With the election just around the corner, Miami University students have mixed opinions on the most important issues this election, from the economy to women’s rights.

Miami students are traditionally conservative compared to other uni-versities, according to past results of the Cooperative Institutional Re-search Program (CIRP), a national survey given to incoming first-years. In 2011, the survey found that nearly 35 percent labeled their political leanings as “conservative” or “far right.”

Comparatively, in other highly selective public universities, like the University of South Carolina and the College of William and Mary, 25 percent said they were “conser-vative” or “far right,” according to CIRP.

The numbers are reflected in the membership of College Republi-cans and College Democrats; the College Republicans signed up 500 interested first-years at the begin-ning of this semester, while the Col-lege Democrats signed up approxi-mately 150, according to presidents of the groups, Baylor Myers and Laura Kretz respectively.

Both organizations, however, re-ported increased membership and excitement this year.

“I think we are all very excited because it’s a presidential election year,” Kretz said. “The average stu-dent will only experience one presi-dential election, and this is that year for people.”

Myers echoed the sentiment. “Enthusiasm for College Repub-

licans has reached a high point with Paul Ryan’s nomination,” Myers said.

In addition to reporting more con-servative views than comparable schools, Miami students also report a higher income.

Bryan Marshall, professor of po-litical science at Miami, thinks con-servativeness and wealth statistics at Miami are linked.

“People who report more income tend to affiliate with the Republican

party,” Marshall said. “Tradition-ally, the Republican party has been viewed in terms of being more sup-portive of business and in terms of supporting folks that have upper economic status. The Democratic party is viewed as the party of the worker, and folks that aren’t high up on a socioeconomic scale.”

The CIRP survey found 20 per-cent of first-year Miami students re-ported an estimated family income of more than $250,000 compared to14 percent at other highly selec-tive public universities. The median household income for Americans so far in 2012 is $50,054, according to the United States Census Bureau.

Senior Stephanie Babiarz said she is not surprised by the wealth statis-tic, in fact, she thought more Miami students would report their esti-mated parental income in the above $200,000 bracket.

“I honestly thought it would be a higher percentage than that,” Babi-arz said. “My own family’s income is probably in the $200,000 or over bracket, and I don’t consider myself one of the wealthiest kids here.”

According to Andrea Bakker, assistant director of institutional re-search, not much has changed since the last presidential election in 2008.

“Miami students generally report a higher income than other highly selective public universities, which is our comparison group,” she said. “Incoming Miami students do re-port more conservative views than our comparable groups; there has not really been fluctuation in terms of political attitudes.”

While the political leaning data has not fluctuated much at Miami, since the 2008 CIRP survey, there is nearly a three percent drop in the number of Miami students who consider themselves “liberal” or “far left.”

Marshall does not think the drop is significant, but noted differences between this election year and the 2008 election.

“The election in 2008 was his-torically unique for many reasons,” Marshall said. “The way [Barack Obama] campaigned, going above partisanship, was a message that

really resonated with students and young people.”

According to the CIRP survey, politics is still an often discussed topic at Miami. In the survey, 37.2 percent of students said they dis-cussed politics “frequently” while another 49.3 percent reported they discussed politics “occasionally.”

Chris Berry, Miami graduate and former College Republicans President, said there was definitely excitement for President Obama on campus in 2008.

“The College Republicans have always had a strong presence at Mi-ami, because Miami is traditionally more conservative,” Berry said. “In 2008, it was a little more even [be-tween the College Republicans and College Democrats].”

This election year, the novelty of the incumbent president has worn off for some Miami students.

Senior Patrick Wolande said he voted for President Obama in 2008, but will vote for Mitt Romney, though he aligns his views most closely with libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, in the upcoming election.

“There was excitement for Obama in 2008,” Wolande said. “I believed his message of hope and change. I just haven’t seen the re-sults I thought I was going to.”

Wolande said the economy is the most important issue for him, and he is fiscally conservative but socially liberal.

Wolande is not alone in his fiscal-ly conservative and socially liberal views.

According to the CIRP survey, 58.2 percent of Miami students “agree strongly” or “agree some-what” that abortion should remain legal. Just over half of students be-lieve marijuana should be legalized. A majority of students, 71.4 percent believe same-sex marriage should be legalized. A majority of students, 53.1 percent, also believe global warming should be a federal prior-ity, according to the CIRP.

The Affordable Care Act is not as popular with students, with 55.8 percent saying they disagreed with the statement, “a national health

care plan is needed to cover every-body’s medical costs.”

Senior Matt Luedtke also believes green party candidate Jill Stein, most closely matches his beliefs.

“I would vote [for] Obama in-stead because he is a close second, and unlike Jill Stein, has an actual chance at winning the election,” Lu-edtke said. “But I, like a lot of liber-als, have become disenchanted with this administration since 2008.”

For Luedtke, social issues like marriage equality, equal pay for women, and universal health care are the most important issues of this election, and he believes the presi-dent is better for those issues than Mitt Romney.

Social issues define the election for senior Dana Shanley as well, and she has already voted absentee for President Obama.

“Women’s issues are huge for

me,” Shanley said. “Women are graduating college and entering the workplace at a higher percentage and higher level than men, why is there still that [pay] discrepancy?”

Senior Mike Woeste also voted absentee, but for Mitt Romney. Like Wolande, his defining issue is the economy.

“The reason I voted for Mitt Romney is because I believe he is a very strong executive who has the experience, know-how and proper administration that will put the economy back on track,” Woeste said.

While Miami may seem partisan based on the CIRP data, 41.3 per-cent of incoming Miami first-years ranked themselves as middle-of-the-road, in 2011. The percentage was the same for comparable universi-ties.

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Page 2: A look into the Affordable Care Act and the contraceptive man-date. Students and faculty weigh in on the complicated and often controver-sial issues surrounding health care and reproductive rights.

Page 3: Coverage of local ballot Issue 2, an item that would change the Ohio redistricting process; tax levy Issue 24, regarding the Butler County Public Children Services Agency; and the Ohio House of Representatives race between incumbent Tim Derickson (R) and challenger Suzi Rubin (D).

Page 4: A look at the lighthearted side of the election with a review of Capitol Steps, a political satire troupe.

Page 6 and 7: A collection of profiles of local voters from the university and the community.

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As political advertisements have taken over media channels, lawns and billboards, Miami University students are reminded that the Nov. 6 presidential election is nigh. One of the issues that has been discussed on the campaign trail is the con-traceptive mandate proposed by President Barack Obama’s admin-istration, which would require all new private health insurance plans to cover birth control at no cost to the employee.

The contraceptive mandate is part of the Patient Protection and Af-fordable Care Act of 2010, which was upheld by the Supreme Court June 28.

Miami Comparative Religion Professor John-Charles Duffy said Republicans and Democrats tend to debate the contraceptive mandate in extreme terms in order to sway the votes of the issue’s supporters in the upcoming election.

“Conservatives cast this as ‘the Obama administration is making an assault on religious freedom,’” Duffy said. “Liberals cast it as ‘conservatives are waging a war on women.’ It’s framing the issue in those inflamed terms for the issue of rallying their respective bases.”

Duffy said he noted during the vice presidential debate Vice Presi-dential Candidate Paul Ryan alluded to the contraceptive mandate.

“He talked about the ‘assault on religious freedom,’ he called it, that the Obama administration is wag-ing and the examples he cited were

the way he felt the administration was trying to take away the reli-gious freedom of Catholic hospitals, Catholic charities, which was very clearly a reference to the contracep-tive mandate,” Duffy said.

According to Duffy, the con-traceptive mandate is not a new concept.

“What some journalists have been pointing out is the fact that mandates like the one that the Obama admin-istration had originally wanted or like the compromise that is now being proposed are already in place in many states and have been sup-ported by Republicans in the past,” Duffy said. “Republicans have lined

up against the Obama contracep-tive mandate because of course, it’s Obama, so it became a useful politi-cal tool in the election.”

The contraceptive mandate does not require houses of worship to of-fer contraception coverage to their employees, but does require em-ployers who are affiliated with reli-gious institutions such as hospitals or universities to provide coverage to their employees.

Roman Catholic bishops have contended that the contraceptive mandate violates religious freedom because it forces Catholics to pro-vide contraception to others, when

contraception is against Catho-lic Church teaching, according to Duffy.

“Catholics spearheaded [the movement against the contraceptive mandate] but it was framed as an issue of religious freedom so vari-ous other kinds of religious voices joined in on that as well, includ-ing groups that really didn’t have a problem with contraception but who were willing to rally behind what they saw as Catholics’ religious freedom,” Duffy said.

Senior Colten Kidwell said the contraceptive mandate violates religious freedom.

“I think when you tell a religious

organization to provide something that they don’t want to provide be-cause they are morally against it I think that’s violating religious free-dom,” Kidwell said.

According to Kidwell, while many Americans believe contracep-tives can be important for women’s health, religious organizations and institutions should have the freedom to decide whether or not they want to provide contraception.

“Whether or not you would argue that contraceptives are important for women’s health really isn’t the debate here, because it might very well be,” Kidwell said. “But to be

forcing religious organizations and institutions to do something that goes against their moral principles is very dangerous territory and it’s another example of how the ‘Health Care Tax,’ as the Supreme Court has called it, or ObamaCare is endan-gering those freedoms in creating a government that has gotten too big, too controlling and too dominating.”

The Obama administration pro-posed a compromise in March that would allow a patient who is em-ployed by a religious institution such as a Catholic hospital to receive con-traception directly from their insurer rather than their employer.

“So it’s this way that you are still getting the coverage but you are sort of bypassing the religious employer, so the religious employer can sort of say that their hands are clean, but you still get the coverage, which is crucial from the administration’s point of view,” Duffy said.

Institutions representing Catholic hospitals favored the compromise, but U.S. Catholic bishops rejected it, according to Duffy.

“One of their arguments, for ex-ample, is that Catholics working in the insurance industry are still sort of going to be tainted by contracep-tive services,” Duffy said. “They argued that the only way that insur-ance companies are going to be able to provide this service is by raising premiums for everyone. So people who don’t believe in contracep-tion will nevertheless be paying for contraception.”

Duffy said the reason Catholic bishops have been assertive in op-posing the contraceptive mandate is because they want to inform

American Catholics about why the Catholic Church does not support the use of contraception.

“I think for the Catholic bishops this has become an occasion to send a message to American Catholics,” Duffy said. “American Catholics are notorious for ignoring the Church’s ban on birth control … it’s an effort on behalf of the Catholic bishops to reinforce the Church’s teachings to a laity that is not convinced that those teachings are all that important.”

Associate Professor of English and Women’s Gender and Sexual-ity Studies Madelyn Detloff said the debate over reproductive rights can be seen as early as the 1910s when contraception advocate Mar-garet Sanger was indicted in 1914 for providing information on birth control and family planning to women and men.

Sanger’s motivation was to pre-vent the negative side effects mul-tiple pregnancies can have on wom-en, according to Detloff.

There are still risks associated with pregnancy today, Detloff said.

In 2010, 287,000 women world-wide died due to pregnancy or child-birth complications, according to the World Health Organization.

Detloff said some medical risks for pregnancy in the United States include high blood pressure, diabe-tes, death, serious back injuries and the inability to treat mood disorders in patients who have been diagnosed with them.

Senior Justine Furbeck supports the contraceptive mandate because

Contraceptive rights debated by Miamians

This is political theater. This issue that could have been discussed and has been discussed in the past in calmer ways is being inflamed at a particular moment.”

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Miami University has chosen Katie Wilson, currently Miami’s senior director of student engage-ment for the Office of Student Activities and Leadership, to be the director for the school’s much anticipated Armstrong Student Center (ASC).

Miami’s student affairs com-mittee interviewed over 50 ap-plicants in an open process, including applicants outside of Miami.

According to Scott Walter, vice president of student affairs, it was Wilson’s substantial background

in student affairs, experience with and knowledge of Miami and her desire to have the position that

helped her stand apart from the other applicants.

Wilson said the great relation-ships she has built with students

around campus will be a helpful component to her success.

“The hallmark of Miami is that we have such an engaged stu-dent body,” Wilson said. “My goal is that the student center reflects that.”

Her priorities for her first year as director of the ASC include first and foremost the hiring of a staff that shares her goals for the center.

She said she also plans to make sure the ASC is student-centered, and to aid in helping the center to run successfully.

Wilson also said she intends to set up a student board, in

former Times editor Keller speaks at miami

My goal is to live up to the vision Miami has for it, for it to be entirely student-centered.”

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Former New York Times Execu-tive Editor Bill Keller spoke Mon-day to approximately 200 students, faculty and Oxford community members in Miami University’s Farmer School of Business.

The event, “My Time at The Times: A conversation with Bill Keller,” consisted of initial remarks from Keller followed by a question and answer (Q&A) session.

Keller began the event talking about how his background influ-enced his career and belief system, and said he believes in three things: luck, doubt and curiosity.

He graduated from Pomona Col-lege in 1970, but said he has learned much more since graduating.

“I supposedly majored in Eng-lish; in reality, I majored in the campus newspaper with a mi-nor in recreational substances,” Keller said.

During the Q&A session, Keller answered questions ranging from The Times’ coverage of the Iraq War to the Jayson Blair scandal to whether or not The Times is a liberal publication. Keller said the Internet and social media have great potential, but also said the media needs to be conscious of the potential downside of the In-ternet, especially reinforcing au-dience prejudices and quickly releasing information rather than fact checking it.

The Miami chapter of the So-ciety of Professional Journalists (SPJ) organized the event that was intended to excite and inform stu-dents about journalism, according to SPJ Treasurer Ariana Williams.

“I really enjoyed that he want-ed to do something that was re-ally informal,” Williams said. “He stressed to us that he wanted to do a Q&A.”

Keller answered questions for more than 45 minutes.

“I’m looking forward to a lively Q&A,” Keller said. “When I say

I’m looking forward to it, I’m just being polite. What I really mean is I feel like the guys in the dunking booth. And I see a lot of people out there limbering up their throwing arms.”

Miami Journalism Program Coordinator of Special Events and SPJ Advisor, Patti Newberry, said she first emailed Keller about speaking at Miami in the summer of 2011. Newberry booked Keller for Monday’s event in July 2012 following a series of emails.

Newberry said Keller was a very generous and accommodat-ing guest and enjoyed his long and thoughtful responses.

“Bill Keller in my book is the real deal,” Newberry said. “He is a solid, lifelong journalist, com-mitted to the highest standards of newsgathering.”

In addition to speaking with Mi-ami students during his visit, Keller is also reporting on the election for The Times, and the Miami journal-ism department put together a list of potential sources to help with Keller’s reporting. He returns to New York Wednesday.

Keller served as executive editor of The New York Times from 2003 to 2011. Keller now writes an op-ed column for The Times and is a se-nior writer for The New York Times Magazine. Keller is also a mem-ber of the Pomona College Board of Trustees.

Previously at The Times, Keller served as a managing editor, a foreign editor, a bureau chief and as a foreign and domestic corre-spondent. Keller began his jour-nalism career writing for The Portland Oregonian before work-ing for The Dallas Times Herald and the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report.

The event was sponsored by the Diana Stark Journalism Fund, the New York Times Col-legiate Readership Program and the Miami University Office of the President and was organized by SPJ.

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What it Means to Vote Yes.A majority Yes vote on Issue 2

will amend Article XI of the Con-stitution of the State of Ohio. It will change the redistricting process for state and federal legislative districts.

Under the amendment, a 12-per-son “Ohio citizens redistricting commission” will be formed to redraw the district lines. The com-mission will be funded by the state. The commission will include four members of the majority party, four members of the minority party and four members not affiliated with either party.

The amendment maps out the process of committee selection that is included in the ballot points A-F.

Members of the committee cannot be removed by the General Assem-bly or the executive branch.

Commitee meetings will be public record.

The commission will use popula-tion data from the federal decennial census from the U.S. Census Bureau to redraw lines based on “competi-tiveness, representational fairness and compactness.”

The ballot issue requires a simple majority to amend the Constitution. If passed, it will become law thirty days after the election.

The campaign for Vote Yes on Is-sue 2 is led by Voters First Ohio and the League of Women Voters.

What it Means to Vote No.The current redistricting process

is legislated under Article XI of the Constitution of the State of Ohio. The amendment designates mem-bers of the General Assembly to draw district lines according to the federal decennial census from the U.S Census Bureau.

Every ten years the districts are redrawn by state legislatures in the majority party in the Ohio General Assembly. The majority party re-draws districts so each district meets population requirements legislated in Article XI.

According to Article XI of the Ohio Constitution, “The governor, auditor of state, secretary of state, one person chosen by the speaker of the House of Representatives and the leader in the Senate of the political party of which the speaker is a member, and one person chosen by the legislative leaders in the two houses of the major political party of which the speaker is not a member shall be the persons responsible for the apportionment of this state for members of the general assembly.”

If the ballot issue receives a ma-jority of votes, the Ohio Constitution and redistricting process will not be amended.

The campaign for Vote No on Issue 2 is led by Protect Your Vote Ohio.

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POlitiCs arE nO lauGHinG mattEr The Capitol Steps presented “Take The Money And Run (For President),” a satiric comedy performance commenting on current political events and the upcoming election. The group performed twice in Hall Auditorium on Sunday.

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In recent election cycles the youth vote has been given increas-ing attention and is becoming increasingly important.

“There are a lot of different things [that appeal to the youth voters],” Matthew Henderson, director of communications at the Ohio Repub-lican Party, said.

“From a state party level we have lots of different avenues for students to get involved,” he said. “[Such as] Facebook, Twitter and new ap-plications that get them updates on what the campaign is doing from the ground level.”

Since Ohio is a swing state and one of the most important states in the election, both candidates have been making appearances at colleges throughout Ohio and holding rallies that appeal to youth voters.

“Ohioans are very spoiled in terms

of the opportunities we get in choos-ing what candidate we want to vote for,” Henderson said. “Perhaps over the last couple of weeks almost every day a candidate or [affiliates] have been here in our state.”

Both candidates have been mak-ing an effort to appeal to the youth voters and increase youth voter par-ticipation during this election.

Harvard University did a recent study that showed since 2000 there has been a decrease in youth voters’ enthusiasm levels, Henderson said.

However, since 2010 there has been a continuing rise in enthusiasm and both presidential candidates have played a role in this increase, he said.

According to The Center For In-formation and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIR-CLE), the youth voter turnout (ages 18-24) in the 2008 election was at 48.7 percent, a 1.8 percent increase from 2004.

The youth vote is crucial and many

people said they believe this election will have an even higher turnout.

“I think it’s important for us to vote because we had such a large turnout in 2008 and we can’t not be active,” Laura Kretz, Miami University Col-lege Democrats president, said. “We can’t just be one time voters. We need to have our voice heard.”

Since Republican vice president hopeful, Paul Ryan, is a Miami alum and Barack Obama is a young presi-dent, both parties have appealed spe-cifically to the youth voters at Miami and have made campus an exciting place for politics, Kretz said.

Both College Democrats and Col-lege Republicans have been holding voter registration drives throughout the semester and are now trying to get students to the polls.

Students also have the ability to volunteer at one of the local Obama or Romney campaign offices.

Youth voter participation is so im-portant in this elelction, Kretz said.

“We’re inheriting this country and its problems,” Kretz said. “It’s really the truth. All these issues that we’re discussing now are affecting us. We’re talking about education, health care…there are so many issues that affect us currently not even 20 years from now.”

Another crucial issue to youth voters is unemployment, Bay-lor Myers, chairman of College Republicans, said.

“I think especially college students when [they are] pouring time, money and resources into obtaining a degree and then graduating and then finding themselves unemployed is incredibly problematic,” he said. “Your future depends on it, literally.”

However, not all efforts to increase youth voter participation have come entirely from the parties themselves. Wednesday Oct. 24, singer Katy Per-ry held a concert in the battleground state of Nevada to support President Barack Obama.

In Butler County, all ballots will end with asking voters to vote yes or no on Issue 24, the renewal of a tax levy for funding the Butler County Public Children Services Agency (BCPCSA).

The Butler County Public Chil-dren Services Agency provides services to abused, neglected

and dependent children. According to the Butler County

Board of Elections website, voting yes on this issue would mean that twenty cents for each one hundred dollars, for a period of five years, will go to the BCPCSA.

Neither party has taken a stance on this issue.

Issue 24: Renewing a tax levy for Public Children Services Agency

issue 2: amending the Ohio redistricting process

Issue 2 is a proposed constitutional amendment to Article XI of the Con-stitution of the State of Ohio. This constitutional amendment changes the redistricting process for state and federal districts in the state.

For more information on Issue 2 and other issues on the ballot, visit the Ohio Secretary of State website, www.sos.state.os.us

Candidates for Ohio legislature stress education reformBy FrEEland OlivEriOsEniOr staFF WritEr

The race for Ohio’s 53rd House District seat has been focused pri-marily on school budget reform and the workforce.

State representative and Oxford resident Timothy Derickson (R) is the incumbent, having held the seat on the Ohio State House of Representatives since 2009. Be-fore that, Derickson was a small business owner and farm owner in Butler County.

His challenger, Suzi Rubin (D), has been a city council member for the city of Monroe since 2004. She has also worked on several journal-istic publications and has worked on the school board for Monroe Local Schools.

As the Chairman of Workforce Development Task Force, Der-ickson said one of the most im-portant aspects of job growth is worker education.

“One of the main problems is that employers have jobs to fill, but

lack a workforce that possesses the necessary skills to fill these jobs,” Derickson said. “It’s important to make sure that our workforce has the training and skillset needed to fill the jobs that are needed.”

Derickson said he is also con-cerned about education reform.

“I think how we fund our K-12 system needs to be reformed and needs to be constitutional,” Derickson said.

As of now the current kindergar-ten to twelfth grade schooling sys-tem is set up so that schools receive funding based on time spent receiv-ing instruction in the classroom. This discourages teachers from us-ing a “blended curriculum,” which means incorporating digital and computerized learning, according to Derickson.

“Our education needs flexibility,” Derickson said. “Digital learning should be encouraged and integrat-ed with time spent in the classroom. Schools and teachers need more in-class flexibility with a system that encourages blended learning.”

Challenger Suzi Rubin has also set her sights on reforming Ohio’s school funding.

“My main goal for this election is to reform school funding,” Rubin said. “I was involved in the late 90s in getting a new school district for Monroe. I was primarily in charge of putting the new budget together and realized how unconstitutional and unfair school funding was.”

Ohio schools have been funded the same way since the 1930s, ac-cording to Rubin. The system is set up so that the state collects a por-tion of sales and property taxes are earmarked towards funding local schools. According to Rubin, this has changed in recent years.

“Last year, local schools saw 25 percent of the earmarked amount not returned to them; this year, it was 50 percent,” Rubin said. “That money has remained in Columbus and this needs to stop.”

In addition to fixing local school budgets in Ohio, Rubin also seeks to stress the importance of work-er’s rights. Last year, Derickson

voted Yes on House Bill 5, a bill that worked to prevent collec-tive bargaining between unions and the government, according to Rubin.

“I disagree with Representative Derickson when it comes to work-ers’ rights,” Rubin said. “Bargain-ing for wages and working con-ditions are beneficial to both the government and the workers.”

Although Rep. Derickson voted “yes” on the law, the law was re-pealed by a referendum in Novem-ber of last year.

Representative Derickson is a supporter of Future Farm-ers of America (FFA) and is as a member of Ohio’s Agriculture/Natural Resources Committee. Additionally, Rep. Derickson has supported a number of bills that shifting jobs from the public to the private sector.

“One of the biggest issues for me is workforce development and trying to fill the gap [in jobs] that employers have recognized,” Derickson said.

The Miami Student published “Candidates debate jobs plan” on the U.S Senate race between Senator Sherrod Brown (D) and Treasurer Josh Mandel (R) Sept. 13. Find the story at http://www.miamistudent.net/community.

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Politics inspire comedyBy Billy rAfAElArtS & EntErtAinmEnt Editor

In a time when politics is quickly becoming the only thing anyone wants to talk about, Hall Auditorium received a breath of fresh air by hosting the Capitol Steps, a touring political comedy act whose motto is “We put the ‘mock’ in ‘Democracy.” As part of the Miami University Perform-ing Arts Series, five performers took the stage Sunday for both an afternoon and evening show.

The group has been going for over thirty years and features more members than performed Sunday allowing them to perform in multiple places at once. Picture a whole string of SNL sketches fused in with Weird Al-style par-odies then loaded with more po-litical jokes, puns and insults than you can imagine and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what their show is like.

The performance thrived off of its impressions, most notably an Obama who appeared several times throughout the show and presented with a perfected au-thenticity, nailing every manner-ism and dialect. Nothing was left untouched. Every political figure, scandal and gaffe was given at-tention. They treaded a fine line, making sure to not seem as if they were siding with one politi-cal party. What they were doing was truly mocking and they made

sure to equally dish it out.Highlights included Bill Clin-

ton walking onstage to give a single one-liner about Romney’s “binder full of women,” a New York city official who started his bit by telling the piano player to shut up and an Iraqi tourism minister that ended up breaking

character to laugh at himself and skipping straight to his song.

The music was corny enough that it was entertaining. They drew from everywhere for their parodies and crafted the words extremely delicately, making it easy to identify what each song originally was. The Little Mer-maid, Mary Poppins, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, Simon and Garfunkel and Billy Joel were just a few of the inspirations they chose. While some of the cast was more talented vocally than others, all performed with enough comedic integrity to keep the audience enthralled.

The group definitely has a spe-cific kind of audience member in mind when crafting the skits.

Truly appreciating their humor required being somewhat up on current events. There were times that the jokes were lost, either too particular or obscure to get no-ticed or unintelligible due to an impression. The humor catered to the crowd, which consisted of more Oxford residents than Mi-ami students, being just as risqué as it needed to be. Language was kept tame and innuendos were just suggestive enough keep the laughs coming.

As they finished their finale, “We Didn’t Start Satire,” they were met with a very sincere ova-tion from the audience. The cast was sure to give special atten-tion to the lone piano player who accompanied the entire perfor-mance from memory.

“I thought the writing was ex-tremely clever and the perform-ers were great vehicles for the writing,” senior Jarod Garel said after the evening performance. “I like that they tried to make it ac-cessible to all audiences, but the more you knew about politics the funnier it was.”

Whether the audience walked away with a changed political perspective remains unknown, but it’s safe to say that every-one definitely left feeling a little more lighthearted about this election season.

More information on upcom-ing Performing Arts Series shows can be found at http://arts.muo-hio.edu/performing-arts-series.

By JoE GiErinGErStAff WritEr

Looking for a new movie to add to your list of must-watch Halloween films each year? Then you’re in luck, because I dug through my collection and found three freaky flicks that tend to go unnoticed by the masses.

Trick ‘r Treat (2009)This anthology suffered delays

and an eventual direct-to-DVD re-lease, effectively squashing any hopes it had of making a name for itself. Trick ‘r Treat tells four sepa-rate tales on Halloween night, weav-ing together these spooky stories with equal parts horror and humor to produce one of the most entertain-ing and enthralling scary movies of the past ten years. Paying tribute to other Halloween-type films, direc-tor Michael Dougherty cleverly crafts stories like The Principal, The School Bus Massacre Revisited, and Surprise Party with vampires, werewolves, serial killers and local legends to great effect. Trick ‘r Treat is the first disc I pop into the laptop each year, and I strongly encourage others to do the same.

Frailty (2001)You’ve never seen Matthew Mc-

Conaughey like this. Bill Paxton’s directorial debut is absolutely as-tounding, and it kept me glued to my seat throughout my entire first viewing. The film starts with Mc-Conaughey walking into a Dallas FBI office one rainy night and in-troducing himself as Fenton Meeks, going on to tell agent Wesley Doyle that he believes his brother, Adam, is the notorious “God’s Hand” serial killer. He then recounts how his wid-ower father, played by Paxton, had

a revelation one day when Fenton and Adam were children. Through flashbacks, McConaughey reveals the startling stories of how his father employed them as demon slayers after believing that God had tasked them with carrying out this duty. The mood of the film is intense and startlingly believable, which is why Frailty made this list and probably why Moviefone called it the 11th best horror film ever. I won’t spoil it, but the twist at the end is one of the best I’ve ever seen in a movie, scary or otherwise.

Session 9 (2001)If you want a film that’s deeply

disturbing and on your mind days after you’ve watched it, check out horror master Brad Anderson’s over-looked gem. Session 9 is the terrify-ing tale of an asbestos removal crew that is working at an abandoned mental hospital (filmed at the old Danvers State Mental Hospital in Massachusetts), which is paralleled by a frightening set of patient audio interviews found in the basement of the facility. As the tapes grow in menace, so do the strange events go-ing on in the hospital until the film reaches its startling climax. Session 9 is scary not because of what you see, but by what you imagine. The haunted setting and tense mood provide the perfect atmosphere for the demonic entity that is plaguing the workers and the final lines and revelation at the end of the film is as chilling as it gets. This relatively unknown freaky feature is on tons of underrated horror lists and is argu-ably my favorite scary movie.

So there you have it, three films to scare the pants off of you and your friends this year.

ClAirE KriEGErSEnior StAff WritEr

Miami University’s chapter of Delta Sigma Pi is currently in the midst of hosting its semi-annual Battle of the Bands competition at Stadium Sports Bar & Grille. The competition features six bands based as close as Oxford and as far as Columbus. The preliminary round of the competition took place over the past two Thursday nights. Three bands were featured per night, each playing for about an hour. The majority of bands playing cover a wide range of eras and genres, and original songs are not unheard of in the competition.

The business fraternity has been putting on this competition once a semester for many years. Delta Sigma Pi continues to organize the competition for the public-ity the event offers the organiza-tion and because of its popularity with Miami students. The contest is the chapter’s biggest fundraiser of the year and all proceeds go to fund the various speakers Delta Sigma Pi brings to Miami and the trips their chapter members take throughout the year.

In previous years, many of the competing bands have been vet-erans of the competition. How-ever, some of the bands’ members

have graduated, which opened the door for some new acts. Bands were recruited through word-of-mouth in various campus or-ganizations and through Delta Sigma Pi’s members’ connections throughout Ohio.

“It’s always something I look forward to,” senior Jameson Low-ery, lead singer of The Caged Cardinal, one of the competing bands, said. “There is always a good crowd. Everybody kind of forgets who their friends are and who they typically hang out with and just has fun watching who-ever is playing.”

The Caged Cardinal had their preliminary performance Thurs-day, but they are no strangers to the competition. Other members of the band are Jeremy Kreamer, Brent Bielinski, and JM Rieger, all Miami seniors. Their set included a huge variety of covers, includ-ing artists such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, Coldplay and the Black Keys. Despite the collapse of a snare drum after the first song, the band played on and drummer Rieger rolled with the punches.

“We had a little technical dif-ficulty after the first song but we were still able to play the set,” said Rieger. “It was a good show and it was great to see a lot

of the fans stay until the end of the show.”

The Caged Cardinal was the last to perform on the second night of the preliminary round. The night’s opening act was the Flaming Red Hands. They are a 5-piece band whose front-woman, Sharon Attaway, is the Director of Professional Development for the Farmer School of Business and an honorary member of Delta Sigma Pi. Attaway was joined by recent Miami graduate Steven Cross for a set that included many popular hits of the 80s and 90s. They paid homage to Peter Gabriel, Madon-na, Deep Blue Something and the Cranberries, among others.

The band taking the evening’s middle spot in the lineup was another group of Miami students and alumni called Rev:21. They also paid their dues to 90s and early 2000s music through artists like Matchbox Twenty and Third Eye Blind. They also included some more recent covers of Mi-randa Lambert and Adele songs.

The band that earns the most votes from fans from each night and the third highest from either night will perform in the final round this Thursday. The fan-vot-ed winner of the final round wins a $400 cash prize. The winner from the first night of competi-tion is the Cincinnati-based band The Long Way Home. Two bands from the second night earned spots in the finals. Both Rev:21 and The Caged Cardinal will be battling for a chance to win the money and bragging rights.

Delta Sigma Pi is grateful to have this continued partnership with Stadium and hopes to keep the competition alive for many years to come. Senior Lauren Fedders, the vice president of fundraising for Delta Sigma Pi and the organizer of the Battle of the Bands, encourages Miami students to attend the event finals this week.

“It’s an awesome thing to do on a Thursday night,” said Fedders. “It’s a pretty unique opportunity to get out there and experience live music.”

More event information is available on Facebook. The event page can be found through search-ing “BATTLE OF THE BANDS,” and information is also accessible through Stadium’s page. The fi-nals will be held 10 p.m. Thurs-day at Stadium Bar & Grille.

By Billy rAfAElArtS & EntErtAinmEnt Editor

Compton-based rapper Kend-rick Lamar has been putting out music since 2002 but only recently started gaining momentum in 2010 with his mixtape Overly Dedicated. Since then he has been busy, put-ting out an independent album in 2011 and dropping his first studio album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, this month, not to mention appearing on tracks all over the place as a feature.

Good kid is a unique ride, clock-ing in at an impressive 72 minutes for 12 tracks. It tells Lamar’s story growing up in a city known for its gangs and violence. The whole album is interspersed with low-quality recordings of conversations, phone calls and voice mails that are all authentic enough that the listen-er is left wondering if they’re real or scripted. When the clips are spliced together they tell the story of a gang shooting from both sides, mixed with examples of the Christian in-fluences in Lamar’s childhood.

While the whole album has a chilled out vibe to it despite the of-ten serious content, production var-ies from track to track, allowing for some bass-bumping slower tracks such as “Money Trees” as well as some more in-your-face tracks such as the title track “good kid.” Lamar’s flow is very rhythmic and

comes easily to the point where it’s not clear whether he even needs to think about rapping or if that’s just how he always talks. He has a raspy, higher-pitched voice and is not the best singer but he knows how to play to his strengths and mix things up to keep them interesting.

The album is sprinkled nicely with guest artists, including some higher profile names like Dr. Dre and Drake along with some lesser known but on-the-rise artists like Jay Rock, with whom Lamar has collaborated with in the past. Tracks to watch for are “Backseat Freestyle,” produced by the popular Hit-Boy and “Sing About Me/I’m Dying of Thirst,” a twelve-minute-long introspective look at what his legacy would be if he were to die as well as a look forward at what he hopes to achieve through his suc-cess, with an interlude in the song overlaid with the recording of the direct aftermath of the shooting.

Lamar is not for everyone. He does not confine himself to the mainstream standards set forth by hip hop and chooses to work with what he feels are his best skills. However, if you are a hip hop fan with a little over an hour to spare and an open mind, it’s worth your time to give good kid, m.A.A.d city a listen.

I like that they tried to make it accessible to all audiences, but the more you knew about politics the funnier it was.”

JArod GArElmiAmi uniVErSity SEnior

little known Halloween movies to end the season

lAurEn olSon PHOTO EDITOR

o.A.r. CAPS off fAmily WEEKEndMarc Roberge, lead singer and guitarist of O.A.R., performs onstage in Millett Hall Saturday night as part of Miami’s Family Weekend.

Bands prepare for final ‘battle’ Thursday

lAurEn olSon PHOTO EDITOR

Jameson Lowery of The Caged Cardinal serenades the crowd Thursday. The Caged Cardinal was one of three bands to make it to the final round and will perform again Thursday at Stadium.

Hip hop artist aims big with debut studio album

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MiaMi stUdENt staFFEiC@MiaMistUdENt.NEt6 ELECTION 2012

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Name: Michael schnipperage: 57occupation: self-employed air conditioning repairman; communica-tions officer of Oxford Tea PartyHometown: Oxford, OH Party affiliation: Republican/Tea PartyChoice for president: romney

BY MEgaN CoNlEYFor thE MiaMi stUdENt

Whether residents agree or dis-agree with his opinions, Michael Schnipper is well known through-out the city of Oxford.

Full-time air conditioning repair man. Full-time political activist. Schnipper’s passion for commu-nity involvement makes an impact on every facet of his life.

A long day of running his own business is nothing new for Sch-nipper. Neither is sitting down with a fellow community member, dis-cussing life in Oxford and how it can be improved.

Self-employed through various endeavors for 31 years, Schnipper now operates Maintenance Ser-vices Company, an air condition-ing repair company, while serving as the Communications Officer for the Oxford Tea Party.

Schnipper, 57, graduated from Miami University in 1981 with a degree in political science.

“Mike is a political science ma-jor and he can really get deep into the details,” Paul Brady, member of the Board of Zoning Appeals in Oxford, said with a laugh.

Although college sparked the flame, the fuel can be traced back to his childhood. While politics were not of the high-est importance, it was definitely a topic of the household in West Lafayette, Indiana.

“My mother is conservative,” said Schnipper. “My sister is a raging liberal.”

Schnipper’s curiosity to-ward policy began early, as he recalls eavesdropping on the conversations of his father, a corporate climber.

“My father played the game to whatever corporate or business ad-vantage there was,” said Schnipper.

Before moving to Oxford, Sch-nipper was an all-American adven-ture seeker, involved in rodeo and even a member of Bob Mayer’s professional drag racing team.

“I rode bare-back for two years and that’s why I’m in PT now,” Schnipper said.

Upon attending Miami Universi-ty, Schnipper began a track of self-employment that has continued on and off until present day. Taking time off from school after his first year, Schnipper conducted his own business of buying and selling raw

fur. Through this first experience of self-employment, Schnipper learned the value of fiscal respon-sibility just in order to pay his bills.

A registered Republican, Sch-nipper places himself just right of the center on the political spectrum.

“It is hard to align yourself with people who just want to tax and spend,” Schnipper said.

After running for city council un-successfully in 1993, Schnipper’s political interest has only grown.

“I’ve been involved in politics for so long, it is second nature,” Schnipper said.

In April 2011, Schnipper helped begin a tea party in Oxford. The group meets 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of every month at LNCB Bank.

“This tea party was a bottoms-up movement,” Larry Rankin, retired Miami accounting professor and recent Oxford Tea Party mem-ber, said. “He encourages us to get involved.”

A culmination of life lessons influenced Schnipper’s recent mo-tion to limit the Oxford Tea Party to the three core beliefs of the na-tional tea party: fiscal responsibil-ity, limited government and free markets, according to the local group’s website.

Although Schnipper remains conservative on most fiscal matters, libertarian views surface in regards to social issues. For example, Sch-nipper is pro-choice and remains confused as to why abortion is even an issue in the upcoming election.

“Don’t want one, don’t get one,” Schnipper said. “I think people should have the choice.

Why are you going to keep beating that horse?”

On the other hand, Schnipper is against legalizing gay mar-riage. For reasons such as these, the Oxford Tea Party avoids dis-cussing social issues that could splinter the group and impede their ultimate goal of promoting fiscal responsibility.

“We have one gentleman who is Catholic,” said Schnipper. “If he knew my view on abortion, he would probably drop his teeth.”

Nevertheless, Schnipper’s pri-mary concern for the upcoming election is lowering the national debt and creating jobs.

Schnipper expressed his frus-tration towards pundits on both sides of the environmental policy spectrum.

“There needs to be more inter-est from the GOP in environmen-tal issues,” said Schnipper. “If anything, it has put me at odds with the GOP.”

Through the encouragement of his wife, Schnipper recently joined forces with the Miami College Republicans. Besides partnering with the student organization for their Josh Mandel Kick-Off night on Sept. 6, the Oxford Tea Party united with the students for door-to-door grassroots campaigning around the city.

Although Schnipper sees the ma-jority of Oxford as liberal, he finds his hope in the young republicans of Miami University.

“In terms of Miami, the staff is still very liberal,” Schnip-per said. “The change is in the students.”

Name: Mindy stephensage: 29occupation: associate director of Fitness and Marketing at Miami University’s rEC CenterParty Affiliation: IndependentChoice for President: Undecided

BY aBigail WaltErsFor thE MiaMi stUdENt

Every Tuesday Mindy Stephens rises early to unlock the doors of Miami University’s recreational sports center at 5:30 a.m. Once there, Stephens, associate director of fitness and marketing, instructs a Total Body Tone class, performs a variety of administrative du-ties and finally concludes her 15-hour workday with a 9:00 p.m. Zumba class.

While Stephens’ Tuesday sched-ule leaves little room for surprise, her political views provide ample shock value. Stephens, the prod-uct of a conservative household, intends to vote for either a third party or write-in candidate in the upcoming presidential election.

“Myself, I’m still thinking,” Stephens said. “I will not vote for Obama, I know that for a fact. I may vote for a third party or write in, but will I vote for Romney? No.”

Stephens’ decision to vote for neither Democratic candidate President Barack Obama nor Re-publican Governor Mitt Romney invites criticism.

“I just think the system is never going to change if you just keep voting for those two candidates,” Stephens said.

Stephens’ controversial decision may result from her husband, Dan-iel Stephens’, influence. Stephens and her husband met in high school and have been together ever since. He currently works as the Associ-ate Pastor at Westside Church of Christ in Hamilton, Ohio.

“I value his opinion and he makes a lot of the decision in terms of our life,” Stephens said of her husband.

Daniel agreed that Stephens’ political views reflect his own.

“I’m not sure Mindy really had any political views when we met,” Stephens said. “Truthfully, she probably doesn’t spend much time thinking about the subject. I must admit that if you asked her what her view is about a particular issue or who she might vote for, it would probably be similar to mine.”

Like Stephens, Daniel Stephens intends to vote for a third-party or write-in candidate.

Daniel Stephens possess-es a strong opinion about the role of government and politi-cians, and feels that the cur-rent two-party system does not provide a platform for the most qualified candidates.

“I have always, from a very young age, noticed inconsistencies and contradictions in the adults around me, and was told to just be quiet and do what I was told,” Daniel Stephens said. “That’s the dynamic that exists in American government now and that is why I must support candidates who, if elected, will attempt to change it.”

While Daniel Stephens’ passion for politics arguably outweighs his wife’s, Stephens’ passion mani-fests in fitness.

Stephens received her under-graduate and graduate degree in kinesiology from Eastern Ken-tucky University, and uses her education to plan fitness program-ming for Miami students and Oxford residents.

According to Libby Macht Stephens’ employees and fel-low group fitness instructors, living in the moment and bound-less energy are two of Stephens’ defining traits.

“I’ve enjoyed every second of working for Mindy,” Macht said.

Name: andrea Christmanage: 19 College major: individualized studies Hometown: Oxford, OhioParty affiliation: DemocraticChoice for president: Barack Obama

BY EllEN QUiglEYFor thE MiaMi stUdENt

Andrea Christman sits at a table in a common room in Pea-body Hall engaging in a lively debate with several other Pea-body residents about this year’s presidential election.

Although there are multiple po-litical parties represented around the table, everyone is in good spir-its and appears to be engaging and benefiting from this conversation.

Christman stresses the impor-tance of programs set up to assist people in need in this election and Josh DeAmicis, a first-year Pea-body resident, questions her point, bringing up the economic impact some of these programs will have. From across the table, Max Verel-len, another first-year Peabody

resident, interjects that America is not going to survive if it does not take care of its own citizens.

This political debate is char-acteristic of the discussions that take place in the free time of Pea-body residents with their resident assistant, Christman.

Christman is a sophomore at Mi-ami University and is an enthusi-astic supporter of President Barack Obama. Christman is 19 years old and was born and raised in Oxford, Ohio. She engages actively in lead-ership on campus as both a Sum-mer Orientation Undergraduate Leader and a resident assistant in Peabody Hall.

Christman is a very outgoing and blunt person. She describes her motto in life as, “nothing is awkward unless you say it is” and she certainly lives by those words. While many individuals, especially college students, feel uncomfort-able discussing politics due to a fear of causing tension with people with contrasting opinions or from a strict lack of knowledge, Christman is 100 percent comfortable shar-ing her opinions. Most of her time is spent with her residents having vivacious discussions on many top-

ics, with an emphasis on this year’s political election.

Christman’s residents appear to be at ease around her. Mark Gam-ble, a Romney supporter living in Peabody described her leadership style as strict, yet compassionate and another resident, Max Verellen, refered to Christman as “someone [he is]completely comfortable talk-ing to, regardless of the topic.”

Christman is just one of many college students that find President Obama more appealing as a leader than his opponent, Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

According to a 2012 national sur-vey of college students conducted by the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, 67 percent of college stu-dents give President Obama a posi-tive job rating, supporting him for re-election by more than two to one over Mitt Romney.

Christman’s mother, Sara Christ-man, said her daughter cannot wait to get to the polls and vote for the first time.

Both mother and daughter are avid Obama supporters, based strongly upon Obama’s viewpoints on social issues. Andrea agrees with Obama largely when it comes

to social activism and equal rights for all people. Her mother puts a strong emphasis on women’s rights and stated that abortion is an important issue influencing her vote.

With these controversial is-sues weighing so heavily in the minds of the Christman women, it is invaluable, in their opin-ions, to share these viewpoints

with prospective voters. Despite her slight dissatisfaction

with the way the president con-ducted himself in the debate, An-drea said she would rather follow a leader who was thorough enough to take notes while he listened during a debate than one who simply rushed through the argument of his oppo-nent and addressed only the topics he saw fit.

The following profiles were written for The Miami Student by a journalism 201 Honors class. More election information can be found at MUElectionguide at http://muelectionguide2.wordpress.com/

STEPHANIE PACE THE MIAMI STUDENT

Andrea Christman making a new friend at a program put on by Peabody Hall.

CONTRIBUTED BY ERICA GRIFFITH

Mindy Stephens shows her love of fitness after a muddy race.

CONTRIBUTED BY ARL FREDRICK

Michael Schnipper at an event for Josh Mandel. Schnipper leads the Oxford Tea Party.

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Name: John Baylor MyersAge: Senior Major: Political Science and HistoryHometown: Bexley, OHParty: RepublicanPresidential Choice: Mitt Romney

By TOM DOwNeySeNiOR STAff wRiTeR

Miami University senior Bay-lor Myers is the president of Delta Upsilon and the assistant business manager of The Miami Student. He has a double major in history and political science. He is also the president of Miami University College Republicans.

Myers, whose given name is John Baylor Myers, is from Bexley, Ohio and was born on Ohio State University’s campus in 1990. Myers said he’s always been an active student; running and swimming in high school as well as becoming his school’s student council president his se-nior year. His love for politics started in 2006.

“I accidentally turned on C-SPAN,” Myers said. “And I was really kind of invigorated by a speech that John McCain was giving on earmarks.”

Myers speaks very highly of the former presidential candidate.

“I’ve always admired John McCain.” Myers said. “I think he has an incredible personal story. His caliber as an independent politician is very impressive. What he has given to this coun-try, I think it should be an inspi-ration to everyone. Regardless of the outcome of the 2008 election, he is an incredible person and someone deserving of respect.”

College Republicans Vice President and senior Meghan Wadsworth speaks highly of Myers, while making some fun of him.

“[He’s] funny and has a great singing voice,” she said laughing. “He keeps it entertaining and he has quite the dynamic personality but I think that is what adds to his leadership. He’s able to have the charisma to get people to want to be involved in things that might

not be as fun as you would hope they would be.”

John Longaberger, a first-year political science major and member of the College Repub-licans is impressed with Myers’ public speaking ability, which are on display at the College Re-publicans’ weekly Wednesday night meetings.

“[Myers] carries himself well when speaking and can be funny when he wants to be,” Longa-berger said. “He’s a really nice guy and is a great representation of the College Republicans. He is very good at getting us involved in the group’s activities.”

Myers says his public speaking skills haven’t always been there and attributed them to his high school days.

“That developed in high school, probably through my stu-dent council work,” Myers said. “I led weekly meetings. I used to be a shy public speaker; I got the classic crowd anxiety or the nerves. But leading those meet-ings gave me a real sense of lead-ership and how to conduct your-self in a public setting.”

Myers admits he doesn’t have much time these days, but said he does enjoy spending time with his girlfriend, going out and hiking. He also says he is a huge Buckeye football fan. Growing up outside of Columbus and being born on the school’s campus likely had a huge role in that.

“I’m not a huge follower of pro sports, but I tend to root for whoever is winning,” Myers said with a smile.

When trying to persuade stu-dents to vote Republican in 2012, Myers addresses student loyalty. “I tell people, when I speak of Paul Ryan, that if you’re not for Paul Ryan, you’re not really for Miami,” Myers said. “In all hon-esty, whatever your politics are, if Paul Ryan becomes Vice Presi-dent, the value of our degree goes straight up.”

As far as his future is concerned, Myers isn’t sure what he wants to do when he graduates. He is cur-rently contemplating attending law school. He also mentioned that he had an internship with a political consultant.

Name: Steve KiplagatAge: 24Major: Graduate student; mas-ter’s degree in statisticsHometown: formerly from iten, KenyaParty: Democrat (Unable to vote)Presidential Choice: Barack Obama (Unable to vote)

By MATTHew MAROlfOR THe MiAMi STUDeNT

As a teenager living in Kenya, Steve Kiplagat was no stranger to American politics. Four years later as a Miami University graduate student, he is arguably more informed than most students.

“I have always had an interest in politics,” said Kiplagat. Despite not being able to vote in the upcoming election, he remains eager to follow the voting this November.

Born Steve Kipkosgei Kip-lagat, he was raised in Iten, a small town of just 4,000 residents in the west, central part of Kenya. After receiving high marks throughout his primary and secondary school-ing, he was approached to attend an American university offer-ing international opportunities for foreign students.

“I never once doubted my decision to come to the U.S.,” he recalled.

With bags packed, a curious and eager Kiplagat departed for St. Law-

rence University in Canton, NY at the age of 19. This expedition marked his first time traveling out-side of his home country. Wasting no time upon arrival, he soon declared a double major in economics and math and made the varsity cross country squad as a freshman.

Only months after Kiplagat’s ar-rival stateside in 2008, the first non-Caucasian president took office in the White House. Many people in Kenya knew of Barack Obama and followed his campaign up until the historic inauguration. However, the entire process of selecting candidates from multiple political parties, as Ki-plagat recalls, was at first confusing.

“In Kenya, politics are crazy,” said Kiplagat. “As celebrities, they likely fund their campaigns through corruption.”

Finding himself surrounded by a majority of democratic voters on the East Coast, Kiplagat described his political encounters as eye opening.

“In regards to religion and politics, my household was very conserva-tive,” he explained. He continued to recall a profound liberal experience during which he attended the wed-ding of a gay couple.

Now residing in Oxford, Kip-lagat spends his time on a very tight schedule. When he is not pounding out miles of intervals on the trails, he is busy interviewing for jobs and pur-suing a master’s degree in statistics.

As a previous Division III All-American distance runner, Kip-

lagat now holds one of the fastest 8-kilometer times in school history.

“Steve is a wonderful addition to our squad and has fit in well with the team and our training program,” said senior captain Jarrod Eick.

Junior cross-country runner David Wing agreed with Eick, saying, “I admire Steve for his talent and ag-gressiveness during races.”

When asked about the youth vote on Miami’s campus, Kiplagat ex-plained that he often senses a pattern between the political identification of parents and the subsequent vot-ing decisions of their children. Even while living on a traditionally con-servative campus, he articulated a gradual liberal transformation as an American resident.

“I am very interested in politics and have asked Steve about his views on the election during prac-tice,” said first-year Joseph Stewart. To keep updated on the election, Kiplagat tunes into presidential de-bates and other news channels. Now living in a highly publicized swing state, he finds it hard not to take an interest in campaigning and any resulting controversy.

While looking forward to re-turning home sometime in the fu-ture, Kiplagat now sets his sights on obtaining full time employ-ment here in the Midwest. “Steve is a very smart individual and has positioned himself well in his ca-reer search,” said senior teammate Brett Wagner.

Name: Alexander “Alex” wat-sonAge: 18College major or occupation: economicsHometown: Pataskala, OhioParty affiliation: Libertarian Choice for president: Romney

By STePHANie PACe fOR THe MiAMi STUDeNT

Alexander “Alex” Watson is not your typical politically ignorant 18 year old.

Well informed in politics and far from voting for someone simply be-cause that is whom his parents will vote for, he identifies himself as a Libertarian and plans to vote for Re-publican candidate Mitt Romney.

Alexander, who prefers to go by Alex, is an 18-year-old first-year at Miami University from Pataskala, Ohio. Currently a tentative econom-ics major, Watson’s passion lies in politics. An active member of the

Miami University College Republi-cans, Watson dedicates much of his time and focus to ensuring a win for Mitt Romney. Watson is also a mem-ber of the Philosophy Club.

The Libertarian candidate for President is Gary Johnson and Jim Grey is the candidate for Vice President.

Watson believes that this party gets written off as “those crazies” because those who identify with this party are very set in the way they think. There are also members of the party who are very radical, which turns people off to this party before examining what it stands for.

“We have a lot of things that will never happen with our government, but we still try to get it done any way.” Watson said.

Despite aligning himself with the Libertarian Party, Watson will not be voting for Johnson, but instead is a Romney supporter. Watson, as well as his best friend from home Jared Lucas, feel that third party votes only split a party instead of getting a third party candidate in office. President and founder of the Miami chapter of Young Americans for Liberty Taylor “TJ” Hillard agrees.

“I’m a realist so I know that the Libertarian candidate for president, Gary Johnson is not going to win.” Hillard said.

Watson is very active in the Miami University chapter of the College Republicans. He has dedicated 9 and a half hours over the course of 3-4 days going door to door in Liberty township collecting information on the voting climate.

Outside of organized political groups and clubs, Watson finds ways

to incorporate his love of politics in many of his relationships.

Lucas, who is a freshman at Bowl-ing Green State University, said that politics is the main thing that they would talk about. While disagreeing on some of the more controversial is-sues with religious overtones such as abortion or marriage rights, they al-ways respectfully debated each other and both identified as libertarians.

Jakob Gamertsfelder, a friend at Miami, echoes that politics are all that Watson wants to talk about, even in casual settings such as hanging out on weekends or while playing video games.

Gamertsfelder will not be voting in the upcoming election, partially due to not registering in time in addi-tion to feeling that neither candidate will help America.

Watson became fascinated with politics due to an Advanced Place-ment course in Government and Politics his senior year of high school. From there, Watson became fascinated with politics, going as far to write a 14 page paper on a pro-posed tax reform, an issue he feels strongly about.

This new information also led to some discussions of politics at home. According to Watson, his parents identify as republicans, but aren’t near as active as he is. They would sometimes get into arguments over certain political issues but politics weren’t something that was dis-cussed in depth or often.

When asked if his parents’ opin-ion shaped his own he replied with “I’m not taking my parents’ opin-ion for granted, I’m not taking it for anything.”

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The election cycle is coming to an end, but it is certainly not slowing down.

In fact, this week leading up to Nov. 6 is perhaps the most impor-tant time to encourage students to think critically about their demo-cratic right to vote.

The Miami Student editorial board urges readers to understand how enormous our freedom to vote (or not vote) actually is, and how many people are literally fighting for that right every day.

That being said, it is also crucial that as voters we are thoroughly educated.

This involves having an under-standing of the many facets of each side of an argument.

Our generation is often criticized for its apathy when it comes to na-tional and international affairs.

We are plugged in, but far too of-ten, we are tuned out.

Often it feels as though there is barely enough time in the day to take a breath.

As we juggle classes, work, clubs and organizations and personal considerations, it seems we have no time to catch up on the nuances of U.S. involvement abroad, or to understand complicated legislation.

But there is always time. If students have time to go out on

a Tuesday night, they have time to stay informed about political issues.

The change starts with a shift in priorities.

This board believes that stay-ing informed must be a daily priority in order for us to be-come educated contributors to the

political conversation.Go beyond Twitter. Complicated political is-

sues cannot be summarized in 140 characters.

Internet resources like Isidewith.com are good springboards for vot-ers to learn about every candidate in the election.

The board also encourages vot-ers to truly believe that every vote counts, even though it may often seem futile to vote for third party or “losing” candidates.

Vote for what you believe in, even if it means voting for a third party candidate who has no chance of getting into office — your vote today could help change the politi-cal system years down the road.

We hear so many say they are frustrated with the current political system that forces voters to choose the “lesser of two evils.”

We hear people complain about the polarized system and the nega-tivity of the campaigns.

Remember that soon, we will be the ones running for office and we will have the power to change that.

And while Ohio voters are surely tired of being bombarded by po-larized, often negative, campaign ads, we are also reminded of how hotly coveted our votes in this state truly are.

Furthermore, the board believes that if someone chooses not to vote, he or she has no right to complain about poor political policy deci-sions for the next four years.

If you want something to change, you must acknowledge your ability to change it.

to you!

For reading the paper. At least we know you read the thumbs (and probably the Police Beat).

This is the first time I have tuned in to the “Miami Stupid” in 43 years. Now, before you get insulted, that was the only name we knew it by when I went to Miami.

I note the hugely dispropor-tionate lean to President Obama in this publication. I guess the move to mix professional jour-nalism with political cheer-leading is as popular at Miami as elsewhere.

I never liked cheerleaders. They were always in my way, finishing up their cheer, as I was trying to get back on the

basketball court after a timeout.I’m aware of the immense

popularity of Obama among the young; I have to believe this probably fits well more than 50 percent of Miami stu-dents. I know it fits greater than 75 percent of the faculty and administration.

But, I boil the choice of the right vote down to one very simple fact.

This country is in a desperate business turnaround situation, and there is only one candidate who has the demonstrated ex-perience building businesses as

well as turning them around.You can vote for a busi-

ness pro, or you can vote for a business amateur. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Forget everything else. That fact is all that matters.

The rest of the topical carping is superfluous. You can do the “cool” thing and vote Obama, or you can forget “cool” and vote Romney.

Wow, how un-cool of me to say so.

allan PaYnE

It is perhaps one of the pecu-liarities of being a mathemati-cian that I should feel inclined to take pen (or keyboard) in hand to write a rebuttal to some-thing with which I agree on the whole, but such is what I mean to do herein.

I could not agree more that, at this point in time, America needs to look to the past if it is to avoid the same fate that befell many other prosperous civiliza-tions. However, I find the re-cent essay on this matter to be lacking in small but ultimately important ways.

The article in question was surely omitting details for the sake of space, but the broad strokes in which it sought to paint are more than slightly mis-leading, and its conclusion was simplistic at the very best. To be-gin with, let us consider Rome.

Of the three examples pre-sented — the Roman “empire,” Byzantium and the Ottoman em-pire — Rome is by far the most relevant to modern-day America. Indeed, no geopolitical situation in history resembles America’s so much as that of the Roman Republic in the second and first centuries BCE.

In this period, Rome was what might be called a republican empire; that is to say, it was a republic, much as America is to-day, but with similar imperialis-tic tendencies. Indeed, the great conquests of territory by Rome occurred primarily during the republic rather than under the later empire.

In this period, the Roman re-public was by far the strongest western power, and it easily rivaled China — the only com-parable Eastern power at the time — in size and prosperity. No other power could compete

militarily, as its recent defeats of the various successor king-doms of the Hellenistic world had proved, yielding hegemony over what was, for the Roman people, almost the extent of the known world.

It was ultimately from within that the demise of this great re-public would come, and it is the demise of the republic that is rel-evant for America now, given the importance most of us who live in this country afford to our po-litical system. That is to say, we are a democratic republic rather than a monarchy or empire.

Whether or not one can say that the Roman Empire fell in 476 CE, the death of the republic had come nearly five centuries earlier, when the emperor Au-gustus founded the first imperial dynasty in spite of Rome’s ha-tred of the idea of kingship.

However, the republic had been unraveling for years already by this point, as ideological strife divided its people and increas-ingly charismatic and ruthless “great men” gained more and more power, weakening the peo-ple’s ability to control their gov-ernment, even through the senate. It is tempting to equate these “great men” to our modern-day political candidates, but this would, in my opinion, be a mistake. Whatever their flaws or failings, these candi-dates are working within the democratic system.

With exceptions, those who would be president have rarely sought to usurp the power of the public, and even those whose goals I personally find distaste-ful seek to accomplish those goals through the proper process. No, a more reasonable equation would be to see the parallels between the large, influential

figures of the Roman republic and today’s business leaders. In this age of mass media and easy communication, it is no longer necessary that one be charis-matic to influence large numbers of people.

It is enough to have the capi-tal to fund hundreds of radio and Internet and television advertise-ments, which may or may not be true. It is enough to be able to make sensational claims in public ways so that they attract the eyes and ears of the less in-formed amongst us.

Sadly, a milestone has been reached recently which has granted such individuals even more power over our percep-tions. What will unravel our re-public is not, as the recent article put it, continued governmental and military spending (although the latter, admittedly, probably could manage it), but rather the increasing influence of powerful individuals with personal inter-ests in our national politics. If we truly wish to avoid going the way of Rome, then we must first put an end to this influence.

And, indeed, we may find our other economic and social ills will be easier to combat when the public good is no longer compromised by the ability of wealthy individuals to influence our government’s policies to-ward their own ends.

Certainly it cannot become harder to address these issues if we prove ourselves able to first overcome this one. But only the history books of some future age can say for certain; if we fail, then it seems we are fated to join that list of examples ourselves.

ClaYton ColliEr-Cartaino

america should not follow rome’s example

If you follow the Miami Student you probably have read an essay that talked about the inevitable de-cline of the United States. Due to wording limitations I could not get into much detail why I believe so but now I get the chance to expand on my initial argument.

The most important and notable point is the amount of foreign debt that the USA has amassed. The numbers have reached 17 trillion; almost 100 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and has no signs of stopping. When a country has reached that point it is beyond obvious that something has been very wrong for a long pe-riod of time. In order to repay that amount, every single person in the country must give up his or her wage for an entire year and all final goods have to be given up for free.

Too many social programs have given people too many privileges that they feel entitled to and instead of trying to figure their own way in life they rely on welfare and do not put much effort into changing their status quo. “Pursuit of happiness” does not mean that everybody is en-titled to it and wealth redistribution

should take care of that. It is good to have universal healthcare or to support people who are in times of great need due to unforeseen circumstances or force majeure but when a government cannot af-ford those programs it prioritizes short-term prosperity and sacrifices long-term prosperity, which pre-determines the inevitable decline of Americans.

Excessive military spending is also a major culprit in this giant debt. Way too much money has been borrowed and spent, and way too many lives have been lost be-cause of unnecessary occupations,

invasions and “spreading democra-cy.” The U.S. has never had a duty to solve other people’s problems. That’s why I do not favor “Ameri-can Exceptionalism.”

The USA tried to do this but it has caused only internal prob-lems—just think what if all those trillions were spent inside the coun-try on U.S. soil and not abroad. Contrary to popular belief, the

Middle East countries do not hate the U.S., and nuclear Iran is not a threat. The Middle East just wants to be left alone, to be able to figure out its own future.

Not to mention that the U.S. has

allies, and that’s why NATO was created—to pool the defense ca-pabilities of the countries together, which provides another opportu-nity for reduced military spending.

However, this will not happen. People have been too scared to believe that and military spending would not go down, only increas-ing tension between the U.S. and the Middle East, which would re-quire even more funds and even more soldiers. Prioritizing mili-tary spending instead of internal economics is again another trait of the declining Empires and na-tions that were discussed in the previous article.

The most important but undoubt-edly overlooked issue is the huge trade deficit with other countries such as Japan, China, Germany and France. When a country im-ports more than it exports it pays for those with its own currency—in this case the U.S. dollar. This causes the markets to be flooded with the dollar decreasing its value.

In Bulgaria alone the dollar de-preciated about 25 percent for about five years from 2007 to 2012. This means that imports became

more expensive because a cheaper dollar can buy less imported goods, which in the USA’s case make most of the consumer goods. This in turn decreases the purchasing power of Americans. What eludes people is that not the absolute amount of money you posses is what matters, but what you can buy with it—in this case the more the country goes into a trade deficit the more expensive imported goods will be. As all the news proclaiming that manufacturing has been de-creasing the only assumption that comes to mind—trade deficit is going to expand in the future and the purchasing power of the dollar will decrease.

This is only scratching the sur-face of the problem. The U.S. people have to be prepared to face even harder times, despite whoever becomes president or whatever policies are implemented. There are way too many factors that have been undermining the country for a very long time and it’s not possible to reverse them that easily.

Last weekend, families from all across the country made their way to Oxford, Ohio for Family Weekend.

This was a weekend where stu-dents led their families on tours of the tree lined Georgian cam-pus, explaining all of the Univer-sity’s rich history and tradition.

Established in 1809, Miami has well over two hundred years’ worth of history and tradition to explain.

Still, one can’t help but notice, that in the midst all of that his-tory and tradition, the wheels of progress are spinning.

In a few years, there will be a brand new state-of-the-art student center, a grand din-ing hall, and a revitalized western campus.

There’s nothing wrong with progress, but if that progress comes at the expense of our rich history and tradition then perhaps we should reconsider.

And as the fate of one our great institutions on campus hangs in the balance, that’s exactly what I ask you to do — reconsider.

Founded in 1988 by Randi Thomas, Jeff Carpenter and Mike Thomas, the credit union was founded by students for students.

Noticing the lack of a financial institution on campus, these three students went about establishing one of their own.

Today some twenty years later, the credit union still lives to serve the student body.

And while the credit union lives to serve the student body’s financial needs — offering all of your basic banking amenities and even running financial education seminars — the introduction of PNC on campus has threatened its very existence and this is the progress we must reconsider.

Walk into the PNC bank and what do you see?

You see group of bankers working for shareholders and board members back east.

Walk into the credit union and you see just the opposite, a group of students working for you.

The fact that they are an institu-tion run by students like you and I is what makes the credit union an institution worth saving.

Here at Miami University

we are blessed with the Farmer School — a business school sec-ond to none.

And I would argue that the mission of the credit union goes hand in hand with the mission of the business school.

Nowhere else on campus do students have the chance to get firsthand experience handling transactions and managing accounts.

And, it’s that type of experien-tial learning that compliments the knowledge gained in the class-room that makes our students so competitive on the job market.

But the credit union doesn’t just offer business school stu-dents firsthand experience.

They also offer College of Arts and Science majors opportuni-ties to gain insight into the world of finance.

So, the next time you walk into Shriver, stop and ask yourself which financial institution is giv-ing back more to the community.

Is it the institution that pays Miami for its prime real-estate and the right to be the sole ATM on campus or is it the institution that employs students?

So, if you have realized by now just how much good the First Mi-ami Student Credit Union does for this campus, go to lower level of the Shriver Center and open up an account with them.

Hopefully, enough of you will do this that one of the uniquely Miami traditions doesn’t fall by the way side to big banks and progress – Love and Honor.

In today’s modern world the ideas of reality and real-ness are at the forefront of many discussions.

With the evolution of tech-nologies and the globalization of much of the world the way in which we obtain information has ultimately changed.

Tools like the Internet and television often provide us with multitude of information, which lies outside the normal realm of experience. When that much of the information we obtain is from

external sources, it is pertinent to begin to question the basis of our own realities, as well as the amount of realness. How ex-actly then do we construct our own realities?

We can begin by looking at the use of language and its re-lationship to ourselves. Here we can use the Whorfian The-ory of as a demonstration of this relationship.

Within the Whorfian theory, the idea of linguistics plays a large role in the construction of a reality based within the con-fines of a given set of parameters, mostly dealing with the ideas of language and vernacular.

Reality is constructed by a person based upon certain cogni-tive relationships inherent in the language used, as well as on the definitions associated within the context of that language.

We see this in the core of the way in which we interpret the lin-guistics of the English language. For every word we use in the lan-guage there is a directed meaning that is associated with it.

For instance a pen is only a pen, and as such called a pen

when it meets a specific set of requirements.

A base set of rules can be de-rived from use first and then ex-perience, so that a pen must use ink and be handheld and only draws on a certain medium. In these characteristics, meaning becomes the derivative element, as such that the pen is only a pen and has meaning as a pen when it meets these criteria.

All reality is then based upon the meanings associated within the language used by both the

person and the community. Thus the reality that is constructed is not one of the individual but rath-er of the language itself.

We interpret, translate and then manifest the “meanings” of lan-guage into the physical world (or believed physical realm), while physical control and construc-tion reside within our own sphere of control.

This manifestation of “reality” is not that of the person, or even the collective, but rather the lan-guage; and is then reflected in all the creations of them.

Again we can turn to the pen for insight here. A pen, being called a pen since it falls under the set characteristics, is agreed upon by the community for its value.

However, the active construc-tion and reaction which is done in real world time is always in response to the terminology and meaning of the pen and not the physical object.

Certain modes of conveyance, or drawing, are determined to be better suited for the pen, while others are not.

Similarly the pen is modified to

meet new requirements and even the techniques of use revolve around the meaning contained within the pen.

Every change and every im-provement, along with every act, respond directly to the meaning behind the pen.

In getting back to the original question of constructing realities in a modern globalized world, a shift in the way in which inter-preted meaning becomes associ-ated with the language itself, pri-marily through experience.

Language is always a diffused element, meaning that it is ab-sorbed and accepted (or ques-tioned) through the experiences we have.

From birth we are taught what each word means and what it is associated with it, thus by expe-riencing it we learn the meaning behind it.

For instance if we compare the way a toddler experiences a new element and the way in which a middle age person experiences we see the same cognitive re-lationships associated with the event, but executed through dif-fering perspectives.

First the child often experienc-es first hand, being shown sym-bols and told what it is and what constitutes it.

Likewise the adult is shown the same thing, a picture of the event or element and then is told who or what it is. In each new experience the reality of the per-son shifts to accommodate the new experience.

So, much like the children we teach, we are continuously con-structing realty every day through the new amount of information and experiences that are provided to us.

The way in which we experi-ence has changed, but the act of experiencing remains the same, it has simply afforded us a larger viewpoint.

Contained within this act is the essence of how we build our own realities based upon the language we choose, both individually and socially, and how they affect one another.

anthony santorasantoraj@muohio.edu

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Reality is constructed by a person based upon certain cognitive relationships inher-ent in the language used, as well as on the definitions associated within the context of that language. We see this in the core of the way in which we interpret the linguis-tics of the English language.

What eludes people is that not the absolute amount of money you possess is what matters, but what you can buy with it-- in this case the more the country goes into a trade deficit the more expensive imported goods will be.

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Reflecting on the construction of reality and relationships through the context of language

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Miami’s credit union must remain an on campus asset

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A history lesson for Americans: foreign and domestic debt will undermine the country

The fact that it is an institution run by students like you and I is what makes the credit union an institution worth saving.

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addition to mapping out the policies, processes and functions of all aspects of the facility.

“My goal is to live up to the vision Miami has for it, for it to be entirely student-centered,” she said.

When asked about the pres-sure of serving as the first di-rector of the ASC, Wilson has no delusions.

“I think it’s going to be a chal-lenging position, that’s the word I’d use,” Wilson said.

Junior Angela Marco had a few suggestions for how Wilson can answer that question.

“I think that English classes should allow for her to come in and talk about it,” Marco said. “I tend to overlook e-mails, posters

and table tents. An info table at the entryway in King might be helpful too.”

Senior Courtney Caroth-ers said she hopes the new facility will serve students’ needs in between their hectic class schedules.

“I just hope they keep in mind class schedules so that students can easily get in and out during the ‘in between times’ of class-es,” Carothers said.

When Wilson starts her role in January of 2013 there will be a centralized point of contact for how the building will operate.

“She’ll be able to formulate answers to questions from stu-dents about how the building will benefit them,” Walter said. “We want it to be the center point of campus, for students and about students.”

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By KATIE M. TAylORSEnIOR STAFF WRITER

Miami University received ad-ditional guidance from the fed-eral government aimed to aid uni-versities in complying with Title IX—the law prohibiting sex dis-crimination and outlining sexual harassment protocol.

A ‘Dear Colleague’ letter sent out by the federal government stated, ‘Sexual harassment of students, which includes acts of sexual vio-lence, is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by Title IX.’

According to Miami’s Title IX coordinator, interim director of Mi-ami’s office of equity and equal opportunity, Kenya Ash, Title IX binds all educational programs re-ceiving financial assistance from the federal government.

In April of 2011 the ‘Dear Col-league’ letter was sent to all feder-ally financially assisted colleges and universities in an attempt to provide additional guidance and clarification to the portion of Title IX regarding sexual harassment, Ash said.

“The letter explains the univer-sity’s responsibilities for example to take immediate and effective steps to end sexual harassment and sexual violence… ” Ash said. “So, what it is essentially is a guideline for universi-ties to follow to ensure that they are in complete compliance with Title IX requirements.”

Ash said Miami has taken multi-ple steps to enhance the university’s adherence to Title IX.

“We met for several months af-ter the ‘Dear Colleague’ letter came out to determine what changes or additions to various policies, educa-tional programs, etcetera needed to take place,” Ash said. “They have been revised.”

One such revision was an addition to Miami’s policy manual, Ash said.

“We added a new definition sec-tion to the [sexual harassment] policy to try and make it more user-friend-ly,” Ash said. “It includes definitions for harassment discrimination, and it also gives examples of the type of conduct that’s prohibited under the policy.”

Section 3.6.B of the Miami Uni-versity Policy and Information Man-ual of 2012-2013 includes examples

such as the following: ‘Offensive and unwanted conduct includes of-fensive jokes, offensive pictures and digital images, slurs, epithets, threats, intimidation, stalking and sexual vio-lence, including rape, sexual assault, sexual battery and sexual coercion.’

Ash said in addition to the ‘Defini-tions’ section of Miami’s policy, the university has appointed a deputy Title IX coordinator for athletics—Associate Athletic Director Jennifer Gilbert—along with a deputy Title IX Coordinator for student sexual assault, Dean of Students Susan Mosley-Howard.

“We thought that the best thing to help ensure the safety of our stu-dents as well as our faculty and staff on campus is to ensure that there are plenty of people who are trained in this area who are aware of the issues

and who can in some way try to as-sist,” Ash said.

Mosley-Howard was unavailable for comment, but Gilbert mentioned another key installment in handling cases of sexual harassment.

“They’ve also completed sum-mer training for residence life that included some of these particular is-sues [of sexual harassment and sex-ual assault] especially as it relates to the Clery Act…” Gilbert said. “The Clery Act is a federal mandate that specific people in supervisory roles are required to report to authority when they hear an instance of sexual harassment or sexual assault.”

According to Ash, educating stu-dents, staff and faculty is vital in pre-venting and handling issues related to Title IX.

“One of the key components of the ‘Dear Colleague’ letter is to en-sure that our community is educated on these issues…” Ash said. “Since the ‘Dear Colleague’ letter, we now have the new-hire online sexual harassment training that’s required for continued employment, and we are in the process of getting current

employees to take it as well.”President of Women Against Vio-

lence and Sexual Assault (WAVES) Robin Lavigna talked about how the organization has been working to in-crease this education in Miami com-munity as well.

“We go around and talk to women about sexual assault and how to re-duce the risk of being sexually as-saulted,” Lavigna said. “We just kind of raise awareness on campus—we all feel that everyone needs to be more aware.”

According to Lavigna, many are surprised to find out that sexual as-sault occurs every two minutes in America.

“I feel like awareness is pretty low [at Miami]… ” Lavigna said. “When I go in to do presentations I have a lot of shocked people when they find out how often sexual assaults occur. Sometimes people don’t even know the definition of sexual assault.”

Lavigna said that recent incidents at Miami have begun to move the university in the right direction.

According to Ash, this push for awareness is motivated by the need to encourage students, staff and faculty to respond efficiently to incidents of sexual harassment and violence.

“Part of that goal is that if people are educated then they will speak out when they’re aware of something,” Ash said. “They will report issues that come to their attention and cer-tainly they will not in any way vio-late Title IX.”

Ash said that in the years she has been at Miami, reporting of issues has improved with this increase of awareness.

Sophomore Alexa Krueger said she feels that cases still often go unreported because many people don’t know what’s considered sexual harassment.

“I feel like people get sexually harassed like everyday at the bars,” Krueger said. “People are being groped all the time and no one both-ers to report it.”

Ash said reporting these incidents is gradually catching on.

“I think that people are becoming more aware of their reporting re-sponsibility,” Ash said. “I think that maybe people are seeing things that they hadn’t seen before because now they’re educated.”

Miami revamps policies to comply with Title IX sexual harrassment regulations

By lIBBy MuEllERSEnIOR STAFF WRITER

From the basketballs bouncing off the floors of gleaming courts to the footballs sailing across the end zones, sports are an important and invigorating part of the college experience at Miami University. In 2010, the Strategic Priorities Task Force (SPTF) recommended the Division of Intercollegiate Athlet-ics (ICA) reduce its dependence on funds provided by the university ei-ther through increasing its revenues outside of university support or by cutting its budget.

The recommendation specifi-cally said ICA should reduce its dependence on university finan-cial support by 3 percent each year until 2015.

According to Josh Fenton, se-nior associate athletic director of administration and finance, Mi-ami receives about 72 percent of its athletic budget from univer-sity funds. Research done by the SPTF showed Miami and the rest of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) receive a greater propor-tion of their athletic budget from university funds. According to the findings, this is because Miami and the MAC participate in Division IA sports, which include costs re-quired by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Fenton said ICA is in a more unique position than other

departments on campus to generate its own revenue.

“We have multiple areas to gen-erate revenue,” Fenton said. “We have the ability to sell more tickets, the ability to increase our dona-tions and a little bit of ability to in-crease sponsorship revenue. Then we have some opportunities to increase parking revenue streams, concession revenue streams and li-censing and merchandising royalty revenue streams.”

Fenton said ICA has been suc-cessful in generating revenue out-side of the university.

“Over the past five years, three of those five have been our high-est annual giving years,” Fenton said. “Our ticket revenues for the three primary sports (football, ice hockey and men’s basketball) re-main at an all-time high. Over the past 10 years we’ve been able to generate revenue.”

He said the goal has been to decrease the percent of subsidy, or university funds, that athletics receives from Miami. Fenton also said ICA is on track to meet the budget reductions recommended by the SPTF by fiscal year 2015.

David Creamer, vice president for Finance and Business Services, said the final report of the SPTF called for ICA to reduce its budget, and therefore support from univer-sity funds, by $750,000 by fiscal year 2014 and another $750,000 by fiscal year 2015 for a total of $1.5

million in reductions.The portion of the ICA budget

that comes from student general fees is $15 million for fiscal year 2011-2012, according to the 2011-2012 Miami University Operating Budget. An individual student this year pays $917 to support ICA out of his or her general fees.

Creamer said over time, there may be slower growth of student fees as ICA and other areas on campus reduce their budgets, but for the present, student fees will re-main the same and go toward other priorities on campus.

Creamer said the report did not dictate how the reductions should occur, but simply indicated the amount. According to Creamer, there were discussions about de-creasing the number of sports of-ferings or withdrawing participa-tion in Division I in order to reduce ICA’s costs long-term, but these possibilities were turned down.

Creamer said another committee was formed this fall to look at the athletics budget.

“Earlier this fall, [Miami Uni-versity President David Hodge] formed a committee to look at how to bring about reductions in fund-ing,” Creamer said.

The report issued by the SPTF also said if the desired revenue growth was not pos-sible, Miami should seriously re-consider its membership in the MAC. However, Fenton said

Miami is committed to the MAC.“Our commitment is to the Mid

-American Conference at this time. We are proud members of the MAC with a membership that goes back almost 50 years,” Fenton said.

Fenton also said reductions in the athletics budget should not impact the over 500 athletes in the department.

“The one thing that we’ve tried to do is minimize the impact on the student athlete experience. We hope to at least have the same level of experience of three to five years ago, or even an enhanced level of experience,” Fenton said.

Sophomore Jen Stewart, a skater for Miami, said that she does think Miami provides a great experience for student athletes. She said Mi-ami strives to cultivate a “culture of champions.”

“Our coaches and our staff try to develop you as a champion in life, not just in your sport,” Stewart said.

Ian Joyce, a swimmer for Miami, also said what makes Miami’s ath-letic program strong is its focus on the growth of its athletes inside and outside of their sports.

“As a whole, it’s a very strong program because it’s a very holistic program,” Joyce said.

Both Stewart and Joyce said their athletic experiences at Miami have been incredible.

“[Athletics] teach you how to face failures, face challenges and take risks,” Joyce said.

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goals in the third period to come from behind and tally the win.

Freshman forward Alex Gacek tied the game just two minutes into the third off a faceoff win from class-mate Kevin Morris. The RedHawks then scored twice in just 18 seconds, first off of an unassisted strike from sophomore forward Jimmy Mullin, and then with a breakaway goal by senior forward Curtis McKenzie on the power play.

Michigan would not go quietly, however, scoring with 2:05 left in the game to cut Miami’s lead to one. Despite their best efforts off an ex-tra attacker opportunity, Michigan could not get the puck past Wil-liams, who totaled a career-high 37 saves on the night.

“Jay did a really good job,” senior captain Steven Spinell said. “He came up with a handful of really good saves and the results showed … you’ve got to give credit to him.”

The coaching staff also took a lot of positives away from the week-end. Though Miami could not keep the loss column empty, the team gained valuable experience.

“I thought we played as close to 60 minutes as we’ve played all year,” Head Coach Enrico Blasi said of Saturday’s performance. “[It was] a great job on the weekend. I thought we got extremely com-fortable in a hostile environment, and in a lot of ways we grew up this weekend.”

The RedHawks return to ac-tion with a two game road series against the Ferris State Bulldogs in Big Rapids, Mich. Friday. The puck drops at 7:05 p.m. both Friday and Saturday.

the ball from a long throw-in by freshman midfielder Jess Bronke.

Just one minute later, Zakrzews-ki again put the ball in the back of the net on a rebound, after two shots from three yards out by sophomore midfielder Kelsey Dinges and se-nior captain Jess Kodiak. However, the goal was immediately waived for an offside penalty.

“That’s what we’ve been preach-ing the last couple of days, to come out and be aggressive,” Kramig said. “Set the tone and tempo for the game right from the beginning and I think our kids did that. I was disappointed that second goal was disallowed … we just had to keep playing, keep firing.”

Miami went into the half with a 14-2 advantage on shots and a 4-3 corner kick lead.

The second half featured more of the same intensity on both ends of the field. The defensive pressure re-mained steady from start to finish, with Ohio never able to establish consistent offensive pressure.

“The defense won the day for us,” Kramig said. “In soccer you have these bad finishing days so to make a one-goal lead stand up for 80-plus minutes says a lot about our defense.”

Sophomore defender Courtney Zanotti was integral in the ’Hawks’ back line, dashing all over the field and keeping the Bobcats out of the attacking third of the field.

“The key thing for us was to set the tone, winning every ball in the air and we did,” Zanotti said. “We were always on their back; they didn’t have a chance to turn. All-around, it was team defense. Our energy picked up and that’s how we got our goal and that’s how we held them to so few shots.”

The RedHawks had a season-high 30 shots, holding the ’Cats to just five, while doubling up Ohio in corner kick opportunities 10-5.

“I thought it was a tremendous effort by our kids,” Kramig said. “I’m pleased with the level of en-ergy and enthusiasm they brought to the game, the commitment they brought to the game.”

As the top seed, Miami now hosts the remainder of the MAC Tournament this weekend. Fri-day’s game vs. fourth-seeded Kent State will be a rematch of a Sept. 30 game at Kent in which Miami won 4-2 in a frantic, back-and- forth affair.

“Kent is a good, well-organized team,” Kramig said. “We have a week to prepare and we will be ready.”

Kick off Friday is set for 11 a.m. followed by second seeded Cen-tral Michigan University taking on the six seed University of Toledo at 2 p.m.

attendance was 19,326, a sea-son high. Treadwell said after the game he was happy with the fan attendance.

The RedHawks took the lead early after Patterson made a 40-yard field goal on their open-ing drive. The Red and White then went up 10-0 after Harwell reeled in a 54-yard pass from Dysert. Harwell finished with a game high eight catches for 138 yards and a score.

A Patterson 32-yard field goal put the ’Hawks up 13-0, but Ohio responded with a 75-yard drive capped off with a 5-yard run by junior running back Beau Blankenship.

True freshman running back Jamire Westbrook scored from a yard out to give the ’Hawks a 20-7 lead with 12 minutes left in the second quarter. West-brook was the team’s leading rusher, finishing with 65 yards on 16 carries.

However, the Bobcats scored 13 unanswered to tie the game. Dysert threw an ill-advised red zone pick late in the half pre-venting the RedHawks from ex-tending their lead.

Ohio tied the game for the first time with a field goal with 4:41 remaining in the fourth, but the ’Hawks drove down the field to take the lead on Patterson’s game-winning field goal.

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getting two good shots on goal be-fore earning a penalty corner in the 10th minute. Off of the corner, se-nior back Laura Mastro scored off an assist from senior forward Cath-ryn Altdoerffer to put Ohio up 1-0.

“We knew what was out there for us, and we played nervous,” Mueller said.

The RedHawks earned their first penalty corner in the 13th min-ute, but sophomore goalkeeper Brittany Walker was able to save shots by Miller and sophomore midfielder Ali Froede. In the 23rd minute, Miami capitalized on an-other penalty corner attempt as freshman midfielder Leni Gross found Froede in front of the net for the equalizer.

The RedHawks took control early in the second half, with junior forwards Alyssa Logan and Emily Gruesser recording shots on goal, but Walker saved both. Miami took a 2-1 lead in the 48th minute when Miller scored off a pass from freshman midfielder Bea Dechant. The Bobcats got more aggres-sive offensively looking to tie the game up, allowing the RedHawks to capitalize in the 62nd minute. Gruesser stole a pass and found sophomore forward Valentina Neira on a breakaway for the 3-1 lead. Miami held on to clinch the win and the MAC Title.

“We trusted in each of our teammates, in the coaches and we all could rely on each other,” Mueller said.

The RedHawks outshot the Bob-cats 12-9 and held a 6-2 advantage in penalty corners. Mueller only made three saves for Miami as the defense held strong after the first goal.

Miami will be the No. 1 seed in the MAC Tournament due to its win over co-champion Kent State University Oct. 6. The tournament begins noon Friday in Oxford as Miami takes on fourth seeded Ohio in a rematch of Saturday’s game.

“There are pros and cons of having to play OU two weeks in a row, but I think more good can come from playing them again,” Miller said. “We have a better idea of what we want to do to make things happen.”

Kent State and third seeded Cen-tral Michigan University play 2:30 p.m. Friday, also a rematch from Saturday. The MAC Champion-ship game will be 1 p.m. Saturday.

The MAC Tournament win-ner will play the winner of the NorPAC Tournament Tues-day for an automatic spot in the NCAA Tournament.

“As happy as we are right now, we want more,” Mueller said. “We want to win the championship at home and know we can.”

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it will allow women to have greater access to birth control.

“I think it’s a good thing,” Fur-beck said. “Women’s health is an important issue because women want and need access to birth con-trol, not just because they are out there having sex but because birth control helps with different health issues. What somebody chooses to do with their body and their health is their issue. Honestly if some-one is sexually active I think they should be using birth control.”

Detloff said making contracep-tion more available may lower the abortion rate, as abortion rates tend to be the lowest in countries where contraception is widely available to women.

In addition, Detloff said not ev-ery person who is employed by a Catholic hospital or university is a Catholic, and not offering him or her contraceptive coverage may violate their religious freedom be-cause they are being denied cov-erage based on a doctrine they do not follow.

“On one hand we have a man-date that we need to offer this [con-traception] and the other hand we have what turns out to be a man-date that people need to follow one certain ethical line of reasoning,” Detloff said.

A person who has access to con-traceptive coverage is not necessar-ily obligated to use it, Detloff said. However, denying a person cover-age may prevent those who wish to use contraceptives from having access to them for financial reasons.

Furbeck agreed not providing contraceptive coverage to those employed by religious institutions may violate their religious freedom.

“I don’t think [the contraceptive mandate] conflicts with someone’s religious freedom to tell a faith-based charity or institution that it needs to cover birth control for its workers even though Catholics be-lieve birth control is a sin, because if you are employing someone that person is not necessarily a Catho-lic,” Furbeck said. “In some ways I think it’s an infringement on the re-ligious freedom of your employees to tell them that you are not going to cover birth control because, ‘our religion tells us it’s bad.’”

According to Kidwell, if an em-ployee wishes to have contracep-tive coverage he or she should work for an employer who wishes to of-fer contraceptive coverage in their healthcare plan or purchase it for himself or herself.

“If I’m not Catholic, and I’m not, if I were an atheist and want-ed to buy my contraceptives, then I wouldn’t work for a Catholic

institution or organization that didn’t offer it,” Kidwell said. “I would go work somewhere else, because in my belief it’s great to use contraceptives. But that’s my choice, and it’s their choice not to offer it and it’s my choice to go work somewhere else.”

There is a wide variation of thought on reproductive health is-sues within feminist thought, how-ever Detloff said she believes most feminists would agree it is up to the woman to decide whether or not she wants to use contraception.

“I think most feminists would say it’s the woman herself who gets to make those decisions about her own body and they can be complicated; they can be serious; they can be moral and ethical decisions, and the best person to make those decisions is the person herself,” Detloff said.

Furbeck said the Romney cam-paign has argued that the contracep-tive mandate is an attack on reli-gious freedom because they believe they will receive more votes.

“Running against an incumbent means Romney’s best strategy lays in devaluing Obama’s record in office,” Furbeck said. “Thus a beneficial move for women’s health turns into a debate over religious freedom.”

Kidwell said the Obama cam-paign is focusing on the contracep-tive mandate is sway women voters instead of focusing on issues such as female unemployment.

“I think the Obama campaign has made a conscious decision that the best way to win the female vote is to make this an election about con-traceptives and women’s health and about abortion and whether you are pro-choice or pro-life and I think these issues are important and it’s certainly a debate we need to have but when 5.5 million women are out of work, I think the first thing we need to talk about is how to get them back to work,” Kidwell said. “I’m not sure why we want to talk about what’s going to be in-cluded in their healthcare packages when they don’t even have a job to begin with.”

Duffy said he believes the ques-tion of whether or not people have access to contraception and whether or not religious institutions are able to have religious freedom are both important issues. However, he said there are other important issues the country should focus on.

“This is political theater,” Duffy said. “This issue that could have been discussed and has been dis-cussed in the past in calmer ways is being inflamed at a particular moment for the purposes of the 2012 election, and I think it would behoove everyone to be a little bit cynical about this debate for that reason.”

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Miami University (4-4) upset No. 23 Ohio University (OU) (7-1) in a 23-20 thriller Satur-day, snapping a six game series losing streak. It is the first time since 2003 the RedHawks de-feated a ranked opponent in the regular season.

OU drove down to the Red-Hawk 7-yard line with nine sec-onds left, but the Bobcats elected to run one more play rather than attempt the game-tying field goal. That decision backfired though, as junior defensive lineman Wes Williams sacked Ohio junior quarterback Tyler Tettleton as time expired.

“Looking at Tettleton, it didn’t look like he was about to call the kicking team out there,” Williams said. “I just had one thought in my head, ‘I’m going to go get him.’ I looked up at the clock and I saw they didn’t have timeouts left and I was like, ‘If we get a sack here, it’s game over.’”

The sack sealed the win for the RedHawks, improving their Mid-American Conference (MAC) record to 3-1 and end-ing OU’s Bowl Championship Series hopes.

“Pandemonium man,” Wil-liams said. “It was crazy. That’s what you play football for.”

Freshman kicker Kaleb Pat-terson gave the ’Hawks the lead on a 31-yard field goal with 1:24 left in the game after sophomore running back Spencer Treadwell busted a 30-yard run to put the RedHawks in field goal position.

“We’re very proud of our young true freshman kicker, Ka-leb Patterson,” Head Coach Don Treadwell said. “He’s been really steady for us.”

Fans stormed the field fol-lowing the game, undoubtedly the biggest win of the Treadwell era and one of biggest in recent memory.

“Certainly a big win for our program,” Treadwell said. “There’s no doubt about that.”

The Red and White last beat a ranked team in 2010, defeating Northern Illinois University in the MAC Championship game. The RedHawks defeated No. 20 Bowling Green State University in the regular season in 2003.

“It was great,” junior wide re-ceiver Nick Harwell said. “I was so happy I didn’t know how to celebrate. It was really good to beat them. It was exciting. I think

I speak for the whole team when I say that.”

The RedHawks defense gave up 464 yards, but still had arguably their best game. The 20 points given up were the fewest against a Football Bowl Subdivision team this season. The Bobcats converted only four of 15 third

down attempts.“We were huge on third down

today,” junior cornerback Day-onne Nunley said. “We got off the field and got the offense the ball back.”

The RedHawks entered the game with six sacks all season,

but sacked Tettleton six times. Redshirt senior defensive line-man Jason Semmes led the team with two.

“It is lovely to be back in cov-erage and see the quarterback go down,” Nunley said. “It’s just a sigh of relief.”

Redshirt senior quarterback Zac Dysert led the team on of-fense once again, completing 21 of 36 passes for 311 yards and one touchdown.

“Right now, I can’t say enough about my guys,” Dysert said. “I’m so proud of them and the team. The struggles we’ve been through and how we’ve fought.”

The RedHawks were balanced on offense, throwing 36 times and picking up 113 rushing yards on 33 attempts.

Nunley tied junior linebacker Chris Wade for a game high 11 tackles and also broke up two passes.

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The Miami University field hock-ey team (10-9, 4-1 Mid-American Conference (MAC)) earned a share of the MAC regular season title for the second time in three years by defeating Ohio University (OU) 3-1 Saturday.

“We were all just overwhelmed by emotions,” junior goalkeeper Sarah Mueller said. “It was such a great feeling to win the MAC regu-lar season championship on our home field.”

Saturday was also senior day for the RedHawks, who honored senior midfielder Olivia Miller and senior back Addie Absher.

“It was great to have a win on Senior Day,” Miller said. “Addie and I both are very grateful for what Miami athletics and the field hockey program have done.”

The Bobcats had the majority of the chances early in the game,

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Returning to its usual form, the top-seeded Miami University soc-cer team beat the eighth-seeded Ohio University Bobcats 1-0 in a Mid-American Conference (MAC) Quarterfinal game Sunday.

Miami now faces Kent State University Friday in the first of two MAC Tournament semifinal games. The win improves the RedHawks to 17-2-1 (10-0-1 MAC), with a school record 13 game unbeaten streak.

Head Coach Bobby Kramig’s squad again bounced back Sunday, stamping its authority on the match from the opening kickoff. Miami earned the first of its 10 corner kicks opportunities about 10 seconds into the match. The Red and White’s aggressive efforts paid off quickly when in the sixth minute, junior midfielder Kayla Zakrzewski scored her seventh goal of the season, after junior forward Katy Dolesh tapped

By Joe GierinGer STaff wriTer

The Miami University men’s hockey team went 1-1 this weekend in Ann Arbor, Mich. After losing 4-2 Friday night, the RedHawks rallied in the third period to come from be-hind Saturday, securing a 4-3 victory.

The RedHawks struck first Friday on the power play just over three minutes into the game, when sopho-more forward Jimmy Mullin fed classmate Cody Murphy in the right circle, where he buried his shot past Michigan goaltender Steve Racine for his first goal of the year.

At 4:59 in the first frame, freshman goaltender Ryan McKay was injured while making a save, and classmate Jay Williams was called in. Williams made some key saves on a Michigan 5-on-3 power play to keep the Wol-verines off the board early, but the Maize and Blue eventually found the back of the net with 2:33 remaining in the first, capitalizing on its third power play of the period.

After Michigan took the lead early

second, Miami battled back with a shorthanded score from sopho-more forward Austin Czarnik, who notched the equalizer with 8:02 left in the period for his third goal of the year.

The Wolverines took control in the third, however, scoring two unan-swered to close the door on the Red-Hawks on home ice. They outshot Miami 35-32, while Miami was not able to capitalize on its slew of scor-ing chances, including a handful of odd-man rushes in the second half of the game.

“We just didn’t execute on our chances,” Czarnik said. “I feel like we dominated a good part of that game down in their zone, they were just able to bury their chances Friday night.”

After going down 2-1 halfway through the second period Saturday, Miami took its cue from Michigan’s third period performance the previ-ous night, scoring three unanswered

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Miami University clinched a share of the Mid-American Conference title Saturday with a 3-1 win over Ohio Uni-versity. The RedHawks face the Bobcats again noon Friday in the MAC Tournament opening round.

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Nothing matters more in sports than a player’s belief in his or her team. Talent, skill and a good game plan help, but the single most impor-tant factor is whether a team truly believes it can win.

The Miami University football team believed in itself Saturday.

Something changed in the way Miami approached Saturday’s game. The RedHawks had nothing to lose, but at the same time, had ev-erything to lose.

The Red and White not only had lost six straight games to Ohio Uni-versity, but Miami had not beaten a ranked opponent in the regular sea-son since 2003.

The Bobcats were also the third ranked team the RedHawks faced in 2012. But in reality the differences, especially between the University of Cincinnati and Ohio University, were minimal. Both were ranked 23rd in the country in at least one poll prior to facing Miami. Both have outscored and outgained Mi-ami this season. And both are Mi-ami’s archrivals.

Nothing changed statistically for the Red and White Saturday either. The RedHawks were still outgained and had fewer first downs than the Bobcats.

But, the Red and White did give up fewer points than it has all year to a Football Bowl Subdivision team while recording a season-high six sacks. The team also had one of its most balanced offensive attacks of the season as well as a season high 19,000-plus fans in attendance at Yager Stadium.

However, more than anything, Miami believed it could win Sat-urday. Miami’s mentality was the difference.

Statistically, Ohio is very simi-lar to two teams that blew out the

’Hawks earlier this year: Cincinnati and Boise State University. Howev-er, somehow Miami lost by a com-bined 65 points to those two squads.

Sure, poor execution and a row-dy road crowd impacted the Red-Hawks’ performance, but there is a reason Miami traditionally plays top Mid-American Conference (MAC) opponents closer than top non-conference opponents, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the teams.

Miami does not play up to its non-conference opponents.

Regardless of who the ’Hawks face out-of-conference, they strug-gle. The last time Miami had a winning non-conference record was in 2003.

It is as if the team is told before the game it has no chance. It is as if the team is simply hoping to not get blown out. It is as if the team knows it is the underdog and feels it has no business being there.

Obviously none of this is true, but the point still remains that Mi-ami plays a different game against conference opponents as opposed to non-conference teams. Ironically, the last regular season ranked team the RedHawks beat was No. 20 Bowling Green State University, a MAC school.

After winning the “Battle of the Bricks” Saturday, the Red and White are now again in the race for the MAC East title.

The key for the ’Hawks the rest of the season has nothing to do with “X”s and “O”s though — this team has all the talent it needs. Rather, the key to this team’s success is whether it will maintain the same mentality it had against Ohio.

Too bad there are not any fe-lines remaining on the RedHawks’ 2012 schedule.