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Firm, contract impede transparent presidential search PRESIDENT

EMILY TATE

MANAGING EDITOR

The committee tasked with identifying Miami University’s next president has reviewed resumes and held interviews with candidates, but beyond that, little is clear about the status of the presidential search.

This uncertainty, critics

say, is because Miami’s use of an executive search firm deliberately masks the process from the public. And, while this serves the interest of the Board of Trustees —who, in September, announced the search would be secret — some believe the approach is harmful for Miami’s students and employees.

When Miami officials signed a contract with search

firm Isaacson, Miller last summer, James Finkelstein said they put the university in a vulnerable position.

“I’ve negotiated hundreds of contracts for all sorts of agencies — governments institutions, non-profits, public and private universities.

This is not the kind of contract I would ever consider signing,” Finkelstein said. “I can’t imagine anyone ever

really allowing it. I think it’s a problem.”

After reviewing the contract, Finkelstein, who is a Miami alumnus (’74) and a professor of public policy at George Mason University, sent a 1,400-word letter to the chair of the Board of Trustees, David Budig, expressing his concern.

“Candidly, I’ve not seen many agreements that

provide as few protections to the university as does Miami’s contract with Isaacson, Miller,” Finkelstein wrote in the letter. “In fact, I would argue that in signing this contract, the university has failed to protect the most basic aspects of the public interest as well as those of the faculty, staff, students and alumni.”

In his letter, Finkelstein describes, in detail, four red

flags he noticed in the contract, though he says there are far more.

His first concern was that Isaacson, Miller bases its fee on a percentage — in this case, one-third — of the president’s first-year compensation package. This, he argues, provides incentive for Isaacson, Miller to seek SEARCH »PAGE 8

Sorority hopefuls search for acceptance during ‘rush’

AMANDA WANG THE MIAMI STUDENT

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BRITTON PERELMAN MANAGING EDITOR

The names in this story have been changed to protect the identities of the four individuals.

Emma, Kelly, Claire and Brooke clutched their white

2016 recruitment shirts. It’s Thursday night, right after the kick-off ceremony.

The girls, friends from the same dorm hallway, felt overwhelmed, more stressed than they had before the kick-off ceremony. But it was an excited nervousness. They’d been told to dress nicely and

remember deodorant.

They had no idea what to expect of the next two weekends of sorority rush.

Welcome Round Emma bought a huge bottle of honey, extra tea and cough drops at Kroger earlier in the day, but her voice was already

Happy New Year!

新年快 乐 Students, community ring in the Year of the Monkey

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cracking.

All of the girls were hoarse, the result of screaming conversations with people standing less than two feet from them.

“You don’t realize how much of an exercise talking is,” said Claire.

Emma, Kelly, Claire and

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ANGELA HATCHER

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

On Feb. 6, 2015, students crowded into Hall Auditorium. A long table dominated the left wall of the foyer, clad in a silky, golden tablecloth. Student members of Miami University’s Chinese American Cultural Association worked behind the table, handing out raffle tickets for prizes that included a one-way plane ticket from China to the United States

Brooke looked exactly the same as everyone else on Friday and Saturday. They wore white recruitment Tshirts, jeans, boots and lanyards holding their nametags.

Personal touches came in the form of necklaces, manicured nails or gold bangles. A watch on Emma’s wrist served as a and a check for $1,000.

Students eagerly crowded around the table, greeting their friends and chattering excitedly.

Along the right side of the foyer was a lavish red carpet. Students posed for pictures in their stylish outfits while a photographer snapped away on his camera. There were banners hanging around the photo area covered in traditional Chinese calligraphy.

Everyone in the hall was teeming with energy and excitement.

way to keep track of time during the rounds, when the girls were required to leave their phones outside the rooms.

At the start of the night, Brooke couldn’t help but compare herself to everyone else, looking at how other girls RECRUITMENT »PAGE 2

Spring Festival had officially begun at Miami University.

Spring Festival, more commonly known to westerners as Chinese New Year, celebrates the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. This year marks the Year of the Monkey.

This year, Chinese New Year falls on Feb. 8. The celebration begins Feb. 7 and lasts roughly 15 days.

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The Miami University Confucius Institute Lion Dance Club sets fire to the stage during their performance at the Chinese New Year Concert on Saturday.

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Four girls share their journey through sorority recruitment FROM RECRUITMENT »PAGE 1

had done their makeup, what other girls had worn given their limited wardrobe choice.

During Welcome Round, the PNMs (Potential New Members) were shuffled from sorority to sorority, required to visit each in order to stay in recruitment. Each meeting lasted less than a half hour.

“You could definitely tell, even being in there for only 20 minutes, which ones were way more you than the other ones,” said Emma.

She’d had conversations about “Law and Order: SVU,” “Scandal” and eating pancakes. But most were generic — name, major, hometown, etc.

“I feel like this is kind of similar to the beginning of the year,” said Kelly.

“Because a lot of us didn’t know each other. This is the same conversations we were having.”

“It’s like speed dating for a friend,” added Brooke.

“You’re selling yourself, in a good way,” Claire said.

Claire worried that she was being judged on a handful of minutes of conversation, not who she was.

Brooke admitted that she liked certain sororities more if she liked their shirts. Kelly had a hard time swallowing not knowing if she was actually liked, or not. Emma felt the pressure to make a good first impression, but worried that none of the sororities would remember who she was.

“It was a weird experience,” said Kelly, who questioned whether or not she’d ever get used to the chanting.

At the end of Saturday, the girls were required to choose their top 11 sororities and rank four more according to which they liked the least.

Philanthropy Round Brooke saw her schedule for Sunday and was immediately annoyed.

The six sororities on her list didn’t include Phi Mu. “They didn’t ask me back and they weren’t even really a hard sorority to get a bid from,” she said.

She wanted to find the girls from Phi Mu and question them, find out what had happened and why she hadn’t been asked back

for the second round.

Brooke’s new hope was Zeta Tau Alpha, the first sorority she’d encountered at Mega Fair in September.

“I’ll have to see how it is at the end of the day, but if [Zeta] doesn’t ask me back I might not continue,” Brooke said.

She headed off for her first meeting, still annoyed.

Kelly, Emma and Claire stood on the edge of the crowded Shade Family Room, small slips of paper in their hands. They had been advised to take a picture of their schedule in case they lost it throughout the day — if they missed or were late to a single meeting, they’d be dropped from recruitment.

Each had perfectly curled hair, and wore cute, but casual clothes.

“I kind of just want the day to be over,” Kelly said. She’d been asked back by six sororities and was a little disappointed after not being asked back by Chi Omega.

Claire felt less nervous knowing that the eight sororities on her list actually wanted her. Emma felt good with her solid schedule of 10 sororities.

Emma hugged Kelly before they headed in opposite directions.

“Bye, I love you, good luck,” Emma said to Kelly as she walks away.

Later that night, the girls felt anxious about waiting through four days of classes to get their next lists. They felt better, but were more aware of the behind-the-scenes process than they had been during the previous round.

“It was a little different,” said Kelly. “Because now I know they may not like me even though I thought they did.”

Kelly was starting to think the whole process was messed up and unfair. She wanted to know how the sororities chose who to drop and who to ask back.

At the end of one conversation, a sorority girl had asked for Kelly’s first and last name. She hoped it was a good sign, but was skeptical.

“You want something, at least a little something to know that, ‘Hey, we like you just as much as you like us,’” Kelly said.

Brooke was also having a hard time not getting too excited.

She’d experienced something similar to Kelly — a sorority girl had hinted, said, “Hope-

fully I’ll see you soon,” and Brooke grabbed onto it.

Both were finding it difficult to not get their hopes up.

In the previous round, Claire had been asked her name by one sorority member and then was cut from it that night.

“I’m trying not to take it personally,” Claire said. “A three-minute conversation with me isn’t necessarily a good judgment of me.”

She found it hard to stand in line AMANDA WANG THE MIAMI STUDENT at the end of Saturday night, next to girls who’d had 11 sororities on their The scene at Millet on Sunday as girls met their new sorority sisters. list that day or who’d been asked back by ones she’d been cut from. converged on Armstrong to receive symbol,” a friend exclaimed. “I Hearing that girls had been cut from a small scrap of paper and find out know the symbol.” all but two or three made her nervous. which sororities asked them back for Emma finally slid her invita“Some people only end up with the final round. tion card out and let out an excited two after their first round and I think “The last time I was this nervous scream. She hugged a friend before that’s absolutely ridiculous,” echoed was when I was waiting to hear back taking off around the concourse to Kelly. “I would quit, too.” about college,” said Emma. find her new sisters.

Claire was glad she had a few days Later that night, amid hundreds She found the Phi Mu table among off to relax and recharge before the of other girls waiting in line to rank, the hundreds of running girls and next round.

Emma kept changing her mind. She grabbed another friend in a hug, knew which was her number three, squealing with excitement.

Sisterhood Round but had no idea which sorority to put “Where’s Claire?” she asked, look“I’m really hoping that I’m not at the top of her list. ing around for her friend. getting my hopes up for nothing,” She stayed on the phone with her The Phi Mu pledges were given Brooke said. mom until she walked through the shirts and herded down the stairs.

Brooke was asked back by three doors to rank. When she sat down, They waited behind a closed curtain sororities out of a possible seven — the girl in front of her asked if she until Gilardi’s voice came on the her favorite and bottom two. Her was okay and Emma started crying. speaker again. eyes were set on Zeta Tau Alpha.

“Up until I actually wrote it down, “Introducing Phi Mu’s “I really feel confident that I be- I had no idea what I was going to do,” new members!” long there,” Brooke said.

Emma said. She put Phi Mu at the The curtain was pulled back and Emma was excited. She’d been top of her list.

Emma took off with the other pledges asked back by seven sororities. She Claire did the same after using into an arena flooded with girls. They liked the meetings in this round bet- Google to flip a coin several times. ran, screaming, onto the basketball ter — she wasn’t just going with girls “I don’t want to be cocky, be- court to meet their new sisters. she shared a last name with, but with cause this totally backfired the first girls that might be pledging with her time I did this,” Claire said. “But After Party in a few short days. the girl looked at me as I was walkOf the 1,262 girls that registered But hearing that Chi Omega was ing out of Phi Mu and she was like, for 2016 formal sorority recruitment, on social probation because several ‘I really hope to see you tomorrow 1,043 received bids on Sunday. members had gone out the previ- as a Phi Mu.’” Brooke’s envelope contained an ous weekend made her nervous.

“In the end, you’re going to end invitation to join Zeta Tau Alpha, her She wasn’t rushing for social rea- up where you’re supposed to be,” top choice. Kelly was left with only sons and worried about the secret, said Emma. one sorority after Preference Round, partying side of the sororities she But the girls also acknowledged Delta Delta Delta. And Claire rewas meeting with. that there was a fair amount of luck ceived a bid from Delta Delta Delta, She couldn’t understand why the involved — about which member her third choice. girls hadn’t been able to wait 14 days you talk to, what time of the day After the post-bid parties ended to drink. you’re scheduled to visit a sorority. and emotions had settled, Emma, By the end of Sisterhood Round, They know they had only been hear- Brooke, Claire and Kelly felt relieved all four girls had decided they were ing from people who had good ex- that recruitment was finally over. continuing through Bid Day. periences, for whom the recruitment “I don’t have to worry about improcess had gone well. pressing people anymore,” Emma Preference Round “I’m excited,” said Brooke. “But said. “I can show up in my pajamas Girls from every corner of campus I’m nervous about being excited.” and they can’t cut me.” descended on Armstrong a little after “It’s nice knowing that, no matter She hadn’t stopped noon on Saturday. They wore big, what, I’m going to have a bid,” said smiling all night. black coats over dresses, with per- Claire, who ranked three sororities, Brooke was still wearfectly straightened or curled hair and guaranteeing her a bid. “That defi- ing her white and gold Zeta meticulously applied makeup. nitely helps with the nerves. shirt. She hadn’t felt like Most donned Ugg They’d been told again and again she automatically belonged, boots, moccasins to “trust the process,” but none of but was confident she’d get or slippers, their them really did. that feeling eventually. heels held Kelly still felt there were in hand or Bid Day a lot of unfair things about shoved Emma sat among 30 or so oth- the recruitment process. into their er PNMs, anxiously waiting to “I think that judging someone a l r e a d y open her envelope. off of, maybe, 20-minute converstuffed Her fingers flew as she sent a few sations at the most is a little bit purses. hurried texts to friends, all of whom ridiculous,” said Kelly. “To me, T h e y were also sitting somewhere along it’s not really a mutual decision in the concourse of Millett. She record- any way. They choose you, that’s ed a Snapchat video with the girl next just how it is. You can say you to her and held the clean, white en- choose them but I think it’s more velope to her chest as if protecting it. they choose you.”

She’d been practicing the Phi Mu She was convinced there was a hand sign with Claire back in the better way to go about recruiting dorm the night before since they’d new sorority members. both ranked it as “The hardest thing for me, too, is that there were ones I liked better,” said Kelly.

It bothered her that people looked at her differently in Millett because she had a Tri Delta shirt on, as if her sorority was somehow inferior to the others.

Claire hopes that Tri Delta will feel like the right place sometime soon.

“I had fun tonight — they all their top seemed nice and they wanted to choice. talk, but it sucks that you went “ I through two hours of girls saying, d o n ’ t ‘You are here for a reason,’ ‘We e v e n saw something in you that was w a n t special,’ and then you open [the ento look, velope] and it’s like, ‘I guess you I’m too ner- didn’t,’” said Claire. vous,” Emma She started crying. said, but the smile on her face sugBid Day hadn’t felt the way gested otherwise. she’d expected it would. Brooke Vice president of recruitment for moved to sit on the edge of Panhellenic Corinne Gilardi’s voice Claire’s chair, hugging her. Emma boomed from the speakers again as ran her hand along her back as she began counting down. “Three. Claire wiped a tear off her cheek.

Two. One.” “It’s nice that they wanted Millett exploded in cheers as over me at least,” Claire said. “But a thousand girls ripped open their en- did they want me just bevelopes at once. cause I was guaranteed a bid?

Emma’s hands fumbled They could have wanted to with her envelope. cut me too, but someone had “That’s Phi Mu, I know the to give me a bid.”

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2016 commencement speaker announced EVENT

ABBEY GINGRAS NEWS EDITOR

Miami University announced yesterday that Sir Ken Robinson would give the commencement address at the spring 2016 graduation ceremony in May. Robinson, 65, is an internationally-renowned speaker who focuses on creativity, tying his upcoming graduation speech to Miami’s theme of creativity and innovation for the 2015-2016 school year.

Previous graduation speakers have also connected to yearly themes — in 2014, Forest Whitaker spoke for the Year of Celebrating Freedom. In 2012, composer A.R. Rahman spoke for the Year of the Arts.

Robinson is best known for his

LEED certifications spread across Miami’s campus

TED talk videos, which have more views than any other TED talk speaker in history.

His most well-known speech, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” has over 37 million views.

He was knighted in 2003 for his work in the arts and the field of education. He is also a published author — his novel, “Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education,” came out in 2015. Another work, MIAMI UNIVERSITY NEWS AND COMMUNICATIONS “Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Sir Ken Robinson will speak at the Passions and Transform Your spring commencement ceremony.

Life,” was published in 2013.

Robinson is a native of the and CNN, and radio stations inUnited Kingdom and continues cluding NPR and BBC. to serve as a professor emeritus Miami’s spring commenceat the University of Warwick in ment ceremony is at 1:30 England. He has appeared on p.m. on Saturday, May 14 at television networks such as CBS Yager Stadium.

Urgent care facility opens Uptown HEALTH

MORGAN NGUYEN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

McCullough-Hyde, Oxford’s hospital, opened a new urgent care facility on Saturday, Feb 6.

The new facility will be open on the weekends from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to offer medical treatment for minor injuries and illnesses. Care can be provided for a range of afflictions, including wounds/stitches, broken bones and common infections.

Urgent care will be treated like a walk-in clinic and is a cheaper option than an emergency room trip

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The new McCullough-Hyde urgent care will operate on weekends. when it comes to minor injuries.

The urgent care facility will be open solely on the weekends because its operation is meant to supplement medical care for Miami University students and employ-

ees when the MU Health Center is closed on Saturdays and Sundays.

The urgent care facility is located at 5151 Morning Sun Road, about three blocks north of McCulloughHyde’s main campus.

Regional campuses see increase in graduation rates REGIONALS

KAREN AUGENSTEIN THE MIAMI STUDENT

The year 2015 proved to be successful for Miami University’s regional campuses, as the school recently saw an influx in bachelor’s degrees obtained at regional campuses.

While regional campuses were traditionally known for being the first step in transitioning to main campus, the recent spike suggests that regional campuses are becoming more popular.

Brennan Burks, the director of public affairs for Miami’s regional campuses, said the number of bachelor’s degrees received from Miami University’s regional campuses has increased from 55 in 2008 to 319 in 2015 — a growth of 480 percent.

Burks said this is a result of the convenience and improving academic quality of the regionals.

“We have offered a number of new degrees that are attractive to students who want to remain in their communities, degrees that allow them to find jobs and don’t make them travel very far,” Burks said. “Many students at regional campuses are already working parents or working veterans. This allows them to advance their education without traveling very far or having to make special accommodations to get out to Oxford.”

Marianne Cotugno, the faculty director of the Middletown campus and an associate professor of English, has noticed the change in students’ degrees and campus choices over the years. When teaching a grant-writing class a few years ago, Cotugno noted that about half of her students were regional degree majors and the other half were seeking to relocate to the Oxford campus.

“Students in the latter group sometimes expressed trepidation about their ability to complete a

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degree in Oxford and explored transferring to another institution,” Cotugno said. With the number of degrees at regional campuses increasing, Cotugno sees more students in her classes who wish to complete their degrees at the regional campus.

Both Cotugno and Burks said the increase in degrees offered is most likely another contributing factor to the growing popularity of regional campuses, including an integrated studies major in 2008 and a health and information degree in 2010. In the fall of 2016, a graduate degree in criminal justice will be available to students.

At the regional campuses, majors such as civic and regional development, commerce, forensic science and investigation, and applied communication are now available majors for regional students. Cotugno noted that when she started 10 years ago, there were only three bachelor’s degrees available.

For Hamilton student Aharon Brown, who takes classes on the Oxford campus as well, regional campuses provide convenience for people who live in those areas.

“Generally, the regional campuses are filled with a large number of people who have a life outside of school and can’t commit to school to the same degree like living on campus,” Brown said.

“We work jobs or have families to provide for.”

Brown also noted the importance of regional campuses as the Oxford campus is somewhat isolated and difficult to commute to.

“An educated workforce is still heavily coveted to receive highpaying careers instead of simple low-wage manual labor jobs. It’s just the way things are set up. So, education is the only way to be competitive,” Brown said. “It’s easier to obtain, especially con-

sidering those who seek education at regionals may not have a lot of money to begin with at unskilled low-wage jobs, hence the need for school.”

For Elizabeth Winhover, an Oxford campus student and Ohio resident, the popularity of regional campuses will be a positive contribution for college students in Ohio.

“I think students are seeing the benefits of going to the regional campuses, which are known for having lower tuitions and, in some cases, closer to home,” Winhover said. “I think that regional campuses offering a wider range of degrees at a lower cost can only increase the number of students getting a college education.”

Due to the increase in majors, Burks said the online curriculum for the regional universities has expanded, but besides that, no huge changes have been implemented yet. However, with programs such as Ohio Means Jobs, a government-run program to help employ Ohio residents, it is clear Ohio is promoting the importance of a strong education and employment.

“I am happy to see us increasing the number of four-year degrees offered at the regional campuses,” Cotugno said. “I’m even happier to see more students in these degrees and increased completion rates. This means we are meeting the needs of our students and our region. It’s an exciting time for our university.”

For Burks, the influx in students obtaining their four-year bachelor’s degrees shows a positive future for regional campuses as a beneficial education program for Ohio students.

“My end-goal at Miami regionals is to offer degrees that work for the community,” Burks said. “We can continue to create and amend and perfect the degrees to help benefit the students and all the communities of Ohio.”

SUSTAINABILITY

PARIS FRANZ

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami is currently wrapping up its 2015 Sustainability Commitments and Goals (SCAG). The 2015 SCAG builds on the progress and goals made under Miami’s 2010 SCAG. Miami’s 2010 SCAG, signed and endorsed in spring 2011 by university president David Hodge, established LEED silver certification as a goal for buildings on campus. The 2015 SCAG will provide project teams with more flexibility, allowing LEED version 4, Green Globes or the Living Building Challenge rating systems to be used to best match the projects’ needs.

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system is one of the most well known third-party green building certification programs used internationally. Under the LEED certification systems, different elements of a building can receive a certain amount of credits based on how they contribute to the building’s sustainability. Buildings that achieve 50-59 credits qualify for silver certification.

The first building on the Oxford campus to be LEED silver certified was the Farmer School of Business in 2009. There are currently six LEED silver certified buildings on the Oxford campus, including Farmer, Maple Street Station, Etheridge Hall, Anderson Hall, McFarland Hall and Western Dining Hall.

Miami’s Sustainability Committee also anticipates that Armstrong Student Center Phase One, Collins Hall, Dennison Hall, Dorsey Hall, McBride Hall, Symmes Hall, Shideler Hall, Garden Commons, Beechwoods Hall, Stonebridge Hall and Hillcrest Hall will be LEED silver certified once the

applications are processed, raising Miami’s LEED square footage to over one million square feet.

“We can’t say what it’s going to be until we get all of our credits approved, but we do also anticipate that [the buildings] will be LEED silver,” said Yvette Kline, director of sustainability and energy conservation. “Sometimes what you have to do is, not go back and do different things to the building, but do a better job of explaining what you did in order to get the credits approved; to gather up and submit all of the backup information to justify that you are deserving of those points.”

Kline believes that an increase in student interest in campus sustainability has influenced the university’s environmental goals.

“Students have been expressing, and had been for quite a while, interest in being on a campus that’s environmentally sustainable, and LEED does allow you to do that with a system that is pretty well recognized,” said Kline.

Kline also acknowledged a general shift toward sustainability among institutions of higher education.

“We keep track of what our peers are doing and what overall higher education is doing, and there is the responsibility — to the extent that you can afford — to be leading those kinds of things rather than trailing them,” Kline said.

Miami’s dedication to maintaining the history of its campus, and thus the historical style of its architecture, has created some challenges regarding sustainable construction.

“When you’re keeping with a particular architectural language, as our buildings are, there are certain things you are constrained to do.

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Miami Masculinities Committee addresses men’s issues on campus STUDENT LIFE

ALISON PERELMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

What does it mean to be a man? That’s one of the many questions the Miami Masculinities Committee will address in its panel on Tuesday.

The committee will discuss what it means to be a man, what masculinity means and the different ways to express masculinity and its influence ­— both in the general society and specifically on Miami’s campus.

Glenn Muschert, a professor in the department of sociology & gerontology, will act as the panel moderator. He will facilitate the discussion by asking questions and, at the end, there will be a Q&A for everyone in attendance.

“I hope that … everybody who comes will get a chance to reflect on masculinity and think about the range of possible ways to be a man,” said Muschert. “Ultimately, I would like masculinity to be a positive and productive part of our environment.”

The members are hoping to bring awareness to these types of conversations, kick start other events and expand the group. Senior Andrew Napora is also looking to use this as a base platform for a Greek life outreach program curriculum.

“I’m in a fraternity myself and I’ve noticed a lot of [toxic aspects of masculinity] surface in my time

there,” Napora said. “I really think that it’s one of those things that not a whole lot of people actively think about as they’re going about their day — nobody frames what they’re doing as problematic.”

Napora and the rest of the group hope to bring awareness to these problems and make it part of a more regular conversation — something that people can think about with society and themselves in mind. It’s important for students to understand their behavior and reactions in relation to masculinity.

“I think that being a man at Miami is probably a little tougher than at most places, honestly … because of the general lack of diversity on campus, both socioeconomic status and also racially,” said Napora.

The committee and its events aren’t just for men, though — women are welcome, too.

“I hope that women come, too, to tomorrow evening’s event, and I hope that women would participate,” Muschert said.

In fact, the director of the Women’s Center, as well as a woman who works in the Office of Wellness, attend the committee meetings regularly.

Meetings take place in the Women’s Center in McGuffey Hall every other Monday at 2 p.m. The Men of Miami panel discussion will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb, 9th in McGuffey room 322.

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‘Hail’ the newest Coen Brothers movie FILM

JACK RYAN

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Someday, (hopefully) long from now, we’ll look back at the Coen Brothers pantheon, complete with cult classics, hidden gems and Oscar winners alike. And when we do, we’ll see “Hail, Caesar!” right smack in the middle, acting as a great intro to their work, but far from the best example of any singular trait or theme that flows through their canon.

This isn’t to say “Hail, Caesar!” is an unexceptional movie, however, it’s just that the most recent movie from the prolific writing-directing-editing-producing brothers is nothing but that — a Coen Bros. movie, for better or for worse.

“Hail, Caesar!” is a day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), production head at fictional Capitol Pictures and a “fixer” who spends his time keeping his employed stars off the front page of the tabloids.

Eddie spends these 24 hours searching for Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), a household name, kidnapped from the set of his movie, “Hail, Caesar!” that morning by a mysterious organization.

“Hail, Caesar!” feels like a series of vignettes with an overarching plot, as Mannix’s daily routine introduces us to the lives of stuntman turned up-and-comer Hobie Doyle

(Alden Ehrenreich), frustrated director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes) and Gene Kelly-esque tap dancer Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum), among others.

The ensemble cast goes even further, with Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and Jonah Hill all taking on speaking roles, although the latter two have brief appearances. These minor

best sequence.

Sadly, the ability to create deep characters out of seemingly everyday people is lost on “Hail, Caesar!” This is partially the fault of the aforementioned speed at which characters are introduced and removed, but also from the short runtime of the film, relatively speaking.

This lack of character development also distances us from the ma-

“Hail Caesar!” is a great time for those with a fondness for classic film, newbies to the expansive work of the Coens or even those in search of a good laugh or two.

characters all feel developed but are quickly sifted through before we get the chance to acknowledge it, seeming to exist just to give Eddie Mannix’s world a greater sense of scale and a joke or two.

The acting in “Hail, Caesar!” is perfectly adequate, with each character articulated nicely by the respective actor. Brolin’s Mannix carries himself with the unstoppable swagger of a workingman. Clooney captures the ditzy self-indulgence we associate with major Hollywood stars. And, unsurprisingly, Channing Tatum steals the show, showing off his tap-dancing prowess and singing talents in the film’s

jor themes that leak through “Hail, Caesar!” Heavy elements like the meaninglessness of everything or the folly of man feel ineffective here, as we do not directly connect with the events through our attachment with a character.

However, what “Hail, Caesar!” lacks in meaningful character development, it makes up for in humor. This is the Coens at their most openly funny since “The Big Lebowski,” featuring a plethora of small ‘blink-and-miss-it’ gags, hilarious conversations and extended jokes, and the ultimate realization of the “a priest, a rabbi, a minister and an imam walk into a bar” set-up

that still has me laughing as I write this.

“Hail, Caesar!” is an unabashedly referential movie as well, citing the various greats of ’50s cinema in every way possible. Roger Deakins’ always illustrious cinematography captures the kaleidoscopic essence of a Busby Berkeley picture, choreographer Christopher Gattelli creates a satirical dance number worthy of Gene Kelly and Baird Whitlock’s fictional epic feels and looks just like the historical dramas of the time.

This faithfulness to the past is a double-edged sword for “Hail, Caesar!” as the nostalgia and fondness it will imbue in more watched viewers is counteracted by the confusion that newer, less aware film fans may feel.

“Hail, Caesar!” is a great time for those with a fondness for classic film, newbies to the expansive work of the Coens or even those in search of a good laugh or two, but the veterans who were expecting a strong follow-up to the masterful “Inside Llewyn Davis” may feel disappointed.

As those well-versed viewers by now know, there is no such thing as a simply bad Coen Brothers movie, and “Hail, Caesar!” by no means begins that pattern.

Super Bowl 50 steals crowds from Uptown restaurants UPTOWN

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On a typical weekend, the streets of Uptown Oxford are packed with students and local residents. But on Feb. 7, otherwise known as Super Bowl Sunday, that was not the case.

Instead of the usual crowds, small groups of students rushed in and out of restaurants and stores, picking up takeout and last minute snacks. Even after the game began, dozens of people continued to place and pick up orders of wings from Buffalo Wild Wings.

“Takeout’s the worst right now because everyone’s watching at their houses and parties,” remarked a student as she joined the line to pick up her food.

Restaurant employees could be seen sweeping up the floors and washing empty tables at 6 p.m. Most of the restaurants that were not a bar-and-grill type

were deserted.

In order to avoid this, maintain a celebratory atmosphere for the big game and say thank you to its regular customers, Buffalo Wild Wings hosted a VIP party in the bar area of the restaurant.

The restaurant began planning and sent out flyers and information to their customers long before the game began.

“People have been getting seating for over a month and a half,” said general manager Matt Stelletell.

Oxford families and other regulars were treated to a buffet-style meal of chips and salsa, wings and other food as they enjoyed the game. The central bar area was filled with parents, children and a generally festive attitude.

Groups of Miami students occupied the outer booths and tables, grabbing a bite to eat before heading over to a house or back to a dorm to watch the game.

When the game finally began, the VIP area tables burst

into chants as fans supported their favorite team. The college students cheered along, as well, but were far more invested in their friends and conversations than the game itself.

Meanwhile, sororities celebrated Bid Day with the game playing in the background. For them, the game came second to welcoming new members to their organizations.

Delta Delta Delta kept the game on during their welcome party and the girls watched while getting to know each other.

“We were cheering along with the game while everyone talked and danced and the DJ played,” said first-year Jessica Statler.

The DJ called out updates on the score for anyone not adamantly watching the game.

For students who lived on campus, TV rooms and dorms provided the space for watching the game.

Halls like Havighurst had wings and food for anyone who wanted to watch. Students also gathered in

less organized ways, congregating around the largest TV they could find to watch with friends.

First-year Peter Hano took the opportunity to get together with his friends in his dorm.

“It was fun because we all just rushed,” Hano said. “So we hadn’t seen each other in a while, but we all got back together for the football game.”

Caroline Hellman, a sophomore, had a more informal experience.

She and her friends ordered pizza and crammed 12 people into a single dorm room so they could all be together while watching the game and, more importantly, the commercials.

“The commercials were kind of bad this year, especially the Budweiser one,” said Hellman. “It was so disappointing.”

Even though the streets Uptown were empty, throughout Oxford families and students gathered to watch the halftime show, the commercials and the Broncos’ 24-10 victory over the Panthers.

Fear and loathing the 2016 Super Bowl commercials REVIEWS

DEVON SHUMAN

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In Adam McKay’s 2010 comedy, “The Other Guys,” billionaire David Ershon asks the two protagonists how “Jersey Boys” was, to which Will Ferrell’s character emphatically replies, “The pageantry, the costumes.

Wow! What a musical!”

As I watched Super Bowl 50 (RIP, Roman numerals) Sunday night, my mind kept cycling back to this quote.

I’ve watched a lot of football, but there’s something undeniably different about the Super Bowl. It brings with it an almost magical quality.

Showmanship. Theatrics. A cultural gathering of the masses. Pure American commitment to excess.

An NBC press release from last February explained that of the eight most-watched television events in history, only one (the 1983 “M*A*S*H” finale) was not a Super Bowl, and it came in at number seven. Something is drawing viewers to their television sets, but it’s not just football.

From sports fanatics to pop culture junkies to people who just want to party, the Super Bowl has something for everyone.

And, of course, the common denominator among everybody’s Super Bowl favorites — the commercials. It doesn’t matter if you can’t tell a pigskin from a potato skin,

everyone perks up when the announcers declare that they’ll be “right back.” Even fedora-clad hipsters probably tune in to see what the likes of Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Doritos came up with this year.

There’s more to these commercials than simply selling products (although, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t immediately order a pound of Death Wish Coffee after it was touted as the world’s strongest). Nobody sees a Prius in a multi-day police chase and thinks, “I have to get to the Toyota dealership ASAP!” This is a competition. Who can produce the funniest, most poignant and most talked about ad? What results is a brilliant, beautiful mess of cleverness, oddity and a whole slew of celebrity cameos.

Like any fierce competition, the ad race pushes companies to take creative risks and, while this often works out, it undoubtedly results in a multitude of flops.

LG finished near the bottom this year with a visually intriguing, yet utterly perplexing spot in which Liam Neeson sits at a bar and gives philosophical advice to his younger self. It seemed promising at first, but ultimately got so bogged down in utilizing Neeson that it failed to provide a reason for existing. I went from thinking this was a trailer for “Now You See Me 2” to believing it was a motorcycle ad, and only actually remembered it was LG after looking it

up the next day.

As far as strangeness goes, Mountain Dew takes the peculiar cake with “PuppyMonkeyBaby,” the grotesque result of a science experiment that shows up to offer guys KickStart. I guess they did their job, as the Internet is abuzz with everything “PMB,” but if that thing’s going to show up whenever I buy Mountain Dew, I’ll pass.

The worst of the worst, however, had to be Super Bowl Babies, the spot in which the NFL rounded up children who were born nine months after their parents’ teams won a Super Bowl, and then had them sing as a choir with Seal.

There’s enough to dig into there to fill a Tolstoy novel, but for the sake of space, I’ll leave it at this — for a league that’s been accused of being downright morally bankrupt, was this the best way to go? A lot of young kids are going to have some questions for their parents, who might not be quite ready to have that talk.

But enough about the duds.

Super Bowl 50 churned out its fair share of advertising wonders.

Typical powerhouses Coca-Cola and Budweiser missed the mark, but Doritos picked up the slack with “Ultrasound,” my pick for funniest ad of the night. It’s depiction of an unborn baby who exits its mother in pursuit of Doritos will probably attract the attention of some anti-abortion groups, but in the ever-competitive world of

Super Bowl advertising you have to be edgy to survive.

There were plenty of other hilarious spots, such as Avocados from Mexico’s futuristic look back on our society, Hyundai’s use of Kevin Hart as the overprotective dad and Steve Harvey’s self-deprecating endorsement of T-Mobile.

But for me the best spot of the night, Audi’s Commander, lacked any humor. Instead, it showed an old, retired astronaut who finally gets to relive the past when he gets behind the wheel of an Audi.

In concept, it’s cheesy, but the production is nothing short of magnificent. As the astronaut started the engine and the Audi flew down the road like a rocket ship, accompanied by David Bowie’s “Starman,” I was awash with a sense of poignancy and inspiration that no ad has ever provided.

This is a perfect short film that aims to galvanize the country that’s watching. Unlike Clint Eastwood’s attempt at the same thing several years ago, this one steers clear of any political perspective and, in fact, transcends party lines.

In only 60 seconds, Audi reminded everyone what it means to feel alive.

And amid all of the crazy and, most likely, nonsensical festivities surrounding the Superbowl, with the opportunity to air something that will be seen by an entire nation, is there anything nobler for a company to do?

Editors’ pop culture picks RECOMMENDATIONS

Things we watched, listened to and streamed instead of watching the Super Bowl on Sunday.

“YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS”

This is the first podcast I’ve binge-listened to since Sarah Koenig’s first season of “Serial.”

A must-listen for any film lover, “You Must Remember This” tells the stories of the secret or forgotten histories of Hollywood during the 21st century. From series about the many loves of famed film producer/aviator/womanizer Howard Hughes to the music and movie that surrounded the murders committed by infamous sociopath Charles Manson, this show is chock-full of all the love stories, rumors, scandals and betrayals that you would expect from Hollywood’s biggest stars and most powerful producers.

(Emily Williams, assistant news editor)

“BETTER CALL SAUL”

All caught up on “Fargo” and “Mr. Robot?” Check out season one of “Better Call Saul” on Netflix. First discounting the series as a gimmick from to milk the fan-base of “Breaking Bad,” three episodes in I found myself hooked on the story of a miserable low-life attorney in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Portrayed by indie sketch comedian Bob Odenkirk, the crime dramedy is perfect for binge-ing even if you haven’t seen “Breaking Bad.” But hurry, season two premieres on AMC next week.

Oh, and did I mention that it has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes? (A.J. Newberry, cartoonist)

ELLIE GOULDING’S “DELIRIUM”

You’ve probably heard “Love Me Like You Do” from the “Fifty Shades of Grey” soundtrack and “On My Mind,” the lead single from the album. But, if you’re looking for something new, ignore those and check out the other tracks. The majority are catchy dance tunes like, “I Do What I Love” and “Codes,” both of which have the potential to become hits, and my personal favorite, “Lost and Found,” stays true to Goulding’s electronic-pop vibe. You won’t be able to get it out of your head. (Marissa Stipek, opinion editor)

“THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT”

The best movie of 2015 that you’ve never heard about. Based on the actual events at Stanford University in the ’60s, this indie movie is a fantastic depiction of what happens when you mess with positions of power. They didn’t have the money for much advertising last year, so most people missed it on the big screen, but it’s definitely a must-see. (Connor Moriarty, photo editor)

“BIRTH OF THE PILL” BY JONATHAN EIG

This book is a feat of reporting.

Eig tells the tale of four people, “crusaders” in his words, that made the idea of a birth control pill a reality, thereby challenging society’s misogynistic view of gender roles and sexuality.

He makes marvelous use of the trove of letters, diaries and journal articles that the story’s four protagonist’s left behind. With this wealth of information, Eig is able to construct a gripping narrative that reads like a novel. But the book’s truth is its most important asset. This is certainly an important story, well told. (Reis Thebault, editor-in-chief)

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A performer plays the Pipa, a traditional 4-string Chinese instrument, Taiwanese-American pop singer Jason Chen sings during the Chinese New Year Concert Saturday night. during the Chinese New Year Concert Saturday night.

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For the Chinese international students studying at Miami, Friday night was a reminder of home.

Rosie (Hailun) Zhang, a firstyear, knows all too well how difficult it can be to be away from home.

Zhang hails from Guangzhou, a sprawling city in Southern China.

Guangzhou is roughly 7,200 miles from Ohio.

“It’s really sweet,” Zhang said.

“It makes me feel at home “The atmosphere and the celebration ... I think it’s good.”

Zhang, like many of her fellow Chinese international students, came to America in pursuit of an independent, reputable education.

But being thousands of miles from home comes with its drawbacks Zhang misses the food from home most.

“The food here ... I’m not a fan of it,” Zhang said.

She also misses the culture, the atmosphere, her way of life and her friends.

Friday night, she was able to immerse herself back into the Chinese culture. For her, the music was the best part of the performance.

The Miami University Symphony Orchestra and the Confucius Institute Chinese Classical Music Ensemble worked in tandem to perform traditional Chinese music in the first act.

The Dayton Children’s Violin Ensemble was a particular hit, seeing as the children who walked onto stage held instruments half the size of their tiny bodies.

The audience murmured “Awws” as the smallest of the group held her violin at attention and stared out into the crowd.

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When Renee Jin Fisher performed her piece, the audience went nuts. “Horse Racing,” a popular classical Chinese song, was clearly the fan favorite of the night, with the applause reaching a thunderous roar.

“The ending of the song is very hard,” first-year Betty Liu said.

“You have to make the ‘erhu’ sound like a horse crying, and she did it perfectly.”

Singer Junshu Zheng and YouTube sensation Jason Chen wooed the ladies in the audience with renditions of “All of Me” by John Legend and “When I Was Your Man”

by Bruno Mars, respectively.

Students left Hall Auditorium just as excited as they were entering it. They took selfies with the performers and MCs and joked about not winning prizes. The majority headed Uptown to 45 East, where the celebration would continue with food, champagne and music.

A Taste of Tea On Monday, Feb. 8, the official holiday of Spring Festival, students and faculty bustled around MacMillan Hall, putting the final touches on their displays.

Red paper lanterns, white banners with red calligraphy and red drawings honoring the year of the monkey lined the walls.

Upon entering the large room at the top of the spiral staircase, students and faculty alike were met with an explosion of color and fragrance. Sets of fine China lined the tables, student musicians played music softly in the background, calligraphers worked on creating beautiful art and the smell of tea filled the air.

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. students enjoyed a Chinese New Year

celebration through the “Taste of Tea,” where each cup represented an “imaginary voyage.”

Students from local high schools, Miami faculty members, international and domestic students alike crowded into the room eager for a lesson on the elegant culture of tea drinking in China.

Chen Zhao, director of the Confucius Institute, arrived in the room promptly at 8:30 a.m., ready to ensure everything was set up to perfection.

“When most people talk about Chinese culture they know about the red lanterns, the red decorations, the fireworks ...” said Zhao. “But we use this opportunity to show people a different side of Chinese culture.”

The event featured of eight differents kinds of traditional, Chinese tea.

Zhao, a Miami University alumnus and former professor in the Farmer School of Business, described the elegance of tea drinking culture in China as calming and stimulating for the mind. Tea was, and still is, always drank with music and calligraphy and art.

“The Chinese students know the tea already ... the culture. They don’t have to come,” Zhao said.

“They do this because they want to share. This is for the campus — for sharing with American people.”

Zhao grew up in China and, although she has been in the United States for 26 years, she still has a passion for teaching others about Chinese culture.

“These events, the culture ... this is the perfect way to show the campus something new,” Zhao said.

“It’s so special to me.”

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A Taste of Sharing First-year international student Betty Liu always has a smile on her face. Her large round glasses appeal to her unique, cutting-edge sense of fashion. She is kind, intelligent, beautiful and thousands of miles from home.

Hailing from Beijing, China, Liu always knew she wanted to study in another country for college. She loves to travel, share culture and experience new things.

Of course, even with Liu’s wanderlust and independent nature, it hasn’t been easy to be away from her family, her friends and her home.

“FaceTime and texting helps,” Liu said. “But you don’t know what it’s like until you are miles away from home.”

But this weekend was special — a reminder of Chinese culture and celebration. Her weekend was filled with the familiarity and beauty of celebrating Spring Festival.

At the concert on Friday night, Liu couldn’t seem to stop smiling.

“They were so incredible,” said Liu. “When I was a kid, I learned the Chinese traditional music. I felt like a kid again. I felt like I was home.”

When Renee Jin Fisher began playing Horse Racing on the erhu, Liu was ecstatic.

“It is such a popular song in China,” said Liu “Everybody knows ‘Horse Racing.’ It was beautiful.”

Liu admired how much preparation went into creating the concert. Everything from decorating the foyer to having the perfect acts to celebrate the New Year were spot on. The atmosphere and energy were just as enthusiastic as it is in China.

“It’s like Christmas in America,

the biggest festival of the entire year.

It is a big celebration for the people of China and a very important tradition,” Liu said.

As special as this weekend was for Liu, she shares the same mindset as Chen Zhao, director of the Confucius Institute. These celebrations weren’t just for her.

They weren’t just for the Chinese international students.

They were for everyone. They were for sharing.

“It’s amazing to me, that we all live on the same Earth, but in such different places,” Liu said.

Liu pointed out some key differences about American and Chinese culture. The food, the celebrations, the art, the writing — it’s all particular to each country. It’s all unique.

That’s her favorite part about learning more about American culture while still retaining her love for Chinese culture.

“Spreading the Chinese culture is a part of my life,” said Liu “I want to show it and bring something new about it ... I love my culture, and I want to teach other people all about it.”

Liu, in her free time, teaches some of her friends and fellow residents in Peabody Hall about Chinese culture and what life is like in China. She even taught them how to say “happy new year” in Chinese.

“I once watched a documentary that talked about the super power of the US ... the superpower is the diversity ... the cultural diversity,” Liu said. “We need to represent the superpower on campus too.”

“We are speaking the same language, but we do not have the same experience,” said Liu “But we can share our experiences and our cultures. That’s what this celebration was all about — sharing.”

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A Super Bowl review: It’s time for colleges to step in and change the game EDITORIAL

Sunday night, over 111.9 million viewers tuned in to watch Superbowl 50.

Over 111.9 million viewers tuned in to watch the Broncos and the Panthers battle it out, each team trying to advance the ball down the field while the other does whatever it takes to stop them.

Over 111.9 million people contributed to a culture in which we wait for the crash of one body against another, we anticipate the sound of helmets colliding and we cheer with excitement when someone is knocked to the ground.

The safety of football has been under scrutiny in recent years, and on Feb. 3, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about the risks at a pre-Superbowl press conference.

“There’s risks in life,” Goodell stated. “There’s risks to sitting on a couch.” He upheld that while there are high rates of brain injury among football players, there is no reason to believe playing football is to blame.

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

However, the facts are that NFL players “sustained 271 concussions in practices, preseason and regular season games in 2015,” according to a Feb. 1 Frontline report. This shows a 31.6 percent increase in concussions in the league from the previous year, despite the NFL’s claims that it is trying to reduce the risk of injuries.

League officials claim that the spike in concussion data is due to increased awareness and an improved screening process.

Last September, Frontline released results of an investigation done by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University, which autopsied the brains of 91 deceased former NFL players. Eighty-seven were identified as having chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition believed to be caused by “repetitive trauma to the head.”

This trauma doesn’t refer solely to concussions, but also to the more minor collisions that happen in virtually every play of the game.

On Dec. 25, 2015, Concussion hit the box office, telling the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the neuropathologist who identified the case of CTE, and made the link between the sport and the syndrome. The film ended with a montage of football “big hits” — a highlight reel commonly shown at the end of football seasons to remind fans of some of the most dramatic moments. The intent is that ,after seeing the movie, viewers will find these clips chilling rather than exciting. But is it enough?

Unfortunately, even with the attention on the risk of brain injuries in football, we doubt Americans will be willing to find a new favorite pastime.

Consider this — Concussion has generated $40 million worldwide since its release date last year, according to IMDb. As a comparison, the NFL raked in $12.4 billion this season, Forbes reported on Feb. 7.

Clearly, football is not at risk of losing support from fans.

Debunking Clinton’s apologist rhetoric POLITICS

MILAM’S MUSINGS BRETT MILAM WEB EDITOR

My assessment of Democrats’ trade-off on war and foreign policy seems to have been off, if the Executive Board of Miami Students for Hillary’s Letter to the Editor is any indication.

I wrote in my column last week that 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

briefings. So I guess with the (skewed) information presented to her, she did make the “hard choice” to go to war.

Fred Kaplan argued last week in Slate his own apologist defense of Clinton, saying she voted for the war on the premise that the vote would be Bush’s leverage against Saddam to finish the U.N. inspections into whether he possessed weapons of mass destruction. The problem, then, was that Bush went back on his word.

You see, Clinton’s mistake wasn’t voting for a war that led to the deaths of 4,486 Americans and nearly 500,000 Iraqis, destabilized the region and spawning the rise of ISIS. It was putting trust in the hands of Bush.

But even that weak shifting of blame to Bush doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. According to a CNN ar-

However, the Executive Board didn’t present it as a trade-off, rather, an apologist, distorted view of Clinton’s hawkish record.

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.”

However, the Executive Board didn’t present it as a trade-off, rather, an apologist, distorted view of Clinton’s hawkish record, which is something much worse.

First, it should be pointed out that in an 830-word letter, they devoted a mere 141 words of it to defending her record on foreign policy, leaving out her troubling rhetoric on Iran and unconditional support of Israel.

Let’s unpack it with those facts the Executive Board is interested in.

With regard to Clinton’s vote for the 2002 Iraq War, they say she was faced with a “hard choice and, with the information presented to her, made a decision with the support of the majority of Democrats in the Senate.”

Prior to the vote on the war, then-President George W. Bush sent two documents to the Senate for review: a 92-page classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and a five-page, unclassified version.

Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted against the Iraq resolution, citing the classified intelligence report, which contained strong dissent from the State Department and the Department of Energy.

Clinton never read the classified intelligence report, instead relying on in-person

ticle in April 2004, the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the war began, Clinton had no regrets about her Iraq vote.

It was well known at the time that the United States had not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

“No, I don’t regret giving the president authority because at the time it was in the context of weapons of mass destruction, grave threats to the United States and clearly, Saddam Hussein had been a real problem for the international community for more than a decade,” Clinton said.

She didn’t formally offer her flimsy, deflecting apology until it became a sticking point in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.

Even richer is the language of calling her vote a “mistake.”

There are many things I would consider a mistake, voting for the worst foreign policy decision since Vietnam hardly qualifies.

It’s further generous to say Clinton, since then, has “dedicated her efforts toward diplomacy as a means of intervention, with military options remaining a last resort.”

In a New York Times assessment of Obama’s 2009 decision to surge in Afghanistan, Clinton was noted among his cabinet as being “increasingly aligned behind a more robust force.” Clinton, the Times said, wanted to make sure she was a formidable player in the process.

She was “comfortable” with General McChrystal’s request for 40,000 more troops.

Despite Libya’s fall into civil war since 2011, the Executive Board says Clinton acted cau-

tiously to “lessen what would have been a much larger crisis in northern Africa without the policies she advanced.”

There’s no way to back that claim up and it’s often the refrain of those favoring intervention that “it could have been worse.”

According to the Washington Post, “The North African nation [Libya] has become a primary outpost for the Islamic State, which has exploited the chaos to take territory, train soldiers and prove its strength outside Syria and Iraq.”

I find it hard to imagine how it could have been worse.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates was against the Libyan bombing, but Clinton, along with U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice and White House adviser Samantha Power pressed Obama to support it.

In that 2004 CNN article, Clinton lambasted Bush for poor postwar planning in Iraq. But Clinton had no plan for what would happen after U.S. and NATO bombs stopped dropping on Libya and after they overthrew the government.

Most absurdly, Clinton has maintained that the Libyan intervention was a use of “smart power,” which makes it clear that Clinton hasn’t learned anything.

How long will we have to wait before she at least offers another deflecting apology on Libya?

The Executive Board, however, wrote that Clinton’s plan in Syria is an “appropriately nuanced, balanced plan to combat both the scourge of ISIS and the tyrannical Assad regime,” but they never tell me what that plan is.

I’m getting the sense that they don’t know what it is since they didn’t even grapple with her support for a no-fly zone in Syria. At least the New York Times editorial board acknowledged it.

Unfortunately, much of the article reads this way. The last 10 sentences are soaring campaign speech platitudes about how wonderful Clinton is. One would think with her great experience and record, there would be ample evidence to back up those soaring platitudes.

There are further uncomfortable facts to consider. For instance, nations and companies that had donated to the Clinton Foundation saw an increase in arms deals when Clinton was Secretary of State.

According to an International Business Times investigation, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family.

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But if the game is to continue, something’s gotta give. We believe a reform is in order, and before we are met with protests from millions of football enthusiasts across the country, we would like to say, it has been done before.

Football has been under scrutiny in the past and has come back better — and safer — than ever.

In 1904, The Chicago Tribune reported a startling 18 football-related deaths and 159 injuries. In 1905, Columbia, Northwestern and Duke Universities dropped their football programs, and President Teddy Roosevelt’s alma mater, Harvard, considered doing the same.

Roosevelt, an avid football fan, stepped in to save the sport before it could self-destruct. He called on colleges and universities to band together to change the culture.

In 1906, an intercollegiate conference was held and significant rule changes were implemented, like the creation of a neutral zone

between the offensive and defensive players and the addition of the forward pass. The following year, the number of deaths dropped to 11.

However, as these changes were enacted over 100 years ago, it is time to reevaluate.

At no point in the history of football have the men on the field been as big or powerful as they are today.

With greater focus on weightlifting and training, the NFL produces players who are stronger and faster than they were 50 years ago.

It’s physics: force is the product of mass times acceleration. When both mass and acceleration increase, the result is a force powerful enough to be fatal.

The most heartbreaking part of this problem is that these injuries don’t have to happen. Concussions only seem like an inevitable by-product of football because the way the sport’s structure allows them to be.

Change the game, change the outcome. It’s that simple.

Dear boomers: Stop diminishing millennials’ political aspirations POLITICS

KYLE HAYDEN DESIGN EDITOR

We don’t want anything for free.

I would submit that young people want a political system where everyone pays taxes without exception.

Citizens should be paying what they truly owe, not stashing their wealth in offshore accounts or in phony charity organizations (looking at you, Mr. Zuckerberg).

We should all be contributing to the betterment of our society instead of its degradation.

Currently, many of our tax dollars are spent on unsustainable, harmful or inhumane projects like our bloated and hyper-paranoid military-industrial complex, or giving corporations who destroy the environment and steal from workers breaks on their taxes.

To suggest that young people are entitled slackers who just want free stuff is a direct insult on our intelligence.

Or we gripe about people who are “leeches” or “parasites” on “the system” of welfare and food assistance, but people who use that rhetoric have no knowledge of the histories of oppression and racism in the United States.

What we have now is a system which takes income and wealth away from the majority wage earners in America and channels it (rather unethically — criminally) to the wealthy — the owners. It is unsustainable, and even CEOs of some top companies (see: Goldman-Sachs) have been wondering, “Will capitalism work into the near future?”

As if they thought stealing everything from working people and looting the treasury was a sustainable way to do business.

Regarding college tuition and student debt, which has been a “hot button” issue this election cycle, many other countries have free tuition, and it’s not a big deal.

Take, for instance, student strikes in Mexico in the ‘90s that ensured voluntary tuition.

But students in America are so depoliticized. We can’t imagine

a world with free education, the right to work and social safety networks, even though these are realities for many other countries including France, Brazil, Norway and Sweden. We are somehow not enraged by how exclusive and segregated life in America seems to be.

Only a small number have risen to the challenge of beginning to ponder what free public higher education could look like.

Even relatively conservative countries (like Germany) have free public university — a student must only find and pay for housing.

The criticism that young people just want free stuff is either a shortsighted attack by previous generations (they educated us, or at least they tried) or simply an insult. To suggest that young people are entitled slackers who just want free stuff is a direct insult on our intelligence.

I submit that we ought to show them we are serious about electing people at all levels of government who are determined to correct the inequities of our political system and the way wealth is distributed in the United States.

The realization that other young people can get an education in another country and not face a mountain of debt is almost unreal to students who receive monthly statements, reminding us, “Here’s what you owe us after you graduate!” Or “What’s that — you like learning? Yes, we think education is important, but you better be wealthy first!”

Yet we’ve only seen a handful of protests in Washington for free tuition and a budding movement for free public education.

Privileging education to the wealthy, or those who even have a chance at paying back the seemingly insurmountable amount of debt, should produce outrage from our young people.

It is amoral in a society that insists on believing in the tenants of democracy and freedom.

Forcing more than a trillion dollars in debt onto students will be recorded as a national shame. It will not result in a well-functioning economy in the coming decades, as the number of workers with outstanding debts outscores the ones who have none in the face of a shifting global economy.

That is, if the global economy even continues to exist.

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A portrait of the blood donor as Peyton Manning: If competition weren’t violent ACTIVISM

GRAHAM VON CARLOWITZ THE MIAMI STUDENT

If you’ve been hiding in a cave for the past few weeks, you might have missed the buildup and eventual letdown of the Super Bowl.

First, how did you find a cave?

Batman? Never mind. Second, and more importantly, the letdown refers to the game, not its cherished commercials, perhaps more popular than the game itself.

Not everyone appreciates a helping of a humdrum defensive struggle, but determining which commercials really knocked viewers’ footwear off, now that’s worth a discussion.

The Super Bowl reels in such a diverse pool of folks and fellas because it appeals to people’s innate sense of competition. I was most amused by the musical sheep. My roommate thought the Tim-Burtonesque puppy-baby was best. After a debate, I was left mentally wounded and apparently on the losing end. Commercial competition and debate are certainly not my things.

Personally, blood drives speak to me. They are my thing. Free cook-

ies, free blood, who wouldn’t love them? I am proud to report that I recently convinced my younger brother to test the bloodied waters of the blood donor world. He came home saying how easy it was and that he’d love to do it again.

And he’s right, it is easy. If you meet the requirements, all that is asked of you is cooperation and a dedicated willingness to put up with a playlist composed by Sheryl

before the average Doe-nator is finished with one donation.

I don’t think blood drives would still be around if everyone had the same donating skillset. Back when I was in the fourth grade, my team tied the first game of the season.

6-6. The tie was tough to handle, especially since that was the closest we came to victory all season.

When I think about donating blood today, my father’s words

about the sport they watched and back comes the nightmarish puppybaby debate. Regardless of what others think, giving blood fires me up like a sport, and as such, I prepare for the event.

Orators practice speeches in the mirror, I practice responses. There I stand, picturing the sort-of-content, sort-of-pissed-off-that-she-collectsblood-for-a-living nurse ask me, “Have you ever donated?” With a

I’m not quite sure what a tie would look like in the sport of blood donating, and I don’t want to know.

Crow enthusiasts, aka Sher-crows.

A piece of cake indeed.

But not when I’m around. Those are my playgrounds, stomping grounds, whatever. When my four months of donation probation are up, I rule. I am number one. My blood is redder than all others. My blood is drawn quicker than all others. In fact, I can donate twice

after that tie still ring in my head: “Well, you know what they call this, right? A tie is basically like kissing your sister.” I’m not quite sure what a tie would look like in the sport of blood donating, and I don’t want to know.

Blood donation as a sport defies logic, I understand. Then again, ask the alacritous commercial viewers

slight chuckle, I say, “Well, honey, have you ever stubbed your toe?

That means yes. I’m what the elites call a natural, no synthetic blood here.”

The day before a blood drive is when my preparation truly kicks in. Donation Eve is all about carb loading and staying hydrated, as well as staying mentally focused.

No amount of meditation is ever enough, this I learned the hard way.

On the fateful day senior year of high school, I spent an hour and a half in donating purgatory — all of it in vain, pardon the pun. I squeezed my giving arm too much. I did not pass Go, I did not collect $200. My blood bag filled only halfway as my cockiness got in the way, literally clotting my vein. Twice.

This is a redemption story, of course, and blood has flowed freely from my arm ever since. While Whole Blood donations still create a sense of nostalgia, I have moved on to the Double Red Cells level and I may have a future in plasma.

The only issue is that, as a competitor, I love donating for donating, not for money; the experience is pay enough. Like athletes who sign autographs without charge, I would prefer to stay on the free side of things.

Each year the Super Bowl rakes in mounds of cash en-route to determining a winner. Blood-donating knows no money, knows no champions. It just knows veins.

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Double standards and gender inequality in Greek recruitment GREEK

CARLY BERNDT

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The other day I saw a girl in what appeared to be a “Walk of Shame” predicament, clad in an oversized shack shirt, more or less running down High Street in what I could only assume were last night’s heels and remarkably well-preserved 12-hour old makeup.

“Her purse is cute,” I thought.

“Maybe if I didn’t spend $20 on tequila shots three nights a week I could get myself a similar one.”

There are a few obvious issues with recruitment, both male and female.

Upon further inspection, it became clear to me that this was not a girl running home to the comfort of her own bed but rather a girl participating in Greek recruitment.

I imagine that recruitment is one of the few times in a young woman’s life that they wish they were actually a young man. From my understanding, boys have a few nights of telling sexual jokes and coming up with creative answers while girls have two weekends worth of contoured hell.

For me, asking for my hair to be washed and brushed for more than 36 hours at a time is a lot to ask, so it’s easy to understand how shocking it is that any free individual would voluntarily sign up to not only be clean, but presentable prior to 10 in the evening on a strict Thursday to Saturday schedule.

From the outside looking in, the biggest differences from the first two weeks of second semester as compared to the rest of the weeks are the following: first, the ratio between girls who look like they rolled out of bed five minutes prior to stepping outside versus the girls who look like they respect themselves becomes way out of balance.

It’s enough to almost persuade me to put on pants with a button or a zipper, or a bra with a clasp, or any other of those pre-yoga-

pant-and-40-dollar-lace-fake-bra era clothing mishaps.

I don’t know what happens to these girls that make them think they need to have their eyebrows drawn on and heeled ankle boots zipped up for their 10 a.m. French 102 class, but it brings me back to a dark point in my life.

I was 7 and my mother wanted my family to try to be Christian. I had to wake up at 8:30 a.m. for a church service — I ate seven bagels prior to the service and threw up between some hymnal and the donation baskets.

We never went back to church after that, which supports my unrelated idea that bagels can solve nearly any problem.

Secondly, as soon as happy hour hits, anything past Campus and High becomes a near 100 percent sausage fest. Albeit an economically generous sausage fest.

But, as I and all other girls know, the best part of a night is meeting nice girls in bar bathrooms.

It is truly flattering when a sweaty male stumbles his way about three inches from my face, manages to ask to buy me a drink and offers an invitation to “go back to my place.”

But the only thing better than a drunk male thinking I’m hot enough to spend $3 dollars on is a drunk girl telling me she likes my outfit and wants to take a selfie on Snapchat.

There are a few obvious issues with recruitment, both male and female. However, the odds of anyone caring about the underlying gender inequality message or the overall misplaced value systems of the events as a whole are about the same as the odds that I “start eating better and working out more.” Because apparently brunch doesn’t count as brunch when you also eat breakfast and lunch.

So, instead of rambling on about another feminist regime or complaining about how some 18-year-old boys got too drunk (again), it is better to be thankful for the seven to 10 days where sweaty boys don’t ask me what sorority I’m in and instead ask me why I’m taking handfuls of pretzels from the bar at Pachinko’s and putting them in my pockets.

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A sociology professor’s tips to change the world ADVOCACY

GLENN MUSCHERT GUEST COLUMN

Have you ever wanted to change the world around you — to make it a better place? So many students tell me they are aware and distressed by the large-scale problems we see every day in the news: endless war, violence in our homes and communities, discrimination of all forms, degradation of the environment and the embarrassing persistence of poverty at home and abroad, to name a few.

Is it any wonder we get overwhelmed in the face of these largescale challenges to human life, as none of us wields sufficient influence to fix these problems ourselves?

However, in recognizing that none of us can wield sufficient power to solve global problems, we run the risk of ignoring that we do indeed wield modest influence and therefore have some power to change the world around us.

It is vitally important we do not devalue small acts of kindness and consideration.

Without ignoring the persistence of large-scale problems, let’s turn our attention toward the type of small acts that can make a difference in our local environments (that is, in our living spaces, our classrooms and on the streets and sidewalks of our community). Let’s concentrate on the capacity each one of us holds to maintain civility, respect and a spirit of cooperation toward others.

Understand that you, of course, need to take care of your own needs, but that others are also engaged in parallel efforts. Therefore, acknowledge in your actions that there are others who also need to make their way in the world. We share this university and community environment not only for our own benefit, but also for the benefit of others.

In the spirit of nurturing civility in our environment, I offer the following list of actions, which, if undertaken by enough members of the university community, have the potential to transform our environment in quite positive ways.

Acknowledge the presence of other people. Simply say hello and goodbye to people you encounter in your everyday life. Even a nod will suffice and is infinitely more affirming than staring at your mobile screen.

Don’t text while walking. Pay attention to where you are walking because there are others who are trying to use the walkways too. You have no right to walk around distracted, so either put down the phone or step aside.

Quit complaining. Small inconveniences, delays, aches, discomforts and frustrations are just part of life.

What matters is how you respond to these. Rather than getting irritated when one of these inevitably pops up, take control of your own emotional state and decide that you will let it roll off your back.

Leave things the way you found them (or better). Others may use items, spaces and resources after us.

Since we share resources, it is important that we acknowledge the rights of others to use shared items, spaces, etc.

Put things away properly and make sure they are clean and maintained.

Stop criticizing. You have no right to criticize anyone else, even if done silently in your head. No one made you the judge of others, so don’t do it. Bottom line is you don’t really know where the other person is coming from, so why judge them? J ust let them be.

Respect differences. Other people may have different appearances, points of view, beliefs and experiences. Understand that maintaining your right to your own point of view also implies that you recognize that others

have the same right, even if you disagree with them.

Stop using hateful language.

There is no justification for using hateful speech (such as racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic or other discriminatory terms).

Similarly, there is little justification for foul language. Please just clean up your speech, because nobody benefits from filth and hate.

Don’t talk when others are talking. Like it or not, side conversations in class or elsewhere send the message of disrespect to the speaker and those who would like to listen. A person has two ears and one mouth, so maybe we should listen at least twice as often as we speak.

Dispose of trash properly. Each of us is responsible for cleaning up personal space, and it’s selfish to expect others to pick up after you. Why should we expect others to clean up after us when we use public space?

Be polite. Remember that each of us was taught to use common consideration in our speech such as, “please,” “thank you,” “no thanks,” “you’re welcome,” “excuse me,” etc.

We all already know how to use these.

Hold doors for others, when appropriate. In our busy community, you probably aren’t going to be the only person entering and exiting buildings.

Have some consideration for those who go after you.

Use turn signals. You are not the only person using the road, and it is only fair that you indicate your intent to those with whom you share the road.

Wait for a green light or the walk signal. It is only fair that others have a turn to use intersections. You will get your fair chance, so please wait.

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These are all so rather simple, and certainly within each individual’s abilities. If enough of us undertake this list, it has the potential to transform our environment to one that is notably more civil, considerate, and respectful. Such a change is clearly possible, and within our control.

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out candidates with a “higher compensation requirement,” like a corporate CEO. In the contract itself, which The Miami Student obtained through a public records request, Isaacson, Miller estimates that the next president’s first-year compensation will be $450,000, and that Isaacson, Miller will therefore be entitled to $150,000 in fees from the university.

When Isaacson, Miller assisted Miami with its presidential search in 2005-06 — a search that would ultimately lead to the hiring of current president David Hodge — it also charged the university for one-third of the president’s firstyear compensation package.

For that search, however, the president’s estimated compensation package was $325,000.

Hodge’s starting base salary in 2006 was, in fact, $325,000, with the potential for an increase each year as well as a 20 percent bonus.

Ten years later, Hodge’s current base salary is about $419,000, slightly less than what the university and Isaacson, Miller expect to pay Miami’s next president in his or her first year.

In his letter to Budig, Finkelstein also expressed concern with the contract’s language regarding

reimbursement expenses, which Isaacson, Miller described as travel, advertising and other costs incurred during the search process.

“By signing this agreement, the university has provided the search firm with a literally blank check,” he wrote. “It would appear that the firm could decide to travel around the country meeting with individual candidates, fly first class and stay in luxury suites.”

As of November, when The Miami Student obtained records of the university’s payments to Isaacson, Miller, the firm had charged the university for two of four installments. For travel expenses, the firm charged $978 in September and $4,018.13 in October. By the end of the 2005-06 search, travel expenses totaled more than $34,000, and many of the largest charges came later in the spring.

Finkelstein’s third issue with the contract pertained to the 11 percent fee Isaacson, Miller would charge Miami for indirect expenses like “communications, postage and delivery, printing and copying and research.”

“The existence of this fee could, in theory, lead a search firm to deliberately increase expenses in order to generate a greater overhead fee,” he wrote. “Remember that this fee would be charged on top of travel and entertainment

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expenses as well as the professional fee. In all likelihood, this is just another way of adding a profit line.”

In the contract, Isaacson, Miller said it would charge for these fees in each of the four monthly retainer billings, on top of the monthly installments for $37,500 (which amount to the $150,000 search fee). The university’s payment records show that Isaacson, Miller charged Miami for $41,625 in both September and October.

Based on the payment records between Miami and Isaacson, Miller from the 2005-06 search, the firm will likely charge $41,625 in the two remaining retainers as well. (In 2005-06, the four retainer billings were set at $27,083, but each installment of the executive search fees was charged at $30,062.50.)

Finkelstein’s fourth concern was the absence of any mention that Isaacson, Miller would perform due diligence throughout the search.

“Not only should this be an explicit requirement, there should be a statement of what this constitutes as well as a requirement that the firm accepts liability for material omissions or misinformation,” he wrote. “Nor is there a timeline or mention of milestones — other than when the firm ex-

pects to receive its retainer payments.”

After receiving this letter, Budig asked that the secretary of the board, Ted Pickerill, respond on behalf of the Board of Trustees. In an email to Finkelstein, Pickerill’s reply was brief and pointed.

“Miami has worked with Isaacson Miller a number of times over the past several years,” Pickerill wrote. “We have been quite pleased with their service, and expect to have a very successful presidential search. Thank you once again for your letter and for sharing your concerns.”

Representatives from Isaacson, Miller declined to comment for this story.

Finkelstein said the increasingly common practice of employing executive search firms to aid in university searches has contributed to the image of a university as a corporate entity rather than an educational institution. He said, historically, the purpose of universities has been to “preserve, transmit and create knowledge.”

“Today, people are now talking about universities more in terms of a corporation,” he said.

“They want to look at enrollment more every semester, talk about students as customers. Growth seems to be the most important metric in assessing performance.”

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Karen Dawisha, who is copresident of Miami’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), also compared Miami’s presidential search to the search for a corporate CEO, but for different reasons.

When looking for the CEO of a publicly traded company, that company’s shareholders would have a say in who is hired, she said. But at Miami, faculty, staff and students — conceivably, Miami’s “shareholders,” — do not have a voice in hiring its president.

“In the corporate world, the world of business, greater involvement is expected,” she said. “Why can’t we have it at a university?”

Dawisha said she could understand that some presidential applicants would prefer discretion throughout the search, but doesn’t think it should be the university’s priority when the stakes are this high.

“The interests that should be served are the interests of the university that is hiring,” she said. “I do not see how our interests are being served by the secrecy of this process.”

This search, which officially began at the end of August, is expected to last six to nine months, with a single presidential finalist announced this spring.

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Gun control doesn’t seem to apply in foreign policy.

Or the fact that interventionists, like historian Robert Kagan, according to the New York Times, sees Clinton as the “vessel into which many interventionists are pouring their hopes.”

I could continue, like how Clinton is appreciative of Henry Kissinger’s praise (one of the most notorious purveyors of terrible American interventions) or that Clinton has Madeleine Albright stumping for her in New Hampshire, the same woman who said in a 1996 60 Minutes interview that, despite sanctions on Iraq reportedly killing 500,000 Iraqi children, the “price was worth it.”

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that could favor a light roof, but we are not going to do that because it doesn’t fit in with our architectural style,” said Kline. “But a whole lot happens beyond the surfaces that really allows these buildings to be highly energy efficient. The insulation values, the details of the windows, and the details of the construction all come into play to allowing us to have these energyefficient buildings that still meet our architectural style.”

Associate professor of geography David Prytherch teaches in newly renovated Shideler Hall, which reopened in January. He hopes that his position in the building will allow him to make students more aware of the sustainability features of Miami’s campus.

“You wouldn’t know that Shideler was a green building from looking at it. I think that most of the sustainability features are not obvious to the visitor,” said Prytherch.

“We’re hoping in Shideler Hall that we can work with students to better communicate what makes this building green. Miami does a good job of making its buildings green; we hope that we can also help com-

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Later in her memoirs, Madam Secretary, she would apologize for those remarks.

It was just a mistake, she said.

Sound familiar?

You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep, it is said. You can also tell a lot about someone by the record they have.

Clinton’s record is clear. I maintain — a vote for her is a vote for an even more hawkish White House.

Real progress would be changing the perpetual war paradigm we’ve been plagued by since 9/11. But don’t expect that sort of change from Clinton.

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municate to students so they can learn more about what sustainability means on campus.”

Senior Savannah Pocisk, president of the student organization Green Oxford, said although she does not believe many people at Miami know about LEED certification, students are starting to care more about sustainability.

“I think as more people learn about [sustainability], it’s certain to become something we care about more,” Pocisk said.

“The past couple of years, more people have been using reusable water bottles to decrease their waste because they know that their individual choices are making a difference and have a greater and larger impact.”

Pocisk also added that she liked the effort Miami has put toward becoming more eco-friendly.

“I’m really happy with the direction that Miami is going, with the SCAG they have created,” Pocisk said. “I think it’s a really awesome movement, as we’ve seen with the new bike paths and water bottle refill stations, and that we’re really rushing to become a more eco-friendly, sustainable campus.”

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Top recruit gives RedHawks a new option at quarterback FOOTBALL

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After last season’s merry-go-round of quarterbacks, Miami University football head coach Chuck Martin said the position may still be up for grabs. Miami signed quarterback Noah Wezensky of Fort Wayne, Ind. (Bishop Luers) on National Signing Day last Wednesday.

According to the 247sports composite rankings, Wezensky is ranked 74th in the nation in his position and is the 28th-best overall player in the state of Indiana.

“I was ecstatic when we got him.

He was the only non-BCS player to make the Elite 11 Finals [national quarterback camp competition] last summer. He’s a pretty highly-touted recruit,” Martin said. “He’s a Miamitype kid, he’s a great student, he believes in this university, believes in what we’re doing. He’s a very confident kid.”

Wezensky, a pro-style quarterback who stands at 6-foot-3 and 190 pounds, chose to play at Miami over reported offers from University of Akron, University of Toledo, and

Central Michigan University and interests from 10 other schools, including University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University.

He threw for 2,879 yards and 30 touchdowns and completed 63.5 percent of his passes (205-for-323) his junior season, earning first team all-state honors. He missed most of

and fight that battle.”

Bahl completed 98 of 220 attempts (44.5 completion percentage) for 1409 yards, 13 interceptions and eight touchdowns in 11 games in 2015.

Ragland, who was mainly used to pick up rushing yardage, completed 20 of 29 attempts (69.0 completion percentage) for 196 yards and three

247sports ranks Noah Wezensky the 74th pro-style quarterback in the nation and the 28th overall player in Indiana. his senior season with an injury, but finished his high school career with 5,149 yards and 46 passing touchdowns.

If Wezensky wants to be Miami’s starting quarterback next season, he’ll have to beat out freshman Billy Bahl, who was named the starter in Week 6 last season, and redshirt freshman Gus Ragland.

“I think he’ll be able to close the gap on Billy and Gus,” Martin said. “I think he’ll be more mature coming in than those kids were. So I think he’ll have an opportunity to get in there

touchdowns in 10 games. He was second on the team in rushing with 331 net yards and two touchdowns on 57 carries.

“I know everybody’s excited about Gus and Billy — and we certainly are — but I know Noah’s planning on trying to come in here and get right in the middle of that mix,” Martin said. “He’s that confident of a player. He played at a program that plays in big games every year, so he’s very calm under pressure. He’s very cerebral. So, he’s mature for a high school senior.”

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Hockey legacy Ryan Savage commits to Miami HOCKEY

HARRISON SCHWARZ STAFF WRITER

Miami University hockey legacy Ryan Savage announced his commitment to the RedHawks Jan. 31 via Twitter. Savage is the son of former Miami Hobey Baker finalist and NHL veteran Brian Savage.

“Proud to announce my commitment to Miami University hockey,” a tweet from Ryan Savage’s personal Twitter account read. “Thank you to all of the coaches and teammates who have helped me #brotherhood.”

The 15-year-old Ryan Savage plays for the Red Bull U-18 team in Salzburg, Austria and has 18 points (eight goals, 10 assists) in nine games this year. His first season with Miami will be the 2019-2020 season.

The 5-foot-10, 165-pounds Montreal native was drafted in the fourth round of the Western Hockey League bantam draft by the Everett Silvertips, though league analysts speculated he fell a couple rounds due to his NCAA connections.

A right-handed forward, Ryan Savage will represent Team USA in the 2016 Junior Olympics.

His father Brian Savage left his

mark in Miami history when he played with the then-Redskins for three seasons (1990-1993).

In his final season with Miami, he led the conference with 37 goals, which is the second-most goals in a season in MU history. His 58 points during that season are the 10th-most in a season in Miami history and earned him a spot in the race for the Hobey Baker award, the prize annually given to the top NCAA hockey player. He was the first Miami player to be named a Hobey Baker finalist.

While at Miami, he also scored the fourth-most game-winning goals in a season (7), the second-most shorthanded goals in a season (4) and the ninth-most goals overall (66). He ranks 42nd all-time for most career points (109).

After Miami, Brian Savage played for the Canadian National Team for two years and represented Canada at the 1994 Olympics, where he earned a silver medal.

He played 11 seasons in the NHL, including nine with the Montreal Canadians. He totaled 192 goals and 167 assists in 674 games. He now works as an international recruiter for the Red Bull Hockey Academy, the program for which Ryan plays.

Headlines beyond Oxford: According to an ESPN report, Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel hit ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley so hard that it ruptured her left eardrum. Manziel is the subjet of a criminal investigation into the alleged assault that took place on Jan. 30.

TODAY IN HISTORY

2011

The Cleveland Cavaliers’ losing streak reaches 26 in a 103-94 loss to the Detroit Pistons. The skid tied the 1976-1977 NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers record for the longest cold streak in U.S. professional sports. The good news for Cavs fans? The Philadephia 76ers set a new record this year (28).

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Senior center and team captain Sean Kuraly had one goal, one assist and 12 shots on goal versus St. Cloud State.

Red and White split weekend series with No. 3 St. Cloud State HOCKEY

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The Miami University hockey team (11-13-3, 6-10-2 National Collegiate Hockey Conference) split a two-game series against St. Cloud State University (23-6-1, 134-1-1 NCHC) this weekend.

On Friday night, MU began the first period with all the momentum but faded late and lost 5-1. The script flipped Saturday night when the RedHawks scored three times in the second period to win 3-2.

Head coach Rico Blasi believes the team made the right adjustments to come out on top Saturday.

“I think the difference between Friday and Saturday night was that we stayed composed and we kept working,” Blasi said. “We made some plays in the second period, whereas [Friday] they took it to us and they dictated the game.”

The ’Hawks dictated most of the first period Friday. They had 16 shots on goal to St. Cloud’s three with 3:20 remaining in the first period, but MU couldn’t convert on any of its shots.

Huskies sophomore defenseman Ethan Prow stunned Miami when he flipped a backhanded shot over goalie Jay Williams’ left shoulder with 39 seconds left in the first period.

The Red and White bounced back quickly in the second period.

Freshman forward Josh Melnick slapped home a rebound off senior forward Alex Gacek’s initial shot.

The Huskies regained the lead with 8:25 left in the second period and never looked back.

Miami outshot St. Cloud State 36-24, though it was a closer 19-18 advantage in the final 40 minutes.

The second game began just as the first did — the RedHawks missed several promising opportunities and the Huskies took advantage of their limited few.

With 1:45 left in the first, SCSU freshman defensemen Jimmy Schuldt slapped a high shot past Williams, putting St. Cloud up 1-0.

Similar to the previous night, Miami bounced back early in the second period. Four and half minutes into the second, Melnick found the back of the net.

Freshman defenseman Grant Hut-

ton received credit on the assist.

The déjà vu ended when senior forward Sean Kuraly roofed a shot from in close over Huskies sophomore goalie Charlie Lingren to give the Hawks a 2-1 lead with 7:16 remaining in the second.

MU’s second period success continued when freshman forward Kiefer Sherwood slapped a onetimer past Lingren to make it 3-1.

Three minutes later, the Huskies found themselves back on the board when freshman forward Patrick Russell found the back of the ’Hawks net.

MU’s defense stopped St. Cloud in the third period, killing two power plays, while Williams stopped 11 shots.

“It was just a great effort all the way around,” Melnick said.

“You have to capitalize on all the chances you can get and I think that was the big difference in the game tonight.”

Miami begins a three-game road trip next weekend. The ‘Hawks play Bowling Green State University Feb. 12 and travel to Western Michigan for a two-game series Feb. 19.

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The senior synchronized skating team performs during the intermission of a Miami hockey game Jan. 29. A week prior, the team had placed second out of 13 at the Mozart Cup in Salzburg, Austria Jan. 23.

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