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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016
Volume 145 №18
Miami University — Oxford, Ohio
At Miami, Clinton to win despite narrowing gap New Miami Student survey shows students suspect a Trump win POLITICS
EMILY WILLIAMS
MANAGING EDITOR
RYAN TERHUNE THE MIAMI STUDENT
Cubs and Indians fans packed Brick Street bar on Wednesday night to watch game 7 of the World Series. See story on Page 8.
Miami sees 5 sexual assaults in two months SEXUAL ASSAULT
CARLEIGH TURNER THE MIAMI STUDENT
Just over two months into the school year, Miami University students have received five alerts stating a student has reported a sexual assault. The most recent two occured this week. Oct. 31 — 2 assaults reported The Miami Institutional Response team alerted the Miami community, online, that the Oxford Police Department on Monday told the Miami Police Department about two reports it received about sexual assaults the prior 10 days. In the first incident, a female student told police she was sexually assaulted by a male she knows on Oct. 21 at about 6 a.m. The attack happened in a house on College Avenue, according to the report. The male is reportedly not a Miami student. In the second incident, a female student told Oxford police she was assaulted by an unknown male Oct. 23 in an apartment complex on Reagan Place. It is not known if the suspect is a Miami student. Miami said there is no description of either suspect. Early October report A female Miami student reported being sexually assaulted sometime between Oct. 1 and Oct. 10, according to a report from OPD. According to an alert on the myMiami website, the victim reported knowing the male who assaulted her at the 0 block of North Main Street. Sept. 13 report Miami students received an email at 8:32 a.m alerting them that a male student reported being sexually assaulted by a female that he knew. The assault occurred at an unknown
Chinese students’ take on unusual race POLITICS
BONNIE MEIBERS
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
By most standards, the 2016 presidential election has been unusual. Americans and international citizens alike share this sentiment. Perhaps the most unusual of all factors to international students at Miami are the two candidates that America has chosen. “Why would people choose two bad final candidates at the end?” said sophomore Olsen Cheung. Cheung is from Hong Kong, China. And while he is not able to vote in this presidential elections and hasn’t paid attention to America’s presidential elections in the
Four interviews show confusion with U.S. candidates past, he has been paying attention to the upcoming election because it is “a national joke.” “I thought House of Cards was exaggerated,” he said. “But now I don’t really know.” Like Cheung, sophomore Karl Song from Shanghai, China has also not followed previous presidential elections. This is only his second year in America. However, he has paid close attention to the current election and is not a fan of either candidate. “If you say you’re going to make America great again,
be a man or a woman of your word,” Song said. “If you want to be president, keep your word.” Junior Wenjia Qin is from Shenzhen, China. She admits that since she is not a big fan of either candidate she did not tune into the debates and does not keep up closely with what the candidates are doing. She does see defects in both candidates, however. Clinton’s email scandal, Qin said, makes Clinton a risky choice for president. She thinks that it shows dishonesty in the political system and said that from what she has heard, Clinton is not considering to improve conditions for the working class.
decree prompts
DIVERSITY
LAWSUIT
CÉILÍ DOYLE
SAMANTHA BRUNN
making friends. It’s what keeps her from making friends in the first place. Left behind are the people that understand her, the ones who know her well enough to sense what’s wrong. In their place are strangers. She’s three-quarters an extrovert. Spending time with other people gives her energy. But the depression stops her.
Race. Religion. Gender. Orientation. Disability. Nationality. All of these attributes are only a tiny portion of what comprises the tenets of diversity, and they act as a set of characteristics between what sets apart one student from another on Miami University’s campus. As part of a process to further the educational development of Miami, the university commissioned EducationCounsel last April to “cultivate a more welcoming and inclusive learning, working and living environment to advance student, staff and faculty success,” according to an email from President Gregory Crawford on Sept. 21. The EducationCounsel’s response compiled a hefty list of challenges Miami faces in its attempts to include others within part three of its Report on Diversity and Inclusion at Miami University. Specifically the report mentions that “anger, disappointment, and distrust from various students, faculty and staff” were consistently displayed throughout the meetings conducted by the EducationCounsel regarding Miami’s commitment to diversity and inclusion on campus. Many interviewees felt “othered” — in other words, they are seen as a part of a group that does not fit in the ‘traditional’ (ie. upper in-
Miami University has consented to a decree handed down by the United States’ Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Dudley v. Miami University case. According to the decree, the initial lawsuit was brought about on January 10, 2014. Former Miami student Aleeha Dudley, who is blind, brought action against Miami and former president David C. Hodge alleging, among other things, that Miami and Hodge excluded her from participation in and the benefit of Miami’s services, programs and activities. She said the unviersity discriminated against her on the basis of disability and failed to take appropriate steps to ensure equally effective communication with her, thereby violating her rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). However, since the initial filing, Hodge has been dismissed from the suit and the United States’ DOJ stepped in to remediate the situation. In the end, Miami admitted no wrongdoing in agreeing to the terms of the decree, as well as agreeing to pay up to $25,000. Mitchell McCrate, Deputy General Counsel for Miami University, said the technologies that were alleged to be inaccessible are mostly, not exclusively, web based, especially those in-
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Viengasamai Fetters: Sleeping Beauty
ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
ASSAULT »PAGE 2
Viengsamai Fetters spent 18 of her 24 hours asleep. During the few hours she did spend awake, she would eat. The beginning of her college career marked the beginning of this vicious cycle. During the first few days after moving in, she tried to get to know people. She wanted to get to know people.
Then the depression stopped her. Then the sleep consumed her. The diagnosis had come in sixth grade: clinical depression. But in the seven years she’s been aware of her mental illness, she doesn’t remember ever sleeping this much in one day. Sleeping is her coping mechanism. It’s how she deals with the stress of talking to people. It’s how she deals with the difficulty of
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By not picking a politcal side, the show offers unique commentary.
The alt-right media personality was invited by Turning Point USA.
The Student’s ‘most critical’ columnist dabbles in joy and enjoyment.
A win this weekend would be the first four-game streak in six years.
Dayton-born franchise opens up shop on West High Street.
MAYA FENTER
THE MIAMI STUDENT
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CRAWFORD FORMS DIVERSITY TASK FORCE
Humans of Oxford
PEOPLE
Miami students will favor Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on election day, according to a survey from The Miami Student. Forty-one percent of respondents said they will be voting for Clinton versus 32.8 percent who will be casting a ballot for the GOP candidate Donald Trump. Among the remaining students, 5.6 percent will be voting for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and 2.2 percent for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Ten percent of respondents have not decided how they will vote and 7.8 percent do not plan to vote. Although the responses indicate a majority for Clinton, when asked for which
major party candidate students believe Miami students will vote for, 52.8 percent indicated Trump over the 46 percent who said Clinton. The survey was sent to a random sampling of students gathered by the university’s Office of Institutional Research. The 182 respondents included students of all genders from every undergraduate grade level and college. Responses were gathered during the last two weeks of October. Although last month’s polls indicated a wider gap, this week’s polls have shown a tightening in the race. The most recent poll from ABC News and the Washington Post shows Clinton with just a two percent lead, at 47 percent versus Trump’s 45. Lib-
Dudley case changes at MU
THE MIAMI STUDENT