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In 1970, The Miami Student reported that simultaneous narcotics raids led to 12 arrests. Six Miami University students, one Western College student, four Oxford residents and one Pittsburgh student were held in the Butler County and Oxford jails. All were being held on a $10,000 bond. After the first group was arrested, a group of approximately 75 to 100 people gathered outside the Oxford Police Department (OPD). The crowd remained until 1 a.m.

The arrests were the culmination of a year’s investigation by members of OPD during off duty hours. A “buyer” had been brought in four months prior to purchase the drugs for the purpose of issuing warrants.

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TOP LEFT: Students vote in the Shriver Center multi-purpose room.TOP RIGHT: Students sign in to vote in Oxford Tuesday. BOTTOM RIGHT: Signs outside Shriver Center. BOTTOM LEFT: Senior Katie Knable and sophomore Colleen Ryan help first-year Isabelle Bromberg print a proof of address letter.

Record results leave voters looking ‘forward’

By JM Rieger, Jenn Smola

Multimedia Editor, Campus Editor

After weeks of political ads, campaign news and volunteering for the candidates, Miami University students now look to what’s next.

“Obviously we’re very ecstatic over the election results,” Laura Kretz, president of College Democrats, said. “We’re very happy with not only re-electing President Obama, but also

re-electing Sherrod Brown.”

President Barack Obama received more than 58 percent of the vote in Oxford on Election Day, according to the Butler County Board of Elections. By comparison, 36 percent of Butler County voted for Obama Tuesday.

College Republicans Chairman Baylor Myers said the College Republicans were down but not defeated following Mitt Romney’s loss on Tuesday.

“The president did not deserve a second term but he has received

one, and for that the country will likely be sorry,” Myers said.

But Myers also said the College Republicans contributed to the Romney campaign as much they could.

“I’m incredibly proud of the College Republicans,” Myers said. “In this election cycle we knocked on over 16,000 doors and made over 25,000 phone calls.”

More than 68 percent of Butler County’s registered voters cast ballots Tuesday, similar to early estimates of

statewide voter turnout.

Voter turnout increased more than 4 percent this year in Butler County compared to the 2008 election, although fewer citizens registered and voted this year.

Voter turnout is calculated by dividing the number of people who voted by the number of people registered to vote.

Of Butler County’s 20 cities or townships, Oxford had the lowest voter turnout in 2008 and in 2012. Miami University Political Science Professor Ryan Barilleaux said turnout matters the

most in close elections.

“Certain kinds of elections bring out lots of voters; this one brought out a lot more than it might have otherwise, but it didn’t bring out as many as some people thought it was going to,” Barilleaux said.

“It didn’t change the fundamental nature of the electorate [though].”

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a record $6 billion was spent on the 2012 federal elections. Miami senior

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On deck:WMSR moves outside booth CAS course aims to help students recognize skills

By Chelsea Liebenthal

For the Miami Student

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The outdoor press deck will now house one more media organization: Miami University’s student-led radio broadcast group, WMSR.

Katie M. Taylor

Senior Staff Writer

Miami University’s studentrun radio station, WMSR, had its football broadcasts relocated last August to make room for Miami University football coach Don Treadwell’s family in the Yager Stadium press box.

According to WMSR’s general manager Dan Basar, the radio staff was notified several weeks prior to last year’s opening game that their

original location in the press box would no longer be available. “[WMSR] got an email from the athletic department basically saying that the new coach, Don Treadwell—last year was his first year at Miami—had requested additional space in the press box for his own purposes,” Basar said. “As a result there was no longer going to be room for WMSR.” According to Mike Pearson, the assistant athletic director of communications and technology,

providing space in the press box for the coach is standard procedure at Mid-American Conference (MAC) schools.

“It’s very common that other MAC schools make space almost unanimously for the head coaches part,” Pearson said. “It may even be part of the contract.”

A provision made in MAC policy three years ago requiring that space

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A new course offered by the College and Arts and Sciences will give students the opportunity to discover the many diverse directions their degrees can take them.

CAS 301 is a one-credit hour class that will be offered for the first time this upcoming spring semester. It will aim to help students recognize how to use the skills they have acquired towards establishing goals and obtaining jobs.

Associate Dean Chris Makaroff will co-teach the course alongside Dean Phyllis Callahan.

Makaroff said he noticed students weren’t fully grasping the value of the education they were getting and wanted to work with them to better understand the benefits of their degrees.

“It became clear that a lot of humanities and social sciences students didn’t understand and couldn’t articulate all the assets they had that were desirable by companies,” Makaroff said.

“They had developed critical thinking, communication and leadership skills but didn’t seem to know how they could apply those to careers in business,

government and nonprofits.”

In collaboration with the Arts and Sciences alumni board, Makaroff and Callahan developed this course to show students the strengths of their degree and how those strengths can be used to explore different career paths.

“It’s not like you’ll be learning new math or Spanish skills,”

...it’s a convenient way to explore career possibilities, which is something I should be doing...”

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Makaroff said. “You will learn about leadership traits, how you can apply your skills, how to interview, how to polish your resume and how career services can help you find jobs.”

For students in the College of Arts and Sciences, it’s not always clear-cut the kind of career that corresponds to the degree.

C. Lee Harrington, professor of Sociology and Gerontology,

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Travel guru Rick Steves to share tips and tales

By Margeaux Leakas For The Miami Student

Monday, Miami University will welcome travel writer Rick Steves as part of the Miami University Lecture Series for his lecture titled “Europe Through the Back Door.”

According to communications professor Howard Kleiman, who is on the lecture series committee, the committee decided to bring Steves for many reasons. In the past, the committee realized that it is difficult to fill the seats when the guest did not have name recognition. Since

Alyssa Klein, coordinator of the Luxembourg Program. The program will have 130 students participating in its spring 2013 Luxembourg Program and many of them have expressed enthusiasm about the Rick Steves lecture.

“Students will likely be interested in learning more about Rick’s practical, affordable and perspectivebroadening travel tips,” Klein said.

“The lecture will also encourage students to travel in more intentional and culturally authentic ways than those of average tourists.”

About 100 tickets have been

Students will likely be interested in learning more about Rick’s practical, affordable and perspective-broadening travel tips.”

HOWARD KLEIMAN COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR

Steves is well known for all of his published work, Kleiman said that Miami could easily fill the seats.

“It’s hard to get students involved if they don’t know who the speaker is,” Kleiman said. “Steves is wellknown because students travel with their family, and he speaks to their academic interest as well as their personal interest.”

Students who are involved in study abroad programs are encouraged to go see Rick Steves speak on Monday, especially the spring 2013 Luxembourg cohort, according to

blocked off for Luxembourg alumnus and students traveling there in the spring.

“We are giving the students the option to attend the lecture,” Klein said. “We advertised it to the spring group but also to the current Miami alumni.”

Junior Kelly Florence, who is currently studying abroad in Barcelona, said she recommends all of Steves’ books to anyone who is looking for traveling information and interesting-yet-different tourist spots.

“Since I have been abroad I have

used his Barcelona and Florence book, and his French Riviera Blog online,” Florence said. “I also check his website before I go on every trip to figure out the best places to see while I am there.”

Rick Steves does not just write travel books, Klein said.

“Not only is he an expert on all things Europe, but he is also an incredible travel writer, radio and television host, entrepreneur and social justice advocate,” Klein said. “I am delighted that Steves is part of the 2012-2013 Miami University Lecture Series.”

If students attend the “Europe Through the Back Door” lecture they are bound to get a sense of spirit of adventure, according to Kleiman.

“Students will be more adventuresome in how they travel,” Kleiman said. “They will have the desire to leave group tours, and not go to common restaurants such as Hard Rock Café.”

Klein also said Steves’ lecture can help students studying abroad grasp the bigger picture.

“His lecture provides an ideal context for all student abroad students to begin critically reflecting on how their future international travel experiences can become a catalyst for meaningful intercultural understanding and social change,” Klein said.

Steves will be presenting “Europe Through the Back Door” 8 p.m. in Hall Auditorium. Students can attend his lecture at no cost, but must pick up a ticket at the Shriver Box Office due to limited seating.

ASG to hold election for off-campus senator, senate reviews pending bills

By Victoria Slater Senior Staff Writer

The Associated Student Government (ASG) convened quickly Tuesday due to the election.

President of the Senate senior Peter Dougherty announced that elections of a student senator position will be held next week as a result of the resignation of Senator junior Kristin Dupont. Dupont was censured by ASG after she accumulated 11 points, which prompted her to resign.

Senators can earn points for failing to attend ASG meetings.

The meeting began with a discussion about the On-Campus Organization Act that was presented last week. The bill’s author, sophomore Lindsey Sukenna said the resolution will nullify the bylaw that established the library and technologies and the environmental committees, and will instead place these boards under one general committee called On-Campus Organization or OCO, which will be supervised by the Secretary for On-Campus Affairs. Five senators will address all issues related to this organization.

Sukeena emphasized that this new committee will serve to

better systematize senator organizations and allow senators to embrace more responsibilities within their committees.

ASG was originally scheduled to vote on the On-Campus Organization Act on Tuesday; however, Secretary for On-Campus Affairs junior Cole Tyman was not present at senate. Senate members agreed that his opinion is an essential facet in the OCO decision, and approved a delay on the vote until Tyman’s return.

Subsequently, senators junior Christian Cook, sophomore Kyle Hess, first-year Brian Munn and junior Shannon Mullet presented the Off-Campus Food Specials and Delivery Bill of 2012. According to Cook, the bill’s author, the bill will launch a semiannual newsletter for all students detailing daily and weekly specials for off-campus food establishments.

Hess said the newsletter will be a helpful resource for students searching for food specials, and will replace the monotonous process of checking each individual restaurant’s website.

“For on-campus students, it is extremely expensive to eat offcampus without specials,” he said. “This is an easy way to file

all the specials in an easy to read format and to compare the prices of each restaurant. Going to each restaurant’s website gets tedious and bothersome.”

This resolution will be voted upon at next week’s meeting.

Tuesday’s meeting concluded with the presentation of the Increasing the Efficiency of Unused Library Space bill by senior senators Brittany Murphy and Paige Zenovic, and sophomore senator Michael Belden.

Murphy and Zenovic explained that this initiative will urge King Library to expand study space into its unused rooms in the basement and third floor, in order to diffuse the amount of students in the main areas of the library.

According to Murphy, such rooms are currently used for storage of desks, chairs and maintenance equipment. She said the university should avoid using potential student study space as storage units.

“The library is an academic space, so the university should be aware that that space should not be used for storage,” she said. “We have facilities that the university is supposed to use for storage.”

This resolution will also be voted upon at next week’s meeting.

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Miami staff help students learn how to create their own candy sushi rolls Wednesday evening at the Shriver Center.

Yearbook wins award for college journalism

By Allison McGillivray Campus Editor

Miami University’s yearbook, The Recensio, won its first Pacemaker award for its 2011 edition after previously being nominated five times.

The Pacemaker is awarded to top pieces of journalism by college media organizations by Associated Collegiate Press, according to Recensio Editorial Adviser Sacha Bellman.

The 2011 Recensio was put together under co-editors-in-chief Miami alumni Brianna Mulligan and Ryan Amos. Mulligan said she and Amos began planning the 2011 yearbook as far back as 2009 when they were only sophomores.

“This was kind of our master production we had a lot of really high hopes for it,” Mulligan said.

“We put a lot of heart and soul into the creation of the theme, making sure we captured the tone of the student body of Miami.”

The 2011 yearbook covered student life, Greek life, academics, athletics, news, and student organizations throughout the fall, winter and spring.

The yearbook was united by the theme “forever young,” which comes from the Bob Dylan song of the same title, according to Bellman and Mulligan.

Each section of the book beings with the phrase “May you always be…,” which parallels the lyrics of the song, according to Bellman.

Mulligan said she and Amos incorporated this theme into the articles in the yearbook.

“A lot of our articles focused on making sure people remembered their experiences at Miami,” Mulligan said.

Bellman was hopeful that the 2011 yearbook would win the Pacemaker.

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Natural energy boosters provide long-term benefits

By Carolyn Snively Health Columnist

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Liz Gray, Stacy Kotula, and Melanie Swartz enjoy the Spirit Week kickoff Wednesday at Cook Field.

“I knew as soon as I saw it that this was really something special,” Bellman said.

Bellman said Mulligan’s and Amos’s dedication paid off.

“I really had a lot of confidence and obviously the product showed that they had planned it out well and they executed it beautifully,” she said.

Bellman said she hopes The Recensio’s reception of the Pacemaker award encourages students to purchase a yearbook.

The number of yearbooks The Recensio has sold has gradually dropped over the years, Walker said, with The Recensio selling less than 300 in 2012.

“I think last year was kind of our eye-opener,” she said.

Walker said the lack of sales is the result of students not being aware that Miami has a yearbook.

“When people hear the word ‘Recensio’ they don’t automatically put it to Miami University yearbook,” Walker said.

Bellman said she encourages students to get a yearbook because they will want one 10-15 years down the road.

“It’s a wonderful piece of history to have on your bookshelf,” Bellman said. “It’s just really hard to get students now to realize that they want it.”

Seniors can contribute senior portraits to The Recensio and order them at recensioyearbook.wordpress.com.

The book is published in the fall following graduation.

Walker said The Recensio winning Pacemaker award is a motivator for her to continue the quality of the book’s past.

“You’re living up to such a big name now, having this national title,” Walker said. “It’s great obviously but it’s also kind of nervewracking because you want to be able to live up to that as well.”

College students are enduring the homestretch before the revitalization of Thanksgiving Break. Now, over halfway through the semester, students are feeling fatigue and often resort to unhealthy solutions to combat the exhaustion. Using natural energy boosters will be more beneficial to health and even cause positive longterm health effects.

There is an imbalance that is often created as students try to balance schoolwork, activities and jobs. They run short on time, energy and resources and turn to the highly-advertised energy boosters, like Monster and Starbucks Frappuccino. Some people opt for the “sugar rush” and eat an entire Snickers bar while washing it down with Mountain Dew. The disadvantage to these stimulants is that the high

refined sugar content produces shortterm energy followed by a “crash” soon after. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it guarantees weight gain and puts people at risk for heart disease and diabetes over time.

According to Nancy Parkinson, Kinesiology and Health professor and registered dietitian, there are health risks associated with the longterm use and over consumption of energy and caffeine products.

“These would include increased heartbeat, insomnia, an imbalanced metabolism, caffeine addiction, behavior issues and increased blood pressure,” Parkinson said.

“I recommend that people try to find balance between school, work, activities, sleep and dealing with stress. This can happen through

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ELECTION, FROM PAGE 1

Cory Brown said this record spending was “deplorable” and was one of the factors that impacted the number of people who registered and voted.

“I think just overall the quality of the candidate on the Republican side and then disillusionment on the Democratic side were probably the two biggest factors in the decline in voter turnout,” Brown said. “The mere quantity of [campaign] ads is overwhelming to some extent. And it’s not so much the ads themselves; it’s the negativity in ads.”

Brown said changing national demographics also helped secure a second term for Obama.

“I don’t think it was a surprise that Obama won,” Brown said. “I will say the Republican ground game was better — it was not enough.”

Approximately 28 percent of Miami students are out-ofstate, domestic students, some of whom registered to vote in Ohio for this election.

Chris Mackey, a senior from Chicago, Ill. said he registered to vote in Oxford because he lives here more frequently and felt his vote mattered more compared to Illinois.

“In my opinion, your vote did count more in Ohio or Virginia or Florida or Pennsylvania or a swing state like that, versus being from Illinois where your vote is not going to matter as much,” Mackey said.

FRIDAY, november 9, 2012 Engagement, at least 49 percent of voters under 30 turned out with 97 percent of precincts fully reporting, compared to 52 percent turnout in 2008.

Senior Meghan Wadsworth, who volunteered for the Republican National Committee Ohio Victory Program, said she thought a lot of out-of-state students did register to vote in Oxford but did not think it was a determining factor in Oxford.

“I would say Oxford is definitely the Democratic area of Butler County,” Wadsworth said.

“It is more liberal than the rest of the county; it really was a different attitude when we were volunteering and the people we’d meet.”

Senior Liesel Schmader said she was astounded by the Oxford results.

“The statistics surprise me a bit,” Schmader said. “The population of students is the majority in Oxford. When I came to Miami I actually felt like it was fairly liberal; this year I felt like it was fairly conservative.”

The Republican presidential candidates received the most votes from West Chester Township in 2008 and in 2012, while Morgan Township had the highest turnout and the largest percentage voting for the Republican ticket in 2012.

Regardless of post-election euphoria or disappointment, both Kretz and Baylor said they are looking to the future.

“We will look to speaker John

Certain kinds of elections bring out lots of voters; this one brought out a lot more than it might have otherwise, but it didn’t bring out as many as some people thought it was going to.”

Ryan bARILLEAUX

POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR

Junior Annie Kuruc said she knew a lot of students who registered in Oxford.

“I actually have a lot of friends who switched their address over to Oxford because the vote counts more,” Kuruc said. “It definitely feels like there are more conservative people [in Oxford].”

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Boehner to curtail the assault on prosperity and to protect our values,” Baylor said.

On the other hand, Kretz said the Democrats are excited to keep moving forward.

“From here we are very excited to keep going, continue to talk about the issues that we talked about,” Myers said. “It’s going to be interesting to see if there truly is a call for bipartisanship.”

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CAC members Matt Turk and EJ Corporan enjoy some games at the Spirit Week kick-off on Cook Field.

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in the press box be provided for an instant-replay team contributed to the issue, Pearson said. “[The coach’s reserved section] was in a different space before, but then when instant-replay came into a mandatory situation with the MAC, then we had to do a lot of shuffling.” Pearson said.

Shortly after being notified of its removal, WMSR received another email informing them of the relocation.

“Our initial reaction was a lot of concern because we weren’t sure where we would be broadcasting or even if we would be able to broadcast,” Basar said. “They were very apologetic about it but they said ‘we’re going to have to put you outside.’”

According to Pearson, the only location available for WMSR was the stadium’s outdoor camera deck.

“It’s not the traditional photo deck, but they are open spaces at the press box levels,” Pearson said.

“They are outdoors, but we did accommodate them with awnings— covered space to sort of protect them from the elements.”

Though Basar thanks the athletic department for the shelter provided, he said that despite the awning WMSR is still very exposed and at risk for equipment damage.

“There is that tarp overhead but if it’s raining the rain is coming in from really all sides,” Basar said.

“We had a game last year where it was pouring rain for the entire game and we were scrambling to find plastic bags and towels to try and dry stuff off because all of our equipment got very wet.”

WMSR has gotten lucky so far according to Basar—the $3,000 dollars worth of broadcasting equipment has yet to be damaged.

However, Basar said that equipment damage is not their only concern.

“The biggest problem that we have had has been the wind,” Basar said. “There’s really no way to cancel out that wind noise in the broadcast, so if you’re listening to our broadcast you can hear the wind blowing in the background; you can hear the tarp that’s above us bouncing back and forth.”

Along with these concerns, Basar expressed the unavoidable circumstance WMSR will face in the coming months—winter.

“It’s going to get really cold,” Basar said. “Those guys have to

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said she believes this course will help students better hone in on their talents and market themselves to companies based on these abilities.

“It will help them be clear about what skills they have learned and how to use them,” Harrington said. “It’s not like engineering or business where it’s pretty much decided what career you’ll have,

stand out there for the duration of the broadcast and even when you’re wearing a winter coat, hat and gloves, standing outside talking for three hours gets pretty cold.”

WMSR brought the issue up with Patricia Gallagher Newberry, chair of the Committee on Student Media Organizations (COSMOs), which oversees 11 student-led media organizations by hiring the top two student leaders in each and allocating student fee dollars.

According to Newberry, she has taken note of WMSR’s predicament, but it’s up to WMSR to take further action.

“Our committee does not take up the cause for our groups—we give them advice,” Newberry said.

“Really we want them to be their own advocates.”

Newberry gave WMSR recognition for the role it plays at Miami.

“They should definitely have the same rights as any other media organization,” Newberry said. “They are there to do the work of journalism—they’re there to cover the games. They’re doing a really good job covering sports at WMSR—it’s become a real badge of honor for the station.”

According to Basar, WMSR has taken steps to find a solution but has made little progress.

“We have talked with nearly everybody in the media relations part of the athletic department … ” Basar said. “When it comes down to it you’re either saying no to student radio or you’re saying no to the coach of the division one football team—Don Treadwell is the highest paid guy at Miami.”

According to Basar, he understands that the athletic department can’t simply force out the MAC or scoreboard officials, but he believes an alternative needs to be found.

“It’s the athletic department,”

Basar said. “If they set aside money to do it—if they made this a priority, and they were willing to make some changes and maybe partition off a portion of the press box—they could definitely do it.”

According to Pearson, though the athletic department would like to find a solution, the press box WMSR previously occupied was approximately six by nine feet and could not be shared adequately.

“We’re doing all that we can to help facilitate to the needs of WMSR—they’re very valuable to us,” Pearson said. “We want to take care of our student stations, and we go to great lengths to make them feel as comfortable as possible.”

Though they seem to be at a stalemate, Basar said he acknowledges the athletic department’s efforts.

“This situation is a really difficult one for us,” Basar said. “On the one hand I would really like to be able to get a booth to broadcast football properly, but on the other hand the athletic department in every other area is incredibly helpful to us.”

According to Basar, informing Don Treadwell of WMSR’s difficulties may lead to finding an alternative.

“I guess in a perfect world if Don Treadwell was aware of the repercussions of [WMSR] not being in the booth maybe he’d have a talk with the athletic department and work out a way to get us back inside,” Basar said.

Out of respect to the system, WMSR has not contacted Treadwell directly according to Basar.

“We have always sort of respected the chain of communication that the athletic department has,” Basar said. “Media organizations contact the sports information director for that sport—which in this case is Mike Pearson—and then that sports information director is the one that initiates contact with the coaches.”

Basar said he hopes Pearson will consider informing Treadwell of the situation. Treadwell was unavailable to comment Thursday due to coaching obligations.

According to Pearson, for now WMSR will have to make do with the camera deck.

“Short of adding more permanent space, I don’t see it happening in the foreseeable future,” Pearson said.

“We realize what the students do for athletics so we want to accommodate them as much as we possibly can. There are just circumstances in football where space has run out— we just don’t have it anymore.”

it’s harder for geology and philosophy students to know exactly what they’ll do.”

Junior Brenton Richardson, a social justice studies student, is one of the 19 students registered for the course so far, and said he looks forward to discovering his possible future career path.

“I’m taking it because it’s a convenient way to explore career possibilities, which is something I should be doing at this point in my life,”

Richardson said. “Plus it’s only one day a week for 50 minutes which is nice.”

The first time course will offer 25 seats and will include some reading assignments but mostly experience with alumni in careers in business, government and the non-profit sector. If this section of CAS 301 is successful, one section of the course will be offered each semester to follow, according to Makaroff.

We’re doing all that we can to help facilitate to the needs of WMSR—they’re very valuable to us.We want to take care of our student stations, and we go to great lengths to make them feel as comfortable as possible.”

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POLICE Overview of election 2012 results

BEAT

Brown, Derickson keep seats, Issue 2 receives majority ‘no’ vote

By Olivia Hnat and Hannah Stein Community Editors

Issue 2 Issue 2, Ohio’s redistricting proposal, failed to receive a majority vote to pass. Just more than 63 percent of Ohio voters voted Issue 2 down, according to the Ohio Secretary of State election results.

Ohio’s redistricting process will not be amended and will continue to follow the process in Amendment XI of the Constitution of the State of Ohio. In a majority of Ohio counties, No on Issue 2 received over 70 percent of the popular vote. In Butler County, No on Issue 2 received 69.4 percent of the popular vote, according to the Secretary of State election results.

The League of Women Voters in Ohio supported Issue 2 and

worked with the campaign to help pass the ballot initiative. Stephen Dana, the chair of Government Affairs for the League of Women Voters of Oxford, said that redistricting remains a concern for the state.

“Opponents picked apart the proposal of a citizens commission but no one denied the gravity of the problems created by gerrymandering of congressional and state districts in Ohio,” Dana said.

United States Senate race Incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown (D) kept his United States Senate seat against challenger Josh Mandel (R). Brown won with a 5.31 percent lead of the popular vote. Brown won larger population districts that also went to President Barack Obama, including Cuyahoga, Franklin,

Hamilton, Lucas and Montgomery counties. Mandel received the majority vote in Butler County with a 21.94 percent difference over Brown, according to the Ohio Secretary of State election results.

Ohio’s 53rd House District race The Nov. 6 election for Ohio’s 53rd House District seat resulted in a victory for Oxford resident Timothy Derickson (R), the incumbent, over challenger Suzi Rubin (D).

According to the Butler County Board of Elections, Derickson received a majority vote of 60.91 percent, 27,797 votes, while Rubin received 39.09 percent, 17,836 votes.

Derickson has held the seat in the Ohio State House of Representatives since 2009 and is a

member of the agriculture and natural resources committee, education committee, insurance committee and finance and appropriations committee. He is the chairman of the agriculture and natural resources, a subcommittee of the finance and appropriations committee along with the chairman to the workforce development task force.

His opponent, Rubin, has been on the city of Monroe’s city council since 2004.

Rubin said she is not sure she will run again.

“This is a pretty Republican county and it’s hard to get a democrat elected,” Rubin said. “I’ve been knocking on doors since April... not much could have been done differently.”

Derickson did not respond to requests for an interview by press time.

County sheriff hopes to see bipartisan effort in D.C.

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Republican Sheriff Richard Jones of Butler County was reelected with almost 81 percent of the vote, according to the Butler County Board of elections.

The economy is his biggest concern in Butler County.

He said the five-year recession has impacted the Butler County jail space and the sheriff office’s budget.

“I have less jail space,” Jones said. “Before the recession started five years ago we had 1500 prisoners incarcerated in our jails here. Right now we have 800 because we cannot afford to have more prisoners and more people incarcerated. It is not because we have less crime. There is less jail space.”

Budget cuts have also decreased the number of police officers and arrests.

“Less police officers see less because there is less out there,” Jones said. “There are less arrests because every police department has had to cut back [from] every law enforcement jurisdiction from the feds all the way down.”

Jones said the economy impacts law enforcement all across the country at the local, state and federal level.

“You have to have leadership at the top and it has to start in D.C.,” Jones said. “Congress, the Senate and the President of the United States, [it] has to change there and work its way down to the little old people like us.”

Jones hoped to see Mitt Romney elected president.

In the past five years, the Butler County Sheriff’s Office has laid off 25 percent of his staff including the jail, deputy and civilian jobs.

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Sheriff Richard Jones is the first Butler County sheriff in 100 years to have a moustache. He was elected in 2005.

According to Jones, it costs $50,000 to incarcerate one person for one year. The Sheriff sees that as a serious problem in Ohio compared to the cost of education.

“It costs 10,000 a year for a child in school,” Jones said. “Our system is messed up and our priorities are messed up. Whatever is on the book as the Ohio Revised Code we have to enforce. The only way to fix the part where we spend $50,000 on a prisoner incarcerated and we spend $10,000 on our students… [is that] laws have to be changed.”

Jones would also like to see more federal immigration reform in the next four years. Since being elected Sheriff in 2005, he

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killed them and fled. We have had to go to Mexico to get them. It has been a pretty tough time here,” Jones said.

Jones said he hopes to see a bipartisan plan by the federal government in the next administration on immigration.

“Does it frustrate me that my government won’t fix this and refuses to?” Jones said. “Sure it does. … It needs to be fixed, pretty simple just fix the damn thing but we can’t get it done.”

Jones has a simple plan for his next four years as Butler County Sheriff.

“My plan is to manage this office with the resources that I have and to protect the community to the best of my ability,” Jones said.

City Council outlines new 2013 budget

By Freeland Oliverio Senior Staff Writer

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has gained national attention for his efforts to deport illegal immigrants in Butler County. Many of the sheriff’s deputies are sworn in as federal agents to deal with the immigration process.

“We deport people back to the countries of which they came from this jail, probably the most in the state of Ohio,” Jones said.

“At one time we were doing like 20 a week.”

Jones spoke with passion against illegal immigrants committing crimes in Butler County.

“I have actually had in this county where illegals have killed people in car crashes, have raped people [including] an elderly woman… We had one were they have run over people, they’ve

Tues. Nov. 6, the Oxford City Council met to discuss a renewal of agreements with Milford County for providing emergency services and to outline several budget issues within the upcoming year.

“We outlined about $33 million dollars for 2013 tonight,” Bob Blackburn, Oxford City Council member said.

The Oxford city budget for the fiscal year that ends Dec. 31, 2013 has increased $6,000 from last year.

The budget outlines all expenses for the city of Oxford within the upcoming year, including city services such as sanitation and road maintenance. The budget also outlines rates for any fees and charges within the city for the fiscal year.

These include resident prices for things such as parking fines, athletic field rental fees, or various

zoning and building permits.

In addition to budget outlines, city council also passed a resolution that has effectively renewed an agreement with Milford Township.

This resolution, which enables Oxford to provide emergency medical services to the western portion of Milford Township, is renewed on an annual basis and is negotiated

by Oxford’s City Manager, Douglas Elliott. These medical services include use of two of Oxford’s emergency medical technicians as well as emergency transportation to McCullough-Hyde hospital. “[The City of Oxford] provides the western portion of Milford Township with emergency medical services (EMS) under a year-long contract. This year, the contract at hand has called for some adjustment,” Elliott said.

This agreement with Milford Township allows for the western area to take advantage of Oxford

city medical services. As a result, Milford Township pays the city of Oxford an annual sum to cover these emergency services. This annual sum is based on the number of calls that Oxford’s emergency medical services have received in the previous year, according to Elliott.

“We subtract the calls that are paid for by Medicare or insurance companies from the year’s total sum [of emergency medical costs],” Elliott said. “We then take what expenses are left up to the city of Oxford, and charge Milford Township for their portion of the costs.”

Based on the amount of emergency medical calls from the area last year, the agreement calls for Milford to pay Oxford $10,200, a $2,000 increase from last year’s payments.

This, then, will hopefully cover all EMS expenses for Milford Township within the next year, according to Elliott.

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double digits. Eastern Kentucky hit 48 percent (11 for 23) of its three-point attempts and had 13 different players score.

However, at this point in the season, the RedHawks are more focused on improving themselves than making adjustments for any one opponent.

“A big part of our preparation is getting our fundamentals better,” Fantanarosa said. “We don’t want to focus too much on EKU instead of focusing on ourselves.”

Miami is looking to improve its defense from the exhibition game, but the team is making adjustments during practice this week.

“We’re definitely focusing on defense, that is a huge key to our game,” junior center Kelsey Simon said. “We need to outrebound opponents and get deflections on defense.”

Another issue that the RedHawks have faced this season is injuries to freshman forward Tamira Ford, sophomore guard Courtney Larson and junior guard Hannah Robertson. However, Miami has made the best of the situation so far.

“We’re still looking at our injuries as an opportunity to get other players some experience,” Fantanarosa said. “When you see that you’re nine deep and your freshmen played quality minutes, it’s a good sign for your future.”

The injuries have forced some of the RedHawks to play out of position, but the players are

taking it in stride.

“I want to be a team player, the person that the team needs me to be,” Simon said. “Whatever my role is, I just need to make sure that I fulfill that role and do it to the best of my ability.”

In addition to building depth and creating versatility in the players, the injuries happening early in the season have had an unexpected benefit.

“The team is earning a lot of respect for each other,” Fantanarosa said. “It’s harder to play other positions than they think.”

The offense has been the strength of the team so far and should only continue to improve as the season goes along.

“I think we’re very versatile as a team right now on offense, and our offense is working efficiently,” Fantanarosa said. “The question mark is how good we can be with the easy points, which will happen when teams take us out of our offense.”

The Lady Colonels return four starters from last season’s team, including Carpenter, a preseason All-Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) selection. Eastern Kentucky finished last season with a 13-16, 7-9 (OVC) record, which was good for sixth place in the conference. The Lady Colonels lost by 16 points in the quarterfinals of the OVC Tournament to third-seed Tennessee Tech University.

“It was a rebuilding program, but now I think they’re at a point to contend for their conference championship,” Fantanarosa said.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Miami falls in first NCAA Play-In game

RICHARD MANDIMIKA THE MIAMI STUDENT

Junior Alyssa Logan battles for the ball in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament title game. Miami University field hockey team lost to Stanford in the NCAA Tournament Play-In game, following their first MAC Tournament title.

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The Miami University field hockey team (12-10, 4-1 Mid-American Conference (MAC)) finished their season Tuesday with a 4-1 loss to 11th-ranked Stanford University in a NCAA Play-In game with an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament on the line. This was Miami’s first ever appearance in a Play-In game, which it earned by winning its first MAC Tournament title in school history.

The game had a frantic start, with Stanford forcing junior goalkeeper Sarah Mueller to make a nice save in the third minute to keep the game scoreless. The RedHawks got their first shot in the fourth minute, and earned a penalty corner on the play.

Sophomore midfielder Ali Froede had a shot saved off of the corner, but the rebound went right to senior midfielder Olivia Miller, who put the ball in the net to give Miami a 1-0 lead. The RedHawks earned another penalty corner in the seventh minute, but weren’t able to add to their lead.

“There’s no doubt in any of our

minds that we could win this game,” Froede said.

Stanford would answer in the eighth minute, when the Cardinal earned a penalty corner off of a save

by Mueller. Senior forward Emily Henriksson scored off of a pass from senior back Becky Dru to even the score at 1-1. The teams exchanged several shots over the next twenty minutes, with Miami earning another penalty corner in the 27th minute. Miller got off another shot on the corner, but it was blocked by the Cardinal defense. Stanford earned a penalty corner of its own and Dru had a shot saved by Mueller in an attempt to keep the game tied. However, the Cardinal were awarded a penalty stroke and Dru put it home to give Stanford their first lead of the game at 2-1. Junior forward Hope Burke added to Stanford’s lead just over a minute later with a breakaway goal to make it 3-1. Stanford would make it 4-1 in the 35th minute off of a penalty corner, as Dru found Burke for her second goal of the game.

The pace of the game slowed down in the second half, with Miami getting their best chance to score in

the second half in the 42nd minute.

The RedHawks earned three straight penalty corners, with Froede and freshman midfielder Bea Dechant recording shots, but freshman goalkeeper Dulcie Davies kept Miami from adding another goal. Mueller added seven saves in the second half to keep Stanford from adding to their lead, but the RedHawks only had four shots total in the second half. Stanford outshot Miami 19-11, but the RedHawks had a 7-6 advantage in penalty corners. Mueller finished with 13 saves on the game, her second most of the season.

“We’re all pretty disappointed, it obviously wasn’t the result we wanted,” Froede said. “We definitely had a possibility to win, we just let a few chances get away from us.”

Despite the loss, this was a historic season for the RedHawks. They won their second MAC regularseason title in the past three seasons, in addition to winning the first MAC Tournament in program history.

“We have a lot to look back on and be proud of this season,” Froede said. “I don’t think we could have asked for anything more.”

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Student media organizations benefit students and university For the last two football seasons, WMSR, Miami’s student radio broadcast organization, has broadcast football games from an awning next to its former location in the press box. The booth WMSR used to occupy now houses Head Football Coach Don Treadwell’s family members at each home game.

WMSR received notice of the change a few weeks before the first home game, and still retains a space for its broadcast, albeit outside.

The Miami Student editorial board feels that this is a complicated issue with no ideal solution. WMSR maintains a legitimate complaint about possible equipment damage and difficulty broadcasting from outside under an awning. However, we understand the university’s reasoning to move the group, as many universities reserve space for the head coach’s family.

We believe that this situation reflects an issue that seems to be the underlying cause of many controversies between the university and students: communication. When issues arise regarding interaction between administration and the stu-

dents, many times we have traced these issues to breakdowns in discourse between the two groups, or inconsistent messages.

The editorial board believes that we, along with WMSR, are fortunate to have abundant equipment that many other groups do not receive. Miami’s media organizations should be grateful for the many resources at our fingertips, but we also believe the university should take advantage of these resources as well.

With the WMSR press box question, the editorial board feels that Miami could benefit from increasing its support of the radio station. With the aid of the university, WMSR could help increase student involvement and excitement about athletic events by garnering listeners, alleviating a great concern of administration and coaches alike. WMSR also reaches students and alumni, some of whom rely on the station for sports updates.

We don’t believe the university is obligated to assist WMSR or change its location at the games, but we think that both Miami and the student radio broadcast group could benefit from changes.

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Resume, interview skills need Rape flier author given disorderly conduct plea discipline, my The Miami rape flier issue cases involving freedom of ex- appropriate to be taught to all students concluded with the principal au- pression are determined by facts office and police authoriThe College and Arts and Sciences (CAS) will be introducing a new course this upcoming spring semester to give students the opportunity to discover the many diverse directions their degrees can take them.

CAS 301 is a one-credit hour class that will aim to help students recognize how to use the skills they have acquired towards establishing goals and obtaining jobs.

The editorial board of The Miami Student appreciates the fact that the college and Career Services is starting to work more with CAS students. Students in the humanities often feel they leave college with no tangible and useful skills. The skills these students learn are not as clear cut as those learned in majors such as engineering or education.

However, these students do learn valuable skills that are imperative in the workplace.

The ideology behind the study of

the humanities is that students learn for the sake of learning. And while the pursuit of knowledge is a noble cause, the practical reality is that students must find ways to plan for the future, pay off their loans and establish themselves professionally.

Students need to learn how to build and develop resumes, learn interview skills and go find jobs, whether through the CAS, Career Services or a combination of both.

We feel the Business School does very well preparing students for life after college and this has benefited business students immensely. This CAS 301 class can be an opportunity for students in the College of Arts and Sciences to do the same— prepare for life after graduation while not abandoning the ideological goals of higher education.

We commend the College of Arts and Sciences for implementing this class encourage students to take advantage of this opportunity.

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thor/offender entering a plea of guilty to disorderly conduct.

His acceptance of responsibility is noteworthy in the face of contentious positions by those favoring or opposing any constitutional limits on the meaning of speech. Anyone advocating murder to silence a witness or victim will always get my attention and by comparison I expect anyone advocating the execution of a federal judge will also get a visit from a federal marshal or U.S. attorney.

There should be no debate that

and circumstances of each individual case.

Authorship of outrageous words alone is usually not enough to remove constitutional protections. The actual intent and context are all important as they were in the consideration of this case.

Fortunately, a forest of trees will not have to be turned into legal briefs to argue the issue to higher courts and no one was incited to cause injury.

Miami University acted responsibly to mete out

ties acted appropriately to consider and fully investigate the circumstances of the publication and the now former student took responsibility for being book smart and socially stupid.

I expect the latter will change, as he has shown through his acceptance of responsibility for his words, that he can change for the better.

Michael T. Gmoser Butler County Prosecuting Attorney

Americans must advocate for change via leaders I should start out with saying that I am not a political expert.

I have not taken any political science classes, nor was I deeply involved with this past election other than going to a few rallies.

I am a mechanical engineering major with my goals set on becoming a naval aviator. I am writing this because I am extremely discouraged with what I see around me.

When I was growing up in the 90s, life in my family was extremely simple, yet so great. I have four siblings, two of whom have gone to Miami University. The oldest is a lawyer married to a doctor, my sister is a teacher, my middle brother is a small business owner here in Oxford and my twin is an EMT in school to become a nurse. Our parents fostered the idea of hard work in each one of us.

We never had allowance money.

If we wanted to spend money we had to earn it the old fashioned way. My father is a farm boy from Illinois. Through hard work, he graduated the top of his class from

University of Illinois in accounting and has had an extremely successful career. He has been out of work a few times when I was growing up and we have learned the importance of government help at times of need.

However, I am deeply saddened by the mindset that some of my American brothers and sisters have.

Food stamps have increased 45 times what it was when Obama took office. The day he was re-elected, the unemployment rate was virtually the same as when he took office four years ago.

The U.S. debt is an ever-increasing number larger than anything we can really relate it to. And this is the toughest thing for me. We are blind to the fact that we cannot sustain this irresponsible road we are traveling.

It is not a question of if these programs are good or not.

We simply do not have the money to afford all of them. At this point, the election is irrelevant. In economics we see that you can’t look at past decisions in making future ones, you can only look

at where you are currently.

We have a bi-partisan government that allows for great change if we can come together. I beg you to email, call and mail our state and federal leaders. Beg them to change our fiscally irresponsible ways. We need to be worried about our future because right now China, a communist nation, owns a big chunk of it and that disgusts me. We do need to help those that are in need but also give them the tools to be a productive part of society. Everyone can’t be rich and I don’t think quality of life is defined by your income.

It’s defined by the effort and joy you put forth in everything that you do.

America is losing its edge, but we are the youth of the nation and we have the choice to become the leaders that will make America strong again. I beg you to not ask what America can do for you but what can you do for America.

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ANDREW’S ASSESSMENTS ANDREW GEISLER

Rethinking the ‘right’ Republican campaign strategy for the future

After losing five of the last six popular votes in Presidential elections, bungling their shot at taking back the Senate majority for the second straight cycle with some truly embarrassing candidates, and watching their main coalition of voters precipitously fall as a share of the electorate yet again, it’s fair to say the Republican Party is officially in the wilderness.

Elections, of course, have consequences, and one of the main ones stemming from this cycle will be swing voters’ direct repudiation of extremism on the right.

Some have called Tuesday night a mandate for liberalism, others say it’s simply an extension of the unique Obama 2008 coalition, but it appears to be more of a mandate for centrism in American politics than anything else.

Look no further than the Senate, where the Democrats netted three seats in a year where Republicans had an easy path to the majority, to illustrate this point.

In Missouri, Claire McCaskill defeated Todd Akin, Mr. “legitimate rape,” by 15 points. In Virginia, the pragmatic Tim Kaine beat George Allen by four and a half points. In Indiana, true bluedog Joe Donnelly beat Richard Mourdock (the guy who said if someone gets raped God intended it, so they shouldn’t be allowed to have an abortion) by five and a half points. Shockingly, incumbent moderate Democrat Jon Tester beat Denny Rehberg by four points in Montana. And Democrat Heidi Heitkamp beat Rick Berg by a point in North Dakota.

What do all these races have in common? Republicans should have won each and every one of them and walked into the majority. Instead, extremism won out, the tea party got whom they wanted and the Democrats have simply strengthened their hold on the

deliberative chamber of Congress.

The extremist problem has seeped its way up to the highest level of our body politic —presidential elections. In 2008, the once unabashedly moderate John McCain started talking like a tea party hobbit (as he once described his colleagues in the House on the

early deciding voters.

Mitt Romney likely lost on Tuesday because, even though they always trusted him more to fix the economy, Americans did not trust him to stand up the most extreme elements in his own party.

Many said this would be the

In 1992, white voters made up 89 percent of the electorate, while Hispanics made up 8 percent—Bill Clinton won 43 percent of Hispanics beating Bush 41, who won 37 percent, and Ross Perot, who won 19 percent.Tuesday night the white number fell all the way to 72 percent, and Hispanics rose to 10 percent of the electorate.

Senate floor) to gain the far right’s approval as a candidate, and this year, the center-right Mitt Romney was forced to cow-tow to the fringe as well.

The Republican nominating process irrecoverably weakened Mr. Romney, which is partially his fault. He never needed to run to the right of Rick Perry on immigration or refer to himself as a “severe conservative” to win, but he did it out of fear. Fear that the far right would put up Rick Santorum to beat him.

Fortunately he didn’t, and thank God for that since Santorum would have been the nationalcandidate version of Todd Akin or Richard Mourdock. He only wasn’t because Romney was willing to sell out.

And when he sold out to the far right, he lost the majority of America. His last minute sprint to the middle clearly did not matter, or go far enough, in the mind of

last time Republicans would try to win a national election solely by driving up turnout among their white base, due to changing demographics. And as pretty much every analyst has said in wake of this election, demographics are destiny. I’ll amend that statement a bit: if Republicans aren’t willing to change in some way, demographics are death for the GOP. In 1992, white voters made up 89 percent of the electorate, while Hispanics made up 8 percent – Bill Clinton won 43 percent of Hispanics beating Bush 41, who won 37 percent, and Ross Perot, who won 19 percent. Tuesday night the white number fell all the way to 72 percent, and Hispanics rose to 10 percent of the electorate. But most importantly, President Obama won 71 percent of Hispanics – Mr. Romney received 27 percent of their vote. The difference was the most-stark in the swing state of Colorado (one

Romney had to win), Obama won Hispanics 87 percent to Mr. Romney’s 10 percent in Colorado.

The nosedive began after the 2004 election when Bush won 44 percent of Hispanics. In 2008, John McCain won 31 percent.

Republicans’ harsh rhetoric on abortion and other social issues has also sunk them with many female swing voters. In 2004, George W. Bush received 48 percent of the women’s vote to John Kerry’s 51 percent. Tuesday night, Mr. Romney lost women to the president by 11 points (55 percent to 44 percent).

Finally, young people broke 60 to 37 percent for the president and made up 19 percent of the electorate (up from 18 percent in 2008).

The numbers make it clear. It’s time for conservatives to do some soul-searching. The Reagan revolution is over. Republicans no longer have a legitimate coalition to win national elections.

There will be three main schools of thought among Republicans as to why they lost this election, and where the party should go from here.

The first is the status-quo crowd who will blame it all on Mr. Romney and his campaign. Romney, many will argue was always a flawed candidate that could never win. They will be somewhat right (in fact, I always suspected Romney couldn’t win), but this is an over-simplification, and ignores the basic demographic issues Republicans face. This is part of the establishment crowd who will push to try the white turnout strategy in 2014 midterms and the 2016 presidential election once again.

The second is the true ‘don’t tread on me’ crowd. These are the Libertarian Ayn Rand-devotees and Ron Paul supporters. This segment will never really win out,

ESSAY

Great expectations: a chance to return to American exceptionalism Four years ago President Barack Obama rode into Washington with a mandate from the American people. Now, after a long drawn out campaign fight highlighting the unpopularity of his signature policy achievement and his failure to be an effective steward of the economy, he enters his second term with no clear mandate.

has the opportunity to use his second term to turn his attention to the rest of the world and shape it in a uniquely American way.

I am of the mindset that despite all that was said during the third and final presidential debate, President Obama will not listen to the calls from both sides of the aisle and carry out a foreign policy whose days ended at

In 1984, President Reagan looked out at the world and saw an opportunity to end the Soviet Union’s strangle hold on Eastern Europe. Over the course of his second term.

Reagan took that opportunity and brought about the fall of Communism.

With a similar cast of characters surrounding him on the Hill, it’s hard to believe that the country will truly move “Forward.” In fact, the makeup of both chambers of Congress following the election looks basically the same as it did when we allowed the country to move ever closer to the looming fiscal cliff.

Despite the fact that there is a serious need for comprehensive tax reform and a whole host of other issues that need to be addressed, it looks like the next few years will also be marked by hyper-partisan gridlock. Still, President Obama has an opportunity to use his second term to become one of America’s great presidents.

Like so many of his predecessors have done, President Obama

the turn of the last century. I am hopeful that like Ronald Reagan, President Obama will look at the world around him and see that if used correctly, a second term could restore America’s place at the forefront of the international community, and bring stability to a troubled world.

In 1984, President Reagan looked out at the world and saw an opportunity to end the Soviet Union’s strangle hold on Eastern Europe. Over the course of his second term, Reagan took that opportunity and brought about the fall of Communism.

Now, President Obama stands at a similar crossroads, as the world looks to America for leadership to bring stability to the Middle East and end the threat of terrorism.

In Syria, President Obama has the opportunity to step in and take action where the U.N. Security Council, led by Russia and China, failed to end the bloody conflict that threatens to break containment and spill across international borders.

To start, he should go about setting up and enforcing a legitimate cease fire that will allow for serious talks about a transition to begin. With a cease-fire in place and the start of negotiations to remove Bashar al-Assad from power, he can go about helping the people of Syria set up a democratic government that respects the rights of all of its citizens regardless of their race, gender, or religious affiliations.

Nevertheless, establishing a democratic government and bringing about peace in Syria is only one piece of the puzzle, stability in the region will only come once the threat of a nuclear Iran is put to rest once and for all.

In the next few years, President Obama must stand up to the Iranians and tell them that a nuclear Iran is simply not acceptable, and that we will continue to ratchet up the strength of our sanctions or even put into place a fifth round of sanctions to prevent them from going nuclear.

And should these tougher sanctions fail, President Obama must be prepared to stand with our good friend Israel and take action to prevent this from becoming a reality. This might sound like something a war weary nation should avoid, but remember—a nuclear Iran is what we really should be wary of. A nuclear Iran is an Iran that in a single move could wipe off the face of the earth millions of innocent

people for one simple reason— their religious beliefs.

Finally, with a democratic Syria and a non-nuclear Iran, all that is left for President Obama to do with his second term is help developing countries stand up to extremists within their own borders.

Right now, in the northern portion of Mali, religious extremists affiliated with Al-Qaeda control a sizeable piece of land and are using it as a breeding ground to export their radical views and wage war on the west. This is not only a threat to the United States but a threat to the innocent people living in those countries.

Currently, in those regions controlled by extremists, girls cannot go to school and women are being beaten and stoned. This is not the kind of world we want to live in, and as the world’s preeminent power we owe it to the people in those countries like Afghanistan and Mali to stand up to those extremists.

We can help them reject and defeat the ideals that keep them impoverished, living in substandard conditions and move towards a democratic system that honors and respects their rights.

You see, President Obama has before him the opportunity to end terrorism and bring stability to the Middle East but he must commit to this course of action.

He cannot entertain the pleas for America’s retreat; rather he must push boldly forward.

Forward, to a world that embraces democracy and respects the rights of all people—a world shaped by a foreign-policy focused second term.

but their voices, which are committed to social liberalism and economic conservatism to their furthest extent will grow louder.

Traditional conservatives must fight this growing segment with all they have because these folks represent the antithesis of conservatism. Libertarians don’t want conservatism. Instead they want a radical politics with no moderation or expectation of virtue. They are worse than the Tea Party economically and worse than Nancy Pelosi socially.

Third and finally, there’s the crowd that will call for moderation because of basic demographic math. They will push for comprehensive immigration reform on the Hill with broad Republican support (and yes, probably with some type of path to citizenship) to stop the bleeding with Hispanics. They will push the party to at least accept civil unions for gay couples in an effort to line up with swing voters. And finally they will call for the party to adopt a more moderate position on abortion — still pro-life, but with exceptions in the cases of rape and incest, so as to not offend swingvoting women.

There’s no doubt the path out of the wilderness is number three, but I fear the weak-kneed tacticians in Washington will cling to path number one, at least for one more cycle, when the repudiation of these far right positions will likely grow even stronger.

Political parties like to win.

It’s what they’re made for, and it’s time for the establishment to reassert itself and tell the grassroots enough, enough losing and enough extremism.

America is a center-right country. It’s likely to remain that way.

Now all we need is a center-right party ready to lead the country where it wants to go.

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Miami University’s Center for Public Management and Regional Affairs unveiled a new internship initiative Nov. 1 that assigns selected students to local, state or non-profit government agencies throughout Ohio. The program, titled Ohio Public Leaders: Inside State and Local Government,

identifying a student immersion program. Other session times in the spring and summer are also being explored in order to better suit students’ schedules.

Mark Morris, professor in the political science department, said the program is working with the constraints of the institutions and hoping to expand their time frames. Examples of agencies students will shadow include the Ohio

You have to go into a job demonstrating necessary skills.

It’s not about theory; rather, it’s about practice.”

Meghan Wadsworth

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allows students of various political science department majors to gain hands on experience in the public leadership field and further develop their understanding of government institutions. Awarded credit hours for the new initiative vary and accepted students have all costs covered by the program through a fellowship. Although the program does not officially take off until Miami’s 2014 winter session, a few students may be selected to start internships as early as spring 2013.

Philip Russo, head of the public administration department and Center for Public Management and Regional Affairs, said he expects many students to show interest and for the selection process to be very competitive. Only five to six students will be accepted into the program for each session.

“It will be a highly immersive experience for students,” Russo said.

“They will be testing their skills in areas such as public management, policy and political analysis for 40 hours a week for four weeks.”

Russo has been working for three years to expand internships in the political science department and make them more intensive.

With the creation of the winter session, Russo said it was the perfect time to zero in and put effort into

Department of Education, the Ohio House of Representatives, the Scioto Foundation and the Champaign County Prosecutor’s Office. Connections to many of the organizations were formed and continue to grow through alumni relations.

Morris said having footsteps to follow and an experienced mentor gives students the qualifications and guidelines they need for the future.

“We need to stop the brain drain in Ohio,” he said.

To students’ advantage, Miami is unique in its inclusion of an undergraduate Public Administration program and highly accredited pre-law program.

“Miami gives students a really powerful opportunity to stand out,” Morris said.“And with the development of the new program, students will only increase their credentials.”

Senior Meghan Wadsworth, a Public Administration major, said the new internship initiative will provide students with a more focused and goal oriented experience that many times students themselves have to figure out on their own without the help of the school.

“You have to go into a job demonstrating necessary skills,” she said. “It’s not about theory; rather, it’s about practice.”

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HOCKEY

ANDREW GEISLER

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COACHING;tHE FINAL FRONTIER OF MORALISM Moral relativism is in vogue in our culture today. And while this may not be the conventional way to open up a sports column, this attitude is important to the world of sports.

We live in a society that says if it feels good, do it, regardless of the consequences for our fellow man.

However, the arena of sports is one of the only areas that asks us to give ourselves up to something greater (the good of the team), and truly do the right thing. It’s the final frontier of a true form of moralism.

This moralistic culture is driven mostly from the top. From the coaches who aren’t afraid to browbeat their players into doing the right thing, and often take severe steps to restrict illicit behavior. Men in the past like Bo Schembechler, Vince Lombardi and John Wooden, and men like Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K), Jim Tressel (before the fall) and Tony Dungy.

Schembechler suspended players if they set foot in a bar and he found out about it. Tressel’s infamous Winners Manual that he gave to his teams each year relied heavily on material that told the player they weren’t the most important person in the world — instead telling them it’s the team that matters.

Dungy is well known for his

strong insistence on holding his players to a higher standard, and if the standard wasn’t met, the player was cut loose.

Specifically on a college campus, where a lifestyle of extremes is far too popular, looking toward the type of life a coach asks his/her players to live may be a good model.

Character matters and coaches are generally not afraid to say it. And that’s because it’s so essential to their success.

You see, this character-focused style is derived directly from the fact that, coaches are in the business of winning — that’s their bottom line.

And an emphasis on living right and taking steps towards building a well functioning community, among other things are, what they have determined is the best way to win games.

Very few leaders in any area of our country have any interest in providing moral leadership or clarity due to fear of offending their subordinates.

And this is somewhat as it should be.

I’m not stupid enough to call for a return to the days of Mad Men, when an overly moralistic and closed off culture led to disastrous consequences, but I am calling for leaders to use coaches, more specifically college coaches, as a model for leadership.

We’ll see if a change is in store.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

RedHawks open season against Eastern Kentucky Kennan Belau

For The Miami Student

The Miami University women’s basketball team opens its regular season 5:30 p.m. Friday against the Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Lady Colonels.

The RedHawks are looking to build off of a resilient 80-70 win in their exhibition against Tiffin University and are expecting a challenge similar to last season, when Miami defeated Eastern Kentucky 60-55 in Oxford.

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“We know that Eastern Kentucky is a very talented team,” Head Coach Maria Fantanarosa said. “It’s going to be a tough first game, and it’s on the road.”

The Lady Colonels are coming off of an exhibition win of their own, defeating Georgetown College 87-63. Junior guard Marie Carpenter led Eastern Kentucky with 17 points and two other Lady Colonel players scored in

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’Hawks host Wildcats

LAUREN OLSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

Sophomore forward Austin Czarnik fights for the puck. Czarnik has a team-leading five goals and tied for the team lead with 10 points for the fifth ranked Miami University hockey team.

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The No. 5 Miami University men’s hockey team (5-2-1) will skate in front of a home crowd for the first time since Oct. 20, as it faces off against Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) foe Northern Michigan this weekend. The No. 16 ranked Wildcats (4-3-1) are coming off a weekend with against No. 12 rival Michigan, whom they tied and beat in a two game series.

After splitting their series against a very capable Ferris State opponent, the RedHawks have no plans to look past their in-conference opponent as they refocus in the days leading up to Friday.

“Northern is a great team and they’ve got an extremely talented goaltender,” senior captain Steven Spinell said. “They’re a really good team and we just have to be ready for them. We’re just going to push ourselves every day in practice and get better each day and hopefully that caries into the weekend.”

Indeed Northern Michigan’s junior goaltender Jared Coreau might be a problem between the

pipes. Boasting a .920 career save percentage and averaging almost 27 saves a game, the net minder went 2-1 last year versus the Red and White while recording a .934 save percentage in those three games.

“We’ve got to get traffic in front of him and try to find a way to score,” Head Coach Enrico Blasi said. “He’s played well against us in the past and he’s a good goaltender.”

Freshman goalie Ryan McKay has missed the past few games with an injury, and it is unclear when he will return to the ice.

“He’s day to day, so we’re just going to keep honoring it and if he has to play, he can play,” Blasi said of McKay. “But we’re going to probably take it slow.”

Fellow freshman Jay Williams has gotten the starts with McKay out, and has performed admirably. He has allowed 2.70 goals per game and has a .910 save percentage.

On the other end of the ice, senior forward Matt Thurber is leading the CCHA in points (11) and assists (10) as he looks to extend those numbers this weekend.

Right up there with Thurber are

Miami’s own sophomore Austin Czarnik, who has notched five goals and five assists this season, and freshman linemate Riley Barber with four goals and six assists. Barber was named Hockey Commissioners Association’s National Rookie of the Month on Saturday, after his 8-point October performance put him in the top five CCHA scorers.

“It’s a great accomplishment, but I can’t thank my teammates enough,” Barber said. “But I’m just focusing on the games this weekend.” Blasi agreed that though it’s an honor, Barber and the team’s focus is on the task at hand.

“His play obviously warranted that,” Blasi said. “It’s nice, but at the same time if the team’s not doing well then the individual’s not going to look good, so it’s still a team game and everyone’s got to do their part moving forward.”

The RedHawks will look to extend their home unbeaten streak to five games on Friday at the Goggin Ice Center. The puck drops at 7:35 p.m. and again at 7:05 p.m. Saturday to close out the two-game series against the Wildcats.

FOOTBALL

Red and White prepare for MAC East leader Kent State University Tom Downey Sports editor

If the Miami University football team (4-5) has any hope of making the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship game, it must defeat a very good Kent State University (8-1) team that is 5-0 in the MAC and just shy of being ranked.

The RedHawks (3-2 MAC) could have won the MAC East by winning the rest of their games, but a loss to

the University at Buffalo means they will need some help going forward.

For the Red and White to win the MAC, they must beat Kent State and then have Bowling Green, Kent and Ohio University all lose at least one more game.

“We’ve put the last game behind us,” Treadwell said. “We’ve got a great group of resilient young men.

We get ready for the next game.

That’s what you do in the game of life and the game of football.”

“They’re on a roll right now,” Head Coach Don Treadwell said of Kent State. “They have proven this season that they are hard to beat.

What stands out to me, when you look at them this year compared to last year, is that they are playing well on both sides of the ball. They’ve always had a pretty dominant defense.

This year they’ve really turned it up on offense.”

The Golden Flashes are carried by a dominant running game and

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Redshirt senior Luke Kelly celebrates with senior Pat Hinkel (left) after losing his helmet on a sack.The Miami University football team hopes to pull another upset at home and get back into MAC East contention with a victory over Kent State University.

defense. They rank 21st in the nation in rushing yards and first in the nation in turnover margin.

“That is a strength they have,” Treadwell said of the turnover margin. “They have made enough plays at the right times. They’ve been very opportunistic.”

Redshirt junior running back Dri Archer might be college football’s most explosive player, despite being listed at 5-8, 175. Archer does it all and is currently second in the nation in all-purpose yards.

Archer has picked up 892 rushing yards on 97 carries and has scored 10 rushing touchdowns. He is also the team’s leading receiver with 333 yards and three scores on 25 catches. Archer has three kickoff return scores on only 13 attempts and is averaging over 42 yards per return. He has even thrown a 24-yard touchdown pass. “[Archer] is really gifted and can accelerate,” Treadwell said. “He’s so dynamic and explosive. All he needs is a seam.”

While Archer is the big play threat for Kent, sophomore running back Trayion Durham is the grinder.

Coming in at an imposing 6-0, 250 pounds, Durham is a load to bring down. He has picked up 887 yards on the ground with 11 touchdowns on 190 carries.

Treadwell described Durham as a “punishing back.”

The defense is led by undersized junior nose guard Roosevelt Nix, who is only 5-11, 245 pounds. Despite his small stature, Nix has

recorded 12.5 tackles for losses and 4.5 sacks.

Junior wide receiver Nick Harwell has always struggled against Kent State. He has recorded only four catches for five yards in his two career games against them.

“My first year, I came in caught a ball and got a concussion,” Harwell said. “Last season, they had a good defense for me. Hopefully I bounce back this year and have a good game. Even if I don’t have a good game, I just hope we have a good game. Trying to stay undefeated at home, that’s what we’re trying to do.”

The RedHawks are undefeated at home, but have struggled on the road, going 1-5.

“Our motto is protect our house,” Harwell said. “We always want to play for Miami, play for our team, play for family, and play for our fans.

I feel like we play with a little extra enthusiasm when we’re at home.”

Freshman linebacker Josh Dooley will be in an odd-predicament against Kent State, as he will be playing against his brother Jake Dooley, a senior linebacker.

“It’ll be exciting, going against my brother, because there will be a lot of people from my hometown, Mason, there and a lot of family,” Dooley said. “It’ll be a good football game as well.”

Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. at Yager Stadium. The RedHawk seniors will also be celebrated before the game. Fans can listen to the game at www.redhawkradio.com.