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Western Campus chimes let freedom ring CIVIL RIGHTS EMILY WILLIAMS

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Singer Bob Dylan released his album “Another Side of Bob Dylan,” featuring the track “Chimes of Freedom” on August 8, 1964, just four days after the bodies of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were found buried beneath an earthen dam in Mississippi.

The sacrifices of these three individuals were honored at the unveiling of the Freedom Summer Chimes on Sunday afternoon. The ceremony was held at the Freedom Summer Memorial on Miami’s Western Campus. Attendees included Freedom Summer veterans and their families, the chimes’ designers and Miami President David Hodge.

The audience sat on the benches of the Freedom Summer amphitheater, whose steps are inscribed with newspaper headlines from that historic Mississippi summer. “Student’s Told: Watch Out for Klan Wednesday June 17, 1964 Chicago News, Illinois,” one reads. The amphitheater now faces three young dogwood trees, one for each young man whose death showed the true gravity of that warning.

On the southwest side of each tree — facing Mississippi — is a treelike steel structure and, attached to that sculpture, a chime. The branches of the sculpted trees intertwine with

those of the real trees with the intention that, as the young dogwoods grow, the true branches will reach far beyond those of the sculptures, weaving through the steel. In keeping with the theme of three, each sculpture features three handcrafted dogwood blossoms.

Former Miami University architect Bob Keller described the intention behind their design.

“We tried to make it more or less an impression of the living trees,” he said.

As Keller went on to describe, the sculptures, these impressions of living trees, will still stand even after the trees are no longer alive, as a symbol of the indelible impression the Freedom Summer volunteers left upon the civil rights movement.

Keller said they puzzled over what tones these chimes should play and, in the process, stumbled upon Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom.” After realizing the tune was released at the same time the events of Freedom Summer were still unfolding, he said, it seemed meant to be. The lyrics even correspond to the ideals the memorial represents.

“Tolling for the warrior whose strength is not to fight … And for every underdog soldier in the night,” Dylan sings in one verse.

In light of this discovery, they designed the chimes so the tones they play make up the three main chords of the tune.

Keller went on to describe their CHIMES »PAGE 9

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The sacrifices of the three men who died in Mississippi are now being honored by chimes hung on Miami’s Western Campus during the Freedom Summer Memorial last Sunday.

JANUS forum to focus on inequality EVENT LANA POCHIRO

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Speakers Melissa Boteach and Scott Winship will receive a warm welcome on Wednesday when they meet for Miami University Political Science Department’s fall Janus Forum. Their discussion will center on the pivotal question, “What should government do about economic inequality?”

JANUS Forum President Andrew Geisler said he believes this question addresses an essential concern.

“Every semester the group of students involved deliberate on what issues are most salient with the Miami student body, and what’s in the news,” he said. “Questions like these go to the heart of what kind of a society we want to live in. Since we are the next generation, college students have to at least be thinking about these problems.”

JANUS Forum Moderator Kirsten Fowler echoed Geisler’s sentiments.

“Since the economy went downhill in 2007, it has been a major topic in American politics,” she said. “Its something that affects everyone in America.”

Geisler predicts the debate will encourage critical thinking about the state of our country’s class system and the government’s involvement.

“The discussion will naturally

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MELISSA BOTEACH

SCOTT WINSHIP

flow into talk of how to best lift the 15 percent of Americans in poverty out of it, and what to do about the fact that the American middle class collectively has not gotten a pay raise in 15 years,” he said. “Are these two data points the result of the rich getting richer? Or are there other things the government has done to exacerbate these problems, things completely unrelated to top earners and marginal tax rates?”

Both speakers have considerable background in this subject area.

Boteach works at American Progess educational institute as Vice President of Half in Ten and the Poverty and Prosperity Program.

Winship specializes in economic mobility, inequality and insecurity as the Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Fowler and Geisler expressed excitement regarding the speakers and

their opposing viewpoints.

“We hope to provide students two distinct perspectives on the most important issues of our day,” Geisler said. “Both Melissa Boteach and Scott Winship work on this issue at the highest levels of the public policy world, so they are a perfect fit for our event.”

Beyond their notable expertise and opposing standpoints, Fowler predicts that Boteach and Winship’s experience in think tanks will create a unique debate.

“They’re definitely from different sides of the spectrum, but they’re both from think tanks,” Fowler said.

“I think it’s going to be a different style. Last semester we had two journalists, and the semester before that we had two politicians, but these speakers are from think tanks. The JANUS »PAGE 9

When students receive their Bursar bills, some wonder what each of the student fee charges are and where exactly that money goes.

Senior Thomas Brown said he believes Miami University does a good job structuring the Bursar system so students can easily pay their fees in one place and see what they are paying for. However, he said Miami could be more transparent on the bills about the breakdown of the fees.

“All we see on our Bursar bill is the charge,” Brown said. “Maybe it’s a transit fee or a business school surcharge fee. However, I don’t really understand exactly where that money goes. I would either like to see it on the bill or on a webpage link that shows a list of the fees and does a breakdown of exactly where those fees go.”

David Creamer is the vice president for Finance and Business Services and treasurer of the university.

He said there are resources available to see the specifics of the fee breakdown, but agreed they are not always obvious to students.

According to Creamer, much of the reason the fees are not broken

down for students in a more accessible way is simply the difficulty of constantly publishing the information. However, it is available in the budget.

The Miami University 2014-2015 General Fee Budget reports that a student on the Oxford campus pays $1,860 per academic year in general fees. The majority of these fees go toward Intercollegiate Athletics

All we see on our Bursar bill is the charge.”

THOMAS BROWN

SENIOR, MIAMI UNIVERSITY

($997). The next highest fee is paid toward the operation and use of the Recreational Sports Center (REC) and then the Goggin Ice Center.

Creamer said students pay fees for non-academic services and activities because the state does not provide any funding for them.

“It goes back to the 1960s,” Creamer said. “The General Assembly, when it set out to define TUITION »PAGE 8

In 1980, The Miami Student reported the possibility of a merger between Western College and the College of Arts and Science. University president at the time, Phillip Shriver, originally proposed the merging of the two schools in reaction to declining Western program enrollment.

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‘Whoot Whoot’ for Whooley MU alumni create app, manage friend groups TECH SARAH KNEPP

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HIS CUP RUNNETH OVER President Hodge kicks off the Kill the Cup campaign Oct. 6 in Armstrong Student Center. Kill the Cup, the nation’s largest reusable cup contest, encourages environmentally friendly behavior among university students.

Students take ‘charge’ of banking FINANCE LEAH MARSHALL

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College is an opportunity for first-year students to gain financial independence from their parents, whether that be paying for their education, taking out loans or simply opening their first bank account.

Miranda Strait, a personal banker at the Fifth Third branch in Oxford, said the bank focuses on Miami students — particularly on helping students set up bank accounts.

“We are geared more toward the student,” Strait said. “Ninety percent of our customer base is students.”

For some students, though, starting their first bank account is old news. First-year Lindsey States is paying for her education on her own.

“I was able to go to my parents and tell them that I wanted to pay for my own education,” States said.

She took on two jobs and started saving. She decided it was important to her that she got on her own feet as quickly as possible.

In a survey, Citigroup and Seventeen Magazine discovered

States is in the minority as just 18 percent of students pay their own way through school. A significant amount of others rely on financial aid, scholarships or their parents’ incomes.

About half the college-age banking clients are still attached to their parents’ bank accounts, Strait said.

States has her own bank account and prefers the responsibility.

“I think it is very important to slowly start taking on my own bills so that I am better prepared to go out into the real world after I graduate,” States said.

When it comes to preparedness, Strait cannot emphasize how important it is to be financially responsible.

“You see a lot of lost credit cards — lost and stolen credit cards, where their information was exposed and then they had fraud in the account and then there’s a lot of maintenance involved in returning those funds,” Strait said.

While only about 30 percent of students are opening their very first accounts, many are being introduced to credit cards.

Credit card debt is fastest growing among people aged 18 to 24,

as shown in an American Debt Organization study.

Strait noted most students she deals with are given debit cards, opposed to credit cards. Debit cards draw money directly from the account, and cannot be used if the account balance is insufficient.

“Just be aware of those account balances and be aware of overdrafts,” Strait said.

Overdrawing the account is another common problem with college students, she said.

Overdrafts and other banking mistakes are easily avoidable now with all of the mobile banking tools available to students. Every bank located in Oxford has a mobile banking app that allows students to check their balances from smart phones.

Regardless of whether college students are paying for their own education or just opening their first bank account, being fiscally responsible is an important aspect of being a college student, Strait said.

“Just be diligent in checking, knowing what’s going on in your account, checking your balances, taking advantage of all the resources that banks have now,” she said.

Club coaches students on current events CLUB MICHAEL ITTU

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With all the notable conflicts occurring throughout the world— whether it be issues abroad, such as the violent acts of ISIS, or domestic concerns, such as the economic inequality of American citizens — students are finding it increasingly difficult to stay up-to-date with the current headlines. This is where the Alexander Hamilton Society steps in.

The Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS), a non-partisan organization, operates on the basis of discussing current political, economic and popular issues happening in the world.

“Alexander Hamilton Society works hard to promote discussion among its members on different issues that affect our world today,” Aly Miller, founder and president of the Miami Chapter of AHS, said.

AHS was first introduced to Miami in 2010, but dispersed after problems arose in continuing the executive branch of the society.

Because of that history, the current executive team has emphasized the idea of continuing the club for future generations of students.

“What we hope to do differently this time is to really create a sustainable chapter through word of mouth and great self-promotion and marketing,” Miller said.

Through this process of promoting the club, the executive

team made efforts to attract students of all majors in order to build a solid base for the organization.

“We distributed fliers about the Open House in multiple different buildings to attract students from all backgrounds,” Abby Burke, refounding member and vice president of the Miami Chapter of AHS, said.

Though the organization may

Meeting one or two Mondays a month, the society focuses a majority of the meetings on discussionbased conversation that come from widespread perceptions of the news.

“The national office does an excellent job running their Twitter and Facebook pages, constantly updating members on different news stories and events taking place,” Miller

Two Miami University alumni recently visited Oxford, but not for the traditional trip to Bagel and Deli or a stroll around campus. The visit was for business.

Tessa Husain and Christina Janczak (’13) returned to Oxford to promote their new business, a social media app called Whooley.

The two envisioned the idea at Skipper’s Pub during fall of their senior year, Husain and Janczak said.

They were talking about their social lives and different friends when an important question came up. “‘What if we could visualize all the different parties going on on any given night with all of our different groups of friends?’” Janczak asked.

And from there, the platform for Whooley was established. The two friends wanted to create a way to easily manage their friend groups and what those groups were doing on any given night.

“We decided we wanted to create this exclusive network of friends that you actually hang out with and you can easily create groups with them,” Husain said.

Husain and Janczak immediately began working to make their ideas tangible by getting a team together in September 2012.

“We worked with our development team every week to implement it during our senior year,” Husain said.

After graduation, Husain returned to her home in the Washington, D.C. area, while Janczak went back to the suburbs of Chicago. Shortly after, they decided to give Whooley a makeover and focus their attention on making Whooley a successful, usable app.

“Christina [Janczak] moved out here [to Washington, D.C.], so we knew this was going to be our fulltime job,” Husain said.

In September 2013, after hiring a development team in Ukraine to help them, Husain and Janczak were able to focus on developing the app and getting it ready for release.

Whooley allows users to connect with their friend groups casually and easily.

“Within these groups, you can create ‘Whooleys’ instead of events, because events have that connotation that they have to be a big planned thing, but Whooleys can be anything,” Husain said. “They can be spontaneous. You can create Whooleys with different groups of friends and then see which friends are there in real time.”

The real time feature of the app

allows students to display their location on Whooley and see the location of their friends.

“The big thing here is that Whooley communicates for you your friends’ locations and where to go without having to constantly check in with your friends,” Husain said.

Whooley was released in June.

Users have the ability to easily manage the many different activities Miami students are involved in, from social circles to study groups.

“We really focused on this huge social community among Miami,” Husain said.

The Miami social scene served as the inspiration for Whooley and the elements of the app.

“A lot of our features are based on our experiences at Miami, both socially and academically,” Janczak said.

What if we could visualize all the different parties going on on any given night?”

CHRISTINA JANCZAK MIAMI ALUMNA (‘13)

The week of Sept. 15, Husain and Janczak returned to Miami in order to promote their new app. The visit resulted in 300 more users added to the Whooley network that, at the time, had 600 users.

The main objective of the visit was to spread the word about the app and hone in on their marketing strategy.

“We have the most connections at Miami, so it was easier to start there,” Husain said.

Campus ambassadors were also a huge part of the marketing push that Husain and Janczak participated in during their few days at Miami.

“We currently have 20 campus ambassadors that hopefully will help promote this and spread it more,” Husain said. “We want raw feedback from the ambassadors and we want them to help us prioritize new features.”

Campus ambassadors, like junior Emily Parsons, work to promote Whooley and relay student opinions to Husain and Janczak.

“As a Whooley ambassador, I promote the app by creating Whooley events and WHOOLEY »PAGE 5

AHS if for everyone ... We want to put on forums and debates that are interesting to all people, with all different interests.”

ABBY BURKE

VP OF MIAMI ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY

seem geared more toward students interested in politics and government, the goal of the society is to welcome a diverse group of students interested in a wide variety of issues facing the world today.

“AHS is for everyone, not just one specific major, as some organizations similar to us are set up,” Burke said. “We want to put on forums and debates that are interesting to all people, with all different interests.”

The organization enlists the work of “political” and “economic” contributors whose role is to provide sources of current events (i.e. articles, videos, pictures, etc.), which the society then discusses and debates the various viewpoints that may arise from these sources of news.

said. “We hope to run the Miami chapter pages in the same way.”

In an effort to better connect students to this outlet of news and issues, the organization will be attending the Reagan National Defense Forum Nov. 15. The Forum brings together members of Congress, top civilian officials and senior military commanders for a day of high-level discussion regarding the United States’ national defense.

“Students who choose to attend the Reagan National Defense Forum can expect to be among the nation’s top national security advisors, learning about different policy initiatives and ways we can focus debate concerning our national security,” Miller said.

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LET FREEDOM RING The 14 bells of the Molyneaux-Western Bell Tower, each bearing a different inscription, rise above the Freedom Summer memorials on Western Campus.

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Issue 2 to add new electricity option Option may add new money-saving electricity choice, voters decide with Nov. 4 ballot ELECTION JACKIE MOONEY STAFF WRITER

Registered voters in the City of Oxford will soon have the opportunity to vote on Issue 2, which proposes a third electric option for residents that may save them money.

On Nov. 4, voters will decide whether to add this third option, called an electric aggregation program.

Currently, there are two electric options in the City of Oxford: Duke Energy and the Ohio Electric Choice Program. If Issue 2 passes, Oxford will move forward with plans to add the third option.

Duke Energy serves residents with electricity unless they choose to do the Ohio Electric Choice Program independently.

If they choose the Ohio Electric Choice Program, they are allowed to choose an electric supplier on their own from a price comparison list called Apples to Apples that The Public Utilities

Commission of Ohio provides.

The proposed third option would be an electric aggregation program that allows residents of Oxford to join together to form a group that will purchase all of their electricity from the same lowest-cost supplier.

City Manager Douglas Elliot called this “buying power” — when groups of people all buy from one supplier to get a low price.

“Issue 2 allows the city to collect everyone’s load, then go out and get an electric rate for everyone that is hopefully lower than current rates,” Elliot said.

The city plans to hold two public hearings on Issue 2’s approval in order to gain public feedback.

“At that stage in the process we will decide if we want a renewable energy component added to the program. This will be something we will have to discuss with the community in order to choose a supplier everybody is happy with,” Elliot said.

A program plan will be created and then a notice will be sent to

all area residents. The notice will provide the choice to opt-out if residents do not want to be included in the program. If they do not opt-out, they will automatically be a part of the electric aggregation program that is being voted on in Issue 2.

Elliot uses the Ohio Electric Choice Program himself and said he saves about half a cent per kilowatt-hour of electricity he uses.

Each year he guesses it saves him approximately 50 dollars and that with a new option he hopes to

More options are good; providing the city with more flexibility.”

MIKE DREISBACH

CITY SERVICE DIRECTOR

“I haven’t heard of anyone in opposition of the program,” City of Oxford Service Director Mike Dreisbach said. “I think voters will be in support of the program when it is put to vote simply because Issue 2 provides more electric options for residents. More options are good; providing the city with more flexibility.”

If Issue 2 passes, the program is expected to go into full effect May 2015.

save even more each year.

“If the residents of a house use 9,000 kilowatt-hours of energy each year and we are only able to save them a penny per kilowatthour with this new option, then they are still saving 90 dollars a year,” Elliot said. “We won’t know how much money we can save residents until Issue 2 is approved and we begin looking for rates, but as college students, why not save a little money?”

POLICE BEAT Female falls from second story window At 9:16 p.m. on Saturday, police responded to a call from The Woods bar in response to a female student falling from a second story window above the bar. Upon arrival, multiple witnesses told the police that they saw the female in question walk in front of a bus, down the middle of the street and to the McCulloughHyde emergency room at her own accord. One witness said he followed her for her safety, due to her behavior. The officers went to the hospital, where they met with the female, who was very confused and said that she did not remember any events of the evening other than that she was with her sister. Her friend stated that the female had been “day drinking all day,”and a witness reported that he saw the female kick out the screen of the window she fell out of and proceed to try to climb down the building, at which point she fell onto him as he positioned himself to break her fall. He sustained no injuries. The owner of the apartment in question was contacted, and he said that he did not know the female, that his television had been damaged and that female’s wallet was in his apartment. He and his roommate declined to press charges. OPD contacted the female the following day, and she still did not remember the events of the preceding evening, though she was extremely apologetic. She was cited a misdemeanor for Public Intoxication to a Harmful Condition.

Male pulled over, found intoxicated

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I’M ON A FLOAT Last week the Talawanda High School girls’ volleyball team celebrated homecoming weekend and took part in the Talawanda High School Homecoming Parade. The team rode atop an Oxford Fire Department fire truck through Uptown Oxford.

Rare virus suspected in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital HEALTH SARAH BUOP

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Multiple cases of the disease Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) have recently been reported in over 40 states in the U.S. This rare respiratory disease was first reported in California in 1962, and has since been uncommon until recently.

The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center admitted 540 patients due to similar symptoms of the disease, but there have been no confirmed cases. According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, generally infants, children and teenagers are most likely to become infected with EV-D68 due to the lack of having full immunity to outside exposures of the virus.

Many of these symptoms are related to the common cold. The CDC reported that mild symptoms might include fever, runny nose, sneezes, cough and body aches.

However, the stronger symptoms include wheezing and difficulty breathing. Miami Student Health Center clinician, Dr. Deborah

Richardson, spoke about the comparisons with this virus and other common viruses seen on campus.

“The main difference between this virus and other respiratory viruses is this virus tends to make some people much sicker than usual. Some of the people who

spreads. Nine reports in Denver, Colorado have been made of weakness in patients’ limbs that have tested positive for the virus.

The CDC is continuing their investigation on whether paralysis is related to the outbreak of the Enterovirus D68.

The main difference between this virus is, this virus tends to make people much sicker than usual.”

DR. DEBORAH RICHARDSON

STUDENT HEALTH CENTER CLINICIAN

have had this illness have gotten very short of breath, with dropping oxygen levels, and they have needed to be hospitalized for a while to be stabilized,” Dr. Richardson said. “Antibiotics do not help with viruses, but supportive care has been useful for these (sometimes) severely ill patients.”

Since mid-August to Sept. 26, 2014, there have been 277 reported cases in the U.S. and the District of Columbia.

Recent cases have suspected a link to paralysis as the virus

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) Labroratory recently confirmed an additional nine cases of the virus, for a total of 19 cases in the area. Miami Student Health Center clinician, Dr. Susan Bantz, was sent an email from the State Health Commissioner from Indiana about the confirmed cases of the virus.

“EV-D68 infections can be mild and self-limited, but children with asthma are at risk for severe respiratory illness and may require hospitalization to receive

intensive supportive therapy,” the Indiana State Health Commissioner said. “People who smoke are also at higher risk for severe infection due to Enterovirus.”

Studies show most of the enterovirus infections in the U.S. occur during the summer and fall, and tend to occur in several year cycles.

This virus can be transmitted through contact from the eyes, nose and mouth of an infected person.

“Of course, the best way to avoid picking up this virus, like any other virus, is to follow all the normal healthy suggestions. Wash your hands. Keep your hands away form your eyes and nose and mouth. Don’t share beverages or food. Don’t kiss anyone who is already sick. And eat a well balanced diet and get good reasonable amounts of rest, to keep your immune system strong,” Dr. Richardson said.

According to the CDC, they are continuing to do laboratory testing for the enterovirus, as well as helping multiple state laboratories identify the virus by transferring new diagnostic technologies.

IN THE NEWS OXFORD

CINCINNATI

Talawanda teachers from 1970s reunite

Mother and daughter killed in car accident

A lunch party held last week at LaRosa’s reunited more than 60 former area teachers and their students.

–Oxford Press

A mother and daughter were identified Sunday night after being killed by an oncoming vehicle.

–The Enquirer

NATIONAL

INTERNATIONAL

Mysterious U.S. Air Force space plane to land soon

North Korean leader makes public appearance

After orbitting for more than two years, the unmanned plane is expected to land soon.

–CNN

According to officials, leader Kim Jong Un has made his first appearence in 40 days.

–ABC News

At 12:54 a.m. on Friday, an officer on patrol was driving north on South Campus Avenue when he noticed a vehicle in front of him had no rear lights on. He pulled the vehicle over, and when the driver lowered his window, a strong odor of alcohol emitted from the vehicle.

The officer asked both the driver and his passenger if either of them had consumed alcohol that evening, and they both denied drinking. The driver stated he had pink eye and an upset stomach, and could therefore not drink alcohol. The officer asked him to exit the vehicle for further questioning, as something had to explain the odor. The driver stepped out and agreed to perform multiple sobriety tests, all of which he failed; subsequently, the officer placed the driver under arrest. At the police station, the officer informed the male that his passenger had admitted that they both had alcohol earlier that evening while “pregaming,” at which point the male stated that he had two or three shots worth of alcohol in a slushy his friend made for him. He submitted to a breath test, which found his BAC to be .196, indicating he had much more to drink than what he stated. He was cited with Driving under the influence, Offenses involving underage persons and failure to have taillights, and was released.

Asleep in the bushes At 9:08 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, officers responded to a report of a highly intoxicated male in front of a Laundromat of a trailer park.

Upon arrival, the officer noticed the male was laying in the bushes in front of the Laundromat with his pants halfway down. The officer asked the male if he was okay, to which the male replied, “Maybe.”

He denied having taken drugs, but admitted that he had drunk vodka at a friend’s trailer, though he could not remember where that was or his friend’s name. The officer noticed he seemed unsure of where he was and needed help standing, at which point the officer procured ID, which placed the male at 18 years of age.

The officer took the male to OPD, where he was cited with Use by Underage Persons and Intoxication: Harmful Condition and released to his grandmother.

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Craft beer connoisseur to host Beer Academy CUISINE MADELEINE LAPLANTE-DUBE

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Beer 101, craft beer tasting and an open bar. That is what the Oxford Community Arts Center (OCAC) has in store for Thursday, Oct. 16 at the Beer Academy Event.

Beginning 7:30 p.m., the OCAC will be hosting a U.S. Open Beer Championship and Kona Bistrosponsored Beer 101 class, in which 50 participants will be able to learn about and taste 10 craft beers for the ticket price of $35.

Caroline Croswell, the director of the OCAC, calls it “a combination of a class and a social event.”

“There will be a craft beer tasting and a discussion on what the heck those beers actually are,” she said.

Non-ticket holders are also wel-

come to come to the extra credit event, happening at Kona Bistro, which will be providing hors d’oeuvres from 8:30 to 9 p.m. These participants will be able to take part in the cash bar and live music along with the class participants, who will take part in an open bar instead.

Dow Scoggins, director of the U.S. Open Beer Championship and president of BeerInfo.com, will be hosting the class.

“We will be tasting 10 different types of craft beer, starting off with lighter beers and ending with the very heavy and very dark,” Scoggins said.

Having been in the beer business for 25 years, Scoggins will be introducing those members of the class to the difference between craft beers as well as a little bit of history behind each one. “There’s always a story,” Scoggins said.

Having began his stint in the real

world as a computer science graduate, craft beer began to spark Scoggins’ interest when he decided he wanted to start his own business.

It’s all about the community with the craft business. We’re not just selling beers.”

DOW SCOGGINS

DIRECTOR OF U.S. OPEN BEER CHAPIONSHIPS

“I always liked fishing, soccer and beer growing up. I couldn’t be a fisherman, and I couldn’t be a soccer player, so I decided to get into beer,” Scoggins joked.

Realistically, Scoggins helped start an empire.

“In 1985, I read about a small brewery in Vermont in a ‘Times’ article,” Scoggins said. “There

weren’t any craft beers around at that time.”

In turn, Scoggins relocated to Canada and began working coast to coast exploring and researching breweries.

Scoggins went on to start Georgia’s first microbrewery, and at the time was the youngest brewery owner in the United States.

“Today, there are 3,000 breweries in the United States. When I started, I was number 175,” Scoggins said.

As the director of the U.S. Open Beer Championships, Scoggins is also exposed to award-winning brews annually.

Caroline Croswell wanted to bring in Scoggins as a committee member, but he did her one better. He offered to put on the Beer Academy class.

“What we’re hoping [with the Beer Academy class] is to build on the U.S. Open Beer Championships

and also to bring in young people and young professionals into the Arts Center,” Croswell said.

The Oxford Community Arts Center is, very community driven, Croswell said. With events like Beer Academy, the Center hopes to create awareness within the Oxford and Miami University community as well as support local arts.

“Craft beer is a kind of art,” Croswell said.

For Scoggins, the beer business is all about the people, too.

“It’s all about the community with the craft business,” Scoggins said. “We’re not just selling beers, we’re selling ourselves and getting people to join in on that.”

Scoggins will bring a bit of that community to the Oxford Community Arts Center this Thursday.

To be a part of it for an evening, purchase Beer Academy tickets online at ocacbeeracademy.bpt.me.

ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

HARMONIZING IN HALL Hall Auditorium was home to the Miami University Wind Ensemble Wednesday, where they performed a concert conducted by Miami’s Gary A. Speck and University of Texas’ Jerry Junkin, who is also music director of the Dallas Wind Symphony and the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonica.

‘Horns’ balances fear and feeling FILM DEVON SHUMAN

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Nowadays, it seems that cheap horror movies are a dime a dozen.

Every time you turn around, Hollywood is releasing another “Paranormal Activity,” yet another film filled with ghosts and demons and supposedly “based on a true story”.

Whether being titled “The Conjuring or Sinister or Insidious,” all of these horrifying flicks are one and the same: they lack strong storylines and character development and instead, derive their terror from large CGI budgets and clever use of visual and sound effects designed to startle you out of your seat.

If this is what you are looking for, do not waste your time with “Horns,” the latest from director Alexandre Aja (“The Hills Have Eyes,” “Mirrors”).

Though touted as a horror movie and set for a theatrical release on Halloween, “Horns” is not your run-of-the-mill scary movie and is, in fact, not really a horror movie at all. Hiding behind its facade of hellish overtones, creepy setting and music is a love story, and a beautiful, heart-wrenching one at that.

Based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Joe Hill (son of horror master, Stephen King), “Horns” follows the story of Ignatius “Ig” Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe), a man in a small New Hampshire town who finds himself in the spotlight after being blamed for the rape and murder of Merrin Williams (Juno Temple), his longtime girlfriend and the love of his life.

Shunned by his town and brutally scrutinized by reporters, Ig turns to the bottle and after one night of particularly heavy drinking, wakes up to find that he has sprouted two devil horns. As he goes about his day, he begins to realize that the horns have certain powers. Everyone he talks to suddenly reveals to him their darkest, most animalistic urges and if he wants, Ig can make them give in to these impulses. With his newfound abilities, Ig sets out to

clear his name and find Merrin’s true killer.

As a storyteller, Hill is a master at balancing fear with emotion, a trait that was most certainly passed down from his father. In the same way that King paralleled the horrors of prison with Andy and Red’s friendship in “The Shawshank Redemption,” Hill balances Ig’s terrifying situation with the story of his and Merrin’s beautiful, yet doomed, relationship.

Hiding behind its facade of hellish overtones, creepy setting and music is a love story, and a beatiful, heart-wrenching one Using the same non-linear storyline as Hill, coupled with clever use of musical score and cinematography which the written word cannot provide, Aja captures this balance perfectly. In one scene we have a nostalgic flashback to a scantily clad Merrin dancing seductively against a sunlit backdrop to the tune of David Bowie’s “Heroes,” while in the next we see Ig in horns and a hoodie, driving alone on a rainy day.

In this sense, Aja’s adaptation of the novel is spot-on, and in fact, he comes close to nailing it overall.

In addition to capturing the dark and beautiful tone of the book, and imitating Hill’s Tarantino-esque, non-linear storytelling technique, Aja finds the same balance of devilish humor and pathos evident in the novel.

Due to his unique powers, Ig begins to have interesting interactions with his peers. Some add comic relief to the story, such as when he convinces two reporters to beat each other up in order to win an interview with him. Others, however, tug at our heartstrings such as when his mother reveals that she hates being around him.

Helping Aja strike this balance is Radcliffe himself who shows a true

actor’s range in his ability to make us both laugh and cry. Putting on a surprisingly believable American accent and truly becoming the defeated, yet defiant character of Ig Perrish, Radcliffe achieves his stated goal of proving he is more than just Harry Potter (although this doesn’t mean that you still won’t lose a little bit of your childhood when you hear your favorite boy wizard drop the F-bomb). Alongside him is a flurry of other great acting performances, from David Morse’s emotional depiction of Merrin’s lonely and depressed father to Heather Graham’s portrayal of the giddy waitress who wants a slice of the limelight.

Despite the attention to detail and wonderful acting, where Aja’s adaptation ultimately fails is in its inability to capture the in-depth themes and psychology behind the book. Where the novel explores the ideas of sin, suffering and heaven vs. hell, the movie chooses to stay at the surface and focus solely on Ig’s search for Merrin’s killer.

One cause of this is the poor performance by Max Minghella as Ig’s best friend and lawyer, Lee Tourneau. While in the book Tourneau is a rich and complex character, Minghella fails to show more range as an actor than Wilson in “Castaway.”

To his credit, however, he had very little material to work with.

Time that was spent on overly indulgent special effects, such as a full frontal shotgun head shot or an excessively trippy drug overdose, should have been devoted to fully developing Minghella’s character’s backstory and motivations. If Aja had succeeded here, he would have come close to a perfect adaptation.

Ignoring the novel for a moment, however, what we are left with is a great stand-alone film, a refreshing break from the current onslaught of cheap, shallow horror flicks. “Horns” explores the themes of love, friendship and truth, and forces us to confront who we are and what we believe in.

A cappella community to collaborate in concert MUSIC NORA MOLINARO

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Miami University’s a cappella ensembles, Open Fifth, The Misfitz, The Treblemakers, Just Duet and Soul2Soul, are hosting a joint concert to showcase their talent and love for music 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at Hall Auditorium.

Every year, the a cappella groups gain new members through auditions. Each group is unique in their own way in style and voice.

“We sound best when we sing R&B music, but we’ve sung almost every genre at least once,” Open Fifth music director and Miami senior, De’Aaron Isaac, said.

Open Fifth is an all-men a cappella group that formed in 2013.

With 17 members, the men of Open Fifth are well prepared to get everyone clapping and dancing in their seats.

“One song we really are excited about, is singing ‘Beautiful’ by Christina Aguilera,” Isaac said. “We can’t wait to share it with our fans and really bring the beauty of that song in the form of a cappella. For the future, we are really excited to sing ‘Rather Be,’ which will be a joint song with The Misfitz.”

The Misfitz is the oldest all-female a cappella group at Miami, with 17 current members and 70 alumni.

“Looking back, auditioning for The Misfitz was the best decision I could have made for myself because I probably wouldn’t have met more than half of these girls at Miami if I hadn’t joined.

We are all involved in different groups, backgrounds, majors and lives on campus and I love that,” The Misfitz President Tara Rissmeyer said. “For the A Cappella All-Stars concert, the Misfitz are performing ‘Ain’t It Fun’ by Paramore, ‘Bang Bang’ by Jessie J and

‘All About That Bass’ by Meghan Trainor, with a couple surprises here and there throughout the set.”

Another all-female a cappella group, The Treblemakers, are also ready for their performance at Hall Auditorium. The Treblemakers was formed in 2010 and stands today with 16 girls total.

“I absolutely love performing with my girls,” The Treblemakers Treasurer Julia Schroyer said.

“We’ve really grown together as a group over the course of my four years so it’s fun to perform and show off the hard work we put in.”

The Treblemakers PR chair, Miami Elizabeth Stermer, said hearing all the other groups and the songs they have been working on and are showcasing is always really fun, especially since they’re all pretty good friends within the groups.

Just Duet, formally known as The Mergers, is currently the only co-ed a cappella group open to all majors. The rename happened in 2013, in an effort to make the group open to anyone on campus.

Just Duet has seventeen members: nine women and eight men.

“I have always felt that music is something that brings people together. It creates this special bond between people and that’s exactly how I feel with Just Duet,” Kristen Condon said.

Just Duet will perform “We Owned the Night” by Lady Antebellum, among others.

Soul2Soul consists of 18 men that pride themselves on making meaningful connections with everyone in the audience, and making a significant, positive difference in their lives through song.

Soul2Soul performs a variety of songs including an upbeat EDM medley and “Break Free”

by Ariana Grande.

Tickets for the A Cappella All Stars concert are available at the door or for pre-sale at the Shriver Box Office.

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encouraging people to download the app,” Parsons said. “We have weekly meetings with the creators to give our feedback on the app and set new goals for each week.”

Husain and Janczak’s plans for the future are to keep promoting Whooley and make sure the user numbers grow, especially among various on-campus groups.

“We will most likely go back to Miami for a little bit to do a big push and transfer it more among Greek life and other organizations,” Husain said.

Husain and Janczak also want to draw more national attention to Whooley and get the word out about their brand.

“We’re going to start building a presence among the tech industry itself, as well as investors and the press,” Husain said.

So far, Whooley has been

around for just three months and has experienced a good amount of success. As of Sept. 23, 2014, Whooley had reached just over 1200 users.

“I think this app will become the next big thing once more people download it,” Parsons said. “I use the app every day to find my friends and decide where to go at night. It eliminates the annoying texts between friends to make plans and see who is there or not and when everyone is going.”

Husain and Janczak are confident in the fact that Whooley will be set apart from other apps that are developed and never flourish.

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Driving around Miami makes “the most beautiful campus there ever was” ugly EDITORIAL

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

As much as we beam with pride over our picturesque campus, the moment we get behind the wheel, all inspiration for Instagram captions is lost. When driving around campus, the oranges and reds of the Western trees seem to fade, the brick buildings turn into giant obtrusive obstacles and we’re seriously cursing that one Robert Frost quote.

When we’re running behind and frantically searching for a parking spot, the narrow roads and random traffic pile-ups and hectic crosswalks put a dark tint on the so-called beauty of Oxford. We circle around stacked lines at stop signs as what should be a three-minute trip turns into being 10 minutes late for class.

There’s also the daily battle of car versus human at any major intersection. Normal traffic patterns somehow enter into an alternate universe when it comes to places like Patterson Avenue.

No matter the color of the stoplight, there’s no guarantee you’ll ever make it past the flood of backpack-wearing walkers.

When we’re driving, students are no longer our beloved peers, but slow-moving idiotic blurs of people that constantly get in our path. Sure, we’ll let one or two of you cross the street, but then you ought not push your luck.

This inevitably leads to some stragglers darting out as soon as we move our foot from the brake to the pedal. We glare at you and make exasperated flares with our hands saying, “Hey, watch out, I’m in a car!”

But all we can do is daydream about teleporting as you ignorantly dodge the fronts of our cars. Let’s just say we’ve had way too many close calls.

So, yes, driving on campus is a blend of frustration and inefficiency that causes more headaches than any Economics exam we’ve ever taken.

One of the major conundrums is the process of parking. When the subject comes up, the Editorial Staff can’t help but cry in agony. Even if you fork over hundreds of dollars for a suitable

windshield wiper.

Driving adds complications to getting around campus when you’re walking or biking, too.

When you’re walking from point A to point B on campus,

But all we can do is daydream about teleporting as you ignorantly dodge the fronts of our cars. Let’s just say we’ve had way too many close calls.”

parking pass or give up a small fortune in coins each day, parking on campus is akin to eternally not getting the last piece of pie on Thanksgiving.

And, more often than not, you won’t have any quarters or you won’t see the sign and you’ll walk out to your car only to see the worst sight of them all.

Your heart drops as you grab that thin piece of paper fluttering under the weight of your

there’s no sense in patience for waiting for cars to go by. You clearly have the right of way, can’t they see the crosswalk?

So we implement the “walk first, look second” mentality, which doesn’t exactly match what we were told as youngsters, but it gets us across the street.

Sure, all of this could be seen as a meritless list of complaints – but it comes back to the fact that Miami was not meant to be

a driving campus. It’s nowhere in our founding principles, as evidenced by the serious lack of parking. So when we continue to hop in the car to drive to class, we’re trying to make Miami something it’s not.

The everyday dangers and frustrations of driving on campus are not something to be ignored – they’re bound to lead to a moment that is no longer a joking matter. And we need to start seeing it that way.

So here’s one idea. Let’s stop driving on campus like we’re playing Crazy Taxi. Or we could just stop driving on campus altogether, because it makes us sad.

When we drive, we zip past the beauty of this campus and we don’t even get a chance to Snapchat a photo of that weird squirrel. A 20-minute walk or figuring out the bus schedule may sound daunting, but these are far better options than what awaits us when we drive around campus.

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Aziz Ansari coming to campus: What do you think of Family Weekend’s guest of honor?

The Parks & Recreation comedian has sparked a lot of publicity

I’m stoked about Aziz coming to campus, I have floor seats. It may never happen, but I would love if Tina Fey and Amy Poehler or Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig came. They’re hilarious and so confident.”

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I’m indifferent about him coming. He’s a funny guy but I’m not going to see him. I would like to see Shane Crone, who has a documentary called Bridegroom, come and talk about gay rights.”

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When I found out he was coming, I was personally so excited and then very jealous. I love watching Parks & Rec and would give anything to be back on campus for the show. It would always be great to get any other big names to speak at Miami.”

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The state of presidential politics POLITICS Presidential politics talk can never start too early, but it’s only really safe to write about it when the Des Moines Register starts polling.

Though it’s been going on for quite some time, the 2016 silly season feels like it officially began last week when Bloomberg Politics and the Register teamed up to release some interesting polling data.

True to form, the silly season’s early polls have led to some truly silly early interpretations of the coming race. The highlight of the poll is certainly the match-up of Hillary Clinton—who everyone simply assumes will be the Democratic nominee at their own peril—and seven of the perceived front-running Republicans for the nomination.

Only Mitt Romney leads Hillary, and he leads just 44-43, out of a field including (in order of how they fare against Clinton) Representative Paul

Ryan, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

This poll is not good for the Beltway consensus on the 2016 election.

Despite leading against a bunch of people who probably have low name-identification in Iowa, Clinton’s favorable/unfavorable rating is upside down—47-49.

But let’s go back to the real headline from this poll—the Romney factor. Due to their revulsion toward anyone espousing actual conservative views, it is understandable that the mainstream press would enjoy pumping up the Romney 2016 buzz.

The reality is that Mitt Romney will only be the next Tom Dewey (who lost for Republicans in both 1944 and 1948) if Republican voters are dumb enough to let him.

Fortunately they are not. His level of support in this poll is likely due to

the fact that he’s a known quantity more than anything else. The problem—the one that submarines his hopes—is that Republican voters, before his too-little too-late comeback against the president, knew he spoke conservatism as a second language, as pundits like Jonah Goldberg put it.

Romney looks fine now, but put him back in Iowa next winter and the result would be identical to his tie with Rick Santorum. The search for the not-Romney would simply begin anew. The reason he won’t jump in this time is because, as Romney must know, the not-Romney’s this cycle are sure to be much stronger.

Replace Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum with people like Rubio, Cruz, and Paul for 2016. The views might be similar in some ways, but the level of professionalism at the political game PRESIDENTIAL »PAGE 8

Morality needs to be judged through a cultural perspective GLOBAL Last week, criticism erupted over HBO Real Time host Bill Maher and author/neuroscientist Sam Harris’ comments about Islam. The most controversial statement from Harris was probably this: “We have to be able to criticize bad ideas, and Islam is the motherload of bad ideas.”

This quote serves as an accurate summary for the whole debate.

This idea isn’t exclusive to Islam; Harris is among the ranks of what I call “The Triangle of Atheism,” comprised of the late Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins in formal debates against religion. I think we can all be intellectually honest that religion as a whole has a few bad ideas.

I want to expand on what The Miami Student’s own Brett Milam said last week on this subject. Referring to Harris and Maher, he stated,

“It’s bigotry wrapped up in edgy pseudo-intellect”.

While Milam’s piece was factually correct, it proved Maher’s point that liberals are very quick to criticize American issues such as income inequality, but fail to criticize injustices for fear of being labeled as bigots.

It’s not fair to Maher’s thesis to misrepresent his criticisms of religion as painting with a broad brush.

Maher’s point wasn’t to attack all individuals of Islam, and his debate last week is a small slice of years of religious examination.

Not all cultures are on an equal playing field when it comes to morality. He attacked notions like Saudi Arabia not allowing women to drive and the fact that 35 percent of British Muslims approve of suicide attacks.

As someone who has lived in Afghanistan for over a year, I agree with Maher that Western society is MORALITY »PAGE 8

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It’s time to explore career options in the Third Sector Is it too soon to toss around the career word? Students haven’t even had their fall midterms yet and Homecoming is weeks away.

So what a thrill kill to suggest that underclass students should already be plotting their next summer experience and graduating seniors exploring their career or advanced study options.

To take some of the edge off, why not check out a promising, yet commonly overlooked option known as the third sector. I’m not talking about business or government, but the not-for-profit and nongovernmental organization (NGO) sector.

Sound familiar?

It is this third sector that especially since the 2008 recession has been growing faster than the other two. NGO employment is up 17 percent vs. 8 percent for government and -6 percent for businesses, according to data analyzed by the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) from 2000 to 2010. This stands to reason. As the unmet needs of an economy grow, NGOs answer the call while even dipping into reserves to do it. NCCS reports that private giving actually fell 10 percent during the last decade. Governments rely increasingly on NGOs to deliver services, but that pipeline

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(approximately $137 billion in grants to NGOs from all federal, state and local agencies) contracted, too. Even as late as 2012, NCCS survey data showed 42 percent of NGOs were tapping their reserves and 38 percent took on debt.

Volunteerism (valued off the books at $296 billion) also helps stretch the dollar. This is where the college-educated population has an edge – nearly 40 percent volunteered in 2013 versus 25 percent of the adult population overall, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Volunteerism can often be the entry point to promising NGO careers. Not just in the literal sense of being the people who show their pluck at advancing the cause and are suddenly plucked to fill staff openings. We tend to get involved in causes that fuel our passions and by performing the tasks that play to or fast become our strengths.

Rarely does anyone connect the dots on some pre-calculated linear path. Serendipity has much to do with it. So if we do not put ourselves out there to learn by trial and error the work that might inspire us and one day propel our careers, then we will surely miss being in the right place at the right time.

NGOs are also more diverse with 77 percent women and 36 percent

people of color in managerial posts (vs. 51 percent and 18 percent, respectively, in the U.S. managerial workforce), according to a Council of Foundations survey. And it’s not just traditional social work. Most nonprofit trade associations and professional societies – of which every career avenue has at least one – offer programs aimed at new entrants to the field. Explore their websites for career resources and sign up for any special e-forums for young professionals. If you can get to chapter meetings or even national conferences, registrations fees are often reduced (to cover meals only) or entirely waived for those with a valid student ID. Bear in mind, too, that every NGO is run much like a business. Yes, they hire subject matter experts, but also need accounting, marketing, events planning, IT, research and other talent to carry out their missions. So consider careers in NGOs by getting engaged with one or more of them now – they could prove the best means to channel your passions and skills while making a difference.

MARK CANNON

MIAMI ALUMNUS, CLASS OF 1986 APCO INTERNATIONAL CHIEF OF STAFF

DEATH WITH DIGNITY Brittany Maynard, 29, has chosen to spend her last few weeks alive campaigning for Death with Dignity laws across the country.

FALL BREAK-ISH Does one day off really count? With on- campus jobs and late Thursday classes, we don’t really feel like we had much of a break.

ABUNDANT OCTOBER EVENTS Fall is a time for fun, and there’s plenty of festive on-campus activities. Try out Family Weekend, Homecoming events or even baking some pumpkin bread.

NEW JERSEY FOTOBALL HAZING A high school in New Jersey is in jeopardy of losing their football program after hazing allegations caused seven players to appear in court, now facing potential jail time.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Yousafzai, 17, is the youngest person ever to earn the award.

SECRET AIR FORCE PLANE RETURNS After being in space since 2012, the X-37B plane returns this week. We’re just a little curious as to what exactly was going on up there for so long.

We can learn more from Malala Yousafzai’s youthful wisdom than Obama’s messages MalalaPOLITICS Yousafzai, the MILAM’S MUSINGS Pakistani activist, became the youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize at only 17 years old. Her message of “pens over bombs” is a message America would do well to follow.

She was awarded the prize for her advocacy on behalf of women’s education in Pakistan, which she began at the age of 11.

Three years later she was shot in the head by the Taliban because she spoke of those issues in opposition to them.

In an interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last year, Yousafzai spoke about what she would do when threatened with violence by the Taliban.

“If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do, Malalala? … If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others … with cruelty . . . you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through education … then I’ll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well… that’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want,” she said.

Malala’s courage to stand up to the Taliban is inspiring. More broadly, her courage to stand up to the culture of Pakistan is a testament to her conviction. Especially when you consider that, due to death threats, she can’t even return to her home in Pakistan.

I know people will scoff at such pacifism, that it is mere foolish idealism. What’s foolish is to continue to bomb Muslim countries as the solution to our foreign policy problems in America.

A year ago, Malala met President Obama, who is himself a Nobel Peace Prize winner from 2009, and in another act of boldness, she told him that his drone policy was fueling terrorism.

“Instead of soldiers, send books.

Instead of sending weapons, send pens,” she said.

say for sure.

This action hardly seems the work of a champion of peace. Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize absolutely bears the blood of innocent Muslim men, women and children.

One is Nabila Rehman, a 9-yearold Pakistani girl that testified before Congress about a drone that killed her 67-year-old grandmother.

Her brother, Zubair, brought a clear perspective to the policy’s effects.

“Now I prefer cloudy days when the drones don’t fly. When the sky brightens and becomes blue, the drones return and so does the fear.

Children don’t play so often now, and have stopped going to school.

Education isn’t possible as long as the drones circle overhead,” he said.

Imagine living your days with the threat of death looming above. At any moment, it could send a missile

I know people will scoff at such pacifism, that it is mere foolish idealism. What’s foolish is to continue to bomb Muslim countries as the solution to our foreign policy problems in America.”

To date, President Obama has bombed seven Muslim countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria, which exceeds Bush’s four of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia (we ought to include Yemen as well, even though it was reportedly a “one-off strike”). And both may have bombed the Philippines, but according to Politifact, it’s hard to

down on your head. Sounds an awful lot like terrorism.

However, Democrats will argue that comparing George W. Bush and Barack Obama on war is silly.

After all, Obama didn’t start a war (with Iraq) on false pretenses that cost over a trillion dollars and countless lives.

This is true, Obama hasn’t yet invaded a country.

But look at what I just said: If the bar for how good someone is on war is measured by, “Well, at least they didn’t invade a country,” then the bar is quite low. Obama was ushered into the White House on a wave of hope and optimism from a country desperately seeking a paradigm shift from the eight years under a Bush presidency.

Yet, so far, he’s been more of the same. He was elected, in part, to end the Iraq War. He’s back to bombing them and with boots on the ground.

The new bombing in Syria should be the final straw for Democrats that had wished Obama would be less militaristic than Bush.

As national security analyst Peter Bergen outlined in a CNN opinion piece, the bombing campaign, unlike previous engagements, lacked the following: A U.N. resolution authorizing force. As part of a NATO operation.

An Arab League resolution in favor of military action. A specific U.S. congressional authorization for war in another country.

The invitation of the host country to conduct military operations as we have recently seen in Iraq, where the Iraqi government has been begging for U.S. military intervention.

Bergen further asks us to consider other things that contradict the view of Obama as a peacenik.

He surged in Afghanistan from 30,000 soldiers to 90,000. He increased the drone strikes in Malala’s Pakistan from 48 under Bush to 328. Likewise with Yemen, from

only one strike under Bush to 99 under Obama.

Worst yet, Obama claimed the authority to assassinate a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, and then did so in Yemen in 2011.

“Do the thought experiment where George W. Bush had gone to war in another Middle Eastern country without the cover of a U.N. resolution, or of a NATO operation, or of Arab League approval, or of a specific congressional authorization.

The howls of protest from American liberals and the Muslim world would surely have been deafening,” Bergen said.

I look forward to seeing Democrats return to the anti-war side when it’s not their guy doing the bombing. “My guy” politics is one of the best enablers of war because it silences criticism.

Malala’s empowering message of education over bombing is the real “hope and change” we need and can believe in. Someone that’s actually worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize in which they were honored with.

“I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls,” she said.

Another way would be holding sitting presidents to the same strict standards when they exercise war powers against other countries regardless of the R or D next to their name.

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will be quite different. A rich old billionaire with a big happy family like Romney doesn’t need to deal with another race against a better field.

Early presidential polls are funny too. Who really knows if Hillary Clinton is worth polling as the clear front-runner? Maybe the Democratic Party is a whole heck of a lot closer to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who said over the weekend, “when the going got tough, FROM MORALITY »PAGE 7

simply better. That sounds incredibly ignorant, but stick with me here.

We are a stupid country and scream stuff like, “Keep your government hands off my Medicare,” at townhall meetings from the Rascal Scooter. If you’re Black, you might be shot by cops for a seat belt violation.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann adds a lot to the Christian GOP Rhetoric, “Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she said she is trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that 2000 years ago.”

We do have a lot of dangerous idiots.However, getting stoned in America means something to-

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process of writing the text for each sculpture. The words, starting at the bases of the steel trees, were drawn free hand by senior Art and Graphic Design student Madeline Haigh. The ages were included in each inscription, he said, in order to relate to the current students at Miami. Initially, the word “his” was used in the text, but instead they decided to use the word “their” to emphasize these men lost their lives fighting for a greater cause, one that all Freedom Summer volunteers shared.

“We chose those words precisely,” Keller said.

The trees read: “For 20-year-old Andrew Goodman, to carry on their hope.”

“For 24-year-old Michael Schwerner, in commemoration of their sacrifice.”

“For 21-year-old James Chaney, in remembrance of their courage.”

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his economic team picked Wall Street,” of the president. This was not a compliment.

If the Democratic base really likes that type of sentiment, the Clinton machine will be on the outside looking in again in 2016.

The same goes for the GOP. Does the party need to be more populist, not more moderate like writers like Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner argue? It is certainly possible. It is also possible that the party simply wants to go corporatist and moderate.

The loud consensus on both sides is one thing, but the views of the foot soldiers can be totally different based on the economic and political circumstances. And that’s the thing.

American voters, above all else are economically insecure. Whichever party can make the case that they’re better for everyone’s economic security will probably win.

In politics, it’s never really clear when the changing of the establishment guard has happened until it’s over. This was true when Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan won the presi-

dency. After their successful runs, it looked like Clinton represented an inexorable Democratic march to the middle. And it looked like Reagan represented an inexorable Republican march to the right.

Then the GOP nominated George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney in succession—all squishy moderates from the word go. After Clinton, the Democrats tried out their own middle of the roaders with Al Gore and John Kerry. Then they assumed Hillary Clinton had it in the

bag in 2008 only to have those hopes railroaded by the upstart, true believing President Obama.

Where are the voters of the two major parties leaning headed into 2016, upstart or establishment? Populist or corporatist? The answers to these questions will become apparent soon enough. The only thing we shouldn’t do is bank on a Hillary vs.

Romney or some other GOP establishmentarian race simply because establishment journalists are sourced by big donors who assume their views will win the day.

tally different than getting stoned in Pakistan.

Our worst religious radicals protest soldier’s funerals with “God Hates Fags” signs. The thing that makes our society better is that we don’t follow religion literally and we don’t take it seriously. Christians get divorced, masterbate and have premarital sex.

While Atheism is one of the fastest growing religious minorities, the U.S. is a mostly Christian nation.

But no one is going to the townhalls proposing we stone gays to death even though that’s what the Bible teaches in Leviticus.

While not everyone is a fundamentalist, I don’t know how to fairly gauge which parts of doctrine someone is cherry picking from. Islam

does promote peace in some elements; but, like Christianity, there are some really troubling parts that promote violence, genocide and sexism.

After South Park animators received death threats for depicting Mohammed on their show in 2010, people took to the Internet with a protest known as Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. It’s intent was to protest the limit of freedom of speech, but it quickly spiraled out of control.

The entire ordeal led to assassination attempts, suicide attacks and Pakistan had to block the Internet during the entire day. But here’s the thing. No one is going to kill you for drawing Jesus or Thor.

In 2012, widespread protests in the Muslim world left 30 people

dead and 200 wounded after soldiers in Afghanistan improperly disposed of Qurans.

Pew research shows that 84 percent of South Asian Muslims support their country endorsing Islamic Law as well as 74 percent of Middle Eastern and North African Muslims and 18 percent of European Muslims.

Of those Islamic Law supporters, some support executions for those who leave Islam including, 76 percent of South Asian Muslims, 56 percent of the Middle East-North African Muslims and 13 percent of European Muslims.

Freedom of speech and separation of church and state isn’t negotiable. Same goes for freedom of religion and freedom from religion.

Maybe not all Muslims, but a considerable amount of them don’t favor these rights.

We’re not attacking the Islamic guy you do shots with at Brick Street, we’re attacking the 13 percent of fundamentalists in Europe. If you’re a female, we’re criticizing the people that would stone you to death for not marrying your assigned husband.

I agree with Maher and the “Triangle of Atheism” in that Islam isn’t the only dangerous idea out there -all religions hold a share in terrible lineage. You’re failing modern Liberalism if you demand women have equal pay but brush off the 91 percent of Egyptian women who are victims of gential mutilation as a different culture we should respect.

Miami students Nathan Foley, Jesse Thayer and Brandon Lowery, the artists who spent a large part of their summer shaping sheets of steel into the three 10-foot-tall sculptures, all attended the ceremony. As Keller described their efforts and the careful attention taken in creating these chimes, the three young men stood in a line, one behind each tree. Once Keller had finished speaking, the artists rang the chimes to the crowd’s applause.

University President David Hodge addressed the crowd to conclude the ceremony, asking everyone to join him remembering Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney.

“I’d like to ask us all to just take a moment of silence in commemoration not only of Freedom Summer but, especially today, of these three young men,” he said.

Then, in an impromptu diversion from the planned program, President Hodge asked Miami University Gospel Singers

(MUGS) who had performed earlier in the ceremony to conclude the event with one more song.

“This should be the way it is — the joy of freedom,” he said. “I love singers.”

The singers took their places again and formed a huddle, discussing which song they should sing. They settled on “We Shall Overcome,” and invited the crowd to stand and sing along.

Without direction, everyone seated in the memorial auditorium, many of them Freedom Summer volunteers, stood and crossed arms, holding hands. Everyone joined in the song, gently swaying to its rhythm. Those who stood on the hillside around the auditorium linked arms with those closest to them and did the same.

They began and ended with the s ame verse: “We shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome someday. Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe. We shall overcome someday.”

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The JANUS Forum’s discussions hope to provoke critical thinking about pressing topics like economic inequality.

“Hopefully the forum serves as a useful foray for students into one of the most important public policy debates going on in our country, and makes them think harder about the real problems our generation faces,” Geisler said.

Fowler said the focal goal of the Janus Forum is to engage Miami’s students and community in discussions about these contemporary issues.

Fowler emphasizes the method of using Twitter to field questions for the speakers as opposed to the former open-mic segment as a key way to engage Miami’s students.

“We can hear from a lot more people and help them contribute to the conversation,” she said.

The JANUS Forum will take place at 6 p.m. on Oct. 15 in the Armstrong Center’s Wilks Theater.

Tickets are free and available at the Miami University box office.

way they think about issues is going to be different.”

These different perspectives and ideological leanings create the productive discussions that JANUS Forum aims to facilitate.

“I expect they disagree sharply on how sure we are that inequality is a problem in and of itself, but may find some agreement on certain policy solutions to the nation’s economic mobility problem--something like the earned income tax credit,” Geisler said.

Although points of disagreement create debate, Geisler noted that the intersections of opposed perspectives provide useful solutions.

“I am excited to hear where, if anywhere, they agree on antipoverty programs,” he said. “A 15 percent poverty rate in a country like ours is unacceptable, and the way to get policy passed is with buy-in from both sides of the political aisle.”

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picking up MAC East Offensive Player of the Week.

“It’s been a really good season,” Frazier said. “At the beginning of the season Coach Martin came to me and told me it should be a good season for me and I should keep doing what I’m done and believing in the system and believing in the coaches and everything would fall in place.”

Turnovers also hurt, as Hendrix threw an interception while the ’Hawks lost two fumbles.

“A lot of things we didn’t capitalize on,” Frazier said. “Too many turnovers. I thought our defense played a good game, but there were certain times our offense didn’t capitalize when we needed to.”

Miami’s defense looked more like the squad that shutout the University of Massachusetts last week than the team that allowed 41 first-half points.

The ’Hawks limited Akron to just

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with regularity.

“We were only up 1-0, so I think getting that second goal was really important,” Weiner said. “Plus it was OU and it’s always nice beating them.”

The four weekend points put the RedHawks just one point behind MAC leader University at Buffalo. Hot on Miami’s tale are Eastern Michigan University, Northern Illinois University and

318 yards of offense.

“Thought our defense played much better,” Martin said. “They were very alert, they were aggressive. They did a lot of good things.

They didn’t look confused or dazed at times like we have the last couple weeks. I thought they took a step forward. They gave us every chance to win the game.”

Senior safety Jarrell Jones had one of his best games as a RedHawk, recording seven tackles, a pass breakup and two fumble recoveries.

“Jarrell Jones took a huge step forward …” Martin said. “He was alert and made a bunch of plays for us in the run and pass. Just seemed confident and looked like the player we thought he could be.”

Akron went wire-to-wire for the win, starting with a safety on an intentional grounding by Hendrix. Akron then kicked a field goal following the safety punt to go up 5-0. The Zips took a 12-0 lead after a touchdown

run by senior running back Jawon Chisholm. Hendrix found Frazier for an 18-yard touchdown pass mid-way through the second quarter to cut the lead to 12-6 after Miami missed the extra point. Akron responded with a field goal, but Hendrix found redshirt wide receiver Rokeem Williams with 23 seconds left in the half to trim the lead to 15-13.

However, Miami was unable to score despite chance until late in the fourth quarter. The Zips tacked on a pair of rushing touchdowns to take a 29-13 lead before Hendrix found Frazier again for a score. The RedHawks’ two-point conversion failed and they went on to fall 29-19.

“I think the better team won,” Martin said. “I think the team that played better won. We’re getting way more competitive. We haven’t played close to our best football, and I don’t know when that’s gonna be, but we’re gonna get there. Our kids our getting better.”

Western Michigan University, who are all within three points (the point value given for a win). “[The standings] are very, very tight,” Kramig said. “But that’s the MAC. That’s what makes it a great conference.”

Miami still controls its own MAC destiny as the ’Hawks meet the Buffalo Bulls Oct. 26, but Kramig is not looking past next weekend’s challenges.

“It’s way too early to start thinking about Buffalo when you’ve

got two good teams in Northern Illinois and Western Michigan coming into town next weekend,” Kramig said. “You just have to take a methodical approach and stay on task. You have to focus on what you’re doing and not worry about anything else.”

Miami carries a five match unbeaten streak into its weekend matchups. The RedHawks host Northern Illinois University 4 p.m. Friday and Western Michigan University 1 p.m. Sunday.

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how it would fund public universities in Ohio, focused its dollars on the delivery of the educational activity and institution and the things that were specific to student life were set aside.”

Therefore, students pay for activities outside of academics, such as the use of the Student Health Services Center, athletics and the money Associated Student Government (ASG) allocates to student organizations. All of these are included in the general fee.

Besides the general fee, students also pay a technology fee. For oncampus students, this fee amounts to $228 per academic year and for

off-campus students, it is $336.

Creamer said there is a separate committee that oversees those funds and directs them where they are most needed. The use of the funds varies year to year depending on the technology initiatives the university believes would best benefit all students.

“As usual with a dedicated fee, those funds are separately tracked and there’s a committee that allocates the technology fee toward priorities,” Creamer said. “That committee includes student representation. They look at today’s needs, and those are always changing. The technology proposals that go through the committee tend to have general application across all academic areas.”

In addition to the technology fee,

students now pay the Armstrong Student Center fee. This fee has two parts: the general operating cost, which is about $82 of the $220 yearly fee and the long-term debt repayment, which will be charged to students over the course of about 25 years.

“The Armstrong fee was created as a result of a recommendation from ASG because the Armstrong project was not moving forward,” Creamer said. “ASG put forward a fee proposal to pay for half of the cost of constructing the building. The financing is over a very long period of time. There will still be the operating portion of the fee [after the debt is repaid], but the portion dedicated to the construction part of the fee

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late in the season and continued to follow the team that I would put money on most of you not realizing Miami finished second in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference Tournament. It’s the equivalent to losing in the SEC or ACC championship game.

You don’t deserve a hockey team like Miami. You don’t deserve the Goggin Ice Center and you don’t deserve a national championship … as it stands.

You are the boyfriend who gets belligerently drunk on a Monday, forces your girlfriend to come pick you up, clean up your messes, make sure you don’t break anything and you probably cheat on her, too.

But she stays up with you, and she doesn’t get mad. You see; you don’t deserve her.

I’ll give you credit as fans though; when it’s good, it’s great. You have some of the most creative and intimidating cheers and the intensity from the glass seats is sometimes greater than we see from the players themselves. When you do make it out of the bars and into the stands, you’re

dedicated and you want the win as badly as any player or coach ever has. But you have to make that step.

The team needs you. Home ice advantage matters, and it especially matters when you have fans that know, understand and care about the game as much as you do.

It can be hard to play in an empty barn. Just think, the overly aggressive fist pump jump-into the glass celly doesn’t really have the same effect if there aren’t any students standing on the glass.

How is the opposing goalie going to know it’s all his fault and that he is the walking embodiment of a pasta strainer without 1,000 students yelling it at him? How else will that asshole know how long he has to sit in the sin bin? What other way will the PA announcer feel the appreciation for his one-minute warning?

The hockey team needs you. The school needs you. Come out and bring a friend, because it won’t take much from you to put the team over the edge this year and help them bring home the hardware.

Wouldn’t you like to say you went to every game the year Miami won its first National Championship?

than the Red and White.

Reiswig led all scorers against Kent State (10-9, 2-4 MAC) as she had 11 kills, while Rusek and junior middle blocker Jenny Ingle had eight each. Riley and Brakauskas accounted for 44 of the team’s 45 assists.

Miami outclassed the Flashes in every facet, outhitting them .281.143, recorded 15 more assists, three more service aces (KSU had none) and 10 more digs on the night.

“It was a great weekend for us,” Brakauskas said. “We played great competition against Ohio and Kent State. It was a great game, five sets against Ohio, and we’ll get them at their house. We need to focus on staying strong for the whole match and coming out excited and we can pick up two more wins.”

The RedHawks hit the road this weekend as they take on Eastern Michigan University Friday and Central Michigan University Saturday in MAC action.

will be dropped.”

Students often pay a surcharge fee for their courses as well. These funds must be used for the purposes stated in course descriptions.

“Surcharge fees go back to that particular department. They are segregated and must be used for the purpose outlined in the course description,” Creamer said. “So if you’re in an art class and there’s a fee for materials, they can only be used for the purchase of materials for that art class.”

Creamer said all of the fees are separated into strictly defined buckets to ensure they are only being used for the purposes for which they were originally intended.

Other fees students pay include

the facilities fee. These funds go toward the repayment of debt from the construction of a facility in the past.

Creamer said the borrowing period is usually over 20 or 25 years, as seen with the case of Armstrong, and the fee is charged for the eventual retirement of the debt.

Senior Mary Mathews said she thinks MU’s Bursar system is fairly transparent when it comes to viewing costs. But she said she also would like to know more about the specific breakdown of the fees she pays.

“They do a good job breaking it down on Bursar,” she said. “I like how you can see the dates of charges and where they’re going. It would be nice, however, if they explained it and broke it down a little more.”

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RedHawks split first series of season HOCKEY STEVEN PERKINS STAFF WRITER

The No. 11 Miami University men’s hockey team split a home-andhome series with Bowling Green State University this weekend to start its season. The RedHawks lost the first on the road Friday and won the second at home Sunday. Both games ended with 3-2 final score.

Miami quickly found itself in a 2-0 hole to start the season and was never able to battle back.

Head coach Enrico Blasi said effort wasn’t the problem.

“I thought we played hard at times,” Blasi said. “We didn’t execute like we needed to. We had a lot of blown chances.”

Miami was able to score two goals, but Bowling Green maintained a lead for the entire game. Bowling Green buried two power play goals to help solidify the win.

Blasi said penalties and defensive play hurt the team Friday.

“We took too many undisciplined penalties tonight,” Blasi said. “They scored two goals on the powerplay and that was the difference in the game. At times we have to make better decisions with the puck.”

It was an entirely different story Sunday. The RedHawks were in total control for the entire game.

The ’Hawks opened the game with a goal from the true freshman defenseman Louie Belpedio. It was his first as a collegiate hockey player and he picked up National College Hockey Conference Rookie of the Week for his efforts.

“Louie is one of those offensive minded players,” Blasi said. “We’ve got some guys that can add some offense from the defensive side of things and that’s a nice element to add to our team. He’s one of those guys that is kind of shifty.”

Belpedio said it was more about the win for him.

“It’s exciting but I think more importantly than that was how the team played,” Belpedio said. “It’s exciting to score the first goal, but we’ve got to move on from that.”

The defensive zone, which had been a problem during some of the preseason and against Bowling Green, was much better Sunday. Miami only allowed two goals, one of which was on the power play.

Junior forward Sean Kuraly scored twice for Miami during a big second period Sunday.

“It was really important for us as

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Miami junior goalie Jay Williams’ save percentage Sunday against Bowling Green. Williams came in cold after Ryan McKay left with an injury just over six minutes into the game.

Miami hockey is too good for you student ‘fans’ COLUMN

PERKINS’ PROBLEMS Miami hockey is going to win the national championship this year.

Why? Well, because the RedHawks are the best team in the country.

But they might need some help.

This is where you come in.

Miami’s hockey team returns all but two players from last year’s roster. They have the players and now the facilities to compete with any program in the country. The team has a brand new weight room and off-ice shooting area, as well as a media room and player-coach meeting room. I’ve been inside … and

it’s sweet.

Throw all of that together with one of the most well-respected coaches in college hockey and you must wonder, why do they need your help? Because you don’t go to games. Miami has the potential this year, as it has in years past, to win the national championship. Yes, I know the ’Hawks hit a slump last year, and yes, I know they were ranked No. 1 in the preseason last year, and yes, I know they disappointed you last year. But, you also disappointed them.

Only 2,400 and change showed up to watch Miami play Western Michigan in February. That’s contrary to a 3,600-plus showing against Ohio State earlier in the year. In fact, so few of you came to games COLUMN »PAGE 8

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FIELD HOCKEY

CMU...................... 3 Miami.......................1

Iowa....................... 3 Miami.......................1

MEN’S HOCKEY Bowling Green...... 3 Miami.......................2

Miami.....................3 Bowling Green.........2

VOLLEYBALL Ohio....................... 3 Miami.......................2

Miami.....................3 Kent State................0

SOCCER Miami............ 1(2OT) Miami......................2 Kent State................. 1 Ohio.......................... 0

a team to have a big second period,” Kuraly said. “I think it was our best period of the year as a team. And we were happy it helped us get it done here at home.”

Sunday’s home victory marks Miami’s first in the regular season. It was the first win of the year for junior goaltender Jay Williams.

He came in for junior Ryan McKay with just under 13 minutes to play in the first period after McKay was injured when a Falcon forward collided with him. Williams was able to make 23 saves on 25 shots.

“It’s been a tough week for Jay,” Blasi said. “And then having to come in in relief tonight I thought he played great. When you see a guy on the other side making big saves then you have to do the same and Jay played well tonight.”

Williams lost a family member earlier in the week.

“Jay got the game puck in the room, it was well deserved,” Kuraly said. “For him to go in and play like that, we expected that and he proved us right. We were all happy for him.

The RedHawks have another home-and-home series against Ohio State University up next. The ’Hawks travel to Columbus Friday and host the Buckeyes Saturday.

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Alex Wideman looks to the bench during a Miami hockey game.

Wideman plays on the first line alongside fellow senior forwards Austin Czarnik and Blake Coleman.

Miami comes up short against Akron FOOTBALL TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

The defense played well enough to win and Miami University outgained the University of Akron, but penalties, turnovers and sacks cost the RedHawks in a 29-19 MidAmerican Conference loss.

The ’Hawks (1-6, 1-2 MAC) had 102 penalty yards, three turnovers and allowed nine Akron (4-2, 2-0 MAC) sacks.

“The key mismatch of the game was [Akron’s] front seven guys,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “We had a very hard time with them the whole day. [We] couldn’t run or protect the quarterback near as well as we needed to have a chance.”

Fifth-year quarterback Andrew Hendrix completed 24 of 41 passes for 352 yards and three touchdowns.

He could have thrown for more, but had two completions at critical junctures of the game called back for questionable offensive pass interference calls. One came against freshman tight end Ryan Smith following a completion to freshman wide out Sam Martin, who was tackled at the one-yard line with Miami down nine.

“We’ve got a freshman tight end who is trying to run a route, he’s not as good as the guy that’s jamming him, they jam him,” Martin said. “We weren’t trying to initiate contact, we were trying to run a route. Apparently it looked to the back judge like we’re trying to

block the guy.”

Instead of first and goal from the one, Miami was faced with a 3rd and 25 from the 35 and were eventually forced to punt.

“Our guy was not trying to run into him …” Martin said. “He impeded our progress. They could have just as easily called [defensive] pass interference because the ball is in the air. It’s a judgment call and we got the short end of the stick. But they were major, major, major, major, major, major in the outcome of the game. Major.”

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’Hawks tie Kent State, defeat Ohio SOCCER JUSTIN WOODS

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After settling for its first tie of the season against Kent State University (7-4-3) Friday, Miami University soccer rediscovered its familiar winning ways against rival Ohio University (6-8) Sunday. Miami is now 102-1 overall and 4-1-1 in the Mid-American Conference.

Kelsey Dinges set the RedHawks in motion Friday with a header goal in the 30th minute that was assisted by Shannon Stearns off a Jess Bronke throw-in. The Kent State Golden

Flashes answered within the minute to level the match at 1-1, a score that would hold until the final whistle.

“It was a little disappointing not to get the win at Kent because I thought we were the better team,” head coach Bobby Kramig said.

“We probably should have taken a second goal, but that is a difficult place to play. Any Kent points are good points.”

The ’Hawks came flying out of the gate Sunday in Athens with a Maggie Scott goal in the third minute. Jenna Weiner added to the Miami cause in the second half as the RedHawks ousted the Bobcats 2-0 in the soccer

incarnation of the historic and heated Battle of the Bricks rivalry.

“On Sunday we managed the game very well and turned in a professional effort,” Kramig said.

“Maggie’s goal was just class – what a great finish with her head.

And Jenna finished it off nicely for us. Those were two well-taken goals and it was good to get the shutout.”

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MU falls to Bobcats, ties Flashes VOLLEYBALL JORDAN RINARD

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University volleyball team split matches for the third straight weekend as it took Mid American Conference East-leading Ohio University to five sets before falling 2-3 (18-25, 25-21, 25-20, 16-25, 8-15) Friday and swept Kent State University 3-0 (25-17, 28-26, 25-17) Saturday.

The RedHawks (10-8, 3-3 MAC) are currently tied for second place in the MAC East with the University at Buffalo (13-7, 3-3 MAC) holding the tiebreaker.

“We did a good job of coming together this weekend with several individuals stepping up in pressure moments,” head coach Carolyn Condit said. “Meg Riley had a great weekend for us and played a total

game offensively and defensively.

Krista Brakausas had great ball location and a great work ethic on defense and she’s really coming along. What I liked was that we were always fighting this weekend and it’s significant that we swept a Kent State team that had more experience. Maeve McDonald had a total weekend as a libero and Maris Below had very good ball control and they form a strong duo and make our offense better. It’s important that we have some momentum and we’re determined to get two wins this weekend.”

Against Ohio (13-4, 6-0 MAC), both freshman outside hitter Olivia Rusek and junior outside hitter Annie Reiswig recorded double-digit kills on the night. Rusek led the team with 15 while Reiswig was second with 13. Senior setter/outside hitter Meg Riley barely missed out on a triple-double as she had nine kills, 19

assists and 14 digs while sophomore setter Krista Brakauskas registered a double-double with 24 assists and 15 digs. Freshman libero Maeve McDonald kept up her high level of play as she tallied 26 digs.

Miami struggled mightily on offense in the first set, hitting .044, while the Bobcats hit .200. The ’Hawks then rallied to take the next two sets as they outhit the ‘Cats .222-.116 and .295-.156 respectively.

Rusek accounted for nine kills in the sets and the tandem of Reiswig and senior outside hitter Sarah Chaney picked up six kills each.

It was all Ohio from that point on as it outhit the home team .444-.171 in the fourth set and .389-.048 in the fifth. The Bobcats were powered by a strong defense as they had 14 more digs and seven more total blocks VOLLEYBALL »PAGE 9