ANGELA HATCHERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

This is the first in a series of profiles of international students.

First-year Akosua Boadi-Agyemang has an infec-tious laugh. When she finds something truly funny, she’ll throw her head back, put her hand over her mouth and start shaking with laughter. This typically happens after a fellow Miami University student tries to pronounce her name.

“Just call me Nana!” she’ll say after laughing through multiple failed attempts. ‘Akosua’ has proven to be too difficult a name to pro-nounce.

Nana’s smile is one of her defining features. Her smile is wide and genuine. Her white teeth stand out against her dark skin. She is petite and sassy. Her friends describe her as “honest” and “the best kind of person to be around.”

She is a business econom-ics major whose mission is to make a name for herself at Miami and beyond. Like many other students in the Farmer School of Business, she is driven, intelligent, am-bitious and passionate.

The only difference is Nana is an interna-tional student, 8,102 miles away from her home in Francistown, Botswana.

People often ask Nana where she is from right after she intro-duces herself. The com-bination of her unique name and slightly Brit-ish accent automatically label her as different.

“I’m from Africa. Born in Botswana, but my parents are from Ghana,” she’ll say.

That’s typically when the questions begin to flood in:

“I don’t mean to be rude, but … What do you live in?”

“How did you get to the U.S.? Like, do you guys have planes?”

“How do you speak Eng-lish so well? Don’t they speak Swahili or some-thing?”

“Why do you have a Brit-ish accent?”

“Did you have a pet el-ephant? Or a lion?”

“Why don’t you sound Af-rican?”

What is an African sup-posed to sound like? she’ll ask herself internally.

Nana maintains her good humor, welcoming these questions as an opportunity to explain what her life is like

in Botswana. She grew up in a suburb in

Francistown with her mom, dad, two sisters and pet dog — a tiny white maltese poo-dle named Winner. She lives in a brick house in Botswana. She went to John Mackenzie High School where she took courses using the British system, “A-Level Courses,” receiving college credit for her business 101 class and accounting course.

There’s a large interna-tional airport in Botswana called Sir Seretse Khama International Airport that she flew out of when she came to the United States for the first time last year to visit New York.

She did not grow up on the Serengeti in a hut with a pet antelope. She grew up

TESS SOHNGENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Miami’s Formal Gardens did not grow its beautiful reputation by Mother Na-ture’s good graces. Horticul-turist Bill Zehler has spent the last 15 years caring for and redesigning the gardens and beds around campus, capturing and perfecting the natural beauty at Miami.

Each year, Zehler plants approximately 18,000 floras across 20 different beds on campus, 6,000 of which go to the Formal Gardens. Some flowers, like the tulips, are already in the ground, but he and the five other horticul-turists will plant over 9,000 more beginning in April.

“Different flower, differ-ent time,” Zehler said. “Tim-ing is very significant.”

Because of the diversity of the flowers and their dif-ferent affinities for the frost, each plant has its own opti-mal time for planting, which keeps Zehler busy during the spring and summer.

“I think he makes a big im-pact on the first impression of the campus,” said Vincent Cirrito, Miami’s landscape architect and grounds man-ager.

Cirrito said Zehler de-serves a lot of the credit for

making Miami look beauti-ful year-round, especially during the warm seasons when incoming students visit and form their first impres-sions of campus.

One of Zehler’s favorite beds to plant is his own ini-tiative and design: the red and white “M” in front of Pearson Hall where many se-niors take a picture on gradu-ation day. Originally made in the style of the old logo, Zehler continued to make improvements to the bed to best showcase the arrange-ment. He now crafts the bev-eled “M,” raising the bed to an angle for better visibility and using a frame to give it more support.

Before applying for the job, Zehler worked in con-struction. Disenchanted with

a future of constant construc-tion, Zehler applied for the job opening as the horticul-turist at Miami. When he didn’t get the job, he waited until the position reopened six years later.

Zehler cared for his own organic garden for years be-fore he considered working at Miami and still continues to do so. His organic garden stretches for half an acre, and Zehler feeds himself and his extended family with the sur-pluses from his garden. He plants “anything that won’t walk off,” including cab-bage, herbs and tomatoes.

“My background was gar-dening, not flower, but I ap-plied a lot of the principles that I use in my garden to here,” said Zehler.

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Despite higher TOEFL requirements, some international students feel their scores are low

JACK EVANSTHE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University’s re-quirements for the Test of English as a Foreign Lan-guage (TOEFL) may not be high enough, and even when students score well, the test is often not an accurate mea-sure of English-speaking ability.

The exam is the primary way incoming international students satisfy their Eng-lish Language Proficiency requirement, a requirement unique to international stu-dents who hail from non-English speaking countries.

“We’ve actually raised the TOEFL requirement for reg-ular admission twice in the past five years,” said Aaron Bixler, associate director for international recruitment.

The original minimum score for admission to Mi-ami was 72 out of 120. This has since been raised to 80.

The College of William and Mary — Miami’s public

ivy compatriot just one spot ahead on U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Un-dergraduate Teaching” rank-ing — requires a minimum score of 100.

Miami’s TOEFL scores more closely mirror some Big Ten universities, which Bixler says are the univer-sity’s primary competition when it comes to internation-al students. The Ohio State University and Michigan State University both require a minimum of 79 on the TOEFL for regular admis-sion. Penn State University has a minimum requirement of 80, while the University of Wisconsin typically admits students with scores between 95 to 105, according to its admissions website.

According to statistics from the Office of Interna-tional Student and Scholar Services (ISSS), 305 of the 1,878 Oxford-based under-graduate international stu-dents are also conditionally admitted to Miami through the American Culture and

English (ACE) program, which has a significantly lower minimum TOEFL score of 65.

Prospective international students can also use either ACT or SAT results, along with a handful of other meth-ods, to satisfy Miami’s Eng-lish Language Proficiency requirement, though Bixler says the TOEFL is the most common route.

Regardless of the rigor of the TOEFL requirement, one of the primary problems with these scores is that they don’t always translate to re-al-world English ability in an academic environment.

“My English is not perfect, but it’s good. I think I can do homework and talk easily,” said Zana Smajli, a junior international student from Pristina, Kosovo. “At the be-ginning, it was more difficult for me to adjust and operate in a second language, but it’s getting better every day. But when it comes to talking in

HAILEY MALLENDICKSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Miami’s Goldman Prize, one of the highest-paying awards given to U.S. college grads, was awarded to two students this year — the first time this has happened since the prize’s inception in 1993.

Abby Lyons, who gradu-ated in December with an early childhood education degree, and Jordan Martin, a senior who is double major-ing in biology and psychol-ogy with a minor in anthro-pology, were the recipients of the award. With this, they will each receive a $30,000 prize to conduct the research and complete their proposed

projects. The Johanna Jackson

Goldman Memorial Prize was awarded to the two se-niors after being selected by the Honors Program Advi-sory Committee. The prize is one of the largest undergrad-uate grants in the country and is annually awarded to graduating seniors at Miami who seek to conduct an in-dependent study in the areas of scholarship, journalism or the arts.

“Receiving the Goldman Prize is a tremendous honor and I feel deep gratitude for being given this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pur-sue my dreams,” said Martin.

Lyons is working to start-ing her own year-round

study abroad program at Miami. The idea came to her while she was abroad in Belize over the 2014 winter term with Darrel Davis, an assistant professor in the area of instructional technology.

“In an art shop in Belize I told Dr. Davis that I didn’t have many classes to take in the spring semester and was fascinated about what I had learned about educa-tion, technology and global education,” said Lyons. “We started an independent study [after the trip] and we started throwing around ideas about what and how people were learning through their abroad experience.”

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Students studying social work are hosting a week packed with events to educate the public about social work, make a difference in local communities and advocate for various causes.

All the events, from the creation of ideas to the implementation of each event, are set up and run by students in a Family Studies and Social Work class, taught by in-structor Terri Spahr Nelson. This is the third year Nelson has had her students host this event.

Nelson said the project is part of what is called transformational learning, or learning by doing. The students in her class are learning how to work together in groups — called task forces — and how to organize and implement large edu-cational events for the public.

“I want them to be transformed by this experience and to learn more about grassroots social work,” Nel-son said.

One of the events is a job fair that is open to all majors, since many non-profit companies may be look-ing for students who don’t have a background in social work, Nelson said. Students may also find volun-teer and internship opportunities.

Another event during the week is a school supply drive for underpriv-ileged Talawanda School District students. The supplies and money donated go to the Talawanda Stu-dent Care Fund, which provides school supplies and assistance in sports fees to low-income Talawa-nda students.

Senior Kaitlin Koogle is on the committee for the Talawanda Stu-dent Care Fund. She said many Mi-ami students don’t realize that some families in Oxford may be strug-gling financially.

“As students we fail to real-ize how much people around us

are struggling because it’s hard to think that somebody can’t afford a backpack when we’re able to go to a very expensive college,” Koogle said.

Students will also be collecting donations for the people of Flint, Michigan — the community that experienced devastating health ef-

fects after the city switched its wa-ter supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River, known for high iron and corrosivity levels. Lead from service lines leached into the water, poisoning water to Flint homes.

Junior Tiffany Holmes is on the committee for Flint. She said stu-dents will collect donations to pur-chase clean water and water purifi-ers. Students can also sign a petition to bring more federal aid to Flint.

Holmes said her committee chose Flint as a cause to support because it was a community that experienced injustice for several years.

“We wanted the people of Flint, Michigan, to know that we in Ox-ford are fighting for them and with them,” Holmes said.

Junior Diane Lockard publicizes Social Work Week. She said the events throughout the week are also an opportunity for the community and Miami students to learn more

about social work. Social workers work with all ages of people in a variety of settings, and this week is an opportunity for students to learn about the diversity of employment that the field offers.

Lockard says she enjoys being able to make a difference in the community and other people’s lives through social work.

“It really just helps me feel like a better human being knowing that I can offer somebody assistance with any problem that they might have,” Lockard said.

Social work is a growing field. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the field is expected to grow by 12 percent through 2024. Meanwhile, the national average growth rate for all occupations is 7 percent.

Nelson says social work is grow-ing for several reasons, partly be-cause the Affordable Care Act ex-panded health care and the need for health care workers. There is also a growing elderly population that needs care and there has been an increase in private practice mental health facilities.

Social Work Week kicked off Monday with education on social work at Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown. Tomorrow, there is a job and internship expo from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Marcum Conference Center in Oxford.

There are donation drives for the Talawanda Student Care Fund, the Center for Respite Care and the Ox-ford Choice Community Pantry in Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown on Thursday. On Friday, there is an advocacy presentation for Flint and a Local Human Trafficking presen-tation at noon, both in McGuffey Hall in Oxford. The week ends Saturday with the Ohio National Association of Social Workers con-ference.

Information about the events can also be found on Facebook at Mi-ami University Social Work Week.

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Sophomore John Digiacobbe ar-rives to the table in the Armstrong Student Center, where he sets up all of his brochures and signs, which boldly display the words, “big gov-ernment sucks!”

Digiacobbe is a member of the student organization Turning Point USA. A national, non-profit political organization, Turning Point USA works to educate college students on the values of fiscal responsibil-ity, free markets and limited gov-ernment. The group hosted a table in Armstrong all week in hopes of attracting students’ attention before Super Tuesday.

Today, 11 states around the country will hold primaries for the Republican and Democratic parties. Also known as Super Tuesday, it is considered one of the most important days of the election season.

People around the country will be anxiously watching the poll num-bers tonight to see who comes out on top after the primaries. The can-didates who gain the most delegates on Super Tuesday are considered to have the best chance at becoming their party’s candidate for the gen-eral election.

Super Tuesday will be even more important this year because every-one is waiting to see how well Re-

publicans Donald Trump and Ben Carson, as well as Democrat Bernie Sanders, will do in the primaries.

The amount of voter support these candidates have has shocked their respective party establish-ments. According to Digiacobbe, this is because none of these candi-dates are “career politicians.”

“Trump and Carson, to many, are a breath of fresh air because they are political outsiders who aren’t afraid to speak their minds and call out the establishment,” said Digiacobbe.

Digiacobbe believes many voters have a sense of distrust and frustra-tion toward the party establishment.

“Many people in the country are fed up with career politicians and Washington elites who consistently lie and do little to actually solve the problems that plague our nation,” said Digiacobbe.

According to Steven DeLue, a retired political science professor at Miami, “... the biggest problem is that voters, who were told by their congress people that issues would be resolved, feel betrayed by party elites in Washington.” But that’s not the case.

“A lot of folks were told by party and government elites that things would be done, and they weren’t,” said DeLue.

DeLue says that, for many Re-publicans, one major issue that has not been solved by the party elites is immigration. He says people fear that immigrants are taking their jobs

and want to see immigration reform.Trump has promised to address

immigration by building a wall along with Mexican border.

“That is why the language hasn’t been reduced, it’s what his support-ers want to hear,” said DeLue.

Trump and Sanders have both run on campaigns that portray them as outsiders to the Washington elites who control the government. Sand-ers, a Senator from Vermont, has financed his own campaign without any help from Super PACS, which is what led William James to sup-port him.

“The system is run by money al-ready and he is clearly not bought by anybody,” said James, president of Miami for Bernie.

For James, money is one of the biggest problems in Washington today because politicians become more worried about lobbyists who are paying them for issues instead of their own constituents.

“It’s a long-term problem that af-fects everything,” James said. “We see massive gridlock because of it. Every issue is backed by money and we feel like they don’t care about us.”

All three students emphasize that voters have to make real change in Washington, by changing the politi-cians sent there to get things done.

“I hope that the biggest change coming to Washington is sanity,” said Digiacobbe. “I want to see pragmatic policies put in place.”

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Unconventional presidential candidates garner support on campus, nationwide

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While sitting on a bench in the lobby of the Farmer School of Business, first-year Bianca Oviedo accomplishes what many students cannot do without fear and anxiety. She sits alone.

“I feel like, at college, we’re all living our own separate lives and sometimes you just need to do things alone. I know people worry about it. I know a lot of people that can’t really go to the dining halls by themselves,” Oviedo said, “but it doesn’t really bother me.”

In a 2015 study by Rebecca Rat-ner and Rebecca Hamilton, data analysis showed people were more likely to willingly participate in ac-tivities such as dining out or going to the movies when with one or two others than when alone.

Many students feel that eating alone and taking moments of soli-tude can hurt their social standing. In actuality, for some, solitude can lead to new friendships and experi-ences.

“I learned how to not be shy when it was necessary and I learned how to talk to other people,” said Madeleine LaPlante-Dube.

As a junior currently studying abroad in Dublin, Ireland, LaPlan-te-Dube decided to take some time for herself this winter and set off on her own for a week-and-a-half, spending time in Amsterdam, Ger-many and Switzerland.

“I came back from the trip feel-ing extremely liberated and em-powered,” said LaPlante-Dube. “I know that sounds cheesy, but I re-ally did.”

LaPlante-Dube is not the only Miami student taking a solo trip while abroad. When senior Drew Pinta traveled by himself around Germany and Scotland, he gained a lot from his time alone.

“It felt a lot more immersive, it felt more legitimate, it felt like a real experience when I was alone,” Pinta said.

Once spending time alone be-comes a comfortable practice, it can be a positive break from routine.

“You get the chance to do all these crazy adventures, like I went swimming in the North Sea on New Year’s Day in the Nether-lands,” said LaPlante-Dube.

A 2014 study by psychologists at Harvard University and the Uni-

versity of Virginia found that 67 percent of men and 25 percent of women preferred to receive a small, electric shock than spend 15 min-utes sitting by themselves thinking. This study focused mainly on col-lege students.

For some students, though, pro-cessing thoughts in solitude can

create lasting memories. “I know that when I was alone in

Scotland, this song that I really like — but I never hear in America be-cause it’s a British hit,” said Pinta, “it started playing in this restaurant I was at and I got kind of excited about it, but there was no one to tell about it but me so I just kind of rev-eled in the moment for myself. That in itself had its own value.”

Setting off alone in a foreign country isn’t for everyone, but stu-dents who are trying to get over the fear of being alone can start right here on campus.

“Sometimes it’s nice to just have some alone time and think, work on your own work, not have to worry about conforming to anyone else, or even having to share your life with anyone else,” said Oviedo.

For many students, college is the first time living away from home and making big decisions by them-selves.

“That’s a good time to use to figure out things about yourself that you value, when no one else is around,” said Pinta.

If nothing else, LaPlante-Dube says being alone can lead to greater adventures.

“I found at the end of my trip when I was like ‘Oh yeah, I can do anything.’ It was weird that I hadn’t realized that before,” LaPlante-Dube said. “I think a lot of people sort of go through life like that and need some sort of trigger to fig-ure out that they can do whatever they want and travelling alone and spending time alone was that for me.”

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MORGAN NGUYENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

All seats were taken in the Heri-tage Room in Shriver last Thursday as members of the Miami Univer-sity community and surrounding areas came to hear Judith Browne Dianis speak on a concept known as the “school-to-prison pipeline.”

“This pipeline is a series of poli-cies and practices that have led to harsh discipline against children,” said Dianis, a civil rights attorney and co-director of the Advance-ment Project, a liberal non-profit civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C. “These babies’ [schoolchildren] rights are being violated by a zero-tolerance policy. We’re working on a movement for new codes of conduct.”

The lecture was organized as part of the Robert E. Strippel Me-morial Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human Rights annual program. It was sponsored by over 20 organizations, both on and off campus, and coordinated by Mary Jane Berman, the director of the Center for American and World Cultures.

Dianis discussed causes of changing policies that are incar-cerating students at a young age, including the war on drugs and the idea of some students as “super predators” that require preventa-

tive action. She talked about the existence of an implicit bias against black, urban schoolchildren most significantly.

“In school, implicit bias plays out in people’s perception,” Dianis said. “Black males are considered large and scary, and black females are sassy and wild. This leads to an idea that it’s you, the teacher, ver-sus them, the students.”

A strong message in the lec-ture was equality in treatment of schoolchildren.

“The lecture centered around one important truth: all human beings are worthy of dignity, and should be treated equally,” said sophomore Victoria Slabinski. “At the moment, African-American children are denied the love and re-spect that they deserve. This needs to change. Schools need to stop ‘othering’ and start building au-thentic, supportive communities.”

Students in attendance also found Dianis’ theories helpful.

“I like how she took various is-sues that seem coincidental, and showed how they’re all connect-ed,” said first-year Miranda Woods. “You could see how they’re all linked back to education and how students are being treated.”

Dianis further argued that criminal codes aren’t made to be enforced in school. School is sup-posed to be a nurturing environ-ment. She said there was a definite

racial divide in the causes of arrests and suspensions, saying blacks are usually disciplined for subjective actions — disobedience, disorderly conduct, while whites face mostly objective charges, such as drug possession.

She supported her assertions with statistics from local school systems, explaining that while the Cincinnati Public Schools are com-prised of 63 percent black students, the expulsions are 96 percent black students.

“We live in a country where we think we have racial equality and we don’t,” said senior Morgan Floyd. “It was nice to hear statistics that support the lack of equality. I feel like she was saying some stuff that needs to be said, and should be out there more.”

Woods saw a direct connection between the lecture and Miami.

“The most important take-away point is that we need more bias training, and not just for teachers,” said Woods. “Across the board, there should be more bias training. It should be a part of the Miami Plan.”

The solution Dianis proposed for reducing the pipeline is new or revised school codes of conduct written in collaboration among stu-dents, parents, police and school officials.

“You can’t rely on the system that devalued you, to teach you

your own value,” said Dianis. “We need to start caring about our chil-dren. We will all be better if we all do better.”

Students left impressed by the information Dianis presented.

“Some of the anecdotes about injustice were so shocking that I

was left speechless,” said Slabin-ski. “The overall impression I got was one of empowerment. Dia-nis spoke about some of her own successful reform efforts, and she challenged her audience to work toward positive change and check for prejudice in our own lives.”

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Judith Browne Dianis at Thursday’s “School-To-Prison Pipeline” lecture. “This pipeline is a series of policies and practices that have led to harsh discipline against children,” Dianis said.

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With the Ohio primaries com-ing up on March 15, the pool of candidates has become narrower and frontrunners have started to set themselves apart.

Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Rand Paul are among the presiden-tial hopefuls, out of about a dozen candidates in the race, who have dropped out. The big three remain-ing are Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

First-year Lana Van Til, a self-identified Republican, thinks this year’s election is a great example of democracy at work.

“It’s a unique year because none of the establishment candidates made it that far,” said Van Til. “And that means this election is very much

up to the people.”In the most recent CNN polls,

Trump is leading, with Rubio secur-ing second and Cruz trailing behind in third. Ben Carson is in fourth with Ohio governor, John Kasich, cur-rently last in the running.

However, Rubio has garnered support among many Republicans at Miami University, according to senior Charlie Meyer, who is the chairman of the College Republi-cans.

“My own view is that Marco Ru-bio is the most electable candidate in the Republican field,” said Meyer.

In Meyer’s opinion, Rubio has the potential to bring in younger and minority voters, which have historically been difficult demo-graphics for the Republican Party to reach. Meyer said this is essen-tial for the future of the conserva-tive movement.

However, some Republicans sup-port frontrunner Trump. The appeal of Trump is that he is a “sound bite candidate.” Some of Trump’s well-known positions are his anti-immi-grant policies and his strong stance on how to deal with the terrorist group, ISIS.

However, first-year Republican, Brianna Minshall is not a fan.

“I think Trump is too radical,” Minshall said. “He has a lot of good ideas but he wants to go about them the wrong way.”

Several College Republicans also support John Kasich. Members of the organization are involved in grassroots campaigning for the cur-rent Ohio governor.

First-year executive board mem-ber of the College Republicans, James Oaks, is one of the many College Republicans who support Kasich.

“He is, especially in this presiden-tial race, the most qualified candi-date,” Oaks said. “He was in Con-gress for 18 years.”

While campaigning in Nashville, Kasich said he will drop out of the race if he does not win Ohio. And some of the Republicans on campus wonder if he will even make it to the Ohio primaries.

“I’m curious to see if Kasich sticks it through to Ohio because, if he loses Ohio, it will be humiliating for him,” Van Til said. “If his cam-paign continues down this trend, he’ll probably drop.”

Meyer also believes this may be the case.

“Unless John Kasich has a magi-cal turn around, I don’t see his path continuing,” he said.

In contrast to the widespread opinions of the College Republi-cans, the College Democrats are

more united in their views. “The Democrats on campus, or at

least the ones that I’ve talked to, all like Bernie,” Meyer said.

Keegan Redslob, a first-year Democrat, is one of the Miami stu-dents who is “feeling the Bern.”

“He’s a dedicated politician who isn’t taking corporate money and has a proven history of fighting for civil rights,” he said.

Redslob went on to comment on the current Republican candidates.

“I think the biggest threat [to the Democratic Party] would be Ted Cruz,” he said.

In Redslob’s opinion, Cruz’ knowledge of the Constitution, team of lawyers and political experience put him in a better position to gain votes in a popular election.

The Republican candidates face off in the Ohio primaries on March 15.

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After conducting the inde-pendent study, she got the idea to start a different kind of study abroad program.

“I just realized that through that process of being able to come back then think and talk about my experience and to think about it in a bigger context, that was really influential in helping me bring back what I learned in Belize to my context of teaching and even in my life,” said Lyons. “So, I thought about other study abroad experiences where students just go and come back and they have no real space to talk about their ideas.”

The program she is creating will be a context-specific, year-long program (fall, winter and spring) and include both a pre-trip class and a post-trip class in which students reflect about their experiences.

Andrew Saultz, an assistant

professor in educational leader-ship and Lyons’s adviser for the project, has been assisting her and will continue to do so for the next year.

“Abby is really excited about the research component of the project and what people have studied and the context of study abroad,” said Saultz.

Currently, Lyons is working on her project to get ready for the six-month check, but she hopes to have her program implemented at Miami soon.

“I intend to pilot a program, but it probably wouldn’t pilot until fall 2017 if all works out well,” said Lyons.

The money from the grant will go toward her pilot program and giving her the time to propose her program to all of the necessary Miami departments.

Martin, meanwhile, is work-ing on a research project that will take him to Europe.

Martin chose to focus on a re-

search project on the emotions and personalities of the common marmosets. Common marmosets are a unique breed of monkey that are often very small and known for their unique brown and gray fur, in addition to their different breeding habits.

“I will first be investigating whether common marmosets ex-hibit empathy and personality, and I will then be assessing how individual differences in empathy and personality affect prosocial behavior,” said Martin.

He will be conducting research in Helsinki and Austria over the summer with Sonja Koski, a pri-matologist. His mentor on cam-pus, Linda Marchant, a professor of anthropology at Miami, con-nected Martin with Koski.

“I have known Dr. Koski for eight years,” said Marchant. “When I realized the potential synergy of Jordan’s intellectual interests and Dr. Koski’s academ-ic and research accomplishments,

I made an ‘electronic introduc-tion.’”

After Martin and Koski estab-lished a connection, they began to plan the research aspect of his project. They will be working to-gether on the research from June 2016 until June 2017.

Martin is looking forward to the opportunity to work with Koski conducting this research for the next year.

“One of the most exciting as-pects of my project is having the opportunity to work at a presti-gious research center with a team of personally inspiring scientists from my field,” said Martin. “I have no doubt that I will be able to complete my studies with access to and help from these invaluable resources and connections.”

Marchant is looking forward to the results and updates from Mar-tin’s project.

“His time management skills are quite impressive, there will be manuscripts to write and he sim-

ply doesn’t wait to the end. I’ll get the updates from him,” said Marchant. “I’m most excited to see where he will choose to pub-lish … if he chooses to go into anthropology.”

After the end of his project, Martin has plans for his future.

“I intend to continue my career as a primatologist and I see my Goldman project as a rare chance to contribute to behavioral sci-ence and make a name for myself in my field,” said Martin.

Both Martin and Lyons are looking forward to using the prize money to complete their projects in the upcoming year and to pur-sue their career goals.

“I feel super blessed to be able to pursue something that I am passionate about,” said Lyons. “It is super exciting and relieves a lot of stress about what I was going to do in the summer. I was going to work on this project regardless, but now this gives me the time and money to actually do it.”

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class, I feel shy because of my English skills.”

Smajli came to Miami with a TOEFL score of 81, which even she considers low.

“I am not a very good exam-taker, so that is one of the rea-sons I didn’t do very well on the TOEFL,” said junior Chi Le, a marketing major from Vietnam. “I could have done better in some ways. It’s really stressful.”

A university classroom setting comes with unique trials and ob-

stacles for international students with imperfect English abilities.

“[International students] are sitting a classroom where the professor might be talking very quickly, and maybe not putting a lot of notes on the screen, or using a lot of academic language or slang or idioms. It’s very challenging,” said Molly Heide-mann, assistant director of the office of ISSS.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, some students with strong test-taking abilities have poor communication skills.

“A lot of students prepare to take the TOEFL,” said Heide-mann. “They go through courses that are specifically designed to pass the TOEFL. They actu-ally might do quite well when, in fact, their actual ability to listen, read, write, speak, etc., is not a good indicator based on that score.”

And many international stu-dents who struggle with English after meeting Miami’s TOEFL requirements don’t feel that there are enough programs to assist them with English on campus.

“For English 108, 109, 111, that’s when they have the prop-er training, but after that, now I don’t have any kind of training or chance to practice my English. Now, I just have my friend cor-rect my papers or my cover let-ter,” said Le. “I don’t learn from this, and I do have that need.”

Le says she wishes there was a tutoring program — something informal that would still allow her to take a full course load.

According to Bixler, the ACE program has been reaching out to directly admitted students

and assisting them with English skills. However, no Miami-run English proficiency programs exist on the Oxford campus for directly admitted international students.

“For our students who are fully matriculated because their English test scores are high enough, there is not actually a lot of support available for addition-al assistance in the English lan-guage,” said Heidemann. “There is not a tutoring center or any-thing that provides support for English language proficiency.”

HANNAH FIERLETHE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University will host glo-balFEST Creole Carnival at 7:30 p.m. today in the Armstrong Stu-dent Center.

“Creole Carnival is going to be a wonderful performance of an in-ternational trio of artists that will showcase the musical riches of Car-nival,” said Ellie Witter, assistant director for audience development for the Performing Arts Series.

From Haiti comes the beautiful songstress Emeline Michel, known for her Haitian rhythms combined with an authentic acoustic jazz fla-vor. Beginning as a gospel singer from Gonaïves, her songs promote inspirational, social and political messages, delivered in her warm, dynamic voice.

Brushy One-String, a one-string guitarist from Jamaica, will also

offer his talents to this year’s glo-balFEST. Growing up poor in Ja-maica, Andrew Chin, or “Brushy,” believed that teaching himself to play guitar would provide access to the world. When he pulled out the acoustic guitar from under his bed, it had only one string — but it didn’t stop him. His soulful, reg-gae sound has gained him interna-tional acclaim, as well as millions of views on YouTube.

From an urban neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro comes the eclectic ensemble Casuarina. Their samba genre combines contemporary urban and pop sounds, while pay-ing homage to influences like the bossa nova, samba from Bahia and the Afro-Brazilian rhythms of the Nordeste.

The selection of artists for Creole Carnival will focus on the pre-Lent Carnival tradition and rich cultural history of the featured countries, Haiti, Brazil and Jamaica.

“While all of the sounds are very different, there is something cohe-sive and unifying about them and their celebrations of Carnival,” said tour manager George Cruze.

GlobalFEST started in 2003 when students in New York ex-pressed concern that there was not enough diversity or cultural pres-ence in music at universities. What began as a single showcase of cul-tural music has become a globally renowned performance of musi-cians from around the world.

Additionally, globalFEST has made appearances at popular an-nual musical festivals, Bonnaroo and South by Southwest.

This year is the first official North American tour of global-FEST, traveling around the country to universities in the United States and Canada. Universities welcome the performance as a one-night mu-

The things we watched, listened to and streamed before watching the 88th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night.

“THE HAUNTED LIFE” BY JACK KEROUACThe backstory of one of Kerouac’s many works long thought lost is al-

most as interesting as the text itself. Kerouac himself thought he lost it in a NYC cab, but it turns out he probably misplaced it in Allen Ginsberg’s Columbia dorm room. I finished the 80-ish page novella in a single Saturday sitting — an easy feat even for a notoriously slow reader like myself. The prose, one reviewer said, glides along. The book’s protagonist is at a crossroads, whiling away a Massachusetts summer and trying to decide what it means to “make something of oneself” before returning to college for his sophomore year. Set in 1940, when America itself was at a crossroads, this work captures perfectly a collegian’s inner monologue, struggling with that interminable question of why? — trust me, I’ve had that same monologue recently. (Reis Thebault, outgoing editor-in-chief)

“BETTER CALL SAUL” SEASON TWO I am now three episodes into the “Breaking Bad” prequel/spin-off, and I

couldn’t be enjoying it more. Go into it expecting “Breaking Bad” 2.0 and you will be disappointed. Go into it expecting another work of art by Vince Gilligan and you will be ecstatic. This second season explores the transition of Jimmy McGill, small-time el-der lawyer, to the infamous Saul Goodman, big-time, morally flexible, “dirty lawyer.” You also learn the history of Mike Ehrmantraut, ex-cop senior citizen who just can’t give up the criminal life. Intermittent suspense, subtle (or not-so-subtle) humor and stunning cinematography makes this show a must-watch, especially for you “Breaking Bad” die-hards out there. You’ll be waiting eagerly on the edge of your couch every Sunday night. (Connor Moriarty, photo editor)

“ON BEING WITH KRISTA TIPPETT”If you’re looking for a new podcast to rev up your synapses, then “On Being

with Krista Tippett” is what you need. The podcast, guided by Tippett’s easy-going, but probing questions, explores what it means to be human and how we ought to live. Tippett talks to Buddhists, secularists, scientists and everyone in between to try to illuminate those questions. To get you started, one of my favorite episodes is “The Courage to be Vulnerable” with research professor Brene Brown, about shame and our relationships with the opposite gender. (Brett Milam, online editor)

“WHAT ANNA STUBBLEFIELD BELIEVED SHE WAS DOING” BY DANIEL ENGBER, FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE

Following his long-form story in October for the NYT Magazine, “The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield,” Daniel Engber continues to cover the court battle in which a professor of ethics at Rutgers University is accused and convicted of raping a severe-ly disabled student in her campus office. Despite being found guilty last fall for two counts of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to 12 years in prison, Stubblefield continues to claim she and the student are in love, and that the sex was consensual. But said student has cerebral palsy and can neither talk nor care for himself. Engber’s original story, like his latest, is riveting, well-researched and powerfully written — and the kicker? The story is based almost entirely on court records and testimony. It’s worth the long read (and it is a long one), both for the quality of the writing and the peculiar nature of the story itself. In his recent coverage of the case, Engber discusses the five-page letter Anna wrote to the judge presiding over her case, as well as other developments since the October decision. (Emily Tate, managing editor)

Editors’ pop culture picks for this week

JACK RYANSENIOR STAFF WRITER

For the first time, I can hon-estly say that the Oscars, like the amazing performers it recognized, achieved above and beyond.

On Sunday night, a month-and-a-half after the Oscar nominations were announced and the subse-quent #OscarsSoWhite backlash began again, we finally got to see how the Academy and host Chris Rock responded. They came out swinging.

Rock spent his entire opening monologue — a time normally used to poke fun at the various nominees and Academy guests — directly joking over the controversy instead, characterizing Hollywood as ‘sorority racist.’

This was a very interesting tone to set for the night, particularly con-sidering the number of well-known celebrities refusing to attend the ceremony, including Spike Lee, who was given an Honorary Award by the Academy for his contribu-tions to film this year. The crowd took these jokes very well, a collec-tive breaking of the tension that had been growing since Jan. 14.

The ceremony proceeded just the way the pundits have predicted for months, with Mad Max crushing nearly every technical category, and “Spotlight” and “The Big Short” taking home the major writing awards right off the bat.

There were some exceptions from the white formula in the early winners, most notably Hispanic cinematographer Emmanuel Lu-bezki winning his third consecu-tive Oscar in the category, as well as “Bear Story” (Best Animated Short) marking Chile’s first Oscar win.

Similarly, both the supporting

acting categories awarded nuanced, controlled performances, with Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) and Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) taking home their respective statues over the brass, powerful roles of Sylvester Stallone and Jen-nifer Jason Leigh.

As the ceremony continued, it became very clear that it was fo-cused on representing and support-ing as many minority groups as possible. Vice President Joe Biden and Lady Gaga led a national rep-

resentation of the “It’s On Us” campaign for survivors of sexual assault and Sam Smith dedicated his Oscar for Best Original Song to the LGBTQ community.

Even Alejandro Iñarritu, in his triumphant second consecu-tive Best Director speech, spoke over minutes of walk-off music to preach the importance of accep-tance and looking past race.

And, of course, Brie Larson and Leonardo DiCaprio took home the Lead Actress and Actor Oscars, respectively. Leo’s win continues the Academy’s streak of awarding extreme physical method acting in the Best Actor category (with Eddie Redmayne, Matthew Mc-Conaughey and Daniel Day-Lewis preceding him). Leo’s long-awaited victory was also capped off with one of the best speeches in recent history, thanking so many of the in-dustry’s greatest before delving into the importance of environmental care and research.

Brie’s Oscar was certainly the more difficult award to win, as the Best Actress category once again boasted a much more so-phisticated range of acting per-formances than the male counter-parts, selecting emotional subtlety over physical transformation.

What seemed to be the big-gest surprise of the night came at the conclusion of the ceremony, as “Spotlight” nudged out fellow frontrunners “The Revenant,” “The Big Short” and “Mad Max” and a previously rowdy crowd took a moment of surprised silence. This win for Tom McCarthy and his crew was not only the safe choice, but the right one — a film of this magnitude may have its individual merits, but it is at its most notable as a coherent whole.

MEGAN BOWERSSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Pain is the one part of life that is unexplainable. Each person has his or her own idea about how to move on or how to grieve.

When Neil Simon’s life start-ed crumbling around him, he chose to find a new outlook through comedy.

The finished product, the play “Rumors,” is now bringing that optimism to Miami’s campus.

“An underlying reason why I chose the show was that I think comedy can have a cool emotional effect on people,” said senior di-rector Casey Wood. “It kind of puts you in a special place when you’re going through something serious.”

The show revolves around a dinner party thrown for the Deputy Mayor of New York, Charley, and his wife, Myra. Everything has al-ready started going wrong before the show even begins — Charley shot himself in the ear, and his wife and the servants are missing.

“As the couples keep arriv-ing to the party, the ones who are already there try to cover it up and they do a really sloppy job, just like you would expect in comedy,” said Wood.

The four couples, each with dis-tinctive personalities, are the driv-ing force in the show.

“My focus has been the contrast between the couples,” said Wood. “Just making each couple stand out from each other, and that’s some-thing we started with casting.”

Each of the couples bring a dif-ferent style of comedy to the show, ranging from over-the-top lovey-dovey to harsh and standoff-ish.

“Play the hostess? There’s no food out, there’s no ice in the buck-et. Where’s the help? Where’s the cheese dip? Where’s Myra? What am I supposed to do till you get back, play charades? I’m lucky I can still speak English.”

“You’re a lawyer yourself, can’t you figure out something to say?”

Ken and Chris are the couple that arrives to the party first, and they end up putting a lot of effort into keeping everyone in control.

“He tries to be a leader some-times, but it doesn’t work out quite in the way he expected,” said first-year Marco Colant, who plays Ken. “I mean, he’s a lawyer, so he’s trying to make things better, but he is also very high strung and nervous.”

Ken and Chris are one of the more stable couples in the show, but they still have their ups and downs.

“Their problems are just height-ened because of what’s happening in the show,” said sophomore Erin Speno, who plays Chris. “You can see they care about each other, but there is also this sarcastic line be-tween them.”

“I’m not going to tell you be-cause you don’t like this person anyway.”

“What’s the difference if I like them or not? Who told you?”

“Carol Newman”“CAROL NEWMAN?? I knew

it, I knew it. I hate that god-damn woman. She’s got a mouth big enough to swallow a can of tennis balls.”

Lenny and Claire are the gossip-ing couple who always manage to start the fights.

“I think they feed off of each other,” said first-year Olivia Sem-

sel, who plays Claire. “Claire loves to gossip and Lenny likes the dra-ma of it even though he doesn’t act like he does, so they just kind of bounce off each other constantly.”

“This is remarkable, but I’m having the first headache I’ve ever had in my entire life.”

“I just remembered. Ernie’s last name is Cusack. It begins with a C.”

The actors who play Ernie and Cookie take acting to a whole new level — able to keep up their char-acters’ banter even off stage.

“We’re definitely the dorky cou-ple,” said junior Landon Drumm, who plays Ernie. “We’re the cou-ple that’s actually in love with each other.”

“Are you threatened somehow because I’m running for the Sen-ate?”

“State Senate! State Senate! Don’t make it sound like we’re go-ing to Washington. We’re going to Albany. Twenty-three degrees be-fore zero in the middle of winter Al-bany. You’re not Time’s Man of the Year yet, you understand, honey?”

The couple closest to the edge is Glenn and Cassie. The show is full of their arguments and whiny attitudes.

“It’s really tense between the two of them. They don’t get along well at all and everyone knows they’re having issues,” said first-year Audrey Davis, who plays Cassie. “But at the end of the day, they love each other, they just don’t show it well at all.”

The show uses comedy in an over-the-top style that would never work without a strong cast of actors.

“It’s really important to give the actors that ability to make the characters their own,” said Wood. “By doing that, every time you see the same show it’s going to be different.”

Stage Left will be performing “Rumors” at 7:30 p.m. March 3 and 5 and at 8:30 p.m. March 4 in Wilks Theater. Admission is free.

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I think comedy can have a cool emotional effect on people. It kind of puts you in a special place when you’re going through something.

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Stage Left spreads ‘Rumors’ about new play

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The 88th annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday, hosted by Chris Rock. “Spotlight” won the coveted Oscar for Best Picture.

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Amid controversy, 2016 Oscars ceremony is diverse affair

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Cruze, whose business card reads “Logistics, Advance and Merchandising for Performing Artists I Like,” gets to know the performers on a deeper level. He travels with them on tour and han-dles the daily procedures behind the scenes and on the road.

“I go out on the road with them and get to form a strong bond with them, maybe even more so than their manager or agent,” said Cruze. “I work with people I like because I’m interested in spending time with them. I have have been extremely fortunate because I con-tinually am connected with these talents.”

GlobalFEST is sponsored by Kona Bistro and in collaboration with Miami Activities & Program-ming (MAP). Tickets can be pur-chased at the Miami Box Office in the CAB building. Tickets are $15 for adults, $14 for seniors and $10 for students.

FROM GLOBALFEST »PAGE 4FROM OSCARS »PAGE 4

Although these Academy Awards certainly had their share of issues — the ignoring of Ali-cia Vikander’s category fraud, a strangely racist Asian joke in the midst of an otherwise open-minded and accepting night, and obviously, the lack of African-American winners — it was oth-erwise a very satisfying affair.

Finally, it seems the time has come where much-watched presentations can reach out and have deeper meaning and power along with, but not in substitu-tion to, some fun crude humor and recognition of deserving winners. There may not have been many nominees of color, but the messages spread by hosts, winners and presenters alike were those of equality, re-spect and admiration.

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going to the mall with her friends and watching movies and fussing over algebra homework.

She went to prom. She was student body president. She was and still is a die-hard football (soccer) fan. She was a model student and a normal teenager.

“I blame Google,” Nana said. Indeed, the first image that

pops up when you type ‘Bo-tswana’ into the search engine is a series of photographs depict-ing herds of elephants bathing in rivers near the Serengeti, prides of lions rolling around on dis-tinctly yellow grass and groups of Batswana standing outside of their huts built with branches and brush.

It doesn’t do much to dissuade people from generalizing Africa.

Nana is a dual citizen of Gha-na and Botswana. Both of her parents are Ghanaian and they grew up there. Her father na-tionalized and became a citizen of Botswana (a Motswana) Her mother is a permanent resident of Botswana. She represents both her nationality and ethnic-ity linguistically, speaking Twi (native to Ghana) and Setswana (native to Botswana). She does not speak Swahili.

Nana’s reasons for coming

to Miami were twofold: to get an education at a university that has a reputable business school and to pursue a future career in the States.

But her journey to the United States has not been an easy one. She has been met with igno-rance and her identity has been generalized and marginalized. As one of the less than 20 per-cent of international students who is not from China, she is in the minority.

“If you’re a minority interna-tional student, no one really con-siders your culture unless they know you are from a different place,” Nana said.

Whether it be Nana from Botswana, a student from the United Arab Emirates or a stu-dent from Kazakhstan, students at Miami tend to generalize and classify international under one branch: Asian.

“Or, more specifically, Chi-nese,” Nana said. “People need to know that there are other in-ternational students.”

While Nana desires this cam-pus to be a place of greater representation for the minor-ity international community, she worries about whether or not the domestic students will still maintain their ignorance and na-iveté in regards to her home.

“It can be demeaning,” Nana said. “Sometimes people say things or ask things jokingly, but you can tell they don’t know, and sometimes it seems like they don’t care to learn.”

What bothers Nana the most is the complete lack of fundamen-tal cultural understanding and the tendency for people to gen-eralize an entire continent as one homogenous region.

“There are so many cultures in Africa. It’s not one country. It’s an entire continent,” Nana said. “It’s so diverse within each country linguistically and culturally.”

In fact, Africa is comprised of 54 countries, more than 1,500 languages and thousands of eth-nic groups.

Nana’s biggest wish is that people will begin to recognize Africa’s diversity so that they can see diversity within her own identity.

“I want to share my culture with everyone else,” Nana said. “It makes me so happy when I see the flag of Ghana or Botswa-na in the foyer of MacMillan or the Office of Diversity Affairs. Seeing it makes me realize that people know those countries ex-ist and that I am relevant on this campus, despite the fact that I am a minority.”

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For many Miami University students, the coming of spring to Oxford, Ohio means one thing: everything they had been doing inside for the last four months can now be moved outside. The 70-degree weather thaws the sidewalks and opens the migra-tory paths from dorm rooms and apartments to the Uptown area. An alcoholic diaspora ensues.

Students who were getting hammered in the snug, dim, stained-wood bars of O’Pub and Stein-keller and the basements of frat houses move topside where they can feel the sun shine on their faces, the breeze on their jersey-clad backs and the scru-tiny of the general public and law enforcement.

This natural phenomena be-gan for this first time this year

last week during an unnaturally warm Saturday in January and the attitude of students uptown was, to say the least, anarchic.

So instead of shot-gunning cans of Natty in a tree or drinking for honks, here are a few things you can do to enjoy the coming Spring weekends.

Replace that hot coffee with an iced one. Or go for ice cream without worrying about your fin-gers freezing off.

Take a hike. Loop through Bachelor Preserve, walk on West-ern, or pass some time in Peffer Park — Miami’s natural areas contain over 17 miles of trails, so there’s plenty of places to explore near campus. Or, if you’re feel-ing especially adventurous, head out to Hueston Woods State Park for the afternoon.

Open up the windows. Let the fresh breeze flow in, replacing the dust-ridden air in your apart-ment. According to the Center for Disease Control, indoor air qual-ity in the United States is worse than outdoor air quality because of toxic fumes ranging from cigarette smoke to lysol cleaner to cooking bacon and eggs and burning toast in a toaster. Take the warm day to air out your stuffy apartment and breathe the fresh air.

Have a picnic. This is a par-ticularly good idea for when you want to ditch an afternoon class. Pick up some bread, cheese, a bottle of wine or some good craft beer and go enjoy the day from the casual comfort of a checkered blanket. Because there’s some-thing about eating outside that

makes everything taste better. Lounge in a hammock. Some-

times you just need to soak up the sun. Grab two trees — some of the best are around Bache-lor Pond or on top of the bluffs at Peffer Park, but on campus works, too — kick back and re-lax.

Go for a stroll. Nobody ever just goes for a walk anymore and, like letter writing, this is becom-ing a lost art form.

Drive with your windows down, music blaring. While you’re at it, go somewhere you’ve never been. We recom-mend a day trip to Cincinnati, where you can browse sidewalk shops, visit the Zoo and Botani-cal Gardens, catch a Reds game or pick up some produce at the Findlay Market.

Have a bonfire. Despite the afternoon’s warm weather, late winter evenings still get chilly. Grab some old blankets to sit on and firewood to burn. Just don’t forget the s’mores ingredients!

Whatever your choice, drop everything you are doing and go enjoy the nice day…

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What to do (besides drink) on a warm sunny day in Oxford The following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.EDITORIAL

That I don’t have to spend most of my existence making my own food merely to survive means I’m free to live and embrace leisure.

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Essentially, Miami University’s enrollment of domestic minority students has increased in recent years.

Benefits of free market are often taken for grantedContrary to prior publication, minority enrollment increasing

Fearlessness and willingness make mistakes are the keys to creativity

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The free mar-ket’s beauty, contrary to the perspective of its detractors and de-fenders, lies with-in its collectivism. Which is to say,

the free market works precisely be-cause we work together, not off on our own individualized islands.

It troubles me deeply that the free

market is so scorned and misunder-stood, especially among my peers who are feeling the Bern. I see it as, on the whole, reflecting what humanity can accomplish together.

Imagine where we would be with-out the division of labor, specializa-tion of knowledge, globalization, trade and the price system.

It is without those mechanisms that we end up on our own individualized islands, fending for ourselves. As in, how it was for most of recorded histo-ry, which was unbearably brutish and bleak for humanity.

Take, for example, the process re-quired to build a simple sandwich. Right now, I can walk three feet into my kitchen, grab two slices of wheat bread, slap some lunch meat and mustard on it and have a tasty snack.

To acquire that bread, lunch meat and mustard, I just have to drive to the grocery store less than eight min-utes from my house.

There are millions of people in-volved in the process of getting the wheat bread, the lunch meat and the

mustard to my kitchen, however. Most have no clue of the machina-tions of the other. Most likely don’t care about my personal need and de-sire to have a sandwich. And yet.

Furthermore, I didn’t even take into consideration the materials needed to wrap and seal the bread, the lunch meat and the mustard. Or the millions more people that made the car in which I drove to the gro-cery store. Or the construction that went into creating the grocery store.

Once you start to unpack all the components that go into how a sim-ple sandwich arrives on my plate, it’s extraordinary and reveals the true beauty of the market.

But imagine, instead, if I had to make that sandwich entirely by myself. Luckily, we don’t have to imagine it because YouTuber, Andy George, last September tried just that.

He spent six months and $1,500 to do it.

George grew his own vegetables, made his own salt from the ocean water, milked a cow for cheese, ground his own flour after harvesting the wheat, collected his own honey and killed a chicken for the meat.

Now consider the “givens” he worked with, too: he had an oven, pots and pans — which, mind you, were inside a house presum-ably with air conditioning — and used an airplane to get to the ocean to acquire the salt.

Of course, there’s the various clothing items George wore while doing this. He actually has another video where he details the 10 months and $4,000 it took him to make a suit from scratch.

Further, then, consider that in six

months, he changed clothes, which meant he had to wash his clothes. I could do a whole article on how extraordinary the washing machine is and how much it saved human-ity (and particularly women), but instead, I’ll just refer you to Hans Rosling’s TED Talk, “The magic washing machine.”

If we go back to unpacking the ways in which those aforementioned items get to the individual, you can begin to appreciate the overwhelm-ing complexity of food supply chains, which appear simple to us.

Life would be terrible if we had to make our own food every meal, every day. And that’s just ourselves. Never mind if we have a family to feed, too.

But there’s another under-appre-ciated beauty to this, which is that wealth accumulation gives us our most valuable commodity: time.

That I don’t have to spend most of my existence making my own food merely to survive means I’m free to live and embrace leisure.

As in, I can think, dream, read, lis-ten to Mozart, watch Netflix or myr-iad other activities, including writing this article and attending higher edu-cation, which weren’t possible for most of recorded human history ex-cept for the most well off (and even they, compared to today, had it fairly terrible).

Moreover, that these now simple chores used to be laborious meant the entire family, including children, were tasked with helping, rather than going to school or being kids.

That “being a kid” and being able to play was able to become a thing at all is attributable to wealth accumula-tion and market exchange.

None of which is to say we shouldn’t care how our food is made and desire that it’s made humanely and with the best considerations of the environment involved behind it, but rather, that we should ap-preciate the complex mechanisms in place, which aren’t directed by some government bureaucrat, that make it happen.

ELLEN STENSTROMTHE MIAMI STUDENT

“Is someone else oppressing you, or are you oppressing yourself?”

If I could share one piece of wis-dom from last Monday’s creativity panel, it would be these words, spo-ken by esteemed author and visitor to Miami, Kathryn Davis.

On Monday afternoon, Miami hosted author Kathryn Davis of Washington University in St. Louis, and two of our own professors and published writers, Margaret Luon-go and Cathy Wagner.

The women offered their words of wisdom, experience and advice regarding writing and creativity in general. That night, Davis read from her newest novel, “The Silk Road,” and answered questions

from curious listeners.I remember the day in third grade

I decided to be an author, and since then, despite several periods of writer’s block (can you still call it that if it lasts for a year?), I knew that one day I would publish my own novel.

So, for me, this discussion was personal and relatable on a very direct level. However, I would ar-gue that some of the most valuable things said were not just about writ-ing, but about life, and I wish that more students had been present to hear them.

As you’ve hopefully heard at some point by now, President Hodge declared this the Year of Creativity and Innovation. First-year students were required to read The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innova-tor’s Guide to Creativity by Marty

Neumeier. A series of lecturers have been brought in throughout the year to speak on the subject, and this was yet another extension of the project. Before you roll your eyes and aban-don this article, consider this: what career path out there doesn’t require some degree of creativity?

The panel first discussed con-straints on creativity, posing the question of if there can even be creativity without constraint. All three writers discussed the structure and time restraint they put on them-selves in order to be productive. Luongo offered her own insight, pointing out that her most produc-tive and successful work has been done under some sort of restraint.

I know that this has been incred-ibly true in my life as I think about nights that I start my homework lat-est also being the nights that I get it

done the fastest. However, the panel also pointed out that, as creative be-ings, we like to wait until the “right time” to start a project, whatever that may look like for you.

As well-intentioned as this may be, we often prevent ourselves from even starting. Their encourage-ment, which I would now pass on to you, is that if we keep waiting for the perfect time, we’ll never start because it’ll never come. The tim-ing doesn’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to sit yourself down and start.

The other main point of discus-sion was about where creative ideas come from in the first place. Though each writer talked about incorporat-ing conflict from her own life as a means of resolution, Davis also pointed out the importance of “not knowing where you’re going.” She

explained that, to a degree, writers (or creative people in general) don’t usually know the outcome when they begin, and that it’s important to be at peace with that.

Perhaps what hit closest to home with me was Luongo’s comments about failure, not because it will help me write, but because it will help me live a fuller life. When we’re creating, she explained, we can’t be afraid of failing, or that we’re wasting time on something that won’t work. As students, em-ployees and just as humans, we have to be okay with the prospect of failure and be willing to acknowl-edge that a failed product is never wasted because of what it taught us along the way.

TO THE EDITOR:In the Feb. 26 edition of The

Miami Student, the article “Cam-pus Climate Forum Discusses Mi-nority Retention” cited a decrease of “between 25 and 80 percent” in domestic minority student enrollments at Miami in recent years, based on a study by James Porter. This statement is incorrect — enrollments of domestic racial and ethnic minority students have steadily increased on the Oxford campus, from 1,610 students in 2009 (9.5 percent) to 2,286 stu-dents in 2015 (12.1 percent).

The data to which Dr. Porter refers came from our office (the

Office of Institutional Research) but were incorrectly interpreted by Porter and his students. Por-ter reviewed five years’ worth of enrollment reporting. During that five-year period, the guidelines for reporting race/ethnicity to the federal government changed.

Beginning in 2010, students were allowed to self-identify more than one race/ethnicity. Pri-or to 2010, multiracial students

could only identify one race/eth-nicity. For federal reporting, this coding change means that mul-tiracial students who previously identified as a single race are now included in the category multira-cial.

As the result of this classifi-cation change, Miami has gone from zero multiracial students on the Oxford campus in 2009 to 568 multi racial students in 2015.

Internal reporting allows us to see that 144 of the multiracial stu-dents identified Black or African-American as one of their races, but they are not counted as Black or African American for federal reporting — they are counted as multiracial. The same is true of the other racial categories — the number of students self-identify-ing as a single racial category has decreased because students are now able to self-report as multi-racial.

Essentially, Miami Univer-sity’s enrollment of domestic mi-nority students has increased in recent years. More students are identifying as multiracial rather than a single racial category.

I respectfully request that you print a correction indicating that enrollment of domestic minority students on the Oxford campus has actually increased in recent years, not decreased.

If you would like to review the data, detailed historical enroll-ment information by racial/ethnic category is publically available on our website.

ANDREA I. BAKKER ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF

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OPINION 7EDITORIAL@MIAMISTUDENT.NET TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016

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GRETA HALLBERGCOLUMNIST

In high school, I was constantly reading a book. I brought novels to my music stand during band class to read when our director was working with another section of instruments. I would read whenever and wherever I had the chance.

I was constantly writing, too. I had an embarrassing blog that detailed the struggles of being 16 years old in an affluent suburb.

The topics might have been trivial and the books may have been teen-lit, but I was reading and writing for no other purpose than to please myself.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve done either of those things in college. I read textbooks, assigned articles and the news, but I don’t have the time to get lost in a novel or read autobiogra-phies of women I admire. It isn’t an exciting book that I’m sneaking in between classes, but it’s responding to emails for Up magazine or reading

news digests delivered to my inbox.Everything I write is an assign-

ment. Whether it’s an academic es-say, a journalistic story or my weekly columns, I’m meeting a deadline. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy it, be-cause I do, but I don’t have the time to write for the sake of writing.

In fairness, I didn’t have an iPhone

in high school. My family didn’t have Netflix instant streaming and I wasn’t nearly as invested in Snap-chat, Instagram or the other apps that take up time and space in my life. To-day, I have so many more distractions than I did when I was an active reader and writer in my spare time.

I’ll own up to that. I play silly games like spider soli-taire and watch Snapchat stories when I probably could be doing something productive.

My free time, it seems, is segment-ed into tiny fractions. Ten minutes walking to class, five minutes wait-ing for my food or a minute before class starts is hardly enough time to sink into a book or write a creative es-say. My days are less like a full story and more like a series of unrelated sound bytes strung together.

The irony of writing this piece in chunks between running around all day is not lost on me. A paragraph typed on my iPhone here, a few sentences while pretending to take notes in class there. This piece-meal method is how I do most of my work nowadays. Until after dinner when I can sit down and focus on something for more than a few minutes at a time, I’m distracted by the constant buzz of my phone and the hundreds of tabs I have open on my computer.

I’m losing time by multitasking.

My brain is constantly switching between apps on my phone, items on my to-do list and even subjects in school, and I have to refocus ev-ery time. I can acknowledge it, but why can’t I stop? I can’t be the only millennial whose phone burns white hot in their pocket, even when there aren’t any new notifications.

When I graduate, I want to find a job as a journalist. I know I’ll be working on deadline much of the time, pursuing stories, editing clips and writing on the fly. It’s a fast-paced career path, and I know that. But journalism also requires creativ-ity. The best stories aren’t written overnight. They have multiple drafts, more than one interview, tons of re-search and, most importantly, time.

A good story involves a lot of read-ing and a lot of writing. I love both of these things, but to do both well, you need time. Time to build your focus, time for ideas to marinate, time to re-ally get in the groove. I worry that, with the push-notification lifestyle I’m living now, I’m losing my ability

to focus, and thus do the things I love and the skills needed for my future career.

I hope this is a product of col-lege, where unstructured time, over-involvement and odd hours don’t make it easy to cozy up with a good book. While my dad isn’t a writer, he has the time to read biographies and historical novels after a day of work. Maybe it’s because his phone isn’t a third limb like it is for me, but I’m hoping that life after college lends itself more naturally to creativity and making time for yourself.

I don’t know what the root cause of it is, and maybe I never will. Your 20s are a selfish time in your life, but so far I’m finding that most of the reading and writing I do isn’t for myself. Maybe I’m wasting my time, maybe I’m a product of my genera-tion and maybe I’m just spread too thin. But I sure am craving the time to sink into a good novel for no other

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GREEK

Dangerous drinking is most definitely a Greek problem, not just a college problem

AJ NEWBERRY NEWBERAJ@MIAMIOH.EDU

TO THE EDITOR:In Carly Berndt’s Feb. 26 column

for The Miami Student, she decries the “double standard” by which fra-ternities are suspended for alcohol consumption and suggests that these standards are unfair to young men. Yet her argument completely over-looks the gendered and organization-al processes in place that, in fact, give young men in fraternities the most social capital and power at college campuses.

At universities across the country, it is the enforcement of explicitly gender-neutral policies — such as the policing of alcohol in residence halls — that have very gendered consequences. It is these policies that encourage first-year students, who are by and large underage, to turn to fraternities to party. Even more signif-icant is the fact that, at Miami, frater-nities have houses while sororities do not. This gives young men in fraterni-ties the power to control and engineer the party resources on campus. It should come as no surprise, then, that studies have consistently shown higher rates of hazing, binge drink-

ing and sexual assault in the Greek community, with fraternity members most likely to be the perpetrators. Alcohol is often blamed for sexual assault, hazing, academic failures and even student deaths, but the high-stakes status competition that fuels drinking and leads to other troubling behaviors is less well understood and frequently under-emphasized.

As Hamilton and Armstrong in their seminal article on ‘party rape’ put it, “the enforcement of alcohol policy by both university and Greek organizations transforms alcohol from a mere beverage into an un-equally distributed social resource.”

To illustrate this point, a friend of mine from another university re-cently went public with her story of sexual assault, which began with her drinking as a first-year student at a fraternity. Her friend, a fraternity member, convinced her to crash at the house so she would not be cited for an alcohol violation — which she might have been if she went back to her dorm for the night. She agreed, and woke up with him assaulting her.

Since it is this heavy policing of college dorms and light policing of fraternities that ultimately increases

the power of those who can secure and host parties, holding fraternities accountable when they abuse that power is crucial to keeping students safe on campus. Taking on male en-titlement that allocates young men on campus the control of party resources by more consistently regulating fra-ternities will help equalize access to alcohol and, ultimately, different so-cial and living spaces.

We are clearly in the midst of a massive cultural shift around Greek life and related issues such as haz-ing, sexual assault and binge drink-ing. The only way for cultural shifts to come to fruition is for strict lines to be drawn. As an alum, I am proud that Miami is taking a zero-tolerance stance toward fraternity bad behavior, and I hope they will continue to do so. Some students may not be happy now, but making these changes will ensure that current and future stu-dents can reap the benefits of a safe, respectful and supportive commu-nity where they can have fun. without paying the dangerous costs.

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taking your job, the immediate decimation of ISIL or a booming economy that will make you rich.

To put it succinctly, he prom-ises us what we can’t have.

But then, why is he successful? I think the answer is rather

frightening. Donald Trump, through his empty-promise rhetoric, has tapped into some-thing powerful — people’s need to believe in something. A belief in something isn’t wrong, but a belief in an empty promise is. Empty promises bring voters, and Donald Trump knows this better than anyone.

So when he tells you about how good his ends will be, you don’t just forget about the means, you disregard them completely. And you do so for a simple reason: thinking practically takes away the awe, takes away the marvel and leaves you feeling hopeless.

Voters need to be awed. The ends are what galvanize voters, whereas the means simply con-fuse them. Don’t tell crowds how to make ice cream. Just give it to them.

You might then say Donald Trump is just trying to get elect-ed. I agree, but he is still doing something wrong that no one else is doing.

When you get a chance, check out his campaign website. You will find that he has an issues tab that contains a series of 14 vid-eos explaining what he will do if elected president.

Rather than tell you what I think about the videos, I encourage you to watch what he says needs to be done (the ends) and then what he plans to do (the means).

If you still believe he can do what he says, there is not much more I can tell you.

But these videos are not just empty promises, they are delib-erate efforts to create blame, stir fear and instill anger at different groups of people. They are efforts to scapegoat our Muslim and His-panic communities.

Why a scapegoat? I don’t think Donald Trump is an-gry, but he knows other peo-ple are. He resonates with them,and he uses their anger as a way to channel further support. So if I am right in saying Trump is bad, why can’t anyone knock him off his pedestal?

The way I see it, when you crit-icize Trump, you lose. In fact, you even help him. Your criticisms are simply redirected to fit into the larger narrative that is propelling him to prominence, that narrative being that he is a tough and suc-cessful go-getter that doesn’t need your help in restoring America to greatness. You’re just a thorn in his side — someone who is get-ting in the way. He dismisses you by eliciting fear, power and re-spect — and his voters love him for it.

Trump probably welcomes crit-ics more than anyone else. The pursuit of power requires that you have enemies, and then you ut-terly defeat them. He needs victo-ries, and he is getting them.

This is why I believe the poten-

tial ban on Donald Trump from the United Kingdom is a bad idea. It only fits further into the Trump story — the American people are strong enough to take on the world’s problems alone, so who needs the British? Even the Pope questioning Trump’s faith didn’t work. After a Trump response, the Pope had to “clarify” what he meant. Some headline some-where probably reads, “Donald Trump cowers to no one — not even the Pope!”

Criticism won’t work on Don-ald Trump the way it works on other candidates. He’s too good.

So what is to be done? I am not an astute observer of

campaign strategy, but I can’t figure out for the life of me why we are not asking Donald Trump more questions about what ex-actly it is that he will do. Why are we not trying to expose the empty promises he is making? If he’s forced to elaborate on the substance, the policy, the logistics and the plan necessary for how he promises to “Make America Great Again,” he will defeat himself.

To defeat the Trump campaign, then, we need to talk to Trump voters. This is where it gets tricky.

Do not tell them Donald Trump is offering empty promises. They will never believe you. The ends are too good and he is too strong not to deliver.

Instead, inquire about Trump’s means. Engage in thoughtful, pragmatic and genuine conversa-tion with a voter and let him or her slowly recognize that the fa-çade of Trump’s means (remem-ber, he doesn’t have any!) are im-plausible in practice and inimical in theory.

They won’t change their minds for you. Let them change their minds for themselves.

Or, you know, do whatever works! He needs to be stopped. His campaign is an anathema to the very fabric of an American political discourse that prides it-self on a plethora of competing policy outlines meant to be dis-cussed, debated and deliberated.

Tell me why Bernie’s plan for immigration reform is good, or why Rubio should increase fund-ing for vocational education. We should be talking about these policies.

But when we consider a Don-ald Trump policy, we are only left to debate meritless claims and empty promises. When we debate empty promises, we create empty discussion that is pernicious to the thoughtful, respectful and in-clusive political dialogue so in-grained in our American tradition.

Donald Trump does not fright-en me. Demagogues come and go. He is not the first, and he will not be the last. And any demagogue can be defeated with reason.

But reason can be twisted, and you will be tempted to be-lieve it. If you do, then you have been played. Don’t be played.

ANDY SWITZERGUEST COLUMN

Donald Trump is an adept prac-titioner of a fundamental law of power — the necessity of creating and sustaining a strong support of dedicated followers.

Followers are necessary, of course, in an election season. But there is something very alarming

in the way that Donald Trump has amassed his followers as compared to other candidates. Everyone else, after outlining policies directed to-ward goals, campaigns to sell their vision of what is best for America.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, refuses to outline any poli-cies, and sells America empty promises.

And we believe him. By empty promises, I mean im-

practical solutions that, in theory, accomplish some ends, but with-out any means. For example, Don-ald Trump is going to tell you that he will solve a problem you care about. Be it our immigration sys-tem, the threat of terrorism or a stagnant economy, Trump will fix it. He will fix it by telling you not how he will do it (the means) but how great the result will be (the ends). No more illegal immigrants

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As Rosling points out in his Ted Talk, most of the people cleaning clothes by hand are women. As you can see then, there’s a strong femi-nist argument to be made for the “magic” of the washing machine.

The extreme poverty comes from a lack of market exchange and industrialization, among other factors, like education, colonialism, imperialism and corrupt govern-ments.

None of which is to say there aren’t both valid criticisms of con-sumerism and materialism, as well as the uglier elements of our corpo-ratist economy (meaning, the col-lusion of big business and govern-ment, which decidedly is not free market).

But as Steve Horowitz, a pro-fessor of economics explains, “Market-driven innovation has allowed machines to do our work for us and has brought us new and better products to make us cleaner and healthier, enabling humans

— and particularly women — to have the time and health to do the things we love and that make us smarter and happier.”

I understand that some reading this may think, “Yeah, but unions and government policies gave us the 40-hour work week and the weekend, child labor laws, safety standards in food to produce that sandwich, the roads to transport it to the grocery store and so forth.”

If I had more space, I’d love to dispel a few of those myths, but for the sake of argument, let me grant all the aforementioned. Even that being the case, market exchange is still a beautiful web of complexity that’s under-appreciated.

I find irony in the fact that wealth accumulation grants the anti-con-sumerist the luxury of more time, so that the anti-consumerist can rail against the mechanism which gave him or her more time.

My challenge to those who would reject market exchange, the price system, free trade and glo-balization is to demonstrate how an alternative system would make our lives better, especially the least well off.

In fact, just start with explaining how a sandwich would get to my plate and millions of other plates.

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able to put his hands on the man he was defending, and he certainly got his fair share of bumps and bruises, but would he want to make a living in today’s era of constant Tweets and news updates?

Charles Barkley is another notable name that has slighted Curry and his accomplishments. Something tells me the “Round Mound of Rebound” would struggle dealing with today’s ath-letic big men.

What makes the accomplish-ments of Barkley and Robertson so much better than the accom-plishments of today’s players? Did the league not evolve in the decade that passed between their careers? A 3-point shot by a short shorts-wearing Larry Bird in the 80s is still worth just as much as one made by a baggy-clothed Curry today.

We should not fault Curry for adapting to the NBA he was drafted into. We should, howev-er, admire the once-in-a-lifetime player he has become.

When George Mikan entered the league in the 1940s, he was

such a dominant force that rules were changed to accommodate his overpowered opponents. Be-cause of Mikan, defensive goal-tending was outlawed, the shot clock was introduced and the lane was doubled in size.

Despite changing how the game was played forever, we don’t chalk Mikan’s statistics up to him being “too big” for his time. We celebrate him and what he has done for basketball. Mikan is a member of both the NBA Hall of Fame and the College Basket-ball Hall of Fame and was named one of the greatest players of the first half of the 20th century.

Maybe the solution to the prob-lem is to extend the 3-point line a few feet. I doubt this would stop Curry’s dominance, though. His shot against the Thunder was a 32-footer.

Curry’s critics can bring him down all they want. What they can’t deny is his 30 points per game and incredible ball han-dling ability. When he eventu-ally joins Robertson and Barkley in the Hall of Fame, something tells me he won’t be in a separate wing designated for players that were a product of the times.

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art put the ’Hawks up 1-0 when he wristed a puck over the shoulder of the Tiger’s goalie 13:04 into the second period.

Morris got a three-goal third period started when he received a centering pass from freshman forward Jack Ro-slovic. He smacked a shot through traf-fic into the net 11:04 into the period to make it 2-0.

Less than 90 seconds later, Sher-wood made it 3-0 after backhanding a rebound into the net.

Junior forward Anthony Louis scored an empty net goal at the final buzzer to make the final score 4-0.

“The weekend was pretty special,” Morris said. “The people around us

made it special. We have an unbeliev-able support group with the families, our hockey staff, the teachers and the fans.”

The RedHawks outshot the Tigers 44-24 on the evening and went 1-for-4 on the power play while killing off all three CC power plays.

Melnick put up his fourth and fifth multi-point games of the season with a goal and an assist Friday and two assists Saturday. Roslovic also had a multi-point game Saturday with two assists.

Miami enters the final regular season series tied with University of Minneso-ta-Duluth for the fourth and final home ice advantage spot for the NCHC Play-offs. The teams play a winner-take-all series next weekend in Duluth, Minn.

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enth.With the bases loaded, Haffey

jacked a grand slam to right field, giving the RedHawks a 15-13 lead.

Freshman pitcher Andy Almquist (1-0) picked up the victory on the day, the first win of his Miami ca-reer. Junior Ryan Marske complet-ed his second save of the season.

In the final game of the weekend, Miami beat Middle Tennessee State (4-3), 13-5, on Sunday.

Freshmen Zach Spears got the start for the ’Hawks. He pitched six innings, striking out five and allow-ing four hits, three walks and two earned runs.

“Zach Spears gave us a really, re-ally good start,” Hayden said. “[He] set the tempo early. When he throws like he did in the first, it’s what we want to do everyday.”

Almquist pitched 1.1 innings in relief, giving up three runs, two of which were earned, on two hits. He walked two batters and struck out one. Smith capped off the day, strik-ing out two in 1.2 innings of work.

The bats came alive in the sixth inning. Yacek led off with a walk, and Sedio came through with a two-run homerun, his first of the season.

For the second time in two days, the bases were loaded when Haffey stepped up to bat. He hit homer to give the ’Hawks another grand slam and a 8-0 lead at the end of the in-ning.

“Probably the best game we’ve played so far,” Hayden said. “We took care of the baseball and swung the bats good.”

Miami travels back to Tennessee next weekend to take on Tennessee Tech (4-3) in a three-game series.

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Afterward, the crowd thanked the team and the team thanked the crowd. Cady Arena remained full until the team performed its ritual center ice stick salute. Several se-niors lingered on the ice longer than customary, soaking in the energy and the camaraderie that regularly fills the arena.

“It’d be hard to sum up in a couple sentences, it’s been an experience that I obviously wouldn’t trade for anything,” team captain Kuraly said. “A group of guys that have come a long way together, gone through a

lot together, you guys this year have been through a lot. It’s been an in-credible experience that I’ll remem-ber for the rest of my life.”

After the 4-0 win, the locker room echoed with a euphoric energy, as ex-cited family members milled about and victory shouts could be heard above the din of celebration music.

“There were a lot of tears before the game and I remember looking around and some of the younger guys had tears in their eyes and I said, ‘guys, we’re not dead,’” Morris said with a laugh. “[It] means we’re doing our job in passing on the legacy.”

The seniors carry the legacy of the Brotherhood with them when they leave the building in which they’ve spent countless hours. And, after sweeping Colorado College, they’re leaving the building with a bang.

Williams, who didn’t allow a single goal the whole weekend, summed up the experience:

“I don’t think you could have drawn it up better in your dreams. It’s incredible to get to play two games in front of a sold-out crowd at home. And two huge, huge wins for us — you couldn’t have asked for anything more.”

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The first priority was to raise the beds and amend the soil. Zehler and two Miami students spent the first few years raising all the beds on campus two to eight inches higher and sloping the soil so they don’t flood. They’ve seen lasting improvements since.

Zehler also designed the plant-ing method used to grow the flow-ers year-round. First, he plants the seeds in bulk in trays of small planting cells, then, as the plants grow, he moves them to larger and larger pots. The system helps keep the growing efficient and orga-nized. The flowers for the Formal Gardens are currently growing in the old greenhouse, waiting to be planted in April.

“They’re talking about tearing this greenhouse down,” said Zehler. “They really, really need somebody to step up and buy them a new one, because they can’t afford it.”

The older of the two greenhouses

is rusting, leaking and in need of a new heating system. Zehler and the other horticulturists have fans con-stantly running to atone for the poor ventilation.

“The greenhouse is coming to the end of its useful life, and it needs a total renovation,” said Cirrito.

The Formal Gardens, too, are in need of new renovations and main-tenance, including new plants and beds, better sidewalks and a path-way to the Gardens. Cirrito and other Miami faculty are consider-ing outsourcing the flowers, rather than planting and growing them in the old greenhouse, and storing them until they are ready for plant-ing. They will make decisions and a timeline for the greenhouse this summer.

Cirrito and Zehler hope more students will appreciate and take advantage of the beauty of the For-mal Gardens. Cirrito added that the Formal Gardens would be a great location to relax during the stress of midterms and finals week.

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Leaving a legacy on senior night

With 1:30 remaining in the third period of the last home regular sea-son hockey game, Steve “Coach” Cady Arena thundered with rhyth-mic chanting.

“Thank you seniors” echoed throughout the stands as the 3,200-person, sold-out crowd joined together Saturday night to thank the nine graduating RedHawks.

Giant cutouts of the senior players’ faces lined the glass of the student section during Saturday’s warm-ups, taunting the Colorado College play-ers after their stinging 3-0 loss Friday night.

After a video of Miami hockey parents thanking the fans and players for their four years as part of the orga-nization, the seniors — Jay Williams, Sean Kuraly, Taylor Richart, Kevin Morris, Matthew Caito, Alex Gacek, Chris Joyaux, Andrew Schmit and Michael Mooney — took the ice one by one.

Video highlights played on the big screen and arena announcer Scott

Shriver read off each players’ accom-plishments.

Each senior individually took a lap around the ice, and the cheers of fans, family and friends increased when a player tapped his stick on the glass — it was a way for each player to add his own flare and communicate his enthusiasm one last time.

Richart was equally excited and nervous as the fans were about his last game at “the Goggin.”

“It’s always a good feeling playing in Oxford in front of the fans, but also sad at the same time knowing that it’s my last regular season weekend,” the defenseman said after practice last Tuesday. “I’m going to miss the whole culture, the guys, the coaching staff, everything — the fans.”

Though the night began with heightened emotion, head coach Enrico Blasi emphasized earlier in the week that the weekend was an important one, for reasons other than it being the last weekend series at home.

“I think for us, it’s about playing for each other and certainly our se-niors are a big part of it. They have to lead the way for us,” Blasi said.

“It’s business as usual and we have to go out and play our game and play our best.”

As the nine seniors stood together at center ice, it was obvious they were ready to play their best for the team and the program they say has shaped them into the players and characters they are today.

“Sometimes you don’t know how it’s going to work out,” Blasi said in his post-game press conference. “Sometimes it’s too emotional and the guys are a little bit down after the [senior] ceremony, so we’ve gone both ways. I thought tonight we start-ed a little bit slow but we came on and we stuck to it and we had good contributions from a lot of guys to-night — little things that maybe ev-erybody doesn’t see.”

The game began with the standard vulgarities aimed to distract Colo-rado, but the cheers were louder and more emphatic than a typical Satur-day game. Hands stung a little more than usual after clapping harder for the all-senior starting lineup, and voices cracked more often.

EMILY SIMANSKISTHE MIAMI STUDENT

FEATURE

HARRISON SCHWARZSTAFF WRITER

Nine seniors closed out their last regular season home series in the Goggin Ice Center on a high note, as the Miami University hockey team (15-14-3, 9-11-2-2 NCHC) swept Colorado College (6-25-1, 4-17-1-0 NCHC) with 3-0 win Friday and 4-0 win Saturday.

Senior goaltender Jay Williams put on a clinic, stopping 55 total shots on goal in two shutout perfor-mances. He ties Connor Knapp for fourth on Miami’s all-time wins list with 46 career victories.

“It was a tremendous performance by the team,” Williams said. “If you look at the guys blocking shots, we really limited their grade-A scoring chances and their second and third opportunities. The wins are huge. It keeps us alive and it’s exciting.”

Saturday’s victory moves Mi-ami above .500 for the first time since Nov. 7. It also keeps them in a fourth-place tie in the NCHC stand-ings with University of Minnesota-Duluth at 31 points. University of North Dakota leads the conference with 53 points.

Nine seniors were recognized prior to Saturday’s game: forwards Alex Gacek, Sean Kuraly, Kevin Morris and Andrew Schmit; defen-semen Matthew Caito, Chris Joy-aux, Michael Mooney and Taylor Richart; and goaltender Jay Wil-liams.

“There were a lot of tears before the game and I remember look-ing around and seeing some of the younger guys had tears in their eyes, and I said, ‘guys we aren’t dead,’” Morris said with a laugh. “But, it means that we’re doing our job and

passing on the legacy. Hopefully those guys can carry that on into the future. It was definitely a special mo-ment for the senior class.”

Richart had a career weekend, scoring two goals in as many games after previously scoring just one goal in his Miami career.

Physicality was the main theme in Friday’s game. A combined 13 penalties were called, including a 10-minute misconduct penalty on ju-nior forward Anthony Louis, a five-minute interference call on sopho-more defenseman Scott Dornbrock and a 10-minute unsportsmanlike conduct call on CC freshman defen-seman Ben Israel.

Offensively, the game started out slow until Miami went on the power play 8:13 into the first period. Twen-ty-seven seconds into the power play, Kuraly swung a pass over to freshman forward Kiefer Sherwood, who one-timed a shot into the net from the left circle.

Richart made it 2-0 when he de-livered a shot into the back of the net from the point off a well-placed pass from freshman forward Josh Mel-nick 9:27 into the second period.

“The goal felt good,” Richart said. “Usually I’m not the one to score. I saw an opening and I put my head down and I shot it.”

Melnick put the game out of reach for Colorado College after he wrist-ed a shot into the net from the slot with 1:32 left in the game.

The Tigers outshot Miami 31-26, but the RedHawks killed seven CC power plays Friday evening.

Miami was even more dominant Saturday.

After a scoreless first period, Rich-

Brotherhood sweeps rival Colorado College

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Above, middle: Nine seniors were honored before the Saturday night game. The 2016 senior class is 78-60-12. Right: Anthony Louis’ shot ricochets off the near pole and barely misses the net.ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

Two grand slams propel MU to victory

BRYAN WILLSTHE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University baseball team improves to 3-3 after taking a loss and picking up two wins at the Mule Mix Classic in Nashville, Tenn. this weekend.

The ’Hawks dropped the first game of the three-game series 13-6 against Lipscomb University (5-2) on Friday. Miami had six total hits on the day.

Starting pitcher junior Brad Schwartz (0-2) took his second loss of the season, giving up seven earned runs on five hits and five walks in three innings of work.

Freshman Shane Smith came in on relief in the fourth inning. Smith pitched 3.1 innings and gave up three

earned runs on six hits. Freshmen Cole Gnetz gave up two earned runs in one inning pitched. Senior reliever Daniel Mooney also made an ap-pearance in the game.

In the second game against Bel-mont University (4-2), MU’s bats came alive en route to a 16-14 vic-tory.

“We did a lot of stuff not re-ally good today,” manager Danny Hayden said Saturday. “But what I’m proud of is that we kept coming back, we’re getting tough and we have a really good lineup.”

The RedHawks totaled seven hits in the fourth inning, scoring six runs and taking a 7-4 lead through 3.5 in-nings. Redshirt sophomore infielder Ross Haffey started off the inning with a single, and senior outfielder Gary Russo followed up with a two-

run homerun. Redshirt junior infielder Adam

Yacek doubled to right center field and was advanced to third base on a single from senior infielder Chad Sedio. After Sedio stole second base, senior outfielder Jake Romano grounded out, but Yacek scored and Sedio reached third on the play.

Junior redshirt junior outfielder Ju-lian Flanary got in on the action with an RBI double, scoring Sedio. Harris came up with a double of his own to bring Flanary home.

Junior infielder Steve Sada topped off the inning with an RBI single to score Harris.

Belmont scored runs in the sixth inning, but the RedHawks responded with six runs on four hits in the sev-

BASEBALL

Let’s admire Curry while we have him

In the final seconds of the Feb. 27 game between the Golden State Warriors and the Oklahoma City Thunder, Stephen Curry hit a 3-pointer from more than nine feet behind the line to clinch a 121-118 overtime victory for his Warriors.

The basket not only clinched a key Western Conference win for the Warriors, but also broke the NBA single-season mark for 3-pointers (286) and tied the mark for most 3-pointers in a game (12).

This game was just part of a four-game stretch in which Curry aver-aged over 48 points per game and shot over 61 percent from behind the arc. The reigning league MVP has not looked back after dominating the Cleveland Cavaliers in last season’s NBA finals.

But not everyone is impressed. His record-breaking performance

followed a week of intense criticism

by NBA legends, including Oscar Robertson, who believe that Curry’s stats are merely a product of the times. Robertson, along with other legends, seems to think his records come from sloppy defense, strict rules and poor coaching, not incred-ible skill.

Obviously, the NBA has changed since Robertson’s glory days of the 1970s.

His team, the Cincinnati Royals, no longer exist. The 3-point line was not introduced until five years after Robertson’s retirement. The Con-verse shoes that were worn by Oscar and his fellow All-Stars are now the shoes of choice for hipsters and so-rority girls across the country.

Oscar Robertson was a great play-er — one of the greatest of all time. But I would like to see him play in today’s era of small forwards who ri-val linebackers in girth and have the finesse of players half their size.

Sure, Robertson may have been

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JACK YUNGBLUTT W OM I N U T E D R I L L :

TAYLOR RICHART

ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

4 years old. Pretty much since I could walk. I was in skates walk-ing around the house.

What’s your favorite Miami memory?The road trips. It’s always fun just being with the guys, and we make it fun on the bus, at the airport or on the plane. We do jokes — let’s just keep it at that.

If you could spend a day with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?I would go back and spend it with my grandpa that passed when I was 14. We would play cribbage. He loved cribbage, and I was finally starting to learn when he passed away.

Who’s your funniest teammate?Zach LaValle. He doesn’t have a specific joke. Just kind of the way he does everything. He always has that sarcastic funny demeanor. He always has something up his sleeve.

Do you have any weird pregame rituals?I kind of have a routine that I start when I get to the rink. It’s a pro-cess. I do the same thing before every single game. I come to the rink, change into my under stuff, then go tape my stick, then eat a snack, then make my energy con-coction, then go warm up. I put on everything the same way the exact same time. It’s a routine. I’m al-ways honest to my routine. Kind of like military style. That’s why guys call me The Deputy. No one messes with my schedule because I always have times that I’m do-ing something. I always organize my day right when I wake up. The guys kind of get on me about it sometimes, but it’s just how I am.

If you could have a superpower which one would you want?Probably like Flash, if anyone has seen the series Flash. He just has all the superpowers. He’s fast. He’s strong. I’d want to be Flash.

POSITION: DefensemanYEAR: Senior

HOMETOWN: Blaine, Minn.

How long have you been playing?I’ve been playing since I was

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