BY LIBBY MUELLERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Construction at the Recreation-al Sports Center (REC) has rel-egated equipment to the basket-ball court and sealed off the areas across from the racquetball courts and check-in counter.

According to the REC’s ex-ecutive director, Doug Curry, the construction will result in an expansion of the pro shop, more cardio equipment and a new group fitness room.

Curry said the decision for the changes came from responses to student surveys sent out at the end

of both the fall and spring semes-ters.

“One of our biggest sur-vey requests is room for cardio equipment,” Curry said. “In the old racquetball court we’re ac-tually adding a second floor, a room for more treadmills, cardio equipment.”

There will be approximately fifteen more pieces of cardio equipment as well as expanded stretching areas in the new space, according to Curry.

Curry said a room will be added for more group fitness classes as well.

“Where the Hydrations place

used to be there will be anoth-er group fitness room,” Curry said. “We’re always looking for more space.”

Curry said the construction was not supposed to happen while classes were in session.

“Ideally this was supposed to start last spring, the week after spring break, so it would’ve been done the first part of August,” Curry said. “Due to construction delays and contracts, it just kept getting delayed.”

The projects are set to be completed by Dec. 9, according to Curry.

“The goal is to get it ready for

students as soon as possible,” Curry said.

The project was financed through a capital reserve and re-placement account, according to Curry.

Senior Director for Cus-tomer Services and Facil-ity Management Ron Siliko said the REC puts aside a cer-tain amount of money each year into this account.

“We basically allocate a set amount each year out of the bud-get,” Siliko said. “It’s for replace-ment of equipment and facili-ties. We do that every year. Any additional money we have as

profit at the end of the year we put in that account.”

Siliko said revenue is gath-ered from any point of sale the REC may have, such as fees for group fitness classes, as well as student general fees.

Student fees will not increase as a result of the current construc-tion project, according to Siliko.

The percentage of student gen-eral fees allocated to the REC center has actually fallen over the years, according to Siliko.

Last year, approximately 17

KAILA FRISONEFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University students and members of the Oxford commu-nity now have an intercity bus service to connect them to more than 3,800 destinations through-out North America.

Barons Bus Lines’ newly es-tablished Cincinnati to Detroit route allows passengers from Ox-ford to get to and from Cincinnati and Indianapolis for $10. They

can also travel to Bowling Green for $25 and Detroit for $35.

According to Vice President of Barons Bus Lines John Goe-bel, this service can also directly connect passengers to other bus lines, such as Greyhound, allow-ing passengers to travel to and from thousands of other cities. If looking for bus transportation to an airport, Goebel recommends flying out of the Indianapolis In-ternational Airport. Barons Bus Lines stops one block from the

Omni Serverin Hotel where pas-sengers can then take GO Express Travel for arrival at the airport at approximately 11:15 a.m. Taxi-cabs are also available for poten-tially earlier arrival to the airport.

“If you’re going for a day-trip or whatever your travel needs are, those prices make it really afford-able,” Goebel said.

The 56 passenger Motor Coach

In 1993, The Miami Student reported the temporary silence of the university’s Beta Bells, which had been chiming every hour for over 50 years. Having arrived in Oxford in 1939, the electrical short that paralyzed the bells is a thing of the past.

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The Recreational Sports Center construction is set to be completed by Dec. 9, after a new group fitness room replaces the Hydrations snack bar, and a number of other renovations are made.

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Miami University students board the new Barons Bus Lines outside the Shriver Center.

BY SHANNON O’CONNORFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Three law enforcement offi-cials were sworn in to the Oxford Police Department at city council Tuesday evening, joining 25 oth-er men and women on the force.

Law Director Steve swore in Matt Blauvelt and Matt Hardin as new officers. Officer Greg Moore pinned his wife Sergeant Lara Fening, who is the first female supervisor in Oxford history.

All new members have had previous experience in the police force. Blauvelt was an officer of probation, warrant and police in Hamilton. Hardin was a part of the Marine Corps in Afghani-stan. Fening was in the control unit of the Miami University Police Department (MUPD) and Oxford Township.

With the extended family and friends of the initiated in the crowd, witnesses created what Steve Snyder referred to as “a fine looking audience.”

Those in attendance includ-ed Calvin and Linda Wagers, whose son Matt Wager was sworn into the Oxford Police Department in 2011.

“We’ve known Matt Hardin since the age of eight,“ Calvin said. “So I can honestly say that Oxford is getting the best officer they could ask for.”

Also present were Hardin’s grandmother, Beverley Fu-son, and sister, Holly Holliday, who made the hour trip from Millford with their children

for the occasion. “I’m so proud of my baby

brother and his fellow officers,” Holliday said. “The Oxford com-munity is incredibly lucky to have these people.”

Following city council, Oxford Police Chief Robert Holzworth expressed his approval of the additional forces.

“There is no doubt they will hit the ground running,” Holzworth said. “But their tremendous en-thusiasm will get them through our training program.”

The 14-week-long program is designed to teach novice officers ways of policing in both the city and on campus. With their neigh-boring force responsible for ad-ditional jurisdiction lines every year, Holzworth said an ongo-ing relationship with the Miami University Police Department (MUPD) is essential in patrol, in-vestigation and communication.

“Our forces may not be joined, but they are blended,” Holzworth said.

Having lived in Oxford since 1967, Holzworth is a Miami alum and merger, and said he genuinely values the education and safety of Miami students.

“It’s a small number [of stu-dents] who make mistakes,” Holzworth said. “You don’t be-lieve it, but I still consider Mi-ami students the best. Most of you are great young men and women, that’s why we’re adding additional officers. So issues are

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BY HANNAH STEINFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

This year, a Miami Univer-sity class will take their skills outside the classroom, working to develop a documentary about The Mississippi Summer Proj-ect, Freedom Summer, which will celebrate the involvement of the Oxford community in the civil rights movement.

The Freedom Summer campaign took place in 1964 and aimed to register as many African Ameri-cans to vote in Mississippi as pos-sible while also setting up Freedom Schools. Before going to work in Mississippi, the volunteers partici-pated in training sessions at West-ern College for Women, now a part of Miami.

The class is two semesters long. The fall semester is dedicated to background research and story de-velopment and the spring semes-ter focuses primarily on shooting and scripting. Professor Kathy Conkwright, who is teaching the course, said the fall semester class was open to all, however, the spring semester will only be open to students who have either taken

the fall semester class or have production experience.

The documentary is set to pre-mier at the last annual national con-ference in memoriam of the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, which will take place at Miami in October of 2014, Conkwright said.

The planning committee for the conference approached Conk-wright about potentially making a documentary either about the con-ference or for the conference.

According to Conkwright, CET, Cincinnati’s PBS station, will broadcast the documentary the No-vember or December after it pre-miers at the conference.

“The hope is that we would be able to find those significant par-ticipants and people who would be willing to contribute to be inter-viewed to get their stories to cre-ate something to celebrate this,” Conkwright said.

She said she hopes the docu-mentary will tell a story that has never been told to celebrate Ox-ford’s involvement in a critical part of history.

“We want to focus specifically on what happened here, the training sessions,” Conkwright said. “How

did the community of Oxford and the place of Oxford, how those two things work together to really af-fect something that then enabled all those folks, the student volun-teers, the activists, local residents, to go on and do something that dramatically affected the history of this country.”

She said since this will be the last year the conference will take place, it is an important time for this part of history to be documented.

Although Conkwright said she thinks it is an important opportu-nity to document this story, she also said she hopes, as a professor, to convey to the students that it is important that your work is seen by others, that it makes a difference and reaches people.

“I want students, who are spend-ing all the time they have, to spend it on something that should be seen and heard, shared with other people in the community,” she said. “…It’s extremely hard and not glamorous work, it’s not about making a lot of money or being in the spotlight…it’s sort of my goal for sharing it and getting it out in the world.”

Senior Emily Potten said she enrolled in the class to get

more production experience and said the most exciting part will be interviewing.

“I’m really exciting for inter-viewing because there are so many people who are still alive who were a part of it,” she said. “For me it

would be really cool to get to talk to somebody who participated in something so monumental.”

Potten also said people do not al-ways think about how much work goes into a documentary and how fun and creative it can be, and she is excited to hone her production skills through the class.

Sophomore Stephanie Harris said she was already interested in Freedom Summer and was drawn to the class because it was a topic that interested her. Similar to Pot-ten, said she hopes to broaden her experience through the class.

“I’m excited to explore a dif-ferent aspect of my field,” Harris said. “Being a journalism major it’s really easy to get caught up in only one aspect…It’s a form of storytelling and it’s a part I know nothing about.”

Harris said the most interesting part of the class for her will be de-termining what the story will be for the documentary.

Even though Freedom Summer was 50 years ago, Conkwright said she believes the story is just as per-tinent today and hopes the docu-mentary will be moving.

“Individuals and ordinary citi-zens really can make a difference,” she said. “It was here that it re-ally rooted in a reality and I think all the people who were involved were very much transformed…it’s a great story today.”

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JALEN WALKER THE MIAMI STUDENTDRAWN INSophomore Alicia Auhagen participates in a sketching activity on her first day of art class Aug. 26.

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I want students, who are spending all the time they have, to spend it on something that should be seen and heard, shared with other people in the community.”

KATHY CONKWRIGHTCOLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE PROFESSOR

BY CONNOR MORIARTYFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Sixteen students Miami Uni-versity students hit Los Angeles, CA for three weeks this summer as a part of the university’s first Inside Hollywood program.

Richard Campbell, Depart-ment Chair of Media, Journalism and Film, and a co-creator of the program, said it gave those who participated the opportunity to experience first-hand how show business works and how large en-tertainment corporations are run.

“In a three week period, stu-dents got a real taste of what these jobs are like; that would be hard to get in a classroom,” he said. “The students had the opportunity to be immersed in the culture, rather

than just hearing about it.”Campbell said he believes the

trip went smoothly and it ad-dressed topics such as TV and film production, editing, casting, script development, administra-tion, finances and marketing.

Campbell explained that Miami alumni who are a part of Hol-lywood entertainment industries made the trip possible. He con-tacted various alumni who were able to connect the students to major industries.

“Once we knew we had all this support from our alumni, we knew we could make this trip work,” he said.

David Sholle, an associate professor of media, journalism and film, is a co-creator of the program and spent the full three weeks in L.A. with the students.

“The alumni presented the op-portunity for us to receive tours of TV and film production sets such as those for ‘Family Guy’ and MTV’s ‘Awkward,’” he said. “Miami alum Rick Ludwin even guided us through the set of ‘The Conan Show’ at Warner Bros. Stu-dios which included a post-show meeting with Conan himself.”

During their free time, students left their apartment in the Hol-lywood hills to travel the city,

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Award-winning author Pico Iyer will be presenting a lec-ture called, “Global Souls: Fresh Pressures and Possibilities in Our New Age of Movement,” 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10 in 102 Benton Hall.

His lecture is the first in a series called “Globalization and Belong-ing,” presented by the Humanities Center’s John W. Altman Program. This year, the program is focusing on questions of identity and belong-ing in a globalized world, accord-ing to Humanities Center Director Tim Melley.

“We’re asking questions like, ‘How did the Boston

Marathon bombers decide they were enemies?’” Melley said. “What dis-rupted their feeling of belonging?”

When it comes to answering such questions, no one could be better suited for the task than Iyer, Melley said.

Born in England to parents from India, educated in the US and the UK and currently living in Japan, Iyer knows a thing or two about globalization. His travels across cultures have required him to think about where he belongs and how he should place himself in the world, he said.

“I’m really interested in the issue of home and what home means,” Iyer said. “It’s become invsible, por-table, shifting.”

Iyer has written 13 of books and

hundreds of articles on this very subject, earning him a number of honors and awards. Yet, he loves speaking at universities and is espe-cially fond of Miami he said because this will be his second speaking engagement here.

Prior to his lecture on Tuesday, he will be meeting with a number of dif-ferent groups of faculty and students in smaller, more intimate settings. There will also be an open reception and book signing following the talk.

Iyer said he hopes to keep even the lecture as informal as possible by taking a “human approach” to looking at globalization.

“Globalization is far more inter-esting on the personal level,” Iyer said. “I’ll stress the human aspect in my talk.”

BY VICTORIA TERSIGNI FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Information Technology (IT) Services at Miami University has increased their wireless inter-net bandwidth exponentially, cre-ated a new network specifically for gamers and added 500 new Wi-Fi access points in the span of one month.

According to Senior Director for IT Communications & Relation-ship Management, Cathy McVey, Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another. It is usually measured in gigabits per second. She explained why the IT Services has increased the amount of Wi-Fi bandwidth access across campus.

“The demand [for sufficient bandwidth] grows and we are continuing to work and meet that demand because we know that that’s important not only for the academic side, but the residence halls,” McVey said. “They are your home and you expect to have good service there, so we take that responsibility seriously.”

According to Chris Bernard, the Director of Network Engineer-ing and Communications, the IT staff created a new Wi-Fi network called MU Gaming to help stu-dents receive better connection on their gaming devices than in previous years.

He said when logging on to MU Wireless with any device, before a students enter in their credentials,

there is some encryption that hap-pens to ensure that their username, password and other information being transmitted is safe. Unfortu-nately, certain gadgets don’t accept MU Wireless’s system.

“A lot of gaming devices can’t support [the encryption piece] so we had to create a separate network to support those,” Bernard said. “It is merely a way for those devices to be able to get onto the network in a way that they can handle it.”

Sophomore Erik Weaver, a PS3 user, gave positive feedback re-garding MU Gaming.

“I have enjoyed MU Gaming a lot this year already,” he said.

BEN TAYLOR THE MIAMI STUDENTPASTRY PERUSING At Patisserie, a new dining location in Maplestreet Station., students ogle the new pastry creations, from shortbread cookies to maple bacon cupcakes.

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In a three week period, students got a real taste of what these jobs are like; that would be hard to get in a classroom.”

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Oxford sees a number of busi-nesses come and go, but Oxford Shoe, located at 123 W High St., recently celebrated its 30th anni-versary. Marty Zajbel, owner of the store, purchased Oxford Shoe on September 1, 1983.

Originally from Beavercreek, Ohio, Zajbel said he chose to start a business in a town like Oxford because of its size.

“I wanted a business that al-lows me to stay small and in-dependent,” Zajbel said. “I re-ally didn’t want to compete in a big city.”

As an Army Veteran, Zajbel considered attending Miami

University, which infl uenced his choice of location.

Starting off as a shoe repair store for the fi rst ten years, Ox-ford Shoe now sells popular brands like Red Wing, Birken-stock, Sperry and also does cata-logue sales for any of the brands they carry. Although they still repair shoes upon request, most revenue is made through retail.

“A lot of my business is re-tail, any shoe repair is limited to college girls’ high heels,” Zajbel said.

For Zajbel, the shoe business made sense.

“I just liked the looks and the smells of the shoe repair busi-ness,” Zajbel said.

From selling Christmas cards

and cherries as a child to be-ing a suits salesman, Zajbel said he has been interested in sales all his life.

Zajbel’s wife, Agnes, said she enjoys helping with repairs be-cause of all the people it has giv-en her the chance to meet.

“We love the communi-ty; the people are very nice,” Zajbel said.

Anne Pratt, an Oxford resident since 1957, said she has been a regular customer of Oxford Shoe, and loves the way it has benefi t-ted her and the community.

“I’ve been coming here for as long as I can remember,” Pratt said.

Zajbel said he is proud to be the owner of one of the oldest

surviving stores in town.An increase in online shop-

ping has brought in a lot of rev-enue for Oxford Shoe, accord-ing to Zajbel, who jokingly likes to call the UPS driver one his biggest customers.

According to Zajbel, though residents of Oxford and neigh-boring towns support his busi-ness, Miami students never stop coming in.

Miami senior Andrea Eam said she loves Uptown’s shopping di-versity, and she would like to see Oxford Shoe stick around.

“I am happy to know that Ox-ford Shoe is celebrating thirty years,” Eam said. “I wish other stores and restaurants [would] also last longer.”

Student on the Street

How do you feel about a slightly increased police presence in Oxford?

“I think that people do well when they see a police offi cer, like, around the corner. They may think , ‘there’s an offi cer there, I better not do anything bad.’ However, sometimes police offi cers can mix into people’s private lives and watch people’s private actions. Too many police offi cers can overshadow students and create fear.”

Lauren GottschalkFirst-year

“Honestly, I haven’t seen too many police offi cers while being out. So I feel like it’s not overwhelming now.”

Tyraan SalesSophomore

“I defi nitely feel violated. I mean, you’re just trying to walk around and everywhere you go, there’s an offi cer.”

Noah GilbertJunior

“I’m a freshman, so I don’t really know how it was before, but I hope it doesn’t get to the point where all my friends are getting arrested for not necessarily serious things. But I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing because there may be some serious situations to take care of.”

Nathan StegnerFirst-year

The Oxford Police Department (OPD) has recently hired three new police offi cers. In an attempt to keep the police force growing at the same rate of the Miami University student body, OPD hopes these offi cers will

increase safety and accountability in the City of Oxford.

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BY JESS HINKLEFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

After a lot of stress and a few rough seasons, the Tala-wanda Braves football team is beginning to see positive re-turns this year. The team is the talk of the town this week after having won their game last Friday against Monroe High School 24-14.

Head coach J.D. Vonderheide said he believes the catalyst for this recent turn around was the team’s effort.

“[It was] all hard work, dedi-cation and commitment of the players, coaches and everyone involved,” Vonderheide said.

Vonderheide said the team was put through a rigor-ous training schedule during the summer.

“We would lift and run four

days a week starting at 7 a.m.,” Vonderheide said. “We spent an hour and 15 minutes in the weight room and an hour do-ing conditioning, speed and quickness work.”

In addition to their sum-mer preparation, the team also worked hard throughout the off-season, Vonderheide said. Be-tween Dec. and May, the team spent four days a week lifting and one day running.

Dakota Byrd, senior run-ning back and linebacker, said he believes all the training has paid off. Byrd said his favorite Braves memory was last week.

“[The team was] coming off the field and [we saw] the whole community at the game, know-ing they were there to support us,” Byrd said.

Vonderheide said he has some concerns about

upcoming games. He said there are at least two players that would not be playing in the next game. Byrd and junior running back and corner back Maurice Thomas will be out this Friday, Vonderheide said.

Vonderheide said mak-ing sure players stay healthy is one of the most important things to maintain to ensure a good season.

Miami University has a his-tory with Talawanda football. Vonderheide and several other Braves coaches played at Mi-ami. Byrd said he felt Miami has done a lot for the Braves.

“[Miami football has] always been open for us to come…and meet with them to watch prac-tices or [to help us] develop our program,” Vonderheide said.

When starting as Talawanda’s coach, Vonderheide said he

looked up to Terry Hoeppner, former RedHawk head coach.

Vonderheide listed Thomas, junior tight end and defensive lineman Eric Mincy and senior offensive and defensive lineman Hunter Backdorf as key players this season who may have col-lege football in their future.

Talawanda junior quarterback Conner Scott said that he has not looked into college foot-ball much yet, but that he truly loves the sport.

“Being a part of a team is like being a part of a family,” Scott said.

Miami University sophomore David Malone, a Talawanda alumus, said that he looks for-ward to seeing what the Braves have in store this season.

The Talawanda Braves have a home game this Friday against the Carlisle Indians.

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percent of the student general fee budget went to the REC, accord-ing to the 2011-2012 operating budget for fiscal year (FY) 2012. This year, less than 16 percent of the student general fee budget went to the REC, according to the 2012-2013 operating budget for FY 2013.

Senior Kate Schumacher said, however, the changes are not accurately addressing the needs of students who use the REC facility.

“I’d say they’re going the wrong way,” Schumacher said. “When you go to the cardio area, there’s always at least one ma-chine open. The bigger issue is, when you go downstairs, the bars are right on top of each other.

There’s really no room.”Schumacher said in order to

better meet student needs, the REC should extend the free weights area and add more bars. She also said an additional bas-ketball court would be helpful.

“Another basketball court; that would be helpful just because it’s really hard for you to play bad-minton or volleyball. It’s crowd-ed on the basketball courts,” Schumacher said. “When you walk into the REC, you get the feeling that it’s too small for all of the students.”

However, Schumacher said it was a good idea to add another group fitness room.

Junior Jeffrey Stagnaro also said the changes are not the best way to cater to student needs.

“The biggest need is more free weights,” Stagnaro said.

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Industry (MCI) buses include amenities such as Wi-Fi, elec-trical outlets, flat-screen TVs, reclining seats and onboard rest-rooms, according to Goebel.

“Miami, and Oxford in gen-eral, was an area that was in des-perate need of a bus service and has been for years,” Goebel said.

As of June 8, students can catch this bus on the corner of Maple and Spring Street, in front of the Shriver Center, every day, departing at 8:30 a.m. and 11:50 p.m. The 8:30 a.m. de-parture from Oxford heads west to Indianapolis and then north towards Bowling Green and De-troit. The 11:50 p.m. departure from Oxford travels to Cincin-nati. These are currently the only stops in Oxford.

Goebel said passengers must print tickets themselves and bring an ID to board the bus. He also said the company is hoping to have the technology to scan tickets from a smart phone in the next year, but they do not yet have the capability.

Booking tickets months in ad-vance is not necessary because schedules are always subject to change. However, he encour-ages students to purchase tickets online at www.baronsbus.com to receive the best rates. There are also more discounts, up to 40 percent off, when purchas-ing tickets 21, 14 or 7 days prior to the trip.

Director of Parking and Transportation Services Lt. Ben Spilman said Miami has been trying to expand their transportation network.

“We have pretty good trans-portation here on campus,” he said. “Now we need to find a way to get people here and get them home without necessarily having a personal car.”

Spilman said this is a huge opportunity for the Oxford community, particularly Miami students.

Senior Maggie McGrath said the new bus service will give stu-dents the urge to travel more.

“As a senior with a car, I won’t be using it as often,” she said. “If I were a freshman or sophomore, it would be very helpful.”

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reduced and better contained for your safety, even if we’ll never completely be rid of them.”

With just over 15,000 under-graduates in a town with less than 60 police officers, some students said they are not excited about the increase in the police force.

Having spent four years in Oxford, senior Julie McKechnie said she has doubts over the ad-dition to the force.

“I’m sure I speak for many when I say I am not looking forward to more officers in the area,” McKechnie said. “I just don’t think a few more men and women in uniform will be ben-eficial to the point where we see a change in student conduct and problem resolution.”

While some don’t see the change as positive, others are optimistic.

Sophomore Celeste Cantwell said she feels safer knowing OPD are patrolling the streets, regardless of the result.

“The more people we have protecting our interests, the bet-ter,” Cantwell said.

Citing the possibility of safer nights and less trouble for the community, sophomore Nora Husani said she is also optimistic about the additional forces.

“Even if it’s three new police officers, it still means there are three more pairs of eyes looking out for the safety and well being of our city,” Husani said.

In spite of the conflicting atti-tudes toward their initiation into the Oxford Police Force, newly initiated Officer Matt Hardin said he considers this opportunity a remarkable one.

“It’s a real honor,” Hardin said. “We are very excited to serve this community, and will begin to do this tomorrow.”

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It’s not isolated, leaving its people to suffer quietly. It’s on the verge of engulfing much of the re-gion, and their aiding superpowers. Because it’s happening under the glaring spotlight of social media and international attention, Syria isn’t an Iraq, isn’t a Vietnam, isn’t an Afghanistan.

It isn’t a conflict of questionable origins or ambiguities of weapons of mass destruction. There is sufficient evidence, supported by global orga-nizations that Assad used sarin gas to slaughter his own people.

The red line of chemical warfare was not one invented by Barack Obama, but instead by the interna-tional community. In 1925, Syria signed the Geneva Protocol, pro-hibiting “the use of chemical and biological weapons,” according to the U.N. This is why Obama said Wednesday “I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line,” according to CNN.

Regardless of what side of the political fence you’re on, in this circumstance, Obama is right. Gro-tesque violations of human rights and blatant disregard for interna-tional law call for a response, or we allow Bashar al-Assad to believe he can act with impunity and continue to mercilessly kill his own people.

This makes U.S. policy incred-ibly difficult. Only 29 percent of the American public approves of air strikes on Syria, according to Pew Research. Equally precarious, France is our only European ally explicitly supporting air strikes, ac-cording to USA Today. Most dis-turbing of all, we are on the edge of air strikes, of supporting a group that we don’t fully understand. The am-biguity of the Syrian rebels makes the actual method of intervention equally ambiguous, but necessary in some form.

Keeping this in mind, President Obama and Congress should not compare Syria to Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam but it should remember these previous experiences to bet-ter strategize a way to liberate the struggling Syrian people without empowering a radical, violent Is-lamic faction. This is their real task, one much larger than the question of simple air strikes.

Our task, as the American people, is to decide where politics coincide with morality.

When, if at all, do we as a super-power have a moral obligation to protect those who cannot protect themselves? When do we not only speak support for those wanting freedom, but act upon those words?

How high does a death toll climb before we’re too uncomfortable to sit still?

I am not eager to see American lives even slightly endangered in an-other Middle Eastern conflict. I am incredibly worried about a Russian response to an American airstrike, as Russia is Syria’s greatest benefactor.

These concerns are deeply trou-bling, but even more so is inac-tion. To not act is to not back our threats to the Assad regime, and to fall short of the principles to which we ascribe as a nation founded on supporting freedom.

I, with many other people, in-cluding likely many in our govern-ment and many in Syria, wish that diplomacy could singlehandedly provide resolution, but there’s no way to longer be diplomatic with a government that systematically kills its own people.

As the time drags on, more people suffer at the hands of a violently op-pressive regime. How much longer will other countries let them? Will it be indefinite? In the words of our president, “Are we going to try to find a reason not to act? And if that’s the case, then I think the (world) community should admit it.”

making trips to places such as Santa Monica and The Hollywood Sign, according to Sholle.

“The students were able to get so close to the sign that they could touch it,” he said.

The trip concluded for the stu-dents with a week of shadowing one of the various alumni who is a professional in the field of TV or film production, according to Sholle.

Senior Media, Journalism and Film, and Management and Leadership double-major Julie Mullen was among the students in the immersion program and called it a once in a lifetime ex-perience. She would go again in a

heartbeat, she said.Mullen spent her last week in

L.A. shadowing in VH1 Studios and Original Productions.

“We were able to get a closer look of daily life in the businesses rather than just a few hours of summaries or tours,” she said.

Campbell, Sholle and Mullen all agreed the trip is an ideal way to make connections and get jobs.

“A couple students even stayed in L.A. after the trip because they received job opportunities,” Campbell said. “Senior Mass Communications major Mercedes Williams, for example, was ac-cepted for a co-op with the Cre-ative Arts Agency (CAA).”

Mullen also stayed be-hind to learn and work after the trip ended.

“I even continued to intern in L.A. for a month after the trip was over and built great job connec-tions and contacts,” Mullen said. “This is definitely the best way to make connections.”

Inside Hollywood will be of-fered again this upcoming winter term according to Media, Jour-nalism and Film professor and co-creator of the trip Howard Kleiman. There are no require-ments or prerequisites necessary to go, and the trip will hopefully be lengthened to eight weeks, he said.

An informational session will be held in 160 Williams Hall Thursday, September 12 at 7:00pm, Kleiman said. Applica-tions are due Sept. 26 via Miami’s Study Abroad Website.

“With it being on a separate net-work, everything that I’ve used from streaming movies on Netflix to playing my PS3 has been so much quicker.”

Randy Hollowell, Senior Com-munication and Web Coordinator of Information, encouraged fac-ulty, staff and students to consider installing free virus protection on their devices. He said if they do not get virus protection, they may

be removed from the wireless internet network.

“If a computer has a virus or is potentially a threat to other com-puters on the network, there is an ability to sort of quarantine that computer or to not allow it to have network access until that system is clean. Our IT Center in 317 Hughes Hall will help students to clean their machine, and there is a charge for that, but they have to prove that the machine is clean be-fore they are able to get back onto the network.”

Whether connection problems or issues with electronic devices in general, Randy Hollowell said IT Services is willing to help with any problems students are facing.

“It is important for students to realize that if they have issues, defi-nitely to call or to contact the sup-port desk, so that we are aware of those issues so we have the oppor-tunity to fix them,” Hollowell said.

Those seeking technological support can contact the IT Ser-vices Center at 513-529-7900 or ithelp@miamioh.edu

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Passing through Upham Arch one evening, I was overcome with a sense of detachment. I had never so acutely been a guest in my own home. The hollowed tile evoked a reverberant storm of footsteps; countless footsteps of students who had passed before me. The ragged stone, benches worn like driftwood, were all reminders of my fleeting lease. Miami, like all loving moth-ers, is a generous landlord. How-ever, every lease expires. Here, we are blessed with these few years in which we may imbue Mother Mi-ami with our vigor and spirit. We en-liven her and ensure her everlasting prosperity, which she may provide to future generations.

Beneath the lantern, I watched the sun-singed sky melt into the auburn canopy. I stood, as if at the bow of a ship, and felt, for the first time, the bona fide love and honor that have driven Miamians past to care for their alma mater, making her an even more bountiful provider. I understood the duality of Miami simultaneously nurturing and being nurtured by her student tenants. The desire to reconcile all that Miami has

given them has driven Miami stu-dents past to add to her beauty. The incomparable lives so briefly lived within her walls have expanded the opportunities for lives yet lived.

The legacy left by Miami’s past inspires us to maintain Miami’s fu-ture. When the Upham Arch was built, it faced undeveloped land to the east. Miamians looked to the sunrise, standing with their backs to me, the weight of old campus behind them, and imagined a bright future. Soon, more spaces were built, which students have since filled with an ever-increasing chorus of purpose.

Standing in this magnificent student center, we look upward to Miami’s future. When the lease is up, one is already inextricably inter-twined with alma mater. The Miami spirit never leaves those tenants who have passed on, and the legacies of those who have made their final pass through Upham Arch cannot be un-tangled from this campus, as they are this campus.

To understand the history of this place is essential. Through that un-derstanding comes pride and a sense of duty to live extraordinary lives in

an extraordinary place, to care for our mother everlasting, and to en-sure she provides for our children. It’s an elegant mix of respect, pride and hope. Together: love. Prodesse Quam Conspici, roughly, accom-plishment without recognition, is validation of this love. Through selflessness and determination, past students have furnished Miami in a love that current tenants are inspired to maintain.

As the wind skirts through au-tumn’s ripening leaves, so young men and women pass through Moth-er Miami. A breeze sweeps through campus, leaving an exhalant, rus-tling symphony in its wake. Students march through their collegiate years, gracing every hollow and arcade of Miami with life and music as they pass. With the tides, tenants come and go. Yet the symphony never ends. The trees and stones reverber-ate with the memory of students past as students present hum along, car-rying the tune for their children, and their children’s children.

Inside Hollywood

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NICOLE THEODORE EDITORIAL@MIAMISTUDENT.NET6 OPINION

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EDITORIALThe following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

Rule of Thumb

No books, no problem?Week one, week two? We will let it slide. Week three without books? Not too happy about it.

Applying skills in classroom with the help of student organizations

A close examination of Prodesse Quam Conspici

MIKE ALLMAN

CHRIS CURME COMMUNITY EDITORJANE BLAZER COMMUNITY EDITORVICTORIA SLATER CAMPUS EDITOREMILY CRANE CAMPUS EDITOR TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

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Opening of Maplestreet

Walking past the new building makes us fall in love with Miami all over again.

REC construction

It has us complaining, but it needs the updates. p. 1

With over 400 student orga-nizations on campus, almost 50 Greek life chapters and enough intramural and club sports teams – including famed Quidditch, dodgeball and a new Irish Step Team – there seem to be a truly endless number of opportuni-ties for students from all walks of life to get involved in at Mi-ami. Almost 85 percent of Mi-ami students are involved in student organizations including club sports and Greek life – a huge percentage compared to other universities.

Joining organizations, sports and Greek life are where most students make life-long friend-ships, develop critical leadership and organizational skills, bump up their resume, and, of course, explore relevant interests and passions. Getting involved at Mi-ami may have long-term effects for after graduation, especially joining a club or organization that fits into students’ aspiring career goals.

An employer survey from the Association of American Col-leges and Universities found that 93 percent of employers said a demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly and solve complex problems is more important than a job candi-date’s undergraduate degree. The same survey also found that 95 percent of employers believe it is important that new hires dem-onstrate ethical judgment and in-tegrity, intercultural skills and the capacity for new learning. These are skills that can be developed within four years at Miami with the help of student organizations. Assistant Director of Student Activities Laura Whitmire also sees the same advantages get-ting involved offers students for after graduation.

“We are an engaged univer-sity, we don’t have to fight for students to get involved — they want to do this. They want to be doing things outside of the class-room. I think that’s why Miami has such a success rate for getting students internships during and after college. They can work with others because of their involve-ment in student organizations, whether it’s through relevant programs or Greek Life. These are the times where they develop confidence and leadership skills,” Whitmire said.

For those 15 percent of stu-dents at Miami still not involved

in organizations, it is never too late to join one. Mega Fair is this Sunday at Millet Hall from 1 to 4 p.m., and provides students the chance to get to know Miami’s 400 student organizations, check out what may interest them, and sign up to get involved. The Miami Student Editorial board hopes students of all years and backgrounds will take the time to explore Mega Fair and see what getting involved outside of the classroom can offer their college experience.

Sally Stearns, Editor-In-Chief of UP Fashion Magazine on Miami’s campus, remembers how Mega Fair helped her pur-sue her love for fashion, media, and magazines.

“I wasn’t even aware of UP until I attended Mega Fair as a first year. Now I have been in it for four years and it has signifi-cantly impacted my college ex-perience. I love being apart of something on campus that oth-ers are also passionate about. My position there has also given me career experience and will allow me to transition into a job after I graduate,” Stearns said.

Apart from gaining career ex-perience and leadership roles, obviously playing some intense rounds of Broomball at the Gog-gin or running around tossing the pig skin during flag football in the beautiful fall months at Miami are always great stress re-lievers and a way to take a break from homework and class.

According to Rebecca Do-natelle’s textbook “My Health: An Outcomes Approach” 28 per-cent of college students reported that stress negatively affected their individual academic perfor-mance. Donatelle believes one of the main forms of stress man-agement to combat mental and emotional stress is by exercising regularly. Going to the REC Cen-ter may not be enough for some, but signing up for a commitment once a week with a soccer league or a tennis tournament at Miami could help beat the stress of a col-lege life. According to Donatelle, exercise burns off stress hor-mones by directing them toward their intended metabolic function and can combat stress by rising endorphin levels, which elevate the mood. So if you’re more into sports and not so much into

ORGANIZATIONS,SEE PAGE 7 If you haven’t been following the

news in the last week, you need to take a break from Instagramming

photos of block parties (even though it was a nice one, Beta) to get up to speed on the rapidly evolving U.S. policy toward Syria and the background of this tragedy.

If you don’t know where to begin,

Al Jazeera’s “Best of the Web: Syr-ian War” offers a great overview of the situation and the events as they unfold.

This is my seventh piece regard-ing the conflict in Syria. This crisis isn’t new. It began in May 2011 and although various parties dispute the current death toll, the Syrian Obser-vatory of Human Rights estimates that over 110,000 people, over 40,000 of them innocent civilians, have died.

If those numbers doesn’t make you incredibly uncomfortable, the 4,000 women and 5,800 children

included in them certainly should.The world has seen genocides be-

fore, atrocities committed that hor-rifying crimes against humanity, but this one is different.

It’s not depicted through foreign correspondents and professional photojournalists. It’s coming to the world in real time, through blurry snapshots taken from smartphones and Tweets on the ground from the few daring journalists who remain near the conflict.

IF THE SHEW FITS

Weighing costs of U.S. involvement in Syria

SYRIA,SEE PAGE 5

SARAH SHEW

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NICOLE’S TWO CENTS

Looking back at 1999 war in Kosovo: Why is the world waiting to help Syrians? This summer, I woke almost ev-

ery morning at 5 a.m. to go running before anyone else in Kosovo was awake. I laced up my shoes, walked

out of my ho-tel in Prishtina, the capital of about 200,000 people, and ran the streets that would soon be busy with Kosovars go-ing to work, street vendors haggling with

customers and taxis dodging in and out of traffic. Prishtina is slowly on its way to becoming a modern city, filled with well-dressed young profession-als and families looking towards a better future.

It was easy to forget that just 13 years ago innocent people were be-ing murdered and tortured in these same streets I was quietly running on. During the 1999 war with Serbia, an estimated 7,000 to 9,000 Kosovar Albanians were killed and more than 800,000 ethnically cleansed from their homes, forced to leave maybe the only place they have ever known. Ghosts from the conflict still haunted the city — it was evident.

Running before the city was awake allowed me to see a different side of Kosovo apart from the business of it and the 24-hour nightlife.

I saw the pain in the dilapidated, burned-out buildings, I passed count-less amount of graffiti condemning European Union Rule of Law Mis-sion in Kosovo (EULEX) for sympa-thizing with Serbians, I saw the Ser-bian language crossed out completely on road signs, even though it is one of the national languages.

The feelings and pain are still in-tertwined in Kosovo’s every day life and politics; you just need to take a look closer in the quiet scars

slashed across Kosovo’s infrastruc-ture and its people.

Syria began to erupt as I ran through Prishtina and worked there this summer, and I couldn’t help but be bothered by it. I started to think about what happened to Kosovars, Bosnians, Croats and other ethnici-ties during the 90s and what is now happening to Syrians.

The UN has estimated that al-ready 100,000 plus have been killed in Syria and now there is potential evidence of chemical weapons being used on Syrians by Bashar al-Assad and his regime. Videos on YouTube have been posted by rebel groups of bodies of children and women lying dead with no signs of blunt trauma to them, their faces tinted blue, bodies convulsing — possible signs of suf-focation from chemicals.

As the United States and other Western powers struggle with what to do with Syria, more people are being killed. Most of the targets are rebel Sunnis, which is one of the largest branches of Islam. Ethnic cleansing, genocide, whatever term you want to coin this violence as, it is continuous in the country of 20.8 million. It took chemical warfare to get the United States truly invested in trying to find a solution, but how much longer will it take to help the Syrian people?

Situation rings a slightly familiar bell – doesn’t it?

Let’s back track to almost 20 years ago and instead trace our fingers along a map of Southeastern Europe, or the former Yugoslavia. Instead of villain Bashar al-Assad slaying inno-cent men, women and children and a targeted religious group in Syria, there was Slobodan Milosevic, Presi-dent of Serbia and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000.

He invaded Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo during the 1990s and tried to ethnically cleanse and murder an

entire ethnic group — Albanians. Where 100,000 Syrians are now

dead, over 100,000 Bosniaks were tortured and murdered during the 1992 massacre of Srebrenica in Bosnia and the Siege of Sarajevo by the Army of Republic of Serbia. Srebrenica has been regarded as the worst case of genocide since the Holocaust in World War II — take a look at American journalist Ron Haviv’s images and work of the war in Bosnia and Srebrenica, you will then only get a slight understand-ing of the devastation that occurred and a possible stomach ache from the violence he captured, risking his life to do so.

The devastation in Bosnia with Srebrenica left a strong stench of guilt under Western leaders’ noses, like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, who vowed not to let genocide hap-pen again in Kosovo, now a small country of only 2.8 million, by Ser-bian forces. Tim Judah, correspon-dent for the Economist and author of “Kosovo What Everyone Needs to Know” sums up why the U.S. and NATO were ready to bomb Serbia after Srebrenica.

“This was a seminal event and its importance in changing the course of history in Kosovo is not widely un-derstood. The fact this massacre had happened in a zone that the UN Se-curity Council had pledged to protect was seared into the consciences of Western leaders and goes a long way to explaining why in 1999, they were prepared to move fast to bomb Serbia because of Kosovo, fearful that such a thing would happen again.”

Death still crept its way into Koso-vo despite Bosnia’s tale. NATO be-gan its 78 days of bombing in March of 1999 after peace talks had failed, eventually crippling Milosevic, but not without the complete threat of ground troops.

“Today, NATO’s campaign in

Kosovo is remembered as an air war that crushed Milosevic’s re-solve through precision weapons and military smarts, but that inter-pretation overlooks the crucial fact that the threat of a bona fide inva-sion played a key role in bringing Milosevic to the negotiating table,” according to Elias Groll in her blog on foreignpolicy.com

There is still American influence and troops 14 years later in Kosovo. The war may have ended because of a great deal of help from the United States, but in order for Kosovo to stand as an independent nation, in-ternational influence still remains to-day. The peacekeeping force Kosovo Force, known as KFOR, has been stationed there since the war and still remains there, patrolling Serbian pockets of villages scattered through-out. An invisible line of divide

separates municipalities by eth-nicities, tension still floating in the polluted air between Albanians and Serbians.

My point is, bombing a villain and fixing relations between countries or within a country doesn’t just end at bombing them — it’s at least a de-cade commitment after.

As President Obama contemplates what to do with Syria while Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hauge has made it clear that Britain and other countries still have a responsibility to act despite a possible veto from Russia and China to block a UN resolution, a diplomatic showdown is brewing. The longer a decision takes, the more people will die though.

Even though there are still flaws in the international presence in Kosovo, the United States still intervened and helped stop another genocide and further ethnic cleansing from hap-pening. The gratitude that Kosovars still feel towards Americans is aston-ishing — they shake your hand, tell you how much they love America, and how happy they are to have you in their country (if you have trav-eled abroad in Western Europe, you really don’t hear that much, if at all.) A statue of Bill Clinton sits on Bill Clinton Avenue in the heart of Prishtina because of his efforts during the 90’s to help Kosovo become an independent country.

However, as demonstrated by Judah and Christopher Hill, former Ambassador to Iraq and special en-voy to Kosovo in 1998, it took more than air missile strikes from NATO

to come to this somewhat positive picture of a struggling independent country. Hill had worked with Euro-peans, Russians and other countries to come up with a solution. The Unit-ed States were not standing alone, as they may be in Syria.

Could this be the future of Syria? Many would argue no, many have said Kosovo and Syria are “com-pletely different situations,” but are they really? Innocent people died throughout the Balkans and were forcibly moved out of their homes. Now the bloodshed has spread to the large country nestled between Turkey, Iraq and Jordan. When will Syrians get the same help Kosovars received from the United States?

The UN has estimated that already 100,000 plus Syrians have been killed, and now there is evidence of chemical weapons being used on Syrians by Bashar al-Assad and his regime.

Obama: college affordability using market principles ESSAY

Few topics in contemporary po-litical and social discourse have drawn such broad-based interest from policy-makers, journalists, academics and ordinary families like the unsustainable inflation of college tuition in the past 30 years at American universities. While the actual statistics documenting this trend vary dramatically depending on the criteria used, one thing which the vast majority of commentators in this field of expertise agree on is that the relative cost of obtaining a college education has outpaced in-flation in an unsustainable way over the course of the past few decades, jeopardizing the democratic meri-tocracy in which we as Americans take deep pride.

Recognizing this highly visible trend, President Obama begun out-lining an ambitious, but hearten-ingly pragmatic, plan for bringing spiraling college costs under con-trol this summer. The plan utilizes market principles to achieve a posi-tive social and economic outcome. But before a discussion of his pro-posed solution(s), it is important to outline the scope and gravity of the problem.

According to Forbes Magazine, if a college tuition cost a student $10,000 in 1986, and if college costs rose at the same rate as the general cost of living, than that stu-dent today would pay $21,500 for the same education. However, the heightened rate of college inflation indicates that the same student will actually pay $59,800, or more than 2.5 times the rate of inflation. While in recent years taxpayers have been shouldering some of the burden of these increased costs through in-creasing federal subsidies in the forms of grants and loans, the re-cession has eradicated much of that progress through massive cuts in state funding for public universi-ties—whose taxpayer-subsidized tuitions had often in the past acted as a pricing break on their private counterparts through competi-tion. The resulting effect of these changes on American families is stark. According to a report recently released by the U.S. Department of

Education, statistics indicate that the average low-income family (as derived by government parameters constituting what is low-income) could expect to be shouldered with a bill equaling 72 percent of their an-nual income on educating one child at a tertiary level for one year, after calculating net financial aid. While middle and upper class families are better off, only requiring 27 percent and 14 percent of their incomes, re-spectively, they too have struggled as of late. According to Bloomberg, total American student debt has now passed the $1 trillion mark, and has actually surpassed total credit card debt according the Con-sumer Protection Bureau. Perhaps more importantly, of the roughly $1.2 trillion owed by American stu-dents, over $1 trillion of it is owed to the federal government, and thus leaves American taxpayers liable if the students cannot pay. Nor is the problem an isolated one, as over 2/3 of new graduates have some debt, with the average a sickening $26,000. Compounding the prob-lem, due to a government effort to convince the financial sector to loan money to credit-less youth, bankruptcy protections do not ex-tend to student loans, which cannot be downsized or forgiven through refinancing without proof that the borrower is undergoing what is considered “extreme hardship” (a very challenging thing to prove in a civil court).

President Obama has proposed in principle two different but com-plementary actions that the federal government can take to at least slow the rate of cost inflation in tuition and the relative impact on family income to a more sustainable level. First, using what authority he al-ready possesses, the President plans to dramatically expand an existing but chronically underutilized option in Federal loans called “income-based repayment” which mandates borrowers pay no more than 10 per-cent of their post-graduate income for no longer than 20 years, after which the remainder of the debt will be forgiven as taxable income. This program, which already exists,

currently benefits less than 10 per-cent of the students that borrow money from the government to pay for school. Whereas, starting in 2014, it will cover them all. This sig-nificant reform will reduce the rela-tive financial burden of student debt on youth through tying the amount repaid with both the amount bor-rowed AND post-graduate income to mitigate financial hardship and decrease the opportunity costs of obtaining a higher education.

The President’s second, far more ambitious proposal will require congressional approval (which any-one following recent political de-velopments knows is “ambitious” in and of itself) because it involves a fundamental recalculation of how federal aid is disbursed to universi-ties and students. Expanding on an already existing system established in the Higher Education Opportu-nity Act of 2008, which publishes information about the cost of at-tending a university for the public’s benefit through the Department of Education, the President has asked Congress to allow the Federal gov-ernment to disburse aid based on four broad measurements: average tuition, rate of enrolled low income students, retention rate and/or grad-uation rates, and rate of employ-ment of graduates. Through tying federal aid to the relative merit of institutions and their ability to offer an affordable but high-quality edu-cation, the President hopes to draw on capitalistic tendencies of univer-sities to compete for federal money and thus focus more heavily on af-fordability for their students.

Both of these proposals offer incremental solutions that will mitigate, but certainly not solve the problem of education infla-tion. The President should be com-mended for attempting to address this problem, but as always, there is far more to be done. Here’s to hop-ing that Congress will agree, and maybe help to save us some money when we send our own children to school someday.

JACE SMITHSMITHJJ4@MIAMIOH.EDU

a Spanish or Irish Step Dancing group, there are still benefits to getting involved in these organi-zations (blame it on trying to re-duce stress to get better grades if you want!)

Miami departments and student organizations have been offering students countless opportunities to study abroad, apply for intern-ships and to get involved outside of the classroom. Speeches and lectures featured at Miami are always abundant and of amazing quality to those in interested fields of study, and most are brought to campus by student organizations. Sometimes students tend to turn on the snooze button of their tired alarm clocks and not fully ap-preciate these opportunities until the end of college. As students being presented with all of these

opportunities in four years, we need to learn which ones to take and which ones to pursue further. Getting good grades isn’t always the key to getting a good job, even though it is crucial to col-lege. The board encourages all students to expand their knowl-edge outside of the classroom and to take on these exciting opportu-nities from student organizations and relevant departments.

Miami is unique in its under-graduate experience because it al-lows you to become whoever you want to be and to follow whatev-er passions suit you, and student organizations can help along this amazing journey.

“I think people have to choose their own college adventure, and I think some people completely change because of who they in-volve themselves with, and the impact they make while they are here,” Whitmire said.

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first team honors last year and leads the Cardinals with seven points and three goals.

The RedHawks’ defend-ers have played well so far this season, as they have recorded two straight shutouts against Valparaiso University and Bel-mont. Belmont only managed to get four shots off against the ’Hawks defense.

Senior goalkeeper Allison Norenberg said she believes the defense has improved each game that the ’Hawks have played.

“In the game we played against Belmont we looked real-ly strong,” Norenberg said. “You could tell that just by the amount of shots were taken on goal [by Belmont]. It’s definitely coming together. It’s something we’ve worked a lot on in practice.”

Norenberg said the ’Hawks are much deeper this year on the defensive side of the ball.

“We have a deeper bench this

year, especially on defense,” No-renberg said. “Last year we were really struggling [with fatigue]. These first couple games are all about getting people in, like the new freshmen, and getting used to playing with each other.”

Kramig said he agrees with Norenberg that the ’Hawks depth will aid them this week-end as they play two games in three days.

The bench saw significant playing time against Belmont, and Kramig said he believes this experience will prove invaluable as the season progresses, espe-cially when conference play be-gins later this month.

“Our depth has helped us up until this point,” Kramig said. “I expect that it will continue to help us. The more experience we get some of the younger players on the team, the better off we are going to be.”

Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. for Fri-day’s match at IPFW. The ’Hawks will then face Louisville 1 p.m. Sunday, at home.

SOCCER, FROM PAGE 10

BY JUSTIN MASKULINSKISENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Miami University golf team begins its season this weekend in Sugar Grove, Ill. for the Northern In-vitational, and the expectations have been set for the 11-man roster.

“I expect that if we go out and do the things we’re supposed to do, we will give ourselves a chance to win,” head coach Zac Zedrick said.

The tournament will be hosted by Mid-American Conference (MAC) foe Northern Illinois University. The ’Hawks last played in this tourna-ment in 2011, where they finished 13th out of 16 teams. The tourna-ment will be played at the Rich Harvest Farms course, the site of the 2012 MAC Championship.

The course is familiar to se-niors Mark MacDonald and Austin Kelly as well as junior Scott Ca-hill. All three played in the MAC

Championship last year. Sophomore Luke Shaughnessy played one round at the championship last season.

MacDonald placed the highest of the three as he tied for 22nd over-all. Cahill tied for 29th and Kelly placed 38th overall.

The work ethic of the Red and White has Zedrick believing the team can find success this year.

“If you’re going about (prac-tice) the right way at home like we are, you expect it to carry on,” Zedrick said.

Zedrick mentioned that Cahill and freshman Greg Conrad would be ex-cited for this weekend’s tournament because they have both lived in the Chicago area.

Cahill does not exactly have ex-pectations for himself as far as scor-ing, but he plans to evaluate where he stands after the first tournament.

“We’ve been excited as a team, the first tournament is something we’ve

all been looking forward to,” Cahill said. “I’m looking to measure how I have grown as a player; it’s tough to make conclusions (about expecta-tions) for the first tournament.”

Cahill is also focusing on how his role might change after a sopho-more year where he finished third on the team in round average last season and tied the lowest overall individual round.

Cahill said he was ready for the trip with his teammates.

“We’re all anxious to be getting back on the road and travelling as a team,” Cahill said.

Zedrick said he believes Kelly, MacDonald, Cahill and Shaughnessy will lead the way for the RedHawks this season, but said he believes the RedHawks have an all-around tal-ented roster this year.

“I think we’ve got a deep team,” Zedrick said. “I’m not relying on anyone person to carry us.”

GOLF

MU prepares for Northern Invitational

BY JORDAN RINARDSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Looking to maintain its unde-feated mark, the Miami University volleyball team is preparing to take on the University of Evansville and Northern Kentucky University in the Miami Invitational. Miami (3-0) will have its only home matches of the non-conference schedule in the Invitational.

Evansville (2-2) picked up wins last weekend when it downed both Murray State University and Northc Carolina Central Univer-sity 3-0 during the North Carolina Central Tournament. During the Tournament, senior middle hit-ter Rachel TenHoor averaged 11 kills per match to go with her .554

hitting percentage, while senior setter Jenn Murphy and senior li-bero Katie Klages averaged 37 assists per match and 19 digs per match, respectively. As a team, the Purple Aces outhit and outblocked their tournament opposition .277 to .210 and 20 to eight respec-tively. The Purple Aces fell to the University of Tennessee-Martin Wednesday night.

Northern Kentucky (1-3) had dif-ficult time this weekend in the Xavi-er Tournament as it fell to Clemson University 1-3, Xavier University 1-3, and the No. 7 University of Michigan 0-3. Over the course of the tournament, junior middle hitter Jenna Ruble averaged nine kills per match while redshirt freshman set-ter Taylor Snyder and senior libero

Anna Prickel averaged 33.3 assists per match and 15.6 digs per match. The Norse knocked off Wright State University Tuesday night for their first win of the season.

The RedHawks return to Oxford after dispatching Gardner-Webb University 3-0, the University of Memphis 3-1 and Belmont Uni-versity 3-0 last weekend in the Belmont Invitational.

Freshman middle hitter Paige Hill earned Tournament MVP hon-ors after posting 9.3 kills per match, a .407 hitting percentage, and six of Miami’s 15 service aces. Junior set-ter/outside hitter Meg Riley and ju-nior libero Tori Clifford maintained a solid pace throughout the Invita-tional as well, with Riley recording 5.3 kills per match, a .228 hitting

percentage, 18.0 assists per match, and nine digs per match and Clifford accumulating 14 digs per match. Redshirt sophomore middle hitter Jenny Ingle and redshirt sophomore outside hitter Sarah Chaney also showcased their abilities during the weekend, as Ingle recorder 14 kills and .520 hitting percentage against Memphis and Chaney a team-high nine kills against Belmont.

Over the course of the week-end, the ’Hawks outhit their oppo-nents .217 to .075 and outblocked them 32 to 11.

“We were able to get so many blocks [during the Invitational] because of the height advantage that we had,” head coach Carolyn Condit said. “The other teams were just so much smaller than us. They

would have been better off had they stayed away from our size.”

One of the players with the size that Condit mentioned, Ingle, spoke of what she and the team is doing to prepare for this weekend’s matches.

“We’ve working on maintain-ing our consistency, improving our passing, and on having a strong presence on the court,” Ingle said. “I’ve been working on angles, be-ing loud, having a dominant pres-ence, having a strong block, being a team contributor, and bringing energy to the court.”

The Red and White begin play in the Miami Invitational when they host Evansville 7 p.m. Friday night, and conclude action with their match against Northern Kentucky 7 p.m. Saturday.

VOLLEYBALL

RedHawks ready to host Evansville and Northern Kentucky

FIELD HOCKEY

Miami travels to take on ranked opponentsBY ALYSSA ZEDIKERSTAFF WRITER

The Miami University field hockey team will play against a pair of ranked opponents in two games at Northwestern University this weekend. The ’Hawks will compete against 16th-ranked Boston Univer-sity Sunday and host team No. 11 Northwestern Monday.

“We have to have the mindset that we can compete against anyone in the nation and we can and we have to go to win every single match we play,” head coach Inako Puzo said.

Junior back Shannon Regan said she was looking forward to the challenge.

“They are going to be great games and there is a lot of potential-ly for this weekend and I am really excited to get out there and play,” Regan said.

The RedHawks are coming off of a first weekend in which they defeated Radford Univer-sity and Longwood Univer-sity, but fell to18th-ranked Wake Forest University.

Junior back Ali Froede was named Mid-American Conference Defense Player of the Week for her performances against Wake, Radford and Longwood. It is the third time in her career that she has won the award.

Puzo said he feels the team was able to learn from the first games as they allowed the RedHawks to play against teams with different playing

styles. After playing Wake Forest, Puzo said he felt the team was disci-plined and will need to maintain that discipline in order to win these next two games.

“We have to make sure that we can stay focused for seventy min-utes in both games,” Puzo said. “This is our number one priority.”

Junior midfielder Gabby Gold-ach, who has a team-leading three goals on eight shots, leads the RedHawks’ offense. Senior mid-fielder/forward Emily Gruesser has also been a key contributor, leading the team with three assists and nine shots.

In their scouting of Boston and Northwestern, Puzo said the ’Hawks have found that their style of hockey is not out of the ordi-nary and they have similar struc-ture on the field. He said it will be a match between which team has worked the most to perfect their basic skills and is the most effective at communicating.

“[In] the end the focus is on us and we need to be sure that we un-derstand each other and know how to play with each other, to keep building as a team,” Puzo said.

Regan said she is confident heading into the weekend and has high expectations.

“I feel so confident in my team, I think we could play against any-one in the country and have a great game,” Regan said. “If we play the way we are capable of we can come home with two wins.”

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BY JOE GIERINGERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Following a 52-14 route at the hands of Marshall University, the Miami RedHawks football team looks to bounce back Saturday

versus the University of Kentucky.The RedHawks (0-1) didn’t start

the season the way they imagined, but that doesn’t matter much to head coach Don Treadwell. The third-year

coach said the gap from the first to second week of play is often big.

“What you typically see is an im-provement from Week 1 to Week 2,” Treadwell said. “For our guys it’s the little things, and we feel good about the progress we’ve made …

that’s the focus of it. Our intensity has improved.”

Like the RedHawks, the Wild-cats suffered a Week 1 loss as well, though they the favorite over the

Western Kentucky University Hill-toppers. The 35-26 loss is still fresh in the minds of the Kentucky foot-ball program, and it can be expected that the Wildcats will take the field with a vengeance.

“I think they’re probably just as hungry as we are,” Treadwell said. “Anytime you have a loss under your belt you kind of have a little more of a resolve to want to move that in the other direction.”

Miami, too, hopes to move in the other direction following last week’s contest. The RedHawks allowed 591 total yards on defense, with 297 of those coming on the ground. Senior defensive lineman and co-captain Austin Brown will be the first to tell you that those results aren’t accept-able, and the Red and White defense has picked it up this week.

“Intensity in practice has improved tremendously,” Brown said, who had two tackles and a quarterback hurry

in his first game since September of last year. “We’re going a little live, and going to get after it. When you get the ball rolling and momentum going your way, you’ll be alright.”

Offensively, Austin Boucher looks to improve upon his prior perfor-mance as well. The senior quarter-back and co-captain did not, by any means, play poorly – his 10-for-22, 165 yard outing showed that he can be an it-factor for this team in the face of adversity. But like most Red-Hawks, Boucher will tell you that it’s a team effort, and he knows the Mi-ami offense needs to up the ante this weekend in Lexington.

“We have another opportunity this week to clean up our mistakes and clean up on what we need to do to become a better offense,” Boucher said. “That’s exactly what we’re do-ing. The intensity is definitely high, especially after a showing like that.”

Like always, Treadwell insists

on the need to take the season one week at a time. That means that even though Kentucky will be start-ing a sophomore at quarterback and a freshman at halfback, it won’t change the way Miami is prepar-ing. The Wildcats have Southeastern Conference (SEC) speed on the out-side on both sides of the ball, and the RedHawks are ready to respond and make their way back to .500 through two games.

“It’s going to be a challenge, no doubt,” Boucher said of his team’s upcoming road game. “Being an SEC opponent, we need to bring our A-game. We’re both 0-1, so I know they’re just as hungry to get their ship sailing in the right direction, as are we. It’s going to be fun, and it’ll be a dog fight.”

The RedHawks take the field Noon, Saturday Sept. 7 at Common-wealth Stadium. Fans can listen to the game at redhawkradio.com.

EDITORTOM DOWNEY

SPORTS@MIAMISTUDENT.NET10 SPORTSFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

JOE GIERINGERNOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE

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RYAN HOLTZ THE MIAMI STUDENT

Miami University junior midfielder Hailey Pleshakov dribbles past a sliding Belmont University defender last Friday.

SOCCER

RedHawks ready for IPFW and Louisville

Haven’t had your NFL fantasy football draft this year yet? Have no idea what you’re doing? No problem. Your resident expert is here to help, or if you ask my editor Tom Downey, resident big mouth.

Most of your bigger picks are pretty self-evident. Take a quick look at any sports page and you know who it is that should be start-ing at most of your positions. It’s not until you reach those backups, the off-week personnel that are more often than not taken late in the draft, that you can truly sepa-rate yourself from those mediocre teams in your league. Here are five players to keep your eye on who haven’t gotten much press.

1. Daryl Richardson, (RB, St. Louis)

Those of you who are St. Louis fans know just how disappointing Rams’ fantasy numbers have been for the past few years. Sam Brad-ford hasn’t panned out (though there are ‘experts’ saying he could be a sleeper this year. Spoiler alert – he’s not), and the running game is in disarray since the departure of Steven Jackson. Enter Daryl Richardson, the Abilene Christian 23 year-old who will start the 2013 season as the No. 1 tailback in St. Louis. He’s a big question mark – just nine carries in the preseason – but he put up decent numbers last year, averaging a solid 4.8 yards a carry on 98 attempts. He has po-tential as a receiving threat as well, and according to FantasyPros.com, he is going as the 55 pick overall on average, good enough for 28 at his position. If you’re looking for a solid flex player or a nice depth pick, Richardson is your man for the first week or two.

2. Lamar Miller, (RB, Miami)

The Miami Dolphins are easily the biggest unknown of the 2013 NFL season. Ryan Tannehill is try-ing to prove that he can continue to put up 3,000+ yards while whit-tling down the turnovers, and it ap-pears Miami will favor the pass in the absence of a resurgent Reggie Bush. With Mike Wallace’s arrival shifting defenses’ focuses to the air, this leaves the running game open for Lamar Miller, who was just named as the starting back Aug. 26. He rushed 51 times for 250 yards last year, and this year he will be expected to be the lights-out run-ning back he was back at the Uni-versity of Miami. He’ll probably even get some short passes while defensive backs are tied up with the deep threat that is Wallace, so I’m hoping Miller can have a blowout year. And he better – he’s my num-ber No. 3 RB (thanks, Autopick?).

3. Pittsburgh Steelers (DEF)

I can hear the jabbering now: “Joe, you’re a Steelers fan. Get

over it. Their defense isn’t what it was.” This is true, which is why they aren’t going first among de-fenses like they have been through-out the late 2000’s. Last year was rough for the Steel Curtain, as they were rarely healthy and the team limped to an 8-8 season. And even though Sports Illustrated and ESPN analysts have consistently smacked them around coming into this year, the fact remains that the Steelers have been ranked No. 1 in total defense the past two seasons. Couple that with a healthy Troy Polamalu and the addition of Jarvis Jones and Shamarko Thomas, and Dick LeBeau’s squad might just surprise you.

4. Golden Tate (WR, Seattle)

With Russell Wilson continu-ing to grow as a remarkable threat in Seattle, no one stands to gain from it more than the fourth year wide out. Golden Tate hasn’t had the opportunities that many others have had around the league to put up solid fantasy points, but his 688 yards and seven touchdowns last year made him a solid option for those with a flex position in their league. Barring injury, his num-bers are almost certain to go up this year. Watch for him to hit the 1,000 yard mark.

5. Alex Smith (QB, Kansas City)

After being ousted by Colin Kaepernick in San Francisco last season, Alex Smith has some-thing to prove to his critics, his old coaches, and just about every fan around the league that labels him a “game manager.” While there may be truth in that statement, it doesn’t mean those traits can’t be useful in the fantasy world. Andy Reid paid a large price to bring him on in Kansas City, and he’s going to give Smith all the freedom he wants to get the job done. Last year, he completed a career high 70% of his passes in just 9 games. His 13-5 TD touchdown to interception ra-tio was also promising, and his new team should improve after severely underperforming in 2012.

As always, research can only go far in the world of fantasy sports. It’s great to prepare, but when your week is on the line you’ve got to go with your gut. There are 16 spots on the average roster, and chanc-es are eight of them will change by the time your season ends, so don’t sweat a risky pick or two. Trust your instincts and take some chances if you think they’ll pay off.

Best of luck to you all this season, and have fun out on the fantasy gridiron!

Oh, and wish me luck as well. Tom Downey thinks he has my number, so apparently I need all the help I can get. But we’ll see about that.

BY ZACH MACIASZEKFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Coming off of a 5-0 victory against Belmont University, the Miami University soccer team (2-1-0) figures to face stiffer competition this weekend as they take on Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) (2-2-0) and the Univer-sity of Louisville (1-1-1).

While the RedHawks are not familiar with Louisville, they know the Mastodons of IPFW all too well. The ’Hawks fell to IPFW at home last year 1-0 in double overtime.

Senior defender Sam Parrish said she wants to exact revenge against the Mastodons Friday.

“Going into Friday’s game we all want to kill IPFW,” Parrish

said. “They’re definitely a beat-able team and I think we’re look-ing a lot stronger this year on our bench, so I think that will help us [keep] fresh legs out there.”

Head coach Bobby Kramig said he knows what to expect against the Mastodons this year.

“IPFW is a very well coached, organized, disciplined team,” Kramig said. “They’re tough to breakdown; they don’t make a lot of mistakes. IPFW is not a team that is going to beat them-selves. So we’re going to have to be real proactive, we’re go-ing to have to work hard to break them down.”

The Mastodons lost their last game to Butler University 2-0.

Freshman midfielder Gaby Romo leads the Mastodons with four points on two goals. Their

offense has stalled out of the gate so far this year, scoring only four goals in four games.

Kramig said he had not viewed any game tape on Louisville yet, but after reading scouting reports he said he believes the Cardinals will offer a similar challenge to the RedHawks as IPFW.

“[They both have] similar systems of play,” Kramig said. “I think that’s the one thing that we’ve got going for us this week-end. I think that we’ll see kind of a version of the same game against both teams.”

The toughest challenge for Miami will be to contain Lou-isville’s senior forward Charlyn Corral. Corral earned Big East

FOOTBALL

Red and White prepare for road game against Kentucky Wildcats

BY CLAY PACKELFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University men’s and women’s cross country teams host its annual Miami Invitational meet 10 a.m., Saturday in Oxford.

The race will mark the start of the season for the women’s team. The team chose not to race at the Day-ton Flyer 5K Challenge, which took place last Saturday. The meet will feature runners from Ohio Univer-sity, Division II Cedarville Univer-sity, Division III Capital University, as well as Miami alumni and even the Miami University club cross country team, the Miami Striders.

After having skipped hosting the invitational last fall due to construc-tion, Miami University women’s head coach Kelly Phillips said she

can’t wait for the season to get un-derway, especially in this format.

“It’s the start for us so we’re su-per excited,” Phillips said. “Having alumni back will be fantastic; it should be competitive.”

Phillips said she expects strong performances from redshirt junior Melissa Girgis, juniors Jess Hoover, Anna Lamb, and Alex Chitwood and sophomores Laura Bess and Julia Valencia. She said she has a pretty good sense of where the team is at from training, but the Miami Invitational will give her the chance to finally confirm her beliefs.

Both Phillips and men’s head coach Warren Mandrell said the teams would benefit from the add-ed edge on a course they’re familiar with. With no home football game scheduled for the weekend, the

coaches also said they are hopeful they can draw a crowd of students.

Mandrell said his goals going into the invitational are the same as they were before the Dayton Flyer Challenge.

“We want to give another good quality effort, and keep the pack from one to five as tight as pos-sible,” Mandrell said.

Mandrell said he is curious to see how freshman Kent Ford performs after not competing last week at the Dayton because of an injury. The Invitational will also be redshirt ju-nior Dan Garleb’s first race of the year, something that Mandrell said he is excited about.

The men’s team will be look-ing to bounce back following a third place finish at the Dayton Flyer 5K Challenge.

CROSS COUNTRY

’Hawks host annual Miami Invitatonal

SOCCER,SEE PAGE 9

What you typically see is an improvement from Week 1 to Week 2. For our guys it’s the little things, and we feel good about the progress we’ve made … that’s the focus of it. Our intensity has improved.”

DON TREADWELLMIAMI UNIVERSITY HEAD COACH