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Trustees to vote on Crawford today PRESIDENT

EMILY TATE

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REIS THEBAULT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Gregory P. Crawford — who, for all intents and purposes, is Miami University’s new president — has been on campus all week, trying to prove himself to faculty, students and staff ahead of today’s Board of Trustees vote that will make his hiring official.

The Board announced Crawford as the sole presidential “finalist” last Thursday, Feb. 11. Since Monday, Crawford and his wife, Renate, have attended events and meetings with the university community, including four forums across the Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown campuses.

In the hour allotted for Wednesday’s open forum in Oxford, Crawford, who is currently vice president and associate provost at the University of Notre Dame, took 11 questions. Five of those related to issues of diversity at Miami and Crawford’s ability to address them. He faced more pushback about diversity than he did on issues at any of the other forums, his responses leaving some in the crowd dissatisfied.

Shevonne Nelson, assistant director in the Office of Diversity Affairs and coordinator of GLBTQ services, attended Wednesday’s forum in Wilks Theater and left feeling uneasy about Crawford’s qualifications.

“He didn’t say anything specific. I don’t feel like there was a direct answer about anything,” Nelson said. “From a diversity perspective, I am worried.”

Nelson said she was disappointed by Crawford’s theory-based responses. She had asked him to describe specific examples of how he had promoted diversity and inclusivity in the past.

“With a school with actual problems — we don’t have theoretical problems, our problems are real — that doesn’t work.”

Nelson’s question about diversity was the fourth that morning. One stuCONNOR MORIARTY PHOTO EDITOR dent had asked about the Gregory Crawford, the finalist for Miami’s presidential seat, homogenous makeup of speaks to faculty and administrators at an open forum on the student body, and an- Monday afternoon. other staff member asked about the national conver- school’s diversity. is,” he said, then rattled off sation surrounding race in “Each one had a grand vi- the diversity rates at the unihigher education. sion for Miami,” Coates said. versity today. (According to Rodney Coates, director of “Unfortunately, diversity has University of Chicago’s class Black World Studies, said he been something that we’ve of 2019 profile, the freshman likes Crawford and supports done a lot of talk about.” class is 28 percent Asian, him. But, Coates said, CrawCoates used the University 8.5 percent black or African ford is the seventh presiden- of Chicago, his alma mater, American, 15 percent Histial candidate he’s seen who as an example. Chicago “put has made promises about the its money where its mouth CRAWFORD »PAGE 8

Shideler construction continues amid dismay

ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

Shideler Hall remains under construction while students attend classes in the building.

CONSTRUCTION

BONNIE MEIBERS

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Even when students are in class, they can hear the knocking of a hammer outside, the rattling of wheels on a mop bucket or the clamor of a broom sweeping debris into a pan in the hallway and atrium of the building. This is the unfinished Shideler Hall.

ATH 135: Film as Ethnography had to move classrooms because Shideler 152 was not appropriate for the class. The anthropology course is cross-listed with film studies, so much of the course involves watching films.

The 200-seat auditorium would be an ideal location for such a class, but the

lights do not turn off from inside the room. They can only be turned off at the breaker, which isn’t located in the auditorium. And the classroom lights needed to be dimmer in order to watch the films.

The auditorium also has floor-to-ceiling windows.

According to Becky Heftel, administrative assistant for the Department of Anthropology, these large windows were not equipped with blinds the week before classes started.

“The lecture hall is very nice, but not made for showing films,” said Stanley Toops, associate professor of geography and global and intercultural studies.

There are already broken SHIDELER »PAGE 5

In the aftermath of sexual assault, PTSD may linger with survivors CARLEIGH TURNER WEB EDITOR

The Miami Student does not intend to diagnose the individual in this article with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

It was the second or third week of the school year and Jane Doe w a s

already paranoid about sleeping alone on the first floor of her off-campus house. She fell asleep, a body pillow between her and the wall.

But it wasn’t long before it was replaced by an unwelcome visitor.

Peering over her shoulder, where the pillow had just been, was the perpetrator of her sexual assault, casually smoking a cigarette and staring her in the face.

“I jumped out of bed and was sprinting at both sides of my room trying to open the doors but they were locked,” Doe said in an email interview. “I was screaming and screaming as I shook the doorknob and looked back and he was still sitting straight up in my bed staring at me.”

Then, her phone light up, her roommate had heard her screams and was calling to make sure she was okay. Doe ran and answered her phone. As she talked to her roommate, she realized what was happening to her.

“At that point I sort of realized I was PTSD »PAGE 8 CONNOR MORIARTY PHOTO EDITOR

Bid Day brings joy for some, disappointment for others GREEK LIFE

EMILY WILD

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The names in this story have been changed to protect the identities of the three individuals.

First-year Jacob came to Miami University to join a

fraternity.

It’s the reason he shipped out of his small town in California to come to Oxford, Ohio — for the red bricks, the history and to meet some Midwestern gentlemen who would become his brothers.

He’s a legacy — raised in a family of multiple genera-

tions of Greek members in a west coast culture that placed Greek life at the forefront of every college experience.

Joining a fraternity was never a choice, but rather, a way of life.

“That’s why you go to college,” he said. “To think critically and to meet your

brothers.”

A born-leader, Jacob always envisioned himself transitioning from his high school days as school president and Eagle Scout to the head of a Greek brotherhood at an esteemed university. He would make it his responsibility to transform it, make it

the best fraternity on campus.

But most importantly, he would meet his brothers, the guys who would stand beside him on his wedding day, the guys who he would take a bullet for.

Needless to say, Jacob had lofty expectations going into recruitment.

On the first of the three days of formal fraternity rush, he received a bid from a fraternity that he greatly respected due to the distinguished reputation they held in California.

“I was happy, happy that I BID DAY »PAGE 3

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‘HORNY JALAPENO’ FINDS NEW HOME UPTOWN

‘FUSION’ SHOW HIGHLIGHTS ASIAN CULTURE

A LOVE LETTER TO LATE NIGHT LAUNDRY

EDITORIAL BOARD REFLECTS ON SECRET SEARCH

FAST FRIENDS: PETE ROSE AND TERENCE MOORE

The newest addition to Bagel & Deli’s menu was chosen in a student competition.

The Asian-American Association (AAA) hosts their annual show tonight.

Writer recounts her postmidnight experiences in the laundry room.

Editors revisit problems with secret presidential search, look to the future.

Miami alum Terence Moore explains how the baseball icon jump-started his career.

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Putnam on the ‘American Dream’ EVENT

ELISE VASKO STAFF WRITER

Widely acclaimed social scientist and Harvard University professor Robert Putnam stands center stage in Taylor Auditorium. The room is packed. All eyes are on him, and all ears are tuned to his voice.

“I want to talk to you today about what’s been happening in America, since I was growing up in Ohio 50 years ago,” he said. “I want to talk to you about some big trends and tell you some painful stories.”

Part political scientist, part historian and part humanitarian, over Putnam’s career, he has served as President of the American Political Science Association and counseled several U.S. Presidents.

He has written 14 books and is one of the most cited academics in the world today. His most recent book, “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis,” is about his research on the widening opportunity gap in the United States.

“America has become a more segregated society, not on racial terms, certainly not on religious terms, but in terms of income and social class,” said Putnam. “Increasingly, Americans are living either in affluent enclaves or impoverished enclaves, and fewer of us are living in mixedincome neighborhoods.”

Putnam’s research suggests the

working class in America is shrinking, and the divide between the upper and lower class is increasing dramatically. With this, the opportunities kids in America today are given differ significantly depending upon the annual income of the household they are born into.

“Things are getting better and better for kids coming from the upper

Putnam’s studies have found that family income is now a better predictor for whether an individual will graduate from college than intellectual ability. third of society and worse and worse for kids coming from the lower third of society, increasing the opportunity gap,” said Putnam.

Putnam’s studies have found that family income is now a better predictor for whether an individual will graduate from college than intellectual ability.

“Today it matters much more what your parents have done than what you can do, and that directly violates the promise of equal opportunity in America,” said Putnam.

Putnam argues that the root at the cause of these problems is embodied

in the term “our kids.”

“The meaning of the term ‘our kids’ has shriveled over the last 30 or 40 years,” said Putnam. “Now, when people use the term ‘our kids’ they mean their biological kids. They are all our kids, not just in a moral sense but in an economic sense.”

Tim Melley, director of Miami’s Humanities Center, described the effect of Putnam’s talk.

“What Putnam does so well is he presents rock solid social science evidence but he humanizes it with compelling stories and it is the stories that allow people to register an emotional and engaged understanding of the problem,” said Melley.

Melley also sees the growing economic inequality as one of the major challenges in American society today.

“It’s a problem that has been recognized by people in both political parties and by leaders in business and academia,” said Melley. “This is a problem that has the capacity to completely undermine our democracy.”

First-year Avery Walke was especially impacted by what Putnam had to say.

“My biggest takeaway from the talk is that this problem is our problem,” said Walke. “I always assumed that the problem was bigger than myself, and I think that Dr. Putnam did a fantastic job of changing my whole view of the situation.”

HawksNest hatches new way to crowdfund PROGRAM

ABBEY GINGRAS NEWS EDITOR

Miami University’s office for the advancement of research and scholarship introduced a new crowdfunding platform called HawksNest in coordination with university advancement.

HawksNest, which debuted in early February, allows students, faculty and staff members to have their projects considered for funding. If the projects are approved by an internal review team, they will be posted on HawksNest for a maximum of 45 days. From there, alumni, family and friends can directly support ongoing projects at the university.

The HawksNest platform is also designed to provide funding for research, scholarship and service projects.

Heather Johnston, associate director and information coordinator for the graduate school and research office, said HawksNest was a creative solution to find funding for student and faculty projects.

“The research funding environment is very competitive these days, so in order to do some of these projects that are really important for the faculty and the students, we have to start to think outside the box for how these can get funded,” Johnston said.

“Crowdfunding for research is something that’s being done at other institutions, so we thought it would be best to develop our own platform to fund these projects.”

Tom Herbert, vice president for university advancement, said that creativity aligned perfectly with uni-

versity goals for this year with the theme of creativity and innovation.

But HawksNest didn’t come about overnight. It began last year, when Tricia Callahan, director of proposal development, sought out seniors to help create a unique crowdfunding platform exclusively for the Miami community.

“When our office decided to pursue the idea of creating a crowdfunding site for Miami, I got in contact with people in computer science to have a capstone start the project a little over a year ago,” Callahan said.

The decision to make a unique platform, rather than use traditional crowdfunding sites, was done in order to create an easier way for alumni

tentimes, there are things that make a local impact and that makes them really right for this funding.”

Johnston said the new program hasn’t seen many submissions yet, but the positive buzz on campus makes her think this will be a great resource for the university.

“We’ve had one project submitted so far, but we’ve had a lot of feedback and excitement about [HawksNest],” Johnston said. “But it’s really early, so we’re not surprised that we haven’t seen a lot of proposals yet.”

Although the site is just now taking off, Callahan is already looking to the future.

“We’re trying to add more flexibility for reviewers and some additional

The research funding environment is very competitive these days, so in order to do some of these projects that are really important for the faculty and the students, we have to think outside the box for how these can get funded.

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to donate directly to university projects, Herbert said.

“If we do the platform, we can direct the donors on how to make the gifts to the projects,” Herbert said.

“It means we are able to accurately count their gifts.”

Callahan is excited to see where the project will go in the next few years once it really takes off.

“I think it’s going to be a really great platform for student projects that fall outside traditional funding mechanisms,” Callahan said. “Of-

communication tools for donors,” Callahan said. “We don’t want them to have to go to the site to see updates, we want them to get emails updating them about projects.”

For now, Herbert is eager to see what HawksNest can do for the university.

“I’m excited to see students and faculty projects get highlighted in front of our alumni and potential donors,” Herbert said. “I think that’s a terrific thing for them to get that type of exposure.”

JENNIFER MILLS THE MIAMI STUDENT

Last Thursday, Late Night Miami held an event at Armstrong to create a new bagel at Bagel & Deli. The winner was the ‘Horny Jalapeño.’

‘Horny Jalapeño’ joins the menu at Bagel & Deli DINING

SARAH KNEPP

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Three Miami students and an alumnus received a local honor last week: their culinary creation was put on the Bagel & Deli menu.

The Bagel & Deli competition last Thursday, in which teams of students could create an original bagel, was hosted by Late Night Miami program. The winning bagel would then be featured on the Bagel & Deli menu for the duration of the semester and, if it sold well, permanently.

According to Late Night Miami event coordinator Anna Bunting, eight teams competed in the competition.

Late Night Miami provided a list of ingredients, including different types of bagels, meats, cheeses, sauces, toppings and spreads to allow teams to plan out their flavor profiles and prepare them for what would be available at the competition.

Amber Logemann and her teammates came up with their creation, the Horny Jalapeño, from this list.

Logemann heard about this competition and knew that she had to sign herself and her friend up.

Almost immediately, Logemann texted Kylie McChesney ‘15 about this exciting opportunity.

Logemann and McChesney recruited two other friends, sophomore Kat Lee and junior Jenna Jones, to try and come up with the perfect bagel.

“We had never tried this combination together but knew that once they put it through the steamer, Bagel & Deli would make it taste amazing no matter what. “ The Horny Jalapeño features a jalapeño bagel topped with sausage, bacon, Colby and Pepper Jack cheeses, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, green peppers, avocado and hot sauce.

When it came time for the competition, the four friends decided to split up into teams of two for maximum bagel-creating opportunities: Logemann and McChesney were one team, while

Jones and Lee were on the other.

However, all four of them contributed to the creative process behind the actual winning bagel.

“Kylie came up with the name, I drew the sign and all four of us came up with the perfect ingredients to create a new and exciting bagel to go along with the name,” Logemann said.

According to Logemann said that, with around 32 bagels created, the competition was so stiff that winning seemed unlikely.

“During the competition, we got a chance to try some of the other groups’ bagels and there were so many good creations and signs I never imagined we would win, so when they started reading off our ingredients as the winner, I was speechless,” she said. “It was such an amazing feeling.”

The Horny Jalapeño joined Bagel & Deli menu favorites like Crunch ‘n Munch and Messy Katie last Friday, Feb. 12.

While Logemann might have been nervous about the fate of her bagel, Bagel & Deli owner Gary Franks, who was one of the judges of the competition, said the choice was clear in deciding a winner.

“It was a unanimous decision,” Franks said. “It’s a pretty good bagel.”

The Horny Jalapeño joined Bagel & Deli menu favorites like Crunch ‘n Munch and Messy Katie last Friday, Feb. 12.

According to Franks, the bagel has had some sales since it joined the menu, but no one is sure whether it will stay permanently or not.

“It’s too early to tell,” he said.

“It hasn’t even been on for a week, so it needs more time.”

One of those customers who bought the bagel was Logemann herself.

“It was so good, I’ve been craving it ever since,” she said. “We have been telling everyone to go buy it!”

Norovirus strikes Miami’s campus, officials warn of symptoms and risks HEALTH

KAREN AUGENSTEIN THE MIAMI STUDENT

The norovirus, a highly contagious virus, has become more prevalent at Miami University this winter. Miami Health Services had a reported 225 students come in for treatment, but residence hall monitoring suggests the number could be higher.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), those affected with the Norovirus typically exhibit symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, nausea and stomach pains. Other symptoms include fever, chills and general aching around the body. The virus typically lasts for one to three days.

Miami Health Services says they have obtained cultures to confirm

that the virus is indeed compatible to that of norovirus. Information about the disease is available on any Miami University student’s MyMiami page, including information of symptoms and contacts.

Cynthia Traficant, practice manager at the Miami Health Services Clinic, says college campuses are common areas for such viruses to spread.

“Any time you have large groups of people living in close contact and sharing space, the chance of the spread of virus goes up,” Traficant said. “Those factors make this the perfect storm for this virus to thrive.”

The CDC estimates 20 million cases of different forms of norovirus appear every year, in certain occasions an individual getting infected with more than one type of

the virus.

Known as the ‘winter vomiting bug,’ the Norovirus is more likely to show up in winter, which Katie Summers, a professor in the Department of Microbiology, attributes to the cold.

“Some potential reasons are that people are indoors more and so are closer to each other to catch Norovirus or that the virus is able to survive better in the lower temperatures of winter,” Summers said.

Norovirus can be caught in many different ways, but its high virulence rate can be attributed to the fact that the virus can survive on surfaces for as long as three weeks.

In addition, the virus can be spread when an infected person comes into contact with food.

Symptoms typically appear after 24 hours, so people often confuse

the Norovirus with food poisoning.

Since not all facts about the norovirus are common knowledge, people may take unnecessary measures to prevent getting infected, or take no measures at all.

First-year Elizabeth Winhover says, when it comes to the norovirus, she does not feel the university has done enough to make students aware of the illness.

“I feel very uninformed on the matter,” Winhover said. “Where cases have developed, the extent of the virus, even where to go.”

While there is no cause for immediate alarm, Traficant says being prepared is key to dealing with the virus. One important prevention technique is to wash hands for roughly 20 seconds with warm soap and water, and to either wash down the faucet beforehand

or use a paper towel barrier to avoid infecting oneself with germs. Because the norovirus is so resistant, using only hand sanitizer is not adequate prevention.

Traficant says awareness is essential to knowing when to get medical attention “A person seeking medical help is very individualized,” Traficant said. “We can’t put any time frames, you need to listen to your own bodies. If you are developing a severe headache or having retractable vomiting, severe cramping, or any signs of dehydration, you should seek medical help.”

While students may partake in preventative measures, Summers says avoiding illnesses on campus is difficult, but it is important to be informed so students can do their best to stay healthy.

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Kasich’s campaign strong at Miami, in his home state

Asian-American Association brings ‘fusion’ to campus EVENT

HANNAH FIERLE

POLITICS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

MARY SCHROTT

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Location is an influential factor shaping student support for candidates in this year’s presidential election. On March 15, Ohio holds its primary election, and a familiar name is predicted to be on the ballot — Gov. John Kasich.

After coming in second place in New Hampshire, the first primary election of the season, Kasich’s conservative campaign continues to try and rally.

With the largest chapter of College Republicans in the state, many Miami students support and connect with the local candidate.

First-year James Oaks returned to campus last week after CONTRIBUTED BY MU COLLEGE REPUBLICANS volunteering in New Hampshire with Kasich’s Political Action Committee during the primary. First-year James Oaks volunteed in New Hampshire for Kasich’s Super “New Hampshire was a huge, Political Action Committee during the primary race. huge day,” Oaks said. “You could feel that in the room. supporters to help. Oaks often the man he is.

When [Kasich] gave his speech invites other College Repub“Throughout the office, evat the end of the day, it really re- licans and peers to make calls eryone had the utmost respect energized everybody.” with him. However, he insists for his character,” Niehaus said.

Oaks’ recent trip to New the conservative club does not “He is so humble and a willing Hampshire was his second visit endorse any candidate. servant leader.” to the state. He first went dur“It’s hard to get people at our Junior Amy Shomo, who is ing the last week of winter term age interested [in the election],” also a resident of Westerville, to volunteer for Kasich through Oaks said. “But it’s an incred- has interacted with Kasich’s grassroots campaigning. ibly important event and huge wife and daughters at The These trips were a result of part of history.”

Lakes Golf and Country Club networking during the first ReOaks believes many people where she used to work. publican Primary debate in Au- still don’t know Kasich’s mes“It’s really exciting,” Shomo gust 2015, held in Cleveland, sage, yet when they hear him said. “I’ve never known of a where Oaks volunteered with speak, “that’s enough” to get presidential hopeful who has Fox News and the Republican their vote. lived so close to my home. No National Committee.

“When it comes down to ex- one who is not from Columbus Oaks — an Ohioan and Mi- perience and the way he leads, knows where Westerville is. It’s amian — supports Kasich and he is the man for the job,” Oaks just this little town in the middle says there are many other stu- said. “He takes the time to in- of Ohio.” dents on campus who share his teract with voters the way othKasich is a more familiar support. After his first trip to ers don’t.” candidate to Shomo because New Hampshire, Oaks contactSenior Eric Niehaus interned of their shared hometown, ed Kasich’s official campaign with Kasich’s office and shares but she says this has no effect callers asking to help. a hometown — Westerville, on her vote.

Since then, he has started a Ohio — with the governor. Niephone bank at Miami for Kasich haus says he respects Kasich for KASICH »PAGE 5

Miami University’s AsianAmerican Association (AAA) will host, “Fusion Presents, True Life: I’m an Asian Student at Miami” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 19.

The performance is a vibrant, dynamic cultural experience, boasting traditional and modern dance performances and an eclectic selection of music exclusive to Japanese and Chinese cultures.

“As its name implies, the performance is a fusion of several different cultures in Asia, expressed through the art of dance,” said Alan Hu, a performer in “Fusion” and president of AAA. “There are a variety of traditional dances from different cultures, such as China, Vietnam and Korea to name a few, but also modern hip hop dances as well.”

Hu choreographed one of the senior dances for the show, performs in several other dance numbers and helped with the organization and planning of the show.

This year’s theme is “True Life: I’m an Asian Student at Miami.”

While the show utilizes skits and dialogue between dance performances to bring comic relief and create a unifying context throughout the show, the show’s cast and participants hope the theme resonates with the audience on a deeper level.

“This year’s theme is unique because instead of the skit of the show just being entertaining, it will address the lack of diversity issues here at Miami and the stereotypes that many of our fellow Asian students have faced due to the lack of cultural understanding,” said senior Mimi Guo, a dancer in the performance.

Anna Johnson, the performance’s co-chair, recognized the controversial nature of picking a theme with such relevance to Miami’s campus, but still wanted to bring awareness, along with a sense of humor, to the show.

“My co-chair and I wanted to bring a more serious tone this year that highlights the cultural divide that is very much present on Miami’s campus while still keeping our humorous side,” said Johnson.

“We hope that this show will help in reversing some stereotypes in the audience’s minds that we are more than just another math geek or Maserati owner.”

This annual performance is particularly special to the members of the Asian-American Association, something they look forward to each year that brings their team together.

For Hu, this performance is especially sentimental as it is his last with the organization before graduation in the spring.

“I have been a participant in Fusion every year I have been in college and the reason that it is my favorite event of the year is because of the way it brings the members

We hope that this show will help in reversing some stereotypes in the audience’s minds that we are more than just another math geek or Maserati owner.

ANNA JOHNSON

FUSION CO-CHAIR

of the Asian-American Association together,” said Hu. With the show becoming bigger and more dynamic each year, the cast hopes the audience can see the growth their organization has experienced over the years.

“Fusion means a lot to every individual, both in the show as well as some of our audience who come every year just to see how much we have grown,” said Johnson.

Tickets for “Fusion” can be purchased for $5 in the Armstrong Student Center or at the Box Office in the Campus Avenue Building.

Dining Services puts on dinner and a show for students with ‘Miami Idol’ EVENT

ABIGAIL KELLY

THE MIAMI STUDENT

On Feb. 16 and 17 at Harris Hall and Garden Commons, students got to experience live music, karaoke and a DJ as a part of auditions for the final “Miami Idol” competition, hosted by Dining Services.

Starting about six years ago, based off “American Idol,” which is also in its final season, Miami Idol was started as a way to give a special dining experience to students.

“We always try to do something new and different than what students have experienced, something different than their day-to-day dinFROM BID DAY »PAGE 1

got one. Because I felt accepted. You know, that’s all it’s about in life.”

He went back to the fraternity’s house on the last day of recruitment to begin the formal pledging process. But when he looked around, he felt nothing but disappointment.

These were not his brothers. He could feel it in his gut.

However, the other fraternities had already given out their bids and it was too late.

“If you don’t feel comfortable with the guys, then it’s not worth it at all,” Jacob said. “And if you’re not acting like yourself in front of the guys, then you’re not being true to what a fraternity should be.”

Jacob dropped out of the fraternity he had so longed to be a part of, leaving him utterly shocked and with no choice but to wait until next semester to rush again in the hopes of finding his brothers.

First-years Sarah and Madi-

ner that you would experience,” They started playing music togeth- and Dusing as they both auditioned said Mark Andrea, the Housing, er while living in Collins Hall and separately. However, it was differDining, Recreation and Business formed a band during their junior ent from a normal audition. Instead Services (HDRBS) manager of year. Dusing saw the ad for Miami of walking into a private room with computer systems and marketing.

Idol in Armstrong earlier this year, only a panel of judges, there was a According to full house of stuAndrea, about dents.

20 to 30 students We are always looking for ways to interact with “It was really audition between students and for students to interact with each other. cool because I the two nights. like the fact that The judges then MARK ANDREA there was an narrow it down HDRBS MANAGER OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND MARKETING audience,” said to the top 10, Higgins. “It felt who will permore like a perform at the finale at Western Dining and decided they should audition. formance and less of an audition.”

Hall on Wednesday, March 2.

“She kind of forced me into it,” After feeling good about their Seniors Charlotte Higgins and Higgins laughed. “[But] she was auditions, the Sunny Side Girls perJessica Dusing, also known as the able to help me bring the courage formed one of their songs together Sunny Side Girls, took their shot at to sign up.” between other contestants. auditioning at Gardens Commons.

Nerves still kicked in for Higgins As Andrea has developed Miami

Idol into a large campus event over the past five years, he’s seen the impact it has had on dining and student life. With Miami Idol ending this year, he said he hopes future events can have the same impact.

“We are always looking for ways to interact with students and for students to interact with each other,” Andrea said.

Dusing said she has seen Miami Idol create memorable moments within the community.

“It creates really cool memories, and it gives people opportunities to put themselves out there and to take opportunities that they normally wouldn’t,” Dusing said.

“Doing that makes you closer to your community.”

son also dealt with unexpected feelings after receiving bids from sororities.

Throughout the recruitment process, Sarah clung to the promising words of assurance the active members continually offered.

“They kept saying, ‘you’ll know where you’re supposed to be.’ But there was never a point where I felt like, ‘this is where I’m supposed to be and these are the people I’m supposed to be around,’” she said.

Sarah remembers Bid Day, marching to Millett Hall amongst a sea of girls wearing matching white t-shirts. Frat boys lined the streets, yelling and partying loudly, something Sarah found quite hilarious, yet slightly scary.

When they reached Millett, she was overwhelmed by the frantic swarm of girls hurrying to hand out all of the envelopes that contained each girl’s personal bid card from the sorority that had chosen them.

Sarah and Madison each received their sealed envelopes

honestly, a little claustrophobic.”

Later that night, Sarah and Madison sat in their dorm rooms among friends who had all received bids from various sororities. Sarah admits to acting as if she had a good night, since that’s what she had expected all along.

Her friends did the same.

But before long, they were all crying.

“It was terrible!” Sarah finally confessed. “It was one of the worst nights of my life! I’ve never felt so out of place!”

Sarah said that after a week of participating in activities with her sorority, things began to look up.

But the feeling of disillusionment has not yet fully subsided.

“I just think maybe the idea of organizing that many strangers to become friends is a little bit more difficult and more manufactured than people realize it is or expect it to be.”

Madison, still feeling unsettled, is almost positive that she will soon be dropping out of her sorority to pursue additional interests.

and were forced to wait an excruciating five minutes before opening them along with the rest of the crowd.

Envelopes were opened and pandemonium ensued. Millett erupted into shrieks, laughs, and even sobs. To their excitement, scrawled on both Sarah’s and Madison’s bid cards were the names of the sororities they had listed as their number one preferences.

Minutes later, both girls were whisked into a bustling crowd headed toward the basketball court, where all of the active sorority members were waiting to greet them.

They both remember spotting the members of their sororities and sprinting forward to hug the first people they saw.

“It was so exciting,” Madison said. “Everyone was dancing, I was having a good time.”

But by this point, Sarah’s adrenaline and enthusiasm had already begun to wear off.

“It was just kind of weird …

they’re like, ‘you’re sisters!’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know any of you!’”

Sarah spent the rest of the evening with her new sisters — eating, taking pictures and trying to meet people. She had always considered herself to be good at befriending others, but something about the scene that night had rendered her unable to do so.

At around 8 p.m., Sarah could think only one thing. “All I want to do is go home, I do not want to stay here anymore, I want to go back to my dorm.”

Despite her initial excitement, Madison also began to feel a bit uneasy toward the end of the night. The reality of actually joining a sorority set in, and she began to question, “What did I just do?”

“It really was a fun environment, Bid Day,” she said. “It was exciting, the second locations were really fun, and you got to know the girls. But I could not see myself being with them for four years. And it made me feel,

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The chatty, wide-eyed girl from the opposite end of our corridor is curled up on the couch, watching an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” on her laptop.

“My roommate always hates it when I paint my nails up there,” she says, gesturing vaguely to her triple, tucked into the southwestern corner of the second floor.

The most unfailingly polite computer engineering major we’ve ever met sits at a table with homework out, jams blaring in his ears. He got to fight robots in a class this afternoon. Out of 10, he gives his day an 11.

And we are sitting in a television-less TV room across the table from him, unpacking our Jansport toolboxes — pencils instead of hammers, and textbooks instead of nails — finally ready to begin assignments that were due two days ago at a quarter after midnight.

We open our laptops — not for “Grey’s,” but to reserve a tab on the back burner for our emails.

We are waiting for a message from the cryptic, indisputably omniscient MiamiIDAdmin.

“Web Laundry,” the subject line reads. “Your Laundry Is Almost Complete.”

Moments before, we’d taken the elevator downstairs, balancing our hampers on our hips and dragging them to the only room in that quiet hallway with an open door. We avoided unit six — it leaks. We glanced at the two students murmuring at the corner table and wondered if it was their deep blue, twin XL comforter hanging over a water pipe to dry.

Each piece of clothing we unball from the hamper, shake out and toss into the machine contains a moment of confession.

The time we actually — just barely — peed ourselves laughing. When we wiped our palms on our thighs because our campus bathroom habitually never has paper towels.

We acknowledge spills ranging from red dwarfs to supernovas of coffee, beer and toothpaste with a bowed head and “namaste.” Our clothes hold the micro dust of crumbs from every bite we took in the past week or so. Together, in a pile on top of the washer, they smell just faintly of sweat.

Individually, the seams of our clothes go into the machines smelling like cologne or perfume and deodorant. We wash away their wrinkles and stretched shapes. Our sweater sleeves have been softening at the cuffs, where we buff out the shine our sweaty palms leave on either side of our

mousepads.

With a buck seventy-five, we undo that, too. We make the world a little more right again.

In our pockets are gum wrappers, straw wrappers, the paper coverings of coffee stirrers.

Sometimes a bit of change.

Usually nothing new. The astronomically mundane. The stuff of legends.

We realize at the payment machine that we stumbled upon a free wash. Someone paid but never started a load. Unit one.

A guy from last semester’s 8:30 walks in with a sheathed longsword, wearing a tie-dye shirt. He slowly starts a load and, before leaving, pauses a minute to watch it run. He’s a Wednes-

With a buck seventy-two, we undo that, too. We make the world a little more right again. day-night regular.

The quiet, sloshing hum of the washers is a welcome lullaby.

Maybe we could fall asleep in here, we think. Some of us do.

As we check the time left on our chosen dryer, we imagine ourselves falling in love with another situational insomniac amid the stacks and the rhythms of these cycles.

We pause, wipe our eyes.

We are perusing our own private, gently clacking library.

Each machine is a book with an animated cover, the same three-second picture in a spinning motion until it repeats.

And repeats. Each unit, one through 15, holds a week-orso’s narrative of honest secrets, dissolving softly among the foamy surfactants.

We feel humbled. We have been transiently freed from our burdens. Now, we decide to give them time to be cleansed in peace.

We amble back across the hall to the television-less room.

We text our least-judgmental friends and ask if anything strikes them about the community arising out of this accidental shared ritual, this unexpected basement mecca.

“It’s either beautiful artistic people in the midst of struggles, or the crazies,” they message back, drowsily forgetting the apostrophe in the beginning of their sentence.

“At least, that’s what I’ve learned,” they say. But they are not a late night launderer.

“Well, then,” we reply.

“We both know which one of those is me.”

ELIZABETH HANSEN THE MIAMI STUDENT

She orders her stir-fry and darts to an open two-person table in Armstrong Student Center. She quickly opens her laptop and pretends she has something to do to occupy her time.

Mindlessly scrolling through The New York Times and not actually reading anything in particular, she hears a voice, full of excitement yet unfamiliar.

“Is anyone sitting here?”

His name is Nehul Yadav and he loves to do anything that will give him energy.

By striking up conversations with random strangers.

By listening to his favorite Indian album, “Raja Babu.”

By going to the gym and seeing pretty girls.

By running for an hour and a half straight — his record time.

By dreaming big.

“My biggest dream is to go back to India, and meet [the actor] Renveer Singh. I would do anything for that.”

And by dreaming small.

“Dreams can be crazy, right? You can dream anything at night. But

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what it takes is when you go out there and do that.”

One night Nehul had a dream.

It was his mother and he was expressing to her, in the best language possible, the love and gratitude he felt for her.

When he woke up, he made a phone call to his mother. He made his dream come true.

“I could feel the tears in my eyes and I just started crying. I bent on my knees and I was like ‘Oh, my gosh, I just said that to my mom.’”

But the tears energized him even more.

“The next day, I was really charged up because I had done my dream! It was so much fun!”

For Nehul, the best thing in life is living in the moment and just being himself.

“Every single day I try to make the most out of it. There’s that Latin phrase, ‘Seize the day,’ so I like to do that!” says Nehul, “This is the normal me, just the normal me, and nothing else.”

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EMILY SIMANSKIS THE MIAMI STUDENT

When Jordan Herald was younger, he dreamed of being a soccer player. Now, his involvement in sports is in a completely different way.

He arrived before school started in the fall to meet the team and get to work — in the press box and on the sidelines — designing social media graphics, promotional and in-game graphics for the football team.

“I don’t really have a title … put ‘graphic/media assistant.’ That’s what I like to consider myself,” Jordan says.

When he first started designing, he drew inspiration from social media. He stopped designing after working for a pee-wee football team for several months in Miami, Florida, because he didn’t like being told what to do.

He loses inspiration when he does something over and over again, when he tries too hard or when designing becomes more of a job than a creative process. A sentiment that is echoed within his own life … an everyday life kind of monotony that has him looking for change.

“What’s your dream job?” I ask.

“Give me a minute,” he says.

He explains that he’s now unsure of what he wants to do or what he wants to major in.

“Everything I wanted to do is now being changed.”

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He’s still doing design, and doing quite well. If you scroll through his Twitter (@jheralddesign) or glance up at the scoreboard, you can see the fruitions of his creative process — graphics he prides himself on, that he has fun making whether it takes 15 minutes or several hours.

Some designers copy others’ designs, but not Jordan. He draws inspiration from others but ultimately creates everything himself.

And perhaps that’s what he’s trying to do now — draw inspiration from others but try to design his own life into something he’s proud of.

Quirky Miami classes provide break from traditional academics ACADEMICS

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Outside, snow falls past the frosttinted windows. Inside, though, scorching flames that could melt the snow in an instant create something beautiful.

The high ceiling of room 140 in Phillips Hall stretches above a dozen students seated in front of oxygenfueled torches. They wear goggles that reflect the steady orange light of the flame, focusing intently on their work.

One student holds a thumbnailsized piece of glass on the end of a metal rod, moving it in and out of the flame. It pulses and glows molten orange. He takes it out of the flame, studies it for a moment, then puts it back in again.

The gray, boxlike oxygen machines at the end of each table emit a constant low buzz and frequent puffing noises. The room smells like fire. There’s a lot going on, but each student is fixated on his or her own creation.

Professor Leah Tuscany has been teaching this class, “Beginning Glass and Lampworking,” for four years at Miami University. She learned how to make beads here, too, 16 years ago. Every week, she introduces the students to a new technique of bead-making.

“I will teach a demo and a technique, but I stress that they have complete creative license to take that skill and change it whichever way they want and create beads using the technique but it’s totally their own design,” she says. “So I give them the basics and then their creativity takes over.”

Tonight, Tuscany calls her students over about 15 minutes into class. She sits in front of a torch and prepares to demonstrate how to make a round, smooth bead. Igniting a match with a “skriitch,” she holds the flame up to the torch until the fire licks at the oxygen and the torch lights.

She takes a thin, deep blue rod of glass and holds it like a pencil, melting the tip until it becomes orange and malleable. When she has enough

melted glass, she begins to lay it onto a metal rod, called a mandril. She rotates the mandril away from her — slowly, carefully, steadily.

As the mandril turns in her hand, the glass forms a beadlike shape, piling on top of itself until it has thick, smooth sides. She keeps holding it in the flame, and it glows hot, the midnight glass melting into a red sun. Soon, her steady hand has created a round, even bead.

“You make that look so easy,” says an observing student.

“You make 100 of those and it will be easy, too,” Tuscany replies good-naturedly.

The demo finished, her students scatter, grabbing glass rods in different colors — pale greens and blues, yellows, oranges. When they successfully make their first beads, those pieces of glass will go into the 930-degree kiln to gradually cool, their temperature falling like the snow outside.

“At the end of seven weeks, you will be amazed at what you can do,” Tuscany tells her students.

Sophomore Katie Ash took the

class last semester, and she now has a personal collection of completely original beads.

“I have some [beads] that are dime-sized and some that are huge,” she says. “I have one in the shape of a snowman. I have one that I made a mushroom bead. No two are the same. I just like looking at them; I don’t need to show them off to anybody but myself. It’s a cool skill that I now have.”

As a biology-pre-vet major with a neuroscience minor, Ash signed up for the class for a reprieve from her science classes.

“I’m all science, all day,” Ash says. “But that’s why it made the class so fun, because I don’t do art in biology. I don’t consider myself artsy, so it was fun to use a different part of my brain, a different skill set.”

The class is open to all majors, and Tuscany says it attracts a lot of students from engineering and the sciences.

“I find that the students really appreciate this class because it’s one class out of their schedule where

they don’t have to be focused on studying,” she says. “They’re focused on creating instead of studying, and they really love that. I get so many comments after this class is over that all of the art classes allow students to have a break from that rigid academic schedule.”

The transformation of students’ abilities and outlook throughout the class is her favorite part of teaching. In all her years of teaching Beginning Glass, she’s never had a student who had any previous experience.

“The students come in and they’re a little afraid, just a little apprehensive because it’s new,” Tuscany says. “So I like to take people that don’t know a thing, have never had any experience, they come in totally, totally fresh, and in seven weeks they leave and they know how to make beads, and they are confident. And especially beginners, I love teaching people that. They’re clean slates.”

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Regardless, Shomo believes Kasich has shown passion and that he cares about the greater good during his time as governor.

“That’s how it should be,” Shomo said.

Similarly, Niehaus is uncertain of the future for Kasich and his presidential run. He is skeptical whether or not he has the charisma and showmanship for the job.

“Nonetheless, I think he would represent not just a great president but a great leader,” Niehaus said.

seats in the auditorium. There is no carpeting or padding on the floors — the seats are bolted to the cement.

“I don’t know how they can be having class in there with all of the issues,” Heftel said. “There shouldn’t be classes in there, in my opinion.”

In the geography graduate students’ office, located in the basement of the building, the lights weren’t working for the first two weeks and the unfinished ceiling leaked cement. And, in the gradu-

ate student break room across the hall, construction workers have set up shop, said Sean Kelly, a graduate student of geology.

“It has caused problems for some people,” Kelly said.

Erica Young, an employee for Miami University Physical Facilities, said it’s inconvenient for the physical facilities staff to have to clean up after students and also the mess from the building’s ongoing construction.

“Some days are worse than others,” she said.

Rick Newcomer works for Gilbane building company, which is

leading the construction in Shideler and has partnered with Miami on several other projects. He has worked on the building from the beginning and believes delaying the opening of Shideler wouldn’t have made a difference.

“We would still be finding lastminute things we need to do,” Newcomer said.

The Limper Geology Museum inside Shideler is still under construction as well, said Kendall Hauer, director of the museum. He is excited to for the new space.

“The old museum was tucked away in the basement,” Hauer

said. “Now it’s a show-piece.”

Hauer hopes to have most of the museum finished by fall 2017, including a half dozen of the major exhibits.

One of those exhibits will be an omniglobe. The omniglobe can display plate tectonics, El Niño winds, Pangea breaking up and population concentration, among other things. The globe should be installed and active by the end of the summer.

Hauer hopes to use the omniglobe in conjunction with course work in geosciences, history and art.

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“It’s a really big game,” freshman forward Jack Roslovic said. “We’ve won two straight now. One in the NCHC and one out of conference, and that’s big for us in the standings.

We’re trying to do as well as we can in the standings. We know Miami hockey now, and bringing that into the NCHC playoffs is going to be scary.”

The RedHawks are 64-57-11 alltime against the Broncos. Miami is 7-1-1 in the last nine meetings, but is just 2-4-2 in its past eight games at the Lawson Ice Arena. MU’s last road sweep of WMU was Dec. 5 and 6, 2008.

Puck drop is 7 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday in Kalamazoo.

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Freshmen Zach Spears and Michael Hendricks might get their first starts this weekend. Davis believes it will be important for the younger guys on the roster to take note and learn from the older veterans.

“It’s good for the younger guys to see that they can compete,” Davis said. “Obviously just start the season to give us something to lean on and to be positive about.”

Miami has struggled on opening day – the RedHawks are on a 0-7 skid in opening day games. Their last opening day victory came in 2009, when they beat Winthrop University 6-5.

Senior infielder Anthony Lopez leads the Camels. In 41 starts last season, Lopez hit a .257 batting average and totaled 25 RBIs, 22 scored runs, two homeruns, four doubles and ten stolen bases.

Senior Jake Romano leads the ’Hawks. Romano started 49 games in center field in 2015 and was named to the Mid-American Conference All-Defensive team, as he recorded zero errors. He also ranked fourth on the team with a .296 batting average and first with 44 runs, a career high. He collected 13 multihit games.

“It’s all about energy,” Hayden said. “[If] guys come out with a ton of energy and a love and passion for baseball we will be just fine.”

First pitch is at 3 p.m. Friday. Saturday’s game begins at 3 p.m., and the series finale is 2 p.m. Sunday.

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As Crawford takes office, we look back on the process and move forward The following pieces, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

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With new president, benefit of the doubt will only go so far Today, David Budig and the Board of Trustees will vote on whether Gregory P. Crawford will replace David Hodge as Miami University’s 22nd president.

In all likelihood, he will be voted in unanimously. The search is over. He’s already here. Today, we have a new president.

The editorial board attended two of Crawford’s four forums this week, and our frustration increased with every question he neglected to answer.

Crawford seems to be laboring under the delusion that everything at Miami University is terrific. But we can’t blame him just yet.

Crawford has based his outlook off of the package presented to him by an administration and Board of Trustees that we feel have grown increasingly out of touch with the needs of the student body.

The result: he has expressed a lot of excitement about different aspects of Miami without knowing if those aspects were presented to him accurately or not.

The benefit of the doubt we’re willing to provide will only go so far. We’re talking to you now, President Crawford.

You should know what Miami’s problems are long before coming into this job.

So, as you prepare to occupy your new office in Roudebush, there are a few things we think you should be aware of.

Miami has a Greek problem. It was less than a month ago when more than 20 student arrests were linked with fraternity recruitment. The students were arrested for myriad reasons, one of which was intoxication.

The Blood Alcohol Contents of three

students were recorded between .245 and .3 — levels considered to be just drinks away from “life threatening,” according to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Miami has a drinking problem. You should have done your research here, because programming on the weekends (aka Late Night Miami) and pre-enrollment classes (aka AlcoholEdu) have done nothing to solve that problem.

Miami has a diversity problem. And when professors ask you half a dozen questions about what you are going to do to solve it, talking around them in theoretical, bullet-pointed lists is not the answer they are looking for.

Miami doesn’t have a strong athletics program, unlike Notre Dame. However, there has been a movement over the last few years to expand funding for the university’s intercollegiate athletics programs, often at the expense of current academic endeavors.

Miami has an outspoken and, currently, jaded faculty. In our Feb. 12 editorial, the editorial board wrote, “So many faculty members are disillusioned with the university right now. Instead of hitting the ground running, Crawford’s first task is going to be earning the trust of the faculty who have to work under him.”

The best way you can do that is to be honest. You don’t have to know all the answers, but don’t act like you do if you don’t. This whole process has been so secretive, the least you can do for the people it rolled over is tell it how it is.

The disappointment of student apathy Of the more than 300 people attending Gregory P. Crawford’s open forum in Wilks Theatre Wednesday morning, only a little more than a dozen were students.

This turnout is not only disappointing, it is unacceptable.

It is also indicative of a larger problem — lack of student interest in the events impacting this university.

We understand that students have a lot going on. Between classes, doing homework, having a job and maintaining relationships, this event was likely not even on their radar.

But it should have been.

The president is not simply a figurehead. Not only does he represent the university, but he is also responsible for creating and maintaining — or changing, when necessary — the culture here.

Many students argue that who the president is has no impact on their day-to-day lives. They couldn’t be more wrong.

The president is involved in hiring faculty and staff, fundraising and ultimately defining what life is like at Miami.

His priorities will influence us all.

Whether or not students are willing to acknowledge it, this matters.

Grieving young musicians’ deaths, lost potential MUSIC

MADDIE’S MATTERS MADELEINE LAPLANTE-DUBE COLUMNIST

On Feb. 3, 1959, newspapers were plastered with hastily-written headlines that would come to shock the rock ‘n’ roll world. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, along with their young pilot, had all been found dead in an Iowa cornfield following a plane crash.

The three musicians had been ejected and were discovered in the field surrounding the crash site, their pilot found dead in the mangled body of the plane.

The day would later come to be known as “The Day the Music Died,” courtesy of Don McLean’s hit “American Pie.” It was a colossal tragedy that rocketed Holly and Valens, especially, into posthumous fame that would later help shape rock music forever.

In the same month 57 years later, a tragedy of equal proportions took the lives of the four members of the indie-rock band, Viola Beach, and their manager, Craig Tarry.

On Feb. 13, 2016 the British group had been traveling from their first international gig in Stockholm when, under questionable circumstances, their car crashed through a protective barrier blocking a drawbridge, consequently launching them into the river below the motorway.

Three of the five were fished out of the river. Two were dragged out with the car. It’s a senseless tragedy that’s ironically rocketed Viola Beach to the Top 10 on the iTunes

charts and prompted hundreds of thousands of tributes, comments and condolences to the family, with headlines reading, “Who were Viola Beach?”

I am not so sure why the news of this event hit me so hard, especially during a moment in global history during which there are so many more important issues to write on.

Perhaps their deaths echoes a more modern “day the music died.”

Perhaps it was because they were killed as a unit — there is no legacy that will follow them. The band only had three singles on Spotify, yet their sound was representative of the indie genre that has come to define much of our generation’s fractured tastes.

Perhaps it’s because they were just kids. Like Ritchie Valens, vocalist Kris Leonard and River Reeves were teenagers when they died. Drummer Jack Dakin was aged 24 and bassist Tomas Lowe joins Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and an eerie amount of other musicians in the “27 Club,” the unofficial name

where other indie bands who are trying to make it big have artsy pictures and pretentious music videos to fit in with The 1975 and The Neighbourhood aesthetic, the boys of Viola Beach didn’t take themselves too seriously. Some of their recent, most charming creations include their low-budget version of Titanic, a film they made while traveling on a boat, and fake cop videos.

Their music was infectiously alive and well-mixed. BBC knew they were going somewhere.

“Will they follow in the footsteps of BBC Introducing 2015 night alums Blossoms to bring acclaim to another town outside of Manchester?” Mary Chang of music website, There Goes the Fear, wrote just four days before the band members were killed. “Definitely.”

Sometimes, and especially during hard times, music is the only escape. The loss of Viola Beach might not shock the world the way the death of Buddy Holly did this time 57 years ago, but it’s a tragedy all the same.

Their music was infectiously alive and well-mixed.

BBC knew they were going somewhere.

for the phenomenon that sees many famous musicians never make it past 27 years old.

Hauntingly, the last post on their Facebook band page was put up the day before the anniversary of Holly’s, Valens’s and Richardson’s deaths, announcing a gig they’d been invited to play by BBC Introducing in March, their first in North America.

Their band page is devastating;

They were going somewhere.

They were going to help their listeners escape. It’s not a cliché — they really were going to make it big.

To those in the indie music industry, Viola Beach will be sorely missed. May this tiny article act as a tribute to their potential.

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True, the forum was during the morning when many people have class. But there were not 15,000 students in class at that particular time on that particular day.

It is frustrating to see students so disconnected from the reality that this is one of the most important developments that a university undergoes. In Miami’s 207 years as a university, we have had just 21 other presidents. Gregory Crawford is joining the elite list of leaders chosen to shape Miami. He will become part of this university’s history.

And yet, rather than taking advantage of the opportunity to meet this man, students spent their Wednesday mornings nursing their ’90’s night hangovers, sitting idly in Starbucks or just sleeping in past the 9:45 a.m. forum time.

But, the blame should not fall solely on students.

Low attendance also likely stems from lack of awareness caused by the administration’s failure to properly notify our community of the event.

While faculty received an email alerting them of the finalist’s visits, students got no such message. Whether this was an intentional act to further shield the secret presidential search process, a lapse in

judgment or sheer laziness, it was a huge disservice to students.

The only way students were notified about Crawford’s visit was through a message on the myMiami web page, an interface that people don’t often spend much time browsing before moving along to their email inbox or Canvas.

So, the forum, like the search procedure itself, came and went, unnoticed and unquestioned.

Frankly, student attendance might not have made much of an impact — it’s not as though there was a post-forum evaluation where Crawford was critiqued. It’s not as though there was a vote to decide if, after meeting him, faculty, staff and students reacted well to our new leader.

In truth, the forums were nothing more than a formality.

Practically, it doesn’t make a difference if students went or not.

But on principle, it is problematic that the majority of the student body is indifferent to the goings on at their university.

People have to be skeptical.

The apathy shown by the student body did more harm than it did good during this presidential search.

Scalia’s death should be a human issue, not a political one POLITICS

GRETA HALLBERG COLUMNIST

They say all’s fair in love and war.

Politics, especially in an openseat presidential election, may be a mashup of both.

The love comes with your candidate, the person you back wholeheartedly and want to see succeed.

And the war? All of the negativity makes that part pretty obvious.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died last weekend at age 79. He was a sitting justice, which means there is now an open seat up for appointment by the president.

His death is a big deal. He has a record as a fiery conservative whose dissenting opinions had the power to ruin liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s day.

His death has huge political ramifications for the highest court.

He leaves the balance of the court at a near tie, with four liberal justices, three conservative justices and Justice Kennedy, a moderate conservative who tends to be the swing vote in most decisions. The next justice nominated to the court could completely shift the ideological balance of the Supreme Court.

I’m going to be honest here, I got the notification from POLITICO that Scalia died while at Brick Street. Drink in hand, I tuned out the blaring music and chatting friends to let the magnitude of the news sink in.

But I hadn’t even finished my drink when my phone buzzed again, this time with political actors in Washington immediately making his death an election issue.

Sen. Mitch McConnell thinks the nomination of a new justice should wait until after the presidential election.

“The American people‎ should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.

Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,” said McConnell, the Republican majority leader.

Senators and Congresspeople on both sides of the aisle added their comments on the constitutionality of Obama appointing a

justice to fill Scalia’s spot. McConnell basically said the Senate will not even hold hearings on Obama’s appointments to approve the nomination.

Meanwhile, the president argued that since he was voted into office in 2012, it is his duty to appoint a new justice to the Supreme Court.

This political fighting is nothing new in Washington. But immediately following the death of a prominent Supreme Court justice?

I’m absolutely disgusted.

Yes, this appointment has huge political ramifications. Yes, it is going to be an election issue. But mere hours after the news of the death becomes public? That just makes everyone look bad.

Regardless of where you fall politically, Antonin Scalia is a human being.

Regardless of where you fall politially, Antonin Scalia is a human being.

It is our duty as Americans and as humans to mourn the demise of a prominent figure, not turn it into ammo against the opposite party.

Out of respect for his probably shocked family, give them time and space to breathe before hurtling insults and issuing statements about the death of their loved one.

The media is, of course, partially to blame for covering these statements in close proximity to his death. But it’s politicians and their complete disregard for the sensitivity of a death in the family that makes me question the values of those leading our country.

In the wake of a shocking and, yes, impactful death, we should remember we are humans first and respond with love before turning it into an act of war.

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Are iPhones just for ‘I’? Examining technology, terrorism and privacy TECHNOLOGY

MARY SCHROTT

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Before brushing my teeth yesterday morning, I received a phone call saying the police were on their way to arrest me. I like to think I’m not a gullible person, but I will admit that during that phone call, I considered what to wear to jail.

My phone displayed a number calling from Washington, D.C., and I answered, thinking it was a potential employer I’ve been in contact with. However, after several tries because of broken English on the other end, the alleged Department of Taxation worker explained to me that I had not paid my student taxes.

He continued to say that I had been contacted several times via my Miami student email warning me to pay them. After not complying with these fictitious emails and paying

the tax, I had become fraudulent and the police were coming to arrest me unless I gave him my information.

Unfortunately, all of this happened before I read the scam warning on myMiami. While I eventually hung up — thanks to my roommate, who informed me of the scam — I can say the whole experience was unsettling.

The D.C. number continued to call, as well as a 9-1-1 number. As I watched the calls coming in, my phone began to recognize the sources were from Egypt and India.

While I am not thrilled my information somehow made it to these transatlantic scammers, having my phone confirm their location was comforting.

Everything your phone does for you and doesn’t do for you make for an epic love/hate relationship.

Our phones entertain us, organize us, connect us and make life easier

in so many ways. Yet they also are our biggest vices — they distract us, contain sensitive information and allow for scams like this to happen.

Recently, smart phone privacy protection has been disputed as Apple and the U.S. government battle over a locked terrorist phone.

On Wednesday, Apple released a statement responding to a federal judge’s order for the company to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters in last year’s San Bernardino attack. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, is resisting to follow the judge’s order, which he believes vies digital privacy against national security interests.

While Cook published this letter on Apple’s website, it unsurprisingly made it to my Facebook feed dozens of times. It’s apparent this is a sensitive issue for many people, especially for those who rely heavily on their phones.

Having your personal information protected should be a right.

However, having a smart phone is not a right and putting your information on it is a choice.

It seems the further involved with smart phones we become, the less of an accessory and more of an attachment they become. This blurred line makes it hard to understand where digital privacy and national security meet.

Fourteen people died in San Bernardino. I cannot fathom the pain their loved ones are feeling and how frustrating it would be to know a preventative measure, like investigating the attacker’s iPhone, is not being considered.

Not only could hacking this terrorist’s phone answer questions, but it could also provide information with the potential to stop future deaths from terrorism. As important and sensitive as our digital privacy is,

saving life trumps any argument in my mind.

While I thankfully didn’t go to jail yesterday morning, the scam brought to mind this debate of security in our digital lives.

As long as technology continues to develop, there will be holes for people like scammers and hackers to sneak through. It comes with the territory, as does knowing the information you put out there can be compromised. What shouldn’t come with any territory, however, is the threat of terrorism.

For now, all we can do is be conscious.

We must be conscious of ourselves and our information, as well as the past and how its information can shape the future.

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Entertainment undermining news: A call for reform MEDIA

CARLY BERNDT

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The concept of current events is one that, at least for me, was introduced at the ripe age of seven or eight. I remember having to ask my mother to scour the Internet and the Columbus Dispatch to find three “current events” I could proudly present to a room full of other uninterested, slightly smelly elementary school kids.

As time has passed, I have managed to step up my game from asking my mother to complete my assignments for me at the last minute, to usually not completing them at all.

Occasionally, on days when the stars align and Kylie Jenner has recently gotten fresh lip injections, I am able to half-ass my own homework.

If you were to look back on your life as a student — unless the American education system completely failed you — you will see that keeping up with current events is a fairly common theme in teaching, especially among the younger years when the desire to keep up with the New Hampshire primary or the crisis in the Middle East may not be as burning.

Though I am not an educator in the American school system (or any school system, for that matter), I can imagine that the point behind making children demolish a newspaper for clippings is in an effort to teach them the importance of both being informed about the world around you and learning how to correctly operate a pair of scissors.

Fast-forward to the present — sharp mind, refined scissor skills, truly the whole package.

Current events are still an important aspect in everyday society, except for the fact that one very important, founding compo-

nent to current events has drastically changed. The content of readily available information has changed, and it is not for the better.

Take the reference I made to Kylie Jenner and her inflatable face caterpillars earlier — as hilarious as those caterpillars are, I chose that example because I would be willing to bet all $47.84 in my wallet that everyone reading this knows who and what I am referring to.

Though not a stellar example of a news outlet (namely because it is not a news outlet unless you’re someone’s weirdly superstitious and conservative uncle), look at Facebook’s “Trending” feature.

Unless some sort of massive world tragedy or triumph occurs, the only real “news” that users are confronted with center around a picture of a celebrity or new Netflix releases.

Even news sources, whose job is to report on the news, struggle to actually report on matters that are both newsworthy and educational. Aside from the humor found in that paradox, this points to a much bigger cultural issue in our society — people don’t want to learn like they used to.

I’m not trying to say the fact that Justin Bieber is going to be on the front of GQ or the fact that the Malaysian Airline incident is still somehow relevant isn’t important from a cultural standpoint, or that pop culture issues are not important to learn about, but it goes back to the concept of supply and demand — if people really cared about what was going on in the world, the first thing on my “trending” feed wouldn’t be about Dairy Queen.

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What they offer is not what I want.

While living in Cincinnati over the summer, I had the privilege of watching the MLB All Star Game in person. It’s clear the MLB has its All Star Game down pat.

Like the other All Star Games, it’s a compilation of all the best players from both leagues squaring off against each other. But there are a couple of key differences.

First, the game is unchanged. If you had no idea who any of the players were, the only difference you would notice about the game is the

frequency of pitching changes. Other than that, it is played like every other game in the MLB season.

Second, the game means something to the players. With the pride each player has for his respective league and the potential for home field advantage in the World Series, the players go all out to win the game, just like they would in any regular season game with their real team.

Traditional baseball fans can all think back to a memorable play or moment in All Star Game history.

There are tons of them.

What was the most memorable

moment from the latest Pro Bowl?

Despite the fact this was Kobe Bryant’s final All Star appearance, what was so special about this year’s NBA All Star Game?

The NBA and NFL have to consider these things when it comes to their games. If it is truly about the fans, something must change. Make the games more valuable to fans.

If it’s not about the fans, get rid of the games altogether. There really is no other viable solution.

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hallucinating, but it didn’t matter. I needed to get out of the room,” Doe said. “I knew it was just a night terror, but I couldn’t go back to that room unless it was morning and I could see everything in a different light.”

Doe had experienced night terrors in the past, which allowed her to recognize what was happening.

Night terrors or nightmares are, in fact, a common symptom of PTSD for many individuals, according to Dr. Aaron M. Luebbe, who is the Robert H. & Nancy J. Blayney assistant professor of psychology at Miami University.

People with PTSD experience intrusion symptoms, which can include nightmares, flashbacks or physiological distress when experiencing cues that remind the individual of the traumatic event (or, “triggers”), Luebbe said.

One in five women and one in 16 men will be sexually assaulted in college, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, and 50 percent of those women may live the remainder of their lives with PTSD, the U.S. National Comorbidity Survey estimates.

PTSD symptoms include avoidance, partial amnesia of the event, hypervigilance, intrusive memories, emotional numbing and negative alterations in belief systems, according to Dr. Terri Messman-Moore, the O’Toole Family Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Miami.

Over the past four years, Miami’s sexual assault reporting rates have been inconsistent. No one is able to point to the exact reasons for this, but one of the less explored causes may be the potential development of PTSD in sexual assault survivors.

In the last three years combined, 49 Miami students have

reported sexual assaults, according to data reported through the Clery Act—the federal law requiring colleges and universities to report data on campus crimes.

But that number is significantly lower than the national average.

Nadia Dawisha, a researcher and advocate for survivors of sexual assault, has done the math.

“If there are 7,000 women, and if you really lowball the number and say 10 percent of them have been assaulted during their fourto-five-year college experience, then we are looking at 700 women [being sexually assaulted],” she said. “That is far more than the reported estimates.”

That discrepancy, though, is normal. Sexual assault is the most underreported crime in the U.S., with 68 percent of sexual assaults never being reported to police, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.

“Obviously, we often don’t know why some individuals don’t report because they fly under the radar, so to speak,” said Luebbe. “Reasons certainly vary from individual to individual but include things like feelings of guilt or shame, fear of how others will respond or of not being taken seriously, or fear of what might happen if the perpetrator were to find out.”

Another factor that could influence reporting may be the severity of trauma reactions following an assault, according to Luebbe.

Doe decided not to report her sexual assault because thinking and talking about it was becoming detrimental to her daily routines and school work.

“I needed to continue focusing on my life and not think about it,” Doe said. “I wasn’t gonna let it bring me down or affect how I go about living my life.”

However, she did report her sexual assault to Becca Getson,

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“We can do better,” he told Crawford, emphasizing each word. “How do we?”

The crowd of 300-plus broke into applause when Coates finished speaking. Crawford thanked him for his question before responding.

“It’s not about me or I or any single one of us. It’s about we. We have to be able to work together in every single one of our units,” Crawford said. “You’ll have to hold me accountable. I get the sense you’re a guy that will, too.”

In an interview after the forum, Crawford said he was not considering positions at any other school when he began interviewing at Miami. He also said that, if the search had been public, he would not have participated in the process at Miami.

He did, however, acknowledge that some at the university would be skeptical of a candidate found in such a contentious search.

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A survivor’s memory may also be affected by brain damage due to head trauma or substances that may have been in his or her system at the time of the assault.

“Because it’s stored differently, survivors may not be able to access it the same way,” Getson said. “[A survivor] may be all over the board in terms of trying to relay that information. That’s not because they’re trying to hide anything, it’s not because they’re trying to get themselves out of trouble. It might just be because that is the way their memory has stored it. “ However, this is not always the case, because PTSD is a “doserelated” disorder. Meaning, not all sexual assault survivors develop chronic PTSD, according to Messman-Moore.

“The more trauma you have and the worse it is, the more likely you will develop PTSD,” Messman-

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Though Doe said she has not been clinically diagnosed with PTSD, her symptoms do appear from time to time. A year after her assault, Doe says she is doing well in her recovery.

“It doesn’t affect me day-to-day, which is what I initially wanted,” she said. “I’m focusing on my future and myself.”

(IN A BOX WITH THE STORY) That being said, it is near impossible to predict who will get PTSD. However, there are a few ways to potentially increase the risk of experiencing it.

When someone discloses that they have been sexually assaulted to someone, the person they tell has the power to retraumatize them or not, according to Messman-Moore.

“Negative reactions are not common, maybe less than 25 percent of the time. However, when they do happen, they are powerful,” said MessmanMoore. “Negative reactions to disclosure can influence the PTSD symptoms.”

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out-of-place Moore feel more comfortable.

“Well, when you work for the Enquirer someday, you’ll probably get a chance to interview me,” Rose said.

A young Terence didn’t know what to expect that day, but he surely didn’t expect a prophecy from his childhood idol. *** Growing up, Moore lived in three states in three years. His father had a job with AT&T that required frequent relocation.

They moved to Cincinnati in 1968 – the beginning of the Big Red Machine.

“I don’t think it was a coincidence,” Moore says.

Soon enough, Moore became obsessed with the team. Moore and his younger brothers Dennis and Darrell frequently visited Crosley Field to collect Pete Rose autographs.

In 1969, 12-year-old Moore and his family sat in the right field stands at a Chicago Cubs game.

Rose was at the plate. Though he was walked, he sprinted to first base.

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“She really came on strong for us at the end of MAC play when we needed her,” Crowell said. “I expect her to carry that momentum that she had from last year into this year.”

Freshman Shannon Hohman joins the team after lettering four years at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, Ill. In the 2013 season she set a school record with 200 strikeouts.

Also new to Miami, redshirt junior Carly Mortensen is a transfer from University of the Pacific in Stockton, Cal., where she played for three seasons. An injury in 2014 forced her to take a medical redshirt, but she returned in 2015 and appeared in seven games. She has two years of eligibility left at Miami.

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called Rose a show-off. But young Terence didn’t care.

“I was like whoa! He had me right there,” Moore said.

At his dad’s company picnic, Moore stumbled across a Pete Rose book – he finished reading it the same day and was hooked.

He took Rose’s advertisements seriously, too. “’Hi, I’m Pete Rose’s wife. In the Rose household we use Gulden’s brown mustard,’” Moore recalls Rose’s wife Karolyn saying in a TV commercial. “And from that day to this day, that is the only mustard I use.

Gulden’s brown mustard.” *** A few years later, Rose walked up to Moore in the clubhouse and asked if he was working at the Enquirer yet.

Moore told him he was an intern.

“No, you’ll be here full-time,” Rose said.

Another prophecy.

One year later as a new Miami graduate, Moore was a full-time reporter for the Enquirer.

Now an Atlanta-based national sports columnist and commentator for CNN.com, ESPN and MLB.com, Moore has covered the World Se-

ries, 25 Super Bowls, three Olympic Games, Final Fours and players from Muhammad Ali to Michael Jordan, but he still gets nervous around Pete Rose.

“In 40 years of doing this, there’s only two people I still feel 12 years old around,” Moore says. “One is Pete Rose.”

The connection between Rose and Moore has gone back awhile.

Moore was there in 1978 when Rose achieved a 44-game hitting streak; in 1985, when Rose broke Ty Cobb’s all-time hits record; and in 1989, when Rose was banned from baseball at Riverfront Stadium in a press conference.

When Moore worked for the San Francisco Examiner in the early 1980s, Rose and the Reds were in town for a game against the San Francisco Giants. Rose saw Moore in the clubhouse and called him over to his locker.

“I’m thinking ‘oh he’s gonna praise me about what a great columnist I am,’” Moore recalls. “He reaches into his locker and pulls out the Examiner, and he’s got my story circled. He says ‘what the eff were you thinking?’”

The article included an incorrect statistic.

“There’s no excuse for this,” Rose said. “You should not be making these types of mistakes. You understand? You’re better than that. So don’t do it again.”

Moore walked away with his head hanging low. But ten minutes later, Rose tapped him on the shoulder, gave “that Pete Rose smile” and asked him how he liked living in San Francisco.

“There’s no other player that would do that,” Moore says. “He is the most real athlete I have ever met.”

The two have kept in touch throughout the years, and they reunited in September 2015 on Miami’s Oxford campus when Rose spoke to a group of students. Rose still calls Moore “Terry” because of the first time they met.

“I followed his career and he became a really, really first-class writer,” Rose says. “He was always very knowledgeable, very sincere when he interviewed you, very honest. He had all the ingredients.”

But the connection hasn’t always been comfortable.

“During the gambling thing, that

was a real tough time for me,” Moore says.

Rose bet on Reds games as a player and manager from 1984 to 1988 and was banned from baseball in 1989.

Moore is a Hall of Fame voter, and when you’re like him — a “strict constructionist when it comes to the rules” — the two sentiments don’t match up.

“For us baseball writers, there’s really only one rule of note. And it says we have to consider integrity and character,” Moore says. “So betting on baseball is the cardinal sin of baseball.”

But Moore has gotten off the hook: Rose will never be on the writers’ ballot. If Rose gets his chance to be inducted one day, he’ll be on the veterans’ ballot.

If he had the chance, though, Moore says he’d vote for Rose. After all, Rose gave the young reporter a chance 40 years ago.

“If you’re allowed in the clubhouse, you’re – what we say – part of the family,” Rose says. “If I know he’s nervous, but I know he’s sincere, then you treat him like he’s already been there forever. Because everybody’s gotta start somewhere.”

Sophomore Rylee Whispel was MU’s primary catcher last year, starting 41 games. She made one error in 230 chances, achieving a .996 fielding percentage.

“When Rylee is healthy and she’s on the field she’s a great defensive player for us,” Crowell said.

Redshirt junior Lauren Anderson joins Miami’s team from the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Cal. Anderson led the team in hits, doubles, on-base percentage and slugging percentage, while making just one error behind the plate all season. She was named the 2015 Western State Conference Player of the Year and made the California All-State team.

are sophomores.

Hailey Reed enters her senior year at first base. In 2015, she appeared in 34 games and started in 19.

“She just does a great job of being positive and encouraging for our younger kids,” Crowell said. “I expect a lot of things out of Hailey. I expect her to be a leader on the infield and I expect her to contribute both defensively and offensively.”

The other upperclassman of the infield is junior Eryn McCarver. She was the team’s main second baseman last year, starting 51 games. She hit a .314 batting average and finished with a .954 fielding percentage.

Kat Lee returns for her sophomore year. As a freshman she appeared in 35 games and started 19, playing at first base, third base and catcher.

Crowell said Lee will spend time catching this year, but will mostly

play at third.

Sophomore Kaitlyn Gliha is a utility player, seeing time at multiple positions.

“Kaitlyn’s best asset is that she’s a great hitter and when you hit, you find a way in the lineup,” Crowell said.

“Were trying to figure out [where] Kait is going to fit in the defensive puzzle, but we definitely need to get her bat in the line up this year.”

The freshmen of the infield are shortstop Michaela Schlattman, third baseman Hannah Girlie and first baseman Johniann Wahl.

uating last year we decided to move Taylor to center field,” Crowell said.

“I think she’s done an excellent job of adjusting to that position.”

Tanya Busby is the other senior outfielder. She spent most of her time at first base last season, but she’ll replace Shuey in right field in 2016.

Busby is the only true slapper on the team.

Jenna Jones returns for her junior year and also takes on a new position.

She’ll be in left field after playing in the infield last year. She had a .125 batting average, one home run and eight RBIs in 2015.

Rounding out the outfield are freshmen Anna Geary and Chloe Melanson and redshirt freshman Alyssa Hedric, who has been battling in injury.

The ’Hawks travel to Atlanta for the Panther Invitational this weekend.

Play begins at 10 a.m.

Infield The infield is dominated by underclassmen in 2016. Of the seven infielders, three are freshmen and two

Outfield Though Taylor Shuey is in her senior year, she’ll be playing at a new position. For the last three seasons she started in right field, but this year, she’ll be at center.

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10 SPORTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016

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Fast friends: Pete Rose and Terence Moore Miami ‘78 alum, professor explains how the baseball icon jumpstarted his sports writing career FEATURE

GRACE REMINGTON SPORTS EDITOR

Crisp white baseball jerseys gleamed in contrast to the lush red carpeting and red cubicles in the crowded lobby of the Cincinnati Reds clubhouse. Sports reporters stood in a group waiting for interviews, while public relations directors bustled through the room.

A 19-year-old Terence Moore, a first-year student at Miami University, stood against the wall, terrified.

It was 1975, five years into the dominance of the Big Red Machine.

Moore had lived in Cincinnati since he was 12 years old and grew up a fan of the baseball juggernaut.

He stood in the clubhouse, feeling out-of-place, to say the least, to be breathing the same air as Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Tony Perez and Joe Morgan. César Gerónimo sat across from him coolly smoking a cigarette.

“I shouldn’t even be here,” Moore recalls thinking. “I felt like I was going to be exposed.”

A new writer for The Miami Student, he was stuck between wanting to stay and wanting to leave. After 15 minutes, he headed for the door.

But then he saw him.

CONTRIBUTED BY TERENCE MOORE

Left: Terence Moore (‘78) interviews Cincinnati Reds icon Pete Rose for the Cincinnati Enquirer. “You can’t tell from the picture, but my knees are about to buckle,” Moore said. Right: Moore and Rose in Williams Hall at Miami University in Sept. 2015.The two have kept in touch since 1975.

Pete Rose.

“It was almost like God dropped Pete Rose from heaven, from out of nowhere,” Moore says. “I did not see him in that clubhouse until I turned to leave. And he was walking straight

towards me.”

Rose introduced himself and asked for a name.

“I kinda stuttered out ‘Terry.’ Everything about that was overwhelming,” Moore says. “I mean, first of

The Brotherhood travels to Kalamazoo HOCKEY

HARRISON SCHWARZ STAFF WRITER

After winning seven of its last nine games, the Miami University hockey team (12-13-3, 6-10-2-2 National Collegiate Hockey Conference) travels to Western Michigan University (7-18-3, 4-13-1-1 NCHC) for a twogame series this weekend.

The ’Hawks recent wins came against then-No. 19 Bowling Green State University last Friday and thenNo.3 St. Cloud State University on Feb. 6.

MU played Western Michigan on Nov. 6 and 7 and won both games, 2-1.

“We expect the same type of game,” head coach Enrico Blasi said. “They’re a really good hockey team that plays hard. They’re wellcoached and they’re always wellprepared. It’s a tough building to play in. We’re going to have to go out there and play our best and give ourselves an opportunity to be in the game and execute plays when they come up.”

The Broncos are winless (0-8-2) since Jan. 8, but all of their losses are against teams ranked in the top eight of the PairWise Rankings.

The Red and White’s players look to continue some hot streaks heading into Kalamazoo, Mich. Freshman forward Josh Melnick has put up a

point in eight of his last nine games (two goals, six assists). Senior goalie Jay Williams has allowed two goals or fewer in seven of his last 10 starts.

Senior forward and team captain Sean Kuraly has 13 points and is +9 in his last 12 games.

“I think it comes down to the will to win,” freshman defenseman Grant Hutton said. “We know that if we play for each other the results will happen on the ice, and I think that’s exactly what’s happening.”

Winning both games against WMU gives the RedHawks a higher chance at reaching the Frozen Four Playoffs.

All-star game or all-star fail?

COLUMN

JACKED UP SPORTS In the past month three major professional sports leagues have hosted an all star game. Each event promises the season’s best athletes from the respective sport under one roof.

On paper, it sounds thrilling.

You’d assume it showcases the best of each sport – the greatest plays and most memorable moments.

In reality, it’s a mockery of the professional game.

Throw everything you know about football, basketball and hockey out the window. The rules, fundamentals and game plans are nonexistent.

Watch as the leagues tirelessly include celebrities as much as possible to make everything one big joke.

That’s the modern All Star Game in the NBA and NHL and the NFL’s Pro Bowl. There is just no point in watching anymore. The games mean nothing and the players treat it as such.

The Pro Bowl and NBA All Star Game in particular are the worst.

Every year the format changes, and everything becomes more confusing and less true to the game.

NFL players don’t even want to play in the game due to injury risks.

The game is scheduled for the end of the year, when all but two teams

are done for the season. It doesn’t make sense for the best players in one of the most violent team sports to face off against each other in a game that means absolutely nothing.

When players withdraw themselves from the event due to injury concerns, you end up with a flag football game featuring players you’ve never heard of.

In the NBA, the players don’t seem to care at all. Again, the game means absolutely nothing, but this time, it occurs in the middle of the season. Players are not going to risk injury just to put on a show for fans when there’s still half a season left to play. This leads to final scores like 196-173.

That’s the kind of total score you would expect to see from two combined NBA games.

It’s pointless to watch these games.

From a critical fan’s perspective, I have to pose these questions to the NBA and NFL, because they are worth considering.

Why even have the All Star Game and Pro Bowl?

If the answer is “for the fans,” the leagues must take a long, hard look at what these games have turned into and find an answer for my next question.

What do the fans want?

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all, Pete is Pete Rose. He was huge.

And second of all, he’s my all-time favorite player. And he’s introducing himself to me? A little freshman from Miami of Ohio? It just didn’t make any sense.”

BRYAN WILLS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University baseball travels to Buies Creek, N.C. for a threegame series against Campbell University this weekend.

When the two schools met last season, Campbell took a 7-2 victory.

Manager Danny Hayden has not forgotten about how dangerous Campbell can be. Campbell’s then-senior Heath Bowers struck out eight Miami batters in route to his 23rd career win.

“They were as good of a coached team that I have ever seen,” Hayden said. “I would expect them to be very ready for us. They have such an aggressive style of play.”

The Camels finished last season

SOFTBALL

JULIA RIVERA STAFF WRITER

The Miami University softball team begins the 2016 season this weekend in Atlanta, where it faces No. 5 University of Alabama at the Panther Invitational.

The RedHawks finished the 2015 season ranked second in the MidAmerican Conference with a 13-7 record. Clarisa Crowell begins her fourth season as head coach of the program.

This year’s team includes several new faces, so Crowell said the team will depend on veteran leadership.

Below is a positional breakdown

with a 32-35 overall record (12-12 Big South Conference), placing them sixth in the BSC. “It’s game one,” Hayden said.

“All of our guys are very high energy guys. I believe having that in our dugout will allow us to stay confident.”

Pitching and assistant coach Matt Davis is excited to get the season going with both the returning players and the new faces.

“Of course you feel good about some of the guys that came back that contributed last year,” Davis said.

“Jacob Banks, Gus Graham and Brad Schwartz – those guys have proven themselves the past couple of seasons and gained some experiences.”

SOFTBALL »PAGE 9

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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LeBron James becomes the youngest MVP of the NBA All-Star game at 21 years old. He scores 29 points in the East’s 122120 victory over the West.

TENNIS

TRACK AND FIELD

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

’HAWKS TRAVEL TO LINCON, NEBRASKA

TEAM SPLITS FOR TWO MEETS

INJURY-RIDDEN MU FACES BUFFALO

The 2-3 plays University of Nebraska and University of Mephis this weekend

Half the athletes compete in the Alex Wilson Invitational; half heads to Buckeye Tune-up

With injured starters on the bench, RedHawks seek end to four-game losing streak

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Pitchers Amber Logemann returns to the mound for the last time. The senior, who was named First Team All-Mac last year, appeared in 44 games, making 30 starts. She had one of the top seasons in RedHawk history, finishing 27-11 with a 1.93 ERA and 213 strikeouts in 225.1 innings pitched.

Opponents hit .195 against her.

Junior Kelsey Fredricks returns this season after becoming an essential member of the team last year.

She appeared in 15 games, making 10 starts in the circle.

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The baseball star asked Moore if he worked for the Enquirer, but of course, he knew the young student didn’t – he only wanted to make the

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