By Amanda SeitzCampus Editor

Miami University President Da-vid Hodge’s annual address focused on the fate of the university’s previously mentioned goals.

The address, delivered on the stage at 4 p.m. Oct. 7 in Hall Auditorium, tackled is-sues concerning retention rates and enhanc-ing the undergraduate experience.

Hodge said the university could not im-prove its main goals without elevating its status in rankings.

“It’s difficult to talk about getting better without addressing our status in rankings,” Hodge said.

Hodge said he would like to further ex-periences that stimulate critical thinking through high-impact activities.

One way to achieve this, according to Hodge, is to increase global perspectives. Hodge suggested continued commitment to reach a 50 percent study abroad rate on the Oxford campus.

“At the top of our list of high impact activ-ities is study aboard,” Hodge said. “Clear-ly a global perspective is critical to our future success.”

Hodge also noted the importance of student research.

“We have very significantly researched the number of students directly involved with a faculty member, staff or a graduate student in research projects,” Hodge said. “We need to look at our curriculum through the lens of research.”

With these goals in mind, the university will strive to increase the current gradu-ation rate of 83 percent to 85 percent, Hodge said.

Enhancing the advising services Miami offers will be a priority for the university to further develop retention rates.

“Although we’ve made significant im-proves in advising in the Oxford campus … student surveys suggest that we are not at the level of peers,” Hodge said.

To further assist in the achievement of retention rates, Hodge hopes to encourage budding and influential relationships be-tween students and faculty.

“I ask, do we inadvertently deter that

behavior and contribute to students leaving Miami because the penalties for poor per-formance are too high?” Hodge said.

Hodge said these standards at Miami would be re-evaluated.

Hodge ended his address to a crowd of more than 150 members of the Miami com-munity with a nod to the future.

“The future is uncertain but we must have the confidence to act decisively and purposefully to chart a course that will lead to our future success,” Hodge said.

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Hodge addresses MiamiTo all of our readers,

Today marks the end of an era. It’s the last day Amusement will be published as part of The Miami Student. The decision was made not only based upon student feedback, but due to the fact Amusement was never meant to be part of our newspaper.

For those who don’t know, Amusement was its own publication until September 2008. At that time, a “House Ad Issue” was printed, an issue that talked about “sterilizing the gays” and claiming on the Infamous Top 7 List the No. 1 thing Miami University should protest is diversity. Immediately afterward, Amusement was suspended as an independent publication and put in The Miami Student as a two-page spread every Friday.

Since then, Amusement has essentially been the entertainment section of our newspaper. As time has gone on, we have begun to push our limits more and more when it comes to Amusement’s content. As we do so, feedback becomes more and more negative.

Yes, we have our First Amendment rights, but we’re a student newspaper for the students and by the students. We’re here for our readers and we want to put out the content our campus wants to read. The feedback we’ve gotten about Amusement since my tenure as editor in chief began in February and has been overwhelmingly negative. We don’t want to leave our readers unsatisfied.

If you have any further comments or questions you would like to share with us, please e-mail eic@miamistudent.net. If you wish to submit a letter to the editor to be printed in our paper, send documents to editorial@miamistudent.net.

Thanks for your readership,

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Letter from the editor

UPGRADEThe WMSR studio has gotten a makeover.

CAMPUS, page 2

SCARE FESTGet the scoop on haunted houses in the surrounding area.

COMMUNITY, page 3

HOPEFUL LEGENDSome Miami students are hoping to break a world record.

FEATURES, page 4

SEE YA, WEEKEND!Say goodbye to Friday and Saturday.

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CAMPUS: SKIPPING CLASS?A new website helps students

determine if they can skip class smartly.

By Amanda SeitzCampus Editor

Miami University has a little helper to assist in hacking away at its budget.

For the 2010-11 fiscal year, Miami’s Oxford campus will lose $4.25 million.

The state said this loss in funding will just be a tempo-rary problem. Miami will miss out on its June 2011 payment but be reimbursed for the mon-ey in July, said David Creamer, vice president of finance and business services.

Regional campuses are also getting stiffed for the month of June, as Creamer said a payment of $926,000 will be delayed.

Creamer does not expect any repercussions this year for the lapsed payments.

“I believe that at least for the moment we can operate without any immediate reductions in the budget,” Creamer said.

Creamer said he is slightly con-cerned the state may default on its loan.

After electing a new gov-ernor in November, Ohio will approve its biennial budget in 2011. According to Creamer, that budget is currently fac-ing somewhere between a

$5 billion to $8 billion deficit before talks have even started.

“If they have not been able to meet the obligation, how are they going to meet it with an $8 billion shortfall in the next bien-nial budget?” Creamer asked.

The hits go deeper than just Miami.

According to Ohio’s constitu-tion, the state can’t operate with a negative budget.

“In essence, the state’s budget is out of balance,” Creamer said.

To return to the positive, im-mediate reductions have to be made statewide, resulting in $800 million in cuts.

Ohio higher education took home one-eighth of these cuts totaling $127 million.

Every institution took a cut proportionally missing

out on one June payment, or 6.8 percent, according to state documents.

Higher education institu-tions were a natural choice for the state to utilize in sus-taining its budget, accord-ing to Rob Evans, press sec-retary for the Ohio Board of Regents.

“The funding, particularly when you consider for the in-stitution, it’s easier … clear swings in enrollment at large and financially complex orga-nizations and their ability to move payments around while avoid impacting services while this lapse occurs,” Evans said. “Given it’s a three week lapse and you have institutions that have budgets of millions of dol-lars, it’s different.”

Evans said he is confident in the state’s commitment to higher education and repaying the loans.

“Given the strong support from the governor and the general assembly, we’re com-pletely confident that repaying of the lapse will be timely and full,” Evans said. “What we can know for certain is that at every opportunity, whether is was the first budget between the governor and the sec-ond budget which was in the

middle of a very giant econom-ic time, we saw, obviously, no increased funding but instead a commitment of protecting our education funding.”

While the state’s current bud-get for higher education has been protected under Gov. Ted Strickland, it has also declined and stayed stagnant over the past 10 years.

In 2001, the Oxford campus received approximately $72 million from the state. Today it generates $62 million, accord-ing to Creamer.

The reduction Miami and other Ohio universities face may take a crystal ball to predict.

“I think any kind of ques-tions, any kind of visions of the (Ohio biennial) budget is very preliminary in the stage,” Evans said. “It’s just not something that’s close enough in time to make a firm picture.”

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ASG denies funding for glee club

By Sarah TitleFor the Miami Student

The Miami University student-run radio station has been com-pletely remodeled and updated for the school year.

WMSR, once filled with out-dated equipment and a complex wiring system, invested in a new soundboard and other equipment in order to make the station more pro-fessional and attract more listeners.

“The biggest issue was the way the soundboard and equipment used to be wired, it was a whole mess of wires,” General Manager Paul Sun-derhaus said. “It was hard to trace down a problem in a reasonable amount of time.”

Programming Director Chris Vazquez also said the wiring was an issue for the DJs and show hosts.

“There used to be a huge box that blocked people from walking in and it was hard for the DJs to see each other, which was hard because you use a lot of hand signals to coordi-

nate with each other,” he said. This issue led to the installation of

a new soundboard and a more effi-cient wiring system. The studio took the cheapest route possible, using a standard network cable that still car-ries good quality sound. Sunderhaus

said the soundboard was priced at $3,600. WMSR is now providing a more consistent output and the sta-tion is more accessible. The station used to have to shut down for mem-bers to crawl through all the wires to figure out what the problem was, according to Vazquez.

“Now the moment you walk in the door, you can wee the whole

studio, allowing more freedom for DJs to interact with each other, not something a listener would notice,” Vazquez said.

A change listeners will notice is in the software. With a new pro-gram called RadioBOSS, students can now listen to the live stream through any media player. Last year, it was not so simple. Instead, students had to download a specific plug-in. People with Mac comput-ers could not listen in, which was problematic due to the large number of students who use a Mac.

RadioBOSS also allows DJs to provide better delivery. They can see the songs that just played, allowing them to announce the names of the songs and artists. It also allows the station to time commercials better.

“New DJs can get a grasp on things a lot more quickly than new DJs in the past, the transition is happening a lot more quickly,” Vazquez said.

Another new feature DJs can utilize is taking calls via Skype

instead of by phone. This allows DJs to screen calls and record them for playback.

“Everyone is already on their computers, the old phone system was very expensive and difficult for DJs to take calls and under-stand them with the old system,” Sunderhaus said.

With the new wiring, program-ming, soundboard and microphone, the total cost of the renovations was approximately $8,000.

Danielle Fisher, host of On Air with Dani and Andy, an entertain-ment news show, said these reno-vations have greatly enhanced her experience at WMSR.

“I’m starting to like it more with updated equipment, now I know how to use newer technology and I feel like a real DJ,” she said. “The renovations are bringing us closer to the listeners, making it pos-sible to get connected with them. They can interact with the DJs and they’ll want to listen to our show even more.”

By Kristen GraceSenior Staff Writer

Men’s Glee Club was denied funding for its upcoming winter

tour after the Associated Student Government (ASG) made it clear the organization would not use stu-dent fees to fund the academics of other students.

According to Tom Foster, vice president of student organizations, one of the rules for organizations to receive academic funding is the students do not re-ceive academic credit for their participation.

In the past, glee club members did not re-ceive academic credit for participation, and ASG was initially going to grant the funds. Upon realizing the club members would receive academic credit, the funding was revoked, Foster said.

According to Corbin Mathias, vice president of glee club, mem-bers of glee club are required to audition, but are then enrolled in a two-credit hour course.

“If student fees go to groups who receive academic credit, you’re funding that student’s education,” Foster said.

However, glee club appealed this decision after having its funds revoked to gain funds for a trip the group feels is not connected to the class.

The winter tour is not limited to those in the class, said William Brunner, glee club’s winter tour manager. Members of glee club who were not able to take the class are also welcome to join as long as they are able to learn the music on their own.

Senator Hannah Phillips was not able to see a separation between the class and tour.

“At this point they are a class and they should not be receiving student funds for their field trip,” Phillips said.

The student senate voted 10-34 to deny glee club the $1,000 it requested, which would have gone to travel expenses such as bus rentals.

Mathias said if not for their re-cent debt problems, this would not have been a problem.

“Normally this would not be an issue for the glee

club, but we have just come out of two years working very hard to come out of debt,”

Mathias said.The glee club just recent-

ly moved out of debt after owing more than $100,000 to the univer-sity two years ago.

Currently, the group is working with a budget of $0, which he said is just not feasible.

It was brought up during debate that another organization, the Shak-erettes, which also receives course credit for participation, was allo-cated funding by ASG, a mistake found only after the funds were finalized. Foster said he is making an effort to correct this mistake for the next funding cycle.

Glee club, however, was dis-covered before finalization, which was part of the reason for the pe-tition. According to Mathias, the group had already created a budget including the money it expected from ASG.

Senator Michael Trivelli, a member of the funding commit-tee, thought the issue was cut-and-dry. “I think we made it very clear when each organization came in that they were not guaranteed any money until the money was actu-ally in their accounts after it was approved by senate,” Trivelli said.

Foster is glad the senate chose to stand with the funding committee’s decision.

“These are the kinds of decisions we need to make,” Foster said. “The problems are just going to get worse.”

First-year Drew Doggett actively uses Skype to chat with a fan of the WMSR RedHawk radio station on air Tuesday evening in Williams Hall.THOMAS CALDWELL The Miami Student

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Total cost of WMSR renovations

$8,000

Miami University seniors from all majors may now apply for the 2011 Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Prize. The Goldman Prize offers ap-proximately $30,000 to support an outstanding Miami graduate’s pursuit of a self-designed scholarly, service or creative project. It is one of the largest awards of its kind. The prize is intended to allow exceptional students a chance to pursue ideas that will enrich their future goals.

Applicants should have a very strong academic record, a background in the field of the intended project and an ability to work independently.

Information and applications are available at http://casnov1.cas.muo-hio.edu/honors/current/goldman.html.

Applications are due at 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15.

For more information, students may also contact John Forren, associ-ate director of the University Honors Program, at forrenjp@muohio.edu or (513) 529-6298.

Voting to replace the name of the new Blackboard site for Miami Uni-versity will begin Thursday, Oct. 7.

The contest to name the site welcomed 309 entries for the new name. After narrowing down the entries, four final names have been chosen.

Archway - The new system will represent the new traditions at Mi-ami and the old. This recognizes the importance of the Upham Arch in Miami traditions.

E-hub - The hub is an integral part of gathering students at Miami and the new site will also provide a collaborative environment on the Internet.

Mpowered - The name uses the “M” of Miami and displays the power that higher education holds.

Niihka - This word stands for “friend” in the Myaamia language, recognizing Miami’s heritage.

To vote online, visit: http://com-munity.muohio.edu/sip/naming_contest. Voting will end at 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 11.

Voting begins to name new Blackboard site

WMSR upgrades technology

Student reports stolen bike

On Monday, Oxford police met with a Miami University student who reported the bike he had rented from BikeWise was stolen from outside his residence.

According to police reports, the victim reported the Trek bike was locked outside his home on West Sycamore Street with a combination chain.

According to police, both the bike and the chain were stolen. There are no suspects or witnesses.

CommunityEditorBethany Brunercommunity@miamistudent.net

Calcium here to stay

By Leslie ScottSenior Staff Writer

Beginning in October, the Butler County commis-sioners decided to change their meeting time. Instead of meeting twice a week, the group will only meet once a week.

The calendar is established at the beginning of the year at the organizational meeting and the dates of meetings are chosen at the discrepancy of the commissioners. The original cal-endar planned the group to meet every Monday and Thursday, but this has been switched to just Monday meetings, according to Flora Butler, clerk of the Board of Commissions.

The Ohio Revised Code re-quires 50 meetings each year. Once this number has been met, the commissioners can be more flexible with their meetings, Butler said.

“It is very common for the commissions to change the meet-ing times to once a week,” But-ler said. “Especially around this time of year with holidays coming up, many people plan vacations and other obliga-tions which lead to meetings being cancelled or rescheduled.”

Butler said the commissioners could choose to do this as long as the required number of meetings had occurred.

Miami University junior Erica Norman

expected this sort of thing to happen by the end of the year.

“As the year begins to wind down and the com-mission has met their required meetings, I would expect them to cut back,” Norman said. “It is just more realistic, especially as the holidays get closer and closer.”

According to Butler, as the year comes to an end, departments within the county begin budget-ing for the next fiscal year. These departments in-

clude the treasurer, the sheriff, area courts and domestic courts, among others.

“That is what will occur during these October meetings,” Butler said. “Each department needs to present a budget to the commis-sioner in order to continue oper-ating through the next year.”

Meetings are open to the pub-lic, but Butler said the times are tentative. The only time the pub-lic is not welcome is during an executive session.

According to Oxford City Man-ager Doug Elliott, the change in commissioner meetings does not

really affect Oxford. “We get many services from the commissions of-

fice,” Elliott said. “However, the meetings don’t af-fect Oxford because they deal with executive and policy decisions.”

When Oxford needs to meet with commission-ers, the commissions office works with the city’s individual schedule.

County commissioners change meeting times Looking for a good haunt this Halloween?

You might want to check out these local haunted attractions.

Haunted House Guide

Lake Bailee

Lake Bailee is 25 minutes from Oxford in Hamilton. Attractions include a haunted hayride and a haunted corn maze. Lake Bai-lee is primarily a recreation center, complete with an outdoor pub, so you can have a nice meal before enjoying things that go bump in the night. Cost is $13 for a combination hayride and corn maze ticket. Lake Bailee’s haunted attractions are open Fridays and Saturdays.

Land of Illusion

This multi-attraction park is in Middletown, approximately 40 minutes from Oxford. While offering multiple haunted houses, Land of Illusion also offers Club Zombie, a haunted dance club. Tickets are $20 to $40 depending upon the type of ticket you purchase and how many people are in your group. Land of Illu-sion is open weekends until 1 a.m.

Haunted Cincinnati Tours

This authentic ghost-hunting tour is located in downtown Cin-cinnati and has been featured on the Travel Channel. Guests take a two-and-a-half-hour tour of the city with real ghost hunter equipment to see the spirits that haunt the Queen City for themselves. Tickets are $50 and booking in advance is re-quired as space is limited. Booking can be done on the event website, http://www.hauntedcincinnatitours.com.

By Bethany BrunerCommunity Editor

The “white stuff” on dishes fresh from the dishwasher is not because the dishwasher needs to be fixed, it is calcium.

Calcium is the biggest area of question and concern among Oxford residents, according to David Weihrauch, manager of the Oxford Water Treatment Plant.

Weihrauch said the City of Oxford draws its water from two areas of the Greater Miami Buried Valley Aquifer. Since Oxford’s water supply comes from groundwater, it is naturally hard, meaning calcium and magnesium levels are higher than if the water supply came from surface water.

Oxford’s water treatment plant does not soften water, according to Weihrauch, and there is no legal requirement to soften water.

“Calcium concentrations are simply not reg-ulated by the Ohio EPA or the federal EPA,” Weihrauch said.

The total hardness for Oxford’s water supply

is 21 grains per gallon, which is in the very hard range, according to Weihrauch.

Dr. Gregory Calkins, medical direc-tor for Student Health Services, said hav-ing such a high level of calcium would not necessarily have a negative impact on health.

“Some think calcification, the hardening of arteries or kidney stones, is due to calcium,” Calkins said. “That’s the traditional thought, but there’s evidence that there are other factors that cause that to happen.”

Calkins said calcium is typically thought of as a nutrient, but the form typically found in water is usually inorganic and harder to digest.

Weihrauch said citizens can choose to soften their water, but the city does not have a water softening plant. Equipment for softening water can be purchased at lo-cal home improvement stores. Weihrauch also said there are businesses that perform water-softening services.

While drinking softened water may seem like an easy solution, Calkins said caution should be

used in drinking softened water. Softened water will exchange the calcium in water for sodium, which Calkins said can lead to a strain on blood vessels. This could lead to kidney problems and possibly high blood pressure.

“Healthwise, I’d drink the hard water rather than the softened water,” Calkins said.

While many homes may have water soften-ers already, rental houses and apartments differ by landlord.

Some students did not realize checking on wa-ter softeners was something they need to do.

Junior Jared Wise said he assumed the infor-mation would be in the lease, but he did not look specifically for it.

“I had no clue it has an effect,” Wise said. Weihrauch said the water report, published

annually, typically has information about cal-cium in it, but this year’s report does not mention calcium. Weihrauch said calcium information would be included in next year’s report.

The water report is available at the Municipal Building in uptown Oxford and online on the City of Oxford’s website.

Calcium residue shows up on dishes even after going through the dishwasher. Oxford’s water has 21 grains to the gallon of calcium.SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

“Especially around this time of year with holi-days coming up, many people plan vacations and other obligations

which lead to meetings being cancelled or rescheduled.”

FLORA BUTLERCLERK OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONS

At its meeting Oct. 5, Oxford City Council proposed a change to a noise restriction ordinance that would allow construction and repair work to be performed on weekends and national holidays between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.The current language of the ordinance allows construction or repair work that creates loud or unusual noises to be executed on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. except in the case of an emergency. City Manager Doug Elliott said city council will vote to pass the ordinance at its next meeting Oct. 19. If passed, the regulation will go into effect 30 days later.If passed, this ordinance will make life a little easier for contractors and con-struction workers in Oxford, according to Councilor Kevin McKeehan. “The change in hours will make Oxford a little more business-friendly,” McKeehan said.

Reporting by Kelsey Bishop

City Council proposes change to noise ordinance

Water hardness levels not regulated by EPASenior says wallet

taken on dance floorAt around 6:15 p.m. Mon-

day, Oxford Police met with a Miami University senior who said his wallet was stolen while he was on the dance floor at Brick Street Bar.

When he went to cancel his credit card, he reportedly discov-ered someone had been using it.

There are no suspects at this time.

Male’s credit cards, IDs removed from table

At around 8:50 a.m. Sunday, Oxford Police met with a Miami University student who said his wallet was taken from a table at The Woods Bar Saturday night.

The wallet reportedly contained two credit cards, two debit cards and two IDs.

There are no suspects at this time.

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Reporting by Bethany Bruner

FridayOctober 8, 20104

HANNAH MILLER The Miami Student

Features EditorAmelia Carpenter

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Miami University sophomores Kelly Muenchen and Neelum Amin are attempting to put Miami in the Guin-ness Book of World Records in spring 2011 by attempt-ing the world’s largest group hug on campus. They need more than 10,000 people to participate in order to break the previous record.

If successful, this attempt will raise money and awareness for the student organization, Oxfam Miami University.

Oxfam is an organization focused on social justice that hosts events to raise money to end poverty, according to Muenchen and Amin.

“Oxfam is a group of dedicated students that seek to end poverty by investing in an entrepreneur in the developing world, hosting awareness and fundraising events like the Oxfam Hunger Banquet and volunteering in the commu-nity,” Muenchen said.

Oxfam’s leaders intend to significantly increase the or-ganization’s visibility on campus next semester when they begin to advertise their world-record-breaking event.

“We’re really starting to get the word out there,” Amin said. “We’re going to start advertising at the beginning of next semester.”

The Guinness Book of World Records receives approxi-mately 60,000 record-related inquiries from people who want to set or break records each year, according to guin-nessworldrecords.com.

According to Amin, they are aiming toward hosting the event in April 2011.

“It will be a rewarding experience,” Amin said. So far, Muenchen and Amin have collaborated with their

honors advisor, Kristin Burton. They also made a Facebook event, which has more than 700 people who said they would be attending. According to Burton, the associate director of the honors program, the girls are making a spirited attempt in tackling their objective.

“They’re really passionate about this topic,” Burton said. “I think it’s a great idea. It’s a great concept.”

Burton said an event on such a scale would require a lot of work.

“This certainly isn’t something that two or three people are going to be able to do on their own,” Burton said.

According to Burton, this is the first project she has been involved in that is on such a large scale. Burton, Muenchen and Amin have started investigating resources and are put-ting together a list of community organizations to help implement the event.

“This going to be a huge-scale project — a scale that I have not been involved in before,” Burton said. “It’s going to take so many people to break the record.”

Muenchen, who has some experience assisting with event planning for a student organization as a first-year, is confident the event will turn out to be a success.

Muenchen and Amin have never planned a large event, but said they are not intimidated.

“I’m really confident, otherwise I wouldn’t be doing it,” Amin said.

Muenchen and Amin co-founded Oxfam in attempt to create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. In favor of raising money and awareness, Oxfam will be con-ducting the attempt at the world’s largest hug in the direc-tion of establishing their name on Miami’s campus.

“If it works out, it will be a great way to raise aware-ness about our cause and raise awareness for Oxfam,” Muenchen said.

While Burton is helping, she said Muenchen and Amin

are really doing this on their own.“It’s going to be implemented by them and I’m just here

to act as a resource for them and give them guidance and help with anything they would need,” Burton said. “They’re really taking the leadership on this.”

According to student body president Heath Ingram, Ox-fam needs to coordinate with the student body in effectively racking up awareness across campus.

Ingram said the success of the world’s largest hug would be based on the coordinators’ abilities in getting the word out there and encouraging others to come. According to Burton, people will certainly be interested in participating once the word is out around campus.

“I certainly think that once we start to promote it that people will really be on board with participating,” Burton said.

According to Ingram, it is important that Oxfam fires up excitement.

“The event will be largely dictated by the amount of ef-fort the coordinators put into publishing the event and en-couraging students to attend,” Ingram said.

According to Ingram, communication is key. “Turnout will be dictated by their ability to communicate

with the organizations they are trying to reach to let them know about the event,” Ingram said.

According to Michelle Martin Rosecrans, associate direc-tor of alumni relations, it is not only important to be a good communicator with organizations, but it is also important to be detail-oriented. In summer 2009, Rosecrans helped coordinate the world record broken at Miami University for the most couples to renew their wedding vows.

“I think you need to be very detail-oriented and I think you need to be a good communicator,” Rosecrans said.

Lucky for Muenchen and Amin, Miami has a history of being in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Feb. 2, Guinness World Records told Miami the school had officially broken the world record for the most couples to renew their wedding vows at once. The event took place during alumni weekend June 20, 2009.

In spite of the event being effectively communicated to the participants, 1,087 couples came together to renew their vows, breaking the previous record of 624 couples renewing their vows in Pittsburg in 2008, according to Rosecrans.

According to Jessica Greene, one of the Miami alumni who attended the event, renewing her wedding vows with her husband was a lot of fun. According to Greene, she and her husband (who was also her high school sweetheart) at-tended the event with their two children. Greene, who mar-ried her husband the fall after graduation in 2000, said re-newing her vows was a special time for her and her family.

“It was very special,” Greene said. “I giggled because I said, ‘How different is this round of wedding vows? How different is our family from when we got married?’”

Some people came dressed up in their wedding day whites.

“It was really neat to see everybody who was either in Miami gear or some people got really dressed up and wore white,” Greene said. “Some people had on dresses. It was really cute.”

According to Greene, she and her family came dressed in their Miami gear.

“We both had on our Miami T-shirts and we brought our kids and they were in their Miami gear,” Greene said.

If you are interested in helping out with this event or being a part of Oxfam, contact Kelly Muenchen at muenchkp@muohio.edu.

By Jenna YatesFor The Miami Student

By Anna TurnerAmusement Editor

In 1984, a metal band from Richmond, Va. gave the music world something it had never seen before — sci-fi costumes, political and social theatrics, lighting and sound spectacle extraordinaire — it was unlike anything music fans had experienced up to that point. It was GWAR.

GWAR was the lovechild of several underground metal bands in the Richmond area. Dave Brockie was the ringleader for this new metal experience. It be-gan with GWAR (at that point known as GWAARGGGH!!) opening for local metal and punk rock bands like Brockie’s Death Piggy.

“We’d all been in a million dif-ferent bands before then,” Brock-ie said. “I realized that we could take this GWAR idea and really add something to it and come up with a spectacular show.”

That spectacular show involved sci-fi costumes, larger-than-life effigies of political figures (that usually undergo some sort of mutilation during the show), sacrifices, hundreds of gallons of (fake) blood and bodily fluids

projecting over the audience and whatever the f&%$ else GWAR feels like doing.

“We just asked ourselves, ‘If the ultimate band were play-ing tonight, what would it be?’”

Brockie said. “Somebody had to do GWAR sooner or later, and if somebody else had done it, it would have sucked.”

The music world needed GWAR, and thank god Brockie

and Crew brought it to us. In the past 25 years, GWAR has come out with 12 albums. Their newest album, Bloody Pit of Horror, will be released Nov. 9. The entire al-bum is tuned down at least a half

octave, giving GWAR fans a new sound with the same old GWAR attitude, or GWAR-itude.

To compliment its new al-bum, GWAR is currently on its Bloody Tour of Horror, a 30-show tour ending Nov. 6 with a performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas. The tour features The Casualties, Inferne-aon and Mobile Deathcamp, and will be tearing up Bogarts in Cincinnati Oct. 12.

What GWAR fans can look forward to is an intense night of metal, spectacle, theatrics and, above all, music that freaking rocks. Amidst all that pizzazz is a heavy social and political com-mentary that GWAR has come to be known for.

“GWAR has always been an underground counter-culture that shakes up the status quo,” Brockie said. “We wanted to go after subjects that were pretty much taboo. We sort of devel-oped this moniker of Kings of the Underworld.”

These underworld rulers suc-cessfully combine spectacle, meaningful themes and bada$$ music in a mind-numbing phe-nomenon that can only be de-scribed in one word: GWAR.

Amusement

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I N F A M O U Sthe Things Amusement’s not sorry for ...

City Council bans weekend

Let Me In proves a great, yet familiar, remake

GWAR to rock pants off Bogarts

ANNA TURNER The Miami Student

MUSIC

FILM FEATURE

By Curtis WaughFor The Miami Student

Let me just get this out of the way to begin with, Let Me In is a hard sell to film fans. It is a remake of the outstanding Swedish film Let the Right One In that is also based on a Swedish novel of the same name.

Wait, did I say outstanding? I’m sorry, I meant masterpiece. Let the Right One In was

a true revelation for horror, vampire films and what it meant to be a child. Oh, and it came out in 2008. That’s right, two years (actually more) since the Swedish film was released, Hollywood thinks it wise to make its own version of the film. I was against this as much as you can imagine and saw this effort to be more of the same from an industry wanting to make a quick buck based on the least common denomina-tor. They made it seem as if American audiences couldn’t handle reading subtitles (maybe they can’t, although I’m more hopeful than that) and that we needed to be spoon-fed theme and intensity in our own language.

However, I don’t think Hollywood saw this one com-ing when they gave Let Me In the green light. Now, I am going to let go of all of the Let the Right One In talk un-til the end because this film deserves to be judged as its own entity.

Not only did this project receive a competent direc-tor in Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), but they hired probably the two most astonishing minors working in the field of acting today.

Now, for the uninitiated, Let Me In is the story about a boy outcast named Owen (Kodi Smit-Mcphee, The Road) who is dealing with divorced parents and horrific bullies at school. His mother, who in a smart yet painfully obvious move is never fully seen on screen, is a drunk. His father is unavailable, and the one time he does communicate with Owen, he is more worried about Owen’s mother than Ow-en’s very real problems.

The three bullies Owen faces at school are truly horrible, treating Owen as more of an ant on the sidewalk than an ac-tual human being. So, naturally, this creates a yearning and anger within Owen that we can see will eventually destroy him — until he meets Abby.

Abby, played with a great maturity and creepiness by Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass), is a vampire. This quite obviously throws a wrench into the situation. Abby comes to the small and poor apartment complex that Owen lives in, hoping

to find new feeding grounds. She is looked-after by a man (played by the great Richard Jenkins, Step Brothers) whose story I will not spoil that goes out and kills young men in order to harvest their blood. Jenkins’ character anchors this story and its themes and is the looking-glass through which we perceive this budding relationship between Owen and Abby.

Owen and Abby eventually meet while they both are trying to be alone out in the courtyard. From here, the story takes some very interesting twists and turns in which Owen is able to stand up for himself and figure out who he really is as a person, while giving Abby the companionship 12-year-olds (give or take a few centuries) need.

This film is entirely about the relationship between these two characters, but don’t get me wrong, it is also violent and pulls no punches. Blood not only sheds, but floods when-ever it is on screen. The bullies at school perform truly evil deeds, which only escalate to frightening proportions as the film goes on.

This puts the audience in a situation in which we know Owen and Abby’s friendship will not only be harmful to oth-ers and themselves, but harmful because we see how each of these characters will fare if they had never met. Reeves is quite adept at being able to show what kind of people these two are if they aren’t able to have each other, which gives the viewer another reason to root for them to be together.

My only gripes with the film come as an ardent fan of the original film. If you have seen that film, you have seen this one. Reeves brings very little new to the table that hasn’t already been brought. He tries to refocus many aspects, but they are all very minute and aside from a different choice of color palette, many of the shots are the exact same as in the original. This is a great homage, but it starts to get stale after seeing many scenes framed and presented in a very familiar way.

Nonetheless, this would have been an incredibly easy film to screw up. While it may come off as too comparable a re-make, I can see why Reeves would want to create an Ameri-can version of a recent classic. The themes of adolescence and the need for friendship are omnipresent in every society, not to mention that it gives him a chance to let loose on some truly frightening horror and gore. If this film drives people to see the original, I’d say that it did its job. And if it doesn’t, it still wins as a film that deserves to be a representative of this amazing story.

By Curtis DickersonFor The Miami Student

The Oxford City Council voted Thursday to eliminate the days of Friday and Saturday from all calendars and schedules within the municipality. This measure, the latest in a series of actions to curb underage drinking, passed by a wide margin on the council, and in a recent poll is widely supported by city residents.

“We have great hopes for this,” said Officer Jonathan Taylor, one of the plainclothes officers who frequent city bars and clubs on the weekends. “Everybody says, ‘We’re going out Friday! We’re going out Saturday!’ How are they going to go out if there is no weekend?”

The new plan, which replaces the previously titled Friday and Saturday with “Post-Thursday” and “Pre-Sunday,” is scheduled to take place Nov. 1.

Oxford resident and city councilman David McDonnell is excited about the change.

“It’s gotten to the point where I can’t go out to eat with my family on a Friday night because of the drunken students,” he said. “Now I have full confidence that we’ll be comfortable walking up and down High Street on a Post-Thursday night.”

Miami University has applauded the decision and, in a statement released from the Office of the President, has called the measure “an important step toward eliminating alcohol consumption by col-lege students.” The statement went on to say although reducing un-derage drinking is the immediate goal, “the elimination of Friday and Saturday from our week is a large step in the right direction toward our eventual goal of a completely sober student body and a completely dry county.”

Not all residents are pleased with this decision, however. An Ox-ford bar owner who requested not to be named called the decision “insulting” to residents.

“We have great traditions in this town, and yet the most creative thing we can come up with are doubling Thursday and Sunday?” he said. “What about Green Beer Day day, or ‘Leaving Your Tab Open Day?’”

The elimination of Friday and Saturday from the week comes on the heels of other measures to curb alcohol abuse that have, accord-ing to some, been proven to be ineffective.

In September, Oxford police began targeting students who were walking within 100 feet of a bar, until realizing that all of Oxford is within 100 feet of a bar.

“I’m just hoping this works,” Taylor said. “The only other thing we can think of is an alcohol-sniffing dog. We brought one into town a few weeks ago, and after about six seconds of sniffing, it had a heart attack and died.”

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EditorAnna Turneramusement@miamistudent.net

Miami University President Da-vid Hodge presented his an-

nual address to the public Thursday, Oct. 7, discussing retention rates and the undergraduate experience. His speech highlighted the main goals of the university and his hopes that Miami continues to expand its global presence through study abroad programs.

The editorial board of The Miami Student considers President Hodge’s speech respectable, but a missed op-portunity to tackle the key issues currently facing the university.

While past a c h i e v e m e n t s are certainly a credit to Miami and should be admired, larger, more pressing is-sues should have been addressed.

Miami is cur-rently confronting serious budget is-sues, Strategic Priorities Task Force recommendations, Greek life regula-tions and housing concerns, but none of these topics were touched. Even if solutions are not available, there could have been some statement by the president acknowledging there are concerns and the administration is doing its best to attend to them.

In addition to ignoring many cru-cial issues, the president’s address focused largely on the standards of the university and the need to better

accommodate struggling students.The editorial board does hope

there will be more focus on men-toring between undergraduates and staff and more beneficial advising to help students stay on track.

However, lowering the standards of the university, as Hodge allud-ed, must not be an option. College should be an opportunity to chal-lenge and prepare students for the future. It is not the university’s obli-gation to hold students’ hands along the way.

The president’s speech seemed to completely miss the mark of what is cur-rently relevant to students, faculty and staff. If the point of the address was to review past a c c o m p l i s h -ments and goals, then the speech

was adequate. However, with the current state

of the budget and the anxiety of the Miami community, a speech only fo-cused on the past is disappointing.

Miami University prides itself on being a place where students can grow and work outside of their com-fort zone. Perhaps President Hodge should have followed this objective and tackled the difficult issues and monumental changes throughout the university.

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Cutting programs flushes education

Currently Miami University is going through a major budget crisis. Apparently we will be facing an economic shortfall of a hundred gazillion dollars, or so that’s the way the Strategic Priorities Task Force (SPT) wants to make it seem. Full disclosure: I have never once been to an SPT meeting, I haven’t researched any of the potential costs of my plan to save Miami that hundred gazillion dollars and I honestly have only skimmed The Miami Student’s articles on SPT. But I do know this: my plan is fool proof. A simple question posed to almost every American in the workplace in today’s age is how to do the most efficient work in the quickest time. I have a simple and eloquent solution to not only prepare Miami students for the future workplace, but to save our fair institution big time dollars. This solution lies in how the workplace (in this case, our school) and work setting (classrooms, dorm rooms, et cetera) is run. In today’s economic instability many employers, especially those of small businesses, are looking to cut costs but remain profitable, which seems to be a major problem here at Miami. Many students feel stressed and overworked due to the con-stant evolving need to find money to pay for ever-increasing school fees in a devolutionary economic environment of fewer student jobs available. Now, where can we find a place to be innovative? Well, what is something that regardless of who you are, what classes you take, where you live and what you do, you will utilize. The answer is simple, the toilet.

According to the SPT, Miami will be forced to cut classes (and perhaps majors) if we do not find a way to close the deficit. I have that answer. We must replace every desk in every classroom with a toilet. Think about the money we can save. First, we’re cutting down on our overall utility cost be-cause if a toilet is constantly flushing every-one in said classroom will be pretty upset at the distracting ambient noise and will soon find a way to fix it. Second, we’re cutting down on staff costs. Do you think one of our fine maintenance services will need to spend

a majority of their working hours cleaning up disgusting residence hall restrooms? No, because said restrooms will now be defunct and may be turned into living quarters (simi-lar to how the university is creating beds at the Miami Inn). Imagine the research oppor-tunities we can have. The now defunct paper sciences engineering program could have created the next recyclable two-ply had we adopted this program earlier, which could have brought a thousand gazillion dollars to the campus.

Just think about the overall college experi-ence. It is defined by the everlasting bonds we all create with each other. Sure, these bonds might previously have been seeing your freshman roommate play guitar naked while you try to have a conversation with your mother over Skype. But think of the opportunities now. Think of the bond you will have with Patrick in your calculus 151 class when you see him “upperdecking” his new desk.

Some people have suggested cutting down on athletics. Some have suggested cutting classes or majors. Even some have suggested we scrap the Armstrong Student Center. I think we all know where the true moneysav-ing prowess lies. I pray that the Browns go to the Super Bowl this year, literally and figura-tively, for the sake of Miami and the sake of our educational reputation.

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The Cincinnati Reds who open the postseason Wednesday afternoon at Philly. Go Reds!

The state of Ohio is expecting a $5 billion to $8 billion shortfall

for the biennial budget, which will be decided for the calendar year 2011. Because of this, Ohio pushed one of the state’s 12 budget install-ments to Miami University, cutting its funding.

Approximately one-eighth of the budget cuts made in Ohio this year were for higher education. Fund-ing for Miami from the state has decreased dra-matically over the past 10 years — in 2001 the school re-ceived $72 million. In 2010, it will be $62 million.

The editorial board of The Miami Student recognizes the budget cri-sis for Miami University is directly linked with Ohio’s lack of funds. The board encourages the entire Miami community to not put all of the blame and anger on the Board of Regents and the administration for the severe cuts the Strategic Priori-ties Task Force (SPT) has proposed. Students, staff and faculty must re-member most of these budgetary problems come from the economic crisis of the entire state.

The board encourages all mem-bers of the Miami community to channel any feelings of anger and helpless frustration into constructive action. The most important thing is to be educated about the proposed

budget cuts and the economy in the state of Ohio. There are many ways to gain knowledge about the proposed fu-ture of Miami, in-cluding attending the SPT forums and paying at-tention to Miami news. The Nov. 2 elections for the House of Repre-sentatives, gover-nor and the United States Senate are

very important elections that will impact the economic future of Mi-ami University. The board recom-mends everyone, especially students who live out of state, to vote in the upcoming elections.

The best way to help counteract a budget crisis is to take small steps to learn more about the problem. The more the Miami community is in-volved in the SPT and the upcoming elections, the more progress we will be able to make on dealing with and solving Miami’s budget problem.

Fight frustration with action

The board encourages the entire Miami

community to not put all of the blame and anger on the Board of Regents and the administration for the severe cuts the Strategic Priorities

Task Force has proposed.

Lowering the standards of the university, as

Hodge alluded, must not be an option. College

should be an opportunity to challenge and prepare students for the future.

www.miamistudent.net

As of today, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, Amuse-ment will no longer be part of Miami Uni-versity’s student media. The blame can be placed on a small faction of the Miami com-munity that failed to realize the importance of humor and satire in the media.

There are several ways to deliver news, and one of the most popular and success-ful forums is that of humor and satire. Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and The Onion are all upstanding examples of how current events and relevant topics can be delivered to the public in a non-traditional manner. Amusement hoped to replicate that manner, but it has become evident that Miami does not endorse a diverse media environment.

On a college campus, it is vital that stu-dents receive information in ways other than the typical facts, facts, facts layout of standard journalism. The other sections of The Miami Student do a wonderful job of relaying information to the student body in the inverted pyramid, the most common journalism technique. It is up to Amusement to relay information in a unique, fresh and entertaining way.

Amusement has had its shortfalls in the past, but in this scenario, the villains are those taking away the only alternative press Miami has, not those creating the

alternative press. You are robbing your fellow students and faculty of a multi-faceted student media, while at the same time promoting a suffocating culture of po-litical correctness that binds creativity and social discussion.

Student writers who wish to explore dif-ferent forms of journalism turn to Amuse-ment as an outlet for their (sometimes unorthodox) work. This outlet no longer exists. Where can these student writers per-fect their craft? How can they spread their ideas? Who will hear their voice?

It is not just the Amusement staff that is suffering. Readers of this section, the ones that can appreciate a joke or a different point of view, will turn to other sources of entertainment that are not produced by their peers. This is a shame. If Miami has the ca-pability to produce entertainment that the student population community can enjoy, then that capability should be nurtured. In-stead, it is being vanquished.

This speaks volumes about Miami University.

It says that Miami is not a typical col-lege campus where light-heartedness and

humor (especially quirky, twisted humor) are embraced. It says that Miami is not wel-coming to all forms of creativity. It says that Miami is not a healthy environment for aspiring writers, especially journalism students seeking to have an original voice in their work. It says that Miami is not the liberal arts institution it claims to be in that there is no room for a liberal form of art like creative writing.

It is frustrating and saddening that an academic institution does not recognize the importance of alternative journalism, of hu-mor, of unique outlooks and of the student voice. What sort of undergraduate univer-sity are we if the undergraduates are con-demned from expressing themselves?

If Miami hopes to continue its long his-tory of outstanding education, the univer-sity should re-evaluate how it is treating its students.

Thank you to all those who have sup-ported Amusement throughout the years. I hope that future Miami generations have the common sense to once again embrace alternative press, and maybe have a laugh or two.

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culture change

➤ THE CHRONICLES OF CURIOSITY

➤ ESSAY

Oxford and ‘real world’ mentalities clash Walking past a table with

unattended purses, jackets or backpacks is not an uncommon thing at Miami University.

While I am just as guilty as anyone, it still strikes me that we are so comfortable with leaving our (sometimes prized) possessions unattended. A friend described it as an unwrit-ten rule: if someone stole your backpack, you would be upset, so why make someone else feel that way?

This friend also happens to have lived in China, Nigeria and Belgium, where he insist-ed someone’s things would be stolen within minutes of it be-ing unwatched in any of those places. This makes me wonder, why do we feel so safe? Why are we so surprised when some-one’s laptop actually does get stolen out of an unlocked resi-dence hall room? Should we be more careful?

Growing up in the New York City area, I was always taught to be mindful of where all my be-longings were at all times.

If I was riding the subway in Manhattan or taking the above-ground train to high school, my bag was on my shoulder or in my lap. As a first-year at Miami, I carried these teachings with me, not wanting to leave my

bag on my chair in King Library when I went to the cafe or leave my room open when I ran to the bathroom. Call it paranoia or call it safety, but I haven’t had anything stolen during my time at Miami.

That being said, the seeming-ly safe atmosphere here at Mi-ami broke down my conventions somewhat. My first-year class, 2007-08, had the highest rate of burglaries and robberies among the four years (2006-10) reported in the Campus Crime Alert archives.

Even after that, my close friends and I de-veloped the mentality that “it couldn’t happen to me.” Our window in our house sopho-more year did not ever close, but it was okay because we lived far from campus and our doors were always locked.

No crimes were reported from King or Shriver, so it was okay to leave our laptops and iPods out on the table while we left to get another coffee. Even with the notifications from the Campus Crime Alert system,

it seems other Miamians ad-here to this mentality too — from unattended belongings at King or Shriver to unlocked room doors.

Unfortunately, I believe it was the development of this mentality that led to my careless mistake in March. I am infatu-

ated with travel-ing and seeing the world, so I jumped at the opportunity to go to Brussels, Belgium for spring break to stay with a good friend while she was studying abroad. I was traveling on a student budget,

so I obviously took every price shortcut possible.

I flew into Heathrow Airport in London and took a train into Brussels. At the end of the trip, I was waiting for my train at Brussels-Midi train station, me and my friend saying our good-byes, when a man came up and asked us for directions.

He seemed pretty sketchy, so I quickly turned away from him and back to my friend. In doing so, I lost sight of my lug-gage that was standing right

next to me. The next thing I knew, I heard the faint brush of two fabrics against one another. I looked back, and my purse was gone.

My purse that had my pass-port, money, driver’s license and keys to my house in Oxford was gone, and I was stuck in Belgium for two extra days be-fore everything was sorted out.

It no longer “couldn’t hap-pen to me.” It did happen to me. Of course, I was not in Oxford when it happened, but I was still operating under the “unwritten rule” mentality. We often com-ment on the “Oxford bubble” and how everything within it seems to exist independent of the world outside. As students who are in college to learn and to prepare for the “real world,” we need to realize all things are not as safe as they are in Oxford.

Appreciate this relatively safe bubble, but keep your guard up. Remember when you travel outside of Oxford not everyone is a student in the same finan-cial boat you are, and they are not necessarily abiders of the unwritten rule.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010 ♦ 7

Mary HallingHallinMl@MuoHio.edu

In case you didn’t see, this week the Nobel Prize winners have been announced across categories. The Nobel Prize is awarded for achievements in chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine and literature and physics. It has been given out every year since 1901.

This year, the winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics were two Russian scientists named Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov.

What did these two guys do? They made discov-eries in a super-thin and super-strong carbon called “graphene.” The mate-rial is only one atom thick and is nearly 100 times stronger than steel. That, in and of itself, is amazing. Just think about the possibilities of a material that is virtually two dimensional and stronger than any other material on earth. What might shock you more is how the two discovered the material. They were examining Scotch tape.

That’s right everyone, you can win the No-bel Prize in physics with simple materials such as Scotch tape! Okay, maybe I’m being a little

facetious. My point is that great things come from everyday people and materials. With this new material so many advances in technology can be created.

Many people are talking about how this could be the new plastic, and just look at how plastic revolutionized the world. Again, this all came about because two scientists de-cided to use very humble methods to peel back little layers of graphite to isolate the atoms and experiment with the materials.

Apparently once the ma-terial is developed, it will more or less replace silicon chips in computers due to

the fact that it will be an even better conductor of signals.

Now, I’m no physicist, but that is incredible. I don’t quite understand how the material only an atom thick could be so incredibly strong, but I do know that that kind of material could revolutionize the way we consume, the way we build or even the way we protect people.

It is also very encouraging for young sci-entists to know that sometimes even the

simplest of materials can revolutionize the world. It takes these kinds of ideas to move our world forward and it is absolutely in-credible people just keep making incredible discoveries everyday.

This gives hope for all young kids who want to be doctors, physicists, inventors, chemists, et cetera. It reminds us all that answers are all around us when we address the problems we face everyday. The discovery made using the same tape we use to repair torn paper will fas-cinate young scientists everywhere and hope-fully help all of them to start thinking outside the box.

The Nobel Prize continues to honor those who make incredible strides in their fields and shows that despite everything going on in our world, there are still so many people who are committed to making it a better place everyday.

It is hard to imagine there is a light at the end of the tunnel sometimes when one watches the news, but these news stories show there is a light burning brightly all around us in all cor-ners of the world. We all just need to open our eyes and see it.

CHris deniColadeniCoCj@MuoHio.edu

Simple materials can revolutionize the world➤ ESSAY

No crimes were reported from King or Shriver, so it was

okay to leave our laptops and iPods out on the table

while we left to get another coffee.

It is also very encouraging for

young scientists to know that sometimes

even the simplest of materials

can revolutionize the world.

For those like myself who have planned to pursue a career in journalism but have dauntingly watched the recession bring

down the print industry along with its job of-ferings, I have finally found the solution to our unemployment after graduation — marijuana.

The recent loosen-ing of federal regula-tions under Obama’s administration have pushed the issue of le-

galizing marijuana into the mainstream, creating a side effect that came out of the left wing (no pun intended) — a substan-tial increase in ad sales for alternative pa-pers and even some mainstream dailies, as medical marijuana businesses such as Happy Buddah and High Mikes attempt to coax patients into buying their brands.

Advertisements in Colorado Springs hit the streets last week in publications such as ReLeaf, a pullout supplement to The Colorado Springs Independent, and was solely devoted to advertising medi-cal marijuana. Forty-eight pages in all, the magazine was stuffed with advertise-ments that cost businesses $1,100 per page, making the publication a cash cow for The Independent. The bounty from the ads this year was used to hire one new re-porter and promote three staff members to full-time. The Independent also thought it would be beneficial to give its columnist of CannaBiz, a column that follows news from across the country, his own beat on marijuana.

Coming from a society that has built marijuana into a taboo, it seems excep-tionally obscure to have such an increase in marijuana demands. One must under-stand the ABC’s of advertising for print. The cheaper or more audience-specific the reading is, the more likely a publica-tion is to receive advertisements because the advertiser knows the publication will be read. Once the publication increases its price and fails to relate to its audience, advertisers flee. These two components to advertising deliberately underscore the reason for this rise. In states like Colorado, California and Montana where use of the drug for health purposes is le-gal, newspapers, particularly alternative weeklies, have rushed to woo marijuana providers because the state’s interest is heavily involved in the use of marijuana. The marijuana industry is flushed with cash and eager to spend it on ads now that Obama’s administration said last fall it would not prosecute users and suppliers of the drug. They would be safe as long as they complied with state laws, according to The New York Times.

There are exceptions since magazine ads can’t always portray audience inter-ests due to government regulations. The Times banned tobacco cigarette ads from its pages in 1999, and since then tobacco companies have “kissed away” the chance to ever advertise on radio, television and in print again. How is marijuana any bet-ter than cigarettes and what does this say about the ethics of newspaper and maga-zines during this recession day and age?

After reading a quote in The New York Times regarding marijuana adver-tisements from Matt Gibbs, The Inde-pendent’s president, it became clear that newspapers like The Independent are feeding off of America’s underground obsession with marijuana and predicting to make a large amount of revenue once more states become legalized. When commenting on marijuana businesses, Gibbs said, “It’s been stressful for us for several years … There’s no question that they’ve been good for our business and we’re worried about 2011 when the state revises the statute, which it appears is all but certain.”

Economic issues are now tapping into cultural ideologies we find taboo. News-papers seem to be on their last leg as they desperately turn to marijuana to pull them out of the recession. Since American citi-zens can still go to jail, suffer from addic-tion and get caught up in violence due to drugs, it is interesting how newspapers disregard these realities to solely make a buck.

As an aspiring journalist, I can’t com-plain about the new job opportunities that will arise from this market. I can, how-ever, shed light upon how the printing industry’s struggle will create a cultural change, a change that will soon accept marijuana into society with open arms.

ChloeEsposito

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THE MIAMI STUDENT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010 ♦ 9

By Hannah R. Miller Staff Writer

After the exhibition turned of-fensive barrage against Water-loo Oct. 3, the Miami Univer-sity hockey team is ready for the regular season to begin.

The No. 3 RedHawks will face off against the No. 10 University of New Hampshire Wildcats Oct. 8 and 9 in their first series of the 2010-11 season.

With a week of practice in the books, the ’Hawks are mentally and physically prepared to take on the Wildcats at Goggin Ice Center in the first contest between the two teams since October 2009. Last season, the RedHawks and Wild-cats clashed in Durham, N.H., with the ’Hawks winning the first game 6-3 and tying the second at five.

Head Coach Enrico Blasi is expecting to see high-level hockey from both sides in the weekend series.

“These are two top teams,” Blasi said. “It’s going to be hard fought, a lot of speed, some good players on both sides, good goaltending. And I know one thing, they’re very well coached and they’re going to be ready to come.”

The Wildcat team finished its season 18-14-7 last year, grabbing its third league regular season title in the last four years.

Defenseman Will Weber noted the speed of the Wildcats and the depth of the roster.

“They’re good, their goalies are good, so it’s going to be a battle this weekend,” Weber said. “We’re go-ing to have to definitely play our A-game if we’re going to have a shot at beating them, so it’ll be a good series.”

These games are crucial for the

’Hawks even though the Wildcats are non-conference opponents. Senior captain Carter Camper said getting off to a strong start in the first period is going to be key.

“These first two weekends are non-conference, so those games always mean a lot,” Camper said. “Having them at the beginning of the season against these teams at the top can really take you some-where in April, so all these games at the beginning are important.”

The RedHawks have lost five players heading into the 2010-11 season, including the top two goal scorers from a year ago, Tom-my Wingels and Jarod Palmer. Camper is not worried about of-fensive production this season,

believing in the depth of the RedHawk roster.

“Our strength has always been that we’ve been well-balanced and it’s the same thing this year,” Camper said. “We have plenty of guys returning to contribute, and the guys that play on the third line are well capable of coming in and producing. Personally, I think we’re going to be stronger this year.”

The forwards had the chance to loosen up and find the back of the net in Sunday’s exhibition, but the de-fense went somewhat untested. We-ber said the defensemen are in good shape and ready to shut down the Wildcat offense.

“We’re a hard-nosed defensive team, so we’re just going to have

to stick to the things we’re good at and not try to do too much,” Weber said.

The Brotherhood is looking for-ward to the weekend, ready to get back into game action.

“Waterloo’s an exhibition game, and now we’re playing for real,” Blasi said. “We know the caliber of UNH — we’ve played them last year obviously and in the NCAA tournament. We’re going to be ready, it’s going to be exciting, the place will be jam-packed and it’ll be a fun weekend.”

Prior to Friday’s game, Miami will hang the 2009-10 CCHA Championship banner. Game time is 7:35 p.m. Friday and 7:05 p.m. Saturday.

HOCKEY NEXT HOME GAME: 7:35 p.m. Friday, vs. New Hampshire

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Senior Andy Miele edges past a Waterloo defender Oct. 3.MICHAEL GRIGGS The Miami Student

RedHawks start season against Wildcats

By JM RiegerStaff Writer

After winning three of the last four games, the Miami University football team will now focus its at-tention on the University of Cincin-nati in the 115th annual Battle for the Victory Bell.

The RedHawks have not won this ri-valry game since 2005, but players and coaches are already motivated for Satur-day’s matchup.

“It is definitely one of our goals (every season) to beat (Cincinnati),” redshirt junior safety Anthony Kokal said. “It is tough when you don’t win, but this game is so ingrained in our culture. We see pictures of guys ring-ing the Bell and if we could beat them that would be huge for our goals for the season.”

Defense and special teams will be key for the Red and White, as they will face some very dynamic and quick players, including redshirt junior quar-terback Zach Collaros, who is second on the team in rushing yards and junior wide receiver D.J. Woods, who leads the team in receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns.

Cincinnati is a run first team, so Mi-ami must prepare for a balanced attack. On the season, the RedHawks are 24 in rushing defense, allowing just over 105 yards per game, but each of the last two games they have allowed opponents to rack up a combined 368 yards on the ground. Stopping the run will be key for Miami, and if they get back to play-ing the way they played during their first three games, they can turn Cincin-nati into a one-dimensional football team. Freshman cornerback Dayonne Nunley stressed the importance of playing well this week.

“We just have to play fast and play physical and play smart,” Nunley said. “I never knew how big this rivalry was until guys were all serious about it this week. We need to go get this Bell back.”

Nunley is tied for the team lead with two interceptions and is fifth in tackles with 23 on the season.

Kokal has also stepped in nicely at safety, especially in light of the in-jury to senior safety Jordan Gafford, and has racked up 19 tackles on the year to go with an interception and a forced fumble.

“Kokal is getting a lot better,” Head Coach Michael Haywood said. “(Nun-ley) has done an unbelievable job as a true freshman. He is an outstanding football player and he doesn’t lose his confidence. He has short-term memo-ry loss, which is a good thing (on the football field).”

Meanwhile, the passing game has led the way for the RedHawks’ offense. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Zac Dysert has thrown for 1,058 yards and five touchdowns in his first five games, completing 67 percent of his passes. The passing game will have to step up again for the Red and White, as they face a Bearcat defense that is 14 in the nation against the run but is 109 in defending the pass.

Miami has suffered a lot of injuries, both on offense and on defense. On de-fense, Gafford is expected to miss a few more weeks because of a concussion, redshirt junior linebacker Ryan Kennedy is expected to miss three to four weeks due to an MCL injury and redshirt sopho-more linebacker Luke Kelly is probable for Saturday’s game at Cincinnati with a shoulder injury. Kennedy will begin a re-hab assignment and could be back within the next few weeks if the assignment goes well.

On offense, redshirt junior wide receiver Chris Givens is questionable for Saturday after suffering an ankle sprain in the second half against Kent State University. Redshirt junior offensive lineman Brandon Brooks is question-able and redshirt sophomore left tackle Matt Kennedy is expected to miss one to two weeks with an ankle sprain, but is still listed as questionable for Saturday’s game.

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. Fans can listen to the game on Miami’s ISP Sports Network or on WMSR at redhawkradio.com.

’Hawks prepare to take back Victory Bell

Quarterback Zac Dysert prepares to pass Oct. 2.MICHAEL GRIGGS The Miami Student

FOOTBALL

Embarrassing moments are a nor-mal part of human life, something

to which everyone can relate. Tripping over a crack on the sidewalk, drop-ping books on the way to a class and passing gas in public would be enough to turn some cheeks red, but imagine having your embarrassing moment broadcast on national television in front of millions of people. Here are some moments the pros might want to have back.

Steve Smith of the 1986 Edmonton Oilers had one of those moments on his 23rd birthday. In game seven of the division final against the Calgary Flames, the game was tied 2-2 with 15 minutes left in the third period. Enter Smith. He corralled the puck behind his own net and tried to pass the puck up ice to a teammate. However, he failed to comprehend the goalie was a solid object and the puck ricocheted off the goalie’s skate and into the net. The Oilers lost, and the Flames went on to win the Stanley Cup. Bummer.

Steve Lyons of the 1990 Chicago White Sox dropped his pants in front of 14,000 fans in Detroit after sliding head first into first base. He was shak-ing the dirt out of his uniform when he quickly snatched up his pants after realizing his mistake. Unfortunately, he would not be able to shake off years worth of mooning jokes that followed.

For Bill Buckner’s sake, I won’t re-count for the 10 millionth time how he let a routine ground ball go through his legs, which cost the Boston Red Sox a World Series win. It’s just unneces-sary. However, I don’t feel bad about Jose Canseco’s hard head. As Canseco approached the warning track to catch what appeared to be a routine fly ball, he began to stumble. As he looked down to regain footing, the ball bounced off his head and over the fence for a home run. He then tried to play it off like it bounced of his mitt, but instant replay doesn’t lie.

Then there is Leon Lett. A defensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys, Lett had one of the most infamous blunders ever in Super Bowl XXVII against the Buffalo Bills. In the fourth quarter, the Cowboys were blowing out the Bills when Lett recovered a fumble and was headed for another touchdown. Near the 10 yard line, Lett slowed down and watched himself running toward the endzone with his arms fully extended on the jumbotron. What he did not see was the Buffalo defender who was in hot pursuit. The defender caught up and knocked the ball out of Lett’s hand at the two yard line, which flew out of the endzone for a touchback. That would be the equivalent of winning the lottery and on your way to redeem the ticket, you tripped and dropped it into a paper shredder in front of millions of your friends. Oh Leon.

So what, you fell down a couple steps in King Library and everybody laughed, big deal. Just think to your-self, “Hey, at least I’m not a Lions fan.” And if you are, keep your chin up. Fifty-three years of rebuilding will pay off eventually.

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