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George Ironstrack (middle), Miami citizen and Myaamia Center Program Director, leads Miami tribe members in lacrosse.

Tribe member finds heritage in language Miami citizen Daryl Baldwin helps MU tribe students learn what it means to be myaamia

KAREN BALDWIN, COURTESY MYAAMIA CENTER ARCHIVE

DARYL BALDWIN MIAMI TRIBE REIS THEBAULT NEWS EDITOR

Daryl Baldwin settled down in his new office. It was at the end of a long hallway on the third floor of King Library. Its dimensions were strikingly similar to those of a closet.

It was the first day of his new job at Miami University.

“Now what?” he asked himself.

King Library was Baldwin’s latest stop on his journey to bring his tribe’s language, myaamia, back from dormancy.

He had no model and no one to advise him, but in 2001, he began his work with the Myaamia Project.

It was a moment hundreds of years in the making.

In 1846, the federal government under James K. Polk drove

the Miami Tribe, Baldwin’s ancestors, from central Indiana to present-day Kansas. In the 1870s, after a second removal forced members of the tribe to Indian Territory in modern-day Oklahoma, the Miami people were scattered across the center of the continent Baldwin was born to a Miami father and an English mother who raised him near Maumee, Ohio.

“I was literally on the landscape where a lot of that history played out,” Baldwin said.

“In many ways, that landscape is the history book.”

He was always aware of his heritage, but never really knew what it meant.

“I always knew I was a Miami Indian,” he said. “But I didn’t know much about that as a kid, because I grew up in an environment where there weren’t any other native people.”Attending high school in the late 1970s, he experienced first hand some things that would become contentious later — like mascot issues.

Baldwin attended Anthony Wayne High School — the Fighting Generals — named after an 18th-century U.S. general. Wayne led American troops in the Battle

Chief of Miami Tribe visits university, connects with FSB

ANDREW STRACK, COURTESY MYAAMIA CENTER ARCHIVE

DOUG LANKFORD Leader of the Miami Nation of Oklahoma Chief Doug Lankford arrived at Miami University Wednesday. Lankford visits the university several times a year, but he said this time is different.

“I’ve never gotten to visit the Farmer School of Business, so I’m pretty excited about going there and seeing that facility,” he said.

CEO of Miami Nation Enterprises, the business arm of the tribe, Joe Frazier is also making the trip.

Director of the Myaamia Center Daryl Baldwin said the visit is just the initial step in the possible relationship between FSB and the tribe.

“We’re all excited about it but we really don’t know at

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this stage what direction it’ll go,” he said.

Lankford said the relationship could be mutually beneficial. The tribe, he said, could learn about the resources Farmer can provide, while the business school can learn how to deal with different American Indian tribes, how a tribe works and the benefits of partnering with a tribe.

Lankford said the tribe is involved in a variety of different business ventures. The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma owns an Ohio ambulance company and several IT companies, among others.

Lankford said he would like to get the Miami tribe students who are in FSB to think about working for the tribe or for one of their businesses.

Baldwin said the chief’s visit will not be all business, though.

“Chief comes to campus, too, to take any opportunity to visit with the tribe students here,” he said.

The personal connection, to the people and to the land, is what makes the chief’s visits particularly special.

“He is coming for a visit, not only to the university, but to part of his own community that is here on campus.”

of Fallen Timbers against, among others, the Miami Tribe.

One of

Baldwin’s ancestors signed the treaty that ended the fighting. Naturally, Baldwin objected to his school’s choice of mascot. He didn’t want to be a Fighting General.

It wasn’t until later in his life, though, Baldwin began to dig deeper into his people’s past.

“I was in my 20s when I started to ask questions,” he said.

“Things like: ‘Well, where’s our

language?

I know we had a language.

Where is it?’”

Aside f r o m ancestral names, he had never heard the language spoken.

It wasn’t until he was leafing through his grandfather’s papers that he had his first real encounter with myaamia words. There, in between old legal documents, was a list of Miami words and their English translations. It was just a simple word list, the translations dating back to the early 1900s, tapped out on a typewriter. He started to feel the itch of curiosity.

He decided to visit Miami enclaves in Indiana and Oklahoma and see if there were any speakers left. There were not. The last, he learned, had died around the same time Baldwin was born in the early ’60s.

Baldwin was not satisfied.

“I had questions,” he said. “If I was claiming this heritage, well, what does it mean?”

Baldwin had begun to study

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Miami University and tribe unite MIAMI TRIBE LIBBY MUELLER

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For a university that bears the name of the American Indian tribe, the student body’s knowledge and understanding of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is questionable.

For instance, many don’t know as they walk the sidewalks of the university, they are walking on the historical hunting grounds of the Miami Tribe.

When the Treaty of Greenville was signed in 1795 by the United States government and leaders of various Indian tribes, including the Miami, land including southern Ohio was ceded to the U.S. in exchange for goods amounting to the value of $20,000.

Many places around the region still carry the name Miami (Little Miami River and Great Miami River, for example) because southern Ohio American Indian tribes who used these rivers to travel to the Miami Tribe village in present day Ft. Wayne likely named them. The university inherited its name from landmarks such as these and is thus indirectly named for the Miami Indian Tribe.

The word “Miami” is the Anglicized version of the native word “Myaamia,” which was bestowed upon the tribe not by its own

people but by an Algonquian speaking tribe to denote the location of the Miami people. “‘Myaamia’ is a name given to us by other people and it means, ‘those folks downstream,’” Miami tribe citizen George Ironstrack, who serves as the Assistant Director and Education Coordinator of the Myaamia Center, said. “The name stuck and began to be applied to all of our village sites.”

allotments, or individual parcels of land, hoping to assimilate them.

The Miami Tribe settled in Oklahoma following the Civil War, when the U.S. government forcibly removed the tribe from their reservation in eastern Kansas. The first forced removal had occurred in 1846 and moved those tribal members who had not been granted federal exemption to Kansas; however, settlers had been encroaching on

niila myaamia I AM MIAMI Although the heartland of the Miami Tribe was northwest of Miami University, the current location of the university was significant to the Miami Tribe as well.

“Where MU is situated was considered Miami hunting grounds,” Ironstrack said.

Today, the Miami Tribe is headquartered in northeastern Oklahoma. They share a section of this territory with the Peoria Tribe, whose people spoke the same language.

There are nearly 40 tribes today in Oklahoma, where they had originally reserved lands for themselves.

However, the U.S. government later forced the native people into

the territories of the American Indians for years, ignoring the boundaries drawn in multiple land treaties.

The land loss and removals changed the lives of American Indians of all tribes.

“Hunting, farming and gathering was how the people fed and clothed themselves,” Ironstrack said. “In one generation, all of that was gone. They were consuming wheat, beef, alcohol, things you can trade for.”

According to Ironstrack, this had negative mental and physical effects on native people. In addition, the U.S. government set up a boarding UNITE »PAGE 8

In October, 1846, over 300 Myaamia were forcibly removed from their homeland in the Wabash River Valley and taken via the Miami-Erie canal past Miami University at a time when classes were likely in session. After 27 days of travel, they arrived in the Unorganized Indian Territory (Kansas) and began the difficult process of rebuilding their community west of the Mississippi.

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wildlife biology at the University of Montana. But questions about the lost language haunted him. On a trip to Oklahoma, he crossed paths with someone asking the same questions. David Costa was a graduate student in linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley. He had come to Oklahoma in search of a native language to study. He chose myaamia. The two men began to exchange materials. They kept in touch.

At home, Baldwin and his wife Karen were committing themselves to the language. Baldwin wanted to learn. He wanted to pass it on to his children. But it was not an easy process. At the time, Baldwin only had rudimentary word lists — the names of birds, animals and household items. He had no idea how to pronounce them. The family started small. They taped vocabulary lists to their walls and cupboards.

Baldwin kept notes in his pocket throughout the day. They began to teach the words to their children.

Meanwhile, Costa was traveling to old archives and amassing a huge amount of documentation.

He unearthed centuries-old documents from French Jesuits and translations on field cards from Swiss and English linguists.

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Miami women take the lead Evaluating leadership roles on campus EQUALITY SARAH EMERY

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Since the first women received their bachelor’s degrees at Miami University 114 years ago, female students have become an influential aspect of Miami’s campus community. Female students now make up over half of Miami’s student body and are active throughout campus, despite facing many challenges when pursuing leadership positions.

“In future years, when man’s resistance has been worn thin, the women of Miami University will sneak past our carefully laid barriers and run things according to plans outlined in The Ladies’ Home Journal.” This was the opinion of The Miami Student in an article covering the disqualification of all women running for Student Senate in 1925.

Fortunately for women at Miami, there have been great strides over the past 89 years, including graduates becoming Congresswomen at both the state and federal levels. Still, Miami has never had a long-term female president and has rarely, if ever, elected a woman as president of Associated Student Government (ASG) or other leading organizations on campus. In fact, according to Valerie Hodge, a University Ambassador and the wife of Miami President David Hodge, in the nine years that she has been at Miami, she has never seen a female ASG President; the most recent female president was Erin O’Donnell in 1996.

The number of women in leadership positions across campus organizations has grown significantly over the years, but some of the most well known organizations on campus, including ASG, are still predominantly male. In the most recent

On-Campus Senator election, women were elected to only nine of the 25 positions, despite making up almost 52 percent of the student body.

“Studies show that women on college campuses tend to run for positions such as Vice President or Secretary because they do not feel as qualified as their male opponents, even if they are,” Colleen Bunn, assistant director of Residence Life and adviser of the student organization F WORD (Feminists Working on Real Democracy), said.

One such study, from Civic Youth, states that a woman’s personal sense of leadership potential falls during the college years, while that of men rises, factors that might explain why women make up less than 20 percent of Congress and 18 percent of city mayors.

While other universities in Ohio, including the University of Cincinnati and Wright State University, have well-established training opportunities for women interested in leadership, Miami has only recently begun this process.

Last spring, M.I.A.M.I. Women, or the Miami Initiative for Advancing, Mentoring and Investing in Women, hosted the inaugural Women in Leadership Symposium, a conference that included programs such as “I Was Here: Making Our Mark on the World through Leadership” and a keynote address by Academy Award winner Geena Davis.

“We have been looking for ways to involve women alumni, especially here at Miami,” Hodge said. “We want to help them advance their careers and we want them to come back and mentor [young women] and become more involved with the university … seeing women faculty and WOMEN »PAGE 4

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PINNING UP ACTIVISM Students designed shirts during The Women’s Center’s annual Clothesline Project at the Hub from Oct. 1-3. The shirts aim to convey the pain caused by domestic violence.

Project includes trans community ACTIVISM LANA POCHIRO

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At first glance, the colorful Tshirts swinging between the trees around central Hub appear to be just like the array of other festive student organization exhibits that commonly decorate the area.

However, a closer look reveals the powerful truths the bright fabrics represent.

These T-shirts are part of The Clothesline Project, a national campaign aimed at raising awareness of violence against women.

Victims and the allies of victims create T-shirts to tell the story of their experiences with gendered violence.

The Miami University Women’s Center has participated in the campaign for over 15 years, but this year the Women’s Center took a new approach adopting the slogan “Violence against women is violence against ALL women.”

Jane Goettsch, Director of the Women’s Center, said she and her staff and student interns discussed the project’s inclusivity at length this year.

“The question came up, ‘When we say violence against women, what exactly do we mean by that?’” she said. “What about

people who don’t identify as women, but who are nonetheless victimized due to their gender?”

The Women’s Center staff decided the answer was in the explicit inclusion of trans identified and trans feminine women in the Clothesline Project exhibit.

Goettsch sees this new campaign as just one step in embracing inclusion of all gender identities in their discourse on gendered violence.

“What we’re trying to get at is that … people who identify as trans as well as cisgender folks who identify as women, are really targeted, so how can we begin to move at least our own project into a broader acknowledgement of violence against people because of their gender,” Goettsch said. “That’s where we’re trying to move.”

Ashaé Burgess, a student intern at the Women’s Center, believes this step is crucial to raising awareness and preventing gendered violence in the trans community.

“We need to have a very inclusive space, which is one of the reasons why we pushed so hard for trans inclusion, because they are women too,” she said.

They should be at the forefront in terms of violence against women and at the forefront of our

feminism because they are targeted so heavily.”

The concerns of Burgess and Goettsch speak to a wider problem of violence committed against the trans community.

According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects’ 2013 Report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and HIV-Infected Hate Violence, 72 percent of reported homicides were committed against transgender women — 67 percent of those victims being transgender women of color.

A 2012 Transgender Rates of Violence report compiled

by Forge concluded that multiple studies indicate over half of all transgender people have experienced sexual violence in their lifetimes.

Coordinator of GLBTQ Services, Shevonne Nelson, hopes this broadened inclusion of gender identities will help raise awareness and educate others on the validity of trans individuals’ experiences.

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SEMIS seeks to solve mental illness stigmas HEALTH LAURA FITZGERALD

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JUSTICE SERVED Piper Kerman, author of NY Times bestseller “Orange is the New Black,” speaks to Miami students about corruption in the criminal justice system Monday, Sept. 29 in Hall Auditorium.

Piper pipes up about U.S. prison system LECTURE EMILY C. TATE

UNIVERSITY EDITOR

Lingering in the doorway, gathered in clusters on the adjacent sidewalk or huddled in groups beneath nearby trees, Miami students and faculty waited anxiously to hear former prison inmate Piper Kerman speak Monday night at Hall Auditorium.

Kerman’s lecture, made possible by the Miami University Lecture series and entitled “Orange + Black = Gray: Injustice in the Criminal Justice System,” sold out within hours of going live last Wednesday, Sept. 24. The show’s 735 tickets became available at 8 a.m., and the last of them had been distributed by 1 p.m. the same day, Mi-

ami Box Office supervisor Craig Harkrider said.

Throughout her lecture, Kerman engaged the audience through a lighthearted account of her experience in a women’s prison. She explained how, nearly two decades ago, she became romantically involved with another woman who later revealed her role in an international drug trade. Kerman, young and seeking adventure, soon found herself involved as well.

Eager to cut ties and put the situation behind her, Kerman moved to California and began her career, hoping to forget about the brief escapade in which she carried drug money across international borders.

Several quiet years went by before Kerman’s past caught up with her.

“The consequences of our actions come back to us in one form or another,” she said during her lecture. “In my case, that was a knock on the door in 1998 … when I began my journey with the American criminal justice system.”

Sentenced to 15 months in prison, of which she served only 13 for good behavior, Piper Kerman was quickly stripped of her identity and christened “inmate number 11187424” by the Danbury Women’s Correctional Facility.

Her experiences later prompted her to write the New York Times Bestseller, “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” which has since been adapted into an original Netflix series, now filming its third season.

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Nearly one in four young adults aged 18 to 24 have a diagnosable mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

To combat this common struggle among young people, the new on-campus organization “Students Ending Mental Illness Stigmas” (SEMIS) has been created to help Miami University students process the stigmas and stereotypes surrounding mental illness.

Students struggling with mental illness sometimes delay getting help because of the negative stigmas associated with it, according to co-founder of SEMIS and junior Meg Terlau. She said one of the club’s main goals is to break down these negative stereotypes so students may seek professional help when needed.

“If you … just know that all of those negative connotations don’t actually have to be carried with that word, it just makes you feel more comfortable with yourself,” Terlau said.

Co-founders junior Meg Terlau, senior Shelby Oda and senior Sara Wehrle started the club in the first weeks of the semester, after finding a post on the Chi Omega Facebook page from a sorority sister asking for students to start a SEMIS chapter at Miami. The three responded quickly and created the club.

SEMIS aims to eliminate some of the negative connotations associated with mental illnesses, such as the misconception that mental illnesses are not very prevalent or that the individual suffering from it is “weak.”

SEMIS co-founders all said they hope that students will realize illnesses such as depression and anxiety are something that they can get professional help for, just like they could for a physical illness.

Psychology professor and faculty adviser Aaron Luebbe said the club plans to break down those stigmas by having students interact and listen to other students who face mental illness.

“Trying to understand each other as individuals is really the way that stigmas break down,” Luebbe said.

This issue is particularly important to the founding members of SEMIS, as they said they have personal experience with mental illness. Terlau said she has struggled with depression and anxiety since middle school, and Oda has family members who struggle with mental illnesses.

“I am a really big advocate for coming out and talking about it,” Terlau said.

SEMIS will also give students the opportunity to learn more about and raise awareness for mental illness.

The group will help grow and develop the organization through posters, T-shirts and SEMIS »PAGE 4

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U.S. 27 construction to boost safety $7.5 million construction project estimated to be complete by 2016

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BY DEVON SHUMAN FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Travelers taking U.S. 27 South in Oxford within the last few months have probably noticed an abundance of bulldozers and yellow hard hats. The project will ultimately widen roadways and increase safety for drivers upon completion.

According to Oxford City Service Director Michael Dreisbach, the project, which is focused on widening the roadway, aims to create a less dangerous route for all travelers.

“The main goal is safety improvement for the roadway,” Dreisbach said. “In addition to the widening of the road, we are also adding paved shoulders which we currently do not have, as well as concrete sidewalks on both sides of the road.”

Dreisbach hopes the new shoulders and sidewalks will create a safer path not only for drivers, but also for pedestrians and bicyclists.

According to Dreisbach, the total cost of the project is $7.5 million, which will be covered through federal funding. Although the project is mainly focused on widening the road, it includes other improvements as well. City Engineer Victor Popescu is currently involved with the removal and reconstruction of the

bridge over Collins Run. “We are going to elevate the bridge,” Popescu said. “The result will be the curve going up to the bridge and coming back down will not be as steep. The goal, of course, is always safety.”

Sharon Smigielski, the Public Information Officer for District 8 of the Ohio Department of Transportation, explained that in addition to the road widening and the bridge elevation, the project will also include other minor improvements intended to create safer travel.

“There will be additional turn lanes at some major intersections,” Smigielski said. “We will also be upgrading the traffic signals to the preferred standards.”

All these improvements are tentatively scheduled to be completed by late fall of next year, “It is hard to say because with any construction project you have unforeseen conditions,” said Popescu. “It should be done by late fall of 2015 or early 2016.”

Two-way traffic will be maintained all throughout the construction. However, despite the lack of detour routes, they should still use extra caution while traveling through construction zones.

“Travelers should keep to the speed limit and pay special attention when workers are in the area,” Dreisbach said. “Fortunately, this portion of the road is mainly straight with no curves or bends, but drivers should still use caution.”

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The ongoing contruction project promises to widen roadways as well as add paved shoulders and sidewalks for heightened public safety.

Popescu sees even the 45-mileper-hour speed limit as somewhat excessive, urging drivers to slow down more than that and be aware of their surroundings.

“There are currently no sidewalks and only two ten-foot wide travel lanes,” he said. “It is dangerous and I would discourage bicycle riders and pedestrians from using the highway until construction is complete.”

Both Dreisbach and Popescu said that the construction project is within environamntal guidelines, explaining that prior to beginning construction, an environmental assessment was performed and they received clearance to proceed.

Come spring of 2016, people traveling in and out of Oxford via U.S. 27 South should have a much safer roadway.

Decline in property values indicate potential tax hike REAL ESTATE

BY ALISON TREEN

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Preliminary property reappraisal numbers show residential real estate values in Butler County have dropped 1.7 percent since the last assessment in 2011.

According to the Butler County Auditor’s website, Ohio law mandates reappraisals every six years by county auditors, with updates in between each six-year cycle.

The reappraisals are based on three main criteria: cost, market and income. The cost includes replacement of the home and the land value of the property. The marketability of the property is based on comparing similar properties to the home. The income also affects the reappraisal of a house if the property is a rental.

The reappraisal is a long process involving gathering data, interpreting and finalizing it.

Pictures are taken of each proper-

ty, and then analysts look for changes in the properties since the last appraisal (this may include demolition or new construction). Land areas are then grouped into markets or neighborhoods, and there is a drive-past inspection of each property with the new data. Tentative values are then sent to the Ohio Department of Tax Equalization.

If value in a particular district goes down, the tax rate would be raised.”

BERKLEY ROSE

APPRAISAL PROJECT MANAGER

The reappraisal done in Butler County was a mass appraisal, meaning that each house was not individually inspected. Therefore, actual values can change due to interior upgrades or issues like flooding that may not be obvious from statistical

evaluations from the mass area.

The preliminary information on the reappraisal of Butler County is not official yet. Property owners can appeal their appraisal by an Informal Review.

Values will not be finalized until late November or early December, according to David Brown, Butler County Deputy Auditor of Community and Employee Relations.

Although tentative residential values show a drop, agricultural land values show an increase.

“It is the agricultural value per acre, based on soil type, that increased,” Berkley Rose, the Appraisal Project Manager of the Butler County Auditor’s Office said.

“The increase was based on an updated study of crop yields and prices, and is determined by the Ohio Dept. of Taxation.”

As for the impact of lower reappraisal values on the community, officials do not seem to be worried about the housing market.

“It is actually the reversal of this,”

said Rose. “It is the real estate market (home prices), that guides [auditors] through the reappraisal process, and not the other way around.”

Just because property values may decrease does not mean that taxes will be affected. Ohio House Bill 920 prevents taxes from being impacted by changing values.

“For example, if value – overall – in a particular district goes down, the tax rate would be raised so that voter approved levy dollars are still collected,” explained Rose.

“If value – overall – in a particular district goes up, the tax rate would be lowered, so that those same voter approved dollars are still collected.”

Although Rose stated that a small portion of the tax rate could be affected, “the overall fiscal status of any particular taxing district can vary widely, and for reasons beyond the scope of real property taxes.”

It is unclear if any the new reappraisal values will have any impact on the community until the report is finalized. Then only time will tell.

OPD dispells rumors of gang activity, assures parents CRIME

burglaries, no nothing that was attributed to them.”

Concern was first brought to OPD’s attention through phone calls from Miami students’ parents.

“I guess it got posted on the parents Facebook page,” Varley said.

“I don’t know how it got on there but it started blowing up that there were gangs running around and we had parents call us later in the week asking if everything was safe for their kids, and we’d tell them ‘we don’t have anything.’”

One parent commented on the page: “I know this sounds ridiculous, but my [daughter] saw a group of people in gorilla masks

and was told to be careful because they have targeted sorority girls on campus. Not sure if this is just a rumor, so thought I would see if anyone else had heard of it.”

Others noted the gang was possibly “knife-carrying” and mostly centered Uptown, but OPD has not heard mention of activities like that, either.

Varley adamantly dismissed the rumors, citing again that had there been any gang-related, gorilla mask related, red-shirt-related or knife-related incidents, OPD or MUPD would have heard about it. “[The Miami University Police Department is] the same way,

they’ve got nothing attributing to any of this, and it sounds like it’s just a rumor that has just taken on a life of its own,” Varley said.

Vigilant as MUPD and OPD officers are, it is smart to never walk alone during late hours, keep to lit paths and always be aware of your surroundings. Though the rumors of gangs in Oxford and at Miami might give people extra reason to be cautious, there really is no evidence to support the rumors.

“We’ve told people: if you know somebody who has some firsthand knowledge on this, we would love to know,” Varley said. “It just seems to be a big rumor mill.”

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Oxford woman killed in fatal dump truck accident Patricia Manning’s car was struck in the fatal accident on Wednesday near Route 27.

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Cincinnati Bell agrees to sell wireless service to Verizon The $210 million sale to Verizon was finalized this week for all of its eight retail stores.

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Obama reaches out to Dallas mayor in response to Ebola patient The president ensured that all necessary resources will be made available to Dallas patient.

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North Korea completes upgrade at space center for larger rockets As a result of the upgrade, there is now a possibility for a fresh rocket launch within the year.

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Rumors have been circulating of gangs in Oxford; one, identified by their use of monkey masks, and the other by their red shirts. However, according to the Oxford Police Department (OPD), those rumors are completely unfounded.

“We checked with ours and with Miami’s records, and we have received no calls in reference to any of this,” OPD Sergeant Jon Varley said. “We have had nothing, no damage, no assaults, no

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POLICE BEAT BrickStreet bandits “borrow” barstool At 2:13 a.m. on Wednesday, an officer was traveling in the 300 block of E. Church St. when they noticed two males walking down the sidewalk and one of the males was carrying a barstool above his head. The officer stopped the males and asked them where they had gotten the stool. The males replied that they had borrowed it from one of their friends who lived on the block and that they were returning it. The officer went to the house they claimed they were returning the stool to and spoke to one of the residents who said he did not know the males and did not recognize the stool.

Upon further questioning, the males admitted they had taken the stool from Brick Street Bar, 36 E. High St. The officer noticed an odor of alcoholic beverages coming from the males and that they both had over 21 wristbands. When the males were asked if they had been drinking they said they had. The males were taken into custody and they were both found to be under the age of 21 and in possession of fictitious driver’s licenses. They were cited for Certain Acts Prohibited, Theft, Offenses Involving Underage Persons and Receiving Stolen Property.

Three crooks and Four Lokos At 1:46 a.m. on Monday, an officer responded to a report of a stolen cell phone on the 0 block of S. Main St. When the officer arrived, the victim said he knew who had taken his phone and walked with the officer to the Locust South apartments where the victim believed the suspect to be. As they approached the residence they saw two males and a female exit a Jeep parked in the lot. The officer stopped the three people and recognized the two males from previous offenses. The three people were searched but no phone was found. Once backup units arrived, the K9 unit sniffed around the vehicle and gave an indication that prompted the officers to search the car. Inside the car the officers located three open cans of Four Loko, the stolen cell phone, as well as a container containing a white rock-like substance and the ingredients for making crystal meth. The officers conducted a field test of the substance and the results indicated it might be heroin. One male took responsibility for the open containers and was cited, the cell phone was returned to the victim, and the substance was sent to the Hamilton County Drug Lab for further testing.

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or gendered violence.

“You want to be called a specific name that really demonstrates who you are, how you feel, how you love, how you experience the world,” she said. “And the person on the other side of you that you have to tell your story is still calling you by masculine pronouns, by a name that no longer fits who you are, and likely confusing and conflating your gender identity with your sexual orientation.”

Nelson expressed hope for educating others on these identities at Miami through the Clothesline Project.

“I don’t know that sympathy or empathy or even validity exists for trans folks. I hope this project can bring about awareness that this does happen and that these stories matter just as much — if not more — than any other story,” she said. “The violence is real, and its actually very, very high.”

Nelson, Goettsch and Burgess all see room for improvement on Miami’s campus in regards to greater inclusion of gender identities.

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But Kerman’s time in prison gave her more than just a story to tell; the lessons she learned and people she met also gave her a cause to defend, one that matches the namesake of her lecture: injustices in the criminal justice system.

In her lecture, Kerman detailed three major changes that she thought would help the United States, home of the world’s largest prison population.

The first, she said, would be common sense sentencing, meaning that the government should remove all of those imprisoned who “shouldn’t be there.” She said that means reducing drug sentences, increasing public safety solutions by providing alternatives to incarceration and dealing with mental health and substance abuse outside of the criminal justice system.

A second change she recommended was in public defense, as she cited that 80 percent of defendants are too poor to afford an attorney, and finally, she argued that there should be reforms to children in the criminal justice system.

“No child belongs in adult prison, I don’t care what they’ve done,” Kerman said. “It’s hard for an institution to run well when they have kids who don’t belong in those settings.”

But stepping back and looking at the bigger picture, Kerman said she wishes some of the stigmas prisoners face could change as well.

“What I want for everyone who is in the system is not to be seen for their worst days — their most screwed up choices — but for their best days,” she said.

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Nelson said. “That’s the aspiration — that eventually all space is women’s space, men’s space, trans space — that all people feel welcome everywhere.”

Nelson believes that progress is possible.

“A great place to start is with the empowerment of female identified folks, and where better than in PanHellenic life, because it’s such a big thing here,” she said.

“I’ve known trans feminine folks who would love to be part of these sororities and part of these organizations, but the education and the awareness are not there.”

Nelson hopes that the Clothesline Project will spur additional education and awareness.

“I think something like the Clothesline Project in their spaces, actively having those deeper conversations could provide much needed education about being trans feminine and, even as a larger component, about understanding and knowing that having a sense of your sexuality does not mean that when somebody violates your body it’s okay or its deserved or that something you did

warrants this,” Nelson said.

Nelson advocates a greater discourse on these issues throughout campus even after the Clothesline Project.

“Are we having meaningful dialogue about sexual assault?

And about peoples’ bodies? How do we tear down the myths about drinking too much, about wearing too short or too see-through clothing, being out and about by yourself?” she said.

Burgess echoes Nelson’s push for more discussion of the underlying issues of sexual assault and gendered violence.

“They spread when we allow them too — when we sit back and don’t contest some of the philosophies behind the idea that someone deserves violence,” Burgess said.

Nelson shared her hopes, but also recognized the obstacles that must be overcome before this goal is realized.

“I would love to see this [inclusion] everywhere, but is that the reality?” Nelson said. “Are we ready for that? In that, we’re willing to push it, we’re willing to say that this is not okay,” she said.

“We’d have to commit to that as an institution.”

After all, she said she wouldn’t want anyone to judge her based on the day she stood in the Brussels airport, waiting for a piece of luggage to come through the baggage claim that happened to be filled with illegal drug money. She would want them to look at her today, as she defends the rights of otherwise defenseless women prisoners.

Throughout the day she spent at Miami, Kerman was escorted by journalism professor and lecture series committee member Patricia Newberry.

Newberry, who claimed to have binge watched both seasons of the OITNB Netflix series, said Kerman’s lecture thrilled her.

“I thought she was great, as a member of the committee and a member of the audience,” Newberry said. “It would be easy to come and give you the fallacious details about being a prisoner for a year or comment about the outlandish characters from the book. I was really happy she went beyond those talking points, that she talked about the flaws in our criminal justice system, the conditions under which our prisoners are held, the particular hardships of being a woman.”

Others in the audience Monday night also appreciated the depth of Kerman’s speech. Miami senior Tessa Subler said she expected the lecture to be a recap of Kerman’s prison story, but was pleased that it went a bit further.

“I loved that she told so many facts about the prison system,” Subler said. “I thought it was really eye-opening, like the point she made about changing the budget to spend more money on education and mental health and health care.

That would drastically change the number of people sent to prison.”

Subler said she had really wanted to see Kerman speak at Miami because she is a big fan of the show, but other students attended the lecture not knowing what to expect. Senior Kristi Csatary was one of them.

“I thought she was a good speaker … with an interesting experience,” Csatary said. “She made some really good points, I was just absorbing it all. I’m intrigued now though. She made me want to read her book and want to watch the show.”

Newberry, who was with Kerman for a student press conference, Q&A session and dinner, said she was pleased with the way Kerman interacted with Miami students.

“She was completely gracious,” Newberry said. “[She] approached every questions as if it was fresh and smart, not rehearsed.”

Newberry also said Kerman was interested in learning more about Miami.

“She asked nice questions about Miami,” Newberry said. “Not all of our guests who come here really want to know much, but she asked about the student body, our dynamic on campus.”

And, despite her celebrity status, Kerman maintained a graceful way of engaging the audience as equals, much of which she accomplished through humor.

“Uh, I had egg whites and waffles for breakfast, pretty much what I have every morning,” she said instantly, when asked to test her microphone at the press conference Monday afternoon. “And boy, it’s nice to be here in Oxford.”

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alumni in leadership.”

Hodge also acts as co-chair of the M.I.A.M.I. Women Steering Committee. She said she hopes the Women in Leadership Symposium will help women gain the confidence to run for and win leadership positions, a task that she feels can be challenging for women.

“It only takes one woman to spark a movement here,” Rebecca Clark, junior and co-president of F WORD, said.

Currently, women hold more positions than men on the Executive Boards and Cabinets of ASG, Residence Hall Association (RHA) and Miami Activities and Programming (MAP), a promising sign for the future of women in leadership at Miami.

Clark noted that it is terrifying to break the stigma attached to women leaders as being bossy or power-hungry, but she said she is confident women will make a greater impact at Miami in future years.

Both Bunn and Jane Goettsch, the director of the Miami University Women’s Center, said they hope Miami will be able to host a training session with Elect Her — Campus Women Win, a one-day training session sponsored by the American Association of University Women and Running Start that encourages and trains women to take part in student government.

The current Undergraduate Student Body President at the University of Cincinnati, Christina Beer, and both the President and Vice President of Student

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word of mouth. SEMIS will have has monthly meetings, each month focusing on a different mental illness.

In addition, the club is planning a 5K next semester. At each mile there will be a sign with common misconceptions about mental illness and the proceeds will be donated to a charity benefiting mental illness. Coincidentally, National Mental Illness Aware-

Government at Denison University, Meghan Pierce and Haley Jones, respectively, all credit their successful campaigns to their Elect Her training.

Hodge advised students to always keep learning and to volunteer for opportunities as soon as they appear. By volunteering, she said, students can not only tailor experiences to their own time constraints, but they will also gain the respect of others for being involved since the beginning and for having the willingness to step up.

Miami is also in the process of creating a new Living Learning Community (LLC) specifically for women in leadership. Clark said she hopes that this program will not only help inspire the girls in the program to run for office, but that these women will also become an example for their peers and will encourage them to become involved.

Although Clark said she still sometimes doubts her abilities to run an organization, she credits much of her success to older female role models at Miami and her current Executive Board, all of whom provide an invaluable support system that encourages and motivates her.

“I would encourage students to take Sheryl Sandberg’s advice: lean in, be active … take chances, be brave and volunteer,” Hodge said.

She said she hopes that by embracing a more positive and self-assured mindset, female students can find the inner confidence to run for higher offices and succeed in their leadership aspirations. ness Week spans from Oct. 5 to 11. While SEMIS has no formal plans for the event, participants traditionally wear green in honor of the week, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Anyone interested may visit the national SEMIS Facebook page, where the organization frequently posts articles to raise awareness about mental illness. Students may also visit the Miami chapter of SEMIS on the Hub.

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After serving 13 months in a women’s prison, Piper Kerman knew she had to do something.

From the simple act of obtaining a toothbrush to the challenges of purely surviving day-to-day, Kerman was shaken by what life was truly like behind bars. There was so much she hadn’t known about and she was guessing the world didn’t know either. So, she began writing. And when her writing turned into a book, she hoped for at least a small amount of readers.

“I hoped to get somebody to read about prison who would not otherwise read about prison,” Kerman said. “I wanted people to think about who is in prison.

Why are they there? What did they really do? Is it what we expect? What really happens behind those walls?”

In her book, Kerman highlights the far-reaching flaws in the criminal justice system, the fight to decriminalize drug use, the harsh conditions under

which prisoners are held and the spike in the recent number of incarcerated women.

All these talking points are significant and central to Kerman’s experience, but they probably weren’t the main reason why students packed into Kerman’s lecture on Miami’s campus this week.

More like it, many students probably had their eyes set on a photo-opp with the real-life version of one of their favorite TV characters.

The more overarching themes in Kerman’s speech don’t often gain mass appeal from college students. But since many are “addicted to” and “obsessed with” the series Orange is the New Black, seats were full and tickets were sold out. How many students would’ve been sitting in Hall Auditorium if not for the powers of Netflix?

In this era of consumer culture and easily accessible media, The Editorial Board wonders if stu-

dents are really taking a moment to pause. If they are taking in the more serious themes and subject matters of what they’re bingewatching or if students are mindlessly hitting “next episode.”

Orange is the New Black brings attention to real issues, whether students are noticing or not. And it serves as a platform in one respect. Underneath its entertainment value and dramatic sugarcoating, it shines a light on something the majority of Americans often leave lurking in the shadows.

“Prison holds this fascination for us, and that makes sense -- of course, the world of prison and jails is very intentionally hidden away from the public view,” Piper said in her lecture.

Is this what the thousands of Miami students were thinking as they tweeted quotes from the lecture and posted filtered photos of Kerman? Or were they simply interested in a celebrity sighting?

What’s next for Paul Ryan: it’s time to make a clear White House move POLITICS ACCORDING TO ANDREW Heading into the next Congress, Congressman Paul Ryan continues to be the House Republican Conference’s most intriguing member.

The 44-year old House veteran and former Republican Vice Presidential nominee has options ranging from House leadership, to the chairmanship of arguably the most powerful Congressional committee, or even a White House run of his own in 2016. With a number of good options in place, what should Ryan do next?

In order to understand Ryan’s positioning, it’s important to remember that as Vice Presidential nominee, Ryan was quite unhappy with the way the Romney campaign handled poverty issues. The Romney campaign has been widely panned for pitching only for the votes of business owners small and large, without much regard for the average American. As a Jack Kemp devotee, considering business interests alone has never been Ryan’s modus operandi.

With this strain of thought in mind, and keeping in line with his reputation as one of the only true policy entrepreneurs among elected Republicans, Ryan released an interesting discussion draft of proposals to combat poverty in America.

The draft includes, most notably, an expansion of the earned income tax credit and a controversial opportunity grant, which would give those in poverty a case worker to personalize a plan to lift them out of poverty. The proposal was informed by a tour Ryan took with Bob Woodson, the founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and a man who has committed his life to fighting poverty effectively, to see how neighborhoodbased organizations best serve

their communities.

It will be difficult to defeat those on the right who view a focus on combatting poverty as overly paternalistic if the government is playing any real role. This fight will be similar to the one Ryan had with the tacticians on the Romney campaign who were convinced a fixation on marginal tax rates could land Mitt in the White House.

Though it hasn’t been clear from the run out the clock and sit on your hands national strategy for Republican Senate candidates, the party still has a serious issue with attracting Americans who vote based on which candidate is more in touch with people like them. President Obama defeated Romney by 10 points in Fox News exit polling on this issue, and unless that number turns around, it will be difficult for Republicans to win back the White House in 2016.

but Ryan likely thinks he can do the most good at this stage from DC, not freezing to death in Iowa and New Hampshire.

What about House leadership or the chairmanship of the powerful Ways and Means committee? It looked like his path to lead Ways and Means was relatively clear until Texas Rep. Kevin Brady announced he would be running for the post.

Brady is a Ways and Means stalwart who has chaired multiple subcommittees. There’s a real chance he could defeat Ryan. And though I think Ryan would be the better member to shepherd through comprehensive tax reform legislation next Congress, the path to the position just got a bit harder.

House leadership has certainly never really been a bastion of policy entrepreneurship. The jobs are more about keeping things moving

All Republican leaders should make their future decisions based on how well they will be able to combat the perception that conservatism doesn’t care about those who struggle to get by, or that it’s somehow incompatible with compassion.”

This is the most important political issue Republicans face. All Republican leaders should make their future decisions based on how well they will be able to combat the perception that conservatism doesn’t care about those who struggle to get by, or that it’s somehow incompatible with compassion. With his clear focus on issues facing lower and middle class Americans, Ryan is on the front lines of this necessary shift.

So from where should Ryan continue his work? It’s time for Ryan to make a clear decision.

He doesn’t seem to want to run for president in 2016. And given his age, he could conceivably be in this conversation for the next 20 plus years, so what’s the rush there?

Presidential campaigns also unfortunately tend to be graveyards for good public policy proposals.

Maybe this will change in 2016,

on time, and ensuring there’s some uniformity among the rank and file.

They’re required to whip tough votes many members really don’t want to make, and especially given the rightward tilt of the conference since 2008, being a member of leadership cannot be much fun.

As often happens in politics, there’s no natural fit--just a few high profile options. I’d bet Ryan goes all in against Brady and chairs Ways and Means, but would rather see him elevated to an even more high profile spot. That means sucking it up and running for president.

Ryan is the GOP’s fiscal golden boy and also moves the party in the right direction on poverty issues. A successful Ryan candidacy would be the triumph of substance over style—something the country could certainly use after eight years of the Obama presidency.

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As students, we consume this kind of television and don’t always see it as reality. Whether it’s Law and Order, Breaking Bad or Modern Family, we are so conditioned to see anything in the realm of television as madeup. But when we walk away, we are left with some sort of takeaway on one level or another.

Of course, Orange is the New Black was in no way made to be a documentary or strictly for education. But it was rooted in a real story and it has the power to bring up real conversations. We may see it as an escape from our own daily life and as an outlet to laugh and be hooked on something, but if Kerman’s talk is any indication, it has the power to be much more.

But is this the proper treatment of Piper’s story? Or is her original message and purpose getting lost? Don’t we owe it to the harshness of her time in prison to not just sit back and watch Orange is the New Black

without at least thinking about the realness?

Because of this show, more students were sitting in a lecture and hearing about serious issues with the criminal justice system– and that, in our opinion, is a positive thing. There is clearly some good coming from this show beyond its entertainment purposes, and we hope the majority of viewers are truly taking that in.

When we’re watching this kind of show, we’re soaking in its messages and we’re subconsciously being embedded with a new perspective. We are being affected, shaped, molded and refined to think differently about some facet of life. So, wouldn’t be smart to have an “Orange is the New Black” kind of approach to all the media we consume? We’re not saying that we should all start taking notes during episodes of Scandal, but it might a good idea if we start paying more attention to how it makes us think.

RULE OF THUMB HARVARD CASE STUDY ON BEYONCE We’re just a bit obsessed with Queen B, and apparently so is Harvard. The Ivy League school did an entire study on her surprise album launch last winter.

FALL BREAK We’re all definitely ready for a much-needed break, but with fall break comes midterms, which we are not too excited about.

AMANDA BYNES NEW TROUBLES Amanda, can you please get it together? After another DUI arrest, the actress doesn’t seem to be making much progress.

HOCKEY SEASON KICKS OFF Pull out your oversized jerseys. Get warmed up for hockey season this weekend as the team hosts two exhibition games. There might be a football game this weekend, too.

EBOLA TALK EVERYWHERE After one U.S. patient was diagnosed with Ebola, there’s been some panic in the air.

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The news is catering to a market of fear MEDIA Just two months ago, America was very settled on the idea of no more war.

Then two journalists who volunteered to be in Syria get executed and Americans go running back to war like an abusive boyfriend. We’re too easily baited.

ISIS doesn’t have an Air Force, so the only way they can be guaranteed to kill Americans is if we go to them.

It’s fair to ask the question of what an American life is worth.

I don’t have the answer, but it certainly isn’t $1.7 trillion, over 4,000 dead troops, and another wave of thousands of cases of PTSD and veteran suicide for the sake of revenge. That’s if we’re going by what our last encounter in Iraq cost us.

I respect the journalists who were killed on the job. The courage they showed to do their job is something all journalism students should aspire and prepare for. But do Americans really think they are in danger?

What is it you’re so afraid of?

Do you think ISIS is going to blow up your Ford Focus tomorrow or decapitate you at Chipotle? I didn’t see any crucifictions in downtown Chicago when I picked up my iPhone 6.

Politicians have this rhetoric of “terrorist safehavens,” usually meaning areas with little government control and allowing Extremist Guerilla groups to bloom.

George W. Bush combined that with the philosophy of “bombing them over there so we don’t have

to fight them over here.” The 9/11 attacks were planned and executed from Germany, and no one’s bombing Hamburg.

Over the decades we learned massive bombing campaigns don’t work. Most statistics show the United States dropped eight times as many bombs in Vietnam than they did in WWII, another war against an elusive enemy in black pajamas.

We’ve been learning lessons from multiple engagements that brute force is not the way to fight non conventional armies. This is why the U.S. and other NATO powers are dumping more funds into Special Operations elements such as Navy SEALs and Special Forces.

The media has played the role in being the communicators of terrorist propaganda. ISIS released several scary videos that news outlets played over and over for days. The headlines might as well have been written, “Are You Crapping Your Pants Yet? No? Ok, Well, What About This New Decapitation?” It takes two for terrorism to work.

Not saying the media should hide news or not report what’s going on, even if that can benefit the enemies of the United States and our allies. However, most outlets I was watching crossed the line of reporting and amplifying the signal ISIS wanted to send out. Sean Hannity might as well run PR for terrorist groups.

However this isn’t all the media’s fault. You can’t blame the media for making you afraid in the same vein of you can’t get

mad at a haunted house for scaring you. It’s system we’re paying into. There’s a market for fear.

That’s what most of the news is today, a big haunted house. We pay to show up, get scared for an hour, and walk away not thinking too much about what we saw anymore. Happy Halloween, now watch this report on American Ebola victims.

It’s far more palatable for people to buy that fear. It’s more exciting to be afraid than to realize the Vegas odds of something significant happening to you is incredibly low. You’re not going to get caught up in gang violence, no one is going to molest your kid, ISIS isn’t going to blow up your living room and no one is kicking down the door to shoot up your classroom. Unless of course you’re a black male reaching too quickly for your wallet.

Then you should probably think about what’s being reported.

Last year I wrote an article about Azodicarbonamide, a chemical that’s used in almost every food in the U.S., and in Yoga Mats. It’s banned to even be apart of containers for food in Europe.

ISIS isn’t going to kill you, but Azodicarbonamide might.

Unfortunately things with long words or involving science like climate change can’t be summed up in a sexy 15 second clip on prime time news. But apparently, Muslim extremists on the other side of the world doing donuts in a rusty tank can do just that.

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To achieve equality, we need to eradicate double standards EQUALITY Imagine this, if you will: two twin brothers are to be featured on a home renovation show. They are infinitely qualified to do the show, possessing a dynamic combination of home improvement know-how and charismatic personality. However, upon learning of their support of gay rights, the show nixes the brothers. For nothing more than having a certain belief system—to which few would deny them the right—the brothers are ignominiously fired before the show starts; they aren’t even given a chance. We can all agree on the deplorability of the situation.

But here’s the question: is it still deplorable if something about the story changes? What if the brothers were dismissed for not supporting gay rights? Reality reveals a double standard sometimes at work in this social movement, in this fight for equality for the gay women, and other disadvantaged communities. Chances are that you’ve never heard of David and Jason Benham, the aforementioned twins, but it certainly seems like newsorthy information. So, why didn’t it gain any attention? Why the disparity?

There are three types of events that can happen in relation to a social movement. One: something that neither furthers nor impedes the movement. Two: something that furthers the movement, such as a state’s passage of gay marriage laws. Three: something that impedes the movement, such as someone being fired for their support of the movement.

You haven’t heard of the twins because their event falls into the first category. Attention isn’t usually brought to it because it doesn’t further or impede the cause. It just is, and as such can be ignored. However, categories two and three will always get attention because the movement must bring into the light its successes and counteract its opposition. It makes sense that categories two and three should be given special attention; if they’re not, the movement risks being slowed significantly. But what about category

one? What about those events that occur in the shadow of mass media?

The rights of those who support the social movement currently supersede the rights of those who don’t. We see this in such different examples as IRS targeting scandals, David and Jason Benham, senior citizens being banned from praying over their meal in a Georgia senior center, and more. Those with competing ideologies are targeted; those who advocate heterosexual relationships are discriminated against; and those who advocate religion amidst a secular trend are silenced.

I’m not here to say that the gay or any other disadvantaged community should have rights withheld. I’m not trying to assert one ideology as superior to another. But I am trying to talk about the irony of this all — something simple for which more than a few have been indiscriminately labeled bigots — and point out that “progress” is not synonymous with “improvement.” Equality is wonderful and should be strived for, but the end does not justify the means.

What is fair and just about using discrimination to end discrimination?

Should a mother hit her child in order to teach that one should not hit; what purpose does this serve but to perpetuate the hypocritical and cyclical nature of abuse?

One cannot achieve equality through inequality. In this movement, true equality has been sacrificed on the altar of progress.

Discrimination is defined as “the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people.” That includes those in the minority group and the majority group. It includes African Americans, women, and members of the gay community and Caucasians, men and members of the straight community.

In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

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However, there were no sound recordings of the language and no phonetically spelled words, so recovering the exact pronunciation was next to impossible. But, Miami-Illinois, as the language is officially called, is in the Algonquian language family. So, Costa was able to use his own materials and closely related Algonquian languages to construct his doctoral dissertation, which would become the first book of MiamiIllinois grammar.

Baldwin had no formal linguistics training when he received Costa’s work in the mail. The academic jargon overwhelmed him.

He needed to study linguistics.

He went back to school.

Baldwin enrolled in a graduate linguistics program at University of Montana. He didn’t want to be a linguist. He just wanted to arm himself for the reclamation of his own language.

With a degree in linguistics, Baldwin was ready to bring myaamia back to his people.

In 1992, Congress passed the Native American Languages Act. The bill set aside money for a grant program to support language regeneration. The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma applied for one of these grants and received it. The tribe called on Baldwin to go to Oklahoma and lead the first community level workshop for the Miami language.

When Baldwin arrived, he found other like-minded people — people in search of their heritage.

“I come from a generation of

people that are like, ‘Where is my culture? Where is my language?

What happened?’” he said.

After brief stints working with the tribe in Oklahoma and at a museum in Indiana, Baldwin connected with Miami University. The tribe and the university have had a long relationship.

Much of the early dialogue between Miami and the tribe focused on the university’s use of the Native American mascot. In 1996, the Miami tribe urged the university to abandon the “Redskins” mascot. By 1997, the university had complied. This forced the two sides to work through a divisive issue. But what came out of that, Baldwin said, were some really positive things — especially after the mascot was terminated.

One of these positives would become the Myaamia Project, something Baldwin said could not have happened without the existing relationship between tribe and university.

The tribe and the university agreed to give the project a try and, in three years, to reevaluate. While Baldwin wasn’t certain what would become of it, he knew he wanted to focus on language regeneration and education.

So, from his office in King Library, that is what Baldwin decided to do.

The new relationship proved mutually beneficial and the Myaamia Project blossomed into what is now the Myaamia Center in the Bonham House. Baldwin now has a bigger office.

When he arrived on campus

in 2001, there were six myaamia students on campus. There are now 26. And they are hungry for more.

“A lot of them come here for the opportunity to learn about their heritage and there is no other institution they can go to learn that,” Baldwin said. “They want to engage in the process.”

When tribe students first arrive on campus, Baldwin asks them to write an essay: “What does it mean to be a Miami Indian?”

“Some can be really intimidated when they get asked that question because, for some, not much was passed on,” Baldwin said.

He knows how that feels. And now, he is helping students with the same questions.

“That becomes my mission in life,” he said. “That’s exactly why I’m doing it.”

Language, Baldwin said, is the key to the Miami tribe’s past.

“When two people use a language that’s unique to their culture, they connect in a way that we can’t feel any other way,” he said.

Because of Baldwin, Costa, and numerous other myaamia people, more and more kids are growing up in the language.

And while there is still a long way to go — Baldwin estimates they have used just 30 percent of language documents — the myaamia language is being spoken again. What started as the subject of a master’s thesis and a gnawing at the back of Baldwin’s mind has taken root.

“We have reached a point where it doesn’t feel like it’ll fizzle out.”

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school system to “remake” Indians, eliminating their culture and especially their language.

However, 40 years ago, MU and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma began to establish a partnership, which served as a way to forge a new, enlightened path of mutual education, a way of acknowledging the past and defining a new future.

Bobbe Burke, Coordinator of Miami Tribe Relations at the Myaamia Center, said both the university and the Miami Tribe are dedicated to learning.

“I think the emphasis on education is the overarching theme,” Burke said. “From 1990 on, the university became more devoted to on-campus educational programming about the tribe or native people in general. In 1991, the first three Myaamia students came to the university, which was a collaborative effort between the Chief of the Miami Tribe at the time, Floyd Leonard, and Myrtis Powell, the Vice President for Student Affairs.”

Since the 1990s, many Miami Tribe students have received their educations at MU. “Since 1991, 102 Miami people have been enrolled at Miami,” Burke said. “Eight graduated last spring.”

Although not all Miami Tribe students who were enrolled at MU graduated, the retention rate is over 70 percent, well above the national percentage of American Indians who graduate college in four years, which is only 10 percent.

Burke said moving forward, she hopes the Myaamia Center will be able to develop a network of MU Miami Tribe alumni from which future Miami Tribe students can draw for help with jobs, internships and more.

“This tribal unit needs to make sure that its young people stay invested in it or it won’t be a unit any longer,” Burke said. “We want these people to stay connected.”

Building community is part of the way these connections are cultivated. MU provides tuition waiver

through the Heritage Award to all Miami Tribe students meeting the program requirements. Heritage Award recipients must also participate in a class each semester comprised of Miami Tribe students.

These classes aim to teach them about their heritage and create a bond grounded in a shared history.

Junior Evan Theobald is one of these Miami Tribe students. He said he had known a little about his culture and heritage from Myaamia camps he attended before high school, but since coming to MU, he has learned much more.

“Every semester, all the Myaamia students take a class together,” Theobald said. “Last semester, for example, we covered language and the semester before that, history of the tribe.”

Theobald said from the classes, he has learned the importance of the cultural bond between members of the tribe.

“Even though we are distantly related, we are still one big family,” Theobald said. “I’m starting to understand why community is so important.”

Theobald said he is still learning about the Miami Tribe. He believes he and his peers still hold misconceptions of American Indian people.

“I’m still learning, but I would say it’s important to know we [American Indian tribes] still exist and we’re still a strong community,” Theobald said. “A lot of people in the U.S. view native people as what we used to be or how Hollywood portrays us. Although we do try to carry out cultural traditions, what we used to be doesn’t define us as who we are today.”

Burke said it is important for Americans to dismantle those notions about American Indians that are rooted in the past.

“They are a modern, contemporary group of people,” Burke said.

“We have this wonderful opportunity [as a university] because of our placement. We’re in their homelands and we carry their name. It’s a privilege for us to be allowed inside this culture to learn about it.”

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RedHawks ready for Firestone Invite GOLF

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The Miami University golf team heads to Akron, Ohio Monday and Tuesday to compete in the Firestone Invitational, an event where it finished seventh last fall.

The RedHawks look to improve their performance after an eighth place finish at the Jack Nicklaus Intercollegiate.

Senior Scott Cahill finished tied for sixth place overall at the event, but has his sights set on Akron, and improving his play for the betterment of the team.

“I think it’s important for me to move on,” Cahill said. “You think about our performance as a team needing to be better, that doesn’t stop with where I finished. If I’ve got to improve to help our team then that’s my part. I’ll just keep working hard, keep doing everything I can. I’ve got big goals for the rest of the year.”

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make him Captain was a smart and clear attempt to break the American malaise overseas in the Cup. Golf fans were skeptical of Watson’s picks of Webb Simpson, Keegan Bradley and Hunter Mahan. This became even more pronounced when, after the picks were in, Billy Horschel and Chris Kirk showed themselves to be the hottest golfers in America as the FedEx Cup came to a close.

Then he made matters worse by sitting rookies Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed Friday afternoon after they tagged Ian Poulter and Stephen Gallacher 5 and 4 in the morning, and sitting Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley all day Saturday only to watch as the Americans got destroyed in the afternoon halving just one of the four matches.

Juggling personalities and keeping everyone happy is an important part of the management in any sport. This is especially true in a tough 72-hour competition like the Ryder Cup. Unfortunately, it is hard to know what goes on behind closed doors on teams. It’s also hard to know why a Ryder Cup captain makes the choices he makes. Monday morning quarterbacking such choices is quite easy. After all, somebody always loses. That doesn’t mean

events of the fall, but he still sees room for better play.

“It’s just a lot of little stuff across the board,” Zedrick said.

“It’s just continuing to progress.

[Firestone] is a golf course that, overall, this weekend we’re going to be really, really familiar with so there’s definitely a high level of comfort there. I think we’re going to be ready for an even better performance.”

Last fall, the ’Hawks shot a final round of 284, 4 under par as a team.

Three players from that round, Cahill, senior Luke Shaughnessy and junior Jack Sparling will be hitting the links this weekend.

“The local knowledge is going to be there,” Zedrick said. “It’s definitely going to help if we have another guy who hasn’t seen it.

It’s definitely going to help having those guys who have seen [Firestone] before. Local knowledge will be a bonus.”

Cahill agreed the ’Hawks familiarity will prove to be helpful.

“It’s a big advantage,” Cahill said. “The practice day will be a little bit easy for us. We’ll be able to help out some of the guys who haven’t seen the course.”

The ’Hawks trip to Akron will mark their third golf tournament in three weeks. Cahill said the rigorous schedule is simply part of playing the sport and being a student-athlete.

“It’s exhausting but when we’re on the road it’s really business,” Cahill said. “Nobody’s thinking about the week before or how tired guys may be. We all do a good job of taking care of things we need to take care of as far as school goes.”

Cahill said the older teammates have the ability to help the younger teammates adjust to the schedule they face. “[Upperclassmen] have the experience to not only help ourselves, but also help the younger guys,” Cahill said. “We know what the deal is day-in and day-out when we’re on the road. We know the time it takes, so we’ll be ready for it.”

Although the ’Hawks are competing for the third time in three weeks, Cahill said the ’Hawks should have a sense of urgency.

“We’ve got three more [events] left in the fall,” Cahill said. “This is our time when we need to make our final push.”

it’s always particularly productive or fair.

Johnny Miller, the NBC broadcaster and golf legend, made an important point after the Cup ended Sunday.

“I’d like to say the captain makes a big difference, but I don’t think he makes much difference at all.

You just go let the guys play. From watching this as kids, they’re going to want to win. Nobody wants to lose. Sometimes you’ve got to put a fire under them, maybe. We just need more [Patrick] Reeds on our team.”

Distill Miller down and what is he saying? Quit whining about the coaching and worry about the players. Watching the Ryder Cup this weekend, the issue wasn’t that Europe captain Paul McGinley had some superior plan. The biggest issue was how much better his team was than the American side.

Rory McIlroy is the best player in the world and primed to dominate the next era of golf. Graeme McDowell and Justin Rose are two of the steadiest and best players on tour. Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter are excellent Ryder Cup players. Martin Kaymer won the U.S. Open this year, and a star was born in Frenchman Victor Dubuisson.

Even less well-known guys like Jamie Donaldson and Stephen Gallacher stepped up.

Now think about the Americans.

Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed played great, but are green, same with Ricky Fowler and Jimmy Walker. Jim Furyk, Zach Johnson and sadly Phil Mickelson have all seen their better days as players.

Hunter Mahan, Matt Kuchar, Bubba Watson and Keegan Bradley are all good, but inconsistent players.

Liken this to college football and we had a Big Ten team playing an SEC team. Could we have shocked them at home with a Bill Walsh-like game plan? Maybe, but we never should have expected the USA to beat this European group on their turf.

The American team will be better in 2016 at Hazeltine for this experience. This Cup, like it or not, was more of a test run for our young guys — Spieth, Reed and Fowler — who will need to play more like McDowell, Rose and Rory for the U.S. to regain the cup in 2016 at Hazeltine.

Nothing can really be worse than the 2012 American Sunday collapse at Medinah, and taking a real beating can help crystallize the state you’re in. This loss is one of those situations.

But it won’t be if we’re unable to learn the right lessons. American golf fans have to stop blaming Tom Watson, who was in an impossible position, and instead realize it’s time to start leaning on the next generation of American golf stars to start being stars.

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Michigan University, but far from their quality. The Chippewas fell to Illinois State University 5-1 earlier this season, the same team Miami defeated in thrilling 3-2 fashion. Like Toledo, CMU has yet to claim a conference victory.

Senior defender and team captain Courtney Zanotti is ready to lead the ’Hawks through conference play with positivity and determination.

“I’m looking forward to the rest of the play in the MAC,”

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this week so we have to focus on ourselves and what we need to do. Personally, I’m working on having more consistent passing to our setters and making it easy to attack.”

Northern Illinois is coming off a Thursday match as it lost/beat Western Michigan University in a MAC West clash. The Huskies had their ups and downs during the non-conference portion of their schedule, but seem to be clicking as they swept the University of Toledo and Ball State University in their opening MAC FROM W. HOCKEY »PAGE 10

each have a goal against average of 1.00, 15 saves and a .938 save percentage.

The ’Hawks have an unrelenting offensive attack, racking up 100 shots in two games.

They have done a good job defensively of not allowing many shots to get off, as their goalies have only faced 32 shots this season.

“We expect more of the same this weekend,” assistant coach Jim Stearns said. “We’re working on our new line combinations and improving our fundamentals.

It’s a long process and we’ll add little things as we go along. We’re looking forward to this weekend.

It’ll be like last week since it’s a new program and we don’t know much about them.”

Midland (0-2), under first year head coach Shelby Edwards, who spent four years on the Brookings

Zanotti said. “It’s a long stretch. We just gotta show up every single day.”

Miami faces Toledo 4 p.m.

Friday and Central Michigan 1 p.m. Sunday.

(If you’re coming to the games this weekend, don’t forget to celebrate RedHawk goals by supporting Miami soccer’s season-long fundraiser for the Pam Porter Endowment, which benefits the oncology unit at McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital. Miami soccer has raised over $1,025 for the fund so far this season.) weekend. NIU has been a strong serving team this season, as it has recorded 2.0 service aces per set and has only committed .9 service reception errors per set.

Senior outside hitter Mackenzie Roddy leads the team and is third in the conference with 3.84 kills per set, while sophomore outside hitter Mary Grace Kelly has put down 2.51 kills per set this season. Defensively, sophomore middle blocker Jenna Radtke leads with 42 blocks and freshman libero Anna Brereton has 4.02 digs per set.

The RedHawks take on the Huskies 7 p.m. Friday in Millett.

Rangers staff before taking the helm for the Warriors, is coming off a rough opening weekend of the program’s inaugural season as it dropped 10-0 and 5-1 decisions to Davenport. The team does not have any juniors or seniors on the roster.

Freshman forward Sierra Alarid picked up the lone, unassisted goal for Midland, while freshman defenders Jess Laidlaw and Jessica Sandahl earned AllState distinctions before joining the Midland roster. Sophomore goalie Tessa Singleton stopped 42 of the 52 shots she faced and freshman goalie Katelyn Tomlian made 33 saves on 38 shots. To compound their woes, players have also spent 16 minutes in the sin bin in two games this season.

The RedHawks host Midland at 9:15 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m.

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Miami football head coach Chuck Martin has a one-sided discussion with an offical during a recent ’Hawk home game.

Winless ’Hawks host winless UMass FOOTBALL TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

Miami University and the University of Massachusetts share more than Mid-American Conference membership. Both are banking on new coaches to turn struggling programs, lean heavily on transfer quarterbacks and are winless this season.

“I think they feel they are the best 0-5 team in the country and we kinda feel like we’re the best 0-5 team in the country,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “I guess Saturday, we’ll find out. They’ve played some good football and had three really close ones that they could’ve, should’ve, would’ve and we’ve probably had four of the five that we had a chance in the fourth quarter. Both of us are trying to find a way to get over the hump.”

Miami hasn’t won a game in its last 21 tries. UMass has won only one game in its last 19 tries. That lone win came against the RedHawks. The ’Hawks are banking on Chuck Martin turning things around in Oxford, while the Minutemen are hoping for success via a blast from the past.

UMass coach Mark Whipple returned to the program following a near 10-year run as an NFL assistant coach. He won 49 games from 1998-2003 at UMass, leaving him one win short of 50.

The Minutemen lean on their passing game, led by fifth-year senior quarterback Blake Frohnapfel, who transferred from Marshall University. Frohnapfel has completed just 52.7 percent of his passes, but has thrown for 1,471 yards, 11 touchdowns and three picks.

Frohnapfel’s stats are similar to Miami fifth-year senior quarterback Andrew Hendrix, who

transferred from Notre Dame.

Hendrix has completed just 45 percent of passes, but has thrown for 1,342 yards, 10 touchdowns and six picks. Frohnapfel has thrown three more passes this season than Hendrix.

“They throw the ball tremendously,” Martin said. “They throw the ball on everybody they’ve played. Crazy schedule when you look at who they’ve played … They’ve been able to score on everybody.”

Both squads are ineffective at running the football. UMass has averaged just 60 yards per game, while Miami has put up 85.6 yards.

Martin thinks Miami will have a tough time running the ball against UMass.

“No one has run the ball on them on any consistent basis,” Martin said. “I watched BC play UMass and I watched BC play USC. Boston College ran all over USC and

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The Miami University soccer team approaches its second weekend of Mid-American Conference play looking to continue its run toward a third consecutive MAC East Division title. The RedHawks are 7-2 overall and 1-1 in MAC play after defeating Bowling Green State University and losing to Eastern Michigan University last weekend.

Miami head coach Bobby Kramig thinks it won’t be easy to be the last team standing in the

conference this season, but his team shouldn’t be counted out.

“The MAC is gonna be a really tough conference this year,” Kramig said. “But I’ve always believed in this team. We’ve got good quality kids, we’ve got smart kids, we’ve got mature kids, we’ve got experienced kids.”

It will take all of these attributes to take the league this year, especially after suffering an early conference loss. But don’t put it past the RedHawks — they played their final 12 games of 2013 without a loss.

The ’Hawks line up against University of Toledo (3-6-1) Friday and take on Central Michigan

University (2-7-1) Sunday. The two matches close out Miami’s seven-game homestand that followed its season opening fourgame road trip.

The UT matchup is favorable for Miami, as it pits Toledo’s subpar offense (0.7 goals/game) against a stout RedHawk defense that has managed four shutouts in nine games. The Rockets lost both of their MAC games last weekend.

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RedHawks ready for home series W. HOCKEY JORDAN RINARD

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After opening its season with a two-game annihilation of Lindenwood University, the Miami University women’s hockey team (2-0) continues its home stand this weekend against Midland University.

“We did well last weekend,” sophomore forward Cassidy Guthrie said. “We were a little sloppy and need to improve our chemistry. We’re really excited for the weekend. We’re working

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on getting used to our lines and improving our communication; there’s some room to improve and we’ll be tough to stop if we do. [Midland is] a new team, so we don’t know what to expect so we have to play our best and work on our system and improve.”

Miami had plenty of production from the right wing in the first two games as sophomore Rachael Booth, Guthrie and sophomore Kaley Mooney have accounted for 11 goals and eight assists. The centers for the ’Hawks have contributed as well as junior Hayley Williams, sophomore Katie Augustine and freshman Kathleen

Baldwin tallied six goals and four assists.

The Red and White also had scoring from their newcomers as freshmen forwards Alyssa Visalli, Katie Baldwin and Carly Noble recorded their first goals for the program.

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they had a very, very, very difficult time running the ball on UMass.

So that wasn’t too exciting for me since we’re not the most potent running team in America.”

Both teams have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory this season.

Miami has lost one score games to Eastern Kentucky University, the University of Cincinnati and the University at Buffalo and UMass has lost one score games to the University of Colorado, Vanderbilt University and Bowling Green State University.

“Still searching for [that first win],” senior wide receiver David Frazier said. “It feels like every game has gone the same way: it’s come down to the fourth quarter.

We just gottta learn how to finish.”

Come Saturday evening, either UMass or Miami will finally have its first win of the season. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. Fans can listen live at redhawkradio.com.

After a blowout 16.5 to 11.5 point loss for the United States this weekend in the Ryder Cup, many rushed to blame captain Tom Watson for his country’s lack of success.

This criticism, while valid, is misplaced and puts a disproportionate weight on the effect the team captain has on the proceedings.

If we shouldn’t blame Watson, then who deserves the blame? The easiest culprit is injuries and suspensions, which kept Jason Dufner, Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson all out of the Cup this year.

Another choice is Jack Nicklaus. He’s the American pegged with pitching the idea of expanding the Cup from Britain to all of Europe back in the late 1970s. Before this, the U.S. dominated Britain in Ryder Cup play. The British only won three Cups before 1979 — the competition began in 1927.

Fast-forward to the modern era and the United States has won only seven of the 18 Ryder Cups since 1979, when the competition expanded from Great Britain to all of Europe.

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Red and White face NIU MU defeated Bowling Green 3-1 Thursday night VOLLEYBALL JORDAN RINARD

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After defeating Bowling Green State University 3-1 on the road Thursday, the Miami University volleyball team returns to Oxford to take on Northern Illinois University Saturday.

After starting off the season 4-2, the RedHawks have since struggled to find consistency as they have dropped four of its last eight matches. The team has been outperformed at the service line and on defense as it has only 54 service aces compared to 101 service errors and has committed 10 more return errors than its opponents. However, the team does lead the MAC with 16.87 digs per set while being second in assists with 12.72.

“We’re working on our consistency,” assistant coach Chuck Rey said. “We’re a strong team and we need to be more consistent so that we can be better. We need to have an understanding of MAC play and playing on the road. We’re working on the basics of passing and serving and improving our connections with each other …

NIU is a strong team with a lot of experience.”

Freshman outside hitter Olivia Rusek leads the ’Hawks with 2.88 kills per set. Senior setter/outside hitter Meg Riley has been highly productive this season with 2.30 kills per set, 5.92 assists per set, 2.81 digs per set and 29 blocks this season. Also putting down balls for the offense is junior outside hitter Annie Reiswig with her 2.08 kills per set.

Miami’s middle blocker tandem of redshirt junior Jenny Ingle and sophomore Paige Hill have been contributing to both offense and defense as they have accounted for 232 of the team’s 719 kills and have tallied 29 and 51 blocks, respectively. Ingle and Hill hold the first and second spots in the MAC with hitting percentages of .415 and .341 respectively.

Freshman libero Maeve McDonald has given good production so far this season, ranking fifth in the Mid-American Conference with 4.15 digs per set.

“We’re working on our courage and our confidence and improving our flow,” McDonald said. “We’re playing some pretty good teams

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STAT OF THE DAY

The number of Miami athletic events in Oxford this weekend. There are two hockey games, two soccer matches, a field hockey match, a volleyball match and a football game.