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From Mizzou to Miami Racism evident on Yik Yak, students clash

MU students demonstrate in solidarity

Ku Klux Klan still highly active Klan leader says organization is growing A look at the Klan and racism in America today Number of Klan Organizations* by State

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of 50 U.S. states have Klan organizations *Each Klan organization can have multiple chapters, or dens, within each state.

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This information was gathered by the Southern Poverty Law Center and updated in 2014. Due to the Klan’s disjointed and secretive nature, estimates could be inaccurate.

RACISM

ABBEY GINGRAS NEWS EDITOR

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‘THIS COULD BE MIAMI:’ Students of all colors and from all ends of campus gathered at the Armstrong Rotunda yesterday to demonstrate and show their support for the events playing out at the University of Missouri this week.

Students pledge to stand with Mizzou ACTIVISM

JAMES STEINBAUER OPINION EDITOR

The distinctive turquoise tips of Senior Magda Orlander’s hair stood out amid the crowd of black-clad students, faculty and administration filling the rotunda of Armstrong as she shouted, “it is our duty to fight for our freedom!”

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom!” the crowd echoed back. Their voices resonated off the rotunda’s glass atrium, filling the student center with their chant.

Flocking to the banner of the newly formed

Concerned Students Union of Miami University, hundreds of Miami community members filled the rotunda yesterday afternoon to show solidarity with the students protesting racism at the University of Missouri.

The Concerned Students Union of Miami will also formulate and publish a list of demands that will reflect the concerns of the Miami community.

“We want to reiterate to the university that we are in charge of our own agenda,” said Chelsea Appiah, a junior and one of the group’s MIZZOU »PAGE 8

Miami takes to Yik Yak to talk race ACTIVISM

EMILY TATE

MANAGING EDITOR

In light of this week’s events at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) — a hunger strike, an NCAA football team boycotting its games and two administrative resignations — colleges across the country have aligned with Mizzou and endorsed its efforts.

Miami students made clear yesterday that they are ready and willing to talk about racism, too — but, according to posts on the anonymous social media app Yik Yak, the resounding message was not

one of unity.

Many nameless, faceless “Yakkers” responded to the demonstration in Armstrong Student Center yesterday, which was intended to bring Miami students together in solidarity with Mizzou. ◊ “This is retarded. This school is not oppressing anyone. Neither is Mizzou. The whole thing is ridiculous.”

“Last time I checked we go to school in Oxford, OH not Missouri” “These people in Armstrong remind me of a toddler kicking and screaming YIK YAK »PAGE 8

Bob Holzworth was an Oxford Police Department (OPD) lieutenant in April 1990 when the Ku Klux Klan came to Miami. He was in full riot gear that day, tasked with protecting the Klan members as they marched — standing between them and the hundreds of protesters. Holzworth remembers rocks, hurled from the crowd, dinging his helmet.

“They were whipping them at the Klan and they were bouncing off our helmets,” he said. “We marched them all the way up High Street.”

Holzworth, now OPD’s chief, recalled other things launched at the police officers and Klan members that day — spit, garbage and profane language from a furious mob of residents.

“We saved them from the crowds,” Holzworth said. “They were very heated and aggravated by the comments and the whole position of the Klan.”

The march was spurred by an incident at Talawanda High School months earlier, in 1989. Two students came to school in the days before Halloween, dressed in KKK robes and spewing racial slurs. Other white students from the school cheered their support, according to news reports at the time.

When the students were suspended, the Klan organized a march in protest.

An article from this newspaper’s Nov. 17, 1989 issue quoted Joe Gosciniak, an Imperial Wizard for the Klan at the time. He hyped the march, saying 500 to 1,000 Klansmen would unite in Oxford. The march, which was scheduled for December, was canceled due to bad weather and rescheduled for April during Miami’s Bridges Weekend.

When the Klan finally arrived, Holzworth recalled just 30 to 40 members and supporters making the procession through Oxford. *** While many consider the KKK »PAGE 8

Faculty feel slighted in regional campus restructuring, voice concerns REGIONALS

MEGAN ZAHNEIS THE MIAMI STUDENT

John Krafft, a tenured English professor on the Hamilton campus, has been teaching at Miami for 25 years. But, now, he said, he can’t recommend the school to any prospective faculty or students.

Krafft’s voice has been among the loudest of those protesting the restructuring of Miami’s regional campuses — a process that continues

to spark controversy after Monday’s report to University Senate.

Krafft, along with other regional faculty members, feels that he has not been given a fair chance to voice his concerns.

In support, Miami’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has circulated a petition, calling for a yes/no vote by all regional full-time faculty on what it termed “funnel[ing] into new and amorphous departments.”

The petition garnered 195 signatures by the time it was submitted to administrators Monday night.

The changes, which aim to offer more bachelor’s degrees at the regional campuses, are slated for a Senate vote Nov. 23 and 30.

Krafft proposed a motion on the floor of Monday’s meeting, calling for a formal faculty committee-approved voting mechanism.

The motion was seconded but did not pass.

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SAE FRATERNITY VOTED BACK ON CAMPUS

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IFC votes to recognize Sigma Alpha Epsilon after its suspension in 2012

RAs return home over Thanksgiving break, leaving hundreds of students alone

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John Skillings, who delivered Monday’s report to Senate, said Krafft’s concerns were valid.

“I think people wanted to have clarity that they would have input in the process, that their voices would be heard,” Skillings said. “I tried as best I could [during the meeting] to make it clear that we would provide those opportunities. My sense is that the spirit of what they were asking is the spirit of what we’re trying to do.”

Provost Phyllis Callahan,

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while appreciative of the discussion that took place Monday, said she feels the university is doing its due diligence when it comes to seeking faculty input, calling the debate a “circular discussion.”

“The motion failed. I think we’re going to proceed as we indicated,” Callahan said. “The process is completely transparent.

We’re following our Senate governance. We’re being completely visible about everything that’s happening.”

Cathy Wagner, an English

professor on the Oxford campus and AAUP vice president, sees several issues with the administration’s handling of the issue, chief among them the timing of Senate’s planned voting.

“What’s been happening is that these votes on these very, very major transitions at Miami have been happening at the last meeting of the semester, which creates all kinds of problems and makes people feel as if, ‘Oh, if we’re mad REGIONALS »PAGE 8

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HUMANS OF OXFORD: LOVER OF LANGUAGES

RESIGNATION DRAWS ATTENTION TO RACIAL ISSUES

BECOMING THE ‘VOICE OF THE REDHAWKS’

Humans of Oxford features student who is fluent in various languages

Editorial board calls for more action. awareness in Univ. of Missouri protests

Oxford’s favorite play-by-play announcer devotes almost three decades to MU sports

On this day in 1992, The Miami Student reported that ASG, in a controversial move, revoked funding eligibility for Miami’s Right to Life chapter, a Christian, anti-abortion group. ASG senators cited the funding criteria in the Student Handbook as the reasoning behind their decision, which said organizations affiliated with a certain religious denomination are not eligible for funding.

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon voted back on campus

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GREEK LIFE

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity (SAE) will return to campus next semester, after a fireworks incident led to its suspension in 2012.

The Intrafraternity Council (IFC) approved SAE’s re-affiliation petition at a meeting Tuesday, and granted them “associate membership,” which means they can participate in formal recruitment in the spring, and in social events like Greek Week. However, according to IFC’s outgoing president senior Zach Scheid, in order to achieve full membership, SAE will need to seek university recognition.

SAE lost recognition Aug. 23, 2012 for violating the fireworks, drugs and disorderly conduct clauses of Miami’s Student Code of Conduct.

According to a 2012 article in this paper, Oxford Police Department (OPD) officers were dispatched to the SAE house in the early hours of Aug. 19, 2012 in response to a fire alarm, and saw fireworks exploding from the third story of the neighboring Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house. Members of both fraternities refused to cooperate with the police, so OPD obtained a search warrant. Upon entering both houses, OPD encountered drugs, drug paraphernalia and fireworks.

Further investigations and lab tests revealed both fraternities had large quantities of marijuana and cocaine.

“At this point [The Oxford Fire Department] has issued 31 civil citations between the two houses and the individuals living in those houses,” said Oxford Fire Chief John Detherage on Sep. 21, 2012 in this newspaper. “The houses have been charged with various offens-

es, including numerous fireworks offenses and fire code.”

Both fraternities received sanctions — Phi Kappa Tau’s recognition was revoked through August 2013 and SAE’s through August 2014. According to the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life, SAE was allowed to petition for reinstatement of recognition no earlier than Feb. 1, 2014.

If a Greek chapter is unrecog-

SAE lost recognition Aug. 23, 2012 for violating the fireworks, drugs and disorderly conduct clauses of Miami’s Student Code of Conduct. nized by the university — but still recognized by its national organization — they may choose to exist off-campus, but may not recruit members or use university facilities.

Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Scott Walter said current students and SAE alumni interested in reforming the chapter put together an executive board whose tasks were to refine the chapter’s character and work toward recognition.

“Their usual approach is to let everyone graduate and start over again,” Walter said.

Scheid said Tuesday’s IFC meeting was the first time they had received a re-affiliation petition from SAE, although the fraternity has been eligible for more than a year.

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The new grade distribution calculator, displayed on the Office of the Registrar’s website, has changed the way students search the average GPAs of classes and professors, possibly influencing their scheduling decisions.

The calculator shows variations in the average GPAs of classes and professors.

English 111, a Miami Plan class all students are required to take, has an average GPA of 3.6. However, with dozens of professors teaching it since 2013, average GPAs of individual sections range from a 2.7 to a 4.0.

Compare this to chemistry 141, the entry level class for the chemistry major. It stands at a 2.31, with individual sections ranging from a 1.99 to a 2.46.

First-year Ashley Williams said she uses the new grade distribution calculator to look up classes that will boost her GPA so she can get into the Farmer School of Business. She said she registers for the courses with the highest GPAs. Williams also said that being a first-year, she is unfamiliar with the professors and who to take classes from.

However, it is not necessarily fair for students to base their scheduling decisions solely off this calculator, Williams said.

For example, many people in her calculus class do not attend class, so their grades are not the professor’s fault, nor are they representative of how he teaches.

Senior Ellie Roth said she knows websites such as this one exist, but she rarely uses them to determine what classes or professors to take.

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The new grade distribution site shows students what the average GPA is for each class and for each major. Some students select their classes and professors based on this.

Roth said she values a professor that she can learn a lot from over a professor that has a higher average GPA. “It’s more about the quality of the professor than the grades, so for me the website doesn’t reflect that,” Roth said.

Roth said she never really “teacher-picked,” based on a professor’s grade distribution. Usually, the difficulty level of a class doesn’t deter her from taking it.

For many of Roth’s major classes, there may be limited options in professors available.

Roth is a microbiology major.

The average grades she sees in her upper level major classes, such as microbiology 415 with an average GPA distribution of a 2.19, is indicative of the difficulty of her major, she said.

“The view of most students in my major is it’s one of the more challenging ones,” Roth said.

Sophomore Bailey Gebhard said she has used it to look up a Miami Plan science class. However, when she used it, the class

and professor she wanted were not available.

She said she can see students using this calculator to look up Miami Plan classes or classes they don’t expect to do well in.

Gebhard said she selects her classes and professors based on advice and feedback from friends. She also uses ratemyprofessors.com, a site that rates professors based on student reviews.

Frederick Reeder, visiting instructor of journalism, said grades are subjective because they are based on multiple factors, so average GPA is difficult to use as a measure of a class or major’s academic rigor.

“Grades don’t really reflect any one thing,” Reeder said.

“They don’t necessarily reflect how tough a course or a major is because grades are made up of someone’s ability, but it’s also made up of are the students responsible? Are they showing up for class? Are they doing the assignments?”

Oxford PFLAG chapter National Lung Cancer Awareness Month fosters inclusion on campus brings light to ignored smoking ban GLBTQ

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Oxford is home to a new chapter of Parent and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). The support group was implemented earlier this year due to popular demand and is working to support the LGBTQ community at Miami University and in the Oxford community.

“I was approached to help get it started,” said Sabrina Jewell, 52, who is on the board of directors as treasurer for the Oxford PFLAG chapter. “To me, it felt like it was somewhere I could put my time and energy in and something I believe in.”

PFLAG is a national organization originally founded in New York City back in 1972. Since then, it has spread to many cities, including several Ohio cities like Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati, prior to the Oxford chapter.

The Oxford PFLAG chapter was officially implemented in February 2015, after the demand for an organized chapter available in the Oxford area was recognized. It has continued to expand around the Oxford community.

“We wanted to bring it to Oxford because there was a need for it, there were some conversations about marriage equality and being prepared [for the changes in the community] that were coming,” said Brian Revalee, president of the Oxford PFLAG Chapter. “We felt it would be beneficial to all who were interested.”

The PFLAG meeting is open to anyone who is interested, including those identifying with any origin, friends, family or anyone who just wants to be more informed or talk about certain issues. All are welcome.

Senior Eric Moenich is a member of the LGBTQ community at Miami and said he thinks a

group like this is an important step for Oxford.

“I am incredibly glad that Oxford will be getting a support system for the local gay community,” Moenich said. “It is important to foster dialogue among community members and provide a safe space for those looking to better understand their sexuality by talking with others who are just like them.”

Jewell hopes to help raise awareness through initiating businesses to work with PFLAG. “One of our initiatives is to create awareness and partnerships with local businesses,” Jewell said.

“We sent out letters offering the opportunity for businesses to become a member of the Oxford PFLAG, and they get a sticker if they become involved, to show that Ohio is a welcoming state to everybody.”

One of these initiatives is to implement “Reading Rainbow” in Oxford public schools, which offers students a more diverse selection of literature to choose from, such as books containing LGBTQ characters or any character that might be a little out of the ordinary.

“We hope to work with public schools to create diversity in their reading lists,” Jewell said.

Shevonne Nelson, the assistant director of the Office of Diversity Affairs, said she feels Miami should be more involved and aware of the importance of diversity.

“We have some really good things in the works and pockets of support, but we need more people to understand that L, G, B and T students, faculty and staff deserve to live and work in a place that affirms who they are,” Nelson said. “Much work is being done but we are by no means where we need to be.”

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HEALTH

ELISE VASKO

THE MIAMI STUDENT

November became National Lung Cancer Awareness Month in 1995, around the time Miami University became a smoke-free campus.

According to Miami’s archives, in January of 1993, Miami moved from a policy where smoking was permitted except in areas specifically identified as “no smoking” to a “no smoking” campus, with smoking being permitted only in very limited areas.

In 2002, Miami expanded its no-smoking policy to include all areas within 25 feet of residence halls. In 2008, under President David Hodge, it was revised again to prohibit smoking on all campus grounds. Additionally, as of 2014, the policy now includes the prohibition of e-cigarettes and tobacco.

“The historical trends across campuses are basically the same,” said Western Program Archivist, Jacky Johnson. “As people become more educated about something, especially a health hazard, they don’t want to be exposed to it, so I think that’s why the policies have changed.”

According to Miami’s archives, smoking was not prohibited from all of Miami’s classrooms and laboratories until 1976, and even then it was still allowed in residence halls, dining halls, and designated smoking areas in public buildings.

“You used to be able to smoke all around campus,” said Johnson.

“I mean, I still see people smoking on campus, but I don’t see as many people smoking, and now you notice some of the buildings no longer provide ashtrays. I think that’s a way of saying we’re a smoke free campus.”

Although Miami is a smoke-free campus, students do still choose to smoke on university property. The enforcement of Miami’s no-smok-

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Although Miami is a smoke-free campus, many students still smoke near buildings.

MUPD distributes cards with smoking policies on them to students who are caught. ing policy is primarily up to the university as well as the Miami University Police Department (MUPD).

MUPD Captain Ben Spilman said the intention of the policy is to be a community enforced standard, and everyone in the Miami community has an obligation to enforce the no-smoking policy.

“In terms of what our police officers do, we have some business cards with the university policies and also smoking cessation resources, which we distribute to people who we believe to be in violation,” said Spilman. “Typically, when our officers encounter people who are smoking on campus and advise them of the policy, we don’t have any kinds of compliance issues.”

However, Spilman said, there are legal consequences of r epeated violations.

“Ultimately, if someone refused to comply they can be charged with criminal trespassing, although we’ve never had that become an is-

sue since the university has adopted the policy,” said Spilman. “It would be enforceable, however we’ve never had to take that level of action.”

Some students are in agreement with Miami’s policy of a smoke-free environment.

“I feel like a smoke-free campus promotes higher health standards for the whole campus community,” said first-year Morgan Beck.

Other students believe there is not much to prevent students from smoking as they please.

“I feel like if students actively smoke, then they’re going to find other ways to do it, be it going off campus or just doing it on campus and risking getting in trouble,” said first-year Abbey Fergus.

Fergus said she believes smoking should be permitted on Miami’s campus.

“I think students should be allowed to smoke,” said Fergus. “It’s a personal choice that is supported by our government.”

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Unaccompanied: Thanksgiving on campus HOLIDAY

JULIA OLMSTED

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Thanksgiving break is still a couple weeks away, but for the hundreds of students who will stay on the nearly deserted campus, there won’t be so much as a resident assistant to stay with them.

Rob Abowitz, the associate director of the Office of Residence Life, said resident assistants aren’t required to stay during the break for multiple reasons.

“We simply haven’t found the need,” he said.

Resident assistants would have to pay the school break housing fee their residents must pay to remain on campus for Thanksgiving breaks. Abowitz said to force resi-

dent assistants to miss Thanksgiving with their families would be unfair and a large deterrent for potential future resident assistants.

Although this lack of supervision does raise some concern with the Miami Parents Facebook group, it has not caused any major problems in the past. One resident director is paid to stay on duty for the break, and students who stay on campus are provided his or her phone number, Abowitz said.

Residents are also given a list of local phone numbers, including the Miami University Police Department, but instances of student calls are rare.

Before the increase in the international student population, those who wished to stay on campus during breaks were all consolidated into two rooms in either

Hepburn or Havighurst Hall. According to Abowitz, no more than 15 students ever stayed over break when this was the protocol.

Of the almost 7,500 oncampus students, around 410 students stay in the residence halls during Thanksgiving break.

Sherri Bowling, the assistant director of housing and meal plans in the H.O.M.E office, estimates that, of the almost 7,500 on-campus students, around 410 students stay in the residence halls during Thanksgiving break under this new plan.

“Keep in mind, there are very few students who sign up to stay the entire break period,” Bowling said. “International students use this service the most, it’s not feasible for them to travel home for the four to five-day break period.”

Because of this, campus amenities are limited. Few, if any, dining halls remain open, and the list of those that will be in operation will come out right before the break as they do every year, according to the H.O.M.E office.

The Miami OneStop website states King Library and the Armstrong Student Center will be open, but hours of operation will be limited. The university itself will stay closed for the duration of the break, meaning all academic buildings will be unavailable to students.

Junior Mary Horner said she thought about staying in her residence hall during break last year, but ultimately decided against it.

“It’s honestly not worth the money if I’m just going to be sitting in my room the whole time,” Horner said.

According to Bowling, the cost of staying in a residence hall is $26.59 per day, if students remember to sign up beforehand. For those who don’t, the cost is $55.

Allie Cin, an employee at the H.O.M.E. office said these charges are due to the general costs of keeping the residence halls open during vacation times — electricity, water and heat. Cin also said having a list of everyone who stays makes it much easier to keep all of the residents safe.

Ted Wood expands Oxford empire to include new restaurant Left Field Tavern BUSINESS

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Ted Wood, owner of The Wood’s, O’Pub, Pachinkos, Sidebar and Corner Grill and Drinkery is opening a restaurant on 12 West Park Pl. between O’Pub and Fey Insurance.

Some community members and students are excited for a new eatery, but others think Oxford has enough restaurants as it is.

In two years’ time, Wood converted a 1920’s roller rink into Left Field Tavern — a fully functioning restaurant. He gutted the entire place and built Left Field Tavern from scratch.

Howard Kleiman, Oxford resident and media and culture professor, said he’s excited about the opening of Left Field Tavern.

“I can’t tell you how many times my wife and I were tired and didn’t want to cook. We really had to scratch our heads to figure out where to eat,” Kleiman said. “When you have that, you realize there aren’t as many options as you wished.”

Tommy Parizek, a server for Left Field Tavern, said the new restaurant is going to be different from other local bars.

“It’s definitely not your run-

of-the-mill Oxford place,” Parizek said. “It’s going to be cool; it’s going to be different than what [Oxford] has now.”

However, junior Magda Orlander said she thinks Oxford has enough restaurants and bars.

“This town is notoriously lacking in any type of activities that don’t involve eating and drinking,” Orlander said.

Wood is marketing to a different demographic than those who typically partake in the Miami nightlife scene. “[Left Field Tavern] is not the typical late night college bar,” he said. “It’s not going to be a place with loud music, dancing and flashing lights.”

Left Field Tavern will have an outside patio and normal restaurant hours. There will be American appetizers, entrées and desserts.

“I think the food is going to be killer,” he said.

Orlander said she doesn’t think opening another restaurant will make a significant change in Oxford’s nightlife.

“It’s lip service; it’s pretending that we’re doing something for the community but really we’re filling our pockets,” Orlander said

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Ted Wood going over the menu in the new Left Field Tavern, which willl have its grand opening next week.

The restaurant will feature an outdoor patio and a menu filled with American dishes like burgers and wings.

Parizek disagreed with Orlander, saying Left Field Tavern will change the pace of Oxford.

“There’s not really a lot of places that you can go and get a casual drink and have a sit-down meal,” he said.

Wood grew up around the restaurant business and worked in restaurants his grandfather owned.

“I think it’s a big part of my goal

to create a nice reputation for Oxford to have a nice food venue; and, there are a lot of good ones here already,” Wood said.

Parizek said he and the other Left Field Tavern employees are helping to set the tone for the new restaurant.

“It’s cool to be a part of troubleshooting everything. Some of the input that we had is going to go into changing the menu,” Parizek said.

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Essena O’Neill, Instagram celebrity and model, deleted her social media on Nov. 3, straying from the self-labeled facade she created for her life online. She encourages people to live in the present, not through a screen. Despite this, many students at Miami still remain attached to their digital identities.

According to a report by Common Sense Media, U.S. teens spend nearly nine hours using entertainment media on smartphones and laptops on any given day. Walking around Miami’s campus, countless students can be spotted mechanically navigating their way to class, thumbs scrolling across screens.

O’Neill, 19, said her social media usage led her to extreme dieting, spending wasteful hours posing and editing photos and YouTube videos and promoting products without disclosing to her viewers that she was being paid.

Sophomore Antonia Caba is president and chapter leader of I Am That Girl, an organization that encourages self-love, empowerment and the uplifting of women on Miami’s campus. She said she believes social media harms Miami students.

“Social media is causing girls to think they should be something they’re not, acting, looking and eating a certain way,” Caba said. “This can be dangerous because it’s forcing girls to think in a way they don’t need to be thinking.”

In O’Neill’s YouTube video, “Why I REALLY am Quitting Social Media,” she revealed the untold story behind much of her social media presence. Her Instagram account remained active but the origi-

Parizek, Orlander and Wood all said they think Left Field Tavern will be a successful business.

“It’s going to do well because this is what people look for and places are constantly overflowing; so of course, he’s going to get business.

But do we need it? I don’t think so,” Orlander said.

Left Field Tavern will open next week.

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ture. It’s like it didn’t happen if you didn’t Instagram it,” Galdes said.

Bucholtz claimed she understood what drove O’Neill’s social media infatuation.

“When people who post online get likes, favorites and retweets, it’s a form of praise that makes them feel good, like people care about them and find them interesting,” she said.

Junior Nikolai Levinsohn, a psychology student with a focus in

Miami’s Oxford campus experienced an Internet outage Wednesday, interfering with academic classes and causing some teachers to cancel class altogether.

The initial outage, which began around 7:20 a.m., was related to the construction of U.S. Hwy. 27, according to a university press release.

Construction crews were cutting a section of the sidewalk on Patterson Avenue, just outside Tappan Hall, and pierced a cable conduit beneath the sidewalk.

While removing the 6-foot square section of sidewalk, the equipment cut through and also removed a 6-foot section from the 48 cables in the conduit.

This included the fiber cables from Miami, Oxford and other locations in Butler County.

On Wednesday morning, IT Services notified faculty and students about an outage with Miami’s Internet network.

Students and faculty received email notifications throughout the day, notifying them of the status of the problem.

While assessing the problem to restore service to campus, IT Services established a connection for Miami through MU Middletown — Dayton — OARnet. Service through this alternate connection was repaired just after 11 a.m.

Yesterday afternoon, IT Ser-

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Miami students contrast their image on social media with their appearance in on a typical day in class. Last week, Instagram celebrity Essena O’Neill deleted her social media accounts saying they were negative and fake. nal captions had been edited to reflect the reality behind each image.

Examples of O’Neill’s edited captions include, “… took over 100 in similar poses trying to make my stomach look good. Would have hardly eaten that day.”

O’Neill has since deleted her account entirely.

O’Neill’s actions encouraged and refreshed Miami junior Audrey Bucholtz.

“When girls don’t get to see the behind the scenes of the perfect picture, how long it took to take it

and how many different poses were used to get just the right one, girls look at it and wonder why they can’t look and be like that,” Bucholtz said. “They have to remember that you can’t compare your behind the scenes blooper reel with someone else’s highlight reel.”

Another student, sophomore Madison Galdes, agreed.

“I think everything Essena said in her video needed to be said.

People live for the moment just to Instagram. People only want to do things if you can get a cute pic-

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Michel Pactat insists he’s lived a normal life.

And that’s why he says it’s a long story when he’s asked about why he came from Northern France to teach French in Oxford, Ohio.

He saved money to travel the world with his friends out of fear that everything would be blown up in the Cold War. They wanted to drive from Europe to China but couldn’t, so instead, they started in Texas.

They drove to South and Central America, then back to Michigan.

Again to South America. Up to Oregon, heading for Alaska.

And that’s why, in his classes, he speaks mostly French to his students. It’s his way of proving that there are people around the world communicating in different languages, that speaking French is possible.

He attended art schools in France to prepare for competitive French architecture school.

And that’s why he regularly begins his 101 class by asking students to fill in the empty

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speech bubbles of detailed, Expo Marker-created, cartoon men and women with French.

He wanted to be an architect.

He didn’t intend to end up in the Midwest teaching French to college students.

And that’s why, if you venture into his office, you can’t help but notice how he specifically fashioned his desk to allow for a tree to grow through it. How his desk includes rows of built-

in bookshelves to hold his hundreds of novels — all of which he’s read. How he made the desk fit for a medicine ball instead of a desk chair. How he’s cut the school’s furniture in half.

But all those years ago, his then-wife got pregnant and found a job in Bowling Green, Ohio and he needed a job, too.

And that’s why he’s taught French at Miami University for 25 years.

Jake Youst — Lover of languages PEOPLE

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For first-year Jake Youst, the appeal of languages is the people who speak them. This has been the case for each of the 13 languages he has taught himself.

“Whenever I learn a new language, I find people that speak it and I talk to them,” Jake says.

Jake is familiar with English, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic, French, German, Polish, Bulgarian, Slovakian and Czech. He is fluent in many and dabbles in others.

He developed a deep appreciation for Spanish in high school, and fostered that passion during his stay in Puerto Rico the summer after his junior year.

“While in Puerto Rico, Spanish came pretty easily, especially being immersed in it all day every day,” Jake says. “I was even dreaming in Spanish.”

Jake also got the chance to practice his Russian in the villages of Alaska while on a fishing trip with his dad. He had an interesting run-in with … well, he’s not entirely sure what this man was, but he may have been a Russian spy.

“We were staying in this Russian village, and I went to a community store and asked where I could find the Russians,” Jake says. “They told me to go down to the docks and look for the men with beards. I go down to the docks, see a guy with a beard and ask him where I can find the Russians. I didn’t realize that I was

Aziz Ansari’s character in his new Netflix series, “Master of None,” isn’t all that different from his former role on “Parks and Recreation.”

Both are typical millennial “bros.” They like to dress nicely, they are always tuned in to social media and they are constantly caught up in the latest trends and fashions. The difference is that “Master of None” places its protagonist, Dev, in more realistic everyday situations (taking care of a friend’s young children, having dinner with parents, dealing with a broken condom, etc.), forcing him to navigate the intricate difficulties of adult life.

The genuine feel of the show, along with its artsy “Louie”esque tone, makes Dev’s focus on the trivial aspects of life that much more absurd and hilarious. For instance, when describing why he doesn’t want to have kids, Dev cites his freedom to go out and get pasta at 3 o’clock in the morning. “What if I don’t find a sitter? Then what? I’m not eating pasta? That sounds horrible!”

The series goes beyond simple laughs, however. Although each episode is separate from the rest, set up like a short movie with an individualized title sequence, they all tackle different real-life issues.

The show has a broad reach, delving into a wide range of serious topics, including marriage, immigration, racism in show business and having children. It doesn’t do so in a kitschy, traditional-sitcom manner where everyone ends up smiling when the credits roll. It really takes time to explore these themes and offer perspective.

In the second episode, Dev’s father asks him to help set up his new iPad since it didn’t sync the calendar from his old computer.

Dev says he can’t because he’s going to a movie and wants to get there early since he likes watching the trailers. Initially, this comes across as a silly one-liner, but then the show flashes back to Dev’s father’s upbringing, his decision to sacrifice everything and immigrate to America so he could become a doctor and provide a better life for his chil-

dren. Suddenly, Dev’s comment loses its humor and becomes ßtragic and depressing.

“Master of None” aims to expose the lack of perspective and understanding surrounding these real-world issues. At times, it tries to hit the audience too hard with the drama and emotion and misses its mark. But, the humorous tone throughout helps to balance this out.

Of course, the show isn’t a one-man production. There’s a heavy focus on Aziz, but there is a considerable amount of secondary actors, the best of whom, by far, is Eric Wareheim, who plays Dev’s friend, Arnold.

Wareheim is known most notably for his sketch show, “Tim and Eric,” which is infamous for its weird and random improvisational style of humor. Wareheim’s approach to comedy is polarizing — many people are turned off by its bizarreness and lack of structure. But, it fits perfectly into the absurd reality of “Master of None” and the improvisation is hilariously evident.

In one scene, a woman tells Arnold that her baby’s name is Lucian to which he replies, “No way. That’s my lizard’s name.

Small world.” He then goes on to explain that the lizard had died the previous week, having been run over by an ice-cream truck.

It is both funny and undeniably impressive to watch how effortlessly Wareheim can come up with these lines and take control of a scene.

When it comes down to it, however, “Master of None” is really all about Aziz. It jumps around in tone from humorous to emotional to critical, but from a holistic perspective, it is autobiographical. Dev is a representation of Aziz himself — a first-generation American trying to make it big as an actor while dealing with the trials of everyday adult life.

Aziz effectively portrays the struggle that so many other millennials face — even though he’s technically an adult, he doesn’t feel grown up. He is able to tap into that feeling and help people make sense of the hectic world around them, and, if nothing else, he is at least a “master” of that.

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wearing a U.S. military hat at the time, and he pulled a gun on me.

I just told him that I spoke Russian very well, and he put the gun away.”

As for his future, Jake has specific intentions to pursue his passion.

“I want to be an ambassador to

any Spanish-speaking, Russianspeaking or Ukrainian-speaking country,” he says. “My top choices right now are Puerto Rico, Ukraine or Spain. Russia would be cool, too, but that’s pretty hard. You have to be pretty intelligent to become an ambassador to Russia.”

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As students file into Rod Northcutt’s Tuesday evening sculpture class, they greet each other with warm smiles and friendly banter.

Throughout the lecture, the students remain captivated by the information as Northcutt asks questions and involves every student in his class.

Tying in examples from a variety of artists and art forms to help his student’s learn, Northcutt makes sure his students have a firm grasp of the concepts he is teaching. He sits back they participate

in discussion. He seems like he learns just as much from them as they do from him.

“Teaching allows me to perpetually be inspired by energy, and if I’m only talking to my peers, if I’m only talking to people in the art world, I don’t receive the same boost of energy that I get when I’m working with students,” said Northcutt. “There’s a youth and a vibrancy and a naiveté and as I teach, I learn.”

As a teacher, Northcutt listens to his students and their interests.

He engages each person that walks through the door.

“He always keeps an open mind with something,” said se-

nior Robert Donato, one of Northcutt’s students. “Whether he agrees with it or not, he’ll look at your point of view.”

In his classes, Northcutt teaches more than just how to sculpt. He teaches students how art can help them and others in many different situations.

“I’ve learned that you can put art anywhere,” said sophomore Jess Behne. “Art can be in any part of your life.”

After enlisting in the Army, Northcutt used his G.I. Bill to earn his bachelor’s degree at the University of North Texas. From there, he went on to get a master’s from the School of the Art

Institute of Chicago.

Now, he both teaches students how to create and creates works himself, focusing on social sculpture as a form of expression.

“When you look at community and you look at the need, social sculpture addresses it,” Northcutt said.

At Miami, he and fellow innovators saw the need for a fun, creative outlet among all the red brick.

Along with the organization, MAKE TANK, of which he is a member, he has helped bring the Oxford Kinetics Festival to life for the last five years. Northcutt and MAKE TANK involve people with the arts and innovation through more than

just the Oxford Kinetics Festival.

“We’ve created a lot of STEM to STEAM programming,” said Northcutt, “So basically using art systems and design thinking, two different ways of dealing with something, and applying that to STEM learning. We’re doing this for middle schoolers and high schoolers through a variety of different programs in the region.”

Northcutt is able to bring art into everything that he does. His students have built bikes for the kinetics festival, worn handmade masks around campus and winterized trailers.

“Everything can be sculpture,” Donato said.

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ing forward,” he said. “All of us were happy with their petition. They are certainly a much better chapter.”

With IFC’s approval, SAE can begin to recolonize by recruiting new members in the spring.

However, according to Walter, the chapter’s associate membership means they are essentially on a trial run and likely won’t receive university recognition until next year.

The chapter must meet certain stipulations to earn recognition at a university level, like appointing a live-in adviser.

But, Walter said IFC wouldn’t have approved SAE’s petition if they didn’t believe the chapter could meet the university’s standards.

“We trust IFC’s judgment,” Walter said. “As long as they are going to live up to the community standards of Greek life, we will accept them.”

topics, but offers a chance to increase awareness for anyone and to broaden one’s horizons.

Nelson feels that PFLAG offers a place for people to gather and discuss important issues.

“PFLAG can provide a space for the person who ‘came out’ to share their experience and get support from parental figures and hear their struggles, celebrations and care,” Nelson said.

The Oxford PFLAG chapter meets at 7:00 p.m. at the Oxford Senior Center, located on 922 Tollgate Dr. Revalee hopes that more people will see the importance PFLAG brings to the Oxford Community.

“We wanted to be ready to have those conversations with our community and to act as an advocate for our community,” Revalee said. “We want to educate people and inform them that there are LGBTQ people in the Oxford community and that we were here to provide information.”

social media studies and research, thinks social media is changing how people think and feel.

“Social media use affects the amygdala, the emotional processing center of the brain,” Levinsohn said. “The psychology of the brain is changing with media use. Relationships are affected as there is a correlation between high levels of social media surveillance and a decrease in the duration of the length of these relationships.”

Social media is changing the way relationships are formed and maintained. According to a Pew Research Study, 72 percent of all teens spend time with friends through social media. Of these teens, 57 percent have met a friend online, with 29 percent having met five or more friends online.

Sophomore Julia Harrelson said she feels social media allows people to feel better about themselves.

“Angles and lighting create the pictures you think are so

perfect,” Harrelson said. “This filtered form of perfection sets an unrealistic expectation of physical beauty. Liking and commenting on Instagram pictures is just fueling insecurity with words of affirmation.”

Organizations on Miami’s campus have a social media presence.

Numerous sororities on Miami’s campus have Instagram and Tumblr accounts showcasing photos of their members as marketing material.

“The sorority Instagrams and Tumblrs on campus don’t show you photos of their members sitting in chapter wearing leggings, scrolling through their phones.

They post pictures of their members all done up at philanthropy events. You don’t get the whole story,” said Bucholtz.

Caba said that although social media has a negative air around it, some aspects of it can be positive.

“I think overall, I don’t want to paint a negative light on social media. Some accounts post positive, inspiring images and if people turned to those posts, we could use social media to it’s fullest potential.”

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Many could not be reached for comment, but one from Ohio claimed to have no connection to the Klan. He said his friends were moonshiners and bikers, but not Klansmen.

According to Preston, many individuals claim connection to the Klan to gain notoriety and end up hurting the image of what he describes as a white Christian organization.

“It sickens me that we’re living in a time where people are lying and saying that they’re something they’re not in order to hurt an organization that wants to be there for its country,” Preston said.

Preston’s Klan and other factions stand behind many different beliefs today. Their most common points of contention are against race mixing, illegal immigration, banning of the Confederate flag and gun control laws. Preston expressed disapproval of Barack Obama, and said the Klan would fight if the government attempted to take away gun rights.

“The Klan isn’t an organization who will back down,” Preston said. “We will stand our

ground and fight. It’s what we’re supposed to do. We’re a militant organization.”

Preston also said many times that the Klan was not against black people, but rather the group was in support of white people, the Bible and Christianity.

But Miami sociology professor Othello Harris said Preston’s words won’t be true until Preston and other Klan members stop putting down others and focus solely on bringing themselves up.

“You can’t possibly say that you’re not opposed to other people and that you’re only trying to uplift yourself if what you have to do is step on somebody else in order to make yourself look better,” Harris said. *** Bob Holzworth said in his 42 years with OPD he has never experienced anything quite like the 1990 Klan march, when Butler County police had to arrive with police horses to help maintain the crowd of people eager to harm the Klan.

Although OPD has no communication with nearby Klan organizations, the KKK remains

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University community to support them.

Oftentimes, students and people from diverse communities feel like unwanted outsiders. Many on our campus experience this because of some aspects of Miami University’s culture. This culture is not exclusive to Miami but is present at many major American university, which tend to be predominantly white institutions. The feeling comes from actions, comments and posts by classmates and faculty/staff. No member of our community deserves to feel unwelcome on campus.

I advise everyone to educate themselves on the facts. When any ally is informed, they can and will correct statements that are factually incorrect. Allies speak their mind, respectfully and clearly to show their support for others. It is acceptable to be afraid at times, as being an ally can be challenging.

It is essential that allies face these challenges head on for the betterment of our community.

As Secretary for Diversity Affairs with Associated Student Government, and at this time, I felt the need to write a formal statement.

It is my job to create a more inclusive campus climate for everyone.

I work with my classmates, colleagues and friends on the Diversity Affairs Council in this effort.

For more tips on how to be an ally and show support for our communities, I strongly encourage you to reach out to me or the council via email or social media. Support is necessary and everyone is certainly welcome to be an ally.

Klan a relic of the past, the organization is still highly active today. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) places membership in various KKK groups between 5,000 and 8,000 members, with organizations in 25 U.S. states.

However, Richard Preston, an Imperial Wizard for the Confederate White Knights of America based in Maryland, said their numbers far exceed estimates.

“Let’s just say people have a misconception of how many Klan members are out there,” Preston said. “We are uniting the groups slowly into a family of Klans. We are not small. I don’t want my numbers known.”

Preston declined to share an exact number of members for the Confederate White Knights of America, one of many Klan organizations, but said his group is active in at least 12 states — including Ohio.

Last week, hacktivist group Anonymous released the information of hundreds of accused Klan members in the United States.

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vices were still receiving reports of students having trouble with the connection. Students and faculty were told that frequent attempts to connect usually result in successful connection.

After assessing the problem, Cincinnati Bell, a Cincinnatibased telephone company, said the system could take up to 24 hours to repair.

active in the surrounding area. In October 2014, fliers were passed around in Hamilton, Ohio attempting to recruit members for a KKK faction.

Harris, who is black, said the racial tension on campus has decreased since he first arrived in the 1980s but, he said, it’s still present at Miami.

“There’s less tension, but I think there’s still tension here,” Harris said. “You can find a lot of resistance — sometimes students don’t want to listen to you, they don’t believe you, they’ll ask about your credentials. It can be hard to be taken seriously.”

Harris said he wears a suit to class most days, especially when he first started, because he has to distinguish himself as someone who earned his position.

While Miami continues trying to attract minority students and improve campus culture, Preston said the Klan will continue attempts to recruit and work to unite disjointed organizations.

“The Klan is the one organization that, if it comes down to that, will fight for the rights of our Christian white children,” Preston said.

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Racial consciousness on the radar after Missouri president’s resignation EDITORIAL

Heavily publicized protests over racial tensions at the University of Missouri that began with a hunger strike and culminated in a boycott by the Missouri football team ended in a coup d’etat of the university’s president Timothy Wolfe this Monday.

While this is certainly a triumph, the fight is not over. The students at Missouri are tasked with reforming a culture that is not going to die easily. Racial tensions like the ones that sparked the actions at Missouri are prevalent on college campuses all over the country, and Miami is no exception.

The ousting of Wolfe is an important symbol of the fact that students are having conversations.

It’s not the fact that the president resigned. It’s the fact that anyone in that position responded to these conversations.

Wolfe was a complacent president, completely shut off from minority students. And because

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board. of this, he was complicit. By re- their worldview is not the dominant Wolfe, saying that it was unfair he fusing to take the demands of one — that there are others. was forced to resign. minority students seriously, he But Wolfe made sure those What’s funny is a lot of these was supressing their culture on worldviews didn’t come to fruition. comments are coming from white, Missouri’s campus.

His complacency gave the majority able-bodied men with a decent Yet, Wolfe’s resignation is not a venue. amount of wealth — people who going to solve the problem. ChangStudents at the University of have never been marginalized in es in campus culture — specifically Missouri will probably get a any way. People who truly can nevone that has been propped up by a president who cares about the er understand what it is like to live long history their days conof privileged, stantly hounded, white, southif not by outright It’s not the fact that the president resigned. It’s ern students racism, then by — will come the fact that anyone in that position responded cultural microslowly and aggressions. to these conversations. take years.

Probably not But that isn’t a single person to say his reson that campus ignation does thought,“Oh, not matter. struggles that minority students this is me they are protesting, I’m Putting a new administration in are going through. They will the racist.” People rarely admit — place of one that has a long culture probably get a president who is or even acknowledge to themselves of ignoring minority views could more tolerant of diversity and less — that they are the problem. have a trickle down effect. An ad- tolerant of racism.

What’s sad is what it took these ministration where minorities are On social media platforms like students to reach their goal. Wolfe’s represented could make the privi- Yik Yak and Facebook, students resignation came at the cost of over leged, white students realize that and alumni voiced their support for one million dollars. While student

protests, a list of demands and even a hunger strike could not force change, the boycott of the university football team — which would result in loss of revenue — did.

Combined with negative publicity swirling around the school, alumni up in arms and the threat of being fired, the potential monetary loss became the straw that broke the camel’s back.

While it is not ideal that money holds more power than students’ wishes or well-being, it does not discredit the fact that something finally spurred a positive change.

And though it may be just the first step in a long list of necessary improvements, it brings us one step closer than we were before.

It is hard to change the mindset of one individual, let alone of an entire student body. Racial intolerance is a longstanding problem, and it will take a long time to resolve. But for now, in Missouri, this is a start.

CONNOR MORIARTY PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

A crowd of demonstrators, spurred by the newly formed Concerned Student Union of Miami, stood in solidarity with student protestors at the University of Missouri Friday afternoon.

A graduate’s letter to all black students RACE

TO THE EDITOR: Dear black students, This past week my heart ached due to the mistreatment of our fellow black brothers and sisters at the University of Missouri, and the horrific stories of racism and inequality that have plagued their college experiences. After hearing the tragic tales of white supremacy rallies in the heart of Mizzou’s campus, screaming white men chasing black girls in pick up trucks and death threats, I was sad for those students, I was sad for their family members, I was sad for my country.

But, above all, I was sad for you.

I, too, was a student at a school that believed adding the word “diversity” a couple of times to the university’s admissions brochure would divert the attention of potential students from the fact that less than 3 percent of the students were black. I, too, attended a school where an administrator’s response to “why don’t we attract more students like me?” was “maybe they just don’t belong here.” I, too, attended a school where at times I felt unsafe.

Considering it is the middle of November, I am sure that the majority of you, including the first-years, have begun to see the tough journey ahead. The constant question of what sport do you play, or being told that talking about race and racism means you’re oversensitive.

You have already been forced to adopt the pseudo-role of the Black Spokesperson for all black people in your all-white English class.

Since you have now completed Being Black at a PWI 101, this means that I am able to be frank with all of you. I am hoping that I can give to you the Black Student Handbook that your orientation leader was unable to offer you on that glorious hot summer day.

My first piece of advice is that you must stay strong. Don’t feel discouraged to go out, even though last weekend the white guy who lost

his wallet at that party yelled that of them keeps posting “Black peosomeone “n******d” it. Don’t feel ple are dirty” on Yik Yak, or which discouraged because at that same one of them made you feel required party, someone had the audacity to to clean up “Bye, bye porch monask if you were the weed man. key” in the stall on the second floor Most importantly, please do not bathroom of the library. lose it when your communications Love that drunk girl who made professor asks you to explain what the conscious decision to go in “chitterlings” are and then, mo- black face to that poorly-themed ments later, asks if he has permis- sorority party. Love the guys who sion to write the word “ain’t” on the purposefully brought you into the white board. room displaying that large ConMy second piece of advice is that federate flag during Greek recruitafter you have remained strong, ment. Plus, you can’t forget to love you must now persevere. Keep the “friend” you went abroad with, continuing to participate in your who — in a drunken rage in Luxsociology class discussions even embourg — called you a n****r, though that one kid keeps calling making you so ashamed of yourself the diversity initiatives on campus a that even to this day you haven’t “white genocide” and even though told your mother. his frat bro came to his defense by My fourth, final and most vital asking you why there is no “White piece of advice would be that after Entertainment TV?” Register for you have ensured your love for your that political science course that is white colleagues, make sure you taught by that one professor who still have room left to love yourself. told you in astonishment, “I didn’t Don’t forget to love yourself when think someone like you would you courageously sit down at the make it in my class.” table in the student center, eager to Take that route home from the make new friends, and the girl at bars even though that same cop the table immediately gets up and continues to ask, “Do you go says, “Kelly, can you make sure to here?” And don’t forget to apply watch my things?” for that once-in-a-lifetime schoolDon’t forget to love yourself sponsored internship in LA of- when you enthusiastically show up fered by that department chair who to the dining hall to meet your new told you he was “uncomfortable” friend’s parents only to be greeted around you during your interview, with an, “Oh, do you work here?” and when you confronted him Don’t forget who you are despite he repeatedly called you Jerome your professor always confusing Jones even though that is noth- you with the only other black kid ing close to your name. Continue in your class. Don’t forget to love to date, even though your long- yourself when you feel alone, untime crush just confessed to you welcome and unwanted. that her dad doesn’t allow her Do not feel this way because to date black guys.

I am here, as well as many others My third piece of advice is that who have come before you. We no matter how hard it may be at have walked that same hard path times, you must love your white toward academic success and a betcolleagues. Continue to love the ter life. Yes, you have a long road white guy in your political science ahead of you, but never forget you class who yelled that uneducated were created to do this work. black people should not be allowed Love, to vote, but should instead take a Brandon test to get the right to vote — as if this was the Jim Crow South. Love each and every one of them, even BRANDON PATTERSON though you are not sure which one BRANDONPATTERSON216@GMAIL.COM

Concerned Students Union writes in solidarity with Missouri protests RACE

TO THE EDITOR: On behalf of the Concerned Students Union at Miami, we express our solidarity with students of color at the University of Missouri.

On the evening of Nov. 10, following the recent hunger strike, protests and walkouts that resulted in its president’s resignation, the University of Missouri’s virtual and physical spaces were filled with racist comments and actions threatening the safety and lives of the university’s black student body.

These acts of injustice are unacceptable. Moreover, we recognize that these acts are part of the fabric of our nation today. Nationally, black bodies are in danger.

The face of oppression is one that

we, as part of the Oxford and Miami University communities, are no stranger to. When our black and other marginalized communities take steps to make themselves visible, they are silenced and attacked by both the Oxford and Miami University communities.

We hereby affirm that all Black Lives Matter. We see the rage, pain and resilience of our brothers, sisters and kinfolk of color at the University of Missouri and empathize with these sentiments.

In solidarity, The Concerned Students Union of Miami University

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When working in the system fails, demonstrations, allies can work RACE

IFEOLU CLAYTOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Whenever we hear about controversial situations, it is important to start with fact, and then we can make educated decisions.

Upon reviewing the facts of many situations occurring on the campus of the University of Missouri, I felt the need to write to highlight some points.

I want to emphasize three critical points that have stood out to me with in the news and current events. The first of these is a fact that I do not want any spectator to lose sight of: the Concerned Student 1950 made requests for policy changes, like the creation of a hate crime policy. It also met with the former University of Missouri system president, Tim Wolfe, to voice its concerns. These concerns remained unaddressed by the ad-

ministration.

This is an example of systematic oppression. It is important to realize that Concerned Student 1950 is a group of students who tried to work within the system and suggest feasible changes within their university, and they were ignored.

While some may not appreciate activism, demonstrations, protests, etc., there comes a time when those measures are the only peaceful options left to bring change. In contemplating the events occurring in Missouri, one has to think about what could have been different.

The last points of emphasis are the importance of allies and how to properly become an ally to diverse communities who struggle with disadvantages and systematic oppression. There are students on our campus that fit into these groups, and it is important for our Miami ALLIES »PAGE 5S

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Micronations are a step ahead of ‘large states’ on environmental issues GLOBAL

A RELUCTANT ROYAL Signed on July 5, in the Umbrian Mountains of Perugia, Italy, the Alcatraz Accords and its participants condemn the incompetence of “large states” and their inability to successfully address environmental concerns as a whole.

“The assembled Micronations of the 3rd International Conference on Micronations, have reached the conclusion that the large states of the world have been ineffective and their efforts have been lacking in intention and execution concerning efforts to improve the environment, preserve existing natural resources and reduce carbon emissions to slow the change of the climate.”

The nine original signing micronations of the agreement include Bundes Republik of Neustadt, the Empire of Angyalistan, the Fomoire Institute, the Free Republic of Alcatraz, the Grand Duchy of Flandrensis, Ladonia, Noseland, the Principality of

Aigues-Mortes and the Republic of Bennylund. Since its signing, nine more have adopted the treaty.

With only five key terms and one clear demand directed toward the “large states,” the Alcatraz Accords makes for an easy read that leaves little room for confusion.

As global concern for the disappearing bee populations has grown, representatives from Ladonia were adamant in their support regarding the inclusion of a clause encouraging the protection and preservation of native plant species. Such actions are encouraged by numerous sources with supporting research as a way to combat the decline. Expanding upon this, a dedication to environmental practices, such as water conservation, sustainable agriculture and the responsible use of natural resources was included.

The Grand Duchy of Flandrensis, a micronational champion of Antarctic conservation efforts, proposed the second term, which coincides with its deeply held beliefs regarding the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 (effective June 1961). Although renewed in 1991, the treaty calls for a renewal of commitments every 30 years. With the next expiration deadline only a few short

years away, the signing micronations of the Alcatraz Accords have unanimously expressed their support for its second renewal, stating that the continent should remain a nature preserve made available only to scientific research.

Stemming from its success in creating a local sub-currency, the Principality of Aigues-Mortes proposed the third term, wherein micronations of adequate capability are encouraged to create their own currency. The rationale behind this proposition was that sub-currencies help to promote local consumption and production of goods, while also reducing the transportation costs and pollution associated with imports.

In October 2012, the Empire of Angyalistan announced that its territory had expanded beyond the horizon to include the aquatic “garbage patches” forming in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. These patches, guided by strong ocean gyres, are the result of microplastic accumulation. Angyalistan is the only nation, to my knowledge, in the world with the explicit goal of reducing the size of its physical territory. Their ambitions were officially translated into micronational agreement within the signing of the Alcatraz Accords.

Those who have chosen to adopt the treaty have pledged to fund research and support efforts focused on the removal and/or reduction of the debris.

The final term of the agreement is by far the most noble. In a concerted effort to address global poverty and environmental exploitation as a whole, the signers have agreed that any financial systems created for their communities will actively work to reduce the impact of these issues upon their citizens.

Although some micronations are able to actively work toward these agreements, those without physical territory, a functioning economy, and in some cases, a substantial population will be unable to focus on these goals for some time.

Technical flaws aside, this environmental treaty not only demonstrates a sincere concern for the environment while encouraging global citizenship, it also serves as evidence that nations with their own vested interests do have the ability to agree with one another on the issues which will affect generations to come.

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Human trafficking problem needs to be addressed directly CRIME

If you haven’t seen the statistics or read the recent Miami Student article — Ohio is fifth in the nation for human trafficking.

In a world so bent on being in the top five of any list, it’s not the most ideal ranking. In fact, it’s horrifying.

Fortunately, that’s not an opinion that is widely disputed. Unfortunately, the ways in which trafficking can be solved are. Plus, as The Student said on Tuesday, even Ohio didn’t take real steps toward prevention until it made human trafficking illegal in the too-recent 2011. It is a problem rooted deeply in history, but also in the system of our society as a whole.

We’ve seen industrialization grow in all fields in the last century — the industrialization of food and land, of homes and appliances — but human trafficking and slavery are among the oldest mass production traditions. The United States is not unfamiliar with the concept, nor are other

Between 1990 and 2000, 1,000 kids under the age of 18 were arrested for prostitution every year.

colonial countries — the European slave trade began as early as the 1400s.

Today, trafficking, while it is less overt, is in some ways still systemic. Prevention like Ohio’s 2011 human trafficking law are necessary, but they’re coming too late. It’s the steps toward protecting the victims by stopping the issue altogether that are being overlooked. And while trafficking comes in all shapes and sizes, sex slavery is among the most brutal, scarring and widespread.

On Nov. 11, the day after The Student’s article, CNN released the profile of Karla Jacinto, now a 23-year-old advocate against forced prostitution and human trafficking. Beginning at age 12 in Mexico, Jacinto was forced into prostitution by a man who wooed her with the promise of a better life. But after a while, the girl was forced to have sex with up to 30 men a day, seven days a week. After four years, Jacinto claims with firsthand accuracy that she has been raped up to 43,200 times.

Forty-three thousand, two hundred. The sheer absurdity of the number is almost incompre-

hensible. Even worse, because CNN cannot go back in time and log each assault that Jacinto was forced to experience, I can almost guarantee that there will be people who will try to tear apart her story, say that she’s lying or trying to get attention. And here’s where the systemic issues with human trafficking and rape culture come in.

In an ideal world, the law would be black and white. In reality, law and legality falls on a spectrum. Example: when prostitution is pitted against the crime of paying for child sex, prostitution is ultimately seen as the most illegal. The child prostitute (read: slave) is seen more as a criminal, a delinquent, rather than a victim. According to a case study performed by the U.S. Department of Justice between 1990 and 2010, 1,000 kids under the age of 18 were arrested for prostitution every year. But why were they the ones punished, when most of them couldn’t have legally consented?

As No Such Thing campaign launcher Malika Saada Saar says, “There is no such thing as a child prostitute.” The phrase is simply an oxymoron.

Miami University is especially cozy with the implications of sexual assault and its physical and psychological consequences.

But what actually registers when you read yet another email from Campus Crime Alert detailing a sexual assault? Who is doing anything for the victims of sexual assault and violence? The very much appreciated and required, though admittedly impersonal email warnings that get lost in the rest of our inboxes aren’t doing anything to stir up change.

They only ruffle feathers.

So, what now?

There are numerous foundations that work to wage the world war against human trafficking. Organizations like the Not For Sale campaign work to fight trafficking by providing the opportunity for survivors to partake in education, play and meaningful work. The Polaris Project highlights the importance of petitions and making law black and white again. Love146 focuses on abolishing child trafficking specifically.

You’re living in a state ranked top five for human trafficking in the United States. Consider what it might mean to donate — or better yet, intern — at one of these organizations. Let 43,200 be a number that sticks with you, and see what you can do to help.

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Clinton to be the default winner in a sea of mediocrity POLITICS

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Fox Business News hosted the Republican challengers for a debate among the potential presidential nominees on Tuesday. While the debate was more focused on policy questions than previous debates, there was no shortage of the typical mudslinging we’ve seen with Trump’s presence on the stage.

However, the pointed attacks were less on each other and more directed at Hillary Clinton. You know, the former Secretary of State, Senator from New York, First Lady and Democrat who is vying for the nomination from the left?

She has not been selected as the Democratic challenger for president. Yet. Come the Democratic National Convention in July, she’ll probably be the nominee.

At this point, there are only three contenders left in the game for the Democrats — Senator Bernie Sanders and former Governor Martin O’Malley. Three of the six possible candidates have already dropped out of the race. The field is unbelievably small, and frankly, there’s no real competition.

Her real competitors, Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren, decided not to make a run for the presidency this year.

Sanders, the self-described Democratic-Socialist, is leading in the New Hampshire polls. He’s ranked second overall, losing to Hillary Clinton by anywhere from a 15 to 30-point margin, depending on which data you look at.

He’s running a solid campaign, especially considering he does not have a SuperPAC funding his

efforts. He does not have the big money donors that the leading contenders on both sides have — the money he’s raised is purely small donation amounts. He’s doing this to promote campaign finance reform, a noble (and frankly, much needed!) cause.

While Sanders has seen surges in his popularity, he’s ultimately not electable.

At this rate, it’s only a matter of procedure until Hillary Clinton is the nominee. The candidacy practically fell into her lap.

America has a capitalistic economy, but it is not pure capitalism.

We have elements of socialism (i.e. government interference) in the form of antitrust laws, subsidies and other regulations of the economy. It’s also obviously not pure socialism. We’ll leave that to Scandinavia.

Either way, Americans are deeply fearful of anything that strays from democracy. While Sanders’ views are not as dramatically different from the mainstream as they seem, his association with socialism is most likely going to cost him the nomination.

Martin O’Malley is barely hanging on in the polls, though he’s still holding on for now. He has experience as the former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore. His record is impressive and consistent with Democratic ideals. He would be a super solid moderate contender who won’t polarize the public like the

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other two.

One problem: nobody knows who he is. Without the name recognition of Clinton or the radical ideas like Sanders, O’Malley doesn’t have a real shot at gaining the attention of the media or the public.

Clinton made a run in 2008, but was upset by newcomer Obama.

The Democrats were simply waiting until the end of his presidency to begin campaigning for Clinton. The Ready for Hillary SuperPAC was founded in January 2013. Yes, the same month Obama was inaugurated for his second term.

Her term as Secretary of State, essentially a resume booster for her 2016 run, is laden with scandal that the public seems to overlook. Her private email server and Benghazi might ring a bell.

And yet, she is still the Democratic frontrunner. At this rate, it’s only a matter of procedure until Hillary Clinton is the nominee.

The candidacy practically fell into her lap.

On the Republican side, it’s still anyone’s game. At one point, there were 17 men and women trying to get on the ticket. Two have dropped out, three were excluded from the debates, but there are still 12 potentially viable Republican names we could see on the ticket. (Ok, fine, 10. If Carson or Trump actually gets the nomination, I’m moving to Canada.)

Neither party has a perfect candidate pool. Republicans are in a mess with Trump leading in New Hampshire and generally being an arrogant ass. But at this point, at least they aren’t handing over a nomination without thoroughly vetting a candidate.

But, who knows, Bernie Sanders could surprise us.

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over nothing. The only response is, ‘are you done yet?’”

“They have all 5 of the black kids here at this school up there” ◊ Others commented on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, the situation at Mizzou or race relations altogether. Many students denied that any racial divide exists in the United States today. ◊ “Concerned Student 1950 and BLM has created more racism than they have stopped.”

“What all these black lives matter morons don’t realize is that they’re making race an issue more than it ever was. I never used to care but now I find myself hating these people more and more” “Honest Opinion: if Black People spent half the time working hard that they spend complaining about oppression they would probably be a lot better off.”

“The south will rise again. God bless the Confederate States” In response to this last Yak, another user commented, “Seriously let’s start lynching.” ◊ Miami’s Yik Yak feed yesterday was steeped in racial tension.

In quantity, most posts included racist remarks or undermined the movements igniting across the nation. But those Yaks were often met with dozens of comments condemning the post.

For example, one said, “Honestly all of the protests and [politically correct] stuff is actually causing me to and [sic] look down on the minorities. I’m not intentional but the more I see the more I become aggrivated [sic] and resentful.”

Among the many responses in defense of the black movements were: “We honestly don’t care. We don’t want people like you with your negative energy around us.”

And: “…so because people are try-

ing to express their frustration with the way they’re being treated you hate them? Seriously??”

But while negative comments rolled in each minute, the “hottest,” or most popular, Yaks of yesterday were those standing with and supporting black students, black movements and black lives.

At the time of publication, the following Yak was No. 1 in the Miami and Oxford areas with 98 “upvotes,” a mark of approval, similar to a “like” on Facebook: “As a white student, I am so tired of this racist and apathetic campus. No, I am not targeted by racism because I happened to be born into a privileged group but it is my duty to stand [with] Mizzou and BLM” At 61 votes, another positive post was popular: “Fellow white students: Let’s stop treating people of color like second class citizens. They work as hard, pay as much, and are just as human. STOP.” These, too, were met with critical comments that dismantled the authors’ opinions, leaving Yik Yak in an impassioned stalemate — at least for a few hours.

At the demonstration in Armstrong yesterday, junior Chelsea Appiah addressed the racism circulating on the app.

“If you don’t think what is going on at Mizzou doesn’t affect us, here is what your fellow student body has to say via Yik Yak,” she said to a crowd of hundreds of students and faculty.

Beside her, three other students — two black and one white — took turns reading a series of Yik Yak posts directed toward black students.

Moments later, they had the crowd, representative of many races and many ages, chanting with them.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and support each other.

We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

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about this, there’s nothing we can do about it,’” Wagner said.

The original impetus for reform on the regional campuses came from a 2008 mandate from thengovernor Ted Strickland and the Ohio Board of Regents, which stated that regional campuses across the state were in need of more bachelor’s programs. Since that time, Miami has commissioned a number of exploratory task forces and committees.

Dissenters feel that the process, despite having been ongoing for a long time, is being brought to a vote unreasonably quickly.

“I can see that there’s some reason to clip this along. But it would be a shame if it were at the expense of doing it right,” Wagner said.

Callahan and Skillings aren’t concerned with the timing of the vote.

“I don’t think we’re trying to expedite the process,” Callahan said. “I think it’s been careful, I think it’s been well thought out, I think it’s been discussed very thoroughly. We are moving to ac-

tion, that’s true. But I don’t think it’s rushed.”

Wagner explained that there have also been communication issues between faculty and administration. The regional English faculty, who were in the process of developing a new English major, were told by administration to halt the process. They were told that the Oxford English department opposed a regional English major, which Wagner disputes.

Theresa Kulbaga, an associate English professor on the Hamilton campus, said the apparent miscommunication caused significant confusion on the regional campuses.

According to Wagner, recently the university has switched from referring to “differentiation” between the regional and main campuses to championing “autonomy” for the regionals.

“You can see the difference between those two terms is really the story,” Wagner said.

Krafft had his own take on the change in terminology.

“The buzzword is granting us semi-autonomous status,” he said.

“I call it semi-orphaned status or

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founders, at the demonstration. “You cannot pressure us into molding our plans for action to fit your interest and timeliness.”

Although he could not attend the demonstration, Miami President David Hodge said he hopes to meet with group leaders in the future to discuss issues with race on campus and how the university’s administration can best combat them.

“We welcome ideas on how we can advance what this university does,” Hodge said. “There are clear issues here, but you can go to any university in the country and see that these issues are live and they are serious all over our nation.”

The demonstration in Armstrong came at the end of an alarming timeline of events on Missouri’s campus that began Oct. 5, when the university’s Legion of Black Collegians was verbally abused with racial slurs during a homecoming event rehearsal.

Days later, when activists tried to confront University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe at a homecoming parade, he avoided them, leading to allegations that he was trivializing the groups concerns.

Later that month, on Oct. 24, the group Concerned Student 1950 — in reference to the year the first black student enrolled to the University of Missouri — was formed after a swastika was found on a wall written in feces.

On Nov. 2, Jonathan Butler, a graduate student at the University of Missouri began a hunger strike, saying that he would not eat until Wolfe resigned as president. The same day, the University of Missouri football team began a boycott of their practices and refused to play their upcoming home game against Brigham Young University — a ploy that would have cot the university $1 million.

Pressure from alumni and rumors that the Missouri’s Board of Curators were planning to oust him led Wolfe to resign as president of the university on Nov. 9.

Although Concerned Student 1950 reached their ultimate goal, the fight for racial equality on Missouri’s campus has a long road ahead. On Nov. 10, black students at the University of Missouri began receiving death threats on social media. One particularly heinous Yik Yak post said, “I am going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see.”

Concerned Students of Miami are hoping that their demands, if taken seriously by the administration, can be a first step toward gaining campus-wide support.

“We want to be very clear about where it is that we see the problems here,” Orlander said. “Too much of the administration’s response goes into very vague, vacant iterations of ‘everyone is Miami. We want to be more intentional.”

semi-stepchild status.”

Kulbaga agreed, saying the use of “differentiation” implied a elitism on the administration’s part.

“It was like a kind of distancing of the regional campuses from the mission of Miami University, which is elite and serving wealthier students,” Kulbaga said.“There seems to be an element of snobbery and socioeconomic distaste of the regionals in that language.”

Kulbaga and Krafft expressed concern that the proposed changes represent a commonly held stigma against the regional campuses.

“There are a number of higher administration who have that perception and who have, basically, a lot of misinformation about the regionals,” Kulbaga said. “Upper administration says things about regionals that seems to spring from a lack of actual knowledge about what we do and who we are.”

Krafft took the sentiment a step further. “[President Hodge] is trying to wipe the regional campuses off his shoes like so much dog shit,” Krafft said. “And that does not bode well for our future.”

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nationally, holding opponents to 96.7 yards per game.

Senior running back Conor Hundley is the team’s leading rusher with 669 yards and six touchdowns on 136 carries. Under center, sophomore QB Thomas Woodson leads the Zips, completing 107 of 201 for 1,415 yards and 10 touchdowns. Woodson’s top target is senior wide receiver Imani Davis, who has 32 catches for 411 yards and two touchdowns on the year.

“We’ve had really good game plans, especially these last few weeks,” Kern said. “It all comes down to us playing physical and playing smart, reading our keys and doing what we’re supposed to do.

If everyone’s doing their job, then the whole defense is going to be successful.”

Akron (4-5, 2-3 MAC) is coming off a 17-13 win against the onewin University of Massachusetts.

Four of Akron’s five losses this year — University of Oklahoma, University of Pittsburgh, Bowling Green University and Central Michigan University — are schools that participated in bowl games in 2014. They also beat 2014 bowl participant University of Louisiana in September.

“If we get a little better than last week, we’re gonna be right in this game in the fourth quarter and have a chance to win it,” Martin said.

“If you make some plays down the stretch, you win another football

game, which would be huge for our program.”

Freshman QB Billy Bahl leads a Miami offense that averages 338 yards and 16.7 points per game.

He’s completed 75 of 172 passes for 1043 yards, five touchdowns and 11 interceptions. Sophomore wideout Sam Martin leads the team in receiving yards (541) and catches (28) with two touchdowns.

On the ground, redshirt freshman RB Alonzo Smith leads the rushers with 383 yards and four touchdowns on 91 carries.

“I’ve been feeling good for a while, I really have,” Martin said.

“I’m pretty realistic with where we’re at and what we’re doing here.

Yeah, I want it to happen today, but I’ll jump of a bridge if I live that way, if I expect it to happen today.

Because that’s not realistic” Miami leads the all-time series with Akron, 16-7-1. The RedHawks have lost the last two meetings.

Both Kern and Martin said they’ve seen the players gain confidence during the progression of the season, which is especially important for the younger players.

“It doesn’t feel like we’re on a losing team anymore, it feels like we’re on a winning path,” Kern said. “We’re always talking about how a lot of teams that aren’t going to a bowl game at the end of the year are on a downward trajectory, and we’re on a steep upward trajectory heading into the offseason.”

Kickoff is 12 p.m. Saturday in Yager Stadium.

the voice,” Cooper said. “I think this group as a whole is probably ahead of any other year we’ve been here, simply because they’ve been through it before.”

One of the leaders the ’Hawks may turn to is senior guard Geovonie McKnight, who has played in every game during his Miami career (94) and is a two-year returning starter for the RedHawks.

Friday is the 101st meeting between Miami and Xavier, and the Musketeers have a slight advantage with a 53-47 edge in the series. When playing at home, the Musketeers have a 35-17 record against the RedHawks.

Xavier has won the last two meetings between the teams, both at the Cintas Center, and the last five meetings on their home court.

The last time the teams clashed was on Nov. 20, 2013 with Xavier notching a 77-51 win. The RedHawks last win in the series was in at Millett Hall on Dec. 1, 2010, 75-64. The team’s last win at Xavier was on Nov 22, 2004, 66-54.

The Red and White are riding a bit of momentum, as they beat Ohio Midwestern University in their preseason game by a large 90-24 margin. MU outscored the Rams 49-6 in the second half.

Tipoff is 7 p.m. Friday in Cincinnati, Ohio.

moved to the Horizon League in the offseason, becoming the conference’s 10th member.

The Norse are a more experienced team, having two freshmen on the roster compared to Miami’s five. The majority of their team members are returners, and three of those are starters.

Senior forward Hannah McCue is expected to be out for the season due to an injury, leaving senior forward Jessica Rupright to lead the team. Rupright was injured last season but has since recovered and is healthy. “[Rupright] has done a good job of having a voice and being strong and being a mentor to some of our younger post players,” Wright said.

The ’Hawks have little time to rest after Friday’s game.

Their next game is Monday, against Evansville at home.

Wright said he plans to focus on improving where they need based off the game against NKU before looking towards Evansville.

“We’ll do a little bit of clean on Saturday and start doing a little bit of prep with Evansville, but again focusing a lot on us,” Wright said. “Then really get specific on Sunday.”

Tipoff is 1:30 p.m. Friday in Millett Hall.

redemption,” senior outside hitter Annie Reiswig said.

The match holds extra importance for Ingle and Reiswig, who will be honored in a senior night ceremony.

Sophomore middle blockers Sydney Lemay (316 kills, .283 attack percentage) and Olivia Kofie (247 kills, .180 attack percentage)

lead the Broncos.

The RedHawks’ offense is heating up at the right time of the year.

They turned in their best performance of the season against Akron University on Nov. 6. Throughout the entire match, Miami made six errors and had 42 kills in 88 attempts. The team’s .409 attack percentage is its season-best. Against

University at Buffalo on Nov. 7, MU had a .347 attack percentage, the second-highest hitting total of the season.

“Our setters did a great job, and it was a total team effort,” Condit said. “Our hitters went at it, and they were smart and they protected the ball.”

Miami defeated Bowling Green

State University 3-1 (25-18, 19-25, 25-10, 28-26) on the road Thursday night. The ’Hawks hit .313 for the match and were led by Ingle, who recorded 13 kills in 15 attempts and did not make a single attack error for a .867 hitting percentage.

The final match of the regular season against WMU begins at 7 p.m. in Millett Hall.

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nament, we probably would have never heard of teams like Davidson, George Mason and Lehigh. They all take the long route to the tourney, but they help make it special.

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The department’s efforts have also expanded through a contract with ESPN3 that calls for at least 35 live events to be broadcast online each year.

This season, Baker’s role as lead announcer for the men’s basketball team will be reduced as he shifts over to the ESPN3 broadcasts.

He remains the voice of Miami football and maintains a positive outlook of the RedHawks’ future.

“You really want to see these kids do well,” said Baker. “The Miami degree is their ultimate success, but I want to see them do well on the field as well. But, we’re building from the ground up with 62 freshmen and redshirt freshmen.”

Sports dominate his time, but Baker continues to pursue his life-long passion of music , often singing the National Anthem at City of Oxford events and performing in local theater productions.

He even ate fire for a performance in the musical Forever Plaid in the late 1990s. But don’t expect to see him on the field as the halftime entertainment any time soon.

“If you catch me in a good mood, private setting, and I got the stuff, I could probably do it,” Baker said, joking. “But I won’t do it in public anymore.”

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basketball has just as much tradition, if not more.

Though conference realignment has ended several great basketball rivalries (at least for now), there are still dozens of great rivalries marked by historic traditions and deep-seeded hatred that spans generations.

Duke vs. UNC, Louisville vs.

Kentucky, Penn vs. Princeton – the list goes on and on. These games often produce the most memorable moments of the season. They are filled with buzzer beaters, future stars and the feeling that at any moment, a fight could break out mid-court.

Conference tournaments For the majority of the conferences in college basketball, only one team will get to represent its conference in March. Unless they go undefeated or are near-perfect during the regular season, these teams have to win their conference tournaments to make it into the March NCAA tournament.

This makes for some of the most exciting basketball you will see.

Teams are literally fighting for their postseason lives, laying it all on the line for a shot at the big dance. Without winning the conference tour-

The NCAA tournament It is the most perfect tournament in American sports. The NCAA keeps trying to find ways to make it better, but they can’t. It is already perfect as is: a compilation of 68 teams from around the country, each with a shot to win it all.

Fans immerse themselves in the madness, trying to design that elusive perfect bracket. The NCAA tournament is what sick days were invented for. It’s an all-day, monthlong marathon of triple-overtime thrillers, half court buzzer beaters and mid-major Cinderellas. All of these together make the tournament so special. Legends are born in March.

The college basketball season is a marathon. Games in November and December can have major implications later on in the year. There is a lot to look forward to in the early parts of the year, and the whole season builds up towards March.

But March is a long ways away.

For now, just be thankful that basketball is back.

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From Rain Man to radio: How Steve Baker became the ‘Voice of the RedHawks’ FEATURE

JAKE STANLEY

THE MIAMI STUDENT

With less than two hours remaining before kickoff, the busiest person at Yager Stadium isn’t wearing pads or holding a whistle.

That designation belongs to Miami University’s fire-eating music man of a play-by-play announcer whose voice has appeared on stage and in Oscar-winning films.

For almost three decades, Steve Baker has served as the “Voice of the RedHawks,” primarily calling Miami football and men’s basketball. He’s also been Miami’s broadcasting director since 2001, overseeing all media production for the athletic department.

“I like the chaos,” said Baker. “It puts a lot of stress on you, but it’s what makes the job fun.”

Before uttering a word over the loudspeaker, Baker sets up the stadium’s PA system, checks all video equipment and hosts a donor function in the parking lot. It’s a daunting schedule. This Saturday, he’ll oversee a volleyball production after the football game against Akron University.

This multi-faceted role falls in line with a broadcasting career that was completely unexpected.

“I got into radio totally by accident,” said Baker. “I do enjoy it because I like painting that picture for people.”

Baker left his hometown of Brookville, Ind. in 1977 to become a music instructor. He entered Miami as a 30 instrument-playing singer, but his college experience was short-lived. After eight weeks on campus, his mother fell ill and lost her leg, and Baker returned home to his family.

He began working at WOXYFM, an Oxford station that was making little impression as an automated Top 40 station in a college community.

“The owner of the station said it had a negative 10 rating,” said Baker. “Nobody listened and 10 people hated it.”

The station’s staff surveyed Miami’s campus and began crafting a playlist that reflected the students’ tastes, leading to 97X, one of America’s first modern rock stations.

“Our first core artists were Madonna, Prince, U2,” said Baker.

“There were literally hundreds of bands that we broke. It was a sound that caught on.”

The format went on to earn national accolades, including four placements on Rolling Stone’s reader poll of best American ra-

dio stations. It also led to Baker’s 15 seconds of national fame when actor Dustin Hoffman imitated Baker’s 97X station ID in 1988’s highest-grossing film, Rain Man. 97X’s broadcasting deal with Miami athletics allowed Baker to develop a sports broadcasting career that began in the early 1980s with high school sports in Indiana, Virginia and Florida. Starting as an audio engineer, Baker rose to football and basketball announcing by the late 1980s and held the role until 1997, when Miami took over production of radio broadcasts and hired another announcer.

This led to a seven-year absence from announcing that was born out of Baker’s loyalty to 97X. “I didn’t feel like it was honest to the radio station to work there and then go announce,” Baker said.

Following the departure of announcer Jim Freeman in 2001, Baker returned to Miami on a part-time basis as director of broadcasting before becoming full-time in May 2004 when 97X ceased operations.

In his current role as broadcasting director, he assists with all facets of production. In a typical week, he produces press conferences, videos and weekly radio shows.

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No. 17 Miami travels to No. 3 North Dakota University for a two-game series this weekend. Above: Senior Ryan McKay ranks 10th nationally among goaltenders with a 1.69 goals against average. Below: Senior Forward Andrew Schmidt has one goal and two assists this season.

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Headlines beyond Oxford: TMZ sports released police dash-cam footage showing Ohio State QB J.T. Barrett’s arrest for impaired driving.on Oct. 31. He told the cops he was the quarterback at OSU, hoping for a break. He later said fellow QB Cardale Jones was coming to give him a ride home.

Red and White seek third win on senior day FOOTBALL

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After achieving a rare win last weekend, Miami hosts its last home game of the season against Akron University this weekend.

Twelve senior players will be honored during the game.

The RedHawks (2-8, 1-5 MidAmerican Conference) snapped an eight-game losing streak last Saturday with a 28-13 win against Eastern Michigan.

Head coach Chuck Martin said it was the most complete win MU has had since he arrived at Miami.

“We’re starting to believe in ourselves,” Martin said. “Last week we put it all together. And the score was probably closer, 28-13, than the game actually was. We physically handled them on both sides of

the ball. We haven’t done that since I’ve been here.”

The offense was led by a strong rushing attack (291 yards) and an efficient passing game (13-of-18 for 150 yards), while the defense allowed just 10 first downs and 192 yards and totaled a school record nine sacks.

“It was probably one of the most complete games we’ve had since I’ve been here,” senior linebacker Kent Kern said. “Our defense has been clicking pretty good these last couple weeks, and our offense has been getting better and better. They ran the ball all over Eastern, and that’s a big part of our offense.”

Akron may pose a problem for Miami’s offense, which struggled to run the ball until the EMU game.

The Zips’ rush defense ranks fifth FOOTBALL »PAGE 5

ALL JACKED UP Today marks the beginning of madness.

College basketball returns Friday, and the 31-hour tipoff marathon is Nov. 16. For fans of the game, college basketball could not return soon enough.

The more die-hard fans of college basketball will be tuning in all year to see their favorite teams and the best matchups of the regular season.

Less dedicated fans will tell you that the regular season is meaningless, and that the postseason tournaments are the only things that really matter.

Here are several reasons why I love college basketball and why every game matters.

The upsets This is a staple of all major college sports. There are 351 Division

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BEN MOLNAR

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami opens its 2015-2016 season against Xavier University on the road Friday. It’s the third time Red and White have played Xavier in a season openers. Overall, Miami is 73-37 in season openers.

The Musketeers, a Sweet 16 team last season, are a tough task for the RedHawks, as they return three starters. Sophomore guard Trevon Bluiett was Xavier’s second leading scorer last year, averaging 11 points per game. Junior

I basketball programs in the NCAA, which equates to a huge gap between the best teams and the worst teams.

But each year, each team has a handful of matchups where it is either the heavy favorite or a huge underdog.

This happens in both the regular season and the NCAA tournament.

And every year, some team loses or wins a game that they shouldn’t have.

Who would have ever believed it if they were told New Jersey Institute of Technology would beat University of Michigan in Ann Arbor last December? Not me. Not ever. But it happened, and an upset like that happens every year.

The rivalries There are rivalries in every level of sports, but none are quite like those in college sports. Yes, college football has its traditions, but college COLUMN »PAGE 5

JULIA RIVERA

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University women’s basketball team tips off its 2015-2016 season against Northern Kentucky University on Friday. It is the first meeting between the two teams since 2013 and the first of a five-game home stretch to start the season.

The ’Hawks are 16-8 in their previous 24 home season openers and look to keep the momentum

shooting guard Myles Davis averaged 10.6 points per game, while junior forward Jalen Reynolds averaged 9.9 points per game and leads returns in field goal percentage (61.8).

With eight seniors on the squad, Miami head coach John Cooper expects someone to step up as the leader.

“Anytime you have a group with as many seniors as we do, one of the things that’s important is certainly that you establish leadership and someone steps up and becomes

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Riding the momentum of a three-game win streak, the Miami University faces Western Michigan University in the last game of the regular season this weekend. Miami and WMU are tied for fourth in the Mid-American Conference standings, and their match Satur-

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The ball hit by Babe Ruth for his first home run in Yankee Stadium is sold at an auction for $126,500.

According to Bleacher Report, seven of the 10 most expensive pieces of MLB memorabilia ever sold belonged to Ruth, totaling $9.87 million.

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going after their 70-53 win over West Virginia State University in an exhibition game last Friday.

Head coach Cleve Wright was happy with the offense’s performance but said the defense needs some work.

“Defensively we need to be on the same page,” Wright said. “We need to communicate more.”

NKU is coming off a 19-14 season, finishing 8-6 in the Atlantic Sun Conference. The Norse WOMEN’S BBALL »PAGE 5

’Hawks close regular season against WMU

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MU tips off against Sweet 16 team Xavier

day could affect who receives the final bye in the MAC Tournament next week.

“We’re just super pumped to play Western Michigan,” senior middle hitter Jenny Ingle said.

“We’ve taken the fire to practice every single day.”

The Red and White (19-9, 11-4 MAC) look to avenge last year’s

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MIAMI CLUB FOOTBALL SEEKS PERFECT SEASON The Miami University club football team (8-0) hosts Robert Morris University in the Midwest Conference championship Sunday.

The Intercollegiate Club Football Federation ranks MU as the No. 1 team nationally.

RMU stands at No. 3.

MU is coached Jay Fry, an alum of the Miami varsity team that won the 1950 Salad Bowl under Woody Hayes.

Russ Foster, who played for the 1970s varsity team that won the Tangerine Bowl, also coaches the club team.

Sophomore Ty Russ leads all club running backs with 677 yards and 12 TDs. Kickoff is 1 p.m. Sunday at Yager Stadium.

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