The Miami Student Oldest university newspaper in the United States, established 1826
VOLUME 137 NO. 53
Friday, April 16, 2010
In 1954, The Miami Student reported on the attempt to form a Senior Week. Five hundred votes were needed to pass program but only 244 students approved of the plan. One respondent said, “Since when does Miami U. have the spirit to do things together?”
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Miami announces detailed BSC plans
By Dylan Tussel and Jessica Sink Senior Staff Writers
Until now, many of the proposed ideas about the design of Miami University’s Bicentennial Student Center (BSC) have been tentative, but this week a more defined plan and conceptualization of the facility was presented to university senate and Associated Student Government (ASG). At the university senate meeting Monday, Robert Keller, university architect and campus planner, and David Creamer, vice president for finance and business services, discussed how the BSC will accommodate students in a way the Shriver Center fails to. Keller said in the competitive marketplace of higher education, there is a visible need for a larger, more modern student center. Keller said the average student center on college campuses has 12 square feet per student. Shriver has 6.5 square feet per student. The BSC will be about 200,000 square feet — almost twice as large as Shriver, Keller said. This would increase the amount of square feet per student to slightly above the national average. In addition to providing more space for the student body, the BSC will provide more space exclusively reserved for student use. Barbara Jones, vice president for student affairs, said at Tuesday’s ASG meeting there will be more space allocated for student organizations in the BSC and an application process will determine which groups are granted office space there. “The application process will be through the student activities office, and there will be some spaces that are assigned more permanently than others,” Jones said, noting certain spaces will be reassigned annually. Jones said more than 100 student organizations will be provided meeting space in the BSC. The application process has not been finalized. The BSC will also provide students vastly more study space than Shriver. “We minimized administrative offices (in the BSC) so most of the space could be utilized by students,” Keller said. Jonathan McNabb, outgoing student body president, said lessening administrative offices in the BSC is practical for a university like Miami, as students at comparable public schools in Ohio have
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Cuts loom for King Library By Samuel Baird For The Miami Student
Due to the budget cutbacks that have plagued Miami University, the school’s library system will reduce available services and hours of operation fall 2010. Lisa Santucci, information services librarian, said the libraries will no longer offer e-reserves, poster printing or 24/7 access to the King Library facility as of the fall 2010 semester. According to Santucci, these steps are necessary for maintaining the libraries’ essential functions. “In these times, we have to examine what is really core to our mission,” Santucci said. “The library is here to support the curriculum.” In regard to eliminating e-reserves, Belinda Barr, assistant dean for information service, said most professors now use their Blackboard sites to post readings electronically. The library will explain the basic process of uploading readings to Blackboard for faculty and administrators with no prior experience, but from that point the
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Kofenya opens second shop to Hamilton community By Abbie Harper Senior Staff Writer
The Kofenya coffee shop expanded its success last week when a second store officially opened its doors April 8 at 221 High Street in Hamilton. The new store uses the same name and menu and embraces the same atmosphere, but owner Liz Snyder said it definitely
Enrico Blasi, men’s ice hockey coach, signs a contract that lasts until 2017.
attracts a different audience. “It’s different because Hamilton’s different,” Snyder said. “At the Hamilton store, we’re not expecting our main customers to be college students. We’re going to get much more of the business professional type people that live down there.” Molly Williams, an Oxford Kofenya employee who has also begun working at the Hamilton location, said because there is not
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Kelsey Moon, Talawanda High School senior and Laura Foley, Miami junior, relax at the Oxford Kofenya. Kofenya opened its second branch in Hamilton April 8.
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Butler County Parks considering a levy to increase funds.
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BOOZING ON THE FAIRWAY
Two Hamilton golf course are attempting
CAMPUS, page 2 to obtain liquor permits. COMMUNITY, page 4
SILVER FOXES
An in-depth look at Silver Alert, a system for finding missing adults.
FEATURES, page 6
BOXING UP MEMORIES
Campus Cardboard now offers delivery service to Chicago and Connecticut.
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as much of a student population in Hamilton, the store doesn’t stay as consistently busy as the Oxford Kofenya. “People aren’t necessarily stopping in to sit as much as they do here,” Williams said. “It’s more they’re coming in taking lunch breaks or stopping in after work.” Williams said she thinks the Hamilton store is a great opportunity for expansion, especially since the owner has been looking to expand for so long. Snyder agreed the new store has been in the works for a while. “I’ve been kind of looking for different places over the past two years and Hamilton is nice because it’s close and there’s that built-in relationship with the Miami Hamilton campus,” Snyder said. She said the Hamilton store was an easy way to branch out and expand Kofenya’s achievements. “It’s been successful in Oxford, so I figured, ‘Why not?’” Snyder said. Although the building and location of the Hamilton Kofenya may be new, the workers aren’t. “Right now, we’re sharing staff,” Snyder said. However, she said they would eventually be hiring new workers for the Hamilton location. Currently, these are the only two existing
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Movies increase the use of 3D images in their films, sometimes to the chagrin of movie-goers.
Check out pictures from King of the Wing, Shanty Town and a tax protest
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SPORTS STORIES Read up on the latest news from the golf team.