BY AmAndA HAncockSenior StAff Writer

As most students spent Thanks-giving carving into a festive meal, others were cutting ties with their high school flames. That’s right, for many undergrads, and espe-cially first-years, the holiday sea-son is “Turkey Drop” time; a trend in which students return home

from their first few months at col-lege and decide it’s time to leave their high school boyfriend or girlfriend behind.

Although being miles away is a strain to these long-distance

relationships, Leslie Haxby McNeill, assistant director of health education in Miami University’s Office of Stu-dent Wellness, said the Turkey Drop phenomenon happens for a variety of reasons.

“Meeting someone else, adjusting to a new environment, the discon-nect for the person who is at home not understanding how different your world has become, getting in-volved with activities, and just being busy,” McNeill said, noting a hand-ful of causes for the late-November split up.

Because they have recently moved away from home, Dr. Natalie Winters, a therapist at University of Cincinnati’s Counseling Center, said first-years are most likely to be in this position.

“The relationship can provide a sense of security and comfort know-ing that [they have] someone to lean on when feeling anxious about enter-ing college,” she said.

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The man behind the music: Miami’s carillonneur makes Pulley Tower sing

University Senate backs new pre-med co-major

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Miami University Senate ap-proved the creation of a pre-medi-cine co-major at its meeting Monday Nov.19. The major will allow stu-dents who plan to apply to medical school to major in pre-medicine in addition to their chosen major.

The new co-major will require students take all courses that are re-quired by medical schools and that will be covered on the Medical Col-lege Admission Test (MCAT), which recently added to the material that test-takers are required to know, ac-cording to Dave Pennock, professor of zoology.

In addition, pre-medicine co-ma-jors must take a course in their first-year where they plan their studies at Miami. Students must also take a medical school application prepara-tion class in their third year.

The Senate’s approval of the

major makes Miami the first school in Ohio to have a pre-medicine co-major, according to Pennock.

Senator and Professor of political science Philip Russo said the co-ma-jor should be approved since it insti-tutionalizes a program that Miami al-ready has and will make a difference in recruiting pre-medicine students.

“You can bet that there are several university senates around the state discussing this right now, given the political economy for competing for these types of students in the state of Ohio, there will be several com-ing down the pike,” Russo said. “So we might as well get out in front on this and institutionalize what we already have.”

Senate also heard reports con-cerning academic integrity and Greek life.

Miami has seen a 35 percent increase in the number of stu-dents reported for academic integ-rity violations, according to Brenda Quaye coordinator of the Academic Integrity Initiative.

Quaye said she does not believe this increase is in part due to an in-crease in reporting as opposed to an increase in actual violations.

Quaye said many of the reports in-volve students collaborating on work where collaboration is not allowed.

“This issue of unauthorized col-laboration or working together is one that I think is also a national trend and lots of folks on lots of campuses are looking at ‘how do we address this and how do we make it more clear about what is appropriate collabora-tion for our classes,’” Quaye said.

Senate received an update on Greek life from Jenny Levering, director of the Cliff Alexander Of-fice of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Leadership. Levering discussed the new Community Advancement Program, which lays out guidelines for fraternities and sororities to fol-low in order to maintain their status as official fraternities or sorority on Miami’s campus.

Senate also approved changes to the Graduate Handbook.

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BY Jenn SmoLAcAmPUS editor

Anyone who drives into Oxford, Ohio from the East knows the Ver-lin L. Pulley Tower all too well. The towering carillon is the first sign of Miami University red brick to returning students, parents, profes-sors and visitors as they arrive. On a nice day, drivers with their windows down may be lucky enough to catch a few chimes coming from the Pul-ley Tower, maybe a few notes of the alma mater.

But students walking past the Pul-ley Tower’s melodies on Patterson Avenue may not realize there is a man behind the music.

Professor Randy Runyon has

taught in the French department at Miami for 35 years—long before the Pulley Tower even existed. But when the Pulley Tower was built in 2001, he claimed the role of University Carillonneur, and took on the task of making the bells of the tower sing.

The Pulley Tower was a gift from Miami alumnus William W. Pulley, in tribute to his father, Verlin L. Pul-ley, who was 1925 graduate from Miami, a former mayor of Oxford, founder of one of the largest dry-cleaning companies in the United States and a member of Miami’s board of trustees.

The 65-year old took the job be-cause he had background in mu-sic—playing the piano and organ in church—but he didn’t have to fight

off many other applicants. “I got the job, such as it is, be-

cause no one else wanted to do it,” Runyon said.

Nevertheless James Lentini, dean of the School of Creative Arts, said Runyon has played an important role in the Pulley Tower’s success.

“He’s been a tireless advocate for the music played there and with the carillon, and really cares about the in-strument and the programming of the music,” Lentini said.

The Pulley Tower plays for 10 minutes about eight times per day, but many of the songs that are heard were recorded by Runyon 10 years ago, programmed on old memory cards to play automatically, and Ru-nyon has to change the memory card

every couple weeks or so. But while many of the recordings

were done a decade ago, Runyon will still find new or popular songs, and either play them live or record them for the tower.

Take for example, the pop sensa-tion song of the summer, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepson. Ru-nyon said he transcribed the music himself after listening for several hours on YouTube.

Students also have the ability to go online and request songs they wish to hear played from the Pulley Tower. “Call Me Maybe” was one Runyon transcribed before it was even re-quested, expecting the popular song to be one of demand.

But the carillonneur can’t meet

every request, he said. “I get a lot of requests that I can-

not fulfill because it’s too strange,” he said, laughing. “Like a rap song, because there really is not enough melodic content.”

But those strange requests haven’t stopped Runyon from tackling other popular songs of the times, noting “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry, “Fri-day” by Rebecca Black and even the autotuned YouTube sensation “Bed Intruder Song” as some of his favor-ites to play.

While Runyon said he doubts many students realize there is a per-son behind the music they hear on

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Recent leadership appoint-ments in academic affairs will help to consolidate some of the offices that serve students in or-der to increase efficiency, ac-cording to Cheryl Young, the newly appointed assistant pro-vost of academic affairs, effective Jan. 1, 2013.

She will be overseeing the in-tegration of services provided by the Office of International Education, Center for American and World Cultures, Confucius Institute, MUDEC-Oxford and Lifelong Learning.

Young is currently the direc-tor of Lifelong Learning, which promotes continuing education by offering credit and non-credit programs to people of all ages

Right now, continuing educa-tion offices and programs and in-ternational offices and programs at the university provide similar services, Young said.

“Right now we share a lot of [services],” Young said. “Inter-national education works with incoming international students and I work with incoming inter-national students as well through the ACE (American Culture and English) program. International education works with students who want to study abroad with outside programs and I do all of the faculty-led study abroad. We already do functions that align with each other. This will bring that together so we can operate more efficiently on behalf of the students and staff.”

Sophomore Hannah Wheeler will study abroad in Switzerland next semester with a program outside the university.

“From the perspective of some-one studying abroad next semes-ter, this semester I haven’t found that there is one person that knows everything about what I need to know about,” Wheeler said. “If the process was streamlined and there was just one center for

students to use [to get all the study abroad information] it would save a lot of time and effort.”

Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Bobby Gempesaw announced other new appointments in addi-tion to Young’s.

Current Director of Interna-tional Education David Keitges has been named interim director of the Confucius Institute. Cur-rent Director of the Confucius Institute Quanyu Huang has been named interim director of the Asian/American Program at the College of Arts and Sciences. These appointments are also ef-fective Jan. 1, 2013.

“The mission of the Confucius

Institute at Miami is to expand the Chinese program and ex-pand to the regional campuses,” Huang said. “The second one is to serve as an outreach program to help the community adapt to these changing global economies. The third is to serve as a bridge

for internationalization for Miami students and faculty.”

Ray Gorman is the provost and executive vice president of student affairs. He said the Con-fucius Institute aims to spread the Chinese language culture and familiarize people with the Chinese language.

“There’s this organization in China called Hanban and they’re the organization that

sponsors all these Confucius Institutes, hundreds of them around the world,” Gorman said. “Here at Miami, Hanban as a state-sponsored organiza-tion provides us with instructors. They pay for three or four in-structors from China to teach our courses.”

Gorman said the Confucius In-stitute also serves as a platform for various cultural programs, such as a singing competition in Chi-nese, a skit competition and vari-ous films to expose more people on campus and in communities to Chinese culture.

Gorman also said although it is not known exactly how the reorganization will work under the new leadership, all interna-tional offices will be more in-tegrated than they have been in the past.

“That was really the driving force behind the reorganization:

New year to bring new administrators

Chef reveals magic behind Miami diningBy EmiLy GLasErsEnior staff WritEr

Every Miami University student has a favorite item from the dining halls; be it the unlimited mac-n-cheese in the buffet locations or the jumbo smiley faced cookie. What they might not know about is the complex, Willy-Wonka-esque opera-tion that brings the item to their table.

Much of the food served on Mi-ami’s campus is produced centrally at the Demske Culinary Support Center and then transferred to each location on a daily basis. The cen-ter, which is located by Kroger and used to be a Kroger building itself, is much larger than it appears from the outside.

Behind the front offices is a busy factory environment. There are 12 rooms, including a bakery, a docking station and a freezer large enough to fit eight semi trucks side by side kept at a chilly -20 degrees Fahrenheit, ac-cording to Miami University Execu-tive Chef Eric Yung.

Inside the rooms are about 30 em-ployees, whose duties range from operating an industrial oven in the bakery or preparing soup in 100-gal-lon cooking kettles to loading inven-tory into a refrigerated truck to be sent out to the dining halls.

At the head of the operation is Yung.

Yung, who has been with the university for four years, attended culinary school at the Culinary Insti-tute of America in Hyde Park, NY. Yung grew up on a farm in Northern

Kentucky and said his experiences there sparked his interest in cooking.

“I got a chance to see how some-thing very simple that came from the ground could become a really won-derful meal with only a minimum amount of ingredients added to it,” Yung said.

The idea that the best food is fresh food became a theme in his culinary experiences, one that was further emphasized during time at a bed and breakfast in Maine.

“The menu was sourced within 60 miles of his [the owner’s] front door,” Yung said. “It’s the quality of the ingredients that you bring in that make a dish pretty special.”

Yung said bringing quality ingre-dients and fresh food to Miami is a top priority, and one that he will get a chance to influence with the three new dining locations coming to campus.

The new locations, Maplestreet Station, the Armstrong Student Cen-ter and Western Dining Commons, will host 20 entirely new dining con-cepts. For example, Maplestreet will include a gourmet hamburger sta-tion with fresh-cut French fries and all-breakfast-all-day venue, among other things.

With each concept, there will be a number of different food items, each requiring new recipes and ingredi-ents, which is where Yung comes in.

“In Maplestreet we want to have a very authentic Vietnamese Spring Roll,” Yung said. “First, we want to do a lot of research on the item and

what sorts of things should go in there, talk to students that have ex-perience with the item, maybe reach out to an area restaurant that produc-es authentic Vietnamese food.”

After conducting research on an item, Yung helps to develop a num-ber of different recipes for that par-ticular item. Students and staff at the culinary support center then test the recipes.

“Everything that is up to test is a numbered item, [the testers] have a separate numbered sheet,” Yung said. “They will go through the fla-vors, the textures, etcetera and put numeric ratings on those things.”

Once the products have been tested and reviewed, recipes will be tweaked to establish a final recipe.

The testing, Yung said, is what en-sures a quality, consistent product.

Beyond the new locations, Yung hopes to continue introducing healthy, fresh foods.

“I think one of the things you will start to see is a lot more action sta-tions, where a culinarian will prepare the food fresh in front of students.” Yung said. “It’s fresh, it reduces waste, and it’s more customizable to the customer’s wants.”

All the innovations will only add to students like first year Natalie Turner’s satisfaction with Miami dining.

“I think that they try really hard to put different things in each dining

[The changes] will bring [multiple offices] together so we can operate more efficiently on behalf of the students and staff.”

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While the dining halls and mar-kets on campus generate a lot of options for student eating, some students – either all the time, or during certain religious observa-tions – are limited in what they can eat.

Though quite a few Jewish stu-dents at Miami are not strictly ko-sher, according to Dining Services’ Executive Chef, Eric Yung, it is still important for dining services to accommodate needs for any di-etary restrictions that students have and the Culinary Service Center (CSC) is trying to do just that.

Despite not having a kosher kitchen on campus, Dining Ser-vices strives to offer kosher prod-ucts, be it at the marketplaces or by special request.

“A student who is requesting ko-sher options would identify himself with our office and we have some-one here that works with him to lay out a list of all the items we have,” Yung said. “From there, we ask if there are items that he doesn’t see that we could get. It could be a fa-vorite brand from home, something familiar that we can bring in.”

According to both Yung and Jon Brubacher, manager of purchasing for Dining Services, the Jewish community is not the only group that CSC caters to. For the duration of Lent, the Dining Halls offer fish among the other customary dining hall choices.

Along with that, Dining Servic-es takes requests from those with health-related dietary restrictions.

“If someone comes to meet with the office, we’ll do anything possible to source food, make it available,” Brubacher said. “Glu-ten intolerance and nut allergies are probably our biggest ones. As long as it falls within what we can do, we can pretty much meet any special diet request there is.”

According to Yung, CSC also takes requests from international students. He said Jungle Jim’s is a great source and can usually be used to get an international student whatever imported good he or she is missing from home.

Hillel, a Jewish organization works with Dining Services. According to Brubacher, Hil-lel has helped the CSC in offering kosher options.

“With each new generation of students, there are new flavor

preferences, so Hillel helps to steer us in the right direction as far as ‘hot products’ with kosher food goes,” Brubacher said. “In the past, we would randomly guess at what we should have.”

Though most markets carry Ko-sher items at all times, the same cannot be said for the dining halls, according to sophomore Matthew Friedman, marketing coordinator at Hillel.

The Jewish community cel-ebrates many holidays including Yom Kippur, a fasting holiday and Passover during which many restrictions are placed on diet and cooking ingredients.

“Unless you keep kosher all year round, the most important time to keep kosher is during Passover,” Friedman said. “Rosh Hashanah doesn’t really have strict rules to follow.”

According to both Brubacher and Yung, the CSC welcomes any suggestions openly and will do anything within their power to help a student with his or her dietary restrictions.

Students can contact the CSC at 513-529-3040 for more information concerning dietary restrictions.

Lecture Series latecomer policy aims for full houseBy mELissa GirGisstaff WritEr

Students who attended the Rick Steves lecture, Europe Through the Back Door, Mon-day Nov. 12, may have noticed the fine print on the left side of their ticket reading: “Tickethold-er MUST be seated by 7:55 p.m. or may forfeit their right to this free seat.”

According to Craig Harkrider, Box Office Supervisor, individu-als who have been waiting in line without tickets are granted seats at 7:55 p.m. based on their place in line. Most often those who were late and lost their seat still get seated, just not in the seat they had a ticket for.

With 735 seats available at Hall Auditorium, the goal is to allow as many people the op-portunity to see these speakers as possible. Harkrider said the prob-lem is that sometimes up to 35 or 40 people who picked up tickets at the Shriver Box Office do not end up attending.

“What we typically find with

free events is that people don’t place as much value on them and then don’t always show up,” Harkrider said.

The institution of the late pol-icy has been the solution of the lecture series committee for en-suring that people who are ex-cited to see popular speakers are granted that chance. The policy, which has been in practice since fall 2002, is not new protocol. Harkrider said there have been very few if any complaints over the past ten years.

“We have people who are very motivated and drive a long way to see a speaker,” Harkrider said. “If five people complain [about the policy] compared to the 200 who got seats, we have to weigh out the customer service pros and cons.”

According to Harkrider, Lec-ture Series lectures are free events on campus for which stu-dents can reserve up to two tick-ets per Miami ID. All lectures

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

In the Nov. 16 issue of The Miami Student, it was reported that the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADA) protects service dogs in training. The ADA only protects service dogs. The Ohio Revised Code protects service dogs in training.

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By Molly CarrollFor The MiaMi STudenT

Families receiving food stamps in Ohio can expect a decrease in their allotted amounts of money starting January 2013.

The U.S. Department of Agricul-ture (USDA) approved a cut in the Ohio food stamp program Nov. 16.

The USDA calculated the re-duced cost of electric heat, propane and natural gas used in Ohio last year due to the warm winter and decided to cut the funds to the food stamp program, according to Benja-min Johnson, spokesperson for the

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

“Only the people who are covered under the standard utility allowance will see this decrease in benefits,” Johnson said.

“This year, the decreasing cost of natural gas led to a significant reduction in the 2013 standard utility allowance.”

The cut in food stamp funds is projected to affect approximately 869,000 recipients in Ohio.

According to Johnson the cut was originally expected to be $50, but the Ohio Department of Job and Fam-ily services worked with the USDA

to recalculate the allowance and re-duced it to $23.

This decrease in support will mean that people are going to be even more dependent upon food banks and food pantries, according to Hamler-Fugit.

“The reduction in aid given to families in Ohio is going to have the worst impact on the people who need the most help, including senior citi-zens and the disabled,” Lisa Hamler-Fugit, executive director of the Ohio Association of Food Banks, said.

According to Hamler-Fugit, the food banks are doing their best to prepare for the influx of people seek-ing food, starting in January but

they are unsure if it their efforts will be sufficient.

“We can only do our best to pro-vide and if that’s not enough then we will look for other solutions,” Ham-ler-Fugit said.

Sophomore Lindsay Aylward said she believes it is important that stu-dents make an effort to help those who receive food stamps and who will be affected by the decrease in food stamp aid.

“We are lucky to be able to go to such a good school and it’s important for us as a school to try to help out, especially with the holidays coming up,” Aylward said.

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As Miami University students were packing up and preparing to head home for Thanksgiving break, the Hampton Inn, located on South College Avenue, opened the doors of its new red brick building Thurs-day Nov. 15.

The addition is receiving positive feedback from some students.

“When my family comes to visit, they have almost always had to seek accommodations outside of Oxford,” first-year Frankie Roskam said. “We’re hoping that the addi-tion of the Hampton Inn will keep

them closer to campus now.” Visitors to Oxford are turning to

Hamilton, Fairfield, West Chester and other neighboring towns for vacancy, according to Alan Kyger, economic development director for the City of Oxford. With the Hamp-ton Inn’s 74 rooms – the second-most of all the hotels in Oxford, behind Hueston Woods’ accommo-dations – this new hotel will keep more families closer to Miami’s campus. There are now a total of 568 hotels rooms in Oxford, ac-cording to information from Kyger.

The Hampton Inn was built by Stewart Square Develop-ers, who also built the Elms

hotel, 75 S. Main St. “Stewart Square Developers

builds and manages hotels,” Kyger said. “They own The Elms hotel Uptown, which has been very suc-cessful and has the highest occu-pancy rate in Oxford. They figured that by building another hotel near-by, when one is filled, it can refer the other to customers looking to stay in town.”

According to Kyger, in 2004, when Stewart Square was first be-ing developed, the building plan did not include a hotel. The commer-cial business filled in slower than expected so plans were redrawn to replace a parking lot with a hotel, according to Kyger. He also said the developers are now hoping to draw in something like Panera Bread, an insight that many Miami students will be excited to hear.

The Hampton Inn opened after the Miami Inn was transformed into upperclassmen housing this fall. Though the Marcum Conference Center was recently renovated to add 15 new hotel rooms, it does not compensate for the 52 lost to Miami students who moved in this fall.

Kyger said the Hampton Inn’s opening will do well in picking up the slack, while adding a net total of almost 40 new hotel rooms to the town of Oxford,

The Hampton Inn includes a

complimentary hot breakfast, an in-door pool, a 24-hour business cen-ter, a 24-hour sweet shop (including popcorn, candies, ice cream, etc.) and a full fitness center – equipped with cardio machines with televi-sions (ellipticals, treadmills, station-ary bicycles, etc.). The basement of the hotel was converted into an ex-tra 35-space parking garage.

The management staff and em-ployees of the Hampton Inn had been anticipating last week’s open-ing for many months.

“We will be getting a billboard on highway 27 in addition to our huge ‘NOW OPEN’ sign hanging from the third floor, but even through word of mouth and notifying other nearby hotels, we have been bom-barded with phone calls already,” Susan Wilson, the assistant general manager, said.

The Hampton Inn is a quarter-mile away from Uptown Oxford and a half-mile from Miami’s Gog-gin Ice Center.

“The Hampton Inn is a beautiful project, and it’s already ramping up with reservations,” Pam Lind-ley, business operations admin-istrator for Hotel Developmental Services, said.

Local businesses and community members are invited to the hotel’s Grand opening Dec. 5, according to Lindley.

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Nov. 15, the Hampton Inn opened in Stewart Square on South College Avenue.

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‘Tis the season to help the Oxford communityBy andrew GranTFor The MiaMi STudenT

It’s that time of year again, the season of giving and in Oxford it’s the season of giving back. All over Oxford non-profit organizations and student organizations are volunteer-ing their time and energy to help the community.

The Oxford Community Choice Pantry is set up like a small grocery store where disadvantaged residents of the Talawanda School District can shop. Mike Johnson, Director of the Oxford Community Choice Pantry, said that the support from the local community has been tre-mendous over the years.

“The pantry has been in Oxford for six years and helps out around 300 households in the area,” John-son said. “We work closely with the Office of Community Engagement and Service in order to provide volunteer opportunities to Miami University students.”

Johnson said that the pantry is always looking for more food dona-tions and volunteers.

“Some foods that we collect in-clude cereal, peanut butter, canned fruit and tuna and spaghetti,” Johnson said. “Student volun-teers usually help out with assist-ing the shoppers and the upkeep of the store.”

The local churches provide many ways of giving back to the commu-nity as well. Jeffery Silver, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, said many of the churches in the area support the Oxford Community Choice Food Pantry in addition to the volunteer opportunities offered through their organizations.

“One program we have is the ‘Giving Tree’ program where we

ask people to purchase and wrap specific gifts from a list on an orna-ment on our tree in order to give to families in need of help during the holidays,” Silver said.

Volunteers with St. Mary’s Cath-olic Church also participate in is the BackPack Program where volun-teers’ donations provide a pack of food to Talawanda school children in need.

The Oxford Bible Fellowship is also helping during this holiday sea-son. Yvonne Van Bibber, adminis-trative assistant of the Oxford Bible Fellowship, said there are many other opportunities for students and volunteers to get active during the holiday season.

“Through the Angel Tree pro-gram, volunteers can purchase gifts for one or more of the 140 children involved or deliver gifts to the fami-lies in Oxford,” Van Bibber said.

Miami University has many stu-dent organizations, such as Naviga-tors, that are already involved in the various volunteer programs for the Oxford Bible Fellowship according to Van Bibber.

Student organizations are also very involved with volunteering. Alpha Phi Omega (AphiO) is a campus service fraternity where its members volunteer their free time helping people and organizations around Miami’s campus, Oxford and Cincinnati.

Junior Megan Ollier, vice-presi-dent of campus service for AphiO, said they host of specific holiday-themed projects such as the Holiday Market at the Oxford Senior Center. Volunteers help set up as well and run the event while seniors sell crafts and gifts for the holidays. Ollier also said they help to sell Christmas trees with Caracole of Cincinnati which

provides housing and support for people affected by HIV/AIDS.

Senior Miranda Wood, president of AphiO, said the group also helps out with Butler County projects as well during the holidays.

“Each semester, our chapter votes on philanthropies for us to focus our service efforts on causes and organizations that our chapter cares about,” Wood said. “Butler County Children’s Services is an organiza-tion that we have great relationships with and this year we accepting do-nations of non-perishable foods and toys for them.”

Some other service groups in the area are Oxfam, where volunteers help people all over the world over-come poverty and injustice. Another is Habitat for Humanity which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating poverty and homeless-ness through volunteering.

There are many opportunities for students and volunteers alike to go out and improve the Oxford

community by donating their time, energy, food and other needed items to make someone’s holiday brighter.

Oxford Community Choice Pantry is located at 400 W. With-row St. and for more informa-tion about how to volunteer visit www.oxchoicepantry.org or call (513) 523-3831.

St. Mary’s Catholic Church is located at 111 E. High St. and for more information call (513) 523-2153. The Oxford Bible Fel-lowship can be contacted at (513) 523-5300 or visit www.obf.org for information.

To find more information about Miami University’s Al-pha Phi Omega chapter visit http://muhub.collegiatelink.net/ organization/alphaphiomega.

To find out more information about other student volunteer op-portunities visit The Office of Com-munity Engagement and Service’s website http://www.units.muohio.edu/servicelearning/.

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Students Ashley Charles, Courtney Frydryk, Shawnee Waters, and Claire Cawley volunteer at the Oxford Community Choice Pantry.

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The Center for American and

World Cultures (CAWC), in com-bination with Miami University’s music department, is giving an ethnomusicology presentation Thursday that will detail the tra-ditions of the yearly pre-Lenten festival of Carnival (or Carnaval in Brazil). The presentation will focus on the traditions of Brazil and Trinidad as they participate in this country-wide riotous fes-tival, as well as the factors that have influenced the festival over the years.

The event will feature a lecture, live and recorded musical per-formances, videos and personal

experiences to illustrate the rich cultural traditions characteristic of such a colorful and important event. Following the presenta-tion, ticket-holders will enjoy a dinner catered by Miami with cuisine inspired by the local spe-cialties enjoyed during Carnival.

The speakers for the evening will be Miami professors of mu-sic Thomas Garcia and Chris Tanner, both of whom teach classes on music from around the world and its influences on culture. They will examine the differences between each loca-tion’s celebrations by comparing the music and dance, costumes, movies and photos of the festi-val while analyzing the politi-cal, economic and social factors

that influenced these differences. Garcia, who visits Brazil annu-ally, will be showing costumes that he wore during a Samba

competition during Carnaval. Stu-dents from the Music Department and Steel Band will illustrate the vibrant culture of the event by playing percussion instruments for a Samba procession.

“Music isn’t a univer-sal language,” Garcia said.

“It’s a universal concept.”When asked about the impor-

tance and relevance of the Latin American festival, Tanner related

it to the wild and vivid aspects of Mardi Gras here in the U.S., as both events prepare the people for the sacrifices of Lent with a mag-nificent celebration. He also em-phasized the importance of com-ing to such an event on campus.

“It is a great opportunity to

learn about something that [stu-dents] might not otherwise en-counter,” Tanner said.

By attending such an event, one could learn a great deal about worldly affairs and the cultures that drive them. Thursday’s lec-ture will include performances and colorful displays of how so-cioeconomic and political factors can create vast demonstrations of cultural importance.

“Carnival in Brazil and Trini-dad” will take place 5 p.m. Thursday in the Shriver Heritage Room. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for faculty and staff. The event will continue Friday at 7:30 p.m. on Miami’s Hamilton cam-pus for those that cannot attend this Thursday’s presentation.

Carnival lecture to feature music and food

Music isn’t a universal language. It’s a universal concept.”

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Picture messaging app follows instagram hypeBy Billy rAFAElArtS & EntErtAinmEnt Editor

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, which may be the reason for all the hype around the new smartphone applica-tion Snapchat. If you’ve ever seen someone using their phone and randomly holding a strange face for a few seconds, they may have just been taking a “snap” of themselves. Available to iPhone and Android users, Snapchat lets you send pictures to your friends that they can only see for a pre-determined amount of seconds, from one to 10.

It’s a pretty clever concept. Once their finger clicks the mes-sage notification, the time begins to count down, and the picture is only on the screen when the screen is being touched.

The first question most people ask when they hear about how Snapchat works is how they avoid people taking screenshots, and while it’s not impossible to take one, the designers have put in several measures to deter it. Having to keep your finger on the screen to have the photo dis-played makes configuring your hand to take a screenshot dif-ficult, and if the buttons are not hit perfectly in sync you will end up with a picture of your menu. In addition, if someone tries to take a screenshot of a photo you sent, whether they are successful or not, you will get a notification that they tried.

So what are people using Snapchat for? What secret, time-sensitive photos are people send-ing each other?

Honestly, just a lot of selfies and weird faces. The ability to add text makes it essentially the

same as picture messaging with-out having to fill up your phone’s memory. Parental concern lies in the thought that an app like this might encourage “sexting” but the non-airtight privacy features discourage this, and Snapchat de-clares in their privacy policy that, “messages are sent at the risk of the user.”

According to its blog, Snap-chat hit a landmark last month after the billionth photo was sent over the application since its re-lease four months ago, and there are few signs of slowing down. Over 20 million photos are being shared on Snapchat daily.

The app’s success is following in the footsteps of Instagram, the popular image sharing website that allows users to add filters to their photos and their friends to like them, much like Facebook or Twitter without text. There seems to be a cultural shift toward com-municating through pictures. People are wanting more and more to share every aspect of their day with all of their friends, whether it be where they’re at, who they’re with or what they’re doing. Snapchat follows in these footsteps, yet allows a more per-sonal experience. By not immor-talizing the photo on the Inter-net for the world to see they are taking measures to protect the user’s privacy.

Not everyone who tries Snap-chat falls in love with it. There are many out there that fail to see the purpose, and chalk it up as another social media fad destined to dissipate like those before it. While it is unknown whether Snapchat’s appeal will last, there’s no sense getting worked up over it. Just enjoy that absurdity of seeing which of your friends can make the ugliest face.

VAlEriE WEStin THE MIAMI STUDENTJAZZinG it uPJoshua Smith plays guitar with the Miami University Jazz Ensemble Nov 19 in Hall Auditorium. Under the direction of Jeremy Long, the concert featured music from the Hard Bop style.

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“You won’t believe your eyes.” That’s what I was told going into

my viewing of Life of Pi, and man, did it live up to the hype. Director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain) has done it again, orchestrating another Oscar-contending film. What struck me al-most immediately about Life of Pi, which is based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Yann Martel, was where its power comes from.

For the first thirty-odd minutes Lee devotes the screen time to ex-ploring the title character Pi’s rela-tionship with religion, his family and a tiger named Richard Parker. The story is told as a flashback, as the much older Pi is retelling his story to a writer who wants to get it on paper, setting the stage for the journey Pi is to take later in the film.

It just so happens that that

journey is the most amazing vi-sual experience I’ve ever had at the movies. That’s a bold statement, es-pecially in the face of the spectacu-lar aesthetics produced by James Cameron’s Avatar. But unlike Ava-tar, which is set on a tropical, dis-tant planet, Life of Pi is much more intimate. From breaching whales to a myriad of meerkats on an algae island, it brings the world we live in to life on the silver screen like never before, making it more believable and astounding because of that.

Life of Pi is no one trick pony, however. The narrative is airtight and the performances are brilliant, coming from a cast that is mostly unknown to American audiences. But most striking is the story that develops as the 16-year old strug-gles to stay alive, drifting through the South Pacific. His friendship with Richard Parker provides a story that is unlike any you have seen in theaters for quite awhile.

In many ways, Pi would have died long before his journey’s end had it not been for his striped companion. Without giving too much away, there are two scenes that reflect the nature of their relationship perfect-ly, and pack layers of meaning into seconds on screen that shape the ending more than one might think.

Life of Pi isn’t my favorite movie I’ve seen this year, but it might be the best. It’s storytelling at its finest, crafting an original tale of survival and faith without being preachy. It’s an experience that was well worth two hours, and who would have thought that one of the most emotional stories I’ve been told this year would come from a castaway boy and his Bengal tiger?

Life of Pi is a must-see movie, so do yourself a favor and give it a watch.

Life of Pi offers a unique story of faith, survival and a really freaking big tiger

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on the night, compared to Cincinna-ti’s .226 hitting percentage and three total blocks.

“Our middles hit great,” Head Coach Carolyn Condit said. “We got quality digs, passed well and

our serving was better. It was a good team effort and it was good for our seniors to close out their careers with a win.”

The Bearcats had some solid performances as well. Senior out-side hitter Megan Turner recorded a team-high 12 kills while senior setter Racheal Rohlfs helped out on

offense with 37 assists. Collectively, UC outdug Miami 62-47 but could not overcome the 24 attack errors they committed on the night.

“We just came together and we played well,” Menche said. “It’s a good ending for these four years. There are still great things to come from the underclassmen.”

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Daniel P. Tokaji is the Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law at The Ohio State University, co-editor of Election Law Journal and co-author of the acclaimed casebook Election Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2012). A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Professor Tokaji has published widely on election law and its broader implications for questions of political equality, racial justice, and the role of the federal courts in American democracy. As an attorney, Tokaji has also litigated numerous cases in Ohio and elsewhere on the voting rights of naturalized citizens, voter registration, early voting practices and election administration. Before coming to Ohio State, Professor Tokaji clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, worked as a sta� attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and served as Chair of California Common Cause. He currently sits on the boards of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Central Ohio.

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By Kennan Belau For The MiaMi STudenT

The Miami University women’s basketball team (3-2) defeated the College of Charleston (CofC) Cou-gars Friday and lost to Youngstown State University Penguins Sunday. The loss against Youngstown State snapped a three game winning streak for the RedHawks.

Junior forward Erica Almady led Miami with 13 points against Charleston and added six rebounds. Senior guard Courtney Osborn was the only other RedHawk in double figures, with 10 points, and added six assists, five rebounds and three steals.

“Once my guards got me the ball, I knew that I had to finish,” Almady said. “That was my job today.”

The RedHawks outrebounded the Cougars 56-42 and held CofC to 21.4 (15 for 70) shooting. While Miami forced 24 turnovers, they had a season-high 32 turnovers of their own.

“It was an overall sloppy game for us, but I’m proud of how we fin-ished this game.” Head Coach Ma-ria Fantanarosa said.

Miami got off to a strong start against the Cougars, as back-to-back scores by junior forward Almady and senior forward Kirsten Olow-inski sparked a 10-2 run to start the game. CofC answered with a quick three to cut the lead to 10-5, but the Miami defense had their best stretch of the season as they would hold the Cougars without a field goal for the next 11:43. The RedHawks capital-ized on their great defensive play to go on a 16-4 run, capped by a layup from junior center Kelsey Simon,

to take a 26-9 lead with 3:10 left in the first half. The Cougars turned up their press at that point, and finished the half on a 9-0 run to cut Miami’s lead to 26-18.

“They had a very aggressive press,” Osborn said. “We showed that if we were aggressive, we made things happen.”

The CofC press continued to cre-ate turnovers early in the second half, as the Cougars rallied to get the game within four points, at 34-30 with 12:51 left in the game. The RedHawks took control of the game for good with a 9-3 run, capped by layups from Almady and Simon. Miami junior guard Haley Rob-ertson hit two jumpers after that to push the RedHawk lead to 51-38 with 5:10 left, and those would be the last field goals Miami needed. The Cougars did not score over the next three minutes, and only scored four points for the rest of the game. Osborn went four of four from the free throw line to seal the 55-42 win for the RedHawks.

Sunday’s game did not start as well for Miami, as the Penguins went on an early 8-2 run. The Red-Hawk offense struggled early, as the team only scored eight points in the first 13 minutes, allowing Youngstown State to take a 17-8 lead. Osborn finally got the Mi-ami offense going when she hit a three pointer at the 6:44 mark. Youngstown State answered with a quick layup, but Miami went on a 12-0 run over the next five minutes to take a 23-19 lead. The Penguins closed the half on a 6-2 run of their own to tie the game at 25 going into the half.

“Even through our slow start, it

was our defense that kept us in the game,” Osborn said. “In the first half, we played team defense and had a lot of help.”

Youngstown State scored the first point of the second half, but an Osborn three pointer would give the RedHawks a 28-26 lead with 18:55 left. However, that would be the last lead of the game for Miami, as the Penguins took control with a 19-6 run to take a 45-34 lead at the 13:59 mark. The RedHawks were able to cut the deficit to 52-44 af-ter another Osborn three pointer at 9:23, but wouldn’t get any closer as Youngstown State put the game away with a 15-7 run. The Penguins were able to hit most of their free throws down the stretch to secure the 76-56 victory.

“Everything we did in the first half, we just didn’t get there in the second half,” Fantanrosa said. “In the second half, we just stood and watched.”

Youngstown State shot 47.1 percent (24 for 51) for the game, including a stunning 63.6 percent (14 for 22) in the second half. The RedHawks shot 37.7 percent (20 for 53) for the game, and only Osborn scored in double figures for Miami. She finished with 15 points, four re-bounds, four assists, and four steals. Olowinski was second on the team with nine points, and also led the RedHawks with five rebounds.

Miami returns to the court on 11 a.m. Wednesday, as it travels to take on the ninth-ranked Kentucky Wild-cats, who are 4-1 on the season. The Wildcats are averaging 78.8 points per game, and their only loss on the season was on the road against top-ranked Baylor University.

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redhawks split weekend home standclosed his breakout season with 14 tackles, increasing his total to 128 for the year. He currently sits third in the MAC in tackles.

Ball State jumped out to an early 7-0 lead thanks to a short touch-down run by Edwards. The Red-Hawks tied the game for the first and only time when Dawan Scott scored on a three-yard run.

However, Ball State would go on a 24-7 run to go up 31-14 at the end of the fourth quarter. The Red-Hawks would trim the led to 31-24 thanks to a Dysert touchdown pass and a field goal by freshman kicker Kaleb Patterson.

Unfortunately, senior wide re-ceiver Andy Cruse fumbled a punt with 24 seconds left to end any hopes of a Miami comeback.

For the 25 seniors on Miami Uni-versity’s roster, it is a disappointing end to their careers. A few, like Zac Dysert, have a chance to play pro-fessionally, but for many, this game

likely marks the end of their com-petitive playing days.

“It really doesn’t hit you un-til you are in the locker room and you realize that you’ve played your last play,” senior linebacker Jay-tee Swanson said. “It was disap-pointing the way we went out, but I’m thankful for the opportunity to play.”

The rest of the team will now wait until spring practice to get back on the field, with the memory of back to back 4-8 seasons still fresh in their minds. The team doesn’t play an actual game for over 270 days, when they travel to Marshall University at the end of August.

“As a senior, you hope you leave something behind that was positive,” Swanson said. “There is something they can always build on.”

Perhaps a recruiting class that is ranked third in the MAC with only nine verbal commitments, accord-ing to Rivals.com, will give the team some momentum heading into next season.

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Editorial@miamistUdEnt.nEt6 OPINIONTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012

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EditorialThe following piece, written by the editorial editors, reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.

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End of the semesterWhy couldn’t we just stay home?

miami’s study abroad programs crucial to student experience

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Excessive food intakeExpect guilt-ridden crowding at the Rec this week.

The Institute of International Education recently ranked Mi-ami University as the no. 1 public school for percentage of students studying abroad. More than 40 percent of Miami’s students study abroad by graduation, and Miami has a goal of increasing this to more than 50 percent.

The Miami Student editorial board reflects this growing sta-tistic, as most of us have either already studied abroad or plan to do so in the coming semes-ters. We believe that Miami is in a unique position regarding its study abroad opportunities.

The university’s Office of In-ternational Education works diligently to show students the cultural and personal benefits of academic traveling, rather than emphasizing the benefits of the university itself. Students are told to go abroad not for resumes or to increase Miami’s statis-tics, but instead to broaden each individual’s horizons.

Many of Miami’s students can also afford to go abroad. With Miami’s campus in Luxembourg and various scholarship and travel grant opportunities avail-able, tuition can be similar to that of a semester in Oxford. We applaud the university’s con-tinuous efforts to make study abroad experiences feasible for

as many students as possible.We believe that travel is cru-

cial for people our age, and we encourage students leaving next semester for international education realize the value of this experience.

The editorial board is aware that some of this advice is cli-ché, but we would like to remind students to appreciate this excit-ing opportunity as much as pos-sible. Research the histories and political situations of the places you’re going before you board your flight. Go beyond visiting the touristy attractions; get the authentic, cultural experience. The world is much more than the collegiate playground of old scenery that some students make it out to be. Anywhere you go has a rich history and culture, and an integral part of the study abroad experience is learning from this history and culture.

Finally, remember that this ex-perience helps you grow not only as a student, but as a person. You have a great chance to learn about yourself, and another culture. But also you have the chance to edu-cate others about what Americans are really like. Don’t immediately say no to a new food or a new cus-tom. Represent the U.S. and Mi-ami University well by appreciat-ing all this experience has to offer.

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I would request “Jingle Bells” to get everyone in the holiday spirit.

Curtis WernerSenior

Since President Barack Obama is an incumbent president, there’s no transition to hurry through—the entire executive branch need not be staffed. Many of Obama’s key team players will be sticking around, and for those who don’t, junior-level staffers are likely seasoned enough to step in at this point.

Really his main focus simply must be staffing his cabinet—fill-ing the informal, but institutional-ized body with able and easy-to-confirm members.

And with the Petraeus scan-dal likely to occupy far too much of the executive branch’s time, close followers of American poli-tics assume the President would not seek out any unnecessary nomination fights over his new cabinet positions.

Plus, many of these nominations should be easy money. Career pol-iticians with plenty of good will in our nation’s capital often inherit these 15 cushy positions.

Folks like Senator John Kerry, a good solider Democrat who has admirably carried his party’s banner for years and has always wanted to be Secretary of State—a position certain to become open soon since Hillary Clinton has said she’s done after an exhausting

four years—tend to fill these slots.Also, fellow senators who

aren’t completely hated by their colleagues (see Tower, John) tend to do pretty well in the confirmation process.

But President Obama would rather not reward Senator Kerry after his years of service with the State Department. Instead, the

president and his team favor Su-san Rice, the United States Am-bassador to the United Nations.

Rice, a career diplomat and a good soldier Democrat, has cer-tainly been groomed for the role for a while. She has always been high on team Obama’s list—pick-ing fights with Senator John Mc-Cain and other neo-conservative hawks during the 2008 campaign.

And those very fights are where the problem lies. McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have promised to block Rice’s nomination in the Senate. Hanging their hats on comments Rice made on the Sunday shows after the tragedy in Benghazi that contradicted the intelligence gath-ered at that point in time.

The two neo-cons have seized on the mistakes of their old nem-esis, and are using her words as their sole rational to block the nomination.

Whether they make good on their threats to filibuster or not is beside the point (though I’m of the opinion the two should drop it). In the real world, the fight is going to happen. The point is this fight is an unnecessary one for Presi-dent Obama as he opens up his second term.

Senator Kerry is a perfect fit for State after years of service at the top of the Senate Foreign Rela-tions committee, and there would likely be no fight over his nomina-tion. Smooth sailing for an admin-istration that’s always had rocky relations with Congress.

Instead, President Obama, our hubristic leader, has decided one person, and one appointment is worth valuable political capital he needs in fiscal cliff negotiations.

Which seems to be more important?

Beating an old foe (who you’ve already stomped before) and giv-ing a friend an important job, or putting an able politician in an important position that he’ll likely excel in with almost no collateral political damage.

President Obama need not make his political positioning any more perilous. And though our supercil-ious leader thinks he can win them all, he can’t.

And as he should have learned with healthcare—sometimes even when you win, you end up losing with the public.

President Obama, nominate Senator Kerry for Secretary of State. Use your political capital on securing an acceptable deal for your party.

Don’t fight with the Senate. It’s a waste of your time, and support.

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Obama should avoid political fight, nominate Kerry for State

Student on the StreetWhat song would you request for the Pulley Tower to play?

I would request “Let It Snow” because it’s nonreli-gious and would get peo-ple into the holiday cheer. Everyone loves snow.

Monica KomerFirst-year

President Obama need not make his political positioning any more perilous. And though our supercilious leader thinks he can win them all, he can’t.

ESSAY

Continuous pursuit of liberty, equality creates an exceptional, prosperous America

Some people equate American “exceptionalism” with a form of nationalism and as an excuse to spread our influence into the world. They associate the term with a ‘rules don’t apply to us’ mentality and a bully attitude.

The word “exceptional” refers to an unusual goodness. Politi-cally, there is nothing particularly unique about European countries. They all had monarchies at some point in history. They all get their rights from their governments. They’ve all had rigid class sys-tems with aristocracies.

America is unique for three main reasons. Our country is the only country in history to have been built on the ideas of 1) all men are created equal, 2) rights that are inalienable and do not come from the government and 3) that anyone can become a full-fledged American as long as they pledge allegiance to the Republic and to the principles for which it stands. Our citizenry does not de-pend on bloodlines or “rootedness in the soil” like in other nations.

Being American is about be-lieving in the unique ideas upon which America was built.

These unique ideas contribute to an idea of liberty that does not exist elsewhere in the world, which is the idea of economic

liberty. This American definition of liberty has made us the freest, and thus the most prosperous na-tion in history.

Other nations throughout his-tory conquered and plundered to take wealth.

People try to compare the de-cline of historic empires such as the Roman Empire with what some think is America’s current decline, but they fail to note that the reason why historic empires declined was because they be-came overextended and it became more difficult for them to con-tinue to conquer and seize wealth.

America gained wealth because its ideas led to wealth creation.

America’s unique definition of liberty led to the opportunities for individuals to flourish by creating value and wealth because they could freely choose the pursuit of their own ambitions. The only way we will ever decline is if we

fail to adhere to the ideas that made us free and prosperous.

I think President Barack Obama either fails to understand what makes America excep-tional, or has a different view of America. I think he parallels the core value of “equality” with the egalitarian definition of providing equal outcomes.

The phrase “all men are cre-ated equal” does not mean actual

equality. It means that each indi-vidual is of equal worth and thus the law must be impartial and applied equally to all. Federalist Paper 10 describes how pure de-mocracies have “erroneously sup-posed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their politi-cal rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions and their passions.”

Proponents of social justice also use the egalitarian defini-tion of equality. I don’t think they understand the three ideas listed above, and if they do un-derstand them, they believe that’s what makes America bad and that America must be transformed.

They fail to realize that the American definition of liberty has done more to lift people out of poverty and created a prosperity more widely shared than among any other people in history.

Those who believe in the egali-tarian definition of equality define fairness as the partial application of the law rather than an impartial rule of law. This results in favorit-ism and human agencies granting rights to some people over oth-ers. Our Founders set up a sys-tem where no group can suppress another. But in the name of ‘fair-ness’, social justice proponents

would suggest applying taxa-tion more heavily to one group than another.

Social justice is appropriate in the private sector, such as chari-ties, but it was never meant to be the government’s role.

More and more people are be-ginning to believe that the low-er, middle and upper classes in America contain the exact same people each year.

There is significant upward and downward mobility among our classes in America. A person in the “one-percent” today isn’t nec-essarily there next year.

The failure to understand American “exceptionalism” is a failure to understand America and the root of our liberty, prosper-ity and success. Nations that put liberty before egalitarian equality, such as America, have actually done better in regards to the bet-terment of human life.

America has always been a na-tion with a love of liberty. But we’re at a tipping point. If we con-tinue to transform into a nation with a love of egalitarian equal-ity, we will cease to be America and our freedom and prosperity will decline.

OLIVIA BROUGHBROUGHOL@MUOHIO.EDU

They fail to realize that the American defini-tion of liberty has done more to lift people out of poverty and created a prosperity more widely shared than among any other people in history. Those who believe in the egalitarian definition of equality define fairness as the partial application of the law rather than an impartial rule of law.

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Right now, I’d say any Christmas song, maybe “Si-lent Night,” because that one’s my favorite.

Chelsea OsgoodJunior

Can I choose for them not to play a song? I once heard “Friday” by Rebecca Black. I think it would be cool for them to play “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore.

Sydney WeldonSophomore

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Thanksgiving-spoiling pattern though? Common enough to have its own website. Turkeydump.com offers a place for “dumpers” and “dumpees” to seek support and share their break-up stories. And for one Miami student, the Thanksgiv-ing heartbreak is personal.

Junior Caitlin McCoy said she relates to the one-two punch of nursing a full stomach and a bro-ken heart—all while giving thanks. During her first semester at Miami, she broke things off with her boy-friend, then a senior in high school.

The summer before McCoy left for college was filled with starry-eyed promises that soon turned to “I think we need a break.”

“I thought that through rou-tine communication and visiting each other, that it would work,” McCoy said.

However, as months of new ex-periences passed, McCoy’s long-distance relationship grew more and more vulnerable to a turkey drop, with a side of dumping.

“I was creating a new friend group and he was doing his own thing at home and I told myself that we could make it through, but it was really hard,” she said.

As students adapt and feel

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their walk to class, Aaron Pittenger is one student who knows Runyon’s role as carillonneur well.

The senior electrical engineer-ing major went to Pulley Tower to record the bells as part of an audio class he took two years ago. He en-joyed the experience so much that went back time and time again to hear Runyon play carillon concerts on the weekends.

“I was there so much he eventu-ally offered to let me play some,” Pittenger said.

When it came time for Pit-tenger to develop his senior proj-ect for his major, he decided to revamp the bell system by using reverse engineering to rebuild the carillon’s technology.

Runyon said he decided to divert his carillonneur salary for the year to Pittenger’s project.

Through working closely with Runyon on the Pulley Tower caril-lon, Pittenger said he has developed sincere admiration for Runyon.

“He told me that he’ll actually sit down for a day and spend four or five hours just listening to the YouTube video, writing the mu-sic off the YouTube video for the

Tower, and I just think that’s such an amazing thing to be able to do that,” Pittenger said.

Runyon used to play live concerts on the Pulley Tower carillon nearly every Sunday afternoon, but he said he doesn’t do that as much now.

“I’ve been a little disappointed that when I’ve hung the [concert] sign up and played I haven’t seen anyone here,” Runyon said. “So I thought ‘well what’s the point?’”

Lentini said it can be easy for the university community to hear the Pulley Tower carillon without giving it much thought.

“It’s one of those things that you can take for granted very eas-ily,” Lentini said. “I think probably most people wouldn’t know that somebody’s really paying attention to [the tower] or maybe even out there playing.”

Pittenger said every Miamian should appreciate the Pulley Tower bells, and make an effort to hear one of Runyon’s concerts.

“Even if you don’t come every week, if you come a couple times it’s just kind of fun to sit out there on a nice day, and you can hear songs on the bells, just, it’s kind of a nice envi-ronment,” Pittenger said. “I think it’s something people should experience and kind of appreciate.”

comfortable to the college lifestyle, Winters said she agrees they are less inclined to stay connected.

“After a few months go by and the student is feeling adjusted to col-lege life the need to lean on people from his or her past is not as strong,” she said.

Because of this, McNeill said the timing of Thanksgiving break seems to fit for a break-up.

As Thanksgiving occurs conve-niently after a few months of college-exploration and before the stress of finals and Christmas, where break-ing up may be just too cruel, many couples tend to do the deed then.

“There’s enough time to have face to face conversations with the partner, but there’s also a lot of other distractions with the holiday and family obligations for both,” she said.

It may be especially convenient because the couple can avoid run-ning into each other post-breakup, which is often all too awkward.

“[Because] then it’s time to go back to school,” McNeill said.

It was challenging, however, Mc-Coy said her first holiday home was

a good opportunity to call things off. “That’s when I started to realize

that I was changing into a different person being in college and doing my own thing,” she said.

These transitions didn’t bode well for her soon-to-be crushed high school sweetheart, but it made the most sense for the situation, McCoy said.

“Especially freshman year when you’re meeting a lot of new people, you don’t want to feel pulled back into the old high school life by dat-ing someone,” she said.

So what are McCoy’s comforting words for any first-years with Tur-key Drop trauma? It’s probably for the best.

“This way, you’re more able to live in the moment and enjoy every-thing that college has to offer with-out constantly thinking about this person at home,” she said.

In one way or another, last week’s break was the end of an era for many. From pumpkin pie season to a young romance, it is, perhaps tearfully, time to move on. But hey, at least it’s ac-ceptable to cry with Christmas music on in the background now.

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the integration of all international programs,” Gorman said.

Young said the Confucius Institute will work with the Of-fice of International Education and the Center for American Cultures. She said they will all be under an umbrella of global education.

“They (the Confucius Insti-tute) have a high school program that travels to China and I will

be working with them,” Young said. “They’re part of an outreach effort education Americans and others about Chinese language and culture. We’ll be working with them a lot.”

Huang said the restructuring of all of these offices is too new to have any future goals related to integration.

“We have to have time to di-gest and to think how we should do this,” Huang said.

Keitges declined requests for an interview for this article.

hall,” Turner said. “I haven’t gotten sick of it yet, which is a good thing. I know I have friends from other schools that eat the same thing ev-ery day because they don’t have the same variety.”

Senior Matt Andersen has the off-campus meal plan and he also said the variety of food on cam-pus makes the Miami dining experience better.

“I’m kind of bummed that the new places are going to open af-ter I graduate,” Andersen said. “They seem cool. I bet they’ll be expensive though.”

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occur in Hall Auditorium 8 p.m. Mondays. Tickets are available starting the Wednesday before the lecture for students, faculty and staff, and to the general pub-lic that Friday. Tickets are also available at the door beginning at 7 p.m. Past speakers have includ-ed prominent individuals such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sanjay Gupta, Bill Nye, Jerry Springer, Soledad O’Brien and many more.

Junior Molly Gregor, a stu-dent whose seat was given away at the Rick Steves lecture, was frustrated when she arrived a few minutes late, only to have the fine print pointed out to her. She was still able to get a seat, although it was not the one she had picked up a ticket for.

“I absolutely do not think it’s fair,” Gregor said. “I was coming from a class that ended at 8:15

and had already left early to make it to the lecture on time.”

Senior lecturer in the journal-ism program and lecture commit-tee member Patricia Gallagher Newberry said the committee un-derstands that the late policy may be frustrating to busy students,

but encourages them to be proac-tive on their own behalf and talk to someone at the box office or to their professors.

Sophomore Elisa Frazier said she agrees students should take responsibility and arrive on time.

“I think the policy is important because students may be required to go for a class and may show up late just so they can see enough of the lecture to get credit,” Fra-zier said. “Regardless of their reason for being late, it’s rude to the speakers.”

Newberry said the policy has been an effective way to honor speakers with a full house and to get seats to people who want-ed to come but were not able to get tickets.

Harkrider said he agreed. “It’s actually not a negative

thing, it’s a very positive thing,” Harkrider said. “We have consis-tently been able to seat everyone without a ticket.”

In regards to the “fine print” on the tickets, Harkrider said it is ac-tually fairly prominent and hard to miss.

“We’re not trying to hide any-thing from anyone or deceive anyone,” Harkrider said.

What we typically find with free events is that people don’t place as much value on them...”

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LAUREN OLSON THE MIAMI STUDENT

Junior guard Quinten Rollins looks to make a pass against Grambling State University. Rollins had a career night against James Madison, registering his first career double-double with 10 points and 10 assists. Miami University improved to 3-2 on the season.

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MU extends win streak

Like it or not, conference re-alignment is back. The colle-giate landscape is shifting closer and closer to forming “Super Conferences.” So let’s take a fictional and hypothetical look at what the NCAA could look like in 2016.

In a shocking and controversial move during the summer of 2014, the NCAA announced a policy of relegation. Taking its cue from European soccer, the NCAA de-manded each major conference pair with a lesser conference. Each year, the two worse teams in the conference will fall and the top two from the feeder con-ference will replace them. The NCAA does allow the conferenc-es to increase that number if they so desire.

As a result, the conferences quickly made deals with each other, as the Big 10 pairs with the MAC, the Big 12 joins with Conference USA, the SEC aligns itself with the Sun Belt and the PAC-12 adds the Mountain West as their feeder. That leaves the Big East and the ACC as partners.

The conferences decided that it was the perfect time to form the “super-conferences.”

Having already added Rutgers University and the University of Maryland, the Big 10 and Presi-dent Jim Delany decided they aren’t done increasing their mar-ket for the Big Ten Network. As a result, the conference added University of Pittsburgh and Boston College.

The PAC-12 was quick to fol-low, adding Boise State Univer-sity, San Diego State University, Brigham Young University and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV). They re-named themselves the PAC-16 and came under fire after Pac-12 president Larry Scott is recorded saying UNLV was added for “the parties and the bookies.”

The Big 12 quickly added six teams. It grabbed the University of Louisville, the University of Cincinnati, Southern Method-ist University and the University of Houston. It also stole Florida State University and Clemson University from the ACC.

The Big 10 desired more TV markets, and it picked Syracuse University to help ensure it gets the New York market.

In a truly amazing move, Presi-dent Delany announced the addi-tion of the University of Toronto. Delany said the league felt it had to make sure they got the Canada

market, since the NHL never re-covered from the NHL Player’s Union head Donald Fehr and NHL Commissioner Gary Bett-man-induced three-year lockout.

The University of Cincin-nati tried to join the Big 10 be-fore heading to the Big 12, but Ohio State refused to share the state of Ohio. The Buckeyes had the Big 10 in a vice grip, as Ur-ban Meyer is undefeated against Big 10 schools.

The SEC, refusing to be out-done by any conference, added eight teams to become the na-tion’s first 22-team conference. It added the University of Miami, Georgia Tech, the University of South Florida, the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University, Duke Universi-ty, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.

The SEC announced it will no longer have non-conference games, and will instead hold only conference games.

The ACC was completely robbed of all its teams and it de-cided to fold entirely.

The Big East decided to scrap all sports except basketball, as it forms the often-rumored all-cath-olic league. It works quite well, as Xavier University, Georgetown University, Marquette Univer-sity and the University of Notre Dame all end up being ranked in the top 25.

The MAC added Temple Uni-versity and the University of Con-necticut while Army and Navy headed to the Mountain West to join up with Air Force. A variety of FCS schools filled in the gaps in the feeder conferences.

Undefeated Ohio State beat the undefeated Chip Kelly coach at the University of Southern Cali-fornia 30-24 in 2015. Kelly re-turned to the college ranks after flopping in the NFL faster than former Washington Redskins head coach Steve Spurrier.

The SEC had no one ranked in the top 10, as no team was able to escape the brutal schedule without at least three losses. As a result, the SEC left the NCAA and de-cided to hold its own champion-ship in 2016.

Oh and as far as Notre Dame goes? They refuse to join a confer-ence and remained independent as long as they can. However, they struggle to find opponents to play and eventually are forced to join the only conference that always has an odd number of teams - the MAC.

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The Miami University men’s basketball team extended its win streak to two games Saturday, knocking off James Madison Uni-versity 76-58. The victory now puts Miami over the .500 mark with a 3-2 record for the season.

Freshman guard Reggie John-son scored a career-high 21 points in the victory. This was the second game this season that Johnson was able to find his stroke, espe-cially from beyond the arc.

“It kind of came as I went along,” Johnson said. “They went into that zone, so there were a lot of gaps and I was able to get a few early open looks that kind of got me going. I just came out and stayed aggressive and my team-mates found me.”

Junior guard Quinten Rollins also had a big day, posting his first career double-double with 10 points and 10 assists. The 10 as-sists are a career high for Rollins.

“Q [Rollins] has tried to figure out what I want from him,” Coo-per said. “In the midst of trying to figure that out, I think it stymied his growth a little. I think he is beginning to figure it out. I tell him all the time that I don’t worry about his scoring. I know he’ll get his points. What impresses me is the assists. He was responsible for at least 30 points, and that’s a good thing for us.”

Miami had four players reach double figures in scoring. Ju-nior forward Jon Harris finished

the contest with 15, while red-shirt junior forward Will Felder chipped in 12 points, equaling his season high.

The ’Hawks shot a season best 49 percent from the floor, includ-ing a season best 39.1 percent from beyond the arc. The team emphasized execution as well as effort on the court, establishing the pace of the game.

The Red and White commit-ted 23 fouls, resulting in 28 free throw attempts for the Dukes.

“We wanted to play with a lot of energy,” Harris said. “It was an early game, so we had to wake our-selves up. We have to get better at pressuring teams without fouling. The 28 free throw attempts kept [James Madison] in the game. I think as the season goes on, we’ll be better about that.”

The RedHawks got off to a fast start, building a nine-point lead before the Dukes found the bot-tom of the net. A strong inside presence and defense sprung Mi-ami to a 16-4 lead less than five minutes into the contest. James Madison struggled on both ends of the court in the early go-ing, reaching double digits on the scoreboard 12 minutes into the game.

“I give Miami all the credit in the world,” James Madison Head Coach Matt Brady said. “They played with superior energy and toughness for all 40 minutes.”

The RedHawk lead grew to as large as 19 points in the first 20 minutes of action, but the Dukes found a rhythm as the half wound

down, mustering up offense and playing better defensively, as they forced Miami into several turnovers with their man defense and full court pressure. James Madison pulled to within eight points late in the half, but another Miami run pushed the lead to 11 at the break.

Despite the strong first half by Miami, Head Coach John Cooper had to find ways to get the best line-ups on the floor after redshirt junior forward Bill Edwards went down three minutes after tip-off on a fast break drive to the basket. Team doctors have determined Edwards suffered a knee injury, but are uncertain of specifics or severity. Edwards didn’t return to action. Cooper went to his bench, mixing various personnel on the court.

“When Bill [Edwards] went down, it threw a monkey wrench into rotations and how we would play,” Cooper said. “We started Bill and Jon (Harris) the last two games and we thought it would give us an opportunity to score points at multiple positions. I was just trying to get a feel for what was going on.”

The on point shooting and de-fensive intensity continued for Miami into the second half as well. James Madison made sev-eral short runs, but could not pull any closer than 10 points for the rest of the game.

Miami now starts a four-game road swing Dec. 1 at Indiana Uni-versity-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW).

RedHawks fall against Ball State in season finale

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In the final game of the season, the Miami University football team lost to the Ball State Cardinals 31-24. The RedHawks finish with a 4-8 overall record and a 3-5 Mid-Amer-ican Conference (MAC) record for the second straight season.

Despite strong games from red-shirt senior quarterback Zac Dys-ert and sophomore wide receiver Dawan Scott, the Red and White dropped their fourth straight game and finish the season having lost six of their last seven games.

“The season as a whole didn’t end up like we were hoping for,” senior offensive lineman Brad Bed-nar said. “We went out prepared and fell short in a couple of games.”

Dysert closed his collegiate ca-reer by completing 26 of 40 passes for 218 yards and two scores. He moved up to 20th on the NCAA ca-reer passing yards list.

Scott was Dysert’s favorite tar-get on the day, catching a game high nine passes for 120 yards and

one score. He ran for a touchdown as well.

The Cardinals (9-3, 6-2) never trailed and were led by impressive performances by sophomore run-ning back Jahwan Edwards and redshirt freshman Horactio Banks. Taking advantage of a porous run defense which had hurt the ’Hawks all season, Edwards scored three times on 18 carries and picked up 98 yards.

“It is really hard to pin point,” senior linebacker Jaytee Swanson said of the run defense. “We’ve had trouble the entire season with the running game. I don’t think there is one particular thing I can blame it on. There is not one thing on my mind that I can say ‘that was the major problem.’”

Banks ran the ball 22 times for 80 yards. As a team, Ball State ran the ball 58 times for 226 yards. Ball Sate attempted only 22 passes.

Junior linebacker Chris Wade

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VOLLEybALL

Red and White defeat UC in final matchby JORdAN RiNARdStAff wRitER

After going through what can be considered a stagnant month of November, the Miami University volleyball team got its lone win in a 3-1 (24-26, 25-18, 25-22, 25-21) decision against the University

of Cincinnati in the last match of the season.

The win by the RedHawks (10-20, 4-12 Mid-American Confer-ence) snapped a 4-game losing streak overall and three consecutive defeats at the hands of UC (12-20, 9-6 Big East) since the annual series started up in 2009.

After a back-and-forth first set that eventually belonged to the Bearcats,

the ’Hawks asserted themselves ear-ly in the second set with a 14-4 run and held the Cincinnati offense to a .000 hitting percentage in the set.

Things were much more com-petitive in the third set, with both teams essentially trading points with each other until the Red and White

closed out the match on a 4-1 run to go up 2-1.

The fourth set was much like the previous one in that it was hotly con-tested and Miami pulled away late, also with a run of 4-1.

The RedHawks had a plethora of strong showings in last match of the season, especially the se-niors who played their last game for the University and will move

on to bigger and better things.Senior outside hitter Lisa Tread-

way had perhaps her best match of the season with 10 kills, a .500 hit-ting percentage, nine digs and two blocks assists, while senior setter Amy Kendall and senior outside hitter/middle blocker Christina Menche also made significant con-tributions with 22 assists and six digs along with seven kills and three block assists respectively.

“It’s a great match to go out on,” Treadway said. “We had effective servers, passers, and some good blocking. The team played well.”

Sophomore setter/outside hitter and All-MAC First Team honoree Meg Riley continued to be a force for the ’Hawks with a near triple-double of 10 kills, 27 assists and eight digs.

Redshirt freshman middle hitter Jenny Ingle and sophomore middle hitter Chelsea Visk were factors with a combined 21 kills and seven block assists.

The Red and White as a team hit .338 and registered nine total blocks

We just came together and we played well. It’s a good ending for these four years. There are still great things to come from the underclassmen”

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