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Oxford welcomes artwork and creativity with new mural

In the spring of 2026, a new red hawk will be welcomed into Oxford – but not a Miami University RedHawk. This “larger than life” red-tailed hawk will be seen in a new mural on the Uptown parking garage on Walnut Street. However, the red-tailed hawk is not the main focus of the artwork. 


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Culture writer Kenzi Perkins recommends building a capsule wardrobe for this fall.
STYLE

Fall fashion: How to build a capsule wardrobe for the season

Leaves are beginning to turn to shades of orange and red, days are getting shorter and there is just a whisper of a chill in the air: it’s finally starting to feel like fall. Which, of course, means that we can finally exchange our shorts and bikinis for more weather-appropriate options.Building an autumnal capsule wardrobe can be tricky, so I’m here to provide you with some tips for how you can look your best this fall.


Softball player Leila Mathis pushes two kids on the swings at the Miami Child Development Center on Western campus.
NEWS

Miami celebrates annual National Campus Children's Center week

Throughout the week, the Miami Child Development Center chalked the campus sidewalk on Monday, hosted Renate Crawford for a reading time on Friday, brought the Miami softball team to play with the kids outside Thursday morning and later that day held a “read across Western campus" for the National Campus Children's Center week.



At the end of the 2024-2025 school year Michaela Buck received the news that she would be the new host of “Major Insight.”
NEWS

Major Insight: Behind the microphone

For many college students, finding a path on campus can be overwhelming. This is especially true at Miami University, with more than 600 clubs and organizations to choose from. That is exactly the conversation that “Major Insight,” a podcast about successfully navigating college and finding purpose on campus, focuses on. 




Assistant Campus and Community Editor Parker Green reviews Taylor Swift's new album "The Life of a Show Girl."
CULTURE

Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” is pop perfection

Taylor Swift dropped her highly anticipated 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” on Oct. 3, and I haven’t been the same since.Full of cheeky double entendres, glitter-gel-pen pop and high-profile interpolations, this album is a sharp departure from her more melancholy previous release, "The Tortured Poets Department.” It’s also everything I could want out of an album, especially one Swift said came from an “infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place.”








Protesters encircle tents in Academic Quad
OPINION

Pro-Palestine advocates face unequal pressure from Trump administration

"Throughout the years, Miami’s chapter of Students For Justice in Palestine (SJP) has hosted numerous fundraisers for humanitarian aid in Gaza, protests and encampments. Advocacy has been difficult, however, as many students – especially those who have recently immigrated to the U.S. – hesitate to show their support for Palestine in the wake of governmental opposition."








OPINION

Inquiry to apathy: Artificial intelligence earned my degree

"Most people can identify the familiar pattern of our higher education training: study, memorize, spit out, rinse and repeat. But somewhere along the way, what was meant to be the foundation became the forum, and what was meant to be the means became the method. Much like a search engine and its results, we have become information generators, automating and bending to what is prompted of us."



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