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At MU, close polls and tense politics
First-years susceptible to crime
College Republicans look to down ballot races POLITICS
Initial two to six weeks a ‘red zone’
MARY SCHROTT
THE MIAMI STUDENT
SAFETY
CÉILÍ DOYLE
THE MIAMI STUDENT
The inside of The Woods was jam-packed the Sunday night before Labor Day. One first year student was busy mingling and asking questions about how to rush the fraternity Chi Psi with an alleged member of the fraternity when the conversation quickly turned into a disagreement. Tensions rose and tempers flared, and the firstyear student ended up getting punched in the head, while his assailant disappeared in a sea of students marked only by his brown hair and Bengals jersey. Later, the first-year would tell the Oxford police that he was punched so hard he “could feel his brain going back and forth, left to right.” The physical attack left the first-year with a concussion and a small brain bleed. “Oxford has this reputation of being a safe, small town,” Sergeant Jon Varley of the Oxford Police Department said. “But many individuals, especially freshmen, don’t take enough precautions. They’re a little too trusting, a little too naïve. Nobody’s telling them what to do anymore, and more importantly nobody’s looking out for them.” Acts of violence on campus are not limited to physical assaults either. In fact, the first two to six weeks of every fall semester are denoted as the Red Zone, or the most dangerous time period for firstyear women to face sexual assault (including, but not limited to, rape) on college campuses, according to a 2008 study from the Journal of American College Health. Rose Marie Ward, a professor in Miami’s department of Kinesiology and Health, and Terri Messman-Moore, a professor in the Psychology department, conducted a study at the university a few years ago on 424 college women who were surveyed every week over the course of 10 weeks. The research indicates that, even amongst such a small pool of data, instances of sexual assault were found to be more prevalent in the first semester during the months of August, September and October. “In our data set, almost six percent of the freshmen reported being raped,” Ward said. “We are one study [during] one semester, and there are all these other variables that are completely out of control for that person that play into this as well.” While Ward and Messman-Moore’s study included college women from freshman to senior year, the statistics behind first-year women’s susceptibility to rape are substantial. The data has prompted doubts regarding the safety of Miami’s campus, specifically with respect to first year students. “[Miami] is a very safe environment,” Miami UniRED ZONE »PAGE 2
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Senior Kirby Chandler, the campus organizer with Hillary for America and Ohio Together, registers Miami University students to vote on Tuesday, Sept. 13.
This election season, Miami students and staff aren’t afraid to address the elephant — and donkey — in the room. In a “Welcome Back and Moving Forward” email sent earlier this month, President Crawford addressed the student body, acknowledging this as a “tense election year” that can elicit turmoil on Miami campuses which “mirror the world around us.” Politics on campus this semester has outgrown student organizations like College Republicans and College Democrats. Now, the Hillary Clinton campaign
has an employed campus organizer in Oxford, senior Kirby Chandler. The Ohio Director of the organization Students for Trump, Brittany Brown, is also a senior at Miami. “Polls in Ohio are still within a one or two percent margin,” Chandler said while manning a table draped in an electric blue “Ohio Together” banner in the Armstrong Student Center. “So when I say I work 12-14 hours a day doing voter registration or organizing events on campus, I literally do.” Approximately 150 students at Mega Fair last week registered to vote with Chandler and her team of volunELECTION »PAGE 2
TRUMP MOVES IN UPTOWN OXFORD REACTS TO FIELD OFFICE COMMUNITY
JACK EVANS
NEWS EDITOR
THE MIAMI STUDENT
A Butler County Republican Party field office opened on Sept. 6 at the 100 block of W. High Street in Oxford. The party is throwing its support behind presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The Butler County Republican Party opened a Trump field office on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 123 West High Street in Oxford. Packed with glossy blue and white yard signs, neatlystacked literature and folded t-shirts, the office marks the latest attempt by a national campaign to win the hearts and minds of Miami students and Oxford residents before the Nov. 8 elections. The opening has been met with both praise and condemnation from members of the local community. “The response has been
overwhelming so far,” said Scott Lepsky, Butler County Republican Party’s public relations coordinator. “In fact, the first week, they totally ran out of material.” Lepsky was quick to add that the office has restocked its campaign inventory. Ms. Bertie Wespiser, the proprietor of Birdhouse Antiques for the last 43 years, which sits across from the new office on High Street, welcomes the Trump campaign. To her, this election is a crucial one. “My life, my children’s lives, my grandchildren’s lives all depend the outcome,” said Wespiser. TRUMP »PAGE 5
Humans of Oxford Dave Dabney: Dancing speaker guy PROFILE
KIRBY DAVIS
THE MIAMI STUDENT
Everyone on campus has probably spotted a guy weaving through masses of other students, blasting music from his UE Boom speaker and unabashedly singing along. His name is Dave Dabney, but he’s better known as “the dancing speaker guy.” This is not just for attention — Dave wants to inspire other people with this show of confidence. “I want people to walk around like they deserve to be here,” he said. “Like, this is your playground!” Dave buzzes with energy and doesn’t sit still. When he tells a story, he leaps out of his chair to reenact it, and he wears a t-shirt emblazoned with the New York City skyline. He’s never been, but that’s where he wants to end up—performing his own music at Madison Square
Garden. In Dave’s junior year of high school, a friend’s death jarred him and made him seriously contemplate his future for the first time.
“When you’re a kid you don’t expect people around you to die,” Dave said. “So when that hit me I was like, RYAN TERHUNE THE MIAMI STUDENT
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A couple walks back home from the bars Uptown last weekend.
Study says millennials are not the ‘hookup gen’ RELATIONSHIPS
AUDREY DAVIS NEWS EDITOR
Because of TV shows like “The Bachelor” and “Are You the One?” and popular dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid, people born in the 80s and 90s (commonly known as Millennials and iGen) have a reputation as “the hookup generation.” However, according to a recent study done by researchers from San Diego State, Florida Atlantic and Widen-
er Universities, this may not be the case. The study looked at the sexual activity of people after they turned 18. According to the study, among Americans aged 20-24, 15 percent of Millennials born in the 1990s had no sexual partners after age 18 compared to 6 perfect of GenX’ers born in the 1960s. Rose Marie Ward, a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health at MILLENNIALS »PAGE 5
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OPINION p. 7
SPORTS p. 8
THE DEMISE OF THE TOASTED ROLL
SURVIVING THE COMPETETIVE A CAPELLA AUDITION
EDITORIAL BOARD TAKES A STAND AGAINST TRUMP
‘HAWKS TO FACE FIRST MAC GAME AFTER LOSSES
It’s survived for almost 100 years, but could Miami’s traditional treat be lost to history?
One first year beats her nerves to become part of Just Duet, the only co-ed a capella group at Miami.
Trump excels at marginalization, racism and sexism. This election, there is a wrong choice.
After falling to Eastern Illinois, Miami football prepares for Western Kentucky.
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Toasted Rolls losing ground as a Miami tradition FOOD
KERRY MCFADDEN THE MIAMI STUDENT
Three students sat separately at three different tables in Pulley Diner, the most recent home of the Toasted Roll. One, a senior, had eaten exactly one Toasted Roll in her time at Miami. Another, a sophomore, remembered eating one at orientation, but never again after that. At the next table over sat a firstyear student who’s never even heard of the Toasted Roll. Miami is proud of its long-standing traditions. There’s a whole page on the university website dedicated to the curse of the Seal, Upham Arch kisses, the ghosts of Peabody and going Greek. And while the website didn’t forget about the Toasted Rolls, many Miami students have.
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Tuffy’s Toasted Rolls are named after Myrion Timothy “Tuffy” Potter, who opened the eatery Tuffy’s Place in 1929. He served Coke, coffee, hamburgers, ice cream and the famous Toasted Roll. Tuffy’s was one
of the most popular hangouts for Miami students until its closing in 1973. During the restaurant’s 44-year stint, its warm, buttery, sugary rolls were one of the most popular menu items. Now, decades after Tuffy’s shut its
Splitting sorority housing between dorms diminishes opportunities for bonding CAMPUS
LAURA FITZGERALD THE MIAMI STUDENT
Living on a designated dorm floor is an experience that sororities tout as a bonding opportunity for sophomore sisters. For some women, though, that experience has been compromised. Sophomore Hannah Hendricks is a member of Alpha Delta Pi, which is split between two floors of Porter Hall and one small floor in Scott Hall. Hendricks lives with the smaller portion of girls in Scott Hall, which is primarily a co-ed dorm housing first-year students. “I do like my room, and I like the girls who live in Scott, but I wish we were all in one hallway,” Hendricks said. Hendricks said she chose to live in Scott so she could live on Central Quad and have air conditioning in her room. “I probably should have weighed that we wouldn’t be with as many girls,” said Hendricks. The split housing, Hendricks said, diminishes her ability to bond with all of her sisters. “I think it divides you just because the idea of a corridor is to be like a house, but when you’re all split up it doesn’t give you the chance to have that house feel,” she said. While sorority women have been divided across dorms for several years, the growing number of women in sororities is impacting the placement of women in the dorms. Jenny Levering,
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teers from College Democrats and Students for Hillary, of which she also is the president. “I had people at Mega Fair coming up to me and asking how they could get involved at the College Dems table,” Chandler said. “I was so excited about that.” College Republicans were also represented at Mega Fair, however, the group has not officially endorsed Donald Trump for president. “I’m not a Trump supporter,” said Michael Wing, a sophomore member of College Republicans and prior Ted Cruz delegate. “I’m really more concerned about the down ballot races.” Wing, along with several other Miami students like sophomore
director of the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, said finding a single space large enough for all of the women in a sorority is challenging, and, for some sororities, there is simply not a floor large enough to accommodate all of the women in a pledge class. “There’s not many places you can keep 80 women,” Levering said. The renovation of Hamilton Hall, once designated as sorority housing, is also impacting the amount of beds that are available on Central Quad for sorority women, some of whom have been relocated to rooms in Etheridge, Scott and Porter halls. The process for placing women in sorority dorms is studentdriven. Senior Katie Cross, Vice President of Member Education, said all sorority women are eligible to apply for a spot on a housing committee, which works with members of Miami’s Panhellenic Association to assign sororities to dorms. The housing committee chooses the dorms and placements for each sorority according to the number of women in the pledge class, while taking into secondary consideration suite placements and special requests, such as for a single room or walkways. “It came down to the number of beds,” Cross said. “Some building literally did not have a single bed left over. There was no wiggle room.” Cross said the committee tried to keep as many women together as possible and to distribute wom-
en equally between the dorms. “I was still trying to keep that meaningful experience of having as many girls as possible in the same area, because I think that was the most impactful experience,” Cross said. “If you can’t be surrounded by 80 girls, at least you could be surrounded by 25 or 35 of them.” Sophomores Katie Schelli and Stephanie Ryan said they opted for sorority housing so they could live with as many fellow members of Alpha Delta Pi as possible. It’s harder for the women in Scott to socialize with women in Porter, they said. “The people in Scott just don’t have as much opportunity to find other people in three seconds,” Ryan said. “They have to call people or text people.” The women in Porter have ID card access to Scott, but not the other way around. Ryan said that if women in Scott had access to Porter, they could see their sorority sisters more easily. Sophomore Lexi Sloan-Harper said she enjoys living in Richard Hall with a small group of women from Delta Delta Delta. She is close with her roommate and neighbors, but she has not yet visited Porter, where all but 12 of the Delta Delta Deltas live. Sloan-Harper said she would like to get to know her sisters better, which has been difficult while so many more live in another dorm. “I think living in the corridor with all your sisters is how you get to know them.” Sloan-Harper said. “And if most them are at the
Caleb Stidham, volunteer with Rob Portman’s campaign which is now a part of the most expensive senate race in the country. “Ultimately the presidential election is not going to be the reason I go to the polls,” said Stidham who is also a member of College Republicans and attended the Republican National Convention this summer with a group of Miami students. “I’m going to go and vote, but Rob Portman’s going to be the reason I go.” While neither Wing nor Stidham endorses Trump, they agree that collaboration between College Republicans and Democrats is likely. “In the past, College Republicans have done several voter registration things and have worked with College Democrats,” Michael said. Chandler said she also would
support a nonpartisan voter registration drive. “You can literally print off forms and take them to the board of elections,” said Chandler. “Honestly it’s not that hard.” Chandler has plans to host several voter registration events this fall like offering free pizza on Slant Walk and bringing puppies to campus. Registering to vote is seen as important not only by politically active students, but by faculty as well. Based on past elections, professor of Justice and Community Studies at Miami’s Hamilton campus, John Forren, believes participation among college students this fall will be low. However, Forren said, even a relatively small increase in voting among college students could make a big differ-
doors, the sweet treat is being sold at Pulley Diner in Armstrong Student Center, but with much less success. Mikayla Baker, a food service assistant at Armstrong, works five days a week, serving food to Miami students. During a shift at Pulley, she says she’ll only see about three rolls cross the counter. “I don’t know why people don’t eat them,” Baker said. “They’re amazing.” Stephen Gordon, administrator of the McGuffey Museum and Miami’s de facto historian, agrees. “It’s a killer,” he said. “They’re wonderful.” Gordon remembers Tuffy’s from the years he spent studying at Miami before he graduated in 1975 as the place where he went on Coke dates – dates where two potential lovebirds would enjoy a cold soda. “There were wooden benches covered with people’s initials,” said Gordon. “It was kinda dark in there. It
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processed color film were optimized for white faces. Now with countless innovations in post, color correction has given movies like “Selma” and “12 Years A Slave” the flattery Hollywood always had. To make things more perfect, Jenkins and his director of photography, James Laxton, use all kinds of fluorescent blues, yellows and pinks to give the film a radiance from within. The film is about love and destiny, but the bright whites and constant blues reveal a hopelessness in Chiron’s life that may never let up. And if color psychology doesn’t faze you, Nicholas Brittel’s score will. Composed mostly of violins performing in an echoing room, the string chords pierce the viewer even when silence is devastating enough. From the first flicker of the opening credits, set to tune of Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 song that serenades “every nigga is a star,” you feel a similar twinge of awe — you think that this may be the indie zeitgeist film that will take home this year’s Best Picture. But that’s not necessarily what Jenkins cares about. This film doesn’t give 2016 the
wasn’t exactly a nice place, but it was a fun place, a good college hangout.” He remembers an atmosphere of sadness on campus when Tuffy’s closed. The rolls were still offered in Shriver Center and have since been moved a few times to different dining locations. Gordon can’t pinpoint a time when the rolls started to lose their popularity but knows that they sold many more than three a day when he was a student. Though current students may not order them as much, Toasted Rolls are still enjoyed and celebrated by Miami’s devout alumni. The university’s alumni networks across the country have held events dedicated to their old favorite snack, treating it as a nostalgic and longlived tradition. Alumni in Florida hosted a Tuffy’s Toasted Roll Party for their fellow Miami graduates and friends last year. This past spring, during Alumni
satisfaction that you might expect. It does America one better and actually negates a lot of racial politics. Featuring virtually no white actors and focusing on issues of masculinity within black communities, Jenkins gives us the best version of ourselves. I got a chance to meet Barry Jenkins at the festival and I asked him about his intents with “Moonlight.” He said that right now he’s interested in telling a contemporary story, but he isn’t opposed to trying something different in the future. This places a responsibility in the hands of producers. According to the Los Angeles Times, Jenkins’ picture was made for less than $5 million. Marvel’s two technologic man vs supernatural man movies cost a total of $500 million and are so extravagant they leave audiences numb. The future of film has the potential for an explosion of new voices. All we have to do is support them. That means seeing something different and talking about it. “Moonlight,” with its vivid colors and devastating performances, is a triumph of American filmmaking, honest and moving.
versity police chief John McCandless said. “However it gets back to when bad things occur they’re constantly revolving around alcohol.” While Ward believes that Miami’s campus is at no greater or lesser risk for violence when paired with universities across the nation, she remains wary of students’ perceptions of their safety. “I would doubt people fear seeing guns at Miami or experiencing some kind of weapon type of assault,” Ward said. “But I know there are fights and cases of sexual assault, and I think we
still have this microcosm here of legitimate issues even though we live in the middle of cornfields.” The Oxford police department has spent years observing and trying to both contain and eliminate instances of crime among college students, in particular physical and sexual assault. Varley said there is definitely a learning curve for first year students. “People may seem trustworthy in class, but when they drink they become different,” Varley said. “If you are going out in a group and someone disappears, go and find them. Most of all, if something doesn’t seem right, trust your gut it’s not.”
ence in the presidential race and in many down ballot races. “This year in particular is a year college students can make impact on the society we live in,” Forren said. Miami’s Hamilton campus houses more non-traditional students, Forren said, which enhances engagement with local politics. “Regional campuses are very imbedded in these communities,” Forren said. “There’s a very strong connection between students and the communities.” When Hamilton campus students are not at school, Forren suggests that they are out in the community working and living, in contrast with students from Miami’s Oxford campus, only about half of whom are Ohio residents. “Politics does not strike our stu-
dents as distant thing that other people worry about,” Forren said. Though regional campuses may house students who are more concerned with local voter issues, Forren explained that Miami faculty on every campus work hard to illustrate to students that politics matter in their lives. Courtney Rose, a sophomore member of Students for Hillary on Oxford’s campus, said personal research is the best way to decide your vote. “A lot of people don’t realize how much they don’t know about [the election] until they research because a lot of things are told by word of mouth,” Rose said. “I always say, if you don’t know then look it up and decide for yourself, but don’t decide based on other people’s opinions.
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Just Duet: Surviving the competitve a cappella audition
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Jackie Schutjer is a bundle of nerves as she sits in her dorm room staring at her phone and willing it to ring. She had her callback for Just Duet hours before and is still waiting to find out if she made the cut. Just Duet is the only co-ed a cappella group on campus and they perform in concerts and gigs for the full academic year. The group keeps their membership at around 16 people every year, which means they run auditions once almost every semester. This year the group welcomed six new members after an intense audition process. Due to the rescheduling of Mega Fair, their 85 auditions took place over the course of one long day instead of being separated into two days per tradition. The first round is fairly basic, allowing the auditioning student to sing the chorus from a song of their choosing, sing scales to test their range and then attempt to match pitch on three notes. “I honestly had so much fun during auditions,” said Schutjer. “The group was so welcoming and made me feel at home right off the bat.” Callbacks are more in depth, looking at how well the prospective members’ voices and personalities blend with the group. “We have to consider how well they will vibe with the group,” said Kaylee Via, a soprano. “We don’t want anyone to come in who is going to feel uncomfortable or unwelcomed.” The auditioning students also had to prepare two more songs, only one of their choosing. Then the students had to sight-read a song alone and with part of the group. The main goal is to see how well they can read music and how their voices sound when singing with the group. All the students who auditioned then had to wait the rest of the night to hear if they got in or not. “I was really nervous and anxious waiting to hear back,” said Schutjer. “I literally couldn’t think of anything else for the hour before my phone finally rang.” The phone ringing signaled what she had been waiting for all night, relief from the nerves and the realization that she was now a member of one of the top a cappella groups at Miami. The group had their first rehearsal together just two days after the callbacks. Since the new members will be starting fresh, there will be a lot more focus on learning the parts in the month leading up to their first concert. They put in six hours of rehearsal each week. This hard work has led them to many successes including recording an album last winter and performing in Carnegie Hall last spring. “Being able to perform on the same stage as the Beatles, John Legend, Elton John and so many other great talents was fantastic,” said Jack Garvey, marketing director of Just Duet. The group is very close both inside and outside of rehearsals. They hang out almost every day and some of them even live together. This leads to some spur of the moment harmonizing that seems right out of “Pitch Perfect.” “As of the very beginning I felt super welcomed into the group.” said Via. “This group has been the most constant source of fun and friendship for me throughout the three years I have been in it.” Just Duet members all come from different majors and different walks of life. The one thing that unites them is singing. “I know its cliché when you say you get a diverse group of people but we get a lot of different perspectives even in a group this small,” said Garvey. Their first performance of this school year will be at 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 29 in Hall Auditorium. “I’m so excited to be singing again with people who love making music as much as I do,” said Schutjer.
Vaysha sets her sheet music on the piano for the accompanist to see. It’s “I Know Where I’ve Been” from “Hairspray,” and she knows the song well — she was the understudy for Motormouth Maybelle in high school. “There’s one section that I can’t get for the life of me. It’s that B flat.” Vaysha points to where she plans on starting and ending. The accompanist asks for the tempo and Vaysha sings a cappella at first. “I will try to follow along,” the accompanist says, and she begins to play. This is Vaysha’s first semester back at Miami since her medical leave of absence — she worked hard to get back and decided to jump right in. She’s involved in her residence hall’s CLT, hopes to join a leadership fraternity and is a member of Stage Left. Vaysha is a psychology major with a minor in theatre, planning on using both for her future career — drama therapy.
“You basically use theatre to act out your feelings and ways to try to resolve how you’re feeling,” she said. “It helps with depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, if you have PTSD.” She is passionate about both psychology and theatre and has a personal connection having struggled with depression before. “I want to be able to find ways to not only help myself, but I hope to use my career path to help other people so that they don’t have to go through the same thing that I did.” But for now, she’s taking opportunities for herself and preparing for her audition for Stage Left’s musical. “Usually, I just use theatre to express myself ‘cause I’m just a naturally shy person … But when I’m onstage it’s like I’m a whole different person,” Vaysha said. “I’m more outgoing and it’s easier for me to open up to people.” Vaysha moves slightly with the music, going through the whole piece before focusing on the interval she has trouble singing. Her voice is low and almost gospel — nothing like her talking voice. “Yay, I got it,” Vaysha says with a small smile, finally content.
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Tom Hanks soars as “Sully” in Clint Eastwood’s latest FILM
KIRBY DAVIS
THE MIAMI STUDENT
No one plays an endearing American hero in distress quite like Tom Hanks. This time around he’s the titular white-haired, distinctively mustached pilot who landed an Airbus on the Hudson River in January 2009, saving each of the 155 lives on board. Based on Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s memoir “Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters,” the film delves into the consequences — psychological and legal — of this event. We know what happens. “Sully” is not effectively tense and deeply unsettling because of suspense — the pretense of its infamous plane landing (Sully is adamant that no one refer to it as a “crash”) is not enough to generate real terror. We know how it ends — all its passengers are rescued by the NYPD, hypothermic but alive. An investigation committee determines that birds blew out both engines and dispels any doubt directed at Sully’s piloting skills. “Sully’s” power lies in the fact that it’s grounded in reality — this is not
Tom Cruise hitching a ride on the wing of a military jet in “Mission: Impossible,” or Samuel L. Jackson denouncing the presence of snakes on an aircraft or Brad Pitt sauntering out of a zombie-infested plane wreck in “World War Z.” This film depicts 155 real people living everyone’s worst, unthinkable nightmare. Not only is the passengers’ terror palpable, but so is Sully’s as he suffers from debilitating flashbacks of the incident. He copes by running, but he can’t escape the fact that he landed an Airbus in the Hudson River and an investigation committee doesn’t believe he did so with the intentions of saving everyone on board. The airline’s insurance company is not pleased with the loss of their plane, and attempts to prove that Sully had other options than a forced water landing. Most importantly “Sully” serves as a stark reminder, so close to the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, that even airplanes in what are supposed to be the most mundane of circumstances can be terrifying. 9/11 is referenced only once, by an unnamed side character, and not outright, but this adds to the general, subtle disquiet haunting the film.
The most gripping part of “Sully” strikes during one of its drawn-out flashback sequences, but it’s not the depiction of the crash itself. The most chilling, unnerving moments are when various New Yorkers watch Flight 1549 careen perilously close to their city before ultimately reaching the surface of the Hudson. You can imagine what they’re thinking. “The pleasure of working with someone who’s an actor is they don’t waste time with stuff that doesn’t matter,” Hanks told the Los Angeles Times of director Clint Eastwood, who experienced a plane water landing himself during his time in the military in the 1950s. I think this is what elevates “Sully” from a monotonous retelling of that water landing in 2009. Of course, the talent helps — Aaron Eckhart is a steady, low-key presence as First Officer Jeff Skiles (maybe overshadowed by his unseemly mustache.) Anna Gunn and Jamey Sheridan are both dubious and reluctantly sympathetic while heading the investigation into Sully’s actions. And Laura Linney plays his frazzled wife. “Sully” isn’t much different from last year’s Hanks-Spielberg collaboration, “Bridge of Spies.” Both are thrillers as introspective as they are
intense, with wintry atmospheres and Hanks running the show as a real-life American hero. But here’s what makes “Sully” better — “Bridge of Spies” takes too much time to tell the story of lawyer James B. Donovan, who negotiated the safe exchange of an imprisoned Soviet spy for two Americans in 1962. It’s beautifully shot but superfluous, and its action drags. “Sully” is not excessive — its 96-minute runtime makes it the shortest film Eastwood has ever directed, and this saves it from becoming a drawn-out, unnecessary reiteration. Part of its intrigue also lies in its relevance — this all occurred merely seven years ago. It depicts the “miracle on the Hudson” thoughtfully but deliberately, with little room for unnecessary side stories or embellishments. It offers compelling insight into te event, but nearly everything in the film is still laid out clearly, concisely and earnestly. Just like Sully maintains he did on January 15, 2009, this film does its job.
Jenkins returns to Telluride with the brilliant “Moonlight” FILM
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Last year’s best picture winner, “Spotlight,” was a triumph of America’s values. Unity, justice and the freedom of speech — characteristics rarely emphasized by daily media that so often focuses on the affected and divisive accounts of our country. You may call the film “unglamorized” but not without calling it idealized, or just ideal. In “Spotlight,” we saw the best version of ourselves, whereas Aaron Sorkin took home the Oscar in “Steve Jobs” for the most honest version. Perhaps, then, it’s most fitting for 2016 to have a film that is honest and ideal. At the Telluride Film Festival, Barry Jenkins premiered the Brad Pitt-produced American drama, “Moonlight.” Jenkins is a story of triumph himself, attending the festival in 2002 as a student and meeting filmmakers whose backgrounds were much more privileged than his. It has also been eight years since his last film. Introducing the film on stage, he expressed to the audience that it was something “he had to make,” for himself and for the black audiences who are almost exclusively portrayed in film as characters of conflict.
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A banner hangs at the Telluride Film Festival where students visited over Labor Day weekend. Theaters up and down the main stretch in the city of Telluride often played from 8 AM to past midnight. “Moonlight” centers around the story of Chiron, chronicled as a boy, adolescent and man played respectively by Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Trevante Rhodes. Filmed in Miami, Florida where Jenkins grew up, the film follows Chiron as he faces a world of decisions and limitations we know to exist but have never seen from this perspective. The film is structured like “Slumdog Millionaire,” focusing on Chiron’s home life and interaction with
peers. Each performance of his age brings with it different tones of the film. When he’s a child being chased by bullies, the camera chases and tracks in front of him down an aisle of locked doors into an abandoned apartment. Chiron is rescued by a man named Juan (played by Mahershala Ali from “House of Cards”), a subplot that paints one of the most beautiful paternal relationships you’ll ever see. But fate doesn’t keep them together, and Juan’s lack of pres-
ence in the second act leaves viewers frustrated like the wayward Chiron, keeping on with faint hope. This isn’t idealized — it’s real. The camera movement heightens into the second act but becomes more stationary when Chiron becomes a man and takes control of his life. However, the element most captivating about this film is its color. For decades in cinematography, labs that MOONLIGHT »PAGE 2
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well, I don’t have that much time here, so what am I gonna do with my life?” The answer, he discovered, was rap and free-styling.
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Miami University said this study is more in line with what she’s seen at Miami. “A lot of students come in thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, everybody’s had sex,’” Ward said. “And in our data sets we’re finding that, no, we still have about 30 percent of Miami students that by the time they finish here they’re saying ‘I’ve not had sex yet.’” The study gives a few reasons for the increase in sexual inactivity of Millennials. One reason being that young adults are getting married later and living longer with their parents.
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So crucial is this election to her that Wespiser drove to the Butler County GOP headquarters in Bridgewater Falls to pick up “Trump-Pence” signs for her storefront before the Oxford field office ever moved in. “They say it’s financial suicide,” said Wespiser, in reference to putting the signs in the store window. “But it’s kind of a hobby for me.” Not everyone is happy with the
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Now a sophomore Interactive Media Studies major with a music composition minor, Dave is independently working on his own album. He likens it to Kanye West’s “College Dropout,” and sees himself on tour by the end of his junior year.
“I am a medium,” Dave said. “I go out and experience [things] and then I give that experience through lyrics and a whole new generation can experience it.” He wants to help people conquer their comfort zones and not capitu-
late to societal norms. He believes that sharing his music—both original songs and those by the artists he idolizes like Kanye West and Chance the Rapper—is the best way to accomplish this. “Imagine being born and you
can only see through this one pair of glasses. What about taking those glasses off?” Dave said. “Everything I do is to inspire people to live the life that they are born to live and take off those glasses.”
“The rise of hookup culture may, paradoxically, help explain increased sexual inactivity,” the researchers said in the study. This is because hooking up can involve a variety of sexual behaviors. “The whole thing about hookup culture is defining a hookup. It can mean completely different things to different people,” said Ward. “So being the hookup culture may not be that you’re doing it more, it may be just how you’re labeling sexual behavior.” Millennials could report more hooking up with partners they’re not committed to, but still engage in other sexual behaviors, poten-
tially making it easier to delay vaginal sex. “I think it’s so ingrained in society right now that hooking up is going on and hooking up is the way social interactions are going,” said Ward. “It’s a hard culture to fight.” Ward agrees that the media has a big role in how Millennials are portrayed. “Think about the advent of reality TV and what they show on it. Are You the One? on MTV is literally people who are supposed to be finding their soulmate, which we have no idea what they’re supposedly matched on, and yet they’re hooking up in the ‘Boom Boom Room’ with people they’re not
matches for,” said Ward. “We just have this unfortunate alcohol and sex-fueled image that’s being constantly portrayed across movies whether it’s Bridesmaids or The Hangover.” Ward also said that TV and movies perpetuate the idea that when people are young they’re supposed to be having fun, and fun is seen as synonymous to booze and sex. “But I don’t think we’re seeing that across the entire generation,” said Ward. One limitation of the study is how different generations interpret or label a hookup. Ward, a GenX’er, said, “In my generation, when I said, ‘I’m
gonna hook up with you later,’ it had nothing to do with anything sexual. We could go get coffee like nothing at all. But now you say, ‘I hooked up with him,’ and that can mean anything from kissing to heavy petting to sex to oral sex.’” Because of the media’s depiction of Millennials, the label of hookup culture isn’t likely to go away even with the researchers’ findings. “I think it’s a good positive spin in contrast to some of the stuff you do read about Millennials being promiscuous, and it could also have links to this generation having lower STD rates,” said Ward. “I do find this to be refreshing that it’s a different message.”
Trump campaign coming to the Oxford area, however. “We’re not excited about it all,” said sophomore Nick Froehlich, Miami College Democrats’ communications director. “Donald Trump and his candidacy represent bigotry, represent sexism, represent islamophobia, xenophobia in general. And so just to see these ideals manifest themselves not just in a candidate, but in an office down the street is a very sad sight to see.”
When asked why the BCRP chose the location for the field office, Lepsky said that the decision mainly came down to the Trump support already in the area. “[There was] such an overwhelming response by voters county-wide who want to get involved, so we wanted make it as easy as possible for them to volunteer and get involved,” said Lepsky. Another Oxford pull for the Republican campaign was the strong
and longstanding support in Miami’s College Republicans’ club. “They’re one of the hardest working groups out there and BCRP couldn’t be more grateful,” said Lepsky. “We have a long and wonderful relationship with Miami College Republicans.” The College Democrats, too, are coupling with their counterpart national campaign to push voter registration before the Oct. 11 deadline. “We have an organizer here
from the Hillary campaign who attends our…meetings and is really spearheading the Democrats’ effort in getting students to vote and organizing students in that regard,” said Froehlich. The Hillary campaign’s nearest office is at the Butler County Democratic Headquarters in Hamilton, Ohio. The Miami College Republicans did not return The Miami Student’s request for comment by the time of publication.
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Editorial board agrees on one thing: Trump is the wrong choice The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.
A
t The Miami Student, we cannot agree on what might be the right next step for this country in the upcoming election. What we can agree on with unanimity is what will be the wrong next step for this country: voting for Donald Trump. In this case, we are not posturing as liberals or as democrats. We are stating a fact. Mr. Trump does not have the capabilities as a businessman to keep his promises, he does not have the knowledge as an international presence to keep innocent people safe and he does not have the conscience of a decent human being to remedy the cracks that his campaign has widened in both the American system and the American public. Trump has said that he will bring all manufacturing jobs back, withdraw from the TransPacific Partnership and renegotiate the United States’ NAFTA agreement in order to get better jobs for Americans. But he knows what infuriates manufacturers, small businesses, entrepreneurs and carpenters alike because he’s put thousands of them out of work by not following through. In the past three decades, Mr. Trump has been
involved in over 3,500 lawsuits, a large number of which have to do with him not paying everyday Americans for work that they’ve done for his businesses. Since 2005, Trump’s companies have been cited 24 times for failing to follow the Fair Labor Standards Act by not paying overtime or minimum wage. Over 200 mechanics liens filed by contractors or employees saying that they have not been paid for work done on Trump’s properties or for his companies have surfaced and resurfaced, and that’s since the 1980s. The Freedom Kids, the little girls that performed at Trump’s rally earlier this year, are now suing him too. Why? Because they never got paid for their support of him. Trump has said that he will keep Social Security as it is to stay even with the Democrats in this election. He says he will save the program by “making America rich again.” But even now, with this promise, he is wavering. His policy advisor Sam Clovis said in May that he would be willing to make changes to Social Security if he is elected. His proposed tax reforms, which give more relief to the top .01 percent than the bottom 60
percent of taxpayers combined, according to Politifact, would expand the federal deficit by $10 trillion over the next decade. His aforementioned promise of Social Security would not survive this deficit. Another promise for America’s workers and small
Trump excels at marginalization, racism and sexism, not to mention his natural proclivity for discrimination.
businesses unable to be upheld. Trump has said he will bomb ISIS and take their oil. He says he will do this by putting ground troops near those oil fields and “circle” those sites. But that is literally the only detail that our possible Commander-in-Chief has planned, as he won’t commit to a number of troops to be deployed to these areas. Even if he wanted to do this, he would have to invade Syria, he would have to have an occupation plan that spans years, and for those nation-building fanatics out there, he would have to invest
The Pink Tax indicative of gender gap LIFE
MADDIE’S MATTERS MADDIE LAPLANTE-DUBE OPINION EDITOR
The following story will be familiar to women. The other day, I went to CVS to go buy razors and shower gel. I know that smooth legs are a product of the patriarchy or whatever, but I like having them so I decided that I would buy into capitalism and invest in a new set of blades. Lo and behold, a four-pack of Venus razor heads, with swirling blue and pink and pastel on the packaging, for the low, low price of $23.99 (that’s the price of, like, three meals). I turned to the other side of the aisle and saw that Gillette offered a four-pack of razor heads with the same amount of blades and the famous moisture strip for men’s delicate jaw bones for half the price. Half the price! For the same product! This is the story of The Pink Tax. The Pink Tax is the phenomenon that women will pay more for the same product as men seemingly for the sole reason that there is the color pink on the product. It also refers to the idea that women will be charged more for a service that is usually the same length or quality as a service provided to men, like dry cleaning or getting a haircut. It’s an issue that
has become so real that some states, including California, made “gender tax” illegal. Businesses and service providers can get fined, starting at $250 for a first offense. A study done by U.S. News & World Report showed that 42 percent of the time, women are charged more for a product that is exactly the same as its male counterpart. Some of those items not only were marked up but actually contained less of the product in order to make the packaging smaller and more “feminine” looking. In terms of clothes, that has a certain merit — certain women’s styles today have less fabric, different cuts, are tighter — and in this situation, suppliers are playing off of social standards and perpetuating them to make money. Not to mention the fact that women are charged for personal feminine products, like pads and tampons. In some states, there is even sales tax on these products. Why we even have to buy these things, which are a constant necessity and which some women can’t afford, is beyond me. Overall, according to the aforementioned report, women pay 13 percent more for personal products, 8 percent more for adult clothing, 7 percent more for toys and accessories and 4 percent more for children’s clothing (sorry to all the single moms with daughters out there). And one report done by the
billions of dollars on reconstruction. Another way to destroy our economy and create more enemies around the world. Trump says he will build a wall. He says he will make Mexico pay for it. He says Mexican immigrants are “rapists,” that
New York City Department of Consumer Affairs in 2016 found that shampoo and conditioner marked to women cost 48 percent more on average than those marketed to men. 48 percent more for glorified scented soap. And then there’s the pay gap — it still exists and progress on the gap has slowed to the point where it is unlikely to close until at least 100 years from now. The big number is that women make about 80 percent of what men make (i.e., 79 cents on the male dollar), but that’s just an overall average. In New York, the gap is the smallest in the country at 89 cents on every male dollar, but in Wyoming the gap is as large as 64 cents on the male dollar. And then there is the constant struggle for women of color: for example, for Hispanic and Latina women, that pay gap is slashed down to almost half of what white men make, at 54 percent. The Pink Tax is a product of a country and an economic system that is not for and that takes advantage of women. It’s a scary reality that a lot of women may not be aware of. It is also a reality that exploits male fragility and capitalizes on the binary of gender in general. At any rate, I bought the Gillette razor.
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“they’re bringing crime.” He has said he will put a full ban on Muslims entering the country (with the exception of athletes and other “important people”) until “we can figure out what is going on,” like all practicing Muslims are members of ISIS. He has actually said, “Laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that.” Earlier in that interview, he said he only wanted Jewish men counting his money. In a profile in 1992, Trump said in reference to women, “You have to treat ‘em like shit.” During the race, he has insulted women
for their appearance, their relationships, called women a “piece of ass,” and made crude remarks toward female anchors and interviewers. He has openly said that he is a “traditionalist” and does not support the gay community. He even once mocked Serge Kovaleskia, a New York Times reporter with a congenital condition called arthrogryposis. There is one thing that is true, it’s that Trump excels at marginalization, racism and sexism, not to mention his natural proclivity for discrimination. At the beginning of the election season, both the media and the American public (aside from a few diehard Trump fanatics) saw Trump’s campaign as a joke. The election turned into a reality TV show and then we saw how Trump thrived in madhouses. We saw it turn from a sideshow to a full-blown disaster, and people are suddenly treating Trump like a serious Republian candidate when he hasn’t actually changed the core of his campaign or promised anything more concrete than the fact that he will “make America great again.” This election, there is a wrong choice. We know that to be Donald Trump.
Clinton struggles to stay polite amid Trump’s slights POLITICS
SARAH CAMINO
THE MIAMI STUDENT
It is an election of pejoratives, yet among the rapists, losers, Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary, Goofy Elizabeth Warren and deplorables, some, I assume, are good people. Surely, most unimpeachable of all, are the constituents themselves. At the very least, it seems a poor strategy on Clinton’s part to further alienate an already malcontent electorate by deigning to the worst stereotypes about Trump supporters. Despite the seeming disadvantageous nature of denigrating the voting public even if they are supporters of your bombastic opponent, does it really make a candidate unfit, as Mike Pence suggested at a House Leadership GOP news conference on Tuesday? Donald Trump writes on his website in characteristic belligerent and juvenile language, “being politically correct takes too much time.” Even as Trump has become more “presidential,” following a teleprompter and apologizing at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina for any “personal pain” he may have caused by past remarks, his campaign has been less about preserving dignity than condescending to it. Within a few breaths, he drew a conclusion of dubious logic. “I will always tell you the truth,” he promised, hardly accidentally invoking an argument that brazen, insensitive language is somehow objectively more valuable as truth. In light of this epistemology, Clinton’s public condemnation of the few, but notable, avowed white supremacists among the Trump camp, and the less extreme racist and xenophobic tendencies in his adherents should not cross a line. Yet, it does — irrevocably, as republicans no doubt hope. Despite a Gallup poll recently revealing that living in an area of low diversity correlates with favorable views towards Trump, it would be unfair to call Trump’s entire base a homogeneous group built around central attitudes of bigotry. Yet, undeniably some part of the trend among Trump supporters towards racist and xenophobic attitudes is real, and at any rate Hillary only incriminated “half” of Trump voters, while Trump makes sweeping generalizations all the time, often accusing a much larger proportion of a minority population. In the
rhetoric of this election, immigration — illegal or otherwise — has been almost always synonymous with Mexico except for a subcategory of prejudice devoted to Muslims. He says “the Hispanics” and “the African Americans,” except when he charmingly invokes the personal pronoun as a child talks about his lego skyscrapers. Therefore, it seems reasonable to suggest that in some forgotten detrius-filled gutter in Cleveland, voters, even Trump supporters, expect a certain degree of decorum from their candidates. Beyond personal offense, this issue becomes one of a double standard that for once may be less about gender than reputation. Trump’s persona is built on the paradoxical idea of a “blue-collar billionaire,” some unpalatable insults and an entrance into the presidential race on a languorous escalator — the chariot of grimy malls across the United States. As Trump said in that address in Charlotte, North Carolina, “too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues [of political correctness].” At least in this case, Trump raises a valuable point. Whether Hillary Clinton called half of Trump’s supporters deplorable, or Trump called “some” Mexicans good people, should not matter in this election. According to Politico, Trump lags only 5 points behind Clinton, yet in many ways, the attitude is still that he will turn back into a pumpkin at midnight. Perhaps this attitude is not more manifest than in the lack of direct repercussions for Trump’s language in the polls and the double standard of propriety between the candidates. Why care about Trump’s ribald rhetoric when he will eventually go away? His absurdity makes it easier to accept a frightening ethos of offensiveness for the sake of it, affronts for the thrill. However if we know we can expect outrage and spectacle from Trump, it is unreasonable to expect Clinton to maintain the quickly eroding high ground. Whether Clinton should preserve the traditional deference of candidates towards their electorate is a matter of mere etiquette. Encouraging violence towards protesters and engendering prejudice towards minorities is one of national character.
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ODNR representative warns of freshman herds migrating Uptown
What does this flag really mean? POLITICS
KYLE HAYDEN
SATIRE
JOEY HART
ASST. OPINION EDITOR
Sean Ables, representative from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, stated in a press release Wednesday that Oxford locals and Miami students alike should watch for migrating herds of freshmen travelling Uptown. Ables said that now is prime season for freshmen, who are also known by the Latin name “Firstus Yearus.” He explained that generally, this species can be seen in large flocks of 10 to 12 individuals, all
Always remember that these creatures are more afraid of you than you are of them, so scaring them even further is a sure way to get a reaction you might not want to see.
of the same sex. These separate groups then comingle, in Uptown establishments where the courting ritual begins. Ables noted that with mating season right around the corner, more freshmen will be on the prowl, especially in the evening. “We’re just here to make sure that everyone understands all the facts about this often misunderstood beast,” Ables explained. “They’re just a part of our natural Butler County environment.”
He stressed that one must exercise caution when confronted by a group. “You never want to make any quick movements or loud noises,” Ables said. “Always remember that these creatures are more afraid of you than you are of them, so scaring them even further is a sure way to get a reaction you might not want to see.” Not all inhabitants of Oxford see this annual phenomenon as threatening. Junior Courtney Mettowitz said that her experience with freshmen has been, for the most part, “fine.” “Yeah, I’m not sure what the big deal really is,” Mettowitz said. “I see a lot of freshmen, Uptown and on campus, and they don’t really do anything that’s bad.” Mettowitz added that some freshmen are “even pretty goodlooking.” Despite their often benign appearance, though, Ables warned not to get too comfortable. “Oftentimes these animals will wander up to parties, foraging for shelter or drink,” he explained. “However, if you give them what they are looking for, they are only going to come back for more.” Ables elaborated that although they may look cute, “treating a freshman like a human being is a sure-fire way to ruin any event.” “The Firstus Yearus is a natural part of our ecosystem, but we should make sure they stay that way,” he said.
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Attempts at a life left-handed provide right hand confidence LIFE
GRAHM VON CARLOWITZ OPINION EDITOR
Sometimes I try to write with my left hand. Strange, as I am proponent of the right-handed club. So it makes sense that I am uncomfortable when I make these attempts with the weak left hand. I might compare the little talent in my left hand with the little talent I have in playing instruments. In my mind, I can create a picture of me playing the violin in an orchestra, but this picture goes away when I start thinking about eating a hot dog as a member of the orchestra. That
I might compare the little talent in my left hand with the little talent I have in playing instruments.
would not be a good thing for our performances, not good at all. My consistently fruitless attempts to make use of an otherwise limp structure at the end of my left arm are well thought out, good-
intentioned attempts, I must say. It was explained to me one day by some stranger, or maybe even a professor, that left handed people tend to use their right-brain a copious sum more than their boring right-handed counterparts. This brain, purportedly selected for more creative thoughts, is the ultimate goal of my lofty left ventures, as I sometimes wonder if I even have a right brain. Well, at least now I can be sure of its existence, as I have successfully scribed my name gently onto a slab of paper a few times with the exclusive help of my left hand. This cumbersome task, as I admitted, is a recurring pattern in my life, one filled with abominable, haphazard ambitions. My skyrocketed confidence, ready to take off before I undertake the left hand land, is almost immediately shot to hell upon the take off. What I saw as an opportunity to cultivate myself into an erudite scholar rapidly transforms and I think I am not so smart. I think this because my handwriting looks not just bad, but very bad. Also, I think I can not think as good as when my right hand is boss. By boss I mean in charge, when my right hand is writing sentences or even just words. And so I go back to what I already said, you know, about the
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This week I saw a video of a man burning and shooting (with a gun) a Pan-African flag. People have been burning the jersey of Colin Kaepernik, an NFL quarterback, who has been protesting the National Anthem by kneeling to draw attention to social justice issues and the deaths of unarmed black youth and adults. Let’s then take a look at another symbol of American politics we can see floating around town: the Gadsden flag or the “Tea Party” flag. Could it possibly be a symbol of inter-community solidarity and generosity? Or could it be a signifier of the struggles of revolutionaries against an authoritarian government trying its best to extract wealth and resources from a “newly discovered” continent? No! Bros and piss-beer addicts throughout the Mile Square have appropriated it. They don’t even know how to properly display a flag (hint: it’s not a curtain). Also, if you’re going to buy it on Amazon so that when it arrives folded up and creased from being produced in a factory in Cambodia and shipped across the planet in a cargo container, at least iron it or put it in a dryer (do you do your own laundry?) for ten minutes to get rid of the unsightly creases. That’s just lazy flag care and I thought y’all were for hard work? I walk by at least 6 of these fucking flags every day on my way to class and the library. That’s right, I go to the library voluntarily and I don’t even use the computers. The flags sit in fraternity house windows, in the windows of houses with trammeled, littered lawns and in the back of pick-up trucks (yes, I have your plate number memorized). I get it: you’re independent. You want sovereignty. Hold on! If you go to Miami University you have by definition given up your will to a government institu-
A modified version of the Gadsden flag. tion for 4 years at least, regardless of whether you are here on loan or not. You have lots of money and opportunities and what else? You hate affirmative action, claiming it’s somehow discriminatory but this posture altogether discounts the centuries of literal and physical economic oppression faced by black folks or indigenous peoples. When it comes to the prevalence of social issues, they assume everyone has been born into the world with the same advantages and privileges they were afforded. If they don’t acknowledge this — and admittedly it is a pretty complex thought — they think the system is working just fine and it IS working just fine . For them. Hangers of the Tea Party flag (formerly known as the Gadsden flag, named after some lesser-known slave owner involved in the American Revolution) believe in “economic freedom.” When we encode it, this really indicates the freedom to exploit and subjugate others in order to attain more wealth. Rather than seeking a steady-state economy based on ecological principles, the typical “DONT TREAD ON ME” robot wants to continue the perpetual growth paradigm of national and global economies. It ain’t right. The Tea Party doesn’t like the forces of “big government” except when this government works in cooperation with the IMF or World Bank to offer debt adjustments to foreign countries and open up their econo-
mies to private capital investment from companies they want to work for in the future. It wants a “debt-free future” but somehow concludes the best place to start would be in education and healthcare. Don’t dare cut the military budget (because those boys and girls are protecting your assets!) that accounts for over 50 percent of the federal discretionary budget. Just as the coalition poisoned and starved the people of Iraq into submission for years before troops came to occupy the country, Tea Partiers would like to bring the action home! Austerity measures for the millions already living in food insecurity — that’s about 50 million people in the U.S. Note that Dayton, Ohio has on a typical day 1,000 homeless people out of a total population of 143,000. Now, Montreal, Quebec has a population of 1.65 Million and a homeless population of about 1,000 on any given day. Dayton’s homeless population is therefore 10 times bigger (in proportion) than Montreal’s. Why is that? “The government is corrupted by corporations, so just let the corporations govern!” It’s all a curdled mess. The politics of nothingness, the cynical politics of selfishness have no place (that is, if you want to continue to have a country of this size) in a democracy of our size. HAYDENKA@MIAMIOH.EDU
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hot dog and violin. So why is it that these attempts are recurring? Why do I always come back? Well, if you know what it feels like to have a bucket of ice dumped on you, you’d probably also know how conversely incredible the warm, melting shower thereafter feels. I don’t need to take drugs in order to
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experience a high. Nope. I simply undergo the transformation into a virtual dumbass who writes with the incorrect hand, spend some of my time writing with the hand, until the realization that I must return to normalcy not only dawns upon me, but dusks and mornings and afternoons, an entire day’s
worth of ostensible realization hits me. But ambidexterity is still a goal of mine. It fits in the category of goals that are fun to have, although I’m not expecting any results.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
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MIAMI SEEKS FIRST WIN IN MAC FOLLOWING LOSSES, REDHAWKS LOOK TO RIGHT THE SHIP AGAINST WESTERN KENTUCKY FOOTBALL
COBURN GILLIES
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The Miami RedHawks enter their third week of action still searching for a win, having lost their first two games. Following these defeats, the ‘Hawks seem destined for their sixth straight losing season. Head Coach Chuck Martin, however, is not convinced that what transpired at Yager Stadium last Saturday is a precursor for the rest of the season. “There’s a lot of ways to lose a football game. Typically, you get outplayed in some areas. Typically, you get beat physically in some areas. We’ve had some bad luck. And the tough thing to swallow of this defeat is that we really didn’t have any of those,” said Martin. Third-year Coach Martin, while his gut feeling is that his team deserved to beat Eastern Illinois last Saturday, has developed an understanding of why his team fell short at home. “The penalties were a critical way in determining the outcome of the game. From a discipline standpoint, from a technique standpoint, from understanding how to play the football game in that every second counts out there; we gotta do a much better job” Martin said. Cutting down on penalties will be critical to Miami’s success the
rest of the way, as the 13 penalty outburst against E. Illinois was a critical contributor to the RedHawks’ defeat. Going into the match-up with the Panthers, there was a sense in the Miami locker room that if everyone on the team did his respective duties, a win was within reach. However, from Coach Martin’s perspective, the ‘Hawks displayed a lack of aggressiveness when push came to shove. “The last two drives for Eastern we didn’t play very aggressive. We got back on our heels and we played like a team that hasn’t won many games and we are not sure if we can win a game,” Coach Martin said. In the fourth quarter of last week’s match-up, redshirt senior defensive lineman J.T. Jones was ejected for targeting after making contact to the head of EIU’s quarterback. Coach Martin argued, however, that this call -- while completely valid, according to the rules -- was the wrong call to make. “As he was flailing to try and block the pass -- because he was reaching with both arms -- his hand hit the guy [Kimble] in the head and, you know, the kid fell backward,” Coach Martin said. Standout redshirt senior receiver Rokeem Williams left the game at halftime due to an undisclosed injury.
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Junior tight end Ryan Smith prepares for impact against Eastern Illinois’ Pono Choy.. Smith has two receptions totalling 46 yards this season. “Yeah, Rokeem we don’t know yet. He’s got a minor injury and he probably won’t be practicing much this week. We’ll be hopeful to get him back for Saturday,” said the Martin. This week, the RedHawks hope to find more success against MidAmerican Conference opponent
Western Kentucky University. The Hilltoppers (1-1) boast a potent passing attack and offense led by redshirt junior quarterback Mike White, the same system that has graduated NFL quarterbacks like Brandon Doughty of the Miami Dolphins. Last season, WKU lit up Miami’s defense, imposing its will
Headlines beyond Oxford: 2016 will be the final season of WNBA icon and Indiana Fever star Tamika Catchings’ decorated 16-year career. Catchings’ suits up for her final regular-season game Sunday, and fellow Indiana basketball star Paul George wants a full house for her send-off. The gold medalist and NBA All Star purchased 5,000 tickets to Sunday’s game and is now giving them away. Fans can claim a maximum of four balcony tickets at Bankers Life Fieldhouse beginning noon Friday. Catchings is second on the WNBA’s all-time scoring list, and the 37-year-old is only three rebounds short of eclipsing Lisa Leslie’s WNBA record. Catchings is a four-time Olympic gold medalist and one-time WNBA champion (2012). Catchings is also a ten-time WNBA AllStar, the 2011 WNBA MVP, the President of the WNBA Players Association and the first-ever to record a quintuple-double (25 points, 18 rebounds, 11 assists, 10 steals and 10 blocks) in 1997. Catchings’ father, Harvery Catchings, played in the NBA from 1974 to 1985 for the 76ers, Nets, Bucks and Clippers.
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VOLLEYBALL DEFEATS RIVAL CINCINNATI IN STRAIGHT SETS The Miami University volleyball team extended its winning streak to six matches Wednesday evening, knocking off rival UC in dominant 3-0 (25-18, 25-21, 27-25) fashion. Sophomore outside hitter Stela Kukoc led the Red and White with 10 kills, while junior middle hitter Meredith Stutz finished with eight kills and a team-leading .533 attacking percentage. Junior right side hitter Katie Tomasic and senior outside hitter Maris Below tallied nine kills each for Miami. Below was one kill shy of a double-double, as she also added 14 digs. Sophomore setter Mackenzie Zielinski was a critical facilitator for the Miami attack, leading the offense with 19 assists. The RedHawks improve to 7-4 on the season, while the Bearcats drop to 4-6. MU returns to action at home 7 p.m. Friday against Furman. The match, played at Millett Hall, will be broadcast live on ESPN3.
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in the 56 - 14 blowout. On the defensive side of the ball, keep an eye on redshirt junior linebacker T.J. McCollum, as he currently leads WKU with 17 tackles. The game is set to kickoff at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Yager Stadium in Oxford. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN3.
The Miami University men’s and women’s cross-country teams will get an early start to the weekend Friday, as they make the trip to East Lansing, Michigan for the 2016 Auto Owners Spartan Invitational on the Forest Akers East Golf Course. This will be Miami’s first time competing in the meet and its first multiple team invitational of 2016. The first competition of the season, essentially a dual meet, came on September 3 at Indiana University. Last year, Michigan State dominated their home course in the women’s race, with a solid pack near the front and the smallest 1st to 5th runner gap of all teams with only one minute and two seconds. The Lady Spartans finished with 27 points, 50 ahead of both Bowling Green State University and Hillsdale University. On the men’s side, Division 2 powerhouse Grand Valley State University surprised a field with BIG 10 and Mid-American Conference (MAC) elites. The field included the University of Illinois, Michigan State University, Michigan University, eventual 2015 MAC Cross Country Champions Eastern Michigan University, BGSU and Central Michigan. However, the
Lakers won the race through exceptional pack running, with an unbelievable 20 second split between their first and fifth runners, and only a nine second gap from their second to seventh. This year, many of those same teams will be in East Lansing again, and many of their front runners
Division 2 Grand Valley State University looks to repeat last year’s stunning upset over Big Ten, MAC competition.
return as well. In the men’s race, watch out for redshirt junior Clark Luiz of Michigan State, as he placed highly in last year’s race and has a personal record of 23 minutes and 52 seconds time in the 8K. Redshirt sophomore Zach Panning of GVSU looks to improve from last year’s seventh place finish in this race and a second overall finish in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Cross Country Championship. The women’s race is more up for grabs, as many of the top finishers graduated last spring. “Right now it is still pretty early in the season, yet we still have goals
to be competitive and to run as a team,” senior Lauren Hoover said. Hoover also shared that the RedHawks’ preseason ranking was lower than anticipated. In the 2016 Women’s MAC Cross Country Preseason Poll, Miami is ranked eighth, just ahead of archrival Ohio University. However, for the Miami men, the focus is more on proving the coaches’ poll right. The RedHawks enter the meet ranked second in the 2016 Men MAC Cross Country Preseason Poll behind Eastern Michigan, as EMU tops both polls. “We really were not surprised by our ranking, but our goal is to inch closer week by week to Eastern Michigan,” first year Bradley Davis said. The Miami men will look to new runners and leadership to lead the way this season, as standout Joe Stewart graduated this past year. This is cross-country director Tom Chorny’s first season, and he has already made an impact with the men’s and women’s programs. “We have started doing new types of drills and have started a strength training program under our new director, and I really think it is making a positive difference in our overall condition,” Hoover said. The men get the meet started at 11:50 a.m. Saturday with the Collegiate 8K and are followed by the women’s team in the Collegiate 6K at 12:30 p.m.