Behind Miami University's Marcum Center are two greenhouses. Both look old and worn down. Grimy windows are covered with declarations of love and graffiti written in sloppy handwriting. Behind locked doors are empty flower trays -- the metal crates which used to hold green foliage are now home to spider webs and excess tools left behind.
Events to catch this week on Miami's campus and in Oxford
As a little girl, she wanted to be a cowboy. If not a cowboy, Tammy Kernodle wanted to become a teacher. In an old photo, a young Kernodle stands in front of an aluminum Christmas tree with her younger brother and her present, a chalkboard twice her size.
When they started working to establish a substance abuse outpatient center at Miami, Sherrie Kleinholz and Janae Arno were shocked at how much the process dragged.
After a series of back-and-forths and requests to table the discussion, Oxford's city council moved to pass a resolution allowing a six-month pilot bikeshare program with SPIN -- a San Franciso-based dockless bicycle sharing company.
Miami University students plan to add their voices in the upcoming demonstrations in response to the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. School walkouts and marches, organized by students across the nation, will peacefully for an end gun violence.
The Miami University Board of Trustees has approved the extension of Miami's Tuition Promise to the Hamilton and Middletown campuses -- a move that will reportedly save students almost 8 percent on their tuition costs.
Students looking to help the university better understand the Miami community will have the opportunity to do so through the Miami Student Health Survey.
ASG unanimously passed a bill to lower laundry prices in the residence halls last Tuesday.
Miami University's Office of Ethics and Student Conflict Resolution (OESCR) is bringing in outside help to investigate reports of hazing in Miami fraternities.
The Miami Student hosted a public safety forum, City Matters, last Wednesday, attended by Oxford and Miami officials. The event, moderated by assistant news editor Ceil\0x03AF Doyle and editor-in-chief Emily Williams, covered topics including the Good Samaritan policy, recent hazing allegations against Miami fraternities and town-gown relations in Oxford.
In August 1962, 10-year-old Dennis Lieberman walked into the bathroom of an Alabama rest stop.
Events to catch this week on Miami's campus and in Oxford
During a weekend jam-packed with events -- the conclusion of sorority recruitment, Miami University's 2018 Charter Day Ball and Brick Street Bar & Grill's 6 a.m. opening for the Winter Olympics U.S. v. Russia men's hockey game -- 24 individuals were transported to the hospital for alcohol-and-drug-related EMS calls.
Three student tickets filed petitions last week to run in the March 12 Student Body President and Vice President elections.
In a show of student support -- and a rare move of legislative coordination -- Miami's Residence Hall Association (RHA) and Associated Student Government (ASG) unanimously passed twin feminine hygiene care bills last week.
Most students who took journalism classes with associate professor Cheryl Heckler came to know her passion for Whitelaw Reid, an 1856 Miami graduate and Civil War-era journalist and newspaper publisher.
Due to low enrollment, 34 of Miami University's minors and 48 thematic sequences are in danger of elimination.
Two female Miami University students reported to Oxford Police that they were sexually assaulted by men they know.
Last Wednesday, The Miami Student hosted a public safety forum, City Matters, which was attended by Oxford and Miami officials. The event was moderated by assistant news editor Ceil\0x03AF Doyle and editor-in-chief Emily Williams. It covered topics including the Good Samaritan policy, recent hazing allegations against Miami fraternities and town-gown relations in Oxford.