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Miami University — Oxford, Ohio

Dealing with life after Withrow Court

MU SEES SPIKE IN SEX HEALTH “REPORT CARD”

Rowing and boxing teams feel nostalgia, frustration

TROJAN RANKS MIAMI 62 OUT OF 140 UNIVERSITIES

CONSTRUCTION

HEALTH

LAURA FITZGERALD

NINA FRANCO

THE MIAMI STUDENT

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The demolition of Withrow Court’s gym last semester left about half of Miami’s 50 club sports teams without a practice facility.

And while each of the teams have been relocated this fall, many of the placements have proved less than ideal.

Miami’s outdoor sports teams now practice on the indoor turf of the Gunlock Family Athletic Performance Center near Yaeger Stadium, while indoor sports such as fencing, martial arts, boxing, table tennis and tae kwon do, are split between Chestnut Field House and Scott Hall.

Phillips and Sawyer Halls are also being utilized, said Mike Arnos of Miami’s recreational sports program.

A new facility dedicated to club sports, Arnos said, would be ideal, but money and space constraints complicate the likelihood of constructing a new building.

In the meantime, many teams are stuck practicing in less-than-ideal locales, often at inconvenient hours.

“While we were able to find everybody space, it’s not necessarily ideal space,” Arnos said, “Right now, [the situation] lends itself to al-

incidence of crime and many other social problems associated with concentrations of the poor and the desperate.”

The city used this report — among other analyses and pressure from councilmembers and businesses — and the riots following the shooting of Timothy Thomas by police patrolman Stephen Roach to ignite the “urban renewal” in Over-the-Rhine.

In 2001, then city council member John Cranley introduced an Impaction Ordinance that “forbid the City of Cincinnati from spending, approving or in any way condoning more subsidized low-income development in those areas deemed impact-

“Condoms are no trick, and STDS are no treat,” a large bulletin board outside a dorm room reads, featuring a large condom depicted as a ghost. In light of the “spooky” season, it is time to talk about something scary and uncomfortable for many students: sexual health.

Since 2006, the condom brand Trojan, has released a “Sexual Health Report Card” ranking colleges and universities across the country on the measures they take to provide contraception and other sexual health resources on their campuses.

The “report card” pushes universities to fight for slots on the ranking in a positive way while also promoting the Trojan brand. Miami University ranked 62 out of 140 schools on the report, an increase from 70 last year and 83 the year before.

Miami senior and Dennison Hall Resident Assistant Chris Smitherman said the Office of Residence Life had done “a very good job touching on the topic this month.”

Smitherman, the man behind the bulletin board, said

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RYAN TERHUNE THE MIAMI STUDENT

A squirrel’s-eye view of an autum day on Oxford’s campus.

In Cincinnati, a story of eviction COMMUNITY

TESS SOHNGEN

OVER-THE-RHINE CORRESPONDENT

“Urban renewal” has become synonymous with “Negro removal” for many residents in Over-the-Rhine who have witnessed the neighborhood’s dramatic changes over the past fifteen years.

But “urban renewal” and “Negro removal” are not new concepts to Cincinnati.

Before Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati’s West End received the most criticism for its crime, crowded housing and overwhelming poverty.

The U.S. Census reported 45,358 people in the West End in 1950. But the community was bulldozed – quite

literally – in the late 1950s for the construction of I-75, demolishing many homes in what social worker Dr. Alice Skirtz, author of Econocide: Elimination of the Urban Poor, called a “massive slum clearance and urban renewal effort.”

By 1990, the population of the West End dropped to 11,439.

Some of the families displaced by the construction of I-75 moved to the only other neighborhood in Cincinnati that provided units of affordable housing: Over-theRhine. From then until the early 2000s, Over-the-Rhine became the heart of affordable housing and city-funded housing units. It also inherited the label as the poorest,

An enthusiastic Crawford couple hosts first spin-in movie PRESIDENT

Part 3 in a series: the refugees of “urban renewal” most crime-riddled area of Cincinnati.

The city spent an estimated $100 million toward low-income rental units from 1970 to 1990, a figure estimated by Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) in their report Over-theRhine: a Permanent Ghetto?

This report – unsourced and absent of economic and social implications – claims “anecdotal evidence tends to support the common belief that poverty has increased in Over-the-Rhine during the past two decades as has the

With a 19 game winning streak, MU volleyball breaks school record SPORTS

NEWS EDITOR

THE MIAMI STUDENT

I arrive at the Rec Center around 8:50 p.m. — about 10 minutes before the SpinIn Movie with the Crawfords begins. I wanted to get here early in hopes of claiming a spot. I had shamefully been waitlisted.

I walk into the Rec Center Forum and make my way to the very back where a large projector screen shows the DVD menu of “McFarland USA.” In front of the screen, students sit on stationary bikes, waiting to be told what to do next.

I check in at the front table and am told that those of us who are waitlisted will have to wait on the bleachers behind the bikes until 9:15.

I chat with a few of my friends and watch their smiles turn to confusion when I say I’ve never been to the Rec to actually work out before.

My friend, Lucy, promis-

The 2016 Miami University volleyball team has earned its place in the history books.

With consecutive weekend home wins over Bowling Green State University and Northern Illinois University, the team clinched a 19 game winning streak, breaking the previous record held by the 1980 MU squad. The ’Hawks now have the longest active streak in NCAA Division I. The streak began after losing a 2-3 decision against Illinois State University on September 2. Since then, the RedHawks have only dropped seven sets over the course of their impressive run. The Red and White stand at 20-4 with an unblemished 12-0 Mid-American Conference record, putting them in sole possession of first place.

The weekend home stand began Thursday night against the Falcons. The first set was highly contested throughout. Down 17-18, The ‘Hawks pulled away with

a 4-0 run behind kills by junior outside hitter Maris Below and sophomore outside hitter Stela Kukoc. Senior middle hitter Paige Hill then finished things off with a kill to clinch the 25-20 win.

In the second set, the Falcons jumped out to an early 6-3 lead. Two straight blocks by junior right side hitter Katie Tomasic and junior middle hitter Meredith Stutz then propelled the Red and White on a 9-2 run. BGSU later closed the gap to 1921, but two kills from Below and a service ace by redshirt sophomore setter Mackenzie Zielenski gave MU the set at 25-22.

Two early Kukoc kills in the third set gave the RedHawks a 4-0 lead that they would never relinquish. The Falcons made it close late in the set, but back-to-back kills

by Hill gave MU a healthy cushion at 20-15. The teams then traded points until a Below kill ended the game at 25-20, giving Miami the straight set victory.

With the loss, Bowling Green fell to 16-8 overall and 6-5 in the MAC.

AUDREY DAVIS

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KYLE STEINER

RYAN TERHUNE THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University President Greg Crawford leads a group of cyclists on Oct. 27 to the movie “McFarland USA.”

NEWS p. 2

CULTURE p. 3

EDITORIAL p. 6

OP-ED p. 7

SPORTS p. 8

IN A HURRY FOR HOUSING

‘18 OF THE LAST 9’ ALUMNI RETURN TO CAMPUS

AT MU, COAL DEPENDENCE CONTINUES

STANDING ROCK PROTESTERS SHOW BRAVERY

MIAMI WINS THIRD GAME IN A ROW

Underclassmen feel the pressure to sign leases years in advance.

From Capitol Hill to San Francisco, young Miami alums’ success awarded.

A move away from coal and other fossil fuels should be embraced.

Racism and environmentalism at the forefront of recent protests.

RedHawks now in first three-game win streak since the 2010 season.

Zielenski had one of her best games of the year, finishing with a double-double of 18 assists and a team-high 19 digs. Kukoc led the RedHawk attack with 10 kills.

Below recorded eight on the night, while Hill finished with seven. Stutz (5 blocks) and Rusek (4 blocks) anchored MU’s defensive front line. Senior setter Krista Brakauskas nearly earned a double-double with 15 assists and nine digs. Junior libero Maeve McDonald also had 18 digs on the night.

The ’Hawks had a .227 attack percentage for the match, while holding the Falcons to a .164 attack percentage. With the win, Miami tied the win streak record at 18 games.

The RedHawks then squared off against the Huskies on Saturday night, with the win streak record and the top place in the conference standings both on the line.

NIU entered the game with a 14-game win streak and undefeated MAC record of its own.

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In Oxford, finding a house is not as competetive as students think COMMUNITY

KERRY MCFADDEN THE MIAMI STUDENT

The same students who wore lanyards around their necks, walked in packs of 15 and went to Brick Street at 10 p.m. just a few weeks ago are now looking for housing for their junior year at Miami.

The Class of 2020 is planning years ahead, making decisions about where they might want to live when they become the ones making fun of first-year students.

According to a survey prepared for the Board of Trustees by Jen O’Brien, Miami’s director of offcampus outreach, 34.5 percent of students sign a lease for junior year while they’re still in their first year at Miami. O’Brien cites peer pressure as a cause for such early action, not scarcity.

According to O’Brien’s report,

Oxford’s approved rental properties can accommodate over 15,000 people, but Miami’s 2015 Fact Book counted only approximately 7,700 juniors and seniors studying at the Oxford campus.

Even now, apartment complexes in town still have spaces available for next academic year.

A community assistant at Hawk’s Landing, a large complex located north of Sycamore Street, said that 23 percent of their units were still open for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Level 27, the largest apartment complex in Oxford, is currently only 15 percent full, according to its community assistant Erin Smith.

“We’re two times the size of any other apartment complex in town,” Smith said. “We usually stay pretty open until move-in day. Because we’re so large, we kind of serve as the fill-in.”

“We’re also the same distance from campus as Hawk’s Landing,” she continued. “People think we’re really far but we’re only about a mile off of campus.”

However, with options as close as a crosswalk away from campus, a mile seems far to some students.

Taylor Moon, a junior, transferred from Miami’s Hamilton campus to Oxford for her sophomore year. She has lived in Level 27 since transferring, and says the location can sometimes be an obstacle.

“It’s far away from everything and everyone and I had a hard time meeting people because of living out here rather than in a dorm,” she said.

Knowing people and making connections can prove useful when making housing decisions, as in the case of Miami senior Brendan Bower.

A senior who also transferred to Miami, Bower attributes his success finding a place to live to his fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta.

He lived with several fraternity brothers in a conveniently located Uptown apartment last year.

Another popular trend among members of Greek life, as well as other organizations, is the passdown tradition, which keeps residences within an organization.

O’Brien’s report to the Board of Trustees showed that students signed pass down houses between Jan. and March of their first year. Such early action may be part of an effort to make sure that the residences aren’t opened up to students outside of the previous owners’ organization.

However, leases for houses unaffiliated with any student organization were also signed within the same time period.

Once again, peer pressure

seems to be the cause.

Sophomore Abigail Wenger just signed the lease for her house next year with three other close friends, and doesn’t think that waiting until her second year was an issue.

“Honestly, we didn’t really have any problems finding a place our sophomore year,” she said. “There is a lot of emphasis and pressure on getting a house for your junior year when you’re a freshman, but in reality, there are still plenty of places to live when you’re looking as a sophomore.”

The first sentence on Miami’s website on off-campus lease signing reads: “Our best piece of advice on the whole housing search and lease signing process is to slow down.

The housing market in Oxford is competitive, but not as competitive as students tend to think.”

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es to save me a spot by her, but for now, I wait alone on the bleachers.

The Crawfords mingle and take pictures with students before the start of the event. They look like proud parents at a sporting event, decked out in their comfiest Miami gear.

Greg wears a red Miami hat, a grey Miami sweatshirt and tight black joggers. Renate dons a red Miami shirt with the logo of the event on the back that will soon be handed out to all of the participants.

Renate introduces the event and thanks everyone for coming.

“You guys don’t have to go super fast, you just have to beat Greg!” she says.

Everyone laughs while Greg just shakes his head.

One of the instructors takes Renate’s place up front and give some tips for the evening: pace yourself, drink lots of water, take breaks to stretch.

Greg takes his place on a bike in the front row. Renate finds a spot in the middle of a group of girls near the back. Greg looks back at her and smiles.

A few kids next to me on the bleachers giggle to each other.

“Did you see that? They just waved to each other!”

A guy walks by the bleachers to find a bike. He looks at the waitlisters and laughs.

“Did you all get rejected?”

I blush and nod, yes.

“I feel like a reject now,” someone next to me says, “Trash. B-list. JV team.”

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President Greg Crawford and his wife Renate cheered the team on from the bench as Millet Hall was packed with fans eager to witness the historic achievement.

“It’s just kind of one big family.

We love everyone coming out and supporting us,” Below said.

Both teams rode the seesaw early in the first set, going back and forth to bring the score to 8 apiece. Kills by Rusek and Hill propelled MU on a 4-0 run, forcing a Huskies timeout at 12-8.

NIU later took the lead at 19-18, but Miami rallied again behind three Below kills to win the set 25-22.

Northern Illinois built a 7-5 advantage in set two, but the ’Hawks responded, going on a 9-4 run behind two Below kills and a Zilenski service ace to give them a 14-10 lead. Miami then pushed the lead even further, gaining an 18-11 lead behind kills from Tomasic and Kukoc followed by a Brakauskas service ace. The Huskies then went on an 8-2 run to put them within one at 19-20, but Below responded with back-toback kills to turn the momentum back in MU’s favor. A kill from Hill sealed the a 25-20 victory for the ’Hawks.

The third set was the most dramatic of the night. The teams traded points the entire way, with NIU holding a slim 18-17 lead

ters to be called over the speakers. I feel everyone’s eyes on me as I walk to the empty bike in the very first row next to Lucy.

I climb up on my bike and struggle to get the pedals to move. Eventually, I find my rhythm.

After only five minutes of pedaling, my thighs start to burn and my butt is sore. Only 1 hour and 40 minutes to go.

Greg gets off his bike and winds through the rows of people, taking pictures as he goes. He walks over to Lucy and me and points his phone at us. I don’t know if I should smile or look like I’m working hard. Before I can decide, he moves on to another group.

The instructor tells everyone to try standing up and grabbing on to third position. I have no clue what third position is, but I stand up and try to see what everyone else is doing.

Instantly, the burning in my thighs intensifies, and for the first time, I realize just how out of shape I am.

I try to slow my pedaling, but my foot slips, and I narrowly save myself from a wipeout … on a stationary bike.

I sit back down to relieve the burning even though I stick out in the sea of people who are still standing. I vow to never stand up again.

Renate walks through the bikes carrying water bottles.

“Is everyone drinking water? I don’t want anyone to pass out!”

She sees that I’m without one, so she drops a bottle off at my bike. I’m grateful. I forgot to grab one at the beginning, and I didn’t want to leave my bike and risk walking past everyone again.

Greg walks by to take selfies. I

late in the set. A Stutz kill tied the game, but the Huskies went on a 4-2 run to take a 22-20 lead. Out of a timeout, Miami came out aggressive as a Hill kill, a Kukoc kill and a Rusek service ace put them ahead 23-22. At match point, a Tomasic kill secured the 25-23 win for the RedHawks.

“I’m super proud of how our women stayed calm and continued to go at them and just take control on their home floor,” head coach Carolyn Condit said.

“It was awesome to watch.”

The loss snapped Northern Illinois’ winning streak and ended its undefeated MAC run, as the Huskies now stand at 19-5 overall with an 11-1 conference record.

Below (13 kills and 11 digs) and Zielenski (27 assists and 16 digs) recorded double-doubles for the match. Hill, who made zero attack errors on 19 attempts, and Kukoc both had 11 kills apiece.

Tomasic finished with eight kills, while Rusek put down seven to go along with three service aces.

Brakauskas finished with 20 assists and seven digs, and McDonald tallied 11 digs on the night.

Miami now looks to continue its record streak as they head into their final four MAC regular season games holding onto first place. The squad returns to action 7 p.m. Friday when it travels to Athens to face instate rival Ohio University.

RENEÉ FARRELL THE MIAMI STUDENT

President Gregory Crawford leads a group of students as the spin to the move McFarland’s

ask him for a picture, and he stands next my bike and flashes a big smile before heading to the next person. I check the picture, thinking it’s going to be great. But it’s blurry. I screwed up my one chance to get a cool picture with Miami’s president.

When Greg gets back on his bike, I notice that he’s still wearing the heavy grey sweatshirt. I don’t understand. I feel like I’m dying of heat in a tank top.

An hour passes filled with mindless pedaling. The movie acts as a perfect distractor to make me forget

how much pain I’m in.

Greg comes over and taps my water bottle.

“Drink, drink, drink!” he says.

By 10:30, only half of the people who started are still here. Those of us who remain have slowed in pace and are staring at the projector screen.

I’m starting to feel exhausted. It’s past my bedtime. Well, past the time I like to lay in bed and do nothing.

From what I can tell, the movie is about a group of Latino teenagers and a coach who forms a cross country team from scratch. At the end of

the movie, the team competes in the California State Cross Country Meet, and I notice my pace picking up to match the intensity of their steps. I see others unconsciously speeding up too.

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a large role in determining Miami’s ranking.

Free HIV testing has been the Health Center’s biggest accomplishment this year, and perhaps played a big role in the recent rankings. Big changes like this start from the bottom up, Arno said.

“Usually because students have a need, you get a drive behind a certain student organization, and they become the engine to make things happen on campus,” Arno said.

Bacchus, the student health and safety initiative organization, brought free testing to campus.

Bacchus paired up with the Equitas Health Center in Dayton and gave free testing a pilot run last year, and because it was such a success, Equitas decided to sponsor free testing this year.

“As an adult engaging in sexual

activity, there is a responsibility to be tested, it’s bigger than just me or you. We’re talking about public health,” Arno said.

Yet, why does Miami struggle to join the top ten ranking list? Weak condom accessibility and no free STI testing could be possible answers. While the Student Health Center and Women’s Center both provide free condoms, they are only accessible when those offices are open and, for the most part, that does not include weekends.

Arno worked on a survey a couple years ago in which she asked a small pool of 120 Miami students: “If free condoms were offered at certain central locations on campus, would you utilize this service?”

Sixty percent of the population said “yes,” and forty-eight percent of students said their ideal location would be in residence halls.

he wanted to create something that would make his residents laugh a little and create conversation.

However, Miami was not just randomly selected to appear on the ranking. Janae Arno, the Student Wellness Coordinator, filled out an extensive questionnaire where research was sponsored by Trojan and collected by Bert Sperling, Sperling’s BestPlaces’ lead researcher.

The questionnaire asks for information on topics such as: contraceptive accessibility, HIV and STI testing, sexual assault prevention and professional counseling support available on campus. Arno explained that accurately taking the time to fill out detailed, up-to-date answers on the questionnaire plays

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The movie ends a little after 11, and everyone around me claps and smiles. It’s super cheesy, but I clap along too.

By 11:06, the movie ends. I get off my bike and mentally prepare myself for how sore I’m going to feel in the morning.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2016

THE BEST ‘18 OF THE LAST 9’ 18 of the most accomplished alumni from the past 9 years return to campus

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From left to right: Alumni Marni Goldberg, Kristen Stoehr,Taylor Robinson and Ryan Snyder were four of the alumni invited to campus to accept the Alumni Association’s “18 of the Last 9” award.

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KAITLIN PEFFER

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Last weekend, 18 people gazed in awe of the Armstrong Student Center for the first time, had looks of puzzlement when the student cashier at Garden Commons told them to “tap their card” and chatted over dinner with President Crawford as they reminisced about their days at Miami.

Last weekend, Miami held its annual “18 of the Last 9” event to acknowledge the accomplishments of 18 young Miami alumni who have graduated within the last nine years. Following the same concept as Forbes’ “30 Under 30,” Miami’s Alumni Association created this award to encourage alumni to keep in contact with their alma mater, as well as network with current students striving for a career in the same field.

From Harvard graduates to surgical residents to executive leaders in top-notch Fortune 500 companies, this year’s “18 of the Last 9” are making great strides in the adult world. Even after relocating out of state or across the country

for the next chapter of their journeys, these Miami alumni have not forgotten their roots in Ohio.

“Coming back to Miami is always great because it gives me the opportunity to engage with current students, and it helps me to remember where I come from,” said Marni Goldberg.

Goldberg ’07 looks fondly around The Miami Student newsroom thinking on her own days as Editor-in-Chief of the campus paper. She left her hometown of Buffalo Grove, Ill. to come to Miami in 2003, before the Farmer School of Business was even built.

Having obtained degrees in journalism and political science, she now works on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. as the Director of Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Her résumé includes working with three U.S. senators, a member of Congress and the Obama Administration.

“Miami will always be a happy place full of warm, welcoming, kind people,” said Goldberg. “It doesn’t matter where you go, Oxford will always be a place I call home.”

While on campus, the Miami alumni took the opportunity to network with each other and with the current students. Kristen Stoehr ’10 is a member of the Cleveland chapter for Miami alumni. She was quick to offer advice to students on the brink of their post-graduate careers.

“You have to learn basic work etiquette, especially Microsoft Outlook,” said Stoehr. “I work 45 to 60 hours per week, and it is open on my computer for 45 to 60 hours per week. There is no more humbling experience than asking your boss how to do a simple task like setting up a meeting.”

Stoehr dreams of pasta every night and eats it every day as part of her job as Associate Brand Manager at Nestlé in Solon, Ohio.

Using her degree in nutrition and dietetics, Stoehr creates healthier eating options for busy families in the product innovation division of Buitoni pasta.

The ambition of a Miami student does not go away after graduation. Already seven years into her career, Taylor Robinson ’09 is hungry for more.

“Basically, I want to be second

in command to Michelle Obama,” said Robinson.

Robinson majored in American studies with a thematic sequence in entrepreneurship. After obtaining her Master’s degree in strategic public administration at the University of Southern California, Robinson moved to San Francisco where she became a public relations representative doing advertisements and visual effects editing for Lucasfilm and Industrial Light Magic. She even got to work on visual effects and sound editing for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

Robinson currently works as a PR Manager at Heat in San Francisco where she creates advertisements for video games, such as Madden, and companies, such as Hotwire.

“I was in the fortunate situation where I could take an untraditional major like American studies and customize it to my interests,” said Robinson. “My film professors’ passion for the subject matter inspired me to learn while reassuring me that I was on the right career path.”

One of the 2015 honorees, Ryan Snyder ’07, was also present this

weekend. After graduating with a degree in political science, Snyder moved to South Bend, Ind. to attend law school at the University of Notre Dame where he graduated first in his class.

After working for several senators, appeals court judges and Supreme Court justices in four states, Snyder and his wife moved back to Ohio where he started his new job as an attorney for Jones Day in Columbus.

Snyder agrees that the people at Miami are what make the university so great. He and his wife still reunite with their college friends and old roommates by planning trips to Oxford. Snyder also keeps in touch with his favorite political science professor, John Forren, by setting up a summer legal internship program for current political science students at Miami.

“When students start to view their education as a career rather than a piece of paper, they will get so much more out of their degree,” said Snyder. “Learning is a choice, and you have to make the decision of getting the most out of all of your classes every day.”

Editors’ pop culture picks

The things we watched, listened to and streamed over Halloween Weekend VULFPECK

Whenever I try to explain Vulfpeck to people, I start with the fact that they record all of their songs in one take - no editing or mixing. Everything is as close to a live performance as possible. Based out of Ann Arbor, this retro funk quartet excels at bringing warmth and energy to their primarily instrumental tracks. Try “Rango II” for some smooth funk with a powerful injection of Gospel two-thirds of the way through. “Wait for the Moment” offers a strong vocal performance by Vulf’s frequent contributor Antwuan Stanley, a daytime dentist. “Animal Spirits” off of their most recent album, “The Beautiful Game,” is catchy and incredibly energetic, one of the standout tracks of the album. If you’re looking for a new and original sound, check out Vulfpeck. (Jack Evans, News Editor)

“FLEABAG”

The latest episode of “Saturday Night Live” offered a faux ad for a new CBS sitcom, “Broken,” a “comedy” about a “family of adjunct professors who are all diagnosed with depression on the same day.” The sketch aimed to skewer

the recent trend of comedies that deal with emotionally heavy thematic material (“Transparent,” “You’re the Worst,” etc.). The latest to the party, Amazon’s “Fleabag,” proves what makes these semi-comedies so enthralling. The six-episode British series follows an unnamed protagonist (Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who provides us with brilliantly baffled, Jim Halpert-esque fourth-wall breaks throughout) as she tries to cope with a recent tragedy. The pacing is spot-on (we don’t learn the full details of the tragedy until the finale), and the show provides a perfect balance of humor and drama, reminding us that if life can’t be sorted into genres, then art shouldn’t either.

(Devon Shuman, Culture Editor)

“NORTHERN EXPOSURE”

As temperatures get cooler and people start to don their flannels, now is the perfect time to revisit Cecily, Alaska, the setting of this nineties comedy-drama.

Joel Fleischman is sent to set up his practice in the tiny town in exchange for payment of his Columbia medical school tuition. At first, Joel longs for home, but as the town starts to charm him, you’ll fall more and more in love with Maggie, the spunky pilot, Ed, the would-be director, Chris, the bibliophile radio host and Marilyn, Joel’s stoic native-Alaskan receptionist. Even more than the characters, the strong narrative arc of each episode will keep you watching for all six seasons. (Emily Williams, Managing Editor)

Costume craze: Students dress up for Halloweekend OPC hosts Halloween climbing tourney STUDENT LIFE

ALISON PERELMAN

ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR

Through the window of Skyline it all looks normal — a group of college kids enjoying a late night meal, one of them stuffing a coney into his mouth. But then there’s the fact that he’s dressed as a police officer, and Where’s Waldo sits next to him.

And someone from “Orange is the New Black” is across the table.

The costumes started appearing much earlier. Around 3:30 p.m., two girls in matching green and red onesies made their way down the street. Not long after, three guys dressed in bath robes — dark purple, light purple and pink — with curlers in their short hair, wandered the streets Uptown looking for a place to grab lunch.

Now, it’s almost a quarter past 10, and everyone seems to be in the Brick Street line. A Georgia Peach, an Incredible, Kim Possible and two doctors wait just outside.

The doctors’ costumes weren’t planned. Marshall Novak decided

on her costume like many others — it was comfortable and easy. Ryan Mesmer, however, used different logic.

“I’m dressed as a doctor because, I guess, I just want to be a doctor one day,” Ryan says.

It’s like in kindergarten when kids dress up as what they want to be when they’re older. But back then, Ryan wanted to be a Power Ranger.

Christina Xidas, Victoria Xidas and Holly Palmer step off the bus in matching pizza costumes.

“Because we love pizza!”

“And we thought we’d be funny this year!”

The girls went for comfort and ease as well, but their costumes still look planned and put together. Troy Myree Jr. didn’t even try to mask his lack of effort, though, walking up the street in jeans, sweater and a black pointed hat. “’Cause it’s Satan’s holiday,” Troy jokes, but then gets serious. “I don’t want to spend $45 on a costume that I’m gonna throw away.”

His friend, Brayden Smith,

at least added a Swiffer mop to complete the witch look. He also dressed up as Danny from “Grease” Thursday night and plans to go as a Cleveland Indians player on Saturday.

Their other friend, Alex Kowal, is dressed in Hawaiian clothes — it was last minute because his plans to go as Barbie and Ken fell through.

Jonathan Baba’s original costume idea didn’t work out either, but he was able to throw together The Lonely Island’s “Dick in a Box” look instead.

“People seem to think it’s funny and, you know, I’m good at wrapping presents,” Jonathan says.

Group and couple costumes are spattered among the chaos in the Brick Street line. Mickey and Minnie Mouse stand next to Thing One and Thing Two. And four different Britney Spears join the crowd.

Julia Schroeder already had the school uniform from the “…Baby One More Time” music video. Paige Drees chose the “Slave For You” COSTUMES »PAGE 5

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It’s Halloween weekend and groups of friends are hanging out, rocking some festive costumes and… rock climbing.

On Sunday evening, Miami’s Outdoor Pursuit Center hosted Nightmare on Oak Street, a Halloween-themed rock climbing tournament. All students were welcome to attend, regardless of their rock climbing experience. For those not participating in the climbing, the event featured other Halloween activities and goodies, including a costume contest.

Held in the basement of the Rec Center, the OPC’s event was a spooky sight, decorated with streamers, lights and other Halloween adornments. While many of the spectators were wearing costumes, so were the participants.

“The tournament aspect was fun because it made it more competitive,” said junior Kyle Oosterhouse,

who helped to plan the event.

“Rock climbing is kind of individual in nature and you don’t typically compete against others, so this was something different.”

The tournament was divided into four sections with four climbers on each segment of the rock wall. Participants had five minutes to scale each section and move on to the next.

“It’s stressful with the timing because there’s such a sense of urgency in a sport that is usually very casual,” said Oosterhouse.

The nearly 40 participants were able to compete in beginner, intermediate and advanced levels of climbing. First to third place winners were recognized, both for men and women. Prizes for winners included gear and equipment such as climbing bags, shoes and jackets.

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With many ties at end of the competition, a sudden death round was necessary in the men’s beginner and women’s advanced categories. The winners were Doug Foster and Sarah Smith in the advanced level, Mitchell Singstock and Danielle Georgeoff in the intermediate level and Hunter Smith and Taylor Staton in the beginner level.

“It was an especially close competition for the women, and I ended up winning in a three-way tiebreak by only one move,” said winner, Sarah Smith. “This was also my first time competing in a climbing competition so I was pretty happy about the result.”

“It was great to have such a wide range of students,” said Tim Posey, Assistant Director of the OPC. “There were people who had climbed a few times to very advanced climbers.”

In his first year at Miami, Posey was very pleased with the turnout for both participants and spectators.

“We wanted to get people involved because rock climbing is such an accessible activity here at Miami, but it can seem intimidating at first,” said Posey. “Aside from being a great workout, it’s a really great community to be a part of.”

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The rowing team is one of those most impacted by the changes.

At first, the team didn’t know where their equipment was being stored or where they could hold land practices and conditioning, said former rowing team executive board member Rachel Brady.

“There was quite a sense of panic when we first found out,” Brady said.

Before Withrow was demolished, the team moved their ergometers (rowing machines that allow athletes to condition on land) to an old dining hall turned multi-purpose space in Scott Hall. But at the beginning of this semester, they returned to find that the Scott Hall space was being used for textbook distribution. Members had to move the machinery again, this time to the team’s boat house on Acton Lake, in order to conduct tryouts for new members. Older members of the team also had to drive underclassmen to the boat house, about a 10 to 15-minute drive.

“Scott Hall has been an inconvenience to us,” women’s rowing team captain Maddie Spurlock said. “It was given to us as a solution, but [during] the main time it was given

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roster finishing the game having played at least 10 minutes.

“It also helps that it’s senior day, we’re all motivated,” Romagosa said. “It’s all about the seniors so everybody wants to win the game for us for all the work we’ve done over the past four years. Our mindset was ‘we’re winning it for the seniors’ so we were very ready to fight. We also wanted the second seed in the MAC so we needed to win this game.

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into the top of Bowling Green’s net to put MU up 1-0 just ten seconds into the third.

The goal did not stop the aggressive play, as the third saw continuous big hits and emotion from both sides.

Almost six minutes into the third, a collision behind the BGSU net between the Falcon’s junior defenseman Mark Friedman and Miami freshman forward Carter Johnson resulted in Johnson receiving a five-minute major for interference. Friedman took several minutes to get up, but eventually made it off the ice and would return to action shortly.

MU’s special teams stood tall once again, managing to kill off the entire five-minute penalty without surrendering a goal, electrifying the Steve ‘Coach’ Cady Arena crowd.

With a minute and a half and the RedHawks’ 1-0 lead remaining, BGSU pulled junior goaltender Chris Nell for an extra attacker.

With 1:06 left in regulation, the six Falcons’ skaters overwhelmed the Miami defense, as Friedman ripped a shot from the point that flew through traffic and past Larkin to tie the game at 1-1.

For the third time in its last four games, Miami headed to overtime.

On a power play from a BGSU boarding infraction, Louis found himself alone in front the Falcons’ net, and finished the game with a

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2016 to us this year, it was not available for us to use. The space itself is not conducive to a good practice facility for the large team we have.”

Spurlock estimates the women’s rowing team has lost about 10 practices this season due to lack of transportation or weather, a problem that wasn’t present when Withrow was still standing.

“I don’t think the university wanted to give us a good space or was looking out for us,” Spurlock said. “I think they just kind of shoved us into the closet.”

Other teams are not feeling the pinch so strongly. The boxing team, a former Withrow Court neighbor of the rowing team, is now headquartered in the Chestnut Field House.

Boxing coach Eric Buller said Withrow had limited space and infrastructure to hang the heavy punching bags the team uses.

“You literally couldn’t use the heavy bag in the back corner [in Withrow] because the beam was coming out of the wall,” Buller said.

Now, more punching bags hang from a bar in the multipurpose space the team uses. They also have access to more equipment, including medicine balls, jump ropes, several types of punching bags, sleds and an outdoor track. More

availability of equipment leads to a better-conditioned team, boxing team president Rahsaan Guyon said.

“It’s just the equipment in general that we have access to now has been the biggest help,” Guyon said.

“I think we’re gonna be in a lot better shape on the competitive aspect [than we were last year].”

But Guyon and his teammates have still had to make adjustments.

At the end of practice at 6 p.m., the boxing team must store all its equipment to make room for the martial arts team to practice. The loss of Withrow means the loss of a space all their own, and of a place that members could stay for as long as they wanted after practice. The boxing team also has had to cut down on the number of practices they hold, from two to one each day.

And sometimes, members of the team still get nostalgic for Withrow Court.

“It had a lot of character,” Guyon said of Withrow. “It had the blood on the mats that dried up, we had all the old pictures and the old certificates from the 80s and the 90s and whatnot hung up. It takes a little bit out of the new room we have because we can’t make it into a boxing room.”

We were all ready to do the same job, so I think that was the most important thing.”

The game ended with a final score of 6-0, shots favoring Miami 21-12 and penalty corners even at 5-5.

After the win secured the second seed in the MAC Tournament, it was announced Saturday evening that Miami will take on thirdseeded Longwood University in the MAC Tournament semifinals. The RedHawks will play 2 p.m. Friday in Kent, Ohio.

“It’s a good game, it’s a good result and, of course, mentally it helps to go there with an optimistic mentality, but each game is different,” Puzo said. “I don’t think this game is easier than Ball State. I don’t think it was a 6-0 game difference, but look at what happened last week in Ball State. We probably dominated as much as we dominated today and it was a very close game until the end. So, we have to take everything in context and make sure that we keep it real.”

quick five-hole shot between Nell’s pads 2:05 into the overtime period.

This finish gave Louis and many RedHawks’ fans a sense of deja vu, as the Chicago Blackhawks prospect scored the game-winning goal over BGSU with two seconds left in regulation the last time the Falcons travelled to Oxford.

“I thought the goal they scored with 70 seconds left was definitely my fault, so I went out there with a shooter’s mentality and wanted to get it back, it felt good,” Louis said.

While MU earned the 2-1 victory, it only generated 15 shots, and this lack of offensive production would come back to haunt the RedHawks Saturday night.

Early in Saturday’s action, however, Miami’s offense seemed to have found itself again.

At 7:01 of the first, Meyer showcased his trademark speed and elusiveness, evading two BGSU defenders to get off a shot that was saved by Nell. However, the rebound came straight to Louis, who buried it to put Miami up 1-0. With the tally, Meyer stretches his point streak to four games, while Louis’ streak now stands at five.

This goal was all MU would get Saturday, as the Falcons’ physical defense seemed to wear down the young ‘Hawks. Miami, one of the nation’s youngest programs with 14 freshmen and six sophomores, was also without Melnick, its starting center, on Saturday.

“Not having Melnick out there definitely made us move some guys

around, but we expect him back next week so we’re not too worried,” head coach Enrico Blasi said.

With 4:45 remaining in the first, BGSU senior forward Pierre-Luc Mercier caught a Larkin rebound and banged it home to tie the game at 1-1. From that point forward, the Falcons had the momentum and rolled with it.

“I don’t know what happened after the first goal. We started missing assignments and got rattled,” Blasi said. “They’re a good hockey team, I don’t care about their record. After their second and third goals, we started pressing too much and got away from our game.”

Just 45 seconds after surrendering the first BGSU goal, senior forward Matt Pohlkamp fired a shot over Larkin’s right shoulder to make it 2-1 Bowling Green.

Miami never recovered, and the Falcons scored once in the second and again in the third to earn their first victory of the season in decisive 4-1 fashion, while also dominating shots 41-18.

“Bowling Green deserved to win this game, they played urgent and outplayed us in every aspect of the game,” Blasi said. “We have to remember this feeling and learn from it moving forward.”

Miami looks to bounce back on the road this weekend as it begins National Collegiate Hockey Conference play with a series at Western Michigan. The puck drops 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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ed, except for projects needing rehabilitation that currently contain subsidized low-income housing...”

Many activists and nonprofit housing groups in the community opposed the ordinance. As a rebuttle to the ordince and the HOME report, activists and university professors Tom Dutton from Miami Unversity and Jonathan Diskin from … wrote A Rush to Judgement, in which they stated: “To pull the plug on new nancing for non-profit housing development in Cincinnati’s poorest neighborhoods would effectively destroy the community based institutions that have been laboring for years, at extremely low levels of compensation, to meet the needs of Cincinnati’s poorest citizens.

Further, community based, nonpro t ownership is the only guarantee against the possible waves of gentrification and abandonment to ensure that economic mix has any purchase.”

City Council voted to adopt Cranley’s motion later than year.

Shortly after, the city’s Planning Department completed the Overthe-Rhine Comprehensive Plan in 2002 that focused on “mixedincome” housing. One major goal of the Plan was “Encourage and welcome new investment at all income levels of the housing market and ensure the long-term sustainability of enough affordable housing to house current residents”.

One year later, the city eliminated the Planning Commission, leaving the responsibility for fulfilling the mixed-income housing goals for Over-the-Rhine in the hands of 3CDC and other developers.

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Also having played soccer, Pritchard began to play field hockey as an experiment. Her town was forming a recreational league, and she decided to try the sport in the third grade. She first met Inako Puzo at a field hockey camp before he was the head coach at Miami and, once he began coaching the RedHawks, she was sold on Miami.

The team on and off the field has led Pritchard to see opportunities for growth, not only professionally, but individually. Pritchard said her time at Miami has taught her a lot of different things.

“It’s taught me not only skills on the field, but also how to be a better citizen, a better teammate, player, friend and everything like that. It’s shaped me to be the best version of myself, and I hope that I can keep going up and changing because what the coaches did for me is something I want to take advantage of.”

Both Pritchard and White warn freshmen to not take anything for granted and take every opportunity available to them. Pritchard echoed White’s sentiment about legacy and what she wants to leave with the team.

“I guess just my memory,” she said. “It’s not like I’m dying,” she finished, laughing.

The final minutes of the game ticked down Saturday, and the Mi-

While 3CDC and others successfully brought higher-income individuals and families into the community and made strides toward creating a mixed-income neighborhood, affordable housing took a major hit. The number of units of affordable housing – units in which people pay 30 percent or less of their income toward rent – fell from 3,325 in 2002 to 869 in 2015, according to Mary Burk Rivers, Executive Director of Overthe-Rhine Community Housing.

Whereas the Plan’s goal listed maintaining affordable housing for current residents, the execution of the Plan has resulted in ornate, market-rate condos scattered through a grid of vacant, boarded-up buildings once called home.

Over-the-Rhine’s population continued to decline even after the exodus from the West End, a descend that begin in 1950s when 63 percent of the white population moved out of the neighborhood, according to the Cincinnati Planning Department’s Historic Conservation Board. The decline has continued still. The overall population dropped from 7,638 in 2000 to 5,610 in 2014, according to the 2015 Housing Inventory, compiled by the Community Building Institute at Xavier University. Since 1950, Over-the-Rhine has yet to experience a decade of increased population or housing units.

For the residents by Findlay Market where the wave of “urban renewal” has already broken ground, the history of decline is an old song still sung through the streets of their community. This autumn, they could add eight more tallies to the number of lost units of affordable housing.

ami fans, mostly parents but with a larger student turnout than normal, held their breath in hopes that senior Alysa Xavier could earn the 6-0 shutout win and their daughters could forever remember a dominant senior day.

Pritchard and Megan Moody were substituted into the game for the last two minutes to join White, Xavier and Carla Romagosa for a few more moments on their home turf.

In the background, a bright pink senior sign was held by Romagosa’s old roommate. Although it was her last game on Miami’s field, it isn’t the team’s last game of the season.

“We’re not going to be done yet,” Pritchard said.

With little opportunity in America for women to play field hockey after college, the senior RedHawks look to make the most out of their upcoming tournament play thanks to their win on Saturday.

“It’s hard. Four years — you’re tired by the end of it, and it’s a struggle but, at the same time, you don’t want to leave the sport that you’ve grown up with. It’s definitely a bittersweet feeling,” White said. “We’re excited, heading towards the end, heading into the tournament and all the success and opportunities we have with that, but at the same time, you’re entering the last stage of your career. It’s kind of a mixture of emotions right now.”

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Award a reminder of unsolved coal issues The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

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his past week, a story entitled “As energy sources shift, consequences of coal dependence reach near and far,” which appeared in The Miami sStudent last December, was awarded first place for Best Feature Story by the College Media Association. This story concerned the use of fossil fuels, both in our larger national society and in the Miami community.

It details several facts about Miami’s use of coal to produce electricity for all of its services. At the time the article was written, Miami had about 7,000 tons of coal stocked up in a storage pile off Route 73, enough to run the university for three months, kept in case of emergency. Though, as reported, “Miami made a commitment to stop burning coal in its old steam plant, located behind Peabody Hall, by 2025.”

The story not only delved into the impact that the coal industry has had on Miami, but also on the coal regions within Ohio and West Virginia. Additionally, it focused on both the environmental impacts of coal mining and use, as well as the economic impact on those that produce and consume the fuel.

This issue, though, is far from scious interest groups and social the Union of Concerned Scientists. settled and still demands our at- pushes for greener energy have However, in no way could anytention nine months later. contributed to the desire to wean one say with veracity that the issue Coal has been and continues to our society off of coal, we must note of electricity production has been be a dominant source of fuel as well that economic factors have led solved. Natural gas presents its as a lucrative enterprise in Ameri- consumers toward alternatives. own set of environmental issues, can industry and society as a whole Though the development of even excluding those of fracking.

— it is responsible for the produc- fracking brings questions of its Moreover, as it is also a fossil tion of 39 percent of U.S. electric- own with regards to the environ- fuel, it too is unsustainable in the ity. ment, the production of natural long run. As with most economic Yet, one of the choices, the choice most important between coal and its takeaways from the alternatives is a tradarticle is the fact that eoff, and it’s one that This development, the increased use of the domination of we have to face as a electricity produc- natural gas over that of coal, is one that we society on both the tion is waning. In the must understand if we are to understand the national level and wake of increased energy question as a whole. the local level here at fracking in petroMiami. leum wells around Miami’s initiative this region and to become coal free other regions of the is a positive one, country, natural gas has become a gas has yet to see the mass devas- but it holds no water if we, at the cheaper alternative to coal in terms tation to the ecosystem that cer- individual level, do not agree to of energy production for many tain regions in West Virginia and continue pursuing even cleaner different consumers across many other states have seen in their coal energy moving forward. Everyone different industries. mining and refining operations. has to be willing to participate in This development, the increased Additionally, as far as climate the discussion and, more imporuse of natural gas over that of coal, change goes, natural gas is en- tantly, the execution of developing is one that we must understand if vironmentally superior to coal, and shifting to green alternatives. we are to understand the energy emitting 50 to 60 percent less carWe recognize the economic imquestion as a whole. Though pres- bon dioxide into the atmosphere portance of coal to certain comsure from environmentally con- as compared to coal, according to munities and industries, espe-

cially in our section of the country.

However, we would like to remind readers of the truth that the shift away from coal has to date been more of an economic decision than an environmental one (and anyone touting the so called “War on Coal” in this country should especially be notified of this fact).

Industries change, and as we face temperatures that will get into the high 70s in the first week of November, we should embrace the long term environmental and existential benefits of of this tradeoff over the short term detriments.

In the future, the move away from coal — and hopefully fossil fuels entirely — will perhaps be a compromise between the free market and the proven legitimacy of environmental threats, as it is today.

We know that this change will not come overnight and will take advancements in technology and perhaps even lifestyle, but that is a change we must pursue for the sake of our posterity. In time, this shift will be seen as no less inevitable than the agricultural shift from oxen to tractors.

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The Student has won another award for its reporting on the university’s energy purchasing and use.

To be clear on the source of our energy: Energy Information Administration reports indicate that Miami University purchases coal-fired electricity from Dayton Power and Light.

This was reported in the December 4th 2015 issue of The Student.

The electricity powers our lights, projectors, computers, Internet, refrigerators and air conditioners, among other things.

Electricity is categorically different from heat (but cooling is done through the use of electricity), which is produced at the steaming plant on Western Campus. That plant now runs on natural gas, though a reserve of coal is kept.

The Physical Facilities and the Sustainability Committee have reiterated they have a plan to “stop burning coal by 2025.” That is all well and good for the steam plant, OK. The geothermal plant is fine, it’s there, it exists. The next step is to divest from all sources of fossil energy and I would caution the sustainability committee to not get too comfortable.

Unless the university also divests from electricity producers (DP&L) who burn coal, this promise (to stop burning coal by 2025) will be a lie.

The coal, burned in these faraway plants comes from Appalachia.

There, The Student visited Kayford, West Virginia. If you want to know more about this, I suggest reading the December 4th issue.

We received another award, with national recognition this time, at the Pinnacle college media awards in Atlanta last week. I wish, however, they would stop awarding us things and listen.

In regions where mountain-top removal mining is practiced, incidence of cancers, poverty and infant mortality are higher than where it is not practiced. Mountain top removal (and coal mining generally) has been causally related to the rise in these maladies. Junior Walk, whom The Student met with, provided an anecdote to support this research: 3 people from his high school class had contracted cancer by the time they graduated.

There has yet to be an institutional response to our reporting, which I take to mean they read it fully (and we have received emails about it, but no solid response) but no divestment from DP&L or talk thereof. In short, utterly ignored. Business as usual is too easy, the public schools are too underfunded — it goes on.

I don’t think, however, these are good enough responses. I want to

A sign in Kayford, WV alerts passersby of the active dangers of being in the area. talk in this essay about pushing further, about opening up the questioning of more than just “energy.” Rather, I want to bring into question the shape of the entire institution.

The truth of the matter is that we can’t run everything we have, at the speed that we currently do, on any combination of “renewable” energies.

The fossil energy is potent, it is powerful (which is why it has thus been so popular for so long) and it cannot be replicated by the wind or by capturing sunlight on photovoltaic screens.

What’s needed is a reduction in the activity itself.

Less electricity, fewer lights, less cooling and heating generally to start.

global temperatures: 30 years of above-average temperatures.

I am advocating of course for a reduction in the total activity of not only the university, but of everyone in this civilization, in every city, in every place.

I am not unaware of my contradictions. Opponents of my ideas are quick to point out my computer, my artificial lights, my word processor, the huge network of factories that make the paper and the ink this newspaper is printed on twice weekly. I say to you with my hands raised: woohoo, you got me!

Mind you, I have no control over the industrial infrastructure I was born into; I am caught up in a lifelong contradiction like everyone else.

More complex rejoinder: if there

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we currently associate with fossil fuels. Mining for rare earth metals and industrial production (factories, global transport network) are two main requirements renewables share with fossil fuels.

For the longer answer I defer to my friend Derrick Jensen, who writes: “This material comes from somewhere, and that somewhere is always someone’s home, someone’s sacred site, someone’s source of food and water and air. We just don’t hear about them, because if they are humans, they are usually poor and brown. This is where racism, colonialism, environmentalism and extractive economics come together.”

The people want solutions; they so badly want to know if their way

Unless the university also divests from electricity producers (DP&L) who burn coal, this promise (to stop burning coal by 2025) will be a lie.

It seems to me that people don’t want solutions; they want to keep living exactly how they are living today, but just with a green sticker on it. A LEED (Leadership in Engergy and Environmental Design) emblem glued with a toxic epoxy to the wall in Armstrong and a handful of other buildings on campus.

Well, everything is just getting so green. Then why are emissions in total still rising?

Why is the temperature still going up? Each month has been on average warmer (globally) than the previous year’s average. Earth’s climate is in a stretch of over 360 consecutive months of warmer-than-average

wasn’t an environmental crisis to speak of, I wouldn’t have to flip open the computer and write about it. If I didn’t feel like there was something deeply wrong with the dominant culture, I wouldn’t have gone to school to try to figure out what the source of the crisis is.

You may be thinking: but what about renewable energies, aren’t they going to solve our environmental problems? My immediate answer is: No. I support neither fossil fuel nor renewable technologies. Renewable technologies aren’t made out of nothing; they exist on the background of the extractive industries

of life can be sustainable. One major casualty of this hysteria has been the word “sustainable” itself. Emptied of meaning, we paint it on just about anything. It’s not long until we have talk of sustainable wars, eco-friendly jets and aircraft carriers, biodegradable bullet casings and ecologically sound “liberation” practices.

They don’t want their lives to change — they are very comfortable. This is a sign of addiction.

It has been diagnosed again and again in environmental literature.

David Watson’s “Civilization is like a jetliner”; James Kunstler’s “Too Much Magic”; Joyce Huesemann’s “Techno-fix”; Ozzie Zehner’s

“Green Illusions.”

It doesn’t particularly matter how many books and researchers I cite, how many reports are released, the psychology of “business as usual” is built into the laws, the schools, the state houses and city council meetings.

The nation-states of the world and their subjects, people living in cities, ask for one more: one more year, one more decade of growth, one more trillion dollars, one more shopping mall.

This is a sign of insanity, a deep pathology among members of this culture.

I think most easily this disturbing trend is revealed in the desperation of the corporations to make everything appear green and sustainable when inside they know very well it’s more of the same.

Mind also that these same corporations are responsible for the ongoing environmental crises.

They made money going up, destroying the environment. Now they want to make money going down: “fixing” the very thing they made every effort to ignore for about 60 years or more.

Today, environmentalists, liberals and most on the left think renewables are A-OK in this fictive equitable world. They fail to begin by questioning the industrial infrastructure and the power relations that create them. In the pre-theoretical they assume progress is good, the dominant culture is headed in the right direction — if it only could be under the direction of a different set of individuals!

This is why the anti-globalization movement failed for instance, which is why it ultimately dissolved and disappeared.

The protestors and the activists weren’t against globalization. They said they wanted the “bottom-up” kind. Not realizing that technological systems at the global scale, to recall Jensen again, will always require force or violence.

To say it plainly, globalization, industrialism, mass-production et al require violent subjugation of humans and non-humans the world over in order to secure the resources needed to keep the infrastructure running for a very small number of people who make all the decisions and keep almost all of the money.

All because we’ve built myths around the idea that we need them in order to live healthy, fulfilling lives.

This essay is additionally an admission: I am complicit in the everyday violence of this culture. I am not exempt from being held accountable for these crimes. I am both detective and criminal.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Blue Lives Matter and police criticism aside, MUPD proves its worth POLICE

HANNAH MEIBERS GUEST COLUMNIST

As I write this article, I can hear the echo of police sirens outside my window. While I’m cozy in bed during these early hours of the morning, the MUPD is wide awake.

At Miami University, we’re lucky enough to have our own police department comfortably on campus. In my opinion, the MUPD adds a unique and secure aspect to our campus — but others don’t always share this appreciation.

It’s disappointing at 2 in the morning when you hear a drunk college student spouting profanity at a police cruiser as it drives by.

It’s disrespectful to the men and women in blue. Now, I am not one to enforce the “Blue Lives Matter” spiel, but I do believe in the good

MUPD adds a unique and secure aspect to our campus -- but others don’t always share this appreciation.

intentions of police officers. As one of the most time consuming and stressful jobs in America, policemen and policewomen aren’t chosen on a whim. I believe in the system of police training and schooling, to ensure that we have the best in the business.

Having said that, I don’t think police officers have emulated superheroes too much lately. With the various past allegations of po-

lice targeting minority men and women, some communities are viewing anybody in a uniform as a villain. I think it’s important to remember why communities are unsettled with the police enforcement: prejudice.

However, we forget that being prejudiced and stereotyping others can come in many forms. Assuming a police officer is not going to do their duty because of the

Taking Trump seriously feeds his cause, bolsters his rhetoric POLITICS

TO THE EDITOR: In response to your editorial consensus regarding the Trump protest earlier this week, I have a few points that I would like to discuss: firstly, there is much to be said to your credit regarding the vulgarity of the protest.

Much of what Mr. Trump has said and done in this election reflects the reality that a large segment of the American people very much value political spectacle. On these grounds, your criticism concerning the profanity of the protest has reason for applause.

If we are to claim the high road we must work to ensure that we maintain our course on the high road. Those of us who are alienated by Mr. Trump’s approach to democracy often fancy ourselves champions of “discourse.” We are able to understand, empathize and articulate without offending, degrading or, heaven forbid, “regressing.”

Secondly, I must therefore also agree in your conclusion that discourse is the preferred method of conduct in the political arena.

As the framers of the Constitution wrote and as our civic institutions have unfalteringly upheld, political discourse is vital to the functioning of this democracy; the health of our civic society (which translates thus to the wellbeing of this republic) depends tremendously on the discourse that is the product of a plurality of opinions in the public sphere. It is no coincidence, after all, that our freedom of speech is guaranteed in the First Amendment of our Constitution.

However, this brings me to my final point in assessing the concept of discourse as it relates to this election. Discourse bears a

strong relationship to public sentiment, which is relevant to our discussion here because public sentiment holds the power to effect a shift in the social order of a society.

Discourse, as it were, acts as a mechanism to steer public sentiment through the legitimization of such in the public sphere. In other words, it legitimizes public sentiment. Therefore, if we endeavor to uphold certain senti-

arguably has already taken place).

It is therefore my opinion that while you are quite correct in your assertion that discourse is invaluable to civic society in this country, we must also be scrupulous in deciding which sentiments we legitimize by such means.

Mr. Trump’s potent rhetoric has proven resilient thus far, partly due to the fact that we have engaged it in serious discourse. We have given his hatred a platform

We are responsible for choosing topics on which to engage through discourse, as the simple act of engaging in such will inherently legitimize a sentiment and thus enable it to influence the ideological composition of our social order.

ments over others — acceptance over exclusion, decency over vulgarity — we are tasked with discerning between what is worthwhile discussing and what is not.

To put it another way, we are responsible for choosing topics on which to engage through discourse, as the simple act of engaging in such will inherently legitimize a sentiment and thus enable it to influence the ideological composition of our social order.

While some would willingly partake in what they would consider meaningful discourse in regard to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, many of us opposed to his candidacy hold the belief that doing so offers an avenue by which the sentiments he holds can gain validity in our society (which

on which it has not only survived but grown; it would be ludicrous to now call Mr. Trump’s candidacy a “fringe” movement in any sense of the word.

And so, I would ask that we consider what it means to willingly interact with Mr. Trump’s rhetoric in any serious manner (other than in condemnation).

Indeed, we are now only a week out from the presidential election and yet just the other day I read a headline regarding the feasibility of a wall on our southern border — a ridiculous proposal that has only survived because we’ve allowed it to.

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uniform they wear is stereotyping.

We can’t assume every officer has bad intentions simply because we heard about a bad situation in a different city. I firmly believe that the Miami University Police Department has the students and staff’s best interest in mind.

After a fun night out, I love eating at Pulley Diner. I always see a police officer on duty, wideeyed and smiling. It’s so encouraging to watch students sit and talk with the officer, whether it’s about their night, or about how the officer’s shift is going. This is when I feel officers are most appreciated.

Beyond adults being role models as I’ve gone through life, they’ve also been enemies. Being reprimanded is no one’s favorite activity, especially for eighteen to twenty-three year olds. Adults are notorious for telling high school and college students what they’ve done wrong or what they could’ve

done better.

Having an adult whose occupation is to enforce laws upon us is like a villain on steroids. But if they act as if they’re our friend and our protector, like the officers on our campus, it changes the game. The police officers on Miami’s campus treat each student with respect, as long as they reciprocate said respect.

During nights, or even days, when I’m walking the streets alone, it’s comforting to know that the MUPD is always looking out for me. I receive texts from the police department through Miami’s emergency text messaging system and have the advantage of the Blue Light Emergency System as well, creating a safe and secure environment for all students, staff and residents of Oxford, Ohio.

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STANDING ROCK: HOME OF THE BRAVE PROTESTORS ENVIORNMENT

MADDIE LAPLANTE-DUBE EDITORIAL EDITOR

Standing Rock, ND is currently the site of the convergence of the two biggest issues of our time: racism and environmentalism. A goldmine of relevant themes, American media has been flocking to the site to cover the issues in what Internet users joke is the most turbulent year in the twenty-first century.

But the reality is that 2016 isn’t a turbulent year; it’s just somehow been a time of such blatant regression that Americans are finally being confronted with the fact that this country is not actually the land of the free. It is, however, the home of the brave. And the brave are the ones fighting for rights in a country that promised to give them rights hundreds of years ago.

Standing Rock is our most recent, but certainly not the only, example.

North Dakota, a state named after a Native American tribe, is currently playing out nineteenth-century themes between white, corporate/ governmental enforcement and the native population at Standing Rock.

This section of North Dakota, allotted to the Sioux tribe by the federal government after they were forced onto sanctioned land, is now adjacent to property coveted by Energy Transfer, who have already begun construction of their 1,172 milelong pipeline running through and along Sioux property. The pipeline will almost certainly contaminate the water in the Missouri River and will decimate sacred land that does not belong to Energy Transfer or to the state and federal governments.

Worse: on Oct. 9th, the federal appeals court rejected the Sioux tribe’s plea for a federal block of Energy Transfer’s construction. And despite a request from the Obama administration to halt construction

and the forbiddance to run the pipeline underneath the Missouri River, the Fortune 500 Company is headed directly for waterfront building.

For the water protectors protesting on site, holding their ground means getting mace to the face, gaining an arrest record and enduring even more humiliation and disregard for tradition by both state and federal governments.

This event is a revolution, seeing tribes who have not interacted with each other in years and who have to put aside their 100-year-old moral disputes to fight for one tribe’s physical rights and all tribes’ symbolic rights in this nation. And yet, they are being demonized by police forces as “rioters” and “terrorists.”

Congrats, American law enforcement. You have no idea who you were trained to protect.

This is not the first time that climate change and ambivalence towards environmentalism has disproportionately affected minorities in America. Hurricane Katrina took the homes and livelihoods of millions of Americans, a majority of them being black and Hispanic, and response efforts during the Bush administration were abhorrently, horrifically slow. Thousands of people died in Louisiana and Mississippi, and still, somehow, we don’t have an accurate death toll of the victims there.

The protestors and water protectors at Standing Rock are doing something to change the course of history for America, to stop the pipeline and stop potential pollution.

As we ironically head into November, the month of “Thanksgiving,” think about what you can do to be part of the revolution besides “checking in” on Facebook.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2016

BOWLING GREEN SNAPS HOCKEY’S FIVE-GAME UNBEATEN STREAK

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MU field hockey earns 6-0 senior day win, second seed in MAC tourney FIELD HOCKEY

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Freshman and starting forward Carson Meyer carries the puck against Bowling Green junior defenseman Mark Friedman. Meyer, an Ohio native, won the USHL’s Clark Cup last season and has two goals and six assists through his first seven games at MU. HOCKEY

BEN BLANCHARD SPORTS EDITOR

In a physical home series against instate rival Bowling Green State University, the Miami University hockey team earned a draw this weekend, winning 2-1 in overtime Friday and losing 4-1 Saturday.

Following the split, MU is now 3-2-2, while the previously winless Falcons are now 1-6-1.

The emotion of the rivalry showed throughout the series, as the offense and speed displayed in Miami’s past games were replaced by rough play and defense.

“It had that same kind of feel as

the Ohio State game,” freshman and starting forward Carson Meyer said.

“It felt like every time I touched the puck, I was getting hit.”

Friday night’s game got off to a slow start, with both teams picking up penalties and getting caught up in the physical game. The first period ended tied both in score, 0-0, and shots, 6-6.

The second period brought more of the same, as Miami was forced to kill off several penalties. This included a double-minor roughing call on sophomore forward Kiefer Sherwood following a scrum in front of MU freshman goaltender Ryan Larkin, one in which Sherwood swung at BGSU’s antagonizing

junior forward Mitch McLain.

The RedHawks’ nation-leading penalty kill rose to the challenge, and successfully killed off their penalty for the 31st time in a row. The second period concluded with shots favoring BGSU 14-10, but the tilt remained knotted at 0-0.

Miami came out of the second intermission ready to play, as sophomore forward Josh Melnick won the draw and senior forward Anthony Louis carried the puck into the Falcons’ zone. Louis made a move past a BGSU defender before finding Meyer wide open at the backdoor, and Meyer fired the shot HOCKEY »PAGE 5

Football wins third-straight vs. EMU

The Miami University field hockey team played its last home game of the season Saturday against Ohio University and bested its Mid-American Conference and instate rival 6-0.

The RedHawks end the regular season 11-7 overall, 5-1 in the MAC, 5-4 at home and 5-3 away. The Bobcats finish with a 6-11 record, are 3-3 in the MAC, 4-3 at home and 2-7 away.

“We try to win every single game, doesn’t matter if it’s tournament, conference, non-conference,” head coach Inako Puzo said. “Our mentality is to put the team ready to win and put them in a situation where they can be successful. That’s their mentality too. They show up to win every single game.”

Senior goalkeeper Alysa Xavier earned her seventh shutout of the season and senior forwards Carla Romagosa and Geagy Pritchard scored two goals apiece to make for a special senior day showing.

The game started slowly, but it didn’t take long for the RedHawks to take command of play. Romagosa scored from the left side of the circle in the sixth minute and sophomore forward Paula Portugal scored in the seventh. Both goals were unassisted.

Miami then began to out-run and out-pass OU before the Bobcats got their first shot of the game and their first penalty corner in the fourteenth minute.

The game then became more

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For the first time since 2010, the Miami University football team has won three games in succession. The RedHawks earned a 28-15 victory over Eastern Michigan University on the road Saturday.

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Gus Ragland threw for 175 yards on 15-of-23 passing for one touchdown.

In addition to his passing exploits, Ragland also chipped in a two-yard score on the ground.

With the victory, the ‘Hawks improve to 3-6 overall and 3-2 in MidAmerican Conference play, earning the team third place in the East Division standings. The Eagles fall to 5-4 on the year and 2-3 in the MAC, placing them third place in the West Division.

After starting the season 0-6, MU has rattled off three straight wins, the last two of which have come on the road against Mid-American Conference opponents Bowling Green and EMU. “Proud of everybody in that locker room,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “Coaches, players, equipment, medical people, everybody that’s been around our kids. Fought, fought like crazy all year long. We believe the 2016 RedHawks can be a good football team and do something this year.”

Miami raced out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter on the heels of a 54yard rushing touchdown by redshirt sophomore running back Kenny Young. Later, Ragland continued the 54-yard pattern by tossing his only touchdown for 54 yards to redshirt junior wide receiver Jared Murphy, extending the ‘Hawks lead to 28-9 in the fourth quarter.

Offensively, Murphy paced the RedHawks, catching nine passes for 122 yards and one touchdown.

The sophomore running back trio of Young, Alonzo Smith and Maurice

Thomas combined to rush for 200 yards and two touchdowns on 28 carries.

Throughout this winning streak, the RedHawks have held opponents to under 30 points in each contest.

Sophomore defensive back De’Andre Montgomery led MU’s calling-card defense, contributing seven tackles and one pass break-up.

Redshirt junior cornerback Heath Harding also helped the cause with one interception and six tackles.

“Really good defensively, holding them to only 33 yards,” Martin said.

“Besides one long ball at the end, our defense plays a great game.”

EMU’s offense was led by redshirt freshman wideout Dieuly Aristilde, as he hauled in seven passes for 193 yards and a 75-yard touchdown.

On defense, Eastern Michigan’s junior defensive back Jason Beck paved the way with 11 tackles, one of which was for loss.

Miami’s special teams have seen drastic improvement as the season has progressed. Against Bowling Green, the unit performed the best it had to that point in the campaign. On the road against EMU, that perfor-

mance was arguably surpassed.

“We’ve been getting better and better on ST [special teams]. Made a huge difference,” Martin said.

Penalties bogged down MU throughout its winless stretch to start the season, slowing the offense and hindering the defense during critical periods in many early games. Saturday, the ‘Hawks put together their most disciplined game of the year with only two penalties for 15 yards.

Eastern Michigan was penalized seven times for 67 yards.

Miami extends its winning streak over the Eagles to nine games, dating back to 1994.

Next week, the RedHawks take on Central Michigan University in a matchup that could send reverberations throughout the whole conference.

“We’re excited about the opportunity of November 4, Friday night,” Martin said. “A game that means something at Miami. We haven’t had a meaningful November game since obviously 2010 when we won it.”

Friday night, the ‘Hawks take on the Chippewas. Kickoff is scheduled for a 6:00 p.m.

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evenly played, though Miami took back its original momentum after a penalty corner and a goal from Pritchard in the 30th minute.

Portugal assisted on the goal, which Pritchard tipped in from a high shot.

A series of crucial saves from Xavier ended the first half with the shots tied 7-7, but the scoreboard read 3-0 in favor of the RedHawks.

“It was great, it feels good finishing the last game and scoring. I don’t know, I loved it,” Romagosa said. “It was team work, definitely, but being the one putting the ball in the net, it just felt great because it was really important.”

Like the first half, the second half started with an early goal, this one from Portugal in the 38th minute off an unassisted, high shot.

Successive four shots and two penalty corners led to an offensive surge from the RedHawks, as Pritchard scored in the 44th minute with another assist from Portugal.

OU fans willed their team to find the back of the net after the scoreboard read 5-0 and the team looked to regroup, calling a timeout.

A penalty corner for the Bobcats looked like a chance to change momentum, but the RedHawks caught OU in an odd man rush that resulted in Romagosa scoring in the 46th minute into the open net with the sprawling goalkeeper caught several feet from the goal.

The rest of the game saw a goalkeeper change for OU and a cohesive Miami team dominate possession, as all MU players on the

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The bright green turf of the field hockey complex will never again know Geagy Pritchard’s challenging stance when an opponent tries to pass the ball into play. It will no longer be disrupted by Kelsi White’s acceleration to get between an opponent and the goal that is protected by Alysa Xavier. It will never again cater to Carla Romagosa’s breakout speed or Megan Moody’s careful positioning.

On a Saturday afternoon too warm for late October, Miami University’s field hockey team’s six seniors said goodbye to the field they’ve known for the past four years. In a short ceremony before the playing of the national anthem, the women were accompanied by parents and the two international players were escorted by an assistant coach and friends as their names were announced and applause was awarded.

The game was played like many others, with the team’s trademark determination and intensity apparent in the battle against Ohio University, a conference and instate rival.

But there seemed to be an added level of desperation from the players — more words of encouragement could be heard coming from the bench, more bodies were sacrificed to make plays and the seniors put their hearts into a game that has given them so much.

For Kelsi White, her involvement with the sport began as an accident.

Her mom was too late to sign her up for soccer but insisted Kelsi stay active when going into middle school.

White, a Louisville, Kentucky native, didn’t immediately like the sport, and it took her a little while before she prioritized field hockey over other athletic commitments.

Club teams turned into travel teams, and that eventually led to her being a part of the Olympic development team which then led her to

Miami, when the development team had a practice at the complex during her freshman year of high school.

“I just remember stepping on campus and just feeling at home and I remember I turned to my dad and I said, ‘I could see myself here,’” White said. “It’s just kind of how luck ended up.”

White considers herself very lucky for all that the program has taught her and the opportunities it has given her. She credits Miami with teaching her how to balance academic and athletic life and to not limit herself by sticking to a single goal. Miami led her to work with the Mid-American Conference and pass initiatives about mental health, then work with the NCAA and be nominated by the school for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

White expressed her gratitude to Miami in the 43 minutes she spent playing on Saturday as a back, defending her team’s lead and potential for post season success, contributing to the legacy she wants to leave behind.

“Everyone wants to build on the legacy of the previous years and keep moving forward, and I think that it’s something that our class wants, but I think we’ve seen the program evolve even over the past four years we’ve been here and I think what I want to see is that they’re able to continue that,” White said. “No matter where we end up this year, how far we get in the tournament or NCAAs, hopefully, just to think that we kind of laid the groundwork so that they can keep building.”

Geagy Pritchard dedicated her 45 minutes of playing time to scoring two goals and, maybe it was the uncharacteristically warm air that led to added relief after goals were scored, but the post-goal celebrations seemed to be brighter, celebratory jumps higher and the congratulations among those on the field a little louder than normal.

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