Every year around Halloween, a similar conversation takes place across all social media platforms: what costumes are and aren’t considered “cultural appropriation?”
It is misting and gray at the Oxford Senior Center. A sign on the front door of the building reads ‘locked because of COVID-19.’ Shanna Cianchetti, the driver of the senior center’s early voting shuttle bus, leads passengers through the parking lot — braving the faint drizzle — to one of the shuttles.
One month after Miami students moved onto campus in September, the process of dealing with COVID-19 remains uncomfortable and unfamiliar, and for many, it hasn’t gotten any easier.
As one of Miami University’s two student trustees serving on the Board of Trustees (BoT) prepares to graduate this spring, the university is looking to fill the vacancy for the next two years.
Miami University’s Associated Student Government (ASG) held special elections for four on-campus senator positions and two positions on the student trustee election committee at its Sept. 29 meeting.
Zoom has been a major resource and tool that professors utilize for classes and to connect with students. But one factor within the video conferencing platform has altered the way Miami professors look at teaching — students’ cameras.
Miami University is facing a $67 million reduction from the 2021 fiscal year’s original budget, including a $33 million net loss, according to the revised budget approved by the Board of Trustees at its Sept. 25 meeting.
COVID-19 has forced many of Miami University’s events online this year, and Family Weekend and Homecoming haven’t been spared.
Miami University’s Campus Avenue Building will be renamed Nellie Craig Hall after Nellie Craig, the first Black student to graduate from Miami in 1905. The Board of Trustees (BoT) approved the decision at its Sept. 25 meeting.
Stickers promoting the white supremacist group Patriot Front have been placed across campus, according to a university-wide email Miami’s Institutional Response Team (IRT) sent out on Sept. 26.
More than 1,500 Miami students have tested positive for COVID-19 since Aug. 17 — nearly 10% of the total student population. As infections continue to rise, many students have joked about getting infected intentionally in the name of herd immunity. But for the health professionals informing Miami’s response to the pandemic, this trend has dangerous implications for the Oxford community.
More than two weeks after moving onto campus, some Miami University students have yet to receive the result of the first COVID-19 test they took before moving into their dorms.
Miami will follow the lead of universities like Ohio State in the decision to eliminate the traditional, week-long spring break and replace it with five “reading days” throughout the 2021 spring semester.
On Tuesday, Miami’s Vice President for Student Affairs, Jayne Brownell, announced a new coronavirus monitoring system for residence halls.
After Miami University President Greg Crawford decided to move forward with the university’s phased-in return, students began filling up residence halls across campus.
More than 100 students marched through Oxford for a Black Lives Matter protest on Friday, Sept. 25.
Miami University President Greg Crawford signed the Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitment (PCLC) in a virtual ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 22
Miami University’s Associated Student Government (ASG) approved its internal operating budget for the fall semester and elected two senators to the student life council at its Sept. 22 meeting.
Permanent Oxford residents have mixed feelings about Miami University’s decision to continue with its phased return to campus, bringing even more students into Oxford.