The Miami StudentTUESDay, JaNUaRy 22, 2013

Oldest university newspaper in the United States, established 1826

MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIOVOLUME 140 NO. 31

In 1940 The Miami Student reported on R. J. McGinnis, head of the University News Bureau, and the geology department and the tough question they had to answer: did a dinosaur yip, yelp, yodel, or roar? Hal Roach studios approached McGinnis with the question while filming “1,000,000 B.C.,” which cast dinosaurs in the leading role. The group wanted the film to have the greatest possible scientific accuracy, the writer of the letter said.

TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY

Miami band marches in inaugural paradeBY KATIE M. TAYLORCAMpUS EDITOR

The Miami University marching band stood before President Barack Obama as he saluted the drum ma-jors and gave the group a big smile. Miami’s presence at the 57th inau-gural parade will not be forgotten.

It was on a whim that band Di-rector Stephen Lytle sent in the Mi-ami marching band’s application to the Presidential Inaugural Commit-tee in November. A phone call re-ceived in December informed him of the band’s admittance.

According to Lytle, he got the OK to accept the opportunity, and then took the pleasure of informing the band.

President of the marching band, senior Rachel Boden, said she couldn’t believe it.

“Over Christmas break we got the email from our band director,” Boden said. “I don’t think any of us were really expecting it since it was kind of a last minute decision [to apply].”

Boden said she was honored to get the opportunity to play in front of the president; she didn’t expect to get another chance to perform in such a notable event.

“[My initial reaction] was dis-belief because we had just done the Macy’s [Parade], so for us to now go to the inaugural parade, it’s like we’re going for the triple crown of marching band parades

here,” Boden said. “I think I was just shocked that we get another fantastic opportunity in my time at Miami.”

According to Boden, the expe-rience was made better than she could have ever imagined when the president and first lady acknowl-edged Miami’s performance.

“When we passed the president, he stood up and he saluted the three drum majors, and he waved to the band, and the first lady was point-ing at us and waving at the band,” Boden said. “It was just really, really exciting.”

According to Lytle, he was informed that the first lady had personally requested the Miami marching band’s presence in the parade, which was a huge honor.

Member of the band, sopho-more Bobby Grandbois, agreed. He said the parade could not have gone better.

“The way the crowd reacted to some of the stuff we did was really awesome … ” Grandbois said. “I am very honored. It’s [an experi-ence] I will cherish for the rest of my life.”

Boden said not only did the in-augural parade give the march-ing band a chance to represent the university, but the state of Ohio as well.

“I think the most exciting thing CONTRIBUTED By MIaMI UNIVERSITy COMMUNICaTIONS

Top: The Miami marching band gets pumped up during rehearsal before the parade (Jeffrey Sabo). Bottom Left: The marching band appears on television coverage of the inauguration events. (David Miller) Bottom Right: Play-ers ride the bus to the event in Washington, D.C (De’Niel Phipps).

Talawanda School District weighs security optionsBY CHRIS CURMEFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, New-town, Conn., has sparked a national conversation that the Talawanda School District has been having for years.

Talawanda School Board mem-ber Mike Crowder said that over the past year the district has been reworking its crisis protocol.

“The Sandy Hook incident didn’t start Talawanda’s discussion about safety,” Crowder said.

The school district formulates its schools’ emergency response plans around recommendations given by the Oxford Police Department. Ac-cording to Chris Rhoton, vice prin-cipal at Talawanda High School (THS), these recommendations change in the wake of tragic mass shootings such as those in New-town, Conn.

“We were contacted by the Ox-ford Police last school year,” Holli Morrish, director of communica-tion and public relations at Ta-lawanda High School, said. “They wanted us to know we were operat-ing under a post-Columbine plan, and recent events had indicated protocol had changed.”

According to Crowder, the dis-trict’s policy is now that children and teachers should exit the build-ing in the case of an intruder, if it’s safe to do so. Rhoton said that this strategy differs from the past

protocol of remaining hidden in classrooms, and is a response to the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. “[The VT shooter] was practicing for people lined up,” said Rhoton, “He knew his targets would be on the floor, covered up.”

Rhoton and Morrish also men-tioned that administrators and select teachers at the secondary level have been going through ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Infor-mation, Counter and Evacuation) crisis-training. Morrish said this program gives teachers more in-dependence in how to deal with life-threatening situations.

According to English teacher Claire Squance, this more “hands-on” approach allows teachers en-gaging the assailant if necessary.

Morrish said beyond having an effective crisis plan and capable staff, the new high school building has security advantages provided by new technology.

“This building can be locked down from a cell phone,” Morrish said.

From his office, where a surveil-lance feed from the 87 cameras in THS is saved and monitored, Rhoton can lock and unlock every single door in the school.

Crowder explained the purpose of the high school’s buzzer system, where a THS visitor must first be identified, then buzzed into the

Road to recognition: RedHawk women’s hockey team fueled by students’ passionBY KATIE M. TAYLORCAMpUS EDITOR

Miami University may be known for its highly ranked men’s hockey team, but few are aware of the women’s program, which was established at the university only three short years ago. With eight wins, eight loses and four ties, the young team continues to make ef-forts to improve its record.

For most of Miami’s history, fe-male students who loved the sport had no option but to leave it behind when they came to college, but in 2010, three students’ passion for the game inspired them to change that. Then seniors Natalie Dillon

and Jessica Wood, and first-year Liz Wardlow got together to estab-lish a women’s hockey team.

According to Wardlow, Miami helped guide them through the pro-cess and get their plans in motion.

“Everyone was really support-ive,” Wardlow said. “Everyone at Goggin said they would help us in any way they could, and a lot of people involved with the men’s club team gave us a lot of help and showed us how they run their program.”

The team is run by head coach Scott Hicks, assistant coach Jim Stearns and goalie coach Nolan Peduto.

Hicks said he had doubts when

initially being approached for the position. He soon found accepting the role was the right choice.

“I was really skeptical when I took the job, but every year it keeps growing and every year we get more passionate,” Hicks said. “It’s something that right now, at this point in my life, I can’t imag-ine not doing it.”

Hicks has spent years coach-ing men’s hockey which allows physical contact and checking; the women’s version does not. Ac-cording to him, this has made it an enjoyable learning experience.

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A CALL TO ACTIONCarl B. Westmoreland engages the audience in Hall auditorium Jan. 21 at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event. Westmoreland is the senior historian at the Freedom Center Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati.

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By Sam WargoletFor the miami Student

Miami University athlete GPAs hit an all time high of 3.185 last se-mester. For the third consecutive se-mester, the combined GPA of the stu-dent athletes at Miami has increased, and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

Craig Bennett, assistant athletic director of Academic Support Ser-vices, cited several reasons for the increase in academic success.

“I think our coaches continue to recruit academically talented ath-letes,” Bennett said.

Head Men’s Basketball Coach John Cooper said students are initial-ly recognized for their athletic ability, but the reason kids come to school is to get a college education.

Junior John Harris, who plays for the men’s basketball team, said ath-letes are encouraged to do well in and out of the classroom.

“The coaches push us to strive on and off the court,” Harris said. “We’ve got guys at the study tables working hard, and they just stress the importance of being men and focus-ing on education while we are here and keeping our options open.”

According to Cooper, he feels it’s important to keep student athletes focused.

“You have to make sure your pri-orities are in place,” Cooper said. “Our kids need to understand our expectations as far as it pertains to academics.”

Cooper said he holds his athletes

to certain standards. “[It’s important that they’re] on

time [for class] and that they partici-pate, that they don’t walk in and sit in the back of the classroom with base-ball hats,” Cooper said. “It shows the professor that you care about your performance.”

When Bennett took on his position last fall, one of his first steps was to initiate a Student Athlete Advising Week (SAAW). This week was set aside to give athletes the time to meet with their assistant dean or academic advisor to ensure they’re taking the right classes, Bennett explained.

“This semester 93 percent of stu-dent athletes saw their academic adviser,” Bennett said. And this was just the first step in raising the Red-Hawk GPA.

In addition, learning specialists are available to help student athletes organize their time and act as tutors.

“We have a team of learning spe-cialists that work with our students, specifically those who may not be prepared for the rigor of Miami,” Bennett said.

Women’s Head Basketball Coach Maria Fantanarosa cited Craig Ben-nett and his staff for the success of her athletes.

“Craig is exceptional, he is very conscientious and cares about each one of the students individually and puts them in positions to be able to succeed and makes sure they build relationships with professors,” Fantanarosa said.

The coaching staff at Miami can also be credited for the GPA record.

“We [the academic service office] work together with the coaches to make sure every student can stay on track,” Bennett said.

Fantanarosa made it clear that stu-dents are here to get an education.

“Our students, our couches, our advisors and our professors do a great job,” Fantanarosa said. “It’s a continued focus to expect excellence in every area.”

The NCAA, according to Fantan-arosa, has stricter standards than they do for the normal student.

“[The coaches] want us to do the best we can on and off the court,” Haley Robertson, a junior on the women’s basketball team, said. The coaches are very supportive.

“They really push us, especially for the freshmen, to do study table hours at the Gross Center,” Rob-ertson said. Freshmen are required to go to the study tables for at least eight hours a week, and if they earn a 4.0 GPA, the requirement is lifted. On travel trips, sometimes the whole team will have required study time.

According to Robertson, with sports, academics and having a per-sonal life, being a student athlete is extremely busy.

“I have a schedule, and keeping a planner and staying organized all help,” Robertson said.

In order to be eligible to play, Miami student athletes must earn at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA.

“We work around their class

By adrienne moncrieFFor the miami Student

Miami University will imple-ment a pilot program that will promote the creation of organic compost from leftover food scraps, starting Feb. 1. The pilot will take place for one month at King Café.

In addition, Demske Culinary Support Center (DCSC) will com-post its organic food scraps. DCSC is the food warehouse and produce facility for Miami.

The food scraps from King Café and DCSC will be placed into an organic compactor at DCSC. Once every seven to 10 days, the com-pacted matter will be picked up by Con-Serv Industries (CSI), a waste hauler company, and delivered to Compost Cincinnati, where it will be composted and eventually turned into mulch.

Jon Brubacher, the purchasing and operations analyst at DCSC, said more could be done with the leftover organic matter than simply putting it into a landfill.

“Ninety percent of stuff we used to put into the landfill is organic and it will now be composted at Demske,” Brubacher said.

According to Brubacher, the new system of disposing food waste at King Café will be easy for custom-ers to follow.

There will be new trash recep-tacles with designated bins for organic waste, compostable con-tainers, and other non-organic and

non-compostable trash. “It will be a training issue for

us,” Brubacher said. “It falls back on the customer to properly dispose of the items. But we want to try to get everything we provide, even the food containers, to be compostable. That way, there won’t really be any other trash. There is little room for contamination if we make it as sim-plistic as possible.”

Assuming the pilot program at King Café succeeds, other future plans include expanding this pro-gram to Miami’s three new dining halls and eventually to the rest of campus. According to Brubacher, three to four more organic compac-tors like the one at DCSC will be placed around campus within the next four to five months.

Students can also expect to see a new pilot program that encour-ages 11 residence halls to compost pizza boxes.

Although all must contribute, Brubacher said that students are a crucial part of making these sus-tainability programs a success.

First-year Abria Marshall said the new program is a great way to make a difference.

“I think it’s a great idea,” Mar-shall said. “They’re not really do-ing anything with the leftovers; it goes to waste anyway. It’s a win-win.”

The three new dining halls will be a la carte, as Miami is

By lauren ceronieeditor in chieF

This spring, a park in Hanover Township, Ohio will gain a wheel-chair accessible swing, thanks to a group of Miami University students. The group of students, senior Chris-tian Puckett, senior Hannah Elling-hausen, junior Tera Brown, first-year Bethany Kelley and first-year Alex-andria Spencer, raised over $4000 for the swing as a project for an Introduction to Disabilities Studies class taught by educational psychol-ogy professor Ashley Johnson.

The class was split into groups and each group was instructed to come up with an idea to help some-one in the community, according to Puckett.

“We originally wanted to put the wheelchair accessible swing in a school but decided it might be more beneficial for an entire community if we put it in a park,” Puckett said.

The group went through a formal procedure where it wrote a propos-al letter to the Hanover Township Board of Trustees that was presented by Puckett Nov. 13, 2012. Before the project could be approved, Hanover Township had a contractor estimate the cost of the swing—$5600.

Puckett said her group was sur-prised but not deterred by the price.

“It’s a swing, you don’t think that it’s going to cost that much money,” Puckett said. “And remember, this is just students going out on their own and raising money.”

Although they faced doubters, the group of Miami students hit the streets to raise money for the swing. Most donations came from family, friends and local businesses, accord-ing to Puckett. The two largest donors were the Butler County Board of De-velopmental Disabilities in Hamilton and the Meijer grocery store in Ham-ilton, according to Puckett.

“We were overwhelmed with donations,” Puckett said. “I had checks coming to my house every single day.”

In a bit less than five weeks, Puck-ett and her group raised over $4000 and Hanover Township matched with $1600, 30 percent of what the swing would cost.

After a semester of work, the students presented their donation to Hanover Township Jan. 16 on a giant check made for them by the university.

The Hanover Township contractor plans to begin building the swing in March, according to Puckett.

“This is a big deal to us,” Puckett said. “We want this to be recognized because we people forget about the disabilities community. We were doubted a lot, but when you set your mind to something you really want to do, you can do it.”

According to Ashley Johnson, who teaches the disabilities studies class, classes are instructed to com-

plete an “action project.” Most stu-dents focus on raising awareness of the disabilities community, but never with the financial impact of this group, Johnson said.

“I certainly have never had stu-dents raise as much money as this group,” Johnson said. “They sur-passed anything that I ever expected; I’m proud of them.”

Johnson said she hopes this project will raise awareness about disabilities.

“I’m very excited about [the swing],” Johnson said. “I live in Ha-nover Township and I take my one-and-a-half yearold daughter to the park. I’ll be reminded of all the hard work [the students] put in and the great things Miami students can do.”

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introduction to Disabilities Studies class students present the check for a wheelchair accessible swing for a park in Hanover township. left to right: alexandria Spencer, larry Miller, tera Brown, Fred Stitsinger, elizabeth Brosius, Doug Johnson, ashley Johnson, Christian Puckett, Bethany Kelley.

Students raise $4k for disabilities community

Dining aims to reduce, reuse, recycle food waste

RedHawk athletes succeed off the field, achieve all-time high GPa in fall 2012

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By liBBy muellerSenior StaFF Writer

Many students dream up projects on a grand scale, fantasizing about making a documentary or inventing the next big thing. Because of a phe-nomenon known as crowd-funding, these dreams have become realities for students like recent Miami Uni-versity graduate Meaghan Harris, who utilized a crowd-funding site called Fundageek.com to help fund her conservation research project in Borneo, Malaysia.

Director of the Armstrong Insti-tute for Interactive Media Studies Glenn Platt said crowd-funding is a way to bypass traditional middle-men that fund start-ups, such as pro-duction companies or organizations that fund research, and appeal di-rectly to people who might be inter-ested in the end result of the project or research.

Some crowd-funding sites

include Kickstarter.com, Pozible.com and Microryza.com.

“Because of the direct access to the fans and the audience that you think would be passionate about the thing that you would be doing…platforms like Kickstarter allow stu-dents to fund the creation of content by funding it through the people who would be directly interested in it,” Platt said.

According to Platt, anyone with a credit card and Internet access can fund projects that are posted on crowd-funding sites. Many times, Platt said, crowd-funding investors receive a reward for their invest-ment, such as a product invented by a student, a CD or a DVD. But research-oriented crowd-funding sites like Fundageek.com typically attract investors or do-nors who believe in the research

crowd-funding site allows student to spot mysterious leopards

CoNtriBUteD By MeaGHaN HarriS

a male clouded leopard approaches a wildlife camera. Miami alumna Meaghan Harris set up wildlife cameras as part of her research on clouded leopards in Borneo, Malaysia.

By Courtenay teitelBaumFor the miami Student

Premium liquor sales in Ohio hit a record high in 2012, reaching $849 million, a 7 percent increase since 2011.

Matt Mullins, director of com-munications of The Department Of Commerce Liquor Control Division, said wholesale sales de-creased in 2008, 2009 and slightly in 2010.

Mullins said these numbers are a direct result of the growth of Ohio’s economy.

Ohio’s unemployment rate was at 10 percent in 2010, the follow-ing year it dropped to 8.6 percent and by 2012 it had dropped to 6.8 percent. According to Mullins, now that more Ohioans have more money to spend, it appears that they prefer to spend their money on higher quality liquor products.

“We expect dollar sales are go-ing to increase,” Mullins said about the upcoming year.

Senior Corey Davis said he pre-fers quality over quantity.

“If it’s just for me and a cou-ple friends I’ll buy Absolute or Smirnoff, but if it’s for a big party I’ll buy the cheaper stuff,” he said. “My Dad prefers Skyy vodka.”

Manager of Oxford Spirits, Gary Hetzl, said students still prefer Korski over Crown and Jack Dan-iels. Korski has continued to be the top seller at Oxford Spirits and was ranked 10th in sales overall among the spirituous liquor in Ohio.

“Spirituous liquor is anything

above 42 proof, the state owns ev-ery bottle of liquor over 42 proof,” Hetzl said.

Businesses around the area have also noticed an increase in sales over the years.

Patrick Shaw, a former Miami student now a manager at 45 East, said late night sales have increased

dramatically from years past. “We’ve been a lot busier so far

than last year,” Shaw said. Mark Johnson, a manager at

Skipper’s Pub, said he has not no-ticed any changes with premium alochol sales.

“Most students still prefer Natural Light over higher qual-ity beers,” Johnson said. “Cheaper stuff sells the most.”

Even though premium liquor sales have continued to increase, this does not mean that Ohioans are drinking more, but rather choosing to drink premium liquors, accord-ing to Mullins.

Mullins said that with economic growth comes higher demand for higher quality products.

Oxford bars continue to see in-creasing numbers in sales, but this does not reflect the trend through the rest of the state.

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The fate of The Princess The-ater remains in the hands of Aliance Entertianment. Doug-las Elliott, Oxford city manager spoke with Anne Ragains, CEO of Aliance Entertainment, Dec. 20. She revealed that Aliance Enter-tainment was speaking with other parties about future ownership of The Princess, according to Elliott.

Elliott has left numerous mes-sages for Ragains since their last conversation in December. He said he continues to remind Ragains that the community would like to keep The Princess a functioning theater.

“I have called her probably four times since then and we have not connected,” Elliott said. “She did tell me last year that she basically was going to step back and take a look at things.”

David Prytherch, chair of the Oxford Planning Commis-sion and creator of the Save The

Princess Facebook page, con-tinues to lead the community’s efforts. In December, Prytherch helped create The Friends of The Princess Theater group.

“We have seen two months without a movie theater and we know how bad that feels,” Pry-therch said. “I think that people

are still as motivated to save the theater. It is just a question of whether the city council or city staff is able to act on that desire and help save the theater.”

Prytherch also said he fears that The Princess may be a desirable property for more student housing.

“I cannot imagine that any-one who is seeking to buy the theater from Aliance is buying it to run a small town theater,” Prytherch said.

“I could be wrong because we don’t know who those two buyers are. The venue of that site is more [desirable] for student apartments

than movie theaters.”For now, Oxford residents and

students must drive to the AMC Showplace Theatre in Hamilton or other surrounding cities to see a movie.

Miami University senior Pres-ton Tuggle recently drove to Hamilton to see Zero Dark Thir-

ty. Tuggle said he does not mind the drive.

“It is nice to get out of Oxford every once in a while,” Tuggle said. “The movies out right now are interesting and good movies.”

Aliance entertainment still owns the building and has kept the heat and utilities on during the chilly months since The Princess was closed.

Aliance Entertainment’s web-site, greatescapetheatres.com is now redirected to a Regal Enter-tainment Group website.

David Poland, the vice presi-dent of operations for Aliance En-tertainment, could not be reached for comment.

The Princess Theater closed on Nov. 25, 2012. Elliott and Alan Kyger, the economic develop-ment director for the City of Ox-ford, initially planned for a short transition period for a new owner to purchase or lease the theater. Aliance Entertainment’s initial of-fer to donate The Princess to the city fell through in December.

Butler County works to combat food stamp fraud By lauren WilliamSSenior StaFF Writer

Federal agents, state depart-ments and local police are work-ing together to combat the issue of food stamp fraud in Ohio.

The Ohio Department of Pub-lic Safety began food stamp fraud investigations after recipients of federal assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) sold their benefit cards for money.

According to the Ohio Inves-tigative Unit, since Jan. 9 five people have been indicted, two charged, and one sentenced for crimes related to illegally selling food stamps.

The food assistance funds lost to food stamp fraud constitute less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the total $3 billion allocated to Ohio families, according to Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services (ODJFS) spokesperson Benjamin Johnson.

“I caution people to remember that 40 percent of food assistance recipients are children, and great numbers of [recipients] are re-tired or disabled,” Johnson said.

According to Johnson, 1 in 4 recipients of Ohio food assis-tance belong to households with at least one working adult, and 75 percent receive some form of income.

Johnson said he is work-ing closely with investigators to ensure the money is going to families who are facing difficult times and are using the assistance as intended.

“These are people who need help putting food on the table and keeping their children fed and healthy,” Johnson said.

The SNAP benefit card works similarly to a debit card, ac-cording to Ohio Office of Fam-ily Assistance representative Marian Gray.

The monthly allotment of food assistance is deposited into the recipient’s account, and a re-quired PIN number accesses the funds at the grocery store.

The process for receiving a replacement SNAP card is a phone call requesting a reissue of the card.

The excessive reissue of SNAP

cards is one indicator of possible fraud, Johnson said.

Butler County is the only coun-ty in Ohio that has set up a squad unit that specifically investigates food stamp fraud.

Since July 2012, this unit has saved Butler County nearly $200,000.

This number is calculated by how much assistance the individ-uals would have received if the money was actually used toward food products, Johnson said.

Though the Ohio Investigative Unit does pay attention to fraudu-lent card replacements, police of-ficers and federal agents mainly concentrate on unscrupulous authorized retailers, according to Cincinnati District Agent-in-Charge Brent Devery.

For example, a typical case of food stamp fraud is the illegal ex-change of a food assistance card for cash worth half the dollar amount of the card.

Devery said this is a fantastic initiative by the Butler County squad unit.

“Butler County is very proac-tive, and they always have been, and we enjoy working with them on this,” Devery said.

Food stamp trafficking is a fifth-degree felony in Ohio. In-dividuals charged with food stamp fraud may receive up to a $250,000 fine, 20 years in prison, and a lifetime ban from the SNAP program, Johnson said.

Miami junior Alyssa Reck and her family donate to food banks and charities each year to help those struggling to get back on their feet.

Reck said she knows the im-portance of feeding those who are hungry, and does not want the acquisition of funds for programs such as SNAP to be reduced due to food stamp fraud.

“People are living in poverty,” Reck said. “The more you cut back, you’re restricting them.”

Reck said she sometimes feels hesitant to donate her money when people abuse the benefits and services they receive.

“Taxpayers should know where their money is going, and they should know that the people receiving it actually need it,” Reck said.

We have seen two months without a movie theater and we know how bad that feels. I think people are still as motivated to save the theater.”

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MU music groups perform at Rock Hallby Eric moEnichFor thE miAmi StudEnt

Miami University’s Oxford Chamber Orchestra and a cappel-la group the Mergers displayed their many talents on stage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland this past Thursday.

With selections by groups such as the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, both groups were able to pay tribute to several fa-mous artists while delivering bril-liant and unique performances of their own.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s “Teachers Rock” pro-gram, geared towards the educa-tion and appreciation of music in schools nationwide, along with breaking down the barriers be-tween classical and rock music, opened its doors to Miami’s en-sembles as well as an ensemble from Northern Kentucky Univer-sity to show teachers around the country the endless possibilities and opportunities that music edu-cation can provide.

The Teachers Rock workshop was co-hosted by the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) and was streamed live on the Rock Hall’s website.

Miami’s ensembles were giv-en this remarkable opportunity

thanks to Master Percussionist and Miami alumnus Srinivas Krishnan, a supporter of the musical arts. Through a contact at the Rock Hall, he was able to set up the event for Miami’s performing groups.

The Mergers’ lineup for the concert consisted of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Old Friends” and a medley of songs by Nat King Cole. Backed by a string quartet of Miami students and Miami eth-nomusicology professor Thomas Garcia, the Mergers were able to honor legendary musicians in a very famous venue. By providing a new take on well-known music, they were able to demonstrate the vocal talent of Miami.

“Being able to perform in front of such an appreciative audience, in a place where rock stars have been inducted was such a big privilege,” senior Meaghan Par-sons, a member of the Mergers, said. “Performances like these have taught me to always ac-cept opportunities and to not take things for granted.”

In addition to the Mergers, the Oxford Chamber Orchestra put on a brilliant performance, play-ing selections such as “Eleanor Rigby,” “Yesterday” and “Penny Lane.” Garcia obtained the ar-rangements of the popular tunes through his contact with the

publisher of a talented composer from his recent research on per-forming and teaching in Havana. Conducted by professor Ricardo Averbach with Garcia playing guitar, the orchestra displayed the talent of Miami’s instrumen-tal music program in front of the

national audience.“Being able to teach and per-

form seamlessly on a national stage in such a great venue was spectacular,” Garcia said. “Per-formances like these are what we live for.”

One of the most impressive aspects of this hour and a half-long concert was the achievement shown by both ensembles despite the initial obstacles of time and complicated logistics. Since it took place right at the beginning of this semester, both groups had to rehearse and prepare for this prestigious event despite the gap of winter break. Ordering music from another country also created

some difficulties. In addition to these logisti-

cal challenges, the very stage on which the students performed was small and difficult to manage acoustically. Nevertheless, every group delivered a concert that showed the audience that Miami

takes music very seriously.In addition to the workshop,

the prestigious Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orches-tra, opened its doors to the Miami students and college conductors. The orchestra had an open re-hearsal for those attending to fur-ther demonstrate the importance of music not only in schools, but in society as well.

This was especially important to Averbach, who hopes to bring this message back to Miami’s campus. Having just been named president-elect of CODA, he is dedicated to music as well as its appreciation across the nation.

“There is a lot of talk about

critical thinking on college cam-puses today,” Averbach said. “However, we are in the era of creative thinking. If we use criti-cal thinking skills along with the creativity of music, we can make a huge difference in students’ lives and solve challenges around the world.”

In today’s world, orchestras are struggling. Many are going bank-rupt or disbanding due to lack of support from their communities. Music is an evolving art form that, unlike the physically endur-ing nature of sculptures or paint-ings, cannot survive without the support of an audience.

Concerts and workshops such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Teachers Rock program encourage the appreciation of music in all forms, starting with younger audiences.

After such incredible perfor-mances from Miami’s Music De-partment, including this year’s performance at Carnegie Hall as well as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s workshop, Averbach wants the community to recog-nize and support the musical tal-ent here at Miami University.

“I’d like to ask the university community to support the arts as much as possible,” Averbach said. “In doing this, there is much to be gained by everyone.”

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StAndinG oVAtion!The cast of Stage Left’s production of Spring Awakening takes a bow after its performance Saturday night. The cast put on five sold-out shows over the course of the weekend.

Male a cappella groups to enter national competitionby EmiLy hAnhArt For thE miAmi StudEnt

Miami University’s male a cap-pella groups, the Cheezies and the Remnants will be competing in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICAA) in the next few weeks. This is the first time that either a cappella group has competed in ICCA.

Founded in 1996, the competi-tion is known for engaging some of the most talented a cappella groups from all over the coun-try and Europe. The competition kicks off next week with the first round of quarterfinals and ends in April with the finals at the Town Hall in New York City.

Last year, both groups sent in videos of three songs that show-cased their range in musical tal-ent. They both qualified for one of several dozen quarterfinal events around the nation, with the Cheezies competing Jan. 26

at Michigan State University and the Remnants competing Feb. 2 at Carnegie Mellon Uni-versity. Working on promoting themselves around campus, both groups are aiming high after re-cording their first CDs on iTunes last year.

Senior Jeremy Myeroff, busi-ness manager for the Cheez-ies, said the group is eager to see how it will match up to the competition.

“We want to prove some-thing to ourselves that goes be-

yond the Oxford community,” Myeroff said.

Both groups have been prac-ticing around the clock to polish their performances before the competition. Rehearsing several times a week, they are working harder than they ever have before to prove that they are a force to be reckoned with.

“We think we are pretty pre-pared and confident that we can make it past the first round,” sophomore Dee Isaac, a first-year member of the Cheezies, said. “We’re just excited to get the experience to share music with people who haven’t heard us.”

Even with extensive prepa-ration, the groups have experi-enced minor bumps in the road to ICCA. Song choice and sound quality aren’t the only element of the performance. In order to leave a lasting impression on the judg-es, it is crucial to incorporate cho-reography that doesn’t up-stage their vocal performance.

“All of us joined the group because of our singing ability, not our dancing ability,” Myer-off said jokingly. “One of our biggest challenges was getting the choreography down and looking uniform.”

Nonetheless, the Cheezies are ready and eager to com-pete next Saturday. Check out the ICCA Facebook page for more information and updates on the qualifying groups as the competition progresses.

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Unfortunately for Miami Uni-versity students, so far winter 2013 is shaping up to be eerily similar to winter 2012. Some students may welcome this state-ment with open arms and dreams of tank tops in February. How-ever, for those of us who enjoy snowball fights, ice skating or, better yet, snow days, this repeti-tive winter could be alarming.

This playlist is the cure to an-other dry, boring winter. Deco-rate your room with homemade snowflakes and play this mix when you wear your pajamas in-side out or flush your ice cubes down the toilet in hopes of a snow day. If, on the off chance these proven scientific meth-ods don’t bring any snow to Oxford, these songs will help you trick yourself into think-ing it 2 degrees with two feet of snow outside.

Good music and vibes beat the winter blues

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cause of the student seeking funds, Platt said.

Last year Harris posted her re-search expedition, an opportunity to collect field data on the Sunda Clouded Leopard in Borneo, on Fundageek.com. She said she would call her fundraising cam-paign a success.

“I didn’t reach my very tenta-tive and ambitious goal of $4,200 but I still ended up raising I think $1,800 [through Fundageek] and a whole bunch of stuff on the side,” Harris said.

Harris did travel to Borneo to conduct field research at the Da-nau Girang Field Centre for two months, from June 3 to July 28, 2012. She graduated in December 2012 and is now permanently sta-tioned in Borneo.

When she did research during the summer, she helped set up a grid of motion and heat sensing cameras that captured the wildlife in the area and gave the researchers at the field center an idea of the biodiversity, Harris said. Her project identified individual clouded leopards.

“So far we’ve identified at least nine,” Harris said.

Harris said little to nothing is known about the clouded leopard and the kind of research she con-ducted had not been done before in Borneo. She said the mystery of this research field appealed to her.

Harris said her summer research project led to her current position in the Kinabatangan Carnivore

Program, where she will be track-ing and collaring clouded leop-ards. In October, she will start her Ph.D. program monitoring seven different species of civets, small weasel-like carnivore.

Harris said field conservation biodiversity has been her passion since she was little. “Summer was kind of the springboard to every-thing I’ve wanted my whole life,” Harris said.

Professor of Zoology Chris Myer helped Harris get involved with Project Dragonfly, the large educa-tion project created by Miami facul-ty and students that hosts the Earth Expeditions course in Borneo. He said Harris’s research will contrib-ute to a multi-dimensional under-standing of Southeast Asian ecosys-tems and conservation systems.

“One of the issues of wildlife in Southeast Asia is destruction of habitat for palm oil plantations,” Myers said. “[There is] an urgent need to understand how these populations are responding to the conversion of incredibly diverse rainforest systems to plantations. [This will allow scientists to] better understand how changes in the eco-system are impacting biodiversity.”

Harris isn’t the only student pur-suing her passions. Platt said that because of crowd-funding, students are more empowered than ever be-fore to design creative projects and do research.

“If you want to do a creative project or fund your research…you don’t need your professors to me-diate that for you anymore,” Platt said. “If you want to do something, you can do it.”

schedules with our practice times,” Fantanarosa said. “We have players who come late and leave early from practice because we know how im-portant it is to be in the classroom.”

Beneath the plethora of resources available to the student athletes, their hard work is what really makes them successful, according to Bennett.

“Ultimately, our students are the ones who are getting it done,” Bennett said. “I just know that I feel lucky that I get to work with outstanding coaches who truly care about the development of the ath-letes on the field, academically, and in their personal lives.”

As for the future expectation of Miami student athletes, Bennett said, “I think this trend will only continue to get better.”

transitioning away from the buffet style dining.

First-year Thomas Yarcusko said so much goes to waste in the buffet style dining halls and some-thing should be done about it.

“I see a lot of food leftover on the conveyor…it’s pretty bad,” Yarcusko said.

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led all scorers with 16.“Last year we went down there,

and with 2:11 to go, we were up nine with the ball and lost,” Eagles’ Head Coach Rob Mur-phy said. “So I was beginning to think there was some kind of jinx or hoax going on that we couldn’t beat Miami. To know they had beaten us 16 straight times leaves

a nasty taste in your mouth, and we wanted to erase it.”

Miami now returns to Oxford for a three game stretch that be-gins with Ohio University.

Ohio holds a 13-5 record on the season and is trying to extend its winning streak to six games. Miami’s defense will be tested, as Ohio is the top team in the nation with assists per game at 19.4.

“I’m not pleased with losing the game, but I’m pleased with the effort,” Cooper said. “It’s an effort that we can continue to build on.”

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the Falcons.“Bowling Green will be our

toughest road game this year,” Fantanarosa said.

The ’Hawks will fight for MAC East Division supremacy at 7 p.m. in the new Stroh Center and Sunday’s performance has Fantanarosa hopeful.

“We’re just scratching the sur-face of how good we can be,” Fantanarosa said.

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“They’re a really good team and were on an 11 game win streak,” Czarnik said. “Coach [Enrico Blasi] told us just to go have fun out there, and that really helped us. Guys were relaxed and had confidence coming into Saturday night … It was really huge for us.”

As the Red and White look for-ward, six series against CCHA teams separates them from the post-season. Miami’s next opponent is Bowling Green, who is 5-1-1 in its last seven contests.

“We’ve just got to keep on work-ing hard,” Czarnik said. “Hopefully down the stretch we’ll be able to string a few wins together and come in first place.”

Miami is back in action on home ice this upcoming weekend, as they take on the Falcons at the Goggin Ice Center in a two game series. The puck drops 7:35 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, and 7:05 Saturday, Jan. 26.

work on picking up crucial points and just work on getting better for next weekend.”

Raymond also spoke of what transpired on Saturday.

“We had a tough match against a tough opponent, and we learned a lot from the match that we took away and will use to work on this week during practice to prepare for Louisville and Cincinnati next weekend,” she said. “Despite be-ing a tough loss, it was only our first match of the season. We are a fairly young team so we are look-ing forward to continuing to work hard and improve throughout the season.”

The RedHawks return to action next weekend as they face big non-conference road tests at the Univer-sity of Louisville and the University of Cincinnati 4 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, respectively.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2013

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

Rule of Thumb

school security measures must be examined at the local level

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Green is good! Let’s do our part to put the right food in the right bins.

Public urinationKeep it in your pants.

With the recent mass shoot-ing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. in mind, safety protocols in Talawa-nda School district have under-gone renewed scrutiny.

As is the case nation-wide, safety measures in schools have been evolving since the Col-umbine High School shooting in 1999.

School officials have been working to update protocols and crisis manuals to incorporate new tactics and lessons learned from past tragedies.

A system of locks, buzzers and surveillance will be used at Kramer Elementary, while the new high school’s security sys-tem can be controlled by smart phone technology.

At a recent press conference, Butler County Sheriff, Richard K. Jones, called for schools to hire retired police officers, many of whom possess master’s de-grees, as substitute teachers.

This has yet to be decided upon by school administrators.

The Miami Student editorial board believes that the most ef-fective short-term progress in school safety must be made on

the local level. We believe that a serious con-

versation about guns and school safety needs to be had at the na-tional level, but that conversation will not lead to safer schools in the immediate future.

The necessary cultural and so-cietal changes that must prevail in order to diminish the threat of similar tragedies will take years, if not decades to truly take place.

It would be beneficial for individual schools to look at how to protect their students, and specialize safety mea-surements to that particular school’s population, layout, area safety regulations and other necessary components.

This issue impacts the entire community and must be dealt with by the entire community. We can no longer look at mass shootings and say, “That will never happen here.” Instead, we must look at these tragedies and come up with ways to prevent them in the future.

This needs to take place at the local, state and national levels and it must be a serious conversation uninhibited by partisan politics.

EssaY

Fashionable Miami needs more fashion classes

Miami University has everything that a fashionista would want in a college environment: students who have fashion interest, uptown bou-tiques staying with the trends, a fashion club that boasts talented de-signers and models with respected resumes, events such as speakers from the fashion world and Fash-ion’s Night Out and Miami’s own Fashion Week.

But one thing is missing: a fash-ion and design major, and even just one fun fashion elective to satisfy Miami’s interest and eye for fashion and style.

Miami University’s Fashion Week began last year as an annual event as an entire week devoted to fashion. Beginning in late April, the week is capped off by a fashion show that will be held this year on April 27, 2013 where models will walk the runway wearing outfits designed and made by MUCFD’s talented designers.

It will showcase a team of Miami students as designers and their many outfits both created and designed by them. Each designer has their own segment of the show where all their outfits are modeled at one time.

Chic pea coats and vintage dress-es are just a couple of the variety of styles that models will be grac-ing the runway. The designers are artistically talented and carry skills in sewing and measuring to fit and flatter the models. So with this tal-ent, skill and advanced knowledge of these designers, it would only make sense to have real course-work and degrees offered for design and fashion.

Presently, the only fashion related

courses that Miami offers to its stu-dents are history-related and offer a cultural, sociological and historical perspective to style and dress, yet not the aesthetic, technical and artis-tic perspectives on it.

The only fashion-related courses available, according to the Miami Bulletin, include REL 333 Religion Dress; MPF 114 Global Perspec-tives on Dress and Status; ART 189 History of Western Dress; ART 233 Global Perspectives on Dress; and ART 480 Dress in America. There is no degree or even courses that of-fer technical instruction in fashion design, or courses or a major/minor in the business side of fashion such as merchandising.

Just looking around campus, Mi-ami students are much more fash-ionable than the average college student. Instead of wearing slouchy sweatpants and throwing their hair up into messy buns, girls sport around designer jeans, boots, bags and jewelry.

The chic east coast style of Mi-ami’s student body and the articles of clothing we sport around campus are often preppy and in mode with the stuff found in the latest fashion magazines. So we have the poten-tial, the interest and the skills that any university offering a bachelor’s degree in design or fashion mer-chandising would love to have.

Signs of talent related to the fashion and style are found all over campus. Many students I know per-sonally are taking internships and job offers for companies such as Victoria’s Secret, American Eagle and even Hermes. Some marketing majors are finding their calling in

fashion merchandising and taking that career path. However, Miami students entering the fashion busi-ness may not be equipped with the professional skills that can only be gained through instruction through specific professional courses and majors for fashion and design.

So why has Miami University not adequately prepared its students to approach the demands of the busi-ness of fashion?

In order to be competitive in the challenging job market, a true de-gree in merchandising specifically for fashion would be invaluable. A design major gives the essential technical knowledge that a prospec-tive designer would need. Clothing companies and design labels are major brands in the business world.

The fashion industry is global, in obvious high demand, profitable, and thus should be treated as such.

Fashion defines us as people, and so it should be given as much importance as any other form of art or concentration of business. A fashion/design program and major would be very successful at Miami.

Fashion merchandising exists at many other Ohio schools such as The Ohio State University and Kent State University, so why not Mi-ami? We are turning away hundreds of students from a program with po-tential for high profitability.

Not only would it attract many people, but I believe that it would be very successful among our current, fashionable student body.

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Spring Awakening

Congratulations to the cast on great, sold-out performances.

liquor salesWe’re stimulating the economy, but should we be using our paychecks for other things?

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ANDREW’S ASSESSMENTS

House Republicans must start thinking politically, strategically or lose their majority

ANDREW GEISLER

Since taking back the majority in the House of Representatives in 2010, the Republicans have been a conference with clear goals in mind—cut spending, cut taxes, and reduce the overall size of gov-ernment. However they are also a conference lacking the political acumen required to actually reach any of these ambitious goals.

And despite the fact that the American people claim to despise

p o l i t i c s —the House Republican Conference could benefit from think-ing about their power through a more politi-cal lens.

Unfor tu-nately, this is unlikely to happen. The Tea Party didn’t sweep in on politics. A member like Jeff Dun-can of South Carolina, or Raul Labrador (that’s right, like the dog) of Idaho might say they swept in on principle, but the American people were sick of politics as usual.

All their constituency wanted were politicians who have a dis-dain for government and politics—that way all this new breed of cit-izen-legislators would do is scale back the size of government with no regard for any other—namely political—outside factors.

Well folks, we tried it your way for the last two years and look where it got us on your big issues of the day. On spending, our nation’s debt is now above $16 trillion and rising, our leaders just jammed through a tax-raising package to the tune of roughly $600 billion

dollars of more revenue with no spending cuts on New Years, and our regulatory state continues its invasive expansion.

How did this happen with Re-publicans controlling the people’s house? A quote by one of their leading political forefathers at the 1964 Republican Convention gives us a window into the soul of the these principled, but strategi-cally inept leaders.

Barry Goldwater turned heads when he told delegates and the American people, “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me re-mind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”

House Republicans wholeheart-edly embraced Senator Gold-water’s maxim during the 112th Congress—we saw the disastrous results. The results were just as disastrous for the Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party in the 1964 election. Without a broadly appealing message, Gold-water won only six states. Lyndon Johnson was reelected. The Great Society programs that conserva-tives of all stripes love to hate were jammed through the Congress after LBJ rightly claimed a mandate for his policies. Government was per-manently expanded after the elec-toral debacle.

Now that’s not all Goldwater’s fault—the circumstances of the day were working against him, but the House Republicans should still take note and realize they have a chance to play a constructive role in solving the big fiscal problems.

As former Senator Alan Simp-son said last week on Meet the Press, we really are the healthi-est horse in the glue factory, and

the political strategy used by the opposition on the right has made it all the more likely that instead of fixing these problems with a center-right solution—roughly a 3- or 4-to-1 ratio of spending cuts to tax increases like the Simpson-Bowles commission did—Repub-licans will lose control of the purse strings and House Speaker Pelosi will gavel in the 114th Congress.

The results would almost cer-tainly be another permanent expansion of the federal gov-ernment and a permanent institu-tionalization of much higher tax rates than most Americans are comfortable with.

The House Republican’s Gold-water strategy has already gotten us nowhere fast. As Joe Scarbor-ough repeatedly yelled on Morn-ing Joe the morning after 85 House Republicans and all but three of Republicans in the Senate voted to raise taxes on single Ameri-cans making $400,000 per year and couples making $450,000 or more per year, “You saved yourself for this?!”

As the late Robert Novak used to say, Republicans were put on Earth to cut taxes—and when we gave up this issue without any spending cuts, it looked weak. It looked pa-thetic. And it gave away almost all of the Republican’s leverage.

But they didn’t have to be in this position. Republicans should have actually been serious about deficit reduction all along, not just anti-tax advocates. Novak might disagree, but Edmund Burke would not. In his classic Reflections on a Revo-lution in France, Burke writes, “Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political

principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The cir-cumstances are what render every civil and political scheme benefi-cial or noxious to mankind.”

Runaway deficits from too much spending, not enough tax revenue and entitlement programs that are taking over the budget are the problems.

The circumstances are scream-ing shut up about tax cuts and start getting serious about the deficit. The circumstances are screaming work with the White House to roll-back the size of government (as the President has indicated he’s will-ing to do in a big deal). The cir-cumstances are screaming if taxes must go up, let’s do it the right way through tax reform, not by taking money out of the pockets of small business owners and the middle class like the fiscal cliff deal did.

Extremism has given us the sta-tus quo. An acceptance and politi-cal application of the circumstanc-es almost certainly would not.

I’m not calling for deep conces-sions from the right wing. Look if I were in Congress, I would have had a hard time casting a vote for the McConnell-Biden fiscal cliff deal because it does next to noth-ing for the deficit and raises taxes. In the end, I likely would have avoided making taxes go up on ev-ery American, but this issue is that poor political thinking led us to this point.

The far right in the House re-fused to support any of the big deals floating around—the zero strategy extremism has killed their chances.

Now I do concede these deals are an incredibly awkward dance—Americans abstractly want less

government, but specific govern-ment programs are quite popular. If everyone wants less taxes and less government but wants to keep what we’ve got today, it’s easy to see why our politics is in such a state of paralysis.

Bill Kristol writes in the latest is-sue of The Weekly Standard, “Re-publicans are in opposition. This provides opportunities for clear speech and bold proposals. It im-plies also the responsibility to do what they can to mitigate the dam-age of the next four years. But, at the end of the day, there is no sub-stitute for victory.”

Kristol is right, but it’s time to decide what victory really means. Does victory mean an inability to move off of your dogma lead-ing to truly disastrous results (the status quo on spending and higher taxes)? Or does victory mean real deficit reduction however we can get there?

Any deficit reduction package that can make it through the Re-publican controlled House will be immeasurably better than any defi-cit reduction package that Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and the President might push through after 2014 if we stay on this highly unpopular and politically stupid course.

The answer is clear. Extremism in defense of poor

strategy is the greatest political vice. Moderation in support of jus-tice is called governing.

House Republicans of the 113th Congress, reject Goldwater, em-brace Burke, and do all you can to put our country on a sound fiscal course. You won’t get everything you want, but what you’ll get is far better than the alternative.

Name: Sheldon AndersonProfessor of History Letter: A Manifesto for a Revolution in College Sports Ohio State finished a perfect 2012 football season with a 12-0 record, but could not go to a bowl game because of NCAA sanctions imposed for violations incurred under departed coach Jim Tressel. Fifty-one years earlier the team was denied another bowl bid, but under very different circumstances. In late 1961 the faculty council at Ohio State University voted 28 to 25 against accepting an invitation for its Big Ten championship football team to play UCLA in the 1962 Rose Bowl. Some faculty members were embarrassed by Ohio State’s reputation as a football school rather than as a respected place of higher learning. “We’re upset over the fact that the image of Ohio State is that the school is merely an appendage to the football team,” said one faculty member. “When we go away for meetings, we’re kidded about this by people from other schools. We don’t dislike football, but the feeling is that things are out of proportion.” In 1939 University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins had reached the same conclusion, and took the drastic step of dropping the football program entirely, despite its storied past under legendary coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. The Ohio State vote was one of the last major faculty protests against the influence of big time athletics on university campuses. Many Ohioans were outraged with the council’s vote. Buckeye students marched to the state capitol in Columbus, broke windows, turned over cars, and burned effigies of the professors. Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, who had already won the Rose Bowl in 1954 and 1957, calmed passions while taking a dig at the council: “I don’t agree with those 28 ‘no’ votes, but I respect their integrity, if not their intelligence.” The notion of faculty control over bowl bids today is laughable, and college presidents who limit the power and scope of their athletic programs are increasingly rare. Colleges promote successful athletic programs as a way to brand their schools, increase enrollments, and solicit wealthy donors. It is a risky gamble to invest millions in a winning basketball or football program as a marketing tool, because there is no guarantee that teams will have consistent success. It is obvious that major Division-I (D-I) sports programs no longer have much to do with the academic mission of their universities. Major college sports are a billion-dollar corporate enterprise that undermines the real purpose of higher education. A recent study of median per capita spending on athletes and other college students revealed a startling disparity. Spending per student at Big Ten schools was $19,225, while spending per athlete was a whopping $116,667. Playing D-I sports is a full time job, often relegating the athlete’s education to a matter of maintaining eligibility to play. Surrounded by a phalanx of personal academic counselors and tutors, many athletes choose the same majors and take the same classes that athletic programs know they can pass, and at times of the day that do not conflict with practice schedules. Coaches cannot afford to lose their top athletes to ineligibility, and it rarely happens. These athletes might get a scholarship worth up to $40-50,000 a year, while their coaches at the D-I level take home millions. One study estimated that a star quarterback at a big time football school such as Texas is worth five million dollars to the school annually.The average yearly salary of a D-I football coach is $1.47 million. Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer makes nearly $4.5 million a year. Given the revenues generated by the OSU football team, Meyer is probably a good investment. But the head football coach is also the highest paid employee at Miami University, whose football team loses at least $2 million every year. Coaches repeatedly break NCAA rules, knowing full well that a winning program can take them to the next higher paying job. If caught they can simply resign, leaving their universities and players to deal with the burden of sanctions. Pete Carroll left the USC football program in shambles in 2010, and landed a multi-million dollar deal with the Seattle Seahawks. John Calipari’s basketball players at both the University of Massachusetts and the University of Memphis repeatedly ran afoul of the rules, so Calipari left those schools for the University of Kentucky, where he unabashedly exploits the NBA’s rule that high school players have to play one year of college. He does not particularly care about his players’ academic careers; his future NBA first-rounders take a few cupcake classes in the fall semester, but do not have to show up for any of their spring semester courses. The Caliparis and Carrolls make a mockery of the idea of the “student-athlete.” Even coaches who try to play by the rules are under pressure because their job depends on winning; graduation rates and educating their athletes are luxuries. What college president or athletic director defends a losing coach by bringing up his or her high graduation rate? The money is just too big. Division I teams have begun a game of musical chairs, changing conferences to find the most lucrative places to play, regardless of geographical proximity and traditional rivalries. Games are scheduled on any day or night to accommodate the television schedules, which provide D-I teams revenue even if there are few fans in the stands. The NCAA and ESPN schedule-makers pay no attention to the possibility that players have classes during the week. Most teams arrive at least a day before an away game, further disrupting the athlete’s class schedule. Some universities such as Mississippi State and Boston College have even cancelled classes so that students can watch a big mid-week televised football game. Very few colleges at any level run a profitable athletic program; in 2012 only twenty-three of the 338 D-I universities operated in the black. Miami University subsidizes athletics to the tune of $15 million annually. If OSU actually paid their football or basketball players what they are worth to the school, there would be no money left over to subsidize the rest of OSU’s athletic teams. Some argue that a university’s national television exposure is well worth the cost, but not all teams can win at the D-I level. And do we want students to attend college to become super fans or good scholars? Schools like Miami could take several million dollars from its athletic budget to conduct a national advertising campaign promoting the university’s academic excellence, which would arguably bring better publicity to the school than a Tuesday night ESPN football game against Central Michigan. Even without a D-I football team the University of Chicago has done quite well, to say the least. Sports have warped the educational mission at all levels of college sports. In one study of four Ivy League schools, which do not give athletic scholarships, sought-after athletes were almost four times as likely to gain admission as similarly qualified non-athletes. Eighty percent of the male athletes at the most selective liberal arts colleges rank in the lower third of their college class. The collegiate athletic system is irreparably broken. In the last decade the Knight Commission has issued three reports recommending reforms, but the corruption and commercialism in college sports have gotten worse. From 2001 to 2010, nearly half of the NCAA’s top football schools violated rules and were sanctioned. Serious violations of academic rules doubled in the 2000’s.

The question is, what is to be done? Americans love the close association of their schools with sports teams. There is no way to separate Duke from its basketball

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A manifesto for a revolution in college sports: revisiting the idea of the student-athlete

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Ohio State finished a perfect 2012 football season with a 12-0 record, but could not go to a bowl game be-cause of NCAA sanctions imposed for violations incurred under depart-ed coach Jim Tressel.

Fifty-one years earlier the team was denied another bowl bid, but under very different circumstances. In late 1961 the faculty council at Ohio State University voted 28 to 25 against accepting an invitation for its Big Ten championship foot-ball team to play UCLA in the 1962 Rose Bowl.

Some faculty members were embarrassed by Ohio State Univer-sity’s (OSU) reputation as a football school rather than as a respected place of higher learning. “We’re upset over the fact that the image of Ohio State is that the school is merely an appendage to the football team,” said one faculty member. “When we go away for meetings, we’re kidded about this by people from other schools. We don’t dislike football, but the feeling is that things are out of proportion.”

In 1939, University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins had reached the same conclusion, and took the drastic step of dropping the football program entirely, de-spite its storied past under legend-ary coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. The Ohio State vote was one of the last major faculty protests against the influence of big time athletics on university campuses.

Many Ohioans were outraged with the council’s vote. Buckeye students marched to the state capi-tol in Columbus, broke windows, turned over cars, and burned effigies of the professors. Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, who had already won the Rose Bowl in 1954 and 1957, calmed passions while taking a dig at the council: “I don’t agree with those 28 ‘no’ votes, but I respect their integrity, if not their intelligence.” The notion of faculty control over bowl bids today is laugh-able, and college presidents who limit the power and scope of their athletic programs are increasingly rare. Colleges promote successful athletic programs as a way to brand

their schools, increase enrollments and solicit wealthy donors. It is a risky gamble to invest millions in a winning basketball or football program as a marketing tool, be-cause there is no guarantee that teams will have consistent success. It is obvious that major Divi-sion-I (D-I) sports programs no longer have much to do with the academic mission of their univer-sities. Major college sports are a billion-dollar corporate enterprise that undermines the real purpose of higher education.

A recent study of median per capita spending on athletes and other college students revealed a startling disparity. Spending per student at Big Ten schools was $19,225, while spending per ath-lete was a whopping $116,667. Playing D-I sports is a full time job, often relegating the athlete’s educa-tion to a matter of maintaining eligi-bility to play.

Surrounded by a phalanx of per-sonal academic counselors and tutors, many athletes choose the same majors and take the same classes that athletic programs know they can pass, and at times of the day that do not conflict with prac-tice schedules. Coaches cannot afford to lose their top athletes to ineligibility, and it rarely happens. These athletes might get a scholarship worth up to $40-50,000 a year, while their coaches at the D-I level take home millions. One study estimated that a star quarterback at a big time football school such as Texas is worth five million dollars to the school annually.

The average yearly salary of a D-I football coach is $1.47 million. Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer makes nearly $4.5 million a year. Given the revenues generated by the OSU football team, Meyer is probably a good investment. But the head football coach is also the highest paid employee at Miami University, whose football team loses at least $2 million every year. Coaches repeatedly break NCAA rules, knowing full well that a winning program can take them to the next higher paying job. If caught

they can simply resign, leaving their universities and players to deal with the burden of sanctions. Pete Car-roll left the USC football program in shambles in 2010, and landed a multi-million dollar deal with the Seattle Seahawks.

John Calipari’s basketball players at both the University of Massachu-setts and the University of Memphis repeatedly ran afoul of the rules, so Calipari left those schools for the University of Kentucky, where he unabashedly exploits the NBA’s rule that high school players have to play one year of college. He does not particularly care about his play-ers’ academic careers; his future NBA first-rounders take a few cup-cake classes in the fall semester, but do not have to show up for any of their spring semester courses.

The Caliparis and Car-rolls make a mockery of the idea of the “student-athlete.” Even coaches who try to play by the rules are under pressure because their job depends on winning; grad-uation rates and educating their ath-letes are luxuries.

What college president or athletic director defends a losing coach by bringing up his or her high gradu-ation rate? The money is just too big. Division I teams have begun a game of musical chairs, chang-ing conferences to find the most lucrative places to play, regard-less of geographical proximity and traditional rivalries.

Games are scheduled on any day or night to accommodate the televi-sion schedules, which provide D-I teams revenue even if there are few fans in the stands. The NCAA and ESPN schedule-makers pay no at-tention to the possibility that play-ers have classes during the week. Most teams arrive at least a day before an away game, further disrupting the athlete’s class sched-ule. Some universities such as Mississippi State and Boston Col-lege have even cancelled classes so that students can watch a big mid-week televised football game. Very few colleges at any level run a profitable athletic program; in 2012 only 23 of the 338 D-I univer-

sities operated in the black. Miami University subsidizes athletics to the tune of $15 million annually. If OSU actually paid its football or basketball players what they are worth to the school, there would be no money left over to subsidize the rest of OSU’s athletic teams. Some argue that a university’s national television exposure is well worth the cost, but not all teams can win at the D-I level. And do we want students to attend col-lege to become super fans or good scholars? Schools like Miami could take several million dollars from its athletic budget to conduct a national advertising campaign promoting the university’s academic excel-lence, which would arguably bring better publicity to the school than a Tuesday night ESPN football game against Central Michigan.

Even without a D-I football team the University of Chicago has done quite well, to say the least. Sports have warped the educa-tional mission at all levels of col-lege sports. In one study of four Ivy League schools, which do not give athletic scholarships, sought-after athletes were almost four times as likely to gain admission as similarly qualified non-athletes.

Eighty percent of the male athletes at the most selective lib-eral arts colleges rank in the lower third of their college class. The collegiate athletic system is ir-reparably broken. In the last decade the Knight Commission has issued three reports recommending re-forms, but the corruption and com-mercialism in college sports have gotten worse.

From 2001 to 2010, nearly half of the NCAA’s top football schools violated rules and were sanc-tioned. Serious violations of aca-demic rules doubled in the 2000’s. The question is, what is to be done? Americans love the close association of their schools with sports teams. There is no way to separate Duke from its basketball team or Notre Dame from its great football tradition.

The solution is revolutionary, but relatively simple: eliminate the

requirement that players have to enroll in the school for whose club they play, be it the Duke Basketball Club or the Notre Dame Football Club. Eligibility to play in a college club should not depend on attending the school.

Youth sports are already heading in this direction with the prolifera-tion of “traveling” youth teams that are independent of their players’ schools. If the college club is profit-able, pay the players what they are worth and for as long as they want to play. Football and basketball play-ers, unlike tennis players, golfers, or hockey players, have to go through the ritual of going to college without getting paid for their athletic talents.

Athletes’ careers are measured in years, not decades, and the current rules cut into their maximum earning potential. Let the free market work. What is more American than that? If schools want to mandate that their club players attend classes and have their teams play in conferences with similar requirements, let them self-regulate. The NCAA and its 430-page book of picayune rules and bloated bureaucracy would be scrapped.

Boosters can come out of hiding and sponsor their favorite clubs. Professional leagues and univer-sities with moneymaking major sports can subsidize affiliate youth clubs. Let the NBA and NFL help run these minor-league clubs. The model can be found in the European system of self-financing sports clubs. They charge mem-bership dues and field teams at all age levels and abilities. Players are not allowed to change clubs dur-ing the season, however. If the top teams in the club are moneymak-ers, they help subsidize the club’s youth teams.

The absurd reality of American college sports is that most athletes’ careers end at 22, and many either do not graduate or end up with a college transcript that prepares them poorly for future employment. It is time for another faculty council vote, not to abolish major college athletics, but to remove them from university jurisdiction.

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“I actually think [coaching women’s hockey] is more fun be-cause the actual skills of the game come out,” Hicks said. “Some teams in the men’s game can just rely on brute strength, where they go and just intimidate their oppo-nents by throwing big hits. You can’t do that on a women’s team, so it’s really more about the skill.”

In just three years the team has doubled in size and become a no-table program, Wardlow said. The success has been unreal.

“To be a freshman and not have a team, and now my senior year we’re competitive in the [Ameri-can Collegiate Hockey Associa-tion], I mean that’s an awesome accomplishment for three sea-sons,” Wardlow said.

According to Hicks, though the women’s hockey team’s popu-larity is nowhere near that of the men’s, students are beginning to give it some attention.

“We play a lot of our games after the varsity team on Friday nights, so we get spill-over crowds,” Hicks said. “We’ve been exposed to a lot of the student body, it’s just something that we haven’t targeted, but they’re starting to take notice.”

Hicks said he’d like to see awareness of the program in-crease, but he thinks it’s impor-tant to first focus on the team’s playing ability.

“We have a student body that knows the game, that loves the game,” Hicks said. “If we put a product on the ice that is success-ful, I absolutely think that not just the student body, but the commu-

nity could get behind us.”Assistant Captain, junior Nikki

Stancampiano, said the team still has a ways to go, but the program’s rate of growth is impressive.

“Because we’re still kind of get-ting started out, we know we know we’re going to face a lot of adver-sity,” Stancampiano said. “We’re definitely not going to come out on top at the end of the year, but basically [the coaches] have taught us the fact that we’ve come so far so quickly is something to be proud of.”

Hicks noted the team’s success, and said he has high hopes for the future.

“For really being in our second full year of competition, we’ve made huge strides,” Hicks said. “You know, we beat Ohio State this year again, we tied Michigan—we’re in the game, and that’s the encouraging thing. If we can make the leaps that we made from last year to this year next year, sky’s the limit.”

According to Hicks, once the team has established itself com-petitively, he has plans to increase student turnout at games.

“We’ve been looking at doing a pink rink to benefit breast can-cer awareness,” Hicks said. “You know, something to get involved with, a charity to expose ourselves to people who might not normally attend a women’s hockey game.”

Wardlow said she has high hopes for the future of the Miami women’s hockey team.

“In a couple years I’d just hope it’d be a competitive program that can maybe make it to nation-als,” Wardlow said. “Somewhere you can go and play competitive hockey, but still have fun and enjoy college.”

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school where the only accessible door is into the main office.

He said a similar system was installed five years ago in Kramer Elementary, 400 W. Sycamore St., which, beforehand, could be entered by anyone at any time of day. An unarmed guard was also stationed, according to Crowder, at a desk near the doors to escort visitors from the front door of the middle school to the main office.

Sandy Hook Elementary School also had a buzzer system and sur-veillance. This has sparked a na-tional debate over whether schools should employ metal detectors, hire armed guards, police officers, or even arm teachers.

Morrish and Crowder have re-ceived fairly little communication from concerned Talawanda parents and citizens asking whether the district is considering any further action in response to the Sandy Hook shootings.

Metal detectors are not being considered, according to Rhoton. Talawanda High School and Mid-dle School once had resource offi-cers on the payroll, but those posi-tions have been cut due to budget constraints.

Rhoton cited Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones’ Friday press conference in which Jones called for schools to hire retired police officers, many of whom possess master’s degrees, as substitute teachers.

“There’s been no movement at

all from the board after [Sheriff Jones’] announcement,” Crowder said. However, he acknowledged there is ongoing discussion regard-ing the hiring of a resource officer despite budget constraints.

“The board will spend the mon-ey if we think that’s essential for the safety of our kids,” Crowder said. “Then we will go to the community and explain why we had to spend that money.”

However, Morrish, a parent of children in the district, delineates professional officers and armed personnel. “It doesn’t make me feel safer to think that teachers or staff members are walking around school buildings with guns,” Mor-rish said. She said sees trained pro-fessionals as being different and believes them to be a valid option.

“I have a fundamental problem with putting a gun in a school,” Crowder, also a Talawanda par-ent, said, “That’s supposed to be safe zone.”

All sources said that past a certain point, it is perhaps impossible to be fully prepared for an incident such as that at Sandy Hook Elementary. Rhoton often repeated that one cannot prepare for everything. He called parenting and the men-tal health system key factors of school tragedy prevention. While the events in Newtown did not change the Talawanda School District’s approach toward safety, it certainly brought it to public at-tention. Whether the board decides to hire a resource officer, Crowder says he’s never seen a situation where the well-being of the kids wasn’t put first.

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is that we’re the only band from Ohio,” Boden said. “So not only are we representing Miami, but we’re also representing our entire state, so the president and the congress and all these important people in our country get to see us representing our state.”

Lytle said it was the band mem-bers’ determination that got them into the parade; they deserve to be extremely proud.

“These things don’t happen just because, they happen for a reason,” Lytle said. “The reason can vary, but the point is your name doesn’t get brought up for consideration

for major events like this without having proven that you’ve done the work, and that’s what these guys do day in and day out.”

The parade extended the Miami marching band’s season beyond the usual everyday practices in the fall. Three additional rehearsals were added prior to the parade.

According to Lytle, the addition-al preparation for the event meant being a little bit closer to the perfec-tion they strive for in performances. Though the extra rehearsals meant more work, Boden said it was com-pletely worth it.

Lytle agreed, recalling one of his favorite moments – a delay in the parade that left the marching band at a standstill.

Instead of waiting silently, the

band cut loose and performed for the crowd.

“We were playing cadences, we were dancing, we were hooting and hollering,” Lytle said. “It was a good time; we definitely kept the crowd entertained, that was for sure.”

Lytle said he hopes the event will increase the notoriety of Miami’s marching band and send more op-portunities their way.

“By virtue of us being invited, this is an opportunity for the uni-versity to have a platform, a na-tional platform,” Lytle said. “This band’s invitation is a point of pride for any number of people, and so that’s why you do things like this. I hope there’s a positive afterglow from it.”

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Miami University’s women’s bas-ketball team (11-6, 3-1 Mid-Ameri-can Conference (MAC)) continued to improve its MAC record with a 70-48 win over Eastern Michigan University (3-14, 1-3 MAC) Sunday.

The RedHawks entered their game hoping to lower the amount of turnovers they commit. The ’Hawks had 20 turnovers against Ohio Uni-versity Thursday and 18 against the Eagles. The ’Hawks numerous inju-ries are contributing to the turnovers.

“We haven’t had everyone at prac-tice; you’re going to have turnovers.” Fantanarosa said.

Miami had to play the majority of the first half without their top re-bounder, senior center Kirsten Olow-inski, because of two early fouls but junior forward Erica Almady stepped

in and led the team with 12 rebounds.“[Almady] will do the things that

don’t show up on the stat sheet,” se-nior Courtney Osborn said.

Eastern Michigan senior center India Hairston kept the Eagles close with eight first half points and five re-bounds. She finished with 11 points and seven rebounds.

“Eastern [Michigan] doesn’t go away,” Almady said. “They’re really aggressive.”

Osborn and junior guard Hannah Robertson helped the ’Hawks pull ahead with two three pointers each in the first half. Osborn finished with 18 points and Robertson finished with 13. Fantanarosa said that Osborn and Robertson had great games.

Olowinski finished one rebound short of her 37th career double-dou-ble, which would have increased the school record that she broke in the win over Ohio.

The ’Hawks led the Eagles 33-

29 at the end of the first half and the second half was dominated by the ’Hawks, as the Red and White went on a 28-8 run to begin the second half.

Fantanarosa credited the Red-Hawks bench for the domination.

“We pushed the tempo,” Fantan-arosa said. “Our depth can be a factor to pull away from teams.”

The RedHawks held the Eagles to 19 points in the second half, nine of which came in the last three minutes of the game when the ’Hawks had already pulled away.

“We just shut them down and did a great job in transition,” Osborn said.

The ’Hawks are aware of the tough test that lies ahead of them.

The RedHawks will travel to Bowling Green State University (12-6, 3-1 MAC) for a matchup against

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The Miami University men’s hockey team snapped a season-long four-game winless streak after split-ting this past weekend’s series with the University of Wisconsin.

The RedHawks (13-6-5, Cen-tral Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) 8-4-4) fell Friday night in a defensive struggle, one that saw the Badgers (9-8-5) extend their unbeat-en streak to 11 straight games. Wis-consin sophomore forward Joseph Labate scored the only goal of the night, as the forward beat freshman goaltender Jay Williams on his glove side. Williams posted 19 total saves, but with Miami’s offense stagnant, it was unable to come away with the win in the 1-0 contest.

Saturday night was a reversal of fortunes for the RedHawks, as they earned their first ever win over Wisconsin.

Miami sophomore forward Aus-tin Czarnik tallied his 9th goal of the season just 3:13 into the first pe-riod on the power play, extending his CCHA-leading point total to 26.

The Badgers would respond in the second frame, though, as junior for-ward Michael Mersch rifled a block-er-side shot that beat freshman goalie Ryan McKay, tying the game at one.

The RedHawks responded late in the second when freshman line-mates Alex Gacek and Sean Kuraly assisted senior Curtis McKenzie on his seventh goal of the year. That would prove to be enough for McK-ay, who recorded 33 saves in all in the 2-1 win. This includes 14 saves

in the third period alone in the win-ning effort, in another series in which both Miami goaltenders bring their A-games.

“Our two goalies have been awe-some,” McKenzie said of his goal-tenders’ play this season. “Both Macker (McKay) and Williams have been great. Every night that they’re in we have huge confidence in them. They’ve been keeping us in games and winning us games … and we’ve just got to get some more scoring for them so we can win some games here.”

As for the win over a red-hot Bad-gers team, Czarnik thinks Miami’s most recent win might be the biggest one yet for the RedHawks.

In 1999, when I was seven years old, I sat down every night in the summer time to watch the latest SportsCenter. I’d usually be trying to make myself stay awake for that midnight’s Baseball Tonight, by far my favorite show. During that summer’s July, something incred-ible happened. An American, by the name of Lance Armstrong, was do-ing what was by many considered to be the greatest athletic feat in the world…he was winning the Tour de France.

The Tour is one of three “Grand Tours” in cycling (along with the Vuelta de Espana and the Giro d’Italia) and is widely considered to be the toughest of the three. In 22 days, riders ride across France via 20 stages, two mountain passes and roughly 1700 miles. It is a grueling task, riding on average 125 miles every single day for three weeks. The tour usually has 21 teams, with each team consisting of nine riders. In each team there is a “GC Con-tender” (General Classification), a “Sprinter,” a “Climber” and “Work Horses.” Each member of the team has an individual responsibility in order to claim victory for the team. “Le Tour” is an individual race with many team components. Armstrong began professional cycling in 1992, and in 1997 was going to be the “GC Contender” for the Cofidis team, be-fore he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and his life went downhill.

Armstrong was dropped from the Cofidis team and lost all health insurance benefits. He fought and fought, eventually beating the cancer that crippled him and emerged about 20 pounds lighter in 1998, ready to battle for a Tour de France. Arm-strong signed on to the little known U.S. Postal Service team, and his rise to greatness started.

Armstrong was already an ac-complished cyclist before cancer bit him. He had won a world champion-ship and was the leader of a major team. When he emerged cancer free, he was a world superstar. Armstrong would go on to win seven straight Tour de France’s. Nobody had ever won more than five before, let alone seven in a row.

In this column just over one year ago, I wrote about how Armstrong was an inspiration, an American hero, somebody we could point to as a good guy and someone the next

generation can look up to. On Thurs-day, Jan. 17, that all changed.

When I was 7 years old, I had no idea what I was watching, but I knew what I saw. I knew that cancer was bad, and I knew that winning was good. I knew that cheating was bad, but lying was worse. From that point in 1999, to Thursday after-noon, Armstrong was my personal hero. I raised money for his foun-dation, I never was seen without a Livestrong bracelet, I even painted my room yellow in honor of the inspiration. Last Thursday, my life forever changed.

My hero, my inspiration, was…and is…a fraud. Armstrong has dis-graced so many people, people who looked at him for so much more than simply a man who wore yel-low. Armstrong was a winner even before he got back on the pedals and “won” seven straight long bike rides. Armstrong won at what mattered most, life. Armstrong did not need to cheat to be in the hearts of millions.

Armstrong did not simply cheat; he lied about it. Armstrong would vilify ANYONE who wouldn’t defend him…and I was one of his loyal foot soldiers. If anyone I knew questioned Lance’s integrity, or asked how he could do this without doping, I would shoot them down and point to Lance’s clean sheet of testing.

Armstrong was tested THOU-SANDS of times in his career, not once did he test positive. Armstrong organized a fraud of Bernie Madoff proportions. He did not just lie to a few people, or even to federal inves-tigators. Armstrong lied to the world.

I will still wear my Livestrong bracelet, because I believe in what it stands for. I believe in the power of millions. But I was duped. I do not wear this bracelet simply because I believe cancer should be cured (who doesn’t believe that?) but because it represented a larger message. When Armstrong founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the subsequent Livestrong campaign, I bought into it because I believed that people can come back from a crip-pling illness to win and to be great. I never expected to feel this way.

Lance Armstrong lied to us. He cheated us. He deceived us. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you. Armstrong didn’t fool me twice, he fooled me thousands.

Brotherhood splits with Wisconsin

RedHawks’ rally falls short against Eastern MichiganBy Win BrasWEllsEnior staFF WritEr

The Miami University men’s bas-ketball team saw its second half rally fall short in a 65-58 loss to Eastern Michigan University on Saturday afternoon. Miami now holds a 7-9 (2-2 Mid-American Conference (MAC)) record. The loss snapped the RedHawks 16-game winning streak against the Eagles that dated back to 1998.

For the second consecutive game redshirt junior Will Felder led the RedHawks in scoring with 12 points.

After the Eagles took a 34-19 lead, Miami managed to slice the deficit to 38-25 at the break, after redshirt junior guard Allen Roberts sunk a buzzer beater. The ’Hawks were un-able to stop the Eagles from the floor, allowing the Eagles to shoot 57.7 percent, and 63.3 percent from three point range.

Coming out of the break Eastern Michigan reestablished its 15-point advantage. Miami then put together an 11-0 run that cut the lead down to 40-36. Despite this run, the Eagles answered with more on point shoot-ing and defensive stops to claim a 14-point lead after the 30th minute of action.

Miami made one final push at

claiming the win, by going on a 18-6 point run that was capped by a three-pointer by junior forward Jon Harris. It put the RedHawks within two points, the closest they had been since the game was 6-4.

Miami was unable to find the bot-tom of the net after that, missing bas-ket after basket, while allowing the final five points that would seal the deal for Eastern Michigan.

“There it is… it’s history,” Head Coach John Cooper said. “We did some good things, but we didn’t shoot well enough to get it done.”

Miami was 22-51 from the field, and 25 percent from beyond the arc, but on 24 attempts. Roberts was particularly stifled by the vicious zone defense of Eastern Michigan, shooting a woeful 1-8 from the three-point line.

“It’s frustrating when you don’t make your shots and you practice that over and over,” Roberts said. “Their [two-three] zone really af-fected us, and teams in their home gym, that’s tough anywhere you go.”

Roberts contributed 11 points, while Harris found his stroke from deep, connecting on three of his four shots. The Eagles’ Darek Thompson

Red and White swept in spring openerBy Jordan rinardstaFF WritEr

In the first match of the spring sea-son, the Miami University women’s tennis team suffered a setback in the form of a 0-7 sweep against Indi-ana University (IU) at the Western Tennis and Fitness Club in Western Hills, Cincinnati. The RedHawks (0-1) have lost eight consecutive match-es to the Hoosiers (1-0) dating back to the 2002-2003 season.

After only being able to snag four games in doubles play, Miami dropped all three decisions to Indi-ana and allowed IU to pick up the first point of the day.

The team of junior Nimisha Mo-han and sophomore Alix Thurman accounted for three of those games against IU’s tandem of sophomores

Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy before losing 3-8.

The duo of junior Christiana Raymond and sophomore Christine Guerrazzi earned the other game in a 1-8 defeat at the hands of junior So-phie Garre and senior Leslie Hureau.

The pair of sophomore Ramona Costea and freshman Chloe Heerden was the lone doubles team that failed to get a game as they were swept 0-8.

“We started slow and we never really got into the match,” Head Coach Anca Dumitrescu. “Once we were faced with opposition, we let the match slip away. We have some adjustments that we need to make before next weekend.”

In singles action, the Hoosiers quickly asserted themselves in the match and took the sweep. In four of these matchups, Miami managed to

get 14 games while Indiana got 48.Costea and Guerrazzi both fell

4-6, 0-6, while Thurman and Mo-han earned three games each before dropping 1-6, 2-6 and 2-6, 1-6 deci-sions respectively.

Two bright spots for the Red-Hawks were the play of Raymond and Heerden. In their singles match-ups, they had the opportunity to win and challenged their opponents Kauss, who was named the Big Ten Conference’s Tennis Athlete of the Week on January 15, and senior Jith-mie Jayawickrema to 6-4, 4-6, 0-1 and 5-7, 3-6 decisions, respectively.

“We weren’t able to do our job and we didn’t handle adversity very well,” Dumitrescu said. “We need

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Miami University freshman forward Jessica Rupright drives for a layup. Rupright recorded six points and seven rebounds Sunday. Rupright has played in every game this season and is averaging 3.6 points per game.

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