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Sexual assault reports triple, but punishments remain low SEXUAL ASSAULT

KATIE TAYLOR COLE MIRACLE

SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE BREAKDOWN Does not include off-campus assaults

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PART ONE The following piece is the first in a series that will address the complexities of sexual assault. Future stories will expand on why the crime is underreported, the intricacies of the university disciplinary system and the difficulty of successfully prosecuting perpetrators in the criminal world.

The number of on-campus sexual assaults reported yearly at Miami University nearly tripled from 2011 to 2013, but there was no corresponding increase in the number of individuals disciplined for the crime.

Reports jumped from seven in 2011 to 20 in 2013 at Miami’s Oxford campus, according to Clery Act data released by the university in October.

Out of the total 45 individuals accused during those three years, Miami punished only 10.

Nine of the 10 were allowed to return to campus following punishments that included suspension, probation, no-contact orders and alcohol assessment. One was permanently expelled.

These numbers reflect only a small portion of incidents involving students, since the Clery Act— the federal law requiring colleges and universities to report data on campus crimes—does not require schools to report sexual assaults that occur off campus, unless in an affiliated establishment such as a fraternity or sorority house.

The scarcity of disciplinary action in cases of sexual assault is

Of those 18

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45

Were found not responsible

Reports of sexual assault during the 2011-2013 calendar years

10

Were found responsible

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18

Individual was expelled from Miami

Other punishments included suspension, probation, no-contact orders and alcohol education

Reports resulted in OESCR investigations

Information from Clery Act data and university records

leading some to question the effectiveness of the university adjudication process. Researcher and advocate with the national Title IX movement Nadia Dawisha said institutions’ response to the crime is inadequate, not only at Miami, but across the nation.

brought into the system.

“This is an area that, boy, I wish we all had a crystal ball and could figure this out,” he said. “A very significant portion of the cases that are brought forward on campus have a substantial amount of ambiguity in them … It’s often one per-

[Miami] had plenty of reason to have a disciplinary hearing, and they didn’t. I might not have ever been sexually assaulted.”

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“As long as there is an incentive for universities to sweep this issue under the rug, then I don’t think anyone receiving a paycheck from the university should be working on sexual assault,” she said. “I think everybody needs to be external.”

University President David Hodge said the low disciplinary rate is not unusual, and that it reflects the complexity of cases

son’s word against another person’s word, and trying to find the corroborating evidence that can shift the balance to one side or another is very difficult to do.”

Miami is facing a lawsuit filed by a student who was allegedly sexually assaulted in 2011. Grace, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, said Miami failed her by not expelling the student who

assaulted her, Antonio Charles, for earlier acts of sexual misconduct.

Charles was investigated by Miami University and Oxford Police after his fraternity brothers reported him for voyeurism in 2009. Charles’ was accused of recording sexual encounters with women without their knowledge. He was not prosecuted in the criminal courts.

Though videos of sexual acts were confiscated from his possession, the university did not hold a conduct hearing because they could not identify the women in the tapes as students of the university.

In Grace’s case, a disciplinary board of Miami’s Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution found Charles “responsible” for her sexual assault—the equivalent of a guilty verdict. The board also found him responsible for the separate physical and sexual assault of a different female student committed the night before. The university then expelled him permanently— the only person to receive that

penalty for a sex-related offense from 2011 through 2013.

“The school and President Hodge say they have not done anything wrong, they’ve done everything that they needed to do,” Grace said.

“They had plenty of reason to have a disciplinary hearing [in the earlier accusations against Charles], and they didn’t. I might not have ever been sexually assaulted.”

Results from Gallup’s 2015 “Survey of College & University Presidents,” which collected responses from more than 600 school presidents, showed that while about one third strongly agreed sexual assault is prevalent at U.S. colleges, only 6 percent believe it’s an issue at their institution.

Dawisha pointed to the survey as proof of an underlying problem.

“I just feel like so many universities are taking this very reactive approach to this issue. They don’t want to admit that they have a problem,” she said. “They’re denying the research that has literally come out of their universities.”

Susan Vaughn, director of the university’s Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution, oversees the university’s response to all accusations of sexual misconduct, ranging from rape to indecent exposure.

Of the 45 on-campus sexual assaults reported from 2011-13, 18 proceeded with OESCR hearings.

Eight of the accused individuals were found not responsible.

Vaughn said the data on sexual assault and disciplinary action doesn’t paint a full picture of the university’s response to the problem.

“I’m always reluctant to just hand over numbers,” she said. “I always just say you have to walk in our shoes, to see and hear the different cases, the way it impacts people ASSAULT »PAGE 4

Growing pains: Gender pay gap causes concern for graduating females MONEY

EMILY WILLIAMS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

With graduation fast approaching, Miami’s seniors have their eye on the prize — a job. While finding a fulfilling career is paramount, with student loan payments and the demands of becoming financially independent, wages are important.

Despite the progress that has been made in achieving gender equality in the workplace, the 52 percent of Miami students who are female will be entering a work force in which

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men, on average, are still paid significantly more than women.

April 14 marks this year’s Equal Pay Day, a day symbolizing how far women have to work into the new year to earn as much as men did the previous year. The day, originated in 1996 by the National Committee on Equal Pay, was started to spread awareness about the continued pay gap between men and women’s earnings.

According to data from the Census Bureau, women currently make only 78 cents for every dollar men make. Ohio ranks 34th in the

nation in terms of the gender pay gap, with women earning 77 percent of what men do.

Jane Goettsch, the director of Miami’s Women’s Center, encourages students to learn more about why the gender wage gap exists.

“The personal consequences, in terms of lost income over a lifetime, are staggering,” Goettsch said.

“The wage gap has barely budged in a decade.”

Although significant progress has been made in the last 50 years to reduce this gap, statistics from the American Association of

University Women (AAUW) have found this progress has slowed over the past 10 years. If the current rate persists, the pay gap will not be closed until 2139.

Tyler Nichols, the historian for Miami’s organization Feminists Working on Real Democracy (FWord), noted that the discrepancy is wider for women of color. The 2014 report from the White House Council of Economic Advisors shows that African American women make 64 percent of what white men are paid while Hispanic and Latina women make only 54 percent.

“I think the first step in fixing the pay gap is making people aware of what’s going on,” said Nichols.

Despite the continued discrepancy in pay, since the mid-1990s, women have been more likely to attend and graduate from college than men. The same White House Council report indicates that 25 to 34-year-old women are now 21 percent more likely to be college graduates than men and 48 percent more likely to have completed graduate school.

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In 1974,The Miami Student reported that Mariano “Muchmouth” Pacetti proved himself once again the “Pizza Champ of the World,” after devouring a 12-inch Domino’s pizza in 60 seconds. Mushmouth defeated three contestants in the Pizza Smash Bash in Porter Hall.

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Parking permit prices to increase in coming years PARKING

ALISON TREEN STAFF WRITER

As residence halls are renovated and new construction is built, prices are already on the rise in multiple aspects on campus. Starting in July of this year, parking will also follow the trend. Parking prices will increase in July 2015 and again in 2016, according to Miami University Parking Ordinance O2014-6, which was approved in June 2014.

The price of parking permits for faculty and staff currently stands at $30 per year, regardless of parking location. Beginning in July, the price of the permit will depend on location of parking.

Proximal parking includes campus streets and parking lots; remote parking refers to Ditmer, west Millett, and Culinary Support Center parking lots, according to the ordinance.

“In the past we’d only differentiated between remote and proximal [parking] for students. Now we’re doing the same for faculty and staff,” said Lt. Benjamin Spilman, director

of Parking and Transportation Services.

Proximal permit prices will rise to $75 in July and then to $125 the following year for faculty and staff, while remote parking permits will remain at no cost.

Students currently pay $220 for annual blue permit passes (or proxi-

The Rec Center itself could be hurt economically.

[Personal trainers] would start loosing clients if older people don’t come ... ” RUTH SANDERS

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mal parking); beginning in July, this will increase to $250 and in the 20162017 school year to $300, according to the ordinance.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” said junior Thomas Educato. “The price of parking permits was already too high, and I think it’s absurd that oncampus meters are already four times as expensive as off-campus.”

The increase in permit prices is

mainly a result of space concerns, money deficit and sustainability incentives on campus, according to the original proposal, which was drafted in November 2013. Parking garages cost around $20,000 to build and the annual cost to construct, operate and maintain them totals $1,500 per space per year.

“Parking services is not a moneymaker for the university,” Spilman said, and noted that Parking and Transportation Services falls about half a million dollars short every year. “We want the system to become closer to self-sufficient so general fund dollars don’t have to go towards maintaining parking facilities.”

Increased parking prices is one way the university is trying to deter people from bringing their cars to campus each day, but the ordinance also addresses a new carpool incentive for faculty and staff. Carpools with three or more drivers (all who register for one permit pass that can be moved to different vehicles) will pay $30 for both the 2016 and 2017 PARKING »PAGE 9

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JUST WANNA BANG ON MY DRUM ALL DAY Percussion performances by artists of a range of nationalities shook Wednesday night in Hall Auditorium at the Beats by Dr. A World Percussion Concert, celebrating Miami’s legacy of world percussion.

Jewish students celebrate freedom, Passover RELIGION

NATALIE WINK

THE MIAMI STUDENT

For many Miami students, this weekend marks the return from Spring Break, warmer weather and the beginning of the last leg of the semester. For Jewish students at Miami, this weekend marks the beginning of Passover, a weeklong celebration of the freedom of the Jews from Egyptian bondage and the relevance that exodus still holds today.

Although the Passover celebration is traditionally held with family members, a number of Miami students will be celebrating Passover on campus this week.

Chabad, a worldwide Jewish organization with over three thousand centers in more than 65 different countries, is running a Passover Seder for students that will not be able to make the trip home to be with their families.

Seder refers to the first two nights of Passover, this year being April 3 and 4. While Passover lasts for an entire week, the first two nights are when the families gather together in order to recount their history and take a break from the busyness of life to have a meal together.

While the Seder meal can be held anywhere, many choose to celebrate Passover with their families, as the way the meal is executed is highly personal. Some family Seders last until 10 p.m. and some can go on until 3 a.m. Each family has their own traditional stories that they tell every year as well.

Junior Nicki Barrett cites the story of the first time her grandparents met as such a story.

“Every year my grandpa tells ev-

eryone at Seder the story,” Barrett said. “My grandma was this beautiful girl sitting across the table, and when Seder was over, he stayed to do the dishes. They have been married over fifty years.”

said Barrett.

However, Barrett recognized Chabad and Hillel, another campus center for Jewish students, for offering open Seders that make students feel more comfortable to be

We sometimes get trapped in our bounadries of day-to-day life, even down to the small stuff, like being caught up in our smart phones. Three-thousand years ago it was building pyramids. Today, it’s our technology. We’re enslaved to our own gadgets, YOSSI GREENBERG

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Barrett is sure to tell the story each year, even if she can’t be at her family’s Seder.

Senior Jake Gordon recounts writing songs for Passover Seders each year as a child, making the time more fun and enjoyable for everyone in attendance.

“Passover Seders bring back nothing but good memories of extended family and friends from all over coming together in one place to celebrate,” said Gordon.

Fifteen steps guide every Seder celebration, including the consumption of matzah, or unleavened bread, and the traditional four cups of wine, but the homogony stops there.

“No two Seders are the same,” said Rabbi Yossi Greenberg, of the campus Chabad house. “The steps are the same, but everyone does it with their own families’ traditions.

It is a holiday that is fully-fledged in tradition and history.”

This year the nights for Seder land on a weekend, making trips home for the occasion much more feasible.

“It can be pretty difficult to be on campus for the holiday,”

away from home for the holiday.

This community feel is important, because for some students, the trip home is not easy or accessible.

Junior Sam Aizen ran into some difficulties with exam scheduling for classes.

“The holiday isn’t overly welcomed on campus by faculty,” said Aizen. “The Jewish population on campus is small, but it is offensive that Miami doesn’t acknowledge the holiday.”

Schoolwork conflicted with her plans for Passover, when one of her professor refused to reschedule an exam.

“I had the option to take a zero or miss the time with my family,” said Aizen. “It is ironic that I had to miss the holiday that celebrates freedom because, clearly, we aren’t completely free.”

In this sense, the celebration of Passover is not something that is purely historical, but something that is relevant to us today as modern citizens. The freedom that the Jews experienced in their exodus from Egypt is the same freedom PASSOVER »PAGE 9

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10-year anniversary of house fire prompts a look at safety programs on campus SAFETY

KRISTA SAVAGE

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

April 10 marks the 10-year anniversary of the house fire that killed three Miami University students. The fire was caused by smoking materials embedded within couch cushions, and it didn’t take long for flames to engulf the old, two-story brick house. Ninety minutes after a frantic 911 call, the fire was extinguished.

The victims included Stephen J. Smith, a senior marketing major, Julia Turnbull, a senior mass communication major and Kathryn Welling, a junior business major.

Similar instances have occurred at other Ohio universities, including the University of Cincinnati, the Ohio State University and the University of Dayton.

New Year’s Day in 2013 brought tragedy to the University of Cincinnati when a fire broke out in an off-campus house, where two students died from smoke inhalation. On April 13, 2003, a fire near Ohio State’s campus killed five students, and a University of Dayton football player lost his life in a house fire Dec. 10, 2000.

Rod and Ann Garner, parents of one of the victims of the University of Cincinnati fire, proposed the need for fire safety improvements in housing around campus. These incidents launched campaigns for better fire safety education programs for college students.

According to Oxford Fire Chief John Detherage, the Oxford Fire Department sees on average three fires of some magnitude in a school year. Less threatening calls, like burnt popcorn or smells of smoke, occur more often, but lay on a much lower level of severity.

Detherage said the most common reasons for fires are accidents, electrical failures and, most often, alcohol. To ensure safety, he said students should regularly check their smoke detectors and never remove the batteries.

One of the largest concerns of alcohol consumption-related fires is the probability of students passing out and not hearing smoke alarms. The three students killed in the house fire 10 years ago were declared highly intoxicated by the fire department, re-

sulting in a slower reaction time to the smoke alarms.

“It is vitally important that when students do drink, they have a designated individual who can be sure that everyone is safe when they go to sleep,” Detherage said. “This is a serious issue, not something to take light-heartedly.”

Three years ago, a fire broke out in a trashcan after a party in an off-campus house. The residents caught the fire, and put it out before going to sleep. Later, they awoke to find the entire first floor consumed in flames.

“We are extremely lucky that no one died in that fire,” Detherage said. “The biggest thing I can stress is to always call the fire department whenever you have a fire, even if you think you’ve put it out. Always call.”

By law, landlords are required to install smoke detectors in every room used for sleeping, and supply a fire extinguisher in the kitchen. They are also responsible for the care of electrical, plumbing, heating and ventilation.

On campus, many precautions are taken to ensure the safety of students. In 2002, Miami implemented a fire safety training program required for all first-year students.

During the fire safety program, halls are filled with “safe smoke” which simulates the feeling of being trapped in a building filled with smoke from a real fire. Students must crawl on their hands and knees to find exits and make it out of the building safely. The goal is to force students to realize how difficult it would be, in a real fire, to know how to get to safety.

Fire-safety specialists encourage students to know the number of doors from their dorm room to the nearest exit. Throughout the year, Miami also has routine, unannounced fire drills.

First-year student Maddie Colliver went through the training program in the fall.

“Going into it, I didn’t think it was going to be much. Just another fire drill,” Colliver said.

“Once you got in there, though, it was terrifying.”

In addition to the smoke drill, first-year students are required to take an online course that will further educate them on fire safety.

“I definitely think that students need to be more aware of the risks involved with carelessness,” Colliver said. “I wouldn’t want to be in that situation in real life.”

ASG introduces new academic state seats ASG

DEANNA KROKOS STAFF WRITER

A newly approved student government restructuring that will adjust the ways seats on the student senate will be appropriated during the 2015 fall semester.

Before the break, ASG passed a new set of bylaws allowing for the creation of new academic representative seats on senate to be held by members of each of Miami’s six divisional colleges.

“I think that by providing these academic seats, it could lead to more diversity within the senate,” said Brandon Fogel, on-campus senator and co-author for the bylaw amendment.

The existing senate seats are appropriated on the basis of location, with a seat available for each on-campus district and a number held by off-campus representatives.

Under the new bylaws, this kind of representation will remain; however the number of location-based seats will be decreased from 25 to 17 for both on and off campus dis-

tricts. These adjustments are being made to allow for the creation of sixteen academic seats.

The responsibility of those holding academic divisional seats will be to represent the college by which they were elected, and each of these senators will be required to sit on the Academic Affairs coalition.

“By having seats for places like College of Creative Arts, who have zero senators right now, and the College of Engineering and Computing, who have one, it could provide opportunities for them to get their voice out in senate” Fogel said.

The seats will be appropriated among Miami’s six colleges, with proportional representation for each college as a part of the general student body. Additionally, the College of Arts and Sciences will have separate seats for “soft” and “hard” sciences, owing to the range of majors the college hosts.

“We really want to broaden the scope of what student senate does” Chair of the Restructuring Task Force Elizabeth Beumel said.

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Max and Dick Winan pour carmel from a copper kettle (L). Winan’s Chocolates factory worker Rita Stevens pours caramel using the same copper kettle (R).

Not just another Willy Wonka MU alumna brings 100-year-old chocolate business to Oxford BUSINESS

CONNOR MORIARTY PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Miami University alumna Laurie Winan-Reiser (‘79) scans her boarding pass in the Columbia Metropolitan Airport and steps onto the plane to begin her long stretch back to her hometown of Piqua, Ohio. Like many of the tourists around her, her baggage is filled with small samples of fresh beans and cacao.

But she is no tourist; Laurie’s trip to Columbia with her husband, Joe, was pure business, though she would say otherwise. For the owner of a popular chocolate and coffee company, flying to the beautiful South American country to meet with local famers and handle her products first

hand is a dream come true.

“We travel to various countries to find some unique coffee and chocolate that we know are good and that we can be the full-force provider of,” Laurie said.

That provider is Winan’s Fine Chocolates and Coffee, a large Ohio family business of which Laurie is the fourth generation owner. She and Joe may be putting their own twist on the traditional chocolates, like selling them at various locations at Miami University, but their roots are grounded in the company established by her family a century ago.

Winan’s Chocolates started as a bakery around 1930, and has been passed down through the family throughout the 20th century. The business took off when Max Winan, Laurie’s father, held the reins of the

company. Thanks to Max and his brother, Dick, Max’s hobby of making candy was implemented, steering the future of the company in the direction of a a chocolate factory, rather than a bakery. “[Winan’s Chocolates] is called a fourth and fifth generation business,” Joe Winan said, “but really we are the second generation of the chocolate company everyone knows, because of the legacy Max left.”

Laurie and Joe bought the business from Max in 1993, and for 20 years now they have striven to keep the traditional, family-oriented business alive. Max passed away in 2008 at the age of 78, but according to Laurie and Joe, Winan’s Chocolate would be nothing without the dediCHOCOLATE »PAGE 4

Recent arrest sheds light on drug trafficking CRIME

ELLIE CALLINAN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Oxford resident Kyle Fledderman was expecting to receive packages containing four pounds of marijuana last week. The marijuana, sent via United States Postal Service, never made it to its owner.

It was intercepted by the Oxford Police Department (OPD).

Fledderman, 25, was arrested Thursday, March 26, after receiving marijuana from Colorado. He was charged with drug trafficking and possession.

According to OPD Sgt. Jon Varley, Fledderman drove out to Colorado, where marijuana can be

legally purchased at dispensaries across the state. He purchased the drugs and shipped them back to Oxford to be picked up at the local Post

I don’t believe that this is [Fledderman’s] first time doing this.”

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Fledderman initially attracted police attention when he was completing his cross-country trip home from Colorado.

“He was stopped in Kansas by a Kansas State Patrol because his rental car plates didn’t match the car,” Varley said.

After receiving consent to search the vehicle, they found marijuana paraphernalia and a receipt with the tracking number for parcels of drugs that Fledderman sent to himself.

The trooper photographed the receipt and contacted the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The state officers informed Varley and the rest of the Oxford Police Department about the incoming packages.

The police took a proactive approach to prevent Fledderman from receiving the marijuana packages.

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District reviews new elementary school plans CONSTRUCTION

MEGAN MOONEY THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Talawanda Board of Education and the Oxford City Council have recently been at odds about the district’s budgetary decisions for a new elementary school.

The new elementary school will be built on the old Kramer Elementary school grounds, which were reduced to rubble early last fall in preparation for new construction.

The plan for a new elementary school was given the go-ahead in November 2013, when the state promised $11.5 million in rebates for construction the district had already completed, such as the new high

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school completed last year. Talawanda is getting further funding from the sale of the old high school grounds to Miami University for $2 million.

The original budget was $16.4 million, but after the construction manager reviewed the schematic design, the project was actually priced $2 million over budget. The Board of Education then pulled back to take another look at their plans.

“We had a series of meetings.

Some of them rather contentious,” said Treasurer and CFO Mike Davis.

“We are right on the bubble,” he said of the budget.

With cuts on certain non-necessities, the budget was brought down to the original proposed price while still meeting state standards. The biggest cut was replacing a geo-

thermal heating and cooling system with a traditional boiler/chiller system, which made up 30 percent of the budget constraints.

“This building will be state of the art. Built not only to the Ohio School Design Manual Standards … but this building will also be a ‘green’ building built to the LEED Silver standard,” said Talawanada’s Superintendent, Kelly Spivey.

However, the Oxford City Council had some concerns with the design.

“Some things they did not comply on were curbing, parking lots and sign sizes,” said Oxford City Planner, Sam Perry.

The discrepancies between the City Council’s standards and TalaSCHOOL »PAGE 4

McDonald’s man unconscious at drive-thru

Unchained: Under steals deli tip jar

At 11:44 a.m., March 31, OPD responded to the McDonald’s drivethru, 601 S. Locust St., to a report of a motionless driver slumped over his steering wheel.

The caller was idling behind the unconscious driver when a McDonald’s employee ventured into the drive-thru lane to check on the man who had ordered but not yet moved toward, paid for or received his McMeal.

Finding him unresponsive, the employee reached through the open driver’s side window and shook him awake. Newly conscious and without solicitation, the man handed the employee his car keys and proceeded to amble toward Foxfire Drive. As the bewildered employee was unsuccessfully attempting to adjust the seat in the maroon Buick and move it forward, the suspect came running back, demanded his keys, poured himself back into his car and sped away.

Responding officers eventually intercepted and stopped the suspect in his vehicle near UDF, 101 W. High St. When asked for license and registration, the suspect animatedly patted his pockets and then reached into the glove box, handing the officer his insurance information. Again, the officer asked for the suspect’s driver’s license and again the suspect fruitlessly patted his pockets, eventually finding his wallet splayed in the passenger seat beside him.

The officer asked the suspect if he was aware of the concern he generated having passed out over his steering wheel in the middle of the drive-thru lane at lunchtime.

“Yes.” Further, the officer asked the suspect if he recalled silently handing his keys to the McEmployee.

The suspect said yes, but could not remember why.

According to the officer, the suspect smelled of alcohol. When asked if he had been drinking, the suspect said he had been at Sushi Nara, therein having consumed “a few” drinks. When asked to define “a few,” the subject said, “a couple.”

He stated he was going to see a “girl around the corner.”

The suspect cartoonishly failed the field sobriety tests. When asked to walk a straight line, he prematurely started thrice before taking eight steps yet counting to nine, all the while swaying in small circles. According to OPD, he displayed four cues for alcohol a nd one for drugs.

At OPD, the suspect refused a breath test and was cited for Driving While Under the Influence of Alcohol/Drugs.

At 2:31 a.m. OPD responded to Bagel and Deli, 119 E. High St., in response to a stolen tip jar.

According to OPD, the suspect struggled with and eventually ripped from the counter a tip jar containing $38.25, which was secured by wire and a clasp.

Drunk, the suspect fumbled long enough maneuvering the jar under his light-colored buttondown shift for another patron to record him doing so on his cellphone. Why the customer decided to videotape the crime rather than do a single thing about it is unclear, OPD said.

The co-owner of the establishment was behind the counter, noticed the laughably conspicuous thief, chased him outside and recovered the tip jar without altercation, though the suspect hurled obscenities, according to OPD. OPD arrived soon after and identified a man matching the alleged thief’s description urinating on a tree near Slant Walk.

OPD said the suspect’s inebriation was immediately evident when he, startled, had an impossible time zipping his fly.

When asked for ID, the suspect plopped his cellphone into the officer’s hand. It was returned. The officer asked again, and again the suspect gave the officer his cellphone. On the third attempt, the suspect gave the officer a driver’s license indicating he was 19. The suspect, reeking of booze and slurring his motions as much as his words, was placed in the back of the cruiser.

When the officer returned with the Bagel Shop co-owner who had stopped the suspect, he noticed a wet, wadded up $5 bill guiltily squatting beside the suspect in the back seat. Upon further inspection, $12.75 was found in the suspect’s front pocket.

“I f**ked up,” the suspect said.

He didn’t know the half of it, because officers had just discovered a fictitious New York driver’s license in his wallet bearing his correct picture, name, address, day and month of birth, but a year that suggested he was 23.

The suspect was charged with Offenses Involving Underage Persons, Disorderly Conduct: Intoxication/Offensive Behavior, Certain Acts Prohibited and Theft. He was taken to Butler County Jail.

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However, these annual wage statistics differ from those that measure the gender pay gap based on hourly wages which indicate a difference of only 13 cents, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) December 2014 report.

The discrepancy between the annual and hourly pay gaps can be explained in part by the higher likelihood of women to take jobs with more flexible hours and to work fewer hours of overtime. The statistics on the hourly wage gap also fail to include any salaried positions, while annual statistics do.

Women’s lifestyle choices also factor largely into how much their pay differs from men. The BLS found that for unmarried women, the annual pay gap is drastically smaller than that of women as whole; they make only five percent less than men.

The lower likelihood of women to enter certain lucrative careers also contributes to their overall earnings. Although women account for around half of the workforce in the social and life sci-

ences, the higher-paying fields of engineering and computer science are only 13 percent and 25 percent female, respectively.

Chloe Hazen, a senior at Miami who is majoring in Chemical Engineering and minoring in Paper Engineering, has noticed this difference in her time interning.

“I definitely would like to see more woman engineers,” said Hazen. “It’s very intimidating not only being the only intern in the room … but also being the only woman.”

Many of the fields in which women dominate are not as lucrative, such as early childhood education. According to the BLS, only 2.3 percent of preschool and kindergarten teachers are male.

Miami’s Women’s Center, FWord and Career Services will be collaborating on an observance of Equal Pay Day. They will be passing out information on the gender pay gap in the Armstrong Student Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 14.

“We hope people will stop by our table to learn more about the gender wage gap, why it exists and ways to address it,” Goettsch said.

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cused will present herself, himself.”

Vaughn listed a handful of intricacies that come with handling accusations of sexual misconduct cases. Of the few victims who report such crimes, many choose not to proceed with disciplinary action, and the cases that do reach OESCR often pit the word of an accuser against the word of an alleged offender, with no other evidence.

“These are really tough cases for universities to handle,” Vaughn said. “And it says something when even the criminal courts have difficulty with cases

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like this, so now it’s ended up in places like [universities].”

In addition to the ongoing lawsuit, Miami has been scrutinized for violating the Clery Act rules at least twice in the past.

In 1997, the university was among the first three institutions to be fined by the U.S. Department of Education for failing to properly inform sexual assault victims of the outcomes of disciplinary cases.

Then, in 2005, the Department of Education fined Miami $27,000 for the same offense. “[Miami] had again the dishonor to be one of the very small number of schools to be twice found in violation of

the Clery Act,” said S. Daniel Carter, former director of policy for the Clery Center for Security On Campus and campus safety advocate.

The student suing the university stressed the urgency of taking a stand against sexual assault, saying it’s time for Miami to increase efforts dramatically.

“It’s really widely spread knowledge that this is a huge problem on college campuses and has been for a long time,” Grace said. “If you’re the administration of a college campus, you can’t act like this is something you don’t want to deal with … it needs to be something we deal with right now.”

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cation and values Max contributed to the business.

“I never feel pressured. I get sad every once in a while that they aren’t here to see what we have accomplished,” Laurie said, fighting off tears. “I just know how excited my dad would be with what the business has become.”

Today, after more than 20 years of owning the family business, Laurie is taking her father’s values and methods and pushing them further than ever. Traveling all over the world to find the best products first-hand is just the beginning. Laurie’s passion for making people happy is what keeps the company flourishing.

“Laurie is a very communityminded and involved person,” Joe said. “She is a person who is not only passionate about where she lives and how she lives, but about the people in her community.”

But Laurie’s community seems to stretch from southwest Ohio to as far as central South America.

Although she owns a family business that is centrally located in Ohio, her passion and actions reach much further than that.

From employing an 84-year-old woman for more than 40 years as one of the leading chocolate factory workers, to partnering with the smaller coffee bean farmers of Columbia, serving people is her goal.

Her customers are the people

she strives to serve the most. The use of her traditional methods of both passion and chocolate-making is what Laurie said brings customers back.

“There’s a reason people come back for our chocolate,” she said.

“The same people have come to the stores for decades to get the same chocolate from the past two generations, and they have expectations for what they will get.”

Even the way they make the chocolate is the same. Workers in the chocolate factory are using the same copper kettles and machines that Max used in the ‘60s.

Winan’s Fine Chocolates doesn’t do that just for fun.

“It’s too easy to sway toward the efficient methods of massive candy companies where the product doesn’t touch human hands once,” Laurie said. “From day one we have used a traditional and hands-on approach toward making the candy.”

That candy is her life. Her favorite is dark almond turtles.

“My real favorites change every week,” Laurie said through a grin.

This very passion that drives her love for chocolate and her need to serve the community goes hand-in-hand with her MU pride, and combined, those two things helped Laurie bring Winan’s to Oxford.

“I love doing business at Miami because I feel like we are creating a whole new market for our chocolates,” she said. “Everyone loves the brands and tastes they

fall in love with while in college, and Winan’s can be just that.”

Similar to how the Tuffy’s Toasted Roll has become a Miami tradition, Laurie, who graduated in 1979, hopes her chocolate can have the same effect. Already, she has implemented her chocolates in locations around campus, including the MapleStreet Patisserie and MacCracken Market. The crowd favorite so far is Winan’s chocolate-covered pretzels, more popularly known as Wetzels.

Patisserie Manager Ginger Miller has worked hard with Laurie and her chocolates, and has become a good friend in the process. She said she is consistently impressed with Laurie’s attitude.

“With [Laurie] being a Miami alum and with her whole family being Miami alums, she was so excited to start selling her chocolates at Miami,” Miller said.

“From the beginning, she’s been so proactive about anything she wants to do and that passion is apparent no matter where she is.”

From the dense forests of Columbia to the Red Brick of Oxford, Laurie, with the help of her dedicated family, has made an impact in the community. But, right now, she is only focused on the next idea. She may be sticking to tradition, but Winan’s Fine Chocolates and Coffee are evolving.

“Except dark chocolate turtles,” Laurie said. “We will never change that.”

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drug trafficking incidents.

Concurrent with the increase of states legalizing marijuana, the frequency of state-to-state drug transferences has escalated dramatically. A charge of drug trafficking, defined as the manufacturing, transportation, selling or distribution of illegal drugs, can lead to serious consequences.

According to the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s report, “The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado,” the Centennial State has experienced a 397 percent increase in marijuana trafficking interceptions from the years 2008 to 2013. This extreme percentage stems from the state’s legalization of the drug in November 2012.

Varley said he wouldn’t be surprised if more instances of cross-state drug delivery went undetected.

“I’m sure it happens more often than we think it does, and I don’t believe that this is [Fledderman’s] first time doing this,” Varley said.

In its report, Rocky Mountain HIDTA also stated that in 2014, approximately 100 drug trafficking experts estimated that on average, about 90 percent of all drug trafficking packages fail to be intercepted by the police force.

When trafficking activity crosses state lines, the offense becomes federal government concern, and the punishments are more severe.

According to Varley, Fledderman has not yet been tried for his charges. His trial may not begin for a couple of months, since his prosecutions will be federally sanctioned. Varley suspects that if this is not his first offense with drugs, he will receive a stricter sentence.

wanda’s plans could cause dispute.

“I think we will resolve it, but it’s concerning,” Davis said.

Some of their specific variances on city codes were the height of light poles and width of sidewalks. However, during their most recent meeting on March 27, these disagreements with Oxford City Council were resolved. The district’s plans will allow variances in the requested measurements of light poles and sidewalks, and the board has adjusted their plans for curbing to meet the City Council’s standards.

The Conditional-Use permit was presented to City Council last week, which would grant the district the right to build in a residential area. Without it, they cannot build the elementary school.

Also during last week’s meeting, despite efforts to bring down costs, the construction manager found some of the proposed materials were causing yet another over-budget estimate. Some such materials were the tile, windows and the kitchen equipment.

Davis fears construction may now be pushed back to mid-May at the earliest, but hopes to finally shrink the budget enough to start getting shovels in the ground. The current projected completion of the new elementary school is August 2016.

“We’re right on the cusp of having a schedule issue,” Davis said, regarding how this new delay will affect construction.

A follow-up budget meeting will be held Monday, April 6, in which the Talawanda Board of Education hopes to finally bring down costs enough to proceed with plans to start building.

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the school record in the long jump after finishing 3/4 inches shy of breaking the record during the indoor season.

Men’s head coach Warren Mandrell looks forward to having the advantage of competing at home.

“It will be a good opportunity for the athletes to get some good times and have their friends come out and watch,” Mandrell said.

The women’s team arrives at their home turf after competing in the University of North Florida Spring Break Invitational last weekend.

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Sophomore Alexus Jimson-Miller competes in the 100m hurdles, while freshman Morgan Rice and junior Kathie Wollney compete in the quarter hurdles.

The remaining team members stay for the Miami Invitational.

Sophomore shot putter Amelia Strickler looks to continue her recent success, after finishing 15th overall in the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships March 14.

The Miami Invitational begins 10 a.m. Saturday at the Ryder Track.

“Come out and bring the Greek life to the track,” women’s head coach Kelly Phillips said. “I want everyone to get loud.”

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“Redhawksnap” exhibits concerning disregard for student and campus image EDITORIAL

In the past few weeks, something popped up on the Snapchat radar for students at Miami. At first, few of us knew about the account “redhawksnap.” Then word spread as it usually does: word of mouth, social media posts, group chats among friends and so on.

The account shows presumed Miami students engaged in all sorts of activities; photos and videos that feature drinking, drug use and nudity are visible to anyone who adds redhawksnap as a friend.

While we at The Miami Student cannot confirm the identity of those featured in the account’s photos and videos, some images are blatantly at Miami University. The user clearly seeks to showcase Miami culture.

Snapchat is a tricky form of social media since posts “dis-

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board. appear” after a certain amount of time and only our Snapchat friends can see them. It’s easy to think that because only certain people can see our posts, and because they all get deleted relatively quickly, that Snapchat has no repercussions.

This is where we’re all wrong, and why redhawksnap is so troublesome to the Editorial Board.

We all have freedom to post what we choose on social media. If we have the app, it’s our choice whether our Snap Story is a filtered shot of central quad on a sunny day or a loud, poorly lit video from Brick Street the night before. These are our actions and decisions.

But these actions and decisions have repercussions beyond ourselves sometimes, and that’s where redhawksnap comes into play. Any one of us could eas-

ily take a photo of anyone on campus whenever we want.

That could constitute an invasion of privacy, and when posted to social media, it can have far-reaching effects.

We don’t know if the people featured on redhawksnap submitted themselves, but we’re willing to bet that the person chugging a beer didn’t know their friend had recorded them and submitted them to an account that the whole school and more could see.

Friend A who recorded Friend B was probably thinking it was a funny joke to make a video of underage drinking merriment.

They sent it out on Snapchat and forgot all about it, because, why wouldn’t they? Most recipients of the video probably laughed about it and moved on with their day, and that was that.

Dan Pfeiffer interview reveals inside view on Congress, and why the next president needs to make the Hill move POLITICS

ANDREW’S ASSESSMENT Last month, long time Obama hand Dan Pfeiffer left his job as a senior adviser to the president. On his way out the door, Pfeiffer gave a revealing interview to New York Magazine. It’s an interview that gives political watchers an explicit window into how President Obama and his team view the House GOP. It can also tell us why Washington isn’t working now, but why it certainly could again in the future.

The original Obama view, before the debt ceiling showdown in 2011 was that the House could be reasoned with. But after government shutdowns and a continuing strategy of budget politics by continuing resolution, Pfeiffer came away from the White House with the view that Democrats and the White House “don’t have the ability to communicate with [Republicans].”

Pfeiffer’s interpretation of the administration’s basic view of their political adversaries is worth quoting at length.

“You have to be careful not to presume a lot of strategy for this group. I’ve always believed that the fundamental, driving strategic ethos of the Republican House leadership has been, what do we do to get through the next caucus or conference without getting yelled at? We should never assume they have a long game.”

Washington types have struggled ever since the Tea Party wave to understand exactly what these people want. The President and his closest advisers are chief among them. But understanding the broader House Republican strategy as no strategy at all, or simply that leadership seeks to avoid getting yelled at during a conference meeting is a problematic misread of what is going on between the White House and the Hill these last five years.

The best way to understand the House Republican conference is to understand that the rank and file members are the important ones. Not the leadership. Speaker Boehner himself constantly admits this, telling reporters and anyone who will listen that he just wants to do the will of the House.

In this view, what the rank and

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file believes becomes the key to understanding how Washington operates today--especially now that the Senate is filled with members of the same political stripe.

When describing the Tea Party and the rank and file House Republicans, New York Times columnist David Brooks often says this is an anti-political political movement.

This is a group that does not believe in politics. Instead they believe in draining any power out of Washington they can. That means when it comes to strategy, anything that takes away political authority from Washington is what they care about.

They choose to take a pure, anti transactional or political, approach to this goal, which means they will refuse to give in to the demands of the progressives in Congress or the White House on almost any level.

They are seeking total victory over compromise.

This approach is of course a deeply flawed one in many ways.

Politics is compromising. It is rea-

in office. He jammed through his stimulus and the Affordable Care Act when he had his majorities, and now he’s simply looked outward, working on foreign policy because Washington is so impossible.

In the Pfeiffer interview he says the incentives in Washington now push the Democrats to take action that will please their base without much care for the center—the opposite of the Clinton strategy.

When he took a beating, President Clinton sprinted to the center and came away with welfare reform and a balanced budget despite being charged with articles of Impeachment by the House GOP of his time. He worked toward the center, where politics happens.

This is an example of embracing the nature of politics. It is not like there wasn’t polarization—or “the Great Sort” as smart people are calling it now—during the 1990s.

We simply had a Congress and a president who embraced what politics is.

Washington types have struggled ever since the Tea Party wave to understand exactly what these people want. The President and his closest advisors are chief among them.”

soning together, from the litany of viewpoints, to find the public’s interest. It is often an incremental long game where goals are achieved slowly and over an entire career, not just a few short years.

Conventional wisdom on the Obama administration would tell you there is no way to work with these anti-political freaks. That they do embrace the view of politics described above. This is wrong. The Obama administration also prefers the anti-political route.

Remember, this is the president who ran for office directly refuting the idea that the transactional politics of Washington needed to be done the way they had always been done. Pfeiffer channels this in the New York Magazine interview when he says, “He had hopes of being able to change the polarization, not just in the country, but in Washington.”

High hopes indeed. The conventional wisdom is that the president, realizing he was unable to do this, turned inward quickly and decided to simply move the progressive political goals ball forward as much as possible during his two terms

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As the Obama administration slowly comes to a close, the history will likely say the president did all he could, but what was he to do about his insane Congressional opposition? This quick trigger reading will be wrong. Obama and the House Republicans of today both have no desire to truly engage in politics--Republicans because of their desire for ideological purity and Obama because he thinks he is above it--despite being in the highest level political offices in the country. Both are too focused on their bases and less on the broader public—this isn’t the first time this has happened, but this too shall pass.

Remember, politics is a long game. It’s likely that our next president, no matter their party, will seek to make political transactions with Capitol Hill. And real presidential leadership is the type of thing that can make the Hill move, whether they want to or not.

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But what if one recipient of the video recorded it, since there are numerous apps now that allow Snapchat videos and pictures to be recorded and saved? That recipient could cause Friend B any number of problems by having a video of them illegally drinking.

Friend A never intended that to happen, but it did.

The Editorial Board sees this as a huge issue, because making careless and immature decisions on social media can harm our friends even if we don’t mean for it to happen.

Whoever runs redhawksnap has hundreds of images and videos at their disposal to incriminate any number of students.

We’re not saying they should or that they would wreak havoc, but the fact that they could is concerning enough.

Some of the images featured

on the account aren’t even cause for punishment. A photo of a kid sitting on a bench with the caption “scrub” isn’t illegal or dangerous. But that’s still a photo, taken without consent, mocking an individual who is unaware. Where is the love or honor in that?

People need to think twice before posting videos and photos of others without their permission, and before submitting these things to extremely public accounts like redhawksnap.

Our online presence is as much a reflection of ourselves as our real life actions. It might seem childish to say “treat others as you would want to be treated,” but if you wouldn’t want a photo of yourself breaking laws visible to friends and professors then why would you do that to someone else?

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Writer should be more openminded on her Roman holiday I studied abroad in Luxembourg from January to May 2014, and it was by far the greatest experience of my life.

I grew into a self-sufficient and independent woman, made lifelong friends, and saw so many amazing and beautiful things in over 10 different countries; however, the most important part of my study abroad experience was the opportunity to experience cultures different from my own.

Miami University has stellar study abroad services, from helpful and friendly advisers in the study abroad office, to scholarship opportunities, to the copious amount of program choices available; yet, study abroad still isn’t feasible for many students. With the lack of programs that accept Miamiissued scholarships as well as the added costs of travel and living expenses, many people financially can’t afford to study abroad. I thank the universe every day that I had to opportunity to experience Europe, and it angers me when people take that privilege for granted.

Therefore, Britton Perelman’s article upset me for a number of reasons.

Rome and the Colosseum were built by hand thousands of years ago, and it astounds me that both are still standing.

Even with modern technology and tools, our current society fails to build such extravagant, impressive structures that can stand the test of time in the way that Rome and the Colosseum

have. But this is all aesthetic; Miss Perelman completely ignores the complicated, bloody and impactful history that comes with the Colosseum, which I find very superficial and rather callow.

As far as Miss Perelman’s critiques of her hostel go, I urge her to remember she is a visitor to another country whose citizens are generously and graciously accommodating her. It’s unfair to critique them so harshly for simply trying to make her comfortable and help enhance her Italian experience as best they can.

And finally, it’s hardly fair to compare a place with such a rich history to a Hollywood movie. Lizzie McGuire’s experiences were fictionalized and should hardly be taken as reality. Her “Rome” was a Hollywood production, where lighting, camera angles and heavy film editing affect the way things are presented.

I hope Miss Perelman can use my response to her article as a learning experience, as a way to recognize how fortunate she is for the opportunity to experience Europe. I hope she can understand how her privilege gives her a unique opportunity to explore other cultures outside from her own, and I hope she keeps this in mind as she continues her study abroad experience.

REBECCA CLARK

CLARKRC@MIAMIOH.EDU

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

April Fools’ Day prank fell short of funny, showed ignorance Following the April Fools’ piece on the Miami Wire about parking tickets, I am deeply troubled by President David Hodge’s disrespectful and troubling actions. Thus, I write this letter to President Hodge, As a graduate student and employee of Miami University, I am deeply disturbed and troubled by your childish humor using stockades as a crude April Fools’ joke.

Given the historical implications and ramifications with stockades involving slavery and other actions of abhorrent oppression, this is incredibly problematic. Every day, people of color face blatant discrimination and microaggressions. For Miami University to use a symbol

of oppression as mockery is entirely inappropriate and serves only to further marginalize the students of color at Miami, students who already feel a lack of belonging here (as evidenced by the recent article in The Miami Student, on the front page, no less) and everyday racism.

Do better, President Hodge.

An apology and history lesson is warranted in this case. Email President Hodge at president@ miamioh.edu.

Miami Wire has since changed the wording from “stockades” to “time-out chairs.”

REBECCA FROST

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Quit whining and love yourself, starting now LIFE

Yesterday afternoon, moments before my English 320 professor kindly suggested that I put my phone away during class and at least pretend to be interested in the ins and outs of Flash Fiction, I watched a video produced by the Dove Beauty campaign (the one that does a really good job of both spamming every major media outlet while also hardcore pulling at the heartstrings of millions of women, children and men nationwide).

The video involved taking the negative, body-shaming, hurtful comments that a few women made about themselves during the day and having actresses then act out a conversation where they made those same comments to a friend, all while the original women were able to hear and see the interaction.

Naturally, the women were appalled at what these actresses were saying to each other, and once they recognized what was going on, were appalled at what they had said to themselves, about themselves.

Later on, as I went through outfit upon outfit trying to prepare myself for the weekly slaughter that is 90s Night, I caught myself doing the exact same thing

these women had done; negative thoughts ranging from, “My closet resembles the leftovers of a thrift store raid,” all the way to, “The only thing about my body that doesn’t resemble a pregnant manatee right now are my eyebrows.”

Then, in true Cartoon Network fashion, a catalyst of a light bulb went off in my head, bringing forth to the forefront of my mind the highest quality of common sense thoughts: Why is it so hard to just like yourself?

It doesn’t sound like a hard question when you first hear (read) it, eliciting an “I don’t know,” or exaggerated shoulder shrug of a response. It’s not something that a lot of people think of — we spend a lot more time fixating on what we see wrong with ourselves as opposed to why we don’t just like ourselves.

Think about this for second: what would your life be like — what would you feel like — if you spent even half the time you spend ridiculing yourself or building other people up, on building yourself up?

Whether or not you want to admit it or think it matters, if you really sit down with yourself and think of all the bad thoughts you have about yourself, it will be-

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RULE OF THUMB NYC EXPLOSION SELFIES New York City is full of tourists, that’s no surprise. But when a building exploded last week, injuring and killing multiple people, tourists taking selfies by the disaster site was a surprise. Not exactly a tasteful memory of vacation.

RECORD LOW ACCEPTANCE RATES This just in: Harvard accepted 1,990 of 37,307 applications this year for an acceptance rate of just above 5 percent.This is after the university encouraged students to apply, boosted their social media presence and vocalized financial aid opportunities. Rejections are inevitable, but this seems to be getting out of hand as top schools compete for the worst acceptance rate.

WEAR YELLOW FOR SETH It’s rare that social media brings us something positive and unites us rather than divides us, but last week it did just that. The #WearYellowForSeth campaign brought together people of different backgrounds from around the world to help Seth Lane, 5, find a bone marrow transplant.

GRADFEST Getting your cap and gown, free Miami stuff and free food? Great. But a tangible sign that graduation is a real thing? Kinda scary.

We’d like to put the real world off, please, and the constant reminders of our looming departure isn’t helping. We’ll bury our heads in the sand, or maybe in pitchers.

CHEER ON THE REDHAWKS When it comes to Miami sports, there are all sorts of options this weekend. From the track team to volleyball games and tennis matches, be sure to catch your RedHawks in action.

come clear how damaging you really are toward yourself.

My question is, why? Since I think I’m a philosopher, I continued to think about this as I downed cheap vodka from my GBD flask. The caliber of negative thoughts I have about myself are (almost) never the types of things I think of other people — mainly because I don’t actually pay attention to other people as much as I pay attention to myself. If I’m not thinking this stuff about other people, odds are they aren’t thinking it about me.

Yes, psychology exists and the brain is a giant mystery, and even though ABC thinks that Derek Shepherd is going to figure it all out, we all know he’s not. I’m not so naïve to think that some of the negative thoughts are fueled by forces we can’t control, but I also know that it is totally possible to look in the mirror and say, “I look pretty right now,” or finish a paper and know that you totally killed it. Being selfdeprecating is a choice and building yourself up is a choice. Take charge of yourself and choose to build yourself up.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Bishop Woods destruction hits too close to home There has been major effort towards building on campus and I understand why this is necessary and desirable. I do not understand why some university officials decided to destroy Bishop Woods. Bishop Woods has been around since the start of the university in 1809 and contributes to Miami’s unique charm. There used to be signs throughout the wildlife area saying, “Please … Help us maintain this area in a natural state by staying on the paths. Thank you!” We cannot keep the woods in its natural state if a lot of it is destroyed and the university kills many of its trees.

As I was sitting in class in Upham Hall, I heard the piercing sound of numerous trees going through the wood chipper. All I could think in my head was, “Why?” One of my peers commented that people around the university had told her that they are simply clearing out invasive species. Clearing out invasive species might be the political response some university officials are saying. I believe the reason why they are changing Bishop Woods is because they want to improve the appearance of the university by making a large concrete path, and planting grass throughout the woods. However, if the goal was to remove invasive species could they do so without those other detrimental changes?

Another reason given for the destruction of Bishop Woods is a concern regarding safety. Yet that same sign throughout the woods says, “This area closed at dark.”

Shouldn’t Miami students have the

capability to make smart choices of where to go, and where not to go at night?

This topic hits very close to home for me personally. Both of my parents worked at Miami University for 19 years as members of the Botany Department. I grew up and was raised around the philosophy that people and nature should live in harmony. I have very fond memories of my father, other Botany professors and I traveling through Bishop woods during the summer to go eat lunch at Shriver. There are numerous natural areas around the periphery of campus. What made Bishop Woods so unique was that it was the only natural area in the heart of campus. Bishop Woods was an outside classroom the Biology Department frequently used, and now no longer exists.

The destruction of Bishop Woods is taking place right now and will continue to take place over the coming weeks. Although university officials are slightly altering their plans with Bishop Woods, there has been no agreement or significant compromise with saving the nature preserve. If enough people in the university community speak up there is still a chance that officials will alter their plans to commit detrimental changes to the wooded area.

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”

— Dr. Seuss, The Lorax STEPHEN KISS

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No matter the score, Kentucky basketball wins SPORTS

AMANDA’S APPROACH The sports fan inside me is usually hidden to the common eye. I don’t seem like the rah-rah type at first, but my competitive mentality shows up in flashes, and at opportune moments. It asserts itself in the middle of a cross-country race or in an especially rowdy round of Mario Kart and sometimes when I’m rushing to be the first one to push the button on the elevator.

More than any other situation, this side comes over me when there’s a Kentucky basketball game on. It’s like I shed all my non-sporty traits and become this creature who’s interested in three-pointers and shot clocks and yelling out phrases like, “What the heck are you doing, ref?”

It’s all very unexpected.

The need to root for Kentucky has set up camp somewhere deep inside, maybe next to a vital organ, I’m not sure. It’s pretty engrained in me. I grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, in a house about 10 minutes from UK’s campus, and I was infused with the ins and outs of Wildcat euphoria about as soon as they could get that blue and white onesie on me. I didn’t have much of a multiple choice selection process when it came to deciding what team I would be loyal

to. It was all blue and white everything, pretty much all the time. They were my team, because everywhere I looked, from my teachers, to my best friends and family and the clerks at Kroger, UK was their team, too.

So, ever since I transplanted myself to Ohio, I’ve been getting a lot of nasty looks and pointed glares from my friends who aren’t exactly Wildcat fans. Wearing my bright blue Kentucky T–shirt on a campus with Ohio State and Indiana and Notre Dame fans has a shocking resemblance to a scarlet letter type situation.

And I get it. Look at John Calipari’s stripe suits and the one-and-done mentality and how they’re the opposite of an underdog and it’s easy to pick on Kentucky.

But for me, when it comes to UK’s attempt at an undefeated season, my mind goes beyond the basketball court and the politics and the tournament brackets. I can’t keep up with half of the banter on ESPN, but I do know that Kentucky basketball reminds me of my home, the first 18 years of my life and the overwhelming essence of being a part of a huge collection of people who are also screaming at the TV. Cheering for UK is a reminder of saying “y’all” and singing Tim McGraw out of the car window and skipping school to bet on horse races.

I’m reminded of white picket fences and my grandma’s fried chicken and how it’s easy to meet genuinely nice people everyday. There’s an unspoken ideology that smiling and com-

passion are necessities, like tea being sweet.

A since of loyalty and comfort and always kicks in as images of the Lexington I know fill my mind.

The specific scenery and smells and charm that only Lexington can offer adds up to who I am today. It’s chalked up to so much more than what you get when you search “Kentucky” on Google. It’s my home.

And everyone that cheers on UK is a part of that. There aren’t many things that unite people anymore, in a big high-five-in-the-middle-of-Walmartbecause-we’re-both-wearing-Kentucky-jerseys way. Rooting for your team is one of those. You are instantly connected to people who you’ve never met just because they also feel an attachment to this team.

So, whatever the outcome on Saturday, I know all of Lexington will be on the same page, and that’s a feeling I love. When there’s a basketball game coming up, the streets are quiet and the stores are empty and everyone weaves the game into their small talk.

In my house, we all sit in our lucky spots in the living room and we pass around chips and salsa and we drink coke with splashes of bourbon. Our eyes are glued to the screen and that feeling is all over the room, the sense that we’re rooting for our home team and across all of Lexington, we’re all playing a tiny part on that team, too.

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fiscal years. Carpools with three or more drivers will get a permit with no charge.

Another difference with the price increases will be the manner in which permits are paid.

While in the past, faculty and staff permits were paid through a onetime $30 payroll deduction, permit fees will now be paid through a monthly payroll deduction. Students will still be charged to their bursar accounts.

“One thing we were really sensitive to was that $75 for some of the employees here could be a substantial hit to a paycheck,” Spilman said.

“The biggest percent change goes to the faculty and staff, but the dollar amounts are still relatively small.”

Compared to other public Ohio universities, Miami’s current parking prices are among the lowest, according to the ordinance. Miami students pay $110 to $220 for two semesters of parking, while students of Cleveland State University pay $360 to $474. Miami faculty and staff currently pay an annual $30, while faculty and staff permits at Cleveland State University cost anywhere from $799 to $992 annually.

However parking violations at Miami are high compared to other Ohio universities. A $75 parking violation at Miami is the equivalent to a $25 fee at Cleveland State University.

While Miami has chosen to subsidize maintenance costs in the past, according to Spilman, the university is now looking to reduce subsidization needs by generating more revenue from parking. Student, faculty and staff parking are among the most directly affected, but community members and visitors will now be charged as well.

“That’s a big change for Miami.

In the past we’ve always provided parking on campus in the most convenient locations to our visitors at no cost,” said Spilman.

In fact, in 2014, approximately 5,300 visitor-parking permits were issued at no cost, according to the proposal. With the new changes, these permits will now come with a price tag. Daily permits will be $3; weekly will be $10; and monthly will be $35.

Community members who use the Rec Center will have the choice of purchasing a parking pass, parking on Campus Ave. and using city meters, or parking in the Campus Avenue Parking Garage where they will be able to park for free to up to an hour and a half, according to Spilman. Drivers will have to pay the difference over the hour and a half limit, at 50 cents per hour over.

As predicted by the ordinance, the increase in parking fees is not a popular change.

Ruth Sanders, professor emerita of German and Rec Center regular, said she believed the new policy would have a negative effect on the Rec Center if members don’t opt to park in the lots and have to pay the visitor pass fee.

“The Rec Center itself could be hurt economically,” Sanders said. “[Personal trainers] would start losing clients if older people don’t come, and I think it would end up shrinking back the Rec Center programs.”

Yet Spilman said the change was necessary and a long time coming.

“This wasn’t something that just came up; this is something that’s been planned for a long time now,” he said. “We recognize that raising fees has an impact on people and we’re trying to mitigate those effects. We’re also trying to put the responsibility for those costs where they belong, and that’s with the users of that system.”

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that Jewish students experience when celebrating the Passover.

“We sometimes get trapped in our boundaries of day to day life, even down to the small stuff, like being caught up in our smart phones,” Greenberg said. “Three thousand years ago it was building pyramids.

Today, it’s our technology. We’re enslaved to our own gadgets.”

Greenberg stated that he hopes that both Jewish and non-Jewish students will recognize the relevance of Passover this year in their own lives.

“It’s not something that happened in the past, it’s something that’s happening now,” said Greenberg. “Today, in our modern times, we have to celebrate freedom as well.”

Force Elizabeth Beumel said.

The goal of these seats is to increase diversity within the senate; a body, which as it stands, is composed of largely business and political science students. With a more diverse range of students serving in the senate, the hope is that a new range of issues can be addressed by the senate as a whole, increasing their influence over more academic aspects of Miami’s campus life.

“Currently all of the student concerns and legislation has mostly been locationally-based, which makes sense because all of them are locational senators,” Beumel said. “To broaden the scope of the concerns that [senators] are bring-

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Furthermore, the goal has been expressed that these changes should allow the senate to gain more power and independence within ASG as a whole, with the hope that they can tackle larger, campus-wide issues affecting the Miami students they represent.

“Hopefully we’re going to start seeing bigger issues in academics that we’ve been trying to address,” Fogel said.

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America’s pastime returns COLUMN

TAYLORMADE Baseball was once the jewel of America. It was the supreme sport in the land of the free.

Today, the National Football League maintains that spot — by far. But for one day a year, baseball sits atop the sports world.

Opening day in baseball is the greatest day of the year, seriously. It is the day dreams are made.

Young players make their Major League Baseball debuts.

All teams have a sense of hope, no matter their circumstances.

Baseball parks from Atlantic to Pacific and in Canada are filled to maximum capacity. This might be the only time it happens all season for some teams.

Hot dogs, peanuts and baseball are as American as it gets.

These reasons only begin to explain why Opening Day is America’s holiday.

The 162-game season may never compete with the NFL for an entire season, but baseball’s biggest day is upstaged only by the Super Bowl.

Think about that. The biggest game in football is the only one that tops game one for MLB. Kids of all ages experience pure

jubilance as they see the first ballgame of the year.

Last season, Budweiser started a petition to name Opening Day as a national holiday. It reached the 100,000 signatures needed to land on President Obama’s desk. Though it did not come to fruition, it speaks volumes to the baseball community.

From the National Anthem, which is accompanied by an American flag covering the outfield, to the final out, this day screams America.

Baseball brought us out of the

family station wagon: nobody cares about it, but it’s always there for you. And as the MLB journey begins, we begin to care about that sentimental station wagon.

Fans young and old, loyal and fair-weather, hop into the beatdown sport of baseball. Though the sport has a few setbacks — it struggles on national television, a game takes three and a half hours to complete and its players make too much money — it has one shining moment every April.

Baseball will not compete with

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Austin Czarnik signs with Bruins Miami University senior forward Austin Czarnik signed an entry-level contract with the National Hockey League’s Boston Bruins Wednesday. Czarnik begins his career with the Providence Bruins, Boston’s American Hockey League affiliate.

The two-year captain played 159 games at Miami and finished tied for fifth in school history with 169 career points. He totaled 46 goals, and his 123 assists are second-most in school history.

Baseball is like the trusty, ole family station wagon: nobody cares about it, but it’s always there for you.

9/11 tragedies with memorable moments in New York, including a New York Yankees World Series run.

Even though the Yankees lost that World Series, the upstart Arizona Diamondbacks won. David beat Goliath in a truly memorable game seven walk off. That is as American as it gets — the upstart ragtag group upsets royalty. Hello, American Revolution.

And that title run started on Opening Day. Maybe the American Revolution is a stretch, but you understand.

Baseball is like the trusty, ole

the NFL, but so what? Baseball has one moment, one day where it sits atop ESPN coverage. And nobody cares how long the games last.

Every team is in first place, if only for a day. Baseball will probably never dominate the lives of children again. Football and maybe soccer now play this role. But football and soccer will never take away Opening Day. Dust off home plate, grab a bag of peanuts, put mustard on your hot dog and grab a drink. Major League DANIEL TAYLOR

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The number of Miami University men’s hockey players who have signed with a National Hockey League team since 2000.

RedHawk baseball remains winless at home BASEBALL

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In a pair of mid-week games, the Miami University baseball team was outhit 40-17 and outscored 32-8. The losses extend the RedHawks’ losing streak to sevenstraight games.

Miami (4-21, 2-4 Mid-American Conference) fell to No. 7 University of Louisville 16-5 Tuesday night before losing 16-3 to Marshall University Wednesday.

Louisville (22-7, 11-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) scored nine runs in the seventh inning on six hits.

Sophomore Corey Ray paced the Cardinals, going 3-5 from the plate and driving in four runs. Ray finished a single short of hitting for the cycle against Miami.

On the mound, sophomore Drew Harrington had seven strikeouts in three hitless innings of relief to earn the win for Louisville.

Miami freshman starter Gus Graham was credited with the loss after allowing four earned runs in 3 innings of work.

Junior outfielder Gary Russo extended his hitting streak to four games after Wednesday’s loss and had two RBI going 2-4 against Louisville on Tuesday.

Senior infielder Kendall Johnson’s is on a three-game

hitting streak after Wednesday.

Johnson was 2-4 with an RBI against Louisville.

Johnson and Russo’s increasing offensive output has manager Danny Hayden optimistic about the remainder of the season.

“We’re built to swing the bats good,” Hayden said. “We’re a couple of bounces away from getting this thing going in the right direction.”

The ’Hawks returned home on April Fool’s Day, but the result was not a joke.

Senior starter Clay Cinnamon pitched only 1 inning. Hayden said Cinnamon (0-2) suffered from discomfort in his bicep. However, Hayden believes Cinnamon will

bounce back.

The righty gave up three runs on four hits and notches the loss.

The Thundering Herd (9-18, 2-7 Conference USA) pounced on senior reliever Ryan Haynes in the fourth inning and hung six runs on the board to take the 9-0 lead.

Miami retaliated with a pair of scores in the bottom of the fourth and one in the fifth, but allowed seven unanswered runs to reach home safely.

For the second consecutive game, Johnson drove in a run on a sacrifice fly.

Senior Matt Honchel was 0-5 at the plate, and his average has dropped under .400 for the first time all season.

Miami softball shutout by Eastern Kentucky BASEBALL

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After winning seven of its last nine games, Miami University softball fell 10-0 in six innings to Eastern Kentucky University Tuesday. The RedHawks (18-12, 2-0 MAC) are 4-3 in weekday games this season.

“It was a terrible game,” head coach Clarisa Crowell said. “We’re disappointed in everything-defense, pitching and hitting, even though we had better at-bats late in the game. Give credit to EKU for their better defense, pitching and hitting. We have to show up ready to play. There’s something about midweek games where we can’t figure out how to go to school and play softball. This isn’t Miami softball.”

Eastern Kentucky (15-18) took an early 4-0 lead after two unearned runs in the first inning and two more runs in the third. Senior pitcher/third baseman Remy Edwards relieved sophomore starter Kelsey Fredericks at the mound,

but the Colonels continued to cross the plate. EKU scored one run in the fifth inning and four runs in the sixth.

The Miami offense totaled six hits in the game but could not string them together and reach scoring opportunities. The RedHawks did not have a runner in scoring position until they trailed 6-0 in the fifth inning. Senior catcher Shanyn McIntyre was the only player with multiple hits on the day, going 2-3 at the plate.

The pitching and defense also struggled, as they allowed 11 hits.

Two second baseman errors led to EKU scores early in the contest.

“We had energy and effort today but we couldn’t physically get it done,” Edwards said. “This week, we need to put it all together and fix what we need to fix. Kelsey had a great game, but she didn’t have the help on defense that she needed, and for me and the other pitchers, we need to hit our spots better and get more groundouts and pop-ups.

We need to step up as a staff and have confidence in our defense, and have good at-bats, hitting at the green instead of at people.”

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The series gives Miami an opportunity to get back over the .500 mark in MAC play.

“We’re coming out there with everything we got on Friday,” Hayden said. “They’re going to be a tough win for us.”

Hayden is excited to watch his senior Friday starter, Ryan Powers, rebound after last Friday’s loss.

“I’m looking forward to watching Powers go take it,” Hayden said. “He wants to atone for that last outing and I have no doubt he’s going to.”

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Shortstop Kylie McChesney tries to make a play at second base. McChesney has a .257 batting average and 14 runs on 18 hits.

The RedHawks stay in Oxford this weekend for two doubleheaders with the State University of New York-Buffalo and Kent State University. Miami’s Cancer Awareness Game is Saturday.

Buffalo (7-22, 0-2 MAC) limps into Oxford on a six-game losing streak, which includes a Kent State sweep. Sophomore first baseman Savanna Norcio and senior catcher/third baseman Alexis Curtiss each have a batting

average over .400. However, their opponents hit .335.

Kent State (21-6, 2-0 MAC) is on a roll. The Golden Flashes are on a nine-game losing streak, and their last loss was a 4-1 defeat against No. 3 University of Michigan March 15. Their potent offense bats .284 overall, and three pitchers hold an ERA under 2.00. KSU faces Ball State University in a doubleheader before arriving in Oxford.

The Miami University track and field team hosts their first home meet of the season this weekend at the Miami Invitational. The RedHawks compete against Ohio State University, University of Notre Dame, University of Cincinnati, Butler University and others.

Senior hurdler Skyler Coburn and sophomore hurdler Taylor Gittins hope to build momentum after their respective first and second place finishes in the 400-meter hurdles at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational last Friday.

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