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Career Fair: Business as usual EMPLOYMENT

ABIGAIL KELLY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Putting the final touches on resumes, practicing elevator speeches and deciding which of the 295 companies to pursue — students all across campus are preparing for Career Fair Wednesday, Sept. 16.

However, some students, specifically non-business or engineering majors, click through the Career Services’ school-wide emails, not giving a second thought to Wednesday’s event.

“I don’t feel like [Career Services] filter their emails, so they send business school emails to everyone,” said Mollie Hogan, a junior psychology major.

Hogan has no intentions of attending Career Fair this week, while Abbey Wolfe, a senior supply chain major, is exhaustively preparing for her third appearance.

“There are millions of options, and there are so many questions that you have to ask yourself, ” said Wolfe.

When it comes to Career Fair, students notice a divide between business majors and everyone else.

Director of Career Services, Mike Goldman, said he understands why non-business students feel this way — it’s true that few liberal arts companies are represented at Career Fair.

“For a long time, the Career Fair

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LAURA FITZGERALD THE MIAMI STUDENT

Four years of banishment are coming to an end as Sigma Chi prepares its return to campus for spring 2016 recruitment.

The fraternity was originally suspended in April 2012 for issues of hazing, alcohol and illegal activities. The university hopes the suspension period has provided a fresh start for the chapter.

The four-year period ensures all the members have graduated, allowing for a fresh crop of members and a values-based recruitment process.

“The University Cliff office likes to do four years because it helps kind of reset the culture and make sure they start fresh and start with what their principles are,” said Zach Scheid, president of the Interfraternity Council.

Suspension means the members living in the Sigma Chi house were forced to move out, and all events, such as socials, meetings or philanthropic activities, were prohibited.

The chapter plans to recruit students who uphold the national chapter’s values — friendship, justice and learning, according to Sigma Chi’s website — and who are involved in their communities.

“The whole international fraternity is very excited to bring

the chapter back, but more importantly, bring it back the right way,” said Preston Lees, associate director of expansion for Sigma Chi’s national headquarters.

In addition, recruiters are searching for students who hold leadership positions on campus, said Michael McPhee, assistant director for the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Student Activities.

“They’re able to start on that strong foundation with the valuesbased process, and recruit people that are excited about and in line with that mission of the chapter,” McPhee said.

Fraternity culture can become cyclical, and members can stray from their values when they are starting out, Scheid said. The most critical period is the first five to 10 years in which a group is started or reinstated.

“I think what we’re trying to do and what the presidents are trying to do now is build that long-term route, so we don’t lose a chapter,” Scheid said.

While Sigma Chi’s specific recruitment timeline is still in the works, leaders from the national chapter will come to assist with the recruitment process, McPhee said.

This includes leadership consultants, who work with existing SIGMA CHI »PAGE 9

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timelines, but liberal arts students still lack the opportunities that Career Fair creates for business students.

However, Goldman encourages students of all majors not to limit themselves to Career Fair, because there are many more ways to find a job or internship.

“Students need to understand that finding an internship and a job today is like a five-legged stool,” Goldman said.

He said these five legs are Career Fair, CareerLink, other major-specific job search engines on the Career Services website, LinkedIn and networking with family friends, alumni and professors. Many students can use these alternative pathways in place of or in addition to Career Fair, Goldman said.

In the past, instead of going to Career Fair or using Career Services, Hogan used personal connections.

During summer 2014, she had an internship with the American Diabetes Association that she learned about through her former family nanny.

Because of the opportunities she has found for herself, and the education she has received, Hogan is starting her search for what she is going to do next summer. She hopes to work at a sober living facility in New York City.

For students like Hogan, the lack of relevant options at Career Fair means seeking jobs and internships through alternative means.

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Martin, Bahl remain positive after 58-0 Wisconsin rout

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was positioned as a fair for business and engineering students,” said Goldman. “We are trying to change that as rapidly as we can.”

Last year at Career Fair, Wolfe’s hard work paid off when she received an internship offer from Smuckers.

“I was thrilled,” Wolfe said.

“It was worth the stress and planning and the exhaustion that Career Fair brings.”

However, despite the advertising by Miami, other students, like Hogan, don’t even make it to the doors of Millett Hall for Career Fair, let alone receive offers. Although one-third of the companies are recruiting across all majors, a lot of them are still heavily directed toward business students.

“If I haven’t taken one business class or economics or political science class, I feel like I wouldn’t get a job, just being a psychology major,” said Hogan.

Goldman explained that Miami tries bringing employers for all majors to Career Fair, but it also depends on the industry itself.

“It is not personal,” said Goldman.

“PR firms and advertising firms tend to recruit later in the year and very few attend fairs, whereas banks and industrial companies tend to come to fairs and recruit early in the school year. It all depends on an industry’s recruiting practices.”

Across industries, there may be varied recruiting methods and

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GRACE REMINGTON SPORTS EDITOR

Miami knew it headed to Madison as the 33-point underdog, but it didn’t expect a score like this. University of Wisconsin (1-1) dominated in the air and on the ground, blowing out the RedHawks (1-1) 58-0. The Badgers outgained Miami 451-157 in yards and 26-9 in first downs.

Despite the lopsided loss, head coach Chuck Martin didn’t see it as a setback.

“Today at halftime I said ‘hey we got a 30-minute scrimmage against a Big Ten team,’” Martin said. “We’d love to scrimmage them in the spring.

They won’t scrimmage us because it’d be a waste of their time, but for us, it’s great work.”

Martin saw another positive in the RedHawks’ defense against the run.

MU held the Badgers to 58 yards on 21 carries in the first half and 188 yards overall.

“We had them well under 100 at halftime,” Martin said. “Not that we’re stopping the run, but we were managing the run pretty good … I think probably with where our team is at and where [Wisconsin is] at, a really good game for us would be 27-7.”

The game was close in the first quarter after the ’Hawks saved two Badger touchdowns. In UW’s first possession, the Badgers marched down the field with an 11-play, 71yard drive in 5:13 minutes. An overturned call on UW redshirt junior running back Dare Ogunbowale gave Miami a break, placing Ogunbowale at Miami’s 11-yard line to force a fourth down instead of a firstand-goal at the 4-yard line. The result was a 29-yard field goal, putting Wisconsin up 3-0 at the 9:47 mark.

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Freshman quarterback Billy Bahl takes a snap from senior center Brandyn Cook in Camp Randall Stadium. in the end zone prevented another Badger touchdown and forced a field goal with 1:22 left. Wisconsin finished the first quarter with a 13-0 lead.

“We had some good confidence on defense and we were making them drive the football,” Martin said. “We were settling in and if we could just get to punts and survive in special teams, I think that it would’ve been fairly close at halftime.”

But the half ended with Wisconsin up 37-0.

Redshirt senior quarterback Drew Kummer started the game and went 1-for-3 for 8 yards with one interception before he was pulled in favor of freshman quarterback Billy Bahl.

Bahl’s first drive was a threeand-out, but he put Miami in its first scoring position of the game, setting up senior Kaleb Patterson for a 37-yard field goal. Patterson

missed wide right with 2:24 left in the second quarter.

Bahl’s next drive ended in an interception. Martin alternated Kummer and Bahl for the rest of the game.

Both QBs were beat up throughout the game. Though he was sacked twice for a loss of 12 yards, Bahl, who stands at 6-foot-4 and 248 pounds, shook off defenders to avoid several potential sacks and escaped late hits.

“Welcome to college football young man,” Martin said with a laugh.

Kummer was sacked once for a loss of 6 and was knocked to the ground after several passes.

“Their front seven is tough,” Bahl said. “We haven’t seen a D-line like that in a while. Having freaks like that up there is tough to block.

Their DBs are very quick – quick

to the ball and play the ball well … but as the games go on, reps go on, we’ll keep getting better at facing teams like that. But right now we’re just working with it and we gotta keep competing.”

Martin was quick to credit Wisconsin’s defense.

“They had guys climbing all over our two quarterbacks,” he said.

“And guys aren’t exactly wide open out there on Wisconsin’s defensive backs. It was a long day.”

Kummer finished 6-for-14 for 62 yards and one interception, while Bahl completed 7 of 20 for 98 yards and two picks.

Bahl, who saw just one snap against Presbyterian College last week, enjoyed his first collegiate football experience.

“It was fun,” he said. “It was the FOOTBALL »PAGE 9

On this day in 1989, The Miami Student reported that a car policy committee had been formed to tackle the rising number of cars on campus. At that time, Miami was a no-car campus, and students could not park on campus without explicit university approval.

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International rates increase INTERNATIONAL

EMILY CULBERSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

International students represent 7.9 percent of the class of 2019, according to the Office of International Recruitment and Support Services. This makes the first-year class not only the largest in Miami’s history, but also the most culturally diverse.

Aaron Bixler, associate director of International Recruitment and Support Services, believes the presence of international students is a vital part of the Miami experience.

“The enrollment of international students is part of the overall admission enrollment goal,” Bixler said. “When the international students arrive, they bring different perspectives [and] are really bringing the world to Oxford in a lot of ways.”

Of the more than 70 nationalities represented on campus, about 80 percent of international students at Miami call China home. But this year, several countries made their way into the application pile for the first time, including Botswana and Pakistan.

Miami’s Office of Admission has established many programs aimed toward recruiting international students. “[Miami admissions representatives] visit high schools where we think students would be good fits for Miami,” Bixler said. “We do virtual events, host international high school counselors on campus and [hold] online fairs to reach out to students who may not be able to visit.”

Toby Yang, a first-year from China, said that at home, he felt

programs like these influenced him to come to the United States to get his degree.

“In China, students are encouraged to go abroad for their undergraduate,” Yang said. “A lot of students go abroad with help from an agency. They help you to choose a school, edit your [college essay] and tell you how to pay for tuition.”

Domestic students Katie Milders, a first-year native of Oxford, believes that the Miami experience wouldn’t be as meaningful without the presence of interna-

gether,” Milders said. “It’s hard to make friendships with them because they kind of stay to themselves.”

Likewise, Yang noted that living in a new country does make some interactions with American students difficult. “[The hardest part about going to school in the U.S. is] the cultural differences,” Yang said.

“Some action in China might be good or polite and that action in American is rude or ignorant. If I do something rude I may not know that because in China it’s

The enrollment of international students is part of the overall admission enrollment goal. When the international students arrive, they bring different perspectives [and] are really bringing the world to Oxford in a lot of ways.

AARON BIXLER

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT AND SUPPORT SERVICES

tional students.

“I think Miami would be a completely different place if we didn’t have international students,” Milders said. “Interacting with people that have different experiences definitely changes your perspective on how you go about your daily life.”

However, over the last few weeks, Milders has also noticed that making connections with international students isn’t always easy.

“It’s sometimes hard to interact with [international students] because they [often] stick to-

not.”

One of these cultural differences Yang has been grappling with is the American relationship between student and professor.

“Usually a teacher [in China] will not give you such a friendly attitude,” Yang said. “The [relationship is] respectful, there’s a distance between student and teacher. Now, I’m gradually getting along with my professors.”

But despite the challenges, Yang appreciates the opportunity that Miami provides him.

“Here, I can get a new start,” Yang said. “A new beginning.”

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Hodge delivers final address EVENT

LEAH SHAW ABBEY GINGRAS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

On Sept. 9 Miami President David Hodge gave his final Presidential Address to the students and faculty of Miami University.

Recently, Miami has created a new motto for each academic year, and a new goal for students and professors. This year’s focus, according to Hodge’s address, is Creativity and Innovation.

“This year we are focusing on how we can be more creative, and we are aiming at creating more creative and innovative graduates,” Hodge said.

Hodge has maintained these themes throughout his time at Miami, which began nearly a decade ago in 2006 and will end after this school year, in June.

Previously, Hodge served as the dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Washington.

Since Miami opened its doors as a university in 1809, it has ranked at the top of lists for various achievements and academic milestones.

“Miami continues to demonstrate excellent creativity and we continue to be the best,” Hodge said. “We are already known for our innovative programs but we can still do better.”

As university president, Hodge implemented a 20-year plan for Miami construction and renovation on campus. He also oversaw the construction of the Armstrong Student Center.

During his speech, Hodge stated three main ways students can focus on their creativity this year. The first, he said, is curiosity.

“Our curiosity declines significantly as we age, which then impairs our creativity,” Hodge said. “In or-

der to be creative, we must be curious about the world around us.”

With the new school year, Miami hopes to make good on that suggestion.

“We are trying to promote more group projects and learning environments that promote more interactive environments,” Hodge said.

Junior Mary Horner was one of many students to attend the address.

“I thought it was very interesting,” Horner said. “I really thought the part about your curiosity dropping as you age was very interesting and it was something that I never knew.”

Along with needing curiosity to be creative, a person must also be motivated, Hodge said.

“Passion is the biggest motivator for students to do something,” Hodge said. “Students are not going to be willing to do things if they do not have a passion for it.”

The final component, Hodge said, is being fearless.

“Ideas without precedent are looked down on, creativity is about a student seeing and seizing an opportunity and not being fearful to do so,” Hodge said.

In the year ahead, Hodge hopes to use collaboration, persistence and initiative to help keep the creativity alive within the Miami community.

Hodge said he plans to push continual improvement and alternative structures to ensure that creativity is available and promoted for each and every Miami student.

“With the focus this year of Creativity and Innovation, Miami University can continue to be the very best it has always been,” Hodge said.

Meanwhile, the search for Hodge’s successor continues as the university takes input from community members, students and professional search firm Isaacson, Miller.

Police reveal warning signs, myths of stopping students Uptown SAFETY

MAGGIE CALLAGHAN THE MIAMI STUDENT

Walking the streets of Uptown on any given night, one might encounter students in varying degrees of sobriety. The Oxford Police Department (OPD) uses certain indicators to determine if intervention is necessary.

Contrary to popular belief, being shoeless is not among the signs that police look for when deciding whether or not to stop an individual.

According to OPD and Miami University Police Department (MUPD), officers aren’t looking for shoeless girls because it’s not a direct indication that someone has been drinking.

Rather, they are looking for students who may be causing harm to themselves or to others, whether that means somebody that is too intoxicated and needs medical assistance or someone that is breaking into homes late at night.

MUPD Officer Darrell Byrd said the police will stop students who draw attention to themselves or are being disruptive and may create a dangerous situation.

By being present around campus and Uptown, the police are trying to prevent any potentially harmful situation from escalating.

OPD patrol officers will concentrate on “problematic areas,” like High Street around the time that bars are closing, because that is when a situation is most likely to occur, according to OPD

Sgt. Jon Varley.

Varley, who worked the night shift for 16 years, explained that as OPD officers patrol Uptown, they are looking for crimes being committed, situations that they believe may escalate into a fight or a person who may need medical assistance because they are so intoxicated that they are unable to walk.

Many students claim they don’t take their shoes off because they are scared that they will be stopped by the police. However, despite all the rumors that circulate, those students also understand what the police are actually looking for. “[They are looking for] somebody that is committing a crime, like being really drunk or stupid,” said first-year James Roesener.

According to both Byrd and Varley, it is not the police officer’s goal to get students in trouble while they are patrolling Uptown.

“If we wanted to get every underage drinker, we would just throw a net out over High Street,” Varley said.

Their objective is to keep students safe. By being present around Oxford, the police can patrol a larger area and assist quickly when something does happen.

“Our goal is to be visible and present, to deter anything from happening,” Byrd said.

This year, MUPD implemented a new strategy of placing a night patrol officer outside of Pulley Diner in Armstrong during the weekend. This new strategy is

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MUPD and OPD both cited a need to be more present on campus and Uptown to keep order among students. part of an effort by the MUPD to be present and near students so they can intervene when a situation arises. They also hope this will deter students from acting irresponsibly.

However, some Miami students aren’t convinced that having a police officer in Pulley Diner will actually change anything.

“I don’t necessarily think that Pulley Diner is a problematic area because if they walked down Slantwalk and haven’t been stopped

then they are probably fine,” said sophomore Kaira Schneider.

Other efforts made by MUPD and OPD include having double the amount of patrol officers on duty between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. during the weekends. They will also conduct joint patrol efforts in order to give assistance.

Even taking these extra measures, some students don’t believe their peers will act any differently, regardless of if they feel more of a police presence around campus

and Uptown.

“Sometimes they will be smart, sometimes they will be stupid,” said Roesener.

However, OPD and MUPD hope that by being visible and present in the scene, students will be smarter and safer about their actions.

“Realistically, at the end of the night, we want people to go home in the same shape that they left home earlier that evening,” Varley said.

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MU dining raises prices across dining locations DINING

NICK RAMSEY

THE MIAMI STUDENT

A subtle change students may notice on campus this year is a slight price hike to some a la carte items at Miami’s dining locations.

These price increases are due to a change in the diplomat meal plan and inflationary pressures.

Chris Yeadon, director of dining services, said Miami dining workers felt like their prices were falling below the market price. Certain food items throughout campus were selected, according to Yeadon, for price adjustments based on market basket comparisons, a comparison of prices of similar goods and inflationary pressures.

Several items became slightly more expensive in 2015-16: stirfry, which increased from $6.79 to $7.49, entrée salads, which jumped from $7.95 to $8.25 and beef and pork burritos went from $6.79 to $7.50. Sundial premium pizza

slices jumped 50 cents to $3.25 and the salad bar at Bell Tower increased from $.39/oz. to $.59/oz.

Other increases students could see on campus are not necessarily due to price hikes, but a result of changes to the diplomat meal plan. This year students on the diplomat meal plan will receive just a 50 percent discount instead of the 60 percent they received last year, said Yeadon. A la carte locations receive a 30 percent discount, which has not changed from last year.

The diplomat meal plan comes with $1,625 base fee per semester, which supports the maintenance, labor and general upkeep of the dining halls Sophomore Nick Shermis did not notice the increases from last year, but said he believes the price hikes will make dining difficult for off-campus students who don’t benefit from the diplomat discount.

Olivia Childs, a sophomore, said she doesn’t tend to no-

tice food prices until the end of each semester.

“It really doesn’t matter to me until the end of the semester when my meal plan runs out,” she said.

And, when she’s trying to stretch

tend to fluctuate. The drought in California, for example, has raised crop prices.

Along with a la carte price adjustments and discount changes, there could also be more changes

This year students on the diplomat mean plan will receive just a 50 percent discount instead of the 60 percent they received last year.

CHRIS YEADON

DIRECTOR OF DINING SERVICES

her meal plan dollars, Childs said she steers clear of the pricey MacCracken market.

“The only place where I really notice the outrageous prices is at the market,” she said.

There are currently no plans to raise prices for this school year, but Yeadon did warn that food prices

to meal plans starting next year.

“We are in the process of evaluating our meal plans and pricing structure with possible changes for the 2016-17 academic year,” Yeadon said. “We will engage with various student groups as part of the process before making final recommendations.”

It is difficult to compare meal plans from school to school because each school structures them differently, but Miami’s prices are fairly comparable to other public universities in Ohio. The highest level of meal plan at Miami is more expensive than Ohio State University and Ohio University, but Miami is the only one in Ohio that allows unused balances to rollover into the next academic year.

In the fiscal year 2014, Miami dining had revenues of approximately $40 million, compared to $37.2 million in 2013 and $35.6 million in 2012, said David Ellis, associate vice president of budgeting and analysis for the university.

But, dining did not make a profit in the fiscal year 2014, and, at this point, can’t cover its expenses without revenue from residence halls, said Kim Kinsel, associate vice president for auxiliaries.

The main goal of Miami dining, Yeadon said, is “to be a self-supporting entity.”

Workers, students expose tipping habits COMMUNITY

MICHELLE GREGG THE MIAMI STUDENT

When it comes to tipping, college students have the reputation of being stingy. But according to several Uptown workers, tips aren’t as bad as many might assume.

Co-owner of Skipper’s Pub, Terry Amarantos, believes the tipping habits at restaurants in small, college towns are naturally going to be different than those of restaurants in a more metropolitan area.

“In general, kids are pretty fair with what they have to spend,” Amarantos said.

Amarantos added that many people who work in industries where they receive tips make their livings from what gratuity they obtain, and that even though tips aren’t required, they’re important for restaurant employees.

According to the Huffington Post, tips vary greatly throughout many countries in the world.

An average tip in the United States is between 15 to 20 percent, whereas most tips in Italy are under 10 percent. In countries such as China and Japan, it is very rare and often considered rude to leave a tip.

In most American food establishments, waiters and waitresses receive below minimum wage, often around $2/hour, due to the income they are likely to earn from tips.

Tipping below what is ex-

pected, or not tipping at all, can cause workers to make far below livable wages.

Although Skipper’s has a pub environment, it does not see as much business as the larger bars in the Uptown area.

Amarantos mentioned that he is sure alcohol plays a role in the tips students provide, whether for better or worse.

Another Uptown employee had a similar opinion of college students. Thomas Romano said that Bagel & Deli definitely has a different atmosphere than other restaurants in the area.

The popular sandwich shop functions on a first come, first

in and have a good experience.

While Romano and Amarantos have a positive attitude about their customers, Miami students who leave tips shared their habits.

Scott Hingsbergen, a first-year at Miami, answered that he does his best to provide a fair tip.

“I always tip 20 or so percent,” Hingsbergen said. “The minimum for me is 15 percent, but I feel like tipping the minimum isn’t okay.”

Comparing a fast-paced restaurant to a pub or sit-down restaurant, Hingsbergen admitted that he is much more likely to tip higher at the latter.

Comparing a fast-paced restaurant to a pub or sit-down restaurant, Hingsbergen admitted that he is much more likely to tip higher at the latter.

serve basis and gets most of its business from college students late at night.

“More than 30 to 40 percent at least tip one dollar,” said Romano. Similar to what Amarantos believed, Romano said he has faith in students and their ability to provide what they can.

Romano said that it is most important that people enjoy coming

“I haven’t tipped at Bagel & Deli other than a dollar or my change into the tip jar,” he said.

Another first-year student, Matthew Clements, shared similar tipping habits compared to Hingsbergen.

“I tip when I’m being served and not when I’m ordering,” he said. “Depending on the service, I tip from 12 to 20 percent.”

CATHERINE DENNISON THE MIAMI STUDENT

IN REMEMBRANCE Miami commemorated the 14th anniversary of 9/11 Friday with a patriotic tribute at its annual memorial race at Millett Hall.

Miami students, professors discuss teaching styles in the classroom ACADEMICS

EMILY O’CONNOR

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Some prefer their names prefaced with “Dr.,” others will settle for a simple “professor.” And, others will buck the formalities all together and allow their students to address them by their first names.

Some professors value a highly professional presentation. They wear business professional clothing in the classroom, they want to be addressed formally and they usually avoid getting to know their students on a personal level.

Others ask students to call them by their first name, they dress casually and strive to connect with their students and understand their personal lives.

Greg Thoelke, a graduate student who teaches at the university, said he wants his students to perceive a client-guide relationship in his classroom. Despite teaching in a relaxed setting, he believes the professor still needs to assert responsibility in their classroom.

“As a professor, I feel a responsibility to not only transfer knowledge and education, but to truly care for each of my students,” Thoelke said. “I find I can do it

BETH PFOHL THE MIAMI STUDENT

Professors display a wide array of teaching styles and methods. Students prefer professors to get to know them on a personal rather than a professional level. best when I create and facilitate a relaxed classroom environment.”

Miami does not limit professors’ classroom apparel and how they present themselves to students.

Teachers, like their students, are free to express themselves however they please.

Michel Pactat, senior instructor of French and Italian, said he wants his students to feel comfort-

able in the classroom.

“When I walk into the classroom, I want to hear discussion from students about their weekend, homework or anything,” Pactat said.

Pactat said he believes dress codes may be stricter in more professional departments, like the Farmer School of Business, but that he has free reign.

“I always try to be decent,” he said. “I don’t want to create a pedestal by the clothes I wear or the way I dress.”

Students have different learning styles, and they often prefer different educational environments. Some students need a relaxed and comfortable classroom while others need a strict and serious workspace.

Sophomore Sean Davis prefers a laid back professor rather than one who is formal, but he always wants them to remain professional. He said a relaxed and friendly teaching style is best, especially in higher-level courses.

In his experience, professors are able to reach through to their students more easily when they know them personally.

“I feel most comfortable in the classroom when the professor teaches this way,” Davis said. “I think a majority of students learn best in relaxed environments.”

Junior Katie Tullis said she believes students cannot engage well with class information when professors don’t give them a homework break every once and a while.

“Strict professors usually fail at understanding their students’ other obligations,” Tullis said.

Tullis also said she has been able to overcome her toughest semesters with professors who she felt understood her and cared about things she was going through.

“I don’t think professors should be our friends because there is no structure,” Tullis said. “But, I do much better in a class when I feel comfortable coming to them.”

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Late Night Miami: Films through the decades DiCaprio and Hanks play real life game of cat and mouse in ‘Catch Me If You Can’ FILM

ALISON PERELMAN THE MIAMI STUDENT

“Catch Me If You Can” (2002) follows the life of Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), one of America’s youngest and most talented con men.

Frank’s life is turned upside down when his family suffers financial trouble, forcing them to move and leading to his parents’ divorce. Instead of dealing with the problems now facing him, he decides to run away. Using his skills and smarts, he is able to con millions of dollars’ worth of checks while pretending to be a Pan Am pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, all while evading FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks).

Despite the fact that it is based on a true story, one of the most in-

teresting things about this movie is the way it portrays Frank and the actions he takes to be successful. Everyone knows that lying, stealing and cheating your way in life is bad, but we can’t help but love Frank anyway.

We can all relate to Frank in the beginning. He’s like any other typical teenager — sleeping in, skipping school, admiring his father and his parents’ love for each other. Frank tries to stay positive as his world slowly falls apart, but it eventually becomes too much. He realizes the severity of the situation, yet does not want to make a decision. We’ve all had that same moment, in which we don’t want to face responsibilities and think that it would be easier to run away.

Frank actually does.

Screenwriter Jeff Nathanson does

Double dose of Mike Myers fails to impress in ‘Austin Powers’ FILM

ALLISON JONES

THE MIAMI STUDENT

If you’re looking for a stimulating film that will make you think, “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” is not the movie for you. However, if what you want is easy entertainment sure to get you laughing, then it is definitely worth a watch.

It starts off as your average, everyday spy movie but is quickly shown to be anything but. On the contrary, it proves to be a ridiculous spoof of James Bond and other action clichés.

The story starts with Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) cryogenically freezing himself, to be thawed out 30 years later in 1997, in order to escape his super spy nemesis and live to take over the world another day. Unfortunately for Dr. Evil, said nemesis Austin Powers (also Myers) decides to freeze himself as well, in hopes of thwarting Evil’s plans in the future.

Both of Myers’ characters are forced to face the realities of missing 30 years, while simultaneously remaining completely out of touch with reality. Rather than focusing on epic fight scenes, car chases and last minute rescues, the characters’ failures are due to their own ineptness rather than interference from their enemies.

Powers gets so caught up in trying to charm ’90s girls with

his ’60s style that he rarely gets around to remembering his mission. He states with concern that, “I’ve been frozen for 30 years.

I’ve got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.”

While cocky and flirtatious lines are a hallmark of any spy movie, a classically handsome fellow in a well fitting suit is usually the one to use them. Hearing those same lines from Myers, dressed in eccentric ’60s garb, has quite a different effect. Rather than seeming suave and debonair, it causes the audience to laugh and question the sanity of any woman that may fall for him.

While Powers is distracted from his mission by beautiful women, Dr. Evil is similarly sidetracked from his goal by issues in his daily life. He discovers that his son hates him for his absence, and is repeatedly told by employees that his schemes are outdated and unprofitable.

The relationship between Dr. Evil and his son, Scott Evil (Seth Green) is tense and awkward to say the least. However, rather than taking away from the humor of the film, their messy relationship adds a new layer of banter and familial competition. Evil is constantly shutting down everything his son wants, and is openly disappointed in his son’s lack of evil aspirations.

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a superb job with the storyline. He creates an innocent character with whom everyone can relate, then transforms Frank into someone everyone wants to be. He also constructs the perfect cat-and-mouse dynamic. Frank’s cleverness keeps the audience on its toes, while Carl is the classic detective, always humorously one step behind.

DiCaprio does an excellent job charming the audience. His performance makes us forget that Frank is only a kid and what he’s doing is actually illegal. Even when we are reminded of these things, it’s impossible not to cheer him on because it’s just so fun to watch. Which is also why the audience is not able to hate Carl, despite the fact that he’s supposed to be the bad guy. Hanks manages to portray Carl as a man loyal to his job, yet sympathetic to

Frank’s naivety.

“Catch Me If You Can” is not just a way for us to live out a fantasy alongside Frank, though. Behind each plot point is a powerful message on how everyone should live their lives.

Throughout the movie, Frank and his father repeat the same quote. “Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse wouldn’t quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out.”

They both claim to be the second mouse, which we should all strive to be as well. We should all work hard to get the things we want and never give up.

Frank’s version of this, however, becomes a little distorted. He

doesn’t truly work hard for the life he has, which may not even be the life he wants. Later in the movie, Carl points out that, “Sometimes, it’s easier living the lie.” This allows Frank and the audience to realize that, while it might be easier, more appealing and even glamorous, it’s not the best life to live after all.

“Catch Me If You Can” is the perfect combination of a crime drama and comedy that comes full circle. It’s great to watch for simple entertainment, while also leaving the audience with a few moral lessons.

“Catch Me If You Can” will be shown on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 8:30 p.m. in Central Quad.

‘Breakfast Club’ still relevant 30 years later FILM

JACK RYAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

While re-watching the Brat Pack classic, “The Breakfast Club,” for the umpteenth time this weekend, I was hit with a strange nostalgia.

Strange, because I never compulsively listened to David Bowie as a teenager, nor did I ever use cheesy phrases like, “Eat my shorts.” I was born in 1996, after all. Nostalgia, because, from the opening anti-authority quote to the final thematic fist pump, I once again felt the angst and defiance inherent of high school.

This sentiment is clear proof of the universal accessibility of “The Breakfast Club,” the modern classic that became the zeitgeist of the 1980s, inspired countless generations and ultimately worked its way into the center of our current pop culture.

For those somehow unfamiliar with this modern classic, “The Breakfast Club” is the story of five distinctly different teenagers who have to spend a full Saturday in their school’s library for detention.

They are, in no particular order, Andy, the athlete (Emilio Estevez), Claire, the princess (Molly Ringwald), Bender, the criminal (Judd Nelson), Brian, the brain (Anthony Michael Hall) and Allison, the basket case (Ally Sheedy).

Separately, they are each members of their own cliques and social

circles, so the beginning of their day is a bit rocky as they adjust.

Their stereotypes are written in stone: the athlete must stand up for the princess, the criminal must bully the brain, the basket case must be given stares for her odd behavior, and so on. “The Breakfast Club” breaks new ground when these polar opposites begin to bond over their mutual punishment and their secret similarities, despite their outward differences.

While the cast brings a number of memorable and impressive performances to the table (particularly Judd Nelson), John Hughes’ screenwriting and direction are the obvious highlights of this masterpiece, turning a mundane premise into an evocative work of art.

The extreme highs (and few lows) of “The Breakfast Club” can be derived from a 1985 interview with Hughes, who noted that, “Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base ... But I haven’t found that to be the case.

I listen to kids. I respect them ...

Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I’ve met.”

Hughes shows the young cast the respect they deserve, giving each member of the eponymous club their own chance to shine, handled with equal amounts of gravitas and care.

Of course, even classics have a few slip-ups here and there, and “The Breakfast Club” is not without its faults. The intolerable princi-

pal Mr. Vernon (Paul Gleason) can feel overly one-sided in comparison to the well-developed teenagers he’s overseeing. The only other major adult character, the janitor Carl Reed (John Kapelos), seems almost unnecessary at points, due to his limited screen-time and lines.

The film can also get carried away with symbolic acts of rebellion, such as a moment when a stoned Andy screams until a library door literally shatters. Fortunately, these kinds of moments are few and far between, and never come off as completely out of the blue.

While it is an amazing movie in its own right, a large reason for the amazing longevity of “The Breakfast Club” lays outside the realm of the movie itself, and in the genre of teen movies around it. Think about the last ‘high school’ movie you’ve seen. Chances are that it was the tale of a group of horny, alcohol-craving kids afflicted with the teenage condition: the unbreakable desire to throw a party, get laid or, hopefully, both.

While sex and drugs are certainly accurate staples of young adult life, these films reduce their characters to the “base pursuits,” making it impossible for us to truly relate with them. These fun party films have also saturated the recent market, leaving coming-of-age films in the dust for fake recordings of nights we wouldn’t care to remember anyway.

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Pixar transforms emotions ‘Inside Out’ FILM

OLIVIA LEWIS THE MIAMI STUDENT

ANGELO GELFUSO FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

COIN’s Chase Lawrence sings to the crowd of Brick Street during the performance of COIN Thursday night.

A candy-colored adventure fraught with feeling, Pixar’s “Inside Out” (2015) deftly explores both the positive and negative aspects of the human experience and, in doing so, highlights the necessity of the entire emotional spectrum.

At first glance, its storyline is a gamble — it features an 11-yearold girl named Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), whose life is navigated by her personified emotions from behind a control panel in her mind.

However, if anyone could pull off such a wacky premise, it would be the team that effectively mesmerized audiences with tales about rats that cook, balloons that hold houses aloft and robots that fall madly in love.

Like the sterling animation house’s predecessors, this kiddie flick comes laden with a mature, albeit subtle, theme — that as people age, they must accept sad or painful experiences as valuable parts of the human condition. However, it packages it all in bright pastel hues and absurd shenanigans that will

captivate young and old audiences alike. This message is primarily delivered through the film’s emotional starlight, Joy (Amy Poehler) Effervescent and bubbly, Joy always wants to be in control, but doing so proves to have dire consequences. This is especially true after the downbeat, but sweet Sadness (Phyllis Smith) accidentally meddles with the framework of Riley’s memories. The result is kicking Riley’s tween turmoil to the highest level and leaving the rest of the emotions, including Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Fear (Bill Hader), to their own misguided devices. Together, Joy and Sadness embark on an odyssey through Riley’s consciousness in order to keep her spirits high, but in the end they learn a wise lesson about tough times being a necessary, even lucrative, part of life.

From Joy dragging Sadness’ deflated body through a maze of memories to Sadness doing her best to warn the impulsive Joy of danger, the film does an impressive job of illustrating the changes made in the relationship between two emotions that just can’t seem to get along. Although Sadness is someone who Joy reluctantly tolerates

for most of the flick’s runtime, the sluggish, mopey heroine eventually reveals herself as someone deserving of Joy’s respect.

The film doesn’t fully brandish this change in outlook until Sadness succeeds where Joy could not in comforting Riley’s forgotten imaginary friend, Bing Bong (Richard Kind). The development of the initially rocky relationship is not only natural, but also heartfelt, and will have viewers searching for people to reconcile with in their own lives.

As for the voices, no other cast could fit their roles more perfectly.

Smith’s cheerless Sadness serves as the perfect foil to Poehler’s sprightly Joy, while Anger’s surprisingly adorable appearance and diminutive stature makes Lewis Black’s blow-top performance that much more entertaining. Hader depicts Fear as an anxiety-ridden worrywart, while Kaling’s pretentious Valley-girl delivery keeps Disgust feeling relevant to the team. The effect is a shining halo of a cast working together to add life to the film and its basic concept.

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from the top of the 18yard box in the 52nd minute. Rice’s counteroffensive started thereafter and took seven of the next eight shots in the game. However, junior goalkeeper Vic Maniaci’s defense proved too strong, and not a single Owl shot reached the back of the net.

Zalar’s final goal in the 88th minute, which was set up by a perfect pass from junior midfielder Jenna Weiner, was the nail in the coffin.

Kramig was impressed by his defense’s performance.

“I just thought it was a good composed performance by our defenders,” Kramig said. “Everyone did their job right. Rice has some very

talented individual players up front. They had a lot to deal with, but they kept their cool, they kept their shape, and they came through in the end.”

MU continues its season against Florida Gulf Coast University on Friday in Oxford, Ohio and Wright State University on Sunday in Dayton, Ohio.

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From ramen to risotto: The dying legend of the broke college kid EDITORIAL

Hardwood floors, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances — a home of this caliber sounds like a recipe for suburban bliss, two kids and a minivan.

However, if you are an upperclassman at Miami, chances are your off-campus apartment features one or more of these amenities. Not to mention the residence halls, which are one by one being remodeled to resemble luxury hotels.

For decades, the archetype of the “broke college student” has reigned: a 20-something who runs on two hours of sleep and four cups of bad coffee, who shares a dingy dorm room with more people than fit comfortably inside, and who never lets these circumstances get them down, because they are too excited simply to be living on their own.

But gone are the college days of our parents’ generations, when

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board. students lined up in the hallway for their chance to use the dorm’s only payphone. College kids no longer file to the dining hall, wondering what dinner might be that night.

Nowadays, instead of spending our class time doodling in notebooks, we spend it on our laptops shopping for shoes online, a sign of both the technological advances of the times and the cultural shift of what it means to be a college student.

Though many of us do have jobs and pay for our tuition, books and bills, the emblematic idea of the broke college kid is fading into just that — an idea, nothing more.

College is no longer a time to make do with what you have, but rather to expect that things be bigger, better, nicer and higher-quality than ever before.

For example, Miami is now focusing on creating menus that are more fitting of a five-star restaurant than a college campus. At Western

Dining Commons, students can custom-order crepes, elaborately filled with Nutella and sprinkled to perfection with powdered sugar. Encounter, the burger joint at Maplestreet Station, grills up 1/3 pound beef patties that are locally

The idea of the broke college kid is fading into just that — ­ an idea, nothing more.

sourced and antibiotic-free. Mystery meat has been swapped with quinoa and kale. Ramen has been replaced with risotto.

This attitude extends to the social scene as well: weekends are spent treating ourselves to $80 dresses at posh boutiques Uptown because

Conservative pundits get BLM wrong CIVIL RIGHTS

MILAM’S MUSINGS When it comes to discussions of race and, in particular, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, I find my fellow white people frustrating.

There are few other issues where white people, as a default, are on the defensive, reactionary and quick with an opinion. And often in my experience talking to and engaging with people on the subject, that opinion is couched in misunderstanding and ignorance and at worst, stereotypes and racism of black people.

To assure you, the reader, that I’m not just creating a fictitious opponent in order to establish my own point, merely Google what Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, among others, have said about BLM. All those men, combined, carry weight among conservatives and, consequently, white people. In particular, those men have been furthering the idea that Black Lives Matter is itself racist and, more insidious, that the movement pushes for the death of cops and white people.

Hannity specifically said as such on his Sep. 2 radio show.

O’Reilly called it a hate group and also said BLM wants dead cops.

Beck hosted a “Restoring Unity” march in Birmingham on Aug. 30, that was essentially an “all lives matter” counterpoint to BLM, where some 20,000 people marched.

Moreover, there’s been talk of a “Ferguson effect,” wherein it’s attested that violent crime is ticking upward in cities across America and it’s attributable to the BLM protest in the aftermath of Ferguson in 2014.

The New York Times itself pushed this narrative and were rightly lambasted for doing as such. The Times hid behind anonymous “experts, rank-and-file officers” to push this baseless theory.

Within the Times’ own piece, after floating the theory, the Times cites an actual expert, Richard Rosenfield, criminologist from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, who said homicides in St. Louis had already begun to arc upward in 2014 before Michael Brown’s death.

Furthermore, at FiveThirtyEight, author Carl Bialik clarifies this “crime wave,” he called “cherrypicked data.” For instance, instead of picking a random selection of 10 cities, as the Times did, FiveThirtyEight selected the top 60 cities and came to this conclusion: “While a 16 percent increase in U.S. major-city homicides is statistically significant, it comes after decades of declines — the murder rate fell by more than half nationally from its peak in 1980 to 2012,” Bialik said.

Unfortunately, this lack of perspective and scare-mongering from conservative pundits and from established media entities, like the Times (NPR, CNN, USA Today and the BBC are other culprits), is effective at contributing to misunderstanding.

I offer two examples: 1.) Even though gun homicides are down 49 percent since their 1993 peak, 56 percent of Americans, as of a 2013 Pew Research poll, thought gun homicides were actually higher than at the 1993 mark. 2.) A Sept. 2 Rasmussen poll found that 58 percent of Americans believe there is a “war on cops.”

Let me start unpacking this now.

First, let’s start with the elementary, but perhaps most divisive part of the whole issue: BLM is not a movement asserting that black lives matter “more than” white lives, but rather “as much as” white lives in a country that historically and presently suggests otherwise.

It’s the same reason there needed to be a women’s suffrage movement at the turn of the last century or a feminist movement in the 1960s — not because men didn’t matter, but because women lived in a country where they didn’t matter as much.

This isn’t the column to do a full fleshing out of why there needs to be a movement to assert that black lives matter, but it’s indisputable that blacks are disproportionately killed by the police (meaning, as a rate of their population, not raw numbers because obviously in raw numbers, whites are killed more ... because there are more whites in the United States) at twice the rate of whites or Hispanic or Latino people and in cases where the victim is unarmed, blacks are seven times as likely to be that victim.

Beck and others insist, as deflection of this fact, that blacks are more often killed by other blacks. But this is stating the obvious. Whites are also mostly killed by other whites, as crime is the confluence of opportunity and proximity; as in, whites tend to live with other whites and the same holds for black people.

For Beck and others to then further insist that black people don’t care about this crime in their community is the height of stupidity. Here in Cincinnati and in cities all over the U.S., there are anti-violence marches constantly.

One last point: the peak of lynchings of black people was between 1889 and 1898 when 1,613 were lynched. However, black people were still more likely to die by the hands of another black person. Now, as a thought experiment, if Beck or others countered a black person worried about lynching then to worry about “black-on-black crime” instead, how vapid do you think they would look?

Finally, there is no war on cops.

Any way you want to look at it, whether raw numbers or rates of police killings or police assaults, police are safer than they’ve been in

decades, if not ever.

Radley Balko for the Washington Post points out that 2015 is on pace to see 35 felonious killings of police officers.

“If that pace holds, this year would end with the second lowest number of murdered cops in decades,” Balko said.

The first lowest in decades was 2013, so as Balko said, when pundits and cop advocates point to an increase from 2013, they forget to add in the perspective that it’s an increase from a historic low.

Assaults on officers are also down over the last 15 years, further adding to the point that police aren’t out there in a war zone.

If one looks at police deaths as a rate, 2015, after 2013, would be the safest year for police since tracking began in 1870.

Here’s the other interesting point -- look at what I just said: tracking that started in 1870. We have good statistics on number of police killed going back to a few years after the Civil War. Contrast that with 2015 being the first year, thanks to the Washington Post and The Guardian, where we have any solid idea of how often the police kill citizens.

The FBI started tracking the numbers in 1976, but there have long been reporting issues.

To best illustrate how lacking the FBI stats were, the FBI never reported a year with more than 460 police shootings. The Washington Post has counted 686 in the first nine months of this year. If going by The Guardian’s counting, it’s 815. (It’s a matter of methodology, the Post is only tracking on-duty fatal gun shootings, whereas The Guardian is counting any death by the hands of the police.)

If the pace holds (going with The Guardian’s number since it’s more comprehensive), 1,100 people will be killed in some manner by the police at year’s end. Do we want to live in a country prior to 2015 where 640 deaths, year in and year out, go unaccounted for? Whether you think they’re all probably criminals and deserved it or not, I prefer to know what my government is up to, especially when they’re killing us.

This should be a no-brainer for supposedly limited government types, like Hannity and O’Reilly.

It would seem, when taking into account the disproportionate number of blacks killed in those numbers, that blacks lives, prior to this accounting and the BLM movement, didn’t matter.

Protest movements are supposed to make people uncomfortable and in response to that discomfort, white people tend to ignorantly lash out.

I implore white people to resist the urge to respond to that discomfort with hostility rather than understanding and empathy.

BRETT MILAM

MILAMBC@MIAMIOH.EDU

we “don’t have anything to wear.”

We go out multiple nights a week and buy round after round of drinks (preferably while sitting in a grubby booth, listening to the bartender’s iPod at CJ’s if we really feel like getting in touch with our inner, grungy-chic broke college student).

For those of us who are more money-conscious, it can be hard to find things to do that are both socially acceptable and budget-friendly.

While we appreciate these luxuries, we can’t help but wonder if they are setting us up for failure later in life. What is this system of instant gratification teaching us?

Why do we need to have the nicest clothes, state-of-the-art housing and organic food options? And in striving for these fleeting ideals, are we missing out on learning larger lessons, like how to budget, save money or read our credit scores?

Many of us would gladly give up the sparkly chandeliers and gour-

met food if it meant tuition rates would drop. But when it comes down to it, we don’t have a choice.

College is a business, and the market is competitive. Administrations, donors and marketing departments push for the newest advancements, so that their school can earn the coveted title of being the “best.” So we might as well enjoy what’s offered while we can, and keep in mind that this won’t last forever. College is supposed to prepare us for the “real world,” so it’s important to remember that this glamorous life might not be our reality after graduation.

And though our college years might differ from those of our parents, this is still a special time. We are still fostering friendships, learning new skills, creating our own unique memories. And it is those experiences — not all the unnecessary bells and whistles — that make us love Miami.

The last thing Oxford needs is a new development CONSTRUCTION

KYLE HAYDEN DESIGN EDITOR

Recently, Trinitas Ventures LLC, a developer from Lafayette, IN, pushed a proposal for a 192-unit, 668-bed development on Southpointe Parkway (right across the street from Level 27) through the Planning Commission to City Council.

Aside from having the logo of an evil corporation from a Pixar movie — the well-mannered proposals by Travis Vencel (VP of Development at Trinitas) and subsequent hearings were underlined by the gnawing feeling that something just wasn’t right.

Trinitas is involved in an ongoing lawsuit against the City of Oxford for a settlement that would also allow them to then have their development.

The Chairman of the Planning Commission, David Prytherch, voted through the development with the “legal gun to [his] head,” in a meeting on Sept. 8.

The developer is sadly within its legal rights to forcibly enact what it wants. But, it is the very development of this land that contradicts how the planning commission wants to see Oxford grow.

revealing that the developer had lied in their original proposal by saying the development was not to be student housing.

To Robert Benson, who sits on the Planning Commission: you are an architecture professor, a professor of architectural history.

How could you —in good conscience — approve these plans without any voice to reason?

We already have a surplus of housing — students should be packing into the Mile Square (they already do, but even more densely) or just outside of it and walking everywhere.

Dear reader, this may be the only time of your life you get to experience what it’s like to be able to walk everywhere and not deal with a car and parking the car and worrying about the car. Oxford is great like that.

These developments are not only harmful to the character and feeling of Oxford, but to the mission and purpose of having a Planning Commission staffed with people experienced in geography and architecture. These developments just pretext the “commute to work” lifestyle that many people have to experience in cities across the country. But we keep doing it to ourselves. These “leap-

I do not want to see leapfrog developments that encourage car use, developments that produce huge parking lots, and isolate people from the centers of towns and activities.

I side with the Planning Commission. I do not want to see leapfrog developments that encourage car use, developments that produce huge parking lots and isolate people from the centers of towns and activities. Vencel wrongly asserted that they expect more bike use on Route 27.

How? Vencel has never tried to ride a bike up the hill into Oxford on Route 27. With the recent widening of 27, the speed limit will increase. No one is riding a bike into Oxford from Southpointe Parkway. No one.

Mostly what shocks me about this development is the lack of public outcry. Everyone will subsequently complain about it, but they will not do anything now to stop it. Only Kathleen Zien was there to be the watchdog,

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frog” developments insist that it’s OK to complain about of a perceived shortage of parking.

We don’t need more parking.

We need more people living closer to campus: walking, biking or taking the bus.

This means not approving these developments that no one wants except the developer.

There is a City Council Meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sep. 5 at the Courthouse on High Street.

The address is 118 W. High Street.

The above-discussed item will be on the agenda.

Dear reader, if you care about your city, you will come out with me and tell City Council you think it’s bullshit that wealthy developers can stomp on small cities that don’t want their developments.

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A Kroger run gone amiss: Ballad of a first-year trying to figure things out LIFE

KEVIN VESTAL

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Ask any Miami student where they get their groceries and you will be met with a resounding advertisement for Kroger. With this in mind, I grabbed a friend and spent my second afternoon on campus blindly following Google Maps in order to find this store and fill my fridge.

Had I swallowed my pride and asked a returning student for directions rather than my trusty smart-

Let’s be honest –– at one point we all had no idea what we were doing.

phone, I might have spared myself the agony of walking a mile and a half back to my dorm in constant fear that my flimsy plastic bags would snap, spilling my yogurt and peanut butter into the street.

I wouldn’t have contemplated investing in recyclable bags that would be more equipped for long distance travel, to the mutual benefit of the environment and my shoulder blades. Nor would I have pondered buying my own personal shopping cart and locking it to the bike rack between grocery runs.

I have since learned of course that Miami has a bus service that goes directly to Kroger, and that my afternoon of agony was completely in vain. Seasoned students feel free to scoff at my foolishness, but I’m sure most first-years were just as clueless during our first weekend. Let’s be honest — at one

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point we all had no idea what we were doing.

The transition to college life is universally overwhelming, and not just due to an increase in workload.

Living outside the nest comes with a lot less hand-holding than firstyears like myself are accustomed to. This challenge, however, serves to validate our adult status, and is part of the exciting experience that is college life. For the first time in our lives, we are the ones responsible for doing our laundry and keeping our own refrigerator stocked, which can sometimes leave us a little dazed when our underwear drawer gets empty or our milk supply gets low.

This new reality can be a tad daunting, and discovering the ins and outs of college life sometimes requires a helping hand, but from where? Good old mom and dad no longer have all the answers and have been replaced by your first college roommate who, chances are, is just as ignorant as you are.

Unless you are lucky enough to have an older friend or sibling on campus to shepherd you in, being a freshman in college requires a little branching out to learn the ropes.

Sure, nobody wants to look foolish by asking a stranger for help, but this is a necessary part of the freshman experience. I’ve learned there is no shame in talking to your RA. They want to give you answers –– that’s why they decided to be your neighbor instead of living in a comfortable apartment off campus.

While I admit my journey to Kroger was a little shortsighted, I have no regrets from my rookie mistake. Mistakes like these are just one more opportunity to learn and grow, which is why we are all here at Miami in the first place. Before I make my first run to Walmart, you can bet I’ll have done my research.

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Searching for life’s meaning, finding philosophy in the stars LIFE

VICTORIA’S SECRETS “What’s the meaning of life?

What is the point of all this?” are questions that often plague our minds, especially after long days when the coffee is running low and nothing is going right.

Searching for meaning is a survival mechanism — a form of higher evolution that propels us intelligent species forward, evading death. Without meaning, we would likely collapse into an eternal misery that disables us from completing basic human functions — reproducing, building cultures, contributing to our societies, living.

And when we are probing for the answer to the meaning of life, for that little bit of illumination or reassurance that keeps us moving, we turn to items of comfort — the Bible, our loved ones, the fresh smell of the earth after a summer rainstorm, the wet nose and wagging tail of a dog happy to see you.

Throughout my life, I have found meaning in all of these things at some point or another. But there has always been one thing, one perpetual security blanket ready to envelop me with warmth, even on my darkest days.

It’s there every night, constant and unwavering, infinitely patient, ready to restore in me the purpose and significance I need to carry on.

All I need to do is go outside and stare at the stars.

Gazing into the endless black depths of space, peppered with the occasional star (as we see in the light-polluted Oxford sky) may make you feel nothing but insignificant. Are we really just a tiny blue speck floating somewhere in the

torso of the Milky Way galaxy, the unlikely result of a series of lucky events? Is our average star lost in the trillions of others that exist in the universe, one grain of sand on a lonely beach somewhere far away?

Will we ever leave an imprint on the universe big enough to be noticed, or will we live and die on this little rocky world and slowly fade into the distance?

Ironically enough, I never find the answers to those questions when I look at the stars. I never find evidence that we aren’t alone out there. I never discover where our souls go when we die.

So what do I learn?

That we are an essential stage of the universe’s never-ending life cycle. We are continuously reincarnating.

A few years ago, I heard the quote “You are the universe experiencing itself.” Back then, I didn’t quite know what it meant, but today, I would call it my mantra, my meaning of life.

We were born from bits and pieces of the universe, spewed out from supernovas hot enough to fuse hydrogen and helium into heavier elements like carbon and compounds like oxygen. Add in a bit of energy, a bit of water and an environment where it can thrive, and boom, you have something that can replicate itself and metabolize — life in its simplest terms.

We are literally parts of the sum of the universe, walking puzzles whose pieces are made from what is around us.

If you are a Creationist, or believe that some supreme higher power constructed us and the space around us, you probably won’t agree with me on this, and that’s okay. I’m not trying to stray you away from your own belief systems, where you may find your own meaning, comfort and inspiration.

Or you may find it silly to turn

our attention to stars light years away from us when our own planet is wrought with so many issues.

Why funnel time and resources into missions that lead us nowhere, give us nothing? We have a tendency to assign value to only those things whose worth is immediately recognized, whose wealth can be immediately gained.

Maybe that half a penny of each tax dollar to NASA is too much.

Perhaps knowledge, perspective, an understanding of who we are and how we got here, simply isn’t enough.

But to me, it is everything.

Millions of light years away, an intelligent species may be turning their giant telescopes toward us, and seeing the dinosaurs roaming.

That is significant.

If the universe is infinite, there are infinite possibilities that there are infinite versions of us existing on Earths identical to ours. There are also, then, infinite possibilities that on another Earth somewhere, I did not choose journalism as my major. Or perhaps I went to Ohio University instead of Miami.

Maybe I didn’t make the same mistakes I have in this life. Maybe I made worse.

That is comforting.

We emit photons — particles of light — that travel, of course, at the speed of light. Even after we die, even long after the matter in our bodies has reformed into something else — a flower, a bird, a molecule of nitrogen in the sky — the light we once reflected will travel on. And if the universe is infinite, our little photons will keep traveling forever. So, bits and pieces of us will live forever. We are, essentially, immortal.

That is meaningful.

VICTORIA SLATER

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Ecological economist points out pitfalls in our neo-liberal economic system SUSTAINABILITY

JAMES STEINBAUER OPINION EDITOR

One of the greatest intellectual disparities with the current economic system is its lack of appreciation of how the natural world works. It argues that in order to be financially stable, you need growth.

Whether it is GDP, sales or population, if it isn’t growing, it’s failing.

There’s an intrinsic cognitive dissonance with a system that relies solely on growth: while the market needs to grow constantly to succeed, the Earth cannot. The Earth is a finite planet.

While we often think of the market as an obscure and transcendental entity separate from the earth’s ecosystem, the opposite is closer to the truth. A world dependent on growth is dependent on population growth.

Population growth creates growing demands for food, goods, housing and vehicles.

This in turn creates an ever-growing need for fossil fuels that cause climate change and irreversibly scar the landscape. It may be a positive trend on a spreadsheet, but growth has negative effects on our environment.

The neglect of this reality has led a niche of economists to create a fresh look at our current economic system — ecological economics — and it should completely change the way we view growth.

At its core, ecological economics calls for our economic system to move from its seemingly transcendent place outside of earth’s natural barriers and into its ecosystem where the biosphere, not demand, is in control of the material flows. The only catch: the economic system would be one of little to no growth.

At the forefront of this niche is Peter Victor, a professor of economics at York University in Toronto. I had the pleasure of listening to Victor speak last week and to talk to him over coffee (fair trade and local,

There’s an intrinsic cognitive dissonance with a system that relies solely on growth. nonetheless). Victor has proposed several different growth models, each taking into account gross domestic product (GDP), debt to GDP ratio, greenhouse gas emissions, unemployment and poverty.

The first model, one reliant on constant growth, shows just that: a steady increase in GDP per capita and a

decrease in the debt to GDP ratio over the next 20 years. However, the ‘business as usual’ model also shows a rise in greenhouse gas emissions and poverty with unemployment at a standstill — hardly the perfect situation, but the one that we are living every day.

The complete abandonment of growth with little thought is equally discouraging. The GDP per capita crashes into the x-axis as the debt to GDP ratio soars skyward, dragging poverty and unemployment along with it.

In the final model one can see the recipe for a utopian world beginning to take shape. By letting growth (and therefore the GDP per capita) plateau, the debt to GDP ratio takes a sudden descent, followed by greenhouse gas emissions, unemployment and poverty.

In order for this to work, certain

government policies need to be implemented. Fossil fuels, a short-term supplement to solar energy, should be diminished. Corrective taxes that would go toward environmental problems should be implemented and there should be a movement away from our consumer economy to one of recycling.

Examples like this can be found all over the world; however, they need to be implemented in a more comprehensive way, not fixed to the current system in a piecemeal fashion.

Education about how to do so can start here.

Talk about ecological economics doesn’t need to be restrained to a small niche of environmentalists.

Economics professors should offer alternative explanations to how a market can be sustained. Our economy can only benefit from this kind of growth.

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“We probably saw the best serving team we’ve ever faced,” head coach Caroline Condit said of Nevada. “They were serving with high velocity and unbelievable placement and we did not pass as well against this team as we have against other teams.”

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“Paige Hill has been great for us,” Condit said. “Even though we lost that three in a row to Nevada, she ended up having 10 kills and hitting .429. I just want to give her credit for being consistent on the court as she connects with our setters.”

The team will need another big tournament from Hill as they welcome Northern Kentucky University, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne to Millett Hall for their annual Miami Invitational this weekend.

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However, it’s the film’s carefully plotted out landscape that truly adds depth to the plot. Whether it’s traipsing through a forest of French fries or dashing after the “Train of Thought,” directors Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen do a remarkable job of illustrating the complexities of Riley’s inner world. There’s the spooky Subconscious, which houses troublemakers, and the Memory Dump, a stygian pit for the forgotten.

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spending too much time inside Riley’s head alienates the viewer from Riley as a character. The connection between the two is ensured through the use of timely, play-by-play glimpses into Riley’s real life depression.

It’s a topic that while sensitive, is treated in a way that kids can comprehend.

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Overall, “Inside Out” is a compelling model for how the brain really works, playfully teasing at the workings of the human psyche without becoming too convoluted for young audiences to grasp.

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This is a significant gain for Sigma Chi’s national chapter, as Miami’s chapter is an alpha chapter, meaning it was founded on Miami’s campus.

“In every organization the alpha chapter is the pride of that fraternity,” Scheid said. “They get to instill exactly what the founders wanted in the next group of men that are going to join that chapter.”

Scheid said building trust is a key component to promoting a positive culture in a chapter.

“I think there’s trust there, I think that’s one of the most important building blocks to kind of build that turning point is trust, between chapter, leadership and their governing council,” Scheid said.

Sigma Chi’s reinstatement comes after three fraternities, Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Nu, were suspended over the summer. Scheid said while he was disappointed in the loss of those chapters, Sigma Chi’s return will promote pride in Miami’s Greek life.

“We’re able to start to recolonize the chapter and bring back that pride that Greek life really has in our community and nationally as a whole with such an influential chapter as Sigma Chi,” Scheid said.

most people I had ever played for and it was a crazy stadium, great atmosphere. I think we played well. We got a lot of things to work on. It was a little spotty. But it was fun to play some football, and we kept competing until the end, so that’s good to see.”

UW redshirt senior quarterback Joel Stave completed 19 of 30 passes for 236 yards with three touchdowns and one interception. Ogunbowale finished with 112 yards on 16 carries with one touchdown, while Wheelwright led in receiving with 79 yards and two touchdowns on six catches.

Redshirt junior receiver Rokeem Williams led the RedHawk offense with 54 yards on three catches, and sophomore receiver Sam Martin totaled 46 yards on four catches.

Freshman running back Leonard Ross saw the bulk of Miami’s run game, notching eight touches for 16 yards.

Redshirt freshman running backs Alonzo Smith and Kenny Young, who combined for 158 yards in last week’s win over Presbyterian, totaled six yards and three yards, respectively.

The RedHawks return to Oxford, Ohio next weekend for the homecoming game against University of Cincinnati. A week of practice stands between MU and UC, and Bahl believes today’s result will help prepare them for this and future games.

“It’s great for the mental part of the game,” Bahl said.

“Knowing that Wisconsin is probably the best team we’re gonna play and that you can fare against that, it gives you a boost of confidence just to come out there and play your game and relax – in any game.”

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Freshman forward Bianca Medancic passes up the field. Medancic has played in five games for the ’Hawks this year.

Zalar strikes twice in Miami’s 2-0 victory over Rice SOCCER

HARRISON SCHWARZ STAFF WRITER

After a scoreless first half, the Miami University women’s soccer team dominated in the second, scoring two goals to complete a 2-0 victory over Rice University on Sunday. The RedHawks improved to 3-3 on the season, while Rice fell to 4-3-1.

The win was crucial. MU entered the game on a three-game losing streak.

Head coach Bobby Kramig thought his team came together for the first time this season.

“I thought we played really well,” Kramig said. “First time this year that

strung two good halves together. The hard work in practice paid off. Two well-created goals too. I really felt like the things we worked on in practice this week, the kids did a great job putting them into play. If we do the things that we’re supposed to do and good things will happen.”

Sophomore forward Kat Zalar was the difference maker for Miami.

After going scoreless since the first game of the season, Zalar delivered both goals in the win.

“We’ve really been in a slump the last few games so it feels great to just get out there and play our game and put some balls in the back of the net,” Zalar said. “We didn’t let any in too, so it was great all around.”

The game started out slow, as both defenses allowed one shot each in the first 17 minutes. The best early opportunity came in the 10th minute when senior forward Haley Walter led junior forward Rachel Marble into open space on the left side of the box, but Marble’s shot went wide.

The Owls’ best opportunity in the first half came in the 41st minute when senior forward Lauren Hughes knocked a shot off the crossbar. Despite outshooting the ’Hawks 5-1 in the first half, possession was mostly even between the two teams.

MU delivered the first blow early in the second half when Zalar scored SOCCER »PAGE 5

Eleven RedHawks notch PR in Lexington CROSS COUNTRY

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The Miami University crosscountry team traveled to Lexington, Kentucky for the Bluegrass Invitational on Saturday. The men’s side placed fourth out of seven teams, while the women finished third out of six.

Senior runner Joe Stewart led the RedHawks, finishing third overall in the competition. He completed the 8K course in 24:22.5, which is 1.5 seconds slower than his personal best from the Mid-American Championship last season.

“I mean, time wise, I was real close to a PR,” Stewart said. “And team wise, everyone seemed to almost hit their PR as well. All in all, it was a solid day of racing.”

The men’s team faced stiff competition against University of Kentucky, University of Illinois and the winners of the meet, Eastern Kentucky University. EKU also won the women’s event.

“It was great competition between some of these big schools,” Stewart said. “It was an awesome opportunity to get to talk to some of the athletes.”

Senior Zach McBride came in second for Miami, finishing 19th overall with a 25:05.1 time. Junior Andrew Dusing posted a time of 25:13.4 to earn 21st place. Junior Cody Riesterer (25:40.7; 33rd), redshirt sophomore Jake Brumfield (25:41.7; 34th), junior Stephen Biebelhausen (25:44.6; 36th) and sophomore Ben Metzger (25:49.7) rounded out the scoring.

McBride, Dusing, Brumfield and

Metzger each earned a new personal best in the 8K. In the women’s 5K, senior Laura Bess led the RedHawks. Bess finished third overall with a 17:22.3 time. Senior Brenna Poulsen was second for Miami, posting a 18:00.2 time for 14th place. Sophomore Maria Scavuzzo took 17th in 18:04.9 for the third spot on the team. The rest of the scorers include sophomore Sarah Starrett (18:15.6; 22nd), sophomore Alesha Vovk (18:17.1; 23rd), junior Lauren Hoover (18:28.7; 28th) and senior Megan Beaver (18:32.1; 30th).

All seven of the RedHawk scorers posted new personal best times in the 5K. The cross country program continues its season in South Bend, Indiana at the Notre Dame Invitational Oct. 2.

Shtyen, Rajkovic lead Miami Invitational

The Miami University volleyball team concluded their West Coast road trip at the Wolf Pack Classic in Reno, Nevada this weekend by cranking out two hard-fought wins against Montana State University and Weber State University before ultimately falling to host University of Nevada.

Montana State (2-4) was Miami’s first opponent and fell 3-2 (30-28, 17-25, 23-25, 25-22, 16-14) to the RedHawks. MU fell behind 8-14 in the first set, showing the lagging effects from such long travel. The Bobcats pushed their lead to 19-12, despite two kills from junior middle hitter Paige Hill and one from senior outside hitter Annie Reiswig.

Miami went on an 8-1 run to tie the score 20, capped by senior middle hitter Jenny Ingle’s three defining kills. Back-to-back kills from Ingle and junior outside hitter Maris Below gave Miami a come-from-behind 30-28 win. Miami lost the next two sets before grinding out the final two to finish the match 3-2.

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The Miami University women’s tennis team hosted Xavier University, Butler University and Lipscomb University in the Miami Invitational this weekend in Oxford, Ohio. Despite a rain delay that postponed the second half of Saturday’s matches, the team finished strong on Sunday, ending with a 17-2 singles record and 6-5 in doubles.

“I am very satisfied with our performance today,” head coach Yana Carollo said. “Xavier is a team that is big competition for us, and the team did really well against them.”

The matches played this weekend did not count towards the team’s overall regular season record, but it did contribute to the players’ individual records.

Miami’s No. 1 singles player Hannah Shtyen defeated Lipscomb’s Laura Kent 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. “[Hannah] pulled out a good match, she didn’t break down,” Carollo said. “She kept fighting … she stepped up to the level I needed her to.”

Other notable performances came from senior Ana Rajkovic, who went undefeated in her singles, and junior Andreea Badileanu, who beat Xavier’s Amina Ismail 6-4, 5-7, 6-1.

“I am happy to be on this team, we finished last year well, but we have even bigger goals this year,” Rajkovic said. “My performance today was nice, it gave me confidence and motivation to work harder … and keep up my performance to this level throughout the rest of this year.”

Rajkovic is the only senior on Miami’s nine-member team and is optimistic about the younger players.

“Now I feel like I have certain responsibilities,” she said. “I feel like I can use what I have learned to help them in their first few months here.”

The RedHawks travel to Virginia this weekend for two tournaments.

The team will split in half, and one group will take on the University of Virginia in the UVA Invitational, while the other group visits Virginia Tech for the VA Tech Invitational.

Carollo said the team has much work to do between now and the next time MU takes the court.

“We definitely need to work on our speed and our foot work,” she said. “I still feel we are not positioned well on the court like I would like us to be … we need to be more aggressive. I feel that the girls coming off the summer and not playing that much tennis is playing a role here, but that is going to be our new focus, targeting and moving.”

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MINUTE DRILL: EMILY STRUBLE

POSITION:

Weird pregame rituals

No. 6 singles tennis player

Hometown:

I always eat the top half of a bagel before I play. Every time.

I don’t know why I do it, and I don’t know why it’s just half, or the top.

Holt, Michigan

Secret non-sports related talent

Year: Freshman

I can play the violin.

How long have you been playing tennis?

If you could have a superpower, which one would you choose?

Since I was 6.

Definitely to fly. I could get places faster and I wouldn’t have to walk.

Favorite Miami memory Well, since I’m a freshman, I haven’t really had time to make many, but I’m sure I will. I guess I would have to go with our first invitational. I was really happy with how I did and happy to be out there with my team.

If you go anywhere in the world where would you go?

Austrialia, so I could go to the Australian Open.

Funniest teammate Definitely Angelica Shapovalova

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masic finished with eight kills, while Below had six kills and 11 digs.

Junior setter Krista Brakauskashad had a double-double with 21 assists and 13 digs, while freshman setter Mackenzie Zielinski led Miami with 28 assists.

The next match against Weber State was not as challenging. The RedHawks won 3-1 (25-22, 25-27, 25-11, 27-25), improving their winning streak to four games.

Once again, the travel lag seemed to affect the RedHawks, as they began the first set trailing 9-15. A block each from Ingle and Reiswig started the rally, and two kills from Tomasic pulled Miami within two. Trailing 17-20, Miami notched the next six points in a row, taking a 23-20 lead.

An ace from sophomore middle hitter Olivia Rusek and another kill from Tomasic put the first set away, 25-22. Miami lost the next set before winning the final two.

Tomasic was the clear standout in an all-around good performance from Miami. She recorded a careerhigh 14 kills and made only one attack error in 26 attempts, totaling a .462 hitting percentage.

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University field hockey team split their weekend games, beating Indiana University 3-1 in Bloomington, Indiana, on Friday and falling 1-0 to University of Virginia in Oxford, Ohio on Sunday.

Freshman midfielder/forward Paula Portugal led the RedHawks (4-3) to victory over the Hoosiers (24) with two goals. Sophomore midfielder Brianna Stahl scored a goal of her own, off an assist from junior midfielder Kate McLaughlin.

The ’Hawks returned home ready to take on No. 6 UVA (6-0). MU kept the shot count close, as the Cavaliers outshot Miami 15-13. Virginia junior striker Riley Tata deflected a shot just past MU junior goalkeeper Alysa Xavier into the right corner of the net to score the lone goal of the game.

Senior midfielder Bea Dechant

led the RedHawks with 5 shots and 3 shots on goal.

“Coming into the game we knew we had to bring our A-game,” Dechant said. “We got a corner in the last minute – that shows how much we want it.”

Miami totaled eight corner shots to UVA’s five.

The loss is Miami’s third this season against a top-ranked opponent (then-No. 7 University at Albany and then-No. 6 Stanford University).

Despite the loss, head coach Inako Puzo was pleased with his team’s competiveness.

“We have to keep building momentum,” Puzo said. “With MAC play being about a week away, that is our focus. We have to use the momentum we’ve built up.”

The RedHawks sit at the top of the Mid-American Conference as they look towards their first MAC opponent of the season. The team travels to Farmville, VA to take on Longwood University (1-3) Friday.

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