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Volume 151 No. 3
Miami university — Oxford, Ohio
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
In this issue
RedHawks To Battle For Southwest Ohio Supremacy In 126th Victory Bell
CAMPUS & COMMUNITY Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, gives lecture at Miami - page 4
FOOD Armstrong’s Aramark advancements: a ranking of the student center’s new dining options - page 7
SPORTS Editor’s corner: RedHawk roundup - page 8
GRAPHIC BY HANNAH POTTS
HENRI ROBBINS
THE MIAMI STUDENT
Southeastern Conference teams and then bounced back in the following week at home by handling Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs. Despite coming into the year off a College Football Playoff appearance, UC began the season ranked 23rd. AP poll voters saw the losses of guys to the NFL, such as quarterback Desmond Ridder and cornerback Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner, as too big for the Bearcats to reclaim a top-10 spot. Last season, Ridder hung four touchdown passes on the ‘Hawks in a 49-14 win.
After Miami University leadership recommended terminating its contract with Proctorio in September 2021, University Senate began looking for alternatives to the remote proctoring service to better align with the interests of students and staff. This week, Senate announced it had chosen two finalists for the Proctorio replacement: Honorlock and Proctorio itself. In creating a new Request for Procurement (RFP), the university considered bids from multiple proctoring services. The committee tasked with finding a replacement announced the final two options on Monday, Sept. 12, at the University Senate meeting. In September 2021, the Center for Teaching Excellence Subcommittee on Proctorio determined, in a 127-page report, that the university should end their contract with the proctoring software due to concerns voiced by students and faculty over the service’s security and reliability. Last year, Proctorio took legal action against Erik Johnson, Miami junior, after he posted tweets critical of the company which revealed lines of confidential code. The case — and Johnson’s own legal claim — was
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AS MIAMI WELCOMES STUDENTS BACK TO CAMPUS THIS SEMESTER, IT'S ALSO WELCOMING A FIRST-YEAR CLASS OF STUDENTS FROM ALL 50 STATES AND 120 COUNTRIES. PHOTO BY MEGAN MCCONELL
STEVEN PEPPER STAFF WRITER
PHOTO STORY Saturday night lights return to Yager - page 14
University Senate chooses Proctorio as finalist for proctoring service after university recommends ending contract
Head Coach Chuck Martin asked his young quarterback Aveon Smith if he was sore after last week’s game against Robert Morris. Smith said he wasn’t. “Well you’re gonna be sore next Sunday!” Martin told the young quarterback. On Saturday, college football’s longest standing non-conference rivalry will be rekindled, as Miami clashes with Cincinnati for southwestern Ohio Supremacy. After 125
meetings, the series is tied 59-59-7, so this is a big one. Although the RedHawks are considered the home team, the contest is held at Paycor Stadium, home of the Cincinnati Bengals. With the first game dating back to 1888, the two teams have the oldest current non-conference college football rivalry. The all-time series is tied at 59-59-7; however, the Bearcats have all the momentum, as they are riding a 15-game winning streak. The two southwest Ohio universities experienced similar starts to the season, as both lost on the road to Associated Press (AP) top-20 ranked
Student art installation criticizes Jennette McCurdy is litter on campus glad her mom died, and I’m glad for her CHLOE SOUTHARD
THE MIAMI STUDENT
VOGT'S SCULPTURE "THE STUDENT BODY" TOOK ALMOST TWO YEARS TO COMPLETE. PHOTO BY GRACE AXLUND
JOSIE CICOGNA
THE MIAMI STUDENT Miami University is so often described as “the most beautiful campus there ever was,” so when Brian Vogt, a Miami junior saw the amount of litter all over campus, he was shocked. No one else seemed to mind it, though, so he started picking up and throwing away some of the trash he saw on his way to class each day. “It seemed like nobody really saw the trash that I was seeing, like most people were blind to it,” Vogt said. “I started counting my steps and in most areas, it was five steps. That was the most I got between pieces of trash.”
Eventually, Vogt felt that simply picking up trash on the way to class wasn’t enough to solve the issue; others needed to be aware of the large amounts of litter on campus. He needed to start a dialogue. Vogt began collecting the trash he found, with a plan to make art out of it. “Originally, I was going to do a collage-type piece … but then I realized that wasn’t effectively getting across what I wanted to get across,” Vogt said. “It wasn’t looking like a face, and that was a part of [my goal] from the start. I definitely wanted to play into the human characteristic aspect of it, and I wanted to make the trash a human.”
From there, he had to change his approach. He played with the shape and composition of the piece to reflect the physical and three-dimensional presence of the trash he had collected. Vogt ended up with “The Student Body”: a looming, 6-foot-tall pseudo-humanistic sculpture that melds an immeasurable amount of differing shapes, textures and colors in a composition that Vogt compared to the “uncanny valley” effect. The chaotic sculpture does not shy away from displaying the amount and variety of litter that Vogt collected on Miami’s campus. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
If you belong to Gen Z, chances are you grew up watching “iCarly,” and you’re familiar with Jennette McCurdy’s role as the meat-loving, butter-sock wielding, Sam Puckett. Last month, McCurdy released a tell-all memoir JENNETTE MCCURDY'S TELL-ALL BOOK DETAILS THE ABUSE FROM HER MOM AND NICKELODEON. PHOTO BY that resulted in a worldEVA RINALDI, CC BY-SA 2.0, VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS wide conversation about the former actress, her abusive cariously through her daughter and mother and the shady happenings depended on the money she made at Nickelodeon pertaining to Dan from acting to pay the family’s bills. Schneider. When McCurdy was 11 years old, The title? “I’m Glad My Mom her mother introduced her to the Died.” dangerous habit of calorie restricWith a title as striking as that, I tion. She did this to keep McCurdy’s knew I had to give this book a read. youthful appearance. To the young I got the book as a birthday gift and McCurdy, it felt as if she and her finished within three days. mother were simply dieting together. It was compelling, to say the least. However, this would lead to years McCurdy’s writing style is punchy of McCurdy struggling with eating and conversational, which I loved. disorders such as anorexia and, later, But despite McCurdy’s casual style severe bulimia. of writing, the subject matter of her McCurdy also writes about her exmemoir is quite dark, touching on perience with Nickelodeon’s former topics such as eating disorders, child executive producer Dan Schneider, abuse and exploitation, toxic rela- who she refers to as “The Creator.” tionships, alcoholism and more. McCurdy reveals that she felt The book gives us glimpses into under pressure around The Creator, McCurdy’s life, from childhood to much like she did around her mothadolescence to adulthood. McCurdy er. She says The Creator has two describes her childhood home as a sides to him: one that is generous dysfunctional, suffocating place. Her and complimentary, and one that is mother, Debra, who was recovering humiliating and terrifying. from breast cancer, was also a hoard“I’ve seen The Creator make er. grown men and women cry with his McCurdy’s mother forced her into acting at the age of six. She lived viCONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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