The Miami Student | September 25, 2018

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Volume 147 No. 4

Miami University — Oxford, Ohio

Bird scooters flock to Oxford SAMANTHA BRUNN NEWS EDITOR

The City of Oxford plans to bring Bird e-scooters to town in the next two weeks, despite Miami University’s reservations expressed in last week’s cease and desist letter. “From my perspective as mayor, the city is going to go ahead with this project, regardless,” Oxford Mayor Kate Rousmaniere said. Rousmaniere hopes that once people see how the system works in practice, they will be more likely to support the endeavor. “We’re not required to talk to the university,” Rousmaniere said. “We did it as a courtesy, really. But, we hope to see improvements on that front in the coming months.” David Creamer, senior vice president for finance and business services at the university, said university officials are willing to continue pursuing discussion on the topic, but request that the city delay bringing the scooters until more discussion and analysis takes place. Creamer said the university is waiting to hear back as to when those discussions will occur. Once those steps are taken, Creamer said, the university will evaluate whether university policy should be amended. Alan Kyger, Oxford’s economic development director, announced in the Student Community Relations Committee

PLANS FOR BIRD SCOOTERS IN OXFORD WERE ANNOUNCED AT THE SCRC MEETING. ASST. PHOTO EDITOR BO BRUECK

ARMITAGE TRIAL SET FOR EARLY JANUARY CÉILÍ DOYLE NEWS EDITOR

(SCRC) meeting last week that there are plans in place to reserve on-street parking spaces as officially designated stations, or “nests,” for the Bird Scooters pilot program in the Uptown District. Kyger said the city is doing what they can to ensure the pilot program will serve everyone well. “We asked ourselves, ‘How do we make this work best for our community?’ And we are following that answer as best we can,” Kyger said. Oxford has also requested that Bird Rides, Inc. create a geo-fence along High Street between Campus and College Aves. The geo-fence would prohibit scooters from being operated on the sidewalks in that area. Bird Rides, Inc. could also potentially set a geo-fence around the university to the same effect. As part of the permitting process Bird went through to work with the city, the city will receive a share of the revenue from the e-scooters. The city will receive $1 per day, per scooter, in operation. The initial scooter fleet will be comprised of 100 scooters, so the city will receive $100 per day from Bird Rides, Inc. The revenue sharing is meant “to promote bike and scooter safety, as well as improvements to the CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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Following a motion for continuance filed in August, former Miami professor Kevin Armitage’s trial has been set for Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Armitage, who was arrested for trying to hire a 14-year-old, sexually-trafficked girl earlier this year, is still in federal custody “detained without bail pending” his trial, according to the court’s docket. He will remain in the U.S. Marshal Service’s custody until the trial starts, said the public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney’ office, Don Ledford. The Student reached out to Armitage’s lawyer, Chris Angles, for comment, but Angles said he “cannot discuss pending litigation.” Armitage’s case was initially going to be tried on Monday, Sept. 24, but it was pushed back to January 2019 in order to give the prosecution, represented by U.S. Assistant Attorney Teresa Moore, and Angles “reasonable time necessary for effective preparation,” according to the scheduling and trial order document signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge John Maughmer. Judge Brian Wimes will preside over the trial, which will begin at 9 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019 in Courtroom 7D at the Charles Evans Whittaker U.S. Courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri. doyleca3@miamioh.edu @cadoyle_18

SIX SEXUAL ASSAULTS REPORTED IN LESS THAN A MONTH STAFF REPORT

A profile in bookshelves

Yesterday afternoon the Miami University Police Department (MUPD) sent out the fifth “Safety Bulletin” email in relation to a sexual assault reported either to MUPD or the Oxford Police Department (OPD) in the first four weeks of the semester. One of the assaults, which occurred on Wednesday, Sept. 5 and was

Kimberly Moore begins her tenure as dean of students CÉILÍ DOYLE NEWS EDITOR

Kimberly Moore, Miami University’s new dean of students, worked for 14 years at Loyola University Chicago where she had a bookshelf in her office. The bookshelf was filled to the brim with the obligatory assortment of books, picture frames and inspirational quotes. But what made it really unique was the knickknacks. Loyola students had a goal to “make the bookshelf” as they were about to graduate, often bestowing Moore with small gifts and tokens of appreciation before they entered the real world. A Dwight Schrute bobblehead, a Sister Jean figurine and a maroon-and-gold scarf stand out in particular on Moore’s new bookshelf in Warfield Hall office. Dwight’s bobblehead used to be passed among Moore’s Loyola colleagues at the end of meetings to say, “Hey, you’re doing an

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New dean of students Kimberly Moore is eager to learn about the Miami community and its traditions while tackling problems head-on. The Miami Student Erik Craigo

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reported Thursday, Sept. 6, was not reported in a safety bulletin campus-wide. In combination with the aforementioned assaults, there have now been a total of six sexual assaults. The Student has reached out to OPD’s records specialist and MUPD’s Records Unit to obtain copies of the incidence reports for the assault reported on Monday, Sept. 17; Friday, Sept. 21 and the two separate reports made on Sunday, Sept. 23. This story will be updated online at miamistudent.net as soon as requests for records have been returned.

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