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Peter Peirce-@peterpeirce-Oct 30

There’s a bomb threat in Hughes. I guess if you wanted to blow something up, the chemistry building would be the easiest

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Hughes Hall was the target of two bomb threats late last week.

Early Thursday evening, the Miami and Oxford community received the first email from the university alerting them of a bomb threat. A follow up email sent early Friday morning reported Hughes was cleared for classes.

Both emails stated the Miami University Police Department (MUPD) did not deem the threat credible and Miami students have even speculated another student fabricated the threat as a ploy to get out of an exam.

“The MUPD and the university are taking this very seriously and are taking steps for safety,” Director of University News and Communications Claire Wagner said at the time of the threat.

The Miami and Oxford community received an email late Friday morning warning of a second threat, indicating a bomb would go off at 11:30 a.m. in Hughes.

The MUPD evacuated students and faculty from Hughes and the building was closed for the rest of the day.

Junior Maddie Hudak had class in Hughes on Friday at the time of the second threat.

“Everyone just threw their stuff together and sprinted out,” Hudak said. “It was pretty hectic; no

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bomb threats for tomorrow. i think this is gonna be an interesting halloween

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one really knew exactly what was going on and I didn’t get the email about the bomb threat until five minutes later when I was out of the building.”

Officers surrounded Hughes until late Friday evening, but there was no yellow tape preventing students from using sidewalks near the building.

For safety reasons, MUPD

declined to make any statements concerning the threats and directed The Miami Student to the bomb threat section of its webpage.

The site gives students crucial information on what not to do in a potentially explosive situation and how to handle threats received by both phone and note; however, the MUPD has not divulged any information on the manner in which the

threat was received.

Students, though, were not satisfied with the site’s information.

“These are all common sense things that everyone should know,” junior Allyson Ernst said.

“I mean, when is a student ever going to receive a package like this if it has to go through the package center? I don’t think they have any procedures for this. They have fire

drills, they have tornado drills, but do we ever practice a bomb drill? No, because it’s so rare.

That’s why everybody freaked out about it.”

Miami police and the Cincinnati office of the FBI are investigating the bomb threats and a reward of up to $1,000 is available for information leading to the apprehension of the perpetrator.

Dining halls remain understaffed 22-hour work limit discourages student applicants

DINING LAURA FITZGERALD

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Miami University dining halls remain significantly understaffed, despite improvement.

In September, 65 percent of dining hall work shifts remained empty. According to Executive Food Service Manager John Pittman, that figure has now fallen to between 35 and 45 percent, depending on the day.

Food service assistant Janis Vaccariello said the understaffing results in longer wait times; students often have to spend their time between classes waiting on food.

“I get paid the same, I work the same number of hours, but it’s the students that suffer from it,” Vaccariello said.

Vaccariello said the lack of staff has other negative effects. With fewer people, the number of breaks employees get is limited. It also keeps the staff from doing other tasks, such as deep cleaning.

Ultimately, Vacceriello said students have become overworked to the point they just don’t want to work anymore.

Pittman said some shifts are easier to fill than others. Dinner shifts are fuller than lunch shifts, mostly because students have class around lunch time.

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ASC Phase Two calls for student input CONSTRUCTION SAMMY NEISWANDER FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The anticipated completion date for the second phase of Armstrong Student Center has been pushed back to fall 2017.

But, with the promise of highly demanded, medium-sized meeting rooms, several new dining options and possible retail space, the addition hopes to prove it is well worth the wait.

“The second phase is

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intended to add further value to our students by providing space specifically aimed at making the campus experience better,” Cody Powell, associate vice president of facilities planning and operations, said. “Space to work, create, collaborate, socialize and have fun.”

The original plan was for Armstrong to be built at once, with a single grand opening, but when the university couldn’t raise sufficient funds in time, the decision was made to split it into two parts.

It cost about $50 million for Phase One and an anticipated $12 million for Phase Two, according to ForLoveandHonor.org.

Katie Wilson, director of Armstrong Student Center, explained how beneficial Phase One was for the planning of the second phase.

“When students gave feedback regarding what they wanted in a student center, it was clear that not everything would fit in just the new building and the

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FIT FOR A KING The 2014 Homecoming King, senior Damien Watson, and Queen, senior Alyssa Bove, enjoy their moment in the spotlight Saturday.

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In 1986, The Miami Student reported that the university had received $180,000 to remove asbestos from campus buildings.

The money was awarded as part of the Ohio Board of Regents’ $11.2 million effort to eliminate the hazardous mineral from higher education institutions.

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Peaceful protests push for democracy

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Miami students and faculty feel the impact of weeks-long protesting throughout Hong Kong

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Miami University students received a first-hand experience of Hong Kong history as peaceful protesters filled the streets in hope for democracy.

It has been four weeks since the Hong Kong protests, also know as the “Umbrella Movement,” have begun. Students and citizens of Hong Kong are fighting against the Chinese government for democracy and free elections in 2017.

Miami University junior Jessica Robinson, who is taking classes at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), said the protests have been generally non-violent.

“The protests are very peaceful.,” Robinson said. “Everyone is just sitting around, talking or playing on

their phones. Yes, there has been a few pepper spray incidents, but most people there have on goggles, masks and umbrellas.”

According to CNN, protesters used the umbrella as a shield from the tear gas and pepper spray. Protesters began to bring and distribute umbrellas to others involved, using them as shelter to sleep, and wrote slogans on them.

“Most people are dressed in black and wear a yellow ribbon,” Robinson said. “At school, you see the same thing. Students have been skipping their classes to protest and professors have been excusing them.”

The yellow ribbons are used to show support of the protests. They have been tied to barricade railings and pinned on clothing to resemble a symbol of democratic aspiration.

Similar to the yellow ribbons, students have worn black T-shirts to represent the use of force on peaceful demonstrators.

“One thing I found interesting, though, was the other day I was walking through a residential area and Mainland China adults were tying blue ribbons everywhere,” Robinson said. “This is representing support for Beijing in their political decisions.”

Assistant Director of the Farmer School of Business International Programs, Jenni Kim, is the point of contact with students and the partner universities.

“When the protests began, our partner universities were very quick to reach out and inform us of the situation, and that they were in communication with exchange students about the protests,” Kim said.

Though these protests are considered to be peaceful and nonviolent, Miami University faculty involved with international programs feel it is necessary for students to take precaution during these events.

“Although the protests in Hong Kong have been peaceful, as a safety

measure, we advise students to avoid protest areas because there is always the possibility of incidents escalating,” Kim said.

Associate professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and researcher of the city’s democracy movement Ming Sing said about two-thirds of his students have participated in the protests.

“Freedom of speech is guaranteed in Hong Kong’s constitution,” Sing said.

Miami University junior Josh Salzman who is taking classes at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said he had gone to the protests several times in Mong Kok. “The first time I went after the protests I remember how quiet everything seemed and how few people I saw,” Salzman said. “It was really easy to find the protesters because they had barricaded themselves in on the main street using anything to build a wall, and people had tents set

up along the road.”

Salzman also had some first-hand experiences when he went to visit and watch the protests.

“One very kind old lady invited us into their tent, where we got to sit and listen while a student translated what was being said,” Salzman said. “We sat and talked for a very long time and something that was very surprising to me was that this ‘student protest’ was mostly adults, and the older generation of Hong Kong.”

Many older Hong Kongese participating in the protests are witnesses of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests, which were studentled demonstrations in 1989 calling for a more democratic government.

“Unless I attend the protests, they do not really interfere with my study abroad experience,” Salzman said. “My campus and everyday activities are so far away from downtown I never cross paths with the real action.”

Mixed motives: regional forum raises questions REGIONAL REBECCA HUFF

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PULL THE PLUG Members of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity fought tooth and nail against players of Tau Kappa Epsilon Sunday morning during Puddle Pull, the final Greek Week event of the year.

‘Major’ changes common in college ACADEMICS SAM HUNTER

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When Alexa Ekberg applied to Miami University, she declared a biochemistry major. A year later, however, she is a double major in media and culture and comparative religion.

Many people might wonder what happened to spark such a change.

“I always wanted to be a doctor,” Ekberg said.

However, she was intimidated by the amount of time she would spend in school. After thinking it over, she changed her major to media and culture.

Of course, the decision wasn’t easy. She wondered if she would be able to find a job, or if she was even picking the right major for her.

“I was terrified,” she said. “It’s a tough decision, because you’re trying to make this decision based on no information, trying to decide what you want to do for the rest of your life. I didn’t know, and I still don’t know.”

For many, choosing a major is one of the most stressful parts of

their college experience. Some students declare a major before arriving on campus, while others wait until after they’ve taken several classes at Miami.

However, many sources stress that if a student discovers they don’t like their selected major, it’s okay to seek change.

The National Center for Education Statistics and a Penn State study, among others, estimates 60 to 80 percent of students change their majors at least once. In addition, it’s reported the average college student will change his or her major three times.

Richard Campbell, Chair of the Department of Media, Journalism and Film, said students often change their major because they were unhappy in their previous major.

“They may have come in with an idea and that idea changed because they took other courses that seemed interesting,” he said. “Or maybe they decided they’d come in and major in what their parents wanted them to major in and it wasn’t working out.”

Another option for students, aside from changing their major, is to take a second major. Campbell is a big proponent of double

majoring, and requires it for all students in his department.

“There’s actually data that shows that if you double-major, you’re a more dynamic and creative thinker,” he said. “So we think it adds a lot of value to a degree.”

First-year Zach Fields said he agreed with Campbell’s argument.

He came into Miami majoring in biology with a pre-med emphasis, and is now in the process of adding a second major in finance.

“The biology background will help me on the MCAT,” Fields said about his decision to take two majors in two different schools.

“And finance interests me. A good finance background is essential to everyone, especially if I don’t get into med school.”

Although it took her some time to find where she belonged, Ekberg said she doesn’t regret her decision to change her major and is optimistic for her future.

“Engineering and the sciences, there’s a lot less risk,” she said.

“People don’t look at you weird.

But I don’t regret it, because I knew I had to make a decision.

You have to do what you love. I’m sure I would be happy as a doctor, but I knew I had to go with my gut.”

The Regional Task Force, recently appointed by President David Hodge, held an open forum for the public in the Wilks Conference Center at Miami University in Hamilton last Tuesday, Oct. 28.

The conference room was silent as the meeting began. Many are still skeptical whether the re-branding and re-evaluation of the regional campuses is necessary.

“The current trajectory of the regional campuses is not financially sustainable, nor is it programmatically sufficient to meet the needs of the students,” Moira Casey, associate dean and professor at the regional branches, said.

The task force, which consists of professors from the regional and main campuses, as well as some students from both branches, explained they are seeking improvement in the areas of regional enrollment and independence from the Oxford campus. However, they said, at the same time it’s also vital to maintain a Miami identity.

“What I think I’m hearing is, ‘we want you to go off and be different and be separate, but we’re going to tell you how to do it,’” an audience member said.

Many university constituents have begun to question Miami’s motives.

Students are concerned whether the differentiation for the regional campuses is to benefit students who want to remain regionally located, or if it’s intended to prevent students from taking classes in Oxford at a regional price.

However, the task force stressed that the path to relocate will remain the same.

Only 10 percent or less of regionally located students actually relocate to Oxford, so to benefit the majority of students who want to stay at the regional branches of Hamilton and Middletown, those branches need to offer more 4-year degrees.

The way the system works now is a Miami Hamilton or Middletown student can take Oxford classes at the regional’s price, as long as he or she has at least one credit hour more at the regional branch.

“The way students move around this [taking Oxford classes for the Hamilton price] is quite unofficial in the system.” Casey said.

However, some students from the regional campuses are confused why, after several years, this has suddenly become a hot issue.

“If they didn’t want us to take Oxford classes for the Hamilton cost, they should have never created the loophole,” zoology major Adam Davisson said.

Average tuition for an in-state student studying on the Oxford campus is $13,533, while the price is only $7,819 for a regional campus student who has earned 68 or more credit hours.

“Think about it in the point of view of the Oxford student,” Beverley Taylor, a physics professor at the regional campuses, said, “when they realize the student sitting next to them is paying half of what they’re paying and they’re both sitting in the same class.”

The Miami BannerWeb system couldn’t charge students different prices for attending both campuses.

Though it may boil down to a technical glitch, student had to be enrolled at the Oxford campus to be charged Oxford tuition rates.

“The state has basically said they don’t want regionals to offer associate degrees,” Taylor said.

“They want us to offer bachelor degrees and let the community colleges do the associate degrees, so I think they’re not going to reward us very much for producing associate degrees.”

The main objective of the task force is to look at models from other campuses that have differentiating branches. The team is still in its early stages of information gathering and research, but through meetings like the open forums, they are remaining transparent with all members of the university community.

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New Women’s Care Center branch to open HEALTH

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In 2013, over 20 percent of families with children attending Miami University had incomes of more than $250,000 a year. Yet, just several miles away, 19.3 percent of Oxford households live with annual incomes of less than $10,000, well below the national poverty threshold of $23,000.

Resources like the Oxford Women’s Care Center, which aids these struggling families, is opening a new facility closer to their clients on 10 Reagh’s Way. The center focuses on families with infant to toddler-aged children.

For a four-person family, approximately 39 percent of Oxford households live below the poverty line, according to the United States Census Bureau. The national poverty rate is only about 16 percent. Conversely, over half of

university families have an income of $100,000 or more, as indicated

by FAFSA statistics.

The women’s center provides clothes, diapers and other accessories to parents in that 39 percent.

Additionally, the center offers abortion-counseling services.

Director of the center, Coralee Shearer knew a new branch was necessary for the future of the center, Although the previous location Uptown was convenient for students, it was very difficult for her clients living across town to access, especially those without a vehicle.

This was the major contributing factor in changing locations. Clients are appreciative of this move and Shearer’s efforts, she said.

“There was a point where I was getting low in baby formula, I didn’t have a bunch of clothes in his size at the time, I didn’t have a stroller or anything,” care center client Michelle S. said. “I told her I didn’t have a stroller and she said, ‘What kind do you want? What

kind do you need?’ I didn’t really know because I never had a need for a stroller before. I don’t even think it was two hours past and she came to me with a stroller.”

Shearer said she helps many permanent residents of Oxford, like Michelle.

God’s economy is not man’s economy.

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The new facility will have several advantages over the old one, in addition to location. Because the old center was in a small apartment, there wasn’t room for all the donations.

The new building will have enough storage for all of the

center’s supplies. Families also won’t have to walk their children and strollers up two flights of stairs to reach the center anymore, because the new building is wheelchair accessible.

Considering the center’s challenges, Shearer knew it was time for a change.

She called Jim Lipnickey, director of Habitat for Humanity, and asked if there was any way Habitat could build her center a new home.

Although Habitat was unable to build her a home, they did have one on the market due to foreclosure.

The Habitat board agreed to sell her the home for just $35,000.

“God’s economy is not man’s economy,” said Shearer, speaking of her good fortune on the low price of the house. She said she felt like the new center was meant to be.

The organization quickly raised over one-third of the money to fund the purchase through donations and fundraisers.

Teams of people have been

coming for several weeks to help overhaul the house for use. Saturdays are the main workdays, and interns or other volunteers will come in for a several-hour shift.

Bob Shearer, Coralee Shearer’s husband, has been putting a lot of his time into getting the house ready. He said he knows his wife loves what she’s doing, and he wants to help her as well.

“I worked as a carpenter for many years, and Rob Hoover was a professional painter, so we’re using our skills as best as we can,” Shearer said of the combined volunteer effort going into preparing the house.

The center should be ready to start moving supplies in within the next two weeks.

The Women’s Care Center is always looking for volunteers to help with move-in and other daily operations.

Those interested in getting involved can contact Shearer at (513)523-1814.

POLICE BEAT A fire house mix up

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BUST A MOVE Students gather around to watch improv dancers following the Homecoming Parade held this past Friday in Uptown Park.

Former HAPC chair wins prestigious education award AWARD NADYA KORYTNIKOVA FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Each year, the State Historic Preservation Office in Columbus presents The Public Education and Awareness Award. This year, during the 33rd annual Preservation Award Luncheon, Oxford’s very own Laura Henderson was honored.

Henderson served on Oxford’s HAPC from 2004-14 and was Chair of Commission in 2014.

Before her retirement, she was registrar and collections manager for the Miami University Art Museum.

According to the State Historic Preservation Office, this award is honored to a person who has taken a huge role in maintaining historic preservations in their region.

The recipient of this award is required to take part in service, educational programs and many other activities that increase public awareness of important historical sites.

“I hope that [this recognition] will go beyond a personal achievement,” Henderson said, “and not only encourage people to continue and expand the programs, but bring public attention to Oxford as a caring community that respects

and preserves its rich culture and historic architecture.”

Awards are presented in two categories: Public Education and Awareness, and Preservation Merit.

Henderson was one of three recipients in the state to be honored for Public Education and Awareness projects. The award is for increasing interest in historic preservation.

original look of the city by protecting historical structures and sites.

“Laura and I volunteered in HAPC,” HAPC Vice-chair Kim Peterka said. “We would volunteer to work on projects and bring up ideas in the meetings held in the Municipal building.”

In 2004, during Henderson’s first term in the preservation commission, HAPC was subject to criticism from the community. The

Originally from New York, Henderson earned degrees in art and historic preservation. Prior to coming to Ohio, she worked in several museums and served on a city planning commission. Henderson’s earlier career involved dealing in Asian art and antiques, decorative arts and jewelry. She also worked in interior design.

Upon moving to Oxford in 2001, Henderson volunteered to serve for HAPC, a commission which is responsible for maintaining the

organization not only was required to protect the historical look of older houses in the area, but also enforced strict design rules to buildings in order for them to fit into the historical look of the town.

Overtime, Henderson helped to change the community’s perspective of the HAPC. She organized annual guided tours of Oxford’s historic sites and created a new historic brochure for Oxford residents.

“We advised people within the

town that if they are going to build a new structure to think about how it would be compatible within the landscape of Uptown Oxford,” Peterka said.

Throughout her career in HAPC, Laura took on many roles in preserving Oxford to its original look.

In 2004, she suggested the creation of a historic marker program put into place to honor historically marked buildings in order to showcase their historical significance.

Some of these buildings include First Presbyterian Church, built in 1810, and the Serpent Mound and Wilson-Huston houses. These historical structures are located Uptown.

In 2008 she created guidelinewalking tours, which take people through Oxford historical sites.

This project has been very successful. During the first month, at least 30 people came to each tour to learn more about the history of the town.

In 2009, Henderson participated in the “This Place Matters” program, which encouraged people to protest and preserve historical places that matter to them.

It is because of Henderson’s efforts that the public has been made more aware of Oxford’s historical importance and the need for its preservation.

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I hope that this [this recognition] will go beyond a personal achievement and not only encourage people to continue and expand programs, but bring public attention to Oxford.”

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IN THE NEWS OXFORD Electric choice on Oxford ballot

City proposes to aid more non-profits

On Tuesday, voters will decide whether or not they want a third option to choose their electric providers.

–Oxford Press

City Council members want to double amount spent on nonprofit programs in an effort to aid homeless.

–The Enquirer

Woman with terminal brain cancer ended her own life

Suicide bomber kills 32 in northeast Nigeria

Brittany Maynard took her own life Tuesday by practicing her ‘right-to-die’ law.

–ABCNews

The bomber placed explosives alongside a religious procession on Monday.

–ABC News

At 9:53 p.m. on Saturday, officers responded to a report of a male student wandering around the squad bay of the Oxford Fire Department in a highly intoxicated state. The officers noticed that he was unsteady, heavily slurring his speech and smelled of alcohol. When asked where he thought he was, the male replied, “I’m at Brick Street.” He was evaluated by the Life Squad, and later remembered being at Brick Street earlier in the night with friends, but he could not remember leaving the bar or how he got into the Fire Department.

There were no signs of damage to the secured building. He was cited with Offenses Involving Underage Persons and taken back to his residence on campus.

Male student found unconscious in street At 1:31 a.m. on Sunday, officers responded to a call from residents at a home on West Sycamore regarding a male student passed out in the entryway of their residence. Upon arrival, the offers saw that the male had no shoes, a laceration on his foot and was lying in a puddle of vomit. The officers found the male’s ID, which they confirmed through Miami databases. The male remained unconscious for the duration of the encounter and was subsequently transported to McCullough-Hyde Hospital for treatment. He was cited for Offenses Involving Underage Persons and Intoxication to a Harmful Condition.

Shivering intruder At 2:19 a.m. on Saturday, two officers responded to a call from residents in an apartment to a male attempting to enter their residence. The officers observed a shirtless male student scratching at the window of the residence while muttering to himself. He appeared to be highly intoxicated and kept whispering “I’m so cold.” He struggled to procure his license for the officers, who placed him in the back of the cruiser in an attempt to warm him. The officers proceeded to take the male home, but when they approached his residence, he became very nervous and began to have a conversation with himself, at which point the officers contacted Life Squad to evaluate the male’s condition. He was cited with Intoxication to a Harmful Condition and taken to McCulloughHyde Hospital.

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‘In the Heat of the Night’ The national tour travels to Oxford this weekend

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MURDER MYSTERY The national tour of ‘In the Heat of the Night’ will perform Saturday in Hall Auditorium in celebration of L.A. Theatre Works’ 40th Anniversary Season.

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L.A. Theatre Works will be performing the murder mystery “In the Heat of the Night” Saturday, Nov. 8 at Hall Auditorium.

“In the Heat of the Night” is a riveting murder mystery set in a small southern town in the 1960s.

The plot involves a wrongfully accused murder, with the underlying racial tensions of an African American homicide detective and a police chief during the social revolution of the decade.

The show’s two main antagonists are Police Chief Bill Gillespie and African-American homicide detective, Virgil Tibbs, a northerner who was coincidentally passing through town at the same time a wealthy and prominent entrepreneur from Chicago is found murdered. What follows is a series of twists, as the murder mystery unravels, fueled by the fire of prejudice and racism that was prevalent in the south during the 1960s.

Playwright and screenwriter Matthew Pelfrey’s stage adaption of the classic play reflects on the racial tensions and clashes of the time, while subtly hinting that such attitudes have not been completely rectified in our society, even 50 years later.

Patti Hannan Liberatore, director of the Performing Arts Series at Miami University, noted that the play is, “meant to be provocative — literally, to provoke conversation and be a platform to discuss what has changed and what hasn’t changed.”

Hannan Liberatore noted her excitement for L.A. Theatre Works to return to Miami University for their third production.

“They do really great work and pick topics with strong messages,” Hannan Liberatore said. “This production ties in well with Miami’s theme of celebrating freedom.”

Because of the controversial nature of the play, as well as the use of the original script, Elizabeth Reitz-Mullenix, dean of the College of Creative Arts and Theatre Scholar, will give a curtain speech providing context and to advise of the derogatory and racially insensitive language that is used throughout the play, written at the height of racial tensions in the United States.

The current tour of “In the Heat of the Night” will be traveling and performing at universities and small venues through March 2015.

The show was produced as film in 1967, adapted from the 1965 novel by the same name, written

by John Ball.

The film version was awarded

five Academy Awards in 1967.

Two sequels followed the film, “They Call Me Mister Tibbs!” in 1970 and “The Organization” in 1971. In 1988, the film was adapted into a television series.

L.A. Theatre Works is a well renowned, nonprofit media arts organization out of Venice, California with the goal of presenting, preserving and disseminating classic and contemporary plays, which the organization has been doing for more than 25 years.

Their Audio Theatre Collection includes over 400 plays, making it the most extensive library of plays in the world.

The organization boasts former alumni such as Hilary Swank, Neil Patrick Harris and Jimmy Smits.

Their national touring program began in 2005 and travels to performing arts venues and universities all over the country, with the promise of a “live-in-performance” radio drama. Their productions range from famous past and contemporary plays to L.A. Theatre Works’ original material.

The performance begins at 8 p.m. Tickets for the show can be purchased for $18 for adults and $9 for students and children.

Students attending the show in conjunction with a class can reveive discounted tickets. Students required to attend the show for a class will receive two free tickets.

The Center for American and World Cultures will be hosting Miami’s first Indian Film Festival starting Tuesday, Nov. 4 and running until Nov. 7.

Set to show in 212 MacMillan Hall, each day of the week will feature two to three different films, with each showing beginning at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. respectively. The festival, “Women and Their Families: An Indian Lense,” deals exclusively with issues involving women in India.

“We’re looking at young women, middle aged women; we’re looking at women and their relationships with their parents, their brothers, their sisters, their husbands,” Mary Jane Berman, director of The Center or American and World cultures and one of the coordinators for this event, said.

“We’re looking at women facing modern day situations in an India that’s changing, an India that is dropping many of its taboos.”

While the eight films that will be shown during this four-day event deal with challenges that women face in India today, the films are anything but repetitive.

“These films are so diverse.

When [students] come to at least some of these films, they will be getting a good glimpse of various issues,” Lalita Satyal, a professor of Hindi at Miami and co-coordinator of the festival, said.

From the festival’s two documentaries, “Pink Saris” and “The World Before Her” (which will be shown at both of Thursday’s showings), to current films dealing with struggling relationships like the one depicted in “The Lunchbox” and the power of independence and growth as seen in “Queen,” the issues confronted in each film are not clichéd, but constructive. “[Queen] sets a very strong message for young girls — what they can do to change their course of action and that they don’t have to be shattered. They can pick up the pieces and turn [a negative experience] into something more positive for themselves,” Satyal said.

Together this past summer, Berman and Satyal worked together to sift through up to 20 different Indian films.

“We knew we wanted to do an Indian film festival. Indian films are huge. It’s a huge industry,” Berman said. “[Bollywood] seems to be everywhere. People are doing henna, they’re eating Indian food, they are loving Bollywood dances; the whole world is caught up in the Bollywood craze. India is so hot right now. Bollywood is sizzling,” Satyal added.

The festival is not solely about the films either.

“My most favorite part that I’m looking forward to are the discussions that will go on after

the films,” Berman said.

Each film will be introduced

by Pulkit Datta, a Miami alumna and a 2014 recipient of Miami’s prestigious 18 of the Last 9 Young Alumni Award, which honors 18 exceptional young alumni who graduated in the past nine years. Datta worked with Berman and Satyal closely this past summer during the process of deciding films. His connections in the Indian film industry as well as his expertise of film in general ensure that this festival will be stocked fully.

“Producing, directing, screenwriting; yeah, there’s not a thing he doesn’t do,” Berman said.

The film festival, while seemingly sudden, is not a random installment.

“Part of what we’re trying to accomplish at Miami is providing people with a mastery of what’s going on in the world,” Berman said.

Not only that, but the festival provides itself as a tool to connect in an already-globalized society. Satyal found that while teaching her Hindi and Bollywood classes, both she and some of her students began to reconnect with their roots.

The whole world is caught up in the Bollywood craze. India is so hot right now.

Bollywood is sizzling.”

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“After teaching Hindi, and also teaching the Bollywood course, I just felt like I was getting closer and closer to the culture that I had left behind a long time ago. And I just felt that I should do a little bit more with it,” Satyal said.

“We are hoping that [students] would enjoy some of these films, and we are hoping that they will learn about some of these issues that are discussed. And, perhaps, take it a little step further and do something about these issues.”

The hope for this program is that it will widen Miami’s perspective and highlight the global importance of Indian culture.

“You know how Shakespeare said what’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet,” Satyal said. “Well what’s in a name – when you say Bollywood there’s a lot in the name. Not to make Shakespeare be wrong or anything, but a name has a lot in it, especially if you’re saying Bollywood.”

Students are invited come 15 minutes early to test out some Indian snacks, as well as stay after and discuss with a panel of professors and speakers about each movie. For more information about this four-day festival, contact Mary Jane Berman at bermanmj@miamioh.edu or Lalita Sayal at satyall@miamioh.edu.

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Oxford Empty Bowls Benefit

Sketched Out Improv Show

Churchill as a Writer Lecture

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Bachelor Hall 337

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DIWALI DANCES The MU Indian Students Association presented their annual Diwali Show Saturday in Hall Auditorium.

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more service-friendly. They also plan to rethink ways of ordering so they can move workers from prep to service areas.

“It’s not necessarily adding more people, but adding better ways of doing things,” Pittman said.

Measures previously employed to alleviate the problem include bringing in temp agencies, shifting staff between locations, hiring local high school students and utilizing the food truck, Pittman said. However, the measure that has helped the most, he said, is the temp agencies.

This past Family Weekend put an additional strain on dining staff, serving over 6,000 meals on Saturday and 5,000 on Sunday in Armstrong alone, Pittman said.

“We had some unfortunate wait times we would have liked to avoid,” Pittman said.

Another limiting factor is the restriction on the amount of hours students are allowed to work. According to Interim Director of Compensation Theresa Murphy, students can no longer work for the

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university for over 22 hours during the school year. The only exception is during summer and semester breaks, when the limit is extended to 40 hours.

One main reason for this is the Affordable Care Act, which requires employers to extend health benefits to employees who work an average of over 30 hours a week, Murphy said.

Both limits ensure that if a student works more hours during the summer and semester breaks, then they must work less during the school year to average out to less than 30 hours a week over the whole year.

Most part-time positions were never intended to include health benefits, Murphy said.

Murphy said the 22-hour cap was also instituted because it allows students to focus on their school work.

“Ideally, we feel like the students’ first purpose being here at Miami is to get the education,” Murphy said, “and while it is certainly beneficial for students to gain work experience . . . it does limit that as far as we can in terms of making sure that more time is focused on their education.”

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renovated Gaskill and Rowan Halls,” Wilson said. “The East Wing Expansion has many of these things.”

These features include student senate chambers and offices, a dozen or so 30 to 50 person meeting rooms and a few that could sit 100 people, some retail space, and talk of plentiful lounge area equipped with TVs, pool tables and more.

“There will be at least two eating facilities,” President David Hodge said. “One will be a coffee and snacks shop right in the traffic flow area between Armstrong

and Culler. The other will be an active meeting place/eating place probably along the lines of Buffalo Wild Wings.”

With the additional space, career services will move to the ground floor of this new building, along with interview rooms and offices to support students. Offices for Armstrong staff will also move to make room for student organizations on campus.

The anticipated completion date was pushed back because, in order to move forward on this project, Shideler Hall renovations must be completed, and the Geology and Geography Departments must vacate

Culler Hall, where they are temporarily located, which won’t happen until 2016.

All plans are still in the works and will be brought up next week at Student Senate and in a couple of focus groups as well.

“We are verifying that we have the right mix of meeting rooms, lounge/recreation spaces, dining options and retail concepts,” Wilson said.

Students are being given the opportunity to speak up and help make decisions that will affect the new building anticipated to become a big part of student life at Miami University come fall 2017.

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Handling of bomb threat on campus left students and newspaper confused EDITORIAL

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

It was an unsettling string of words to see pop up on your iPhone screen on a Thursday evening, as the quiet of a cold day took over Miami’s sidewalks. All across campus, the same email was opened and the same, stoic words were read. Some may have browsed the short message once or twice with a twinge of shock.

Some may have looked around, unsure of what may happen next and others confidently put their phones back into their pockets — because things like that don’t really happen at Miami.

Now that the weekend has passed, we are glad our campus is safe and we are grateful the necessary steps were taken to secure Hughes Hall.

But we, at The Miami Student, are confused. We appreciate the

three emails we received, but what about what has happened since Friday? As the Miami community received reports about a bomb threat aimed at Hughes Hall at the end of last week, there was a small window of worry and then, it seemed, it was over.

When students received a second email on Friday afternoon, probably while putting the final touches on their Halloween costumes, there weren’t too many concerned faces seen around campus. And sure, it was easy to dismiss the threat as a prank, easy it blame it on some childish student trying to get out of a science exam.

But as journalists, the Editorial Board had a different response. We closed that email and we were met with a flood of questions, ones regarding the safety of thousands of

The battle of writing: Good writers don’t fight it MILAM’S MUSINGS LIFE Writing, good writing, I should say, in its purest and rawest form is akin to bleeding on the page.

Forged in those bloody pages is a connection between the author and the reader.

There is nothing to writing, Hemingway said, but to sit down at a typewriter and bleed. With respect to Hemingway, he’s only half-right. To follow through with Hemingway’s description, bleeding is easy; it’s bringing the knife to your skin that’s hard.

Macabre for sure, but that’s how I see it. But what’s lost on people that don’t write is their perception of writers.

Thomas Mann once said that a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. I’ve found that to be the case, no matter the assignment or the length.

My first memory of writing a story was in my first grade class. I forget what the assignment was, but I kept asking my teacher for an extension because in my mind, I was writing a masterpiece and I just needed to keep adding more to the story.

Instead, I wrote a meandering eight-page story about a guy in a trench coat scaring this couple in a mall by popping out and yelling, “Boo!” I grew up on R.L. Stine, so emulate him, I tried.

It was obviously garbage and I like to think I’ve written better stories since then, but writing has never come easy.

Even so, that doesn’t stop my family or friends from thinking I can disappear in the basement for a few hours and return with a publishable, soon-to-be New York Times bestseller before dinner.

Sure, there’s a certain romanticism I ascribe to writing, like I need to be Thoreau and disappear in the woods to write, but there is undoubtedly a bit of craziness that goes into turning a blank page into a page of legible and meaningful squiggles.

As Neil Gaiman said, being a writer is a very peculiar sort of job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

I’ve been conquered and consumed by that blank screen enough times that my face ought to be a blinking cursor.

Nevertheless, this month that’s a battle I’m hoping to win. Taking place until the end of the month is National Novel Writing Month, shortened to NaNoWriMo, a creative writing project to “write a novel,” created 15 years ago.

To “win,” you have to write 50,000 words by month’s end (logged into their web site) or 1,666 words a day. Some notable books to come out of NaNoWriMo include Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Reportedly, by 2010, some 200,000 people took part.

Last year, I took part for the first time and “won,” but the “novel” I created still sits somewhere on my computer untouched since then because it was something I’d be embarrassed to put in my dog’s bowl.

The whole point of NaNoWriMo is to make you write, which is a feat in itself. Starting that first word and that first sentence has always been the most difficult part about writing.

Aside from the plethora of distractions a click away, writing is draining. After all, you’re bleeding.

I’m under no illusions. I do not think writing a novel under the umbrella of NaNoWriMo makes me an author anymore than I think taking a selfie makes me a photographer, but the purpose of the project makes it worthwhile all the same.

This time, I’m going into it with a better plan. As in, I’m actually going to have a plan, as opposed to last year where I “pantsed” it, as the NaNoWriMo folks call writing by the seat of your pants.

There is just no way to wing it with 1,666 words a day. I regularly take part in flash fiction contests where the word maximum is, at most, 360 words. In that instance, pantsing it is okay.

Even then, I fail repeatedly. I submit my flash fiction to a variety of online (and less frequently print) literary magazines and am routinely rejected. If you looked at my Submittable, a site that helps track your submissions, it would be filled with precisely 25 submissions listed as “declined” out of 30 submitted.

There’s only one submission “accepted” on there. That’s not counting magazines I submitted to outside the purview of that particular tracking service.

The point is, failure is hardwired into a writer because it’s sure to happen a lot and in many cases, it’s necessary as a mechanism to improve the writing.

It can be hard. Consider, I just bled onto this page for you only for it to not be a match. In my mind, I’m thinking, “Now what?”

Bleed again, I suppose.

Some writers will say they only write for themselves or for the art of the language itself, which are both good reasons. Writing can be cathartic and language is beautiful, but it’s a delusion to think they don’t write for others.

The end game is for a stranger thousands of miles away to find your words and connect to them. There is no greater high than someone else feeling something from the squiggles that splooged out of your brain onto the blank screen.

Writing for NaNoWriMo is an exercise in daily masochism with the sliver of hope that excellence resides on the other side of Dec. 1.

Now if only I could find that old typewriter I used to have and some sure-to-be-used whiteout ...

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people, ones that, as much as we tried, we could not answer. During this situation and in the days afterward, the communication has been sub-par and frustrating to us, as students and as people who are trying to do their jobs. That dismissive reaction so popular among our peers was based on blatant assumption.

There was no confirmation that we could go about our lives as normal, something we craved to deliver to our student body.

Several members of our staff persistently reached out to Miami University Police and University Communications, wanting to know the nature of this bomb threat and what the search committee had found and if students should be weary of being on campus. Simple, important questions when word of a bomb is on the table.

One of our editors even walked to Hughes, not knowing if the area was truly dangerous enough to warrant avoiding, and sought answers from police officers on the scene. He approached a MUPD car, seeing an officer’s face peeking out the window, and calmly asked for details only to be met with a curt response and the sharp sight of the window rolling up.

The Miami community is relying on us to not only seek this information out, but also to find it and report it. We hold ourselves to a professional standard, but we are nothing without facts. And in search of those, we got unreturned phone calls and doors in our faces.

We are Miami’s (and Oxford’s) most prominent news source, and we need to be taken seriously, even if we’re wearing a backpack. This

is not how journalists or the community should be treated. In fact, it’s the exact sort of behavior we have been taught to deem as unconstitutional. If you’ve heard of a thing called the freedom of the press, it was not at work here at Miami last week.

We understand the process of an open investigation and the implications of safety concerns, but why did we not receive more information about this incident? We have a long list of questions we would love answers to, but we never even got the chance. Even if this was a simple Halloween prank, something students quickly laughed off and thought, “things like this don’t happen here,” Miami students, staff and faculty should’ve been kept informed. And we would’ve liked a chance to do that.

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Admitting international students for the wrong reasons brings down the university I am writing to express my concerns regarding the effect of the admissions of academically unqualified international students on the learning environment at Miami University.

I am a faculty member teaching mainly undergraduate courses.

Typically, my classes consist of 20 students and I will usually have one to four international students enrolled. There has been increased enrollment in the past few years of international students in my courses. In one course, there are 15 international students out of 22.

The vast majority of these students hail from China, but the following issues apply to students of other nationalities as well.

I welcome the diversity in the classroom. It is a pleasure working with international students who are equipped to contribute to class discussions and share their unique viewpoints with the noninternational students. It is beneficial for all the students involved to have the experience of working in diverse groups in order to accomplish academic goals. It is a pleasure helping international students succeed on in-class exams, clarifying out of class reading and writing assignments and the like. Student success is the reward of teaching.

What I do not welcome is dead weight.

For the collegiate level, the displayed English literacy of our international students is abhorrent.

The majority of these students do not have the conversational skills to follow along with lecture materials or to contribute to large or small group discussions. The majority of these students do not have the English reading and writing skills to read and comprehend in class exams, out of class reading assignments or out of class

writing assignments.

I cannot fathom why an institution such as Miami University would accept the quality of student as I am seeing in many of the international students. I know that they go through a rigorous admissions process and I am wondering where this process is failing the university, and more importantly, the student.

Are we accepting them merely to commend ourselves on our diversity or for financial gain? Whatever our reason, we are setting these students up to fail. We are wasting their time and their money.

Besides being a burden upon themselves and upon the educators at this institution, one must also consider the implications that significant percentages of failing or low-performing students have on the general class population.

What I am seeing and hearing from students is that they are highly frustrated by the lack of academic ability visible in many international students in the classroom setting.

First, the level of disengagement the international students display during class is downright disrespectful to the point of being infuriating to the non-international students.

As a classroom leader, I have addressed the use of cellphones, laptops and talking many times and in many formats and my students have taken the matter into their own hands, as well. This disregard for common courtesy to the class as a whole is a major distraction for students.

You may be asking why I, as an instructor, am not doing more to engage these students, why I am not being a stricter disciplinarian.

Believe me, I have been trying.

There is a point where I must make a decision as to who deserves more of my time — those students who

put in the time and effort, those who come to class prepared, those who are engaged or those who I must baby every step of the way.

I am here to do my job of helping students who want to do there job. I am not here to coax and prod along the students who are not capable of doing their job.

Secondly, when one portion of the class sets the bar low, the rest of the class conforms to that standard.

It is an uphill battle to raise the bar after it has been lowered. This is a sad fact of education that instructors have been fighting against for ages. Miami prides itself on providing a top-notch education to every student. We cannot have one sector of the student population negatively affect other sectors of our student population.

I am sening this letter of concern anonymously as I am concerned that revealing my name could harm my trajectory within Miami. Incidentally, it is a sad fact that faculty is made to feel unsafe to bring concerns such as these to the attention of the university for fear of being labeled “racist” or “anti-equal opportunity.” I want you to know that these concerns are not just my own; they are concerns of many faculty members and many students who are afraid to come forward. I expect you to take these concerns into deepest consideration and reevaluate your admissions policies especially regarding language proficiency of international students.

Sincerely, A Concerned Faculty Member

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How rape culture gives all men a bad name MADELEINE’S MATTERS LIFE Rape Culture: according to Huffington Post, it is defined as “a culture in which dominant cultural ideologies, media images, social practices and societal institutions support and condone sexual abuse by normalizing, trivializing and eroticizing male violence against women and blaming victims for their own abuse.”

And I’m sure you’re tired of hearing about it, especially if you are a guy.

The dialogue on rape culture and sexual violence was brought up yet again a couple of weeks ago at a demonstration outside Farmer School of Business to protest the appearance of George Will on Miami’s campus, an event covered by this newspaper.

Will wrote an article on rape reports on college campuses, saying that as universities coddle their students and make victimhood a coveted status, victims will multiply.

As an attendee, I got to walk among many strong and vocal women, yelling “Nothing Less Than Yes!” and “Hey Ho, George Will

The fight against rape culture and sexual assault and violence is not one-sided and cannot be treated as such.”

Has Got To Go!” It was refreshing to see a different side of people than usually seen on this campus, an attitude built on the will to express.

I was surprised, however, to see men at the demonstration. Even more so, I was surprised to see that they were holding up posters with things like “Men against sexual violence” written on them. You can imagine my astonishment when I later heard the president of Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, a club that I didn’t even know existed on Miami’s campus, speak after the protest.

Herein lies the issue. I was surprised to see men supporting women’s rights. In the 21st century, I was surprised to see college guys join in on the dialogue. Earlier this

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semester, I wrote an article on the HeForShe campaign, calling to men to join in on fighting for women’s rights, but when I saw it in action, I was floored.

This is what rape culture is doing to men. Believe it or not, most men are actually not bad people. Most men would not even think about raping a woman. Rape culture is dangerous, and it is magnified in the media and various social contexts, but it depicts all men through a lens that makes them appear archaic, backwards and simply-sexual beings.

Rape culture looks at men as though they have no emotions, normalizing only strong and violent urges, like sexual assault, anger or jealousy, therefore minimizing any male capability to feel “weaker” emotions, like affection, love and even contentment.

Rape culture also allows room for excuses, making the victim (who, statistically, is usually female) responsible in some way for the crime, in the way they dress, in how much they drink, in the type of people they hang out with.

This is a societal problem that gives leeway, even if only slightly, to boys over girls in terms of their responsibilities.

Rape culture is a delusion that masks reality — that rape happens because of rapists, not because of the way women act and not because a man is simply a man.

The words “Man” and “Rapist” have become increasingly intertwined. And because the fight against rape culture has traditionally been a female one, it is as if men cannot untangle themselves from that stereotype. It is obvious that this opinion on rape culture may be an unpopular one, but it’s simple and honest — men as well as women are prisoners of this societal idea.

The fight against rape culture and sexual assault and violence is not one-sided and cannot be treated as such. As Emma Watson said in her HeForShe campaign, we have to open up the conversation.

It is ignorant to think that this is a one-gendered issue. Rape culture is as destructive to our idea of men and masculinity as it is to femininity. It fosters segmented gender roles, a stigma that women’s rights movements have been so adamant to destroy.

The bottom line is this: to completely kill rape culture, we must bring women up and not put MADELEINE LAPLANTE-DUBE LAPLANMM@MIAMIOH.EDU

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STARBUCKS RED CUPS With November upon us, Starbucks red cups are officially back and all over campus. We love how cheery they make everything (but maybe it’s the caffeine that makes us cheery).

NEW YORK CITY MARATHON We’re all in support of people from all over the world running a marathon. But poor weather conditions made this year’s race a struggle for runners.

BAD HALLOWEEN COSTUMES We saw plenty of clever and creative costumes Uptown, but some bad ones as well. Our least favorite was anyone claiming to be a “sexy Ebola nurse.”

BIG BEN BREAKS RECORD Miami alumnus Ben Roethlisberger dazzled football fans by throwing 552 passing yards in last week’s game against the Colts. This was a record for the Steelers.

ISLAMIC STATE MASS EXECUTION More than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe were slaughtered over the past two weeks by the Sunni extremist group.

GRUMPY CAT MOVIE A Lifetime original movie is coming out starring Grumpy Cat. This is pretty much an example of what happens when the Internet takes things too far.

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Miami’s attempts to split from regional campuses will make it hard for current “Branch” students DIVERSITY Clemson Attaway, 20, turns his alarm off at 7:15 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He walks slowly to the kitchen, allowing for his muscles to wake up, and sets the coffee to brew. After a quick shower, he fills his thermos and is out the door at 7:45. Class starts at 8:30.

No, Attaway isn’t allowing for 45 minutes of walk time to get to Farmers School of Business; he is actually hoping for good traffic on his way to Miami’s regional campus in Hamilton. He cranks the engine of his 1996 Dodge Intrepid three times before it finally turns over, and he is off.

“That’s it, that’s my routine,” he said. “I know it’s not really the traditional Miami experience, but it’s mine.”

On this particular day, Attaway wears Wrangler jeans and a fleece pullover he bought from the local thrift store- not because he is trying to be fratty or hip, as many Miami students do, but because it is what he can afford.

“I have to be practical,” he explained. “I don’t have Daddy’s credit card to buy all the Vineyard Vines and Patagonia’s I want, so I work to pay for my stuff. I’m not bitter, I promise, it’s just the truth.”

Perhaps an unfair sentiment, it is nonetheless a perspective shared by many of the Miami students at branch campuses, who consequently lead very diverse lifestyles than the traditional Oxford campus students.

And that is what they are- individuals with diverse backgrounds, but Miami students all the same.

However, this may be changed when Miami University finalizes its plans to distance the regional campuses to decrease brand confusion. According to Journal-News, Miami University President David Hodge reiterated the University’s desire to make “a series of distinctions,” in a September interview.

“We’ve had some declining enrollment on the regional campuses, we’ve got some budget deficits that are growing, and we’ve got some outcome measures that aren’t where we would like them to be,” said Hodge, reportedly.

While budgets deficits are definitely understandable in light of

the university’s $100 million worth of construction projects this past summer, it doesn’t make sense to Randy Molar, who feels regional students’ statuses as Miami students is being threatened.

“I wanted a Miami degree. The split that they want seems like that’s going to make it difficult for current branch kids. The whole reason I went to Miami was because it was local and because with the branch campus, I saved money and took care of the Miami Plan,” said Molar, a Talawanda High School graduate and 2013 Miami alumnus. The Miami Plan refers to the curriculum plan all students are required to take before graduation, which aims to broaden student academic horizons. “I got a degree. I got a job, and I even got a wife at Miami. I want the branch kids to have those opportunities too.”

spectrum of differences.”

Furthermore, Dr. Ronald B. Scott, the Associated Vice President of Institutional Diversity at Miami, referred to a part of the 2020 plan as the university’s “diversity plan.”

He explained that each unit at Miami is expected to develop metrics in which they show progress in diversifying their recruitment and retention. “Because it’s been institutionalized, and because everyone is accountable, everybody’s head will roll if we do not adhere to what we say we’re going to do.”

“I am diverse. I am not rich. And I’m also not white,” said Attaway, who is indeed African-American.

“The regionals are my best shot at a Miami degree. If that gets taken away, not only are there going to be a lot of pissed off branch kids, but Miami will have hurt their own image from a diversity standpoint.”

Perhaps an unfair sentiment, it is nonetheless a perspective shared by many of the Miami students at branch campuses, who consequently lead very diverse lifestyles than the traditional Oxford campus students.”

Students who share Molar’s sentiments should be aware of the Miami Office of Diversity Affairs (ODA), which on their website expresses a “commitment to diversity/multiculturalism as expressed through ability, age, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic differences.” The Miami regional campuses have been historically diverse, especially in the fields of age, race and socioeconomics; it can be argued, then, that further segregation of the campuses is contradictory to the ODA mission statement.

Many students, as Mallaley expressed, attend the branch campuses for monetary reasons (tuition is substantially lower at the regionals). In 2013, Miami reported that about one in every five Oxford students estimated his/her parent income at greater than $250k.

Metric 21 of Miami’s 2020 Plan, which lays out university vision through 2020 and is available online, defines the goal of Global and Intercultural learning, where students will be encouraged to become, “responsible people who are attentive to diversity across the

The Oxford campus actually has a higher percentage of minority students than the combined branch populations, due in large part to its successful international program.

What interests Attaway, however, is the ratio of African-American students at each campus compared to other minorities.

According to Miami’s website, the Asian student population in 2013 jumps from 92 at the branch campuses to 310 in Oxford, an increase of nearly 350 percent. This ratio is mirrored in the Hispanic translation, which rises from 152 to 508, again more than tripling the population. But the African-American ratio rises from 490 to 651, for an increase of just 33 percent, a stark comparison.

“I don’t buy it,” remarks Attaway, shaking his head slowly. As the interview closes, he stands and drains the remaining contents of his thermos, which he has refilled at the coffee shop where he works.

He checks his watch- nearly 4:00 p.m. “I gotta clock in,” KYLE BUSH

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Miami can’t capture MAC championship MU scores six unanswered to complete comeback CROSS COUNTRY

GRACE REMINGTON FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the Mid-American Conference Championships Saturday morning at Riverwood Resort in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The men’s team finished seventh out of nine schools with 181 points, and the women placed third out of 12 with 103 points.

In the women’s race, University of Toledo took first place and Eastern Michigan University took second. Eastern Michigan University, the University of Akron and Central Michigan University were the respective top three finishers for the men.

Both head coaches Kelly Phillips and Warren Mandrell described the results as “disappointing.”

The women’s squad goal had been to repeat as MAC champions.

“We didn’t race well,” Phillips said. “We didn’t go out to win, and when you don’t go out to win you get your butt kicked.”

Senior Jess Hoover, however, placed sixth overall in the 6K with a time of 20:34 to capture a new school record. The record had been previously held

by Rachel Patterson, who ran

a 20:40 on November 13, 2010 at the Great Lakes Regional at Oakland University “Jess raced really well,” Phillips said. “She was in it to win it, so she was disappointed she only got sixth. There was a big pack in front of her, unlike past years.”

Hoover was named First-Team All-MAC following the meet.

Senior Anna Lamb was 15th overall with a time of 21:17, and junior Laura Bess came in at 16th with a time of 21:21. Freshman Sarra Taylor (31st) and junior Brenna Poulsen (35th) rounded out the

First-Team All-MAC selection in the process.

“He started pulling away from the leading pack with about 400 yards to go,” Mandrell said. “It really came down to the wire. He lost to the second place guy by only one second.”

Coming in second for Miami was senior Dan Garleb with a time of 25:35 and a 35th overall finish.

Freshman Matt Bromley (46th), and sophomores Vince Moeglin (48th) and Stephen Biebelhausen (49th) were the rest of the scorers.

Bromley and Moeglin also set new

We didn’t race well. We didn’t go out to win, and when you don’t go out to win you get your butt kicked.”

KELLY PHILLIPS

WOMEN’S HEAD COACH

scoring five for the ’Hawks.

Phillps also pointed out Taylor had a great race for a freshman.

On the men’s side, it was junior Joe Stewart who carried the Red and White.

“Joe had a wonderful race,” Mandrell said. “He put himself in there and did everything he could to get up in front.”

Stewart placed third overall with a time of 24:21. He earned a lifetime best for the 8K and the a

personal records.

Regardless of the multiple personal records, Mandrell thought the race was “lackluster.”

“Their times were slower than they were on the muddy, more difficult course at Pre-Nationals,” Mandrell said.

Both teams return to action Nov. 14 at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet in Madison, Wisconsin, where they will attempt to qualify for the NCAA Championship.

FIELD HOCKEY SADIE MARTINEZ

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University women’s field hockey team extended its win streak to three games win with a 6-3 comeback win against Ball State University. The RedHawks scored six unanswered to snatch the victory. The win gives the RedHawks the No. 3 seed in the Mid-American Conference Tournament.

Ball State (5-11, 1-5 MAC) had a 3-0 lead over the RedHawks (7-11, 4-2 MAC) after roughly 28 minutes of action.

“We shouldn’t have gotten ourselves in the situation to be down 3-0,” senior back Ali Froede said.

“It just shows what kind of team we are and that we have the capability of coming back.”

Cardinal senior midfielder/back Bryce Barnes scored the first goal in the fifth minute of the game, giving the Cardinals an early lead. The two following goals came from junior midfielder Bethany Han and freshman forward/midfielder Carley Shannon.

Frode began the comeback by scoring just over 29 minutes into the game.

Junior midfielder Bea Dechant found the back of the net in the 53rd

minute to bring the score to 3-2.

Miami followed with a third goal from sophomore midfielder/forward Geagy Pritchard.

With 11 minutes left, Miami senior forward/midfielder Valentina Neira and senior back Shannon Regan added goals less than a minute apart to give Miami a 4-3 lead.

Neira scored off a penalty corner from Regan.

The RedHawks continued to score in the final minutes of the game, as Pritchard scored a second goal, and freshman midfielder/back Brianna Stahl scored the first goal of her career.

“We are very happy about the comeback,” Neira said. “It shows a lot of character, and that we can come back from anything whenever we want to.”

Miami has won the MAC Tournament back-to-back years, and are hoping to make it a three-peat this year.

Miami travel to Kent State University to compete in the MAC Tournament as the No. 3 seeded RedHawks face No. 2 seed Kent State 2 p.m. Friday. The winner of the game advance to play the winner of the No. 1 seed Central Michigan University and No. 4 seed Ohio University for the MAC Tournament title 2 p.m. Saturday.

DEREK DIGNAN FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s swimming team looks out over the pool before the RedHawks meet against Cleveland State University.

RedHawks rebound from Purdue loss with win over Cleveland State MEN’S SWIMMING JACK BREWER

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s swimming team was victorious against Cleveland State University by a score of 120.5-108.5 Saturday afternoon in the Nixon Aquatic Center.

After losing to Purdue University Thursday, the RedHawks rebounded with a strong performance against Cleveland State. Miami head coach Pete Lindsay was pleased with his team’s performance.

“We were able to establish momentum at the beginning of the FROM VOLLEYBALL »PAGE 10

as they accounted for 6.5 of the team’s 14 total blocks.

In the match against Akron (819, 2-10 MAC), Riley and Below each recorded double-doubles on the night as Riley accounted for 11 kills, 19 assists and seven digs while Below had 13 kills FROM SOCCER »PAGE 10

junior defenseman Lauren Kelly and senior defenseman Olivia Evans all buried their kicks, but the RedHawks’ tally of three was not enough to match the Huskies’ count of four scores against Miami sophomore goalie Vic Maniaci.

“As far as the penalties go, it’s a crapshoot,” Kramig said. “[We

meet which was something we didn’t do against Purdue,” Lindsay said. “I was pleased with that.”

Earning individual first-place finishes for the RedHawks were sophomore Bryan McNamara, junior Christopher Dieter, freshman Ross Westrick and senior Joe Baumgartner. McNamara earned two first-place finishes, taking the 1,000-freestyle and the 500-freestyle with times of 9:49.66 and 4:44.59, respectively. Dieter took first in the 200-freestyle with a time of 1:42.15, followed by Westrick in second, sophomore Jack Strauss in third and senior Michael Heavilon in fourth.

Westrick won the 100-freestyle

with a time of 47.32 and Baumgartner won the 50-freestyle in a time of 20.95.

In the 400-medley relay, Baumgartner, juniors Sean Neri and Evan Bader and sophomore Matthew Rigali earned a first-place finish with a time of 3:26.39. Rigali also earned points with a second-place finish in the 200-butterfly, clocking in a time of 1:56.75.

Other second-place finishers for the RedHawks were junior Heshan Unamboowe and senior Andrew Kilkenny. Unamboowe finished the 200-backstroke and Kilkenny placed second in the 200-IM. The Miami diving team had

and 10 digs. Ingle and Hill had strong nights on the block, as they had 6.5 of the team’s 11 total blocks.

“It was a good weekend for us,” Hill said. “Against Buffalo, we did a good job of making minimal errors and against Akron, we were great with our serving and our passing. Looking forward, we

need to be able to be aggressive with our serving and passing and be able to control the ball.”

The RedHawks host their final home game of the season 7 p.m. Thursday when they take on Bowling Green State University and head to Kalamazoo for a clash with Western Michigan University 7 p.m. Saturday.

were] very unlucky to miss the first two. I thought they were pretty good penalties. We started off in a hole, rallied back and took it all the way down to the end. It was just a little bit too deep of a hole for us to climb out of.”

Even with an impressive nonconference resume and an 8-2-1 MAC record, it appears this early and unexpected exit from the conference tournament leaves Miami

on the outside looking in when the NCAA tournament kicks off later this month.

Seniors Dinges, defenseman Courtney Zanotti, Evans, foward Hailey Pleshakov and gaolie Danielle Wiseman wrapped up an illustrious four years that included four winning seasons, two MAC East Division championships, a MAC regular season championship and a MAC tournament title.

a one-two finish in the threemeter dive event. Junior Michael Nash came in first with

and the subtraining groups are finally gelling. In terms of team development we’re ahead of where

We were able to establish momentum at the beginning of the meet, which was something we didn’t do against Purdue. I was pleased with that.”

MARK LINDSAY

MEN’S HEAD COACH

a score of 324.08, followed by sophomore Cole Fryman with a score of 297.75.

“We have a month until the Miami Invitational,” Lindsay said.

“The leadership lines are good, FROM COLUMN »PAGE 10

And a culture change is the first and most important change for a losing team. If you don’t believe me, take it from the greatest football coach of all time, Bill Walsh.

“The culture precedes positive results. It doesn’t get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they’re champions; they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners,” Walsh wrote in his book, “The Score Takes Care of Itself.”

College football is the most fluid of our nation’s favorite sports.

Bad coaches leave, a good coach comes in, and the ship (there’s that row boat again) is righted pretty quickly.

That means what’s happening

we were last year.”

Following their two-meet week, the RedHawks are off until they host the Miami Invitational Thursday, Dec. 4 at the Nixon Aquatic Center. in Kalamazoo this year could certainly happen next year in Oxford. Especially if Chuck Martin’s first recruiting class buys into his recruiting promise that he will “kick your ass every day.”

The signs of a culture change are in place. Let’s just hope there are enough guys interested in learning to be tough playing the greatest of our games to allow for a RedHawk football turnaround next season.

But let’s not look ahead too early. This year’s team must finish their final two games strong.

Winning two games is better than zero, but it would feel great to come away with three or even four wins? Plus, there would be no greater signal of a changed culture than a home win against Ohio University to close out the season.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014

WMU runs over ’Hawks

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STAT OF THE DAY

7

The number of consecutive matches the Miami University volleyball team has won. It is the longest streak since 2008 for the RedHawks. That season, Miami fell in the Mid-American Conference semifinals to Ohio University. However, the ’Hawks did advance to the NCAA Tournament.

Western Michigan program a model for RedHawks LAUREN OLSON PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Miami University offensive line and Western Michigan University defensive line prepares to face-off in the trenches. The Broncos won the battle most of the day.

FOOTBALL TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

Western Michigan University dominated Miami University Saturday, as the Broncos left Yager Stadium with an easy 41-10 Mid-American Conference win.

WMU had over twice as many yards as the RedHawks.

“We couldn’t slow them down, really, run or pass,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “It didn’t really matter what they did. They did a nice job. Bottom line is they outprepared us, outplayed us, outcoached us. They kicked our ass.”

The Broncos (6-3, 4-1 MAC) ran for 282 yards, compared to just 87 for Miami (2-8, 2-4 MAC). Most of the damage came from freshman running back Jarvion Franklin. The NCAA leader in carries and touchdowns continued his strong season by racking up 182 yards and three TDs on 29 touches. Martin said Miami tried to stop the run, but to no avail.

“They just kept running the same play over and over again,” Martin said. “They ran one play. And we couldn’t defend it.”

Sophomore quarterback Zach Terrell was also effective for the Broncos. He picked up 61 yards on the ground, and was 18 of 23 for 217 yards and a score through the air.

The RedHawks’ offense was as ineffective as the Broncos were effective. The ’Hawks had only 236 yards of total offense, with just 149 of those coming through the air.

Fifth-year QB Andrew Hendrix struggled, completing just seven of 19 passes for 96 yards, one touchdown and one interception. He ran for 48 yards, but 40 of those were negated by six sacks.

“It was tough for us all day,” Hendrix said. “We knew it was going to be a man-fest. We knew it was going to be one-on-one. That’s what they like to do. It was really on the whole offense. When the wide receivers made good plays, I iced the puck. I didn’t throw good balls.

Sometimes it was a break down at the line of scrimmage with the protections. Really all day we struggled to play the way that we know we can play. That’s frustrating for us.”

Hendrix missed two plays on Miami’s lone scoring drive after going down following a successful

fourth-and-one conversion.

“I’m good,” Hendrix said. “Took a helmet to the knee. I think it scared me more than anything else … no worries moving forward.”

The RedHawks had their chances early to score. Miami had its opening drive stall on fourth down at the WMU 29-yard line. The ’Hawks second drive ended at the Bronco 16-yard line when Hendrix threw an interception in the end zone.

“That was the frustrating part,” Martin said. “We had to score.

We knew we had to score going in. Those first two drives were the key to the game. If we come away with points … the game doesn’t get away with you.”

After 10 straight games, Miami gets its first bye of the season next week. The RedHawks have a full two weeks to get over the loss to WMU before they hit the road to face Central Michigan University Nov. 15.

“It was a butt kicking,” Martin said. “No ifs, ands or buts about it.

No shoulda, woulda, couldas. They got after us. They’re smarter and they play harder. So we gotta get smarter and play harder. We gotta get bigger and play more physical.”

Miami drops heartbreaker to NIU SOCCER JUSTIN WOODS

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

After 110 minutes of scoreless play, the Miami University soccer team dropped its Mid-American Conference tournament quarterfinal match Sunday to Northern Illinois University in penalty kicks by a 4-3 margin. Miami (14-3-2, 8-2-1 MAC) entered the contest as the No. 2 seed and NIU (6-10-4, 4-4-3 MAC) was the No. 7 seed.

It is the second straight season the RedHawks’ MAC tournament run ended on penalty kicks against the Huskies.

“The first thing I have to do is give a lot of credit to Northern

Illinois and congratulate them on the result,” head coach Bobby Kramig said. “They came out with a very disruptive game plan and we were never able to get in sync.”

According to Kramig, NIU’s strategy to clear balls out of bounds during Miami’s offensive advances threw a wrench in the RedHawks’ rhythm.

“I think the ball was out of bounds more than it was in bounds today,” Kramig said. “It’s a disruptive style of play and we just didn’t handle it well enough. They threw something at us that we just couldn’t deal with.”

Per usual, the RedHawks controlled possession and found plenty of offensive opportunities, leading the Huskies 19-8 in shot attempts. But, after scoring four

goals at Ball State University just three days prior, the ’Hawks picked an inopportune time to lose their goal-scoring guile.

“We had more than enough opportunities to win the game in regulation and we had opportunities to win the game in overtime and we didn’t do it,” Kramig said.

“So the fact that it went to penalties, that’s on us. We have to take responsibility for the result.”

Freshman midfielder Maggie Scott and senior midfielder Kelsey Dinges were the first two RedHawks to take their penalty kicks and Northern Illinois freshman keeper Amy Annala stopped both attempts.

Sophomore forward/midfiedler Rachel Marble, SOCCER »PAGE 3

MU clinches MAC Tournament berth VOLLEYBALL JORDAN RINARD

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University volleyball team clinched a spot in the MAC Tournament following 3-1 (25-14, 25-17, 24-26, 25-21) and 3-1 (25-15, 24-26, 25-17, 2514) victories over the University at Buffalo and the University of Akron. The RedHawks (16-8, 9-3 Mid-American Conference) are on a seven-match winning streak in conference play, its longest since 2008.

“Buffalo is a good team,” assistant coach Jesse Ortiz said.

“They’ve lost some close games down the stretch, but it was a great win for us and it was good to be able to redeem ourselves [after dropping the first game against the Bulls]. Akron’s a scrappy team. When they were able to get good servicing, they put us on our heels a little but. They were two good matches and it’s a great day to be a RedHawk.”

Against Buffalo (14-12, 4-8 MAC), sophomore middle blocker Paige Hill went off as she posted 12 kills with a .391 hitting percentage. Fellow sophomore outside hitter Maris Below recorded a double-double with 12

kills and 12 digs. Senior setter/ outside hitter Meg Riley barely missed out on a triple-double as she had seven kills, 21 assists and 23 digs on the night. Sophomore setter Krista Brakauskas nearly had a double-double with 26 assists and eight digs.

A pair of RedHawks also posted nine kills in the match as senior outside hitter Sarah Chaney did so with a .259 hitting percentage and freshman outside hitter Katie Tomasic hit .429 in the second set. Chaney and Hill also had strong nights on the block, VOLLEYBALL »PAGE 3

COLUMN

GOING LONG WITH GEISLER The Miami University football team fell to 2-8 this weekend, losing 41-10 to an ascendant Western Michigan University squad that found itself in the same position the RedHawks are in now just a year ago.

Western Michigan is 6-3 this season. The Broncos are second in the MAC West, and their only conference loss came in overtime against the University of Toledo, who is undefeated in conference.

Last year, in their first season under coach P.J. Fleck, Western went 1-11 after firing longtime coach Bill Cubit.

There’s something exceedingly corny, yet clearly excellent, about Fleck, who is the youngest head coach in college football at just 33-years-old.

This solid combination of corny and great has Western Michigan’s football program rolling smoothly through the waters of the 2014 college football season.

The ship of state is a popular, if overused metaphor in politics, but what about the ship of a football program? That’s the guiding metaphor for Fleck’s leadership in Kalamazoo. Fleck calls “Row The Boat,” the method for how his whole program will fit together. Here’s how he explains it: “It’s very simple when you break it down. There are three parts to rowing the boat. There is the oar, which is the energy behind rowing the boat. There is boat, which is the actual sacrifice, either our team or the administration or the boosters or the audience or whoever is willing to sacrifice for this program.

There is also the compass. Every single person that comes in contact with our football program, fans or not, they are all going

for one common goal and that is success.”

Fleck is all in on his “Row The Boat” philosophy. The guy has the letters R-T-B printed on the back of his quarter zip on the sideline.

That level of dedication to his message might be why in a “Grantland” piece on the nation’s youngest head coach last year, Holly Anderson wrote, “In an alternate universe, he might be a televangelist.”

In this universe, he’s a heck of a football coach, and one who coaches with his hair on fire.

This was evident this Saturday in Oxford.

The man is a whirling dervish on the sideline, and his team came out hyped. They looked excited to have the opportunity to play a football game.

They made their intentions to win clear, taking it to the RedHawks on the ground, running the ball 47 times for 282 yards.

The Redhawks looked the exact opposite — more like they were bearing another tough Saturday afternoon before very few fans.

It’s hard to play in the kind of environment Yager Stadium has provided the ’Hawks this year, but simply playing football on a crisp autumn afternoon should be motivation enough to play with passion.

Despite the embarrassment Saturday, this season itself has not been embarrassing, especially when you compare it to last year.

But, if Saturday did draw you to despair, consider this: last year, at least seven of Western’s 11 losses were clear blowouts.

Saturday was just the second time Miami has been blown out this year. Making this kind of point appears to be apologizing for losing — that’s certainly not what I’m doing. What I am saying is staying in games indicates the possibility of a culture change.

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SCOREBOARD

MEN’S HOCKEY

Miami.................... 3 Minnesota Duluth. 4 HOCKEY MinnesotaFIELD Duluth....2 Miami.......................3

VOLLEYBALL Miami.................... 3 Miami.....................3 Buffalo......................1 Akron........................1

CROSS COUNTRY Men............. 7th/9th Women...... 3rd/11th MAC Championship MAC Championship

MEN’S SWIM

FOOTBALL

Miami............. 120.5 WMU................... 41 Cleveland St......108.5 Miami.....................10