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ASG votes to censure senator

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Sophomore under review for recordings

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JAMES STEINBAUER CARLEIGH TURNER

At the Miami Associated Student Government (ASG) meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 4, senators voted to censure on-campus senator Nick Froehlich, citing Ohio Revised Code 2933.52, regarding the interception of wire, oral or electronic communications.

In the official recommendation for censure, the ASG oversight committee wrote that “senator Nick Froehlich admitted to knowingly recording other members of the ASG government in the ASG office without consent of these members.”

The primary cited evidence was a cellphone audio recording of a conversation between Froehlich and other senators inside the ASG office.

“This offense is unprecedented,” wrote the oversight committee in their recommendation. “The implications of such actions may potentially hinder the function of the Associated Student Government as a whole.”

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was to draw out deeper, more personal explanations on where he stands in regard to the issues students and faculty at Miami care about most.

Our first impression is that this president is full of enthusiasm for his new home. He already talks of the Miami community as “we,” and “love and honor” is now a regular part of his vocabulary. He has a lot of goals for his time here.

He also has a lot to learn.

The question now is whether he can use that energy to create actual change. The most controversial thing this president can do is nothing.

Here is what he had to say:

Volodymyr Kovalenko was fighting his attacker, attempting to wrestle a gun from his hands when it went off.

Kovalenko thought he would be buying a vehicle from a guy he contacted on Craigslist.

Instead, the 23-year-old Miami University student was shot as he struggled to take a gun away from the would-be-car-seller, just after the assailant shot his friend in the living room of a home on North Campus Avenue Tuesday night, Oxford police reports said.

Neither the gunman nor his accomplice, who escaped with $4,000 in cash, had been arrested by Thursday evening.

Kovalenko, a junior from Beachwood, Ohio, was shot in the leg during the struggle.

Miami junior Jared Goldhamer, 20, who lives in the home in the 200 block of N. Campus Avenue, also was shot once in the leg. Both men were treated at area hospitals for non life-threatening wounds.

Goldhamer’s father, Seth

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Oxford police create a permiter as they wait for a warrant to search 210 N. Campus Ave., where two Miami students were shot Tuesday evening.

Understanding Gregory Crawford Q&A

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On Oct. 10, Gregory Crawford and a cadre of students, faculty and staff will march from the Hub to Millett Hall, where he will be officially inaugurated as Miami University’s 22nd president.

During the ceremony, Crawford will give an address, laying out his platform and goals for his time as president.

Based on his letters to the Miami community, blog posts and his convocation remarks, it’s safe to say that shared governance, transparency, a commitment to undergradu-

The Student’s exclusive conversation with Miami’s 22nd president ate research and, especially, diversity will be at the top of Crawford’s list.

In his first blog post on August 11, Crawford wrote that his fervent hope for Miami is that “we progress towards a model of inclusive excellence” and “become a model of how to organize our community to reflect a healthy society.”

The Miami Student wanted to know more about what that meant.

We spoke with Crawford over two, hour-long interviews last month, armed with questions — both our own and

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ones sourced from the Miami community — on adjunct and part-time faculty, diversity, Greek life and sexual assault, among other things. Our goal

Humans of Oxford

Clown craze reaches Oxford campus

Robert Thurston: Will travel for coffee

MU goes ‘hunting’ after rumors spread

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Robert Thurston never dreamt of running a coffee shop. He dreamt various things growing up, but running a coffee shop was not one of them.

Robert taught history at Miami University for 25 years, but these days he can often be found at the Oxford Coffee Company, the business he opened in 2012.

Outside, a group of regulars sit around a table, welcoming customers as they walk into the shop.

The aroma of strong coffee fills the inside. The walls are warm shades of yellow and red. The whole place feels cozy.

“Good morning and welcome!” Katie, the barista, says cheerfully each time a new customer walks through the door.

Katie comes from behind the counter to set a cup of hot coffee down in front of Robert.

“Oh, thanks, Katie. Is this

Sidamo?”

She nods, yes.

“Okay, this is from Ethiopia.”

Robert has been to coffee farms all over the world.

Nicaragua, Kenya, Panama, Ethiopia, you name it. Memorabilia from these places decorate the walls and the shelves.

His trips around the world

have lead him on some interesting adventures.

In 2008, he went to Costa Rica, knowing only one person there — a contact he had never met before. That person passed him on to another person. Can you meet with him tomorrow? Oh, sure of course. And on into Panama he went, trusting people he barely knew. All for coffee.

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CLOWNS: THIS ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE

Student body President Maggie Reilly on diversity, dining and student wellness.

After injury, a former college baseball star became a Bagel & Deli expert.

At MU, rumors of sinister clowns sent students on a wild goose chase.

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“I think it happened once where someone said, ‘Oh, it’s not convenient for you to visit our farm.’”

So Robert just moved on to the next place.

“Gee, there was the time I had to shoot a crocodile that had my leg…”

He pauses.

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Students emerged from their dorms in groups of four or five, some wielding lacrosse sticks, baseball bats and golf clubs — just in case they happened to come upon one of the masked, rednosed characters rumored to be wandering Miami’s campus Monday night.

First year Jess Arling was just one of the throng to join in on the “clown hunting.”

“There was more activity on campus than I’d ever seen before on a Monday night,” Arling said.

As Arling was walking down Chestnut Street, a boy in a baggy black hoodie, basketball shorts and a clown mask sprinted past her toward Patterson Street. Arling and her friend tried to chase after him, but were unable to catch up before the masked individual ran off toward Peffer Park.

There was a constant flow of cars driving down

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Oak Street past Phillips Hall throughout the night. The vehicles were packed with students, driving slowly, popping their heads out of every window, hoping to catch a glimpse of the action.

“Hey! Have you seen any clowns?” someone asked a bystander outside Phillips.

They hadn’t seen any.

A police car was parked outside Phillips Hall as a safety precaution. The officer in the car had seen no clowns and figured it was all rumors that were being blown up on social media.

Still, cars continued to drive by, with the passengers yelling loudly to fellow clown-hunters.

People used group messages to share all of the buzz.

According to the stream of messages filling students’ phones, there were clowns walking through almost every building on campus, and no one knew what to believe.

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On tenure-track faculty and the teacher-scholar model The Miami Student At colleges and universities throughout the United States, academia are worried about the steady decline of tenure-track faculty positions and the effects this decline will have on the quality of education. In a series of articles last year, The Miami Student showed that Miami University is not immune to this trend.

Do you have any plans to increase the level of tenure-track faculty and what can be done to give current temporary faculty a path to the tenure track or permanent employment?

Gregory Crawford We are always looking to increase the numbers of full time faculty and the proportion of those who are tenure line, within the constraints of available resources. The Provost has established that as one of her priorities since her appointment and she has the support of all the deans. This year, alone, we expect to conduct over 50 searches for tenure line faculty.

All of the tenure line faculty employment searches are nationally advertised, open and inclusive and current temporary faculty are welcome to apply. While faculty searches are supported by the deans and approved by the provost, positions are identified and described and the searches are conducted by the academic department, which reviews the qualifications of applicants and makes recommendations to the department chair and to the dean.

The Miami Student You’ve previously stated that you are in support of increasing undergraduate and faculty research at Miami. Unlike Notre Dame, Miami is not seen as a big research institution, so why do you feel research is important?

Gregory Crawford I really resonate with the teacherscholar model, where our faculty are the very best in teaching while also very engaged in research.

There are two major areas, among many, where I think research is important. First, it advances the truth and moves society forward. Research can be of the purest form, with no practical applications immediately in sight but it helps us understand our world more fully. This is especially true of the humanities and the arts, for example. In some fields, the applications of our increased knowledge may not be clear for years or even decades, but the research outcomes bring greater depth of understanding to our history, our cultures and other aspects of our world. It can also be more applied and be used more directly to solve a social or human health problem in a way that advances the well being of individuals and society. Both of these are important in the big picture.

I think the nature of some of our societal problems, they’re just hard to understand. And people are looking at universities to solve them. These are not things that one company can solve. It takes more people to attack this. We can bring together humanists, chemists, economists, and we can put together a university team with deep expertise in all kind of areas and solve problems that not a single person or single discipline can solve. It takes a whole team to do it.

The liberal arts are going to be huge in finding solutions to today’s big problem, many of which involve humans.

The Miami Student The provost and College of Arts and Science dean have both expressed their interest in reducing the

number of temporary faculty. But if temporary faculty are to be reduced, under current circumstances, it is likely that the permanent faculty’s teaching loads will increase. This will mean that permanent faculty will have less time for research. How will you deal with that tension?

Gregory Crawford I don’t see this really playing out that way or being a problem, to be honest. We’re currently looking more holistically at this matter, assessing our curricular offerings to ensure we use our resources wisely. We are not looking to increase teaching loads by our full time faculty, nor are we looking to take away time from research.

The provost and all of the deans value the research mission and understand its importance. We continue to provide research leaves and travel funds to support the research endeavors of our faculty.

On the importance of domestic diversity and inclusivity The Miami Student Last month, the university received a report from EducationCounsel, an education consulting firm which interviewed about 200 Miami community members in April about their experiences related to diversity and inclusion at Miami. The report pointed out specific concerns at the university related to diversity including a lack of a common understanding of Miami’s diversity and inclusion goals and feelings of anger, disappointment or distrust toward the university’s handling of diversity and inclusion concerns. Why is it important for the university to do better?

Gregory Crawford I think that diversity enhances learning, broadens horizons and minds, shapes our experiences, builds community, and provides important perspectives. Living and studying in a diverse environment provides critical preparation for the world of the 21st century. Our diversity has increased this year for our incoming students by about two percentage points, from 13.7 percent to 15.7.

Oftentimes, we don’t necessarily look at students as drivers of perspective. Our graduates will live and work in a diverse environment that is unprecedented in history. They will, for example, see the United States become a majority-minority country where no single group is more than half of the population. Diversity and inclusion provide rich opportunities for creativity, innovation and synthesis as we work to solve global challenges.

The Miami Student There were a number of incidents last year regarding homophobic language and racial slurs by students in the residence halls and Uptown. How can Miami better support students of color and LGBTQ students on Miami’s campus so that they feel safe to engage in the community?

Gregory Crawford I am fully committed to building upon our welcoming environment here at Miami. In order to build a more inclusive environment, we must also focus on our majority students, who through their attitudes, behaviors and words can affect whether everyone feels they belong at Miami. Many students have not given much thought to the power they have to make Miami the most welcoming place possible through their daily interactions. Words matter.

My words matter. Everyone’s words matter. We need to watch what we say and how we say it. Intolerance, prejudice and every other expression of division weaken us as individuals, as a community and as a university.

ASG gives first State of the School Address Student body President Maggie Reilly on diversity, dining and student wellness

I’ve talked to many students in the past several weeks, and I believe we have a generous, open student body.

If we were more reflective, we could all help contribute to a positive campus culture in small ways every day.

At the end of the day, it’s our collective responsibility to reach out, to listen, to support and embrace differences. I will continue to talk about the importance of being an accepting and welcoming community.

The Miami Student According to the EducationCounsel report, other universities have strengthened their domestic diversity through increased scholarship opportunities for students who demonstrate financial need. How will the university ensure that funds for critical financial need scholarships that will help ensure domestic diversity at Miami be properly allocated?

Gregory Crawford We are committed to increasing our scholarships for incoming students, and in particular need-based students. This year, we allocated more than $1 million in additional need-based aid for Ohio students in the incoming first-year class. I’m really committed to work on fundraising in the future. We’ll continue to

What can Miami’s administration do to better support victims of sexual assault and educate the students and faculty on sexual assault prevention?

Gregory Crawford Compliance has never been our motivator in addressing sexual violence. Miami does this work because it is the right thing to do. The university has been working on these issues for decades, but the national conversations enabled us to more easily compare our work with best practices at other schools, giving us more guidance on how to improve our policies and practices, and bringing more attention to this issue.

Miami is in the process of hiring a new staff member whose sole responsibility will be to serve as the outreach coordinator for sexual assault and interpersonal violence initiatives.

This person will lead our efforts to educate students, faculty and staff on all of our campuses about sexual assault and interpersonal violence. This will allow our coordinator for sexual assault response more time to work with students while dedicating more resources to education.

Miami has also partnered with Women Helping Women to have office hours on campus this year,

I want people to be able to imitate us. I do think that we can be model for this. We have students that want to be supportive and bring change which we need to support.

Sexual assault is a direct attack on an individual and our whole community. Despite the difficulties and complexities in every case, Miami works to get it right for the sake of all involved.

On Greek Life The Miami Student You’re coming from Notre Dame where there are no social fraternities or sororities. At Miami, there are currently 23 recognized chapters in the Interfraternity Council, 5 chapters in the National Pan-Hellenic Council and 18 chapters in the Panhellenic Council. What difficulties do you think you will have transitioning to a school where Greek students make up about a third of the student population?

Gregory Crawford That is a fair observation, although I spent a longer time at Brown University, which had a Greek system.

I do need to better understand the Greek system at Miami, as it differs from one institution to the next. Re-

“Oftentimes, we don’t necessarily look at students as drivers of perspective. Our graduates will live and work in a diverse environment that is unprecedented in history.”

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make need-based scholarships a priority in our next campaign to ensure domestic diversity.

On sexual assault The Miami Student Last month, The Student reported on the results from Miami’s Annual Climate Survey, and over a quarter of female undergraduates at Miami’s Oxford campus have experienced rape — which is about on par with the national average among female undergraduates. In addition, almost six percent of male undergraduates in Oxford reported that they have experienced sexual assault. Do you see sexual assault as a problem on Miami’s campus?

Gregory Crawford One sexual assault is one too many.

Our goal will always be to eliminate sexual violence in our community.

Sexual assault and interpersonal violence are 100 percent unacceptable.

It’s not just Miami, it’s everywhere.

And it has to stop.

Nothing can take away the pain of these experiences, but I do believe that acknowledging that these incidents occur and removing the secrecy and shame that has long been put on those who experience sexual violence goes a long way in helping them know that they are cared about and will be supported.

People often look at me as the president only, but I am also a dad of two daughters. I have deep empathy for the victims of sexual assault and their families and friends who are often profoundly affected. We have to encourage more reporting. We have to make sure people are safe and educate people to be stewards of students as well.

The Miami Student If one sexual assault is too many — less than two months into the semester, at least two assaults have been reported by Oxford undergraduates — Miami still has significant progress to make that goes beyond compliance with the national expectations for public educational institutions.

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On Wednesday, Associated Student Government held its inaugural State of the School address, given by student body president Maggie Reilly. The event was part of an ASG initiate to increase administrative transparency.

Reilly began by addressing the mental and physical health of students. She highlighted the satellite recreation facility in the basement of Martin Dining Commons, an effort to alleviate overcrowding at

expanding student access to confidential reporting resources and has trained student counselors available to offer confidential support. We need to look more at this confidential support. Even if someone doesn’t want to go to the police, that doesn’t mean they don’t need help. I’d like to see more participation in something like that.

The Miami Student The 2015 documentary “The Hunting Ground” prominently featured the case of Lizzy Seeberg, a student who committed suicide in 2010 after reporting that a Notre Dame football player had raped her.

The film’s findings prompted an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for possible Title IX violations related to sexual violence on campus, despite the university’s statements that the claims made in the film were inaccurate. In May 2015, The Miami Student reported on the experience of a female student who was raped during her first year at Miami in 2011.

That student later brought a lawsuit against Miami University for negligence. Few universities can claim to have a pristine record when it comes to handling sexual assault cases. How do you intend to make Miami a model for the best practices?

Gregory Crawford Sexual assault cases are extremely difficult and painful. Each one is completely unique. There are many cases that are unreported, others where students want support but don’t want to pursue any action against the perpetrator, cases that go through our conduct process, and cases that go through the legal system. Some are reported immediately, and other months or years later. There is often little or no evidence, there are rarely witnesses, and in many cases, alcohol or drug use complicates the recall of details. It is impossible to understand how difficult these cases are for all involved unless you are involved in one, as a victim, the accused, a witness or a member of a conduct board.

nate and I are going one by one to each of the chapters as a part of the listening tour. At a meeting with all the Greek leaders, I gave a talk on character and servant leadership and community outreach. I focused in on those three very positive attributes of the Greek system.

Although the Greek system has strong enrollment at Miami, there are far more non-Greek students than Greek.

the Rec, and ASG’s recent Mental Health Forum, attended by over 400 students and faculty.

“The goal of this forum and the biggest takeaway was to let students know that they are not alone,” said Reilly.

Reilly also emphasized the recent unanimous passage of a resolution supporting an expansion or relocation of the Miami University Student Counseling Service.

With the resolution, ASG aims to guarantee that the quality of care offered at Student Counseling Services can adequately meet the demand for its services.

Reilly also discussed how ASG will prioritize student satisfaction with dining services. ASG’s Sept.

28 petition to restore Bell Tower to an a la carte and carry-out location, which senators presented at a Administrative Dining Committee meeting last Thursday, will be an integral part of this effort.

In her speech, Reilly said the petition had garnered 1,500 signatures on Change.org. The actual number, at press time, was 1,106.

These changes will “make Bell Tower great again,” said Reilly.

On an editorially independent college newspaper The Miami Student We had to ask. To you, is a student newspaper, editorially independent from university administration, necessary?

Gregory Crawford Having an independent paper like this on campus provides an extraordinary opportunity and perspective.

It also comes with a responsibility to students. To be most effective, it must exemplify the highest journalistic integrity.

And independent paper can be in a position of extreme importance for facilitating constructive dialogue, for ensuring that students know the resources and opportunities available to them, for helping them grapple with issues and form their own conclusions. There is an opportunity to build campus unity and awareness through accurate reporting that conveys and analyzes the complex and multiple facts of a story. High-quality journalism can be a model of investigation with integrity, evidence-based conclusions and civil, open, respectful discourse.

An independent student newspaper provides a wonderful learning and training experience for our students — the pursuit of the truth and to reflect that with integrity in a biasfree way, and also with the integrity that, when one misses a fact, to have the courage to make a correction and the humility to accept it. This is the way one learns and the newspaper provides that experiential learning.

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Humans of Oxford Matt Bohart: Baseball to bagels PEOPLE

EMMA KINGHORN THE MIAMI STUDENT

Ham, pepper jack, veggie cream cheese, lettuce, tomato and hot sauce on a bialy.

The MILF bagel — tried by many, enjoyed by few and favored by one Matt Bohart who spends the better part of his nights and mornings servicing sometimes sober Oxford residents.

But this wasn’t the dream.

The dream was college baseball.

“My whole life,” Matt said.

He had made it. King University, Division II baseball, playing catcher his freshman season. The dream had come true.

Until it hadn’t.

A friend on first base turned thief at second. Matt made the same throw he had a thousand times, but this one wouldn’t find its glove.

It would arc strangely, softly finding a home somewhere in the center field grass, but Matt would never see it land.

Matt remembers that it was like an explosion. He woke in the dirt, with coaches above him, his helmet being removed.

He would never play baseball for King University again.

Less than a year later — this time in Hamilton, Ohio — while wearing red and white, it happened again.

The same throw, the same labrum tear, the same shoulder. The thief running toward second didn’t just gain a base, he stole a future.

Matt Bohart would never play baseball again.

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The closest he will ever get is making the Tracy Smith bagel, named for a former Miami baseball coach.

After losing his future in baseball, Matt transferred to Oxford, and found a new team — his Bagel & Deli co-workers.

The tryout was simple — learn

roughly all the bagels in 30 days, give or take.

Matt found happiness in trading his baseball pants for 10 Bagel & Deli t-shirts.

“It’s the best job I’ve ever had,” he said.

This is how Matt found his MILF.

Theatre department opens with ‘Stupid F---ing Bird’ THEATRE

MEGAN BOWERS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Studio 88 has never been arranged quite like this.

The usual risers have been replaced with an assortment of different chairs, some fancy and some simple fold-ups. There is a variety of decorative lanterns and light bulbs hanging from the ceiling. A small stage with a simple curtain hanging across it is set back in the performance space.

This arrangement creates a realistic atmosphere for the Theatre Department’s production of “Stupid F---ing Bird.”

“Stupid F---ing Bird” is an adaptation of Chekhov’s classic, “The Seagull.” It was written by Aaron Posner in 2013, making the classic more relevant to modern day audiences.

“The show is about the reality of life and how truthful pain, frustration and happiness all are,” said Anthony Thompson, music director and actor playing the role of Dev in “SFB.” “It’s about suffering for your craft, but also suffering for those you love.”

The fact that this production was derived from another play meant that the cast had to do background work on their characters in “Stupid F---ing Bird” and in “The Seagull.”

“There are times when I thought, I’ve got to put more emphasis on that because it’s from ‘The Seagull,’ but I also got a sense of what the writer changed in ‘Stupid F---ing Bird’ and I know I have to hold true to that,” said Raechel Lombardo, who plays the character Mash.

The fact that it is an adaptation also makes it stand out from the shows the department has done in the past.

“The style of this play is very unique because it’s a deconstruction and it has a lot of different elements,” said Saffron Henke, the show’s director. “The actors speak to the audience, there’s live music and the style of the play is different even in the world of plays in general.”

The casting for the play took place the week before finals in the spring semester to give the cast time to prepare since the performances are taking place so early in the semester.

“I cast with an eye toward how well they did in their audition and

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An actor prepares for “Stupid F---ing Bird,” the Theatre Department’s first production of the fall season. how well I thought they would be able to collaborate,” said Henke.

The actors were then able to come into the first rehearsals with all of their lines memorized. This was helpful as they were able to quickly work on setting up the scenes of the show.

However, it was also a challenge to run lines alone.

“It was a little weird memorizing lines without other people,” said Lombardo. “There were also some things I ended up changing when I saw how other people were coming at their characters.”

Unlike other shows, “Stupid F--ing Bird” doesn’t start at the beginning of the play. The actors will already be in character working as ushers and getting ready as the audience comes into the black box.

This sets the scene for what is happening in the play and also provides the cast with the chance to get comfortable with their character.

“It is a wonderful theatrical invention,” says Thompson. “It really forces us to start the story before the show begins and helps us ease into character instead of just diving right in.”

The director has requested that the actors and creative staff all do the show with the feeling of being in love to create a more encouraging environment and to help emphasize the themes of love throughout the play.

“The thing about acting as if you are in love is that the last thing you want to think about is acting,” said Thompson. “You want to think about being a human being, breathing and trying your best to connect.”

The writer of the play has also

made adjustments in the script to keep it relevant in any era it is performed in.

“There are asterisks that you can change depending on the situation, like it will tell you to say something relevant to worldviews, politics, your theatre,” said Lombardo. “It makes the show personally humorous so it can be performed wherever.”

“Stupid F---ing Bird” had three songs written into it originally, but this production has added much more. Music director Anthony Thompson wrote music for interludes as well as motifs for everyone in the cast.

“I started writing music the last week of the semester and finished in about three weeks,” said Thompson.

“I tried to keep the cast’s musical abilities in mind, as well as what instruments they could play and what scenes they were or weren’t in.”

It also presented new challenges to everyone in the cast.

“I’m intimidated by my music because I don’t normally sing unless I’m playing extravagant characters and for this I had to do my own sound, so it’s a little vulnerable for me.”

The cast of “Stupid F---ing Bird” has tried to make something that is very relatable to any audience they might have.

“A lot of the show is about the idea of what am I going to make out of my life,” said Thompson. “College students relate to this a lot because the pressures of trying to fit into the world are very real.”

“Stupid F---ing Bird” will be showing at 7 p.m. on Oct 5-8 and at 2 p.m. on Oct 9 in Studio 88.

Zines: Tiny papers, big words BOOKS

ELIZABETH HANSEN

ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR

Carly Sentieri, the special collections librarian at the Wertz Art and Architecture library, was sifting through items that had not yet been catalogued when a small booklet caught her eye.

Its print was faded from multiple photocopies, but the message was still visible. In her hands she held a list of demands from the students of the New University conference to Miami University. The publication date read 1969.

“The society invades and corrupts the university in no way more visibly than by the draft or the threat of the draft and by the questions government asks faculty members to answer about students. Questions about their loyalty and their affiliation, their friendships, their moral values…” the book carried on, demanding the university to not cooperate with the draft.

But this was not just a book. It was a zine.

Zines are short, creative publications that often express countercultural ideas. Zines can be persuasive, like the zine Sentieri found from 1969, or they can be comical. One of Erin Vonnahme’s favorites is called “Zebra Pizza,” written by a librarian who simply loves pizza.

“The spirit of zines is getting your message out there however you choose to, whether it’s something relatively polished and text heavy, more traditional like a journal or a joke conveyed through images…it’s super rad,” said Vonnahme, the humanities librarian.

During an academic library conference last fall, Sentieri and Vonnahme encountered a poster presentation about the concept of zines from the Columbus College of Art and Design. This presentation sparked an idea between the two librarians. What if they could use these small, but powerful publications to create a collection for students to browse and even use for research?

“We were familiar with zines generally before that, but this was the first moment where we felt like we could make it part of the work we do for Miami,” said Vonnahme.

Their idea came to life last spring when they held their first zine workshop.

“Students have a lot of pressure in their lives, and we thought it would be nice to have a space to doodle for a little while. Zines are all made from one sheet of paper that you just cut once and fold, and it becomes a book,” said Sentieri.

The zines from last semester, along with zines printed from a variety of different university libraries, are scattered around the tables as inspiration for new zines. Eventually, these zines will have their own database.

“If you consent to have your zine included, we will keep it in the physical copy. We are trying to build a digital depository of contributions too so that way, eventually, we can get them on the library’s website and they’d be browseable to not only use as a learning tool for librarians, but also other classes,” Vonnahme said.

Among these zines is a final project that was completed for a biology course. The zine raised awareness about trash dumping in lakes — specifically in Hueston Woods. It discusses the negative impacts with extensive research, but uses a medium more interesting than a black and white APA paper.

“They cite their sources and everything, so it’s still very much a traditional research document but it is totally fun and readable,” said Vonnahme. “It’s just one option to remember exists instead of only thinking that scholarly journals in an academic database are where you go to find stuff.”

Another opportunity zines provide is an alternative method to publishing works. For Sean Poppe, library associate and a part time illustrator and comic maker, making zines is a nice change in medium.

“It’s nice to make something small to feel like I’m actually making progress and have it finished in my hands instead of having a larger project to do,” said Poppe. “And I think that’s a really great thing for aspiring artists too. They want to have their big magnum opus they want to do and they should do, [but] it’s great practice to finish something mentally and physically — even if it’s dumb. Especially if its dumb.”

So whether the zines students decide to make are rooted in passion or are just a dumb, silly stream of consciousness, freedom remains a constant.

“We like it because it’s an opportunity for you to just feel like you can make something meaningful. You can promote an idea you feel passionate about, or you can just take a moment to not do homework and still be creating something and still be creative and still be mindful just of being present,” said Vonnahme.

“There’s no stress, there’s no wrong way to do this.”

Zine workshops are held from 2-4 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month in the Wertz Art and Architecture library.

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To celebrate their centennial anniversary, the Miami Symphony Orchestra has lined up a season full of unique, diverse and premiere performances.

To start it all off, the orchestra will perform the “Eroica,” Beethoven’s third symphony, tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Hall Auditorium. The symphony was voted the greatest of all time in a BBC Music Magazine survey of 151 music conductors from across the globe earlier this summer. Miami professor and symphony conductor, Ricardo Averbach, explained the significance of the symphony.

“It is a masterpiece in the terms of the way the notes are put together, the orchestration, the musical form,” he said. “I always wanted to perform the ‘Eroica’ here at Miami.

I’m thrilled to play this piece with our students, especially in an occasion like this, which is the centennial year.”

Averbach had chosen the music prior to the BBC’s announcement, due to it’s revolutionary quality.

“Normally, evolution comes gradually. It is rare for evolution to happen through quantum leaps, but in the ‘Eroica’ this is what happened,” he said. “[Beethoven] basically changed the meaning of what music

is supposed to be [with this piece].”

“No one had ever heard anything this intense before,” said senior orchestra president, Silver Flight.

This Friday’s concert will also be a part of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days, commemorating Daniel Pearl, an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002. Pearl had a long musical history and a reputation for picking up an instrument for any special occasion.

The World Music Days were “created with the goal of using music as a universal language to bring people with different beliefs together,” said Averbach.

Flight thinks it is important to make this connection.

“I think music can connect people from different cultures. I mean there are different types of music in different cultures, but music is something that most cultures have in common,” she said.

Averbach added, “[It’s important to] do things like this because by connecting the music we perform with events that are current, that are contemporary, we make the music more meaningful to our days.”

After the concert, the audience will be invited to continue remembering Pearl at a reception coordinated with Late Night Miami.

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Tonight’s concert is only the first in a line of impressive centennial performances.

“As part of our centennial season, in the next concert, we are going to do a premiere at Miami, a premiere in the United States, of a composition called ‘Chimera,’” said Averbach.

The solos in the composition will be performed by the brass quintet of the Cincinnati Symphony. The composer of the piece, Anthony DiLorenzo, will be attending, as well as Samuel Adler, one of the greatest living American composers.

The second semester holds even more big names and performances for the orchestra.

“We are going to do the American premiere of a very important piece that [Arturo Marquez] wrote, a cantata called ‘Dreams,’” said Averbach.

The piece will integrate both the orchestra and the choir to create a performance in which lyrics are pieces of famous speeches, beginning with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

In the same concert there will

be a tribute to Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Prize laureate and Palestinian female education activist.

“I’m going to crown our centennial season, in our last performance, we are going to do a world premiere,” said Averbach, “A Miami professor, Per Bloland, will, for the first time, write a composition specifically for the Miami Orchestra.”

Approximately 40 percent of the Miami Orchestra is new to the company every year.

“It means that this a landmark event in our history, but at the same time it is a year like any other where we start from scratch, from zero,” explained Averbach.

Senior Hayden McDougald, manager of the orchestra, isn’t worried by this turnover.

“We have a lot of leadership, experienced players that take [new members] under their wing,” he said.

“They’re going to pull it off and give a successful season.”

“We are starting off the year with one of the greatest symphonies ever composed,” said Flight. “And I’m looking forward to the rest of the season, which is full of amazing and inspirational composition

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“No,” he laughs, “I’m just kidding.”

And while he may not have faced any deadly crocodiles, he’s familiar with danger.

2004 was the first time Robert went to origin — the term for going to the coffee farms. He went to Ethiopia.

He and his driver headed west from Addis Ababa to Jimma.

“The man I was supposed to meet there, wasn’t there. So, the driver and I decided to go see a coffee farm on our own.”

He raises his voice over the buzz of the coffee grinder.

“There was a guard out in front with an AK-47 on a string around his neck. They don’t even have straps! Just a cruddy string.

And they say, ‘No. You can’t look at anything. You have to go back to Addis Ababa and get specific permission to visit this farm.’”

They came all that way and wouldn’t even get to see a coffee farm, but they weren’t about to argue with the men and their guns. So Robert and his driver headed back to their hotel in Jimma. What do we do now?

Addis Ababa is an eight-hour drive away.

But the guy they were supposed to meet showed up.

“And he was wonderful! And then the doors and the gates opened for us everywhere.”

All it took was for that man to say, “They’re with me.”

He pauses to sip his coffee, black.

Robert gets up and heads to the front of the store. He sticks his hand into a burlap sack and pulls out green coffee beans, running them through his fingers.

He talks about all of the machines in the shop that they use to roast and make the coffee. It’s clear that he’s proud of the place that he put so much work into.

He takes a seat at one of the wooden tables in the store which, like all of the others, he put together himself.

He looks at the decorations on the walls, thinking about where in the world he got each item.

Robert could go on for hours talking about coffee. He’s happy that way.

Goldhamer, said the bullet did not hit his son’s bone and that his son was back in classes Wednesday.

He said his son, who was sitting on a couch in the living room when he was shot, told him he didn’t know the assailants.

Goldhamer said his son told him: “It was the strangest thing, they just started shooting out of nowhere.”

Police said Kovalenko contacted a person through Craigslist to buy a car for $4,000. The purported owner of the vehicle and another man said they drove the vehicle from Cleveland to meet Kovalenko at 210 N. Campus Ave. — a house known as “Study A Broad.”

But instead of exchanging money and a car title, one of the suspects — who acted “jittery and paranoid” when Kovalenko handed him the cash — pulled a gun and shot Goldhamer.

Kovalenko struggled with the suspect for the gun, which discharged and shot him in the leg. The weapon dropped on the floor and Kovalenko kicked it under the couch, according to the police report.

The suspects ran off with the $4,000 in cash, leaving Goldhamer and Kovalenko on the ground, bleeding.

Police towed an SUV, with its licensed plate obscured by paper, from the home Tuesday evening. It was unclear if the vehicle was the one Kovalenko believed he was buying.

Brett Balick, one of Goldhamer’s housemates, called 911 to report the 7:44 p.m. shooting, according to the 911 call.

“Someone just came into my house and shot my friend in the leg,” Balick told the 911 operator. “There’s blood all over my floor. He’s losing a lot of blood.”

Seth Goldhamer said his son called home around 1 a.m. to tell them of the shooting.

“It was pretty surreal,’’ said Goldhamer, who did not drive to Oxford.

“Just to have someone call you and

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tions for ASG, Amy Berg, said that it is every member’s job to hold one another accountable.

“We want to ensure that every member of ASG feels comfortable in expressing their opinions inside and outside of our Sentate meetings,” Berg said.

Froehlich claims the recommendation by ASG’s oversight committee is unfair.

“This is an incredible way to describe a ten second recording of my own conversation with another senator,” Froehlich said. “[It] was never saved or distributed, and did not cause distress or alarm.”

Instead, Froehlich believes that the oversight committee’s claim is rooted in bias against him due to his controversial voting record, especially against ASG’s last operating budget.

“The matter of the recording is not the primary motivation behind this [censuring], let’s be clear about this,” Froehlich said.

Froelich claims that mentions of other recordings cited in the oversight committee’s report are unsubstantiated.

After nearly 20 minutes of debate in executive session, the ASG voted to censure Froehlich.

The ASG bylaws (specifically 502B) state that censure is reserved for cases where a member’s behavior is of questionable responsibility, but not enough for dismissal, meaning Froehlich will stay on as an ASG senator.

“We thank Nick for coming before us today to defend himself,” speaker of ASG senate Jack Fetick said. “We look forward to him remaining a positive member of the Associated Student Government.”

At the time of publication, Miami ASG had not released the vote count for Froehlich’s censure.

say that he’s just been shot.”

Goldhamer said his son was treated at Oxford’s McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital and released by 11 p.m. on Tuesday. Kovalenko was taken to West Chester Hospital, north of Cincinnati. He was no longer listed as a patient there Wednesday night.

Goldhamer said his son and Kovalenko, who attended Beachwood High School together and played on the soccer team there, remained friends at Miami University. Kovalenko is not a resident of the N. Campus Ave. home where Goldhamer lives with seven other men, Seth Goldhamer said.

Jared Goldhamer is a finance major and Kovalenko lists chemistry as his major.

Miami President Gregory Crawford, who stopped at the North Campus scene on his bicycle Tuesday night, did not directly discuss the shooting in a statement to the Miami community on Wednesday.

“Everyone, please keep our students and their families in your thoughts. We hope for our students to recover soon,” he wrote in the statement. “We’re grateful to police and medical professionals for their quick response, care and compassion.”

Police described the suspects as a dark-complected white man, about five-feet, 10-inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds, wearing a gray hoodie and a black man, with dreadlocks, about five-feet, 11-inches tall and weighing about 190 pounds, wearing a gray hoodie.

The shooting remains under investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call Oxford Police at 513-5245240.

This story was produced in cooperation with patch.com, a community-focused website with content produced by Miami journalism students. Mariel Padilla contributed to this report.

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know where they stand and this will be a good test for us,” Sherwood said.

Miami has been winless in its last five clashes with Providence, going 0-3-2, giving the Friars a 6-4-3 lead in the alltime series. The tilts have typically been contentious, as five of the last eight games between the teams have gone into overtime.

“This is one of the best teams we’ll play all year, so it’s important to come out, play hard, and hopefully pick up two wins out there,” Belpedio said.

The puck drops 7:05 p.m. both Friday and Saturday at the Schneider Arena in Providence, Rhode Island.

Reilly also wants students to be able “to find their place” at Miami. To this end, ASG has created a position for a director for student organizations. Duties of the role will include promoting student organization events and supporting a variety of student interests.

Finally, Reilly introduced an “ASG student success fund,” inspired by talks with President Crawford, to provide for contingent student expenses, like a plane ticket home or a meal voucher, that traditional financial aid cannot satisfy.

Reilly also addressed diversity and inclusion at Miami.

“We are one Miami, and we need to start acting like it,” Reilly

said. “Too often, our university is divided into what seems to be three types of communities: the Greek community, diverse and international students and athletes.”

Reilly closed her address by describing a few ongoing projects, including the successful renewal of a an AMTRAK liaison position, the lack of benches on campus that affects students with disabilities, beer sales at football games and the appointment of two cabinet members to work with administrators while the OESCR judicial process is under review.

Finally, Reilly took Twitter questions regarding the lack of parking spaces on campus — for which there was no immediate plan — and installing more

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Secretary for Communications and Media Relations Amy Berg expressed her optimism about the coming semester.

“I can say with full sincerity that in my four years on ASG, this is the best senate and cabinet that I’ve seen yet,” Berg said.”We’re a very goal-driven group and excited to achieve a lot of things this semester.”

Reilly was pleased with Wednesday night’s turnout.

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Longwood has only faced one MAC team this season — Kent State, the current MAC champion — and lost 3-2 in overtime. The Lancers are also coming off a 4-2 loss to Georgetown last Sunday.

“Longwood is a team that joined the MAC a few years ago and I believe that the addition to the MAC really helped them to keep improving and pushing and you see that on the field, these days,” Miami head coach Inako Puzo said. “It’s a team that is playing better and is fast.”

Miami has scored an average of 2.75 goals per game, whereas its opponents have averaged 1.67.

Longwood’s average goals scored is 3 per game versus its opponents’ average of 2.73.

“We’ve been really working on passing quickly and just getting open in a lot of off ball movement and I think that’s really helped increase the tempo of our game,” senior forward Geagy Pritchard said.

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the game in the second quarter due to an undisclosed upper-body injury. Bahl’s injury, as well as injuries to two of his backups, paved the way for fourth-string freshman signal-caller Noah Wezensky to see the field for the first time in his college career.

Whether Bahl or Wezensky takes the snaps for the RedHawks on the road against Akron remains to be seen.

“I would say … somewhere between probable and doubtful,” Martin said of Bahl’s status, eventually deciding on the term “questionable”. “I would hope we would be available by Saturday, whether it be to start or to back up in some capacity. It’s way too early to tell with the injury he has.”

In the practices leading up to the game against OU, Wezensky was receiving a bulk of the reps behind Bahl. Martin hinted that this trend may continue, with Bahl potentially sidelined for an extended period of time.

“Billy’s not going to be practicing early in the week,” Martin said on Sunday. “We’re hopeful that by Thursday we can get him some reps or Friday get him some reps. He’s going to be getting all of the reps early in the week and Jack Sorenson will be the number two.”

Sophomore linebacker Ulysees Gilbert III leads the Zips in tackles with 55 in five games. Junior free safety Zach Guiser has also left his mark, earning 38 tackles and an interception on the season.

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East Offensive Player of the Week Cassie Shado.

Shado hit .519 over UB’s weekend matchups, recording a career-high 22 kills in the team’s game against the University of Akron.

The RedHawks must put forth a stout defensive effort and contain the junior standout in order to secure the team’s twelfth win in a row.

Miami then faces a grueling test, as the team must travel 221 miles in less than 24 hours to get set for its 7 p.m. Saturday night matchup against Akron. The Zips (5-11 overall, 0-4 MAC) have dropped four straight games, but they will have the advantage of playing against a potentially tired ’Hawks squad on their home floor.

Sophomore middle hitter Patience Brown (143 kills) and redshirt senior right side hitter Amanda Beddell (142 kills) have led the Akron attack so far this season, and the Zips will be eager to prove themselves against the MAC’s top team.

MU enters the weekend slate with the current MAC East Defensive Player of the Week

Paula Portugal, a sophomore forward, has 12 goals on the season, while Pritchard has seven and senior forward Carla Romagosa has five. Romagosa also leads the Red and White in assists with nine, six more than any of her teammates.

Impact players for the Lancers include junior forward Edel Nyland, who has 12 goals on the season, and sophomore forward Leonie Verstraete, who has 11.

This is Miami’s first one-game weekend in two weeks, but the Red and White don’t plan on changing their style of play.

“We never get too comfy — stay humble, keep working hard. We have to build on the momentum we have at this point,” Puzo said. “This is the momentum we have created with all our training for the last ten months. This is just one more stage in the process, but the most important thing is the performance and to keep the tempo of the game.”

The match begins 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Miami Field Hockey Complex, adjacent to Yager Stadium in Oxford.

“Defensively, they’re a 4-3 team and we have played against some 4-3 teams. They’ll jump at double eagle too, much like Western Kentucky. They run the 4-3 like OU,” Martin said.

On offense, Akron boasts a two-quarterback system, with junior quarterbacks Thomas Woodson and Tra’Von Chapman sharing snaps. Handling that kind of alternating firepower from the quarterback position could pose a problem for the RedHawks’ defense.

“Chapman, who’s a Division 1 transfer; he was a top-end prospect. He actually started the first game a year ago or the first two games he was brought in to be the guy to take things over but Woodson ends up beating him out and obviously Chapman got in.

They’re both capable,” Martin said.

With Bahl out, redshirt sophomore running back Alonzo Smith will be asked to carry much of Miami’s offensive load. Smith has averaged 53.6 rushing yards per game and has one touchdown. Sophomore wide receiver James Gardner has taken over for injured standout Rokeem Williams, and has 22 receptions, including five touchdowns, on the year.

Junior defensive back Tony Reid leads the Redhawks in tackles with 39, while redshirt senior defensive lineman Austin Gearing shares the team lead in sacks with 2.5.

This tilt will be hosted by Akron University and streamed live on ESPN3. Kickoff at InfoCision Stadium is set for 3:00 p.m.

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on its side. Senior middle hitter Paige Hill received the award after tallying 11 blocks throughout last weekend’s victories over Ohio University and Kent State University.

This was Hill’s first Player of the Week award this season and her sixth career recognition.

Hill and her teammates are clicking on all cylinders at the moment. The RedHawks are determined to stay sharp, as after the weekend slate, the team has just 10 games remaining until MAC Tournament play begins.

Having not lost a game in over a month, it could get easy for MU to get caught up in its success. However, the ’Hawks are confident that they can stay focused during this crucial juncture in their season.

“We are trying to always improve and not get complacent,” senior outside hitter Maris Below said. “Once we meet a goal, we set the bar even higher.”

After the two-game road trip, the Red and White will finish off the season with six of their final 10 games at home. A good weekend showing would go a long way in securing Miami’s spot atop the MAC regular season standings.

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Quit clowning around: The national craze makes its way to Miami The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

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ell, when the White House is talking about the creepy clown pandemic sweeping the nation in a press briefing, it’s probably time that we do, too.

August marked the beginning of the craze, with the first reports of clown sightings coming from South Carolina.

According to those reports, clowns were using money and candy to lure neighborhood children (who apparently trusted strange men wearing terrifying masks) into the Carolina woods.

Since then, clown sightings have been reported all over social media in over twenty states, with some resulting in legitimate arrests on the basis of terrorist threats. Even in our backyard over in Reading, Ohio, school was cancelled a week ago on the basis of a false report of a chase-and-assaultby-clown.

But in another Reading, the Pennsylvanian one, the craze led to murder — of one of the clowns, that is. A fight broke out in a neighborhood in Reading when a 16-year-old named Christian Torres wore a clown mask pushed up on his head

(not covering his face). The mask apparently started controversy and resulted in the stabbing and killing of Torres by Avery Valentin-Bair, according to the Associated Press. Worse still, the original reports of the stabbing indicated that the stabber was wear-

new page titled “Clown Lives Matter” popped up this week to highlight the “injustices” of this new craze and to celebrate clowns that are not psycho killers. This has, of course, received backlash from the Black Lives Matter community, as the rumors of crazy clowns

None of these have been confirmed, nor have they been much of a concern following the (far more concerning) shooting of two Miami students Tuesday in an armed robbery, according to Oxford Police.

On the same day, the New York Post reported that Penn

If you enjoy gathering in large crowds intent on tracking down the presumably dangerous clown, don’t beat the poor guy to death.

ing the clown mask, a false rumor perpetuating the craze.

Even Stephen King, a man responsible for creating the idea of the “killer clown” with his book It, tweeted at his followers to calm down.

“Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria — most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh,” King tweeted on Monday.

As if to echo that sentiment, real clowns in Tucson, Arizona have actually organized a “peace walk” scheduled for Oct. 15. And on Facebook, a

don’t actually compare to the police brutality that the latter movement is trying to eradicate. But if anything is true, it’s that on the Internet there are no boundaries, which is how this whole thing started in the first place.

This week, the insanity found its way to Miami, as it always seems to. The report of a clown chasing a student by Miami’s Rec Center made its rounds earlier this week, as did the rumor of a clown walking

by Brick Street, patrolling Uptown.

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State’s campus exploded into a frenzy after students read online that the clown craze had brought three of their masked members to the area. Students took to the streets in a huge, chanting mob, grabbing tennis rackets and other pitchfork replacements in search of any red-nosed perpetrators.

Sure, the phenomenon has taken a backseat here at Miami for the time being, but who’s to say rage won’t be resurrected come Halloween, when the cult costume will be sure to make an appearance?

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ZACH NARCROSS GUEST COLUMNIST

Miami University draws in a lot of its students through its strong academic reputation, its safe campus, and above most of our subconscious, its predominantly white reputation.

Miami University’s Oxford Fall 2015 undergraduate enrollment class had 16,382 students. Of these students, 519 were multiracial, 628 were Hispanic/Latino, 483 were black, 367 were Asian and 12,504 were white. An astonishing 76 percent of students at Miami are white, and only 3 percent of students at Miami are black.

Some people from my hometown who do not understand the benefits of diversity argue that Miami University does not have a lot of black students because it is just a very tough school to get into. They say that only students who try hard in high school will get in here.

There are two things wrong with this ideology. First of all, by saying Miami University is a hard school to get into, they are acknowledging the fact that you would need to attend a strong high school in order to obtain the knowledge necessary to get in. Unfortunately, a lot of school districts in Ohio, and more specifically urban areas, do not receive the funding necessary to achieve at the level of its suburban counterparts.

It has been 19 years since the first time the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that school funding in Ohio is unconstitutional and yet still nothing has changed.

Secondly, to say that African Americans are ‘not trying hard enough’ is the reason why racism continues to enter the young minds of America today. “Laziness” in black people was a stereotype borne out of Americans wanting to keep people of color subordinate in the reconstruction era. This idea of black laziness continued through much of 1930s when entertainers like Stepin Fetchit portrayed black characters for white audiences like “the laziest man in the world.”

As we see with the attitudes of many Americans today, stereotypes defining African Americans are not over. Stereotypes and prejudice need to be put to an end so we can

move forward as a unified America.

A great way to erase these stereotypes is by putting different ethnic/ racial groups together to give the ignorant an opportunity to see how stereotypes are false, and how much we can learn from one another.

It is in the human psychology that we are drawn to be with others that look and think like ourselves.

For this reason, we cannot blame our brains for the fact that Miami University has such a large draw for white high schoolers. Imagine you are a white student from Columbus, like myself: when you visit Miami you notice how beautiful campus is, you see all the spectacular classrooms and facilities, and walk away thinking, “Wow I could really see myself going here.”

However, if I was a student of color visiting Miami, and 76 percent of the student body walking around campus when I was touring was not like me, I might be feeling out of place here.

13.7 percent of Ohio’s population is black, which does not correlate to why Miami’s student body is 3 percent black. I recognize the opportunities in a more diverse cam-

the importance of both gender and racial diversity in the workplace.

McKinsey analyzed 366 public companies, and “those in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above national industry medians.” Furthermore “companies in the top quartile for gender diversity are 15 percent more likely to have financial returns above their national industry peers.” The numbers speak for themselves: diversity is very important to the success of any business.

By diversifying campus now, Miami will ensure students will learn more and be more prepared for life after college. Now the question becomes: how will Miami University acquire more students of color in order to ensure a more diverse student population?

Most people are under the impression that the only way to ensure an increase in diversity is through quotas, which is completely wrong.

It has been years since Regents of the University of California v.

Bakke ruled that racial quotas were impermissible. Instead, schools like Miami need to do a better job re-

There is no better way to learn about the real world, beyond academics, than from others who are not like you.

pus, which is why I believe that students would largely benefit from a sharp increase in African American student body as well as other races. There is no better way to learn about the real world, beyond academics, than from others who are not like you. Diversity in college encourages collaboration which in turn fosters innovation. A successful diverse student body at Miami will translate well into the current growing diversity of the American population and workforce after college.

A corporation in the United States would never succeed if every employee was of the same age, race, and gender. Forbes recently published an article about McKinsey Global Institutes’s findings on

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cruiting students from more diverse areas of the state and country. Additionally, because Miami is a historically white institution, they need to prioritize spots in their enrollment to qualified minorities, rather than legacy students with equal or poorer grades.

I am ready for more diversity at Miami University. I hope that Miami is ready to take the steps necessary to ensure more diversity on campus so students can learn more, and our student body can begin to erase the lasting stereotypes of minorities in America today.

NARCROZL@MIAMIOH.EDU

We can’t be sure that real (or imagined) clown sightings are in the rearview mirror, but we can prepare ourselves for some modified versions of the clown car gag.

As noted, Miami is not immune to joining in on the clown madness. In a time when crowd mentality seems to appeal to most, Halloween is prone to incite some amount of mob-like activity, especially when you factor alcohol into the picture. It’s important to remember, then, that these clowns have not been proven to be all that dangerous, and the ones sighted on Halloween will most likely be no different.

If you plan on dressing in solidarity with Clown Lives Matter on Oct. 31, then be safe — identify yourself as a harmless student who felt a calling to the clown life.

If you enjoy gathering in large crowds intent on tracking down the presumably dangerous clown, don’t beat the poor guy to death. He’s just trying to have a good time in his own perverted way. Just be safe.

But hopefully everyone forgets about the clowns soon.

Just like the “Harlem Shake” and Jibbitz.

TO THE EDITOR: Until a couple of weeks ago, Florida State University’s football team ranked No. 2 in the nation.

But after the University of Louisville dropped 63 points on them, no more. Closer to home, not so long ago Miami’s football team ranked among the Top Ten across the country and Yager Stadium was filled. No more.

In considering Miami’s position in U.S. News rankings for undergraduate education, these sports developments suggest three lessons: first, rankings can be lost as well as gained. Second, once lost, high rankings can be difficult to re-gain. And third, rankings are backward-looking to the past, rather than forward-looking to the future.

An important policy decision at Miami seems to have been made behind closed doors to substantially increase student enrollment: since 2004, enrollment on the Oxford campus has increased steadily by nearly 20 percent. The construction of new residence halls (on Western, on the site of Withrow Court, on South quad, on North quad, conversion of Miami Inn) suggests increasing enrollment is to be substantial and permanent.

Without any public discussion, enrollment has been increased more than twice as much as total faculty, with the result that classes grow larger, students have a harder

time getting the classes they need, and there is less direct facultyundergraduate interaction (and more resort to teaching assistants, students teaching students, and students teaching themselves — try explaining the latter to families laying out $30,000 a year). Meanwhile, faculty and students know less about each other, and relations grow more bureaucratically impersonal.

Increasing admissions and enrollment is crack cocaine for college administrators and trustees: it produces a quick pop in revenues.

But the cost over the longer run — not just in dollars, but in what economists call the “opportunity cost” of what is sacrificed) — can be considerable. Miami traditionally has held a uniquely attractive place in American public higher education: a little bigger than small colleges, a lot smaller than big universities, while offering the advantages of each, especially the former, on a human scale. But if we become just one more middlesized institution, our current rankings might become merely a memory.

Ironically, decisions made today which are justified by referring to our current rankings may jeopardize the quality and character of the institution that are the underlying basis for those rankings tomorrow. “Love and Honor” today might be seen as “Dishonor and Degrade” in the future.

BROCKJ@MIAMIOH.EDU

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TO THE EDITOR: I appreciated your article in the October 4 issue, “A barrier to bias in the classroom,” and I think that it speaks to the heightened emotions on all sides during this 2016 election season.

I’ve been on the receiving end of this heightened emotion, in the form of stolen yard signs for

political candidates, the last two nights in a row.

I live near campus, on a street with a lot of foot traffic from students, staff, and faculty and I wish to make a plea in this election season to respect the rights of free, open, and vocal expression that we all enjoy outside the classroom.

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Miami should be a place to share ideas, not devalue them CAMPUS

TO THE EDITOR: On Friday, September 30 a group of Miami students held a moving vigil at the Hub dedicated to remembering black lives lost to senseless violence in America. Prior to the event, in our long Miami tradition, these students also shared their feelings on sheets that were secured between the trees surrounding the Hub. The vigil itself was a model campus event; it was thoughtful, moving and well organizedi. Its goals were laudable: productive dialogue and healing reflection. Regrettably, however, many of the sheets carefully crafted by these students appear to have been inappropriately removed. It is possible that this likely vandalism was random and unrelated to the messages expressed.

However, those responsible may have been motivated by a rejection of the ideas expressed on those sheets. In either case, the actions are an unacceptable affront to our values and should be condemned.

We aspire to be a community in which all members feel welcome, and irrespective of the intent these actions have made some of our students feel unwelcome and targeted — an unfortunate and sadly ironic outcome of a vigil that was intended, in part, to provide a segment of our

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student body that often feels alienated and unwelcome a moment of recognition and reassurance from the broader campus community.

For those who might be responsible, the Miami community finds your actions deplorable and antithetical to our values and our goal of creating a welcoming environment for all. If you were motivated in your actions by a difference of opinion, the expectation in our community is that you take ownership of your dissent and that you explore those differences in a civil and responsible way.

In our community of learners and scholars, ideas are to be shared and debated, not ignored or removed from sight. These actions provide not the road to the enlightenment we seek, but rather trap us in the ignorance we reject. To quote President Crawford from one of his recent tweets: “Knowing words (and actions) can hurt, we can choose instead to use them to heal, elevate and unite. We are One Miami.”

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Bring back the open door policy STUDENT LIFE

MICHAEL STEMMLER THE MIAMI STUDENT

“Hi, neighbor!”

That was my great grandfather’s signature greeting — as a state senator, that was also his campaign slogan. He greeted everyone he passed or saw, whether he knew them or not, with that simple phrase. I told myself when I got to college that I would carry his same friendly neighbor demeanor throughout my own residence hall.

Yet, as I walk down my hall, where 30 of my “closest friends” reside, I realize I have no one to talk to. I believed I would be popping in and out of rooms, making new friends, laughing and joking with everyone — each person I would know on a first name basis.

However, to my surprise, our hall is nothing but a highway for the hermit crabs to return to their shells. All the doors are shut, no one wanders the halls looking for new friends to meet and the only people walking into my room are either friends or RAs telling me it’s quiet hours.

It was my understanding that the open door policy was an age old rule of dorms, which bonded its members, so the fact we all share the same five toilets and six showers wouldn’t make things weird.

Although my room is constantly filled with late night gatherings,

the strangers of my hall rarely stop in. This forces us to shout greetings at them before they walk down the stairs — it rarely helps to bring them in.

We must restore the ODP. It is an essential part of college dorm life that our community cannot function without. Too many days

Being in college, we are at a time in which we are surrounded by those who are different than us.

The university has brought people from around the country and world, people who were all raised differently and people who have a diverse range of interests and skills. So, why are our doors closed

Too many days pass by where I don’t know who I see in the halls, and all I really want to do is meet some new people.

pass by where I don’t know who I see in the halls, and all I really want to do is meet some new people. A simple action like keeping a door open can introduce numerous people into your life, and I don’t understand how residents can live without it.

Now, you may be asking, “Why do we need the open door policy?

I still have friends with my door closed.” Well, imagine a life where Netflix wasn’t your only trusty companion, a life where you receive more good mornings than awkward stares, a life where you can walk right down your hall and find help for that one class you are struggling in — this is what we should strive for.

off from the outside world? Instead, we should be taking advantage of what our halls have to offer.

It’s not that hard. Just open the door. As you walk down your hall exchange a few “hi neighbor” greetings here and there. Go and open your door, make some new friends. The late Mr. Rodgers once said, “Won’t you be my neighbor?”

But if we all would be his neighbors, why can’t we be each others?

And hey, after 23 years of the ODP, you never know what’s gonna come through that door.

STEMLMF@MIAMIOH.EDU

Prisons make money from This Republican is not for Trump contemporary slave labor POLITICS

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TESS SOHNGEN OVER-THE-RHINE COORESPONDENT

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865. Well, most of it.

Slavery can — and does — exist “as a punishment for crime;” a loophole that prisons across the country have taken advantage of since the Civil War. Today, another group has exploited the slavery loophole: capitalist companies.

Across the nation, mainstream companies dipping into the prison labor system include Walmart, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Victoria’s Secret, Proctor & Gamble, McDonald’s and many more.

Despite the number of shops closing, the number of Ohio Penal Industries (OPI) employed prisoners has increased each year from 2011 to 2013, and their profits increased to $7.8 million in 2013. OPI programs pay prisoners an average 35 cents per hour.

It’s easy business for these companies: cheap labor, guaranteed workers and no threat of a union.

Until now. The nationwide prison strike has brought awareness to the low wages and undesirable working conditions by refusing to go to work, which started Sept. 9.

The strike spanned 24 states and over 40 prisons, including the Ohio State Penitentiary.

But in Ohio, the system and profits of prison labor are encouraged by law. An Ohio law requires state agencies to purchase OPI goods unless they can find better quality and cheaper versions in the free market. Along with OPI, these four entities (and many more) have benefitted from the prison labor systems in Ohio: Aramark At the Lebanon Correctional Institution, inmates are paid $20

a month in an incentive-based program focused on food service. They are a private company providing meals for prisoners in Ohio and many other states, including Michigan where maggots were found in the food served to inmates. They were also the food providers when a prison riot broke out in Kentucky in 2009 in response to a massive food shortage.

U.S. military From the Pickaway Correctional Institute alone, 60 inmates are employed in the OPI print shot, sewing and mending attire for the U.S. military. In 2013, the print sector made $63,239 in profits.

Honda distributors At the Ohio Mansfield Correctional Institution, 150 inmates made 25 to 40 cents per hour building material for Ohio’s Honda distributors, according to a report from 2008. Fifty-nine percent of the prison’s population were African American.

The Ohio State University After the garbage leftover from the university’s stadium-packed football games is gathered by the efforts of the Zero Waste Ohio Stadium Project, the waste travels to the Southeastern Correctional Complex (SCC) where inmates sort, weight and track the waste.

In 2013, Ohio State University won the Game Day Challenge for a 98.5 percent waste diversion.

Student volunteers are awarded by having their names entered into a raffle prize, which was a customized OSU jersey. Although the university is not making money off of prison labor, the inmates were the ones who clinched the recycling victory for them.

TO THE EDITOR:

When I attended the Republican National Convention earlier this year, I hoped to hear a positive, uplifting message about America’s future. I wanted to hear the echo of Ronald Reagan who said at the 1992 RNC in Houston that “America’s best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be.

Our most glorious achievements are just ahead. America remains what Emerson called her 150 years ago, the country of tomorrow.” Instead I heard that America was full of “death, destruction and weakness” by the Republican nominee.

There was no talk of American exceptionalism, no talk of the people’s resilience through difficult times, or hope offered for the future. It was fear-mongering at its worst.

As a conservative, I am not pleased with the actions of our government over the last eight — or really sixteen — years. Government has grown and the prescriptions offered by the Democratic Party have largely failed. But I do not cast my vote against a party or person, I must cast it in favor of somebody. If I cross off Hillary Clinton’s name in the ballot box, a vote will not be taken away from her; to truly lower her chances, I would have to vote for the only other major party candidate. But the question is why should I do

that?

One major party candidate in this election has advocated a single-payer health care system and that is not Mrs. Clinton. One candidate in this race has advocated for the U.S. to cut military spending and that is not Mrs. Clinton. One candidate in this race has actively opposed the idea of American exceptionalism (saying “I never liked that term”) and that is not Mrs. Clinton. One candidate in the race has actually been accused of rape under sworn testimony and that is not Mrs. Clinton.

One candidate has been penalized for hiring illegal aliens and that is not Mrs. Clinton. One candidate has their charitable foundation being investigated for fraud and that is not Mrs. Clinton’s. One candidate called for the impeachment of George W. Bush for making a difficult decision in Iraq; Mrs. Clinton supported our president’s decision with her Senate vote. One candidate has called for massive tariffs on businesses and that is not Mrs. Clinton. There is just one candidate who has already projected American weakness by discussing the withdrawal of support from our crucially important allies in Europe and Asia and that was not Mrs. Clinton. There is one candidate in this race who called the murdering tyrant Vladimir Putin a good leader and that was not Hillary Clinton. And finally, there is one candidate who has discussed the possible defaulting of our na-

tional debt; this individual’s answer to the question of how to lower the debt was “I would borrow, knowing if the economy crashed, you could make a deal.” That, of course, was not Mrs. Clinton.

Now I am no Hillary Clinton fan. She will promote the same kind of failures that I’ve seen from the Oval Office over the last eight years. She will appoint a liberal justice to the Supreme Court and will increase the size of government. But the Republican candidate will too, except he is even worse. His plans are equally or more liberal except on issues of bipartisan agreement. The centers in both parties support Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Both parties believe the country should actively fight against racism wherever it exists. And both parties know that degrading comments about African-Americans, Latinos, and women are inexplicable and dangerous to our society.

So I urge every good conservative Republican to think about the choices they have and to understand that a vote for our nominee is just that and not a vote against anyone else. I am not handing a vote to Clinton by voting third party. The benefits are that I don’t need to hold my nose in the ballot box and I will hold my head up high when walking out of the polling place knowing that I obeyed my conscience and my principles.

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Field hockey hosts Longwood FIELD HOCKEY

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Sophomore forward Ryan Siroky challenges Waterloo defenseman Nik Knezic. Siroky scored a goal in the preseason victory after tallying two goals and two assists last season.

MIAMI HOCKEY OPENS REGULAR SEASON AT NO. 10 PROVIDENCE HOCKEY

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Following a dominant 8-1 exhibition victory over Waterloo, Miami University’s youthful hockey team travels to face perennial power Providence College in a non-conference doubleheader this weekend.

The Friars enter the season as the tenth-ranked program in the nation, while the RedHawks are unranked following last season’s 1518-3 record.

MU’s roster is one of the youngest in the nation, with 14 freshmen and six sophomores taking up nearly 80 percent of the 26-man lineup.

This roster overhaul comes after 10 of last year’s RedHawks graduated and leading scorer Jack Roslovic left to join the Winnipeg Jets after a single season.

The RedHawks are not alone in

inexperience, as Providence has 10 freshmen on its roster and lost its top four scorers to graduation.

The 10 graduating ‘Hawks included goaltenders Ryan McKay and Jay Williams, leaving the crease to freshmen Ryan Larkin, Chase Munroe and Andrew Masters.

Historically, rookie goalies haven’t been bad news for Miami, as McKay and Williams backstopped MU with the second-lowest goals against average in the country, en route to a conference title in 2012-13, as freshmen. One generation before that, freshmen goalies Cody Reichard and Connor Knapp led the Red and White to a berth in the 2009 National Championship.

Miami will look to senior forward and Chicago Blackhawks prospect Anthony Louis, who tied Roslovic in scoring last season, to lead its offensive charge during his final year.

Sophomore forwards Josh Melnick

and Kiefer Sherwood look to build off of strong freshmen campaigns, while junior captain and Minnesota Wild prospect Louie Belpedio anchors an untested defense.

Belpedio has shined on both ends of the ice throughout his first two seasons, as the defenseman racked up 36 points, including a teamleading 11 power play points, a year ago.

“Everyone’s feeling good, definitely excited to get going,” Belpedio said. “Providence has a lot of firepower on both ends, so we just have to play our game better than they play theirs.”

The Friars are coming off a 277-4 record last season, but their dreams of repeating their 2014 National Championship were crushed 2-1 in double-overtime of the NCAA Northeast Regional by the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Junior Jake Walman is just one

of two First Team All-Americans returning to college hockey this season. The Providence alternate captain looks to improve from last season, when he led the nation in goals, power play goals and game-winning goals among defensemen.

While Miami plays in the NCHC and Providence is a Hockey East team, the teams are certainly familiar with one another. The RedHawks’ last trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2015 was cut short by Providence in a 7-5 loss.

With Miami’s revamped roster, most of the team didn’t experience that defeat, but every RedHawk is looking forward to challenging the nation’s best.

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Riding four consecutive wins heading into the weekend, Miami University’s field hockey team looks to best Longwood University at home 4:30 p.m. Friday in its third Mid-American Conference game of the season.

Miami is currently 7-5 overall, 2-0 in the MAC and 2-2 at home.

Longwood is 6-5 overall, 0-1 in the MAC and 2-4 away.

The RedHawks have successfully shut out both MAC opponents they’ve faced this year and are coming off a successful weekend against Missouri State and Indiana, beating the Bears 1-0 in regulation and the Hoosiers 4-3 in overtime.

“I think that we have great leadership on the field. Our three captains have just made a big impact for our team,” sophomore back Avery Sturm said. “Through every game, they’ve just allowed us to step up for each play and work hard.”

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Winless RedHawks travel to Akron FOOTBALL

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Still searching for its first win of 2016, the Miami University football team is set for a Mid-American Conference matchup at Akron University 3 p.m. Saturday.

This will be the RedHawks’ second MAC game, as they enter Saturday’s game still stinging after last weekend’s loss to Ohio University dropped them to 0-5. The Zips enter the contest with a 3-2 record.

Even though Miami came up short last week against OU, head coach Chuck Martin doesn’t fault his team’s effort.

“All in all, really proud of the approach, the preparation, the ingame ebb and flow,” Martin said.

“Our team, again, like I talked at Cincinnati, that was the first time I felt like we were there to win it.”

The last time these two programs did battle, the ‘Hawks came up short, 37-28, at Yager Stadium. This loss extended Akron’s win streak over Miami to three games, dating back to 2013.

The RedHawks still lead the overall series 16-8-1 over the Zips.

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Senior middle hitter Paige Hill goes for a kill against the Ohio University defense.

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Junior defensive back Tony Reid (14) and redshirt sophomore wide receiver Kyle Row (13) take the Yager Stadium field against Ohio University.

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“[The goal is to] clean up your mistakes and execute and find a way to go to Akron and win a hardfought football game,” Martin said.

“I like the mindset of our team, I like the compete level, I like that

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they’re grinding to try and be more disciplined every week.”

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STAT OF THE DAY

The number of NHL games played by former Miami hockey player Dan Boyle. The defenseman, who was undrafted out of MU, scored 163 goals and 605 points over his 18 seasons with the Panthers, Lightning, Sharks and Rangers. Boyle, who is retiring, also earned a gold medal with Team Canada in 2010.

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The Miami University volleyball team will head on the road this weekend with an 11-match and 24set win streak on the line.

Past the midway point of the season, the Red and White stand at 12-4 overall with an undefeated 4-0 Mid-American Conference record.

The ’Hawks will face a tough challenge this weekend, as they are set

to play back-to-back road games against conference competition.

“It can be difficult to be on somebody else’s home court and adjust to the new environment,” sophomore right side hitter Stela Kukoc said.

The road trip begins 7 p.m. Friday night against the University of Buffalo. While the Bulls have struggled this season (2-15 overall, 1-2 MAC), they boast reigning MAC VOLLEYBALL »PAGE 5

Headlines beyond Oxford: Pittsburgh Steelers and former Miami quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week following his five touchdown, 22 completion and 300 passing yard performance against the Kansas City Chiefs.

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