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The Miami Student FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016 Volume 144 №34
Miami University — Oxford, Ohio
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Trustees to vote on Crawford today PRESIDENT
EMILY TATE
MANAGING EDITOR
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
NEWS p. 2
NEWS p. 3
CULTURE p. 4
OPINION p. 6
SPORTS p. 10
‘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.