"I walked into the newsroom expecting a sea of buzzing journalists, hunched over grammatical errors and looming deadlines. What I found instead were students compelled to question, challenge, reveal and urge others willing to listen."
"Required courses for majors should have the easiest access. When the seats are extremely limited or there are not enough sections offered, it adds even more stress to the scheduling process."
"Modern feminism comes across as making any choice and not accepting the consequences. That’s 'the feminist lie.' Women are convinced they can make decisions without long-term impact."
"'It is pretty amazing how a guy like me, who didn’t even want to become a priest, can be taken by the Lord and have so many dreams fulfilled,' Willig said. 'Jesus truly has such a love for us and a great sense of humor.'"
"Artemis II was about people, the astronauts on the spacecraft and the millions who watched them fly to the moon. It was a human mission at its core, a deeply human achievement."
" ... if you allow yourself to fully experience the benefits of an incredible journey through therapeutic art making and art therapy, there’s no limit to what you can glean from this practice."
"Most of the problems that diets and supplements are supposed to solve aren’t problems to begin with. Having acne or not having six-pack abs is normal, not a health defect."
"This isn’t just a women’s issue, it’s a community issue. When women are paid less, it affects entire families."
"If anyone reading this can somehow still support the U.S. and Israel’s actions, I can only urge you to do one thing: Visit the Middle East."
"If you don’t already know me, you can’t even tell I’m disabled — aside from my limp and the fact I have a handicap placard. When I am not using any of my mobility devices, the only sign of my disability is my oversized purse, which is necessary to carry all the medications and other supplies that I need when I am out and about."
"I can understand there are a lot of bathrooms to keep clean across campus; I can deal with hair in the drain and miscellaneous bottles of shampoo littering the ground. But mold is something no one should have to live with."
"My hope is that my pieces prompt people to think and care more about the things I chose to write about."
"I wanted to use 'I' in my stories. I wanted to talk about the things everybody thought, but no one said."
"The biggest difference between the farmlands of Argentina and the supermarkets of the U.S. was the freshness of ingredients, especially meat."
With both teams setting records, the attention should have been equal. It was anything but. People circulated infographics about the men’s team around Instagram almost daily; yet there was hardly a word heard about the women’s.
"Neither the words of the students at BoT meetings, nor the negative comments online, nor the inordinately massive disapproval of the new stadium project were enough to dissuade the university from this folly."
"While on-campus housing still costs too much, off-campus housing should be more affordable than the rates we pay as residential underclassmen at Miami."
"I used to think of life as a blank sheet of paper — patiently, it waited for me to fill it, but the first word hung hesitantly on the tip of my pen. I tore out the page, crumpled it into my palm and began again."
"I enjoyed the writing process much more than I expected, and I decided to officially join The Student at the start of my junior year."
"I enjoy digging into the inner workings of Miami University and the college experience as a whole. I think it is vitally important to understand everything about Miami so you can get the most out of your time here, and I like to help my fellow students do just that."