EMILY TATEUNIVERSITY EDITOR

Miami University is re-evaluating its relationship with regional campuses in Hamilton and Middle-town. The goal is to allow both schools enough au-tonomy to further develop their four-year degree programs and build their own identities.

In 1966, Miami spear-headed the creation of re-gional campuses in Ohio with the establishment of Miami University in Middletown (MUM), and in 1968, Miami’s campus in Hamilton (MUH).

Originally, these re-gional campuses were intended to allow students with specific economic and circumstantial limi-tations the opportunity to take college courses. Then, after earning an associate degree from a regional campus, students could choose whether to go on and complete a four-year degree in Oxford.

A few years ago, however, this dynamic was significantly reconstructed. “In 2008, this situation changed quite dramati-cally,” President David Hodge said during Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting at Marcum Conference Center. “Change that we welcomed.”

The change Hodge spoke of was in regards to the degree pro-grams offered on Miami’s re-gional campuses — they would be moving away from two-year de-grees, leaving that task to commu-nity colleges, and begin offering four-year degrees, as instructed by the state.

Dean of Miami’s regional cam-puses Michael Pratt said that in the first few years following this change, several decisions were made to alter the status quo. First, the Hamilton and Middletown campuses, which had previously operated independently of each other, came together under a sin-gle regional campus dean.

Then, the two schools had to actually create bachelor degree programs.

“The next step was to develop a new college, a new division, to house and build academic degrees on regional campuses,” Pratt said.

The answer was the College of Professional Studies and Applied Sciences (CPSAS).

The CPSAS offers degrees stu-dent would not find on Miami’s Oxford campus, such as justice and community studies, engineer-ing technology and nursing.

The university recognizes that regional campuses, though a part of Miami University and thus deeply related to the Oxford cam-pus, market to an entirely different student population and offer an entirely different university expe-rience, Pratt said.

“Regional campuses are open access institutions,” he said. “That means we pretty much have to ad-mit anyone that applies, provided they have a high school [diploma] or GED. The regional campuses are not selective like the Oxford campus is.”

The regional campuses also have notably lower tuition rates, which reaches out to a wider group of potential students, Pratt said. Their goal is to reach students in-terested in higher education but perhaps lacking certain means to attain a typical, residential univer-sity experience.

The problem with all of this, however, is the shift from two-year to four-year de-grees has moved much slower than expected.

“There had to be some structur-al changes to do this,” Pratt said.

“Things have not moved as quick-ly as we had hoped, we haven’t built as many degrees as we had hoped.”

Today, the regional cam-puses offer eight associate de-grees — compared to commu-nity colleges across the country boasting hundreds — and only seven bachelor degrees, signifi-cantly fewer than most of Ohio’s regional campuses.

Though Miami has been work-ing with this issue since the con-versation began in 2008, Hodge said several studies have indicated that a different approach might be the answer.

“Those studies, and an ear-lier one, attempted to recognize the changing higher education landscape and the need to pro-vide more flexibility for the regionals,” he said.

In June of this year, Miami be-gan to explore the setup of Indi-ana University (IU) and one of its regional campuses, IU-East. A team evaluated the model in place at IU-East and considered how it might succeed or fail if implemented with Miami and its regional campuses, then made recommendations as to how Mi-ami could move forward with this knowledge.

While the IU-East model is well established and successfully

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Author, activist and for-mer prisoner Piper Kerman is speaking at Miami University next week as the first install-ment of this year’s Lecture Series events.

More than a decade ago, Ker-man served a year-long sentence in the Danbury Correctional Fa-cility, a women’s prison in Con-necticut, for a brief brush with drug trafficking in her youth. The experience prompted her to write a memoir, “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” which was recently adapted into an original Netflix series by the same name. Both the book and the online se-ries, on its second season now, have gained national attention and wide acclaim.

Kerman’s lecture at Miami, entitled “Orange + Black = Gray: Injustice in the Criminal Justice System,” will discuss some of the same issues addressed in her memoir. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29 in Hall Auditorium. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at Shriver Center box office; there is no charge, but seats are limited.

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Miami University student Aaron Lakes died the morning of Monday, Sept. 15. Paramedics transported him from his home on South Vine to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital.

According to his friend, senior Andrew Hoelscher, Aaron was found at his home Monday morn-ing after a two-day absence drew the suspicions of fellow O’Pub employees.

“From what I have been told, Aaron was found on his couch with fluid in his lungs,” Hoelscher said. “He had had a flu for weeks and was constantly having to take off work.”

Lakes, from Germantown, Ohio, was a junior studying

Kinesiology at Miami’s regional campuses. He spent a large part of his time working at O’Pub in Ox-ford, where friends would come specifically to be with him.

“I was always excited for any chance I had to see Aaron,” Hoel-scher said. “I was with him almost every weekend and he would make up crazy drinks and serve them to you. He loved to be cre-ative in his work.”

For many of his friends, Lakes’ work as a bartender led to some of the most memorable nights of their college experience.

“He wasn’t just a bartender. He was a huge part of the Oxford community and part of the best memories that I have of Miami.” Miami University alumna Katie Bray said. “When I think of Aaron I think of him teaching us the Cat

MARIAH SCHLOSSMANFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami has become more selec-tive in its admissions process over the last few years, as it continues to draw in tens of thousands of high-caliber students while re-taining its average class size.

As the ACT average has steadily increased and the accep-tance rate has dropped, student interest in Miami University has steadily climbed.

Interim Director of Admis-sion and Enrollment Commu-nication Susan Schaurer said a clear distinction needs to be made between the words applied, admitted, accepted, confirmed and enrolled.

Schaurer said “applied” re-fers to the number of applica-tions the university receives,

“accepted” and “admitted” refer to the students that the univer-sity has offered admission to, and “confirmed” and “enrolled” describe the students who ulti-mately enter the institution.

According to the Enrollment Management Update presented at the Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, Sept. 18, Miami has seen a 12.3 percent increase in ap-plied students and a 10.8 percent increase of students admitted, but a 0 percent increase of those con-firmed from the 2013 data versus the 2014.

Although in the last five years, there has been a 50 per-cent increase in applications, the confirmed amount of students remains at 0 percent because of Miami’s dedication to admit-ting an incoming class of about 3,600 students.

“The consistent incoming size of 3,600 is something that, after

research and logistics, the lead-ership at Miami has decided is the right number for the natural selectivity of the university and to stay true to the critical Miami experience,” Schaurer said.

With the average 3,600 class maximum, there is an increased selectivity in accepted students. According to the 2014 enrollment data and data from 2009, the av-erage ACT increased from 26 to 27.7 and the acceptance rate is now 66.7 percent when in 2009 it was 80.4 percent.

Miami can accredit a large portion of the significant in-crease in applications to the strides they have made in the re-cruiting process. The university places regional recruiters stra-tegically across the country in various locations.

There are two main factors

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Students typically complain about having to go to their pro-fessors’ officer hours. Sitting in a small room, talking with the professor one-on-one about class work is not something stu-dents generally look forward to. However, for one class at Miami, students are uncharacteristically enthusiastic about their profes-sor’s office hours: he holds them in a bar.

BIO 244: Viticulture and Enol-ogy — or, as many students have come to call it, “the wine tasting class” — is a course that stud-ies vines, grapes, the winemak-ing process and, eventually, wine itself.

“It’s really a lot of a horticul-ture course because we spent two entire weeks talking about grape growing and all the various things that go into grape grow-ing,” Jack Keegan, the professor for BIO 244, said. “[Tonight’s class] was all wine making … then [later on] we’ll talk about

how grapes are grown and wines are made around the world for much of the rest of the semester.”

Keegan covers the chemistry of wine, too, making the course truly interdisciplinary. And though most of the students in the class are seniors, and about half take it on a credit/no credit ba-sis, they all treat it like any other academic class.

“I’ve probably had close to 5,000 students in this class over the years, and really … I’d say 99.9 percent of them have taken it seriously,” he said. “I’ve never had a problem. I really have not.”

Still, the atmosphere of the classroom is relaxed. Keegan’s easygoing personality and pas-sion for the subject translates in his lectures, and the students find it easy to both banter with Keegan and ask him thoughtful, educated questions.

Keegan also makes it interac-tive in ways other than tasting wine. Though the students have not had wine yet this semester, he provided them with grapes and

SARAH BUOPFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Support Suicide Prevention Week is Miami’s way of bringing aware-ness to suicide prevention efforts. Sponsored by a number of organi-zations on campus, Miami is host-ing a variety of activities on the Oxford and Hamilton campuses for the week-long event, which began Sept. 17.

Miami’s Student Counseling Ser-vices (SCS) made a point to create awareness on enhancing the under-standing of mental health and well-being on campus. Psychologist and director of SCS Kip Alishio spoke up about college student suicide rates and spreading the awareness of the cause.

“Let me first say that actually rates of suicide among college students have been coming down since the early 1990’s and have stabilized dur-ing the 2000’s, according to research studies,” Alishio said. “This is good

news and seems to speak to efforts like this across the country which try to make all in the community aware of what to do and who to call when a student or someone a student knows is thinking about suicide.”

According to the Suicide Preven-tion Resource Center (SPRC), stud-ies conducted over the years report that the high rates of alcohol use and heavy drinking on college and uni-versity campuses are a concern due to the close association with mental health problems.

Psychologist and Coordinator of Outreach and Programing Jen-nifer Young, expanded on some of the other factors that can in-duce the feelings of suicidal and depressed thoughts.

“Generally, environmental stress-ors and/or genetics play a role in mental health concerns but there are many reasons why someone would want to end her/his life,” Young said. “When someone is anxious or depressed, they attempt to use cop-ing strategies — talking to friends, exercise — to work through their

emotions. The unique stressors of college oftentimes call for new coping strategies since what once worked in high school may no lon-ger be working as well in college.”

Changes in a student’s lifestyle and the learning environment can increase stress and emotion, how-ever there are many resources, such as Miami’s Student Counseling Service website, and many coping strategies to diminish these thoughts and feelings.

“There are many resources for students with suicidal thoughts in-cluding the Student Counseling

Service on the Oxford campus as well as counseling centers on the Middletown and Hamilton cam-puses,” Young said. “We are here to help and provide mental health services to anyone coping with sui-cidal thoughts and depression. Ad-ditionally, as part of Miami Univer-sity’s Code of Love and Honor, we encourage fellow students to take responsibility for one another by taking action when they see peers in distress and assisting them in seek-ing out support and resources.”

Alishio said it is important to know the thoughts of suicide are often time limited, and with seek-ing help, the emotional pain will ease. Many sponsors such as, SCS, the Office of Student Wellness, Peer Advocates for Total Health and oth-ers, would like the university as a whole to join the cause and break the silence about mental health, offering support to students and preventing suicide.

“This is why we and others na-tionally have called this campaign ‘break the silence,’” Alishio said.

“The less stigma there is about hav-ing suicidal thoughts, the more like-ly one is to talk with someone about them and the more likely that person is to reach out and ask for help and support from professionals such as we have here at the Student Coun-seling Service.”

Senior Meghan Reed said Miami does a great job raising awareness about suicide prevention and provid-ing resources for students.

“Stress is a fact of life but being able to have resources that will pro-vide some relief, especially in col-lege is fantastic,” she said.

There are many ways for students to get involved with suicide preven-tion. Suicide Prevention Week will continue until Sept. 26, and events such as yoga, pet therapy and in-terventions are open for all students to experience.

“The next step I think is to make sure that as many people as possible know about all the resources avail-able and really start asking what they can do to be involved in suicide prevention,” Reed said.

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Stress is a fact of life, but being able to have resources that will provide some relief, especially in college, is fantastic.”

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NO FLASH IN THE PAN Greek Life, already a staple on Miami’s campus, is only becoming more popular. Last year, more than 850 girls joined sororities. The number is expected to rise.

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NORA MOLINAROFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Greek life, already an influential force on Miami’s campus, is about to become more dominant. At least, that’s what the numbers for women’s formal recruitment indicate.

In the last few years, there have been consistent increases in the women of Miami “going Greek.” At Miami, there are 17 official sorority chapters, governed by the Panhel-lenic Association. Each year, Pan-hellenic collaborates and establishes a number or quota that defines the number of each incoming pledge class; it sets the bar for the num-ber of bids offered to potential new members by each sorority.

“Since 2010, we have seen a consistent increase in the num-ber of women registered for

Panhellenic Recruitment,” Panhel-lenic Vice President of Recruitment Bianca Misiti said.

In 2010, the bid quota was set at 45. The following year in 2011, the quota rose to 52. In 2012, the num-ber set by the Panhellenic council was 47. Fifteen out of 16 sororities participating in formal recruitment surpassed this quota. The following year in 2013, the bid quota rose to 56 and then to 59 in 2014.

The quota continues to rise be-cause of demand — more girls are seeking spots, so Panhellenic is pushing up the number chapters can accept. Between 2010 and 2014, there has been a 31 percent increase in the quota number. Fifteen chapters bringing in 59 new girls means 885 more sorority women in each year’s pledge class.

“With the rise of numbers, our pledge class sizes go up which just means more sisters,” Recruitment

chair of Alpha Omicron Pi Lesley Spaeth said. “In my mind, what could be better than giving someone the chance to be a part of something that I love so much?”

The Panhellenic Association has yet to decide the exact quota for this spring’s recruitment. The number will come out after Jan. 1, when reg-istration for formal recruitment clos-es. However, the council foresees the growth in Greek life to continue at Miami and a need for even higher quotas in the future.

Excitement is in the air for this year’s women’s formal recruitment on both sides of the fence — existing chapter members and those hoping to gain membership this spring.

“Recruitment is truly about find-ing your home,” Spaeth said.

With Panhel pushing up quotas each year, it makes the already domi-nant Greek presence and culture on campus even larger.

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SAMMIE MILLERCOMMUNITY EDITOR

The City of Oxford plans to re-quire building owners to install a certain type of smoke detector in order to protect the safety of Oxford residents.

In March, Oxford City Council and City Manager Douglas Elliot felt the city was in need of an up-grade in the Oxford Property Main-tenance Code in order to strengthen smoke alarm requirements. As a re-sult, a decision was made to replace all of the previous residential smoke alarms with a safer model.

“The City of Oxford is mandat-ing all rental properties to go from ionization type smoke alarms to photoelectric type smoke alarms,” Lisa Colwell, a member of the city’s Community Development

Department reported. Colwell explained there is an

explicit reason for the mandated change, which stems from the dif-ference between ionization and pho-toelectric type smoke detectors.

“Ionization type smoke alarms are very good at picking up par-ticles from fast fuel-burning fires,” Colwell said. “On the other hand, photoelectric type smoke alarms pick up particles from smolder-ing fires, which are much more common in homes.”

According to Colwell, a smol-dering fire is a fire that begins as an abundance of smoke before the ac-tual fire occurs. She explained that something as small as a cigarette being set on a sofa and the resulting accumulation of smoke could cause a smoldering fire.

“These types of fires are much more common on college cam-puses and in residential areas,

which is the reason for the change,” Colwell said.

According to the city’s website, the fire that destroyed the Fiji house in May 2013 was one of the major deciding factors regarding these changes. While there were no major injures or fatalities as a result of the fire, City Council agreed that proper safety measures should be taken into effect.

In addition to the Fiji fire, there was another highly publicized fire in Oxford in 2003. According to city reports, three students died in that fire.

“There were 20 ionization type smoke alarms in the house that that fire occurred,” junior Casey Wood said. “None of those alarms went off and three people died.”

Wood is working with fellow members of his Marketing (MKT) 325 class on a project that aims to raise awareness to students and

realtors about replacing their current smoke alarms with photoelectric type alarms.

“We are working as more of an advocacy group than anything else,” Wood said. “We want to use social media and other methods to teach students how to check their smoke alarms and prevent future fires.”

Wood’s group encourages stu-dents to take a look at the smoke alarms currently in their homes. If the alarm is labeled with a “P”, it is a photoelectric type alarm and a safe choice.

Community Development Direc-tor Jung-Han Chen explained there are specific places in the home that these new smoke detectors must be installed.

“Photoelectric type smoke de-tectors are required to be installed outside of each sleeping area and at

CALLIE FURNASFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University’s Confucius Institute is hosting its first Chinese Festival this Friday, Sept. 26 as a celebration of global Confucius In-stitute Day (CI Day).

The Oxford Visitors’ Bureau is partnering with the Confu-cius Institute to host the event, which will be free to students and community members.

According to Chen Zhao, the director of Miami’s Confucius In-stitute, the event is being held in honor of the 10th anniversary of the organization’s establishment of over 1,000 branches across the globe. The Miami Confucius Insti-tute was the first of four established in the state of Ohio.

The event will commence on campus at 2 p.m. at Cook Field with Tai Chi training and a per-formance to follow. Zhao said there would be white kites flown in from China that attendees of the event will decorate and fly to conclude the on-campus portion

of the celebration. “This event is not just for Miami

staff, faculty and students but also for the entire local community” Zhao said.

The Institute also invited eight high schools from the Dayton and Columbus area to attend.

“250 students and teachers are coming to Oxford to celebrate,” Zhao said “These teachers will be taking their Chinese learning stu-dents to meet us on CI Day.”

According to Jessica Greene, the director of the Oxford Visi-tors’ Bureau, the event will then move to Uptown Park at 5:30 p.m. beginning with, “all kinds of Chinese cultural activities, games, food tasting, and Chinese language learning.”

“Booths are run by high school students who have learned all about Chinese culture” Zhao said. “This gives them the opportunity to show off what they have learned.”

Those attending the festival will have access to a wide range of activities.

“Some of the activities will

DEVON SHUMANFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University campus will not be the only Oxford lo-cation under construction in the upcoming months. The Oxford Fire Department is set to undergo some much needed renovations throughout the next half-year.

According to Vice Chair of the Oxford Planning Commission Richard Keebler, the two-story addition will add living quarters to the firehouse located at 217 S. Elm St. This will include beds, bathrooms, a kitchen facility and additional space for meeting and storage.

Keebler, who served 35 years at the Oxford Fire Department, including 30 years as Assistant Chief, explained the additions are necessary now the department has

full time workers.“When the station was built in

1963, it was all volunteers. No-body lived there,” Keebler said. “Starting four or five years ago, people started working around the clock, so the station needs more space.”

In addition to the living quar-ters, the two-story addition will include other facilities such as a locker room for turnout gear and a new training room. According to the City of Oxford website, this accounts for “approximately 2,100 square feet of additional needed facilities.”

Fire Chief John Detherage agreed the expansion is necessary now there are firemen working all day and night.

“Right now, the training and liv-ing quarters are all in one room, so the addition creates separate facili-ties,” Detherage said.

Oxford Service Director

Michael Dreisbach explained that the construction will be completed by JK Custom Homes LLC and should begin very shortly.

“The building permits have been approved,” Dreisbach said. “We will start laying out construc-tion this week.”

Dreisbach explained the con-struction should be completed within about six months.

In addition to the new train-ing and living facilities, the renovations will include another important addition.

“We will also be putting a fire suppression system throughout the entire building as part of the project,” Dreisbach said.

This suppression system, other-wise known as a sprinkler system, will protect the firehouse itself from fires.

Keebler explained the sprin-kler system is an important addi-tion, considering a fire destroyed a

volunteer fire department in Mount Eden, Kentucky in early August of this year. In addition to burning the firehouse to the ground, the Kentucky blaze claimed four fire trucks as well as gear and equip-ment and accounted for well over one million dollars in damages, according to WDRB News.

The addition of the fire suppres-sion system will increase the total cost of the project.

Dreisbach said that the city will be spending about $425,000 on the renovations.

This breaks down to $350,000 for the main building construction, $38,000 for the sprinkler system, and an additional $37,000 for an alternate option for a full basement which would be used for storage.

However, despite the cost, Keebler believes the renovations will be beneficial not only for

$425,000 construction in store for Oxford Fire Department in next six months

Uptown Chinese FestivalConfucius Institute throws community celebration

Fiji fire factor in new safety mandate

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CUP OF JOE Students gather outside of locally-owned coffee shop Kofenya between classes to socialize and study.

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At 2 a.m. on Saturday, a female outside 21 E. High Street yelled “F*** you!” at a passing police of-ficer on routine patrol. The officer stopped his vehicle and asked the female if she was having a problem, to which she repeated the statement loudly to him. The officer told her to cease using such language, as it might be offensive to others in the area, and prepared to move along. The female then repeated the state-ment again, this time directing it to the officer’s partner. The officers exited the vehicle, at which point she provided them with her ID, but then tried three times to grab it back from the officer. She was placed under arrest, though she fought against being placed in handcuffs. Upon arrival at the police station, the female refused to sit in a chair, chest bumped the police officer then kicked him in the chest. The officer was forced to restrain the fe-male on the floor, at which point she scratched at the officer, breaking the skin. The female was charged with Disorderly Conduct, Obstructing Official Business, Resisting Ar-rest and Assault of a Police Officer transported to Butler County Jail.

At 2:17 a.m. on Friday, an officer was on patrol on South Poplar when he observed a male student kicking a garbage can, which then fell over and spilled its contents into the street. Upon seeing the police officer, the male fled down the street, at which point the officer followed him in his vehicle and was forced to activate his overhead emergency lights. The officer repeatedly advised the male to stop running, as he was under ar-rest. The male fell several times and continued running until he fell in the yard of a house on East Walnut Street, where the officer was able to exit his vehicle and apprehend the male. His speech was slurred and breath smelled of alcohol. He was unable to provide the officer with identification and refused to say his name. The officer called the Life Squad, as the male’s multiple falls had incurred injuries on his knees and head. The male gave the EMTs his name and date of birth, and the officer found the male was only 19-years-old. He was charged with Offenses Involving Underage Persons, Criminal Mischief, Re-sisting Arrest and Obstruction of Official Business.

Bouncer brawl

At 11:15 p.m. on Thursday, an officer on patrol observed a male student engaged in a heated verbal altercation with the bouncer at The Woods bar. The officer exited his ve-hicle and approached the situation. The bouncer was refusing to allow the male inside the bar. The male claimed he had no identification on his person. The officer told the male to follow him to his vehicle, and the male stumbled over to the vehicle, where the officer noticed an odor of alcohol on his breath. The male ad-mitted that he was only 20 and had consumed alcohol that evening. The officer issued him a citation for Sale and Use by Underage Persons and released the male to his roommate.

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BRITTON PERELMANSTAFF WRITER

You probably thought your family was complicated, that is, until you saw “This Is Where I Leave You.” Led by Jason Bate-man, who plays Judd, “This Is Where I Leave You” follows the Altman family through the seven days after their father dies. His final wish was to have his four grown children sit Shiva for him, forcing them to spend more time together than they have since they all left home.

The dramedy opened this past weekend with one of the most star-studded casts currently in the box-office. Jason Bateman plays his typical character as Judd Alt-man, a 30-something who recent-ly lost his wife, his house and his job in the same day. His siblings Paul (Corey Stoll), Wendy (Tina Fey) and Phillip (Adam Driver)

are all amusing stereotypes of their roles in the family. Paul, the oldest, is the most tradition-ally successful one; Wendy, the only girl, is the mothering one; and Phillip, the youngest, is the family screw-up. Their mother Hillary (Jane Fonda), a successful author, has used her own family’s — often embarrassing — stories to make a living, a fact that still mortifies her children.

But “This Is Where I Leave You” wasn’t solely about the Alt-man children; it was about their spouses, their kids, their neigh-bors and some old high school acquaintances as well. The sheer

number of characters ended up being the film’s weakest point. With at least 10 major characters, no one got an adequate amount of time for backstory or very much depth at all. I can see how this wouldn’t have been a problem in Jonathan Tropper’s novel, but it didn’t translate as well in the screenplay. Tina Fey’s role, for example, was good, something different for her, but there wasn’t

enough time spent explaining important aspects of her charac-ter’s past. We got snippets, but not enough to fully understand or connect.

Despite the number of characters,

the Altman family was everyone’s family. It didn’t matter that we didn’t fully know the history of each char-acter, because it was the family as a whole we were supposed to relate to. The individual characters needed more, but the family itself felt very real. “This Is Where I Leave You” reminds us that, while family may be complicated and crazy, there is beauty in that dysfunction. It’s amusing and funny to watch this film, but underneath the jokes and comebacks there is a true message about finding perfection in the im-perfection of our family.

At one point in the movie, Judd, whose life has been turned upside down in less than a month, says, “I’ve been chasing this idea about a perfect life, but life is unpredictable and irrational and complicated and I want a com-plicated life.” I think, though we might not all realize it at first, we’re all like Judd. We want the complicated, the unpredictable, and the irrational because it’s

way more exciting and interest-ing than a life that goes exactly as planned.

No matter what it is, you’ll be able to find something in “This Is Where I Leave You.” Maybe it’s seeing your family reflected in some way on the screen, maybe it’s learning a lesson about enjoy-ing the little things in life from the toddler who just really loves to tote his little kid toilet seat around with him and do his busi-ness in the front lawn, maybe you just need Jane Fonda to tell you that whatever emotional reaction you have to stressful situations — crying or laughing — it’s okay. The power in movies like this one lies in the fact that everyone in the audience can find something to connect to, something that will leave them thinking of their own beautifully complicated life.

NORA MOLINAROFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

For the third year in a row, the Translation Symposium is head-lining at Miami University. The Translation Symposium is an op-portunity for all students, regard-less of interests and studies.

It doesn’t matter if you’re studying linguistics or a soon to be graduate in accounting, the Translation Symposium held at 4 p.m. September 29 in Bachelor Hall Room 337 is an event for all students.

Cathy Wagner, coordinator of the event and director of the cre-ative writing program at Miami said the goal of the symposium is to bring in those students and faculty interested in what exactly happens to a text when it is trans-lated into English. At the Trans-lation Symposium, the panel will discuss the problems they face when translating a text.

Because of previous and cur-rent funding provided by the Hu-manities Center, the Havinghurst Center, the French and Italian de-partment and the GRAMELAC program, the Translation Sym-posium is able to host a diverse group of translators and writers.

This year, three well-known and distinct translators and writ-ers are visiting Miami’s campus: Philip Metres, Nathanaël and Kazim Ali. They are traveling from Cleveland and Chicago as translators of works from Russia, France and Iran.

Philip Metres has translated the collected works of Lev Ru-binstein, a conceptual poet who began writing in the Soviet pe-riod and is now a journalist and political activist.

Nathanaël is the transla-tor of the handwritten journals of Herve Guibert, a writer and photographer who was the good friend and biographer of Michel Foucault and was involved in early AIDS awareness activism in France.

Kazim Ali brings us the work of Sohrab Sepehri, an Iranian poet born in 1928, very famous

in Iran. “I attended the Translation

Symposium last year because as a student pursuing a career in writing, I had a lot of questions concerning word choice and sen-tence structure, especially the ones translated into my native language, English,” sophomore Emily Westerfield said. “I had always wondered if the fairy tale stories that I grew up memorizing and believing have been accu-rately translated in English. For all I know, Beauty and the Beast could be a horror story. I want to know how translators are so sure about the stories they translate.”

Wagner said because English is the most powerful language in the world, it’s imperative translators make it readable and understand-able in the English language. The role of a translator is to distin-guish between what is important to carry across to English and what is better to be preserved.

As the program continues to develop, people are investing more time and interest in the idea of a Translation Symposium re-maining on campus Wagner said.

“I’d like someday to build on the Translation Symposium and offer a class in translation and someday a thematic sequence with a study-abroad component,” Wagner said. “I’d love to work with foreign-language depart-ments to create such a course.”

With high attendance and stu-dent and faculty interest, the Translation Symposium has the potential to become something larger and brighter than an an-nual event, staying in Oxford on Miami’s campus for good Wagner said.

TOM DOWNEYSPORTS EDITOR

There’s a moment when play-ing Destiny, when you look out into the distance. You see the beautiful world around you and just marvel at it. That moment is a microcosm of the game as a whole. That world looks beautiful and you want desper-ately to explore it, but you can’t go beyond the built-in boundaries. In a game that does so much right, Des-tiny falls slightly short of achieving its potential.

Destiny comes from Bungie, the makers of the immensely popular original Halo trilogy. Destiny has become the best-selling new game in history. Bungie merges the sci-fi, first person shooter (FPS) elements of Halo with some massively mul-tiplayer online (MMO) elements of World of Warcraft. Your character is a nameless Guardian, revived from death after an undetermined period of time in the middle of a post-collapse society in the distant future. You’re tasked with fighting off “the Darkness,” the enemy of “The Traveler,” a foreign being who protects the last city on Earth. It is the Traveler who arrived and pushed Earth into a “Golden Age” that last-ed until the Darkness nearly wiped everything out.

If the plot sounds confusing and boring that’s because it is. Bungie falls short on the plot and story. One

of the major characters in the plot has no name, but is simply known as “the Stranger” and offers vague comments that tease a greater story. Bungie created a companion app that helps fill out the backstory, but Destiny acts as nothing more than a prologue. Your main companion is a tiny robot, a Ghost, voiced by Peter Dinklage (thus called Dinklebot). Bungie created Cortana for Halo, arguably the greatest A.I. compan-ion, and Dinklebot falls well short of Cortana’a benchmark. Bungie forgot the number one rule of A.I. compan-ionship: you don’t make the robot robotic. Dinklage’s delivery is too robotic and lacks life.

It’s not the plot or characters that draw you into the game, because you don’t care about them at all. How-ever, the gameplay is what keeps you coming back.

Destiny plays as one of the best FPS in recent memory (with a few fun moments of third-person action thrown in too). The controls are tight and fluid. It plays a lot like Halo, which is a really good thing.

As expected from a Bungie prod-uct, the score and visuals are nothing short of spectacular. The game looks and sounds amazing.

The MMO element isn’t as per-fected. The strike missions, where you team up with two others, are great and the online multiplayer is fun. The multiplayer is a little shal-low, but Bungie has said they’ll keep it fresh throughout. Destiny relies heavily on a loot system to acquire

and upgrade guns and gear. It’s both frustrating and rewarding. The loot drops, the good ones at least, are rare and you often feel like you de-serve more. But when you get that legendary gun helmet, it is a great feeling. The lack of a true match-making system for strikes and raids is sorely missed.

Bungie has promised constant new activities and events to keep the game fresh and to get players to keep coming back. They need those desperately, because the game gets repetitive quickly. The gameplay is great, but replaying the same mis-sions over and over gets boring. On top of that, the missions that are dif-ferent are structured the same. Fight this wave of enemies, wait for Din-klebot to slowly decode something, take down this huge boss and so on.

On the bright side, the enemies vary greatly. There are four differ-ence races and each have different strengths, weakness, attacks and defenses. They aren’t simply clones of each other, which help keep things fresh.

Destiny does a lot of things well, but the lack of a plot and excess rep-etition prevents it from becoming legend (as its tagline says). But it is ultimately a great experience with the potential to keep users come back for more. Destiny is a victim of its own hype in many ways, but it is a fun experience and that’s what you ultimately want out of a video game.

A ‘Destiny’ that falls slightly short

‘This Is Where I Leave You’ captures true family

I had always wondered if the fairy tale stories that I grew up memorizing and believing had been accurately translated in English.”

EMILY WESTERFIELDSOPHOMORE

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they are treated like a celebrity on campus, and given a chance to play in the NFL. When a player excels at the professional level they are given almost anything they want. Becoming an NFL star is not some-thing that happens overnight; it is a long process that is full of pressure.

Some people are not cut out to handle the pressure of being a star. One of the most important parts of this job is being a role model for children. It sickens me that some-where, a father or mother might have to explain to their young child why they should not wear their Ra-vens No.27 jersey anymore.

At the same time, this made up Ray Rice jersey scenario is one that needs to happen. If the professional athletes are not accepting their job as role models, someone else needs to. Children will look up to an ath-lete growing up, which is normal.

I grew up following professional athletes like Dominik Hasek and Ryan Miller, but they did not teach me one thing about being a man. Those lessons came from my fa-ther and grandfather. That is why

the issue of domestic violence and developing “the future of America” is an issue that stretches out much farther than the NFL.

The thought of violently attack-ing a woman is simply disgusting. It is just wrong. The horrible week that the NFL had is putting a bright light on the subject of domestic violence. Hopefully this spot-light causes the nation to reflect more on a crime that needs to be taken seriously.

Those affected by violence from the hand of NFL players need jus-tice, but the 1.3 million women af-fected by domestic violence annu-ally also need justice (stat from the American Bar Association).

Please understand the small per-centage of immature “profession-als” do not represent the majority of the NFL, and it is a shame that a man like Peyton Manning shares, or used to share, the same title of “NFL player” with a man like Ray Rice. These so-called professionals need to begin acting professional.

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better,” Kramig said. “But I felt like our kids worked hard, com-mitted themselves to the game and showed some poise closing it out.”

Dinges thought the narrow weekend wins exemplified the heart the RedHawks possess.

“[These wins] are huge for our team, and it’s huge to say we can hold a lead,” Dinges said. “We have a lot of fight in us and a lot of passion.”

Miami fell to both Marshall and Illinois State on the road last year and for Kramig, it was special to turn the tables, especially on senior day against ISU.

“What a great way to honor our senior class with a top-notch result like this,” Kramig said. “It says ev-erything in the world about them, their character, their dedication to this team, their willingness to work hard … I can’t think of a bet-ter way to honor their effort than today’s result.”

The Red and White take the field again 4 p.m. Friday as they welcome Eastern Michigan Uni-versity to Oxford.

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had a head of steam, so the kid from Cincinnati didn’t stand much of a chance.”

The Bearcats responded with 17 unanswered, giving them a 24-14 lead at the half. UC scored with just 31 seconds left in the half thanks to a fumble by Scott.

“We played our tails off in the first half, and you look up and it’s 24-14 at half and you can’t even believe it,” Martin said. “Can’t even. It’s 17-14 and I was already ill and then we basically said, ‘we’re getting the ball let’s run a couple plays.’ We couldn’t take a knee, we’re trying to get the ball to half time and then we fumble the dang thing. Then they take advantage cause they’re good on offense.”

Miami came out strong in the second half, scoring on its first possession, courtesy of a 74-yard touchdown catch by Frazier.

Miami had several chances to tie the game or take the lead, but were unable to capitalize on them. Kiel threw his second TD pass late in the third, extending

the Bearcats’ lead to 10. Miami trimmed the lead to one score fol-lowing a 49-yard kick by junior Kaleb Patterson.

“It looked like one of my drives, the Kaleb field goal,” Martin said. “Low, burner, slic-ing like crazy. We’ll take it. There are no style points in this game.”

That was close as the Red-Hawks could get, as Patterson missed a 30-yarder following a Hendrix sack with 5:40 left in the game. UC ran out the remain-ing time to make it nine straight Victory Bell victories.

“Short term, it’s hard enough not to just cut your head off and slam it on the ground,” Martin said. “But long-term, I couldn’t be happier with where we’re at. I seriously think we’re a year ahead of. If you had asked me in the spring, I’d have said no chance of competing with three of the first four teams we played, based on where we were at. Big picture, I’m elated.”

Miami’s next matchup is on the road against the University at Buffalo, where its current losing streak began.

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each level that exceeds 1,200 square feet of area,” Chen said. “Any new or replacement smoke alarms installed within a sleeping room after that date must be photo-electric type detector.”

According to Chen, these implementations were made ef-fective on March 1, 2014 and all final replacements for ionization type alarms must be completed by 2017.

“In the next year and a half, we will require all property owners to implement these changes,” Col-well said. “By 2017, all properties should have the photoelectric type smoke alarms.”

Colwell explained the reason for the delay is a result of the financial

burden these new smoke alarms will place on property owners.

However, Wood pointed out that during their research his market-ing group discovered the photo-electric type smoke alarms were a mere $2 more than the ionization type alarms, leaving property own-ers with very little excuse for not replacing them.

Sarah Rodbro, Managing Part-ner at Red Brick Property said a letter was issued to their business in April with explicit dates and in-formation regarding the switch to photoelectric type smoke alarms.

Rodbro explained that because permanent changes will not be mandated until 2017, that takes the financial burden away from property owners because they can slowly replace the current ioniza-

tion type smoke alarms. In addition to the new smoke

alarm policy, the city is also requir-ing property owners to install car-bon monoxide detectors in certain Oxford homes.

“In any residential property that has either fossil fuel burning equipment or an attached enclosed garage, a carbon monoxide detec-tor must be installed in the im-mediate vicinity outside of each sleeping area,” Chen said.

According to the city’s web-site, these mandated changes are not meant to be a burden on property owners, but to prevent future fatalities and accidents from happening.

“Protecting lives has always been the highest priority for the Oxford City Council,” Chen said.

include things such as “ace paint-ing, calligraphy, small outdoor games for children, and other fun things,” Zhao said. “We will also have authentic Chinese food for tasting”.

There will be a photo contest, which is open to anyone who at-tends and takes photos of the event. First place will receive $100, sec-ond place $50, and third place

$30. Photos must be sent to the Confucius Institute by 10 p.m. Sat-urday, Sept. 27 in order to participate in the contest.

The evening will conclude with Chinese cultural performances in-cluding Miami students playing au-thentic Chinese music.

The Confucius Institute encour-ages students to attend more of their upcoming events including a Chinese movie night and lec-ture tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.

the fire department, but also for the Oxford community and Miami students as the improved living conditions will help the firemen be better prepared to

respond to calls. “I think that it has been a tre-

mendous asset to have people on duty 24 hours a day and seven days a week,” he said. “I think that it is important that they have better living facilities.”

Anywhere you walk on campus, you probably see a reoccurring theme: a lot of students look exact-ly the same, not just in their manner of wardrobe choice, but in their eth-nic background. The students who don’t fit this image, whether they are a minority student or someone who dresses outside of the “J. Crew U” standard, tend to stick together.

According to Miami’s website, our student body is roughly 82 per-cent white. While at first this seems unusually high, both Ohio Univer-sity and Ohio State University have similar percentages, according to their websites.

We at The Miami Student be-lieve this high percentage has creat-ed a bubble of closed-mindedness.

We spend four years at a univer-sity where we are supposed to learn new perspectives and how to work well with those who are different from us, but does that really hap-pen? We, as The Editorial Board, think the answer is sadly, more of-ten than not, no.

At the end of last year, two

events happened regarding racial (and as a whole, diversity) issues at Miami. In May, Miami student Sa-mantha Callender wrote a story for USA Today College called “Racist commentary at Miami University prevalent on anonymous app ‘Yik Yak.’” It detailed the anonymous social media posts she felt honestly showed how racist the campus can be. Right around the same time, three Miami students made a You-Tube video where they discussed their experiences being minority students at this school.

Both of these incidents sparked our interest, because we were able to see the perspectives of students who we see in classes and on cam-pus, but clearly have extremely contrasting experiences.

Callender’s account is correct, to a degree. How often are the most popular posts on Yik Yak about mocking either minority students, exchange students or stu-dents who are different from our social norms?

Students are the ones who are

posting and “up voting” these state-ments, so what does this say about our student body as a whole?

Take exchange students, for ex-ample. We could cite numerous examples of jokes being made regarding students who are not from America. We need to alter our perspective on our fellow stu-dents. Miami’s curriculum is chal-lenging enough as is, but imagine having to learn economics in a foreign language, surrounded by strangers and isolated from family and friends.

These students deserve more credit than they are given. And The Editorial Board believes we, as a Miami community, need to be more aware of the challenges these students — and any stu-dents who don’t fit the Miami stereotype — face.

Perhaps being closed-minded and making off-hand comments about race go unnoticed at Mi-ami, but it won’t be that way for long. Graduation will come, like it or not, and soon we will all be

scattered across the country and around the world, in cities and in sub-urbs, in corporate offices and inner-city schools. When that day comes, being closed-minded won’t be tolerated anymore.

The university has done a great job in the past few years provid-ing students with opportunities to experience diversity, whether it be on-campus speakers and events like UniDiversity Festival or study-ing abroad in foreign countries.

However, it’s up to us as stu-dents to take full advantage of these opportunities and to see the reason we should. We can’t hide

in our circle of look-a-like friend groups forever. Being ignorant and closed-minded is a choice. Be-ing oblivious to the full meaning of racist Yik Yak posts and judg-mental stares in the classroom is also a choice.

Miami might be a bubble, but the real world is certainly not — and it won’t tolerate a closed-mind and cruel displays of mockery. We urge students to step outside their comfort zone and meet people who are different from themselves. We encourage students to not only attend events that celebrate other cultures and to travel some-where completely different from Oxford, but also to take a look outside of what they know in any way possible.

Racist Yik Yak posts and di-versity statistics don’t define this university, and we know that to be true. But it’s time that we step up and learn to accept and understand those who are different from us, be-cause at some point we’re all going to be the odd one out.

There are a lot of opinions floating around about Greek life, fraternities, sororities and the conflict surround-

ing these or-ganizations. People, some-times includ-ing my friends and family, make jokes about sorority girls and being

Greek, mocking the hand signs and our songs and chants.

These people that mock our orga-nizations have probably never been a part of something quite like a frater-nity or sorority, so I’m here to set the record straight.

I am a sorority woman. I went through a tiring and confusing two-week process known as recruitment when I was a freshman, and on an overwhelming Sunday known as Bid Day, I suddenly had 200 girls who all wanted to be my friend.

Two hundred girls who all wore the same letters, who sang the same songs, who were all completely dif-ferent but somehow completely sim-ilar welcomed me into a sisterhood that would be mine for the rest of my life.

This system can seem strange from the outside, and honestly it can feel strange on the inside, too. Some girls, and I assume guys, had that feeling of belonging right away from the first round of recruitment. I didn’t have this experience. My entire re-cruitment process left me confused. I

wondered at every turn which sister-hood was the best one for me, and if I was letting my friends’ choices cloud my own judgment.

On Bid Day, I was excited about my sorority but still apprehensive about whether or not being a mem-ber would be everything I imagined it would be. The overwhelming at-mosphere of Millet Hall crowded with thousands of sorority girls didn’t help ease the knots in my stomach.

However, over the next few weeks, I experienced something I will never forget. Girls who I had never met were inviting me out to dinner or to King for a study group followed by a late-night snacking fest. I got my “big,” and the rest of extended family inside my soror-ity. Family dinners became a regular

event, as did spending time with all of my sisters.

All of my first semester at Miami, I kept extremely busy. I had an on-campus job, I went to my classes and I worked hard. When I had free time that usually meant going to the gym, studying or napping. Being so busy wasn’t a bad thing, but it did prevent me from making close friends that semester. Sure, I had friends in my classes and at work, but I didn’t have the friends I could call in the middle of the night to watch Mean Girls.

Some might say that joining a sorority is paying for friends, but I disagree. We pay for our T-shirts and our formals and our pins, but those aren’t the things that make friend-ships. My sisters became my friends through movie nights in our suite and

dinners at Armstrong.As I adjusted to Greek life, I be-

came more and more used to the idea these girls weren’t faking their sincerity and friendliness to me; they genuinely wanted to know me and help me in any way possible. I real-ized that any of my 200 sisters would bring me soup if I was sick or watch bad romantic comedies with me if I was sad.

Joining a sorority has been one of the best decisions I have made since coming to Miami. My sisters have encouraged me to be a better person and friend and to become more outgoing.

If I hadn’t gone Greek, I would still love Miami. I would still have made friends through another organization or club, and I would still be invited

to parties and dinners with friends. However, I believe that no other or-ganization on campus could give me the feeling of safety and home quite like my sorority does.

So to all of you first-years or sophomores who are contemplat-ing the idea of going Greek: do it. Join whichever fraternity or sorority makes you feel the most comfortable and the most at home. I promise you will find dozens of lifelong friends and four years of great memories along the way.

Greek life may not be the choice everyone makes, but there is a spot for anyone if they choose to be there.

It’s not what you think: There is a place for everyone in Greek life

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6 OPINION EDITORIAL@MIAMISTUDENT.NETTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Student body needs to stop exhibiting ignorant mentality toward diversityThe following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.EDITORIAL

GREEK LIFE

DEARABBEY

Recent opinion in The Miami Student don’t look at all sides of blacks in AmericaLETTER TO THE EDITOR

There exists among some peo-ple, those often apt to express their opinions freely, a mindset that gravitates both toward cer-tainty and insecurity in their feel-ings about specific topics. A per-son with this mindset is willing to overlook or deny obvious facts when the facts are incompatible with his worldview, whatever the worldview happens to be.

I’ve recently seen evidence of this mindset in the Opinion sec-tion of The Miami Student news-paper. It caused Steven Beynon, in his article “Police Starting to Serve and Protect Themselves,” to imply that a 15 percent rate of fail-ure to find contraband in SWAT team raids is a high number. It also caused him to imply that police al-lowing Michael Brown’s body to lie in the street for six hours had something to do with police being wanton in their killing of civilians, rather than their commitment to

a thorough investigation of the shooting and the crime scene. Numbers can be illustrative when building an argument, but his case might be better served by leav-ing out the numbers that speak against it.

In his article “Race is the Driv-ing Force Behind the Ferguson Tragedy,” Brett Milam displays the mindset and downplays the present impact of illegitimacy in the black population by pointing out that the rate of blacks was 2.5 times the rate of whites in the ear-ly 20th century. However he and Professor Ruggles both miss the well-known fact that the rates of illegitimacy were very similar (12 percent for blacks vs. 4 percent for whites) in the early 20th century compared to the 21st century (68 percent for blacks and 30 percent for whites). Since we know from large bodies of research that il-legitimacy is associated with

criminal behavior for people of all races, this is not unimportant. And dwelling on the fact that it was 2.5 times higher for blacks early on is no less than deceptive since it overstates the significance of illegitimacy at that time, and especially because the point that Thomas Sowell was making is the dramatic rise (by more than 5 times) during the 20th century, which was ignored by Milam.

Milam also oddly dwells on the fact that criminals tend to victimize people of their own race in an effort to downplay the significance of black crime, and in the process overlooks the fact that blacks commit crime 6 times more than other races in America (Like illegitimacy, crime rates by blacks and whites were more similar in the early 20th century). It’s also worth mentioning that black unemployment was lower than white unemployment in the

early 1900’s, while it’s been per-sistently over twice the rate of white unemployment for the last 20 years. I doubt anyone would argue that racism was less of a problem in the early 20th century, so this would (clearly) cause us to look for explanations for the plight of blacks in America in ar-eas besides discrimination based on race or a “legacy of slavery.” Whether or not Milam is aware of all these facts is unclear, but they are easy to find for anyone researching the topic. However if I’m correct about Milam’s mind-set, then he would dismiss these facts because they don’t align with his worldview.

Interestingly, people with this mindset also tend to think about people as abstractions in an ab-stract world, rather than flesh and blood human beings. Steven Beynon admits his own preju-dice when he states that he thinks

Michael Brown would still be alive if he looked like a Miami University student. His prejudice is assuming cops are racist (Don’t forget that being called racist is a pretty bad insult in this day and age). But this occurs because he is thinking of Officer Darren Wil-son as an abstract racist cop, rather than a man with two eyes, a smile, a mother, and an expressed com-mitment to his town, who may or may not think ill of black people.Beynon and Milam would do well to take the advice of James Baldwin, whom Milam quotes in his article, and face all sides of the debate about blacks in Amer-ica. Perhaps then we could truly identify what policies have in-flicted such bad circumstances on blacks in America and get to work changing them.

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Miami might be a bubble, but the real world is certainly not – and it won’t tolerate a closed-mind and cruel displays of mockery.”

Have you ever causally met someone, or maybe even just made contact with them, and

then started p l a n n i n g out a whole future life with them? Between the breaths of hi and my name is, you pic-

ture an entire Odyssey-lengthed love story starring you as the female lead.

It happens to me sometimes. I think it comes with the terri-tory of being a girl who’s watched When Harry Met Sally one too many times.

So, it might go like this. Sec-onds after this person shows up in my line of vision, I’m mentally picking out furniture for our town-house together, which is slightly off the city limits of some southern town. I can instantly see it all, from the jittery first date to the flicker of candles at our one year anniversary dinner. I imagine our lives togeth-er, me and this stranger. I imagine driving to the mall together in his Jeep and framed photos on the mantle and and wearing matching Christmas sweaters that are only cool in my twisted romanticized head. Well, this whole thing is only cool in my head though because, just a reminder, it’s all in my head.

I’m about to consider venues for the wedding reception when it hits me: I just met this person and I need to answer them about what kind of milk I want in my latte, because yes, he works at Star-bucks – and the line is long. The woman behind me is tapping her too-tall high heels and my soon-to-be husband is looking at me with a sneer of annoyance. He just wants to know what letter to write down on my paper cup; he has no idea what’s going on inside the big bag of weird that is my brain. What’s his name again?

I know what you’re thinking. There are certain clichés that be-long in the back corner of the English language, that deserve to be tucked away in a lost library drawer and forgotten about. There are some flowery ideas too worn out by time, too overused in story-books, too predictable after repeat-ing plotlines from girly novels. And on the top of that list is the notion of love at first sight.

This kind of happily-ever-after ideology, most of us young people tend to believe, probably doesn’t belong in our modern world, much less to printed in a newspaper. Love at first sight isn’t real, we easily

say, end of story. Even though talk-ing about this kind of thing illicits immediate eye rolls and apathetic chuckles from my friends, there’s something about it I can’t let go of.

So, I’d like to dig this “love at first sight” notion up out of the forgotten pile, if you don’t mind. Because I think it’s time to call out everyone’s bluff – well, at least a handful of us. As much as we play the nonchalant card, we tearfully watch these moments unfold on screens and wish they would crawl out of their fictionalized medium and into our lives.

Love at first sight is everywhere. It’s at the heart of the songs we dance to on the floor of Brick Street and at the core of the quotes that clutter our Pinterest boards and in between the thoughts that keep our our minds ticking at night.

You may think that love at first sight is painfully old fashioned and only belongs in the confines of made-up stories, but wouldn’t it be nice if it actually happened? If somewhere in the span of sec-onds of meeting someone, you just knew. If you could look back and pinpoint a moment that started it all.

Sometimes I get caught up in fake “love at first sight” moments. I fall in love twelve times on the way to the grocery store, while I’m tying my shoe in front of the student center or when I’m glanc-ing across a particuarly spacious room. Maybe not with an actual person, but I fall in love with the stories that bounce into my head.

I’m not saying that love at first is a sane way of forming relation-ships or that every girl is constantly waiting to be struck by a bright-red arrow. But I am saying we should probably own up to the fact that we want it to be true, that we look for it sometimes. It’s the reason we’ve shed far too many tears while watching Pride and Prejudice and the reason our insides sort of leap when we meet a new face. We are embedded with the slight hope that something, well, magical will come of it.

Don’t we all secretly crave someone to run across the city at midnight with a melodramatic song playing in the background or to wait for us atop the Empire State Building? Aren’t we conditioned to want that on some level?

So don’t be so quick to poke fun at that part of yourself – that inher-ent desire to believe in little, fleet-ing moments of sudden, not-quite-love. And I promise you this, if you do take ownership of that childlike thought, you can count on at least one person to nod her head and say, “me too.”

I’m fidgety and my self-aware-ness that I’m fidgety makes me even more fidgety. This is particu-

larly the case in class and especially on the first day of class.

My head rests on my left hand, then my right

hand; now hands on my lap, hands on the table, hands on my legs, and then hands in my pock-ets. For god’s sake, where do my hands go?

Sit up, then sit back, feet angle forward, then angle back under the chair. Then I’m sweating. For no reason. It drips down the mid-dle of my back and my neck’s hot.

All of this is before the syllabus is delivered. I look around me and these weirdos are jovially talking to each other. They’re comfort-able. Such is a foreign notion to me in a public setting.

Most find the first day of class routine. Get the syllabus, ask pertinent questions about the syl-labus, joke with the teacher and move on with your day.

It is routine for me, but for a different reason. The first thing I do when encountering a sylla-bus is scan it for presentations or group work.

Others upon seeing a class has a presentation later in the semes-ter want to know the details, when its due and so on. I want to know how to get out of it.

My world has just crashed down around me, as I have to fig-ure out how I am going to survive this thing that isn’t going to hap-pen for another 8 weeks.

Then it gets internalized. Well, what the hell is wrong with me? Why does something so seem-ingly innocuous for other students seem like a ticking time bomb in my brain?

This routine — get the syllabus and peruse it for presentations — has been a fixture in my college career and earlier schooling. I’ve lost count of how many cours-es I’ve dropped over the years because I see the presentation menace on there.

Here’s the funny thing about humans. One of our pitfalls is that we’re better preachers than we are acting agents. This is no truer than

in my own experience. I’ve used this space frequently

to discuss the real problem of the stigmatization involved in mental health in terms of getting help or even speaking about it. Not only as it relates to a mental disease. If I had a headache, it would be nor-mal to tell someone I had a head-ache. If my whole world comes crashing around me because I have to do a presentation in eight weeks, that doesn’t seem so nor-mal to verbalize.

I found myself, when contem-plating this article or considering ways to seek real help with social anxiety, afraid to do so.

Afraid that I’d be seen as weak. Afraid that I’d be seen as a com-plainer. Afraid that I’d be looked at as somehow defective, a misfit.

Presentations, group work, these are a facet of a well-rounded education, right? Everyone hates public speaking, right?

According to Forbes, about 10 percent of the population actually enjoys public speaking. Freaks, I tell ya.

The majority, about 80 percent aren’t particularly fond of it, but they’ll survive it. The other 10 percent, which I seem to fall un-der, would be considered genu-ine glossophobics, those who are physically debilitated by even the thought of public speaking.

Naturally, I’ve read countless articles on public speaking; the “tricks” to surviving it and noth-ing has worked. I’ve been suffer-ing through them for my entire schooling career. If those things worked — deep breathing, pre-paredness, repetition, that most people aren’t paying attention to you anyway — then I wouldn’t be writing this article.

The other day in my Black World Studies course, we had to do a current events presentation. Only three to five minutes to dis-cuss a current event and then pose a question to the class to spur on discussion.

I chose an article I was in-timately familiar with having blogged about it numerous times. I knew the subject in and out.

Doesn’t matter. As I stand in front of the class

of only 13 students, my knees are shaking so bad I’m afraid I won’t be able to stand. I try to shift my weight to my right foot to quell the shaking. My face is hot and the self-awareness that people can see my red face makes me sweat even more.

A subject I would love to dis-cuss at length because I know it so well is instead clipped down to the fastest way I can deliver the important points. Points I deliver through a shaky voice where my lungs feel like they’re fighting to escape my chest.

Then just as soon as it started, it was over. My awareness of its brevity and immediacy doesn’t change how traumatizing it was. Three minutes or 30 minutes makes no difference.

I rode in an airplane for the first time to an altitude of 10,000 feet two summers ago and then I jumped out of it. Yet, standing in front of 13 students for three min-utes saying five short sentences

debilitates me. Admitting that sucks. The frustration that I can’t talk

comfortably about a subject I not only know well, but am passionate about only adds to the self-hatred.

The frustration that I’ve had to work around a perpetually chang-ing course schedule as I add and drop those courses that have the potential to terrify me adds to the self-hatred.

The frustration that I can’t just walk into a classroom and talk jo-vially with other strangers adds to the self-hatred.

Which is why I need to write about it. Hopefully someone can read this and think, “I’ve suffered silently with you, too,” and then I can do my small part to de-stigma-tize speaking about these issues.

Instead of being the preacher with a hollow megaphone, I can be the acting agent affecting a dif-ferent kind of change.

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If I had a headache, it would be normal to tell someone I had a headache. f my whole world comes crashing around me because I have to do a presentation in eight weeks, that doesn’t seem so normal to verbalize.”

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run, it may have certain weak-nesses if placed in the context of Miami’s regionals.

“There are some things in the report that look like they could easily be implemented [at Mi-ami], but there are other parts that don’t fit very well,” Pratt said. “IU and its regional campuses have historically operated very differently than Miami and its regional campuses. For instance, because [Miami’s] campuses are so close together, students and faculty have been able to move around freely. At IU, you can’t

do that.”To continue this investigation

and gather information from other models, Hodge has announced that he will be appointing a task force in the coming weeks.

Ultimately, Pratt said the uni-versity intends to adopt some of the ideas they find throughout this researching process.

“The primary goals are to pro-vide much more comprehen-sive (baccalaureate) offerings on the regional campuses with a more distinct identity sepa-rate from Oxford,” Hodge said, “though still very much within the Miami umbrella.”

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Daddy dance craze and visiting him at Brick Street … to say he will be missed by many is an un-derstatement.”

Lakes’ death came as a shock for his friends who knew him for having a goofy nature and being full of life.

“He lit up a room with his smile and huge heart,” Bray said. “He treasured his friends, helped them through rough times and made them feel like they were part of his family.”

Lakes’ devotion to others and passion for creativity was not limited to his work outside Mi-ami, but encompassed everything

he did.“For my two other children, and

most kids I know, they just want to go to school and go through each class, getting it out of the way,” Lakes’ mother Kelly Lakes said. “Not Aaron, though. He had a passion for his classes and he always took pride in participating and being able to learn.”

Director of University News and Communications Claire Wagner expressed the University’s condolences.

“Anytime a young person is lost, we as the campus feel it because you never know the po-tential that he or she had, and what they might have done.” Wagner said.

Funeral services for Lakes were held Friday, September 19 at Arpp and Root Funeral Home and Lakes’ burial followed at Ger-mantown Cemetery.

“What I would like people to remember about Aaron is that he truly wanted to help others, even to the sacrifice of his own time and resources,” Kelly Lake’s said. “He was a friend to everyone. He didn’t know a stranger.”

He truly wanted to help others, even to the sacrifices of his own time and resources.”

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other fruits to try, so that when it comes to actual wine tasting, the students can identify the nu-anced flavors in the wine.

Often, when students initially hear about this course, they as-sume or are told it is a wine tast-ing class. However, once they talk to current or past students, they learn that it is geared toward a comprehensive understanding of viticulture. This revelation did not deter senior Theo Blomquist, Accounting and Finance double major.

“As a business major, it’s good [information] to know,” Blomquist said.

Kaetlyn Veluscek, Miami alumna (’14) and one of Keegan’s former students, also said knowl-edge of wine is a valuable trait to have in the business world.

“It won’t make or break an in-terview, but it’s good information to know that can set you apart,” she said.

Veluscek said the class helped even her in her new job.

“Every few weeks [at my com-pany] there’s a casual after-work drink, where they tell me what to taste and it helps out with that.”

Keegan, however, pointed out that a deep understanding of wine helps people in more than just the business world. He said he has had former students email him saying they have used his course more than any other they took at Miami.

“I cannot tell you how many of my students say to me, ‘Oh Jack, my boss asked me to pick out the wine,’ you know, so … it can help, obviously not in a huge way, to give students a leg up especially in their first job or

two because they come across as knowing a little more, being a little more cultured,” Keegan said. “Or, like some students ac-cepted to medical school, ‘Jack, I had my med school interview. We only talked about wine.’”

Keegan said a more appropri-ate colloquial name for the class would be “wines class” rather than the “wine tasting class,” since it really does focus on the process from the first seeds to the actual taste of the wine.

Clearly, it is valuable for any student looking to set themselves apart from coworkers or competi-tors. Any student from any ma-jor is welcome to enroll, as long as he or she is at least 21 years of age.

“This is a skill, an enjoyment they can do for the rest of their lives,” Keegan said. “And I think that’s really important.”

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that go into placing these re-cruiters. First, the university looks to the places where there are al-ready a lot of enrolled students at Miami, such as Cincinnati, Co-lumbus and Chicago areas. It is important to do this to maintain and develop the relationships that Miami has or will have with cer-tain regions and high schools.

The second factor involves working with Wiche, a site that gives accurate projections on pop-ulation increase and decrease, to find the places where there will be an increase of high school gradu-ates in the coming years.

However, a more complicated issue that arises when discussing admissions is the amount of di-versity present in the class sizes at Miami.

According to Ron Scott, As-sociate Vice President for In-stitutional Diversity, even with the gradual increase of applica-tions and overall interest in Mi-ami each year, additional steps can and should be taken in or-der to get increased diversity

in the future. “It’s all about perception,”

Scott said. “The nearby univer-sities such as the University of Cincinnati and The Ohio State University are perceived as hav-ing significantly more diversity than us when, in reality, they don’t have that much more.”

According to FindtheBest.com, a website dedicated to com-paring schools’ statistics side-by-side, 10 percent of Miami’s incoming class is considered di-verse, compared to Ohio State’s 15 percent and the University of Cincinnati’s 13 percent.

Scott also mentioned the com-petition that Miami faces with these schools that have an easier way of promoting themselves. In order to reach the maximum po-tential of diversity and the best students possible, Miami needs to change their rhetoric and the way potential students perceive the university.

“In regards to the future, we are going to continue to recruit and enroll the brightest, best, and most diverse class across the country,” said Susan Schaurer.

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Amidst the excitement of alumni weekend and senior day, the Miami University soccer team picked up two hard-fought wins to move to 6-1 and extended its winning streak to four games.

Miami seniors Courtney Zanotti, Kelsey Dinges, Danielle Wiseman, Olivia Evans and Hailey Pleshakov were honored before Sunday’s kick-off against Illinois State University (6-4). All five started the game.

The RedHawks flew past the Redbirds early Sunday and took a 2-0 lead into halftime. ISU re-taliated with two goals to even the contest until Miami senior mid-fielder Kelsey Dinges spurred her team to victory with a strike into the top-right corner of the net. Dinges

scored three goals this weekend and is riding a run of five goals in the past four matches.

“Kelsey Dinges may be the hot-test player in NCAA soccer right now,” head coach Bobby Kramig said. “Those were three super high quality goals. Kels can do that — she’s dangerous from 30 yards in.”

In addition to another classy performance from Dinges, Sunday marked the emergence of Mag-gie Scott. The freshman midfielder scored a goal and was credited with an assist after her through-ball was finished by sophomore forward Rachel Marble.

“We’ve known Maggie is a good player all along,” Kramig said. “She’s played in every game for us. She’s a great ballstriker. She’s a creative attacking player. It was just a matter of time before she was gonna get one, and what a good goal it was.”

Scott joined fellow fresh-men Kat Zalar and Amy Malone as goal scorers early in their opening season.

“That was my first collegiate goal and assist, so it was pretty awesome,” Scott said. “It was a big win.”

Miami’s first weekend triumph came against Marshall University (3-3-2) in similarly tight fashion. The ’Hawks were challenged by the Thundering Herd, but held on to seal the 2-1 victory. Dinges had both Miami goals Friday, one of which was a blistering 30-yard bending strike.

Although the ’Hawks didn’t play their best soccer against Marshall, they showed the ability to win with less than their A game.

“It wasn’t a work of art – I know we’re capable of playing

TOM DOWNEYSPORTS EDITOR

Despite being 29-point un-derdogs, the Miami University football team nearly upset rival University of Cincinnati in a 31-24 loss under the lights at Paul Brown Stadium. The RedHawks had the ball at the one-yard line late in the fourth quarter with a chance to tie the game, but came away empty handed in the school’s 20th straight loss and ninth straight Battle for the Victory Bell loss.

“By far the best we’ve played, in all facets of the game, against a really talented team,” head coach Chuck Martin said.

Fifth-year senior quarterback Andrew Hendrix said the near upset didn’t surprise Miami.

“I think we surprised everybody but ourselves,” Hendrix said. “We know within this program how good we are. And we’re nowhere near where we need to be, but we are a very good football team. This one slipped away from us, we definitely could have, should have, would have won this game. And that’s gonna stick with us and help us prepare next week for Buffalo moving forward. I think the cat’s out of the bag on us. We’re a team that you don’t want

to play.”Turnovers and mistakes once

again cost the RedHawks. The ’Hawks allowed 14 points on three turnovers, gave up eight sacks and committed six penal-ties. One of those sacks game on 3rd and goal from the four-yard line on the RedHawks’ last pos-session of the game.

“We had a rookie mistake, but hey, we had a coaching mistakes and veteran mistakes,” Martin said. “Obviously everyone is go-ing to talk about a sack, which ob-viously was a huge play, but we all had mistakes.”

Fifth-year senior cornerback Quinten Rollins continued his outstanding play, picking off two passes and breaking up two oth-ers. He also tied for the team lead with six tackles, one of which was a tackle for loss.

The RedHawks’ running game showed signs of life for the first time in a long time, as they picked up 102 yards on the ground. Ex-cluding the eight sacks quarter-back Andrew Hendrix took, the RedHawks had 156 yards on the ground.

The running attack came in a committee, as senior wide receiv-

er Dawan Scott led the team with 50 yards on 10 carries. Spencer McInnis chipped in 48 yards on nine carries.

Senior wide receiver David Fra-zier was once again the top target for Hendrix, as Frazier reeled in five catches for 162 yards and two scores. He also picked up MAC East Player of the Week honors for his performance.

The RedHawks struck first in the game on a 23-yard touch-down pass from Hendrix to Da-vid Frazier. UC struck back with a TD pass of its own, as Gunner Kiel found Mekale McKay for a

27-yard score.True freshman running back

Paul Moses then gave Miami the lead back on an 18-yard scamper in which he broke four tackles. It was Miami’s first rushing touch-down of the season.

“It’s nice and, again, it starts with the push on the left side,” Martin said. “We got him to the second level. You saw late, when he ran into the linebacker in the middle of the backfield, it wasn’t so much fun for the kid. But we got him on a smaller kid, and he

RedHawk upset comes up short against UC

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Miami University head coach Chuck Martin patrols the sidelines during a Miami loss. Martin and Miami are searching for their first win of the season after losing to the University of Cincinnati 31-24.

If you have been anywhere near a TV during the last week or two, you’ve like-ly heard about the numerous domes-

tic violence issues surrounding the National Football League.

The goal here is not to add in-sult to injury for Roger Goodell, the men accused or the numer-ous people that are surrounding the debacle that is the NFL right now. The goal is to speak clearly about what role NFL players need to accept.

The men in the NFL are under

microscopes, and they should be. The majority of the men seem to be well behaved and understand that they are under a microscope because of the massive number of people who admire them. The problem in the NFL is that some players are not mature enough to handle the privileged life that they have been given. These athletes are role models for a young generation and that is a role they need to not only accept, but also cherish.

When a young football player stands over his peers, he is respect-ed and possibly feared. When a player is gifted in high school, they are rewarded with scholarship of-fers. When that same player contin-ues to excel at the collegiate level

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