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CONTROVERSIAL BREITBART EDITOR SPEAKS TO MIAMI STUDENTS AT WILKS EVENT
JACK EVANS NEWS EDITOR
Technology editor of the alt-right publication Breitbart, Milo Yiannopoulos drew a crowd of over 250 people to the Harry T. Wilks Theater Monday night with his controversial rhetoric. Introduced as “our most dangerous faggot,” Yiannopoulos, clad in gold zebraprint sport coat, proceeded to speak on a range of subjects from the “fat faggot” professor Daniel Brewster at West Virginia, to the “Trumpen Reich,” to radical Islam (“or as I call it: Islam”),
to the recent attack at Ohio State. “If there was something he should have driven his car into, it should have been the gender studies building.” The event was secured by at least 10 Miami University Police officers and a K-9 unit. Yiannopoulos walked on stage to thunderous applause 45 minutes after the event’s 7 p.m. start time. The crowd was a positive one for him, and most audience members consistently offered laughs and cheers at Yiannopoulos’ often vulgar brand of entertainment and alt-right ideology. MILO »PAGE 5
RENE FARRELL PHOTO EDITOR
Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos speaks to a crowd of over 250 Miami University students and community members Monday night in Armstrong Student Center’s Harry T. Wilks Theater.
With email, MU leadership MU, White House alum talks alt-right politics pledges devotion to inclusion LECTURE
DIVERSITY
MEGAN ZAHNEIS NEWS EDITOR
Last Tuesday, Miami’s senior leadership team — including President Gregory Crawford, Provost Phyllis Callahan and college deans — issued a statement via email to the university community reiterating the institution’s commitment to inclusion. “At Miami, our individual and collective responsibility is to create and maintain campuses that are welcoming and inclusive for all,” the message read in part. “Harassment and discrimination based on one’s race,
ethnicity, nationality, political beliefs, religion, gender or sexuality, or on any other characteristic which makes us unique, are antithetical to Miami’s core values.” The statement came nearly a month after a similar message sent out by Crawford after the presidential election and was prompted by several incidences of discriminatory behavior on Miami’s campus and beyond, according to Vice President for Student Affairs Jayne Brownell. Brownell cited the controversial “alt-right” flyers that were posted around campus before Thanksgiving break, INCLUSION »PAGE 5
CÉILÍ DOYLE EMILY WILLIAMS
THE MIAMI STUDENT
Upham Hall was packed to the gills with students, faculty and community members Monday night as Kevin Samy, a 2009 Miami grad and a former speechwriter for the Obama administration, spoke about the politics of white supremacy. In the discussion, Samy called on students who oppose the ideas of the alt-right to be proactive in their dissent. “Dissent should not be spontaneous,” Samy said. “I think it’s important to tweet, it’s important to protest...but it shouldn’t be an outburst. It
CLAIRE MULLANEY THE MIAMI STUDENT
Miami alum Kevin Samy spoke about the politics of white supremacy Monday night in Upham Hall. should not be dissent for dissent’s sake.” About 150 people poured into the crowded lecture hall and struggled to find seats,
The secret lives of Anthropology offers new retired Miami professors minor in archaeology PEOPLE
AUDREY DAVIS NEWS EDITOR
Allan Winkler’s study in his Oxford home is filled with books — hundreds of books that line the shelves built into the wall. The room is cozy. A dog crate sits on the floor with a bed and chew toy inside. A few guitars are placed on their stands. Pictures and papers fill the desks. It’s a room where Allan clearly spends much of
his time. He spent seven years teaching history at the University of Oregon and five years at Yale University before moving to Oxford to accept the position as chair of Miami University’s history department in 1986. “It was an attractive position, so I came,” he said. “I was chair of the department for nine years and rebuilt the department entirely.” Allan has been retired for two years now. Almost every RETIRED »PAGE 9
WHITNEY REEDAN THE MIAMI STUDENT
Allan Winkler used to serve as chair of Miami’s history department and now spends time traveling and playing guitar.
EDUCATION
JULIA PLANT
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The Department of Anthropology is offering Miami students a new minor in archaeology as of Nov. 21, when it was approved by the University Senate. Archaeology is one of four sub-fields of anthropology offered at Miami and has been growing in popularity on campus in recent years. Up until now, students interested in archaeology have taken a general focus in anthropology, which includes biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology in addition to archaeology. With the introduction of an archaeology minor, students can take classes in archaeology without the other three sub-fields. “Because archaeology is so multidisciplinary, we have attracted people from a lot of different majors,” said Jeb Card, a professor in the Anthropology department.
The minor is a mix of both science and the arts and combines classes from both anthropology and the classics, according Melissa Rosenzweig, a professor in the Department of Classics. “I think the attraction is that it is a social science with a field component. Anyone who has that level of curiosity that includes questions about humanity but also an adventurous spirit would find the archaeology minor to be a good fit for them,” said Rosenzweig. Rosenzweig argued that this minor could be a strong auxiliary to numerous majors, both inside and outside of the department of Anthropology and the Department of Classics. She specifically mentioned history, art history, anthropology, museum studies, biological sciences, environmental sciences, engineering and business. Sophomore Maddie Clawson is currently double majoring in history and anARCHAEOLOGY »PAGE 9
CULTURE p. 4
EDITORIAL p. 6
OP-ED p. 7
SPORTS p. 10
DANCE THEATRE PERFORMS WINTER CONCERT
LECTURE LACKS LOVE AND HONOR
SOME GOOD ADVICE FOR SHEEP
MU HOCKEY FALLS TO CORNELL
After months of practice, the company performed this weekend.
Breitbart editor’s speech denigrates our university’s values.
“Unification and optimism might be good advice — for sheep.”
For the fourth straight weekend, Miami was unable to pick up a win.
opting to sit in between the rows of chairs in the aisles. Samy’s lecture began at 7 p.m., but he continued to take questions from the audi-
ence for more than an hour and a half after the conclusion of his presentation. SAMY »PAGE 5
MU professor studies seismic sports activity SCIENCE
SAMANTHA BRUNN
THE MIAMI STUDENT
Ohio State fans “Shook the Shoe” the weekend of the OSU v. Michigan game, and there were seisometers there to prove it. Michael Brudzinski, professor of Geology and Environmental Earth Sciences at Miami University, along with graduate student Shannon Fasola, in partnership with The Ohio State University and the Ohio Geologic Survey, conducted a project to measure the “fanquakes” caused by the rumbling of the stands at the recent OSU v. Michigan football game. Brudzinski said the main motivation of the project is an outreach effort aimed toward students in order to promote interest in the field of science. “I thought this project was a great opportunity to get the public excited about the sciences in a way that most of them would understand:
through football,” Fasola said. “I was thrilled to be a part of something that seeks to heighten people’s interests in the sciences.” The partnership between OSU, Miami and the Ohio Geologic Survey was born out of an idea proposed to Brudzinski at an annual meeting of earthquake and seismology professionals in the state of Ohio. “This project gave us a chance to explain to people who may not have experienced an earthquake what it’s like to experience something that rarely happens here in the Midwest,” Brudzinski said. According to the website dedicated to the project, FanQuakes - Shake the Shoe, the Seattle Seahawks conducted a similar project known as the BeastQuake in a playoff game. Inspired by their project, Brudzinski said he was excited to replicate something similar here in Ohio. FANQUAKES »PAGE 9
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Weeks befre the election, Donald Trump Jr visited Oxford amid cheering supporters and tense protests.
The editorial staff picks our most memorable photos from this semester’s top stories to signal the end of fall term
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After pleading guilty to a charge of reckless assaut, freshman defensive lineman Colin Smierciak exits the Oxford Courthouse in the company of his lawyer.
RENEE FARRELL THE MIAMI STUDENT
Bill Nye addressing a sold out audience at Hall Auditorium, urging students to “change the world.”
SCOTT O’MALLEY THE MIAMI STUDENT
President Crawford flaunts his trademark cowboy boots, a favorite since his tenure at Notre Dame.
ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT
Junior Megan Mooney, an English major, dreams of becoming a screenwriter for Pixar.
ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT
Miami Synchronized Skating performs at their Parents Week Exhibition.
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President Crawford speaks at the Mental Health Forum in Harry T. Wilks Theatre.
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Robert Thurston, former Miami University history professor and current proprietor of Oxford Coffee Company.
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Miami students protest a group of street preachers, answering anti-Islamic and homophobic demonstrations with solidarity.
BRIANNA NIXON THE MIAMI STUDENT
Miami Football triumphed over Kent state 18-24, the first in a historic streak of victories culminating in a bowl game.
ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT
RedHawks Volleyball began the MAC Conference as the number one seed, after securing their first Mid-American Confrence title since 1998..
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Dance Theatre performs Winter Concert DANCE
KELLY BURNS
THE MIAMI STUDENT
The audience sits in darkness, talking in hushed tones as they wait for the show to begin. Then, the lights hit the stage in Wilks Theater. Dark silhouettes move across the backdrop. The lights brighten again, bringing the entire stage into full view. Music swells, and the silhouettes become people, dancers. And then they begin to move. Miami’s Dance Theatre Company had been preparing for their winter dance concert on Dec. 3 and 4 for months. While the concert was traditionally held in Hall Auditorium, it moved to Wilks Theater for this semester’s performances. The process began back at the beginning of the semester with auditions and rehearsals. Every member of the company auditioned for all of the pieces. Then, they chose their preferences and told the choreographers how many pieces they were willing to be in that semester. After auditions and preferences were over, the choreographers met and decided which dancers would be in which performance. Student choreographer, Erin Lensmeyer, looked past the auditions for dancers for her piece, “Vulnicura.” For her dance, she required dancers who could portray the theme of healing throughout the dance and adjust to her choreography. “I have a different style than a lot of people in the company,” Lens-
meyer said. “So I look for a person who can forget their past technique and do what I’m asking. So that’s important to me, and so is emotional commitment.” Throughout the semester, the company had rehearsals about twice a week, depending on the choreographer’s preference. They critiqued each other’s pieces and offered advice about how to make the dance stronger. Throughout the entire process, student choreographer, Alyssa Gardner felt her piece, “Unease,” develop and change. “I’m a senior and I’m thinking about grad school, like the unease that comes with the unknown,” Gardner said. “It kind of turned into a story of friendship and who stays and who goes in the transitions of your life.” Sophomore Olivia Berthel was a part of the dance “The Walk,” which was choreographed by company president Liza Torrence. The dance centered around a schizophrenic homeless person, played by Sally Micsko, and the figments of her imagination. “A lot of the pieces have central concepts that they’re based around,” Berthel said. “And a lot of that comes from the fact that we are a performing company.” Other concepts within the concert included vulnerability, a tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting and the idea of dance itself. “It’s very important to have a concept that pushes the dancers and choreographers so you can see DANCE »PAGE 8
ANGELO GELFUSO PHOTO EDITOR
Miami’s Dance Theatre hosted their Winter Concert over the weekend. Current students and Miami alumni joined forces to choreograph and perform 10 different routines.
How to go home for break: A field guide STUDENT LIFE
EMMA SHIBLEY
THE MIAMI STUDENT
ANGELO GELFUSO PHOTO EDITOR
The Glee Club and Collegiate Chorale performed a Winter Concert in Hall Auditorium this weekend.
Glee Club, Collegiate Chorale host Winter Concert MUSIC
KAITLIN PEFFER
THE MIAMI STUDENT
An overwhelming wave of sound cascaded upon the concert listeners last Friday night as the Men’s Glee Club and Collegiate Chorale performed in front of a full house for the Winter Concert at Hall Auditorium. The concert offered students the opportunity to take a break from the oncoming stress of finals week and enjoy a night of harmonious performances. Men’s Glee Club has been a strong tradition on Miami’s campus since its founding in 1907. It has produced notable alumni such as New York Pops conductor Steven Reineke and Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph. Representing more than just a singing group, it has become a symbol of brotherhood and comradery for the past century. The Glee Club’s presence has been making great musical strides on campus, throughout the country and all over the world. Most recently, the Club toured Florida last January. The group plans to travel to Europe next May for a singing tour of Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Their home venue, Hall Auditorium, was built specifically for
their use in 1908 when the group required a place to perform that could cater to their needs. Dr. Phillip Shriver, the university’s 17th president, almost never missed a Glee Club concert up until his death in 2011. He was made an honorary member in 1966 because of his dedication to the Club. On Friday evening, Dr. Crawford and his wife both attended the concert. “The Glee Club and Collegiate Chorale performance on Friday was an amazing experience of our students’ talent, passion, and holiday spirit,” said President Crawford in an email. “Our first year at Miami has been filled with many gifts, and this was another shining treasure. What an uplifting and inspiring way to enjoy the beauty and excellence of Miami.” President Crawford recalls other occasions where the various music ensembles made his Miami memories special. “We have been big fans of the Glee Club and Collegiate Chorale since our early campus visits last spring.” said President Crawford. “The Glee Club taught us the fight song in August, and the students’ music was such a highlight of the inauguration. We are so grateful to be part of a community with such GLEE CLUB »PAGE 8
Tuesday: Wake up. Miss your 8:30, because you have what feels like the flu and you can probably catch up on what you missed. Get out of bed and blow your nose. Shower. Pack your suitcase for the Thanksgiving week like you’ve never heard of the town you lived in for more of your life than anywhere else. What is the weather like? Is it sunny there? If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, what should you wear when going downtown for dinner with your mom, older brother, stepdad, stepdad’s mom and stepdad’s adult son? What is the culturally appropriate number of shirt options to bring for a five-day, four-night stay in your parents’ house? Get picked up by your mom after your last class of the day, 15 minutes later than she said she’d arrive, the perfect cushion of time to
let you load the last few notebooks into your backpack. Find yourself speaking in your “small talk” voice on the entire one-hour drive home, and vow to not do that the whole week. Write three short papers on the couch in front of the basketball game on TV while your mom empties the dishwasher, scrubs a pan and wipes down the countertops. Congratulate yourself on being so productive, and on your first night home, to boot. Go to bed shortly after midnight, and hope that things feel more like home in the morning. Wednesday: Sleep in. Lay around some. Snack a lot. Take a nap. Feel kind of out of place once your brother is home for dinner. He’s sick too, but he watched Miami win the football game last night. Get out your laptop to do homework, but end up on Facebook for the first time in weeks. Go to bed too late. Thursday: Be the first in the house to wake up, walk downstairs in the dark and start the coffee. Drive, with a ridiculous headache,
two towns over for the Turkey Trot you signed up for in August. One of your best friends from high school is meeting you there. Walk the first of five miles with her, then get in your car and drive back home. Your mom is glad you decided not to do the whole thing. You just got over being sick, after all. And it’s Thanksgiving. Friday: Wind up Black Friday shopping, more out of necessity than desire. You lost 20 pounds and gave away more than half a dozen trash bags of clothes this summer, and as a result you have been rotating about three tops and two sweatshirts and one cardigan for the entire month of November. Leave the store with six cozy sweatery things that your mom says are just high quality, and that’s important, you know? And $100 less in checking… oops. Saturday: Take a four-hour hike with your stepdad and his son, Andy, who lives in Cincinnati HOME »PAGE 8
‘Tis the season: Oxford hosts Holiday Festival COMMUNITY
HANNAH FIERLE
THE MIAMI STUDENT
On Saturday night, the Oxford Uptown Park was transformed into a winter wonderland. The square was covered in white Christmas lights, the center lawn full of Christmas trees waiting patiently to be picked up and decorated. Patrons sipped hot chocolate while live holiday music played. There were even a few reindeer in attendance. Uptown Square was buzzing with activity, both local families and students looking for a study break. A selection of winter-themed activities were available. Iceless ice skating was made possible by a slippery, synthetic ice rink, so participants were able to slide around in their shoes — no ice skates necessary. Horse-drawn carriages provided cozy rides around Oxford on the wintry night. “It’s great that the community and the university can get together to offer an event and promote holiday spirit,” said Kara Strass, a graduate student at Miami. The festival featured a lineup of
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Miles Schreiber sits on Santas lap Saturday in the Oxford Community Arts Center. musical acts from both the university and the local community. Performances began at 4:30 p.m. and included Miami University Gospel Singers, Shakerettes, Treblemakers, Open Fifth, Just Duet, Swing Syndicate and the Oxford Community Band. The performances were mostly traditional holiday music, so spectators could sing along to their holiday favorites. Miami’s Greek community found a way to be involved through Light Fight, an organization raising money for the Oxford Com-
munity Choice Pantry. Members of the Greek community decorated the campus fraternity houses with lights and holiday decorations. For the Oxford Holiday Festival, the organization passed out maps showing where the houses were located so families and members of the community could walk around and enjoy the decorations. “This is the first year Light Fight has been a part of the Oxford Festival,” said organization chairman, HOLIDAY »PAGE 8
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promoting racist, misogynistic and homophobic views, as one such example. “We were getting reports from some international students of comments that were being made to them around campus and off campus as well, like in Kroger,” Brownell said. “We were hearing students who were just starting to wonder if the national climate was going to embolden more of those actions.” She and the university’s senior leadership were compelled to action and began drafting a statement before the start of Thanksgiving break. The result hit Miamians’ inbox on Tuesday, Nov. 29, roughly one week after work on the message began. “It seems like the right time to address the fact that that those kinds of incidents are not welcome here, that that’s not what our community is about,” Brownell said. Miami’s campus has seen its share of diversity-related issues, including the defacing of a Thomson Hall pro-LGBTQ+ mural and the Miami for Mizzou movement of last fall. In the spring, the university contracted educational consulting firm EducationCounsel to gauge diversity awareness on campus. EducationCounsel issued a report of its findings in the summer, and in response, Crawford began his tenure in Oxford with a “listening tour” aimed at gaining a greater understanding of inclusion issues. With Tuesday’s email, Provost Phyllis Callahan said, university leaders hoped to offer reassurance and an affirmation of its commitment to “inclusive excellence.”
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Some students, however, did voice dissenting opinions, adding to the room’s charged atmosphere. “Milo, if you believe in free speech, why can’t we ask you questions?” yelled senior Mickey Myers, interrupting Yiannopoulos as he spoke about free speech on college campuses. “You can, darling, what’s your question, ask me now,” quipped Yianopoulos. “How can we have an open debate when you’re on a stage with a microphone and we’re down here in the audience,” replied Myers. She and a handful of supporters got up from their seats and walked out through jeers. “Come back and ask me a question, you fucking cowards,” yelled Yiannopoulos to the backs and raised fingers of those leaving. Yiannopoulos did host a question and answer session through Twitter at the end of his lecture. When asked what he thought of Pence’s support of electroshock conversion therapy for homosexuals, Yiannopoulos replied that he “only wished it worked.” At the end of the question and answer session, a student at the front of the audience stood
“We had groups of students that reached out to different support structures in the community, and so we thought a unified message from the senior leadership was warranted,” Callahan said. Callahan’s office will also be coordinating what the email called “a series of workshops organized and coordinated by our faculty that will address the value, importance and challenges of creating a truly inclusive environment.” The idea began as a way of promoting academic discourse on national and global issues at the forefront of today’s society. “Our academic community, I was hoping that we would be able to have some scholarly approaches to some of the issues that have been brought to the attention of many,” Callahan said. Callahan said Monday that she expects to send further information to faculty and staff members and begin soliciting formal proposals for the sessions this week. She hopes to host two to four such programs in the spring semester, and to continue the initiative in the fall. The idea, she said, has gained traction among interested faculty, and the limited feedback she’s received thus far has been positive. Brownell believes the initiative is a promising one. “I think that by having programs like this, there is a chance for people to have these conversations with people that they don’t know as well or people that they have never met or may have different opinions,” Brownell said. “I think being able to hear more voices than you do in your day-to-day life could help advance that conversation for our whole community.”
up alone and argued with Yiannopoulos for almost ten minutes about a variety of topics including the Republican party, media bias and white supremacy, which the student alleged Yiannopoulos supported. Yiannopoulos responded quickly to each argument levelled at him. Ultimately, the crowd was on Milo’s side, and the lecture finally ended after the student responded “you support Donald Trump” to Yiannopoulos’ charge “to justify your allegation that I am a white supremacist.” The student refused to give his name, but did offer a reason for his actions. “[I stood up because] this hateful, divisive rhetoric, criticizing liberals, muslims — basically, anyone who disagrees with him — it’s not right,” said the student. “You need someone to stand up to these people. Especially now more than ever, when people of color and other people are threatened. What we need to do is keep standing up for people who are less fortunate than us.” Both Dean of Students Mike Curme and MUPD Captain Ben Spilman declined to comment on Yiannopoulos’ event.
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At the same time, Milo Yiannopoulos, a senior editor for Breitbart News, spoke to an audience in Harry T. Wilks Theater. Students and faculty also gathered in the Shriver Center last night from 6 to 9 p.m. for another event, “Growing a Garden of Love,” which stood in direct contrast to the alt-right media personality’s speech. Large flowers which had been assembled in Miami’s Women’s Center over the past week decorated the brightly lit Heritage Room. Attendees helped themselves to free food, made small art projects at tables and listened to students and faculty share poetry, memoir and other writing at a podium flanked by several of the colorful tissue paper buds. In Upham’s room 001, Samy opened his presentation by drawing a connection to his alma mater’s history. In 1969, Andrew Goodman participated in Freedom Summer, a program where college students, who gathered and received training on Western Campus, traveled to Mississippi to register black voters. Goodman and two friends were brutally beaten to death by members of the Ku Klux Klan after traveling to a neighboring county to visit a church that had been burned down. “This guy is you,” Samy said. “Your age, everything. Andrew Goodman dissented. They took a very different tactic, but these klansmen also dissented. They broke the law. They killed people, but they dissented, and dissent has its limits.” Samy then flipped to a photo from early last month of a burnt church in Mississippi spray painted with the slogan “Vote Trump.” Samy stressed that, although the hateful acts of a few can have a devastating impact, those individuals are not at all representative of the population.
“There will always be people that hate you because of the color of your skin, but the idea is that there are more of us than there are of them,” Samy said. “This is definitely not at all representative of the vast majority of people who voted for Donald Trump. I just can’t make it more clear that this is a tiny, tiny sliver. It’s not representative of America or students on this campus or Ohio, but there is an undue influence, and that is the crux of the problem.” While Samy noted that the altright movement is contained to only one to three percent of Trump supporters, their influence is still prominently displayed by websites like Breitbart News. Samy then spoke about the concept of dog whistles as messages encoded with one meaning intended for the general population while another meaning is decoded by the “in the know” group. Samy cited “family values” as a common dog whistle politicians use to denote their antigay beliefs. “What Milo [Yiannopoulos] is doing and what they’re doing over there is they’re using freedom of speech as a dog whistle,” Samy said in reference to Yiannopoulos’ speech. “They’re using censorship as a dog whistle.” “There is no such thing as passive participation,” one of Samy’s slides read. Samy asserted that we have a duty to defend our institutions, a duty that is not separated by political parties. “I don’t think you need to be Republican or Democrat to defend the value of government,” Samy said. Samy reiterated that, although democracy has its flaws, our government is what makes us unique and what upholds the tenets of the American dream. Both of Samy’s parents grew up in rural farming villages in India, and his parents immigrated to the United States before he was born, affording him opportunities that no
other country or government could have provided. “This government gave my father, who didn’t have shoes until he was twelve, a public education at a university so I can stand up here in front of you. That’s what the government did for me,” Samy said. Despite everything the government provides to its citizens, there is a partisan divide typified by the alt-right movement that makes Samy fear for the death of compromise in our imminent future. “There’s an election in 2018, and then there’s a presidential election. There are courts; there are ways in which we can leverage the system,” Samy said. “There’s enough transparency in system, and at least for now suitcases of cash don’t run it, people [do]. This is the grim reality that we face, but this is also how we fight this thing.” The over 90-minute questionand-answer session following the presentation covered topics from the future of public education to the impact a Trump presidency will have on climate change issues to what’s next for the Democratic party. “I’m with you,” Samy repeated, nodding as he listened to audience members share their personal frustrations and concerns with the election, the state of the current political climate and their uncertainty about the future. Although the questions covered a wide span of topics, they centered around two main ideas: how did we get here, and what can we expect in the future? Samy admitted that he, too, isn’t sure what will happen and does not have all the answers to the many complex problems the students’ questions addressed. He did, however, maintain a sense of optimism in his answers. “I have a lot of respect and hope for what’s possible for America,” Samy said.
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ove and Honor. Those two things, apparently, are the basis of all things Miami now. Emit love and honor in your interactions, represent your Miami community gracefully, speak to each other with respect. But the truth is that Love and Honor began simply as a big marketing campaign to match our fight song. It’s only just started to mean something real. So, in a valuebased community such as ours, what does it mean that we accept, without statement for the rest of the community, without a display of love or honor, Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ visit to campus? In a hyper locked-down Harry T. Wilks Theater, surrounded by more than 10 Miami University police officers, one police K9 and over 250 supporters, Yiannopoulos railed against liberal college students for demanding safe spaces. Under the protection of the local MUPD, Yiannopoulos, a quick thinker and debater, covered topics ranging from the inherent violence of Islam, how Title IX has apparently destroyed gender relations, how he (an open
A campus that respects its students wouldn’t bring someone as unqualified and deeply pathetic as Yiannopoulos to speak.
homosexual) wished electroshock therapy worked, and a “fat faggot” professor, among other things. Then, there was our favorite: “If there was something that idiot should have driven his car into, it was the gender studies department,” in reference to the attack at Ohio State last week. Just next door in Upham Hall, former speechwriter for the Obama administration Kevin Samy held a more progressive alternative. Samy spoke to students and faculty about the threat that the alt-right movement presents for Americans today, running parallel to Yiannopoulos’ talk. While the latter was touting hate speech and disguising it as fact with bi-
ased statistics (indeed, he said that 1 in 4 rape statistic commonly cited today wasn’t true), Samy discussed the alt-right movement as a front for white supremacy and hyper-masculinity. In many ways, the parallel — but ideologically and physically separate — talks are representative of the overall climate in the country. In one, an almost unanimously white crowd looked on at an entertaining, largely inaccurate, bigoted, incendiary, rich white public speaker. On the other side, a man of color presented a narrative emphasizing awareness and the necessity of active citizenship and participation. America is great because these
Good advice for sheep: Unify and stop thinking critically
two narratives can coexist. But legitimizing one of them would be giving it the credibility, the validity, it doesn’t deserve. And it would take away from the steps that Miami has attempted to take through its Love and Honor campaign. As Ceili Doyle points out in her article on Samy’s visit, only about one to three percent of Trump supporters are alt-right. Yiannopoulos and his disgraceful rhetoric doesn’t represent the majority on this campus, nor does it represent many of the Republicans in America. Yet, it emboldens a racist, misogynistic and dishonest, uninformed narrative, one that ignores the truths of this
An ode to the little things: Giving thanks to the oft-ignored LIFE
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Our system of government and citizenship requires some Procedural Unity. Procedural Unity exists when citizens agree that electoral outcomes are legitimate because a) they accept the procedure that produced them, and b) the procedure was properly conducted. After the recent presidential election, however, some citizens have suggested that our system demands other kinds of unity. They have said that everyone has a duty to “give the president-elect a chance,” “to be optimistic,” or as the title of an article in a recent edition of The Miami Student suggests, “As shock subsides, support should follow.” Consider these demands as calls for Substantive Unity — calls to support the president-elect in sentiment and attitude regardless of his words, his deeds and his proposed policies. Perhaps aspiring to Substantive Unity is good advice — but not for us. I’ll explain why. First, calls for this kind of unity underestimate the bounds of what our system of government and citizenship permits. In our system, no one has a right to hold the office of the presidency unless authorized by a process in which eligible voters can cast their single vote in favor of a candidate. So the relation between a particular person and the office is contingent. It depends in part upon the results of that process. It has never been the case that a president-elect has represented the wills of all eligible voters — nor is this required. First, a large percentage of eligible voters do not vote. Second, even if all eligible voters did vote, the outcome would simply be the product of the majority rule; and it has so far proven impossible to show how a majority can be identified with a General Will (i.e. a Substantive Unity). Substantive Disunity is built into the practice if not the idea of democracy. But matters are even more complicated for us. In between the popular vote and the presidency stands another contingency — the Electoral College. As we know, the Electoral College does not always track the popular vote. This, of course, happened in 2016 as it did in 2000. When the College and the popular vote are not aligned, the outcome represents another kind of disunity. Indeed, the winner does not even represent a majority of voters. Second, appeals to Substantive Unity normalize what should strike us in the present case as a highly exceptional circumstance. They fail
to appreciate how politically disfiguring it is to have elected a person with such a troubling history and persona. There has not been a presidentelect in our lifetimes (maybe ever) who: has won an election after being accused of multiple accounts of sexual assault spanning a number of years; who has engaged in vicious personal and public disputes with women in particular; who has belittled former POWs (one of whom is a sitting Republican senator); hectored the (Muslim) family of a war
They fail to appreciate how politically disfiguring it is to have elected a person with such a troubling history and persona. hero killed in action; mocked public figures with Parkinson’s disease; made reprisals against reporters who challenge him; incited suspicion and violence against Muslims and Hispanics; threatened to kill not just terrorists but their families; who oversees business dealings that are in some cases fraudulent and in their political context opaque; and who has expressed admiration for Kleptocrats like the leader of Russia. Space requires a shorter list of items than would be required by justice. A longer list would include the president-elect’s political prehistory— e.g. the so-called “birtherism movement” virtually admitted by the ‘elect’ himself to have been bull. One interesting question about which there is no definitive answer yet is why a large minority voted for this person. One explanation refers to a long-standing literature in democratic theory about “voter ignorance.” Voter ignorance refers to the fact that voters in a democracy do not know much about politics and politically relevant facts. Thus, they are not well placed as individuals to decide between candidates much less about policy. Yet, in the present case voter ignorance doesn’t seem to be the relevant phenomenon. The facts about the president-elect seem to stare voters in the face in the form of his own words and deeds. This is why it is not extraordinary that persons who might reasonably be characterized as “white nationalists,” “racist,” “misogynist,” et. al. voted for the candidate. But it is genuinely extraordinary that persons who could not be fairly characterized in these
ways also did. The usual and reasonable guards these voters use to rule candidates in and out were set aside. Another explanation, and the one of interest here, has to do with voters’ attitudes towards politics itself and how these attitudes have been exploited for a long time by politicians, including the presidentelect by calling it “corrupt.” Common political activities can, in one sense, be characterized as deliberation, compromise, horse-trading, back-scratching, sucking up, et. al. While these activities can appear unseemly, they are not in themselves corrupt. That is, they are not necessarily instances of self-dealing. Indeed, various kinds of “political” activities tend to restore equilibrium to a system that is not by design harmonious. But participation in these activities requires sentiments and attitudes, including the willingness to engage other citizens reasonably in fashioning laws and policies in the general interest. The president-elect has not simply challenged “corrupt politics,” which is a saw about as old as politics itself. The president-elect has, in effect, gone some way to replace our otherwise stability-creating politics with a non-political approach to public and legal discourse — with hectoring, smears, threats (physical and legal), reprisals, scapegoating, innuendo, deep-pocketed propaganda and general thuggery. But these activities and the attitudes underlying them ignore the disunity and disagreements that serve as pre-conditions for politics. Why, then, beware calls for Substantive Unity? Because they do essentially the same thing. They ignore the Substantive Disunity that is no trivial fact about our system of government and citizenship. Thus, they ignore the role of politics in stabilizing it. There is no Substantive Unity (except in fantasy land), nor is it required by our system. Thus, there is no duty to acquiesce to the absurd demands or weird personae of officials, including a president. Lines of resistance have already started forming. Mayors in large cities have drawn some of these, and I expect others will follow. Unification and optimism might be good advice — for sheep. Sheep have no politics. Being largely in agreement, they don’t need it.
country and that actively works against the alleged values of the university. So, to get back to our original question: what does it mean that our value-based community allowed for this rhetoric to happen on campus, in its most central building, without a statement? It emphasizes the fact that the campaign of Love and Honor is missing one crucial thing: respect. A campus that respects its students wouldn’t bring someone as unqualified and deeply pathetic as Yiannopoulos to speak. A campus that respects its students would attempt to engage both sides in dialogue. Certainly, at its most basic level, a campus that respects its students would react in some way against a speaker that is actively against Title IX, especially after all of the “celebrated” efforts that the campus has been taking for victims of sexual assault. But Love and Honor doesn’t include respect. How many more Yiappolousesque speakers will it take before the Miami community indeed rises to the occasion and stands up for what we hold in high regard?
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I know Thanksgiving is already packed up and stored away until next November at this point (but, when do we get rid of the pumpkins?). I know we’ve given our collective thanks and all that jazz. And I know that the stupid joke jest about how frustrating it is that we have, I don’t know, maybe two songs dedicated to Thanksgiving and north of 8,000 for Christmas has already been told. I’d like to go back in time for a second, however, and present my list of retroactive thanks with a specific focus on the less remarkable items in our daily lives. Also thanks to my parents. For existing and producing me — it means a lot. The following is a list of items, the importance of which you only realize when you don’t have them — like when you’ve recently recovered from a nasty sinus infection and you think of clear nostrils with newfound appreciation. Nail clippers: I can’t speak for everyone, but I struggle to imagine a world in which I am reduced to my teeth in order to nibble off the excess of my fingernails. My ears put up walls at the thought of that singular, most cringeworthy phenomenon of fingernails on chalkboard, and each time I looked at my unclipped nails (as of a few days ago), my thoughts would torture me with horror movie-esque scenes (black and white, scary music). Thankfully, I was recently able to sneak into my roommate’s bathroom and find salvation by virtue of the often-unappreciated nail clippers. A second pen: The other day, I was in the middle of class taking notes. Then, in an instant, I was no longer taking notes. They never tell you when, but pens — the Bic Ultra Round Stic Grip ones — will inevitably stick to their caps and refuse to come out of their hiding place, forever rendered useless. I nearly threw up all over my
notes out of stress, but thankfully found solace in my handy-dandy backup pen. Water Bottle: Have you ever lost the water bottle that you paid $20 for and planned on using for the next 30, metallic-tasting years? Well, let me tell you, it is mildly inconvenient. It’s not too big of a deal, and perhaps making those extra trips to the water fountain will serve to burn an extra 14 calories. But I do miss the convenience of sipping on some water whenever I find myself in the midst of a horribly awkward conversation. “Oh, excuse me while I ignore everything you’re saying and tip my water bottle in such a way that even blocks your face entirely. What’s that? Sorry, I have to refill it. Good talk!” Shower Curtain: I recently moved into a new apartment, a renovated one with my very own, personalized bathroom. It’s a hard lesson to learn — that shower curtains are not only necessary, but may very well save your life, one day at a time. Without the plastic sheet to contain the water (and a mat to collect the escaped water), the ground morphs into a half-inch pool of water. If you’re not paying attention in the first few freezing seconds after you turn the water off, a good oldfashioned, banana-peel-like slip is a scary possibility. With a shower curtain, accidentally slipping is a reality you’ll probably never have to face. Cup Holder: Try driving anywhere while holding your travel mug in your hand. Well, don’t, but you get the point. I hope this list serves its main function, which is to convince people that the little things are worth counting because, in the end, they add up. Almost making the list: shoelaces, combs, travel mugs, bees and sturdy ankles.
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This holiday season, ignore the belittling, let yourself grieve LIFE
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Moving through the holiday season, in the midst of all the sparkle and jingley cheer, many notice a hole in the Yuletide celebrations. This gap is almost impossible to fill, as loved ones are never truly replaceable. Months, even years after we lose them, either from our lives or from the world as a whole, the grieving process continues on. Grief sets on everyone’s shoulders a little differently. Some wear it well, taking it in stride and continuing to race through life. On others it sits a little heavier, slowing them down, but only a small time in the road. But, for others still, grief is something that becomes a small part of their everyday lives. This looks different for everyone; no two people will ever deal with the same grief the same way, because no matter how much people on the outside want to, they can never wholly understand. No one will ever have the same relationship, the
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same perception, the same grief that you do. And that’s okay. Some days are harder than others, some days it’s an afterthought, some days it’s a weight from the time you get up until the time you go back to sleep. Other days it doesn’t drag you down, but it is a recurring thought in the back of your mind. Some people don’t get that — they look at your grief process and wonder why it’s not like their own. It’s been ‘x’ amount of time, why would this still bother you? Why does such and such make you cry? Why can’t you do this anymore? And that’s not okay. To belittle someone’s grieving process because it differs from your own, or to serve your own agenda, is not okay. You cannot cast people aside, labeled as depressed, unhinged or “nuts,” solely based on the fact that shitty things happened to them. For those that grieve, that feel in full force their loss, it’s a slap in the face to have someone with little to no authority on the matter categorize your actions as “mentally un-
stable.” Things happen. People break. People heal. It’s a natural part of life to grieve, it’s an innate piece of human nature, and in order to move on, sometimes you have to take a step back. Feeling pain, crying in the bathroom when their favorite song comes on, or when you go to your place for the first time, or when it just hits you all over again that they are never coming back? It is all okay. It’s arguably healthy. Repressed, incomplete or “blocked” grief is one that can cause physical and mental effects, both in the short and long term. From mental symptoms such as irritability, numbness, an inability to feel joy, to physical pain that manifests in chest pain, headaches and severe fatigue, denying yourself the opportunity to grieve, in whatever manner, can be dangerous. This Christmas season, if you feel the absence of someone weigh on your holiday spirit, let it. Let yourself grieve, screw what anyone else says. KINGHOEC@MIAMIOH.EDU
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TO THE EDITOR: I’m mystified by the decision of a conservative student group, Turning Point USA (Miami chapter), to provide an infantile internet troll with security and a 500-seat room at Armstrong Monday. To spite all the hard work by the Miami community on fighting sexual assault and improving the campus climate for minorities, the Miami chapter of TPUSA is welcoming Milo Yiannopoulos, a guest known for pandering to an audience of murderous bigots and calling people fat. Broad constitutional protections for free speech are already in place; even hate speech is well protected under a series of Supreme Court decisions. Therefore, I just don’t buy the excuse that this event is an exercise in First Amendment rights, as indicated by the group’s faculty advisor, Ryan Barilleaux, and its treasurer, Chris Keller. These rights don’t need to be mindlessly exercised. I’m no legal expert, but I think a further expansion of freedom of speech would include the right to punch someone in the face. Given that yes, students CAN say whatever they want, this is what they choose? Childish, degrading misogyny? It’s really a regrettable decision, since it reflects poorly on the university and exposes members of the community, including police officers, to the risk of physical harm. I guess it is okay with TPUSA members that some of our students and faculty find it repulsive and intimidating for a roomful of white kids at Miami to gather and be delighted by the petty rants of a white nationalist. Keller said the event is part of a club membership drive. Maybe
this is wishful thinking on my part, but it’s possible that Yiannopoulos’s visit does not, in fact, reflect the will of the club. It was arranged by a five-member “executive team” Keller said is authorized by the club to schedule whomever they choose. Club president Abby Slagle wrote me that she had little to do with the decision; the main planner was said to be club member and ASG senator John DiGiacobbe, who gained notoriety for appearing at his high school’s Earth Day wearing an “I love fossil fuels” t-shirt and then claiming on a Fox News segment of “PC Police” that he was cyber-bullied. Keller said TPUSA is opposed to safe spaces and feels that college campuses are generally too
Given that yes, students CAN say whatever they want, this is what they choose? Childish, degrading misogyny?
liberal. I wish I could see something in Yiannopoulos’s message that rationally addresses those concerns or the mission of the club to educate students about “the importance of fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government.” Instead, it just looks like the students have been duped by a philosophically empty hatemonger with a slick British accent. How embarrassing for us all. DR. SARAH BRADY SIFF DEPT. OF MEDIA, JOURNALISM, AND FILM SIFFSB@MIAMIOH.EDU
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In coordination with the Mid American Conference and the Southeastern Conference, the NCAA has announced that the 2016 St. Petersburg Bowl kickoff time will be rescheduled to 4 a.m. on December 25. The bowl, which will feature the Miami Redhawks against the Mississippi State Bulldogs, was originally schedule for 11 a.m. on December 26. However, the NCAA released a statement Monday evening which said that the originally scheduled time “wasn’t inconvenient enough for players and fans” and needed to be even more arbitrary than originally planned. “We pride ourselves on creating a product that fans can enjoy,” the statement read. “Football is a great game, and unless we make watching and playing in that game as hard as possible on fans and players, the integrity of the competition may be compromised.” The statement went on to say that it is imperative that players spend “as little time as possible with their families” during the holidays and that hosting the bowl game on the morning after Christmas day “just wasn’t taking enough time out of players’ lives.” “We have to remember, these are student-athletes, and the student part of that must always come first,” the statement said. “Giving up being with your family during the most familial time of year is just a part of the NCAA’s
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commitment to amateurism and education.” Miami head coach Chuck Martin said that although he is excited about the upcoming game, he was upset about the decision to schedule it at such an inappropriate time, among other things. “I’m really just mad that we didn’t get put in the Bahamas Bowl,” Martin said. “I mean, seriously. I really wanted to go snorkeling.” Martin added that he “didn’t coach this team to six straight wins so we could play an SEC West team in a baseball stadium.” Sources within the NCAA have confirmed that discussions are in the works to move the College Football Playoff semifinal games
“I’m really just mad that we didn’t get put in the Bahamas Bowl,” Martin said. “I mean, seriously. I really wanted to go snorkeling.”
to Christmas Eve, as well as to increase the number of bowl games from the current 41 to 83. Given the fact that there are only 128 football programs in Division I FBS, the bowls would fill the empty slots with the best teams from other subordinate college football divisions. HARTJT@MIAMIOH.EDU
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“vul-ner-a-ble” was choreographed by Miami alumna, Danielle Sadler. Five of the 10 dances were choreographed by Miami students. For Gardner, seeing all of her work come to fruition was amazing. “Seeing it on stage, with the lights and the costumes and everyone dancing full out… it was breathtaking,” Gardner said. Besides choreographing and dancing, the company participates in all aspects of putting on the show, including advertising and promoting the event around campus. “A lot of times, we don’t have any stage crew for anything,” Berthel said. “We’re responsible for all of that so we’re really selfpromoting.”
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and is 23 years old. Stop at two small waterfalls to let your stepdad take pictures. Bounce the new rope bridge for just a moment, like you’re on a grade school field trip again. The same group that sponsored the Turkey Trot paid for the bridge. You feel guilty for those last four miles left un-trotted. At night, go to Waffle House with the best friend you bailed on at the Turkey Trot. Forget your diet when you see on the menu that adding chocolate chips to a waffle is less than a dollar more. Catch up on everything little about her college in Alabama and her new major and what her friends are up to. Rehash just enough high school triumphs and embarrassments to feel like old times. Fall asleep cozy with your cat at the foot of your bed. Wish it was already winter break. Sunday morning: Go to the church you’ve all but grown up in with your mom. See a girl you know from when you were younger across the sanctuary. You went to her seventh birthday. Her kitchen pantry always had enough buttery Townhouse crackers for an entire afternoon playdate. Don’t say hi, because a part of you is the same shy seven-year-old you were then. Visit the cemetery and place a wreath for the holidays. Stop for donuts at the nationally ranked shop on Main Street. Play your most upbeat, happy music on the one-hour drive back to school. Watch the fields and coal plants and trailer parks and small houses in various states of dilapidation whoosh by through the passenger seat window. Chat with your brother about nothing in particular. Feel panic about the impending end-ofsemester doom anyway. Sunday evening: reentry shock. Turn on the lights and all three
lamps in your room. Take two full hours to unpack what had taken 20 minutes to toss into a suitcase, laundry hamper and backpack at home. Open Youtube and type in the name of a song that you listened to on repeat last semester. Hear the first melancholy-sweet tinkers of the piano. Remember the first time you found it, sitting alone on a bench outside McGuffey, holding a cooling cup of King Cafe coffee on a crisp Tuesday night after the stars came out. Close the tab immediately. Too angsty. There’s enough existential dread floating around in your mind as is. No need to throw the pain of nostalgia in the mix. Stop looking for music to distract you from the work that needs to get done tonight. You won’t find any. Check your phone. Your mom already texted you — it’s a picture of your two pet cats. They’re sitting sweetly next to each other on your unmade bed. Send her back one or more hearts so she knows the message made you smile. Leave out any mention of your mounting desire to, with less than three weeks left in the semester, drop out of college and become a vagabond. It worked for the boxcar children — they had all those books written about them for pete’s sake — but saying so will just make your mom nervous. Take out your headphones. Make a to-do list. (Try to keep breathing when you see how long it really is.) Open your laptop again. Open a new Google doc. Pick your favorite font: Times New Roman, 11 pt, 1.15 spacing. Look outside the window one more time – know the stars are there, even if you can’t see them right now. Choose what to tackle first. And at last, begin to write.
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unsurpassed singing talent at its heart.” Nearly 100 men in tuxes stood stiffly on risers under intense bright stage lights on Friday night as the members performed songs from traditional Latin pieces. “Because of Tommy Wessendarp’s excellent student conducting during the song ‘Lux aeterna’ and also during ‘Lux aurumque,’ the performances were even more lit than we had originally intended,” said junior Club member Scott Richmond. As the audience’s cheers and applause began to crescendo with each piece, the performers started swaying, clapping and stomping during the Nigerian Christmas song “Betelehemu.” Four members enthusiastically played percussion instruments including a cowbell. These moments of excitement on stage reminded some audience members of the score to a movie soundtrack. “Listening to the Glee Club singing reminded me of songs from ‘The Lion King,’” said sophomore Sydney Smith. “I felt like a Disney princess.” At one point during the show, some members sang from the balcony during Biebl’s “Ave Maria.” Their voices coming from the back of the auditorium, combined with the remaining members still on stage, created a mesmerizing surround-sound effect for the audience. While Glee Club performed mostly a cappella, Collegiate Chorale was accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra featuring cellos, violins and a harpsichord. Both male and female voices contributed to the sound waves for this half of the event. The group started their portion of the program with an extensive set list of Vivaldi’s “Gloria” sung completely in Latin. To finish the night, the members of the Chorale sang portions of the “Hallelujah” Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah.” The Choraliers and Chamber Singers perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 9th at Kumler Chapel.
Mackenzie Wright. “It’s great to see families checking out the houses, spending time on campus and interacting with the Greek community in a positive way.” While the event was open to all in the community, it was particularly popular among the student population as they looked to get in the holiday spirit before heading into finals week. Whether just stopping by for some hot chocolate and a Christmas cookie or staying a while to ice skate, students found the holiday festival to be a joyful event. “The festival was a great way to have some holiday spirit in the community,” said Elizabeth Baldwin, a student at Miami. “My friends and I had some hot chocolate and tried the iceless ice skating. And everything is free, which is awesome for students.”
scientific communication, now known as professional writing. Jean retired from Miami in the spring of 2015. “I plan to stay [in Oxford] for a good while, but I’m very wed to the ocean and to the East Coast,” she said. “My family is there, and I never married, and I don’t have children.” Jean has a good number of close friends who are almost like her family. “That really entices me to stay here,” she said. Since retiring, Jean has had taken up a few art classes. “It’s not high art because I’ve never studied drawing or painting, but I love painting,” she said. “There’s a program in Hamilton called Art and Wine, and I have participated in that for a couple of years now.” Her apartment is filled with many of her paintings that she’s done in the past. Like Allan, Jean said the community of Oxford is crowded and very student-oriented during the school year. “Most of the time I like that, but sometimes the traffic is wearing,” she said. Jean is annoyed by the limited passage that retired faculty have on campus. She has a lot of friends who she would love to see and do things with on campus. But most of all, Jean really misses the students. “I love to teach,” she said. “I just miss teaching.” When Jean begins to feel the rhythm of the band playing in the fall and hear them play all over town, that’s her signal that the fall semester is about to begin. “It’s quieter in the summer here,” Jean said. “And I’m a summer girl, so I really hunker down in the winter. I’m just not as active. In the winter, it’s hard for me to even make myself get up and go.” Jean reiterated that the best part of living in a college town is the intellectual stimulation that comes with it. “It is neat to be around young people,” Jean said. “There’s nowhere else where there’s such a concentration of young people. It’s invigorating, and it makes me kick myself and say, ‘Get over to the gym and work out! Go do stuff!’”
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thropology and is considering the archaeology minor. “I like the hands-on aspect of archaeology. Actually getting to touch these artifacts and study them is a really cool thing to be able to do,” said Clawson. Sophomore Caroline Sausser hopes to become an archaeologist one day. She is currently double majoring in classical studies and classical languages and was planning on adding anthropology as a third major. Because the anthropology major is too broad for her interests, she can now eliminate it and instead minor in archaeology. “This is fantastic because this way I can just take those classes that I was interested in the first place,” said Sausser The minor cannot currently be declared, but students are encouraged to start taking introductory anthropology courses to recieve the necessary credits. Introductory courses for the minor include Anthropology 212 and Classics 101 or 102.
Fans and those uninterested in football alike can find excitement in the fanquake project. “Before the project, I didn’t really follow college football, but I found myself rooting for OSU purely so that the fans could create a large fanquake,” Fasola said. Although the project has not been implemented anywhere on Miami’s campus yet, Brudzinski said he hopes to potentially do so in the future. “We went where the signal is largest as our first attempt, but I would like to see what we could do here at Miami,” Brudzinski said. “Why not at a hockey game? Well, my worry with that is that the size of the structure and the way that it is built, as the stands are not very tall. I’m concerned whether we could get very good data from that type of event.” Fasola said she thinks conducting the project here at Miami could definitely increase enthusiasm for both sports and science, as it did for her interest in college football. An unexpected discovery that resulted from the project was the correlation between music played by the marching band and the size of the fanquake, according to the aforementioned website. “I didn’t realize the band helps magnify the shaking because if they play a song with a good beat, then it is easier for all the fans to jump in unison to the beat of the song, therefore amplifying the signal on the seismogram,” Fasola said. While Brudzinski said the main purpose of the project was outreach and student training, the project made quite a shake of its own, garnering news coverage from outlets such as NPR, the Associated Press, and ESPN’s Gameday Show. “Now that OSU and Michigan are done with their seasons there’s more room on the sports pages to fill,” Brudzinski said. “So I wouldn’t be surprised if we ‘make waves’ of our own.”
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Friday, he goes to The Knolls of Oxford to play music and sing to the people in the Alzheimer’s unit. “I’ve been playing with a group for some time,” Allan said. “I was doing that before retirement.” For the foreseeable future at least, Allan plans to continue living here with his wife who is also a retired professor. Oxford, he said, is a very different place in the summer. “There’s no traffic jams all along Chestnut,” he said. “You can easily find parking spaces Uptown, and I know it’s hard on the merchants, but it means you have access when you’re going to dinner and things like that.” Allan and his wife enjoy the Thursday night summer music festivals. They love to have a drink and eat in the gazebo in their backyard and see friends. Allan regularly goes to the rec center and loves to ride his bicycle to Hueston Woods and all around town. “I’m wondering if I’ll get on it anymore [this year],” Allan said. “The weather is just beginning to turn. I did 10 miles yesterday or the day before, but you know, who knows.” Other than that, Allan said, his plans don’t really change in the summer. He and his wife travel a frequently. In fact, they just got back from Madagascar about a month or two ago after being there for three weeks. “We’re going to Antarctica on January 5 for two weeks, and we just made plans to go to Cuba in March,” Allan said. “We traveled much like that before retiring but perhaps couldn’t do that as much during the academic year. We’re still doing the same things, but it’s just easier now.” Allan has been to over 66 different countries and doesn’t plan on slowing down anytime soon. Two years before retiring, Allan taught at Miami’s Dolibois European Center in Luxembourg and loved being there. “But,” he said, “that’s what persuaded me it was time to retire.” He lived in the chateau and had one class with 25 people that met
three times a week. “I wanted people to do the reading, so I assigned a paper on the reading due every Friday,” Allan said. “That meant that as I was on the train going to Paris or Brussels or Bruges or wherever, I was always grading. That told me: ‘I’m tired of doing this.’” So, he retired. Now, he spends most of his time just enjoying what Oxford has to offer. “I don’t think there are any disadvantages at all [to living here],” Allan said. “It’s a small college town. It has a Walmart. There are plenty of nice places to go eat. But, you know, we do have to drive to Cincinnati for other sorts of things like shopping at the mall.” That’s just a small price for living here, Allan said. “Small businesses come and go in other towns,” he said. “But that seems to be less true in Oxford. The people find a way of doing well enough during the academic year to get through the summer with the permanent population pool.” One of his favorite things about living in such a small town is the relationship he’s built with many of the merchants. “Jeff MacDonald owns Ace Hardware along with his wife, and maybe 10 years ago he sold us a gas grill,” Allan said. “It broke down a couple of years ago, and he personally came and rebuilt it for us. You wouldn’t get that in a big city or in Cincinnati or New York. I love going in there and just schmoozing with him.” Even if he hadn’t been a professor, Allan thinks he would have enjoyed living in a college town. “Eugene, Oregon had about 100,000 people, but it still felt like a college town,” Allan said. “You use the events that are going on: the concerts, the musical events, the plays and things like that. For us, this is an ideal, delightful community. It really has been pleasant.” Jean Lutz, a retired English professor, moved to Oxford in 1983 to take up a job offer for a new master’s program. “I didn’t come here as a literature person,” Jean said. “I came as a writer with a degree in rhetoric.” The program she came to teach in was a masters for technical and
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Cornell extends hockey’s winless streak to nine HOCKEY
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For the fourth straight weekend series, the Miami University hockey team was unable to pick up a win. While the RedHawks managed to stay within a goal in both games at non-conference opponent Cornell University, they fell 4-3 Friday and 2-1 Saturday. While Miami (3-8-4) tied No. 1 Denver twice in its last series before travelling to CU, the ‘Hawks have not won a contest since an Oct. 28 overtime 2-1 victory over Bowling Green. Friday night, Miami looked to be on track to snap the skid, as it held a 2-0 lead late in the second period. But just like that, the Big Red responded with four unanswered goals. Freshman forward Karch Bachman’s first career goal pulled MU within one with 3:04 remaining in regulation, but the ‘Hawks were unable to net a tying goal. “This stretch has been tough,” freshman and starting forward Carson Meyer said. “But it’s just a matter of time before we things turn around. We’re ready to go on a win streak, and when we figure it out, we won’t look back.” Meyer, who won a USHL championship last season with the TriCity Storm, has been a standout in his first college season. In his first action since Nov. 7 (illness), the winger scored Miami’s first goal Friday and only tally Saturday.
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Goaltender Chase Monroe allows a goal against Omaha on November 12. The Powell, Ohio native has four goals and eight assists through 11 games, and his 12 points are the third-most of any MU skater. “I didn’t really know what to expect coming into the year, but my line mates are great players who set me up well,” Meyer said. “I’ve obviously been glad to put up numbers, but those are meaningless if we aren’t winning games.” Entering the the third period Saturday, the Hawks’ were facing a two-goal deficit and a ninth straight winless finish. Third min-
utes into the final period, Meyer snatched a rebound and banked the puck off of Cornell goaltender Mitch Gillam to cut the deficit to one. For a second straight night, Miami was unable to tie the game in the third. “When it comes down to it, when it matters the most, I’m confident we’ll be where we need to be,” freshman and starting goaltender Ryan Larkin said. “April is when this all needs to come together.” Larkin has also been a key first-
Women swim to victory, and men finish fifth at Miami Invitational SWIM & DIVE
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This past weekend, the Miami University men and women’s swim and dive teams competed against some of college swimming’s top programs. After a hard fought meet for the RedHawks, the women were victorious finishing first, while the men finished fifth. This was the first multi-day dual meet for the team, swimming over three days at home in Oxford. For the women, the highlight of the invitational came from sophomore Ella Moynihan. Moynihan first won the 1650 freestyle, then set a new school record in the 1000 freestyle race with a time of 9:59.40. This beat Amy Miranda’s 2003 record of 10:01.23. With the help of Moynihan, the Lady RedHawks finished on top with a score of 1138.5, in front of Emory (643.5), Denison (503) and No. 12 Indiana (256), all of which are top programs in the nation. Senior Stephanie LeMire came up big for the Red & White, winning the 200 breaststroke event. Swimmers freshman Emma Bradley, redshirt junior Elise Campbell and freshman Izzy Herb also finished in the top three in at least one event. Overall, the ‘Hawks had a great
After loss, MU travels to Mizzou
showing, providing momentum for the women moving forward. For the men, a fifth place finish came with a score of 463 ahead of only UW-Milwaukee (352), Missouri-St.Louis (257.5) and Urbana (36). Senior Lucas Brock led the team, finishing fourth in the 100 freestyle and also finishing in fifth with his team in the 400 freestyle relay. The RedHawk men stood out in the 200 backstroke, with freshman Nicholas Wukovits finishing tenth and sophomore James Wray clocking in ninth. Denison and Emory, the two powerhouses of Division III swimming, finished in the number one and two spots for the men. Miami was against some of the top competition in the country and was able to place an impressive fifth. The men will learn from this and be ready to swim when they meet the Bearcats in January. With solid showings from both the men and women RedHawk teams, they will take this momentum gained in the Miami Invitational and continue to work hard through winter break. Both the men and women will face off against the Cincinnati Bearcats on January 11th at 3 p.m. in Cincinnati.
year contributor, adding 39 saves this weekend to put his season average at .910. “We need to play Miami hockey and play the way we’re capable of,” Larkin said. “If we stick to our systems, the games will come.” With the sweep, Cornell improves to 7-3-1 on the year. Miami returns to the Goggin Ice Center and National Collegiate Hockey Conference action against Colorado College this weekend. The pucks drops at 7:35 p.m. Friday and 7:05 p.m. Saturday.
BRIEFS ‘HAWKS TO PLAY MISSISSIPPI STATE IN ST. PETERSBURG BOWL COBURN GILLIES, ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
For the first time since 2010, the RedHawks (6-6) are going bowling. The Miami University football team received and accepted an invitation to play Mississippi State University (5-7) in the St. Petersburg Bowl at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, December 26. This will be MU’s ninth bowl appearance in program history as the ‘Hawks look to improve upon their 5-3 mark in postseason play. Mississippi State hails from the West Division of the Southeastern Conference, where it finished sixth. This will be the ‘Hawks’ first matchup against an SEC opponent since falling short, 17-6, on the road against the University of Missouri. In bowl play, the RedHawks have found success against the SEC, boasting a perfect 3-0 record against the perennial power conference that produced last season’s national champion. On the offensive end, redshirt junior quarterback Gus Ragland has sparked MU to six straight wins. The Cincinnati Moeller graduate has thrown for 1274 yards, 15 touchdowns and zero interceptions in the process of going 6-0 as starter. Defensively, head coach Chuck Martin’s squad will be led by the dynamic defensive back duo of redshirt junior Heath Harding and sophomore De’Andre Montgomery. Harding is a first-team All-MAC selection following a 65 tackle and four interception season. Montgomery was picked to the All-MAC third-team defense after picking off four passes and making 61 tackles this season. MSU head coach Dan Mullen and the Bulldogs will see their offensive efforts spearheaded by sophomore quarterback Nick Fitzgerald. Replacing last year’s starter and current Cowboys’ rookie star Dak Prescott, the dual-threat signal caller has completed 54 percent of his passes for 2287 yards and 21 touchdowns. On the defensive side of the ball, the Bulldogs will be anchored by Richie Brown. The senior linebacker had 93 tackles, four of which came for a loss, and contributed 1.5 sacks. Miami is riding a historic six-game win streak entering the matchup, while MSU is coming off of a 55-20 victory over in-state rival Ole Miss. The ninth edition of the St. Petersburg Bowl will take place on Dec. 26 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL. Kickoff is scheduled for 11:00 a.m.
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The Miami University men’s basketball team matched Fort Wayne’s scoring in the second half of its Saturday game in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but a lackluster first half led to the RedHawks losing 87-71. The loss drops Miami to 4-4 overall and 0-2 away. Fort Wayne improves to 7-2 overall and a perfect 6-0 at home. Freshman forward Marcus Weathers and junior forward Logan McLane led the RedHawks with 13 points apiece, with freshman guard Michael Weathers tallying 12 and redshirt sophomore guard Jake Wright chipping in 10. The players’ contributions, though, were not enough to overcome a 16-point deficit the team accumulated in the first half. The ‘Hawks’ first basket came three minutes into the game, when the Mastodons of Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) had already made three. After IPFW extended its lead to double digits, McLane fought back and helped narrow the deficit to four. The Mastodons then responded halfway through the first half, taking back the double-digit lead. The first half was marred with 11 turnovers and a lack of offensive production—the RedHawks missed eight of nine attempted three-point shots and made only 36 percent of their attempted shots. In contrast, IPFW made 50 percent of its three-point shots and 42 percent of its shots. The Mastodons also played a discipline game in the first half, allowing Miami only three free-throw opportunities, whereas the Mastodons capitalized on nine of their 12 free throw opportunities. This culminated in Miami ending the first half down 44-28. The RedHawks didn’t lead once for the entire game, though they matched the Mastodons in scoring 43-43 in the second half. Miami’s second half also saw more offensive production and minimized its turnovers to two. Marcus Weathers showed his increasing comfort on the court and had 11 of his 13 points in the second half. Freshman forward Bruno Solomon played a seasonhigh 16 minutes and had six points. IPFW redshirt junior guard Bryson Scott had an impressive 24 points, senior guard Mo Evans had 23 and redshirt sophomore guard John Konchar had a doubledouble with 14 points, 12 rebounds and made six of his attempted seven free throws. The IPFW offense simply outplayed Miami’s. Today, the RedHawks look to bounce back against the Mizzou Tigers in Columbia, Missouri at 8 pm. The University of Missouri Tigers of the Southeastern Conference are 4-3 overall and 3-1 at home. They’re coming off a win against Western Kentucky and will primarily look to freshman guard Frankie Hughes for offensive production. Hughes has a team-high 99 points on the season. Miami has never faced Mizzou before and looks to pick up its first road win of the season. The RedHawks will also look to twin brothers freshman Marcus Weathers, who is increasingly playing more minutes, and Michael Weathers, who has faltered recently offensively, to lead the team to more offensive production.
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