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SUPER SENIORS The RedHawks came away with a big win Saturday over No. 1 North Dakota. Senior night festivities made the game all the more important for Miami’s six graduating seniors. The 6-3 victory clinched crucial home ice advantage in the first round of the NCHC playoffs. Miami will face Western Michigan this weekend to kick off the tournament.

Miami student drinking habits exceed national average

Community calls for continued recognition of sexual assault SEXUAL ASSAULT

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After just a month on campus, 10 percent of Miami first-years are classified as “high-risk drinkers,” according to results of an alcohol education program.

AlcoholEdu, an online course, tests students prior to their arrival on campus and then follows up 30 to 45 days into their first semester.

Of the 2,907 Miami students who participated in this year’s AlcoholEdu program, a larger percentage of Miami students claim to have become high-risk and light/moderate drinkers at college when compared to the national data from over 500 universities.

Director of Student Wellness Rebecca Baudry Young has been working with the AlcoholEdu program since 2007, and said this year’s results were consistent with past trends.

While Baudry Young hopes Miami’s future results will suggest decreased drinking, closer to

the national average, she believes change is ultimately dictated by student-culture.

“Other students are really setting the example for the freshmen of what is acceptable and what is going to be tolerated,” Baudry Young said. “We have the opportunity for students to decide what environment they want to live in.”

Baudry Young said the majority of students at Miami are making good decisions around alcohol, but those who are making high-risk decisions are most visible.

“People are assuming that everyone at Miami are like the highrisk students,” Baudry Young said. “This skews what students see as ‘normal.’”

Baudry Young mentioned several factors unique to Miami and Oxford that may influence Miami students’ distinct trends in alcohol consumption.

“Not all states allow 18 and over bars, and not all schools have student-housing so close to campus, you can walk anywhere here,” Baudry Young said. “A lot of schools also monitor their

house parties differently, they are not all ‘open parties.’”

Baudry Young explained many of the house parties in Oxford don’t necessarily have guest lists, which grants first-years more opportunities to access alcohol, as well as inhibits an organized and higher-risk event.

In addition to the open parties, many students spend their nights out Uptown. Uptown Oxford has over a dozen bars, and of those, more than half are 18 and over.

First-year Lauren Kay said she believes underage students’ access to the bars encourages dangerous drinking behavior.

“The fact that there are bars just creates another place where you keep drinking,” Kay said.

“You don’t stop — you keep going for the rest of the night.”

Though Kay understands the risks involved with drinking at Miami, she said it provides firstyears with the opportunity to meet new people.

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Miami students and faculty participated in the national It’s On Us campaign during the first week of March, raising awareness about campus sexual assault and interpersonal violence, during the university’s first It’s On Us week.

With the help of ASG and other student organizations, the Title IX office began planning Miami’s It’s On Us week last fall in an ongoing effort to organize students against sexual assault on campus.

“What I think the It’s On Us Campaign really does is create an ongoing effort” Title IX and Sexual Assault Response Deputy Coordinator Rebecca Getson said. “It gets the message out there fully, so we have one comprehensive message we are sending out.”

President Barack Obama launched the It’s On Us campaign last September to promote students taking responsibility in preventing sexual assaults on college campuses after universities across the nation were put in the spotlight for inadequate sexual assault policies.

Miami University was criticized for the way it handled the 2012 incident when the flier “10 Ways to Get Away With Rape” was found in a residence hall.

In response to the flier, Miami University created the Task Force on the Prevention of Rape and Sexual Assault. In its January 2013 report, the task force said there are reasons to believe that there are eight to nine sexual assaults per week at Miami.

In addition, Miami’s Crime Statistic Report lists that 20 sexual assault cases were reported last year on campus, and in off-campus university establishments. This number does not include the number of sexual assaults reported in off-campus housing.

The first It’s On Us week is a start to solving the problems found by Miami’s task force.

“It’s great to see this unifying factor and see all of campus coming together in solidarity against this issue,” F-word’s community outreach

chair, sophomore Lana Pochiro said.

Last week’s events included hockey and basketball games, the signing of the It’s On Us pledge in Armstrong, and a screening and discussion of the film “It Happened Here:” a documentary that showed the testimonials of three sexual assault survivors with the actions they took against their universities after their cases were brushed off by their administrations.

“I was wondering how Miami compared to the schools in ‘It Happened Here,’” junior Jessica Baker said. “It just seems that we are working towards getting better at it.”

However, while students like Baker see that Miami is making strides with the issue, others acknowledge there is a lot of work to be done for the future.

Vice President of Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault (MARS), senior Tyler Schuppie, said efforts need to go beyond one week of events.

“It is a very important topic that I think needs to be taken seriously by everyone on campus,” he said. “It is a 24/7 thing that people need to be aware about.”

Pochiro said the campaign is only the start of what can be an impactful cultural change.

“I think sexual assault has been portrayed as a ‘minimize the risk of it happening,’ ‘don’t rape, don’t get raped’ culture instead of dealing with the underlying issues that causes it to happen,” she said. “Figure out strategies that will be more helpful, fix the bigger issue.”

Getson hopes the It’s On Us campaign works with student organizations such as Women Against Violence and Sexual Assault (WAVES), MARS and F-word in their events for Sexual Assault Awareness month coming up in April.

“Any kind of change or culture shift takes time. Just like signing a pledge won’t make everyone miraculously feel safe to come forward, one week’s worth of events will not be enough to feel safe,” Getson said.

“What we see is that the more steps we take, the more likely that people will want to come forward and feel that culture shift is something that is safe and supportive.”

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ASG proposes new student registration process ASG

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Miami University’s Associated Student Government (ASG) is looking to modify the way students register for classes.

The new registration process would reform the current practice of allowing all students with priority registration to sign up for classes before anyone else, and instead focus on allowing students within the same academic class to register around the same time.

Students who currently have priority registration are those in the Honors Program, athletes and students with disabilities, to name a few. They account for around 3,000 members of the student body.

Secretary for Academic Affairs Kirsten Fowler said ASG supports the possible implementation of a new registration method called peer priority registration.

This would allow certain groups of students who have priority registration to still register early, while also allowing upperclassmen to register before younger students.

“So, essentially, seniors with priority registration would register, followed by seniors, then juniors with priority registration, then juniors, etcetera,” Fowler said.

Peer priority registration would not change the groups of students who already have priority registration, or change when they currently register, Fowler said.

People who currently have priority registration are military veterans and active duty, hon-

ors students, athletes, students with disabilities and others, Fowler said.

Some groups of students would still have priority registration over everyone else, for legal purposes. For this reason, peer priority will not affect veterans and active duty military personnel.

Before the idea of peer priority registration, many students with a lot of credit hours would get shut out of classes because students with less credit hours got to register before them.

Peer priority registration hopes to solve that problem.

“Priority registration is a

underclassmen.”

Nicki Cuba, a sophomore in the honors program, thinks otherwise.

“The current system is a nice incentive to be in the honors program,” she said. “I think it’s fair because honors students have to get into honors classes to fulfill certain requirements.”

Fowler and other members of ASG, along with administration, are still discussing the idea and what it would mean for class registration and the students at Miami.

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Seniors with priority registration would register, followed by seniors, then juniors with priority registration, then juniors, etcetera.”

KIRSTEN FOWLER

SECRETARY FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, ASG

useful tool, but we just want to ensure it is being utilized for its intended purpose and does not have any unintended consequences,” Fowler said.

Students currently with and without priority registration have mixed reviews about the possibility of peer priority registration becoming a reality.

“Personally, I believe that they should change it [the registration process], because they barely offer enough classes for people to register for classes and graduate on time,” sophomore Molly Green said. “The current system forces a lot of people to take fifth years because they get blocked out of classes by

administration to determine if this is feasible and how/when it can be implemented, so a lot of this is still up in the air,” Fowler said.

Officials with the honors program declined to comment on the matter of peer priority registration.

ASG will continue to work on and talk about this idea to see if it can become a reality here at Miami.

“There will be some legislation going through Student Senate soon that asks the administration to investigate this issue, and then ASG will continue to work with administrators on the issue,” Fowler said.

Bonnie St. John, a six time bestselling author, is scheduled to speak to Miami University graduates and their families during the commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16, at Yager Stadium.

St. John was born with a birth defect to her right leg that led to its amputation when she was just 5 years old. In 1984, she placed on the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team where she was the first African-American woman to win a medal for ski racing. St. John took home silver and two bronze medals that year.

Along with her Olympic accomplishments, St. John has written six best-selling books. The most recent, “How Great Women Lead,” published in April of 2012. In this book, St. John and her daughter, Darcy Deane, explore the qualities that motivate some of the world’s most powerful and influential women.

“She is not afraid to take chances and to do her best at everything, which is something we want for our students,” Claire Wagner, Miami’s director of University News and Communications, said.

St. John also served as a director for Human Capital Policy on the

White House National Economic Council and has been called “one of the five most inspiring women in America” by NBC Nightly News.

“Her story is definitely a very inspiring one of setting high goals, persevering and achieving those goals,” Ted Pickerill, the chair of the Commencement Speaker Advisory Committee said.

The Commencement Speaker Advisory Committee chooses the speaker at the beginning of each academic year. The committee is 15 members and includes a student and faculty member from every academic division, according to Ted Pickerill. University president David Hodge is also involved in choosing the commencement speaker.

Each year, commencement has a different theme. Past themes have been “Celebrating the Arts” and “Freedom Summer.” Many events and groups on campus relate their activities to the year’s theme, including the commencement speaker.

“We try to find a speaker that fits into the theme of the year,” said Pickerill.

The committee also looks into the life, accomplishments and overall character of potential speakers.

“For this year, inspiring was definitely one of the characteristics that

Dean search narrowed to three for College of Education, Health and Society MU faculty to take the stage in April with new company ADMINISTRATION

KRISTA SAVAGE STAFF WRITER

Miami’s College of Education, Health and Society (EHS) is in the process of hiring a new dean.

Three candidates are up for the position. Each will be on campus during the first three weeks in March and will be holding two open forums, one for faculty and one for students. The forums will take place in McGuffey Hall and are open to all.

The first candidate to visit campus was Tracy Cross on Monday, March 3. He is currently a professor of psychology and executive director of the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Those responsibilities include supervising the Center for Gifted Education, including managing personnel, budgets and facilities. He attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and received his doctorate in educational psychology.

The second candidate, Michael Miller, held his sessions on Monday, March 9. Miller is the current senior associate dean in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas. He is responsible for academic and student matters of the college, including accreditation coordination and student enrollment management.

He attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln where he received his doctorate of education with an emphasis on Continuing, Professional and Postsecondary Education.

The third candidate, Michael Dantley, will hold sessions on Wednesday, March 18. Dantley is the dean for the School of Education at Loyola University in Chicago. His responsibilities

focus on executive work and working with the multiple challenges Colleges and Schools of Education are facing in the current economy. Dantley is also a Miami alumnus. He received his Masters of Education, then went on to become a professor and administrator at the Department of Educational Leadership.

Dawn Tsirelis is the assistant to the dean in EHS, and has had first-hand experience with former deans and is familiar with

The search committee is a collection of 14 staff members, who are all affiliated with the College of Education, Health and Society, except for the chair of the committee Marek Dollár, who is dean of the College of Engineering and Computing.

“A quality candidate for dean must possess a strong record of leadership and administrative experience at an institution of higher learning,” Dollár said.

“This is among many qualities

Any of these three candidates could continue the legacy of outstanding leadership our college has enjoyed for many, many years DAWN TSIRELIS

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the responsibilities associated with the position.

“Any one of these three candidates could continue the legacy of outstanding leadership our college has enjoyed for many, many years,” Tsirelis said.

Last year, the dean of EHS, Carine M. Feyton, resigned and became president of Texas Women’s University. This year, Susan Moseley-Howard has served as interim dean. Now, the search for the new permanent dean of the college has begun.

The dean’s responsibilities include fundraising, increasing alumni involvement and working directly with students, faculty and community members on all levels of academics. The EHS dean search committee hopes to select a candidate by May 1, but the process could stretch on as late as July. The new dean will begin immediately after being hired.

the committee is searching for when selecting the new dean.”

Another important factor in a dean’s position is student connection and interaction.

Many students want to be involved enough to know the dean. First-year Lauren Tracy is in EHS as an early childhood education major.

“The dean should be someone who has a lot of first-hand experience with working with people, and more importantly students,” Tracy said. “I think [he or she] plays a big role in helping us prepare for the future.”

The EHS committee encourages student involvement at the open forums with candidates.

“The mission of the College of Education, Health and Society at Miami University is to prepare transformative leaders,” Dollár said. “Student involvement is essential in reaching goals and gaining feedback.”

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KELLY HIGGINSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Miami faculty who moonlight as semi-professional actors and actresses have joined together as the Caroline Scott Players Company to put on a production April 9, 11 and 12 at the Oxford Community Arts Center.

The new semi-professional theater company was started by founding artistic director and Miami public relations professor Bill Brewer, who had intentions of having actors with years of experience on stage performing, directing and singing.

Brewer has directed over 80 plays and acted in more than 100 in his career.

The play, “Other Desert Cities”

by Jon Robin Biatz, is an engaging family dramady.

“It’s a very, very funny play, but it also will be very moving for the audience,” Brewer said. “It’s one of those plays where you love all the characters, and you also hate all of them.”

The play consists of only five characters — three women and two men. Assistant Dean for the School of Fine Arts at Miami, Rosalyn Benson, is playing one of the major roles, along with Meggan Peters, who is the Costume Shop Supervisor at Miami.

“All of them have so much prior experience in theater,” Brewer said. “It is not their first play, by any means.”

Junior Hannah Curlee is one of Brewer’s strategic communication students who decided to join the production as stage manager.

“It is really cool to see all the Miami faculty members form as a group with Bill and see all of the experience they have,”

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Curlee said.

Indeed, showcasing and cultivating community talent was the idea behing the company.

“Community theaters are all about training people and we wanted an acting laboratory so I started to work with an arts center and decided to form the Caroline Scott Players,” Brewer said.

Caroline Scott was the wife of President Benjamin Harrison, who attended Miami from 18501852. After the group was formed, the company had an anonymous arts patron who provided funding for Brewer’s first play.

In August, Brewer was given the play rights for “Other Desert Cities,” and said he knew his vision for casting the production right away.

“It’s so fun doing this play because we have a good script and a good cast,” Brewer said. “I always say if I have a really good script — even with bad actors — the script can carry you. But here, we have such experienced actors that really understand acting and it is a real joy.”

Curlee said the company is still getting supplies, but, when it does, the north parlor in the Arts Center will be transformed into a black box with curtains all around.

“There will be 80 seats and that will be set up so you can see the stage from three different angles,” Curlee said.

Posters for the show will be displayed across campus next week, and tickets will be available online for $12 general admission and $10 for students and senior citizens.

“It is really special to have all this talent from Miami faculty come out of nowhere and start the Caroline Scott Players to do this play,” Curlee said. “It will definitely be a hit.”

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Work-related deaths increase in area DEATH

SAMMIE MILLER

COMMUNITY EDITOR

A West Chester Twp. man, Manuel Aquino, died in a fatal work accident Tuesday in Sharonville, according to the Sharonville Police Department.

This is the seventh time someone has died on the job in the region since the beginning of the federal budget year.

The 70-year-old man became trapped with the equipment he was working on, a front-end loader, and died as a result of his injuries, according to Sharonville police. Emergency crews responded to Art’s Rental Equipment on Hauck Road at about 3:05 p.m. last Tuesday.

According to Bill Wilkerson, the Cincinnati area director for the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration

(OSHA), which is now investigating the cause of these deaths, the worker got pinned by a piece of equipment he was working on.

OSHA staff for the Cincinnatiarea office enforces worker safety

tober. Also in October, a man was electrocuted at a recycling plant in West Carrollton and an individual from Cincinnati who tripped and fell during a fire drill, died from medical

An Ohio worker is dying on the job almost every week.”

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in the Cincinnati, Dayton and Springfield metropolitan areas.

“The accident is truly unfortunate and another work-related death too many,” Wilkerson said.

According to Wilkerson, the Dayton and Cincinnati areas have seen an uptick in the number of work-related deaths in recent years.

Two men were killed after falling off a Butler County water tower in Reily Twp. last Oc-

complications during surgery.

In November, a maintenance worker was killed in a Fairfield bowling alley after getting caught in a machine he was trying to repair. In January, a man died in an accident when Kokosing Construction Inc. crews were dismantling an old, unused bridge exit and the ramp fell onto Interstate 75 approaching downtown Cincinnati. Aquino’s death makes seven in this area in only a hand-

ful of months.

“An Ohio worker is dying on the job almost every week,” Wilkerson said.

Last year, OSHA investigated 46 fatal work accidents statewide, down from 48 in 2012, but a major increase from 38 workrelated deaths in 2011, Wilkerson said. He and other directors from Columbus, Cleveland and Toledo compiled the numbers, and are now trying to reverse the trend by raising awareness of what they view to be a problem.

Reasons cited for the rise in worker deaths include a lack of attention paid to safe work practices and training, as well as a younger and newer workforce in manufacturing and construction.

“It’s a real shame that this happened,” Wilkerson said. “We’ve just go to learn from it and move on and in the moving on process take opportunities to prevent this from happening again.”

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Graeter’s ice cream is currently sold locally in Maimi campus markets and area grocery stores.The new shop on High Street will offer loyal customers a new venue to get their Graeter’s fix.

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The highly-anticipated Graeter’s ice cream shop is set to open on High Street this spring.

According to Richard Graeter, the company’s president and CEO, the Cincinnati-based ice cream chain has been finalizing plans for its Oxford location for some time now. Graeter is a 1986 Miami University graduate.

The chain currently has 15 different store locations in Cincinnati and is well known for its hard scoop ice cream that is made only from natural ingredients.

The chain recently announced that it will be introducing five new ice cream flavors: bourbon pecan chocolate chip, black raspberry gelato, dark chocolate mint crunch gelato, toasted coconut gelato and banana foster gelato. These flavors will be featured in the new store.

The Oxford location is set to open before the summer break in May and will be located at 29 W. High St. in the former location of the Blink Boutique, a beauty salon which closed last June.

Renovations of the building are now under way.

The Oxford location measures 2,000 square feet and will have 15

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to 20 employees, most of which will be hired part time.

Graeter’s will face the competition with other local ice cream options such as United Dairy Farmers, Spring Street Treats and the Orange Leaf frozen yogurt chain.

According to Alan Kyger, Oxford’s Economic Development Director, the opening of Graeter’s ice cream shop is not likely to affect the demand of other cream shops in Oxford.

“When something opens in town, you never want to see something else hurt and hopefully there is enough demand in Oxford for all of these [ice cream] businesses to be profitable,” Kyger said. “Spring Street Treats has a soft serves, Orange leaf is a frozen yogurt. There are all different kinds of products from Graeter’s.”

According to Kyger, United Dairy Farmers will most likely be the greatest source of competition because they have the most similar type of products.

According to the manager at Orange Leaf, a Graeter’s location will not greatly affect the demand of frozen yogurt.

“We have different products, so the problem is they are both cold,” he said. “But Orange Leaf sells frozen yogurt and Grater’s sells ice cream. I believe that frozen yogurt is much healthier product than ice cream.”

Efforts to encourage local residents to be more active by providing activities and opportunities took a giant leap forward with notice of a five-year grant to fund the Thriving Oxford Area group.

The organization is affiliated with Coalition for A Healthy Community, Oxford Area.

The Thriving Communities grant is a five-year commitment

by Interact for Health, which operates under the Greater Cincinnati Health Foundation. It will provide $15,000 the first year to establish the program and get it off the ground. It will provide $10,000 the second year, but require a $5,000 local match and it will provide a $7,500 matching grant the third year. They will provide technical support in years four and five but the community must sustain the program financially by that time.

It was the second try to get a Thriving Communities grant here to fund programs to encourage residents to be active and make healthy choices.

“We had to choose a priority area and chose the active living option,” said Sharon Klein, director of Employee and Community Wellness at McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital and one of the co-coordi-

nators of the effort. “Over time, we will develop strategies to address other areas as well. We thought we could engage the community to get traction.”

She explained that the hospital had done a community needs assessment several years ago and determined that mental health and obesity were two key community areas of need.

Amy Macechko, the Health and Wellness Coordinator for the Talawanda School District, was involved with the Oxford coalition and teamed up with Klein to organize an Obesity Work Group as part of the coalition to look at that issue.

The work group started meeting a year ago with members from many local groups and agencies with interest in the obesity issue, which is a national concern.

From that came the idea of taking a positive approach and looking at ways to get people more active.

The whole effort came at an opportune time as the hospital and Miami University both were offering employee wellness programs with opportunities for the community at large.

“A lot has been going on in the area in active living,” Macechko said. “The coalition has had a longterm interest in substance abuse prevention. This will help drive interest in active living and have GRANT »PAGE 9

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SNOW, SNOW GO AWAY Miami graduate student Richard Jackson cleans off his car Wednesday morning after Tuesday night’s snow fall.

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House fire broke out in student home Monday

Four injured in car crash on Columbia Parkway

Unarmed black man killed by police in Wisconsin

Four linked to Paris hostage-taker arrested

The fire was caused by a towel that was smoldering on a heater. According to the fire chief, there was no major damage.

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Excessive speed was a factor in the crash which sent four to the hospital Monday. One is in critical condition.

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The family of the 19-yearold is calling for a peaceful protest online and in the streets.

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They were linked to Amedy Coulibaly, a gunman who killed four hostages in January after the Charlie Hedbo attack.

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POLICE BEAT Hot dog Heist: Male takes coneys and runs At 1 a.m. March 6, an officer working uniform security at Skyline Chili observed a white male walking out of the restaurant without paying for his food. The male subject in question was standing near the cash register and then slowly walked toward the exit and left the store without paying. The cashier told the officer that he had not paid his bill and the officer stepped outside and spotted the same male running down the street away from the restaurant. The officer was able to run after the subject and caught up to him approximately one block away. The male was escorted back to the restaurant. The officer could smell a strong odor of alcohol. The male paid his bill. The officer asked to see the male’s wallet in which he discovered a fictitious ID. He was cited for Sales and Use by Underage Persons.

Pizza delivery boys gone bad At 1:15 p.m. March 6, units were dispatched to 115 Arrowhead Dr. in response to a theft. Upon arrival, a male resident of the apartment informed the officer that there had been a knock on his door and when he opened the door two subjects with knives forced their way inside and one of the subjects held the victim. The subjects demanded to know where his money and marijuana was. The victim told the subjects where the items were, in his bedroom, and one of the subjects went to his bedroom and took approximately $400 in cash and two or three ounces of marijuana. The victim stated he knew both of the subjects as they had previously worked together at Dominos Pizza as delivery drivers. After a brief investigation, the officers discovered that one of the identified subjects was currently at Domino’s working. The other subject was located at his residence. They were both taken into custody. Both subjects admitted to breaking into the victim’s home, but denied that any cash was stolen. They did provide locations for where the stolen marijuana could be found. Both subjects were transported to Butler County Jail.

They were charged with Aggravated Robbery.

Intoxicated male kicked out of Skyline At 2:30 p.m. March 7, an officer was working uniform security at Skyline Chili when he observed a white male enter the store that appeared to be extremely intoxicated. The male subject was swaying from side to side and was leaning over the service counter to keep from falling down. The male’s appearance was disheveled and his eyes were blood shot. The officer observed the male for several minutes and observed him eat crackers from several bowls that were not his own. The male subject was in line to place an order but was not moving as the line progressed. The officer asked him if he was going to place an order and the male did not respond. The manager and the officer both asked the male to leave the restaurant due to the fact that he was so intoxicated and was holding up service to other customers. The subject refused to leave. It was at this point that the officer grabbed the subject by the arm and asked him to step outside. The subject began yelling at the officer and screamed that the officer did not have permission to touch him. The officer escorted him out, but the male attempted to enter the store three more times. It was at this time the officer arrested the subject. The subject refused to cooperate and was transported to OPD where a sober friend was called to come pick him up. He was charged with Disorderly Conduct.

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Miami alumna featured on Ellen DeGeneres’ ‘Design Challenge’ FILM MADELEINE LAPLANTE-DUBE THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami alumna and blacksmith Carley Eisenberg (’10) was featured on Ellen DeGeneres’ “Design Challenge,” an HGTV show in which six hand picked furniture designers compete for $100,000 and a feature in HGTV magazine over the course of January and February.

“I thought it was a scam,” Eisenberg said of the call she received from a casting agency in February 2014. “But, it turns out it wasn’t.”

The young entrepreneur, owner and blacksmith of North Carolinabased Iron Mountain Forge, already holds a unique place within furniture design.

“I was pretty confident I was gonna get on just because of the whole young female blacksmith thing,” Eisenberg said.

After going through the audition process, Eisenberg did in fact make it on the show. Not only that, but the Miami alumna and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) graduate competed on four of the six episodes in the “Design Challenge” series, though her elimination still seems dubious.

“It was kind of weird how I got eliminated — I’m not really confident in the decision. I had the best piece there, but they said they could not declare a winner and they could not declare a loser from that [specific] challenge,” Eisenberg said.

Instead, the judges took into account points accumulated in all of the previous challenges, an unprecedented approach that resulted in Eisenberg’s elimination.

“And they never used that rule again,” Eisenberg said.

Winner or not, Eisenberg still received the exposure the show seemed to promise — within the first two weeks of the “Design Challenge” premiere, her monthly sales rose from $4,000 to $7,000 and custom orders began to flow in. “[Plus], I made some fantastic contacts,” Eisenberg said. “One of the other designers who got eliminated after me [Jose Gaspar

de Jesus], he and I talk almost every single day still. And my carpenter on the show, Jeff — if I don’t talk to him every other day I’m kind of afraid he’s like, stuck in a ditch somewhere.”

The six designers on the show were each paired with one of three carpenters. Eisenberg was fit with Jeff Devlin, handyman, host and carpenter on six seasons of HGTV’s “Spice Up My Kitchen,” and current builder and personality of multiple DIY Network programs.

“I was scared out of my gourd when they said, ‘We’re gonna fit you with a designer,’” Devlin said, refer-

there and there’s five cameras staring at you.”

Eisenberg’s nerves subsided once she did what she knows best: build.

“I was nervous for probably the first couple hours,” Eisenberg said of her first day. “And then I was like, ‘Oh I get to build stuff, okay I’m better.’”

Throughout the show, Devlin, in addition to her carpenter, served as Eisenberg’s support system.

“I give her credit that she didn’t freak the hell out, I really do,” Devlin said. “Because I was freaking out, and I wasn’t winning $100,000.

I was there to support her, but I really

I’ve always viewed things differently from other people. I needed to make pieces of furniture that brought positive attention to the space and made people notice things like I did when they walked in.”

ring to when he was asked to help out on Design Challenge. “Then when I found out I was gonna go with a blacksmith, I was like, ‘Oh crap, I don’t know anything about steel or metal. Absolutely nothing.’”

Primary apprehension faded away, however, when Eisenberg and Devlin went to work.

“It was a good yin and yang moment — we just gelled from the moment we met,” Devlin said. “We have very similar personalities. We can be serious when we need to, but look, we wanted to have fun and we wanted to enjoy the experience. It really showed.”

“The experience” was filmed from late July to late August of 2014, and turned out to be less glamorous and more intense than Eisenberg originally anticipated.

“We had two days to build these crazy pieces,” Eisenberg, who typically takes four weeks to make a finished product in the real world, said.

“As soon as they gave us the challenge our heads went down.”

“More than others, [Carley] fit the pressure very well. Or hid it very well, I don’t know,” Devlin said. “I could never paint the picture to anybody when you stand

CARLEY EISENBERG

MIAMI UNIVERSITY ’10

wanted her to win. She’s a sweet, talented girl.”

Design has simply always been an integral part of Eisenberg’s personality, regardless of her time at Miami.

Originally studying glassblowing at RISD, she transferred to Miami’s Interior Design program on a whim after her freshman year.

“I’ve always viewed things differently from other people,” Eisenberg said. “I needed to make pieces of furniture that brought positive attention to the space and made people notice things like I did when they walked in.”

Eisenberg remembers most fondly her involvement in Miami’s Outdoor Adventure Club, an organization that she credits with keeping her out of Alumni Hall.

“It was like our own little fraternity; it was a family all on its own,” she said. “Honestly, I am so happy I transferred to Miami. It’s more of a college experience.”

The blacksmith, who is currently collaborating post-show with Devlin on a restaurant design-and-build project in Philadelphia, plans to move Iron Mountain Forge from Asheville, North Carolina to Boston by the end of the summer.

Iñárittu’s debut film matches ‘Birdman’ in humanity and ambition FILM JACK RYAN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

After being utterly blown away by Alejandro González Iñárittu’s Best Picture winner “Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” I was understandably very curious about the director’s past work and decided to sift deeper. I had previously seen bits and excerpts of “Babel” and “21 Grams,” but never in their entirety, and hadn’t even heard of the director’s 2000 premiere film, “Amores Perros” until a few months ago.

“Amores Perros,” regularly referred to as the “Mexican Pulp Fiction,” shares many traits with Tarantino’s classic, particularly its violent nature and overlapping story arcs.

Here we follow three separate stories connected by a disastrous car crash that repeats throughout the film. First is the story of Octavio, a young man who is trying to leave town with Susana, his abused sister-in-law; second, of Daniel, an adulterous man struggling to live with Valeria, his severely injured mistress; and finally, of El Chivo, an old homeless assassin who makes ends meet through his murderous profession.

The amount of pure plot and information in this film could have been overwhelming, but thankfully we are slowly introduced into later stories as earlier ones occur, instead of just being blindly thrown in.

Each of these segments could be decent standalone short films in their own respects, but are undoubtedly best in their combined form. Iñárittu

wants us to understand the different levels of life in Mexico City, and uses style to differentiate and ultimately synthesize them. The quick editing of Octavio’s tale reflects the cutthroat nature of the dogfighting that is earning him his escape money, and this hectic style adds tension to the subsequent lull of Daniel and Valeria’s story. Valeria’s tale is packed with self-loathing as she, now confined to a wheelchair, gazes at a billboard of her past modeling, intentionally placed outside her window prior to her accident. El Chivo’s narrative has a bit of everything, from nonchalant hostage-captive dialogue, to emotional extremes and a strange feeling of compassion that is absent in the more wealthy protagonist’s stories.

Upon reflection, “Amores Perros” and “Birdman” are similar in two major regards. First, they each carry an unbelievable amount of ambition. Second, they both explore human nature and mortality in extreme depth, and in this case it is through watching them deal with their canine companions. El Chivo seems completely undeterred as he kills a man early in the film, but when he finds his dogs dead, he is absolutely hysterical. Octavio despises his brother for his infidelity and abuse, but later puts his dog through a cruel sport and lusts for his brother’s wife. Valeria is more concerned with her dog, accidentally trapped beneath her floorboards than with her crumbling relationship or her unstable health.

These dogs aren’t merely pets, they are people; people with names, traits and meaning. This blatant symbolism is introduced from the title; it

doesn’t take a Spanish background to translate “Amores Perros” into “Love’s a Bitch.”

An important thing to know about this film, or any other Iñárittu film for that matter, is that it is not positive or uplifting whatsoever. “Amores Perros,” along with “21 Grams” and “Babel,” is part of the aptly named “Trilogy of Death.” This outright statement of unhappiness is key because it allows the viewer to spend less time focusing on the terrible things that are happening, and more on why they are happening and their effects on the characters. This is why Michael Keaton’s obvious guise as “Birdman” was so smart in that movie: we already know his backstory.

However, with these powerful movements in storytelling and character development, the story racks up about two and a half hours worth of screen time and combined with the necessity of subtitles, this film becomes a commitment to watch. This will detract more sporadic viewers, as checking a cell phone tends to result in missing key plot points.

“Amores Perros” is an extremely worthy and powerful film packed with strong characters, themes and ambition; if you can manage to give your entire attention to it, you’ll be immensely satisfied.

“Amores Perros” is available for streaming through Netflix. No animals were harmed in the making of this film, but dog lovers should pass due to some grisly scenes.

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University to host international orchestra director conference MUSIC TERRA COLLIER

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Miami University, in coordination with Northern Kentucky University (NKU) and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will be hosting the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) conference this weekend.

Gracing our Midwestern stages will be a multitude of renowned conductors and orchestras from around the world, making the conference truly international for the first time this year.

CODA began in 2003 with a small group of conductors, and has since grown to encompass over 200 orchestras worldwide.

United by dedication to the advancement of university orchestral programs, their annual conferences provide a forum for diverse music educators, makers and lovers to come together.

Richard Averbach, president of CODA and conductor of the Miami University Symphony Orchestra (MUSO), has had as much responsibility as enthusiasm for this event. He characterizes the opportunity for our campus as “absolutely incredible,” proven by the weekend’s events.

Between the many presentations and performances, there are a few highlights for Miami students and Oxford community members. The Shanghai Jiao Tong University Orchestra, prominent in China and worldwide, will present a mixture of Western, European and Chinese music 8 p.m. Thursday to expose how the varying modes can interact to the audience, according to Averbach.

On Friday NKU will be showing the fun and fast-paced one-man play “Muse of Fire,” the story of a past conductor and his apprentice.

MUSO will be performing

at 2 p.m. Saturday in Hall Auditorium. The French cartoon “Dum Spiro” will be premiered using the software Muzeik, synchronizing live music played by the orchestra with the film’s movements.

“Orchestras will be able to project movies as they play,” Averbach said.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will conclude the weekend with a concert downtown at Music Hall.

Matching the excitement of the conductors in this organization are the students.

Amanda Simensky, graduate assistant to Averbach and MUSO’s concertmaster, is eager to produce the “higher quality performance” that the worldrenowned guests expect.

“It’s a great opportunity for students,” she said. “The visitors are able to see our campus and what we’re doing. It’s engaging, and a new experience from a student’s perspective.”

Averbach glows with pride for the effort his students have put into conference preparation.

“I am so proud of the [MUSO] students,” he said. “I hope the Miami students, in the same way that they go to football games and hockey games, also come to cheer for the orchestra.”

And not just music students, at that.

“It is not just for people who understand music,” Averbach said. “It’s about making it accessible to anyone.”

Simensky agreed.

“The Miami music is very accessible,” she said.

She encouraged even skeptics of classical music to attend the concert for the Dum Spiro piece, in which “there is exciting music and moods change all the time.”

The CODA International Conference provides many opportunities to see true passion for music at work in real-time and mass quantity. Potential attendees can find more information at www. codaconference2015.com.

Florence: ‘and it was all yellow’ TRAVEL GREAT BRITTON

We hoisted ourselves one by one onto a ledge of Florence’s Piazzale Michelangelo. Rachel and I helped each other up, laughing as we both failed at our first attempts. Katie stepped on a trashcan for assistance, and Hannah needed no help at all, thanks to her climbing skills. Behind us, a bronze copy of Michelangelo’s David watched over the sprawling city, glowing in the night across the Arno.

Rachel turned to me, “Italy is more...yellow...than I was expecting.” I don’t know what I was expecting when she began her sentence, but now that she said it, it makes perfect sense.

Yellow is sunshine, happiness, optimism. It’s the color of most buildings in Florence, with their faded shades or subtle pastels. Even our hotel, the converted convent Casa Santo Nome di Gesu, has a mustard exterior that stands out among the other yellow buildings lining Piazza del Carmine.

The morning after I arrived in Florence, when I could actually see everything’s true colors in the weak sunlight, I was unimpressed. I had been imagining bright colors, like the villages of the Cinque Terre on the coast or the luscious landscapes I imagined for the rest of Tuscany.

The Florence I saw at first was faded, its colors lackluster and muted.

But as I explored the cobblestone

streets, I started to see more color than what appeared on the surface.

The buildings, seemingly plain, became surprisingly comforting, painted with different variations of yellow, some almost brown. All contrast nicely with the reddish-brown terracotta roofs, dark green window shutters, and the blue of the sky.

The green, white and pale pink of the Duomo, Cattedrale, and Baptistery stand out, mimicking the colors of the Italian flag. Towering statues — ancient giants carved from smooth, white marble — dominate the Piazza della Signoria. Centuriesold paintings hang on the walls of the Uffizi Museum, the colors still vibrant after so many years. Small squares of street art appear in alleys — Dante Alighieri, the Mona Lisa, Da Vinci — all painted with scuba masks, underwater.

Mounds of gelato in every color of the rainbow sit in glass cases, frozen, waiting for someone to come along and request a sugary treat.

The stalls of the San Lorenzo market explode with patterned scarves, genuine leather and trinkets of every shape and size. A boar named Il Porcellino sits, flocked with tourists who rub his shiny gold snout for luck.

Mosaics are works of art, comprised of tiny pieces of glass or stone, shards of color. If you stand far enough back, the big picture appears. But, like so many things in life, it’s essential to remember that mosaics would be nothing without the little details.

From a distance, Florence seems yellow. It’s when you add up all the other elements, pieces of the beautiful mosaic, that it becomes so much more. Only when you get close enough can you see that each detail in Florence is full of color, full of life.

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Going out tonight? Drinking culture should be a question, not an expectation EDITORIAL

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

It’s a turn-of-phrase that litters our text messages and small talk, and it sometimes doesn’t even have to be asked: Who’s going out tonight?

The question starts filtering into our conversations and dominating our weekend plans soon after we get our student IDs printed. It quickly becomes proper social protocol to talk about 90s night and it becomes instinctual to respond to these questions with a “yes,” because it’s known as the thing to do.

When we first get here, we think going out is the norm. We come into Miami hearing tales of drunkenness and we’re thirsty for our chance to join in. So when the going-out train starts, many of us hop on without much thought. We go out on Tuesday and skip our classes and we subscribe to a language of country nights and bar crawls and Jello shots. We go out, and we see all the smiling faces of our peers around us and we feel like we’re doing something right. So we find a spot in the

crowd and pour another drink. This is what everyone else our age is doing. This is college, we think.

But, when compared to the national average of what everybody our age is doing, it seems we tend to do more. Miami’s version of partying seems to go a little further and harder than at other colleges. In fact, Miami students come to college drinking less than others their age, and after the first month or so on campus, 10 percent of first-years become high-risk drinkers, according to AlcoholEdu reports. A larger percentage of Miami students claim to have become high-risk and light/ moderate drinkers at college when compared to the national data.

All of that drinking culture talk may seem like funny generalizations, but we’re seeing it show up in tangible ways. If we think about what really makes up a drinking culture, you can’t miss the signs here at Miami.

The impact of high-risk drinking

An ode to tea: curing homesickness one cup at a time LIFE

VICTORIA’S SECRETS I don’t remember my first cup of tea, but I imagine it was when I was around the age of 3. My grandmother, Niecy, presented its hot, steaming goodness to me in one of her intricate antique tea cups, now buried in blankets of bubble wrap in a box with my name on it.

She, my mother and my two older sisters would spend mornings in her airy kitchen, sipping our tea,

Even back then, when worries were small and stress nonexistent, I would feel a sense of calm sweep over me. With each sip, a bit of peace warmed my soul.” swapping stories, eating Tim Tam cookies, letting the strong Australian sun play across our faces.

When my little family and I moved to America around that same time, I remember my dad would make my mom a “cuppa” to console her misery. She was far away from everything comforting and familiar, but for a few blissful moments, the beverage would bring her home.

Growing up, my mom always made it best. Boiling water only, she would say, as she would pour it, steam pluming into the air, into my “little girl cup,” which she still brings out of the cupboard every time I am home. In would go an English Breakfast bag, brown tendrils streaming into the water, until the liquid within the cup turned a deep shade of caramel. Next would come just a dab of milk — the English way — and a spoon or two of sugar. When she wasn’t looking, I obeyed my sweet tooth and put in another spoonful, until my

tea was creamy and sweet. I would envelop the cup in my tiny hands, and breathe in its rich, fragrant aroma. Even back then, when worries were small and stress nonexistent, I would feel a sense of calm sweep over me. With each sip, a bit of peace warmed my soul.

Now I have swapped my little girl mug for a Starbucks cup, a kettle for a Keurig. But tea, to me, will always be the same.

It is a cup full of nostalgia, of memories and moments that have escaped me until I take that first sip. It is my grandmother who I only knew until age 3, whose perfume I somehow smell every time I open my box of tea bags.

It is rainy afternoons spent in the sunroom, wrapped in a knit blanket, the gentle echo of my mom’s classical music as she hums along.

It is nights spent in bed with the flu, coughing with no cessation, until that steaming cup is placed before me, with a little bit of honey inside. It is tantrums and tears and shout matches. It is breakups and my dad leaving again. It is the taste of shortbread cookies coated in chocolate, of raisin bread smothered in butter. Of sleepless nights and midnight snacks and late night T.V., my mom beside me.

In each moment, tea was always there, the perfect complement.

Far away from the ease of childhood, I am now an adult, but tea never changes. When work is piling up before me, when internship prospects are looking grim, when my bank balance is dwindling, when all I want is my mom, tea is always there.

I brew a cup, dip my Twinings English Breakfast bag in, breathe in that sweet, warm scent, and feel its heat melt away my pain.

It is that constant cure for homesickness, when I am not sure if I will survive.

I have heard it so many times before: tea should only be drunk black. But my mom’s way is the only way, even if I can’t quite concoct the perfect cup like she can.

VICTORIA SLATER

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isn’t something to push under the rug or laugh off while shot-gunning another beer. There’s a long list of reasons to consider our drinking culture a real problem.

Students, in one way or another, take it too far. When alcohol is involved, it’s easy to throw all kinds of caution to the wind, tossing our clothes and morals and rationalities aside.

Some students show up in the police beat. Some black out. Some walk in front of cars. Some get too tired and lay down in the grass on a frigid January night. Some hook up with people they don’t know. Some get into fights with their friends.

Some don’t really feel like going out, but they do it anyway. Some would rather drink than study or get internships or go to that lecture.

Some stumble into exams after a night out, wearing pajamas and scraggly hair with no clue how to answer that prompt.

And others will become

dependent on that one drink and after a while, maybe they can’t imagine going a day or a weekend without some form of alcohol.

But we all go along with it and champion it by wearing jerseys and passing out shots and crossing days off our calendar until Green Beer Day. And what’s our excuse? “It’s college.”

Isn’t college a time to figure out who we are and stake our individual claims on the world, though? Shouldn’t our college experience be more defined by our independent pursuits than following the crowd at Beat The Clock? While excessive drinking isn’t a problem for every student at Miami, are too many of us on the edge of going too far? Are we rolling the dice?

We can’t pass off something like a drinking culture as just another badge of honor to describe Miami without worrying about the influence. Going out isn’t something we can put on our resumes or some-

thing that builds meaningful friendships or helps us become the people we really want to be.

So, why is it so engrained in our everyday existence?

There are so many other facets of the college experience, from learning about something that sets a fire inside to meeting people who challenge us and question our ideas.

We can’t let one part of college take over everything else and cast a shadow on our growth, successes, friendships, dreams.

So next time the “are you going out” question circulates, take a moment. Don’t say yes just because it’s expected. Don’t say yes just because it’s a Friday night.

Don’t say yes just because you go to Miami and that’s what we do.

Consider what else you could or should be doing, think about what might happen that night or the next day or the next year and then give an answer you’re sure of.

Feminists are missing the mark in the sexual assault conversation on campus SEXUAL ASSAULT

MILAM’S MUSINGS Feminists, despite having the best of intentions, have gone too far in their efforts to respond to sexual assaults on college campuses.

I consider myself a feminist because I believe there are systemic issues at play in our patriarchal society, most salient in rape culture.

Rape culture is evidenced by how much rape goes unreported (68 percent, according to RAINN), with how many college campuses cover up rape for a variety of reasons (94 institutions have pending Title IX investigations from the Department of Education, according to Think-

compared to 17.7 percent for white women), but black voices and the intersectionality of feminism and race are hardly cornerstones of modern, mainstream feminism.

Or what about the patronizing white savior complex applied to Muslim women wearing the hijab?

Myriam Francois-Cerrah gave a talk to the Oxford Union and spoke about how dominant white culture subjugates people of color to a second class status and, specifically, women.

“When it comes to alternative conceptions of feminism, the feminist movement has been doggedly resistant to including alternative voices,” she said.

These critiques of white feminism, which means mainstream feminism, are important to be cognizant of and to work to change. It’s also important to temper our use of “epidemic” when applying it to college rape when the statistics just don’t bare it out.

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This goes against everything I understand feminism to be in terms of empowering women and giving them their due agency.

Whether a woman consented or not is being turned over to college bureaucracies to adjudicate, which again, diminishes a woman’s control over her own body.”

Progress) and the enormous rape kit backlog (400,000 according to The Daily Beast).

Even with all of that in consideration, feminists are missing the mark by focusing so much on the “college rape crisis.” In other words, white, middle-class feminists are dominating the conversation and because of that, the focus is on college rape.

As point of fact, women who don’t go to college are more likely to be raped than women who do.

Callie Marie Rennison, writing in The New York Times, talks about a study she co-authored with Lynn A. Addington where they examined the Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey data from 1995 to 2011.

“We found that the estimated rate of sexual assault and rape of female college students, ages 18 to 24, was 6.1 per 1,000 students. This is nothing to be proud of, but it is significantly lower than the rate experienced by women that age who don’t attend college — eight per 1,000,” she said.

Disadvantaged women — that is, women with little money, few resources and little education — are the ones who “bear the brunt of the harshest realities, including sexual violence,” she said.

Rennison cautions against the obvious: nobody is saying ignore sexual violence against the wealthy and the educated, but it’s important to be cognizant of which voices (white, middle-class) are dominating the narrative. To elaborate on the race point, black women are more likely to be raped (18.8 percent

to embody everything that they purport to be against. That is to say, they more closely resemble a conservative movement in the mainstream rather than a progressive one. Perhaps most ironically, their rather Puritan conception of sexual encounters has reduced a woman’s agency and autonomy, which then has the effect of leaning too heavily on men.

One relevant case study can be found within the folds of this newspaper. University Editor Emily Tate wrote an opinion piece (“Males may find themselves at the mercy of women in alcohol-related hookups”), which was much maligned.

Most of the ire I saw was directed at her statistics and the conclusions she drew from them. First, her statistic that one in 12 men have admitted to the legal understanding of rape (despite not labeling themselves rapists) is accurate. On the other hand, the statistic that one in four women will be the victim of sexual assault is now widely disputed.

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, someone pushing legislation to fine schools for underreporting rape, even took the stat off her website.

Secondly, the conclusion Ms. Tate drew from the statistics does not at all seem controversial.

“These don’t add up. So, perhaps we should consider that a female’s definition of sexual assault does not always align with a male’s. That, of course, is the issue,” she said.

Is it not the issue that men and women understand sexual encounters differently, thus leading to murky territory over consent?

Now, about that definition of

sexual assault. In a Letter to the Editor (“It’s On Us: Affirmative consent standard reduces ambiguity”), the authors believe their definition eliminates ambiguity.

“Any person who initiates sexual activity is responsible for obtaining a verbal ‘yes’ from the other person throughout the sexual encounter,” the authors said.

I find that deeply troubling. It goes to my point of applying a conservative, Puritanical conception of sex on men and women. Obtaining a verbal “yes” throughout negates potential nonverbal cues and takes away the sexy from the sex. They argue it erases ambiguity, but what does “throughout” look like in practice?

It’s also important to note that rape occurring in this ambiguous space of drunk consent is not all that common. Amanda Marcotte for Slate noted as much.

“The high rates of campus sexual assault are due mostly to a small percentage of men who assault multiple women,” she said.

As for the crux of Ms. Tate’s article, that the adjudication process has gone too far in hurting men in the name of protecting women, she’s also right in that critique.

Another Slate writer, Emily Toffe, offers a blistering review of the new documentary, “The Hunting Ground,” which probes sexual assaults on college campuses, when she says moral panic has “clouded our ability to rationally assess the problem.” Toffe further acknowledges that it’s good to teach a generation of young men that it’s never okay to pressure women into sex.

But, “We are also teaching a generation of young women that they are malleable, weak, ‘overwhelmed’ and helpless in the face of male persuasion,” she said.

Indeed. As Ms. Tate noted, drunk men are responsible for their actions, whatever they may be, but the process says a drunk woman is not.

She’s just a helpless victim. This goes against everything I understand feminism to be in terms of empowering women and giving them their due agency. Whether a woman consented or not is being turned over to college bureaucracies to adjudicate, which, again, diminishes a woman’s control over her own body.

Feminism ought to be able to handle necessary self-examination, to see how their solutions are doing and if they’ve gone too far. It is my belief that they have.

Worse yet, much like a conservative strain of thought, feminists of today want to censor differing viewpoints. Many of Ms. Tate’s detractors wished The Miami Student had never published her piece. Why? If the feminist movement is not elastic enough for self-awareness, self-evaluation and self-critique with a spectrum of differing viewpoints, then it’s not the strong movement it purports to be.

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More than a personality trait: We can all learn something from the practice of stoicism PHILOSOPHY

Born with an innate, desperate desire to live a life of financial instability seated inside non-chain coffee shops, I have decided to pursue a double major in Creative Writing and Philosophy.

In other words, my current life aspirations are to a) not be homeless, and b) own a typewriter.

Though I do enjoy learning the ins and outs of the various philosophical practices, sometimes a 90-minute lecture on an innocent Wednesday morning isn’t the most appealing thing in the world.

That being said, I was recently introduced to the practices and ideas of the very, very smart and very, very dead Epictetus.

To sum up how much his “Handbook,” (a complied list of all his teachings) hit home for me, let’s just say this was the first lecture where I didn’t feel the need to online shop.

Epictetus’ Handbook is more or less a guide to happiness and self-acceptance, revolving around the practice of “Stoicism.” The core question that Stoicism asks is “How can humans live well and

find lasting happiness?”

According to Epictetus, the key is to live life as a Stoic. When I first heard this, I was confused.

I had only ever heard the term “stoic” used with a negative connotation tied to it.

Stoic people are in control of their emotions and self-sufficient, meaning they will rarely be caught having a drunken (or sober) temper tantrum and probably have thick enough skin for an entire friend group.

goes beyond having a blank face and a calm demeanor.

As someone who tends to veer in the direction of Stoicism, the most common labels are the generic “cold,” and, “heartless,” with a few scattered “selfish,” and “insensitive,” accusations here and there.

It is entirely possible that someone who is in control of their emotion is also cold, heartless, selfish and insensitive. However, this is not the direct product of Stoicism

People who practice Stoicism believe that the key to lasting happiness lies within a well developed character and not letting yourself be impacted by the actions and opinions of other people, because they are not in your control.”

There is, like with everything else, a bit of a stereotype tied to being a Stoic. We’ve all heard of certain people being “stoic” and maybe have urged them to let loose. However, it seems those bashing on Stoics either don’t know what the word really means or are really comfortable being “the mom” of a group. Stoicism

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and not what it means to take on Stoic ideals.

By this point, you’re probably wondering if I plan on ever defining Stoicism and why Epictetus believes it is the best path toward definite and lasting happiness.

Epictetus believes that happiness is achieved by only letting the things that are in your control

impact your happiness, which boils down to your own actions, decisions, and thoughts.

This probably vaguely reminds you of something your mom once said: “Don’t let them bother you sweetheart, you can’t control how they act. Only how you act.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, that right there is a general practice of Stoicism. People who practice Stoicism believe that the key to lasting happiness lies within a well developed character and not letting yourself be impacted by the actions and opinions of other people, because they are not in your control. Stoics don’t let the annoyances and distractions of other people get to them.

Letting your own happiness be affected by someone else’s actions or words puts you on a fast track to hating both everyone around you and yourself.

You will constantly be basing your self-worth on someone else’s opinions, even though at the end of the day a person’s opinions are their choice and their choice alone — no matter what you do or how you act. Basing self-worth on the fleeting and fickle actions of

others sets us all up to have bad, even false, images of ourselves.

It’s worth noting that Stoicism is not synonymous with cynicism, even though there is some overlap. It is a philosophical practice based on protection of the self, but stoicism is not rooted in anger or meant to harm outside parties. It’s actually meant to preserve the self and the well-being of the self in order to be happy.

Basing your own happiness off other people does nothing but guarantee unhappiness and struggle. So the thought is to find your own happiness from within and let other people’s opinions bounce off, not stick.

There is nothing wrong with empathizing with other people and with helping them through adversity, but such activities are not to be confused with basing personal joy on others’ personal hardships or actions. I think we can all carve out a slice of Stoicism that might work for us — it helps us not to sweat the small stuff.

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Journalists need a backbone: Why I canceled my subscription to The New York Times MEDIA

After Islamic Extremists attacked Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris in January, journalism outlets asked themselves the difficult question of whether or not to display the very types of images that led to the deaths of 11 people.

Depicting Mohammed is offensive to a lot of the Islamic community, and this isn’t the first time an image of Mohammed has caused an uproar.

In 2010, Molly Norris led a protest called Everyone Draw Mohammed Day. There were over 100,000 participants comprised of various bloggers and Facebook users making depictions of Mohammed. Pakistan and India ended up blocking Facebook for a short amount of time.

This protest was against the strong reaction from pockets of the Islamic community after the TV show South Park depicted Mohammed. Norris was placed on an al-Qaeda hit list, and has since changed her name and gone into hiding.

Most newspapers ended up publishing Charlie Hebdo cartoons that targeted Islam, including The Washington Post and USA Today. However, on TV, Fox News was one of the only outlets that chose to display Charlie Hebdo’s material. Although given the history of Fox, I suspect this was done as a spiteful move against Islam rather than standing up for journalistic integrity and freedom of speech.

In fairness, Charlie Hebdo doesn’t only lampoon against Islam, the publication has a long history of cracking jokes about all the major religions.

The only news source I cared for is The New York Times. Unlike most news outlets, The Times asks their users to subscribe to and pay for content that is mostly locked behind a paywall. This was one of the only outlets I truly respected, until Charlie Hebdo.

The New York Times is one of the only major newspapers that did not publish Charlie Hebdo’s jokes on Islam. Of course, some of the Charlie Hebdo jokes might be too abrasive to publish. However, a simple cover displaying Mohammed holding a sign saying, “All is Forgiven” is tasteful enough for the average viewer.

The choice to republish or not republish this image goes straight to the heart of free expression. A journalist’s obligations are to the truth and to be a watchdog of free speech, and when more than a dozen of your colleagues are shot doing their job I believe it’s your job to support them, regardless of industry. This is a basic concept in teamwork.

The cartoon may have disturbed a very small minority of Times readers, but the image isn’t shocking or gratioustis. I’m not suggesting you place images only for the sake of offense, but sometimes statements do need to be made.

It’s also strange to write numerous

articles about an image but not show that image to the reader. There are two possible reasons for not communicating these images to readers.

One would be to not offend a small group of people. The other would be they are afraid of being victims of a retaliation, as Charlie Hebdo was.

Reporting facts shouldn’t be dictated by who might not like the information. I subscribed to The Times wanting honesty. I felt betrayed.

Other outlets like CNN and MSNBC also chose to neglect this very important element in the first major news story of 2015, but The Times is the only outlet that wanted me to spend money to access their content.

Deciding whether or not to report based on fear of hurting feelings is arguably more cowardly than simply fearing a repeat of the attack in Paris. In both scenarios I think it is an embarrassing lack of backbone and I debate your qualification in journalism. We have to stand up for liberal principles, and this includes protecting free speech.

Journalism is a democratic process, and this process is a luxury.

This luxury is not an inalienable right and the price we have to pay for it is high.

We fight to preserve democratic luxuries, and this is often done with guns and tanks. But sometimes this needs to be done with writing.

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random people and speak to them when you’re sober,” Kay said. “But if you’re at a party, there is a lot less pressure.”

Sophomore Hailey Stafford also thinks parties help new students meet other students, though her personal perspective differs.

“For me, I moved around a lot growing up, so meeting new people isn’t a scary thing. But for all the kids who come to college and never had to do that, it’s stressful,” Stafford said. “Alcohol is a coping mechanism, and it’s so abundant here.”

Both Baudry Young and Staf-

ford agree an additional factor in student drinking behavior is a result of high school and family alcohol education.

“Everyone is getting different high school educations,” Baudry Young said. “Some high schools they only say you can’t drink and that’s what is taught for all four years.”

For Stafford, however, her alcohol education in high school began at home.

“My parents were always casual about [me] drinking with them,” Stafford said. “It was never super taboo with us. Kids who have really intense parents have all this freedom when they come to col-

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While alcohol education differs among individuals, both Kay and Stafford saw AlchoholEdu as an important step in transitioning into college.

Though AlcoholEdu will continue to be used as a way to educate first-years, Baudry Young feels it’s only one step in an overall process.

“I don’t think there is any one way that is effective in educating students on responsible drinking,” Baudry Young said. “I think you have to have a bunch of different strategies, but it’s the most effective way to educate the entire freshman class.”

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pull away late. Senior pitcher Remy Edwards returned to form as she struck out seven and allowed only one earned run in 6.2 innings.

Seattle scored first in the following game with two runs in the first, but the Red and White answered in the third and fourth innings. Sophomore second baseman Eryn McCarver had a RBI double, Lee picked up an RBI, junior outfielder Tanya Busby scored on a fielding error and Edwards rounded out the scoring with a RBI single. Logemann was lights out in the game as she struck out 10 and gave up one earned run in a complete game effort.

The team got on the board first against Washington with a second inning home run by senior outfielder Bree Lipscomb before the Huskies took control of the game and dropped 15 runs over the next three innings to

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Early in the season he was skating toward an empty net with a chance to score the first goal of his senior season so, naturally, he passed the puck to junior Michael Mooney and allowed him to light the lamp for the first time in his Miami career.

Czarnik has also demonstrated great play as a defensive forward, as he is often filling for the offensive-minded defensemen. This season the RedHawk blue-liners have more points (58) than they did all of last season (45).

On senior night, it was Czarnik’s turn to score. To make sure the ’Hawks would be home one more time this season, the senior captain netted his first hat trick and picked up an assist. Two of Czarnik’s three goals came shorthanded. Czarnik scored more goals on Saturday than

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force a run rule decision.

The third meeting with Seattle started similar to the last one, with the opponents jumping out to an early 3-0 lead in the second before Miami responded with a RBI double from senior outfielder Tiyona Marshall and a two-RBI single from McCarver in the following inning.

The ’Hawks were in control from that point on as Marshall had a RBI single in the fourth, McCarver scored on a fielding error, sophomore utility player Jenna Jones and McChesney drove in runners in the fifth and McCarver scored another runner off a double in the sixth.

Seattle added runs in the sixth, but Logemann struck out seven and allowed two earned runs in 5 innings of work.

“This weekend, we were in positions where we had to fight and get runs across, and we did well with that overall,” McCarver said. “We still

need to put everything together; we had one great game on offense and one game on defense. We’re so close to putting it together. This weekend, we showed that we can hang with the best. We’re focused on getting ready for MAC play and we’re excited for the next game.”

The RedHawks are scheduled to make their debut in Oxford as they host the University of Louisville 6 p.m. Wednesday.

“We have lots of things to work on but we also did some good things,” Crowell said. “We’re working on getting prepared for conference play, and it’ll be nice to finally play at home. I like our competitiveness and energy. Weekends like this will pay off in MAC season when it’s 2-2 in the ninth, so we have to keep playing hard. We need to continue to hit, but get more timely hits and have other kids up so we’re not relying on the same people.”

he had coming into the series (2).

Hockey is a team sport, and the other seniors must be recognized.

This senior class will go down as one of the better ones from Miami.

Coleman has provided a lot of heart for the team, especially during last year’s NCHC playoff run. This season, he is a +14 with 25 points (13, 12) and 80 penalty minutes. When the ’Hawks need a spark, Coleman typically provides it. Coleman’s senior night was cut short by a game misconduct, but he threw his jersey back on over his suit for the centerice stick tap to the crowd.

Murphy and Wideman have combined for 35 points this year and Paulides has been a solid defender as he has blocked 28 shots and played in every game this season. Jacaruso was greeted by his teammates after the game as he finished his career with a nine-second shutout when he

replaced junior Ryan McKay at the end of the game. The applause for Jacaruso was thunderous.

The Captain and his fellow seniors were not ready for their last game in Steve “Coach” Cady Arena, and they earned two (three, if necessary) more games in front of their home crowd.

The ’Hawks have the talent to make a playoff and tournament run.

More importantly, they have the heart, guts, senior class and captain to get the job done.

After next weekend, the games are not guaranteed. They must be earned. This senior class is not ready to hang up the skates yet, and that might just be the difference in the coming weeks.

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place University at Buffalo.

Four RedHawk swimmers including Baumgartner, Brock, Kilkenny and Strauss raced together in the 400-yard freestyle relay and took home a third place finish.

Their time of 2:47.56 bested the Miami record by over 11 seconds.

“We were 10 points out of third place and 10 points in swimming is essentially one race; it’s actually less than that,” Kilkenny said.

“There was a lot of weight on the relay going into it.”

The top three teams all finished within 1.06 seconds of each other in the 400 freestyle relay.

“We got up on the blocks, we all swam lights out . . . just ridiculous splits on the relay,” Kilkenny said. “We were nose to nose with the two other teams that outtouched us. It was just a great race, really exciting.”

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benefits in our community.”

According to Macechko, a community assessment will be a big part of the first year’s efforts as they look to establish a program, with Klein adding they will also create a social marketing effort as an early step.

Klein said they have already started efforts to raise the matching money needed in the second and third years.

The work has been building for the past year as the local work group began considering the best way to approach, first of all, the obesity issue and then

Although they did not finish as high as they had hoped, the team found multiple positive takeaways from the weekend.

Miami hasn’t sent any swimmers to the NCAA Championships since 2006. While the chances are slim that any of the five NCAA B-cuts that will make it to the championships, the number of B-cut qualifiers is a promising sign for the future of the swimming and diving team.

“I was pleasantly surprised by the number of guys who got the NCAA B-cut,” head coach Pete Lindsay said. “I was thinking up front that Joe [Baumgartner] would probably get one, but to get five of those . . . in all the years I’ve been here I’ve never taken more than two.”

Most of the swimmers’ and divers’ seasons ended with the MAC Championship. If any of the five RedHawk B-cuts qualify, they swim in the NCAA Championship March 26-28 in Iowa City. make the commitment to an active living theme.

With the grant, the two women are excited about the possibilities for contributing to the health of the community and stress the Talawanda School District is the target area for the project, not just the city of Oxford as they seek to reach out to everyone in the district.

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Czarnik hat trick powers MU on senior night MEN’S HOCKEY

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Austin Czarnik’s senior night was one to remember as he completed his first career hat trick to lead No. 5 Miami University hockey to a 6-3 win against No. 1 University of North Dakota Saturday night. The center’s three goals on the night are more than his previous total of two all season.

“I’m grateful for it,” Czarnik said.

“It’s been a long four years, a lot of ups and downs. To get that is just an honor. I’m so happy and I know all my teammates are. I’m just so happy we won tonight.”

The victory clinches home ice advantage for the RedHawks (21-12-1, 14-9-1-1 National Collegiate Hockey Conference) in next weekend’s opening round of the NCHC Playoffs. It also marks the first time Miami has defeated the No. 1 team in the country since 1997.

“It was certainly one of our goals for the year to make sure we were home for the playoffs,” head coach Enrico Blasi said. “It’s huge for us to host next week.”

After North Dakota (25-7-3, 16-6-

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2 NCHC) secured the NCHC title in a 2-1 win Friday, a victory on Saturday became even more important for Miami’s playoffs goals. University of Nebraska Omaha, University of Minnesota Duluth and University of Denver were vying for the remaining top three seeds in the tournament.

“We could have been a No. 5 seed playing a No. 4 team,” Czarnik said.

“So this is huge for us. We’re happy

about it and ready to move forward with it.”

Junior forward Drake Caggiula struck early Friday to put UND up 1-0 2:43 into the first period. Senior forward Connor Gaarder extended the lead to 2-0 at the 19:04 in the second frame. A power play score from junior center Sean Kuraly put Miami within one goal midway into the second, but junior goaltender Zane

RedHawks break five school records MEN’S SWIMMING

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Miami University Men’s Swim and Dive finished fifth at the MidAmerican Conference Championships this weekend in Geneva, Ohio.

Over the four day championships, five RedHawk swimmers got NCAA B-cuts and five Miami University swimming records were broken.

“We almost re-wrote the record board here at the pool,” senior

captain Andrew Kilkenny said.

“We got guys qualified for NCAA B-cuts. I mean we had a hell of a meet this year.”

Although the team finished fifth overall, several RedHawk swimmers shined in their respective races.

Senior Joe Baumgartner took home first place in the 100-yard freestyle, narrowly edging out the second place finisher by one one-thousandth of a second.

Baumgartner’s time of 43.72 seconds bested the Miami record in the 100-yard freestyle; a record that

Baumgartner himself set last year at 44.24. Baumgartner also won gold in the 50-yard freestyle. Those top finishes also helped Baumgartner earn All-MAC first-team honors along with junior Davis Staley who earned second-team honors.

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Cznarik, classmates want more hockey COLUMN

LINSKI’S LIST Team captain is a title that is earned. A title that means a leader, a warrior, a hard worker and a team player.

The team captain is the guy to whom the team looks for guidance. When the team fails, he is often the first guy to speak up. He addresses the problem, and helps the team move forward. He is a role model for young players and either voted for by his peers or hand-picked by the

head coach himself.

Donning the “C” is an honor that many do not experience.

Miami’s Austin Czarnik has been wearing it for two seasons.

Miami lost a chance at the Penrose Cup Friday, but there was a whole lot more to lose Saturday.

A disaster scenario existed in which the ’Hawks could have lost the chance of hosting a home playoff series.

Before the game, Czarnik, Blake Coleman, Anthony Jacaruso, Cody Murphy, Ben Paulides and Alex Wideman were recognized in what could have been their final game at Goggin.

Czarnik and company were not going to let Saturday be their last

home game.

A captain does what his team needs from him, no matter what that may be. For the majority of the year, Czarnik has been the same leader Miami fans are accustomed to, but nearly all of his scoring was in the assist department. He entered the North Dakota series leading the RedHawks with 32 points. Thirty of those 32 were assists.

Czarnik has done whatever the RedHawks needed from him this year, and part of that has been distributing the puck. Jolly Old St. Czarnikolas has been handing out presents all season long.

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’Hawks take two of five in Husky Classic SOFTBALL

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After winning five of its last seven games, Miami University softball faced a tough test at the Husky Classic in Washington. The RedHawks (9-7) fell to Ohio State University 8-3 in 8 innings, lost 4-1 in 8 innings against Seattle University, downed Seattle 4-2, got smoked by the No. 19 University of Washington 15-1 in five innings and took the rubber match against Seattle 8-5.

“Despite having some travel issues and getting there early, we were ready to play this weekend,” head coach

Clarisa Crowell said. “We managed to take OSU to eight innings and we played well even though we didn’t win. It was the same thing against Seattle; we just couldn’t get that timely hit but the kids kept competing. We played a great game against them on Saturday and Washington’s one of the best hitting teams in the country, but we were ready to play despite the score and we put it behind us. We had some different challenges this weekend, but we played well and kept competing.”

Ohio State got off to a 3-0 lead after the top of the third inning before senior shortstop Kylie McChesney scored off a fielding error. Miami struck again in the fourth with a RBI

single from freshman catcher Rylee Whispel, while McChesney picked up an RBI as well. The score held until a five-run eighth inning output from OSU essentially put the game away. Junior pitcher Amber Logemann was great on the mound, as she allowed two earned runs in 5.2 innings of work.

The ’Hawks drew first blood in the first matchup against Seattle as freshman infielder Kat Lee got an RBI single in the second. The offense quieted down after that as the score remained 1-0 before Seattle scored runs in the sixth and eighth to pull away late. Senior pitcher Remy

McIntyre withstood the extra pressure from Miami. The RedHawks outshot North Dakota 44-27 overall, after being edged 11-5 in the first period.

“Coach said tomorrow’s the biggest game of the year for us,” Kuraly said Friday. “We’re going to treat it like that and come in ready. We have to put this one behind us even though it hurts. It doesn’t feel good … but if we want to win a championship, we

have to be resilient.”

Though North Dakota drew first blood Saturday, Czarnik and senior forward Blake Coleman put Miami up 3-1 less than three minutes into the second period. Another Czarnik goal and a tally from junior forward Riley Barber kept Miami ahead 5-3 1:44 into the second. An empty net goal from sophomore forward Anthony Louis with nine seconds left in the final frame sealed the victory.

North Dakota outshot Miami 3429, marking the first time this season MU has won a game when allowing more shots on goal than attempting.

The RedHawks were 1 for 6 on the power play and killed 3 of 4 UND man advantages. Junior netminder Ryan McKay improved to 4-0-1 in his last five starts after rejecting 31 of 34 shots.

“This was an important game for us,” Blasi said. “Our intensity tonight matched the intensity we played with last night, but this time we got the bounces.”

The Brotherhood returns to the ice this weekend for a best-of-three series in the NCHC Quarterfinals against Western Michigan University. Puck drop is 7:05 p.m.

Friday in Oxford.

Miami comes up short in national title game WOMEN’S HOCKEY

JORDAN RINARD

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Miami University women’s hockey had a golden opportunity to repeat as national champions after beating University of Michigan 3-1 Friday in the last game of pool play and downing Grand Valley State University 6-0 in the semifinals Saturday. However, first period mistakes against Liberty University cost the RedHawks as they fell 4-1 in the final game Sunday.

“It’s not what we were looking for,” head coach Scott Hicks said.

“It wasn’t for a lack of effort. We played hard but we gave up a few quick ones early. We’re not going to make any drastic changes; we won 29 games. We still had a good year.

We’ll need to refocus, reload, and regroup for next year.”

Miami started slow against Liberty in the weekend’s final matchup.

After the Flames scored three goals in the first 10 minutes of the game, Miami pulled sophomore goaltender Emalee Wills in favor of freshman Carly Van Orden. Junior center Haley Williams answered for the Red and White 3:57 into the second, before LU retaliated with a goal less than three minutes later.

Van Orden was pulled with 3:04 left in the game, but Liberty held on to win the national championship.

Though shots were 25-19 in favor of the RedHawks, lackluster play in the first period buried them.

After 2:16 elapsed in the first

period against Michigan, Williams and junior defender Morgan McGrath both found the back of the net before freshman left wing Carly Noble went top shelf five minutes later.

Michigan scored with 14:25 to go in the second, but the ‘Hawks held on as they controlled much of the game, outshooting UM 27-18.

The semifinal round against Grand Valley was an offensive onslaught. The Red and White had 48 shots on goal, while the Lakers only mustered 18 shots. Sophomore center Katie Augustine and sophomore right wing Kaley Mooney got on the board in the second period. A goal by sophomore right wing Rachael Booth, two by sophomore forward Jordan Hanson and one by freshman center Katie Baldwin in the third frame put the game out of reach.

The ’Hawks were 1 for 5 on the power play and shut down four GVSU man advantages.

“We were confident heading into the tournament and we had some tough times but we stayed positive the whole way,” Williams said.

“We had four games where we were good enough to get into the finals.

Both teams came out hard, but Liberty got three goals in the first period and that’s hard to come back from.

We feel like we dominated the rest of the game, especially in the third period but we couldn’t get the puck in the net. After being defending champions, it’s hard to be runners up, but we’ll have more to play for next year and we’ll get the chance to redeem ourselves.”

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STAT OF THE DAY

The number of Miami men’s swimming records broken at the Mid-American Conference Championship meet and the number of B-cut qualifiers for Miami. The qualifiers are the most head coach Pete Lindsay has had in his 29-year tenure at Miami.

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