February 20, 2015 | The Miami Student

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VOLUME 142 NO. 36

Regional campus forum gets heated REGIONALS

REBECCA HUFF STAFF WRITER

Tensions rose at the Regional Campus Process Committee’s public forum Wednesday, Feb. 18, on Miami University’s Hamilton campus. When audience members weren’t getting the answers they wanted, the meeting quickly shifted from informational and straightforward to an attack against the committee.

Despite the harsh winter weather, roughly 60 people showed up to take part in the conversation.

Students, faculty, staff, Alumni and most of the committee members were there as well.

“You have what you call your marching orders, which is what some of us thought all along and what we’ve been protesting, that this is a done deal. Unfortunately, your people and sincere efforts are being manipulated and used for no good purpose because we are already screwed,” said John Krafft, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs.

Committee Chair Jim Oris, went from being calm and collected to annoyed and exasperated as he rubbed his forehead when applause erupted.

“You all have to understand I’ve been at Miami for almost 30 years.

Some of my closest colleagues are people from Miami Hamilton and Middletown in the biology department,” Oris said. “I understand REGIONAL »PAGE 4

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Ohio public university debt hits $6.7 billion MONEY

EMILY WILLIAMS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Miami University has more than doubled its amount of outstanding debt over the past five years, but it is not the only university relying on deficit spending to fund construction projects. A phenomenon referred to as the Edifice Complex, colleges have spent the past several years in intense competition, fueled by reduced funding from state governments and a need to attract students with increasingly modernized and elaborate residence halls, dining facilities, student unions and recreational centers.

Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, thinks this massive debt accumulation calls for major reform in the way colleges are borrowing and spending money.

“There’s an Edifice Complex that universities have that ties into the academic arms race going on in higher [education], where every school feels compelled for competitive purposes, in other words, to get students, to have to have the latest and coolest facilities,” said Vedder.

From 2004 to 2014, Ohio’s 14 public universities have more than doubled their debt, reaching a combined total of about $6.7 billion. Of those universities, Miami ranks third in debt accumulation, trailing only behind Ohio State University’s (OSU) $2.6 billion and the University of Cincinnati’s (UC) $1.2 billion in debt.

Trustees discuss university changes BOARD OF TRUSTEES

EMILY TATE

UNIVERSITY EDITOR

In the Marcum Conference Center, the Miami University Board of Trustees discussed several proposed changes, including a new department, two new majors and increased fundraising goals.

Several points on the agenda, which were addressed between 8:30 and 11 a.m., included: The implementation of a new Global and Intercultural Studies department for the Spring 2016 semester, as well as the recommendation of an eventual Global Studies school or institute.

Resolutions to add two majors to the regional campuses’ curri-

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cula, including one in information technology and a second in liberal studies.

Increased goals for Miami fundraising — $100 million across five years (twice what the university raised in the last four years).

Associated Student Government’s initiatives for the spring semester, including the effort to raise the limit on workweek hours for student employees; implementing the “what if” element on student DARS reports; and evaluating the allocation of the $1,860 in student fees.

Announcements regarding the development of Miami’s Living and Learning Communities (LLCs) for the 2015-2016 academic year, which strive to make the LLCs more effective and better defined.

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Though Miami University has nearly doubled its debt in the last five years, it is not alone. The 14 public universities in Ohio have followed similar trends, as each competes to have new, state-of-the-art facilities.

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Bruce Guiot, Miami’s Director of Investments and Treasury Services, said Miami’s outstanding debt balance now stands at $619.8 million after principal payments made on Sept. 1, 2014.

Guiot confirmed that there are no plans to take on any further debt at this time.

“The bond that we issued in 2014 will provide the funding that we need for the next couple of years’ worth of projects,” Guiot said.

Just as Miami has been investing in building costly projects, Ohio’s other public universities have been doing the same.

UC’s new $80 million athletic center includes an eightstory facility, a boathouse and a sports museum. OSU’s 320,000 square foot student union took three years and $118 million to construct.

The Baker University Center at Ohio University boasts a theater, game room and the only escalators in southeast Ohio, for a total of $45 million.

With the cost of higher education consistently rising and the number of students enrolling in college declining for the past three years (the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported a 1.3% decrease in total enrollment for the fall of 2014), Vedder questions whether continuing to invest in these elaborate amenities will be worthwhile.

“There’s a notion that kids want to go to these schools with country-club-like facilities that are getting more and more expensive,” Vedder said. “That that model will persist indefinitely might be a questionable assumption.”

However, relatively selective schools like Miami, said Vedder, will not likely see a drop in enrollment. In fact, Miami has seen a 49 percent increase in applications for admission from 2010 to 2015.

Moody’s Investors Service, a

the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, ranking Miami second in the nation for net tuition as a percentage of total revenue. Other sources of revenue include investment earnings, endowments and research funding. Since Miami relies so heavily on payments made by students, it has increasingly recruited out-of-state students whose tuition fees are more than double those of Ohio residents.

“It has been part of our strategy to bring in more out-of-state stu-

There’s this notion that kids want to go to these schools with country-club-like facilities that are getting more and more expensive.”

RICHARD VEDDER

ECONOMICS PROF.ESSOR, OHIO UNIVERSITY

top bond credit rating business, issued Miami a credit rating of Aa3 in its 2014 evaluations, distinguishing the university as financially stable. However, the report identified some financial challenges the school faces.

“MU’s credit challenges include weak revenue diversity with a high concentration in student charges revenue coupled with a fiercely competitive market that has driven substantial increases in debt,” the report stated.

Miami receives 51 percent of its revenue from student tuition and fees according to data from

dents because the net tuition is, on average, higher than the net tuition of in-state students,” said Guiot.

According to Susan Schaurer, Miami’s Interim Director of Admission, the percentage of Miami students who are not Ohio residents has risen from 32.7 percent in 2010 to 43 percent in 2014.

The number of applications from domestic out-of-state students has also risen by over 60 percent from 7,010 applications in 2010 to 11,310 in 2014.

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Controversy arises over Bishop Woods restoration ENVIRONMENT

BONNIE MEIBERS THE MIAMI STUDENT

Plans to restore and partially open up Bishop Woods are underway.

The white, pink and yellow tape that Miami students see in Bishop Woods is a way of mapping the trees and identifying the diameters.

“It’s sort of like an inventory,” David Gorchov, a biology professor at Miami University, said.

This inventory is a beginning stage of the plans to restore Bishop Woods. Tentative plans were originally proposed May 2014.

On Feb. 11, in a Natural Areas Committee meeting, landscape architect for the university, Vincent Cirrito, proposed a more detailed plan.

Cirrito has plans to remove invasive plants and dead or dying trees, reroute and widen path-

environment,” Gorchov said.

Gorchov isn’t the only committee member with concerns.

“When Miami’s botanists have concerns, I have concerns,” Holly Wissing, another Natural Areas Committee member, said.

In 1986, the university stopped mowing the lawns in Bishop Woods. The reason for this is disputed. Some say the cost of mowing the lawns was becoming a financial burden and was dropped for that reason; others say mowing was ceased because it was harmful to the trees. Those who share Gorchov’s concerns about the lawn are worried about the mowing of the proposed lawn.

The maintenance of the lawn, which would require pesticides to be put on it, is also a concern.

Pesticides are worrisome because they threaten vegetation and wildlife already living in Bishop Woods.

“I find the lawn area very

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ways, install LED lights lining the pathways and add a grassy lawn in the center of the wooded area for student congregation.

“There are many features I’m enthusiastic about and there are certain aspects that I have concerns about,” Gorchov said.

The Natural Areas Committee, made up mostly of Miami University biology and botany professors and some community members, has some concerns about this plan.

“My major concern about the project is that the large area of grass that would be created puts an unnatural environment in the center of a little island of natural

important,” Cirrito said.

Cirrito wants Bishop Woods to be a place where students can picnic and come together. He wants students to take ownership of Bishop Woods because it is such an important part of Miami’s history and heritage.

Without this feature, he said, that wouldn’t be possible.

A second concern is that the paths are proposed to be eight feet wide. In the plan, the paths are also lined with grass. Gorchov and his supporters fear that this will detract from walking through Bishop Woods, making it more like a park than a wood.

“The widened sidewalks are

something I won’t back down on,” Cirrito said.

He said he thinks the widened pathways are necessary because he is worried that students who walk on the path will try to pass other students or walk next to their friends and in the process trample native plants near the walkway.

LED lights, which will dim to 50 percent when no one is in Bishop Woods, will line the sidewalks. The widened and lit pathways would also grant safety, he says, as students could then see who is in front and around them.

The sidewalks that Cirrito plans to install will “float” above tree roots so that they are not damaged.

Construction gates are going to go up around Bishop Woods the week before Spring Break.

The paths should be open to walk on sometime in the summer and then in October seeding and planting of new native plants will take place. This planting will introduce new native species to Bishop Woods.

“Trees of Miami, beautiful trees./Truth, remembrance, youth—/Of these you brood/ In your ancient reveries,” Percy MacKaye, Miami’s first and only poet in residence, said in the 1920s.

MacKaye lived in the middle of what is now Bishop Woods in an isolated shack, to which he would occasionally invite students to poetry readings in the evenings.

“Bishop Woods is different from the rest of Miami’s manicured lawns, it is the last remnant of what old Miami was,” Wissing said.

Bishop Woods is named after Miami University’s first president, Robert Bishop. Bishop Woods was part of a larger forest originally called College Grove and later Lower Campus. As Miami grew, new academic buildings were built, Upham Hall in 1949, Culler Hall in 1961, Shidler Hall in 1967 and Hughes Laboratories in 1970, and the forest was diminished to less than three acres.

The Natural Areas Committee, Cirrito and many others all agree that Bishop Woods is an important piece of Miami history and want it to remain a special place on campus.

ASG approves creation of task force to evaluate allocation of student fees GOVERNMENT

DEANNA KROKOS THE MIAMI STUDENT

On Tuesday, the Miami Associated Student Government (ASG) passed a measure to authorize a Student Activity Fee Task Force.

The bill was authored by Nate Lombardi, vice president of student organizations, and Connor O’Hearn, off-campus senator, and will create a student-run task force to examine general fee allocation through the 2020 fiscal year.

The task force will be composed of select student senators,

mester basis toward the general fee. Every year, the university collects roughly $28 million in fees under this distinction, with only about 4 percent being allocated for student activities and organizations. That 4 percent is then split between club sports, MAP, Slant Design and student organization funding. This task force was proposed to give Miami students a voice throughout the fee allocation process.

“It isn’t a conversation that a lot of administrators have wanted to have,” co-author Nate Lombardi said while presenting the bill to the Student Senate. “But, it’s a student priority.”

It isn’t a conversation that a lot of administrators have wanted to have, but it’s a student priority.”

NATE LOMBARDI

VP OF STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

at-large undergraduate students and members of the Miami faculty and staff, as appointed by the student body president. It will explore the use of the student activity fee at Miami compared with other universities and examine past allocation patterns.

Currently, Miami University students pay $1,860 on a per-se-

The task force will have the full backing of the Associated Student Government and be funded through the ASG budget. They will begin working on examining the previous allocation models of Miami and other universities regarding the general fee.

“My first goal is specifically to define the timeline of the

student fee and how allocative decisions were made in the past and see how much student input there was,” Lombardi said.

The task force is similarly situated with a lot of changes on the Miami campus, lined up with the administration’s 2020 plan. By the 2020 budget cycle, the ASG will have the option to either renew or end the authorization for the task force.

One specific concern the task force will be focusing on is the relatively large general fee that funds intercollegiate athletics and athletic scholarships. As time goes by and the task force accomplishes some its early and more exploratory goals, the forthcoming vice presidents of student organizations will expand inquiry and continue to advocate for the student body in future conversations regarding budget and fee allocations.

“This gives us a realistic timeline, for the way budgets work with something as contentious as a student fee readjustment,” Lombardi said.

The task force will take on new objectives each year according to the priorities of its members.

“This is through the year 2020, so its going to be a long struggle … but we’re obviously here to do it,” senator and co-author O’Hearn said.

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Hillel sells challah, gets fit for vets and hunger awareness EVENT

LAURA FITZGERALD THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University’s Hillel Jewish organization is putting on a CrossFit event to honor veterans and raise money and awareness for hunger.

The CrossFit event, set tentatively for April 8 at Millett and Yeager Stadium, is called a MurphOut, in honor of Michael P. Murphy — a recipient of the Purple Heart and the Medal of Honor in Afghanistan. The event is named after the specific workout that was developed

by CrossFit Inc. as a tribute to the veteran, Rabbinical Fellow Aaron Rozovsky said.

Rovosky said Hillel has also talked to other organizations about involvement in the event such as ROTC and Alpha Epsilon Pi and has contacted diversity affairs.

“We’re reaching out to as many people as possible,” Rovosky said.

The other goal of the event is to raise awareness for the weekly Challah for Hunger sale, Rovosky said. Challah for Hunger is a bake sale of challah, traditional Jewish braided bread.

About six times a semester, between five and 15 students volunteer on Thursdays to bake bread and sell it the next morning at Hillel’s Arthur Beerman Student building, located at 11 E. Walnut St. All proceeds go to the Oxford Community Food Bank, Cincinnati Meals on Wheels and Mazon, a hunger advocacy group, sophomore marketing intern Alyssa Williams said.

Religious Vice President of Hillel junior Ryan Fuldauer said that as of last fall, Challah for Hunger has raised about $1,500 total, or about $500 a semester. This is its third year.

“I love doing it and I always have a reason to do it and knowing that the money goes ... to a good cause is a positive for

me,” Fuldauer said.

Buyers can donate as much or as little as they want, but the recommended price for a loaf of bread is $5, Fuldauer said.

“And, volunteers will teach students new to challah baking how to bake the bread,” Fuldauer said.

Hillel does other events throughout the year, such as weekly dinners and pink Shabbat, an event that raises awareness for breast cancer.

Hillel also provides social, cultural and religious resources and events for non-Jewish and Jewish students alike, Fuldauer said.

We work to provide a safe place for Jewish students and non-Jewish students.

ALYSSA WILLIAMS

MIAMI SOPHOMORE

According to Williams, there are approximately 1,000 Jewish students on Miami’s campus.

“We work to provide a safe place for Jewish students and non-Jewish students,” Faulder said. “Anyone is welcome.”

Fuldauer said Hillel caters to all degrees of Judaism, from those who identify as cultural Jews to those that are very religious.

“The Hillel kids who attend regularly are very devoted to what they do and what they believe,” Williams said. “It’s a good community. They’re very tight knit.”

Hillel also provides cultural opportunities for non-Jewish students. RA’s have come to fulfill cultural requirements and Asian students have come to experience a different culture.

“It provides people with a different cultural experience in a way that they feel like they’re not going to be asked to join that culture,” Fuldauer said.

JALEN WALKER THE MIAMI STUDENT

FROZEN IN ITS TRACKS Although construction on Shiedler Hall continues, frigid temperatures prevented students from attending class and extracurriculars on and off this week.

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Route 73 crash results in fatality SAFETY

SAMMIE MILLER

COMMUNITY EDITOR

One person died last Friday afternoon after a three-car wreck in Butler County involving two cars and a dump truck, officials said.

The dump truck was traveling westbound on State Route 73 around 2:30 p.m. near Wayne Township when it struck a car traveling southbound on Jacksonburg Road, according to a preliminary investigation by the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. The person in the car was pronounced dead at the scene, and two others

were injured.

This was just the first of three crashes in the Butler County area that Friday, all requiring AirCare for the injured passengers. These accidents, though, are not out of the ordinary for Butler County.

Fairfield and Oxford, both Butler County townships, rank in the top 100 townships in state for traffic crashes.

According to crash data provided by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), between 2010 and 2013, Fairfield Twp. had 1,533 crashes, including three fatal crashes and 402 injury crashes. In the same period, Oxford Twp. had 401

The grant includes signposts, hardware and everything.”

GARY SALMON

OXFORD BOARD OF TRUSTEES

crashes, including two fatal and 92 injury crashes.

These striking numbers have left Butler County officials searching for solutions.

Both townships are seeking the help of a state grant, which will provide the area with new street signs in the hope of alleviating

the number of traffic deaths seen

by Butler County.

According to Sharon Smigielski, a public information officer for ODOT, the grant would fund the townships up to $50,000 each for new signs. The state provides $1 million for this program annually and has increased awareness of the program this year.

Earlier this month, township representatives attended a mandatory meeting in Columbus and Fairfield and Oxford townships are working out what kind of signage to request. The deadline to apply for the application is March CAR CRASH »PAGE 4

Increase in homeless deaths POVERTY

MADDIE WOOD

THE MIAMI STUDENT

For the homeless community in Hamilton and Butler Counties, winter can be deadly.

In 2014, the number of homeless deaths in Cincinnati rose to 46, according to an unofficial count by Michelle Dillingham, Cincinnati Homeless Coalition’s director of education.

The high number is in large part due to exposure to the elements and the 38 percent increase in street homelessness in Hamilton County over the last year. The frigid temperatures and illness that come with them are fatal to those living on the streets. Every night, the homeless face frostbite, severe illness and even death.

The coalition is focused on getting people off the streets and keeping them off.

“We advocate for an increase in affordable housing so people don’t have to live on the street,” Dillingham said.

Affordable housing is the goal, not necessarily the reality.

Many people are still spending their winters on the street.

In years past, a winter shelter has been open to the Cincinnati homeless on nights when temperatures dip below 12 degrees. This year, thanks to funding from the City of Cincinnati and the Sheriff’s Department, moves were made to keep the shelter open all winter, no matter the temperature.

Dillingham said she thinks the permanence of this shelter has had a positive impact on the community.

“Early numbers are showing about 250 people a night at the winter shelter,” she said.

Although the death count isn’t as high as Hamilton County’s, Butler County is experiencing its own homeless epidemic. A Butler County 2007 homeless count indicated 170 homeless people were in the area. In 2013, Butler County was estimated to have over 250 homeless people, according to the 2013 Ohio Homelessness report.

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New Women’s Center opened its doors Monday The new branch for the Oxford Women’s Center opened at its new full service location this past week.

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Fall down boy At 2:38 a.m. Feb. 14, an officer on patrol observed a male staggering around in the 100 block of N. Poplar St. The male was standing on the west side of the road. He was carrying a bloody rag in one hand and his phone in the other.

He stopped at the crosswalk at East Church Street and attempted to use his phone. The male appeared extremely unsteady on his feet. The officer parked his cruiser and made contact with the male. The subject appeared heavily intoxicated, under the influence of alcohol, according to OPD. The officer looked at the subject’s laceration, located on his left hand, and noticed it was bleeding significantly. The officer asked him what happened and he responded that he “fell over.” He then asked the subject where he lived and he responded that he wasn’t sure, but he was heading home. The officer asked the subject to sit on the ground for his safety. The subject turned around and took a few steps as if he was running, then fell face first into a flower bed. At that point the officer called the Oxford EMS to aid the subject. When the EMS arrived on the scene they transported the male to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital. The subject was cited for Sales to and Use by Underage Persons.

Dine and dash LAUREN OLSON PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

SPRING INTO SAVINGS As February comes to a close, Uptown businesses are hosting a “Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring Shopping and Dining Event.” The event, which will take place next Friday, Feb. 28, will offer local shoppers deals at all of their favorite Oxford shops and restaurants. Area retailers including Apple Tree, Juniper, Lane & Kate and Paisley on High will be offering a variety of sale items on spring attire and accessories. The all-day event will also include specials at many of the local restaurants and coffee shops Uptown. The Chamber of Commerce, responsible for the event, hopes the it will encourage residents and students to shop and eat locally this spring.

Cincinnati music competition draws 150,000 EVENT

MACKENZIE CLUNE THE MIAMI STUDENT

Some of the most talented young musicians and performing arts groups from over 10 states will come together for the 38th Major Mid-East Championship at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati.

Winter guard is among the most evolved marching arts.

Over 150,000 spectators at the Winter Guard International (WGI) Regionals and WGI World Championships relish the indoor percussion and winds each year.

“Each year, more than 90,000 students participate in indoor color guard and percussion events across the country,” WGI Executive Director Ron Nankervis said. “We’re excited to expand that number this year with the creation of our new Winds Division opening up more performance opportunities to winds and marching band groups.”

WGI competitions are divided into two main divisions: Scholastic, for high school age competitors, and Independent, typically for college students.

The majority of the groups competing at the Scholastic level have been training for the event

since last spring.

They do this through their time spent with their school marching band, and now at their highpoint in the Winter Guard activity.

“The dedication and passion of marching arts students rival any athletic or extracurricular program in schools today,” Nankervis said.

Most competitors, both at the

compete at this beautiful facility, and that the Cintas Center has become available for us to use, it is the perfect venue for our activity.”

WGI has really evolved from where it started in 1978, consistently increasing in both size and participation.

According to Queen, there are now groups from all over the

We are lucky that the WGI activity has grown so much that we have enough participants to compete at this beautiful facility.”

ROSIE QUEEN

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Norwood businesses busted for stolen merchandise On Thursday, two stores in Norwood were found to be involved in an illegal fencing operation.

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At 7:25 p.m. Feb 15, an officer responded to the area of 21 Lynn Ave. LaRosa’s Pizzeria, for report of theft. When the officer arrived on the scene, the manager on duty reported a man and a woman coming in for dinner an hour prior to the call. The subjects ordered and consumed two pasta dinners and dessert and had left the premises in a hurry without paying. When the waitress noticed that the couple was no longer at the table and the restrooms were empty, she reported it to her manager who then called the police. The waitress also noted to the officer that the subjects appeared to be heavily intoxicated. Based on the waitress’s description of the male and female, the officer patrolled the area and located the pair walking down Vereker Drive.

The officer stopped the male and female and noticed they smelled like alcoholic beverage and their speech was slurred. Both subjects were taken into custody and cited with Disorderly Conduct and Offensive Behavior.

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Scholastic level and Independent level, have been training for years.

Most of them started specifically training for this Winter Guard show around either September or November.

According to Rosie Queen, a member of the WGI Board of Directors, the facility is one of the best things about this particular regional event.

“Many years ago we would have this same event in a high school gymnasium,” Queen said.

“We are lucky that the WGI activity has grown so much that we have enough participants to

world competing at the World Championship in Dayton, in April.

Back in 1993, a Percussion division was added to the Color Guard competitions.

Now in 2015, a “Winds” division will be added, giving a third option for competitors to participate in.

“So many competing units have developed their styles through dance and choreography in a way that years ago, we could only dream of,” Queen said. “If you love watching creative productions and talented passionate performers, you will love WGI.”

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Iran to resume nuclear talks with U.S. today

UK jets intercept Russian aircraft

A final negotiation between the U.S. and Iran on the Tehran’s nuclear program will be discussed in Geneva today.

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The pair of Russian aircraft were intercepted by two British typhoon jets near a British airspace this week.

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At 10 p.m. Feb. 14, officers responded to 5201 College Corner Pike Lot 68 in reference to a report of threats made against the residents. When the officers arrived on scene he was informed that the subject, known to the residents, unlawfully entered their residence and made threats to them while in the possession of a handgun. The subject entered through the front door and pointed the handgun at the residents, claiming the cops were after him and that if they called the police he would shoot them. Upon investigation, it was determined that no police were after the subject at the time of the crime. The residents reported that he refused to leave the residence and prevented them from moving freely in their home. They also reported the subject appeared to be on drugs and at one point had pulled out a needle and a vile of an unknown substance while he was in their residence, confirming their suspicions. After further investigation, the subject was apprehended several hours later. He was arrested for Unlawful Restraint, Aggravated Burglary, Aggravated Menacing and Aggravated Trespass. He is being held at Butler County Jail.

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15. According to the ODOT website, the grant offers a wide array of signage, ranging from various arrow signs to stop signs to speed limit signs. The ODOT based the grant on crash data from 2009 to 2013. Every type of crash was considered, from property-damage-only crashes to fatal crashes.

Gary Salmon, president of Oxford’s board of trustees, said he was considering caution signs and curve signs, among others.

“We can get some additional stop signs in places where we can put two stop signs on each side of the road versus a single one, stop ahead signs,” he said.

“The grant includes signposts, hardware and everything.”

dedicated to providing stability to homeless men, women and children in Butler and Warren Counties.

Hope House is making strides to improve homelessness in their community. According to their website, 44 percent of Hope House’s former residents moved into a positive housing arrangement in 2012.

They place a strong emphasis on bettering the lives of those who enter their shelters by offering programs and counseling in addition to meals and a place to stay.

To get involved with Hope House Mission and help homeless in the community, log onto their website www.hhmission. org and fill out an individual or group application.

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what you’re going through, they’re my friends, they’re my colleagues, I’ve worked with them.

I’m not being manipulated, John, I didn’t ask for this job. But I have a lot invested in this to make this successful. So you’ll have to understand where I’m coming from.”

What some audience members failed to realize is that the governor and Ohio Board of Regents mandated this process in 2008.

The committee addressed multiple concerns involving open enrollment versus selective enrollment, separate accreditation, offering more degrees and whether they are actually listening to the concerns voiced. The Task Force Committee held multiple student-only forums last semester so students could voice their concerns.

“We brought every single concern that was in front of us to the Task Force Committee,” said Sabrina Cox, regional student and member of the Process Committee. “A lot of the concerns that the students had were uneducated concerns, so we could very easily dispel whatever they were saying because they didn’t have facts behind it. I think what needs to happen is that the SGA [Student Government Association] on both campuses need to do a better job educating the students on what’s really happening.”

Regional Director of Grant development, Amy Lamborg, expressed her opinion on the selective enrollment versus open enrollment debate.

“We spend a ton of time serving people who probably shouldn’t even be here, honestly, and I hate to say that, but their GPAs are so low they’re not going to be successful — no matter what we do,” said Lamborg. “Even if we are giving them the best learning services on the planet. They are not going to be successful.”

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The increasing pursuit of out-of-state students has also been a result of the decrease in Ohio residents graduating from high school, prompting Miami to search outside of the state in order to steadily improve the academic credentials of incoming classes.

“There are a host of reasons and the financial [reason] is just one of them,” Guiot said.

Vedder argued the current system of high tuition and high financial aid that dominates higher education in the U.S. is indirectly responsible for perpetuating the massive accumulation of debt.

Student loans are made to cover the cost of attendance, said Vedder, and although some states have imposed limits on raising tuition, the schools ultimately decide the cost and are free to drive up fees for room and board and other amenities. Vedder said reform can only come from an outside source, not the individual schools.

“It would be like trying to unilaterally disarm in an arms race,” he said.

Vedder suggested implementing regulations at the state or federal level that would remove funding or deny student loan money for institutions where the debt per student exceeds a particular amount.

“The only way to get universities to change their behavior is to threaten them financially,” said Vedder.

If such legislative actions are taken, Vedder said he hopes universities will slow down their spending and focus on providing safe but modest facilities and quality education at a reasonable price.

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‘It’s On Us’ is more than just a campaign, it’s a call to action for the campus EDITORIAL

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

It’s on us — a simple phrase with complex implications. It might sound familiar, as it’s the name of a nationwide campaign to raise sexual assault awareness and encourage increased responsibility of college students in particular.

Miami has it’s own It’s On Us campaign, it’s Twitter account was founded in October 2014. According to the Miami University website, this campaign was supposed to kick off in Fall 2014 and then again at the beginning of February.

So why have we not heard anything about this? Why has the Twitter account been inactive?

There are no signs of activity on campus — no fliers in King Cafe or sheet signs near The Hub. For all we know, the campaign isn’t

happening at all.

The editorial board sees this as a problem, but we don’t necessarily place the blame on the people in charge of It’s On Us or on the university.

The name itself should clue us in: it is on us. We shouldn’t have to wait for a national campaign to arrive on campus in order to spur us to become responsible human beings. We shouldn’t need the university to install sexual assault trainings in order for rape to not happen in Oxford. To put it simply — all of this should be common sense, right?

Nationwide, one in five women are targets of sexual assault according to a study by the U.S. Department of Justice.

This fall, we saw how much Miami students in particular care

about the victims of sexual assault when faculty and students joined together to protest George Will, a guest speaker and columnist who has spoken out against sexual assault victims in the past.

As a campus, we seem to be well aware that sexual assault is a problem in our lives and we also seem to be passionate enough to want to find a solution.

We at The Miami Student believe that we, as not just a student body, but as a community, need to come together in order to solve the problem of sexual assault on our campus.

Of course, friends should keep a close watch on friends while out and about at bars and parties — this is common sense. We know the usual warnings of keeping an eye on our drinks and walking

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Yik Yak shows student feelings about Hodge

This past week, students joined in a somewhat humorous reaction to the university not canceling classes due to inclement weather.

For a substantial length of time, Miami university students who use the app “Yik Yak” engaged in a drawn out roasting of Miami University President David Hodge.

Some of these yaks included “Hodge believes it’s butter” and “Hodge reminds the teacher to collect homework assignments.”

For the most part, these “yaks” were benign and exposed some of the more humorous perceptions of Miami students toward Hodge. However, there were certain yaks that could be considered less “good spirited.”

These “yaks” raise the question: How much freedom from accountability should yakers have? On one hand, the appeal of the app lies in its freedom from accountability. Students feel confident saying anything they want.

On the other hand, this lends itself to potentially threatening and abusive posts with no way to trace the validity or the person posting it.

This question has been brought up in previous articles on The Miami Student and becomes more prevalent when users of Yik Yak post abusive yaks. One such example of this abuse of Yik Yak occurred several months ago when bomb threats were made on the Miami campus. Fortunately,

nothing became of the threats.

But it’s an example of how using Yik Yak requires balance.

In my opinion, the freedom of yakers to post anonymously should be maintained. It’s what makes the app work so well.

However, real threats or reports of crime must be dealt with swiftly and decisively. As for Hodge, hopefully he realizes that these yakers, for the most part, were just having some good-spirited fun in the hopes of getting those classes canceled. And maybe these yaks are to thank for our actual snow day?

ALEX RANDALL

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Satire and Comedy informs better than traditional news MEDIA

I start everyday with MSNBC’s Morning Joe and The Daily Rundown with Jose Diaz-Balart.

I have my morning coffee and read The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune. Throughout my work day I have my Twitter feed open where I follow journalists from every major publication and the major news outlets themselves. I come home and have Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow on in the background while checking in on O’Reilly and Hannity once in awhile.

I’m a big fan of comedy news shows. I never miss an episode of The Nightly Show or Real Time with Bill Maher. I’ve also been watching The Daily Show consistently for ten years. Jon Stewart is how I found my love for the news and why I’m here right now.

I’m certainly not the most informed person in the world, but I do see a lot of the news media. It was striking to hear the news that Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show. Without any announcements of what project he’s moving to next, it’s too soon to grieve for losing Stewart. But nonetheless I’m incredibly bummed out that TV is losing one of its best sources of information.

Yes, a 30 minute Comedy Central satirical program is probably the best bang for your buck news out there right now. If you allot a person 30 minutes of time to gather news in a day, The Daily Show is likely their best option.

Your other choices include any given MSNBC program about national news where they have spent the last three weeks on nonstop snow coverage on places I don’t live in. What’s less national than the weather anyway?

You got CNN where Wolf Blitzer reports live from the holodeck everyday. Did they ever

find that plane? And of course Fox News, where Megyn Kelly is the only woman allowed to wear pants and every breaking news story is something to do with King Obama’s tyranny. My favorite drinking game: Take a shot for every time Benghazi is mentioned on Fox. Yes, that’s somehow still a thing for them.

The biggest mistake any news consumer can make is only using a few sources for gathering information. No single source has a full story. The Daily Show is ultimately filled with gags and serves as a much needed watchdog for a news media run-a-muck, but it still informs better than any other cable program.

Jon Stewart and his crew never aimed for The Daily Show to replace the front page of The New York Times. But everyone has to admit that with the comedy-first mission, The Daily Show never fails to bring the most important event of the day front and center.

I’m also consistently impressed with their field reports that are always relevant, funny and informative. Jessica Williams’ report on rape culture on college campuses is some of the best reporting I’ve seen on the subject.

In 2012, Fairleigh Dickinson University interviewed 1,185 random people nationwide about events in both the U.S. and abroad, they were also asked what news sources they consumed that week. The Daily Show’s audience was found to be the second most informed, just behind NPR. The study found Fox viewers were less informed than people who consumed no news and that MSNBC viewers were only slightly more informed than folks that don’t watch news.

PEW also did a survey asking people about their political knowledge. The goal of the study was to find the percent of people

who knew things such as who their governor is, which party controlled the House, who Tom Foley is and six other political questions. Their findings were similar. The Daily Show’s audience tied first place with major newspapers as the most informed.

Fox News and Network Morning Shows were the least informed.

Most news shows are biased toward sensationalism and laziness. It’s too common for these organizations to relentlessly pursue an activist or commercial agenda. Or in Fox’s case, just being a propaganda delivery system. Not all traditional news outlets are terrible, but none of them are trustworthy enough.

Journalism is the fourth estate; it’s the only civilian profession mentioned in the constitution and journalists are public servants. It’s too clear that if you want to make money in this business, you have to tell people what they want to hear. Glenn Beck made over $90 million in 2013. People want the echochamber. What comedy can do is disarm you and inform you on the truth under that protection of the comedy label.

TV news is just mostly entertainment. The comedy giants Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and John Oliver are upfront with it being entertainment, yet I walk away from their shows with new perspectives and information far more often than anything strictly labeled news.

Traditional news media has largely failed the American public. What these comedy shows do is present the important events in a fun way without wasting the viewer’s time with partisan nonsense, blizzard coverage and missing airplanes.

STEVEN BEYNON

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home in groups. But what about the other side of the spectrum?

Make Miami a place that simply does not tolerate sexual assault. Instead of girls needing to keep an eye on drinks at parties, why don’t the people making the drinks universally know that drugging party guests is not socially or morally acceptable?

Shouldn’t the women of Miami feel comfortable asking anyone to walk them home, or be able to walk home alone, without fear that they could be assaulted?

Perhaps this is slightly idealistic or naive of us on the editorial board, but it really shouldn’t be.

We shouldn’t feel nervous when we want to go to a bar and have fun with our friends, and we definitely shouldn’t need to carry pepper spray in our purses for a five

minute walk across campus.

We would love for the It’s On Us campaign to start becoming prominent on campus, but perhaps we should take a lesson from its name and place the responsibility on ourselves to prevent sexual assault on campus.

Rather than waiting for the university to make sexual assault trainings mandatory for all students, we should work to make Miami safe just by being good people. It doesn’t matter if someone is your best friend or a complete stranger, we all have the responsibility of taking care of one another.

We proclaim “love and honor” wherever we go, so let’s make it mean something more. Love and honor each other — make Miami a safe place. It’s On Us, all of us.

Breaking news: Africa is more than one country WORLD

REIS’ PIECES Fifty-four countries, 1.1 billion people, 2,000 languages, but just one name: Africa.

When I returned from South Africa at the end of last summer, everyone from my family to friends and professors asked me about Africa. “Weren’t you in Africa?” “How was Africa?” No one asked me in which country I had spent the summer.

To most people, it seems, they’re all the same.

This is a dangerous ignorance.

What’s worse, the chronic misidentification of the world’s second largest continent extends beyond my own circle. Discussing Africa as if it were a country is endemic to western media’s world news coverage.

A study done by British newspaper The Guardian illustrated the paper’s own imprecise reporting.

In 2012 and 2013, The Guardian published 5,443 articles that use “Africa” as an all-encompassing descriptor. By comparison, The Guardian published just 2,948 articles that used “Asia” in a similar way. This shows the prejudice that even one of the world’s leading news sources has against the continent.

And, it’s not just British newspapers. Even the New York Times, journalism’s holy grail, has dialed back its coverage, thereby widening the lens through which people see the continent. No longer are there correspondents in each country, embedded with soldiers and warlords.

Now, there is the East Africa bureau, tasked with covering Somalia, the Congo and everything in between.

It’s a media-wide epidemic. And, not only does this retreat lead to missed stories (five million dead from civil war in the Congo? Ring a bell?), it also breeds generalization. Child soldiers, military coups

fueled an ever hysterical and misinformed population.

Still, few know where to find Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone.

And, for mainstream America, Ebola and Africa are synonymous.

This stereotyping is dangerous.

It is the building blocks of racism.

And, it has implications both in the U.S. and abroad.

At a New Jersey elementary school in October, two Rwandan children missed nearly a month of school because of pressures from the school district and other parents. Even though Rwanda is 2,600 miles away from the nearest Ebola cases, outspoken parents of other children at the New Jersey school told local news, “Anybody from that area should just stay there until all this stuff is resolved. There’s nobody affected here let’s just keep it that way.”

In fact, Rwanda (with zero) has seen fewer Ebola cases than the U.S. In another instance of outright discrimination, Navarro College, a Texas community college, sent rejection letters to all students applying from Ebola affected countries.

Navarro, ironically, is about 50 miles south of Dallas, ground zero for Ebola in the United States.

The college sent the letters to two Nigerian students. Nigeria, however, was declared an Ebola-free zone in October, about a month sooner than the U.S. was officially free of the virus. The college, however, continued accepting students from Texas and New York — both of which had confirmed cases.

This small-minded view of the continent only fuels xenophobia. It builds a wall between “us” and “them” and it often leads to marginalization.

Look, geography is important — especially now, when African geopolitics has never been more significant. Its population is the world’s youngest and its economies are among the world’s fastest growing. Innovations from African tech companies are leapfrogging those of

This small-minded view of the continent only fuels xenophobia. It builds a wall between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and it often leads to marginalization.”

and the mutilation of female genitalia all become “African problems.”

They are underreported and, when they do get covered, they are usually poorly written, 300-word accounts that do no justice to the horrors of their topics.

This year’s Ebola outbreak only made matters worse.

“Do you have Ebola now?” people would ask, only half kidding, even though the nearest confirmed case was more than 3,500 miles from where I had lived.

The virus should have shed greater light on the continent. It should have spurred an interest in African geography. Instead, the U.S. media

“more developed” Western countries (Take Kenya’s M-Pesa, for example, the precursor to Apple Pay). Businesses the world over see African markets as ones with large, but untapped opportunity.

What’s more, in an era of increasing globalization and connectivity, something that happens on one continent will likely affect the lives of those on another, no matter how distant. So, please, learn some geography, because asking me about Africa is like someone asking you about North America.

REIS THEBAULT

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Big plans for Bishop Woods: Our familiar campus shortcut is getting a makeover

Miami’s beloved Bishop Woods is about to be restored to recreate the diverse forest ecosystem that was once present all while improving safety and circulation through the area with new walkways and pathway lighting.

The restoration efforts, which are supported by the Miami University Natural Areas Committee, will begin in late March.

Comments were solicited from this group and those assembled members of the committee unanimously approved the restoration project last spring.

Bishop Woods as known today was originally part of a larger wooded area known as the

College Grove. And then it was known as Lower Campus, where much of the undergrowth of the wooded areas east of Elliot and Stoddard Halls was removed and replaced with mowed lawn during the 1940s to increase visibility as campus development proceeded eastward.

It was not until the 1960s, with the erection of the Bishop Gates and the U-shaped drive, that the area bounded by the new drive and Patterson Avenue became known as Bishop Woods.

In 1986, mowing of the lawn areas within Bishop Woods was ceased. After the establishment of the Miami University Natural

Areas system in 1992, the Natural Areas Committee and the bioscience departments worked with the Physical Facilities Department to manage Bishop Woods to allow natural tree regeneration and growth of native understory plants.

Today, as campus development (Farmer School of Business, Armstrong Student Center, new Western Campus Resident Halls) continues to change the surrounding landscape and student traffic patterns, the need to address deteriorated path pavements and their locations, student security and visibility, appearance and the spread of invasive plants

throughout Bishop Woods is necessary.

The proposed restoration work will remove numerous Ash trees infected with the emerald ash borer, other dead and diseased trees, invasive plant species, thin saplings, and reintroduce more than 40 native plant species. This will allow for views through the site with a continuously changing floral display from spring to fall.

A central lawn with seating opportunities will also be created to allow for informal gathering within the confines of the Woods.

The project will improve circulation by realigning paved pathways to better serve student

migration through the area by linking destinations and adjacent sidewalks. Safety improvements will include open views along walkways and the placement of walkway lighting using “dark sky friendly” pole mounted LED lighting fixtures.

The project is currently in final design documentation. The construction fence will be erected around the perimeter of Bishop Woods in late March to allow for vegetation removals and demolition of existing walkways. The woods will be open for enjoyment beginning next year.

VINCENT CIRRITO

CIRRITV@MIAMIOH.EDU

Reshaping how we think and talk about depression WORLD

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Why is this an ongoing problem?

Whenever I see an article on depression and self-harm, I never read it fully. It’s not that they are boring. Plenty of articles are extremely informative, stuffed with helpful facts in some form of scientific jargon.

It’s just that that is all they are — scientific jargon.

Type in “Depression” on Google and in .2 seconds you will have pages full of symptom descriptions, the inevitable WebMD article, something obvious about exercise being able to help you feel better; the list goes on.

But there is simply nothing personal. The first important thing here to know is that depression will impact one in 10 Americans at one point or another during their lifetime, according to a 2012 Healthline study.

The problem with this statistic, however, is how much it takes away from people diagnosed with more serious forms of this disease. It is inevitable that a person will feel sad for an extended period of time — life gets really complicated, loved ones may leave, we all have to brave the teenage years. This type of malaise is important to address and overcome, but the commonality of this facet of depression makes it easy to group all cases of the disease into something that’s too regular to care very much about.

This attitude must be reshaped.

It is already difficult to speak about personal depressive experiences, especially for those who have been diagnosed with major

depressive disorders. Part of the reason there are therapists is that many people simply can’t handle hearing their friends talk about their overwhelming sadness on a daily a basis. Depressed people need an educated outlet.

This is perhaps one reason why there is very little out there in terms of firsthand experiences of depression — opinionated Internet users and trolls are not exactly intellectuals.

Another problem surrounding depression and self-harm is the perception they are easy to get rid of. The previously mentioned 2012 Healthline study says that “60-80 percent of all depression cases can be effectively treated with brief, structured forms of psychotherapy and antidepressant medications.”

Sounds good, right?

But this leaves out a full one to two-fifths of the population (with a full 20 percent of cases being swing cases, according to this statistic) diagnosed with depression that cannot be effectively treated with brief psychotherapy and meds. Not only that, but this statistic makes it sound like the healing process is quick and easy, even for those who can be treated.

It is not.

Regardless of its treatability, depression is not an easy disease to recover from. Saying depression is easily dealt with is like saying cancer is easily dealt with; both diseases have treatable forms, but neither treatment process is easy. Each patient needs to work extremely hard and go through a lot of pain to get themselves better, and even then the treatment may not work.

Herein lies another possible reason why there are no mainstream personal stories of depression; those who cannot recover from it will be perceived as weak or pathetic. I repeat: this

attitude must be reshaped.

There is more to say on depression than what I can fit onto the page of a newspaper. Any scientific information I write here will be something you may have seen before, or can find with a onesecond Google search. So instead, I’ll leave you with a story.

My senior year in high school we had an art show in which one young woman had chosen to use the concept of self-harm as her concentration. Many of her paintings were accurate depictions of self-harm, images so well-rendered that many of them were difficult to look at.

She was forced to meet with the principal of the school before the art show, during which she was told to leave certain pieces out of the show. The remaining pieces would be blocked off with a rope, facing the back wall. The principal’s reasoning for this was the images may trigger negative reactions from the depressed population of the high school.

As I strolled around the show, I watched the reactions of parents as they went into this artist’s roped off section, their faces twisted with some combination of disbelief, fear and disgust.

These reactions have been seared into my mind, as has the treatment of the exhibit by the principal. I can remember them perfectly three years later.

They are the firsthand proof of the misconceptions that the uninvolved population has about depression and self-harm, misconceptions which may actually be strengthened by statistics.

What we need now are real stories; the people behind the numbers must be given a chance to speak up before diseases themselves are reduced to mere data.

MADDIE LAPLANTE-DUBE LAPLANMM@MIAMIOH.EDU

CLASS CANCELED? We don’t want to complain about classes before 10 a.m. getting canceled, since some lucky students get to sleep in now. But if it’s too cold to go to class, isn’t it too cold for student workers to go to class or teachers to come to campus?

NOT ENOUGH SYNONYMS FOR COLD This week’s wintry weather has us saying we’re really cold a lot. With the snow and temperatures falling, we need more ways to describe our shivering tendencies.

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realized that there’s a whole other level of things in college.”

Junior forward Hannah McCue had a solid night eating glass as well. McCue had a team-high 13 rebounds and added eight points.

Miami as a team had a much better night rebounding than its last performance. The Red and White corralled 40 boards, including 13 offensive rebounds.

It was not enough to stop EMU and its leading scorer, sophomore guard Cha Sweeney.

Sweeney had a game high 16 points and eight assists.

The RedHawks have a four day break before heading north to play the University at Buffalo.

Buffalo (15-9, 8-5 MAC) defeated Kent State University 59-57 MEN’S HOCKEY »PAGE 10

average and a .911 save percentage.

As the end of the regular season approaches, Blasi said he is focusing on one game at a time, which

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Over one million television sets tuned into the Manchester United versus Chelsea match.

A match that ended in a 1-1 draw, which sounds like the epitome of what MLB says Americans hate.

Not only was it long and low scoring, it ended in a tie.

Oh, the match took place on a Sunday and challenged the NFL in the middle of its season.

Soccer is growing while baseball is declining.

Why? Simple: the TV deal.

NBC sees the growing trend in soccer and they were able to get a deal to put games on TV. Why do NBC, and other major networks, not have that same deal with MLB? The local TV deals.

Local stations, like Fox Sports Ohio, have exclusive rights to broadcast games. And you can only get this service through a Dish Network, DirecTV or other major TV provider’s subscription.

Another number in decline is the number of television subscriptions.

Since the beginning of 2010 TV providers have lost more than five million subscribers, and that number grows each day.

People can get the main broadcasts, NBC, FOX, CBS and ABC, for free.

The NFL dominates those networks and soccer is encroaching

Wednesday night.

Cincinnati native and junior guard Mackenzie Loesing led the team with 19 points off the bench in the game.

The teams have already met once this season, with Buffalo getting the win in Oxford. The Bulls won that game easily, 71-51.

Senior center Christa Baccas led the Bulls with 14 points and 12 rebounds against the RedHawks.

Rebounding was the dominant area for Buffalo in the first matchup. The Bulls out rebounded the ’Hawks 45-34.

“We’ve got to take care of the ball, got to rebound the ball,” Wright said, looking forward.

“Those are both things we didn’t do tonight.”

Tip is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Buffalo’s Alumni Arena. means preparing for Friday.

“As we say in the locker room, play tough, play hard and leave it all on the ice,” Blasi said.

Puck drop is 7:35 p.m. Friday and Saturday’s puck drop is 7:05 p.m.

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upon the big four as well.

But a major league baseball game is tough to find. A handful each week, and those are usually the same four or five teams.

Last season nobody knew about the American League Champion, Kansas City Royals. Why? Well, they are not a big draw on national TV. What would cutting the TV deals allow?

Exposing fans to teams like the Royals.

It will not be immediate, but over time people will learn, once again, to watch most baseball games. Just like people will tune into most NFL games, no matter how small or bad the game.

America loves to watch sports and MLB is restricting them from feasting upon its cornucopia of competition.

Cut the TV deals, not the size of the mound or the strike zone.

Do this and MLB will survive, and maybe even thrive once again.

Behind the NFL there is no clearcut number two. The NBA, MLB and soccer in its various forms are fighting to claim that spot.

MLB is losing the battle.

And the lust of short-term money over long-term success is doing it.

Baseball is not broken.

However, MLB is. And they are blind to it.

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‘Hawks upset MAC East leader Bowling Green MEN’S BASKETBALL

JACK BREWER

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s basketball team won on the road against Mid-American Conference leader Bowling Green State University Wednesday night.

The RedHawks (10-16, 5-8 MAC) were led offensively by sophomore guard Jaryd Eustace, who finished the game with 14 points. Eustace was one of three RedHawks who scored in double figures. The other two were junior guard Geovonie McKnight and senior guard Will Sullivan.

McKnight registered his first career CONNOR MORIARTY THE MIAMI STUDENT double-double with 13 points and 10 Junior guard Eric Washington signals a play during Miami’s home game against rebounds, while Sullivan notched 11 Ohio.Washington leads the team with 14 points per game. points.

No. 6 Miami takes No. 7 Duluth MEN’S HOCKEY

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With three weekends left in conference play, the race for the Penrose Cup is heating up. The Miami University men’s hockey team hunts for its first National Collegiate Hockey Conference title as it takes on the University of Minnesota Duluth.

No. 6 Miami (18-9-1, 11-6-1-1 NCHC) is tied at 35 points with No. 1 University of North Dakota and No. 5 University of Nebraska Omaha points for first in the conference.

No. 7 Duluth (18-11-1, 10-7-1-1 NCHC) sits at fourth with 31 points and is just two points clear of fifth-

place No. 9 Denver University for the final home seed in next month’s NCHC playoffs.

“If you look at the results, you see a lot of splits on the weekends and one-goal games,” head coach Enrico Blasi said. “A lot of games have gone into overtime. It’s a tough league. It’s quality opponents every week.”

Miami trails UMD 3-2 in the alltime series, though the teams split their first-ever series in Duluth in October. Every game between the two teams has been decided by a single goal.

“I expect the same,” Blasi said.

“I expect it to be hard-fought. Both teams will bring their best.”

Earlier in the week, junior forward Sean Kuraly emphasized the

importance of keeping up momentum during the final regular season games.

“First place is on the line,” junior forward Sean Kuraly said Monday.

“The last six games for us will be huge. There’s so much that can be determined with these last six games. We’re excited for it.”

The ’Hawks enter the series riding a five-game unbeaten (4-0-1) streak.

The Bulldogs split their series with St. Cloud State University last weekend. Eight UMD skaters have scored at least seven goals, and four have recorded at least 20 points.

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The death of Major League Baseball COLUMN

TAYLOR MADE Major League Baseball is killing itself. It is doing so voluntarily and it is too blind to see what is coming.

We are told baseball is dying because it is too slow and that pitchers are too dominant.

MLB will likely implement some insane rule changes in the near future.

Those changes will kill the game.

If MLB is serious about wanting fans, the solution is simple: kill the huge, local television deals.

Of course this will never happen.

Not because it is extreme, but because it hurts the immediate bottom line. The owners will make less money in the short term. In the long term this would drive more fans to the sport.

Television ratings have been in free fall mode for quite some time, thus leading people to believe baseball is broken.

It all started with the players’ association strike of 1994-95.

The TV ratings for the World Series peaked in 1978. The series averaged a 32.8 with 44.2 million Americans watching, keep in mind, population was around 222 million.

When the strike hit, ratings took a drop from 20.2 in 1992 down to 17.4.

The falling numbers have continued and, in 2012, they hit their all-time low, 7.6. Only 12.7 million Americans dialed the biggest spectacle in baseball onto their television.

It is a bad sign for Major League Baseball and its brand.

But, the major problem is what MLB believes to be causing the dip in fans.

They are trying to say baseball is too slow and offense is too scarce.

Both wrong.

Take, for example, the Premier League. Soccer.

NBC is buying into it and last October set the record for viewers in America.

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MU comes up short against Eagles WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

DANIEL TAYLOR

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The Miami University women’s basketball team dropped a tough one Tuesday night, losing to Eastern Michigan University, 54-51.

Miami (4-20, 1-12 Mid-American Conference) had a 12-point lead midway through the first half, but allowed Eastern Michigan (1310, 6-6 MAC) to climb to within two at the break.

“They went to the boards really well offensively,” head coach Cleve Wright said.

The second half was back and forth at the beginning. Eastern would take hold and run its lead to 11.

Miami then had to play catch up and did so, battling back to within four with under a minute to go.

“It felt good that we were fighting,” Wright said.

The leading scorer for Miami, once again, was freshman guard Baleigh Reid. She finished with 15.

Reid had the ball in her hand twice in the last minute. She missed both shots behind the 3-point line.

The RedHawks could not get a shot to fall and would ultimately fall to the Eagles.

“I feel like our kids played hard,” Wright said. “We’re going to keep building on it.”

Outside of Reid, multiple RedHawks turned in solid performances Tuesday night.

Freshman guard Ana Richter scored nine points, going 4 of 5 from the field. Richter added six rebounds.

Richter, a true freshman, has battled through bumps throughout the season, but says it is all part of the learning curve.

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The RedHawks used an 11-0 run in the second half, including seven from Eustace, to go up 50-43 with 11 minutes remaining. The teams went back and forth until the final minute, when the RedHawks buried 6 of 6 from the free throw line to secure the victory. The RedHawks were nearly automatic at the free throw line, making 20 of 21 attempts from the charity stripe.

“We had some guys really step up,” head coach John Cooper said.

“Jaryd Eustace was huge for us, getting the 14 points and how he got them. Making 3s, driving to the basket, making free throws and came up with a couple steals.”

Bowling Green (17-7, 9-4 MAC) was led by senior forward Richaun Holmes, who scored 21 points and hauled in 12 rebounds. Holmes was

the only Falcon to score in double figures on the night.

The RedHawks held the Falcons to just 36 percent shooting from the field, while shooting 42.3 percent from the field themselves. The difference came down to free throws for the RedHawks. It was the best performance from the free throw line they have had all season and it paid off.

“We did some things that allow you to be successful on the road,” Cooper said. “We had 11 turnovers, I’d like those to be a little bit lower, but we didn’t beat ourselves.”

The RedHawks look to push their win streak up to three games as they travel to the University of Akron Saturday for a 7:30 p.m. game. They return home to host Kent State University Tuesday, Feb. 24.

RedHawks ready for CCWHA Tournament WOMEN’S HOCKEY

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After suffering somewhat of a setback at Michigan State University last weekend, the Miami University women’s hockey team is looking to get back on the horse in time for the CCWHA Tournament this weekend in Flint, Michigan. The RedHawks (23-2-1) have an opening round bye in the Tournament after claiming the regular season conference title.

“We don’t know who we’ll be playing on Friday. We get the winner of Grand Valley State and Michigan State,” head coach Scott Hicks said. “We’re familiar with both, especially since we played them in the last month. It’s better than last year when we had to play five games in five days.”

Miami finally returns to full strength as Hicks, junior defender and captain Morgan McGrath, junior center Hayley Williams, sophomore center Katie Augustine, sophomore right wing Rachael Booth and sophomore right wing Kaley Mooney are back after representing Team USA in the World University Games in Spain the past two weeks.

The team has gone 3-1 in their absence.

“It’s good to be back as a full unit again,” Hicks said. “We’re expecting positive results this weekend.

When you’re the No. 1 seed, you have a target on your back, but we have the talent and ability to defend our conference title. Winning the regular season was one of our three goals this year and we hope to knock out another one this weekend.”

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Williams and Booth, despite not playing the last four games for the ’Hawks, are second and sixth in the ACHA in scoring. Williams has 46 points and Booth has accumulated 43 points. Freshman left wing Carly Noble and sophomore right wing Cassidy Guthrie are not far behind them, with 33 and 30 points, respectively.

The play in net has been strong all season long as sophomore goaltender Emalee Wills (14-0-1) has a .922 save percentage, a 1.32 goals against average and four shutouts. Freshman goalie Carly Van Orden (9-2) also has four shutouts on the season as well as a .942 save percentage and a 1.11 goals against average.

The special teams have been big for the Red and White, as well. They are 20 for 32 on the power play.

“We’re getting our players adjusted and being a full team again,” Guthrie said. “We’re getting to where everyone on the team feels that they’re a part of it, something we’ve struggled with this season.

For travel hockey, you play five games in five days so we’ll be ready.

The adrenaline will eventually take over and we’re well conditioned.

This weekend will be a challenge since we’re the No. 1 seed and everyone wants to beat us and we have to prove ourselves.”

The RedHawks begin play in the CCWHA Tournament 1 p.m.

Friday when they take on the winner between Grand Valley State and Michigan State. The winner of that game takes on the winner of the University of Michigan and Adrian College/Robert Morris University 11:30 a.m. Saturday. The final takes place noon Sunday.

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The number of National Collegiate Hockey Conference teams ranked in the top nine of the USCHO.com poll. North Dakota is No. 1, Nebraska Omaha is No. 5, Miami is No. 6, Minnesota Duluth is No. 7 and Denver is No. 9.