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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018
Volume 146 No. 23
Miami University — Oxford, Ohio
PROTESTS CONTINUE OVER RACIAL UNREST AT MIAMI ACTIVISM
CÉILÍ DOYLE NEWS EDITOR
JUNIOR AND MIAMI TRIBE MEMBER ADDISON PATRICK TALKS EXPLORING HIS HERITAGE AT MIAMI. BO BRUBECK THE MIAMI STUDENT
Miami Tribe members talk history, language MYAAMIA
JULIA ARWINE JACK EVANS
THE MIAMI STUDENT
Over 125 Miami Tribe members, Oxford leaders, university administrators and other attendees packed the Marcum Center last Friday for the eighth biennial Myaamiaki Conference. Members of the university’s Myaamia Center and other researchers offered up findings on the history, linguistics and childhood development of the Miami Tribe. Myaamia students spoke about their experiences at the university and a few vendors and artists displayed their handicrafts.
The Myaamia Center live-streamed the event on its Facebook page, where about 10 to 20 people were watching at any given time. In his opening remarks, Daryl Baldwin, director of the Myaamia Center, commented on how much the tribe has learned and experienced in recent years and how if young members choose to continue engaging in their culture, it would increase the tribe’s growth moving forward. “For many years, there was a time when things were pretty tough in our community — we were held together by strands,” Baldwin said. “But, there were some elders and there were some community members that held onto those strands…and there is a younger generation that is now ready to pick those
pieces up.” Chief Doug Lankford of the Miami Tribe also expressed optimism. “Where is this gonna go? We just don’t know,” Lankford said. “All we have to do is water it and keep the weeds out...Our youth is going to carry this forward.” Tribe member Timothy McCoy gave the first presentation of the day, entitled “Using Beads Made from Meteorites to Learn about the Mound Builders.” Blind in one eye since childhood, McCoy spent much of his life looking at the earth below him as he walked. He grew up to become a geologist and learned to read a rock’s history from its appearance. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
Half of parking tickets unpaid, Miami missing out on revenue PARKING
MACKENZIE ROSSERO THE MIAMI STUDENT
Last year, Miami University lost over $400,000 in unpaid parking fines. Over the past four years, the university has been losing an increasing amount of revenue as the percentage of parking tickets that are paid continues to drop year-afteryear, according to data from the Miami University Police Department (MUPD). MUPD wrote over 26,000 tickets in the 2017 fiscal year, from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017. Those tickets accumulated nearly $1 million in fines, but barely half were paid off. In 2014, just over three quarters of ticket fees were paid. There are multiple causes for the decline in revenue, said MUPD Captain Ben Spilman, but one major factor is the difficulty in forcing campus visitors to pay tickets they receive at Miami. “The enforcement mechanisms [for parking violations] are a little bit stronger for the student population than for the visitor population,” explained David Ellis, Miami’s chief budget officer. When MUPD doesn’t have a visitor’s name to connect to a parking violation, sometimes it’s easier to dismiss the ticket than hunt the person down. Students, facul-
ty and staff aren’t as difficult to track. This year, Miami’s budgeted for half a million dollars in revenue from paid parking violations. But, since they have have collected less than $300,000 so far, MUPD is not expecting to hit its goal. However, revenue from parking violations only makes up 10 percent of Transportation Services’ budget. The budget averages around $5 million, though half of that is designated for bus services and paid for by student fees. The majority of the revenue related to parking comes from parking permits and parking garages. But, when less parking fines are being paid, Transportation Services has to find other ways to make up for what it lacks. Part of the solution was to increase the hourly charge for parking meters and garages. “I think that fluctuating the way that we’re charging that paid parking has made a big difference for us,” argued Spilman. Small adjustments in paid parking have included a larger charge for the first hour in garages and a higher hourly rate at the meters. This encourages people to either park in the spacious garages if they need long-term parking or park at the meters for brief trips. This maximizes street parking availability in busy locations like Maple Street. These changes have helped to alleviate some gaps in the parking portion of CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
NEWS P.3
CULTURE P.4
EDITORIAL P. 12
INTL. STUDENT’S HARD WORK PAYS OFF
OXFORD HOSTS NIGHTTIME EGG HUNT
FOUR PROTESTS IN FOUR DAYS
A post calling out LinkedIn’s CEO led to Microsoft internship.
Children and adults alike scramble for more than 12,000 eggs.
Student activists hope to break the cycle of racist behavior at Miami.
Following last Monday’s occupation of the Armstrong Student Center, black students and their allies at Miami University doubled their efforts to raise awareness about the lack of diversity and inclusion on campus. These students formed the Black Action Movement 2.0 (BAM 2.0): a mission, not an organization, dedicated to reforming Miami’s racial climate. The name references the original 1998 Black Action Movement at Miami that sought to eradicate Miami’s racist culture 20 years ago. BAM 2.0 protested in the Farmer School of Business (FSB) on Tuesday, staged a sit-in at Roudebush Hall on Wednesday and held a second demonstration in Armstrong on Thursday. Their activism was prompted by a screenshot in a Twitter post that went viral over spring break, depicting firstyear Thomas Wright bragging in a Tinder exchange about his use of a racial slur in a GroupMe message last November. However, these students are speaking up for issues much larger than Wright and have formed BAM 2.o to further combat racial unrest at Miami. During Tuesday’s protest at FSB, students argued that the companies who financially support FSB, such as KPMG and Ernst & Young, are supporting a school that stands for racism. A little over a dozen students stood stood outside FSB 1022 the Student Services office, from about 2:30 to 2:50, holding signs, chanting and CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
Miamians ‘Take Back the Night’
STUDENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS MARCH UPTOWN AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE. JUGAL JAIN PHOTO EDITOR SEXUAL ASSAULT
ANNA MINTON
THE MIAMI STUDENT
On Monday night in Armstrong’s Wiikiaami room, more than 30 people sat in a circle, laughing and joking about their school days. The room was open, comfortable and brightly lit. Each time someone entered the room, they were greeted with a smile. No one could guess that this room was a support group and that almost every person in that room had experienced some form of sexual- or gender-based
violence. The support group, called Survivor Speak Out, was one of many events put on by Feminists Working On Real Democracy (F-WORD). These events all lead up to Monday night’s Take Back the Night march from Armstrong to Oxford Park. About 50 people marched, protesting the current climate on Miami’s campus for those who have experienced sexual- or gender-based violence on campus. Nora McVey, Miami’s Campus-Based Support Specialist, said that the march’s goal is to “take back this night from CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
SPORTS P.14
HOCKEY ADDS ASSOCIATE COACH Peter Mannino joins the RedHawks from Omaha, Nebraska.
Science
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