The Miami StudentFriday, January 21, 2011

Oldest university newspaper in the United States, established 1826MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIOVOLUME 138 NO. 32

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In 1972, The Miami Student reported Miami University students could register to vote in Butler County. To vote in the May primary, however, students had to register in Hamilton.

Love and honor

The Miami University ROTC colorguard supports Miami basketball before the Miami vs. University of Akron game Jan. 19 at Millett Hall.SCOTT ALLISON The Miami Student

By Stephen BellCampus Editor

Students recently visiting Miami University’s student health center were greeted with a sign announcing the center will no longer be offering free and anonymous HIV testing.

According to Gail Walenga, assis-tant vice president of Student Health Services at Miami, testing for HIV will now cost $25 and mirror other medical tests when it comes to billing and patient protocol.

“Part of this is to lose less money, but also to make the act of HIV test-ing less off-putting,” she said. “By having them go through the flow of health services like any other patient, it doesn’t have the same connotation as the anonymous patients.”

Walenga said the anonymous test-ing process often proved awkward for some.

“Because we were doing the anon-ymous testing, it was a bit of an awk-ward situation for students,” she said. “You were told to go directly to door B and someone would come and get you.”

Today, students still have the op-tion of anonymous testing at the health center, according to Walenga, but not for free.

Walenga said students can report HIV testing through their insurance company, where the insurance state-ment would only disclose that lab work was done. She also said stu-dents can pay the university directly for the tests.

“If a student is very concerned that they don’t want any information go-ing to their insurance company or their parents, they can opt to pay for it with a credit card,” she said.

Miami junior Ashley Smith said she is sad to see anonymous testing go by the wayside, but she under-stands the need for budget cuts.

“I think anonymous testing for something like HIV is important for students who want to avoid any stigma or embarrassment, but I understand the need to cut costs,” Smith said.

Free HIV testing still exists at Mi-ami, according to Walenga, but only through the Mobile Health Unit,

By Stephen Bell and Kathleen SullivanFor The Miami Student

Students in Goggin Ice Center may soon notice Miami Univer-sity’s famed RedHawk looking the other way.

Miami will soon begin work to replace RedHawks trademarks fac-ing the wrong direction, according to Jason Lener, deputy athletic director.

Lener said the official Miami trademark, a left-facing RedHawk with “Miami RedHawks” printed underneath it, needs to be consistent throughout the university.

“Ultimately, if you are looking at the hawk head, you should be looking at the same hawk head,” Lener said. “There are so many (RedHawks) all over campus, and we are trying to get them all right.”

According to Lener, the proj-ect began after he and a small group of administrators met and decided to streamline use of the RedHawk trademark.

“A couple of years ago, we looked at all the different marks being used,” he said. “You had hawk heads facing

left, hawk heads facing right, there were just too many marks.”

Lener said the proposal to alter the existing trademarks was eventually passed on to other faculty members, including Director of Business Ser-vices Paul Allen, who is in charge of the trademark and licensing program at Miami.

He said when the RedHawk was created the univer-sity had multiple trademark images, some facing left, others right.

Approximately three years ago, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics decided to use only the left-facing trademark for merchandising, which con-flicted with the various other trade-marks printed across the university, Allen said.

“For consistency we wanted a single identifiable mark, something someone looks at and knows ‘we are the Miami RedHawks,’” he said. “The more marks you have, you

dilute your identity.” Senior Melissa Gillen never no-

ticed the RedHawk faced in a par-ticular direction.

“I’ve been to Goggin before and never noticed it was backwards,” Gillen said.

Gillen ques-tioned the need to fix the logo given the university’s current economic situation.

“If (Miami) is in a budget crisis and laying people off, why is money be-ing spent to fix lo-gos?” Gillen asked.

Steve Cady, se-nior athletic director for Miami, said the university was given the task of determining a timeline and budget for the project.

“Inventory has been done in the ice arena, rec center, Millet (Hall), Yager (Stadium) and other facilities,” Cady said.

According to Cady, there are a

Health center cuts free HIV testing

University to correct RedHawk logo

All right-facing RedHawk logos will be replaced with left-facing logos.SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

“There are so many RedHawks all over campus, and we are trying to get them

all right.”

JASON LENERDEPUTY ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

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2011 Greek recruitment draws big numbers

By Amanda SeitzCampus Editor

The line never seemed to end when pledges walked into their re-spective chapter’s house to accept bids Sunday, Jan. 16.

This year’s classes were larger in size, giving each chapter a little something extra to brag about.

Not only were more women registered to participate in formal sorority recruitment than 2010, Mi-ami University’s campus was miss-ing three sororities that were once expected to be on campus during rush, Director of Greek Life Jenny Levering said.

Both Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Xi Delta, which are currently suspend-ed from the campus, were unable to participate in the process. Delta

Delta Delta, a chapter eligible to return to campus for 2011 formal recruitment, chose to keep its doors closed for the semester.

Although negative attention was focused on Miami’s Greek com-munity in spring 2010, Levering said potential new members saw Greeks in a positive light during the recruitment process.

“I don’t know if they (poten-tial new members) paid attention to what happened last summer,” Levering said. “I think the frater-nity and sorority community is well known across the nation and it’s just a part of what some students look at when they’re coming here.”

First-year Alpha Chi Omega pledge Madeline Lonergan

By Amanda SeitzCampus Editor

Miami University fraternities had a boost in recruitment numbers, but that wasn’t the only change in the rush process.

Per the new rules handed down to Greeks at the beginning of the 2010-11 academic year, fra-ternities also had to change the recruitment process.

Director of Greek Life Jenny Le-vering said the new changes were an attempt to formalize the process.

“I know it was totally informal last year, and they tried to formalize it this year,” Levering said. “They did some informal rounds, and the guys had to be invited back.”

Men rushing fraternities were re-quired to go to a certain number of houses in order to participate in re-cruitment, according to Interfrater-nity Council (IFC) Vice President of Recruitment Evan Heiser.

“Each potential member had to go to a round, visit four different houses, and after that they were in-vited back to whatever houses they visited,” Heiser said.

According to Heiser, fraternities were also not allowed to hand out bids until formal recruitment Thurs-day, Jan. 13.

Chi Psi President Nicholas Hu-ber said some rules had a positive impact on the community, while

Sororities get larger pledge classes Fraternities try to adjust under new rules

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Miami continues to be a ‘best value’

FYI

Campus

Getting a Miami University edu-cation is still a good deal. According to Kiplinger’s Top 100 Best Value Colleges for 2010–11, Miami ranks 77th best college value for in-state and 80th for out-of-state students.

Kiplinger’s compiles the rankings based on a combination of academic and affordability factors from more than 500 public four-year institu-tions, then does additional reporting on the data.

The University of North Caro-lina at Chapel Hill has held the No. 1 spot for 10 years running due to low admission rates, competitive students and a total cost of $17,000 a year.

According to Kiplinger’s, the av-erage price for all public universi-ties is $16,140. Miami tuition and fees for Ohio residents is $24,464 for 2010-11.

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FridayJanuary 21, 2011

Flipping Out

First-year adviser Matt Lewis flips pancakes in Emerson Hall Wednesday evening for a Community Council Pancake Night.

EMILY ESPOSITO The Miami Student

By Shannon PesekFor the Miami Student

The One Eight 09 Room has been open for more than a year, and there have been more changes since its opening.

The dining experience in the One Eight 09 Room, previously the 1809 Room, located on the second floor of the Shriver Center, offers upscale dining during lunch and dinner hours, and a Sunday brunch during which students can use their meal plans.

Students can use their meal plans every Tuesday night at dinner, one of the more recent changes made to the One Eight 09 Room, according

to Molly Lindsay, executive director of Carillon Catering and the One Eight 09 Room.

“In addition to adding the Tuesday night dinner for students and their meal plans, several enhancements were made to the menu,” she said. “We now serve the frittata at lunch as well as brunch, along with new muffin flavors every week.”

Other items such as cob salads, entrée salads and the chicken bacon wrap were added to the menu as well, Lindsay said.

The One Eight 09 room continues to be a popular Sunday brunch destination, with an average of 400 customers each week, Lindsay said.

“The weekend of Jan. 15 was a record-breaking weekend for us, with well over 500 students, staff and visitors coming in (for Sunday brunch),” Lindsay said.

The One Eight 09 Room is open Monday through Friday for lunch and dinner, but student meal plans are not accepted during those times.

Lindsay said the most popular time for non-student customers is lunch, when faculty, staff and visitors often gather.

Lindsay said the One Eight 09 Room could be adding another dinner night for students in the future.

Despite the changes, the number of diners and profits continue to increase, Lindsay said.

“Visitors enjoy coming here to have an upscale meal, sit by our fireplace and taste our new food options,” she said. “It’s a great atmosphere.”

First-year Katherine Holt raved about her experience as a first-time visitor.

“I did not even know this place was here, but now I plan on coming back every Sunday,” Holt said.

Sophomore Shelby Miller agreed.“I love Sunday brunch, and I’m excited to try the new food options at

dinner too, and it’s great that I can use my meal plan,” Miller said.

By Chelsea Naughton Senior Staff Writer

Miami University’s athletic de-partment continues to receive a large portion of the general student fee. In fact, the university ranks among the highest schools to pay for ath-letic department expenses through student fees.

As of 2009, the general student fee was $1,722, half of which has gone to athletics over the past 10 years, according to a Sept. 25, 2009 article in The Miami Student.

According to an article featured in a May issue of USA Today, which analyzed several Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) budgets, 10 of the 21 highest expense-paying schools were part of the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

MAC schools generally generate less revenue than schools in other conferences, according to Brad Bates, director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Miami, which requires more student fees.

“Big 10 schools, for example, re-ceived a check around $20 million last year just for being in the Big

10,” Bates said. “On front end they are generating revenue just by be-ing in the conference. Because we aren’t generating that, it puts extra strain on us.”

Bates said Miami does not have the TV distribution capabilities of automatic qualifying bowl cham-pionship series (BCS) conferences like the Big 10 or the Atlantic Coast Conference, which are guaranteed to play in BCS bowl games that have a large payout.

Bates said MAC schools have smaller sports venues than other

schools and are thus unable to generate the ticket revenues of larger athletic programs, which puts pressure on the university to fund ICA expenses.

Some students at Miami feel paying for athletic expenses with student fees is a fair way to support the department.

Junior Kerry Toumey said athletics are very important to a university.

“Our teams are a good way to get the Miami name out there and main-tain successful athletic programs,” Tourney said. “It’s important that our athletes have the facilities and resources they need.”

However, others feel Miami would be better served to use stu-dent fee money elsewhere.

“I don’t like the idea that such a large part of our tuition goes toward something unrelated to academia,” senior David Keys said.

Jason Lener, deputy athletic di-rector at Miami, said the amount of money Miami’s athletic depart-ment receives from student fees is very proportional to other MAC schools, but because Miami is the

smallest school in the conference, the fee from each individual student is higher.

“One of the challenges is that when we compare ourselves to other MAC schools our enrollment is smaller, so the percentage of our student fee is much higher,” Lener said. “We don’t get dramatically any more or less than other schools.”

Additionally, the amount of money allocated to the ICA expenses from the general student fee is expected to decrease in upcoming years after the department was instructed to decrease its dependence on student fees by three percent over the next five years, according to the final report from the Strategic Priorities Task Force.

According to Lener, Miami’s ath-letic department is looking for new ways to generate revenue to offset lower university funding.

“We are not trying to make any more ‘cuts’ so to speak, we’ve had to make cuts like anyone else on campus,” Lener said. “Instead, we’re reviewing different revenue streams like ticket sales, donations and sponsorships.”

MU athletic fees rank high

Performing Arts Series supports community

Revamped 1809 Room remains popular eatery

It is tradition for some students to eat Sunday brunch in the One Eight 09 Room.SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

“One of the challenges is that when we

compare ourselves to other MAC schools our enrollment is smaller, so the percentage of

our student fee is much higher.”

JASON LENERDEPUTY ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

Performance, dinner celebrate Asian culture

Fusion 2011 will celebrate Asian and Asian-American cul-ture Saturday, Jan. 29. The event will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. in Hall Auditorium.

Fusion will utilize traditional and contemporary Asian and Asian-American culture in a performance for the audience.

Dinner will immediately fol-low the performance in the Shriv-er MPR. Tickets are available to the public for $5 for just the show and $10 for both the show and dinner. Tickets can be purchased at the Shriver Center Box Office beginning Jan. 17.

Fusion is presented by the Asian American Association of Miami University.

The Miami University Art Mu-seum will screen The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 as part of the Weimar Film Series. It is pre-sented by the art museum and Pep-per Stetler, an assistant professor of art at Miami.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which was made in 1919, features dark imagery and elements of German expressionism. The film will be introduced by Vitaly Cher-netsky, associate professor of Rus-sian and director of Miami’s film studies program.

The museum will extend its gal-lery hours until 8 p.m. the night the film is shown.

The event is free and open to the public.

Art museum hosts film screening

EVENTS

Noëlle BernardSenior Staff Writer

Miami University’s Perform-ing Arts Series (PAS) events aren’t just another art show.

PAS links directly to the community through event sponsorships that attract lo-cal businesses, university de-partments, individuals, grants and foundations as sponsors, Assistant Director David Sheldrick said.

Saturday, Jan. 22, PAS will host the black tie optional 21st Annual Wine Tasting Gala and Auction.

According to Sheldrick, all proceeds from the wine tasting go to fund the community out-reach activities PAS supports by bringing renowned artists to the area.

“We do 12 to 15 events a year and we work really hard getting the artists out to Miami class-rooms, Talawanda schools (and) our community both in Oxford,” Sheldrick said. “We don’t charge the schools or the folks of Oxford to participate in those things.”

The interactions between

renowned artists and the commu-nity are crucial because it forges gaps PAS seeks to challenge.

“We have to put on entertain-ing shows, but we also need to be bringing in people that can enrich the community, be it through culture and learning,” Sheldrick said.

PAS receives sponsorship from several local businesses in Oxford, such as Baymont Inn & Suites, The Knolls of Oxford and Kona Bistro.

Kona Bistro Owner and Op-erator Tom Elliott said the res-taurant and PAS have a symbi-otic relationship that has lasted for years.

“We do a lot of support of the arts in general,” Elliott said. “We have a lot of opportunity in this town to support different organizations. It’s one that has reached out to us early on and we’ve reached back over the years. I feel like we share our clientele and certainly it’s a pas-sion of ours.”

PAS will be sponsoring two upcoming events in February,

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according to Elliott.“You think about a community this size

and the opportunities they have with what the Performance Arts Series brings, it’s pretty neat really,” Elliott said. “Our goal is to help them continue on that path and help their success.”

According to junior Bradley Walker, PAS provides entertainment that is challenging and thought provoking for both participants and viewers.

“The last time I was in a play was my freshman year for the PAS, and it was a pretty sweet opportunity,” Walker said. “Because it’s not just performance enter-tainment, it brings up issues of society and things that are important, and it brings light to these things.”

THE MIAMI STUDENT Campus FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 ♦ 3

Fight, fight, fight!

Maimi cheerleaders show their school spirit at the men’s basketball game Wednesday night at Millett Hall.SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

Listserv e-mails, multiple Facebook messages about an upcoming event, flyers littered through hallways.

Do any of those things sound like some-thing to avoid?

Students can submit events for student organizations online to the Miami Univer-sity Event Calendar. Anyone with a Miami UniqueID is able to post events so long as they have a Miami sponsor and are open to at least a segment of the public.

Public Information Officer and Staff Writer Susan Meikle said there was an evident decline in student submissions since the event calendar was removed from Blackboard.

“Students used to use it more often when they could actually see it on the

homepage,” Meikle said. “I think that there was a direct correlation to the drop off.”

Meikle worked with IT Services to design the calendar and met with stu-dent groups to ask what they wanted and needed. Six years ago, the calendar was finalized.

Events must be on campus, but if they are student groups holding an event at Uptown Park, the event will be permit-ted. Events are posted typically within one or two days of submission. Calendars for Oxford, Middletown and Hamilton are also available.

To submit an event or for more informa-tion, visit http://events.muohio.edu.

Reporting by Amelia Carpenter, Campus Editor

Students able to submit events for MU online calendar

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OPD breaks up party, makes multiple arrests

At around 11:30 p.m. Monday, Oxford Police Department (OPD) officers were dispatched to the apart-ments above BikeWise in response to disorderly behavior.

The caller reportedly told dispatch-ers multiple males were urinating in the alley behind the store.

When officers arrived, they report-edly witnessed the owner of Bike-Wise telling a group of males why it is not OK to urinate in the alley or the elevator shaft behind the store.

Officers also reportedly noticed a male with a Natural Light beer can in a rear jean pocket and asked him his age.

The male, later identified as Mi-ami University first-year Austin Guaccio, reportedly told officers he was 18 years old and was taken into custody.

The BikeWise owner then report-edly directed the officers to the freight elevator and told officers people had been urinating down the shaft from the second floor. Officers reportedly noted there was “quite a bit” of urine in the elevator, and while they were examining the area they heard the sound of “running liquid.”

According to police reports, officers noticed someone urinat-ing down the elevator shaft from above them.

The officers proceeded upstairs to 5 N. Beech St. Unit A, where they could reportedly hear loud music.

As the officers approached the door, they reportedly saw a young looking male with two cans of Natural Light beer, one of which was opened.

The male, later identified as Mi-ami junior Alexander Bauer, 20, reportedly tried to turn away upon noticing the officers.

Bauer was reportedly arrested while another officer arrested Miami sophomore Kevin Blaushild, 20.

At this point, a “mass exodus” re-portedly occurred out the rear door of the apartment. According to police reports, people were “literally lining up single file to exit.”

Officers estimated more than 100 people were present, and the apart-ment was reportedly trashed with beer cans and spilled beer. The hall-way was also reportedly messy.

Officers also reportedly observed a female with a blank stare on her face being helped out of the apartment.

The female reportedly told offi-cers she was 21 years old, but her ID showed her to be Miami sophomore Jabri Stein, 18.

Stein had a strong odor of alcohol on her breath and was arrested.

Officers then reportedly attempted to determine who was responsible for the party.

Residents from an adjacent apart-ment reportedly told officers the residents of the apartment were not home but allowed their apartment to be used as a common party area.

After being contacted by tele-phone, the residents of the apart-ment, all of whom were at least 21 years old, reportedly came to OPD to discuss the party.

None of the residents were report-edly intoxicated, and none were de-termined to be present at the party. The residents reportedly told officers they allowed their living room to be used as a party space.

One resident reportedly told of-ficers it was not uncommon for him to return home to find unknown per-sons partying in his apartment.

According to police reports, Bau-er was found to be in possession of a fake Connecticut driver’s license and a flask of vodka. Blaushild was reportedly found to be in possession of two fake IDs. Guaccio was cited for underage possession of alcohol. Bauer was cited for underage pos-session of alcohol and possession of a fake ID.

Blaushild was cited for underage possession of alcohol and posses-sion of a fake ID. Stein was cited for underage intoxication.

Keep on trucking

A snow plow clears Campus Avenue in uptown Oxford Thursday afternoon. Snow blanketed the area, causing school closings and bad road conditions.

Community4 EditorBethany Bruner

community@miamistudent.net

Friday January 21, 2011

City Council approves sirensBy Lauren CeronieStaff Writer

Citizens of Oxford may hear tornado sirens more often in the future, due to Oxford City Council’s approval of a new tornado siren ac-tivation policy Jan. 18.

Under the new policy, tornado sirens will be activated if the National Weather Service is-sues a tornado warning, if Doppler radar de-tects a tornado anywhere in Butler County or if a credible source, such as a local public safety official, reports a tornado.

Under the old policy, the sirens could only be activated if a tornado was spotted by a cred-ible source, according to Mayor Richard Kee-bler. Spotting a tornado cell on Doppler radar was not enough to warrant the activation of the sirens, Keebler said.

The council debated the new policy at length, with several members expressing concern about it.

Keebler began the debate by expressing his mixed feelings over the policy.

“I believe very much that the county needs a comprehensive plan, but I still have concern over the policy because it can cause potential problems with schools and the university if there is no tornado,” Keebler said.

Council members also expressed worries about overzealous siren activation.

With the new policy, tornado sirens could be

activated even without an imminent threat, ac-cording to council member Greig Rutherford.

“This is a poorly thought out plan,” Ru-therford said. “I do not believe this is a good policy, I believe this is the avoidance of good policy.”

Tornado sirens will not be activated excessively, according to Jeff Galloway, director of the Butler Coun-ty Emergency Management Agency. If the policy had been in place in 2009, the tornado sirens would have only been activated four times throughout the year, Galloway said.

Oxford Vice Mayor Ken Bogard suggested the city implement the policy and make changes as needed.

“We need to examine this policy during tornado sea-son and see what changes we need to make,” Bogard said.

The tornado siren activation policy passed 5-1, with Rutherford opposing.

The council also discussed an ordinance presented by Police Chief Steve Schwein to establish 60 as the maximum age for an original appointment to the Oxford Police Department. The current state-mandated

age maximum is 35, according to Schwein. However, this age maximum can be changed by an ordinance passed by the City Council, Schwein said.

All council members agreed the age maxi-mum should be lifted, but did not agree on an appropriate maximum age. Council members expressed concern over the amount of service an older officer could provide to the city.

The City of Oxford pays to train new officers, with costs up to $30,000 per officer, according to Sch-wein. An officer joining the Oxford Police Department at the age of 60 may not stay long enough and pro-vide enough service to the city to reimburse this cost,

Keebler said. Despite council concern over the ordinance,

Schwein defended the age maximum.“My son had a member in his police class

who was 61 years old and graduated second in the class,” Schwein said. “You can’t rule people out just because they’re older.”

City Council will discuss the ordinance further at the next meeting Feb. 2.

Winter weather may look pretty, but it can cause a pretty big mess on the roads. Sgt. Jim Squance of the Oxford Police Department said the local dispatch sees an increase in calls on snowy days because people want to know about road condi-tions and school closings. Squance offered these tips to drivers to stay safe on the roads.If you don’t have to go out, don’t.Even if you are able to drive well on snowy roads, other drivers may not. If you don’t absolutely need to

be out on the roads, stay home.Accelerate and decelerate slowly.This is the best method for avoid-ing skids, according to Squance. He also suggests taking more time to slow down because road condi-tions make stopping more difficult.Know your brakes.Know if your brakes are anti-lock or not. Squance said the best method for braking is threshold braking, which involves keeping your heel on the floor of the vehicle

and using the ball of the foot to apply slow and steady pressure to the brake.Don’t stop if you can avoid it.Stopping and getting started again can be one of the trickiest parts of driving on snowy or icy roads. Squance suggested drivers, if possible, slow down enough to keep rolling until a light changes or traffic clears at a stop sign.If you keep your car in a garage, don’t start the car to warm it up in a closed garage.

Starting a car releases carbon monoxide. Make sure the doors are open, so the air can be ventilated.Don’t use cruise control on snowy or icy roads.Look and steer where you want to go.Make sure your tires are properly inflated for snowy and icy road conditions.Always wear your seatbelt.

Reporting by Bethany Bruner, Community Editor

Be a better winter weather driver

“I believe very much that the county needs a

comprehensive plan, but I still have concern over the policy because it can cause potential problems

with schools and the university if there is

no tornado.”

RICHARD KEEBLERMAYOR

Oxford will now be part of county-wide tornado siren program

SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

FridayJanuary 21, 2011 5

HANNAH MILLER The Miami Student

FeaturesEditorHunter Stenbackfeatures@miamistudent.net

PHOTOS: SAMANTHA LUDINGTON

The noise of a windbreaker causes heads around the Miami University Women’s Center to look up. Confused, a young college student walks in the doorway and asks at the reception desk if anyone has found something she lost. While the student helper looks around the desk, shuf-fling papers and opening desk drawers, a conversation strikes up between two individuals. It is not between the student helper and the student who came in, but between the student and a man sitting on the beige sofa with a white Apple computer on his lap.

The man is dressed in crisp tan slacks, an argyle sweater and thick black glasses. While the student is talking to him, little does she know that he sits in the same spot on the beige couch almost every day. He is also one of two men who work in the Women’s Center.

Mathew Hall is a senior political science and history major at Miami. Upon graduating in the spring, Hall plans on continuing his education with a Ph.D. in history. He eventually wants to teach in higher education and write a history book.

For now, he is just finishing up classes, working at the Women’s Center, the Culinary Support Center and Spectrum.

Hall is one of the newest additions to the family at the Women’s Center. Had a student walked into the center six years ago, he or she would have seen a staff completely made up of women. However, five years ago, Directors Rhonda Jackson and Jane Geottsch made a decision. They were going to hire their first male employee in an all-female environment.

Who was the lucky man? Josh Kurz, a graduate student who began working in 2006.Jackson admitted she and Geottsch were nervous about this transition in the center.“We started thinking, ‘Will women be less likely to open up to a man about things like sexual-

ity, body image and sexual assault?’” Jackson said.Geottsch and Jackson’s worries were quickly put at ease. Kurz brought a new dynamic to the

staff and to people who walked into the center.Jackson said Kurz was raised in a household of same-sex parents and brought the ideals of

Jackson Katz, a leading anti-sexist male advocate, to the center. Jackson said when Kurz brought ideas from Katz and things he had personally learned, it brought a change to the center.

“Men had positive experiences when they came to the center,” Jackson said. “The men on our staff could outreach to other men about things women couldn’t, (such as) masculinity, articulat-ing their feelings and issues to others and working with women.”

Kurz stayed on the staff for two years and is currently completing a master’s degree. Geottsch and Jackson have since hired Tommy Marzella and Mathew Hall.

Before Hall joined the staff at the Women’s Center, he was a first-year almost ready to transfer to another school after his first semester at Miami.

“Before I grew comfortable with Spectrum and saw it was a family, I was ready to leave,” Hall said. “I had not found my pocket of friends, I felt trapped and I had not realized the diversity programs on campus and how to get involved.”

According to Hall, Spectrum is an organization for students of any sexual orientation to be a part of, and the organization promotes diversity programs on campus.

After joining Spectrum, Hall’s process of becoming a leader began. He took on more and more responsibilities in the student organization. Jackson, the adviser to Spectrum at the time, took notice.

“Mat took on leadership positions quietly,” Jackson said. “When something needed to be done, he would do it. He always had the time even though his academic schedule was hectic and he had another job. He was also always willing to give back to the members of Spectrum.”

Hall first became secretary of Spectrum, and currently serves as co-president of the organiza-tion. Hall admitted he probably would not have stayed at Miami if Spectrum did not exist. Being a part of Spectrum led to Hall joining the staff at the Women’s Center. Jackson saw something in Hall and encouraged him to apply to be a student ambassador his senior year.

“Sometimes there are those students when you meet them you sort of know they come to the table with a lot of skills,” Jackson said. “Mat has those skills. He has those professional and social skills of a leader.”

Hall was also not a stranger to the center. He said he spent a lot of time in and out because the GLTBQ Services Office is within the Women’s Center, and he wanted to be part of a change.

“At my other job I basically sit in a room with no windows and no one to talk to, and as a senior I wanted a job with more interactions and more to do,” Hall said.

Once Hall got the job as a student ambassador at the center, he chose the Femellectual as his area of leadership. According to the Women’s Center’s website, the Femellectual is a publication printed once a semester by students. It includes main programming points of the semester for the center, as well as personal articles and information about resources. Hall puts a lot of effort into the publication.

“To work on something like the Femellectual that is lasting is personally and intellectually rewarding,” Hall said. “To make friends and do projects that are long term and are tangible are more gratifying.”

Between classes, work with Spectrum and work with the Women’s Center, Hall’s co-workers have taken notice.

Marlen Perez, a student ambassador in the Women’s Center, said Hall pushes agendas for-ward at meetings and works to get things accomplished. She also said Hall embodies the fact that the center is open to anyone, not just women.

Carolina Renfro, a student ambassador in the Women’s Center, said Hall knows how to do work and play at the same time. Renfro said Hall is engaging with students who walk into the center and makes it a welcoming environment for everyone.

Hall’s presence has led to a changing dynamic at the center. Jackson said since there have been males in the center more men have come to use its resources.

“The Women’s Center is a resource available to everyone regardless of gender that not enough know about and not enough people take advantage of,” Hall said. “People are here to bring a welcoming, safe environment, especially if you are new to campus and need that environment.”

By Michelle LudwinFor The Miami Student

THE MIAMI STUDENT6 ♦ FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011

Wild Berry celebrates 40 years in OxfordBy Castle ArnoldFor The Miami Student

Wild Berry, a popular store uptown that sells many handmade and unique items, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

Marc Biales, the president of Wild Berry, said the store’s concept is dependent upon each customer.

“It depends on the person’s preconceived ideas, people coming in for jewelry will see it as a jew-elry store, smokers will see it as a smoking shop and of course we have the incense,” Biales said. “It has a certain kind of appeal that you don’t find in a big box.”

In 1971, Biales, a recent graduate of Miami Uni-versity, started a business mak-ing leather goods. Even though he graduated, Biales continued to take courses part-time for his enjoyment and education.

Eventually he opened his leather business part-time and used another store to sell his goods, which was located where Buffalo Wild Wings currently operates. He also did craft shows part-time. From the beginning, his shop was called Wild Berry.

“I was hiking around one day when I had to come up with the name and I came on these wild berries and I just thought it fit,” Biales said.

Wild Berry began carrying more than just leath-er goods, including pottery and other items Biales didn’t necessarily make himself. After a year, the location moved again and shared a shop with a

record store. Two years later, with growing popularity, Biales

moved again and for the first time Wild Berry was at its current location.

“We always wanted to make sure that (the items sold) were all handcrafted and kind of unique, and for a long time it was handcrafted things from around the world,” Biales said.

Wild Berry is also known for its incense. The store has always handcrafted its own in-

cense, but at one time Biales tried to find a dis-tributor because incense is challenging to make, he said. According to Biales, Wild Berry is one of the best makers of incense out there, and when he real-ized retailers were interested in buying and selling

incense, Wild Berry decided to start distributing.

“We made up a program that a retailer really likes and start-ed selling it in (19)92, we did our first trade show in (19)93 and that’s really taken off, it’s way bigger than the retail store now,” Biales said.

Instead of making the in-cense in the back of the store, Wild Berry now has its own factory. The factory ships di-rectly to approximately 2,000 stores in the United States

and countries all over the world, including Ja-pan, England, Australia, South America, Iceland and Guam.

Over the past 40 years, Wild Berry has grown from a one-man band to having 20 workers at the factory, six workers in the retail store and an online business.

“It depends on the person’s preconceived ideas, people coming in for jewelry will

see it as a jewelry store, smokers will see it as a

smoking shop and of course we have the incense.”

MARC BIALESPRESIDENT OF WILD BERRY

Wild Berry President Marc Biales stands in his warehouse.An employee dips the punks of incense in paint before giving the incense its scent.

Punks of chinese bamboo incense lay in the Wild Berry warehouse after being covered in sawdust, a crucial, but

inexpensive, part of the incense making process.

An employee puts clear packaging around the incense.

SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

others did not. “I think that a more formal pro-

cess was really good for some fraternities and not really good for other fraternities,” Huber said. “It was good because having the four house rule exposed a lot of guys to different houses, which meant the people weren’t go-ing in blindly, so they had a more educated decision.”

Huber said some potential new members found loopholes in the rule.

“The downside of that is a lot of people kind of just came and signed their names and just walked out be-cause they weren’t interested in that house,” Huber said.

Huber has also heard some

fraternities did not wait until the designated day to give out bids.

“I have heard from very legiti-mate sources that fraternities broke that rule,” Huber said.

Huber said his fraternity followed the new rules but found it trouble-some that other houses did not.

“I don’t understand why we waited that long to give out bids,” Huber said. “We followed the rule anyways but then saw everyone around us breaking it.”

Heiser said his office has heard there were issues with the new rules.

“We are still going through some complaints about (handing out bids early),” Heiser said.

Heiser said IFC was diligent in explaining the new rules to poten-tial members and fraternities.

“We were more persistent on e-mails and making sure that this year’s students knew what was going on with recruitment and we

had meetings beforehand so that they were more educated on the re-cruitment process,” Heiser said.

Despite the rules, rush num-bers were substantially higher for men’s recruitment.

Heiser said more than 900 men participated in the process, com-pared to 830 in 2010. He attributed the high numbers to the Greek community’s reaction to bad press in the spring.

“We came back from a rough spring and you could tell there was a change in attitude and refo-cus on what it’s about to be Greek that attracted a lot of people,” Huber said.

which is funded by grants.While Miami students are re-

quired to have health insurance, some insurance companies do not cover HIV testing, Walenga said.

Erica Zornes, program associate for health services, said students can purchase comprehensive in-surance through the university for $1,107 per year or basic insur-ance for $774 per year, but only the comprehensive plan covers HIV testing.

While Walenga admitted the change was motivated by fi-nancial concerns, she said HIV testing is still being offered at a discounted price to students. She said the material and labor to do each HIV test is $35.46, and of the 380 HIV tests the center performs each year, more than half were done anonymously.

“We now charge $25, while most insurance companies will re-imburse $15,” she said. “We aren’t making money on this, but we are losing less money.”

Walenga said the university started billing insurance compa-nies for all health services well before her arrival in 2008, with the exception of HIV testing.

She said the practice was started to help students avoid the stigma attached to HIV and AIDS.

“The HIV testing was held out because there was some thought people might not come in because people didn’t want to be identi-fied,” she said. “In the early days of HIV infection there were a lot of discriminatory practices … there was a lot of concern that if people were identified as HIV positive, their insurance would get terminated and people would shun them.”

Walenga said cutting free HIV testing will save the university between $4,900 and $12,000 per year in expenses, but she also wants to change the current views on HIV testing.

With HIV testing included as a standard procedure, Walenga hopes to reduce the stigma associ-ated with it and make it a normal part of medical examinations.

“I hope to see the amount of students getting tested increase,” she said. “HIV testing should be part of normal medical care for all sexually active adults.”

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large number of faulty logos and the university is still determining a cost estimate. He said Miami’s athletic department will share the project’s costs with facilities like Goggin.

While Lener could not give any price estimates, he said the uni-versity will initially take on small projects to delay large-scale costs.

“With the financial situation the university is in and the financial situation we are in as a depart-ment, we wouldn’t spend millions of dollars,” he said. “We are look-ing at what can we do immedi-ately and what can be pushed off for later.”

In its entirety, the project is not expected to reach the million dol-lar mark, according to Lener.

He said while no logos have yet been altered, work will begin after a plan for implementation is in place.

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said she had heard some news about the events but it did not impact her decision in rushing.

“Rush was very exciting, over-whelming, but in a good way,” Lonergan said.

First-year Zeta Tau Alpha pledge Kate Schumacher said her parents were apprehensive about her decision to rush.

“I did hear a lot of things because I’m from Cincinnati,” Schumacher said. “My parents were not very pleased with my decision to rush.”

Schumacher said going through the recruitment process was a positive experience.

“It’s definitely a good experience, even for people who are against it,” Schumacher said.

Levering also attributed the success to a number of students whose families have a Greek life history.

“A lot of people come to Miami to be Greek,” Levering said.

With approximately 1,055 regis-tered women and 935 women partici-pating in open house, Levering said all chapters made quota this year. She said a majority of women who did not par-ticipate in open house were ineligible because of grade requirements.

When rush came to an end, 753 women were matched to a sorority chapter, according to Levering.

According to statistics available on The Cliff Alexander Office of Frater-nity and Sorority Life website, most 2010 pledge classes fell somewhere between 42 and 47 new pledges.

This year, according to Levering, chapters handed out between 52 and 56 bid cards.

The success, according to Levering, has a positive impact on all chapters at Miami.

SORORITIEScontinued from page 1

FRATERNITIEScontinued from page 1

The Miami University Athletic Department will soon begin to

replace certain right-facing Red-Hawk logos inconsistent with the official RedHawk, which faces to the left.

The logos currently in question are facing to the right, and athletic officials want all logos throughout the university to be consistent.

The editorial board of The Miami Student feels replac-ing the logos at this time is completely elective, and there-fore any expenditure is unwarranted.

According to offi-cials, when the logo was created there were several differ-ent versions produced, some facing left, some facing right.

The cost of replacing the in-correct logos will be shared be-tween the athletic department and the facilities where the lo-gos are, including the Goggin Ice Center.

The board is discouraged by the lack of consideration shown by those making decisions involving the RedHawk logo.

Especially during a time when the university is facing financial strain, using funds to replace logos that are facing the wrong way seems to be an irresponsible action.

Are student experiences negative-ly affected because the logos are not all uniform?

How many students have even noticed or cared?

Did the turned heads, forgive us, actually turn any heads?

In addition, this logo discrep-ancy is an issue that should have been considered when the logo was first introduced.

Before plaster-ing the RedHawk on every possible free space, the uni-versity should have made sure it was the correct version.

As a large per-centage of student fees go toward athletics, students have to pay for a mistake that easily could have been avoided.

With such a tight budget at the university, this is not the best way to spend money.

At a time when faculty and staff are losing their jobs and academics are suffering, spend-ing any sum on logo replacement is unjustifiable.

Perhaps a left-facing-RedHawk-shaped donation box should be set up outside of athletic facilities so any alumni or students who actu-ally care about fixing the logos can help fund the project themselves. We doubt the boxes would fill up very quickly.

Perhaps it is not the RedHawk that needs to face the right direction, but the university.

Focus on what really matters, student education.

➤ EDITORIAL

Replacing right-facing ’Hawks, wrong fiscal priority

CHAD STEBBINS The Miami Student

Oldest university newspaper in the United States, established 1826

The Miami StudentEDITORIAL BOARD

Erin Fischesser Editor in Chief Thomasina Johnson News EditorErin Maher Managing EditorScott Allison Online EditorSam Kay Editorial EditorJessica Sink Editorial EditorStephen Bell Campus Editor

Amelia Carpenter Campus Editor Amanda Seitz Campus EditorBethany Bruner Community Editor Michael Solomon Sports EditorHunter Stenback Features EditorSamantha Ludington Photo EditorHannah Miller Art Director

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

Opinion

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FridayJanuary 21, 20118 Editors

Sam KayJessica Sink

editorial@miamistudent.net

At a time when faculty and staff are losing their

jobs and academics are suffering, spending any sum on logo

replacement is unjustifiable.

“Rape culture” wrongly places blame on victims

I was particularly impressed with Jessie Hall’s letter to the editor published Jan. 18 regarding where the blame of sexual assault should lie. Not only did she hit the nail right on the head, but she also touched on a larger endemic problem within college campuses, the phenomenon which is “rape culture.” What is so dangerous about messages that even slightly indicate that women, although of course men are victims of sexual assault as well, can prevent sexual assault is that it obviously takes away responsibility from the perpetrator who took advantage. It also pro-vides the non-effected others a sense of false security (“She must have done something to want it.” “She is a slut anyway.”). It’s easier to believe someone did something to deserve this horrible thing in her life than to believe that we live, work, study and party with in-dividuals who could be so malicious. It puts an arbitrary wall between themselves and victims, and hence the thought “That will never happen to me.” Until, of course, it does. When it does happen, victims feel a sense of self-blame and confusion because what hap-pened to them completely flies in the face of what they had previously thought about them-selves. It immediately silences the victim.

If I’m completely honest, if you have ever said to your friend “You were really drunk, are you sure?” or “It’s not a big deal, get over it already” or “He’s such a nice guy, I’m sure he didn’t mean it,” then you are both indirectly and directly contributing to the “rape culture.”

A discussion about what we know about offenders of sexual assault is important. We know that most men are not rapists. Most men, when confronted with a drunk girl who needs to be carried home will carry her home, tuck her in bed, make sure she’s okay and then leave. Research tells us it is a very small per-centage of men who, when confronted with a drunk girl who needs to be carried home, will carry her home and then have sex with her re-gardless of the fact that she is incapacitated, then in the morning contrive the story that she was “totally all over him and wanted it.”

Under Ohio Law, someone cannot give consent for sex when “substantially impaired because of a mental or physical condition.”

That’s the law, and “whoever violates that is guilty of rape, a felony of the first degree…” read it yourself. Offenders, you are still re-sponsible for your behaviors regardless of if you are drunk or not. It’s called being an in-formed citizen and decent human being. For some reason we all understand that a drunk driver is still responsible if damage happened when driving drunk.

I get so fed up with messages that target what women should do to prevent sexual assault. They are ineffective and, as men-tioned above, contribute to the “rape culture.” Rather, a focus needs to be on the perpetra-tors. They are the ones committing this crime. Therefore, I propose this list of prevention tips guaranteed to work:

Don’t put drugs in people’s drinks in order to control their behavior.

Don’t forget, you can’t have sex with some-one unless they are awake.

Remember, you must obtain consent before you can touch anyone.

When you see someone walking by them-selves, leave them alone!

Use the buddy system. If you are not able to stop yourself from assaulting people, ask a friend to stay with you.

If you are in an elevator and someone else gets in, don’t assault them.

Always be honest with people. Don’t pre-tend to be a caring friend in order to gain the trust of someone you want to assault. Consid-er telling them you plan to assault them.

Carry a whistle. If you are worried you might assault someone, you can hand it to the person you are with, so they can blow it if you do.

As the coordinator of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program on cam-pus, I applaud people like Jessie Hall, just a coincidence on the same last name, who re-ally get it and speak out on this issue. If you would like more information or want to be part of Women Against Violence and Sexual Assault (W.A.V.E.S.) or Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault (M.A.R.S.), please don’t be silent and contact me.

NIcOLE L. HALLcOORDINATOR Of THE SExuAL

ASSAuLT PREvENTION AND RESPONSE PROgRAm

HALLNL@muOHIO.EDu

Your rule of thumbReilly Smith being named CCHA offensive player

of the week for the second time this year.

Lots of homework and syllabus week being over!

All letters must be signed in order to be printed. Please send letters via e-mail to: editorial@miamistudent.net

We reserve the right to edit for length, content and clarity.

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Change to HIV testing policy will decrease stigmaIn a move to save money and re-

duce stigma associated with the tests, Miami University Student Health Services has discontinued the practice of free, anonymous HIV testing.

HIV will now be tested in the same manner as any other sexually transmitted disease (STD).

The editorial board of The Mi-ami Student believes reducing stigma associated with HIV testing will encourage more students to get tested.

This board feels it was a mistake for HIV testing to carry more stig-ma than other STD testing with po-tentially lethal complications, such as human papilloma virus (HPV).

We are slightly concerned the cost of the test could turn some students away. The $25 fee is far from prohibitive and below the actual $35 cost of the test, but an impediment nonetheless.

We are, however, pleased the health center will be potentially saving tens of thousands of dol-lars, which is a great benefit during times of financial strain.

We remind students that free testing for HIV and other STDs is available elsewhere, including the Miami Mobile Health Unit.

There are other options, and in-

dividual health is primarily student responsibility.

Although unrealistic in the cur-rent budget climate, this board would like to see all STD testing on campus provided free to students.

STDs are as much an issue of campus safety as fire drills, cross-walks or nighttime lighting.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 45 percent of women age 20 to 24 have HPV.

Miami seems to have fewer, or at least less visible, safe sex awareness initiatives than other universities.

Condoms, let alone free ones, are not readily available on campus.

The university seems to be aware of and react to issues of drug and alcohol use.

The board believes administrators may prudishly overlook the amount of sex students are having.

Of course, administrators can only do so much.

With the exception of cases of sexual assault, safe sex is an issue of personal responsibility and choice.

While this board calls upon the university to do more to encourage safe sex, our loudest pleas are direct at students: get tested for STDs, choose your partner wisely and use a condom.

In 1989, the Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Last

year, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the prize but was unable to collect it because he was and remains a political prisoner in China. This week, his jailer, Hu Jintao, paid the U.S. a visit. One Nobel laureate hosted

a man personally re-sponsible for the suffer-

ing of two other Nobel laureates. As Michael Green – a former adviser to Pres-ident Bush – told The New York Times, “How awkward.”

During President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washing-ton and Chicago, he was lavishly hosted. Hu was welcomed with a 21-gun salute, treated to lunch at the State Department by the vice president and a full state dinner at the White House hosted by the president and first lady. As part of the visit, $45 billion in trade deals were announced, includ-ing a deal worth $19 bil-lion for Boeing to sell 200 airplanes to China. At first glance, this seems like a windfall for the United States, but the cost is far too high.

Wednesday night, while President Obama and President Hu were dining at the White House, I ate at Hamilton Hall. Happening upon a friend of mine, I sat down at his table across from a Chinese student I had not met before. I will call him Li for his privacy. I happened to be wearing a Tibetan-style shirt I bought in India, so we soon began talking about Ti-bet and China. Naturally, we reached an impasse on the issue of the political status of the Dalai Lama.

Meaning to turn the discussion toward less controversial things, I asked if he was proud that President Hu was wel-comed to Washington with such pomp and circumstance.

“No,” Li told me. I was surprised. “Whenever high ranking officials come to Washington on a trip, they buy expensive things,” he said. He told me it was wrong for the Chinese government to spend so much money on trips overseas when they don’t have enough money to pay for food or health care for all Chinese citizens. The 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Shang-hai World Expo were also wastes of mon-ey, Li said.

“Would you like the government to change?” I asked him.

“Yes,” he said. “But I am not a political science major and I did not go to People’s University, so I cannot get a job in the gov-ernment, especially not a high-ranking job.” He paused. “But you cannot change your government either.”

“Yes, I can.” I turned to my friend. “Hey, if I ran for Congress, would you vote for me?” He shrugged and nodded. “Do you support the Chinese govern-ment?” I asked Li.

He suddenly got uncomfortable. “I cannot say,” he said. “I think the gov-ernment is too powerful, but everyone knows you can’t say this.” Li told me he is afraid speaking too openly even in the U.S. because it could make it dif-

ficult for him to return to China.

I turned my head slowly from left to right, scan-ning the dining hall for Chinese censors or spies. “The Chinese govern-ment is not here,” I told him in Chinese. “What-ever is right, that is what you can say.”

He told me he could not take the risk. He gave the example of Stanley Toops, a Miami Univer-sity geography professor

who was blacklisted by Chinese authori-ties because of a chapter he contributed to a book about the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The same thing could happen to me, Li warned, if I write such things in The Miami Student.

I find it terrifying that the Chinese government is so powerful that it can effectively censor Chinese citizens even overseas with the implied threat of legal consequences when they return home. I find it abhorrent that we would so extravagantly host the head of such a government.

It is true that we have to deal with the Chinese Communist Party until or unless its rule is ended by the Chinese people, but I fear we may prolong that rule by af-fording President Hu such high diplomat-ic honors. What message does this send to the Dalai Lama? What message does this send to Liu Xiaobo? What message does this send to Li, our classmate?

I understand diplomacy is compli-cated. We cannot afford to outrage such an important trading partner dur-ing a weak economic period, but there is more than economics at stake here. Firing off a 21-gun salute for a mod-ern dictator may be realpolitik, but it is still mediocrity.

American Idol is in a very precarious position. If it doesn’t have a great sea-son, the show is in danger of ending.

It was once the show everyone was dying to see. It rocked the ratings and demol-ished competition. Musicians from across the country were auditioning for their shot at stardom, even if it was only five minutes in the audition episodes.

Now, it features two new judges: Ste-ven Tyler from Aerosmith and Jenni-fer Lopez. The problem is that people are starting to move on.

People are saying Idol should try to lose the tough judge image and survive without Simon Cowell, a man who at times was hated by viewers. Let’s face it though, he was one of the best parts of the show. He was brutally honest and didn’t care about the singers’ feel-ings. Many times he gave them the exact motivation that they needed to prove themselves.

The fact is that he was real. He said what was on his mind. The music in-dustry is a vicious business. It’s not a feel-good atmosphere where people who give their best shot get signed to record deals. I’m sorry, that’s not how it works.

Now that Idol has less of an edge judge-wise, we might not have the artists pushing their limits as much. Think about it. If someone says to you “Yeah, it was good, but it’s not quite there,” you’ll probably work a little harder on it, but if someone tells you point blank “That was awful, there was no passion and I didn’t like it,” you’re going to go home furious and come back with an energy to prove yourself like no one knew you could.

The music industry already has a number of people who are good but not great. Don’t get me wrong, I re-spect anyone who has the courage to write his or her own music and put it out there because that takes an amazing amount of guts. No matter what, they should be applauded. That doesn’t, however, mean the song itself should be praised. I’m sure Christina Aguil-era put a ton of work into Bionic, but it was a bad album with bad songs.

We shouldn’t feel bad for contes-tants who get bad comments from judges, because the show isn’t about how hard they worked, but rather who is good enough to become an “idol.”

The show needs to get another Car-rie Underwood. If you think about it, she’s the only contestant who has re-ally been a blowout success. Kelly Clarkson has done great as well, but the difference is when I think of Carrie Underwood I don’t think American Idol.

The show needs to produce another star whose career overshadows any-thing they ever did on Idol. You can’t sustain a show over years and years if the contestants who win aren’t dy-namic enough to hold people’s atten-tion for more than a year or two. Sure, some people can rattle off every win-ner from each year, but then again, a lot of people probably have to think for a second about a couple of them. You aren’t an idol if people can’t re-member your name off the top of their head.

American Idol is no longer the new show. It no longer has the young audi-ence’s attention. It doesn’t have the one judge who everyone loves to hate but hates to admit is right a lot of the time. It has lost its edge. If judges don’t push the contestants and it doesn’t showcase an amazing breakout star this season, its days are numbered. Even Jenny from the block can’t help that.

OpinionTHE MIAMI STUDENT

➤ ESSAY

➤ GREEN EGGS AND SAM

Playing host to mediocrity

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 ♦ 9

Sam Kay

American Idol has lost

its edge

➤ THIS AND THAT

ChrisDeNicola

Assange poses a threat to government security

We shouldn’t feel bad for contestants who get bad judge comments because this isn’t about how hard they worked, it’s about who is good enough to become an idol.

With board members unknowingly a part of WikiLeaks and key volunteers quitting because of Julian Assange’s dictatorial man-agement approach, the task of painting a pic-ture of the organization proves difficult.

But removing the noise and shifting the focus on Assange yields a much clearer portrait, allowing the intent of the organiza-tion to be critically exam-ined as opposed to getting trapped in focusing on its public identity.

The information avail-able on Assange is limited, but it is known that he is an experienced cryptographer and hacker. He was taken to court for hacking into thou-sands of systems, including a few belonging to the U.S. Department of Defense.

An e-mail exchange post-ed by the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology shows Assange collaborating with NASA scientist Fred Blonder and Los Alam-os National Laboratory scientist Michael C. Neuman on a project nearly two years before his prosecution.

These scientists were in top positions at prominent national security research insti-tutions. This makes Assange connected to a seemingly tight-knit community of national security scientists, and it’s not the only am-biguous trait of his past.

Assange has reportedly attended 37 separate schools and six universities, many of which have yet to be mentioned by name.

There is no information or proof of his actu-al credentials or the work he had performed prior to the WikiLeaks project.

The best information available is in a bi-ography, which states he is a “prolific pro-grammer and consultant for many open source projects and his software is used by most large organizations and is inside ev-

ery Apple computer.” Still, he has not appeared in any sources open to the public as being a freelance contributor to Apple.

The fact that an advocate for transparency has such a blurry past does very little to support the thought that they are conspiring with others.

It does, however, point out major discrepancies in As-sange’s credibility by reveal-ing the possibility of manip-

ulating the public by manufacturing a past that can answer any questions that arise.

Even though there is a need for the anonym-ity of Assange and WikiLeaks’ board mem-bers, there is also a need to portray the group as being open and trusted, but that is not the case. WikiLeaks has as sketchy and unknown of a past as the governments they seek to change. Pot, meet kettle.

Of course, there is always the idea that Assange and WikiLeaks are funded and controlled by the U.S. government to pro-vide reasoning for Internet regulation. Al-though it is an interesting claim, it is difficult to prove.

OK, it may not be a conspiracy, but there are still many questions that need to be an-swered before I relinquish my foil hat. The simple fact is that Americans are now in a compromising position because of what WikiLeaks has brought to the table.

The possibility of regulating the Internet may be laughable, but the reality is that there were reports that both military and univer-sity leaders spoke out against reading the cables online.

It is far from absolute regulation, but it is as close to a knee-jerk reaction that I need to register in my mind that it could very well be a route considered by the government at a later time.

It is clear that WikiLeaks is a threat to government transparency and much of what is happening parallels a perfect storm that could both obligate and justify the gov-ernment to go to extremes in combating the organization.

Therefore, even though WikiLeaks may be expressing and testing our freedom of speech and press, those rights are con-tingent upon the extremes to which the government wishes to go in the name of national security.

When looking back at the PATRIOT Act or Ollie North’s Rex 84, it is not so far-fetched to see that because of the threat WikiLeaks poses on our government, it inadvertently poses a similar threat to our civil freedom.

Joshua CarpenterCarpenJ4@muohio.edu

WikiLeaks has as sketchy and unknown of a

past as the governments they seek to change. Pot, meet kettle.

I find it terrifying that the Chinese government is so powerful that it can

effectively censor Chinese citizens even overseas.

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with either one in front of them.”After the wins, Miami moved into the third

place spot in the CCHA standings. Although the Spartans sit in 10th in the CCHA, the ’Hawks are ready for a tough battle.

“They’re going to be good, they’re always a tough team to play against, especially in

their own rink,” Cannone said. “We know that we’re going to get their best and they have a hot goalie, so we’re going to try to get as many shots as we can, see what hap-pens and try to make his life tough in front of the net.”

The Red and White have been focusing on their special teams play this week to pre-pare for the weekend series. Miami currently leads the CCHA in special teams, both in power play (21.2 percent) and in penalty kill (91.4 percent).

Historically, the Spartans are 35-15-3

all-time when taking on the ’Hawks in East Lan-sing, but the last two contests between Michigan State and Miami have been splits, both in Ox-ford. Miami is 4-0 in the last two series between the teams in Munn Arena, but those sweeps came in November 2007 and 2008.

Echoing Cannone, Reichard said Michigan State is going to be ready to play.

“They’re a good team, they have quite a few good players, they’re well coached,” Reichard said. “It should be a good series.”

The ’Hawks are set to start at 7:35 p.m. Fri-day and 7:05 p.m. Saturday.

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Big Julian Mavunga topped the stat sheet with a career-high 25 points, but the other two mem-bers of what coach Charlie Coles called his big three were just as vital to a RedHawks victory Wednesday night.

Miami University seniors Nick Winbush and Antonio Ballard both had double-doubles in the 84-76 win over the University of Akron at Millett Hall Wednesday night. The ’Hawks were coming off of a 62-53 loss Jan. 16 at Bowling Green State University.

“I thought we came out ready to play tonight and we did a really good job of establishing ourselves on the court,” Coles said. “In the past, we’ve been giving up early offensive rebounds, not running the offense with energy and not estab-lishing ourselves. Tonight we got that going, and I really liked it.”

Coles said he also liked Bal-lard’s 19 points and 10 rebounds and Winbush’s 11 points and a dozen boards. They are the first RedHawks duo to have double-doubles in the same game since Nathan Peavy and William Hatcher in 2006.

“Coach Coles made mention of it in the locker room,” Mavunga said. “I feel like we’ve had games where one guy shines or another guy shines, but I just feel like we were in sync more than we have been in any game this whole season.”

The ’Hawks (8-10, 3-1 Mid-American Conference) scored the games’ first seven points, but the Zips followed that with a 10-0 run. The Red and White wrestled back the lead 14-12 at 11:49 and didn’t let it slip from their claws. The comeback started with the ’Hawks down 12-11 before they went on a 16-3 run to take command.

“If you watch Akron play at all there would be times where they would be down,” Ballard said. “We knew that Akron was a team that could chip away and come back. We knew that we couldn’t let them build their momentum.”

The Zips got close, at 17-15, be-fore the three pointers started fall-ing. Sophomore Orlando Williams spurred a 10-0 RedHawks run with several deep treys, and finished four of five from distance in the opening act with 12 points.

“I guess it kind of transferred over from the Bowling Green game,” Williams said. “I’ve just been in the gym working on my shot, and today it showed.”

At the 11:48 mark, the Zips closed the gap to 55-48. The teams traded baskets, and the Red and White were in need of a statement shot. Winbush sat on the left elbow before being found, and put the Red and White up 64-50, bringing the red clad crowd back into the ball game.

The RedHawks did not score during the final five minutes, but did make 12 of 16 free throws to seal an all-important conference win.

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NCAA needs to change

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Sophomore Garrett Kennedy pushes a Bowling Green State University skater against the glass Jan. 14. MICHAEL GRIGGS The Miami Student

While I was up late watch-ing old Batman reruns, I

could have sworn I heard the Rid-dler say, “Riddle me this, Batman, when is the NCAA no longer a viable institution?

The answer? As long as they continue becoming hypocrites of their own regulations.”

I know, I was just as flabbergast-ed, but the Riddler’s words ring true, especially after this winter’s bowl season.

It was during this time The Ohio State University played in its bowl game.

The allegations against Ohio State got as much attention on ESPN as Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel who once made an appear-ance on SportsCenter for an entire week straight.

Five players were penalized for selling their hard-earned merchan-dise for cash and tattoos.

The NCAA subsequently laid down a harsh ruling, suspending the players for five regular season games. Seems pretty tough, right?

Five games out of only 13 could seriously affect a player’s draft sta-tus, as well as mess up Mel Kiper Jr.’s draft board (but not his hair).

Fortunately, those games would not affect the players’ participation in the Sugar Bowl.

Something about this just doesn’t feel right, just like the sweater I got from my Great Aunt Mabel for Christmas.

By allowing the players to com-pete, the NCAA kept its payday from the bowl (because who wants to watch a team without its best players), but also seemed to give out a very harsh punishment.

When asked why they would not just leave after this season for the NFL draft and skip out on the pun-ishment, the student-athletes said they had made a promise to their coach. I’m sure that like Cush’s dad in Jerry McGuire, their word is like “oak.”

In attempting to come off as a strict disciplinarian, the NCAA in-stead appears to be a scared baby-sitter, afraid to give out too much punishment because it will hurt its paycheck.

The main cause of the problem seemed to be the fact that the play-ers “didn’t know they couldn’t do that.”

I did some in-depth NCAA re-search by asking a former athlete familiar with the system.

NCAA athletes have to sign a plethora of paperwork before each school year, two forms of which show the hypocrisy of the situation at hand.

The first form that is signed, and athletes have to sign it, basi-cally says student-athletes are not allowed to make money based on their athletic performances.

The next paper they sign gives the NCAA permission to use the athlete’s image, likeness, uniform, et cetera as they please.

I have a friend in law school, and even he doesn’t think it makes sense.

If the players are guilty, and there is no denying that they broke the rules, then they should be pun-ished for their actions.

In this current system, every-body wins but nobody is right. Ohio State got its bowl game pay-check, the NCAA got great ratings from a good game and the players got to showcase their talents even after doing something wrong.

The NCAA needs to make changes or it will end up like Rodney Dangerfield, getting no respect.

NEXT GAME: 2 p.m. Sunday at Kent State University

By Hannah R. MillerStaff Writer

Coming off its first sweep since Nov. 19 and 20, the Miami University ice hockey team (10-6-2 Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), 13-8-3 overall) looks to continue climbing the CCHA standings as they face off against the Michigan State University Spartans (5-9-2 CCHA, 9-11-4 overall) Jan. 21 and 22. The RedHawks head to East Lansing, Mich. with a few recent adjustments.

Against the Bowling Green State Uni-versity Falcons, senior Pat Cannone joined Carter Camper in sporting a “C” on his jersey. The new co-captain was chosen by

Head Coach Enrico Blasi in order to remove some of the pressure from Camper and as-sistant captains Andy Miele, Will Weber and Alden Hirschfeld.

“He embodies everything that we ask of any of our players, and he’s been very con-sistent all year long,” Blasi said of Cannone. “Sometimes there’s a lot of pressure that goes on with being a captain, and he can alleviate a little bit of the pressure from the rest of the guys so they can just focus on their game.”

Even with the new leadership role, Can-none does not see the coaches’ expectations changing for him.

“They still expect me to go out and do my job, make plays and create some offense,” Cannone said. “They just want me to keep

doing what I’m doing, keep high tempo play up and work hard. I think my role is still the same.”

In addition to their new co-captain, the ’Hawks were backstopped with 49 saves in two games against the Falcons by netminder Cody Reichard. Following the sweep, Blasi said the team will continue to make goalten-ding decisions as they come.

“I think right now we’re just looking to go weekend to weekend and trying to get two wins every weekend and try to get on a little bit of a roll,” Blasi said. “It could be Cody (Reichard), it could be Connor (Knapp), it just all depends on how the team is looking

Big three lead ’Hawks in win

RedHawks hope for sweepNEXT GAME: 7:35 p.m. Friday at Michigan State University

Junior forward Julian Mavunga slams down two of his career-high 25 points Jan. 19 against the Unitersity of Akron.

SCOTT ALLISON The Miami Student

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