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The Miami StudentFRIDay, JaNUaRy 18, 2013
Oldest university newspaper in the United States, established 1826
MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIOVOLUME 140 NO. 30
In 1950 The Miami Student reported that Bruce Kesler, a Phi Kappa Tau fraternity member became “Mr. Mustache of 1950,” after winning the mustache –growing contest at the Barber’s Hop, the annual Women’s League dance. Kesler’s prizes were a free shave and a haircut as well as a Lenthergic shave kit donated by the John Minnis drugstore.
TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY
Campus housing shortage balances itself out, for nowBY KATIE M. TAYLORCAMpUS EDITOR
Miami University’s housing shortage has begun to balance itself out after disciplinary action last se-mester relocated 43 fraternity mem-bers to on-campus living and made the situation critical.
While overcrowding in residence halls may be solved for this semes-ter, current on-campus construction projects will not yield an increase in student beds on campus.
According to Brian Woodruff, director of Housing Options, Meals and Events (HOME), he has yet to calculate the Miami residence halls’ exact capacity, but he believes it to be much closer to 100 percent than the 103 percent Miami was at in October.
“From my quick estimation, and looking at what right now I think to be true, we’re looking like we’re right around 7,140 or so [students] with us on campus,” Woodruff said. “That’s right about at our capacity, so we’re looking really good on that.”
Woodruff credited time, and various uncontrollable factors for solving the housing crisis.
“We always have fewer people on campus in spring than we do in fall,” Woodruff said. “A lot of people study abroad, they might
transfer out—different reasons.”According to him, all of the 14
fraternity members that remained in temporary housing in October have been assigned permanent rooms, though a few spring semester transfer students took their place.
One of those transfer students, ju-nior Ross Paisley, was happy to say he received an email on Wednesday, Jan. 16 assigning him a permanent living arrangement.
“I ended up in temporary housing because I registered far later than I should have,” Paisley said. “So, I get thrown into temporary housing, but it really wasn’t all too bad because there only ended up being three people in my room.”
According to Paisley, Miami’s typical temporary living spaces hold 14 people in a single, ‘barracks-style’ room comprised of seven semi-private ‘pods’ with two people in each. Paisley said he got lucky.
“It was just me and a couple other guys and we got along well, but I can imagine though, say if it was a month scenario and we were at full capacity,” Paisley said. “If fourteen people were living in there—every-body has music, alarms, comput-ers—it would get aggravating.”
To avoid forcing others into Miami’s temporary housing in the future, Woodruff said certain
preventative measures are taken.“We’re taking lots of historical
information, what we’ve learned this year and the years prior, really to be as prepared as possible for next year to prevent the overcrowding situa-tion,” Woodruff said. “The way we do that is that we limit the number of juniors and seniors who we allow to choose rooms [on campus].”
According to Woodruff, Miami is currently in the process of es-tablishing several new residence halls as part of a preconceived construction plan.
Though the number of residence halls will increase, renovations on older buildings will increase the room size and decrease the num-ber of rooms, keeping capacity ap-proximately the same even after all construction is complete
“We have flexibility built into the program, so it could change along the way, but at this point we are planning ultimately to maintain the same capacity that we have today,” Woodruff said.
Matt Frericks, Director of Aux-iliary Construction and Services, said though it will not increase Miami’s capacity, construction will better students’ lifestyles.
FRANKIE ROSKAM THE MIaMI STUDENT
SpRING IS IN THE AIRMembers of Spring awakening prepare for rehersal Monday. The show began yesterday and performances will run through Sunday at the Oxford Community arts Center.
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Miami graduate prepares to compete on Survivor BY EMILY GLASERSENIOR STAFF WRITER
Students planning to watch the upcoming season of CBS’s Survi-vor now have someone to root for. Miami University graduate Reynold Toepfer has been selected to com-pete on the 26th season the hit show.
Toepfer, who graduated in 2005 with a finance degree, will join nine other castaways in the Gota Tribe to compete against Bikal Tribe, made up of 10 castaways from previous seasons.
Claire Wagner, director of News and Public Information at Miami, said Miami is excited to see one of Miami’s own compete.
“It’s fun to root for somebody in the Miami community,” Wagner said. “We wish him well and hope he represents Miami well.”
Sophomore Erica Bodenbender does not watch the show, but shares Wagner’s excitement for Toepfer and Miami.
“It’s always good to see Mi-ami represented other places,”
Bodenbender said. “Everyone al-ways assumes we are Miami, Flor-ida, so it’s exciting to see a graduate on a national show.”
Toepfer is not the only member of the Miami community to appear on reality television. Susan Vaughn, director of Ethics and Student Con-flict Resolution starred with her son Patrick on the seventh season of CBS’s The Amazing Race.
Once Vaughn and her son were selected, she could not even tell her colleagues at Miami the news.
“I took a leave from work,” Vaughn said. “A lot of people speculated I was seriously ill. No-body knew where I was. My hus-band was making up stories like I’d gone to Mexico to do Habitat for Humanity.”
According to Vaughn, the audi-tion process and secrecy are true for Survivor as well.
“My son had applied for Survivor before and made it through a prep round and was cut out,” Vaughn said. “When he was going through the audition process he couldn’t tell us anything.”
Vaughn and her son were the first mother-son team on the show, some-thing she thinks may have helped them stand out among the 25,000 other applicants.
According to Vaughn, the hard-est thing to get used to was that she had a camera and audio person with her everywhere she went. She has advice for reality TV show stars.
“Just be yourself,” Vaughn said. “Don’t do anything out of character. And never say never.”
Instructors race time to record final gradesBY AMANDA HANCOCKSENIOR STAFF WRITER
The all-nighters and cram-ming may be a faint memory, but the effects of final exams are still being felt. Students may ex-pect a subpar grade, but what if a grade is simply not reported at all?
When Miami University stu-dents put down their pencils after their last exam in December, they stopped all thoughts of grades and classes. At that point though, the stress was just beginning for many professors as they began the race to record grades accurately and on time.
Final grades were due Dec. 18 at noon, which gave professors roughly three days to tidy up their grade books.
As the deadline approached, many professors may have felt the heat to accurately record and report students’ grades.
Microbiology professor Kelly Abshire said while there is some tension, she avoids getting overly stressed about getting grades in on time.
“I plan for [it] and usually am fine, unless for some reason I’ve really got behind in my grading of class assignments,” she said.
If work does pile up though, she said she has to put all other tasks aside and get the remain-ing student assignments graded during the last week of classes, so that the only thing left to deal with are the final exams.
University Registrar David
Sauter said there have been sev-eral situations where professors have not turned in grades by the deadline. He said most of those happen because of unforeseen circumstances such as the vol-ume of grades that are essays or projects, technical difficulties or situations where the class is ongoing, such as workshops. Sauter also said many of the missing grades file under in-dependent work, such as when one or two students are assigned to a faculty member. In other cases, adjunct faculty across all Miami campuses may have missing grades.
“So [they’re] not part of the typical ‘final exam grad-ing’ protocol for faculty,” Sauter said of the many cir-cumstances that account for a missing grade.
In any case, when a grade is missing, an “N” grade, or no grade reported, is appropri-ate especially to ensure stu-dents are aware their grade is missing Sauter said.
Last semester, there were 980 grades missing out of the 104,000 expected. This rounds out to less than 1 percent, according to Sauter.
There are approximately 45 outstanding grades remaining from last semester.
If a professor fails to turn grades in by the deadline, Provost Bobby Gempesaw sends a note reminding professors of how important prompt grade submission is, according to Sauter.
Gempesaw cites how the
grades impact the need for aca-demic action determinations, financial aid or scholarship issues and graduation.
Sauter said his office sends several reminders of the deadline and after the deadline we send notices to faculty/chair and even-tually the dean’s office is copied if grades remain outstanding.
Junior David Beeder has had a few grades recorded incor-rectly on BannerWeb. He said the mistakes come from professors having hundreds of students and grades to record.
“The pressure isn’t necessary in many ways,” Beeder said, adding that because of the dead-line, professors and students may both dread Friday finals.
“If I have a final on Friday it in-creases the pressure somewhat,” Abshire said.
Abshire said the stress level is much better than it has been in the past when the deadline was noon on Monday following finals week.
“Having one more day made a big difference, especially for Friday finals,” she said.
Despite the potential compli-cations, Beeder said he is not concerned about his grades being affected.
“The system has always been able to check itself and it works out,” he said, adding that he could easily contact his teachers to fix a wrong score.
Beeder said his instruc-tors have appeared stressed or
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By Allison McGillivrAycAMpus Editor
Many Miami University stu-dents were caught by surprise by a change in their email addresses over Christmas break.
All Miami students as well as faculty and staff were given miamiOH.edu email addresses, which replaced their former muohio.edu email addresses.
When students learned of the change, one of the most com-mon questions they asked was
“Why?” according Randy Hol-lowell senior communication and web coordinator for Information Technology (IT) Services.
Senior Erin Hawley is applying to medical school and graduate schools and is concerned that the email change may interfere with her being able to communicate with those schools.
“I’m not afraid of change or anything but I can’t understand for the life of me why they did
this right smack dab in the mid-dle of the year because for those of us who are seniors because of
the way that med school or grad school communicates with you is by email,” Hawley said. “So I’m already anxious enough but now I have to be worried about if they can’t get ahold of me be-cause something is missing on my application.”
Hawley is also concerned that schools may not be able to look her up in their systems because she applied under her old email address.
The idea behind the change in email address is to give Miami a new brand, according to Deedie Dowdle, associate vice president of University Communications and Marketing.
A survey was sent out last year to prospective students, guidance counselors, current students, fac-ulty, staff and alumni asking them if they thought muohio was an ap-propriate web address and email address for Miami.
The overwhelming response from the 6000 people who re-sponded was ‘no,’ according to Dowdle.
“We heard repeatedly that muo-hio did not make much sense as a web address,” Dowdle said.
Dowdle said what ‘muohio’ was missing was the name ‘Miami.’
“For marketing purposes, for branding and visibility, instant recognition, you always want your name to be in your website,” Dowdle said.
However, in order to change the student email addresses to
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I think the domain represents Miami a lot better be-cause no one knows us as MU, but I don’t understand why it was in the middle of the year.”
Erin HAWlEyMiAMi sEnior
Email change causes student concern
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With the university-wide email change, some students may need to update their Miami University Emergency Alert registration. Students can up-date their information by going to http://www.units.muohio.
edu/police/ and clicking on the “Emergency Text Messag-ing System” link. This system allows the university to send safety-related emergency in-formation over text message and email.
By Allison McGillivrAycAMpus Editor
There has been an over-whelming response from Miami University students on social media to a recent Huffing-ton Post article that mentions Miami ranking by U.S. News and World Report as the 3rd best college or univer-sity in the United States for undergraduate teaching.
The ranking, which was posted by U.S. News and World Report in September 2012, has been given new life, accord-ing to Associate Director of University Communications, Claire Wagner.
“Social media is redefin-ing news,” Wagner said. “Just because it happened then, if you didn’t know about it, it’s still news to you. So it’s fortu-nate for that another member of the media might pick up a
story and give it a new life.” This has been the third time
Miami has been in the top eight for best undergraduate teaching, according to Wag-ner. This ranking is based sur-veys of top administrators of universities.
“It’s so gratifying that others are aware of the caliber of our faculty and of the close interac-tions that they have with stu-dents in order to have an impact on them,” Wagner said.
By cyntHiA MArcinEkFor tHE MiAMi studEnt
Ever wonder what your profes-sors do over winter break? One Miami art education professor throws on a Santa suit and takes to the high tide. Every Dec. 24, Jean Langan participates in the Surfin’ Santas event on Cocoa Beach in Florida.
The Surfin’ Santas event was founded four years ago by George Trosset, a Cocoa Beach local. This was Langan’s second year as a “Surfin’ Santa.”
“Surfs up at 10,” Langan said. “That’s high tide, so that’s when we go, and the full thing is over by 11, 11:30, and in that amount of time we raised close to $3000.”
It wasn’t until 2011 that they added the fundraising portion to the event. Participants brought in gift cards, which were then donated to a Children’s hospi-tal. This past December they raised over $2900 for grindfor-life.org, an organization that gives money to cancer patients and their caregivers.
According to Langan, each year more Santas have shown up to surf.
“The event first had three peo-ple,” Langan said. “The second year it had eighteen people. By the third year they put a note in the newspaper, which is where I read about it.”
This past December, they had 159 Surfin Santas.
Though Langan may not surf traditionally yet, she plans to
Miami instructor ‘hangs ten’ for charity
JEAn lAnGAn THE MIAMI STUDENT
Art education professor Jean Langan rocks her boogie board with the rest of the ‘Surfin Stantas;’ she’s still learning to surf.
28%
11%
10%of all calls were about missing
emails, docs, contacts, etc.
of calls involved assisting the student through the migration process by having them visit MyMiami, click the Mail icon, accept the Terms of Service, and login for the first time.
of calls were assisting the student with configuring mobile devices,
Outlook, or Mail.app.
Volunteer website debuts with MLK Day of Service
JEAn lAnGAn THE MIAMI STUDENT
The annual Surfin’ Santas event is held Dec. 24 on Cocoa Beach in Florida. The Santas raised nearly $3,000 this past year for the annual fundraiser. for cancer.
By MElissA GirGisstAFF WritEr
“I have a dream…” are the first words that come to mind for many when recalling Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous rhetoric about peace and equality. How-ever, his words also inspired a fo-cus on decreased social barriers and community engagement. In addition to Miami’s annual Day of Service, honorary program, and campus-wide march for MLK Day, Miami students can now get involved through a new online match program, which pairs up students with volunteer work opportunities.
Although the Day of Service is just one day, countless oppor-tunities for students to volunteer year-round are available through the Office of Community Ser-vice and Engagement. Accord-ing to Donahue, the new website, called Noble Hour, will be used beginning this semester instead of the Hub.
By registering on the website with a “MiamiOH” account, students are able to log their ser-vice hours, credit their hours to a
specific group, and find informa-tion about service opportunities, internships and jobs.
By joining Noble Hour and logging service hours, students make themselves eligible for the President’s Volunteer Service Award. The award is funded by the parents group and features bronze, silver and gold tiers, as well as a lapel pin for graduation.
Donahue said the new website not only better fits the capac-ity of the Office of Community Service and Engagement, it is more interactive and easy to navigate for students. The site provides a way to unify Oxford with regional campuses and thus share opportunities.
“The site is set up similar to social media sites and fea-tures a mobile phone app,” Do-nahue said. “It’s very modern and accessible.”
According to Monica Ways, director of the Office of Com-munity Engagement and Service, the Day of Service, which was first implemented at Miami four
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BY AMELIA WEstErFOr tHE MIAMI stUdENt
Every year around this time, the public is reminded of the threat of the flu virus, and this year, the virus has been making an early appearance.
According to Teffie Pollock, public information officer at the Ohio Department of Health, this flu season has started earlier than normal, although it is too early to tell if it will be worse than previous years.
Pollock said the Ohio Depart-ment of Health uses two factors to measure the severity of a flu season: the number of flu-related
hospitalizations and the number of flu-related pediatric deaths.
According to Pollock, Ohio has seen 1,922 flu-related hospi-talizations and one flu-related pe-diatric death this season. At this time last year, the state had seen 86 hospitalizations and no pediat-ric deaths. Pollock said the jump in hospitalizations and pediatric deaths could be because the flu is an unpredictable virus.
Pollock said Ohio’s flu activ-ity this season is comparable to flu activity nationwide, which has also occurred earlier than normal.
“The numbers of cases at this time are usually equal to the peak of the season in
February,” Pollock said. Rose urge students to get the
flu vaccine and said it is not pos-sible to get the flu from the flu shot since it is not a live vaccine.
Both Rose and Pollock urged the public to wash hands frequent-ly, get plenty of rest and exercise and eat healthy to prevent getting sick. They also recommend that those who feel sick stay home to avoid getting others sick.
Sophomore Anna Swanson, a student interested in pursuing a career in public health, has been aware this flu season.
“My brother goes to school in Philadelphia and that region is starting to be affected,” she said.
“I haven’t gotten a flu shot, but I know I should. I’ve been trying to be very proactive about hygiene and Purell because dorms are es-pecially disgusting and you have to be extra-cognizant.”
Students who feel as though they may have the flu should make an appointment at the Student Health Center, located at 421 S. Campus Ave., open 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Miami University Stu-dent Health Center offers flu shots to students for $20. Com-munity members and students can also get a flu shot at any local pharmacy.
talawanda school district receives casino tax fundsBY JEssICA BArgAsENIOr stAFF WrItEr
Casinos in Ohio are now ben-efiting something that may be surprising: education. A portion of casino tax revenue that is gener-ated each year is being divided up among Ohio’s public elementary and secondary schools.
John Charlton, spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Edu-cation, said the payments will be made to schools twice each fiscal year. The first payment was made earlier in January.
The money is divided up be-tween each of the 88 counties in Ohio and then further appor-tioned to each school based on the number of students living in that county, Charlton said.
While there are variances from county to county due to popula-tion, the differences are small, Charlton said.
“That averages out to about $20 per student,” Charlton said.
Charlton said with recent bud-get cuts, public schools are suffer-ing. This extra funding will assist these schools in need.
“We’re very pleased that there is additional funding to schools,” Charlton said. “It’s not a big chunk of money, but in the financial situ-ation we’re in, every bit helps.”
Mike Davis, treasurer for the Talawanda School District in Ox-ford, said the additional funding will not begin to cover the budget cuts that Ohio schools have seen in the past several years.
“The total casino revenue re-ceived from last year is $38 million…and we’re receiving $64,000 of that,” Davis said.
Talawanda has lost over $800,000 in state funding and stimulus money in the past six months through budget cuts, Davis said.
“[The new funding] pales in comparison to the amount given in 2012 and 2011,” Davis said. “Every little bit counts, but look-ing at the drop in federal and state funding, [the new amount is] just a drop in the bucket.”
Since Talawanda’s fiscal year ends in June, the school will receive its next payment in August. The amount received will likely be $64,000 again, according to Davis.
“And it’s not likely to go up in the future,” Davis said.
Miami University Junior Micaela De La Cruz said she thinks the additional funding for education seems like a posi-tive thing, even if it is less than schools were previously receiving from the government.
“As long as the schools are get-ting money I think it’s fine,” De La Cruz said.
She also said that the money going from gambling to education might help people see the positive side of casinos in Ohio.
“I can’t see any other rea-son why people would switch their mind except for kids…I wouldn’t mind if I had a child in school,” she said.
New year brings changes to Uptown businessesBY HANNAH stEINCOMMUNItY EdItOr
Uptown Oxford is constant-ly changing, and 2013 will be no different.
According to Alan Kyger, Ox-ford economic development di-rector, ThanksGiving Dinner 365 Days a Year (TGD), 19; W. High St., closed Dec. 31. The loca-tion is in the middle of being re-leased, Kyger said, and the plans are looking toward an oriental tea and coffee store.
Lucky Eddie’s Lost Planet Tat-too store, 5 S. Beech St., closed down after the owner passed away, Kyger said. Another tattoo parlor, Panama Red Tattoo Shop, 20 W. Park Place, closed halfway through last semester and now its space is available.
Ted Woods, owner of The Woods, 17 N. Poplar St., is in the process of expanding the bar and, according to Kyger, students and community members can expect to see it open in the spring.
Last semester the Oxford com-munity saw The Princess Theater, 10 N. Beech St., close its doors. The future of the theater and the building is still undecided, Kyger said.
“I would expect to see it change hands sometime in the near fu-ture and we’ll see what happens next,” Kyger said.
The old Oxford Press build-ing, 15 S. Beech St., is being torn down this week and it will be a mixed-use development,
according to Kyger. According to Kyger, Fuji Ex-
press, 5 W. High St., will open shortly, but the specific date is still undetermined.
“I mean they are still working on it,” he said. “Last I knew they were in the midst of installing an exhaust hood.”
Paisley on High, 32 E. High St., opened Jan. 7, Kyger said. Formerly the Ball of Oxford in Stewart Square, the store moved locations and changed its name to reflect it’s new image.
“She (the owner) used to be more of a florist,” Kyger said. “Now they’re go-ing to do gifts and flowers.” Taco Bell, 36 Lynn Ave., under-went renovations beginning in the middle of October and finished at the end of December, accord-ing to Kyger. The Taco Bell chain changed its look to appear more modern and the Oxford location was conforming to that new look. Taco Bell also had to go to the board of zoning appeals to allow the restaurant to have a menu sign out front in addition to the main sign on the front lawn, Kyger said.
The Oxford Coffee Shop, a gourmet coffee shop located at 21 Lynn Ave., opened in the middle of December, Kyger said.
“It’s a retired Miami professor and he’s really into roasting beans and he has a bean roasting ma-chine in there,” Kyger said. “He can roast them however you want them. You pick the bean and he’ll roast it to the darkness you like.”
U.S. Route 27 construction project to start spring 2014BY FrEELANd OLIVErIOsENIOr stAFF WrItEr
Jan. 15, the Oxford City Council viewed a presenta-tion regarding the newest addi-tion to the US-27 South Safety Improvement Project.
Oxford service director Michael Dreisbach outlined construc-tion that is to take place on U.S. Route 27 South beginning March 1, 2014 and running through July 31, 2015. The project is estimated to cost $11 million, according to Dreisbach.
The upcoming project will im-prove the safety of a stretch of U.S. Route 27 South, according to Dreisbach. One of the high-lights of the project includes the construction of a new bridge over Collins Run. Because the por-tion of the bridge will be paid for by federal funds, the bridge will adhere to federal safety and construction regulations, according to Dreisbach.
Additionally, the bridge will be raised eight feet above its current height, reducing the slope from the bridge to Chestnut Street. According to Dreisbach, this slope reduction will create a safer intersection at Chestnut Street.
“In addition to the bridge construction, there will be new
turning lanes at all major access points on the highway, as well as creating two 12-feet-wide travel lanes and two 8-feet-long paved shoulders on both sides of the road,” Dreisbach said. “Once the project is completed, we can also consider painting bike lanes on the shoulder area, allowing for safer passage for bikers.”
The road will also consist of a two-foot curb and gutter area on each side of the road as well as 6-foot-wide tree-lawns and side-walks on either side of the road-way, according to Dreisbach.
The project will not come with-out its obstacles, according to Oxford Mayor Richard Keebler.
“One issue is that we have to work out contracts with roughly 36 different property owners whose properties will be affected by the construction,” Keebler said. “Also, two properties – the Oxford Cemetery groundskeeper house and a house near the end of the construction zone are built too close to the roadway.”
Although these two structures lie within the construction zone, effected property owners will be compensated by the city for any infringement of the road onto their
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Wisconsin will be a great test for this young RedHawk squad.
“They have probably the best two forward lines of any-thing we’re going to see this year,” Barber said. “We’ve got to notice when they’re on the ice and them play in their own end so they can’t do anything offensively.”
As the second half of the sea-son comes into focus for the Red-Hawks, the coaching staff knows that each game is crucial, as top teams prepare to jostle for play-off seeding. According to Coach Blasi, the make-it-or-break-it stretch of the season starts right now.
“We don’t have a choice,” Blasi said. “You’ve got to get up for every game. This is crunch time now. It’s the dog days of January, and these games are really important.”
The RedHawks take the ice against the Badgers in a two-game series at the Kohl Center this Friday and Saturday, Jan. 18-19. The puck drops 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. CT, respectively.
rebound with just over 90 seconds to play and taking a charge with 54 seconds left. On the ensuing pos-session, senior guard Quinten Rol-lins sank a running floater with two seconds on the shot clock.
Redshirt junior guard Allen Roberts came up with a steal with 10 seconds to play, but missed the front end of a one-and-one, giving Crawford and the Falcons one fi-nal chance to send the game into overtime. The crowd at Millett held its collective breath, as Craw-ford’s desperation attempt hit the back iron at the buzzer.
Miami now heads to East-ern Michigan University for a 2 p.m. tipoff Saturday. The Eagles are 8-9 on the year, coming off a win over Central Michigan Uni-versity. Miami defeated Eastern Michigan last season 62-57 in overtime in Oxford.
Senior guard Derek Thompson leads the Eagles, averaging 11.6 points a game, but on just 37 per-cent shooting. The Eagles shoot just 39 percent as a team and have lost their last four of five contests.
“This team has a lot of potential, we need to stay focused on our fundamentals,” Fantanarosa said. “Consistency leads to wins.”
Osborn hopes that the ’Hawks continue to build off of their 73-47 win at Western Michigan University (5-12, 0-2 MAC).
“If we play like we did at West-ern Michigan we can make a run for the MAC Championship,” Os-born said. “We need to continue to build every game.”
Osborn is leading the RedHawks with 18 points per game and is
shooting 41 percent from behind the arc.
Olowinski believes win-ning MAC games early are a key to success.
“Once you get a win or two under your belt it builds team confidence,” Olowinski said.
The ’Hawks play three of their next four games after Eastern Michigan on the road. Then they will return to Oxford for a three game home stand.
Fantanarosa believes the Eagles are a defensive oriented team.
The Eagles opponents are shooting 41 percent this season.
The ’Hawks hope to make a run at the MAC Championship and Fantanarosa does not believe
momentum is the key to success for the RedHawks.
“We are not looking for mo-mentum as much as consistent individual leadership, which will lead to team consistency,” Fantanarosa said.
Osborn and Olowinski have been consistent statistical lead-ers of the ’Hawks this season and junior Haley Robertson scored a career high 19 points at Western Michigan.
If this consistent play continues, Osborn believes the RedHawks will be a force to be reckoned with in the MAC Championships.
“We’re going to be right there with the best of them,” Osborn said.
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After having a strong showing in the fall season, the Miami Uni-versity women’s tennis team seeks to assert itself against the Univer-sity of Indiana (IU) this weekend. The RedHawks are coming off of a 2011-2012 season in which they earned their fourth straight regu-lar season Mid-American Confer-ence title, but would eventually
fall to the University of Akron for the second consecutive year in a 3-4 decision in the MAC Tournament final.
“We believe that the experience gained from last season will bene-fit us,” third-year head coach Anca Dumitrescu said. “We’re facing a quality team in Indiana, and we look forward to competing.”
The Red and White are coming into the spring season with much to look forward to and build upon,
much in part due to their high level of play in the fall.
During the fall season, the team went 46-18 in singles play with standout performances from sophomore Ramona Costea (9-2 in the fall), junior Nimisha Mo-han (8-2), sophomore Christine Guerrazzi (7-3), and junior Chris-tiana Raymond (7-4). In doubles, the teams of Guerrazzi and Ray-mond and Mohan and sophomore Alix Thurman combined for 13 of the ’Hawks 18 wins during the fall season.
“It’s good to be back in sea-son,” Raymond said. “We’re en-couraged by the work that team has put into getting better. It’s time to show the payoff for that work and be competitive.”
During the 2012 spring sea-son, these four RedHawks also were major contributors, ac-counting for 63 of the 122 wins in singles play. In doubles, the ’Hawks had a winning percent-age of .580 and featured many team configurations.
“I learned a lot as a freshman last season,” Guerazzi said of the 2011-2012 season. “I’m not quite as nervous as I was and I now know what to expect. Our goals for this
season are to earn our fifth straight regular season MAC champion-ship and make our way through the MAC tournament and on to the NCAA Tournament.”
Indiana will prove to be a tough test for Miami, as IU looks to improve after suffering a 4-2 defeat in the Big Ten Confer-ence Quarterfinals against the University of Michigan.
The Hoosiers have plenty of tal-ent returning to the court this sea-son, with junior Kayla Fujimoto, senior Leslie Hureau, and sopho-mores Alecis Kauss and Katie Klyczec all coming off of 20-win seasons in 2011-2012. In doubles play, Indiana went 87-56 on the season, with contributions from the team of Hureau and Kauss with a record of 12-5.
“We have to stick togeth-er,” Guerrazzi said. “As long as we keep working hard in practice, we’ll be competitive on Saturday.”
Dumitrescu echoed her sopho-more player’s sentiment on the upcoming match this weekend.
“We [have] matured and grown as a team as we made our way through the fall season” she said of her team. “All we have to do now is execute.”
The RedHawks square off against the Hoosiers in the spring season opener in Cincinnati, Ohio (Western Hills) Saturday at 11 a.m.
We believe that the experience gained from last season will benefit us.”
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As the first week of the semester comes to a close, most of us have put the previous semester behind us. However, for some students and professors, the books are not quite closed on last semester.
The deadline for instructors to turn in final grades for last semes-ter was the Tuesday following fi-nals week, a rather tight deadline for some, especially those with Friday exams.
At the end of last semester, there were a reported 980 miss-ing grades out of the 104,000 that were expected by the dead-line. Currently, only 45 grades remain outstanding. Given the demands of a short grading dead-line, the possibilities of unfore-seen technical difficulties, and the care that many instructors take in grading each of their assign-ments, the Miami Student edito-rial board applauds professors for having a very low percentage of “N” grades.
Professors with Friday finals often feel stressed about the dead-line because of the short amount of time they have, especially when it comes to grading final projects or written essays, which require more time to grade than something that can be fed through a scantron reader.
Independent studies may not have the same cut-and-dry grad-ing rubric as traditional classes do.
However, if the problem lies in professors simply not keeping up with their grades throughout the
semester, or being unfamiliar or unwilling to use the technologies afforded to them, that presents another issue.
Professors should tailor their grading schedules with the dead-line to ensure they have ample enough time to get their grades in promptly. Imagine if a professor did not use Niihka or an electronic gradebook throughout the entire semester. They would have to go through and manually add an entire semesters worth of grades and a final at the very end of the course. Playing catch up with technology creates a backup in turning in final grades.
Most students have had at least one professor who refused to use email, or did not understand Niihka for keeping up-to-date grades. We understand that the significant technological changes at Miami over the past few years can be overwhelming, but they cannot be ignored.
For many professors, the fast-paced change of technology at Miami has not affected their abil-ity to keep up with their grading. For the small percentage that have had issues with missing grades, they could be remedied by the university providing further in-struction on how to use the new Miami Gmail and Niihka, which are both critical for communica-tion between the student and the professor. Professors and students both play an equal role in getting grades in on time.
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The recent migration from Mi-ami University’s previous, private email server to Google Apps for Education sparked a conversation between a faculty member and me last week. Though it began as an
expression of discon-tent with the smoothness of transition, it blossomed into a much broader dis-cussion about concern over the lack of privacy as-sociated with
the ever-growing interconnected-ness between ourselves and the electronic world.
While computers have made storing, processing and accessing information fast and easy for the consumer, they have done the same for business. The conveniences of accessibility and speed have been accompanied by the growing mounds of data created by the flurry of electronic activity.
Many of us hardly stop to think about the fact that this reliance on computers means that there are
rarely actions anymore that are not monitored, noted or tracked in one way or another, but that’s the way of the present world. The thought that essentially everything you buy, the websites you visit, the emails you send, the blogs you post and the calls you make are stored elec-tronically somewhere probably makes most people uneasy. It cer-tainly did the person with whom I was speaking. The feeling must be similar to what citizens of Oceana felt like with Big Brother constantly monitoring them. But take a second to consider an alternative perspec-tive. Maybe you’ll decide that the surveillance is not so bad after all.
Every time you visit a web site, swipe your credit card, buy a product or express an opinion on a public fo-rum, you are voting. You are voting for products, services, and behavior that have been worth an investment of your time and/or money. To be sure, much, if not most, of these ac-tions are going to be scrutinized in some way.
Your peers on Facebook and LinkedIn are going to criticize your profiles and posts, and com-panies from whom you purchased products with your frequent shop-per’s card are going to analyze your
shopping habits. In both instances, your actions have the power to cause change.
Facebook, something that nearly all of us can relate to, now has over 1 billion users. That’s an insane num-ber considering there are only a little over 7 billion people in the world.
Until the extremely recent past, there simply has not been the means available to reach such a vast audi-ence so quickly. If social networking services like Facebook are shrinking the world and making privacy more difficult to come by, they are also providing opportunity.
From the perspective of the com-pany trying to sell, the opportunity is for marketing. From the perspec-tive of the individual, the opportu-nity is for expression and sharing of ideas, opinions, photos, videos or
whatever else you may find mean-ingful. In any case, sacrificing the privacy for the opportunity is a more than reasonable trade-off.
Of course, Internet behavior is not the only source of electronic data. In my wallet there are 12 cards that can be used to either provide payment,
gain access, accumulate rewards points for shopping or otherwise achieve something that I decided at one time would be worth filling out a form for. For each of these cards, there are corresponding databases containing information about me and my past usage of that account.
Obviously, the same goes for you and the cards in your wallet. And though I am sure that Kroger and Shell both care about us sav-ing money on groceries and gas, it’s probably not nearly as much as they
care about the money we give them or the data they are able to collect about our consumption habits.
This type of information is how Target can send ads in the mail that are eerily personal (it’s like they know exactly what you want!) and grocery stores know that stocking the healthy food at the front-right portion of the store increases the chances you will also indulge in buying less healthy food that you encounter later in the visit. It’s also the kind of information that ulti-mately drives companies to evolve, and this evolution mirrors the decisions that we collectively make.
What I’m trying to say is that if the choices you make coincide with your values, there is no rea-son to fear an invasion of privacy. You should want peers, businesses, politicians, the government and po-tential employers to take notice of the decisions you are making, be-cause maybe it will influence them to change. Businesses are always going to want your money, politi-cians are always going to want your vote and peers are generally going to want your approval. Leave them an electronic trail you are proud of, and you will have helped make the world a better place.
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Architecture is the profession of construction; construction not only of the mind through theory, but construction of physicalities. Every building constructed by an architect is a compilation of both mind and medium. Academia is where a young architect first en-counters and constructs for them-selves their own architecture.
Mind is often delved into quite extensively within academia through the teachings of theory and artistry. However, medium, which focuses on the way in which a building is constructed and put together, is often ne-glected. Ultimately the process of building becomes relegated to a subservient role in terms of educational process.
Too often are educational les-sons devoid of the idea of prac-ticality and feasibility. Instead the focus is shifted away from these aspects towards explora-tion, always looking to push the envelope of creative thought. As a generator of ideas this po-sition holds much merit. It al-lows for the creative process to truly begin to grow and flour-ish without restraints; blos-soming to what seems to be the fullest amount of potential. However, the whimsical nature of the creative process is often less grounded than it must be, thus creating disconnect between actual real world situations and academic scenarios.
This disconnect causes a severe degradation of a skill set that is a necessity in the field of architec-ture. Buildings need to be able to stand and support themselves, as well as protect their inhabit-ants. The concept of structure and process is key to the funda-mentals aspect of architectural
design, in which a building must both support itself and its in-habitants. By reintroducing the ideas of structural and process practices, it would be possible to diminish the gap and create an educated and competent stu-dent body, guided by both the-ory and real world knowledge. A large part of this gap can be diminished with the introduction of studio based structures and construction programs. The idea of a studio completely focused around structures may seem like a deterrent to the creative pro-cess; since it seems to hamper the mind, grounding it in facts and numbers.
However, it is actually the opposite, as the complexity of the answers to the questions of structure and construction be-gin to influence and create new opportunities for creativity. A complex problem always offers more of a creative solution then a simple problem.
This stems from the fact that there can be a number of it-erations that can be produced, all physically possible and very creative.
By limiting the opportunities to experiment and “play” with structures and construction; it only diminishes, not enhances, the overall creativity that can be extrapolated from a project.
Thus this only hurts the stu-dent, as they are unable to fully gain the total amount of experi-ence that each particular project has to offer.
In conjuncture with greater creativity, the amount of knowl-edge, that is real world work-ing knowledge, of construction and structures, would allow the students too quickly, and
effectively, harness their abilities in any given situations and prime them for a professional career. The saying “practice makes per-fect” is a prime example of how the use of these types of proj-ects can be utilized to create an intelligent workforce.
The more a person does an ac-tivity the more it becomes second nature, and the better and faster they become. In a field where 100 percent of what we do as archi-tects is construction, or at least should be since we all strive to have things built, this will pro-vide an ability to respond quickly and accurately to any situation that may arise.
This is an extreme advantage in a field that emphasizes the ability to get something done fast and accurately, such as constructing a building.
The incorporation of struc-tures and construction principles, forces the student to think both inside and outside of the box si-multaneously. This can create some of the most breathtaking and exciting possibilities, as it opens up whole new avenues of thought and reasoning that were previously closed. This influx of new creative thought, grounded in the physical world, will pro-vide an edge for any person that is a student of architecture. That is why it is imperative to quickly close the gap formed by the dis-connect of structures and theory, a gap which is currently grow-ing day by day. Once closed, a new world of architecture can be created and explored, one that could shape the very foundations of society itself.
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MiamiOH, IT Services needed to migrate student emails, docs and calendar from one domain to another.
This is why if a student signs into their email account under their muohio.edu address they will not receive new emails.
The migration process took longer than IT Services was hoping, Hollowell said, with the migrations taking place up until Jan. 13.
IT Services started the process Dec. 31 with the hope that migra-tion would be complete by Jan. 4.
Hawley agreed that the new email address and web address
better represents Miami, but still said she thinks that the change in address should have occurred at a later date.
“I think the domain represents Miami a lot better because no one knows us as MU, but I don’t un-derstand why it was in the middle of the year,” Hawley said.
While Dowdle said University Communications had not received much of a response from students about the email change, Hol-lowell said IT Services received a significant response from stu-dents asking why the change was occurring. IT Services received this response because although the decision to change the email addresses came from Univer-sity Communication, IT Services
implemented the change.“I think students saw this
as an IT Services initiative,” Hollowell said.
Email that is sent to a student’s muohio.edu email address will still be delivered to their miami-OH.edu email address for at least until June 2014.
Miami is currently pursu-ing options that will allow them to maintain two domain names and therefore email that is sent to muohio.edu email addresses would always be forwarded to miamiOH.edu email addresses.
If students still have questions about the email change they can contact the IT Support Desk at [email protected] or (513) 529-7900.
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learn. For now she uses a boogey board, but still considers herself a Surfin Santa.
“It’s so funny, when we get there we stick all our surfboards in the sand,” Langan said. “There’s these gorgeous surfboards like six or seven feet long, and then there’s my little boogey board—it’s four feet tall. I don’t care, I’ll put it right next to everyone else’s because I’m a Surfin Santa.”
Langan said this event is im-portant for many reasons.
“I look at this as a way to reach out and have a good time,” Lan-gan said. “But I also think of it as something I cannot do here. It’s something you can only do in Florida at Cocoa beach on December 24.”
Sophomore Hailey Frogge, one of Langan’s students, was happy to hear about her teacher’s holiday endeavor.
“I think it’s so great to hear about the cool things our teachers do for the community,” Frogge said. “When I think of teachers, I always picture them in the class-rooms, so it’s great to hear how
they also have an impact not only on the Miami community.”
Maggie Kamenitsa, a sopho-more art student, has had class with Langan in the past.
“Honestly, the only thing that does surprise me about that is that she never told us in class,” Kame-nitsa said. “She’s a typical artist though, free spirited and happy to just be herself.”
Now when Winter Break comes around you may won-der how your professor spends his or her break. As Langan said, “Do you know if they’re surfing as Santa?”
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years ago, has steadily evolved, becoming more closely linked with the commemorative events taking place on campus.
According to Megan Donahue, off-campus affairs coordinator of the Office of Community Ser-vice and Engagement, the Office of Diversity Affairs is coordi-nating the Day of Service. The commemorative program will run from 10 a.m. to noon and
volunteer time slots will be avail-able from noon to 2 p.m. Students interested in getting involved can sign up in person at the Office of Diversity Affairs. Volunteer sites include the Oxford Commu-nity Choice Pantry, The Knolls of Oxford, The Animal Adop-tion Foundation and the Family Resource Center.
Junior Chelsea Stegman said she believes the day of service is a meaningful way to honor King through action, and hopes to get her sorority to take part
in the future. “I am excited to start using
Noble Hour,” Stegman said. “I think it will be an easier way for members of the sorority to track our service.”
With the addition of the win-ter term, this year’s celebration has special importance, said Yvania Garcia, assistant director of diversity affairs.
“Dr. King was known to give back to the community,” Garcia said. “This is a way for us to keep the dream going.”
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According to him, the plan involves improving and diversifying student living conditions by increasing room sizes and offering innovative housing arrangements.
“Back in the 2006 time frame, a lot of focus groups were done with students at the time, a lot of input from university depart-ments,” Frericks said. “Based on all those things at that time, that plan was developed.”
One might question why Miami would refrain from increasing the number of rooms after the recent housing crisis. According to Wood-ruff, an under-populated university can be as problematic as an over-populated one, causing its own set of issues for the student body.
“It’s important for a university to have their buildings filled,” Wood-ruff said. “For us here at Miami, every bit of income that we receive from students for room and board
goes right back into the program for the renovations and improvements.”
According to Woodruff, there are negative results of both scenarios in this balancing act, but because be-ing slightly overcapacity is usually overcome within the first weeks of a semester, whereas the other extreme would have more lasting effects, the former is preferred.
“It’s a situation that does help the university, and we know that it’s inconvenient, so we do everything we can to make those students [in temporary housing] comfortable, to assist them,” Woodruff said.
Though overcrowding in the fall was more than slight, with the unforeseeable influx of fraternity members, Woodruff is pleased to say that Miami and its students seem to be out of the woods.
“We’re very proud and very happy,” Woodruff said. “We’ve been able to get through that first part there and hopefully provide a situation for students where they’re comfortable, and at home, and enjoy where they’re at.”
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During the time of the road construction, which is projected to take place over the course of roughly 16 months, traffic will be extremely delayed, according to Dreisbach.
“The road will be reduced to one lane with a traffic signal that allows for oncoming traffic from both sides to take turns passing through the single lane,” Dreis-bach said. “So, one will have to wait for a platoon of cars to pass from one direction before the other lane is permitted to pass.”
In addition, the new high school is located at the south end of the project limits, which is ex-pected to cause an even greater delay for traffic.
“Although ODOT (Ohio De-partment of Transportation) regulations forbid us from creat-ing a detour [on a federal high-way] per se, we will be posting alternate routes during the time of construction to help ease the influx of traffic in the area,” Dresibach said.
Not everyone views the con-struction plans as a good thing, however. Junior political sci-ence major Michael Lowery was present at the council meeting.
“I often take 27 South when coming back and forth to and from school,” Lowery said. “It’s irritating to know most of my se-nior year will be spent waiting at a one-lane stop light.”
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The Miami University men’s basketball team notched its sec-ond consecutive victory Wednes-day night, defeating Bowling Green State University 63-60 in dramatic fashion.
Miami is now 7-8 (2-1 Mid-American Conference (MAC)). Despite Miami surrendering 57 per-cent shooting and the Falcons hav-ing two 21-point scorers, the game shifted in the RedHawks’ favor late.
Redshirt junior forward Will Felder finished with a career high 20 points, while redshirt junior center Drew McGhee recorded a new season high 14. Roberts also chipped in 13 points for Miami.
“I tried to capitalize on oppor-tunities that presented themselves, and the ball went in the basket,” Felder said.
Miami’s 55 percent shooting and 36 points in the paint carried the team on a night it couldn’t find the stroke from deep, shooting a dismal 2-14 from beyond the arc. This was the second consecutive close game the ‘Hawks won and the first when trailing at the break.
“It came down to mental tough-ness,” Head Coach John Cooper said. “I tried to stress to my team getting the right result, not neces-sarily how they went about it. It was an up and down game, but at the end, we got the result we wanted.”
Bowling Green wasted no time,
jumping out to an early 9-0 lead within the first five minutes of ac-tion. The Falcons set the pace of the game, playing up tempo and executing their half court of-fense with little resistance from a disjointed ‘Hawks defense.
“It was one of those games where we never really had momentum,” Cooper said. “I thought [Bowling Green] did a terrific job having momentum, especially on the road. They hit some big shots late in the shot clock, but somehow we were able to weather the storm.”
Miami battled back to take its first
lead of the game at the 12:01 mark, but largely found itself behind from 5-10 points throughout the first half. Bowling Green went into the break with a four-point advantage on 64 percent shooting. Falcons seniors, guard Jordan Crawford and forward A’uston Calhoun led the way with 13 points apiece at the half. Miami wasn’t far behind, despite the slow start, with 56 percent from the floor.
The second half was a more tightly contested game, as Miami’s big men made their presence felt in the scoreboard. Felder and McGhee
were able to find quality looks from 18 feet out to just in front of the bas-ket. The RedHawks were also able to take away the inside game of Fal-cons sophomore forward Richaun Holmes, who was 3-3 in the first half on alley-oop dunks.
Crawford and Calhoun contin-ued pacing Bowling Green, but Miami found a defensive answer at the 8:55 mark in the second half, mustering up several defensive stops and turnovers. After trailing 55-49 with nearly nine minutes to go, tied the game at 57 just five minutes later.
“We have to play better de-fensively,” Bowling Green Head Coach Louis Orr said. “Offen-sively, we played a great game, but that drought late in the game with turnovers and not being able to stop them (Miami) really hurt us.”
Miami took the lead for good on a jumper by Felder with two min-utes left, 61-60. Freshman guard Geovonie McKnight helped secure the win, grabbing a big defensive
sPlisH, sPlasHMiami University senior divers Lisa Werwinski (left) and Mike Grangier (right) perform thier routines. Both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving team will host their first home meets of the season against the University at Buffalo. The women’s team will also face the University of Akron.
editorTOM DOWNEY
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America’s third-most popular sport is singlehandedly ruining higher education. College foot-ball has become the definition of inequality in a sport that could become the second most popular behind only the NFL over the next few years.
Conference realignment and money are once again at the heart of the discussion, but this time with much bigger implications.
A report released Wednesday by the Delta Cost Project illustrates the growing disparity between ath-letic and academic spending: of the six major conferences, each spends more than $100,000 per athlete while spending less than $20,000 per student. The Southeastern Con-ference (SEC) has the greatest dis-parity, dishing out nearly $164,000 per athlete, more than 12 times what is spent per student each year.
Meanwhile, students are in-creasingly shouldering the over-all cost burden. While tuition has continued to rise, state support for students has decreased more than 25 percent, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. This tuition trend has translated into record student debt levels of more than $1 trillion, as student debt outpaced credit card debt for the first time ever in 2011, according to The New York Times.
And tuition costs could con-tinue to rise as schools fight for lucrative TV contracts and higher conference payouts.
The Birmingham News’ Jon Sol-omon reported, “25 percent of Di-vision I members changed confer-ences or announced their intention to switch leagues,” over the past 10 years, up 6 percent from the previ-ous 10-year stretch. However, ac-cording to Solomon, “What’s dif-ferent now are more high-profile schools from major conferences are realigning.”
Revenue for the top five con-ferences (SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12, Big 12 and ACC) increased 138 percent from 2000 to 2010, while member payouts rose drastically. The largest increase was in the Big Ten at $22.9 million per member, more than three times what mem-ber schools made 10 years ear-lier, according to The Birmingham News. In addition, the average total compensation of the top five con-ference commissioners increased more than 300 percent between 2000 and 2010.
College football is at the heart of this change. The five major conferences in college football
have left everyone else in the dust, as smaller programs scramble for solutions.
Of the 12 Division I conferenc-es, the Mid-American Conference (MAC) had the fourth lowest rev-enue in 2010 and the second lowest commissioner compensation; only the Sun Belt Conference paid their commissioner less.
On top of this, according to USA Today’s “NCAA college athletics department finances database,” the average MAC institution’s revenue subsidy was more than 72 percent between 2006 and 2011, compared to 3.22 percent for the average SEC school. A university’s total subsidy is the sum of institutional and state support along with student fees. In 2010, Miami relied on student fees to fund more than 50 percent of its athletic program.
In addition, every public SEC football coach now makes more than $2 million per year. The av-erage salary of full-time faculty members, according to the Ameri-can Association of University Professors, is less than $83,000.
Luckily for Miami University students, the school’s athletic ex-penses are much lower than major conferences, but it begs the ques-tion: what price are students and administrators willing to pay to put winning teams on the field?
The annual NCAA Convention held this week will look this issue right in the eye.
Previous efforts by the NCAA to limit television exposure, which translates directly into increased revenue and more competitive teams, have been halted by the U.S. Supreme Court for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Now the NCAA could take another step backward, allowing coaches to re-cruit players sooner and removing many of the restrictions involving coach and athlete contact.
Not only are college athletics seemingly becoming immune to any regulation, but also much of the change over the past 20 years is linked to college football.
Investment in college football has the potential for big returns, but at what cost?
Backwards university priorities focusing on increased television exposure and bowl payouts are destroying higher education, and the new four-team college football playoff beginning in 2014 will fur-ther consolidate resources among the power conferences. Rather than solving the problem, college foot-ball has exacerbated it … again.
’Hawks knock of BGSU
It came down to mental toughness... It was an up and down game, but at the end , we got the result we wanted.
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Brotherhood ready to battle BadgersHoCKey
By Joe GierinGer senior staff Writer
For the fourth straight series, the Miami University men’s hockey team will be on the road, as it prepares to face the Wisconsin Badgers in Madison.
Wisconsin (8-7-5) may not have the best record compared to other big-name programs, but the win/loss column is misleading in this case. Debilitated by early-season injuries, the Badgers had an abys-mal start to the year, struggling to a 1-5-2 record as of Nov. 24. But since a loss to Minnesota State in November, Wisconsin has gone ten straight games without be-ing beaten, and has won their last six contests.
“They’re 7-0-3 in their last 10 [games],” Miami Head Coach Enrico Blasi said. “They had some guys missing early in the year, so I wouldn’t necessar-ily look at their record. I think their last ten games are more indicative of what their team is supposed to be like.”
Indeed, Badgers such as red-shirt senior forward Ryan Little and sophomore defenseman Jake
McCabe were sidelined with inju-ries early on. With the Wisconsin lineup back at full health, they pose perhaps the greatest threat to the RedHawks thus far.
“They present a lot of prob-lems for other teams,” Blasi said of his team’s upcoming opponent. “They’re well coached, they play well defensively, they’re a patient team, and they’ve got a lot of skill … and we’re going into a hos-tile environment. We’re talking 13,000 knowledgeable hockey fans. They support their Bad-gers through thick and thin. So if you’re not excited for that, you need to check to see if you’ve got a heartbeat.”
The RedHawks (12-5-5), who slipped two spots in the USCHO.com national poll to No. 8 after registering a loss and a shootout win this past weekend against Northern Michigan, appear to be hitting a minor, mid-season skid. They have only recorded two regulation wins in their last seven games, and are 0-2-1 in their past three games.
Offensive production has been down recently for the RedHawks as well, with the Red and White
only netting nine goals (not counting shootouts) in their past seven contests. With goal scoring stalled, support players have be-gun to rise to the occasion. Two of those nine goals were from the stick of freshman defenseman Matthew Caito, who recorded his first multi-goal game as a Red-Hawk in Saturday’s shootout win versus NMU. The young blueliner acknowledges that Miami must regroup and refocus as they look forward, and start putting a few more pucks in the net.
“They’ve got a great fan base so they’re going to be rowdy,” Caito said. “But we’ve just got to keep things simple, and stick together as a team. We just need to get a little better at the little things. We get a lot of shots [on goal], but we just need to get a little hungrier around the net.”
Freshman forward Riley Bar-ber, who helped team USA to a surprising gold medal victory just two weeks ago in the World Junior Championships, also knows that
Red and White look to improve MAC standing
Women’s BasKetBall
By Justin masKulinsKi for tHe miami student
The Miami University women’s basketball team (9-6, 1-1 MAC) will battle against the Eastern Michigan University Eagles (3-12, 1-1 MAC) for an edge in the standings in a Mid-American Conference (MAC) matchup.
Miami Head Coach Maria Fan-tanarosa looks for the RedHawks to slow down an athletic Eastern Michigan team.
“Eastern Michigan has an up tempo style of play,” Fantan-arosa said. “We don’t want to let them score any easy points like rebound put-backs.”
The Eagles will be coming to Oxford for their fourth MAC game overall and third MAC game on the road. Despite their 3-12 record, the Eagles have out-rebounded their opponents on average this season.
Eastern Michigan will be without its leading scorer in se-nior guard Miranda Tate, who was dismissed from the team
after 12 games. RedHawks senior Kirsten Olow-
inski has averaged a double-double this season with 11.2 points per game and 10.1 rebounds per game. Olowinski realizes the close level of competition in the MAC.
“I think the MAC is a confer-ence where anyone can win,” Olo-winski said. “Teams with a chip on their shoulder can gain an edge.”
Olowinski and classmate Court-ney Osborn have led the ’Hawks in scoring while the team had battle injuries and sickness. The ’Hawks have only played their original starting five three times out of the 14 games played this far.
Fantanarosa believes the ob-stacles have helped develop a team that she believes has “high character.”
The MAC season is very impor-tant to the RedHawks and Fantan-arosa believes development is the key to success.
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