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New “Stand Your Ground” law cited as basis for Columbia shooting

New “Stand Your Ground” law cited as basis for Columbia shooting

Sam Forbes February 19, 2017

Missouri’s new “Stand Your Ground” law has been been invoked as the basis for a shooting in Columbia, where the accused believed the statute permitted him to shoot a fleeing thief. Senate Bill 656...

UPDATED: MUPD issues crime alert of sexual assault near Virginia Ave. garage

UPDATED: MUPD issues crime alert of sexual assault near Virginia Ave. garage

Emily Gallion, Zia Kelly February 19, 2017

The MU Police Department received a report of a sexual assault of a female student near the Virginia Avenue Parking Structure at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, according to an email to students and staff that...

Protests condemn U.S. Bank’s possible connection to pipeline company

Protests condemn U.S. Bank’s possible connection to pipeline company

Elena Cruz February 18, 2017

Members of Four Directions: Indigenous Peoples and Allies, Mizzou Energy Action Coalition and the Columbia community protested on campus Friday morning to raise awareness about U.S. Bank’s possible connection...

RHA presidential hopefuls reveal platforms

RHA presidential hopefuls reveal platforms

Andrew Withers February 17, 2017

The slates for the upcoming Residence Halls Association presidential election have released their platforms, with Solomon Davis and Jeremy Richmond running against Maggie Recca and Mitchell Davis. Solomon...

Greitens appoints three UM System curators, leaving two seats still vacant

Greitens appoints three UM System curators, leaving two seats still vacant

Kyle LaHucik February 16, 2017

Three new curators have been appointed to serve on the UM System Board of Curators, filling three out of the five empty seats on the nine-member board. Gov. Eric Greitens nominated Jeff Layman, Jamie...

Judge determines that CPD acted unconstitutionally by recording attorney-client phone calls

Judge determines that CPD acted unconstitutionally by recording attorney-client phone calls

Libby Stanford February 16, 2017

During a hearing last week in Shelbyville, Missouri, a state judge ruled that the Columbia Police Department acted unconstitutionally by recording attorney-client phone calls. Because the hearing was not...

Possible cuts to the NEA pose threat to local arts, including The Missouri Review

Possible cuts to the NEA pose threat to local arts, including The Missouri Review

Jackson Kinkead February 16, 2017

The Missouri Review, a literary magazine based at MU, could take a financial hit if a January proposal by President Donald Trump’s transition team to eliminate National Endowment for the Arts were to...

Celebrate girl power with these feminist jams

Celebrate girl power with these feminist jams

Mallorie Munoz February 15, 2017

Girl power never requires an occasion, but when it’s the week of Galentine’s Day with Women’s History Month closely following, a playlist celebrating women seems fitting. As a girl-power enthusiast,...

Panel discusses teaching Black Lives Matter in schools

Panel discusses teaching Black Lives Matter in schools

Maureen Strode February 15, 2017

A panel of one MU education student and four Columbia educators led a discussion on the importance of teaching Black Lives Matter in schools in Hill Hall on Wednesday night. The panel, hosted by the National...

Architecture firm Populous selected by curators for Faurot south end zone project

Architecture firm Populous selected by curators for Faurot south end zone project

Clare Roth February 15, 2017

The UM System Board of Curators selected the architecture firm Populous to design a new Faurot Field south end zone facility project at a meeting on Feb. 9, by a 5-1 vote. A day after Populous was approved,...

Sex Edna: Education is vital to a healthy and happy sex life

Edna Smith February 14, 2017

Sex education in schools, if present at all, does not even scratch the surface of the sexual universe. There is so much out there, from positions to toys to BDSM and so on. There is a whole world of possibilities,...

Know Before You Go: Ben Folds and a Piano perform at The Blue Note

Know Before You Go: Ben Folds and a Piano perform at The Blue Note

Cassie Allen February 14, 2017

The “Capable of Anything” Ben Folds is “Rockin’ The Suburbs” at The Blue Note on Feb. 21. ####The lowdown Folds will be performing at The Blue Note on his tour, Ben Folds and a Piano. The doors...