EMILY TATE UNIVERSITY EDITOR They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but for those be- neath the stroke of Robert Shetter- ly’s paintbrush, the portraits speak for themselves. Shetterly, an accomplished art- ist from Cincinnati, has seen his work fill the pages of various newspapers and span oceans to find new homes, but still many of his pieces have found their place here, at Miami University. For more than a decade now, Shetterly shifted his focus to an original series entitled “Ameri- cans Who Tell the Truth.” This collection features portraits of American citizens who, on scales both large and small, have pushed the boundaries of American soci- ety for the common good. “Some are legends who have long passed away — Martin Lu- ther King, John Muir, Sojourner Truth,” Kevin Bush, Associate Dean of Partnership, Research and Grants for the College of Education, Health & Society, said. “But there are also some we may not recognize.” On the third floor of McGuffey Hall is an art gallery, where faces both instantly recognizable and otherwise indistinguishable adorn the walls. Next month, a new face, that of Bob Moses, will join them — though this one, in particular, hits close to home. Moses played a key role in not only the Civil Rights Movement, but in Freedom Summer as well. Senior Program Assistant to the College of Education, Health & Society Monica Streit said he or- ganized the Freedom Summer training at the Western College for Women (now Western Campus) in 1964, which brought in people from all across the country. Moses also challenged the all- white delegates of Mississippi elected to the 1964 presidential convention because he felt they did not represent the black popu- lation of the state. As a result, he founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. This party did not earn any seats that year, but its creation alone gave a voice to peo- ple who had otherwise been silent. Shetterly recognized the im- portant contributions of Moses’ civil rights activism and chose to make him the subject of one of his “Americans Who Tell the Truth” portraits. Since, Miami’s College of Education, Health & Society RICK MOMEYER PROFESSOR EMERITUS When I was an undergraduate at Allegheny College, beginning in 1960, I was greatly benefitted by three different opportunities that each in its own way transformed my life. The first was to have some extraordinarily good teachers — teachers who took a very raw, ill prepared, but earnest young person seriously and challenged me to see the world in very different ways than I had acquired in my first 18 years. The second was the occasion when Bayard Rustin visited cam- pus, in the fall of 1961, to enlighten us as to what was happening in the burgeoning civil rights movement. The third, growing directly out of these first two, was to go to Fisk University as an exchange student the second semester of my second year, winter/spring of 1962. Taken together, these three events have led to living a very different, and I believe, far more rewarding, life than the one I had envisioned at 18. It also brought me to being noticed by the FBI and began a long period of surveillance. It is for good reason John D’emilio, in his biography of Ba- yard Rustin, subtitles the book “The Lost Prophet.” Rustin was a life long advocate for nonviolence, a close adviser to Dr. King, and the organizing genius behind the great March on Washington in 1963. After he addressed a full house in the Allegheny College chapel, he sat down with about 12 of us for further discussion. Rustin’s open- ing remark was: “How come you all decided to come to a segregated college?” That was a revelation to us, who had not thought of Al - legheny as segregated; merely as lacking a significant population of Negro students. So some of us set out to change this, mostly by proposing to help the admissions office recruit students of color. In the course of that effort, we learned that other historically white colleges (Colby, Wooster, Grinnell, and more) had for some years con- ducted one-on-one semester long student exchanges with historically black colleges. At Allegheny, we arranged such an exchange with Fisk University in Nashville, and in January of 1962 three students from each institution changed places. The fourth day at Fisk, a picnic was held in Nashville’s park with a replica of the ancient Greek Parthe- non, and the other two Allegheny exchange students and I were invit - ed. The rather bizarre replica of the Parthenon was of little interest; the other picnickers were so engaging, even captivating, for the persons they were and the stories they had to tell. Virtually all of the other 20 people at this well-integrated picnic were veterans of the “Nashville Move- ment,” the anti-segregation cam- paign that for two years had been one of the largest — and in some ways, most successful — parts of the protest and sit-in movement sweeping campuses and commu- nities throughout the South. Prob- ably half were also veterans of the previous summer’s Freedom Rides, most of whom were fairly fresh from Mississippi’s infamous Parch- man Prison where Freedom Riders who made it as far as Jackson were routinely arrested and hustled off to spend the next three months. Their stories were compelling, and after they had been told, someone started playing a guitar and all broke out singing freedom songs that had so empowered and sustained the ASG ADDRESSES ALCOHOL COMMUNITY CHARACTER CHINESE CLUB BIKE SAFETY SOCCER PORTRAIT »PAGE 4 FBI »PAGE 4 In 1979, The Miami Student reported instances of discrimination and segregation in Ohio’s higher eduction system would be investigated by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Miami president Phillip Shriver said the review would consider enrollment patterns, financial aid and retention rates. The Miami Student FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2014 WWW.MIAMISTUDENT.NET Established 1826 MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIO VOLUME 142 NO. 05 TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY My FBI file and why it should concern you as a Miami Student today Freedom Summer portrait paints pictures of the past Civil rights activist Bob Moses earns spot in McGuffey gallery It is not what was in the file that should concern you, but what was left out.” Former professor shares civil rights story UNIVERSITY CULTURE COMMUNITY CIVIL RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS OPINION SPORTS CREATIVE COMMONS FREEDOM FIGHTERS An FBI flier seeks information concerning the disappearance of Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney and Michael Henry Schwerner. Authorities later discoverd the three were killed by the Ku Klux Klan. 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EMILY TATEUNIVERSITY EDITOR
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but for those be-neath the stroke of Robert Shetter-ly’s paintbrush, the portraits speak for themselves.
Shetterly, an accomplished art-ist from Cincinnati, has seen his work fill the pages of various newspapers and span oceans to find new homes, but still many of his pieces have found their place here, at Miami University.
For more than a decade now, Shetterly shifted his focus to an original series entitled “Ameri-cans Who Tell the Truth.” This collection features portraits of American citizens who, on scales both large and small, have pushed the boundaries of American soci-ety for the common good.
“Some are legends who have long passed away — Martin Lu-ther King, John Muir, Sojourner Truth,” Kevin Bush, Associate Dean of Partnership, Research and Grants for the College of Education, Health & Society, said. “But there are also some we may not recognize.”
On the third floor of McGuffey Hall is an art gallery, where faces
both instantly recognizable and otherwise indistinguishable adorn the walls. Next month, a new face, that of Bob Moses, will join them — though this one, in particular, hits close to home.
Moses played a key role in not only the Civil Rights Movement, but in Freedom Summer as well. Senior Program Assistant to the College of Education, Health & Society Monica Streit said he or-ganized the Freedom Summer training at the Western College for Women (now Western Campus) in 1964, which brought in people from all across the country.
Moses also challenged the all-white delegates of Mississippi elected to the 1964 presidential convention because he felt they did not represent the black popu-lation of the state. As a result, he founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. This party did not earn any seats that year, but its creation alone gave a voice to peo-ple who had otherwise been silent.
Shetterly recognized the im-portant contributions of Moses’ civil rights activism and chose to make him the subject of one of his “Americans Who Tell the Truth” portraits. Since, Miami’s College of Education, Health & Society
RICK MOMEYERPROFESSOR EMERITUS
When I was an undergraduate at Allegheny College, beginning in 1960, I was greatly benefitted by three different opportunities that each in its own way transformed my life. The first was to have some extraordinarily good teachers —teachers who took a very raw, ill prepared, but earnest young person seriously and challenged me to see the world in very different ways than I had acquired in my first 18 years. The second was the occasion when Bayard Rustin visited cam-pus, in the fall of 1961, to enlighten us as to what was happening in the burgeoning civil rights movement. The third, growing directly out of these first two, was to go to Fisk University as an exchange student the second semester of my second year, winter/spring of 1962. Taken together, these three events have led to living a very different, and I believe, far more rewarding, life than the one I had envisioned at 18. It also brought me to being noticed by the FBI and began a long period of surveillance.
It is for good reason John D’emilio, in his biography of Ba-yard Rustin, subtitles the book “The Lost Prophet.” Rustin was a life long advocate for nonviolence, a close adviser to Dr. King, and the organizing genius behind the great
March on Washington in 1963. After he addressed a full house in the Allegheny College chapel, he sat down with about 12 of us for further discussion. Rustin’s open-ing remark was: “How come you all decided to come to a segregated college?” That was a revelation to us, who had not thought of Al-legheny as segregated; merely as lacking a significant population of Negro students.
So some of us set out to change this, mostly by proposing to help the admissions office recruit students of color. In the course of that effort, we learned that other historically white colleges (Colby, Wooster, Grinnell, and more) had for some years con-ducted one-on-one semester long student exchanges with historically black colleges. At Allegheny, we arranged such an exchange with Fisk University in Nashville, and in January of 1962 three students from each institution changed places.
The fourth day at Fisk, a picnic was held in Nashville’s park with a
replica of the ancient Greek Parthe-non, and the other two Allegheny exchange students and I were invit-ed. The rather bizarre replica of the Parthenon was of little interest; the other picnickers were so engaging, even captivating, for the persons they were and the stories they had to tell.
Virtually all of the other 20 people at this well-integrated picnic were veterans of the “Nashville Move-ment,” the anti-segregation cam-paign that for two years had been one of the largest — and in some ways, most successful — parts of the protest and sit-in movement sweeping campuses and commu-nities throughout the South. Prob-ably half were also veterans of the previous summer’s Freedom Rides, most of whom were fairly fresh from Mississippi’s infamous Parch-man Prison where Freedom Riders who made it as far as Jackson were routinely arrested and hustled off to spend the next three months. Their stories were compelling, and after they had been told, someone started playing a guitar and all broke out singing freedom songs that had so empowered and sustained the
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MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIOVOLUME 142 NO. 05
TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY
My FBI file and why it should concern you as a Miami Student today
Freedom Summer portrait paints pictures of the pastCivil rights activist Bob Moses earns spot in McGuffey gallery
It is not what was in the file that should concern you, but what was left out.”
Former professor shares civil rights story
UNIVERSITY CULTURECOMMUNITY
CIVIL RIGHTS
CIVIL RIGHTS
OPINION SPORTS
CREATIVE COMMONS
FREEDOM FIGHTERS An FBI flier seeks information concerning the disappearance of Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney and Michael Henry Schwerner. Authorities later discoverd the three were killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Freedom Summer workers and volunteers gather to sing and play guitar outside Clawson Hall on what is now Miami’s Western Campus.
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Freedom Summer Reunion Conference Oct. 13-14
Visit Miami Alumni Association online to RSVP
KELLY HIGGINSONSENIOR STAFF WRITER
AlcoholEdu statistics released last September showed that al-most all alcohol-related incidents reported in fall 2013 concerned first-year students. Since receiv-ing these statistics, the Associated Student Government (ASG) de-cided to take action in combating high-risk alcohol consumption among students.
ASG, the Office of Student Well-ness and HAWKS Peer Health Edu-cators decided to team up and design an effective way to get students’ at-tention. President of Student Senate Dan Stewart started designing post-ers on his computer with information that might catch students’ eyes.
Many drafts and sketches later, Stewart sent his idea to a designer and later received the final product — the “know your cup, know your limit” poster.
“We just thought of something that students would need for their first couple of weeks on campus,” Stewart said.
When Miami instituted the Good Samaritan Policy in fall 2013, it allowed for heavily in-toxicated students and their friends to call for help without any legal repercussions.
According to the Miami Univer-sity Police Department, the purpose of this policy is to create consistency in handling alcohol or drug-related medical emergencies and to stan-dardize reporting practices for statis-tical purposes.
Shortly after implementing the policy, Miami ran a Good Samari-tan data check and found 90 per-cent of the incidents called in were first-year students.
“We experienced a bit of a shock over the statistics,” non-voting mem-ber of the Board of Trustees Graham Bowling said.
Distributing the posters through-out all first-year and sophomore dorms was the first priority, Stewart said.
“We hope to get them up as soon as possible and have been giving them to the RAs,” Stew-art said. “I thought, ‘What other info will they actually pay atten-tion to after Alcohol Edu?’ So we
designed a poster thinking it might be the right thing to help keep the students safe.”
When designing the poster, ASG members said they knew they want-ed to create something relatable to the average Miami student. The result is a black-and-white poster flashing a red solo cup.
“The biggest thing is we are not encouraging drinking — the law is 21, that’s how it is,” Stewart said.
Although ASG does not condone underage drinking, Stewart said their main goal was to convey to students who do choose to drink that there are safe ways of going about it and, in extreme cases, the Good Samaritan Policy is an excellent resource.
“We just want underclassmen to know their cup, and know their lim-it,” Stewart said.
ASG funded the project for the posters to be distributed throughout the residence halls in hopes that the “90 percent” will decrease this fall.
“The price to make them was minimal for the amount of expo-sure we are getting,” Stewart said. “We did something cost effective while reaching a lot of people at the same time.”
SARA GUGLIELMO FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
Miami University is not only an academic institution; it is a crime-fighting machine. Along with 13 other universities in Ohio, Miami recently became a part of the Ohio Consortium of Criminal Science (OCCS).
The OCCS is a group of re-searchers from colleges and state agencies working together to find solutions to the problems faced by local criminal justice agencies, according to its website.
“The OCCS can have a great impact on the Miami University community,” Kristen Castle of the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Office of Criminal Jus-tice Services said. “Ultimately, this researcher-practitioner part-nership can make a difference in the quality, quantity and equity of criminal justice services re-ceived by the public, making the community a safer place to live and work.”
Professor Theresa Conover, an assistant professor in the De-partment of Justice and Commu-nity Studies at Miami University, agreed that being a part of the consortium will benefit the Mi-ami University community.
“Researcher-agency partner-ships and evidence-based policies
have the potential to provide ben-efits to a multitude of stakeholders in the form of effective, efficient and equitable ways of ‘doing’ criminal justice,” Conover said. “Policymakers, practitioners and the public are realizing that the current way we administer jus-tice, in many cases, is in dire need of improvement.”
The consortium tries to give professionals direct and easy access to experts who could help them with their cases, which would increase community safety.
“Too often, practitioners are challenged by limited resources and the difficulty of identifying and accessing experts in the field who can offer assistance in ‘what works’ in areas of criminal justice practice,” Castle said.
This is where the OCCS comes in. Experienced researchers are paired with practitioners and
ALISON TREENFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
There is something new about the sporting events at Miami University.
It is not the new football coach, or the recent addition to Goggin. It is something called the Zero Waste Initiative, and it is help-ing students take part in Miami’s movement toward sustainability.
The Zero Waste Initiative is a new program implemented by Miami’s Green Team, a group of students that organizes a va-riety of on-campus sustainability events. The Zero Waste Initiative aims to reduce the amount of gar-bage thrown away in trashcans, and instead encourages the use of composting and recycling at sports games.
Zero waste stations are stands where people can properly dis-pose of their garbage into either
compost bins, recycling bins or trashcans. They are manned by zero waste ambassadors who can help guide people to the correct forms of disposal.
Zero waste stations and ambas-sadors will be, and have been, at every home football game, and will also be at hockey and basket-ball games.
The concept of zero waste technically means at least 90
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Zero Waste Initiative: red, white, blue and green at Miami’s games
Undergraduate research just got a whole lot easier for Miami stu-dents. The creation of the Office of Research for Undergraduates (ORU) will provide a one-stop shop for undergraduates looking to get involved in research.
In the works since 2012, the ORU received endorsement by University Senate, the Provost and President Hodge the follow-ing year, according to Director of
Undergraduate Research Joseph Johnson. The new office will be located on the first floor of King Library, which will provide stu-dents with convenient access to King’s many other resources.
“In the past, students had to navigate the possibilities for re-search on their own, which could often be confusing, daunting and frustrating,” Johnson said. “Many students didn’t know where to be-gin, or to whom they could turn for assistance.
Now, there is a central place where students can receive the answers they need and the
direction to help them suc-ceed in research endeavors and creative activities.”
Overall, the office is seek-ing to increase efficiency with research projects.
“The office will be a place as-sociated with the transferring of content from books to students to a place of active learning and en-gagement,” Interim Provost Ray-mond Gorman said.
The office’s primary mis-sion is to encourage students to explore research in any area of
New undergraduate program empowers students to research like kings
In South Africa, the Olympic athlete will still face a lesser homicide charge.–ABC News
Obama approves U.S. airstrike in Syria
A U.S. military campaign was launched Wednesday to wipe out ISIS ‘wherever they exist,’–CNN
City announces it will not help any restuarant with lease issues
Mahogany’s owner Liz Rogers will most likely close shop without the city’s help.–The Enquirer
Butler County social workers return to work
46 workers left the picket line and went back to their jobs after a 16-day strike.–Oxford Press
FRANKIE ROSKAM THE MIAMI STUDENT
PRINCESS STILL SILENT After being closed down as a result of a fire on Green Beer Day last spring, the Princess Theatre’s doors remain closed to the community. It is due to reopen before the end of the year.
Miami alumnus provides specialty wine to residents with a finer pallet
COMMUNITY CHARACTER
JACKIE MOONEYFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
The Center for American and World Cultures and the Office of Diversity Affairs are sponsor-ing a Latin American and Carib-bean UniDiversity Festival in col-laboration with many local and student groups.
UniDiversity Festival is the first of several events in celebra-tion of National Hispanic Heri-tage Month. It will take place at Oxford Uptown Parks tonight from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
This year marks the 12th an-nual UniDiversity Festival. It was organized to promote diversity and inclusion as well as to rec-ognize the increasing growth of Latin Americans in the U.S. and their contributions to society.
“It is important to raise aware-ness on Latin Americans’ contri-butions to the economy and cul-ture in the U.S. since they are the largest minority among us,” said Jacqueline Rioja Velarde, Asso-ciate Director for the Center for American and World Cultures and co-director of the event.
To kick off the event, May-or Kevin McKeehan will read the Proclamation of the His-panic Heritage Month. Follow-ing the proclamation, there will be musical performances, food, arts and activities, animals and
information booths. Music will be performed by
Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band, Ox-ford Choro Ensemble and Stacie Sandoval and Grupo Tumbao. Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band will play Caribbean music. Oxford Choro Ensemble and Stacie San-doval and Grupo Tumbao will play Latin American music.
Traditional Latin American and Caribbean food will be at the event. Food vendors apply to participate. Velarde noted that in past years Tacqueria Mercado has been very popular among festivalgoers and is expected to be this year as well. This year, a new Caribbean food vendor will be present.
In addition to vendors, ALAS, Association of Latin American Students, from the Hamiltion campus will also be providing traditional food.
Craft vendors will have tables set up with a range of traditional arts and artifacts.
Ann Wengler, affiliated with NAACP, coordinated children’s activities for this year’s Uni-Diversity event. Activities in-clude balloons, face painting and games.
“Silly Safari” live animal show will be put on by Amazon Jungle John at 5:45 p.m. Amazon Jungle John will offer information about animal species from Latin Amer-ica. He will also discuss how important it is to preserve their
ecosystems. Through-out the whole festival, llamas and alpacas will be present.
“One of the most im-portant elements of the festival is the informa-tion booths that will be set up throughout the festival,” Velarde said. “The information booths will feature many groups from not just Miami, but the community of Ox-ford as well. The pur-pose of the information booths is to show what diverse members of the community are doing — their contributions.”
League of Women Boaters of Oxford, NAACP, Dayton His-panic Chamber of Commerce, Cincin-nati Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Oxford Choice Pantry, Red Cross and Best Bud-dies are just a few of the groups that will be holding information booths at UniDiversity.
To emphasize the importance of diversity, performers from UniDiversity will also perform at schools in the Talawanda school district.
“This is important for our world. Lives and professions are changing, learning about and ap-preciating diversity can help us
to understand what is going on,” Kelly Spivey, Talawanda School District Superintendent said about promoting diversity within the Talawanda school district and Oxford community.
Miami University students and volunteers will be assisting in the set up, welcome of festival-goers, and clean up for UniDiversity Festival. The festival is free and open to the public.
OXFORD VISITORS BUREAU
SAMMIE MILLLERCOMMUNITY EDITOR
Chris Hensey, a 1993 Miami alumnus, is crazy about all things wine. After taking a “geography of wine” class during his senior year, he fell in love with wine and decided he wanted to make a ca-reer out of selling it. Fifteen years ago, Hensey got his chance when he bought Main Street Gourmet — located right below Pachinko’s Bar — and stocked the shop’s shelves with specialty wines and craft beer. It was a business that had not yet been established in Oxford, one that is now enjoyed by students and community members with a finer taste for their beverages of choice.
Hensey decided to stay in Ox-ford upon graduating for several reasons. He likes the idea of own-
ing a small specialty wine shop in a small town, one with a lively and enriching community. Hensey also enjoys teaching classes about wine to retired people at the university. He leads a tour each year in Ger-many and Switzerland where he also gets to teach about wine and its production. The shop itself is tucked away on Main Street and, aside from offering custom-ers a wide array of craft beer and specialty wine, they also sell spe-cialty coffee and food items to go with the wine and beer. The shop accommodates Oxford’s taste for fine wine by doing special orders for its customers. Hensey says that if there is a particular wine that they do not already offer, he will do everything in his power to track it down and make it available for the customer. SAMMIE MILLER COMMUNITY EDITOR
At 6 p.m. on Wednesday, three females met with an of-ficer at OPD to file a complaint against their fourth roommate. The females said the fourth had vaguely discussed assault and often smoked marijuana in the apartment. The officer told the females to call OPD if the in-cidents continued. At 8:30 p.m. that same day, one of the fe-males called OPD to report that the fourth roommate was smok-ing marijuana in the apartment. When an officer arrived they noticed a strong odor of burned marijuana in the apartment and knocked on the fourth room-mate’s door. The female eventu-ally opened the door and when asked claimed that all the mari-juana had been smoked. The of-ficer said they would return with a warrant, and the female then produced a paper bag containing what appeared to be marijuana and a blunt roach. The officer asked if the female would like to discuss roommate issues and the female agreed to discuss further at the OPD. The female stated she would try to get along better with her roommates, was given a citation for Drug Possession and was released.
At 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, an officer was dispatched to the Kappa Alpha Fraternity house, 314 E. Church St., to take a report of burglary from the fraternity’s president. The president stated that this Saturday afternoon, four to five unknown males had broken into the house by knock-ing out a part of the front door and reaching around to open the door from the inside. While the president was not in the house at the time of the incident, several brothers who were home told the males breaking in to leave, and that when the males entered the house they began throwing punches at the brothers. The males left once they noticed that a bystander on the street was filming the incident and began pursuing the bystander. As they left, the males also took a bag of bagels. The investigation is cur-rently ongoing.
At 11:35 p.m. Wednesday, an officer standing outside OPD no-ticed a fight occurring in front of Brick Street Bar, 36 E High St. The officer approached and no-ticed bouncers from the bar were trying to remove a male who then tried to climb over the fence on the patio of the bar and was being pulled back by a female who did not work for the bar. The officer stopped the male as the owner of Brick Street came over to speak to the officer. The owner informed the officer the male had poured a drink on the band performing on stage and was removed from the bar. While being removed the male punched a bouncer, a female friend of the male also punched a female bouncer in retaliation for her friend being removed. The owner said the assaulting female was in the bar bathroom and the officer called for a female officer to retrieve her. Both the male and female were transported to OPD, the male was charged with As-sault and Aggravated Trespass, and the female with Assault.
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demonstrators against segrega-tion and its attendant insults to human dignity.
I would venture to suggest that had you been 19 years old in 1962, as I was, and in the presence of people as smart, courageous, com-mitted to justice, energetic and funny, you, too, would have wanted to be part of what they were about. Among those at the picnic were: Rev. James Lawson, a theology graduate student who had been ex-pelled from Vanderbilt University for his Movement activities, and Fisk students Bernard Lafayette and John Lewis. Lawson is the Method-ist minister who was a close ally of Martin Luther King and tutored Dr. King in Ghandian philosophy. La-fayette is a long time organizer of peace education and a distinguished professor of religious studies at Em-ory University. And John Lewis has been Atlanta’s Congressional repre-sentative for more than 20 years and is certainly the most admired and respected member of Congress on either side of the aisle.
On my seventh day in Nashville, I went to a workshop on nonviolence taught by Rev. Lawson to learn why all participants in the Movement were expected to return love for hate and how to protect themselves when physically assaulted. I was never entirely persuaded of the first, but learned much from the more practical part of the workshop that proved useful in days to come.
On my 10th day in Nashville, Peter Schwartz, another Allegheny exchange student, and I joined John Lewis and two other black students in seeking service at an upscale downtown restaurant, the Cross Keys. We got no service; instead, we got arrested, ostensibly for dis-turbing the peace of a racially seg-regated facility even though all we had done was sit at a table in our best clothes and politely request menus. We spent the weekend in jail (segregated cells) and went before a magistrate for a hearing on Mon-day morning. But the owner of the Cross Keys failed to appear to tes-tify, and we understood the judge to dismiss the charges. We got back to campus in time to meet our classes.
But the Davidson County Dis-trict Attorney had other ideas. Un-beknownst to our attorney or us he sought and obtained a Grand Jury indictment on three felony charges, all stemming from laws enacted in the 1890s when racial segrega-tion was being codified in the wake of Reconstruction’s failures. We learned this two months later, but inasmuch as the DA wanted to test the constitutionality of these laws, we were rather pleased. We thought it might become an important case and go to the Supreme Court. But it was not and it did not.
More to the point, this was the beginning of my FBI file. I learned this 14 years later in 1975 when, as a young, still untenured assistant pro-fessor at Miami, I exercised my right under the recently enacted “Free-dom of Information” (FOI) law al-lowing citizens access to secret files the government might have kept on their activities. I did not expect to find this five-page indictment in it, but I did expect there would be a file
because in 1964 I made a complaint to the FBI and they had promised to investigate and get back to me. They had not gotten back.
When informed that the FBI would send me the file after I sent them $7.60 (10 cents-a-page copy-ing charge), I thought, vainglori-ously: “Damn, I’m important! They have 76 pages on me.” But when I got the file and read it, I was con-siderably less impressed with my-self and more impressed with the FBI. Seventy-one of those 76 pages were the full field report filed by the several agents that Burke Mar-shall, Bobby Kennedy’s chief As-sistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, had assigned to address my complaint.
In 1964, after graduating from Allegheny, I was hired onto the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coor-dinating Committee (at a standard salary of $9.64 a week, when, as it only occasionally did, SNCC had it) and assigned to work with the SW Georgia Project, eventually landing in very rural Colquitt County. (First, however, I came to Oxford, OH to help with the training for Freedom Summer volunteers. That’s a whole other, oft told story).
One early evening in Moultrie, where we lived, Herman Kitch-ens, the African-American fellow SNCC staff member with whom I was partnered, and I were shot at. We thought we were probably shot at by some young toughs who had been hassling black kids seeking service at the local Dairy Queen. I reported this to the local sheriff; he could have cared less. So with SNCC headquarter’s encourage-ment, I went to the local FBI agent, Royal McGraw. He did not seem to care any more than the sheriff, but he took my statement and said, “we
will get back to you.” As it happened, the FBI “solved”
the case and took it to the local prosecutor. Apparently, he quickly dropped it, judging that he’d never get a conviction. No one told me. Nonetheless, I was impressed with the FBI’s effort.
I should have been less im-pressed. And this is the first reason you should be concerned about my FBI file and why it is a threat to you. It is not what was in the file that should concern you, but what was left out. For what was left out of the file I was sent in 1976 were 40 pag-es of surveillance reports on Miami University student groups in 1970, 1971 and 1972. In 1976, those files were stamped “Classified.”
I learned this nearly 30 years later when, at Miami, we were planning to celebrate Freedom Summer and
Miami’s contributions to it with a 40th Anniversary Reunion/Confer-ence.
For years, we had been trying to locate a list of volunteers who had come to Oxford for training in or-der to reach and include as many as were available in the Reunion/Con-ference. There was reason to think the FBI might have such a list, given their propensity for spying on (and more, through the notorious “coin-tel” [counter intelligence] program) provoking and disrupting groups seeking social change. So I asked for my file again.
This time, I was stonewalled for nearly a year. I repeated the re-quest. They told me I had no file. I reminded them that in 1976 they
had a file. What had happened to it? They found it. This time it was over 200 pages long. And I did not have to pay 10 cents per page to get it!
“Damn,” I thought again, be-ing sometimes a slow learner, “I’m important.” But again, I was mis-taken: all the additional pages were not really about me, but consisted of the list of volunteers and staff who came for Freedom Summer train-ing, each identified by name, home town, and religious affiliation in 1964, and the earlier mentioned sur-veillance of Miami student groups from 1970-73. Both had been with-held in 1976.
Unfortunately, the censors had blacked out all the names on the list, with the exception of mine and, as it happened, Stokely Carmichael. But then, there never was any possibility of hiding the larger than life Stokely, founder of the original Black Pan-ther Party in Lowndes County, Ala-bama and later a leader of the Black Power Movement.
I suppose every conscientious citizen should be concerned with
FBI stonewalling in the light of the FOI Act, both for its slowness of response and more for its refusal to share a list of people who are to be celebrated for their contributions to social progress and their raw cour-age, especially working in Missis-sippi for civil rights in 1964. Maybe some few folks would be concerned that the FBI was compiling a dos-sier on a generally mild mannered professor of philosophy. But these need not be particular concerns to you as a student today; rather, the surveillance of campus groups with the collaboration of other students and university employees should be an ongoing concern and per-ceived as a direct threat to each of us still today.
The groups spied upon in 1970-72 were anti-war groups, chiefly the “Student Mobilization Committee,”
organizing protests on and occa-sionally off campus against the war the U.S. government was waging against Vietnamese peoples (and as we learned so painfully in 1970, against Cambodians and Laotians as well). These were groups that held open meetings and invited any-one and everyone to attend, which worked at publicizing and recruiting attendance. There was nothing ille-gal or nefarious in their very public planning and actions. And yet the government felt entitled to secretly spy on them, and for years, to keep that spying classified as secret.
The names of the spying agents are all blacked out in my file, but a close reading reveals that they had to be either or both other students or student personnel staff employed by Miami University. The reports were regularly submitted to the FBI office in Cincinnati (there was also spies reporting to Cincinnati from Antioch College and Ohio State University). We do not know, and likely will never know, whether some of these spies were also agent provocateurs. We do not know, and will likely never know, how all of this information was used by the government, what opportunities or rights it was used to curtail.
Heavily redacted versions of these reports landed in my file, first, I suppose, because I already had a file, but secondly, because I was the faculty adviser of record to the stu-dent organizations. In my 44 years at Miami I was faculty adviser, albe-it a rather distant one, to more than half a dozens student organizations, always on the premise that students were entitled to organize around whatever their concerns were and the university required they have a faculty adviser.
But why is my FBI file a threat to today’s students, and not just a matter of possibly interesting his-torical fact? I would argue it should concern you because it is illustra-tive of the risk each of us is under from those who would presume themselves entitled to collect all manner of information about us and use it to whatever ends they wish without being accountable to those whose privacy they have so egre-giously invaded. These days such monitoring of even our most inno-cent activities as shopping on line or posting to social media sites or talking on the telephone or writing an email or text are subject to sur-veillance. What we now call “data collection,” and “megadata mining” rather than intrusive spying in this Brave New World of doublespeak is nearly ubiquitous.
We know both government and corporations engage in massive data collection and analysis; we know very little about what they do with this information and still less about what they could do with it. We should all regard ourselves as indebted to Edward Snowden for whistle blowing on National Securi-ty Administration (NSA) activities. At the same time, most of us appear oddly indifferent to the risks such massive government (to say noth-ing of corporate) intrusion imposes on our lives, on what use might be made of this information presently and in the future.
Has the world changed so much from the historical spying and the
uses and abuses of collected infor-mation that I recounted here? In some ways it has, and for the better. We now have better developed pro-tection of privacy policies for both citizens and students. How effective they are in this new era of informa-tion technology is an open question. But in some ways, we are clearly far worse off, for the enhanced capac-ity to spy on each of us — without having to send real people into our classrooms and meetings to do so — is far more powerful than the old ways. Phone tapping, for instance, no longer requires actual physical intrusion on our phones, or even a court order: the NSA can and has tapped virtually all our phones by electronically intercepting signals or coercing or enlisting the coopera-tion of telecommunications corpo-rations to provide records.
Do we have a government today that is less fearsome than one of yore where “intelligence gathering” was overseen by the likes of J. Ed-gar Hoover, archenemy of Dr. King who once tried to coerce King into killing himself and with a disposi-tion to see a fearsome “communist” hiding under every bed, in every closet, and manipulating all those who sought progressive change in the status quo?
Well, we aren’t fighting the cold war and Communism anymore, but arguably we have simply sub-stituted the “war on terrorism” and “terrorist” for these perceived en-emies. Further, we have a national policy that seems to authorize our secret armies to assassinate even U.S. citizens believed by the “intel-ligence” agencies to be “terrorists,” or even more problematically, “po-tential terrorists,” notwithstanding that there has been no due process of law, no trial, no jury of peers, to ascertain these suspicions are well-founded. Just send a drone — not James Bond — to kill suspects.
Perhaps of greatest concern is not what we already know of gov-ernment and corporate spying but what we don’t know. What is being kept from our eyes today that even Snowden did not have access to? Will we only learn 30 years or more later, as I did, what this is? Will we ever know?
The concern here is not based on a Tea Party rant against big govern-ment as such, or a right wing Liber-tarian notion of freedom as entirely egoistic and individualistic. It is a concern I believe is shared by every conscientious citizen of any soci-ety striving for justice, equality and greater democracy.
I and my entire generation bear some responsibility for not being more inquisitive, more proactive, more demanding in countering the spying widely done on us in the past, a set of practices that left insuf-ficiently challenged has helped lead us to the present where spying is still more rampant and the uses to which it is being put even darker. But even more responsibility is borne by those who are the subjects of con-temporary invasions of privacy and indifferent to it, who fail to resist or inquire, or assert their right to pri-vacy. Are you and your friends at Miami University at all concerned by constant surveillance of your life? And if you are, what are you doing about it?
leased the painting for their Free-dom Summer-themed exhibit in the McGuffey art gallery, which will last through December.
“It’s basically a tribute to Bob Moses’ work and everything he’s done,” Bush said. He’s almost kind of an unsung hero. It’s a way of sharing his wisdom and work with a broader audience, espe-cially on the 50th anniversary of an event he was largely responsible for and had such a lasting impact, not only on civil rights but social justice overall.”
Shetterly will unveil the portrait of Moses on Oct. 14, the final day of the Freedom Summer reunion conference, and the final day of Moses’ workshop.
His workshop will center around an educational program to which Moses has devoted several decades of his life, the Algebra Project.
“This program is designed to help youth who are not
achieving in their math [classes] in high school,” Streit said. “Through mentoring and working closely with them, Moses shows them they can be successful and high achieving by the time they gradu-ate high school.”
Streit said this project was Mo-ses’ way of continuing a legacy of social justice, even beyond Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Movement.
“With the Algebra Project, he sees education as a way to equalize the playing field for people, and math is in so many jobs,” she said. “He supports their rise in the eco-nomic system by educating them.”
It is education, after all, that brought Shetterly, Moses and the Miami College of Education, Health & Society together in the first place.
Moses has invested much of his life in the education of youth through programs such as the Algebra Project, and Streit said Miami’s College of Education, Health & Society uses education
as a tool to support social justice. As for Shetterly, Bush said his
entire collection of “Americans Who Tell the Truth” is based on the ideals of democracy and, as the name implies, telling the truth.
“Education is kind of an un-derlying theme of [Shetterly’s],” Bush said. “If we don’t integrate the truth into the education cur-ricula, we are going to keep pro-ducing folks who don’t know the truth.”
The exhibit currently displayed in McGuffey’s art galley is filled with the faces of Americans who dedicated their lives to telling the truth — Martin Luther King, Jr., renowned writer James Baldwin, children’s advocate Marion Wright Edelman, Congressman John Lewis, former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, among others. Soon, another will join their ranks with a new story to tell.
“We want you to walk past these portraits,” Streit said, “and not just look at them, but listen to them, learn from them.”
MARGO KISSELL, MIAMI UNIVERSITY
(L-R) Junior Myka Lipscomb and grad student Dayday Robinson sit at the Freedom Summer Memorial on Western Campus.
I and my entire generation bear some of the responsibility for not being more inquisitive, more proactive, more demanding in countering the spy-ing widely done on us in the past.“
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I gave you three bowls of free chips. I refilled your drinks four times. I answered your questions and took down every word of your order – dressing on the side, no nuts, extra cheese, meat well done. Your food came out in ten minutes and you said it tasted great. Forty minutes later, I pick up the check from your table and see that you tipped me 12 percent – under two dollars.
As a long-time waitress, I have come to accept that some people just don’t see any reason to tip above 15 percent, even for excel-lent service. However, most of these people don’t realize how much of the tip that their server actually gets, or tipped employ-ees are compensated.
When you left a 12 percent tip, what you probably didn’t realize is that after taxes and tip sharing, that 12 percent quickly becomes 7 percent. Your 7 percent tip, which at this point is less than one dollar, is probably the only wage I will receive for the one to two hours I spent waiting on you. I probably will never see the wage that I do receive from my employer, which isn’t much to begin with (in Ohio, $3.98 per hour, but in other states, as low as $2.13 per hour) and usually all of which goes to local, state and federal taxes.
Real work deserves real wag-es. Tipped employees in America have been cheated of the assur-ance of regular wages that they need. Though tipped employ-ees have the opportunity to earn more than the minimum wage, there is no guarantee of a wage rate above the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour. Out of that minimum guarantee, not only are taxes deducted, but many tipped employees are required to share a percentage of their earnings per shift with other employees.
When considering the tip you
give to those who serve you, con-sider the big picture. Restaurant employees serve many tables at once, and are also required to do other tasks behind the scenes. Waiters, delivery people, and tour guides often have no control over some of the services they provide. Servers have minimal impact on the quality and time-liness of food from restaurants, just as tour guides, valets, and hairdressers have minimal con-trol over factors like the weath-er, prices, or company hours and policies.
The tip you leave is more than just a compliment for good ser-vice or a sign of discontentment. The tip you leave is likely to be the only money that that employ-ee makes for their work. About half of all tipped employees are over 30 years old: they need reg-ular wages to make ends meet, to feed themselves or their families, and to pay bills and taxes.
The next time you go out to eat or order a pizza, think about the effect that just a few extra dol-lars has on a tipped employee’s hourly wage. Just like salaried employees, tipped workers do real work, performing necessary services that demand fair wages. Try to remember your tip is the only money they will make for all the time they spent serving you. Tipping just a few extra dol-lars is easy for you, and can save the budgets of tipped employees.
If I were to ask you how you are right now, just in one of those in-passing conversational ways,
how would you respond?
Before you uttered a word, would you think about the five min-utes you had to throw on a
sweatshirt and hat before scrambling out the door this morning? Would you think about the coffee stains and your stomach’s soft growling and the timer going off in your head? Would you be too consumed with the deadlines coming up and the reminders buzzing on your iPhone to form an adequate sentence? You’d probably think about the place you have to be in the next two min-utes and the meeting you’re already late for. You might think about the fact that you don’t really have time to wait in this line anymore. Or much less, you don’t have any time to spare to be talking to this girl you sat next to in that one Geology class last year. No matter what kind of terminol-ogy first entered your mind, it would most likely all culminate into a simple phrase: “I’m busy.” What would I do then, in this scenario? I’d emphatically nod with one those “me too” gri-maces covering my face. Because just in case you were wonder-ing, I’m busy too. Really busy. But now, the moment is over. We’d both hurriedly keep walking, off to fall into the jam-packed cycle that is daily life as a college student. Neither of us would think anything of this minor exchange because it’s not special in any way, it re-peats itself about 100 times each day, with slightly altered faces and details, on Miami’s campus.
Given how frequently these words escape our daily conversations, “I’m really busy,” is the rallying cry for Miami students. At this rate, we should probably push aside “love and honor” based on popular vote. We, as a generation and as a student body, are addicted to busyness. We’re addicted to getting through our days in a blur, to adding something else to our schedule and to generally never having any free time. As much as we complain about the lack of available seconds to simply enjoy life, we se-cretly relish our schedule. In a whirl-wind of booked appointments and grocery lists, this kind of lifestyle is seen as an achievement. The more we have to do, the more important we feel.
So we hold onto it and closely clutch the busyness day after day. If we’re not busy, we’re tired from being busy and if we’re none of those things, we’re bored. We log only as much sleep as we can squeeze in between late night meetings and early morn-ing wakeup calls. We rely on bottomless cups of caffeinated products to keep our eyes open and we constantly add more to our already crumbling plates. We do it all, we keep going, we don’t wash our hair or eat proper meals because we were told to finish our readings and turn in our homework and respond to our emails. This, we were told, is the path to adulthood. But if a constant state of busy-ness is what it takes, I’m not sure I want to be a grown up. I’m not sure I’m cut out for it. On any given day, my time is spent
either checking things off my to-do list, scribbling to-dos in my planner or making a mental note to write a to-do in my planner before I forget. My overwhelmed body longs for a busy-free day, one filled with tak-ing a shower and baking and hik-ing and all those things I say I’ll do when life slows down.
Even if I had the ultimate non-busy day though, would I be satis-fied? Or would I continue to search for meaning in the hectic back-to-back tasks? Wouldn’t I miss the comfort of saying “I’m busy?”
Here’s the thing I’m find-ing out about busyness. Here’s the problem with perpetu-ally overworking ourselves and overusing the busy mantra.
Maybe meaning isn’t found in a full schedule and an empty in-box. Maybe it’s found in the quiet moments in between, in the rare, slowed down moments. The mo-ments when we stop our feet and put a pause on our thoughts and let our cell phones go on silent, no matter how urgent that call is. The moments filled with spontaneous ice cream dates and sitting at the dinner table long after the plate are clean, just to keep talking. Those are the moments I want the sum of my college life and my grown up life to equal to. Especially the mo-ment when I look that person in the eye and say something, anything, other than “I’m busy.”
Break-in video catches one group on tape, calls out all Miami studentsThe following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.EDITORIAL
We do it all, we keep going, we don’t wash our hair or eat proper meals because we were told to finish our readings and turn in our homework and respond to our emails. This, we were told, is the path to adulthood.”
With military and police, conflict leads to casualty
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Steven Benyon’s recent com-ments in the Miami Student in the article, “Police starting to protect and serve themselves,” about police actions in our society shared some distortions that would lead read-ers to believe that the majority of our public servants are not trained or equipped to handle threats. His equation of police reaction to a per-ceived threat and patrol in Afghani-stan skews that fact that in any con-flict whether at home or abroad there are casualties. In almost every in-stance, everywhere, these casualties arise from one individual exercising their trained judgment about a threat that is in front of them. Whether soldier or police, the institutions they represent afford them the best equipment that is necessary to
counter these threats.Mr. Benyon’s comments would,
further, lead readers to believe that the Rules of Engagement that he says are used by today’s military has, somehow, eliminated civilian casualties in Afghanistan by Coali-tion forces, including Americans. There are thousands of documented accounts from every recorded con-flict in our country’s history of the wrong people being hurt or killed based on the judgment of an indi-vidual soldier perceiving that his or her life was threatened. As a soldier in Vietnam, I was never instructed to analyze a person’s intent before I reacted to my training and defended myself. To expect our public ser-vants who are confronted by threat on the street to do psychoanalysis
of a threat before reacting would in-duce a fatal error.
Many of our armed, public ser-vants come from military back-grounds. My guess is that this is true of both the Oxford and Univer-sity police forces. Around the clock, they are trained to protect us; but this does not come at the sacrifice of not protecting themselves. Do they make errors-most certainly. Do they carry themselves in a protect-and-serve manner- most assuredly. Un-fortunately, they cannot pull a flow-er out of a holster when it comes to their perception of what they see in front of them.
Pennies on the dollar: Why you should tip 20 percent
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You may have noticed the Miami name popping up all over the in-terwebs this past week in the same sentence as “bagels” and “break in” and “bros.”
A video posted on Sunday, which has since appeared on Reddit, Gawk-er and Total Frat Move among other sites, seems to show members of the fraternity Phi Tau attempting to break into the house of Kappa Alpha -- and much to their surprise, getting caught on tape by an onlooker.
The four-minute video, which has garnered more than 650,000 views on Youtube, shows the back-and-forth between the cameraman and the crew’s chosen lookout, who after a few minutes realizes that yes, the whole thing is being filmed. One by one, members of the group start to confront the cameraman, one of which was armed with a bag of plain bagels.
At first glance (and maybe af-ter a few replays so you can quote the “Miami gossip girl” part), this video seems like just another ex-ample of drunken campus drama. But as you let the chuckles subside, what else does this incident reveal about Miami?
You might be scratching your heads right about now; however, The Editorial Board believes this incident calls for a moment of analy-sis. Clearly, if this video can inspire Bagel & Deli to spontaneously add a brand new bagel to their menu (which is called “The Lookout” by the way), it’s probably something worth talking about.
This video not only catches a group of students doing something wrong, but it also conveys how sur-prised they are about being caught. And it speaks to the general consen-sus at Miami that as a campus and as
a student body, we feel entitled to get away with things and scrape by.
Isn’t that something we should pay attention to? The Editorial Board certainly thinks so. From where we’re sitting, this video is as much convicting as it is comical.
As the group of six students kicked down the door of the Kappa Alpha house, they didn’t even consider the possibility that anyone would watch-ing, or that someone would actually call them out on it.
Don’t we often have this mentali-ty about life at Miami? We easily fall into the idea of thinking that we’re above the law. We often think they can get away with just about any-thing and no one will care. We are all open to watch our peers do stupid things and we will surely document it with photos, but we won’t actually do anything about it.
We are quick to do stupid things
ourselves all in the search of a fun evening, and we never consider that something bad could happen to us.
The same mentality applies out-side of the Uptown scene. It’s like the dangers and realities of the nor-mal world don’t quite reach us here inside the barrier of Oxford.
We are shocked when we get parking tickets, even though we don’t have a red pass. We feel wronged when we get a zero on an assignment even though we haven’t turned it in yet. We feel invincible, like certain rules and regulations and societal guidelines should not apply to us. As Miamians, we cling to our bubble-like surroundings and don’t think twice.
This is not just a college thing or a Greek thing, it’s a Miami thing. Fraternities and sororities may carry much of the brunt for Miami’s par-tying and bad behavior image -- but
it’s an issue that reaches to every single person who calls Oxford their temporary home.
Think about it. How often do you lock your door? Are you ever an-noyed that it’s locked and you actu-ally have to pull your keys out?
You may think these habits are fleeting and will fade as soon as the real world beckons, but they may be harder to break than we think. Be-yond the obvious safety concerns of this lifestyle, it’s also setting us up for moments of failure. When we’re accustomed to living in dream-like state where we’re surprised to see any ramifications for our irrespon-sibility, how will we fare after we leave Miami?
Will we keep acting however we want and hope that nobody is watch-ing? If so, just like the example from our fine classmates, we’ll probably end up getting caught.
LEE FISHERMIAMI GRADUATE STUDENT,
VIETNAM VETERAN
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Growing up, this exciting question was always followed by a gleeful exploration of all the seemingly limitless possibili-ties that awaited us in life. Would we be an astronaut, a politician or maybe a teacher? For most of us, life was a buffet of abundance just waiting for us to dig in.
But did you ever answer that classic childhood question with, “When I grow up, I want to go to prison?” Did you ever con-sider the best realistic outcome you could achieve, based on manifold situational factors, was to be locked up? Seems kind of funny, but only when you’ve grown accustomed to an envi-ronment that is conducive to “higher” destinations.
I did community outreach over the summer and saw some pretty squalid and decrepit parts of Ohio. Poverty ran rampant and outlooks were bleak. And that an-swer of, “I want to go to prison” is not made up; one child gleeful-ly shared that aspiration with us.
The reality is that for a lot of kids – more than we’d be com-fortable accepting – the “higher” destination, the lesser of two evils, is prison.
Now of course this is absurd. No child would actually prefer to be locked up. Right?
For us, this is easily absurd. For others, though? Let’s see. A lot of kids are born into incred-ibly despondent economic, social and political situations. Even just financially in their nuclear family, there’s a good chance that mom and dad are divorced, which leaves only one source of income, which isn’t exactly ro-bust. You might have multiple brothers and sisters, which means the income is being spread thin, which means you’re not going to be able to afford all the things you might want and need, which means … You get the idea.
People aren’t always rational,
but they are pretty good about understanding benefits and costs; there are trade-offs in every situ-ation. When you’re born into this environmental despondency, you must contest daily with economic and safety insecurities and social inhibitors ranging from poverty to squalid neighborhoods, promi-nent gang violence to simply be-ing a minority. So when you com-pare violence, poverty, hunger, and thirst (life outside of prison) against controlled environment, shelter, clothes, and three square meals a say (life inside prison), prison suddenly doesn’t seem all that bad.
In certain situations, it may be completely rational for one to prefer life behind bars to a life outside of them. And that is just what’s happening.
We know that prison is some-thing to which one ought not aspire, but that’s because we’ve evolved past these basic needs. I woke up in a comfortable bed under a nice roof at an isolated University, walked downstairs at my leisure, and had my selection of an assortment of fine breakfast foods. To someone like me, and to someone like you who is read-ing this, the whole “I want to go to prison” notion is in all likeli-hood preposterous.
But to others, it’s a legitimate and logical decision.
The point in all this isn’t that people of poor socioeconomic conditions should book their vacations to the state peniten-tiary. It’s that a child’s innocu-ous statement regarding his life’s ambitions reveals a lot about our society.
The idea that children, with their whole lives ahead of them in the ‘Land of Opportunity,’ would prefer prison to freedom is an almost incomprehensible dis-grace. That children believe life behind bars is superior to life out-side prison walls is nothing short of nauseating.
There may not be any clear answers or solutions. But the question is this: If children pre-fer prison to freedom, what does that say about the current state of American Freedom?
What does it about our country that some kids get to freely list off a wide range of aspirations while others can only see prison in their future?
As the fine fall weather rolls in and Miami’s campus comes back to life, there are more and more bicycles on the road. With the brand new designated bike lanes on Spring Street and the multi-use path along Patterson Ave, this is a good moment for everyone to review standard laws for bicy-clists and cars.
Bicyclists and cars actually share most traffic rules, which often means sharing a lane. Read on for the full list of safety guide-lines to keep in mind this year.
Obey traffic signalsBoth cyclists and car drivers
must obey traffic signals and stop signs and should ride on the right side of the road. Riding on the left is illegal and dangerous for both cars and bikes.
This holds true for cyclists on the bike lanes who must fol-low all traffic signals and stop signs—and yes, that even means on the bike lanes on Spring Street. Both bikes and cars can earn a traffic citation by running a stop sign.
Ride on the RoadBy Ohio law, bicyclists may
ride on sidewalks in certain areas, but it’s not a good idea. Accident studies show that even low-speed sidewalk riding has about double the accident rate as riding on the road. The danger increases with speed. If you ride on the side-walk, every intersection and even every driveway is a potential col-lision site. Motorists crossing your path do not look for conflict-ing traffic on the sidewalk, espe-cially if you are coming from the “wrong way.” Bicyclists are pro-hibited from riding on sidewalks in the Oxford Uptown area.
TurnsThe rules for turns are exactly
the same for bicycles as for other vehicles: merge to the appropriate position (right for right turns, left for left turns), yield to any traffic that has the right of way and then turn. For cyclists, getting into po-sition for a left turn may involve merging across lanes of traffic. If traffic is heavy, cyclists should start doing this early to take ad-vantage of gaps in traffic: make sure you are visible to all cars as you move into the turning lane; use hand signals indicating your turn; try to get eye contact with drivers of cars. Beginning
cyclists may want to make pe-destrian-style turns instead by dismounting and walking the bi-cycle through the intersection
Like car drivers, bicyclists should never turn or change lanes without first yielding to any traf-fic that has the right of way, and give a signal if possible.
In addition to legal guidelines, cyclists should follow general best practices.
Bike LanesA bicycle lane is a designated
traffic lane for bicyclists, and only bicyclists are permitted on that lane. No moving or parked cars are permitted on bike lanes.
Bicyclists must ride in the bike lane only in the same direction as other traffic. Riding against the flow of traffic is against the law and greatly increases your chanc-es of having a crash, especially at intersections where pedestrians and crossing traffic are unlikely to see you.
Safety Tips for Bikes1. Be safe. Wear a bike helmet!2. Be predictable: make your
intentions clear to motorists and other road users. Ride in a straight line and don’t swerve be-tween parked cars. Signal turns, and check behind you well before turning or changing lanes.
3. Be Visible: ride where driv-ers can see you and wear bright clothing. When riding in the dark or twilight, cyclists should always use both a headlight and blinking taillight. Many cyclists also use a blinking taillight in the daytime. Lights, reflectors, and bright colored biking shirts and tunics are available at any bike shop.
4. Anticipate: consider what drivers, pedestrians, and other bicyclists will do next. Watch for turning vehicles and ride outside the door zone of parked cars. Look out for debris, potholes, and utility covers. Cross railroad tracks at right angles.
Safety Tips for Cars1. When driving on a road
with a bike lanes, keep your eyes out for cyclists who might be
turning at an intersection onto a road without a bike lane.
2. Pay attention to the “shar-rows” signal on the road, which, like the “share the road” signs, means that bikes will be on the road.
3. Move to the center of the road when passing a cyclist.
4. Don’t honk at a cyclist as it could scare the cyclist into a fall. If you want to gain a cyclist’s attention, tap your horn lightly.
5. After parking your car, look carefully in your rearview mirror before opening your car door so that you do not injure a passing cyclist.
6. Drivers might consider turn-ing their head lights on, to make it easier for cyclists to see you coming, both ahead and in their rearview mirrors.
For more information, see the League of American Bicyclists for additional information. www.
bikeleague.org/ and the Ohio Bicycle Federation www.ohio-bike.org/
In addition, the Ohio Depart-ment of Transportation provides a number of helpful handbooks on smart bicycling, Ohio bikeways, information about biking to work, and funding opportunities for lo-cal governments and private citi-zens to encourage, educate, and design pedestrian and bicycle facilities. www.dot.state.oh.us/bike.
Oxford’s local bicycle shop, Bike Wise, located at 9 North Beech St. http://bikewiseoxford.com/ 523-4880, sells new and used bikes and a lot of bike safety equipment including helmets and lights.
Share the road!Kate Rousmaniere is a profes-
sor in the Department of Edu-cational Leadership, an elected member of the Oxford City Council, and a bike enthusiast.
OPINION 7
Accident studies show that even low-speed sidewalk riding has about double the accident rate as riding on the road. The danger increases with speed.”
In certain situations it may be completely ra-tional for one to prefer life behind bars to a life outside of them.”
DIGIORNO’S TWEET Hey DiGiornio, this was poor delivery. The frozen pizza company had a social media fail when it made light of domestic abuse in a tweet sent out from its account.
GREEK BLOOD DRIVE Students showed up in droves and rolled up their sleeves in the annual blood drive, which benefits the Com-munity Blood Center.
TASTE OF FALL WEATHERWe welcome lower temperatures with open arms and comfortable leggings. But when it gets to 80 degrees in the after-noon, we question our wardrobe choices.
NEW BAGEL ON THE BLOCKThanks to a viral video released over the weekend, Bagel & Deli announced a new bagel creation: The Lookout.
RULE OF THUMB
RAY RICE The NFL star was finally given harsher pun-ishment for punching his then-fiance now-wife inside an elevator back in February.
APPLE INNOVATIONIt’s time to add some shiny new gadgets to your Apple collection. With a new iPhone and high tech watch unveiled, the company never stops impressing us.
percent of waste is diverted from landfills, but the Green Team is more realistic in its approach.
“We don’t really endeavor to make that happen,” Green Team’s president Anna Ginsky said. “The intention is to raise awareness to a very possible be-havior change.”
A behavior change geared more toward sustainability than convenience.
Yet despite its simplicity, the Zero Waste Initiative has not been a success so far. Ginsky believes it is a matter of people being aware of the services the Green Team offers and seeking them out.
Patrick Boyle, a member of the Green Team, said the initiative is “a work in progress,” as it is still new on campus. However, he said he is hopeful the Green Team will have a better game plan by the end of the year.
Surely it has been said and heard before: recycling is good for the planet. But even with “recycle” as a buzzword for the environment, the differences be-tween composting, recycling and trash are not always clear.
Recycling takes many prod-ucts, such as metals, like soda cans, clean paper, glass and plastics. Composting includes food and paper products like napkins, soiled cardboard, trays and soda cups —all of which are too often found overflowing out of trashcans.
The problem then is not find-ing solutions to the tremendous amount of garbage the university must deal with every day. It is getting students, faculty, alumni and visitors to make an effort.
“It takes five seconds out of your day to learn what goes where and dispose of it proper-ly,” Boyle said.
Ginsky does not know where the future of the Zero Waste Ini-tiative lies. Her ideal goal would be to see a change in habits, where recycling and compost-ing become second nature. She is realistic about the initiative but hopes it will continue to grow, “even if it just took root and thrived here.”
This year, Miami’s sports teams are not the only ones seek-ing a win at the home games. The zero waste stations are too — by little steps toward helping the planet.
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care, comfort and compassion to patients who are receiving treat-ment in the hospital’s oncology unit and their families. Miami soccer has been involved from the beginning and after each Miami goal Sunday, a bucket will be passed around giving fans the opportunity to help celebrate the goal by donating to the fund.
“If we’re fortunate enough to get a
goal or two, we would be very grate-ful if the fans would throw a couple bucks in the bucket and help sup-port McCullough-Hyde oncology,” Kramig said.
The team will host a picnic be-fore kickoff for the hospital’s cur-rent and past cancer patients and their families. The picnic will im-mediately precede the game, which kicks off at 1 p.m. Sunday at Miami Soccer Field.
Miami’s defense was strong against EKU, but the challenge it faces against Michigan is much tougher.
“We’re hoping to come out and have a big game against them,” Wood said. “And finally get this W and keeping moving on from there.”
The ’Hawks had six turnovers last week against EKU, which blew their chance for a victory. Henrdix
said that can’t be the case this week. “We cannot go up there and shoot
ourselves in the foot,” Hendrix said. “That is one thing we cannot do. That’s one thing we’re not going to do …”
Even if Miami loses to Michigan, they won’t return to Oxford empty handed. Michigan is paying Miami $1.1 million to play.
Miami and Michigan kickoff at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Ann Arbor. Fans can listen to the game live on redhawkradio.com.
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amount, not just one point,” Phillips said.
Hoover and Stewart said their fa-miliarity with the course will serve as an advantage.
“We do a lot of workouts on this course, so people know how they feel at different points on it,” Stew-art said. “People will know where to move up or where it gets hard. We can be more technical.”
Phillips thinks the presence of a strong fan base will encourage the runners.
“Cross country isn’t like hockey where everyone comes to watch,” Phillips said. “We gain momentum just from being at home and having that fan support.”
Hoover said another “fun motiva-tor” will be having the alumni back in town.
“The alumni will be in the race too, and we don’t want them to beat us,” Hoover said.
For the men’s team, Mandrell thinks the race will be very close be-tween his runners.
“I don’t have a good feeling of which guys are going to be the lead-ers … there’s only a difference of
17 seconds between our number one runner and our number seven,” Mandrell said. “I could see a whole bunch of different scenarios, but having that depth will be a strength of the team this year.”
Junior Joe Stewart’s first race of the season is at the home meet. He is returning to the course after sustain-ing an injury over the summer.
Senior Dan Garleb is another contender to watch. According to Mandrell, Garleb has had successful workouts and has been feeling better after his below-average performance in the last race.
As for the RedHawk women, se-niors Anna Lamb, Mattie Moncayo and Hoover should pave the way alongside juniors Laura Bess and Brenna Poulsen. Senior Melissa Gir-gis will be racing for the first time this season.
Phillips also expects freshmen Alex Cameron and Sarra Taylor, who had strong debuts last week, to perform just as well Saturday.
“I’m hoping for this meet that in-stead of the top five we’ll have the top 10,” Phillips said.
The men’s race is set to start at 9 a.m., and the women will begin at 9:30 a.m.
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other local agencies in the criminal justice space to find a solution to various criminal justice problems.
According to its website, the Consortium works closely with more than a dozen other Ohio uni-versities including University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University and Kent State University.
The OCCS hopes to include all Ohio universities and will benefit through Miami University’s in-volvement with this consortium, Castle said.
“MU has experts in the field that can have a tremendous impact on the criminal justice community,
not only in Southwest Ohio, but also statewide,” Castle said.
Conover is currently the only criminal justice researcher from Miami University involved with the OCCS.
“My research includes evalu-ation of problem solving teams, citizen perceptions of safety and satisfaction with the police,” Conover said. “I would expect that my membership in the OCCS would provide future opportuni-ties to partner with other criminal justice agencies.”
The OCCS addresses and solves many different crimi-nal justice issues that benefit Ohio communities.
Though Miami’s involvement in the OCCS is already beneficial for researchers and practitioners, Conover hopes it will soon pro-vide opportunities for students as well.
“Ideally, potential benefits for students could include opportu-nities for undergraduate research allowing students to become in-volved in addressing complex, real-world problems in their pro-spective field,” Conover said, “From the academic standpoint, experiences and examples from these collaborations can be par-layed into the classroom there-by enriching understanding of course content.”
study. The office encourages stu-dents to reach their full potential of research by offering a number of scholarships and programs. These include the undergraduate research award program, Under-graduate Presentation Awards (UPA), Undergraduate Summer Scholars (USS) and professor su-pervision of students.
“A critical role of the ORU is also to connect students with the other bountiful resources Miami has to offer, such as those of the Statistical Consulting Center, In-quiry Center and Howe Center for Writing Excellence, to name a few,” Johnson said.
Open to undergraduate students of any discipline, they are encour-aged to make appointments but drop-ins are also welcome. Here, Johnson said students receive in-dividual consultation, assistance from staff about getting started, designing projects, obtaining funding, data analysis, and pub-lishing or presenting their work after projects are completed.
The office is primarily focused on Miami undergraduate students. Johnson estimates that there are over 2,000 students doing under-graduate research annually.
“It will be beneficial to find out about research opportunities in the ORU,” junior Neena Patel said; Patel did undergraduate research
for her localization of a protein using gene fusion last year. “It is important to have personal face to face interactions with professors to build that rapport.”
With the ribbon-cutting cer-emony scheduled for next week, the office hopes to bring in many more students interested in research.
“The core constituency of the ORU is Miami’s undergraduate students, as the name suggests,” Johnson said. “To serve these students and achieve the ORU’s goals, the office will also work with graduate students, faculty, and staff, such as by providing opportunities for more effective mentoring of undergraduates.”
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The Miami University defense recats to the snap of the ball during the RedHawks’ 17-10 loss to Eastern Kentucky University. Ten of the 17 points the team gave up against EKU came off turnovers.
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The task of snapping an 18-game losing streak doesn’t get any easier this week for the Miami University football team. The RedHawks take on the University of Michigan in “The Big House,” the largest sta-dium in America.
Miami is a heavy underdog, with the Wolverines favored by 31 points.
“Awesome opponent with na-tional caliber players,” head coach Chuck Martin said. “Incredible environment. Anyone that hasn’t been there on game day; it’s a pretty awesome spectacle.”
Both Miami (0-2) and Michi-gan (1-1) enter the matchup com-ing off a loss. Miami lost 17-10 to Eastern Kentucky University and the Wolverines lost 31-0 to rival Notre Dame.
Martin said Notre Dame gave the blueprint for how to beat Michigan.
“If you want a clinic on how to win football games, you look at the Notre Dame game,” Martin said.
“It wasn’t necessarily the great-est statistical game, but it was effi-cient on both sides of the ball and special teams.”
Of course, Notre Dame is the former home of Martin and fifth-year seniors Andrew Hendrix, tight end Alex Welch and cornerback Lo Wood. Martin grew up a Notre Dame fan, but said there isn’t any hatred for Michigan.
“I never really disliked Michigan …” Martin said. “Yeah, Notre Dame was the team I rooted for growing up being a south side Irish Catho-lic from Chicago. But if Michigan wasn’t playing Notre Dame I didn’t have an utter disdain [for Michigan] or even USC. I respect Michigan football, I always have. I respect programs that do it right and they’ve always done it right.”
Despite Martin’s ties to the Notre Dame coaching staff, he said he hasn’t talked to Notre Dame head coach Brian Kel-ly about the game. He hasn’t done so because he’s already seen the Notre Dame-Michigan multiple times.
“[The game] was on at night, so I watched most of it live,” Martin said in his Monday press
conference. “We already have the tape and I’ve watched the game like three times already.”
What Martin saw on tape is that the Wolverines’ offense runs through four players: red-shirt senior QB Devin Gardner, sophomore running back Der-rick Green, junior RB De’Veon Smith and junior wide receiver Devin Funchess.
Gardner was great against Ap-palachian State University in the season opener, but struggled against the Fighting Irish. For the season, Gardner has com-pleted 36 of 46 passes for 362 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions.
Green and Smith have formed a one-two punch at tailback. Green has 28 carries for 195 yards and a TD on the season. Smith has 15 carries for 145 yards and two scores.
Funchess, who moved from tight end to wide receiver this year, has 16 catches for 202 yards and three TDs. No other Wolverine has more than six catches and none have caught a TD pass.
V I S I T M I A M I S T U D E N T. N E T T O R E A D M O R E
Miami football is plagued by a disease that has infected fans, stu-dents and players. That disease is a
losing mentality. It is the mental-ity that losing is acceptable. It is the mentality that the current state of Miami football is acceptable be-
cause the RedHawks aren’t losing as badly as they did last year. It is the mentality that there is no point in supporting the team because they won’t win.
This losing mentality is not just a disease; it’s an epidemic at Miami.
The students are infected. It’s why the vast majority of them don’t go to games. It’s why many of the students who are going to the Miami-Michigan game aren’t going to cheer for Miami, but to cheer for Michigan. The students don’t go to football games because the football team doesn’t win. They’ve been infected by the men-tality that there is no point in going because Miami will lose. If Miami is going to lose, the students don’t see the point in going or supporting the RedHawks.
Somewhere along the way, the players were infected. The Red-Hawks lost some games, lost their confidence and resigned them-selves to losing. Heck, just ask Chuck Martin if that was the case.
“They are excited about losing by [15],” Martin said of his team after losing 42-27 to Marshall Uni-versity. “That scares the hell out of me. Our guys are excited. That’s
mindboggling to me. Why be ex-cited? You lost by [15] at home. Our fans are excited. We’re get-ting cheered off the field. Like, I’ve been throwing things.”
That mindset, that “hey, at least we’re better than last year” mental-ity is not acceptable. The fans and the players, if Martin is to be be-lieved, feel that way. It’s not okay to be less bad than last year. No fan in their right mind would accept that mindset from their head coach. After all, you play to win the game.
The old coaching staff seemed to be infected to the point that an am-putation was necessary. Perhaps by doing that, the infection would stop or at least slow. But Miami needs more help than that.
The help comes in the form of head coach Chuck Martin. He is the antidote to the disease.
I have no doubts that Martin will cure Miami football. Martin is fi-ery, passionate, probably a little bit crazy and hates losing. He’s ev-erything the current culture around Miami currently lacks.
It’s easy to see the passion in Martin. Only a passionate coach gets back-to-back 15-yard penal-ties in the opening game. Watch one of his press conferences and you can see and hear his fire and intensity.
Miami will lose a lot of games this season. That’s the reality of the situation, but under Martin it won’t be an acceptable situation for long. Michigan is probably going to wipe the floor with Miami, but that doesn’t make it okay.
Martin knows winning isn’t ev-erything, but losing sucks.
Miami football is plagued with a losing mentality, but Chuck Martin can cure the disease.
The one thing that is helping to hold back Miami football
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WHAT’S GOING DOWNEY
GRACE REMINGTONFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
Both the Miami University men’s and women’s cross country teams will race in their lone home event of the season, the Miami Invitational, Saturday.
The women’s squad is coming off a win at the Ohio Invitational, while the men are trying to bounce back from a third place finish at the Day-ton Flyer 5k Challenge.
Both teams are eager for Saturday’s race.
“We’re pretty optimistic,” junior Matt Stewart said. “We learned a lot from our first meet; we saw where everyone is at. I think we’ve gotten smarter.”
Senior Jess Hoover, who was named the Mid-American Confer-ence Runner of the Week, agreed.
“I personally will be shocked if our results aren’t better than last week,” Hoover said.
In last Friday’s race, the women were forced to run in 95-degree weather, which negatively affected their performances. However, both Hoover and head coach Kelly Phil-lips said the team has recovered and are ready for the next competition.
Mid-American Conference rival Ohio University will be racing in
both the men’s and women’s events. At last week’s Ohio Invitational, OU’s women’s team narrowly lost to Miami by one point. The men’s teams have yet to face each other.
On the men’s side, OU returned all five of last season’s scorers. Men’s team head coach Warren Mandrell is wary about the opponent’s “poten-tially very good” team.
Stewart is also aware of OU’s potential, but believes his squad is prepared.
“Last year we lost to OU in this race, but this year we’re ready,” Stewart said.
The Miami women are even more fired up about extending their conference lead.
“When we see those green jer-seys, we want to make sure we’re hunting them down,” Hoover said. “We need to treat this like a big-ger meet. We want to see a pack of RedHawks at the front and keep that pack up there.”
Phillips thinks it’s important to increase the team’s conference lead over OU for the sake of reaching the NCAA Championships at the end of this season.
“If they’re as great as we think they are, and if they’re trying to get into the NCAAs, we’re going to have to beat them by a significant
’Hawks host only home meet of the season
CROSS COUNTRYJUSTIN WOODSFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT
After a near perfect start to the season, the Miami University women’s soccer team (3-1) finally returns home to face Indiana Uni-versity – Purdue University Fort Wayne (1-4) Sunday.
Senior defender and team captain Courtney Zanotti is happy with the start the traveling RedHawks have put together but is also ready for the weekend.
“It’s always hard to play on the road, so I think we showed a lot of courage going 3-1,” Zanotti said. “But we’re excited to play at home, have some fans here and show Mi-ami what we have.”
The RedHawks opened their 2013
season with a 3-1 record as well but then spiraled into a five-game losing streak. None of last season’s early season wins came against schools from power conferences, while this season the ’Hawks have defeated Big Ten, Big East and Atlantic Coastal Conference foes.
“It’ll be nice to get home,” Mi-ami head coach Bobby Kramig said. “The goal going into every single game is to play a little better than we did last week. We have to con-tinue with that. We want to get better this week.”
The only win of the season for IPFW came against Northern Ken-tucky University, a team that pushed Miami to an exhibition game draw in August. Although IPFW’s record does not indicate the RedHawks will face a tremendous challenge this weekend, Kramig said his squad
will have to play quality soccer to get a victory.
“IPFW is a tough, hard-nosed, blue-collar team,” Kramig said. “They’re gonna come right at us the way we went right at Louisville. We need to understand that and we have to respond to it.”
It is a particularly special home opener as the RedHawks look to raise money and awareness for the Pam Porter Endowment benefitting the oncology unit at McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital. Porter (Kramig’s sister-in-law) was a media relations contact for the Miami soc-cer program during the 1992 and ’93 seasons before passing away of can-cer in 2010 at the age of 37.
The fund was started in 2011 and its mission is to assist in providing
MU faces IPFW, supports cancer fundSOCCER
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1.1STAT OF THE DAY
The amount of dollars, in millions, the University of Michigan is pay-ing Miami University for traveling to Ann Arbor, Michigan and play-ing a football game in “The Big House.”
