October 27, 2015 | The Miami Student

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The Miami Student TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015 Volume 144 №17

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Goggin Ice Center to serve alcohol Miami obtains liquor license, beer to be served to ‘VIPs’

State considers fate of Planned Parenthood, students speak out GOVERNMENT

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ALCOHOL

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DUNCAN STEWART THE MIAMI STUDENT

Goggin Ice Center will begin serving alcoholic beverages in select areas for the first time this winter, becoming the only Miami University sports facility to do so. However, the alcohol may still be out of reach for most students. Miami requested and received a Butler County liquor license for Goggin in September, according to the Ohio Department of Commerce. “Beer will be served in Goggin in a very restricted way,” said Claire Wagner, director of university news and communications. Alcohol will only be provided at the bar in the VIP Club Room, which is closed to general admission. Viewers in the two private suites will be able to request beer service as well. Those who are over 21 and wish to drink must show an ID to receive a wristband. They won’t be allowed to bring their drink out of the Club Room or the suites. Budweiser, Bud Light, Yuengling and Yuengling Light will be available for $3, while Labatt’s, Heineken and several craft beers will be $4. Meal plan will not be accepted as a form of payment. Brian Avolio, a manager for Mi-

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Goggin will serve alcohol to those in the VIP Club Room and suites. ami’s Fan Relationship Management Center, said this change is mainly for adults and not students. “We don’t see many students [in the Club and suites],” he said. “The vast majority are faculty, staff and alumni.” This may be a result of the costly tickets for these areas. Season tickets for the club are $580, plus a required $750 donation to the Red and White Club, a booster group that provides scholarships to athletes. Renting a suite is $2,000 for the larger, 25-person option, and $1,000 for the smaller suite. Junior Matt Lannen doesn’t think he will be affected by this change. “I think the fact that as a student, we can go to games for free, I wouldn’t pay more just to go drink expensive beer when I can get in for free anyway,” Lannen said.

Miami is planning to evaluate the success of the limited alcohol sales before considering expanding the program to general admission or the student section, Wagner said. Chris Haught, a junior, said while he personally wouldn’t attend more games because of alcohol sales, he does believe it would be popular among the student body. “Beat the Clock would be more cost effective, and that might keep some students away,” he said. There are other sports that could benefit from the crowds drawn in by beer. Katie Sternasty, a sophomore who works as a ticket seller at Yager Stadium, thinks the football program could use the help. “I think it would be a great idea if they did the same thing as Goggin, GOGGIN »PAGE 8

The recent Ohio Senate decision to defund Planned Parenthood will reduce access to comprehensive sexuality education and affordable testing services, the organization’s advocates say. The decision followed a similar vote in Texas to defund the nonprofit earlier this month. The push toward legislative action against Planned Parenthood resulted from the controversial and widely disputed videos alleging Planned Parenthood profiting from aborted fetal tissue. While Planned Parenthood does provide abortions, most of its services focus on other community health care, like cancer screening, STD testing and treatments and sexual health and reproductive education. Ohio Senate Bill 214, which the Ohio Senate passed Wednesday, Oct. 21, would do more than strip Planned Parenthood of its estimated $1.3 million from the state. The bill, if passed by the Ohio House of Representatives, will prohibit state or federal funding to any organization that provides abortion procedures, as well as other organizations that partner with abortion providers. StemExpress has already severed its ties to the organization

in the wake of the video controversy. The small Californian company used to collaborate with Planned Parenthood to distribute fetal tissue and cells. Jacqueline Daugherty is a certified sexuality educator and researcher at Miami University. Daugherty testified at the hearing in Columbus for the Ohio SB 214. “It won’t just impact the funding that Planned Parenthood gets, but it will also impact Planned Parenthood’s ability to … partner with all manners of community partners because now their own pots of state funding will be at risk,” said Daugherty. Daugherty has worked at Planned Parenthood, but was also a patient there during college, at the University of Cincinnati. “That was the only place I could go to get services without my parents being billed on their insurance… and it was a nice place to go, too,” said Daugherty. The Senate passing Bill 214 came with significant political controversy. The 23-10 vote cut straight down party lines and was pushed through quickly. The committee hearing the bill enforced a 90-second to two-minute limit to testimonies of opponents of the bill, but listened to four-and-a-half hours of testimonies for proponents of the bill, Daugherty said. PARENTHOOD »PAGE 8

CONNOR MORIARTY PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

COLOR ME ACCOMPLISHED Runners from the MEDLIFE 5K Color Run celebrate finishing the race. MEDLIFE Miami raised more than $4,000 for the Oxford College Corner Clinic.

After test run of Philo, residence life considers Internet streaming over cable TELEVISION

Miami University may soon be cutting the cord on cable. Through Oct. 16, the university participated in a trial run testing out Philo, an Internet streaming alternative to cable for on-campus students.

Philo allows students to watch and record their favorite shows without using their cable cord. According to its website, Philo is used as an alternative to cable at over 40 college campuses nationwide, including Harvard University, Brown University and the University of Alabama. The trial run took place all across campus and was open particularly

for students, faculty and staff involved in residence life, according to Kyleen Ammerman, an assistant director of the Office of Residence Life (ORL). This includes executive board members of the Residence Hall Association (RHA), Residence Life staff and Community Leadership Team (CLT) members. “It was not limited to one resi-

dence hall, but rather to an assortment of key stakeholders of those who live in the halls,” Ammerman said. Hailey Barr, a sophomore and member of the RHA executive board, said these specific people were the only ones informed and invited to join in on the trial run. “We didn’t advertise [the trial]

campus-wide because we had to have a list of everyone trying out Philo to approve them logging on,” Barr said. “We wanted to have a larger sample than just the executive board, which is why it included CLT.” Now that the trial is over, mem-

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FOUNDERS OF #BLACKLIVESMATTER VISIT

OWNER OF LUX BEER COMPANY COMES TO MIAMI

WRITER FOLLOWS TEAM FOR STARTUP WEEKEND

BOARD TRIES TO TALK PLANNED PARENTHOOD

THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FOR THE REDHAWKS

Founders spoke last night about the #BLM movement, their backgrounds and reasons for activism.

Main Street Gourmet sells Bofferding beer, Luxembourg alumni indulge in the past

Student startup TasTable worked hard from Friday to Sunday, developing a business plan.

After considering the fate of Planned Parenthood in Ohio, Editorial Board changes course and talks partisanship.

Football team to face Buffalo Bulls at Yager, hoping to snap seven-game losing streak.

SARAH KNEPP THE MIAMI STUDENT

TODAY in MIAMI HISTORY

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Today in 1998, The Miami Student reported that more than 150 students and faculty gathered at the reflection pool behind Shriver for a candlelight vigil. The vigil honored the memory of a University of Wyoming student who had been beaten to death because he was gay. President Jim Garland attended the vigil and acknowledged the “senseless beating” of a Miami student months prior.


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