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Each year, Miami students pay a general fee of $1,860. Of that, $997 — or about 54 percent — goes toward intercollegiate athletics, most of which is allocated to student-athlete scholarships.

Fee frustration: Students pay $997 yearly for athletics ATHLETICS

MARY SCHROTT THE MIAMI STUDENT

This year’s budget shows that over 50 percent of the $1,860 general fee paid by all Miami undergraduates is going toward intercollegiate athletics.

With the general fee being mandatory, this means each year undergraduates must pay $997 for intercollegiate sports, as well as a combined $350 for the Rec center and Goggin Ice Center, leaving $513 to be allocated to Armstrong, Shriver, Millet, Health Services, Transportation Services, ASG, Lecture Series, more than 240 other student organizations and several other services.

Current senior and vice president of Student Organizations,

Nathan Lombardi, is heading an eight-person task force of students and faculty aiming to address and alter the general fee by 2020. Lombardi said the money paid toward intercollegiate sports mainly supports student-athlete scholarships.

“I think it’s a disproportionate allocation of the student fee away from areas that create tangible student life on campus,” he said.

The other areas of tangible student life Lombardi alludes to are MAP events, like Spring Fest, as well as the Lecture Series, an organization he describes as “extraordinarily successful.”

Though Lombardi said he supports Miami’s intercollegiate athletics, he believes the money and energy being spent on sports doesn’t match the culture of Miami, and he cites low attendance

Community questions alcohol task force findings ALCOHOL

SARAH BUOP

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University students have begun to question the Alcohol Task Force’s recommendations and their effectiveness in reducing the high-risk drinking culture on campus. The task force released a report last Monday, March 30.

President David Hodge announced the report to students via email, explaining that a newly formed Alcohol Coordinating Committee (ACC) will be taking action to find ways to improve the drinking behavior at the university.

According to the report, Miami students’ high-risk drinking rates have continually ranked higher than the national average. The report states that the number of non-drinking students decreases

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would be spent at the five major conferences,” Creamer said.

Though the fees Miami charges students may be controversial, Creamer feels they ultimately even out for students and provide each individual a rewarding college experience.

“We don’t try to provide one specific educational experience for every student,” Creamer said.

“We hope to provide enough variety and options that your goals and expectations are met and a student who is very different from you hopefully has the same outcome that their unique goals and expectations are being met.”

Although attendance at Miami sporting events is a small percent of the student body, many students, like sophomore Nicole Waker, specifically enjoy attending Miami hockey games.

“Going to the games adds a sense of community around school, and it’s fun to support a aschool team that does really well,” Waker said.

Creamer notes that many students share Waker’s enthusiasm for supporting school teams.

“We have students who line up waiting to get into the hockey game and it’s a very important part of their experience here,” Creamer said. “Is that true for every student? Absolutely not, some couldn’t figure out why they would even go to the game, let alone wait up all night to go.”

For the student’s who don’t enjoy intercollegiate sports, Creamer says there is still the potential for them to benefit from the services the general fee pays for.

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after four to six weeks of students arriving at school. In other words, Miami students are less likely to remain non-drinkers — and more likely to participate in alcohol consumption — when they arrive at school, compared to the national average.

After receiving a notification about the report, students are having a difficult time believing that Miami’s drinking problem is different from other schools and that the report will help change students drinking habits.

Junior Emily Anderson said she, like other Miami students, remains unclear as to what the task force even is or does.

“I feel there is some confusion on what the task force really is,” Anderson said. “To me I thought it was just a series of seminars or info sessions, and I had no idea it was a set plan over time to in-

as evidence.

“You can’t force a cultural change on a campus, you have to move with whatever cultural direction is going on,” Lombardi said.

While Lombardi wants to see change in the general fee’s focus on intercollegiate athletics, Miami’s vice president of finance, David Creamer, believes intercollegiate athletics are an important part of the college environment.

“This is not new,” Creamer said. “Intercollegiate athletics have always been supported by student fees.”

What Creamer said makes Miami’s fee allocations stand out as an outlier is a result of its size.

“We are called a mid-major, and the amount that we spend on athletics is a fraction of what

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Associated Student Government members respond to lack of racially diverse representation ASG

BONNIE MIEBERS

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Of the 52 senators in Associated Student Government (ASG), 10 identify with racially diverse backgrounds. One international student and one student of Middle Eastern heritage are on the Executive Cabinet, which is made up of 14 members. The international student who is a cabinet member is also the only international student in ASG. All but one of the presidential and vice presidential candidates identifies as Caucasian. One vice presidential candidate is a member of the Miami Tribe.

The lack of minority representation in the presidential and vice presidential candidates running in this year’s student body presidential elections should not come as a surprise since many candidates served in the homogenous ASG before deciding to run.

While these numbers may be representative of Miami’s over 80 percent white campus, some worry it may cause issues that minority groups face to be overlooked.

“I think ASG admittedly probably needs to do a better job at outreach to minority students,”

Student Body President Cole Tyman said.

Tyman said it is difficult for any student organization to get members to join its ranks, but ASG is putting in a renewed effort to gain minority membership. ASG faculty adviser Scott Walker said he has seen ASG become more open to the student body in the past five years. He also said he believes the senate is responsive to concerns that are made known to them.

“I’m sure ASG doesn’t know every concern that every student has,” Walker said.

The main concerns, however, are those issues that do not make themselves known to or do not get heard by ASG. “I don’t think that students of diverse/minority populations feel that their voices are heard

by ASG,” said Student Senator and ASG Parliamentarian Ifeolu Claytor.

Lack of diversity in the senate and the lack of minority representation cannot be attributed to a single cause. A general lack of engagement on the part of minority students is not the root of the problem either.

Magda Orlander, ASG secretary for Diversity Affairs, said many students who are considered “dif-

ferent” are unwilling to participate in structures that they feel do not want to hear their opinions or accommodate them.

“Right now you can put the majority of ASG and their ways of thinking into two or three categories so there isn’t a place for outside ideas,” said ASG Senator Taylor Edwards.

are business and political science majors. To remedy this issue and attempt to diversify the senate, ASG has added senate seats for each college.

“It’s difficult for a group of students coming from similar backgrounds to introduce underrepresented issues on campus simply because most of the sena-

I think ASG admittedly probably needs to do a better job at outreach to minority students.”

COLE TYMAN

ASG STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT

Diversity in way of thought and academic interests along with ethnic diversity are lacking in ASG. According to Senators Sarah Valentine and Edwards, most senators come from similar backgrounds. While ASG is open to students of all backgrounds — in fact any student can run for student body president — the types of students that are typically interested in student government

tors aren’t in constant contact with the unique problems a specific group of people might face,” Valentine said.

A possible reason for underrepresentation of minority groups in the senate is a lack of support.

Many Miami students do not know what ASG is, how it runs or how or when to vote for members of the senate.

While there are groups and organizations all over campus that

are welcoming to students of all backgrounds, there is a general lack of support from the Miami community at large.

Just as there is not one reason for this lack of diversity, there is not one answer to this issue.

Increasing diversity among the members of ASG will involve having conversations about race and diversity and increasing recruitment of diverse students to the university as well as into ASG. Orlander believes having those conversations is not enough and increasing diversity calls for a structural change that will involve the voices of minority students. Walker said ASG is looking at changing the structure right now with the senate seats for each college.

Diversity training for members of the senate is also in developmental stages. Orlander says that this training will involve teambuilding exercises. It will not only be informative, but it would also call for self-reflection.

Tyman said, while ASG is predominately white, minorities have never been non-existent.

“It’s in the mind of a lot of people to do a better job of reaching out to minority students going forward,” Tyman said.

Tyman, Bata fall short on platform promises ASG

JEFFREY SADOWNICK THE MIAMI STUDENT

JING LONG THE MIAMI STUDENT

Sustainability doubted with bottle sales SUSTAINABILITY

SARAH KNEPP

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Despite this goal of creating a more eco-friendly campus, Miami continues to produce and distribute its own “RedHawk” plastic water bottles that, if not recycled properly, cause damage to the environment. The distribution of these bottles places an emphasis on economic advantages rather than environmental improvement.

From an economic standpoint, it is advantageous for the

Cracken Market sells for $1.79.

A 20 ounce bottle of Aquafina sells for the same price.

“Pepsi bottles the water for us, and we are the only place they sell it,” Brubacher said.

“There is no additional charge to us for having the custom label.”

According to Brubacher, the university team that deals with the manufacturing of the water bottles, along with the team that deals with environmental sustainability, ensures that the widespread availability of the RedHawk water bottles does not make Miami’s campus any

We had a water expert lecture on campus a couple of years ago, and I think he put it best, saying that bottled water is a very good product ... when local water is unfit for consumption.”

YVETTE KLINE

DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABILITY AND ENERGY CONSERVATION

university to produce and sell the RedHawk water bottles because students purchase more of this brand than any other.

According to Jon Brubacher, who oversees the procurement of food on campus, last fiscal year (July 1 2013-June 30, 2014) Miami sold 194,858 bottles of RedHawk water — 63 percent more than Aquafina bottles.

The RedHawk water bottles are made by Pepsi and are sold only on campus. A 16.9 ounce bottle of Redhawk water at Mac-

less eco-friendly.

Adopting a recycling program on-campus has helped the university reduce the amount of plastic waste that gets deposited into the landfills.

“Our diversion rate from product that in the past went to the landfill has increased greatly since the University embraced single-stream-recycling several years ago.” Brubacher said.

On-campus recycling makes it easy for students to properly

dispose of their plastic water bottles. There are multiple recycling bins in every building as well as one in every room in residence halls.

Despite this recycling program, students still choose to throw away items, such as plastic water bottles, that could be recycled. Trash audits of residence halls conducted by Miami’s Eco Reps determined that, on average, nearly 30 percent of the trash in audited halls was actually recyclable.

As an alternative to recyclable plastic water bottles, the university also sells refillable water bottles.

“All residence halls, as well as many of the drinking fountains, have been retrofitted to include a water fill-station to make it easy for those choosing to use a refillable bottle.” Brubacher said.

The practice of using refillable water bottles on campus is one that is highly encouraged and supported for students to participate in.

“From a sustainability perspective, we support the use of reusable bottles over disposables, and I am always happy to see someone using the water bottle filling stations that are becoming more available around campus,” Yvette Kline, director of Sustainability and Energy Conservation, said. “We had a water expert lecture on campus a couple of years ago, and I think he put it best, saying that bottled water is a very good product…when local water is unfit for consumption.”

Cole Tyman and Natalie Bata, student body president and vice president, are working to the end of their terms to fulfill promises from their campaign platforms.

During last year’s elections, Tyman and Bata promised to create student peer advising programs, decrease the cost of parking tickets and include exercise equipment in every quad.

Now, at the end of their term, the Miami community can evaluate Tyman and Bata’s year as leaders and whether they delivered their campaign promises.

Not everything was accomplished exactly as Tyman and Bata had promised, but some of their goals were achieved.

“I did not understand this job until I was in it,” Tyman said.

During his campaign, Tyman advocated for the creation of a peer advising system where underclassmen would be paired with older students in order to seek advice regarding classes, majors and more. Tyman thought peer advising would give underclassmen a more personal and relaxed advising experience than ones with academic advisers.

However, with elections for next term’s president and vice president only days away, the program is yet to be implemented, leaving current first-years with the same system already in place.

Nevertheless, Tyman hopes that if everything goes as planned, there will be a mandatory first-year experience course starting the 201617 school year. The course would include a peer advising system that allows first-years to find advisers with similar academic interests. The

program is designed to give firstyear students an older friend or mentor to help adjust to college life.

One of Tyman’s most appealing campaign promises was changing the parking ticket system for students with cars on campus. A typical parking ticket (excluding meter violations) currently costs a student $75.

Tyman wanted to change that.

He believed a first-time violation should result in a warning, a second-time violation should result in a reduced ticket and any further violations should receive the full $75 ticket.

Tyman is still working with the parking and transportation office to implement his plan, however, ASG did reform the parking ticket appeals process to require an explanation for a rejected parking ticket appeal.

Another complaint was Miami’s crowded Rec center. Tyman originally promised to reduce crowds at the Rec and make exercising more convenient by adding exercise equipment in every academic quad.

Once he took office, Tyman learned the logistics of such an undertaking were too much to handle.

Instead, he focused on adding exercise space to the bottom floor of Martin Dining Hall, which is currently being renovated and converted to a dorm. Adding the space in Martin was not a part of Tyman’s plan, but he and the rest of ASG did endorse it.

ASG also worked to extend the Rec center’s hours, which went into effect at the beginning of the semester. However, after the brief trial run, the Rec decided to return to its regular hours.

Although Tyman did not deliver on all of his campaign promises, ASG accomplished several goals ASG »PAGE 8

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MARCH TO ‘TAKE BACK THE NIGHT’ Monday night, Students protested to raise awareness for campus sexual assault during the annual Take Back the Night rally.

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Proposed bill threatens quality of education with tuition cuts MONEY

RACHEL ZETWICK THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Ohio Senate has recently been introduced to Senate Bill 4, which will require all Ohio state institutions to reduce the cost of attendance for in-state students by 5 percent for the 2016-2017 school year.

Republican and Senate President Keith Faber asked the Senate Finance Committee to help him achieve this goal. The bill was introduced to Congress Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Faber is the senator from District 12, and has served as a congressman for Western Ohio for the past decade. He recently expressed his intent to move the legislation to the desk of the governor.

Faber serves on the Rules and Reference Senate Committee, and hopes each institution will find creative ways to handle the reduction.

Kirsten Fowler, a Miami sophomore studying diplomacy and global politics, spent time over spring break with the Government Relations Network (GRN) in Washington, D.C. and the Statehouse in Columbus.

The GRN is a Miami organization that helps students explore federal,

state and local political problems.

They traveled to meet and lobby more than 110 legislators and staff regarding Ohio higher education is-

make reductions to in-state cost of attendance. While no specific programs were mentioned, Fowler implied certain cuts would have to be

The problem with Senate Bill 4 is that it focuses on cutting the cost of education, without thought to what it would do to the quality of education.”

KIRSTEN FOWLER

MIAMI UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORE, DIPLOMACY AND GLOBAL POLITICS

sues, including Senate Bill 4.

While this bill is far from becoming actual legislation, it would entail state universities to cut the cost to attend their institution by 5 percent.

“The catch is that Miami will not necessarily get that money back from state funding,” Fowler said.

Fowler explained that the system Ohio uses to supply state public universities with funds is a complicated.

Each university receives different amounts of money from the state, depending on how many students graduate from the school, rather than how many students are recruited.

While at the Statehouse, the students of GRN stressed their current quality of education and the possible program reductions that could be made if institutions were required to

made if this legislation were to pass.

The GRN was not in support of this legislation.

“The problem with Senate Bill 4 is that it focuses on cutting the cost of education, without thought to what it would do to quality of education,” Fowler said.

David Creamer, the vice president for Finance and Business Services at Miami said students should be aware that the legislation proposes to reduce the cost of attendance, meaning different institutions will handle a reduction in different ways, such as program cuts or course requirements.

“As a student, you have to recognize that if 5 percent less is being spent, something associated with TUITION »PAGE 3

Partnership emphasizes local food SUSTAINABILITY

ABIGAIL KELLY

THE MIAMI STUDENT

ally take root.

“When Uber first launches a market, we have to grow it,” he said, commenting on the fact six drivers from Cincinnati drove in for the Oxford launch. “[Drivers] will follow the demand, that’s kind of what the drivers do. If they see Miami University has a consistent flow of people wanting rides, they will come.”

What that means is the more in-

The university’s Institute for the Environment and Sustainability (IES) is partnering with the city of Hamilton and the nonprofit organization Hamilton Urban Gardening Systems (HUGS) to help the university to become more involved in the evolving movement of local food.

Since the establishment of Hamilton’s Historic Farmer’s Market in 1837, the city has further developed its interest in locally grown and produced food. Now, nearly 200 years later, the IES is helping Hamilton create a farm-to-table infrastructure for restaurants.

“The goal of the HUGS project is to facilitate connections between local food producers and Hamilton restaurants,” said Tom Crist, director of IES. To Alfred Hall, the executive director of HUGS, Miami’s partnership has helped a lot to fulfill his organization’s mission of giving community members access to fresh produce in an environmentally sustainable way.

“Miami has been very supportive not only financially but also have been very supportive of us and give us students,” Hall said.

Seniors at the Hamilton regional campus in the College of Professional Studies and Applied Sciences have completed their capstones by helping HUGS build a garden on the Hamilton campus, set up a mobile farmer’s market and work in local greenhouses.

Nursing Senior Catherine Snader worked with HUGS for her class’s community practicum by helping build a garden at the Booker T. Washington Community Center in Hamilton, an area where there is a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables for the community.

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EMILY SABENEGH THE MIAMI STUDENT

PASSOVER THE MATZO Christy McDougall and Nick Herrmann enjoy great food and great company at Hillel’s Passover Seder Friday evening.

Uber zooms into Oxford BUSINESS

KATIE TAYLOR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Miami University’s campus and surrounding community just got a lot smaller thanks to the Oxford launch of Uber, a mobile app that allows anyone to access a ride with the click of a button on their smartphone.

The trending startup sent a handful of the company’s Miami alumni to talk about Uber’s success and

agreement similar to a taxi service.

However, unlike most transportation services, the app allows drivers who are accepted into the program to use their personal vehicle, and determine their own work schedule.

Uber Columbus General Manager James Ondrey said the app has been successful because of this flexibility.

He also stressed that the launch provides the Oxford community with an opportunity they need to take advantage of to get the service to re-

If [drivers] see Miami University has a consistent flow of people wanting rides, they will come.”

JAMES ONDREY

UBER COLUMBUS GENERAL MANAGER

announce the Oxford launch during a panel Monday, March 30 in Taylor Auditorium at the Farmer School of Business.

The company first released its citizen taxi service in San Francisco in 2010. It now spans 300 cities around the globe and was recently valuated at $40 billion, making it bigger than Twitter, Sony and many of the country’s most powerful companies.

Uber provides an opportunity for people to enter into a ridesharing

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POLICE BEAT Arabian nights At 5:19 a.m. Sunday, OPD received a call from a delivery driver at Speedway, 260 S. Locust St., regarding an obnoxious male who refused to leave the premises.

According to the clerk, later interviewed by the responding officer, the male had been inside the establishment for nearly an hour and had ignored repeated requests to scram.

The suspect thrice asked the clerk if she would go home with him, according to OPD. All the while, the suspect’s vehicle was idling in the parking lot with its lights on.

The responding officer found the suspect to be Saudi Arabian, speaking with a thick accent. Despite the bizarre misadventure yet to unfold, there was no mention of any language barrier. The officer approached the male who had slunk into the driver’s seat of his car, bearing Minnesota plates, upon OPD’s arrival.

When asked for ID, the suspect presented two: a Minnesota driver’s license that had been revoked and an Ohio license that was suspended.

The officer informed the male he could not legally drive the vehicle in which he was currently sitting and which was currently running.

Thus began the officer’s attempts to coerce the subject into willingly leaving the premises (and his vehicle). After each request to vacate, the suspect would laugh and attempt to change the subject, according to OPD. This occurred several times. Eventually, the male did leave, though promptly wandered back and resumed loitering.

The conversation between the officer and suspect turned to the question of what to do about the vehicle.

The officer repeatedly answered the male’s question, saying he could return anytime with a valid driver to move the car. However, the suspect refused to acknowledge the answer, each time laughing and asking again. OPD said this happened 14 or 15 times before the officer gave up and arrested the suspect after again ignoring the answer, laughing and asking again.

The suspect was charged with Criminal Trespass and Driver under Financial Responsibility law suspension. Note he was not believed to be intoxicated. He was taken to Butler County Jail. No word on whether he found that funny.

Parking lot fist fight At 2:46 a.m. Sunday, OPD received a report of an active fight at 11 W. Church St. By the time officers arrived, the brawl had migrated to Lot 52, the parking lot on Park Place.

The responding officer witnessed a white male on top of a black male. The white male was repeatedly striking the black male in the face with a closed fist.

After the suspect ignored commands to cease, the officer removed him from atop the black male, who had multiple facial injuries.

The suspect leapt up, ignored the officer’s commands to stop and fled until he was identified and stopped by another officer near McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital.

The victim refused medical treatment for his injuries. He also declined to press charges.

The life squad wrapped lacerations on the attacker’s hand in gauze. Beyond this, the suspect also refused medical treatment.

The suspect was taken to Butler County Jail where he was refused admittance because the lacerations on his hand were still bleeding and Jail employees believed he required stitches. The OPD officer then took the suspect to Fort Hamilton Hospital.

He left him in the care of a triage nurse, informed both of them the suspect was not under arrest and was no longer under his supervision and left.

32 blue pills were found in a cellophane cigarette wrapper on the suspect’s person, a common way of clandestinely transporting drugs, according to OPD. The pills are generic Xanax, for which the suspect claimed to have a prescription despite his peculiar mode of transporting them. This matter is still under investigation.

He was charged with Offenses Involving Underage Persons, Disorderly Conduct: Fighting/ Violent/Turbulent and Obstructing Official Business.

Rumble in the Woods At 2:20 a.m. Saturday, employees of The Wood’s Bar, 17 N. Poplar St., flagged down an OPD officer in reference to a male who refused to leave the premises. The suspect had been denied entry because the bar had closed. After fighting with staff, the 19-year-old male was physically removed.

The officer found the male on the corner of N. Church St. and E. Poplar St. screaming and cursing; a contemporary siren. From Cincinnati, he was in Oxford visiting friends, who milled about him on the street corner. The officer advised the male’s friends to leave.

As they attempted to do so, the suspect, annoyed, punched a male friend twice, square in the face, with a closed fist.

The officer immediately began issuing loud verbal commands for the suspect to stop. Slowly, the male turned toward and looked at the officer, and then promptly punched his friend in the face a third time. The officer became more vehement in his commands for the suspect to cease. According to OPD, the suspect took a “threepoint football stance” and tackled the officer. Sweeping the officer’s knees, the suspect and the officer fell to the ground and continued to struggle. Another officer approached and removed the suspect from atop the officer.

Both officers instructed the suspect to stop resisting arrest as they attempted to get him on his stomach. The suspect refused and proved too wily to pin. An officer directed strategic blows to the suspect’s scapula, which were ineffective.

Eventually, an officer released a short burst of pepper spray to the right side of the suspect’s face. The suspect, still resisting, turned to the left and was promptly sprayed again. The suspect then complied and was handcuffed. At OPD he was found to be intoxicated. The life squad flushed out the suspect’s eyes and face. He was charged with Offenses Involving Underage Persons, Disorderly Conduct: Fighting/Violent/Turbulent and Resisting Arrest and taken to Butler County Jail.

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Majority in Ohio approve of legalizing marijuana

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Rolling Stone retracts UVA sexual assault article

Kenya retaliates against last week’s attack

At 84 percent, Ohio voters approve of legalizing marijuana for medical use, but only 54 percent approve legalization for recreational use.

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A car chase between a police officer and a West Chester teenager on northbound 1-71 ended in an accident with the police cruiser.

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After police and the Columbia Journalism School found no evidence to verify the rape allegations against UVA, Rolling Stone retracted its article Sunday.

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After Islamic terrorist group al-Shabab killed 148 at Kenyan university last week, Kenya responded by bombing Somalia, where Al-Shabab is based.

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Lost in Venice’s Lagoon

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BRITTON PERELMAN THE MIAMI STUDENT

TRAVEL

GREAT BRITTON No one gets lost any more. Not with the Google Maps app in our pockets, the GPS on the dashboard and the Internet at our fingertips.

But what if you want to get lost?

When Katie, Hannah and I fled the tourist-saturated streets of Rome for Venice, that’s what I had every intention of doing. Getting totally and completely lost.

People speculate that, in 10 years or so, Venice will be gone.

The structures will be swallowed into the water, the foundations finally too old and fragile to hold the weight of an entire city.

I wasn’t willing to let Venice become the next Atlantis before I wandered the alleys and lost myself among the canals and gondolas.

I loved Venice long before I set foot there, long before I set foot in Europe, in fact.

The very idea of the city enchanted me — the water, the masked tradition of Carnival, the faded glory of a powerful place ruined by the transition into modern times. I heard the water slapping against the concrete of the city as soon as the doors of St. Lucia station slid closed behind us. A smile spread across my face.

When we wanted breakfast the next morning, I picked a narrow side street at random and we wandered until we found a cafe. And that’s how our day went — picking right or left on a whim, going in shops

that seemed to have something special inside, crossing bridges wherever we wanted.

There’s liberation in knowing that you could really, truly, lose yourself somewhere. The knowledge that we were on an island allowed us not to worry about taking wrong turns. Where could we possibly end up? If we hit the edge, all we’d have to do is turn around.

The streets of Venice are so compact, so crammed together, it’s easy to walk for hours and end up not far from where you started.

We only saw a fraction of the island, but it felt like so much more.

We chose the back streets. There were shops full of glass — tiny pieces of fake candy, rainbow-colored candle holders, elegant champagne flutes, minuscule animal families.

My favorites were the miniature gondoliers — perfect little glass men with colorful hats balanced on fragile gondolas. We saw shops with masks on every inch of surface.

With each one I saw, I found myself wishing more that we had been able to come to Venice in time for Carnival.

How I would have loved to witness the confetti throwing, the covered faces, the crescendo of costumed people heading for parties I could never afford to attend.

The sun set over the Grand Canal as we rode the water bus back to San Marco.

We searched for a famous bookstore in the dying light. It was the only time we used the map on my phone. Inside, Libreria Acqua Alta was an explosion of books.They spilled out of the gondola in the center of the store, off the bookshelves, and were even piled into a set of stairs out back by the canal. We admired the read-

ing nook overlooking the water and talked ourselves out of buying vintage Italian posters before heading back, through the glowing alleyways and over the canals, to our hostel for the night.

The next day we walked around Murano, where most of Venice’s glass is made, before deciding to return to the main island to continue exploring. It was a 45-minute ride and Katie and Hannah had fallen asleep across the aisle from me. I debated taking a nap, but decided against it.

I was in Venice. I needed to keep my eyes open for as long as I could.

Somewhere in the middle of the ride, while gazing idly out the window and thinking about ideas for things I’d never write and trying desperately to remember the plot of the “The Thief Lord,” we passed through the middle of the lagoon.

Then suddenly I was staring at a statue that rose from the water — two stone men in cloaks, standing in a stone gondola.

They appeared to be arguing, their chins jutting, one pointing away at the sea.

Had it been built here in the water?

Or were we passing over a plaza that had sunk beneath the waves, leaving only these gondoliers to mark the spot? And what was the one man supposed to be pointing at?

I watched the statue until it was out of view. Were the two men meant to be lost in Venice’s lagoon forever?

The water bus moving through the water sounded so peaceful, the hum of the engine so natural. If the men were meant to be lost, I thought to myself, perhaps that wasn’t such a bad fate after all.

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Whether on stage at Terminal 5 or on TV as David Letterman’s guest, Tillman manages to capture listeners — wherever they may be — and makes them seem like no one else is around.

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The album is a love profession of sorts, exploring the trials and tribulations of falling in love and finding a partner in his now wife, Emma, a filmmaker who Tillman met in the parking lot of a grocery store in Laurel Canyon, CA. Tillman sings, “Oh, and love is just an institution based on human frailty / But what’s your paradise got to do with Adam and Eve? / Maybe love is just an economy based on resource scarcity / But what I fail to see is what that’s got to do / With you and me,” in the penultimate song, only to sink into appreciation and bliss in the next track, “For love to find us of all people / I never thought it’d be so simple.”

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Tillman left home, where he was forbidden to listen to secular music, after 18 years. Before long, Tillman dropped out of college and moved to Seattle to begin releasing dark folk music as J. Tillman and later, up until Father John Misty, as the drummer of Fleet Foxes.

Musically the album is strong: a 44-minute soulful ballad sewn together by powerhouse songs “True Affection,” “Strange Encounter” and “Holy Shit.” The remaining tracks don’t fall far behind. His lavish lyrics, combined with the tasteful, understated accompaniment of percussion and weeping strings, create an avantgarde story that marks growth from his 2012 debut album “Fear Fun.” Tillman never reaches a conclusion on modern love, while concurrently capturing the essence of true romance and intimacy, culminating the true magic of “I Love You, Honeybear.”

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We can’t rely on universities to solve the sexual assault problem EDITORIAL

It takes a string of events, an unfortunate sequence of actions for a sexual assault to happen. But looking back, it often seems to only take an instant.

Perhaps it starts with a few too many swigs of alcohol in a crowded room. Maybe an unexpecting girl and a confident boy whisper to one another and then walk up the stairs to a private place. It’s a routine with moving parts and different faces, but the same basic factors and evils hold.

Over the years, a cycle has developed at colleges across the country; administrators can expect to tally a certain number of sexual assaults yearly as mandated by the federal statute known as the Clery Act. And yet, the methods for reporting, preventing or rectifying sexual misconduct have not been perfected.

One in five women will be a victim, and very few will ever find justice.

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board. happened on-campus and in university-affiliated buildings, such as fraternity houses. And, of course, if colleges don’t have to report the full numbers, they’re not going to.

So we get a downplayed version of how many sexual assaults are really reported. And we get a less-thantrue image of how big of a problem sexual assault is.

There’s something wrong about that.

Without the accurate metrics, we can’t really fix this. We talk very loosely about rape culture in college and at Miami and we often get lost in the mess of situational scenarios and what-ifs. If we had a better idea of the real numbers, we’d be able to take real steps forward. A survey set to sent out this month to Miami students might help with transparency, but that’s one step.

President Hodge’s response to these numbers hint at the messy

back-and-forth this university, and universities around the country, pass off as making progress.

“This is an area that, boy, I wish we all had a crystal ball and could figure this out,” Hodge said.

Oh, is that we should rely on? A crystal ball?

This is not the kind of issue to downplay or leave to ambiguous half-solutions, this is the kind of thing the university should go above and beyond to fix.

But there are inherent flaws in this system that’s setting it up to fail, with victims set up to never receive justice. Anyone who is attached to the university has some sort of bias, because they don’t want to make Miami look bad.

We’ve given universities enough chances (and too many years without progress) to try to handle this. Proceedings are led my faculty members who receive mini-

Miami needs to put appearances aside and streamline the process for reporting sexual assault

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MILAM’S MUSINGS The most beautiful campus there ever was is not so beautiful when it comes to sexual assaults on campus and the university’s response to them.

Despite the best intentions of Miami, administrators’ actions are a lot of table arranging without much reward. Miami’s website, under Task Force for Prevention of Sexual Assault, is Appendix A, nicely lays out the history of Miami’s response to sexual assaults on campus.

Starting in 1980, the university created Project TIPP with the stated goals of better coordination among campus and community agencies, better statistical reporting on sexual assaults on campus and assisting students, particularly women, “to gain control over their lives through awareness of situations of vulnerability.”

From there, the TIPP Brochure, an informational publication, was provided to all first-year students and their parents during summer orientation and the TIPP Report was published monthly. About 17 years after its creation, the TIPP Committee stopped publishing the report because of concern over its effectiveness in changing students’ behavior.

Women’s Advocacy Group (WAG) took the place of Project TIPP starting in spring 2002 with the aim of “strengthening the Student Affairs Division’s programs that support women students.” In August 2005, the Women’s Issue Task Group was created to review WAG and recommend actions that “would improve the climate for women at Miami.” Another task group was created in spring 2006, mostly working on better centralization of all of Miami’s programs and efforts. In spring 2007, a Sexual Assault Coordinating Team was created, committed to publishing new sexual assault brochures and a better website.

Then in 2012, Miami created the Prevention of Sexual Assault Task Force after a student posted a flier tilted, “top ten ways to get away with rape,” and Miami ended up in an unflattering national spotlight. President Hodge’s bullet list of what he wanted the task force to accomplish could have been created 32 years earlier with the creation of Project TIPP with such buzz phrases as “enhance effectiveness,” and “increase awareness.”

Rebecca Getson, Miami’s sexual assault response coordinator (the university’s Deputy Title IX Coordinator for matters related to sexual violence), referred to herself as a “program of one,” and her title and role indicates a history of consolidation. In a talk to my journalism class, Getson mentioned various campus events and awareness campaigns,

All that seems to surface out of this, year after year, are questions.

And unknowns. And complex policies. And indecision. And dead-ends.

There is no sense of moving forward.

If students, parents, administrators and faculty know the routine, then why is it so hard to break?

And why are we still struggling with a messy, complicated university disciplinary system?

At Miami, the number of on-campus sexual assaults reported yearly rose from seven in 2011 to 20 in 2013. But there was no corresponding rise in the number of individuals disciplined for these cases. Out of the 45 reports over three years, Miami punished only 10.

Those numbers are shocking, and what’s worse is that they represent only a small fraction of the truth.

Under the Clery Act, universities are only required to count reports that

such as Take Back the Night, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes and One Billion Rising. Moreover, similar to Project TIPP, all incoming freshmen are educated on alcohol abuse and sexual assault.

In other words, no matter how well-meaning Getson or the university, not much has changed in 35 years, whether initiated by the university itself or in response to federally mandated guidelines (guidelines, it should be noted, that are connected to federal money to the institution — the Title IX Protocol).

Getson and the university will point to these events, education models and the like as “doing something,” but effectiveness is more important than window dressing.

The problem is two-fold. One, Miami has been doing the same thing for 35 years, irrespective of federal guidelines; campaigns for awareness, educating incoming freshmen, calls for consolidating the process and creating task forces. Where exactly has it gotten

students or not — the alleged perpetrator was a Miami student.

Furthermore, Miami’s standard is a preponderance of evidence, as outlined in the Student Handbook, “Is it more likely than not that our policy was violated?” It’s difficult to see how Charles’ actions didn’t meet that lower standard than would be found in a criminal proceeding.

As I mentioned in a previous piece, there’s also the problematic double standard applied to men and women. Both can be blackout drunk, but only the man will be wholly responsible for his behavior; whereas the woman will not be.

Again, it’s well-intentioned, but it is also the antithesis of feminism — characterizing the woman as hapless victim, negated of autonomy and decision-making abilities.

In as much as is feasible under federal guidelines, Miami ought to streamline the process more, return autonomy to female victims, and start issuing clear reports with metrics and results on the effectiveness

There is no due process, no legal representation, the hearings are closed and the panel’s (one administrator, two staff volunteers) qualifications to adjudicate such serious issues are dubious at best.”

us? The process seems as convoluted now as it did back in 1980 with various agencies and figureheads launching various education efforts and events.

Where is the report just from the latest task force created under Hodge in 2012? What has it done?

They did what was necessary in the aftermath of the rape flier: the appearance of doing something. Three years later, nobody is holding them to account for the “doing.”

The second problem is the federal guidelines via the Title IX implementation tied to federal money.

Comply with these standards or be threatened with losing your federal funding. Those standards — adjudicating sexual assault cases in-house — are well-intentioned, but put the university in an unenviable position that has dire consequences for the accused and the accuser. There is no due process, no legal representation, the hearings are closed and the panel’s (one administrator, two staff volunteers) qualifications to adjudicate such serious issues are dubious at best.

While a sexual assault survivor most certainly has the option of filing a report with the police, from a university response context, if I was an assault victim, I’d have no idea where to begin to traverse this thicket of policies and coordinators.

Perhaps most troubling about Miami’s most recent history is the claim of negligence related to the Antonio Charles case. In the Student’s reporting on sexual assault, the university didn’t pursue a hearing because they couldn’t ascertain if the individuals in the video were Miami students. I’m not sure why it matters if the victims were Miami

of all these programs, awareness events and education efforts.

Additionally, so much focus is on incoming freshmen students and hammering alcohol abuse and sexual assault education into their heads. This is not necessarily a bad strategy, although it was deemed ineffective 18 years ago, but it would seem more focus should be on students that have been here for years.

Researcher and co-director of Prevention Innovations at the University of New Hampshire Jane Stapleton said incoming students are not the ones who are predominately sexually assaulting other students.

“It’s the upper-class students who have the social capital and who are creating and sustaining environments that support sexual assault,” she said.

Moreover, researcher and advocate with the national Title IX movement Nadia Dawisha mentioned to me in email correspondence an idea I’ve seen promoted elsewhere and one which has already been implemented at some universities: campus climate surveys to get a better handle on just how often sexual assault is occurring on campus.

There’s an adage that it’s better to light a candle than curse the dark. With sexual assaults on campus, there’s justifiable cursing to be directed at Miami and/or complex government guidelines, but at the end of the day, despite it all, the student body has to be willing to light a candle, too, and reflect the inward beauty of the campus.

It’s on us, indeed.

BRETT MILAM

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mal training and students usually have little clarity in what steps they should take. The accused don’t receive the discipline they deserve.

This is all getting us nowhere.

So, the solution might be too take this out of the university’s hands altogether.

About half of college presidents “agree or strongly agree that local law enforcement should be responsible for handling all sexual assault cases on campuses.” That’s according to the Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Presidents conducted this year by Gallup.

We agree. A university isn’t the best system to handle these cases; they’re often not equipped for it. We need to stop asking universities to be criminal courts. We need to stop relying on universities to not look out for their image. We need to look outside of these routines and flawed systems for answers.

Administrators need to do better when responding to sexual assault I read with great interest and gratitude The Miami Student’s excellent article on sexual assault reports and sanctions at Miami University. I wanted to respond to a couple of the troubling comments made by the administrators in your piece.

First, it is shocking to see the university’s director of Student Conflict Resolution, Vaughn, make the comment that “it says something that even criminal courts have difficulty with cases like this, so now it’s ended up in places like universities.” This reflects a fundamental ignorance of why survivors need university processes in the first place. Title IX, the federal mandate guaranteeing women equality in education, gives students rights to assistance and protection that the criminal courts do not.

An abundance of research shows that sexual assault trauma causes serious health consequences for survivors that can lead to a drop in grades, depression and suicidal aspirations, withdrawal from classes, and even withdrawal from university altogether. As Georgetown law professor Nancy Cantalupo put it in a USA Today piece, “these consequences deny victims equal educational opportunity.” A criminal process is not a substitute for Title IX, as it does not protect students from gender inequality.

If a student wants a dorm or class change because seeing their perpetrator could disrupt their education, then it is the university process, and not the criminal one, that will grant that.

Secondly, President Hodge’s claim that sexual assault cases are especially difficult because they are “one person’s word against another” demonstrates more egregious ignorance that must be challenged. Every case, from drugs to murder, involves an accused person who is going to vehemently deny that they committed a crime. The accounts of accuser and accused are not equal.

The victim’s words are not inherently untrustworthy and should be believed unless the accused can demonstrate some reason to suspect that the victim is fabricating his or her accusation. Rape is the only crime where people want to presume the victim has some reason to lie. On the contrary, ev-

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ery credible study done worldwide in the last 15 years proves allegations of rape are no less trustworthy than allegations of any other crime — across the board we see a two to eight percent rate of false accusations. In addition, there is often substantial ancillary evidence to corroborate that the victim has suffered a traumatic crime, in physical evidence, in witness testimony and in the psychological injuries exhibited by the victim.

While Miami should be applauded for seeing a significant increase in reporting, the fact that they have only expelled one person who was found responsible is a huge cause for concern. A nowclassic study published in 1992 found that for potential perpetrators of sexual assault, the perceived threat of formal sanctions (being dismissed from the university or arrested) had the most significant deterrent effect to their willingness and desire to commit the crime.

If Miami wants to see a drop in their sexual assault numbers, they need to hold perpetrators accountable by the imposition of genuine consequences. Furthermore, given that research has demonstrated that most college perpetrators are serial offenders who commit six rapes on average as well as other violent acts such as battery and voyeurism, administrators need to consider more seriously whether allowing a perpetrator back on campus will put their student body at risk. One must wonder whether the administration’s decisions not to expel Antonio Charles after his first or second offenses were really the right ones, given the wide spectrum of crimes he committed and the many victims whose lives he most likely devastated.

Sexual assault on campus is an issue most universities undoubtedly would rather not deal with. The fact remains, however, that universities can and must tackle this issue, and given that fact, Miami University administrators can and must do better.

KELLY MOORE

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Rome didn’t fall flat, but Perelman’s attitude did TRAVEL

DEAR ABBEY I, along with many of my peers, was a bit shocked and slightly angered when I read Britton Perelman’s column “Colossal expectations falling flat” in the culture section of The Miami Student last week.

I can’t speak to Perelman’s experience with Rome and the Colosseum since I’ve never been to Italy. But I think I can speak to her attitude regarding her travels and expectations.

I’ve studied and traveled abroad multiple times and I’ll be going abroad again this summer. Experiencing new cultures and visiting new places is one of my biggest passions, so much that I don’t even have a travel “bucket list” because I intend to go everywhere.

What I found troubling about Perelman’s piece was her seemingly childish attitude toward her trip. She wanted the Rome from the Lizzie McGuire movie — fair enough. It’s not like we haven’t all dreamt of riding on the back of a vespa with some guy named Paolo. But the Lizzie McGuire movie is just that: a movie.

The best part of traveling somewhere is falling in love with your own unique memories and pieces of that place. When I went to Berlin, I loved seeing the Berlin Wall and many other monuments

in the city I knew from history classes. But my favorite memory from Berlin is a random Mexican restaurant down an alley where I found myself with my friends on a rainy afternoon.

Things are bound to not meet our expectations when we travel. Isn’t that kind of the point?

Some of the greatest stories from traveling often come from plans gone awry.

This past January, I booked a hotel in the Galapagos Islands while I was abroad in South America only to find it deserted and locked up when I arrived with my friends.

I could have let this ruin my experience at the Galapagos, but instead I found a new hotel and moved on. I made new expectations, ordered a passion fruit smoothie with dinner and had an amazing time in the islands.

I have a feeling that if Perelman found her hotel locked up and deserted, she would have spent the whole next day writing bad reviews online instead of enjoying her destination.

Life, as with travel, is full of expectations. Sometimes we’re lucky enough to have our expectations exceeded and sometimes things will fall short. All that really matters is how we react.

Perhaps if Perelman had accepted the Colosseum wasn’t her movie-version of Rome and moved on, she could’ve found something else in the city to make it worthwhile.

When I leave the comfort and security of my home this summer to live in a yurt in Mongolia for almost a month, I plan to keep Perelman’s words in the back of my

mind. Although I disagree with her column, it serves as a strong reminder to how extremely lucky and privileged we are to visit these places that some see only in movies or history books.

Rather than hoping for a pathetic attempt at American breakfast in a hostel, I’ll be eating whatever my host family chooses to slaughter for food that day. No pancakes or coffee in a mug, but more likely horse meat and goat milk.

Will this be life changing?

Maybe. Maybe not. But it will certainly make me appreciate how easily I have access to food in the United States, not to mention air conditioning, toilets, showers and cell phone service.

So, Britton, I’m deeply sorry that Rome didn’t live up to your expectations and the Colosseum didn’t alter you forever. But I think if you had just opened your eyes a little more, explored a little deeper and changed your perspective, you might have found the Rome you were looking for.

No Paolo is going to pop out of thin air and offer you a ride on a vespa, no one is going to tinge your travels with an Instagram filter and life will never fully be what we expect. But finding beauty in the average street corner, bakery or historical monument is up to all of us.

You wanted Lizzie McGuire’s Rome, when you should have been discovering your own Rome.

ABBEY GINGRAS

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But rather than enjoying hot dogs, good weather and a good game, we’ll be stuck in class. It’s fine, we’ll probably just check the scores on our phone and pretend we’re outside.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME We’ve been following March Madness all month and were pumped to see the Duke and Wisconsin match last night. But the game was on so late, we physically couldn’t stay up to watch it. Seriously, 9 p.m. on a Monday?

ROLLING STONE RAPE STORY Remember that story chronicling a gang rape at a University of Virginia frat house? A lot of the details were unverified so the magazine officially apologized and retracted a story.

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We should be shocked by sucide rates, even if they don’t always hit close to home SUICIDE

MADDIE’S MATTERS Last week, one of my housemates lost one of his best friends to suicide.

It was Wednesday, April 1.

It’s funny how we assign identities to people based on the context in which we meet them. I met my housemate’s friend on my birthday last year. So I (selfishly) only ever associated this guy with the celebration of living.

Learning that he committed suicide on April Fools Day felt like the cruelest joke of all. I kept waiting for someone to say they were kidding.

I am not writing about this loss

to make it all about me. This is my housemate’s tragedy and another faimly’s tragedy and I do not want to take that away from them. I am writing about this because it is not an isolated event.

We all know the statistics. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicides among males have been consistently four times higher than suicide among females in the past 30 or so years.

In 2013, white males accounted for 70 percent of all suicides.

Suicide is the third leading cause of death in America behind cancer and heart disease.

These are tiresome facts and figures given to us in classrooms or Student Counseling Service pamphlets, numbers that are supposed to surprise us, perhaps shock us into motion.

But they don’t, not unless we are touched directly by them. That, to

me, is the biggest problem.

A few years ago, my mom got a call from her college roommate. The two are close, and have been since their graduation in the 80’s. But this call wasn’t just to chat — her college roommate had called to say that she had just found out that her brother shot himself. He was found by this daughter, who was only four or five at the time, in their backyard.

People considering suicide do not think about the ripples that fan out from their decision to die. But how could they when they are so caught up in the little horrors and grey parts of their lives that they cannot see a future beyond them? I have heard the term “selfish” applied to suicide. Of course it’s selfish — suicide is preceded by survival, not living. And survival is all about self-preservation.

My housemate’s friend dealt with depression and a hard life. The pre-

viously mentioned brother dealt with depression and alcoholism. Combinations like these, paired with a lack of foresight and the intense desire to escape are bound to lead to extreme measures, which to many — if not most — people, seem irrational. But it is important to understand ways to help. And it is also important to understand that it is possible to find the necessary escapes in life that can and will turn survival into actually living.

Without sounding too much like a therapy pamphlet, I would like to say that there are always other options and alternatives to suicide. The hardest part is getting up and going to talk to someone. Most colleges, Miami included, have student counseling services that were built for the sole purpose of making sure you can figure out ways to deal with problems on your own. They work with you to slow your thinking down. They work

with you to encourage you to start looking around. They work with you to get you out of your head.

It’s true, you have to want to get better, but wanting to get better is not that hard; we are inherently programmed to be content, since contentedness enables us to function at our best selves. And counseling services are only one option. Talk to a friend. If there’s no one you feel comfortable talking to, remove yourself from your situation and put yourself into another physical one, somewhere you feel safe. Work out, even if that means just going for a walk in the woods. Every effort, hard as it may be, is worth it. There is a choice, even in survival. It’s important to remind people of that and it’s important remember that for yourself.

MADDIE LAPLANTE-DUBE LAPLANMM@MIAMIOH.EDU

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and fielder’s choice allowed senior infielder Scott Slappey to diminish BGSU’s lead to 7-5.

Sophomore Jacob Banks pitched 8.0 innings for the RedHawks.

Banks finished with four strikeouts, one walk and six earned runs.

After Saturday’s split, things turned wild for the finale.

Both teams’ offenses came alive.

The Falcons kicked off the slugfest with five runs in the first. The scoreless second inning was the only inning the Falcons did not put at least one run on the board.

Matt Honchel put the RedHawks on the board with his first career home run. His three-run shot over the right-field wall cut the Falcons’ lead to 5-4 after the blast, but Bowling Green punched back in the bottom of the inning to take a 7-4 lead.

Slappey hit a two-run shot in the next inning, and Honchel hit his second blast of the day in the fifth inning. A wild pitch from Schwartz gave Bowling Green a 9-8 lead.

Yacek and senior Max Andresen hit back-to-back sac flies to give Miami a 10-9 lead after five and a

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that 5 percent will go away,” said Creamer.

He emphasized that the state of California has recently gone through similar budget cuts as those proposed in Ohio. Although the reduction in cost to attend may have seemed a positive change to California residents, students were quickly impacted by a problem with course availability and, because of that, many were unable to graduate in four years.

If this legislation were to pass, Miami and other state institutions ASG »PAGE 2

this school year. ASG has officially supported the sale of alcohol at Miami sporting events, and Tyman said he is confident sales will begin as early as fall 2016.

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half innings. It was the RedHawks’ first lead of the afternoon.

BGSU added six runs in the following two innings to regain a 1510 lead.

Both teams added runs, but the Red and White could not complete a comeback and lost 18-12.

The ’Hawks and the Falcons sit in a tie for fourth in the MAC East.

Miami travels to Huntington, West Virginia for a single game against Marshall University. First pitch is 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Marshall beat Miami 16-3 April 1 and was swept by No. 22 Florida Atlantic University in a three-game series over the weekend.

Miami hosts Wright State University 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The RedHawks fell 7-3 to Wright State 7-3 March 24. Wright State has since gone 4-3 with wins over the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Cincinnati, Valparaiso University and Northern Kentucky University.

After facing Marshall and Wright State, Miami plays two more mid-week non-conference games before heading back to MAC competition.

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117 pitches.

Marshall went 3-4 with a run scored on the afternoon, while Shuey went 2-3 with a RBI and a run scored.

“It’s a great weekend for us.

Going 3-1 is a great weekend,” head coach Clarisa Crowell said.

“We competed and had great energy all weekend. Kent State is a great team with great pitching.

Splitting against them is huge; Amber shut them down, our defense played great and we found ways to score. Tiyona had a great weekend hitting and Shuey got some big RBIs. We didn’t have Remy Edwards, but Kat Lee did a great job of filling in at third base.

Now, we have to get back to work and get ready for Wright State.”

The RedHawks head to Dayton Tuesday for a doubleheader with Wright State University.

First pitch is 4 p.m. The Raiders (10-24, 6-2 Horizon) are on a three-game winning streak. The team boasts a pair of .330-plus hitters and a pitching staff with a 5.48 ERA.

proach at the plate. Long-time Reds radio announcer Marty Brennaman stated in an interview earlier this year that if Votto is “content to lead the league in on-base percentage again,” the Reds are in “big trouble.”

The criticism comes from a good place, but when we’re criticizing a .310/.417/.533 career hitter on his approach, we’re zeroing in on the wrong thing with this team.

Despite the uncertainty and negativity surrounding the team, we should be excited for what the 2015 Reds have to show us.

Remember, this was a team that was 1.5 games behind the lead in the NL Central heading into the All-Star Break last season and lost 38 one-run games. The Reds can hang with the best in the Central and can possibly keep on playing when the calendar reaches September.

would have to make cuts. When asked how students would be affected, Creamer emphasized that serious deliberation would be necessary to decide which specific areas of Miami would be affected.

“If we have to eliminate something, we want to eliminate something that has the least [negative] impact on students,” Creamer said.

Fowler mentioned Miami has received the title as the most efficient university in the country, while still providing quality education to its students.

Since the 2008 recession, the

university has made a reduction of waste in the budget, also known as the LEAN process.

However, Senate Bill 4 still threatens the quality of education and services offered at Miami.

Because it is still far from becoming actual legislation, though, it is difficult to estimate exactly how it would impact the university.

“More state support for higher education is definitely needed, but requiring universities to cut costs without helping to replace that funding isn’t conductive to that aim and would end up hurting the Miami student experience,” Fowler said.

ASG has also helped raise awareness about sexual assault with the “It’s On Us” campaign, creating videos and other media projects to spread the word and work with students.

Tyman said he also would have liked to have ASG members visit stu-

dent organizations weekly to find out each organization’s unique needs, and he said he regrets not implementing the idea.

“It would be beneficial for ASG to go out and interact with the student organizations,” Tyman said.

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Senior Clay Scott worked on the Uber Cincinnati expansion for the past year as an intern.

“It makes the campus more accessible, smaller, immediately,” Scott said. “With the student-housing that’s going up off campus, further away from where the core operations on campus are, I think it doesn’t hurt anybody to have easy transportation methods.”

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crease safety and better decision making.”

Junior and president of Miami’s Delta Gamma Fraternity, Rachel McVicker, said she believes the Miami drinking culture could be related to the small town that the campus is located in.

“I don’t necessarily think Miami has a drinking problem, per se. Drinking has become a part of Miami’s culture due to the small college town feel,” McVicker said. “Oxford does not supply a giant mall or other weekend activities like a big city as Columbus does, so students turn to what they know will burn off steam from the stress of the past week: drinking.”

The ACC said it expects no immediate changes in the drinking culture. Instead, the task force is implemented to help create a safer drinking environment over an extended period of time, and the ACC wants to use this task force for students to voice their opinions on the issue and be a part of making the change.

Director of Student Wellness, and co-chair of the task force, Rebecca Baudry Young, gave a breakdown on the goal the ACC has for the reports.

“The overall goal of the

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Alcohol Coordinating Committee (ACC) is to create an infrastructure that includes students and other members of the Miami University community to serve as an advisory board guided by data, best practices and research on issues related to high risk alcohol and drug use,” Baudry Young said.

According to the report, the ACC will be creating workgroups to address specific issues involving alcohol consumption, and to gain response on what students feel the main problems the campus has involving alcohol.

ASG secretary for Off-Campus Affairs, Kevin Krumpak, discussed how student involvement is highly recommended to help create a safer drinking environment.

“The most important part of these coordinating committees is the student involvement,” Krumpak said. “Without having the student voice heard when making these policy decisions, the efforts will ultimately fail.”

Members of the ACC understand that drinking is something that cannot be eliminated in the weekend culture at Miami. Their main focus is to gain student involvement, since the students are the ones who can make real changes to the drinking culture.

Jayne Brownell, vice president of Student Affairs and member of the ACC, recommended students and the community view the task force as a long-term attention to culture.

“It was very clear in our conversations that there’s no one magic thing that we could change that would shift Miami’s culture around alcohol use,” Brownell said. “Instead, we laid out a plan that will guide our work over the long term, hoping that in time, we will have a culture where alcohol can be a part of students’ social lives instead of the center of it, and where we see fewer negative consequences for individuals and our community from high-risk choices around alcohol use.”

The ACC recommends for all students who feel the Miami drinking culture is an issue should stand up and voice their opinion. The task force was implemented to get students talking and to work together as a community to help incoming freshman and others realize that drinking is not the only thing students do to have fun.

The ACC will be presenting their final recommendations of the Task Force to the Board of Trustees in June, and will continue to send periodic updates throughout the semesters.

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“Knowing nothing about how to create a community garden, we performed extensive research about the local area,” Snader said. “Alfred Hall, with HUGS … has been monumental [in] helping us get this project off the ground.”

Crist said the partnership the university has created with HUGS and local farmers is doing good both for Miami and the community.

For example, the Oxford campus dining services already receive 30 percent of their food from local sources.

“Locally sourced food is desirable because it supports the local economy, often involves less use of fertilizer and pesticides than larger industrial operations and reduces energy usage associated with long distance transportation of food,” Crist said. “These help support our university mission and sustainability goals, as well, by supporting the local economy and reducing our carbon footprint.”

Some of the foods that come locally to Miami Dining Services include the beef used at Encounter, the ice cream and gelato at Miami Ice and Marzetti Salad Dressings used across campus.

Director of Procurement and Food Purchasing Jon Brubacher said it is a combination of dining

services pursuing local businesses and local farmers reaching out back.

“If we can find a local product that is safe and wholesome food and is the quality that our customers want, then we do try — whenever possible — we try to support the local business and local farmers,” Brubacher said.

The IES is also involved in the formation of the new Food Studies Institute at Miami’s Oxford campus, expected to start in the next few years with the help of the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Innovation Fund. The institute will create university gardens to raise produce for Dining Services.

Hall said he already sees the positive impact Miami’s cooperation has had in the community.

“Miami gives us extremely knowledgeable students who are very interested in improving the environment and being healthier,” Hall said. “I know I can always count on the university to help local citizens.”

But, most importantly, he said he sees the university’s impact as vital to what will become of the local food movement happening in and around Hamilton.

“I have a very basic idea that you have to involve citizens, local government and institutions, with a common vision is the only way to be able to affect and sustain change.”

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The men’s and women’s Miami track and field teams hosted their 30th Miami Invitational Saturday.

The men finished the day with 92.5 points for third place. University of Cincinnati won the meet with 113 points overall. The women’s team totaled 77 points for a fourth place finish. UC also took first place in the women’s meet with 157 points total.

Due to flooding in Louisville, hundreds of extra collegiate runners flocked to Miami’s race at Rider Track after the Bellarmine Invitational was canceled. Miami’s Invitational originally had 350 athletes signed up to compete, but the number expanded to 610 after the cancellation.

Men’s head coach Warren Mandrell welcomed all teams that called.

“It’s just something to deal with,” Mandrell said. “You don’t want the other teams to not have an opportunity to compete.”

On the men’s side, several RedHawks placed in the top five in their respective events.

Senior javelin thrower Tyler Yee won the javelin event, throwing a 199-05. Senior Sam Chester won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.70, while senior Skyler Coburn placed second with a 53.20 time in the 400-meter hurdles. In the 800-meter run, redshirt freshman Andrew Dusing finished second with a 1:54.77 time as Miami’s sole competitor in the two-lap race.

Sophomore Stephen Biebelhausen placed third in the 1500-meter run with a 3:57.65 time. Sophomore Grant Cole came in third place in the long jump with a 23 1/4 mark. Miami took third in the 4x400 relay after juniors Adam Bodrick and Joey Comisford, sophomore Tyler Gittens and Coburn ran a 3:20.50.

Though the RedHawks did not clinch the top spot, some MU competitors still felt content with their effort.

“I’ve had a lot of fun today,” freshman javelin thrower Carson Cash said. “This is my first home meet, and I’m excited to be part of the Miami track and field team.”

On the women’s side, Miami started the day on a strong note.

Freshman Maria Scavuzzo won the first race of the morning, the

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Freshman javelin thrower and jumper Carson Cash competes in the high jump Saturday at the Miami Invitational.

Cash did not place in the high jump, but he finished eighth in the javelin throw with a mark of 136-08.

10,000-meter. She completed the 25-lap race in 38:41.94.

Junior Amelia Strickler won the shot put with a heave of 52-6.50.

Her throw was 10 percent longer than the closest competitor.

Sophomore Briah Owens ran a 12.46 to win the 100-meter dash, while teammate freshman Kylie

Red and White picks up three wins SOFTBALL

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After a humbling 10-0 loss to Eastern Kentucky University Tuesday, the Miami University softball team righted the ship this weekend after a sweep over University of Buffalo and a split against Kent State University.

MU swept Buffalo 6-0 and 9-8 Friday. A 9-1 loss to Kent State Saturday followed, but the ’Hawks bounced back with a 4-3 win Sunday.

The RedHawks (21-13, 5-1 MAC) are in second place in the MAC East, while the Flashes (23-7, 4-1 MAC) rank third. The Bulls (7-24, 0-4 MAC) place last in the division.

“We were just playing our game,” senior outfielder Tiyona Marshall said of the victory over KSU. “We had to make an adjustment when that pitcher came in.

We’re looking forward to seeing her again. We’ll have to keep making adjustments and keeping our mistakes to a minimum. [Offensively], we’ve been working on all the pitches that we expect to see, and that’s really helped us.”

In the first Buffalo matchup, Miami took control of the game with a five-run first inning. Junior outfielder Taylor Shuey put down a single to score two runners, and freshman third baseman Kat Lee picked up a two-RBI single of her own. Senior shortstop Kylie McChesney singled in a runner

off of the Bulls’ second pitcher of the inning.

Junior pitcher Amber Logemann seemed to control the UB offense throughout the game, allowing three hits and stranding nine runners in a complete game shutout to pick up her 15th win of the season.

In the second game, Buffalo scored with a three-run home run in the first before the ‘Hawks scored five in the bottom of the inning. After an RBI single from sophomore second baseman Eryn McCarver, freshman catcher Rylee Whispel was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Immediately after, Lee drew a walk, and

RBIs and a walk. The offense had additional opportunities to score as it stranded eight runners, six of which were in scoring position.

In the first Kent State matchup, the Flashes had the bats swinging early, as they took a 5-0 lead after a three-run home run in the third inning. Despite a RBI in the fifth from McCarver, Miami could not keep up offensively.

Mattera and sophomore pitcher Kelsey Fredericks split the load on the mound and collectively totaled two strikeouts, while allowing nine earned runs on 13 hits.

Kent State scored first in the third inning of the second game with a run off of a fielding error

Goldsmith came in at third (12.63).

In field action, junior Jessica Baker placed third in the high jump on a 5-04.25 mark, which ties her personal best.

Women’s head coach Kelley Phillips expressed disappointment with her team’s overall effort.

“There’s a lot of work to do

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We’ll have to keep making adjustments and keeping our mistakes to a minimum. [Offensively], we’ve been working on all the pitches.

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Whispel and Shuey both scored on a Bulls’ throwing error.

After picking up four runs in the fourth, fifth, and six, junior reliever Megan Mattera struggled to close out the seventh. Mattera allowed four runs with two outs in the inning, keeping the Bulls within one run of the lead. Logemann reentered the game and closed the game with a groundout.

McCarver and Marshall each went 3-4 with a RBI in the game, while Shuey went 2-3 with two

by Miami’s first baseman, but the ‘Hawks retaliated with four runs in the bottom of the inning. Shuey, Lipscomb and Lee each brought in a runner before Shuey scored on a fielding error.

Two hit-by-pitch RBIs in the top of the fourth made the score 4-3, but neither side scored again after Logemann and KSU senior righty Emma Johnson made the game a pitching duel. Logemann SOFTBALL »PAGE 8

moving forward,” Phillips said.

“Lots of people took being home for granted and didn’t race like they practiced.”

The Red and White return to the Rider track next weekend for the All-Ohio Championship. Competition begins Friday with the multi-events.

After a rainout pushed Friday’s game info a Saturday doubleheader, the Miami University baseball team dropped two of three games against Bowling Green State University this weekend.

MU (5-23, 3-6 Mid-American Conference) split the Saturday twofer and dropped a high-scoring Sunday finale.

In the first game, senior righty Ryan Powers allowed only three earned runs and totaled six strikeouts and three walks in 6.2 innings of work.

Sophomore Brad Schwartz entered the game in the seventh and held the score at 7-3.

Senior righty Will Schierholz closed things down in the ninth, and Miami added one run to escape

with an 8-3 victory.

Junior outfielder Gary Russo continued his hot streak, going 2-3 and batting in three runs, a double and a walk.

Redshirt sophomore Adam Yacek launched his third home run of the season.

In game two of the doubleheader, the ’Hawks jumped out to the early lead. Senior Ryan Elble started with a triple and was brought home on senior Matt Honchel’s sacrifice fly.

The 1-0 lead did not stand for long. Bowling Green (9-17, 3-6 MAC) countered with a three-run blast from sophomore infielder Greg Basalyga. The Falcons added two runs in the second and one in the fourth to take a 6-4 lead.

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Cincinnati Reds fans: Happy Opening Day? COLUMN

RINARD’S RUNDOWN After a disappointing 2014 campaign in which the Cincinnati Reds mustered a 7686 record and missed playoff berth under first-year manager Brian Price, the 2015 commencement seems to provide reasons

for guarded optimism around the ball club.

A healthy Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips and 2014 All-Stars Todd Frazier, Devin Mesoraco, Johnny Cueto and Aroldis Chapman return to the team. Marlon Byrd brings some stability into left field, and the pitching staff led the Cactus League in ERA during spring training.

However, there are several areas of concern with this year’s Redlegs.

First of all, Mat Latos’ departure creates a huge void in the

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Speaking of trades, the Reds probably should have sold high last offseason and traded away Phillips for another bat. In 2014,

he had career lows in hits, runs scored and home runs after arriving in Cincinnati and dealing with a six-week torn thumb ligament injury. Having an aging All-Star and Gold Glove winner is nice, but when a player has value and is on the cusp of his career downswing, you must sell and fill other needs.

Cincinnati’s offseason moves also spark some issues. New additions include pitcher Jason Marquis (36 years old with 4.65 career ERA and hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2013), pitcher

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