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Curtains close on Princess Theatre

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The historic Princess Theatre was demolished Monday, to make way for a new housing development that will feature a digital movie theatre on one of its four floors.

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Just a few days ago, the shelves at the Princess Theatre were still stocked with candy. A batch of popcorn, though stale and old, was still piled in the machine, ready to be eaten — even though the theatre had been closed for well over a year.

Before the demolition began Monday, the historic Princess had been around for over a century. It was first opened Sept. 11, 1911 and was originally called the New Oxford Theatre.

From its opening to its demolition this week, the theatre went

through several ownerships and two additional name changes. It wasn’t until 1982 the theatre got name it is known by today.

While it was called the Talawanda Theatre, Angela Provines, a Miami alumna (’75), recalls spending many evenings there.

“Many professors and their families would attend movies there,” Provines said. “It was weird to see them out of the classroom and being ‘real people.’”

An ad for the New Oxford Theatre was featured in a 1938 edition of The Miami Student, promoting ticket prices at only 10 cents for children and 25 cents for adults. Students used to be given discounted prices if they brought

their college IDs. Provines said because of this, the theatre was usually packed, especially on Saturday nights.

The theatre had always been known for its cheap ticket prices, making it a great hangout spot for Oxford’s younger population, like first-year Phoebe Myers.

Myers has lived in Oxford her whole life. She had been watching shows at the Princess Theatre for as long as she can remember. She recalls the day she was allowed to go to the theatre without her parents, when she was 11 years old — a monumental moment.

The theatre, she said, was a large part of her childhood and teenage years.

“Freshman year of high school, all of the English classes read the Hunger Games,” Myers said.

“One day we all walked from the old high school to the Princess to watch the movie, and that was just a really great memory.”

Senior Jillian Runser also remembers watching the same movie at the theater.

“My sophomore year we got free tickets to see the Hunger Games premiere there,” Runser said. “It was just a bunch of girls from my corridor freaking out about it, so it was a lot of fun.”

In the past few years, the theatre has closed and reopened several times. In 2014, not long after it had been renovated, the Princess

caught fire from an overheated ice machine. Although the theatre was not open at the time and no one was hurt, it was shut down due to smoke damage and has remained closed since.

“It was just a really good place to go if you wanted an alternative to going out to bars or just hang out with your friends and relax and forget about what was going on around you,” Runser said.

The theater has been missed in the town since its indefinite closing. Myers said younger kids, especially, have lost something that gave them a sense of freedom.

“It was part of the town’s identity,” Myers said. “It just fit with Oxford.”

University to spend $140M on campus-wide construction projects Trustees request tax money for Pearson, Bachelor updates

Miami University is looking to spend more than $90 million on renovations to Pearson and Bachelor Halls on Oxford campus. During a meeting last Friday, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the proposal of a Capital Improvement Plan for fiscal years 2017 -2022.

The proposal was approved without any further discussion.

“We’re optimistic that a capital bill will move forward in the January/February time frame, and we’re hopeful with our submissions that our priorities will be funded at the highest possible level,” said David Creamer, vice president for finance and business services.

Miami is hoping to receive more than $97 million from the state of Ohio in renovation expenses for buildings on the Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown campuses.

The Pearson Hall renovation is by far the most costly, at $60.1 million.

The renovation will be completed in parts, with Phase 1 taking place during the 2017-2018 fiscal year and Phase 2 taking place during the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

Pearson Hall, home to the

biological science departments, was built in 1985. The building has not been updated since, and the upcoming renovation is intended to modernize and bring it up to current standards.

“The big thing is to provide more flexibility in how we use the spaces,” said Thomas Crist, chair of the Department of Biology.

Crist explained that many of the lab spaces include benches that are immobile, which creates workspaces that cannot be tailored to the needs of specific instructors or classes. The renovation would fix this problem and accommodate both technology and equipment the departments already use, and technology that will become available in the future.

Crist also hopes the renovation will take into consideration the severe lack of communal space for students in Pearson Hall by creating more study areas.

Like Pearson, Bachelor Hall, home to the English and Mathematics Departments, also hasn’t been updated since it was built in 1978.

The renovation to Bachelor Hall is a proposed $32 million, and will take place during the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

The remaining $5.4 million is intended for general building repairs

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on the Hamilton and Middletown campuses.

Creamer explained the faculty members of the departments in each building will be asked for suggestions about what is in need of renovation.

In addition to the funding from the state of Ohio, Creamer expects Miami will need to secure between $11 million and $20 million in a local match in order for the Pearson Hall renovation to proceed on schedule.

“The amount that is appropriated by the state of Ohio won’t allow us to keep up with the aging of our facilities,” said Creamer.

The state of Ohio has been able to fully fund similar projects in past years, but a decline in federal contributions has created a need for local funding to support these necessary renovations.

“This issue is made worse by a growing backlog of academic building projects that may require even more local funding if projects are to be undertaken more timely,” said Mark Ridenour, chair of the board’s finance and audit committee.

Local funding will most likely come in the form of fundraising and university funds originally intended

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Armstrong opened in 2013, when several student organization spaces in Shriver relocated, subsequently leaving large portions of the building vacant and unused.

“It created opportunities to make improvements in the space and meet other needs on the campus,” Creamer said at the trustee meeting.

Currently, Shriver houses the H.O.M.E. office, the university bookstore and an auditorium, as well as a print and IT Services desk.

One goal of the completed renovation project is to allow Miami’s recruitment offices, currently housed in the Campus Avenue Building, to relocate to a more central area of campus.

As such, the first floor of the revamped Shriver Center will be dedicated to an admission center, as well as 250-seat auditorium, expanded bookstore space, a new convenience store and counseling rooms.

“I think these enhancements further reflect the improvements we will achieve through the Armstrong project that will now allow us to make further improvements in student services within the Shriver Cen-

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The 50-year-old Shriver Center is getting a $20 million face lift after the Board of Trustees unanimously endorsed renovation plans.

The trustees announced Phase I of the project — which will use university funds — at the Sept. 25 board meeting. The construction will update the former student center with refurbished office spaces, meeting rooms, a larger bookstore and a welcome center.

The estimated completion date is in January 2017.

Opened in 1957, the Shriver Center served as the student center for several decades, equipped with a popular food court and student common area on the first floor. However, Shriver’s small size and fragmented layout, according to Miami University’s archives, led ASG to propose the creation of a new student center in 2004, sparking the construction of Armstrong Student Center in 2011.

Vice President of Finance and Business Services David Creamer said plans for the Shriver renovations have been in the works since

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This day in 1956, The Miami Student reported the Oxford Chamber of Commerce initiated an annual fall festival that included games, booths and contests. The main event was the Melon Mess, a watermelon eating contest.

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Oxford Coffee Co. and the man behind the mug PROFILE

EMILY TATE

MANAGING EDITOR

He takes his coffee straight, preferably a light or medium roast — and, please, don’t spoil it with cream or sugar.

Robert Thurston has a unique relationship with coffee. It would be hard to understand him without an inherent appreciation for a good cup of joe.

“I’m pretty crazy about coffee,” he said, his voice nearly drowned out by the loud hum of a coffee roaster in the back of his shop.

Thurston, 65, is a founder and managing partner of Oxford Coffee Company, a local roastery and coffee bar tucked away on Locust Street, between LaRosa’s and Oxford Spirits.

Oxford Coffee Co. officially opened in 2012, but Thurston’s passion for the beverage developed much earlier.

“Everyone in the specialty coffee industry remembers their first really, really good cup of coffee,” he said. “Everybody.”

For Thurston, that moment came in the late ‘70s.

“It was a wake-up call,” he said. “Like, ‘Oh, my god, this is a different type of beverage. I’ve been drinking swill.’”

Thurston vividly remembers his mother making her coffee in a steel drip pot. She bought Maxwell House coffee, the beans already ground up.

“When she opened that fresh can of Maxwell House, there would be one puff of wonderful scent — just, ‘Oh, my god’ — and then it was gone,” he said. “The coffee was terrible, I know it was terrible to this day.”

After his first cup, Thurston continued to seek out the “good stuff,” like coffea Arabica, but he didn’t look beyond that for almost 30 years.

Instead, he focused on what he knew best: modern Russian history.

A Washington, D.C. native, Thurston graduated high school outside of Cleveland and attended Northwestern University for his undergraduate schooling. During that time, the Vietnam War was raging, and Thurston was troubled with questions about the war, the domino theory and communism — all of which could be traced back to the Soviet Union.

So, he took up the Russian language to complement his history degree, then went on to earn a doctorate in modern Russian history from the University of Michigan.

He spent several years in Russia, even met his wife in Moscow during one of the trips.

But 25 years ago, the Thurston family decided to settle down in Oxford, where they raised their two children and taught at Miami University — Thurston as a history professor, and his wife, Margaret Ziolkowski, as professor and chair of the Russian, German, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures department.

Raised by a connoisseur, his daughter, Lara, grew up drinking

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Robert Thurston opened Oxford Coffee Co. in 2012. The coffee shop offers an alternative to Uptown shops. quality coffee. “[Good coffee] has always been consistent,” she said. “My dad used to roast in a really small machine on the front porch of our house.”

But in 2002, Thurston had a new idea. He realized he could incorporate coffee in the classroom by teaching a history course about the evolution and impact of the industry.

Thurston sees coffee as much more than a drink. It is connected to many critically important elements of life — climate change, ecotourism, social justice for farmers, global trade and globalization.

Miami allowed him to teach the class, and by 2004, the university was funding Thurston’s travel to cof-

fee farms across the globe. He spent a summer in Ethiopia and Kenya and the following fall in Nicaragua.

Those trips only cultivated Thurston’s interest, he said.

“It really hooked me,” he said. “It was great to see the whole process from the ground up.”

In total, Thurston has visited origin coffee farms in nine different countries. However, now that he’s retired, he intends to visit many others.

“My wife and I have, of course, plans to conquer the world of coffee,” he said.

In the meantime, though, Thurston will continue to bring the world of coffee directly to Oxford.

Unlike markets in Los Angeles or

New York, which can afford to sell highly specialized coffee, the same would be difficult to sustain in a small market like Oxford, he said.

“Here, I think it’s better for us to bring in a variety of coffees from around the world,” Thurston said.

“It’s a little more fun to experience with more coffees.”

Ethiopian Sidamo, Costa Rican Tarrazu, Brazilian Daterra, Sumatran Mandheling, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe — these are the beans, the beverages, Thurston lives for.

As for the future of the Oxford Coffee Co., well, he’s already given that some thought.

“They’ll have to take me out feet first.”

Large classes increase as Miami student Housing development plan body grows, student engagement impacted to be voted on next week ACADEMICS

ANGELA HATCHER THE MIAMI STUDENT

It’s 11:30 on a Friday morning. Miami University first-year Darshini Parthasarathy shuffles around in her seat as she prepares for her professor’s anthropology lecture. Her laptop is open, Google Docs at the ready. She is eager for the lesson to begin.

Compare her demeanor to the 291 other students who sit around her in a wild disarray, Twittering and Tindering, and you would think that Parthasarathy is a diamond in the rough.

“I’m really focused compared to the majority,” she says, chuckling.

“But I’m here to learn.”

Parthasarathy is among the many undergraduate students who have multiple large lecture hall classes dominating their schedules. But, unlike her classmates, she actually enjoys her class.

First-year Akosua Boadi-Agyemang says that her geology professor still doesn’t know her name.

Sophomore Savannah Boerger said it was hard to form connections in her organic chemistry class. Firstyear Davis Lange typically has his hand in the air for 10 minutes before he gets called on in his psychology class. First-year Mona Mae Juwillie says there is a disconnect between professor and student in her anthropology lecture.

The lecture hall environment, while allowing undergraduates to fulfill their general Miami Plan requirements, often leaves students feeling like they are not reaching their full potentials in the classroom.

Miami is trying to rectify this and maintain its reputation for excel-

lence in the undergraduate learning experience by keeping a low student-to-faculty ratio.

“More important in my opinion than average class size is studentto-teacher ratio ... class size simply refers to the number of seats offered for each section of a class,” said Carolyn Haynes, associate provost.

According to data from Miami University’s website, over the past 10 years, undergraduate enrollment has steadily increased. In the past 15 years, Miami’s student population has increased by 21 percent, from 14,914 undergraduates during the 2000-2001 academic year to roughly 17,000 undergraduates for this school year.

The growing number of students has led to a consequential growth in individual class sizes. This year, there are 85 classes with more than 100 students, up from 55 in the ‘05’06 school year, according to data from Banner Web. Miami’s solution?

Hire more faculty.

In accordance with the enrollment, the amount of full time professors the university has hired follows the trend. Miami University’s website shows for the years 20002001, Miami had 787 full time faculty members.

For this academic year, that has increased by roughly 31 percent, to 930 professors.

Haynes says that the average class size for the past 10 years has been around 28 to 30 students. The student to faculty ratio has also remained steady at 17:1.

To put this in perspective, the national average class size is roughly 80 to 100 students and the student to faculty ratio is about 37:1.

With all the negative student sentiments, professors speak out

about how they feel teaching these classes.

Professor and program chair of anthropology and professor of international studies, Mark Allen Peterson, said he understands the student perspective. He teaches an anthropology lecture class of 300.

“The challenge is always engaging critical thinking,” he says.

“Small classes almost always work better. Large is best for the lower division requirements where you’re mainly receiving information. But, as always, there are things lost, and things gained.”

Peterson has his students fill out a survey asking what he should change in the course, what he can do better. He says the feedback is almost always positive.

“I modify the course based on their responses. It’s important to me ... as good teaching is important to Miami.”

Parthasarathy said the quality of classes — big or small — relies entirely on the professor.

“Compare physics and anthropology,” Parthasarathy says. “My physics class has 100 [students] and anthropology has 300. Yet, I learn better in my anthropology class. It just all boils down to the professor — how engaging they are and how well they teach you the material.”

As Parthasarathy reflects on her day and heads off to physics, looking slightly annoyed at the prospect of having to sit through another lecture, she remains optimistic.

“All classes are really what you make it,” she says. “At the end of the day, whether we pay attention or not is up to us. Sure, having a good professor helps, but the quality of our education, the outcome ... I guess that depends on how much we put in.”

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Oxford residents and city council members are concerned about the impact of a new housing complex proposed for Southpointe Parkway, near Level 27 Apartments.

The city council will vote on the proposal at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Oxford Court House.

The 37-acre complex is the vision for real estate agency Trinitas Ventures, and has caused sharp backlash from those hoping to preserve the now-open land and steer away from large developments.

Local resident Craig Erickson has apprehensions about the cost of public services like trash and utilities. Erickson fears residents will have to spend their tax dollars to provide services to students during the academic year.

He is also concerned the rent of the new residences will be too high for non-students to afford.

“When an area like this is created for part-time residents, basically non-income tax paying residents, we’re creating additional demand on the services of the city for an indefinite period of time,” said Erickson. “Is there any possibility for an average income earner, including many of us in this room, to actually live in such a place?”

Oxford’s planning commission first rejected the proposal at its August 2014 meeting. Then, in May, council voted 5 to 2 against Trinitas student housing plan that prompted the Indiana-

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based company to file a lawsuit against the city. The city then approved a measure to settle with the developers.

This approval was not met kindly, as David Prytherch, chairman of the Planning Commission, told The Student in a Sept. 11 article that, “This is a case with a long history, and lately had a cloud of litigation looming over it.”

Councilman Richard Keebler has concerns about whether public services or private contrac-

Oxford already has a housing surplus — out of 7,200 properties, only 61.8 percent are currently being rented. tors will serve water and sewage treatment to residents of the proposed complex. Keebler’s question comes amid concerns whether private contractors will uphold their commitment to providing water and sewage services.

Trinitas’ proposed housing complex would include an estimated 194 units, or 668 beds, and 64 townhomes. This is a decrease from the original proposal of 225 units.

Oxford already has a housing surplus — out of 7,200 properties, only 61.8 percemt are being rented — making some question why the new complex is necessary. Miami Preserve, another apartment complex near Kroger, opened this year and contains 68 units.

Two scenarios could play out depending on how council votes next week, according to city documents. If the Trinitas plan is approved, Council would have 14 days to submit comments or instructions to to the corporation.

If rejected, Trinitas could be exempt from several zoning provisions and resubmit the original proposal that council voted against in May. City documents noted that, in the event the Preliminary Current Planned Urban Development (P.U.D.) is resubmitted, the new proposal will be permitted regardless of any provisions in Oxford’s Zoning Code, Codified Ordinances or Charter.

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Part 1: Same high school, same college, different paths SERIES

EMILY CULBERSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

This is the first of four stories following a group of students through their first year of college.

College is a time for growth and new beginnings; closing old doors and opening new ones. Four firstyear students entered Miami all from the same Cincinnati high school, Oak Hills, but have already begun to take very different paths in Oxford.

For first-year Becca Miller, college has been a lot more welcoming than she initially expected.

“People are a lot more understanding and mature and a lot nicer [at Miami than at my high school],” Miller said.

Miller is a forensic science major who has already found herself growing and changing through her Miami experience.

“I was really shy [in high school],” Miller said. “It was obvious in the way that I held myself and it was obvious in the way that if someone tried to talk to me in class I just kind of shrugged them off.”

But Miller admitted she already senses a change in herself.

“I’m good at socializing now,” Miller said. “I don’t know what hap-

pened between high school and college, I just blossomed. I started talking a lot more and I’ve made a lot of friends because I don’t care what other people think anymore.”

Meanwhile, first-year Samantha Bosse said she is worried she will not have enough time in the day to participate in all that Miami has to offer.

Bosse and Miller are roommates, but only by chance. They both went ran-

want to figure out what all there is on campus to do and be a part of and it’s been only a month and I [already] do the same thing every day,” Bosse said.

Along with the lack of variation in her routine, Bosse is finding it hard to fit in all activities of interest into her very busy schedule.

“I’d like to get in a business organization because I’m at [the Farmer

I didn’t anticipate the feeling of ‘holy crap, I’m on my own.’ There’s no one there to wake you up in the morning except your alarm, there’s no one telling you to get your [work] done except for you.

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dom and wound up with each other. “[In high school] I was very focused on my schoolwork,” Bosse said. “Grades came first. I was in lots of clubs and things, so pretty involved I’d say. I didn’t go to parties a whole lot.”

Bosse is majoring in marketing and said she has already fallen into a routine at Miami.

“I feel like I’m already set in a routine and I hate that because I

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School of Business] and they say you should join an organization in Farmer and out of Farmer,” Bosse said. “I tried to but it didn’t really fit in my schedule.”

But Bosse admits she still appreciates the freedoms that college offers through its overall design.

“High school is a lot more structured [than college] because you go to class and there are bells between all your classes and you have no de-

cisions to make,” Bosse said. “You are just going to school.”

For first-year Joe Anderson, Miami has been a great experience so far due to the support group of friends he came with from Oak Hills.

“I came in [Miami] with a really good group of friends right away and we’re always together so it’s like a comfort zone at this point which is nice,” Anderson said.

But Anderson, a software engineering major, still sees change coming his way through his college experiences.

“I think I’ll do a pretty good job at not changing [who I am] in the negative way,” Anderson said. “Hopefully I’ll make positive changes, I [just] don’t know what those are yet.”

But completing the transition from high school to college already proved to be fairly simple, according to Anderson.

“It’s been a pretty easy transition,” Anderson said. “I’ve always had a pretty good amount of independence so it wasn’t a huge shift. I just was transitioning from being independent at home to being independent away from home. It felt natural.”

Anderson’s friend from Oak Hills, first-year Rylan Hixson, said his transition to college still proved to be a bit

of a shock in some aspects, despite having supportive friends.

“I didn’t anticipate this feeling of ‘holy crap, I’m on my own,’” Hixson said. “There’s no one there to wake you up in the morning except your alarm, there’s no one telling you to get your [work] done except for you.”

Hixson is a university studies major and said he is still absorbing all that Miami has to offer.

“I didn’t expect college [scheduling] to be this different,” Hixson said. “You’re not in a routine like you are in high school, which I appreciate so much more because it keeps things fresh, it keeps life interesting.”

Along with all the nuances that college brings, Hixson is struggling with the distance from his girlfriend in Cincinnati.

“I miss my girlfriend. She’s in Cincinnati and it’s really hard not seeing her every day,” Hixson said. “If she was here I would feel complete here. She’s the missing puzzle piece.”

Despite that missing piece, Hixson said Miami is where he belongs.

“You see that sunset through the trees and you’re just like ‘Oh, my gosh, this place is beautiful,’” Hixson said. “There is no where else I’d rather be.”

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EMILY O’CONNOR

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Miami serves as a home for many — typically, for only a few shorts years of their lives. But for Debbie Mason, assistant to President David Hodge, Miami has been her home for more than three decades. As a student, faculty member, parent and friend, Debbie has changed the lives of thousands.

One year after graduating high school in 1980, Mason began working at the university in the physical education office. Since then, she has moved to the development office and now assists Hodge in Roudebush Hall.

Along with making sure Hodge is in the right place at the right time, making travel arrangements and serving on the President’s Executive Cabinet, Mason has been dedicated to completing her bachelor’s degree from Miami.

Hodge speaks of Mason in the highest regard.

“She is truly an amazing person,” said Hodge. “She embodies those qualities of personal caring that make Miami so special.”

She began taking courses 30 years ago, but took a large break in the middle to raise her family. Mason and her husband have five kids.

Four of their kids have graduated from Miami, and one is currently a nursing student at the university.

“Taking classes with little kids ended up being impossible,” said Mason. “I give the biggest kudos to single mothers.”

Once her children were older and more independent, she began the path toward her bachelor’s degree for the second time.

“Ten years ago I really took it seriously and started to finish,” she said.

While reflecting on the past 30 years of classes, Mason has the most gratitude for Miami’s January term.

Over the years she used the terms to knock out almost an entire semester.

After years of hard work and dedication to Miami, Mason graduated with her bachelor’s in May 2015.

Her integrated studies degree allows her to combine two different majors: business and technical writing and small business management with a minor in communications.

Ted Pickerill, who has worked with Mason since 2011, said Mason is a true joy to work with and he has the highest respect for her. He said what she has done over the year with her career, family and school speaks to her ineradicable character and dedication.

“She is truly inspiring,” said Pickerill. “To flawlessly manage the

DEBBIE MASON schedule and activities of a university president all while taking classes and raising a family, it is absolutely amazing.”

University counsel Robin Parker, who has worked with Mason for 20 years, said her sense of humor, honesty and kindness make everyone in the office love her.

The students at Miami are Mason’s favorite thing about Miami.

“They were so accepting and generous,” she said.

When Mason walked into the classroom, she was always the oldest student in the room. She said she was worried about unwanted on classroom teams or being paired with younger students due to her age. To her disbelief, she never experienced negative reactions from students in class.

“I never felt unwanted,” said Mason. “Students here are great and so open-minded.”

She described how nice it was being around other people who wanted to learn and she appreciated that so many students are studious and care about grades.

“This campus is always vibrant, interesting and there is always something going on here,” she said.

One of Mason’s involvements outside of the university is flipping houses and watching TV shows about similar projects.

“I have done two so far,” said Mason. “I hope to do another when I retire.”

Hodge said, Mason also plays on the Roudebush broom ball team, “Team Rowdybush.”

“She has been our star broom ball goalie over the past 10 years,” Hodge said.

“She treats everyone with kindness and respect,” said Parker. “I love working with Debbie.”

After spending so many years at Miami, Mason said she couldn’t imagine herself anywhere else. Mason plans to stay at Miami until she retires. After that, she plans to continue flipping houses with her husband and spending time with her nine grandchildren.

“I could never imagine working in a cubicle, it’d be horrible,” she said.

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A student takes an exam online in class. Increased use of online tools for quizzes and exams has caused new problems for professors trying to curb cheating in classes.

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JACK CHRISTIANSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

As more professors turn to electronic assignments and exams to assess their students, through platforms like Niihka and Canvas, the number of students cheating, as well as the number caught, is rising.

Brenda Quaye, coordinator for academic integrity, said she sees increasing cases of academic dishonesty each year.

Although the final report for the last academic year is not yet complete due to pending spring cases, Quaye said the department saw around 315 cases last year, on and offline. This is a significant rise from the approximate 250 cases she saw the year prior.

“Any suspected academic dishonesty needs to be reported to department chairs,” Quaye said.

She believes there is more cheating occurring than is reported. However, being at her third institution with this profession, Quaye said the amount of reported cheating at Miami is similar to many other mid-sized universities.

“Online assessments provide expanded avenues for academic dishonesty as well as for faculty to detect academic dishonesty and make assignments harder to cheat on,”

Quaye said.

She also noted online exams must be taken in sequential order and often have time limits to deter student cheating and collaboration.

When it comes to online homework assignments, Quaye said many people assume everything is fair game if the assignment is not completed in class.

Quaye said she hopes faculty will be even more diligent to combat dishonesty in the future by putting more rules in their syllabi.

Scott Millen, professor of micro-

Online assessments provide expanded avenues for academic dishonesty.

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biology, takes a different approach to his Canvas quizzes. His are intentionally open-note, open-book and students have three attempts at each question.

The purpose behind this, he said, is to force students to look up the course material. He purposely phrases questions in a way that cannot be easily searched online.

First-year Coburn Gillies said he would not stop someone if he witnessed them cheating, saying it’s none of his business.

Gillies said he sees students cheating on a daily basis.

“When it comes to online assignments, most students cheat,” Gillies said.

While Canvas already employs the plagiarism analysis service of turnitin.com, this only monitors openended responses.

For multiple-choice assessments, the university is currently piloting remote proctoring products, which monitor students via video as they take online exams.

Gillies said he would be much more cognizant if Miami were to increase measures to monitor student dishonesty.

Quaye believes by cheating, students miss information and essential building blocks for both future classes and for life.

Gillies agreed, saying academic dishonesty cheats a student out of the opportunity to learn.

“If someone is determined to cheat, they will find a way. As professors, we accept that, and some students will get away with it,” Millen said. “Our philosophy as teachers is that [cheating] will work for now in a class, [but] ultimately it’s going to lead them to fail in life.”

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Behind the curtain: A night at ‘One Acts’ THEATRE

ALISON PERELMAN THE MIAMI STUDENT

By 6 p.m. on opening night of the theatre department’s production of One Acts, the actors in “The Last Cigarette” are already in hair and makeup, while the crew sweeps the stage and checks all the lights.

Junior Sloan Kyler, stage manager for “These Seven Sicknesses,” runs around the Center for Performing Arts. She checks on the ushers and goes through what needs to be done when people arrive and during intermission. She rounds up her actors, telling them to go to the dressing room and start getting ready. She checks back with the crew. They’re changing a light that has burnt out, but everything else seems to be ready.

Sloan runs into Molly Laska, stage manager for the first act, “The Last Cigarette,” in the lobby. Molly offers her a cookie from Insomnia and Sloan gladly takes one.

“This cookie is saving my life right now,” she says after taking a bite, finally able to stop for a minute and breathe.

But then it’s right back to work.

She heads back to the dressing room.

Her actors are all in various states of dress as they dance and sing along to “Uptown Funk.” There’s gossip and laughter, and, of course, they have to get a picture together.

Sloan calls 10 minutes until fight call, when they rehearse complex scenes, and the girls scramble to finish getting dressed.

It’s now about 6:40 p.m. and Karly Danos walks around the stage, taking her space and centering herself.

“I’m feeling good … Yeah, I’m nervous, but it’s a good nervous. I accept that it’s never going to be perfect … but I’m going to do my best,

that’s all I can do,” she says.

Rylan Hixson arrives and they practice a water throwing scene one more time. They both walk the stage while doing various voice warm ups before coming together to do an exercise. They face each other and count off as they shake their arms and legs. By the end, they can’t keep straight faces and laugh as they walk off the stage.

The Act Two actors arrive. They circle up to breathe, and do voice warm ups and play a few rounds of “Zip, Zap, Zop.” They practice their few fight scenes, then circle up again to pass around the good energy.

The crew sweeps and mops the stage one last time.

Sloan meets with her actors and Molly takes her place in the call booth. She and the two guys helping with sound and lights check the mics and watch as the audience files in.

“I haven’t had a free night since the beginning of this school year for this show,” Molly says.

The lights dim. The show begins.

But, just as one group sighs with relief and receives congratulations, another tenses with nerves and excitement, ready to break a leg.

The actors in “These Seven Sicknesses” wait for the cue to take their places. They chatter with excitement, trying to stay calm.

“I’m so excited, let’s do this!

I’m ready to go, I can’t wait!” says Colin Sapienza.

Rylan and Karly agreed that the worst part was the anticipation of waiting backstage. It felt like forever before they were finally able to take the stage, then the show seemed to go by in the blink of an eye.

But all of the practice, nerves and anticipation are worth it.

“I want to go out and do it again right now,” says Rylan, grinning.

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Play me a song, you’re the piano man PEOPLE

ELIZABETH HANSEN THE MIAMI STUDENT

He started teaching himself the piano when he got to college — the third day, actually.

“I saw a piano and I thought, ‘Oh cool, we can play that.’”

When he’s not going to class, doing homework, playing pool, ping-pong or club football, Javon Stovall can be found playing the piano in the basement of Havighurst Hall.

“I mean, I like to think I’m good.”

The mechanical engineering major taught himself by watching YouTube videos on his phone.

His favorite part of the piano is the pedals.

“They make really cool nois-

es. I don’t know what the left pedal is for, but the right pedal is like a full tone. The middle is more open — almost like an organ. It’s cool.”

He continues playing “Same Love” by Macklemore.

“I’ve been working on this one for awhile. It’s one of my favorites.”

He was torn between Bowling Green and Miami, but when he got here, he knew this was where he belonged.

“I hadn’t even gone on the tour yet. We were still in the parking garage and I was like, ‘Mom, I’m gonna go here.’”

He starts playing “Painted Black” by ACDC. “I probably miss my girlfriend the most, or just knowing where everything is, but other than that I

don’t really get homesick.”

When he does go back home, what he’s going to miss is playing the piano.

He plans on asking for one for Christmas.

“I tried to learn Jingle Bells, but that one is just a lot of coordination that I don’t have.”

He plays the first verse of Jingle Bells.

“Oh wait, never mind. I got it.”

He eventually wants to learn how to play a full song that requires more than one hand, but it’s hard for him to find time between school and all his other activities.

“The latest I’ve ever stayed up playing the piano was probably two in the morning. But it was a weekend.”

He finishes playing the piano and heads to the pool table.

We scream for ‘Scream Queens’ TELEVISION

DEVON SHUMAN

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

In its representation of college life and the Greek system, Fox’s “Scream Queens” is terrible — it’s outlandish, it’s over embellished and it plays on horrible and insulting stereotypes.

And that’s what makes it so good.

In the world of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s (“Glee,” “American Horror Story”) new show, everyone is fair game. From sorority girls and frat boys, to nerds and school administrators, nobody is safe. This is mostly because, off-screen, the creators find ways to poke fun at all of these character types, but it’s also because, onscreen, someone is trying to murder them.

“Scream Queens” centers on the fictional sorority, Kappa Kappa Tau (which, one character points out, was apparently founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio).

Headed by the rich, beautiful and socially ruthless Chanel (Emma Roberts), Kappa is easily the most popular sorority on campus.

That all begins to change, however, after a serial killer in a red devil costume begins to pick the girls off in classic one-by-one fashion. This, in turn, prompts the anti-Greek (and most importantly, anti-Kappa) Dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis), to announce that Kappa must accept anyone who wishes to become a pledge, leaving Chanel and her snooty sisters with a pledge class of nerds and outcasts.

As the bodies begin to pile up, the girls start to uncover a secret about a deadly occurrence in the Kappa House 20 years ago, a secret that might be linked to the current killings.

In a preview of the series at Comic-Con, Murphy teased the show as, “‘Halloween’ meets ‘Heathers,’” referencing the blend of horror and teen drama. In reality though, “Scream Queens” is

more akin to the late Wes Craven’s “Scream” than it is to “Halloween.”

It’s not an homage to the slasher genre — it’s a takedown of it.

Murphy and Falchuk capture everything we’ve ever yelled at the screen while watching a cheap horror flick.

This satirical tone is exactly what allows the series to function.

Without it, we are left with a cast of characters who embody their stereotypes better than a Miami student wearing Vineyard Vines.

“Scream Queens” doesn’t just criticize horror movies and Greek life — it criticizes everything.

From the Tumblr feminist, to the creepy investigative newspaper editor, to the overprotective father, Murphy and Falchuk find a way to poke fun at almost all of the stereotypes within the show.

The only problem here is that we are left without any good and virtuous characters to root for.

Even Grace, the kind and rational pledge, comes across as a flat and unsympathetic character. Not to worry, however. With the high body count in each episode, if you don’t like a character, all you have to do is wait a little bit and they’ll most likely end up slaughtered.

With its focus on satire, “Scream Queens” drops the ball on many logistical issues such as why a top tier sorority like KKT only has five active members, or why we rarely see any student in class or studying. But with the focus on humor and social commentary, these oversights can be forgiven.

In other settings, the insanity of this show would be out of place and offensive. But, with “Scream Queens,” Murphy and Falchuk found a way to make it work.

With a cast of characters who could all plausibly be either the killer or the next one to go, it’s not just a funny satire; it’s an intriguing whodunit.

And it’s one of the best new shows of the fall season.

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What we don’t know PEOPLE

EMILY SIMANSKIS MIAMI STUDENT

He never goes anywhere without a smile and a Wisconsin accent.

Spend a day with him and you’d know that Victor Pinto is perhaps one of the most liked people on campus.

But you wouldn’t know that he used to do double-sided math worksheets to earn a penny from his mom and has sung for the Dalai Lama.

You wouldn’t know that he runs, rock climbs, swims, bikes, sings and

plays the guitar, ukulele and piano.

You wouldn’t know that he is allergic to eggs and has a rare heart condition where he feels pain similar to a 10-to-15-second heart attack.

You wouldn’t know that he has tri-citizenship, but considers himself Brazilian.

You wouldn’t know that he is a certified nursing assistant, has worked at McDonald’s, is at Miami by chance and aspires to join the Air Force.

You’d know that he likes to

give compliments more than he likes to receive them, but you wouldn’t know why.

You wouldn’t know that in sixth grade he was fat and bullied and depressed.

You wouldn’t know that in seventh grade he tried to kill himself.

And so, if you knew Victor Pinto, you’d know why last year he wrote a poem called, “Lighten Up.” And you’d know why he keeps a laminated, hand-written note of thanks from a stranger named Martina in his wallet.

Haygood pens book about Thurgood Marshall PROFILE

MEGAN BOWERS

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Wil Haygood (’76) would have never guessed that being fired from his job as a retail executive in New York City would lead to the journalistic success he has today.

“I wanted to find a career I was passionate about and I had always liked writing,” said Haygood.

He started out as a copy editor for a small newspaper, The Charleston West Virginia Gazette, and quickly moved up the ranks, writing as a foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe and eventually as a national correspondent for the Washington Post.

During his time at The Boston Globe, he began his journey as an author, writing his first of seven books, “Two on the River,” about a 45-day trip he took down the Mississippi.

He continued to write books as his journalistic career evolved and eventually pursued a solo career as an author.

His most recent book, “Show-

down: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Vote That Changed America,” took a total of five years to research and write.

“When writing a nonfiction historical book, I will travel around the country to research on that person,” said Haygood. “In the case of Thurgood Marshall, I tried to find people who knew him and who had seen him in the courtroom as a lawyer.”

The challenge with this form of research is that the people he wanted to talk to were often of a more advanced age.

“It was a lot of digging, trying to find names, trying to find where the people lived, assessing if their memory was still sharp to remember all these events,” said Haygood.

“I felt very fortunate to find the people who I did.”

For “Showdown,” Haygood chose to write a nonlinear biography that takes the reader back and forth between Room 2228 in the U.S Senate Building in Washington D.C, to the hometowns of the senators, so you can understand why they did or did not approve of Thurgood Marshall becoming a Su-

preme Court Justice.

“Thurgood Marshall was a very brave man, he fought for human rights and human dignity for all people, black as well as white, men and women, and I like to think that the book comes at a unique time in history, this is the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act,” said Haygood.

After the success of the “The Butler,” a movie based on one of his stories, it came as no surprise to him that there is already talk about turning “Showdown” into a movie or mini-series.

The evening his story about Eugene Allen, the butler who served in the White House for three decades, appeared on the front page of the Washington Post in 2008, he received at least eight offers from movie studios in Hollywood looking to buy the rights to the story.

Eventually the rights were purchased by Laura Ziskin, who hired Daniel Strong as screenwriter and Lee Daniels as Director. Actors such as Forest Whitaker, Oprah HAYGOOD » PAGE 5

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A public presidential search benefits candidates, not just MU community EDITORIAL

Earlier this semester, Miami’s American Association of University Professors (AAUP) laid at the feet of the Board of Trustees a petition, signed by 143 members, calling for the board to bring at least two presidential candidates to campus for public forums and evaluation. Last Friday, they answered with disregard.

The presidential search is to be kept secret, conducted behind closed doors among the Board of Trustees and Isaacson, Miller — a distant executive search committee hired

by Miami. Students and faculty will have little to no say in who becomes the next face of the university.

“Students and faculty should say it is unacceptable for the community to be presented with a single candidate.

All that is is a pronouncement. It’s bad public policy. Period.”

James Finkelstein’s quote sheds light on a disturbing disparity — that the board’s obtuse decision to neglect the AAUP’s petition and keep

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board. the search secret represents its lack of regard for Miami’s students and faculty.

What little say that faculty and students do have will come in the form of an unidentified search committee made up of a trustee, the chair of the Miami University Foundation board, three faculty members, an undergraduate student, a senior administrator and an alumnus.

One undergraduate. The Board of Trustees needs to explain how one undergraduate is representative of Miami University’s student body as a whole. Will students get to elect their representative? How much influence will the undergraduate have over other committee members?

Any committee seeking undergraduate input should have students from ASG, Greek life and the regional campuses. The students should be diverse in race and gender and represent multiple academic departments.

If the search is going to be private,

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at the least, students should have a larger panel, with representatives from different departments recommended by faculty.

There is a cosmic disconnect between the trustees, whose primary concern is Miami’s image, and the students who spend four years of their lives here. The president should be the face of the university that students can relate to, not the face of the

Migrant crisis is not just a European problem GLOBAL

MADDIE’S MATTERS If you haven’t seen John Oliver’s recent criticism of FOX News’ blatantly racist depiction of the migrant crisis on Last Week Tonight, stop reading this and look it up immediately.

In a recent broadcast, FOX used a clip of migrants on a bus chanting “Allahu akbar” (an Arabic phrase that means “God is greater”), calling it a “new video” on the migrant crisis. FOX also proposed that European countries, by granting asylum to terrified Muslims looking to escape incredibly infiltrated and dangerous countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, are allowing terrorists to enter the country. In fact, the headline of that news segment began with the phrase, “Terrorists Inbound? Taking refugees could open door to jihadists.”

What was especially exceptional about the FOX video, however, is this clip that was supposed to shed new light on the situation is actually from a video that was posted on YouTube back in 2010, before the real crisis even started.

How’s that for reliable reporting?

Had I been living in the U.S. this year, the migrant crisis would just be another distant issue. But in Europe, it feels desperate, urgent. And it is more complicated than a video of a group of Muslims on a bus. Students in Oxford need to know what they can do to help.

The word “migrant” has essentially become an overarching term for both migrants and refugees, the difference being that the former is moving for better

living conditions or economic opportunities and the latter is fleeing because of persecution based on things like race, religion, etc.

What we call the “migrant crisis” today began as a refugee crisis in North Africa, with Syrians fleeing after the start of the civil war in 2011.

Right around this time is when most official timelines of the refugee crisis moving to Europe begin, with the story of the “leftto-die” boat. In April 2011, 72 Africans attempted to cross the Mediterranean in a plastic boat sending out distress signals. An Italian military aircraft dropped water to the boat in response, then flew away. A French aircraft carrier watched the little boat float by. By the end of the journey, only nine people were left alive and no one in the EU could say they did anything for them.

Europe is feeling the pressure now, but it’s nothing compared to what a select few African countries have been dealing with. According to United Nations, about 380,000 migrants and refugees have come to Europe so far this year alone. But compare that to Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, who have been collectively harboring over 3.6 million Syrian refugees.

“It is true that Europe cannot house all the misery in the world,” said Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission’s President, according to The Guardian. “But we have to put it into perspective … This still represents just 0.11 percent of the EU population. In Lebanon, refugees represent 25 percent of the population.”

This is part of the reason the migrant crisis is making its way north. And, as ISIS’ forces keep surging forward, more staggering statistics do, too. According to TIME, more than half the world’s refugees came from just three

countries: Afghanistan, Syria and Somalia.

What’s happening now in Europe is a frenzy of quota-making, accommodating and division between country leaders. Germany and Sweden have taken in most of the migrants, with Germany pledging that if migrants could find their way to Germany, they would find a home there. This causes tension between the north and the south of the continent, putting pressure on countries like Greece and Italy, as most of the migrants must move through them.

But let’s not forget about home.

Since the start of the crisis in 2011, the U.S. has resettled only about 1,500 refugees. Geographically, this makes some sense, but compared to the staggering number of people fleeing terror and discontent, the United States’ involvement at such a small level is simply unacceptable.

If change is to be made, it can start small, even in Oxford. Think of all the stuff you get rid of at the end of each year. Consider donating to Amazon. Give your books to The Jungle Library. Look up Aylan Kurdi and realize why change needs to be made. Money is not the only thing you can give.

As Oliver so eloquently said during his segment, reducing the migrant crisis to just a few highly charged words and phrases is ignorant and dangerous. Even hoping to sum up the whole issue in an 800-word editorial is naïve.

This is a highly charged moment in history, and the world is inviting anyone to be a part of it. It might seem like it is far away, but the conflicts these refugees are running from are far from over.

Now’s the time to pitch in.

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university that parents and donors find attractive. College is about the students and the student experience.

The singular talking point behind the board’s decision revolves around protecting any potential candidate’s current job.

“I mean, people have lost their jobs because it’s been disclosed that they were looking at another school,” said Claire Wagner, director of university

communications.

This is an unacceptable excuse.

The candidates should see this job as a position well worth the risk. If they aren’t willing to toss their name in the hat, how badly do they really want it?

In the past, Miami has brought finalists for dean positions and held open forums for provost. If other selections are public, why not the president?

It is imperative that any finalists interact with the campus. Miami has a unique feeling that a search committee, or even the trustees, won’t be able to convey as well as students and faculty.

Just as prospective students make multiple college visits before they choose a school, prospective presidents need to visit first to find out if this is the best fit for them. Candidates need an experience with the Miami community just as much as faculty and students need an experience with the candidates.

A big beer conglomerate could spell the end of cheap parties BUSINESS

GRETA HALLBERG THE MIAMI STUDENT

College partying is synonymous with cheap beer. Natty and Keystone Light permeate the party scene — shot-gunned, spilled and chugged by the gallon every weekend in Oxford and other college towns across the United States.

But dirt-cheap beer, like Brick Street’s $1 pitchers on Saturday afternoons, might be a thing of the past if the proposal by Anheuser-Busch InBev to acquire SABMiller goes through.

Brewing conglomerate Anheuser-Busch is the leading American brewer with 46.4 percent of market share for U.S. beer. Budweiser, Busch, Michelob and Natural are among Anheuser-Busch’s brand portfolio. They also have Stella Artois, Shock Top, Rolling Rock and craft brewery Goose Island.

SABMiller’s American venture with Molson Coors Brewing Company is not far behind.

Miller Coors enjoys 27 percent of the U.S. beer market share as the second largest brewing company. Besides the obvious Miller and Coors brands, the company also owns Keystone, Blue Moon and Leinenkugel’s.

The merger would create a mega-company that owns 70 percent of the market share for beer in the United States.

Anheuser-Busch’s purchase would effectively remove its biggest competitor. For those of you who aren’t economics majors, that’s called a monopoly.

The combination has been in the works for some time, but Anheuser-Busch made the announcement in September. Both companies have seen some decline in sales, losing business to the explosion of microbreweries across the country.

Craft breweries make up about 11 percent of the market. These microbreweries are small and independent, and there are over 4,000 of them in the United States. Their combined yearly beer production and sales are mere fractions of what Anheuser-Busch produces.

The rise of craft breweries may be a detriment to the big beer business. The loss of profits from big beer reflects a change in consumer preferences toward unique taste in malt beverages and the connection to a local company.

However, no single microbrewery has enough economic power to pose a real threat.

Craft breweries also tend to charge slightly higher prices than mass-produced favorites like Bud Light. Small companies have fewer resources at their dis-

posal and often face startup costs.

They do offer a different product and a more intimate drinking experience, especially with local brewery tours and taproom tastings. Craft beer also tastes better.

It’s meant to be sipped slowly and enjoyed.

This is a stark contrast to the cases of Keystone or Busch Light that college students consume every weekend. Nobody sits down in O’Pub and drinks a Natty to enjoy the taste. You drink Natty when you plan on reaching high levels of inebriation. You drink Natty to cope with the same playlist of Top 40 songs at New Bar week after week. You drink Natty when you want to party.

Anheuser-Busch and Miller argue that their mega brewing merger would create more innovative products as an alternative to craft beer. But again, historical examples prove that the exact opposite is true. U.S. Steel lost its competitive advantage to “mini mills” that were more productive and innovative than the conglomerate. Huge companies simply are not innovative in the way that small businesses are.

A bigger company will not give Anheuser-Busch and Miller an edge over microbreweries, but further complicate the creative process and in the end, make them worse off. This merger will not help save big beer, but rather drive more customers away to a better quality beverage and comparable price offered by craft breweries.

Additionally, since the same massive brewing company will own previously competing beer brands, they’ll raise prices. Higher prices mean that buying beer in bulk will become more expensive, a detriment to the fraternities and party hosts that make it possible to get drunk for free.

American beer drinkers, college students included, will start to seek out other options when the prices increase.

This merger would destroy the competition that allows Beat the Clock to happen every week.

Competition between Keystone, Natty and other cheap beers is what regulates prices and keeps them low enough to buy in bulk and intoxicate college students everywhere. The combination of these two massive companies would eliminate the competition between the leading inexpensive beers preferred at house parties.

This merger is a death sentence. If it goes through, this merge would herald the demise of college partying, as we know it. It’s a suicide mission for Anheuser-Busch and Miller, too. If the companies were really trying to be smart, they’d cancel the deal.

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Christian morality and other mutilations RELIGION

KYLE HAYDEN DESIGN EDITOR

As a child, I felt alienated by organized religion. The sermons by the preacher seemed so far away from my childhood ears and mind. The same preacher would later come to recite the Shepherd’s prayer over my grandfather’s body when I was 17. I had forgotten the preacher’s name.

I attended a private non-denominational Christian elementary school, attended church, read the Good Book and executed finger paintings and macaroni sculptures for Jesus.

When I became a legal adult, I felt evermore removed from organized religion. My family stopped going to church because of my father’s almost constant military involvement overseas. Mostly what I saw, when I stayed home sick during high school, on the “700 Club,” perplexed me. They bandied about sexual politics and decided who could marry whom. They claimed to know all about everyone’s favorite topic: who has control over women’s vaginas?

I eventually found a different avenue of Christianity, one I didn’t hate to listen to. There is this massive body of literature in the bible, entire unbroken monologues from Jesus about living in solidarity with the poor, giving up material wealth and earthly possessions to live a life in service of our vulnerable, poor and neglected. Passages like this appear in books Luke, Matthew, Ecclesiastes, Mark and the first book of Timothy. Most comfortable churchgoers routinely ignore these messages and calls to action.

Chris Hedges, an ordained minister and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was fired from The New York Times after refusing to propagate the illegal occupation of Iraq in the newspapers.

Hedges graduated from Harvard Divinity School. He spoke on the influence of his father, a Presbyterian minister, in a speech at a town hall in Seattle. Hedges said the source of his non-violence and unflinching civil disobedience originated in what his father taught him.

“My father took me aside one day, it was the Saturday before Easter my sophomore year at Colgate University, some time in the late 1970s. He said to me, ‘This is the last time you’ll see me preach,’ because he was going to go out and preach on the importance of supporting the LGBTQ community in their time of need.”

Hedges’ father was run out of the church on that Easter Sunday and never preached as a Presbyterian minister again. Although he stood in solidarity with the oppressed — something Jesus would

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have advocated — he was run out of church. Why? Hedges said we must not pick and choose which groups of oppressed people it is convenient to support.

He said we must stand with all oppressed people. We must work to dismantle mechanisms of violence and unending war profiteering, not escalate them.

Legions of supposedly Christian folks around the country are filing in to defund Planned Parenthood, and dually prevent the recognition of same sex marriages. These seem to be the highest of priorities on the contemporary Christian laundry list.

Let me be candid: one of Planned Parenthood’s primary objectives is to prevent the abortions that we all wish did not have to happen.

Women and homosexuals are still discriminated against. Many things that citizens are allowed to do, these “others” are relegated to the position of second-class citizen. Is that moral? Is that democratic? Homosexuals are still denied the right to marry, donate blood, denied election to positions of power and are denied jobs and opportunity. Women are still not respected or paid equally. Those from the Christian right are leading the charge for denying women control of their bodies with regard to their access to birth control, medical advice and procedures. So, when these Christians talk about “traditional family values” or the sanctity of marriage or the preservation of Christian morality, I do not recognize what they’re talking about.

The escalating police-militarization state we experience is welcomed by these Christians who view the rest of the world in contempt. They view them not as the subjects of a world economy bent on rendering them disposable, but as extensions of delinquency and sin. Most churches shrug at the mention of systemic racism or structural inequalities.

We routinely ignore the suffering of hundreds of millions around the globe when we park luxury cars next to a church constructed of polished limestone with a 50-foot statue Jesus, open arms facing the highway (Solid Rock Church, Lebanon, Ohio). I don’t know what you mean when you say “morality.”

When members donate 10 percent of their income to their church (Christian Life Center, Vandalia, Ohio) that contributes inconsequential charity and service to those in need while simultaneously builds a glass and steel addition to their congregation space, I don’t know what they mean when they say “morality.”

Dorothy Day, mentioned by Pope Francis in his address to Congress last week as a “Servant of God,” was the progenitor of what became the Catholic Worker movement.

With Peter Maurin, another Catholic social activist, they built houses of hospitality and what they called “Maryfarms.” The houses provided work, food and education to those who needed help and employment during the Great Depression.

Day’s ideas and vision spread throughout the country and hundreds of Catholic Worker houses exist today. They take no government funding; they are not listed as non-profits. They survive solely on individual donations. St. Francis Catholic Worker is on Liberty Street in Over-the-Rhine. There, they provide food, shelter and clothing to anyone who needs it for as long as they need it, unconditionally. These radical Catholics live in solidarity with the poor. They embrace the true message of Christianity.

Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin lived without possessions and devoted themselves to voluntary poverty.

Why is it acceptable for admittedly Christian politicians to preach on television about a proto-fascist vision to control women’s bodies, deny the oppressed their pursuit of happiness and furthermore appropriate the message of Jesus to encourage a self-centered, capitalist worldview, all while conveniently glossing over our endemic racial injustices and inequalities?

It’s come to my attention that these messages, distorted by the lens of a neoliberal economy whose growth requires unending war and subjugation of the vulnerable, have been co-opted by churches as well. I have discovered this is why my disillusionment with the church began in my childhood. But I searched after that feeling, trying to find out why I felt that way, instead of harboring a needless hate for religion and Christianity. I believe in true Christian values, though I haven’t been to a church service in 10 years. I believe in solidarity, justice, peace, compassion, radical empathy, understanding and voluntary poverty.

In 1968, Andy Warhol said everyone would get his or her “15 minutes of fame.” In this age, my peers will get their “15 minutes of guilt”: running a 5K for a childhood sufferer of leukemia or spending a solitary Saturday morning serving soup to an endless line of homeless men and women. Their résumés are filled and they need not worry any further about the world’s suffering or its causes, having done their part to solve it.

In “Here Comes the Nighttime,” a song written by Win Butler of Montreal-based group Arcade Fire, his lamentation for the mutilation of the Christian message is clear. Butler sings: “Now the preachers they talk up on the satellite. If you’re looking for hell, just try looking inside.”

Nature as a teacher: A lesson in appreciating the simple things LIFE

MARISSA STIPEK OPINION EDITOR

When I was younger, I went to summer camp every year. Not sports camp or theatre camp, just your general Parent Trap, “Camp Walden” type, complete with hiking, fishing, archery and bunk beds.

Even though a session lasted only six days, it was always the highlight of my summer.

The preparations began weeks in advance. A small pile would accumulate in my room, growing as I collected more and more necessities— sunscreen, bug spray, white T-shirts to tie-dye and the traditional box of Hot Fudge Sundae flavored PopTarts.

The brochure that was sent to campers included not only a list of what to bring, but also a list of what

I was . . . overwhelmed by a sense of adventure I hadn’t realized I was missing. to leave at home. And on that list, catalogued among nice clothing, hairdryers and bad attitudes, was “cell phones.”

This rule never phased me as an elementary schooler, but as I got older and more dependent on my phone, I was always a bit dismayed at the thought of being disconnected from the outside world. What if my friends tried to text me? What if I missed something important back home? This was before the term FOMO was coined, but I’m pretty sure that’s what I was experiencing.

Still, I knew that in order to fully immerse myself in the camp experience, I would have to leave my phone behind. It was kind of nice to be completely absorbed in the moment and not think about what was going on elsewhere. Although camp was only an hour away, it felt like a different world: greener, simpler, without a single worry aside from which cabin would win the competition for the most “spirit points.”

Last week, my environmental journalism class took a field trip to Edge of the Farm Preserve, part of the Three Valley Conservation Trust. Donna McCollum, who lives on the property with her husband Hays Cummins, guided us on a tour of the natural areas.

From the moment we stepped off Donna’s deck and made our way down the rock-paved path into the forest, I was reminded of my days at summer camp and overwhelmed by

a sense of adventure I hadn’t realized I was missing.

Donna took us through trails and up hills, pausing every hundred yards or so to point out something new. On our right there was honeysuckle, an invasive species encroaching on the forest and threatening to overtake the native plants.

On our left sat white snakeroot, a poisonous plant that, as Donna informed us, killed Lincoln’s mother when she drank milk from a cow that had grazed on the flower. Donna’s enthusiasm for the environment was contagious. On multiple occasions she described things — plants, insects, her three rescued dogs — as being an “absolute delight.”

Eventually, we emerged into a field of tall grass. As I gazed at rows of golden flowers, my fingers twitched at my sides and I regretted leaving my phone in the car. The sunflowers looked so pretty in the late afternoon light –– and I desperately wanted to Snapchat the image to my friends.

But why? My inability to share — or show off — what I was experiencing didn’t take away from the fact that I was experiencing it. Why couldn’t I be content with what I was doing without needing to update everyone else?

Donna told us how she and Hays had come to the woods one day to see a flock of birds migrating through. There were hundreds of them perched among the branches of trees. Having forgotten their cameras, Donna and Hays vowed to come back the following morning; unfortunately, by the time they returned, the birds had moved on.

Donna recounted this story, lamenting her missed opportunity to capture the experience. However, she said the fact that the moment had been so fleeting made it all the more special.

She had a good point. After reevaluating, I was glad that I didn’t have the distraction of technology at my fingertips. I was able to focus on what was right in front of me instead of on my screen.

At school it can be easy to sweat the small stuff: there are chapters to read, deadlines to meet and emails to respond to. Throw in grocery shopping, having a social life and making it to class on time looking halfway decent, and the hustle and bustle of everyday life can get overwhelming.

But, out on the trails, all of that went away. The trip served the same purpose as going to camp always had for me: it forced me to unplug and unwind, find happiness among the simplest things and to appreciate the beauty around me.

Offensive Yik Yak post highlights racial inequality on campus RACE

TO THE EDITOR: My name is Kimberlee Ward, and I am a graduate student at Miami University. I am in the Student Affairs in Higher Education masters program.

Lately, I have asked myself: when does the conversation start? In addition, where does it happen? Particularly, who do we think is responsible for starting these conversations?

I am talking about the conversation about race. I know some people may be thinking “here we go again” but if we were truly honest with ourselves we would realize that conversation across campus has not begun. The environment that people of color are in at Miami is generally not inviting and we need to own that. We need to own that because the second foundational goal of Miami’s 2020 plan is to “promote a diverse culture of inclusion, integrity, and collaboration that deepens understanding and embraces intercultural and global experiences.”

I do not want “embrace” to mean being excited about increased enrollment of international and students of color, nor do I want it to mean attending the UniDiversity Festival then calling it a day.

I am trying to start this conversation because of the experiences I have had on this campus as a Black woman, and more recently, what one

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The advent of anonymous social media apps like Yik Yak have led to an overconfidence among people willing to create racist and bigoted posts. of my friends read on Yik Yak around 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 20, 2015. Before she told me what she read, she said she did not want to say anything because it would ruin my night and that to me, is already problematic. We, as Black women on this campus, as well as other students of color, are not only trying to figure out how to work through what we see in the news about police brutality, our anxiety, the racism we experience here, and the microaggressions we receive, but we are also trying to save each other from the pain this causes. The Yik Yak stated, “Chimp convention 2k15 got a little too rowdy in Armstrong.”

This comment reflects my “here we go again.”

Being called a “chimp” is racist, offensive and harmful. Equally,

being labeled as an animal is to be seen and treated as less than. Being compared to an ape or monkey dates back to the coon caricatures of the 1800s. The coon caricatures were created during this time to show that Black peoples were less than, and therefore, were not deserving of the same rights as White peoples. It was an attempt to justify the ghastly mistreatment of Black peoples Moreover, how are we going to hold that person responsible? We cannot, but we can recognize that some who saw it are able to go about their daily lives the next day without thinking twice about it. That is their privilege. We can recognize that person had the ability to delete it, but we do not have the ability to just delete what we experience or

feel on a daily basis.

Again, my goal here is for people to start more conversations that are widespread because this topic is important. I heard multiple times during the Office of Residence Life training this summer about the numbers Miami has, but not what is being put in place to better support these students.

One approach is to examine what is already being done and invest more into those programs/offices, and “invest” does not have to mean money.

Lastly, I aim to give students a voice on this campus. I want students of color and other students with marginalized identities to feel like they have a voice here. I am trying to find my voice as well. Part of me wants to leave this campus, and I want members of the university to recognize that there are students who are feeling similar or have already left because of those feelings. Therefore, as educators, administrators, faculty, and staff, we must do better, we must stop placing the onus on students. They are not the problem.

I no longer want us to be silenced or feel like we are just a number on this campus. We are strong, we are intelligent, we are beautiful, we are unique and we matter.

KIMBERLEE WARD

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“It was just a stunning array of talent,” said Haygood. “I was one of the associate producers on the film and was able to be on set while they filmed and that was a wonderful experience.”

Haygood now teaches in the Media, Journalism and Film department at Miami during spring semesters.

“I am very happy to be back in my alma mater teaching film and nonfiction writing, two genres that FROM COLUMN »PAGE 10

defense is too good to have many clock-consuming drives mounted on it. In that case, the key is how well second-year quarterback Teddy Bridgewater can push the ball at least a little ways downfield. >>Broncos 34, Vikings 20 Lions (0-3) at Seahawks (1-2) I don’t think the Lions have the slightest chance in hell in this game.

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ter,” Creamer said.

Miami community members have expressed positivity about the new welcome center, hoping its relocation to the hub of campus will help aid prospective students with their decision to attend Miami.

“Shriver’s location is prime for a welcome center — the true center of campus where everything is going on,” said Ted Pickerell, secretary to the Board of Trustees.

Junior Caroline Williams, who has been a tour guide for two years, said the relocation would benefit prospective student tours in a number of ways.

“I do think it will be more beneficial starting the tour near Armstrong, which we definitely push as a recruitment tool because of all its resources it offers students,” she said, adding that tour times will be drastically shortened from their 90-minute average if they start in a central area of campus.

The remaining areas of Shriver — the first and second floors — will also be renovated. The second floor will feature a consolidated catering kitchen, as well as office suites, while the third floor will house the Rinella Learning Center and Student Disability Services, which are both currently located in CAB. As to what will fill the empty spaces in the CAB building once the Shriver renovations are complete, Director of News and Communications Claire Wagner said no plans have been made, but she has some ideas.

“Miami’s communication and marketing is currently in three different locations, so we are hoping this renovation will bring us a place where we can consolidate,” she said.

The Shriver renovation resolution was one among several construction resolutions the Board of Trustees passed at its meeting. In the next six years, the university — with the Trustees’ approval — plans to spend $140 million for renovation efforts including the Armstrong East Wing and updates to Pearson and Bachelor Halls, in addition to Shriver.

I am very passionate about,” said Haygood.

He was hired to teach part-time following the commencement speech he gave in 2013.

“He is a wonderful writer, but he also knows how to teach writing,” said Richard Campbell, chair of the Media, Journalism and Film Department. “Anytime you can get a gifted writer and storyteller in the classroom and give the students a model for how to be a professional, that’s what it’s all about.”

The students who had Haygood as a teacher in the past, recom-

mend the class for aspiring writers.

“I remember the first day of class, him standing in front of us and talking to us made it feel like we were being treated to an intimate lesson on what it meant to be a journalist,” said senior professional writing and journalism double major, Alexandria Moore.

“I just thought, ‘Here was someone who knew what they were doing, knew what they were talking about and had real world experience.’”

Haygood will be speaking about his latest book at 4 p.m. Oct. 5 in Wilks Theater.

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“Our biggest competition is ourselves,” Ortiz said. “Because in the MAC we see the same hitters and personnel more often we are a little more familiar so the challenges are different than other competitions. The key is can we play at a high level and impose our will on them and win doing the things that we want to do.”

The RedHawks’ kick off action 7 p.m. against Buffalo Oct. 2 at Millet and round out the weekend against Akron at 5 p.m., Oct. 3. The matchup against Buffalo will also be broadcast on ESPN3.

communicating with each other and just becoming more consistent.”

Hill and the rest of the RedHawks face an Akron team that has lost five of its six matches, including a 3-1 loss to Buffalo.

Although Miami has a better record than Buffalo (2-12) and Akron (7-8), both teams are very athletic and offer unique challenges. Ortiz said his team knows what needs to be accomplished to this weekend and also understand that it starts with them.

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Miami University football opens Mid-American Conference play against former head coach Don Treadwell at Kent State University Saturday.

Treadwell, who was Miami’s head coach 2011-2013 and is now KSU’s offensive coordinator, was relieved of his duties in the middle of the 2013 season after starting with a 0-5 record. Treadwell’s tenure at his alma mater lasted 29 games, and he finished with an 8-21 mark.

At the time, the RedHawks ranked 122nd in FBS in total offense (198.4 yards per game) and in scoring offense (8.8 points per game).

Since the hiring of head coach Chuck Martin in 2014, Miami has averaged 367 yards and 21.3 points per game.

The RedHawks lead the all-time series with KSU 47-15, including a 10-3 victory last season in Oxford.

However, Miami has lost 18 straight road games.

After being held to 291 yards and turning over the ball four times in a 56-14 loss to Western Kentucky

University last weekend, Miami (13) faces a challenge against a KSU (1-3) defense that has allowed just three touchdowns in regulation in its last three games.

The Golden Flash defense ranks fourth in the nation, holding opponents to 219 yards per game. KSU has 37 tackles for loss in its last three games. In its last two games, Kent State is plus-5 in turnover margin.

“They have a very good plan on how they can be very successful,” head coach Chuck Martin said.

“They’re not much different from a couple years ago when they did win the league. They were very salty on defense, they ran the ball very well, and they were opportunistic in the pass game.”

“I think that’s exactly what they’re doing this year, and that’s why they almost beat Minnesota and almost beat Marshall … they have a very good identity on both sides of the ball.”

Martin said at this point in the season, the biggest key is being physical on both sides of the ball. In last week’s loss to WKU, the MU defense allowed 569 yards.

“We have to be physical on defense,” Martin said. “We were very physical against Cincin-

nati. We were physical in spurts against Western Kentucky. And when we were physical, we held our own defensive, and when we weren’t physical – when we let the receivers roll down the field – it got ugly in a hurry.”

Kent State is coming off a 36-29 double overtime loss to Marshall University last weekend.

The Golden Flashes average 21.0 points per game. Junior quarterback Colin Reardon leads a balanced offense that averages 165.8 on the ground and 163.0 through the air.

Reardon has thrown for 550 yards and five touchdowns on the season.

BRANDON CARTER THE MIAMI STUDENT His top target is sophomore Kris White, who’s collected 155 yards on nine catches. Fifth-year running Receiver Chris Hudson hauls in a catch during Saturday’s 56-14 to WKU. back Traylon Durham leads the run game with 209 yards and two touchdowns on 52 carries.

Miami rotates three quarterbacks, but redshirt senior Drew Kummer leads with 571 yards and six touchdowns. Sophomore receiver Sam Martin has 204 yards and one touchdown on 12 catches, and redshirt freshman running back Alonzo Smith has 172 yards and two touchdowns on 38 touches.

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The Miami University women’s soccer team (6-3) looks to continue its four-game winning streak this weekend against Central Michigan University (2-6-1) and the University of Toledo (4-7).

Captain and senior midfielder Haley Walter has enjoyed the team’s recent success, but said she is focused on making sure the team keeps up their strong play.

“I mean it’s definitely exciting,” she said. “It’s good momentum going into the weekend, but we also are taking it one game at a time. Keeping our next game as our most important game. We want to make sure that we are playing hard for a full 90 minutes in both games this weekend.”

Junior goalkeeper Vic Maniaci has been sensational during MU’s winning streak and has allowed only one

goal over the four games. The lone goal came in a 2-1 win over Bowling Green University last weekend.

Maniaci goals against average of .71 is the best in the MAC and .867 save percentage ranks third.

“I’m so proud of Vic I can’t even tell you,” head coach Bobby Kramig said. “Vic has just matured so much as a person and as a division I athlete.

She is just owning her penalty area right now. I can’t imagine there’s a better goalkeeper in the conference right now. I’m really pleased and impressed with her growth over the past year.”

This weekend will mark the third straight week the RedHawks will be on the road. Coach Kramig knows this is a long time away from home, but believes his team will make the necessary adjustments for the games.

“I think we will be ok,” Kramig said. “Playing on the road is always hard. Every place is different. All

fields have their own characteristics and it’s always on the visiting team to adjust. This weekend is no different. It is what it is and we just have to go play.”

Central Michigan is coming off their first weekend of MAC play where they lost 1-0 to Western Michigan University and beat Northern Illinois University 2-0.

The Chippewas are averaging 1.35 goals against per match, which is 7th in the MAC. Toledo is 0-2 in the MAC after losing both games last weekend. The Rockets lost to Northern Illinois 2-0 and Western Michigan 1-0.

The ’Hawks are 10-12-2 all time against Central Michigan and 8-111 against Toledo, but Miami has not lost to either team since 2011.

The RedHawks face Central Michigan at 6 p.m. on Friday in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and Toledo at 1 p.m. on Sunday in Toledo, Ohio.

NFL Week 4 picks and previews COLUMN

RYAN MCSHEFFREY THE MIAMI STUDENT

Welcome to 2015: the year of the backup quarterback.

S e r i o u s l y, look around the league right now. I count nine field generals that aren’t either highupside young players (your Derek Carrs and Blake Bortleses) or established starters. A lot of very poor options starting.

Some of it’s due to injuries to guys like Ben Roethlisberger, Tony Romo and Jay Cutler, but there’s still a high amount of murky signalcallers trotting out there relative to recent seasons.

Good luck watching some of these games this weekend, because erratic and unsure quarterback play tends to lead towards games that are really crappy to watch.

Jets (2-1) vs. Dolphins (1-2) It’s fun to have a 9:30 a.m. game

if you’re up for it, but for the majority of us, that’s a big “if.” The Dolphins have failed to impress thus far in head coach Joe Philbin’s make-or-break year. Honestly, the Jets may be better in every facet of the game right now. >>Jets 23, Dolphins 20 Jaguars (1-2) at Colts (1-2) The Jaguars look like the worst team in this division. The Colts still look like the best. This one still carries weight for the Colts as a opportunity for them to start looking like they really are part of the upperechelon. Another game that’s close will only further the media blitz on Indy. >>Colts 34, Jaguars 20 Giants (1-2) at Bills (2-1) Ah, a rare New York state rivalry.

The Bills seem to have eaten up every little morsel of wisdom head coach Rex Ryan has offered and look like they’re humming. Buffalo running back LeSean McCoy looks like he’ll miss this one, just like the Giants look exploitable. >>Bills 30, Giants 24 Panthers (3-0) at Buccaneers (1-2) Quarterback Cam Newton and the Panthers ride into Tampa as hot

as Florida tar. Two quarterbacks who won both a national title and Heisman in their respective seasons and were picked number one in the ir respective drafts face off for the first time. Jameis Winston is the other, of course. Unfortunately for him, the Bucs still look like bottom feeders in the league. At least there’s plenty of hope. >>Panthers 24, Buccaneers 14 Chiefs (1-2) at Bengals (3-0) Cincy has blown through pretty much every object placed in front of it so far. They don’t get a break this week against a decent Chiefs team that just got annihilated by the Packers. This is KC cornerback Sean Smith’s first game back from suspension, and if his pass D can get back on track, that’d be a boon for KC’s prospects here. >>Bengals 27, Chiefs 21 Vikings (2-1) at Broncos (3-0) The Vikes have run an ultra-conservative game plan for their twogame win streak, pounding the ball with running back Adrian Peterson.

I don’t think they’re going to be able to do that here. The Broncos COLUMN»PAGE 8

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Megan Paul. She has a lot of random jokes and she’s just really funny.

Year: Senior

Hometown:

Do you have any weird pregame rituals?

Louisville, KY

How did you get into playing field hockey as a kid?

I have three other sisters and they all played. Just seeing them, I wanted to play.

What made you come to Miami University?

As a team, we listen to music and dance. At the end, we do a cheer and go in the showers and bang the walls while we sing the fight song.

If you could spend the day with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?

Probably Beyonce.

When I was being recruited they had a coaching switch and it wasn’t my first choice, but when Puza came and I went to junior day I really liked his coaching style, the campus and the players.

Favorite Miami memory?

Something people don’t know about you…

I’m not an animal person. I never grew up with animals, besides hamsters and rodents.

If you could have a superpower, which one would you choose?

Probably winning the MAC and going to the NCAA tournament my freshman and sophomore year.

Hopefully we go again this year.

To fly.

RedHawks continue MAC play against Buffalo and Akron VOLLEYBALL

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Miami continues inter-conference play as it takes on State University of New York-Buffalo and University of Akron this weekend at Millett. With last weekend’s loss to Ohio still fresh in the RedHawks’ minds, they look to bounce back and improve upon their 1-1 conference record.

“The MAC is always a dog fight,” said assistant coach Jesse Ortiz.

“But, we still walked away feeling like we could have very much done some things better and won that match. We hold ourselves to a very high standard. Our mindset is that we work to win.”

This winning mindset is one of the reasons why Miami is 23-9 and 3814 overall against Buffalo and Akron respectively.

However, this year Buffalo has some added firepower in its new head coach, Blair Lipsitz. A fourtime National Champion and twotime First-Team All American,

Lipsitz brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience to a program that has struggled in recent years to get wins. In addition to Lipsitz, Buffalo will also rely on dual threat senior outside hitter Megan Lipski who leads the team with 145 kills and also 130 digs.

Last year, the RedHawks faced these two squads and came out with a pair of 3-1 victories. This year, the ’Hawks enter these matchups with a 9-6 record, thanks in part to their spark on offense, junior middle/outside hitter Paige Hill.

Hill leads the team with 149 kills and will undoubtedly add to that number this weekend. Despite her individual achievements and her team’s winning record, Hill said she knows that there is still work to be done.

“The loss on Saturday fueled our energy which will hopefully show on the court this weekend,” Hill said. “It made us work harder on the things that we missed including VOLLEYBALL»PAGE 8

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