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Finance professors sue Miami for gender discrimination

WIN ELECTION First female student body president elected in 21 years ELECTION

EMILY WILLIAMS NEWS EDITOR

LAWSUIT CONFIRMS FINANCE DEPTARTMENT IS AN ‘OLD BOYS’ CLUB,’ PROFESSORS SAY

finance from The Ohio State University in 1992.

Harman was hired by Miami in 2000 — the same year she earned her Ph.D. in finance from Florida State University — and was tenured in 2006, according to her profile on the FSB website.

Brunarski and Harman are associate professors of finance at Miami.

They, along with Thompson, declined to comment for this story.

After professors within the department made their concerns known to several university administrators — including Provost Phyllis Callahan and FSB Dean Matthew Myers, neither of whom responded to requests for comment — the OEEO be-

Maggie Reilly and Stuart Coulston won the election for Student Body President and Vice President for the 20162017 academic year last night, beating out opponents Billy Fitzgerald and Katie Nixdorf.

Reilly is Miami’s first female Student Body President in 21 years.

“Overall, Stu and I are really excited to get to work … to make the student body as happy and successful as possible,” Reilly said.

Voter turnout was up almost 30 percent from last year, with a total of 3,491 votes cast. Reilly and Coulston secured a hefty 72.9 percent of the total vote.

The Associated Student Government (ASG) posted the announcement on Facebook as a live stream video from the ASG headquarters in the Armstrong Student Center.

In the video, current Student Body President Joey Parizek delivered the news to Reilly and Coulston.

According to their platform,

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Two female professors in the Farmer School of Business (FSB) are suing Miami University, alleging gender discrimination and violation of the Equal Pay Act. This lawsuit comes after nearly a year of conflict within the finance department and, some say, a decades-old atmosphere that has marginalized female faculty.

“It has been, and, to me, it still remains, a good old boys’ club,” said Dan Herron, a professor of business legal studies in the finance department and a practicing attorney.

In their initial complaint, filed Feb. 15 in the Southern District Court of Ohio, professors Kelly Brunarski and Yvette Harman compared their credentials to those of two

male finance professors. All four were hired and tenured around the same time.

The male professors, David Shrider and David Nixon, are paid markedly more than Brunarski and Harman, despite having published less research, the complaint states.

According to the Miami University salary roster for the 2015-16 academic year, Brunarski and Harman are paid about $175,000 each, while the two men are paid an average of 9 percent more.

This pay disparity is not justified by seniority, merit, or any other factors. On the contrary, the complaint argues, Brunarski and Harman have each published more articles in top journals than either Shrider, who is paid nearly $200,000, or Nixon, who makes about $185,000.

Both Shrider and Nixon are part of the department’s Promotion and Tenure Committee, which evaluates the progress of junior professors in the department and considers them for tenure. Following a meeting last spring, Dan Herron, then-chair of the committee, complained of gender discrimination by members of the committee.

Herron noticed that Mary Elizabeth Thompson, a tenuretrack finance professor, had been subject to an unusual level of scrutiny by her male colleagues on the committee, who characterized her behavior and performance as “uncollegial.”

In response, Herron filed a charge of discrimination with Miami’s Office of Equity and Equal Opportunity (OEEO).

He said the incidents were the latest examples of a longstand-

ing bias against women.

“This department is creating a problem,” he said. “We need to stop this. They’re going to drive women away from the department. It’s an atmosphere that denigrates and does not take women seriously.

So, however that manifests itself, it all shows that women are not valued.”

In their complaint, Brunarski and Harman used Thompson’s troubles to reinforce their own claims, stating that what Thompson had experienced was an extension of the discrimination they had faced since arriving at Miami.

Brunarski joined the Miami finance faculty in 1999, after teaching at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State University for several years apiece, according to her curriculum vitae. She earned her Ph.D. in

On campus and just outside of Oxford along the Ohio Byway, one can get a glimpse of the emerging spring.

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ASG petition protests new meal plan, ‘Nontraditional’ students showcase a garners 2,700 signatures in four days different Miami experience DINING

MEGAN ZAHNEIS NEWS EDITOR

An Associated Student Government-sponsored online petition protesting a new meal plan policy, to be implemented for fall 2016, has garnered 2,700 signatures since going live Monday afternoon.

In January, university administration announced an overhauled meal plan system, which will affect current and incoming first-year students. Housing Options, Meals and Events (H.O.M.E.) office director Brian Woodruff said the changes were spurred by several years of feedback from students and parents, specifically pertaining to the Diplomat plan, which institutes a $1,625 program assessment fee that must be paid by all students living on campus.

The new plan will allow students to purchase a set number of buffet meals, called “swipes,” used at locations such as Western Dining Commons, coupled with a declining balance to be used at a la carte locations such as Maplestreet Station, each semester.

Currently, students pay the upfront $1,625 fee and can choose between three price points to be used as declining balance for both buffet and a la carte options. A discount for students — a 30 percent markdown at a la carte locations and a 50 percent payment at buffet locations — was used to compensate for the program assessment fee and will be revoked under the new plan.

“We heard loud and clear, ‘Get rid of the fee. Restructure it so we don’t have this base fee that we’re paying,’” Woodruff

said. “As our team went together in the fall, [we] essentially landed at pretty much where we are now with the options of buffet meal combined with the declining balance.”

Woodruff, interim director of dining services Jon Brubacher and associate vice president of auxiliary services Kim Kinsel met in the fall with ASG secretary for on-campus affairs Sammi Podolyan and other ASG and Residence Hall Association executives to solicit input on a revamped meal plan.

Podolyan, a sophomore, said transparency and flexibility were two key changes ASG requested.

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TESS SOHNGEN

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Patrick Carroll designs his own board games. He plays the bassoon, electric bass and multiple percussion instruments. He was a street performer and stand-up comedian, is head tutor at the Rinella Learning Center and, like many undergraduates, does not know what he wants to do after finishing his bachelor’s CONTRIBUTED BY TESS SOHNGEN degree in physics.

Patrick Carroll, 31, is studying physics at Miami on the G.I. Bill.

Carroll is 31 years old.

“If we’re talking about non- According to a report from the later worked as a journalist. traditional students, I’m the National Student Clearing- Carroll then worked odd jobs most nontraditional of them house Research Center, over until a change in Chapter 33 of all,” said Carroll. a third of current college stu- the G.I. Bill made college afAlthough they may seem dents are over 25. fordable for him. unusual, “nontraditional” stuAfter high school, Carroll He started at Cincinnati dents like Carroll are more became a musician in the Macommon than some may think. rine Corps in California and NONTRADITIONAL » PAGE 5

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MYAAMIA STUDENT GETS IN TOUCH WITH HIS HERITAGE

MIAMI APPROVES CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DORM

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BOARD URGES TRAVEL, DESPITE FEAR OF ATTACKS

TRACK TEAM PREPARES FOR HILLTOPPER RELAY

Senior Ian Young finds friendship, career path and cultural roots at Miami

A new residence hall will be built on North Quad, with plans to open fall 2018

Growing up in a funeral home, this Miami employee has a dark sense of humor

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Becoming lenipinsia: Myaamia student reflects on experience MYAAMIA

EMILY WILLIAMS NEWS EDITOR

This semester, Ian Young enrolled in IDS 259, “Introduction to the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma,” a course that offers an overview of the people and culture that are the university’s namesake and, since the 1970s, have shared close ties with the school.

For the first two weeks, Ian sat quietly in class, listening to discussions about the history of the tribe and the class’s opinions on Native American stereotypes. After those two weeks were up, the professor, Alysia Fischer, called on Ian to introduce himself. “aya aya ceeki. lenipinsia weenswiaani neehi niila myaamia,” he said. “Hi, everyone. My name is lenipinsia, and I am Myaamia.” niihla myaamia: “I am Miami” Ian Young always knew he was Myaamia but, for 18 years, that was pretty much it.

“It was like a fun fact that I would mention occasionally,” Ian said.

When the Miami tribe was forcibly removed to Kansas in the midnineteenth century, Ian’s great-greatgreat maternal grandfather decided to stay behind and instead settled down in Western Indiana. The removal embittered some of the family, Ian said.

His mother was raised without any interaction with the tribe whatsoever.

As a senior in high school, Ian already knew who he was. He was going to attend the University of Chicago and, eventually, attend graduate school for physics.

“The University of Chicago was the school I had my heart set on,” he said. “It just felt like the place I needed to go.”

So when his mother made an offhand comment about a school she had heard of in Ohio where Myaamia students go, he hardly gave it a thought. On a whim, though, he decided, instead of only applying to the University of Chicago, he would send an application to Miami University, too.

On Christmas Eve, he received a large, rectangular envelope with his acceptance to Miami. Ultimately, the University of Chicago accepted him, too. Although he doubted it would change his mind, he decided to visit Miami.

“There was something that felt right about it,” Ian said about

his first visit.

It wasn’t that he felt right at home — he actually felt like he was in foreign territory — the clothes people wore, the homogeny in appearances, the average household incomes of many students’ families. Miami didn’t feel like home, but it felt like a challenge.

What really motivated him to enroll that day, though, was his visit to the Myaamia Center. It wasn’t until then that he realized, if he went to Miami, he could learn the language his ancestors spoke.

“That was the real hook.” taanisi weenswiaani:“What is my name?”

In traditional Myaamia culture, children were not given names at birth. The parents would wait a couple years, and then, when the time was right, they would bring a gift to an elder in the tribe who had the wisdom to bestow names and ask the elder to name their child.

After the removals in the nineteenth century, the traditional systems for naming slowly deteriorated as the Myaamia community became more fragmented. Fewer people, and eventually none in Ian’s family, had the authority to give names.

Ian’s grandfather was the last person in his family to have received a Myaamia name. »»» When Ian walked into his first Myaamia Heritage Class, the room was uncomfortably quiet. Some people sat in pairs, talking quietly. Others sat silently to themselves. Ian, who thrives in lively, conversational environments, was wildly uncomfortable. It didn’t help that his incoming class was particularly small — only three students.

“There was the idea, at least, that we had this shared heritage,” he said, “but there was no sense of community.” »»» The summer after his freshman year, Ian started journaling. If he hadn’t, the events of July 5, 2013 and the following months would probably be even hazier than they are now.

A cop car. His friend Pat’s motorcycle overturned in a ditch. Two of his best friends — not 50 feet away from him — lying on the pavement.

“The whole thing was a blur. The way people responded to it varied. I fared through pretty well,” he said.

“But it caught up with me.”

When he came back to school that fall, though, the loss of two of his childhood best friends left Ian with a renewed determination to form a deeper connection with the Myaamia students.

A 2015 Miami grad and now a graduate student in philosophy, Myaamia student Chris Bowyer has known Ian since his first year at Miami.

“Ian seemed like the funny guy who didn’t waste time having the people around him not enjoying themselves — the thought never crossed his mind,” Bowyer said.

And people were starting to enjoy themselves; it was visible. At the same time though, almost imperceptibly, things were catching up to him.

By winter break that year, it was clear to Ian what was happening.

“I started very quietly falling into depression, smoothly enough that I didn’t even notice for awhile.”

So smoothly that no one else had really noticed, either.

The next several months were a series of blows — his father falling seriously ill, a painfully isolating summer abroad, the anniversary of his friends’ deaths, a difficult breakup and the realization that — in his junior year of college — he had lost all passion for his major.

His freshman year, Ian declared a double major in philosophy and physics, fully intending to follow through with his plan to attend graduate school. But by the fall of his junior year, he couldn’t possibly see himself having a career in physics for the rest of his life.

So he went to Daryl Baldwin, one of his mentors and the director of the Myaamia Center.

“I came to him and said, ‘Daryl, I don’t know what I want to do for the rest of my life. Can you help me?’”

Ian said. Baldwin agreed and, over the next several months, set up a series of mini internship experiences for Ian, all in some way connected to the Miami Tribe.

Ian spent the summer all over the country — Oxford, Oklahoma, Washington D.C., the East Coast — trying everything from Myaamia educational programming to linguistics to archeological scanning.

He spent the last leg of his internship at the Jacobson Law Group in St. Paul, Minnesota getting his intro-

Plans in place for construction of Myaamia educational gathering space MYAAMIA

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The place on campus that celebrates the Myaamia people most, the Wiikiaami Room, is tucked away in the depths of the Armstrong Student Center.

A panel of photographs and information in the Shade Family Room displays information about the Miami Tribe.

“We’re more than just a pillar in the [Shade] Family Room,” said Zach Roebel, a sophomore Myaamia student.

In the future, however, there will be a much more visible outdoor site on campus that represents the tribe in a unique and symbolic way.

Megan Mooney, also a sophomore Myaamia student, knew very little about her heritage before coming to Miami.

“I personally didn’t know the name of the tribe until my sister applied here,” she said.

Since coming to Miami, Mooney has become much more aware of her ancestors’ history. She and the other Myaamia students take a Heritage Class in which they learn about the language and culture of the tribe as well as ecology and contemporary issues.

Roebel and Mooney, along with several other Myaamia students and a sophomore architecture student, have been helping to plan a site that will represent the tribe’s origin, culture and history.

Every Friday at 4 p.m. since the beginning of the semester, meetings about the site have been held at the Myaamia Center in the Bonham

House on Spring Street. At these meetings, university architect emeritus, Bob Keller, suggested ideas to the team of students and Myaamia Center staff. The group of six to eight students even pitched some ideas of their own to Keller.

A major goal of the group was to create a site with educational value that could teach students about the Miami Tribe.

Keller is no stranger to these types of projects. In the past, he has worked on the Freedom Summer project on Western Campus and the three dimensional seal in the second floor of the Armstrong Student Center.

The project, with a working title of Kihcikama, meaning “the lakes,” is set to break ground sometime in 2017. However, since the project will be entirely funded by donations, the start date is tentative. Keller hopes to get donations from alumni.

The center of the site will feature a pond in the shape of the watershed of the The Great Lakes. The Great Lakes design will reflect the Myaamia origin story in which the Myaamia people emerged from the St. Joseph River in southeastern Michigan. On the perimeter around the pond will be the names of other tribes who lived in the area.

There will also be a terraced hillside overlooking the pond, similar to stairs. They will be made of large, rough natural stone. There will be lunar phases on the face of these terraces. The lunar phases are important to the Myaamia culture because the tribe once used them to track time and stay in tune with the ecology around them.

A gathering tree is another important feature of this site. In every Myaamia village, the tribe would

designate a particular tree to gather around and discuss important issues.

For this reason, a gathering tree has been designated in Kihcikama.

Markers representing the origin of the Myaamia people and their eventual removal to Kansas and Oklahoma will also be present. They will be a subtle feature, said Keller, but since the removal is a part of the Miami Tribe’s history, it is unavoidable and an important symbol to the project.

“They have a past, present, [and] future like everybody does,” Keller said.

The sandhill crane is the longest known symbol of the Myaamia Tribe used to mark their presence on trees and used as a signature on treaties, said George Ironstrack, assistant director of the Myaamia Center. The turtle is also important to the Myaamia culture.

Because the sandhill crane and the turtle are so important to the Myaamia people, there has been talk of having a sculpture of a crane standing on top of a turtle near the pond, representing the origin of the Miami Tribe and additional sculptures of a sandhill crane and a turtle at the spots symbolizing Kansas and Oklahoma looking back at the other sculptures, representing a link between the Myaamia people through time.

Kaihcikama will be situated next to the band practice field on Route 27. This location was chosen because there is parking and an auditorium nearby. It was also important to the group that students walking past and cars driving by could see the site.

“It’s also going to be another nice gathering place if you want to get away from things or meet up with friends,” Keller said.

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Ian Young, a senior Myaamia student, will graduate in May and move to the tribe’s headquarters in Miami, Okla. for a year to work with the legal department. duction to Indian law.

“It was absolutely the best two weeks of my life,” Ian said.

A couple of the firm’s associates in their early thirties were asked to shove aside boxes in the spare room of their apartment so Ian could sleep on an air mattress there for the next two weeks. The youngest in his family — the closest in age to him being 33 — Ian felt both comfortable with and understood by his hosts.

“As I was working with this firm, I knew that the work we were doing mattered,” said Ian. “And if I don’t think something is important, I won’t do it.”

From there he put the wheels in motion — taking an LSAT prep course, studying for the test in June and setting up a gap year to work in the tribe’s legal department at their headquarters in Miami, Oklahoma.

Right now, he has his sights on law school at his almost-alma mater, the University of Chicago.

Finally, he feels like he’s working toward something important. lenipinsia “Underwater panther, whale”

“When I was younger, my mother told me, ‘You weren’t born nice.

You’re going to have to learn to be nice,’” Ian said, tossing his head back and laughing mischievously.

Luckily — just as he had with physics, philosophy, the Myaamia language and now the material for his June LSAT — he did learn.

“Just about anyone can get along with him,” said Megan Mooney, a sophomore and fellow Myaamia student.

There’s still something else, though, behind the easy conversation, warm brown eyes and almost comically large smile, something that’s hard to put a finger on but had to be captured when he was given his traditional Myaamia name last year.

After acquiring a list of names that had been passed down in his family, Ian went to his mother and asked her to think about naming him. Ultimately, she came upon the story of their ancestor, John “Bull” Mongosa, who lived around the time of the removal.

“Bull” made bows and played YOUNG »PAGE 8

Second Friday events celebrate local artists COMMUNITY

MORGAN NGUYEN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The warm glow of the porch light and a spread of cheese, crackers and wine greet guests at the Oxford Community Arts Center (OCAC). The real treat, however, awaits them on the third floor, where rooms that date back to 1850 and once served as college dormitories for the Oxford Female Institute now function as artists’ studios.

The OCAC hosts its free “Second Friday” event once a month as a local celebration of the arts.

April’s event, featuring a special exhibit from Miami’s Opening Minds through Art (OMA) program, will occur from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight, April 8, as an open house.

“It’s a social time to enjoy the arts,” said Andy Lynn, program coordinator at OCAC. “It’s very community-minded as most of the musicians and artists are local. You can visit with artists and see what they do, and some have hands-on activities to share.”

The Second Friday evenings feature an opening reception for that month’s art exhibitions, open studios where the public can browse and talk with artists, a performance by local musicians and other art activities. The events bring together members of the Oxford community in a casual atmosphere. They also involve a number of Miami students, faculty and staff.

“Second Fridays have a nice and open environment, pretty relaxing,” said sophomore Olivia Keefer, an intern with the OCAC. “It’s a new and exciting atmosphere

each month, but the evening also has a comforting consistency of attendance. Students, professors, OCAC board members and locals all come.”

A wide variety of art forms are exhibited at the events including pottery, sculpture, textiles and oil and watercolor paintings.

Biology instructor and laboratory coordinator Mike Wright has a studio where he displays his work in polymer clay painted with acrylic paint. Most are sculpted into animals.

“I’ve had many unique conversations with visitors to my studio,” said Wright. “Some involve the challenges of sculpting and working in polymer clay and some are about the natural histories of the animals I’ve sculpted or the particulars of the cartoon and children’s book figures I’ve produced.”

Artwork created through the Scripps Gerontology Center’s OMA program will be displayed in the OCAC throughout April. OMA is an intergenerational art program for people with dementia. Through the program, Miami students and other community members are paired with residents at long-term care facilities in Oxford, Hamilton, Middletown and other nearby locations for a semester of weekly art classes.

All of the pieces featured in the exhibit were created by people with dementia.

Unique to tonight’s event is a poetry reading by Dominique C. Hill, live music by Lisa Biales and crafting led by local Girl Scout Ella OCAC »PAGE 8

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Academics or athletics: Salary rosters published FINANCE

ANNA DORR

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On March 29, Bizjournals published the 2016 salary database for Miami University, revealing that head football coach Chuck Martin will receive an annual salary $33 thousand higher than President David Hodge. Across the country, universities have higher pay for their athletic coaching staffs than for their presidents, raising the question of what is valued more: academics or athletics.

According to the same source, salary databases that were published in 2015 for the Ohio State University showed that head football coach Urban Meyer receives almost $19,000 more in annual salary pay than President Michael Drake.

Cathy Wagner, professor of English and vice president of Miami’s American Association of

University Professors (AAUP) advocacy chapter, noticed the general decline in cash flow in academic admission and an increase in athletic salaries at Miami.

“I think anybody would look at those salaries and think, ‘What the heck is going on? Is this a school?’” Wagner said. “Once you start looking into this stuff, you see that half the student fees go to the football program.”

Each year, Miami University allocates $20 million to intercollegiate athletics and ,each year, student fees are used to cover these costs. Yet students are not aware that their fees help pay for this loss.

“Getting information out is really important so that students know what’s going on,” said Wagner.

Miami’s Board of Trustees is responsible for the allocation of student fees, but Wagner thinks more community input is called for. “[The Board of Trustees] are

supposed to represent the Miami community and do what’s best for Miami,” Wagner said. “I think it would be good to find out what the community thinks and then convey that to the Board.”

Creamer said. “Because there are many that argue that we probably should pay more [for a talented football coach].”

Wagner said the competitiveness of sports and higher educa-

Miami athletics has not proved they are worthy of more funding. Until I see this, we need to focus on academics.

Chief Financial Officer to the Board of Trustees David Creamer, Vice President of Finance and Business Services, said that the board welcomes feedback from a variety of constituencies.

“Unfortunately, with these issues, there are oftentimes disagreements among the constituencies about what to prioritize,”

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tion is increasing, which only increases salaries.

“We are seeing market pressures as it relates to coaches’ salaries,” Wagner said. “There’s a limited number of people who do these things, and so [salaries are] based upon market pressures that come into play.”

In Miami’s case, the market

for a football coach necessitated paying third-year coach Martin a higher salary than his predecessor, Don Treadwell.

First-year Matthew Pesacreta does not agree with the discrepancy between Hodge’s and Martin’s respective salaries. Though athletics are important to him, Pesacreta thinks the salary change between Chuck Martin and president Hodge should be reevaluated.

“The football team has not produced results nor been a successful team,” Pesacreta said. “While [Martin’s] job may require a lot of work, so does President Hodge’s.”

Though the budget for athletics hasn’t affected his academic experience, Pesacreta believes this money should be put toward academics instead of athletics.

“Miami athletics has not proved they are worthy of more funding,” Pesacreta said. “Until I see this, we need to focus on academics.”

Fashion minor makes waves during MUCFD’s annual Fashion Week FASHION

KEVIN VESTAL

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University’s Club of Fashion and Design (MUCFD) kicks off its annual Fashion Week on Monday. Over 250 students from the organization will come together to design outfits, model clothes and market masterpieces.

“I think people will be super impressed with the quality of the garments,” said Maggie Durrin, one of MUCFD’s design directors.

Durrin’s own collection, titled “Les Jardins Du Paris,” is inspired by the art of Claude Monet and will be on display alongside the work of numerous other student designers at MUCFD’s 10th annual spring fashion show on April 16.

Fashion Week serves as one of the university’s largest outlets for students to “express their creativity” through modeling or marketing, said Christina Beebe, vice president of MUCFD. “People feel confident when they’re dressed a certain way or have their hair a certain way,” said Beebe.

Preparations for Fashion Week have been a year in the making.

Beginning in September, the club’s executive board checked in on designers monthly, examining their sketches and patterns.

Designers were encouraged to make mood boards — collages made from magazine clippings and fabric swatches — that would inspire them throughout the design process, said Durrin.

According to Caroline Cliff, MUCFD’s PR and marketing director, anyone is welcome to de-

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Dresses made by students in a fashion design sprint course are currently on display in Boyd Hall and will be displayed at the MUCFD Fashion Show next week. sign for the show, regardless of their creative background.

“It’s not super strict because we don’t want to discourage anybody,” Cliff said. “But we want to make sure they can create a full collection for our show that will look nice.”

Designers are not just limited to cloth, as evidenced when Joe Plecha turned heads last year for experimenting with metal.

This year, the annual MUCFD fashion show at Millett Hall will see a genesis due to the introduction of Miami’s fashion minor, according to Beebe.

Before the minor, most MUCFD designers were self-taught. Fashion-oriented students took sewing classes through the theatre department, but never had professional training for runway-ready dresses.

Now students can learn in Miami’s new industrial sewing studio and carry over their skills from the classroom to the club.

“The minor drives the club and the club drives the minor,” Beebe said. “We work together to give students the best resources we can.”

The program started two years ago when MUCFD students asked for a way to study fashion in the

classroom. New faculty members were brought on board last semester to meet this demand.

“I’m only here because of them,” said Della Reams, a fashion professor who was hired in fall 2015.

Reams and Leslie Stoel worked together to combine the resources of the College of Creative Arts and Farmer School of Business.

The new curriculum teaches all elements of the industry, from silk dyeing to fashion buying.

As of March 1, the fashion minor has 160 students enrolled, many of whom overlap with MUCFD membership. Reams said that in

an average week, she gets at least three requests from students who want to add the minor.

Due to the program’s success, Reams and Stoel are planning to debut a fashion co-major in the fall.

The co-major will have three tracks — corporate business, entrepreneurship and design.

New course offerings like “Apparel Construction Technique” and “Contemporary Fashion History” will prepare fashion students to enter the field.

“These students don’t know what they don’t know,” Reams said. “I’m here to show them.”

New residence hall approved to combat housing shortage CONSTRUCTION

TYLER BERRENS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

A new residence hall is set to be built on the site of the varsity tennis courts on North Quad and will open for the fall 2018 semester. It will begin construction this summer.

The Campus Planning Committee approved the plans for the yetto-be-named residence hall in September 2015. In February, sketches of the new building were shown to the committee.

The Campus Planning Committee reviews projects from university architects to make sure they fit in with the guidelines for the overall plant and footprint of the university. They meet once a month when there are new proposals to consider.

“It was a fairly smooth process.

There was nothing outside what the guidelines state,” said Brian Currie, chair of the Campus Planning Committee.

As Miami University continues to set enrollment records year after

year, the larger class sizes have led to multiple housing shortages on campus. Miami first combated the shortages with the construction of Etheridge Hall and Maple Street Station, followed by the new Western Campus residence halls. Despite the new residence halls, more housing was needed.

The North Quad site was first identified in the Miami University Housing and Dining Master Plan, published in 2011. It was one of four potential sites for new residence halls. Two of those sites were used for Maple Street Station and Etheridge Hall, along with the new Western Campus residence halls.

“Originally, we thought we could get by with just Etheridge, Maple Street, and Western,” said Robert Bell, associate director of campus planning.

As more housing was needed, Miami looked at the potential of renovating Swing Hall. However, according to Bell, for the quality they desired, it made more economic sense to build the new dorm on the North Quad site.

The new dorm will hold 350 beds. It will be between three and four stories tall and will be divided into three wings. There will be a full kitchen, recreation room and bike storage. The building will host two offices for residence directors.

“It will look like Hahne and

A new residence hall is set to be built on the site of the varsity tennis courts on North Quad and will open for the fall 2018 semester.

Hepburn with an inside similar to Western. Very contemporary,” Bell said.

It has not yet been determined if the new dorm will be first-year or upperclassmen housing.

“It would depend upon the particular demand, as well as the overall mix on campus,” said Brian

Woodruff, director of the H.O.M.E office.

The new residence hall will continue Miami’s commitment to environmental sustainability and is expected to be certified LEED silver. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is designed to promote green design, construction and operations and is administered by the United States Green Building Council. The Farmer School of Business was the first building on campus to achieve LEED certification. All new buildings have the goal of reaching LEED silver status, according to Bell.

The building will take the place of the varsity tennis courts behind Hepburn Hall. The tennis courts will be relocated to the sports complex near Yager Stadium where an old football practice field next to the field hockey turf will become the new tennis complex.

The construction cost has been estimated at $30 million, paid through bonds taken out by the university, said Bell.

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Bryan Partner grew up in a small, rural town in Pennsylvania. He was tall and big and was bullied a little in school. He played the trumpet in band until he graduated high school.

And Bryan grew up in a funeral home — the family business.

His great-grandfather started the business in 1924 and handed it down from there.

“There was definitely a stigma of living in a funeral home. People didn’t come over to the house, and so it was just me and my sister and then imagination,” Bryan said.

He had a hugely active imagination — afraid of Jack Nicholson’s ‘Joker’ and gnomes in the attic eaves — but never the actual bodies

downstairs.

That’s not to say living in a funeral home wasn’t hard. It was often stressful, time consuming and interruptive.

“When the phone rang at dinnertime, everyone would sort of tense up and wait to see,” Bryan said.

“My sister and I used to play this game of the three yes-es. If mom said yes three times, it meant somebody died and then there went the next three days.”

Bryan enjoyed his odd childhood and sometimes misses it, but he never planned on taking over the family business.

Instead, he works as the senior library technician in the CIM lab in King Library. But even that’s not what he intended to do — Bryan received his Masters degree in creative writing.

“So I have two degrees in creative writing working in a technology lab,” Bryan said with a smirk.

Throughout his life, Bryan used his experiences from the funeral home.

Starting in the lab, he knew how to use a fax machine and Photoshop from running obituaries. He’s no stranger to late nights and he’s good with people — able to answer questions, fix problems and deal with emotional students who need to print a paper that’s due in a few minutes.

And for his writing, he’s used his odd outlook on death and fictionalized some of the stories surrounding it.

Bryan has a very dark sense of humor but doesn’t see anything wrong with it.

“Life is far too short to be so damn serious all the time,” he said.

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Members of Miami University’s Creative Writing department attended the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) annual conference last weekend.

Held in Los Angeles this year, the AWP Conference is the largest literary conference in North America, welcoming over 12,000 authors, writers, educators, students and publishers. Many high profile members of the contemporary literary community, such as Jonathan Franzen, Emily St. John Mandel and Joyce Carol Oates were in attendance. There were more than 2,000 lectures, speakers and panels during the four-day conference.

Miami sent several members of the Creative Writing department faculty, as well as both graduate and undergraduate students in the program.

Director of the Creative Writing program, Cathy Wagner, expressed the importance of how the AWP Conference translates back to the classroom at Miami.

“We’re very lucky to be able to attend because it’s a way to really bring back a real-world sense of what’s happening in the literary community, which the students can apply in their work,” Wagner said.

In addition to being a tremendous venue for writers to explore the community, the conference is a great experience for members of the literary market, especially smaller publishers.

Aside from the many speakers, there is a book fair during the conference that boasted thousands of works from smaller publishers and lesser-known authors striving to have their voices heard.

“The AWP is a really important venue for small presses to sell their books,” Wagner said. “It’s fun to see works that you’d never see at a regular bookstore. The smaller publishers are able to play around with a lot of experimentation and new directions that larger corporations aren’t able to.”

Keith Tuma, acting chair of the English department and editor of

the Miami University Press, attended the conference. With the press’ recent success, Tuma’s presence was important from a publishing perspective.

The Miami University Press has received great critical acclaim recently after publishing “Mitko”

by Garth Greenwell. Originally the winner of the press’ annual novella contest, “Mitko” went on to become the first section of a threepart best selling novel.

Additionally, the Miami University Press was featured in an article in The New Yorker magazine, which cited Peter Manson’s poetry collection as the best translation of French poet, Mallarmé, thought by many to be impossible to translate.

Tuma sees the AWP Conference as a good way for the press to build upon their recent accomplishments.

“The conference is a great opportunity to see how the profession operates, both publishing and presenting,” Tuma said. “There’s a good mix of both learning and promotional opportunities.”

It’s a way to really bring back a real-world sense of what’s happening in the literary community, which the students can apply in their work.

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Associate professor Margaret Luongo also attended the conference and hosted panels.

Luongo, who released her new book “History of Art: Stories” this month, taught “Visual Arts in the Creative Writing and Literature Classroom” as well as “Succeed Better,” a panel about redefining success in the competitive and often unforgiving creative writing field.

“There is something at AWP for any interest at any level. It’s a great way to network with others in the literary community and find support of other educators and students,” Luongo said.

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When she first started teaching at Miami University, Susana Madinabeitia Manso asked Laura Llamas Fraga to move in with her. Laura was ecstatic.

That is, until Susana changed her mind in order to separate her apartment from her work.

Undeterred, Laura disguised herself as a macho-man, “Lauro,” and aced Susana’s interview.

The two roommates became fast friends through yoga and cycling, but Laura struggled to contain her secret.

Except that’s not actually how they became roommates. That’s just what they tell their students.

In order to teach the past tense to their Spanish 201 and 202 classes, Laura and Susana show short videos of themselves on wild escapades.

Their first video revolved around cooking tortillas, but their recent stories are more dramatic.

In the second episode, students laugh along as “Lauro” rescues Susana from an impending train in a dream sequence set to Enrique Iglesias’ “Hero.”

“Laura comes up with the ideas while I have the editing skills,” Susana said.

Susana and Laura are roommates in real life and vacationed together in Puerto Rico over spring break — a welcome reprieve from grading exams.

Although both hail from northern Spain, the two met at West Virginia University and later bonded over racquetball.

“She was really good at studying and memorizing, and she helped me,” Laura said. “That’s how we became good friends.”

The two were overjoyed when they were both hired to teach at Miami University, although they were disappointed to learn the school wasn’t in Florida.

The two constantly push each other to try new things and be better instructors, even at the expense of mild embarrassment.

“Between teacher and student, there is a power distance,” Laura said. “Then you see the teacher doing stupid things and it breaks that barrier.”

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Get ready to throw back to the days of junior high when The All-American Rejects perform on campus.

The band is performing at Spring Concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 30 in Millett Hall.

MAP’s board of arts, concerts and entertainment is in charge of the event and chose The AllAmerican Rejects from a list of potential performers.

“We just felt like they were a very recognizable name,” said Junior Beth Graham, co-chair of the committee. “You don’t have to Google their name and they have a lot of hits that are familiar.”

Not only is the band familiar, but the committee thought it fit a popular theme among Miami students.

“They’re semi on the throwback lines and that’s kind of a big thing that’s here, like ’90s night is

very popular, so we thought that was a good direction to go with,” said Graham.

And it seems that they were right.

Students commented on the Instagram post made by Miami expressing excitement and plans to attend. A few recent graduates even said they wished they were still on campus so they could attend, too.

“I haven’t heard any music from them in a long time, but it’s music that I used to love,” senior Maddy Rieman said.

She and senior Tina Beebe discussed how The All-American Rejects were a surprising choice, but agreed that it was a good one due to the age of students now.

MAP plans to make Spring Concert an annual event and hopes that the band will be memorable and help kick-start the success of concerts in years to come.

Tickets are on sale now for $15 through Friday and $20 after presale.

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State University, transferred to the University of Cincinnati, then to Miami’s Middletown campus, returned to work for two years and finally came to Oxford last semester.

“It’s hard for me to really assess Miami because it’s hard for me to get involved … the facets of Miami I do participate in I mostly enjoy,” said Carroll.

Getting involved on campus can be more difficult for older, nontraditional students because most student organizations — like Greek chapters — are directed at the younger student population.

“That means all my peers aren’t really my peers in my age group, and all the people in my age group aren’t in my class,” said Carroll.

He and his lab partner call themselves “Team Outlier” because he is the oldest person and she the only female in the class.

However, older students like Carroll often have much busier schedules, despite the lack of events and organizations geared toward their age group “I’m always busy,” said Carroll.

“My schedule is really rigorous. I don’t have time to stop and look at the posters.”

Between his 21 tutoring hours at

Rinella Learning Center, 18 credit hour semesters and new responsibilities as the president of the Society of Physics Students, Carroll rarely finds an hour to relax.

Sometimes he takes the OxfordMiddletown shuttle home so he can read his textbooks for his hour-long commute, and some days he has to skip lunch because he’s too busy throughout the day.

No one understands a busy schedule more than Deputy Michelle Merz of the Miami University Police Department (MUPD).

She works full time as a police officer, works part-time at the Butler County Jail and is a part-time graduate student.

“I’ve always had two jobs,” said Merz. “There’ve been weeks when I’ve worked 40 hours here, 16 hours there, plus my classes and study time.”

Her hours change depending on the week and leave only five to six hours for sleep per day, which is a comfortable routine for someone who has worked the third shift for 18 years.

Merz left her old job at the county jail almost nine years ago to work at Miami so that her two sons could be eligible for benefits for college.

Her sons didn’t choose to come to Miami, so Merz — like five other

officers from MUPD — decided to take the opportunity to further her own education.

“If it comes up, and I want the opportunity, I want to be qualified,” said Merz.

She returned to classes this semester after 20 years outside of school to study political science with a public administration concentration. Although she doesn’t know what she wants to do with her master’s degree, she likes the variety of possibilities the degree affords her.

“Once I graduate from my master’s program, I don’t know what I’m going to do because I’ve always had something going on ... even after retirement in seven or eight years, I can’t see myself just not doing anything,” said Merz.

She’s considered a wide variety of post-grad career paths — working at a school, scoring a job with a Fortune 500 company, becoming the MUPD police chief, or maybe just retiring and hanging her master’s certificate on the wall of the home that she shares with her husband and three dogs.

Carroll, although unsure of what he wants to do with his physics major, is considering teaching after graduating.

But the path to graduation is much

longer for these nontraditional students. Although he has senior status based on his number of credit hours, Carroll is considered a sophomore in the eyes of the Physics Department. Merz will not graduate from her 30 credit hour master’s program until December 2017 or later.

Not only do these older students have less time in their schedule and more time until graduation, but they also have more responsibilities than younger students.

Merz was a nontraditional student even as an undergraduate at Miami. She started her undergraduate degree when she was 18 and, by age 20, had her first son.

“That was stressful at that time, but it doesn’t bother me that everybody’s younger, because I’ve been young before, my sons are young, and I love working with young people,” said Merz.

Merz’s sons are now 22 and 26, and she recently became a grandmother.

“Having children prevents you from doing whatever you want all the time,” said Carroll.

When he was 20, Carroll had his first son. He now has two boys, ages four and 11, who are inseparable regardless of their age gap.

“When you’re 18, 19, 20 and you want to do all of those party-style

things … I had a baby, so I didn’t have that opportunity,” said Carroll.

“That didn’t mean life was over, so I still have those opportunities now.”

“I understand what it means to be an adult more,” said Carroll. “I’m not going to say I’m an adult — I’ll never say I’m an adult or understand what it means to be an adult, but I’ve been doing it longer than [younger students] have.”

Carroll doesn’t feel anxiety being older than everyone else and sometimes even older than his professors.

Merz, too, was the oldest person in her Women in Public Administration class.

“This has been an awesome experience because some of the things we discuss and read has happened — I’ve lived it. I didn’t know at the time that it was something, that it had a name,” said Merz, referring to topics like government bureaucracy and the glass ceiling.

Merz said her classmates have been supportive of her, and some have told her how thankful they were to have her in the class and to have had the opportunity to hear about Merz’s real-world experiences.

“I didn’t realize I was going to be such a tool for everybody else.

I thought I was going to be the one struggling,” said Merz.

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Acts of terrorism should not discourage students from studying abroad EDITORIAL

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

In November, the world was shocked as operatives working with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria carried out a coordinated attack on Paris, killing 130 people and injuring several hundred more. Just last month, the same group took responsibility for the bombing of Brussels, Belgium, an attack that left 32 dead and hundreds more injured yet again.

Many other countries, including Turkey, Egypt and Yemen, have also seen civilians slaughtered by the hand of ISIS in the past year.

These terrorist attacks have been frightening for Americans everywhere, but for students studying abroad or hoping to study abroad, they have been a chilling wake up call to the dangers of our world. However, though they are no doubt heinous, horrific and evil, these tragedies should not deter students from studying abroad.

In order to understand the likelihood of such an event killing a given individual, these deaths must be considered in the context of other data.

On the day of the most recent Paris attacks, about three times as many French citizens died from cancer than did from the attacks, according to the Washington Post.

Keeping in mind the Charlie Hebdo attack that occurred in Paris in January 2015, about 150 French citizens died from terrorist activities in 2015. That same year, over 3,000 French

citizens died from traffic-related incidents, according to the World Health Organization.

In 2012, you were four times as likely to be murdered in the U.S. than you were in France.

Even with the addition of the recent attacks, you are still more likely to be murdered here rather than there.

Though media outlets heavily cover such

living our lives and trying to improve our homeland. We should look at the rest of the world in the same light.

However, there is a greater cause to which we must answer than simply the numbers. The goal of groups like ISIS is to inflict panic and dread throughout the world among those who oppose them. That is why we call them terror-

When we give in to fear, we give up the ability to learn from each other and build a global support network against the evils of terrorism.

incidents, the odds of being killed in a terrorist attack are still quite low when compared to the many other calamities that may occur.

We are not underplaying or overshadowing the horrors of those who have suffered at the hands of radical Islamic terrorism. These acts are indeed evil and violent, and we stand with all people victimized by such horror. What we are saying is that those issues are not so prevalent that they should taint our minds with cynicism of global outreach.

We have terror and violence in our own backyard, but that does not deter us from

ists in the first place; they use fear to achieve their ends.

When we give in to fear, we give up the ability to learn from each other and build a global support network against the evils of terrorism. We consequently hand groups like ISIS the biggest victory of all — the cession of our way of life.

Studying abroad is about broadening one’s horizons and building education through an understanding of diversity in the world. Seeing different cultures allows us to more clearly see our own and pushes us to become more

global citizens in an increasingly global society.

People ­— especially students — must see the world in order to learn about it. The threat of extremist groups is not currently grave enough to determine whether or not we study abroad.

This is not to say that there is no risk to travel. It is important to remember to always be smart when in a foreign environment. Stick with friends, stay in contact with supervisors and do research about a certain area before traveling. The ability to get out of dangerous situations is key in any culture.

Blanket fear of the unknown, though, will only lead us down the path of ignorance and insecurity about our world.

It is also important to remember as well that this is a global situation. We rely on the examples from Europe in this piece because that is where about half of U.S. study abroad students choose to go, according to U.S. News & World Report, but attacks in the Middle East and elsewhere cannot be overlooked if we are to truly overcome this force.

Most victims of terrorism are Muslim, and if we do not stand with them as well, then we are not truly standing against evil.

Therefore, the more connections we make around the globe by studying abroad, the more we can work together towards defeating extremism.

Students should blow off class, Shared sidewalk model provides possible bask in their genius statuses solution to biker-pedestrian rivalry SATIRE

TO THE EDITOR: Hey students, listen up: You’re geniuses!

You have the highest SAT/ACT/ whatever scores. You have the highest high school grades. You’re the cream of the crop. You’re the smartest, most brilliant, most bestest geniuses in the history of the whole world! Ever!

Now, the brighter among you recognize this kind of thing for what it is and pay it little heed. You understand you’re here to get an education, you were admitted because of your potential and you’re here to work on developing, reaching and realizing your potential. So stop reading this right now.

But you dimmer bulbs out there — hey — follow the fantastic implications: You DON’T need to study. Why?

Because you’re already geniuses!

You DON’T need to do reading assignments. Why? Because you’re already geniuses!

Everything you write is perfect.

You know why — because you’re already geniuses! You DON’T need to bother with taking notes during class. Why? Because — Bingo! — you’re already geniuses.

In fact, you DON’T need to attend class at all. Just register and never show up. Why? That’s right, you’re already geniuses!

And if you don’t get straight A’s, then clearly it’s your professors’ fault and legal action is definitely called for. Why? Yep. Because you’re already geniuses!

So get busy, get Uptown and in the bars and stoke what our administration calls your Miami “experience!”

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Trump draws striking resemblence to former American Idol star POLITICS

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Sanjaya Malakar was a finalist on the sixth season of American Idol.

He had an atrocious sense of style, often pairing leather with leather, denim with denim and ponytail mohawks with odd pink and purple streaks in his hair.

Possibly his most defining feature was his complete lack of singing ability.

One of his most infamous moments is him singing “Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About” by Bonnie Raitt, to which Simon Cowell responded by looking directly at the camera and asking America why the hell we were voting for him. Despite Cowell’s attempt to knock some sense into the country, Sanjaya continued to progress in the competition.

Sanjaya’s performances seemed to get worse and worse each week.

Sure, he was a crowd pleaser and funny to listen to, but the “music” that came out of his mouth sounded like a cross between an off key mountain goat bleating as it falls to its death and a cat drowning in a bucket of sour milk. It was comical, really.

My friends and I all had a good laugh after watching Sanjaya perform. We would vote for him after watching every episode so we could have something to look forward to

the next week. We loved that talentless fool.

But the competition heated up and as time quickly began to evaporate, fan favorites — talented fan favorites — were being voted off each week. Ladies and gentlemen who were incredibly gifted with real ability took their final bow on the Idol stage, as Sanjaya was somehow, inexplicably standing amongst the other ‘safe’ contestants.

It was that moment, when it got down to the final 10, that my friends and I realized — holy shit, Sanjaya might actually be the next American Idol. He had an actual chance at winning the competition. He thought he could actually be the next American Idol. And it was no one’s fault but our own.

Similar to Sanjaya, Donald Trump, businessman extraordinaire and outspoken public figure, has a very promising chance to be the next president of the United States of America. And it’s no one’s fault but our own.

When Trump first announced that he was running for president, he had Sanjaya-like appeal.

For example, Trump loves to hear the sound of his own voice. The words that come out of his mouth are so extreme, so radical and so unhinged they have an edge of dark humor to them. In the GOP debates, he shouts at you through your home television set things such as, “All refugees are ISIS in disguise,” and “I

SAFETY

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Oxford, Ohio is in the midst of an age-old feud, one that has survived the test of time and still haunts us today. I’m not talking about Miami versus OU, or Greeks and the GDIs. I’m talking about the bitter rivalry between motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.

As a general rule, the first two groups hold nothing but contempt for the third. Bicyclists, after all, are sometimes hazards on roads and, more often than not, create dangerous situations on sidewalks as they zoom past pedestrians walking the same direction.

The issue enjoys a lull during the winter months, as cold weather forces bikers into cars and busses, and their bikes onto racks and into garages. But with spring officially upon us again, it’s only a matter of time before the bikes are back out in full force.

What’s more, a task force has emerged from Western 431: Synthesis into Action, a service-learning course with the goal of implementing a bike share program on Miami’s campus within the next year. With affordable, convenient access to bikes all over campus, you can bet there will be more bikers on the road — and sidewalks — than ever; and more tension between motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.

Most bikers know it’s illegal to ride on sidewalks, but would still rather break a law that goes largely unenforced than risk their own safety on roads. And with bike racks sitting outside every academic building on campus, is it really fair to expect cyclists to stay off sidewalks?

The bike lane stretching the length of Spring Street was a step in the right direction, as was the shared sidewalk down Patterson Avenue. These high-traffic areas love Mexico, but they’re not sending their best” and that “We are going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it” and that “We’re going to carpet bomb the Middle East.” These moments are laughable, just like the sound of Sanjaya trying to riff a couple notes, until you realize, “wait ... he’s ... serious?”

Yes. He is serious.

Everyone thought Trump running was a publicity stunt. “Don’t worry, he’ll dropout,” broadcast and print journalists alike would say. It’s

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were notorious for hazardous pedestrian/biker interactions, and those lanes eased the pressure.

Unfortunately, these only serve a small portion of the campus and the town in general. High Street, for instance, is a very high-traffic area with no provision for bikers.

Groups have been lobbying for more bike lanes on and off campus for some time, but the same problem always stymies progress: parking. Any initiative to increase biker capacity on roads would remove

which to expand other sidewalks that aren’t yet up to snuff. This would get bicyclists off the roads and offer a safer alternative to weaving in and out of students or negotiating dangerous intersections with impatient motorists. And all without touching a single parking space.

Of course, adding four to eight feet of sidewalk to various campus pathways won’t come free. The OATS is expected to cost around $600 thousand by the time of its

Maybe a bike-loop around campus isn’t the answer we’re looking for, and bike lanes aren’t feasible everywhere. But we can’t have bikers running into pedestrians on sidewalks either.

spaces and exacerbate Oxford’s already dismal parking situation. To find the solution to this problem, we need to go off-road.

Sam Perry, Oxford’s city planner and member of the Oxford Area Trail System (OATS), has put together plans for a recreational trail (by the same name) that would stretch from the Black Covered Bridge on Morning Sun Road to the DeWitt Cabin near Route 73. Upon its completion, it will form a loop around the entire town.

Maybe a bike-loop around campus isn’t the answer we’re looking for, and bike lanes aren’t feasible everywhere. But we can’t have bikers running into pedestrians on sidewalks either. That being said, the solution lies not in more road access, but rather off the beaten path — literally — in a new system of shared-sidewalk pathways.

Miami has many sidewalks already suited to follow the shared sidewalk model on Patterson Avenue, and ample green space on

completion, and the Miami University project wouldn’t be much different. However, considering the 53 million dollars Miami has poured into the Armstrong Student Center, $600 thousand seems like pocket change when talking about an issue of student safety.

Increased capacity for bikers could have many far-reaching effects, as well. More bikers could mean an increase in overall student health and wellness, fewer cars on campus and in the long run, a decreased carbon footprint for the university as a whole. Plus, a system of devoted bike paths would be one more highlight about which campus tour guides could boast.

It’s time Miami caught up to the increasing bike culture on campus.

Let’s end the battle against bicyclists and leave it between pedestrians and motorists, as God intended.

been several months now since he announced his campaign ... and he’s still here. He’s polling ahead of the other GOP candidates. People love him. He could actually win. Why is he still here?

It’s like what we all thought when we saw Sanjaya on stage during the semifinals of American Idol: “How the hell did Sanjaya get up there?”

Every time I watched one of the GOP debates and Trump was dead center because his numbers were the best, I just thought to myself, “How

the hell did Trump get up there?”

This isn’t funny anymore. It’s not a joke. It is our duty as American citizens to ensure that our nation does not fall into the hands of Donald Trump.

We didn’t let Sanjaya get past seventh place. We realized our mistake.

Let’s have that same realization with Trump, okay people?

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Visit to Bush Library reminder of mishandled War on Terror

Germans set example for crosswalks, encourage Americans to review overlooked signals LIFE

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This past weekend, I had a chance to visit the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas.

I’ve never been to a presidential library before, so I had no expectations. It was well worth the price of admission.

Yes, it obviously slants toward Bush favorably, on how he handled 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and it even somehow boasted about No Child Left Behind.

Even so, I appreciated how beautiful and interesting the library was.

For instance, there was an impressive LED video wall above the Freedom Hall which showed in a 360-degree perspective, the American people in various occupations, all the past presidents and then a flyover of Washington D.C. It was also an interactive experience. I picked a voting card that gave me the identity of a white man of any economic class in 1828 -- the first time most white men of any economic class were eligible to vote. I had the choice of Andrew Jackson or John Quincy Adams for president.

Then I had a chance to see what it was like to give a presidential speech via teleprompter. I found it quite difficult, however.

The replica White House Oval Office was stunning to see in person, too.

Nevertheless, Bush’s presidency will forever be marked by 9/11 and it’s no different with his presidential library.

There’s an exhibit of 9/11 debris, the famous photo of Bush receiving information about 9/11 during a book reading in Sarasota, Florida and Bush’s itinerary that day, like talking on the phone to Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton and his dad.

But what stuck with me the most and nearly brought me to tears was the sympathy letters children and adults from all over the world had written to Americans after 9/11.

A schoolgirl from Latvia drew a heart with wings that said, “We will be with you.”

A child in Germany drew a picture of hands together around the globe with a bright sun and birds flying in the air.

An Egyptian citizen wrote, “I offer my sincerest condolences to all American families and ask God to help us through these difficult times.”

There’s too many to reprint here, but suffice it to say, the outpouring is overwhelming and a beautiful thing to see. If you have time, you can see a great many of them on the presidential library web site.

The library states about these condolences, “Despite the horrific loss of life, the Nation drew strength from citizens from around the world. What follows is a small sample of the condolence materials representing over 75 countries that poured into the United States’ embassies...the world remained interconnected by its common humanity.”

This is what most saddens and frustrates me: after 9/11, we understandably had much of the world’s sympathy and we could have done something special after 9/11.

We could have been brave and bold. We could have been compassionate and understanding.

We could have been steadfast in maintaining our principles in the face of those who wished to see them dismissed at the slightest bit of trouble.

Instead, within a few short years, we squandered all of that potential.

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We squandered it in the bowels of Guantanamo Bay, where we imprisoned people without due process and tortured them. Even to this day, there remains prisoners that should be released and prisoners that are being tortured through the inhumane process of force-feeding.

We squandered it in the desert hell of Iraq, a country we invaded based on lies and a country which had nothing to do with 9/11. For our efforts, we set the stage for an estimated 500,000 dead Iraqis, 4,486 dead U.S. soldiers and many more wounded at a cost of $1.7 trillion with an estimated $6 trillion over the next four decades. Not to mention, we destabilized the region and enabled the rise of ISIS. We squandered it at home, too, by giving into Islamophobia and nationalism parading as patriotism, monitoring and surveilling the lives of Muslim-Americans, and willingly giving up our freedoms to the USA PATRIOT Act in the name of false security.

We squandered it by giving George W. Bush at the time the AUMF three days after 9/11, which was a blank check for for-

We could have been brave and bold. Instead, we squandered all of that potential.

ever war, anywhere and everywhere, including through President Obama’s administration.

We squandered it in the present day by having now bombed seven Muslim-majority countries, re-engaged in Iraq and totally forgetting about the ongoing and unending hostilities in Afghanistan.

The seven, by the way, are: Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Iraq and Yemen, which the latter has been particularly brutal as we’ve aided and been complicit to Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaigns. There’s an eighth country Obama has bombed -- the Philippines -- but it’s a Muslim-minority country.

Andrew Bacevich in the Huffington Post gave a rundown of the “forever war” events just in the last month or so: In Yemen, a U.S. airstrike killed at least 50 individuals.

In Somalia, another U.S. airstrike killed a reported 150 militants (keep in mind, that’s the U.S. government’s assertion).

The U.S. is gearing back up for stronger re-engagement in Libya, after destabilizing the country in 2011.

As Bacevich pointed out, none of the groups targeted had anything to do with 9/11 and yet, the AUMF somehow allows for the president to carry on these bombing campaigns.

It’s further worth noting that Obama campaigned on and still boasts about ending the Iraq War. There are now 5,000 U.S. military personnel in the country and the number keeps incrementally increasing.

Likewise, Obama boasts about ending the Afghanistan War and yet, he has now passed that on to his successor.

How did we get to this point of forever war and squandering all of our principles in the name of fighting an elusive War on Terror?

The 15-year anniversary of 9/11 is this year and it seems not only have we failed to learn anything since then, but we are likely to continue the forever war unabated.

GRAHAM VON CARLOWITZ OPINION EDITOR

I’m scared. It’s been nearly 7 months, and I am still scared.

The worst part is that no one has taken action yet, and I feel like a ticking time bomb each time I cross the street.

Back in August, I returned from a yearlong sojourn in Germany.

That’s what I call it now — a sojourn — because it inherently elevates my intellectual status. “Oh my, a sojourn? How very mature of you,” I imagine a random southern lady saying.

The true purpose of my trip was not to impress imaginary wives of Colonel Sanders with my lexical prowess, but rather to learn. Learn a new culture, a new language, a new way to stare into a stranger’s eyes without looking away for fear of being discovered.

That’s one of the first things you notice in Germany — on the train, standing in line at the coffee stand, you name it. Without hesitation, the Germans stare into your soul, searching for a solid 40 seconds for what I assume is a reason for my existence.

“What are you up to in our country?” I felt them asking. “You can’t roll your r’s. You don’t belong here,” they said with their eyes. It was torture for many months.

By the end, though, it had occurred to me how simply fun it is to

blankly beam your eyes into another’s, unabashedly staring until the recipient gives up and, in a sweat, jumps off the train at the next stop.

The Germans were just having fun.

The other thing I had realized by the end of my sojourn was something you pick up on almost immediately in Germany. The crosswalks, in all their boring splendor, exist for a reason. As a foreigner, I not only gave myself away by shifting my glance on the trains when met by an eye-looker; it turns out, walking when the Ampelmännchen shows red is an immediate admission that one is not of the German ways.

Although he touts a very cute name, the Ampelmännchen (ahmple-men-kyin) figure — a glowing little man in the crosswalk box — has a serious job in holding up avid pedestrians, even when no “Auto” is visible for a few hundred meters.

The reasoning, explain the Germans, is simple: if we stand there waiting for a green figure and set a good example, the children will do the same. Monkey see, monkey wait. The only problem is that, in America, monkey refers to a more disobedient type, thus encouraging nothing similar to waiting at a stop light.

Which is where my fear comes in. As far as I am concerned, White Crosswalk Dude (no endearing names on our side of the globe) dictates a sighing, “Okay, go ahead, blah blah no one is even listening,”

while Red Crosswalk Dude stands motionless, saying, “You probably shouldn’t go, but you probably don’t care what I am saying, either.”

I am not sure how much clearer these signals could be — perhaps a better solution would be employing an elephant that actually hinders all crossing, but that would do a number on any local-circus revenue.

No one in my recent memory has been trampled underfoot — or underwheels, for that matter — but it could happen any day, just like an ice cream truck visit in the summer.

People listen to the ice cream theme. There is no misunderstanding about when to go. So, should the city hire an ice cream salesman to stand at each street corner with a reward for good behavior? My initial thought insists that, while ice cream is great, the idea would creep out anyone in the area. In that sense, you’re successful in that no one would be walking on “DO NOT CROSS” signals, but unsuccessful in that no one would be walking at all.

I think the only real solution here is to review the meaning of the crosswalk signals, an exercise to be repeated once every half-century, or per needed. And right now, the latter sounds necessary, at least until we start acting like German kids and obeying our bland version of the Ampelmännchen.

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Nineteen hours after initiating the conversation, Adam Grigg confirmed that one cute girl he matched with on Tinder had replied to his opening message.

The girl, known only as “Miley,” replied to Grigg’s initial message of “Hey ur bikini pic looks really good ;-)” with “Thanks haha” at approximately 6:08 p.m.

Thursday evening.

Grigg described his accomplishment as “kind of impressive if you think about it.”

“I honestly wasn’t even trying that hard to impress anyone,” Grigg said. “I guess it just goes to show that confidence can go a long way toward meeting people, and I showed that confidence when I typed a few words on my cell phone screen and pressed send.”

Grigg credited his match with his witty Tinder bio which reads “It’s going down, I’m yelling Tinder” as well as his low-angle profile photo, which hides the fact that he is 5’5.”

Because most of Miley’s pictures featured more than one girl, Grigg explained, he was initially unable to determine whether or not she was “the hot one.” He added

that once he found out who the common denominator in every picture was, he knew she was an unquestionable right swipe.

“I’m not going to lie, I was a little skeptical at first,” Grigg said.

“But when I saw that she was simply using pictures of herself with her less attractive friends in order to make herself look better, I was certain she was the girl for me.”

Grigg said he is going to wait three or four hours to reply back to Miley so she wouldn’t think he’s “too thirsty.”

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the fiddle. He was known for being a bit of a partier, the kind of guy that would affectionately be labeled a “character.”

His mother decided to give Ian the same Myaamia name as Bull, “lenipinsia.” In the official Myaamia dictionary, lenipinsia has two definitions — underwater panther and whale. Although a commonly appearing character in Myaamia stories, his form remains vague and undefined. Sometimes he’s described as having antlers like an elk, sometimes scales like a serpent.

“He’s a very complicated character,” Ian said, “not straightforward at all.”

Lenipinsia has been described as malicious, and, in some stories, has a mischievous, ornery bent. His motives, though, are open to interpretation. In one story, lenipinsia almost drags a disrespecting fisherman into the water. In another, he saves a child’s life. neepwaantiinki “We learn

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together” Bobbe Burke, the coordinator of Miami Tribe relations for the university, loves watching students find a connection with the tribe. When tribe students come to Miami, Burke said, her colleagues at the Myaamia Center, Daryl Baldwin and George Ironstrack, give the Myaamia students a basic amount of information.

“If you want more, they wait for you to tell them they want more,” said Burke. “And that’s exactly what Ian has done.”

When she looks at Ian, Burke said, she can see that he’s found multiple ways to be engaged in the Miami community — as an RA, a tour guide, an Honors student — but she’s truly seen his interest sparked by the tribe and its language.

“He’s hungry for information.

He is challenged by the use of the language,” Burke said. “He is really strongly encouraging the students to use more language, and it’s fun to hear that happening.”

At the first Heritage Class after Winter Break this semester — about

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Wright recommended students take advantage of the opportunities and experiences offered at the Second Friday events.

“Second Fridays are a mix,” said Wright. “They are opportunities to socialize with other artists while noshing on provided finger foods and beverages.

Students will enjoy these events because they are free, and you never know who and what you will see and hear.” three and a half years since Ian’s first class — there was so much chatter amongst the students, hugging and greeting each other, asking about study abroad trips and other winter term activities, that Burke said they could hardly get the class started.

“Ian’s played a big part of livening up our class,” Burke said. “That’s a really exciting thing that’s just now beginning to blossom. That’s just really heartwarming to me.”

Mooney described Ian as the big brother of the group — always watching out for everyone and there whenever someone needs anything.

He’s the one to count on in class when someone doesn’t understand a concept or wants to know how to say something in Myaamia. “…he’s always eager to share his knowledge with others,” Mooney said. “Ian is one of the most interesting people I know.”

Burke admitted she’s a little nervous about Ian leaving. Who’s going to take his place? She’s confident that someone will step up and fill his shoes — or at least try — but

when

finished

it’s hard to imagine someone else being able to bring the same kind of infectious energy to a room.

“He’s a leader, intentionally or otherwise, wherever he goes…” said Bowyer. nipwaahkaalo “Go forth and seek wisdom” Language fascinates Ian — it always has.

Learning Myaamia, though, wasn’t just fascinating. Every word was like a tiny thread connecting him to his Myaamia ancestors. The more he learned, the more threads he picked up, the stronger the connection. The more he spoke it with others, the more the knowledge weaved together into something substantial that felt ancient and powerful.

He felt the same way when he first tried ribbon work — a craft involving sewing intricate geometric ribbon patterns that emerged in the 1700s when the Myaamia people traded with settlers for silk ribbons.

After his first ribbon work workshop, Ian said, he stayed up until 4

a.m., inexplicably struck with the need to finish it, making every stitch as exact as possible.

Jarrid Baldwin, who earned his anthropology degree from Miami in 2013, has been able to watch Ian grow closer and closer to his heritage every year, first as fellow student and now as the community language programs coordinator for the Myaamia Center. Baldwin said he could see the impact the Myaamia community has had on Ian over the years.

“It has really given him a direction in his life that he hasn’t had before,” said Baldwin.

“The Myaamia community has just done just done so much for me that it’s instilled in me this desire to give back as much as I possibly can,” Ian said.

Ian’s favorite word in Myaamia is nipwaahkaalo, “Go forth and seek wisdom.”

“I will stop needing to learn the day that I die,” he said. “Until that point, I have an innumerable amount of things to learn.”

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gan an investigation into the allegations.

However, after stating that her office was too busy to carry out the investigation, OEEO director Kenya Ash requested that an outside party, attorney Juan Jose Perez, examine the claims. Neither Ash nor Perez responded to requests for comment.

University spokesperson Claire Wagner said that Perez conducted a thorough investigation and found no evidence of gender discrimination.

“The university takes allegations of discrimination in any form very seriously,” Wagner said in an email.

“The independent investigator concluded that there was no evidence to support the faculty claim of gender discrimination.”

Herron, however, said that the investigation proves nothing.

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they wouldn’t be able to tell you,” Podolyan explained. “We definitely harped on how important flexibility was to students because we are very busy.”

Podolyan, however, said that the idea of separating buffet swipes and a la carte costs, a key component of the new plan, came as a surprise to ASG representatives.

“We hadn’t even heard much talk about buffet swipes until January, when Brian Woodruff presented his plan,” Podolyan said. “Once I got a hold of it, it was already implemented on the H.O.M.E. office webpage, and students were already signing up.”

Because the new meal plan was rolled out over winter term, Podolyan added, she and her fellow ASG representatives felt their voices weren’t being heard.

“They didn’t have time to get feedback from us,” she said.

“Didn’t send emails, didn’t reach out to us. We felt our opinion

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Although records show the university paid Perez over $18,000, the complaint states that his investigation at Miami was inadequate.

“The report of the investigation was replete with numerous errors of fact, law and conclusion,” the complaint states. “It was unsound in structure, deficient in principle and failed in application.”

The university has not yet responded to Brunarski and Harman’s lawsuit, but by March 1, Miami had hired Christina L. Corl of Plunkett Cooney law firm in Columbus to serve as its legal representation, according to court documents.

Corl also serves as Special Counsel to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, where she has represented

several other Ohio public universities on employment and administrative issues, including discrimination.

In advance of Miami’s legal response to the lawsuit, Wagner made it clear how Corl, on behalf of the university, would answer Brunarski and Harman’s complaint.

“Miami intends to vigorously defend this lawsuit and denies it has engaged in discrimination of any kind,” Wagner said.

Even though Miami is denying the claims, Herron — who has taught business law in the finance department for 24 years — said this is not the first time gender discrimination in the finance department is in the spotlight.

Herron cited the case of former Miami faculty member Anne Lawton, who faced several unwanted sexual advances from a colleague in the finance department during the 1996-1997 school year. Lawton

wrote about this experience in an article that appeared in the University of Pennsylvania’s Journal of Business Law. She said her coworker repeatedly groped her and attempted to kiss her on the neck. She reported this harassment using the university’s formal resolution process and, eventually, she said that she “won.”

The harassment stopped. However, she noted, this victory cost her time, money and energy and led to retaliation from within her department. The experience drove her to resign from her job in 2000.

In the article, she wrote that sexual harassment is a systemic, organizational problem.

“Harassment is far more likely to occur in male-dominated workplaces in which women are perceived as interlopers onto male work turf and in workplaces in which harassing workplace conduct is tolerated or condoned,”

wasn’t heard and that was a big problem for us.”

Brubacher said that his staff will meet with members of ASG again next week and is eager to get their input.

“We really do. We continue conversations,” Brubacher said.

“It’s not like we’re turning a blind eye to any of these comments. We really are taking everything into conversation. We’re always soliciting [feedback].”

He added that transparency — everyone paying the same price for a certain item and knowing exactly where their money is going — would be a major facet of the new plan.

“That will be one of the big benefits, one of several, having that transparency,” Brubacher said. “The posted price will be what I pay if I come in and I’m not on a meal plan, what you pay if you’re on the top tier declining dollar balance. It’s the same if somebody comes in with a credit card.”

After hearing of the meal plan

revision, ASG passed a resolution on March 1 stating its opposition to the new policy and, after being told that the plans were “set in stone” for the fall, issued the online petition Monday afternoon.

Penned by Podolyan and senators Lucas Elfreich (College of Arts and Science) and Trent White (Education, Health and Society), the petition has circulated widely among Miami students, parents and faculty.

“The new plan is not conducive to the often busy daily life of a Miami University student,” the petition reads, in part. “The convenience of a la carte locations allow for students to purchase and eat food quickly and efficiently, while buffet locations are more suitable for longer and more relaxed meals. Buffet locations are located on the outskirts of campus and cannot be utilized if students only have 10 or 15 minutes between classes, as most do.

“Students love the flexibility that our current plan offers and have felt like this new plan is a

step backwards. While we appreciate the work the administration has put into creating this plan, we believe the current proposed meal plan is not in the best interests of students and needs additional improvements.”

“They were listening to our feedback, or we thought they were,” Podolyan said, “but it’s just not represented in this plan.”

Petition co-author White added that the miscommunication extended further. “[The administration] specifically said they [issued the plan] with the support of ASG and other organizations [when we hadn’t seen the plan],” White said.

Both parties expressed a desire to work together.“Along the way, there [were] differences in opinion on how exactly to fix [the meal plan], and that’s where we end up today. [The administration] abandoned the cooperative approach,” Elfreich said. “We started together, and I would like to end together, but right now that’s not exactly what’s happening.”

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Lawton wrote.

Since Lawton’s departure, Herron said, little has changed.

Brunarski and Harman hired Robert Croskery of Croskery Law in Cincinnati to represent them in this case. Croskery is practiced in sexual harassment and employment law. With Crockery’s help, Brunarski and Harman are seeking compensation in excess of $250,000 and demanding that a jury hear their case in a trial.

“People should be treated fairly and their treatment should not be based on their gender or their race, but rather their intrinsic worth,” Croskery said in an interview.

“Everybody should have an equal opportunity and, if you take away that opportunity by arbitrarily using a suspect classification to say that someone should not get paid as much, then it violates those bedrock and fundamental principles of the Constitution.”

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Cyndi Richards, parent: This change truly represents poor planning on the part of Administration and seems to bolster their trend of maximizing dollars at every opportunity.

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The Miami University men’s and women’s track and field teams travel to Western Kentucky University for the Hilltopper Relays this weekend. The RedHawks look to improve upon strong performances last weekend at the Stanford Invite and Miami Duals and hope to take advantage of the favorable conditions this weekend.

“I think everyone’s excited to get good outdoor races for the first time this season, because the conditions in Oxford last weekend were absolutely horrible,” junior Andrew Dusing said.

The annual meet features 18 schools, including Louisville, Murray State, Northern Kentucky, Lindsey Wilson College and Kentucky Wesleyan and Marshall. Miami, Kent State, Mississippi Valley State, Southeast Missouri, SIUE, Alabama A&M, Tennessee State, Austin Peay, Jacksonville State and UT Martin are the Division I out-ofstate entries. Grand Valley State and

Wayne State, both Division II, complete the field.

Several of Miami’s standout distance runners will rest this weekend after their strong performances at Stanford, but the rest of Miami’s team will compete.

Standout junior shot-putter Arionna Darling scored in every indoor meet and looks to carry that momentum into the outdoor season. Freshman Jake Owens was Miami’s top sprinter during the indoor season, and he will look to contribute points in the 100-meter, 200-meter, and sprint relays during the outdoor season.

Last weekend, strong winds and rain forced officials to cancel the Miami Duals midway through Saturday afternoon, but not before several RedHawks dominated their events.

In the final race before the meet was cancelled, senior Kathie Wollney chased down first place in the 400-meter hurdles with a personal best of 1:02.08, claiming the fastest time in the MAC. In the women’s 3000-meter race, Miami swept the top three spots, with

sophomore Alesha Vovk leading the way in 10:01.1. Not to be outdone, the men swept the top five spots in their 3000m race. Sophomore Ryan Pitner narrowly outkicked fellow sophomore Jake Brumfield by .24 seconds to win the race.

Because the meet was cut short, there were no official team scores.

Miami also performed well in California at the Stanford Invitational. Senior Joe Stewart posted a career best of 29:03.79 in the 10,000-meter for the second fastest 10k in Miami history. He now ranks eighth in the NCAA. Senior Laura Bess finished the 5000-meter in a personal best of 16:40.95. This is the fifth fastest time in Miami history and the fastest time in the MAC this season.

“I’m really excited to see how the team does this weekend, getting our first outdoor meet with good conditions,” Wollney said. “I expect to see lots of great performances.”

Miami competes in the Hilltopper Relays for the first time this weekend. The first gun sounds at the Charles Rueter Track at 1 p.m. Friday in Bowling Green, Ky.

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Former Miami University hockey captain Austin Czarnik earned a spot on the American Hockey League All-Rookie Team on Wednesday. In his first season with the Providence Bruins, Czarnik is tied for ninth in the league with 56 points, which is tied for the lead among all rookies. He has a +15 rating on the ice, and his 40 assists are tied for fifth in the AHL. Two other former Miami hockey players had stand-out seasons in the AHL. Former Hobey Baker winner Andy Miele sits seventh in the AHL with 58 points (18 goals, 40 assists). Czarnik’s former teammate Riley Barber is 18th in the league and third among rookies with 52 points (24 goals, 28 assists).

The sophomore pair of Nelli Ponomareva and Anastasiia Vasiukhina was named the MAC Doubles Team of the Week on Wednesday. It is the second consecutive week the duo has received this honor and the third time this season. Ponomareva has received the award five times in her career.

Ponomareva and Vasiukhina are on a four-match win streak. The pair beat Ball State University’s doubles team 6-2 last Friday. They won 7-5 against University of Toledo on Sunday.

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Miami baseball (12-15) hosts Bowling Green in a three-game series this weekend. Ross Haffey leads MU with a .390 average, 27 RBI and 21 runs.

Miami’s hot offense visits conference rival WMU SOFTBALL

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The Miami University softball team hits the road this weekend for a three-game series with Western Michigan University.

WMU knocked Miami out of the conference tournament last year with a 5-3 win. The Hawks were 0-3 against the Broncos in 2015. “[The team], especially returners, know how good of a team Western is,” head coach Clarisa Crowell said.

“But I think that they’ll be ready to go. I feel very good about going into the weekend.”

Miami stands at 22-13 overall (7-1 Mid-American Conference).

Western Michigan is 14-17 (5-3 MAC) and is coming off Tuesday’s doubleheader split against Central Michigan.

It’s been a good week for the softball program. Miami is coming off a pair of wins against Bowling Green University, and two RedHawks earned MAC softball weekly honors.

Freshman shortstop Michaela Schlattman was named MAC East Player of the Week and senior pitcher Amber Logemann was named MAC East Pitcher of the Week. It is the second time this season Schlattman has been honored, while Logemann is receiving the honor for the first time this season and second time in her career.

Schlattman led an offensive run last week that saw the RedHawks

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The Miami University synchronized skating team competes in its 12th ISU World Championships this weekend in Budapest, Hungary. In a field of 26 teams, MU is one of two representing the U.S. MU placed eighth last year.

RedHawks begin four-match homestand TENNIS

SCOTT SUTTON

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University tennis team (6-9) continues Mid-American Conference play this weekend, hosting University of Buffalo (105) and University of Akron (13-7).

The matches are the first two of a four-match homestand.

The RedHawks are coming off a split weekend against Ball State University (15-2) and University of Toledo (7-9). MU fell 4-3 last Friday to Ball State in a rematch of last season’s MAC championship, but defeated Toledo, 6-1, Sunday.

Freshman Emily Struble is leading the team with an overall record of 22-8. Struble is on a two-match winning streak. Nelli Ponomareva is on a four-match winning streak.

“We are just going into the MAC knowing that we have played four very good teams in our last four matches and we have learned to compete at a very high level,” Struble said. “We are working on a lot of footwork and consistency drills. We just have to stay positive and fight for every match this weekend.”

After winning her doubles match 6-2 and singles match 6-3, 6-3 against Toledo last weekend, sophomore Hannah Shteyn is looking to keep the momentum going against two tough MAC teams.

“We’re working on just being prepared for anything and just continuing to improve our consistency as well as ability to attack,” Shteyn said. “We’re going to go out there and learn from the experiences we’ve had and find ways to apply

what we’ve learned to hopefully make us successful this weekend.”

Buffalo looks to rebound after a 5-2 home loss last Friday to Western Michigan. UB had been 6-2 in its previous eight matches. Sophomore Tanja Stojanovska, last season’s MAC Freshman of the Year, leads the Bulls with a 9-4 singles record.

Miami holds a 17-5 all-time advantage in the series.

Akron is coming off a Sunday’s 4-3 loss to WMU. Sophomore Ariadna Blinova leads the Zips with a 17-1 record in dual play.

Miami leads the all-time series with Akron at 24-2.

Match play against Buffalo begin at 1 p.m. Friday. Play against Akron begins at 10 a.m. Sunday.

Both matches will be held at the Hepburn Varsity tennis courts.

score 34 runs in five games.

“That’s a lot of runs in two games,” Crowell said after the Bowling Green doubleheader Tuesday. “I hope we can save some of them for this weekend.”

Schlattman drove in eight of those runs and scored six, finishing with a .467 batting average for the week.

After drawing six walks, she had an on-base percentage of .619. She had three doubles and two home runs, giving her a slugging percentage of 1.067.

Logemann led Miami to victories in all three of her starts this week.

She gave up 15 hits in 22 innings pitched for a .192 opponent batting average. She struck out 19 and gave up only four earned runs in those three games.

“I think our team’s immense focus throughout both games won the double header for us,” freshman infielder Johniann Wahl said. “We stayed locked and focused on how we could win every inning, and I think that’s the biggest reason we’ve been so consistent.”

Junior pitcher Erin Binkowski leads the Bronco offense with a .337 batting average, 10 home runs, 26 RBIs and a .737 slugging percentage. Senior pitcher Allyson Kus is WMU’s leader from the mound.

Kus is 9-9 with a 2.82 ERA in 20 appearances.

The first game of the WMU series begins at 3 p.m. Friday in Kalamazoo, Mich. The series continues with a doubleheader that begins at 1 p.m.

Saturday.

SIDELINE

1994

NBA star Michael Jordan takes batting practice before his first minor league baseball game with the Birmingham Barons, scheduled for April 8. He finished the season with a .202 batting average.

MLB REDS

10

PHILLIES

6

PGA AUGUSTA MASTERS LEADERBOARD

JORDAN SPIETH

-6 (66)

DANNY LEE

-4 (68)

SHANE LOWRY

-4 (68)

Headlines beyond Oxford: Denver Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak contacted Johnny Manziel as a potential fit for the team Thursday. Both are former Texas A&M quarterbacks. The team said no contract moves will happen until Manziel’s legal and disciplinary issues are resolved.

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