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In 2002, The Miami Student reported Miami University created a regulated attendance policy. The new policy said students had to be informed in writing of the attendance policy and professors must notify students in writing when they are being dropped from a course due to attendance.

Business course fee to increase

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By Catherine Couretas For The Miami Student

Students enrolled in some business courses may face an increase in fees per credit hour over the next three years, ultimately resulting in a charge of $100 per business school credit hour beginning in fall 2013.

Currently, there is a $25 charge per credit hour for all business classes on the Oxford campus that was installed six years ago, according to John Skillings, interim provost.

“The objective was for us to be competitive in our business school, particularly in the area of faculty salaries,” Skillings said.

At that time, Skillings said there was an expectation of another increase, which is now taking effect. The plan calls for an increase to $50 per credit hour beginning in fall 2011, $75 per credit hour the following fall and finally $100 per credit hour in fall 2013.

The increase, however, will focus on business majors rather than charging the fee across all business courses. Courses that are primarily populated by business majors will be the only ones affected. Students enrolled in Miami Plan Foundation courses and business courses taken by mostly non-business majors will not see a fee increase.

Roger Jenkins, dean of the Farmer School of Business, fully supports the proposal.

“Six years ago when we proposed the first $25 fee, I wanted to propose a $100 fee,” Jenkins said. “That would have kept us competitive and a little bit ahead of our competition.”

With the $100 fee, Miami University still stands at the fourth lowest out-of-state business school tuition rate when compared to peer institutions.

Jenkins reiterated the importance of wellpaid faculty.

“The primary motivation is to keep our faculty competitive,” Jenkins said. “There are only five public undergraduate business schools in the nation ranked by Business Week stronger than us, but we’re still not competitive with those schools salary-wise.”

Over four years, business majors will pay an average of $1,500 more per year, according to Jenkins. Right now, the university makes about $2 million from the $25 fee. With the gradual fee increase, the school expects $3 million in revenue next year, $4.5 million the year after

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SCOTT ALLISON The Miami Student

First years Nikki Boyer, Mike McVeigh, Tyler Lindroth, Jill Sweress and Tyler Fox pitch tents outside Goggin Ice Center Thursday evening waiting for Friday’s hockey game against the University of Notre Dame.

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Career Services expands its reach

By Natalie Mckerjee Senior Staff Writer

Students who want to meet with Career Services advisers now have the chance to avoid the long walk to Hoyt Hall.

The College of Arts and Science (CAS) at Miami University is providing guidance for students by making Career Services counseling available in Upham Hall.

According to Claudia Scott-Pavloff, assistant dean of the CAS, the office is now offering students in the CAS the opportunity to meet with three faculty members from Career Services.

Scott-Pavloff said the primary purpose of the service is to provide CAS students

collaborative academic advising and career planning at a central location in 146 Upham Hall.

“There are individualized appointments for students in the College of Arts and Science and also for undecided students,” Scott-Pavloff said.

Senior Katie Mahon said this service is beneficial for all students, especially seniors who are feeling the pressure of graduation.

“It’s a great resource for students because of the central location,” she said.

“As a senior, I appreciate that there are advisers to help.”

Scott-Pavloff said the collaborative counseling is intended for seniors as part of the senior check graduating students are strongly recommended to fulfill.

“For the spring semester, we plan on focusing on undecided students and providing them with guidance,” Scott-Pavloff said.

According to Scott-Pavloff, the counseling appointments consist of various aspects of students’ career goals, including credit hour requirements, resume discussions, study abroad options, internship and career preparation and temporary employment options.

While this is the first semester the CAS has offered Career Services counseling in Upham Hall, Scott-Pavloff said she plans to continue the opportunity for students.

“We hope to continue offering these

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Miami students fundraise in record time for school in Nepal

By Alaine Perconti For The Miami Student

In less than one month’s time, Miami University students became the first undergraduates to raise more than $35,000 to build a school for children in Nepal through donations and personal fundraising.

The school to be built with the money raised by Miami students

will be the first built through an undergraduate initiative.

In October, the Center for Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) and Brett Smith, assistant professor and founder of the center, hosted John Wood, a former Microsoft executive, at the Farmer School of Business.

Inspired by a trip to Nepal, Wood left his position at Microsoft and founded the Room to Read

organization. Room to Read works with rural communities in developing countries to build schools, libraries and other resources to facilitate the education of children, according to roomtoread.org.

In turn, Wood’s presentation inspired Miami students to support the cause. Almost immediately following the presentation, a group of about 30 Miami students expressed interest

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MIAMI WELCOMES NEW PROVOST

The search is over. Bobby Gemepsaw will take charge of the position.

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SEEING MORE RED AND WHITE Miami steps up its national advertising plan and places billboards in cities.

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PRICE CHECK

Butler County rejects a 0.25 percent sales tax raise.

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ROCK THE VOTE

Butler county voters come out in record numbers for the general election.

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in raising the money necessary to build a school with Room to Read.

“It was really rewarding to see the enthusiasm of students,” Katie Mulligan, associate director of the CSE, said.

Sophomore Ben Fudge was one of the students who wished to make an impact through Room to Read. Fudge said he sees investing in children’s education as a very

LINKING CLASSES TO THE WORLD Professors use technology in innovative ways.

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Campus Editor Amanda Seitz reflects on her home in Oxford.

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sustainable investment that increases productivity and problem solving.

“It’s a great way to give someone the opportunity to break through the poverty level,” Fudge said.

The students set personal fundraising goals of $1,000 each.

Their overall goal was to raise $35,000 by Dec. 1.

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New provost to join Miami NEWS BRIEFS

By Lee Jones

Staff Writer

FYI Stoddard Hall clinches energy competition Stoddard Hall reigned victorious for the fall 2010 Unplugged, Untapped ... Game On! residence hall conservation competition.

The competition was sponsored by Housing, Dining and Guest Services and took place from Nov. 1 to 19, awarding the residence halls that demonstrated the greatest reduction in both electricity and water use on a per student basis over a three-week period.

A weekly winner was announced, but Stoddard Hall took the top prize, which included an all-hall pizza party, aluminum water bottles and the grand champion trophy.

Stoddard saved an equivalent of $18.02 per resident on an annual basis. McBride Hall took second place with $16.51 per resident and Collins Hall took third with $10.35 per resident. Unplugged, Untapped ... Game On! is part of a nationwide contest among colleges and universities to conserve energy.

In May 2011, Miami University will have a new provost.

Conrado “Bobby” Gempesaw has held high administrative and teaching positions at the University of Delaware and has been recognized as hardworking and determined by Miami President David Hodge.

He credits his work ethic to a very painful experience from his childhood in Gempesaw the Philippines. Gempesaw watched his family’s house burn to the ground, losing everything they owned.

“I witnessed how my parents started from scratch again, and that experience gave me the motivation to work hard, to persevere when things are not going well, to prepare for the unexpected and to help those in need,” Gempesaw said via e-mail.

Gempesaw earned his education at a Jesuitrun school, which educated students from grade school through college. He left there with a degree in economics and received master’s and doctorate degrees from West Virginia University and Penn State University respectively in agricultural economics.

“My undergraduate education in economics helped me bridge the connection between liberal arts, the sciences and other technical fields,” Gempesaw said.

He finished his doctoral studies in 1985 and joined the University of Delaware (UD) that same year as an assistant professor while also working as a visiting professor of economics, statistics and finance in Poland and the Philippines.

He has been in a position of academic leadership at UD since 1993, with experience as dean of UD’s College of Arts and Science and dean of the Lerner College of Business and Economics.

Gempesaw was one of many candidates considered for Miami’s provost position, which was vacated by Jeffrey Herbst when he took the position of president at Colgate University in July. Hodge began the search for a new provost shortly after Herbst announced his resignation in November 2009.

“We selected a consulting firm to help us and formed a search committee from different parts of the university,” Hodge said. “The firm took the summer to go out and contact candidates and took resumes.”

The group narrowed the list of candidates to four finalists who were invited to campus to take a tour and to meet twice with Hodge.

“I thought we had four highly qualified individuals,” Hodge said.

He described Gempesaw as a “new idea guy” because of his entrepreneurial spirit and

admired the way Gempesaw “gets the difficult jobs done.”

“I am very excited about his joining us,” Hodge said. “We’ve been fortunate and I am grateful to have him with us.”

Gempesaw said the process Miami used was effective.

“The search committee and the search firm (conducted) a very organized and efficient search process that allowed various constituents on campus to meet the candidates and provide input,” Gempesaw said. “I also enjoyed the campus visit and meeting the faculty, staff and students.”

Gempesaw said he sees Miami’s biggest challenge to be learning how to enhance the unique Miami experience, tradition and reputation given the difficult economic and budgetary situation along with the increasingly competitive nature of higher education.

Gempesaw is working to further prepare for the position.

“I look forward to learning more about the university, so I plan to listen intently and consult with the faculty and administration so that I can contribute in achieving the strategic goals and priorities of the institution,” Gempesaw said.

First-year Samuel Frith has something he would add to that list of goals.

“I think a provost should be open to new ideas from students, not just faculty, and get their opinion,” Frith said. “He should be connected to the student body as much as possible.”

University launches branding campaign

Sing your heart out

EVENT Presentation challenges feminist views on nurturing University of Pennsylvania political science professor Nancy J. Hirschmann will give a philosophical presentation on the feminist movement. She will present Rethinking the Feminist position on Care and Mothering: Or, What’s Wrong with Caring too Much?

The lecture and discussion will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 6 in 100 Art Building.

The presentation is hosted by the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and sponsored by the Mina Burckhardt Endowed Capstone in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

The event is free and open to the public.

ADPi raises funds for Ronald McDonald House The Eta Epsilon chapter of Alpha Delta Pi at Miami University has been recognized as a loyal Annual Room Sponsor for the Cincinnati Ronald McDonald House as a result of donating $2,697.

The funds came from a Mom’s Weekend auction along with the annual philanthropy proceeds from events like King of the Wing and ADPiHop. The chapter also included a 36-pound pop tab donation.

The donation helps maintain a room at the house and support families with children in the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center during their hospitalization.

The chapter routinely does volunteer work with the organization by visiting the house, delivering meals and snacks for children and their families and hosting philanthropy events.

By Sarah Sidlow For The Miami Student

Campus Activity Council (CAC) Big Ideas Fund, and the event will be part of the Spring Fest line up of events at the end of the semester, Phillips said.

“It will be a joint effort,” she said.

Despite unanimous approval of the bill, some student senators were disappointed the showcase was voluntary for student organizations rather than a mandatory event.

“I think it’s an excellent idea,” first-year Senator Nick Miller said. “I wish it could have been mandatory.”

Other senators said they would like to see rewards for participating student organizations.

“Incentives with the funding committee would be helpful,” first-year Senator Bradley Ouambo said.

Participation is not limited to student

This is the time of year when high school seniors begin sitting down to tackle their ominous pile of unfinished college applications.

Armed with this knowledge, Miami University has launched an advertisement campaign spanning November and December encouraging students and their parents to set their sights on Oxford, Ohio.

The campaign includes radio, print and Internet advertisements as well as billboards touting the school’s recent No. 2 ranking in best undergraduate teaching by U.S. News and World Report, according to Tracy Hughes, director of university marketing.

Hughes said advertisements have been running in three of Ohio’s key markets, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, as well as Toledo, Indianapolis and Chicago.

“Our competition has been advertising in our backyard for the past 10 years,” Hughes said.

The billboards and advertisements cost an estimated $300,000 and this campaign is only the beginning, Hughes said.

The radio, TV and print spots are part of the Bridge Campaign, a stepping stone toward a larger $1.5 million brand marketing campaign that will begin next year.

According to Dionn Tron, associate vice president for university communications, Miami hired 160over90, a Philadephia-based branding agency to help craft the messages.

160over90 will help Miami create a brand campaign that unifies all of the school’s departments, like athletics and undergraduate admissions, Tron said.

The larger campaign will play upon Miami’s undergraduate ranking as well as PayScale.com for Miami’s ranking in salary potential

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SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

Members of the Remnants perform for PSE business fraternity in the community room above LCNB National Bank on Tuesday.

MU combines services to save money

By Tom Dever For The Miami Student

In a move to save money, Housing, Dining and Guest Services (HDGS) has added more buildings to manage.

HDGS has been renamed to Housing, Dining, Recreation and Business Services (HDRBS) to reflect these changes.

Under the new name, HDRBS will also include Goggin Ice Center, the Recreational Sports Center and recreational services in the department.

According to Pete Miller, associate vice president for auxiliaries, the move was made to better finance auxiliary programs.

“You have these sorts of programs that aren’t funded for by the state or by tuition, they’re funded for by fees charged to the students,” Miller said. “The goal here was definitely lean

organization, to cut down on these business services. sorts of groups.”

“We are about to commence a The financial benefit of the broader study of the entire unichange is not a versity that is insolid figure, actended to help us “The goal here cording to Miller. accomplish the “It’s one of was definitely lean university-wide those things where organization, to cut target of $11.4 we will have to million by 2015.” wait and see, but down on these sorts The SPT of groups.” we’ll definitely see called for a $1.2 some changes,” million reducMiller said. tion in funding PETE MILLER ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT Actions like for recreational AUXILIARIES these have been in sports, according direct correlation to Creamer. with a $40 million “The organizasavings proposal from Miami’s tional change is just one of things Strategic Priorities Task Force that we are looking at to help us (SPT). The recommendations will reach this goal,” Creamer said. create $20 million in cost savings According to Miami’s weband $20 million in new revenue. site, the department already This change in organization included operations such as for HDRBS is just the beginning, Shriver Center, Marcum Conaccording to David Creamer, ference Center and the Miami vice president of finance and University Bookstore.

Showcase to encourage student organization retention, recruitment

By Kristen Grace Senior Staff Writer

Miami University will host its first ever Spring Showcase during the spring semester, allowing students and organizations to display their projects and accomplishments to the student body.

The showcase will be similar to fall semester’s Mega Fair, but it will allow student organizations to present the tangible results of their work during the year, according to the bill passed unanimously by student senate Nov. 30.

The showcase will serve as another recruitment opportunity for student organizations.

According to senior Senator Hannah Phillips, one of the bill’s authors, it is not mandatory for student organizations to participate in the event, but is a valuable recruitment opportunity for them.

Phillips said she hopes that by seeing what organizations have accomplished during the year, students will be more encouraged to return to campus and join more organizations, thus helping increase the retention rate for students between their sophomore and junior years.

Individual students will be able to display their projects to external media outlets, therefore adding “intrinsic value to the Miami degree,” according to the bill.

The bill aims to increase the transparency of how student fees are allocated through the Associated Student Government (ASG) funding process to student organizations by demonstrating how the funds were used.

“I think this bill is actually really beneficial to students,” sophomore Senator Brittany Murphy said. “They can see what organizations actually do.”

Funding for the event will be from the

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Commissioners table tax increase

By Lauren Ceronie

because his successor, Cindy Carpenter, does not support it.

“My successor made it known that she is not Butler County will not see an increase in in favor of the new tax and we wanted to make sales tax for the time being, according to our decisions unanimous with the incoming Commissioner Greg Jolivette. commissioner,” Jolivette said.

Butler County Commissioners Greg JoHe said he had not made up his mind about livette, Charles Furmon and Donald Dixon the increase in sales tax, but wanted input from made the decision not to raise the public on the issue.

“I’m more the Butler County sales tax by “I would like to see public 0.25 percent, Jollivette said. concerned about the hearing on the increase in tax Butler County currently is tied educate the citizens of Buteffect the tax would to for the second lowest sales tax ler County about the issue,” have on Butler in Ohio at 6.25 percent. The Jolivette said.

County citizens.” tax increase would raise the The county has used up all tax to 6.5 percent, according of the reserves in the past two ALAN KYGER to Jolivette. years and can no longer pay its ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR debts, according to Jolivette.

Butler County is currently CITY OF OXFORD The new commissioner must facing a $7 million deficit find ways to increase revenue, in the proposed budget for build reserves and pay down debt or public 2011, he said. According to Jolivette, the services will have to be cut, Jolivette said. increase in sales tax would bring in $10 mil“I’m concerned with the long-term future of lion of additional revenue, eliminating the the county,” Jolivette said.

“If we just try to predicted deficit. balance the budget without planning for the fuJolivette, whose term as commissioner ends ture we will be in a precarious situation.” in January, said he and the other commisThe 0.25 percent tax increase would have sioners decided not to increase the sales tax Staff Writer

Female goes looking for commissioners At around 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, Oxford Police Department (OPD) officers were dispatched to 5279 College Corner Pike Apartment 26 in response to an unwanted female banging on the door and yelling.

The female, later identified as Barbara Jo Wilcox, 50, was reportedly looking for someone she believed to live in the apartment. When officers arrived, Wilcox had reportedly already entered the apartment building and walked up the stairs.Officers reportedly followed the sound of yelling up the stairs and found Wilcox.

According to police reports, Wilcox told officers her sister-in-law had asked her to stop by, but Wilcox did not know which apartment she lived in. As a result, Wilcox reportedly banged on the door of multiple apartments. Wilcox was reportedly highly intoxicated, had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. She had also reportedly driven her car to the apartment complex from Hamilton.

According to police reports, Wilcox said she worked for the Butler County Commissioner’s Office and officers would “suffer serious professional consequences” if she was arrested. Wilcox was arrested and taken to OPD before being transported to Butler County Jail. Wilcox was cited for disorderly conduct and burglary.

Railroad construction closes road The Taylor Road railroad crossing off State Route 27 in Oxford Township will be closed for repairs beginning Dec. 2. The crossing is scheduled to reopen Dec. 6.The closing is initiated by CSX Railroad.

The crossing was the site of a fatal crash earlier this year.

very little effect on local business sales, according to Oxford Economic Development Director Alan Kyger.

It is very unlikely Butler County citizens will commute to other counties to buy products with a lower sales tax, Kyger said.

“I’m more concerned about the effect the tax would have on Butler County citizens,” Kyger said. “After two years of recession, raising taxes on citizens would be a hard decision.”

Miami University sophomore Andrew Hayes said he is torn on the issue. Eliminating the deficit is necessary and increasing sales tax would allow the government to continue providing services to citizens, but the tax could also have a negative effect on citizens, he said.

“On a single purchase basis the tax doesn’t make that much of a difference, but over a long period of time that’s going to add up,” Hayes said. “That’s going to matter, especially for people with lower incomes where the money has to go further.”

Butler County will reconsider the sales tax issue when the budget for 2011 is approved, Jolivette said.

Commissioners Furmon and Dixon could not be reached for comment.

Butler County voting numbers increase

By Chris Burnett

national media reports, young voters aged 18 to 29 had a low turnout.

According to official election results published by the Butler County Board of Elections, in the 2008 primary election roughly 8 percent of regIn the Nov. 2 Butler County general election there were numerous tax istered Democrats changed their party affiliation to Republican. Another levies, ranging from school funding to police and fire protection.

4 percent of registered Democrats and 2 percent of registered Republicans The City of Oxford’s Issue 15, which passed by 843 votes, raised the changed their party affiliation to independent. Independent voters in Butler city’s income tax to fund fire and emergency medical services. All of County outnumbered Democrats and Republicans combined. these factors combined for a voter turnout of 50.61 Miami University junior Amanda Lee Wilson said percent for the county, according to the Butler County BY THE NUMBERS recent efforts to increase voter turnout and the econoBoard of Elections website. my could be why county numbers were up this year.

Voter turnout more than 50 percent is rare, except “I just think that there are a few factors that have conVoter turnout for the Nov. 2 Butler for presidential elections. The 2009 general election tributed to higher voter turnout,” Wilson said. “First, had a voter turnout rate of 37.23 percent, while 2007 County general election there was a huge effort to get out the vote. Second, with the economy in this shape people felt like they resaw only 27.51 percent. These numbers are dwarfed ally had to elect the right people into office. It was less when compared with the blockbuster numbers of the about the parties and more about the economy.”

2004 and 2008 presidential elections, which were Senior Billy Stonecipher said he felt high turnout 70.99 percent and 67.20 percent respectively. While was a response to the political climate. the county seemed to rally to the polls, Oxford voter “I believe voter turnout for the election was high due to the failure to turnout was only 25.7 percent. deliver immediate change that was implied in the previous presidential Doug Elliott, Oxford city manager, believes this is due to the fact that a election,” Stonecipher said. large part of the Oxford electorate is made up of young voters. According to For The Miami Student

50.61%

A look back in time Uptown ventures back to the future

By Lauren Karch For The Miami Student

Aside from Back to the Future’s multiple showings at the Princess Theatre, life in Oxford in 1985 was similar in many ways to student life today.

Bagel and Deli stood proudly on High Street next to Skipper’s Pub. High Street was lined with restaurants, bars and women’s clothing stores.

In some ways, though, Miami University and Oxford progressed in the 1980s. John Cager was elected Miami’s first AfricanAmerican student body president in 1985.

On a lighter note, 1982 was the first Green Beer Day. It could be said that the 1980s marked the student takeover of Oxford.

The undergraduate student population remained fairly constant throughout the 1980s, with slightly more than 13,500 undergraduate students each year. However, by the end of the decade more students lived off campus than on, and many non-students left the Mile Square, the area surrounding campus and uptown.

“As students moved into the Mile Square, faculty moved out,” Valerie Elliott, head of the Smith Library of Regional History said. “The 1980s was a big turning point.”

In 2007, Oxford’s League of Women Voters reported that over several decades the City of Oxford

changed from 70 percent owneroccupied housing to 33 percent, according to a report from the Miami University Archives.

Students were also counted as residents beginning in the 1970s and 80s. The 1980 census reports 17,655 residents in Oxford, nearly 10,000 more than the 1960 census reported. However, not all students were counted as city residents.

“Miami students started being added to the census when they were within the city limits, but the North Quad and some other dorms were still outside of the city limits,” Elliott said.

With the turn came an abundance of student housing, both apartments and houses. Oxford’s house-naming tradition began in the 1970s, and student rentals in 1985 would have looked very similar to those available today.

A 1982 guide to living in the Oxford area published by the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church warned, “Oxford landlords have not always been very fastidious about maintaining their properties.”

What would a college town be without an abundance of bars? Attractions Food and Spirits housed what is now 45 East. CJ’s and The Circle Towne Tavern were already popular spots.

Debbie Flippen-Karch, a 1989 Miami graduate, recalls a tradition still beloved by Miami students, quarter beers.

“I have such fond memories

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SMITH LIBRARY OF REGIONAL HISTORY

This water tower stood in what is now Uptown Park during the 1980s. of being in summer school and the rotating quarter beer night,” she said. “Each bar had their own night of the week to serve beer for 25 cents, and it packed the place.

Unlike during the school year when the personality of the bars and the people in them were quite distinct, everybody showed up.”

In the days before the Oxford Wal-Mart, Kroger served as the only supermarket in town. However, it wasn’t the only place to buy groceries. Minnis Drugs on High Street served as Oxford’s major pharmacy and included a convenience store that sold wine

and beer. Arcari Organics on the corner of High and Beech streets offered organic produce and baking ingredients. Tincher’s IGA on College Corner Pike and the Oxford Food Market also served as competition.

Other now-gone landmarks include restaurants and the Miami Western Theater, a movie theater later converted into a failed private gym, which later turned into Brick Street Bar and Grill. A water tower stood in the space now occupied by the uptown performance plaza.

“People would meet under the water tower, it served as a kind of

social meeting place,” Elliott said.

Flippen-Karch also remembers one less stationary landmark: the Chuck Wagon, a food truck that served barbeque sandwiches and chuck fries.

“You knew it was a late night if the next day someone said they went to Chuck’s,” she said. “It was the perfect grease load that kept you from getting a hangover. Instead of waking the next day with a hangover, you had dragon breath from the spicy fries. Chuck was a real character, a big red-faced guy.

Looked like a heart attack waiting to happen.”

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By Stacy Kotula For The Miami Student

From e-mail to YouTube, professors at Miami University have found unique and creative ways to incorporate the Internet into their passion for teaching. Several Miami faculty members prefer to use the Internet when preparing, teaching and communicating with their classes.

As professors prepare for their class lessons, many of them find the Internet to be a helpful tool. Instead of using textbooks, Leah Wasburn-Moses, assistant professor of educational psychology, prefers to construct her own course information. Through the Internet, Wasburn-Moses has been able to find useful websites that contain accurate information for her students to use.

“We have a lot of national centers that support teachers of children with disabilities,” Wasburn-Moses said. “They have a lot more down-to-earth researched-based readings, more than you could possibly imagine to support teachers out there.”

Before the start of each class, Thomas Schultz, assistant professor of accountancy, loads websites on his computer. He then can easily incorporate the information without disrupting the flow of the students’ learning.

In the classroom, other professors utilize the Internet in a variety of ways. Samir Bali, an associate physics professor, posts PowerPoint presentations online that relate to the class lecture.

When posting the material, Bali leaves blanks in the slides for his students to fill in as he presents the information.

Bali said the Internet allows his students to have the material before class, enabling them to complete the slides during his lectures. During class, Schultz readily uses the IRS website for students to learn about various tax forms and laws. Schultz said he enjoys using the Internet as a tool in class because he is able to show students how tax information is so easily accessible.

“Now everyone, from the accountant in Iowa who works for himself to the senior manager of tax in a major accounting firm in New York City, has more equal access to the regulations and laws surrounding taxes,” Schultz said. “They both have the tools necessary to create value for a client.”

Creative teaching styles Martha Castañeda, an assistant professor of teacher education, has discovered other ways to incorporate the Internet into her classes focusing on Spanish language education. Through her research on the Internet, Castañeda has found websites that provide clips of students speaking to one another in various Spanish accents.

After the students listen to the videos, they have similar conversations with each other about the subjects covered in the clip. This way, “there is a connection between the audio and the class,” she said.

Through the advancement of Internet-based technology, students are also given the opportunity to communicate with other students in Spain. Overall, Castañeda said she believes the Internet has enhanced the resources for foreign language education.

Bali has also utilized clips on the Internet to demonstrate his points in class. For example, Bali uses YouTube videos of the Challenger shuttle exploding as a tool when teaching his students about resonance. Bali also uses the Internet to assign homework.

“In the last four years, I’ve started using Web assignment homework,” Bali said. “The advantage there is that ... it’s all graded on the net and everything is done on the net.”

Bali said by completing these problems students can apply the material that they learned earlier in class on their own time.

More visual learning Using Blackboard and occasionally YouTube, Clifford Evans, visiting assistant professor of psychology, has incorporated the Internet into his classes as well.

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Evans said by using the Blackboard resource he has been able to send information out to his students quicker and easier. Evans has also used the technology to keep his lessons updated. By remaining informed about current culture, Evans has been able to change his examples in his lectures when the students no longer recognize the people in the examples.

“I find it really helpful to keep everything current and hopefully interesting,” Evans said.

In his child development class Evans said he enjoys using YouTube videos when teaching lessons about adolescence.

To demonstrate how adolescents can be self-centered, he plays clips of youth recording themselves talking about their random interests, for example, their views on the new Harry Potter book.

“They thought it was really important enough to tell millions of people all over the Internet, and that, I think, communicates the idea (of adolescent self-centeredness) much more vividly than me just standing up there talking about it could,” Evans said.

Angie Limegrover, an instructor of family studies and social work, said she only uses the Internet a few times throughout the semester, but when she does use it, it is to demonstrate concepts more vividly than they can be conveyed in a book. For example, when incorporating the Internet into her classes, Limegrover uses videos at the PBS website to show a human birth. She also searches YouTube to find clips about Down syndrome to follow her class discussions.

Collaboration made easy After classes, several professors in various fields of study stay connected with their students through the Internet. Louise LeCompte, a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, primarily uses the Internet when class is not in session. LeCompte uses e-mail to communicate with her students to expand on various ideas and concepts discussed in studio. By staying in contact through e-mail, LeCompte’s students can continue working on their projects between classes and over the weekends. “(E-mail) allows me to think through what I am saying rather than just talking,” LeCompte said. “Hopefully it’s a little more organized than a standard conversation.”

After class, Schultz posts the information students learned about on the Blackboard site. By allowing students to access the material, Schultz said he does not receive as much e-mail about questions on the information covered in class.

Evans also prefers to use Blackboard when communicating with his students. When sending out e-mails to his entire class, Evans said he uses the send to all command.

“E-mail is huge because it’s faster than a phone call,” Evans said. “I can keep up with it in more places.”

When Evans is not at his computer, he can still receive emails from his students on his phone and respond back to their last-minute questions.

Wasburn-Moses has also relied on the Internet to quickly and easily communicate with her classes.

“I can’t imagine a time before (e-mail) because I’m always communicating between classes,” Wasburn-Moses said.

An engaging tool While several professors at Miami utilize the Internet in their teaching, most of them also affirmed that if the Internet would disappear they would still be able to continue teaching. Wasburn-Moses said her job would demand more of her time without the use of the Internet. Instead of being able to efficiently find information on the Internet, she would have to physically look up the materials in the library.

“I could do my job, but I think it would be really boring and time consuming because I think that I have gotten really efficient at being able to find what I need very quickly,” Wasburn-Moses said.

Without the Internet, Castañeda said she would have to adapt to a different approach of teaching the material.

“I think (teaching) would change in the sense that there might be more teacher-fronted material given to the students versus more of the discovery learning that I try to have the students do,” Castañeda said.

One of the main reasons Bali decided to teach was he enjoys talking to individuals about physics and conducting hands-on activities that do not require the use of the Internet.

“The Internet is just a tool,” Bali said. “If you lose your tool, it doesn’t mean you stop doing your job.”

Although many professors at Miami use the Internet to prepare, teach and communicate with their students, they believe the Internet is just another resource. With limited impact on their teaching, professors find that the Internet has a greater influence on their students.

“I really don’t think the Internet has impacted my teaching, but I do think that it has impacted my students’ learning,” Limegrover said.

HANNAH MILLER The Miami Student

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➤ EDITORIAL

The following pieces, written by the editorial editors, reflect the majority opinion of the editorial board.

Career Services expansion aids advising M

iami University’s Career Ser- centralized location. vices, primarily located in While the main office in Hoyt Hoyt Hall on Western Campus, is Hall still functions as the primary currently offering counseling locacounseling serviction, the extension es in Upham Hall to other offices is Not only does the and other academextremely helpful department already ic division offices to all students. to better accomIn response, the provide very modate students. editorial board beneficial services Advisers are calls students to to students, but it now available in take advantage of continues to work to the opportunity. a more central location, making Planning for better accomodate student access to the future is exstudent needs with career counseling tremely important this change. more convenient. and Career SerThe editorial vices offers great board of The Miadvising to help ami Student applauds the efforts of think about and prepare for life Career Services. beyond Miami.

Not only does the department Getting that dream job is depenalready provide very beneficial ser- dent upon the work done now at vices to students, but it continues Miami, and Career Services can to work to better accommodate stu- help with the process. dent needs with this new change.

By creating a blueprint for sucFrom resume reviews, study cess early, employment after graduabroad assistance, internship op- ation might be a bit less uncertain. portunities and career preparation, Now, that assistance can be Career Services offers essential sought without the long trek to guidance to students, now in a more Western Campus.

Excessive business course fees provide burden for students

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iami University Farmer School However, the plan to increase fees of Business (FSB) students to a resulting $100 per credit hour is could soon encounter an increase in extremely excessive. course fees, with a resulting charge Depending on the major, each of $100 per credit hour beginning in business student in 2013 could posfall 2013. sibly face extra fees of approxiCurrently, all business classes mately $1,500 a semester, with have a $25 charge per credit hour. that entire amount going solely to The new plan recommends fees faculty salaries. be increased in increments over the Putting that large of a burden on next three years, with a $50 charge students is too demanding. implemented in fall 2011 then inAlthough Miami works to contincreased to $75 ue to improve the the following business program, fall before finalthe large increase Each business ly reaching $100 in fees over such in fall 2013. a short period of student in 2013 could While the plan time could be a possibly face extra has been recomdisadvantage for fees of approximately mended by the the university. $1,500 a finance and auMiami has dit committee many other semester, with that of the board of excellent proentire amount going trustees, it will grams with susolely to be discussed by perb faculty who faculty salaries. the entire board do not get the Dec. 10 for same attention. final approval.

Continued emAccording to FSB administrators, phasis on business salaries could the reason for the fee increase is to contribute to even more division continue to retain quality faculty by between departments. sustaining salaries.

If the plan is approved, the editoThis is intended to keep Miami’s rial board at least hopes the univerbusiness program competitive. sity is transparent about the increase The editorial board of The Miami and communicates information Student understands the reasoning to students. behind the fee increase.

Current business students as well Many faculty sacrifice employ- as prospective students deserve to ment in the business field to teach be informed of the changes because on Miami’s campus, and therefore they are the ones who are ultimately require adequate compensation. going to feel the pinch.

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➤ LETTER

START Treaty needs immediate Senate approval What are the threats to the human species as species? Not global warming or a pandemic, those could get terrible, but even in the worst cases we humans could manage well enough that a remnant would survive. No, the two main threats to human species survival are the impact on Earth of a large object from space and nuclear warfare.

At some point during the Cold War, the nuclear armed countries put together enough weapons that going off anywhere on the planet could trigger nuclear winter. Between fire and ice, as the old legends have it, a full-scale nuclear exchange threatened and continues to threaten to finish us.

There are some prudent things we can do to try to avoid a large-scale extinction event from Earth’s getting hit by a large comet or asteroid, but these are long-term projects.

Short-term, as in right now, we must defuse the doomsday device we humans have made and deployed.

That means not just stopping proliferation of nuclear weapons but also reducing arsenals worldwide to below the level where they threaten not just our generation and the next but human survival.

The START Treaty is such a start. It needs

approval of the U.S. Senate immediately and then the pressing of the Obama administration toward the goal of elimination of nuclear arms.

I’m not sure I want all nukes eliminated in my lifetime, but humanity owes it to us to get rid of most of them.

There’s no law that the Senate has to take a long Christmas break, they should stick around at least until they’ve advised and consented on START.

Richard d. erlich Professor emeritus erlichrd@muohio.edu

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Rule of thumb Winter Wonderland Snowy weather on the first day of December sets the tone for a wonderful winter.

Don’t rain on my parade Walking around campus to get to classes on a rainy day is miserable.

Upsetting rival Xavier Miami’s basketball “scored” with the recent victory.

Technologically illiterate teachers Sitting in class waiting for a professor to figure out technology gets old.

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➤ ORIANA’S OBSERVATION

Decoding Facebook heartbreak When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, he intended for it to work as a student directory, the photo address book students referred to as “The Facebook.”

Then, his website took off, making the once primitive address book into a fullblown social media giant including phoOriana tos, status updates, Pawlyk mindless quizzes, event pages and much more.

There are more than 500 million active users on Facebook. Fifty percent of active users log on to Facebook in any given day. The average user has 130 friends. But what’s the best statistic? People spend more than 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.

So what are two things people focus on while on Facebook? Their status updates and their profile picture.

Since we are given these two options to express ourselves on the website, how have people taken advantage of it?

Recently, David McCandless, an award-winning writer, designer and author based in London, created an infographic chart showing the most common times a year people break up using Facebook status updates.

According to mashable.com, McCandless and his team scraped 10,000 status updates for the phrases “break up” and “broken up” and made the following discoveries: • A ton of people break up before social occasions like spring break and the summer.

• Mondays aren’t just the start of the work week, there’re the end of many a relationship.

• People have the decency not to dump their significant others on Christmas Day. Another article on the same website pointed out five ways Facebook changed dating for the worst: • Overanalyzing drives you crazy.

• You see all of the action your ex is getting.

• Relationships and break-ups are public.

• It’s a record of every relationship mistake you’ve made.

• Other people’s comments will make your date jealous.

How wonderful.

Updates and relationship statuses aren’t the only way people are ending their relationship saga. Once you break up, now comes the new default minus your ex. And as they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words.

The profile picture is the public face of who you are on Facebook. A CNN article posted last week actually highlights how certain profile pictures make you “look like a tool.”

As the article quotes, “every day, four billion messages are shot off via Facebook and next to those four billion messages is something that could make or break the legitimacy of your missive — or, at the very least amuse or horrify your friends: your profile picture.”

So here are three ways that article suggests you can avoid looking like a total jerk in your default: The MySpace Shot: the picture where you pose in front of a mirror, mainly wearing less clothes and snap the picture with your phone.

It’s the number one way to get attention, but so is puking at a party or being that guy who falls from Skybox into BrickStreet.

Subbing in a picture of an object, animal or baby: It’s obviously not you. Also, your friends may start to wonder if you’ve been in a freak accident.

Holding lots of alcohol: Unless you want your friends to call and make you a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, pick something a bit more flattering.

All in all, your break-ups are not always the best story to tell, but neither are heart wrenching, public displays of your break-up on Facebook. Don’t go rogue with your profile pictures right after your downfall either.

If anything, be courteous about how you handle it all. If anything, send a Facebook message.

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➤ PERSPECTIVE

Holiday at home AMANDA SEITZ

Right now, students are anxious to finish up exams, return home and spend the holidays with family. Just a few days after this mass exodus from Oxford, whiny Facebook statuses everywhere will pop up: “Can’t wait to be back at Miami!!!” some will declare or “Back to OxVegas!!!!”

This is a continued tradition I’ve seen every year I’ve been at Miami University. As I get older, Miami has become more of my home, a place to which I happily return. Over every holiday break, I miss this university and all of the family I’ve made here more than I thought possible.

During my first year, every student, well, at least every girl I know, arrived armed with a box full of photographs. After mom and dad left, they quickly posted up pictures of their 20 best friends from high school.

Every student also arrives with special pacts to Facebook chat,

call and send care packages to their best friends. But quickly, these promises are broken.

Residence hall walls are, over time, replaced with pictures of new best friends at Miami.

A Thursday night phone call promised to your friend at a different college is replaced with you and your new roommate trudging through the snow to attend some fraternity party you thought was cool.

I wish I could list all of the challenging, crushing, exciting and laughable firsts I’ve enjoyed here, but that would take up the whole OpEd page.

All of these firsts, these new experiences, happen here at Miami with new people, some of whom will be your best friends for life. While nothing beats family, real food and being able to watch a Christmas movie around a fireplace instead of a

space heater, it’s no surprise that by my junior year I’m a little conflicted as to where home is.

Just look around, you’ll see housemates struggling to put sparkling Christmas lights up outside of their houses together, groups of friends enjoying a faux Thanksgiving dinner, students buying another holiday decoration to cozy up their dorm room and friends catching up over a peppermint mocha latte.

It’s during the holiday season that it becomes more evident that Oxford, too, has become our home.

All Miami students have two things to be grateful for this season, the home that we came from and the life that we are privileged to lead here.

But, at the same time, all of us have one thing to be especially unthankful for, the short time we are given in Oxford.

SEITZ is campus editor for The Miami Student

➤ ESSAY

Technology inhibits intellect Have you ever gotten the feeling it’s been a long time since you’ve turned off your computer? Have you ever had to go on a search mission for your phone? Most of us have. This is evidence we’ve become very reliant on electronics.

While it makes our lives easier and more comfortable, it may be too much.

Everything in this world is automated. Every time we swipe our credit card, the numbers are instantly compiled into a database. Businesses can track information from menial spending habits to social security numbers. Sometimes these business practices are done discretely and used to create a more appealing marketing strategy.

I bet even if a person passed away, they would still have computer files named after them listing all of their financial information rotting in someone’s database waiting to be deleted.

We gain access to information with a finger touch almost effortlessly. However, quantity of knowledge is not a factor in defining intellectuals, what is important is how we use that knowledge to reach the best outcome.

Knowing all of the different colors in the rainbow does not make you smart, but knowing what color appeals the most does. Not only do we have to know what, but we also have to know how and why things happen. It’s like going from the industrial revolution to the commercial era. Professors are right, memorization does not work. Not anymore.

The point is what does it matter if you know quantum physics but forget calculus? People have become so reliant on machinery that they’ve forgotten the core crux. Students carry

calculators that have functions and buttons they don’t even understand and sometimes abuse just to earn good grades without the foresight that their actions could backfire when they get to advanced courses.

However, it is a little early to starting judging the effects of technology just yet since the industry has not yet matured to its fullest. There are still ongoing studies conducted to look at the positive and negative aspects.

For example, professional psychologists have cautioned social networking methods such as cell phone texting and networking websites like Facebook and Twitter have inhibited people’s abilities to develop social skills.

According to the research conducted by Internet survey firm uSwitch.com, four out of 10 people claim social networks have had a negative impact on their personal social skills.

People have lost confidence in holding face-toface conversations and the ability to use body language to convey thoughts.

On the other hand, there are studies like those

by The George Lucas Educational Foundation that indicate virtual environments actually help improve social skills.

Since the advancement of technology, society has embraced its positive aspects, but now there are some issues arising to deny its usefulness.

We must understand that while technology may make our lives easier, it should never become a substitute to how we live our lives.

CHARLES LEE

LEEC2@MUOHIO.EDU

➤ ESSAY

Going from couches to 5Ks Turkey trots, 5Ks, 10Ks, half marathons, full marathons.

Running, running, running! I wouldn’t go as far as to call it the new craze that’s sweeping the globe because people have been running for centuries, but it does seem as though more people are getting out and pounding the pavement. Several cities saw record numbers at their turkey trots this year, and according to Running USA, the total running population went up 18 percent from 2008 to 2009. In fact, running is the most frugal form of exercise, and you can do it almost anytime, anywhere.

For those who are not in the I’m addicted to running group, there seems to be a certain disdain for the practice. Someone either loves to love or loves to hate running, there really isn’t any middle ground. So how does one make the transition?

Prior to August 2010, if you had asked me to go on a run with you, I would have laughed in your face. I hated running more than anything. I was a competitive synchronized ice skater for

11 years, so I’ve always been an active person and at times I used cardio machines to supplement my on-ice training, but I loathed it. Once I stopped ice skating in April, I welcomed my freed up schedule. After about three months, though, I started to itch for something to do. On a whim, I decided to sign up for the Stateto-State 5K run here in Oxford the last weekend of September.

I found a “Couch-to-5K” plan online, and started on my seven weeks of training. I’ve been running ever since. Many exercise programs stress that running is a practice you cannot throw yourself into, and too many aspiring runners try to and end up discouraged because it’s not getting any easier. The trick is to go slow and ease yourself into it.

One of my roommates, who was a track and cross country runner in high school, reassured me one day after a frustrating run that the addiction process takes a while. Especially for college students, we sometimes make excuses for why we can’t go running: too much work, too

tired from all of the work we stayed up last night doing, the Recreational Sports Center is too far away and it’s snowing.

I am guilty of making these excuses sometimes too, and sometimes they are valid. I now try to remember the feeling I get after finishing a 30 or 40-minute run or the five-mile run I finished on Thanksgiving.

This feeling is a release of neurotransmitters in the brain including endorphins and dopamine. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say the release of such chemicals is related to a person feeling a sense of reward. Sure, you’re sweaty and your legs may feel like jelly, but that runner’s high trumps both of those.

In my opinion, it’s an activity in which you only really need to shell out for a good pair of shoes, and your body gives you positive feedback. Why not make it your New Year’s resolution to start running?

MARY HALLING

HALLINML@MUOHIO.EDU

➤ THIS AND THAT

Books should not be banned Reading is one of the greatest ways for a person to learn, pass the time and use their imagination to take them to different times and places.

Parents, teachers and celebrities alike often take time to encourage young minds to pick up books and read them. It allows for children Chris and adults to take a DeNicola journey with characters they’ve never met, but by the end of the book they feel that they know. However, ever since books have been published, there have been people who try to ban them.

In April 2010, the Stockton, Mo. school board banned The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian without consulting the English department as to why the book was being read. This censorship is inappropriate.

There is a difference between having a healthy discussion about which books should be taught in class and which ones should not. However, to completely ban books takes away from the freedom that is guaranteed to us in the First Amendment.

Some of the most famous and wellwritten books in history have spent time on the banned list from one time to another. Books such as The Catcher in the Rye, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Grapes of Wrath, James and the Giant Peach, A Wrinkle in Time and Little Women are just some of the books that make one scratch their head and wonder why they were banned.

Again, I agree there should be healthy discussion between concerned parents and teachers of a school when required reading lists are given out in schools. If a number of parents are concerned about the material that is being taught, that is something to consider as to why the book would be in a program, but to ban the book from the school is wrong. This deprives students of a chance to read some of the best and most influential books ever published. Students should be given the freedom to read the books in their school library and have discussions with their friends if they want to if their parents don’t have a problem with it.

That is part of our great freedom.

That is part of our history. Many people have many different opinions about a vast number of issues, and none of these views should be completely taken away from students. No, there should not be pornographic materials available for young students, but when an elementary school in California bans the Merriam-Webster and American Heritage dictionaries because of their definition of oral sex, parents are losing sight of their responsibilities to talk to their children about more mature issues. Now that the dictionary is banned, students who read at a more advanced level are deprived of learning because they cannot look up definitions in a more complete dictionary.

Banning books stifles not only the opinions of authors all over the world, but it also stifles the creativity and imagination of children. Reading is one of the last ways for young kids to create visions in their head and to give them issues and situations that they have to interpret. The Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a study between 2008 and 2009 that shows that youth between the ages of eight and 18 consume nearly eight hours of media per day, which includes television, Internet and videogames. The time is now for schools to do anything and everything in their power to get students back to reading. Anything that might prevent that should be stopped.

Parents are concerned with books because of their racial portrayal of other people, use of profanity and other such issues. Yes, we live in a more open society and some books may present outdated views. The point is that they are views and they are history and they present a very real and important part of our history. None of that should be taken away from our students because we cannot understand where we are heading if we have no idea where we came from. That age old lesson applies especially to literature.

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continued from page 1 services to students,” she said.

“We have had a lot of success so far.”

CAS students can make appointments with Career Services by calling (513) 529-3031. Appointments are available from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in 146 Upham Hall.

Along with the services available to CAS students, Sue Martin, director of Career Services, said liaisons from Career Services are offering counseling to students in virtually all of Miami’s colleges.

According to Martin, she noticed a need for more accessible career counseling for students and worked with deans and Career Services faculty to arrange for faculty from Career Services to have offices in more centrally located buildings.

“We have three liaisons in the College of Arts and Science, one in engineering, one full-time faculty member and a graduate assistant in education and health and society, one fine arts and there are two in Business,” Martin said.

According to Martin, while most of the faculty members have offices within these departments, they are more frequently found at Career Services in Hoyt Hall.

“We designated certain people to work in departments to ensure that students had counseling that would help them think and plan for their futures,” Martin said.

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Out-of-state tuition for one academic year University of Notre Dame $39,919 Wake Forest University $39,544 University o f Michigan $37,358 University of Texas $34,288 University of Virginia $33,782 University of Illinois $29,256 Miami University $28,489 Indiana University $27,985 University of North Carolina $25,280 Brigham Young University $8,840

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and a $6 million annual revenue from the $100 fee.

It was noted there would not be a fee difference for in-state versus out-of-state students.

“We already have a much

higher tuition for out-of-state students,” Skillings said. “Adding to that differential is probably not in our best interest.”

The recommendation was approved by the finance and audit committee of the board of trustees Wednesday but will not take effect without approval by the entire board.

The board will hear the recommendation Dec. 10.

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continued from page 1 In a group effort, the students and a few faculty members raised the money in less than one month.

The students are still actively fundraising and any additional funds raised will be put toward long-term scholarships for girls in developing countries.

These scholarships cover school fees, textbooks and other supplies and are renewed each year as the girl passes to the next grade level, according to roomtoread.org.

Fudge said fundraising was challenging and largely done on an individual basis.

“You get those days where you don’t want to do anything, but you just have to pick up the phone and call,” Fudge said.

Mulligan, who has been working with the students throughout the process, described them as energized and passionate.

“It’s extraordinary,” Mulligan said. “The effort really comes from the students’ hearts.”

To date, Room to Read has built more than 1,000 schools and 10,000 libraries in nine different countries, according to roomtoread.org.

“I’m not sure if John (Wood) knew how this would work out,” Fudge said. “I think he was

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organizations that receive funding from ASG. According to the bill, all student organizations are invited to take part regardless of their qualification for ASG funding.

In order to plan and execute the event, student senate

pleasantly surprised.”

Wood is currently traveling, but Jill Carlson, development fellow in the Student and Youth Engagement Department at Room to Read, was available for comment on his behalf. She said she was inspired at the sense of urgency with which Miami students fundraised. She commended the students and staff at Miami for the tremendous success.

“We knew there was a lot of momentum after John’s speech, but Miami students have surpassed all expectations,” Carlson said.

The Miami students now have a school reserved in Nepal for 2011.

The students will receive progress updates of the application and construction process through the next year, Carlson said.

“It’s so tremendously powerful when you envision a name and a face behind every one of those five million children,” Carlson said.

Upon completion, the students plan to travel to Nepal for the school’s opening, according to Mulligan.

Fudge said he expects the experience to be eye opening and rewarding.

Both Mulligan and Fudge expect to maintain a relationship with Room to Read in the future.

“I hope we continue to set high goals for ourselves, build more schools and make a big impact through Room to Read,” Fudge said. unanimously voted to pass a bill creating a one-year ad-hoc committee.

“This bill is to ensure there is a committee in place for the future and it’s headed up by the VP of campus activities,” Phillips said.

The showcase planning committee will be run within ASG but open to any interested members of ASG or CAC, according to the bill. The committee will exist for one year before evaluation for further existence.

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admissions, which focuses on getting students to apply to Miami. Second, the campaign hopes to target the school’s peers continued from page 2 in higher education, the institutions that make the rankings in after graduation, Tron said.

U.S. News and World Report.

Tron said touting Miami’s The third goal is to engage attributes is not intended to in- young alumni, those who crease enrollment at Miami graduated within the last 10 University, but years, to garner to increase the their support.

“When you get number of appliOver time this ranked alongside campaign will cants, which will in turn increase expand even furDartmouth and the school’s ther, Tron said.

Princeton, you selectivity.

She said the need to milk it.”

“Competition budget for the to continue to atbranding camDIONN TRON tract the top stupaign was grantASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT dents in the state ed from program UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS is getting toughimprovement er,” Tron said. funds because “When you get ranked alongside the advertising was deemed a Dartmouth and Princeton, you university priority. need to milk it.”

The goal for the university The first stage of next year’s was trying to find unique ways branding campaign has three to spend the money as wisely key areas of focus, according as possible to increase applicato Tron. tions, program quality and better The first is undergraduate Miami’s reputation, Tron said.

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Friday December 3, 2010

2011 could hold surprises

Editor Michael Solomon sports@miamistudent.net

Rob Johnson

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s the fall semester comes to a close and students jockey for seats at King Library and send brownnosed emails to professors hoping for that 0.1 percent boost in their grades, we look forward to what 2011 has in store. A lot can change in one year (just ask Lil Wayne), and sports are no exception.

The NFL and the NBA are both poised for a potential lockout next season, which is an unfathomable concept but a potential reality. If there is no NFL next season, millions of Americans will be forced to be more productive at their jobs and at school since there will be no fantasy football. I’m in near tears just thinking about it.

With no NBA for a year, it will be interesting to see athletes stick around for another season instead of bolting for the pros. Imagine what Derrick Rose and Carmelo Anthony could have accomplished if they came back for their sophomore seasons.

On a more serious note, all of the college seniors graduating with futures in these sports may be without jobs for a year.

Regardless of the NFL lockout, Brett Favre would (probably) retire, which would be the first time number 4 has not taken the field in two decades. The last time Favre wasn’t starting a game, Justin Bieber hadn’t been born yet and the world was a much happier place.

Unless Derek Jeter drinks his “reality potion,” the New York Yankees’ longtime captain might not be playing in pin stripes on Opening Day 2011. The Yankees are currently not willing to meet Jeter’s $25 million request, but let’s be honest, that’s chump change to the highest paid team in Major League Baseball.

Travis Pastrana is set to enter the NASCAR scene in 2011 and plans to compete in seven nationwide races. March Madness will include four more teams, decreasing the already impossible odds of creating the perfect bracket.

Carmelo Anthony will become a free agent. Hopefully he has learned a lesson from the Miami Heat, and for the love of sanity won’t attempt to recreate “the decision.”

The year 2011 also signifies the beginning of the NCAA football shuffle. The University of Nebraska and University of Colorado at Boulder leave the Big 12 for the Big Ten and Pac-10 respectively, and the University of Utah leaves the Mountain West to join the University of Colorado in the Pac-10. For those non-math majors out there, the Big Ten (which had 11 teams to begin with) becomes the Big 12, the Big 12 becomes the Big Ten, the Pac-10 becomes the Pac-12 and Boise State still doesn’t automatically qualify for the Bowl Championship Series.

Got it?

If the rankings hold, Tiger Woods won’t start the year as the world’s number one golfer for the first time since 2005.

Ironically, that was also the first time he started the year married to ex-wife Elin Nordegren.

While 2012 may bring the world’s end or a zombie apocalypse, one should not overlook 2011 and its promise of intriguing changes. Who knows, maybe Greg Oden will stay healthy for a season, the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series or the Cleveland Browns will find a good starting quarterback.

MICHAEL GRIGGS The Miami Student

Miami netminder Cody Reichard makes a stick save Oct. 29 against Lake Superior State University. Reichard leads the team in wins with six.

HOCKEY

NEXT HOME GAME: 7:35 p.m. Friday vs. Notre Dame

Hockey hosts Notre Dame

By Hannah R. Miller Staff Writer

The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) division lead is up for grabs as the first-place Miami University RedHawks take on the second-place Notre Dame University Fighting Irish at the Goggin Ice Center.

Miami is only one point ahead of Notre Dame in the CCHA standings, and the ’Hawks have played two more games than the Irish.

“First place is on the line, so there’s a lot to play for,” Head Coach Enrico Blasi said. “It’s going to be an exciting weekend. There’s two good teams going at it.”

After a weekend split with Western Michigan University, Miami’s third split of the year, it is clear to The Brotherhood there is a need to put together solid play on both nights.

Senior Justin Vaive sees room for improvement.

“As a team as a whole, we just want to go in

BASKETBALL

there and play our game,” Vaive said. “Over the past month, we haven’t played two full 60 minute games in a weekend, so right now we just want to go in and play a full 120 minutes.”

Blasi liked the effort he saw from his team Saturday night and knows there needs to be a similar attitude against the Irish.

“It was a total team effort,” Blasi said.

“When we’re ready to play, we’re a good team, and when we’re focused on what’s at stake and in the moment, we’re a good team.”

Notre Dame, 9-4-2 overall and 7-2-1 in CCHA play, is one of the top teams in the nation, currently ranked 12th. The Irish offense averages 3.60 goals per game, with high production from senior Ryan Guentzel (17 points) and freshman T.J. Tynan (18 points).

“Their record doesn’t lie,” Vaive said.

“They’re a good team. They have one of the best offenses in our league and probably the country.”

NEXT HOME GAME: 7 p.m. Monday vs. Marshall University

RedHawks fall to Dukes, beat Hatters

By Melissa Maykut Staff Writer

After giving up 96 points to the University of Miami Hurricanes Nov. 20, the Miami University women’s basketball team returned

home four days later in the hopes of pulling out their first home victory of the season against the Duquesne University Dukes.

After coming off a loss against the West Virginia University Mountaineers, the Dukes stepped

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The Red and White are currently averaging 3.75 goals per game, with Carter Camper (32 points) and Andy Miele (27 points) leading the nation in scoring.

“Camper, Miele and Reilly (Smith) were really pulling the load for the first couple weekends,” Vaive said. “It’s nice to see scoring throughout the whole offense, and defense, actually. It takes the pressure off them and makes teams have to focus on all of us.”

According to Vaive, it is going to be important for the ’Hawks to have support throughout the lineup in the upcoming series against the Irish. Blasi agrees there needs to be a team effort this weekend.

“I expect both teams are going to play great this weekend,” Blasi said. “It should be fun.

The level of play is going to be high and it’s going to be exciting.”

The puck drops at 7:35 p.m. Dec. 3 and 7:05 p.m. Dec. 4 at the Goggin Ice Center.

SCOTT ALLISON The Miami Student

Junior guard Maggie Boyer brings the ball up the court Nov. 19 against the University of Kentucky.

onto Miami’s home court for the first time in RedHawk history. Duquesne was led by Head Coach Suzie McConnell-Serio, and received a bid to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament last season.

“We didn’t know much about them, so we weren’t expecting them to be what they were,” junior Rachael Hencke said. “But still, we didn’t play to our potential that game.”

The Dukes took a quick 12-point lead at the beginning of the first half and never lost momentum.

With free throws made by sophomore Courtney Osborn and a three-pointer from freshman Hannah Robertson, the Red and White brought the game within three points twice during the first half. Unfortunately for the RedHawks, the Dukes answered by pulling out to a 33-point lead at the beginning of the second half.

Miami was able to close the gap to 22 points, but Duquesne responded with another four, leaving the RedHawks with a 91-65 loss.

Even with Hencke’s 11 points and season highs from both Hannah Robertson (13) and Haley Robertson (10), the RedHawks’ defense lacked the strength and consistency it showed against Eastern Kentucky University Nov. 17.

“We still need to work on rebounding and defense,” Robertson said. “We’re really working on finding our consistency.”

After giving up more than 90 points in their last two games, the ’Hawks were itching for a stronger

defensive performance and a win against the 1-2 Stetson University Hatters. The RedHawks have met the Hatters twice in the past in the Stetson Classic, and won both contests.

Saturday, the Red and White kept their winning streak against the Hatters alive as they won their first home game of the season 77-60.

The ’Hawks had a terrific performance from the field, with four players reaching double digits.

Osborn scored 17 points, Hencke scored 13, junior Maggie Boyer had 12 points and Robertson scored 11.

The Hatters suffered offensively, as Miami dominated on the defense boards with 41 rebounds.

Sophomore Kirsten Olowinski led the RedHawks with 14 of those rebounds, and Osborn had a careerhigh six steals. Freshman Kelsey Simon hit a jump shot at the end of the first half, scoring the first points of her RedHawk career and putting the team up 47-22.

Miami ran into trouble when the Hatters switched to a full-court press in the second half, cutting the lead down to 14 points. However, an exciting breakaway by junior Lillian Pitts led to a 12-0 run, securing the win for the ’Hawks.

“We didn’t play as well as we could have, but a lot of people were in the double digits and we all worked well together,” Hencke said.

The team will look for its second home win of the season at Millett Hall Dec. 6 against the Marshall University Thundering Herd.