March 31, 2015 | The Miami Student

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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015 VOLUME 142 NO. 44

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PHILL ARNDT THE MIAMI STUDENT

BUSTED BEER BROS Miami students pose off-campus as their Green Beer Day celebration gets broken up by the Oxford Police Department on Thursday, March 19.

ELI AUBHIL THE MIAMI STUDENT

LAUREN OLSON PHOTO EDITOR

FLY BALL The Miami Club baseball team traveled to Tampa, Florida to compete against other club baseball teams from across the country, including No. 25 University of Illinois. The team went 2-3 for the week.

BEACH BLISS Thirty-two Miami seniors pose on the beach in Punta Cana in front of a Miami “M” they made on the beach during their week spent in the Dominican Republic.

No. 1 seed Miami upset in NCAA tournament opener HOCKEY

GRACE REMINGTON SPORTS EDITOR

Three extra-skater goals within seven minutes gave No. 4 Miami University hockey a glimmer of hope as they erased a four-goal deficit and vied to keep their season alive in the NCAA East Regional semifinal against No. 15 Providence College Saturday night. In the final seconds of the game, Miami came close to adding the equalizing goal, but junior forward Branden Tanev converted a loose puck into an empty-netter and sealed a 7-5 Providence victory. The Friars advanced to the regional final Sunday, where they defeated No. 6 University of Denver 4-1 to earn a Frozen Four berth. Junior left-wing Cody Murphy and sophomore left-wing Anthony Louis helped the RedHawks to a 2-2 tie at the end of the first period, but Providence exploded for four goals in the second to take

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the 6-2 lead. “After the second, we all went in the locker room and said ‘hey we need to figure this out, this could be the last period for some of us,’” senior center Austin Czarnik said. “‘If you want to do something special, we need to start doing the right thing and start working for every single situation.’ So I think we had the right mindset. We believed. A lot of people wouldn’t have believed … we knew that we had the right team in there to give us the best chance to come back and win it.” Trailing 6-2 in the third period, head coach Enrico Blasi pulled junior goaltender Ryan McKay from the net for an extra attacker with 13 minutes left. The move allowed the ’Hawks to diminish the Friars’ lead to 6-5 with less than two minutes remaining. “We decided as a coaching staff that at some point we’d start pulling the goalie,” Blasi said. “I told MEN’S HOCKEY »PAGE 9

Miami minorities struggle with racism on campus RACE

BONNIE MEIBERS THE MIAMI STUDENT

In the wake of the highly publicized video showing University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) chapter chanting racial slurs, three Greek organizations met to discuss race relations at Miami. Though the Oklahoma is almost a thousand miles away, the racism there hit close to home for many of Miami’ minority students. Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Sigma Phi and Alpha Phi Alpha held the “Conversation on Race,” Monday Mar. 16. “We do this because our mission is to try and make the community better,” Ryan Thomas, president of Delta Sigma Phi, said. While the Conversation on Race is certainly a start, many say Miami still has a long way to go. Students in the Office of Diversity Affairs laugh at the idea of racism being erased on campus.

“Go back to where you came from n**ger!” or “Can you speak Ebonics?” are just some of the racist remarks these students say they experience on a regular basis. “It has become so normal to me that sometimes I forget these things happen,” Miami University senior, Stephanie Harris, said. Both panelists and audience members expressed sentiments such as these at the Conversations on Race. Panelists were graduate students Kristen Vega and David Mooring, Gerald Yearwood from the Office of Diversity Affairs, visiting professor Rondee Gains, Diversity Affairs Council (DAC) member Magda Orlander and Whitney Felder, Miami University junior and president of the Black Student Action Association. The panelists examined the questions, “Is the SAE video a threat to minority students?” “What is race and how did it come about?” and RACE »PAGE 9

Reduction in tenure profs concerns faculty MONEY

EMILY WILLIAMS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The national shift away from tenured faculty positions and its potential to change the quality of higher education has caught the attention of faculty members at Miami University. The newly established Miami chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) hopes to address this concern and defend the educational mission of the university with a stronger faculty voice. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, nationally, fulltime tenured and tenure-track faculty now make up just 30 percent of all faculty in higher education. The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges reports that in 1969, tenured and tenure-track represented 78 ADJUNCT »PAGE 5

In 2006,The Miami Student published a special report on the ongoing frustration students were facing when it came time to register for classes. “I definitely would have been able to get out of here in four years if not for the Miami Plan,” said then senior Luke Buhrmester. COMMUNITY

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Auditions will be held April 1st 5–8PM at Harris and April 2nd 5–8PM at Martin

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