The website for Miami's bicentennial celebration has officially launched!  This celebration will finally give MIAMIANS the chance to reflect on the importance of our university.

First and foremost, we are far more important than the University of Miami down in Florida.  Yes, U of Miami has a football team.  But let me know when offensive lineman and linebackers are running the world.

Second, if we want to talk about athletics then we can talk about how Ohio State and Michigan wouldn't have the history it has were it not for our cradle of coaches.  In short, just thank us for Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler.

Last but not least - I could come up with more reasons if I wanted to - the campus that Robert Frost once called "the most beautiful college there ever was," to this day maintains that "beauty," so much so that any high school senior visiting our campus for the first time feels a tingling sensation in their loins.

So well done Miami University!  We may have our doubters, but we know we are truly much more than a Harvard of the Midwest or a J-Crew U.  We know that we've had our problems in the past (redskin mascot, a lack of diversity that makes a country club seem open minded), but this is our time to shine.  We are Miami University.