By Jenn SmolaCampuS editor

Though Miami University’s plan to restructure Information Technol-ogy (IT) Services through a part-nership with the consulting firm Accenture has saved only half the original $3.7 million savings esti-mate, the university still plans to car-ry out its agreement with the firm and continue restructuring.

According to David Creamer, vice president for finance and busi-ness services, the decision to keep Academic Institutional Technology Services (AITS) separate from Cen-tral IT and Administrative IT will decrease the number of dollars the university originally planned on sav-ing with the help of Accenture.

“There was some reduction in savings in the IT piece for not pro-ceeding with the academic change,” Creamer said.

Creamer said the university originally expected to save a total of $3.2 million on the low end and $3.7 million on the high end with the agreement, but that number has since shrunk.

“There’s still about $1.8 million in cost reductions that [Accenture]

expect[s] to achieve for the Oxford campus,” Creamer said.

Accenture cost $3 million to bring in.

This is not the first contract Miami has had with Accenture. According to Rebecca Luzadis, chair of Uni-versity Senate’s Fiscal Priorities and Budget Planning Committee, Miami had a contract with Accenture to work with its purchasing department to prioritize strategic sourcing.

With that contract, Miami was able to opt out of the contract early and save money, Creamer and Luzadis said.

Creamer said the university had received all the benefits and support necessary to carry on without Accen-ture. According to Creamer, by mak-ing this decision, Miami was able to spend only $595,000 on the project as opposed to the $1.465 million it would have cost in total.

According to Luzadis, Miami employees had already learned so much from Accenture the univer-sity felt it could continue without the firm’s assistance.

“That was cost-saving for us that was really fortunate,” Luzadis said.

While the same type of opt-out

opportunity exists in Miami’s con-tract with Accenture to restructure IT, Creamer said the university is not considering changing any plans with Accenture despite the recent decrease in estimated savings.

“There is no consideration of any significant changes in the IT con-tract,” Creamer said.

First-year Liz Burby said while the intrinsic value of the agreement is still present, Miami could have handled the situation differently and cut costs in a different way.

“I feel like they could have fig-ured this out in a much better way,” Burby said.

While the university will not save the original $3.2 million estimated with the IT restructuring, Miami of-ficials still think the changes and sav-ings will be worth it.

Cathy McVey, senior director of strategic communication, said with the decision to leave AITS out of the restructuring process, the focus of the project has shifted, but the changes will still be valuable in the long run.

“I think we’re making very

By Katie SallaCh For the miami Student

The United States Department of Education has started posting online net costs of universities across the country, and Miami University sits at the top of the public university list with a net cost of $22,303.

However, according to Vice Presi-dent for Finance and Business Ser-vices David Creamer there are a lot of factors that contribute to Miami’s seemingly high net cost.

Creamer said the first thing to re-member is that net cost includes the average total cost of living and at-tending Miami with the average fi-nancial aid subtracted. This includes the average cost of books, travel, en-tertainment, room and board as well as other costs.

According to Creamer, Miami is a highly residential campus compared to other universities. Since more stu-dents live on campus at Miami than at other schools, residential costs are often higher at Miami than at schools with fewer students living on campus.

First year Sarah Ross said since Miami requires all students to live on campus until at least their second year it creates additional unnecessary costs.

“I know that many universities do not require students to live on campus past their freshman year,” Ross said. “I wish this was the case at Miami, since many off campus living options are less expensive than dorms.”

Net cost also includes an estima-tion of costs for other expenses such as transportation and entertainment, which, according to Associate Direc-tor of University Communications Claire Wagner, Miami estimates very high as courtesy for parents and students so they can plan more effec-tively for costs.

Miami estimated for the 2011-2012 school year the average cost for other expenses is $6,743, higher than the actual average, affecting the calcula-tion of total net cost for Miami.

Another factor to consider when looking at Miami’s ranking is the amount of state funding for Ohio schools. Ohio’s state legislatures de-cided a long time ago that the amount

of state supported funding for schools would be low. Ohio’s state fund-ing for schools is well behind other states, with funding consistently in the lower 10 percent, according to Creamer.

Economics Professor James Brock said he thinks there are other more fixable reasons for why the net cost at Miami is so high.

“I also think, however, that we have a burgeoning and costly mass of bureaucracy exploding between the faculty and the students we teach,” Brock said. “Just look at the trend here over the past decade or so, when the number of full time administra-tive positions has increased at a per-centage rate many times greater than the single digit percentage increase in the number of faculty.”

According to Brock, another rea-son Miami’s net cost is so high is be-cause of the ineffective way Miami hires and pays teachers.

“Another key driver of costs is that we’re paying faculty more but re-quiring them to teach fewer courses, and then hiring visiting instructors to teach the classes the tenure-track

faculty aren’t teaching, effectively re-quiring the students to pay twice for teaching,” Brock said.

Both Creamer and Wagner agree the value of Miami is also a signifi-cant reason why Miami has the high-est net cost of public schools.

“Even though we are ranked as the highest net cost, we also keep getting ranked as having a good value,” Wag-ner said. “Our students are known for graduating on time, and a lot of our money goes towards instruction and student support.”

According to Creamer, at schools with lower net costs you will find larger class sizes, more part time fac-ulty and fewer activities when com-pared to Miami.

Creamer said the great value Mi-ami has to offer will keep students and parents interested in Miami regardless of its ranking of highest net cost.

“I think that most families are eval-uating schools more holistically, and are looking at the value of schools in addition to the cost,” Creamer said.

Wagner agreed while the ranking may deter some students from apply-ing to Miami, she hopes most fami-lies will be able to look past the cost.

“I think it will cause students and parents to dig deeper as they’re looking into Miami, and consider the value instead of just the cost,” Wagner said.

Sophomore Audrey Altieri said the quality of Miami is worth the cost.

“I think that when people first see this ranking they might be a little skeptical of Miami, but there are a lot of factors that go into that ranking that also make Miami a better school than ones that are cutting too far back

on costs,” Altieri said.Other students are not so accept-

ing of Miami’s increasing expenses. Miami junior Wendy Swartz said she thinks Miami should increase its amount of scholarship and financial aid money.

“I feel like its very unfair,” Swartz said. “I don’t come from the typi-cal Miami family income and even though my grades are good, I attend class daily and study, even more scholarship and grant requirements are becoming ridiculous and its get-ting harder to access them at Miami. I just want the same opportunities for myself as everyone else.”

Ross agreed more financial assis-tance would be helpful.

“I also wish that they offered more scholarship opportunities for trans-fer students and current students,” Ross said.

According to Creamer, the rank-ing can also be somewhat mislead-ing when it comes to cost increase in public schools. While Miami cur-rently has the highest net cost of pub-lic schools, the university has actually frozen tuition for the past two years while other public schools across the country, including Pennsylva-nia State University, West Virginia University, Michigan State Univer-sity and Washington State University continue to increase their tuition.

According to tuition data provided by Creamer of multiple schools from the 2006-2007 school year in com-parison to this school year, prior to being frozen for the past two years, Miami’s tuition increased by $1,243.

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miami uniVerSity OXFORD, OHIOVolume 139 NO. 57

In 1998, The Miami Student reported the percentage of Miami University students earning undergraduate degrees within five years was 77 percent, the lowest level in six years. The Student reported this rate correlated to a study released by the American College Testing Program that stated this rate was at an all-time low nationwide.

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State shies away from ‘charter university’ plan

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Miami ranks as costliest US public university

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riChard mandimiKa THE MIAMI STUDENThittinG the hiGh noteThe Miami University Glee Club performs Thursday evening in Hall Auditorium for its annual “Home Concert.”

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By liBBy muellerSenior StaFF Writer

Miami University had the chance to become a partially private insti-tution, known as a “charter school,” due to a proposal forwarded by the Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro last year, but the poten-tial of Miami becoming a charter university is now off the table.

David Creamer, vice president of finance and business services, said there was an expectation the legislation would be introduced sometime after January.

“[Legislation concerning charter schools] would have affected all of the public universities in Ohio,” Creamer said.

However, it appears all 14 pub-lic universities in Ohio will remain as they are, according to Creamer.

“The governor has decided not to put forward any legislation af-ter some consultation with leader-ship in the Ohio General Assem-bly,” Creamer said. “There wasn’t any support.”

Miami President David Hodge

said the proposal would have given Miami more power in decision-making.

“We were supportive of those parts of the proposal that gave us more flexibility,” Hodge said.

However, the freedom from government regulation would have come at a price, according to Hodge.

“Initially, at least, the state would give us less money in re-turn,” Hodge said.

One of the widely debated ad-vantages of becoming a “charter school” for Miami as an institu-tion would have been partial free-dom in the setting of tuition price, which is currently under the con-trol of the Ohio General Assembly, Creamer said.

However, this freedom would not necessarily have resulted in a tuition increase, Creamer said.

Senior Will Sheets said he does not see the point in Miami

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Kasich appoints third Schroder as trusteeBy KatiE m. taylorFor thE miami studEnt

Approving tuition, fees, tenured teachers, construction contracts and new degrees — the Miami Universi-ty Board of Trustees plays a huge role in shaping the future of the university. Bob Shroder has been appointed the newest trustee by Ohio Gov. John Kasich and will attend his first meet-ing in May.

According to Ted Pickerill, sec-retary to the Board of Trustees, the board is comprised of nine voting trustees and two non-voting student trustees, all of who are appointed by the governor. In addition, there are three non-voting national trustees appointed by the members of the current board.

“They keep themselves informed through public study sessions and involvement with the university as to the proper and successful op-eration of Miami, and are charged with approving the directions and changes that the university takes,” Pickerill said.

The nine voting trustees are all Ohio residents whom applied for the nine-year position. Every year one trustee’s term comes to an end and another trustee’s begins. After applying for the position in January and being appointed April 5, Shroder has taken the place of former trustee, Thomas Grote.

According to Shroder, the posi-tion called for someone interested in Miami University and specifi-cally someone with an interest in

improving education in Ohio.Shroder, a Miami graduate, has

served as president and chief ex-ecutive officer of Humility of Mary Health Partners and has served on various other boards. Shroder’s two sons, Brian and Matthew Shro-der, each served on the board as student trustees for two years while at Miami.

“I’m literally following my sons in this position,” Shroder said. “Kind of unusual to follow your sons in a position.”

According to Shroder, while his sons’ involvement got him interested in the position, an occurrence from his past makes this a particularly im-portant opportunity for him.

“To make a long story short, I was in a position where I was basically

broke,” Shroder said. “I was a first semester senior at Miami and I had my tuition bill come through and I did not have the funds to actually pay for it.”

According to Shroder, his girl-friend —now his wife — put him in contact with the Dean of Alumni Affairs at the time, John Dolibois. After explaining his situation to him, Dolibois did something unexpected.

“[Dolibois] reached in his desk, and he actually grabbed his check-book,” Shroder said. “He said to me ‘I am writing you this check, and it is not a loan. It is a gift from the university.’”

Shroder said as he thanked him, Dolibois made a single request.

“When I reached for the check he said, ‘But, what I want you to do is

promise me that you’ll remember Miami when you’re successful,’” Shroder said.

To Shroder, serving as a trustee on the board gives him the opportunity to do just that.

According to Shroder, while the first six months of his term will mainly be about learning the ropes, he is ready to dedicate himself to the responsibility of maintaining the suc-cess of Miami.

“I am extremely excited, and I am extremely honored, and the cali-ber of the other people I have seen on the board is extremely high,” Shroder said.

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stranger assaults infrequent at miami, but garner most fearBy Kaitlin schroEdErstaFF WritEr

Prospective students and their par-ents frequently ask about emergency call boxes on campus, according to Miami University Police Department (MUPD) Chief John McCandless. However, McCandless said these call boxes have not been used in over four years.

He said the university tries to strate-gically place them around campus, but due to the popularity of cell phones, the call buttons are rarely used. Mi-ami has roughly 12 call lights, four of which are on Western Campus. Their locations are listed on the police website, www.muohio.edu/police.

Miami takes in safety suggestions

on the police’s annual summer sur-vey of returning students.

One suggestion they receive, ac-cording to McCandless, is for better lighting in dark parts of campus. He said the police relay those sugges-tions to Miami Physical Facilities.

“Twice per year, representatives from the grounds and Associated Stu-dent Government (ASG) do a walk-ing tour of campus at night and see if there are areas that might be darker or are an area where someone walking might feel uncomfortable,” he said.

McCandless said every year the police department will get calls, emails and media attention when a serious crime occurs. An example of that from this year, he said, was in September, when a female student

reported walking alone in central quad and was attacked from behind by a white male.

“That’s an example of a stranger assault that for us is very uncom-mon,” McCandless said. “I remem-ber for us there were lots of phone calls and articles in the paper … that is one of those events that raises people consciousness and instills this sense of fear.”

Director of the Women’s Center Jane Goettsch said students and par-ents think emergency call lights will help reduce the risk of sexual assault because they assume rapists are only, “these strangers hiding behind the bushes,” rather than a possible ac-quaintance of the student.

“When you think about that

stereotype, you’re going to think about more call boxes and more lights would be a way to address that,” Goettsch said. “Not that that doesn’t happen, but it’s a small por-tion of sexual assaults. Bright lights and call boxes are not going to do anything to reduce ones risk of sexual assault by an acquaintance.”

In the police’s summer survey, 95 percent of respondents answered “yes” when asked if they feel safe on Miami’s campus, and 95 percent of students have responded, “yes” since 2005 when the university police be-gan taking the survey.

McCandless said students and parents who come to the police de-partment with concerns about safety are mostly concerned about types of

crimes, like crimes between strang-ers, which are fairly infrequent at Miami.

“Our crime statistics don’t always represent perception,” McCand-less said. “For example, if you take sexual assaults, our sexual assaults nearly exclusively occur in either the victim’s room or the accuser’s room, and the common thread is both par-ties have typically been drinking. Although we get them as a rarity, very infrequently do we get them as a stranger assaulting someone walking across campus.”

First-year Bethany Flannigan said she remembers her mom being

Cadet overcomes past to receive Army ROTC honor for leadershipBy noëllE BErnardFor thE miami studEnt

Nathan Quinn is not your

ordinary Miami University senior. At 5 a.m. Friday, while most stu-dents are comfortably sleeping in bed, Quinn along with a select few are up and ready for Physical Training (PT), a demand for any Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadet or midshipman.

Quinn is a U.S. Army ROTC cadet with the Xavier University ROTC “All for One” Battalion. Miami only has Navy and Air Force ROTC units, but students interested in the Army participate in Xavier’s program.

Quinn is being honored for his leadership with the opportunity to attend the U.S. Military Acad-emy Battle Command Conference (BCC) at West Point, NY from April 24 to 26. But his four-year journey was not free of any twists or turns. At one point, he almost

lost his dream to serve as an of-ficer in the U.S. military.

Originally, Quinn arrived at Mi-ami as a midshipman in the U.S. Marine Corps ROTC unit. But after he made some poor choices, Quinn’s scholarship was revoked. With his commission gone, Quinn had to do serious soul searching.

“It made me reflect a lot and I decided that I’d rather still serve in some capacity than not serve,” Quinn said. “Even if it wasn’t the Marine Corps I still wanted to find a venue to serve. I considered my other options and with what

I wanted to do the Army was the obvious choice.”

Quinn approached Lt. Colonel Shane Ousey at Xavier Univer-sity, the host program for Mi-ami’s ROTC cadets, and received a second chance. But, he had to prove himself.

“I admitted my mistakes and I told him that it was a mistake and that was it, it wasn’t my charac-ter,” Quinn said. “Fortunately for me he gave me a second chance and he allowed me to try to prove myself. I had to go through Basic Training [in Fort Knox, KY] to prove that I wasn’t just in it for the money but I was dedicated to serving.”

For the last three years, Quinn proved himself as a worthy leader and has used his past mistakes as a platform to reach out to younger cadets.

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Miami University Senior and Army Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet Nathan Quinn is honored for his leadership by attending the U.S. Military Academy Battle Command Conference at West Point this weekend.

MU encourages student, professor use of new university-only Facebook groupsBy michaEl BEldEnFor thE miami studEnt

Miami University has a new tool to work within its social network-ing endeavors. Facebook released a setting students can use to organize groups within their pre-determined university Facebook page. The only requirement is the student must have a university email address.

According to Kelly Bennett, social media specialist for University Com-munications, Miami is curious to see what the new Facebook page is all about.

“We’re still trying to figure the page out,” Bennett said. “So far there have been over 3,000 members who joined within the week, which is impressive”

According to Bennett, students can share photos and documents with each other on the Facebook page. Students can also create groups

that correspond to a club or a class they are in.

Bennett said professors can also participate on the page.

“If professors wanted a class group, they could create one if they want,” Bennett said. “From there, they could potentially share assign-ments and announcements to stu-dents within the group.”

One of the things Bennett said she wanted to do with the group was cre-ate a “Parties and Events” page. Stu-dents on this page could post about upcoming on campus gatherings.

Miami already has a Facebook fan page with over 15,000 “fans.” There are also numerous clubs and residence halls that already have their own Facebook page.

Sophomore Shelby Copenhaver said she uses Facebook to receive updates from her sorority.

“[My sorority] has a national and a Miami Facebook page,” Copenhaver

said. “Both of those pages make it easy for us to share things with each other, whether it be events or just general conversation.”

First-year Katelyn Palmer also uses Facebook groups to communi-cate with groups more easily.

“Our bible-study group uses the Facebook group to organize meeting times,” Copenhaver said.

Palmer and Copenhaver agreed they do not use the Miami page as much as their smaller group pages.

“I think students pay more atten-tion to their groups that they are ac-tive in rather than the entire Miami page,” Copenhaver said.

Copenhaver said she was indif-ferent to the release of the new Facebook tool.

“It looks like a useful tool, but since I’m not on Facebook very

Video games offer unique educational opportunitiesBy tammy athaFor thE miami studEnt

Playing a game and learning is not about being able to forge a riv-er in Oregon Trail or tell time on an analogue clock like in Treasure MathStorm. Learning through games is much broader, according to Lindsay Grace, professor of in-teractive media studies at Miami University and longtime gamer.

Grace said in his research he is making games that subvert tra-ditional game narratives, such as games that challenge the player to stop and enjoy the scenery, like Grace’s game titled Wait.

Grace has other games that challenge normative perceptions of games such as “unshooters,” which challenge players to heal victims of popular massacres and historical events, like Grace’s game Healer.

“All games are educational, it’s just a question of what you’re learning,” Grace said.

Junior James Earl Cox III agreed with Grace’s ideas.

“Games can put you in situ-ations that other mediums can-not accomplish; they can make you feel things, like for instance, guilt,” Cox said.

Sean Duncan, Miami game studies professor, questioned why people are drawn to games like Skyrim, Pokemon or Call of Duty and what we can learn from games and our current educational systems.

“Games provide very powerful and engaging alternatives to the kinds of experiences kids have in schools,” Duncan said.

Unlike schools, games allow

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I’m thankful for the op-portunity to be allowed to serve because it means a lot to me.”

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Most Miami University students and Oxford community members can attest to the fact that when walking off-campus streets of Ox-ford late at night, there are not many streetlights lining the sidewalks.

For some, this may be seen as a safety issue for late night uptown travelers, but for others it may be an asset to the street they live on.

Alan Kyger, Oxford economic development said, “The general rule on streetlights is that there must be one at every intersection so where two roads meet there’ll be a street light.”

According to Bobbe Burke, coor-dinator of off-campus affairs, there are many opportunities for the city to work with Miami students to find places in the city where lights may be needed.

“Years ago I worked with student community relations commission, which is a permanent committee of city council and there were a variety of times in which we’ve looked into the lighting situation,” Burke said.

“The first time we looked more in relations to the alleys and where they were the darkest.”

According to Burke, one pro-active movement to identify ar-eas needing lighting was having a group of Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic members walk the alleys and identify with po-lice officers places that seemed particularly dark.

“We also ensure that we looked at lights on a regular basis to make sure that they work,” Burke said. “So now every fall as we look into daylight savings time, ASG [Mi-ami’s Associated Student Govern-ment] does a lighting sweep on the streets on mile square.”

Mile square, according to Burke, begins at the Miami Art Museum and then turns into Chestnut Street all the way to Locust Street. It dead ends into Sycamore Street and hits Patterson Street.

According to Burke, the issue of streetlights is something the city must look at not only for stu-dents, but for community members as well.

“Students may think of it as

safety but if parents for example lived somewhere and have a street light shining in their baby’s room it may be different,” Burke said. “So it’s much more than just safety and we have to be aware of that as you think of the different things going on.”

Burke said it is all about balance.“It’s about lights and being an an-

noyance and those are two different things that must be balanced as we look at what goes on in the city,” Burke said. “But if more than one difficulty happened on one street we could put more lighting. And that’s what the city tries to do, bal-ance safety and what the neighbor-hood wants and needs.”

According to Burke, ASG works with the Residence Hall Asso-ciation (RHA) by looking at mile square and the lights to see if they are out. If an area feels particularly dark, students should let the city know to examine and then ask the whole neighborhood if it would be ok to look into for lights.

“Students can assist the city in where the lights are needed by letting the city know where areas

could be lit,” Burke said. “The city has done everything by law that needs to be done but if students do not feel safe then they should make it known to the city so that the city can move forward.”

According to Burke and Kyger, the main thing is balancing what is best for the students and other com-munity members in order to make Oxford a safe place that serves the community.

“Some neighborhoods like it dark and some like it lit up, it just depends on the area,” Kyger said.

Miami University sophomore Alexa Livadas said the city must balance the needs of the commu-nity and the needs of students, how-ever she still believes Oxford needs more lighting along the streets.

“It is so dark on some of the off-campus streets,” Livadas said, “I understand that the city has to take care of everyone in the com-munity’s needs, but students defi-nitely need to let them be aware of the darker areas because student’s safety could be at risk on a lot of the poorly lit streets. It should for sure be a priority.”

City urges student input on lights

BY MorgAN sCHAffErsENior stAff WritEr

One of the popular uptown res-taurants in Oxford, D.P. Dough, has changed its name to Doughby’s.

Along with the name change, the menu has been changed to incorpo-rate crepes and the names of the cal-zones have been altered, according to five-year owner, Beau Hiner. De-spite this, the menu will still include the old calzones.

D.P. Dough is a small franchise with restaurants along the east coast in states including Maryland and Delaware. The Ohio State Univer-sity and Ohio University are also home to the famous D.P. Dough, Hiner said. The franchise has a total of 25 locations.

Hiner has owned the restaurant in Oxford since 2007, an ownership he still holds. His contract with the franchise ended and Hiner decided to operate under his own name.

“D.P. Dough owned the calzones’ names so I had to create all new names for the calzones,” Hiner said. “Same recipes, just different names. We have a whole new menu of crepes that have been incorporated into the menu and have been quite popular. The calzone dough is kind of heavy but the batter for the crepe is much lighter.”

Alan Kyger, Oxford economic development director, spoke about how franchises work and why someone would operate under the

name of a franchise. “A lot of times businesses will

want to align with a national fran-chise because of the name recogni-tion,” Kyger said. “When people travel around from city to city, and they know a franchise, they will know what to expect. As an indepen-dent, you do not have to pay for the franchise. The business has to weigh if having a national name for their business is better for the business or if paying less money is better for the business.”

Aside from the changes in the menu and form of operating the business, the store also moved to a new location on High Street. Hiner said they began moving in August last year.

“I think his location is now bet-ter,” Kyger said. “He won’t need the national franchise to support. He has been able to create his own image.”

Miami University first-year and Doughby’s customer Brooke Mon-nolly did not notice a difference.

“Besides the name change, I would have never known the dif-ference,” Monnolly said. “The cal-zones taste exactly the same, look the same, come in the same box ... they just have different names than before. With my calzone, I also got a calendar that showed food specials and discounted calzones/crepes for certain days of the week, just as D.P. Dough had done. But I haven’t tried the crepes yet.”

Calzone restaurant gets new name, keeps recipes

BY CAtHEriNE UBrYCoMMUNitY Editor

The Oxford Board of Zoning Ap-peals (BZA) held a meeting April 18 to review an appeal for the building located at 15 S. Beech St. where the Oxford Press was previously housed. There are plans for the building to hold both commercial businesses and residential areas.

However issues arose when it was revealed the side entrance of the building was to be used as an entrance door, which would go against building code. Buildings in Oxford are not allowed to have main entrances on the sides of buildings, according to Prue Dana, member of the city of Oxford’s Board of Zoning Appeals.

Alan Kyger, Oxford economic development director said, “It is listed in the city’s code that the prin-cipal entrance of buildings must face the street.”

According to Dana, the zoning code says every building should be located on the street and the alley does not serve as the street so having a main entrance door located in the alley goes against usual regulations. The bottom floor of the building will house commercial space with resi-dential areas above so the residential door would be located off the side of the building.

“We looked at it strictly as finding a variance for the side entrance, not finding but over turning the zoning rule that says it has to be facing or bordering the street,” Dana said. “So that’s all we were dealing with when we look at variances.” According to Dana, the BZA uses certain standards in order to make its judgments regarding the property zones being appealed. One of the issues the board looked at was the fact Duke Energy had electri-cal poles close to the entrance of the building.

“Duke Energy has its poles close to the entrance and the fire chief felt they were too close,” Dana said.

The poles were considered close to the building but not close enough to cause a hazard that would stop the building plans. The owner of the project, Stewart Developers LLC, said it would be too expensive to put the lines underground.

The building’s architect said he could possibly bump the side en-trance out a few feet in order to avoid the lines but it was agreed the change would be miniscule and unnecessary, according to Dana.

“Basically when we look at these there are lots of practical entrances for this building,” Dana said. “And if we want our uptown to develop as it has been over the last 10 years we need to approach with some flexibil-ity. We would never make decisions that go far against any standards like health and safety. There would be no question then but this side entrance easily could have been built out and turned.”

Scott Webb, architect for the building on South Beech Street said, “Duke Energy asks for a cer-tain amount of clearance around wires and we got them to agree to put wires on one side of the poles so that they are not over the alley. The fire chief expressed concern that the door would be on the same side of the power lines but our code doesn’t say it can’t be on the side, it just has to face forward.”

Scott said he showed the BZA how he could change the building to make the residential entrance door face forward.

However, the BZA almost unani-mously agreed to allow construction to move forward so the commercial and residential areas of the build-ing would both be included and none of the proposed changes, such as bumping out the side entrance door, needed to be made, according to Dana.

“Our granting them the variance allowed them to use the depth they could out of the building and there’s a little bit of precedent that goes on there,” Dana said. “There’s a build-ing residence behind Fiesta Charra [Mexican Restaurant] that is behind an alley for example.”

Overall, Dana said the build-ing and zoning codes are good be-cause the city does not want too many buildings with sideways entrances uptown.

“Zoning code is good it’s just that in this usage it needed to be re-looked at,” Dana said. “And the old Oxford Press building is not histori-cal or anything so this new building may improve the way that it looks.”

Board approves new residential area uptown

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Jazz musician wraps up ‘Year of the Arts’

By LorrAinE BoiSSonEAuLtFor thE miAmi StudEnt

“In any language you’re screwed from the get-go,” An-drew Zawacki said at a recent po-etry reading, referring to his work as a translator of literature.

Zawacki and the French poet whose work he translates, Sé-bastien Smirou, visited Miami as part of the Poetry in Trans-lation Series, a new undertak-ing by the English Depart-ment to expose students to an international perspective.

Smirou, an award-winning poet in France, and Zawacki, a poet and professor of literature in the United States, teamed up to trans-late Smirou’s latest work. Mon Laurent is an experiment with words and numbers and draws upon the artwork in the Medici family, an Italian Renaissance family of art patrons.

“The books are two different books in different languages,” Zawacki said after he and Smirou read the work in French and Eng-lish. “I had a lot of liberty with the translation, [My Lorenzo].”

After reading the two po-ems, La Bataille and La Phrase, Zawacki and Smirou performed a live translation of one of Smirou’s poems. The two debated the best translation of idiomatic expres-sions while preserving the sound and rhythm of the language. At one point they discussed how best to translate the distinct Que-bec accent of Francophones into something an English-speaker would recognize.

Brandon Kelley, a senior English literature and creative

writing double major with a focus in poetry, attended the reading and said he particularly enjoyed the live translation.

“For me it’s just an essential problem – in the best possible sense – with communication and the different modes of thoughts that exist in different cultures,” Kelley said. “We’re very mental-ly isolated in America and I don’t think that’s good.”

Kelley said he is glad the Eng-lish Department plans to continue the series in the fall.

“People just need to have their perspective complicated a little bit,” Kelley said. “It’s a way of understanding difference without assuming superiority.”

According to Cathy Wagener, associate professor of creative writing, Kelley’s view of translat-ed poetry matches well with the goals of the English Department.

“We want students to develop

an international perspective on writing,” Wagner said. “We hope it will turn into classes and maybe a capstone about translation.”

In addition to the English De-partment, the French and Italian Department and the Humanities Center provided funding for this year’s Poetry in Translation read-ings. In the fall, when the English department plans to orchestrate a symposium with a number of international authors, the Havi-ghurst Center and the department of German, Russian and East Asian languages will also lend their support.

Students can get a taste of this series before the fall 2012 semes-ter at an upcoming event. Cana-dian poet Lisa Robertson will be visiting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Bachelor 337. Widely respected for her writing, Robertson has won numerous awards and cur-rently lives in France.

By LAurEn KigginSStAFF WritEr

Wynton Marsalis, internationally acclaimed trumpeter, composer and educator, will deliver his acclaimed “Ballad of American Arts” speech Tuesday as the Year of the Arts keynote address.

The 2011-12 academic year was designated by President Da-vid Hodge as the Year of the Arts to honor Miami University’s artistic mission and spotlight over 200 an-nual performances, exhibitions and special events.

“The university is committed to making sure the message of arts, in culture and education, is essential not only for all students but for all people,” James Lentini, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said. “Bringing a spokesman of this stature to deliver this message certainly puts an excla-mation point on this message.”

Marsalis is both a classical and

jazz musician, for which he has been awarded nine Grammys.

“He is one of the only ones I know of, ever, at his level to be able to play at the very top echelon of jazz musi-cians and also be able to play clas-sical trumpet concerto at the same level,” Lentini said.

As a composer, Marsalis received the Pulitzer Prize of Music for his oratorio, Blood on the Fields.

“Marsalis changed the landscape of the Pulitzer Prize; never before had a jazz comzposer won,” Len-tini said. “A Pulitzer Prize on top of jazz and Grammys is an amazing background that makes for a very unique individual.”

His contributions to the arts and education have earned him more than 25 honorary degrees from insti-tutions including Brown University, Columbia University, Harvard Uni-versity, New York University, Princ-eton University and Yale Univer-sity. Other distinctions include The

National Medal of Arts, The New York Urban League’s Frederick Douglass Medallion for distinguished leadership and the American Arts Council’s Arts Education Award.

It is his life experiences and ac-complishments that have helped shape “The Ballad of American Arts,” which Marsalis has delivered before dignitaries such as the United States Congress.

“Marsalis is American icon when it comes to the art of music, as a per-former but also as a spokesperson for the arts,” Judith Delzell, chair of the department of music, said.

According to Lentini, Marsalis’ speech will not solely resonate with musicians, for it encompasses American culture and how soci-ety can connect to it through arts

and music.“It’s valuable for students to un-

derstand how Marsalis describes the value of arts in the human existence because sometimes students innate-ly have a passion for arts, but may have trouble expressing it verbally,” Delzell said. “This presents the op-portunity for a world-class musician to speak to that issue: the essence of the arts.”

Marsalis first visited Oxford in 2010 for a performance with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, organized by 2008 Miami alumnus and trumpeter Jono Gasparro. Since, Gasparro has become the project manager of Marsalis and is to thank for Marsalis’ return.

While on campus, Marsalis is scheduled to work with the Miami trumpet studio and meet with univer-sity administration and donors.

“The Year of the Arts has been spectacular,” Delzell said. “It has generated important atten-tion to the role of the arts in the lives of students and the university community overall.”

“The Ballad of American Arts” will be 4 p.m. Tuesday in Gates-Abegglen Theatre in the Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are free and available at the Shriver Center Box Office. It will also be viewable via livestream at http://new.livestream.com/wyntonmarsalis/yearofthearts.

By BiLLy rAFAELArtS & EntErtAinmEnt Editor

The Miami University Sym-phony Orchestra (MUSO) will conclude its concert season Tues-day night with a performance it is calling A Journey through Time and Space.

This concert has much fueling its hype. Not only is it the orches-tra’s final concert this season, but it also is its last until it performs at Carnegie Hall in October.

“Seeing as this is our last per-formance before Carnegie Hall, I decided to create a rounded pro-gram that features music from all musical eras,” Ricardo Aver-bach, conductor of the orchestra, said. “We’ll be performing music from the Baroque era, the Classi-cal era, the Romantic era and the 20th century.”

The symphony will also pre-miere an orchestral arrangement of Heitor Villa-Lopos’ Song of the Black Swan. Miami’s Pro-fessor of Ethnomusicology and Latin American Studies Thomas Garcia founded this arrangement. According to Garcia’s program notes, he has been studying Lo-pos’ music for over 20 years and came across this arrangement by acclaimed orchestral arranger Andre Kostelanetz while in Rio de Janeiro. The arrangement was only performed once in the 1960s in Brazil and was never published, making the sym-phony’s performance the North American premiere.

The concert will also feature winners of this year’s Concerto

Competition. The Concerto Com-petition is an annual event at Miami held in November where student musicians compete as a soloist for an opportunity to per-form with the symphony. A panel of judges, mostly professional musicians from around the area, decide the winners.

“The experience of getting to be a soloist with the entire orches-tra is pretty monumental,“ junior David Locke said, a hornist and one of this year’s winners. “Win-ning the concerto competition is something I’ve been working to-wards since before I was a fresh-man [at Miami] when my sister made the finals.”

According to Averbach, one other winner of the competition, bassoonist Ray Jacinto, a second-year graduate student, will be fea-tured at the concert. Junior Molly Jones was also a winner this year, but is unable to perform because she is studying abroad this semes-ter, so she will be recognized in the next concert season.

According to Averbach, the concert is also dedicated to Judith Delzell, chair of the department of music, who will retire at the end of this year.

“We are now in the final days of Dr. Delzell’s time at Miami,” Averbach said. “She been here for many years and put in so much work for the department. I felt this would be the best recognition the orchestra could give her.”

MUSO’s A Journey through Time and Space will take place 8 p.m. Tuesday in Hall Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.

By CLAirE KriEgErSEnior StAFF WritEr

Summer is quickly approach-ing, bringing with it the prime season for music festival-goers. Each year many Miami Univer-sity students attend music festi-vals all over the country. Junior Evan Trout will attend Lollapa-looza in Chicago for the first time this year.

“I’ve never been to a festival before but I know a lot of people who have,” Trout said. “From what it sounds I think it’s going to be a really cool atmosphere.”

There are a lot of variables to consider when choosing which festival to attend. These include the genres of the artists perform-ing, location, cost, length and the feel of the festival. Some festivals transform a field into a music-lov-ers paradise for a few days while others take over an already exist-ing amphitheater or stage. Some festivals are one day and others last for several. While you may be

drawn to a festival because of one or two headliners, do some re-search beforehand so you have a few bands in mind that you would like to see during the day. Festi-vals are set apart by their length and the variety of artists they offer to spectators.

Junior CJ Blankenship will also be attending Lollapalooza this August, it being his fourth year in a row.

“A music festival is something everyone should experience at least once,” Blankenship said. “It’s great because you see acts that you would never think you would see otherwise. There are a lot of up-and-coming artists that are unknown and the concerts are all only one price.”

Once you have decided what your preferences are in all of these categories, start researching to find your perfect festival for you. Below is a cheat sheet for some local and a few national festivals to whet the musical appetites of festival-goers everywhere.

Symphony prepares for Carnegie hall in the fall

Poetry series features translated works

Students gear up for summer music festivals across the country

The university is committed to making sure the message of arts, in culture and education, is essential not only for all students but for all people.”

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Poets Andrew Zawacki and Sébastien Smirou spoke last Monday on the challenges of translating poetry while keeping true to the poet’s intention.

Country ConcertDate: July 5-7Location: Ft. Loramie, OhioHeadliners and other notables: Zac Brown Band, Blake Shel-ton, Eric Church, Luke Bryan, Justin Moore, Sara Evans and Jake Owen.

SummerfestDate: June 27-July 1, July 3-8Location: Milwaukee, Wis.Headliners and other notables: Rascal Flatts, Aerosmith, Big Time Rush, Iron Maiden, The Beach Boys, Zac Brown Band, Neil Diamond, Lady Antebel-lum, Hanson, Gavin DeGraw and Lupe Fiasco.

Jamboree in the HillsDate: July 19-22Location: Belmont, OhioHeadliners and other notables: Ja-son Aldean, Ronnie Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eili Young Band, Lee Brice and David Nail.

LollapaloozaDate: August 3-5Location: Chicago, Ill.Headliners and other notables: Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, Black Sabbath, Jack White, Florence & the Machine, The Shins, Passion Pit, Fun, Sig-ur Ros and Franz Ferdinand.

BunburyDate: July 13-15Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Headliners and other notables: Jane’s Addiction, Weezer, Death Cab for Cutie, Motion City Soundtrack, Neon Trees, Passion Pit, O.A.R. and Grouplove.

BamboozleDate: Ashbury Park, N.J.Location: May 18-20Headliners and other notables: Skrillex, Foo Fighters, Bon Jovi, Blink-182, Incubus, Mac Miller, All American Rejects, The Gas-light Anthem, Boys Like Girls, The Maine and Cris Cab.

Rock on the RangeDate: May 18-20Location: Columbus, OhioHeadliners and other notables: In-cubus, Shinedown, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Slash, Anthrax and The Darkness.

BonnarooDate: June 7-10Location: Manchester, Tenn.Headliners and other notables: Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Pep-pers, Phish, The Beach Boys, Bon Iver, The Shins, Foster the People, Skrillex and The Roots.

Vans Warped TourDate: June-AugustLocation: Various stops across the countryHeadliners and other notables: New Fond Glory, Taking Back Sunday, Rise Against, Yellow-card, Streetlight Manifesto, We the Kings, Miss May I, Machine Gun Kelly, Breathe Carolina and Fireworks.

becoming a “charter school.” “My initial reaction is that tak-

ing a well-known university that is functioning as a public institution … I don’t see the point [in Miami becoming a ‘charter school’],” Sheets said.

The proposal would also have removed enrollment caps cur-rently in place, according to Creamer, which could increase the student population.

He also said the university would have gained some freedom in set-ting workers’ compensation.

The issue over bureaucratic mandates and administrative en-tanglements is not necessarily over, according to Creamer.

“What I think is likely to occur is that instead of this broad bill that provides general powers and reduced regulatory impact, I think we’ll see individual bills that will take some of these regulatory is-sues on and provide flexibility,” Creamer said.

Hodge said regulatory

relief is still an important concern for Miami.

“We will continue to push for regulatory relief whenever we can do so,” Hodge said. “It [the proposal] was never about becom-ing a private university; it was about not letting regulations get in the way.”

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However, the data also shows even though Ohio state funding has de-creased for all public schools, Ohio State University increased their tu-ition by $1,058 and Ohio Univer-sity had a $1,209 increase since the 2006-2007 school year.

According to Creamer, even though Miami is at the top of the list for net cost in public schools, Mi-ami was already cutting costs in ar-eas they thought would least impact students in order to keep the tuition the same but improve the quality of education.

Even though the university has al-ready been taking steps just to keep the tuition frozen, Creamer said the university will be working on even more ways to try to decrease the net cost.

“We have announced that we would like to raise the amount of scholarship dollars through the alumni, and we try to target areas that will have the least amount of impact on students when trying to reduce costs,” Creamer said.

thoughtful choices,” McVey said. “We’ve kind of refocused what we’re looking at.”

According to Luzadis, bringing in a firm like Accenture does not mean every suggestion is carried out.

“We know that sometimes we won’t choose to implement their recommendations,” Luzadis said.

While Miami will not save the $3.2 million they hoped for, McVey said the savings would still be worth it.

“We’re not going to reach the high end savings we originally had hoped for, but we will save,” McVey said.

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The United States Department of Education ranked Miami Uni-versity as the most expensive public university in the United States in terms of net cost.

The net cost includes the aver-age total cost of attending Miami and living in Oxford and factors in the average amount of finan-cial aid students receive.

The Miami Student edito-rial board was not surprised by this ranking and feels it shows a dangerous trend Miami has been following.

Before, Miami was ranked as a “best deal,” meaning the price of attending Miami was low com-pared to the caliber of academics at the university.

While we feel Miami has pro-vided good academics while keeping costs under control, the board fears that as attending Mi-ami becomes more and more ex-pensive, students will no longer get this good deal.

Miami administrators said the university came in as the most expensive school because more students live on campus than at other universities and because living in Oxford is of-ten more expensive than at other universities.

However, the editorial board feels this is a catch-22 since the university requires students to live on campus their first year and sophomore year.

Administrators also said the net cost does not take into account Miami’s small class sizes or the university’s full-time faculty.

However, the board fears Mi-ami is losing this as well.

We have seen Miami hire more

and more clinical faculty and lecturers and we have seen class sizes grow in our time here.

The board feels the close, per-sonal relationships we have been able to form with professors have been one of the best parts of Miami.

We don’t want future students to be deprived of this.

The board worries the high net cost will turn away potential students and their parents, who will be deterred by the high price tag and won’t look further into the university.

The board is not naïve — we know the price of college is ris-ing everywhere and we know the university has been working to cut costs.

But, we encourage the univer-sity to cut where there is excess, not where it is easiest.

As editors, we have all talked to Miami officials at one time or another about rankings Miami re-ceives, both good and bad.

One thing that frustrates us is the university embraces good rankings but tries to explain away bad rankings by saying they do not accurately represent the school.

We know a lot of rankings do not take into account things like graduation rates and placement in graduate school.

But this ranking by the United States Department of Educa-tion cannot be explained away. The ranking is based on cold hard numbers.

We encourage the university to take this ranking and work from there; making excuses will not solve any problems.

The state of Ohio resumed ex-ecutions after a six-month unoffi-cial moratorium April 18, putting to death 49-year-old Mark Wiles.

In 1985, Wiles, 22, fatally stabbed 15-year-old Mark Klima when he was caught robbing the Klima’s house. Wiles worked as a farmhand for the Klimas, a couple with only one son and a barn full of horses in Portage County.

But on the night of Aug. 7, 1985, Wiles stabbed Klima in the back 25 times.

In my Journalism 350 course, my class has studied the Ohio death pen-alty and was given the opportunity to cover the demonstrations outside the prison during Wiles’ execution.

In this course we also discovered the Ohio capital punishment system is flawed. One would assume that the worst of the worst criminals are placed on death row. Yet, this is not always the case. In fact, they say the death penalty is for the worst law-yers not the worst defendants.

This discrepancy also occurs when a prosecutor asserts his or her authority by using the death penalty as a leverage tool or bargaining chip. One county in Ohio that frequently faces this criticism is Cuyahoga County. From 2002 to 2012, Cuya-hoga County had 315 indictments for capital murder. However, of that number only five resulted in death sentences, according to the Ohio Public Defenders Office, Death Penalty Division.

Another flaw in the system is in the case of innocent inmates. On Jan. 23, after serving more than 21 years on death row, Joe D’Ambrosio was exonerated.

D’Ambrosio was wrongfully convicted of murdering 19-year-old Anthony Klann, whose body was found in a Cleveland creek in 1988. In 2006, U.S. District Judge Kate O’Malley ruled that Cleveland prosecutors withheld 10 pieces of evidence that would have led the

three-judge panel to find D’Ambrosio not guilty and implicate another sus-pect in the crime, according to The Plain Dealer.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, D’Ambrosio is the 140 former death row inmate to be exonerated in the country since 1973 and the sixth from Ohio. Sadly, there are still questions about who killed the young boy found in the creek and that is truly unfortunate.

When I attended the execution in Lucasville, Ohio with three of my classmates I didn’t know what to expect. Now we didn’t actually see Wiles receive the lethal injection. Instead, we were in the parking lot of the Chillicothe Correctional In-stitute covering the demonstrators, watching the prison courtyard and waiting for the call of time of death.

We were with members of Ohio-ans to Stop Executions (OTSE), led by Sister Alice, chair of the Board of Directors.

The experience was interesting. Because we were in the parking lot, there was an obvious distance and we only received internal updates from media reporters’ tweets, such as the Associated Press’s (AP) An-drew Welsh-Huggins.

At the execution site, a blue bar-rel divided the 15 opponents and one supporter of the execution. The demonstrators gathered around 9:30 a.m. with Sister Alice as she answered death penalty questions, rang a bell and led the group in prayers for Wiles and everyone di-rectly involved in the execution.

At 10:42 a.m., Wiles was execut-ed by lethal injection. According to onsite AP reporter, Welsh-Huggins, Wiles’ final words were:

“Finally, the state of Ohio should not be in the business of killing its citizens,” Wiles concluded, reading a statement that the warden held over his head. “May God bless us all that fall short,” he said, reported by Welsh-Huggins.

After the announcement we all waited as a hearse approached the door of the Death House, where the execution occurred, to transport the body. It was a sobering moment be-cause it was almost time for Sister Alice to lead her group in singing the famous hymn, “Amazing Grace.”

Then at 11:02 a.m. a red body bag was led out of the Death House by two men who lowered the body into the back of the hearse.

From the parking lot we could see Wiles’ feet shape through the windshield of the hearse. Then after a routine car check and pat down the hearse slowly left the gate of the prison and followed by a police escort as the OTSE sang “Amazing Grace.”

I didn’t break down in tears but I felt a ping of sadness that two lives were lost because of one man’s mistake. I also pondered Wiles’ last words.

It’s argued that Wiles revoked his rights as an Ohio citizen when he killed Klima. In the days approach-ing the execution, Wiles admitted he did not deserve mercy so maybe that made this odd exposure easier to handle.

I didn’t know what to expect when my group drove up to the pris-on literally across from Valley High School, but it certainly made my en-tire study of the death penalty feel more meaningful.

So what is right? Should Ohio be allowed to kill its citizens even if discrepancies occur or is life with-out parole a comparable alternative to death sentences?

Each death penalty case makes these questions difficult to answer but at this time Ohio has a Task Force working to find the answers.

So maybe something will have to give to keep Ohio safe and hon-est. Until then, Wiles’ death marks the 47 execution since 1999 and the state has 11 more scheduled, includ-ing one in June.

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March 29, three dozen Miami University journalism students and I piled into cars in the Bach-elor Hall parking lot.

We were taking an extra-curricular field trip to Local 12 News in Cincinnati to observe noon news show production and to lunch with reporters and station executives.

As we got ready to leave Oxford, I noticed one car-pool was nearly empty because of no-shows.

With gas at $3.89 a gallon, I didn’t want to waste college students’ money.

“Let’s leave your car here – you guys will fit in other ve-hicles,” I suggested to the driver, a first-year.

But she had no valid parking tag for this faculty/staff lot.

“I think you can park with-out a tag at Peffer Park,” I sug-gested. “Or we could just put my faculty tag on your car and leave it here.”

The first-year grimaced. “I just don’t want to get a

parking ticket.”I glanced at the time: 11:05

a.m., with a 50-minute drive to

make the noon news.I handed her my faculty park-

ing tag and she left her car in my faculty red-zone spot next to Bachelor.

Everyone agreed the field trip was excellent.

The return to campus three and a half hours later … not so much.

The first-year’s car had three parking tickets – one accusing her basically of stealing a faculty parking tag, which could lead to disciplinary action. Her tire was immobilized with a police boot.

Fine to remove the boot: $200. In the Parking Services office

in the CAB, the customer service representative was unimpressed with my apology.

“You should have called to tell us what you’d done,” she scolded loudly.

“I was one professor on a field trip with 36 students,” I answered, lamely.

“I had other responsibilities on my mind.”

In my head, though, I won-dered: “Why didn’t they call ME if they thought my parking tag had been stolen?”

The representative reiterated

the $200 fine to remove the boot. The first-year quietly said she didn’t have $200.

I asked to see the boss.But George McDonald, a Park-

ing Services director, had no sympathy either.

Instead, he stonily lectured us for 10 minutes, as the first-year wiped her eyes, about parking regulations, Miami staff who lend their tags to children and friends, and, he hinted darkly, parking tag counterfeiters who may be at work.

No harm was done here, I point-ed out to McDonald: Nothing sto-len, no one injured, no damage.

Why can’t you dismiss these fines now that you know the cir-cumstances, I asked.

McDonald frowned and shook his head. Showed us how to fill out the parking fine appeals pa-perwork. Agreed to have the boot removed from the car if the first-year would charge the pending $200 fine on her Bursar account.

And here is my point: Why are Miami faculty, staff

and students treated like convict-ed felons with off-shore bank ac-counts by our unfriendly Parking

Services workers and staggering parking fine structure?

Somewhere along the way, real transportation safety is-sues on a rural college cam-pus have been redefined by the Almighty Dollar.

The need to collect exorbitant parking fines to pay for lot up-keep, lighting, parking structures and Parking Services staff is so great, apparently, that workers must wander campus checking if cars with legit parking passes, parked in legit parking spots, have a nefarious purpose.

Our basic parking fine is up to five times as much as those at similar colleges.

How many of you students – who pay tuition, room/board and fees that are among the highest nationwide for public universi-ties – have parked outside an aca-demic building for 5 minutes to deliver a paper on deadline to a professor, only to return to a $75 parking fine?

How many low-wage staff and faculty, like me, have forgotten their parking tag, left a note on the dashboard pleading mercy, yet found a ticket flapping on the windshield?

Even corporate recruiters are slapped with steep fines.

My Cincinnati neighbor, Jen, is an executive with Fifth Third Bank and a Miami alum.

The bank’s recruiters, she said, have learned the hard way to insist on full-access visitor’s parking passes when they hold interviews at the Farmer School

of Business.Things have gotten out of hand,

and Miami is risking its reputa-tion – not to mention donations to its Campaign for Love and Honor – through this thoughtless, abusive behavior.

And when did staff like George McDonald decide that the best way to handle an apologetic pro-fessor and a tearful first-year stu-dent is to berate them?

It’s time for Miami’s adminis-tration to re-examine our parking policies, our fine structure and the customer service sensibilities of our Parking Services staff.

Are you with me? As for the first-year and her

$200 fine, the parking appeals board notified her April 16 that two of three charges had been dropped.

The $75 charge for parking il-legally in a restricted area was posted to her Bursar account.

On April 18, I wrote a personal check for $75 and deposited it into her account.

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The Los Angeles Times (LA Times) reported April 18 the Army was to launch a criminal investiga-tion after a series of photos surfaced depicting soldiers posing with dead Afghan militants.

According to The Hill, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta quickly took to the press and issued an apology saying, “This is not who we are,” but later added, “this is war, and I know that war is ugly and it’s violent.”

Seeing as the photos were given directly to the LA Times, “the sol-dier who provided [them] did so on condition of anonymity.”

The soldier decided to come for-ward with this information because he believed this behavior was proof of, “a breakdown in leadership and discipline that he believed compro-mised the safety of the troops … [and he] expressed the hope that publication would help ensure that alleged security shortcomings at

two U.S. bases in Afghanistan in 2010 were not repeated.”

Over the weekend, the buzz continued over the 82nd Airborne Division soldiers’ “reprehensible” and “deplorable” behavior.

But the accusations became somewhat softer when experts began questioning not who did it or how they did it, but why they did it.

CNN’s Don Lemon spoke to Dr. Terry Lyles, Psychologist and Stress and Crisis Management ex-pert, about the severity of the issue during a CNN special, “The Stress of War.”

While both Lemon and Lyles agreed neither side condoned the soldiers’ behavior, Lyles did believe the stress and ages of the soldiers shed light on the situation.

Lyles began by saying, “They’re in very difficult circumstances … to be on high alert all the time …

[in these situations], the body be-gins to beat up on you chemically, and it could cause you to have lack in judgments, make poor choices … but I understand to a degree be-cause our people are warriors.”

Lyles defines this “warrior men-tality” as, “hunters … individuals who live day and night with life and death at their hands, trying to take down insurgents that are also trying to eliminate them.”

Lyle believes these pho-tos are these soldiers’ “tro-phies” of what they’ve won in battle, but by no means is this acceptable behavior.

But the advice Lyle gives is these soldiers need to be trained to see a peaceful return because many suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder when they arrive back home from war, or “hell” as Lemon calls it.

These are all agreeable state-ments.

Yet there are so many ques-tions that remain unanswered: Why not ensure proper training, physically, psychologically and emotionally, before leaving for overseas missions?

Did the soldier who gave up the photos possibly endanger fellow soldiers in overseas missions?

Was that in it of itself just as irresponsible as the soldiers in-flicting those actions? Where is the accountability? Who is truly responsible here?

It is easy for us to all sit here and pass judgment while looking at such an act in the privacy of our own homes is easy.

We aren’t out there just as those serving our country.

But even as citizens of this coun-try, soldiers, “warriors” or not, all should be represented with the cor-rect mindset even in violent times of war.

To an extent, changes

must be made — in pro-grams at home, training and in leadership positions.

Burning copies of the Koran, shooting sprees, urinating on corpses, much less taking pho-tos with dead bodies, or taking parts of bodies for that matter should never be the “trophy” of a situation.

We may not understand, those of us who sit in our warm beds watching T.V. and going to work or school everyday.

But a word to the soldiers out there representing The United States of America: the trophy should never be an admiration of death.

The trophy should be the suc-cess of a mission, remaining loyal to fellow soldiers and allies and finally coming home to families and loved ones with the proper care, treatment and gratification all soldiers deserve.

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concerned about campus safety when she was looking for a college, but said she does not remember see-ing any call lights around campus.

“I honestly don’t know where they are,” she said.

Flannigan said she likes hav-ing Nighttime Door-to-Door as an option for safe campus travel and thinks Miami students are generally safe when traveling at night.

“People use the buddy system a lot,” Flannigan said.

McCandless said MUPD does an average of 300 safety programs annually for a total of 13,000 to 17,000 people. McCandless said the safety tips the police teach, like walking in groups, are useful and allow people to feel safe, but the most important way to reduce your risk is to not engage in high-risk drinking behavior.

“What I tell parents at orienta-tion, the possibly of your son or daughter being beaten up when walking home from the library are very slim,” McCandless said. “The possibilities of getting beat up go way up if your student engages in high risk drinking. We tie a lot of bad things that happen on campus to alcohol use and overuse.”

Sophomore Meka Clifford said most crimes are related to alcohol use. She said she witnessed two stu-dents she knew being assaulted by an intoxicated student when walk-ing home. She said the intoxicated student assaulted the two students for being gay and holding hands.

She said students at Miami can be in more danger for being gay and walking at night than for be-ing a woman and walking home at night.

“Usually if you’re just a girl walking by yourself you’re fine,” she said.

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Though trustees are responsible

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“I’ve heard of them and I know they’re important, but I don’t know what they do exactly,” junior Nate Brulport said. “It’s never really brought up, so it’s something you kind of don’t really think about.”

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found out the hard way that you can’t do the things I did and be-come a commissioned officer,” Quinn said. “I try to preach that to the younger cadets and I hope to take that to my soldiers. We all think we’re going to get a pass because people have respect for the military but we’re not above the system.”

At the BCC, Quinn along with other cadets and midshipmen will learn the challenges of serv-ing in the military from top mili-tary leaders and veterans. They will conduct an inventory of character, competence and lead-ership, in order to develop new forms of self-awareness. Small groups will be formed for ca-dets and mentors to interact in a Leader-to-Leader conversation.

“It was a huge honor for me,” Quinn said. “It’s a really great opportunity to get to talk to the leaders of our military right now, more predominately the Army and Marine Corps right now and get to learn from them.”

At this time, Quinn plans to ask the seasoned soldiers tips on how to respectfully lead a platoon. He said he wants to ask the question of how to respect soldiers’ expe-riences while maintain control of the people he leads.

Meanwhile, Quinn is engaged to a fellow Miamian and is set to graduate in August with a degree in mass communications. He will commission as a second lieuten-ant in the U.S. Army and has re-quested his Military Occupations Specialty (MOS) to be Infantry.

“I’m very successful in the Army right now,” Quinn said. “I’m thankful for the opportunity to be allowed to serve because it means a lot to me.”

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often I don’t see myself using it very much,” Copenhaver said.

Palmer said she was excited for the new release.

“I think it’s great that all of the Miami Facebook groups can be organized under one whole Miami Facebook page,” Palmer said.

Miami also uses a Twitter account to “tweet” messages to its followers. Over 5,900 people follow Miami’s Twitter account.

“The Twitter account is used for notifying people of sports, scores or events,” Bennett said.

Bennett also noted Miami “retweets” a lot of accounts affili-ated with the university.

“We like to ‘retweet’ President Hodge a lot,” Bennett said.

According to Bennett, Miami’s goal is to be at the top of the univer-sities that use social networking.

“I think we are doing a good job now,” Bennett said. “Students and alumni engage a lot when we post something on Facebook or on Twitter.”

Miami is also looking into cre-ating a web directory for all of the clubs affiliated with Miami.

“The directory would include a group’s Facebook, YouTube and Twitter account so people can easily find these things,” Bennett said.

Bennett said the directory should be completed in the sum-mer and ready for use in the fall 2012 semester.

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students to follow their interests, according to Duncan.

This is not because the games are flashy or violent, but, because they can provide or develop an identity, one broader than ‘Poké-mon Trainer’ ‘or ‘Magical Elf.’ Games can provide a space for the gamer to become a writer, designer or, “someone who per-sists and solves the problems life throws at them,” Duncan said.

Grace teaches classes at Miami that use games to convey more than just entertainment and en-courage students to learn.

Though the classes have been open to all majors, Grace said he has not had many students outside of game studies or inter-active media studies taking his courses aside from business ma-jors who have found games as a way to “motivate sales.”

This is done through a process called “gamification,” which is the use of game techniques and game thinking to enhance non-game activities and situations.

On Miami’s campus students can also study the intersec-tion between games and learn-ing in interactive media studies (IMS) or educational psychol-ogy (EDP) 225: Games & Learn-ing, a core course for Miami’s IMS program.

Two other courses Miami of-fers on games open to all majors are IMS211: The Analysis of Play and IMS/English 238: Nar-rative & Digital Technology.

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The Miami University women’s tennis team earned its fourth-straight Mid-American Conference (MAC) regular season title in convincing fashion, blanking Ball State Univer-sity (BSU) Saturday 7-0 in Muncie, Ind. and spoiling the Cardinals’ se-nior day. The win made it 33-straight for the RedHawks in league play and gave the senior class a perfect 32-0 career MAC regular season record.

“I am really proud of this team and their attitude out there through this year,” second-year head coach Anca Dumitrescu said. “We are happy to win the regular season MAC title but more importantly I just want to see the players improve each day and fulfill their potential as players and as individuals. That is more im-portant than any titles, and as long as we focus on that and continue to do that, victories will come.”

The ’Hawks (13-9, 8-0 MAC) kicked off the rout of the Cardinals with all three doubles teams snag-ging wins. The pairing of senior

Rieke Honiball and sophomore Ni-misha Mohan, along with the duo of senior Jessica Parr and sophomore Christiana Raymond, combined to get the doubles point for Miami with 8-2 and 8-3 wins, respectively. Senior Stephanie Danesis and fresh-man Christine Guerrazzi completed the sweep with an 8-4 victory.

“We played great today,” Gur-errazzi said. “We really came togeth-er and pulled it out. We’re looking forward to the MAC Tournament next weekend and hoping we play our best tennis of the season.”

In singles competition, Guerrazzi pushed the Red and White’s lead to 2-0 after a 6-0, 6-1 victory over the Cardinals’ senior Dena Boulieris. A 6-2, 6-4 victory gave freshman Alix Thurman 21-straight wins on the season, and Mohan clinched the RedHawk victory after defeat-ing BSU senior Kylee Johnson, bringing her singles winning streak to five.

Miami completed the shutout with Raymond winning 6-2, 6-1, Danesis defeating Ball State fresh-man Courtney Wild 6-3, 3-6, 10-5

and then Honiball closing out the match 6-3, 6-4. The win gives Dane-sis her eighth-straight win in singles play and moves her career wins total to 153, tying her with Miami Hall of Famer Jill Joslin for most in program history.

“Every player on our team got it done today. It feels good going into the tournament with every single player feeling confident,” Dane-sis said. “We are hungry and ex-cited to capture three more wins in the tournament.”

Ball State (5-15, 0-8 MAC) went winless in league play for the third time since 1989 after the loss to the ’Hawks, the first two times be-ing in 1989 and 2009. The Cardi-nals will play in the MAC Tourna-ment, with their next match 1 p.m. Thursday against Northern Illinois University (NIU).

Miami is looking to seize its third MAC Tournament champion-ship in four years as they travel to DeKalb, Ill. They will face the win-ner of Thursday’s match between BSU and NIU 10 a.m. Friday in the quarterfinals.

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Freshman second baseman Ryan Elble flips to freshman, shortstop Scott Slappey to start a double-play Sunday against Bowling Green State University (BGSU). The RedHawks won the game 5-2 and took the series 2-1 over BGSU.

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After losing seven of its last 10, the Miami University baseball team (20-20, 6-9 Mid-American Conference (MAC)) took the fi-nal two games in their three-game series with Bowling Green State University to take over sole pos-session of fourth place in the MAC East Division.

“We have been reeling a little bit,” senior pitcher Mac Thoreson said. “Things haven’t been going our way. We hadn’t been playing good collective baseball. To take the first weekend against an op-ponent on our side of the division was huge.”

The bottom of the lineup came up big for the offense over the course of the series, breaking past trends. Sophomore third baseman Dan Walsh stepped up and was 3-9 with three runs. Freshman shortstop Scott Slappey swung the bat well and went 3-10 with three RBIs in addition to his defensive prowess. Adding to the offense was freshman second baseman Ryan Elble, who went 2-8 with 3 runs and one RBI. He

also drew one walk and was hit by three pitches.

“Young guys that are a little more experienced,” Head Coach Dan Si-monds said. “And they are starting to get better.”

Senior Shawn Marquardt led the RedHawks to a 7-0 victory in the second game, pitching eight shutout innings.

“A senior [Marquardt] stepping up,” Simonds said. “He’s stepped up before and we needed him. It was a great performance.”

Marquardt gave up only five hits while striking out six, and he improved to 5-3 on the year in the process.

“The way things have been go-ing, it felt like a game we needed to win,” Marquardt said. “I think it was a must win for us and we came through.”

Junior starter Mac Thoreson picked up the win in the series finale. Thoreson went seven innings and gave up two runs, only one earned, on nine hits. He is now 4-3 on the year.

The Red and White won the fi-nal game 5-2 despite having only six hits compared to Bowling

Green’s nine. “They got a couple of dinky hits

early,” Thoreson said. “We made a huge adjustment in my delivery and now I’m seeing the results that I did all last year.”

Junior Brooks Fiala picked up loss in the 7-2 defeat in the first game, giving up four earned runs on eight hits and three walks over 5.1 innings. The loss dropped him to 2-5 on the year.

“I think we’ve changed some things up a little bit and hopefully we can feed off it,” Simonds said. “We’ll continue to compete each and every pitch of each and every game. That’s going to be the key right now.”

The RedHawks have a home-and-home series against Indiana Universi-ty (IU) Tuesday and Wednesday. They will travel to IU Tuesday and return home Wednesday.

The Hoosiers enter the series 18-22 overall and 6-6 in the Big Ten Conference. They took their most recent series with Geor-gia Southern University, nearly sweeping them before falling in the finale.

First pitch is set for 6 p.m. Wednes-day at McKie Field.

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The Miami University women’s track and field team faced 15 in-state universities and inclement weather conditions and claimed second place in the All-Ohio Championships, just 39.5 points behind the University of Cincinnati.

A trio of sophomores dominated the early events of the meet. Ashley Zaper took first in the heptathlon, a seven-event competition, in only her first time competing. Zaper’s 4,876 points earned her the No. 6 spot in the Miami record books. Fellow sophomore Erica Mudd was also a first-time competitor in the event,

taking third place with 4,694 points. Mudd also cracked the top 10 in the record books, moving to No. 8.

Sophomore thrower Tori Paterra was runner-up in the javelin throw, notching a season best toss of 48.46 meters/159 feet. Paterra already owns all the top throws in the Miami record books, but her most recent put her in fifth place.

“It feels pretty good to be so suc-cessful, only being a sophomore,” Paterra said. “After this weekend, I’m really excited to finish the rest of the season strong, and I’m going in to [The Mid-American Conference (MAC) Championships] with a lot of confidence.”

Senior sprinter Diona Graves has

reemerged in recent weeks, asserting her dominance as one of the MAC’s top runners. Graves won the 100-me-ter dash in 12.02 seconds. Graves was also a member of the record-setting 4x400-meter relay team that shat-tered the school record set this season by nearly two seconds, at 3:40.90. This time was only 16 hundredths behind the winning team from the University of Cincinnati (UC).

“It was a nice win in the hundred, especially after tripping out of the blocks, but my time is not where I need it to be,” Graves said.

Graves’ classmate Rachael Clay continued her dominance of the 400-meter dash and won the event by two seconds, clocking a 54.60. Clay

now owns the fourth and seventh fastest 400 times in school history.

“It was nice to break the school record at my last big home meet,” Clay said. “I wanted to PR, but to run a 54.6 without much competition was still a solid performance, even though I still have improvements to make.”

Clay was also the anchor of the 4x400-meter relay, and she gave Cin-cinnati a scare as she nearly caught UC’s anchor and just missed out on the win.

“I wanted to catch Cincinnati more than anything, but the effort we gave on the way to breaking the school record was awesome,” Clay said. “Cincinnati’s anchor leg is an

All-American, so the fact that I was able to close the gap and make it a close race to the finish was great.”

Senior thrower Alexandra Roberts claimed second place in the shot put and second place in the Miami re-cord books, after a throw of 15.56 meters/51-0.75 feet. She also fin-ished fourth in the discus throw, and moved to No. 8 all-time at Miami.

After a strong performance, most of the RedHawks will be back at George L. Rider track as Miami hosts the RedHawk Invitational; the last of three home meets this season. A se-lect few will travel to Des Moines, Iowa to compete in the Drake Relays, held at the University of Iowa Saturday.

It is time for a change at Miami University.

Students, faculty and the Oxford community are indifferent about the success of Miami’s athletic teams. Whether it is the culture, the on-the-field success or the level of competi-tion, Miami is not a school most col-lege sports fans follow.

This column has attempted to highlight various parts of Miami’s Athletic Department over the last two years, and for my final col-umn of the year, I have outlined a three-part plan detailing how Mi-ami can fix the apathy surrounding its athletics.

Increased InvestmentMiami does not invest enough re-

sources into its athletic programs.The recent coaching carousel and

conference realignment coupled with the cuts set for Miami’s Athletic Department over the next five years do not help the situation.

The only way Miami can re-tain long-term coaches who are capable of attracting, retaining and developing quality talent is to pay them more and improve their incentive structure.

However, to attract these individu-als, Miami must develop its facilities. Goggin Ice Center, Yager Stadium, Hayden Park and the Miami Softball Stadium are relatively new, attrac-tive stadiums, but it has been over 40 years since Millett Hall was built.

Miami must invest in these fa-cilities and update them. It is too late to relocate Miami’s stadiums, so Miami must incentivize student attendance. This means streamlin-ing buses to stadiums on game days, working with Greek life to create events centered on games, such as Have a Greek Day, and must permit and promote tailgating, especially for football games.

Conference ChangeMiami has to switch conferences.While Miami is one of the old-

est members of the Mid-Amer-ican Conference (MAC), the MAC does not give the ’Hawks quality competition.

If the Red and White can create consistent program success, they could potentially look to jump to Conference USA or to the Big East

Conference. This switch is even more likely considering the jumps teams such as University of Pitts-burgh, Syracuse University, and West Virginia University have made between conferences, not to mention Temple University’s return to the Big East from the MAC.

And if Temple can do it, why can’t Miami?

The RedHawks need to give fans outside of Oxford a reason to travel to Miami to watch games, and a con-ference switch would do just that.

Culture ShiftMiami needs a culture shift.Students come to this university

already aligned with their team from their home state. For those from Ohio, that usually means the Ohio State University (OSU) or the University of Cincinnati.

Almost every state has at least one college powerhouse athletic program. These teams give sports fans an opportunity to identify with their state, especially for fans from states without professional teams, such as Kentucky. Sports are a unique medium where people from all backgrounds come together for a common cause.

Miami’s problem: Ohio has at least one professional team in ev-ery major sport and already has two powerhouse schools to choose from.

The market for college athletics in one state is only so big, and Miami is getting squeezed out.

Students come to Miami already a fan of another major program. Mi-ami is their “backup” team.

However, there are examples of teams increasing their prominence and success.

Texas Christian University, San Diego State University and Boise State University are three recent examples of teams who have sig-nificantly increased their expo-sure. Each of them did so mainly by creating winning teams for consecutive seasons.

The Red and White need to in-crease the resources for its athletic program to ensure success year in and year out.

Then, and only then, will Mi-ami give fans a reason to come to games.

RedHawks race to second place finish at All-Ohio Championships

LaurEn oLson THE MIAMI STUDENT

BrinGinG thE hEatSenior Jessica Simpson pitches Friday against Central Michigan University (CMU) Friday. Simpson led the ’Hawks to a 4-0 victory, and Miami finished the weekend 3-1 against CMU and Eastern Michigan University.