BY KATIE TAYLOREDITOR IN CHIEF

Today the Miami University community mourns the loss of 19-year-old sophomore Jacob Jar-man, who was found dead on Ox-ford railroad tracks early Saturday morning. The Oxford Police De-partment (OPD) continues to inves-tigate, according to Sgt. Jon Varley.

“During the investigation, they’re going to try to determine if it was deliberate or an accident,” he said. “To do that, we’ll check phone messages, talk to friends and go back as far as we can to see if there are any issues with relation-ships, etcetera … they’ll check all that and see if there were any known issues.”

OPD found Jarman’s body at 9:13 a.m. on the tracks east of the intersection of South College and Foxfire Drive. Oxford Township Police Department, Miami Uni-versity Police Department and CSX railroad personnel provided additional support.

Jarman’s time of death has not yet been released.

In the last eight years, five indi-viduals have died after being hit by a train in or just outside Oxford, according to Varley. Including Jar-man, four of those individuals were Miami students.

Varley explained that the train tracks in Oxford are the private property of CSX Transportation.

“With the miles and miles and miles of track they have, there’s no way to [regulate trespassing],” Var-ley said. “If they see there’s a prob-lem in a certain area, they’ll address that area.”

CSX Railroad System Pro-duction Team Mechanic John Theodore, who has worked for CSX for 12 years, said people often underestimate the danger of mov-ing trains.

“Train safety is extremely impor-tant,” Theodore said. “People get complacent around trains ... The rate of their speed is misleading.”

OPD attended the autopsy this morning and is awaiting the

toxicology report. It has not yet been determined

whether alcohol played a role in the student’s death.

“If it can be determined that [un-derage intoxication] was a direct causation or direct factor, then yes, it will probably be acted on,” Var-ley said. “And if there was clearly somebody responsible, they could also end up being charged.”

A second-year transfer student from Greenwood Village, Co., Jarman lived in Hahne Residence Hall and was studying journalism and communication.

President David Hodge ad-dressed the Miami community with a statement on Twitter.

“We mourn the tragic death of a Miami student this weekend. Our hearts go out to the family in their grief,” Hodge said.

Jarman’s family has been no-tified and is en route back to Colorado for his burial.

With additional reporting by Chris Curme, Community Editor.

BY CONNOR MORIARTY & MARIAH SCHLOSSMANNFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

As a university where the main re-ligion is Christianity, Miami is mak-ing efforts to promote a more reli-giously diverse campus and increase awareness to more religious groups.

According to the 2011 Coopera-tive Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Survey that addressed the religion of registered first-year stu-dents, 32 percent identify as Roman Catholic, and approximately 65 per-cent identify themselves as some Christian denomination.

Co-campus director of the Miami Navigators, a Christian group on campus, Mark Smith said he is not surprised that the majority of stu-dents at Miami identify themselves as Christian.

“The majority of the country is Christian,” he said. “Miami’s campus seems to holds true to that number.”

77 percent of the adult US popu-lation identify themselves with a Christian religion according to the Gallup Daily Tracking Survey, an organization that tracks nationwide statistics. Mormonism and Judaism follow that percentage at 2.1 percent and 1.7 percent of the population re-spectively.

Smith said he believes that part of the religious diversity on campus can be credited to Miami’s demographics.

“Being mostly caucasian stu-dents from the suburbs, there isn’t a cultural precedence for interest in Muslim, Buddhism, Hinduism, etcetera.” Smith said. “And the vast majority of our international

population is Chinese who culturally are not religious.”

Aminata Coulibaly, treasurer for Muslim Students’ Association (MSA), said MSA does not receive adequate attention from Miami. MSA’s goals are to create a place for Muslim students to gather and learn about the religion in a community setting, while teaching the Oxford community a little more about Islam.

“Having to accommodate and pay attention to all religious groups on campus can be a lot of work, Coulibaly said. “However, it would be nice to have more interfaith dia-logues on campus.”

She also said Miami could ac-commodate for MSA and their faith better by allowing more diverse food options in campus dining halls.

“Having halal/kosher food options at the food places on campus will be very helpful to us,” Coulibaly said. “Many of us become vegetarians when we live on campus, because we are unable to eat the food pro-vided at the halls.”

Currently MSA has 40 active members and prays in their office in MacMillan, but the nearest mosque is in West Chester, about 50 minutes away from Miami.

Marcy Miller is the Executive di-rector of Hillel at Miami, a non-profit Jewish cultural and educational orga-nization that welcomes Jewish and non-Jewish students alike who strive to serve the Jewish student popula-tion as part of a campus community.

“We specifically provide Jew-ish students with opportunities to explore their history and heritage, while helping them to understand the universal components of being Jew-ish,” she said. “We not only serve

the Jewish population, but also, true to our values, emphasize the need to help others in the world.”

According to Miller, there are about 1,000 Jewish students on cam-pus, and about 500 of those students currently utilize the resources and opportunities provided by Hillel.

Though there is no synagogue on campus, Miller said she believes that Miami is and has been open to bring-ing the diverse campus community together as a collective effort with Hillel and the many other groups that make up Miami.

“Each and every one of us is di-verse in some way,” Miller said. “My hope is that all of us can come together to share our thoughts, cus-toms and beliefs, whether those are secular, cultural or religious.”

Miller said one of Hillel’s goals is to help and coexist with others and to not impede, and that is what has shaped their partnership with Miami.

Hillel often host events open for anyone to come.

“We host Breakfast for Dinner the first Tuesday of each month in the Hillel/Arthur Beerman Center which is open to all,” Miller said. “And Sat-urday there [was] a traditional Jew-ish wedding in MacMillan Hall for anyone to experience.”

Sophomore Interior Design ma-jor Leah Gray said that she believes that students in Miami are often unaware of the various religious groups on campus and the events that they provide.

“I couldn’t tell you the names of three religious groups,” Gray said. “I think it would be helpful for the groups to publicize themselves and the events they host outside of Shriv-er so [students] can stay informed.”

In 1981, The Miami Student reported the return of former university president Phillip Shriver, who had recently sent chills down the spines of 200 stu-dents with his lecture on “Miami Mysteries.” Shriver shook up the crowd of curious listeners by recalling the rumor of an ax murder at Oxford College, a frightening legend he later admitted was completely fake.

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Miami sophomore dies on Oxford train tracks

CHRIS CURME COMMUNITY EDITORMiami sophomore Jacob Jarman was found dead on Oxford railroad tracks early Saturday morning.

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BY KENDALL HUTCHISONFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

Halloween offers a night of mys-tery and horror and a time to re-call the multitude of spooky dis-appearances, murders and urban legends in Miami University’s past. Miami’s 200-year history is full of strange occurrences at different sites that the univer-sity has acquired throughout time. “I heard about all of Miami’s ur-ban legends even before I arrived at school,” junior Stephen Bow-man said. “Some of them are re-ally freaky, and I could definitely understand why students would be scared in certain dorms after what happened there.”

According to the Miami’s “His-tory and Tradition” website, one such incident transpired the night of May 9, 1959 when Roger Say-les, the Resident Assisant (RA) in Reid Hall, which was demolished in 2007, disrupted a fight between two residents. The events after that are unclear, but eventually a gun went off, killing Sayles. As the legend goes, Sayles fell back-wards against a door where his bloody handprints were said to be visible for years after. The assailant then fled to neighboring Ogden Hall where he commit-ted suicide using the same gun. “I first heard about this story freshman year when a group of friends were telling scary sto-ries about Miami,” Miami ju-nior Maggie Babuder said. “I thought it was really cool that people still pass down stories like this today because it helps to keep out schools history alive.” Another well-known story, accord-ing to “History and Tradition,” is the disappearance of Ron Tammen Jr, a sophomore who lived in Old Fisher Hall. Before Miami acquired it in 1952, Old Fisher Hall had pre-viously been the home to Oxford College for Women and was then converted to a mental asylum.

Tammen, who was heavily in-volved on campus, was a mem-ber of the wrestling team, and the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He was last seen around 8 p.m. on the night of April 19, 1953. Tammen’s

roommate came back later that eve-ning and discovered his psychol-ogy book laying open on his desk with all of the room’s lights still on. No one thought anything of it until the following day when he did not return. Today, Tammen’s where-abouts are still unknown, as some believe he ran away, while others think he was murdered.

“History and Tradtion” also tells one of Miami’s most notorious spooky stories, one that took place in Peabody Hall, which had origi-nally been a part of the Western Fe-male Seminary.

The hall’s namesake and head of the school, Principal Helen Pea-body, was very protective of her female students and was suspi-cious of the male Miami students wandering onto her campus Upon her death, she has been said to still guard Peabody Hall, as many students have seen the image of a ghostly female figure floating through the halls. Since then, the dorm has caught fire twice, and was remodeled each time before the women’s school merged with Mi-ami in the 1970s. Today, it is said she is present on occasion to watch over the women who now live in the dorm, and to scare away the men who she sees as trespassers. Junior Alex Windsor, who lived in Peabody Hall her freshman year, said she first heard about the ghosts who supposedly resided in the dorm the summer before starting school through the “Ac-cepted to Miami University,” Facebook group.

“There were many rumors about what actually happened there as different people said they had seen ghosts,” Windsor said. “A lot of times during the year if you were in the hallway in the night, the lights will flicker on and off which re-minded me of a scene straight out of the horror movies.”

According to a Miami Student survey of 100 students, 36 per-cent said they have experienced paranormal activity on campus. Whether that activity is rooted in Miami’s rich past is unclear; however the university’s 200-year history is riddled with spooky en-counters and haunting incidents that will endure into the future.

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Celebrating Freedom Summer, 50 years later

Former Green Bay Packers chaplain packs up, brings his talents to Miami

ASC opens the shades of new student family room

BY VICTORIA TERSIGNI FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

In the summer of 1964, over 800 volunteers banded together to train, inspire and prepare to reg-ister African-American voters in the South in a movement called Freedom Summer.

What students may not know is that Freedom Summer was a cata-lyst for the Civil Rights Movement, and it happened on Miami’s campus.

Next year, Miami will celebrate the 50th anniversary of this move-ment in a yearlong university wide series of events, including a lecture by esteemed journalist and alumnus, Wil Hayood, leading up to a national conference near the end of 2014.

When the volunteers met the sum-mer of 1964 at Western College for Women now known as Western Campus, their goal was to overcome the social issues of the racial South, particularly in Mississippi, as vio-lence and injustices toward African-Americans were often ignored.

According to the website for next year’s Freedom Summer Con-ference, this orientation included “educating and registering African-American voters, establishing Free-dom Schools to teach youth core subjects while emphasizing black history and citizenship skills and building community centers that of-fered healthcare, recreation and nec-essary social support systems.”

Jacky Johnson, Western College Archivist and chair of the Freedom Summer 2014 Planning Commit-tee, explained volunteers had to learn to resist impassioned violent behavior, and were given nonviolent resistance training to aid them.

“Volunteers were taught how to resist and put their bodies into balls to protect themselves and their ex-tremities from injury if they were being clubbed or beaten,” Johnson said. “They weren’t supposed to fight back.”

According to an article on the PBS website titled “The Freedom Summer Killings,” some volunteers

had to put their training to use. On the warm, summery morning

of June 20, 1964, three volunteers who had completed their orientation — James Chaney, Michael Schwer-ner and Andrew Goodman — left Oxford and headed down to Mis-sissippi to register to vote. The next day, they drove to Philadelphia, Mis-sissippi intending to inspect a church that was burning.

A local sheriff stopped the trio for alleged speeding and held them in a county jail until late at night when they were later released.

As the three were driving away, as many as 22 Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members were hot on their trail.

The KKK members stopped the car and murdered all three.

Goodman, a white Freedom Summer volunteer and Schwerner, a white organizer from New York, were shot right on the spot. Chaney, a black activist from Mississippi,

BY LAUREN OLSONPHOTO EDITOR

While college athletes, coaches, trainers and staff members are of-ten working toward a career with professional teams, chaplain Steve Newman came to Miami Univer-sity after working in the NFL for over two decades.

Newman, Miami’s current Ath-letes in Action (AIA) representa-tive, was on the Green Bay Pack-er’s sideline for every Packer’s game from 1976 to 1999, minister-ing to this NFL team’s athletes and coaches.

After his 23 years in Green Bay, Newman opened up an AIA training center in Xenia, Ohio. AIA, according to their web page, is a campus ministry who aims “to come alongside athletes, teaching them to glorify Jesus Christ through their sport and use it as a platform to spread the love of God.”

Newman has worked at Miami through the Athletes in Action Program since 2002, bringing his NFL experiences to athletes in Oxford.

“’Newms’ time with the Packers was huge in terms of him coming to Miami, because he’s bringing so much wisdom from pro athletics and investing it in athletes here,” former varsity swimmer Ian Joyce said.

Joyce, a current fifth-year, worked with Newman for all four years of his swimming career at Miami, and continues to meet with him weekly.

“I really enjoy working with

college athletes because they’re at a critical stage to make major decisions in their life,” Newman said. “My goal is to help indi-viduals find what the true mean-ing of living a purposeful life is all about.”

On top of running weekly AIA meetings on campus, Newman also spends one-on-one time with many of Miami’s varsity athletes and coaches.

Fifth-year Zac Murphy, the pri-mary punter on Miami’s football team, is a member of AIA, and meets with Newman regularly.

“Besides my parents, [New-man’s] had the greatest impact on my life,” Murphy said. “Miami is so blessed to have him here, and it’s crazy because he has all of that experience, but he’s so humble. It’s awesome for athletes at Miami to have someone like him to go to.”

Senior Stephen Crea began meeting with Newman during his two-year varsity baseball career at Miami. While Crea no longer plays on the varsity team, he con-tinues to meet with Newman on a regular basis as well.

“I think it’s really cool that ‘Newms’ had the desire to change things up, and invest in the young-er guys and build them up before they even get to the professional level,” Crea said. “It’s cool that he has the experience, because we younger guys can trust him. He’s been there, and been a part of the lives of pro athletes.”

In addition to working with competing athletes on cam-pus, Newman also invests time

working with Miami’s varsity coaches. Mike Bath, recently named Miami’s head football coach, met Newman at Miami in 2004.

“For the last ten years, [New-man] has been a mentor of mine, and someone I really look up to as a great resource and friend,” Bath said.

Since 2004, Bath and Newman have worked together in Bible studies, with the football coaching staff and in monthly meetings.

“It’s great to have Steve lead young men at Miami in their walk with Christ,” Bath said. “He’s seen everything in the NFL and the dif-ferent issues grown men deal with, and now applies his experiences to our young men and women across campus. The relationships he has built at Miami are going to last for years to come. What a great legacy to have him here.”

Newman said he feels that work-ing with collegiate athletes—and the coaches who interact regularly with these athletes—is crucial, es-pecially as these individuals pre-pare to be sent out into the world.

“An athlete’s drive is often to find their security and their iden-tity in their sport, when in reality, some day, they will no longer be in their sport,” Newman said. “When you apply Biblical principles to your performance, it really does give you a deeper understand-ing of why God gave you a love for athletics and how you can use that platform to love other people. It is my prayer that they’ll find their identity in their relationship with Christ.”

BY KELLY HIGGINSONFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The new Shade Family Room in the Armstrong Student Center (ASC) is open for academic tours as of last Friday. This room is the first finished part of the ASC and is now available for academic tours and prospective Miami student viewing. The ASC will fully open for all Miami student and faculty use on Jan. 27.

Chair of the Armstrong Student Center Board senior Nick Miller has been a part of building the vi-sion for ASC and the Family Shade Room, and said the Shade Family Room is meant to give future stu-dents a preview of the ASC.

“The Shade Family Room was made capable for academic tours to build excitement about the student center and it is the entryway to the entire building so it was able to be sectioned off,” Miller said.

Sophomore Jacqueline Morgan, a Miami tour guide since last Feb-ruary, said she is also excited to show the Shade Family Room to prospective students.

“It is such an important part of what Miami is going to be and so we wanted the incoming students to see the space to show them it could be a part of their future,” Morgan said.

The Shade Family Room is named for David and Charlotte Shade. It was designed to be the family room of campus with couch-es and tables for students to use ac-cording to Director of ASC Katie Wilson. Much of the idea for the room came from an architect from William Rawn Associates.

Miller said the Family Room is meant to be a room where students

can relax and study within the busy student center.

“If the Armstrong Student Cen-ter is the focal point of campus, es-sentially the Shade Family Room is the campus family room where students can relax, study, have small group discussions,” Miller said. “They wanted to create a feel-ing of openness for students to feel open lines of communication when being in the room.”

Alongside the comfortable couches and sitting area, there is a large fireplace, which works for the indoor and outdoor areas.

First-year student Cece Giglio said she has been looking forward to the opening of the ASC.

“I remember touring last year and hearing all about the new student center,” Giglio said. “Now that I’m a student here, I can’t wait to hang out there and study next to the big fireplace they’re building.”

To add to the comfortable feel, the Shade Family Room has eight different panels on the wall that dis-cuss the history of Miami Univer-sity through different organizations and groups on campus, according to Wilson.

“It ties in this old Miami link with pictures of the Redhawks, student organizations, architecture, aca-demics, it’s like our family album which drives the theme of Miami’s family room,” Wilson said.

All academic tours will be taken through the Shade Family Room until Jan. 27. After opening day, tours will be able to see the whole ASC along with all Miami students.

“The room is a perfect symbol of Miami pride and what future pro-spective students might take part in, I think it’s a great addition to the tour,” Morgan said.

LENO DAVIS THE MIAMI STUDENTDRESSED TO IMPRESSSpectrum executive board celebrates second annual GLBTQ prom, Oct. 25 at the Shriver Center.

MIKE CHIORAN THE MIAMI STUDENTTAKING BACK THE NIGHTHosted by Feminists Working on Real Democracy, Take Back the Night was an event where students gathered behind Shriver to create a safe place to discuss sexual assault.

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BY MARISSA STIPEK FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Oxford Community Arts Center (OCAC) will host a con-cert and CD release Nov. 9 for lo-cal folk singer Susan Pepper’s new album, “Hollerin’ Girl.” Pepper is ballad singer-songwriter who in-fuses Appalachian influences into her music.

Pepper said she has been singing her whole life.

“Chorus was always my favor-ite class since elementary school,” Pepper said. She has been writing songs since the early 2000’s.

Since moving to Oxford a few years ago, Pepper has been in-volved with the OCAC.

“I have offered guitar and dulci-mer lessons,” Pepper said.

Pepper said she draws inspi-ration from old recordings of

non-commercial Appalachian sing-ers. As far as contemporary artists, Pepper said she is a big fan of Jean Ritchie, a Kentucky native who is also a folksinger.

“After I developed an interest in folk music, I kind of worked my way backwards and started find-ing out about even older forms,” Pepper said.

One message she said she wishes to communicate through her music is an appreciation for the history of music, and the idea that it used to be a main source of entertainment before modern inventions.

“I hope to capture people’s imag-inations and transport them back to an older time,” Pepper said. “[I want to] educate them a little bit about older forms of music.”

The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with an act by local duo Judy and Warren Waldron, who

perform as The Pineridge Part-ners. The cost is ten dollars, and children under 15 get in free. Andy Lynn, an employee at the OCAC, said they were happy when Pepper approached them about or-ganizing this event.

“This is one of the purposes of the OCAC—allowing a place for local artists to connect with the community,” Lynn said.

The night will also offer an op-portunity for guests to share their musical talents with a “jam ses-sion” after Pepper’s performance. Audience members may bring their own instruments and take the stage.

For Miami University students taking music classes, events like this can be an opportunity to fulfill requirements.

Miami University sophomore Courtney Katzmeyer, a vocal mu-sic major, said music students are

required to see twelve shows over the course of the year.

“We have to see performances that fit different categories: large groups, guest performers, ensem-bles, et cetera,” Katzmeyer said. “This event could definitely count as a guest performer.”

Katzmeyer said she has pre-viously seen performances at the OCAC, including ones by Stage Left, Miami’s musical theatre group.

Pepper will be giving a holiday performance at Lane Library in Oxford on Dec. 14.

Also on her upcoming agenda is teaching square dancing classes with Judy Waldron beginning next January.

“We are really hoping to get peo-ple involved,” Pepper said. “It will be a fun way for them to connect with one another.”

BY SANAM SAHNIFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Butler County Veterans Service Commission has asked for a $700,000 increase for its 2014 budget, according Executive Di-rector and Service Office of the agency, Curtis McPherson.

The bulk of this increased bud-get will go to the transportation program, according to McPherson.

The Veterans Service Com-mission has a contract with the BCRTA that helps veterans com-mute back and forth to the VA Medical Center in Cincinnati. Ac-cording to Chief Service Officer Matt Jones, this service is free to the veterans for two trips every week as long as they were honor-ably discharged and served active duty in the military. This contract will soon be expiring.

But that is just one portion of the new budget.

“The next portion is we plan

on working on doing a major outreach program in order to bet-ter reach the veterans through-out Butler County for filing for compensation and pension,” McPherson said.

Publicity and advertisements comprise another part of the new budget.

“The expense is advertising in order to get people to come in to file claims for compensation and or pension,” McPherson said.

According to McPherson, the Veterans Service Commission wants to financially assist the vet-erans as well. Every state has dif-ferent financial needs, according to McPherson.

“Some of the bigger counties do not consider transportation be-cause they have public transporta-tion,” McPherson said.

Also a United States Air Force Veteran, McPherson explained that in the state of Ohio, the Ohio Revised Code stipulates that

every county will have a veteran service commission.

There are three missions of the Butler County Veterans Ser-vice Commission, according to McPherson. First, every veteran should receive any federal or state entitlement that they are due. Sec-ondly, they should be assisted to and from medical appointments and lastly, they should be able to file for emergency temporary financial assistance.

According to Jones, their agen-cy provides a number of benefits that can help out the veterans and their families.

“Our main focus is to help the veterans,” Jones said. “Basically, we act as advocates for the vet-erans, we help them navigate the process of how to gain these ben-efits or if it’s worth their while to even try and attempt them.”

Some of the benefits such as medical treatments and short-term financial assistance for

emergencies are taken care of by the Veterans Service Commission. But they also help veterans by guiding them towards other pro-fessionals who can help with other things like job seeking, resume help and earning an income.

The Veterans Service Com-mission encourages veterans to come and talk to them, according to Jones.

“If we can’t help them, it’s pos-sible we can point them in the di-rection of someone who can help them,” Jones said.

The Veterans Service Com-mission can act as a resource or a link between the veterans and these resources, depending on their problem.

Miami Senior Ankita Pandey said she believes the veterans de-serve this increase in their budget.

“They served our country once and if they can be helped out in any way, they should be,” Pandey said.

BY ANNA HOFFMANFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Oxford Kiwanis Club, in partnership with the Oxford Com-munity Choice Pantry, is holding its annual Holiday Food Drive 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Oxford resi-dents who would like to donate may place nonperishable food in bags or boxes by their front doors by 1 p.m. Sunday for collection.

The Kiwanis drive, which has been conducted for more than 20 years, is one of the largest food drives of the year for the Oxford Community Pantry. According to Anne Koehler, coordinator of the Holiday Food Drive, the Ox-ford Kiwanis Club works to raise money for various organizations in the Oxford Community includ-ing the Academic Boosters Club,

Substance Abuse and the Early Intervention Program.

“The primary mission of the pantry is to provide food assis-tance to the members of the com-munity who are facing ‘food inse-curity,’” Bob Ratterman, director of the Oxford Community Choice Pantry said.

According to Ratterman, the drive is accepting canned or boxed green beans, stuffing mix, cranberry sauce, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, fruit and mixes for bread and desserts. Monetary donations are also be-ing accepted to purchase other needed items.

He said those who would like to participate in door-to-door collec-tion should meet at the Presbyte-rian Seminary church building, at the corner of Church and Poplar,

by 1 p.m. on Nov. 3. The volunteers will also be vis-

iting Bonham Road and Spring-wood subdivision. Volunteers will be clearly identified, carrying boxes with Holiday Food Drive flyers, Ratterman said.

After food donations have been collected, the Community Choice Pantry will sort and distribute the food, making Thanksgiving and Christmas bags for each family in need. Last year the Kiwanis Club, 200 Oxford residents and Miami University students and staff, were able to collect 4580 pounds of food, enough to make 300 bags.

“It’s more food than just for the holiday,” Koehler said. “It goes beyond just for those dinners”

Koehler also said the Kiwanis Club helped fund the Backpack

Program that sends children in the community, who often do not have enough to eat during the weekend, home with backpacks full of food.

The Oxford Community Choice Pantry also runs a Sum-mer Harvest program that helps families with school-age children get through the summer by giving them a free bag of food when they come in on shopping days,

Ratterman said. “School children are especial-

ly susceptible to health issues if they are not eating right,” Rat-terman said. “Hungry children have a hard time concentrating in school.”

Those who would like to vol-unteer for the Holiday Food Drive can call 523-8961 with any further questions.

Around 3:15 p.m. Saturday, an OPD officer driving down High Street said he noticed a male acting suspiciously in front of 36 E. High St., Brick Street Bar & Grill.

The officer observed the male using a crutch to knock letters off the marquis, and, as the letters fell, he picked them up and slid them in his pocket. When the of-ficer parked and approached the male to ask what he was doing, the suspect attempted to hide the stack of letters on top of one of the tires of the officer’s car.

The officer arrested him, and discovered he also possessed a fake Connecticut driver’s li-cense. He was taken to OPD, charged with theft and prohib-ited acts and released on his own recognizance.

At 4:07 a.m. Sunday, an OPD officer driving down the 100 block of South Campus Avenue found a male passed out, face down, on the side of the road.

The officer, who was in the process of transporting an ar-rested female to Butler County Jail, stopped and approached the heap of a man. The suspect awoke when prompted, and the officer asked the male to sit down on a section of a wall, as the male could not stand.

When asked for identifica-tion, the male opened his wallet and first reached for one Ohio license, but then pushed it back and presented another Ohio li-cense, OPD said. That license stated the bearer was under the age of 21, but when asked his age, the male replied that he was 21 years old, then changed his mind and said he was 19.

The officer noticed that the male smelled like alcohol and placed him under arrest. At OPD, the officer discovered a fake Ohio license, fake Illi-nois license and a Miami stu-dent ID that did not belong to the male. There, the suspect asked the officer where he had been found. When informed he was face-down on South Cam-pus Avenue, the male became wildly confused.

He was charged with sales to and use by underage per-sons, certain acts prohibited and disorderly conduct; intoxi-cation. He was taken to Butler County Jail.

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Underappreciated horror movies give new tricks and treats this HalloweenBY JOE GIERINGERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Why do we love to be scared? Is it the adrenaline rush? The pulse-pounding presence of an evil on-screen entity? Maybe it’s simply the satisfaction of lasting through a bloodbath of a film while your friend has to excuse himself to “take an important call.” Whatever the rea-son, horror films can be a ton of fun, and even though I have the resolve of a 12 year-old girl when it comes to watching zombies, vampires and ghosts wreak havoc on unsuspecting protagonists, I sifted through some of the lesser-known frightful flicks to bring you five underrated movies to watch this Halloween season.

“Pontypool” (2009)This taut indie thriller makes the

list to remind us that sometimes what we can’t see is often more terrifying than what we can. The English lan-guage becomes the vessel for a “28 Days Later” type of virus that makes people fixate on a single word before the host becomes incoherent and eventually homicidal. The first half of the film builds the characters and creates a strange sense of claustro-phobia, as we never see the outside of the radio station. Stephen McHat-tie and company listen on in horror as colleagues are mangled and suc-cumb to the infection, and the viewer learns what is unfolding along with them, creating a real-time sense of dread that is far more unsettling than most of the films I’ve watched re-cently. “Pontypool” is a refreshing take on your typical zombie flick that takes something inane and every-day - the words we speak - and turns them into something terrifying.

“Session 9” (2001)

This criminally underseen flick is easily the most underrated on this list, and could possibly be the most underrated horror entry of the past decade. The whole insane asylum angle is now considered a contrived part of the genre, but the atmosphere that director Brad Anderson creates is incredibly unsettling. The resulting slow burn leads to one of the most shocking endings I’ve ever seen in a psychological horror movie. The pacing, the creepy tapes that are found in the basement and the use of off-camera horror really ham-mers home the fright factor. Add in the fact that almost all of the scares take place during the daytime, and you’re left with one heck of an origi-nal film. Plus “Session 9” features a solemn, not-hokey David Caruso! If that doesn’t make you want to grab a copy, I don’t know what will.

“Tucker and Dale vs. Evil” (2011)

If you like horror/comedies, then put “Tucker and Dale” at the top of your to-see list. It plays on all of the typical scary movie tropes – the evil cabin with a tragic history, a group of unsuspecting college kids and a pair of backwoods psycho-killers – and flips it upside down. As you quickly find out, Tucker and his pal Dale are just two rednecks that want to go fishing, spend some time in their newly acquired vacation home and drink a few brews. In an unfortunate turn of events, the group of party-ing students think that our protago-nists are out to get each and every one of them, leading them to fight back. There’s just the right balance of gore and humor to keep this story going, and you’ll be rooting for the two self-proclaimed hillbillies from start to finish.

“Trick ‘r Treat” (2007)How many anthology films have

you seen in the past 10 years that were actually enjoyable? Chances are you’re drawing a blank. Enter “Trick ‘r Treat,” an under-the-radar fright night tale that is directed and produced by the stellar team of Mi-chael Dougherty and Bryan Singer (“X2,” “Superman Returns”). It’s not terrifying, but it does a great job of keeping the viewer interested by way of four stories that imply to the viewer that following Halloween tra-ditions is a life-and-death business, with spoonfulls of dark comedy sprinkled in for good measure. With the exceptions of Brian Cox and Anna Paquin, the cast is relatively unknown but all put in good work as vampires, ghouls, murderous neigh-bors and more. “Trick ‘r Treat” is a sweet taste of underrated horror.

“The Cabin in the Woods” (2012)

The meta-horror hit of last year still doesn’t get the attention it de-serves. I was coaxed into watching “The Cabin in the Woods” this sum-mer and I’ve never been happier about being forced to watch a movie, especially because of how poorly I handle watching scary movies. I ended up having a heck of a good time watching Joss Whedon at his finest. Horror has not been this clever or this funny in a long time, and it’s a shame that potential audiences shied away from watching what they as-sumed would be an updated “Evil Dead.” Not to say that there weren’t any similarities - there were plenty of nods to legends of horror movie past - but “Cabin” employs clever writing and a scathing satirical voice that made me smile for the entire 95-minute run time.

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As Charlie grew older, the epi-sodes continued. While his doctors were never privy to the violent de-tails, he did describe the symptoms that came just before his blackouts. At first, with the information they were given, the doctors suspected a tumor. They ran EEG’s and MRI’s to pinpoint the problem spot in Char-lie’s brain, but they never found one. Unable to diagnose Charlie, they prescribed medication in hopes of reducing the number and intensity of his episodes. Charlie told him-self that the pills helped, but really, he was doubtful.

Nevertheless, Charlie attempted to make the best of things; he gave it a shot. He took his pills every day, once in the morning and once at night. Never did he miss a dose; he couldn’t afford to make that mistake. But it was to no avail. The years went by, and the episodes continued. He would be sitting on the couch in the living room, or getting dressed in his bedroom, or doing whatever other daily activity that begged to be interrupted. Then it would hap-pen; the first warning sign would

make its presence known. Often it was a fleeting smell of something that wasn’t there, then a hint of nau-sea that would grow in the pit of his stomach, followed by an unforget-table sensation. His head became a balloon filled with rocks and helium. It was light; it begged to float away, but at the same time it was weighted down by an overwhelming heavi-ness. Charlie would look around at his surroundings as his cognitive abilities faded.

He would see his television and be able to recognize that it was called a television, but he couldn’t bring his lips to say the word, which had become trapped within his disori-ented mind. Things and names that wouldn’t connect surrounded him. The whiff of nonexistent brownies lingered. What happened next was never a surprise to him. Within only five seconds of the episode’s onset, Charlie Dud’s conscious control would be lost, but his body was left awake and functioning—acting. In an hour or so, Charlie would blink, and in an instant be returned to his normal state of mind.

As he grew up, Charlie learned to control himself, or at least isolate himself when his control began to weaken, but, on occasion, violence was unavoidable. He considered his options. He could keep taking the pills and tell himself that they worked, or he could give up what

little freedom he had left and com-mit himself to one of those facilities. However, there was a third option. It was a drastic one, but he preferred it over the second—he couldn’t imag-ine having to live out his days in those fluorescent rooms, sharing the dead air with the clinically insane—he would prefer death. He consid-ered it on multiple occasions.

On a lighter note, it’s funny—I mean it’s funny the way life seems to work out as if someone’s been plan-ning it all along. Charlie spent years trying to remember the death of his mother and torturing himself with doubts and suspicions. He was seri-ously considering ending it all, but then Clara came along. Clara’s the kind of beauty you’d never expect to look your way—long chocolate rib-bons of hair draped over soft velvet shoulders, and emerald irises deep enough to dive into head first. It was as if she had been sent for the sole purpose of bringing Charlie Dud a little happiness in life, and that’s exactly what she has done for the past eight months they have been to-gether. For the fear of causing more harm, Charlie had long ago sacri-ficed the idea of ever getting close to anyone—that is, until Clara came along. For reasons that would re-main a mystery to all, Clara took the time to understand Charlie, to appre-ciate his sweet nature, and it wasn’t long before she had fallen for him.

For the first time in a very long time, Charlie had found something worth living for. They became that inseparable couple; the kind of cou-ple you envy. Things weren’t actu-ally perfect, even though to most they would seem that way. Charlie still worried that the inevitable lin-gered, ready to rip everything apart. Charlie had fallen in love, moved in with his girl, and had even dropped a few subtle hints about marriage. You have to remember though, this is Charlie Dud I’m talking about; whoever wrote his story didn’t mean for it to be a happy one, and part of him knew that.

It was around seven thirty one rainy evening. Clara and Charlie had just finished their dinner, and were about to top it off with a batch of freshly baked brownies. Without having to be asked, Charlie cleared the dishes, and then sat down at the kitchen table and stared out the win-dow. He watched in a trance, the thin blades of lush grass dancing as the tiny droplets struck their surface. The oven door opened and the brownies sizzled as Clara set them down on the table before him. The familiar aroma filled the air with a warming sensation. Clara pulled the knife from the drawer next to the refrigera-tor and began cutting. Its sharp blade slipped effortlessly through the per-fectly baked sweets, leaving brown remnants on its shiny surface.

That’s when it started. One sec-ond passed and Charlie Dud began to feel the nausea in the pit of his stom-ach. Two seconds passed and Char-lie Dud began to feel his head grow-ing heavy. Three seconds passed and Charlie Dud’s eyes glazed over. Four seconds passed and Charlie Dud rose to his feet. Five seconds passed and Charlie Dud took one stumbling step away from Clara.

The five seconds were up, and what happened next should be no surprise.His control fading, he lunged forward, taking the burn-ing pan in his hands and cracking it across Clara’s frightened face. Within an instant she was sprawled on the ground and Charlie stood above her, knife in hand. He looked down at his love’s pleading expres-sion and something sparked inside of him. He remembered the look on his mother’s face as he pushed her off the balcony.

Charlie Dud now stands over his Clara’s helpless figure. His hands continue to tremble, his teeth are still clenched, his muscles remain knot-ted. Tears roll from Clara’s emerald eyes down over her scorched velvet cheek. And with that, the war deep inside Charlie Dud comes to an end; one side has finally forfeited. The blade drops, however, not the kind of drop that is caused by grav-ity – the kind that is caused by a powerful thrust.

BY BILLY RAFAELARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

If you have been browsing your Facebook lately, you may have no-ticed things getting a little cartoony. A new app called Bitstrips has been gaining popularity and filling our feeds with comic panels featuring simplistic renderings of our friends in ridiculous, sometimes humorous (sometimes not) situations.

Bitstrips has actually been around for almost a year as a Facebook app but it was not until last month that it was released as a mobile application for iOS and Android. While there is no way to use the app without a Facebook account, they have plans to solve this inconvenience soon.

To begin, once logged in, the user can design their avatar, with many levels of customization mak-ing it surprisingly easy to get a solid likeness. Select an outfit and you can start to place yourself and your friends in literally thousands of set-tings and whatever pose you can

imagine. Add some text underneath, post it on your timeline and your friends can be the judge of whether or not you’ve got the chops to be the next Bill Watterson.

While there may be an initial ap-peal to Bitstrips, don’t expect it to be a permanent addition to the ever-changing Facebook. For every com-ic you see popping up, you’ll most likely find a snarky status bashing its existence. So far, it’s been rare to find someone who can really enhance their creativity and wit through these strips but there’s no denying the novelty of seeing how accurate your friends can recreate themselves.

In addition to having those that aren’t fans of the concept, many users have cited both the Facebook and mobile apps as being buggy and temperamental. A couple more updates, though, and you’ll most likely be seeing a surge of these. Just as with all Facebook apps, it won’t be too long until these strips go the way of Family Feud, Farmville and Vampire Wars.

The Frightening Tale of the Mysterious Charlie Dud - Continued

BY KYLE HAYDENFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University Art Muse-um is hosting an exhibition opportu-nity for students to have their artwork shown in the university’s own art museum during the spring semester.

Works submitted to the show should be “reflective, reactive or explanatory” of the 2013 summer reading book “Reality is Broken,” authored by Jane McGonigal.

Jason Shaiman, curator of shows at the museum, explained why the department decided to host a show featuring works responding to a

specific text. “It’s all about videogaming and

what we apply to the collaborations, the roles and participants in problem solving and how that essential un-derstanding practice can be applied to life and not just video games,” Shaiman said.

Shaiman decided after the De-partment of Art requested the exten-sion of the use of the book through the next semester, he decided to hold the call for entries regarding “Reality is Broken.”

Any medium and size is accepted, though there may be maximum size limits as space allows. The entrant is

also required to be a student of the school. The works will be submitted to a selection committee, according to Shaiman.

“It’s a collaboration between the students, the museum and the fac-ulty,” Shaiman said. “We’re trying to find ways to connect with stu-dents. It doesn’t always have to be that they come to the art museum on an assignment.”

Shaiman also said he encourages collaboration, even between faculty and students, on works for the show. Students can submit up to three works and have up to all three works in the show.

“It depends on largely the quantity of submissions, “ Shaiman said. “The approach the students take is entirely up to them.”

One student is taking the opportu-nity to expand upon work he believes already coincides with McGonigal’s writing. First-year graduate student Greg Loring of Cincinnati may con-struct a new piece or enter one of his current pieces into the show.

“I just did a little bit of research on McGonigal and I realized we were having the same conversa-tions,” Loring said. “I really like the ideas she is focusing on, some of the positive qualities.”

He said he agrees with McGonigal that video gaming and the Internet can improve the quality of life and better humanity through applying the same concepts utilized in video gam-ing to other aspects of life.

“My work in the past and mov-ing forward tends to deal with our relationships with multi-media that can become sub-realities or alternate realities.” Loring said.

The deadline for entries is Nov. 22. All students interested in creating a piece for consideration should con-tact Shaiman at (513) 529-2241 or at shaimaje@miamioh.edu to receive a copy of “Reality is Broken”.

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

Rule of Thumb

Trick-or-toothbrush?Give us real candy, or else.

The Editorial Board fesses up to their spookiest Halloween fears

Gory, scary movies More blood does not make a scary movie any scarier. It just makes us want to turn it off.

CHRIS CURME COMMUNITY EDITORJANE BLAZER COMMUNITY EDITORVICTORIA SLATER CAMPUS EDITORREIS THEBAULT CAMPUS EDITOR TOM DOWNEY SPORTS EDITOR

KATIE TAYLOR EDITOR IN CHIEFEMILY CRANE NEWS EDITOREMILY ELDRIDGE EDITORIAL EDITORNICOLE THEODORE EDITORIAL EDITORBILLY RAFAEL ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Seasonal sweets

Butterfield Farms is among many places to find fall treats like pumpkin cookies and apple cider.

Whether it’s evil clowns, dark basements or midterm exams, almost everyone is deeply fright-ened of something or someone (yes, this applies to your finance or chemistry professor). Since Halloween is around the corner, The Miami Student Editorial Board decided to share some of our fears that make us cringe and even scream, like our Sports Edi-tor Tom Downey does when he sees a hairy, long legged spider. Even as college students, there are still creepy things that just downright freak us out.

Our tough-as-nails Editor In Chief Katie Taylor has a fear that mimics a scene from the 1963 film The Haunting. Ever have a feeling that something is going to grab your hand or foot if it is dan-gling off the bed? So does Katie.

“I wrap my feet up at night with my blankets because I am scared someone will grab me. That moment in the Haunt-ing when something holds the girls’ hand when she is in bed….terrifying.”

Every time lighting and thun-der stretch across the sky, you can find our Campus Editor Vic-toria Slater hiding under the cov-ers, or refusing to leave her car.

“I have had recurring night-mares about getting struck by lightening,” she says. Good news for Victoria and other scaredy cats: the odds of being struck by lighting per year are 1 in 700,000 according to National Geographic News.

If your worst nightmare is a masked figure chasing after you with a knife, like in cult clas-sic Scream, Community Editor Chris Curme can agree with you on that one.

“I have to leave the room when someone has a knife because I think of all the ways they can somehow stab me. Cleavers — okay, fine. Knives? No way.”

Here’s a hint about our News Editor Emily Crane’s fear: they can survive nuclear attacks. Yep, cockroaches freaked Em-ily out when she lived in Africa, and these were not your average house ones, either.

“We had massive ones that would fly and one time I was in our basement and one flew and landed on my head. I cannot han-dle them.”

Even though comedian Dane Cook’s skit about burglars break-ing and entering into houses gets some laughs, for Editorial Editor

Emily Eldridge it’s not a laugh-ing matter.

“I would have dreams about kidnappers. I had two stuffed animal elephants and I would put one on each side of me because I thought this would stop them from getting me.” If you fear this as well, keep your stuffed ani-mals like Emily’s handy.

There seems to be a theme of creepy crawlers when it comes to our staff’s fears. But the rest of Americans can empathize with this —27 percent of Americans fear spiders and insects accord-ing to a recent Gallup Poll. Cam-pus Editor Reis Thebault squirms when he encounters centipedes.

“Spiders are one thing, but these have way too many legs. They move fast and low to the ground. Not okay.”

Community Editor Jane Blaz-er still sleeps with a night light like the rest of the 11 percent of Americans who are scared of the dark.

“You are unaware of your sur-roundings and I always think of scary movies and that something bad is going to happen.”

If this is your fear, we recom-mend for Jane and the rest of you to carry around a mini flash light in case the electricity goes out, but you should probably keep this on the DL.

Even though our Sports Edi-tor Tom Downey claims he “isn’t scared of anything,” there is one thing that makes him jump on top of a chair and beg for one of his editors to help him.

“Spiders suck. They attack me and bite me. I don’t mind the movie Eight Legged Freaks, but I don’t like the real ones.” We aren’t sure if he is aware that seven to eight spiders will crawl into your mouth in a life-time — sleep with your mouth closed, Downey.

Crop circles and UFO’s have scared Editorial Editor Nicole Theodore since she was little. “I watched the movie ET when I was six and I was scarred for life. I refuse to watch that movie or go on the ride at Universal Stu-dios.” She insists aliens exist, so we now know who the crazy one is on staff.

A&E Editor Billy Rafael had a dangerous brush with a bee hive when he was four years old, making bees his worst night-mare. “When I was four I stepped on a hive and got 25 stings,” Billy said.

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Contradictory reports thrive on the status of immigration reform as the House of Representatives

c o n s i d e r s whether to take up such a bill or se-ries of bills.

Last week, Speaker John Boehner left a glimmer of hope that the House will address immigration

reform in its last 18 session days of the year, saying in part, “immi-gration reform is an important sub-ject that needs to be addressed and I am hopeful.”

Representative Jeff Denham of California, the first Republican to sign onto a comprehensive pack-age cosponsored by 185 Demo-crats last week, told the Washing-ton Post that leadership, “told me that we’re going to have this [issue] on the floor by the end of the year.”

However, POLITICO reported last week that, “A growing cho-rus of GOP lawmakers and aides are intensely skeptical that any of the party’s preferred piecemeal

immigration bills can garner the support of 217 Republicans — they would need that if Demo-crats didn’t lend their votes. Re-publican leadership doesn’t see anyone coalescing around a single plan, according to sources across GOP leadership. Leadership also says skepticism of President Barack Obama within the House Republican Conference is at a high, and that’s fueled a desire to stay out of a negotiating process with the Senate. Republicans fear getting jammed.”

The Speaker can hope all he wants that his majority in the House will get its act together in a month’s time and put together a viable series of immigration bills to get the legislative process on immi-gration moving again. Or he can act. He’s lucky enough to con-trol the floor. Given that House Republicans cannot get 218 votes together to support much of any-thing these days, the right move is to ignore the old majority of the majority “Hastert Rule” and accept the help of a Democratic caucus that is actually able to stick togeth-er on big votes.

Our nation’s deeply flawed im-migration policy is far too pressing

a problem to leave in the hands of a group of 187 Republicans who were willing to let our country de-fault on our debt. The House Re-publican Conference can’t get its act together. We have 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in this country and a set of immigration policies that do not work.

It’s rare that I agree with the President, but as he said last week, “let’s not wait. It doesn’t get easier to just put it off. Let’s do it now. Let’s not delay. Let’s get this done and let’s do it in a bipartisan fash-ion.” Immigration reform has been a cause of levelheaded members of both parties for some time.

Back in June, the Senate passed the bipartisan Gang of 8’s com-prehensive immigration package 68-32. The bill then was sent over to the body controlled by the party who saw their standard bearer in the 2012 election pass off self-de-portation as an immigration policy.

To their credit, Republicans have made attempts to shed this label, by giving lip service to the idea of moving smaller immigration bills through the House, without giving Democrats what they really want first: a pathway to citizenship. But the disorganization of the body has

discredited them. The American people over-

whelmingly support a pathway to citizenship. An AP-GFK poll in April showed 63 percent of those polled backing a pathway to citi-zenship. A Pew Poll in September said 71 percent of Americans think undocumented immigrants cur-rently in the U.S. who meet certain requirements should be allowed to stay in the country. 77 percent also

call for an increase in border secu-rity in immigration reform.

Fortunately, the Senate bill does both.

Political circumstances have gotten in the way as of late. The President deciding to send a use of force authorization to the Hill on Syria and our latest fiscal negotia-tions paired with the government

shutdown have made substantive legislating pretty much impossible.

But we have a lull until the end of this year. Eighteen days to act.

If House Republicans want to continue to take their marching orders from Heritage Action and the Senate Conservatives Fund, fine. Let them. But as long as they continue to do so, the Speaker will largely ignore their wishes—espe-cially on immigration reform.

Though it would likely cause him to lose his job somewhere down the line, at least he would have done something good for the country instead of continuing to al-low ideology and personal hatred trump smart politics and policy.

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To their credit, Republicans have made at-tempts to shed this label by giving lip service to the idea of moving smaller immigration bills through the House, without giving Democrats what they really want first: a pathway to citi-zenship.

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House republicans cannot ignore the country’s need for immigration reform

The last few days were certainly not the calmest ones for Barack Obama and the intelligence’s staff during his presidency: for the last week or so, one of the major three topics in world media, above all others in Europe, was the matter of an espionage affair beyond all Orwellian imagination. It had to do with the NSA and the German chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone that, so it seems, had been systemically spied on during the last decade along other important politicians and decision-makers around the globe, from Germany to France to Brazil.

But let’s not be naive: the fact that a state’s intelligence is trying to spy on its enemies and irregular forces such as terrorist cells, drug cartels or other mischief is not a surprising one. On the contrary, it is a logical consequence of their mission state-ment. However, it is frustrating and indeed surprising to see that Amer-ica apparently is still paralyzed by an anxious paranoia due to its 9/11 trauma that it even goes so far as to spy on all of its allies, even the closest ones. This is just a tiny but remarkable step too much. If the United States were already walking on the line of honesty and mutual respect for its allies in the years be-fore 2001, they have now begun to step over it and cross the line.

Some observers may argue that the attitude mentioned in the previ-ous paragraph is naive and that in the modern world there are no such things as close allies or honesty and respect for each other, especially not in international relations, geo-strategy and military issues con-cerning public safety. Although this point may seem legitimate, it is not, just because of one reason: the risk of constant surveillance angering one’s allies and repelling them from your cause is a far greater risk than the benefits this billion dollar espio-nage program may possibly bring.

But a much more important point is the following: months ago, in the early summer of 2013, a whistle-blower named Edward Snowden brought an issue to ev-eryone’s attention that was almost unimaginable, even for the most paranoid adherents of modern con-spiracy theories. Thousands of leaked

documents revealed the fact that the NSA apparently spied on – and still does so – on merely every teacher, student, corporate employee, re-searcher and politician in almost every country. This raised public awareness among many, if not to say uproar, with many people in their houses, at their workplace and on the streets but not so much in the governments. Above all oth-ers, Angela Merkel herself was try-ing to calm down the situation and tried to play down the magnitude of the issue.

However, things changed last week when rumors spread that probably every bit and byte of ev-ery text message, email and phone conversation Merkel, Hollande and other top politicians ever sent was thoroughly collected, saved and evaluated. And so changed Merkel’s mood. Nothing was left of the mindlessness that was heard a few weeks ago. Now, what was that? Did espionage and an invasion of privacy start to become a concern for her all of a sudden? Yes, it did. But this also brought her a huge critique: if the citizens are spied on, never mind. If it is the chancellor herself, it’s a catastrophe.

Merkel’s reaction raises the sig-nificant question: at what point do we start to care? What does it take to make us realize our privacy is at stake? And when do we see our per-sonal freedom endangered?

The sense and extent of margin-alization become clear when we look at the consequences of these uncoverings: thousands are not pro-testing on all of the streets around the world for their right on privacy, but merely a few hundred. And in terms of intensity and passion, it is nothing compared to protestors try-ing to establish an environment of liberty and democracy during the Arab spring after 2011.

This is exactly the point. It needs to become clear that things such as freedom of press and speech are achievements never to be neglect-ed. Achievements, that are not yet achieved in other parts of the world but that have already been secured – often with blood, sweat and tears – in the Western hemisphere.

This is why it is so crucially important to be upset, ask ques-tions and discuss these issues until the very end because freedom of speech, press and assembly are worth it. And as the example with Merkel shows, you always just re-alize that you really care for some-thing, if you have already lost it. In this case, it is the right to privacy.

COMMENTARY

What does it take to make us realize our privacy is at stake?

Did espionage and an invasion of priva-cy start to become a concern for her all of a sudden?

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All three were then buried under 15 feet of soil on a farm in south-west Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their bodies were not found until six weeks later.

According to a Western Ar-chives document, Rita Schwerner, Michael’s widow, said the death of her husband and Goodman sparked a fire in the hearts of the American people.

“If he [Schwerner] and Good-man had been Negroes, the world would have taken little notice of their deaths,” Schwerner reportedly told the media. “It is only because my husband and Andrew Goodman were white that the national alarm has been sounded.”

The state of Mississippi con-victed KKK leader Edgar Ray Kil-len of manslaughter and sentenced him to 60 years in prison. The state also convicted seven of the 18 that were charged with violating the civil rights of the trio and sentenced them to six years in jail.

To commemorate the 50th an-niversary of the volunteers who worked toward this cause, espe-cially those who lost their lives, Miami is throwing a yearlong uni-versity wide celebration called Celebrating Freedom.

President David Hodge expressed his enthusiasm for this memorializa-tion and encouraged all to perceive it in a positive light.

“What we didn’t want to happen was that we would look back [on the Civil Rights Movement] in sorrow or grief,” Hodge said. “That’s why this event is titled ‘understanding the past, building the future.’ It’s really to recognize how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go. This is a very special time here at Miami.”

Already, Miami has wel-comed Benjamin Jealous, presi-dent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP), who spoke about the Civil Rights Movement and Humanities.

The university has also wel-comed Judi Hampton, an alumna of Western College and President of Blackside Inc., the produc-tion company that produced the

award-winning PBS series “Eyes on the Prize,” to talk about the media’s role in the Civil Rights Movement.

The next events will be Nov. 4-5 featuring Wil Haygood.

Haygood ’76 was the univer-sity’s May 2013 commencement speaker. He is an esteemed jour-nalist who has earned a National Headliner Award, Sunday Maga-zine Editors Award, National As-sociation of Black Journalists and other journalism awards. His article for the Washington Post, “A Butler Well Served by This Election,” in-spired the movie “The Butler.”

“The Butler” is inspired by the true story of Eugene Allen, an Afri-can-American man who witnessed the civil rights changes in America while serving eight presidential ad-ministrations at the White House.

There will be three free screen-ings of “The Butler” at 4, 7:30 and 10:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4, in Hall Auditorium.

Haygood will be speaking at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5 in Hall Auditorium about “The Hot Sum-mer of 1964: Wil Haygood Takes You There.” Tickets are free and available at the Shriver Box Office starting Nov. 1.

Johnson emphasized that al-though the focus of Celebrating Freedom is on Freedom Summer, the events will also be including social justice issues that fall under the overarching theme of freedom. These topics include immigra-tion, voting rights, women’s rights, human trafficking, gay rights as well as others.

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She emphasized the impor-tance of educating all about the Freedom Summer.

“We’re failing students and faculty if everyone [at the uni-versity] doesn’t know about this. It was an important moment in time and it happened in Oxford,” Newberry said.

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After splitting its first two meets of the season against Purdue University and Xavier University at home, the Miami University women’s swim-ming and diving team defeated Mid-American Conference (MAC) foe the University of Akron 187.5-109.5 in its first road meet of the season.

Miami (2-1, 1-0 MAC) took first place in 12 of the 16 events against Akron.

“We had a good meet,” head coach Mark Davis said. “Our girls did a great job. I was surprised with how well they did... With each race, we’re getting back to the racing men-tality... The new things we’re trying are working well. We have some things we need to sharpen up and we need to pay attention to detail. This weekend, we’re going up against a good Bowling Green team that’s much improved.”

Sophomore Aubrey Kluth,

sophomore Shannon Ahearn and ju-nior Stephanie Pearce claimed first, second and third in the 1,000-yard freestyle respectively.

Freshman Julia Campbell, ju-nior Whitney Mitchell and junior Caitlin Fujan took the top spots in the 200-yard freestyle while junior Katie Bootsma claimed first place in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.48 seconds. Freshman Stephanie LeMire recorded a time of 1:05.11 as she finished first in the 100-yard backstroke. Bootsma and LeMire took first in the 200-yard backstroke and the 200-yard breaststroke, respectively.

“Katie Bootsma... had a great meet,” Davis said. “Aubrey Kluth finished strong after last week and we talked about that. I’ve been im-pressed with what Stephanie LeMire has done as a freshman.”

Bootsma had praise for the freshmen.

“What really stood out to me about our win in Akron yesterday

was the strength of the freshman class,” Bootsma said. “It is impres-sive to see them contributing so much already and it really helps in-spire the rest of the team. For me, it was fun to get my first double-win of my collegiate career by winning both the 100-yard backstroke and the 200-yard backstroke. The times I posted for these events are faster than I was at this point in the season my past two years at Miami which makes me excited for the rest of the our dual meets and ultimately seeing if we have a shot at winning another MAC championship.”

Bootsma said she was happy with how the team performed.

“Even though Akron doesn’t have much depth as a team, it was still impressive to see our girls go 1-2-3 in races while posting impressive times,” Bootsma said. “We know we still have a lot of hard training ahead of us, but dual meets are good indi-cators of what we have been doing right since training started in August.

BY ZACH MACIASZEKFOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

The Miami University soccer team (9-6-3) was in control of its own destiny for winning the Mid-American Conference (MAC) regu-lar season championship. That is no longer the case after a disappoint-ing 1-1 tie against a winless Bowl-ing Green State University squad (0-14-2) Sunday.

The RedHawks defeated Central Michigan University (7-3-0) 1-0 Fri-day before drawing the no-decision against Bowling Green on the road.

In order to win the MAC, Miami needs to beat Ball State University Thursday. They also need Western Michigan University and Eastern Michigan University to tie their

match, which is also Thursday.Head coach Bobby Kramig said

he was disappointed in the effort the ’Hawks gave on the road at BG.

“I’m obviously a little disap-pointed in the result,” Kramig said. “But at the same time, I’m not sure we deserved better. We have to be responsible for our results and our performance.”

In the first half, Miami took eight shots, five of which were on goal. It was not able to capitalize and find the net and the game remained scoreless heading into the second half.

The ’Hawks lit up the scoreboard first when freshman forward/mid-fielder Taylor Jackson scored unas-sisted in the 48th minute, her second goal on the season. The lead would

not last for long, as the Falcon senior forward/midfielder Kaitlyn Tobin found the net in the 50th minute.

Despite numerous chances for Miami, the game remained tied and headed into overtime, where once again, the ’Hawks were unable to put it away.

The RedHawks took 25 shots on the day, placing nine on goal. BG placed only one shot on goal, but they made it count. BG’s lone goal ended Miami’s shutout streak at six games.

“We probably played at about 75 percent today,” Kramig said. “That’s not good enough in this league, even against a team that hasn’t won a game that’s not good enough.”

Team captain and senior forward Katy Dolesh said the team knew they were in for a rough match against the Falcons.

“We went in knowing that it was going to be a tough game because they haven’t been doing so well this year and we didn’t want to stoop down to their level,” Dolesh said. “I thought we came out hard and played well. It was just a hard-fought game overall.”

The tie against the Falcons was preceded by the 1-0 victory over Central Michigan at home. Miami came out on the attack early and scored in the fourth minute on a header by sophomore midfielder Jess Bronke.

MU senior goalkeeper Allison Norenberg set the team record for shutouts in a season with her ninth. It also extended her career record to 21 shutouts.

Despite the disheartening result against a woeful Bowling Green unit, all was not lost for the Red-Hawks on the weekend. Miami clinched the MAC East Division, en-suring the ’Hawks will host a game in the quarterfinals of the MAC conference tournament.

EDITORTOM DOWNEY

SPORTS@MIAMISTUDENT.NET10 SPORTSTUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013

JORDAN RINARDRINARD’S RUNDOWN

WHY THE GRAMBLING STATE FIASCO MATTERS

RedHawks drop in polls after winless weekend

BLAKE WILSON THE MIAMI STUDENTMiami University sophomore forward Jess Bronke throws the ball in dur-ing Miami’s 1-0 win over Central Michigan University Friday.

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Miami extends unbeaten streak to nine in a row

’Hawks race past MAC rival Akron

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Miami sophomore swimmer Aubrey Kluth competes in the 100-yard breastroke during the men’s and women’s dual meet against Xavier University Oct. 19. Kluth took first place in the event.

Two weeks ago, Grambling State University’s football program found its way into the national spotlight, not for its play on the field, but for the players boycotting the program.

The players felt Grambling State’s facilities were inadequate for a Division I school.

They eventually returned to the program the following week, but missed a game with Jackson State University.

Jackson State is seeking repara-tions from Grambling after forfeit-ing the game, which was Jackson’s homecoming game.

There must be a reason for the players to walk out on their sport that is more significant than fa-cilities and cause this much grief to the institution.

The boycott began after the weekend Grambling got beat 48-0 by Alcorn State University in Indi-anapolis. Alcorn, which is in Mis-sissippi, took a plane to the game while the players from Grambling had to sit through a 16-hour bus ride from Louisiana. The players cited this as an example of how the school is skirting costs. They walked out of a meeting they had with school administrators on their way to refusing to be a part of the program.

The facilities for the program have fallen into a state of disrepair. George Dohrmann of Sports Illus-trated stated “You walk into their weight room and there are big rub-ber tiles missing where guys could trip while lifting weights. Or the padding on the weight benches is all torn up. And ... there are ceiling tiles missing and insulation coming through, rust on the windows.”

In spite of this, there is little Grambling State can do about these facilities.

Being a state-funded school, it is dependent on the state funding it

receives and when its funding got cut by 57 percent in the past few years, the school struggled to sus-tain itself as it laid off 120 people so far and has affected the athletic department as well.

There have even been discus-sions of dropping the football pro-gram if the school cannot find ad-ditional revenue streams.

The school’s fiscal problems are common among historically black univiersites.

With a small student body and a lack of resources that other univer-sities in Louisiana have (i.e. LSU), Grambling’s ability to address the issues of the facilities will certainly be tested.

Grambling will likely be hit even harder financially with Jack-son State University (JSU) seeking damages for forfeiting the home-coming game.

The GSU-JSU game usually draws 20,000 people and Jackson is in the process of refunding all those tickets as well as addressing the costs of the homecoming fes-tivities and the maintenance costs.

The boycott matters because there are several schools in the same boat as Grambling State, such as Miami University.

Miami is facing many of the same challenges in terms of creating new revenue streams to improve facilities in a sustainable way.

With Miami’s reputation in the Mid-American Conference, there is no reason why it cannot have the best facilities in the conference.

The university needs support to do this and progress has been made with the contributions to the devel-opment of the new indoor facility, but this will not happen overnight.

This will happen because Miami and its alumni will stand firmly to support the athletes and give them what they need to be successful.

BY JOE GIERINGERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Miami University dropped to No. 6 in the USCHO national hockey poll after a loss and a tie this weekend in Providence, R.I. Both of the games took overtime to decide, and the RedHawks (3-2-1) battled back from two goals down both nights.

Friday night’s performance took heroic eff from leading scorers Ri-ley Barber and Blake Coleman to reignite a stagnant Miami offense. Miami was held scoreless until ju-nior forward Coleman found the back of the net at 2:40 of the final frame. Sophomore forward Bar-ber notched his tally five minutes later, but the RedHawks’ new-found overtime life was cut short. Friar freshman forward Niko Rufo burned sophomore goalie Jay Wil-liams with a short-side snipe to give the Friars a 3-2 win.

“Obviously, it wasn’t the week-end we wanted to have,” Miami head coach Enrico Blasi said. “We seem to be making some plays that are resulting in goals against right now and those things need to be cleaned up and that’s what we’ll continue to work on.”

The next night brought more adversity for the RedHawks, who had to erase a two-goal deficit three separate times. After an early two-goal lead for the Friars, junior for-ward and captain Austin Czarnik found Barber open in front of the Providence net to bring the game to 2-1, as Barber grabbed his second short handed goal of the year.

The Friars notched a power play goal just 44 seconds later. The back and forth game continued until it was 4-2 late in the second frame,

when senior forward Bryon Pau-lazzo battled with two defensemen in front of the net, finally getting a stick on the puck after a Coleman pass and drove it home. With 4:53 remaining in the third, sophomore defenseman Matthew Caito foiled an attempted clear, gave the puck to Czarnik, who in turn found Bar-ber who snuck a wrist shot inside the right post to tie the game at four all. The extra five-minute period had just four total shots combined by both teams, and the game ended in a draw.

Czarnik was named the National Collegiate Hockey Conference Of-fensive Player of the Week for his effort as he recorded five assists during the games. He attained two helpers in Friday’s loss and a play-maker in the Saturday contest.

“Obviously, it’s nice to get and feels good,” Czarnik said. “But ob-viously it’s about the team, that’s what matters. Hopefully this week-end we can go out and put together a couple of wins and we’ll get dif-ferent awards down the road.”

Though the weekend ended up being a disappointing series statis-tically, Blasi said the progress made by his team as an encouraging sign.

“The good sign is this is a re-silient group,” Blasi said. “We’ve shown that just about every game to this point. Both Friday and Saturday night, we had to come back in games and a tough one in overtime on Friday, but Saturday I thought we took it to them. It’s a disappointing outcome to the week-end, but we’ll continue to focus on the process and hopefully the process gets better.”

Blasi’s boys return for a home stand this weekend against Canisius College Friday and Saturday.