ESTABLISHED 1826 — OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ALLEGHENIES
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2016
Volume 145 №25
Miami University — Oxford, Ohio
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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