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Miami University — Oxford, Ohio

1 in 4 females will experience sexual assault on college campuses in the U.S. *

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EMILY WILLIAMS

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On Dec. 28, 1978, 23-year-old Elizabeth Andes was found dead in her apartment in Oxford, Ohio — only days after her graduation from Miami University.

“In some ways, I feel like a stalker,” journalist Amber Hunt says in the first episode of “The Accused,” a new podcast from the Cincinnati Enquirer. She goes on to describe how intimately familiar she’s become with Andes, a woman Andes whom she’s never met and whose unsolved murder has consumed Hunt’s life for the past year.

The police quickly zeroed in on Bob Young, Andes’s boyfriend, then 22, who played for Miami’s football team and had also graduated that month. Young was asked to recount his story repeatedly — how he’d walked into her apartment to find her body in the bedroom — and, although he pled his innocence initially, Young confessed to the crime after hours of questioning.

Young, who tried to retract the confession only hours later, stating that he had been exhausted, confused and pressured when he confessed, still claims innocence. Although some people, including former Chief Joseph Statum, who was involved in the initial case, are still convinced that he is guilty, others, like Cincinnati attorney Deborah Lydon, think Young has been telling the truth.

Lydon, who took on the case pro bono about five years ago, approached the Enquirer after what she described as a very frustrating investigation process. Since Young’s acquittal in 1983, very little has been done to give Andes’s family answers, Lydon said.

In January of 2015, Lydon said, she was told by the Oxford police that they “didn’t have the resources” to continue the investigation. About a week after that conversation with the police, Miami junior Rebecca Eldemire was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend Larry Tipton II who then shot himself at Eldemire’s Level 27 apartment in Oxford.

“That was especially haunting.”

Lydon has worked closely with Hunt and Amanda Rossmann — a photojournalist with the Enquirer and the podcast’s producer— throughout the reporting process.

“I’m incredibly impressed with the efforts of Amber and Amanda,” Lydon said. “They’ve been incredibly sensitive to the people they’ve been interviewing. They’ve worked really hard.”

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26.3% of women reported being sexually assaulted

7.7% of women reported experiencing an attempted sexual assault

5.8% of men reported being sexually assaulted

3.6% of men reported experiencing an attempted sexual assault

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of Kinesiology and Health, has been collecting data on sexual assault for 14 years.

On April 4, all degreeseeking students at Miami received an email from Ward asking them to participate in Miami’s Annual Climate Survey. Of those students, 2,794 responded, about 13 percent.

“We need more [responses] than that,” Ward said.

As the end of summer ramps into the beginning of the fall semester, a dedicated group of students is gearing up for elections to the Associated Student Government Senate, Miami’s primary student legislative body.

There are 51 voting student Senate seats in Miami’s Associated Student Government according to the Miami ASG official bylaws. The primary duty of the ASG Senate is recognizing and voting on funding for all student organizations on campus.

Of those 51 seats, 17 are on-campus Senate seats.

16 Senators are elected by students living in their oncampus residential district.

This group of Senators is elected early during the fall semester and serves for the remainder of that academic year. This year, those seats are up for election on Sept.

12. The remaining on-campus seat is filled by a resident assistant representa-

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*David Cantor, Bonnie Fisher, Susan Chibnall, Reanna Townsend, et. al. Association of American Universities (AAU), Report on the AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct (September 21, 2015).

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On April 6, all degree-seeking Miami students recieved an email to participate in Miami’s annual Climate Survey. 13 percent of those who recieved the email completed the study,.

Survey exposes extent of rape at Miami SEXUAL ASSAULT

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Over a quarter of female undergraduates living on Miami University’s Oxford campus reported being raped during their time at the university, according to the results from Miami’s Annual Climate Survey, obtained by The Miami Student in August.

“[That statistic] is unacceptable,” said Claire Wagner, director of university news and communications.

“We see figures close to this across the country, and I think some people have trouble believing it because they believe what they think their experience is.”

In addition to the 26.3 percent of female undergraduate Oxford students who reported experiencing rape,

the survey also found that 7.7 percent of them experienced attempted rape.

Of male undergraduate students living in Oxford, 5.8 percent reported being raped while at Miami.

“I wish our numbers looked different. I would be happy if they were much, much lower. No amount of sexual assault is okay,” said Rose Marie Ward. Ward, a professor in the Department

MU students uneasy Miami seeks exam surveillance software after EpiPen price hike Trials show more students cheat online

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As sophomore Steven Ruane sat down to eat at Western Dining Commons last November, he bit into his food only to realize something was wrong. His friend mentioned that he tasted peanuts in the food, so Ruane rushed to the station that had served him, where they confirmed peanuts were one of the ingredients.

That was the one day he had forgotten his EpiPens, an epinephrine auto-injector prescribed for the emergency treatment of anaphylactic shock brought on by allergic reactions, in his room.

Springing into action, Ruane’s girlfriend dialed 911 while he sprinted across campus to retrieve his medication from Emerson Hall, making it in time to inject the life-saving drug into his system.

The pharmaceutical company, Mylan, obtained EpiPens in 2007 when the price of the medication cost less than $100 for a twopack. This past May, the price skyrocketed, averaging around $614 or over $300 per EpiPen. “I don’t even know if Miami had EpiPens, where I would find them or how

quickly I could get them,” Ruane said. “It’s much better to carry them on your own person, but that’s not an option if they’re so expensive people can’t afford them.”

Due to the price increase, Ruane was limited to only buying two EpiPens for his sophomore year.

“At the beginning of every school year I usually purchase EpiPens to have with me,” Ruane said. “Usually, I carry two on me everywhere I go. I left two with the nurse back when I was in high school and middle school, and I have spares that I leave in my room, but with the price increase I haven’t been able to get six EpiPens, which would be $1,800.”

According to MarketWatch, the price of a twopack of EpiPens has increased six fold since Mylan added the drug to its company nine years ago.

Mylan has only cited health insurance providers with high-deductible rates as the main reason for the price hikes, according to an article in the New York Times last August.

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EDUCATION

MEGAN ZAHNEIS NEWS EDITOR

A student walks into a room, ready for her final exam.

She takes a seat and racks her brain, willing herself to recall the minutiae of the course material she’d worked an entire semester to master.

She sits down at her computer, logs in and allows the software installed to access her screen, webcam and microphone.

Before she begins her exam, she’ll pick up the laptop and rotate it 360 degrees, offering a full view of her environment via webcam. She may even flash her student ID at the camera to confirm her identity.

All because she’s being watched by computers that will analyze her every move as she takes her exam, searching for and detecting signs of academic dishonesty.

This scene may not be unfamiliar to Miami University students for long. Ensuring academic integrity in online test-taking is a new frontier in the world of digital education, and it’s an initiative being taken on by Miami’s Department of eLearning, the Center for Teaching Excellence, faculty and admin-

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istrators alike.

A specially convened committee has been piloting a variety of online tools that facilitate online exam proctoring in the hopes of implementing a solution at Miami by the winter. One recent trial composed of Miami students and faculty found that in the same course, the average student grades on a proctored exam were between 15 and 17 points lower than those on a non-proctored one. “[That] tells you there’s a huge need for proctoring software,” Assistant Provost

of eLearning Beth Rubin said. “If you want to offer online classes and give students the flexibility of taking courses in the winter and the summer, then you have to know that it’s as rigorous and the academic integrity is as high as if they’re sitting in the classroom.”

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A Hicksville philosophy major’s road to the Rio Olympics PROFILE

AUDREY DAVIS NEWS EDITOR

What can you do with a degree in philosophy? The options are pretty endless. Some people use their degree to go to law school. Others become professors. But not Chris Leazier, a 1992 graduate of Miami University. He went on to be the assistant coach of the Nigerian basketball team in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Leazier’s passion for basketball began when he was just a kid himself.

“Like most kids, probably, my dad started taking me and my brother to high school basketball games,” Leazier said. “I just kind of fell in love with the sport.”

Leazier played basketball all four years of high school in the small town of Hicksville, Ohio.

His former teacher and varsity basketball coach, Dave Blue, described Leazier as intelligent and motivated on and off the court.

“I’m not surprised Chris is doing anything he wants to do because when he put his mind to something, you knew he would be successful,” said Blue.

“He was the smallest guy on our team, but he was good,” said former teammate Tim Shock. “I was the starting point guard our freshman, sophomore, and junior years and then he took over as point guard our senior year.”

Leazier thought back to his high school career and stifled a laugh.

“I was a very, very, very, average high school basketball player, and I would say average at best,” said Leazier.

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Chris Leazier, a Miami grad and the assistant coach of the Nigerian Olympic basketball team, stands on the court in Rio.

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In high school, Leazier dreamt of going to Indiana University after graduation to be a student manager for the basketball team under Bob Knight, but he ended up going down a different path for a while. “[Going to Indiana] was my main objective, but I was really a very poor student, so that option wasn’t available to me,” Leazier said.

Instead, he went on to attend Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia for a year before transferring to Miami University. At that point, he was really interested in philosophy and decided that would be his major.

While at Miami, Leazier was under the advisement of Michael Goldman.

“He was very enthusiastic and very committed to philosophy education,” said Goldman. “He cared a lot about the young people and what was then called the free school movement and was very dedicated to coming up with new ways of teaching them.”

After graduating from Miami, Leazier and his wife, Amy, moved to Chicago. She was getting her doctorate at Northwestern, and he started a Ph.D program in philosophy at DePaul University.

“Even though I kind of changed course at a certain point in my college years,” Leazier said, “I was involved in basketball in some way.”

While at DePaul, Leazier would play lunchtime basketball for exercise, along with both the men’s and women’s coaching staff.

“The head coach of the women’s team was Doug Bruno, and I would stay after games in the locker room and ask Doug a bunch of questions,” said Leazier.

One day, Bruno told Leazier that he could help him get a coaching job if he wanted one, so he quit the Ph.D program, with his wife’s support, in 1995 and started coaching formally for the first time at Saint Ignatius College Prep in Chicago.

Leazier had reached the point in his Ph.D program where he was teaching classes, but decided to make the switch to coaching when he realized he couldn’t generate the same kind of enthusiasm and intensity while teaching that he could in a gym.

“When you’re interacting with people in an environment that is in no way compulsory, which basketball isn’t, there’s just a stronger likelihood that you’re going to get this combination of enthusiasm and competitive intensity that is really hard to duplicate in other environments,” said Leazier.

Goldman said Leazier’s choice to pursue something other than phi-

losophy didn’t really surprise him.

“I think he was more interested in helping young people than philosophy, and I guess being a coach is one way of doing that,” Goldman said.

After his wife finished her Ph.D program and after a year in Iowa, they packed up and moved to Vermont, so his wife could take a job at Dartmouth College.

Leazier took a high school coaching job at Thetford Academy in 1997, where, a year later, he would meet the current head coach of the Nigerian basketball team, Will Voight — although, at that time, Voight was coaching the boys’ soccer team.

Both men would go through various career changes in the years that followed, leading them to grow apart.

Voight went on to work as the video coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs before moving around the country to work at different universities. Eventually, he moved to Norway to start his professional career in coaching.

Leazier stayed at Thetford Academy until 2000 and then worked as assistant coach to both the men’s and women’s basketball teams at Dartmouth until 2007.

In 2009, Leazier and Voight reconnected after Leazier parted ways with Saint Anselm College, his employer at the time.

“I was out of work, and at that same time [Voight] got his first head coaching job at the NBA Development League in Bakersfield, California,” Leazier said. “He said to me, ‘Hey, listen. I know you’re trying to figure out what your next step is. I want you to come out here for a year.’”

Leazier took Voight up on the offer and was the assistant coach of the Bakersfield Jam from 2009-2010.

After that, Leazier had various other coaching jobs, mostly in Vermont, until the summer of 2015, when Voight called Leazier and told him he had been offered the position of head coach of the Nigerian basketball team.

“What he wanted me to do was go to be on the staff for the 2015 Afrobasket championship—the winner of which would automatically qualify to go to Rio the following summer,” Leazier said. “But I was not able to do that because, after 18 years at Dartmouth, my wife took a job as the head of the Philosophy Department at Penn State.”

So, Leazier, his wife and their four kids moved to State College, Pennsylvania.

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$700.

“Luckily, I’m in a position where my family is still able to purchase them, but it is definitely more inconvenient,” Tong said.

While the Student Health Services does not carry EpiPens, they do have epinephrine,the adrenal drug found in EpiPens and other generic brands,available in the case of a life-threatening allergic reaction.

“We stopped carrying EpiPens here about a year ago, because we can buy the epinephrine that’s

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functions, while an exam is in session, and the more robust Monitor, an automated proctoring solution that taps into students’ webcams and microphones.

But, Rubin said, instructors have found these solutions lacking. “[Using] Respondus, the faculty has to look at little pictures and identify if they think they see signs of cheating. And if you have 100 people in your course, you’re not going to do that,” Rubin explained.

That’s why Rubin’s helping to marshal the group of approximately 15 instructors who have, for the past two years, been seeking proposals from a handful of third-party proctoring agencies.

Rubin explained that many variables went into determining the committee’s guidelines, beginning with the access a testing service requires to students’ environments.

Can its software, for instance, lock down a user’s browser, record screen activity, track eye movements via webcam or surrounding audio activity via microphone?

There have been five systems tested so far — B Virtual, Examity, Proctorio, Respondus Monitor and Software Secure. “[Our ideal software is one that’s] reasonably inexpensive, that’s easy for students and faculty that you can take your exam whenever you want, that doesn’t interfere with teaching or learning, that has high levels of reliability and allows flexibility for all the different kinds of exams people give — which is a big order, which is why it took us two and a half years,” Rubin said.

While the committee is aware that the use of online monitoring software comes with privacy and legal concerns, Rubin urged students to adhere to the same standards for online exams as they would in-person ones.

But, Rubin said, that rarely happens.

“You would not believe some of what we have heard students talking about,” Rubin said. “We have heard students talking about arranging to cheat in so many ways. We’ve heard students planning drug deals. We have one famous student who likes to take his exams naked.”

Brenda Quaye, Miami’s coordinator for academic integrity, said online transgressions are handled the same way as ones that occur during in-person interactions, noting that

about two dollars,” nursing manager, Becky Foster said. “We would administer the epinephrine in an emergency allergic reaction, and we [switched to epinephrine] because of costs.”

The increase in the cost of EpiPens has taught Miami students to be more aware of where their EpiPens are at all times because the amount of spares they have can be limited.

“I’m paranoid regardless, but having other friends with allergies I know everyone is being extremely more cautious,” Tong said.

instructors participating in the trial runs were provided with sample language about proctoring procedures to send to their students.

“Would you come to class in your underwear? Probably not. Would you stand up in the middle of class and say X, Y, Z comment? Maybe, maybe not. And if you did, would there be consequences and what does that mean?” Quaye said. “Some students they don’t actually believe they’re being videoed or they don’t actually believe somebody’s going to watch these and they make those types of comments.”

Visiting assistant professor of philosophy Scott Clifton, who specializes in ethics, said that any student concerns about privacy could be mitigated by faculty explaining the circumstances ahead of time.

“I think there would be some serious ethical problems if students were not aware that they were being monitored in that way while they were taking the online exam,” Clifton said. “But if they were made aware of it, and they knew that they could disengage from it at any time ... I think it’s analogous to being in a classroom and taking an exam and having someone proctor the exam in the classroom.”

Clifton said that if he’s truly concerned about the potential for cheating, he’ll simply hold an exam inperson, but acknowledged that not all instructors have that option.

Lynette Hudibergh and Nancy Malay, two Miami instructors who participated in the pilot program, said that proctoring software has been shown to significantly decrease incidences of academic dishonesty — and, with it, test scores.

Quaye said that while most people think that more academic dishonesty occurs in online courses, professional literature on the subject doesn’t necessarily bear out that theory. Of the 459 reported cases of academic dishonesty Quaye handled last year, 30 occurred in a fully online course.

For his part, Clifton just wishes it hadn’t come to this.

“Maybe it’s something we’ll never get away from, but it’s just sad that we have this kind of adversarial relationship when it comes to exams, where the professor thinks the student’s going to cheat and the student kind of assumes that the professor is taking all these steps to prevent the cheating. Really, that’s not what we’re trying to accomplish at all in the classroom.”

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The decision made late last semester by former university president David Hodge to allow alcohol sales at Yager Stadium is drawing mixed reactions from students and faculty.

While selling beer at football games isn’t an uncommon move — all 12 of Miami’s Mid-American Conference companions sell alcohol in premium stadium locations, and six of them offer it in general areas — some question what effect alcohol sales at Yager will have on student alcohol consumption.

Hodge made the decision to allow alcohol sales in the spring, after reviewing a report by a subcommittee of Miami’s Alcohol Coordinating Committee. The committee, created to evaluate the pros and cons of selling alcohol at Yager, did not provide a recommendation on whether or not to sell alcohol, but advised that that “a plan for responsible service in consultation with Housing, Dining, Recreation and Business Services” be put in place.

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Miami ballroom dancers given opportunity to tour Italy

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For the first time in the university’s history, Miami students will have the opportunity to travel and perform abroad as dancers on tour in Italy.

After learning dances choreographed by former Broadway dancer and Miami adjunct professor, Michael Scoggins, Miami dancers will travel to Rome, Naples and Sorrento from May 17 to May 29, giving performances in each city.

The first-of-its-kind tour was driven by Scoggins’ desire to share his past experiences with students.

“I wanted to show the college kids what it’s like to be a professional dancer on the road,” he said. “It’s such a wonderful experience and really rare to go on tour like a professional, with retired professionals.”

“There’s not an opportunity like this (tour) for college dancers period,” agreed Miami professor Leah Wasburn-Moses. “When you are a dancer and you work as a team, you will learn skills applicable in any career.”

The benefits of touring abroad include more than just dancing or professional experience.

“Being international, seeing how other people live, is extremely important to education,” Scoggins said.

“It’s better to go to a foreign country with a purpose and with a group of people instead of just going somewhere. Then you have a purpose for being there. You get to be a performer and entertain people.”

Junior Miranda Mason is excited for the experience.

“I think I’ll learn how, like, busy it is to be a professional ... the life of a professional, working all day and practicing all night and that kind of thing,” she said.

Mason said that sharing the international experiences will add to the fun.

“Basically I get to go dance abroad with all my friends.”

While traveling and performing, students will also complete two courses, an Introduction to Dance Pedagogy and A Dance Performance Tour of Italy, as part of the Miami global perspectives requirement.

These courses will include content such as professional dance etiquette.

“When you are a dancer and you work as a team, you will learn skills applicable in any career,” WasburnMoses said. “The tour is a lot about

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Students Ethan Lawless and Hannah Ridge practice ballroom dance. taking leadership and helping guide the team.”

One of the courses taught by Wasburn-Moses in conjunction with the tour, Introduction to Dance Pedagogy, covers the techniques used to teach dance in diverse populations. “[It is] learning to teach different types of dance to different types of people,” Wasburn-Moses said. “It helps them connect with others in a deeper way ... How we can use something like dance to improve quality of life.”

The location, content and format of the trip were largely driven by the results of a student survey taken by Scoggins’ students during the past spring semester.

“We were able to build the courses around what the students said they wanted to learn,” Wasburn-Moses said. “We already knew what they wanted and we were able to design a tour around that instead of guessing and choosing for them.”

This trip may not be the only one of its kind available to students in the future.

“I hope that we can do this biyearly,” said Scoggins. “I have contacts in so many different countries, that used to be professionals and can help us find stages and locations.”

“We would love to see this program expand in the future, but right now it is the very first time and we aren’t sure where it is going to go,” added Wasburn-Moses.

This study abroad experience is open to any Miami student who has taken a dance course. Any student who hasn’t yet taken a dance course still can register for Social Dance or Intro to Ballroom Dance and fulfill this requirement. A drop-in information session will be held 10 a.m.

- 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 13 in the Phillips Hall gym.

“It is an experience that will never be matched,” said Scoggins. “When the students are back in the U.S. they’ll wish the tour was longer.”

Last Friday, a meeting took place in a Laws Hall conference room, a room massive enough for a general Biology course. Unlike most monthly meetings held by Miami’s eSports club, this meeting’s topic filled the seats of the room. People lined up around the door to hear the news.

The team of passionate gamers, students and faculty alike announced that they will be competing at a varsity level. Miami University’s varsity eSports program is officially holding tryouts starting this Saturday.

Varsity eSports is very different from regular collegiate eSports, offering possibilities in the professional scene and a chance to bring money and recognition to the school. Competitions will be streamed live on websites like Twitch.tv — the most popular video game streaming website. The Miami community can show support and watch from anywhere.

A large issue in the eSports scene, especially at the collegiate level, is which games to pursue. Since the industry is so new and increasing rapidly, only a select few eSports are solidified as core games “We wanted to make sure that we picked games that were going to be played,” said Dr. Glenn Platt, head of the varsity eSports program and

professor of Marketing at Farmer’s School of Business. “So while our initial three games are ‘League [of Legends],’ ‘CS:GO [Counter Strike: Global Offensive]’ and ‘Hearthstone,’ we are open to any large game as long as it has enough support.”

The main factors one must consider when deciding what games to choose are the future popularity and practicality of the games.

Some games, like “Super Smash Bros. Melee,” have a lot of traction on campus. However, “Melee” requires the student to be at an event in person, while most games only need a stable Internet connection.

“I was really hoping for ‘Smash’ to be part of the varsity program,” said Reno DiFonzo, a sophomore tournament organizer of Miami’s Smash Club. “But I think I get why it isn’t. It would be too much of a hassle to send players to tournaments.”

The eSports program consists of players and possible substitutes.

Games like “League of Legends” and “CS:GO” are team-based, and holding scrimmages with other players inside Miami makes practice easy and productive. The players will be committing around the same amount of time as regular varsity athletes. The hope is to practice as similarly to professionals as possible — every day, for hours at a time.

“I am a little worried that it will take over my life,” said Robert

Ritchie, a sophomore looking to try out for the “League of Legends” team. “But if I get a scholarship for it, I am completely willing to devote my time to it.”

Dr. Platt has confirmed that there will be scholarships for the players. The exact number is being negotiated, but the program is becoming as close to a regular varsity sport as possible.

There will also be analyst positions for each game. An analyst is basically a strategist for the team. It is someone who will study replays of games and help work with the players to relay information. The analysts for Miami’s team have not yet been named.

“We have an analyst that will work with the students, but we also will have student analysts who will work with the main analysts,” said Dr. Platt. “We want to involve the students as much as possible, maybe giving them experience for something in the future.”

King Library has offered a large room in the center of the first floor as a type of headquarters for the varsity team. Once it is finished being touched up and improved, it will be the main place for practice, discussion and improvement.

With the announcement of the varsity eSports program, as well as the introduction of one of the first eSports classes this semester in the IMS department, Miami is committed to immersing itself in the growing world of eSports.

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Fall TV preview: Which new shows you should be watching this semester TELEVISION

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mind, here are my picks for the best new shows premiering this fall. Procrastinate away!

a gifted writer, actor and rapper, Glover is sure to provide us with one of television’s best new programs.

Some call it the Golden Age of Television. Some call it Peak TV. No matter what label you throw on it, however, the fact remains — television is better now than it’s ever been before.

While this is great as it provides viewers with more access to highquality programming, there is a downside. With the industry growing at such an unprecedented rate, networks and streaming services are ramping up their production levels and putting more and more shows on the air. Citing research from his company, FX President John Landgraf predicted this past summer that there are over 400 original scripted shows on the air this year.

With so many programs to choose from, it might be overwhelming trying to choose what to watch while putting off your latest class assignment. With that in

Atlanta, FX In this wild era of TV, FX is the network most committed to consistently producing high-quality shows. With phenomenal programs such as “Fargo,” “The Americans,” and “Louie,” FX is constantly creating unique stories and pushing the limits of narrative storytelling.

But that’s only part of the reason that “Atlanta” is the show I’m most looking forward to this fall. With the wildly talented Donald Glover (“Community,” “The Martian”) at the helm, Atlanta tells the story of Earn Marks (Glover), a determined college dropout who represents his cousin, Paper Boi (Bryan Tyree Henry), a young rapper on his way up through the Atlanta rap scene.

Glover intentionally assembled an entirely African-American writing staff as he hopes to provide viewers a nuanced look at life, art and what it’s like being black in America. As

Designated Survivor, ABC I’ll be the first to admit that I harbor a heavy distaste toward the basic cable networks. While premium channels and streaming services are consistently churning out new and exciting programs, networks such as ABC and CBS seem content with the same rubbish that will get them good ratings (these are, in fact, the people that just decided Kevin James needed a new sitcom). That being said, I have to concede that ABC’s “Designated Survivor” has drawn me in with its simple, yet intriguing premise. Kiefer Sutherland is the designated survivor, the one member of the presidential cabinet who doesn’t attend the State of the Union. When a terrorist attack strikes the Capitol, he must assume the role of the presidency.

Tossed into the political spotlight and tasked with healing an injured nation, Tom Kirkman (Sutherland)

will certainly have a lot on his plate.

It could just be another bland network drama, but like its titular character, “Designated Survivor” has the ability to elevate itself to greatness.

Westworld, HBO With a sprawling cast of eccentric characters, an intricate plot and wild amounts of sex and violence, “Westworld” seems to be HBO’s attempt at replacing “Game of Thrones,” which will be wrapping up over its next two seasons. Based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi film, “Westworld” centers on a futuristic amusement park where guests pay to interact with robots that populate a virtual western landscape.

Things get complicated, however, when the robots start malfunctioning and killing the human visitors.

It’s like “Jurassic Park” meets “Ex Machina” as the park’s curators start recognizing the robots’ growing sentience. With an all-star cast that includes Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Evan Rachel Wood, and with executive producers Jonathan

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One Mississippi, Amazon If you haven’t yet heard of comedian Tig Notaro, now is your chance.

In 2012, Notaro took the stage only four days after being diagnosed with cancer in both of her breasts and performed an immensely personal set that instantly became legendary. Two years later, after receiving a double mastectomy, she did a set topless, shocking the audience with her scars but overshadowing them with the power of her comedy. Now, Notaro’s semi-autobiographical show about dealing with the death of her mother has been picked up

by Amazon. Following in the recent tradition of dark, half-hour comedies such as “You’re the Worst” and “Casual,” “One Mississippi” will find a way to work through grief and misery with the power of humor.

Obscure streaming shows often fall by the wayside, but this is one you’ll definitely not want to miss.

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Hunt, who has worked in journalism for 20 years and has written four nonfiction books — three of them about true crime — said that, despite all of her experience, the kind of reporting she’s had to do for “The Accused” has been uncharted territory.

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This response rate, which is slightly less than last year’s 15 percent, may not fully represent Miami’s climate, according to Dean of Students Mike Curme.

“The results we have provide an important look into the experiences of the students who responded to the survey, but it is difficult to extrapolate the results to the entire campus,” Curme said in an email to the Miami Student. “I think this is an important point, but it does not diminish the concern we have over the number of reported experiences of those who responded to the survey.”

Curme said finding ways to increase response rates for the annual climate survey will be an important

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This is the second year Miami has conducted a Climate Survey. However, the statistics will look different this year since the 2016 survey asked students to report experiences throughout their entire time at Miami. Last year’s survey only asked students to report events that occurred within a 12-month span.

Ward said the decision to have the survey include data from a student’s entire time at Miami could provide a more accurate picture of what Miami’s climate is actually like. Miami needs to understand the scope of the problem before they begin to address it, said Ward.

“It’s like saying, ‘Let’s go in, there’s a fire!’ without knowing what type of fire it is. If it is a grease fire, you could potentially make it worse,” Ward said.

The survey did not just look into sexual assaults, however. It also col-

lected data on other reported crimes on campus such as domestic violence and stalking.

“The fact that we can monitor [domestic violence and stalking] and say this is what’s happening on our campus, this is what our students are experiencing, will not only help us be able to educate on what people are experiencing, but also get them what they need,” Becca Getson, Miami’s Title IX coordinator, said.

Some questions on the survey were also designed to look at perpetrator behavior. However, that data is still being analyzed, according to Curme.

Getson said the most striking statistic for her however, was the amount of students who reported having received training in sexual and interpersonal violence prevention. This training includes programs such as, Haven, an online training program focusing on sexual assault prevention, or the recently

added Welcome Week program for new students, “It is Our Place.”

“The climate survey always reminds us there is more that we can do, and this was something that was pretty important to us, especially for the new students coming in,” Curme said.

“It is Our Place” utilized skits and emphasized concepts such as affirmative consent.

Miami is making some other big changes, following the climate surveys, which reinforce a longstanding commitment to education and prevention efforts, said Curme.

Miami, partnered with Women Helping Women (WHW), a local rape crisis center, has applied for a grant to hire a sexual assault advocate that would be available to students on campus. However, whether the university receives the grant or not, Miami will have a WHW advocate on campus at least part time this fall, said Curme.

The Office of Student Wellness is also in the final interviewing process for hiring an Outreach and Education Coordinator for Sexual and Interpersonal Violence, who will focus on sexual and interpersonal violence prevention and education. The position is full-time and should be filled this fall.

Student Counseling Services has also given four counselors specific interpersonal violence training so they may more specifically assist survivors, according to Wagner.

The university plans on expanding its It’s on Us! Campaign as well, while continuing and enhancing what the university already has in place.

“At graduation I’m going to ask every [student] what one thing did you do to help prevent sexual and interpersonal violence on this campus,” Curme said. “And every student should be challenged to do that.”

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n this week’s issue of The Miami Student, our reporter Carleigh Turner covered the recent findings in Miami’s 2016 sexual assault survey. What she uncovered was truly astounding: 26.3 percent of female undergraduate students living in Oxford who answered the survey revealed that they had, in fact, been raped during their time at Miami.

It is obvious that sexual assault on Miami’s campus has grown to a serious threat to the everyday safety of the students here, women especially. The results of the 2016 survey show that Miami has not risen above the statistical standard that one in four women in college are sexually assaulted. Although Turner mentions the results may be skewed due to the survey’s sample size, the results indicate that one in four women at Miami are not just sexually assaulted (which can be anything

from touching to other forms of harassment), but actually raped.

Miami has only carried out this survey for two years now, with the 2016 survey being the second in what we hope will be a series, and has quietly been working on prevention efforts for a while now without doing anything above-average for a university. The need for these assault surveys is proof that the idea of sexual assault at Miami is not new. What is new (read: strange, wonderful) is what Miami is doing partly in response to this newest survey’s results.

As Turner reports in her story, Miami is taking four big steps to becoming a safer school, both for victims and for everyday students. Most importantly, Miami is partnering with Women Helping Women, an organization dedicated to providing support services and crisis intervention for sexual assault victims, to apply for a grant to

bring a sexual assault advocate on campus (the grant has not yet been approved). Miami is also in the final interviewing process to hire a fulltime on-campus Prevention Education Coordinator.

This will, in theory, help stop campus sexual assault before it starts.

To provide more support to victims who have already experienced sexual assault, Miami administration also trained four counselors in the Student Counseling Services to have the specific skills to deal with helping victims. Their final step currently has been focused on strengthening the on-campus victims-advocate and prevention campaign It’s on Us. We at The Miami Student know that we have reported on sexual assault countless times.

Even Turner herself wondered at one point whether or not we were making a difference by continuing to report on this

Slowing it down is key to reducing stress LIFE

ANGELA HATCHER COLUMNIST

Dear Angela, How do I get through college while having fun and getting good grades without stressing the hell out and spontaneously combusting?

Sincerely, Overextended and already over it.

Dear Overextended and already over it, A wise old owl once told me that they key to surviving your college experience is to understand the delicate art of balance. He told me to limit myself to being a part of a mere two or three organizations/ extracurriculars that I truly love, to refrain from going over 17 credit hours in a semester and above all else, to never, ever, under any circumstances bite off more than I can chew.

That wise old owl is my father, a regular ole chap who conquered his collegiate experience and is revered as a legend at his alma mater.

But like the majority of my father’s advice, it went in one ear and out the other as I relished my newfound freshman year independence, tattooing my neck, dying my hair purple and overloading myself with a little too much of everything Miami has to offer.

I’ve said it 100 times and I’ll probably say it a lot more in my lifetime: I should’ve listened to my dad.

You’re feeling overwhelmed.

That’s normal. It’s too easy to get overwhelmed at Miami.

It’s too easy to sign up for every single club you see at Mega Fair as people hound you for your unique ID just so they can add numbers to their group. It’s too easy to sign up for 20+ credit hours because there’s so much to pick from and you’re not sure what you want to do yet. And it is way too easy to get wrapped up in the allure of the bars Uptown, the bright blue drinks in cheap, plastic cups and the music that rings through your ears as you walk back to your dorm in the early hours of the morning.

It’s all too easy.

So allow me to paraphrase my father’s wisdom for all you overextended college kids out there reading this column: Slow. The. F***.

Down.

I’m sure you wrote to me looking for a foolproof five step method that would guarantee smooth sailing for these next four years. Hello?

Did you enjoy your vacation to La La Land? That method doesn’t exist. Angela has answers, but even Einstein himself couldn’t breed a formula for that.

But you’re right, college would be a whole lot better if there was a recipe that listed out in neat little bullet points the ingredients you need to have a relatively stress-free experience: two tablespoons of hard work, a cup of curiosity and drive, a dash of fun, a pound of dedication and voila! You’ve mastered the conundrum we refer to as college!

That’s just not the case.

You have to slow down.

When you’re overwhelmed, your mind is working overtime to process all of the information being thrown at you: derivatives, business models, scientific formulas, auditions for this, try outs for that.

It’s as if a hive of bees got set loose in your noggin and when it starts to feel like you’re running on empty is when you need to take a step back

Get involved, have fun, go out, study hard. Do everything you want to. Try things you never thought you would. But find your balance.

That sounds a lot easier than it actually is. You will find that sweet spot through trial and error. Remember that you are a student first and ma and pops aren’t forking up forty grand a year for you to come down here and forget about your schoolwork.

College is a balancing act. 90 percent of the time it feels like you’re trying to stand on one foot while being weighed down with every class you’re enrolled in and every decision, good or bad, that you’re making. There will be times where you fall, and fall hard at that. You just have to get back up on your feet and starting balancing again.

As the self proclaimed queen of overextending myself, I am notorious for biting off more than I chew. Balance, to me, was a seven letter word that was synonymous

You have to set limits for yourself in college. You have to think logistically and you have to think in terms of what is best for your sanity. Spontaneous combustion is not an option.

and pump your brakes.

You have to set limits for yourself in college. You have to think logistically and you have to think in terms of what is best for your sanity. Spontaneous combustion is not an option.

So sit down and make a list — a priority list. Lists are good, lists are effective. Priorities, addressing and embracing them, are even better. List all the classes you want to take this year and then list all the student orgs you want to be a part of. If your list is looking longer than Dumbledore’s beard, cross off some stuff, save it for next year. And then jot down some fun stuff you want to do while you’re here, but keep this question in the back of your mind while you’re creating your list; what do you want out of your college experience?

Some people just want to party.

Some just want to study. Some people function better when they’re always busy, always going, never resting. Some people prefer not getting involved in anything on campus.

That’s where balance comes into play. Find your happy medium. Be Goldilocks in a world full of bears taking their soup too hot or too cold.

with unrealistic. But after one year of falling and standing and falling again, I’ve hit my stride. You’ll hit yours too.

It can be daunting seeing masses of people flocking to the bars and frats Thursday through Saturday.

It can be confusing, wanting to find your place in the 400+ student orgs we have on campus. And all the while, trying to maintain an above average GPA. College asks for a lot from us — too much, at times. But it’s worth every second that you spend here, that I can guarantee you. It just takes a little bit of time, determination and trust to figure it all out.

Trust in yourself. That’s right — YOU. You can do it, you just have the slow your damn roll and think.

Four years. It’s a lifetime and the blink of an eye. You should get the most out of college while you are here. But when you’re feeling overwhelmed, stop for a minute and ask yourself: What do I want out of my college experience?

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subject. She makes it clear, however, that this is not the case.

“But then you look at the [2015] survey and find that 20 percent of the people who answered [it] still believe that when a woman is sexually assaulted while she is drunk, she is partially at fault. That’s why we still have to talk about this,” said Turner.

Miami’s important changes come at the pinnacle in an era where rape culture and rhetoric is still rampant both on and off campus. Just last week CNN reported on problematic statements made by Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s newest campaign manager and the first woman to hold the position in the Republican Party.

“If we were physiologically – not mentally, emotionally, professionally – equal to men, if we were physiologically as strong as men, rape would not exist. You would be able to defend yourself

and fight him off,” she said as part of a PBS panel at an event dedicated to discussing gender equality in the military.

Conway has since asked that Republicans running for any kind of office simply stop talking about rape because the way they were handling it was hurting their campaigns.

With this kind of rhetoric coming from female leaders in America, we need changes like the ones Miami is making to reiterate that sexual assault is not something that can be swept under the rug, and it is not something that can be put on the victims. Men and women at Miami need this help and education, and we are glad that they will finally be getting it.

Miami deserves applause and praise for these changes. We look forward to watching the ways in which Miami will continue these prevention efforts and get that 26.3 percent down to zero.

One week after suicide, learning to live with loss DEATH

AARON KATZ

GUEST COLUMNIST

I remember walking with him from 175 N. Harbor Dr., next to the lake, heading west across Randolph to the Prudential Plaza garage, and then driving up to his car in Evanston. This was six weeks ago.

I remember meeting at Daniel’s place on the Saturday of Lollapalooza weekend, getting ready to walk to Grant Park, and hearing about his amazing Friday night at Future and Major Lazer. All just five weeks ago.

And I remember August 19, three weeks ago, giving a goodbye hug, wishing a great vacation in Canada and voicing plans to hang out the week of Thanksgiving. Coming to terms with the fact that will never happen is devastating. Knowing August 19, 2016 was the last day I’ll ever see Scott Boorstein is heartbreaking.

Minutes after sitting down in class last Friday, I got a text from my mom: “Hi I need you to call me when you can.” Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I would call her back in an hour when class ended.

Not long after, though, I got a message with an announcement of the news. Thoughts raced through my head about the various things that could have happened; my body started to shake, eyes began to water and I felt as if a hole was punched in my chest. Those feelings, coupled with burying someone close to you at the young age of 21, can be wished on no one.

Scott was an incredibly special person. As one friend put it last weekend, “he was seriously the most amazing person I’ve ever met.” He was the most intelligent, selfless and humble person around.

He always made everyone’s day brighter.

I’m going to remember the great times staying up late to study in Jack’s basement, starting Octagon Club and playing on the golf team for four years together; spring break in Mexico and the countless visits to Northwestern for Dillo Day and 2019 Ridge parties. I’m going to miss receiving his texts, “it was great chillin this weekend, can’t wait for the next.” It was a privilege knowing Scott through all this time and I can’t wait until we speak again.

It’s hard not to wonder if something could have changed what played out. I wonder what Scott would have thought if he had seen that September 5 was the start of National Suicide Prevention Week.

I wonder how he might have felt waking up on September 10 to see it is World Suicide Prevention Day. It might surprise you to hear that as of last summer, “suicide remains the second leading cause of death for college students, as it has been

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Guest columnist Aaron Katz (left) with his friend Scott Boorstein (right), who killed himself last Friday. since the 1950s.”

Living does not have to feel like it will be more painful than dying.

Ending your life is not the only solution.

I wonder if I had struck up a conversation about my own negative mental health if things had gone differently, because three, four and five years ago my life outlook was far different from now.

Reading and listening to the following are some of the things that have had the greatest impact on me in recent years: Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech Jonathon Youshaei’s Deerfield High School graduation speech The Golfer’s Guide to the Meaning of Life by Gary Player Jimmy V at the ESPYS and annual meeting of the Million Dollar Round Table Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career Steve Mazan: It’s Never too Late to Chase your Dreams Principles, by Ray Dalio Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Guy Winch: Why we all need to practice emotional first aid Tim Ferriss: Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide I do believe if there is one thing to take away from this, it is that one cannot hold back from speaking what is on their mind. It’s why I am writing this, with hope that people feel more empowered to take their mental health seriously.

Steve Jobs once said “Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask.” That idea of taking action for help is applicable in everything from your academic, to personal as well as professional life.

The future can be better than the present and you have the power to make it so.

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Heroin has made its way to Cincinnati — overdoses have, too DRUGS

TESS SOHNGEN COLUMNIST

It was my first day at the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, and Leslie said she saw two people -- a man and a woman — walk down the alley.

What alley?

She told Daulton she wanted to go check it out in a few minutes.

Daulton said, “Alright,” and we all went about our business. I was cutting paper with a broken guillotinelike contraption, so I had room in my mind to imagine the alley.

I had not noticed the alley across the street, sandwiched between the roastery for Coffee Emporium and a fenced parking lot. A brown dumpster was its door, and one would have to sneak around it like a mouse in order to disappear into the alley.

Leslie came back to grab Daulton to check the alley with her. I think she was afraid to find a body, but maybe just the possibility of finding one — the inevitability of it — was enough to not want to go alone.

It was the most frequented heroin spot in Over-the-Rhine, Leslie told me. Last week, the Cincinnati police responded to 30 overdoses in one day, and now the National Institute on Drug Abuse has declared it “the most important drug trend in the Cincinnati area.” The people of Cincinnati knew it was coming as it crawled down Interstate 71 from Cleveland to Columbus. It was only a matter of time before the wave of heroin overdoses crept to their front doors. It has since crossed the river and taken hold of Northern Kentucky.

The heroin problem, Leslie said, is not a race problem. In 2013, 48 percent of users were White (nonHispanic), and 58 percent were between the ages of 20 - 34, according to TEDS data.

Heroin cares not what color you are, how high your income, or whether you have a family. The woman Leslie saw was “about to burst” — with a baby, that is. Leslie asked if I wanted to go with them.

We slid behind the dumpster across the road and slowly made our way down the alley. We were

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looking for needles, broken or not.

Bottle tops and serrated bottoms of soda cans littered the pebbled ground. It smelled, too, but not as bad as I had imagined. Halfway down the alley the brick building on the left ended, but a matching fence continued to enclose the alley.

It was more open and sunny than most alleys because of the parking lot, not the dark, dungeon-like alleys in other cities.

Why does no one seem to talk about the heroin problem in Cincinnati? It’s here, and everyone knows that it’s here in Over-the-Rhine and Lower Price Hill, where four student teachers from Miami are living this semester. Racial tension, poverty, homelessness, gentrification and pollution are here, too, and most community members will tell you their frank opinion about it. But heroin? No. That is the one issue all community members seem to want to keep invisible.

It’s here, and everyone knows that it’s here in Over-the-Rhine and Lower Price Hill.

At the end of the alley, the fences on either side create a dead end to a broken desk chair, shaded by a skinny tree. Daulton pushes against the left fence to reveal where people sneak in and out in case the dumpster door to the street is too crowded. No needles yet, and no bodies, so we continue toward the very end of the alley at our slow pace, as if one step too eager would trap us there and turn us into addicts ourselves.

Leslie checks the alley from the sidewalk every time she crosses it.

I imagine the 7,000 different ways we someday could uncover a body here. Are those addictions, too?

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The failures of non-violent thought in an era of structural violence ENVIRONMENT

KYLE HAYDEN

GUEST COLUMNIST

Energy Transfer Partners is trying to build an underground oil pipeline that will transport “light sweet crude” from the North Dakota Bakken oil formation to a processing facility in southern Illinois. The pipeline will be almost 1,200 miles along and travel through four states.

Currently the pipeline is planned to pass through Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne among other territories.

The pipeline is being constructed simultaneously in all four states through which it passes.

There have been extensive protests and protestors have shut down operations on Standing Rock territory almost every day.

But the bulldozers make a little bit of progress each day, carving and grading the 150 foot-wide channel where the pipeline will eventually sit.

A lot of people, both online and in the media, are urging protestors or “protectors” to be “non-violent.”

The pointed thing about nonviolence is that it only works if your adversary is not insane (in this case, Dakota Access, partnered with Energy Transfer, owned by Kelcy Warren, a Dallas, Texas-based entrepreneur.)

Non-violence only works if legal standing has not been historically and continually denigrated by the state under which the tribes are legally “allowed” to exist. In this case, the law is a ladder and it does have a top and a bottom.

Why is the culture insane?

In part, the accounting of the companies strictly considers short-term goals and profit. This is the nature of business, they would say.

It does not care about the future.

It cannot (or will not) account for cultural, spiritual, environmental or social externalities.

We must understand that the dominant culture from which the people working for the energy companies get their employment will use any means necessary to keep their lives comfortable, the economy rolling and paychecks coming in.

Another consideration is what kind of society is “ours” that produces people willing to do jobs which at their end are destructive to

their environments, their health and their communities?

Wendell Berry wrote in “The Unsettling of America” that the “ecological crisis is a crisis of character.”

Our culture “…must inevitably produce asthmatic executives whose industries pollute the air and vicepresidents of pesticide companies whose children are dying of cancer.

These people will tell you this is how the ‘real world’ works. They will pride themselves on their sacrifices for ‘our standard of living.’”

Return to non-violence: did nonviolence work when colonists and pioneers were “exploring” and “discovering” the “American West?”

No, the native tribes fought (in a general sense, unsuccessfully) against the advance of civilization.

Native peoples did not win.

Consider this: am I supposed to believe singing songs, signing petitions or filing lawsuits could have stopped the Holocaust?

No. Fascism and its underlings steeped in an economic-depressionculture were primed to do immense amounts of violence against those perceived to be their enemy. We know the rest.

However, the above is what environmentalists and those who preach non-violece condescendingly suggest: if we just ask nicely, if we just send them a letter, they might stop.

Return to the present.

When the dominant culture perpetuates violence on a structural basis, that is, violence that unfolds inter-generationally, it can be considered operating invisibly.

Could the act of moving millions of tons of topsoil from its place and installing a pipeline be a form of violence?

Could poisoning water, ruining cultures, erasing history for a quick buck be considered violent?

Violence of this form has been committed and continues to be committed against people who live in tribal lands: really, against indigenous peoples across the globe in the name of profit and progress — or rather, “development.”

Considering the protestors may get more irate as the company refuses to acknowledge their sovereignty, their sacred lands or burial sites, it may be useful to keep in mind premise number 4 in Derrick Jensen’s

“Endgame” series: “Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully [justified]. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.”

The same is true here: the violence against the Standing Rock Sioux and various peoples is backed by the power of the state (EPA approved pipeline), the police (arrest them for trespassing on newly-formed private easement through which pipeline passes), the laws (protection of private property) and the energy companies’ money (money is considered before environment). The house always wins.

Then NBC is crying “Oh, the poor workers, just trying to make a living with these violent protestors attacking them! Whatever will we do?”

With their headline “Dakota Access pipeline protest turns violent.”

The writer chose not to immediately disclose that private security personnel with dogs let loose on the protestors.

The public is led to believe by lack of images and unclear reporting the protestors are acting unjustly, as if their rage is unwarranted.

Another failure for American media, attemping to hide behind its “objectivity.”

The police agree with the dominant culture, and the oil companies clearly agree that the project should be completed; they don’t see anything wrong with it. After all, it will provide thousands of jobs!

Whether or not the jobs are good or bad, they aren’t to say, or rather, maybe they never think of whether they are good or bad jobs.

Never do they consider that the police could enforce laws ultimately threatening to the survival of human and non-human lives.

Hannah Arendt said, “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

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Adults in revolt: old is the new young LIFE

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Send writing sample or express interest at EDITORIAL@miamistudent.net

I rose last Wednesday morning to the singular sound of hammer against steel. I wished to open my window and show the construction workers my wobbling fist in protest, but I had to stop on my way to the window. “Rain,” I said to myself.

“It’s going to rain today.” I forgot about the hammers and limped to my morning routine of teeth brushing, which inevitably turns into a self-led contest of scary face-making, followed by massaging my aching knees. It used to be that only one — the left — would send out the distress signals, the warning signs for moisture in the air ready to release, but these days I’m lucky if the pain subsides from both patellas after an hour.

On this particular day, I decided to wear a lazy teal polo that might as well have been grey. Not too long ago, it correctly belonged to a man who could care less about color, probably because he was color blind.

Now he’s dead and I’m adopting both his clothes and apathetic style.

As a geriatric in my 20s, I really have no better option. Times they are a’changin, and not just for me.

There are a few constants on this Earth I’d prefer to remain as they are: Times New Roman as the default font, for, despite all the crap it gets for being a boring lump on a log, TNR has never abandoned me; water’s paradoxically refreshing yet mild, cardboard taste; and adults just being adults, laughing for no reason and using far too many emojis in text messages. These seem like fairly reasonable requests, as I see

these unfaltering rocks of life that which makes the world go round.

As it is, though, a few rocks have been jarred loose (and perhaps some screws, too). When I first began college, I was so enraptured by the comical sight of my philosophy professor — assuredly in his 60s, at least — coming and going with a backpack, snug and childlike. I pictured him, this contemplative man with glasses and nonchalant, fluttering white hair, unpacking a ScoobyDoo lunchbox and getting down to business — that is, taking his Scooby Snacks and pitting them against each other, the loser taking a deathly trip into his mouth.

I would always chuckle at this because I knew he was bound to his age and would likely never play with his food. The same scene applied to any of the older students we have here, and none of that lost its inherent humor.

Then this year came along. As if someone had pulled my daydreams from my head and transplanted them into the staff here, older people began assuming head-scratching activities that simply did not correlate to their age. I was okay with my boss, probably in her thirties, asking for chewing gum. It was innocent enough, but our meeting with fellow employees let one of my coworkers, pushing 60, I’d say, share that she copes with ADHD. “Isn’t there a cutoff age for that kind of diagnosis?” I thought. I mean, 80 percent of my nine-member family has the same diagnosis, but I can’t see any of them discussing it past twenty-five, twenty-eight at the latest. It would just sound like nagging at that point.

Our meeting adjourned and I was

released into the wild world, hoping to distance myself from these alien activities. Of course, as fate decided to have it, I came across a grayhaired man mowing the lawn and listening to music on his blue headphones, the ones with the number 6 on them. “No, no that’s not real.”

I began to panic. The upside-down image of my father or, worse still, my mother jamming out to their iPod flooded my brain. The madness had to stop.

“Surely my professors will offset the insanity,” I reasoned. Sure, they might wear backpacks and chew gum, but they weren’t pretending to be children. I entered a hall, searching almost frantically for a professor to talk to. I happened upon one, thankful to discuss the boring bureaucracy brought on by the beginning of the year.

“Oh, hi!” I said to my professor. I began to outline what I needed from her and, as my gaze shifted towards the ground in thought, I saw that she standing on an angle, her right foot bolstered by an industrial-sized air cast.

“Wh…uh, how’d that happen?” I asked.

“Oh, you know, I just tripped,” she told me. I should have been comforted by how aged this made her sound, but my next comment, “Yup, I know that. I’ve got a scar on my ankle from all the times I’ve rolled it,” confirmed her out-of-place appearance as a youngster, a rowdy kid who had a little too much fun. It also confirmed my theory that old is the new young, that this world is topsy-turvy.

And then it started raining.

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VOLLEYBALL DEFEATS XAVIER UNIVERSITY IN HOME OPENER RedHawks travel to Alabama for Auburn Invitational VOLLEYBALL

KYLE STEINER STAFF WRITER

The Miami University volleyball team gave the Millett Hall crowd a lot to cheer about in their home opener Tuesday night. The RedHawks picked up their third victory of the season in an impressive 3-1 win against intrastate rival Xavier University.

In the first set, the Musketeers jumped out to an early 8-6 advantage. The ’Hawks never wavered, though, managing to go on a 19-12 run to end the set. Senior middle hitter Paige Hill sealed the set with a crafty kill to give the team a 25-20 victory, putting the Red and White up 1-0.

Xavier responded early in the second set, capitalizing off of several net violations by MU. The Musketeers never looked back, managing to win the set with relative ease by a score of 25-16. With the game equal at 1-1, the third set looked to be a critical one for both squads.

The climax of the game was the back and forth third set. Miami managed to keep it close, mainly thanks to junior outside hitter Katie Tomasaic, who sustained the RedHawks’ offense with four kills on four straight points. MU eventually gained a 15-11 advantage, but Xavier rallied back to a 21-19 lead before Coach Condit called a strategic timeout to regain her team’s focus.

When play resumed, back to back kills by sophomore outside hitter Stela Kukoc tied the score at 23-23.

Facing set point at 23-24, Miami rallied yet again thanks to kills by outside-hitting senior Maris Below and Hill, propelling them to a critical 26-24 win. The team collectively finished the set with a remarkable .400 hitting percentage.

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Senior outside hitter Maris Below spikes the ball against Xavier University. Below has had 53 kills in seven games this season.

“That third set was really intense, but we were able to execute and get the job done,” Kukoc said.

Having seized momentum, the RedHawks began clicking on all cylinders in the fourth set. The team jumped out to a quick 12-8 lead. Miami pulled away with a stellar 9-1 run, putting the game out of reach for the Musketeers.

A heads up kill by redshirt sophomore setter Mackenzie Zielinski halted a late Xavier rally, enabling MU to take the final set by a score of 25-15.

Kukoc (.357 attacking percentage) and Hill (.450 attacking percentage) led all players with 12 kills. Tomasic and junior outside hitter Olivia Rusek also had big

games on the offensive end, finishing with 10 and 8 kills, respectively. Senior Krista Brakauskus (23 assists) and Zielinski (22 assists) set up their teammates effectively throughout the game, and junior Maeve McDonald, the team’s libero, finished with 15 digs. Hill led all MU players with 4 blocks.

With the loss, the Musketeers dropped to 3-4 on the season. Miami finished the game with 61 digs, 54 kills, 47 assists and five blocks.

All in all, it was a team win for the ‘Hawks in their return to Oxford.

“It was very exciting to win tonight and bounce back in our home opener,” Rusek said.

The RedHawks now sit at 3-4, with back-to-back victories giving

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them momentum as they travel to the Auburn Invitational in Alabama this weekend.

Down South, they will face stiff competition as they square off against Jacksonville University (32), Auburn University (2-4) and University of Memphis (4-2) on Friday and Saturday.

“We are excited to go to Alabama. We have a lot of road games throughout the course of the season, so we are confident we can play well away from home,” said junior captain Meredith Stutz.

On Friday, Miami will play Jacksonville at 10:30 a.m. and Auburn at 8:30 p.m. The RedHawks take on the Tigers of Memphis at noon Saturday.

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RedHawks show progress in defeat, chase first win Miami faces Eastern Illinois in 2016 home opener FOOTBALL

COBURN GILLIES

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Entering last weekend’s matchup with the University of Iowa, Miami University had more questions than answers regarding the status of its football program.

Head Coach Chuck Martin’s squad left Iowa City with a few more answers following a surprisingly competitive 45-21 loss to the now 17th -ranked Hawkeyes.

“If you told me going in, best case scenario offensively we far blew that out of the water. Not even close. I mean, we had more yards and more first downs than we did against Michigan and Wisconsin combined in the last two years by a pretty wide margin,” Coach Martin said.

For Coach Martin, the ball moving potential his trio of running backs displayed against a quality defense is a good sign moving forward.

“Offensively, obviously, the huge positives are that our three tailbacks

Zo [Alonzo Smith], Kenny [Young], and Maurice [Thomas] rushed the ball for 148 yards on 32 carries, almost 5 yards a carry for our tailbacks.”

While the rushing attack went above and beyond expectations, the passing offense also showed improvement as sophomore quarterback Billy Bahl picked up where he left off at the end of last season.

“I’ve seen huge strides from UMass to now. We’ve been telling everybody that, but it was nice to prove it against a tough defense. I didn’t know if we would see it this game. I thought we would see it this year but he really played a tremendous football game. Very smart, locked in the whole time,” Martin said of Bahl.

In fact, Billy’s play has progressed to the point that Coach Martin has little to no complaints with his young quarterback.

“Somebody asked me before the game, ‘Have you been yelling at Billy a lot?’ because everybody knows I yell at the quarterbacks, and I said,

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Miami’s defensive front lines up against Presbyterian College in last season’s home opener.. Miami won the game 26-7.

‘I probably haven’t yelled at him in three weeks.’ He hasn’t cheated this football team.”

This week, the RedHawks will be looking for their first victory of the year as the Panthers of Eastern Illinois University make the trip to Oxford.

EIU is a Football Championship Subdivision team playing in the Ohio Valley Conference and is coming off a

Headlines beyond Oxford: The first weekend of the 2016 college football season was one for the underdogs, with several major upsets. Unranked Wisconsin defeated No. 5 LSU 16-14, No. 15 Houston took down No. 3 Oklahoma 33-23, Texas A&M beat No. 16 UCLA 31-24 in overtime and the Richmond Spiders defeated the Virginia Cavaliers 37-20. Houston is now No. 6 in this week’s AP Top 25, while Wisconsin’s jump to No. 10 is the largest rankings jump ever by an unranked team.

38-21 defeat to rival Western Illinois last weekend. The Panthers’ offense is led by redshirt junior quarterback Mitch Kimble, who threw for 323 yards, two touchdowns and an interception against W. Illinois.

Historically, EIU has established itself as a mini-Quarterback U, producing NFL talent such as New England’s Jimmy Garoppolo, Dallas’ Tony Romo and New Orleans’ coach

and former Miami assistant coach Sean Payton.

E. Illinois does not have the same high-end size and talent that Miami experienced against Iowa, but Coach Martin expects the Panthers to present other challenges.

“They’re not near size-wise what we just saw, but they have fast, aggressive guys” Martin said. “They’re undersized at some positions, but they’re super-quick.”

The RedHawks hope to play in front of the largest crowd Yager has ever held, as the Miami athletic department has launched a campaign aimed at breaking the student attendance record of 8,088, using the hashtag #1of8089. The current record was set September 27, 2003, when now Super Bowl champion quarterback Ben Roethlisberger led Miami to a 42-37 victory over the University of Cincinnati.

Kickoff is 3:30 p.m. in Yager Stadium, and student admission is free.

The game will be broadcast live on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app.

TODAY IN HISTORY

2001

Venus Williams beats younger sister Serena to win the 121st Women’s U.S. Open (6-2, 6-4). Venus now holds seven Grand Slam titles, while Serena boasts 22 Grand Slam titles.

SPECIAL DINNER

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