After a three-hour Zoom call, first-year Abigail Van Drunen was starving, but all the dining halls were closed. With the cold winter snow falling, she didn’t want to go uptown, so her roommate, Peyton Kirkland, made her waffles. The two roommates of Ogden Hall then offered to make more for other students in their hall, charging 50 cents a waffle, and a business was born.
Last semester, Miami University students received information on the COVID-19 pandemic through emails from President Crawford, the offices of the Provost, student life, residence life, student health services and university communications. This semester, the sources of information have been narrowed down to two: the division of student life and the COVID-19 response team.
Two weeks ago, a Miami student found herself unable to pay her spring tuition bill and turned to Twitter to crowd-source the money she was missing.
Most students, no matter what age, get excited about snow days and being able to miss a day’s worth of class.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Miami University adopted a test-optional policy for applicants during the 2020-2021 admission year, but it has yet to announce what next year’s testing policy will be.
Students taking FST 360S — Star Wars: Force, Culture and Science Fiction have the chance to analyze and discuss “Star Wars” and its influence
The Citizens Observer Patrol (COP) program invites volunteers to act as the “eyes and ears” for OPD officers on duty. The program, which started in the summer of 2020, attracts many Miami University students seeking internship credit.
Gretchen, a dachshund who turns 12 years old in March, is also referred to as Gretchen Wieners, after the iconic “Mean Girls” character. When she first came to live with Abbott, she weighed approximately 30 pounds, definitely overweight for a weiner dog.
It is always great to have a professor who is actively involved in the field that you are studying, and it’s even cooler when that means your professor has to miss class to go work on a movie set. That is just the case for visiting media, journalism and film (MJF) instructor A.J. Rickert-Epstein.
On campus, many buildings closed by 9:30 p.m. and students were asked to return to their dorms by 10 p.m. With the curfew now lifted, many on- and off-campus buildings and restaurants plan to remain open later.
Armstrong Student Center puts up flags to honor the home countries of students enrolled at the university. But the flags don't necessarily represent the nationalities and heritages of every student. The very first time that Class of 2020 Miami graduate Andrew Devedjian stepped foot into Armstrong Student Center during a 2016 campus visit, he immediately searched for the Armenian flag hanging among others on the wall. He didn’t see it. Now he's looking to change that.
Miami University students and faculty must adjust to a different semester format this spring, as the traditional week-long spring break has been replaced with a series of “wellness days.” These wellness days occur roughly once a month and were implemented to prevent students from traveling to many different locations and bringing COVID-19 back to Oxford. Professors are not allowed to hold classes or assign work on these days.
Where can one get fresh, quality roasted coffee beans in Oxford? Well, you don’t physically have to go anywhere.
Since May, a team of less than 100 Miami University public health students, faculty and staff have been working as contact tracers in an effort to help inform, educate and support those who tested positive for COVID-19 across Butler County. The main goal of the program is not only to help those testing positive for COVID-19, but also to give students in the public health field hands-on work and training in the midst of the pandemic.
The credit/no credit deadline has been extended to April 1, but students still cannot take any required classes for their major or minor as credit/no credit.
Miami University’s Associated Student Government (ASG) elected two on-campus senators, two off-campus senators and four senators-at-large at its Feb. 2 meeting.
If 2020 taught college students anything, it’s that, somehow, we can survive remotely. Classes, Greek life and even social gatherings can take place online. But how do you rehearse songs over Zoom? How do you practice improv comedy when you’re miles apart? How do you put together an entire musical production through a computer screen?
Throughout the past year, the nation endured a number of challenges. 2020 was the year that felt like the same day kept happening over and over again like in Harold Ramis’s movie “Groundhog Day.” Even as 2020 came to an end, the outlook of 2021 was still unclear. So what does this mean for 2021 New Year’s resolutions? Where does one even begin?
Before the majority of the students came back to campus for the start of the spring semester, there were a few who returned to Miami early. Although COVID-19 provided record-low resident attendance during the winter term, resident assistants (RAs) made the best of the experience.
Many Oxford businesses are used to a slow spell during winter break. But with the impact of the pandemic adding an extra financial burden this school year, some were unsure if they could afford to stay open for the nearly two months between semesters.