

“We were all very excited,” Williams said. “Bach is one of the most prolific composers ever, so playing his works is very exciting.”

Bach is very accessible and enjoyable for people without a music background, said Speck.

Some of the songs performed will include “Toccata Aria Fugue” originally written by Bach and arranged Thomas Knox, “J.S. Dances” by Donald Grantham, and “Bach’s Fugue a la Gigue” by Gustav Holst.

“Music is such an essential part of any culture, and Bach is so important for music today, even pop music might not be what it is today without Bach, so it would be great for people to come and gain an appreciation for his work,” Williams said.

MUWE’s second concert of the semester will be Tuesday, May 5 and will feature two premieres from Alvin Singleton and James Syler.

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Schwayze brought sold-out audience back to middle school MUSIC ANNABEL BROOKS THE MIAMI STUDENT

Summertime came to Oxford a little early last Wednesday when rapper Shwayze took the Brick Street stage and brought with him some California sunshine. Playing throwback hits like “Corona and Lime” and newer, trendy songs like “Love is Overrated,” Shwayze made everyone in the crowd have a good time and forget the cold and snowy weather outside.

Alec Motter, who organized the private side stage party, raved about the concert, saying that the night ended up being a huge success.

“It was really cool watching Shwayze sing a lot of the songs that for a lot of us were the anthems of our summers,” Motter said. “He put on a great show and he was very down to earth when I met him.”

The concert definitely brought a lot of nostalgia to the Brick Street crowd. Senior Jen Palladino attended the event to honor her memories of listening to Shwayze in middle school.

“The concert brought back lots of middle school memories,” Pal-

ladino said. “It felt like I was on the beach, which was a nice change of pace from the actual weather in Oxford.”

The show was sponsored by Red Bull, who promoted a new drink, Red Bull Yellow Edition with special yellow trashcans featuring their new product. The drinks were a hit and could be spotted everywhere on the dance floor.

“Because of the Red Bull promotions we got to try the new type of trash can, which was unreal,” Motter said.

Even though Shwayze went on late, DJ Drew Davis kept the crowd excited from when the doors opened until Shwayze’s own DJ took the stage with some great mixes. The crowd Shwayze’s performance drew was incredible, with a packed dance floor and lines out the door, the concert was definitely a hit.

“There were tons of people,” junior Sam Scherman, who worked the event, said. “It was practically impossible to move around, but clearly everyone was having a great time.”

The concert was just another in the string of performances sponsored by Red Bull and put forth by Mark and Will Weisman, co-owners of Brick Street.

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some points, particularly during an outrageous drug trip scene.

However, one bucket will not save a sinking ship, and Adam Scott’s performance fails to save the utter disaster that is “Hot Tub Time Machine 2.” The humor of the film relies on futuristic gimmicks that add nothing to the plot and the movie fails to strike any chords, either comedic or emotional. If it evoked any emotion in me at all, it made me wish that I could go back in time and stop myself from buying the ticket in the first place.

the-table agreements with Frank.

We spend more time with other people than we do with Frank and Claire, slowly setting the stage for the season to come, with a dash of breaking-the-fourth-wall here and a bit of ominous tension there.

Thankfully, the style of “House of Cards” hasn’t changed at all, making it very clear that executive producer David Fincher (“Gone Girl,” “Fight Club”) is lurking in the background. Every shot feels crisp and clean, arguments and relationships are clearly illustrated through shot angles and patterns, and the use of shallow focus makes this show so enjoyable to watch.

The season three opener of “House of Cards” certainly isn’t the series’ finest episode, but it gets the job done, effectively bringing us back up to speed with the Underwoods and their associates. It’s becoming clear that, due to the innate marathon-watching nature of its viewers, the show is being handled less like a traditional series and more like a thirteen hour movie, sacrificing some time early to set up for bigger and more important scenes down the line. And at the end of the day, no matter how many reintroductions or clear plot setups we have to sit through, it still feels fantastic to be back with the Underwoods.

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18 to enter, 21 to drink? The problems associated with underage bars The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

Think back to the one of the first lessons we all learned at Miami.

Before studying for that geography midterm, we probably got schooled in the art of getting drinks Uptown.

It’s an important learning curve in college when we go out for the first time and don’t get granted one of those nifty wristbands. Many first-years take a crash course in “Going Out 101,” in order to master all of the tricks of the drinkingunderage-but-not-getting-caught trade. Being under 21 years old is the only requirement. We nervously took notes on the whole going out process during our inaugural nights out, being educated by those a little wiser and in-the-know.

We were lectured on which bars we could get into at what times of the night and which specific concoction of liquids was the most economically sound. Maybe we practiced investing in a line of

fake IDs. Some girls got bonus points if they ran into upperclassmen boys and started batting those eyelashes. Soon, we were washing those sharpie X’s off our hands in the bathroom all by ourselves.

Once we’ve entered the doors, all bets are off and all kinds of alcohol are within reach. We started acing the bar scene — and this typically involved carelessly drinking in excess and not stopping until the lights come on.

As eager 18-year-olds, we soaked these lessons in because once we perfected them, we could drink at virtually any bar Uptown.

We never had to worry about not being of age, because there was always a way around it. We had the key to our ideal image of college.

There’s a problem here though.

As we learned the ins and outs of Uptown, we skipped the chapters on being too drunk to walk home

Next election offers redemption for the Republican party POLITICS

In the recent weeks and months, the conventional wisdom on the 2016 Republican presidential field has shifted toward a showdown between Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, or another right wing challenger and former Florida governor, Jeb Bush. The thinking goes that Bush will represent the moderate conservative, corporate GOP, while Walker, or another, will speak for the base of the party.

In 2012, this formulation is precisely how the race played out. Mitt Romney sat in the center-right of the party and knocked down everyone who came near him on the right with television advertising.

In the rush to simplify the race — Jeb versus Walker for the heart of the conservative movement!

—too many are ignoring the absolute force of nature in the 2016 race, who is Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

2016 will be a hotly contested race on the right.

Open seat presidential elections against a likely weak and out of practice Democratic candidate don’t come around often.”

The Rubio boomlet came and went last year when he undoubtedly made a fool of himself in his handling of comprehensive immigration reform. He began a cosponsor of the now long-forgotten Senate comprehensive package then when he took heat from the right he backed off. Now he’s apparently pro securing the border before all else. This is the GOP’s myopic orthodoxy on an issue that’s more about bureaucratic failure — our immigration system is terribly broken — than lawlessness of those who seek to live out the American dream.

But I digress. When you set immigration aside, Rubio is the dream candidate of the Republican base and the Republican donor. It also doesn’t hurt that he’s the dream candidate of conservative intellectuals who would staff up the foreign and domestic policy staff of the next Republican administration.

When you consider what it takes to win the presidency — truly giving people a forwardlooking vision for the country — it is hard to beat Rubio’s ability to communicate the message of conservatism in this way.

Break it down further and it gets better for Rubio. The Republican Party is broadly hawkish.

Rubio sits in the position as the most rational hawk in the race.

He takes the threat of ISIS and a nuclear Iran seriously. These will be highly important issues to both the Republican primary voter and the general election voter.

The party is also exceedingly conservative on domestic policy issues. Rubio won his Senate seat as a Tea Party insurgent. He took out the then Rockefeller Republican — and now Democrat — Charlie Crist, in 2010.

He also speaks to the establishment of the party by taking domestic policy seriously. Rubio isn’t simply a pro-growth tax cutter.

He told an audience at CPAC last week he and Utah Senator Mike Lee would have a tax reform plan out sometime this week. Based on his past rhetoric, this should be a smart and conservative, pro-family proposal. Broadly, Rubio has been for a brand of domestic policy termed reform conservatism by its adherents. Their theory of the case is to make public policy more middle class focused.

With these factors in mind, it is clear the current view of the field by most in the press is silly. Yet it does advantage Rubio.

Since most are either saying Rubio has too much to lose by running against his political mentor (Bush) and doesn’t have much space in the race, he goes under the radar in raising money and setting up his staff.

2016 will still be a hotly contested race on the right. Open seat presidential elections against a likely weak and out of practice Democratic candidate don’t come around often.

All the contenders will also have the ability to stay in for the long haul. Bush will have a lot of money. That is staying power.

He’s also shown, since he began to campaign in earnest, an impressive capacity to talk with passion about the imperative for economic growth as a means to lift all Americans up.

Whether Jeb wins or not, this type of rhetoric, and real belief, is highly important to the future of Republicans. Walker — or, if he’s never able to get his foot out of his mouth, other right wing challengers — will have staying power, too. The same is true of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. Like his father, Paul likely has the highest floor and the lowest ceiling of any candidate in the race. This high floor will keep him in for a while.

But with Jeb in middle, and a serious candidate on the right fringe, there will be a space for someone to run up the middle of the party. This candidate can and should be Marco Rubio.

When you game out the state of play in the Republican Party, it is hard to see why voters and donors would pass up the chance to contrast Rubio with someone like Hillary Clinton. Your old and damaged versus our new, serious and impressively experienced for his young age, looks like a good macro set up for the right headed into the 2016 general election.

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or too drunk to find our friends or our phone or too drunk to know if we really want to hook up with that person. We went with the learn-asyou-go mantra and were happy when we woke in mostly one piece.

A lot of our worst nights wouldn’t have happened if bars were stricter.

If all Oxford bars were 21-and-up, they would be filled with more mature and experienced versions of ourselves and they would be absent of a lot of the ridiculousness.

At this age, we didn’t fully grasp the learning curve of moderation.

With our eyes on the alluring bar scene, we failed to quickly learn the ropes when it came to being careful. When we had our first taste, all we wanted was more. More shots, more pitchers, more waiting in line at Brick, more law-breaking. And this sets us up for rough nights, rougher mornings and subscribing to a lifestyle that only wears us

down.

Let’s be honest, first-years are a little clueless, a little naive and they’re probably not fully ready for the bars. Students are ushered into the bar scene quickly and many gulp in their newfound independence via a few too many trashcans.

As soon as mom and dad tearfully drive away, there’s an urgency to see what this drinking thing is all about. In high school, the taboo allure of drinking keeps many kids sneaking around when it comes to partying. But at Miami, drinking underage is done out in the open and everyone of authority seems to turns their heads.

Bars that are 18 years old and up know what they’re doing; the more students they let in, the more money they make. They know these underage students are working the system and they will get their hands on alcohol. It’s part of the strategy.

We, as The Editorial Board, can’t deny we benefitted from the ease of getting drinks Uptown, but we also think it would’ve saved us from learning some tough lessons the hard way, like how many Vodka and Sprites we can really handle.

Sure, it’s hard to admit that our early college years would be better without the option of the bars.

But it’s true. We would find other routes for drinking and socializing; and maybe, we wouldn’t get ourselves into as much trouble.

Maybe we would see going Uptown as more of a privilege. Maybe our 21st birthdays would be even more exciting.

Maybe Miami would start shedding that party-school reputation.

Maybe we wouldn’t recognize our Saturday night actions in the Police Beat. Maybe we’d have room in our brains and our schedules for a few more valuable lessons.

Tamir Rice’s case in Cleveland calls upon us to demand for police reform POLICE BRUTALITY

MILAM’S MUSINGS The United States has a systematic policing problem where police officers operate with virtual impunity from their actions and it particularly leans on persons of color.

Case in point: Cleveland, where on Nov. 22, Officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice within two seconds of approach, as seen on the surveillance video.

Rice had a BB gun with the orange indicator sticker missing.

The Associated Press noted discrepancies in the police report versus the surveillance footage.

In the footage, Rice is alone under a pavilion in a park. In the report, police said he was with a few people (giving credence to the fear of his threat to others).

department wrote in an internal memo. The memo concluded that Loehmann ought to be released.

The Guardian notes that he resigned shortly after.

The Cleveland Police Department then equipping Loehmann with a badge and a gun is not an uncommon practice. Officers accused of wrongdoing in one department merely come on board with another department.

For instance, WBNS-10TV, based out of Central Ohio, did an investigation into this issue and found “troubled officers moving from department to department.

The investigation also found that there are no formal rules on background checks that might prevent officers from slipping through hiring reviews.”

Furthermore, the Cleveland Police Department as a whole was under investigation for two years by the Justice Department, which found that, “Officers there have engaged in a pattern of excessive and deadly force against residents — using guns, tasers, chemical spray and fists — in violation

While the systematic issue in today’s policing leans on all of us, it particularly leans on people of color. In Rice’s case, Officer Loehmann told dispatch that Rice was ‘maybe’ a 20-year-old.”

Likewise, Officer Loehmann claimed he told Rice to put his hands up three times. In the footage, Rice is shot within two seconds of Officer Loehmann arriving on the scene. While that doesn’t disprove his claim, being able to give three commands and allow time for the person in question to meet that command in a mere two seconds is dubious at best.

Rice’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit and the city of Cleveland responded in kind, saying, Rice’s injuries were caused by his own failure to exercise “due care,” according to NBC News.

That’s rich coming from the city of Cleveland. After all, Officer Loehmann was deemed unfit for duty by his previous employer. According to The Guardian, he was “faulted for breaking down emotionally while handling a live gun.”

“His handgun performance was dismal,” deputy chief Jim Polak of the Independence, Ohio police

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of their rights,” according to the Washington Post.

Not surprisingly, the Justice Department’s report said officers were not being held accountable and, in many instance, reports weren’t even being taken.

Worst yet, the Justice Department issued similar findings about the Cleveland Police Department in another report. From ten years ago. Let that sink in.

Finally, the Cleveland Police Department dispatcher did not relay the 911-caller’s message that the BB gun Rice was holding when shot was “probably fake.”

When I was 13, my two friends and I were running around the neighborhood with BB guns.

It was the height of Jackass on MTV, so we reveled at the sight of purple welts on our backs and shoulders.

One of our friends, rightly so, was afraid to take the BB shot, so naturally, we chased him around the neighborhood. His father soon put a stop to it with a tirade that stung worse than the BB.

Luckily for my friends and I, unlike Rice in Cleveland, we’re white and middle class.

While the systematic issue in today’s policing leans on all of us, it particularly leans on people of color. In Rice’s case, Officer Loehmann told dispatch that Rice was “maybe” a 20-year-old.

This discrepancy between the actual age of black boys and the perception of their age is manifest in studies.

For instance, the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published a study in which there’s evidence of an unconscious “dehumanization bias” against black people, according to Vox. “Our research found that black boys can be seen as responsible for their actions at an age when white boys still benefit from the assumption that children are essentially innocent,” Phillip Atiba Goff, author of the study, said.

The city of Cleveland certainly thought Rice was responsible for his own death.

But again, it’s worth stressing that this issue is an issue for all of us, regardless of race or class. The top law enforcement officer in the United States, FBI Director James Comey, certainly thinks so.

“We can roll up our car windows, turn up the radio and drive around these problems,” Comey said in a speech to Georgetown University on policing and race..

“Or instead we can choose to have an open and honest discussion about what our relationship is today, what it should be, what it could be, what it needs to be if we took more time to better understand one another.”

The top law enforcement officer has no clear idea how often police officers kill citizens in the United States. The need for that raw data set doesn’t even get into whether they are justifiable shootings.

“It’s ridiculous I can’t tell how many people were shot by police,” Comey said.

I don’t know how many more Tamir Rice’s, Eric Garner’s, Antonio Zambrano-Montes’ and John B. Geer’s there have to be in the country before more people are demanding police reform.

Unfortunately for those individuals, police reform never came for them.

BRETT MILAM

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We shouldn’t fear being ruthless LIFE

Without angering too many creationists on campus (let’s hope that number isn’t too staggering), I would like to begin by saying that Charles Darwin was right; life is about survival of the fittest.

I am less referring to the idea that long ago the world’s toughest primates were able to join in the plight for literal manhood and more so referring to the literal idea that the tougher you are, the easier survival will be.

Of course, this strategy can be applied to many areas of life: the stronger person will probably win in a fight, the smarter person or the more prepared person will probably out-perform the less intelligent person or the person who slacked on an exam. These things are not exactly outrageous ideas. In fact, I think these RUTHLESS »PAGE 9

Males may find themselves at the mercy of women in alcohol-related hookups SEXUAL ASSAULT

It’s Friday night, and two college students just met on the dance floor. They exchange some basic information. What’s your name?

(Call them Matt and Katie.) What year are you? Where are you from?

Both have been drinking for several hours now. They dance together awhile, then Katie makes the first move, leaning in to kiss him.

When they’re ready to leave, there is no question. He’s interested in her. She’s interested in him.

They go home together.

In his room, they start to hook up. With each layer of clothing he removes, she matches him. They have sex.

Then: A. In the morning, she wakes up, dresses and walks home. She recalls his name, their conversations.

Back at her house, she makes toast and turns on the shower. She starts her day.

OR B. In the morning, she wakes up, horrified. She scrambles to find

her dress, her shoes. She stares at the stranger in disgust. What happened? What has she done?

Matt has no control over which reaction Katie will have. He only knows the Katie from the night before. He made assumptions, sure: she’s done this before, this is ca-

Girls today know the laws, and not all of their reactions are pretty or honorable — they can ruin lives, and have.”

sual, she’s into it. But, so did Katie.

Only, Katie has the power to destroy Matt’s life.

According to Butler University’s counseling services for alcohol and sexual assault, “alcohol … makes it easier to force sex on an unwilling partner and to ignore ‘no’s.’”

But, Katie was a willing partner, and she never so much as hinted a

RULE OF THUMB SPRING IS (ALMOST) HERE It’s officially March, and for us positive thinkers that means that spring is right around the corner. We’re ignoring the snow on the ground and focusing on the fact that warmer weather will be here soon.

OFF THE GRID Mike Hudson, 26, made headlines this week after he quit his job a year ago to live out of a van and travel Europe. He’s a great case for the idea that living simply can provide a lot of happiness.

LADY GAGA ON AHS? Fans of American Horror Story on FX got news that next season will be set in a hotel, and that Lady Gaga will be joining the cast.

We’re not sure how this will go, but we’ll definitely be tuning in.

CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S NEW SONG Hey, we just heard a song worse than “Call me Maybe” and this is crazy. Here’s a direct quote from Carly’s newest gem: “I really really really really like you.” Cool.

DAKOTA JOHNSON ON SNL The actress of Fifty Shades of Grey fame hosted SNL this weekend and, overall, did a pretty good job. The skit about a girl joining the Islamic State, however, was a big miss for many viewers.

‘no.’

Yet, “legally … an individual cannot consent to sex if they are drunk; having sex without consent is sexual assault.”

So, by that definition, Katie was sexually assaulted. Whether she reacted as Katie A or Katie B, though, determines Matt’s fate, because “the victim is never to blame for an assault, the person who committed the assault is fully responsible.”

On the contrary, this is a gray area. Yes, Matt gets the final call.

His biological appendages give him the responsibility of choosing to move forward — or not. But, what if Matt woke up regretful and confused as well? That he realized his intoxication led to actions he wouldn’t have chosen for himself in sobriety?

Yet, other institutions have echoed Butler’s definitive statement, including the University of Oregon. The sexual assault prevention and education site for Oregon acknowledges the haziness of these situations, but says, “when

alcohol is involved in a sexual assault – it is always the fault of the offender – regardless of whether or not he/she had been drinking as well.”

Maybe such bold statements would resonate more if “offender” were replaced with “aggressor.”

Katie could have been the aggressor, the instigator, but in no way does the law reflect a defense for Matt. He just has to hope Katie wakes up as Katie A. The Sarah Lawrence College’s statistics on sexual assault indicate one in four college females will be the victim of sexual assault — a well known, frequently used number. However, the University Health Services for UC-Berkeley report “one in 12 college males admit to having committed acts that met the legal definition of rape.”

These don’t add up. So, perhaps we should consider that a female’s definition of sexual assault does not always align with a male’s.

That, of course, is the issue.

It is unfair to place bold, definitive blame on males in cases

involving alcohol, especially among college-aged students.

Girls today know the laws, and not all of their reactions are pretty or honorable — they can ruin lives, and have. Although these cases are not in the majority, they should not be discounted.

Miami University’s sexual assault response coordinator, Becca Getson, stands firm with the legal terms. She said offenders are held accountable for crimes committed under the influence of alcohol, including sexual assault. If someone is drunk and smashes a car window, they will be charged for that crime, she said. But if someone smashed your car window while you were drunk, you aren’t at fault for that person’s actions.

That’s fine, but what if, while drunk, you tell that person — encourage him, even — to go ahead and smash your car window? Is it still his fault alone?

EMILY TATE

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Paying an extra fee for FSB classes isn’t worth it EDUCATION

Think about what you could do with $100. As I’m typing, a copy of “Made in America” sits next to my desk. Th book is Sam Walton’s autobiography and details how he built the Walmart franchise to be the behemoth that it is.

The back cover lets you know this book costs only $7.99.

So here’s something interesting. For less than eight bucks, I can buy a first-person look into one of the greatest business minds in the history of American capitalism. For just 32 quarters, I can get my hands on a personal and private education from one of the most successful businessmen to have ever walked the Earth. Isn’t that incredible?

Now contrast that to what we pay each time to take a single class at Farmer. It’s $100.

This means I’m paying over 13 times more to sit in a class than the amount I would pay for an insider-look into Sam Walton and how he built his business. And, for what? I’m typically not one to complain, but since this is Miami’s business school, let’s look at this issue in terms of the business side.

It’s all about value-add, right?

The benefit must justify the cost.

With this in mind, I’d challenge you to change how you look at your classes at Miami.

When I look at some of the

business classes I’ve sat in, I can guarantee you that the benefit from that specific class doesn’t even come close to justifying what I’m paying.

Think about it this way. Would you pay $100 to go see that professor speak outside of class?

For the vast majority of us, that answer is, “Heck no.” Yet we pay them that ridiculous, unjustified amount without much thought.

And a lot of people simply skip those classes.

It’s readily apparent that the classes themselves are not justifying their cost. I remember a course I took where a Miami employee came in and talked to us about a program they wanted us to rebrand — it would be our project for the class.

He spoke for half of the class and the rest of the time the professor had us write words we associated with big brands. And then, it was over.

Now, you tell me: does that sound like it’s worth $100?

It’s actually kind of funny when you think about it, and it’s very close to bordering on a scam.

Pay tens of thousands of dollars to go to this school, pay an extra $100 to sit in your class, each time. Then you’re going to do free work for that school. We’re literally paying Miami for us to work for them.

Granted, that’s not the case in all classes; but it’s quite a few,

and when you couple that with the fact that we have to pay extra to have that experience, it all sort of sounds ridiculous.

Would you pay your boss to work for their company? Isn’t that an almost laughable thought?

Miami is set up like a business, and we’re paying so much to go here, and then we pay an extra $100 that results practically no value-add.

So is there a reason for this, apart from the fact we’re just paying out the wazoo to get a piece of paper with our name printed on it?

We lose sight of the value of $100 when it’s contrasted to the tens of thousands we pay to attend Miami, but $100 is still a lot of money. And I personally think it would be better spent elsewhere.

Candidly, I think I’d learn a heck of a lot more buying 13 books like Sam Walton’s than I am from attending these classes in Farmer.

Miami needs to ask itself why its students should pay that extra, seemingly unjustified $100.

Of course, I’m sure there are financial factors of which I’m unaware. But on principle, if Miami can’t justify that extra $100, then it needs to either stop tacking on that fee or start adding more value per class.

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neers 27-26 overall, while scoring on 1 of 3 power plays and killing off all three DU man advantages. Junior goaltender Ryan McKay made 23 saves to extend his personal unbeaten streak to four games (3-0-1), while his counterpart, freshman Tanner Jaillet, stopped 22 shots for Denver.

“We weathered them off in the second period and finished them off in the third,” Blasi said.

Four Pioneer goals in the first period slowed Miami Saturday night.

The ’Hawks showed signs of revival in the second frame when goals from junior forward Riley Barber and senior forward Alex Wideman narrowed the score to 4-2. However, Denver secured the game with two goals in the final period.

“Saturday night — their senior night — they really came out to play hard,” Blasi said. “Their spe-

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teaching license.

“I think it’s silly because you’re going through all of this schooling for four years on how to be a teacher, and if you don’t pass, then they’re telling you you can’t be a teacher,” she said.

Douglas Brooks, a professor in the Department of Teacher Education, said the decision to implement the edTPA at Miami was not discussed with much of the education faculty.

“This was a classic mistake in [creating] embedded change in any organization,” he said. “There was no early discussion or buyin stakeholders, [which] has impacted faculty perception of the process and requirement.”

Taylor Sieve, a senior and integrated mathematics education major who completed the edTPA last semester, said one of her main disputes about the assessment is it must be completed around halfway through the fourteen-week student teaching experience.

Sieve said being assessed around three weeks into her student teaching was not an accurate representation of whether she is capable of being a good teacher.

Sieve also explained students are required to continue student teaching while preparing for the exam, which she said affected her students’ experience.

“I felt like I was taking away from my students,” Sieve said. “I couldn’t give them my full attention, and I couldn’t find different or interactive ways to teach them because I was trying to complete this edTPA.” Michelle Steinberg, another senior and integrated mathematics education major, also said the assessment impinges on the students’

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are pretty basic, common sense realities.

For whatever reason, once you throw niceness into the equation, though, controversy arises. Most everyone has heard the expression “Nice guys finish last.”

For the purpose of this argument, let’s go ahead and change “guys” to “people,” because guys are not the only ones in the fight for survival.

Niceness and the idea of being nice to people tends to change the black-and-white reality of “survival of the fittest” into this mess of hurt feelings and gray area. Logic and common sense get, more or less, thrown out the window. They are then replaced with hard and fast emotions and utopian ideals.

Unfortunately, utopianisms are impossible for a reason. Logic exists, and logic is real. Whether or not something is “right” doesn’t actually matter in the game of survival because human beings are designed to win, and no one ever won anything by saying please.

Nice people sometimes finish last. That being said, mean people also sometimes finish last. Everyone sometimes finishes last and that’s something I think everyone can accept.

But once you start attributing a loss to being a nice, caring person, that’s when people start to get

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cial teams in the third really put the nail in the coffin.”

The Pioneers outshot the RedHawks 47-21, the most shots Miami has allowed and second fewest it has attempted in a contest this season. Junior goaltender Jay Williams took the loss after allowing four goals on 13 shots before being relieved by McKay, who stopped 32 of 34 DU attempts.

“We got caught sleeping,” Gacek said. “The first 10 minutes we were down 4-0, and by then it’s almost a little too late to get back in it. But we give credit to a good Denver team; they avenged their loss on Friday.”

The Red and White return to action this weekend in a regular season finale against the University of North Dakota. Puck drops 6:30 p.m. Friday.

“It’ll be No. 1 versus No. 2 in the conference,” Gacek said. “What more can you ask for?” ability to learn.

In fact, while recording the teaching portion of her edTPA, Steinberg said a student waited until the recorded teaching portion was completed to ask a question; he told her he was uncomfortable and was afraid of being embarrassed on camera.

“This is a prime example of where my obligation to completing the [exam] took away from a student’s chance to learn,” she said.

Brooks also agreed the assessment is much too early into the student teaching experience.

“The three to five weeks of student teaching are the most demanding and exhausting of the student teaching semester,” he said. “Adding the edTPA process to this period of development [creates] conflicts in focus.”

Steinberg additionally said she felt forced to submit the edTPA based on what would receive the highest score, rather than what she actually believed.

“I cared more about matching my commentary to what the rubrics wanted than to what actually happened when I taught,” she said. “I would have gained more from having those eight weeks to fully devote myself to teaching.”

Huffman said she and the Education Student Advisory Council have plans of contacting the Ohio Council of Deans of Education in hopes of eliminating the edTPA at Miami and preventing it from becoming a state-mandated assessment.

“We want to approach our Dean and [explain] that we have all of these results that show the edTPA doesn’t work for our students,” she said. “Maybe students at other colleges are feeling the same way, and we go to the Ohio legislation and say ‘It’s not going to work’ and find something else.” irritated. Just to clarify, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t be nice or that you should be mean and ruthless for no reason. I love when people are nice to me, and I like to think I’m also a nice person.

That being said, when you’re fighting for something and you really want something, good ole’ “pleases and thank yous” probably won’t get you what you want.

Pity-wins also aren’t real wins.

That’s the equivalent to when you stop counting goals in a soccer game where one team is being slaughtered. It’s saying, “Yeah, the ball went in the net again, but we don’t want your 10-year-old crying on the field again, so we’ll just pretend it didn’t happen.”

As you grow up and enter the world of adulthood/pseudo-adulthood, pity-wins seriously go down in numbers. This is because the rest of the world more or less expects you to have your life together.

Which is understandable, because by this point, you should at least be making an effort.

So without the cushion of pitywins, what do you do in order to be successful? Do you ask your opponents nicely? You can, but you could also give up now and receive pretty similar results.

Do you play by the rules so you don’t hurt anyone’s feelings and hope everyone else does the same?

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This happens in politics when our media coverage focuses on strategic dealings meant for meetings between political professionals. It is also now increasingly true in sports.

I understand that the last generation of sportswriters, who, as Grantland’s Bryan Curtis writes in an excellent piece on the Barkley comments says the real story is the power struggle of nerds versus the athletes who don’t respect their information, basically had to fight a war to make

this type of information mainstream. But it does seem like we’re reaching a point where the question of how much information is too much information for a fan has to be raised.

Analytics, which is simply a way to have as much information as possible, are not crap, as Barkley said they are. But I understand the frustration.

Barkley is basically wrong.

More information has to be better, but at the same time, it would be behoove the media to improve on talking about this stuff.

Quit trying to sound like general managers, unless you were one, and bring this stuff down to size for the rest of us. Baseball has fallen into a bit of a rut with big time sports media, largely because it seems few want to do the work needed to synthesize the nerdy stuff and tell people something.

Sports shouldn’t become overly elite. This means the barrier for entry shouldn’t be 10 hours a week poring over advanced stats. But there has to be a happy medium, which few are effectively finding today.

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ship said it would apply for a grant from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) to get more traffic signage to reduce the number of crashes.

Oxford and Fairfield townships were in the top 100 statewide for traffic crashes.

According to ODOT statistics, crash data from 2010 to 2013, shows that Oxford Twp. had 401 crashes, including two fatal accidents and 92 injury crashes.

was a memorable way to finish their college careers.

“Being with each other for four years and with the underclassmen was a great experience to share,” Marchese said. “I think we really left our skating careers on a high note.”

Though the collegiate and junior teams’ seasons end after nationals, the senior team’s season continues at the ISU World Championships.

“It really is a huge honor,” DeGirolama said. “As an athlete, there is nothing better than being able to represent your school and

to also represent your country.”

The team will prepare for the competition during the next month.

“We definitely have a lot more work to do to make sure that everything is sharp and clean,” DeGirolama said. “We will make little changes to the program to freshen them up before we leave for the next event. But we’re really just fine-tuning everything that we have, getting it really consistent and solid for that peak performance at the pinnacle of our competition season.”

The ISU World Championship is April 10-11 in Hamilton, Ontario.

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shortstop Chad Sedio to third base. Junior catcher Tommy Ricciardi walked to load the bases, and Sada singled, bringing Sedio and Elble home.

“That was a huge hit,” Honchel said. “Coming from a sophomore who was a freshman All-American last year, that was a huge hit to take the lead.”

Sophomore righty Jacob Banks notched the win to improve to 1-2 on the season, and senior Will Schierholz closed the ninth to earn his first career save.

“That’s something we have to do more of,” Hayden said. “We put pressure on them to start the inning off. So we started the inning well, and then we ended the inning well. The tough part about it is we’ve had a few innings like that, where we’ll look like a very aggressive offensive team, and then it’ll go away. We were lucky we scored four runs because we had too many innings where we were just quiet offensively.”

The RedHawks’ season continues this weekend with a threegame series at South Carolina University. First pitch is set for 7 p.m. Friday.

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ami University and a member of both the Natural Areas and the Bishop Woods Committees, suggested that instead of grass, which would unwantedly spread, the contractors doing the physical work could plant wild ginger.

Wild ginger does not need to be mowed and would not spread to other areas in the woods, says Eshbaugh. This would save money on mowing and maintenance costs, while still giving the feel of a lawn in the center.

A second, smaller concern is the width of the paths. The width of the paths is a concern because of the grass that would be planted next to the paths.

Similar to the concern for the grass in the center of the woods, the grass along the pathways could potentially spread and choke out native plant species.

After receiving the memo from the Natural Areas Committee, Cirrito is working on addressing their concerns. He is revising his plans to include different plants to be planted as well as eliminating the lawn next to the paths.

Both sides of this disagreement are looking into the future with a positive outlook.

“I’m looking forward to just actually doing the project now,” Cirrito said.

Cirrito is hoping to continue an open dialogue with the committee, while Gorchov and those who share his concerns are optimistic their concerns will be well received.

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language and culture revitalization has an ecological component, and embedded within that component is cultural food.

“I think it’s worth noting that many cultures define themselves by their foods,” Daryl Baldwin, director of the Myaamia Center and member of the Myaamia Tribe of Oklahoma, said.

“We’ve long been interested in what the seasonal and traditional diet of our ancestors was.”

Many of those traditional foods are native plant species, so there is an interaction between the Myaamia culture and the land — what Baldwin calls an ecological perspective.

In the spirit of sustainability and efficiency, Huerta and Schaffer hope to minimize the cost of the garden by sharing machinery and tools with the already present Ecological Research Center.

“There’s a lot of talent and strength already here at the university,” Shaffer said.

“It has the land and it has the people, so those resources are already available.”

Huerta said that one of the benefits Miami offers a food studies program focused on sustainable agriculture is that unlike FROM TRASH »PAGE 2

placed in the recycling, instead of in the trash.

The day after a trash audit, the Eco Reps trash audit committee meets with Abowitz to calculate the results.

“The percentages that could have been recycled give us a comparison between different halls,” Austen Rubenstein, a member of the trash audit committee, said.

After the results of an audit are gathered, the Eco Reps send an email to all students living in the hall. The Eco Reps said they want students to know they have been audited, what the results were, and hope the students will work to lower the percentage of misplaced waste moving forward.

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This might be the better approach, but do you really want to count on other people to be good people?

It’s not a safe bet.

There’s this stigma surrounding going for what you want and taking it without being afraid of stepping on a few toes. Being ruthless has become synonymous with being a bad person, which I don’t understand or agree with. Fighting for your survival, no matter what aspect of survival you’re fighting for, is how you survive. It’s how you win and it’s how you get better. Society has begun to program

major land grant universities, Miami does not receive significant funding from corporations in the seed industry.

“The process of ecological agriculture, in the modern sense, is at least 30 years old, but it’s banging it’s head up against monoliths like Monsanto and ConAgra,” Stevens said. “We are substantially outgunned.”

A study by Food & Water Watch revealed that some of the top donors of land-grant universities like the University of Illinois and the University of Arkansas included corporate agriculture behemoths Monsanto, ConAgra and Tyson.

“A lot of these universities have their hands tied politically,” Huerta said. “But we can say that we want to be a sustainable and green university and truly put our money where our mouth is.”

For Huerta, it boils down to what he calls “the big question.”

“What does the future of food look like? We don’t normally think of this, but there may come a time when we run out of phosphorus, we run out of water and we run out of soil. So what do we do? This kind of institute can help answer that question before it’s too late.”

“If we got a number that was around five percent, I’d be happy,” Venema said.

There are three trash audits scheduled for the remainder of the semester on March 10, April 2 and April 15. “[Eco Reps] promote sustainability in the residence halls,” sophomore Emily Gillispie said.

Every residence hall on campus elects at least one Eco Rep. Eco Reps are responsible for promoting sustainability and how they are helping students live more sustainably with bulletin boards in the halls they represent.

These boards and fliers are how most students know of Eco Reps.

“We’re really trying to make a difference in opinions and actions on campus,” Venema said. people to be afraid of being ruthless and it’s not making anyone a better person. It’s not creating nicer, more genuine people. It’s creating a fear of winning and a fear of wanting something.

The next time you’re fighting for something you really want and question ruthless tactics, tell yourself something like this: there has never been a president who became president by asking his opponents nicely to give him some votes or make his campaign suck.

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’Hawks win third straight on Senior Day WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

DANIEL TAYLOR

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Baleigh Reid netted a careerhigh 22 points to lift Miami University women’s basketball past Kent State University in a 66-59 victory Saturday.

The win is Miami’s third consecutive and moves the RedHawks (7-20, 4-12 Mid-American Conference) ahead of Kent State in the conference standings for the first time this season.

Senior guard Courtney Larson scored 15 points in the final home game of her collegiate career.

“I don’t think it’s quite hit me yet that it was my last time playing at Millett,” Larson said. “The whole team wanted to do it for me and [fellow senior] Katy [Dolesh].”

As Larson begins her final few weeks as a ’Hawk, she believes Reid is ready to assume her role.

“I’m totally confident in this kid,” Larson said. “Baleigh is going to beat the expectations.”

Reid was excited to help the team send the seniors out on a high note.

“I just wanted to do all I could to get this win for Courtney and Katy,” Reid said. “Larson was actually hit-

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ting a lot of shots. She opened it up for me.”

Kent State (5-22, 3-13 MAC) took advantage of Miami’s slow start and led by 10 at the 8:30 mark of the first half.

After an 8-0 run and a 3-pointer from Larson, Miami gained the lead with 2:49 left.

The second half was a back-and-

forth battle, but the RedHawks held onto the lead for the final 12 minutes.

MU’s victory was due, in large part, to excellent first half shooting. The team hit 60.9 percent of its shots. The Golden Flashes shot 53.8 percent.

Both teams came back with poor second half shooting. Miami shot 25 percent from the field, while Kent

No. 5 MU splits series with No. 7 Denver MEN’S HOCKEY

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Junior forwards Riley Barber and Alex Gacek each scored twice as No. 5 Miami University hockey skated away with a 5-3 win at No. 7 University of Denver Friday night.

However, the tables turned Saturday when DU stifled the RedHawks 6-2.

“We got half the job done obviously,” Gacek said. “We came

out guns blazing Friday, and Saturday we just let a bigger team take it to us.”

Friday’s win marked the 12th time in head coach Enrico Blasi’s 16 seasons Miami won 20 games.

“Obviously, to get to 20 wins it’s a big deal for college hockey,” Blasi said. “Our year has gone fairly well, we’ve been pretty consistent.”

Saturday’s rout kept the ’Hawks (20-11-1, 13-8-1-1 National Collegiate Hockey Conference) from clinching home ice advantage for the

NCHC playoffs, but they remain in second place in the conference with 41 points.

Junior forward Sean Kuraly totaled his 16th goal of the year Friday to put the Red and White on top 1-0 with 7:05 left in the first. Denver (19-11-2, 12-9-1-1 NCHC) fought back in the second, outshooting the ’Hawks 14-7, but Miami held on for the win.

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For a fan, how much info is too much?

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GOING LONG WITH GEISLER In the last 20 some-odd years, being a sports fan has become much harder.

That might not be what Charles Barkley meant when he called analytics “crap” on TNT last week, but it is all I could think about when reflecting on his comments.

It is no longer enough to engage in a sports argument with some half-baked opinions. You’re prob-

ably going to get excoriated by a friend if you don’t have some serious stats to back up your views.

The genesis of this is a good thing. When professional sports teams make their decisions now, especially in baseball and basketball, they have almost all of the information they could possibly need to make these choices. They know every stat, and they employ some heavy-hitting minds to get them this information.

The benefits here should be obvious. When teams are making smarter decisions on their personnel strategies, the product will be all around better, especially when all teams are doing it.

When it comes to fans and the

games they love, there’s always going to be some degree of information asymmetry. And for most of us, it has nothing to do with smarts and everything to do with time. How much time does a person really have to commit to following major sports while also working a fulltime job?

Probably enough to watch a few games a week, maybe listen to drive time sports talk radio, and read the sports page (or peruse the litany of excellent sports sites we’ve got now).

Yet when we talk about everything now as consumers, we want to sound like industry insiders.

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RedHawks fall to Campbell, beat Furman BASEBALL

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A three-run fourth inning gave Miami University baseball a 4-3 victory over Furman University Saturday, after a 7-2 defeat to Campbell University Friday in the Fighting Camel Classic.

“We’re still waiting to see what we look like,” head coach Danny Hayden said. “These games are becoming increasingly important … and we didn’t play well in either game.”

After an early offensive surge,

Campbell led 5-0 by the end of the fourth inning. Freshman outfielder Brooks Urich put the ’Hawks on the board in his second career atbat with an RBI single that scored junior outfielder Jake Romano.

Sophomore second baseman Steve Sada cut the lead to 5-2 after bringing in senior first baseman Kendall Johnson. A RedHawk throwing error allowed another Fighting Camel run in the fifth. Campbell added another run before the inning ended to seal the win.

Senior right-hander Ryan Powers took the loss for Miami.

“Sometimes you can’t help the situation,” senior outfielder Matt

Honchel said. “We’ve had [ early deficits ] happen a couple times, like in the first inning. It could be our pitchers leaving the ball up in the zone, trying to find that rhythm and see where the umpire is calling … but it shows a lot of our team that we’re back in the later innings and we’re not getting down on ourselves.”

After trailing 3-1 in the first inning Saturday, the RedHawks came out firing at the bottom of the fourth. Senior left fielder Ryan Elble doubled to left field, scoring Honchel and advancing junior

State converted 32 percent of its attempts. However, the Red and White were 15 of 18 from the charity stripe in the second frame.

KSU redshirt senior center Cici Shannon posted seven points in the first four minutes of the contest, but was held to four points in the rest of the game.

“I think we were letting her catch

the ball too low,” head coach Cleve Wright said. “That’s too easy of a shot … we did a better job of trying to defend her early. We did double her a little bit.”

Sophomore guard Larissa Lurken kept the Golden Flashes within striking distance by firing a barrage of 3-pointers. She converted 4 of 11 attempts a managed to score a careerhigh 22 points.

The RedHawks return to action at the University of Akron. Miami is 33-12 in the all-time series against Akron, but suffered a 65-47 rout midJanuary at home.

The Zips (20-7, 10-6 MAC) are tied with the University of Toledo and Western Michigan University for the third seed in the MAC tournament.

Akron lost 87-80 to the University at Buffalo Saturday. Junior guard Anita Brown, who averages 18.7 points per game, totaled 31 points in the loss.

Senior forward Sina King is the MAC’s leading scorer and averages 20 points per game. Sophomore guard Hannah Plybon joins Brown and King on the list of top-12 scoring in the MAC, with 13 points per game.

Tip is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday at Akron’s James A. Rhodes Arena.

Falcons snap Miami’s four-game winning streak MEN’S BASKETBALL

JACK BREWER

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Bowling Green State University mounted a late comeback to snap Miami University’s four-game winning streak.

The Falcons (19-8, 11-5 MidAmerican Conference) were held scoreless for nearly the first 10 minutes of the second half, but railed to win 62-57.

“They did a good job of not giving in, and getting the shots that they wanted to get,” head coach John Cooper said. “On the opposite end, we just didn’t. We had some poor possessions, some turnovers, some late shots. We just weren’t quite there offensively. Having said that, we still had an opportunity to be right there and win the game but we just couldn’t figure that thing out and bring it home.”

Miami led by 11 with just over eight minutes to play, but the RedHawks couldn’t hang on.

“They just wanted it more today,” junior guard Eric Washington said.

“I think we took them for granted … They were a little bit tougher than us today.”

The RedHawks (12-17, 7-9 MAC) had two players score double figures, led by Washington with 16 points and junior guard Willie

Moore with 11. Miami struggled to keep possession of the ball, turning it over 17 times.

“You can’t have that,” Washington said of the turnovers. “Especially when they had 10. That’s seven more possessions they had.”

Saturday marked the team’s first loss since Feb. 10, when the ’Hawks lost on the road to Eastern Michigan University 83-69. Despite the loss Saturday, the RedHawks are rounding into form at the right time. With only two games left on the schedule, the MAC Tournament is right around the corner and Miami is battling for an opening round home game.

The next opponent for Miami is the University of Akron, who is coming off a win over Ohio. The Zips (18-11, 9-7 MAC) won 70-58 last Friday to snap a four-game losing streak. One of those losses came at the hands of the RedHawks back on Feb. 21, when Miami topped the Zips on the road 57-52 in overtime.

“This team never really gives in,” Cooper said. “Their competitive nature, they’re a resilient bunch of kids and we’re able to hang in there and make plays down the stretch.”

The RedHawks’ final home game is 7 p.m. Tuesday, as they look to bounce back from the loss to Bowling Green.

“We just gotta get better,” Washington said. “Hopefully, this humbles this group.”

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STAT OF THE DAY

The number of times during Enrico Blasi’s 16 year reign as Miami men’s hockey head coach that the RedHawks have won 20 or more games.

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