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DEFINING OUR DRINKING PROBLEM Over the past month and a half, The Student has asked dozens of students, administrators and Oxford residents the same question: “How do you define Miami’s drinking culture?” Over the next few weeks, our coverage, both in print and in the form of a documentary (released on our website April 14) will explore the ways in which alcohol is regarded and consumed by Miami students. Our reporting will address the societal, historical and mental health-related issues that surround drinking in Oxford.

Responsibility for change lies with Miami’s students CEILI DOYLE

ASST. NEWS EDITOR

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s lecture, “Beyond Black and White,” was held on Monday, April 3, at Hall Auditorium. Gerald Yearwood, the senior director emeritus of Diversity Affairs at Miami, moderated.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks race, education LECTURE

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An audience member asked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for three pieces of advice he could give to students and athletes. Abdul-Jabbar turned to a full Hall Auditorium and picked one: “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”

In an hour-and-a-half lecture that delved into contentious subjects such as education, race, religion and politics, Abdul-Jabbar was thoroughly prepared to discuss any topic that was addressed by moderator Gerald Yearwood, the senior director emeritus of Diversity Affairs at Miami, or by a curious audience member.

Abdul-Jabbar, a six-time NBA champion and the alltime NBA scoring leader, visited Miami’s campus on Monday, April 3, to present his lecture “Beyond Black and White” as part of the Miami University Lecture Series.

In addition to his accolades on the court, Abdul-Jabbar is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, has been appointed as a Cultural Ambassador of the United States and has received the Double Helix Medal for his contributions to cancer research. He has also pieced together a respectable career in the arts with multiple New York Times best-selling novels, roles in the movies “Airplane!” and “Game of Death” and appearances in many television series.

Seventh sexual assault of semester reported SEXUAL ASSAULT

JACK EVANS

MANAGING EDITOR

A female student reported last Friday, March 31, that she was sexually assaulted by a known male. This marks the seventh reported sexual assault at Miami University during the spring 2017 semester. One sexual assault was reported in the month of March, as well as one sexual imposition incident.

Five sexual assaults were reported during February.

The assault occurred at an off-campus residence, according to MUPD incident logs. No suspect description was provided to law enforcement officials, and no other information about the incident was given.

Students received a MyMiami announcement about the incident that contained crime reductions tips and a reminder of the resources of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program. No Campus Crime Alert – the text message and email notification sent directly to students’ phones –

was distributed.

This is first of the seven reported assaults this semester that was not sent out to students through the Campus Crime Alert system.

On Saturday, April 1, MUPD responded to a psychological emergency involving a female student at King Library. While MUPD was assisting the student, she told the officers that she was potentially sexually assaulted by “a known male subject at an off-campus apartment,” according to MUPD incident logs. The emergency was logged as both a psychological emergency and sex offense by MUPD. These assaults come under the shadow of a federal investigation into Miami University’s potential mishandling of sexual assault cases. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which is responsible for enforcing Title IX regulations, is leading the inquiry.

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In accordance with its title, Abdul-Jabbar’s lecture centered around the current state of racial affairs in America and the efforts to alleviate burdens created by racial tension. Although he was quick to point out recent tragedies and the ever-widening gap growing between races, Abdul-Jabbar ensured that his lecture should be interpreted as a call to action rather than a call to arms.

Throughout his lecture, he spoke of tolerance and acceptance for all members of the human race regardless of the color of their skin and stressed the importance of education.

“Poverty is the result of a lack of education and being unable to cope with the struggles that life puts [us] through,” he said.

The seven-foot-two AbdulJabbar spoke in short sentences.

He insisted that black Americans understand the importance of a S.T.E.M. education and realize the improbability of a career in sports. Rather than becoming the next LeBron James, Denzel Washington or Beyonce, Abdul-Jabbar stated that he would rather see “black Americans [starting] a revolution where they are known for being the suppliers of engineers.”

In regard to sports, the majority of the questions that Abdul-Jabbar addressed were related to former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s recent actions. While Abdul-Jabbar admired the LECTURE » PAGE 8

Many students react defensively to heightened attention to heavy drinking at Miami, claiming the school is no different from any other.

In fact, in significant ways, Miami’s drinking problem does seem to be worse than at other campuses.

And whether it’s worse or not, the damage done in Oxford has persuaded many students, administrators and residents that drinking by Miami students is both dangerous and unsustainable.

To be sure, drinking has run amok at campuses all over the U.S. But it’s clear that Miami has emerged as a virtual case study in all the factors that contribute to dangerous drinking cultures in college towns.

“It seems that severity in the way in which drinking happens across campuses has changed to one which emphasizes binge-drinking,” Oxford mayor Kate Rousmaniere said. “The police are overstressed. We hire extra police staff Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and they are working 80 to 90 percent of their job on those nights dealing with student drinking issues.”

Miami students binge-drink more heavily and more frequently than students at other universities. They live in a town monopolized by bars that offer drink specials and themed events every night of the week. They are encouraged by the notion that there is nothing else to do but drink in Oxford.

Many students say administrators and student organizations are wrong to call first-year Erica Buschick’s death anything more than an isolated incident, however tragic.

In fact, her death is one of six alcohol-related deaths over the last dozen years in Oxford, and several other students have been seriously hurt after drinking too much.

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Flatline in funding hurts libraries’ purchasing power Decline in book purchases affects humanities KIRBY DAVIS

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Miami’s library funding hasn’t been cut since 2010, but it also hasn’t increased. With inflation, this inhibits Miami’s ability to purchase books and, subsequently, can hurt professors and students — especially those in the humanities.

Aaron Shrimplin, Associate Dean of Miami Libraries, noted that Miami’s flat budget won’t hold up against skyrocketing prices.

“Just to pay that inflation, we always have to cut content,” said Shrimplin.

“We’ve been living in that environment

The “cut content,” more often than not, is books. for many years and will continue to live in that environment unless we see our budget increased a bit.”

This “cut content” is, more often than not, books. Since 2011, Miami libraries have had around $4.7 million to purchase academic journals, periodicals and books. But Miami continues to edge the latter out of the budget in favor of pricey journals and periodicals, which

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are essential to those in S.T.E.M. disciplines.

But the humanities — English, history, art, etc. — rely on books.

“We aren’t alone in this,” said Shrimplin. “It’s actually part of the whole scholarly communication ecosystem, and it’s fairly complex on many levels.

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McCarthy-Creber violated sanction JAKE GOLD

ASST. NEWS EDITOR

RYAN TERHUNE PHOTO EDITOR

The McCarthy-Creber campaign violated their Election Committee sanctions by campaigning on March 13-14. According to sources close to the topic, the Election Committee became aware of this infraction on March 30, but denied to act

— voting 5-3 against elevating the violation, which could result in another sanction on campaigning, or even full disqualification.

On the afternoon of March 13, the ASG Election Committee was made aware of the McCarthy-Creber ticket’s dissemination of flyers in King Library, resulting in a

24-hour ban on campaigning.

Photographic evidence provided by an ASG senator showed that the McCarthyCreber campaign had violated the committee’s restrictions.

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New class to explore ‘what it means to be a man’ GENDER STUDIES

KERRY MCFADDEN THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University’s Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies is introducing a new course for the fall semester that is designed with one focus: to make students rethink what being a man actually means.

“Moving Beyond ‘Man Up’: Exploring, Deconstructing and Reimagining Men and Masculinities” is the department’s latest offering that focuses on the role of hegemonic masculinity in our society, cultural conceptions of what it means to be a man and how the problems that accompany those topics can be solved.

The new course fits into a departmentwide curriculum focused on the discussion of identity and gender but is the first class to focus on a topic that cannot be completely unpacked in other courses, said Roxanne Ornelas, director of the Women’s Gender Studies program.

“All WGS faculty teach about masculinity in our classes,” she said, “but we have not offered a class that has been solely dedicated to the topic for various reasons, including a lack of faculty to teach the course.”

But, last year, Ornelas invited Kyle Ashlee and Brandon Cash, two graduate students in Miami’s Student Affairs and Higher Education program, to give a lecture about masculinity in her introductory women’s gender studies class and was impressed by their presentation of the topic.

“They did such a good job and the students responded positively to their lecture,” she said. “They both have done a fabulous job of developing their course plan for the fall semester.”

Ashlee and Cash will be teaching the course through an intersectional lens. In other words, the class will focus on not only the topics of masculinity and manhood, but draw on students’ experiences

Kyle Ashlee organizes campus events to examine modern masculinity, including this 2016 panel. regarding their other identities, like race, class or sexuality, to learn how they relate to masculinity and gender.

Despite years of educational and practical experiences dedicated to the study of masculinity and its associated problems, the pair of instructors doesn’t claim to have all of the answers.

“We’re not experts in masculinities,” said Cash. “For me, it’s more of an opportunity to have a conversation, to provide a space where a dialogue can happen about masculinity. Kyle [Ashlee] is the resident expert on the literature and things like that, and I’m just excited to be a part of really making that space happen.”

Ashlee and Cash recognize that their authority to lead the discussion on masculinity comes, in part, from the fact that they are men. While this position may sound

Reilly, Coulston talk successes of administration, Senate passes budget bill ASG

SAM IAMMARINO

THE MIAMI STUDENT

During their most recent meeting on Tuesday, March 28, ASG Senate was addressed by Student Body President Maggie Reilly and Vice President Stuart Coulston. In their closing presentation to the body, the two outlined the successes of their administration and how they delivered on campaign promises.

Reilly and Coulston spoke on points that included Rec Center reform, which focused the conversion Clawson Hall to be another rec center satellite, dining hall dilemmas that will hopefully be solved with the opening of a chain restaurant at Maplestreet Station and the “breaking of barriers,” describing the call for a State of The School address delivered by President Crawford, the Graduate Student Government and ASG. Reilly also explained how her administration saw the disclosure of the ASG internal budget and opened for change for the first time. The disclosure allowed for the reallocation of budget lines originally meant for executive gifts and cabinet dinners, to be donated to help build on-campus benches.

In addition to Reilly and

Coulston’s presentation, ASG Senate approved SB 021589: A Bill for Better Budgeting. Introduced by Senators Elfreich and Froehlich, the bill mandates that at the start of each academic semester, the Secretary of the Treasury must present ASG’s budget to the Senate.

The Secretary must also present the status of the budget at the start of every month to “see how we are spending our peers’ money,” said Senator Froehlich. The bill was passed by unanimous consent.

Senators Fowler and Kennick were also given time to address the body. Fowler updated the senate on the removal of the controversial Ohio Governor’s Textbook Bill from the state budget while Kennick gave the body a quick lesson in recycling cups — what kind can be recycled and how to recycle them — after student concerns were brought up detailing confusion as to what kind of cups are recyclable on campus.

Apart from their usual proceedings, ASG was also visited by MUPD officers who gave a brief presentation on how to implement A.L.I.C.E training. A.L.I.C.E., which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evaluate, teaches preparedness in the event of an active shooter situation.

sexist, Ashlee and Cash explained that it is made with feminist intentions.

“I think it absolutely matters [that we are men teaching this class],” said Ashlee.

“My personal belief around allyship and this type of work is that it should not be the responsibility of women who are already oppressed by patriarchy to do all the work of teaching people.”

“And,” he continued, “I think because of the privilege that we hold from our masculine and other dominant identities, we have an ability to reach people who hold those same identities...which is not fair, but it’s part of the reality.”

Although one goal of the class is to address privilege and the oppressive side effects of a patriarchal society, Ashlee and Cash plan to expand the conversation beyond privilege and discuss and validate

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Not only does it involve libraries and publishers and vendors, but also scholars that produce the content.”

Before its budget was slashed by about $300,000 in 2010, the library purchased all books that met certain qualifications — if they were from certain university presses, if they met a certain cost and if they had a high probability of usage. Now, the library only purchases books specifically in demand. This approval plan’s budget was around $210,000 last year, but is projected to be zero in 2017.

Former History department chair Allan Winkler stressed the importance of books to any school’s humanities disciplines.

He pointed out that the state typically prioritizes publications benefiting S.T.E.M. areas because they feel that those better prepare people for work after school, but Winkler argues that books are also crucial to research and serve as the “backbone” of a university.

“The library is like the laboratory for scientists. In the humanities, we use books perhaps more than journals and journal articles,” said Winkler. “It’s absolutely im-

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tee, straying from the clear rules set forth in the elections handbook, did nothing. According to sources close to the topic, committee members were worried about punishing the candidates “after

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the personal experiences of students, regarding their intersecting identities.

As instructors, they said they ideally would like to see students leave the course’s last class session with newfound perspectives and awareness regarding both their own experiences and large scale, societal gender issues. “[Students will end the class] having thought critically about masculinity, the patriarchy, gender and about the possibilities of what the future can hold for those things,” said Ashlee.

“For me too it’s...that they understand themselves and how they fit,” said Cash.

“They have a personal connection to what we’ve been talking about for the semester.”

“Moving Beyond ‘Man Up’” has no prerequisites, and Ashlee and Cash welcome any and all students interested to enroll.

portant for the work we do, and the notion of cutting back on this is unacceptable.”

A chart provided by Miami Libraries indicates a drop in book purchasing from 16,000 in 2011 to 13,000 in 2015. This year, that number will likely be sliced in half.

English professor and Humanities Center director Tim Melley agrees with Winkler and noted the connection between humanities research and books.

“My biggest concern is that humanities research is going to be decimated nationwide if this trend continues,” said Melley. “We’re talking about a trend that’s not just happening at Miami, but other places too.”

Books acquired by universities through OhioLINK, a statewide library consortium, fell dramatically from around 150,000 in the 2011-2012 school year to below 75,000 in 2013-2014. And while librarians’ projected book-buying budget at Miami is expected to be about $291,000 next year, over $3.4 million will be allocated for journals and databases.

Erin Vonnahme, a humanities librarian specializing in subjects like journalism, film, theater and women’s gender studies, emphasized the importance of library

funding.

“It’s just important to keep aware of how vital the library space is to a thriving university, because we are inherently interdisciplinary,” said Vonnahme. “So, I buy for humanities-specific collections like literature, but I know that my work can support colleagues in different fields.”

One of the changes that Miami libraries will enact in its next fiscal year is bringing groups of librarians together on a regular basis to decide what should be included in the budget, in a way that benefits as many disciplines as possible.

“Everyone should just love libraries more,” said Vonnahme.

“We are so inherently built upon learning, however that manifests . . . just advocate for libraries.”

MU Libraries’ staff is currently presenting their predicament to the school’s administration, imploring the need for an increased budget. Their fiscal year concludes on June 30, and restarts on July 1.

“We’ve done the storytelling, and we’ve had a pretty receptive audience,” said Shrimplin. “I think we’ve laid out the constraints and challenges, and some of the opportunities we’ve taken advantage of, but now we wait with bated breath.”

reports and/or incidents of sexual violence of which it had notice.”

Resources for those who have been affected by sexual assault can be found on Miami’s Sexual Assault Resource Guide page.

Services and information can also be sought in person at the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program, located in room 104 at the Health Services Center.

the fact.”

“The Committee decided not to issue a sanction for a submitted violation against the McCarthy-Creber campaign,” reads a statement from the Elections Committee.

“The violation was received after the end of primary voting.”

Hannah McCarthy did not respond to request for comment.

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Voting for next ASG president ends today ASG

JAKE GOLD

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Some students have had difficulty voting for student body president on The Hub. “If any student receives a ‘Yikes’ message when trying to vote they should go to ‘My Involvement’ on the hub, go the the ‘submissions’ tab, find the elections section and delete their previous form. Then they should try to vote again on the main page,” reads an ASG Elections Committee statement on the topic.

Over the course of the 38-day election, the Callaghan-Elfreich campaign spent $1893.86; the McCarthy-Creber ticket spent $1717.01. Neither of the campaigns hit the spending cap of $2,000. Neither campaign took donations this week, though the Callaghan-Elfreich ticket received $20 in donations throughout the election.

All voting for student body president and vice president will take place on The Hub (miamioh.edu/Hub) until 7 p.m. today, Tuesday, April 4.

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ROTC members stand at attention during the ROTC Games at Yager Stadium.

Miami hosts ROTC Games for first time in 20 years ROTC

JOE GURNIG

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University’s Naval ROTC regiment hosted the RedHawk Games, a multi-university ROTC drill competition, for the first time in 20 years, this past weekend. Miami competed against five other midwestern universities at Yager Stadium and Millett Hall.

Ohio State University, Northwestern University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, llinois Institute of Technology and Iowa State University all competed against Miami at this year’s games.

On Friday, the games opened with the pistol and rifle marksmanship competitions, with Miami taking the pistol competition

and Ohio State taking the rifle competition. This was followed by a social for members of each school to meet and get to know their fellow ROTC service members.

“This event is a great way for naval students to meet and compete with their comrades,” said Midshipman Sarah Crews, a junior at Miami.

During Saturday’s events, Iowa did best in the seven-mile endurance race, Miami won the platoon close order drills and the squad level order drills while Iowa won the color guard competition.

“There are a lot of competitive teams here that are making the event pretty enjoyable, which is making it a close race for the trophies,” said Major Steve Haack, Miami’s acting USMC executive

officer and marine officer Instructor, during the event on Saturday.

Overall, Iowa State narrowly won first place by half a point with Miami taking second place. Ohio State placed third.

Planning to host the games again after a 20-year hiatus began two years ago. However, the work that was put in by the platoon paid off with a competition.

“The drill meet is a huge accomplishment for us to do from the ground up,” said Crews. “The midshipmen started on this when they were freshmen, and all of their work is paying off.”

The midshipmen were placed in charge of coordinating the games.

Haack oversaw and supported the midshipmen students who put on the event.

Miami’s hard work in the pla-

toon drill helped lead them to victory, beating Iowa by 12 points.

The platoon drill is one of the heaviest weighed events in the RedHawk Games.

Midshipman Theodore Luker, a junior, was one of the students who helped to restart the RedHawk Games. Luker started working on the plans to host the games here with his fellow midshipmen during their freshman year at Miami.

“This is an event that displays discipline and camaraderie,” Luker said of the importance of the RedHawk Games.

The NROTC program is hopes to continue having future RedHawk Games. About half of the Miami’s platoon competed in the event, while the rest of the 60-person platoon helped staff the event.

NEW DOG, HANDLER FOR OXFORD POLICE K-9 UNIT POLICE

TYLER PISTOR THE MIAMI STUDENT In November of 2016, the Oxford Police Department’s patrol and narcotics K-9, a German shepherd named Cole, was forced to retire early, prompting a search for a new handler and police dog for the OPD. After a long selection process, Oxford Police Chief John Jones has confirmed that Officer Matt Hardin will be the next K-9 handler. Jones says that Hardin will be attending training from late June to August.

Sikora says getting a new K-9 is a long, arduous process.

“We usually hope to get about eight years out of them. My last dog only lasted six and a half, he just had some leg issues,” said Cole’s handler, Sgt. Ryan Sikora.

Sikora completed training with Cole in Middletown, which was a 12-week process.

“However, our new dog that we’re getting, we’re getting from a place called Shallow Creek Kennels,” Sikora said. “These dogs come pre-

trained.”

The dogs complete initial training for six weeks and are then paired with a handler to train for an additional six weeks. The dogs are then certified and released.

Sikora said the Shallow Creek Kennels import dogs from Europe for the police to purchase. The price for everything — dog, training and equipment — is $14,000.

The nose knows “I’ve used him for numerous drug searches, tracks, stuff like that.

We do a lot of drug searches for the schools,” said Sikora of his service with Cole.

MUPD officer Keith Hibbard said having a K-9 unit at the police station provides many benefits to the community as well as the police.

Hibbard is the handler for MUPD’s K-9 unit, a Belgian Malinois named Figo.

“Having a resource like a K-9 unit, a dog’s nose is 400 times stronger than a human’s nose. So, when it comes to drug eradication or detecting explosives, a dog can do the job so much better than a human can,” said Hibbard.

Chief Jones said K-9 units

After feedback, Honors students still to get priority registration REGISTRAR

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After receiving feedback from students enrolled in the University Honors Program, last week Provost Phyllis Callahan revoked planned changes to the university’s registration processes that would have limited Honors students’ registration privileges.

As it stands, all Honors students are able to register in BannerWeb several days before the general student body, with only disabled students, veterans and student-athletes registering ahead of them. This, university registrar Dave Sauter told The Miami Student, inflated the number of students granted priority registration to include nearly a quarter of Miami’s students and prompted Miami’s Associated Student Government (ASG) to ask the univer-

The MUPD’s K-9 unit dog, Figo, with his handler provide officers with invaluable information during a stop or investigation.

“A K-9 gives us that probable cause to search the car, whereas we may not have that without the K-9,” said Jones.

A police dog’s utility extends beyond criminal investigations, too.

“I think that one of the most important things that a K-9 can do that a lot of people forget about is tracking missing persons,” Jones said.

One of the OPD K-9 units once found an elderly man who had gone missing, something that would have been more difficult without a police dog, Jones said.

sity to review registration processes.

The planned changes, which were announced in an email to Honors students on March 16, would have allowed UHP students to register in BannerWeb 10 minutes prior to the time ticket for their class (first-year, sophomore, junior or senior, as determined by number of credit hours earned), a procedure called “priority cohort registration.”

In the current model, a first-year honors student is able to register before a senior not in the UHP — and that’s the way it will stay.

“Because students currently enrolled were told when they were first admitted to the [Honors] Program that they had overall priority registration (meaning, regardless of their academic standing, they were allowed to register before general registration opened), we decided to allow the overall priority registration practice to continue for the current Honors students,” Callahan told The Miami Student in an email.

Sophomore Honors student Jessi Zachman said the decision, which was announced in an email last Monday from UHP director David Pennock, came as a relief.

“I’m happy that [priority registration] came back, because it’s a major reason why I joined the Honors program in the first place,” Zachman said. “Having it gone and not really know-

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Crime deterrent, community benefit Simply having K-9 units out in public can help police officers do their jobs, Hibbard said.

“I think other agencies who have drug dogs and patrol dogs, actively using their dogs out in the public eye, it’s a high visibility, and I think it’s a great deterrent for crime,” he said.

Although being in the public eye has advantages for deterring crime, Hibbard also said there are other benefits to the community.

“A lot of people may not feel comfortable talking to the police, or develop a relationship with the police, but if folks see a dog in the

ing why was frustrating. Now that it’s back, I can exhale a little easier.”

Fellow Honors sophomore Nick Fendinger echoed that sentiment.

“I just feel relieved that the initial promise the honors program gave me when I enrolled as an honors student is returning,” Fendinger said. “Having priority registration was a huge selling point when I initially made my college decision and picked up the extra academic requirements to be an honors student.”

However, Pennock said, incoming Honors students in the Class of 2021 can’t expect the

car, that kind of puts them at ease,” Hibbard says.

That comfort a dog can provide, he said, can help the police develop a positive relationship with the community.

“I think building those relationships with folks, they understand that the police are here to help them, and now they can put a face with an officer’s name, and if they ever have a situation where they need a police officer, they can say ‘I know one personally, I’ve sat and talked to one,’” Hibbard says. “We’ve broke that barrier down, we’ve talked to this person, so it’s been a huge tool that we use [the K-9] as an icebreaker for community relations.”

same as Fendinger and Zachman.

“It is my understanding that the changes in priority registration for Honors students will be implemented for the class entering fall 2018,” Pennock said. “I think [the change] just shows that Miami is focused on students and is willing to listen and respond to student concerns.”

Registration begins this morning and will continue through Friday for students with disabilities, veterans and student-athletes. BannerWeb scheduling slots for Honors students will begin at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, April 5.

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OUR DRINKING PROBLEM

RYAN TERHUNE, A.J. NEWBERRY THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami has a short memory when it comes to tragic incidents involving alcohol...

In March of 2005 during Green Beer Day, a student was nearly killed after being struck by a train in his car on the tracks. A month later, three upperclassmen died in a house fire. Alcohol was cited as a contributing factor in the accident.

In 2007, a sophomore was killed by a train after a night of drinking, and again in 2015, a senior who celebrated his 21st birthday suffered a severe concussion and injuries after falling from the balcony at Brick Street.

Nearly a year ago on April 9, 2016, senior Timothy Fresch died after he was found unconscious and in respiratory distress due to alcohol and drug consumption.

In addition, last semester, student Robert Null, an employee at Brick Street, was pushed off a ladder by former Miami defensive lineman Zach Smierciak, who was ejected from the bar for being drunk.

This pattern of behavior has continued as recently as Feb. 25, when a man from Lake Forest, IL was airlifted to a Cincinnati hospital following a fight outside The Woods bar. Early in February, 21 students were treated at McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital for alcohol-related incidents during one weekend.

But the incident that drew the most attention was Buschick’s death on Jan. 20 with a BAC of .347. The Butler County coroner ruled alcohol was the cause.

Defining the drinking culture

Buschick’s death has compelled many people — students, faculty, administrators and town members alike — to take a closer look at Miami’s drinking culture, especially the prevalence of drinking to the point of blacking out — a dangerous state that can result in death.

Rose Marie Ward, professor of kinesiology and health at Miami, has conducted extensive research on the hook-up and binge-drinking cultures of young adults. She says that while Miami is certainly not the only university facing these issues, it has one of the biggest problems.

A Harvard College Alcohol survey found that 42 percent of college students admitted to binge drinking in the thirty days before the survey. At Miami, the rate was nearly 60 percent, Ward said.

“There are some schools that only have 10 percent and there are some above the 60 percent threshold,” Ward said, “but, yes, when you look at the spread, most [colleges] are clustered around that 42 percent.”

Furthermore, Miami students tend to bingedrink on a weekly basis more heavily than the national average.

Some 26 percent of Miami students admit to binge-drinking three or more times in the two weeks before being surveyed. That’s well above the national average of 14 percent.

Despite the statistical evidence, many Miami students assume neither they nor their friends could fall victim to the sort of tragedies that affected their fellow Miamians.

“We did 392 substance abuse evaluations here at the counseling center last year,” said Dr. Ritch Hall, coordinator for substance abuse counseling. “I wish I could tell you how many of them walked in not thinking they had a problem and left thinking they didn’t have a problem.

“There were 188 hospitalizations last year

and still [students] are not thinking they have a problem,” he said.

These 188 hospitalizations only include referrals to Hall for substance abuse evaluations.

“We all have bad nights,” first-year Abby Jeffery said. “But I don’t think McCullough-Hyde should be anyone’s end goal. I don’t understand why people do that.”

In ten years as chief of the Oxford Fire Department, John Detherage has spoken with many students who worry about penalties or punishments for drinking too much. But, Detherage said, they don’t think about the risk to their lives.

“Getting in trouble is not as bad as getting dead,” Detherage said. “We only reach a small fraction of the people who need help. For every ten we pick up, there’s twenty or thirty people who make it home.”

Some students love Miami’s drinking culture when they first arrive in Oxford, but in time they think twice.

Junior Matt Arvizu compared developing a relationship with alcohol at Miami to the start of a bad marriage, likely to end in divorce and unforeseen consequences.

“At first you’re in the honeymoon phase and everything is amazing,” Arvizu said. “You go out four or five times a week and everything’s great.

But major obstacles loom — the mentality of invincibility; the belief that in a small town like Oxford, “there’s nothing else to do;” the competition among Oxford’s studentcentered bars; and the sheer number of bars that dominate Uptown’s geography.

And then slowly it’ll start to creep up on you, and for me that happened sophomore year. Everything starts to eventually lose its luster and you can never really attain the same high you got the first time you go Uptown and wild out.”

Arvizu believes the emphasis on going Uptown night after night and day-drinking every weekend breeds an atmosphere of competition among students who are already competing in social standing, Greek life and academics.

“Everybody’s trying to one up each other: who can drink the fastest, who can drink the most,” Arvizu said. “Especially if you’re going for daydrinking with Beat the Clock, Broken Clock, etc. You’re just competing with everybody and you’re seeing who can black out faster.”

Searching for solutions

The university and several student organizations are seeking ways to reduce the number of students who binge in Oxford.

But major obstacles loom — the mentality of invincibility; the belief that in a small town like Oxford, “there’s nothing else to do;” the competition among Oxford’s student-centered bars; and the sheer number of bars that dominate Uptown’s geography.

In Ohio, neither a university nor a municipality such as Oxford can regulate bars’ hours or restrict drink specials. Rousmaniere and Alan

Kyger, Oxford’s director of economic development, are lobbying state legislators to grant the town “home rule,” which would allow it to regulate the bars more strictly.

Dean of Students Mike Curme said Oxford’s peculiar population, with 18,500 college students and only 3,500 year-round residents, heightens the impression of a town awash in alcohol.

“The geography of Oxford is very detrimental to us,” Curme said. “You walk one block off of Slant Walk and... you happen to be at the corner of the two highest-density ... drinking establishments in the entire town.”

Curme expressed a great deal of concern for highly visible house parties that take place during the weekends in which 90 percent of the homes in the square mile area are student rentals.

“These parties are highly visible manifestations of this high-risk alcohol consumption that we’re concerned about,” Curme said. “There’s no reason for it to be so highly visible in the front yard: go in the back yard, go in the house and have the party. These parties can’t be open. It can’t be that an 18 year-old student new to the community who knows no one can walk into these parties and find a table full of hard alcohol or a garbage can full of jungle juice and help themselves. ” More importantly, Curme proposed a shift in student attitudes. He asked: “How do we move from ‘work hard, play hard’ to ‘work hard and play smart?’

The idea is to place more accountability on the students to find a solution.

The Interfraternity Council (IFC), Panhellenic Association and Associated Student Government (ASG) have proposed and hosted a variety of initiatives ranging from a Green Beer Day forum to a “Just Call/Good Samaritan Policy” panel.

When Greek rush was approaching in January, seven sororities teamed together to promote safety above all else for new members.

The sororities changed the day on which new members could go out after Bid Day from Monday to Thursday, while older members were instructed not to go out until Wednesday.

The initiative created alternatives to accommodate new members who were uncomfortable in drinking situations. Those alternatives included hosting a speaker or a bowling event, according to junior Katie Greenstone, a sorority member.

But Greenstone said sororities need to learn more about how to care for new members who drink too much.

“As we much as we say, ‘We love these girls, we’re so glad you’re in our sorority,’ we don’t know you,” Greenstone said. “We picked you based upon a couple conversations that we’ve had with you and you picked us, but realistically, we don’t know if you’re a high-risk drinker when we meet you.”

In ASG, Austin Worrell, junior and secretary of governmental relations, created a steering committee that is planning to address Miami’s drinking culture.

One of his objectives is to change sections 105A and 105B in the Student Code of Conduct, which spell out violations for intoxication.

If those provisions are changed, as Wor-

rell hopes, Section 105A would apply to those caught in possession of hard liquor, while Section 105B, a lesser offense, would apply only to those caught with beer or wine.

With the current policy, Worrell said, “a lot of students are going to drink no matter what the policy is.” The changes he’s proposing, he said, may encourage students to drink more safely.

Change comes from the bottom up: ‘It’s on the students’ Despite the administration’s efforts to promote alcohol-free alternatives such as Late Night Miami, or working with student organizations, any change in the culture needs to start with students, Alishio said.

“Students have the ability to do this,” Alishio said, “if enough of them are concerned and recognize that ‘this impacts me.This impacts my ability to live in an environment that isn’t going to put me at risk of sexual assault, getting arrested, driving drunk or falling off a ladder.’”

The problem, according to Chief John Jones of the Oxford Police Department (OPD), is the media and the public pay attention only in the wake of tragedies and high-profile events, particularly Green Beer Day. “Nobody, the media or bigger forces, were paying much attention when we’ve been having these conversations about alcohol all along,” Jones said. “We’ve got this problem of daydrinking, for instance, and the university was meeting with us and the police were stepping up their forces, but nobody was paying attention until we had a tragic death, and then there were hospitalizations and suddenly the microscope is on Miami.”

Jones admits that it’s easy for students to forget the tragedies of the past since they spend only four years in Oxford. But it shouldn’t take a student’s death or dozens of hospitalizations to galvanize students to make a change.

“Cracking down and heightening [police] enforcement can only do so much to change the culture,” Jones said. “It’s not the sole solution to our problem.”

The ultimate cultural shift that needs to take place is to end the pervading sense of invulnerability among Miami students.

“I think it happens at all colleges,” Arvizu said, “but I think it’s exacerbated at Miami because we’re in the middle of nowhere; because there’s nothing else to do except go Uptown, go to parties and just drink.During my freshman year, I went in thinking, ‘Oh I’m invincible, I can be the biggest party animal this college has ever seen.’

Everybody’s feeding off of one another’s excitement for drinking, and eventually it just leads to everybody becoming alcoholics.”

The belief in in one’s invincibility when paired with alcohol is nothing new, but it canmake for deadly consequences, either for oneself or one’s friends.

“The thing is, it doesn’t matter what the school tells us to do, what the policy says, what the rule says or what the law says,” Worrell said “Ultimately, culture is its own animal, and if we want to start changing it...we all have to step up and take an active role in looking out for one another. Regardless of how we choose to behave, we can all choose to care for one another.”

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Addressing alcohol at Miami: Defining the ‘why’ GUEST COLUMN

MIKE CURME

DEAN OF STUDENTS

How Miami’s drinking culture compares to other universities ALCOHOL

TESS SOHNGEN NEWS EDITOR

Over the past months, Miami has gained a reputation for its college drinking behaviors.

Niche, a college ranking website, rated Miami as the number three party school in the country in 2017.

This semester in particular, local media outlets and the university held a microscope over student drinking behaviors at Miami. A campus climate survey was released last month aiming to gauge how Miami students drink and think about alcohol, as well as other campus climate concerns.

But pull back the microscope, and how does Miami stack up against other universities’ drinking behaviors?

Among four-year public universities, Miami ranked within the top six percent nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Clery Report. The national average for four-year public universities was four violations per every 1000 students.

The Clery Report publishes crime reports from all U.S. colleges, reports mandated by the federal Clery Act, also known as the Campus Security Act. These statistics came from the reported number of on-campus crimes and include regional campuses as well as community colleges.

Approximately one in 45 Miami students received a liquor violation in 2015. Miami’s rate for liquor violations doubled that of four-year public universities in Ohio last year: 22 and 11 violations per 1,000 students respectively, excluding regional campuses that reported zero violations.

The national average for fouryear public universities was 4.4 violations per 1,000 students.

Among four-year public universities in Ohio, Miami ranked third highest for liquor violations in 2015. Miami fell just behind Ohio State University’s (OSU) main and Mansfield campuses, with rates of one in 36 students and one in 44 students receiving liquor violations last year, respectively. Ohio University (OU), the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Bowling Green State University (BGSU) also ranked high for liquor violation rates: one in 55 students (OU),

one in 68 students (UC) and one in 90 students (BGSU) had liquor violations last year.

Only 18 of the 53 public fouryear universities in Ohio reported any liquor violations. Among the schools that reported liquor violations, there was an average of 10.8 violations for every 1,000 students. Private schools overall had higher rates of alcohol violations than public schools in Ohio.

These numbers do not tell the whole story, though. They only show who gets caught.

“Those numbers can be influenced by other people, who is reporting them and the policies of the administration,” said Dr. Rose Marie Ward, professor of kinesiology and health at Miami. “Our higher numbers could mean that we’re more efficient here and finding students and writing them up.”

Ward is a member of the Alcohol Coordinating Committee, a group of community, university and student leaders working to assess high-risk alcohol consumption and behaviors, which replaced the Miami University Alcohol Task Force last year. Ward has conducted research on Miami students’ drinking behaviors for several years.

High-risk drinking behaviors like binge drinking were consistently more prevalent at Miami than nationally, according to the 2015 Alcohol Task Force report.

Where 28 percent of students nationally participate in high-risk drinking behaviors, Miami’s rate was 35 percent, or just over onethird of the student population.

The report also found that Miami students reported higher rates of pregaming and alcoholrelated blackouts than national averages. Miami students were also less likely to remain nondrinkers once they arrive on campus than all students nationally.

But how different are Miami’s high-risk drinking behaviors compared to other large and mid-size Ohio universities? According to students from around Ohio, not that different.

“I have visited a few other universities and everyone seems to have a similar drinking culture,” said Chase Frazee, a junior at OSU. On game day at OSU, students will wake up at 6 a.m. to start pre-gaming for the 12 p.m. football game. Frazee, a member

of a fraternity at OSU, said house parties and bars are the most common places students go to drink.

“Drinking is especially accepted and encouraged among Greek life students,” said Frazee.

Victoria Walsh, a member of a sorority at BGSU, said although she has not been to Miami, she had heard from friends that drinking habits are similar to those at BGSU. Parties are often thrown on the weekend by fraternities and sports teams, and students at BGSU often go to house parties before going to the bars, which open their doors to students 18 to 20 years old with a $5 cover, Walsh said.

“We have dollar drink nights offered at our bars Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. So, our drinking culture is pretty strong whether it’s the weekend or not. Almost as many people go out on Thursdays as they would on the weekend,” said Walsh.

“At least with most people I know, binge drinking tends to be pretty common,” said Ben Kehres, a student at UC. “I would say not as many people here drink as often as kids from Miami.”

UC sits in the heart of Clifton, a community that is a fiveminute drive from downtown Cincinnati. Unlike at UC, the bars near Miami tend to be more crowded, Kehres said, who has visited friends at Miami and OSU. “People tend to be a bit more cautious about how much they drink here if they have to walk home because of where we are,” said Kehres of going to bars in Cincinnati.

Similar to Miami in its remoteness, OU also ranked in the top 10 percent nationally for the highest rate of liquor violations. Known for its boozy Halloween parties, each street hosts a block party each weekend after spring break, known as “fest season” in Athens. Emily Makar, junior at OU, thinks the drinking culture at her school is similar to that at Miami.

“Students will make anything a fest,” said Makar. “Athens County had a water main break this year, and people went to the bars, calling it NoH2OFest.”

“I think no matter where you’re at, there’s going to be an underlying culture of binge drinking,” said Kehres.

This has been an unusually emotional semester for our campus, as we have tragically and unexpectedly lost several members of our community. Our grieving stems not just from our own personal sense of loss but through the realization that the world has been deprived of the enormous positive impact these bright and talented people certainly would have had.

Because alcohol played a role in one of these deaths, the university has had much to say about our ongoing efforts to reduce high-risk alcohol consumption in our community. Inevitably, much of this response has focused on “what” we are doing, or “how” we are dealing with the issue, but I would like to shift the focus on the more fundamental question of “why” (nod to Simon Sinek). I respectfully offer these thoughts not from my position as Miami’s sitting dean of students, but as an educator who very intentionally selected Miami as the place to begin my career almost 30 years ago.

In an important sense, Miami’s “why” — and the “why” of education more generally — is to guide individuals toward their life’s purpose. If this goal is achieved, a most virtuous cycle is created, since a purpose-filled life is the core of personal happiness and growth, and concurrently those who act with purpose generate the greatest common good.

Miami attracted me because it was one of the finest institutions in the world in embracing this “why.”

Perhaps our greatest distinction as an institution is our recognition, reward, and celebration of engaging meaningfully with undergraduate students — both inside and outside of the classroom — toward this pursuit of the “why.” Miami creates an environment in which students develop meaningful relationships, not just with faculty, but staff and other students, and with community members — the types of relationships that are essential to discovering purpose.

The foundation of our work as educators is to create and share knowledge, and knowledge is a necessary but insufficient condition for finding purpose. True understanding requires that theories and ideas be meaningfully applied, and experiential learning — having students engage with real problems, with real stakes, for real people — is one of Miami’s hallmarks. Additionally, however, and perhaps most importantly, because of the relationships that develop on our residential campus within our small Oxford community, students have the space to meaningfully reflect on theses experiences, both singularly and in total. This reflection is a critical element in

the pursuit of purpose. While this personal discovery certainly occurs in other environments, our institutional ethos and our Oxford-Miami environment — some organic and some engineered — seems to be an unusually rich petri dish for growing the why.

In such an environment, it is natural and perhaps inevitable that members of our community care deeply about each other. The term love and honor actually does have meaning for us. When one member of our community is successful, our collective mood is elevated. When we lose a member, we mourn.

Every student entering Miami has the potential to change to world for the better. It is a privilege to work in such a positively consequential environment, no matter the role. We are so frequently successful at achieving our why that in my faculty role, my “tough” conversations with students are often related to the difficult decisions they face because of an embarrassment of good options.

But the why is not always achieved, a reality I see much more frequently in my administrative role. In these contexts, as we seek answers to a more profound and more personal set of questions that focus on “how did this happen,” the common thread is almost universally alcohol or other drugs.

Above everything else, it is misuse and addiction that are responsible for preventing our students from realizing their purpose. And while most survive, we inevitably mourn, as they have not been delivered to the “why,” and they, and we, and the world, are worse off.

Starting at new student orientation in the June prior to formally entering our community, we talk with our students about alcohol.

We emphasize and celebrate that over 60 percent of each class enters Miami as a non-drinker. And, together as a community for the first time, we talk with them about another “why” — why we care about their use of alcohol. First, we remind them that we we are educators, and that we would be failing them if we did not teach them respect for the law. But then we go deeper, and for many this will be their introduction to what the phrase “love and honor” really means in our community. We explain that alcohol can both prevent them from achieving their goals, both directly by their own misuse, and indirectly through the consequences associated with the misuse by others. In other words, the answer to the question of why we care about student alcohol use is inexplicably linked to the why of our community: we care because we want nothing to stand in the way of discovering your purpose.

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From the Butler County Coroner: Excessive drinking can be hazardous to your life GUEST COLUMN

DR. LISA MANNIX

BUTLER COUNTY CORONER

In the past few months, there has been a lot of discussion regarding alcohol consumption by college students. I want to take this opportunity to share the possible dangers that I see as the Butler County Coroner. Excessive drinking of alcohol can cause serious shortterm and long-term dangers including the risk of death.

Several factors are involved in consuming excessive alcohol. Who: men and women achieve blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) differently; BAC is also affected by your weight and muscle mass. What: different types of alcohol may affect you differently and alcohol combined with other drugs is particularly dangerous. How: the circumstances

you’re drinking in and rate of consumption can increase the risk of bad outcomes. The faster you drink, the higher your BAC becomes. If you drink too fast, your BAC can spike dangerously high and can continue rising even after you stop drinking.

Alcohol negatively affects your mental and physical functions. Alcohol impairs your judgment, leading to potentially poor decision making. You lose coordination and your reflexes slow down. Your breathing, heartbeat and gag reflex might not work properly.

You can stop breathing, you may choke and your heart rhythm might become irregular.

If your BAC is high enough, these physical functions can stop working, you may pass out, have a seizure or even go into a coma.

If you don’t get medical attention, you could die. And do you really think it’s good for your brain to blackout? Alcohol can cause brain

damage by interrupting neuron function and impairing your memory not just for the time you were drinking but long-term as well.

Drinking alcohol increases your risk of injury and accidents. Falls are common among people consuming alcohol – off the curb, down the stairs or off a balcony. Drugs and alcohol are often factors in fatal motor vehicle crashes involving drivers, passengers and pedestrians. If you vomit from excessive alcohol, you can choke or get vomit in your lungs (yuck!). With judgment and physical movement impaired by alcohol, you may find yourself exposed to unsafe environments leading to hypothermia or drowning. Any of these situations can result in death.

While binge drinking alcohol can lead to a sudden and unexpected death, chronic alcohol use can lead to a slow and miserable death. Virtually every organ system is affected

by alcohol. Over the years alcohol can cause irreversible damage to your brain, liver and heart resulting in memory loss, physical illnesses, hospitalization and eventually death.

As a community, we all can help prevent alcohol-related injuries and deaths. It starts with personal responsibility for each person to know and understand the impact of alcohol before you drink. Once you start drinking your judgment is impaired and your life is at risk. If you or a friend experience adverse effects of acute alcohol use, call 911 and get help immediately. If you or a friend uses alcohol chronically, seek medical and psychological help to prevent further risk. Let’s work together to eliminate alcohol-related visits to the Coroner’s Office.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2017

Jane Doe No More: 5K helps reduce stigma around sexual assault SEXUAL ASSAULT

KELLY BURNS

THE MIAMI STUDENT

The sky was gray on Saturday morning. Wind tugged at the black and blue shirts of the group that stood outside Millett Hall, huddled together against the cold. Katie Harris stood in front of dozens of students and community members and thanked them for being there and supporting her cause, Jane Doe No More.

Carly Traynor, president of Miami’s Active Minds chapter, counted down to the beginning of the event.

“Runners, take your mark… get set… go!” she yelled against the wind.

The group of runners took off at a jog, immediately leaving behind the people walking the 5K. Harris and Traynor stood at the starting line and watched the runners fade into

the distance.

The event can be traced back to one person — Harris. The project coordinator for the psychology department had always been a runner. But just before a marathon last October, she was injured. So instead, she lay on her couch and scrolled through blogs. When she came across one from her running coach, she paused.

He’d had the exact same knee injury as Harris and had been supposed to run on the same day. His post talked about how devastated he was to miss the marathon because he’d been supposed to run for Jane Doe No More.

So Harris started to research this organization. She found that it’s a small nonprofit organization in Connecticut that strives to reduce the stigma around sexual assault, provide resources for survivors and victims and educate people on the topic.

Harris knew she needed to do something with this organization.

It lined up perfectly with how she talked about her own survivorship, as well as her goals to reduce the stigma around sexual assault.

“I always talk about this with a certain degree of casualness,” Harris said. “I do so with intention because I want so badly to normalize conversation about this.”

She knew, almost immediately, that she needed to do a 5K to support Jane Doe No More.

“It was almost like a fate thing that my running would bring me to this,” she said. “Being an athlete is really entwined with my survival.

What you are learning on the roads, the fields, the fitness studio, you’re learning skills you can bring into real life — strength you’re bringing into real life.”

Harris began planning. She reached out to Jane Doe No More, Traynor and the Oxford Police

Department and was met with approval.

On-campus organizations such as Student Counseling Services and ASG got involved as well.

“Especially on a campus, this is something close to everyone’s heart,” Harris said. “It’s happening all the time — it’s happening everyday — and I think that is why it’s so powerful for people.”

Fast forward about five months, and Harris saw all of her planning come to fruition. Through flyers and Facebook posts, Harris caught the attention of Miami students and Oxford community members, runners and non-runners, alike.

Sophomore Riley Christenson was looking for a 5K to run outdoors. When she found one with such a great cause, she decided to sign up.

“We really wanted to do a 5K that was outside, and we thought it was gonna be nice out, but it’s for a re-

ally good cause,” Christenson said.

On the other hand, for junior Naomi Patten, who had only walked 5Ks in the past, sexual assault awareness was a cause that was already close to her heart.

“I’m actually a survivor of sexual assault, so I’m here for me today,” she said. “This is very cool, very cool.”

This was Harris’s first attempt to organize a race. But according to her, it won’t be the last.

“I’ve started to really think about ways I can continue to do this,” she said. “I’d love to do this full time. I think there are organizations like this who could benefit from this, and they don’t even know they can, and people want to help.”

Jane Doe No More’s first event at Miami was a success. But its activity on campus isn’t over yet. The organization will be here on April 11 to talk about reducing the stigma around survivors of sexual assault.

Drake defines and defies his identity with ‘More Life’

Visiting artist finds inspiration through the ampersand

DARSHINI PARTHASARATHY THE MIAMI STUDENT

In addition to her “Well-Traveled Ampersand” exhibit, artist Jennifer Farrell is known for her miniature dollhouse gig posters

ART

WILL GORMAN

THE MIAMI STUDENT

Everyone’s acquainted with the ampersand. You might have even tried to draw it from time to time but can’t get a firm grip on its intricacies. Perhaps you’ve mastered it and plastered it all over your notes. Whatever your relationship, the swirling, symbolic form of “and” is almost everywhere – just check a book, advertisement or your professor’s PowerPoint.

When Chicago-based artist Jennifer Farrell came to campus last week, she brought with her a slew of different portrayals of the ampersand. These portrayals were characterized by their font and features, as well as the distinct designs and patterns contained within them.

“It’s ubiquitous,” Farrell said of the ampersand. “People love it.

You know what it is, even [if] it’s in a different typeface.”

What makes Farrell’s work unique, though, is how she creates it. She practices letterpress printing, a process of printing images similar to that of a printing press.

Farrell is the principal designer and printer for Starshaped Press in Chicago. She has been crafting letterpress art full-time since 2001, designing everything from wedding invitations to business cards to event posters.

“Anything that can possibly be printed in short quantities is something that I probably have done,” Farrell said.

Farrell’s “Well-Traveled Ampersand” exhibit officially opened in the Wertz Art & Architecture Library last Wednesday. The

exhibit features a collection of ampersands from different fonts and typefaces, featuring designs inspired by cities such as London and Milan and cultures such as that of the Maori people.

Farrell’s favorite ampersand print of hers is the “Cooper Black” print, depicting Chicago inside the ampersand of the Cooper Black font, made popular by Chicago type designers in the 1920s.

Farrell constructed the forms for each ampersand by hand, using old-fashioned materials in a process she said was intense.

“There’s no digital part to it,” Farrell said. “I like being able to work with my hands. I like the form and structure [of letterpress].”

Although Farrell created the forms, the designs for her ampersand prints came from different artists.

“After I first compiled a list of designs, I realized it was a list of dead white men,” Farrell said. “I said to myself, ‘well, I just can’t have that.’” She scrapped the initial list and sought out the designs of contemporary artists from locations such as India and the Netherlands.

Miami graphic design professor Erin Beckloff brought Farrell, a longtime friend, to campus as a part of the ART 281 lecture series. ART 281 is a one-credit hour class requiring students to attend one lecture by a visiting artist each Thursday evening. Farrell’s visit eventually broadened into a series of on-campus events, including the exhibit in Wertz, as well as a “brown bag lunch talk” in King Library at the suggestion of King’s curator of special collections Carly Sentieri.

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SAM KEELING

THE MIAMI STUDENT

To be a pop trendsetter is to have the weight of an industry on your back. Music’s biggest pop stars — Taylor Swift, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry—have been taking huge amounts of time crafting new albums, fighting against the tide of copycats and determining which sonic trends are simply fads or the next big thing. Drake doesn’t have that problem. His new albums are almost an annual affair, each release breaking streaming records and amassing hordes of fans.

It’s interesting, then, that the Canadian music titan rarely enters conversations as a pop star. Ask a college student who their favorite rappers are, and Drake is liable to pop up most of the time. This is a categorization that the musician himself disapproves of. In a recent interview, he said, “The only category that they can manage to fit me in is in a rap category, maybe because I’ve rapped in the past or because I’m black.”

There’s not enough space to discuss his (correct) assumption that genres tend to separate white musicians and those of color. But Drake’s maneuver into the world of pop music is completed with “More Life,” a lengthy, colorful, self-described “playlist” that blends global traditions into a sleek, contemporary package.

After the massively popular yet bloated “Views,” “More Life” feels like exactly what the title suggests: a lively and dynamic release that ebbs and flows, switching between different Drake personas with ease. The stretch of songs from “Passionfruit” to “Skepta Interlude” is perhaps the

most consistently great in his entire catalogue, full of Afro-Caribbean flare and driving house beats accompanying Drake’s trademark Autotuned croon.

Don’t worry about losing the Drake that many have come to love.

That sad-sack persona continues to mourn about failed relationships and fake friends. The epitome of such heartbreak is “Teenage Fever,” which chronicles his failed relationship with Jennifer Lopez by sampling her love song, “If You Had My Love,” pitching it down and placing it over gnashing synths and teetering drum machine.

Even though “More Life” offers moments like these, there’s still plenty of big trap-infused tracks, including a guest list that’s a veritable who’s who of stars, like Young Thug, Travis Scott, Migos’ Quavo and Kanye West. In that way, it’s truly like a playlist because it never feels as repetitive as works like “Views.” It’s his most experimental, adventurous release since he found his successful sound with 2013’s “Nothing Was the Same.”

While the A-list guests are fine, the best collaborations on “More Life” come from lesser-known artists. It seems that Drake has taken a keen interest in British music; songstress Jorja Smith gets her own interlude and a highlighted feature on “Get It Together,” and excellent electro-soul singer Sampha—whose debut album “Process” is one of the best of the year—writes and sings the entirety of “4422.”

Perhaps more interestingly, Drake intersperses influences from grime, the underground British rap-electronic fusion that has never stuck in America. Two tracks feature grime

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artist Giggs, and the genre’s overlord Skepta gets his own interlude.

Drake’s solo tracks like “Free Smoke” even take some characteristics from the genre. This kind of exposure— coupled with the budding success of Stormzy—could mean that grime could enter America’s hip-hop soundscape.

And this example may perfectly encapsulate the spirit of “More Life;” While calling it a playlist seems innocuous at first, its accuracy slowly reveals itself. Clocking in at over 20 tracks and 80 minutes, it’s hard to make it through a single, concentrated listen. Like the best playlists, it excels at capturing a mood, accentuating it for a few songs and then shifting tone. It also grabs the big names for attention but puts a focus on smaller acts that deserve a seat among the greatest.

While this is definitely pop music in the sense that there’s hardly anyone bigger than Drake, “More Life” works to expand upon American pop and hip-hop as much as the artist himself avoids “rapper” categorization. Operating under the constraints of genre labels that are essentially meaningless and malleable, he still doesn’t fit any discernable label.

In fact, Drake’s best quality is not as a pop or rap star, but as a trendsetter. As a radio host and record label founder, he is a taste maker, brand and platform in a way that most other pop stars could only dream of becoming. Thanks to “More Life,” everything from Sampha to grime could be recognized by mainstream American audiences. It seems like— for Drake, at least—the pop album really is dead. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

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“I’ve been teaching letterpress for seven years,” Beckloff said.

“So I wanted students to be able to connect with a real printer.”

At the ART 281 lecture, Farrell discussed her career history, inspirations and process of creating her work. “[The lecture] was really enlightening,” said freshman fashion design major Kennedy Hettlinger. “My mom is actually a print broker, so she’s kind of struggled with keeping business going since everything has gone digital. So, to hear [Farrell’s] perspective on keeping print and art alive is just really inspiring.”

During the lunch talk last Wednesday, Farrell spoke about her assortment of dollhouse gig posters, event posters printed on paper small enough to fit into a dollhouse.

“It was kind of a joke against the screen printing world in Chi-

cago because they make these massive posters, but letterpress is much better for smaller formats,” Beckloff said.

According to visiting librarian Lori Chapin, Farrell’s ampersand collection is the first collection by an artist to be showcased in the Art & Architecture library.

Chapin hopes to have more in the future.

“It’s exciting to see somebody come in with such neat stuff,” she said. “I’m excited to use the art library for more exhibit space.

This is the stepping stone to doing that.”

Chapin hopes that the library space can be a space for students to showcase their work as well.

“If [people] have anything they’d like to be shown, I encourage them to contact us,” Chapin said. “There’s a lot of potential for great collaboration.”

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Cutouts from fashion magazines scatter the walls. A light board softly brightens a dimly lit bedroom. Dozens of professional quality, handdrawn illustrations of people and emotions clutter the desk, floor and walls. And the sound of electronic music blares from the speakers on the wall.

This is the workspace that gives Michael Fredericks the inspiration and motivation to draft yet another page of his script for the feature length film, “Secret Scientist Society.”

Michael moved from one Oxford (Oxford, Michigan) to another, immediately enrolling in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Miami. He’s also working toward minors in creative writing and fashion.

Michael lives and breathes art, through both interest and necessity. If he isn’t spending his time designing clothing, finding new work music or brainstorming ideas for his other projects, he’s creating new sketches to hang on the wall.

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For him, art takes on a more meaningful persona. Michael has battled with ADHD and other emotional struggles in life. Looking for a way to cope, he found art to be the most effective method.

Currently, Michael spends his days toiling away on his final project — a 150-page movie script for his media and culture capstone course.

The students were free to choose what their movie script would be about, and the one Michael’s group chose — one of the five concepts he came up with — has allowed him to push his creative limits in a new medium.

The plot wraps space travel, Mars colonization, environmentalism and a powerful technological device all into one.

Richard, the group leader of the secret society, recruits new members who help him build the “planet killer,” a device that will blow up Mars, ending all life there to prevent colonization.

Neither this film, nor Michael, will be seen at the Oscars, though.

Instead, Michael hopes to pursue a career in personal communications within the fashion or media industry.

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The way to a reader’s heart is easy. Much like film buffs who gush over movies about filmmaking, devoted readers will melt in the palm of the author that can write well about their own relationship with words, stories and authors.

In author Yiyun Li’s new memoir, “Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life,” authors like Katherine Mansfield, Stefan Zweig, William Trevor, Marianne Moore and Ivan Turgenev are Li’s characters, and readers need not be familiar with their works to experience them vicariously through Li’s elegant but direct prose.

In “Dear Friend,” Li presents an achingly honest account of her struggles with depression and suicidal ideation, but it’s her musings on those writers and their books and journals and letters that color that despair, turning desperation into contemplation.

Born and raised in Beijing, Li originally came to the United States when she was in her twenties to pursue a Ph.D. in immunology.

Though Li abandoned labs for libraries when she decided to pursue writing, her diction belies a continued commitment to the scientific process. She selects her words with the precision of a neurosurgeon.

There is a possibility, Li mentions on several occasions, that she might never have taken up writing. And though both her naturally lyrical tone and genuine passion for language and literature make it difficult to imagine a universe in which Li wouldn’t find her way into the writer’s life, those reminders of that possible impossibility of her writing

career affirm one of Li’s main points — real people, rather than fictional characters, defy absolute definition.

Li, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has authored four major works of fiction, to immediate success. Her first, “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award and California Book Award.

“Dear Friend” is Li’s first foray into nonfiction, and she refers frequently throughout the work to her conscious avoidance of autobiography.

In “Dear Friend,” Li merely alludes to her life’s events with flashes that tease with their narrative potential — her year in the Chinese military, her complex relationship with her mother, her hospitalizations for suicidal ideation — but Li’s aversion to autobiography seems to consistently hinder her own work of memoir. But, as Li herself writes of autobiographical writing, “what is revealed and what is concealed expose equally.”

Though Li’s omissions are telling of the author’s own complex feelings about herself and her memories, less restraint in the narrative aspects of the book would have improved “Dear Friend” as a work of memoir.

Told in eight sections of varying lengths, the structure of the piece is fluid, the themes of each section mingling with the next and the next, but this fluidity, combined with the density of some of Li’s more philosophical musings, fails to take the reader through a clear beginning, middle or end.

However, Li is the master of the standout sentence. Whereas most authors can artfully drop a line or two that warrants an underline,

a scribble in the margin or a dogeared page, it’s difficult to read two pages of Li’s “Dear Friend” without feeling compelled to take out a pen and take notes.

The fluidity and lack of cohesive structure almost make that pull to hold on to her poignant declarations stronger, as if they’re likely to get lost in Li’s sometimes dreamy and meandering prose if you don’t hold on tight.

The book is neither uplifting nor life-affirming and most likely best enjoyed by readers who, when faced with ambiguous questions and illusion-shattering observations, feel intrigue rather than anxiety.

Li’s “Dear Friend” does not give many, if any, answers, even to the two existential questions which the book jacket pegs as its primary inquiries: why write and why live?

The message of the book overall is murky, like the blending blue and gray watercolors of its cover. But coming up with answers wasn’t really Li’s point, anyway.

As Li writes in the book’s first chapter, she had a notion that this book would be a way to assay thoughts about time. Assays in science are a means of “endless exploration” — questions that lead to more questions without any real solutions. It is elusive and maybe futile she admits “to write about a struggle within the struggling.”

As Li’s title suggests, “Dear Friend” is much less about finding answers to the questions which plagued Li’s mind in her years of despair, and not even so much about story or memory, but much more about bridging that chasm between one life and another so, in the end, it can be said: “Dear friend, we have waited this out.”

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College students will remember with nostalgia the days of popping in their favorite Disney movie on VHS tape. Favorites might include the magic of “Sleeping Beauty,” the fierceness of “Mulan” or the elegance of “Cinderella.” On April 5, these regal beauties will undergo a serious change in the production of “Disenchanted.”

Regarded as “funny and a touch wicked” by The Huffington Post, “Disenchanted” is a humorous hit musical in which the beloved Disney princesses undertake a sassy, spirited makeover.

“I personally think it will be hilarious and a great night to bring your friends and just have fun with,” said Ellie Witter, assistant director of Miami’s Performing Art Series, which is bringing the

musical to campus. “I think it’s an opportunity for students to laugh and enjoy world-class entertainment.”

The idea for the show was conceived by Dennis Giacino, a former history teacher. When teaching a lesson about colonial settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, he began to wonder what the real Pocahontas would have thought about her portrayal in the 1995 Disney movie. From there, he began to reimagine other Disney princesses and how their stories could be modernized, and he wrote songs to tell the stories.

The show has received great acclaim around the country, being performed in major cities such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago.

In the tradition of inspiring little girls around the world, the Disney princesses in “Disenchanted” send a strong message of support

to women everywhere. “‘Disenchanted’ is a really fun and funny satire on Disney princesses, with a terrific message of empowerment for all women,” said Patti Liberatore, director of the Performing Arts Series. “So it is definitely a must-see show for the ladies of Miami.”

Characters in the show include Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Mulan, Belle and other classic Disney princesses.

Despite its seemingly innocent characters from wholesome films, “Disenchanted” imposes a bit of a raunchy spin on the classics. Due to the vulgar content, the program is not recommended for children under age 14.

The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Hall Auditorium. Tickets are available at the cost of $24 for adults, $23 for seniors and $12 for students and children.

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cause that Kaepernick stood for, he believed that Kaepernick had “too much hostility in his output.” However, he did admire the direction that Kaepernick took and believed that the situation ended up creating a conversation that has caused more good than harm.

Abdul-Jabbar also expressed his displeasure for the current trend of one-and-done players in college basketball. He believed that, again, the idea of higher education and a college degree are being devalued in the eyes of young African Americans.

“If I hadn’t pursued an education, I would not have had anything to do outside of professional basketball,” he said.

When prompted asked about his conversion to Islam and his opinions on the current perceptions of the religion, Adbul-Jabbar again adopted an open-minded view. His views on religion centered around humanitarian ideologies, and he did not believe

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that religion was a matter of race.

“Islam does not teach us to murder and kill,” he said. “We’ve seen what distorted versions of Islam can cause. [...] All kinds of people go to heaven and hell.”

After cracking a couple of sly jokes about our current political climate, Abdul-Jabbar addressed the role that race has come to play in politics. He stressed the importance of speaking up when slighted and of understanding one’s worth regardless of one’s upbringing.

When many students expressed their displeasure with the lack of diversity on Miami’s campus, Abdul-Jabbar encouraged them to mingle with students who may not appear to share their same values.

“Make a friend that doesn’t look TYLER PISTOR THE MIAMI STUDENT like you,” he said. “That’s a smart Former NBA star and lifelong scholar, Abdul-Jabbar discussed social issues with an emphasis on race, religion, and his thing to do.” experiences as a civil rights activist.

Though Abdul-Jabbar has experienced racial discrimina- the conversation. swered easily: “Just find out who and applauded as Abdul-Jabbar tion firsthand and was on a firstAs Abdul-Jabbar’s lecture drew needs help and ask. The whole walked off the stage — as inconname basis with some of the most to a close, a student asked him for idea of success is asking questions spicuously as a seven-foot-two prominent civil rights leaders of advice on finding success as a mi- and knowing what needs to be global icon could. his time, his answers largely fo- nority in today’s world. dealt with.” cused on showing both sides of Abdul-Jabbar smiled and anThe 750-person audience stood

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He received the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. The book was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was a worldwide bestseller published in more than twenty languages. It is widely considered the definitive text on depression.

Acclaimed as a revolutionary feat of journalism, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children & the Search for Identity, is an examination of the means by which families accommodate children with physical, mental, and social disabilities and how these unusual situations can be invested with love. Andrew spent ten years researching the book, interviewing more than 300 families, and generating more than 40,000 pages of notes. NPR called the book “a work of genius” and Vanity Fair said, “Andrew Solomon’s empathy, heart, and vast intelligence are in abundance in Far from the Tree.” His latest book is a collection of essays examining his years of international travel titled Far and Away.

A regular contributor to NPR, The New York Times and many other publications, Andrew is an outspoken activist and philanthropist for many causes in LGBT rights, mental health, education and the arts. He is the founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University and is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University.

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five finalists for the John R. Wooden Award, given to the nation’s top player.

Miami’s community is eager to see positive results, basketball fans are ready to watch the RedHawks compete and the men’s basketball team looks forward to establishing relationships with their new coach.

Owens directed his eagerness to members of the team present at the conference.

“I’m looking forward to getting here and getting going and making Miami basketball one of the better programs in the Midwest,” he said. “Thank you to the players as well for coming out. It means a lot to have you guys here. I’m looking forward to building a relationship with you guys and

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doing something special. But it’s going to all start with hard work. And that’s what I’m about. I’m looking forward to meeting all of you guys and moving forward.”

Before Purdue, Owens was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for five years at Southern Illinois University. Before that, he was an assistant coach at Eastern Illinois University, Barton Community College and Howard Community College, with a year at each institution.

He played basketball throughout college at Murray State University, Howard Community College and Eastern Illinois. During his two years at EIU, Owens served as team captain his senior year and earned team MVP and the Outstanding Defensive Player honor – all testaments to his character.

“You go through life and you realize that people that work hard, people that are dedicated, people who don’t chase jobs, but people that just do their work and let their work stand for them — good things happen to those people,” Sayler said. “That’s really what I think today is all about with Jack for us.”

Owens said he is looking forward to raising his family in Oxford, using Miami’s athletic facilities and hiring assistant coaches. He also plans to create a defensive team identity that aims to limit opponents’ opportunities for runs, while traveling up and down the court offensively.

“I can tell this place is the right place for me, it’s the right time for me and the people here are great,” Owens said.

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and 200 steals.

She won a gold medal at the 2005 World University Games and was the 31st pick in the 2006 WNBA draft. Duffy played three seasons with the Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty. She also played overseas with teams in Romania, Slovakia, Italy and Wales.

With Duffy’s diverse background and history of success, the Miami community turns to her to revitalize a struggling program.

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much determination and desire to be at practice each and every day, which has really been awesome to see.”

Last year, this determination culminated in a third-place finish. The team is looking to repeat or beat that standing this year.

Ally Vaughan has been watching and waiting for her chance to compete at Nationals for five years. As a freshman, she struggled with MUDT’s style of dance. But she’s now earned one of 18 spots on the Nationals team.

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more Brock Downey took second with a six-foot three-inch long jump.

The women sprinters took victories in the 400-meters, 200-meters, 100-meter hurdles, and 400-meter hurdles. Freshman Olivia Bechtel won two events with a 55.99 seconds 400-meters and a 24.73 seconds 200-meters.

Senior Lauren Hoover and freshman Claire Linn went second and third in the 1500-meters. Hoover ran in four minutes and 46 seconds and Linn followed in four minutes and 47 seconds.

The javelin throwers went one through three in their event, led by sophomore Danielle Collier. Freshmen Cailyn Etgen and Hannah Falcione went second and third in the long jump with jumps of 17-feet and seven-inches and 17-feet and six-inches.

Senior Arionna Darling’s toss of 48-feet

Wright coached the RedHawks to go 11-21 this past season — the most wins the team saw during Wright’s four years at Miami. The women’s basketball program hasn’t seen success past the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament since the 2012-13 season. The team hasn’t competed in the NCAA tournament since 2007-08, when it lost in the first round.

Duffy will be officially introduced to the Miami community today at a press conference at 11 a.m. The conference is free and open to the public at the Gross Center.

gether all the time so it’s more than just a dance team,” she said. “It’s gotten a little bit easier, and it’s a lot of fun. I love it.”

For the past 27 days, the 27 MUDT members have taken turns offering words of advice and motivation. Over the course of the next four days MUDT will attempt to channel a love for dance and a year’s worth of hard work into two minutes and 14 seconds of perfection.

“The biggest thing is going to be once we get off the stage breathing that deep breath and saying, ‘we really did this,’” Osowski said. “And feeling that accomplishment for all of the hard work.”

and one-inch was good for second place.

“I have a mark for the outdoor season and ready to keep moving forward and progressing in my throws,” Darling said.

Outside of Oxford, junior Ben Metzger ran a 10-kilometer personal best in 30:51 which took home first at the Oliver Nikoloff Open on Friday.

Zack McBride took 10th in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Stanford Invitational in nine minutes and 32 seconds.

Andrew Dusing dropped major time in the five-kilometer race at the San Francisco State University Distance Carnival with 14:10 -- a 14 second personal record.

Dusing was pleased with “starting off on the right foot” and his teammates’ performances as well.

The full team will be back together at the University of Alabama for the Crimson Tide Invitational. The two-day event starts on Friday, April 7.

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Alcohol issues demand attention even after major incidents The following piece, written by the opinion editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

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his issue, The Miami Student published a special section on the drinking culture at Miami University, ranging from an analysis of the numbers behind drinking at Miami to a column from the Butler County Coroner who had the task of investigating the death of a Miami student due to alcohol consumption at the beginning of this semester.

As most members of the Oxford community know, the issue of alcohol abuse has been the talk of the town this semester, especially following the death of first-year Erica Buschick, numerous student hospitalizations from drinking and the amped-up police presence in Oxford on Green Beer Day. Right now, we are experiencing a brief lull in the frequency of alcohol related incidents.

In the past, this is when media coverage of Miami’s drinking problem has stopped — ours included.

It is a mistake to believe that the dust has settled, that because there hasn’t been a glaring accident in the past X number of days, the problem has gone away.

Miami’s alcohol abuse is chronic.

As reported in this issue, Rose Marie Ward, professor of kinesiology and health

Without regular confrontation of the problems at hand, nothing about this situation will change.

at Miami, cited in her interview a Harvard College alcohol survey, which found that, nationally, 42 percent of college students admitted to binge-drinking in the 30 days prior to being surveyed. At Miami, the statistic was closer to 60 percent. In another survey, over a quarter of Miami students polled admitted to binge-drinking three or more times in the past two weeks, compared to 14 percent of college students nationally.

These figures show that drinking attitudes at Miami are not normal. Those who believe that ‘this is just the way it is’ are contributing to the legitimization of an unsustainable, destructive culture. It is far too easy for members of the Miami community to avoid looking in the mirror when such excuses arise.

Miami may not be the worst school out there, and yes, elements of the drinking culture here are present at other similar schools in the region and the country. But when the discussion is reduced to a ranking of schools instead of a comprehensive look at what is going on here and what the consequences of extensive alcohol abuse are, it distorts the public’s view of what the real issue is and should be: the safety and health, long-term and short-term, of our students.

Even if Miami were at the national average, this issue would continue to demand our attention; the fact that Miami students are signifcantly above the national average for binge-drinking rates makes it that much more pressing.

This issue not only demands the attention of all students, but of media organizations in the area, including this one, that have a tendency to only scratch the surface of this issue or only cover the symptoms and not the cause. The administration as well must be willing to routinely make alcohol abuse and binge-drinking a priority to tackle.

In a previous editorial this semester, the staff put the responsibility of controlling drinking issues on the students that are putting themselves and others at risk with their behavior. This message is still true, but it is one that has the potential to be forgotton unless those that have the power to speak up in a meaningful manner do so regularly and with serious intent.

Without regular confrontation of the problems at hand, nothing about this situation will change. Looking away from this issue when the circumstances afford it may be the comfortable route but, in the longrun, averting our eyes will prolong the deadly cycle we are currently entrenched in.

Ask Angela: BFFs can settle differences RELATIONSHIPS

Dear Angela, My best friend from home and I got in a blowout fight over winter break because she found out that I got coffee with her ex-boyfriend at school (completely platonically). It’s a really messy situation; they broke up last spring, and she accused him of things I know he didn’t really do (or at least, not to the degree she’s been telling everyone). I was friends with him too when they were together, and I knew he was struggling at school so I offered to meet up and talk. I knew my friend would be mad if she found out so I kept it from her, but of course she found out.

We haven’t talked since January, and I feel bad for hurting her feelings, but I didn’t do anything to intentionally spite her. I miss talking to her, but I also think she’s being irrationally angry about this — we just talked at the library over coffee, and I haven’t seen him since. Should I reach out to her or wait for her to come to me?

Sincerely, Kinda sad but mostly over it -Dear Kinda sad but mostly over it, This situation has more layers than a cake, an onion and Shrek combined. I’m going to just do a deep dive here and break my thoughts down into three parts: my interpretation of said friend’s reaction, what I think of it and what I think you should do from here.

As I’ve said before, I’m a pretty cool sloth. It takes a lot to really get under my skin. Most of the time I just hang around in a tree in a constant state of chill and look at the world from my branch.

But I have to admit, if I saw my best friend talking to my ex-boyfriend in any setting without context, I would be fucking pissed and I’d probably fall right out of my tree onto my ass.

There are several reasons why I get where your friend is coming from. The break-up is still probably very fresh in her mind. There’s clearly something that went on between them that has deeply affected her.

You’re her best friend. The lingering concept of “Girl Code.”

And while I understand her reaction and can sympathize with your friend’s anger, I think it’s bullshit because of one 12-letter word: circumstance. The circumstances of this entire situation are pretty unique: you were friends with The Ex for about as long as your BFF. He was struggling in school.

It’s not like you were sexing him up for weeks over text and sending him snaps of you with that crap-

tastic dog filter that every basic uses.

You reached out to him from a place of genuine concern. You reached out to him as a friend.

Again, without context, I can understand your friend’s initial anger.

And the only thing I can really comment on here is that you didn’t tell her and that’s probably why she’s most angry.

I can almost guarantee that your friend would be a lot less upset if you had been honest with her about reaching out to her ex and getting coffee with him. You would’ve been able to explain yourself, explain your reasoning, with minimal blow-up fighting. I’ve found that in life, it’s always best to simply be honest. Even if it’s harder, even if the truth tastes like acid on your tongue -- honesty is the best policy, all the time, no exceptions.

And she’s your best friend. You should have given her some kind of courtesy warning or simple heads up text about what was going on. Not that she needs a full-fledged explanation as to why, but so she knows that you’ve got nothing to hide.

But you can’t turn back the hands of time so now you have to deal with the mess before you.

If I know a thing or two about friend feuds – and I think I do – I can tell you that everything is going to work itself out.

There’s no reason why something like this should be friendship-ending. She’s upset now, semi-understandably so. But there’s no reason you two can’t work through this.

You clearly want to and despite your friend’s anger, I’m sure she does too – friendships are made to be resilient and withstand conflicts like this.

Look at Tia and Tamara. Lucy and Ethel. Daphne and Velma. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

You think these iconic female duos don’t have their fair share of problems? Of course they do. But they worked through them and came out on top. Fighting over petty shit like this does nothing.

She’s had about three months to think about all this, to take the facts, let them sink in and process. If her hissy fit isn’t over yet, then give her more time to cool off, but don’t hesitate to reach out to her. Best friends are best friends.

Even after I fight with my two best friends for a week, stop talking to them and hang on to my petty anger, I always know – deep down – that if I really need anything, he and she are only a phone call away.

Give your friend a ring. You two need to talk about this kind of stuff.

Even if it’s hard.

Best, Angela TMSASKANGELA@GMAIL.COM

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Arrests, fines don’t target party culture DRINKING

CARLY BERNDT COLUMNIST

A mere few weeks ago on the holiest 24 hours of the academic year (Green Beer Day, in case you needed clarification), I joined a group of green-dyed, shamrock-clad 20-somethings in a mass exodus down a back alley, strolling quite leisurely to the nearest OPD-free party, a task that required nothing more than checking a file saved in my phone under the name “Green Beer Day Party Schedule.”

While pretending to be en route to my French 201 class, I witnessed an all too familiar scene involving a middle-aged man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and an underage boy with an unfortunate case of baby-face and a can of Natural Light; man sees boy, boy looks at every individual blade of grass while hustling away, man asks boy for his ID, boy immediately begins to mentally envision the impending phone call to his parents.

The funniest thing about this story is not the look on the kid’s face when the badge came out and the cuffs went on, but rather the fact that I saw that same exact boy later that evening. He was 1) drunk, 2) still 18 years old, 3) still baby-faced and 4) entirely unconcerned with his earlier arrest, as well as with the potential to be arrested again.

A week or two before this incident, a friend of mine called me to ask if the restaurant I work at is hiring, and when I asked him why he told me he had been cited for underage drinking and needed a way to pay for the citation expenses and potential legal fees.

Though I was already fully aware that underage drinking charges did not tend to result in a total behavior overhaul, it was at this point I learned that underage drinking charges are usually not met with an orange jumpsuit, but rather met with

a court date and a real hefty fine–a fine that, according to The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Liquor Control, can end up totalling $1,000, excluding legal fees.

To those reading this who are either much luckier, more financially responsible or older than I am, $1,000 probably does not seem like the end of the universe – which is understandable. However, to illustrate what a $1,000 loss means to most 20-somethings, asking me to pay you a grand is the equivalent of me cutting off your legs and asking you to run a marathon 20 minutes later.

Now that it has been established that underage drinking can potentially be very expensive, I would like to ask a favor of my readers – think back to a time where you or someone you know said, “I am not going to get drunk and go out tonight because I am afraid of being caught.”

I’m sure if one were to look hard enough, they would find someone who could genuinely answer “yes” to that proposed circumstance – however, I am not really focused on those people, because the people who aren’t going to go out one weekend because they heard the cop presence was going to be heavy do not represent the bulk of our student population.

The act of handing out thousands of dollars worth of underage drinking citations itself is not particularly aggravating; at the end of the day, I am still drinking a MadTree Red IPA right now and that’s still illegal.

The infuriating part of this situation is much deeper and much more multifaceted than simply “broke college kids who can’t/don’t want to pay to play.” The infuriating part lies within the fact that the student body is consistently scrutinized by the media for our drinking habits and drinking culture, yet instead of OPD, City of Oxford and the University actually working to provide solid, enjoyable

alternatives to partying they simply hand out fines and court dates and turn the other cheek.

Part of this issue seems to be a result of the overall reluctance to accept that Miami, in addition to being a lot of other things, is a party school; our student body is predominantly white, affluent, and our school is located in the middle of classic Ohio corn fields.

While I do not personally think there is any shame in being a “party school,” the failure of the authorities and the administration to offer alternatives to partying that fit their student body is a direct result of this aforementioned reluctance; the kid who would otherwise have passed out drunk wearing nothing but their shoes is not going to choose free skate at Goggin over a night out Uptown, and it is time the university accepts that.

Regardless of whether or not you personally believe the drinking culture here needs to change, the administration and authorities’ decision to take the financially appealing route of going after underage drinking by handing out tickets, filling quotas and calling it a day does nothing to change the drinking culture at Miami.

Rather, this decision leaves our phenomenal student body and school in a position where we are portrayed poorly and unfairly by the media for behavior that, all-in-all, is pretty typical state-school behavior.

Miami is a rigorous, reputable institution of higher education. It also happens to be a pretty substantial party school. While I am not sure of the exact ways in which to effectively address the drinking culture at Miami, I do know that handing out citations and denying Miami’s status as a party school is not the way to do it.

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Breaking out of the four-year-long beer commercial CONSUMERISM

KYLE HAYDEN COLUMNIST

Are not the activities of most people Sitting and Watching?

This is not limited to screens, though the primary form of Watching and Sitting comes through the form of the screen or from a car window. A “screen” could be any kind of mediation: a separation between the being (human) and environment (reality).

Vacation this year, although lovely by any normal measure, was framed foremost by the recognition that reality is off limits; nothing anywhere is particularly of any use unless you can access spaces or substances (food) by forking out some money. No contribution is likely. No intervention is possible anywhere.

Freedom means you can do anything you like as long as it has no real impact. Buy and Sell.

Sit and Watch.

Our chief activity as a species in public is now shopping together. When I go somewhere, I can’t actually do anything with the materials there. I cannot take care of anything, grow anything or build anything. Most spaces are off limits; the world has become a museum with “DO NOT TOUCH” signs everywhere. I don’t mean the destruction

caused by driving an automobile down the road should be regarded as “an intervention.” The “choice” of driving on any particular road is not a choice at all and is essentially determined before one even begins. Driving is not freedom; movement should not even be considered freedom if one doesn’t have the capacity for meaningful and direct experience with reality once one gets wherever one is going. That’s why every place is indistinguishable from the next apart from some vestigial geography of the previous centuries and millennia. All that seems to change are the numbers on interstate exit signs.

Civic life, and with it “civilized” life in the United States and elsewhere (vacations to Europe are not exempt from the tendency to Sit and Watch) has been and will continue to be reduced to the mediation of shopping together. Is this freedom? This stems more than likely from the idea (rather, the unquestioned assumption) that consumption is the reason for living. After all, do we not measure the success of nations in Gross Domestic Product? The locus of control and fear through the measure of success and attainment founded in the accumulation of toys and the ability to spend money is seen in the increasing use of personal home security systems, gated communities and prisons.

Where everything is always in danger of being pillaged.

The future for young people is seen more as a series of cages; you might be able to buy a slightly bigger cage (house), or get a wellscented one, or a cage in a neat spot with a good view, but it is still a cage.

A recent image shared widely among people in my age group featured a person of college age sitting at a table in formal clothing, at a job interview. The above-caption read, “Why do you think you are a good fit for this position?” Their reply: “I’ve always been passionate about not starving to death.”

Zygmunt Bauman was more on target when he wrote that we are “for now, invalids watching life from the hospital windows.”

Reduced to watching our lives pass before us on screens, it’s no wonder students think work is sitting behind a computer, moving pixels around with a cursor.

The reason why people choose to get “wasted” — sometimes to death — knowing this is the kind of future awaiting them is not even a matter that needs to be discussed any further.

Even if one isn’t drinking to blackout three days a week, shopping for alcohol and shopping for people’s bodies (what they call “hook up culture”) occupies their “free time.”

The remaining time is spent ensuring that one will be able to secure employment upon graduation, assumedly to keep the party rolling. Any threat to this non-stop party seems like the apocalypse. To become responsible, careful, contemplative or reflective is seen as a threat to their “way of life.”

Certainly “our standard of living” can continue to be upheld (through force or otherwise) for many years, and it most likely will.

It is for young people to decide whether they want to continue living an utterly empty existence of putting waste heat into the atmosphere for fun; or find something to do that won’t make any money for Deloitte, Lockheed-Martin or Facebook.

In Huxley’s novel “Brave New World”, the “simple lifers” were a group of people mentioned in passing in chapter 3. The consumer society depicted in the novel required the participation of everyone in order to maintain its smooth operation. It could not tolerate those who refused to participate. The simple lifers, it can be inferred, were people who chose to eke out an austere existence in the country. It bears noting that these people were exterminated.

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Be warned: Your internet privacy is always up for sale POLITICS

LUKE SCHROEDER COLUMNIST

My smartphone, nearing two years of age, is starting to degrade in usability. It constantly overheats, applications open sluggishly and, most annoyingly, battery life has eroded to almost nothing. Naturally, I have begun to research my options for replacement. A few days ago, I did a simple Google search for comparisons of the newest offerings from Apple and Samsung. Since then, I have been bombarded with advertisements from both brands; they appear on nearly every webpage I visit.

Most of you have probably noticed similar activity on your own computers; your advertisements mostly reflect products you have researched in the past. Google, using our search histories, knows what products we are interested in buying. They take full advantage of their knowledge by selling our information to advertisers. We all seem to believe Google is free to use, but this is simply not the case.

We pay dearly with our privacy.

Statista indicates that Google raked in $79.38 billion in advertising revenue in 2016 alone. Facebook, another company heavily revenue-dependent on advertisements, collected $26.89 billion in advertisement rev-

enue during the same year. Obviously, this business strategy of targeted advertisement is very lucrative for Google, Facebook and companies like them; this strategy is here to stay.

Alarmingly, this privacy infringement is growing.

Clearly, this is an issue that people of all political stripes should agree on; privacy of all Americans should be protected.

In the waning days of the Obama administration, the FCC passed new privacy rules limiting the ability of internet service providers to sell your browsing data without your consent. However, with the Congressional Review Act (which permits Congress to eliminate newly passed regulations), both the House and the Senate have recently voted to repeal the rule. According to signals from the White House, President Trump is expected to approve the repeal.

Congressman Warren Davidson (R-OH), who represents Oxford’s congressional district, voted against the repeal of the privacy

protections. In a statement he said, “At the end of the day, it’s your data…I don’t see how it could be anyone else’s.”

Davidson’s position is spot-on. He rightfully believes that internet service providers have no right profiting from our data without our consent. In a separate statement, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, “Your broadband provider knows deeply personal information about you and your family – where you are, what you want to know, every site you visit, and more…You deserve to be able to insist that those…details be kept private and secure.” It’s not often that conservative Republicans agree with the likes of Nancy Pelosi. Clearly, this is an issue that people of all political stripes should agree on; privacy of all Americans should be protected.

You may be wondering, if Google and Facebook already take my data anyway, why should I worry about internet service providers having it too? Good question. There are a couple very simple differences here: You are not paying a monetary fee to use Google and Facebook (who instead rely on advertisements for revenue), but you are paying to receive internet service. Users of free websites can safely assume they are ‘paying’ with their privacy data. However, consumers typically don’t assume their service provider has the right to dole out their private data. In effect, internet service providers are addition-

ally profiting from already paying customers without their consent. This is not right. Second, Google and Facebook (and other similar sites) can only collect your data when you are using their sites. Internet service providers can collect all your internet data.

If you like slippery slope arguments, this paragraph is for you. In his book “1984,” George Orwell imagined a government with the power to see and hear everything. In Orwell’s fictional world, citizens live in constant fear of their government’s judgement. If anyone steps out of line, in any imaginable way, they are eliminated. Considering the modern public’s general disregard for privacy in our internet age, this possibility doesn’t seem so farfetched. Every incremental chip away at our privacy, by governments, service providers or anyone else, means less liberty and freedom for you and me. One day in the future, if trends continue, we could live our lives with no privacy at all.

Here is the bottom line: privacy in today’s internet age is nearly impossible. Support lawmakers that believe in privacy rights and encourage others to reconsider their positions. We can win the fight to preserve our privacy, but Democrats, Republicans and independents must all unify on this issue and fight together.

SCHROELM@ MIAMIOH.EDU

Vegan makeup a cruelty-free, economically comparible alternative to the norm VEGANISM

DARCY KEENAN COLUMNIST

At this point I’m sure everyone, even those who don’t use makeup, has heard about cruelty-free makeup. However, you might not have the right definition of what “cruelty-free,” really means. The name suggests that it is makeup that was made without killing or harming animals, but that is not true.

According to the FDA, crueltyfree means that the finished product was not tested on animals. This is misleading because most animal testing happens at an ingredient level, meaning if the product is tested on animals before the formula is finished they can say that it’s cruelty-free. Cruelty-free makeup is a great first step, but I encourage makeup and animal lovers to try something else: vegan makeup.

Before you write me off as another crazy vegan let me say this: I am nowhere near that. Cheese is a crucial part of every single meal I have and I eat chicken basically everyday at the dining halls. But I still believe that vegan makeup is a good investment. Vegan makeup is, like the name suggests, makeup that was made without using animal ingredients or animal derived ingredients (including, but not limited to, beeswax, honey and collagen).

One of my main worries when I

heard about vegan makeup was it would be more expensive than most makeups, which are expensive as is.

However, once I started researching I found that it was not always as expensive as I had worried. Of course, there are brands that charge absurd amounts for their products, but for the most part, they’re pretty averagely priced. Vegan lip products are a bit more expensive than most non-vegan lip products, though, because non-vegan lip products are typically made with various types of animal derived wax, oils and fats.

You can find a whole list of hundreds of affordable vegan brands and products on Petit Vour’s website (and when you shop through their website you get 20 percent back in store credit: how’s that for incentive). Some of the affordable brands Petit Vour recommends are Han Skin Care Cosmetics, Modern Minerals, Lily Lolo and 100% Pure.

But there are also some more expensive brands there, such as Juicy Beauty’s products, which can reach upwards of $70, and one of Osea’s products, which costs over $90.

Vegan makeup is still a fairly new concept, and because of this, products can be limited. However cruelty-free makeup is still an excellent choice. Like I said earlier, it isn’t always as animal-friendly as one might think but there are brands that, when they say animal free, actually mean they do not test on

LUSH, a popular English cosmetic company, has built its brand around ethical products. animals. To find out what a brand means by cruelty-free, check their website, and if it is still unclear you can email their customer service department (this also goes for vegan).

For the most part, brands that are cruelty-free will respond promptly.

If your email is ignored or you aren’t given a clear answer, it is safe to assume that they are not as crueltyfree as they want you to believe.

Another level to research is parent companies. There are many brands that are cruelty-free, but the parent company owns them still tests on

last one out please shut off the light.

animals. Therefore, by buying from these brands you are still somewhat supporting non-cruelty-free companies. For example, Urban Decay is known as being cruelty-free, and that’s one thing that people love about it. But Urban Decay is owned by L’Oreal, a company that is not cruelty-free. Similar to parent companies, you can also learn about the companies that sell ingredients. Many of the companies that sell ingredients for makeup testing, makeup brands and other distributors buy these products and then

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state that they do not test on animals because the product was not in their hands when used on animals.

Vegan makeup is something that everyone should consider. It is better for your skin and better for animals that are usually abused and exploited to make and test makeup.

But since it can be hard to find exactly what you need, cruelty-free makeup is definitely a step in the right direction.

KEENANDM@MIAMIOH.EDU

Sports

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Miami basketball welcomes new head coaches Former Purdue associate head coach to recruit players, develop the program MEN’S BASKETBALL

EMILY SIMANSKIS SPORTS EDITOR

Jack Owens, a veteran associate head coach from Purdue, will be the 27th head coach of Miami’s men’s basketball team.

The announcement came Wednesday, March 29, 19 days after John Cooper’s contract was not renewed after five years as head coach.

Owens has spent nine years at Purdue — three as an assistant coach and the last six years as associate head coach. He helped Purdue win a Big Ten regular-season championship in 2016-17 and recorded 209 total wins with the Boilermakers. The Boilermakers made the NCAA Tournament seven times and advanced to the Sweet 16 three times during Owens’ time at Purdue.

Miami went 11-21 this past season (4-14 Mid-American Conference), losing in the first round of MAC play. The RedHawks haven’t made the NCAA tournament since 2007 and haven’t advanced to the Sweet Sixteen since 1999.

“First of all, I’m humbled and excited to be here,” Owens said in a press conference on March 30. “This a great place and we’re going to do something special here. I think we have the pieces in place to do that.”

Besides winning more games and tournament titles, Owens will be called upon to recruit competitive student-athletes. Miami has 21 MAC titles, 17 NCAA appearances and a handful of NBA players – a successful history Owens will cite on the recruiting trail.

New women’s coach repsonsible for many wins, successful players

“As far as recruiting, we will attack every area in the Midwest,” said Owens, an Indianapolis native. “We will have a four- to five-hour radius where we will know everyone who can play at our level. And the ones we don’t know we will get to know as soon as possible.”

Athletic Director David Sayler stressed the importance of providing a rewarding experience for Miami student-athletes.

“His skill development with his studentathletes is off the charts,” Sayler said. “We got a lot of comments about the work he did for [Purdue] and helping them prepare for life.

He’s been able to find players, recruit players, develop players and transform their lives in ways that only schools like Purdue and Miami can. That connection is important to me and something that will be beneficial to our program.”

Owens has helped produce five NBA draft picks, notably A.J. Hammons of the Dallas Mavericks and Robbie Hummel, who was drafted in the second round of the 2012 draft and now plays for Khimki of the VTB United League. Owens also helped in the development of Purdue sophomore forward Caleb Swanigan, who was recently named one of MEN’S BASKETBALL »PAGE 11

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

EMILY SIMANSKIS SPORTS EDITOR

Megan Duffy became the ninth head coach of Miami women’s basketball Monday morning. She takes over the program from Cleve Wright, who was relieved of his duties March 10.

“Megan’s experiences as a player and coach will bring a valuable perspective to Miami women’s basketball,” Athletic Director David Sayler said in a press release. “As a former All-American point guard and WNBA player, she understands the drive and passion needed to win championships. As a coach, she understands how to recruit, develop players and will serve as a great role model for our student-athletes. Most importantly, she understands how to win and achieve excellence at esteemed academic institutions.”

Duffy comes to Miami after three seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Michigan. During her time, the Wolverines won at least 20 games each season and advanced to the Women’s National Invitational Tournament’s Final Four each year. This past season, UM won a school-record 28 games and a WNIT title. Duffy helped Michigan rank 20th nationally — its first time in the top 25 in four years.

The RedHawks also found a strong recruiter in Duffy, as she assisted Michigan with recruiting classes that ranked fifth nationally in 2015 and 12th in 2016. She’s recruited and coached eight All-Big Ten selections and two All-Freshman Team picks, including Kate-

lynn Flaherty, the 2014-15 Big Ten Sixth Player of the Year, who scored 1,992 points in three years with Duffy.

“I am incredibly excited and humbled to become the next Miami women’s basketball coach,” Duffy said. “It is evident through the passion and leadership of President Crawford and Director of Athletics, David Sayler, that Miami is set-up for success.

I cannot thank them enough for the opportunity to join the rich academic and athletic tradition at Miami University.”

Before Michigan, Duffy worked as the associate head coach and recruiting coordinator at George Washington University. She has experience in on-floor coaching, player development, scouting and monitoring student-athletes’ academic performance. Prior to George Washington, Duffy worked as an assistant coach at St. John’s College for three years and as the recruiting coordinator during her final season there.

A Dayton native, Duffy had a successful collegiate career as a player at Notre Dame.

She helped her team to four straight NCAA appearances and two trips to the Sweet 16.

She is one of four players in the school’s history to total at least 1,000 points, 500 assists WOMEN’S BASKETBALL »PAGE 11

MU Dance Team to compete at NDA Nationals DANCE TEAM

EMILY SIMANSKIS SPORTS EDITOR

The Miami University Dance Team (MUDT) leaves today for Daytona Beach, Florida to compete at National Dance Alliance Nationals from April 5-9.

The team is partially funded by club sports and is comprised of 27 dancers from various dance backgrounds. All 27 girls will fly to Daytona Beach, but only 18 will take the stage to perform the routine MUDT has been rehearsing since November.

“I’m looking forward to stepping out on that stage one last time and giving it my all,” senior captain Kira Osowski says. “This group of girls, especially this year, has been so positive and driven and just excited to be here.”

The dancers underwent rigorous tryouts in late July and early August to qualify for Nationals. The University of Louisville hosts an annual three-day camp that determines

which teams will make the trip to Florida. The teams from U.S. universities and around the world are required to perform a previously rehearsed routine as well as a new routine learned at the camp.

MUDT received a “bronze” bid this year in the 1A category and will compete against other large universities that received silver and gold bids. The bronze, silver, gold system determines how much of a team’s trip to Florida will be covered by NDA. Miami will compete with a routine crafted by guest choreographers in November and practiced for several hours every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday since then.

The club sport became entirely student-run four years ago, so practices are directed by Osowski and junior captain Sarah Krumm. Each has been dancing for 18 years, with training in ballet, jazz, hip-hop, modern, lyrical and pom (a style like cheerleading, with pom-poms).

Freshman Ally Vaughan has been dancing since she was four — com-

petitively since middle school.

All three came to Miami hoping to continue doing what they love.

They found that in the dance team.

“Our team motto is ‘DT Heart,’ so we have pride in passion, dedication, family and a love for dance,” Osowski said.

After trying out for the team the spring before their freshman year, the girls attend camp in Oxford a week before school starts to work on technique and material for sporting events. Practice is held four days a week and even during breaks, with the team holding each other accountable via Facebook video uploads. The girls come back a week early during J-Term and stay on campus for spring break, practicing until the team steps on the plane to Florida early Wednesday morning.

“Everyone just wants the best for each individual. We’ve really embraced the ‘DT Heart’ motto and everyone’s just so positive and excited,” Crumm said. “Everyone has so DANCE TEAM »PAGE 11

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The Miami University Dance Team previews their routine on Sunday at Millett Hall before leaving for the National Dance Alliance Nationals.

Track and field wins at home and away TRACK AND FIELD

PATRICK KECK

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ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami Univeristy hosted the 2017 U.S. Intercollegiate Figure Skating Championships April 1-2 at Goggin Ice Center.

The men’s and women’s track and field teams began their outdoor campaign in a split-squad effort this past Saturday. The RedHawks ran at home for the Miami Duals and sent runners to the Stanford Invitational, the San Francisco State University Distance Carnival and the Oliver Nikoloff Open at the University of Cincinnati on Friday.

Competing against Kent State, Morehead State, Wright State, and Oakland, both teams were victorious. The men had a 311-point victory while the women had a 309 total in their four duals.

The men’s distance team took

home victories in the 1500-meters, 3000-meters, and the 3000-meter steeple. Junior Jake Brumfield won the steeple by over 10 seconds in a time of nine minutes and 28 seconds. According to milesplit.com, Brumfield’s time is the sixth fastest time by an Ohio collegiate runner this year.

The freshmen made a statement during the 3000-meters in this young season, taking the top four finishes. Junior Ryan Pinter would win in eight minutes and 33 seconds, third fastest by an Ohio collegiate runner. The freshmen placed four runners in the top-10.

Freshman Danny Reynolds ran an 8:51 and was excited by his teammates’ performances.

“Our freshman class is really

starting to develop and a lot of quick times are going to be dropped soon,” Reynolds said.

Freshman Christopher Torpy continued the trend by winning the 1500-meters in three minutes and 56 seconds.

The sprints were also led by the freshmen, as Jeremiah Hunter took second in the 200-meters in 21.96 seconds and third in the 100-meters in 11.05 seconds. Ivan Dye took third in the 400-meters in 50.21 seconds.

Senior Jake Owens earned 14 points for the ‘Hawks by taking second in the 400-meters and third in the 200-meters.

The men’s field events were led TRACK »PAGE 11

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Join us as we bring together the many cultures of Miami students into a One Miami menu featuring recipes from 10 countries including China, South Korea, India, Canada, and Nigeria. #OneMiamiOH