The constant reminders, buzzes and notifications caused my mental health to suffer, and I’m not alone.
We all know our generation loves to talk a big game about political advocacy on social media, but if we’re going to talk to talk, we have to walk the walk.
Let me spell it out for you: coronavirus isn’t your excuse to be a jerk.
While Miami students are currently separated, we will be together in person soon and the sense of belonging will be even stronger.
A lot of people were involved in what happened, whether it be those at the event, those dealing with the aftermath, those who instigated what happened or those who are shocked and appalled by the blatantly offensive and hateful actions taken by the hacker. We’d like to address each of you directly.
Yes, my name is Rebecca, but friends call me Bex, and I’m pretty sure I’ve got a hex, but I’m also not alone.
In a time like this, there are so many issues the media has to cover that genuinely can’t be blown out of proportion, even if it tried.
Above all, we just need to see more empathy.
As humans, we crave social connectivity and interaction, and much of that was taken away in a matter of days before we had time to contemplate, much less accept it.
Most of us on the editorial board are upperclassmen. But, knowing new students are facing a minimum of a five-week wait for coming to Oxford, we thought we’d offer some advice.
It was very refreshing to see a lot of people say such nice and positive things about the students because growing up, I heard a lot of awful stories about them.
President Trump himself hasn’t listed many specific reasons why WeChat is such a danger to our national security. For many people, I’ve seen it do nothing but good.
If the students are unwilling to return to the discussion, the sound of their departing feet tells us all we really need to know.
As concerned graduates of the College of EHS and as members of the 2018 AYA English Education cohort, we write to you with anger and a desire for institutional change.
In an earlier message to the university community, the Provost “empower[ed] deans, chairs, and faculty members to make decisions...for how they will meet the needs of their classes for fall.” Let’s follow through on that promise, empowering each of us to teach, learn, and work in the way that works best for us.
We, in MJF, have not confronted racism as fully as we could have. We could have listened more closely when People of Color described the unwelcoming environment they sometimes experience at this institution. We could have and should have done more, but did not. We must do better moving forward.
Saturday, Miami University released a statement of solidarity, condemning racism after the murder of George Floyd. The statement is a good start. But what’s next?
“Do you have any idea how it feels to be dubbed the whitest black kid by your own people?” Varno Harris II does, and today he’s speaking up about it.
Through these last few weeks of separation, many of us have been thinking about what it means to have “Love and Honor.” Being away from Oxford has been more difficult than many of us anticipated, causing us to reflect on what makes being a Miami student so great in the first place.
I saw journalism not as dead, but as the perfect platform for me to inform and give a voice to the voiceless.