Oxford, Ohio

“The whole campus is buzzing,” Tim Sardinia, president of Miami University’s chapter of Delta Tau Delta, tells me in the lobby of his fraternity house. “The house is buzzing.” The source of the buzz is Republican vice presidential candidate and Miami Delt Paul Ryan, who will hold a campaign event at his alma mater tonight, the eve of freshmen move-in day.

Ryan developed his interest in economics while a student here and graduated 20 years ago this past spring. This past week, in the wake of Mitt Romney’s announcement of Ryan as his V.P. pick, the media attention for this bucolic college town north of Cincinnati has gotten a little intense. Sardinia has fielded a number of requests from reporters and gossip websites trying to learn more about Ryan’s time at Miami U.