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Miami University — Oxford, Ohio

A Reflection on 2016-17 ASG Cabinet

FOUR MIAMI STUDENTS ARRESTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

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JACK EVANS JAKE GOLD THE MIAMI STUDENT

CRIME

EMILY WILLIAMS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Four Miami students were arrested for dealing prescription drugs and cocaine. The arrests, which all occurred last week, were the result of a six-month investigation by the Butler County Undercover Regional Narcotics (BURN) taskforce.

Juniors Brett Balick and Eric de Winter and senior William Berg were all charged with trafficking in drugs at the F5 level. An F5 charge is the least severe felony charge. In Ohio, when dealing with cocaine, the F5 classification indicates 4 grams or less of the drug.

Prison time is not presumed at this level.

Sophomore Roman Sembay was charged with possession of drugs at the F4 level (for cocaine, five to nine grams) and possession of drugs at the M1 level. M1 charges are the most severe misdemeanor charges. If Sembay pleads guilty to the F4 possession charge, prison time is not presumed.

The Oxford Police Department assisted the BURN taskforce and the Butler County Sheriff’s Office in serving arrest and search warrants throughout the week. At least one of the arrests occurred on campus.

Balick, 21, is a business management major from Matthews, NC. The only previous charge filed against Balick through the Butler County Court is a noise violation from September 2016.

Dewinter, Berg and Sembay have no previous charges in Butler County.

Berg, 22, is a political science and psychology student from Columbus, OH. De Winter is a 21-yearold art major from Rye, NY. Sembay, 19, is a mechanical engineering student from Strongsville, OH. Claire Wagner, director of news and communications for the university, noted that students who break laws that also violate Miami’s standards of conduct may face discipline from the university as well as civil authorities.

Butler County’s BURN taskforce was formed in 2009 to better utilize resources from multiple agencies including the Fairfield Township, Monroe, Oxford and West Chester police departments.

Additional charges are expected as the investigation continues.

RYAN TERHUNE PHOTO EDITOR

On Wednesday,April 26,WMSR hosted a free concert in the Armstrong Student Center featuring bands like Argonaut & Wasp, pictured above.

Read more about Oxford’s music scene on Page 3.

FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, ACADEMIC DISHONESTY STATS NOT THE FULL STORY ACADEMICS

MEGAN ZAHNEIS SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR During the 2015-2016 academic year, over 40 percent of reported incidences of academic dishonesty involved international students.

That number — 43.7 percent, to be specific — seems disproportionately high, considering that Miami’s international population made up just 11.4 percent of its total student body in fall 2015, according to the Office of Institutional Research’s Fact Book for 2015-16.

But the numbers aren’t as they seem, said Brenda Quaye, Miami’s coordinator for academic integrity.

First, Quaye said, it’s important to understand what exactly a reported incidence of dishonesty means —

that is, a case of suspected academic dishonesty reported by a faculty member to his or her department chair and brought to a hearing. These numbers don’t only represent cases in which the hearing found the student responsible for committing academic dishonesty, either — in fact, 104 of the 460 cases reported last academic year found students not guilty.

The term “academic dishonesty” can refer to a variety of circumstances, too — most commonly cheating (as on a test or quiz), plagiarism or “unauthorized collaboration” with other students on an assignment. According to the official incidents report for 2015-16, nearly half of the reported cases last year involved “students copying/using others’ work, giving work to others and/or collaborating in an unauthorized manner.”

Quaye noted that the 460 cases

reported last year are likely “a drop in the bucket” compared to the actual number of incidents that occurred.

“With, in the 2015 2016 academic year, 43.7 of our cases coming from international students, that does not mean that international students are committing dishonesty at that high a rate. It means they’re being reported at that high a rate,” Quaye said. “I don’t think they’re cheating any more than our domestic students.

I think they’re getting caught more and being referred more than our domestic students.”

Nevertheless, Quaye said, the outsize proportion of international student incidences is “concerning.”

Her office has been analyzing the data to determine patterns in the types of cases reported, whether internaINTERNATIONAL » PAGE 3

The new era of ASG was ushered in by a bench.

Under public pressure about the ASG executive cabinet’s meals and gifts fund (a longstanding stash for rewarding ASG’s top leaders), student body president Maggie Reilly decided to donate the entire budget item ($1500) to build two benches; one outside Armstrong Student Center and one outside Shriver Center.

ASG’s “new era,” as the incoming secretary of communications and media relations Gaby Meissner described it, is the time for ASG to refocus on helping students.

And it’s a rejection of old ASG, in both senses of the word. The new cabinet is leaving behind vestiges of past administrations, like meals and gifts. The 14-person cabinet is also young: five freshmen and four sophomores were elected in 2017, compared to three of each in 2016.

The bridge year between old and new ASG was led by Reilly, her vice president, Stuart Coulston, and the rest of the executive cabinet.

What did Reilly and Coulston hope to accomplish when they sought their positions in early 2016? A lot, according to their stillrunning campaign website.

The first — rec-center reform. Reilly hoped to replace the demolished Withrow Courts with a “res/rec,” a dual residence-hall/recreASG » PAGE 3

THE LOVE OF WINNING. THE PRICE OF LOSING. EMILY SIMANSKIS SPORTS EDITOR

ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

Redshirt sophomore Gus Ragland has quarterbacked Miami’s football program from a three-win season to a bowl game.

The locker rooms at Miami University under Fred C. Yager Stadium, in the bowels of Goggin Ice Center and in the tunnels of John D. Millett Hall have housed rosters of defeated players during the 2016-17 sports season. They’ve become familiar with tired bodies, raised voices and bruised confidence.

They welcome dreams of championships while they retain the sting of consecutive losing seasons.

But they’ve also hosted hundreds of football players who have been playing the game since kindergarten, hockey players who have been skating since they could stand and basketball players who don’t know a childhood without travel teams and rec leagues.

It has been at least two full seasons since

the three “major” varsity sports at Miami have seen some kind of post-season success.

It has been longer since the programs have won any kind of title.

On November 4, 2016, the seriousness of Miami Football’s situation outweighed the masses of broad linebackers and lean quarterbacks. The locker room’s doubt was masked with hope from two decisive victories, though Miami was not supposed to beat Central Michigan University. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Gus Ragland and his team were not expected to win, just like they weren’t expected to win a conference championship because they hadn’t since 2010.

Expectations don’t drive a student-athlete – passion for the game does. Gus started playing football in kindergarten and had to play with the second and third graders SPORTS » PAGE 14

NEWS p. 3

PHOTOS p. 4

CULTURE p. 6

TRAVEL p. 7

ENTERTAINMENT p. 8

EDITORIAL p. 12

EXPLORING OXFORD’S MUSIC SCENE

THE SPRING SEMESTER IN PHOTOS

MOVING OUT AND MOVING ON

OUTSIDE OXFORD: A DAY IN HAMILTON

EDITORS’ PICKS: SONGS OF THE SEMESTER

REMEMBER YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY

“The shows are my favorite thing about college.

They speak to my soul.”

From news to culture to sports and beyond, the images that told our stories.

“Young adulthood is nomadic...Home is what and where we make it.”

Less than half an hour from campus, a city full of sites students rarely see.

From throwbacks to new tracks, the songs we can’t stop playing.

“This area has real needs with real people and real livelihoods...”

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EIGHTH SEXUAL ASSAULT OF SEMESTER REPORTED CRIME

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Members of the Official Street Preachers, pictured here from September, returned to haunt the free speech zone at the Shriver bus stop.

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CHANGE IN STUDENT HANDBOOK TO GIVE STUDENTS CONFIDENCE OESCR

JAKE GOLD ASST. NEWS EDITOR Students will now officially not be assumed responsible when they are brought into disciplinary hearings, according to an addition to the Miami student handbook pushed forward

by ASG’s governmental relations committee.

This move is designed to give students confidence in the disciplinary process, including Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution (OESCR) hearings, and student court hearings, not to overhaul the system.

“I actually don’t think that it will change the process itself,” vice president for student affairs Jayne Brownell said. “It was already there.

We train all of our hearing officers and panels not to walk in the door with the assumption of responsi-

bility. But if students haven’t been seeing that…[the change] can only be a good thing.”

Any actual changes to the proceedings would be difficult. FERPA (The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) protects student privacy in disciplinary hearings, so there is little opportunity for auditing the process, according to former ASG secretary of governmental relations Austin Worrell.

But in Worrell’s eyes, the change will be big for students, especially those who believe that they’re being treated unjustly by OESCR or Student Court.

“If we can codify this, this is a starting point where students will see that they’re being treated fairly, and it holds administrators to a code that says, ‘this is how you have to do it,’” Worrell said.

The addition to the student handbook was carefully researched by Worrell and the ASG governmental

relations committee. They found several schools with a code similar to what they were proposing: the University of California Berkeley, Washington University, Boston College and the University of Toledo.

They also found that students who believe they are being treated fairly are more likely to follow student codes of conduct, according to the Kansas Law Review.

So with that knowledge, they drafted a bill, recommending an addition to the student handbook.

It was approved by the ASG governmental relations committee and the ASG senate. It was brought to the student affairs council, but tabled because of legal uncertainty. University general counsel Robin Parker modified the wording, and Worrell brought the bill back to Student Affairs Council (SAC) on April 26, where it passed unanimously.

The new wording comes from the university’s title IX protocol for

sexual and interpersonal misconduct.

It does not use the phrase “presumption of innocence,” and avoids the words “guilty” and “innocent.”

Brownell says it’s very intentional.

A “presumption of innocence” has a very specific legal meaning, she says.

Student disciplinary hearings are not legal proceedings.

The purpose is the same, however: Students will not enter their disciplinary hearings with the assumption that they are guilty.

This isn’t the first time students have had input into student codes.

Brownell said that students helped to write the title IX codes, too.

And, according to Worrell, this won’t be the last time that students take an active role in shaping the school’s policy. ASG and other student advocacy groups will continue to push for fairness in the disciplinary system.

“It’s the beginning of a process where we keep holding our university to a higher standard,” he said.

MIAMI ALCOHOL COMMITTEE HOSTS THREE-DAY CONFERENCE ON DRINKING ALCOHOL

BRENDAN SMITH THE MIAMI STUDENT During the first month of spring semester, 46 Miami students were transported to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital by the Oxford Life Squad for alcohol intoxication, according to the crime and fire log provided by the Miami University Police Department. The log includes dozens of other drug and alcohol related incidents that resulted in verbal warnings or disciplinary action from the university between during the 2017 spring semester.

These events, along with the death of firstyear student Erica Buschick, have led the Miami community to a moment of self-reflection, forcing the community to ask: how can we keep this from happening again?

As part of an ongoing effort to educate students on the dangers of alcohol abuse, faculty and staff involved with the Miami Alcohol Coordinating Committee held a conference this past week focusing on the risks associated with students’ alcohol consumption.

The three-day long forum began on Tuesday, April 25 with a screening of the HBO documentary, “Risky Drinking,” which aired at 4:30 p.m. in Wilks Theater in the Armstrong Student Center. The documentary featured stories of individuals from a variety of ages, backgrounds and risk levels, detailing their individual struggles with alcohol use disorder.

Another screening of the documentary took place at Talawanda High School the following evening at 6 p.m.

While some of the more severe cases presented in the documentary were less applicable to the drinking culture at Miami, the story of Kenzie — a young professional in her early twenties — was particularly relevant. Despite leading an otherwise normal life, Kenzie was a regular binge drinker, consuming 14 or more drinks in one evening.

“From what she was saying, Kenzie was drinking to forget. She drank to forget her feelings. She drank to forget her anxiety about the real world. And I think that’s really common here,” said Josh Ubbes, a senior who attended the screening in Wilks Theatre. “So many of these college kids that are 18 or 19, they have no regulation at all. They have no idea what their limits are, and it’s a serious problem.”

The three-day panel continued on April 27 with a panel discussion moderated by Mike Curme, Dean of Students, focused specifically on the drinking behavior at Miami University. The panel consisted of Rebecca Baudry Young, director of student wellness, Ritch Hall, psychologist and coordinator of substance abuse services, Aaron Luebbe, associate professor of psychology and Rose Marie Ward, professor of kinesiology and health.

All four of the speakers are members of the Alcohol Coordinating Committee. During the discussion, the panelists spoke about a wide variety of issues, ranging from the harmful

CRIME

STUDENT CRIME SUMMARY Based on reports from April 24 to April 30

CEILI DOYLE ASST. NEWS EDITOR This past week has been inundated with crime reports according to the Oxford Campus Clery Act Public Crime Log issued by the MUPD. As of April 30, there have been nine alcohol violations involving underage students, four Good Samaritan-related alcohol violations, three verbal warning alcohol violations, one alcohol violation of official business obstruction and one open container alcohol violation.

effects that drinking has on student health to the deleterious effects that student drinking has on permanent residents of Oxford.

“When we’re focusing on these high-risk behaviors. We look at what are the negative consequences, and yes there are individual negative consequences that students will experience,” said Young. “But there are also some other negative consequences. It has impeded other students’ abilities to have a college experience that they choose to have.

It makes people feel like they don’t belong here because they don’t drink… Families can’t go uptown on Saturday afternoon anymore because there’s so much commotion going on with day drinking that they don’t want their young children to be exposed to.”

During the discussion, the panelists explained that, despite the perception that everyone drinks on campus, only about 20 percent of the student body is out drinking on any given weekend. According to Young, the high-visibility of alcohol consumption in Oxford leads to the misconception that everyone is out at the bars, which alienates many students who would rather not drink.

The panelists also outlined a number of measures that the Miami University administration has taken to combat high-risk drinking,. This includes various recovery support groups, printing students’ date of birth on ID cards. The administration is also including the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association in the its efforts to cut down

In addition, between April 26 and April 30 there were eight alcohol-related hospitalizations.

In the past two weekends there have been a total of 14 alcoholrelated hospitalizations.

There was also an assault offense related to dating violence in which Residence Life in Presser Hall reported a known male student pushing a female student. Meanwhile, there were sex offenses reported on April 27 and on April 29.

Five drug violations occurred throughout the week, and three separate counts of disorderly conduct were reported.

A female student was sexually assaulted by an unknown male after an off-campus house party between the late hours of Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29. This assault marks the eighth reported this semester.

According to an announcement on the myMiami homepage, a female student was leaving an off-campus house party when a male whom she did not know offered to walk her home. She tried to walk away from him, but he led her to a car where she says he assaulted her.

The female student left the car, and her friends were able to find her and take her home. She described the suspect as a biracial male, Caucasian and African American, about 6’ with a medium build.

A Campus Crime Alert, the text and email notification system used to alert Miami students and faculty of crimes reported on campus and in Oxford, was not sent out about this assault.

Six females, five Miami students and one non-student, reported that they were sexually assaulted in February. One sexual assault was reported in March as well as one sexual imposition incident.

Of those assaults, four occurred on campus. All of the victims were female, and five of the victims knew the assaulter. Last semester, two sexually assaults were reported, one in August and one in September.

These assaults have occurred in the midst of an investigation into Miami University’s potential mishandling of sexual assault cases.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which is responsible for enforcing Title IX regulations, initiated the investigation in November after a student filed a complaint against the university.

The complaint accuses the university of failing to “promptly and equitably respond to complaints, reports and/or incidents of sexual violence of which it had notice.”

The university’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program, located in room 104 at the Health Services Center, can provide information and resources for victims of sex-based offenses. Information and additional resources can also be found on Miami’s Campus Safety and Security website.

drinking , as well as increasing the parental role when it comes to dealing with alcoholrelated issues.

Additionally, the panelists praised the success of the Late Night Miami program.

Sponsored by the Office of Student Activities and the Division of Student Affairs, Late Night Miami has hosted free events for students every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night in Armstrong Student Center since August of 2015. These events range from coffee houses and concerts, to screenings of box office movies.

According to Curme, Late Night Miami has been “colossally successful” in the past year and a half.

“Hundreds of students are going every week.

Is it attracting people who would otherwise be going to the bars? We don’t know. But it’s important to validate the 60 percent of students who enter Miami as non-drinkers and provide them with alcohol-free alternatives,” Curme said.

Furthermore, there were two thefts that took place on April 26.

A bicycle was reported stolen from the north bike rack in Bishop Hall and a wallet was stolen from an unattended backpack in an unattended locker room in the Rec Center.

There were also three counts of criminal mischief on April 26, 28 and 29. These incidents included damage reported on the third floor of McFarland Hall, damage to a restroom sink in Symmes Hall and a male student arrested in Hepburn Hall, respectively.

Additionally, there were two instances of property damage, one

on April 26 and one on April 29.

This included yellow paint found on floor near the basement elevator of Anderson Hall and a quad side card reader broken off of a wall in Flower Hall.

Similarly, a case of vandalism was reported on April 30 in McFarland Hall when damage was done to the building and furniture during the overnight hours.

On April 28, a male, Miami University employee found potentially threatening videos targeted toward him on Facebook by another male subject, and the incident was reported as a stalking crime.

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TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

THE OXFORD UNDERGROUND MUSIC

CÉILÍ DOYLE ASST. NEWS EDITOR The steady throb of the bass drum begins to echo through the house.

The huddled masses of Miami students and Oxford residents disperse from the kitchen and into the front room.

A few drop off donations in a box marked for the ACLU, and a couple of others pause to look at the brightly decorated buttons for sale.

One reads “Defend the Free Press,” another “This government may not love you, but I do.”

Some clutch cans of beer; others gaze wistfully after returning from the back room where the smell of pot wafts through the crevice in the door.

Multicolored Christmas lights adorn the walls of 305 S. College (“The Banana Stand”) as the frontman addresses the crowd.

“Our name is Hoan and we’re from Montreal,” he says, pausing to readjust his microphone. “And we’re happy to be here in Oxford tonight.”

The bassist starts to strum his guitar, and Hoan begins their set: crooning, drumming and dropping psychedelic beats to a crowd of college students and townies alike.

Every few weeks in Oxford, bands come to play for students and residents in a series of rotating offcampus houses that host a variety of acts as an alternative to the mainstream party culture.

“It’s all about expression,” a sophomore at the Hamilton campus, Dillon Lubbers, said. “It’s about going to the house shows and feeling like you’re accepted, it’s a place where it doesn’t matter what your identity is or if you fall outside of any spectrum of what’s expected of Miami culture.”

Lubbers, who is taking over the booking of bands and organization of Oxford’s house show scene next year, is incredibly proud to be a part of something that is such a unique subset to the overarching Uptown culture at Miami University.

“This started for outsiders,” Lubbers said. “It’s a haven for those who are not the Miami whitecollar Farmer School of Business students.”

The scene sprung out of an initial desire for independent bands to play original music in Oxford, but in addition to a musical venue, the shows have become an inclusive environment that has a zero-tolerance policy on rape culture and abuse of any kind.

While the concept of having an underground music scene, in which independent bands played original music, has been around in Oxford since the 1990s, 2013 marked the beginning of the student-led booking and organization of house shows.

“There were a few motivating factors that led us to create the house shows,” founder and senior Ezra Saulnier said. “The first of which was that we were playing music ourselves and there was no place in Oxford for people making original music.”

Saulnier, who is the frontman for the band CrossCountry, credits the success of the house show scene to a social media push by inviting people through Facebook events with his fellow co-founder and bandmate Emily McColgan.

“You just have to do things” Saulnier said. “We thought there might an audience because we had been to house shows in Bloomington, Athens and Columbus.”

Saulnier and McColgan first began hosting shows in the fall of 2013, often playing alongside the bands that they booked. Joe Ittle, a drummer for the band The Alaskans,

Cross Country performing at an off-campus house show in Oxford. has offered his PA sound system for every single house show in Oxford since their inception.

One show in particular that sticks out in Saulnier’s mind is from the spring of 2015.

“The audience sizes were the largest they’ve ever been and it was the ultimate validation of everything we’d been doing,” Saulnier said.

“I have a lot of good memories of that house, ‘Mother Superior’ on 321 W. High Street. We recorded our first EP for CrossCountry in the living room where bands played the following night.”

Still, he remains apprehensive about the future of this relatively underground scene. Saulnier wonders if enough younger students and town residents will be inspired to carry on the legacy of hosting the house shows.

“I think there are a lot of really good people in Oxford, and the town can be conducive to a long-running

A senior’s stress testimony: Get your sleep HEALTH

ASHLEY HETHERINGTON THE MIAMI STUDENT It took a burst appendix for senior Caroline Pritchard to realize she needed sleep.

She powered through a broken hand, salivary gland problems, lingering illness, constant dehydration and plummeting grades. But in the hospital bed, after an appendectomy, Pritchard decided she need-ed to make a serious lifestyle change.

Before her appendix burst, Pritchard juggled both a full course load and frequent games and practices as a member of Miami University’s field hockey team. Because she was staying up later, she found she was taking too much medication for her ADHD, which caused her to feel dehydrated. To succeed on the field and in the classroom, she thought she needed to sacrifice sleep.

Dr. Susan Bantz, a full-time physician at Miami’s Student Health Services, says that pulling all-nighters can weaken the immune system, making a person more susceptible to illness.

“Your body is constantly fighting infection,” Bantz said. “If your immune system is weak because of increased stress and lack of sleep, your body might be too inadequate to fight off an infection, like one in your appendix.”

Pritchard wasn’t the only one on her team losing strength because of a hectic schedule.

“I saw a lot of my friends and other athletes struggling with trying to do everything. On my team, a girl had torn her ACL. During her recovery, she went to practice after four hours of sleep and tore her ACL again,” she said.

Pritchard’s case is extreme, yet many students struggle with the same issues.

“It’s a vicious cycle that a lot of people fall into,” Pritchard said.

Bantz sees notable similarities in cases where students aren’t getting enough sleep.

“One situation I see a lot is someone strictly running on caffeine and barely sleeping for days to cram for an exam, and are so dizzy and weak when they come to see me that they can barely stand up,” Bantz said. “The other common situation I see is someone getting really sick after their test is over.”

Some students joke about their lack of sleep in college, while others may see their extreme sleep deprivation as an opportunity for bragging rights. However, healthcare professionals agree that the consequences of inadequate sleep are decidedly unfunny.

“Your brain doesn’t function at the opti-

mal level in order to learn. You can barely pay attention and have problems remembering important information,” Bantz said. “You’re also more prone to make poor decisions and have a depressed mood.”

According to the American College Health Association, college students should strive for at least seven hours of sleep a night. However, many college students struggle to reach this.

The University of Georgia Health Center says sleep deprivation causes colds and flu, more stress and increased weight gain. Students who don’t sleep enough are also more likely to have a lower GPA, get in automobile accidents due to fatigue and have decreased athletic performance.

“I have anxiety and ADHD which caused me to stay up late, but when I didn’t get sleep, I would misread texts and freak out about little things,” Pritchard said. “I would be so anxious and tired that I couldn’t even get work done.”

Elise Clerkin, an assistant professor in psychology at Miami who specializes in mental health issues, says there are alternatives to this lifestyle.

“There is another option...the choice doesn’t need to be between cramming, having a social life, and not getting sleep,” Clerkin said.

“Instead, the choice should be balance. For the student who finds themselves in the position of staying up all night, I would question what got them to that point, if they can make shifts in their schedule so they aren’t tipping so far out of balance and need to cram.”

Though it took Pritchard a severe medical crisis to change her behavior, she urges other students to seek help before they reach that point.

She recommends that people take advantage of resources such as Miami’s Rinella Learning Center and professors’ office hours, as well as asking friends for guidance. The Rinella Learning Center connects students with tutors and frequently holds time management workshops and stress workshops to help students manage their hectic schedules.

“When I started using my resources and doing everything I could to avoid staying up late, my grades got better,” Pritchard said.

The field hockey player and psychology major is graduating in just a few weeks. She knows the stress of finals is looming large on Miami’s campus, but she is glad she can use her previous mistakes to help her peers .

“You individually are not enough,” she said.

“If you want to do better than you need to ask people for help. There’s no shame in that.”

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show scene if there’s enough interest in music or culture or art,” Saulnier said. “But I think that the drinking culture has such a monolith presence here that this culture could just eat away at [the scene].”

Many of the scene’s original founding members and attendees are graduating this year or moving on.

Lubbers has decided to take up the mantle of organizing the shows for next year. He also hopes to increase the DIY/house show scene’s social media presence by creating a Twitter, Instagram, official Facebook, etc., as well as potentially expanding to poetry readings and open mic nights.

Sophomore Rebecca Sowell will be replacing senior Lauren Salem in booking bands for shows on a regional, national and even international level.

Sowell has been attending shows since first semester of her freshman

year and fondly recollects seeing the band Hoops perform this time last year for the first time. Since then she has watched them rise to the ranks of her “Discover Weekly” Spotify playlist and even open for other bands on national tours.

“My goal for next year is to get Hoops to come back to Oxford,” Sowell said. “They were in the last show of 2016, and it was such an incredible feeling to to listen to them.”

Sowell is optimistic about the future of hosting the house shows and believes that such a welcoming community and inclusive space won’t disappear just because its original members are moving on.

“The shows are easily my favorite thing about college,” Sowell said.

“They speak to my soul in a way; it gives me such a huge amount of happiness to my core, and I want to do that for others next year.”

New certificate combines aging and entrepreneurship EDUCATION

MAYA FENTER THE MIAMI STUDENT Beginning this fall, students who have earned an undergraduate degree can pursue Miami’s Social Entrepreneurship & Aging Graduate Certificate (SEA), a collaboration among the Department of Sociology and Gerontology, the Scripps Gerontology Center and the Farmer School of Business Institute for Entrepreneurship.

The program teaches skills in gerontology and entrepreneurship with the goal of creating businesses and products that target the aging population.

“How do we inspire entrepreneurs to help make a better life for an aging population?

Because we have such a large number that are aging,” said Aaron Abbott, a faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology who has helped launch SEA. “When you look around within the U.S. or at least within the university systems in the U.S., you don’t see a lot of other programs that have blended this idea of social entrepreneurship and aging together.”

The year-long certificate program consists of four courses: GTY 601 (New Frontiers in Aging), ESP 501 (Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Business Models), GTY 612 (Innovations and Trends in the Aging Marketplace) and ESP 590 (Launching an Entrepreneurial Venture).

Each course is three credit hours and will be taught online through Canvas during a 10-week period.

In the first gerontology course, students will learn about the basics of aging, such

as the theory of aging, changes that occur when one ages and how policies like Medicare and Medicaid affect aging adults. The second gerontology course then focuses on long-term services and support and what the industry looks like for aging adults.

Though aging is a universal experience, the aging population is often overlooked, making gerontology an important field of study, said first-year Jessica Boemker, who took GTY 154 (Big Ideas in Aging) in Fall 2016.

“I think it’s important because we have a very large aging population right now, and it’s only getting larger, and we are super unprepared for dealing with all of those people,” Boemker said. “There’s just not a lot of time invested into the aging population because it’s something that not a lot of people think about until they get there.”

Abbott and Brett Smith, Founding Director of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship, created the program with three groups in mind: traditional entrepreneurs, those already involved in organizations that support the aging but want formal education on aging and those pursuing encore careers — careers one begins later in life after retiring from an initial career.

Abbott hopes about 10 to 20 students will enroll in the program for its first session and that the program will grow as more people understand its purpose. Regardless of numbers, Abbott is ultimately eager to see what students will do with what they learn.

“It’ll be interesting to see what kind of things come out of it,” Abbott said. “It’s one thing to teach it, but another to watch three or four years later, the business ideas that come out and get delivered in the marketplace.”

Theresea, Thanks for being patient this spring

Have a great summer!

- A.J. (aka the kid who also has homework and likes sleep but no one ever asks)

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ABOVE A student watches in shock as EMS, local police, and the Oxford fire department respond to a bar fight this Ferbruary which left a Chicago man in intensive care.

LEFT Magie Callaghan, a junior journalism and diplomacy major, won ASG’ 2017 presidential election on a platform of inclusivity, expanding mental health resources and revitalizing Uptown.

BELOW Miami’s Studio 88 hosted the premiere of BLISS (or, Emily Post is Dead), a divine doemstic comedy featuring the heroines of Greek mythology as 1960s housewives.

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LEFT Lauren Leonesio, a junior art major and a member of the Miami University synchronized skating team, begins a solo performance featuring an LED hula hoop at the Annual Spring Ice Show .

RIGHT President Greg Crawford and Renate Crawford at the opening of Miami’s new athletic facility. The new center cost a total of over $25 million.

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RIGHT For the thrid time in the past four years, Miami Women’s hockey skated to victory at the CCWHA championship, overcoming a 3-point deficit in the last 10 minutes to beat Michigan State 5-4.

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ABOVE Minnie Onken takes the runway at MUFD’s annual fashion show wearing pieces by junior Gabriell Nti. Their 11th annual show debuted a new runway in addition to the works of 22 student designers.

RIGHT A student watches activists from local progressive groups protest President Trump’s ex ecutive orders on immigration.

BELOW Managing Editor Devon Shuman hiked to Horseshoe Bend with Miami’s Outdoor Adventure Club over spring break. Devon’s account of the trip was featured in TMS’s new Travel section.

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ABOVE NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar addressed a sold out crowd at Hall Auditorium, sharing his experiences as a scholar athlete, and as an ethnic and religous minority.

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College Nomads: Moving Out and Moving On

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EMMA K. SHIBLEY THE MIAMI STUDENT When my brother and I were home for Easter, my mom welcomed us with bowls of Raisin Bran and big mugs of decaffeinated tea, long hugs that started with her telling us how good it was to have us home, even just for 24 hours, and that ended with a kiss on the cheek. She let my brother fall asleep in the recliner and let me take the last granola bar in the pantry. She bent the old rules and put our dishes in the dishwasher for us when we, so used to dining halls and drive-thrus, forgot. But she had one firm request of us before we headed back to Oxford: Stop by the house.

To contextualize: We still call it “the house,” but we don’t live there anymore. My mom and stepdad recently completed a downsizing move from the house where I grew up to a condo-apartment thing close to I-675. Within the past month, the house found a buyer: a military couple relocating from Virginia in early June.

My brother, Lee, felt like we wouldn’t have time to make that visit on Easter Sunday — he had to pick up a friend from the airport later that afternoon and wanted to get on the road as soon as possible. He and my mom kept hedging toward an unsatisfying compromise — that we’d skip it that day, but he would squeeze in a trip home some day this summer before the new owners moved in.

“Today’s the last chance you’ll have to see the house with furniture in it,” my mom finally said. The sale wouldn’t close for another month or so, but this would be our last chance to say goodbye when it was still recognizable as home.

So, with 30 minutes to spare before we absolutely had to be on the road so as to not be late to our evening social and extracurricular commitments, we drove over to Blackbirch Drive, kicked our shoes off in the garage and stepped inside.

I’ve been home more often than Lee this semester, so it wasn’t my first time seeing the house in full-on sale mode:

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Yound adulthood is nomadic. But home is what, or where, we make it.

countertops clutterless and gleaming, our senior pictures gone from the dining room wall, crystal-clear window panes and a vase of nearlyfresh flowers in every other room.

But then I went upstairs to my room. I hadn’t seen a floor that bare, a carpet that clean since we had been the ones on the buying end, flying from Kansas to Ohio over spring break of my fourth grade year to house hunt.

The realtor brought choose-yourown-adventure books in a reusable grocery bag for me and my brother to leaf through in the car when we got bored of the grown-up talk of square footage and school districts, numbed to the distinguishing features of any particular house after seeing a dozen every afternoon.

I can picture one house I sort of liked from that week of searching — a tri-level with red siding and a steep driveway on a tree-lined street. In the backyard, a maze of terraced decks surrounded a kidney-shaped swimming pool. Once we’d stepped inside and learned that the last owners were smokers, we didn’t come back for a second look.

“They say you can do it, but it’s really impossible to get that smell out of the walls,” my mom said. I nodded silently and wrote it down in the notebook I was carrying, a little investigative journalism student in the School of Moving Away.

I don’t even remember ever visiting the house that we eventually settled on: the one on Blackbirch Drive, the house with two staircases, one by the

front door and one leading up from the living room in the back.

“Safer in case of a fire,” my mom said soberly. “We’ll get you kids one of those rope ladders you could hang out your window.” But when I heard there’d be two staircases, I could only imagine double the twinkle-lit garlands across banisters for Christmas, double the white wooden spindles to peek my face through, double the carpeted terrain to scramble up on all fours just for the hell of it.

That was all in 2007. Now, after two years of gradual decluttering and months of intensive sprucing up, the house looked beautiful, fringing on perfect: way, way more so than our life had ever been when we’d lived there.

This was the house that the three of us — my mom, my brother and me — moved into after my dad died. For every happy or fun or special memory I could think of in a room, I felt ones of grief, too, and ones of bittersweet rebuilding. I cried as I said goodbye to my bedroom, the screened-in porch, the music room where our baby grand piano still regally sat. I cried three more times in the car before we even reached the highway.

When I moved out of my dorm room in Tappan at the end of last year, I didn’t feel sad. I’d hardly spent any time there, except to sleep at what could be loosely defined as “night” and do my makeup in the mornings.

My side of the room had only been truly clean on move-in day and had

Miami’s Institute for Food is partnering with local farms to bring a little more color to Oxford’s diet. A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project will allow people in the Oxford area to get farm fresh produce all summer. It will run from May 30 to Sept. 6.

The CSA project aims to build a symbiotic relationship between the Oxford community and local farms. Subscribers get locally grown, fresh and varied produce, and their subscription helps to lessen the negative impact that variables like bugs and weather have on the income of farms.

Co-director of the Institute for Food, Peggy Shaffer, has been heavily involved in the project since the beginning. In addition to furthering the mission of the Institute to promote sustainable farming, the project presented an educational opportunity “We wanted to expand on our educational mission as to what does sustainable agriculture look like, what does healthy food look like and how can we help increase the capacity for that in the region,” Shaffer said.

After the Institute came up with the idea, the project received a grant from the provost to help support the endeavor.

After the university released an article about the project, Shaffer’s inbox was flooded with requests for subscription information. The minimum number of subscribers the proj-

ect needed was 15, and they reached that goal within a week. Now, they have around 17 subscribers with a limit of 25. They are also planning a waiting list for this summer.

But the farm isn’t just about getting fresh vegetables to subscribers. It also serves as a hands-on way for students to learn about food, farming and running a business.

“We imagined it as a working laboratory — a research laboratory — but also as a working business,” Shaffer said.

The farm’s operation director, Charles Griffin, emphasized that a farm is about more than food production “A farm is more than growing food,” he said. “It is also a business.

A business that requires tools and machinery, a lot of site development, soil enrichment, fencing, irrigation systems, training for farm workers, product sales and food safety.”

Griffin also pointed out that most startups take four to six years to break even on revenue, but this project aims to do it in just three years because of the terms of the grant.

Miami students have been helping Griffin out on the farm for this project. Students in Environment and Sustainability 278, Food Studies and Food Systems, have been taking the crop plan (the shifting variety of produce over the summer), planting and caring for seeds and working in the field. This summer, the farm will have four interns working on the project.

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FEAST IN THE MIDEAST AN UNEXPECTED SUCCESS RELIGION

WILL GORMAN THE MIAMI STUDENT Organizers were late putting together the event.

Flyers were only distributed within participating groups.

A-frames and advertisements didn’t go up until the day of.

Yet somehow, crowds were so large that extra seats had to be brought into the Shriver Heritage Room Monday, April 24, for the Feast in the Mideast, a collaboration between multiple religious groups on campus.

If you ask Miami’s Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) president Zaheer Choudhury or Miami’s Hillel president Sam Adler, both will tell you the same thing – it was a success they didn’t anticipate.

“We definitely did not expect as big of a turnout,” said Choudhury. “It all worked out really well.”

The unanticipated number of guests were treated to a dinner of authentic Israeli and Arab cuisine.

Later in the night, attendees enjoyed a stand-up comedy show performed by the Laugh in Peace Comedy Tour, an interfaith trio of stand-up comedians representing Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

“It was awesome, amazing,” said the Reverend Susan Sparks, one of the comedians. “So many faith groups coming together like this is a great show of unity and says a lot about this campus.”

Although the Laugh in Peace trio were brought to campus primarily to perform, they also were able to enjoy the food.

Among the dishes served were Kosher beef, curried vegetables, Mujaddara (a Lebanese lentil dish) and more.

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RYAN TERHUNE PHOTO EDITOR Guests at the Feast in the Mideast enjoyed authentic Israeli and Arab cuisine, as well as a stand-up comedy show.

“The food was amazing,” said Muslim comedian Gibran Saleem.

“I had everything except maybe the knishes. It perfectly hit the spot.”

When asked about the success of the food, Choudhury simply motioned to empty trays and said, “Well, it’s gone.”

Saleem, who was marketed by fellow comedians Sparks and Rabbi Bob Alper as the “headliner” of the comedy show, has appeared on platforms such as MTV in the past. This, however, was his first time performing with Alper and Sparks as a part of the Laugh in Peace Tour.

“It was good seeing so many backgrounds,” said Saleem. “[Interfaith shows] can be hits or misses, but this was great.”

Choudhury offered a theory on why the feast ended up being such a popular event.

“Maybe people remembered the event from last year and wanted to come back,” Choudhury said. “Hopefully now it’ll be an annual thing.”

Choudhury had played a part in organizing last year’s Feast in the Mideast with the former Hillel president. A difference this year, however,

is that a few Christian organizations, such as the Progressive Christian Campus Ministry, were sponsors of the event as well. Last year’s Feast in the Mideast had only been sponsored

by Hillel and the MSA. “The Christians were definitely a welcome addition,” said Adler. “The turnout was really wonderful, it was great.”

Overall, six organizations collaborated on the event.

Although organization and planning of the feast began late, Choudhury said that having the experience from last year helped them move the process along quicker.

“This year, we sort of knew what to do, who to contact,” said Choudhury.

“Even though we started [planning] late, it wasn’t bad.”

Choudhury said the choice of the Laugh in Peace Tour was influenced by the choice to include Christian groups in sponsoring the event.

“When you laugh together, you can’t hate each other,” said Alper, who started the Laugh In Peace Tour in 2001. “Laughter brings people together.”

When Abby Chafe received word that the cast list for Miami University’s “The Wild Party” had been posted, she ducked out of her physics class early.

When she arrived at the list, Abby’s eyes went straight for the ensemble.

Being a freshman, that was the best role she was hoping to get.

Abby quickly realized her name was not listed among the ensemble.

She stood for a moment, wondering if she had not been cast at all, but then saw her name next to the character Queenie, the show’s leading lady.

Once the initial shock wore off, the hard work began.

The intense rehearsal process began after J-term. It included learning the score of the show and then doing scene work and choreography. Queenie is a beautiful blonde at a crossroads in her life who has spent the last three years in an abusive relationship.

The show’s assistant director had Abby research sexual assaults and read several victim reports through

the rehearsal process. She found this work crucial so that she could portray the role with the dignity and authenticity it deserved.

Abby said the research was horrendously difficult, as it dealt with such a heavy topic, but she felt it was worth it. Not only was it important to help Abby better appreciate the woman she was embodying, but she also believes the research could help audience members connect and relate to her character.

Connecting to people through performance is why Abby loves theatre so much.

“Art has the capacity to change the way that people think,” she said.

As a theatre major with a musical theatre minor, Abby knows she is pursuing what others may consider an unrealistic path. But, she realized theatre was the thing she loved most and couldn’t picture herself doing anything else.

Abby is working hard with the end goal being to teach theatre at a college, as she finds that theatre majors have the most passion and drive.

“I was meant to be creative and inspire other people to do so,” she said.

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Taking it to the extremes: Living life like the Finnish TRAVEL

ALISON PERELMAN CULTURE EDITOR HELSINKI, Finland — I stepped outside in my simple black two piece bathing suit, bare feet and hair tied up. The cold air hit my flushed skin and filled my desperate lungs. I could see my breath cloud in front of me. I walked along the deck, down the steps and to the ladder at the edge.

I looked down, hands clasped tight in front of my chest. The water was clear, shallow enough to see the rocks at the bottom. I looked across the shore at the larger rocks still capped in snow, the sky beginning to change color with the sunset.

I was standing on the edge of the Baltic Sea in one degree Celsius weather wearing only a swimsuit, and I actually thought it felt good.

I must be insane. I must really be insane because I wasn’t just standing, I was preparing to jump in.

The Finns believe in living life to the extreme, and the most popular way they do so is by sitting in 100 plus degree saunas then countering it with a dip in the sea.

As soon as I stepped outside in Helsinki, I regretted my commitment to participate in the Finnish tradition. Granted, there wasn’t any real commitment, but I’d already told my boyfriend and mom what I was planning. My mom’s only response had been to “not catch pneumonia.” So now it had to be done.

The other girls and I had started in the smoke sauna — something we’d been told could potentially make us smell like a cooked ham for days due to the lack of a chimney.

It wasn’t bad at first. Then a man walked into the small, dark room and added more water to the hot rocks. A few seconds later and the air was practically intolerable. The steam fogged my vision and burned my nose or throat with every intake.

I could feel the sweat beginning

to pool on my forehead and run down the back of my neck. Finally, we couldn’t take it any longer and walked as quickly as we could down the steep steps and out the door.

The air outside felt amazingly refreshing.

I contemplated the water and watched as a classmate took the plunge. I decided to soak in the regular sauna for just a bit longer before doing it myself.

The regular sauna was nicer — more open and light compared to the dark, oven-like smoke sauna.

But it still had the potential to reach 100 degrees Celsius and, eventually, the sweat began to form again.

Once it felt as though my skin must be burnt and there was fire in my lungs, I decided it was time and headed outside.

I touched the ladder’s curved metal railing: bad idea, it felt worse than ice. I went slow, one rung at a time, still keeping my feet just above the water.

I tried to think about how everyone always says to just jump, as opposed to wading in, because then it won’t feel as cold. But I couldn’t help it. I dipped the tip of my big toe in.

It was a bad idea. Now I knew just how cold the water was, and I knew that I just had to do it — a leap of faith.

I let go of the railing, leaped backwards, and went under. For a split second, my mind did stop.

And then the cold sank in.

I popped my head out of the water, gasping, and reached as quickly as I could for the steps to pull myself out.

Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.

I ran up the steps toward the sauna building and back down to where the others were still waiting. Oh my god. It was all I could get out, all I could think.

The air stung my skin making it feel like I was still in the water, or having ice cubes poured over my body. We soon returned to the warmth of the sauna.

Then we were ready to do it again.

I thought it would be easier the second time. Maybe I would be able to stay in the water longer. Instead, I found myself again teetering on the water’s edge.

But I jumped, my foot hitting a surprisingly smooth rock at the bottom. And again, my only objective became to get out of the water as quickly as possible.

Talking about a potential third jump, I realized that the process was addicting. Both extremes — your sweat being instantly replaced by goosebumps, gasping for air and out of shock, the rising feeling as your body takes in heat again. It was exhilarating.

I didn’t jump again, but tried for more time. I managed to get down to the last step of the ladder, the water coming up to my knees, and lasted no more than a minute.

Back in the sauna, I finally understood the saying “ice in your veins.” My toes were numb and my calves began to tingle. It hurt at first, but then became oddly relaxing.

I sat back, closed my eyes, and took in another drag of hot air, letting the heat cleanse the cold saltwater from my skin.

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Icey shoreline adjacent Helsinki (top). Overlooking the Baltic Sea before submergent ritual (bottom).

Outside Oxford: Hamilton’s Hidden History Revived OUTSIDE OXFORD

EMILY WILLIAMS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Just a short 25-minute drive from Miami’s campus, metal sculptures dozens of feet tall dot the landscape of the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park.

From the bright orange behemoth that is sculptor Alexander Liberman’s abstract “Abracadabra” to the monumental bronze and steel of Michael Dunbar’s “Euclid’s Cross,” a walk through this park makes it hard to believe you’re just outside Hamilton, OH. The 265-acre park was created by Harry T. Wilks (yes, the same Wilks who is the namesake of the Armstrong Student Center’s theatre and Miami’s Leadership Institute). A likeness of Wilks, immortalized by sculptor John Leon, lounges on the right side of the bench in the park, inviting visitors to take a seat next to him.

Wilks first bought the property to build his personal residence, but, after his home was completed in 1995 he received several offers to purchase home sites on the land.

By that time, though, Wilks had an attachment to the beauty of the property — to its fields and forests and bodies of water. Instead of selling off parcels of the land, Wilks formed a nonprofit foundation and started to travel, visiting sculptors and purchasing art.

The sculpture park’s grand opening in the spring of 1996 was highly anticipated, and, thanks to annual events like Holiday Lights on the Hill and the annual Hamilton Art Fair, interest in the site hasn’t waned for the past decade. Pyramid Hill is still the largest nonprofit in Butler County and attracts more visitors than every other site in the county.

In 1791, the U.S. army constructed a fort where modern-day Hamilton

stands now. At the time, this area of Ohio was Native American territory. The first residential development outside of Fort Hamilton was the German Village — a nine-block cluster of historic buildings north of the city’s business district and alongside the Great Miami River.

When the area was built up in 1796, it was home to the city’s first court, school and newspaper. Now the district, which boasts 19th century architectural styles from Italiante to Gothic Revival, has received a major facelift, from the bricks lining 3rd Street to the six-acre Marcum Park which opens later this month.

German Village’s 3rd Street was made for an afternoon stroll. Wander into Lane Library and peruse a book in its octagonal reading room, lined with dark wooden bookshelves and flooded with natural light from its floor-to-ceiling windows. Browse through handmade home items at Your Homely Sister — but, like the sign on the shop’s door warns, don’t let the cat wander out the door.

Talk to any of the shopkeepers on the street and you’re likely to get a similar response: Hamilton is changing, and they’re proud of it. While the city is humming with excitement over its new additions, much of its charm still lies in its historic roots.

Hamilton’s historic buildings have appeared in several films in the past several years, like 2015’s multi-Oscarnominated “Carol,” meaning A-listers like Cate Blanchett and James Franco have recently walked the city’s streets.

Just last week, a portion of Hamilton’s S. 3rd Street was blocked off to film a scene for “The Old Man and the Gun,” a crime drama set for a 2018 release produced by and starring Robert Redford. Recent Academy Award winner Casey Affleck, who is also starring in the film, was in Hamilton last week for filming.

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Artwork on display in Hamilton’s Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park coffee shop with locations on Main Street and High Street, have also embraced a sunny outlook for the city’s future.

A multi-colored mural of Alexander Hamilton — the country’s first Treasury Secretary, subject of a blockbuster Broadway musical and, of course, the namesake of the city — can be seen from the Main Street parking lot. On the fence lining the shop’s outdoor seating area is the message, “I believe in Hamilton.”

Though the tables and couches

of Oxford’s Kofenya are often packed — especially leading up to finals week — the two floors of True West’s Main Street location are packed with study space possibilities. Find a spot where you can take in the shop’s brightly painted walls, eclectic paintings and patterned paper stars which dangle from the second story of the building.

With its old floorboards, creaky stairs and varied decor, it feels a little like your grandma’s house — if your grandma were an artist

with a funky wardrobe and a coffee addiction.

In addition to its coffee and espresso options, True West also serves a variety of sandwiches and salads. I picked the “Granny,” served on rye bread and packed with layers of thinly sliced turkey, green apple slices and honey mustard. The food itself is nothing remarkable, but the simple meals, served on mismatched plates, are just right for a lazy afternoon outside Oxford.

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Editor’s Picks: Songs of the Semester

“DAMN”: ANOTHER DENSE MASTERPIECE FROM KENDRICK LAMAR MUSIC

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Jake Gold - “Reagan” by Killer Mike I think this song really touches on some issues that generally exist outside Miami’s bubble. It’s a good listen, too. And I’ll never turn down a song that samples a historical figure.

Ceili Doyle - “I Wonder” by Rodriguez I watched the documentary “Searching for Sugarman” and immediately fell in love with the soul-piercing lyrics of Rodriguez, a humble artist whose talent is as immeasurable as it is inspiring.

Angela Hatcher “XXX.” Kendrick Lamar feat. U2 It’s impossible to pick a favorite song off of Kendrick’s new album, “DAMN.” He’s a god amongst ants and his lyrical mastery knows no bounds. “XXX.” is a commentary on what it’s liked to live in this fucked-up country; he raps about everything from gun violence to Donald Trump in office to America’s reflections on black people. And, not to mention, Bono’s chorus adds an authentic and raw element to the song.

Devon Shuman “All We Ever Knew” by The Head and the Heart I first heard The Head and the Heart when “Lost in My Mind” popped up on my Mumford & Sons Pandora radio back in 2011 — and I’ve never stopped listening.

Whether it’s seeping through my headphones on my walk to an 8:30 or blasting through the stereo during a spring break road trip, “All We Ever Knew” never fails to inspire me.

Ryan Terhune “Fantasy Theme” by Kevin Krauter Krauter’s dreamy burble is some of the most transportive music I’ve heard in the Oxford basements and living rooms that hosted incredible artists this year ( i.e. North

by North, Trying and the ever incredible Cross Country).

His voice has the echoing warmth of Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, with a delicate cascade of acoustic to match.

‘Can’t-Miss’ summer blockbusters (that you can definitely miss) FILM

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“Snatched” Do I think this will be as good as “Trainwreck?” Do I think it will even come close? Absolutely not. Will I still go see it because I want to keep Goldie Hawn working? Absolutely. Say what you will about Amy Schumer, but at least she’s finally representing a disadvantaged group onscreen (moderately attractive blonde women). That being said, this was produced by the same peoplewhomade“TheHeat”and“Spy,” so it will likely be the third installment in the“PerfectMovietoFallAsleepDuring While Sitting on your Couch” series.

“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” Does every movie coming out this summer require a colon in the title?

Based on the trailer, this Guy Ritchiedirected epic looks like a pretty dense episode of “Game of Thrones” set to a groovy Led Zeppelin soundtrack. Style aside, the movie seems to star Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law as medieval warriors with present-day haircuts, fighting to rule England? I’m not completely sure, though, because the trailer was so predictable, I zoned out twice during its two-minute runtime.

“Baywatch” Where do I even begin? How about with Zac Efron’s awful highlights and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s speech about how Baywatch is some elite special operations force that works exclusively from a California beach?

I am thoroughly confused about this reboot and its plot points. An attractive woman takes over running a beach

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and its lifeguards, while a different man encourages The Rock to hire Zac Efron to revive the beach’s image? Who decided to give these lifeguards all this responsibility? Why are they involved in a heist? Who is going to see this? Can anyone help?

“Tulip Fever” Your mom is going to want to see this movie. How do I know this? Because it takes place in 17th-century Amsterdam and features Judi Dench, Christoph Waltz and other esteemed actors with funny accents. Most importantly, it involves an extramarital affair with an artist. You may find yourself enjoying it, though, considering it’s one of the few movies coming out in the next three months that is an original story and not a reboot. To top it off, it does not feature Dwayne “The Rock” Johnsonsaying“I’moceanic,motherfucker.”

Yes, that’s how low the bar is now.

“The Mummy” Okay, so, Tom Cruise is some sort of military man who is aboard a plane that gets taken down by a mummy. Then he

wakes up in a body bag in a new world with new gods and monsters, which also happens to be narrated by Russell Crowe.There’satonofactioninthetwominute trailer, so I’m sure Tom Cruise will be back in his “Mission Impossible” groove again, even though we can all agree we’d rather he and Renée Zellwegerreboot“JerryMaguire.”Regardless, I will probably see this because Crowe has a middle part in the trailer and that is worth seeing in 3-D. “Rough Night” While this night does seemespecially rough, I have to wonder why women can’t ever seem to just raise a little bit of hell for their bachelorette parties and then go home. Based on movies like these, I’m honestly hesitant to attend or throw a bachelorette party for fear that I’m going to accidentally murder someone, then get involved in an international heist. Unless Abbi Jacobson makes a cameo with Ilana Glazer, I wouldsayconfidentlythatthisisamovie you can sit out. I will probably fall asleep while watching this on HBO at 2 a.m. in about a year.

Saying goodbye to HBO’s ‘Girls’ TELEVISION

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The airing of “Girls’” final episode on April 16 seemed to be an equal source of relief and distress for the American public — maybe more relief.

“Girls” pushed even HBO’s boundaries, and the controversy it riled up in viewers and observers alike too often undermined its merit as a TV show.

Whether people were incensed by Lena Dunham’s casual, ubiquitous nudity, or Allison Williams’ lack thereof, or Adam Driver’s sleazy, greasy-haired presence or his deeply felt absence, the show couldn’t win.

It still, however, met showrunner Dunham’s goal of representing real young women, each sure they wanted to be somebody but not precisely sure who that somebody was yet. Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna and Jessa were deplorable at their worst and tolerable at their very best, but that was the point. They embodied the worst of millennial stereotypes; they were entitled for no discernable reason and restless without being particularly motivated. But they were very rarely apathetic, and the show used these self-proclaimed “ladies” to navigate issues in a gritty, blessedly real manner that shows like “Gossip Girl” wouldn’t dare attempt.

Most females over the age of 15

know, with at least tentative certainty, who their “Sex and the City” counterpart is. They’re eager to share it with anyone, as Shoshanna does in the pilot (“I think I’m definitely a Carrie at heart, but sometimes . . . Sometimes Samantha kind of comes out”).

No one, however, wants to be any of the four main “Girls” (or anyone else on the show besides Elijah, for that matter). It was never about presenting wholly endearing or inoffensive characters, and contrary to popular belief, it was also never about testing HBO’s limits with exploitative sex scenes.

“Girls” was always, at its flawed but well-meaning core, a show about a sector of the population media tends to ignore, or depict in a grossly unre-

There’s no way to unpack a Kendrick Lamar LP in one listen. From his major breakthrough “good kid, m.A.A.d city,” presented as a timejumping short film, to his ambitious, eclectic follow-up “To Pimp a Butterfly” which garnered 11 Grammy nominations — one short of Michael Jackson’s record for “Thriller” — a Lamar record is guaranteed to come loaded with multi-narrative character arcs, history-spanning musical cues and some of the most stunning vocal acrobatics in hip-hop.

Even last year’s comparably small “TPAB” companion piece “untitled unmastered.” was among the best rap releases of the year.

It’s no surprise that Kendrick is considered one of the greatest rappers of this decade. He’s almost grown into something bigger than a music artist. The state of California named him a positive icon, and it’s now common practice for people to analyze his every word and decision.

The buzz surrounding the release of his fourth LP “DAMN.” is a prime example of this radical fixation from audiences that are — if we’re being honest — well outside of his intended demographic. Take, for instance, the wild conspiracy that, because Kendrick took a picture in front of both a red and a blue brick wall, he would be releasing two albums over Easter weekend.

And it goes beyond Internet theories. The amount of people I’ve seen sharing Word documents with song analyses and alternative track orders is incredible, bordering on ludicrous.

But what’s most unbelievable is that, somehow, “DAMN.” manages to hold up against all expectations and examinations. Kendrick’s lyricism and storytelling is what makes him special, and he never forgets it on this urgent, layered and complex masterpiece. While it takes multiple listens to pick apart the record’s multifaceted themes, this also contains some of his most immediately effective, and affecting, tunes.

Even though it clocks in at 14 tracks and 55 minutes long, “DAMN.” is the shortest and most streamlined Kendrick Lamar album yet. Gone is the West Coast 1990s revivalism of “good kid, m.A.A.d city” and the avant-garde jazz backdrops of “To Pimp a Butterfly.” Lamar opts for tense, terse trap beats and trademark sounds from some of the best contemporary producers in the game; Mike WiLL Made-It supplies the hardest-hitting beats of Kendrick’s discography on “DNA.” and “HUMBLE.,” the Internet’s Steve Lacy wrote the lo-fi instrumentation for “PRIDE.” and the magnificent James Blake puts his eccentric stamp on “ELEMENT.” (The latter marks yet another huge collaboration for the English Blake, who also

wrote tracks for Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and Frank Ocean’s “Blonde.”)

While the producers are certainly instrumental (no pun intended) in creating “DAMN.’s” atmosphere, it’s Kendrick’s role as an unparalleled wordsmith that sets the album apart from its tough competition. Each track’s one-word title, ending with a period, suggests focused conciseness. However, where a lesser rapper would spend a track called “LUST.” talking about all the women in his life, Kendrick goes much deeper than that, using sexual metaphors to dissect how the desire for an inkling of fame can turn into a complete obsession as stardom slowly deteriorates your former self.

Kendrick has been exploring the harmful effects of fame for years.

On the “good kid” track “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst,” the Compton-born rapper pledges to dedicate his career to being a voice for the voiceless, spreading the word about those who died tragic deaths while society turned its gaze elsewhere. Having achieved that fame on “TPAB,” he chronicles his struggle to stay connected to his city. He became successful enough to escape poverty; is it his mission to be the voice for those that are still stuck in the streets?

“DAMN.” puts more emphasis on not only the pitfalls of stardom, but also its racial, societal and personal implications. The brilliant, epic “FEAR.” chronicles the narrator’s experience with the titular emotion at the ages of 7, 17 and 27, effortlessly switching between commentary on domestic abuse, gang violence and police brutality, and financial security. Meanwhile, “DNA.” demonstrates pride identity while recognizing humanity’s imperfections, and album closer “DUCKWORTH.” is like a mini-biography of Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith, who discovered and signed Kendrick even though he almost killed his father years before.

The songs on this album find Kendrick examining and challenging his notions on everything from fate, coincidence, passion, religion and even race (he ends “ELEMENT.” by saying, “Last LP I tried to lift the black artist/but it’s a difference between black artists and wack artists”). To make it more impressive, he packages this philosophical turmoil in some surprisingly accessible songs, which undoubtedly helped the album score the biggest debut of the year, with 603,000 equivalent sales upon its first week of release. This was a remarkably genius move by Kendrick, capitalizing on the mounting buzz surrounding his role in the cultural zeitgeist and putting out his most popular release yet, while refusing to lose that sharp narrative edge that earns him such astounding acclaim. Damn, indeed.

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alistic fashion: twenty-something females floundering in the throes of early adulthood.

Season six is a far-flung departure from those preceding it, as the girls have their lives together more than ever. This isn’t saying much in comparison to standard 20-somethings, but for them, they’re doing okay — Jessa isn’t in rehab or likely headed there anytime soon, Shoshanna is engaged, Marnie has cleansed herself of Desi and Hannah has chosen single motherhood over Adam.

The show certainly could have concluded with season five’s exultant tenth episode. Season six’s is much more understated, but subtly, unquestionably more fitting.

In an homage to the pilot, “Latching” kicks off with Marnie spooning

Hannah. Six seasons later, though, it’s the former who’s clinging to her supposed best friend for life support, instead of the other way around.

Spiraling post-Ray, Marnie has migrated from her mother’s couch to Hannah’s new upstate New York abode, to help raise her newborn son Grover.

The episode chronicles the last — and surprising — headache for Hannah Horvath: the inability to breastfeed. Luckily Marnie, and a visiting Loreen, are there to speed up Hannah’s revelatory process and come to terms with her newfound life as a rural college professor.

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with simultaneous predictability (Shosh being granted the happiest ending) and unsatisfactory surprises (Jessa and Adam’s love persevering, Hannah’s pregnancy by a Long Island surfing instructor named Paul-Louis). And while it was cathartic and crucial to see each other major characters’ individual lives tied up, it makes sense that the series would conclude with what has always been its central relationship: not Hannah and Adam’s, but Hannah and Marnie’s.

It also proved that the girls have done what critics and fans alike have been pushing for since 2012 — they grew up. For better or worse, “Girls” was an important, unrivaled cultural voice, and will be sorely missed in entertainment headlines on Monday mornings.

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-tional students regularly commit more of a certain type of dishonesty as opposed to domestic students, and what classes they occur in.

“The types of academic dishonesty we’re seeing with international students aren’t necessarily different than the types of dishonesty we’re seeing with domestic students, but for some cases, they’re easier to detect,” Quaye said, citing plagiarism as an example.

Domestic students, whose native language is English, naturally write in a style that’s similar to other Englishlanguage speakers. That makes plagiarism less noticeable.

Carol Olausen, the director of Miami’s American Culture and English (ACE) Program, agreed.

“The domestic students have spent 18, 20 years gaming the system. If the studies are true and 80 to 90 percent of high school students have cheated or do cheat regularly and don’t get caught, they know how to do this,” Olausen said. “You know the shortcuts to get to your house, but somebody new to your neighborhood is not going to know that. You just know how to work the system you’re in because you’re used to the system.”

Olausen added that differences between international students’ oral and written English can serve as a red flag.

“If you have a student in your class who speaks in a halting manner and suddenly turns in a beautiful, perfectly written paper, you may not think about that if it was from a domestic student,” Olausen said. “But from an international student, whose communication in class suggests otherwise, that may immediately flag it.”

Plus, Olausen pointed out, international students’ English vocabulary is generally smaller than that of a domestic student, making phrasing thoughts originally more difficult.

“Many students will use outside resources, fearful that they will look bad to their professor if their words aren’t good. They don’t want to look bad on paper to their professor,” Olausen. “Your vocabulary [as a domestic student] is double what that of an international student’s vocabulary would be, so if you’re supposed to paraphrase something, you’re going to be a lot more successful just because you speak the language and have more vocabulary than somebody who looks at that same text and says, ‘I don’t have better words than those.’”

The American educational system, Quaye and Olausen said, often comes with a learning curve.

“An academic integrity policy is completely based on our culture. It’s not universal,” Olausen said. “What we do doesn’t exist in other countries, and how we interpret it is completely based on our own culture. Coming into a new place and having to catch up really quickly on something, literally, that’s so foreign is definitely a challenge.”

And sometimes, the instruction provided to international students on academic integrity simply isn’t enough.

“Yes, all international students get sort of a crash course in academic integrity during orientation, but that’s 30 minutes at the beginning of the semester and then their professor may or may not review it,” Olau-

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building being constructed on the space (dubbed “President’s Hall”), but there is no indication that it will be a res/rec. There is a rec center attached to Martin Hall on North Quad, near Withrow. However, those plans have been in place since March 2015, before Reilly’s tenure as president or term as the 2015-2016 Secretary for On-Campus Affairs.

Reilly stated, in her closing speech to the ASG senate, that she had succeeded in converting Clawson Hall into a satellite rec center. The Board of Trustees contemplated this conversion when they approved the renovation package on February 19, 2016. Reilly was voted president in April 2016, but served as on-campus secretary the previous year, where this renovation would have been within her purview. The decision to

sen said. “They’re supposed to somehow have automatically made this cultural shift when they’ve spent 18, 20 years in another culture functioning completely differently.”

And so, sometimes, international students don’t realize when they’re cheating. Olausen, who on a regular basis works with students in her program suspected of having cheated, said her pupils are often as confused about the rules as they are contrite about breaking them.

“They were trying to follow the letter of the law, but it’s a law that was just presented to them two months ago,” Olausen said.

Peer pressure, too, may contribute to the higher rate of incidences of academic dishonesty among international students.

“Certainly for some of our students, that external pressure to do as well as their domestic peers — or as well as they think their domestic peers are doing — to be able to do well for their communities back home, might come into play,” Quaye said.

In addition, the cultural differences between China, where the majority of Miami’s international population hails from, and the United States are drastic.

China’s collectivist society, Quaye said, places more of an emphasis on helping others than American individualism.

Particularly, the Chinese subscribe to a social dynamic called guanxi, which emphasizes strength of personal relationships and community over individual consequences.

“We may very well have students who know that they’re not supposed to give work to someone else, yet their friend is asking for that, and it’s more important that they don’t harm their relationship with their friend than following our rules,” Quaye said. “So, they’ll give the work to their friend, knowing that they probably shouldn’t be doing this, because maintaining those relationships is critically important within their culture.”

Olausen likened Chinese guanxi to the relationships found in Greek life in American universities.

“If you were in a fraternity or sorority, would you say no to one of your sisters or brothers if they asked you for help on something?” Olausen asked.

“Or are [you] kind of responsible to the group and you, therefore, help the people in your group?”

Failure to follow the principles of guanxi could lead to ostracism back in China and, because of the pervasiveness of the nation’s social and business

add a recreation facility was made in budget negotiations that June.

She also said that Miami is surveying new locations for Withrow Courts. The tennis courts’ relocation was completed in July 2016, but no other plans are in place, according to minutes from Board of Trustees meetings. This doesn’t mean that the administration isn’t working to increase rec center space. Reilly and the former secretary of communications and media relations, Amy Berg, did not respond for comment.

Reilly’s administration had more success in dining. Her campaign website promises a new chain restaurant on campus. This is a potential victory for Reilly’s administration: by fall of 2018, she believes that a new facility will be open in Maple Street Station. The actual restaurant is uncertain, though Chick-Fil-A is

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near the top of the list for ASG and administrators.

A new joint committee (including members of ASG, RHA and Dining Services) was created to work for students’ dining needs. Over the year, the committee created a decliningbalance-laden meal plan (“Diplomat Plus”) and allowed students to convert buffet meals to dining dollars.

The conversion was a one-time opportunity, and there are still steps to be taken, but it’s an improvement for students frustrated with their dining options.

Reilly’s administration also took a step in the right direction for transparency. For the first time in ASG’s history, an operating budget was brought to the senate floor. Two senators, Luke Elfreich and Nick Froehlich, passed a bill through the

senate to increase the frequency that the budget is presented to senate and to regulate discretionary spending.

Senator Froehlich and senator Charles Kennick brought another successful transparency reform bill to Senate. Each session is now livestreamed on Facebook, garnering over 100 viewers on mosts session.

A portal for student concerns was published to ASG’s website, fulfilling another transparency-related campaign promise. And finally, Reilly gave the first “State of the School” address, where she informed the student body of ASG’s current and future work. In her closing speech to ASG, she mentioned that the graduate school student government would be creating a similar tradition.

Outside of Reilly’s core campaign promises, ASG made a couple significant strides. Former secretary for on-campus affairs James Oaks succeeded in adding emergency contact numbers to the back of all newly-printed student IDs. The student success fund, a scholarship fund established to help students without resources pay for non-traditional things (club fees, etc.) was set up and given seed funding of $2,000.

And, fulfilling perhaps their primary duty, ASG funded over $970,000 in student organization requests. However, this current semester did see cutbacks of several thousand dollars for student org funding, while ASG’s own $90,000 operating budget saw no cuts.

For the next year, incoming student body president Maggie Callaghan and her vice president, Luke Elfreich, have a new slew of promises. They hope to build up the entertainment options available to students in Oxford, improve on-campus parking, open King Cafe for all hours, increase funding for student organizations, expand and relocate student counseling services and translate maps and menus for international students.

Local news came to campus Monday to cover contentious interactions at Shriver Center networks, could result in the loss of a potential job. “[Chinese culture] is much more product-oriented than processoriented,” Olausen said.

While an American student may take the SAT or ACT three or more times, a Chinese student only has one chance each year to take their college entrance exam — a nine-hour assessment that takes place over two days and consists largely of rote memorization. After passing this exam, students take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language); many American universities require a specific TOEFL score for full matriculation status.

So international students are used to tests. But when they arrive Stateside for school, Olausen said, they’re surprised by what they see.

“They arrive at the university that says, ‘No, we want to see that you can process information. We’re not as concerned about your test score,’” Olausen said. “They come here and we’re all about the process, drafting your papers and working in groups, and that’s a complete shift from how they think about being students.”

Quaye said that the increase in international students as a proportion of Miami’s total student body also figures into the increased incidences. In the case of academic dishonesty, there’s strength in numbers.

Four or five years ago, she said, a given class may have had only one

international student enrolled. Now, that student may be accompanied by a handful of international peers — and, just as domestic students do, international students form groups.

“Four or five of those students might form a group to study together, to work together, to ask each other questions, to sort of help each other through,” Quaye said. “And some of those group relationships may turn into incidents where academic dishonesty occurs that were different than say, four or five years ago when there was just one [international student in the class].

That person wasn’t sharing work with anybody because there wasn’t anybody else to share work with.”

Quaye also named increased reporting of suspected dishonesty by faculty and the role of technology (especially services like Turnitin and exam proctoring software) in detecting dishonesty as factors in the increase.

Quaye said she, Olausen and others have exploring a number of ways to combat the issue of academic dishonesty among international students.

Particularly, Miami faculty and staff working with international students

hope to dismantle the learning curve that comes with academic life in America. While presentations on academic integrity have been a mainstay at international student orientation sessions, students are now asked to review this information periodically — at a midsemester retreat for international students, for example, or as a module in EDL 151, the international-student equivalent of UNV 101. Olausen says it’s critical that students apply that knowledge, too, whether through roleplaying an academic dishonesty hearing or working through a case study to determine whether a given situation constitutes cheating.

All of this, Quaye says, is meant to cement the definition of academic integrity and clear up confusion. But ultimately, she, Olausen and faculty members can only do so much.

“The onus is ultimately always on the student of whether or not to commit dishonesty,” Quaye said. “We need to make sure that those messages are consistent and continual throughout a student’s career so that it’s not out of sight, out of mind.”

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The spring forum, “Can Both Black and Blue Lives Matter?”, was originally scheduled for March with conservative political commentator Heather Mac Donald and documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter as the debaters. However, the event was postponed after Porter, a proponent of Black Lives Matter, fell ill.

Event organizers secured Maryland governor and one-time Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, as the replacement speaker.

However, some were concerned that the addition of O’Malley, who is white, to the slate was a misrepresentation of black perspectives and the Black Lives Matter movement. The original Black Lives Matter speaker, Porter, is black.

Graduate student Isaac Pickell was among those whose interest was piqued by the speaker switch.

“Two white voices is not sufficient for a conversation about this issue,” Pickell said.

While Janus Forum organizers acknowledged the potential for controversy, political science department chair Patrick Haney said, their options were limited when it came to finding a backup speaker.

“At some point the issue became [to] either cancel the event or go forward with a very high-quality speaker with deep experience in these issues as mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland,” Haney said.

Sophomore Emily Tatum, a member of the Janus Forum student steering committee, agreed.

“We wish we would’ve had Dawn Porter, but I think in the end the conversation was still very strong and presented a wide variety of viewpoints,” Tatum said. “[O’Malley] did a great job and definitely gave a view into the side of politicians and governors and their view on the matter as well.”

Haney said O’Malley’s experience working to reduce local crime rates as mayor of Baltimore offered a perspective counter to that of Mac Donald.

“It was not a perfect matching, but no match is ever perfect for these things,” Haney said. “Frankly, I didn’t think we’d be able to do it. I figured we’d be postponing it until the fall. It was really lucky to get somebody with the kind of experience that Governor O’Malley has.”

Haney added that while the subjects O’Malley and Mac Donald were debating — criminal justice and race relations — are contentious, he was pleased with how the audience handled them.

“People took the time to listen to each other; I’m sure there were things said that [people] took exception to,” Haney said. “I think that’s the whole point of the forum, to be able to create a space for challenging perceptions and viewpoints.”

Mac Donald, who recently published a book entitled, “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe,” was the object of two student protests in April. During the question-and-answer portion of a lecture she gave at the University of California, Los Angeles, Mac Donald was met with chanting from audience members, some of whom took the stage alongside her. The next day, students at California’s Claremont McKenna College blocked the entrance to the building Mac Donald was speaking in. Claremont McKenna officials determined it was dangerous to remove the protesters, so Mac Donald

spoke to a mostly empty room as the lecture was livestreamed.

But Mac Donald’s speech during Miami’s Janus Forum went uninterrupted, a point of pride for Haney.

“My own view, at least, is that the solution to speech that you find challenging is not to shut that speech down, especially not at a public university,” Haney said. “I was proud of the way the university community came together to handle a difficult issue. People came together, they came together in good faith, and we pulled off an event that, at a lot of campuses, probably couldn’t have happened.”

Save for a few moments of supportive applause for O’Malley and whispers during Mac Donald’s statements, the audience was quiet and attentive during the debate, which spanned topics from systemic racism within police forces to possibilities for criminal justice reform. The event lasted about an hour and half, followed by a reception, and garnered a nearly full house in the Farmer School of Business’ Taylor Auditorium.

Mac Donald’s main argument was that the Black Lives Matter movement created what she called the “Ferguson effect,” referring to the aftermath of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

“Because of this ‘Ferguson effect,’ officers are backing off crime,” Mac Donald said. “Crime has increased as a result of this.”

In addition, Mac Donald felt that the Black Lives Matter movement was based on a “false narrative.” However, O’Malley argued that there is racial bias within the police for and the criminal justice system that cannot be simply be ignored.

“We do a disservice to public discourse with a nation like ours when we see that the one place that this racial history does not exist is in

criminal justice,” O’Malley said. “There is a racial inequality everywhere. It is in the structure of economics, education and criminal justice.”

O’Malley’s main argument focused on an increase in transparency and record-keeping, which he felt could help visually represent discrepancies and biases existing in the criminal justice system. “[We need] better data, evidence and information. We need to know if the consequences of the policy actions we take and if those actions are working,” O’Malley said.

The debate, despite a dispute over the meaning of phrases, was relatively calm, as Matthew Arbuckle, a political science professor at Miami, noted.

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“I thought it was very civil. I was impressed by that. Both were able to challenge each other’s points pretty well,” Arbuckle said.

“I thought it was a good chance for students to hear both sides of the story,” junior Carly Ream said. “I think that in an academic setting it was good that the questions were monitored, but at the same time it was debate-style, which was good for everyone to see.”

Before the debate, first-year Delaney Sherman noted the importance of the forum’s controversial topic.

“It is a very relevant issue,” Sherman said. “I think if people can see both sides then it’s easier to get somewhere.”

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With May and the end of the school year comes graduation and the proverbial pushing out of the nest into the “real world” for roughly a quarter of the undergraduates at Miami. As with every year, this is a bittersweet moment for these outgoing seniors, as well as the university at large. For those graduating, it is a time to reflect on their place in the world as they accept new responsibilities.

In that reflection, we would like to remind graduating seniors and other students of the place they stand today, in southwest Ohio, where you chose live and learn. It is important to remember that these past years have not just taken place in the mythical faraway land of Miami University, but in the communities of Oxford, Butler County and the region as a whole.

All too often, it feels as though Miami students think of this place as a stepping stone to a larger career elsewhere. But this area has real people with real needs and real livelihoods, and it should be treated as such.

The tale of the forgotten demographics of rural midwestern areas, such as Butler County, is one that has gained more attention following the most recent presidential election. The Hillybilly Elegy, America: unwound.

By staying connected with this area, we can better understand the lives and frustrations expressed by residents of the so-called “flyover states.”

One should not take this to mean that it is wrong to pursue your passions outside of this community or to move to the place you most want to reside in, but that it is important to pay tribute to the place that fostered your growth academically, socially and intellectually. And to truly make a difference goes beyond most monetary contributions. Reflection and advice to administrators, encourage-

This region, and regions like it, have people that need healthcare, housing, media and other goods and services. . . ment to students still living in town, and diligence to issues not yet solved can greatly affect how the Miami student population operates.

A select few may volunteer, but everyone can make the community one that is celebrated.

Uptown gatherings like the Oxford Farmer’s Market have proven that fact, and increase appreciation of where we live.

Additionally, know that Chicago, New York and Los Angeles are not the only cities that need skilled and educated citizens.

This region, and regions like it, have people that need healthcare, housing, informative media and other services in fields that Miami students pursue degrees in.

Above all, no matter where you live, it is important for those graduating to remember to stay connected with any community in which you are a part . It is easy to connect with a college community, a professional cohort, or those who have similar aspirations. But outside class bubbles, it is our responsibility not to ignore areas in need. The areas exist everywhere, and will continue to exist, wherever you go.

The Oxford experience has likely become a part of you as you have been through your semesters here. Expression of that part, inwardly and outwardly, is key to getting the most out of it for everyone involved.

Yesterday afternoon, Miami University students gathered in response to the arrival of three Official Street Preachers for the second time this academic year. Official Street Preachers is a national organization that utilizes public preaching to spread a radical interpretation of the word of God. The Street Preachers are seasoned professionals when it comes to eliciting a response out of the crowd it gathers in response to its homophobic and anti-abortion signs. They shout profanities at people walking by on their way to class and claim to have the key to sending students to heaven and saving them from the path of sin they are on. They utilize harsh, hurtful rhetoric to personally offend people, inciting conflict and confrontation.

But the student response was no better.

The student-led counter-protest was marred by screams and shouts of “Go home” and “Fuck off.” While there were some students present who simply wanted to be there as an ally or to engage in civil discourse, the general undertone was one of outrage, loud and forceful as the gusty wind.

We at The Student do not condone the rhetoric or behaviors of the Street Preachers. But we also do not condone the behaviors of fighting fire with fire.

Physically assaulting a Street Preacher by kicking a gallon of water out of their hand, standing an inch away from their face and shouting at them that they don’t have the right to stand on a public sidewalk and voice their beliefs isn’t the way that we should combat their oppressive messages; it’s giving them what they want.

We, as citizens and at our very core as human beings, have the responsibility and the right to acknowledge that the radical ideas of the preachers don’t hold water. If we don’t debate the roots of those ideas, then nothing will ever change.

If we don’t debate the roots of those ideas, then nothing will ever change.

But we should never shut people down.

These preachers come on a regular basis.

We know their messages. We know what they do and how they do it. They aren’t really preachers at all, but thrill-seekers in constant search of an altercation.

Having a constituent of students that are out there combating these radical views is of the utmost importance. But our response needs to be visible, not aggressive. Every single person has the right to state their beliefs. It is the manner by which we discuss and debate these beliefs that concerns us today.

What are we accomplishing by doing that?

While arguing with radicalized persons such as the preachers may be futile, that doesn’t mean that we can completely ignore their perspectives and opinions. Engaging in discourse is undoubtedly important, and the way we engage in political and ideological debates needs to be in a respectful manner all around.

As students at this university, we are constantly being exposed to different views that oppose our own. It’s time to turn down the volume. Don’t fight aggressive rhetoric with aggressive rhetoric and argue about their right to be there. Try to understand, no matter how outlandish the argument may seem. Don’t let them get the reaction they seek out of you.

We as a community and as individuals are better than that.

Diversity Secretary in ASG unfit for position DIVERSITY

TO THE EDITOR:

A.J. NEWBERRY NEWBERAJ@MIAMIOH.EDU

ASK ANGELA: LET HAPPINESS HAPPEN ASK ANGELA

ANGELA HATCHER OPINION EDITOR Dear Angela, Currently, everything in my life is going well for the first time in years.

I have great friends, a great guy and I’m doing well in school and in my extra curriculars … but I can’t shake this feeling that the other shoe is just waiting to drop at any given moment. I can’t stop feeling guilty for all my past mistakes or feeling angst-ridden that I am just one small step away from messing up. I guess my question is how do I accept that I deserve good things in my life? Because some days I seriously don’t think I do and it’s a feeling that I have been carrying inside me for a very long time. I truly want to be happy, but I just don’t know how to.

Yours, Trying To Be Happy Dear Trying To Be Happy, I’m really glad that this is the question that floated into my inbox for my final Ask Angela of the semester. Glad doesn’t begin to describe it really.

Ecstatic. Thrilled. Humbled. I’ve touched on everything this semester — weed, cocaine, sex, kinky sex, friendship woes — and now, this. Happiness.

It sounds so simple when other people talk about it doesn’t it?

“Just be happy.”

Sometimes it’s not that easy.

I can relate in more ways than I can

describe to you to what you’re feeling right now. The waiting is what I understand most: waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting to wake up one day just to realize it was all just a sick prank the universe played on you, waiting for him to wake up and smell the coffee and realize he deserves someone better than you, waiting to realize that your happiness is fleeting, and darkness will slowly creep back up again and take hold of your life.

I don’t know you, my friend, but I’m tired of being the only one standing in the way of my own happiness.

Get out of your own head, dude.

Why are you waiting for the other shoe to drop? Why are you preparing for the worst when all that’s been happening to you has been nothing but the best?

Why do you think you don’t deserve to be happy?

I’ll tell you one thing: There’s not a single person on this damn planet who doesn’t deserve to be happy, to feel so good inside that all you want to do is dance in the rain and grin from ear to ear. And you are no exception.

I’m going to tell you a little tale of a lass who was damn near positive that she was incapable of loving — of letting happiness, light and joy into her life again. (Hint: The girl is me. I’m that girl. If you guessed that already, congratulations, you’re a fucking genius).

I’ve touched on this a few times through various Ask Angelas of the semester — my big, traumatic fresh-

man year experience. This is not the time or place to delve into what happened — what really happened — but what you do need to know is I fell in love with a guy who loved cocaine more than he loved me. His addiction led him to do unspeakable things, and as a result, I left. I left with a heart so mangled, so beyond repair, that it struggled to beat and keep the blood pumping through my veins.

I was only half-human after that. I could barely function. I stopped going to class, stopped eating, stopped talking to the people who were trying to help me. And for some reason, I shifted blame onto myself for everything that happened. Frankly, I still do blame myself for a lot of what happened.

My reasoning was illogical, but profound nonetheless. How could I possibly learn to love again? To let someone be close to me? To force a smile? To feign happiness? To live?

At our most basic human instincts, we prevent ourselves from doing things we’re afraid of, e.g. jumping out of a plane if we’re afraid of heights or speaking in front of a crowd if we’re terrified of public address.

My fear was happiness. So I avoided it at all costs.

I lost a lot of friends, missed out on a lot of chances and robbed myself of being truly happy once more.

This year was different. I wish there was a moment that I could say changed me, made me wake up and realize, I deserve happiness for me.

We, as Executive Members of Diversity Affairs Council, feel the need to voice our concern with Associated Student Government (ASG), regarding the recent selection of the Secretary for Diversity Affairs.

The Secretary is to become a member of the Executive Board of Diversity Affairs Council. It is required that candidates for the Secretary position interview with the Board to share their ideas and testify to their experiences with the diverse communities they are requesting to represent.

The Board then has the opportunity to report to the Speaker of Senate which candidates are approved or disapproved based on these qualifications. However, candidates who are not supported by the Board are still able to present before and be elected

by ASG Senate.

The Secretary of the Diversity Affairs Council must be fully committed to supporting and creating opportunities for representation of marginalized communities within ASG. Therefore, the Secretary must demonstrate knowledge of the experiences of various marginalized communities on Miami’s campus and must be aware of and able to articulate campus climate issues affecting these communities. In order to successfully execute these expectations listed above, DAC requires that Executive Board members, including the Secretary, be involved with and have strong ties to diverse communities on campus.

ASG had an opportunity to select an approved candidate, but instead disregarded DAC’s input. In doing so, ASG went against the best interests of the numerous communities encompassed by DAC.

But really it was the full force of my friends and family that stuck with me through the hell of 2016, constantly reminding me that I deserve the best, nothing but the best, that forced me to start to live again, to love.

I have the best friend group right now that I’ve ever had in my entire life. My academics are turning around from the dip they took last year.

And I have a guy, a boyfriend. I knew from the moment I met him that I wanted him in my life, and the little black cloud hanging over my shoulder, head and heart whispered

In this letter, it is important for us to express how our purpose is not to attack the elected student, but to scrutinize the actions and values demonstrated in the decision making of Student Senate.

This letter also serves to communicate the expectations, we, as Diversity Affairs Council, have for the Secretary.

We expect the student who fills this position to do all they can to connect with the diverse communities they will effectively be representing and serving during their term. The Secretary will need to be in tune with the very real concerns and perspectives students of diverse backgrounds harbor on Miami University’s campus. The elected Secretary will sit on a number of committees during their term, and it is essential the Secretary of Diversity Affairs be critical of University and Student Government policy in order to effectively represent their constituency as requested.

We pen this letter in support of our diverse communities. We want to ensure change is made so all of our students feel as though they have a home, here, at Miami University. We hope this provides a formal script, detailing our disappointment with the recent actions of Associated Student Government. This dissent is not addressed toward any individual. Rather, we hope this letter scores a very clear reminder to all students on Miami’s campus of the type of advocacy and leadership needed in the role of Secretary for Diversity Affairs.

Love & Honor, Ifeolu Ariké Christopher Claytor (Pronounced E-Fay-Oh-Loo) PGP: {He, Him, His}

CLAYTORIA@MIAMIOH.EDU

in my ear, “You don’t deserve this.”

And for a while, I believed that I didn’t.

Somehow, someway, for some unknown reason, he decided he wanted to be in my life too. And he didn’t let me push him away.

He stuck around. Words can’t describe the stupid happiness I feel when I’m spacing out and think of something funny he’s said to me or when I think about the time I’ve spent letting myself be happy with him.

The happiness that I feel in my life CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Even in life’s toughest moments, perseverance is key to moving on FAMILY

JORDAN GILLIGAN COLUMNIST One of the hardest things to do is to keep doing what you love despite the lack of support you receive. Perseverance is a quality not every person naturally possesses. Most of the time it’s a skill that requires experience in order to develop.

People will look you in the face and tell you that you are never going to be good enough. If this hasn’t happened to you yet, it probably will at some point in your life. It’s already happened to me plenty of times. Hate and negativity is something we all experience in one way or another.

I have had my fair share of negative people. I’ve been riding horses for 14 years, and I have had coaches who didn’t care or tried to put me down.

When I was 16, I had a coach that told me, “I hope you fall off in front of everyone so I can say I told you so.”

Coaches are not just supposed to teach you physical skills but also life skills. They are supposed to be your motivation and your reason to succeed. I had to learn quickly to be my own life coach. When these remarks would be said to me, I just brought home another blue ribbon to prove

again, over and over, that they were wrong about me.

Building this extra tough skin was the hardest process to go through.

Everyone goes through a stage where they have to endure the words that tighten their throats and bring tears to their eyes.

It’s the people that continue forward despite the hurt that succeed in the end. People either teach themselves to be their own life coaches, or they lean on the person they trust the most. My dad was my life coach. He was at every competition and every award ceremony. He was my inspiration and my rock. The day he decided to never come back home was the day I realized I needed to be strong all on my own.

To the women reading this, no man can break your heart more than your own dad. My dad left a year and a half ago. He packed up and decided the girlfriend in California was worth more than his wife and children. My life coach taught me what corruption was, and what too much power can do to the human soul. I guess even though he is absent from my life, he is teaching me life lessons about what to do when the one person you trusted abandoned you.

The greatest life lesson I learned was my dad failed to show what love

was in the midst of a depression. We all like to think we know what it means to be in love, or to truly and deeply feel love. Some say love is a physical feeling, some say it’s emotional. I say love is an action.

My father said he loved me, but his heart belonged to money and power.

This is called superficial love. It’s fake, temporary happiness. This is what my father taught me in my 19 years of life.

He showed me superficial love. And because of it I’m stronger and better from it.

The hardest thing in the world is saying goodbye to the ones you loved. No, my father is not dead, but he might as well be. I will persevere without him. His words of verbal and emotional abuse will never keep me down. I’m standing here today, a student at one amazing university I worked to get into all by myself. I will stand at the end. I will persevere.

Stand for what you love, despite the hate. Know that the power of love can bring you to do things you never imagined. This small part of my story is what keeps me going. It’s my motivation to grow to my full potential. At the end of the day everything I do is for myself. Not to impress my family or my friends, but for only me.

GILLIGJN@MIAMIOH.EDU

Facebook making an effort in wake of live-stream suicides SOCIAL MEDIA

JILL TEITELBAUM COLUMNIST Mindlessly scrolling through Facebook used to have one major risk: procrastination. Today, there is a new, far more grim one: witnessing a suicide.

Any suicide is tragic, but a suicide live-streamed on social media, to a potentially infinite audience, can be devastating. In addition to traumatizing witnesses, experts agree that it may also encourage others who are struggling to attempt it too.

Concerningly, the live-streamed suicides have been occurring with increasing frequency. Sadly, this parallels the growing number of suicides nationwide. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, suicide has escalated to the highest levels in almost 30 years.

Since live-streaming first debuted, there have been seven known cases of suicide, according to the executive director of Save.org. Although not all of those were through Facebook, it appears to be the most popular choice.

Three recent cases of suicides on Facebook Live include: a 14-year-old Florida girl hanging herself in her home, a 22-year-old Turkish man shooting himself in his car and lastly, a heartbreaking case which claimed two lives: a young Thai man hanging his 11-month-old daughter, before hanging himself in an abandoned hotel.

According to a USA Today article, “People commit suicide in public ways for any number of reasons. They may be hoping someone will stop them.

They may want to share their pain with the world. They may be trying to memorialize their death.”

This haunting trend is just beginning to emerge, and amid vocal concerns and criticisms, Facebook is understandably scrambling to stop it.

According to the USA Today article, “Facebook announced it will integrate real-time suicide prevention tools into Facebook Live.” When people report a live stream of someone who poses an imminent risk to themselves, Facebook will provide resources to both the person reporting and the person streaming, including offering “livechat support from crisis support organizations such as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the Crisis Text Line through Facebook Messenger [...].” They will also be given the opportunity to reach out to a friend or see tips.

Although intervention is crucial, prevention is imperative.

Fortunately, Facebook has been working on one especially innovative suicide prevention solution: “Testing artificial intelligence to identify warning signs of self-harm and suicide in Facebook posts and comments.”

Technology no doubt offers many promising solutions to this issue, but people should not be overlooked in their potential to help as well.

Luckily, people are an abundant resource for Facebook. According to Statista, Facebook has 1.86 billion monthly active users. If Facebook were a country, it’d be the largest by population in the world. Although an audience that big means that there are millions of potential witnesses to future deaths, it also means there are millions of people who can intervene to save those lives.

Just as Facebook’s breadth provides a platform for people to commit suicide, it also creates an unparalleled opportunity to get people help.

A major criticism of Facebook’s response to the live-streamed suicides has been its apparent failure to cut them off. Jennifer Guadagno, Facebook’s lead researcher for suicide prevention explained the reasoning behind this action: “Some people may say we should cut off the stream the moment there’s a hint of somebody talking about suicide, but what we learned from the experts and what they emphasized to us is that cutting off the stream too early removes the chance of someone being able to reach out and provide help.” She continued, “In this way, Live becomes a lifeline. It opens up the opportunity for people to reach out for support and for people to give support at this time that’s critically important.”

Guadagno concluded, “One of the things we have learned from experts is that social support is one of the best ways to prevent suicide.”

Before you hastily criticize Facebook for its role in the growing cases of suicides live-streamed on its site, keep in mind that Facebook’s potential for helping people in need is enormous.

It’s even possible that Facebook may end up becoming the largest support network in the world.

If you have had suicidal thoughts or are worried about someone else, you can contact: Miami University Student Counseling Service – (513) 529-4634 Miami University Psychology Clinic – (513) 529-2423 Butler County Crisis Line – 1-844427-4747 National Suicide Prevention Hotline – 1-800-273-TALK (8255) Crisis Text Line – Text “hello” to 741-741 TEITELJH@MIAMIOH.EDU

EDITORIAL@MIAMISTUDENT.NET

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right now has taught me how to feel whole again. It’s mended my heart, turned my wounds into scars and made me realize that we all deserve a little light in our lives.

So please do me, and yourself, a favor and let yourself fall so deep into happiness that you forget how to not be happy. Lose yourself in the good things that are happening in your life. Let yourself smile, laugh and be

carefree, worry-free, of any baseless, unfounded fears.

I know better than anyone that while it sounds easy, it’s a lot harder to do in practice. But you’re capable of it, Trying To Be Happy. Happiness starts with you opening your arms and inviting it into your life. So spread your arms wide open and accept the happiness that has been chasing after you.

TMSASKANGELA@GMAIL.COM

Janus’s unanswered questions POLITICS

HANNAH MEIBERS COLUMNIST On April 27, the Janus Forum hosted Heather MacDonald and Governor Martin O’Malley to speak on police brutality and the role of race in the justice system. But it seemed to be MacDonald versus Miami.

There were police officers guarding the doors, eyeing the rowdiest of students, and the applauses only sounded when Governor O’Malley spoke. Beyond the stats and stories, I cannot say the question at hand was answered: Can Both Black and Blue Lives Matter?

MacDonald’s points were simple.

The data is the data, and the policing system is not racist. MacDonald made sure to praise all of us for our kindness, as we did not blockade the door to the facility, as the Claremont College students had done 16 days prior to the talk. After a few words to get the ball rolling, she began discuss-

If both black and blue lives could matter, cohesively, together, then the forum would not have been held in the first place.

ing the statistics. And to be honest, she did not stop discussing the statistics.

When the stage was handed over to Governor O’Malley, he made sure to acknowledge the “far from perfect” country we are living in, and how, in order to improve, we have to “do it together.” In just 10 minutes, Governor O’Malley discussed personal stories from his experience in Baltimore as the governor of Maryland, and the questions he has been asked.

On the topic of making improvements in high crime cities that would allow citizens to enjoy their neighborhoods, he was asked, “How are you going to do that when nobody else has done that before?”

And his response remained strong: “We’re going to do it together.”

During the Q&A, MacDonald and Governor O’Malley began a heated discussion. MacDonald said, “We’ve been having an obsession with phantom racism.” And Governor O’Malley retorted, “With a nation like ours, a history like ours, with an injustice in racial proportions like ours, we can say that one area this doesn’t apply to is criminal justice.” Governor O’Malley continued to talk about the “injustice and bias in everything,” which gave

MacDonald the impression that he was implying that police in high crime areas had “double standards.”

And immediately Governor O’Malley heard the dishonesty in her words, saying, “That’s not what I said.”

MacDonald kept her streak going as she continued to state statistics. I never heard her personal opinions, her personal viewpoints. Research has no part in racism; it is in plain sight.

Seeming to have sensed her discrepancy, MacDonald strayed away from her data and announced that our “unflawed justice system” would work to our advantage if everyone “complied now and complained later.”

After the forum, Governor O’Malley and MacDonald exited the auditorium and joined students and faculty in the lobby of Farmer School of Business. I spoke with two students, Isaac Pickell and Molli Spalter, who both showed their passion for the viewpoints Governor O’Malley presented.

Spalter pointed out the lack of a black voice, and the coincidental four black police officers guarding the doors that were in frontal view.

I had not noticed such an observation, but it definitely did not feel like an accident.

Spalter also shared that, after speaking to MacDonald following the talk, MacDonald alluded to the high crime rates as being “the fault of the black community.” Spalter also recalled MacDonald’s use of “cultural deficit” when describing African Americans.

Pickell shook his head and said, “I don’t think there is any reason to respect racism in 2017. It’s racism.

We’re a long way past where that should be.” Which Spalter finished with, “Shame on Miami for bringing her here.”

I took Spalter’s quotes to Governor O’Malley, and asked what he thought of MacDonald’s use of “cultural deficit.” He looked at me, puzzled at such a phrase, and continued, “What I do know in our country is that some of the most impressive and inspiring stories of individual and family success will be found among the very diverse African American stories that are a part of our country’s story. At the same time, we look at how far we’ve fallen in crossing that gap between justice and injustice, especially in our large cities. And those aren’t exclusive to African American families and people that live in our cities.”

Outside of the statistics and facts, the stories of shootings and solutions to police brutality, I cannot pinpoint an answer to our question of the night.

However, maybe that is the answer. If both black and blue lives could matter, cohesively, together, then the forum would not have been held in the first place.

MEIBERHL@MIAMIOH.EDU

BE PREPARED TO TALK AMERICAN POLITICS IN EUROPE POLITICS

PAOLO FEDERICO-O’MURCHU COLUMNIST A couple weeks ago, on my way back from the Luxembourg campus, I encountered a group of teenagers in a gazebo adjacent to my house.

These teenagers are Luxembourgish degenerates. They worship Machine Gun Kelly, party in parks and none of them are in school nor working. This motley group drew me into conversation; I live in a small town and the sight of another teenager surprised them. They were clearly engaged in nefarious activities; bottles were strewn everywhere and the smell of smoke was in the air. After assuring them that no, I’m not a cop, I’m an American, we started talking.

One of the first questions asked by

a Luxembourgish miscreant was how I viewed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s healthcare legislation. This was an introduction to the amazing American political fluency exhibited by many Europeans.

This semester of mine spent in Luxembourg has been absolutely extraordinary. Going into it, though, I had concerns that I would be out of the loop in America. Today is an extraordinary time in domestic politics, and citizen participation has never been higher. Grassroot movements are forming in my hometown and cities across America. As a politics major/nerd, I was worried there would be limited discourse available in Europe. I was wrong.

I quickly learned that a taxi driver in Barcelona knows more about America’s international policy than most political science majors

at Miami. As soon as most Europeans heard my accent, the first question was “How do you feel about Trump?”

Everyone from baseball players to waitresses have researched opinions on his policies concerning everything from Israel to North Korea I am not a Trump supporter, which makes these conversations easier. In a small melting pot like Luxembourg, which is home to many different cultures from France, Germany and Portugal, there is no large nationalistic movement. I do sympathize with my pro-Trump friends, however.

I was at a pub in Dublin when an Irish couple overheard my American friend and me. They turned to us and asked us about politics, and after my friend proudly said he was proTrump, the couple said they would not let us leave until they showed my friend the error in his ways. It

was a long and unproductive night for all involved.

Many conservative friends of mine will understandably not admit to voting for Trump when in Europe to avoid consternation. The political leanings of Europe favor former President Barack Obama much more than Trump. Europeans take for granted many of the social safety nets that Americans debate over, and find it ludicrous that a major party argues over the right to universal health care.

Regardless of one’s political affiliation, studying abroad is a worthwhile experience. Europeans have far less stake in American legislation and as such, do not display the same vitriol towards it. Their disagreements with Trump are ideological and not personal. A benefit to being abroad is that I often felt

like I was representing America in my conversations and as such, kept up to date on my current events. I could not let an Amsterdam Uber driver know more than an American politics major. If you go to Europe, do not expect to be harangued by liberals, but be able to defend your position and enter into conversations with local degenerates when given the opportunity.

FEDERIPS@MIAMIOH.EDU

HAVE A GOOD SUMMER children

SIMANSEC@MIAMIOH.EDU

Sports

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THE LOVE OF WINNING. THE PRICE OF LOSING. CONTINUED FROM FRONT

because it was the only organized football league in his hometown. He’s played every year since and won two state championships with Moeller High School in Cincinnati. He didn’t know a lot about Miami before committing, but head coach Chuck Martin sold Gus on the school and its football history.

However, in the past four years, Miami football has not had a season over .500, going 0 wins-12 losses, 2-10, 3-9 and 6-7. The 2016-17 season culminated in a trip to St. Petersburg, Florida for the St. Petersburg Bowl Game -- the program’s first trip to a Bowl Game in six years.

“Sometimes you feel like you’re not appreciated as much as you want to be, but at the same time you can’t be too focused on what other people are worried about,” Gus says. “If that’s what you’re in it for -- the sympathy of other students -- then you’re not in it for the right reasons. Having a passion for what you do plays a big role in it.”

The 6-foot-1, 211-pound Gus has quarterbacked the progression of the program from the three-win season to its now promising future.

Gus and Chuck attribute the recent success to several talented recruiting classes of athletes who love to play football.

“The sacrifices that we’re hoping to teach them are based on what their goals and aspirations are,” Chuck says. “Don’t tell me you want to get a degree from Miami and play in the NFL, but you’re not willing to make sacrifices along the way.”

Gus’s week starts like any other student’s, except Monday is rest day and his only football commitment is watching film. Tuesday brings the first practice of the week but that comes at 3 p.m., after morning classes and film and meetings that started at 1 p.m. He’s officially done practice at 5 p.m. and finishes doing homework until bed.

Football commitments are interspersed throughout the rest of the week, in addition to class commitments. A 6 a.m. lift on Wednesday, regular practice on Thursday from 1-5 p.m. and then a walk-through without pads on Friday ends Gus’s week. Saturday’s game day starts at 7:30 a.m. with a team meal and ends with time for the players to do what they will, post-game.

Treatment starts on Sunday at 11 a.m. and goes until 5:30 p.m. Then the players do homework and prepare to start the cycle all over again.

“It kind of never ends during the season,” Gus says. “But people in the locker room love what they do.”

Gus sees how coaches are now able to coach these athletes differently – there’s an entirely different dynamic at practice and in the locker room.

“When you’re not winning games, you can’t focus on the little things as much,” Gus says. “In the last six months to a year, we’ve really been able to harp on the small things and progress as a program.”

Chuck tries to get his athletes to think like professionals and treat their game like professionals.

But these are not professional athletes and this is not professional sports.

An NFL season is 16 games long. An NHL and NBA season is 82 games long. The NFL averages 70,000 fans who attend each game, the NHL and the NBA -- 17,000.

Miami University football averaged 17,110 fans at home during the 2016-17 season. Hockey averaged 2,570 and basketball brought in 1,490 fans regularly. The teams played 13, 37 and 32 games, respectively.

In the world of sports, college athletics could be considered child’s play. For the studentathletes on all of Miami’s varsity teams, this play is their entire lives.

Sophomore center Josh Melnick was three or four years old when he started playing hockey.

No one in his family had played before and he tottered around like any other red-haired fouryear-old, except his feet were laced into skates during “learn to skate” programs. He played youth hockey through middle school and went to Delbarton High School, an all-boys collegepreparatory school in New Jersey. He won three state championships before playing in the United States Hockey League.

The Youngstown Phantoms was the worst team in the league during Josh’s USHL rookie campaign, but the second year saw the team set a league-record 17-game winning streak. Josh wanted to play college hockey for Princeton but a coaching change led him to Miami. He had heard of Miami before, but the school showed interest and lured him with the camaraderie of The Brotherhood and a reputable hockey record.

Miami Hockey has gone 15 wins-20 losses-3 ties, 25-14-1, 15-18-3 and 9-20-7 in its past four years.

On December 10, 2016, the team filled their locker room with a desperation that could only come from a 10-game winless streak. It mixed with the traditional desire to win and the stale smell of sweat.

Colorado College and 2,501 fans awaited 5-foot-10, 171-pound Josh and the 20 other dressed hockey players. National and division banners hung in the rafters of the Steve ‘Coach’ Cady arena commemorating a history of success. A success that hasn’t been realized on the national scale since 2015.

ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

BRIANNA NIXON THE MIAMI STUDENT

“It was about stepping up and saying the hard things,” Josh says. “When you don’t want to talk about them, but you have to.”

The Brotherhood refuses to think about what could have been done, and players will hold each other accountable for mistakes during games and in practice. Practices change to accommodate whatever happens during a weekend series and certain days are classified as “battle days.”

The intensity generated by the captain and four assistant captains has attempted to counteract the recent history of under .500 seasons.

“It’s similar to how other teams might be, it’s a little bit of discouragement and you find yourself in a hole and it’s sometimes hard to get yourself out of that hole,” Josh says. “Some guys are gonna internally beat down on themselves and confidence is going to be low. That can be hard to get back sometimes, especially in the middle of a season or the middle of a game.”

In the middle of the season, his Mondays start with 8:30 and 10 a.m. classes. He has practice from 1-4 p.m. and then has the rest of the evening to do homework. Tuesday’s classes are at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. and after practice at 4 p.m.

Depending on the workload from the weekend, players will either have an additional workout on Monday or Tuesday.

Wednesday won’t have a workout, but still comes with a morning class at 8:30 a.m. Practice from 1-4 p.m., then team yoga before personal attempts are made at relaxation in the evening.

If the team plays their weekend series at home, Thursdays have a morning activation lift before class at 10 and 11:30 a.m. and practice.

NHL hockey players will play in several backto-back situations during their season, but for NCAA athletes Fridays and Saturdays are game days. For Miami, Friday will consist of a morning skate at home and practice when away. On Saturday, the coaches can call a morning practice or skate, or call for lighter exercise in the gym.

Team meals are interspersed throughout the weekend and much of the weekend’s free time is spent resting for the games.

Spoken like any other college student, Josh explains, “we’re usually pretty dead, so some Sundays are more productive than others.

There’s some where you wake up and get all your work done, and go around and do stuff.

And there’s others where you just kind of lay in bed all day.”

Personally, Josh is a morning person but takes advantage of the rare occasions when he can sleep in.

Those days of sleeping in came mid-March after Miami lost the first and second games of a three-game series to Minnesota-Duluth in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference playoffs.

Both the hockey and basketball programs lost in the first round of post-season play this year.

To be sure, on January 3, 2017, Miami basketball had a 7-6 record on the season. They sat as only basketball players could -- with their knees to their ears. Redshirt junior Dion Wade sat shoulder to shoulder with veterans who had seen seasons of conference play and players who had only seen 13 games of college hoops. Northern Illinois would be the team’s first conference opponent and their first step in attempting to make the NCAA post-season tournament – something the basketball team hadn’t done since 2007.

Dion heard of Miami after being recruited by ex-head basketball coach John Cooper and he had started playing when he was four-years-old.

For him, though, basketball was in his blood, as his dad was a basketball player and Dion played throughout his childhood in Belgium. He played for the Belgian National Team when he was 18 before being recruited to play for Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nevada. During Dion’s time at the school, Findlay was ranked No. 1 in the nation.

This success wasn’t replicated at Auburn University, and the 6-foot-6, 185-pound Dion couldn’t find personal success after tearing his ACL towards the beginning of his freshman year season. He transferred to Miami after liking the campus, its academics and its basketball program.

Miami basketball has gone 13 wins-18 loses, 13-19, 13-20 in its past three seasons and, most recently, 11-21.

“You have to come back,” Dion says. “You can’t let your head hang.”

Dion recognizes that there is a gap between high school basketball and college basketball; there’s an adjustment period. The learning curve is greater when young players are forced to deal with consecutive loses, and then consecutive losing seasons.

Practices have stayed relatively consistent during Dion’s time at Miami and he acknowledges that coaches will yell at you whether you’re a team that consistently wins championships, or a team that doesn’t.

Practice is from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, after morning classes and tutoring.

On Tuesdays, Dion hustles from practice to a 4 p.m. class that he has to miss on game days.

Like Josh and Miami Hockey, Dion doesn’t have chances to sleep in during the competitive season.

“It’s the extra load that you carry,” he says.

“But you know that as a student athlete when you step into it.”

And he doesn’t mind stepping in those shoes – less free time and all – if that means the sport he plays pays for his education and he gets to travel with his teammates turned family.

Josh also doesn’t wish away his ability to play hockey in college; he wouldn’t want to be a ‘normal’ college student, even if it meant sleeping in and more free time.

Gus, Josh and Dion shy away from wanting to tell the Miami community any specifics about what they do – they love the sport they play and think it comes across to the students on their respective playing fields. “[The students] know that we train hard, we practice every day, workout every day,” Josh says. “I wouldn’t say that I necessarily care that they know that much, because that doesn’t really have an effect on me. I don’t need them to know that I’m here every day working hard -- I feel like that’s something they know.”

But, a lot of the time, it’s hard for the students to sympathize with athletes whose work doesn’t culminate in wins.

Football has arguably made its mark in Miamians’ minds after being the first team in NCAA history to go 0-6 and then 6-0.

“Honestly, it felt better being here when things weren’t going well and to be that group that was a part of the turnaround,” Gus says. “Just being part of the turnaround, it’s something I can’t

Sophomore center Josh Melnick (top), Redshirt junior guard Dion Wade (left) and Gus Ragland (right) are driven by passion for their sports, as they attempt to overcome consecutive losing seasons.

really explain. It exceeded winning games, it meant more than winning games.”

But football, on average, left 7,176 seats empty during home games during the 2016-17 season.

Hockey didn’t fill 630 and basketball was under capacity by 4,910 bodies.

The student-athletes of the sports notice the lack of fan attendance, but when the week starts they’re likely not thinking about filling stadiums and arenas. Instead, they’re thinking about winning games.

“People will always talk, but it’s mainly for myself to see that I perform well and that the team performs well,” Dion says. “As an outsider, you don’t know what’s going on on the inside with the team and what we’re working on” But people are looking for answers – the fans, alumni and the student-athletes themselves.

“I think part of our problem was after a losing weekend we’d come in and maybe we weren’t intense enough and sometimes that was on the players and we’d need the coaches to step in during practice and maybe yell to get guys going,” Josh attempts to explain. “I think it could have been vice versa; sometimes, the coaches got discouraged after a weekend and it was on us to work hard in practice and get things going for them to pick their attitude back up and realize we’re still playing. We’re still fighting.”

The hockey team is fighting to solidify a part of Miami’s history, as is the basketball program.

Dion can’t give any definite answer as to what causes the basketball team’s losing seasons. He is silent for 20 seconds before giving up on trying to explain it. He does recognize that losing becomes more of a mind game than a physical battle.

“When you were winning and the coaches are yelling and cussing and practice is hard, you had something to back you up,” Dion says. “Which was winning.”

Though Miami has championship expectations, it is marred with recent memories of defeat.

“Obviously, there’s a little bit of pressure for how successful the program has been, so I guess we try not to think about it too much,” Josh acknowledges. “But we want to win -- we want to do good for the school.”

And though filled with desires to win for themselves, the school and their program, players find it hard to pinpoint what causes losing seasons and what needs to change.

Regardless of the world of sporting spectators, the athletic facilities on Miami’s campus will be populated by several hundred studentathletes on any given weekend. They’ll be filled with athletes like Gus, Josh and Dion – those who are now at the heart of Miami athletics.

Those who are expected to win conference and national titles and, recently, those who have not.

“I think a lot of the time, and this year, guys are so focused on doing the right thing and representing the program so well that sometimes we just got away from just going out on the ice and having fun,” Josh says.

But, the locker rooms will be filled with student-athletes who love their sport and love playing – no matter if they’re winning or losing.

On January 3, 2017, the locker room in the hallways of Millett welcomed a 69-67 victory to start basketball’s conference play.

On December 10, 2016, the locker room in the underground of Goggin calmly absorbed Miami Hockey’s much-needed 3-2 overtime victory that broke the 10-game winless streak.

On November 4, 2016, the locker room beneath Yager no longer felt the weighted pressure of numerous undefeated seasons.

“We weren’t supposed to win that game.”

“We were supposed to get killed in that game.”

But Miami football beat Central Michigan 37-17.

The locker rooms at Miami are often empty on Sundays. The lights in the stadium, in the arena and on the court are often left off. In the darkness, there was no hint of how the Miami teams would finish their seasons: whether the benches would seat winners or losers, whether the floor would support victory dances or defeated feet, whether the walls would hold the shout of victory or the hush of loss. The locker rooms only knew the players who only know of the love for their school and their sport.