March 4, 2014 | The Miami Student

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TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014

VOLUME 141 NO. 37

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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 2000, The Miami Student reported the nursing program was being phased out of the Oxford campus curriculum. The program was to be permanently

and completely relocated to the Hamilton and Middletown branches. “While , on the surface, if Miami could be all things to all people, it would be nice for the Oxford campus to do that, but we can’t,” Provost Ronald Crutcher said.

MU breaks ice, national record

BY ALYSSA ZEDIKER STAFF WRITER

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JUST SCRAPING BY

Sophomore Rebecca Eldemire works to free her car from the ice and snow Sunday afternoon. She was not alone in her struggle.

Hockey team scores $2.6 million in Goggin training facility improvements

BY ALI PREISSING

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Upscale updates worth nearly $2.6 million are gliding into the picture for Miami University’s Goggin Ice Center. However, the new improvements will primarily affect the varsity hockey team.

“The goal of the work is to make improvements and additions specific to the varsity hockey program,” Associate VP of Facilities Planning and Operations Cody Powell said.

“The addition will house a sportspecific weight-training room and cardiovascular training area, a shooting practice room and a multiuse team film and meeting room.”

Powell said the project has been delayed as a result of the extreme weather conditions. It is expected to be completed by May 2014.

Aiming to increase functionality of the space for the athletes, the budget for the addition is nearly $2.6 million.

“So far, the project is on budget, which includes design, construction, administration and outfitting the space with the specialized equipment,” Powell said.

While the work being done on the ice center is meant to improve its internal conditions, the new construction has had small effects on activities around campus.

“All projects have some implications, but our pre-planning has minimized the impact,” Powell said.

“We performed an early phase of the project this summer to address the improvements in the existing locker room area. This allowed us to accomplish the bulk of the intrusive work before our student athletes returned. The other work has periodic disruptions, but is largely outside the existing structure.”

The construction will not have any major impact on student activities.

“The only impact from construction is on the sidewalk, which has been moved,” Kevin Ackley,

senior director of the Goggin Ice Center, said. “This change allows pedestrians to avoid the construction, and a new schedule for deliveries has been created.”

While the construction area might create inconveniences for some, students seem to approve of the new additions.

“I’m all for improving our facilities around campus, although the scaffolding and construction is a bit of an eye sore,” first-year Daniel Romo said. “However, I think it is worth the price to enhance Goggin for the students and athletes.”

Additionally, students also feel these improvements will enhance the hockey team in the long-run.

“I’ve seen the project being completed first hand,” first-year Evan Proccaccini, who works at Goggin, said. “I believe the improvements will increase the effectiveness of our hockey team’s workouts both on and off season.”

Beta booted: Alpha chapter disbanded

BY MEKENNA SANDSTROM

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Beta Theta Pi Fraternity (Beta) closed its Alpha chapter at Miami University Friday.

A statement by Beta’s national organization said the decision came after several instances of unacceptable conduct in recent years.

“The chapter experienced varying degrees of discipline the last several years for unacceptable conduct,” the statement read, “but recent hazing allegations and violations of prior sanctions related to alcohol were verified during parallel investigations by the university and General Fraternity.”

Dean of Students Mike Curme met with Beta President Nathan Callender Feb. 21 for a preliminary disciplinary hearing to address two specific allegations of hazing. Members of the fraternity then attended a closed-door meeting last Thursday, the night before officially being disbanded.

“Accountability and personal responsibility are core values at Miami, especially for those who lead student organizations,”

Curme said in a university press release. “We expect our greek organizations to model these values and adopt the highest standards of leadership and behavior.”

As a result of the chapter closing, all residents of the fraternity house on High Street are being evicted. All sophomore residents are now required to seek on-campus housing because of the university’s two-year residency rule.

Members are eligible to move back to campus starting at 5 p.m. tomorrow evening.

The university is currently assisting those members with housing and meal plans.

Miami University announced it fully supports Beta’s decision, emphasizing its zero-tolerance policy for hazing and the importance of consistently educating students about personal safety and well-being.

Beta Administrative Secretary Jud Horras commented on the situation in Beta’s official press release.

“The fraternity is governing itself in alignment with its values and standards as we seek to protect the well-being of every young man,” Horras said. “Likewise, we

will continue to do everything possible to support the undergraduate men and their parents during this stressful transition.

Callender declined to comment.

President of the Inter-fraternity Council (IFC) Sam Crockett said all governing councils were deeply saddened by the closing of Beta, but they would try to make this into a learning experience for the entire fraternity community.

“Losing a chapter is something we never like to see, but especially an Alpha chapter,” Crockett said. “We’ll try and make this into a learning experience as best we can. We’re going to have a conversation with the chapter presidents Tuesday to let them know the details of what happened [with Beta] and how to prevent it from happening again. As a community, we promote self-governance and we hold high our ability to hold each other accountable.”

The chapter included 112 undergraduates when the disbanding was announced.

The international fraternity has agreed with the university to return and rebuild the Alpha chapter during the 2016-17 school year.

The Miami University collegiate synchronized skating team won its 10th consecutive national title, breaking a record for the most consecutive titles in any U.S. Figure Skating event.

“To be able to share this moment of the 10th consecutive collegiate championship with this team and the alumni in the stands was really something special,” head coach Carla DeGirolamo said.

The collegiate team continued its record winning streak by skating for a score of 96.80, which outscored its nearest competitor by 18.03 points.

Senior collegiate skater Katherine Rice said the team’s level of preparedness contributed to the success of the skate.

“We were very focused mentally and physically, and we knew we had a job to do,” Rice said. “We had the confidence to go in to the competition and attack the skate.”

DeGirolamo said the team’s effort leading up to nationals paid off.

“You could feel the emotion when collegiate was skating and it really enhanced their performance,” DeGirolamo said. “They were dedicated to being better every day and not settling for good enough, and because of that attitude the team was able to progress really far this season.”

The collegiate team was first to hit the ice Saturday in its field of 12 teams.

“The collegiate team had that moment when they came off the ice that they were all hoping for, where they felt in the zone and really enjoyed their skating,” DeGirolamo said.

The win broke the previous record of nine consecutive wins. The record was set by pairs skaters Theresa Weld Blanchard and Nathan

Niles and stood for 87 years.

“It was a dream, I couldn’t believe it, to be on a team that has broken a record is incredible and amazing all at the same time,” Rice said.

DeGirolamo said the win is a big accomplishment for the team.

“The collegiate win is a testament to the dedication this organization has to excellence and the quality of skaters we attract,” DeGirolamo said. “It is just a testament to what has been built here over the years and the work that has been put in.”

In addition to the collegiate team, the senior and junior teams participated at nationals.

The senior team finished in fourth place in a field of nine teams and the junior team finished eighth in a field of 14 teams.

“The junior team went out and had a lot of energy for their short program; they skated strongly,” DeGirolamo said. “Their long program did not have the same spark that the short program had, but it was still a very clean skate, so it was solid.”

The senior team faced some difficulties with last-minute substitutions in the morning before its long program skate.

“All in all I felt the senior team fought through their programs and they fought to make it work in a difficult situation,” DeGirolamo said.

This is the last competitive skating event for the RedHawks, but they will continue to train for next season as well as the Goggin Ice Show May 2 and 3.

“We were all very emotional this weekend and sad to see the seniors go, but very excited that we were able to work together and end on such a strong note,” Rice said. “I know that all 52 skaters pour their heart and soul into every program and to come home after breaking a record we hope that next year’s teams can continue that legacy.”

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Chew on this: Smoking policy now includes dip

BY JAMES STEINBAUER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

This January, Miami University added several articles to its nosmoking policy, which has been in place since 2008. The additions to the policy include a ban on the use of e-cigarettes and chewing tobacco on Miami University grounds, additions some students believe are an encroachment on their rights.

The new additions to the tobacco-free policy, which became effective January 1, are applicable in all Miami University-owned facilities and on the grounds of any University-owned property including inside personal vehicles parked on university property.

“I think it says a lot about Miami University to put the health of students and staff first,” said Director of Student Wellness Rebecca Baudry. “The University wants to make sure this is an environment that not only protects those who are not engaging in those habits, but also sets an example for the kinds of behaviors that protect health.”

While the university has placed

signs advertising a “smoke and tobacco-free environment” on campus, many students are still viewed puffing their cigarettes as they walk to and from class without any fear of consequences.

“The police department isn’t going to be arresting people for smoking on campus,” Miami University Chief of Police John McCandless said. “I don’t think the intent of the university is for the MUPD to be taking levels of enforcement against those who are smoking.”

Though MUPD officers will issue only warnings, the Ohio Revised Code chapter 3794.02 says these must be taken seriously.

“No person shall refuse to immediately discontinue smoking in a public place, place of employment, or establishment, facility or outdoor area declared nonsmoking when requested to do so by the proprietor or any employee of an employer of the public place, place of employment or establishment, facility or outdoor area,” the code reads.

Resident advisors can also issue citations, which will go through the

Miami University Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution.

On-campus staff supervisors can also issue citations which effect employee conduct record.

“I’d say that it [the smoking policy] is unfair,” said fifth-year senior and smoker Cecilia Stelzer. “It seems like the university is more concerned with proving that they’re protective of their students or progressive more so than treating their students like adults, which they are. You should be able to exercise your freedoms as long is they don’t infringe upon anothers.”

Although the adverse effects of second-hand smoke are widely known and espoused by students and faculty alike, many students took a different side concerning the ban on chewing tobacco.

“I’m definitely going to keep doing it [chewing tobacco] unless I feel like I should stop for my own personal reasons,” said freshman chewer Brian Donahue. “I’m not harming anyone else, there is no second hand smoke from chewing tobacco and quite honestly, I enjoy it.”

Student athletes given $2.6 mil in waivers

BY ALISON BLOCK

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Financial aid at Miami University consists of more than just scholarships and loans; certain qualifying students can also get part of their fees waived altogether.

These fee waivers are similar to scholarships in that they cover the cost of attending school, but they

essentially decrease the amount of the fee, and then there are scholarships that deduct against the cost,” Ellis said. “At the end of the day it’s the same thing, it just gets recorded differently.”

Unlike merit scholarships, the fee waivers are separated into categories and are awarded to a specific group of students based on unique criteria.

Student athletes are people who very visibly improve campus quality of life ... the better they do, the more students they attract, the more money they bring into the university.”

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MIAMI JUNIOR

differ in the way in which they are awarded.

To get an academic scholarship from Miami University, a student must meet certain a Grade Point Average and ACT or SAT criteria. Meanwhile, fee waivers are reserved for certain demographics and awarded on a case-by-case basis within each group, including foreign students, graduate students, general university students, members of the Miami Tribe, out-of-state students and separately, out-of-state athletes. Fee waivers usually cover instructional fees that are part of the general tuition cost.

Associate Vice President of Budgeting and Analysis for the university David Ellis said fee waivers differ from other forms of financial aid.

“There are fee waivers, that

Each category has a different amount available to award to those who qualify. For example, students who are part of the Miami Tribe would be entitled to a portion of the $323,468 set aside in fee waivers for Miami Tribe members only.

The 252 out-of-state athletes are allocated $2.6 million—dwarfing the $371,000 for non-athletic outof-state students.

According to Miami Deputy Athletic Director Mark Rountree, the fee waivers for out-of-state athletes are intended to reduce the cost of their tuition to around the cost of in-state tuition. After this deduction, the athletic department’s own scholarships can have a near equal impact on what any athlete pays in tuition, regardless of what state he or she might call home. This enables the athletic department to

recruit outside Ohio.

“The value of an out-of-state tuition waiver is $15,790. Student-athletes from out-of-state can receive any amount from $0 to $15,790 to cover the out-of-state tuition,” Rountree said. “It gives us the flexibility whether that student is in state or out of state to be able to offer them a full scholarship…I think Miami tries to draw from a diverse population of students. It’s the same way in athletics.”

Rountree also made it clear that not every student athlete receives a scholarship or a fee waiver when they come to play for Miami.

In fact, many athletes do not receive financial assistance from the athletic department.

Still, the athletic department tries their best to give their athletes a neutral cost so that their merit based scholarships have more of an impact.

Though some students found the idea of athletes having fees waived unfair, not all students agreed.

Sophomore Steve Ramos, who is not an athlete, said he thinks it is fair that out-of-state athletes get more of a chance at higher scholarships.

“From a business standpoint, they’re like a product,” Ramos said.

“That money is coming back to us, through things like ticket sales. And they have to pay for the rest of their [higher] tuition so there’s that revenue too.”

Junior Victor Magro, also a non-athlete, thinks the high dollar amount allocated to help pay for

WAIVERS, SEE PAGE 9

Students break away from typical spring destinations

CONTRIBUTED BY COURTNEY FRYDRYK

Students from last year’s Alternative Spring Break group participate in the clean up of a wooded area in Atlanta.This year, they will travel to Memphis.

BY GRETA MORRIS

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Rather than sitting on a couch watching Netflix or lying on a beach this year, 30 Miami students will dedicate their spring break to helping others. This year’s Alternative Spring Break will travel to Memphis, Tenn. for a week of volunteering, leadership and sightseeing.

Alternative Spring Break, a student organization that has existed for 20 years, offers students another option to spend their weeklong break in another city doing volunteer work.

“Alternative Spring Break is a student organization focused around spring break and we take about 30 students on a trip each year and we go to another city and we do around 30 hours of community service during the week,” said Courtney Frydryk, president of the organization.

During their weeklong trip, students will be volunteering their time to help others in need in Memphis. This year’s trip includes a trail clean ups in two national parks, working at the local food bank and work with Habitat for Humanity, Frydryk said.

Students chose Memphis for its climate as well as its connection to Miami’s history.

“Our first choice was somewhere warmer. Then, we started looking into the Freedom Summer that western campus is connected to,” Frydryk said. “We found that in Memphis they have a civil rights museum and they played a little bit of a role with some of the students from western campus that went to

Mississippi. It initially just started as a weekend stop, but ended up turning into the entire trip.”

In the past, students have gone to St. Louis, Mo., Charleston, S.C. and Atlanta, Ga. The trip is not all work, however. Students get free time to enjoy the city of Memphis as well.

“At night and on the weekends we get to explore the city and be tourists and enjoy our time off school,” said Frydryk.

Students themselves take on the role of planning, funding and executing the trip. While club adviser, Rob Abowitz, who works in the office of residence life, oversees the planning and offers suggestions, he does not lead the planning or go on the trip itself.

“The students make the plans,” Abowitz said. “The students make the contacts. The students make the arrangements…

It is truly a student run and student led trip.”

The trip planning process also allows students to grow and develop as leaders, Abowitz said.

For many, Alternative Spring Break offers an opportunity to make the most of their weeklong break.

“I think it will be such a cool experience to get to live with other people for the week all committed to helping people and I think it will give me a new perspective and allow me to experience things I wouldn’t otherwise get to,” said Jenna Tiller, a participant in this year’s alternative spring break.

Students went through an application process earlier in the semester to go on the trip.

This year’s spring break is March 21-29.

Miami chorale clubs have student moods, morale hitting high notes

BY ALEXANDRA SHULTZ SENIOR STAFF WRITER

CONTRIBUTED BY ALEXANDRA SHULTZ

The Collegiate Chorale performs various pieces of sacred music Dec. 6 in Hall Auditorium. Anywhere from 80 to 100 students perform with the Collegiate Chorale and laud its stress-relieving ability.

On a particularly windy Sunday, Anna Beth Schneider got a text saying her choir practice was canceled due to weather. For many students, a cancelled meeting would be a relief, but for Schneider, choir practice is the relief.

“I was really bummed that we canceled,” Schneider said. “I just thought ‘that’s silly, a little weather shouldn’t keep us from rehearsal.’”

Schneider participates in an allgirls a capella group—the Misfitz—with a group of 16 girls and takes a classical chorale class that performs as a larger co-ed group of 80-100 students.

For Schneider, her two singing groups provide a place for the world to melt away.

“If I don’t have rehearsal in a day,

I usually feel more stressed by the end of it,” Schneider said. “It’s definitely my favorite outlet for getting rid of worries and stress.”

Schneider said one of the best aspects of singing in both a traditional chorale and the Misfitz is the variety of music. Chorale focuses on madrigal-style, while in the Misfitz, the girls decide what to sing and have songs ranging from Disney to current top 40 hits.

The vice president of Collegiate Chorale Tanner Scheetz said he shares Schneider’s feelings on the benefits of singing in college.

“It’s a huge stress reliever, mostly because of the music but also because we get to spend that time with a group that’s so bonded with each other,” Scheetz said.

CHORALE, SEE PAGE 9

EDITORS JANE BLAZER CHRIS CURME

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POLICE Bacon’ friends and breakin’ eggs

BEAT Man confuses wall for Pinata, punches hole

At 5 p.m. Saturday, an OPD officer responded to the 200 block of E. Church St. in reference to an intoxicated male who allegedly caused damage to mexican restaurant La Piñata.

When the officer arrived, he met with a La Piñata manager and a female staff member who were both standing with the subject. Another officer arrived on the scene and stayed with the male subject while the other officer went inside to see the damage.

He was escorted to the men’s room where he saw a hole in the wall adjacent to the mirror above the restroom sink. The manager said the hole was not there before they had opened that day. The female employee said she was near the bar adjacent to the restrooms when she heard a loud bang coming from inside.

Immediately after the noise, the employee said four males exited the restroom. One said, “Did you see the hole he punched in the wall?”

They were huddling around a male in a red sweatshirt.

The officer then exited the restaurant and asked the male if he had punched the wall, which he denied. The officer observed a fresh scratch on the knuckles on male’s right hand.

When asked if he had consumed any alcoholic drinks, he said he had seven. The male was arrested and taken to OPD where his age of 19 was confirmed and he was issued citations for criminal damaging and sale to and use by underage persons.

He was taken to Butler County Jail.

Beer-hurling man takes out angst on bouncer At 2 a.m. Saturday, an OPD officer on patrol observed a disturbance in the alley just east of 17 N. Poplar St., The Wood’s Bar. According to OPD, the officer observed an altercation between a male and a member of the Woods Bar Staff.

The officer approached the pair, identified himself and separated the two parties. He took the male and placed him in the back of the cruiser. When he asked the Wood’s staff what had happened, they said the male was denied entry when he tried to enter the bar after it had closed.

According to the employee, the suspect picked up a beer bottle and hurled it at the bouncers who denied him entry.

At the station, the male admitted to throwing the bottle, but said he aimed for their feet. The male said he wasn’t mad at the bouncers; rather, he was just upset in general. He said he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone, and he just threw it out of anger. The male was charged with assault and taken back to his residence.

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Morning Sun Cafe provides breakfast food and a friendly atmosphere.

BY MARISSA STIPEK

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

For a space that previously housed a tailor, pet store and bakery, the interior of the Morning Sun Café looks like it was made to be a restaurant. Between the hardwood floors, black leather booths, and rolled silverware set out Friday evening for the Saturday morning rush, the restaurant is everything a café should be. White walls display

various works of art including an iconic Audrey Hepburn image and a painting of a tree resembling Van Gogh’s pointillism.

As Tom Petty’s “American Girl” plays in the background, I venture from the main room through a doorway where the restaurant continues.

In the second room, a woman sits behind a counter. Her name is Missy, and she has been a server at the café since August.

At 3 p.m. Friday, the restaurant

Café about once a week for several years.

While Charlie doesn’t have “any crazy stories” about the café, he enjoys it nonetheless.

“I like the food and the atmosphere. This is a place where I come to eat and see my friends,” he said.

At a table to my left, an older couple is quietly enjoying their meal. The woman has a long gray ponytail and turquoise earrings.

Despite my close proximity I cannot hear what they are saying.

I see Nate Uhl enter out of the corner of my eye. I continue eavesdropping, allowing him to get settled in.

“Charlie?” The woman with the gray hair questioned. “You went to the prom with my sister!”

Charlie squints at her a moment before breaking into a grin.

“Hi Beth!” he exclaimed. “How is Caroline?”

“Good,” the gray-haired woman answered. “She lives in Cincinnati, plays violin at weddings and events. I heard you say your name and I recognized you!”

While they catch up, I approach Nate.

He jumps up to greet me, saying, “I just wanted to let you

MORNING SUN, SEE PAGE 5

Icy car collision causes serious damage to transit bus

BY CHRIS CURME COMMUNITY EDITOR

A Butler County Regional Transit Authority (BCRTA) bus heading to Oxford from Miami University’s Hamilton campus got in a serious accident when it was hit by an oncoming vehicle at high speed on State Route 177 late morning, Wednesday.

To authorities’ surprise, there were no injuries, and BCRTA officials helped bus passengers arrive at their destinations despite the collision.

Miami University Police Department (MUPD) Lieutenant Ben Spilman received a call that morning informing him of the crash.

“A southbound bus on 177 was stuck by a northbound vehicle that appears to have crossed the center line,” Spilman said. “Neither the driver nor the passenger in the striking vehicle were injured, nor the driver or four passengers

in the bus.”

The scene was dramatic, and Spilman said he was surprised there were no injuries. The posted speed limit on that stretch of 177 is 55 mph.

“The bus left the roadway to the right, missed a telephone pole, and came to a stop in a field,” Spilman said. “There was serious damage to the bus, and equally serious damage to the striking vehicle.”

BCRTA operations manager Connor Briggs said the bus operator did all she could to keep CONTRIBUTED BY BEN SPILMAN everyone safe.

“Our driver cranked the wheel A BCRTA bus sits in a field off of State Route 177 where it crashed Feb. 5. all the way to the right has hard as she could, and ended up nar- salted and was much better than Hamilton with another BCRTA administrator, each driving a rowly missing a utility pole,” it had been earlier that morning.

Spilman headed down to the Ford escape.

Briggs said. “It was a fairly high speed collision: our bus was com- scene to see if there was any way “Once we made sure everyone was OK and on the same page, pletely totaled. That was the best he could assist. outcome we could have had in a “I brought back a couple of we loaded all the students we situation like that.” students and a faculty member,” BUS CRASH, According to Briggs, the road Spilman said.

SEE PAGE 5 was a slightly icy, but had been Briggs had quickly arrived from

St. Mary, Hillel help students balance faith and college life

BY ALLIE SHULTZ SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Wanted woman tells cop exactly where she is Around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, OPD arrived in the 5000 block of College Corner Pike to assist Oxford Life Squad in response to a 911 call from a female who discovered her boyfriend passed out on the floor of their apartment.

When OPD ran the female’s name through the dispatch, it appeared she had a warrant out from the Monroe Police Department. A second male said he and the passedout male had smoked marijuana and the unconscious man had also taken his medication.

Nothing illegal was recovered.

The Oxford Fire Department was successful in reviving the passedout male who, once awake, refused further treatment. A scale was confiscated from the residence and the female was taken to the Monroe Police Department.

is completely empty, one hour away from closing. Saturday and Sunday mornings are the busiest.

Missy said the restaurant is owned by the same local family that owns the upscale Stella around the corner. Their son, Nate Uhl, is the working manager.

On cue, a young man walks in and introduces himself as Nate.

“I can’t talk today because it’s Valentine’s Day, so I have to hurry over to Stella to help with dinner,” he says. “I’m free Monday though if you want to come back!”

As I explore, I notice a child’s voice and see there is a girl of about seven or eight in the restaurant. I wonder if she is the one responsible for the crayon drawings displayed behind the counter.

I leave shortly after, pleasantly surprised with how welcoming everyone was.

When I reenter the restaurant Monday afternoon, I am greeted once again by Missy. Nate has not yet come in for the day.

“You could talk to Charlie,” Missy suggests, motioning to a man sitting alone nearby. He is middle-aged and balding, clad in a green Ohio University hoodie, navy sweatpants, and white New Balance shoes.

Charlie Herms has been coming to the Morning Sun

HER LIPS AREN’T SEALED

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In the center of Uptown, among dozens of bars, restaurants and student-hangouts, sits St. Mary Church. The Catholic worship space has stood in the same spot on High Street since 1920, after existing in temporary locations since 1853.

Father Jeffrey Silver has lived a faithful life in Oxford, Ohio for 40 years. From his time as a Miami student to his current role as Pastor at St. Mary Church, Father Silver has worked to integrate a faithful practice into the lives of college students.

Silver said integration of faith into college life can be a challenge for students, but he believes St. Mary and other religious institutions in Oxford all do a great job of reaching out to students and making religious life accessible to them.

“We work a lot with Hillel, the center for Jewish students, as well as with Faith Lutheran Church, as well as many others and they have all been wonderful partners for us,” Silver said.

When some people picture college, parties, drinking and drugs

might easily come to mind. Those are images that for most people don’t mix easily with the idea of going to religious services each week.

For Miami senior Meghan McGuff, St. Mary accommodations helped her to integrate religion into a college atmosphere.

“Many people struggle with keeping up with going to church because they are used to the routine of going with their family and weekends often get busy,” McGuff said. “St. Mary’s makes it easier because they have so many different mass options.”

McGuff said the amount of student programs also helps to make religious life more easily accessible, even outside of traditional mass.

Fellow St. Mary parishioner, Miami senior Hailey Holman also agrees the variety of mass times helps with her ability to attend services. Holman chooses to keep her college life and faith life more separated, though she finds each one equally important.

“I enjoy the social aspects that accompany both being af-

RELIGION, SEE PAGE 5

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ARTS & EVENTS

EDITOR LAUREN KIGGINS

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TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014

BEN’S BOOMBOX

Versatile DJs win crowds When the weekend comes knocking on the door, many students are trying to get out and about as fast as they can. What is involved, you might ask?

Well, in most cases, there is dancing, drinking and BEN conversation.

MEINKING Some people enjoy a night at the bars. Some enjoy the clubs and raves. Some enjoy the peace and quiet of their home until their roommates come back from the bars, clubs and raves. Many of us enjoy our weekends in very similar ways, however, there is one factor that sometimes gets overlooked by those who are looking for some live entertainment. There is a gentleman’s battle going on between the DJs and rock stars of live music.

Live music is very underground in the city of Oxford. Hole in the Wall, Mac & Joe’s and O’Pub are a few bars that hold an “open mic” night as well as host music performed without the help of a DJ. Performance, in itself, is an act. A crowd comes to enjoy the sights just as much as the sounds. A guitarist playing a song

that he is covering or one he wrote himself can be enough for some bargoers to have a good night sitting at the bar, drink in hand, admiring the environment. Many musicians like to enjoy other musicians practicing their own art. There is a level of appreciation that takes hold of someone who works hard to perfect their craft.

DJs are the common hero on the dance floors of Brick Street, The Wood’s and Skipper’s. The managers find it much easier to house a DJ than a full band; one man versus three to five. Like I said, he is the hero. Students find themselves going to a bar to listen to a variety of music, not just one genre or artist. That’s something a guitarist can severely lack. With technology advancing, anybody can be a DJ if given the right equipment, but what makes you unique is what gets you noticed. A DJ who can move a crowd and put on a show (in the visual sense) will always be a memorable musician. The performance is always the key factor when someone stands on stage. In Oxford, the DJs win the battle for the crowd. They provide an endless set list that pleases anyone who walks in. The musicians are on the rise, but they still remain underground, at least for now.

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Feminists take the stage

Conductor of NY Pops returns to Miami roots

BY AMANDA HANCOCK FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

For Steven Reineke, attending Miami University was never the dream.

The summer before his first year on campus, his plan was to re-audition for a spot at a prestigious conservatory on which he had set his heart.

“As a young trumpet player, I wanted to go to the east and study music,” Reineke said. “But I didn’t make the cut. I didn’t get in.”

So he accepted a scholarship from Miami with no expectation of staying four years. But after that first semester as a trumpet performance major in Oxford, something changed for Reineke.

“I fell in love with Miami,” he said. “It turned out to be the exactly right place at the right time.”

As the current music director of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Reineke looks back at his time at Miami and says he wouldn’t have it any other way.

“In hindsight, it’s definitely what I needed: to not be in a conservatorytype setting, it just allowed me so much more freedom,” Reineke said.

That freedom included being involved in virtually every music group Reineke could fit into his schedule, from orchestra to wind ensemble and marching band. It also gave him unique opportunities that

wouldn’t necessarily be possible at a conservatory.

“Every single piece of music I wrote I actually heard played live and some of those were great big orchestra pieces,” Reineke said.

“It’s so vitally important to learn how to be a composer. You’re able to see what works and what doesn’t work. That’s how you learn, a lot by trial and error,” he said. “You got to hear it come to life.”

Reineke will return to the Ohio area on March 8 to conduct the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Along with the chance to grab a bite at Skyline Chili and a scoop of Graeter’s ice cream, he says he can’t wait to be so close to home.

“I’m really looking forward to it.

It’s always great to be with the Cincinnati Pops because I started out there, I have so many great friends and they are incredible musicians,” he said.

As a native of Tipp City, OH, a Miami alumnus with a former conducting role at the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Reineke has strong ties to the area.

Along with other mentors, Reineke sparked a relationship with Gary Speck, director of bands during his first year at Miami.

Reineke was in Speck’s inaugural wind ensemble in 1988.

“We were freshmen together,”

Reineke said. “That gave us a very special bond and connection. He has been there quite awhile now, but those early years were so much fun.”

Speck, who still directs Miami’s Wind Ensemble, said he is not at all surprised by Reineke’s success.

“Steve was one of those people that was going to succeed no matter what, no matter where he was,” Speck said. “He was smart, he was just a humble Midwestern kid and yet he wanted to be pushed and he was so tenacious.”

Reineke said he and Speck were able to go beyond the traditional professor-student role and build a genuine friendship.

“He was new and younger and there wasn’t this huge age gap between him and us,” Reineke said.

Speck shared that sentiment, saying his first group of students was especially tight-knit.

“All those guys from that time believed there was something special about that time and I think they were right,” Speck said.

Upon graduating, Reineke was the first-ever recipient of the Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Prize at Miami.

“That was a wonderful start for me. I used that grant money to move

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“The Vagina Monologues”

BY SAMMIE MILLER

FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

It’s time to talk about vaginas, ladies and gentleman.

Feminists Working on Real Democracy’s rendition of the Vagina Monologues hit Miami this past weekend and triumphed by meshing feminism and theater in one hysterically powerful performance.

As guests walked into the auditorium at McGuffey Hall, they were greeted with energy and blaring music. Upbeat jams like Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)” appropriately set the tone for the show centered around girl power and a new kind of liberation: talking about your vagina.

Tables with merchandise, a photo booth and representatives from Women Helping Women lined the entryway. The show’s profits went straight to Women Helping Women —

a philanthropic organization housed in Cincinnati.

“I was proud to be a part of the show because of its amazing cause,” sophomore Emily Miller, one of the performers, said.

“Women Helping Women helps so many women with counseling and other resources for victims of sexual assault and abuse.”

Miller auditioned for a role in the show not quite knowing what to expect. However, she said that the show went better than expected and loved the entire experience.

“I thought the show was a huge success,” sophomore Julia Rivera, who attended Friday night’s performance, said. “There was so much talent and I loved the overall message of the play.”

The show, originally scripted

by Eve Ensler, is composed of

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And the Oscar goes to . . .

BY BRITTON PERELMAN FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The 2014 Academy Awards shone Sunday night celebrated another year of exceptional filmmaking.

The torrential downpour that plagued Los Angeles on Saturday wasn’t able to dampen the mood when it came time for thousands of filmmakers and celebrities to attend the 86th annual Academy Awards. Held at the Dolby Theatre, the ceremony was absolutely wonderful; everything from the presenters to the musical guests, the production design of the stage to the promos that played during commercial breaks proved why this ceremony really is “Hollywood’s biggest night.”

“12 Years a Slave” won Best Picture, which wasn’t exactly a shock. It was amusing to see director Steve McQueen jump around in excitement after his speech before barreling into a huge group hug with his other producers and cast members.

Matthew McConaughey won Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for “Dallas Buyers Club,” which, however welldeserved, disappointed all who had been hoping to see Leonardo DiCaprio finally win an Oscar for

“The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Several of the best speeches came from Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto and Actress Lupita Nyong’o. Leto, who won for his role in “Dallas Buyers Club,” gave a heartfelt speech thanking his mom for teaching him how to dream before saying, “To all the dreamers around the world watching this tonight in places like the Ukraine and Venezuela, I want to say: We are here, and as you struggle to make your dreams happen, to live the impossible, I want to say we are thinking of you tonight.” And first-time nominee Nyong’o, who won for her role in “12 Years a Slave,” gave an eloquent speech, saying, “When I look down on this golden statue, may it remind me and every little child that no matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”

“Gravity” took home a whopping seven statues, sweeping the technical awards with wins in Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Visual Effects, to name a few. Disney’s “Frozen” also came out strong, winning both Best Animated Feature and Best Original

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TAYLOR WOOD THE MIAMI STUDENT

DOSES AND TRASHCANS

Electro-pop duo, Cherub, performs for a sold-out audience at Brick Street Bar & Grille Thursday.

ARTS & EVENTS CALENDAR TUESDAY MARCH 4

WEDNESDAY MARCH 5 One of Dove’s “Real Women,” Stacy Nadeau, will address men and women about their part in altering the perception of beauty in young women in her lecture, “Embracing Real Beauty.” The event, sponsored

by Tri Delta, is open to all Miami Students and will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Armstrong Student Center’s Pavillion C.

SATURDAY MARCH 8 Pusha T will be performing at Brick Street Bar & Grille. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are available online or at Brick Street, $20 in advance and $25 day of show.

THURSDAY MARCH 6

Join the Miami University Art Museum in a brown bag lunch session presenting the 2014-15 exhibition plans at noon in the Art Museum auditorium. Drinks and snacks will be provided.

SUNDAY MARCH 9 Delta Omicron will present a recital featuring American music at 5 p.m. in Souers Recital Hall, Center for Performing Arts.

The co-founder, president and publisher of HerCampus Media, Windsor Hanger Western, will be speaking on, “How to start a business with no money, no experience and no business education,” as a part of a collaboration between Miami’s Her Campus and Women in Business. The free event will begin 7 p.m. at the Armstrong Student Center, Pavilion C.

FRIDAY MARCH 7 Diane Macklin, Traveling Storyteller of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, will be speaking at the Oxford Community Arts Center at 7 p.m., sponsored

by Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park. The event is free and open to the public.

MONDAY MARCH 10 Kick off your week at The Art of Yoga, focusing on relaxation and deep release through the mind and body awareness. The $10 class begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Oxford Community Arts Center’s North Parlor.

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MORNING SUN, FROM PAGE 3

finish what you were writing over there!” Like last time, Nate wears a white baseball cap that says Stella on it. He holds a cup of coffee and invites me to join him at a table near the window.

The Uhl family has owned The Morning Sun Café since 2009, creating it as a complement to Stella.

“Morning Sun closes at 4:00 and Stella opens at 4:00, so they work together,” Nate explained.

Oxford residents since 1984, Nate’s mother teaches at Miami while his father owns a logistics company. His father opened his restaurants out of a desire for “something fresher and home-cooked that would fit his appetite.”

The restaurant doesn’t own a microwave. Every dish is made to order. Rather than buy egg whites, they separate yolk from white by hand.

The popular breakfast quesadilla

BUS CRASH, FROM PAGE 3

could in our Ford escapes and got them to their destinations [in Hamilton] as soon as possible,” Briggs said.

Matt Dutkevicz, BCRTA assistant general manager, said their operators are trained for such situations.

“That’s part of a training process we go through, with all the operators,” Dutkevicz said.

“We’re on a radio system directly with the sheriff and the Miami police, so we can relay emergencies very quickly. This helps facilitate the fast response. We set up a response team to take care

TUESDAY MARCH 4, 2014 and Nate’s favorite breakfast bagel are each seven dollars.

Near the kitchen, I see the same young girl from Friday.

She wears a polka-dot skirt with leggings and has a headband in her hair.

“That little girl is so cute,” Nate said. He explains that Missy the waitress is married to the head chef. The girl is their daughter.

Until recently, they were renting a home from Nate’s parents.

Nate smiles as he talks about them, making it believable that his favorite part of managing his restaurants is the staff.

This personal arrangement surprises me, but explains the strong feeling of camaraderie in the café.

“We’re friends,” Nate said.

“We’re here for work, but we enjoy working together.”

Between the positive attitudes, laid back environment, and connections outside of work, the team here at Morning Sun seems to be more than friends. They are a family all their own. of restoring service and checking out the accident scene.”

Dutkevicz said it was the first time in his four or five years with BCRTA that he had seen an incident of this caliber.

“This is a relatively rare occurrence, [surprisingly], given our bitter winter,” Briggs said.

“And our operators have done a great job stressing safety over timeliness in these situations.”

Spilman commended BCRTA. “Management responded immediately to the scene, transported people who would have been tied up the entire time to one of the two campuses,” Spilman said. “The communication with them was just excellent.”

RELIGION, FROM PAGE 3

filiated with a Greek organization and Miami in general,” Holman said. “I have never let my faith deter me from partaking in the activities that are crucial to the college experience.”

Silver said he shares Holman’s opinion that college life is integral to the overall college journey of each student.

“I think the most important thing, learning from my own university experience, is the experience itself,” Silver said. “It’s not about one major or one way of living for everyone.”

Miami junior Alissa Pollack, a member of the Jewish faith, takes a similar approach to Holman in that her faith and her school are kept apart from each other.

“I think college and religion are two totally separate things,” Pollack said. “I have many friends who have found a great balance of having a fantastic social life, while also being extremely involved with their religion.”

Pollack connects with her faith while in Oxford at Hillel, which is not a synagogue, but is a center for Jewish students to have religious resources and celebrate high holidays such as Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana together.

Hillel serves approximately 1,000 students at Miami each year and will provide services all year long for anyone who needs them.

Miami senior Ally Kohler views religion as something that can be completely intertwined with college life. As a practicing non-denominational Christian, Kohler participates in Cru on campus, attends services at Oxford Bible Fellowship and started her own Bible study this year in her sorority.

REVIEW, FROM PAGE 4

a series of 16 short monologues hitting on rather bold subject matter. Everything from pubic hair to rape to sex left the audience with a memorable time.

There were moments of hysterical laughter from everyone in the room to utter silence and even a few shed tears during the more emotional scenes.

The university’s production of The Vagina Monologues is part of an international campaign called V-Day. According to V-Day’s website, V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a

CONDUCTOR, FROM PAGE 4

out West and study film music,” he said.

It was in Los Angeles that Reineke made a connection that catapulted his career. He was offered an internship with Carmon DeLeone, who served as conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at the time.

After four months working on music for the Peter Pan concert, Reineke was offered a permanent job. And in 2009, he made the move

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“I think that college is the perfect time to really find who you are in terms of your faith walk because college is where you set your habits for the rest of your life,” Kohler said. “If you hold tight to your values and are comfortable in your faith, mixing college and faith can actually be very encouraging.”

Kohler said her Bible study has shown her even more than in previous years how school and a social life can mix with a religious life. As part of a Greek organization, Kohler said she wants to show people that being Greek doesn’t mean a life only filled with partying.

Silver said there are problems he would consider to be “college problems” but overall each member of a faith community has to decide their role in it for themselves.

“It’s about helping that person to realize who they want to be, and more than that, who they are supposed to be,” Silver said.

For McGuff, attendance at church every Sunday is essential for her to recharge and center herself after stressful weeks at school.

St. Mary averages about 800 families who live in Oxford and come to church full time throughout the year. About 2,000 Miami students newly register at St. Mary each year, and it is estimated that about 500 from each class regularly attend mass during the school year, according to Silver.

Silver has the unique challenge of leading a parish that is not made up by mostly families with children, but rather by college students, a demographic not known for active religious practice.

Silver said further challenges arise because the differences in population from the students

to full-time Oxford residents can make it difficult to address the needs and wants of his parishioners.

Silver said to address discrepancies in needs for his parishioners, he tries to address something that will apply to each type of churchgoer during his homily, the point in church when he addresses attendees about the mass’s readings from the Bible.

“I try to say a little something for everybody,” Silver said. “I also rely a lot on humor. I think if you can get everybody smiling and laughing they’re going to be doing a better job of being kind in life.”

Silver said his main concern is showing the importance of religion at school, and that anyone with any lifestyle is welcome to learn at church, something Kohler definitely agrees with.

“You do not have to be a ‘perfect’ person to come to God. I think it is just about having faith in his goodness and showing that love to others,” Kohler said.

Holman said personal friendships have helped to strengthen her faith in a college environment.

“I was lucky enough to fall into a group of friends that had similar beliefs and a desire to continue building them and this common ground was something that I feel really fueled the development and maintenance of these friendships,” Holman said.

Despite differences in lifestyles, Silver said most of his parishioners are happy to listen to the message each week and can adapt it to their own life.

“The message has to be the same, the gospel is different for each group, how they apply it and at what stage of their life can be very different, but the ultimate goal remains the same.”

Silver said.

catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.

The auditorium was packed and had a surprisingly diverse mix of people in attendance. Shockingly, about a quarter of the audience were males.

“I came to the show because a lot of my friends were performing in it,” Nathan Ihm, one of the male students in attendance said.

“But I also think it’s for a really

great cause and I heard you get to yell expletives.”

And yell explicative words the audience did. During the monologue “Reclaiming Cunt,” performed by Carleigh LaFrance, the audience was asked to scream the word “cunt” as a call for reclaiming sexual power and pride in being a woman. In this moment, as a room full of men and women screamed at the top of their lungs a word typically only whispered about in private, the Vagina Monologues left a lasting statement about female empowerment.

to lead the New York Pops.

Today, Reineke said his conducting style comes from a compilation of his many influences and teachers.

“My style is full of energy,” he said. “In everything I approach, I do in the mindset of the audience.

I’m trying to put on a really good show.”

Reineke said he has finally found his niche as a pops conductor.

“This is really where it’s at for me I’m doing what I really love,” he said.

Along with the thrill of being in New York, Reineke said he loves

the flexibility of his music and its accessibility to masses.

“We really can do everything from Beethoven to Beyonce and I don’t treat any of it differently,” Reineke said.

As one of Reineke’s early teachers, Speck can see he is not done dreaming.

“Steve’s on the mission to transform the way Americans listen to music,” Speck said. “I think he wants to change the way culture looks at music so there’s less of a distinction between art music and other kinds of music.”

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OPINION

EDITORS EMILY ELDRIDGE NICOLE THEODORE

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014

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EDITORIAL

The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

Talk is cheap when it comes to Miami’s no-smoking policy Generally, when rules and laws are put in place by parents, the government or even your professors, negative consequences may certainly follow if a rule is broken or a law is ignored.

For the administration, this may be true when it comes to outrageously expensive parking tickets, academic dishonesty and underage alcohol consumption, but when it comes to the issue of tobacco use on campus, the lines are blurred.

This January, the administration felt it needed to add to its 2008 no-smoking policy, which already prohibited smoking anywhere on campus, university-owned facilities or on any university property. It drew the boundaries quite clearly for where smokers could and could not be.

Even though students, visitors and faculty continued to light up while walking around campus with almost zero enforcement, Miami has now added additional rules to its already lack-luster policy. Chewing tobacco and the use of e-cigarettes are also prohibited on university property, as well as using any of the above tobacco methods in your car if it is parked on the property According to Miami University Chief of Police John McCandless, no person will be arrested for smoking on campus.

He said it’s not “the intent of the university for MUPD to be taking levels of enforcement against those who are smoking.” So, if the university isn’t interested in enforcing the policy, and the only consequence someone can receive is a throwaway warning ticket, what is Miami’s intended goal with this policy?

The Miami Student Editorial Board questions the motives behind this university policy and why it is a focus of their time at

all if it continues to be an activity that truly can’t be enforced.

Some members of the editorial board felt that this isn’t the university trying to keep students healthy and safe from the use of tobacco products, but it’s more so of a perception issue and a reputation that Miami wants to uphold to future students, families and alumni.

Unfortunately for the university, if its aim is to showcase a campus that has mostly healthy students who look like they exercise and do not use, or rarely use, alcohol or tobacco products, their goal may be somewhat lofty.

When it comes to tobacco, one in three college students currently use tobacco products, according to a 2013 study by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health.

The new additions to the policy also get strange when it comes to chewing tobacco: how would someone tell the difference between someone chewing gum, or having something else in their mouth unless they are “spitting” the chew in front of an officer? It would be a bit unnerving to have a police officer come up to someone suspected of chewing and ask them what is in their mouth. The board isn’t even sure if MUPD officers would even do that, but the point is they probably wouldn’t, so why add a questionable addition to an already questionable policy?

The board respects and honors the university’s wishes to keep second-hand smoke reduced on campus and its efforts to keep students healthy, but these additions to a policy that isn’t taken seriously by anyone on campus, including employees and faculty, isn’t going to do any good without some serious backbone and enforcement.

Rule of Thumb Ellen’s Oscars selfie @TheEllenShow racked up close to 3 million retweets of a celeb-filled selfie — a Twitter record.

Epic hockey brawl What a way to end the season with Miami hockey last Saturday. p. 10

Less busy King Library ASC has really reduced the amount of traffic at King, which makes it easier to find a study room or cube.

PATRICK GEYSER THE MIAMI STUDENT

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Response from administration regarding recent commentary on financial aid services at Miami As I read last Tuesday’s The Miami Student staff editorial (“Miami needs to take reshaping the financial aid system seriously”), I was pleased to note just how many of its suggested reforms have been previously addressed or are currently underway.

The Office of Student Financial Assistance (SFA), in addition to all of the offices housed within the Office of Enrollment Management, operates according to one simple philosophy - the business that must be conducted as a result of being enrolled at the University should never compromise the student experience. We understand your time is valuable and believe our role is to help ensure your success through the delivery of student-centered and expedited services and processes.

With this in mind, SFA implemented a series of changes and upgrades last summer. We increased our staff coverage during peak demand and introduced the “My Bill and Aid” tab to MyMiami in order to increase students’ ability to manage much of their business online.

Additionally, the Bursar and SFA offices also went through an intensive, six-week cross training program to better position ourselves to answer questions related to both functions and, thereby, eliminate the practice of transferring student calls between offices. As a result of those efforts, SFA saw a 35 percent reduction in call volume between

June 1 and December 31, 2013; we received just over 19,100 calls, which is nearly 10,300 fewer calls than the same period the prior year.

In addition, during the same time frame, SFA offered in-person assistance to 2,018 guests, a drop of slightly more than 1,800 (48 percent) from the same period the prior year. Our goal is to provide 24/7 on-line services for the routine transactions, but at the same time ensure we have the staff in place to provide assistance to those students who visit our office.

In regard to commentary related to winter term, please note that the Office of the Provost provided winter term grants that assisted students with financial need who chose to enroll during the inaugural term - an initiative the Office of Student Financial Assistance is committed to continuing.

As far as the other reforms that the editorial suggests, such as the timing of disbursements, the U.S. Department of Education tightly regulates those procedures and it would take an act of Congress (literally) to implement any changes to these processes.

Finally, to address the editorial’s customer service concerns, we are very excited to be months away from opening a one-stop enrollment services center. This center will combine the forwardfacing customer service functions and websites of the Offices of the

Registrar, Bursar, and SFA to provide a seamless and integrated approach to answering enrollmentrelated questions and resolving student issues. This coming fall, the enrollment center will introduce one website, one phone number, and one location to meet nearly all student business needs. The center will fundamentally change the way Miami students think about the services at the Campus Avenue Building and— most importantly— improve the Miami experience.

Please know that while we prepare for the launch of the enrollment services center, students can stop by the Office of Student Financial Assistance anytime. No appointment is necessary. We have counselors available who will do everything they can to assist any Miami student.

Offering students exceptional services is an important goal for SFA and every staff member in the Office of Enrollment Management. I invite any member of the student body to contact me directly at shockb@miamioh.edu with any questions or concerns.

I would like to extend my appreciation to the The Miami Student for the opportunity to engage in this important discussion.

BRENT SHOCK

DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE SHOCKB@MIAMIOH.EDU

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Icy sidewalks Iceskates may be the best option in some slick areas off-campus.

Her Campus at Miami Co-founder and president Windsor Hanger will be speaking today at 7 p.m. in ASC.

High utility bills This long winter means months of high electricity bills.

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ANDREW’S ASSESSMENTS

The new and emerging war for late-night TV Late-night TV brings a lot of joy to its consumers, but has caused many a headache for network executives over what to do, who to choose for host, and how to do so with tact—something they’ve almost always struggled with.

ANDREW Johnny GEISLER Carson made it a nightly staple for many Americans, a comedy talk show hybrid on NBC while you’re drifting off to sleep. “The Tonight Show’s” success under Carson for 30 years from 1962-1992 turned late night TV into an area of serious interest for networks.

Advertisers love the time slot and the show, which runs after the local news across the country, and more importantly at 10:35 in the central time zone.

Back in ‘92 when Carson was ready to call it quits, David Letterman and Jay Leno, both of whom dreamed of hosting “The Tonight Show” for most of their lives, engaged in an epic battle to take over the franchise. When the dust settled, NBC went with Leno, not without some serious infighting immortalized in Bill Carter’s excellent book “The Late Shift,” which chronicles the decision on who to choose. Letterman landed on his feet at CBS with his own show, and it looked early on like he had won the ratings war at the 11:35 p.m. slot, until nearly a year in when Leno took over the lead and never relinquished it.

Sixteen years later, NBC kicked out Leno for Letterman’s Late Night replacement, Conan O’Brien. His run at Tonight lasted

only seven months, and Leno, who was never far away, was back in at 11:35 (the jockeying there also got a Carter book, this one: The War for Late Night).

Four years later, NBC split with Leno, this time for Jimmy Fallon (Conan’s heir apparent at “Late Night”) and wasn’t as acrimonious as the proceedings had been in the past. And sliding long time Saturday Night Live head writer and “Weekend Update” host, Seth Meyers into “Late Night” was an obvious move.

But Letterman, who can probably keep his show until they take him out feet first if he wants to, and Fallon aren’t the only two in the 11:35 ring. In 2003, ABC got into the latenight game with the irreverent Jimmy Kimmel, who had been deeply influenced by Letterman. In 2013, after years of bouncing around time slots, Kimmel’s show got the 11:35 time slot.

This sets up a fascinating new war over late night preeminence that began two weeks ago when Fallon’s “Tonight Show” made its debut.

Fallon and Kimmel both certainly have different styles from late night hosts of yesteryear, though Fallon’s style is more distinct.

Notably, 11:35 has lost the populism it’s had since Carson took over in 1962. Carson was from Omaha and was a big hit in fly over country at the 10:35 slot. Leno was chosen partially because he carried that same un-New York like appeal.

Now all three networks have a serious coastal bias in their hosts.

The networks could be killing an important franchise with their coastal blind spots. Or they could know what they’re doing. Jimmy Fallon’s child-like joy on stage and Kimmel’s acerbic wit and fearlessness could be exactly what viewers want today.

But I doubt either will be as successful in the central time zone as Leno was. Then again, Leno’s audience was getting far too old, and the younger push was a smart move to engage those in the all important 18-49 demographic.

Only time will answer the ratings question, and early ones shouldn’t be made too much of — remember Letterman was beating Leno at first until Leno crushed him for years.

This is simply America’s late night feeling out period with the two Jimmy’s (since Letterman is old news).

Early on, we can see that both Jimmy’s have done what great comics in the past have done to great success: been comfortable with themselves. They know who they are. They know their own styles, and have had years of experience at less high profile shows and time slots. Both are very funny and very talented. Kimmel’s format is certainly more like a traditional late night show with all of Fallon’s skits and dances, but that may not matter. Traditional could be dead in late night. It’s certainly dead in most other places in the culture.

Some have been critical of Meyers for his safe format on “Late Night,” but here too, patience is the answer. When Conan O’Brien took over “Late Night” for Letterman, he was so bad early on that many wanted to pull him early. But he found his niche and Meyers will too.

The 12:35 time slot is designed for a comedian to grow into a show, not for a maestro to come in and rock America’s comedic sensibilities.

That’s what 11:35 is for. It’s Jimmy vs. Jimmy for your bedtime TV entertainment and the new war for late night glory.

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MILAM’S MUSINGS

The homeless are real people who need real help It’s around midnight in the parking garage that I call home. I’m on the fifth floor stairwell curled up on the asphalt trying to fall asleep, trying to not let the arctic air break me down.

S l e e p never came easy on cold BRETT nights, or MILAM any night when I didn’t have the comfort of a bed to drift away on. Humans are adaptable, though, I would always catch at least a couple of hours of interrupted sleep on most nights.

Dwelling on dark thoughts when you’re homeless is the surest way to a mental collapse. Looking for answers when none existed always followed a similar pattern.

Why am I homeless? Cause I’m a loser. How can I get out of this situation? Well, as I stated, I’m a loser, ain’t happening. Will I see my kids again? Losers don’t see their children.

Concrete is cold. A parking garage has a lot of concrete. I slept on concrete at night. I was often cold. When I got ready for “bed” at night, I would take what little clothes I owned that I carried around in a grimy blue backpack, and lay them on the ground to use as a sheet. A too-thin layer of protection from that cold concrete.

Backpack, sheets made of clothes, my dirty black coat and the fetal position. The concrete was his usual disdainful self: cold, hard and unforgiving. I slept in a f**king parking garage.

The above is excerpted from my uncle, Chris Milam, and his stories “The Cop and the Vagrant” and “Stories of Homelessness: Merry Christmas,” respectively, which both can be seen in full on his blog: wispofsmoke.wordpress.com.

According to Drop Inn Center, one of the largest homeless shelters serving the Cincinnati area, there are 9,675 confirmed homeless people (which includes supportive housing) in Cincinnati.

With another snowstorm covering the area, how many of those 9,675 homeless individuals will be trying to sleep on cold concrete, as my uncle did in the winter of 2011?

My uncle is in a better place now thanks to Transitional Living here in Butler County, run by Kathy Becker. They saved his life by offering him a place to stay, a therapist, a case manager, medication, group therapy and access to a registered nurse. But it wasn’t always like that.

The loneliness and the selfloathing that permeate the mind of a homeless person are perhaps worse than the cold rattling their bones. The type of loneliness that makes one feel invisible.

“No friends, no family, just nothingness. You have to remind yourself that you’re still a human being, even though you feel like a feral dog. A f**king lonely dog,” Chris said.

He said such self-loathing is more at the forefront when one is homeless rather than any misguided social perceptions people have about homelessness. However, all too often, I hear people on my Facebook feed or in general conversations, deride the homeless as less than, as con-artists, as the annoying froth interfering with our daily commute with their panhandling.

If people think that is just anecdotal derision of the homeless, then consider what some local governments have done.

There have been laws passed in Philadelphia, Orlando, New York City, Houston and proposed in Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere to ban people from giving the homeless food in public spaces (like parks). Luckily, thanks to the efforts of the ACLU and other groups, Philadelphia has since backed down.

However, with food pantries already stretched thin, these laws seem especially harmful and unnecessary. I can go to a park and feed a pigeon, but I can’t feed a hungry human being?

Other places, like Nevada City and Denver, have passed ordinances requiring a permit to sleep in a

public place or even your own car.

“It just basically means you can’t set up a tent. You can’t live in your vehicle. You can’t live in the woods in Nevada City,” Nevada City police chief James Wickham said.

These local governments try to guise such actions as helping the homeless, but it’s really more cosmetic: a homeless man sleeping on a park bench is unsightly to residents and tourists.

The first step to solving homelessness is being aware that those affected are human beings in need of our help. Beyond that, when one considers the team effort needed to help an individual out of homelessness (case workers, therapists, nurses and so on), it can seem daunting to solve.

Even so, the Tiny House Movement, which provides microhousing to the homeless, is a promising start.

A self-funded organization, Community First, has already lifted 100 homeless people off the streets in Austin, Texas. Occupy Madison in Wisconsin provides a 98-square-foot structure complete with a bed, toilet and tiny kitchen.

“Our first house cost $5,000 to make, and we did it without asking for government help,” Occupy board member, Brenda Konkel, said.

Family should be the first line of defense to helping the homeless and if not, then places like Transitional Living offer a necessary support system.

Our family wasn’t there at that time for my uncle. Regardless of any of his past transgressions or that we had offered help on prior occasions, we weren’t there during that time. And I see it as a blight on our family record. He wasn’t a killer or a rapist; at the end of the day, he was family.

“It’s your fellow man or woman that’s broken, not a monster. A simple ‘hi’ actually means a lot to a struggling person. Makes us remember that we are still human, just like you,” Chris said.

SENIOR, PHILOSOPHY MILAMBC@MIAMIOH.EDU

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COMMENTARY

Putin’s gone rogue with Ukraine It is now clear that what is going on in Crimea and eastern Ukraine is all an elaborate show, planned and directed by Moscow. Given the wording in a resolution unanimously passed by the Russian Federation Council giving Vladimir Putin authority to use Russian troops in not just Crimea, but on “Ukrainian territory,” the beginnings of ‘popular’ pro-Russian unrest in eastern Ukraine and Moscow’s continued inflammatory rhetoric, we can reasonably say that Putin will attempt to incorporate eastern Ukraine and Crimea into Russia or split Ukraine in two and establish a Moscow puppet state in the east.

But the question remains, why would the risk-averse Putin, all toowell knowing the heavy fallout from such a provocative action, which obnoxiously flouts international law and norms, take such decisive and aggressive action? Moreover, Russia has preached sovereignty as its No. 1 foreign policy principle, even in the face of mounting evidence of the Assad regime’s brutality in Syria for instance. Then there’s the fact that Moscow has spent $50 billion in the last seven years on bettering its image in the West and successfully lobbied to host the recent Olympics and the 2018 World Cup. Sure, Russia has an important naval base on Crimea, however, Russia’s lease isn’t up until 2042 and the Ukrainian state surely needs the money going forward.

Had Putin just waited, the painful reforms that the West would have demanded in exchange for loans to plug Ukraine’s immediate budget holes likely would have rendered the interim Ukrainian government extremely unpopular, leaving Moscow sitting pretty. Instead, Russia will inherit this mess, along with severe economic problems, should they gain de facto or de jure control of Ukraine, or parts of it. And few believe that a Russian military victory can be achieved without much bloodshed and destruction.

First, we must remember that Ukraine was a zero-sum game for Putin from the start. When it became clear the Kremlin had lost, it instinctively attributed it to Western, specifically U.S. interference. It is inconceivable to Moscow that the Ukrainian people, or anyone for that matter, could revolt against their rulers without outside instigation. We must also keep in mind that the Russian elite is currently buoyed by their success in hosting the Olympics, despite much skepticism and criticism – the fact that no top Western leaders attended is fresh in their minds as well. Stanislav Belkovsky, a Russian political commentator, labeled it “hypertoxic schizophrenia.”

Secondly, Putin was correct in his observation that the West didn’t want Ukraine that badly, for any number of reasons, including but not limited to its aforementioned deep economic problems and disastrous finances, as well as internal strife, and fear of agitating Russia. Putin also correctly realized that ultimately the U.S. and the West could do little but shun his regime internationally, slap sanctions on Russian officials and freeze Russian assets in Western banks, at least in the immediate to short term.

The latter is an oddly desirable outcome considering that mid-level Russian officials have been sabotaging Putin’s anti-corruption efforts, as well as the fact that their higher-ups, including Putin, have their illegally received money safely hidden. And there is the question of whether the West even has the appetite to seize

the assets since the Western financial sector will vigorously resist any attempt to impinge on the Russian assets they hold, potentially rendering any Western effort to seize these assets futile. Moreover, some greedy Westerner will always be there to take stolen Russian money. And besides, Western governments can’t really stop their companies from doing business in Russia. Even if they could, properly-applied Russian pressure could break their unity.

Thirdly, with the first signs of an impending economic crisis in Russia appearing, the Kremlin needs all the sources of public support it can get. Certainly, reestablishing Russian control over territories historically Russia’s would do just that.

The Kremlin’s aggressive response to and rhetoric toward the protests is meant to marginalize Putin’s domestic opposition, associating them with the conniving West and fascism, while simultaneously making it clear that Putin will stand firmly against challenges to established power, whether they be in Syria, Ukraine, or Russia itself. Just a few days ago, leading Russian oppositionist, Aleksei Navalny, was placed under house arrest for two months with no internet access. This is just the latest in a string of Kremlin moves aimed at further consolidating its power and raising the stakes for opposition.

The veneer of democracy and rule of law is no more.

Finally, and most crucially in my opinion, aside from the deep historical and cultural ties Russia and Ukraine share, the latter is central to Putin’s Eurasian Customs Union, an attempt at reintegrating the postSoviet space economically under the control of Moscow. Putin has created a politico-economic system whose most salient features are cronyism and corruption and that by all indications is becoming more and more difficult to control. Therefore, the Customs Union project was not just an attempt to make Russia a stronger world power, but an admittance of failure on the part of the Kremlin; the current system is simply unfixable.

The result is stagnation, inflation and has required a mix of increased authoritarianism and government social spending to ward off political challenges. Putin calculated that without Ukrainian participation, his Customs Union project, and by extension his legacy as Russian president, would be irreparably damaged.

No one knows where this will end. For one, Russia has not come this far to back down, and certainly not to Western pressure. Secondly, if Putin has indeed gone rogue, reconciling himself with the idea of a closed, autarkic (along with other Customs Union countries), authoritarian or fascist Russia, where does Moscow’s aggression end?

The post-Soviet era is over. The post-WWII international order is dead. Globalization and its byproduct, i.e. the weakening of state, and more broadly collective, organized, power is the cause. The combination of the total embrace of unfettered neoliberalism in the West and the incoherence of America’s foreign policy since 1991 has only accelerated the West’s decline. Putin is just reaping the benefits of these processes.

The author is a Junior Fellow at the Miami University Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies.

KEARY IARUSSI SENIOR, DIPLOMACY & GLOBAL POLITICS

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Song for “Let It Go.” Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the pair who wrote the hit song, gave a wonderfully amusing speech that rhymed up until the very end, when they dedicated the song and the award to their two daughters.

Arguably the most entertaining part of the entire ceremony was its host, the one and only Ellen DeGeneres. Whether she was ordering pizza for everyone in the front rows of the audience and having Brad Bitt pass out paper plates, walking out on stage in a pink Glinda dress from “The Wizard of Oz,” or organizing what was perhaps the most amazing selfie ever taken with 10 other celebrities

and breaking the Twitter record for most retweets, DeGeneres was fantastic as host. I can only hope that she’ll be back to do the whole thing again soon – and maybe temporarily disable Twitter for a second time while she’s at it.

But the glitz and glamour of the ceremony is second in comparison to the true nature of the awards: a celebration of all the amazing movies made in the past year. For me at least, in the end, the Academy Awards aren’t about who wins and who loses, or even who’s nominated and who’s not. The Oscars have always been, and should always be a wonderful celebration of all that was achieved in film and the incredible stories that were told through those films over the past year.

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ways at the final buzzer, however, when benches cleared and players of both teams squared off against each other. Tensions had been high all game, but the powder keg of pent up fury ignited as time expired in the third. Linemates, defensemen and even goaltenders rushed to aid their embattled squadmates as an old-time hockey fight played out in the waning moments of the evening The officials were quick to break up the skirmish, but as of this article’s publication, no player on either team has been handed a game suspension, which is the customary

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“perfectly fair.”

“It’s not like we’re paying them to go here, we’re giving them scholarship money to come here,” Magro said. “Student athletes are people who very visibly improve campus quality of life. The other students enjoy going to the games, not like we’re always good or anything, but everyone enjoys going to them. And they’re also supporting campus life and campus morale, the better they do, the more students they attract, the more money they bring into the university and the more money the university can then put into other things.”

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punishment for dropping the gloves.

For Miami, it looks as if the fight breathed a new sense of urgency into the flailing, former first place club.

“It was a chippy type of game,” Czarnik said. “A lot of talking going on for both teams and I think that just kind of worked out the way it did … everyone was positive after the game. It’s not the result that we wanted but I think that’s the best attitude and mindset we’ve had all year.”

Miami concludes regular season play this weekend when it travels across the country to meet with NCHC opponent the University of Denver. ers are fair or not, Ellis said that the administration certainly does. “[The University’s] focus is usually on overall affordability than it is over one group receiving favorable treatment relative to another group or one student relative to another,” Ellis said.

And though the fee waivers range from $2,652,250 for out-ofstate athletes to only $93,117 for students going to Miami Luxembourg, Ellis maintains that the fee waivers set aside for the 252 outof-state student athletes is not unreasonable.

“In terms of assessing the 2,652,250… to you and me, that’s a lot of money, but inside the university budget it’s a relatively modest amount,” Ellis said.

SOFTBALL, FROM PAGE 10

The Red and White started off strong against Kansas Sunday, as Modic ripped a two-run homer in the first. However, the Jayhawks pushed across three runs in the bottom of the inning. It was all KU from that point on as it picked up runs in the third and fifth innings.

Senior second baseman Kristy Arbour had a good day on offense as she went 2-2 on the day. Modic pitched well in relief, going 5.2 innings and giving up one earned run.

The rematch against SIU started off the same as the first game, as Southern Illinois took an early lead

CHORALE, FROM PAGE 2

Music major Jimmy Chase finds meaning in the people simply because of their shared love of music.

“Everyone is there because they love music and singing,” Chase said. “That passion flows from each of us in the form of joy laughter and peace.”

Relief from the stresses of college, a love of music and friendships formed were all things that have helped sustain Schneider’s affinity for singing. What began as a hobby in her middle school days has grown into a lifelong passion.

“High school is when my love of choir really grew and I was super involved,” Schneider said. “I spend

with solo homer in the second and a three run homer in the fourth. However, Miami had a three-run fourth inning of its own as Reed drove in a runner off a sacrifice fly and Lipscomb had a two-run double. The host team posted another three runs in the following inning and piled on two more runs in the sixth before tacking on another in the seventh.

The ’Hawks had an opportunity to come back with the base being loaded and two outs, but the game ended on a groundout.

The offense struggled, as it only registered three hits in the game and Logemann picked up her fourth loss of the season on the mound.

“We played some good teams

this weekend,” head coach Clarisa Crowell said. “We’re disappointed that we couldn’t win more games but we had some learning opportunities.

It’s a long season… We need to simplify things since we’re thinking too much. Offensively, we need to get good at-bats, swing at good pitches and be consistent with our at-bats.

It’s difficult to prepare on defense when you’re not on the field much.

We need to have a lot of reps outside and work on our communication. We also need our pitching to step up.”

The RedHawks will make their home debut Saturday with a doubleheader against Austin Peay State University. The games are scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

lots of time auditioning for new groups and it was my favorite thing to do in any free time.”

As Schneider entered Miami in 2012, she began to consider a future in music.

“I thought maybe I’d want to go into music education at one point, but I started to be too focused on being the best and being perfect,” Schneider said.

Although she chose to take her career in a different direction, she still wanted to make sure singing was a part of her life as much as possible.

“I still always want to be the best I can be, but I wanted to take the pressure off of it and make it something for fun,” Schneider said. “It’s just what I love to do and I don’t

want to turn it into work.”

For Schneider, the most fun this year so far was a concert with the Misfitz when they sang a medley of Disney songs.

“One of the seniors threw it together in less than a week and had it ready for the concert,” Schneider said. “It was one of those really creative pieces that we did purely for fun.”

As Schneider continues in college, she is happy to have a fun outlet to get away from work and school life.

“I’ll always be grateful to have singing as a place where I can just relax and stop worrying for a little bit,” Schneider said. “The people are wonderful too and have become great friends over the years.”

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HOCKEY

LACK OF STUDEN SUPPORT HURTING MIAMI ATHLETICS

Bulldogs sweep ’Hawks

ROB’S REVIEW

As the Miami University hockey season spirals out of control, so does the attendance at Goggin Ice Center.

Miami is in a new conference, featuring some of the best programs in the country. Despite having little experience against these teams, it was clear to even the casual fan, such as myself, this year was going to be harder.

Sadly, the NCHC has gotten the better of the RedHawks this year.

The ’Hawks are 11-18-3 and 5-16-1 in conference play, making it clear Miami has struggled with some of the big boys to the west. Due in large part to the poor results on the ice, the fans have not been filling up the stands with the consistency they have in years past.

Is it that the RedHawks are no longer fun to watch or is it that the Miami fans, including myself, are too fair weathered to go support struggling teams? I believe the obvious answer is the fans are too fair weathered.

Miami fans are used to the hockey team being one of the best in the nation. This year has been different, partly because of the increase in talent the RedHawks are facing every night. Much like the football team, it seems as though the fans have given up on the hockey team.

Student attendance is noticeably down at all sporting events, including hockey. This is a clear sign that Miami fans are giving up on their teams too easily. The hockey team is young: there are only two seniors and many freshmen are getting the call for major playing time. This combination of youth and lack of experience has led to even more hardship for the RedHawks.

If you listen to any team or coach at any level, they say fan support can help motivate their players. No sensible fan will tell you the RedHawks have not played every game hard, especially since most of their losses have been by two or fewer points.

But one could wonder if that little bit of motivation from the normal fan support might have helped.

The RedHawks had a rough year, but giving up on them is something Miami fans should not do. They will get better and they will get used to playing in this new conference.

If Miami fans go out and support their team, next year will be better.

If not, Miami’s teams will continue to struggle and players will not want to come here due to lack of support.

This not only applies to the hockey team, but to all Miami teams. If Miami fans want their teams to be better they must show their support.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

RedHawks fall to Buffalo after second half collapse

BY ZACH MACIASZEK FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s basketball team (11-16, 7-9 MAC) went into the locker room at the half with a two-point lead on the University at Buffalo (18-8, 12-4 MAC).

The lead would not last long, however, as the Bulls stampeded the punch-less ’Hawks in the second half on their way to a 78-55 win at Alumni Arena.

Miami head coach John Cooper said Miami had no response to several Buffalo scoring runs in the second half.

“We never answered any run they were able to make,” Cooper said.

“Our energy level was not good enough. We could not overcome our inefficiencies on the offensive end.”

Buffalo’s senior guard Joshua Freelove scored a career-high 24 points, knocking down six of 10 3-point attempts. He scored 21 points in the second half, headlining Buffalo’s romp over the RedHawks.

“Led by what Josh was able to do scoring 21 in the second half and hitting some big threes really energized our team,” Buffalo head coach Bobby Hurley said.

Senior forward Javon McCrea, a leading contender for Mid-American Conference Player of the Year honors, garnered 13 points and a game-high 13 rebounds.

Senior forward Will Felder led MU with 12 points and senior guard Quinten Rollins was second with 11 points. He also added five steals, good for half of Miami’s 10 steals during the afternoon.

The first half saw both teams go back and forth on long scoring runs. Miami’s junior guard Will

Sullivan hit a 3 with 4:01 remaining in the opening period to give the RedHawks their biggest lead of the game at 27-20.

Buffalo then went on an 8-0 scoring run to take a one-point lead. A 3-pointer by freshman guard Jaryd Eustace with three seconds left on the clock gave the ’Hawks the momentum and the lead heading into the locker room, 30-28.

It was after that point that things fell apart for the Red and White.

After trading baskets in the opening minutes of the second half, the Bulls used an 11-0 run to take the lead 45-35 with 13:04 remaining. From that point on, they never looked back. A Felder layup pulled Miami within six, 45-39, but that was as close as they would get.

The Bulls scored 50 points in the second half on 68 percent shooting from the floor. Conversely, Miami shot just 39 percent in the final 20 minutes.

With the win, Buffalo clinched at least a share of the MAC East Division title.

The victory also gives them their first season sweep of the RedHawks since the 2008-09 season. The Bulls previously beat Miami Feb. 12 7562 at Millett Hall.

Miami finishes up its twogame road-stand when it travels to Kent State University (16-13, 7-9 MAC) Tuesday.

The Golden Flashes beat the RedHawks 75-62 Feb. 19 at Millett Hall, largely due hitting 15 of their 26 3-point attempts. Junior guard Kris Brewer flexed his shooting muscles in that game, as he nailed all seven of his 3-point attempts on his way to a game-high 28 points.

Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.

BEN TAYLOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami junior forward Austin Czarnik battles with UMD freshman forward Kyle Osterberg during Miami’s 1-0 loss Saturday.

BY JOE GIERINGER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University hockey team struggles continued this weekend, but they didn’t go down without a fight – literally. Following a wideopen 5-4 loss Friday to the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the Brotherhood battled to the wrong end of a 1-0 affair that ended in a bench-clearing brawl as time expired. In only a few minutes, it appeared Miami and Minnesota-Duluth had planted the seeds of a heated, National Collegiate Hockey Conference rivalry in just the third-ever meeting between the two teams.

“I thought our effort was good,” head coach Enrico Blasi said, particularly of Saturday night’s performance. “We just didn’t execute.”

The two losses drop the RedHawks’ record to 11-18-3, and 5-16-1-1 in NCHC play. Seniors Max Cook and Bryon Paulazzo

(were honored prior to the Senior Night puck drop Saturday, as Miami geared up for its final home game of the year.

Minnesota-Duluth (15-13-4, 1010-2-2 NCHC) gains some muchneeded momentum as it nears the league tournament, though the onescore losses also proved Miami was still very much alive, and dangerous to boot.

Miami jumped out to an early 2-0 lead Friday night on junior forward Blake Coleman’s breakaway goal early in the first period, with junior forward and captain Austin Czarnik supplying the pretty pass that traversed two-thirds of the length of the ice. Freshman Anthony Louis finished off the first frame scoring off two nifty passes from Cook and junior Cody Murphy.

UMD tied the contest up with three goals in 2:25, but fell behind on Louis’ second strike of the night, again assisted by Murphy. The

Bulldogs tickled the twine twice more and Coleman notched his second goal of the night, evening things up at four apiece entering the third period. 1:09 into the final frame, Bulldog junior forward Adam Krause found a seam when Czarnik mishandled a power play opportunity on the Bulldog blueline, and Krause buried the eventual game winner to lift his team to a 5-4 win.

“Friday night we had a good start,” Czarnik said. “We had a couple let downs, a couple turnovers and they capitalized. But I think we’re starting to go in the right direction … we’re starting to do the right things.”

Saturday was a more complete contest in terms of quality of play from the RedHawks, and freshman forward Kyle Osterberg’s onetimer was the difference in the 1-0 contest. Fans quickly checked their

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MU drops seventh straight MAC game

BY JUSTIN MASKULINSKI SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University women’s basketball team dropped its seventh straight Mid-American Conference game Saturday, falling to the University at Buffalo, 74-61.

The RedHawks (7-20, 3-13 MAC) were trailing the Bulls (16-11, 9-7 MAC) by as many as 20 points in the first half. The ’Hawks pulled within four points of the visitors with 5:58 remaining in the second half, but Buffalo pulled away to complete the season sweep of Miami.

“It’s disappointing that we lost,” Miami head coach Cleve Wright said. “I felt like we showed some guts in the second half coming back a little bit. We just couldn’t get over the hump.”

The ’Hawks did not have a lead in the entire game, and trailed the Bulls by at least 10 points for 20 straight minutes.

The first-half deficit grew as the RedHawks struggled from the field.

In the first half, the ’Hawks shot 31 percent from the field, while the

Bulls shot 45 percent. Wright said the ’Hawks wanted to attack the Bulls more in the second half. “[Buffalo] was having a hard time trying to set up their defense,” Wright said. “We needed to attack their zone and not stand. I thought we had a lot of good looks in the first half that didn’t go.”

The RedHawks came out in the second half attempting numerous defensive strategies in order to slow the Bulls’ offense.

“When you’re down like that, you’re trying to get turnovers,” Wright said. “We were trying to give [Buffalo] a different look and make them think a little bit more. We were able to get some turnovers; it helped us a little bit.”

The RedHawks’ comeback was also assisted by freshman guard Jillian Spurlock, who scored 17 of her team-high 19 points in the second half.

“I think I had a little confidence boost after hitting the first or second shot,” Spurlock said. “I wasn’t hesitating, like [Wright] said, because when I do that, it’s not pretty.”

The pinnacle of the Miami comeback attempt was courtesy of a jumper by Spurlock to cut the lead to four points.

After that jumper, the Bulls went on an 8-0 run that gave them a commanding double-digit lead that they held on to.

The ’Hawks were also led by senior guard Hannah Robertson, who scored 18 points.

Miami finished the game shooting 37.5 percent from the field and 15 percent from behind the arc, making just three of its 20 attempts.

Next up, the ’Hawks will host Bowling Green State University (25-3, 15-1) noon Wednesday in Millett Hall.

The first time these two teams met, the Falcons took down the ’Hawks by a commanding score of 91-45.

Spurlock said the ’Hawks will be better prepared this time around.

“We have nothing to lose,” Spurlock said. “We didn’t play our best as a team that day, but when we do, I think we can make things happen. I think we have a pretty good chance with [Bowling Green].”

SOFTBALL

Red and White close Coach B Classic with three consecutive losses

BY JORDAN RINARD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University softball team struggled to keep its early momentum going in the Coach B Classic. The RedHawks downed Murray State University 7-1, before dropping three straight to Southern Illinois University, the University of Kansas and a rematch with SIU. The RedHawks (4-8) also went 1-3 during the

weekend prior to the tournament.

“It was a tough weekend for us after having a strong first game,” senior first baseman/pitcher Jenna Modic said. “We need to start coming together and clean up a few things. We need to have better communication on defense and more timely hits on offense. We were in situation where we were one play away from breaking a game open, but we didn’t do it.

If we can work on that, things will

start falling into place for us.”

Miami started off its tournament opener Saturday with a bang, as both sophomore outfielder Taylor Shuey and senior catcher Kayla Ledbetter homered in the first inning against Murray State. The ’Hawks tacked on three more in the third off RBIs by sophomore third baseman Hailey Reed and junior outfielder Brianna Lipscomb. The Racers got on the board with a run in the bottom of

the inning, but they walked a runner home in the fourth and gave up a Lipscomb solo shot in the seventh.

Sophomore pitcher Amber Logemann picked up her first win of the season in the game as she went five innings, allowing one run while recording four strikeouts. Lipscomb had a strong game offensively as she went 2-4 with three RBIs and a home run.

Things did not go quite as

smoothly in the following game against Southern Illinois. After being down 9-0 in the fifth and having the bases loaded with two outs, the RedHawks were unable to get anything going as the game was decided by the run-rule. Shuey went 2-3 in the game, while the pitching staff surrendered nine runs off nine hits.

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