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HOUSING CONUNDRUM

STUDENT EVALUATION TALKS

SPORTS SLIDESHOW

Read the March 15 university senate minutes including debate

from many senate members.

Read an update on the 15-20 year housing master plan.

Check out pictures from the baseball, football, softball and hockey games.

In 1962, The Miami Student reported on a statement by President John Millett on increasing student enrollment. Ideas mentioned were expanding university branches, municipal university financing and the expansion of medical education.

MONEY INSIGHTA Cleveland State University professor publishes an e-book on planning for college loans.

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WATER WORKSMiami’s steam plant on western campus is having new pipes installed.

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ON THE FRONTIERGov. Ted Strickland and Chancellor Eric Fingerhut discuss Third Frontier grants.

COMMUNITY, page 4

BOLD EAGLESBald eagles are making a comeback in Ohio skies.

COMMUNITY, page 5

A FLAIR FOR MUSICAn in-depth look at the artists who make up the Jess Lamb Band.

FEATURES, page 6

SPRING FEVERMiami’s baseball team wins their three game series against Northern Illinois University.

SPORTS, page 14

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Miami University students released balloons Saturday afternoon in central quad in remembrance of the three Miami students who died in an off-campus house fire in 2005.

SAMANTHA LUDINGTON The Miami Student

Legacy of house fire victims continues

Student evaluations to be partially standardized

By Erin FischesserCommunity Editor

Five years after an off-campus fire that resulted in the deaths of three Miami University students, friends, family and community members continue to remem-ber Stephen Smith, Julie Turnbull and

Kate Welling.While current students were not on

campus for the event, many of their lives are touched by the tragedy of April 10, 2005 on a regular basis.

At 4:30 a.m. that day, smoke

billowed from the home at 122 N. Main St. after a lit cigarette caught a couch on fire, causing the blaze. Of the project-ed 13 students in the house that night, 10 were able to evacu-ate. Kate, a junior and Julie, a senior, both died of carbon monoxide poisoning due to smoke inhalation, while the cause of death for Stephen, a senior, was never determined.

Julie’s father, Doug Turnbull, has begun a crusade in honor of his daughter to require more

reliable smoke detectors in homes across the state of Ohio.

“I’ve spent the last two years educating fire chiefs in Ohio about the difference between smoke

detectors,” Turnbull said.Turnbull said he is continuing to

lay groundwork for an Ohio Senate bill to be proposed near the end of the year that will require homes to con-tain photoelectric smoke detectors, which detect smoke in a different way

By Patrick WolandeSenior Staff Writer

The Experienced Party’s clean sweep of the 2010 student body elections was capped off by a record-setting margin of victory by president-elect Heath Ingram and vice president-elect Tim Hogan with 73 percent of the vote.

This year’s election was the first time president and vice president ran on the same ticket.

Adam Harris, current vice president of the student body and chair of the election committee, explained the change.

“Miami (University) was the only public school in the state of Ohio that didn’t have the president and the vice president on the same ticket,” Harris said.

Harris said the change has many benefits.“Just the continuity and the camaraderie of being

on the same agenda,” Harris said.Ingram spoke about what it took to win in such

convincing fashion.“I’m very excited, and I’m so proud of our cam-

paign staff,” Ingram said. “You really can’t win without the kind of support we received.”

Part of Ingram’s role as president will include working with the budget since Miami has cut an ad-ditional $5 million next year.

“I’m going to sit on the strategic priorities com-mittee for the university,” Ingram said. “One of the big goals here is that the student agenda is present in that room.”

Ingram stressed he will be a strong advocate of making sure student needs are at the forefront of budget decisions.

Hogan spoke about what he is going to do as vice president.

“I really want to increase the exposure of student government,” Hogan said. “I want to meet indi-vidually with student originations that are affected by things ASG (Associated Student Government) does because 85 percent of the student body is in a student organization.”

Hogan also spoke of his and Ingram’s vision.“We want to take what is done internally (ASG),

and expand it to the entire campus,” Hogan said.Ryan Horvath, the other presidential candidate,

gave his reaction to the results.“I’m disappointed, but disappointed in the num-

bers only,” Horvath said. “I don’t think it reflected how much work was put into this election.”

Horvath also responded to murmurs of his cam-paign acting only as a boost for next year’s election.

“I haven’t even begun thinking about next year ... to think about next year at this point would just be ridiculous, especially two days after the election,” Horvath said.

Mike Emling, vice president-elect of campus activities council (CAC) won with 61 percent of the vote.

“I’m honored and humbled to win,” Emling

By Hannah PoturalskiNews Editor

In two to three years, student evaluations of teachers will begin to look somewhat similar across majors and classes with a recent passage by university senate.

University senate passed a resolution March 15 en-dorsing six common questions to be asked on student teaching evaluations of all courses. Provost Jeffrey Herbst discussed this at the April 7 meeting of the board of trustees’ academic/student affairs committee.

Different divisions, departments and instructors will still be able to ask individual questions.

“This will take us to a very different place in terms of the evaluation of teaching,” Herbst said.

Herbst said this is the culmination of four years of work by Ann Frymeier, professor of communication.

According to the March 15 university senate min-utes, Frymier said, “Teaching standards vary across the university. A common standard does not exist across academic divisions and departments/programs.”

These standard six questions will help quantify norms

The six common questions and their categories:

Classroom Climate questions:My instructor welcomed students’ •questions.My instructor offered opportunities for •active participation to understand course content.My instructor demonstrated concern •for student learning.

Student Learning questions:In this course I learned to analyze •complex problems or think about complex issues.My appreciation for this topic has •increased as a result of this course.I have gained an understanding of •this course material.

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COMMUNITY

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Trio to offer free piano concert Friday

The Rawlins Piano Trio will per-form at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 15, in Souers Recital Hall. Hosted by the Miami University Department of Mu-sic, the event will highlight the Ohio premier of “Opposites Attract” by award-winning composer James Len-tini, professor of music and dean of the School of Fine Arts.

The group will also present a piano master class at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 15 in Souers Recital Hall, where they will perform Trio I Opus 8 by Johannes Brahms and piano trio in G major by Claude Debussy. The trio, which was formed in 1987, performs a wide range of both standard and original works. Both events are free and open to the public. Contact Jeanne Harmeyer at (513) 529-1482 for more information.

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Crusaders to address human trafficking

Campus Crusade for Christ’s social justice team and Associated Student Government (ASG) have partnered for a day of learning about the state of hu-man trafficking in Ohio. On April 14, “Human Trafficking in Ohio: Mod-ern Day Slavery Close to Home” will offer two events.

From 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., three advo-cating stations will be set up through-out campus to inform students and host a call-in party to advocate for a new Ohio bill to combat trafficking. At 8 p.m. in the Taylor Auditorium in the Farmer School of Business, Dr. Jeffrey Barrows, president of Gracehaven and member of the Ohio Trafficking in Persons Study Com-mission, will speak about the state of trafficking in Ohio.

Journal publishes MU psychology findings

Miami University psychol-ogy research was featured in the January issue of the Journal of Ex-perimental Social Psychology. The study showed videos of people who were smiling to participants. Half of the smiling individuals in the video were genuine while the other half were sporting fake smiles. After watching the videos, participants were asked which individuals they would prefer to work with.

According to the research, partici-pants were able to tell which smiles were genuine or fake without being told. Those participants who had been reject-ed were able to distinguish fake smiles from real ones significantly more often. According to Michael Bernstein, lead research and psychology graduate stu-dent, this study proved that those par-ticipants that had been rejected in life are able to note which people make real smiles and therefore, who would be a better individual to work with.

Info sessions to inform students on housing

The Office of Campus Affairs and Associated Student Government (ASG) will be hosting sessions to inform stu-dents about housing options for the 2011-12 school year.

A session will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 in the basement of Morris Hall as well as at 8 p.m. in the basement of Stanton Hall. A session will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 15 in the Blue Room in Clawson Hall as well as at 8:30 p.m. in the basement liv-ing room of Havighurst Hall. On Mon-day, April 19, a session will take place in the basement of Wells Hall.

A final session will take place at 8 p.m. in the living room of Collins Hall. Addressing the wide array of compo-nents that signing a lease entails, these information sessions will assist students who have concerns about their living situation for the 2011-12 school year.

By Taylor Dolven Senior Staff Writer

The new budget proposal from the Obama administration could cut federal funding for Teach for America (TFA), limiting the pro-gram’s ability recruit from univer-sities including Miami University.

TFA is a program recruiting top college graduates across the coun-try to become teachers in public schools. In previous years, TFA has received $21 million in fed-eral funding, according to spokes-woman Katilin Gastrock.

The proposed budget includes a new competitive grants pro-gram called Teacher and Leader Pathways that would force or-ganizations from all over the country to compete for funding. Because programs like TFA would

have to wait through this com-petitive process to find out how much funding they would receive, Teacher and Leader Pathways would impair the ability for schools to plan ahead.

Gastrock esti-mates TFA would lose the ability to reach an esti-mated 86,000 ad-ditional students in the 2011-12 school year.

“Witout the fed-eral contribution communities, chil-dren all across the country would lose out on this leadership pipeline and will feel the consequences for years to come,” Gastrock said. The cut in federal funding

does not allow TFA to affect as many children as they would like, according to Courter Shime-all, TFA recruitment director for

Ohio universities. “We want to positively affect as many kids as we can,” Shime-all said. “Any-thing that hin-ders that is not a good thing.”

Miami gradu-ate LaToya Irvine works in Dallas, Texas teach-ing third grade

reading through TFA. She met Shimeall at the career fair.

“I couldn’t imagine doing anything else right now,” Irvine said. “It has been very positive

for me.”She worries the cut in funding

could hurt the program’s ability to recruit and train volunteers.

“It is vital that organizations such as Teach for America get the funding they need to support these very dedicated teachers,” she said.

Although the program only has a two-year commitment, Ir-vine is planning to take on at least two more years after she has completed her time.

While applications from volun-teers are on the rise, so is the de-mand for TFA volunteers in schools across the country, Gastrock said. According to Gastrock, more than 46,000 people applied for teach-ing positions in the 2010 corps, but there is still a large waiting

By Kristen GraceSenior Staff Writer

Student loans and debt after graduation are uncomfortable topics for a many students, both in college and high school, because of the un-certainty and guess work that goes into borrow-ing the right amount.

But Steve Talbott, a professor at Cleveland State University, has recently come out with an e-book aimed directly at answering the ques-tion: “how much money should I borrow?”

In his e-book, “How Much Should I Borrow For College?” Talbott uses government research about the current job market to determine how much a person can make within the first year of a specific job. These jobs are separated by applicable majors available for students to take in college, Talbott said.

By understanding the projected amount of money they can expect to make with a job from their intended major, students can use Tal-bott’s special calculator to estimate how much

money they can afford to borrow for college and pay off in a reasonable amount of time after graduation.

“It’s not to say the government’s projections are just in stone, but they are statistical projec-tions of what’s been happening in recent times,” Talbott said.

Both students entering college who need an idea of how much to borrow as well as students trying to decide on a major might be interested in will find this book helpful, Talbott said.

“You can get an idea of what you want to do and what it can translate into,” Talbott said. “Once you find out what you want to do, what kind of job you’re interested in, you can find out what those jobs pay.”

According to Talbott, this is the only book of its kind out right now. He hopes it will allow students to understand what their options are and be realistic with their money.

“I really hope this helps students get an idea of where they are going and sort of match their

hopes and wishes against the reality — get a reality check,” Talbott said.

Mary Krasner, the mother of two Miami University students, would have liked to have had something like this when her children were starting school.

“I would buy something like that,” Krasner said. “School is just so expensive now. You need to do a risk/reward analysis.”

This book could be especially helpful for stu-dents who fear they will be will be paying off their students loans for years after they gradu-ate. Junior Emily Sullivan, a strategic commu-nications major, would like to know what she can expect to make in the jobs that her majors opens her up to.

“Going in, you don’t really know what differ-ent majors are going to make,” Sullivan said.

Talbott’s book, “How Much Should I Bor-row For College?” is available online at http://www.howmuchshouldiborrow.com and can be purchased either in full or individually by chapter.

E-book teaches how to calculate, manage debt

By Hannah PoturalskiNews Editor

After eight months of discussion, university sen-ate recently endorsed a new system for evaluating associate professors looking to be promoted.

Provost Jeffrey Herbst spoke of the recent approval at the April 7 board of trust-ees’ academic/student affairs committee meeting.

Herbst said associate pro-fessors in their third year of rank, and every three years after, will receive let-ters of evaluation from their department leads, the division dean and the provost’s office.

According to a Feb. 22 university senate agenda item, “these letters should be detailed enough to pro-vide associate professors with valuable guidance for achieving promotion.”

Herbst said in the past he’s met with hundreds of assis-tant and associate professors. While assistant professors cited an understandable sys-tem of mentoring and path to tenure, associate professors had a different story.

“They said it wasn’t clear what had to be done to be full professor,” Herbst said. “There was no mentoring and they were expected to switch from mentee to mentor.”

Eric Bachmann, associate professor of computer sci-ence and systems analysis and a member of univer-sity senate, doesn’t think the extra administrative work will help.

“Most associate profes-sors already know what they need to do (for promo-tion), they just don’t do it,” Bachmann said.

Herbst said associate pro-fessors usually stay in their rank eight years before be-ing promoted. The trien-nial evaluations will begin over the next three years. Bachmann hopes this new procedure will speed up the promotion process.

“People who will be eval-uated next year have already been notified,” Herbst said. “Those people are at nine years or more in rank.”

University senate decided associate professors with 15 years of rank or more can opt out of this evaluation system if they so choose because they likely will be terminal associate professors.

“The prospect of getting endless letters saying ‘there’s no prospect of promotion’ would not be the best thing,” Herbst said.

Herbst said overall it’s very important to focus on the professional develop-ment of faculty that will be here for decades to come.

Associate professors to receive more

precise evaluations

“We want to positively affect as many kids as we

can. Anything that hinders that is not a

good thing.”

COURTER SHIMEALLRECRUITMENT DIRECTOR

TEACH FOR AMERICA

Fierce competition

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Federal financing for Teach for America could decrease

Team Bayside Tigers competed in the Pop Culture Playoffs Monday night in the Shriver Center.


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Office of Admission director resigns to work with new schoolBy Mary Kate LinehanSenior Staff Writer

In the midst of accepted stu-dents visiting campus and con-firming enrollment for fall 2014, Laurie Koehler, director of admission, announced her resignation April 7.

John Skillings, special assistant to the president for enrollment management, said this was the perfect time for Koehler’s exit.

“The time is natural for people to move for admissions jobs, be-cause its near the summer time af-ter their recruitment season is over and they are getting ready for the recruitment season for fall 2011,” Skillings said. “While we are not happy to see Laurie to leave, we wish her the best, we will miss her and if there is a reasonable time to leave I think this is the right kind of

time frame.”Koehler, who was not available

for comment, will not be leaving Miami University until the end of the 2009-2010 academic year in order to conclude the recruitment season for the class of 2014.

She has served as director of ad-mission for Miami since 2007.

“Laurie is going to be here for the entire process and we are very grateful to her for that,” Skillings said. “I want to assure people we are on top of our recruitment sea-son and Laurie will be here for that entire situation.”

Claire Wagner, associate direc-tor of university communications, said Koehler submitted a note concerning her new position at another school.

Koehler will be moving to Byrn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Penn. to become the dean

of admissions.Jenny Rickard, the chief enroll-

ment and commu-nications officer of Bryn Mawr College, said the school had released an advertisement for the position November 2009.

“We had a very large number of resumes submit-ted, there were more than 100,” Rickard said.

Rickard said the national search for a new dean of ad-missions left the search committee with a large number of candidates, and out of the justly certified candi-dates, Koehler stood out.

“We did a national search and

we met with a number of really terrific candidates and when it

came down to it, Laurie’s initia-tive and creativity and her commit-ments to diversity and excellence in all things, re-ally stood out,” Rickard said.

Rickard said Koehler was a perfect match with what Bryn Mawr was look-ing for in the next several years in terms of their

admissions program.“She was just terrific, we just re-

ally enjoyed meeting her and very much wanted her to be apart of our community,” Rickard said.

Koehler’s last day at Miami will be June 4, according to Ann Bader, senior admissions counselor in the Office of Admission.

Bader said the admissions office staff is very surprised at Koehler’s announcement of resignation but are excited at the opportunity she has at Bryn Mawr.

“It is a wonderful opportunity for her to go to another school that will be challenging in many different ways to her skill set,” Bader said. “She is awesome at organizing and developing.”

Skilling said he would be meet-ing with the admissions staff to seek their advice and council in terms of individuals they think will be ap-propriate leaders for their group.

Skillings is looking for someone to serve as an interim director in order to be prepared for the recruit-ment season for fall 2011.

Political analyst to lecture on political climate, experiencesBy Hope Holmberg Campus Editor

Outspoken political strategist Paul Begala

will speak at Miami University in an effort to raise awareness during the Miami University College Democrats’ Progressive Week, which began Mon-day, April 12.

“We are trying to make our position known about important issues of our day,” said Ben Lockshin, vice president of the Miami College Democrats, in regard to

Progressive Week. Begala will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, April

15 in 115 Shidler Hall. Aaron Bly, president of the Miami Col-

lege Democrats, said Begala was on the top of their list when it came to choos-ing a Washington speaker to come talk for Progressive Week.

Begala is currently a political analyst for CNN.

“He’s really just mostly looking at the mid-term elections in this upcoming year as well as the current political climate,” Bly said.

Bly is excited about the question and answer session Begala will hold after his lecture.

“I really hope they (the students) can see an insider’s perspective and come with some good questions,” Bly said.

Lockshin thinks Begala will address current issues about both the health care reform and Iran.

“I think students are well-prepared for this and will bring some great questions,” Lockshin said.

Since Begala has a great deal of experience, including being instrumental in getting Bill Clinton elected in 1992, Lockshin is enthusias-tic about hearing what he has to share.

Paul Struebing, an at-large member of the executive board for the Miami College Demo-crats, said it is important for as many people to come as possible. He believes it is important for students to know what is going on if they are going to vote.

“He has a wealth of knowledge,” Strue-bing said. “He’s a really powerful political consultant. I think the whole thing will be pretty interesting.”

Struebing thinks the vast majority of Begala’s lecture will be about the political en-vironment going into the campaign. However, he feels confident one topic in particular will

be addressed. “I can guarantee he will get asked about

getting yelled at by John Stuart on Crossfire,” Struebing said.

Since elections are approaching, Bly thinks the lecture will be an informative resource for students.

In addition to Begala’s lecture, John Kiria-kou, the author of “The Reluctant Spy,” will speak at 7 p.m. in the Psychology Build-ing 125 about his experience working as a CIA officer.

“I hope students can take advantage of this opportunity,” Lockshin said. “They (the

speakers) can provide perspective you don’t usually see in the media.”

During progressive week, health care was the focus Monday and the education system will be the focus Wednesday.

“We are trying to let people know what is being done and what needs to be done,” Struebing said.

Free food will provided at a cook-out from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the Phi Delt Gates.

“We are renting out a video camera and we want to ask people why they are the political affiliation that they are,” Bly said.

MU replaces water pipes to improve steam distribution systemBy Lee JonesFor The Miami Student

In these early spring days, the newly green grass and budding flowers on Western campus have to compete with plastic, orange construction barricades for the average passerby’s attention.

Since March 1, construction crews have been working on a ma-jor overhaul of Miami University’s steam distribution system, powered by a plant behind Peabody Hall. All hot water, humidification and

winter heating come from the steam power produced by this plant.

“This project is a replacement of the water supply means, as well as steam distribution means,” said Doug Hammerle, senior project manager for Miami’s Physical Facilities Department.

Hammerle said 95 percent of campus is heated by steam. He said if the waterline or steam line would spring a leak, nearly all on-campus heating would disappear. The plan for this project is both to enlarge the pipes to bring in water and

ensure that the steam distribution system will always be functional.

The current water supply line is a six-inch pipe, but when the project is finished a 12-inch pipe will replace it. This will allow for a lot more water to come into the plant and more potential steam output as well.

Hammerle said the new pipe will “improve hydraulics for fire protection.”

Construction workers Jason Wullenwebber and Dalton Fol-som have been on the project for

a month. They were fixing a leaky pipe in front of McKee Hall Fri-day, April 9. Folsom was work-ing in a nearly six-and-a-half foot hole to loosen a segment of bro-ken pipe, which Wullenwebber was going to pull out with the use of a backhoe.

When asked what they were working on at the moment, Fol-som grinned and said, “Well, I’m the only one working here,” and looked up from the deep hole at Wullenwebber, who was chuckling as well.

According to Hammerle, the above ground work will be fin-ished by August, just in time to welcome students back to campus, but the updated heat distribution system will not be fully functional until winter, when buildings will need to be heated.

First-year Angela Brito-Silva, a Spanish education major, said making the heating process more efficient is a good idea.

“If it will help the students, let’s make it happen as soon as possible,” Brito-Silva said.

College Democrats’ Progressive Week

What: Political strategist Paul Begala, guest speaker during College Democrats’ Progressive Week.Hosted By: Miami University College Democrats When: Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 7 PMWhere: 115 Shidler Hall

For more information about Begalas’ lecture of Progressive week, contact Aaron Bly at [email protected] or (440) 935-1024.

BEGALA

Construction crews work to replace water pipes on western campus near Peabody Hall. Construction began March 1 to increase water capacity.

“It is a wonderful opportunity for her

to go to another school that will be

challenging in many different ways to her

skill set.”ANN BADER

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TuesdayApril 13, 2010 Community

State road construction season surpasses record

Health center chooses new name, constructs building

Senior cleans gun, shoots himself in leg

At 9 p.m. Sunday, officers re-sponded to the emergency room at McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hos-pital regarding a Miami University senior who had a gunshot wound to the leg.

Police reportedly met with the male student, who had a hole in his upper, inner calf and another in his right shin. The student reportedly said he had been cleaning his revolv-er in his residence around 11:30 a.m. when the gun suddenly went off.

The shot reportedly entered through his calf and exited through his shin before going into a wall of the house. The student reportedly told police he waited to come to the hospital because he was embarrassed.

Officers are continuing to investi-gate the case.

Males attempt to rob ambulance

At 1:10 a.m. Sunday, officers re-sponded to a call from life squad emergency medical technicians (EMT) regarding two males at-tempting to steal from the back of the ambulance.

When police arrived, they report-edly found the EMTs holding two males on the ground. The squad members reportedly told police they had parked the vehicle for a call and as they got out they noticed a male standing near the rear passenger side that used profane language to address one of the EMTs.

Once the squad members went to the emergency, they reportedly came back to the ambulance to get more equipment and heard yelling from the back of the vehicle. Then, two males reportedly came out of the back of the ambulance and ran north on Main Street toward West Park Place. The squad members reportedly chased the suspects and caught up to them when one stopped to help the other who had fallen on the ground.

The squad members reportedly told police they were not sure if any-thing had been taken, but items in the vehicle had been tampered with.

The males reportedly told police they had been drinking earlier in the night and made stupid decisions as a result. One of the males report-edly said the pair had gotten in a fight earlier in the night and had a bad night since. Both reportedly had an odor of an alcoholic beverage on their breath.

The males were identified as Collin McCanna, 21, and Nathen Kontny, 21, from Wisconsin.

McCanna and Kontny were both charged with breaking and entering and criminal mischief and taken to Butler County Jail.

First-year assaults student, runs awayAt 2 a.m. Saturday, officers met

with a Miami University sophomore in front of Ogden Hall regarding a possible assault.

The student reportedly told police he was walking back to North quad with his girlfriend and her mom when another student, later identified as first-year Conner Earley, approached him. Earley reportedly asked the stu-dent and the group he was with if he was fat and then tried to start a fight with the student. Earley punched the student in the face and then tried to shake his hand when a friend pulled him back. When the student told him to go home, Earley reportedly tried to punch him again each time it was suggested. When the student told Earley he had called the police, Ear-ley punched him in the eye and ran down Bishop Street. Police report-edly found an Ohio driver’s license in Earley’s pocket that he admitted he had stolen from his brother.

Earley was charged with assault, underage intoxication and certain acts prohibited.

By Melissa TacchiFor The Miami Student

The Butler County Community Health Consortium (BCCHC) has constructed a new building with a more self-explanatory name, Primary Health Solutions.

“We wanted to erase the picture of being a county organization,” Dena Sherron, admin-istrative assistant for BCCHC, said. “The name change was to give people a better un-derstanding of what the true function is.”

The Hamilton West Office, 903 NW Wash-ington Blvd., opened April 8 and will con-tinue to serve Butler County’s uninsured or underinsured patients in need of medical or dental care.

The new office, federally funded with a grant of $560,000, is equipped with 15 exam rooms and labs, making it the largest of the Primary Health Solution branches.

The recent expansion in Hamilton was in response to an increased need for pediatric care. In early March 2009, Drs. Scott and Mark Blankenburg, brothers and pediatri-

cians, were forced to close their practices and were sentenced to 13 years in prison because of child molestation charges, Sher-

ron said. As a result, the need for pediatric care intensified, as Butler County Medicaid patients, primarily in Hamilton, lost their family pediatricians.

The BCCHC acknowledged that “no one wanted Medicaid patients and there was a need to provide them service,” according to Sherron.

“Since the close, we saw an increase in calls from patients looking for a place for their children to be cared for that accepted Medicaid,” said Marc Bellisario, chief ex-ecutive officer of Primary Health Solutions. “We currently have one pediatrician work-ing in the new West office, but we are hop-ing to add a second by the fall depending on patient demand.”

In addition to previously available medical and dental care, the West Office

By Vanessa FeigenFor The Miami Student

The state of Ohio will be entering its biggest season of road construction to date starting this month.

The Ohio Department of Trans-portation (ODOT) will begin proj-ects enhancing Ohio roads. Ap-proximately 1,600 projects will be taken on throughout the state. Some of these assignments in-clude 130 interstate projects, 300 resurfacing or upgrading projects, 290 bridge repairs, 30 pedestrian bikeway improvements and seven projects along the state’s ports.

Sharon Smigielski, ODOT pub-lic information officer, said all of the construction is necessary for Ohio.

“It will help make the roads safer and enhance the quality of life for Ohio residents,” Smigielski said.

ODOT’s ultimate goal for the road improvements is to make all of the roadways safer to the traveling public.

Smigielski said ODOT adopted a Target Zero Initiative, which is a plan to assure there will be zero tolerance for any safety hazards on the roads.

“Most of the projects are brought about to tackle some of the safety issues that exist,” Smigielski said. “If there is a bad curve on the road, we design a project to straighten it out and modify it. We also reposi-tion traffic signals enhancing the driver’s ability to see it.”

Butler County is one of the seven

counties in District 8 that will be presented with 135 new improve-ment projects to its roads. The other counties include Clermont, Clinton, Greene, Hamilton, Preble and Warren.

Ohio will be adopting their very first “Super Street Intersection,” which is a project included in one of the four phases that will refine the Ohio 4 Bypass.

Gregory Wilkens, a Butler Coun-ty engineer, said enhancements to the Ohio 4 Bypass are necessary to help move traffic on the roadway more efficiently.

“The Super Street will ben-efit Butler County by expanding the capacity of the road, allowing traffic to move more safely and smoothly,” Wilkens said.

By adding more lanes to the in-tersection, the gridlock and the bumper-to-bumper chaos seen around rush hour will hopefully be eliminated.

Wilkens also said the expansion will improve road safety because it will relieve the common conges-tion on the roads. The widening of the lanes will allow drivers to travel with a safe distance between other vehicles on the road.

“It will make traveling a lot less stressful than it already is,” said Miami University junior Emily Jeffers.

All of the state’s projects are funded by state and federal dol-lars. Road enhancements in Butler County alone will cost approximately $62,993,000.

By Erin FischesserCommunity Editor

Voters in Ohio will have many decisions to make on the May 4 ballot, but the first they will encounter deals specifically with the fu-ture of Ohio’s economy and its presence in a new technological era.

Issue 1 deals with the renewal of Ohio’s Third Frontier economic development and jobs program. The ballot issue will add $700 million to the program.

The program is scheduled to expire in 2012, but legislators have placed it on the ballot early in order to avoid fears of falling funds.

Ohio Department of Development Di-rector Lisa Pat-McDaniel said any lax in funding may send a message that Ohio is not as serious as the state had ini-tially appeared in attracting businesses and investors.

In particular, Pat-McDaniel said there is concern about losing private invest-ments that create venture capital, some-thing Third Frontier has stimulated in Ohio.

“(The program has) attracted a lot more venture capital into the state,” Pat-McDaniel said.

Typically, this type of capital is concen-trated on the coasts and without programs like the Third Frontier investors require

businesses to move closer to them in order to receive funds.

“We want all the innovation here in Ohio to grow here in Ohio,” Pat-McDaniel said. “It’s using a small amount of public dol-lars to invest and leverage much more in private dollars.”

In addition to attracting new businesses to the state and encouraging further growth in Ohio’s fastest growing economic sec-tors, Third Frontier also helps combat “brain drain,” the phenomenon of Ohio graduates leaving the state after completing their education.

Gov. Ted Strickland said internships created and partially funded by the Third Frontier are important in keeping students in Ohio because of the direct involvement in the economy.

“It’s one of the things that can help set Ohio apart,” Strickland said. “One of the ways I

believe we can best capture students and have them remain here once they have completed their economic training is to involve them with Ohio’s economy while they are students through cooperative education programs or internship programs.”

So far, around 3,000 students have had in-ternships funded by Third Frontier with more than 700 Ohio companies.

Pat-McDaniel said the salaries for these students are paid half by the employer and half by the state, up to $3,000.

Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Finger-hut said Third Frontier also helps attract top faculty to the state.

“It’s a very significant part of gaining talent and raising the quality of our universities,” Fingerhut said.

While the plan has received some criticism about the number of minorities who receive funding and the regions that have received the largest chunk of the money, Fingerhut said the competitive nature of the program has contributed to discrepancies. In the fu-ture, Fingerhut said efforts will be made to increase the number applications from under-represented groups and representatives will work with them to improve their applications to the committee.

“The goal of this program is to create busi-nesses,” Fingerhut said. “It is our goal to have these businesses and these grants made in every part of the state.”

Ohio construction workers will be busy this summer renovating a number of roads in various areas.

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“The name change was to give people a better understanding of what

the function is.”DENA SHERRON

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTBUTLER COUNTY COMMUNITY

HEALTH CONSORTIUM

SCOTT ALLISON The Miami Student

“The goal of the program is to create businesses. It is our goal to have these businesses and these

grants made in every part of the state.”

ERIC FINGERHUTOHIO BOARD OF REGENTS CHANCELLOR

THE MIAMI STUDENT TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2010 ♦ 5

Bald eagles repopulate Ohio region, overcome endangered statusBy Jenna YatesFor The Miami Student

As our national emblem, their majestic presence symbolizes unlimited freedom as they sweep through valleys and soar up into boundless heights.

Not only are they prevalent on American coins and seals, but they are increasingly growing rampant in American skies. Bald ea-gles are making a comeback, especially in the Ohio region.

About three years ago, Bill Hoggard, a stu-dent birdwatcher, spotted some bald eagles at a state forest located in central Ohio.

“About three years ago, I was going down Brush Creek and saw six bald eagles along with three nests,” Hoggard said.

According to Erin Gray, a zookeeper at the Cincinnati Zoo, bald eagle sightings have been increasingly more common over the past few years. She has been working at the Cincinnati Zoo since 2008 and throughout the time she has been working there at least 30 more eagles have been banded.

According to David Russell, a Miami Uni-versity lecturer and bird bander, bird banding is a way of keeping track of birds.

“Banding is when you basically assign a so-cial security number to birds,” Russell said.

The eagles have a lightweight band with a nine-digit code. Every individual eagle is assigned a specific number so the band-ers can take data associated with them. Because of bird banding, bird experts can take measures to help the birds prevail.

“They are off the endangered list,” Gray said.

According to Gray, bald eagles have been off this list for quite some time.

Eagles can be found in small concentrations through-out the United States, particu-larly near bodies of water. In Ohio, the bald eagle is most widespread in the marsh region of western Lake Erie.

“Ohio is the perfect area because there are a lot of valleys and a lot of water,” Gray said.

According to Gray, marsh bodies of water are perfect for eagles to care for their young.

In fact, there is a bald eagle that can be spotted within close proximity to Oxford.

According to Russell, bald eagles nest at Brookville Lake, located about 30 miles northwest of Cincinnati.

“There is at least one nest at Brookville,” Russell said.

This nest in-cludes a female that banders track.

In 2006, her nest col-lapsed during a storm. With the help of Russell and other bird experts, an artificial nest was built so the eagle could survive.

“Right now, she’s sitting on eggs,” Russell said.

Russell said in the 1970s, this might not have been so common.

“(Around) 30 years ago, we had a lot of DDT, organic chlorines and insec-ticides,” Russell said.

According to Russell, these chemicals have long residual effects and the chemicals began to accumulate in the environment, affecting wildlife.

As a result of their accumulation, small insects would begin to consume these

chemicals and would be passed up the food chain. Ultimately, the chemicals in the environ-ment affected the organisms at the top of the food chain, such as bald eagles.

In essence, when smaller organisms get eaten by something else, the predator acquires all the pray had acquired. Because bald eagles were consuming hazardous chemicals, it sig-nificantly affected their breeding.

“One of the first symptoms was that it would affect the pathway that would allow calcium to be put on the eggs,” Russell said.

When a female would go to lay an egg, it would crush. Therefore, when the adults died out, there were no more youngsters coming through and, as a result, bald eagles were sud-denly becoming extinct.

“When you reached the maximum life expectancy, suddenly they were gone,” Rusell said.

This is no longer the case. Bald eagle popu-lations are significantly increasing.

According to Gray, people should keep their eye out for bald eagles because they are more common than one may think.

“A lot of people might see immature bald eagles and not even realize it because they look so similar to golden eagles,” Gray said.

After many delays, construction recently began for SunCoke Energy in Middletown to produce 550,000 tons of blast furnace coke, according to the company’s profile.

SunCoke was scheduled to start construction nearly 18 months ago, but complaints about the permit process caused a major setback, said Gary Corbin, executive secretary and treasurer for the Butler County Building and Construction Trades Council.

“Complaints about the EPA project permit caused the delay,” Corbin said. “A little has been done so far. It has been a long time coming.”

Corbin said April 12 is the official start date.Employment at the plant will be high to complete the project within the expected time frame. “We are looking at about 500 workers and somewhere between 15 to 18 months to complete the

plant,” Corbin said. “Finding workers should not be difficult.”Suncoke has signed a contract with AK Steel to purchase coke. According to the company’s

Web site, http://www.aksteel.com, AK Steel is “a full-line domestic producer of energy efficient electrical steels for power generation.”

“The contract is set for 20 years,” Corbin said. “This will be very beneficial.”

Reporting by Jillian Dickman

SunCoke Energy breaks groundShooting at sundown

First-year Brett Freiberg and senior James Gabbard work on their COM 211 project Monday evening in Uptown Park.


“Ohio is the perfect area

because there are a lot of valleys and a

lot of water.”ERIN GRAYZOOKEEPER

THE CINCINNATI ZOO

boredom,bathrooms,bereavement,& lissnow,B the musical journey

of the Lamb siblings

TuesdayApril 13, 20106 EditorFeatures Amelia Carpenter [email protected]

HANNAH MILLER The Miami StudentCONTRIBUTED PHOTO

A 6-year-old girl reluctantly sits through a piano lesson in Southwest Ohio, dirty blonde hair pulled back out of her face so she can see the keys, despite her green eyes roaming the room for more interesting things than the music book in front of her. Jessica Lamb is not amused.

A metronome mockingly keeps time to Jess’ torturous hour-long lesson. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock …

Fast-forward 18 years and Jess is still sitting on a piano bench, but now by choice, not because her mother is forcing her.

No longer is Jess accompanied by a derisive metronome, or overbearing piano instructor, but instead by her band mates — bassist Kasey Williams, drummer Corey Carter and guitarist/younger brother Kenny Lamb — the three musicians that, along with Jessica, form Ohio’s next greatest gift to music, Jess Lamb.

From the piano lesson to the bathroom

Though Jess never took to the rigid piano lessons, she did take to the pi-ano. Her innate talent was evident every time her fingertips took to the keys, accompanied by her soulful vocals.

Like his sister, Kenny had a natural knack for music, his instrument of choice being the guitar.

Kathy and Gene, the Lamb siblings’ parents, recognized their children’s in-clination at a young age, recalling that it all started with their participation in worship music services.

“They would watch and listen to music in church, and then gradually began participating as they picked things up on their own,” Gene Lamb said. “I taught Kenny the basic guitar chords when he was about seven. After that, he taught himself everything.”

Hearing them play today, lack of professional training is not evident. Jess’ hyp-notic vocals are similar to Mahalia Jackson (considered by some the first Queen of Gospel and one of Jess’ greatest inspirations) and her fingers flying seamlessly across the keys of her piano. Kenny’s guitar playing has been likened to Stevie Ray Vaughan (an American guitar legend whose riffs have influenced Kenny since his first chord).

“Some kids play soccer or baseball or what not,” Kathy Lamb said. “My kids just always sat around playing music. It was also something they were made to do, and we really en-couraged them to do that. Music is just a natural part of their life — it’s a huge part of who they are and their identity.”

Wanting to further his son’s said musical iden-tity, Gene bought Kenny an 8-track recorder when he was 13 (Jess was 15). Kenny and Jess recorded their first song on that little 8-track, locked in the bathroom and sur-rounded by half-empty shampoo bottles and dirty towels.

Jess and Kenny en-countered their share of struggles growing up, though. It was their mu-sic, and each other, that got them through.

“The heartbeat of our work is that we originally started doing our own music to get through what we were going through, what was going on in our home life and in relationships,” Jess said. “We were so close to each other and we had the music, and that really pulled us through.”

The strong tie between Kenny and Jess formed a solid foundation for their blossoming music career, which soon outgrew the 8-track recorder.

Their first band, Elijah’s fountain, won a talent contest at 93.7 WFCJ, a Chris-tian radio station in Dayton. They completed a full-length, original album and had it mastered and reproduced at Queen City Albums, which was then sold at church shows they did in the area. These instances and others opened their eyes to what they could do with their music.

“The realization that we could actually become something and that others thought we could become something, too, was when music went from being something we enjoyed to something we enjoyed and could make a career out of,” Kenny said. “When we were given the chance to expand ourselves, we did. It’s what we’ve been aiming for and working toward.”

One such chance was a showcase put on by INO Records, a Christian music label based out of Nashville, Tenn. Elijah’s fountain had disbanded, leaving Jess and Kenny a two-man sibling act ready to wow audiences around the world. But instead of wowing the INO crowd, the young musicians learned a tough lesson about the music industry — namely that sometimes the industry part comes before the music.

“It exposed us to the business,” Jess said. “By the time the showcase was over, we realized we wanted to own our music, that we could be powerful enough to make decisions about whether we should de-velop this way or that way and that we knew best. Ever since then, we’ve been developing in a different direction.”

From the bathroom to the studioBefore starting to record, the Lambs needed a full band. Kenny and Jess found

bassist Trenton Manning, who introduced them to drummer Corey Carter and the quartet reported to Rick Brantley Studios in Forest Park, Ohio, to record a five-track EP (extended play — not enough tracks to be an album, but more than enough tracks to be considered a demo). That was January 2009.

“We’ve really been waiting for this end product to be what we studied and cried about and what we wanted it to be,” Jess said of their stint in the studio.

A primary reason for their extended stay in a soundproof room was the un-expected passing of Trenton not a month into the recording process. The tragic car accident that took Trenton struck the band hard, especially Corey, who de-scribed Trenton as his musical soul mate.

“I didn’t think I was ever going to play with them again,” Corey said. “But Jess and Kenny told me we were going to continue working together, that that’s what Trenton would have wanted.”

Persevering in the face of adversity, the Lambs began “writing like crazy,” as Jess puts it, inspired by Trenton’s talent and love of music, and it wasn’t long before that five-track EP became a 12-track album. The influx of new material brought about an influx in hours, days, weeks spent recording, not to mention they still didn’t have a bass player.

“We tried to find a new bassist to replace Trenton for pretty much the whole process of recording the album,” Kenny said. “Until then, we were just finding whoever we could. It was a different person every gig, it felt like.”

It was while playing bassist roulette that Kenny took a job traveling across the United States and Canada, reducing his time in Ohio from 30 days a month to none.

Jess, already frustrated with making a permanent address of the studio, felt the band sink even lower.

“When Kenny took that job, I felt like things weren’t going to be held together, like maybe he didn’t want to do it anymore,” Jess said. “We’ve always had this connection since we were little; we’ve always said we wouldn’t do this without the other. I thought his taking the job changed that.”

But quitting was the last thing on Kenny’s mind.“To me, it wasn’t like I was choosing the job over the

music,” Kenny said. “I was making good money so we could have some capital to do what we re-

ally love, which is music.” After what seemed like decades to Jess (it was 10 months), Kenny re-

turned to Ohio for good, and the recording process was priority

on his agenda — after finding a new bassist, that is.

And it didn’t take long.

In January, the band was introduced to Kasey Williams, a co-worker of Corey’s at Moeller Music. Kenny, Jess and Corey finally found what had been lacking in the other bassists they had

worked with, and Kasey, too, found what he had

been looking for.“I’ve been in a few bands,

but this one is so unique in that the people actually like each oth-

er,” Kasey said. “They’re all there for the music and because they care

about each other.”Jess said Kasey has been a perfect fit for

the band. Kenny agrees, and said Kasey com-pletes their sound.

“I don’t know if we’ve ever done better as a band — we do better every day,” Kenny said. “The crappy things that happen,

like things that made the recording process so long, those are just stepping stones to where we are now.”

From the Studio to … ?

Currently the band is in post-production of recording, spending most of their time polishing and mastering their tracks to be featured on their album (full-length album release date TBA). The band is anxious to get their music out to a wider audience.

“I’m looking forward to having the album done, but I’m more looking for-ward to getting on the road and playing for people,” Corey said. “There’s noth-ing like a live show to get your music out there.”

Jess is also adamant in getting their music out to as many people as possible.“I want to reach people,” Jess said. “I want my music to touch someone, some-

where, who has gone through the same things we’ve gone through and can relate to our music. I love that our music can be a voice for people at a low point.”

The band’s genre is a combination of everything from classic rock to bluegrass, and can’t easily be defined. Lawton Lovely, a Miami University sophomore the-atre major, was just recently exposed to Jess Lamb’s ambiguous genre.

“I’d say blues-rock is the best way to define it, but there’s definitely some soul in there,” Lovely said.

Kenny also includes jazz, pop and coun-try in their unique sound. The hybridism of multiple genres results in something that is strictly Jess Lamb — something that started with a boring piano lesson and grew into a musical sensation.

Catch Jess Lamb at 8:45 a.m. Friday, April 16 on Cin-cinnati’s FOX 19 morning news show, or check out their songs on iTunes. To learn more about upcom-ing shows or sample Jess Lamb’s music, visit http://www.myspace.com/jesslambband or http://www.facebook.com/jesslambband.

By Anna TurnerAmusement Editor

for various groups of faculty that are currently unknown, according the Frymier. These could include what is the average teaching effectiveness for women, African Americans, full pro-fessors, etc. The responses from each set of questions will be averaged to create a score for each category. The passage came to a very close vote. It passed with 24 yes votes and 22 no votes; 23 members were absent.

First-year Kelsey Browne, a Span-ish education major, said she could see how the idea for six common questions would be a good idea.

“As with everything standard-ized it never usually fulfills what it’s supposed to,” Browne said. “So I could see this not working or backfiring especially when it categorizes teachers.”

Herbst also discussed April 7 the possibility of evaluations being online.

“We’re currently investigating whether this should be partially or fully online,” Herbst said. “Every-one recognizes that it will eventually be online.”

Herbst said recent surveys show online evaluations drove down the participation rate. Browne said online evaluations would make it easier for students not to complete them, but it would also allow more anonymity and students might feel more comfortable.

“Recently there has been some evidence that there are ways of do-ing online work while preserving or increasing participation rate,” Herbst said.

One possibility is not allowing students to log on to the univer-sity system for next semester until completing the teacher evaluations.

“That tends to produce junk evalu-ations,” Herbst said. “Students get annoyed and check off two all the way down. We can’t go there, that’s a pretty strong warning, but we want to figure out a way to do it online.”

Browne agreed adding, “That would be a bad idea.”


said. “I’m excited to get the chance to lead CAC and to get more involved with ASG and the executive cabinet.”

Emling’s future plans include cre-ating a master calendar for all student organizations, working with different departments to streamline the event planning process, encouraging more collaboration between different or-ganizations and continuing to bring fresh ideas to CAC.

Tom Foster, vice president-elect of student organizations reflected on his 62 percent victory margin.

“It’s a great honor,” Foster said.

“It’s exciting because student or-ganizations bring a lot to campus, and I’m going to be the person representing them within student government, representing them to the administration and work-ing on the issues they face in their day-to-day activities.”

Foster’s goals include working with administrators to help make the university system more con-ducive to student organizations, making sure the funding process is simple and easy to understand for student organizations, work-ing with student organizations on debt relief and being a resource for student organizations in terms of helping them.

“We had a good race,” Ingram said. “It was one of the cleanest I’ve ever seen.”

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from traditional detectors and may alert residents up to 30 minutes sooner.

Stephen’s mother, Edye Smith, has also joined ef-forts to encourage Congress to pass stricter campus fire safety requirements. She has accompanied cam-pus fire safety representatives to the nation’s capitol three times.

“They have made great strides in getting more money for campus fire safety,” Smith said, but hopes more legislation will be set in motion to protect college students and their families from similar tragedies.

In addition to fire safety efforts, families of the victims have coped with their losses with other initia-tives based upon the passions of their children.

In honor of Kate, the Welling family established a disability lecture series that reflects the love she developed for the disabled after taking a disabilities class at Miami. The lecture is held at Mi-ami every year as close to April 10 as possible.

“She had an incredible com-passion for those with disabilities, that they should always be treated equally,” said Helen Welling, Kate’s mother.

The Welling family also established scholarships and fellowships at the schools Kate attended from nursery school until college, as well as an internship program for students at her brother’s law school who work in fields related to disabilities.

Kate’s friends in Bronxville, N.Y. also started an annual Thanksgiving run that benefits her school’s foundation because of her involvement in the track team.

Welling said the efforts stemming from Kate’s death are a testament to who Kate was.

“It’s all bittersweet, but she did have an ef-fect on everybody who met her,” Welling said. “We’re very comforted by all of the things done in her memory.”

Kate’s friend Katy Southard believes Kate would be happy about the efforts that have stemmed from the tragedy.

“I know she would want people to learn from this,” Southard said.

The Smith family also took up causes they knew

would be close to Stephen, including the Stephen Smith Spirit Award, which is given to a senior at his high school who reflects his effort to be inclusive of everyone around him.

In the same spirit, the Stephen Smith Senior Lounge was established to provide an area for students to bond and spend time together at his former school.

“Stephen was passionate about his friends,” Smith said.

The Turnbull family returns to Oxford often, and works closely with Julie’s sorority, Pi Beta Phi, to raise awareness about the fire. The sorority hosts Ju-lie’s Weekend each year on the anniversary of the fire and raises money for scholarships.

A memorial in front of King Library and benches on campus placed in memory of Kate and Julie are constant reminders of the tragic event.

All of the friends and families of the victims have led the call to require more stringent fire safety requirements, particularly in off-campus student housing.

“The houses up there to be used by the students should be scruti-nized by somebody,” Welling said.

Turnbull and Southard both be-lieve students and parents should be more involved in the process of renting homes and ensuring safety.

“Students and parents need to do their part,” Southard said. “They

should be taking a closer look.”Coordinator of Off-Campus Affairs Bobbe Burke

said students need to remember the fire safety tips they’ve been taught throughout their lives and be sure poor judgment caused by outside factors, such as alcohol, does not hinder safe choices.

“In many cases students are their own worst en-emies because they dismantle the smoke detectors,” Burke said.

According to Burke, no direct efforts have been made to change approaches about fire safety aware-ness or fire code in Oxford of which she is aware since the fire, but informational materials are avail-able for students upon request.

Burke believes the tragedy of the fire made a lasting impression on Oxford and Miami’s campus.

“This town really cried, they cried as a community,” Burke said.

Families and friends of the victims can only hope their loved ones will not be forgotten and the pain the campus and community felt that day will be a reminder of the importance of fire safety.

“I just hope they remember her,” Turnbull said.

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“They have made great strides in getting more

money for campus fire

safety.”EDYE SMITH

MOTHER OF STEPHEN SMITH

By Jessica DownFor The Miami Student

You may have seen a group of students sporting black walking silently around campus Monday afternoon.

In honor of Yom Ha’Shoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, Alpha Epsilon Pi frater-nity’s Alpha Tau chapter hosted “We Walk to Remember” to raise awareness about the Holocaust.

Participants started their walk at Benton Hall and made a loop around the campus.

The event started six years ago at New York University, and over the past years it has spread to other universities across the nation. This is the first time Miami Uni-versity took part in the event, and more than 80 chapters internationally held the events.

During the walk, the participants wore

signs that read “Never Forget” and passed out pamphlets with basic information ex-plaining the significance of Yom Ha’Shoah.

“We’re not trying to push information on anyone,” Eric Gerson, the Alpha Epsilon Pi philanthropy chair, said. “We’re just trying to remind them. It’s something that peo-ple should never forget. It’s an atrocity.”

Around 25 people were ex-pected to partake in the event, but it was meant to affect many more.

“The impact we hope this has is just exactly what we’re doing,” Ger-son said. “We hope people never will forget. There are only a few survivors left (from the Holocaust). We just want people to know

that the ramifications are still being felt.” First-year Charlie Carson said this is a

great way to get their point across.

“The Holocaust was such a hor-rific event, and you don’t want to forget that history can repeat itself,” Carson said.

Other participants of the walk include Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority, members of the community and Hillel, a nation-

al organization that promotes Jewish life on campus.

“It’s a professional organization that as-sists students in however they want to live

out their religion,” senior Diogo Metz, president of the Association of Jewish Students, said.

Members of the Association of Jew-ish Students participated in the walk as well, but it is not an official event on their calendar.

The association traditionally does par-ticipate, but its major focus is what more they can do in the future. They hope to do more events like this one and want to see what they can do to enhance the programs that exist on campus.

As for this event, Metz had high aspirations.

“I hope (students) feel inspired after they see the strength that people can have to bring on results and change,” Metz said. “I hope they’ll be inspired to do something themselves and bring on change of their own.”

THE MIAMI STUDENT8 ♦ TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2010

Alpha Epsilon Pi remembers the Holocaust with walk

list for school districts that are ea-ger to bring TFA volunteers to their schools.The final decision on the bud-

get is up to congress, so TFA has launched a campaign directed at rallying support from senators. The program is asking for $50 million in federal funding.

“That would allow us to grow to a scale where we would be affecting one million children growing up in poverty each school year by 2016,” Gastrock said.

Miami graduates have been involved in TFA since it was es-tablished in 1990. This year, 3.6 percent of Miami’s senior class applied to join the 2010 corps. “We are really excited about that,” Gastrock said. “We have a lot of excellent candidates.”

Gastrock, Shimeall and Irvine are hopeful about TFA’s future.

“I am positive it will pass because Teach for America has shown a lot of success,” Irvine said.

Shimeall said even if the pro-gram does not receive the requested funding, it will still be able to have a positive effect.

“No matter what, we are going to be able to affect a lot of kids, but federal funding determines to what degree,” Shimeall said.

The response from congress so far has been positive, Schimeall said. Supporting the TFA cause has been made easy, through a simple box on the Web site supporters can click on to e-mail or call their senator asking them to join the campaign.

“Even if people aren’t interested themselves in being teachers, a lot of people can agree with the fact that everyone deserves a fair shot at an education regardless of where they are from,” Shimeall said.

A full list of supporting con-gress members can be seen on the TFA Web site (http://www.teachfo-ramerica.org) as well as informa-tion about contacting your local congress member.

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“We hope people will never forget. There are only a few survivors

left. We just want people to know that the ramifications are still

being felt.”

ERIC GERSON PHILANTHROPY CHAIR

ALPHA EPSILON PI

First-year Meredith Melvin browses the jewelry selection at the Hippie Hut Monday afternoon outside of the Shriver Center.

Peaces of jewelry



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will provide women, infant and child (WIC) services.

WIC services allow pregnant women to meet with a dietician before delivery for nutritional needs including groceries provided by funding.

According to Bellisario, after an infant is born, the funds may con-tinue to serve the newborn’s nutri-tional needs as well as provide a lactrician specialist to encourage and assist breast-feeding mothers.

“Ultimately, we would like to have an obstetrician program,” Bellisario said.

Last year approximately 10,800 patients registered for BCCHC care, but with the opening of the new office, Bellisario is predict-ing a few thousand more. In hopes of assisting many people in need, Primary Health Solutions may

implement an additional family practice in a previously existing Hamilton office.

“I am concerned as a potential future doctor that Primary Health Solutions may have difficulty find-ing doctors that would be willing to work for a federally funded or-ganization,” said Miami University sophomore Thiennga Pham. “I feel that the pay may not be as sufficient as if someone were to open their own private practice.”

Bellisario said Primary Health Solutions tries to stay as competitive as possible.

“Everybody is struggling be-cause most doctors out of school go toward specialty,” Bellisario said. “There aren’t enough family practitioners to go around.”

Administrators emphasized that Primary Health Solutions is not a free or walk-in clinic. Patients will only be seen after making an ap-pointment, and if a patient is not in need of immediate medical care it may take up to four to six weeks to see a doctor.

Top: Logan and Rich Mears play bubble hockey at a pre-game party hosted by Miami University Alumni Association at Hockey Town Cafe in Detroit.

Bottom: Fans of the Miami men’s ice hockey team react to game play at Ford Field during the NCAA Frozen Four.

Faithful fans


Five years have now passed since an off-campus fire claimed the lives of Ste-

phen Smith, Julie Turnbull and Kate Welling. Institutional memo-ry has faded as successive classes have graduated, but the impor-tance of the lessons learned from the fire has not diminished. Now is a time to reflect on what can still be learned and what has yet to be changed.

Following the fire five years ago, Len Endress – then Oxford Fire Chief – told The Miami Stu-dent, “It’s not a question of if (an off-campus fire will occur), but when and how many fatalities will occur.” Students, landlords, Miami University and lawmakers can all take steps to make fires less inevitable and more survivable.

Many of Oxford’s student rental properties are extremely old and have not undergone major reno-vations in some time. The electri-cal wiring and furnaces in many houses is decades old, and many smoke detectors are not hardwired into houses but are instead bat-tery powered. (Only in the case of a major renovation is hardwiring of smoke detectors required, and major renovations can be prohibi-tively expensive for landlords.) As students move off campus and enter the rental market, they need to pressure landlords to take steps to improve fire safety. Students should look critically at leases and ask questions about safety – such as who is responsible for changing smoke detector batteries – before signing. Miami must provide more proactive fire safety education for

students as they leave campus. Off-campus senators should also work with the landlords in their respective districts to rectify fire safety issues.

The quantity and functionality of smoke detectors is only part of the solution. The type of smoke detector can also determine how quickly fires are detected and whether residents have sufficient time to escape. Doug Turnbull, Ju-lie’s father, is working to educate fire officials and the public about a type of smoke detector better able to give warning of certain types of fires. Turnbull is pushing Ohio lawmakers to require pho-toelectric fire detectors – as op-posed to ionization detectors – in all homes. Using a different detec-tion method, photoelectric detec-tors can give earlier warning of smoldering fires, providing more time for escape and potentially saving lives.

Miami and Oxford should en-courage students and landlords to install hardwired, stand-along photoelectric detectors in all homes. Oxford should also step up fire safety inspections so they occur annually instead of every other year. Although Oxford’s fire department is volunteer-based, the city should hire more per-sonnel for inspections and fire safety training.

The danger of house fires is not going away, and rental proper-ties are continuing to age. Only by increasing awareness and re-quiring more stringent fire safety measures can we hope to avert future tragedies.

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Fire safety must remain a priority for MU, Oxford

Tuesday, April 13, 201010 Thomasina Johnson

Sam [email protected]@muohio.edu

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A new e-book, “How Much Should I Borrow For Col-lege?” aims at helping

students decide how much money is necessary to borrow for col-lege. Author Steve Talbott, a pro-fessor at Cleveland State Univer-sity, uses current research about the job market to project how much a graduate can make within the first year of a job related to their major.

The editorial board of The Mi-ami Student supports the mission of “How Much Should I Borrow For College?” With the economy struggling to come out of near-depression, more and more stu-dents have been burdened with the stressful task of paying for more of the cost of a college edu-cation. The board views this book as useful to high school students, current college students and their parents.

Because the book shows stu-dents how much they can expect to make within the first year of a job, the board believes this book will be a useful resource for students to map out the time

frame it will take to pay back student loans.

Because these salary numbers are based on government research, students are given honest facts about what they can expect from a future job. The board encourag-es students to look at “How Much Should I Borrow For College?” as an opportunity to learn about possible future job outcomes, and not as a source that tells students what they can and cannot choose as a major. Students must see this collection of reliable information as a tool for comparing and con-trasting the financial aspects of possible future careers, whether a student decides to become a creative writing major or a finance major.

The board recognizes the user-friendly, economically beneficial and environmentally conscious design of the e-book, as compared to a printed book. The board be-lieves purchasing only certain chapters that pertain to a student’s specific needs will not only save the student money, but will save printing resources.

Students should utilize e-book to plan ahead

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Library needs community support

The League of Women Voters of Oxford, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages all local registered voters to become informed about the needs of our public library. Lane Public Library, serving the Hamilton, Oxford and Fairfield areas, has had its budget cut by 20 percent since 2005. These cuts adversely affect services, materials and programs that residents rely on. Because of reduced state funding, Lane Library is asking the public, for the first time, to support a five year tax levy.

The League in Oxford recently reaffirmed its support for Lane Library. At the board of trustees meeting February 17, League leaders unanimously endorsed support for the tax levy. League members value the role of the public li-brary in their lives and in the lives of other local residents. As a community, we cannot afford to see this valuable resource depleted when the need for its services is so great. Passage of this levy will help protect current library services and resources. Furthermore, the levy will, we hope, eventually restore the full services we as a community need and desire.

All registered voters are eligible to vote on the library tax levy. If you are an independent voter, you may ask for an “issues only” bal-lot. Please mark your calendar for Election Day May 4 and vote yes on Issue 6 to support Lane Library.

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Hockey fans find fellowship in unlikely place: RIT fans

For Miami University hockey players and fans alike, the loss to Boston College Thursday felt like getting your heart smashed repeatedly with a sledgehammer. But the brightest spot throughout that awful weekend was the student section. From RIT.

Unlike the Miami student section, the students from RIT were allowed – nay, encouraged – to stand the whole game. On Saturday, the handful of Miami faithful who stayed were welcomed with open arms to the Tigers’ “Corner Crew.” In a display unlike any other, both Miami and RIT students stood and chanted “R.I.T! R.I.T” and “Let’s go RedHawks!” throughout the game.

Not only did the noise from the orange-and-red corner (mostly orange) drown out anything BC or Wisconsin fans cheered, but it was loud enough to be heard on ESPN. Cheers were exchanged, friendships were made and a fun time was had by all. One thing students from both sections agreed on was the need for games between the two

schools, preferably at a neutral site halfway in-between Oxford and Rochester. Hope-fully next time Miami students can stand up and prove that we are the best fans in college hockey.

JOE [email protected]

Library is a necessity, not a luxury

I am writing to urge everyone to vote yes for the library levy on the May 4 ballot. Having lived in the Oxford community and now resid-ing in Hamilton, my family and I have relied on the Lane Libraries for a variety of purposes from checking out the wonderful selection of books and DVDs as well as having a valuable resource tool for story times, crafts and book club discussions. Since the recent budget cuts, gone are the story times for younger children, book club discussions for pre-teen and teenag-ers and deliveries to nursing homes and senior citizens. Our libraries have so much to offer ev-eryone, no matter their age. It seems a shame that such a valuable resource should have such limited hours and staff. Lane Libraries have worked tirelessly to provide excellent opportu-nities and resources to the community without fail and if we do not vote YES on the May 4 ballot, then we have failed them.

As Henry Ward Beecher once said, “A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.”

Please vote YES May 4.

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Over the past week, I’ve had the opportunity to be part of a group testing the new e-mail system at Miami University. The new system, called mu-Connect powered by Google, will soon host all undergraduate students. It is set up in the same format as Google mail (aka Gmail) and will allow students to have their Miami e-mail address for life.

As an avid Gmail user for the past year, this change is very beneficial. The Gmail sys-tem is very straightforward. It also offers more applications than in the Microsoft Exchange system undergraduates are cur-rently using, including Google documents, which allow Gmail users to post, edit and share documents with one another without the hassle of e-mailing them from person to person.

As students begin to migrate their e-mail accounts, there are frustrations they may run into. One option for students is to migrate all saved Miami mail to the Google system, which takes a couple of days depending on the amount of saved mail. Those with mail clients on their phone may see a mass amount of unread mail. Though there is a simple solu-tion of waiting for the all of the mail to migrate by logging into muConnect through myMiami, and marking the mail as read, new mail coming in for hours and hours might throw you off and get a bit annoying. Of course that’s just how it works and it has to happen, but trust me, it’s worth it.

Also, students who have not used Gmail will have a new for-mat to get used to. E-mails trav-eling back and forth between two recipients will continue to appear in the inbox as one

message with a number in pa-rentheses following the senders name indicating the number of messages in the thread. Open-ing one of these messages you will see the entire conversation and be able to click on each individual message rather than scrolling through one giant e-mail body. This concept makes much more sense because it gives you the ability to jump to a specific message rather than searching through an unsorted string of e-mails.

Another frustration may come with not having the option to search through all Miami students, faculty and staff through an address book. Though I was informed this feature is being worked on, it’s something that was of-fered previously and should be added to the new system as soon as possible to avoid errors in e-mail addresses. I know the feature is more of a luxury than necessity because e-mail ad-dresses can be found through a “people” search on myMiami, but having a feature taken away is confusing.

Though Miami has the op-tion of giving students many features of Google mail, they have opted to offer mail, calen-dar and documents. I encour-age the offering of the chat feature to allow students to communicate, for example, for group projects without having to clog each other’s inboxes. The option then gives students the option to chat via video, which can be very beneficial if a group member is at home for the weekend but has access to a computer with a video camera.

When it comes to migrating

e-mail accounts, I encourage students to attend one of the drop-in sessions to be assisted in moving the account. Things can get complicated when you have to make changes not only to the e-mail system, but also to your iPhone or BlackBerry and a desktop client like Apple Mail. Instructions are offered online for those who want to brave the change on their own, but with help being offered, it can only be beneficial and you don’t have to worry about a wrong click. If you do choose to attend one of these sessions, do bring your own computer as recommended. Obviously if you have a desktop e-mail client you would have to bring your own computer, but even if you don’t having your own laptop in front of you makes the transition easier than mak-ing the change while on a university computer.

Overall, the transition will benefit students at Miami. Be-cause the format is easy to un-derstand, more Miami students will want to use their e-mail ad-dress for life. This will increase the alumni connection to Miami and also put Miami’s name out there even more when e-mail recipients see “muohio” at the end of an e-mail address.

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➤ PERSPECTIVE


Gmail can’t failCATHERINE COURETAS

Couretas is editor in chief for The Miami Student

Two years ago I almost lost what made me, me. What seemed like an unblessed burden from the moment of my birth until my current age of 21, the large birth mark that was nat-urally placed at the center of my back was about to be removed due to can-cerous cells found within its diame-ter. The perfectly round dot was my trademark over the years. It allowed my family to spot me out of mobs of playing children on the beach when I was growing up and fooled my second grade teacher who called home and thought it was a tattoo. I couldn’t fathom that my spot which had walked with me my whole life was harboring what could eventu-ally kill me. My naïve lifestyle that lead to this alarming news consisted of our generation’s infamous pursuit to be tan through the use of tanning beds and “SPF-less” sun screen to accompany seven hour beach days, stagnant in the sun. For many of us, the news that tanning beds are now considered a cancer risk on par with cigarettes and asbestos is less of an ‘aha’ moment than confirmation of a truth we’d long suspected: there is no such thing as a healthy tan, at least not one caused by UV rays.

However, when I met Katie Gin-ley, a junior at Miami University, she opened my eyes to a safer, sim-pler and healthier way of getting the bronzed look we all sacrifice our health for: spray tanning. In affilia-tion with Tan with Kare, a sunless tanning company which strives to hire talented and certified spray tan specialists to reduce skin cancer, the young entrepreneur started her own personalized spray tanning sector along with friend Sarah Burns, also a Miami junior.

After Ginley’s grandfather lost his battle to cancer in 2001, she felt obli-gated to reduce the rates of skin can-cer by offering a healthier alternative to tanning. After receiving spray tans throughout high school by the origi-nal founder of Tan with Kare, Karen Ryan, Ginley was eventually trained and certified by Ryan’s intensive training program before she and Burns moved back to school. Since the effects of tanning beds are detri-mental to skin health, causing mela-noma skin cancer, Ginley thought it would be a good idea to give Miami a personalized alternative to harmful tanning beds; a personal-ized alternative that had yet to exist in Oxford.

Unable to afford their own place or find a room they could rent out, Gin-ley and Burns were forced to spray tan girls in their own bathroom. It wasn’t until Ginley went to Attitudes for an appointment and talked to her cosmetologist about her small busi-ness, that she discovered Attitudes was looking to buy a spray tanning machine. Impressed with Tan with Kare’s mission, along with its hands on approach to spray tanning, Atti-tudes allowed Ginley and Burns to work in their tanning salon.

Since being in their new salon at Attitudes, business has grown tre-mendously, along with their goals: eventually Ginley and Burns would like Miamians to give up on tanning all together and switch to their al-ternative that won’t leave wrinkles, sunspots and the potential risk of cancer- just healthy, naturally glow-ing skin. So far, the clients hooked on Tan with Kare have been Mi-ami’s cheerleading team, members of sororities and fraternities, multi-ple girls like me who have had signs of skin cancer and friends of friends who have heard about the business through word of mouth.

Since I started spray tanning with Ginley and Burns I have no desire to use a tanning bed again. Not only do I know I am protect-ing myself from melanoma, but I know I am reflecting a healthier looking tan that will not wrinkle my skin, burn me or fade in one week. Since Miami students now have a safer, personalized and believable alternative to tanning, there is no excuse for us to damage our skin any longer.

Putting the “no” in

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➤ ESSAY

At Miami University, we are willing to talk about race, religion and sexual orientation but rarely

do we broach the subject of socio-economic status. Maybe this is because the uni-versity’s offices do not stress it enough, but more likely the difference is that varying levels of family income

are more typical, making the risk of an awkward moment with a friend or a classmate more likely. At the same time, those students who benefit from the Miami Ac-cess Initiative would prefer to keep that fact private, rather than risk being thought of as lesser for their family’s income. I also think a lot of the hostility Greeks face has less to do with their charac-ter or community and more to do with perceptions about money.

The manifestation of our latent prejudices about socioeconomic status that stands out as most visible is our treatment of town-ies. We say they are uneducated, creepy and poor. Most Miami students from Oxford avoid get-ting tagged as such, because the townie stereotype would then wrongly define their identity. The perception is most easily revealed at parties themed on dressing like a townie, which results in a mix of farm ware and, to borrow from 50 Cent, wangsta attire. The Amuse-ment section of this publication regularly takes shots at townies; that image is an easy target to mock. The word townie itself has come to carry such a derogatory connotation that henceforth I will write Oxford resident instead.

Simultaneously, many Oxford residents hold unfair views of Mi-ami students, as though those fea-tured in the police beat typify us. There has been an exodus from the Mile Square. Miami under-graduates do a lot of great things in the Oxford Community. Nu-merous students are involved at the various levels of the Talawan-da School District. Through the Hanna House, we volunteer and fundraise for noble local causes. Plenty of us have gotten involved in Oxford’s places of worship, and as on and off-campus employees, we work side by side with Oxford residents. Given all of these posi-tive interactions, why does the re-lationship still feel sour?

It is easy to hold incorrect perceptions of another person or group of people if you never interact with them. At athletic events, the recreational sports center or uptown, being a student is an exclusive club and most of the time we just do not play well with others. This does not make us bad people, but it allows Oxford residents to maintain their views of us and for us to keep ours of them. However, there are a few simple things students should do differently to both improve our relationship with Oxford residents and break down the nasty picture we may hold of Oxford residents.

First, we need to be more re-spectful of Oxford itself. This is done by not littering and being mindful of noise. Having yards devoid of trash would pacify the biggest pet peeve of those Oxford residents still willing to live near us. Second, we should start going to the events the City of Oxford hosts, like the annual Pig Roast. Just being there sends a message to Oxford residents that we are engaged members of our commu-nity. Third, do not support parties that play on the “townie” stereo-type any more than you would at-tend a party that plays on stereo-types about, say, Chinese students or Muslim students. Finally, stop assuming. When you meet some-one from Oxford, you know no more about him or her than you do when you meet someone from Lake Forest.

Students must respect

Oxford

➤ THE MIAMI PLAN

It is truly the end of an era. Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, who is only a week shy of his 90th birthday, is retiring from his 35-year tenure

on the United States Supreme Court. His departure marks the exodus of many things from the court: its most senior mem-ber, its single military veteran (Stevens joined the Navy the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor; he has joked that “the enemy responded the following day”) and its only justice with a quirky fondness for bowties.

Although appointed by Rich-ard Nixon to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and then by Gerald Ford to the court in 1975, Ste-vens has earned the reputation of being one of the more liberal justices, with decisions that furthered equality for gay Americans, protected the consti-tutional rights of prisoners both in our nation and at Guantánamo Bay and established a greater role for judicial authority in interpretations of legisla-tive and executive actions. While Stevens has ad-mitted to some shifts in his personal views (liken-ing such changes to the swing in public opinion about Prohibition), he still considers himself to be moderately conservative. However, he has vehe-mently maintained that the court has progressively shifted to the right with the appointment of each new justice; in a 2007 dissenting opinion regard-ing race policies in schools, Stevens wrote, “no Member of the Court that I joined in 1975 would have agreed with today’s decision.”

Stevens was also known for his intelligence and an endearing independence. When he graduated from Northwestern University Law School, he did so with the highest grade point average in the school’s history. He is the only justice to write his own first drafts for opinions, rather than relying on his law clerks. And until he was joined by Justice Samuel Alito in 2008, Stevens was the only justice to opt out of the “cert. pool,” in which the justices combine their law clerks to decide which appeals the court will hear.

If I sound a bit obituarial, it is not unintentional. Stevens’ retirement is an enormous loss, especial-ly in many of the behind-the-scenes activities of the court. According to Justice Ruth Bader Gins-burg, he constantly and quickly provided revi-sions or suggestions to the drafts of the other jus-tices’ opinions. Additionally, Stevens was able to

maximize his power as the court’s most senior jus-tice. When the senior justice and the chief justice are on opposing sides (which commonly occurred with both John Roberts and his predecessor, Wil-liam Rehnquist), the senior justice decides who writes the opinion. Stevens often used this privi-lege to lock in the swing-vote from Justice Antho-ny Kennedy (or, in earlier years, retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor) by allowing him to pen the majority opinion. Thus, even the re-placement of Stevens with an ideologically similar new justice will not be enough to fill the legendary role of this Supreme Court great.

So, the imperative question remains. Who will Barack Obama choose as his second appointment to the Supreme Court? With the addition of a fe-male Hispanic justice, Sonia Sotomayor, Obama added diversity to the court. However, this sec-ond appointment may speak even more about the president’s goals. He was visibly angered by the Supreme Court’s recent strike down of lim-its on political spending by corporations in elec-tions, coyly remarking that he wants a justice who “knows that in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.”

The speculations by other groups are already vast. The president of the grassroots Eagle Forum organization is wary of leaving the court without a military veteran serving as a justice, especially considering the current wars in the Middle East. The writers at Slate magazine offered an intrigu-ing choice: Hillary Clinton. Although Clinton can be polarizing, she’s smart and she advocates strongly for families and children; a position on the highest court of the nation may finally satiate her desire to leave a political legacy.

My vote doesn’t correspond to a name, but rath-er an area of expertise: I want to see a justice who has strengths in legal issues involving modern technology. Because things like cell phones and the Internet are recent advancements, there will undoubtedly be a myriad of court cases involv-ing the legality of restrictions on these devices and privacy of information. Our new justice must have the ability to understand the scope of this technol-ogy and be able to apply logical legal principles as it becomes even more ubiquitous. John Paul Stevens’ retirement will leave a large hole in the Supreme Court, but hopefully his replacement will be able to navigate the tricky waters of 21st century issues.

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Personally, I’m just hoping to play well enough so I don’t feel bad when I keep score and so I lose less than 10 balls per round.

Around campus, spring gives people the incentive to simply get outside, whether it is to get out and get back in shape, or simply because it feels like we haven’t seen the sun in months. That New Year’s resolu-tion may have been broken back in

February but nobody minds work-ing out when the sun is shining. The late inventor of the Frisbee, Fred Morrison, would be proud to know his idea that came from throwing pie plates is well represented on any patch of grass across the cam-pus. So amidst the swirling vortex of chaos that is the last few weeks of school, involving group projects, exams and the agony of sitting in class on a beautiful day, take some time to get outside. Hit a golf ball, throw a Frisbee, catch an obscure sporting event or just enjoy the weather. Besides, I really think this is the Indians’ year.

By Andrew TonneStaff Writer

The Miami University women’s and men’s track and field teams put on quite an impressive performance in their first home meet this season.

Scoring 188 points and earning seven event victories, the women’s team took the title convincingly by 90 points over second place Hills-dale (98) and by 100 points over third place division rivals Ball State University (88) Saturday.

In the distance events junior Kel-ley Miller reached her personal best time of 2:10.16 in the 800-meter run. It earned her a first place finish, and ranks her fourth all-time at Mi-ami. The success carried over into the 5,000-meter run, with sopho-

more Rachel Patterson placing first place in 16:50.31.

“I was happy with the result of the race,” Patterson said. “My time wasn’t where I wanted it to be because I had taken the week off prior to this race but it was good preparation for some big upcoming meets we have.”

The ’Hawks also claimed the first two spots in the 1,500-meter run, with junior Katie Lenahan tak-ing first with a time of 4:31.66, and senior Amanda Mirochna taking second in 4:32.50.

In the sprint events, sophomore Diona Graves finished first in the 200-meter dash with 24.82, which ranks her eighth all-time at Miami. Sophomore Rachael Clay provided

the team with another first place finish in the 400-meter dash with a time of 56.70.

Miami racked up two more victo-ries in the relays, both with season best times. The 4x100-meter took first with a time of 46.93, and the 4x400-meter crossed in at 3:49.56.

The men’s track and field team looked extremely confident in their home opener Saturday. With seven event victories and a point total of 201.5, the RedHawks won the in-vitational by nearly 100 points over second place Tiffin (109) and third place Hillsdale (82).

Junior Michael McCarty had a stand out day for the ’Hawks with three first place finishes in the 110-meter hurdles (14.45 sec-

onds), 400-meter hurdles (53.68 seconds) and the long jump (23-6.25) respectively.

The RedHawks also took the top two spots in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Senior Ryan Dezso won the race in a time of 9:23.75 and junior Robbie Fisher took sec-ond with a personal best time of 9:25.35. Freshman Jack Spilman took first in the 800-meter with a personal best of 1:54.61 and junior Michael Perry took second in the 5,000-meter run in 14:39.29, a per-sonal best.

Also victorious was the 4x400-meter relay team of Justin Ed-die, Jack Spilman, Alieu Sillah and Dan Hull, who ran a season best time of 3:19.00. Sophomore

John Brockman took the title for the javelin with a throw of 190-8 (58.11 meter).

Head Coach Warren Mandrell was very pleased with what he saw Saturday and hopes the successes will carry on.

“The team is pushing each other in practice and helping each other out,” Mandrell said. “Next week will be a very high quality meet, with the toughest competition we have gone against all year, so we are hoping to carry our momentum from last week into this week.”

Both teams will look to continue their winning ways next weekend in Athens at the All-Ohio Champi-onships hosted by Ohio University April 16 and 17.

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Red and White remain undefeated in MAC

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track & field

Teams take first at 25th annual Miami Invitational

By Michael Solomon Staff Writer

The Miami University women’s ten-nis team headed into the weekend hoping to make their last home contest of the sea-son a special one, and looking to continue their recent dominance in Mid-American Conference (MAC) play.

The RedHawks hosted Big East foe Lou-isville Friday afternoon at the Hepburn Var-sity Courts, and then headed to Ball State University (BSU) Saturday, continuing their streak of six straight away matches to end the MAC season.

“It was good to see the team playing well in both doubles and singles,” Head Coach Ri-

cardo Rosas said. “We need to keep working hard because we are going to be challenged and need to come ready to play for every match this season.”

On Friday, junior Megan Martzolf extend-ed her unbeaten streak at No. 3 singles this spring to 16 games with a 6-0, 6-4 win. In the No. 1 singles spot, junior Anastasia Dracheva posted a solid 6-2, 6-3 win. Although hang-ing tough with the Cardinals, Louisville took the points after junior Cara Wald and sopho-more Riekie Honiball both lost in three sets at the No. 3 and No. 5 spots.

Louisville captured the doubles points with 8-5 wins at both the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. Miami won at No. 3 doubles, when Dracheva

and junior Sydnee Bridger posted an 8-2 win. The Red and White dropped the match 5-2 to fall to 10-6 on the season.

After falling to Louisville, the ’Hawks got back on track Saturday at BSU, increasing their overall record to 11-6 and their MAC record to 3-0 after a 6-1 win over the Car-dinals. Martzolf extended her record to 17-0 this spring with a 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 3 singles, and Dracheva, Honiball, Wald and sophomore Stephanie Danesis also won for the RedHawks, who took five out the six singles matches from BSU.

Miami swept the doubles competition, with Honiball and Wald cruised to an 8-1 win at No. 2 singles to give the ’Hawks an early

1-0 lead. The pairs of Martzolf-Danesis and Dracheva-Bridger each won 8-4 at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles respectively to put the match away for Miami.

“This weekend was a good start for our conference matches,” Martzolf said. “We played two good teams this weekend, and we are very excited for the rest of our season. Now we have to keep working hard every day.”

The RedHawks round out the season with four away contests, the first two com-ing next Friday and Saturday against Buf-falo and Akron, before heading to Eastern Michigan University and University of Toledo the following weekend.

Junior Jamal Rogers leads the White team to victory over the Red team in Miami’s annual spring game.

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The dogwoods are in bloom, you can smell burgers and hot dogs and the co-

eds are flocking out to the sunshine only to return looking like lobsters. Yes, spring is here (note: this was written on Sunday, and by the time you read it there could be snow on the ground, so I would like to ab-solve myself of any responsibility relating to this matter). With spring comes the hope of new life. Miamians can hopefully shake off the heartbreaking loss of the hockey team in the Frozen Four and look forward to success in other sports.

For baseball fans, spring allows them to hope for a few short weeks this is the year their team will do well. The Cleve-land Indians are looking more and more like the team portrayed in Major League, Major League II and perhaps most like Major League III: Back to the Minors (a worse sports movie sequel than Slapshot II). The team has traded away most of the talent but owner Larry Dolan says he hopes the team “can compete for a divi-sion title every three or four years.” This could be that year! And the team formerly known as the Big Red Machine — the Cincinnati Reds — are also hoping this year they will climb out of the basement of the NL Central where they seem to have taken up residence.

Elsewhere, The Masters, which ESPN markets as “an event unlike any other,” seems to be similar to most of the other golf tournaments I watch (except for the fact Tiger is doing his job again). How-ever, it is special enough to have its own theme music on the ESPN, which is an achievement in itself. The questions dur-ing the tournament: Who will win? Is that one of Tiger’s mistresses? Where do golf-ers get those checkered pants? These and other important inquiries provide the back-ground to the first of four grand slams of golf. The Masters serves as the start of the golf season and gives hacks everywhere hope they will be hitting shots like Phil Mickelson once they dust off the clubs.

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’Hawks split series with Chippewas

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By Nick BonaventuraStaff Writer

Miami University’s softball team split a weekend series with Central Michigan Univer-sity (CMU), dropping the first game 1-0 before rebounding and winning the second game 8-4.

Following the series, Mi-ami’s record stands at 19-16 overall and 4-2 in the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

“We’ve been doing our best to stay aggressive lately and to just remember that anyone in the lineup can come up and get a rally started,” sophomore third basemen Daniela Torres said. “When we get runners on, we have people throughout the lineup that can steal bases and score runs. It’s just very important to stay aggressive.”

In the Saturday contest, the ’Hawks were held to just one hit, a third inning single by junior second basemen Meghan Mawn.

Sophomore pitcher Jessica Simpson held the Chippewas to just one run despite allow-ing nine hits. The winning run came in the sixth inning, when junior Amanda Patrick hit a double to score the game’s only run.

Sunday’s game was much different for the RedHawks. After CMU took a 2-0 lead in the second inning and knocked Miami’s starting pitcher, se-nior Meredith Linch, out of the game, the ’Hawks roared back to tie the game with sophomore right fielder Jordan McElroy’s two runs batted in (RBI) hit. McElroy finished with two RBI and a run scored.

With Simpson once again pitching, Miami then took charge of the game. The Red and White scored three runs in the fourth, highlighted by Torres’s double that scored two. Torres finished the game 2-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored.

“We played very well in the second game,” Torres said. “Yesterday and today were both great defensive games. Whenever we play great

defense against such a good hitting team, the defense is always going to win the game.”

Miami head coach Kelly Kovach Schoenly credited the bottom of the RedHawks’ lineup for the increase in offensive production.

“The key to our victory was that our eight and nine hitters reached base every time they were up,” Schoenly said. “That gave us some people on base for our other players, which

is always good. That was the difference between this game and yesterday’s.”

Simpson pitched five in-nings, allowing two runs and striking out four to earn the victory.

CMU threatened to come back in the sixth inning with a two run homer by senior first basemen Jill Schulz, but could not muster any offense after the blast.

After a rough start to the beginning of the season, Mi-

ami has now won five of its last six games.

“We’re playing teams now that we know a lot about,” Schoenly said. “We can pre-pare better for these teams. We know how to get their batters out. In the preseason, we played some pretty tough teams, and I think the experience against those teams is really starting to help us.”

Miami is next in action April 16 for a doubleheader at Kent State University.

By Alex ButlerSenior Staff Writer

The sun was glaring and base-ball fans were enjoying tempera-tures in the mid 70s this weekend at McKie field at Hayden Park.

They also enjoyed seeing the Miami University RedHawk baseball team edge the North-ern Illinois University Huskies (11-19, 4-5 Mid-American Con-ference (MAC)) for their first MAC series win.

“We had a different focus com-ing into this weekend,” catcher Adam Weisenburger said. “We started playing our game. We started playing good defense and our pitchers pitched well. I think we came together as a unit and hopefully we can keep this going throughout the rest of MAC play.”

The Red and White (14-16, 3-6 MAC) handled the bright light above by flipping down their shades and eyeing a 0.500 record going into Sunday af-ter taking Friday and Saturday’s contests against the Huskies 6-1 and 5-1, respectively.

Starter Tyler Melling was large-ly responsible for the win Friday. The junior RedHawk dominated

for eight innings with eight strike-outs and only three hits allowed.

Head Coach Dan Simonds’ men had a little extra pop in their step but it was not enough to keep pace with the Huskies as they squan-dered a lead and suffered a 5-4 set-back to deny them a sweep.

“I’m not satisfied at all,” Simo-nds said. “I’m very disappointed today because we played a couple really good games. I thought we beat ourselves today.”

Simonds’ men forged four runs in the first two innings Sunday and looked like they would be able to hold on if the bullpen could hold up. The Huskies closed the gap in the fifth and sixth frames with two runs to make the score 4-2 and then knotted things up in the eighth in-ning at 4-4 and set the stage for an interesting ninth inning.

Closer Jordan Jankowski tried to stop the bleeding late but the Huskies plated the fatal run and handed him his second loss of the season as the Red and White lumber fell silent in the bottom of the inning.

Weisenburger led the RedHawks at the plate by going 4-5 with three RBI’s and a stolen base. Second baseman Jon Edgington plated the

other run for the Red and White. “I think we came with a sense

of purpose today,” Weisen-burger said. “We wanted the ‘W’ but we couldn’t come out with it. Hopefully we can take this into next week and pick up a couple victories.”

The Red and White are tied for second place in the MAC East with the University at Buf-falo Bulls and the Ohio University Bobcats. Simonds hopes his play-ers will stay positive and keep an attention to detail.

“You have to learn from that, that’s the biggest thing,” Simonds said. “Everyone is disappointed and I think they realize we kind of beat ourselves but how do you learn from it? We’ve got to make sure that at a minimum we are not making as many mistakes that way and if we are going to get beat it’s going to be because a good team outplays us, not because we beat ourselves.”

Simonds’ men will get their next chance to play RedHawk baseball against the Xavier University Musketeers at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Oxford. The Red and White de-feated the Musketeers 5-3 April 6 in Cincinnati.

Junior catcher Adam Weisenburger fires the ball to second before Sunday’s game v. NIU.


Senior shortstop Sarah Billstrom sends a ball to first in Saturday’s game v. Central Michigan University.MICHAEL GRIGGS The Miami Student

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