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He was wet, having fallen in the snow and ice multiple times. Drunk, underage and with slurred speech, he stood in the middle of South College Avenue trying to get a ride after drinking in Oxford.

It was 5:40 p.m. on Jan. 23, two days before spring semester classes would start, but there was no timeframe on drinking.

The Jonas snowstorm had just swept through the East Coast, so it was a cold 32 degrees when Oxford Police Department (OPD) officer Jacob Hayes stopped the drunk Miami student near the railroad tracks.

Just hours earlier, at 1:22 a.m., another intoxicated male near McKee Hall was transported to McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital for intoxication and possible frostbite or hypothermia, according to Miami University Police Department (MUPD) records.

When Hayes asked for any identification, the Miami student, like many others before and after him, produced a fake ID — this one said the student was from Kentucky. The officer noticed the student had difficulty standing on his own and he smelled like alcohol.

The student was taken back to the Oxford Police station and cited with a handful of offenses: Certain Acts Prohibited, Underage Consumption and Disorderly Conduct/Public Intoxication.

But before the officer could process the charges, the drunk Miami teen passed out, falling out of his seated position and onto the floor.

Then the student, also like many others before and since, was transported by the Oxford Fire Department to McCullough-Hyde.

A few hours later, just a little after 11 p.m., another male student was taken to McCullough-Hyde for intoxication, according to MUPD records.

In the 11-day span between Jan. 21 and Jan. 31, 11 other individuals were cited by OPD for a similar offense: Underage Consumption. Of those, two others also tried fake IDs when encountering OPD. Another male, while not cited for underage drinking, was found passed out in the roadway due to intoxication. Another two also were transported to McCulloughHyde.

In total, 12 individuals

With the 2016 Iowa caucuses in the books, where Republican Senator Ted Cruz from Texas took home a victory (at press time, the Democratic race was too close to call), a handful of politically active Miami University students are gearing up for a semester filled with campaign events — phone banking voters across the country, going door-to-door in Butler County and holding voter registration drives.

The polarizing presidential primaries will likely dominate headlines for the next few months, and at Miami, voters will look ahead to the Ohio primaries in March.

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JING LONG THE MIAMI STUDENT

Students will have to wait another few weeks, at least, for the on-campus Starbucks.

Maplestreet Starbucks opening date pushed back DINING

HAILEY MALLENDICK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Students will have to wait a little longer for their coffee fix. Despite initial plans to open a Starbucks Coffee in Maplestreet Station this month, dining services has officially pushed back the

open date until spring break at the earliest.

“Rest assured that [Starbucks] is coming soon,” said Sally Shephard, the executive manager of Harris, Western and Maple Street dining halls.

While the goal was to open the new Starbucks at the start of the semester, Jon

Brubacher, the interim director of dining services, and his team found that more time was required to complete the renovations and prepare for the opening of the store.

“Once we got into the details of what was expected of us from Starbucks we realSTARBUCKS »PAGE 3

Goggin’s voice from above: Scott Shriver PROFILE

EMILY SIMANSKIS THE MIAMI STUDENT

Scott Shriver shows up to watch the RedHawks men’s ice hockey team in a red fleece quarter zip, black dress pants and comfortable brown dress shoes. He’s always an hour early, just happy to be in the building.

Though most fans attempt to sit as close to the ice as possible, Shriver goes to sit two floors above everyone in a small room with four other people.

Some have walkie-talkies clipped to their belt and most wear headsets, while Shriver settles behind a desk crowded with highlighted papers, two stand alone monitors, two functioning computers and a switchboard. Fans warm their vocal chords and Shriver warms his, fully aware of his job as the public address announcer. His eyes never leave the ice throughout the game.

He cheers along with the fans but has to answer an old phone that rings to confirm what happened on the

ice before he announces it to the entire arena. He claps along with the band, stands for the alma mater and dutifully announces the starting line up with enthusiasm.

Scott Shriver is a RedHawks fan through and through, but he just happens to sit a little higher and talk a little louder.

“It’s so much fun that I don’t think there is really a hard part,” Shriver says about his job behind the microphone that he’s had for 25 years.

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JING LONG THE MIAMI STUDENT

First-years Kristen Zydowsky (left) and Sofie Wolber (right) enjoy a break from the first week of classes by spending time with miniature Palomino horses dressed as unicorns.

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TEACHERS TO-BE PREPARE TO LEARN

SHIDELER HALL GETS A FACELIFT

Senior education majors settle into their new posts as student teachers, expecting to learn as much as they’ll teach.

The renovations to Shideler have been heralded as an “extreme makeover,” though the job isn’t yet complete.

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“Miami is Berning” On a table in the corner of Kofenya Coffee is an unassuming sign-up sheet displaying the presidential campaign logo for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont.

Under the logo is a short sentence, written in all lowercase letters: “miami is berning, join the

revolution today.”

The level of official support for Sanders at Miami is more like a spark than a flame, based on the sign-up sheet in Kofenya, at least. As of 3 p.m. Monday, the flyer had just three names on it — two signatures and one name listed as the primary contact.

Quinton Couch, an Associated Student Government senator and avid Sanders supporter, placed this flyer in Kofenya and Bagel & Deli.

Couch, a registered Democrat and Diplomacy and Global Politics major, says he attends Sanders events to network with others, in hopes of creating a stronger support base at Miami.

“There is support here,” Couch said. “It just lacks organization.”

Couch calls himself a grassroots organizer within the campaign. One of his goals it to get students registered to vote.

Sanders has targeted the support of college-aged students in an attempt to take down his only remaining opponent, Hillary Clinton.

(Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley ended his presidential bid last night.)

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Diversity workgroup seeks to demonstrate support DIVERSITY

LISA TROWBRIDGE STAFF WRITER

Last fall, demonstrations at the University of Missouri sparked protest and conversation on campuses across the country — including this one. Some Miami students reacted by posting racist remarks on social media, but MU Dean of Students Mike Curme, and a collective of faculty and students, decided to begin a weekly workgroup to demonstrate support for Miami’s students of color.

Director of Institutional Relations, Randi Thomas, is one of the group’s 15 members. Thomas says this group will allow Miami to identify the specific issues that its students face, which will require collaboration between both white students and students of color.

“I think we need to have more things that help us as an institution to understand why diversity is important and what diversity means — what diversity means to our campus,” Thomas said.

“What do we need to supply to both our majority students as well as our black and Hispanic students, and other minority students?”

According to fall 2015 enrollment data, 76 percent of undergraduates in Oxford are white, compared to the national average of 63 percent. Yvania GarciaPusateri, the assistant director of the Diversity Affairs Council (DAC) and coordinator of Diverse Student Development, said that, although the campus is predominantly white, it is essential to work with individuals of all identities to ensure that minority students feel comfortable and supported in the community.

“I think, when it comes to these matters, you need allies from all groups, not just people who identify within a certain race or ethnicity,” Garcia-Pusateri said. “You want it to better all groups that have been historically marginalized.”

Curme said they reached out to students using the DAC listserv. Those who responded were joined by various faculty members in the division of student affairs, and the group is still open to anyone interested in joining.

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BETH PFOHL THE MIAMI STUDENT

On left: Sophomore Kaelynn Knestrick takes a stress-relieving selfie with a unicorn. On right: First-year Corinne McGoldrick smiles while hugging a miniature Palomino from Seven Oaks Farm.

Petite ponies bring joy to students during campus visit CAMPUS LIFE

ANGELA HATCHER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

At 1:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 29, Miami University students congregated around the Armstrong Student Center’s patio. “Oohs” and “Awws” rippled through the crowd. Everyone had a camera or cell phone ready.

“I can’t even handle the cuteness,” someone in the crowd said.

“I’m literally dying,” her friend replied.

The crowd buzzed with excitement.

The source of all the commotion? Two miniature horses dressed as unicorns.

Dallas, a two-year-old miniature Palomino, and Denver, a three-year-old miniature Palomino, quickly captured the hearts of the people walking by. The miniature horses had both their manes and tails dyed pink for the occasion and were sporting blue, sparkly unicorn horns. Their handlers walked them down Slant Walk to the student center where eager students had the chance to pet and pose for a picture with the horses.

Besides the obvious cuteness and joy that these furry,

four-legged friends brought during their trip to Miami, the visit served a much greater purpose: “Horses helping people and people helping horses.”

“That’s always been our motto,” said Lisa Moad, founder, president, trainer and handler at Seven Oaks Farm.

Moad, who has always loved animals, especially horses, was inspired to create a local, non-profit organization after discovering the benefits of miniature horse therapy.

Years ago, Moad saw a post on Facebook about a woman who was dying. Her final wish was to see her horse one last time. Her horse was a mini.

“I just thought to myself, there would be a lot of people who are animal lovers who would enjoy a visit from an animal in the hospital,” Moad said.

With that in mind, Moad began to research the training her minis would have to go through to be event ready.

The miniature horses, who are classified as assisted activity animals, go through three levels of training to ensure they are ready to be around copious amounts of people in different environments.

“It takes roughly 80 to 100 hours of events for them to really be ready and, of course, the training they get at the farm as well,” said Moad.

Seven Oaks Farm works within the local community, visiting nursing homes, the University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati and Dayton Ronald McDonald Houses and various hospices.

“When you walk in and see people’s demeanor completely change … you get to see them interacting with the horses and the horses interacting with people and develop relationships,” said Moad. “It’s so rewarding.”

Moad’s horses are like family to her. She spends the majority of her days, from sunrise to sunset, walking, training and feeding the horses.

Seven Oaks Farm’s mantra reiterates Moad’s belief in people helping horses as much as the horses help people. As such, Moad also takes in rescue horses.

Moad and her team of volunteers care for the animals and retrain them so they can be ready for other programs.

“It’s really hard to let them go, let me tell you,” Moad said. “It’s a

Senior education majors enter new classrooms to teach and learn EDUCATION

BRITTON PERELMAN MANAGING EDITOR

When senior Chloe Smith was younger, she set up her basement like a classroom and pretended to be the teacher. She worked at a daycare and babysat during the summers. Teaching has always been her plan. And, this semester, she’s finally in a classroom.

The eighth grade classroom at Loveland Middle School might not be her own, but Smith is completely comfortable there.

“I’m finally doing what I studied to do, and that’s teach the kids,” said Smith.

Smith is one of over 175 Miami University students placed in Cincinnati-area schools this spring. Though it’s their first time in a classroom as student teachers, all of their curriculum and fieldwork experiences have been leading up to this — a final semester to prepare them for teaching positions post-graduation.

Education majors learn everything from pedagogy and teaching theories, to classroom management and how to create lesson plans. The teacher education department also features a TeachLive lab, a virtual classroom in which professors can create scenarios for their students.

“It’s a very safe environment in case they fail because they’re [dealing with] avatars and not real kids,” said Kim Wachenheim, an assistant chair in the department of teacher education.

When they receive their placements, student teachers are also paired with a supervisor, a current faculty member or retired educator from public schools required to observe them at least eight times per semester.

“Student teaching is just like a full time job,” said Jan Benes, administrative assistant in the College of Education, Health & Society. Benes helps make the student teaching placements each semester.

While most second semester seniors plan their schedules so as to leave plenty of free time, student teachers don’t have that luxury.

Senior Jackie Jeambey said she’s become more anti-social since she started student teaching in January, and that it’s harder to see friends on campus now that she goes to bed so much earlier than everyone else.

Most of the student teachers began in early January, when the local schools resumed after New Years.

“My main goal that day was just to learn everyone’s names,” said Jeambey.

Her thought was, if she didn’t know her eighth graders’ names, they wouldn’t care about getting to know her, either. She had them fill out notecards with fun facts, wrote the info on the seating chart and stared at the chart for the rest of class, trying to memorize names with faces.

During her 45-minute drive to the Mason Early Childhood Center on her first day as a student

teacher, senior Morgan Kuhn had plenty of time to freak out about what was before her.

“I, weirdly enough, was more nervous about having lunch with the teachers than anything because you’re not sitting with kids your age, you’re sitting with actual adults,” said Kuhn.

She was also nervous about coming into an already established classroom. Her first graders had already been together for the fall semester, gotten to know each other and their teacher. Kuhn was arriving halfway through the year as an outsider.

Kuhn’s mother called during the drive to make sure she was okay. When she wasn’t talking to her mom, she blasted upbeat music to pump herself up for the day ahead. And she had nothing to worry about — lunch with the other teachers went perfectly fine.

During the first few days, Kuhn spent the majority of her time just talking with the kids. She noticed who worked well independently and who she needed to keep an eye on. So far, things have been going well.

Recently, Kuhn got a selectively mute student to whisper in her ear during class, which was a huge accomplishment.

“It’s just baby-steps trying to get her comfortable with me,” said Kuhn.

But, usually, it’s the littlest things that make everything worth it — like when she received FROM TEACHING »PAGE 5

lot of tears and a lot of heartache.

But when you see them being used for good … it’s incredible.”

Moad’s work within the local community is representative of the success and positive effect that horse therapy has had worldwide.

In 2012, The Guardian reported in an article titled “Not just horsing around … psychologists put their faith in equine therapies,” that horses were aiding in therapy to, “treat everything from addiction to autism to post traumatic stress disorder.” The article said that horses are naturally empathetic creatures and, as such, are able to interact extremely well with humans.

Gentle Carousel, a nonprofit therapy horse organization, has utilized its miniature ponies to interact with survivors of the Sandy Hook shooting, visit children in Oklahoma whose homes were destroyed by the vicious tornadoes in 2013 and to make trips to local hospitals in Florida, where Gentle Carousel is based.

One of Gentle Carousel’s therapy ponies even made Time Magazine’s Top 10 Heroic Animals List in 2011. Magic was named the AARP’s most heroic animal

in 2010 after visiting a patient in a live-in facility who hadn’t spoken in years. Upon seeing the miniature horse, the staff was astounded as the patient commented on how beautiful Magic was.

First-year student Kelly Burns was in the middle of the crowd on Friday, staring in awe at the tiny horses.

“Syllabus week is always kind of boring,” Burns said. “And the ponies were just something fun and unexpected that made the week more exciting.”

Akosua Boadi-Agyemang also had the pleasure of meeting the furry friends.

“I guess it’s just really amazing how interacting with such tiny horses can refresh someone with a lot of stress and just allow for them to take a breath and enjoy the cuteness of these horses,” Agyemang said.

She, like many other Miamians, took dozens of pictures to document the unique experience.

“Last week was a stressful week for me, and I’m sure it was for a lot of people,” Agyemang said. “...but spending five minutes around these horses … I was able to smile, laugh and totally have a good day.”

A crafty solution for dealing with stress HEALTH

MORGAN NGUYEN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Despite serving as a pasttime for a host of generations, crafting is gaining increased popularity and a new marketing image as a stress-reducer.

The New York Times recently published an article discussing the chief benefits of knitting — it enhances self-esteem and induces an almost meditative state.

Dr. Herbert Berson, a leading researcher in mind and body medicine is quoted saying the repetitive action of needlework can induce a relaxed state like that associated with meditation and yoga. The craftwork can lower blood pressure, heart rate and levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

Junior Megan Davis, a member of the club Knotty Knitters, finds this observation holds true in meetings.

“Sitting still bothers me, so being able to keep my hands moving reduces my stress,” said Davis. “I think the weekly meetings are a nice study break for most people.”

Many experts also applaud the social context of crafting in boosting mood.

“What is great about knitting and crocheting is that you can do it while doing something else. I can talk to my roommate or watch TV and still work on a project,” said Davis.

Many mental health blogs discuss the benefit of crafting in dealing with seasonal affective disor-

der, a type of depression related to change in seasons and common in winter.

Crafting on campus is presumably at the year’s height, with many sorority members preparing gifts for incoming new members (“littles”). Among other things, many women decorate their Greek letters and put together picture frames.

“I did a lot of canvas paintings, probably more than I should have,” said sophomore Monika Barrett, a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. “I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so crafting for my little was a bit stressful, but my mom taught me how to crochet and I’ve found that to be very relaxing.”

Barrett says focusing on the stitches clears her mind of everything else.

“The act of painting and drawing with some light music in the background is a great way to practice mindfulness and to take my mind off whatever stress I may be feeling,” added sophomore Antonia Caba-Turner, a member of Kappa Delta sorority. “I definitely found that crafting was calming and relaxing.”

In the crafting market, one of the most popular trends is adult coloring books — currently, three out of the top 10 best-selling books on Amazon fall in the category. At one point, Scottish illustrator Johanna Basford’s titles “Secret Garden” and “Enchanted Forest” claimed spots ahead of Harper Lee’s highly anticipated sequel “Go Set a WatchFROM CRAFT »PAGE 5

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ized we would have to wait,” said Brubacher. “Ideally, we would have loved to open [last] Monday, but we are better off to wait.”

The store will be complete will a full menu, including all of the Starbucks pastries and specialty drinks.

Starbucks had very specific guidelines that Brubacher and his team had to follow for the training of new base employees, as well as setting up the new store to slightly resemble the one Uptown.

Grant Frericks, Maple Street Station’s general manager, said the new staff must undergo a 40-hour training program led specifically

by Starbucks. This was another limiting factor for opening the store in January.

“We didn’t want to make the new employees come and have to train over winter break,” said Brubacher.

“We didn’t think it was fair.”

Since the store is new, an entire new staff is required and Brubacher wanted to allow anyone who was interested in working at Starbucks the opportunity to apply and train without worrying about it over winter break.

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Miami’s students about them.

“We’re all trying to figure out ways of supporting the underrepresented so that they have a voice and a place to be successful,” said Michelle Thomas, Director of Business Student Organizations and Diversity.

Michelle Thomas said the change that needs to happen will result from educating everyone— minority and majority—in order to bring attention and urgency to the topic.

“It’s Not always about fixing or working on the underrepresented.

It’s also about looking at how we can make sure our majority students understand the issues. We worked hard on figuring out how to do that, whether it’s through a course or different events that

Campus life limited during Winter Term EDUCATION

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Driving up Route 73, Shideler Hall’s red brick and white pillar facade rises to welcome visitors to Miami University. The building has become a landmark — especially after its recent facelift.

“Once you step into the building you get a sense that this is one of the freshest designs on campus,” said Connie McCarthy, project manager for the renovations to Shideler Hall.

Shideler was closed in fall 2014 for renovations to the building.

While construction is not completely finished, Shideler is open and classes are being held inside.

“It’s a definite improvement,” said Effie Harker, a graduate student studying geology.

The $25 million project was originally scheduled to be completed at the beginning of this semester, but the building is now scheduled to be completely finished later this month.

The east and south landscaping and entry porches are expected to be completed by the middle of February, said McCarthy.

With this stretch of warm weather, the construction and landscaping has been able to move along as planned.

The work on the west side of the building is being coordinated with the start of the east wing of the Armstrong Student Center.

The landscaping and missing trim on the west entrance are also expected to be completed by midFebruary.

McCarthy said the museum will be finished around this time, but the Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Sci-

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TYLER PISTOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Shideler Hall, the home to Miami’s Geology Department and the gateway to Miami via Rt. 73, re-opened this semester after renovations. ences does not plan to open the museum this semester.

“The building is great, but the floor plan takes some getting used to,” said George Daly, a geology Ph.D. student.

Thirty-thousand square feet were added to the building, which expanded and improved classroom space inside.

“We keep making a punchlist of more and more things that we would like to see,” McCarthy said.

Shideler is now home to the departments of Geography, Geology and Environmental Earth Science and the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability; which brings all of Miami’s sustainability organizations into one space.

“The renovations are pretty phenomenal,” said David Prytherch, a geography professor. “It is what I would call an extreme makeover.”

In the new Shideler, there are more interactive and collaborative spaces. New “professional

service project” rooms have been built to allow students and faculty to work on research and internships for clients such as the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, the City of Oxford and other non-profit organizations, according to the renovation website.

This allows for more student-faculty interaction, said Prytherch.

“It will be interesting to see how people use it,” Prytherch said.

The once old, decrepit building now meets current state of the art guidelines. The new and improved Shideler Hall will boast a Silver Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification — a national certification based on how environmentally friendly and energy efficient a building is.

Miami is new to LEED certification, but the Silver LEED certification is a standard for all new buildings on campus.

High-energy labs, according to McCarthy, prevent the building from attaining a Gold standard.

said Frericks. “The training will be done over two weeks, which gives the students time to work at other jobs and maintain their classes.”

Dining services is currently interviewing people for the positions at Starbucks. They are looking for 25 students to begin the training program soon.

For the training program, Starbucks is sending in its own representative to ensure everything goes smoothly. The district manager will arrive at the beginning of the training program and stay for a full two weeks.

“When [Starbucks] opens, [it] will be fully functional,” said Frericks.

“By having the ‘real’ Starbucks, we will be able to serve everything now,” said Brubacher. “The staff will even be in the green aprons, just like Uptown.”

Frericks also noted the interior will be similar to the Uptown Starbucks.

“It is around 39 seats, with some comfortable chairs to sit in and some different seating styles,” said Frericks.

Starbucks will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Starbucks requires that Miami have the store open

for a full twelve hours and be fully functional, which leaves changing and setting the hours to the campus dining staff.

“We are trying to base our hours on the needs of the clientele,” said Shepherd.

Brubacher said those hours might change in the future depending on student demand.

“Those are our starting hours.

We have some flexibility in the future,” Brubacher said. “If we find that there is a demand to be open later, we can be.”

Even though the dining staff is getting excited, students on campus are growing increasingly frustrated by the loss of Patisserie and the long wait for Starbucks to take its place.

Sophomore and Maple Street resident Olivia Ryan is annoyed by the absence of a close coffee shop.

“They started this project right after Thanksgiving break and it is really inconvenient, especially since it won’t be finished until after spring break,” said Ryan.

However, Brubacher and his team anticipate that the store will be well worth the wait and will be popular among students once it arrives.

focus on diversity inclusion,” Michelle Thomas said.

The group plans to accomplish this by continuing to discuss and brainstorm about these issues in their future meetings. Currently, they are considering offering diversity-based courses and bringing in executive speakers to talk about diversity.

Garcia-Pusateri said she hopes that it will not only help white students connect with minorities, but will also bring together domestic minority students and international students. She also hopes it will help students to become more welcoming of international students and their culture.

“I think their experiences are very different, yet the same,” Garcia-Pusateri said. “They still feel a sense of marginalization on campus. I think those two groups

should unify and find solidarity with each other.”

Garcia-Pusateri noted how many international students Anglicize their names and proposed fostering an environment where these students felt fully welcomed and comfortable using their given names.

Ultimately, Michelle Thomas said the group will help Miami accomplish its goal of having a community of inclusion and acceptance of different cultures. She stressed the importance of reaching out to the student body and ensuring the Miami community as a whole gets involved.

“You can’t work on things as an island. You have to have a cross-section of everybody involved,” said Thomas. “For me, diversity is a spectrum. It comes full-circle.”

According to the Housing Options, Meals and Events (H.O.M.E.) office, an average of 630 students lived on Miami University’s campus during winter term. Compared to the 16,387 undergraduates on campus during the fall and spring semesters, Oxford is significantly less populated in the first few weeks of the year.

Due to fewer students living on campus during winter term than during the fall and spring semesters, campus services and community centers such as Armstrong Student Center, King Library and the Rec center operated with restricted hours.

Fifth-year Amy Desai took a software engineering class during winter term and said campus felt much emptier with most students still away.

“I was in King one day for a group project and it felt really weird

because almost no one was on campus,” Desai said. “I wasn’t sure if the buses were running or not, so I didn’t take any of the buses.”

Even places Uptown remained closed.

“A couple of the stores were open, but the smaller ones were closed,” said Desai. “I guess they just assume that they would be paying someone to work more than they would be making.”

First-year Arushi Chelke, who lived in Scott Hall over winter term, also felt the impact of the restricted campus services. Chelke said she was surprised by the lack of dining services available during winter term.

“We didn’t have many dining options, and students didn’t have any food available to them on the weekends,” said Chelke.

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Junior Audrey Hall throws away trash that was left on the Austin Magie Farm to prepare the redesign of an organic farm for Miami.

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were cited for alcohol-related offenses in that 11-day span, 11 of those involving underage drinking.

Throughout all of November 2015, 37 individuals were cited for drinking offenses of some sort. Of those, 27 cases involved underage drinking offenses.

For December, there were six drinking offenses, half of which involved underage drinking citations. Fall semester classes ended on Dec. 12.

Finally, for the first 20 days of January 2016, there were nine drinking offenses, with four underage drinking citations.

It’s not uncommon for OPD officers to find individuals passed out in public due to alcohol consumption, either. Between November 2015 and Jan. 20, 2016, nine individuals were found that way.

Like the drunk Miami student walking through the snow and standing in the roadway — or passed out in the street itself, as one underage individual was found to be — others are also noted for being in the road.

One female was cited for being highly intoxicated and for presenting “a risk of physical harm to herself.”

Sometimes, instead of being passed out in the street or stumbling somewhere, the individual is found urinating in public.

In one case from Nov. 25, the underage male was found urinating outside Brick Street Bar. Two others, also in November, were found to be urinating while drunk.

So far, there’s only been one reported case of intoxicated urinating this year.

Others dared to actually go inside Brick Street Bar and drink while underage, despite the bar checks and foot patrols.

It was midnight on the day classes resumed when OPD officers Matthew Wagers and Julia Huff, on foot patrol, entered through the front of Brick Street.

Once inside, three males stood out. One, holding a clear plastic cup with a brown liquid in it, took a drink.

Afterward, according to reports, one of the other males spotted Huff, and the male who took the drink tried to hide it behind his leg.

Perhaps sensing that wasn’t a good hiding spot, he handed the cup over to one of the males next to him.

Huff approached him and the same story repeats itself after she runs his information: he’s a Miami student drinking underage.

It would turn out to be a busy night for Wagers and Huff. Not even 40 minutes later, they were back inside Brick Street. The story repeats itself, this time with an underage female Miami student.

She, too, tried unsuccessfully to hide her drink — this one specified as a Budweiser beer bottle. On her way down to the main floor, she spotted the officers and froze.

She squatted down and set the beer down on the step behind her.

When the officers took her outside, according to reports, she immediately said, “I’m 20 years old.

I’m sorry.”

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Bold colors, whimsical patterns, figures from miniature to gigantic and themes ranging from humorously unique to downright bizarre.

These are the types of features that make the Miami University Art Museum’s (MUAM) exhibit “Seldom Seen: Fun and Quirky” an experience unlike any other. The MUAM’s spring exhibition premiered on Jan. 26.

The pieces featured in the exhibition all share one similar criterion — their lack of similarities.

The works selected for the exhibition were all chosen because they lacked the contextualization to be displayed in other exhibitions.

MUAM boasts over 17,000 works, but only about two percent of their collection will be displayed at any given time. The concept behind “Seldom Seen” is to showcase pieces of art that have not been seen, but are nonetheless intriguing and valuable to viewers.

The impetus for “Fun and Quirky” began with what is perhaps the exhibition’s marquis piece — a 12-foot figurine of a man laughing, lounging, and enjoying a drink, appropriately named “The Cocktailer,” by James Grashow.

“My original inspiration was ‘The Cocktailer,’ said curator Jason Shaiman. “I wanted students to see

Things we watched, listened to and streamed while we should have been reading our syllabi last week.

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“The Cocktailer” leans against the wall at the new “Seldom Seen” exhibit at the Miami Art Museum. Students can visit the exhibit from now until the end of spring semester. it, but didn’t know how to contextualize the piece for display.”

As Shaiman began to notice other intriguing pieces the museum held, he formulated the idea to present the misfits together. With the help of his intern, Raechel Root, they researched the unique selections in order to write labels and learn about their histories — many of which have deep, sometimes dark, meanings.

“There are so many cool, fun pieces that don’t really fit anywhere else, so it makes sense that they’re

displayed together,” said Shaiman.

Shaiman also expressed his desire to continue the “Seldom Seen” series every few years, changing the sub-theme to incorporate other angles of unseen works.

Although the works demonstrate great variation in style, color, medium and meaning, many similarities were nonetheless discovered.

Drawing on the analogous features, the pieces in the exhibition are classified into seven different categories such as Mythology, California Funk and Representation of the Hu-

man Body.

While some works may fall into four or five of the categories, others may only coincide with one classification. The general idea is for viewers to be able to make connections among the disparate elements and seemingly random works.

“We are already having so much fun seeing our guests explore and engage with the works from our collection in “Seldom Seen.” In addition to walking through the exhiART EXHIBIT »PAGE 5

Breakfast over Ireland: Writer begins adventure abroad TRAVEL

SAVANNAH WALKER THE MIAMI STUDENT

They tell you that it is life changing.

Your peers who have set foot where you have not yet ventured warn you that you will never want to come back, and your family tells you how lucky you are.

You smile, and you promise to call often.

Your friends beg for pictures, and plead that they will need updates so that they may live vicariously through you on the best adventure of your life so far. You laugh, and you promise.

Nowhere in those conversations does anyone talk about the nugget of anxiety — okay, let’s be realistic, the pit of anxiety and stress you feel when thinking about getting on that plane. No one really listens when you try to stutter that maybe, just perhaps, something will go wrong or the homesickness will be too great or that it won’t be an experience that is really “for you.” Your worries are brushed aside, your ticket scanned, and your flight departs.

And then you find yourself flying simultaneously away from the

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Savannah stands on a Google Earth rendering of Frankfurt, Germany. setting sun and towards the rising one, in one moment watching both the world that you left fall dark and the one you have not yet felt under your feet grow larger and brighter.

You find yourself in a metal cylinder, thousands and thousands of miles in the air, hurtling through the pastel fog and shaking your head at the boy in front of you who is much too eager to finally order a beer.

You begin to talk to the girl from Estonia in the seat next to you as you eat your packaged dinner. She tells you a love story that has you craning your neck, looking around for Nicholas Sparks, as he should

definitely be taking notes somewhere close by. You try to imagine hiking the Appalachian Trail, falling in love, having to leave at the expiration of your visa, and then later traveling across an ocean to see that person, that love, for the first time in months. And you fall short, because the world is so big that even the little corner of it you have left behind is too expansive to have been worn away under the soles of your own boots just yet.

And while the engines try desperately to chase the sun, sleep catches each figure in the dusk of the plane quietly, in cramped and warm dis-

comfort. You fall restlessly into sleep, surrounded by so many different kinds of people, their dreams as cloudy to you as the sky above the ocean that you cannot see.

When the fluorescence of the airplane flickers on, it is still no match for the sunlight streaming in, peaking around the drawn shades and through those left open to the morning. And then, as your last day and your new day begin in overlap with each other, the flight staff serves breakfast over Ireland.

And let me just say that while you may know that the world exists outside of where you can see it yourself, it is a much different kind of wake-up call when you eat an omelet over Belfast when the farthest you have ever set your sights from home before is on the Caribbean Sea. It takes the moment when the wheels touch down in Amsterdam before the fog lifts enough for you to even realize you are near the ground, let alone touching it, for you to realize that you aren’t in Kansas anymore — or Mississippi, or Texas, or Ohio, for that matter. The world is much bigger than just a plane ride, but a plane ride certainly makes the world feel much bigger.

In the next few days, you resist heavy eyelids and the strong TRAVEL »PAGE 5

‘Anomalisa’ is unique and insightful FILM

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If Charlie Kaufman has set out to prove anything in his seemingly brief career, it is that humans are ugly beings, only occasionally capable of immensely beautiful moments. “Anomalisa,” Kaufman’s first delve into the stop-motion format, continues this encompassing thesis, combining the artificiality of its puppet players with the deep honesty of its script to create an animated experience that yearns to be understood.

“Anomalisa” is a day in the life of Michael Stone (David Thewlis), a self-help writer lost in the monot-

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ony of his existence. Stone, psychologically disillusioned to the point of seeing and hearing everyone around him as the same white man (Tom Noonan, billed as ‘Everyone Else’), is traveling to Cincinnati to give a speech on customer service.

Here, he discovers Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a strangely unique woman, characterized by her own voice and face, as well as a scar next to her right eye.

For an incredibly bizarre film — one that probably wouldn’t have been made if not for its Kickstarter funding — “Anomalisa” also contains the most believable and genuine tone of a film from the past year. Much as reality can be, conversations here feel like mundane

processes or enlightening poetry, characters are vulnerable and selfobsessive, and subjects like nudity and sex aren’t romanticized, but just happen.

This honesty is paradoxically enhanced by Kaufman and co-director Duke Johnson’s use of stop-motion animation. There are times when Michael will look completely human, creating an interesting parallel between our perception of him as a puppet and his perception of those around him — from a distance, the belief of personality and consciousness can feel true, but upon closer examination, it’s simply artificial.

The models themselves, 3-D printed and made blatantly unreal by an indented trench that runs

along the hairline, are beautifully — and terrifyingly — expressive, more so than most actors, or even people. The puppets may be fake, but the emotions surely aren’t.

Equally impressive is the level of personality — or lack thereof — that the three voice actors put into their characters. David Thewlis keeps Michael leaning between misunderstood and schizophrenic, and Jennifer Jason Leigh’s Lisa is enamoring in her innocence and evasion of affection. Tom Noonan is hilarious through repetition, creating the much-needed humorous backbone for the film, while also setting a terrifying surrealist enviANOMALISA »PAGE 5

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“Making a Murderer” exposes inconsistencies and issues regarding the state judicial system and the police who protect citizens. Through the story of Steven Avery, an arguably wrongly convicted murderer, this documentary series highlights wrongdoing and carelessness in the legal system. Guilty or not, the story of Avery is entertaining and intriguing to watch. (Connor Moriarty, photo editor)

“GREASE: LIVE”

I’ll be honest, the prospect of seeing Aaron Tveit sing “Sandy” was enough to get me to tune in to FOX’s first foray into live musicals.

Though he wasn’t a perfect Danny Zuko, watching the cast run between sound stages on the Warner Brothers lot was enough fun to make up for it. Julianne Hough left a lot to be desired as Sandy, but Vanessa Hudgens’ Rizzo stole the show with a powerful performance in the wake of her father’s death the night before.

I recommend YouTube-ing “Greased Lightning” or “The Hand Jive,” if only for the slick dance moves. (Britton Perelman, managing editor)

LAWRENCE ENGLISH’S “VIENTO”

The twin tracks on this album feature layered field recordings exclusively of wind. English has long performed technically ambitious recordings and these are the most impressive yet. (Kyle Hayden, design editor)

“STATEN ISLAND SUMMER”

“Staten Island Summer” won’t necessarily be winning Oscars, but the movie is a great hidden gem on Netflix that’s worth a view. Written

by Saturday Night Live (SNL) comedian Colin Jost and starring other SNL favorites like Cecily Strong and Bobby Moynihan, the movie is a light-hearted comedy that’s perfect for a Friday night in with friends. (Abbey Gingras, news editor)

“SERIAL: SEASON TWO”

Take two of “Serial” is everything I’ve been waiting for since Sarah Koenig wrapped up the first solid season in December 2014. As she retraces the controversial steps that led Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl into the hands of the Taliban for five years, Koenig tells Bergdahl’s story in a way mainstream media cannot — since he hasn’t allowed them any interviews.

And, as Bergdahl awaits a trial for his charges, Koenig fills the rest of us in on what really happened ... and why. (Emily Tate, managing editor)

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FROM ART EXHIBIT »PAGE 4

bition, guests also can use special topic cards available at the entry to the exhibition to explore various related themes. This is especially fun as it is a scavenger hunt of sorts amongst what seems, at first glance, seemingly unrelated works,” said Krazl.

Not only do the selected works make the exhibition unique, but the level of student involvement is also a key feature. From museum interns, assistance with curating and research and graphic design for the exhibit, students have had a key role in bringing the exhibit to life.

“Seldom Seen” is close to senior Morgan Murray’s heart because it is the last exhibit she has helped to design while working with the FROM TRAVEL »PAGE 4

inclination to nap on just about every surface. You learn to take the bus and the train, to say “Moien!” and “Addi!” to the world around you. You watch the green hills scattered with buildings that show a great desire for both the beauty of modernity and the tradition of the past. You learn that children, whether they babble in French, German, or Luxembourgish, laugh FROM TEACHING »PAGE 2

a Star Wars-themed card saying that she was “out of this galaxy” and a “super-star teacher.”

Kuhn is looking forward to the day her students come to her with questions rather than their real teacher.

“I’m ready to have my own group of kids,” said Chloe Smith.

“I’m ready to have my own classroom and have my own decorations up on the wall and my own way of doing things.”

exam since her freshman year. During her time with MUAM, she has contributed her expertise to their visuals and graphics for exhibits.

“Because the works in ‘Seldom Seen’ are all off-the-beatenpath from usual museum works, I wanted to invoke that feel in the designed visuals while still keeping a lighthearted and fun feel,” said Murray.

Premiering along with “Fun and Quirky” are two other exhibits, “Subjective Objectivity: Documentary Photography as Fragments of Experience” and “Creativity and Innovation: A Student Response,” featuring works from university students.

The exhibits will remain at MUAM until June 25.

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ronment á la “Being John Malkovich.”

Kaufman’s script for “Anomalisa,” adapted from his own radio play, is his safest to date, featuring particularly natural dialogue (at least for Kaufman) and a very slow plot. Many will be turned off by the lack of action, but “Anomalisa” is more concerned with the power of boredom than the relief of conflict.

Early in the film, Michael makes his way from the airport to his hotel room. This sequence is stereotypical in film, often utilized by filmmakers to give the opening credits a nice background, or to provide large chunks of exposition.

Kaufman and Johnson provide the opposite, forcing Michael to continually endure the same polite introductions and uncomfortable silences with temporary acquaintances, gaining nothing but the insistent knowledge that he must visit the Cincinnati Zoo. As I mentioned earlier, this same realism is also prevalent in “Anomalisa’s” pivotal sex scene, one of the past years most discussed se-

the same in every language.

You realize that the fear that you felt of crossing the ocean was doubt about whether or not you could conquer what lay on the other side.

And will you? Will this experience, or parts of it, be life changing?

For you, the answer may be obvious; but for me and my shoes, we have miles yet to go and discoveries still to make on the long and wandering road.

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man” and George R.R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” books.

“They really help me relax,” said sophomore Bridget Pollard.

“I think the ability to make the image whatever you want really helps as well. You have freedom to decide and can actually control the outcome.”

Smith said she wasn’t expecting to feel so close to her students so quickly, and is surprised by how much she thinks about them when she goes home at night.

“I’m blown away by how they’re changing my life,” Smith said. “You go into student teaching like, ‘I want to make a difference, I want to learn from this, I want to help the kids, I want to teach them,’ but you don’t realize that they are teaching you so much and you are getting so much back, just like they are.”

quences. Forget the warm fuzzy lighting, unnecessary musical overludes or selective shots that pollute films with sex as a major theme (“Fifty Shades of Grey,” to name a major offender). Here, like in life, sex is awkward, with Michael and Lisa slowly flowing between polite conversation and intimacy like a pair of confused teenagers making out for the first time. It isn’t pretty, sexy or even necessarily nice to watch, but damn if it isn’t honest and special.

“Anomalisa” is the kind of picture that is far, far more than the sum of its parts, and although its slow plot and unique imagery will undoubtedly put off some viewers, its powerful insight on what it is to be human and singular make it one of the most iconic pictures in recent memories.

“Anomalisa” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Picture, the first R-rated film to do so. It is now showing at the Esquire Theater in Cincinnati.

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said she felt the heat was lower than normal.

“I felt like a survivalist,” said Chelke.

According to physical facilities senior director of operations Jeremy Davis, the heat in residence halls is monitored for those living on campus during winter term.

“During [winter term], in the academic and administrative buildings we have occupied and unoccupied mode,” said Davis. “In unoccupied mode, we set the heat back a little bit. For residence halls, we get a schedule from the H.O.M.E. office and they tell us which rooms have occupants and which don’t, and based on that we set the temperatures back in certain rooms.”

According to Davis, physical facilities also maintains its standard for snow and ice removal during winter term.

“The expectation is still the same.

Our goal is always to keep the sidewalks clean and safe, and even if it’s [winter term], there’s no reduced priority,” said Davis. “We do know which residence halls have students, so if we do have a residence hall that doesn’t have any students in it, we might clear that one after we clear the ones that do.”

Davis also said the physical facilities staff operated at normal capacity.

“It’s the same level of staffing during [winter term], it’s just a different flavor of work force,” said Davis. “Regardless of if it’s custodial, grounds or maintenance, it’s the same people here.”

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The ambiguity of adulthood: Trying to define what it means to be grown up The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

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Think back to when you were younger, maybe 10 years old. Think of the people in your life that you considered adults. These people might have been teachers, older siblings, a 16-year-old camp counselor or even the middle schooler down the street that babysat you.

To our 10-year-old selves, college seemed like lifetimes away. And yet, here we are at the start of second semester, months away from graduation day, when many of us will be catapulted out into the “real world.”

And we are still questioning: “Am I an adult yet?”

On an editorial board composed of mostly seniors, you would think someone might feel confident calling him or herself an adult. However, as we discussed what it means to be an adult, the majority of us admitted we don’t quite feel like we’re there yet.

This leaves us wondering, at what point will we identify ourselves as adults?

Is it based on age? Life experience? Or is adulthood simply a matter of how old you feel?

Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s definition is equally vague, defining an adult as one who is “fully developed and mature: grown up.”

College students especially are at an interesting crossroads — we want all of the privileges of adult life and none of the responsibility.

We want to be independent from our parents in terms of making decisions for ourselves, but we don’t want to be cut off financially.

We feel weird if a younger child refers to us as a “grown up,” but we are equally uncomfortable when someone we consider an adult addresses us as a peer.

Age can be relative — compared to first-years, seniors might feel very old. But once we get jobs and find ourselves the lowest on the totem pole, we might feel inferior to those who have been around longer.

In life, we are always expect-

ing that the next milestone — from graduating high school and going to college, moving out of a dorm into an apartment and finally getting a job and starting a family — will be the one that magically makes us feel “adult.”

Maybe being an adult isn’t

Assigning a perfect, universal definition to the word ‘adult’ is nearly impossible

about completing a checklist of events, rather, it’s the sum of many experiences.

Maybe it’s the surprise when you notice your parents speak to you about more mature topics or ask for your advice.

Maybe being an adult means

Voting for Hillary means voting for a hawk POLITICS

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The people that seem to lust the most after power are the people we should be most hesitant to give it to.

Now, I should say, my ultimate ideology would unpack the idea of there even being such concentrated power in which to lust after.

But, such a premise would entail dismissing every presidential candidate on both sides, “realistic” ones or not, since they’re all lusting for the power to control 318 million lives (and millions more around the world). Again, normally I’d be fine with this dismissal, but let me narrow the premise: People that seem to lust after power the most and then mishandle said power ought to never be trusted with it again.

Now we’re at the part where I can be most clear: you ought to not vote for Hillary Clinton if you accept that more precise premise.

Unfortunately, you may not, dear reader, since my premise is predicated on you prioritizing foreign policy and matters of war. If you look at any polling that lists the most important issues to voters, foreign policy will almost assuredly be last or close to it.

And I can’t begrudge people their lack of interest in what goes on thousands of miles away when they’re more concerned about the immediacy of the economy and health care.

It’s hard to find the wiggle room to understand this while, nevertheless, imploring people to tighten this empathy gap.

For instance, it should matter far more than it does that the United States has been bombing countless Muslim-majority countries for the last 15 years with little-tono accounting of it, under both a Republican and a Democratic administration.

But first, let me back up.

Clinton has been in the public spotlight and within the halls of power since becoming the First Lady of the United States in 1993.

Then she was a New York Senator

for eight years, during which she laid the groundwork for a presidential bid in 2003. In 2006, she officially began a run for the presidency and, of course, lost to Barack Obama. She became his Secretary of State from 2009 until 2013.

Then she announced her bid for the presidency in 2015, in what was supposed to be a “slam dunk” campaign for the Democratic nomination, but Bernie Sanders, the persistent email scandal, Clinton’s general likeability issue and whether people can trust her are interfering with that.

Her desperation to hold the most powerful office in the world is clear.

you to acquire a nuclear weapon,” adding, according to CNN, that she, “will not hesitate to take military action if Iran attempts to obtain a nuclear weapon.”

Yet The New York Times editorial board endorsed her in the Democratic primary, saying she’s one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history. On what basis? As I said, the Iraq vote should be disqualifying, but if you add in Libya, Syria and Iran, as well as the long-standing war in Afghanistan, Clinton ought to hardly be considered “qualified.”

Now we’re at the point where I can be most clear: you ought not to vote for Hillary Clinton ...

But she’s had power before, as the First Lady, as a New York Senator and as Obama’s Secretary of State.

Subsequently, her record of mishandling that power is clear.

For starters, she helped perpetuate the racist myth of the super predator in 1996 and supported the 1994 crime bill, the worst crime bill in American history.

Now she wants to tout herself as a criminal justice reformer since that’s the way the political winds are blowing, but there’s no reason to trust her on that score.

Secondly, and most importantly, she voted for the Iraq war in 2002. In a sane world, that would be enough to disqualify her from the presidency since it was the worst foreign policy blunder since Vietnam.

I “could” see the argument for still voting for Clinton despite that vote, if Clinton had learned from her “mistake.” Instead, she went on to spearhead the bombing of Libya as the Secretary of State in 2011 with predictably disastrous results for that country and the region.

She’s also hawkish on Syria, supporting a no-fly zone, which would directly bring the United States into conflict with Russia, a position Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio also holds.

And she has been combative on Iran. Sure, she supported Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, but her verbiage was hawkish as ever, saying, “The United States will never allow

The Times even acknowledges her no-fly zone position, saying, “we have no doubt that Mrs. Clinton would use American military power effectively and with infinitely more care and wisdom than any of the leading Republican contenders.”

However, as I mentioned, Rubio supports a no-fly zone, too.

Was Clinton showing “infinitely more care and wisdom” when she voted for Iraq? When she gleefully celebrated Gaddafi’s death while Libya disintegrated into a civil war? When she continues to be just as bellicose to Iran as her Republican counterparts?

The trade-off for Democrats seems to be that they can tolerate Clinton’s hawkishness, just as they have Obama’s (although he’s certainly less so, but that’s not much of a compliment), so long as she’s solid on health care, the environment and the economy. And they can certainly tolerate it more than they could a similarly destructive Republican president that’s much less “solid” on those same domestic issues.

And I don’t know what to do with that as a writer about politics. But as a voter? I prefer not to give my vote to a hawk. There is no lesser evil option here; there’s a hawk in either direction.

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paying bills or buying your own groceries.

Maybe it’s realizing that when you talk about “home,” you no longer mean your parents’ house.

Assigning a perfect, universal definition to the word “adult” is nearly impossible, because everyone progresses through life on his or her own trajectory. Each individual has a unique life course, full of different events that shape and influence him or her.

For example, imagine three highschool seniors, all the same age, all graduating.

One attends college where he will learn to live independently, manage his time and ultimately increase his earning potential for later in life. The second student joins the military, where he will undergo intensive training and help defend our country. The third gets pregnant and has a child, opting to continue living with her parents to save money, while also becoming responsible and car-

ing for another human being.

Who among them is most adult?

Are any of them?

Maybe we grow up when we have to — when something like the death of a parent shakes us and forces us to become more responsible.

Maybe it doesn’t have to be a tragedy. Some of us grow up when we realize, “Hey, I should learn to do my own laundry. I should call a plumber to fix my sink,” or when we take accountability for any number of problems in our lives and make an effort to fix them.

There is no clear answer. Maybe becoming an adult isn’t something you notice as it’s happening, but rather it’s a feeling you get when you look back and realize how much has changed.

Maybe adulthood isn’t a final destination.

After all, we continue to develop and grow throughout our lives, so maybe adulthood is more about the process than an end.

Dear neighbors: Pardon my nosiness, but stop the noisiness LIFE

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Why are you doing that? Why are you constantly shifting the décor of your living room? Your furniture has become more rambunctious than a six-month-old puppy, scratching the floor and moving more often than a group of playful squirrels.

Why are you rearranging the couches like there is some feng shui master coming to evaluate your progress every half-hour? I know that’s not why, those guys have so many other things to worry about (i.e. correct pronunciation of their trade).

Is it the perfect angle for watching television that you’re chasing?

Let me tell you personally, it’s not worth your trouble. You’re chasing a ghost. In fact, pick up a book on the matter. It will show you that reading can be accomplished regardless of the chair’s spatial relation to that mind-numbing television box.

Being the caring neighbor that I set out to be, I have gratuitously yet graciously compiled a list of constructive activities that I would rather catch y’all doing.

Take these suggestions seriously, please, as they will also make you sound way more interesting.

Life-sized game of chess: the best case scenario is that, due to the confining nature of chess, you have taken a page out of J.K. Rowling’s book and moved to bigger and better things — literally.

I applaud this creative maneuver and certainly expect to hear of other enlargement ventures in the future.

Repurposing the furniture: this one implies some extreme sense of creativity on your part, but I have confidence in anyone that sounds like they’re practicing high jumps at 2 in the morning.

With this possibility, I assume you guys are ripping apart those lousy chairs the apartment supplies you with and repurposing them. You could be utilizing the fabric for a television cover, nail-

ing the arms of the old chair to your bed frame (Bed arms? That’s brilliant), taking the springs and gluing them to your new moon boots. The list goes on and on.

Working on a time machine: I understand the unlikelihood of obtaining the ingredients for a flux capacitor, but likelihood shmiklihood. Creative thinkers like Jules Verne didn’t care about limitations, and the Wright Brothers would have flown into some brick walls if unlikelihood ever broached their vernacular.

If you are truly building one of those doo-hickeys, then I first understand your hesitance to tell the truth when I knocked on your door. When the stakes are that high and secrecy is more important than showering (the room reeked, just saying), I’m sure all visitors seem like the CIA, FBI, NFL or whatever. Second, I want in.

Please. I am a reliable popcorn popper and can do many other things to entertain — like accidentally spill boiling water on my skin or nip one of my fingers while pointlessly chopping some vegetables. Most of the entertaining comes from injuring myself, but my 2-year-old niece is living proof that self-injury is the easiest way to be funny.

So whaddaya say? Even if the time machine is a hoax and the noise is all stemming from an intense and infinite game of musical chairs or the construction of an apartment bowling alley, I can still offer my violent entertainment services.

I take writing letters seriously, so please get back to me as soon as possible (or before I write this letter, if you know what I mean). I can learn Morse code if necessary, but I’d prefer to keep it simple and A.I.M. you.

With a piqued curiosity, Your neighbor and possible accomplice.

VONCARGH@MIAMIOH.EDU

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RULE OF THUMB IOWA CAUCUSES Last night, Iowans were the first to cast their votes and decide who would be the next Republican and Democratic presidential candidates.

STALLED STARBUCKS A VENTI PROBLEM The empty shell that was Patisserie will remain so as the deadline for the Starbucks that promised to take its place by this January has been extended past spring break.

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Returning home serves as a reminder of where we come from, who we are LIFE

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I used to think that the hardest part about college would be lonely nights in my dorm room, missing family and friends from home. I was wrong.

Granted, everyone’s experience is different, but I found that between schoolwork, Netflix nights with my corridor friends and a juggling act of commitments to clubs and organizations, I was almost too busy and exhausted to miss home during my first semester.

Winter break changed that. It shook me.

I’m from a suburb of Chicago, so I hadn’t gotten to go back home very much first semester. I was ecstatic for Christmas with family and six weeks of sleeping in a fullsize bed. For as much as I loved being at home again with my family, catching up with friends and visiting my high school, it was painful at times to see the people and places I love as they carry on without me.

It was a cruel little tease, like only getting one lick of a Graeter’s ice cream cone — getting a taste of home again, only to be violently shot back into the reality of second semester.

Maybe you can identify with this, maybe not. I have friends that could not possibly wait another day to get back to campus and reunite with their new “fam-

ily”, and other friends that never stopped missing home. I wonder if I’ll be feeling this way a year or two from now, and if I’ll come across this article and hate myself for writing such silly, immature things.

But if I do pick this up again someday, I’d want to remind myself of a few things, too.

I’ll want to remember that home will always be home. That when I find second families and new houses, that home will always be there to come back to. That even when friendships come and

and failure has shown me how to be strong and do things better next time.

I think it’s funny that people say when you go to college you’re entering “the real world.” That’s a lie. Miami is a bubble — a bubble of young adults and professors, bars and coffee, swiping a card to pay for everything, all surrounded

by Ohio’s finest cornfields.

When was the last time you saw a child or someone over the age of 70? I can’t remember. In a bubble like Miami, it’s easy to forget where we come from and

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MIAMI CREATES DIVERSITY SUPPORT Students, faculty and administrators met over winter term to discuss ways Miami could create a more inclusive environment for minorities.

The person I am is shaped by everyone who has come in and out of my life and every experience I’ve lived through, good or bad.

go and people change and move, family will always welcome you back. That you never completely appreciate home and family until it’s gone.

I’ll want to remind myself that the person I am is shaped by everyone who has come in and out of my life and every experience I’ve lived through, good or bad.

I am stitched together with the fabric of family and the tightly sewn string of friendship. Every teacher, coach and mentor has helped me along the way and inspired my growth. Every hardship

how we got here. It’s so easy to get swept up in the newness and independence of college life.

As an occasionally confused first-year, I’ll be the first to admit that first years can be a pain.

But with the homesickness that comes with the first year of college, the desire to reconnect with old friends, the desperate need to find a community in which to belongs, I think it’s good to remember where we come from and who we’ve become.

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When die-hard fans support a deadly sport: Analyzing ‘Concussion’ SPORTS

ABBEY GINGRAS NEWS EDITOR

Sitting in the theater for “Concussion,” I was transfixed. Not by Will Smith’s acting or the dramatic visuals, but by the overwhelming feeling of guilt.

For those unfamiliar, “Concussion” follows a doctor by the name of Bennet Omalu who discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in football players. CTE is a degenerative disease of the brain that is caused by repeated brain trauma — typically, multiple concussions.

Cue football players crashing into one another on the turf, again and again. So many times that they spiral into madness. So many times that Hall of Famer and former Steelers player Mike Webster died at the young age of 50, homeless and alone. So many times that Steelers

titan Justin Strzelczyk complained cially hard. Worshipping football ute money to the problem, we fuel of hearing voices before driving 90 Sunday, complaining when personal the concussions and deaths and miles an hour the wrong way on the fouls are called on illegal hits. cases of CTE. highway, crashing into an oncoming Why has this not become a na Just last week, the NFL released truck and dying at just 36 years old. tional debate? Growing up in Pitts- a new report stating that concussion When Webdiagnoses in 2015 ster died in 2002, had increased the study of CTE by 32 percent. began with Ben- But with every game we watch, we condone Clearly, the new net Omalu and a safety precautions microscope. In the sport. We contribute money to the problem, and regulations September 2015, we fuel the concussions and deaths and cases are not solving the researchers at problem. Imposthe Department of CTE. ing a fine for an of Veteran Afillegal hit doesn’t fairs and Bosstop illegal hits. ton University It just makes a confirmed they found CTE in 96 burgh, loving football was ingrained small dent in the huge salary of a percent of the brains they’ve exam- in me at an early age. I still watch the defensive NFL player. People like ined — all National Football League Steelers when I get the chance, in- Ryan Shazier and Vontaze Burf(NFL) players or former players. cluding the especially hard-to-watch ict won’t stop aggressive hits for Yet, here we are on every game playoff matchup with the Bengals slaps on the wrist. day — dressed in our spirit wear, this year in which hard hits and fouls No matter what rules are laid out drinking warm beer and screaming were a dime a dozen. by the NFL and Roger Goodell, bad from the stands. Cheering when our But with every game we watch, hits will continue to happen. Those team hits an opposing player espe- we condone the sport. We contrib- hits will keep turning into concus-

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sions, and concussions will keep turning into CTE. We need to look at what we’re passively accepting in the name of entertainment. For every NFL game watched, every beer drank, every jersey bought, we sacrifice the players we claim to love and the teams we live and die by.

But we aren’t the ones dying — the players are.

I don’t know if there is a safe way to play football — if there is, I’d fully support it. But until we can find a way to save these players, we cannot sit by and funnel money into an industry that is killing the men whose names we wear on our backs.

When you watch the Super Bowl ads next week, think about what the money is funding and whether a game is worth someone’s life.

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Growing up in Oxford, Shriver attended Miami, studied communications and theater and attended Miami hockey games when they were played in Hamilton as a club sport. He saw the team become popular after it moved to the old Goggin arena on High Street and now believes that hockey is Miami’s chance at a National Championship.

By chance, Shriver became the public address announcer after first being asked, as a spectator, to announce the volleyball team’s starting line-up. When there was an opening he auditioned to become the announcer at the hockey games and has loved announcing for The Brotherhood and various other Miami sports ever since.

When a goal is scored halfway through the game, the entire press booth shares the fans’ excitement and Shriver happily scrambles to find the exact information about the play. Holding a small button that turns his microphone on, his voice growls with enthusiasm as he announces the goal.

“It’s not really me on the microphone, it’s a role I’m playing,” Shriver says. “There’s an extra layer of performance.”

And perform he does.

Shriver’s body lurches into his announcing of the opening line-up, penalized player or goal scorer, often accompanied by the appropriate fan hand movements.

And, with a minute and a half remaining in the period Shriver prepares for perhaps what he is most famous for, his routine announcing of one minute remaining in the period.

“He waves to us and we wave to him and he’s part of the culture,” said first-year Sammie Miller. “The one-minute left is my favorite part about him.”

Shriver takes no credit for the tradition saying the band started the ritual at old Goggin but notes that the game is more fun when the students and seasons ticket holders know the cheers, routines, and rituals. And Shriver is all about fun — laughing about the flack he receives from a coworker after announcing the wrong player and smiling into the microphone after being prompted to end a conversation to resume his job.

Robert Humphrey, a technician who’s regularly in the booth, speaks kindly about Shriver, his personality and interactions with fans. Shriver notes that a long time ago it was more nervewracking but acknowledges that he’s grown comfortable in his position, something that all fans can tell.

“I think he has good timing revving up the crowd, let’s put it that way,” Miami alumna, Mark Northrope (’87) says of Shriver with a smile on his face.

Most of the time, Shriver becomes part of that crowd — dancing to “YMCA,” chuckling at the various graphics that appear on the big screen, muttering in defeat and pounding the air in excitement.

And, as the clock ticks to one minute left in the third period, Shriver misses the announcement by mere seconds because being a fan and loving the game comes before being the RedHawks’ public address announcer.

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atop of the conference with a 16-5 overall record (5-3 MAC).

Wade blocked five shots, which ties for fifth on Miami’s singlegame list.

Senior guard Eric Washington missed his second straight game with a lower leg injury. When his replacement, sophomore guard Zach McCormick, left the game late in the first half with an injury after taking a charge, Barnes ran the point for most of the second half. Barnes nailed three 3-pointers in the first three minutes of the second half.

As a team, the RedHawks hit a season-best 10 3-pointers.

“There were multiple points in the game where our energy could have wilted, but it didn’t,” Cooper said. “We were able to do something on the other end offensively, we were able to stick together.”

NIU freshman Marshawn Wilson tied a career-high with 24 points and junior Aaric Armstead

added 19, but the Huskies shot 34 percent as a team.

Miami shot 46 percent from the field and held a 34-31 edge in rebounding.

Miami travels to Eastern Michigan University (10-11 overall, 2-6 MAC) Tuesday night.

EMU has lost five straight and is 7-3 at home this season.

Four EMU players average double figures in scoring. Freshman center James Thompson IV averages 15.6 points per game and ranks second nationally in field goal percentage (.697) and 10th nationally in rebounds per game (11).

As a team, Eastern Michigan ranks second nationally in steals per game (10.3), and sixth in forced turnovers (17.3).

A win Tuesday would give Miami its first road win of the season and back-to-back wins for the first time since Dec. 13 and 15. The ’Hawks haven’t won at EMU since Jan. 19, 2013.

Tipoff is 7 p.m. Tuesday in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

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cold in the first half of the fourth quarter as CMU extended its lead.

Trailing 77-47, Miami scored the final seven points on a layup and three-pointer from freshman forward Kristen Levering and two free throws from Ford, but Central Michigan came away with the 7754 win.

The Chippewas hit 18-of-28 from the field in the second half, including 7 for 11 from behind the arc to pull away.

In addition to 18 points from Purvis, Richter and Smith each scored eight points. Junior guard Jasmine Harris led CMU with 17 points.

Miami returns to action on Wednesday when it hosts Kent State University for a 7 p.m. tipoff.

have Bernie Sanders be elected president, it absolutely counts on the young be getting out to vote,” Couch said.

Another name on the sign-up sheet was John Davis, a junior interactive media studies major.

Davis says the biggest obstacle for Sanders’ campaign is not his socialist ideology, but Clinton.

“Hillary Clinton is so formidable a force just because of name recognition,” Davis said. “The more people learn about Bernie Sanders, the more they like him.”

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Miami Students for Hillary Wearing a Hillary for America T-shirt and campaign button, junior Kirby Chandler explained why she is invested in this election.

Chandler, originally from Texas, said she knows all too well what it’s like to be a Democrat in a Republican’s world.

“I see a really similar environment at Miami University, and I would really love try to capture that in the upcoming election,” she said.

Chandler is co-founder of Miami Students for Hillary and spent the winter term volunteering at Hillary Clinton’s official campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.

She has returned for the semester energized about the Clinton campaign. Chandler said Sanders, who was initially perceived as a Democratic underdog, has great ideas and has steered the party in a positive direction, but ultimately doesn’t have what it takes to execute his plans.

“I think Hillary Clinton is the candidate who can actually take those policies and get them done,” Chandler said. “She already has lists of comprehensive policies and plans to get them through Congress — as we all know [Congress] is incredibly gridlocked right now.”

While Chandler and her Miami Students for Hillary co-founder, senior Christian Carter, are campaigning for Clinton’s presidential bid, they are also focusing on voter education and registration.

“We try to bring all of the facts to the table so people can look at it and say, ‘This is who I agree with based on how I identify,’” Carter said.

And even if those people decide

to cast their vote for another candidate or another party, Chandler still encourages their participation in the election.

“If somebody came up to me and was like, ‘Hey, I want to vote for Donald Trump,’ I wouldn’t agree with them, but I would absolutely point them in the right direction for voter registration,” Chandler said.

“Because for me, it is just about getting Miami University active and actually have them care about the upcoming election.”

RedHawks Go Red Senior Annie Rudy favors Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, but in the crowded Republican presidential race, she said most of her friends don’t yet know who they are supporting.

After Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee ended his presidential bid last night, the race should feel slightly less crowded. The candidate pool has now dropped to 11.

“Most people are a little more passive, just because there are so many [Republican] candidates,” Rudy said. “If we get more toward the general election, I think there will be much more active campaigning.”

Rudy, however, thinks Rubio is the best Republican candidate to go up against Sanders or Clinton. He’s not a celebrity billionaire, nor does he come from a family of career politicians, she said.

“He just seems the most down to earth to me and the most electable,” she said. “A lot of candidates have similar conservative values, but if you pit them against the democrats, I don’t see them being favored.”

Rudy said some of her friends agree with the ideas of Senator Ted Cruz, who won Iowa’s Republican caucuses last night. Rudy said Cruz is popular for his “very typical conservative stance.”

As for college students’ lack of participation in elections, Rudy said she thinks it’s a generational problem, but hopefully one that will fix itself as the election progresses this year.

“I think Miami as a whole and college students as a whole aren’t too concerned with smaller elections or primaries,” Rudy said. “As we get closer to the election, I think there will be a lot more students getting involved.”

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RedHawks’ win streak halted at four games MEN’S HOCKEY

HARRISON SCHWARZ STAFF WRITER

The Miami University hockey team (10-12-3) split the weekend against No. 13 University of Denver (13-8-5). MU controlled the first game in a 3-1 win, and DU muscled past the RedHawks in a 5-3 win Saturday.

The ’Hawks entered Saturday night on a four-game winning streak, including a sweep of No. 7 University of Nebraska- Omaha.

Head coach Enrico Blasi was impressed with his team’s chemistry after Friday’s win.

“We’ve been playing well for a while now,” Blasi said. “Our guys are feeling really good about what they’re doing right now. They’re playing for each other and they are trusting each other. When you do that, you go out and play hard because you are playing for the guy next to you and across from you.”

In the first game on Friday, play started slow, as each team’s offense was frustrated for the beginning of the first period.

Denver was the first team on the board when it took advantage

of an MU turnover. Sophomore forward Danton Heinen deked in front of the net and slipped a shot by senior goalie Jay Williams with 7:06 left in the first period.

One and a half minutes later, junior forward Anthony Louis responded with a wraparound goal on a move that started from behind the net. Sophomore defenseman Josh Dornbrock received an assist on the play.

The game didn’t see another goal until 2:24 left in the second period. Freshman forward Jack Roslovic gave MU a 2-1 lead when he scored on a rebound.

After Williams turned away eight shots on goal, Denver pulled its goalie with little time left in the third. Senior forward Kevin Morris found the puck on a breakaway and scored on the empty net to to seal the victory.

Though Williams had a great individual effort Friday, he chalked up the success to his defense.

“It was a tremendous team effort,” Williams said. “The guys did an awesome job once we got the lead, clamping down defensively, making simple plays and blocking shots.”

The script was reversed in

the Saturday game, as DU controlled play from the opening faceoff. Denver led 9-2 in shots with five minutes remaining in the first period.

Miami overcame its lack of momentum with 1:45 left in the first period when Roslovic faked a shot and slid a pass to freshman forward Kiefer Sherwood, who buried the puck in the net. DU’s shot advantage fell to 10-8 at the end of the first period.

The Pioneers’ three consecutive goals gave them a 3-1 lead 13:53 into the second period. Miami tied it up with a goal from senior forward Alex Gacek late in the second period and a goal from senior center Sean Kuraly 1:26 into the third.

Trailing 5-3 with 3:01 left on the clock, Miami pulled Williams from the net for an extra skater.

The RedHawks didn’t sustain much pressure on offense, and Denver missed a few shots on Miami’s net.

Williams finished the weekend with 46 saves.

The Red and White continue their home stand next weekend in a two-game series against University of Minnesota-Duluth.

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Senior forward Kevin Morris celebrates after scoring an empty net goal to seal a 3-1 victory Friday.

Headlines beyond Oxford: Detroit Lions star receiver Calvin “Megatron” Johnson is planning to retire after nine seasons in the NFL, according to ESPN’s Adam Shefter. A No. 2 overall pick in the 2007 draft, Johnson set the NFL single-season record for receiving yards (1,964) in 2012.

MU finally breaks 10-game losing skid

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GRACE REMINGTON SPORTS EDITOR

Four RedHawks scored in the double digits to help the Miami University men’s basketball team to a 72-59 win against the Mid-American Conference West division leader Northern Illinois University on Saturday afternoon at home.

The win snapped Miami’s 10game losing streak, which had been its worst skid since 1932-1933.

Senior guard Geovonie McKnight led the ’Hawks with 18 points.

Sophomore forward Rod Mills and sophomore guard Ali Barnes scored 11 points each, while sophomore guard Dion Wade added 10 points.

“The simple difference today is that we were able to answer the run,” head coach John Cooper said.

“We’ve had so many instances during this season where a team makes a run, we get a good shot, we miss it ... there comes a point in any game where as much as you want to defend and have your defense carry you, you still have to be able to make a shot.”

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The number of points separating the No. 4 team from the No. 8 team in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. Miami, Minnesota Duluth and Denver are tied in the fourth spot with 19 points.

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Miami won its first conference game of the season Saturday afternoon against Mid-American Conference West division leader Northern Illinois.

In a game in which the Philadelphia 76ers defeat the Detroit Pistons 131-121, Sixers center Wilt Chamberlain notches one of the greatest statistical outputs in history. The “Big Dipper” achieves the first and only “double-triple-double” in NBA history with 22 points, 25 rebounds and 21 assists.

Miami falls to CMU despite Purvis’ 18 points WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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After a 77-54 loss at Central Michigan University on Friday evening, the Miami University women’s basketball team fell to 8-11 overall and 2-6 in the Mid-American Conference. CMU improved to 13-7 overall and 7-2 in the MAC. Freshman point guard Leah Purvis led the team, scoring Miami’s first 11 points and finishing the first quarter with 14. She finished with a total of 18 points and was 7 for 14 from the field.

Miami reached a season-high of 10 three-point field goals. In addition to Purvis’ four, sophomore guards Jazz Smith and Ana Richter each hit two. The ’Hawks were hot in the first half, hitting 8-of-10.

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Head coach Cleve Wright draws up a plan during timeout. The RedHawks have lost six of their last eight games.

The RedHawks kept up with the Chippewas, trailing by just two at the end of the first quarter. To start the second quarter, Richter and sophomore guard Kayla Brown hit

back-to-back threes, putting Miami in front 23-17. The Chippewas fired back with a three-pointer with 4:51 left until halftime. Miami did not score again, while the Chippewas

went on a 10-0 run to take a 30-26 lead into halftime.

The RedHawks shot 30 percent during the first half, but hit 47.1 percent from three-point range. Miami held CMU to 37.5 percent shooting for the frame.

Coming out of the break, the Chippewas scored the first eight points of the third quarter, forcing the ’Hawks to take an early timeout.

Richter hit a layup out of the break, but Central Michigan answered with a 12-0 run to pull away, bringing the score to 46-28 with 4:09 to go. Despite a three-pointer from Richter and layups by sophomore guard Kendall McCoy and senior forward Tamira Ford, the Chippewas took a 57-37 advantage into the final period.

The RedHawks’ shots remained

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