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Miami students will be able to cast their ballots in the Student Body General Election on April 16 and 17. On the ballot will be six candidate teams running for student body president and vice president. The candidates are as follows:

Mark Cialone, Alex DunlapKevin Krumpak, Amy BergKevin Murphy, Joseph RoulierJoey Parizek, Matt KovesdyJake Rosebrock, Ian YoungDan Stewart, Jess Robinson

Each of these candidate teams are running on different platforms that encompass issues they think are the most important and realistic to tackle if they are elected.

The team of Kevin Krumpak and Amy Berg believe they are set apart from other candidates because of the experiences and perspective they can bring to the positions.

The team is focused on fixing common student complaints with the recreation center, advising and student organization funding. They are interested in establishing an in-stitutionalized system of peer ad-vising; which would allow under-classmen to seek advice from older students regarding class registration and organizational involvement.

“Students would be able to have conversations that wouldn’t neces-sarily happen with a [professional] adviser,” Berg said. “This could be an additional resource for students.”

The team also wants to advo-cate for additional space in the rec-reation center and purchasing more equipment to alleviate some of the main issues with the rec center.

Both of these candidates serve on ASG, with Krumpak as secretary for off-campus affairs and Berg as

cabinet’s chief of staff. “We’ve both built relation-

ships over the last year,” Krump-ak said. “With us, there’ll be no learning curve.”

The team of Jacob Rosebrock and Ian Young hope to use their dif-ferent experiences and unique per-spective on student life to create a diverse culture at Miami.

“We’re trying to create a more di-verse and inclusive environment on Miami’s campus” Rosebrock said. “We want to make Miami into a place where everyone can be them-selves and still be at home.”

Their main running points concern promoting better ad-vising and counseling ser-vices and restructuring a glob-al buddies program to help international students feel more at home on campus.

Though neither candidate has served on ASG in the past, they believe their experiences as resi-dent assistants give them insight into student life and concerns.

“We have a shared vision,” Young said. “We have a clear idea of how we want Mi-ami to change, and we know how to get there.”

Current President of Student Senate Dan Stewart and former Senator Jessica Robinson have a platform centered on addressing known student complaints.

They are in favor of explor-ing greater use and promotion of inexpensive open-source text-

books across the university to save students money.

“The next student body president and vice president need to address the issue of textbook costs,” Stew-art said. “We have a way to im-prove textbook costs, and we want to make it happen.”

Additionally, they are concerned with the size and capacity of Mi-ami’s recreational facilities, espe-cially in light of the forthcoming demolition of Withrow Court.

This team believes that their ex-tensive involvement in Associated Student Government throughout their Miami careers make them qualified to hold these positions.

“The ultimate reason why we’re running is that we love Miami, and want to leave it better than when we found it,” Stewart said.

Juniors Mark Cialone and Alex Dunlap are running on a platform of pragmatism.

“We won’t make promises we don’t know we can complete,” Cialone said. “Looking at the past, what got done off of the platforms was nothing.”

Cialone and Dunlap are main-ly concerned with improving the culture around student safety and engagement.

“We really care about students, and we want them to be in an environ-ment that is safe and promotes safety,” Cialone said.

Another issue this team wants to ad-dress is student engagement and unity on campus. A lot of this is centered on athletics, and getting diverse groups of students to attend the games.

“We need to create an environ-ment that people want to be engaged in,” Cialone said.

Also running are the teams of Joey Parizek and Matt Kovesdy, and Kevin Murphy and Joseph Roulier. They were unavailable for comments. Hard campaigning starts March 29, and elections will be held April 15 and 16.

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This week, the Sign Language and Deaf Awareness Club hosted Si-lence and Diversity Week at Miami University in order to raise aware-ness for deaf and handicapped cul-ture at Miami.

Kaitlyn Gilfert, the president of the Sign Language and Deaf Awareness Club, hoped the Silence and Diversi-ty Week would educate students and prevent prejudice and discrimination toward others with disabilities.

“A lot of people see a person with a hearing aid and think that they’re not intelligent just because they can’t hear,” said Kate Randall, vice presi-dent of the Sign Language and Deaf Awareness Club.

Some events this week included a lecture by Harilyn Rousso on “in-visible disabilities” like anxiety and dyslexia, performances by the Na-tional Theatre of the Deaf, a dance competition and an open mic night for any signer who wished to per-form. Both Gilfert and Randall made appearances, singing along to songs by Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran.

Silence and Diversity Week comes a little more than a year after Miami zoology major Aleeha Dud-ley sued the university just before the spring of her senior year for denying her equal access to the university’s programs and activities, in violation of federal law.

Dudley, who is blind, alleged that Miami violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by deliberately failing to make neces-sary modifications so that she could complete her coursework.

Three federal laws — the Indi-viduals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilita-tion Act of 1973 — address the obligations of all public schools to meet the communication needs of students with disabilities.

Dudley’s case, which is currently ongoing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, stated that Miami failed to do so. The university neglected its obligation to provide timely and adequate access to Braille textbooks, useful tactile graphics, course materials such as assignments, presentations and notes in an accessible format and trained assistants to allow full participation in class activities.

“The types of problems that Ms. Dudley was having are experienced by many students at other universi-ties,” Chris Danielsen, director of Public Relations for the National Federation of the Blind, said. “The

universities that don’t have these problems are more the exception than the rule at this point.”

Universities, such as the Univer-sity of Iowa, University of Kansas and Clemson University have cre-ated ADA compliance review task forces in order to solve their prob-lems. Many others have reached set-tlements with the U.S. Department of Justice in regard to improving ADA compliance issues; however, Danielsen said that best agreements only require universities to examine whether the technology they pur-chase will be accessible for students with disabilities.

Miami stacks up well against oth-er schools in the area on compliance with the ADA, according to Andrew Zeisler, director of Student Disability Services.

“When I go to national confer-ences, we are at least comparable to our colleagues,” Zeisler said. “And we are doing some things better than other schools.”

Miami University was the first university to have a captioning pro-gram, an instantaneous translation of spoken words into text, in 1994. The university is also renovating all resi-dence halls to be compliant with the ADA and building new structures to be compliant with the ADA.

Zeisler said that by 2020 all build-ings on Miami’s campus would be made compliant with ADA stan-dards.

Interpreters are provided for in-dividuals and for public events, like commencement and the Tim Gunn talk last Monday, March 9. Students also have access to assistive listen-ing devices and visual fire alarms, among other things.

“There are some accommoda-tions, but they are not convenient,” senior Speech Path and Audiology major Jamie Budhan said.

Most students agree that the uni-versity is willing to work with dis-abled students, but its efforts, for the most part, go unnoticed because the Miami does not widely publicize what amenities are available.

For instance, Wilks Theatre in Armstrong Student Center is equipped with hearing devices, but one must know to ask about them to have access to them.

“The university is doing a lot on their part, but students aren’t aware,” Gilfert said.

According to Zeisler, the help and support systems are there, students just have to reach out and ask for them.

Both the university and students concur that disability is something that calls for more attention and more discussion on college campuses.

“We need to be open to differenc-es and celebrate those differences,” Zeisler said. “Disability is the one thing that crosses all cultures, all races, and all orientations.”

We have a shared vision. We have a clear idea of how we want Miami to change, and we know how to get there.”

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MU task forces abound, achievement varies

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Miami University turns to task forces to address many issues that arise on campus, such as sexual as-sault, alcohol and drug abuse, the impact of a changing economy and regional differentiation.

“A task force is simply an ad hoc committee set up by an administrator to address a specific issue on an as-needed basis,” said Jim Oris, chair of the Regional Campus Process Com-mittee. “The term ‘task force’ is just a name.”

Many factors are involved when deciding to assemble a task force. First is the issue itself: if it’s been dealt with before, how big the issue is, its sense of urgency and choosing its members.

A task force is created to be diverse in members. It can consist of cabinet members, administrators, professors and students.

“When choosing a student, we ask, ‘Is this someone who will ben-efit from being on the task force?’” said President David Hodge. “We are trying to develop the next generation of leaders.”

The inclusion of student-positions on a task force allows for the unique understanding and insight of under-graduates at Miami. The student members are to act as a voice for the student body.

“We want to make sure that the students that serve on the task force represent large populations of stu-dents,” said Rebecca Baudry Young, director of Student Wellness and member of the Sexual Assault Pre-vention Task Force. “Most of the students are referred to by faculty or administrators, but typically it’s the students who are expressing some passion for these issues.”

The administrators implement policies they think will make the campus better and safer for its stu-

dents, but these policies aren’t al-ways simple solutions.

“The task force isn’t there to dis-cover something new,” Hodge said. “It’s rare for the task force to say, ‘Oh we found the silver bullet.’”

One of Miami’s many task forc-es, the Sexual Assault Prevention Task Force, was issued in 2006 and, when revisited in 2013, three of the 19 initial recommendations had not been achieved.

“Institute a process for regularly assessing sexual assault programs, policies and services for outcomes and impact. Not achieved.”

“Implement a mandatory sexual assault prevention program (e.g., ‘Sex Signals’) for first year students. Piloted but not sustained.”

“Incorporate a program on sexual assault into First-Year Institute. Still to be done.”

“We didn’t at the time have a full-time Sexual Assault Coordinator to be accountable and prioritize those types of recommendations,” Baudry Young said. “Those things are now being achieved through that position and other efforts on campus.”

That position has now been filled by Becca Getson, who is also Mi-ami’s Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Student Sexual Assault.

There are always questions and concerns that arise when a task force addresses an issue, according to Hodge.

“A task force is created to make that issue more coherent and com-prehensive to the community,” Hodge said.

The task forces research solu-tions and look at models from other schools in order to alleviate any confusion the public might have re-garding the issue being addressed. By looking at data and what other schools were doing, the Sexual As-sault Task Force was able to make these five recommendations:

“Implement a campus-wide cam-paign to enhance a culture of safety, respect and inclusion.”

“Expand campus-wide educa-tional programs on sexual assault prevention and risk-reduction.”

“Enhance current supports for vic-

tims and adjudication of perpetrators; systematically assess the effective-ness of these services.”

“Identify sustained funding, in-cluding a permanent budget, for the implementation and ongoing main-tenance of the Campaign on Respect and Inclusion, the expanded campus education programs, and the com-prehensive website.”

“Coordinate these efforts across all campuses.”

“Our task force was created to look at all efforts needed across campus that would help create an ap-proach for victim survivors as well as educating our students, in general, about sexual assault, consent, harass-ment and other issues with interper-sonal violence,” Baudry Young said.

But, the question remains: for how long and on what scale must an issue be unresolved in order to warrant the creation of a task force?

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The task force isn’t there to discover something new. It’s rare for the task force to say, ‘Oh, we found the silver bullet.’ ... The task force is created to make that issue more coher-ent and comprehensive to the community.”

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GALLIVANTING WITH THE GREEKS Delta Zeta sorority hosted its annual philanthropy event, Putting on the Hits (POTH), Wednesday night at Millet. Proceeds go to the St. Rita School for the Deaf in Cincinnati.

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Green Beer Day is right around the corner, and the spotlight is on Miami’s infamous drinking cul-ture. With more than 10 bars Up-town, and three that admit 18-year-olds, Oxford offers students of all ages a taste of the nightlife.

Ohio is one of 45 U.S states to allow underage alcohol consump-tion under certain circumstances, and one of eight states to allow underage consumption on alcohol-selling premises with parental ap-proval, according to the Minimum Legal Drinking Age’s website.

Because of this law, bars are legally allowed to admit 18-year-olds if they choose. While 18-year-olds cannot be served unless in the presence of their parents, they can legally still get in to select

bars in Oxford. “The fact that the school is lo-

cated in Ohio contributes to the increased consumption of alco-hol,” said first-year John Regan. “Allowing 18-year-olds into bars has significant influence on whether or not we are a so called bar school because almost the en-tire student body can go to the bars if they desire.”

Brick Street, The Wood’s and Pachinko Bar & Grill are three es-tablishments in Oxford that allow 18-year-olds to enter for a cover fee. Although these bars choose to admit 18-year-olds, they still have the ability to deny them entry if the bar reaches capacity.

Sophomore Megan Moore thinks the bar culture is a vital part of Miami’s drinking scene.

“The bars here are all close to each other, and in the same area,” Moore said. “People do not need to take a bus or call a cab to get

anywhere Uptown as opposed to bigger campuses.”

The accessibility to bars and al-cohol in general is something that sets Miami’s drinking apart. Ohio University, another school with a prominent party culture, only has one bar, Red Brick Sports Pub, that lets in 18-year-olds everyday.

Even though underage con-sumption is still illegal in Ohio, most students do not find it diffi-cult to get drinks or even get into 21-and-up bars.

“[It’s easy] for underage kids to get drinks at bars because they can just ask people with 21 IDs to buy them something,” first-year Mack-enzie Wright said.

Students said they regularly go to 21-and-up bars underage with no problems. First-year Shallyn Hatcher said she prefers 21-and-up bars to 18-and-up because they have a better crowd.

“Eighteen-and-up bars are more

of a freshman and sophomore scene, while 21-and-up bars are more juniors and seniors usually,” Moore said. “I have seen a recent rise in the amounts of sophomores in 21-and-up bars because usu-ally you only have to show two forms [of identification] to be able to get in.”

Sophomore Haley Windahl agreed.

“I think everyone goes in 21-and-up,” she said.

Although Ohio allows underage consumption in some circumstanc-es, Miami University has a strict policy against alcohol consump-tion in the dorms. According to the Residence Life website, Miami University does not allow alcohol delivery, consumption possession or serving in any residence hall cur-rently housing first-year students. These regulations help contribute to the bar popularity, especially for the younger students.

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Speed cameras, which are most often linked to an automatic ticket-ing system, have recently been pop-ping up throughout Ohio. Many cities in Butler County have used these cameras in an attempt to im-prove the safety of main roads, but that practice has sparked controversy among Ohio citizens.

Since 2012, dozens of lawsuits have been filed against cities that use speed cameras to ticket and fine speeding drivers, claiming they are unconstitutional. Ticketed driv-ers could only contest their viola-tions through an administrative hearing, yet the Ohio Constitu-tion gives only the legislature the power for jurisdiction.

In December 2014, the Ohio Su-preme Court reached a solution to this argument. The Supreme Court’s ruling gave the right to each city

council to create their own distinctive administrative tribunals to rule on traffic cases.

The decision gives each city the right to properly practice effective adjudication for challenges on traf-

fic violations issued by the speed cameras. Therefore, the ruling im-plies that using speed cameras to fine drivers is legal.

The village of New Miami has stopped the use of their speed cam-eras in accordance with an ordinance put in place by Butler County Judge Michael Sage.

Sage ruled the administrative process prevents people from their right of due process. This injunc-tion was set after two people filed cases against New Miami after

receiving speeding citations.However, the Ohio Supreme

Court decision does not correspond with Sage’s provisional ban on the speed cameras.

Wilson Weisenfelder, the attorney

for New Miami, said he believes Sage’s decision is incorrect, and that Sage should reconsider his stance on the issue.

“Time will tell whether or not the new municipality will react to the Supreme Court decision — will they redraft it and com-ply with the new statute, or will they keep their existing statute,” Weisenfelder said.

The village of New Miami is just one city in Ohio that has experi-enced backlash from the community

surrounding the cameras.Supporters defend the speed

cameras and maintain that they have worked to slow speeding drivers down. Critics claim they simply a money grab, as each violation costs $95.

New Miami collects $57 for each ticket dispensed, and the revenue goes to the village’s general fund. In the past three years since they have been implemented, there have been over $1.8 million collected from speeding tickets.

New Miami Police Department Chief Dan Gilbert predicts that in time, the village will be allowed to use the speed cameras once again.

“I suspect that they will come back,” Gilbert said. “Even so, I be-lieve there are going to be a lot of cit-ies that will start to use the cameras.”

As long as Ohio cities can set up administrative tribunals to hear cases over traffic viola-tions, the state of Ohio permits the use of speed cameras to curb speedy drivers.

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I believe there are going to be a lot of cities that will start to use the cameras.”

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Student does not stick landing

Roommate credited with fraud

At 10:34 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, Oxford police depart-ment (OPD) officers responded to the brick wall between 33 E. High St. and Insomnia Cook-ies where vulgar comments concerning a man named Logan were penned in blue marker. There are no suspects at this time.

At 3:38 a.m. on Wednesday, March 11, an OPD officer re-sponded to a report of a passed out female near the entrance of Hawk’s Landing at 5262 Brown Road. Upon arrival, the offi-cer found the female soaking wet and hanging over the curb, her backpack forcing her arms above her head. He announced his presence and shined his flashlight, waking the female. She told the officer that she had left her job at 45 East and decided to walk home alone. She continued to warn the of-ficer that she had most likely had too much to drink and prob-ably made a few bad decisions. The female then announced that she was going to take a nap and fell asleep.

She was driven back to her apartment at 29 W. Spring St. and cited with a minor misdemeanor.

At 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 9 in the OPD lobby, an officer responded to a complaint concerning the misuse of credit and debit cards. The victim, a Miami University student, stated that someone had used both her debit and credits cards without her permission. The victim went home on March 7 where her par-ents questioned her extensive credit and debit card use. Since September 2014, the student’s debit and credit cards have amassed expenses of $1160.50 and $4959.50, respectively.

The victim’s roommate is suspected.

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SWITCHIN’ LANES Chris Lane, a rising star on the country music scene, performed at Wilks Theater in Armstrong Student Center Tuesday night. His most notable song is “Broken Windshield View” and his debut solo album is due out April 17.

At 4:34 a.m. on Thursday, March 12, OPD dispatch re-sponded to a report of gunshots fired at 5032 College Corner Pike. Officers realized the sup-posed gunshots were no more than fireworks being thrown out of a window; however, upon ar-rival the officers came across a male hitting a female in the head with a beer bottle. After running his name, the officers discov-ered that the man had a war-rant out for his arrest and took him in to custody.

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how bad the rest of the team is hitting.”

Hayden is pleased with the production from the centerfield-er. However, he is getting antsy over the rest of the team’s hitting.

“The guys are going to hit; it’s just a matter of when,” Hayden said. “I’m starting to sound like a broken record.”

The bats have been silent so far, and Hayden said the coaches are left scratching their heads, wondering when the team will fi-nally find the spark. He hopes the spark comes soon, as Mid-Amer-ican Conference season — some-thing Hayden refers to as “the playoffs” — begins March 20.

The team travels to East Ten-nessee State University for a

three-day series this weekend. The Buccaneers (7-7) are on a

five-game losing streak after los-ing to the University of Tennes-see 5-2 Tuesday.

Hayden wants the team to find its spark and have at least one good day over the weekend to carry them into the big week of competition that will follow.

Senior righty Jimmy Nesselt leads ETSU off the rubber with a 2.52 ERA and 30 strikeouts. Nesselt is 2-0 in four starts. Ju-nior infielder Trey York has five home runs, three triples and four doubles. York hits .480 and has a .980 slugging percentage.

First pitch is 6:05 p.m. Friday in Johnson City, Tennessee. Sat-urday’s contest begins at 2:05 p.m., and the series finale is set for 1:05 p.m.

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gan. All of our games are real tight games … you can just look at the stats, they’ve all been one-goal games. For us, it’s a matter of going out there and making sure we leave our best on the ice. All teams are playing for the next night at this point in the season, nobody’s guaranteed anything.”

MU swept Western Michigan at home in November with wins of 1-0 and 5-2. Their third meet-ing was Jan. 31 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In a game that came down to the last seconds, Miami defeated the Broncos 2-1 in a four-round shootout after a 3-3 tie in regulation. One week later, the ’Hawks defeated WMU 4-3 in the Hockey City Classic in Chicago.

Miami enters the weekend’s series after a split at home against No. 1 University of North Dakota. After a 2-1 loss Friday, Czarnik scored his first career hat trick to help Miami secure a 6-3 victory Saturday. The cen-ter’s three goals of the night were more than his previous total of two all season.

“Obviously, after finally put-ting in some goals through the year, I have a lot of confidence right now,” Czarnik said. “That’s my plan going into the week – to shoot the puck more. So I’m just going to focus on that and keep on making plays.”

The Broncos snapped a six-game winless streak by defeating No. 6 University of Minnesota Duluth 3-0 in their regular season

finale Saturday.Western Michigan is the na-

tion’s most penalized team, aver-aging 16.41 penalty minutes per game. Blasi thinks it is important to stay in control when facing a physical team.

“Playoff hockey is all about executing and being disciplined in your system and the way you play,” Blasi said. “You don’t want to give teams an opportunity to take advantage of special teams … we have to play disciplined, we have to play smart. We know they’re a physical team. They’re going to come out and play hard. That’s the way they play. It’s one of the things we respect about them.”

According to Czarnik, improv-ing defensive play will be key for Miami’s success this weekend.

“D-zone. Our D-zone is so im-portant when you’re in a game,” Czarnik said. “If the D-zone is great, then it leads to offense and breaks, so as long as that’s good, we’ll keep on going in the of-fense.”

Puck drop is 7:35 p.m. Friday in Oxford, and Saturday’s puck drop is 7:05 p.m. If necessary, the third game begins at 7:05 p.m. Sunday.

For now, Blasi and the team are taking it one game at a time, which means concentrating on Friday.

“For us, nothing’s changing here,” Blasi said. “Like I said earlier, it’s a new season. Every-body starts at zero. You have to play your best and prepare your best come Friday.”

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have won but we all played re-ally well.”

The RedHawks continue their 15-day three tournament run this weekend. The two-round Talis Park Challenge begins Sunday in Naples, Florida.

Flavin and his teammates will look to carry over their perfor-mance from Colleton River to the Talis Park Challenge and the rest of the season moving for-ward.

“I think we all gained a lot of confidence from the way we battled out there and gave our-selves a chance to win,” Flavin said. “It was good to shake the rust off, and I think we’ll all be ready to go for the next couple of tournaments.”

Zedrick has coached teams through these types of stretch-es before. He doesn’t see the schedule as an issue for the team.

“We’ve played a lot of back to back events before,” Zedrick said. “So for us, the good thing about this stretch is that the last tournament is actually on the front end of our spring break.”

Zedrick isn’t too worried about his team being prepared and believes they are ready and eager to play as much golf as possible.

“We played one tournament in early February,” Zedrick said. “So the guys are pretty pumped for this stretch of golf . . . I think they’d like the first round at Talis Park to be tomorrow.”

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put 10 hits on Oakland. Se-nior outfielder Tiyona Marshall, McCarver, and Whispel each went 2 for 4 at the plate. McCa-rver recorded three RBIs, and Whispel had two.

Senior shortstop Kylie McChesney also registered multiple hits, going 2 for 3 and scoring a run.

However, the offense did have some missed opportunities. The ’Hawks went 4-11 with runners in scoring position and 0-2 with the bases loaded.

“It was our first game, and we were excited and nervous a bit,” head coach Clarisa Crow-ell said. “Our offense was able to break through at certain points in the game. It was a hard fought game, but we could’ve

done better. There’s much room for improvement, and it’ll be good to see when we finally put it all together. We’ve only played 17 out of 56 games, so it’s a long season. It’s a good start to the tournament and we’ll be looking to get more wins. Our defense did great. The best thing you can say about a defense is that they play hard and show up every day. Our defense will keep us in ball games when we’re not hitting or pitching well.”

Miami turns their focus to the remaining games of the Miami Invitational this weekend. The RedHawks host Robert Mor-ris University at 4:45 p.m. and Detroit University at 7 p.m. Sat-urday. MU faces University of Dayton in the final contest of the Invitational 3:45 p.m. Sunday.

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portunity to come back, and the RedHawks finally did after being coaxed.

Though there are some decent teams in the MAC this season, they haven’t exactly been world-beaters. CMU, Buffalo and Kent State each have at least 20 wins. However, they each have lost six conference games in a year where historical powerhouses like Ak-ron and Ohio have been very in-consistent.

The truth of the matter is that

the league hasn’t had a signa-ture moment in a non-conference game in years, and that’s partly due to the current lack of star power in the MAC. In current 2015 NBA mock drafts, not a single player from the conference is to be found, while some mid-major players are projected for the second round (RJ Hunter from Georgia State, Keifer Sykes from Wisconsin-Green Bay and Trev-eon Graham from VCU). The last time a MAC player was drafted was in 2003.

Lack of talent in the MAC

makes it difficult to compete against Power 5 opponents and obtain air time. Coaches who re-cruit these players are ultimately responsible, for better or worse.

One thing is for certain: some-one will represent the MAC in the NCAA Tournament this year (because the NCAA is apparently more charitable than the Make-A-Wish Foundation) and will likely be blown out by a vastly superior team. Hopefully, with the influx of new coaches in the league, fans shouldn’t have to put up with this for too much longer.

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choices during spring recruit-ment.

The opt-in system, where sorori-ties choose if they want to live in a residence hall off Central Quad, be-gins with housing availability pro-vided by the H.O.M.E. Office. Last year, Panhellenic established a task force of students and alumni to de-termine which available residence halls would be most conducive to sorority women, according to Jenny Levering, director of the Cliff Alex-ander Office of Fraternity and So-rority Life and Student Activities.

From there, chapters vote on whether they want to opt in, and chapter presidents then relay that opinion to Panhellenic when they vote in the fall.

“Women were given an option to opt in with knowledge of the price difference, and made their choices accordingly,” said Darinka Sutic, president of the Panhellenic Asso-ciation.

But just because a sorority opts in

to living in different residence halls does not mean that the entire sorori-ty will be based there. New member classes have about 60 to 70 women, according to Levering, but Alpha Phi, for example, only opted in to 30 beds in Etheridge — roughly half of their new members.

According to Panhellenic, this gives certain sorority women the option to live in Etheridge, but also the choice to live elsewhere if they do not want to pay a higher price.

While the original idea was to have sorority women living in Mac-Cracken, Richard, Hamilton and Minnich Halls, the increasing num-ber of Greek members has made al-ternate living spaces necessary.

According to the Panhellenic Association’s formal sorority re-cruitment reports, sorority mem-bership has steadily increased over the years. In 2013, 898 women re-ceived bids; in 2014, this number rose to 949; and this year, a total of 970 women received bids.

“Sororities have outgrown the Sorority Quad spaces,” Levering

said. “We have to be open to differ-ent buildings. Our goal is to get all of the sororities as close together as possible and to keep the chapters’ new member classes as together as possible.”

As pledge classes continue to in-crease, Panhellenic predicts further expansion on campus, but also sees the movement from Central Quad as preparation for the current “Mi-ami Makeover.” This construction, currently underway on East Quad, includes renovations to every resi-dence hall except Heritage Com-mons within the next 20 years, ac-cording to a 2012 Miami University News Release.

“Eventually, Central Quad will be renovated,” Levering said. “Peo-ple will have to be open to moving around campus, so part of this is also getting us ready for when Mac-Cracken and Richard and Minnich all get renovated.”

Levering also recognized overall space as a problem.

“There are not many places on campus where we can keep 60

women all together,” she said. In regards to living outside of

Central Quad, Levering believes there are more benefits than draw-backs, especially for first-year stu-dents who become accustomed to newer construction as more resi-dence halls are renovated.

“I think the majority of people are going to want that newly renovated space, and as first-year students start living in those renovated halls, they’re going to want to live in new construction,” Levering said.

Sutic agreed.“Honestly, I don’t think there are

any drawbacks because Etheridge is so close and women will be with other women in their pledge classes. The sorority suites are also close so that pledge classes can utilize that space for bonding,” she said.

While some sorority women may see an increased living expense next year off Central Quad, Panhellenic and the H.O.M.E. Office assure that it will be by choice. Yet, as renova-tions continue, increased costs may become more difficult to avoid.

Coombs said Welch and Hen-drix’s Notre Dame pedigree helps to get the attention of scouts.

Hendrix felt he performed well and is looking forward to hope-fully hearing from some teams.

“Everyone likes to hear their name called [on draft day], but re-gardless, I put in the work,” Hen-drix said. “I couldn’t have worked any harder. At the end of the day, I’m proud of that.”

If Hendrix can’t make it in the NFL, he’ll still have his fallback option of medical school.

The NFL Draft starts with the first round on Thursday, April 30, the second and third rounds on Friday, May 1 and then rounds four through seven Saturday.

“I haven’t really thought about it yet,” Rollins said. “It’s defi-nitely in the back of my mind, but I’m trying to be great. I’m not just trying to be another guy who passes through and gets thrown by the wayside.”

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The recent opinion piece writ-ten by Brett Milam for The Mi-ami Student regarding the femi-nist movement’s battle against campus rape presents a few im-portant critiques; however, the article expresses several danger-ous opinions and makes mis-guided generalizations about the feminist movement and feminist efforts on this campus.

We agree that a white, mid-dle class feminism counteracts the progress that our activism should be supporting. This is not the feminism toward which we aspire.

Despite Milam’s assertions, we aim to embrace intersection-ality in our feminism.

We work in solidarity with many social justice efforts on campus, and these efforts are not mutually exclusive to our efforts regarding campus sexual

assault. People of all genders and identities across the world experience rape and sexual vio-lence, and the wider feminist movement must work towards solving this issue.

As college students, campus rape and sexual violence pertain specifically to us.

We do not have the capabil-ity to tackle all feminist-related issues at once, and rape culture on our college campus presents an issue on which we can affect direct change.

The “It’s On Us” campaign is a critical step towards realizing our goal of ending sexual as-sault and rape, and it calls on ev-eryone, not just feminists or the feminist movement as a whole, to validate the stories of sur-vivors and take action against these acts of violence.

Milam and Tate’s arguments normalize unhealthy relation-ships and reinforce natural-ized ideologies that cause rape culture. Milam’s claim that af-firmative consent represents a “conservative, Puritanical con-ception of sex” and makes sex unsexy is not only incorrect, but very dangerous.

Our feminism believes strongly in sex positivity and healthy, consensual exploration of pleasure. We believe an es-sential component of “sexy sex” is communication. Obtaining a verbal ‘yes’ does not have to interrupt the proceedings of a sexual interaction.

While consent should be part of sexual pleasure, the “sexi-ness” of sexual interactions must be secondary to obtaining consent. Consent is mandatory, regardless of how an individual feels this will affect their enjoy-ment. This concept is simply in line with the philosophy that an individual has no right to vio-late the rights of another human being, regardless of individual self-interest.

Furthermore, Milam’s posi-tion that affirmative consent denies women their agency and encourages women to view themselves as victims reaffirms the problematic no-tion that blames survivors for their assaults.

Our feminism does not seek to censor differing opinions, as Milam asserted. On the contrary, we hope to provide spaces for

people with marginalized and differing opinions to express their viewpoints. We embrace freedom of speech and condemn the expression of irresponsible, misinformed and damaging views from an elevated platform such as a campus publication.

Milam failed to contact us for additional perspectives or resources, and instead penned sweeping generalizations, citing Slate writers as if they were ex-perts in the field.

We host an annual Take Back the Night March in which peo-ple of all identities can dem-onstrate commitment to end-ing rape culture. Milam should be aware that our fight against sexual assault and interper-sonal violence is not a purely rhetorical effort.

Publishing an article with these misguided and danger-ous notions demonstrates a lack of professionalism, ethics and thoughtful editing on the part of The Miami Student.

This occurrence is not singu-lar, and continued errors by the publication prove a lack of com-mitment to responsible journal-ism. As feminists, we should constantly reevaluate our inter-pretation of and commitment to the movement.

We encourage constructive critiques and seek out diverse dialogues in order to always improve our feminism and its intersectionality. Self-reflection and improvement should be a

goal of every organization, our organization and The Miami Student included.

The wider implications of Milam’s latest comments, in addition to Tate’s previ-ous statements, should be critically considered.

A healthy campus with healthy students engaging in healthy sexual relationships will not be possible if voices supported by major campus platforms continue to reaffirm problematic blaming tactics and support dangerous rela-tionship dynamics. This has been the status quo.

The “It’s On Us Campaign” provided a campus-wide, ASG-supported opportunity to work on these issues for the first time.

If we truly want a progres-sive, safe and healthy cam-pus, we need to better con-sider the consequences of our actions and words. We must work in solidarity to accom-plish these basic goals that all members of the Miami commu-nity, not just feminists, should want for our campus.

People of all genders, races, classes, sexual orientations, eth-nicities and abilities experience sexual assault and rape. People of all identities are affected by these issues.

People of all identities must work together to eradicate gen-dered violence and sexual assault from our campus. This campus belongs to all of us. It’s time we work in solidarity to take control and ensure the rights, health and safety of everyone.

If you would like to get in-volved, F Word holds regular meetings every Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Armstrong Student Center Community Lounge and we will be holding Take Back the Night on April 6.

This week, it was brought to The Miami Student staff’s at-tention by an outside reporter that one of our editors plagia-rized an article published in Tuesday’s paper.

Further investigation revealed our community editor plagia-rized numerous pieces over the course of this semester.

The Editorial Board is person-ally shocked and hurt by the indi-vidual’s offense, but our concern now has turned to our audience, the community we aim to serve.

On behalf of the entire staff, we would like to express our deepest apologies. Your trust de-pends on our credibility, on our ability to seek the truth and pres-ent it in a balanced manner. That trust has been shaken.

We also want to apologize to the individuals whose work was stolen. We don’t want to take credit for the stories in which

you put time and effort, those that we did not.

While the editor’s actions were her own, and only her own, the mistakes of the individual re-flect on the group as a whole.

The Miami Student staff de-votes itself to putting in all the work necessary to keep the com-munity informed. This responsi-bility was placed in our care and we failed to catch the editor’s actions early on. While we can-not undo the mistakes of one, we must work to right these wrongs.

The responsible editor was promptly fired and list of pla-giarized articles has been provided on the front page of today’s issue.

We don’t take this situation lightly. We may be a student-run, university newspaper, but we hold ourselves to high standards and strive to pro-vide the community with the

best service possible. Beyond concerns regarding

our readers’ trust in the paper, the news has us analyzing the action itself, looking at why it happened in the first place. In college and in life, cheating — in this case plagiarism — can

seem like the easy path. It can become a tempting answer to life’s problems. If you give into the temptation: you’re being deceived. The list of conse-quences is evidence of this. Not only are you risking punish-ment and hurting another in the

process, you are also failing to gain intellectually from the ex-perience of doing the work, cre-ating something of your own. The consequences outweigh the benefits. In life, and especially in journalism, there is no excuse.

We are taught ethics and

honesty from an early age, and in journalism, it must be our high-est priority. Isn’t that the point of what we do? To serve and better the community? We are failing in that pursuit if we’re lying to our audience, and we’re lying to ourselves if we’re justifying

anything less. As a multi-platform news

source, and as individuals with hearts for the power of journal-ism, this is not an incident that can be brushed aside as a mis-take or simply bad judgment.

The Miami Student isn’t a class, and there isn’t a profes-sor looking over our shoulder, but without upholding our own code of ethics, we are nothing. We must be able to trust one an-other in order to get the job done, but we must also know when to question each other. And, in this case, question the group as a whole with the aim of prevent-ing similar actions in the future.

The Miami Student staff will continue to report accurately, fairly and be the watchdog of Miami University. But, now more than ever, we have learned the importance of being the watchdog of each other.

If we truly want a progressive, safe and healthy campus, we need to better consider the consequences of our actions and words. We must work in solidarity to accomplish these basic goals that all members of the Miami community, not just feminists, should want for our campus.”

We are taught ethics and honesty from an early age, and in journalism, it must be our highest priority. Isn’t that the point of what we do? To serve and better the community? We are failing in that pursuit if we’re lying to our audience, and we’re lying to ourselves if we’re justifying anything less.”

6 OPINION EDITORIAL@MIAMISTUDENT.NETFRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015

Plagiarism at The Miami Student requires action and reflection as we move forward

Response: Sexual assault conversation continues with members of campus feminism group

Thursday, March 5 at 7 p.m., six girls competed in the Black

and Gold s c h o l a r -ship pag-eant in front of a crowd of their peers.

Hosted by Alpha Phi Al-pha Fraternity Inc., these

women went through challeng-es that tested their poise, body confidence, elegance, academic strengths and talent for the title of Miss Black and Gold, as well as the chance to compete at higher

levels. It was like a more badass version of the Miss America pag-eant — and more people needed to be there.

I was completely blown away by the confidence that these girls exuded, even when they were put on the spot.

During the talent section, some of the girls chose to sing, some of the girls chose to dance, one put on an original comedy skit and one performed an original spoken word poem. And the au-dience responded to these talents, calling back, cheering, snapping. I mean, these girls were good.

What absolutely killed me was that, as I watched these girls, I was thinking about how much the rest of Miami’s female popu-lation could learn from them. It’s no joke that rape culture is abun-dant on college campuses.

It is a culture that typically sexualizes females and puts them down. The Miss Black and Gold pageant was a celebration of women, a presentation on the importance and sexiness of true confidence, and a nod toward the fact that with the help and sup-port of our peers, we can begin to end rape culture.

Perhaps this is due to my igno-rance of Greek life, but I do not know of another fraternity that puts on an event that is so overtly in support of women.

This is the kind of thing that must be replicated. It is the kind of thing that cannot be over-looked. So why, at Miami, was

the Miss Black and Gold pageant overlooked?

There was a big crowd, don’t get me wrong, but it needed to be bigger. Girls need to see the im-pact they can have on this cam-pus. They need to see that they can be celebrated for something other than their drinking abilities and their sex appeal.

They need to know that mem-bers of this campus would cele-brate their intelligence and poise. I can’t say it enough: this pageant was inspiring to watch.

Standing in stark contrast is POTH, held by Delta Zeta five days after the pageant this year. POTH is fun, for sure, and some fraternities and sororities are re-ally, really good.

The thing about POTH, how-ever, is that it’s less about confi-dence and more about entertain-ment. The kids who aren’t that good are put in the back. It’s a standoff of skill, of who looks the best, and not a celebration of who can add value to the Miami com-munity.

I like watching POTH dances, but I’m not inspired by them.

I write this editorial in the wake of International Women’s Day, which was three days following the Miss Black and Gold pageant.

The original holiday was Inter-national Working Women’s Day, first implemented in 1914; in some places, including the U.S., it reduced itself to kind of a La-dies’ Valentine’s Day.

As time has passed, the holiday waned and waxed from being about working women’s accom-plishments, to being about wom-en being women. Now it’s back to celebrating the implications of strength as feminine.

That being said, I find it strange that we have only one day a year allocated to appreciating over 50 percent of the humans on this planet, or that we even need to have a day to remind us to ap-preciate over 50 percent of the humans on this planet.

I’m not complaining; I’m thankful for the day. But power imbalance and sexism will con-tinue on its course if we have the attitude that the only way we can recognize women is by having one day to celebrate them.

We need more attitudes like those members of the Miss Black and Gold pageant, as well as that of Alpha Phi Alpha — attitudes that offer the idea that we can cel-ebrate women on more days than one, attitudes that say it is normal to celebrate women for their tal-ents and their intellect.

Congratulations to all of the women who competed in the Miss Black and Gold pageant. You are amazing.

Celebrating women, differences shouldn’t be a one-day thing

MADELEINE LAPLANTE-DUBELAPLANMM@MIAMIOH.EDU

MADDIE’S MATTERS

LIFE

That being said, I find it strange that we have only one day a year allocated to appreciating over 50 percent of the humans on this planet, or that we even need to have a day to remind us to appreciate over 50 percent of the humans on this planet.”

EDITORIAL

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

This piece was submitted by The F-Word (Feminists work-ing on Real Democracy) Ex-ecutive Board.

REBECCA CLARK CO-PRESIDENT

TINA FOWLER PUBLICITY CHAIR

LANA POCHIRO COMMUNITY OUTREACH CHAIRANNA LUCIA FELDMANN

SOCIAL ACTIVIST CHAIRCOLLEEN BUNN

ADVISOR SARA WENGER

CO-PRESIDENTTYLER NICHOLS

HISTORIANJANE MEDORO

TREASURER

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

In my political science class last week, we took a survey to determine our partisan leanings. It’s a survey conducted by the American National Elections Studies about different policies and you rank whether or not you agree on a 7-point scale.

Most of the questions were pretty standard for the current po-litical conversation — health care, abortion, etc.

I try to claim my independence from both parties to maintain my journalistic objectivity and most of my answers were 3’s, 4’s, and 5’s – right down the middle. No surprises there. It wasn’t until the last question of the survey that I really got heated.

My professor switched the slide and flashed this statement on the pro-jector: women should have an equal role as men in society.

We were supposed to rank wheth-er or not we agreed with this state-ment and apparently our answer would indicate our partisan leanings. Being the reserved and shy student in class, I very visibly rolled my eyes and scoffed at the question.

“I don’t understand how this statements determines your par-tisan leanings,” I said, not really under my breath.

“You’d be surprised,” my profes-sor replied, saying that only 60 per-cent of the population agreed with that statement.

For one of the only times in my life, I was speechless. Our teacher moved on, leaving me fuming at my desk. To me, gender equality shouldn’t have an effect on partisan-ship, at least not anymore.

How is it okay that gender equal-ity is grouped along with discussions on health care and the economy? I can’t comprehend how in 2015, 95 years after women were given the right to vote, women’s equality is still a political issue.

There are women on both sides of the aisle that have broken the glass ceiling and made a name for them-selves politically. Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton served as Secre-tary of State — both the Republican and Democrat are pretty kick-ass women. Sarah Palin was a candidate for Vice President.

Nancy Pelosi was the first female as the Speaker of the House. Count-less women have risen to promi-nence in Washington, playing an equal role as their male counterparts,

proving that their gender does not determine their ideology.

These women, Republicans and Democrats alike, clearly have an egalitarian view of their role in soci-ety. They’re living it out. Their drive to make meaningful contributions to society does not make them a Re-publican or a Democrat.

For the 40 percent of Americans who disagree with the statement, it is misguided to think that both stereo-typical gender roles are not equally crucial to society. Women have his-torically been homemakers while men worked to make money for the family. Isn’t raising children to be functioning adults as important as being the breadwinner?

In today’s world, we have stay-at-home dads, single-parent house-holds and millions of women in the workforce. Is it really reasonable to say that men and women don’t al-ready play an equal role in society?

Raising a family is an admirable goal, one I’m definitely not mature enough for yet. I can’t even remem-ber to feed myself some days, let alone claim responsibility for an-other human.

But who is to say that my jour-nalism career in Washington, D.C. is more or less important than my friends becoming an engi-neer, a teacher or the mom of the next Steve Jobs?

As a proud feminist, I am still baffled. Equality of the sexes is so deeply ingrained in me that I fun-damentally don’t understand seeing one gender as inferior. It’s time to stop talking about men and women differently in the first place.

Policies in Congress to eliminate the wage gap quite frankly aren’t go-ing to work. Any kind of policy talk deepens the partisan divides about the issue. In the gridlocked Capi-tol, parties are going to take oppos-ing positions. Talking about gender equality will only polarize the parties on their view of women and their role in society.

Let’s take this question out of the partisanship survey, taking gen-der equality off the equation. Our views of women in society should not impact our political party. Gen-der should not be a political issue anymore, and it’s time we stopped talking about it like it is.

Here’s a confession. I spill a lot of things. I leave a messy trail of crumbs and bits of liquid behind everywhere I go, whether on a shiny restaurant ta-

ble or a friend’s freshly-vacu-umed couch. All of my daily outfits are sub-ject to a stain or two.

I don’t really mean to taint my sweaters or

my kitchen counters or that leather car seat with my unstable eating and drinking and holding methods, but it happens with one flick of the wrist or spiral of a coffee cup. Sometimes, it goes unnoticed, a secret kept be-tween me and my laundry pile, but on other more public occasions, I wear stains on my sleeves.

I’ve dropped an entire beer on a dude’s shoes before, and in the middle of my sentence, he walked away. During a “meet the boy-friend’s parents” dinner, I knocked my fork off of the side of my plate and no one seemed to go with my idea of making a musical beat out of clanging the utensils.

On the way to a 5k road race with my family one summer, I accidental-ly tossed my cousin’s inhaler down a street drain. She was recovering from a collapsed lung, so it was a minor deal.

The worst was a couple weeks ago when I was standing at one of those milk and sugar kiosks in Armstrong, frantically trying to transfer my cof-fee from a paper cup into a glass to-go mug. The to-go mug was pretty shades of teal, a birthday gift from a friend that I desperately wanted to use and show off. But then, with one slightly too jerky movement, I watched the mug scoot to the edge of the counter and fall to the ground. And it shattered. Plus, it made a re-ally loud noise and everyone looked at me. I glanced down at the shards of pretty teal bits spread across the floor and it was like I was seeing the summation of my life in one poor, broken-down image.

But looking back on these spills and stains and mess-ups, I’m choos-ing to see them in another way. When I tally up the stains on my scarves at the end of the day, I don’t feel bad about that. I’m reminded of the cov-ersations I had over lattes and the ice cream cone on that first sunny day of the season. I feel a rush of forward-ness and.accept that I’d rather live a messy life than put on the brakes. I sip, I move, write, walk, go, and maybe something overflows out of the edges in the process.

One of my friends came over for breakfast yesterday, and our conver-sation kept hanging around the un-knowns of the future and how scary those question marks seemed.

In the middle of my serious real-izations, she looked at the dirty mugs strewn around my living room and the popcorn kernels in the couch

cushions and my unbrushed hair hidden under a Yankees cap. And she laughed. We both laughed. Be-cause sometimes we need to catch ourselves and point out that we’re all a mess. Sometimes life is stained and flawed and imperfect, but those stains are also marks of faint memo-ries. Sometimes, we need to stop waiting for next year or worrying about ten years from now, and laugh at what’s happening now.

In my life, spills are a constant — you know, one of those special variables that stay the same no mat-ter how the other numbers or mov-ing parts behave. I’ve been thinking about that lately, about things that won’t change about me no matter who I’m friends with or far away I am from this place. When I think about my future, I see stains in the corners of every picture. I see myself hurriedly zig-zagging around some unnamed city, holding a Starbucks cup as I walk into a big interview with coffee drips on my shirt. If I ever write a book, I’ll probably have to print out a few extra copies in lieu of nearby iced teas. I see myself sip-ping a cappuccino on my wedding day, keeping that silky white dress just out of reach.

I don’t mind this. Because spills and mess-ups always humble me and knock me down a few pegs. When I’m getting too confident, I let go of my grip and a river of liquid spills out and if anything, I’ve learned to laugh.

OPINION 7EDITORIAL@MIAMISTUDENT.NET FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015

GRETA HALLBERGHALLBEGM@MIAMIOH.EDU

BLURRED LINES STOLENIt turns out Robin Thicke’s hit was a little too similar to Marvin Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.” The jury decided Gaye’s family gets $7.4 million.

PUTTING ON THE HITS The annual “Putting On The Hits” philanthrophy event mixes our love of busting a move and supporting charity. But it does rank us on how well we can dance, and is just a bit nerve-wracking.

CSI CYBERIt’s not that we don’t enjoy crime shows. But with a variety of networks already saturated with various crime and thriller dramas, we don’t really need another one. Especially another CSI spinoff. Vegas, Miami and New York are enough, sorry CBS.

WE CAN SEE THE GRASSThe color has returned to our lives. This may sound trivial, but we’re super pumped about being able to walk around campus and see grass in its best form, not covered in icy slush.

RULE OF THUMB

HOLI FESTIVALThis Saturday, Miami students are ready to welcome spring with the annual Holi Festival on campus. Expect lots of happy faces, colorful paint and a cultural celebration that is a favorite of many in the Oxford area.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Outside perspective: Adjunct faculty have right to complain

We shouldn’t feel bad about the messiness of life

I have been following the articles about the situation of adjunct professors, and am amazed, as I assume most peo-ple are, about the extremely low compensation that these

individuals receive. Although this is a nationwide

trend, it unfortunately appears to be even more pronounced at Miami University.

There are frequent articles from many sources about the ever increasing cost of a college education. The most frequent

reason often cited is the trend to ever more opulent facilities that all universities feel they need to build to be competitive with other schools.

Another, less often cited reason, is the rapid growth of middle level and upper level management.

Almost all schools have great-ly added assistant dean, associ-ate dean and other administra-tive positions in recent years. Of course each position demands administrative support and fur-ther staff.

If the trend to hire adjunct professors as opposed to tenure track instructors is an attempt at cost management, it is an ex-tremely short sighted one.

What will a university look like in the future if the majority of the teaching staff is tempo-rary and poorly paid?

Even the most well edu-cated and dedicated individual can’t be expected to perform well while being paid only a

subsistence level wage. Tenure track or tenured pro-

fessors are the core of a univer-sity and contribute to the sense of loyalty and tradition that keeps a school vital.

The classroom, where the professor and his or her students meet is ultimately where the learning occurs, and should be recognized as the most impor-tant element of any university. Currently our higher education system in the U.S. enjoys an enviable reputation through-out the world, and many come here because of that. However, that is not guaranteed to last if the instruction is perceived as second class. The adjunct pro-fessors have a legitimate com-plaint. Is it moral to pay some-one less than a living wage just because you can.

DONALD HANSONASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (RET)

TUFTS UNIVERSITYDPHANSON4@YAHOO.COM

LIFE

GENDER EQUALITY

Gender roles should not be up for partisan debate

PATRICK GEYSER THE MIAMI STUDENT

AMANDA HANCOCKHANCOCAE@MIAMIOH.EDU

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“That’s not an easy question to answer,” Hodge said, “It’s all about the timing, place, urgency and size of the issue. The Strategic Priorities Task Force had a sense of urgency, the Regional Campus Task Force had a sense of urgency.”

In 2008, the Ohio Governor and Board of Regents mandated that regional campuses such as Mi-ami University in Hamilton and Middletown offer four-year de-grees to better allow for the com-munity colleges in Ohio to offer two-year degrees.

“The current trajectory of the re-gional campuses is not financially sustainable nor is it programmati-cally sufficient to meet the needs of the students and the region,” Hodge stated in his letter to the Regional Campus Task Force.

The Strategic Priorities Task Force was created during the chang-ing economy of 2010. According to its final report released Dec. 15, 2010, its goal was “to recommend a framework that will guide and inspire our decisions over the next five years and beyond in order to advance Miami as a premier na-tional university.”

“Each one was successful in meeting the spirit and intent of their specific charges,” said Oris.

The university relies on task forces to problem solve and provide ways of improvement.

“The success of these taskforces relies on the cool heads at the table,” said Shar Qureshi, regional student member of the Regional Campus Task Force.

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In a rivalry that dates back to the days of the CCHA, No. 5 Miami University hockey hosts a best-of-three series with West-ern Michigan University in the quarterfinals of the National Col-legiate Hockey Conference play-offs this weekend. Miami plays as the No. 2 seed in the confer-ence, while WMU plays as No. 7.

Head coach Enrico Blasi views playoff hockey as a fresh start for every team in the league, despite their regular season finishes.

“It’s a new season,” Blasi said. “Everybody starts with a clean slate. We’re excited for the op-portunity to play in the post sea-son … it’s a grind with the league that we play in. Everybody is so well-matched that focusing on preparation and one game at a time is really the thing that’s got-ten us here to this point.”

The RedHawks are 3-0-1 against the Broncos (13-16-5, 6-13-5-4 NCHC) this season, improving their all-time series record to 60-56-11. The se-ries is Miami’s longest-running

conference series.MU (21-12-1, 14-9-1-1

NCHC) is also 2-0 all-time in playoff games against Western Michigan. The last postseason meeting between the two was the 2012 CCHA Semifinals, in which the Broncos won 6-2.

Though Miami holds the edge in both this year’s and the all-time record, senior center Austin Czarnik does not believe it gives the ’Hawks any advantage in this weekend’s series.

“They’re a hard team to play

against,” the team captain said. “It’s going to fuel them even more to come out and be ready. If we play the way we have against them this year, we can have a lot of success. But I think they’re go-ing to be ready, and we have to match their intensity every single night.”

Blasi echoed the sentiment.“Listen, everybody in our

league can beat anybody,” Blasi said. “We respect Western Michi-

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The Miami University men’s golf team placed second out of 14 teams at the Colleton River Collegiate Tuesday.

The RedHawks finished in fourth place after the first round. Head coach Zac Zedrick told the team members they should worry about their own play and the things they could personally control.

“The thing that we really talked about was that it was really just going to be about us focusing on what we need to do out there and not being concerned with what Tennessee or Michigan State was doing,” Zedrick said.

Miami rallied in the final two rounds to finish in second place, eight strokes behind the Univer-sity of Tennessee.

Two RedHawks finished in the overall top 10. Freshman Patrick Flavin finished seventh, and ju-nior Jack Sparling finished ninth. After starting the front nine of the first round 4 over par, Flavin went 6 under on the back nine to finish the round at 70.

“Personally, I got off to a re-ally shaky start. I was a bunch over par after the first seven or eight holes,” Flavin said. “But I relaxed, calmed down and shook

some of the rust off and started playing really well.”

Zedrick wasn’t shocked that the team’s best round came from a freshman.

“Sometimes it takes [fresh-men] a little while to figure out what their role is and how they fit,” Zedrick said. “On the other hand, there are a lot of people who can come in and get accli-mated quickly.”

Zedrick believes Flavin is one of those people.

“Patrick was one of those guys who was able to acclimate him-self with the demands of school here,” Zedrick said. “He worked incredibly hard before he got here so he was very prepared on the golf side and made the life adjustment very well and the golf has followed.”

Finishing the round 2 under par, the freshman was able to build on his back nine perfor-mance from the first round. His combined score of 220 after three rounds gave him seventh place overall.

“For me it was a really good week. I made a ton of strides in the mental game, which is what I kind of struggled with in the fall,” Flavin said. “As a team I think it was fantastic because everyone contributed, and ob-viously we would have liked to

JACK BREWERTHE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University men’s bas-ketball dropped an overtime showdown to Eastern Michigan University in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tour-nament Monday night.

Miami led by 12 points in the second half with 9:03 to go, but failed to make another field goal as Eastern Michigan (20-12, 8-10 MAC) chipped away at the defi-cit to force the overtime period. Sophomore guard Raven Lee hit a 3-pointer for the Eagles with 14 seconds left to send the game into overtime. The RedHawks (13-19, 8-10 MAC) were outscored 8-7 in the extra frame.

A layup from freshman forward Logan McLane put the ’Hawks in a 61-60 lead with 52 seconds left in the overtime period. On the next possession, the Eagles came down the floor and made a layup with 36 seconds remaining for the game-winning basket.

Junior guard Willie Moore and freshman guard Zach Mc-Cormick paced the RedHawks offensively. Moore led the team with 17 points, and McCormick

followed suit with 12 points. “I thought our kids just really

did a good job of fighting and just trying to find a way, especially after coming off the loss we had at OU,” head coach John Cooper said after the game. “To come back and be mentally locked in against obviously a very tough Eastern Michigan zone and be-ing able to execute some different things.”

Lee led all players with 19 points while hitting seven of his 15 shots from the field.

Senior guard Will Sullivan played his final game as a Miami RedHawk, tying a Miami record for career appearances with 124.

“You want a kid to give every ounce, and he didn’t leave any-thing in the tank,” Cooper said. “When that kid walks away and looks back on his career, he’ll never, ever have to say to him-self that ‘I wish I would’ve or could’ve.’ He doesn’t have to do that. He will be sorely and greatly missed.”

Miami’s season concludes with the ousting from the MAC tournament. The Eagles advance to the MAC Tournament quar-terfinals after beating Bowl-ing Green State University Wednesday night.

RedHawks fall 62-61 to EMU in OT thriller

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The number of Miami men’s hockey players in the running for National Collegiate Hockey Conference awards. Finalists include Austin Czarnik for both Forward of the Year and Defensive Forward of the Year, Louis Belpedio for Rookie of the Year and Matthew Caito for Defenseman of the Year.

The RedHawks celebrate after senior captain Austin Czarnik’s first-career hat trick Saturday against No. 1 North Dakota.

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Once upon a time in the Mid-American Conference, it wasn’t

far-fetched to see players with real NBA potential. Chris Kaman and Wally Szc-zerbiak had nice careers in the Association. Be-

cause of the high quality basket-ball in the league during this time, fans wouldn’t have batted an eye if the MAC had had multiple

teams in the NCAA Tournament.However, after the 2014-15

season, it’s plain to see this time has passed, and maybe for good.

That’s not to say that some teams in the MAC aren’t hav-ing success. Three MAC teams (Toledo, Central Michigan and Western Michigan) are among the top 46 teams in the nation in field goal percentage. Eastern Michigan is fifth in the country in holding opponents to a field goal percentage of 37.5 percent.

EMU is also ninth in steals and is tied at 36th in blocks. Toledo, Ohio and Buffalo place in the top 50 for free throw shooting, and CMU is ranked 15th lowest for

turnovers per game with 10.4.However, no teams in the con-

ference rank in the top 50 for three-point percentage, three-point defense, rebounds or assists, all of which are critical aspects of the game if teams want to make any serious postseason runs.

MAC basketball certainly leaves a lot to be desired. Let’s take Miami-Akron on Senior Night as an example. There is no conceivable way that a team that scores 17 points in a half should win; elementary school teams can score 20 points in a half. The Zips managed to give Miami every op-

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The first home game for Miami University softball was a suc-cessful one, as the RedHawks kicked off the Miami Invitational with a 5-2 defeat against Oakland University.

Miami (10-7) struck first when senior second baseman Eryn Mc-Carver drove a runner in to score. Junior right fielder Tanya Busby found her way home on a fielding error to give the ’Hawks a second

run. Oakland responded in the following inning to cut Miami’s lead to 2-1.

In the bottom of the fourth, the bats came alive for the Red and White as McCarver got a two-RBI single and freshman catcher Rylee Whispel singled another runner home. Oakland picked up another score in the sixth, but that was all it could muster on the af-ternoon.

Senior pitcher Remy Edwards put together a strong performance on the mound, allowing two hits in the first 5 innings before giving up four in the sixth.

“We came out with a lot of en-ergy and were excited for our first home game,” Edwards said. “Our defense was on and we were hit-ting the crap out of the ball of-fensively. I was connecting good with Rylee, and that’s how we beat Oakland. I missed some of my spots today, but our defense was able to keep them to two bas-es most of the day. It’s good to go six innings after sometimes only going three after being hit a lot, so that’s good for confidence.”

Offensively, Miami had steady production all day as the team

DANIEL TAYLORTHE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University baseball lost its fourth consecutive game Wednesday night after falling to Ball State University 4-0.

Miami’s hitting woes con-tinued Wednesday, as the game marks the third time in the last four contests the RedHawks (2-9) could not score a run.

The Cardinals win percentage moved above .500 with the win

and was a good rebound for the team after a 16-1 loss to Indiana University last weekend.

Ball State (8-7) scored early when sophomore catcher Jarett Rindfleisch hit his first home run. It was the only earned run junior pitcher Chris Ticherich surren-dered in 4.3 innings.

RedHawk relievers were able to pitch four innings, while al-lowing two unearned runs.

Head coach Danny Hayden has been ecstatic with the per-formance of his staff thus far and said that when the bats come

around they are going to be a solid team.

Unfortunately for Hayden, the RedHawks have not been able to find the sticks. They only had four hits Wednesday, and two of those came from senior Matt Honchel.

Honchel went 2 for 3 against Ball State and is hitting .488 on the year.

“I would have loved to see the ball like he is right now,” Hayden said. “It’s amplified because of

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