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Crawford speaks to faculty University reveals other nominees for president

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Gregory P. Crawford, likely Miami’s new president, wasted no time introducing himself to university faculty at yesterday’s open forum.

“Hi, nice to meet you, my name’s Greg,” he said, shaking the hands of those sitting in the front row of Wilks Theater.

He maintained that energy, a quality so many of his current and former colleagues praise him for, throughout the hour-long forum — even as faculty members challenged the president-to-be with questions about the university’s most complex problems.

Gael Montgomery, a visiting assistant professor of Italian, asked Crawford how contingent faculty like herself would be included in university decisions and how Crawford would address the compensation of those faculty members.

“How are we going to be included in decision-making and governance?” she asked.

“What will you do about changing the unethical and socially unjust salary struc-

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Gregory Crawford, the finalist for Miami’s presidential seat, speaks to faculty and administrators at an open forum on Monday afternoon. ture and labor structure at this university?”

Crawford answered diplomatically, with promises to re-examine Montgomery’s concerns in the future.

After the forum, Deborah Lyons, associate professor of classics and secretary of Miami’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), reacted to Crawford’s first campus appearance.

“He’s very practiced, and obviously very good at what he does and part of that means not giving too precise an answer,” she said. “I can respect that he isn’t ready to be too precise because he’s new here.”

Though he was sure to speak only hypothetically

about his official hiring to the position, the Board of Trustees will, in all likelihood, vote to hire him as president Friday, Feb. 19 at a regularly scheduled meeting.

This will conclude the sixmonth, divisive search for Miami’s 22nd president that the Board of Trustees chose to conduct in secret.

“The nature of the search is really not okay and increasingly common at universities in the United States,” said Cathy Wagner, professor of English and vice president of the AAUP. “The community needs to take our public universities back and make sure that they are not being run in this top-down fashion that’s CRAWFORD »PAGE 8

Western bridge repairs prompt nostalgia WESTERN

LAURA FITZGERALD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The stone bridge south of Western Dining Hall, a unique symbol of Western campus for generations of students, closed two weeks ago for emergency repairs.

Miami closed the bridge after stone fell from it, damaging the structural integrity of the bridge, said Vincent Cirrito, landscape architect and grounds manager.

“We don’t feel comfortable with folks walking on it, so that’s why we closed

it and we want to get it back into a position where we do feel comfortable with it,” Cirrito said.

Currently, the university is stabilizing the bridge with wooden scaffolding. Once this is done, the structural engineer hired by the university will decide whether to open the bridge. After funding is allocated, full repairs on the bridge can be completed.

First-year Marilyn Price lives in McKee Hall. She says she used the bridge often and now has to take Western Drive, which adds time to her walk to classes.

“Whenever you leave the building, basically it’s the bridge you take,” Price said. “I have to take Western Drive and go in front of Western Dining Hall, which, in the winter, is difficult.”

Price says she also enjoys the aesthetic of Western’s bridges.

“I like them a lot. They’re really pretty to walk across,” Price said. “It’s kind of an attribute that characterizes Western.”

The temperature fluctuation this winter causes

On Friday morning, the day after the Board of Trustees announced the lone presidential finalist, Miami University revealed the names of other individuals who were nominated for the position.

The documents bearing those names came in response to a public records request from this newspaper, 13 days after the initial request was made.

The search process, con-

ducted in secret by the Board of Trustees, a search committee and the executive search firm Isaacson, Miller, has proven to be difficult to interpret.

On Thursday afternoon, this newspaper was told the records could not be located, but at 7:55 the next morning, The Student received the documents. The university provided no explanation for the delay. Miami’s Office of General Counsel did not respond to requests for comment.

The Miami Student has made numerous attempts to shed light on the search,

Conrado “Bobby” Gempesaw

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Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Oakland University and the former Dean of Miami University’s School of Creative Arts.

John A. Roush

Cady Short-Thompson

President of Centre College, Miami alumnus, and former executive assistant to the president at Miami.

Dean of the University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash.

Mike Curme

Santa Ono

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President of University of Cincinnati.

Dean of Students at Miami University.

Pamela Fox

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James P. Lentini

The current President of St. John’s University and former Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University.

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but, throughout the academic year, the university successfully kept the search hidden from the public eye.

It’s unclear whether this most recent pool of candidates is a comprehensive list of those considered for the position, but the documents reveal 77 names, including finalist Gregory P. Crawford.

The names of the 23 applicants this newspaper was provided in December were not included among these documents.

Several nominees share some history with Miami,

Gregory Crawford

President at Mary Baldwin College, former Dean of Fine Arts at Miami University.

Provost at University of Notre Dame, Miami University’s sole finalist for president.

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Above are the names and current occupations of the most-nominated individuals for president. The numbers indicate the amount of times each was nominated.

Miami, citing affordability, switches to ‘swipe’ meal plan system beginning next fall LOVE

BRIDGE »PAGE 5 IAN MAREKR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Dining trades Diplomat meal plan for less expensive “swipe” system that will affect all Miami students starting next fall.

DINING

ELISE VASKO STAFF WRITER

IAN MAREKR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The bridge to Western campus remains closed after several weeks, forcing students to find more time-consuming alternative routes to class each morning.

Beginning fall 2016, Miami University will institute a new meal plan system to replace the current Diplomat meal plan. The new plan will affect current first-year students, as well as all incoming students enrolling at Miami this fall.

Under the current meal plan, students have a declining balance which can be used for both dining hall buffets and a la carte locations, such as Armstrong,

Maplestreet Station and Bell Tower, according to Brian Woodruff, director of the Housing Options, Meals & Events (H.O.M.E.) Office.

On the new plan, students will pay for a set number of buffet meals each semester, in addition to a declining balance for a la carte locations.

“The current plan is completely flexible, but along with that flexibility comes a high cost, because in order to give that kind of flexibility we have to have some amount of money that we know is a fixed income that we can plan our operations

on,” said Woodruff.

The cost lies in the $1,625 program assessment fee, which every student living on campus is required to pay for Miami’s dining service operations.

Woodruff said the H.O.M.E. Office continued to hear strong dislike of the program assessment fee from students and parents, which was the primary reason for the new meal plan.

“Some things we’ve heard loud and clear is that students want more value, they SWIPES »PAGE 5

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CULTURE p. 4

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SPORTS p. 10

LOCK BOXES PROVIDE SECURITY FOR MEDICATIONS

LECTURE SERIES BRINGS ‘SESAME STREET’ TO MIAMI

MODERN LOVE PODCAST FALLS SHORT

EDITORIAL BOARD POSES QUESTIONS TO CRAWFORD

HOCKEY TEAM BEATS NO. 19 BOWLING GREEN

Students gain access to lock boxes to protect medications.

Puppeteers discuss cultural impact of decades-long children’s TV classic.

Writer reviews the new podcast, says it isn’t as good as the print version.

Editors publish list of questions, concerns for potential president.

RedHawks are rounding out a mediocre season with 6 games still to play.

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New program secures students’ medications HEALTH

BRETT MILAM ONLINE EDITOR

Miami students can now better protect their prescription medications because of a new pilot program that secures those medications in lock boxes.

Student Counseling Services and the Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Workgroup, a subgroup of the Coalition for Health Community-Oxford area, rolled out the lock box program last November.

“By offering medication lock boxes to patients with prescribed controlled substances, the goal is to change the way that residents think about medication and decrease the overall access that community members, including our students, have to unmonitored medications,” said Janae Arno, chair of AOD. The program began with 75 lock boxes, 25 of which were dispersed free of charge among different populations in the area — pediatrics, seniors and Miami University students, respectively.

After those 25 were given out, more students heard about the

program and requested lock boxes, too, Arno said.

A r n o has applied for a grant through Generation Rx to receive funding for an additional 400 lock boxes, the amount Student Counseling Services said it could use for a year’s supply.

One lock box costs $23, but the goal is to give them to students free of charge.

“By providing them free of charge, it not only ensures their availability, it creates the awareness and education around the importance of monitoring and securing prescription medications,” Arno said.

A.J. NEWBERRY THE MIAMI STUDENT

A 2014 survey from the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids found that one in five students report misusing or abusing prescription medications at least once in their lifetime compared to one in seven for non-students.

“The reasons young people give for abusing these Rx medications

‘Helicopter parents’ land on Miami Family Facebook page STUDENT LIFE

KIERRA SONDEREKER THE MIAMI STUDENT

College students aren’t the only ones using social media these days. In recent years, Miami University has provided access to a private Facebook page specifically designed for the parents and family members of Miami students.

The page allows these parents to keep up with university life and have an interactive college experience alongside their child’s own.

In the past, the Facebook page has proved to be a helpful tool for both students and parents.

Sophomore Rachel Nogalo said the site assisted her and her mother during her transfer to Miami.

“All my mom had to do was just ask a question on the Facebook page and someone would reply immediately,” Nogalo said.

“I definitely think it has affected my college experience in a positive way.”

While this small corner of the social media world seems like one of the hundreds of helpful resources offered to Miami parents, recent posts on the Facebook page have taken a noticeable shift away from general inquiries and information searches.

Posts on the site frequently consist of a parent endeavoring to solve some problem for his or her student. These problems range from subletting apartments to wrangling with professors over grades. One post even inquired about the whereabouts of an electronic store in Oxford their child

could go to in order to fix an iPhone.

Mark Pontious, director of parent and family programs at Miami and an administrator for the Facebook page, is aware of these “helicopter” parenting posts, but is powerless to prevent them.

“Students who report more helicopter parenting tend to also report more depression and anxiety, less confidence in their academic work and social relationships in college,and a tendency to either avoid major decisions or rely too heavily on others to make big de-

‘Students who report more helicopter parenting tend to also report more depression and anxiety, less confidence in their academic work and social relationships in college, and a tendency to either avoid major decisions or to rely too heavily on others to make big decisions.’

AARON LUEBBE CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR

“I appreciate the recognition of our inability to monitor the forum 24/7,” stated Pontious. “However, we do not delete comments. It is against university policy to do so.”

Because of this, some Miami parents who are on the Facebook page do not approve of it, saying it leads to “negative, uncomfortable posts.”

As first stated by Haim Ginott in his 1969 book “Parents & Teens,” helicopter parenting refers to a style of parenting in which the parents “hover over [teens] like a helicopter.” In short, this type of parenting runs the risk of not allowing achild enough freedom to branch off and become independent.

Miami professor of clinical psychology Aaron Luebbe described the effect that helicopter parenting can have on college students.

cisions,” Luebbe said.

In regard to the helicopter parenting occurring on the Miami parent Facebook page, Luebbe said “parents do need to be mindful of what, when and how much support and assistance they provide as their children transition to independence.”

First-year Sumedha Chakravarti said that having overprotective parents is, in part, a result of her Indian cultural upbringing.

“I have to call my parents everyday or else they will not be happy,” Chakravarti said.

While acknowledging and understanding this cultural facet, Chakravarti still struggles with the restraints it puts on her quest for independence and autonomy.

“They need to know that I can take care of myself,” Chakravarti said.

revolve around functional goals such as studying, working or staying awake,” the survey said.

Half the respondents cited “to study or improve academic performance” as the reason for misusing and abusing prescription medications.

The lock boxes act not only as security, but also as an educational tool. On the top of each lock box is a two inch by three inch sticker with an overview of prescription drug facts and tips.

For instance, that it is a felony to share or sell controlled substances and that, when finished with the medication, the individual should dispose of any unused medications at the Miami University Police Department.

According to the Ohio Depart-

ment of Health, unintentional drug overdoses caused the deaths of 2,482 Ohio residents in 2014 based on the preliminary data. This is an increase of 17.6 percent from the previous year.

Prescription opioid-related deaths accounted for 46.5 percent of those overdose deaths, an increase of 34.4 percent over the previous year.

One of the contributing factors to accidental overdoses and prescription drug abuse is the access and availability of those medications, which the lock box program was initiated to help prevent.

The 2014 survey found that students see “tangible rewards for abusing prescription stimulants,” as six in 10 indicate that doing so helped him or her obtain a higher grade, improve work performance or gain a competitive edge.

More than half of the students who responded to the survey said they are acquiring prescription drugs from friends, and that it is easy to do so.

“Our community-level goal is to promote the lock boxes and encourage them in every home and residence hall in our community,” Arno said.

New Harry Potter script to be released July 31 WIZARDRY

LIAM MAZEIKA

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Harry Potter fans are feeling something they haven’t felt for a long time — excitement for a new installment in the influential fantasy series.

The book, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” is actually a play in London, but the script for the play will be released simultaneously as a hardcover all around the world on July 31.

“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the official continuation of the Harry Potter series, won’t be written by the original author, J. K. Rowling, but by experienced playwright, Jack Thorne. Rowling, however, is still helping with the production of the play.

“I didn’t think we would get an addition to the Harry Potter story,” said assistant professor of psychology Elizabeth Kiel.

“I’m very excited that we will.”

Kiel teaches a class on Harry Potter at Miami University, the Psychology of Harry Potter. It focuses mainly on the developmental aspect of Harry Potter and how students can use what they’ve learned from the books when teaching or counseling younger children.

Despite being a fan of

Harry Potter, Kiel didn’t start reading the series until the children she was counseling brought it to her attention.

“I was working with kids and started the series so that I could relate to what they were reading and just fell in love with it myself,” Kiel said.

Kiel has read all of the books, seen all of the movies and is planHARRY POTTER »PAGE 5

ning o n seei n g t h e spinoff film “Fantastic

JENNIFER MILLS THE MIAMI STUDENT

The 10 bridges on Western Campus were engineered and built by Cephas Burns in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Each stone was hand-picked by Burns from nearby creeks and quarries.

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‘Sesame Street’puppeteers visit, speak on cultural awareness

Voting registration targets politically inactive students POLITICS

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JING LONG THE MIAMI STUDENT

‘Sesame Street’ legends from left: Caroll Spinney, Michael Davis, Sonia Manzano. Puppeteers spoke with Davis, a journalist, as part of yesterday’s lecture on ‘Sesame Street’ and cultural awareness.

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HAILEY MALLENDICK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In the 46 years ‘Sesame Street’ has been on the air, it has gone from an American children’s show to a world-wide cultural lesson.

Monday night, several of ‘Sesame Street’s’ legends, Caroll Spinney and Sonia Manzano, joined journalist Michael Davis to talk to Oxford residents and Miami University students as part of the university’s Lecture Series.

Davis, author of ‘Street Gang, The Complete History of Sesame Street,’ boasted about the astonishing success of the show across the world.

“There are co-productions of ‘Sesame Street’ on six continents,” said Davis. “The idea has circumnavigated the world.”

Manzano, who played the character ‘Maria’ on ‘the street’ for 30 years, was also surprised by the success of the show.

“The show is very American, but they love it in other countries,” said Manzano. “The show has lived so long because we have always reflected the world we lived in.”

‘Sesame Street,’ which began in FROM BRIDGE »PAGE 1

freeze-thaw cycles that damage the bridge, Cirrito said. Water collects in the cracks in the stone.

When water freezes it expands, causing the stone to crack. Warmer temperatures melt the water, and then it freezes again. It’s the same process that causes potholes in roads.

Cirrito says the structural engineer examined three western bridges last year and deemed them in need of repairs, but still safe to walk across.

1969, started in a different America than we live in today.

“It was a very idealistic time in America. The country was the exact opposite that it is now,” said Manzano. “The target audience was African American children and trying to teach them numbers and the alphabet before starting school in addition to bridging the race gap.”

While African American children were the original focus of the show, it slowly shifted over the years to focus on children of all races.

“The show celebrates diversity and always has,” Davis said. “Being on PBS, it was protected in a way.”

In fact, the character of Maria was created out of protest from Latinos to provide a role model for children.

“The Latinos on the coast said that if there is a role model for African Americans, there should be one for Latinos,” said Manzano. “That was how I got cast.”

While Sesame Street incorporated cultural diversity in its wide range of cast, it also incorporated characters with different emotions and personalities.

Spinney, the voice behind both Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird,

presented a wide range of emotions to assist in teaching lessons.

“They were kind in giving me two characters, who are both somewhat the same in that they are loners and so am I,” said Spinney.

“People ask me my favorite and I say, ‘whichever I’m playing.’”

Both of Spinney’s characters were unique in their personalities, but especially Oscar.

“He provides me with the chance to be funny, but he’s not laughing at people,” said Spinney. “He’s negative and it’s humorous.”

“Up until Oscar, everyone always thought that children had to be nice, but he showed them that it’s okay to be grumpy and the world won’t end,” said Manzano.

Spinney’s most notable character on the show was Big Bird.

“Big Bird is different because he can feel more things than most of the other puppets,” said Manzano.

Both Manzano and Spinney unanimously agreed that their favorite show was “Goodbye. Mr. Hooper.” In the show, they taught children about death while saying farewell to their dear friend Mr. Hooper.

The university is unsure when the bridge will reopen, Cirrito said.

While many students walk across Western’s bridges every day, most don’t know of the unique history under their feet.

Oxford native Cephas Burns engineered and built all 10 western bridges in the late 1910s and early 1920s, according to a 1977 Western Alumnae Bulletin. The grandson of freed slaves, Burns learned the stone mason trade from his father, Richard Burns.

William Boyd, president of

Western College for Women, heard of the young stonemason’s talent and hired him to replace all the wooden bridges on Western with stone bridges.

Burns hand-picked all the stones for the bridges from the banks of Four-Mile Creek, Harker’s Run, Collin’s Run and other nearby creeks and quarries.

He washed the stones by hand when he was working on the bridges. He wouldn’t consider the mortar dry until after 30 days, even though the state building code required only 10.

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PHOTO COURTESY WESTERN COLLEGE ARCHIVES

Nick Froehlich walks up to the table at Armstrong Student Center, across from the Miami Emporium before 9 a.m. He lays out flyers, registration forms and his computer, which has a bold ‘voter registration’ sign on his desktop. Then Prue Dana, a volunteer for the League of Women, a non-partisan organization that strives to increase citizen participation in politics, arrives to help him for the next few hours.

“Are you a registered voter? It only takes a minute to sign up right now,” says Froehlich, a sophomore member of College Democrats, as students pass him on their way to class.

Within an hour, 15 students were registered to vote in Ohio. Over five days, Associated Student Government, College Democrats, College Republicans and the Oxford chapter of League of Women hosted a voter registration drive in Armstrong Student Center. Students were able to register in time before the Ohio voting registration deadline, Feb. 16.

With just a month before the Ohio primary on March 15, these organizations made a final push to increase the number of registered voters on campus, an issue universities around the nation are trying to tackle.

Historically, citizens between the ages of 18 and 24 are two times less likely to vote compared to adults, according the U.S. Census Board in 2012. Only 38 percent of those between 18 and 24 years old voted in the 2012 presidential election, compared to 63 percent of those who are between 45 and 64 years old.

“We tend to make it hard and confusing for people to register to vote,” said Patrick Haney, the chair of the Department of Political Science at Miami University.

Confusion is one of the many problems with college students’ political activeness. Haney says other issues include a lack of interest when politicians only seem to be addressing a select group of people and the idea that whoever is put in charge has no direct impact on colBurns also built many other stone structures on Miami’s and Western’s campuses, most notably all of Western’s stone lamp posts, Kumler Chapel and the stone foundation of Benton Hall.

Western College alumnae carry many memories associated with the Western Bridges.

Barbara Wentz, ’68 Western College alumnae, says many seniors took their senior pictures at the bridges and caroled across them by candlelight at Christmas Time. She says she enjoyed the beauty of the bridges. It was

lege students. This mentality worries Haney.

“I think these are all understandable, but regrettable — and maybe even dangerous — misconceptions,” said Haney.

Students may think elections do not have any impact on them, but Haney says elections affect this generation more than others. “[Students] have to live with the consequences of the election a lot longer than some of us will,” said Haney.

Charlie Meyer, president of College Republicans, believes that the consequences of whoever is elected to office has a great affect on college students’ future. Meyer says students need to be more aware and active as politicians have a great impact on the economy and graduates’ success out of college.

“There has been stagnant growth for new grads,” said Meyer. “This directly affects how grads get jobs out of college.”

Beside the impact that politicians have on the future, Meyer and Froehlich, who come from different sides of the spectrum, both emphasize that voting is a duty and obligation of the American people.

“Participating in a democracy is something that is not to be taken for granted, as it is the No. 1 way for our voices to be heard,” said Froehlich.

A similar voter registration drive was held in October, in which over 100 people were registered to vote.

Hoping to have similar success this time, the groups are also looking at other methods to register students on campus.

Meyer has been working on partnerships with Greek members, going to fraternity houses and sorority suites to register voters as well as giving registration forms to residence advisers in dorms. The goal, he says, is to reach as many students as possible in an efficient manner.

Either way, these organizations are hopeful this drive will improve student’s involvement with politics, especially with the 2016 Presidential election right around the corner.

“Politics is not a spectator sport,” said Froehlich. “It’s something we all should proudly participate in.” an attribute that made Western unique.

“They made campus more beautiful and gave it more personality,” Wentz said. “It was an important part to how we identified the campus.”

Wentz says she appreciates the way Miami has emulated Western College’s stone architecture in the new buildings and that they are keeping the bridges in repair.

“It was a wonderful gesture on their part to maintain the integrity of our campus,” Wentz said.

PHOTO COURTESY WESTERN COLLEGE ARCHIVES

Women enrolled at the Western College for Women often took their senior pictures at the Students cross-country skied under the bridges in March 1984. bridges, Wentz said.

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Best friends from elementary school to college RELATIONSHIPS

MACKENZIE ROSSERO THE MIAMI STUDENT

Riley and Emily met in third grade.

She was the tallest student in their class. He was the shortest.

They were never anything but friends. Riley played cupid throughout elementary and middle school — setting his friends up with Emily and good-naturedly tagging along on their dates.

First, it was Ty. She liked him longest. Next came Andrew, Kyle and Cory. They worked as a trio, following her around the playground and serenading her with a version of “Jenny” that replaced “8675309” with Emily’s own phone number.

They found it in the school directory. Finally, there was Jack. That didn’t last too long.

All throughout grade school, Riley and Emily sat together.

Not by choice — that was simply where their teachers assigned them. He teased her and she kept a tie-dyed notecard taped to her desk with a tally mark for every remark he made.

Then, somewhere along the way, things changed.

Riley remembers the first time he saw Emily after having gone to separate, private high schools. He’d grown past 5’ and no longer had braces. Riley defines this night as a turning point, when he began to see her differently.

It was soon after that, at a community production of “Beauty and the Beast,” that Riley realized how much he liked her. They sat next to each other in the theater. Emily fidgeted, unsure of what to do with her hands.

“She’s not a diva kinda girl,” Ri-

ley explains. “I’m not one for those kind of girls.”

When Riley asked Emily to be his girlfriend, they were standing outside in the rain. In retrospect, the whole thing seems very dramatic. It was sophomore year of high school, March 15, 2013. They had been at

was welcomed into her family. He knows her grandparents and attends family dinners. Her siblings feel like his own, especially her younger sister, Catherine — he buys her a birthday present every year.

And times got rougher still.

When Riley asked Emily to be his girlfriend, they were standing outside in the rain. In retrospect, the whole thing seems very dramatic.

a birthday party for a mutual friend.

Riley waited until the end of the party. His ride home was long gone and Emily had a car waiting for her.

“I feel like we should be better friends than this,” he told her.

“We’re closer than friends now. We should start dating.”

Admittedly, it was awkward. But Riley was elated and smiled his entire, rainy walk home.

Two months later, he told her he loved her.

Nine months after that, their first Valentine’s Day was nearly a disaster. It began with Riley locking his keys in his car, forcing them to miss their dinner reservation. The night ended with him cooking an Italian meal after a quick trip to Giant Eagle. He made angel hair spaghetti, Emily’s favorite.

There were rough times. When Riley’s parents decided to get a divorce just a month after he and Emily began dating, he questioned everything. What was the point of dating someone, of loving someone, if you’re just going to get divorced? What was the point of love?

Emily got him through it. Riley

When they ended up at Miami together — a decision they each made independently — Emily feared that a continued relationship with her high school boyfriend would jeopardize her college experience.

They discussed this. Taking slow laps around South Quad, Riley was sure she was going to break up with him. Later, Emily admitted to considering it but knows she would have chosen otherwise.

They’ve both changed in the last three years, grown in different ways. Emily cut her hair. Riley grew 3 inches taller. Emily’s gotten weirder — in the best way possible — and still childishly laughs at bad jokes. Riley’s gained confidence in who he is, no longer terrified of offending people by speaking his mind.

They’ve outlasted all of their high school friends’ relationships, a victory they revel in.

Riley admits that referring to Emily as “his girlfriend” is an understatement. There should be another, better word to describe what she means to him.

Until then, “best friend” will have to suffice.

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First-years Riley Docherty and Emily Wild will celebrate their three year anniversary in March.

Editors’ pop culture picks for this week The things we watched, listened to and streamed while we weren’t ever watch. Prepare for gore, language and a lot of nudity, but it’s worthwhile for the celebrating Valentine’s Day this weekend. great acting and engaging plot. Binge watch now and you’ll be ready for season six in April. (Abbey Gingras, news editor)

“TOMS RIVER” BY DAN FAGIN

A reporting endeavor seven years in the making, “Toms River” was the 2014 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Fagin spent years buried up to his eyeballs in court documents and juggling crooked capitalists, enraged residents and one impassioned Greenpeace volunteer. The effort was not misplaced. In the end, the reader is left with the sobering realization that a community’s health is often sacrificed on the altar of economic growth and environmental justice does not come quickly. (James Steinbauer, opinion editor)

“STUCK IN LOVE”

Next time you’re scouring Netflix for something worth watching, consider “Stuck In Love,” a romantic drama following a man, his cheating ex-wife and their two children as they experience love and life. Samantha is a college student and budding author who doesn’t believe in love — until a guy proves her wrong. Her brother, high school nice guy, Rusty, falls for a popular, more experienced girl with a drug problem. At times, “Stuck In Love” follows the script of a typical romance, but it’s different enough to keep you guessing. Instead of a storybook ending, it feels more like real life. (Marissa Stipek, opinion editor)

“GAME OF THRONES” SEASON SIX TEASER TRAILER

On Sunday night, HBO released yet another teaser trailer for the sixth season of their hit fantasy series, “Game of Thrones.” If 30 seconds of basically nothing can get fans into a frenzy, you know the show is worthwhile. The book series it’s based on is phenomenal, but the show is some of the best television you’ll

“UNREAL” SEASON ONE

I’ve never been a fan of shows like “The Bachelor” — the whole fairytale-romance-live-on-TV thing just doesn’t fly with me. But “UnReal,” focuses on the people who make reality TV, which is infinitely more interesting. Set on-location in California with “Everlasting,” a show scarily similar to “The Bachelor,” the first season follows Rachel, a producer, and Quinn, the executive producer, as they create the 13th season of their hit show. The behind-the-scenes drama is just as ridiculous as you’d expect it to be — a British suitor who refuses to cooperate, producers who manipulate the contestants right and left for more money and catty women who will do anything to win their “prince’s” heart. It’s good TV about the making of bad TV. The first season’s 10 addictive episodes are available on Hulu for your viewing pleasure. (Britton Perelman, managing editor)

“NEON BIBLE” BY ARCADE FIRE

Last week, Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler was announced MVP of the NBA Celebrity All-Star game after Team Canada beat Team USA 74 to 64. During the post-game interview with Butler, the reporter from ESPN ripped the microphone away from Butler as he was explaining, “Since this is an election year in the United States, they could learn a lot from Canada in terms of free health care—” but was interrupted. This pointed gesture on live TV reminds us that his songwriting has always been politically charged. “Neon Bible,” released in 2007, is a lament on international wars, namely the war in Iraq, phony televangelists, debt, and consumer culture. So it’s been playing almost non-stop this week. (Kyle Hayden, design editor)

NY Times ‘Modern Love’ misses the mark in transition to audio PODCASTS

EMILY TATE

MANAGING EDITOR

The popular New York Times column, Modern Love, has been pulling on readers’ heartstrings for over decade, and now, it can do the same for listeners.

In collaboration with Boston’s NPR affiliate, WBUR, Modern Love is now available as a podcast, and while it still brings the same pizzazz of the print version, that’s also the problem. It is the print version.

After its debut Jan. 20, Modern Love: The Podcast jumped to the No. 1 spot on iTunes, bumping off Serial, which draws more than a million listeners. But just three weeks later, Modern Love is down to No. 6.

This isn’t necessarily bad news for the New York Times and WBUR — they’re competing with veteran podcasts like Serial, This American Life and RadioLab, after all — but it speaks to the undeniable fact that something is missing

in the Modern Love audio experience.

Five episodes in, the technique is pretty clear. Each 20-minute episode starts with a celebrity, like Dakota Fanning or Judd Apatow, reading one of the Modern Love essays previously published in the New York Times.

I’m going to stop right there, because this, I think, is part of the problem. The first episode of Modern Love: The Podcast was about a story I had already read in print: “Missed Connection,” about a girl who finds fleeting “love” on the Craigslist Missed Connections page.

I was surprised to hear the essay simply regurgitated in the podcast version — and with hardly any add-ons. Besides a little background music and a melodic reading from the week’s celebrity appearance (Lauren Molina), nothing had changed from the print text.

Before turning on that first episode, I had expected Modern Love: The Podcast to feature new stories about “love, loss and redemption,”

specially tailored for the ear.

Instead, the only new feature of these stories is that, following the guest reading, host Meghna Chakrabarti of WBUR and Modern Love editor Daniel Jones interview the author of the essay.

These interviews allow the writers to discuss in greater detail the stories they submitted and provide an update on their lives, often several years after the story was originally published.

While these follow-up interviews add a nice touch, Modern Love: The Podcast still doesn’t meet the expectations I had for a New York Times/NPR partnership.

Audio and print are different mediums, and those nuanced differences ought to be honored — if not championed — by the storytelling powerhouses of audio (NPR) and print (New York Times). Instead, it seems like the Modern Love column just wanted to be on the cutting edge of digital media, which, with their exploding popularity in the last decade, means podcasts.

If it wants to be a top contender

among the hundreds of podcasts available, Modern Love: The Podcast needs to understand what makes audio work.

This American Life and RadioLab are smashing successes because of their knack for storytelling, yes, but also because of their producers’ command of sound.

Every music clip, every sound effect, every sigh, laugh and sob included in a podcast adds to the impact of what the speaker or narrator is saying.

By transplanting the essays directly from their print versions, Modern Love: The Podcast is missing out on an opportunity to send its show to the next level. The producers need to adapt the column’s theme to audio, and that requires new stories — not those published years ago.

That being said, it’s still the Modern Love column. The stories themselves are honest and moving.

They connect with readers and, now, listeners.

And the best part is it’s not just about romantic love.

The second episode, “One Last Swirl,” is about a man who is oddly attached to his daughter’s pet fish. As he wills the fish to live, for his daughter’s sake, he recalls pleading with his parents to fight the cancer that would eventually take both of them. The second segment of this episode includes an interview with the author and his 12-year-old daughter, who, amazingly, has some really thoughtful things to say.

The third episode, “Not So Simple Math,” is about a mother who gave up her son for adoption at a young age but maintains a relationship with both him and his adoptive parents. She writes about the struggle of having to keep her son at arm’s length and watching him grow up in another woman’s home.

So, Modern Love: The Podcast doesn’t disappoint in the storytelling department, but that’s a given — there’s a reason the New York Times column has been around for so long. The editors and producers just need to redirect some of their focus on the audio experience.

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want to feel like they’re getting more for their money, they want transparency, they want it to be easy to understand and also to remain flexible,” said Woodruff.

As the plan is now, students choose to pay an average amount of $1,200 toward their declining balance, on top of the program assessment fee. The new plan effectively eliminates this upfront cost, and provides students with three different plan options — minimum, standard and premium.

On the standard plan, students pay a total cost of $2,400 per semester and, with this, they receive 262 buffet meals and $500 of a declining balance. Students can use their buffet meal “swipes” at Miami’s four dining hall locations: Garden Commons, Harris Dining Hall, Western Dining Hall, and Martin Dining Hall, which will be operational again in fall 2016.

“The goal has been to make the plans more affordable,” said Woodruff. “It’s a substantial difference, even with all fees included for the standard level, for about $1,000 less you’re able to get the same amount of meals.”

For an example calculation, when you add the current cost of 262 buffet meals plus the $500 declining balance (which is what each student gets on the new standard plan) students will get the same level of purchase power as if they were at the current $2,500 level, not including the program assessment fee.

Next year, with the base fee lowered to $400, students on the standard plan will save $1,325 for the same amount of meals.

Some first-year students, who will experience the new plan in the fall, are concerned that they will have less money to spend at their favorite a la carte locations.

“I like the new meal plan in the sense that it’s saving you money, but on the other hand, I don’t like how it restricts you more from going to the a la carte places,” said first-year Sara Felton. “I feel like I eat more at those

than in the dining halls.”

Woodruff said that, while the plan is structured to encourage students to eat at dining hall locations, he also does not think it discourages places like Armstrong, Maplestreet and Bell Tower.

“That’s why the declining balance portion is part of it as well,” said Woodruff.

Unspent declining balance dollars will continue to roll over from semester to semester and year to year, according to Woodruff.

First-year Sooraj Kanchanlal said he thinks the new meal plan will force students to adjust their eating habits.

“Students will probably eat in the dining halls more, especially for breakfast and dinner,” said Kanchanlal. “But people will still go to a la carte places for lunch, since they’re near classes so they’re more convenient.”

Another disappointment for students is they will no longer receive the same discounts that are now in place as part of the current Diplomat meal plan. With the plan as it is now, students receive a 50 percent discount at dining halls and a 30 percent discount at a la carte locations.

“The one thing I don’t like about the new plan is that it gets rid of the discounts,” said Kanchanlal. “Thirty percent is a lot.”

However, the removal of these discounts was part of how the H.O.M.E. Office was able to lower the overall expense for students.

“The discounts were completely connected with the program assessment fee,” said Woodruff. “Now that that’s gone, the discounts are gone, too, but you’re still going to be saving money for the same amount of food, and your overall costs are going down.”

More detailed information on the specific costs and levels of the new meal plan can be found on the H.O.M.E. Office website.

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With Crawford on campus, here are 10 questions for the potential president EDITORIAL

Last Thursday, Miami University’s Board of Trustees released the name of Gregory Crawford as the sole finalist to serve as Miami’s next president and announced he would be visiting campus this week.

Crawford met with faculty Monday, Feb. 15 for a question and answer session. After open forums at Miami’s Hamilton and Middletown campuses, Crawford will return to Oxford on Wednesday, Feb.17 to address students.

The event will allow students to ask Crawford questions about himself and his plans for the university.

While we would love to attend the forums and speak with Crawford in person, class schedules and time constraints will inhibit many of us from doing so. Therefore, as an editorial board, we have compiled a list of questions we would ask Crawford if we could. Our hope is that these important issues, among others, will be addressed in Wednesday’s forum.

1. How will you understand and immerse yourself in the culture of Miami? Miami is different from schools you have worked at previously — it is public rather than private, and larger than both Notre Dame and Brown. How will you draw on your previous experiences to help you here at Miami, and what changes do you foresee yourself making to be an effective

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

2. What will you do to engage with students? How will you make yourself accessible to them? Will you teach classes? Host events?

President Hodge runs with stu-

Hodge is known for the aesthetic improvements that took place during his time here, like the completion of Goggin Ice Center and the Armstrong Student Center, among dozens of building renovations.

We’ve done a lot of cosmetic work in recent years, but what about internal development? What type of legacy do you want to leave?

dents, plays broomball and has a strong Twitter presence — he is a generally likeable guy, but at the same time, you have an opportunity to become more of a champion of the students.

3. You are coming from a university with a highly regarded, if not legendary, athletic program. Miami doesn’t have that. However, in the past few years, there has been a push — and subsequent backlash — about increased attention and funding for intercollegiate athletics here. Do you have any plans to expand or improve the athletics department here, or will you focus more on academics?

4. On a similar note, what type of university advancement is most important to you? Academics?

Building up the faculty? President

We’ve done a lot of cosmetic work in recent years, but what about internal development? What type of legacy do you want to leave?

5. Do you plan to increase transparency and have more of an inclusive, progressive leadership structure here? Miami has been criticized for its lack of transparency and strict “top-down” administration, especially concerning the way the presidential search was conducted. Do you agree with the way the search was run? Would you be willing to talk about the process by which you were selected?

Laying it all out would be a powerful way to improve transparency and make a good impression on faculty and students, who may be skeptical of the way you came into this position.

6. What are your attitudes toward Greek life? Since Notre Dame does not have social fraternities or sororities, what will you do to better understand the Greek organizations and their role on Miami’s campus? Problems like hazing allegations and dangerous levels of alcohol consumption plague Greek communities across the nation, and Miami is no exception. What will you do to combat these issues?

7. How will you prevent sexual assault on campus and discipline perpetrators of sexual assault? Colleges nationwide, including Notre Dame, have been scrutinized by the media for their lack of response to sexual assault reports and their insensitive treatment of victims.

Furthermore, Miami’s current system for handling these situations is flawed — there is little consistency in the judiciary proceedings from case to case, and there have been multiple lawsuits brought against the university in recent years. Do you have plans to reform the disciplinary process? What might you do differently?

8. How will you increase diversity of students, faculty and staff at Miami? We have a reputation for being a white, upper-middle class student body and a preppy, “country club” image. How will you encourage groups like racial and ethnic minorities or international students to attend Miami, and how

will you support their academic and social success once they get here?

How will you encourage students to reach out to and accept international students or other diverse individuals?

9. Miami has a reputation as a party school — what are your feelings about that? We have plenty of clubs, but they don’t get the attention they deserve. When they put on events, students aren’t always interested and attendance is lackluster. There doesn’t seem to be much, aside from going Uptown and drinking, that students look forward to on the weekends. What will you do to encourage alternative activities and cut down on high-risk drinking? How would you like to redefine the culture here at Miami?

10. Coming from a background in STEM, how do you view the creative arts? Do you feel you will be biased toward subjects like physical sciences and engineering in terms of attention and funding? How will you educate yourself about the social sciences and humanities and be involved in those departments? You have been called a creative, “outof-the-box” guy — can we expect innovative educational programs like an expansion of the food institute or the creation of more niche majors during your time here?

The event will take place at 9:45 a.m. in the Armstrong Student Center’s Wilks Theatre.

Seven years down, public speaking is the last hurdle Schlafladen: Bringing a snooze shack to Miami’s campus LIFE

MILAM’S MUSINGS BRETT MILAM COLUMNIST

It seems most apropos and macabre that, after seven years at Miami, the one thing standing between me and graduation is that which I fear the most.

In terms of concrete, realworld, day-today fears, for me, nothing surpasses public speaking. And it doesn’t even have to be the in-front-of-a-class model. Being confined to my seat and forced to speak is enough to send my heart racing and my hands sweating.

I would wager that part of the reason my stay at Miami has extended longer than the average 4.7 years is because of this fear and my myriad attempts at working around it. Or rather, running away from it.

If there’s one thing you, dear reader, ever take away from my four years of Musings, make it this — don’t deal with your fears, whatever they may be, in the way I have mine.

I never gave my professors the chance to work with me or help me through it.

Instead, I had an adversarial view of my professors for forcing me to take on this fear through course requirements. This classroom atmosphere, conjured in my head and directed by the fear, was me vs. them.

Don’t call on me. Don’t make me stand up there. Why are you making this part of the overall course grade? Why can’t I just write a paper?

Those were the kinds of sentiments that went through my head, buttressing the divide and unfair resentment on my part.

Counting my time at Miami, I’ve been in school for two decades. In that time, I haven’t always been able to run away from the demands of a presentation.

And I’ve heard all the advice about how to get through it. I’ve heard that most people hate public speaking, but they handle it. I’ve heard why it’s a necessary skill to have.

To those without this fear, it must be a bewildering one to read

about.

No amount of doing it and realizing it didn’t kill me makes the next forced presentation any easier or any less traumatic to my irrational mind.

Adulting is hard, especially when irrational fear sets in. Admittedly, I didn’t adult so well when it came to this issue.

There’s been far too many awkward and embarrassing email exchanges with professors trying to explain why I’m not showing up to class or why I’m skipping a presentation. Or why I’m dropping the class altogether.

I don’t begrudge these professors. They don’t really know me, so to them, I may come across as a lazy student expecting special favors. I gave them no reason to think otherwise.

In February of last year, I wrote about this fear in my Musings. I mentioned that there was a course I needed for my degree requirement, which involved a presentation. Normally, I would have dropped the course, seeking one

session stands before me and graduation. It will be in front of six of my fellow Miami students and the professor.

As I said in my September 2014 Musings, also about this issue, the scope doesn’t matter.

“My awareness of its brevity and immediacy doesn’t change how traumatizing it was. Three minutes or 30 minutes makes no difference.”

Likewise, six or 60 students doesn’t change how terrifying the prospect of standing up there and talking seems.

I know how wild this all must sound, but such is a look inside my mind.

You may be thinking, “Aren’t you a journalist? Don’t you have to talk in front of people?”

It is true that in my time as a would-be journalist I’ve spoken to people and in front of people, but I’ve figured out a work-around: I care more about the truth and satiating my curiosity by asking a question than I do the fear.

Granted, it’s not a panacea to

Sorry, dear reader, I lied. While I didn’t drop the course, I did skip the presentation.

without a presentation. However, back then, I said this: “But, I haven’t canceled and I won’t. Even as I write this, my stomach rolls with nerves. I will take the class and do the presentations.”

Sorry, dear reader, I lied. While I didn’t drop the course, I did skip the presentation.

Consider my calculation: despite the wasted monies from skipping classes, the lost grade percentages and the fact that my degree requirement relied upon it, I capitulated to the fear.

As it happens, I’m back in the same predicament and this time, the calculation doesn’t work. I can’t skip the class. I can’t skip the presentation. And I can’t risk missing out on May 14, 2016.

I’ve waited seven years to finally leave Miami with a degree.

With less than three months to go, I still find myself jumping through the familiar hoops my fear demands.

A 20-minute presentation with a 10-minute question and answer

the fear, as I still get nervous, but it helps. I haven’t figured out what the work-around is yet for in-class talking and presentations.

Inevitability, as graduation looms, I can’t help but get introspective about my time at Miami.

And I’d rather not play the, “What if?” game or dwell on regrets.

After all, my extended stay at Miami meant happening upon this newspaper, meeting the many talented people that have worked here over the years and getting this platform.

It also meant meeting the girl who has made my last year at Miami my best.

But sentimentality and groaninducing journalist back-slapping aside, there is that lingering, “What if?” when it comes to how I have (poorly) handled this fear.

Whatever happens and whatever has happened, in three months, it will all be over.

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LIFE

GRAHAM VON CARLOWITZ COLUMNIST

For many years I’ve harbored a dream that now may never come true. Some kids grow up wishing to own bakeries and floral shops, or to own grocery stores, auto shops, kitchen appliance shops and the rest.

My dream took the shape of a nap shack, a store to enjoy a spurt of shut-eye. I wanted to offer drowsy employees in the area an opportunity to have one of those satisfying drool-heavy naps away from their desks.

Ali has Frazer, Pepsi has Coke, I have Schlafladen. That may sound like a disease, and I won’t lie, it sort of is one. Schlafladen, German for “sleeping store,” stole my novel childhood idea without even asking. It stole my livelihood for a few minutes.

Oh, and it stole the English word powernap. I would be at peace with citing the proverb “you snooze, you lose” here, but isn’t snoozing the goal?

This isn’t the first time a good idea of mine has been taken by Germany.

My idea to enhance any store by adding a café is made manifest in fabric stores and copy shops alike. I kid not. But complaining won’t do anything besides make a few angry Germans puncture my ears with screeching words.

As such, I will jump on the opportunity to share my idea for my university’s class gift before anyone else jumps in.

As far as I know, class gifts range from botanically- to architecturally-inspired. Trees are a nice thought, but it’s the job of environmentalists to primp our pastures. As for the architecture side, I remember seeing a brick decaled with “Class of 1956.”

What exactly the gift was perplexes me still — was it the brick itself?

I’m sorry Class of ’56, I know engraving a brick might have sounded all “coolsville” and “just as jiffy as color TV!” back in your day, but I see it as unoriginal, tasteless even. Maybe you all were in a financial bind since gas spiked at $0.30/gal. But the very least you could have done was put some creative thought into the gift.

In comparison, a six-foot tall can of soda pop might end up causing more of a fizz than all the gifts of years past. My suggestion, however, has no carbonation added. Possibly some carpet sensation — that is, if you like sleeping on a carpet. That’s right, my class gift to the university will be the construction of a Schlafladen.

The history of class gifts shows that, besides plants and collection of bricks, scholarships are by and large the route to take.

Easy, generous and sure to have an impact. Sounds a lot like naptime in kindergarten to me. By my calculations, everyone needs sleep and not everyone — overnight library lurkers included — collects the sleep.

With the addition of an oncampus nap hut, students will have a chance to do so. More-

This isn’t the first time a good idea of mine has been taken by Germany.

over, they will acquire a worthy destination between awkwardly scheduled courses. Students will finally have something to do besides inhale social media by the second. Napping is healthier by far.

I have come to terms with the Germans stealing my idea — to be fair, we did steal and bastardize their preposition “über.”

Yet, while the taxicab service and word embellisher thrives in America, Germans don’t shy from their prepositions, über being no exception.

Schlafladen, then, is up for grabs in my opinion. And, my fellow Class of 2017, the idea is waiting for someone to adopt it already. You have two choices — allow future dreamers to dream and dose or witness their zombied faces limping about campus, waiting to “bite the grass,” as the all-too-literal German would say.

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Miami AAUP reflects on presidential search, looks toward the future PRESIDENT

TO THE EDITOR: The Executive Committee of the Miami University AAUP Advocacy Chapter has worked to promote the hiring of a new president who would commit to a set of objectives. As enunciated last August and approved by the membership, these include support for the hiring of a new president who will: 1. Provide intellectual and ethical leadership; 2. Reaffirm the university’s primary financial and ethical commitment to its core mission: providing the highest quality education for our students; 3. Increase transparency and improve institutions of shared governance; 4. Help Miami compete economically to hire and retain top faculty,

increase diversity of faculty and develop better support structures for underrepresented faculty and students; 5. Pledge to minimize the use of non-tenured and part-time faculty and improve conditions and pay for all contingent faculty, whether full-time or adjunct; 6. Increase the award of merit scholarships; and 7. Reaffirm the university’s commitment to excellent faculty research and superior graduate programs in order to support the production of knowledge, permit Miami to attract and retain top faculty and give our students access to the latest developments in the field.

We also asked the Board of Trustees to live up to the principle of shared governance and transparency by bringing to campus at least the final two candidates. They have neither

provided for a transparent process nor decided to bring the top two finalists to campus.

Despite the lack of transparency and consultation surrounding his appointment, we nonetheless look forward to working with the new president to promote the educational ideals we share.

At the same time, we are very grateful to the two faculty members endorsed by the AAUP, Dr. Linda Marchant and Dr. Ann Rypstra, for agreeing to serve on the presidential search committee and for upholding the principles laid out above. We are very pleased to see that the finalist is a distinguished academic with deep research and administrative credentials.

The person identified by the Board of Trustees as the finalist, Dr. Gregory Crawford, associate provost at Notre

Dame, will be on campus this week to meet with many individuals and groups. Faculty and Open Forums are scheduled as follows: Faculty forum: Monday, Feb.15th, 3:30 p.m., Oxford campus, Armstrong Student Center’s Wilks Theater Open forum: Tuesday, Feb. 16th 9:45 a.m. Hamilton campus, Wilks Conference Center, rooms A & B Open forum: Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1:00 p.m. Middletown campus, Johnston Hall, Knoll Community Center, room 142 Open forum: Wednesday, Feb. 17th, 9:45 a.m., Oxford campus, Armstrong Student Center’s Wilks Theater We encourage faculty to attend these fora with Dr. Crawford and to provide feedback. We would request that you provide email feedback jointly to Dr. Ted Pickerill at pickerto@miamioh.edu and the AAUP Executive

Committee at MUAAUP_Exec@ googlegroups.com. We will not publish or use any of the individual comments, but will publish a collective sense of the responses.

KAREN DAWISHA, CO-PRESIDENT KEITH TUMA, CO-PRESIDENT CATHY WAGNER, VICE-PRESIDENT DEBORAH LYONS, SECRETARY AND MEMBERSHIP MATTHEW GORDON, TREASURER ANN ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG, CHAIR, ADVISORY COUNCIL

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Presidential finalist hospitalized after hazing by Miami Board of Trustees SATIRE

JOEY HART

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The following piece is a work of satire.

Miami presidential finalist Gregory Crawford was admitted to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital Saturday night after participating in hazing activities induced by the Board of Trustees.

Well enough to leave the following morning, Crawford said the

board told him last week that, as he had not ascended to the position of president yet, he was still considered a “pledge.”

“I had always wanted to be part of the leadership of such a great university like Miami,” Crawford said. “I guess I was just in over my head about what this whole thing entailed.”

Crawford said his hazing began shortly after the decision to name him a finalist for the position of president. He was forced to

partake in rituals including giving speeches to alumni in only his underwear, brainstorming fundraising events while standing in the snow and having to recite all of Miami’s academic departments while vodka was poured on his face.

It was this last activity, Crawford said, that broke the camel’s back.

“I wanted to show them that I could do it, but at the same time I was only on ‘Electrical and Computer Engineering’ when I started to fade,” he said. “They just kept

2016 Oscar nominations highlight larger problem in Hollywood film industry FILM

BRITTON PERELMAN MANAGING EDITOR

A month ago, the nominations for the 88th annual Academy Awards were announced. Of the 20 spots available in the four acting categories, none were filled with non-Caucasian actors.

Things exploded after that.

For a second year in a row, #OscarsSoWhite trended on Twitter.

Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they wouldn’t be attending the Oscars ceremony because of the nature of the nominations. Chris Rock, the host of the 2016 show, tweeted that the Oscars were, essentially, the “White BET Awards.”

“Saturday Night Live” parodied the controversy in an original sketch.

And everyone from Whoopi Goldberg to Michael Caine to President Obama has commented on the controversy since.

Nine days after the nominations were announced, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson and president Cheryl Boone-Isaacs revealed a plan to promote diversity within the organization. Three more board of governors seats and new rules regarding members voting statuses were added.

Hudson and Boone-Isaacs are hoping that, by 2020, women and minorities will make up 48 percent of the Academy.

But the problem, for the most part, isn’t the Academy. It’s the entertainment industry.

Think about what movies stood out to you from the past year. For me, its films like “Spotlight,” “Brooklyn,” “Room,” and “The Martian.”

Or “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” “The Danish Girl” and “The Big

Short.”

Out of the eight movies I just mentioned, two have black actors in major roles — John Boyega as Finn in “Star Wars” and RJ Cyler as Earl in “Dying Girl.”

There were plenty of movies featuring black actors in 2015 — Will Smith in “Concussion,” the entire cast of “Straight Outta Compton,” Idris Elba in “Beasts of No Nation,” Michael B. Jordan in “Creed,” and Samuel L. Jackson in “The Hateful Eight.” But those movies weren’t the best of the year.

Could they have been nominated?

Sure. Should they have been nominated for the purpose of adding diversity to the list of nominees? No. The Academy Awards are the Super Bowl of film. They honor the best of the best. And if the best performances happen to be by Caucasian actors and actresses, so be it.

It’s not about racism. The nominations aren’t racist — they’re the product of an industry that isn’t providing opportunities for actors of diverse backgrounds.

There need to be roles for black actors that aren’t slaves or thugs. There need to be roles for Asian actors that aren’t I.T. guys or immigrants.

There need to be roles for women that aren’t housewives or supporting characters. There need to be roles for Indian actors, Middle-Eastern actors, Latino actors, European actors, Caucasian actors, men and women that aren’t stereotypes.

I completely understand if the script is historical in nature, or based on a true story, and, in casting, it is necessary to remain faithful to the truth.

Denzel Washington shouldn’t have played screenwriter Dalton

Trumbo in “Trumbo.” Bryan Cranston was the right choice for that role — not only does he look like the real life Trumbo, but he also gives an incredible performance.

In “Brooklyn,” Saoirse Ronan gives the best performance of her career thus far. She plays an Irish immigrant in the 1950s, when, historically, Ireland’s population was primarily white. It was a role tailormade for her.

We shouldn’t be downplaying the amazing, award-worthy performances by the 20 nominees just because there was a lack of diversity to choose from this year. We should be commending the nominees, celebrating the films and the performances.

But we also have to understand and accept that change isn’t going to happen overnight.

Take the television industry. Thirty years ago, a black, female actress headlining a television show was unheard of. Then, in 2012, Shonda Rhimes cast Kerry Washington in “Scandal.” And two weeks ago, Uzo Adubo, Viola Davis, Queen Latifah, and Idris Elba all won Screen Actors Guild awards for their performances in various TV shows.

Slowly but surely, the television landscape changed.

If anything is going to change in film, we have to be color-blind when we write scripts and cast actors. We have to take a page from Broadway’s book and cast black actors as Jean Valjean in “Les Mis” and as Hermione in “Harry Potter.”

We have to create characters that are complex, flawed, interesting and can be played by any actor. We need to create Walter White, Olivia Pope, OSCARS »PAGE 8

promising me that I would get so many babes when I was eventually president, I just didn’t realize how smashed I was.”

At that point, several Board members recognized Crawford’s dangerous state and drove him to the hospital, where he spent the night.

This incident is just one out of a national trend of college president hazing, with 23 college presidents having required medical assistance due to ritual hazing in the past year alone, up from 16 the previ-

ous year, according to a study by Duke University.

Crawford recommended caution for those following his path.

“The advice I would give to other presidential hopefuls is to know what you are getting into first,” Crawford said. “All the partying and fun that they say goes along with being president can have a price.”

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including former Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Conrado “Bobby” Gempesaw; current Dean of Students Mike Curme; current Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Phyllis Callahan; former Dean of Fine Arts Pamela Fox; former Dean of the School of Creative Arts James P. Lentini; and alumnus and former executive assistant to the president John A. Roush.

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so non-transparent.”

The conditions surrounding this search also impact the way Crawford is perceived by the Miami community, said Karen Dawisha, director of the Havighurst Center and co-president of the AAUP. “I don’t think that [this secret search] aids in the legitimacy of any selection, however good that selection is,” Dawisha said. “To have the person chosen by a small group of people and vetted really, solely by a search firm, I don’t think it’s the best way for anyone to start a new job.”

Despite the uncertainty of the search, Crawford seemed determined to prove himself to the nearly 100 faculty members and others in attendance. He fielded questions about shared governance, student learning outside of the classroom and campus life is-

they were being nominated. Additionally, the records do not indicate who nominated each person. Instead, that is denoted by a category, like “faculty,” “alumna/alumnus,” “student” and “staff member.”

Many individuals — like Crawford, the eventual finalist — were serious nominations. But others were clearly facetious suggestions, like Donald Trump and Ben Carson (both recommended by a student).

Ted Pickerill, the spokesperson for the search, did not respond directly to questions about the nominees.

sues.

Kathleen Knight Abowitz, chair of the Department of Educational Leadership, asked about Crawford’s preparedness for addressing diversity at Miami.

“It’s dangerous times for college presidents who aren’t ready to step up and engage students in real ways and lead in different ways around issues of diversity,” she said. “I’m wondering what your thoughts are and what implications there might be for you if you are our next president.”

Crawford appeared to be most comfortable and confident when answering Knight Abowitz’ question.

“Diversity could be an add on, but we don’t want it to be an add on,” Crawford said. “We want it be a part of our fabric of what we are as a university, in the culture of the university. And it should play a role in everything that we do and

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The Academy Awards are one of my favorite nights of the entire year. I’ll be tuning in on Feb. 28 to celebrate another great year of film. You should, too.

Boycotting the awards does nothing. A lack of diversity in movies isn’t the Academy’s fault. It’s the film industry’s. everything that we think about.”

Lyons pressed Crawford about his opinions on the dwindling funding of the humanities, asking him how he would allocate resources to include and develop programs in the arts and sciences.

“At a residential, liberal arts campus, everything matters because we are a university number one,” Crawford answered. “We want to have collaboration, we want to have a strong liberal arts program and we want to keep that alive.”

Crawford will attend three more open forums this week. Today, he will speak to the Hamilton campus at 9:45 a.m. in the Wilks Conference Theatre and to the Middletown campus at 1 p.m. at Johnston Hall in the Knoll Community Center. Crawford will conclude the forums at 9:45 a.m. tomorrow at the Wilks Theatre in Armstrong Student Center.

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more than just physically. For the rest of the woman’s life, she carries the painful memory of being violated. Knowing her abuser is roaming freely instills fear, as he is able to hurt her or someone else.

Do universities realize they protect a wrong-doer who has dramatically changed someone’s life?

Universities covering for their student athletes is not a new trend.

In 1974, a woman accused six Notre Dame football players of raping her. Two years later, three men raped a 17-year-old student at nearby St. Mary’s University. Two of those three men had been accused in the 1974 case.

Two weeks ago, Florida State University settled the Jameis Winston Title IX lawsuit with former student Erica Kinsman. While Kinsman said the school failed to adequately investigate the rape allegations against her offender, the former FSU quarterback went on to collect the Heisman trophy and the No. 1 overall spot in the 2015 NFL draft. No charges were filed against him.

A former Kent State softball player sued her school and former coach, claiming Kent State covered up a rape by the coach’s son.

Why do universities protect these athletes?

Because athletes bring in the money.

Winning leads to money, and universities have to pay for their brand new million-dollar football stadiums. Winning and money afford head coaches the luxury of avoiding comment on the sexual assault allegations surrounding their programs.

Protecting student-athletes over non-student-athletes is horrible.

Women are made to feel unsafe and have issues with the ways in which sexual assault cases are handled by their schools.

Making a woman feel less than a man simply because the man is an athlete and makes money for the school is wrong on multiple levels.

Universities must think twice about how they handle sexual assault cases.

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“[Spinney’s] greatest performance was in the ‘Goodbye, Mr. Hooper’ show,” said Manzano. “Sharing with children what death is and that it is final is a hard lesson, and they still don’t believe us.”

‘Sesame Street’ has been on the air for nearly five decades and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.

“They have a goal book for some of the goals they want to cover, this year has been science and kindness,” said Spinney. “They will probably keep on this way since we are trying to make better children.”

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batters.

Sophomore Gus Graham earned a 4.14 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 45.2 innings pitched, while sophomore T.J. Galenti has not seen playing time with the RedHawks.

The ’Hawks welcome eight freshmen to the pitching roster: Andy Almquist, Zach Hoffmann, Shane Smith, Michael Hendricks, Nicholas Ernst, Bailey Martin, Cole Gnetz and Zach Spears.

Catchers The roster includes two young catchers in sophomore Spencer Dull and freshman Hayden Senger.

Dull had a .286 batting average in 70 at-bats in 2015 and a clean .967 fielding percentage behind the plate.

Outfield Senior Jake Romano had a .296 batting average, three homeruns and 17 RBIs last year. Senior Gary Russo knocked in 56 runs, 12 homeruns and 85 hits in 327 plate appearances last season.

Redshirt junior Julian Flanary appeared in 17 games last season with five starts in the outfield.

Sophomore Brooks Urich appeared in 19 games and started in six his freshman season. In 31 atbats, he totaled four hits, including two doubles. Sophomore Charlie Dauch appeared in three games last year, scoring one run against University of Toledo.

Freshman Dallas Hall comes to Miami out of Lakota West high school, where he was a four-year

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Beasts and Where to Find Them” next winter.

Most fans, like first-year Katlyn Smee, won’t get to see the play.

“I wish I could go see the play,” Smee said. “But I don’t exactly have the means to make it to

letterman with 100 career hits, 25 stolen bases, 7 home runs and 76 RBIs. Freshman Adam Purdy attended Eilda high school, where he set the school’s all-time hits record (116) and in 2015 earned a .467 batting average, 19 RBIs and 10 stolen bases.

Infield Senior captain Chad Sedio holds a .309 career batting average with Miami and has totaled 49 RBIs and 12 homeruns in 405 plate appearances. The Perfect Game’s list of Top 100 college seniors ranks Sedio at No. 48.

Junior Adam Yacek had a whopping .337 batting average, six homeruns and 27 RBIs in 2015.

Junior Steve Sada started 51 games at second base and had 16 multi-hit games.

Sophomore Mizuki Shumsky did not play last season, but was a four-year letterman as an infielder, catcher and pitcher for John Seevers at American High School in Japan prior to joining the ’Hawks.

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London right now.”

She will, instead, buy the hardcover.

“I think I am [going to buy the book] once it’s out.”

Despite not being released until July, the book is already a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon

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Senior forward and team captain Sean Kuraly redirected sophomore defenseman Scott Dornbrook’s shot past Bowling Green goaltender Chris Nell at the 4:45 mark, giving MU a 2-1 lead.

The Red and White kept the momentum going in the third period, scoring two goals on 19 shots.

Two minutes into the third period, Miami was given another 5-on-3 after two Falcons received back-to-back penalties. Nell held the fort this time, and Bowling Green killed the penalty.

Freshman forward Kiefer Sherwood gave the RedHawks a 3-1 lead, knocking home a rebound off a Kuraly shot with 6:09 remaining. Freshman forward Jack Roslovic received an assist on the play.

With two-and-a-half minutes remaining in the third, the Falcons pulled their goalie to put a sixth skater on the ice. Forty-five seconds later, the ’Hawks put the game away when freshman defenseman Grant Hutton forced a turnover in the neutral zone.

He sent a pass out wide to senior defenseman Matthew Caito, who skated to the Falcons’ empty net and scored with ease.

“I thought we played hard,” Blasi said. “We went down early. We had to kill a few penalties. I thought we stuck together. We kept pushing and that 5-on-3 goal was huge and we kept the momentum from that. I thought we did a good job in the third of keeping everything in front of us and getting pucks to the net.”

Miami is back on the road for a two-game series next weekend at Western Michigan University.

Tennessee athletic trainer in 1996. After the assault, Manning and those close to him allegedly spent years attempting to cover up the incident.

If the sexual assault isn’t already heinous enough, each section of the supposed cover-up is even more shocking.

Though they are merely allegations at this point, I can’t help but wonder if Peyton Manning is going to be the next athlete to let me down.

As a sports fan, I am used to disappointment. My hometown Cincinnati Bengals haven’t won a playoff game in my lifetime and managed to leave me speechless on the Brick Street Bar patio as I watched their most recent postseason failure unfold before my eyes.

However, there is something different about being let down by athletes themselves – and not by failure on the field, but failure off of it.

I can forgive Pacman Jones for his personal foul at the end of the Bengals-Steelers game. Even many Boston fans forgive Bill Buckner for his famous blunder.

An error in a game lets me down as a fan, but an act like the one of which Peyton Manning is accused lets down the kid in me.

It took me a while to admit to myself that Tiger Woods cheated on his wife. When I did, it disappointed the part of me that remembers sitting with my dad when I was young, watching

through preorders.

In preparation for the new play, Smee will be watching all the films again.

Another excited Miami student, first-year Darshini Parthasarathy, is also getting prepared, but slightly differently.

“I probably won’t watch the films again, but I will be reading the books,” said Parthasarathy. “Maybe not the first three, but definitely the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh.”

The sixth book was Parthasarathy’s favorite.

Parthasararathy said she has also

Woods sink his now-famous shot from the edge of the 16th green at the 2005 Masters.

That incredible break and legendary fist-pump will be forever marked with an asterisk in my mind.

Is this the future for Peyton Manning?

If the allegations are true, he will join Tiger, Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds in breaking the heart of not only myself, but also millions of people across the nation.

First and foremost, I hope the truth comes out.

I will gladly allow Peyton Manning to let me down if that means justice being served.

A part of me, though, hopes this is just like his recent steroid scandal and is quickly revealed to be a farce.

I don’t want to feel regret every time I say “Chicken parm you taste so good” to the tune of the Nationwide jingle.

I don’t want the hundreds of pinpoint passes to Marvin Harrison to be tainted by asterisks.

I don’t want the Saturday Night Live version of Peyton Manning to no longer be a spoof.

I truly hope it’s not an accurate portrayal of a pompous jerk.

I don’t want another one of my childhood heroes to let me down.

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Rounding the bases: Miami baseball season preview BASEBALL

BRYAN WILLS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University baseball team kicks off its 2016 campaign Friday, as it travels to Buies Creek, North Carolina to take on Campbell University.

In his third year as manager, Danny Hayden has high expectations for his ball club.

“I want to be the toughest team 56 times and that’s my biggest goal for this season,” Hayden said. “I want these guys to embrace that competition, if we can do that I think we’re going to win a bunch of games.”

Coming off a season with many lows and not too many highs, the ’Hawks posted a 13-39 overall record (11-16 Mid American Conference), placing them second to last in the conference. University at Buffalo was last with a 7-20 overall record.

Now, with the 2015 season behind them, the RedHawks look for key leadership from the upperclassmen.

“Coming out everyday for the

boys, getting the job done is a big step,” said senior captain Chad Sedio. “It’s nice being a captain and leading by example both verbally and physically.”

Sedio played only 24 games in the 2015 season before suffering a season-ending injury at University of Louisville. He posted a .330 batting average and a .560 slugging percentage that included 13 extra-base hits and nine RBIs. The 33-man roster consists of five seniors, eight juniors, seven sophomores and 13 freshmen.

“We have some fierce competition at some different positions,” Hayden said. “We will have to see who can take ahold of those spots and exceed our expectations.”

Below is a position-by-position breakdown of the team.

Pitchers Of the 17 pitchers on the roster, 14 are right-handers and three are lefties.

Senior Nick Scheller appeared in nine games for the ’Hawks in 2015,

pitching 14.1 innings and striking out seven. Senior Daniel Mooney arrives at Miami after spending three years at Ohio Dominican University, where he appeared in 17 games. In 2013, he made the conference honorable mention team.

Junior Jacob Banks has a Miami career 5.13 ERA, which includes 86 strike-outs in 78.1 innings pitched.

Junior Brad Schwartz made 22 appearances out of the bullpen last season with 46.2 innings pitched, putting him second on the team among relievers in innings pitched.

Redshirt junior Tyler Harris might see time after sitting out the 2015 season due to NCAA transfer rules.

He played two seasons at Missouri State University prior to joining the RedHawks.

Junior Eric Handelman is another transfer. He was a member of the Miami University-Hamilton team before transferring to Oxford.

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Manning can’t be the next star to disappoint me COLUMN

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When I saw an article linking one of my favorite athletes to a sexual assault in The New York Daily News on Feb. 13, I couldn’t believe my eyes.

Again and again, I read the top of the page: “Peyton Manning’s squeaky-clean image was built on lies, as detailed in explosive court documents showing ugly smear campaign against his alleged sex assault victim.”

This can’t be the Peyton Manning I know.

For many players, a Super Bowl ring is the crowning achievement in their careers.

Not for Peyton.

He has much more than two Super Bowl rings in his possession:

NFL records for most career passing yards and touchdown passes, 14 Pro Bowls, five AP NFL Most Valuable Player awards and the 2013 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year title.

Though Manning’s second Super Bowl victory may have solidified him as the greatest quarterback of all time, he is much more than a quarterback.

Peyton Manning is an icon.

Thanks to Peyton, some think “Omaha” is a football term, not a city in Nebraska.

He’s appeared in commercials for MasterCard, Papa Johns and Nationwide, to name just a few.

In 2008, he went down in Saturday Night Live history when he appeared in a sketch portraying himself in a fictional United Way advertisement.

The SNL version of Peyton Man-

ning was a scumbag, but his niceguy image is what has made him so beloved in American culture. Real life Peyton Manning is a good ol’ boy with a goofy smile, a warm sense of humor and a heart seemingly made of gold.

He’s the founder of “The Peyback Foundation,” a charity that helps disadvantaged kids. When Hurricane Katrina ravaged his hometown of New Orleans, he was quick to volunteer. The man even has a children’s hospital named after him.

But then there’s the article accusing Manning of sexual assault.

It details court documents supplied by the plaintiff in a case from 2003. According to those documents, Manning allegedly committed a vulgar act on a University of

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The number of shots Miami hockey totaled in its win against Bowling Green on Friday. It was a season high. The RedHawks had 29 shots in their previous game against St. Cloud State.

RedHawks beat No. 19 Bowling Green, 4-1 HOCKEY

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The Miami University hockey team (12-13-3, 6-10-2 National Collegiate Hockey Conference) is one step closer to entering the Frozen Four playoffs conversation after beating 19th-ranked Bowling Green State University (16-10-6, 12-5-5 Western Collegiate Hockey Conference) 4-1 on Friday. It’s the RedHawks’ sixth win in their last eight games.

“I think we’re together,” head coach Rico Blasi said. “I think we’re competing hard, being smart with the puck and managing the puck well. We’re playing some

hard-nosed defense, and we’re working hard.”

Bowling Green got on the board first. With time winding down in the Falcons’ second power play of the first period, junior forward Brent Tate redirected a shot from sophomore defenseman Sean Walker past ’Hawks senior goalie Jay Williams.

MU caught a break 12 minutes into the second period when two Falcon players were called for penalties 15 seconds apart, handing Miami a two-man advantage. Junior forward Anthony Louis one timed a pass from freshman forward Josh Melnick into the Falcons net to tie the game 1-1 with 7:23 on the clock.

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Senior foward Geovonie McKnight averages 12.4 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. Miami men’s basketball (9-16) hosts Ball State University (16-9) at 7 p.m.Tuesday. MU has won three of its last five games.

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Headlines beyond Oxford: Villanova University basketball remains the No. 1 team in the AP Poll after almost every team in the poll lost last week.

AP Top 25 teams went 27-23, with 16 of those losses coming to unranked teams. Just seven top teams made it through the week unblemished.

Women’s tennis upsets No. 55 Marshall, 4-3 TENNIS

SCOTT SUTTON

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University women’s tennis team (2-3) pulled off a 4-3 upset against No. 55 ranked Marshall University (4-3) Sunday morning at the Riverside Athletic Club in Hamilton, Ohio.

In the last match of the day, sophomore Nelli Ponomareva overcame a 6-1 first set loss and took the final two sets at 6-3 from Marshall’s sophomore Maddie Silver. This win clinched the overall victory for Miami.

“It really meant a lot to have my teams support and to hear them cheering for me during the final sets of the match,” Ponomareva said. “I was worried I was going to lose so I started changing my style of play to being more defensive but I ended up just playing my game.”

The RedHawks began the day with a 6-3 doubles victory from junior Andreea Badlieanu and senior Ana Rajkovic. The sophomore duo of Anastasiia Vasiukhina and Ponomareva also clinched a 6-4 victory to put Miami up 1-0.

After winning her doubles match,

Rajkovic defeated junior Anne Gulsrud 6-0, 6-1. Freshman Emily Struble won her singles match against Marshall’s sophomore Marija Bogicevic 6-4, 6-3.

Badlieanu, freshman Anzhelika Shapovalova and sophomore Hannah Shetyn each lost their singles matches. Shapovalova lost 6-2, 6-4 to junior Derya Turhan, Shetyn lost 6-0, 7-5 to junior Anna Pomyatinskaya, and Badlieanu ended her day with a 6-3, 6-0 loss to junior Rachael Morales.

The match victory was muchneeded after a 6-1 loss to Xavier University last weekend.

“We finally got it all together and made it happen,” head coach Yana Carrolo said. It was very important to get a win today, and we have never come close to beating them in the past. Every match you play is very crucial and the girls played very well. Each player had a great mental state of mind, and they stayed in the moment instead of worrying about everything else going on.”

Miami travels to Lincoln, Neb. on Friday to play the University of Nebraska (6-1), which is coming off a 6-1 loss to Wichita State.

University athletic programs must stop letting student-athletes off the hook COLUMN

JULIA RIVERA

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Once again, a star athlete is involved in a sexual assault case. And again, the athlete’s university is accused of hiding the case.

Peyton Manning headlines a lawsuit filed against the University of Tennessee last Tuesday in Nashville. It accuses the university of violating Title IX regulations, creating a “hostile sexual environment” and interfering with the disciplinary process in favor of male athletes.

The lawsuit claims then-starting quarterback of the Volunteers Peyton Manning placed his naked genitals on the face of his athletic trainer, Dr. Jamie Naughright, while she was examining him for an injury in 1996.

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Manning has denied the claims and said he was mooning teammate Malcolm Saxon.

Naughright later sued Manning for the incident, and Saxon refuted Manning’s statement.

Manning was never the subject of a police investigation, and the lawsuit was settled a year later with the agreement that Naughright would part ways with the school.

Do you think if this incident had occurred with a regular student rather than a student-athlete it would have been handled differently?

Most definitely.

The non-student-athlete would most likely have been subjected to disciplinary hearings and punishment.

Think about how this looks to young male athletes. Time and time

again they see men who have committed crimes able to walk away from a situation scot-free.

The suit against Tennessee states Tim Rogers, former vice chancellor for student life, stepped down in 2013 “in protest over the violation of Title IX and the UT administration’s and athletic department’s deliberate indifference to the clear and present danger of sexual assaults by UT athletes.”

But, Bill Ramsey, the lawyer representing Tennessee, said in a statement the university “acted lawfully and in good faith” in the situations outlined in the complaint.

Do universities realize the psychological damage that incomplete investigations cause?

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NHL Commisioner Gary Bettman cancels the 20042005 season. It was the first time a North American sports league canceled an entire season due to labor disputes. No Stanley Cup champion was crowned — the last time that happened had been 1919.

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