REBECCA HUFFSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University Board of Trustees has named a Presidential Search Committee and hired an executive search firm to lead the charge in identifying a replacement for President David Hodge.

In an email to all members of the Miami community, David Budig, chair of the board and member of the Search Committee, introduced

Isaacson, Miller as the profes-sional search firm working with the university.

“Isaacson, Miller brings more than 30 years of experience assisting in the search for presidents and se-nior administrative leaders,” Budig said in the email. “Miami University has worked with Isaacson, Miller in the past for several key searches, each with exceptional results.”

According to the contract between Isaacson, Miller and the university, Miami is paying the firm $150,000 for its services.

“The fee is quite consistent with similar executive search firms,” said Ted Pickerill, secretary of the Board of Trustees. “This decision is so vi-tally important that for universities of Miami’s size and reputation, it is the standard practice to engage a professional search firm to assist in this process.”

Isaacson, Miller launched their search Monday, Aug. 24, and will begin their open forums Tuesday, Aug. 25 to hear the community’s in-put on qualities they expect from the future president.

“The Trustees are committed to being inclusive in the process of choosing a successor to President Hodge, and to involve the commu-nity in determining the qualities and attributes needed for the next presi-dent,” said Budig.

Budig will appoint the remain-ing members of the Search Com-mittee, but their names have not been disclosed.

The complete Search Committee will include one additional member of the Board of Trustees, chair of the Miami University Foundation board, three faculty members (one from a regional campus), one un-dergraduate student, one senior ad-ministrative staffer and one alumni representative.

Isaacson, Miller has set up a presidential survey and a nomina-tion form on the presidential search website. The website provides in-formation on the upcoming public forums and the Presidential Search Committee.

“Isaacson, Miller understands Miami University and our values,” Pickerell said. “They are very ex-perienced, and we are confident that they will assist Miami in iden-tifying an exceptional leader.”

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a national organization devoted to improving the academic envi-ronment for students and faculty in higher education, has already

crafted a list of expectations for the new president, said Karen Dawisha, co-president of the new-ly formed Miami chapter.

“We want a president who is committed to transparency, who is committed to shared government,” Dawisha said. “We want to read-dress the imbalance.”

Dawisha said one of their top priorities is to increase the money set aside for student scholarships.

“We’re having all these beauti-ful buildings built but increasing students costs,” she said. “The more debt students have to incur to go to college, the fewer needy students are able to come to col-lege. We’re squeezing out a whole socioeconomic strata.”

She said the AAUP wants to do more than discuss the qualities for the next president — they want to see and communicate with the fi-nal selection of candidates before the decision is made.

“What we need to do is increase our role in vocalizing what we think our shared values are, so the Board of Trustees takes this into consideration when they’re hiring somebody,” Dawisha said.

In his email, Budig welcomed input and participation from stu-dents, faculty and others in the Miami community as the Presi-dentia Search Committee and Isaacson, Miller carry out the presidential search.

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From Austria to Iceland, students share pictures of their various adventures abroad and away this summer.

In 1950, The Miami Student reported that freshmen were no longer allowed to paint the Oxford water tower, which had become a trandition among new students. Because of the dangers involved, students would be fined $100 if they violated the new rule.

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Students have moved into Swing Hall after the completion of building repairs that followed a fire in June. The fire, whose cause is still under investigation by the state, had left the building’s roof partially collapsed in the hall’s north wing.

Claire Wagner, communications director, said Miami began restora-tions on the hall immediately follow-

ing the incident.“Architects, engineers and a con-

struction manager worked to deter-mine how to repair the roof, reme-diate the smoke and water damage, and repair and restore the building to its full function,” Wagner said.

The Oxford Fire Department was able to quickly quell the flames and contacted Ross Township, Fairfield and Oxford Township for additional help since the summer temperatures had posed a safety concern for thos-

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Next semester, Miamians won’t need to make the pilgrimage Up-town to get their Starbucks Cof-fee fix. A fully licensed Starbucks will open at Maplestreet Station in January 2016.

This will be the first-ever chain located on campus.

In the past, Miami has created replicas of popular restaurants in lieu of having the chain itself on campus — Armstrong’s Serrano mirrors Chipotle and its Boulangerie closely resembles Panera Bread.

Replacing Patisserie with Star-bucks will give students more choic-es, said Jon Brubacher, director of procurement and food purchasing for Miami Dining.

“Having a licensed Starbucks store on campus will allow us to of-fer products such as breakfast sand-wiches and other Starbucks-branded items that we were unable to offer in the past,” Brubacher said.

The store is expected to open in

January and will offer the full Star-bucks menu. Miami campus em-ployees must also go through Star-bucks professional training to work at the location.

Associate Vice President of Aux-iliaries Kim Kinsel said adding a chain restaurant is one step in the gradual changes coming to Miami Dining and comes as a response to a campus-wide survey.

“Miami University began to ex-pand their offerings for a la carte items and retail dining options a few years ago,” she said. “Considering a national brand was a logical next step and the survey confirmed the large interest.”

Last spring, a dining survey asked 2,000 students about the pos-sibility of brining a national brand to campus. Starbucks was the students’ top choice.

Brubacher said Starbucks is a strong chain restaurant to bring to campus because it fulfills the goals of Miami’s Dining Services.

“Miami historically has been very selective with the brands and vari-eties of products we offer on cam-pus,” Brubacher said. “Starbucks

is a globally recognized company, with proven standards in quality and value, which closely mirror our standards, and has also been the one chain that has been requested far more than all other chains in student surveys.”

Sophomore Brie Moore said she is excited that Miami will have a chain brand on campus.

“Brewing Starbucks coffee in one of the a la carte dining options does not equal a Starbucks drink,” Moore said. “I think it is the best of both worlds for both Miami to attract incoming students with the luxury of an on-campus Starbucks, and Starbucks being closer to their core consumers around the Oxford area.”

Kinsel said she has heard many reactions like Moore’s on campus as word quickly spreads. As the change draws more positive responses, Kin-sel predicts this is only the begin-ning of bringing chain restaurants to campus.

“With the intent of enhancing the student experience on campus, we believe the students will enjoy the new Starbucks,” Kinsel said. “We are excited to offer this new service.”

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The Welcome Back Walkabout volunteers greeted students by go-ing from door to door with cookies, smiles and brochures.

This is part of an effort to make students more aware of the broader Oxford community, in hopes of im-proving their behavior, according to the city’s website.

Volunteers included community members, Miami faculty, staff and students and they visited numerous off-campus student residences Sun-day and Monday.

They talked with students about Oxford city ordinances, local servic-es and community expectations of responsible and respectful behavior.

Packets of information were given to the residence of student houses. Students received helpful tips about fire and safety prevention, property maintenance and parking in Oxford.

Junior Mandy Sollenberger said she and her housemates benefitted from the walkabout.

“[The volunteers] were really nice, and they gave us a lot of information we didn’t know,” said Sollenberger. “We had no idea that we could only park on the street for 72 hours.”

Volunteers also stressed the impor-tance of locking doors at night.

Ben Wright, capacity building co-ordinator, said Oxford had a total of 102 burglaries in Oxford last school year. They hope the Walkabout will help bring the number down in coming years.

Other material included a 2015 Miami football schedule, a BCRTA route schedule, university and local emergency information and a list of Oxford Community Arts Center up-coming events.

The program is a partnership be-tween the Campus Outreach Office, Office of Student Wellness, City of Oxford, Oxford Visitors Bureau and the Chamber of Commerce.

Bobbe Burke, coordinator of off-campus affairs and Miami tribal re-lations, was in charge of beginning Walkabout in 2002. She wanted to build a stronger connection between the community and university stu-dents, Wright said.

The coordinators at the event said they try to partner one com-munity member with one student, so the groups are as diverse as pos-sible. The teams do not visit any apartment complexes.

Steve Dana, a member of the Oxford community, volunteered this year.

“I do feel the walkabout helps,” said Dana. “It definitely brings to-gether community members, faculty, Miami staff and Miami students. That’s a good thing because we want there to be a feeling that we are all connected.”

Dana said he enjoys the event because he likes the mutual rec-ognition between community members and students.

BONNIE MEIBERSSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Office of Student Activities, along with the Division of Student Affairs, will work together this year to host Late Night Miami, a series of free weekend events for students.

These programs were created to curb underage drinking on cam-pus and provide students alterna-tive activities during weekend nights on campus.

“I think this a need that the cam-pus has had for a while now,” said Tiffany Seaman, assistant director of the Office of Student Activities.

These events will be held Thurs-day, Friday or Saturday nights, as those are the nights students are more inclined to go out, according to the Miami University 2015 Alcohol Task Force Report.

The Alcohol Task Force report, published in February 2015, found the number of underage students who drink is significantly higher

at Miami than at other institutions around the nation.

Late Night Miami is a way to target risky behavior and turn it into something positive by pro-viding low-risk activities for stu-dents of all ages, like going to a movie screening.

These events also give students who do not wish to or can’t go out in Uptown Oxford alternatives on cam-pus. All Late Night Miami events and individual residence hall events are free and open to all.

Some Late Night Miami pro-grams will include a casino night, block parties, free concerts and cof-fee house performances in the Arm-strong Student Center, including a performance by Ella Mae Bowen, who sings “Holding Out for a Hero” for the 2011 version of Footloose.

Some residence hall staff are host-ing events like self-defense classes, preparation for career fair and a tal-ent show.

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In two small rooms above the former location of Bill’s Art Store on High Street, an integral part of Miami history and Greek history lives on due to the work of Sigma Chi fraternity.

Rob Hornback, a Miami alum-nus and member of the Sigma Chi class of 1992, is proud of the museum his fraternity has maintained.

“The Greek system has had its share of problems,” Hornback said. “But it all kind of started here.”

Oxford, Ohio is home to nu-merous Alpha chapters of Greek organizations, mainly fraterni-ties. An Alpha chapter refers to the founding fraternity or sorority chapter of a Greek organization.

This strong Greek tradition has led Miami to earn the moniker, “Mother of Fraternities,” espe-cially in reference to the so-called “Miami Triad:” Sigma Chi, Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta.

These Greek organizations, along with Phi Kappa Tau and sorority Delta Zeta, were founded here and later spread throughout North America.

The small museum holds nu-merous artifacts and forgotten stories that define Miami’s and Sigma Chi’s place in collegiate and Greek history.

The charter for the fraternity,

a document that celebrated its 160th anniversary this summer, sits beneath protective glass. Nearby is a weathered com-mencement program from 1856.

Bits of Oxford’s past are all around as well: an old map of Uptown and yellowed photo-graphs of High Street over 100 years old.

One display case houses a letter from the university to Sigma Chi founder Benjamin Piatt Runkle, expelling him for two months for engaging in a “personal contest” with a rival fraternity member.

Runkle lived in that very apartment with fellow founder James Parks Caldwell during his time at Miami. Their bedroom has since been restored to its previous appearance.

Although the museum is not open regularly to the public, the fraternity is working to make it more available. An opening will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 19.

As of now, it primarily serves as a destination for other Sigma Chi chapter members to visit and learn about the fraternity’s his-tory. A sign-in book shows the names of brothers from universi-ties across the nation.

“We get a lot of visits from other Sigma Chi chapters,” Horn-back said. “Kentucky, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh. They all come here.”

The fraternity also has a larg-er museum at their national head-

quarters in Evanston, Indiana. That museum is more focused on the fraternity itself, rather than its founding and association with Oxford.

Sigma Chi is currently listed as an unrecognized organization by the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. The chapter was removed in 2012 for undisclosed reasons, although news reports at the time cited hazing, alcohol abuse and prior misconduct to be the cause of their demise.

The Alpha chapter of Sigma Chi will return to campus in spring 2016, according to Sigma Chi nationals and Interfraternity Council President Zach Scheid.

“Sigma Chi will be back on campus and recruiting next se-mester,” Scheid said. “The four-year removal ensured that there were no actives remaining on campus. It’s the best way to re-build a culture.”

Michael Church, executive director of Sigma Chi fraternity, is enthusiastic about the future of the Alpha chapter.

“We’ve been working closely with the Greek life office, and the university has been great,” Church said. “We’re excited to create a new standard for the Greek community.”

While Sigma Chi works to re-turn to their place in the Miami Greek population, its role in Mi-ami’s history remains enshrined in a museum on High Street.

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The two-room museum above the former location of Bill’s Art Store on High Street contains numerous Miami and Sigma Chi artifacts. Sigma Chi fraternity was founded at Miami in 1855, but the university does not currently recognize the chapter.

KRISTA SAVAGENEWS EDITOR

Former Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose will visit campus this year as part of the 2015-16 Lecture Series. The discussion will be set up as a Q&A, and sports columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, Paul Daugherty, will lead it. It will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21 in Hall Audi-torium.

The discussion is titled, “Winning is Everything: The Hit King talks Ethics in Sports.” It will focus on Rose’s time in the game, how he be-came a role model and the impact of his downfall: gambling on baseball.

“This is a big year for Pete,” said Patricia Newberry, a member of the Lecture Series committee and journalism professor. “He was hon-ored in the All-Star game, which was a very moving and emotional time for Cincinnati.”

Rose spent 20 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) and it was during that time he rose to the top. In fact, most fans know Rose for his 4,256 career hits — a record that has not yet been matched. Among his achievements, he is second all time in regular season doubles, first in regular season singles and first in regular season games played.

During his career as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, Rose was ques-tioned for gambling on the game.

After denying the allegations, evi-dence proved he was guilty, resulting in his permanent banishment from baseball and his chances of being in-ducted into the Hall of Fame.

He has applied for reinstatement many times, but has been denied. However, this year brings a new sense of hope with the arrival of MLB’s 10th commissioner, Robert Manfred Jr.

Rose’s visit to Miami has sparked the interest of students and faculty in Oxford.

“I’m excited because I think this is going to fill the auditorium. There is a large contention of Cincinnati kids on campus who probably grew up gong to Reds games and who feel that Pete Rose should be let in to the Hall of Fame,” Newberry said. “The committee chose him for this reason. We want to bring in people that cov-er the current topics.”

The mission of Lecture Series is to bring in someone who can offer learning from their life experiences.

“I think students, especially stu-dent-athletes, can learn a lot from Pete Rose,” said sophomore Emma Jacky. “Even on major league scales we can take something away from athletes’ life experiences. They have a lot of pressure on them from the media and fans, so it’s important that they make wise decisions.”

During the discussion, Daugherty

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Tuition for Miami’s in-state students will not increase for the 2015-2016 school year due to an anticipated increase in state fund-ing to the university. This decision was confirmed by the Board of Trustees at their meeting June 26.

Out-of-state students will now pay $30,233 for tuition at the Oxford campus, a 2 percent in-crease from the 2014-2015 tu-ition rate, while in-state students will continue to pay $13,533 for tuition and fees.

For the 2014-2015 school year, the university implemented a 2 percent increase for both in-state and out-of-state students. The pre-vious year, tuition was raised by 1.5 percent for all students and the year before that, a 3.5 percent increase was implemented for in-state and out-of-state students.

“We are very grateful for the support of the legislature and the governor for higher educa-tion,” said Miami president David Hodge. “The state provided addi-tional funds to make up the rev-enue lost by freezing tuition, thus making college accessible to Ohio students while allowing us to in-vest in quality outcomes.”

According to the College Af-fordability and Transparency Cen-ter, Miami’s net price, the average amount a student pays to attend the university for a year after subtract-ing scholarships and grants, ranks highest in the nation among four-year public universities at $24, 247. This figure includes room and board costs as well as estimated travel costs.

However, for in-state tuition alone, Miami ranks 19th among the country’s most expensive four-year public institutions.

Claire Wagner, director of Uni-versity News and Communica-tions, said, although it may cost more than other public universi-ties, investing in a Miami educa-tion pays off.

“Miami is known nationally as a ‘best value’ in higher education because of our dedicated faculty, active learning environment, nu-merous opportunities for involve-ment and for having one of the best graduation rates among national public universities,” said Wagner.

Miami was ranked 55 on Kip-linger’s “100 Best Values in Pub-lic Colleges” for 2015 which takes into account competitive-ness, graduation rates, academ-ic support, cost and financial aid and student debt.

“Being able to keep in-state tu-ition at the same rate eases costs a bit for students while they know they are receiving a high-quality Miami education,” Wagner said.

More than half of the under-graduate population at Miami’s Oxford campus will benefit from this freeze in tuition as in-state stu-dents, but the number of non-resi-dent undergraduates, whose tuition is more than double that of in-state students, has continued to climb.

According to university admis-sions records, the percentage of out-of-state students at Miami rose from 32.7 percent in 2010 to 43 percent in 2014. The number of applications from domestic out-of-state students has also risen by over 60 percent from 7,010 appli-cations in 2010 to 11,310 in 2014.

Sophomore Haley Hamilton said the news of the tuition freeze came as a relief.

“I’m happy about the freeze con-sidering I’m an in-state student,” Hamilton said. “We have so many out-of-state students, though, who were already paying much more than in-state students, so it feels kind of imbalanced.”

Nationally, from the 2013-2014 term to 2014-2015, average pub-lished tuition and fees for students at four-year public institutions rose 2.9 percent. Data from the College Board indicates that although tu-ition has continued to increase, the rate of increase has slowed.

From 2004 to 2014, the aver-age annual percentage increase in tuition, adjusted for inflation, was

VICTORIA SLATERMANAGING EDITOR

Originally published June 7, 2015

When 21-year-old Aleeha Dud-ley, a former Miami University student who is blind, sued the uni-versity for discrimination in Janu-ary 2014, she had no idea it would become a federal case.

Now the U.S. Department of Justice is intervening in her law-suit, supporting her claims that the university denied her access to the proper tools and equipment she needed to learn, and failed to accommodate disabled students as a whole.

The Justice Department has since concluded that Miami Uni-versity has violated the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act and will proceed to reach a resolution out of court. The case is currently in mediation.

Dudley, a resident of New Par-is, Ohio, said she chose Miami because of its close proximity to home and its navigable campus, and also because the disability of-fice seemed to show a willingness to provide for her and other stu-dents with disabilities.

She enrolled at Miami as zool-ogy major in 2011, and, guided

by her life-long passion for ani-mals and work with horses, she set out to become a veterinarian. But when she arrived on campus and started her classes inside lecture halls crowded with hundreds of students, she said she struggled to keep up.

“I had issues since day one,” said Dudley, who has now withdrawn from Miami. “I just couldn’t learn the same way as my peers without the proper resources.”

To read and write, Dudley uses a screen reader that can read aloud written text or send it to another device that translates it to Braille. According to court documents, Miami provided Dudley with cop-ies of her textbooks that she fed to her screen reader, but the text was incompatible with her device.

In other classes, she was re-quired to access online materi-als through forums like Niihka that were also incompatible with her devices. In addition, she said the Degree Audit Report system (DARs) was also extremely diffi-cult to navigate without the use of a human aide, many of whom she said were incompetent or poorly trained, according to the initial court filing.

After coming to Miami as a scholarship recipient with a 3.6 high school GPA, Dudley said

she began failing classes, jeop-ardizing her chance at becoming a veterinarian.

This prompted her to file a law-suit in the U.S. District Court of Southern Ohio last January, alleg-ing the university discriminated against her because of her disabil-ity. She sought counsel with The Ohio Disability Rights Law and Policy Center, a nonprofit advo-cacy group in Columbus, and re-ceived support from the National Federation of the Blind.

“A person with a disability has every right to be on an equal play-ing field with their peers,” Dudley said. “Denying disabled students access to the tools they need to succeed at the same level as their peers is wrong. We all should be able to compete at the same level, whatever that takes.”

In their court filing, the Depart-ment of Justice cited several other examples to support its case, in-cluding instances when a visually impaired Miami student was re-quired to watch a video with no au-dio descriptions in class, and when a deaf student was given a video to watch with incorrect captioning.

The department demands Mi-ami provide the proper tools dis-abled students need to succeed,

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Originally published Aug. 11, 2015

An extra exclamation point, a deliberate period or misplaced capital letters: all seemingly in-nocuous grammatical tweaks until placed into a common text message.

These ordinary elements of lan-guage have the power to turn a friendly message into something malicious. And as texting becomes one of the most commonplace forms of communication, deci-phering these subtleties is more difficult and important than ever.

Eight trillion text messages are sent every year, according to Bloomberg News. This constant conversation has allowed texters to design their own language to emit a tone of voice through text.

Yet, this method is not perfect. It opens the door for major miscom-munications, according to clinical psychologist Randi Gunther.

“Even when people are fighting

or sexting on text, their response[s] to each other are instant and evi-dently not very well thought out,” said Gunther who has been a mar-riage counselor for 43 years. “How could they be when [people] are moving at that rapid a pace?”

Sara Schindler, a senior lin-guistics major, has done extensive research on the use of language on the popular blogging website, Tumblr. She noticed in her research that certain punctuation such as capital letters are commonly used to convey anger or excitement.

Because there is not a way to distinguish between the two emo-tions through writing, the recipient of a text message may misinterpret the intent of the sender.

“If I received a text message that said ‘OMG THAT MOVIE THOUGH,’ depending on the context, I may not be able to as-certain their tone,” she said. “The only linguistic clues I have to ana-lyze are the capital letters. I can’t be certain whether that comment about the movie is meant to be positive or negative.”

Texting activates the part of our

brain that does automatic stereo-typing, allowing someone to have about 10,000 new perceptions per second. The brain interprets those perceptions and decides what, if any, response is required. This ac-tion also requires the recipient to make important decisions without the added clues of in person com-munication, Gunther said.

“Words are only 10 percent of communication,” Gunther said. “A glance, a sigh, a rolling of the eyes, a warm touch, a look of genuine surprise, a painful expression of boredom … No one hears exactly what another feels and means un-less they take the time to under-stand it in context of all that sur-rounds that communication.”

Gunther thinks texting has made for lazy communication and forced the recipient to make snap judg-ments on the sender’s emotions, causing a higher probability for misunderstanding.

However, junior Allison Klonne believes texting can be an asset to romantic relationships.

“Texting is great when the two people have busy or different

schedules. They can respond to the other person on their own time or just remind the other person how awesome he or she is without hav-ing to schedule a time to talk,” Klonne said. “I think it’s a great way to keep a relationship alive be-tween intermittent dates or phone calls and seeing each other.”

To keep a healthy texting rela-tionship with a significant other, Gunther suggests avoiding any topics that include something “sacred or crucial” that could be easily misinterpreted. She also thinks that if people learned to pack the emphasis and mean-ing they use in their tweets into their text messages, it could make shortened communication much more meaningful.

Even so, Gunther thinks texting may never compare to the romance of a handwritten letter.

“A letter arrives, long awaited, the person receiving it goes to a private place and then reads every word as if it is sacred,” she said. “[Text] messages are short and can reach [someone] at any time, even on the toilet.”

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You may have read Shake-speare’s most famous love story during your freshman year of high school, but that shouldn’t stop you from seeing it live.

“Forget everything that old crone taught you,” said actor Petrea Whittier of high school English teachers. “Remember the play is extremely funny un-til it’s not, don’t be afraid to laugh. Shakespearian plays — especially ‘Romeo and Juliet’ — shouldn’t be lofty experiences. They weren’t in 1600 when they were performed, and if they are now, that’s a sign of bad direct-ing, not bad writing.”

Whittier plays Juliet and Abra-ham in the production, part of the Shakespeare in the Park tour and her debut season with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.

And she’s right. This staging of “Romeo and Juliet” is the exact opposite of the dull reading you were forced to sit through a few

years ago — it’s amusing, funny at times and full of emotion.

Shakespeare is much easier to understand when you’re watching it. Instead of having to stop every few lines to dissect what Romeo and Juliet are saying, it’s obvious in the acting. Suddenly, you’re aware of the humor in the way Ju-liet teases Romeo, how nervous Romeo is when he approaches Ju-liet at the costume party, and the frustration Juliet feels about her unfortunate situation.

We may know exactly how the play ends (thanks to the pro-logue), but that doesn’t mean this cast hasn’t reimagined the story and characters to appeal to a modern audience.

Juliet is sassy and independent. Tybalt and Benvolio are played by women, not men. And Nurse isn’t the frail, old maid that your high school friend read her to be. In this adaptation, she has a dirty mind and a laugh reminiscent of Janice from ‘Friends.’

‘Shut up and dance with me’ is the signature song of the Capulet costume party, where everyone,

clad in superhero garb, drinks out of Solo cups. Romeo’s friends sing a Meatloaf song and Juliet can’t hear her mother because the music playing in her earbuds is too loud.

Actor Douglas Fries has an ex-planation for why “Romeo and Juliet” is still relevant, hundreds of years later.

“Our fearless director Jeremy Dubin describes ‘Romeo and Ju-liet’ as an Elizabethan American Pie with a tragic ending,” Fries said. “Despite changed social structures and heightened lan-guage, Romeo and Juliet capture the spirit of youth and all that goes along with it.”

Whittier agrees, saying that different aspects of the story ap-peal to a person at various times in their life.

“Being young and in love for the first time, being older and more cynical (or wise), watching your friends make bad decisions, being the person who makes those bad decisions. I think there’s a

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Our driver pulled into traffic in the crowded streets of Ulaan-baatar, grumbling to himself in Mongolian while nearly colliding with the car to our left. I looked at my sister in panic as I tried to grab for the seat belt hanging next to me.

“Don’t put that on, it’s rude,” my sister laughed at me. “If you wear your seatbelt, you’re say-ing you don’t trust whoever is driving.”

It was my first day in Mongo-lia, where I would spend the next month eating, sleeping and living like a Mongolian. Ulaanbaatar, commonly referred to as simply UB, seemed at least somewhat similar to other cities I had vis-ited — despite the lack of seat-belts. However, I soon realized that Ulaanbaatar was nothing like the rest of the country.

Mongolia holds a steady and small population of roughly 3 million people for a land area of over 600,000 square miles. To put that in perspective, France is less than 250,000 square miles with a population of nearly 67 million.

Much of the country is vast wilderness, with everything from stunning mountain ranges to the expanses of the Gobi Desert. The

population not living in the capi-tal is spread out in tiny towns and villages, where many people sur-vive in the way Mongolians have for thousands of years: herding livestock.

I soon left the (relative) fa-miliarity of the capital for my fi-nal destination — Zavkhan. The town where my sister has been living for the past year with the Peace Corps, deep in the Mon-golian countryside, was nothing like anything I’ve seen before.

Cattle roamed freely in the streets as men rode by us on horseback to get to the town cen-ter. The river running through the town flowed steadily from the snowmelt farther upstream. Everyone we passed stared at me with questioning eyes.

In a small and relatively iso-lated town, visitors are easy to spot. Make those visitors Ameri-can, and you’ve got a rare oc-currence that everyone will know about instantly.

We arrived at my sister’s ger, a semi-permanent tent that many Mongolians use as homes. Her Mongolian “fam-ily” came to meet us, greet-ing me and talking excitedly in Mongolian. The youngest child peeked at me from behind his mother’s legs, confused by the stranger in his home.

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Seth MacFarlane’s unique style of humor could be compared to Justin Bieber or pineapple on piz-za: people either love it or hate it. There’s no in-between.

While his fans enjoy the way his absurdity and vulgarity poke fun at specific, mundane aspects of life, his critics point out the lack of connection between his storylines and his random jokes (highlighted by “Family Guy’s” infamous cutaway scenes).

Whatever your stance, howev-er, the good thing about Seth Mac-farlane’s humor is that across all his work, it is consistent. Nobody flips on “Family Guy” or buys a ticket for “Ted” expecting to watch an American masterpiece. They know exactly what they’re getting into.

Macfarlane’s latest work, “Ted 2,” picks up a few years after its predecessor. Ted marries Tami-Lynn (remember the heavily-accented, slightly abrasive girl-friend played by Jessica Barth from the first film?), but after a year, their relationship is falling

apart. In an effort to save it, they decide to have a baby. The obvi-ous problem with this plan is that, being a teddy bear, Ted lacks the means to reproduce.

After an unsuccessful yet hi-larious search for a sperm donor, Ted and Tami-Lynn decide to adopt. However, their application is rejected when the government declares that Ted is not, in fact, a person. This leads Ted to hire a lawyer (Amanda Seyfried) to help him fight for his rights.

So how does “Ted 2” stack up to the original? In many ways, they’re very similar. As men-tioned, Macfarlane’s brand of comedy is consistent across all of his works. He even repeats some of the same stitches from the first film such as the hysterical names for strains of weed.

This isn’t necessarily bad; Mac-Farlane is simply aware of what people enjoyed in the original. Whereas many sequels, such as “Indiana Jones and the King-dom of the Crystal Skull” (the horrid one with Shia LaBeouf), try to take their series in a wild new direction just for the box of-

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Oxford residents can now kick off their shoes and unwind at the new yoga studio Uptown. Root Yoga is a studio offering yoga-lovers and new yogis of all ages a place to find relaxation, exercise and community.

“We really believe that this [Root] can be a safe place for ev-eryone,” said Katie Noble, studio manager and instructor at Root.

Root Yoga is located at 22 West Park Place, which Miami upper-classmen may know as the previ-ous location of Seaview Outfitters (now at 32 E. High St.). Noble, along with store owners Steve Thomas and Cody Costonzo of Seaview Outfitters, have already received great support from the Oxford community at Root’s opening on Aug. 15.

“We feel really encouraged, supported and excited to see where it goes,” Noble said.

Root offers more than 11 differ-ent classes, ranging from the Ba-sics Of Yoga class for beginners to the Men’s Only class for those who are a little shy to learn in front of their female peers. Root is meant to put everyone who visits at ease, something Miami senior Ali Hoskins experienced when she walked in the door.

“The environment was so re-laxed,” Hoskins said. “The studio itself is beautiful inside, neutral colors and fabrics. It was inviting

and calming.”The store is planning to add

more instructors and class offer-ings in the near future. Noble is also looking forward to expanding their retail selection.

Other classes include Family Yoga, Chair Yoga for those with injuries or mobility issues, and Restorative Yoga for those who seek rejuvenation amid their hec-tic daily lives. Noble teaches Pow-er Flow and Vinyasa, yoga with more calisthenics and cardio that

focuses on matching breath and movement. She also teaches Holy Yoga, which has a Christian based and gospel-centered message.

Miami sophomore Emily Yates is interested in fitting yoga into her life on campus.

“I’ve been to yoga classes be-fore, but I’ve never been to a real yoga studio, so I am excited to try it out and hopefully make go-ing a part of my weekly routine,” Yates said.

Root encourages all of its stu-dents, even long-time yoga enthu-siasts, to take one Basics of Yoga or Gentle Flow class first, so that everyone can get to know the in-structors. If someone wishes to

try yoga but doesn’t have a mat or supplies, they can easily be rented at Root.

“We really want the entire com-munity of Oxford to feel wel-come,” Noble said. “We want this to feel like a home for people.”

Root’s welcoming mindset is already being enjoyed by Hoskins, who took her first class under No-ble’s instruction.

“The class was wonderful. As a beginner I felt welcomed and encouraged. It was an all around

great experience and I’ll definitely be returning,” Hoskins said.

Returning to Root classes is intended to be convenient for Miami students, who can down-load the Root Yoga app for their smart phones, register online or walk right in.

Customers can go online for bundle packages (five classes for $60, 10 for $110, 20 for $190), monthly or semester-long passes ($100 unlimited month), member-ships ($90 a month, $340 a semes-ter) or individual classes ($14, or $12 with a student ID). For up-dates, upcoming events and class schedules, check the Root yoga website or Facebook page.

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will address Rose’s baseball days, gambling history and where things currently stand. He will work to broaden the conversation to cov-er ethics in sports, and rather than focusing on Rose’s performance on the field, he will be speaking to support a higher purpose of ethics in sports society.

“We are going to use sports as a metaphor for ethics in life,” said Lana Kay Rosenberg, Lecture Committee chair and Kinesiology and Health professor.

Daugherty will take a look at where the line is drawn in sports ethics. He will examine where the limit for media intervention ex-ceeds, and when the personal lives of athletes should be left alone.

“The important thing to take away here is, yes we are talking about baseball, but we need to draw that analogy of this situation being bigger than itself,” Rosenberg said. “It’s not about betting on baseball. It’s about life and the shortcuts we take.”

Rose’s speech is free and open to all, but tickets are required at en-trance. Tickets will be distributed starting Sept. 16 at the box office in the Shriver Center.

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Instead of having one event per month, as in the past, residence halls will host events once a week, whether it be something confined to the residence hall or taking part in a Late Night Miami event.

Seaman said she believes Late Night Miami has been marketed well, and since it is partnering with campus organizations, it will attract students from all Miami life.

“We’ve seen who and what have been popular in years past and at other schools,” she said. “Students love seeing movies and magicians.”

Also coming this semester is a way for student organizations to collaborate with Late Night Miami. Student organizations can host their events under the umbrella of Late Night Miami. In fact, organizations are eligible to receive up to $2,000 in funding for their programs.

“There has always been a push for late night programming,” said Jennifer Levering, director of Stu-dent Activities and the Cliff Alexan-der Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. “We received additional fund-ing this year to do even more.”

This additional funding allows Miami to provide more activities for students on campus, which Sea-man said makes the university feel more like home.

“Just like everything on campus, [Late Night Miami] has been made because it is something that’s been asked for,” Seaman said.

The goal of Late Night Miami, and other alcohol alternative pro-grams, is to give students more op-portunities to get out on campus and make campus come alive during the weekends, Seaman said, all while having good, clean fun.

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It’s a relatively new idea among millennials: the feeling that stu-dents need to have multiple intern-ships in order to get a leg up in their careers. For past generations, the path to employment was al-ways cut-and-dry. Now, it is filled with potholes — students are ex-pected to hurdle over or be left in the dust.

For most students, an internship is just the second of many steps on the road toward a stable job. They need to attend a good university, they need a college degree, they need an internship.

But soon they discover they need multiple internships. They discover they need to go to graduate school. They discover they need to “build their personal brand.”

Students could spend their entire personal life, using every ounce of their energy, to create an obedient worker’s persona. They could also

spend their entire savings account.Even when paid (and they

very rarely are), internships do not take into account an intern’s cost of living.

For journalism and

communication majors, many of the worthwhile internships are in major metropolitan areas — New York, Washington D.C. or Los Angeles — cities with some of the highest costs of living in the world

To even accept an internship in a city outside commuting dis-tance, you have to have some form of funding or financial sup-port (or privilege). It’s just one

of the many foibles fueling the “rich get richer” truism.

The student is being paid in ex-perience, and that is all that mat-ters to them. They’ll accept the lack of wages for the abundance

of opportunities it may — or may not — give them. They will feel like they are indebted to the place that is giving them the oh-so nec-essary internship — even if that employer is violating a worker’s right to a living wage.

Sometimes, it depends on the career path. Someone with a finance or economics degree will most likely come out of an

internship with a job offer, while someone with an internship in the public sector may come out with nothing but an empty bank account, a sudden realization that they don’t want to work for the

government — and tears.A lot of students coming out

of unpaid internships are los-ing money. It’s a vicious cycle: students have to pay for a de-gree and an internship to get a career to pay back the cost of their degree.

Today, students treat college like a four-year conveyer belt to employment. We no longer

use university as a tool to craft new mindsets and share knowl-edge that could make the world a better place.

Students of the millennial gen-eration have to decide what we want to do sooner than any other generation before us. And what is that doing to us as people? Why are we constantly preparing for the “next thing” that may never even happen?

All of this begs the question: are students really better off hav-ing spent their summer in an un-paid internship?

That depends what “better off” means. Is better off having spent the summer working for people who don’t care about you? Is better off being able to take a tropical vacation a couple times a year? Or is better off flying by the seat of your pants, taking jobs here and there and simply scrounging by your whole life?

While in high school, I remem-ber teachers, parents and guid-ance counselors constantly telling me to network and make connec-

tions. Network-ing is the path to success, they said.

I’m sure many of Mi-ami’s incoming freshman have

heard similar sentiments from their teachers, parents and guid-ance counselors. But I’m not sure how many of us actually heeded that advice.

Back in May of this year, Mark Bauerlein, an English profes-sor at Emory University, wrote a much-discussed New York Times op-ed entitled, “What’s the Point of a Professor?”

In his piece, Bauerlein noted that engagement with professors, as thinkers and mentors, is mini-mal. One of the culprits he cited is email, as it lessens the poten-tial for face time with a professor where such “transfer of insight” can begin.

“For a majority of undergradu-ates, beyond the two and a half hours per week in class, contact ranges from negligible to nonex-istent,” Bauerlein said.

The other reason is that the stated objectives have flipped for American freshmen. In 1967, 86 percent said “developing a mean-ingful philosophy of life,” was essential or very important. Now, that is down to 45 percent, with 82 percent of freshman citing “being very well off financially” as essential or very important.

I spent the first three years at Miami with the mindset of “get in, do the work and get out.” I was certainly interested in learn-ing and learning for its own sake. As not just a philosophy ma-jor, but as someone that likes to learn, “developing a meaningful philosophy of life” has always been more important to me than making money.

However, my engagement with professors, for the most part, con-sisted of whatever that work en-tailed in the classroom. Some of it was intimidation — these were college professors after all, whoa — and some of it was just me not making the effort to initiate.

Semester after semester, syl-labus after syllabus, professors urged their incoming students, myself included, to seek their counseling and to visit their of-fice. All too often, that plea be-came white noise, hidden behind the assignments and projects in the weeks ahead.

I’m not even sure I saw the in-side of a professor’s office those first three years.

Well, let me reiterate the afore-mentioned advice: network, net-work and network with profes-sors. Engage with them beyond what goes on in the classroom be-cause from personal experience, once I did so, it changed not just my education and career path, but also my life.

This summer I had the oppor-tunity to do an internship with the Post Independent in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a small town of less than 10,000 people, three hours west of Denver.

The prospect of a newspaper internship excited me in the sense that I knew it would look great on a resume in the future and would give me invaluable experience. However, it also terrified me to jump in the deep end of these pes-ky things known as a “career tra-

jectory,” “adulthood” and “life.” I’m not a journalism major,

I’ve only taken a few courses on the subject and have written even fewer actual news stories. All I knew was, at the end of the day, I was passionate about the subject and I trusted what came out of my fingertips.

Fortunately, one of Miami’s journalism professors, Patricia Newberry, or just Patti, contacted me to offer feedback on one of my columns. From there, she rec-ommended I take her journalism course, Critical Writing in Jour-nalism, which I did last spring.

After more than four years of schooling, I felt like my decision to take her course was one of the best ones I had made. There’s an enormous difference between merely being a student and be-ing a student where a professor is

actively rooting for you to succeed.

Patti knew the editor, Randy Essex, at the Post Independent and presented the opportunity to all journalism students. I took the bait, applied and managed to get the internship.

Unfortunately, going 1300 miles across the country for a two-month, unpaid internship was impossible under my finan-cial situation. There was a two week period where I had said no to Randy, thinking I wasn’t going. And in that two-week period, admittedly, I was in a dark place mentally.

Another summer and another missed opportunity lay before me and it didn’t look pretty.

However, Patti stepped up yet again and went through her con-tacts and the financial aid office and helped to secure the neces-sary funds to make it happen.

She not only presented the path to the internship for me, but nudged me down the path past my fears, insecurities and the re-al-world cost of actually doing it.

The experience in Colorado turned out to be exactly what I needed mentally and as a step forward. It was challenging, but

rewarding, and a summer I’ll never forget.

The experience proved to me that not only do we have to find ways to explode through our comfort zones, but that, in every step of the way, there’s has to be someone there root-ing for you. No matter your skill or talent, you’re not going to get it done alone.

Miami’s a beautiful, enormous campus with professors from all over the world with not just men-toring advice to offer, but con-tacts that could elevate you to the next step.

So, network and find those pro-fessors that can help to change your life, too.

EMILY TATEMANAGING EDITOR

When President Obama announced plans in Decem-ber to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba, half the world celebrated and the other half began to panic.

Cuba, a culturally rich and live-ly Caribbean island, would soon be exposed to droves of Ameri-can tourists and, subsequently, the pressure to Americanize.

For Canadians and Europeans, who have historically accounted for the majority of Cuba’s tourists,

this is bad news. Cuba has been a temple of cigars, rum and beauti-ful beaches for hundreds of years, with vibrant music, dancing and life. But with American influence on the horizon, Cuba’s uniqueness may be in jeopardy.

As a result, many Europeans are rushing to visit the island be-fore the United States opens travel to Cuba. Will Grant of the BBC recently reported that, “There is a palpable sense of urgency among some European and Canadian tourists to try and experience Cuba ‘before the Americans arrive.’”

And who could blame them? The United States has infiltrated almost every corner of the Carib-bean and, in the process, stripped the countries of their identities.

In an effort to cater to Ameri-cans and American culture, is-lands like Aruba, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic have traded authenticity for finan-cial gain, and individuality for marketable merchandise.

Jamaica, for one, has capitalized off its reputation of saying “mon” at the end of every sentence, of-fering marijuana at every street corner and offering exclusively Rastafarian-colored (red, yellow and green) products — sacrificing its true self in the name of tourism.

And that’s the fear for Cuba — that the same pressure, the same mentality and the same justifica-tion will ultimately turn it into “another Caribbean country.”

All evidence supports that con-cern, too. Last year and in the years prior, Cuba has continually exceeded its record for tourists. In 2014, it accommodated an un-precedented 3 million visitors, and in the first quarter of 2015, it had already seen a drastic influx, recording 1.14 million tourists between January and March. This indicates a 14.2 percent growth in tourism, according to the Cuban

National Office of Statistics.In recent years, Cuba has av-

eraged about 600,000 American visitors annually, many of whom have been Cuban Americans re-turning to visit family.

However, according to the International Monetary Fund, Cuba is now preparing for as many as 10 million American tourists in the first year of open travel — vastly more tourists than the island has hosted in a given year, not to mention the other visiting nationalities.

American businesses are pre-paring for this flood of outgoing travel. Delta Airlines, Carnival

Cruise Lines, AirBnB (a website that provides rentable lodging) and MasterCard are only a few of the companies gearing up to go to Cuba, once travel becomes legal.

And this streamlined ac-cess to Cuba could mean a loss in tourist traffic in other Caribbean countries, hurting tourism-based economies like the Dominican Republic.

This will in turn put pres-sure on Caribbean countries to up the ante — higher quality fa-cilities, better infrastructure, up-graded technology, lower prices. The impact of those pressures is unclear, but chances are it will further degrade the islands’ already-compromised cultures.

But a spokesperson for at least one Caribbean country is not con-cerned about American tourism in Cuba. Allen Chastanet, who served as Saint Lucia’s Minister for Tourism from 2006-11, sees it as an opportunity to spawn growth throughout all of the Caribbean.

“Cuba can bring more atten-tion back to the Caribbean and make the Caribbean the darling of the world again and hopefully, maybe the entire Caribbean re-gion can grow,” Chastanet told Telesur in April.

But unfortunately, “growth” in the Caribbean is little more than a euphemism for increased tourism, and again, increased tourism is a direct channel to diminishing Caribbean culture and individuality.

For some islands, the damage has already been done, but for Cuba, whose identity remains in-tact, it still has much to lose.

Travel to Cuba will open, Americans will flood the island and the country will respond ac-cordingly, but, with any luck, Cuba will avoid becoming yet another anonymous, nondescript Caribbean country.

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“Are you in school, son?” the man asks as he pops up from reading his putt and starts to lumber back into me.

He’s a big man. Like Uncle Ver-non from the Harry Potter series — bushy mustache and all.

“Yes, actually, I’m going into my junior year at Miami Ohio,” I respond in bits as I tiptoe backwards in unison.

It’s a common occurrence on the golf course. A guest, who isn’t used to having a caddie, will almost al-ways forget that we’re standing right behind them reading their putt. The dance that ensues when the player rapidly snaps up and starts walk-ing backwards can be comical, like something out of a Three Stooges episode. Once, an unassuming cad-die was walked right off the edge of a green into a pond — a six-foot drop.

I know what is coming next. Something along the lines of how nice the campus is, how his daughter went to school there or how he used to visit his friends for the Green Beer Day festivities.

“Ah, the Redskins! Beautiful cam-pus,” the man retorts. “And a great

business school — two of my neph-ews graduated from there. Hey, is that bar on the corner still there? What’s it called … Skippers?”

“It’s still there,” I laugh. “Put this one a little right-of-center. It won’t break as much as it looks like.”

“Eh, I’m gonna put it outside the hole a little further and lag it in.”

Okie dokie.He misses the putt about a foot

past the hole on the right side, staring at the ball dumbfounded, as if saying, “How did that not go in?” He pulls it away with his putter and fumes off to the next tee box.

“So, what are you studying?” “I’m double-majoring in jour-

nalism and international stud-ies with a concentration in environmental sustainability.”

This is what I have been wait-ing for. After two years, the feigned look of interest on the man’s face is one I’ve become familiar with; the

head nod that speaks to nothing of understanding is one that I’ve come to cherish.

…Throughout my years as a caddie

at a small country club east of Cleve-land (we’ll just call it Bushwood) I amassed a collection of regulars — people who I caddied for three or

more times a week. Although they acted like they sup-

ported my chosen career path, that look of feigned interest on their faces more often revealed one of concern. You could just hear gears in their heads turning, trying to wrap around how that this kid who showed so much potential could be throwing away his life for a journalism degree.

One of the constantly touted ben-efits of being a caddie is making con-nections. Many caddies have boosted their finance careers through the con-nections made with prominent mem-bers, but unless they’re covering the

story on the member/bookie who was picked up by the feds in the middle of his approach shot on the ninth hole, there aren’t many journalists fre-quenting a country club.

…“I’ve been in environmental law

for over 30 years,” the man said quickly. “And these new EPA laws

that Obama has passed are the most heinous I have ever seen. They just aren’t feasible.”

Now was not a time to talk. Oh, no. Now was a time to be quiet.

“He is going to ruin the last busi-ness that America has got going for it,” another player interjected. “The coal workers hate him. He’s turned the entire state of West Virginia against him. A blue state!”

“And for what? Global warming?” Mustache chimes in.

And there, on the fifth fairway, the men began their brutal crusade of the entire gamut of conservative woes.

“You know what is getting me, though? That everyone is so preoccu-pied with this Cecil the lion shit, yet nobody is even raising an eyebrow over Planned Parenthood selling baby parts!”

“I’ll tell you now, there’s a special place in hell reserved for those people.”

“So, what does your parish think of the new Supreme Court ruling?”

“All I’m gonna say is that Roberts got it right in the final sentence of his dissent when he said ‘celebrate to-day’s decision … but do not celebrate the constitution.’”

Why should I break a sweat over, why should I even remotely care that this man, this dangerously ignorant, conservative stranger, sinks his putt? Because after eight years of building a reputation, of gaining regulars, I just fucking do.

I could stop everything I’m do-ing; I could throw this man’s clubs in his face, rattle off a volley of de-bates against his feckless comments and walk off the course. But, at the same time, I have a profound longing to be valued by this person — to be appreciated. For him to respect the decisions I make and the service I give. So is the paradox of working as a caddie.

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Although they acted like they supported my chosen career path, that look of feigned interest on their faces more often revealed one of concern. You could just hear gears in their heads turning, trying to wrap around how this kid who showed so much potentail could be throwing away his life for a journalism degree.

I am Barb of Bill’s Art Store. In May, the paper did an article about us closing. We planned to close at the end June since I had a buyer for our supplies who was opening a new art store.

He jerked me around for six weeks. In a hostile email that sound-ed like an unfriendly ultimatum, he made a joke of an offer on a small portion of our inventory thinking I would be desperate enough to give him the whole inventory.

I went back to making con-tacts. In the middle of June, the Miami Bookstore buyer came in to assess our inventory. I pointed out the many items that we carry specifically for the student assign-ments that the Bookstore doesn’t carry and apparently doesn’t care to carry. The buyer mentioned it would be a lot of work to pickup, take to storage, and sort. He also told me that he shared his opinion with the director when he brought the purchase issue for board

approval. I have been given the “silent treatment” since July 17th when he assured me that he would let me know of their decision.

Students will pay the price when materials needed for classes can’t be obtained. If there is no alternative source for needed ma-terials, shouldn’t Miami bear the responsibility to make them avail-able? Shouldn’t teachers have given me a heads up about unusual supply needs so that the students could be prepared? I tried to im-prove communication for four years and Bill, for many years be-fore me. At least we at Bill’s Art Store value the students and any other customers who came through our doors. I feel as if I have re-ally let the students down and I am very sad that the lack of commu-nication and cooperation was the basis for failure.

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the building was unoccupied, and no one was injured.

The concrete floor of the build-ing’s attic contained the flames and prevented the fire from reach-ing any student rooms or other liv-ing areas in the building.

The building’s photoelectric heat and smoke sensors also aid-ed in preventing further damage, Wagner said, as they are able to alert Oxford’s fire department several minutes faster than tradi-tional smoke alarms.

Repairs to the residence hall have included drying the build-ing and removing and replacing the damaged roofing over the north wing as well as any water-damaged ceilings, walls or floor-ing. Damaged lighting, electrical wiring, plumbing and heating equipment were also removed and replaced. The heating and smoke

detecting systems were also re-placed in the affected wing and several new mattresses and win-dow treatments were purchased.

Even areas of the building that were not affected by the fire were treated for smoke damage and underwent extensive cleaning by Miami’s maintenance staff, Wag-ner said.

“We are pleased that the fire caused no lasting problems, and even provided an opportunity to update some systems,” Wagner said.

The State Fire Marshall is still investigating the cause and origin of the fire. According to Wagner, construction workers were repair-ing copper gutters in a corner of the building just moments before the fire was detected.

Lindsey Burnworth, pub-lic information officer for the State Fire Marshall’s office, confirmed that criminal activ-ity does not appear to have been involved in the incident.

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3.5 percent and, in the previous decade, was about 4 percent.

According to President Hodge, the long-term goal of Miami’s Board of Trustees is keep tuition increases at or below 2 percent each year.

“[We] are working to contain costs while continuing to im-prove the outcomes for students at Miami,” said Hodge.

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and pay damages to those stu-dents who may have not received adequate accommodation.

Miami University denies all al-legations related to the case.

“We take our obligations un-der the American Disabilities Act very seriously. Miami pro-vides extensive resources and accommodations for our dis-abled students, and will continue

to do so,” said Claire Wagner, director of University News and Communications.

The Office of Disability Re-sources at Miami caters to about 300 students a year, and to each differently.

“Our staff is passionate about advancing and sustaining an environment of equal access, diversity and inclusiveness for all members of the univer-sity community,” said Andrew

Zeisler in a January 2014 Miami Student article.

Despite these efforts, Dudley’s attorney, Kerstin Sjoberg-Witt of Disability Rights Ohio, said the lack of accessibility for disabled students is a common issue on college campuses.

“Miami is not alone in this. It’s a very common problem in higher education,” she said, citing lack of resources and proper communication between

departments about a disabled student’s specific needs as the biggest hindrances.

While the case is still in media-tion, Dudley, who will be attend-ing Ohio State University in the fall, is hopeful.

“My goal is to make things bet-ter for the next person. That is something that I strongly believe in,” she said. “A lot of issues need to be addressed, and if I don’t come out and say it, who will?”

bad decisions. I think there’s a bit of Romeo, Juliet, Mercu-tio, Benvolio, Nurse and Lord Capulet in all of us throughout our lives,” she said.

What makes the show even more interesting is that the six actors not only perform, but also do everything else for the production. They set up and tear down, move the props and do all of the backstage work, and even hand out programs be-fore the show starts. That nice

guy who greeted you and gave you a program as you walked in? That’s Doug. He plays Friar Lawrence and Paris.

Even more impressive is the ensemble makes it seem so easy. As if speaking in Shake-spearean verse and running an entire two-hour performance at the same time is a piece of cake.

The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company will be performing ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, in Uptown Park. The show is free to all.

fice money, “Ted” sticks to what works.

Giovanni Ribisi was one of the things that worked. He reprises his role as the wonderfully creepy Donny who, after failing in the first film, is back again to try and steal Ted. Up against the not-so-Oscar-worthy likes of Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, Ribisi was arguably the best actor in the first film and he nails it again in the sequel.

Everything he does on screen made my skin crawl, particu-larly when he keeps repeating the phrase “Fresh Cakes” af-ter replacing the urinal cakes in the bathroom.

It’s not all the same, however. Amanda Seyfried is a wonderful addition to the cast as Samantha, the hard-working, open-minded lawyer who stands up for Ted. Time and time again, in films such as “Les Miserables” and “Mamma Mia,” she has proven herself to be a brilliant actress, and with “Ted 2,” she shows that she can kill it in a comedy as well.

Additionally, the film is bol-stered by a host of hilarious ce-lebrity cameos that are pleasantly

surprising and add an aspect of humor that was absent in the first film.

“Ted 2” isn’t perfect. Another aspect of MacFarlane’s comedy is that it is rapid fire. Every scene is jam-packed with jokes. With that style, it’s truly hit or miss. It would be impossible for ev-ery joke to land. For instance, I laughed out loud when Ted, John and Samantha go to the Improv to yell out inappropriate sug-gestions (e.g. “Alright, someone shout out a person,” “Bill Cos-by!”), but I barely chuckled when Ted told his loud and animated African-American co-worker that she “makes history come alive.” Of course, this is a matter of per-sonal preference, but chances are, with the onslaught of jokes Mac-Farlane throws at you, you won’t love all of them.

The biggest pitfall of the mov-ie, however, is the romantic sto-ryline between John and Saman-tha. Mila Kunis was pregnant during production of the sequel, so MacFarlane had to write off her character. It is revealed early on in “Ted 2” that John and Lori had divorced. Now that he’s single, he becomes romantically involved with Samantha as the

movie progresses.This is simply unneeded. Their

love story is cliché and predict-able and all it does is distract from the main plot of the movie. In “Thank You For Smoking,” Rob Lowe’s character introduces the idea of a space movie where people are smoking cigarettes. When it is pointed out that they would blow up in an all-oxygen environment, he says, “It’s an easy fix. One line of dialogue: ‘Thank God we invented the … whatever device.’” Following this logic, MacFarlane didn’t need to write in a completely new storyline for John’s character. All he needed was one line of dia-logue to explain Lori’s absence.

With “Ted 2,” you know what you’re paying for. If you’ve en-joyed Seth MacFarlane’s past works, you’ll love it. If you haven’t, then don’t waste your time with it. While some might interpret Ted’s plight as a social commentary on the way rights are withheld from certain demo-graphics, it’s really not. It’s just a teddy bear. Take it at that, sit back and have a few laughs.

They spoke rapidly with my sister as I stood silently, fully ab-sorbing the idea that for the next month I would have little to no idea what anyone was saying.

The few English speakers other than me included several American volunteers and Mon-golians who teach English, all of whom spoke Mongolian the majority of the time. Most Mon-golians only speak their native language, and the few that know a second language speak Russian due to its proximity.

Over the next few days, I met dozens of Mongolians. My sister’s students followed me around the school when I visited, whispering to each other and gig-gling. I later learned that many of them had never seen someone with blonde hair and that they were calling me “Rapunzel.”

My life continued in this rou-tine of meeting Mongolians and following the actions of others. I ate and drank what was given to me, learning how to properly accept gifts and exchange greet-ings. I soon began responding to my sister with Mongolian phrases, even when we were speaking English.

My experience in Mongolia is hard to summarize, because there’s nothing to compare it to that would do the country or the people justice. There are no land-marks to visit or tourist spots to

see, nothing that I could describe that would make someone go, “That’s the Mongolia I know from books and movies.”

Instead, I had moments. A night spent playing cards with a young Mongolian couple, acting like old friends even though we didn’t share a common language. A trip to the outhouse in the mid-dle of the night that turned into stargazing in my sister’s yard. A questionable (but delicious) meat pancake from a stand on the side of the road.

There’s no way to explain the experience of being piled into a minivan with 25 peo-ple who all needed to get into town. No way to describe hear-ing the beauty of a song played on a morin khuur, a traditional Mongolian instrument.

Perhaps the best way to pull it all together is the happiness and peace exuding from every Mongolian. They’re content with family and friends and the town they grew up in. They don’t want for more or act rude to strangers.

As I stood on a hill over-looking the Mongolian country-side, the sacred Mt. Otgontenger looming in the distance, I felt completely calm for the first time in what seemed like forever.

With the land of the blue sky around me and home thousands of miles away, I was there. And I had no desire to be anywhere else.

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As the soccer season begins, Mi-ami University is poised to com-pete for the top spot in the Mid-Atlantic Conference East Division.

In a preseason poll, league coaches predicted the Redhawks to win the 2015 MAC Tournament and finish second in the MAC East division. The RedHawks are coming off a 14-3-2 season in which they finished second in the MAC. Nine of the eleven starters from last year are returning.

Miami’s season began Aug. 21 with a 1-0 victory over Vanderbilt. Senior forward Haley Walter scored the lone goal, while junior goalkeeper Vic Maniaci stop all 11 shots

kicked her way. Two days later, Miami had

a convincing win over West-ern Kentucky 4-0. Senior de-fender Katie Mazurek, junior midfielder Rachel Marble, ju-nior midfielder Stephanie Dillon and sophomore forward Kat Zalar scored one goal apiece.

Head coach Bobby Kramig said he is optimistic about the team’s chances this season, but isn’t ready to make assumptions.

“I’m delighted with the re-sults, but those first two games stand alone,” Kramig said. “We are still in the early stages of development. We are still trying to learn from our perfor-mances, improve, and move for-ward as a team.”

MU plays Valparaiso University at 4 p.m. on Friday in Oxford.

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When Liam Kaufman, an ener-getic 5-year-old boy from Cincinnati, came down with a low-grade fever and an ear infection that wouldn’t go away, his mother Heather Kaufman was unsure of what to think. When he started to develop bruises on his legs, she took him to the doctor.

On February 9, 2015 at 4:45pm, Heather and her husband Jim re-ceived the phone call that changed their family’s lives: Liam had cancer.

The diagnosis was acute lym-phoblastic leukemia, the most common form of leukemia and pediatric cancer.

Liam went through multiple stages of a six-block treatment schedule this summer, including the delayed inten-sification stage in which doctors wipe away his immune system.

Despite the toll on the family, the Kaufmans have not lost their spirit. The one thing that keeps Liam going is sports.

Liam is an avid football fan, par-ticularly of the New England Pa-triots, despite pleas from his Cin-cinnati Bengals-loving mother and Indianapolis Colts-loving father.

When he’s not watching ESPN or the Big Ten Network, Liam loves to play outside or play video games.

“During the months of February and March, Liam was inpatient for 40 days. While at [Cincinatti] Chil-dren’s [Hospital], his room was dec-orated with various sports items and ESPN was always on,” Heather said.

Liam’s sports dreams became reality when Team IMPACT, a non-profit that connects children with life-threatening diseases to college sports teams, gave him the opportunity to become a member of the Miami Uni-versity football team.

Miami officially added Liam to the 2015 football roster on June 8 and has since included him in many team practices and bonding experiences, along with his twin sister Cate and older brother TJ.

In Saturday’s practice, Liam played catch with head coach Chuck Martin.

“This summer he went through a crazy amount for anyone, let alone a little kid, so his perseverance and his toughness are well beyond anybody we got out here,” Martin said. “He comes out here, he smiles, he runs around and is all happy. It’s kind of hard to have that disposition when he’s going through what he’s going

through. He’s an amazing kid.”Jim and Heather Kaufman see the

effect Miami football practices have on their son.

“If [Liam] has a rough day, it’s amazing to be able to come down to

Miami to be out on the field and in-teract with the players and coaches,” Jim said during the signing press con-ference. “He lights up … he becomes kind of a different child.”

The Team IMPACT connection does not only affect the lives of the Kaufman family, it also impacts the lives of the football players and coaches too.

“The first thing we see is Liam’s perspective, about how fortunate we are and how sometimes life is a lot tougher than it should be,” Mar-tin said. You watch him and how he handles going through what he goes through, it gives you a really quick wakeup call about yourself and what you did or didn’t do on a certain

day, how much you did complain or didn’t complain on a certain day. Or did you give it your all, because he’s giving his all 24/7 just to be up and running around. It’s pretty amazing and pretty inspiring and gives us a

great deal of perspective on how for-tunate we are.”

Junior Spencer McInnis, who Liam cites as his favorite player, is one member of the team who has be-come close to the Kaufmans.

“The first time we met was pretty cool,” McInnis said. “We really con-nected with each other and his family … it’s just truly amazing what he’s going through and how he’s doing so well. He’s just smiling, and it will be exciting having him on the sidelines. He’s probably the best recruit Coach Martin’s got.”

Senior Sam Shisso is another Team IMPACT ambassador who spends time with Liam.

“Having someone like Liam that

looks up to us is inspiring and hum-bling,” Shisso said. “You want to be the best that you can be. He loves football so much that you want to give him a reason to continue to love it.”

Shisso said the football team made it a point to not only welcome Liam, but also the entire Kaufman family.

“It’s really cool to have his whole family become part of the team,” Shisso said. “That’s what teams are. When you welcome a player, you welcome his family and you want to get to know them.”

Liam is not the first Team IM-PACT child to connect with a Miami team. Tyler Holliday, a 13-year-old from West Chester, signed with the baseball team in March.

If all goes as planned, Liam’s treat-ment should end in April 2018.

“I’m just so excited that Miami has given this opportunity to Liam,” Heather said. “When he is hang-ing out with the team he is a differ-ent kid. He is just a 5-year-old boy having fun, not the child cooped up in a hospital room connected to tubes and monitors. It is pure joy to watch him having so much fun with the RedHawks.”

Grace Remington contributed to this report.

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Stats show Miami heading in right direction

Twelve years ago, Miami foot-ball captured the 2003 Mid-Amer-ican Conference title and finished with a 13-1 (8-0 MAC) record. The ’Hawks proceeded to win the GoDaddy Bowl (called the GMAC bowl at the time). Quarterback Ben

Roethlisberger ranked in the NCAA top 10 — usually the top five — in all of-fensive categories during his time as a RedHawk.

Though MU won another bowl game in 2011, the program has not seen consis-tent success since the 2003 season. Miami is 46-89 since 2003.

However, Miami football is revitalized.

In the season-opener against Marshall University last season, MU’s new head coach Chuck Mar-tin went for a fourth and five on Marshall’s 42-yard line with 4:58 left in the first quarter. Bold move. And Miami didn’t get it.

But, in that moment, something had changed. Miami football was a new team.

Risky play calls and a daring coach are just what the team need-ed. The fans needed to wake up; the players needed to wake up.

Some may argue that Miami’s 2-10 record doesn’t show any improvement. However, when a team’s morale and athleticism are boosted, results usually show on the field. And the statistics prove it.

In 2014-15, Miami scored an average of 22.3 points per game. That’s 2.3 times more than their av-erage in the 2013-14 season (9.8).

Miami lost six games by less than 10 points in 2014, and four of those games were lost by only one touchdown. In comparison, the team dropped two games by one touchdown in 2013; the next clos-est margin was 14 points, and the other eight losses were blowouts (losses by more than 17 points). MU suffered only one blowout loss in 2014.

Offensive production increased, as well. Miami notched 4,504 total yards last year, almost 70 percent more than 2013 season’s total of 2,725. First downs increased from

159 to 246. The defense kept op-ponents to 278 first downs, down from 2013’s 309.

With the conclusion of fall train-ing camp, speculation begins.

“It’s always different during the second year,” Martin said after practice, hinting at the year ahead.

Martin has one year of head coaching experience at Miami un-der his belt and the recruits bring promise. The players are more ath-letic and bigger, and there is more depth at each position.

“I’m always thinking are we do-ing things the right way, are we get-ting better players and recruiting and developing the right way and becoming a stronger team,” Martin said. “As long as those things are in place the wins will come. I hope they come. I hate losing. But I’m not as concerned about that; I’m concerned with building things the right way.”

And, so far, Martin is confident.“We’re more than way ahead

of schedule and on the right pace … there’s going to be grow-ing pains, but we’re moving in a positive direction.”

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Miami University senior golfer Jack Sparling teed off Aug. 17 and 18 in the first round of the United States Amateur tournament at Olym-pia Fields Country Club. He compet-ed against 312 golfers from around the country in one of the oldest and one of the most prestigious amateur tournaments in America.

Though he missed the cut into the Round of 64, Sparling said the chance to play at the highest level prepared him for this upcoming Mi-ami season.

“It was a great opportunity for me to test my game and see how it stacks up against the best in amateur golf,” Sparling said. “I’m looking forward to another great year and defending our MAC Championship title.”

Senior golfer Bailey Truesdell said Sparling’s play was valuable

publicity for MU’s program.“Jack playing in the U.S. Amateur

was great for Miami golf. It gave the entire program exposure and reaf-firms that we are all good enough to play at the highest level of Amateur golf,” Truesdell said.

Head coach Zac Zedrick shared the same sentiment.

“It’s great publicity for the pro-gram and is a testament to Jack’s hard work. What Jack shows is that he’s focused on how good of a player he can be, and this is the amount of work that you need to put in in order to be successful,” Zedrick said.

Other teammates, such as junior golfer Greg Conrad, said Sparling’s growth has been unparalleled over the years and inspires the team to strive further.

“Having qualified for the U.S. Amateur is an inspiration to the team,” Conrad said. “Setting an ex-ample on one of the best stages in the world is something that definitely

pushes the rest of the team to work hard and compete at the highest level. Those types of accomplish-ments and experiences instill hunger amongst the rest of us to achieve those goals.”

Senior golfer Daniel Schwarz also had high praise for his counterpart.

“Jack has provided leadership to the team by being a consistent mem-ber in the lineup,” Schwarz said. “He has experience being in contention on the road and is a guy the team can come to for advice on the course. Playing in the U.S. Amateur is a fan-tastic accomplishment and it was cool to see someone representing Miami. It has been amazing to see the transformation that took place in Jack both on and off the course since his freshman year. His confidence is at an all-time high and he never ac-cepts mediocrity.”

Miami’s golf season begins Sept. 21 with the Iverness Intercollegiate in Toledo, Ohio.

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Sparling represents MU in U.S. Amateur

Sophomore Sawyer Dean bats down a pass during the football team’s prac-tice on Monday.

When he is hanging out with the team, he is a different kid. He is just a 5-year-old boy having fun, not the child cooped up in a hospital room connected to tubes and monitors.

HEATHER KAUFMANMOTHER

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