By Jenni WienerCampus editor

“We need to create a cul-ture that embraces change confidently and enthusias-tically, a culture that sees change as opportunity rather than necessity, a culture that engages change to pursue excellence relentlessly.”

This was the vision Miami University President David Hodge presented to students, faculty and staff at his annual address Thursday afternoon in Hall Auditorium.

The president emphasized that not only is this the “Year of the Arts” at Miami, but it is also a time of change that will lead to a future of success.

“Tradition provides an en-during base to our identity and it anchors our actions in our common values,” Hodge said in his speech. “On the other hand, this spirit of tra-dition, if carried too far, can

inhibit progress by generating resistance to needed change. How often, and in so many different circumstances, have we encountered the phrase, ‘We have always done it that way?’”

Rapid change is impacting higher education and Hodge stressed that Miami needs to take advantage of the oppor-tunities change can bring to advance the university.

“We must act with inten-tion and we must act now to create a culture that is true to our values, yet makes us a more agile, forward-looking university,” Hodge said. “I believe that a powerful way to think about the culture we need is through the lens of entrepreneurial thinking.”

A necessity for entrepre-neurship does not mean the creation of new businesses, Hodge said, but entrepreneur-ship as a way of thinking that can be embraced either by an

individual or an institution. One important quality that entrepreneurs share is that they are obsessed with oppor-tunity and seek it everywhere and in everything, a quality and mindset that aligns well with the core educational val-ues of Miami, according to the president.

Student Body President Nick Huber said Hodge’s theme of pursuing excellence really resonated with him.

“I’m big on encouraging students to take ownership of their Miami experience,” Huber said. “The only way to achieve excellence and entre-preneurship is if students take advantage of the opportunities around them. Hodge articulat-ed his vision for the future of the university well, now it just needs to be translated to make the big dreams a reality.”

Hodge went on to speak about the core qualities that distinguish an entrepreneurial

university, stressing the Mi-ami plan for liberal education as a driver of innovation. It gives students the opportunity to “see the world” through different ways of thinking, Hodge said. Studying abroad or in different contexts is

another way to get a bet-ter view of the world and promote innovation.

Although innovation has no impact without execution, Hodge said. Execution is the key to tackling “significant issues” in pursuit of Miami’s one very important goal: the creation of the best outcomes-based learning environment in the nation.

“While our actions and research of today directly impact the world around us, the biggest impact of our ac-tions have been and always will be the development of graduates who are exception-ally well prepared for their

careers and lives,” Hodge said. “This goal is at the heart of everything we do and to-gether we will create the very best outcomes-based learning environment imaginable.”

To obtain this goal, Hodge said it is important for Miam-ians to strengthen and develop a culture that will allow the university and its members to thrive.

Miami has already started thinking entrepreneurially in many ways. Hodge high-lighted that for the second year, Housing, Dining, Rec-reation and Business Services has achieved its best financial performance ever, through re-investing in its residential and dining facilities without stu-dents having to pay a higher room and board cost. An example of this is the instal-lation of the electronic door access system using smart card technology.

The university has also taken its first steps away from using coal through the use of geothermal heating and cooling in Stoddard and Elliott Halls.

This year, however, more attention will be de-voted to a new approach of budgeting and the allocation

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In 2005, The Miami Student reported that Miami University would have to pay $27,500 in fines for violations related to the Cleary Act. The Cleary Act requires universities to inform victims of sexual assault if their attackers are back on campus and Miami was found to have failed to do this six times in five years. Miami was fined for one incident, but if fines had been issued for all six violations, the fines would have totaled over $100,000.

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ASG: students should bypass WBC picket

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This spirit of tradition, if carried too far, can inhibit progress by generating resis-tance to needed change.”

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By matt LeVysenior staff Writer

Miami University’s Asso-ciated Student Government (ASG) had plenty to discuss

during their weekly meeting Tuesday night. Student body president Nick Huber brought up the issue of the Westboro Baptist Church’s announce-ment that they will come to picket Miami Oct. 25 and asked the senate to consider what course of action it wants to take.

“This is an issue because the group is going to be here and they’re going to be saying offensive things to a lot of stu-dents,” Huber said. “We could have a positive event to draw in a large crowd away from the protest or we could try to play down this event as much as possible and try not to create a lot of fanfare.”

The general consensus within ASG was that the best course of action for the student body would be to not engage the church in debate or rancor-ous counter-protests, but to go about the day normally and use the opportunity to celebrate Miami’s diversity.

“I don’t think bringing any attention to this, whether indi-vidually or as representatives of ASG or Miami, is the best approach because organiza-tions like the Westboro Baptist Church thrive on the attention you give them,” Secretary for Diversity Affairs Jonathan Wheeler said. “By having a peaceful protest or a peaceful picket or drawing large crowds of people, anything out of the ordinary course of day-to-day business for the sake of this group only does exactly what they want us to do.”

Student Body Vice-Pres-ident Matt Frazier agreed

and gave warning about the tactics the Westboro Baptist Church employs.

“This group thrives on push-ing people to the brink of what is legal and what is not legal, and as soon as they get some-one to cross that line, they bring in the police,” Frazier said. “They’ll try to incite people to say or do things they would not normally do, so I encour-age everyone to think about the group mentality. If they’re on campus and a mob occurs, it’s going to end very badly. It’s going to provide a lot of bad PR and the Westboro Baptist Church will be the only ones who get out scot-free.”

The Westboro Baptist Church profits from suing anybody who attacks any of its members, according to Student Senate president Tom Kirkham, and they do not hesi-tate to file suit if attacked.

Huber encouraged senators to educate themselves on the issue by watching documen-taries about the church so they know what they are up against.

Michael Trivelli, ASG’s Treasurer, suggested ASG and the Diversity Affairs Coun-cil should initiate a pledge to be circulated throughout the student body that would have people sign saying they will stay far away from the protest when church members arrive in October. This pledge, ac-cording to Trivelli and the sen-ators who supported it, would ensure that church members are “politely ignored” while keeping away other students who might see fit to harass or attack the protestors.

Senator Tom Hohman joked that Miami should have its groundskeeping staff out in full force mowing the lawns around the church when they speak.

“When you watch [The Westboro Baptist Church], although the language they use is offensive, the protests themselves are laughable,” Huber said. “They try to incor-porate pop culture but they just look goofy.”

Debate about how to handle the protest will continue in the coming weeks.

By saraH sidLoW asst. Community editor

With the Ides of March debut a week away and the college football rivalry still months in the making, Michi-gan and Ohio have begun a new competition. The states, both major players in the film-ing of Ides, are vying for brag-ging rights and face time on the big screen.

George Clooney’s roots in northern Kentucky and Cin-cinnati appear to give Ohio the early lead. Clooney, who served as director, producer, screenwriter and portrayed Gov. Mike Morris in the film, was born in Augusta, Ken-tucky, along the Ohio River. His father Nick Clooney had a TV show in Cincinnati and George once made an unsuc-cessful attempt at the Cincin-nati Reds line-up.

But even the hometown hero found love for the Great Lakes State.

michigan’s campaign

Paula Czajka, the director of event management at the Dearborn Inn spent two days with the cast and crew while they filmed there.

“I heard an interview later on the local news with George Clooney and he said he really enjoyed being in Michigan. He said it was a great location to film in,” Czajka said.

The film crew also spent a good deal of time in Ann Arbor on the University of Michigan campus, where they created three separate film locations.

“Between takes, Clooney spent a lot of time sitting and chatting with extras at the Ar-thur Miller Theater,” said Lee Doyle, director of the Univer-sity of Michigan Film Office. “He joked a lot about U of M and the rivalry. He got the students rallied. He said that he really enjoyed the U of M and U of M sports, and that he had a strong dislike of Ohio State, which got everybody cheering, of course.”

University of Michigan student Kate Woolliscroft, a junior screen arts and cultures major, said she appreciated Clooney’s ability to play up the crowd in Ann Arbor.

As for her opinion on which state deserved bragging rights, she decided that it might be too dangerous a question to answer.

“I am extremely biased with my love for America’s high five,” she said.

the Buckeye state

While there is a lot of evi-dence that may point to Mich-igan as the favored ground for the Ides cast and crew, there are important things to note about the home state of Ohio.

Unlike Miami, the Uni-versity of Michigan was not branded in the film. In fact, the entire film takes place in Ohio during the Ohio presidential primaries.

So while students in Hall Auditorium played attendees to a town hall meeting held at Miami, Michigan students in the Arthur Miller Theater pretended to attend a town hall meeting at Kent State, according to Doyle.

That branding provided great visibility for Miami University and the Farmer School of Business, which is something that Alan Oak, Miami’s assistant dean for external relations, values a great deal.

“Although I guess that depends on whether or not it’s a lousy movie,” Oak added jokingly.

Oak was also adamant that Miami was the best place for the movie.

“I don’t know why [they filmed at other universities]. This is the best place for it. I suppose they needed a variety of locations,” he said.

Clooney was also on campus to experience one of Miami’s most celebrat-ed traditions: Green Beer Day. The following day, he talked with the extras about the excitement in Oxford, according to sophomore Katie Fidelholtz, who was an extra in the film.

Clooney also spent some time making small talk and jokes with the extras on cam-pus, including references to his two-time victory of People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” award, according to Fidelholtz.

Buying the vote

While the politics played out in front of the camera, some policy decisions were being made behind the scenes as well.

At the time of shooting, Michigan had the richest film incentives in the nation, which was a big draw for celebri-ties like Clooney, according to Lee Doyle, director of the University of Michigan Film Office. The state offered up to a 33 percent return off the location costs of filming, in-cluding personnel, and had no spending cap.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder cut this incentive pro-gram and capped it at $25 mil-lion, and according to Doyle, all of that money for the fiscal year has already been spent.

Maybe when the dust has settled on these two battleground states, this sib-ling rivalry will ultimately have to concede to the parent Midwest.

“Maybe that’s why he en-joyed it,” Czajka said. “Maybe he just liked being back in the Midwest. I’m just guessing.”

The Ides of March premieres in theaters nationwide Oct. 7.

patriCK Geyser THE MIAMI STUDENT

By AdAm GiffiSenior StAff Writer

The daily, weekly and se-mesterly schedules Miami University students operate by may soon face changes. As the Academic Policy Committee Calendar Sub-committee has been present-ing their recommendations to the Board of Trustees, University Senate, Associ-ated Student Government, regional campus representa-tives and others, new insights about a planned winter ses-sion have been revealed.

The subcommittee’s draft report also included a recom-mendation to move towards more Monday/Thursday and Tuesday/Friday time blocks, eliminating the three day weekends that many stu-dents and faculty currently have and encouraging week-long academics. This sug-gestion will not be included in the final report, but has led to an interesting campus discussion nonetheless.

Marketing professor Maria Cronley serves as chair of the subcommit-tee. She stressed that all of the recommendations are just suggestions. If they are adopted, students will be adding a winter session to the current fall, spring and summer periods.

Cronley said with this time, the university could potentially run online cours-es that begin the very first Monday of the new winter session and last until the start of the spring semester. She said study abroad pro-grams could now run longer as well and leadership work-shops and other academic activities could also be an option in this period. Stu-dents could also simply take the time off.

“Like the summer session, this time would be an ad-ditional opportunity for stu-dents,” Cronley said. “But certainly none of these ac-tivities would be required.”

Because students must spend a set amount of time in class to earn credits, accom-modating the winter session would mean lengthening class periods. For instance, 75 minute classes would be-come 85 minutes, Cronley said. There would now be 14 weeks of instruction and one week of finals, versus the current 15 weeks of class and one week of finals.

The recommendation for

more Monday/Thursday and Tuesday/Friday time blocks was designed to find space to add more twice weekly classes.

“In our committee, we saw estimates that said only about 30 percent of students have a class on Friday which we think is low,” Cronley said. “Obviously, we think that students should be go-ing to class five days a week. This is a university so we felt that we have facilities that could be utilized bet-ter on Fridays and we felt that potential change in the daily schedule would pro-vide better space utilization across campus.”

However, students like sophomore Kristen Tim-mons say that they need their work-filled Fridays free.

“I don’t have class on Fri-days and I didn’t last semes-ter either,” Timmons said. “It took me some time to ad-just to and I did waste a few Fridays, but now I’m using it to be productive and use it to get work done and even get ahead.”

Others still, like first-year Thomas Leppla, see no class on Fridays as harmful.

“It is an extra day to par-ty,” Leppla said. “I would like to have Friday off, but I think in general col-lege students are going to abuse it.

It is an issue that will like-ly present itself elsewhere in the future.

“This recommendation has received the most con-cern and we realize that, as a subcommittee, the idea of whether or not we should have more two day a week time blocks, or three day a week time blocks, or open time during the week, is a broader philosophical question for the univer-sity to answer as a whole,” Cronley said.

The draft suggested that calendar changes will begin in the spring 2013 semester. However this date is not set in stone.

“Implementation will be guided by the president and provost and eventually fall to an implementation team that would decide exactly when these recommenda-tions, if any, become a real-ity,” Cronley said. “I think it is very likely that imple-mentation would be pushed later, probably to the fall of 2013. But again, that’s not my decision.”

By JeSSicA tedrickfor the miAmi Student

Facebook “creeping” isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. Most users know that anyone can be looking at their profile at any given time. Facebook users also know that before they get out into the job market they may want to take down some of their more scandal-ous party pictures. But what about college applicants?

New studies by Kaplan Test Prep show that colleges have started to not only evaluate a potential student’s transcript

but also their Facebook page. Miami University does not

use Facebook to help decide which students are accepted. Miami chose not to use Fa-cebook as an admittance tool because of time constraints, according to Ann Larson, in-terim director of admissions. She said that the “concentra-tion is on the information that the student has submitted.”

Kenyon College in Gam-bier, Ohio, doesn’t use Face-book for admissions because of ethical concerns. Kenyon’s Dean of Admissions, Jennifer Delahunty, said they “aim to

practice ethical admissions” and that in order to do that while using Facebook the admissions office would have

to check every applicant’s page, a task that they do not have time for. Delahunty also

said she worries that checking potential students Facebook would fall into an “ethical gray area.”

Larson said she “respects both ways of looking at it” and she acknowledged that

some may see it as an inva-sion of privacy but that social networking makes what peo-ple put on the web available to anyone. She said students need to “be prudent with what they put on [Facebook].”

Larson said the knowledge that some universities do use Facebook before accepting an application may caution stu-dents and serve as a warning sign that the content that they put on the Internet is seen.

Miami sophomore Erin Mitroi said she be-lieves checking Facebook would be fair.

“It’s your decision what’s on [your] Facebook,” she said.

She added that checking the Facebook page of an ap-plicant “makes sense” be-cause a student does not have to represent their personal life on an application.

“If [colleges] can look at Facebook, they can get an idea of what they’re really getting into,” Mitroi said.

Perhaps Delahunty put it best; by looking at Facebook it is hard to tell “who [is] rep-resenting bad behavior or just bad taste.”

it is the policy of The Miami Student to publish corrections for factual errors found in the newspaper.

In the Sept. 22 issue of The Miami Student Cecelia Shore and Jennifer Blue were identified as executive vice presi-dents of Academic Affaris, when in fact Shore is the director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and University Assessment (CELTUA) and Blue is Associate Professor of Physics and Faculty Assessment for CELTUA.

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the Wind BeneAth our WinGSTop left: Sheridan Monroe performs her solo at the Wind Ensemble Chamber Concert Wednesday evening. Top right: Sean O’Neill on trumpet: Bottom: Raymund Jacinto playing his bassoon.

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If [colleges] can look at Facebook, they can get an idea of what they’re really getting into.”

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Facebook not a tool for Miami admissions

By LAuren ceroniecAmpuS editor

By this time in the semes-ter, most first years probably feel like they have the Miami University routine down. Ev-eryone knows his or her way around campus, knows the people in their residence halls and knows the good places to go uptown. This is the way ad-justing to a new place usually works, but Miami students used to have a bit of help ad-justing to the Miami lifestyle through the trusty “M” Book.

The “M” Book first ap-peared at Miami in 1925. It

was a pocket-sized handbook with an “M” emblazoned on the cover telling first-years ev-erything they needed to know about college life. Similar pocket-sized handbooks had been appearing sporadically at the university since 1887, but no book was published yearly until 1925.

The introduction of the 1947 “M” book declared, “This is it. It is sometimes known as the Hand-Book. It is the Freshman ‘Bible’ and one should read it cover to cover, assimilate its contents and digest them thoroughly. It is published mainly for the yearlings, so, reader, if you are a Freshman, peruse its contents thoroughly, or if you are an upperclassmen, read it so you can answer the Frosh questions intelligently.”

The books contained help-ful hints for students in a sec-tion called “What freshmen

ought to know,” as well as fight songs, calendars, lists of student organizations and lists of faculty. In 1897, the univer-sity had only 14 faculty mem-bers, all listed in the handbook. The books also mention The Miami Student as an organiza-tion to join.

A special For Women Only “M” Book was also published at the university with helpful hints on what to wear to class, how to be a good hostess and appropriate ways to interact with men.

The “M” Books were pub-lished yearly until 1973 when the practice was discontinued. According to “The History of the ‘M’ Book,” the culture and student attitudes in the 1960s made the book’s contents about school spirit and uni-versity tradition less relevant to students.

The “M” Book made a comeback in 2000 after

Associated Student Govern-ment members rediscovered the handbook. It was discon-tinued again after 2003 due to lack of funding, however. The book was brought back again in 2006 with the hope it would be published for a few years after.

The 2006 “M” Book contained a letter from the president of the university, a history of Miami, university traditions, advice on living in Oxford and, of course, the helpful hints. The hints today include “don’t walk on the Seal,” “play broomball” and “study for exams.” It also gives directions on how to do laundry and has a glossary of “Miami words.”

By this time, first years probably feel comfort-able on campus, but if they want some extra advice, they can always rely on a trusty handbook.

committee considers calendar changes

The ‘M’ book: helping first years navigate college life since the 19th century

This is part of a series The Miami Student is running

about the University Archives. All information in the fol-

lowing article was obtained from the University Archives with the help of University

Archivist Bob Schmidt.

JULIA ENGELBRECHT THE MIAMI STUDENT

Hoofin’ it down High StreetStudents and residents participate in the State to State 5k/half marathon on Sunday, Sept. 25. Contestants started in Ohio and finished in Indiana.

Student passes out in Speedway

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

POLICE BEAT Historic Ohio college reopens doors

BY MICHELLEROWLEYFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Heavy Hands College Bar opened Friday to ages 18 and up, despite rumors that the bar was going to be 22 and up. Matt Johnson, the Heavy Hands manager, has confirmed that the ru-mors that have been spread around campus throughout

the past few weeks have no truth to them. The bar was always intended to be 18 and up, just like its ma-jor competitors. The bar is located uptown next to La Bodega on High Street.

“We had a good laugh when we heard [the ru-mors],” Johnson said.

Even with the substan-tial amount of bars uptown, Johnson does not believe

Heavy Hands will have a hard time competing. Sophomore Elizabeth All-read agrees that the bar will most likely not have a hard time attracting club-goers.

“I think another bar be-ing built uptown is great for the nightlife in Oxford,” Allread said.

The bar is broken into two sides: one side is a pub-style “VIP room” and

the other is an 18 and up dance club. To set itself apart, the bar is offering 25 cent Natural Light cans and $1 shots every Wednesday night. To further separate themselves from other bars in town, Heavy Hands plans on charging very little for very strong beverages. As for those of legal drink-ing age, there is never a cover fee.

BY SHANNON PESEkSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Three years after closing its doors due to monetary issues, Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio is now preparing for the 2011-12 school year.

Antioch was a liberal arts cooperative, which re-quires students who attend to complete six quarters of full time work, minor in a language, all while completing classes, ex-plained Chief Communi-cations Officer at Antioch, Gariot Louima.

“This sets us apart from other liberal arts colleges, we have an

interdisciplinary focus, and are most distinguished by the full time work we require,” Louima said.

Dean and Professor of the Cooperative Education pro-gram, Susan Eklund-Leen, stresses the importance of the students acquiring work experience while studying because of the acquired skill set and abilities.

“Students are able to ex-plore various fields, which helps them decide what things they need to improve on,” Eklund-Leen said.

Miami University soph-omore Katherine Holt found this form of educa-tion to be fascinating and something she wished Miami offered.

“I have a friend who goes to school in Singapore, and that’s how they do it,” Holt said.

In 2008, Antioch’s cam-pus closed at the end of the academic year, and shortly after, alumni mobilized to negotiate the repurchase of the college, Louima said.

Antioch College is about an hour and a half from Mi-ami, and about 20 minutes from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.

Monetary issues are not new for the college, which has closed several times due to financial prob-lems and low enrollment, Louima said.

The government struc-ture of the college did not

help the monetary prob-lems they had experienced, Louima said. The college was run by Antioch Univer-sity, which can be found all over the nation.

“The graduate programs of Antioch University spread across the nation and those are much more financially lucrative. The university decided not to put additional resources into our historic campus,” Louima said.

To avoid this situation occurring again, the college revamped the structure of its institution by incorpo-rating the language minor and refocusing the courses, Louima explained.

“Former faculty

amplified the program that was already there, they traveled to alumni chapters across the nation to learn about new curriculum and refine what was already in place,” Louima said.

The importance of a college such as Anti-och is found in its real world preparation, Eklund-Leen stressed.

“Education is more effec-tive when partnered with work,” Eklund-Leen said,” The work place of the future is unpredictable, these abil-ities will help students be more mobile.”

Students arrived back on campus on Sept. 24 and classes will begin classes Oct. 4.

New bar offers unique environment

BY CATHERINE UBRYFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Due to population shifts and increases in most elec-toral districts around the state, even counties like Butler County will be affect-ed by redistricting changes. Ohio’s constitution requires the General Assembly to redraw and rewrite dis-trict maps throughout the state every 10 years. New maps are currently being redrawn and approved for state representatives.

According to Butler County Representative Senator Bill Coley, “Rep-resentatives throughout Ohio have been meeting ever since the prelimi-nary census data was sent from the federal to the state government.”

By doing so, the rep-resentatives hope to de-termine new districts that will equitably represent the voters and communi-ties throughout Ohio. The

new districts must be ap-proved by the Apportion-ment board, which is com-posed of one Democratic member, Armond Budish, and four Republican mem-bers, Tom Niehuas, Da-vid Yost, Jon Husted and Governor John Kasich.

Sophomore Adam Zsely expressed concern that with one party in control of the committee, bias could potentially play a factor.

“It’s hard to see how the redistricting could be to-tally fair because the board that determines it is Re-publican in the majority,” Zsely said. “With only one Democrat in the minor-ity on the apportionment board, I feel like it would be kind of hard to draw fair lines for the districts to be equally represented.”

The Representatives of Butler County, however, have little to worry about. Although both the House and Senate districts in But-ler County could see chang-es in their representation

due to population shifts, there will not be any huge changes in representation, insists Butler County Sena-tor Bill Coley.

Senator Coley said changes for the Senate will be subtle and hardly have any effect on Oxford at all.

Coley said representa-tion will stay mostly the same, with only part of Middletown experiencing some change.

“Because of the rapid growth in Butler [Coun-ty], some residents over near Middletown will face change because part of Middletown sits in But-ler County and part sits in Warren County,” Co-ley said. “Butler County was over the constitu-tional limit of people so the people needed an-other representative. Each person’s vote should be equally represented.”

Aside from a few district changes around Middle-town, Butler County will see few changes.

State redistricting unlikely to affect Butler County politics

BY MICHELLE ROWLEYFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Homo sapiens have been around for approximately 200,000 years. In that time, we have evolved into the dominant species on Earth, with a population of approximately 6.9 billion. In contrast, the honeybee has been in existence for approximately 150 million years: the same amount of time as angiosperms (flowering plants).

Within the past 17 years, this species has become nearly extinct, according to Alex Zom-chek of the Butler County Beekeepers Association.

Almost two decades ago, a species of bees was brought to the Unit-ed States from a differ-ent part of the world for experimental purposes. The foreign bees, which were placed with bees of North American origins, were carrying a lethal para-sitic mite called the Verroa mite. According to Zom-chek, although the bees that were brought from foreign countries were im-mune to the mite, the North American bees proved sus-ceptible to the destructive arthropod. Zomchek, who is in charge of a commis-sioned research project, has found that in a mere 17 years, a species that has been around for 150 million years has gone from an astonishing 22-25 million wild hives, to absolutely zero.

“We have literally lost every single wild bee tree,” said Alex Zomchek, a mem-ber of the Butler County Beekeepers Association.

Zomchek believes we have a very serious crisis that requires much sci-entific research. “There are no more ‘Winnie the Pooh’ trees with bee-hives anymore,” Zom-chek said. “They are completely gone.”

Luckily, scientists have been breeding bees in captivity since Oxford’s own Lorenzo Langstroth invented the bee box in 1846. Langstroth’s cre-ation made it possible for farmers to pollinate crops more effectively in much greater quantities. To this day, bee boxes are trans-ported from coast to coast to pollinate mass crops. Three years ago, farmers could pollinate their crops

at a rate of $31 per bee box. Zomchek’s research has found that today, farm-ers pay upwards of $150 per box, and yet would still pay more; however there aren’t enough bees to meet the demand.

Virtually every block crop in the United States relies on captive-bred bees. To put this into per-spective, out of every three items we eat, one was grown because the bee boxes were brought to the farmers, according to Zomcheck.

Due to the lack of bees, many of these crops are not being pollinated, resulting in a decrease in output of fruits and vegetables and corresponding increase in food prices.

Few in the general pub-lic seem aware of the criti-cal role bees play in our food industry.

“It is unfortunate that most people in Oxford, the birthplace of modern keeping, don’t recognize the worldwide significance of the work of the Rever-end Lorenzo Langstroth,” said Alfredo Huerta, asso-ciate professor of botany at Miami.

There are many ways in which students can become involved and raise awareness for the increasingly important is-sue. The Langstroth Cot-tage, which is located on Miami’s campus, and the Butler County Beekeepers Association are two places students can learn about beekeeping and the im-portance of honeybees to our ecosystem.

“Most people never think about where their food comes from and what is involved in that pro-cess,” Huerta said.

There is also a beekeep-ing education center lo-cated right off campus that students are encouraged to visit. Huerta believes it is critical that the knowledge on this subject reach the public, especially the stu-dent population.

“I think it’s impor-tant for students to know this because we are the future leaders of many industries,” sophomore Kristin Bell said. “We are the future farmers, chemi-cal engineers, and other people involved in the in-dustry. With the informa-tion that we are privy to, we could potentially fix the issue.”

Nationwide decrease in bee populations a cause for concern

Around 5 a.m. Sunday, police officers were called to Speedway in reference to a male passed out inside the store. Upon arrival, the of-ficer observed a white male sleeping just outside the front door. The male was seated on boxed cases of merchandise and was iden-tified as 20-year-old Miami University student John Cas-tell. The officer smelled a strong stench of alcohol and saw fresh vomit on Castell’s pants. Castell was passed out in the restroom earlier and customers were complain-ing to the store clerk, accord-ing to police reports. Castell was issued a citation for underage intoxication.

Harassment leads to broken nose

Around 2:30 a.m. Satur-day, a man and his wife were walking to their residence. As they were walking past East Vine Street, two males were yelling obscene comments in reference to the wife. The male told the harass-ing males who were yelling to stop and they continued. One of the males, identified later as 21-year-old Miami University student Elias George, used his forehead to break the victim’s nose. The victim went to McCullough Hyde Memorial Hospital’s emergency room where he reported the assault. George was cited for assault and released.

Male reportsstolen watch

Around 4 p.m. Sunday, a male reported a burglary in his residence over the weekend. He stated he left work Friday around 10 p.m. and returned a few hours later. When he came home, he found his ground floor bedroom window standing open along with the blinds knocked askew. He claimed the window was unlocked and he didn’t notice any-thing missing at the time, according to reports. No report was filed at the time. He noticed later that his Mi-chael Kors watch that was near the window was miss-ing and called police. There are no leads or suspects at this time.

Female reports uptown burglary

Around 1:30 a.m. Tues-day, a female reported her wallet, car key and smart-phone were stolen at Brick Street Bar and Grill. The wallet contained $20 and a U.S. Bank Visa card. The phone was locked and the bank card has been cancelled with no activity showing on it since the theft.

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students must not encourage wBC by counter-protesting

noah Carl The miami sTUdeNT

Associated Student Gov-ernment discussed several methods to approach the Oct. 25 Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) protest that will be on a periph-eral sidewalk on Miami University’s campus. The suggestions included hav-ing students sign a pledge to agree that they will walk an alternative route to not encourage the WBC pro-test. Another idea is having an alternative place where students can go to express their feelings, instead of counter-protesting.

The editorial board of The Miami Student is proud that ASG is handling this important and difficult matter with maturity. Mi-ami must not bring atten-tion to the Westboro Bap-tist Church members and their protesting. If students actively protest the WBC, it will only fuel their fire and attract attention to their presence. This is exactly what the WBC wants and Miami must not become a part of the WBC’s success while in Ohio.

Students must

educate themselves about the WBC’s strategies so they are prepared for their visit. Anger is a natural response when people see something unusual and perceive it as threatening. If students are shocked by the picketing or WBC’s message, their surprise may encourage student counter-protests or large crowds of curious students. However, Miami must help students by addressing this issue.

The university should communicate what stu-dents, staff and faculty can expect from the picketing, where the protest may be and how to not encourage the WBC.

ASG must also work with student organiza-tions to promote campus-wide education about the WBC. With their re-sources and leadership experience, ASG can play a vital role in inhibiting counter-protestors.

Students must do their part to discourage the WBC picketing. In or-der to ignore the WBC, they should seek out an

alternate route while walk-ing to and from class. The WBC is small, but picketing is what it does. The WBC may try to provoke stu-dents in order to file a law-suit. Students must act ma-turely and not provoke the WBC members.

Although this protest has many negative conno-tations, it also has a silver lining. The Miami com-munity must think of the WBC protest as a time for the campus to shine with university pride.

This is a critical time when we can show the WBC and the nation that we are better than the ha-tred that the WBC dem-onstrates. By realizing that many more important causes deserve our energy and time, we can conserve our resources to focus them on issues that really matter.

With a well-prepared student body, WBC will leave campus discouraged from their picketing and students will fell more con-nected to each other and have a strong sense of pride in their university.

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students should make wBC visit about promoting tolerance

First and foremost, Spec-trum in no way endorses Westboro Baptist Church’s (WBC) beliefs, messages or content. We firmly be-lieve their hateful speech is harmful to most indi-viduals, including the LG-BTQA, Jewish, Catholic, Muslim and military com-munities and their families. However, we must draw a line between what they say and their right to speak. Furthermore, there must be a divide — a wall of sepa-ration — between academ-ic inquiry to the nature of groups such as WBC and support for their messages and causes.

Most of Spectrum’s Leadership Team met with Hillel Gray, a professor who has studied the WBC and who has conducted numerous interviews with members of the Phelps family. We stand strong in our support for his work and of any public presenta-tion of his studies that he wishes to pursue. We be-lieve the first step to coun-tering the effects of a group such as the WBC is to un-derstand how and why they operate as they do and thus the best ways to undermine their tactics.

Westboro Baptist Church is designed to picket. Their ministry involves “rebuk-ing” sinners on the streets and in targeted locations. They are designed to have shock value, to illicit emo-tionally violent, knee-jerk reactions. They compare negative reactions and counter-protesting to the vilification of the Old Tes-tament prophets and use it as a means of reinforcing

their doctrinal beliefs. Be-cause of this knowledge, Spectrum will not host or endorse a counter-protest. While we understand that some people will feel the emotional need to counter-protest (and we will not stop them), we will focus on building our commu-nity, not the WBC.

Spectrum will pursue a multi-faceted approach to WBC’s picket on Oct. 25. We will work with other or-ganizations across campus to create an event to take place during the picket, but in a removed location. We have chosen to remove our-selves from the location in order to mitigate the effect that WBC hopes to have by sparking counter-protests and reinforce the positiv-ity on which our commu-nity focuses. We will host a “teach in” discussion about hate groups from 3:30 to 4 p.m.

Then, for the duration of WBC’s picket, we will have a “Rally for Love,” a coming together of Mi-ami’s community to cel-ebrate our diversity, our tolerance and above all, our respect for each other. This will be an opportunity to truly show our cohesion as a university and as a com-munity. All are invited. The location will be determined once we are made aware of where WBC will picket.

Spectrum will also or-ganize alternate routes for passersby so that students, faculty and staff will be able to avoid the picket. We’ll deploy marketing materials and people to direct flows around the WBC in a man-ner that will mitigate the

effects that WBC hopes to have on passersby.

Finally, Spectrum wants to provide a means for people to show support of the efforts against hatred and bigotry. We invite ev-eryone to purchase a “Love is the New Label” T-shirt in our “White Out Hate” campaign. If you don’t want to purchase a shirt, simply wear a white top on picket day to show solidar-ity! A mass of white shirts symbolizing our devotion to love instead of hate will be extremely powerful. To purchase a “Love is the New Label” shirt for $15, email Billy Price (price-wc@muohio.edu) with your shirt size by Tuesday, Oct. 11. You can also get “No Hate on my campus” buttons from GLBTQ Ser-vices! View the shirt design and stay up to date on our WBC events at spectrum-miami.wordpress.com.

The goal of this approach is to promote positive mes-sages and to avoid giving Westboro what they’re looking for — what they thrive on. It also mitigates the risk of escalation — physical or emotional — of a counter-protest; there’s no reason to risk the pos-sibility of more hate. We want all people interested in promoting a campus of tolerance and acceptance to be a part of our event. WBC is a strong group — we are stronger. Let’s band together and do something that they’re not expecting.

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blogger beware: your days may be numbered

Guilty pleasures: every-one has them. For some, it’s chocolate, Britney Spears, Jersey Shore or Fantasy Football. For me, it’s fash-ion and music blogs. Fash-ion blogs take me away from the world of studying and work and into a land where style and celebrity gossip are happily married.

Music blogs let me discov-er breaking new artists and download songs for free: a win-win situation. Like all genres of blogs, there are many varieties in the garden of fashion and music. None of them are perfect, howev-er. Often, after looking at a blog, I feel unsatisfied and a bit annoyed. Like the co-median Patton Oswalt said about New York City, “It’s a nice place to visit, but after awhile it turns your skull into a cage and your brain into a rat and the city is just a stick poking the rat all day.” These blogs never seem to quench my thirst for entertainment. Even if I think I really love a blog, it often turns sour.

What’s wrong with blogs? Roz Chast, the in-genious cartoonist for The New Yorker put it simply with a pie chart in a recent issue. Every blog, it seems, can be broken into one

of three categories: “sto-ries about crap somebody cooked, knitted or sewed,” “conspiracy theories” or “self-promotion.” In theo-ry, one could do far worse than sharing recipes, ex-posing ancient alien secrets or wanting a book deal on the Internet. However, the problem with blogs is that

they are too often free-form and more word-vomit than intelligent writing and artful presentation.

It’s pretty easy for peo-ple to wear their blogs on their sleeves. By doing this, bloggers often repel readers. For example, Tavi Gevinson, the 15-year-old fashion blogger, treats her blog Rookie like a scrap-book of her life. Her pro-jected image certainly comes through with each posting; but is this a good thing? Is she digging her-self into a hole by only dis-cussing what a 15-year-old thinks about?

Another example is the music blog Chemical Jump. The blogger, Nate, markets his blog as a site, “bring-ing you the latest tracks and remixes by some of the world’s greatest DJs and producers.” Sounds simple and awesome, right? Who doesn’t like to get free tracks

that are brand-spanking new? However, Nate paints himself into a small corner with his blog. He frequent-ly posts pictures of mostly naked, faceless women to accompany tracks. As a woman who appreciates art but doesn’t like to be objec-tified by some dude, I have stopped visiting the blog as frequently because I feel alienated by the constant use of senseless nudity.

Blogs must try to reach out to attract the big-gest audience possible if they wish to increase their marketability.

This doesn’t mean they should pretend to be some-one they aren’t, but small editorial changes can make a world of a difference. Changing the tone of your language, as in the case of Tavi, or artistic choices, like those of Chemical Jump, will make your blog more relatable. The more visitors you get, the more advertising money you can make.

After all, blogs are very important parts of the news and entertainment world. Many bloggers have signed book contracts because of their well-written and pre-sented blogs (remember “Look at that F*cking Hip-ster” or Stuff White People Like?) Don’t feel discour-aged by the huge number of bad blogs — with some creativity, ambition and readership smarts, you can go out there and create a cult classic.

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republican candidates must stand out to win

Two phrases have stuck with me since I began study-ing politics. The first was uttered by my high school government teacher: there are few things in life more pointless than a presidential primary debate. The second was repeated a few times in the fall of my first year (the 2008 presidential season) by my first political science professor: I don’t like any of the candidates because to want to run for president you have to be crazy, and I don’t trust crazy people.

Though it’s been a few years since I heard those nuggets of wisdom, the truth behind them has done little but strengthen as I have delved deeper into the realm of political science. The next presidential election is 13 months away, but here we are already waist-deep in campaign coverage. Newt Gingrich is still chugging along. Herman Cain is going green with his flippant com-ments relating to three-page legislative bills. Michele Bachmann is trying to sepa-rate her tea-stained tresses from those of Sarah Palin. Ron Paul is working to con-nect with an independent base by appearing on The Daily Show. Mitt Romney is looking as dashing as ever with his pricey smile and suits. And last but not least, Rick Perry has made a com-plete ass out of himself in three successive Republican primary debates.

Third quarter campaign finance reports will be due

soon, with the top three (Romney, Perry and Paul) alleged to be reporting mil-lions in campaign contribu-tions. Millions. Just let that sink in for a moment. As of right now, there are seven leading contenders for the Republican bid, according to Fox News; but that’s not even counting the periphery hopefuls, who don’t have a shot but are collecting campaign money anyway. All of this funding is going towards not the presidency, but the chance to fight your way to the point where you might have the chance to become president.

At the end of the 2008 election, it was reported that primary to finish, across all candidates, $5.3 billion was spent between the presi-dential and congressional elections. The ‘American Dream’ that anyone can be-come president has more than a few caveats, one of the largest being you need to have access to obscene amounts of money. Very few candidates have an extra bil-lion lying around to spend on buttons and flyers and luncheons at the Ritz Car-lton (with the exception of Donald Trump who, thank God, removed himself from the race). That means that interest groups, big business, and all forms of advocacy are getting their sharp little nails into anyone hoping to take on the monstrous job of captaining the U.S.S. USA. And I agree; you’d have to be crazy to want that job.

Honestly, I have an ill-informed opinion of the Re-publican candidates thus far. But, I’ll go back to what my government teacher told me years ago: watching people from the same party argue about how he or she is right when they are all making the exact same point is about as fun as an 8 to 5 schedule on Fridays. I won’t sched-ule classes on Friday unless absolutely necessary, and I won’t watch six identi-cal gray suits lob pot shots at each other unless I’m tied down.

My opinion of talking heads and political pundits is scathing at best — mostly due to media attention such as we are already seeing. Debates are supposed ‘to cover the issues’ but that is not what you’ll see until the actual presidential debates once the Republican primary grinds to a halt — at a time now projected to be as late as mid-June. Every night another Fox Newscaster or CNN reporter will be given a prime little slice of the news to update you on what these hopefuls are saying. Which amounts to just about noth-ing. And that’s not even a Republican dig —primaries were not designed to start this early and last this long. To quote President Obama as he gave his jobs speech a few weeks back, “The presidential election is [13] months away, and we have more important issues going on right now. It’s time we fo-cused on them.”

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invitation to Miami architects: imagine life without bricks

Surprise, surprise – the new Armstrong Student Cen-ter will be built out of … wait for it: red brick! Before see-ing any photos or drawings of what the building will look like, any student could guess that the new student center would feature a brick exte-rior with an off-white trim. This is the style that architects call “Georgian Revival Ar-chitecture” and of which Mi-ami University cannot seem to get enough. It’s getting old;

people want to go to college in a technologically advanced and trendy environment – not something from the 19th cen-tury. Save that for museums.

Four major Ohio universi-ties south of I-70, Ohio Uni-versity, Miami University, the University of Cincinnati and the Ohio State University, were all founded during the 19th century. However, OU and MU are the only build-ings that still build in the same style that was popular when

the colleges were founded. Are UC or OSU any less his-toric since they build in more modern architectural styles?

In 1989, UC enacted their master plan, which included multiple famous architects to build notable buildings on UC’s main campus. Ar-chitects like Frank Gehry, Michael Graves and the firm Morphosis designed the Vontz Center for Molecu-lar Studies, the Engineering Research Center and the

shiny new Campus Recre-ation Center, respectively. The UC master plan allows students and visitors a visual fieldtrip through what the brilliant architectural minds that make up their generation are doing today with technol-ogy, materials and current is-sues at hand, like sustainabil-ity. UC honors its history by restoring some of the histori-cal buildings, while embrac-ing the present by building in a style that reflects the archi-

tectural trends of today. The result is a literal timeline of styles since the inception of the university.

Miami’s campus is un-doubtedly beautiful – the fall colors are coming in and fallen leaves will soon be dotting the fading green grass. On a crisp, overcast day, the sight of the reds, am-bers and faded green colors against a canvas of red brick buildings and a grey sky is a sight not easily beaten.

But imagine if the automo-biles of today still had the same look that they had 50 years ago? One would ask, “Don’t designers have any-thing different to offer?” The buildings on campus become so plain that students and visitors begin to overlook them – they become part of the landscape. Step up Miami architects and let’s have some more innovative architecture. We could use some Steven Holl or Peter Bohlin.

It’s pretty easy for people to wear their blogs on their sleeves. By doing this, bloggers often repel readers

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america’s perception of north Korea may be skewed as access opens

I imagine North Korea as a desolate land full of brainwashed victims of a power-hungry, corrupt leader. This is probably how the American govern-ment prefers I picture North Korea. But I’m beginning to wonder whether I am a victim of America’s agenda or if North Korea is truly an unhappy place to live after all. The reason I began to question my preconceived notion is because of sev-eral mixed portrayals of North Korea available on the Internet. The official North Korean website, for example, shows a different perspective than most me-dias in America, as it boasts about all of the business op-portunities North Korea has to offer.

Contrary to popular be-lief, Americans can and have been traveling to the Democratic People’s Re-public of Korea (DPRK) also known as North Korea.

According to the United States Bureau of Consular affairs, three Americans have been to North Korea since 2009 that have not returned. They didn’t stay because they preferred the North Korean lifestyle but because of long-term im-prisonment on the charges of illegal entry or “crimes against the state.” The U.S. government openly warns citizens about entering the country, but if you’re dumb enough to go, make sure you tell the U.S. Bureau of Consular Affairs and register through the North Korean Administration. If something were to happen to an American while in North Korea, there is little that can be done since the U.S. does not have an em-bassy in the DPRK and will only go through other embassies, such as Swe-den’s, in case of serious emergencies. And although some gutsy Americans still

remain in North Korean prisons, many have come back with video footage and new perspectives of the isolated, mysterious nation.

Most of the videos and stories show an unhappy North Korea occupied by the oppressed, but some show a lighter side that you’d never expect. Na-tional Geographic has a documentary titled Inside North Korea. In the docu-mentary, an American eye doctor visits the communist nation to find that it suffers from extreme poverty and health problems.

The video shows North Koreans who are happy with what they have and who appear thankful for being apart of the Great Leader Kim Jong-il’s na-tion. The citizens are taught to hate America and if they attempt to leave, are sent away to “family work camps.” From this negative view, it is clear that North

Koreans are manipulated into artificial happiness.

Even videos posted by Koryo Tours, an agency that guides tourists through North Korea, illustrate quite a different view of life in the country. These videos show North Koreans laugh-ing, shopping and enjoying their lives. What’s interest-ing about the videos is that the tourists, mostly from America, China and Europe, are enjoying the culture of the DPRK as well. One of the scenes shows tourists playing ultimate Frisbee, of all things, with North Koreans citizens in the capital city of Pyongyang. In addition to tours, North Korea has begun building resorts and now offers lux-urious cruise lines that stop in various North Korean coastal cities.

North Korea has recent-ly started this initiative to bring more tourists to its country, which is slowly

bringing its policy of iso-lation to an end. The gov-ernment has done this for two reasons. The first is to bring foreign currency into their economy and the sec-ond is to convince foreign-ers that life in the DPRK is not so bad. Whether the tours give an honest pro-file of life in North Korea or create an illusion for visitors is unknown to me. But given that visitors are

forbidden to stray away from their tour group, it makes me think that there is much of North Korea that Kim Jong-il does not want us to see. With all of these different views regarding the DPRK going around, I’d like to check it out for myself. So if anyone else is tired of going on Royal Ca-ribbean cruises every year for spring break, let’s book a cruise in North Korea.

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of resources, with a committee work-ing on Responsibility Center Manage-ment, an approach that encourages more entrepreneurial thinking to enhance the capability for tracking, measuring and evaluating key data. Academic advances “range from new curricula to new majors, from new research clusters to new labo-ratories,” Hodge said.

Huber said he hopes the student gov-ernment can help encourage change and entrepreneurship.

“I think that one of the things I’m lucky to have as student body president is a community of strong leaders,” Huber said. “Having a voice within that group can have a trickle down effect to the stu-dents we advocate for. Also, I plan to ob-serve what is hindering the student body from achieving success so that I can take it to the administration, and together we can remove all road blocks.”

Sophomore Sally Stearns said she re-ally enjoyed Hodge’s speech.

“He was so personal and I could tell through his words that he really cares about each and every student,” Stearns said. “It really struck me when he talk-ed about the importance of deepening and strengthening our sense of culture because diversity is so important on our campus.”

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Miami parking wants to cut costs and better serve students

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It’s not all about nailing students with tickets in the world of Miami University parking. Assistant Direc-tor of Parking and Trans-portation Services Vanessa Cummings would argue instead that, “we’re here to help you.”

Cummings said that’s the office’s priority, and changes throughout the year will help cut costs and bet-ter serve students. The of-fice has to balance a budget of its own, separate from the university. Among the changes are tweaking Mi-ami Metro routes and times and the implementation of a new software. The Metro routes are set to change as soon as spring semester, and the new software should launch in late November or early December.

Parking means busi-ness

Parking is an auxiliary to the university — essentially a self-sufficient operation within the campus police department — that has bounced around from be-ing its own entity or under Housing, Dining and Guest Services for several years. MUPD has overseen park-ing since February 2010.

Change didn’t stop then, however.

Employees within Park-ing and Transportation Services took on more re-sponsibilities after the uni-versity budget crisis resulted in eliminated positions including former director of parking Perry Gordon’s

position. His post was elimi-nated in July.

Vice President of Fi-nance and Business Ser-vices and Treasurer David Creamer was forced to find ways to organize the number of public safety is-sues more efficiently and moved the auxiliary back under Miami University Police Department.

“At the end of the day, the decision was mine and none of these choices were easy,” Creamer said. “This is not the fun part of the job. There are great impli-cations when we provide them with that notification (they’ve been laid off).”

MUPD Lieutenant Ben Spilman has since man-aged the responsibilities of Parking and Transportation Services director.

“(Parking and Transporta-tion Services now) operates with fewer staff, but it does not diminish services we are making available to stu-dents,” Creamer said. “The reductions to students are as transparent as possible.”

Creamer said the service has not diminished and per-formance remains high.

“In my mind this is a good decision in regard to other choices I might have made,” he said.

Costly, but crucial update

The state-of-the-art soft-ware costs about $100,000 and will update the cur-rent 12-year-old system, Cummings said.

The new system will have expedited billing, appeal and ticketing services and will use less paper. The use of recycled paper as well

as renewable hangtags and stickers were implemented this fall.

“It’s going to be a major undertaking for the next few months,” Cummings said last spring, adding that transferring the existing data will be a time-consuming process to change to the new system.

Student accounts will be linked through the Banner-Web website and students will have the option of pay-ing fines through the bursar or online with a credit card with the new system. In the meantime, ticket officers are handwriting tickets. There’s no way to look up a car’s ticket history, so no warning citations have been issued during the implementation process. The new electronic ticket machines will put an end to undeserved first-of-fense tickets. Each student is granted one warning each fiscal year. Cummings said students who have recently received tickets without a warning should consult the parking office in the Campus Avenue Building within 10 business days to exchange.

Cummings said some

Miami Metro routes are rarely utilized and are a waste of fuel and money.

“We need to be more efficient in the use of the buses,” Cummings said, adding that student input will be weighed heavily for the new routes and times.

Parking services will hold an event as early as mid-October for students to give their feedback.

“We want to get stu-dent input to look at the routes,” she said. “We need (the students) to be honest.”

By the numbers

The majority of Parking and Transportation Services revenues are from car fines and permits. In fiscal year 2010, fines were $680,431 and permits brought in $655,406. Revenues for car fines totaled $779,906 during fiscal year (FY) 2009. Permit revenues were $631,809 for the same year.

Parking and Transporta-tion Services generated $1.6 million in total revenues for both FY09 and FY10 with $81,000 net decrease in funds.

Car permit revenues

increased 78 percent in FY08 primarily due to im-proved costs and access starting in February 2008 to the Campus Avenue Build-ing Garage, which opened in 2006.

The North Campus Ga-rage opened in July 2008 and originally, students could not park in the North Campus Garage until after 5 p.m. and it was $1 per hour with a $10 daily maximum.

Since February 2008, anyone could park in either garage for 50 cents an hour with a daily maximum of five dollars. Students, facul-ty and staff could purchase a daytime pass valid from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. for the North Campus Garage for $25 a month or $100 a semester. Overnight passes for either garage were $75 a month or $300 a semester with a university permit. Uni-versity permits cost $100 a year. Overnight park-ing in either garage is not permitted otherwise.

The addition of the sec-ond parking garage behind the School of Engineer-ing and Applied Science contributed to the $85,014 parking garage revenues

with total revenues of $1.2 million for FY08.

the moneymaker

The North Campus Ga-rage holds 670 parking spots and on average, cycles two to three times through each week day, Cummings said. That means the garage is collecting revenue for more than 1,800 spots a day.

Cummings said about 40 percent of students drove to class during the 2010 to 2011 academic year. Spilman said numbers were unavailable for the current school year because students were still registering vehicles.

Cummings said she doesn’t expect to collect more than 50 percent park-ing citation fines because of the one-time warning policy and visitor vehicles being difficult to track down. Col-lecting less than 50 percent total citation fines has been a trend for many years, ac-cording to Cummings.

“We’ve collected on less than 50 percent of our tick-ets,” she said. “How much of that will we actually col-lect on? It’s hard to know.”

Revenue had to be gener-ated by increasing costs for parking services. Spilman said they hoped to decrease garage traffic in the North Campus Garage by raising the price for the first hour.

“We’re hoping people will think before driving to campus [not] simply driving in to class,” he said. “There is such a problem with traf-fic congestion anyway and it was kind of feeding the problem with [it being] very cheap to drive in for one hour.”

By SArAh PItEOFOr thE mIAmI StudEnt

If disease and develop-ment of people in other countries is an unexplored avenue for you, you may want to consider attending “Disease and Development in the Global City,” a sym-posium being held at Mi-ami University. The event will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 6-7 at the Marcum

Conference Center. People from universities all

over the country will be on campus to speak about things such as Tropical Malaria, Disease and Culture in a Pe-ripheral City and much more. Miami faculty members will also be speaking at this event.

Amanda McVety, a his-tory professor who is co-chairing the event with José Amador, said she will be

speaking about how the Ethio-pian government pursued de-velopment by changing living things in Ethiopia.

Pricilla Wald will also be speaking about the new film Contagion, in theaters now, starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law.

This is the first year an event such as this will be taking place on campus. Miami first year Katie Austria said she is

enthusiastic about attending.“I am so excited to attend

this event,” Austria said. “The event list looks great and hearing speakers from other universities will be an awesome experience.”

The symposium is free to take part in and attendees are at liberty to come and leave as they please. The event is sponsored by the department of history, the Humanities

center, the Center for Ameri-can and World Culture and Latin American, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies Program. It will be hosted by the Miami University Humanities Cen-ter and the E.E. McClellan lecture series.

Tim Melley, the director of the humanities center, said this is a big event for the rela-tively new Miami University Humanities Center.

“The conference is a fantastic example of the socially relevant, cross-dis-ciplinary conversations we are trying to foster,” Melley said. “The event addresses a problem of major global importance and brings to-gether thinkers from dis-ciplines as diverse as his-tory and biology. I hope to see a lot of faculty and students there.”

Global disease and development experts visit for symposium

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By Tom DowneyFor The miami STuDenT

The Miami University women’s volleyball team re-turns home for two games this weekend against the Univer-sity of Buffalo Bulls and the University of Akron Zips. The first game will be 7 p.m. Friday against the Bulls.

Buffalo’s record currently stands at 8-8 overall and 1-1 in the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The Bulls swept the RedHawks last year in their two matches. However, Miami owns a commanding 20-4 re-cord all time against the Bulls.

Like many teams in the MAC, Buffalo lost several of their top players from last year. Their record so far this year in-cludes wins over the Syracuse University Orange and the Cornell University Big Red.

“We have to be at the top of our game and do a bet-ter job at blocking in order to win,” Head Coach Carolyn Condit said.

The game will likely be a great match and will prob-ably be very close. Sopho-more Madison Hardy will likely have to continue to her

outstanding defensive play for the Red and White to beat the Bulls.

Following the match against the Bulls, the ’Hawks host the Akron Zips. The game will be at 7 p.m., Saturday The Zips current record is 3-12 overall and 0-2 in the MAC. The Zips swept their own invitational earlier in the sea-son, but have since lost eight in a row entering this week-end. Last year, the RedHawks split the two matches against the Zips.

“Akron presents very dif-ferent challenges than Buffalo does,” Condit said. “Akron is a team that relies on their left side attack and plays good defense. We had a good week of practice and I think we can sweep this weekend for the home crowd.”

In order to do so, the team will need a strong per-formance from all their at-tackers, including senior Amy Raseman.

After the conclusion of the game against Buffalo, the team will host Meet-the-Team-Night. The event will be held on the court and there will be refreshments

served. The players will be introduced through a video and each player will say something about the team-mate that they roomed with during the preseason. In addi-

tion, the assistant coaches will be introduced.

Coming off strong defen-sive performances in a win over Kent State University and in a loss to Ohio University last weekend, Hardy was named the Miami Female Athlete of the Week. She had 26 digs combined for the two matches, good for a 4.33 per set average. She currently ranks 74th in the nation with a 4.71 dig per set average. This is the second time she has won the award this year.

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The Miami University football team, still look-ing for their first victory of the season, will face off against the University of Cincinnati Bearcats (3-1) this weekend in the annual Battle for the Victory Bell, the fifth oldest rivalry in college football.

Miami (0-3 overall, 0-1 MAC) has struggled in the turnover department and they will face one of their biggest challenges this season in Cincinnati, who is tied for the best turn-over margin in the nation. Meanwhile, the RedHawks have lost the turnover bat-tle each of their first three games and have one of the worst turnover margins in the country.

“We need to stay focused and [improve] ball security [this week],” sophomore wide receiver Nick Har-well said. “We need to keep believing and play for each other.”

Harwell has been one of the biggest offensive play-makers for a Miami squad that has struggled to move the ball down the field. The ’Hawks are 100th in total offense, 105th in scoring offense and are second-to-last in rushing

offense. Harwell will go for his third straight 100-yard receiving game this week-end, which would put him elite territory with Red-Hawk great Martin Nance, who had three straight 100-yard receiving games in 2003 and four straight in 2005.

One of the biggest keys to the offense’s success on Saturday will be the play of the offensive line. The Red and White gave up six sacks last week against Bowling Green State Uni-versity, partially due to the absence of junior center JoJo Williams. Williams and redshirt junior offen-sive lineman Matt Ken-nedy are both day-to-day and the coaching staff has monitored their prog-ress closely throughout the week.

Miami’s offense has also struggled to put points on the board once they enter the red zone. The Red and White are six for nine in the red zone this season, while opponents are con-verting their red zone trips into points a whopping 93 percent of the time.

Despite these obstacles, players and coaches are still optimistic about this season.

“We just need to play together,” redshirt junior defensive lineman Mike Johns said. “We are do-ing a lot of things right. The first few games we were very undisciplined but I think we are cor-recting those things and have a good chance to win this game.”

Defensively, the Red and White will look to shut down one of the most dynamic offenses in all of college football, led by redshirt senior quarterback Zach Collaros and senior running back Isiah Pead. Pead is averaging over 100 yards on the ground per game, while Collaros is completing 66 percent of his passes on the year.

Miami has played ex-tremely well on the de-fensive side of the ball but may face one of their biggest challenges of the season this Saturday. The Bearcats are fourth in the nation in scoring of-fense and are averaging

just under 50 points per contest.

“Offensively they’ve got a lot of weapons,” Head Coach Don Treadwell said. “They have, in my opin-ion, one of the best run-ning backs in the country. He is the real deal. Those guys in particular, [Colla-ros and Pead], make it ob-vious why they score a lot of points.”

Look for Miami to rely on their dominant pass-ing attack to move the ball down the field, especially considering that Cincin-nati is allowing over 280 yards per game through the air. Defensively, the RedHawks will have to make some adjustments to shut down Collaros and Pead, but expect them to continue to put pres-sure on the quarterback, which they began to do last week against Bowling Green.

Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. ET at Yager Stadium. If you cannot make it to the game, fans can listen to the game on Miami’s IMG Sports Network or on WMSR at www.redhawkradio.com.

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Junior tailback Dan Green tries to shake a Bowling Green State University defender for extra yards last Saturday. Green and the RedHawks are looking to give Head Coach Don Treadwell his first victory against the University of Cincinnati.

I’ve spent a little time on baseball previously, taking jabs at the “No. 1 game in America,” but I figured I’d dedicate a little more atten-tion to baseball’s decline. Specifically honing in on Major League Baseball and possible causes of the aforementioned decline of baseball as the MLB sea-son finally winds down, I’m also out to prove that pro football is currently Amer-ica’s top sport. Allow me to explain.

Let’s focus on Steve Ber-thiaume’s recent piece on ESPN about how beautiful 162 games are. Sentimental, yes, but perhaps misguided. Berthiaume touchingly ex-plains that you can check in anytime and be thrilled and “baseball as a daily ex-perience is the real payoff.” Happy days.

He argues that football is “fast food” as it requires only a few hours of atten-tion and the other days are spent “mindlessly” analyz-ing the game and fantasy football projections.

His biggest beef with football is actually, really, ARGUABLY the biggest reason it feasts on rat-ings. Football is fast, it’s quick, it’s a rush and essential-ly the athletic zeitgeist of the current generation.

Everyone is on the go in this day and age. The day almost all of us have the most free time is on Sunday, which is when the NFL is in action.

Following baseball every day, watching with NFL Sunday intensity, is akin to watching every single one of the ongoing Republi-can debates leading all the way up to the primary elec-tions … only way worse and even more time consuming Well, depending on how you opine with respect to Michele Bachmann. Or pol-itics in general, that is.

Baseball was enthralling when computers didn’t sit on your lap. Baseball was engaging when things like smart phones didn’t ex-ist. Baseball was electrify-ing when multitasking and mass consumption of in-formation wasn’t as preva-lent in society. Then all that

stuff happened, existed and took shape. Then baseball’s steroid era rolled in. Stop the bleeding!

But you can’t, because baseball is too boring. It’s slow! If football is high-speed Internet, baseball is dial-up. Football gives fans something to look forward to every week without con-suming their time on a daily basis. In fact, one could ar-gue, in a Nick Naylor sort of way, that the reason Ameri-ca is not more civically ac-tive is because it spends too much time planted on the couch, watching its throw-back bat-and-ball sport that everyone loves.

Sure, that’s dramatic, but in the NFL, college football, you name it, every single game matters. Out of 162 games in the MLB ... what happened in game 46? No one cares.

The reluctance to accept football as America’s top sport seems to relate to the state of the media today. Established, veteran jour-nalists will preach about objectivity, the way things used to be, how to be as succinct, rigid and structured as possible, and frequently pull a pseudo copout move whenever something like, say, “the future of journalism,” is mentioned.

Technology is explod-ing with emergence of new ways to create media, but most respected people in the field drone the same old, 30-year-old song. The point is, sometimes things get dated and it’s no one’s fault. What’s more interesting to more peo-ple today, The New York Times getting their facts straight or what just went up on TMZ.com, which could be totally fabricated and false?

Bleak, isn’t it? As for rel-evance: how about asking the same question 30 years ago? People would probably say, “What’s a dot COM?”

Times change! Peo-ple like it fast! Embrace change, fellow citizens, and I don’t mean Barack Obama change!

Are you ready for some football?