Oxford Police Department raids house
By Abe Hagood and Owen Martin | May 8, 2026A SWAT team was seen raiding 215 S. College Ave. in the early afternoon on Friday, May 8.
A SWAT team was seen raiding 215 S. College Ave. in the early afternoon on Friday, May 8.
Miami University is a big school. With more than 22,000 students inhabiting a 600-acre campus, it’s easy to imagine the breadth of services required to keep the campus running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Between electricity, landscaping, maintenance and snow removal, upkeeping the campus takes an army. But what most people don’t know is that the logistics of these immense services largely fall onto the desk of one man: Cody Powell.
Dan Darkow, 32, the director of the Miller Center for Student Disability Services (SDS), died February 11, according to a statement from Miami University.
"Since 2023, Miami has cut or consolidated nearly 20 humanities majors, including American studies, religion and art history. At the same time, the Farmer School of Business dominates the campus and its culture."
As students at Miami University settle into the spring semester, it’s no secret that they are dreading the rising costs of each semester. While national headlines tend to focus on the rise in food and housing prices, there is a unique cost faced by college students alone: the price of textbooks.
More than 17% of Miami’s undergraduate population is identified as disabled by the Miller Center for Student Disability Services – that’s nearly 3,000 people. Most able-bodied people focus on the visible aspects in academic buildings; accommodations like ramps, elevators and braille signs. But there’s one question very few people tend to ask: Where do they live in Oxford?
Miami University spends $2 billion dollars every year. This is enough money to write every single one of Miami’s undergraduate students a $120,000 check, or relocate and rebuild Millett Hall 10 times.
Oxtoberfest took place on a rainy Saturday afternoon, but looking around, a passerby wouldn’t be able to tell. Turnout remained high at Oxford’s annual festival, where a crowd of hundreds of college students, Oxford residents and their children gathered Uptown to celebrate German heritage.