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ENTERTAINMENT

Post Malone's album "Beerbongs and Bentleys" gets real

By Emma Bliven | May 8, 2018

"Beerbongs and Bentleys" follows Post's debut album "Stoney," which was released in 2016. This new album has already been certified platinum by the RIAA, within four days of being released. Many artists take pride in their album receiving platinum after months or even years, but Post didn't even need a week. Credited to the many collaborations on this album, it was bound to do well.

ENTERTAINMENT

Summer movie preview

By Scott Lentz | May 8, 2018

Summer is coming, and while we're out of class, we'll have to find some way to occupy our free time. Naturally, it's time to look to the movie theaters for the hits of the summer. This list will start after finals week and commencement (though you shouldn't forget about "Deadpool 2," slated for release May 18).

OPINION

The Shape of Disagreement

By Jacob Bruggeman | May 8, 2018

"Beauty and the Beast" fables are good at breaking hearts and haunting viewers. Beloved by many and berated by others, Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" is the latest installment of film's foray into this common fable.

OPINION

Don't give Charlie Rose a talk show

By Haley Miller | May 8, 2018

Two weeks ago, Page Six reported that Charlie Rose has been pitching a "Where are they now?"-style show, with him hosting and other serial sexual predators as guests. Because isn't the #MeToo movement an opportunity to give dangerous men a larger platform than any of their victims?

CULTURE

Lilly and Me: A Farewell Scrapbook

May 8, 2018

If you've been keeping up with us from the beginning, you know that Lilly and I have been through our fair share of trials and tribulations over the past four months. For 14 weeks, I've used this column to cover topics such as depression, anxiety, alcoholism, fear of adulthood, assuming responsibility and, in our most harrowing ordeal, Lilly running into the woods and remaining missing for five hours. If you'd never actually met us in person, I couldn't fault you for thinking we lead somewhat of a gloomy or cheerless life.

CULTURE

Drenched at the Derby: Fourteen years for more than two minutes

May 8, 2018

The Kentucky Derby has forever been dubbed "the most exciting two minutes in sports," and Churchill Downs is easily one of the most historic sporting venues in North America. But the nickname and common knowledge forgets the 10 hours before those exciting two minutes and the people who fill the venue.

CULTURE

John Darlin: Seeing the World Through Rose-Colored Glasses

May 8, 2018

Uptown Oxford's Farmers Market is full of more than just fresh produce and colorful flowers. Students and locals alike may at first come for the shopping, but it is hard to leave without collecting a story or two from jewelry artist John Darlin, who has had a life full of adventure.

CULTURE

MIAMI UNIVERSITY MEN'S GLEE CLUB HOLDS 111TH HOME CONCERT SERIES

May 8, 2018

Miami University Men's Glee Club held their 111th annual Home Concert series over the weekend in Hall Auditorium. The concert, named because the Glee Club was the first group to perform in Hall Auditorium when it was built in 1908, is the culmination of a year's worth of work for the club.

CULTURE

'TARTUFFE' IS MORE POLITICAL THAN EVER

May 8, 2018

Featuring a man insistent on his own intelligence, dismissive of women and easily controlled by someone even more arrogant, the Department of Theatre's production of "Tartuffe" proved the necessity of art in challenging those in power.

Tessa Benson-Greenwald is studying minority experiences in majority group spaces.
SCIENCE

Graduate student digs into the social psychology behind minority experience

By Thai Wright | May 1, 2018

The lack of diversity in academia, especially in STEM disciplines, is no secret. In 2015, the National Center for Education Statistics issued a report on racial backgrounds of full-time professors across the United States: 83 percent were Caucasian, nine percent were Asian/Pacific Islander, four percent were African American, three percent were Hispanic and one percent were Native American/Alaska Native individuals.

CULTURE

MU students craft films on a deadline for college film festival

May 1, 2018

Long after the sun had dipped below the horizon and shadows crept across Miami's campus, a group of students gathered at King Library. Fingers clacked across keyboards, and ideas flew from left and right as a group of students began to shape a film they'd have only a few short weeks to take from pre-production to the silver screen.

Gloyeske Acupuncture Pointe on Fairfield road is offering discounted group acupuncture sections.
SCIENCE

Pain relief at needle point: Oxford business offers discounted acupuncture

By Julia Arwine | May 1, 2018

I expected my long-held fear of needles to rear its vicious head as I entered the building of Gloyeske Acupuncture Pointe, a fear that I had conveniently forgotten about until that moment. Instead, when I opened the door of the repurposed house on Fairfield Road I was met by a waft of calming peppermint-scented air and the quiet strains of an Oriental flute drifting out from the back rooms.

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