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What is now known as The Student’s Culture section has been reporting on entertainment from around the Oxford area and the world for 47 years.

The Miami Student has been reporting for 200 years; Only 47 include 'Culture' section

By Ayla Peden | 9 hours ago

When The Miami Student published its first edition as The Literary Focus in 1827, it only included three things: literature, poetry and philosophical thought. Now, 200 years later, The Student has sections covering everything from sports and opinion to culture and environmental news. What The Student calls the Culture section today has undergone many iterations since it’s first appearance 47 years ago.

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Over the years, entertainment has evolved through different forms.
CULTURE

How has media changed over the last 200 years?

By Joey Dimacchia | 9 hours ago

From the first print issue of The Miami Student 200 years ago to today’s ever-accelerating technology-driven landscape, the media has consistently demanded our attention. To explain its full evolution would require a substantial encyclopedia — thousands of pages cataloging inventions, platforms and formats now taken for granted. Yet to understand the media, it isn’t necessary to recount its entire history. At its core, media reflects a persistent human impulse: the need to create, to record and to communicate.

Terence Moore (right) interviews Gary Payton (left) after an NBA game.
OPINION

Campus controversy to career catalyst

By Terence Moore | 22 hours ago

Even though I was just a sportswriter at the time as a junior on campus, The Student editor-in-chief Sue MacDonald ran my column on the front of the entire paper. It was well-read, especially by Crum, his assistant coaches and players. They fumed with every syllable.

Sue MacDonald sitting on her desk in the editor's office of The Miami Student 1976-77, when the offices were on the second floor of Shriver Center.
OPINION

‘These are my people!’

By Sue MacDonald | Yesterday

As a 1973 first-year student, I decided to major in education just like my grandmother (who attended Oxford College for Women in the early 1900s), my two teacher sisters and my mother, who was administrator at a local school. 

Bobby Goldwater said his love of newspapers began before arriving at Miami, and his time at The Miami Student became an inspiring experience for him.
OPINION

My Student story started at a store

By Bobby Goldwater | Yesterday

My four years with The Student were filled with indelible experiences, incredible friends and colleagues, including a young Ohio woman who later became my wife, and the inimitable opportunities to contribute to the quality of and commitment to journalism at Miami.  It was inspiring and life-altering.

Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' broke the record for most Academy Award nominations.
CULTURE

Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ deserves every award

By Layla Norris | 4 days ago

February is Black History Month. It’s always important to highlight movies, music, books and art that celebrate black culture and heritage. With the Academy Awards season also rapidly approaching, there is a standout film that sits at the intersection: Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.”

Atlanta natives Avery Halseth and Kali Holierhoek browse a table of books at a Barnes & Noble in Marietta, GA.
OPINION

Read a book, it won’t kill you

By Carley Rapp | February 19, 2026

"I can’t even process the numerous times I’ve heard people proudly announce that they haven’t read a book since elementary school. When did it become cool to admit that you’re willingly avoiding resources that can enhance your critical thinking?"

Student walks into Armstrong Student Center while looking down at her phone.
OPINION

Screen-agers, for better or worse?

By Kenzi Perkins | February 18, 2026

"According to a post by Priori Data, in 2025, the average person spent around five to six hours a day on their phones. This begs the question: Are we too obsessed with the relationship with our screens?"

Students walk out of class on Friday, Jan. 30 to protest ICE presence, raids and deportations throughout the country.
OPINION

Ice them out: Stories from a protest

By Emily Burns | February 17, 2026

"That truth had never been more clear to me than in the midst of a crowd of hundreds on the cold Friday morning of Jan. 30 at the campus-wide ICE Out Walkout, organized by the Ohio Student Association and Young Democratic Socialists of America at Miami University."

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