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1809 Room renovation to start soon

Abstract:
The traditional feel of the 1809 Room in Miami University's Shriver Center may begin renovation Monday as 'One Eight 09,' a modern spin on an older concept, according to Don King, assistant director of the Shriver Center.

"The last I heard late last week we were waiting to get the contracts back from the state," King said....

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Bill

posted 6/19/09 @ 12:36 PM EST

Sounds to me like they're just creating another food court...why do we need 2? It was a nice place to go for a sitdown lunch w/o having to go off campus.

Change is not necessarily good.
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Interested Alum

posted 6/19/09 @ 1:47 PM EST

We used to enjoy the Sunday brunches served in the 1809 Room when we visited campus. Unfortunately, like the other comment says, it appears they are changing a nice place into a food court. Its sad that the people in charge thought it a good idea to make a change because , well, everyone else on campus has changed so we should too. Bad management.
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Where's My MIami?

posted 6/19/09 @ 3:54 PM EST

And the dumbing down of Miami for the masses continues. What used to be a wonderful, genteel experience reflecting the dignity and class of the "old Miami" will now be just another chow line servicing the unwashed hordes who are now being allowed inside the hallowed Miami gates.

It's sad. Another Miami tradition bites the dust in our quest to be just another mediocre state school.
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concerned alumni

posted 6/24/09 @ 9:54 AM EST

I am truly saddened by your comments as I was under the assumption that higher education, especially one as prestigious as the one Miami University has to offer, is attainable to all. Are you referring to the same hallowed gates that are desperately seeking diversity and yet turn their backs at their own regional campuses? or perhaps you are speaking about the "good ol' boys" society where only white, middle to upper high class males should be educated.
You should consider the fact that your same "genteel experience" institution is significantly suffering because our enrollment is far below all other comparable institutions.
I am gladly one of the "unwashed hordes" you point out, as I am Latina student that graduated cum laude from this institution and I would very much welcome a change to the 1809 room as it is yet another example of the excellence and forward thinking that "My Miami" is known for.
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Spelling

posted 6/20/09 @ 6:07 PM EST

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Mel

posted 6/22/09 @ 8:20 AM EST

It was a really nice place for students to go on Sunday for a good meal that didn't feel like a dinning hall. Or to meet with a professor or interested students to talkand actually have a conversation, and not yell over the noise of the food court. I am sad to see it go. I think campus needs the more sit down, "adult" feeling restaurant instead of the loud dinning hall.
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budget cuts?

posted 6/22/09 @ 12:42 PM EST

Once again, here we go, spending money we shouldn't. Let's lay people off that need their jobs so we can renovate the 1809 room. Can't this wait until better economic times? That's the way Miami does it, and the common people suffer. Nothing will ever change, and they act like they care. This is a very good example of how they don't care.
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Joel Merriman

posted 6/22/09 @ 5:04 PM EST

Originally posted by

budget cuts?

 Once again, here we go, spending money we shouldn't. Let's lay people off that need their jobs so we can renovate the 1809 room. Can't this wait until better economic times? That's the way Miami does it, and the common people suffer. Nothing will ever change, and they act like they care. This is a very good example of how they don't care.


This money is from Housing, Dining, & Guest Services, which is an auxiliary of the university. This is not university money. HDGS has their own income (hotels, meals, catering, and conferences) and this is coming from those funds.

HDGS making more money doesn't save anyone outside of HDGS.
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Interested Alum

posted 6/25/09 @ 11:36 AM EST

To "Concerned Alumni" (sic)

Your perception of the comments made by "Where's My Miami" is not only misguided but reflects your own prejudices. I believe the "genteel experience" referred to was the opportunity to enjoy a dining experience without having to carry a tray and have it served up by someone wearing a hair net. The "unwashed hordes" comment was simply referring to the fact that the 1809 Room had previously attreacted students and faculty (and alumni) who didn't arrive in shorts, T-shirts and flip flops, but were more appropriately attired. Your comment regarding Miami suffering because "our enrollment is far below all other comparable institutions" is nonsense and incorrect. Every year Miami receives approx. 3 times as many applications as they can admit, and those applications are increasing, not decreasing.

Tha change in the 1809 Room is not an example of excellence and forward thinking. It is merely change for change sake. BTW, as a "Latina student that graduated cum laude," you should know that the singular, feminine form of Alumni is Alumna.
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Where's My Miami

posted 6/29/09 @ 2:04 PM EST

Originally posted by

Interested Alum

 To "Concerned Alumni" (sic)

Your perception of the comments made by "Where's My Miami" is not only misguided but reflects your own prejudices. I believe the "genteel experience" referred to was the opportunity to enjoy a dining experience without having to carry a tray and have it served up by someone wearing a hair net. The "unwashed hordes" comment was simply referring to the fact that the 1809 Room had previously attreacted students and faculty (and alumni) who didn't arrive in shorts, T-shirts and flip flops, but were more appropriately attired. Your comment regarding Miami suffering because "our enrollment is far below all other comparable institutions" is nonsense and incorrect. Every year Miami receives approx. 3 times as many applications as they can admit, and those applications are increasing, not decreasing.

Tha change in the 1809 Room is not an example of excellence and forward thinking. It is merely change for change sake. BTW, as a "Latina student that graduated cum laude," you should know that the singular, feminine form of Alumni is Alumna.


Miami has changed and not for the better. It used to be that Miami was a place for the elite--academic and social. That's what made the place so special.

If you want to go to a school where your roomate is an America-hating, dressed in black philosophy major, go to Ohio State. If you want professors who are more worried about boycotting Israel than the creeping socialism in this country, go to Ohio State. If you want your math classes to be taught by a foreign Ph.D student who's only using America before going home to compete against it, go to Ohio State.

At Miami, we always attracted decent, moral and normal students who respected an ordered American society. The fact that this young woman feels the need to identify herself as a "Latina Alumna" speaks volumes. It wasn't too long ago that Miamians were quite content to merely identify themselves as "American alumni."
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Joel Merriman

posted 6/30/09 @ 9:54 AM EST

Originally posted by

Interested Alum

 To "Concerned Alumni" (sic)

Your perception of the comments made by "Where's My Miami" is not only misguided but reflects your own prejudices. I believe the "genteel experience" referred to was the opportunity to enjoy a dining experience without having to carry a tray and have it served up by someone wearing a hair net. The "unwashed hordes" comment was simply referring to the fact that the 1809 Room had previously attreacted students and faculty (and alumni) who didn't arrive in shorts, T-shirts and flip flops, but were more appropriately attired. Your comment regarding Miami suffering because "our enrollment is far below all other comparable institutions" is nonsense and incorrect. Every year Miami receives approx. 3 times as many applications as they can admit, and those applications are increasing, not decreasing.

Tha change in the 1809 Room is not an example of excellence and forward thinking. It is merely change for change sake. BTW, as a "Latina student that graduated cum laude," you should know that the singular, feminine form of Alumni is Alumna.


Because in the view of yours and many other generations of Miami alumni, only whites are "American"
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Where's My MIami?

posted 6/30/09 @ 1:32 PM EST

Originally posted by

Interested Alum

 To "Concerned Alumni" (sic)


That is absolutely not true.

I went to Miami in the late 1980s, and the school had plenty of minorities. They, however, were those minorities who believed in America and were working hard to grab their piece of the American dream. I was proud to call every one of them a fellow Miamian. It was always so refreshing to compare them to the fist-pumping militants of whom we were reading about at Ohio State where they were occupying their Presidents' building and disrupting Board of Trustee meetings over South African issues.

Now, it sadly seems that Miami, in its quest to turn itself into a watered down version of Ohio State, is eagerly recruiting the angry "identity politics" crowd to Oxford.
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