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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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#BlackLivesMatter founders speak on campus EVENT

BRETT MILAM

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A sold out crowd rumbled Hall Auditorium Monday night at the end of the #BlackLivesMatter discussion as part of the Miami Lecture Series.

After the Q&A, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, the founders of #BlackLivesMatter, had the crowd on their feet, repeating back to them, “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. We must win and and love each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

But the night started with the founders telling their own stories and how they came to fight for black lives.

Tometi, as the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, and the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, found her roots in the immigration issue.

Being undocumented and black is a cauldron for disenfranchisement, Tometi said. Often a black person’s first interaction with the police is because of that immigration issue.

“Who is black?” Tometi asked.

“All these systems affect the most marginalized blacks.”

For Garza, she spoke about how George Zimmerman’s acquittal for the killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida in 2012 shook her.

A child was murdered, they can’t not be held accountable, Garza said.

“Each of us were rocked in a particular way. I wanted somebody to be held accountable for taking the life of a child,” Garza added.

The killing of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal, signaled to Garza that black lives didn’t matter.

Garza took to social media to process her feelings and reject the defeatism she saw that nothing would change or that black people, like Trayvon, were responsible for their deaths.

Then it was Cullors who created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, which in the three years since, has spawned into a national movement with 28 chapters.

Which was the important point, Garza said, because real action is what’s most important.

“Clicking ‘like’ doesn’t get us closer to justice,” Garza said. “Retweeting doesn’t get us closer to justice.”

It’s a movement, Cullors, Garza and Tometi said, that is about standing up to state-sanctioned violence against black people and for the love of people and society.

“When we say all black lives matter, we mean all black lives,” Tometi said.

As queers, Cullors and Garza, wanted to make that clear, too. #BlackLivesMatter is an intersectional movement, Cullors said.

It’s a movement where leadership takes different forms, where they don’t need Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson to tell their stories,

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From left to right: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, founders of #BlackLivesMatter, spoke in Hall Auditorium Monday. They described their early years, personal experiences and reasons for becoming activists.

Garza said. And where respectability politics, like “pull up your pants,” are challenged.

“The only way we are going to get free is if every one of our black lives are free,” Cullors said.

Then Cullors flipped the script when she turned to the audience and asked each member of the audience to ask the person next to him or her, “What have you done for

black lives today?”

Cullors, like Garza, was also more interested in active solidarity, rather than theoretical solidarity, which is why she posed that question activity for the audience.

“If you feel disconnected, you should connect to something,” Cullors said.

By 13, Cullors had seen most young black boys her age arrested

and incarcerated. Her own brother was incarcerated at 19. And her dad, influenced by the Black Panthers, showed her the black power fist.

However, to maintain her sanity and agency — to find if there was something more than these outcomes — she started organizing 15 years ago.

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‘Pink Tax’ present nationwide, but at Miami men pay more for products MONEY

ELIZABETH GLOVER THE MIAMI STUDENT

Historically, women pay more for necessary items, such as deodorant, razors and shampoo – a phenomenon known as the “Pink Tax.” However, a walk through MacCracken Market at Miami University proves a “blue tax” is the more likely case.

Stocked with the latest beauty and grooming products for both men and women, MacCracken’s prices are higher across the board when compared to national retailers. But men’s products receive an extra price hike.

Men’s Old Spice Re-Fresh body spray sits at $4.89 on the shelves of Walgreens, but at MacCracken it is $5.89, a dollar more. Additionally, at MacCracken, a 5-pack of women’s Bic razors is $4.09, while men’s are marked over a dollar higher at $5.45.

According to Ann Fuehrer, professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, this is not shocking. Fuehrer said during her summer classes, she takes students to convenience stores

like Wal-Mart to observe these breaches in price.

Although Fuehrer said in the past, women’s grooming products were more expensive than men’s, the price gap is closing as years pass.

Fuehrer said this issue is not black-and-white. She noted that when her students conduct surveys on price discrepancies, they find that women spend thousands of dollars more on grooming products annually than men.

Fuehrer said the conclusions of her studies have changed over about a five-year period. She attributes a lot of that change to advertising strategies.

“Especially with grooming products, advertisers, marketers and manufacturers have discovered that men will pay money for products as well,” Fuehrer said.

“It used to be that all of the pressure for image was on women, and men were really judged in terms of body size and muscle.”

She believes marketers are discovering that men are becoming influenced by media pressures in the same way women are. She thinks this is why the discrepancy

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Pink tax refers to the higher price women pay for the same products as men. Razors, shampoo and deodorant are typically more expensive for women. is closing.

Sophomore Marie Meadows, a MacCracken student employee, said she thinks women have greater needs when it comes to products, and rely on their products to do more for them than

men do.

“It’s kind of shocking,” Meadows said. “You would think that women’s products would be priced higher because they offer more than men’s.”

Sophomore Olivia Teter-

is, a self-proclaimed frequent shopper at MacCracken, shared her own sentiments.

“It’s pretty sexist,” she said. “I buy men’s deodorant because I like the smell, I had no idea it was more expensive.”

Fuehrer said this is due to strategic marketing by companies.

“Marketers keep these things pretty well hidden,” Fuehrer said.

“They don’t want consumers to understand all of the gimmicks, tricks and strategies that are used in order to sell products.”

Fuehrer discussed the silver lining to the issue as well.

“On the flip side, I think that consumers are becoming much more aware,” she said.

Awareness, along with change, is Fuehrer’s primary concern. She urges her students to see themselves as active agents, and to become catalysts in helping change consumer-based issues such as this.

“Ultimately, we as the consumer are doing the spending and the buying, so we are the ones who make the choices on what products and brands we buy,” Fuehrer said.

Safe Campus Act sparks discussion across the nation about sexual assault SEXUAL ASSAULT

ABIGAIL KELLY

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Students are speaking out against the Safe Campus Act, a bill proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives in July to enforce new guidelines for universities’ sexual assault protocol.

Some students feel the bill sets the bar too high for conviction.

The bill first states that universities will be required to implement programming, support for students and training to school faculty and staff for sexual assault.

Senior Laura Uribe, co-president of Miami’s Women Against Violence and Sexual Assault (WAVES), feels the bill starts to fall apart later in the legislation, in Section 163, “Role of Law Enforcement Agencies in Investigation of Allegations of Sexual Violence.”

“It essentially states that universities are not able to punish sexual offenders, let alone investigate sexual assault cases, until the case has been reported to the police,” Uribe said.

This section of the bill states that an individual who wants to report a sexual assault can provide written notification to the university, which will then be relayed to the school’s local law enforcement. An individual

can also provide notification that they do not want the allegation to be investigated by the police.

In the following section the bill states, “Each institution of higher education may not impose any sanction on any person, including a student organization, in response to an allegation unless the sanction is imposed under a formal hearing or similar adjudicatory proceeding.”

The bill continues to lay out requirements of the due process rights individuals have, including that all parties have access to all material evidence, that each person the allegation is made against has a meaningful opportunity to admit or contest the allegation and that the university can set a standard of proof that would need to be met.

Uribe feels that supporters of the bill are protecting the wrong people by allowing the police to investigate the claim first.

“Lobbyists argue that one of the reasons this law should be implemented is to protect the falsely accused,” Uribe said. “Universities are not required to check in with the police before acting on assaults, drug dealing or even underage drinking, Sexual assault should be no different.”

In favor of the bill is former Sena-

tor Trent Lott, who was hired by the Interfraternity Council to lobby on its behalf.

“The current approach is much more likely to result in errors that could harm students for the rest of their lives,” Lott wrote in a Washington Post editorial. “In many cases, students are not allowed to review

“When Greek life is involved, the media emphasizes that point instead of focusing on the assault itself,” Coats said. “Because of this negative media attention, I understand why they support this legislation, but I think they’re trying to save the wrong people.”

Coats sees that police involvement

It is already incredibly difficult for victims to speak out against their assailants, and this legislation, in my opinion, discredits victims by saying that assailants should not be punished until there is legal action against them.

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the charges against them, are not permitted access to counsel and cannot cross-examine witnesses or know the status of their cases.”

Junior Carly Coats, a former volunteer with the organization Women Helping Women, which supports survivors of sexual assault, said the legislation might do more harm than good. As a member of Greek life, she said she is disappointed that the National Panhellenic Council and the Interfraternity Council have shown their support for the bill.

can make it much more difficult for survivors wanting to come forward.

“It is already incredibly difficult for victims to speak out against their assailants, and this legislation, in my opinion, discredits victims by saying that assailants should not be punished until there is legal action against them,” Coats said. “I understand that false accusations ruin people’s lives, but they are extremely rare and they do not ruin lives nearly as much as the actual sexual assaults.”

An analysis of crime reports by

social scientists at the Idaho Council on Domestic Violence and Victim Assistance, showed between 2 and 10 percent of sexual assault claims are false.

Senior Magda Orlander agrees and said she feels the bill protects the wrong people.

“I would understand if more than half of the cases were falsely reported and people got convicted over it,” Orlander said. “But they are turning a non-issue into an issue and thereby erasing the real issue at hand.”

Uribe see a new issue raised with the Safe Campus Act. If the bill is passed, and a sexual assault case reported to the university has to go through law enforcement channels, the survivor’s choice of how “he oor she” want to proceed is taken away.

“Universities should do everything they can to make students feel safe,” Uribe said. “If a student does not want to report a sexual assault to the police, the university should still have every obligation, and desire, to stand by that student and make sure that the situation is resolved and appropriate punishment is administered.”

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Bofferding CEO visits Oxford Leading Luxembourg brewery comes to Ohio market BEER

ANGELA HATCHER THE MIAMI STUDENT

A tiny wooden table stands amid crowded shelves of imported coffee beans, beer and wine.

The table is littered with bright green Bofferding promotional paraphernalia — hats, glasses and the famous beer itself. A full glass of the beer is the centerpiece of the table, golden liquid with snowy white foam.

Just beyond the table is a man in a black suit jacket and bright green tie, the trademark Bofferding color. He smiles and vigorously shakes hands with various retired Miami professors as they head in and out of the shop, leaving with plenty of the Bofferding product.

His name is Georges Lentz.

Lentz, chief executive officer of Bofferding and Miami alumnus (’73), made an appearance at Main Street Gourmet Saturday. His visit was spurred

by Bofferding becoming available in Ohio for the first time just four months ago.

Lentz visits about three to four times every year.

“With Ohio becoming a new market for Bofferding ... he’s here to personally visit this new market,” said Chris Hensey, owner of Main Street Gourmet.

Bofferding, the leading brewery in Luxembourg, has become the first and only authentic Luxembourg beer available in the United States. Its journey to America began with distribution in Wisconsin two years ago.

“We are the first and only to carry the product in package in Ohio, and Steinkeller’s is the first to have it on draft,” said Hensey.

The John E. Dolibois European Center, (MUDEC), Miami’s Luxembourg campus, combined with Lentz’s close personal ties made Miami-Oxford a logical place to distribute the product.

“The benefit of bringing this [Bofferding] to Ohio is the natural fit,” said Hensey.

Besides the affiliation with Miami’s campus, Bofferding has seen an increase in student demand, particularly from those who studied at MUDEC. With roughly 10,000 MUDEC alumni, this is the perfect time and place to bring Bofferding to its second location in the U.S., Lentz said.

Kyle Shaw, Miami junior and MUDEC alumnus, said he thinks the beer will be popular in Oxford.

“I’m definitely excited,” Shaw said. “I think it will be a huge hit with students who have studied abroad in ‘Lux,’ and hopefully that popularity will spread to

their friends, as well.

Hensey said customers frequently asked if they would carry and sell the beer. Since receiving their first shipment of Bofferding two months ago, the store has sold over 30 cases.

“If you translate that into a year, it would be my top selling beer ever,” said Hensey.

Lentz stressed that Bofferding’s strength is in its production. Being a beer that has low fermentation makes all the difference, he said, packing less bitterness than your average high fermentation beer.

“It’s what we call a very drinkable beer,” said Lentz.

With Bofferding’s slow brewing process, it takes eight weeks before the final product is bottled.

They use malt instead of corn or wheat along with hops, water and yeast. According to Lentz, no additives or preservatives are used in the process.

“It’s a fresh product,” Lentz said. “You know, it’s like tasting a fresh vegetable versus a canned one. You can taste that difference.”

Shaw emphasized the distinction between Bofferding and its domestic competitors.

“I really liked the beer because it had a bit of a stronger taste

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Global Rhythms World Music Ensemble celebrated its 20th anniversary on Oct. 17, in Hall Auditorium.

Lack of space results in Church attendance declines during college shared offices among staff BOFFERDING »PAGE 5

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Sesquicentennial Chapel on Spring Street hosts Sunday services of The Bridge. The Bridge is one of two oncampus churches at Miami.

RELIGION

EMILY CULBERSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

In college, students do not attend church or practice their faith as often as they did in high school.

About 70 percent of young adults aged 18-22 who indicated they attended church regularly for at least one year in high school stop attending church in college for at least one year, according to data collected by LifeWay Research in 2007.

One of Miami’s on-campus churches is Oxford Bible Fellowship (OBF). Ryan Woedl, OBF’s director of communications, said college kids are given a freedom to explore their religious affiliation once they go to college.

“Now it’s not just something that [your] family believes, now it’s something that you have to decide ‘Is this what I believe? Is this how I’m going to live my life?’” Woedl said.

“I worked with a youth group for 10-plus years before I started working with college students and I know that’s a concern we have.”

According to sophomore and regular church attendee Madi Poling, abandoning spirituality in college can have a negative impact on a person’s life.

“I wouldn’t say going to church has a lot to do with your faith, but it is an outward expression that you do have faith,” Poling said. “I think los-

ing that when you do go to college is super detrimental to someone’s life.”

However, sophomore and church attendee Oscar Ryland thinks the tendency to move away from church during college is normal.

“I think there’s an expectation on college students to live their life and to become independent of their high school self and to become independent of their family,” Ryland said.

“And as a result some people don’t end up going to church because they are finding themselves on their own.”

I wouldn’t say going to church has a lot to do with your faith, but it is an outward expression that you do have faith.

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First-year Megan Burns said, along with questioning her church’s social beliefs, one of the reasons she no longer attends church is simply because it’s inconvenient.

“A lot of people go out Saturday night and then they’re not going to wake up to make it to [St. Mary’s Catholic Church] at 8 a.m. when they have to walk Uptown,” Burns said.

“I would love to go to church every once in a while, but I’m not making that walk, especially with winter coming up. It’s going to be freezing.”

Woedl said that students’ attendance in church as they transition into college comes down to how they prioritize religion.

“My personal intake is that it’s a heart thing,” Woedl said. “Are they attending church in high school because they have to or because they have a heart desire to grow in their love of the Lord? I think you have to see the need [to attend church] not only in your own life, but in your life serving others.”

Despite Woedl’s passion for ministry, she said attending church isn’t the only way to practice religion.

“I don’t really think it should be a goal to keep kids going to church,” Woedl said. “You can be in church and still not be plugged in and still not be involved and just be a member.”

Many college students eventually find their way back to church, as LifeWay Research also reported that two-thirds of college-aged students who drop out of church in college will attend church later in life.

Ryland said this could be a result of personal pitfalls that may have resulted after leaving their faith.

“I think a lot of people get to a state [in life] where they don’t know what they’re doing and they’ve lost themselves,” Ryland said. “And I think one way people find themselves again is by going back to what CHURCH »PAGE 5

Due to campus renovations and department growth, a lack of space has caused some professors to share their offices.

Richard Campbell, chair of the Department of Media, Journalism and Film (MJF), said his department, located in Williams Hall, lacks office space.

“I have faculty in Bachelor that we don’t have room for over here [in Williams], and then we do have some faculty that share offices,” Campbell said.

Campbell attributes the lack of space to two main causes: the widespread remodeling and building taking place on campus and the growth of his department. The large amount of remodeling on campus displaces faculty while departmental growth strains limited resources.

“I think certainly our department is growing — we’re a large department with lots of faculty and we just right now don’t have room,” said Campbell.

However, Campbell also said the university was very considerate of their space issues and has allowed the department to perform renovations specifically meant to address the lack of office space.

“The college was very supportive and helped us; we built, remodeled three or four offices over the summer and built two new offices [in Williams] out of existing space,” said Campbell. “I put in a request and the Dean’s office helped us do that.”

Journalism instructor Dianne Gebhardt-French currently shares her office located in Williams Hall. Sharing an office has not been an issue for her, she said.

“I don’t think there are effects on my productivity because my office mate doesn’t use the office very much,” Gebhardt-French said.

However, Gebhardt-French said this may not be the case for everyone. She noted that her personal background in journalism has made her an ideal candidate to share an office.

“I have worked in newsrooms with dozens of people,” said Gebhardt-French. “So I think my unusual background has made me a good per-

son to share space, because I worked in newsrooms where I didn’t have an office.”

According to Campbell, MJF is planning to perform more renovations next summer to alleviate the need for office space.

MJF is not the only department to have space issues.

Physics professor Samir Bali said the Department of Physics is also short on space.

“I mean, clearly, there is never going to be a situation where there are just spare offices,” Bali said. “And so, we have ... a ‘suite,’ because then there are two or three people who will be in there at a time.”

The Department of Physics recently moved from Culler to Kreger Hall the summer of 2014. While Bali appreci-

I think certainly our department is growing — we’re a large department with lots of faculty and we just right now don’t have room.

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ates the office space in Kreger is larger than that in Culler, he does not believe a need for office space was the main reason behind the move.

“I don’t think it’s because of office space that we moved,” said Bali. “It was urgent to upgrade the research labs, and urgent to also upgrade the teaching; the way we teach those rooms had to be better.”

Herbert Jaeger, chair of the Department of Physics, agreed his department’s primary reasons for moving to Kreger were the needs for laboratory space and better technical building structure. However, the need for office space was considered during the renovation of the building.

“We have office spaces for people who are retired, we have office spaces for people who are temporarily here for maybe a year or so,” Jaeger said. “So we tried to look forward and anticipate what will happen.”

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Startup Weekend gives real-world experience BUSINESS

MEGAN BOWERS THE MIAMI STUDENT

The room is buzzing.

Clusters of well-dressed students sit nervously, taking sips of water, wringing their hands and occasionally glancing at their notes.

Mentors in slick black and red jackets discuss the outcome in hushed tones and work on setting up the presentations.

It’s Startup Weekend at the Farmer School of Business and teams are preparing to present business models they started forming just 48 hours ago.

Students pitch their ideas, form teams and build business models, before pitching their final ideas to judges. Winners are awarded with potential investment opportunities.

Over 35 ideas were pitched this year, but only 16 were selected to be turned into “prototypes.”

One of those prototypes eventually became “TasTable.”

“My idea is to build a marketplace where people can buy and sell home cooked meals,” said Ben Drellishak in his 60-second pitch. “I believe there is a market out there for quality home cooked meals that

are simple, cheap and healthy.”

The team was formed — a group of seven students from different backgrounds, business majors and otherwise. Drellishak was joined

by Amy Hershberger, Erica Miller, Sam Harper, Claire Markley, Ryan Muniak and Meredith Illig.

They spent the majority of the next 48 hours in each others’ company, working non-stop in room 0033 in the basement of the FSB. Friday night focused on creating their problem statement, identifying their customer segment and coming up with a strategy for the next day.

“Saturday morning, four of us went Uptown to Kroger and the Farmers Market to get interviews that validated what we thought the problems were,” said Markley. “We felt they were relevant problems, but we wanted to confirm it.”

They spent the rest of the day strategizing and meeting with mentors. Two in particular gave advice that seemed to help determine how their product was shaped.

Bill Kling, founder of SwissAmerican, helped them adjust their market. He could see their product appealing more to an age group with a disposable income rather than college age, which they were

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“It was interesting having all these different mentors from crazy different backgrounds all giving you their take on your idea,” said Drellishak. “All their takes are different from each other so it’s like you have to try and pick and choose. Nobody really knows the true answer to any of these business problems, it’s all

Tang Dynasty serves authenticity New Chinese restaurant puts its energy in internationals FOOD

JAMES STEINBAUER OPINION EDITOR

The stark white walls, neglected Quiznos sign and minimalist seating at Tang Dynasty, the new Chinese restaurant next to Krishna, give the place an air of unfinished shabbiness.

Passersby would barely realize that a restaurant even existed if it weren’t for the dozens of Chinese students happily slurping hot pots and sipping cucumber or watermelon soda.

What it lacks in atmosphere, it makes up for in flavor. I’m not talking your boring brown sauce-covered chicken or oil-laden spring rolls with nuclear-orange sweet and sour sauce. Except for a quarter page at the back of the menu titled “American Chinese,” Tang Dynasty doesn’t dabble in lazy appropriation.

If the menu seems like it isn’t geared toward Miami’s domestic population, that’s because it’s not.

In fact, Tang Dynasty was specifically started to cater to Miami University’s growing international student population — nearly 85 percent of which hails from China.

One of the restaurant’s co-owners, Johnny Liu, a Chinese student who graduated from Indiana University this spring, said he welcomes all diners, but acknowledged the authentic Chinese food he serves could be daunting to domestic students and

Oxford residents.

For Liu, Tang Dynasty is about creating a feeling of home for other Chinese students.

“For most Chinese, whether inside or outside China, eating is one of the most important parts of their whole life,” Liu said. “Eating is one of the biggest things in the whole history of China. We live to eat.”

Entrees at Tang Dynasty are served family-style and meant to share, complete with endless bowls

When you see something that catches your eye, just point and say, ‘I’ll have what he’s having.’

of fluffy, sticky rice.

In this kind of situation, I find that the best way to order is to look at what everyone else is eating, because, odds are, they know what’s good. When you see something that catches your eye, just point and say, “I’ll have what he’s having.”

Chinese staples like Ma Po tofu and lamb backbone hotpot, the restaurant’s signature dish, grace the newly minted menus. However, at a recent meal, a lapse in decision-making capabilities gave a few friends

and myself a beef-centric buffet.

Braised beef stomach came sizzling in a crock of its own juices, surrounded by slow roasted green tomatoes. The reality was a stew of tender, beefy chunks more flavorful and moist than your mom’s pot roast.

Chinese barbequed beef, steamed until tender, rubbed in smoky, savory spices and grilled with red and green peppers was arguably the best meal of the night. The contrast between the spongy, melt-in-your-mouth texture from steaming and the crisped herbs and grill marks lead to a sensory overload. If you try one thing at Tang Dynasty, make it this.

The one shortcoming to Tang Dynasty was its lack of heat. If you’re looking for spice, Tang Dynasty is not the place for you.

“If you want spicy, go to some other place,” Liu said apathetically.

The closest we could get to hot was beef in chili oil — surprisingly lacking in chili.

Second-rate spice level aside, it was delicious. The same, unexplainably tender slices of beef used in the Chinese barbeque were, instead of grilled, doused in a broth of neon-red chili oil and piled high with minced garlic and sambal oelek.

Letting the vibrant concoction soak into white rice, turning it into a mosaic of garlicky goodness was the perfect ending to the meal.

Open daily for dinner. Entrees: $12 to $15.

First time model-hopeful takes on runway FASHION

DMITRIY KIZHIKIN THE MIAMI STUDENT

Last week, I arrived at the Miami University Club of Fashion and Design’s model auditions for the chance at becoming a model.

The event took over the third floor of Armstrong with cameras, highheels and a few beards.

While the turnout was mostly women, I ran into a few men making their way up the stairs as I finished my audition.

After writing down my name and e-mail, I was given a number, 79, and asked to have my picture taken.

The required attire of dark jeans and a white or black top reached a whole new level — everyone put their own twist on the requirements, which led to diversity and personality among the hopeful models.

I ran into a few girls that I knew from my classes and my dorm. Gabby, a freshman on my floor, asked for advice from the girls in front of her who participated last year.

“It’s easy, don’t worry about it,” said the girl in front of her.

“Don’t forget to pose at the end of each walk that you do and you’ll be great.”

The returning models were still on edge, however, because the process is selective.

Even the friendly advice couldn’t mask the serious atmosphere.

After taking my picture outside the pavilion, I got in line. I was number 79, meaning that on Thursday, the previous day, at least 70 people auditioned before me.

Once in line, I stepped up and got my measurements taken by another group of girls. There was a runway set up in the center of the pavilion with a long desk at the front. This is where the judges sat.

“Once you climb up the steps onto the runway, you will loudly state your number and walk up and down the runway two times,” one of the girls sitting at the desk said. “Don’t forget to pose at the end of each walk, but the pose isn’t that important. We are primarily looking at posture.”

After she made her announcement, more small talk ensued among the candidates. I could hear nervous conversations — this is an audition, after all, and we only got a minute, maybe even less, to impress the people watching us.

Suddenly, I remembered this was my first time modeling. I have no experience on the runway, so I made the split decision to walk with personality.

The girls in front of me each walked the runway with confidence. Four poses total, and some people even managed to pose differently each time.

I had a little fun with my poses, but made sure to keep good posture.

Out of nervousness, I did my best to avoid eye contact with the judges.

“You did great, thank you so much for coming,” one of the judges told me as I removed my number.

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guesses really.”

They also received advice from Thomas Gorczynski, co-founder of Nomful. He told them to replicate their idea by making dinner for people that night to see if people would actually buy it.

“We made a chicken and broccoli meal and, at first, it was shaky,” said Drellishak. “Meredith left to go

cook, and we started talking to the mentors and almost changed our entire business plan. Luckily, we changed the business plan back and it ended up working out because Meredith was able to sell them to a bunch of random people hanging around here.”

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‘Paranormal Activity’ is worst movie of the year Sixth in series uses typical scare tactics FILM

JACK RYAN

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The sixth and final entry in the cult classic series, “Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension,” is arguably the worst film of the year. An unnecessary follow-up to four equally pointless sequels (all spawned from Hollywood’s need to ruin good things), “PA 6” shamelessly repeats the past by beating a nail into a coffin that was buried half a decade ago.

Plot-wise, we all know what’s going to happen.

There’s going to be an unexpected demon in a seemingly normal house, the child is going to consider it her “imaginary friend” and the parents are going to do a poor job handling the situation. There’s no doubt that an exorcism, forced connections to the previous films and an ambiguous ending will all be included, too. It’s just rinse and repeat at this point.

What isn’t immediately expected of “PA 6” is that it will have an abundance of plot holes, logical fallacies and pointless characters.

As far as acting goes, the actors in “PA 6” are worse than ‘horror-movie bad.’

Chris J. Murray and Brit Shaw play Ryan and Emily, the couple at the center of the haunting. Unsurprisingly, they’re not so much characters as they are weak outlines with abhorrent chemistry — both as a couple and as parents to their daughter, Leila (Ivy Grace).

All possible illusion of family is shattered from the start.

Ryan’s brother Mike (Dan Gill) now resides with them due to a break-up, but he’s really just the film’s outlet for making weak sex and drug jokes. There’s also a fourth adult, Skylar (Olivia Taylor Dudley), who is supposedly helping the “feng shui” of the house, but is really only there to balance the male-to-female ratio.

Perhaps the only bearable performance here is by young Ivy George, whose increasingly possessed nature as Liela sometimes feels like she is simply annoyed by the trashy acting around her.

There are some horror movies that had these exact issues and managed to maintain relevancy and status — the fatal flaw of “PA 6” is that it isn’t scary in the slightest, but still tries so hard to be frightening.

Not only is “PA 6” not scary in the wide sense of the word, it actually betrays its own ideology in try-

ing and failing to be scary. Instead of the silent static camera of the impressive original that forced the viewer to fear the mundane, “PA 6” feels the need to derive all of its scares from things leaping in front of the always shaking camera.

Although, yes, these sudden startles can catch you off guard (unless you have an invulnerability to ear piercing screams and CGI demons that inexplicably leap into the frame), they are in no way scary. Similarly, no one leaves the theater fearing what they’ve seen, as the demons are time/space-specific.

The major context of the “Paranormal Activity” series is that we believe the victims of the su-

The fatal flaw of ‘PA 6’ is that it isn’t scary in the slightest, but still tries so hard to be frightening.

pernatural are innocent, normal people. This is all thrown away by the sixth film’s bizarre cinematography, which suddenly casts cameras into the arms of the main characters and presupposes that they all have an astute understanding of what seems to be high quality technology.

The found footage genre already has a cringe-worthy pedigree in this respect, and “Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension” ranks as the worst.

As a critic, I try not to expand my review past what is shown on screen, but I have to mention how “PA 6” ruins itself in its commercial. Multiple climactic scenes, including about a third of the poor jump scares are shown ahead of time, essentially ruining all reason to go to the theater in the first place.

There are no redeeming qualities about “PA 6” other than the fact that with its close comes the end of a much-tortured series, but even this promise of finality is ruined by the ending, which provides neither closure nor relief.

There is absolutely nothing right about this film, other than the fact that it is, at least temporarily, a coup d’état for a crippled saga.

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This helped them back up their presentation with evidence that people would buy their product for the amount they planned.

“Having the hands on application was so much more valuable than reading something out of the textbook and having an exam

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rushed 8 yards into the end zone. Senior Kaleb Patterson’s point after the kick tied the game at 7-7 with 10:51 left in the quarter.

On the first play of Miami’s next drive, Bahl hit Martin with a 60-yard bomb, but the Broncos forced the ’Hawks to kick a field goal. Patterson nailed a 31-yarder, putting Miami up 10-7 with 3:44 left.

It was Miami’s first lead in a first quarter since Week 1 against Presbyterian College and its first lead in any game since its late fourth quarter 3330 lead against University of Cincinnati in Week 3.

“Offensively, it gave us a little bit of life,” Martin said. “Any time you score, any time you take a lead, any time you’re in a game that gives you energy and makes you wanna play better and makes you believe.”

WMU scored touchdowns on two of its next three drives, taking a 21-10 lead into halftime.

The Broncos opened the second half with a 12-play, 78-yard touchdown drive in 5:17.

Bahl led the ’Hawks to the WMU 11 in a five-play, 40-yard drive, but was sacked for a loss of 10 yards on third down, forcing MU to kick a field goal again.

Patterson’s 38-yarder hit the right post and ricocheted in, diminishing Western Michigan’s lead to 28-13 with 7:02 on the

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over it,” said Hershberger. “We were doing real life examples and putting the model out there.”

Their team worked long hours, staying at FSB until 2:30 a.m. Sunday.

“I think it was a really good immersion experience because, for the whole weekend, you are only thinking about business and

our project,” said Markley. “You could be doing so many other things but I’d rather be putting my energy into something that means something.”

TasTable’s business plan didn’t quite meet the judge’s standards and the team didn’t end up placing in the final competition.

“Furnishare,” a startup

focused on helping students furnish their apartments for short amounts of time, took home the top prize.

“The weekend was still extremely invaluable,” said Miller. “I had been considering picking up a minor in entrepreneurship and this weekend just confirmed it.”

clock.

A 3-yard touchdown from redshirt freshman running back Jamauri Bogan in garbage time solidified the Broncos’ win.

We competed,” Ryan Smith said. “Coach was harping on us all week to compete, and I thought that we did. I think as an offense we executed well in the first half. But came out in the second half and our defense was on the field a lot, so we didn’t get a lot of chances.”

Braverman and junior wideout Corey Davis combined for 248 of WMU’s 278 total passing yards. Entering the game, the duo ranked third in the country in combined catches.

“Braverman and Davis, I think, are the best we’ve ever seen,” Martin said. “I don’t love to play against them, but I love them when we’re watching.”

Sophomore linebacker Paul Moses led the RedHawk defense with 12 tackles (five solo).

Junior defensive lineman JT Jones totaled nine tackles (two solo), including 1.5 for loss, and 1.5 sacks.

The Broncos outgained Miami 421 to 276 in total yardage and 25 to 12 in first downs. MU falls to 1-7 (0-4 Mid-American Conference) on the season, while WMU improves to 4-3 (3-0 MAC).

The Red and White return to Oxford for the first contest of a three-game home stand against University of New York at Buffalo on Thursday.

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in college sports in the past decade (think Penn State, Syracuse, UNC, etc.) now is the time for the NCAA and individual universities to set a new precedent: zero tolerance.

When coaches or staff members decide to break the rules, they must be held accountable. Disciplinary responses need to go beyond a simple slap on the wrist. People need to be suspended or fired based on the severity of the violation. Blaming a singular scapegoat within the organization should no longer be a viable cop-out.

Pitino is captain of the ship at Louisville. As head coach, he is responsible for everyone under him, from his assistant coaches to his managers. With such an egregious violation, Pitino should feel the repercussions of what he allowed to go on within his program, whether he knew about it or not.

Examples must be set. Louisville needs to hurt, and the basketball community needs to see it. There must be a disincentive to severely outweigh the benefits of these types of shady, unethical practices. Otherwise nothing will change.

The integrity of the game will continue to deteriorate. Precedent shows coaches will dodge accusations, create a scapegoat or abandon ship.

For too long, a handful of coaches operated under the principle of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

It’s not fair to Cooper and countless othercoachesacrosscollegesportswho operate within the boundaries.

one gets in trouble at one school but has moved on to another, what is going to happen? How is the NCAA going to deal with that coach?”

Down in Louisville, Pitino now faces his own set of accusations, but with some key situational differences.

Pitino found a home in Louisville, a place many consider a destination program for coaches. There are few coaching jobs more lucrative in college basketball. Other than moving up to the NBA, the only place for him to go is down.

Unlike Calipari, Pitino was caught at the scene of the crime. Although it is yet to be proven he had knowledge of the situation, he is at least he guilty by association.

Cooper acknowledged head coaches might not be able to know everything that is going on, but that he also believes coaches should be held to a higher standard.

“Is there something that could go on that the head coach would not know about? Yes,” Cooper said. “Obviously some people find that hard to believe. But we certainly have standards here that we try to adhere to, and that starts with me. When I go home at night I just want to know that we’ve attempted to do the absolute best that we can and we’ve done it in the right way.”

Cooper also knows that minor mistakes can be made, often unintentionally.

But Louisville’s violation is far from minor.

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Black folks know state violence intimately, Cullors said.

“The system was not meant for us,” Cullors said. “It was meant to kill us.”

Toward the end of the Q&A, Garza addressed what she felt was the elephant in the room: the ques-

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posed and are unsure of what it is trying to accomplish.

“Unless it is this group of very activist students who are very involved. So

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with nerves just as I was.

I wasn’t sure how to feel afterward. I gave it my best shot, and felt better as I left the pavilion, though I was relieved to leave the tense atmosphere.

I’m still waiting to hear back about how I did. Hopefully, the emails will be sent out later this week.

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they did as a kid. For some people, that is church.”

Ryland said church has played a huge role in his college life by keeping him on track.

“A lot of times, especially during the week, I find myself slipping and doing some things that aren’t necessarily good for my future,” Ryland said. “So going to church every Sunday serves as a wakeup for me to make sure I’m on track and I’m being the best person I can be.”

Woedl said that OBF’s services are highly attended and a large portion of attendance includes college students.

“Our church services are overattended, we are actually looking to expand our church because our church is full,” Woedl said. “Students make up a big percentage of our community.”

Still many leave their faith during their four years of college, but according to Ryland, finding personal identity is sometimes more important.

“I think it’s unfortunate [that college students drop out of church], but I think it is important for people to find out who they are themselves,” Ryland said. “I wouldn’t want anyone following a faith or a spiritual background just because it’s what their parents told them.

I’d rather them be themselves because it’s really important in life to be yourself.”

Roslovic picked up an assist Saturday, putting him at seven points on the season.

Blasi spoke to the skill of the Saints after Saturday’s loss.

“Give them credit, that’s a good team over there and

they deserved to win,” Blasi said. “They did a lot of really good things tonight.

From start to finish I think they were the better team.”

Miami opens conference play this weekend on the road against St. Cloud State University.

Five wide receivers have at least 10 catches on the year, and each averages at least 10 yards per catch.

“Crazy amount of experience on the offensive side of the ball,” Martin said.

Miami leads the all-

time series with Buffalo, 12-5. However, the Bulls have won five of the last seven meetings, including two of the last three at Yager Stadium.

Kickoff is 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in Oxford, Ohio.

Bofferding and its competitors has to do with Lentz’s beer philosophy.

According to Lentz, beer should always be drunk from a glass, never the bottle, to get the full experience of watching the beer come to a head as it’s poured, engaging

the senses. He added that the person consuming the product must understand that beer is much more than just something to drink.

“It’s a social lubricant ... you’re drinking beer with friends and you share that,” Lentz said. “It’s not just a beer ... it’s an experience.”

tion of “all lives matter” vs. “black lives matter.”

“I know you want to talk about ‘all lives matter,’” Garza said. “You’ll talk about it on Yik Yak tomorrow.”

But she said, yeah, all lives matter.

“We are all working for a world where all lives are valued,” Garza said. “But that’s

not the world we live in now.”

One questioner in the audience wanted Garza to address the perception that black people were inferior. Garza sat up in her chair, emboldened.

“I want to talk about black excellence, not black inferiority,” Garza said. “We’re excellent by the very fact that we’re still here.”

I don’t think students are very aware of what is going on,” Orlander said.

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“I think it should be a point of discussion for sure, whether students support the bill or not,” said Coats. “It will definitely have an impact, and we need to talk about it.”

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Planned Parenthood debate: Formulating facts around opinions EDITORIAL

This editorial is not about defunding Planned Parenthood.

Last week, the Ohio Senate voted 23-10 to defund Planned Parenthood statewide. If the bill is approved by the Ohio House of Representatives, all 28 Planned Parenthood locations across Ohio — three of which provide abortion services — will be affected.

The organization came under fire this summer when videos showed Planned Parenthood employees allegedly discussed selling fetal body parts gathered from abortions. The videos are still under federal investigation to verify authenticity and determine whether Planned Parenthood broke the law.

We hoped to editorialize on the defunding of Planned Parenthood.

We wanted to and we tried. But, in the end, we could not reach a consensus on the matter.

While we might have different views on whether abortion should be legal, whether Planned Parenthood should be defunded, we all agree on one thing: this decision should not have been made without proof of illegal activity.

As our discussion heated up, we decided to call a truce. We agreed to disagree, which is more than can be said about our legislature. The ruling by the Ohio Senate is rooted in speculation and the power of a majority

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board. opinion, not fact.

During our conversation about Planned Parenthood, questions arose: Since the money Planned Parenthood currently receives from the government isn’t used to fund abortions, would cutting funding really have an impact on availability of abortion services?

Are there other organizations that

According to the Washington Post, it just depends on what is being measured. Or, who is cherry-picking the data and why.

The 3 percent is calculated by dividing the total number of abortions performed by the total number of services provided.

Say a woman comes in and asks for birth control pills. Later, she

We agreed to disagree, which is more than can be said about our legislature. The ruling by the Ohio Senate is rooted in speculation and the power of a majority opinion, not fact.

will provide the same services for free? Is this debate really about Planned Parenthood’s alleged bad behavior, or is it a way to ban abortion in general?

Both sides have different views, each with their own set of favorable “facts.”

One side said: “Abortions are only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”

The other side countered: “Abortions account for 94 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”

What’s strange about these statistics is that they are both, technically, true.

comes back to be tested for STDs. A few weeks later, she comes in again, needing an abortion. This woman has used three different services that Planned Parenthood provides, one of which is an abortion. All three of the services she received are used in the calculation — in terms of the calculation, the abortion gets added to the numerator and the two other services get added to the denominator.

To calculate the 94 percent, only three services are measured and patients can only fall into one sector. The three categories confused those who receive prenatal services, those who receive

Reading books offers a magical escape and an opportunity for increased education LIFE

MILAM’S MUSINGS Stephen King said books are a uniquely portable magic, and I’m not one to disagree.

One of the best things my parents ever did for me was engender my love of reading by ensuring I always had books to read at a young age.

And that, as it happens, makes quite the difference in educational outcomes for children.

According to a 2010 20-year study by Mariah Evans, a University of Nevada, Reno associate professor of sociology and resource economics, parents who have books in the home increase the level of education their children will attain.

For instance, a home with a 500-book library boosts a child’s education by 3.2 years on average. So, a child with a family that only had one book in the home would be expected to attain 9.4 years of education, whereas the child in that home with the 500book library would be expected to attain 12.6 years of education.

This book benefit held consistent across 27 countries, including the United States, and regardless of the parents’ educational background or other factors.

“The results of this study indicate that getting some books into their homes is an inexpensive way that we can help these children succeed,” Evans said.

The solution, then, since we know the outcome, is to find ways to provide more access to books for children, especially low-income children. Unfortunately, libraries aren’t immune to the problem of inequality, as libraries in poorer communities don’t tend to offer as many books, services or hours of operation in which to utilize them.

More investment in those libraries would be a good start — and not just to help read. Libraries nowadays are fully functioning community centers that

referrals to adoption agencies and those who get abortions. These categories are mutually exclusive, and there is no category representing women who seek any of the other dozen or more services.

So, to revisit the woman in the first scenario: she comes in on three separate occasions, twice for non-abortion services and

also offer the amazing wonders of the Internet.

According to U.S. IMPACT Study, when given this Internet access, people use it to find work, apply to college, secure government benefits and learn about critical medical treatments.

I still remember the excitement of getting my own library card as a child and scribbling my signature on the back (the signature hasn’t much improved).

Then getting as many books as I could fit into a bag or carry haphazardly.

When I got my driver’s license, the first place I went to was the library. Even now, when I have plenty of books at home, I still find myself drawn to the library

I’m already beginning to get the book hangover, knowing that my return journey with my friends from Hogwarts is almost over.

It’s hard for me to understand those who have never found the joy of reading, and instead, reading has the connotation of indecipherable Shakespeare plays and summer reading lists.

A good number of Americans do read, however, according to Pew Research. Among all American adults, half have read more than five books in a given year. That’s pretty solid, given other responsibilities adults have that tend to impede upon reading time.

In fact, one of the hardest parts

There’s a certain feeling of loss I get when I reach the end of a good book. My friends’ journeys are complete. The story is told. On to the next one.

and checking out more books.

Growing up, I had friends, but books were always my best friends. They were the little portals of magic that I could escape into and reemerge hours later, hazily back into reality.

It’s what I call the book hangover. And although they’re not as bad as a real hangover, there’s a certain feeling of loss I get when I reach the end of a good book. My friends’ journeys are complete. The story is told. On to the next one.

Or back to it, as is the case with my re-reading of the Harry Potter series. No series of books quite echos King’s sentiment like the Harry Potter series — and not just because they’re literally about magic. Rather, over the course of 4,224 pages, of which I’ve now re-read 3,824, Harry, Ron, Hermione and the other characters become your friends.

It’s a joy to watch them mature and grow through the years and at the time of my first reading of them, I was growing up with them.

about college is how much it has impeded on my usual book-reading pace. In a good year before college, I would fit into the tiny bracket of readers that knocked out more than 50 books in a year.

Now, I get through a book normally within a month or so, unless it’s Harry Potter, in which case it’s binged.

This year, I’m on pace for 30 books, a far cry from the goal of 100 I made on Goodreads in January.

My point isn’t to talk about how much I read, but rather how much I love to read. Even with all the distractions readily available from social media to Netflix, there’s still nothing that can compare to reading a good book.

And I wish for others, especially children, to have the opportunity to discover their love of reading as well.

It only takes one good book to reveal the magic.

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once for abortion services. All that can be measured using this system is the fact that she got an abortion. Other services are overlooked and left unacknowledged in order to make abortions seem more common than they are.

As we looked to settle our own disputes about who had the right facts, we realized that “facts” aren’t always the most accurate representation. Furthermore, just because something is true doesn’t mean others will be persuaded.

It is easy, especially when talking about sensitive subjects, to enter a discussion with our minds already made up. This can be said

about any controversial issue: one side believes something is right, and the other side believes it is not right. We are blinded by our own opinions.

The media is partially to blame.

Many organizations choose which data to show and which to cast aside based on what fits a certain agenda. We are all guilty of confirmation bias, the phenomenon by which we as an audience tune into news outlets that align with our existing views and feed us information we want to hear.

Hearing our own thoughts echoed back to us by someone else, or by data — even skewed data — reaffirms our beliefs, making us feel as though we were right all along.

Anyone with a different viewpoint is automatically wrong.

Even if their argument makes perfect sense, we don’t buy it. More often than not, we don’t even listen to it.

When faced with difficult issues, we need to make sure we are informed and open-minded.

We need to do our research and critically analyze the data. We need to ask questions if we don’t understand. We need to avoid jumping to conclusions that are based on religious bias or political affiliation. Just because the Ohio Senate made a hasty decision doesn’t mean we need to make the same mistake.

Trick-or-treaters miss the mark with cultural costumes RACE

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While parents pose young children in costumes, taking pictures before sending them off to trickor-treat, college students will put the final touches on highly-anticipated costumes.

Each Halloween comes with laughter and applause alike for admirable costumes — one time my sister’s boyfriend was a spot-on Andy Samberg from the “Dick In A Box” skit on Saturday Night Live and I give him credit to this day. However, too often, the holiday comes with several cringe-worthy costumes that cross the line.

The nature of Halloween is a mixture of fun with a twist of its natural scary atmosphere. And, these offensive costumes are indeed scary. With an infinite amount of costume ideas, is there really a need to dress up in a costume that mocks someone’s culture when so many other options are available?

For example, take Native American costumes, from a “PocaHottie” to an “Indian Warrior.” I know that most people are not purposefully being offensive or discriminatory when choosing a costume such as this, but we should first take a step back and reflect before donning a problematic ensemble.

I would argue that those who don’t view that costume as offensive don’t think so because they can’t feel the burden of the offense the costume implies. They can take off their costume, but a long-suppressed race or an injured victim can’t simply “take off” the stereotypes or discrimination after the night is done.

So, at what point does a costume turn from creative to demoralizing?

Consider the alternate point of view. Most who dress up as a native person (or another costume glorifying a stereotype) have never oppressed by society. A white person doesn’t have to fear a widespread misrepresentation of their culture in daily life.

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a victim has the potential to assert power over someone and reinforce oppression on a certain group. Think about it — have you ever seen anyone at a Halloween party dressed up as a simple white guy for their costume? Even if it hurts only one person’s feelings, a costume offensive in nature is not worth it.

Would you feel comfortable and at perfect ease in a “PocaHottie” costume in a room with other Native Americans? Dressing up as another race can imply that race is out of the ordinary — not to mention reducing a huge part of someone’s identity to a costume that gets beer spilled on it.

A Change.org petition protesting that costume supplier Spirit Halloween get rid of an insulting Caitlyn Jenner costume explains, “To make a costume out of a marginalized identity reduces that person and community to a stereotype for privileged people to abuse.”

Additionally, BuzzFeed recently published a video of Native Americans trying on typical “Indian” costumes — and not a single Native American who tried on the costumes gave them approval. Their comments ranged from “[The] accuracy on a scale of one to 10 is like a negative 4,000” to “A costume like this keeps Native Americans in the past as if we’re not real people today” to “I feel like I need a really big shower after wearing this crap.” They also commented on how the costumes were misrepresentative, as genuine pow wow dresses carry meaning with each symbol.

While the hurt might not be at all purposeful and the intention of the costume is light-hearted, it still has the power to misrepresent and harm a specific community of people.

I’m not trying to appear oversensitive or accuse anyone of being a bad person — rather, I’m trying to reflect on the perhaps accidental effects of some costumes that can be viewed as offensive on a holiday meant for celebration. So whether you’re going to rage this weekend as a cat or as your favorite Disney character, stay respectful and have fun taking advantage of a blessed Saturday Halloween.

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TO THE EDITOR: Having spent the last 16 years implementing and leading online learning, I read with great interest the editorial opinion in the Oct. 20 issue about online courses. It was wonderful to read the dedication to learning rather than grades, and the thoughtfulness of the critique and consideration of what is needed for a great learning experience.

Online learning is not for everyone — not for all students nor all faculty.

It takes the ability to motivate oneself and the expectation of doing work on your own. Some researchers have identified a trait they call “learning presence,” which is a combination of self-efficacy and self-regulation, and found that it is needed for students to succeed in online classes.

Students need to begin an online class with the expectation of doing at least the same amount of work as they would in a face-to-face course. The standard is that students should spend two to three hours per week outside class for every hour in a class. So for a three-credit hour course, students should be spending nine to 12 hours per week in total. The same standard is used for online classes; even though there typically is no “class time,” students should expect to spend approximately 10 hours each week on the class in a regular term.

Does this always happen? Of course it often does not, for both faceto-face courses and online courses.

But it should. If students aren’t prepared to spend that kind of time, they absolutely should not take the course -- whether online or traditional.

Miami now has a winter term, and many students make use of it to do

online courses. Any course that takes place in winter term (three weeks), or in a sprint format (six weeks), needs to cover the same material in the same depth as a course offered over 14 weeks in order to deliver the same credit hours. To achieve that, classes in Miami are designed around “Learning Objectives” — a list of things that students will be able to do, demonstrate or know when they

role-plays, case analyses and a host of other activities well beyond listening and memorizing.

Last but not least, the medium.

In online courses, all learning is mediated by technology. Activities, discussions and collaboration are often done at different times, although some classes include “real time” web-meetings, chats or presentations.

Online courses have debates, role-plays, case analyses and a host of other activities well beyond listening and memorizing.

leave. This keeps classes to the same level, regardless of time frame.

The Oct. 20 editorial said students wouldn’t learn as much from watching videotaped lectures. This is a very good point, but good online classes aren’t mostly watching videotapes. Students are expected to do work outside of a traditional class — if you are listening to lectures in class, you should be applying them outside (as well as reading.) If you are watching recorded lectures outside, in a flipped classroom, then you should be doing activities to apply learning in the class meeting time.

In Miami online classes, students do everything from create threedimensional models of the spinal cord using clay and upload the pictures into the course, to analyzing and creating case studies that require integration and practical application of medical terminology, to role-playing the Salem Witch Trials. Online courses have debates,

Online learning can be even more applied than traditional classes.

There is no one fixed classroom space, so the wall between the class and real life is easier to breach.

Assignments can involve investigating places or trying activities in the “real world” and then sharing and analyzing them, which support the application of knowledge outside the college environment.

In short, online classes can provide an extremely powerful learning experience­— or not.

Just like face-to-face classes, it all depends on how the courses are designed and implemented, and how the students approach them. Yet the high expectations for learning from both faculty and students provide a natural laboratory for developing some truly exceptional online courses.

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TO THE EDITOR: In response to “Being a Christian in an increasingly atheist society.”

The secular state is a necessary component of any meaningful idea of religious freedom. Just as orthodox Jews cannot enforce the multitude of laws found in the Torah and Muslims cannot impose Sharia law, Christians cannot establish their religious principles as governmental policy. Secularism means that the government is neutral in religious matters, that people are allowed to freely practice their religion, or lack thereof, without fear of persecution and is enshrined into the U.S. Constitution by the establishment clause of the First Amendment.

Grace Moody believes that Christians feel stigmatized in our society. While the author is perfectly entitled to believe whatever she wishes, we skeptics in the Secular Students of Miami are accustomed to asking for evidence, that is, after all, our raison d’etre. So, what sort of evidence can we find to examine this contention?

Unfortunately, we do not have the power to read the minds of individual Christians and determine just how stigmatized they feel relative to individual atheists. What we can do, however, is examine objective data to see if Christianity is in fact stigmatized in our society. The easiest way to do this is to examine how the public feels about various religious groups relative to each other.

A study by the Pew Research Center discovered while atheists and Muslims are viewed negatively, Catholics, Jews and Evangelical Christians are viewed positively. That should, in principle, settle the question.

Furthermore, considering that Christians form an absolute majority of the U.S. population and atheists, agnostics and so forth less than a quarter of it (using the author’s own numbers) and the fact

that Christian religious ideas have been codified into law in the U.S. — the obvious example being the only recently overturned bans on same-sex marriage — it is safe to say that Christianity is not only not stigmatized, but that it is hegemonic among religious groupings in this country.

So, why does the author feel stigmatized? The answer is chilling. The article suggests that the legalization of same-sex marriage, increased visibility for transgender and non-binary individuals, increased access to sex education and support for the legalization of marijuana present challenges to living as a Christian in today’s society. In other words, the author’s central claim is that Christianity being compelled to loosen its grip and give other religious groups a chance to breathe is equivalent to the marginalization of Christianity.

Christianity is not being threatened, it is not being stigmatized, it is merely being compelled to stop stigmatizing and threatening others.

Members of the GLBTQ community, on the other hand, are still terribly oppressed. They suffer from immense discrimination and disproportionate rates of homelessness, sexual assault and violence. In most states, a person can still be fired or evicted for their sexual orientation.

Yet things are not as bad as they once were. A new sense of vitality has appeared. Activists can feel the strong winds of history at their backs. hardline Christians feel this wind to. They instinctively sense themselves to be on the losing side of history, they feel their power slipping away. When the hegemon feels stigmatized, it is because its hegemony is coming to an end and equality is, at long last, knocking at the door.

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Qualifications for presidency less than qualifications for Skipper’s delivery POLITICS

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It is my honor to report to you that the qualifications to run for President of the United States of America have not changed since the year George Washington accepted the presidency.

In case your elementary education failed you — which it probably did — and you are at a loss as to what these “qualifications” are exactly, let me enlighten you: You must be a natural born citizen of the United States, a resident for 14 years and at least 35 years of age.

So, in 16 years I will be announcing my candidacy for President.

“Oh, but liberal lady who writes for The Miami Student, you have literally zero political background! How can you lead a country with such a small, underdeveloped skill set?”

I mean, I’ll have met the qualifications, and I do plan on winning a lottery or two in that time span,

so I’ll probably be okay. Fear not, brave reader.

There is one main question that I want to ask and address, which has been sparked by the reality show that has become running for president.

Why are our standards so low?

This, amazingly enough, is not meant to be an insult at a particular candidate — though I could write at least four books bashing several.

Instead of attempting to dent the ego of an individual, this is an attempt to dent the ego of seemingly well-established institution.

When the Founding Fathers first wrote the Constitution, they probably were not accounting for the overwhelming amount of money that a single person could have at their disposal just in time for the 2016 elections.

Since it is impossible to write a law based on facts and futures that are unknown, it would be ridiculous to blame them for our standards falling to “Trump 2016” levels.

And, since it’s even a more ridiculous notion to think that voting citizens would be properly educated and free of apathy, the blame seems to naturally fall on our current government’s failure to update the qualifications.

I am confident in assuming that, at the establishment of our country and our Constitution, these three loose, not particularly challenging — albeit direct — qualifications had to do with some sort of “equality” ideal.

Taken completely out of context and real-world application, eugenics (or, rather the democratic, American society version of equal opportunity) seems like a great and noble idea. Until you read about genocide and forced sterilization, at which point eugenics kind of starts to sound like the completely inhumane idea that it is.

There are a lot of things that separate 2015 from 1789, like plumbing, an upsetting lack of powdered wigs and excessive wealth, to name a few.

But, let’s stick to talking about excessive wealth for the next 300 words or so.

Though the fact is not well known, the United States is one of the only developed countries that do not provide strict regulations on campaign funding and spending. Yes, laws about such limits do exist, but have you ever heard of a clean politician who was also a winning politician?

Campaign financing and the dirty words and actions associated with it is an entirely separate conversation — a conversation that should definitely be had, but, still, separate. It just so happens that money is a very easy way to point out the fallacies within our candidacy qualifications.

As long as someone can speak well (enough), meet the three preexisting requirements and shell out a couple million dollars, he or she can pretty much do whatever they want regardless of skill or previous experience.

Someone can run for Presi-

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dent simply because they are rich. What’s scarier, someone can win the Presidency simply because they are rich.

It is very easy to point the finger at financing and the overwhelming importance that the role of money has taken on in our society — that’s why I chose to pick it apart. But, to bring the conversation back to the more-than-moderately concerning lack of qualifications needed to run for President, let’s say that money didn’t exist and had no bearing on the lives of people or politics.

We, as a society and as a political power, still need to step up our game. Do you know a lot of middle-aged United States citizens who should be allowed to run for President? Spoiler alert: you don’t.

In short, I have had job applications to Skipper’s that had greater requirements than the presidential candidacy. We should want a country whose standards are more than an individual with a quarter-life crisis under their belt and a checkbook or two. We should want better.

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but sold it to general admission, too,” she said. “It might encourage a bigger fan base, like what Ohio State University has, and could make tailgating a thing, instead of just going Uptown to drink.”

Currently, in Miami’s tailgaiting zone, beer is only sold inside the Red and White Club tent, similar to Goggin’s policy. No alcohol is allowed inside the Red Zone or the End Zone, areas reserved specifically for students.

This was a cause of controversy last fall, inciting a boycott of the tailgate by the campus sororities in protest of the strict rules.

“I think [the sale of alcohol] will help our school spirit,” said sophomore Jill Stinson. “The more people at games, the better.

And it’ll just be fun to go grab a beer with friends at a hockey game.”

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bers of the ORL and RHA will have to see how the students who tested Philo’s services liked it, and whether they would like it in the future.

“We will ask about how they have streamed Philo, did they encounter buffering issues, did they use the recording option and how was the quality,” Ammerman said.

Ammerman also said her office is making sure students tell them any and all channels they would like to have on the streaming service.

Despite some initial issues with the streaming service, ORL has so far received positive feedback from participants in the trial run of Philo.

“I know there were some problems with logistics in the beginning, but I think once people got on, they enjoyed it,” Barr said.

Ammerman echoed the excitement of Barr and other students about the quality of Philo, especially because it offers diverse options in the TV experience.

“I have used Philo almost exclusively for watching TV,” she said.

“I have not had any issues of buffering, and the quality has been wonderful. I have been able to watch it on my laptop, tablet, phone and TV. I love the recording option, in case I am in meetings and can’t watch my favorite show.”

If the official results of the trial run turn out positive, Miami will consider using Philo as an alternative to cable in residence halls in the future.

“With North Quad being renovated, we need to decide if we’re signing with Philo and then not putting in cable, or if we’re sticking with cable,” Barr said. “We won’t have both, as far as I know.”

Kaitlyn Green, first-year and resident of Anderson Hall, thinks the streaming service would be a good alternative to cable if the decision is made to remove cable in residence halls altogether.

“I think streaming could be a much better idea so we can eliminate the cable cords around the room,” Green said.

Organizations like RHA, as well as many university departments, will ultimately make the decision about whether to “cut the cord” in residence halls on campus.

“IT Services, HOME and ORL are looking toward the future and how students view their media content has changed,” Ammerman said.

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Ohio Senator Bill Coley (R) of District 4 — Butler County’s state senator — attributes the appropriation of testimony time to the unequal number of witnesses for proponents and opponents of the bill. Proponents only sent three witnesses, compared to the opponents’ 55 witnesses, thus were allowed more time to speak, according to what he said in the live streaming of the bill’s hearing last Wednesday.

Daugherty believes that the sexuality education will be most impacted from this bill. She said that most funding stripped from Planned Parenthood will go to agencies that have pro-life and abstinence-only policies as their mission.

“It’s not going to be comprehensive,” said Daugherty.

She argues that not only do these agencies not have the capacity to provide for the number of people that Planned Parenthood does, but they also do not have the researchbacked evidence that Planned Parenthood has.

However, Coley argues that the move to defund abortion-providing organizations will not take away from sexuality education and testing.

“We’re moving that money to organizations that are life-affirming organizations,” said Coley. “Not one less dollar is going to be spent in those programs.”

Last year, 56,939 patients visited Planned Parenthood, 70 percent of which were between 18 and 35 years old, according to Planned Parenthood’s 2014 annual report for Greater Ohio. Of the 95,568 visits

(meaning some patients came for multiple visits) to the organization in 2014, only 2 percent were abortion services.

Daughtery said she is worried and sees this bill as part of a longer, larger pattern.

“When we’re making public health policy, it is, in my opinion, an ethical obligation to the public, and a fiscal obligation … to ensure that our policy is supported by the best research that we have access to, and I feel that is really where the Senate Bill 214 falls short,” said Daugherty.

Some Miami students have expressed anxiety with Senate Bill 214, including Lana Pochiro, a junior and patient of Planned Parenthood.

“It scares me, on a personal level, that our elected officials are doing this,” said Pochiro. “If it’s defunded,

then where do I go?”

Although the bill targets abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, the bill does not affect women’s access to abortions. “[Senate Bill 214] is not affecting … abortion funding,” said Daugherty. “The state of Ohio and the federal government both have statutes that say you can’t use federal or state money to provide abortions, except in the case where there is rape that involves a police report, or when there’s a threat to the woman’s health.”

Although the bill changes nothing in regard to funding abortions, Coley stressed his wishes that the bill would prevent abortions in Ohio.

“I hope that maybe … some of the abortions that get prevented and maybe some of that will result in more women sitting in this chamber

who would otherwise not be here today,” said Coley.

Rebecca Clark, co-president of Miami University’s feminist organization called F-WORD, argues the bill was passed over the abortion controversy and without consideration of other reproductive health care that makes up the majority of Planned Parenthood’s services.

Pochiro, Clark and other members of F-WORD expressed not only their frustration with SB 214, but also fear the message it sends to women of Ohio — especially college women.

“It definitely sends a message that our government doesn’t care about women, doesn’t care about women’s health, doesn’t care about women having control of their own bodies the way men are given control,” said Clark.

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For a Miami University football program stuck in a rebuilding process, any improvement, even in a loss, is a good sign. At least that’s what head coach Chuck Martin said after losing 35-13 to Western Michigan University on Saturday in Kalamazoo, Mich.

“Vast improvement on our side,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “Our compete level is so much better. Our intensity, our focus were so much better than they’ve been … we ran the same calls we ran a week ago, but we ran them with a lot more intensity and competed a lot harder.”

Freshman quarterback Billy Bahl had his best start of the season, completing 13 of 26 passes for 200 yards. He had five interceptions in his previous two starts, but on Saturday, he had none.

“He’s definitely making monumental leaps,” sophomore tight end Ryan Smith said. “I think being a true freshman is a little overwhelming at times. I can attest to that myself, being a true freshman last year.

It’s a lot on his plate, quarterback is a tough position. I think he handled it well today. I think it was one of his better games passing-wise.”

Smith, who grew up near the area and played in front of numerous friends and family members Saturday, totaled 34 yards on two catches.

Sophomore wide receiver Sam Martin had a season-high six catches and 134 yards.

The RedHawks’ one glaring blunder was a sack-fumble in

A short week presents an extra challenge for the Miami University football team when it hosts State University of New York at Buffalo on Thursday night. After falling 35-13 to Western Michigan University on Saturday, the RedHawks (1-7, 0-4 Mid-American Conference) seek an end to their seven-game losing streak.

“A shorter week, obviously, magnifies everything because you have less time to prepare,” head coach Chuck Martin said.

Buffalo (3-4, 1-2 MAC) played at home last week during its 41-17 romping of Ohio University. Miami, on the other hand, was on the road in Michigan.

“So, advantage them, because they were at a home game and they could get to work a lot quicker than us,” Martin said.

Martin said Miami’s home advantage this week seems like a plus on paper, but the players’ classes make it difficult to schedule football activities for a mid-week game. While Buffalo preps for the evening game all day Thursday, Miami’s players will be in class.

“It gets all jumbled up because your whole routine is off. Your kids get up and go to class for most of the day and it feels like a class day, but now it’s Saturday game day.

Well, that’s not how they prepare.”

During a typical week in which games are played on Saturday, the team starts preparing for the game after classes Friday and stays in a

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Running back Maurice Thomas bolts down the field against NIU.The freshman has 109 rushing yards on nine carries and 289 kick return yards. the first quarter.

“We had one really big mistake in the first half,” Martin said. “It should’ve been a 14-10 game at halftime, maybe even 10-7, but you give up a sack-fumble.”

On Miami’s third play of the game, sophomore safety Asantay Brown sacked Bahl for a loss of seven yards and forced a fumble. WMU recovered the ball at Miami’s 8-yard line, and two plays later, took a 7-0 lead on redshirt junior wide receiver

Daniel Braverman’s 6-yard touchdown catch.

The RedHawks answered with what was one of their best drives in weeks.

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The Miami University hockey team split its first road series of the season against St. Lawrence University this weekend. After winning 1-0 on Friday night, Miami couldn’t complete a third period comeback and fell short to the Saints 5-3.

After a scoreless first period, freshman forward Jack Roslovic struck on a power play in the second frame to give the RedHawks the lead. Roslovic’s fourth goal of the season stood as the game winner in the 1-0 contest.

Senior forward Sean Kuraly picked up his first point of the season on the goal with the first assist to Roslovic. Junior forward Anthony Louis earned the second assist. It was his second of the year.

Miami’s penalty kill ultimately decided the game, as they successfully killed off the Saints’ man advantage seven times. Five of those advantages came in the third period, when St. Lawrence registered eleven power play shots. Senior

goaltender Ryan McKay was equal to the task each time.

Head coach Rico Blasi tipped his cap to the Miami special teams.

“The third period was all penalties,” Blasi said. “It was just a matter of going through some adversity and dealing with them.”

McKay saved all 26 SLU shots Friday, earning his first shutout of the season. The netminder added another 26 saves Saturday in his first loss of the year. After the weekend, he improves to 3-1-1 with a 9.35 save percentage and a 1.71 goals against average.

Blasi said both McKay and SLU sophomore goalie Kyle Hayton looked good after Friday’s contest.

“I thought it was a good hockey game, both goaltenders played well,” Blasi said. “We made one play on the power play.”

Saturday proved to be a tougher challenge for the RedHawks after they found themselves trailing for the first time in over 200 minutes of play. At the end of the first period, St. Lawrence held a 1-0 lead.

Senior defenseman Christ Joyaux put Miami on the board at the

hotel Friday night.

“It’s all football and locked in and think about your job,” Martin said. “But you can’t go to a hotel on Wednesday because they got early morning classes on Thursday … that whole routine gets completely disrupted. So, I don’t know if there’s an advantage of being home or away.”

Freshman quarterback Billy Bahl completed 13 of 26 passes for 200 yards against WMU Saturday and now faces a stiff Buffalo defense.

The Bulls lead the nation with six defensive touchdowns. All six scores have come from six different players. Junior cornerback Boise Ross is tied for the national lead in passes defended (2.3 per game) and leads the Bulls with 14 pass breakups and two interceptions.

UB’s defense had four picks in last week’s win against OU, and two came from senior linebacker Okezie Alozie.

“Buffalo got more aggressive, blitzed a lot more than they had in their previous game,” Martin said. “I think that probably caught OU off guard because they really pressured a lot on first and second down, which they hadn’t shown. So at least they let the cat out of the bag so we can prepare for more pressure on first and second down all week.”

The Bulls’ offense returns nine seniors and averages 375 yards and 28 points per game.

Quarterback Joe Licata ranks in the top 20 in MAC history in career touchdown passes. His first start FOOTBALL »PAGE 5

SCOREBOARD FRIDAY

VOLLEYBALL Miami University....................0 Ball State University.........3

SOCCER University of NY Buffalo....1 Miami University........................0

SATURDAY

VOLLEYBALL Miami University.............3 University of Toledo..........1 ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

Forward Josh Melnick eyes the goal as he lines up the shot versus OSU. 10:24 mark in the second frame, but by the end of the frame, the Saints extended their lead to 3-1. SLU took a 4-1 lead just five minutes into the third.

Halfway through the final frame, senior defenseman Matthew Caito found twine on the power play for his first goal of the season.

Forty-eight seconds later, Miami

struck again. Senior forward Alex Gacek buried his first goal of the year, reducing SLU’s lead to 4-3.

Sophomore defenseman and alternate captain Louie Belpedio picked up assists on both third period goals, which brought him to three assists and four total points on the year.

FIELDHOCKEY Central Michigan University...0 Miami University....................5

SUNDAY

SOCCER Akron University.................0 Miami University.............3

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Louisville recruiting scandal raises ethics questions in college sports COLUMN

ALL JACKED UP It’s deja vu in Kentucky.

But it’s not basketball head coach John Calipari in the hot seat this time.

His neighbor to the west, University of Louisville basketball head coach Rick Pitino, is in trouble for a violation similar to the one Calipari was found guilty of during his less than unblemished college basketball coaching career.

Former stripper Katina Powell re-

leased a book accusing a former Louisville basketball assistant of paying her and other strippers to offer sex to recruits. These accusations have since been confirmed by former recruits and players.

In a day and age where almost nothing can be kept secret, how do these people expect to get away with these unethical practices? Have they learned nothing from the past decade of scandals that have rocked college sports programs from coast to coast?

Well, maybe they have.

Take Calipari, for instance.

Calipari had several successful seasons as the head coach of University of Massachusetts, including a Final Four appearance in 1996. His 4-1 record in the 1996 NCAA tournament was later vacated because one of his players accepted money from an NBA agent.

After coaching in the NBA for the Nets, his next stop was in University of Memphis. Calipari’s best year was 2008, when the Tigers won 38 games and made it to the championship game. In 2009, Calipari left for University of Kentucky.

Years later, it was discovered that former Memphis player Derrick Rose’s SAT scores were fabricated.

Calipari recruited and coached Rose during his collegiate career. Memphis was forced to vacate all 38 wins from the 2008 season Now, Calipari is in Lexington, reaping the rewards of his years of unethical coaching practices.

The programs he used as springboards to Kentucky were left to pick up the pieces and rebuild the messes he left behind.

So, if Calipari has learned any-

thing, it’s that as long as you aren’t there to face the music, you can get away with a lot.

Miami University basketball head coach John Cooper pointed out that the NCAA is changing their tone towards violators, emphasizing penalty for coaches, not necessarily the program, in instances where they are responsible.

“Now what you’re seeing is they’re punishing coaches,” Cooper said. “The question is now if someCOLUMN »PAGE 5

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