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ABBEY GINGRASNEWS EDITOR

Late night talk show host and Saturday Night Live (SNL) veteran Seth Meyers will perform at Millet Hall tomorrow evening for Family Weekend.

In an interview, Meyers said he is excited to switch up his normal comedy style for the show.

“The nice thing about stand up is it’s all stuff that you’ve written yourself and it’s great to have a full hour with the audience,” Meyers said. “You get to know them and they get to know you in a way that they’re not going to when it’s a talk show with commercials.”

Director of Performing Arts Patti Liberatore helped choose Meyers for Family Weekend. She said he was a popular choice for people of all ages.

“It is a great way to entertain the students and their parents,” she said. “It bridges the generation gap. He doesn’t do [stand up] a lot so it’s kind of a coup for us to get him now because he just started his show and people knew him from Saturday Night Live.”

Currently, Meyers hosts Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC.

He left SNL in 2014 after 13 years. During his time on SNL, he was well known for hosting the regular segment Weekend Update — first with Amy Poehler, then by himself.

“[Amy] was one of the best communicators I ever worked with and certainly one of the best team players,” Meyers said. “These can be really high pres-sure and high stress environments, and when you have someone like Amy around who is everybody’s friend at the same time, you re-member you can do these jobs and

EMILY TATEMANAGING EDITOR

This week, Miami University announced the nine members of its Presidential Search Committee — the group tasked with selecting the university’s next president.

The committee includes two members of the Board of Trustees, Chair David Budig (’84) and Vice Chair Mark Ridenour (’82), as well as Senior Vice President of Finan-cial and Business Services David Creamer, who is assuming the se-nior administrator position on the search committee.

The committee also includes three faculty representatives and one undergraduate student.

The three faculty members are Linda Marchant, a professor of anthropology; Glenn Platt, market-ing professor and director of the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies; and Ann Rypstra, biology professor and director of the Ecology Research Center. All three faculty have been teaching at Miami for nearly two decades — 1996, 1993 and 1982, respectively.

Two of these — Marchant and Rypsta — are members of the Mi-ami chapter of the American As-sociation of University Professors (AAUP). The AAUP slated March-ant and Rypstra as the faculty rep-

resentatives.Karen Dawisha, political sci-

ence professor and co-president of the AAUP, said she is pleased to see the AAUP represented on the committee.

“I think we are extremely well served by the three fac-ulty,” Dawisha said. “They are all well regarded, with excellent reputations internationally.”

Although the AAUP did not slate Platt, Dawisha said he is a strong representative of the values many faculty hope the committee will prioritize in the search.

Already, the AAUP has been particularly active in the presiden-tial search. The group submitted a petition to the Board of Trustees earlier this semester, in which the 143 faculty signers requested the board invite at least two finalists to campus in the spring.

Rypstra and Marchant both en-dorsed the terms of the petition.

Budig denied the request for multiple finalists at the Sept. 25 board meeting, but the AAUP re-mains dedicated to its involvement in the search.

The undergraduate representa-tive on the search committee is junior Ifeolu Claytor, a political science and social justice studies major. Claytor is also involved in Miami’s Associated Student Gov-ernment, serving as secretary for

diversity affairs.As the sole student voice on the

committee, Claytor said he will do his best to represent the entire stu-dent body during the search.

“It is my goal to represent the students by taking in ideas from anyone who would like to of-fer it,” he said. “I expect and welcome students’ input.”

Claytor said he is confident in the makeup of the search committee, as most are alumni and have Miami’s best interest in mind.

Others on the committee include Susan Naus (’67), Miami Univer-sity Foundation Chair and former member of the Miami University Alumni Association’s (MUAA) board of directors, and alumni representative Ted Downing (’68). Downing is a former MUAA presi-dent and has served on the College of Education, Health and Society Advisory Council.

The announcement Tuesday came later than anticipated.

At the Sept. 25 Board of Trustees meeting, Budig said the committee composition would be announced the following week.

“At the June meeting of this board, we established the com-position of the search commit-tee, and we expect to name the members by early next week,” he

EMILY TATEMANAGING EDITOR

Jack Yungblut turned 20 years old last week. But if he had been a little less drunk that Tuesday night in late August, if he had looped his belt just a little tighter around his neck, Jack might not have made it to his birthday.

On that night during Welcome Week at Miami, Jack tried to hang himself from a bridge in the Formal Gardens, not far from his dorm.

Many college students in recent years have not been so lucky. Sui-cide has become a leading cause of death on U.S. campuses, and an estimated 7 percent of college stu-dents have considered trying to take

their own lives in the last year, ac-cording to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

NAMI also found that one in four adults between the ages of 18 and 24 have a diagnosable mental illness, and 73 percent of those af-fected have experienced a mental health crisis while at college.

For Jack Yungblut, emotional difficulties began early. He remem-bers feeling something was wrong as early as third grade.

When Jack was 7, his uncle com-mitted suicide. His mother, Emily Yungblut, said she and her husband tried to be open and honest about it with their children — Jack and his three younger sisters — and ex-plained it to them as they got older.

“In our family, there’s never been

anything to be ashamed of or em-barrassed of,” Emily Yungblut said.

It was during his time at Tur-pin High School in Cincinnati that Jack told his parents of his own depression.

His symptoms became more seri-ous in high school, but there were plenty of distractions, like playing lacrosse, to keep his mind off it.

Then they escalated when he en-tered Miami in the fall of 2014.

At first he took Zoloft, an an-tidepressant, but he soon gave that up. He hated the way it made him feel — numb, fuzzy, shaky and unaware.

“Instead of having really high highs and really low lows, [I was] just kind of flat-lined,” Jack said.

When he stopped taking the an-

tidepressant, his bad days began to outnumber the good ones.

“It wouldn’t even have to be something big or traumatizing to set me off,” he said. “Some little thing would bring me down for, like, two weeks.”

And instead of lacrosse, Jack got involved with other things, like drinking and partying.

“At school, the distractions were a little more self-destructive,” he said.

During winter break last year, Jack was in a bad place. He picked out the day he was going to commit suicide. But when that day came, he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

He had set a date like that several

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An engineering student was selected to design the corn maze for Butterfield Farm.

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On this day in 1913, the Girls Athletic Association proposed a girls’ exclusive gymnasium. They had to secure a fund — a grand total of $500 — to finance the gym, which they planned to earn from basketball tickets.

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During some of the most beautiful weeks of the year in Oxford., temperatures drop and leaves begin to change from summer green to the deep reds and brilliant oranges of fall

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BONNIE MEIBERSSENIOR STAFF WRITER

As leaves in Oxford begin to turn orange, red and yellow and fall festivities start to pick up, many Miami students head over to Butterfield Farm Market to participate in activities like hay-rides and the corn maze. Many students may not know that the Butterfield Farm corn maze was designed by one of their own.

For the past three years, Mi-ami and Butterfield Farm Market have partnered to help design and cut the Butterfield’s corn maze.

The engineering department selects a student they think is best suited for the job. Butter-field Farm Market gives that student a $1,000 scholarship in return for his or her service.

“The student needs to be very hands on because this is not about working on a theoretical problem, this is to actually get the job done,” said Qihou (Herb) Zhou, professor and chair of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The engineering department typically looks for someone who has a good reputation and is knowledgeable of the GPS de-vice used to cut the cornfield.

This year, the department chose Pat Cutno, a graduate stu-dent.

“Designing the actual corn maze was pretty fun, learning the GPS not so much,” Cutno said of the process.

Cutno also recruited his friend, Andrew Rush, to help him with the physical labor. Rush is also an engineering graduate student. Cutno will be sharing the schol-arship money with Rush.

Initially, Cutno created and submitted three designs to Bri-an Butterfield, current owner of Butterfield Farm Market. From there, Butterfield selected which design he liked best.

After the design was chosen, Cutno and Butterfield communi-cated back and forth until Butter-field was happy with the design. Butterfield said he looks for a design with proper spacing (so that maze-goers cannot just step through the corn), dead ends and an overall appealing appearance.

“We don’t want it to be too easy,” Butterfield said.

The design Butterfield and Cutno settled on consists of three jack-o-lanterns with a Mi-ami “M” incorporated into the design.

The actual cutting of the corn-

field took place in late August and spanned about five or six days, Cutno said. Rush was the one to cut the cornfield.

A GPS unit is used to cut the cornfield. This device allows the student to map the design onto the cornfield and aids in guiding the mower.

Since the corn is always grow-ing, the first stage of cutting oc-curred when the corn was about 10 inches tall. Then Rush cut the corn again after it had grown to be about five feet tall. This was to re-cut anything he may have missed or had grown back.

Finally, Butterfield and Cutno walked through the maze to make any last-minute adjustments be-fore the corn maze was opened up to the public in the fall.

The partnership between But-

terfield Farm Market and Mi-ami started with former Miami professor Jade Morton. She was looking for a practical project for her students to tackle, and offered to cut the corn maze for free. The project went well and Butterfield invited Miami to come back and continue cutting the corn maze.

Zhou said he appreciates the partnership with Butterfield Farm because it gives students a chance to apply their problem-solving skills to a real world problem. The feeling is mutual, Butterfield said.

“[Miami] always seems to do a real nice job for us,” he said.

EILEEN CURRANTHE MIAMI STUDENT

In 2004, Miami University student John Petters, 21, was killed while studying abroad. He was on vacation in Florence, Italy at the time.

Petters and friends wandered into a closed garden late one night and began talking with a woman, but a combination of alcohol and language barriers caused a commo-tion among the group. The father of the woman stabbed Petters to death after mistaking him for an intruder.

Cases like this bring up con-

cerns about student drinking, safety and discipline abroad. When students go abroad, they are often in countries where the drinking age is lower.

Since most students who travel overseas are of legal drinking age in their new locations, some worry that this may cause students to go overboard on the drinking, which in turn sacrifices safety.

Kayla Guinigundo, associate director of global initiatives at Mi-ami, said systems are in place for discipline abroad.

“Drinking abroad is not some-thing we encourage. Students are subject to the laws of the country and are aware that they will be held accountable to the Miami Code of Conduct,” Guinigundo said. “If they have a violation when abroad, the chances are they may also face comparable disciplinary implica-tions when they return.”

Drinking culture overseas tends to be very different than American

drinking culture. Senior McKen-zie Parizek, who studied abroad in Luxembourg, said drinking abroad isn’t any worse than in the United States.

“Although we may drink more frequently while abroad, we do not drink as much in each sitting. It is a significantly more casual drink-ing culture, so you typically only have a few drinks in a sitting be-cause it is very frowned upon to be drunk,” Parizek said. “In America, the mindset for college students is usually drinking to get drunk; over-seas, drinking is a much more ca-sual, social aspect of life.”

Ed Arnone, head of the Mi-

ami University Kosovo Pro-gram, said most students under-stand that drinking excessively is looked down upon.

“When you’re in another coun-try, you represent yourself, you represent your university, you rep-resent your country – and people form opinions and make judgments on that. I think students get that,” Arnone said.

Despite the supposedly more re-laxed drinking culture, sophomore Kate Gorjup, who studied abroad last summer in Costa Rica, and said she saw many cases of classmates doing stupid things just because they were drunk.

“There were minor things like people skinny dipping in the ocean and pools one night at the hotel we stayed at, and there were more extreme things such as a girl who slept with the hostel owner and then got charged all sorts of fees

NICK RAMSEYTHE MIAMI STUDENT

College is filled with all sorts of applications. There are applications to get into college, to join student or-ganizations, to find an internship or your first job. For seniors, the light at the end of the tunnel is in reach.

— Not so fast. Before graduates toss their caps in

Yager Stadium this spring, there is one more application to be complet-ed: a graduation application. Without applying to graduate, seniors cannot earn their degrees.

Graduation may seem distant, but the application window has already begun. In fact, students can apply up to four terms in advance.

“Having the application com-pleted early gives the student and the academic division a chance to review the degree audit and allows the aca-demic divisions the ability to verify that everything is on-track for gradu-ation,” said Amber Beal, assistant registrar for certification processes.

Senior Daniel DeGenova will

graduate in May and has already ap-plied to graduate.

“I applied about a month ago be-cause I knew I was going to be grad-uating and didn’t want to potentially forget,” said DeGenova.

After a student applies, the ap-plication is reviewed to ensure the student is applying for a degree and major they are able to graduate with and that their diploma name has no errors, said Beal.

Once the application has been submitted, students are responsible for a $35 application fee for each major, which covers the diploma, diploma cover, and other costs as-sociated with graduation. The fee is a one-time cost, so if a student does not graduate when they intended, they will not be charged to reapply.

“It’s kind of ridiculous they have to charge you more to apply but I un-derstand,” said DeGenova, “I think because you’re graduating and you put in your 4 years you shouldn’t have to pay for you diploma.”

It is a challenge to spread the word about graduation applications, but very few students miss the deadline,

said Beal. DeGenova said if his roommate

had not told him he had to apply to graduate he might not have known.

“I would expect something to be on Niihka or BannerWeb, but it’s not due until February. If they didn’t have anything as it gets closer, I think that would be a problem,” he said.

Senior Katherine McGill, said she has not applied because she has not had the time, but knew she had to ap-ply on BannerWeb because a friend told her.

“I would say about half my friends know about them but I don’t think the majority do,” said McGill. “I think the university could do a better job alerting seniors about it, maybe by sending a few more emails with the dates you have to apply by.”

The application deadline for stu-dents graduating in December is Oct. 30, while seniors graduating in May have until Feb. 26.

“If a student does not make the deadline, however, the student will need to speak with their division to request permission to apply after the deadline,” said Beal.

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DON’T LEAF ME, SUMMER As the leaves begin to change, and the short period of fall weather merges into a win-tery chill, the Miami and Oxford communities cling to the last days of warmth this year.

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KYLE HAYDENDESIGN EDITOR

A Planned Unit Development (PUD) at 5990 Contreras Rd. in Oxford was approved unani-mously by Oxford’s Planning Commission Tuesday. The rec-ommendation goes to City Coun-cil for further hearing.

The owner, Peter McCarthy, a member of Planning Commis-sion, would like to have the right to put in a professional office and subdivide the upper floor of the existing building into apartments.

The 130-year-old home has been on the market for several years, but has not sold. The house, built in 1896, is nearly 5,000 square feet in size. The approval of the PUD by Planning Commis-sion comes after several attempts by McCarthy to change the zon-ing on his property. In 2010, McCarthy applied to rezone his property to “RO”, an office/resi-dential district. It was approved by the Planning Commission but rejected by City Council.

A PUD here would allow a professional office on the ground floor of the building. A “profes-sional office” here could mean the place of business of an architect, doctor or dentist. The upper floor of the existing building would be subdivided into apartments.

Planning Commission mem-bers were excited about the proposal, citing the city’s Com-prehensive Plan. The members and staff believe this PUD could become a good example of us-ing an historic home for mixed-use development, something the Comprehensive Plan encourages. Imagine Uptown Oxford: hous-ing above, commercial on the ground floor.

This development would also require McCarthy to build ad-ditional parking on the property, 11-14 spaces according to the ap-plication documents.

This proposal, favored by Planning Commission, was met with resistance.

Oxford resident Kathleen Zien and former Assistant City Man-

ager Stuart Meck said the size of the property disqualifies it from becoming a PUD.

According to the Butler Coun-try Auditor’s records, the prop-erty is 40,000 square feet — al-most one acre. An acre is 43,560 square feet.

A survey performed by Bayer-Becker, a planning and civil engi-neering firm in Oxford, indicates the property is 43,564 square feet — four square feet over one acre. Bayer-Becker’s survey was

included in the application docu-ments.

“I want to know whose num-ber is correct,” said Meck, who is now a professor of planning at Rutgers University.

Zien, at the meeting Tuesday night, brought visual examples of four square feet. Zien’s mod-els were squares of poster board taped together.

“Choose your four square feet,” Zien said, gesturing at the models she placed on the floor.

Zien said the survey was done with the intent to “des-perately try to come up with” the required amount of square footage for a PUD.

Commission members and staff dismissed the issue ir-respective of the actual size of the property because of the potential to waive the size requirement, Zien said.

Meck is worried this approval will cause numerous cases of spot zoning to appear at a time when the commission is already overworked by the increasing in-tensity of applications. Meck is also concerned that others might try to exploit what is perceived as a loophole in the zoning code. Meck inquired into the “ethical consequences” of the Director of Community Development Jung-Han Chen, making a positive

recommendation to the planning commission, when McCarthy is also a member of Planning Com-mission.

“The recommendation should have been made by a consultant.” Meck said.

David Prytherch, chair of the Planning Commission, was an-noyed by this proposal because it’s the third time this property has applied for land use changes in five years.

However, Planning Commis-

sion inserted several conditions of approval that would prevent a high concentration of unrelated persons — in other words: stu-dents — to live in the apartments, assumedly to discourage noise and nuisance to the surrounding neighborhood.

“We have a shortage of housing for young professionals and small families, which is what I hope these apartments will be used for,” Kate Rousmaniere said.

Rousmaniere is vice mayor and the City Council representative on the Planning Commission.

“The size of this home makes it unattractive for single-family dwelling,” Chen said in his staff report.

“[This house] is an anom-aly in the area,” Chen said. “It gives the property a ‘mini-homestead’ feeling.”

Because the application was for a PUD, any deviations from the preliminary plan, produced by architect Scott Webb, will have to be approved by Plan-ning Commission. This is to prevent a future property owner from buying the property, tear-ing the home down and building a structure that would be filled to the tenant maximum, Webb said. Webb and McCarthy hope this will ensure the preservation of the historic building.

AUDREY DAVISTHE MIAMI STUDENT

With winter around the corner, the Oxford City Council has al-ready made important decisions in preparation. Each year, the city budgets $85,950 to pay for salt on the roads and other road mainte-nance materials.

The city council consults with Mike Dreisbach, director of pub-lic services, to decide how much money will be spent.

“Mike has been around for a while,” said Kevin McKeehan, the mayor of Oxford. “We pretty much just rely on what he says.”

Dreisbach said there is no such thing as a normal winter — it var-ies so much from year to year. Be-cause of that, it is almost impos-sible to predict how much salt will be used.

“We have a storage building that holds a little over 1,000 tons of salt, which is completely full at the beginning of the season that we may add to later if needed,” said Dreisbach.

The service department tries to save salt from year to year, so they always have extra on hand. To McKeehan’s knowledge, the town has never completely run out of

salt, but it has gotten close. To determine how much money

should be allocated for salt each year, Dreisbach said Oxford’s ser-vice department does a coopera-tive purchasing contract in part-nership with the Butler County Engineer’s office. Several govern-ment agencies come together to find the best possible price. Dreis-bach then proposes that number to the council and they vote.

“Should we have a winter with an extraordinary number of snow events, the city council has also passed supplemental budgets in the past to allow for extra spend-ing,” Dreisbach said.

As long as McKeehan has been around he said that they have al-ways approved the proposed salt budget.

The money for salt purchases comes from a general fund — a variety of sources including prop-erty tax and income tax. All of the money allocated to the service department for street maintenance comes from this fund.

Last winter, sophomore Kai-cey Weber said there were a few times that the driving conditions on campus seemed unsafe.

“I found that many of the side

BONNIE MIEBERSSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Jayne Brownell, Miami’s vice president of student affairs, traveled to China last summer to partici-pate in a “preorientation” program for Chinese international students. She knew she would be teaching incoming students about attending an American university, but what she didn’t know is how much she would learn from the international students and their country.

“I have a deeper appreciation for how brave all of our students are,” Brownell said after attending the program in July.

Brownell returned from China with a new respect for international students. For her, and others that attended, this trip was all about understanding and appreciating Miami’s Chinese students in their home country and building relation-ships with them and their families.

“I am so grateful that I got to take this trip,” Brownell said.

Brownell said she took even more from the trip than she expected.

“I have been working with stu-dents for more than 20 years and I didn’t think about some of those things before, even though I con-sidered myself pretty culturally aware,” Brownell said.

Some of the things that were made more evident to Brownell while she was in China were the vast divide between Chinese and American culture, as well as the language barrier.

“We are making pretty big as-sumptions on what they know and what they don’t know,” Brownell said. “Not just about their level of English, but about American cul-ture and navigating day-to-day.”

Americans assume that interna-tional students understand cultural nuances and the English language, she said. There was far less English influence in Beijing than she had anticipated.

Brownell accompanied seven other women on this trip. The group included Erika Dockery, senior di-rector of development for Miami; Lina Zhang, who works for admis-sions from China; Christa Branson, an adviser in the College of Arts and Science; Marcia Smith, an adviser for the Farmer School of Business; Jing Luo, international program manager for International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS); Amy Cockrell, international student ad-viser; and Molly Heidemann, assis-tant director for ISSS.

Brownell served as a student rep-resentative for the program.

The preorientation program was first held in 2014, Heidemann said,

because about 80 percent of interna-tional students at Miami come from China.

This year, the program spanned from 1 to 6 p.m. on July 10, 12 and 14, starting with a general welcome for students and their families. Three separate preorientation programs took place in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhao. Speakers showed the

group maps and gave them a gen-eral idea of where Oxford is located in the state of Ohio.

From there, students and their families were split.

Brownell gave students informa-tion on residence halls and dining facilities, how meal plan works, how to get involved on campus and what it is like to attend an Ameri-can university. Meanwhile, parents received the same information in Chinese.

The presentation on student life was followed by a session in which

ISSS talked about logistics and practical matters for students and their families to know before com-ing to the United States and to Mi-ami.

The last hour of the program was occupied by a student panel where current international students, who were home for the summer, were able to speak with incoming stu-

dents and their families, answering any additional questions they may have had.

“I think this volunteering was special because not only were we helping and setting up, but also we were representatives of Miami Uni-versity,” Qianyu Wang said.

Wang was a student volunteer for the Beijing preorientation pro-gram. She said she wanted to of-fer her experience and knowledge to incoming students because they were from the same country and may have had similar questions to

those she had as an incoming first-year student.

Ambrose Li, an international stu-dent who also volunteered at the Beijing program, has helped out with the preorientation program for both years it has been in session. She was motivated to volunteer be-cause she remembers what it was like to come to America for the first time, not really knowing what to do.

Brownell said some of these student volunteers drove up to two hours to help with the preorienta-tion program. She and the others on the trip greatly appreciated the seasoned students helping new stu-dents.

Two summers ago, senior Chris Lehn studied abroad in China, spending most of his time in Tian-jin. Throughout his time there, he learned, like Brownell, how differ-ent the culture and environment is from the United States.

“It became apparent that there is more than one way to do this thing called life,” Lehn said.

Lehn said the environment is not as clean as Miami’s or the United States’. He was also surprised to be in a city the size of Chicago crowded with the amount of people in New York City.

Lehn wanted to study abroad

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JACK EVANSTHE MIAMI STUDENT

A few people have noticed how Ethan pronounces Barce-lona with a “th” where the “ce” should go. A few have noticed how the white boy — a pale beanpole with glasses — pro-nounces “empanada,” “españa” and “Catalonia” with the accent of a Spanish national.

A few wonder why, but most are too shy to ask.

Well, here’s why:Because years ago, in Pioneer,

Ohio, a religious mother and father decided they should be-come missionaries.

Because they sold their home and most of their belongings.

Because they packed up their daughter and their son and got on a red-eye to Madrid, Spain.

Because it was their calling to establish a church. And they did so, first in the village of Azúque-ca and then in the bustling city of Guadalajara.

Because they ran those churches for nine years while their boy grew up in mission-ary school with children from around the world.

Because that boy learned flu-ent Spanish with the proper Cas-tellano accent and got into street fights and learned how to play fútbol and learned how to drink.

Because the churches that the family planted stopped growing.

Because, as it sometimes goes, the religious father was not so religious anymore.

Because the family went home after living off of savings and the kindness of strangers for nine years. They went back to the United States, to Toledo and they bought a new home, a smaller home.

And the little boy, grown up after nine years, finished his se-nior year of high school and left for Miami University. His Span-ish accent is all but gone, except when he wants it to be.

Most don’t ask where it came from.

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Seth Meyers doesn’t do a lot of stand-up comedy. The former SNL Weekend Update star is usually too busy with his new gig — hosting NBC’s “Late Night.”

He rarely takes his one-man show on the road, but Meyers has plenty of experience as a solo comedian.

Although he co-anchored Week-end Update with Amy Poehler for two seasons and Cecily Strong for one, for the majority of his time on the show, Meyers ran the segment by himself.

The basic structure of Weekend Update was simple.

Meyers would briefly report a true news story from the previous week and follow it up with a witty com-ment. Although the jokes followed such a constant and rudimentary for-mula, Meyers was able to add vari-ety to his humor.

His jokes were often witty and clever and aimed at satirizing mod-ern culture. For instance, in one seg-ment he reported that Beyoncé and Jay-Z had named their daughter Blue Ivy Carter, to which he noted, “But, admit it, you would have been disappointed if they had just named her Lisa.

Some of his jokes, however, threw the traditional structure out the door, ignoring current events and finding humor in random places. In one par-ticularly dark segment, his line, “In other news, Eeyore finally did it,” was accompanied by a picture of a donkey hanging from the ceiling above a knocked over stool.

However, while Meyers was best known for his work on the Weekend Update, he was also SNL’s head writer for nine seasons and was the creative genius behind many of the show’s more popular sketches.

Meyers penned, among others, the Louie/Lincoln mash up skit, the Peyton Manning PSA and even the legendary Hillary Clinton/Sarah Pal-in address. If you’ve ever used the phrase, “I can see Russia from my house,” it’s because of Seth Meyers.

In Feb. 2014, Meyers’ career took a major turn when he left SNL to take over for Jimmy Fallon on “Late Night.”

Meyers’ comedic style translates well onto the late night stage, es-pecially during the opening mono-logue, which closely follows the Weekend Update report-and-com-ment format. Meyers even made waves when he became one of the first late night comedians to aban-don the traditional awkward stand-ing monologue and instead address viewers right from his desk.

While his style works well during the monologue and his various skits, Meyers has often been criticized for his interviewing.

On the Weekend Update, not only were his interviews completely scripted, but they were also often with fictional characters acted by the other comedians, not with real celeb-rities. When he is interviewing actual people in real time, he seems much less comfortable and often comes across as a bit awkward.

Meyers’ stand-up is one of the lesser-known facets of his career. With his show taping five nights a week, he has little time to tour. How-ever, there are several things that the audience at Millett Hall can expect.

For one, there will likely be a lot of references to current events. Through his work on Late Night and Weekend Update, we have seen that Meyers is at his best when he is com-menting on what is going on in the world right now. He will most likely bring that style to his show Saturday

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Every fall for the past 20 years, Srinivas Krishnan (’87) has traveled halfway across the world and back.

Known affectionately to col-leagues and students alike as “Srini,” he has a permanent home in Chennai, India, but comes to Miami University every year for Global Rhythms — an event in which musicians and artists from all over the world come to Miami to create a diverse musical ensem-

ble. The organization will be cel-ebrating its 20th anniversary with a performance on Saturday.

Srini founded Global Rhythms in 1996 as a graduate student at Miami, when he saw a serious need for cultural diversity and awareness on campus.

“It is rooted in the fact that there was not a whole lot of world expo-sure at that time,” Srini said. “We needed a lot more of the world cul-tures on our campus.”

The first year consisted of a se-ries of seven shows in Cincinnati. When all seven sold out, Srini was

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Rick Ludwin was the Execu-tive Vice President of Late Night and Primetime Series Program-ming at NBC, was instrumental to the development of “Seinfeld” and worked with all six hosts of “The Tonight Show” and yet he has still returned to Miami Univer-sity every year for the past 34 years to give a presentation about the media industry.

“He is a great role model, not only in the success he has but how he wears it,” said Howard Klei-man, assistant department chair for the department of Media, Jour-nalism and Film. “If we have stu-dents get half of what he has got, but if they can be all of what he has been, in terms of a gentleman and someone who has never been too big for the people at his college, that would be great.”

Ludwin started his career with NBC in 1980 and stayed there for

32 years.“NBC had the kind of programs

I loved, which were the five day a week shows,” said Ludwin. “It just seemed to be a cool place to work and I was thrilled to be hired to come and work there.”

His job was to represent the net-work and be the liaison between the writers, producers, talent and everyone in between.

“As programmers, we chal-lenge the producers to do their best work,” said Ludwin. “That hopefully doesn’t mean getting in the way or it doesn’t mean that we should dictate what they should do. They have to do it, they have to produce the show, but we give advice and help them do the best show that they can do.”

Ludwin came through in a big way on this front, suggesting and helping develop the successful tele-vision series, “Seinfeld.”

“We knew we had a good show on our hands, but it was this big

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Just like any other freshman, Manav Sarkaria began worrying right away.

He worried about his religion class, his grades and GPA and how getting involved in busi-ness organizations now could affect his career after college.

But, on a Friday night, he stumbled upon the children’s section in King Library.

“My childhood is here,” he quietly exclaimed, eyes wide as he stared at the shelves full of colorful picture books.

Immediately, Manav began searching for a specific book.

“Curious George.” He weaved through the

shelves looking for the right one, but was unsuccessful.

He sat down on the floor, legs stretched out in front of him, and pulled out a book — “The Useful Moose.” He looked at the cover of a moose with big antlers on it, remem-bering reading it in elementary school with one of his favorite teachers, Ms. Lind.

Manav saw another familiar book and temporarily forgot his original search.

“Autumn Leaves” — the book that taught him what autumn was in kindergarten. He opened the book, about to flip through the pages, but suddenly closed it. He

had spotted Curious George on the next shelf over.

Finally.The crazy brown mon-

key stood, holding the Man in the Yellow Hat’s hand. He opened the book and was immediately immersed.

He remembered the times when he would visit his cousins in Cleveland. They would take him to the library and he would always get a “Curious George” book, then come back the very next day for another.

Manav felt like a child again. So, for the 10 minutes spent

with George and his other fa-vorite characters, the problems about religion test grades and re-sumes seemed years away.

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ing. The United States and its allies

have been trying to obtain “lasting progress” through the use of force for 14 years and counting in Af-ghanistan without much success to point to.

By the point of the new timetable, Operation Enduring Freedom will be “enduring” for 16 years with a third president and a fifth term and still with still no end in sight.

More atrocities continue to hap-pen in Afghanistan, all these years later, too. For instance, on Oct. 3, the United States bombed a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Af-ghanistan, killing twelve staff mem-bers, at least 10 patients, including three children.

But it gets worse. MSF staff had provided the GPS coordinates of the hospital, which served wounded individuals on both sides of the con-flict, to coalition and Afghan military and civilian officials only five days prior on Sep. 29.

Then once the bombing began, MSF staff called U.S. military of-ficials to let them know they were bombing their hospital, but those pleas went unheeded, as the bomb-ing continued for another 30 min-utes.

“We demand total transparency from Coalition forces. We cannot accept that this horrific loss of life

will simply be dismissed as ‘collat-eral damage’,” Meinie Nicolai, MSF President, said.

Quite the world we live in when the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize-winner (MSF) is bombed by the 2009 No-bel Peace Prize-winner (President Obama).

At the end of John Lennon’s 1971 song, “Happy Xmas (War is Over),” he said, “War is over, if you want it.”

It’s unclear when this “enduring” paradigm will change where the United States is no longer perpetu-ally at war, covertly and overtly, with ground troops and drone bombings, and in various countries (Afghani-stan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and so on).

After 14 years and changing nar-ratives and strategies, not to mention Afghanistan being an unsexy topic to begin with, it’s easy to see how apathy has set in with the American public.

While, sure, an Oct. 2012 Pew Re-search poll showed six-in-10 Ameri-cans wanted U.S. troops removed from Afghanistan as soon as pos-sible, war issues in general routinely rank far below domestic issues.

In a 2014 Gallup poll, war and terrorism were almost at the bottom of the issues with only two percent, respectively, whereas the issues of government, the economy, unem-ployment, healthcare and immigra-tion topped the charts.

War is over if we want it, but eh, it’s thousands of miles away and

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night, possibly even weaving in Miami University-specific jokes.

Additionally, we know whatever subjects his jokes cover, his humor will be intelligent. Meyers is an alumnus of Northwestern, a school that has churned out such clever co-medians as Stephen Colbert and Ju-lia-Louis Dreyfus. Meyers’ comedy has always been marked by fantastic wit and that no doubt will be the case this weekend.

Finally, it would not be surprising

to see him utilizing audience partici-pation.

Meyers got his comedic start in the Chicago improv scene, working with groups such as ImprovOlympic and Boom Chicago. It was during this time that he first met Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Improv comics are known for being quick on their feet and using audience sugges-tions, so it’s possible that Meyers will use those skills in his stand up.

Meyers’ show begins at 8:30 p.m. this Saturday in Millet Hall.

convinced that Miami would benefit from a similar event.

Growing up in Mumbai, India, Srini was raised to appreciate the arts. His mother, a vocalist, taught him to value music not simply as a way to make a living, but as a way to bring people together — a les-son he carries with him to this day.

“What matters more is collabo-rating with artists and finding ways to reach a common ground,” Srini said.

This year’s Family Weekend performance includes the Miami Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Ensem-ble and Percussion Ensemble; the Miami Misfitz a cappella group; over 100 musicians from vari-ous universities; and singers from Sweden, Denmark, Uzbekistan and India — among others.

But gathering all these artists from around the globe is no small task.

“[Srini] is a superstar and you wouldn’t even know it,” said ju-nior Chandni Chandiramani, the project coordinator for Global Rhythms who works with Srini to organize the event. “He does the job of what 100 people should be doing.”

While he is at Miami, Srini also teaches a cooking class and a sprint course on Indian music and dance. He brings in guest artists and teaches his students about tra-ditional rhythms. Throughout it all, he focuses on cultivating a respect for cultures far beyond the edges of Miami’s campus.

“We need to have appreciation,

that’s the best word, for every form of music, dance and art,” Srini said. “Because once we become appreciative of it, we then make it part of our daily life.”

Chandiramani, who has sung, danced, and played the viola in past Global Rhythms performanc-es, says the experience has been truly unique. She even hopes to start a student organization next school year for Miami students to become even more involved with all aspects of the event.

“The culture that you see there is like nothing you’d be able to find anywhere else,” she said. “[Srini] pushes you out of your comfort zone. I’ve done all sorts of things that I never expected to do coming to Miami.”

Sophomore Avnika Bali is part of the production team for this year’s show, one of several stage managers. She will also be singing in the choir.

“What makes it so cool is that it’s the first time that you see boundar-ies really being broken,” Bali said. “It shows you that all of these cul-tures and sounds and art forms can all be blended together and make something really beautiful.”

Srini is proud of the strides that Global Rhythms has taken — from a simple idea to a sold-out show with over 300 performers.

“I really feel very blessed and a sense of satisfaction that there was an opportunity there and I could make a difference in a small way,” he said. “This is great, that we’ve done it for 20 years, we’ve made a statement. It was a statement we made for Miami.”

hit that everybody watched and I oversaw the show for its entire nine year run on the air,” said Ludwin. “If you’re lucky enough to get even one of those, you’re ahead of the curve.”

On top of that, he was also busy aiding in the production of “The Tonight Show.”

“As far as I know, I am the only person who has worked with all six hosts on ‘The Tonight Show,’” said Ludwin. “There is an immediacy to it that I love and you’re work-ing with creative, funny people and you know you are going to laugh. It’s not a bad way to go through the day.”

Despite working in the industry for so long, he hasn’t quite gotten over the thrill of being in Holly-wood.

“There’s something really excit-ing about being around creative people and I love it,” said Ludwin. “I hope I never lose my excitement over being a part of that.”

Ludwin has found several ways to share his enthusiasm for the field, one of them being the Inside Hollywood program.

The program gives Miami stu-dents who are passionate about me-dia the chance to go to Los Angeles for three weeks to learn about the

different facets of the entertainment industry.

“He is this huge legend figure in late night television and he is just a great guy in general,” said senior Carly McKay. “He was lit-erally with us the entire time. We wouldn’t have met Conan or gone to the Conan O’Brien show with-out him. He was really open and he has given us so many resources. He is an idol for sure.”

McKay is not alone in these opinions — many students who have participated in the program also look up to him.

“He is the reason the program exists,” said junior Julia Carter. “He is just super humble and so knowledgeable about comedy and late night television.”

Along with helping in the cre-ation of this program, Ludwin also returns to campus every year to lec-ture on a relevant media subject.

“I come to talk to students about what’s new in the media,” said Ludwin. “I want to hear about what they like and what they don’t like.”

His secret for being so success-ful? Passion.

“I found over the years that the people I work with all have a pas-sion for television,” said Ludwin. “Find your passion, that’s some-thing of a cliché I guess but it is absolutely true.”

the next day because she would not sleep with him again,” Gorjup said.

She called this the “you only vis-it Costa Rica once” mindset.

Arnone said students sometimes let play come before work.

“Students are excited and want to learn about the culture – people sometimes stub their toes a little bit or forget, but then they realize that wasn’t such a hot idea because they’re behind on everything and they start feeling pressured about the work,” Arnone said.

Miami has begun to implement a pre-departure orientation where students learn about expectations while abroad. The orientation cov-ers issues like drinking, safety, identity theft and financial security so that students do not put them-selves at any unnecessary risk.

During the orientation, the dif-ference in social norms and drink-ing laws are discussed as well as the consequences if students take advantage of the laws. The univer-sity hopes to make this orientation required for all study abroad pro-grams.

Gorjup said the university pro-vided names, numbers and contacts that could be used in the case that a difficult situation arose.

In more serious cases, the uni-versity has an institutional response team that is made aware of the situ-ation and takes a team approach on dealing with incidents.

“Safety is something we try to improve on constantly,” Guini-gundo said. “The safety of our stu-dents abroad is our top priority. We are always looking at ways to do things better and improve commu-nication. We will never be satisfied – there is always something to be revised, adjusted, scrutinized.”

While the university continues efforts to improve student safety abroad, the students themselves are very happy with the system as is.

“I think drinking abroad and safety will always be things that need to be addressed, but rather than hammering the rules of the university into the students, I feel it is more effective to express the cultural differences,” Parizek said. “The university will never be able to stop students drinking while abroad, but notifying them what it will be like is necessary.”

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when he passed for a career-high 363 yards and two touchdowns. He completed 90.6 percent (29 of 32) of his passes, breaking the school re-cord for single game completion per-centage (minimum 20 completions).

“The task ahead is a tough one,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “Ob-viously Northern’s been a marquee team in this league. It’ll be the best offense we’ve seen so far, along with Wisconsin and Western Kentucky.”

On the other hand, the saga of Miami’s struggle to move the ball continues. The RedHawks are third-worst in the nation in points per game (15) and sixth-worst in first downs per game (16).

Martin said in order to counter offensive woes, the defense must come up with more stops and force turnovers, and Moses agreed.

“It’s a big deal because we don’t want to put [the offense] back in the same field position or in a bad field position,” Moses said. “But we got leaders like [senior defensive line-man Bryson] Albright and [redshirt senior defensive back] Brison [Bur-ris] and [senior linebacker] Kent Kern that get us hyped and keep us motivated and go out there and ball out.”

Bahl’s receiving corps is a mix of veteran and young players. Redshirt junior Rokeem Williams, redshirt sophomore Jared Murphy, sopho-more Sam Martin and redshirt fresh-man Chris Hudson have each col-lected 200-plus yards on at least 13 catches.

Redshirt freshman running back Alonzo Smith leads on the ground with 196 yards and three touch-downs on 50 carries.

“We’re coming along well,” Bahl said. “We’re getting better every week. The older guys – they’re being great leaders, especially this week, they’re really coming along. And as a team we’re just getting better every week.”

The all-time series between MU and NIU is tied at 8-8 overall and 4-4 in Oxford. Northern Illinois gained 658 yards of total offense and never punted in a 51-41 victory against Mi-ami in their last meeting at Huskie Stadium on Oct. 18, 2014.

Kickoff is 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Yager Stadium.

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cal rivals UC, NKU and Xavier.“A lot of quality teams will be

there Saturday,” Biebelhausen said. “I know for a fact that Ohio Uni-versity and Central Michigan will be there so it will be interesting to see how we look against them.”

The Pre-National meet is hosted at the National Championships site every year two weeks before con-ference championships weekend. This year, it’s at Tom Sawyer State Park.

“They changed up the course a little bit. However, the course should still be fairly fast if you at-tack it,” Biebelhausen said.

Last week, in the women’s race, the RedHawks had three runners place in the top-10 at the All-Ohio

Championships.“I think it’s possible to have three

girls in the top-10 again this week,” said Poulsen, who was one of those three runners.

Poulsen finished fourth overall, and senior Laura Bess took third place.

Senior Joe Stewart won the All-Ohio meet, helping the ’Hawks to a third place finish.

This week’s runner to watch is junior Andrew Dusing, who turned in a 25:03 time at the All-Ohio race to make 18th place. On the wom-en’s side, it’s sophomore Alesha Vovk, who earned 26th place with a 22:23 time.

The men’s team begins the 8,000-meter race at 9:30 a.m., while the women’s 6,000-meter race starts at 10:15 a.m.

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retain some humanity.”Meyers also had high praise for

fellow SNL alum Tina Fey.“When I showed up at SNL, Tina

was the head writer, and I learned more about the work ethic of writing from Tina than anyone else,” Mey-ers said. “She was never satisfied with the script until she knew she’d looked everywhere for the best pos-sible jokes.”

In addition to his time on SNL and Late Night, Meyers has had a slew of

hosting responsibilities from the ES-PYs on ESPN to the Emmy Awards. He was also the keynote speaker at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in 2011.

One aspect of comedy that Mey-ers enjoys is having the ability to re-flect on what’s going on in the world.

“It’s nice that we have these plat-forms to not just do silly, dumb stuff that makes us laugh but also talk about the stuff that we’re really thinking about,” Meyers said.

SNL recently made headlines for foraying into the gun control debate

with a sketch featuring female come-dian Amy Schumer. Meyers felt the commentary was well-timed.

“If people are talking about some-thing, comedy should be talking about it as well,” Meyers said. “I think the timing of the gun control piece was perfect because obviously this is an issue that everybody is talk-ing about now, and it would be silly if SNL and other shows ignored it.”

Meyers regularly talks about his family and personal life on his show, and has had his younger brother, Josh, and his parents on multiple

times. Josh is also an actor, and Mey-ers noted they have a close relation-ship.

“We’ve been so supportive of each other over our careers that we always sort of laugh about the fact that we’ve managed to avoid over the years any sort of sibling rivalry,” Meyers said. “I would say the big-gest rivalry now is between my par-ents and my brother because they all want the most amount of screen time on my show.”

First-year Hana Hall, a member of Miami Activities and Programming

(MAP), is looking forward to the show. MAP was involved in bring-ing Meyers to campus.

“I loved him on Saturday Night Live, and I can’t wait to see what he brings here,” Hall said.

Meyers said he is excited for this weekend and to get to know the au-dience at Miami.

“When I do stand up, I like to talk about what’s going on in the world, I like to talk about my life, my re-lationships, stuff that you don’t talk about on television,” Meyers said. “It’s going to be a fun hour.”

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TO THE EDITOR: In her Sept. 29 piece, “Being a

Christian in an increasingly athe-ist society,” Grace Moody wrote, “Now, I know I just opened a big can of worms. Jesus Christ.” While Moody certainly opened a can of worms, it has less to do with Jesus, and more to do with the fact that The Miami Student would publish a piece that en-tirely lacks journalistic integrity. I understand that the piece was published as an op-ed, but the bla-tant lack of citation, the lack of natural flow and the overall misin-formed nature of the piece has me questioning The Miami Student’s intentions in its publication.

After the piece opens, Moody goes on to say that we can, “see the rising number of people who consider themselves atheist,” and follows this with the claim, “23 percent of Americans call themselves a nonbeliever, ag-nostic or atheist.” Aside from the complete lack of citation for the statistic, a journalistic con-vention of which I would expect someone with the title of “News Editor” to understand, the statistic

itself is misleading. Lumping self-reported non-

believers, agnostics and atheists into one category and using it as a way to point to an increasingly atheistic society is simply falla-cious. It ignores the fundamen-tal difference between the three groups; an agnostic lacks a reli-gion, an atheist actively rejects the idea of a god and a nonbe-liever is a sort of catchall term that means very little without access to more information about how the study that this statistic comes from defines that term.

The next unsubstantiated claim is in reference to the decrease in the number of individuals who consider themselves to be Chris-tians. Moody claims, “57 percent of people born after 1980 consider themselves a Christian.” Again, I must wonder where this num-ber comes from? Statements that make claims about portions of a population should most certainly define what that population is, what the sample size is.

Thus far, Moody has illustrated that less than a quarter of Ameri-cans identify as non-religious, and that a majority of Americans still identify as Christians. Her “evi-

dence,” does not support her ar-gument that Christians are being made to walk on eggshells in an atheistic society.

Two sentences on marriage equality, two sentences on the le-galization of marijuana, and two contradicting statistics about di-vorce rate without citations later, and Moody has failed to connect any of her main points back to atheism. It is a gross over-gener-alization to assume that LGBTQ people, people who support the legalization of marijuana and di-vorcees all self-identify as athe-ists. Furthermore, Moody fails to highlight how these societal changes stigmatize Christians in any way whatsoever.

Overall, the piece has little to do with religion at all. Perhaps if this piece were called, “Being a conservative in a world where liberal ideas are slowly being al-lowed to breathe,” or even, “Being a Christian and having to deal with the rest of the world,” it would have been less offensive, less infu-riating to read in America’s oldest college newspaper.

I hate debates. They’re unwav-ering, they get disgustingly per-sonal and, in many cases, the basic principles of the message debaters

want to promote gets lost. The abortion debate, however, stands out as one of the touchiest and most complicat-ed issues of our

time, with no easy moral answer on either side. And it’s about to get a lot more complicated. Ac-cording to The New York Times, during the next few weeks the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if they will hear an appeal put out about a month ago by Texas abortion clinics.

Planned Parenthood defunding has become the latest trend, and abortion clinics are sporadically and swiftly being snuffed out as regulations aimed at closing clin-

ics under the guise of women’s health are now being enforced, most especially in Texas.

A law passed in Texas called HB2 almost two years ago re-quires abortion clinics, which are already safe for women and the pre and post-abortion process, to have admitting privileges to local hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. This essentially means that these health clinics can be shut down based on new require-ments that most of them (as the lawmakers knew) do not have the funding to implement.

Nor do they have the need, as NPR correspondent Jennifer Ludden explains.

“Supporters of the laws say they are meant to protect wom-en’s health, even though … seri-ous complications occur in far less than 1 percent of abortions,” says Ludden.

Since the implementation of HB2 in 2013, Texas’s 40 abortion clinics have dwindled down to just 18. The original 40 were barely enough to service the state’s 5.4 million reproductive-aged wom-en. Now, with the remaining 18 being scrutinized, it’s looking pretty grim for Texan women who may find themselves in a certain pickle. Without the possible future scrutiny of the Supreme Court, Texas’ clinics will begin to level out at just 10.

So, what now? The Supreme Court is being asked to review HB2 and its devastating antiabor-tion components to see if they ac-tually uphold constitutional stan-dards. Whether or not the justices actually decide to review it is an-other story. 2015 has already been a pretty radical year for the big

men and women upstairs with the enactment of gay marriage — will they continue their socially liberal streak and take up abortion, too?

In some ways, I hope so. Like gay marriage is a human rights is-sue, abortion is a women’s rights issue. Neither should be a state’s rights issue, but of course when you mix religion and politics, things get messy. Like the fact that the legalization of gay marriage does not — gasp! — ruin the sanc-tity of marriage, the loosening of abortion regulations won’t create a mad rush of women to abortion clinics. A woman has the right to her body and the right to choose what she does with it. I think many people in government are un-der the impression that choosing to have an abortion is an easy or fun thing to do. It’s not. Defund-ing Planned Parenthood or closing abortion clinics won’t lessen the amount of women having sex or getting pregnant. It just makes it more difficult for them to have ac-cess to a future they deserve.

Pro-life movements, to their

merit, attempt to give the fetus a voice. But at the beginning of pregnancy, the “fetus” is literally two haploid cells that have formed to become on diploid cell that be-comes attached to the inside of a uterus, called a zygote. These cells don’t feel, they don’t think and they can’t move. The result-ing embryo doesn’t become a fe-tus until the nine week period, and the fetus doesn’t become a truly, fully-functioning human being un-til birth. As the pregnancy moves along, the issue becomes more opaque and it is up to each woman to decide at what stage she is com-fortable terminating the pregnan-cy, but this zygote/embryo/fetus is a part of a woman’s body and therefore is under her jurisdiction.

Roping in the Supreme Court, however, feels a little bit like be-ing a tattletale. But with 50 chil-dren who don’t play well together under its belt, the logical next step to secure a woman’s basic right to choice is simply turning to the Court for a final decision. The HB2 laws only apply to Texas right now, but if they end up pass-ing review it is likely that many conservative states will follow suit, effectively limiting or even canceling out a woman’s right to an abortion in those areas.

There is no right answer in the larger abortion debate, simply because it shouldn’t be a legisla-tive issue. It should be a woman’s own personal battle that she has to fight, because it is her own person-al choice that she needs to make.

GRETA HALLBERGTHE MIAMI STUDENT

On Tuesday, CNN host-ed the first debate among the Democratic challengers for the White House.

Host Anderson Cooper asked each of the five candidates what they thought was the biggest threat to the national security of the United States. Viewers ex-pected answers related to nuclear weapons, world leaders and cor-rupt regimes.

Ever the wild card, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said climate change. Mic drop.

He’s right, by the way. While Russia, ISIS, China and North Korea undoubtedly do pose seri-ous threats both globally and na-

tionally, their damage to Ameri-cans on U.S. soil has been slim.

In 2011, the Department of State reported that 17 U.S. citi-zens were killed by acts of ter-rorism. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy killed 285, including 106 Ameri-cans. This “superstorm” was as strong and powerful as it was in part because of climate change.

The threat that climate change poses may not be immediate, but it is imminent. When sea levels rise the way they’re estimated

to, and with increasingly violent natural disasters, coastal popula-tions will be displaced.

The Environmental Justice Foundation estimates that by 2050, up to 150 million “climate refugees” will be forced to move inland. This is not something that can be stopped. This mass migration of people due to cli-mate-related issues is inevitable. When the sea levels rise with the Earth’s temperature, the interna-tional community is going to face a serious crisis.

As a world power, the United States is going to have to respond. America will be looked to as a leader in relocating refugees and trying to minimize the effects.

But how can we be prepared to lead if the existence of climate change is still up for debate?

Some of the candidates on the Republican debate stage, like Ben Carson, Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, do not admit that climate change is real. Oth-ers still, including Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, do not believe that it is a man-made problem.

There are candidates that have come out in support of action to combat the effects of climate change, too. Ohio’s governor John Kasich is among the GOP contenders that want the United

States to make a policy change toward it. Unsurprisingly, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush also want to see a course of ac-tion on climate change, as their costal states are at a higher risk to its damaging effects.

Christie got flak for hugging president Obama after Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, but he’s a great example of a conservative execu-tive who has had to deal with a natural disaster made worse by climate change. His policies to-ward the appropriate American response to the problem would be rooted in previous experi-ence. But of course, Christie was not asked substantive policy questions about the displace-ment of people or how to radi-cally change our infrastructure in favor of renewable energy.

These important questions, to some degree at the fault of the media and American voters, do not get asked at Republican de-bates. The stragglers to adopt cli-mate change as scientific fact are a detriment to public discourse.

Instead of debating its exis-tence we should be debating how to negate the effects of cli-mate change. We should talk about how to allocate resources to develop 100 percent sustain-able energy practices. We should argue over how to prepare for the next major natural disaster that hits our country. We should discuss how to plan for the dis-placement of tens of millions of global citizens.

We should be having substan-tive environmental policy discus-sions on both sides of the aisle.

Sanders’ climate change response is a realistic contrast to the usual fear mongering

A first-year walked into his first advising session during ori-entation. He had no idea what he wanted to do. Rather than being told that it was okay that he didn’t know, that there was a plan for that, he was told that he needed to pick something — anything.

He took physics in high school, was an ardent science-buff and hey, the adviser was a physics professor. So physics it was.

Half way through his first se-mester he had dropped most of his classes. He simply wasn’t go-ing because they were too diffi-cult. His classmates were distant, his professors were distant and the adviser was distant.

Miami’s advising system has never been the university’s shin-ing beacon of consistency, a prob-

lem that has struck a chord all the way up to the top of Miami’s administrative hierarchy.

It is true that there are quite a few students on campus who have had nothing but positive

experiences with advising. How-ever, they tend to be independent students with their act together — the ones who rely on unofficial advising. They actively seek the chairs of their respective depart-ments and professors that they trust, picking their brains for not

simply the classes they need to take, but the classes best suited to mold their future career paths.

Other positive experiences are purely luck of the draw. Some ad-visers are simply better than oth-

ers and the quality of a student’s schedule often relies on their ad-visers knowledge and rigour.

But good advising is most im-portant for students with unde-cided majors.

In an effort to combat their lax advising services, Miami

University is implementing changes that include a new ad-viser training system and the implementation of a new course, University 101, which will help students learn to read their Degree Audit Reports (DAR).

This is long overdue. There are a surprising amount of se-niors who still can’t read their DARs, let alone first years who could find the complex course acronyms and mass of requirements daunting.

While the university’s changes to the advising system should be applauded, it could go further.

Advisers could go through students’ four-year plans. This happens at some other schools. It would be difficult for unde-cided majors, but advisers could

help them create a three-semester plan, assisting undecided stu-dents in finishing their Miami Plan courses.

Advisers should give special attention to undecided majors and help students to quickly deter-mine a field of study they are in-terested in and passionate about.

With double majors and inter-disciplinary degrees becoming prevalent, Miami Plan courses are no longer mandatory core classes, but strategic in graduat-ing on time.

With this in mind, an unde-cided major can be a sentence to a five-year degree. The advising system can further improve by creating more programs that help undecided majors determine their interests and create goals.

6 OPINION EDITORIAL@MIAMISTUDENT.NET

Advising changes are commendable, but undecided majors need more helpThe following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.EDITORIAL

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MADDIE LAPLANTE-DUBELAPLANMM@MIAMIOH.EDU

The stragglers to adopt climate change as scientific as scientific fact are a detriment to public discourse.

Miami Plan courses are no longer mandatory core classes, but strategic in graduating on time.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2015

MADDIE’S MATTERS

POLITICS

Like gay marriage is a human rights issue, abortion is a women’s rights issue. Neither should be a state’s rights issue

Planned Parenthood’s outcome should be left up to women

ABORTION

Conservatives walk on cushiony eggshells RELIGION

TO THE EDITOR:Ms. Vaughn, Ms. Levering and all

others whom this may concern,Who are you protecting?You kick off my fraternity. You

take away my housing. You threaten my friends to not be seen with me. And all the while, I was one of the pledges. I was one of the “victims.”

Just last week, my pledge brother came to me in tears to tell me the brutal truth that his depression has resurfaced and that he does not know if he wants to keep living. A few days later, the girlfriend of one of my other pledge brothers asked me to keep an eye on him because he has talked about not wanting to be himself.

A few weeks ago, one of my pledge brothers wrote an article in The Student about his major depres-sion, which has forced him to take a leave of absence from Miami.

Every day I suffer from major stress, which causes anxiety and fre-quent panic attacks.

While your actions may not have caused our psychological troubles, the stress of the situation you put us in certainly worsened them.

Recently, records released show that the school used social-media and anonymous textual evidence of forced alcohol consumption and lack of hygiene to convict Sigma Nu of hazing violations.

I was never interviewed about these hazing allegations. Neither were my fellow pledge brothers. Had we been interviewed, the Of-fice of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution (OESCR) would have heard that not one of us was forced to drink or stopped from showering

and shaving that week. If the concern was truly haz-

ing, then OESCR would have been acting to protect myself and the other pledges of Sigma Nu. In-stead, they chose to immediately suspend our fraternity.

And now, we, the “victims,” are much worse off. We cannot live in the house that became our sec-ond home last semester. We cannot compete in Greek Week competi-tions with our brothers. We can-not conduct or join in philanthropy events on campus.

And the punishment did not end with suspension. The harassment continues as you monitor our ac-tions and activities, even forcing our friends in both sororities and fraternities to sign documents stat-ing that they cannot be seen with us, or face repercussions.

To say that these past few months have been a traumatic experience, borders on an understatement. Many of us have felt and suffered this way, because you chose to target and at-tack something that has become an important and irreplaceable part of our lives.

Every day now, my brothers and I walk around campus with an ever-heavy burden — the feeling that we attend a school that does not want us here. And that is a feeling we must bear for the next few years.

Wearing the letters Sigma Nu has become akin to donning Scarlet Let-ters. Yet I still wear them with pride.

All that I ask of you, is that you ask of yourselves: Who am I protecting?

TO THE EDITOR:The choice of a new president is

one of the most consequential deci-sions in the life of a university. We are deeply disappointed by the an-nouncement of the Board of Trust-ees that they have decided against an open search for the new president. This is clearly against the wishes of the faculty and students who will be directly affected by their choice. We have met with the search firm, Isaac-son, Miller, and heard their argument that an open search would deter qualified candidates. If this is true, why do so many universities run successful open searches? In Ohio alone, a number of state universities have recently run open presidential searches. At the University of Ne-braska, Isaacson, Miller itself is cur-rently managing an open search.

All we ask is that at least two fi-nal candidates be brought to campus to meet students and faculty, and that the university community has a chance to express its opinion of them. Faculty and student opinion will be heard only in the confines of the search committee, all members of which will have to sign a non-disclo-sure agreement. We fear that the use of an outside search firm is designed to circumvent state Open Meeting laws and the Board of Trustees could

easily ignore that opinions expressed by students and faculty on the search committee. A closed search makes a mockery of the ideal of shared gov-ernance touted by the administration, especially considering that, as the provost announced at the first Uni-versity Senate meeting, improved communication is one of this year’s top administrative priorities.

Miami University faces some critical decisions about what kind of institution it will be in the 21st century. Will our traditions of excel-lence in teaching and scholarship be upheld, or will they be undermined by the increasing application of crite-ria like “efficiency,” inappropriately imported from the business world? Will we follow the national trend of ever-greater reliance on contin-gent faculty, or will we choose to invest in a permanent faculty? Will we find ways to make a Miami edu-cation more accessible to those of limited means? Will we continue to be culturally homogenous, or will we take steps to become a truly di-verse community? We would like to be assured that the next president of Miami will take these issues to heart as much as we do.

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MILAM’S MUSINGS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2015

In October of 2001, I had only just started the sixth grade. I was a small, nerdy kid (not much has changed)

that loved to read R.L. Stine’s “Fear Street” series and watch The Twi-light Zone.

At the same time as my sixth grade adventures,

the United States under George W. Bush’s first term began Opera-tion Enduring Freedom (as you’ll find out, dear reader, “enduring” is the key word here) on Oct. 7, 2001 in Afghanistan.

The stated aim in 2001 was to dis-mantle al-Qaeda in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and deny them a safe haven in Afghanistan, which then en-tailed taking on the Taliban.

To be sure, at that time, the Unit-ed States had a lot of good-will due to the atrocity of the 9/11 attacks; the British, Canadian, Australian, German and French troops all went in with us.

“Given the nature and reach of our enemies, we will win this con-flict by the patient accumulation of successes, by meeting a series of challenges with determination and will and purpose,” Bush said at the beginning of the war.

Now, 14 years later, three more presidential terms, a Republican and a Democrat, and I’m in my senior year of college, the United States is still “enduring” in Afghanistan. To push the point further: there are kids

born after 9/11 on the brink of high school that have never known a day when the United States wasn’t war-ring with Afghanistan.

There was also President Obama’s Dec. 1, 2009 surge in Afghanistan, which brought in an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to the region.

“This increase is necessary to sta-bilize a deteriorating situation in Af-ghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and re-sources it urgently requires,” Obama said at the time.

Overall, when Obama took office, there were 34,000 troops in Afghani-stan and by the summer of 2010, the number was 98,000. By 2012, the

surge was considered over and troop levels went down to 68,000.

Then in December 2014, Obama declared the Afghanistan war offi-cially over, which was an odd choice of words since it wasn’t over. More than 10,000 troops remained in Af-ghanistan after that declaration and Obama, according to the New York Times, secretly expanded the combat role of U.S. troops.

Worse than that, 2014 was the deadliest year on record for civilians since record-keeping began in 2009. The UN documented 3,699 civilian deaths for the year and since 2001, it’s at 18,000 total.

Even more startling, of the 3,699 civilians killed, 714 were children and another 1,760 were wounded. To be clear, the UN report attrib-uted 72 percent of civilian casualties to insurgents, but those insurgents only could be insurgents in a coun-try the United States and its allies turned upside down.

“I think Americans have learned that it’s harder to end wars than it is to begin them,” Obama said in May of 2014.

No freaking kidding. The enduring part of Operation Enduring Freedom doesn’t end there, however: Obama announced this Thursday that U.S. forces will remain in Afghanistan at

their current levels through next year and by 2017, when he leaves office, a force of 5,500 will remain, according to the Wall Street Journal.

This contrasts with Obama’s pre-vious plan of only having 1,000 troops at the U.S. embassy once he left office. All of which, by the way, will cost $14.6 billion.

“I’m therefore announcing the fol-lowing steps, which I am convinced offer the best possibility for lasting progress in Afghanistan,” Obama said in a speech Thursday, going on to mention the reversal on withdraw-

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Health issues after hazingA.J. NEWBERRY NEWBERAJ@MIAMIOH.EDU

War is over if we want it, but eh, it’s thousands of miles away and that’s for others to figure out.

MARISSA STIPEKOPINION EDITOR

The spring semester course sched-ule and registration time tickets are now viewable on BannerWeb.

For many students, just seeing this notification is enough to send a chill down their spine and trigger a fight-or-flight rush of anxious adrenaline. They cringe with dread thinking about the morning they will wake up early and fight the faceless villain that is class registration.

But not me. For me, seeing the course listing provokes a differ-ent kind of reaction: excitement. I count down the days to when the list will be released so I can explore my options for the upcoming semester.

I love looking over the classes I need and trying to piece them to-gether into a weekly schedule like a virtual Rubik’s Cube.

I love filling in the blanks, cus-tomizing my search for classes.

Campus: OxfordLevel: UndergraduateI love the second of suspense be-

tween when I submit these require-ments and when a list of available options is returned to me.

When my scheule is complete, I feel a sense of contentment, know-ing that I have a purpose. I know ex-actly what I am supposed to be do-ing — at least for the next semester

of my life. Maybe I feel this way because

I’ve never had a bad scheduling ex-perience. I’ve never been shut out of a class I absolutely had to take. I’ve never had the misfortune to get stuck in a 4:00 p.m. lecture on a Friday.

Or maybe I’m just a nerd who gets too excited about my academic endeavors. Maybe my brain is hard-wired for sorting and listing and organizing, and the format of class scheduling satisfies that need.

This week, when the course schedule was released, I immedi-ately logged on to check it out. I had a little more apprehension than usual because next semester is my last — whether it is finishing up re-quirements or getting into that rock-climbing class I’ve been wanting to take, this is my final chance to cram all that I can into a 15 week period.

Even more nerve-wracking is it’s also the last time I will be able to see the options for my future, organized neatly in a drop-down menu.

And that makes me anxious. If only there were some kind

of master list of all the possibili-ties that exist for me after college. I could simply select the one I want and if it was a good match, I would be assigned.

If only I could filter my prospects by location, salary and other criteria. I could enter all of these preferences, and some computer algorithm would spit out career options perfectly tai-

lored to my wants and needs. If only there were a neat little

checklist with which to plan my life. But there’s not. For years we fol-low rules and follow plans as if they are maps, promising to lead us to a successful future. We go through el-ementary school and middle school, and eventually high school, where people start asking us about the next step. It is assumed or at least encouraged that we attend college, and so we do. In college we are expected to pick a major, get in-volved in extra-curriculars that align with our interests and hopefully secure an internship.

But then what? Then the path we are walking

trails off, or splits in a million dif-ferent directions and there is no clear destination. It’s up to us to determine our own ending points. So while it is scary that college is the last time I will know exactly what I need to do, its also exciting.

Instead of being constrained by what’s offered to me, I get to go out and look for opportunities. I’m not limited to a small selec-tion of locations or fields, but rather I can go anywhere, do anything. There is no single track that’s “right,” which means it’s also a lot harder to get it wrong. I don’t have to quantify what I’m doing based on how much closer its getting me to some ulti-mate goal, but rather I can enjoy the ride and see where I end up.

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times, but in the end, he always changed his mind at the last min-ute. He thought of his sisters — ages 12, 15 and 16.

“What if my sisters were the ones to find me?”

He didn’t want them to see him like that.

When Jack returned to Miami for the spring semester, he pledged Sigma Nu fraternity. This, he said, turned things around for a while. He wasn’t thinking about his de-pression. He was too busy meet-ing people. For the first time all year, he was happy.

But in early April, Sigma Nu went under investigation, and ev-erything — the parties, the social-izing — came to a halt. All of the things that had filled his sched-ule, distracting him from his dark thoughts, suddenly disappeared.

“I felt like something I had put a lot of work into was just … done.”

That last month of school was an extreme low. During the in-vestigation, Jack felt as if the uni-versity was stringing Sigma Nu along, telling them something one day and another thing the next. He attended one or two classes a week, at most. And he was sleep-ing 15 or 16 hours a day — a key symptom of depression.

In the fall semester, he earned around a 3.3 GPA. Even that, he said, was unusually low for him, as he’d always done very well in school. By the end of freshman year, his GPA had dropped to a 1.7.

Jack knew he was struggling at the end of the school year, and he recognized that the downward spiral would only continue if noth-ing changed. Still, in August, he decided to return for sophomore year.

That’s how Jack found himself in the Formal Gardens that Tues-day night.

It was the first week of classes at Miami. He went to a party off campus, then to Side Bar — noth-ing out of the ordinary. But at the bar, Jack started to panic. Some-thing snapped, and he left in a hurry, without telling any of his friends.

Back in his dorm room at the Miami Inn, Jack just sat there, thinking. Then he left his room, crossed the street, passed the ga-zebo and stopped at one of the bridges.

There, Jack made a decision. He knew his sisters wouldn’t find him this way.

He used his leather belt. He tied it to a post on the bridge.

But it didn’t work. He was too hasty with the loop. He was still drunk.

Jack’s head slipped through the belt and he fell to the ground. He sat there in shock. He’d scraped his neck on the bridge, but was otherwise unscathed.

“I was sitting there like, ‘Holy shit, what did I just do?’”

When he got back to his room, he still couldn’t believe it. “What did I almost do?”

The next morning, Jack knew he needed immediate help, so he went to Miami’s Student Counsel-ing Services.

“I told them, ‘I really need to see somebody — like ASAP,’” he said.

But Jack says the person he spoke to told him he couldn’t get an appointment until the follow-ing week. He didn’t explain what had happened the night before — that he had tried to commit suicide — but he said he made it clear his need was urgent.

Kip Alishio, director of Stu-dent Counseling Services, said the center’s procedures would not have allowed this to happen. And Alishio said there was no wait list in August, when Jack came in.

“I can’t imagine a scenario where this would happen,” Alishio said.

If a student indicates his or her need is urgent, Alishio said, that student will always be scheduled for an appointment the same day.

At some point in the exchange, one side misunderstood the other, and Jack walked out of Counsel-ing Services looking for another option. Ultimately, he decided to take a leave of absence from Mi-ami and seek professional help.

He called his parents and told them he wanted to drop out, then stayed through the weekend to ex-plain the situation to his friends.

Jack left school that Sunday, five days after his attempt. On Monday, he admitted himself to the Lindner Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio, which specializes in mood, anxiety and psychiatric disorders.

“It’s a mental hospital, but they

make it feel not like a mental hos-pital,” he said.

Emily Yungblut said her fam-ily’s experience with Lindner exceeded their expectations. Just hours after they called the center, Jack was admitted for in-patient care.

“They didn’t mess around,” she said.

Jack stayed at Lindner for five days, from Monday to Saturday. He was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder. It was a relief, Jack said, if only it provided an explanation for his extreme ups and downs.

“It’s not like the typical [bipo-lar], where you’re freaking out and go way down,” Jack said. “I’d get some idea in my head that’s completely unreasonable — like I’d decide I’m going to solve world hunger, then for three days I wouldn’t sleep very much and I’d do a bunch of research, like ‘Oh, I’m going to do this.’ Then eventually I’d just crash for, like, a week.”

Since his treatment at Lindner, Jack has been on Prozac, another antidepressant, and Abilify, a prescription used to treat bipolar disorder. He says the medications help a lot.

“It keeps me stable.”For now, he is taking his diag-

nosis one day at a time. He en-courages others dealing with men-tal illness to speak up and get help.

“I’m lucky to be here,” he said. “But I don’t want other people to have to rely on luck. I should’ve gotten help a long time ago, and I didn’t … so my life, for the fore-seeable future, is harder because of it.”

But Jack is lucky for other rea-sons, too. His family, friends and fraternity brothers are all aware of his situation, and they’re ready to support him along the way.

“I want to fix it for him, but I can’t,” his mom said. “Unfortu-nately, it’s something he’s going to deal with the rest of his life. But I’m very hopeful he has a good handle on this.”

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said at the meeting.Instead, Miami named those

members Tuesday, almost two weeks later.

Secretary of the Board of Trust-ees Ted Pickerell said technologi-cal issues caused the delay, as it prevented a proper vote for deter-mining the faculty members on the committee.

The Presidential Search Com-mittee will work in tandem with the Board of Trustees and execu-tive search firm Isaacson, Miller to identify Miami’s next president — the replacement for President

David Hodge, who is retiring June 30, 2016.

Dawisha described some of the qualities she and others in the AAUP hope the next president will embody.

“We want a president who will, above all, make a recommitment that providing the best education to our students is the No. 1 prior-ity of our university,” she said. “It’s not intercollegiate athletics, it’s not the Miami experience — the core mission of this university is educa-tion.”

The search is expected to last six to nine months, with the finalist named sometime next spring.

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there because he wanted to immerse himself in the Chinese culture and get to know what life is like in another place.

Both Lehn and Brownell had rich experiences in China.

“I felt so great about this ex-perience,” Brownell said. “I could not stop talking about

it.”Brownell praised interna-

tional students from all over the world for their courage and abil-ity to go to school thousands of miles away from most of their family and friends.

“When I was 17, I don’t think I would have been able to do that,” she said. “I give them tremendous credit.”

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roads by the dorms were aw-ful and were almost too bad to drive on,” Weber said. “It took many hours until they were cleared or salted.”

In the case of an extremely bad winter, salt use has to be regulat-

ed, so when it has come close to running out in the past, they have resorted to only salting the hills and intersections.

“The weather is virtually impossible to predict,” McK-eehan said. “You can never know what type of weather the winter will bring.”

portant game of the year for us. We take it one game at a time.”

With five games left in their schedule, Miami ranks first in the MAC and 25th in the nation.

Junior goalkeeper Vic Mania-ci has allowed two goals in her past eight games, and her .570 goals against average leads all MAC goalkeepers.

WMU is right behind MU with a .63 GAA per game and averages 1.83 goals per game. The Broncos are second in the MAC West division behind Ball State University. Miami is 14-3-2 all-time against the Broncos.

Senior midfielder and team captain Haley Walter is keeping her eye on the prize, the MAC Championship.

“Western is going to be a good team,” Walter said. “They’ve been doing well, and we’ve been doing well. It’s just a matter of taking it one game at a time and making sure that we’re focused on Western and giving them our best performance so we can get that much closer to the MAC Championship.”

Northern Illinois (2-11, 1-5 MAC) isn’t expected to be as strong as Western Michigan, but the game hits close to home. NIU knocked the ’Hawks out of the MAC playoffs last year in the first round. The Huskies were the No. 7 seed and MU was the No. 2 seed.

The RedHawks hold a 14-4-2 series advantage against the Hus-kies. NIU is eighth in the MAC, scoring 1.15 goals per match and allowing a MAC-worst 2.46 goals against average. Northern Illinois is coming off last week’s 4-1 loss to the University of Buffalo and 2-1 loss to Akron University.

MU plays Western Michigan at 4 p.m. Friday in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Northern Illinois at 2 p.m. Sunday in DeKalb, Il-linois.

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Despite throwing four intercep-tions in a 34-3 loss to Ohio Uni-versity last weekend, freshman quarterback Billy Bahl will make his second career start when Miami University football hosts North-ern Illinois University Saturday at home.

Miami looks to end its five-game losing streak. The RedHawks trailed 14-3 halfway through the second quarter at OU last week, but the turnovers led to the RedHawks’ downfall.

“There were just a lot of execu-tion errors post-snap,” Bahl said. “Need to be better pre-snap and know what the defense is doing, and from then on, just know where to go with the ball. And not put our defense in situations like that with a short field.”

NIU Sophomore cornerback Shawun Lurry leads the nation with six interceptions through six games. Of the Huskies’ 38 points off of turnovers this season, 28 have come via four Lurry interceptions.

“Gotta make sure you get the ball out on time and put it where the de-fense can’t get it,” Bahl said. “So if you do that, [Lurry] won’t be able

to get his hands on the ball. Just keep the ball moving and keep us in safe situations.”

The Bobcats held the advantage in yardage (428-253), first downs (25-12) and time of possession (36:25-23:35). Sophomore line-backer Paul Moses said the ’Hawks are ready to move forward after last week.

“We try not to bring up the past and try to look to the future,” Moses said. “So this week, we came pre-

pared. We watched a lot of film on [NIU]. They do a lot of motions and stuff, so we’re real prepared on that. We’re just gonna play our game.”

Redshirt junior quarterback Drew Hare leads an NIU offense that averages 33.3 points and 413.8 yards per game.

Hare recorded his third career 300-yard game last week in a 59-41 victory over Ball State University

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2015

FOOTBALL

Battle of the Birds: RedHawks v. Eagles

BEN BLANCHARDTHE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University volleyball team has won eight of its last ten matches and hopes to continue the hot streak against Eastern Michi-gan University Friday.

The RedHawks (13-7, 5-2 Mid-American Conference) are com-ing off last night’s 3-2 victory over Central Michigan University.

After a four-game losing streak in mid-September, the Eagles (11-8, 3-3 MAC) have gotten their sea-son back on track, having won five of their last six games.

Miami head coach Carolyn Con-dit described EMU as “always worthy opponents,” but the Eagles’ only MAC victories have come against the three worst teams in the

West Division.Miami is led by 6-foot-5 senior

middle hitter Jenny Ingle, who is on pace to surpass her own school record in attack percentage. Last season, Ingle turned in a .367 per-centage. This year, Ingle has 122 kills against 24 errors in 276 at-tempts, giving her a .355 attack percentage.

Although Ingle’s dominance has been critical in leading Miami to victory, Condit said that the Red-Hawks “need to show a more bal-anced offense.”

Defense is more of a team effort for the Red and White. Five Miami players have collected 100-plus digs and an average more than two digs per set.

Sophomore libero Maeve Mc-Donald leads the defense with 296 digs and averages 4.00 per set.

Another defensive standout for the RedHawks is redshirt freshman Mackenzie Zielinski, who has 175 digs on the season and averages 2.36 per set.

Eastern Michigan is led by senior libero Corynne Smith, who has 357 digs total and averages 5.17 per set. Offensively, senior outside hitter Stacey Perinar drives the Eagles with 259 kills this season.

MU leads EMU 37-14 in the all-time series. The RedHawks have also won three straight against the Eagles, including a decisive 3-0 victory (27-25, 25-17, 25-20) last October on EMU’s home court. Ingle had 11 kills in the match.

Miami is undefeated at home this season (7-0), while the Eagles are 2-5 on the road this year.

The game begins at 7 p.m. in Millett Hall.

VOLLEYBALL

POSITION: Midfielder, Team Captian

Year: Senior

Hometown:

Cincinnati, OH

How long have you been playing soccer for?I’ve been playing club since third grade.

What do you do when you’re not playing soccer?I like hanging out with my friends and family. I love being outdoors and hiking.

What’s your favorite soccer memory?Winning the MAC Champion-ship freshman year. I remember scoring the golden goal and everyone dog piled on me.

Favorite foodPizza

Favorite bar UptownBrick Street

Do you have a soccer inspiration?When I was a freshman, the up-perclassmen in general

Favorite movie“Mamma Mia”

If you could visit anyplace in the world, where would you visit?I want to go backpacking in Europe, so anywhere there.

MAC or PC?

PC

Dogs or Cats?Dogs

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ANGELO GELFUSO THE MIAMI STUDENT

Freshman QB Billy Bahl has 344 yards, one touchdown and nine picks.

Redskins (2-3) at Jets (3-1)...NYJ -7

Are the Jets a great team? Prob-ably not. But, at this juncture, they’re certainly in the playoff conversation. That defense is nasty. The ’Skins are competitive, but New York should manhandle quarterback Kirk Cous-ins and Co. >>Jets 23, Redskins 17

Cardinals (4-1) at Steelers (3-2)...PIT +3

I’m always a fan of Super Bowl rematches of the recent past, and this is one of the two we get this week. This game would have looked a lot juicier on the schedule if Ben Ro-ethlisberger was still in the picture though. Pitt can beat mediocre teams like the Chargers behind a ball-con-trol Mike Vick offense, but that’s not likely against a team of the Cardinals’ caliber. >>Cardinals 30, Steelers 20

Chiefs (1-4) at Vikings (2-2)…MIN -4

It should be interesting to see how much of a damper Jamaal Charles’ ACL tear has on the Chiefs’ offense. The Viking defense has no elite

running back to account for, which could bog down Alex Smith, who only wants to throw short passes. >>Vikings 27, Chiefs 16

Bengals (5-0) at Bills (3-2)...BUF +3.5

Bills QB Tyrod Taylor’s status for Sunday is up in the air. Buffalo prob-ably doesn’t have a prayer if they’re forced to turn to EJ Manuel. I’ll pre-tend Tyrod doesn’t play. >>Bengals 24, Bills 13

Bears (2-3) at Lions (0-5)...DET -3

The Lions have taken a titanic step back from their 11-5 playoff team from a year ago. But that was expected: they lost perhaps the most dominant defensive tackle in the game in Ndamukong Suh and were a statistical anomaly. QB Matthew Stafford doesn’t seem to be able to put a team on his back for the life of him. >>Bears 21, Lions 20

Broncos (5-0) at Browns (2-3)...CLE +4

Cleveland Quarterback Josh Mc-Cown is red-hot, throwing for more than 340 yards in three straight games. But the Broncos, who look like the NFL’s best defense so far,

will help McCown fulfill his Ice Bucket Challenge. On the other side, Peyton could slide by with an effort similar to his Week 2 performance against the Chiefs. >>Broncos 27, Browns 9

Chargers (2-3) at Packers (5-0)...GB -11.5

Philip Rivers rolls into Lambeau Field with his team stored in his Jans-port. He can only do so much. The Packers should win this easily, sport-ing one of the best offenses and may-be even an excellent defensive side. >>Packers 37, Chargers 24

Patriots (4-0) at Colts (3-2)...NE -8

Tom Brady has had this date cir-cled on his calendar for ages, but so have the Colts. Every time you think the Patriots are motivated to the maximum, they go out and re-establish the limits. The Pats have trounced Andrew Luck’s team in all four games.You’ve gotta ex-pect Indy to put up more of a fight than they have in recent memory, but it’ll be futile. >>Patriots 41, Colts 24

NFL picks and previews: Week 6

MU ready for Pre-Nationals

COBURN GILLIESTHE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University cross country team travels to Louisville, Kentucky Saturday for the NCAA Pre-Nationals meet.

At last season’s Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, Indiana, the women’s team finished 27th. MU returns three of seven scorers to the com-petition. The men placed 15th in last season’s competition, including a sixth overall finish by Joe Stew-art. They return four of seven top finishers this season.

“We want to be top-3 at the MAC meet,” junior Stephen Biebelhau-sen said. “So, this race is an im-portant step … we need to beat as many teams as we can. There will be many teams we usually don’t get to see, so it’s important that we get

some confidence heading into the MAC meet.”

Senior Brenna Poulsen shared the sentiment.

“We always have high expecta-tions,” senior Brenna Poulsen said, “Personally, I’m looking to have a good time so our team can finish well.”

The men’s squad faces Mid-American Conference rivals Bowl-ing Green University, Central Michigan University and Ohio University along with local rivals University of Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky University and Xavier University. The women’s team competes against MAC foes Akron University, Ball State University, University of New York at Buffalo, CMU, OU and Western Michigan University. They will also face lo-

CROSS COUNTRY

HARRISON SCHWARZSTAFF WRITER

The Miami University women’s soccer team looks to continue its three-game winning streak in its final road trip of the season this weekend against Western Michigan Univer-sity and Northern Illinois University.

Western Michigan (7-3-3, 4-1-1 MAC) is the biggest test the Red-Hawks (9-4, 5-1 MAC) face so far this season, but head coach Bobby Kramig said he’s treating the game

like any other.“The Western game is no more

important than any other game in the MAC,” Kramig said. “All the games are worth three points. The game against Western is the same three points against Northern, which is the same three points as Akron next week.”

“Right now, I’d say Western is the most important game of the year for us. If you were to ask me on Satur-day, I’d say Northern is the most im-

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