ESTABLISHED 1826 — OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ALLEGHENIES
Volume 153 No. 13
Miami university — Oxford, Ohio
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2024
Karli Spaid and Jenna Golembiewski: Miami softball’s powerful 1-2 punch
House Bill 183 passes in the Higher Education Committee CHLOE MCKINNEY
CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY EDITOR
JENNA GOLEMBIEWSKI WAS RECENTLY A SOFTBALL AMERICA PLAYER OF THE MONTH SELECTION IN MARCH. PHOTO BY HANNAH THERIAULT
ANDREW RELVAS THE MIAMI STUDENT The Miami University RedHawks softball team has been a powerful program in recent years. For the past 10 seasons, the RedHawks have had seven winning seasons with an overall record of 327-223-2. During that 10 year period, Miami had six seasons of 30 SOXV ZLQV DQG ¿QLVKHG WRS RI WKH Mid-American Conference (MAC) regular season standings four consecutive times from 2019-2023.
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It’s no question the RedHawks have been blessed with All-MAC talent for the past 10 years, their talent has not only been apparent within the conference, it has also been apparent on the national stage. This season, Miami ranks nationally in multiple categories includingis WLHG IRU ¿IWK LQ WHDP EDWWLQJ DYHUDJH at .357, second in on-base percentDJH DW ¿UVW LQ KRPH UXQV DW SHU JDPH ¿UVW LQ UXQV VFRUHG DW SHU JDPH DQG ¿UVW LQ slugging percentage at .750. Miami currently has eight hitters in the MAC with batting averages
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batting average in 134 at-bats with 41 hits, 17 homers and 36 RBIs on route to a MAC Player of the Year selection. This year, Golembiewski already has nearly twice as many RBIs at 66, 18 more hits at 59 and seven more homers which are second in the nation with 24. Golembiewski also was recently a Softball America Player of the Month selection in March, where she had a batting average of .500 in 15 games.
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The Miami Student named ‘Best College Newspaper’ in the Mark of Excellence awards MANAGING EDITOR
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Under the leadership of last year’s Editor-in-Chief Sean Scott and Managing Editor Luke Macy, The Miami Student took home 21 awards on Saturday from the Region 4 Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Mark of Excellence awards ceremony. The Student also claimed the title of best overall newspaper in the region, beating out every student paper at a university over 10,000 students in Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. Ten writers received awards in personal categories, and the entertainment section dominated the cultural criticism part of the awards. Finalists for this section included Macy and Stella Powers. Lily Wahl won the category altogether with her reporting on literary reviews, placing The Student at the forefront of cultural representation in reporting. In the campus reporting section, Anastasija Mladenovska placed as
D ¿QDOLVW DQG 6FRWW ZRQ WKH FDWHJRry for The Student. Scott and Devin Ankeney won the Food/Restaurant category with their reporting on how to navigate recipes when they are bad at cooking. With the paper’s newly launched GreenHawks section, Sarah Kennel VHFXUHG KHU SODFH DV D ¿QDOLVW EHKLQG winner Austin Smith in the science, environment and climate reporting category. The Student’s editorial and opinion writing also took home an award from Ava Kalina’s writing on composting on a college campus. The Student’s multimedia section won many awards, from data representation by Scott and Macy to photo essays and slideshows by Sarah Frosch. Jessica Monahan placed as D ¿QDOLVW LQ WKH VSRUWV SKRWRJUDSK\ category with her broad spectrum of photos from RedHawk athletics. Raquel Hirsch and Olivia Patel UDQNHG DV ¿QDOLVWV LQ WKH SRGFDVW category for their fall podcast People and Policies. For hard news, The Student won awards in breaking news and
in-depth reporting with work from Scott, Alice Momany, Kasey Turman and Taylor Stumbaugh. Scott and Momany won the breaking news category with their coverage of an 2[IRUG SROLFH ṘFHU V XVH RI IRUFH Turman and Stumbaugh were placed DV ¿QDOLVWV LQ WKH FDWHJRU\ IRU WKHLU in-depth reporting on Miami University debating eliminating humanities majors. Wahl and Stumbaugh won the feature writing category with their SLORW RI 0LDPL 0HUJHG D GDWH ODE inviting students to participate in a date sponsored by The Student. Jack Schmelzinger won the sports writing category with his feature of a Miami baseball player with autism. 7KH 6WXGHQW¶V VWD̆ SODFHG DV ¿QDOLVWV IRU WKH ḊOLDWHG ZHEVLWH award and won the Corbin Gwaltney Award for Best All-Around Student Newspaper in the large category. First-place winners will go on to compete for national recognition in the fall.
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JANUS Forum guests debate role of money in politics ahead of 2024 general election RAQUEL HIRSCH OXFORD EDITOR
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The Department of Political Science hosted Mick Mulvaney, IRUPHU 3UHVLGHQW 'RQDOG 7UXPS V FKLHI RI VWD̆ DQG 7L̆DQ\ 0XOOHU president of End Citizens United and Let America Vote, on April 15 for the spring 2024 JANUS Forum. This semester, the forum was entitled “Bought and Paid For? Money, Speech, and Elections in America.” The two guests discussed monH\¶ V UROH LQ ¿QDQFLQJ FDQGLGDWHV during elections and the Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (often known as “Citizens United”). In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that corporations providing funding for independent political broadcasts cannot be limited in their contribution amount. However, since the ruling, there has been discussion about overturning the case. Mulvaney provided an opening comment, emphasizing the importance of maintaining precedent on the decision. “[The Citizens United ruling is] better than the alternative,” Mulvaney said, “which is why I make the case tonight that even though you might not like the way this decision came down, it’s the right decision, and that we can live with it, and it’s not going to be the end of the world.” Muller responded with her opening remarks, countering that Citizens United has wrongfully put a price tag on the election process. “The Citizens United decision was particularly disastrous on our political system,” Muller said. ³,W MXVW OHW LQ D ÀRRG RI XQOLPLWHG DQG undisclosed [money that’s] connected to every single issue that we all care about.” Muller also made a point that one of her organization’s main
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How one foundation supports the Oxford community projects and organizations that aim to improve life in Oxford. Ray Mock, the Greater Oxford Community Foundation board president, said the mission of the Foundation is always at the forefront of all of their decisions. “[The foundation] is an important organization that has, since its founding, worked to make sure that Oxford is a happy, healthy and well-served community,” Mock said. The primary mechanism by which the Oxford Community Foundation supports the community is through allocating money, primarily through grants, for or. OXFORD COMMUNITY FINDS SUPPORT IN ganizations wanting to start projLOCAL FONDATION. PHOTO BY SARAH FROSCH ects in Oxford. Betsy Hope, the executive direcMOLLY FAHY tor of the foundation, said that giving THE MIAMI STUDENT these grants is one of the more noFor more than 27 years, the ticeable ways that people can see the Greater Oxford Community Foun- impact of the organization. dation has supported various service
Ohio could be the tenth state to regulate which bathroom transgender students can use at school. House Bill 183 (H.B. 183), nicknamed the ‘bathroom bill,’ passed the Ohio Higher Education Committee on Wednesday with a 10-5 vote. If passed by the Ohio House of Representatives, the bill would prohibit students from using restrooms that do not align with their assigned JHQGHU DW ELUWK GHVSLWH WKH VWXGHQW V gender identity. The bill would also require schools to designate gender-neutral bathrooms as either male or female. Some transgender students, including Evelyn Harvey, worry about the possible repercussions of such a bill. Harvey, a senior political science major and transgender woman, described the bill as invasive. “I think that across the country, where there have been similar bills … it’s just been a huge privacy issue,” Harvey said. “Not even really mentioning the danger it puts transgender people in or even cisgender people who look like they could be transgender.” Chad Doran, chairman of College Republicans and junior business economics major, said he supports the bill with the exception of removing gender-neutral bathrooms. He believes providing or not providing gender-neutral bathrooms should be left up to the individual schools, not the state.