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Kasey Turman


Inside Hollywood students pose for a picture after walking through a smoke-filled Los Angeles on Jan. 8.

Los Angeles wildfires force Miami students to evacuate

Fires rage, with high winds helping the flames spread and set everything in their path ablaze. Los Angeles citizens’ houses and livelihoods are being burnt to the ground, and in the middle of it all is a group of Miami University students.


The hidden support for Miami football 1,700 miles away

Fans who watch the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl on TV will see their favorite players on the field, the band playing the fight song in the stands and cheerleaders and spirit squads supporting on the sidelines. What they won’t see are the long flights, adjusted holiday plans and parents who came with the students and the sacrifices they made to get to Tucson.








Loretta Parker, an administrative assistant in the Howe Center for Writing Excellence sits at her desk in King Library where she uses Workday for many aspects of her job.

Miami University’s transition to Workday creates issues for employees

Miami University’s campuses underwent a change that hadn’t been made in nearly 25 years. This summer, roughly 4,000 Miami employees had to change pay and funding systems to Workday, a software used for finance, human resources and student information, just a few months before more than 20,000 students returned to Miami’s Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown campuses.