This Tuesday, Miami University’s Associated Student Government (ASG) will hold its first online all-senate meeting since the university closed due to novel coronavirus concerns.
I’ve always loved a ritual. Proms, bat mitzvahs, confirmations, swearing-in ceremonies, quinceañeras, masses, weddings, funerals. And graduations. Rituals help us take what is ordinary, what is necessary, and transform it into an event. A moment that helps us step out of our everyday selves to recognize that the momentous has happened. Now, it looks like the chance to pause and feel how momentous graduating is might be taken away.
Miami University students studying abroad in South Korea and Italy have been urged by the university to return to the U.S. as soon as possible, following an announcement by the Trump administration on Saturday that all non-essential travel to South Korea and Italy has been restricted.
After a deadline extension, three tickets are now in the race for Student Body President (SBP) and Vice President (VP). Elections will be held March 17-18 on the Hub.
No need to go Uptown this weekend if you’re in the mood for a night of cross-dressing and infidelity; instead, catch a performance of “The Marriage of Figaro” from the Miami University Opera Theatre. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, the show is one of the most well-known operas of all time. According to Operabase, an online database that compiles statistics on opera performances and companies, “The Marriage of Figaro” was the tenth most popular opera during the 2018-2019 season with 424 performances.
The rain drizzling outside the windows harmonizes with the first few notes of “Piano Man” a student plunks out on the old piano at the front of the room. As another student draws the words “Spring Street Reading '' in bubble letters on a large whiteboard, students and English professors trickle in slowly, helping themselves to the coffee, lemonade and cookies laid out on the back table and settle in to hear their fellow students’ stories.
The efforts of Miami University’s Associated Student Government (ASG) all seemed targeted on students’ well-being during the last semester, a focus ASG hopes to continue in the spring.
Miami University’s Associated Student Government (ASG) passed three pieces of legislation to reform university policies involving sexual assault and one resolution to make public the data gathered by the university’s bias reporting system over its past two senate meetings, on Nov. 12 and Nov. 19.
Stage Left’s production of “Pippin!” was absolutely worth that exclamation point. Miami University's only student-run musical theatre organization brought their characteristic enthusiasm to a performance equal parts amusing and disconcerting.
Kaite Anderson first let Miami University know that Nicholas Shaw, a student who was expelled from his previous university in relation to sexual assault charges, was a student on Miami’s campus in early September.