By JM RiegeRSpoRtS editoR

The 2012 Miami Uni-versity football schedule will undergo a change in the near future as a result of the University of Missouri’s switch to the Southeast-ern Conference (SEC) this upcoming fall.

Missouri was set to face off against Miami Sept. 22 as part of a three-year contract between the two schools where Miami would play two games in Columbia and Missouri would play one game in Oxford. (Miami lost both games in Columbia.)

However, when the SEC announced its 2012 football schedule Dec. 28, the Univer-sity of South Carolina, which the Tigers are set to play on Sept. 22, had replaced Mi-ami. Miami Athletic Direc-tor Brad Bates said potential dates to reschedule the game would be determined once the SEC finalizes their long-

term scheduling template.“With their transition to

the Southeastern Conference it was a very unique situa-tion,” Bates said. “I know their athletic director, [Mike Alden], very well. They are committed to playing at Yag-er Stadium at some point in the future.”

Bates said Miami hopes to have an announcement about what team Miami

will play in place of Mis-souri this year as soon as this week, but an announcement would not be made until a contract has been signed by both institutions.

The terms of the contract with Missouri included fi-nancial compensation for both schools when they visited the other university, and Miami would have paid Missouri $200,000 this fall. Schools throughout the coun-try often receive compensa-tion packages when playing non-conference opponents.

Miami makes money from guaranteed non-conference games, with compensation ranging from $200,000 to over $1 million depending on the contract.

However, Miami must now find another non-con-ference opponent to fill the hole in the team’s schedule, as the Football Bowl Sub-division, formerly Divi-sion I, requires schools to have 12-game schedules.

The Mid-American Confer-ence (MAC) only schedules eight conference games for each institution.

There are several uni-versities in the mix to fill out Miami’s schedule and according to Assistant Ath-letic Director Mike Pear-son, the RedHawks are

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In 1992, The Miami Student reported that West Park in uptown Oxford would be renamed in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. King had visited Oxford in 1959. The park was to be renamed on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

Manager’s moves createyoutube sensation Missouri leaves Miami with 2012 schedule gap

Community honors King’s life, legacy

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A poet delivers his work in front of a collage of photos representing Miami’s diversity during Monday morning’s commemorative program held in honor of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. A march and program began the celebration in Oxford’s uptown district and ended at Hall Auditorium where the second portion of the program was held.

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With [Missouri’s] transition to the Southeastern Conference, it was a very unique situation. They are committed to playing at Yager Stadium at some point in the future.”

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By ABBy RUSSFoR tHe MiAMi StUdeNt

Monday, Miami Univer-sity students gathered to remember Martin Luther King Jr. as they marched from High Street to Hall Auditorium.

Organized by the Cen-ter for American and World Cultures and Alpha Phi Al-pha, the march began up-town with a short program. The program included read-

ings from King’s speeches and speeches by local pas-tors and Oxford Mayor Richard Keebler.

Many students participated in the peace march, including student-athletes.

“I think the peace march and service are great ways to acknowledge the true meaning of this day and the importance Dr. King had on our nation” first-year Andrea Gevas said.

Juanita Tate, director of

diversity initiatives for the of-fice of diversity affairs, was the brain behind this event along with the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha. Together, they were able to encourage students to attend the event and honor King.

“We want the commu-nity to remember King,” Tate said.

They were able to do just that, as they marched to Hall Auditorium to see Sharon Draper, a New York Times

best-selling author and Mi-ami alumna. She is an edu-cator in the state of Ohio and won Teacher of the Year in 1997.

In her speech, “A man. A memory. A mountain-top,” she discussed the sig-nificant role King played in her life and the importance of continuing his vision in the future.

Adding to the commemo-ration service was the band OGADE, a drum corps which

played during the program. Students, faculty and

the community were able to be involved in remembering King.

“We want to tell the stu-dents and the community to continue to strive for peace and justice,” Tate said.

She said she feels the most significant message students should take away from this day is that there is still work to be done and it can start in communities.

Tate and her committee were excited when planning this event because they said they see the importance of re-membering King. She looks forward to planning the event next year as well.

Draper will stay on Mi-ami’s campus an extra day to speak 4 p.m. today. She will be speaking in Sesquicenten-nial Chapel. In her speech “A Blueprint for Dreamers,” she will discuss more about her career and King.

By CARSyN RodRigUezFoR tHe MiAMi StUdeNt

By now, many Miami University students and fac-ulty have seen or heard about the YouTube video making Miami’s own Chad Burns, assistant athletic equipment manager, very popular.

Over the course of the foot-ball season, the team video crew secretly recorded Burns during football practice break-ing down with some dancing moves, and then compiled a video that they showed him the day before the last game of the season. It was Director of Football Operations Reed Schuitema who had the idea to make the video of Burns in the first place.

“Every day when the vid-eo staff and I were up in the video booth to film that day’s practice, we would just be laughing during the stretch-ing at Chad down there danc-ing on the field,” Schuitema said. “Then one day, when Burns’ boss Darrel was up in the booth watching him, I just thought ‘let’s just put a camera on him and put some clips together, even if it’s only for him’.”

Over the course of the sea-son, shooting about 10-15 minutes per day, the video staff compiled about a day and a half’s worth of footage just of Burns dancing. Then after practice, Shuitema said, they looked at the clips and tried to find the best ones of Burns dancing.

Those who worked on making the video included Matt Mountjoy, video direc-tor for football, who edited the video; Kyle Kron, student video assistant, who took a lot of the footage, posted it to his YouTube account, (Krontv) and Tweeted it; Korey Mar-tin, student video assistant; as well as John Lintner,

Charles Stephens, Andrew Bohannon and Justin Beck, who all filmed segments of the video.

“Chad is a very unique, once-in-a-lifetime person to meet, and his dancing every-day was just too hilarious and

unique to pass up video tap-ing too,” Shuitema said.

With Burns’ permission, they put that video on You-Tube, where it has since been featured on ABC’s “Right This Minute” show, ES-PN’s “SportsNation,” Ryan Seacrest’s blog and Tosh.O’s blog. Burns has also been interviewed by Lance McAl-ister on ESPN Cincinnati Radio, a Michigan radio sta-tion and The Oxford Press. The video was even played on ESPN before the college football national champion-ship this year.

At the time of print, the video had been viewed more than 145,000 times on YouTube.

But who is Chad Burns? How did he come to Miami? And why is he always danc-ing? Originally from Oklaho-ma, Burns said he moved to

and grew up in Farmington, Mich. He attended Eastern Michigan University, and while there, he worked as as-sistant manager in the athletic department. Burns said he came to Miami after graduat-ing in the summer of 2009,

when his boss at Eastern Michigan, Darrel Hallberg, came to work at Miami and hired Burns to work in the athletic department too.

When asked how he likes working here, Burns said, “It’s awesome. I love Oxford.”

He also said he used to visit a friend here when he was in college, and he never imag-ined living here himself, but “things just work out.”

Part of the reason Burns said he loves it here so much and loves his job is because he really gets to just be him-self, and that includes his dancing. Burns said every-day for stretching at football practice, the stadium plays music to get the players pumped up. Since dancing and being goofy are just part of his personality, and even a “reflex when I hear good

music,” according to Burns, it was just natural for him to dance, never knowing the video crew was filming him before practice.

Burns said he was a little embarrassed the first time he saw the video, “but then

again, I’m used to embarrass-ing myself,” he said. “Then I just embraced it.”

Even Burns’ friends and people who know him were not really surprised when the video came out, and he said his fellow coworkers and ev-eryone around him have been supportive and positive about the dancing.

Burns said his video is get-ting really popular and all the hype has been really fun.

“The best part about all of it is making people smile,” Burns said. “When people watch the video, they smile and laugh, and I’m so lucky to not only have a job where I can dance, but to have been part of something so enjoyable for other people as well.”

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Assistant Athletic Equipment Manager Chad ‘Stylez’ Burns dances during football practice in fall 2011. A video of Burns’ dance moves was posted on YouTube and has become a viral hit.

“The great problem confronting us today is that we have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live.”

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By allison mcGillivraysEnior staff WritEr

Dean of Students Susan Mosley-Howard addressed illegal downloading in her welcome letter to students this semester.

Mosley-Howard said the inclusion wasn’t due to a specific increase in the number of illegal down-loads occurring on campus, but was intended to educate students about the issue.

Mosley-Howard said she wants students to be aware of their ethical responsi-bilities when it comes to using another person’s intellectual property.

So far this semester, Mi-ami University’s IT Ser-vices has received one no-tification from a copyright

holder that illegal down-loading took place, accord-ing to Internet Security Of-ficer (ISO) Joe Bazeley.

IT Services received 10 notifications during the fall semester, zero in the spring 2011 semester and two in fall 2010 semester.

According to Bazeley, these numbers are relative-ly low and do not show evi-dence of an obvious trend.

“Universities have a re-sponsibility to inform stu-dents and users about the ille-gal or inappropriate sharing of protected information,” Mosley-Howard said.

That responsibility comes from the Digital Millenni-um Copyright Act (DMCA) according to Chris Wilson, associate general counsel for Miami.

The DMCA protects

Miami from being charged with a copyright violation as an Internet Service Pro-vider (ISP) when one of the users on Miami’s network violates a copyright.

In order to receive this protection from the DMCA, Miami must set up an agent to receive no-tices from copyright hold-ers/agents that they suspect a copyright violation has taken place.

At Miami, that agent

is Bazeley.When Miami IT staff re-

ceive a notice from a copy-right holder/agent, they use that notice to see if they can identify the user who has allegedly violated copyright by looking at IP addresses and timestamps sent by the copyright holder/agents.

If IT Services can iden-tify the user, they send the information to the Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution (OESCR).

At that point, Bazeley and Mosley-Howard send out a joint letter of notifi-cation to the user, alerting them that they have alleg-edly violated copyright and they could possibly face egal consequences.

The copyright holder/agent never learns the name of the user during this process.

“The place [users] are downloading from does not know the name of the user, they have an IP ad-dress. Miami University, as the ISP, is the only who can correspond the IP ad-dress to an actual user,” Wilson said.

According to Wilson, once the user has been

MU warns against illegal downloadsStudents say threat of punishment does little to deter them

universities have a responsibility to inform students and users about the illegal or innappropriate sharing of protected information.”

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university revises cell phone policy to reduce $300K costBy tHomas martinfor tHE miami studEnt

A new cell phone policy is in the works to better determine how to suc-cessfully gauge whether or not a faculty or staff member warrants the use of a Miami University paid business phone.

While no concrete deci-sions have been made, re-ducing the approximately $300,000 that goes into paying for 432 regular phones and 1,329 contract phones annually is a prior-ity for Miami, according to Vice President of Finance and Business Services Da-vid Creamer. As part of

the effort to reduce costs, consulting firm Accenture is also seeking less expen-sive options for purchasing phones and plans.

According to Cream-er, who is heading this policy revision, the uses which cell phones can now provide have complicated the system. The need to revisit the poli-cy is to prevent any type of personal abuse.

“Some staff mem-bers need access to large amounts of data for things such as email to do the work required of them,” Creamer said. “I usu-ally do work in Columbus and I need to be able to communicate with Oxford

at the same time.”A large part of the fund-

ing provided for these ad-ministrative phones comes out of student tuition be-cause this has a direct rel-evance to the students who pay to enroll at this univer-sity, Creamer said.

Creamer said it is impor-tant to distinguish business use from personal use, as well as determining whose work requires a cell phone.

The use of these uni-versity paid cell phones is strictly for direct univer-sity purposes, according to Creamer.

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rEmEmBErinG tHE drEamSharon M. Draper speaks at the Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration program Monday.

semester marks new technology phase for inklingsBy laurEn KiGGinsfor tHE miami studEnt

In an era of smart-phones, Kindles and Face-book, paper publishers of-ten find the need to “keep up” and add new forums to reach readers.

Inklings, Miami Uni-versity’s leading under-graduate art magazine, is doing exactly that with the renovation of its web-site and the creation of a Twitter account.

“Our online presence needed to be changed,

it’s now moving in the right direction,” Max Bruno, editor in chief of Inklings, said.

To create the new site, Inklings hired a profes-sional web designer who has contributed to the websites of Cedar Point and Kings Island.

Once completed, each issue of Inklings will be available both in print and online.

Each submission online will then be searchable by name, title or genre.

“The website will give us more legitimacy,”

Bruno said.Twitter, however, will

be used to instantaneous-ly announce accepted submissions as well as post updates.

Each semester, Inklings fills 100 pages with cre-ative writing submissions by Miami’s own students.

All submissions are anonymous when re-viewed by Inklings staff.

“I love discussing the pieces; it’s a challenge and a joy,” Bruno said. “They’re done by such re-markable people.”

But not all pieces make

the cut.“Selecting the works

[to be published] is dif-ficult because sometimes people that submit are my friends or classmates, and we have to reject their pieces,” writing director Traci Kim said.

Inklings is revamping in other ways as well.

Through Kim, Inklings is hosting a three-day workshop with author Lauryn Allison Lewis. Within the three-day span, Lewis will be speaking and working with stu-dents to improve their

literary work.Inklings is kicking off

this semester with a release party for the upcoming is-sue of their magazine.

The party will take place following a reading of the magazine 9 p.m. Thursday at Western Lodge.

“We’re not just ex-cited about literature, but words,” Kim said.

All work needs to be submitted by March 12 to writing director Traci Kim (kimta@muohio.edu) or art director Julie Kow-alski (julia.e.kowalski@ gmail.com).

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online course evaluations yields 61 percent response rateBy molly lEasurE for tHE miami studEnt

More than 11,000 stu-dents, 400 faculty and 902 courses participated in a pi-lot program this fall for on-line course evaluations.

Attempting to keep up with modern technology, Miami will move all course evaluations online in fall 2012 after receiving a 61 percent response rate in the trial, according to Mike Curme, chair of the commit-tee on course evaluations.

In the past, all evalua-tions have been done on paper during class, however,

according to Curme, online evaluations allow better in-formation to improve teach-ing and learning while sav-ing money, paper and time.

In the past, department chairs would go through ev-ery evaluation and compile data which meant results

could take up to 10 weeks to be returned to teachers.

As with any experiment there are risks involved. Ac-cording to Curme, the com-mittee wasn’t sure how the online evaluations would turn out, so only some de-partments participated

— geography, chemistry, Spanish-Portuguese, man-agement systems, econom-ics, educational psychology, kinesiology and health, the-atre, architecture, computer science and nursing.

The committee tried to express the importance of completing the evaluations through emails, videos and having teachers spread the word.

According to Curme, the hope is that course evalua-tions will become a vital part of the Miami culture. The committee hopes students will understand that their input is very important to

making Miami a better place for all students.

Starting last February, a committee has met weekly to discuss course evaluations. The committee is comprised of one administrator from each division and a number of people from IT Services. The committee also worked with Associated Student Government and Miami PR Visions to get student per-spectives and involvement with the changes according to Curme.

According to Joanna

award-winning novelist to read from work and hold book signing

NEWSBRIEFS

Wade Davis, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, will give two public lectures at Mi-ami University Thursday and Friday.

Davis is a best selling author, photographer and filmmaker as well as an anthropologist and ethno-botanist. His first lecture, “The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World,” will be about the environ-mental crisis threatening indigenous cultures around the world.

This lecture will be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Shriver Center Heritage Room. The second lecture is “One River and the Lost Amazon-The Legacy of Richard Evans Shultes.” Davis spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer. This lecture will be held 4 p.m. Friday in the Shriver Center Heritage Room. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

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National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon will come to Miami Univer-sity Thursday to read from her books.

Gordon has written four novels including Bogey-woman, She Drove With-out Stopping, Shamp of the City-Solo and Lord of Misrule. Lord of Misrule, her latest novel, won the National Book Award for Fiction as well as the Tony Ryan Award and was a finalist for then PEN/Faulkner Award.

Gordon has been a fel-low of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the Academy-Institute Award for fiction.

During the academic year she teaches at West-ern Michigan in Kalama-zoo. She also teaches the Prague Summer Program for Writers.

The reading is free and open to the public and will be held 7:30 p.m. in Peabody Hall’s Leon-ard Theater. A Q&A and book signing will follow the reading.

national teacher award recipient to talk about education

Award-winning au-thor and educator Sharon Draper will present “A Blueprint for Dream-ers” 4 p.m. today in Sesquicentennial Chapel.

Draper, the recipient of the 1997 National Teacher Award, will be presenting an uplifting and enlight-ening take on the power of education and achieve-ment throughout the past, present, and future.

The event is presented by the Black History Cel-ebration Committee, the Office of Diversity Affairs and the Center for Ameri-can and World Cultures. The event is expected to last an hour and is free and open to the public.

national Geographic Explorer will talk about his adventures

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Digital data makes the results easier to manage and compare results for research.”

micHaEl curmEcHair of tHE committE on coursE Evaluations

identified and notified, the univer-sity has completed their responsi-bilities to the DMCA.

According to Mosley-Howard, once a student receives their letter that often ends the

disciplinary process. “At Miami, our philosophy is

always to not just stop an illegal activity but to educate around that activity so that students or who-ever is a part of our community really knows that you can’t do that because some students and individuals may not know, so we want to not only stop the behavior

but we want to educate at the same time,” Mosley-Howard said.

Every time IT staff receives a notification from a copyright holder/agent that a particular IP address has allegedly violated copyright, they find the user of that address, and Mosley-Howard sends that user a letter.

However, on the rare occasion that the same student is caught downloading illegally again in the semester, further disciplin-ary action is taken.

However, according to Wil-son, there is a risk for legal consequences every time an individual violates copyright through illegal downloading, even if the university considers the matter closed.

“Typically, when we haven’t heard back after we have sent the notice out, from most of the copyright holders they are satis-fied that we are taking our inter-nal steps to remedy the situation but there is no guarantee,” Wil-son said. “Disciplinary action does not mean they are free and clear from legal action.”

However, Wilson said in most cases a copyright holder will not sue someone for only illegally downloading once.

“Largely from what we’ve seen, somebody doing it once is not going to get sued by a copy-right holder,” Wilson said.

The type of illegal downloading that was specifically mentioned in Mosley-Howard’s “Welcome Back” letter was peer-to-peer downloading (P2P), which ac-cording to Bazeley is becoming more of a concern than standard illegal downloading.

“With P2P, it is possible for individuals to download entire movies online, and it is extremely difficult for copyright holders to fully remove their copyrighted content from the Internet,” Baze-ley said via email. “These are the primary reasons that P2P is a con-cern for copyright holders.”

William, a Miami student who would like to remain anonymous

in case of any disciplinary or le-gal actions, described his usage as almost exclusively P2P.

“It has never not worked out,” William said. “I’ve never gotten an email or anything but there are precautions that you take. You don’t just go haywire in the dorm.”

William said he downloads be-cause it is cheaper and easier than purchasing media.

“I have no particular soft spot for the RIAA (Recording Indus-try Association of America) or the MPAA (Motion Picture As-sociation of America),” William said. “You take extra steps not to feel bad about it, like if I like a movie I will go see it in theaters. If it wasn’t good enough to see it in theaters or it’s really old, I’ll download it.”

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INTERNET, FROM PAGE 2 [Downloading illegally] has never not worked

out. I’ve never gotten an email or anything but there are precautions that you take. You don’t go haywire in the dorm.”

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problem arises where a staff member is abusing their phone usage, they could be required to reimburse all costs and see their cellular phone contract with the university cancelled.

Cathy McVey, senior direc-tor of strategic communica-tions and planning, said that while the way cell phone plans are packaged makes it hard to split up business and personal usage, it’s time to take a good hard look at what the university should pay for.

“I carry a university phone be-cause I’m responsible for com-municating for IT services,” McVey said. “I have to carry it with me wherever I go. If a sys-tem goes out, people need to be in communication quickly and respond quickly.”

Creamer said looking through each person’s phone log to

find any sort of personal usage discrepancy would be impracti-cal and time consuming.

What both McVey and Cream-er think it is more important to determine whose job requires the use of a cell phone, and what kind of phone that job calls for.

Junior Ben Cowley questions the necessity of university-paid cell phones.

“Most people today have cell phones so why should the stu-dents have to pay for something that the faculty would have any-way?” Cowley said. “What’s re-ally important is figuring out if a faculty member really needs a phone, and that they’re using it appropriately.”

According to McVey, a staff or faculty member requesting a cell phone must have the ap-proval and authorization of their department chair.

This allows some form of re-striction so not every staff mem-ber of the university is allotted a university paid cell phone.

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Galysh, a member of Miami’s PR Visions who worked with the course evaluation committee, “the main theme was ‘improve your school’”, highlighting the importance of course evalua-tions in improving undergradu-ate teaching at the university to help keep Miami on top. Another theme according to Galysh was “go green” because of all the pa-per that is saved in switching to online evaluations.

With the many benefits of online course evaluations come some pit-falls as well. In the hope of more detailed and beneficial responses when letting students do evalua-tions on their own time, there is no way to make sure all students fill them out according to Curme.

Doing the evaluations online comes with some practical benefits.

“Digital data makes the results easier to manage and compare re-sults for research.” Curme said.

Course evaluations are a critical part of improving the university, according to Curme.

When students give feedback to professors, they can make adjust-ments that better suit the needs of the students.

If a teacher never receives help-ful feedback, it is harder for them to know how to change. The com-mittee is considering letting stu-dents fill out the surveys on their laptops in the classroom if partici-pation rates seem to be an issue.

In US News and World Report, the top 19 universities use online course evaluations, according to Curme, and Miami is trying to keep up with the times.

Students have opposing views on the topic.

“I had more time to do the on-line ones, I felt safer because I did it in my own dorm, I felt like I could write more honest com-ments,” said Miami University first-year Lexi Koon.

Other students preferred the old fashion method saying they didn’t understand why a change was necessary.

“I prefer paper surveys in the classroom because then I am more focused,” first-year Abbey Pur-dum said. “When I am taking it in the classroom, my experience is fresh in my mind.”

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Uptown updates

Write-in candidate to appear on Butler County primary ballot

State park under new management

JULIA ENGELBRECHT THE MIAMI STUDENT

Renovations to the Subway uptown provides a fresh look to the dining establishment for Oxford residents.

ANDREW BRAY THE MIAMI STUDENT

CELEBRATING A MAN WITH A DREAMOxford Mayor Richard Keebler speaks at the Martin Luther King, Jr Day march. Originating from Uptown Park and ending at Hall Auditorium, students and citizens alike gathered to commemorate the peace icon.

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Oxford’s business scene experienced some changes over winter break and more are expected.

Uptown Subway gets new look

The Subway restaurant uptown recently underwent changes to its interior de-sign. The store now boasts a rustic interior setting and free Wi-Fi is available for all patrons. According to store management, the changes were part of the owner’s plan to make all of his stores uniform in de-sign and quality. This par-ticular Subway is part of a chain that consists of more than 25 locations based in Fort Wayne, Ind.

“O’Pub” on the road to completion

The new “O’Pub” bar near Uptown Park is cur-rently undergoing in-terior renovations, ac-cording to Economic Development Director Alan Kyger. The bar is owned by Ted Woods, who also owns “The Woods” and “Woody’s One-Up”

amongst other enterprises. The bar is located within the same building as Chase bank. Before Woods chose that spot for his new bar, it was renovated by Park Place Property in 2007, according to Kyger. The building had been vacant before the renovation be-cause Austin Parker’s Floor Store had moved out years ago.

La Bodega not to be affected by sale

J.C. Rupel, the owner of the Oxford Copy Shop, re-cently bought the building that is home to La Bodega and second-floor apart-ments. The unique restau-rant will not be changed at all, according to Rupel. His only plans are to renovate the apartments.

Hibbett Sports closes its doors

Hibbett Sports near Wal-Mart went out of business on Jan. 9. The sports ap-parel and equipment store was part of a chain that fo-cuses on smaller markets, like Oxford. It was the only sports store of its kind in the city.

Argument leads to assault with chair

Around 2 a.m. Jan. 8, an Oxford Police Depart-ment officer was flagged down by a manager at Brick Street Bar and Grill. The manager directed the officer to the patio area and to a 22-year-old man who had been assaulted. The officer observed a “huge laceration under the right eye” of the vic-tim, according to police reports. The male told the officer another male had approached him and started an argument. The agressor picked up a patio chair and hit the victim in the face. The suspect is described in police reports as a white male, stand-ing 5’10” with a medium build. Brick Street staff had reportedly removed the suspect from the bar before the officer arrived and did not recognize him as a “regular.”

Canine search finds marijuana

Around 1 a.m. Jan. 8, an Oxford Police Department officer observed a blue car go through a stop sign at the intersection of N. Cam-pus Avenue and E. Church Street. The officer stopped the vehicle, identifying the driver as 19-year-old Mi-ami University sophomore Christian Sarkisian. The officer noticed a smell of marijuana coming from the car and did a free air sniff of the vehicle with a K-9 officer. The K-9 officer per-formed a search and falert-ed on the car and a search found wooden and brass pipes, as well as a grinder with marijuana residue on it. Sarkisian was charged with two counts of posses-sion of drug paraphernalia.

Noise complaint results in drug bust

Around 11:45 p.m. Jan. 8, an Oxford Police De-partment officer responded to a call at an apartment at 118 E. High St. for a noise complaint. When the of-ficer arrived on scene, he could smell the odor of burnt marijuana. Accord-ing to police report, the officer heard people in the apartment talking about the police officers being outside. When the door was opened, the officer noticed a stronger smell of marijuana. The officer spoke with two of the resi-dents and asked to search the apartment for marijua-na. The residents invited the officer in and once in-side, the officer requested the residents give him the marijuana to avoid the de-lay of getting a search war-rant. One of the residents, 19-year-old Miami Uni-versity sophomore Robert Brill, brought a small bag of marijuana from his bed-room and a small glass pipe and gave them to the offi-cer. Brill was charged with possession of drug para-phernalia and possession of marijuana.

The police reports used in today’s Police Beat are from a previous week. Due to the observance of Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, no officers at the Oxford Police Department could give a reporter from The Miami Student print-outs of the reports typi-cally obtained on Mondasy and Thursdays.

BY CATHERINE UBRYSTAff WRITER

There will be three can-didates running for the 52nd Ohio House District in the upcoming March 6 primary. One of the can-didates running will be a write-in candidate.

Cynthia Pinchback-Hines, the Democratic can-didate from West Chester Township, will campaign as a write-in candidate and will compete against Re-publican Margaret Conditt and Libertarian candidate Robert C. Coogan, ac-cording to Butler County

Democratic Party Chair Jocelyn Bucaro.

Write-in candidates dif-fer from the other candi-dates in that their names do not appear on the pri-mary ballots, according to Bucaro.

“Cynthia Pinchback-Hines’ name won’t appear

on the ballot, so anybody who votes for her will have to type her name into the electronic voting machine or write her name on a paper ballot, which does make it a little harder to get votes,” Bucaro said.

Essentially as a write-in, candidates who may have

decided to run for office after the deadline passed are allowed to still run, al-though it is more difficult due to the fact that their names do not initially ap-pear on the ballots, accord-ing to Bucaro.

“If the write-in candi-dates get nominated in the primary election then their names will appear on the general election ballot,” Bucaro said.

Write-in candidates are less common when it comes to candidates running for office, but according to Bu-caro, they can occur in all political parties.

“Write-ins can happen with either party and can happen at the state level as well,” Bucaro said.

The deadline for write-ins is later than official candidates in order for oth-er candidates do not have to circulate petitions. Yet, write-ins pay the same fil-ing fee as the other candi-dates, according to Bucaro.

Anybody who votes for her will have to type her name into the electronic voting machine or write her name on a paper ballot.”

JOCELYN BUCAROBUTLER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR

BY MORGAN SCHAffERfOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Hueston Woods, a well-known state park located in Butler and Preble counties, will soon be under new man-agement. The current man-agement company, Xanterra Parks and Resorts Inc., will be replaced Feb. 7. The change in management will be ac-companied by renovations.

Jim Henahan, spokes-man for Ohio state parks, discussed the recent change in management.

“There was a bidding process. It was competitive, and the new company of-fered a better, stronger bid,” Henahan said. Xanterra’s bid to continue managing the park was rejected by the Ohio Department of Job and Family services.

Tom Biegler, president of the U.S. Hotel and Resort Management Inc., the com-pany taking over the lodge, said his company was eager to acquire Hueston Woods.

“The contracts get re-bid every 10 years. We just had a strong interest of get-ting in there,” Biegler said.

“Whatever we bid must have been more lucrative to the state then our predecessor. Part of the process has to do with the amount of money you are willing to put into the parks. We have commit-ted millions of dollars to the two parks.”

A major concern for Hueston Woods is what will happen to the people who cur-rently have jobs at the lodge. Henahan and Biegler both discussed the issue of losing jobs. It turns out there will be a positive outcome for the em-ployees at the lodge.

“They have offered jobs to all the former employ-ees so no jobs will be lost,” Henahan said.

“There was an indication based on miscommunication that their jobs would be lost but no jobs will be lost at all,” Biegler said.

With new management comes change. U.S. Hotel and Resort Management Inc. is planning to make several renovations to the lodge and rooms at the park.

“A lot of the general things that were deferred will be ad-dressed, mostly guest impact

areas,” Biegler said. “The entire guest rooms will be completely redone. It is go-ing to be gorgeous. We are really excited. In six months, you won’t even recognize the place.”

The changes are targeted to be finished before one of the busiest weekends for the park, Miami graduation in May.

“We are going to try to get them started prior to the peak season this year but we don’t want to misplace customers during the busiest season,” Biegler said.

Miami University junior Courtney Carothers has been to Hueston Woods and her family is also acquainted with it. She said the rooms were somewhat outdated, but there was a sense of familiarity.

“While it is unfortunate that the history of the rooms will be replaced, it is a welcomed renovation,” Carothers said.

Aside from Hueston Woods, U.S. Hotel and Resort Management Inc. will also be taking over the lodge and the golf course at Shawnee State Park, according to Biegler. Shawnee State Park is located in Portsmouth, Ohio.

EditorMEGAN MCGILLArtS@miAmiStudEnt.nEt 5ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012

By ChriStinA CASAnoSEnior StAff WritEr

Stage Left, Miami University’s student or-ganization for musical theater, will begin work on its spring production with auditions for Rich-ard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, directed by

Heather Boddy. Auditions will take

place Tuesday and Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m. in Center for Per-forming Arts room 114. Callbacks will take place 7 p.m. Thursday in the same room.

Those auditioning will need to prepare 16-32

bars of a song and cold reads will be provided by the director. If interested in auditioning, please email Kendall Persons personkw@muohio.edu for a slot.

Direct any questions to the director, Heather Boddy boddyhm@muo-hio.edu.

By BriAn SophErfor thE miAmi StudEnt

It is a facet of life that certain art suits cer-tain seasons — music fits mood. Snow Patrol knows this, and in drop-ping a wintry collection of new songs as Fallen Empires, seem to em-brace the season in a peculiar way.

In assembling yet an-other album full of sol-emn alternative-rock arrangements of guitar, bass, drums, pianos and the occasional strings, Snow Patrol does in-deed attempt to capture the winter season itself, as music often does. Yet the mark of what we may call a true winter-music is the degree to which its necessary image-quality is believable. With Fall-en Empires, the picture is far too often revealed as the forgery it is.

The line between mel-ancholy and schmaltz is, of course, hazardously thin. The waxy schmaltz that Snow Patrol con-veys on this album can sometimes reach heights that are almost unbear-able, and often times, rather confusing. Take “Called Out of the Dark” which processes in a strange dance-rock that tries to bridge the grooves of disco and the broad bombast of Cold-play. “This is your life / this is your time” is proclaimed as the cho-rus climaxes. Beyond lyrical triteness, the disco-indie combination here sounds not played-out, but honestly unsure of itself.

The following track “The Weight of Love” pulls about the same trick, beginning with an almost Pearl Jam-esque pseu-do-blues before again

returning to a disco beat and soaring chorus. The “soaring chorus” trope repeats itself so often that what honestly pro-found emotional weight it might have held keels over in its formulaic guilt. The echo of disco, thumping, prominent, often fuzzy bass and all, recurs far too often, nev-er any more comfortable than the last time.

Honesty is really this record’s problem. There’s an inkling of sincerity on this record, it can’t be denied, but more often than not it comes off as quietly, sourly insincere. Granted, the insincer-ity is not at the forefront

(as in Coldplay) and doesn’t admit itself in nauseating irony (as in Ke$ha, for instance). In that sense, it might be all the more tragic; it’s as if Snow Patrol are trying to portray them-selves but find them-selves stuck so solidly in the mold of melodra-matic adult contempo-rary expectations that the act of honesty is structurally impossible.

The nostalgic remem-brance of “The Garden Rules,” for instance, be-gins promising enough, lyrically poetic and rich, before it sinks into the sort of smooth acoustic guitar slew that could be the end credits for a Nicholas Sparks film adaptation, and the pain-fully cheap hook emerg-es like a knife through the page of whatever poetics might have lived

there: “you will never know how much I love you so.”

If we take this idea of “structural impos-sibility” seriously, then maybe this album, in its apparently unremark-able sheen becomes an interesting document of contemporary culture. I don’t mean this in that it might be considered a document of the tired and trite postmodern dic-tum that there is “noth-ing new under the sun.” I rather mean it in the sense that movies can be so bad they’re funny, this album might be called, with no disrespect, so bad that it’s important. It may

serve as a representation of the honesty however hidden in the age of cultural overproduction.

Thus the message of the album, spreading out across our culture is thus: There is yet humanity — but it has been so formed that it cannot honestly look at itself in the mir-ror. Yet Snow Patrol it-self has a bit of search-ing to do if they want to find the feet it stands upon. A meta-level of tragedy does not neces-sarily mean a tragedy exists within these songs themselves — what we might call sublime seems to watch over it instead of inhabit it. It is pos-sible, but if the listener is somehow able to unearth the human underneath this slush, then they have committed an act that this reviewer finds exceedingly difficult.

By Emily KEttErErfor thE miAmi StudEnt

Swish. Imagine sitting on a bench, minding your own business when all of a sud-den you hear a swish. Look-ing up you see a group of psychedelic, hairy creatures walking around. They all are unique. Some with long hair from head to toe, others with buttons and garbage stuck to them. But they all look like colorful, whimsi-cal creatures from a far away imaginary universe.

Your world has just been invaded by Nick Cave’s Soundsuits.

Artist Nick Cave is fa-mous for his fantastic Soundsuits — magical mixed media sculptures that

are equal parts art, fashion and performance pieces. Essentially, the Soundsuits are fantastic costumes that dancers wear for choreo-graphed dances or show up in public places in a sort of flash mob.

On Jan. 21, 40 of his tow-ering, wearable sculptures will invade the Cincinnati Art Museum in his largest exhibition to date entitled Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth.

Cave’s wild, semi-human suits are made of raffia, twigs, dryer lint, human hair, vintage toys, buttons and much more. They are just at home being worn as costumes as they are hanging up in galleries. The colors, shapes and textures will fascinate you,

capture your imagination and take you out of your comfort zone.

Cave began making his suits in the wake of the police beating of Rodney King in 1991 and the race riots that followed. Cave was recently featured in the September 2010 edition of Vogue where he described himself as a humanitarian using art to create change.

Cave explained how these Soundsuits get across his message of racial tolerance.

“You’re not able to cat-egorize [Soundsuits], and the key thing is you’re not going to be able to place judgment,” Cave said. “You have to force yourself to accept the unknown.”

On the surface, the

Soundsuit’s otherworldly appearance totally engulfs the wearer until you cannot discern the dancer’s gender,

race, or age. Beyond the message he

puts behind his work, he is also a firm practitioner of sustainability. Cave’s use of found and discarded items harken to his less

privileged childhood in which he had to make do with hand-me-downs.

According to Brittany

Galloway, Marketing and Communications Associate at the Cincinnati Museum, Nick Cave will be pres-ent for the beginning of the exhibition.

Videos of the Soundsuits

being used in performances are readily available on Youtube. Junior Stephanie Burchinow has followed Nick Cave’s wearable sculptures and is excited for the chance to see them in person.

“I have only seen vid-eos on YouTube … when his Soundsuits would visit campuses or some per-formances at galleries, so it would be really cool to see them in person,” Burchinow said.

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth is on exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum from Jan. 21 to April 29.

The museum is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is free every day.

By BriAn SophErfor thE miAmi StudEnt

The past few years have seen soul and R&B slowly make their way into the conscious-ness of experimental music, perhaps culminating with art-ists like Frank Ocean, The xx and James Blake. Yet The Weeknd has proved to occupy comfortably a middle-point be-tween experimental (perhaps halfhearted) re-appropriation and R&B orthodoxy.

The Weeknd, solo project of Toronto musician Abel Tesfaye, has gained enough attention over the past year to garner quite a lot of critical ac-claim with his mixtape trilogy (of which Echoes of Silence is the last installment). He’s garnered enough attention, at least, to catch the ear of fellow Canadian rapper Drake, earn-ing him two guest spots on his latest album, Take Care.

Indeed, The Weeknd, be-yond geography, is something of a kindred spirit of Drake’s — Drake’s latest work tends to focus on the isolation of fame and excess, and in return, The Weeknd deals with excess too, but the effect is far less person-al, detached and all the more colder for it. In that regard, Echoes of Silence is the very peak of that aesthetic.

The lyrical subject matter of this release is, again, not unfa-miliar to those acquainted with Drake: substance abuse, inter-personal detachment and sexu-ality. But whereas Drake tends to put his heart on his sleeve as to these matters, The Weeknd clouds them in both instru-mental and vocal haze. Excess is dealt with in a stark dichoto-my; it’s at once presented with regret and moroseness, and at the same time, pride and brag-gadocio. What is also missing, in this comparison, is the woes of fame that come, especially, with Take Care – the picture of the drawbacks of excess that The Weeknd draws is one that remains out of the spot-light, so to speak, hidden in its own shadow.

The result is a message of overwhelming confusion that can’t even find the stage to confess itself, carried by Tes-faye’s voice, which, it must be said, is by all accounts fantas-tic. It’s a voice that can whisper and croon with delicate, frag-ile finesse, and howl with the very same ease. Yet his voice is only one part of the vehicle of the underlying ideology of the music.

Instrumentally, then, the production that Tesfaye uses to surround all this delves into such alien and unknown depths that it’s astonishing. R&B is not

particularly a genre known for experimentation; as opposed to other musical styles that have shifted in and out of sub-genres and reactionary move-ments over the decades, its retained a radio-ready format that while reliable becomes derivative. Echoes of Silence is drenched with fragile, dark at-mospherics, notes and chords surging and contracting in the distance, echoing in and out as percussion rises and falls.

In this context, Tesfaye’s voice often comes through sounding distant and thus all the more tragic — or even more tragic when it seems to beget the very abyss that sur-rounds it. The result is a truly claustrophobic sound; just as neurotic and fascinating when it is at its most lush as it is at its most stark. In this way the music becomes a metaphor for the concurrent overwhelming and vapid environment of the emotional disarray that is a measured reflection on having far too much.

The high points on the mix tape serve to prove precisely where Tesfaye succeeds. It opens with a cover of Mi-chael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana” which, if it weren’t for the pulsing, modernistic instru-mental remake, could easily be mistaken for the original. In a faithful, yet respectful, mimic of Jackson’s voice, Tes-faye grounds the cover with welcome nostalgia, yet with wispy atmospherics, a roaring bass and drums that pound as if from some mournful other world, he propels the past

bewildered into the future. “Montreal” which follows it takes the bombast that preced-ed it and subdues it, tranquil-izing it within a new haze. The two tracks, in tandem, seem to show the sonic poles that The Weeknd embodies, power-ful and enormous yet cloaked in worry, as if backed into a corner.

“The Fall” though, perhaps shows where there remains room for The Weeknd’s sonic conclusions to truly come to fruition. The track features pro-duction from Clams Casino, a producer who may be recog-nizable to those familiar with rappers like Lil B and A$AP Rocky, to whom he often lends his spacey, hazy beats. The production on this track, with its processing percussion and subtly swirling ambiance tops anything Tesfaye has produced himself. As good as it is, it ex-poses that the dark aloofness that Echoes of Silence embod-ies can go even further. We can only hope Tesfaye takes that step, into the implied abyss that his music surrounds.

Nonetheless, Echoes of Si-lence, as his Dirty Diania cover suggests, attempts to produce music fundamentally outside of time in two ways: both outside of history and outside of the moment. In this van-tage point from above, in the still abyss, the bedlam below of one’s hedonistic revelry is viewed with nervous pride and quiet contempt. The next step, perhaps, is to sonically capture the fall that occurs from above to below.

‘Soundsuits’ invade Cincinnati Art Museum

new ‘Snow patrol’ album creates unique alt-rock sound

‘The Weeknd’ takes R&B, pop to experimental limits on ‘Echoes’

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The Weeknd, a project done by Toronto musician Abel Tesfaye, is gaining national attention for his experimentation with R&B music, a style not typically experimented on.

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‘open door’ policy needs clarification for all students

Last semester, I always forgot to bring my ID card with me, so I had to ask my Residence Assistant (RA) to open my dormitory’s door. What made this experience notable is I almost asked them to do this favor more than 30 times. If I apply this experience to this semes-ter’s ID policy, then I would have spent $210 for having my door opened — money I could spend to buy a new

academic book or hang out with my friends many times. The behavior that someone often forgets to bring his or her ID card with them is also very common among college students. Therefore, I doubt the purpose of the “Open Door” policy. Is Mi-ami University in need of money so badly to authorize this policy or is it based on some other convincing rea-sons? Also, I want to address

that I have already asked my RA to open my door twice just in the first week of this semester. Consequently, if I don’t change my behavior then I’m definitely going to be a good donator to Miami due to this policy. In conclu-sion, I don’t see how this pol-icy is that persuasive to put into practice.

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miami football game set back will not damage next season

illegal downloading at miamiMiami students need to be aware there are consequences for downloading illegally when using the university’s server.

dancing Equipment managerChad “Stylez” Burns is a budding YouTube sensation. Thus far, his football practice dancing has more than 140,000 views.

Women’s basketball winning streakThe team has won 10 straight games! Keeping this streak up could mean an NCaa tournament bid come March.

Jenni Weiner leaving the tms staff to work part-time with Channel 12 newsThanks for your great contribution to The Miami Student. We will miss you, but we are excited for this great opportunity!

The University of Mis-souri—Miami University game change for the 2012 football season set in mo-tion speculations regarding breach of contract, ambigu-ity on spending and a few lingering questions about the consequences for our team.

Initially, Missouri was set to face off against Miami Sept. 22 as part of a deal in which Miami would play two games in Columbia and Missouri would play one game in Oxford.

However, Missouri had to cancel the game because they underwent confer-ence realignment from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in which the SEC scheduled them to play South Carolina on that same date.

Because Miami will re-schedule this game, tech-nically there is no breach of contract. The editorial board of The Miami Stu-dent believes that although the situation is a bit embar-rassing for Miami, there is no dire consequence for the football team.

Because the team is likely to reschedule with another team with less prominence than Missouri, Miami finds itself in a bind with ticket sales and possible televised promotion.

Yet Miami’s schedule isn’t changing as drastically as some other schools; as unfortunate as it is to say, Miami also doesn’t really have an ego to bruise in the long run with our foot-ball team, as evidenced by

typically paltry attendance at games.

Missouri is also helping Miami find a replacement game by getting Miami in touch with different schools in addition to helping us fi-nancially. Miami Athletic Director Brad Bates also believes this change will most likely not impact re-cruiting since the majority of Miami’s games next season will be televised.

The editorial board of The Miami Student commends Missouri for helping us in any way they can to fix this schedule setback, and for the university’s further coopera-tion. As Miami prepares for the 2012 season, athletics is confident it will find a team to fill out the remainder of their schedule.

Fusion on saturdayMake sure you get tickets to watch amazing performances hosted by the asian american association.

Wade davison Thursday and friday, Miami will have the chance to hear the award-winning National Geographic “explorer-in-residence”lecture.

new Greek bidsCongratulations on finding your brothers and sisters in Greek life. May your next four years be filled with great memories.

halfway through the 14-day clubKeep going strong Miamians as you embark on this difficult challenge.

Capsized italian cruise shipour hearts go out to the families that lost loved ones. It’s also a tragedy that the ship’s captain abandoned ship and is now facing legal charges.

uptown upgradesa new bar, renovations and new shops will soon be open. We can’t wait!

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LIBERTY AND JUSTICETY GILLIGAN

Haiti’s future depends on international support

Haiti is the most impover-ished nation in the Western hemisphere. According to the CIA World Factbook, 80 per-cent of the population lives under the poverty line, over 40 percent of the population is unemployed, only 62.1 per-cent of adults are literate and 17 percent of the population has access to an “improved” sanitation source (a toilet). And that was BEFORE the earthquake struck.

On Jan. 12, 2010, a bit past 5 p.m., a devastating 7.0 earth-quake struck Haiti. It lasted only 35 seconds but when the dust settled, 250,000 people were left dead, more than 250,000 homes in Haiti’s cap-ital Port-au-Prince alone were demolished and one in six Haitians were displaced from their homes, according to the National Post.

Last week was the two-year anniversary, and unfor-tunately, only slight progress has been made in Haiti. Chris-tian Science Monitor reported while two-thirds of Haitians have been moved out of refu-gee camps and resettled and more than 500,000 people still live in tent-cities in 758 camps across Haiti. Furthermore, only 50 percent of the rubble from the quake has yet to be removed. Haiti has definitely had many victories, however, the recovery effort is moving at a snails pace of what it could be. How can the international community help kickstart the country’s recovery? Here are my five recommendations.

Firstly, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) in Haiti need to reflect on their goals and establish LONG-TERM goals that address infrastructure shortcomings and government develop-ment. According to the Ency-clopedia of the Nations, Haiti only has 628 miles of paved

roads; no railroad system and only 12 percent of Haitians have access to electricity. Last week, former Canadian Gov-ernor General Michaëlle Jean stated that Haiti “cannot build a sustainable economy on charity,” and she was is very right. Haiti desperately needs infrastructure to build a sus-tainable economy, instead of depending on foreign aid.

Secondly, the Haitian gov-ernment needs to renew the Interim Haiti Recovery Com-mission, an independent na-tional body that coordinated Haiti’s 12,000 aid groups. The commission’s tenure expired in October and it needs to be renewed in order to over-see cooperation between aid groups in Haiti. This is cru-cial, so the groups may work together versus working inde-pendent of one another.

Thirdly and closely related to the second recommenda-tion, Haiti’s NGO’s need to work more closely with the Haitian government. It is un-derstandable that many NGO’s circumvented Haiti’s corrupt and inefficient government. However, the government has lost the ability to supervise or provide any recommendations to the NGO’s operating within Haiti. Many in the internation-al community describe Haiti as an “NGO State” because the government has essential-ly lost control of the country to the NGO’s. While it is good that charities are remaining vigilant in preventing cor-ruption or squandering relief funds, they need to make sure their organizations are find-ing out what the governments needs are, and keep the gov-ernment informed about their actions and long-term goals.

Fourthly, Haiti’s govern-ment needs to create a govern-ment agency that can manage land registry. A major factor

slowing Haiti’s recovery is the government’s inability to determine who owns land. According to the United Na-tions, 16,000 civil servants died in the 2010 earthquake and thousands of title deeds and land registry records were destroyed in fires or are buried under rubble.

Furthermore, with 250,000 Haitians dying in the quake, inheritance of land has be-come a major problem. Many Haitians are currently squat-ting in the ruins of their for-mer homes, unable to prove that the home or the land it sits on, actually belongs to them. The UN reported that less than 5 percent of Haiti’s land is officially accounted for. Land ownership and prop-erty rights are ESSENTIAL to rebuilding homes and busi-nesses in Haiti. Foreign busi-nesses, which could bring much needed investment and jobs to Haiti, would not even consider building in a country where they couldn’t guarantee land records.

Lastly, relief efforts and reconstruction needs to occur outside of Port-au-Prince. The capital city has swelled into an urban slum since the earth-quake, as millions of Haitians flood to the capital in search of work, only to end up liv-ing in an aid camp. The Hai-tian government and NGO’s need to encourage economic development and housing reconstruction outside of the city in Haiti’s smaller towns, where infrastructure and the economy are more stable than in the massive capital city.

With these recommenda-tions, plus the continued sup-port and generosity of the in-ternational community, I am very optimistic that Haiti can rebuild itself to an even bet-ter nation than it was before the earthquake.

The college conundrum plagues Miami students

ESSAY

Mark Twain once said, “I never let my schooling in-terfere with my education.” Twain did not trust the school-ing system or institution. In 1930, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote an article titled, “Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education.” Her basic prem-ise was that for democracy to work and for the government to function, an informed citi-zenry knowledgeable about the basic functionality of the government and proactive in the decisions was key to that democracy’s success. The best way to achieve that was through education. There is an economic consideration too – even though there is no prag-matic way of determining the economic parameters in the future. For college students, this means jobs being pre-pared for now may not exist by the time the student enters the job market or the job may not exist yet.

In the United States, we vote. We vote to elect local, state and federal officials, who we then entrust to do what is necessary for their particular jurisdic-tion. It would be problematic if nobody voted because of apathy or ignorance. Further-more, it would be problematic if people voted without under-standing the issues. I partially agree with Eleanor Roosevelt. Education is a necessary tool for good citizenship, but as a secondary purpose.

If good citizenship is necessary for a democracy to flourish and education is nec-essary for good citizenship, then similar logic follows regarding careers. Every ex-pert agrees that for the most part, a degree gives John a better opportunity at landing

a job than Joe. It means that one must get an education, a degree and subsequently, a good paying job with that de-gree in order to function as a good citizen. Enter another purpose for education: to se-cure a good career. In fact, ac-cording to a 2008 College Stu-dent Characteristics Inventory, the number of students that cite “to prepare for a career” as their biggest reason for at-tending college is 68 percent. That is up 14 percent from a study done 12 years ago by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Political rhetoric, the media, friends and family constantly say, “Go to college to get a degree and get a good paying job.” No. I mean, yes. Just as good citizenship is a secondary purpose of educa-tion, so is a good paying job. In that sense, a good paying job is in the back of my mind. The irony is that I have to pay off these outrageous federal loans somehow.

My point is similar to Mark Twain’s quote. I came to Mi-ami University-Hamilton in the spring of 2009 not because I had grandiose plans of us-ing my degree as some lottery ticket to future success, but be-cause I wanted to learn. It really was that simple and still is. The purpose of education, as I see it, is knowledge accumulation. That means gaining the skills necessary to engage in critical reading, critical thinking and rational arguments.

These skills will assist one in being a good citizen and en-gaging in democracy, as well as potentially earning a high-paying job. I came to college to challenge my preconceived notions of society, politics, morality, and spirituality, or

lack thereof. The only way to allow for knowledge accu-mulation is to come to college with an open mind.

Amidst temptations to spend four years partying or economic turmoil in real life, lending to the fervor to get a degree and get a higher paying job, or even the culture itself that prioritizes money, learning itself often takes a backseat. Even if one is serious about learning, math and science gain most of the media atten-tion and government money. Math and science are impor-tant, but the other areas of learning are too – philosophy, English, sociology, etc. Irony abounds even more when one considers how much the aver-age student works and goes to school.

According to the Ameri-can Council on Education, 78 percent of undergradu-ates work while attending college. Of full-time stu-dents, 25 percent work full-time as well. That does not even include non-traditional students that have the added burden of taking care of children, which is common among many at Miami Hamilton.

You work hard outside of school in order to work hard in school, so that you can get a good working job outside of school later. Therefore, school just becomes a blur of booze, bills and boring lectures. It does not have to be that way. Benjamin Franklin once said, “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowl-edge always pays the best interest.” Invest in knowledge for knowledge’s sake.

When you hear “Olym-pic Training Center” (OTC), your first thoughts are prob-ably of grandiose facilities with special caterings to elite athletes. Yet, when our whole varsity men’s swim team had the opportunity to go, the first thing I noticed was the hu-mility of the facilities. There was nothing overdone about any of it — the weight room was smaller than the athletic weight room we have here at the Gross Center, the pool at Miami University is nicer than their 50 meter pool.

However, what made the OTC special was the atmo-sphere. The U.S. National Team’s pool time ended right before our own. Brendan Hansen, a four-time Olympic medalist, talked to our team for 20 minutes on the nature of swimming and what it takes to win, compete and suc-ceed. We got to hear a lecture from Russell Mark, who ana-lyzes and breaks down starts, turn and strokes for the U.S. Olympic and National teams. Moreover, everyone who was there training was working to-wards a common goal, a com-mon theme of pursing excel-lence as a habit in their sport at 6,035 feet of elevation.

Besides getting to climb up another 2,000 to 3,000 feet on Colorado’s Rocky Moun-tains during our practice off time and see the vastness of Colorado spread out beneath of eyes; and witnessing one of the most glorious sunsets

when we climbed the rock formations at Garden of the Gods — it was a talk from Dave Dennison that hit me the deepest.

A 1999 World Champion in the 200-meter breaststroke and NCAA champion in the 200-yard breaststroke, Den-nison rolled into the room in a wheelchair. In 2004, after missing the Olympic team by one place (only the top two of each event go to the Olympics), Dave’s life spi-raled downhill. He was living in the garage of his old swim coach, and said he had made decisions and choices that had deeply hurt some of the people who were closest to him. He commented on his depression and his reliance on marijuana to pick him up.

In the winter, his friend asked him to go back to a cabin in the “middle-of-nowhere-Wyoming,” where they held numerous childhood memories.

They decided to go sled-ding down a cliff, which be-cause of the snow was more like a steep hill. He went down butt first several times, but got bored and decided to go down the hill head first on his sled. As he rode down the hill, trees were rushing past his face and he knew that if he did not bail, he would be dead.

When he bailed out of his sled and he realized he was heading straight for a tree. He turned his body as much as he could, but rather than going

head first, he smashed into the tree back first — crush-ing his number 10 and 11 vertebrae together.

Dennison was paralyzed waist down instantly and coughing up blood. After it took emergency services an hour and a half to get where he was, he was informed that he would be paralyzed waist down like this for the rest of his life. Dave quickly realized there were two groups of peo-ple in rehab with him. There were those who wondered why and pitied their situation, and there were the few who embraced what happened and searched relentlessly for meaning through it. Dennison chose the latter, and it showed him that in the time between trials and breaking his back, he chose to look at the nega-tives and focus on the things he couldn’t control. Rather, he said being paralyzed waist down was the best thing that could have happened to him — and when people ask him if he wants to go back and cut the tree down that he broke his back on, he almost always smiles and says, “I would rather hug it for making me who I am today.”

Dennison’s story baffles me because when I face trials I push through the flames as quickly as possible. But Den-nison walked through the fire and let it burn off what was undesirable within him — if only I had half the courage to walk as such.

BRETT MILAMMILAMBC@MUoHIo.EDU

olympic Training Center heeds many opportunities

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New year shows promise amidst political strife

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A very Happy New Year to all of my readers, I hope you enjoy the last year of the world’s existence. As you have all heard, according to the Mayan calendar, the world will end on Dec. 21, which will really be a downer for our seniors who worked so hard to find jobs. Accord-ing to a recent skit on Satur-day Night Live, the Mayans simply ran out of space on the calendar they were creating and just simply had no room for any year after 2012. Either way, this year is shaping up to be very special.

Mailboxes, television channels and email accounts will be flooded with ads pro-moting the best of the best: the presidential candidates for this upcoming election cycle. By the end of this year, we might just have a new presi-dent-elect (who will be hop-ing the Mayans are wrong). Most importantly though, the country will see just how much money could possibly be spent campaigning. Ac-cording to OpenSecrets.org, the Center for Responsive Politics, in 2008, around $730 million was spent by then-Senator Barack Obama, with Senator John McCain spend-ing $330 million. They are figuring even more money will be spent during this next election. With Super-PACs and interest groups that num-ber will be even higher. I do not know about all of you, but I would just rather them spend the money on something other than television ads. If nothing else, they should get Aaron Rodgers to do his touchdown dance in at least one of them.

A Super-PAC that is get-ting a lot of attention lately is Stephen Colbert’s Ameri-cans for a “Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Super-PAC.”

It started as a way to show how easy it was to create one of these organizations, but Colbert has raised mil-lions of dollars. Now that he has given his intention to run for President (of the United States of South Carolina), he had to sign over control to another. In another edu-cational, yet sarcastic show-ing, his attorney explained how he could sign over his Super-PAC to anyone, as long as he did not coordinate with whoever was in charge. His choice: Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show. Stewart in turn quickly changed the name of the group to “The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC.” The move showed, surprisingly, how easy it was to create, move and transfer ownership of a seemingly complicated organization, a Super-PAC.

Catherine Shoichet, a jour-nalist for CNN, explains how this move (Colbert’s run for President) has angered many Republicans in South Caro-lina. They see it as a gag, a political stunt to increase ratings and get some cheap laughs. While Colbert will not be able to get on the bal-lot due to election regula-tions, is this just a political stunt? It has caused enough stir that CNN has begun running stories on Colbert’s actions. In their quest for po-litical humor, they also edu-cate the masses. As much as Colbert and Stewart say they run “fake news” programs, a study by the PEW Research Center in 2007 explains how 16 percent of Americans said they watched The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, which according to Journalism.org is “comparable to some ma-jor news programs.” With

readership of newspapers dropping significantly, people are going elsewhere for their news. With so many view-ers, is it not the responsible thing to do to educate Americans about the elec-tion process, albeit in a very sarcastic way?

Whatever one’s feelings about politics, it is important to stay informed. It is im-portant that we look beyond those numbers and find out what is really the truth. Read-ing the news also gives us insight as to what is happen-ing outside our little Miami University “bubble.” It opens our eyes to cultures diametri-cally opposed, like our own compared to Iran’s, yet able to work together. The U.S. Navy recently rescued Iranian citi-zens from Somali pirates. This came just after tensions grew heated over Iran’s threat to close an important waterway through which oil tankers reg-ularly travel. It could have cut off much of the world’s sup-ply of oil. Yet, tensions were calmed (for a moment at least) when that Navy ship rescued those hostages.

This weekend, an Italian cruise ship ran aground and capsized, killing several pas-sengers. Through that trag-edy, however, the some of the ship’s crew courageously stayed on board to help as many passengers off as possi-ble. Even though, the captain may be facing legal troubles and suspension for jumping ship. It just shows how when one turns on the news, while they may see stories of mur-ders, corruption, and scandals they can also see stories of bravery and selflessness. They may also hopefully see a po-litical comedian who is trying to help America create a better tomorrow … tomorrow.

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I JUST WANT TO BANG ON THE DRUM ALL DAYThe Oxford Gourd and Drum Ensemble perform at Monday morning’s commemorative program honoring the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The ensemble is made up of members of the Oxford and Miami University communities.

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This has been proven true from all of the positive reac-tions Miami students have had about the video.

“Every time I watch the video, it gets funnier that he’s the only one dancing. That guy is hysterical,” first-year Liz Turner said.

Senior Tylar Rodri-guez also said the video was funny.

“I think Miami should petition him to be on Dancing With The Stars,” Rodriguez said.

When asked if he would

keep dancing now that he knows he’s being filmed, Burns said, as long as it’s not a distraction or disruption, he will.

“I can’t help it,” Burns said.

Burns has proved a les-son to all of us that you have to make your job fun and be yourself, even if it involves busting out some dance moves on the foot-ball field for no reason, just because. He also gave one final, promising message for all his fans at Miami, “with spring practices coming up, stay tuned for round two of Chad ‘Stylez’.”

possibly searching for a Divi-sion II opponent.

“As you can imagine, at this time of year your options are limited at best,” Pearson said. “[Missouri] was clearly one of the most celebrated opponents [Miami has had].”

Missouri’s game against Miami in the future will be only the second time an SEC school has traveled to Oxford for a football game.

Although there are finan-cial penalties if there is a breach in the contract, Bates

is confident that Missouri will play Miami in Oxford in the future.

“What’s great about what Missouri’s doing is they’re helping us with the replace-ment game, both financially and in terms of making con-nections,” Bates said. “The additional monies that would be paid are really contingent upon what that guaranteed amount [will be] for that substitute team.”

In addition, Missouri’s visit to Oxford would likely have been a nationally tele-vised game, which is very beneficial for recruiting pur-poses. However, Bates does

not believe this will have a detrimental impact on re-cruiting, as the majority of Miami’s matchups will likely be regionally or nationally televised due to the quali-ty of their opponents and due to the MAC’s contract with ESPN.

“I hope fans come to Ox-ford to watch Miami,” Pear-son said. “I would say that it won’t be a huge detriment to [our] season ticket holders.”

Bates also said it is not un-usual for dates of games to be moved, but pointed out how this is a unique situation.

“The one thing I would say is there are some schools

that are really struggling right now which is unusual [at this time of year],” Bates said. “We are eight months from kickoff and there are schools that don’t have a completed schedule with two or three games, let alone just one. And so it’s a very unusual year be-cause of all the conference migrations and my guess is the announced schedules across the country are prob-ably going to be a little bit later than they historically have been.”

Miami hopes to announce a future date for the resched-uled Missouri game in the next few months.

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FOOTBALL, FROM PAGE 1

MU wins 10th straight game, tied for first in MAC

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FindinG tHE supEr Fan at miami

’Hawks soar past Bobcats

Every so often, a cer-tain breed of person comes about. Their race, creed or persuasion doesn’t matter. Sometimes these people do things that any “normal” person would find insane.

In Alabama, it’s accept-able to poison another school’s trees. In Oregon, it’s expected to paint your body in negative 10-degree weather.

At Miami University, none of these things are true to form in any state. At Miami, showing up at the game makes you a much bigger fan then most students here.

How many times have you listened to a sports talk program on WMSR? Or what about the last time you read about a team on MURedhawks.com? Did you even know that MURedhawks.com existed?

That’s the problem with the Miami sports culture. There is no such thing as a “super fan” on this cam-pus as there seems to be no such thing as a REAL fan.

I like to call myself a “real” Miami fan, but I don’t think I can even compare to many of the long time alumni fans. These people have stuck with the Miami program through thick and thin, through multiple coaching changes, and through tu-multuous recruiting years. These people even stuck with Miami following a MASCOT change.

How many times has that ever happened to a

major college program in the last 100 years? Why is it that no Miami students seem to want to stick with the program for more than a season?

That is why we need to declare the era of the super fan. We need students who are willing to stand out in the cold and rain. We need people who have a passion for sports and a passion for winning.

There is no excuse to see our stadiums and are-nas not even half full. Our women’s basketball team is currently undefeated at Millett Hall and is also the odds on favorites to win the MAC and secure a berth in the NCAA tournament (which by the way would be hosted at Millett Hall).

There is no excuse for this lack of attendance for any sport.

With baseball season very quickly approaching, the expectation needs to be that Hayden Park will be filled to the brim. The weather, with the excep-tion of this week, has been beautiful and that is doubt-ful to change, so there are no excuses.

We are a Division-1 pro-gram, not a minor school with 500 total students.

We are a real program with a legitimate chance to recruit some of the best student athletes in the na-tion, but let’s really ask ourselves would anyone want to play here with fans like these?

The era of the Miami Su-per Fan starts NOW!

red and White improve in second indoor meet

BY JosH nortHFor tHE miami studEnt

After two tough losses to open the Mid-American Conference (MAC) season, the Miami University (5-10, 1-2 MAC) men’s basket-ball team was able to hold off the University of Buf-falo (8-6, 1-2 MAC) 52-51 Saturday night in Oxford, Ohio. The victory marked Miami’s first MAC win of the season.

“They played really well and I hope they keep this going,” Head Coach Char-lie Coles said. “I didn’t think this game was going to be pretty at all.”

Miami was led by the starting backcourt of fresh-man guard Brian Sullivan, who had 17 points to lead all scorers and shot 5-for-9 from three-point range, and sophomore guard Quinten Rollins, who had 13 points and led the team with four assists.

“[The] last couple games, we were right there at the end, and really the only thing we didn’t do was win,” Sullivan said. “It helps us gain confidence going forward.”

Similar to the way the last two matchups turned out, this game was back and forth throughout. In this first half, neither team held a lead larger than three points and the teams were tied seven times.

With the RedHawks only up by one late in the second half, sophomore

forward Jon Harris knocked down a big three-pointer to increase Miami’s lead to 51-47 with 1:12 remain-ing. Miami was able to hold on after, when senior forward Julian Mavunga hit a free throw to win the game 52-51.

Miami was able to get through this game with-out a strong performance from Mavunga, who had a season-low eight points on 2-of-9 shooting.

“Every team’s main goal is to stop Julian; we’re go-ing to see that all year,” Sullivan said.

For the first time in their careers, Sullivan and Rol-lins played the entire game, in large part due to the ab-sence of sophomore guard Josh Sewell, who was un-available for undisclosed reasons. Even though Sul-livan’s natural position is point guard, Rollins and he played very well together to spark the RedHawks.

“In practice, we always go against each other, but he can play the two [guard] as well as the point,” Rol-lins said. “I find him when he’s open and he knocks it down.”

The win snaps a three game losing streak for the Red and White, and im-proved Miami’s home re-cord to 4-3 this season.

Miami will look to build off this victory Wednes-day night against Bowling Green State University. Tip off is set for 7 p.m. at Millett Hall.

BY Win BrasWEllFor tHE miami studEnt

The Miami University women’s indoor track and field team remained stead-fast in their training over winter break, placing sec-ond at the Bowling Green State University Women’s Team Challenge.

The ’Hawks’ top-tier fin-ish was due in large part to two top finishes and six run-ner-up performances.

Despite the several teams in attendance, it was essen-tially a two-team competi-tion, with the Broncos of Western Michigan Univer-sity winning the meet with 151.66 total points and Mi-ami finishing with 122. The next highest point total was recorded by the Falcons of Bowling Green State Uni-versity with a mere 70.33.

“We didn’t put everyone in their main events but even still, in all areas, the ladies

competed really well,” Head Coach Kelly Phillips said.

The RedHawks boasted strong performances across the board, including a split win for senior pole-vaulters Hannah Tabler and Sarah Kinnaman. Both ladies hit the top mark of 3.65 me-ters/11-11.75 feet, each while setting new personal marks and stepping into the Miami record books, tying sophomore Kori Tatman for fourth place.

Miami also flexed its mus-cle in the shot put. Senior thrower Alexandra Roberts won the event with a throw of 15.09 meters/ 49-6.25 feet. To add to winning the event by over four feet, Rob-erts posted the second far-thest throw in Miami indoor track and field history.

The team also fared very well in on-track competition. Senior sprinting standout Diona Graves placed sec-ond in the 200 meter dash,

recording a 24.84 second time, while capturing second place in the 60 meter dash at 7.60 seconds. Graves helped the team, capturing 10 per-cent of the total team points.

“I am really happy with where I am right now,” Graves said. “I’m starting this season running the 60 with the same time I finished last season.”

Junior sprinter Layne Baggett placed fourth in the 60 meter at 7.85 seconds, in addition to senior Rachael Clay and freshman Gretch-en Walter gaining three points, placing fifth (25.73) and sixth (25.89) in the 200 meter.

Freshman dual-sport ath-lete Charlotte Myers cap-tured six points with a third place finish in the 400 meter dash, clocking in at 59.17 seconds. It was Myers’ first individual collegiate race.

“I was a little nervous at first,” Myers said. “I

wasn’t the happiest with my time, but third isn’t bad. I’m just going to take this as a learning experience and move on.”

The distance runners had strong performances as well, with senior Jillian Dickman and freshman Jess Hoover earning 14 points for their second (10:07.45) and third (10:15.95) place finishes in the 3,000 meter run. Fresh-man Elisa Frazier placed fourth in the mile run at 5:08.07, good enough to pick up four team points.

Miami broke into the top 10 in school history Satur-day with a time of 3:50.10 in the 4x400 meter relay. The mark is eighth all-time in RedHawk history and helped earn a runner-up finish, fall-ing to Western Michigan who posted a 3:49.97.

The ’Hawks hit the track next weekend in Blooming-ton, Ind., at Indiana Univer-sity’s Gladstein Invitational.

JEssi tHornE THE MIAMI STUDENTJunior guard Courtney Osborn has led the way for the RedHawks offensively and defensively this season, leading the team in scoring, assists and steals. Osborn had six steals and four assists Sunday afternoon against Ohio University.

Miami clinches first conference victory

BY Brian GallaGHEr For tHE miami studEnt

Vince Lombardi once

said, “Winning isn’t every-thing, it’s the only thing.” And lately, the only thing the Miami University women’s basketball team has done is win.

After a 67-47 victory in Athens, Ohio over Ohio University (OU) in Part I of the “Battle of the Bricks,” the RedHawks have now improved their record to 14-3 and a perfect 4-0 in Mid-American Conference (MAC) play.

Senior guard Maggie Boy-er scored 15 points to lead the ’Hawks as they picked up their 10th straight victory. Sophomore guard Hannah Robertson added 12 points and twin sister Haley Rob-ertson dropped in 10 points to help carry the scoring load as the team’s leading scorer, junior guard Courtney Os-born, was held to only six points. Osborn was the focus of the OU defense but found

other ways to burn the Bob-cats, grabbing six steals and picking up four assists.

“Osborn did a really good job of spreading the ball around and finding open people,” Hannah Robertson said. “OU did a good job defensively on her, but that helped to open things up for me and my teammates.”

Miami spotted the Bob-cats four points in the first two minutes before going on a 10-0 run to start the game and followed by a 13-2 run capped off with a jumper by junior forward Rachel Hencke to push the score to 25-9 with 9:10 left in the half.

“Everyone was patient with the ball today,” Rob-ertson said. “We were able to hit the open player and make easy passes that led into good shots.”

The RedHawks hounded the Bobcats defensively, holding them to 28 percent shooting during the first half and causing seven turn-overs. A Hannah Robert-son jumper gave Miami it’s

biggest lead of the day with the score 33-13 at 5:45, and the OU faithful at the Convocation Center were very quiet.

The scoreboard read 36-22 as the buzzer sounded for halftime and the ’Hawks headed into the locker room with only 20 minutes sepa-rating them from a double-digit win streak.

“We were able to keep OU out of the lane and pre-vent their scorers from get-ting easy points,” Osborn said. “And our focus this whole year has been ending our defensive possessions with rebounding and box-ing out and we were able to execute that.”

The second half saw the Bobcats claw their way back and cut the lead to 12 with 17:12 remaining.

But the RedHawks would never let them get any clos-er. After another 13-2 run, sparked by a pair of three pointers from Osborn and Boyer, the game was well out of reach.

The ’Hawks took their

biggest lead of the night at 64-40 after a layup by junior forward Kirsten Olowinski and cruised to another vic-tory, picking up their fourth win on the road.

“Every game we have new people step up for us in roles that they haven’t done so far,” Osborn said. “It’s been great to see everyone step up and that’s going to help us as we continue.”

The RedHawks return to Millett Hall 7 p.m. Thurs-day to take on Bowling Green State University in the “Pack the House” game, as they look to continue their winning ways.

The Falcons come to Ox-ford sporting the only other spotless MAC record (4-0) and will offer a true test for the ’Hawks.

“We’re excited about this game, but we’re not going to change who we are and how we play just because Bowling Green comes in with a good record,” Osborn said. “We’re going to focus on what we can control and play hard.”

NEXT HOME GAME: 7 p.M. THURSDAY vS. BOWLING GREEN