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VOLUME 137 NO. 41

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIO

In 1971, The Miami Student reported on a proposal allowing each student control of $16 of their $50 quarterly general fee. This would allow students to determine what activities a portion of their fee funds. The chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Finances said this criteria had never been considered before.

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MU senate debates changes to evaluations

Forum to discuss alcohol

OPD, MUPD to dispel rumors, field questions on GBD rules

By Dylan Tussel Senior Staff Writer

By Jessica Sink University senate members met Monday to discuss standardizing a universitywide evaluation form for students to fill out following the completion of courses.

This is intended to replace the present system, in which there is no set layout for course evaluation forms given to students upon class completion, according to Ann Frymier, communication professor. As a result of the current system, instructors and departments create their own, allowing for diverse and sometimes unreliable feedback that does not necessarily give accurate representation of student views.

Frymier said the new policy proposed by the Academic Policy Committee would create a common set of questions to be used on every evaluation form along with questions specific to each department. The six to eight added questions include inquiries about classroom climate and student learning, whether the instructor welcomed student questions and how well students learned to analyze complex problems and issues.

The implementation of the new evaluation method could take up to three years due to the stockpiling of current forms across campus and the expense of making an immediate change. However, pilot studies and reviews have been done by the Graduate Council and the Academic Policy Committee to edit and perfect possible assessment questions.

Julia Guichard, associate professor of theater, Sara Butler, professor of art and Theodore Wagenaar, professor of sociology and gerontology, conducted focus groups in fall 2009 with faculty members and students in order to compile a collection of attitudes and behaviors regarding course review and expectations for evaluation forms.

Frymier is working on perfecting the proposal and presented the benefits of implementing a standard system to the senate Monday.

“This has and will continue to be a very long and involved process, but very worth it,” Frymier said. “Currently, we have no common standards and there is a lack of norms. With this new method of evaluation, we can receive normative data and track the trends of student response.”

However, the proposed system is met with some apprehension by other faculty members.

“This is a very nice proposal,” said Steve DeLue, professor of political science. “But, I think the questions asked of students need to continue to be examined.

There could be mistakes in responses, which is why the questions should be as

SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

Senior Staff Writer

Green Beer Day (GBD) can be a day full of fun and festivities for some, but ignorance of safety issues and legalities could lead students down the road to danger and legal repercussions.

To address any students’ questions about their rights on GBD, representatives from the Oxford Police Department and Miami University Police Department will attend a GBD forum at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24 in 204 Harrison Hall.

Matthew Ciccone, secretary for off-campus affairs, is facilitating the forum.

“There are rumors that if (the police) see you uptown with green lips, they can pull you over and ask to see your identification,” Ciccone said. “There are all kinds of rumors about what your rights are on Green Beer Day, and we’re trying to give the students an opportunity to ask those questions to see which ones are really rumors and which ones are true.”

The purpose of holding this forum is to ensure everyone has a safe and fun GBD, although GBD is not condoned by any official organization on campus, Ciccone said.

Carson Cowles, off-campus senator, collaborated with the former secretary for off-campus affairs in 2009 to draft the bill creating the forums for off-campus students.

“Last year, we were expanding the walkabouts to get out there, meet our constituents and start interacting with them and

wSee GBD, page 12

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Snow days prove costly for university

By Amanda Seitz Campus Editor

Students who celebrated after a week full of snow days may reconsider once they hear the cost associated with an icy blizzard.

Carol Hauser, director of human resources, said the estimated cost for weather emergencies, including snow, are approximately $25,000 an hour.

This staggering cost is caused by the difference in payroll costs for emergency staff, Hauser said.

“When Miami University closes because of a weather emergency, for

example, we pay people’s regular wages but we have also what we call essential staff,” Hauser said. “Essential staff are those that come in and clear the roads and serve the meals. The university cannot function with out those people here. Those people get a premium pay. Our payroll costs go up when the university closes.”

Hauser said the premium pay for the essential staff is double time.

Although the university did not close for an entire day this semester, the cost of payroll still accelerates during emergency weather times, according to Hauser. Recent weather-related

closings were overnight which can be very costly as well.

“We really have three shifts,” Hauser said. “You can’t think just one, eight-hour shift is what it takes to run Miami.”

Hauser said the cost to the university depends on a number of factors.

“If the students are here and we close, it costs a lot more,” Hauser said. “If it’s a snow emergency when the students are here, then our emergency staff probably doubles or triples.

We open the major dining halls for

wSee SNOW DAY, page 11

wSee SENATE, page 10

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INSIDESCOOP NANOOK TO THE RESCUE

The 2010 Iditarod begins March 6 and a Western College Program alumnus will be competing.

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FRO TO THE YO

GLOBAL REACH

Miami’s chapter of Nourish International is one of the most active chapters in the U.S.

FREE FALLIN’ AID

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Earthquake-ridden Haiti receives supplies from Start Skydiving in Middletown.

City Council approved a sewer main project to start mid-May.

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By-The-Ounce Yogurt is slated to open Friday, go get some.

WWW.MIAMISTUDENT.NET FLICK LOVIN’ CHICK Howwwl!!! News Editor Hannah Poturalski reviews The Wolfman.

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OBSCURE SPORTS

Columnist Brian Gallagher has wishful thoughts about could-be Olympics sports.

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COMMUNITY, page 4

GOING DUTCH

Read a story by an Inside Washington student about the Dutch government’s view of the Afghanistan War.

SPORTS SLIDESHOW

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Wed

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Check out pictures from this weekend’s many sports events.

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Editors Courtney Day dayce2@muohio.edu Hope Holmberg holmbehh@muohio.edu Amanda Seitz seitzam2@muohio.edu

News Physics gives most degrees BRIEFS

By Katherine Kohls Senior Staff Writer

fyi Internet bandwidth increases on MU campus Information Technology (IT) Services and Housing, Dining, and Guest Services have gained funding for doubling the Internet bandwidth offered to the residential network.

This took place in response to requests from students for enhanced Internet access.

After the first 50 Mb/s increased Feb. 16, IT Services’ network monitoring showed that Web pages were already loading faster than they had prior to the expansion. Acknowledging faster Internet access as a priority, Debra Allison, vice president of IT Services, made an announcement about the additional bandwidth Feb. 16. At the meeting, Allison asked the students for their thoughts on the efficiency of MU Wireless versus MU Guest Access. Coming up with longterm solutions for funding increases such as this one in the future is also a priority for Allison.

events Accomplished pianist to accompany Orchestra Award-winning pianist Chu-Fang Huang will perform with the Miami University Symphony Orchestra Feb. 26 as part of the Miami University Performing Arts Series.Chu-Fang Huang received her master of music degree and Artist Diploma from the Julliard School. The concert will feature Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” overture, the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Rachmaninoff and a new work by James Lentini, dean of Miami’s school of fine arts.

Chu-Fang Huang with the Miami The performance will be conducted

by Ricardo Averbach and sponsored by the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, with funding from the Ohio Arts Council. The concert is at 7:30 p.m. in Hall Auditorium. Tickets are $18 for adults, $17 for senior citizens and $9 for students and youth.

Recruiter to speak on academic internships Thursday Feb. 25 Jay Liwanag, a recruiter at The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (TWC), will speak to Miami University College of Arts and Science (CAS) students about TWC’s internship programs. TWC offers internships in Washington D.C. in a variety of areas including the arts, business, international affairs, politics, law, media and communication, science and technology.

Liwanag will speak at 4 p.m. in 365 Upham Hall. To be eligible for an internship, students must be a second semester sophomore or older, have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.75 and be a CAS student. The internships are four to five days a week and students may earn 12-15 credit hours.

For more information about the internship, contact the CAS advising office at (513) 529-3031.

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) released data stating Miami University places first for the average number of bachelor degrees given annually for physics. Miami is second for the number of master degrees.

According to Michael Pechan, physics professor, the data was collected from the 793 degree-giving institutions. Miami was ranked among colleges with masters as the highest offered degree in the department of physics.

The data is based on classes between 2005 and 2007. According to AIP reports, there has been an increase in the number of physics degrees earned throughout the country.

“It takes a while to collect and analyze the data so it is always a

by the numbers ...

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students enrolled in physics or engineering physics major few years behind that’s why this was just released,” Pechan said.

Senior Josh Ebel, an engineering physics major, said the increasing trend is obvious.

There are 46 seniors in either

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Jeffery Clayhold, professor of physics, supervises juniors Steven Heston and Ryan Plump while building circuits in a lab. one of the two physics majors offered at Miami, physics or engineering physics. There are 605 students in one of the two majors in all four years.

“Physics and engineering physics are both very diverse majors that allow for a lot of interdisciplinary study and individual tailoring of your education,” Ebel said.

The AIP study ranked Miami as number one with an average of 15 physics degrees awarded annually.

Pechan said the strength of Miami’s program is that twothirds of the undergraduates and all graduate students do frontline research with faculty.

“We have the opportunities of a major university in a liberal arts college setting,” Pechan said.

With Miami physics being one of the most degree-awarding programs in the country, the department is looking to expand.

The faculty of the department

of physics has been collaborating to form a new biological physics major. The initiative will be presented in fall 2010.

Pechan said if all goes well the major will be available fall 2011.

According to Pechan there has been an increased interest in the health field and the interface between biology and physics.

Pechan said physics students are some of the top

wSee PHYSICS, page 10

Hodge to serve as director for college association

By Courtney Day

on getting that first job,” Hodge said.

Hodge feels this thinking is short sighted because most students will change careers at some point, so they need to be prepared with critical Miami University President David Hodge has been chosen to serve thinking and communication skills. on the board of directors for the Association of American Colleges Because of Miami’s commitment to liberal arts, Hodge said, “the and Universities (AAC&U), which promotes liberal students when they leave are better prepared for dealing education in undergraduate institutions. with a changing world.”

“I think it’s a AAC&U is made up of about 1,200 institutions, and Jeffrey Herbst agrees that liberal education distinction for the is Provost Hodge said the association has been the most influan important foundation for all fields. In addition to president and for learning skills in business or education for example, he ential group in promoting liberal arts education. After giving a presentation at the association’s annual consaid, students learn to engage in critical thinking and to the university.” ference in Washington, D.C., Hodge was approached understand diversity.

by AAC&U’s president Carol Geary Schneider and “Miami has long been rooted in liberal education,” JEFFREY HERBST Herbst said. asked to serve on the board.

PROVOST Herbst said involvement with AAC&U is a part “The board of directors sets the direction of the of the university’s commitment to undergraduate association,” Hodge said. liberal education.

Hodge said he looks forward to helping chart the associaMiami has 15 representatives and associates who are a part of tion’s direction of emphasis as well as to serving as an advocate for liberal education. the association.

The current economic climate poses a unique challenge for the board, “A fair number of our staff and faculty attend their various meetings which Hodge said consists of about 25 directors. throughout the year,” Herbst said.

“I worry greatly that with the economic situation, people are focused Campus Editor

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Former student to compete in Alaskan Iditarod

By Hope Holmberg Campus Editor

CORRECTIONS It is the policy of The Miami Student to publish corrections for factual errors found in the newspaper. ➤In the Feb. 19 issue, in reference to the story titled “Study concludes, analysis continues on women’s moods, habits” the College Women’s Mood and Coping Study was supported by a $96,000 grant from the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation/The Alcohol Foundation for 2008-10 to the Principal Investigator, Dr. Terri Messman-Moore, department of psychology and her Co-Investigator, Dr. Rose Marie Ward, department of kinesiology and health. ➤In the Feb. 19 issue, the name of the owner of Oxford Hookah Lounge was incorrect. His name is Tony Abbas, not Tony Edas as reported.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Emil Churchin’s dogs pull his sled in preparation for the Iditarod March 6.

Making preparations for a 1,000 mile journey through the Alaskan wilderness in negative 40 degree weather is not something many people can say they’ve experienced.

However, in preparation for this year’s Iditarod, the 1,000-mile sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome (AK), Emil Churchin has been tackling this unique task since August 2009.

A former Miami University student who was enrolled in the Western Campus Program (WCP) until 1991, Churchin has ended up immersed in a lifestyle he could have never predicted for himself while he was a student at Miami.

The Iditarod starts March 6 and ends several days later when the last team crosses the finish line.

Since this is only his third season as a dog musher, Churchin considers himself new to the sport but is very enthusiastic about it.

wSee IDITAROD, page 10

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Miami students to host prospectives for overnight stay

By Amanda Seitz Campus Editor

Some Miami University students may have an extra guest in their bedrooms this coming April.

From April 11 to 12, current Miami students will be hosting prospective students for a night. These prospective students have an outstanding resume and have promoted diversity prior to their college career, according to Zach Dworak, graduate student and co-president of Miami Ambassadors Advocating for Diversity (MAAD).

Dworak said the visit is only offered to students who have not yet had the opportunity to tour the campus before.

“It’s anyone who has promoted diversity who has yet to visit,” Dworak said.

Office of Admission has sent out 175 invitations for students to visit the Miami campus.

Dworak said the university examined multiple factors in deciding who would be chosen to attend the campus.

“There are some people who have represented a great background in grades and tests scores,” Dworak said. “Obviously their promotion to diversity and if they have not yet visited campus before (matters). We’re trying to get the most qualified, the most select group.”

Andrea Mendieta, chair member of MAAD, said it was said. “What the life’s like of a typical Miami student on a weekimportant to invite students who are multicultural and end and a weekday. Different liaisons are working together in planning different ideas other than just academic.” promote diversity, even if they are not diverse themselves.

Miami is hoping to attract a more diverse student “Diversity isn’t just being able to put that you’re a certain population through the event, according to Dworak. ethnicity on an application,” Mendieta said.

“As co-adviser of Miami Ambassadors, With the exception of traveling costs, we’re really trying to promote Miami and Dworak said the visit would be free of charge how diverse it can be, we feel and experito the prospective student.

“It’s anyone who ence like this and letting these students ac“It’s up to them to get here,” Dworak said. has promoted tually come and visit is something we feel “We are providing lunch, one-on-one time would be a great opportunity,” Dworak said. with faculty members and a financial aid diversity who has question and answer.”

Mendieta said bringing students to show yet to visit.”

During their stay, potential students the many aspects of the campus was vital in will get a flavor for Miami’s lifestyle. recruiting a diverse class of 2014.

ZACH DWORAK “We’ll be having a talent show, having dif“(MAAD’s) main initiative is to diversify CO-PRESIDENT Miami,” Mendieta said. “This whole acceptferent student groups, we’re hoping to have MIAMI AMBASSADORS ed students overnight housing is really imthe Misfitz and a couple of sororities and ADVOCATING FOR DIVERSITY portant and part of plan. It’s really important fraternities as well,” Dworak said. “We’ll to us to use the overnight experience to get have people from different academic demore diverse and multicultural students.” partments come to talk to them as well as a Students interested in hosting a multicultural accepted stucampus tour.” dent may attend one of six informational sessions. The next Dworak said he hopes to show accepted students the entire two information session will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 24 Miami experience. from 4:30 to 5:00 p.m. and 5 to 5:30 p.m.

“We’re hoping they get to experience the uptown,” Dworak

McGuffey Museum volunteer hosts book signing at Follet’s

By Lee Jones For The Miami Student

Elizabeth Johnson, a volunteer at the McGuffey Museum, explored what she called the “social history” of the building by writing a book entitled To Dwell with Fond Reflection: Families Who Lived in the McGuffey House.

Johnson will be signing copies of her book at Follett’s Miami Co-Op Bookstore Thursday, Feb. 25 from 5 to 7 p.m.

According to Johnson, the book is a “history of Oxford, seeing it through these people who lived in that particular house.”

Johnson was asked to write this book by the museum and Oxford’s Smith Library of Regional History.

After receiving her Ph.D. in history of art at University of California, Los Angeles and teaching in California and Wisconsin, she retired to Oxford. She then became very interested in the house’s history.

She used the Miami University archives, the Smith Library and the Western College archives for her research. Johnson said it took a few

years to put the information into book form.

Jenny Presnell, president of the McGuffey Museum’s volunteers, speaks highly of Johnson.

“She is a really good researcher,” Presnell said.

Bob Wicks, director of the Miami Art Museum, said Johnson is a really hard worker.

“You can set your watch by her,” Wicks said. “She is a very dedicated individual.”

Presnell hopes the book will boost interest in the house. She said all the museum staff positions were cut because of budget cutbacks, and the house is only open by appointment.

“Everyone is reeling from those cuts,” Wicks said. “I’m saying ‘How do we do what we did before with less staff?’”

Most of the money used to keep the house in shape comes from an endowment called the Blocker Fund, which is given by the university but takes donations from sponsors.

The house was built in 1832.

It was a family home until 1958,

when Wallace P. Roudebush, then vice president of Miami and the house’s last resident, gave it to the university. Five families throughout the years had lived in it.

“These people have seen wars, the influenza epidemic, the Great Depression,” Johnson said of the residents.

Johnson was interested not only in the stories of the people who had lived in the house, but also how the house changed as it passed from owner to owner.

“There is a section in the book on changes to the house and what each family did to adapt it to their needs,” Johnson said.

For example, Joseph McCord, who purchased the house as his family’s home in 1866, added a turned staircase and enlarged the doorways.

The library proudly displays a McGuffey Readers collection and McGuffey’s distinctive eight-sided desk, which used to be in the Miami library. Phillip Shriver’s red leather boardroom chairs are upstairs.

There are many landscape paintings by local 19th century artists

Full house

like William Reuben Clawson from Eaton, Ohio.

Junior Danny Capaccio, a computer science major, said it is great

to have a collection of Oxford history right here on campus.

“Without history a culture has no unity,” Capaccio said.

ERIN KILLINGER The Miami Student

FSB seeks new chair for management department

By Brittany Chojohowski For The Miami Student

The Farmer School of Business (FSB) is currently reviewing applications for a new chair of the department of management.

Bretta Snavely, former chair of the department, announced her decision to retire spring 2009 after serving five years as chairwoman and more than 20 years at Miami University.

During Snavely’s time as chairwoman, she was able to, in the words of Roger Jenkins, dean of FSB, “recruit several outstanding faculty members, lead several highly innovative curriculum improvements and lift the visibility of the department nationwide.”

According to a general e-mail sent to everyone in the department of management looking for nominations, the chair is responsible for a strategic plan for the department, deciding upon curriculum for students, recruiting new faculty members and supervising the endeavors of the department.

“There may not be a one-to-one relationship between the students and the chair of the department and the students, but the chair’s decisions will indirectly affect the students in the long run.”

STEVE WYATT CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

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Crowds line up to watch Miami’s Ice Hockey the CCHA trophy and title presentation Saturday, Feb. 20.

In order to qualify to become a chairperson, one must have a prominent history of teaching and conducting research in their field, as well as having their research published in a notable academic journal. They also must have received tenure in their department. Candidates for chair must exhibit excellent teaching skills, mentoring skills and a history of actively participating in the academic community.

Luckily, FSB will not have to search any further than Miami to find such a person.

According to Jenkins, the position will be filled internally, and those that feel they qualify and are up to the task are able to nominate themselves.

The new department chair should be announced by the end of March, but as of now nothing has been decided.

For the past year, Byron Finch, a professor of management, has acted as a temporary chair, and is a possible candidate for the position of official chair of the department.

wSee FSB, page 10

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February 23, 2010

Community

Editors Kelsey Bishop bishopka@muohio.edu Erin Fischesser fischeee@muohio.edu

Female passes out at Three Trees At 1:30 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to Three Trees Restaurant and Bar regarding an unconscious female.

When police arrived, they reportedly found a young-looking female sitting on a bar stool passed out. She was identified as Miami University sophomore Christine Berdelle, 20.

An employee was reportedly holding Berdelle to prevent her from falling off the chair.

According to police reports, Berdelle had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on her breath and she was transported to McCulloughHyde Memorial Hospital.

Berdelle was charged with underage intoxication and public intoxication.

Officers find unconscious male in intersection At 1:40 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to a call at the intersection near 305 N. Poplar St. When police arrived, they reportedly found a blue SUV with its blinkers on guarding a male who was passed out in the middle of the street. The male was reportedly in the northbound lane laying in the fetal position. Police reportedly awoke the male and asked for his name, but he responded multiple times with an indistinguishable mumble. He was identified as Miami University sophomore William Poirier, 20.

Poirier reportedly told police he thought he was in his bed and could not tell them where he lived or where he really was. He allegedly admitted to drinking a lot at Brick Street Bar earlier in the night. Poirier was taken to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital and charged with underage intoxication and disorderly conduct.

Student heads to county jail after shoving match At 1:00 a.m. Sunday, an officer exiting his vehicle in front of Oxford Police Department (OPD) saw a male and an employee in a shoving match at Stadium Bar and Grille.

As the officer approached and advised the males to stop, the employee reportedly obeyed but the other subject, later identified as Miami University sophomore James Ryan III, continued to push.

The officer reportedly grabbed both males and had them wait on their knees on a snow pile until backup arrived. Ryan was reportedly asked for his identification but he continually asked the officer for his cell phone, which he had been told was in the possession of the other officer involved.

As the officer was talking to Ryan, he reportedly started going through his wallet and refused to give it to police. Ryan reportedly took shoved something from the wallet in the snow next to him.

At the station, police reportedly found a fake Ohio driver’s license with Ryan’s name on it and detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath.

The employee reportedly told police he had seen Ryan take wristbands, and he asked him to stop and return them. Ryan reportedly refused, which led to the employee take his phone and begin to search him.

Ryan reportedly threw the wristbands on the ground and the employee returned his phone, but Ryan began pushing him. Ryan reportedly told police he had not taken the wristbands and he was defending himself because his phone had been stolen.

Ryan admitted to drinking alcohol earlier in the night and was cited for possession of a fake ID, underage intoxication and disorderly conduct. Because he refused to sign the citations, he was taken to Butler County Jail.

SCOTT ALLISON The Miami Student

BTO (By-The-Ounce) Yogurt is adding final touches to its modern interior design. The shop will likely open Friday.

Fro-yo shop to open uptown

By Amelia Carpenter Features Editor

Welcomed by smiling faces and music playing, you’d think cleaning up a 130-yearold building and preparing to open BTO (By-The-Ounce) Yogurt would be fun.

Turns out, it is.

“It’s fun in here,” Gordon Kaiser, BTO owner, said. “It truly is the big difference. If

you’re not in a good mood, don’t come here to work.”

It’s the environment that makes BTO in Oxford special, Kaiser said.

BTO offers a self-service experience in designing frozen yogurt. There are 12 flavors of yogurt and 24 toppings to mix and match.

“It works great with the kids,” Kaiser said. “And then the old men turn into the kids (when they’re picking yogurts

and toppings).”

Kaiser’s nephew and BTO General Manager Joe King said there would be some unique new flavors coming to BTO Oxford.

One that has to do with Indian food, one after the chocolate hazelnut spread, Nutella and the usual chocolate, vanilla, Oreo and peanut butter.

wSee YOGURT, page 7

Oxford too small to support urgent care centers

By Courtney Day Campus Editor

The Butler County Community Health Consortium, a federally funded health care provider located in Middletown, offers service to everyone on a sliding fee scale. But Oxford doesn’t have such a facility.

Without stimulus money, McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital has to make a profit to stay open, and the costs of hospital care are higher than the cost of physician or urgent care.

John Bowblis, assistant professor of economics, said, “The city of Oxford may not be large enough to support both urgent care and a full service hospital.”

Bowblis said many people in Oxford have health insurance and primary care physicians. For these people who are not paying out of pocket, McCullough-Hyde provides good quality service and may be more beneficial than an urgent care facility.

McCullough-Hyde has the advantage of being able to quickly diagnose a problem, and if they do not have the ability to treat a condition, they will fly a patient to another hospital. An urgent care center or a retail health clinic could not provide this kind of service.

Stephanie Sloneker, who has worked in human resources at McCullough-Hyde for more

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Sandy Simpson has been a nurse at McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital for 11 years. than 40 years, said the hospital provides quality care with a well-trained staff.

“We do a superb job of providing care for the community,” Sloneker said.

McCullough-Hyde received the HealthGrades’ Outstanding Patient Experience Award for the 2009-10 based on patient satisfaction.

However, senior zoology major Leighton Fain said students at Miami University have a negative perception of the hospital,

though her experience with it was not firsthand.

“You hear these stories of them doing unnecessary procedures,” Fain said. “My friend had a pretty bad case of mono sophomore year and my friends drove her to Cincinnati because they didn’t want to take her to McCullough-Hyde.”

Sophomore Torri Huebner, a political science major, said she had heard negative things about the hospital but that her own experience with McCullough Hyde

was a positive one. Huebner visited the emergency room after a foot injury.

“I checked in and then saw a nurse and within 15 minutes of arriving I was seen by a doctor,” Huebner said.

She said the doctor and nurses were kind and helpful.

“I felt like they did everything they could to help me,” she said.

Bowblis said he thinks the hospital provides a good quality of service considering its size.

Because of the lack of urgent care in Oxford, many nonemergency cases end up in the emergency room (ER). While the ER is highly profitable for the hospital, it’s expensive for insurance companies, employers and patients.

For people who are paying out of pocket and for insurance companies and employers, an urgent care facility or retail clinic may be more beneficial.

Bowblis said insurance companies offer different co-payment rates for different facilities as incentive to get customers to choose one facility over another.

He also said uninsured or underinsured patients often make up the niche market for retail clinics in stores.

“The economic crisis has caused more people to be uninsured,” he said.

wSee HEALTH, page 7

Skydivers use resources for Haiti relief effort

By Abbie Harper Senior Staff Writer

Skydivers all over the country have started lending their resources to help Haiti recover, and Start Skydiving in Middletown is no exception.

John Hart, owner of Start Skydiving, said seeing and hearing about the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti “was so depressing” he wanted to do something about it.

With skydiving planes at his disposal, he was well prepared to help.

David Strobel, Start Skydiving representative, said skydiving planes are perfect for delivering supplies to Haiti because of

wSee DIVING, page10

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Local skydivers began an effort to aid victims of the Haiti earthquake soon after it happened.

The effort is continuing and is completely funded by donations.

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THE MIAMI STUDENT

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010 ♦ 5

Pay-off proposal could save city $89K, create residential space

By Bethany Bruner Staff Writer

On the western side of Oxford, a 47-acre lot stands with little to no fanfare. People drive by this land without noticing or realizing this land is owned by the city of Oxford — for now.

As part of a settlement reached in 2008 regarding a zoning dispute, the city of Oxford bought the 47-acres located on Oxford-Reily Road for $3.75 million. Currently, the city still owes $1.5 million to be paid by June 2011.

Doug Elliott, Oxford city manager, said the money to pay off the land has been set aside in the budget, but a plan will go before City Council at their March 2 meeting would give Oxford the chance to save $89,000 in interest payments.

“We set the funds aside knowing the

payments needed to be made, so it’s already been felt on the budget,” Elliott said.

Oxford Finance Director Joe Newlin said by saving the money from the six percent annual interest rate, additional improvements to the city could be made.

According to Alan Kyger, economic development director, the land was originally zoned as being mostly multi-family residential property with some business and single-family homes.

Because of citizen concerns, the land was rezoned in 2001 to be all single-family homes.

Kyger, Newlin and Elliott said the point that the city does not want to keep this land. Ideally, the city would be able to sell the land to a developer.

Elliott said having the land developed would help to recover some of the money used to purchase the property.

Miami University sophomore Jordan Hummel said the decision to pay off the property could be beneficial, but is cautiously optimistic.

“It’s good for the cause of developing the city, but that’s a lot of tax money,” Hummel said.

Elliott said paying off the $1.5 million left on the property is minimal compared to the money the city has already paid.

“Paying this off is definitely savings for the city,” Elliott said.

Making the payment isn’t a done deal quite yet. March 2, City Council will be presented with legislation asking for authorization to make the payment.

Both Newlin and Elliott said at recent workshops there has been little negative feedback about the plan and council seems to be on board with the plan.

If the legislation does not pass at the meeting, council will have another chance to pass the legislation at another meeting in late March.

Passing the legislation at that meeting would mean only $85,000 in savings, $4,000 less than the currently proposed plan.

After the payment is made, focus can be shifted to finding a buyer and developer for the land.

“We’ve had some exploratory meetings with developers,” Elliott said.

According to Elliott, no written proposals have been submitted.

Looking to the future and potential development deals is something Elliott and Newlin are looking forward to, but first thing’s first: getting the legislation passed by council. “ I don’t see any issues, but I’m not a fortune teller,” Newlin said.

Local sewer systems to undergo cost-effective improvements

By Ally Seibert

Not only do the liners give additional support to the pipe, but they also will seal out groundwaThe city of Oxford will make im- ter from entering the sanitary sewer provements to two sewer mains start- system, Dreisbach said. ing mid-May if the City Council apAccording to the staff summary reproves a contract. port for the project, the process “utiIn the last video inspection, the lizes liner material that can be pulled sewer line under into place between Main Street bemanholes, inflated “It will reduce a tween Vine and with air, and cured Withrow Streets in place creating major source of and the line off a new pipe within groundwater North Campus Avthe limits of the old infiltration into enue showed signs pipe. Robotic cutour sanitary of deterioration. ters are then used to The Department make new service sewer system.” of Service and Enconnections and to gineering made seal the connections MICHAEL DREISBACH plans to install new with the new main.”

DIRECTOR OXFORD SERVICE AND pipe liners that will Dreisbach said ENGINEERING eliminate the need the entire process for cutting into the will take less than street and are less obtrusive to traf- one week to complete. fic, according to Michael Dreisbach, United Infrastructure, a transportaservice and engineering director for tion design and construction services Oxford. The new pipe liners will also group, offered the lowest price at be cost-effective. $21,914 with an extended two-year For The Miami Student

warranty, which fell below the original estimated cost of $29,500. The company has done similar work for the city in the past with good results, according to Dreisbach.

“We look forward to completing this project,” Dreisbach said. “It will reduce a major source of groundwater infiltration into our sanitary sewer system, and ultimately, we will reduce the amount of water sent for treatment to the city’s wastewater treatment plant.”

Plans to improve the sewer mains have been discussed since August 2009 and are now awaiting approval from the City Council to award United Infrastructure a contract. The contract cost of $24,914 will come out of the $44,000 allotted to the city’s Capital Improvement Plan for 2010.

“I’m glad they’re taking early steps to fix the problem,” said Thomas Buchanan, Miami University sophomore. “It’s one of those things many people don’t think about. It’s also nice they’ve found a way that isn’t too disruptive to Oxford residents.”

SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

Sewer lines under Main Street between Vine and Withrow Streets and the line off North Campus Avenue will be repaired pending council approval.

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Tuesday

February 23, 2010

Features

Editor Amelia Carpenter carpenab@muohio.edu

small group,

BIG PLANS partnership with the University of Guatemala

By Jing Huang

For The Miami Student

Miami University’s Nourish International (Nourish) chapter has been said to be the most successful of nine chapters in the country by chapter coordinator Jenna Farmer from the Nourish National Offices. The chosen trip for the scholarly service group will be centered in Guatemala for two weeks producing eco-friendly products to stimulate the economy this summer.

According to Sama Alkalaf, co-president of the Miami chapter of Nourish, the goal for this trip is to help raise environment awareness and fight the poverty in Guatemala. Miami students will travel and work together with other college students to turn potato bags into commercial products.

Alkalaf said the idea of opening up the Miami chapter started with her cousin’s chapter at the University of Michigan. The unique goals and the variety of projects her cousin’s chapter has worked on were the inspirations that have influenced her to begin a new chapter here at Miami.

Alkalaf and co-president Ashley Miller, a sophomore, worked with Charles Stevens, Nourish adviser, for Nourish to become a reality.

Nourish was a new offering for the 2009-10 school year. The organization enables students to help solve global poverty problems by running their own ventures on campuses.

Miami’s Nourish chapter has between 30 and 40 members. Nourish offers students a chance to

Nourish International members sell baked goods at the Phi Delt gates.

help out the community through various projects events.

“The objective of this organization is to inspire students to get involved in fundraising and planning a project that’ll not only help eliminate poverty in community but will empower the members of community to be successful,” Alkalaf said.

Nourish has about thirty to forty projects each chapter get to choose from and through a voting process by the members to decide the project they want to do each year, Alkalaf said.

“We get to choose our project and it’s different each year. It’s not focused on one aspect of improving community. It could range from building houses to installing clean water system,” Alkalaf said.

The chapter has chosen a project that enables them to help out the community on a global level. The chapter will send about 10 to 20 members to Guatemala City working alongside with SIFE UVG, the organization at University of

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Guatemala on the project called ‘Reinventado La Limonada’ (La Limonada is a city in Guatemala).

Miami Nourish students will be partnered with engineering students from the University of Guatemala during the summer to implement an eco-weaving project for Guatemalan women using recycled potato bags.

They will recycle potato chip bags into jewelry handbags and wallets that will be sold by Guatemalan women.

“We will help them by teaching them marketing, financial, and helping brand them,” Alkalaf said. “This project will help the environment but also help support the living situations of these women.”

The trip would last two to three weeks and students pay their own travel and lodging expenses.

Currently, the members of this chapter are working on various fundraising events to raise money for this project.

One fundraiser was held Feb. 17 at Kona Bistro.

“Everyone who goes to Kona Bistro whether to eat or drink, all the tips and around 30 percent of sales will go to Nourish,” Alkalaf said.

Another fundraising event the chapter is the Green Beer Day T-shirts sales.

Carrie Susskind, marketing director of the Miami Chapter worked with Zach Lansdale on the designs of these T-shirts.

Susskind said the Green Beer Day T-shirts are $15 each, the manufacturing cost per shirt is between $12 and $13 dollars, so the group makes about $3 a shirt.

“We have about 180 orders and expect to sell more,” Susskind said.

All profits from Green Beer Day T-shirt sales benefit the project in Guatemala.

Nighttime Nourish, a venture of this chapter also sell food at Phi Delt Gates from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. twice a month on weekends.

The chapter also has donation boxes at Kofenya and will hold a fundraiser event at Coldstone sometime in April.

Stevens saw Nourish as a positive student group.

“They’re committed, it’s fabulous they figure it out by themselves,” Stevens said.

The Miami chapter has existed for less than a year, but the efforts these students put into this organization has helped them to be a top chapter across the country.

“There are nine founding chapters in the U.S. and we are the most successful, we have the most members and raised the most money,” Alkalaf said.

Miller said she enjoyed watching Nourish progress.

“We’re really excited about the progress we have made, we have a good start,” Miller said.

Stevens also believed this organization is different from other servicerelated organizations on this campus because this group takes the initiative to solve community problems others haven’t thought of.

“This is the first group to deal with issues involving with malnutrition and poverty, and it is more concerned with hunger issue and poverty,” Stevens said.

Stevens said the chapter is also trying to get founder of Nourish International, Jessica Jackley, to speak on campus. This will offer Miami students more chance to understand the organization and the importance of helping out community and society.

Nourish is open for all students who want to make a difference in their community or globally.

“All different majors are welcome and can be helpful,” Susskind said. “Projects need members (who) major in marketing, environmental (and others).”

Nourish meetings are every other Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Harrison 012. The next meeting will be held Feb. 23.

HANNAH MILLER The Miami Student

THE MIAMI STUDENT

YOGURT

continued from page 4 Kaiser said he normally hates peanut butter ice cream, but BTO’s version is different.

“It’s very good,” Kaiser said. “It’s their own version of Reese’s cup.”

Kaiser said there is also a rotation of sweet and tart flavors. For example, there is apple tart, which tastes more like a granny smith apple, and apple sweet that is more like a McIntosh apple. Other flavors will be mango and kumquat, a citrus fruit.

“We’re working on special college flavors,” Kaiser said. “Cappuccino and high caffeine yogurt … I don’t know if those will be really popular.”

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010 ♦ 7 Kaiser also plans to work with customers who are diabetics or can only eat lactose-free yogurt.

Kaiser said BTO would be open to suggestions for flavors.

Kaiser said Valentine’s Day was the proposed opening day after the delay in mid-January, but because of the age of the building and the seven years of desolation inside, more time and energy was necessary for opening preparation. BTO passed the health inspection Monday, and the opening date will be final by Wednesday when the license is issued. BTO hopes to open Feb. 26 pending the license issuance.

Kaiser said BTO Oxford might be limited to 12 flavors because the city of Oxford changed their fire exit, which left them out of a storage closet and office, leaving little space for more yogurt machines.

“Right now we’re just putting final

touches on things, cleaning up, getting the kitchen set up and all sorts of sanitation,” Kaiser said.

Kaiser added that crushing Oreo cookies and preparing other toppings would be lastminute touches before the grand opening.

Some final touches would include bringing the “Miami atmosphere” into BTO. Miami University senior Kayley Wagner, a graphic design major, was hired to choose Miami photos for BTO’s interior.

“That was the challenge … bringing tradition into a modern space,” Wagner said of BTO’s modern interior design.

Wagner said instead of painting a mural on the wall or any other design idea to incorporate the university, she chose to cut pictures in the shape of circles to nail to the walls.

With rectangle-shaped frames for each individual yogurt machine and triangles

Singing for a cause

lining the walls where there is seating, circles added to the modern design, according to Wagner. Each photograph is tinted red to blend into the red circles painted on the walls.

Kaiser is open to suggestions for the back wall where, as of right now, he and King want to incorporate Miami’s Greek life somehow. Wagner said they were thinking of a photo of the Greek Week event ‘Puddle Pull.’

Kaiser said he wanted to make BTO as interactive as possible by incorporating customer suggestions, best weekly topping submissions, discounts and coupons.

The only disclaimer is customers won’t be allowed to write on the bathroom walls.

Kaiser is anxious to open the doors.

“It’s pretty fun in here, just us,” Kaiser said. “We’re dying to get the paper off the windows.”

HEALTH

continued from page 4

KATHRYN ANDERSON The Miami Student

The Lisa Biales trio performs Sunday afternoon at the Oxford Community Arts Center.

The event to raise awareness of local artists was sponsored by Macy’s.

But while retail clinics have become a trend, Bowblis doesn’t think one could be supported in Oxford because many residents have insurance.

McCullogh-Hyde’s President and Chief Executive Officer Bryan Hehemann, agrees.

“We probably don’t have the number of people to make it worthwhile,” Hehemann said.

Hehemann said primary care physicians provide a better alternative to walk-in clinics because they manage a patient’s case and know the patient’s history.

Hehemann said McCulloughHyde adds about one doctor each year in order to accommodate the needs of the community, including Miami students.

He said the hospital’s bad debt has increased by more than 35 percent in the past two years and this is an indication of the poor economy.

“That tells you how much free care we are giving away,” he said.

Hehemann said in Butler County an estimated 30,000 children are without healthcare.

He said the county is working on the problem. The federally funded Butler County Consortium in Hamilton will be adding a pediatrician in March, Hehemann said.

Hehemann said the consortium offers care to anyone with or without insurance. More than half of the consortium budget comes from the federal government, Hehemann said.

“But they don’t operate a transport system, so that’s a problem,” he said.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Opinion

Editors Thomasina Johnson johnsota@muohio.edu Sam Kay kaysj@muohio.edu

➤ EDITORIALS

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

Green Beer Day forum will clarify, educate

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o combat Green Beer Day the police.

(GBD) rumors, the Oxford The board strongly suggests stuPolice Department, Miami dents participate in the forum. SendUniversity Police Department and ing a representative from an organizaMiami’s Associated Student Govern- tion or social club to later summarize ment (ASG) are hosting an informa- and inform the other members is a tional forum at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, practical solution if everyone cannot Feb. 24 in 204 Harrison Hall. The attend. If a student is representing a forum will discuss rights of students group, the members of this group and police officers as should generate well as safety issues. questions regarding The editorial board The cooperation Oxford and Ohio’s of The Miami Stualcohol laws. between the dent supports the The board believes forum. The cooperathe forum is relevant tion between the po- police and students to not only off-camlice and students enpus students, but encourages courages education on-campus students and strengthens the as well. Although respect between the education, smart the majority of onstudent body and the campus students are choices and Oxford community. under 21, GBD is With the forum, the no secret and makstrengthens the ing smart choices police are helping to quell any rumors that applies to everyone. they are just out to respect between the Underclassmen are get students. The forequired to complete rum proves that the student body and AlcoholEdu, which police want to help gives the same the Oxford students stay out of facts about alcohol trouble. There are that the forum will.

Community. also a lot of rumors To encourage attenand misconceptions dance, the board sugin the Miami commugests ASG advertise nity regarding alcohol-related laws this and future forums. Though an eand what the police can or cannot mail was sent to off-campus students do. Often, students don’t understand Monday, the board encourages that to their rights, especially if they are not get the word out, ASG should create from Ohio. Since each state has dif- a Blackboard announcement, put out ferent laws regarding alcohol, the im- table tents or hang up posters. ASG portant details regarding alcohol con- should also consider sending out a sumption are easily confused. This recap via Blackboard announcement confusion often leads to the spread of or e-mail to reach the people who rumors and can put students at risk of could not attend the forum. unwanted interaction with

Company’s actions a model for aid

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tart Skydiving, a skydiving inspiration in the tools they have and company in Middletown, has work together to make a difference. started using resources and This is an example of taking an idea skills at hand to help Haiti get back and involving both the local Middleon its feet. Because of their versa- town community and reaching out tility, skydiving planes are practical nationally and internationally.

The board recommends that the tools that can deliver crucial supplies to a devastated country. The planes Miami University skydiving club, are designed to carry MU Dropouts, work together with Start a lot of weight, have Skydiving in any large doors and can This project way they can to help land almost anywhere. The idea demonstrates that promote the partnership between the of using skydiving people can find community and natplanes to deliver ural disaster relief. supplies is catching inspiration in the The board suggests on worldwide. that MU Dropouts The editorial board of The Miami tools they have and help with fundraising for fuel and other Student supports and applauds Start work together to transportation costs Skydiving and the or increasing awareparticipants in the make a difference. ness of skydiving Haiti recovery. The planes helping areas participants are using their resourc- in need. The board believes this coes very intelligently and creatively operation can be translated into deto help solve the problem of get- livering supplies to other needy areas ting supplies to Haiti. This project that are affected by natural disasters demonstrates that people can find in the future.

The Miami Student Oldest university newspaper in the United States, established 1826

EDITORIAL BOARD Catherine Couretas Editor in Chief Hannah Poturalski News Editor Erin Maher Managing Editor Scott Allison Online Editor Thomasina Johnson Editorial Editor Sam Kay Editorial Editor Courtney Day Campus Editor Hope Holmberg Campus Editor

Amanda Seitz Campus Editor Kelsey Bishop Community Editor Erin Fischesser Community Editor Katie Giovinale Sports Editor Amelia Carpenter Features Editor Anna Turner Amusement Editor Samantha Ludington Photo Editor Hannah Miller Art Director

BIZZY YOUNG The Miami Student

➤ LETTER

Exams no substitute for learning I became aware of the problem early in my teaching career, in 1967 or so. We were doing a standard definition exercise in a composition class, and a student was reading aloud her brief definition piece that began, “In the United States treason is” — and then merrily gave her own definition.

“Whoa!” I said, “Time out,” while making the “time-out” gesture. “If ‘treason’ is the word you want to define, you can argue for all sorts of definitions, but if you start a sentence ‘In the United States treason is,” you have to finish the sentence with the definition in the Constitution.”

(It’s Article 3, section 3, but I just looked that up; I couldn’t have given the citation from memory in 1967, and didn’t.)

Blank stares from the class.

“It’s the one crime defined in the Constitution.”

More blank stares.

“You’ve got to know this!” I said. “You’ve all just passed an exam on the Constitution.” And indeed they had. I was teaching at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, and my class was 100 percent students from, mostly, Illinois, with a few from New York. They had to pass the Regents Exam in New York, or the Public Law 195 exam in Illinois to get their high school diplomas, demonstrating among other things working knowledge of the U.S. Constitution.

“Right,” one of my students replied. “We passed the exam.”

“OK, so you have to know this,” I said.

Giving me the sympathetic look we insensitive people give the pathetically slow, the student repeated, with more careful enunciation, “We passed the exam…”

I had figured — like the legislators that mandated the exams — that high school graduates would pass a pretty thorough examination on the U.S. Constitution and therefore have a working knowledge of the Constitution.

My students knew they had passed the exam, and therefore didn’t need to know the material any more, and probably wouldn’t.

I was starting to learn to take very, very seriously what has recently been called, “academic bulimia,” the process by which students “cram” for an exam and “regurgitate” the material.

When you regurgitate, you get some poison or irritant or excess out of your system. Now an English-speaking student might, figuratively, chew on an idea, decide to swallow it, digest it and assimilate it. (We like eating metaphors for learning.)

The easier method, though, is cram and regurgitate, and that was what the fully-certified high school graduates in my class had done to get to a major university, and that was back when U.S. education was in good shape.

They had figured out the system, played it and won: if not a top slot, they got a respectable niche in higher education.

The only problem is that they were U.S. citizens who had passed the exams and came out pretty much ignorant of the most basic way — an elegant theory, not messy political facts — their government worked. Students in the 21st century will be equally proficient in gaming the system of high-stakes exams, and nowadays the schools have money on the line, too, and many schools and will help with the game.

So don’t expect much from high-stakes exams beyond more kids, and their elders in the education business, getting good at the various games of high-stakes exams. What you can hope, wish and pray for is a change in American culture where education for citizenship and the life of the mind are respected by people important to kids, primarily by other kids.

Don’t hold your breath while waiting.

Professor Richard D. Erlich erlichrd@muohio.edu

➤ RULE OF THUMB Shaun White The “flying tomato” continues to dominate on the slopes.

Shaun White’s hair We love redheads, but Shaun White’s hair is scary, especially when it is flying around. Also, he kind of looks like Carrot Top.

Chatroulette!

Meeting dozens of strangers from around the world makes for a fun time.

Internet flashers Chatroulette! is not G-rated, so use it at your own peril. You may see several johnsons (not the last name.)

By-The-Ounce Yogurt Students are very excited for some more creamy goodness.

Lindsey Vonn Injured, but still embarrassing the snotty European competition!

OpEd Page

THE MIAMI STUDENT

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010 ♦ 9

➤ ESSAY

➤ FOLLY, HATRED AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

➤ THE MIAMI PLAN

Awareness key to self realization

Language, writing indispensable skills

“Hunt” embodies Miami spirit

As I was sitting with a friend earlier this week, we got caught up talking about current events.

Politics, celebrities, sports, entertainment and news — all of it feeds into our culture of infotainment.

Being on the up-and-up about everything keeps us involved and engaged with those around us. If you’re reading this, it probably means you are fairly informed; it takes a dedicated media junkie just to pick up the student paper, let alone stay interested enough in it by the time you get to the featured essay section. Right off the bat then, since you are reading this, you probably aren’t who I want to talk about. The people I want to single out here are the completely uninformed.

The people who might casually ask: “Did something happen in Haiti?” with a straight (albeit innocently naïve) face.

I spend a startlingly large amount of time thinking about these sorts of people. For instance, what are they even doing with their time? Surely at some point in the last five weeks or so, they must have heard about something related to Haiti. I used to think it was a defiant act of ignorance, as if they had to define their entire existence by living in a dark cave devoid of all media. But as I spoke to my friend, it became apparent that she too was woefully unaware of some key media events. “There was something about orphans and Baptist groups in Haiti?” Now my friend is by no means an uninformed cave dweller, so I spent the next hour or so considering things. After all, does it really matter if someone knows about a story?

We all know the phrase “ignorance is bliss,” and I think it’s pretty apparent why someone would want to be ignorant of our culture. Most of our reported news involves tragedy, death, murder or crime. We hear about them constantly, so one has to wonder whether it does us any good.

How does our being informed of a tragedy better the situation?

Many people might tell you it doesn’t. It gives us a sad event to talk about, and another reminder of how much life can hurt.

That being said, I’m not writing this to be a champion of ignorance. It simply is what it is, a fact of what happened. I would much rather live in a world in which I’m aware of what is going on — good or bad — rather than have a false representation of what the world actually is. And that is the function of news, to give us a picture of the world we are in.

Just as I’m promoting news as a sort of existential fact, I want to say the same of someone who doesn’t know about a current event. They aren’t stupid for not being aware of something; it’s simply a reflection of their interests. I personally don’t watch sports, and considering the amount of times I’ve sat quietly (with that same naïve look on my face) listening to other guys talk about batting averages and the latest players traded, I can attest to the feeling of being left out being uniformed gives you.

The trick is not to define yourself by your ignorance, but use it as a means of educating yourself.

John Luckoski

luckosjl@muohio.edu

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E-mail Sam at kaysj@muohio.edu.

Writing is one of those things you don’t think of as an invention and, by extension, something you can actively change. It’s ingrained in everything we do. But for hundreds of thousands of years, if Lawrence anything like Uebel writing existed at all, it was exceptional rather than common. Writing is the basis of law, literature, accounting and history. Until the last 100 years, it was the only way to transport news aside from word of mouth. For thousands of years, writing has been the best way for humans to communicate in any way — emotionally, spiritually, for business or pleasure — across space and time.

During my sophomore year, I had an economics teacher who was a stickler for language. He would regularly correct anyone who misused “whom” or used “phenomena” as a singular.

He had a good sense of humor about it, but it was nonetheless a reminder of attention to grammar’s unpopularity. Most people who ever liked English class liked it because of the literature, not the grammar side. Great stories are more interesting than minutiae.

More than 60 years ago, George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, wrote an essay on language called “Politics and the English Language.” It argued that the English language was becoming sloppy and inaccurate. “It is clear the decline

of language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer,” he wrote.

Orwell argued that rehabilitating the English language has “nothing to do with setting up a ‘standard English.’” These two ideas are important: language is directly related to one’s life experience and perception, not simply something that exists in an academic vacuum, and “proper” English solely for the sake of being “proper” really isn’t that important.

Another essayist, Paul Graham, clarified why writing well is important. He stated that, ignoring what most people are taught in English classes, he doesn’t write his essays for the purpose of arguing one side of an argument. He traces the root of the word “essay” to the French “essayer,” meaning “to try.” He says an essay is an attempt to discover some truth.

The activity of writing is more than just communication; it’s an improved and deliberate method of thought.

Of course communication matters, but here too clarity and precision are the ultimate goals. Orwell said one of the most common places to find bad writing is where people haven’t figured out what they actually think themselves or they actively hope to deceive, both of which cause a writer (or speaker) to “(turn) instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” I think that’s why my teacher cared so much about good language. I remember that he also regularly corrected

logical errors. Unlike many professors, he wasn’t shy about calling out students for making bad arguments. His real issue seemed to be with lazy thinking. Bad grammar was just a symptom.

Clarity matters the most when it comes to writing. Conversation is ongoing. Mistakes and misinterpretations can be corrected. Writing, on the other hand, stands on its own merits once completed. Chances to interview the author about his or her actual meaning are rare.

Teddy Roosevelt once wrote, “Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.” The big debates are important, of course, but good writing matters in daily life too.

One reason this applies especially now is the omnipresence of communication technology.

We’ve all become daily writers. Scientists state that roughly seven percent of communication actually comes from the words you use; the other 93 percent is entirely nonverbal. Anyone with a cell phone can tell you how easily text messages get misinterpreted.

English is a difficult subject because, even if anyone knew all of the “rules,” they would never get a perfect grade. There is always some way to more accurately translate thought to language.

But the effort, though perpetually imperfect, is nevertheless important. And as long as writing continues to become a more common mode of communication, that effort will become more important every day.

➤ ESSAY

Comments must be constructive Lately it has been difficult to miss the disparaging comments being made about The Miami Student and Associated Student Government (ASG).

As someone who works on staff at The Miami Student, attends ASG meetings weekly and has frequent interaction with the leaders and members of both groups, I felt obligated to use my unique perspective to formally address the recent unwarranted criticism of these two groups.

First, I will address the frequently mentioned albeit flagrantly misguided assertion that ASG is doing a poor job addressing the needs of the student body. During each ASG meeting, student senators, whose constituents have approached them with concerns, present those concerns to the rest of the senate and cabinet for discussion. The most pervasive issues — such as slow on-campus Internet connection — are addressed by ASG either by the passage of legislation or by cabinet members contacting administrators to collaborate and fix the situation. Although higher on-campus Internet speeds are being achieved as I write this, students will inevitably overlook the efforts of ASG’s technology director, Daniel Sauter, in regards to fixing this issue, and instead complain about how the issue was not addressed sooner, though Miami University’s Information Technology (IT) Services had been investigating it for a while.

My second concern is the recent criticism of The Miami Student. Comments, most of which are anonymous, have been left on the newspaper’s Web site. These comments are anything but constructive — they are left with the sole intention of insulting the newspaper’s staff. My personal favorite, left by “Anonymous,” said he or she is ashamed of their Miami degree because of The Miami Student’s inability to print respectable material (that is the gist of the comment).

People who, like Anonymous, leave denigrating comments on the Web site are doing nothing to solve what they perceive as an issue. Furthermore, most of the people criticizing the newspaper are absolutely ignorant about what goes into making the paper, including the formulation of ideas for stories, decisions about what to include, information gathering, writing and editing of stories and the considerable amount of time the editors work every week. The weekly schedule, as well as the pressure never to make factual errors and to keep students well informed with newsworthy articles, is stress inducing and The Miami Student staff works extremely hard to fulfill these obligations.

It is easy for students who decidedly have no background working for a publication such as this one to criticize the newspaper — especially when they are anonymous. The most recent instance of this is criticism about the cartoon published in the Feb. 16 issue, depicting student body president

Jonathan McNabb and suggesting ASG is failing.

As a direct result of their ignorance, many people jumped to conclusions, erroneously blaming Catherine Couretas, editor in chief of The Miami Student, for allowing inappropriate content to run.

These people were unaware of the events leading to the cartoon’s publication and have no valid perspective from which to denounce the editors of the newspaper.

When people criticize groups such as ASG or The Miami Student, they often brashly rebuke the heads of the groups, in this case the editor in chief of the newspaper and the student body president.

However, what they fail to realize is there is an entire staff working under Couretas and McNabb — neither of them can correct every little issue taking place in their respective group. Moreover, most, if not all, of the students criticizing them are utterly incapable of doing the work that either one of them does on a daily basis. It’s funny how the less competent, less established criticize the hardworking student leaders of two of what I consider the most important student-run institutions on campus.

There are several ways to communicate with these two groups in a way that would make a positive impact. First off, The Miami Student is always looking for story ideas and writers. As for ASG, if anyone has concerns they feel need to be addressed, I encourage them to tell their senator and he or she will bring it up at their meeting. They put a lot of weight on student concerns and genuinely do what they can to address them. However, if nobody brings up concerns with them, they won’t know what needs to be addressed! Additionally, petitions are due March 1 for those running for student body president or one of the vice presidential positions. I want to stress that students unaffiliated with ASG are encouraged to run — anyone can make a positive difference on campus.

I am not telling anyone they are not allowed to criticize these two groups — I am simply trying to dissuade these anonymous critics from making ignorant assumptions and comments. And another thing, I would like everyone to take note that I am publishing this with my name attached to it, which is more than nearly everyone who recently attacked The Miami Student and ASG can say. It is easy to slam people while hiding behind the curtain of anonymity, but I would like to see how removing that curtain would affect the types of comments people leave. I sincerely hope after reading this people will think twice about making rude, unnecessary comments and instead use constructive criticism to help these two groups attend to any issues they might have.

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This week I want to laud RedHawk Hunt, a 24-hour scavenger hunt put on by the Residence Hall Association (RHA) for the past few years.

RedHawk Hunt is the best idea that has been integrated during my time in Oxford, so if you have never participated, Brett make this April Schneider your first time.

Two years ago, Miami University instituted some new traditions: the cheerleaders at the football game stand in a line and kick to indicate every point we’ve scored, and the Reserve Officer Training Corps lifts a heavy log, also reflective of our points scored.

Regardless of whether or not these things are cool, declaring a new tradition is an oxymoron. Traditions need to be student driven rather than top down, and preferably with a charming background story, such as or hockey game arm wave during House of Pain’s “Jump Around” (I’ve heard that it comes from a band member who was a poor, awkward dancer). However, tradition need not be limited to the sporting fields.

RedHawk Hunt has the potential to become our second biggest tradition, losing out to Green Beer Day. Unfortunately there is no cool background story. Someone in RHA brought the idea back from a conference. RedHawk Hunt works like this: You form a team of 12, put on the matching team shirts provided

by RHA, and at 7 p.m. on a Friday you receive a list of 200 clues. Each clue coordinates to a location onor off-campus. You have 24 hours to solve each clue — for example, what university president oversaw the integration of the first female students? Once you answer, you and a specified number of teammates (2, 3, 5, 12) would take a picture outside of Hughes Laboratories with the clue’s number written on your team’s whiteboard. Throughout the night, there are additional clues and special challenges to score more points. The whole process is surprisingly exhausting, especially if your team lacks bicycles.

The genius of the RedHawk Hunt is it causes participants to become aware of all the little things on our campus that hold generally unknown significance. Who is the Campbell whose name is etched above the north entrance to Ogden Hall? Why is there a plaque on a tree near the statue of William Holmes McGuffey? Last year, participants got to call Uncle Phil (the one the campus Delis are named after) to ask for help on one of their clues.

Successful athletics can imbue an emotional school spirit, but RedHawk Hunt engenders a mature, intellectual fandom of Miami.

I hope the university recognizes how special this event is and the potential it has to become even better. I think they should open the academic buildings up to swipe access on that Friday night, which would open up a lot of new clues for RHA. I also think the university, or the departments and offices within it, could deliver more unique opportunities; a special challenge to catch a pass from Zac Dysart or hints on clues from current faculty members who have been around long enough to have seen the answers first hand.

I also hope participation continues to grow. To all of the fraternity initiates who have been rigorously studying the history of your respective chapters, you already have a leg up on the competition Form a team, represent your fraternity and win some prizes. Maybe some academic departments could form teams? I think the history department would dominate, but maybe kinesiology and health could keep up.

RedHawk Hunt is an experience unlike anything else you’ve done at Miami. Grab your 11 closest friends, a few cameras and as many bikes as you can muster. Hopefully this year we can knock those conceited teams of “Stelliot” and Associated Student Government out of the top spots.

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Music tour comes to MU, performs for Pi Kappa Alpha

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Senior Matt Forrest, an international studies major, believes the change to evaluation forms is going to be a benefit to all students.

“From a student’s perspective, I really appreciate the opportunity to evaluate courses with new, more comprehensive questions,”

Forrest said. “I feel that with these questions, I could safely evaluate instructors and classes fairly and accurately with these questions. I think this is a good opportunity to step back and reflect.”

The senate agreed to revisit the issue later once more research is done.

“Evaluations are an important part of the University experience,” Provost Jeffrey Herbst said. “A lot of interesting and important points were made, and we will return to this issue.”

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“We’re still collecting nominations,” said Steve Wyatt, chair of the department of finance. “The position is still wide open.”

While the induction of a new chairperson is a significant event for FSB and the executive committee, on which the chair will be expected to serve, the students should not expect to see immediate changes in the department of management.

“There will be no dramatic changes in the short term in terms of curriculum and courses,” Jenkins said. “Department changes occur in the long term, and require a vision for the entire department.”

Although students will not see

”It’s a hobby,” Churchin said.

“It’s a good fit for me. It’s emerging in nature. It’s the bond and test with the dogs. It’s self-reliance. It is something in life I stumbled upon that makes me happy.”

Dog sled racing is a hobby that comes with a large price tag though. Renting his kennel of 16 dogs in addition to the costs for participating in the race and caring for the dogs has amounted to $40,000.

Churchin said during his time at Miami, he was thankful the WCP often offered the opportunity to participate in small discussions.

“We had the ability to talk about all these issues of society and by saying these things out loud you were able to think about why you think that way … it was healthy,” Churchin said.

Churchin, who is an Ohio native, now lives in Anchorage,

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Hodge has been an active part of the Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative, which Herbst said is a major effort to promote liberal education.

Herbst cited the Miami Plan as a sign of the liberal arts foundation at Miami.

Sophomore Mike Dasher, an international studies major, said the Miami Plan “gives you different interests to look into.”

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students at the university. He noted half of the National Astronaut Scholarships have been awarded to physics students since 1986.

“I think this is a tribute to the synergy between our undergraduate and master’s program,” Pechan said.

With the popularity in the program rising, Ebel said the department might need new amenities.

“I think that a new building and look for the department would make a big difference in attracting new majors,” Ebel said.

Ebel said the department of physics does not have the facilities that some other Miami departments have.

“Culler is a little dated,” Ebel said.

Ebel said everyone in the department of physics is approachable and available to talk about career paths or starting new research projects.

“The faculty is very active in experimental and theoretical research,” Pechan said.

Pechan said research productivity has quadrupled in the last decade.

“My dream job is to become an academic physician and perform medical research that allows me to combine my loves of physics with my interest in medicine,” Ebel said.

Ebel will be attending the Ohio State University College of Medicine in the fall to pursue a doctorate of medicine. Most of his classmates are going on to graduate school in physics of related engineering fields, while some are pursuing employment in technical fields.

“At Miami, we think of companies like GE, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Lockheed Martin as good places for MIS or accounting majors to find a job,” Ebel said. “But it is the scientists and engineers that drive the success of these corporations.”

Although Miami does not currently offer a doctorate program, Ebel said undergraduates reap the benefits because faculty are receptive to undergrads interested in performing research along with them.

“Undergraduate research can be a great selling point when looking for a job or graduate school,” Ebel said. “The department of physics is unmatched in its promotion of this kind of research.”

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an instantaneous result of the institution of a new chairperson, they should still be aware of it.

“There may not be a one-to-one relationship between the chair of the department and the students, but the chair’s decisions will indirectly affect the students in the long run,” Wyatt said.

Junior Mary Fitzgerald, a marketing major, was not aware of the former chairwoman resigning.

“I do not see any concerns about having a new chairperson as long as the students are kept well aware of what is going on and are constantly informed on any updates or changes within the marketing department,” Fitzgerald said.

While the induction of a new chairperson is a significant event for FSB and the Executive Committee, the students should not expect to see immediate changes in the management department.

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According to Carr, the tour uses Oakley and Muscle Milk to advertise and get endorsements for artists.

James, who was involved with Greek life at the University of Southern California, also helps maintain the tour.

“I’m part of the panel hand-picking the artists who get to go on the tour,” James said. “I’ve turned down some record deals I was offered in college in order to give back to the Greek community since it was such a large part of my life in college.”

James was excited to attend and play at Miami because he enjoys the famous sports figures that once graced the campus.

“I remember watching people like Wally Szczerbiak, and wondering, what’s Miami actually like?”

James said.

James is optimistic about returning to Miami’s campus, as Saturday was the first time he had been here.

“I’d be happy to return for Pike, or even a different fraternity or sorority,” James said.

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A member of Miami University Greek life presented an up and coming artist as a result of a partnership with the Sorority & Fraternity Tour.

The tour is a way for this organization to bring musicians to sorority and fraternity houses across the United States.

Involving various news artists, and performing on campuses nationwide, the tour allowed Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) to present singer Kelley James live.

A collaboration between the co-founder of the tour Adam Carr and Pike brought James to their fraternity house.

James performed in front of a live audience at Pike. A heated tent was set up and the brothers, among others, were able to experience a live concert right in their backyard. James sang a variety of popular songs and also performed some of his own music.

Kevin Ross, social chair for Pike, said he saw great potential in the event. Ross worked with Carr to set up and make the arrangements for the show. “(I) thought he was a great success,” Ross said. “We were worried at first, but have gotten great feedback.”

Another attendee, Frank Carpenter, said he was amazed by James’s ability to freestyle.

“Having been to several concerts, this was probably the best performance I have seen,” Carpenter said.

“I liked how Kelley incorporated unique Miami traditions into his lyrics, such as his use of Green Beer Day.” Carr said he started the initiative as a result of being previously involved with Greek life.

“I just want to give back to the Greek community,” Carr said. “I am an alumnus of Greek organizations.”

Carr said the goal of his tour is to allow Greek organizations to have a sneak peak of artists before they hit their primetime. “(I) am hoping to give fraternities and sororities the opportunity to see these artists before they make it big,” Carr said. “The organization is all about giving a chapter the chance to use the tour for what they wish.”

Carr said chapters could host any type and size of venue they prefer when they utilize the Sorority & Fraternity Tour.

“Chapters can host small private concerts in any location,” Carr said.

Originally a pre-medical student, Dasher said he changed his major after taking language and anthropology courses for Miami Plan Foundation credit.

“I was interested in those classes and I would have taken them anyway, but the Miami Plan is important because we are a liberal arts school,” Dasher said.

Hodge said his new role as director presents a great opportunity to advocate for AAC&U’s core goals.

“I’m very pleased to be in a position like that.”

Hodge said.

Herbst agreed.

“I think it’s a distinction for the president and for the university,” Herbst said.

Alaska and works on the pipe line in the oil fields as a digital imaging technician.

“Our mission is to keep oil off the Tundra,” Churchin said.

Churchin enjoys the work schedule his job offers because it requires him to work two or three weeks followed by two or three weeks off.

This enables him to utilize the weeks he has off to train for the upcoming Iditarod.

Churchin said it is up to him to keep the dogs happy, motivated and focused during the race.

Michael Conaway, a friend of Churchin’s from WCP, has been trying to help him raise donations for the race through e-mail and Facebook.com.

“After doing that he (Churchin) did have a little boost in donations,” Conaway said.

“What he needs is more than individual people giving $10 or $2. He needs businesses to help him out.”

Conway said Churchin’s hobbies also include both writing and juggling.

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continued from page 4 because of their versatility. They are equipped not only to land on short, rough runways, but also to land in places where there may be no runway at all, Strobel said.

“They also have big doors and can carry a lot of weight,” Nancy Koreen, United States Parachute Association (USPA) representative, said.

Hart didn’t want to deliver just anything, though. He called Doctors Without Borders to see what they needed most. They told him what they really needed was a digital X-ray machine.

“It’s an amazing piece of technology,” Hart said.

That “amazing technology” had already made it to Knoxville, but it stalled there. Hart and a few others from Start Skydiving picked it up and finished its delivery to Haiti. They were thrilled to do it.

“It’s awesome to be able to do something useful,” Hart said.

Although Start Skydiving thought this up on its own, at the same time, USPA was sending out messages to its affiliates all over the country

In terms of training the dogs, Churchin said that similar to track athletes, the dogs need to build up their workouts by running further distances throughout the training period.

“If you push them too far and too hard they literally just quit on you,” Churchin said.

“That breaks the bond of trust between you and the dogs and that is the last thing that you want to do.”

During the race, Churchin’s obligations include preparing the dogs’ warm meals at checkpoints, rubbing ointment on their limbs, wrapping them in fur to keep them warm, making sure they are in good health and free of injury.

“You have to be prepared for artic survival,” Churchin said. “I have a healthy respect for the danger of the sport but I feel prepared.”

Students can visit Emil Churchin’s Web site at http:// sites.google.com/site/emil2nome/Home to learn more about his upcoming race or make donations.

encouraging just this type of action.

Koreen said it started with Haiti asking a Jamaican skydiving company to use its planes to deliver supplies.

“After getting involved, (the Jamaican center) notified USPA, and USPA notified some of its affiliated centers saying there were these opportunities,” Koreen said.

According to Koreen, the funding for these trips to Haiti is coming completely from donations.

“Some (skydiving centers) are using funds from different aid and charity organizations that already have systems in place for these sorts of things,” Koreen said. “Some have collected donations from skydivers for fuel, and some are donating their own money to cover the costs themselves.”

Koreen said the exact length of this project is unknown and more deliveries are being made right now.

“It’s ongoing,” Koreen said. “A couple of jump planes are overseas at the moment and will continue making trips in the future.”

Senior Adam Schmucker, president of Miami University’s skydiving club, MU Dropouts, said this is a great way to aid Haiti’s recovery.

“Skydiving planes can land on grass fields and stuff and be fine,” Schmucker said. “So yeah, I think it is an effective way to help.”

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010 ♦ 11

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A wintery January in Oxford paved way for a record-setting February. Thus far Oxford has received an accumulation of at least 20 inches of snow. Snow flurries and showers are expected in Oxford through Friday.

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students to go eat.”

Hauser said while the cost of bringing emergency staff was steep and probably higher compared to other places of work, the payroll increase is very valid.

“The problem with the essential staff is that they’re really essential,” Hauser said. “We did not always have double

time. It wasn’t worth people coming in during a blizzard and risk that to come (into work). We have to weigh what are the consequences if they don’t come in.”

Sophomore Kelsey Morrison, who works at MacCracken Market, said she believe the increased pay is fair.

“I wouldn’t have worked if I wasn’t getting paid extra,” Morrison said. “If we can’t work out and classes are cancelled why should I have to work? It’s an incentive.”

Hauser said in very extreme cases, the university receives funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). On September 14, 2008 Miami fell victim to the side effects of Hurricane Ike causing a power outage and the

infamous student protests.

Hauser said in this circumstance, which was declared a statewide emergency, FEMA helped pay for some of the payroll costs that Miami incurred.

“That was declared emergency funds so we got some of those funds back from FEMA, not all of them,” Hauser said.

Although the wages are high on emergency days, Hauser said the university must enforce the policy in order to keep operation afloat.

“I would like to see a littler amount,” Hauser said “I think it’s higher than many places are but we have to weigh what does it take to get somebody to get in here.”

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“We were doing the financial forums … and that gave me the idea for having one for off-campus students.”

Although these forums are specifically targeted at off-campus students, Cowles said all students are welcome because it will give them an opportunity to learn about issues they might face in the future when they move off campus.

“I think (the forums are) important because there are a lot of things out there that people don’t fully understand, and they’re not completely informed about how they work,” Cowles said. “Especially Green Beer Day … safety issues, like ways you can protect yourself and not put yourself in a bad situation where your day is going to end up horribly with a Code 1 or something like that.”

Cowles said the forums aim to inform students and allow them to have a good time and stay out of trouble.

He considers the forums a success so far, as students have approached him and other off-campus senators after the forums to tell them how informative the forums were.

Senior David Yousavich thought the GBD forum would help students, but not necessarily within its target audience.

“I think people under (21) would probably find it beneficial, but I don’t think people that are over would,” Yousavich said. “I’m personally not worried … I’m over 21 and I’m responsible, so I’m not worried about getting arrested on Green Beer Day. I’m old enough to know that I can’t get drunk and go urinate in the streets or something.”

Senior Samantha Mullan had not heard any rumors about GBD. “I would imagine that’s more of the younger people who haven’t been here for Green Beer Day before,” Mullan said. “That’s where I would imagine the rumors are coming from.”

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By Adam Hainsfurther For The Miami Student

Last Wednesday’s snowboard halfpipe final made one thing very clear: Shaun White is the greatest snowboarder of the sport’s short history.

White’s gold medal winning runs proved the young star has done more for the sport than any other boarder in history. He is to snowboarding what Michael Jordan was to basketball, what Wayne Gretzky was to hockey or, for a better comparison, what Tony Hawk is to skateboarding. The sport has always had a fan base, but it was White that truly brought snowboarding to the mainstream.

Let’s look at the facts. After Wednesday night’s memorable runs, White has now taken home halfpipe gold in two straight Winter

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continued from page 15 UNO senior Nick Fanto stole the puck along the boards and beat sophomore net minder Connor Knapp with a quick wrister to put the Crimson and Black up 1-0.

Fanto’s lamplighter marked the first time that the Red and White has surrendered the first goal of the game since a contest v.

University of Alaska-Fairbanks Jan. 22.

Nevertheless, Miami battled back from the deficit and evened things up before the first intermission. McKenzie stole the puck along the boards and winged it to Wingels, who sent a crossing pass to Camper as the period entered its final minute. The center one timed the puck with a hard slap shot from the left circle and saw his shot find net with 57 seconds remaining in the opening frame.

For the second straight night, the RedHawks and Mavericks closed out the first period with a tie.

In the opening minutes of the second stanza, UNO senior captain Jeric Agosta laid sophomore Alden Hirschfeld out behind the Mavericks’ net with a nasty check from behind. The infraction saw Agosta escorted off the ice with a game misconduct and the RedHawks gained a potentially critical five minute manadvantage, though McKenzie’s hooking penalty three minutes later reduced the power play.

At 7:59, the Red and White took the lead for the first time in the game with an outstanding goal by Wingels. McKenzie saw his backhanded attempt turned away by a diving Dupont, but Miele picked up the rebound and took the puck around

Olympics. White’s winning run gave him a score of 48.4, broke his own record for highest halfpipe score in a Winter Olympics and put him nearly two and a half points ahead of silver medalist Peetu Piiroinen of Finland.

White has taken home gold in eight Winter X Games, including winning the superpipe competition the past three years. He won six Dew Tour gold medals in 2008 and 2009 and won the 2009 Snowboarding Grand Prix superpipe event.

But just being a champion isn’t enough to be the greatest. White isn’t just a champion though, he’s a trailblazer as well. White is the first snowboarder to land back-to-back double corks (two off-axis rotations, or diagonal flips), which he did at the Red Bull Superpipe earlier this year.

Now, the double cork is a considered a

the net. Dupont scrambled over to where Miele was coming around, but Miele dished the puck out in front to Wingels instead of going for the wraparound and Wingels fired his team leading 15th goal of the season into the open right side of the net to make it 2-1.

Less than one minute later, a scrum broke out in front of UNO’s net that sent five players to the box and saw Miami go on the man-advantage, only to come up empty handed again.

Instead, the Crimson and Black turned the tables on the RedHawks when junior Rick Purslow retied the score at 11:41, just more than a minute after Miami’s power play expired. Purslow put away his own rebound less than four minutes after the Brotherhood took the lead, and the score stood 2-2 at the end of the middle period.

Going into the contest, the Red and White held a record of 2-1-4 when the action was tied after two frames.

“I don’t think we ever quite had (the momentum) tonight,” Wingels said. “We had good shifts here and there but we weren’t building on them. They came out hard and played their game.”

The Mavericks regained the lead for good at 3:56 of the final stanza when Hudson put a fast shot past Knapp’s glove side — his third goal of the series. Purslow assisted on the power play goal. At this point the writing was on the wall, as the last time Miami trailed in the third period was during both games in a series v.

Robert Morris University on Jan. 8 and 10. Those two games also marked the last times the Red and White came away on the losing end of the action.

Just 1:32 later, UNO put the game out of reach with a follow up goal by Ambroz. The RedHawks tried to get back in the game but saw themselves outshot

and outplayed in the third period, and the final score read 4-2. All five of Miami’s losses this season have come when the opposing team scores first.

“I don’t think we had it, for the most part, all night,” Blasi said. “They really took it to us and took us off our game, and the credit goes to them. Dupont made some big saves in the second period and when you’re pressing so much, sometimes you over press and sometimes you’re using the same guys and it gets everybody out of the rhythm” Following the game, the RedHawks were presented with the CCHA regular season championship trophy in front of their home crowd. The Red and White clinched the 2009-10 championship with a victory over BGSU Feb. 12. The loss made the presentation bittersweet, but the occasion was still made special by the fact that this is only the third regular season championship Miami has won in the program’s 31-year history. “(Being presented with the trophy at home) feels good,” Wingels said. “Obviously we would have liked to have won tonight. We thought we could have played better, left a little more out there, but it’s good to get honored at home.

Our fans mean a lot to us — like coach said, they’re the best fans in the league and the country.”

The RedHawks will wrap up the regular season Feb. 26 and 27 with a home series v. Ohio State University. Puck drop is slated for 8:05 p.m. both nights, with Friday’s game taking place at Steve Cady Arena and Saturday’s series finale occurring in Columbus. Friday’s game will be televised on CBS College Sports, and fans can also tune into WMSR’s live coverage of both games at http://www.redhawkradio.com.

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must have trick to make the Olympics (all four members of the U.S. men’s snowboarding team can nail it). So, White did what any great athlete does, he made a new trick, the Double McTwist 1260: two board-over-head flips within three and a half turns. And that superpipe three-peat mentioned earlier made him the first person in Winter X Games history to three-peat the superpipe event.

While White isn’t into snowboarding for the money, he has turned snowboarding into a business. In 2009, Forbes magazine estimated White made $9 million from endorsements alone in 2008. But White isn’t only cashing checks from sponsors. His videogame Shaun White Snowboarding had sold over three million copies as of May 2009.

In other words, White isn’t just a snowboarder; Shaun White is snowboarding.

Which brings us to Tuesday evening’s final practice run. Less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to take his first run in the medal round, White wasn’t polishing his tricks, or finalizing his run at the practice session. White wasn’t even near the slopes. Instead, White, who’s been plagued by falls all season long, did something to keep himself out of his head.

He went kayaking.

“He felt like he’d nailed his run the night before, and he doesn’t like to ride four days in a row,” said Bud Keene, U.S. snowboarding coach. “It gave his legs the day off. We sat in kayaks, watched the sunset and had a great night. It was a completely un-halfpipe thing to do, and it was the perfect call.”

Clearly the waters of Vancouver’s Horseshoe Bay were just what White needed to prove to the world he is the best.

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endless) is already in place in different parts of the world. It involves skiers attached to a motor vehicle and then pulled through a course consisting of obstacles and jumps.

In 1948, the Winter Pentathlon was contested for the first and final time. It consisted of cross country skiing, shooting, downhill skiing, fencing and horse riding. The pentathlon (both winter and modern version) was invented in order to replicate the experience of a soldier in battle. Today’s soldiers are a bit different, so the pentathlon must also evolve.

Nobody uses swords or rides horses in battle anymore. Instead of horse racing, take a hint from the X Games and add a snowmobile race. And instead of fencing, have the competitors engage in a hand-tohand combat contest. Hey it’s working for Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The Winter Olympics is already ahead of its time by combining two boring sports in order to make things more exciting. But why stop at Nordic combined (cross country skiing and ski jumping) and biathlon (cross country skiing and shooting)? They could combine curling and skiing — guide the stone down the mountain to a tiny circle at the bottom.

Keeping with the winter theme, the IOC could add a thrill to any sport by allowing competitors to pelt each other with snowballs ... because who doesn’t like a good snowball fight?

Some may call these suggestions selling out, but I call it promotion. The Winter Olympics come but once every four years, and people should be waiting in anticipation during those intervening three years.

So, Jacques Rogge, let me know if you’re interested in any of my ideas because I don’t want you to miss out on this quadrennial opportunity. As my professor in Marketing 101 told me, “There are no bad ideas, only small audiences.” And these ideas are ready for big audiences.

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Senior Jarod Palmer registers a goal and two assists in Friday night’s contest against University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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RedHawks split series with UNO Mavericks

By Erika Hadley Senior Staff Writer

The Miami University men’s ice hockey team (20-2-4-2 Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), 23-5-6 overall) split their final home series with University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) (13-12-3-2 CCHA, 17-13-6 overall) this past weekend.

The Red and White used balanced scoring to best the Mavericks 6-2 on Friday, only to fall flat on Saturday with a 4-2 loss. The loss ended the Brotherhood’s 23-game CCHA unbeaten streak, while the Crimson and Black made one last bid to move into fourth place in the conference standings and secure a first round bye in the CCHA postseason tournament.

Miami’s last and only other league loss came in overtime v. Michigan State University (MSU) on Oct. 24, 2009. The defeat put a damper on what was to be a celebratory occasion, as the RedHawks were awarded the CCHA regular season championship trophy in front of their home crowd at the conclusion of Saturday’s game.

In the series opener, six different RedHawks found the back of the net as Miami methodically extended its lead with two goals each period.

“You go out there and play hard and leave it all on the ice,” Miami

Head Coach Enrico Blasi said.

“You’ve got to keep the pressure on and work hard. They’ve done that in practice, they’re going out and battling, and we still have a lot to play for. When you get a team like UNO who can skate and is pretty good and right in your face all night, you better play or else you’re going to get pretty seriously behind the eight ball.”

The Brotherhood wasted no time in lighting the lamp, netting their quickest goal of the season just 1:41 into regulation. Sophomore Vincent LoVerde forced a turnover in neutral ice and fed the puck to senior Jarod Palmer in UNO’s zone. The forward wristed a shot right down the center to give Miami its eighth straight 1-0 lead.

“I think our team this year is doing a real good job of moving the puck,” Palmer said. “I’m getting a lot of nice passes on the tape with my feet moving and that gives me the chance to make things happen.

Also, I have a couple of linemates — Reilly Smith and Andy Miele — that are setting me up every game, so I’ve never had so many opportunities in my life and the more opportunities you get, the more you’re going to put in the net.”

The Crimson and Black retaliated on a breakaway at 9:27 when sophomore Alex Hudson picked the puck

up in neutral ice. Hudson’s shot from the top of the right drop circle sliced cleanly through sophomore net minder Cody Reichard’s five hole to knot the action at one. Prior to Hudson’s goal, the Red and White had outscored its opponents 13-0 in the first frame over the course of the last seven games.

The Brotherhood battled back when Miami’s fourth line combined for a goal at 11:49. Assisted by freshmen Steve Mason and Devin Mantha, senior Brandon Smith streaked down the right side and slipped the puck under redshirted freshman John Faulkner’s pads. The goal was Smith’s sixth of the season and came one game after the RedHawks 10-2 victory over Bowling Green State University (BGSU) where he netted two goals and was named First Star for the first time in his career.

“You need seniors to produce,” Blasi said.” In Smitty’s (Brandon Smith’s) case, he plays a limited role but always seems to find the back of the net and always seems to score big goals.”

Hudson’s second goal of the contest kept things close, though.

Hudson took advantage of junior Carter Camper’s slashing penalty and beat Reichard on his stick side with a power play goal at 15:26.

The tally stood at 2-2 going into the first intermission.

Miami retook the lead for the second time 4:53 into the middle period when junior Justin Vaive sent a shot in that hopped over Faulkner’s pad and into the back of the net.

Two RedHawk D-liners — sophomore Will Weber and freshman Joe Hartman — assisted Vaive’s fourth goal of the year.

The Red and White got two full minutes of five on three when UNO senior assistant captain Eddie DelGrosso and sophomore Kyle Ensign were both sent to the sin bin midway through the period. The Brotherhood made good use of the man-advantage and it was only a matter of time before Palmer dished the puck down low to junior Pat Cannone, who chipped in what would become the game winning goal from close range at 6:49.

The RedHawks’ fifth goal came less than two minutes later when Palmer sent a shot in. Faulkner made the initial save but persistence paid off when freshman Reilly Smith knocked the rebound home at 4:25.

At 11:58 of the third, a scuffle broke out in front of the Mavericks’ bench — the first real physical action to come out of what had been a fairly innocuous game so far.

UNO junior Matt Ambroz grabbed freshman Curtis McKenzie’s facemask and tore his helmet off, resulting in a five minute major penalty

and a game misconduct. Ambroz was escorted off the ice, and junior captain Tommy Wingels also received a two minute minor for unsportsmanlike conduct.

At 18:53, Hartman was sent to the box for holding and UNO Head Coach Dean Blais pulled Faulkner in a last ditch attempt to put points on the board, but the gamble didn’t pay off. After Miami won the ensuing faceoff, sophomore Trent Vogelhuber skated up ice and fired the puck into the vacant net at 19:16, completing the RedHawks’ trend of netting two goals per period and closing out scoring at 6-2.

Saturday night marked UNO’s last opportunity to crack the CCHA’s top four and earn a first round bye in the postseason tournament, as the Mavericks’ final regular season series will be played out of conference v.

Bemidji State University. Even with the 4-2 victory, UNO remains one point behind fourth ranked Alaska.

As a result, the Mavericks’ fate rests on the results of MSU and Ferris State University’s upcoming series v. BGSU and Western Michigan University, respectively.

Neither team registered a SOG until 3:55 into Saturday’s opening stanza when the Mavericks made good on their first attempt of the game.

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Osborn plays record-setting game v. Buffalo

By JM Rieger Staff Writer

In a game where Miami University never once trailed, the Red and White dominated the University at Buffalo Saturday en route to a 67-52 victory.

Freshman guard Courtney Osborn led all scorers with 21 points and also broke Miami’s single season scoring record of 432 points that was previously held by Kim Lancaster, who set the record during the 2000-01 season.

“It’s not about setting records,” Osborn said, who was not aware she had broken the single season scoring record. “We need to take each game one at a time and we need to take care of Ohio next.”

This victory marked Miami’s fifth straight win against Buffalo as the Red and White improved to 8-18 overall and 6-7 in the MidAmerican Conference (MAC). Senior guard Ashleigh Brown scored 17 points to go with nine rebounds and four steals. In addition, sophomore forward Rachael Hencke pitched in 10 points to go with six boards.

“We have a lot of momentum going into the tournament,” Ashleigh Brown said. “We are getting better each game and we need to continue to play together.”

Miami controlled almost every aspect of this game including the points off turnovers battle. The RedHawks had 20 points off turnovers compared to the Bulls’ eight points off turnovers, but many of those for Buffalo came late in the second half after Miami had extended their lead to double digits.

The Red and White also did their best to contain Buffalo’s leading scorer, junior forward Kourtney Brown. She had 20 points to go with 10 rebounds on Saturday, but Miami was able to limit her touches,

which helped them tremendously.

“I was pleased with our defense,” Head Coach Maria Fantanarosa said. “We focused on containing Kourtney Brown and I felt like we did a good job of contesting a lot of her shots.”

The RedHawks also got some got some good production out of freshman forward Kirsten Olowinski and sophomore guard Maggie Boyer. Olowinski had five points to go with eight rebounds while Boyer contributed seven points, five assists and five rebounds. These are two players that will need to have big games if the Red and White hope to go far in the MAC Tournament.

“We have a lot of (offensive) weapons and we have about six different players that are scoring consistently for us,” Fantanarosa said.

“Our offense executed very well today and the team is playing with a lot of energy right now. They enjoy playing with each other, and it is great to see the amount of energy they have this late in the season.”

After getting off to a quick start, the RedHawks extended their lead to 11 with 3:38 left to play in the first half. Then after leading 26-17 at the half, the Red and White opened up a 16 point lead at the 17:43 mark thanks to great play by Osborn, among others. Buffalo was able to cut Miami’s lead to five with just under 12 minutes left to play but a late 17-6 run sealed the win for Miami.

Up next for the Red and White will be the Ohio University Bobcats Tuesday in Athens.

Miami will have to prepare for Ohio’s Jennifer Bushby, a senior guard, who is only the 13th player in Ohio history to score 1,000 points in her career. She is coming off a season high 23 point performance against Kent State University and she will definitely test Miami’s guards.

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Freshman Courtney Osborn breaks Miami’s previous single season record of 432 points during Saturday’s game against University at Buffalo.

This is a big game for the RedHawks as the MAC Tournament is less than two weeks away and the Red and White are still fighting for position with a 6-7 conference record. Meanwhile, the Bobcats enter Tuesday’s match-up with a 6-20 record and a

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Battle of the ’Hawks: MU victorious

By Alex Butler Senior Staff Writer

Senior Adam Fletcher took a feed to the baseline, shoved the rock through the iron and bent the rim at Millett Hall to show the ESPN network that the Miami University RedHawks came to play Saturday, Feb. 20.

The feisty flush was just one of several spectacular Red and White (12-15, 8-5) possessions used to clip the Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks 69-53 and hinder the bleeding of a two game losing streak.

“I try to bring it every night,” Fletcher said. “Toward the end of the game I really started showing some of my emotions because we were getting other guys in the game. It’s a great feeling to see those guys in the game who don’t play as much. To come out and play the way we did shows people that we aren’t done. We aren’t going to lay down.”

Fletcher wasn’t lying down, but sitting down, after the game largely tipped in the ’Hawks favor. The senior wore a smile on his face as he watched the likes of freshman Vince Legarza (three points), sophomore Adam Thomas (two), senior Michael Aluise and junior Sean Mock strutting their skills for the Millett Hall crowd.

Before the elation of a sealed victory, the team that stepped off the bus after a seven and a half hour bus voyage arrived prepared to battle.

“It was important for us to take this team seriously,” forward Julian Mavunga said. “We needed to come out here with a lot of energy. It was important for us to get back on track.”

Head Coach Charlie Coles felt the heat early after the opposing Redhawks (7-21) knocked down a soft jumper to earn a 2-0 lead in the opening seconds. But the coach shed his asphalt suit jacket and showed his cool and his team answered 15 ticks later. Senior Kenny Hayes hit a trey and freshman Allen Roberts followed with one of his own for a 6-2 Red and White lead.

“When I went home Wednesday, after the loss, I thought, how can I get these guys back up?” Coles said. “I was a tough guy to get along with today. I told the camera guy to not get near the huddle. I said by the time I get through today, I’ll probably be fired. During the timeouts I was ranting and raving. It was just that kind of day for me. I wanted us to win because I felt like the guys needed to see a win. I wanted them to believe the fact that we have a pretty good team.”

The RedHawks never lost the lead after that. The alternate Redhawks gave them a couple scares, tying the game up twice, but the Red and White really put them away with the score at 27-24.

With 4:36 remaining in the first, the ’Hawks soared to a 9-0 run and took a 35-24 lead into the locker room.

Sophomore Antonio Ballard doused a three from the wing, and immediately put the Red and White in command by 14 points. From there, Ballard and company dominated.

The Red and White feasted on their foe and reached a lead of 24 points with four minutes remaining in the contest. Ballard paced the

2-11 mark in the MAC. “Each game is important at this point,” Fantanarosa said. “I feel like teams one through 12 in the MAC are all pretty evenly matched and any team has a chance to win the MAC Tournament.”

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Orlando Williams goes three for four in three point shots Saturday.

RedHawks with 12 points.

“We have no margin of error,” Coles added. “We have to play hard every night and hope that we can win. We will find out a lot about our team in the next three games. We got a tough way to go. You are going to be able to tell a lot about the guys on our team. The fun begins now.

This is important. This is big time for us.”

Guard Marland Smith had to ice his arms after the game after accounting for 53 percent of Southeast Missouri State’s offense.

The sharpshooter drilled six three pointers and totaled a game high 28 points. Smith’s effort was not enough to overcome the balanced attack of Mavunga (11 points), guard Orlando Williams (11), and guard Kenny Hayes (10).

Next up for the Red and White are the Ohio University Bobcats.

“This was good for us because we got to go play our rival, Ohio, next week and that’s kind of tough going down there,” Hayes said.

“We just lost two league games. This was a good win we got under our belt. Now what we have to do is get better. We have to fight.

We have to have heart.”

Tip off comes at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Athens.

lthough I could have taken the easy way out this week and written about Tiger Woods, I decided against it. When esteemed journalistic enterprises such as The View and National Enquirer put their two cents in about Eldrick, clearly enough has been said. Instead, in the spirit of the Winter Olympics, I’ve decided to take a look at some sports that could not made the cut and offer some of my own suggestions to spice things up when their ratings drop more quickly than the temperature outside.

Let’s first take a look at the “sports” that simply could not compete with exciting events like curling. My personal favorite is skijoring (that’s SKEE-jor-ing), where competitors wear skis, strap themselves to a dog or horse and let the animal pull them for various distances. The name comes from the Norwegian skikjøring, which means “skidriving.” I guess the roads get pretty bad in Norway in the winter. But I think skijoring deserves a comeback in the games.

Usually, it is competed over long distances in a similar format to dogsled racing.

I suggest the International Olympic Committee (OIC) instead set up a track like the Roman chariot races, strap the competitors to a horse and let them go at it for 15 laps.

It might be a little dangerous, but remember there already is a sport in the Olympics that allows people to ride down an enormous ice-covered course, headfirst, on a tiny sled only inches from the ice. Another variation of this (the possibilities really are

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