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Curators finalize presidential search committee

Taylor Blatchford • February 24, 2016

The UM System Board of Curators met Wednesday morning to finalize the members of the search committee for the next UM System president. The committee includes all six current curators, two faculty members,...

Flaws in MSA highlighted by 2015 election

Emily Gallion • February 24, 2016

Former Missouri Students Association President-elect Haden Gomez presented his perspective of the events leading up to his resignation in an email with the subject line “A Timeline of the 2015 MSA Elections”...

Residence Halls Association to allow another slate to enter the presidential election

Lauren Wortman • February 23, 2016

The Residence Halls Association passed an act to allow another slate to enter the RHA presidential election during a special session of Congress on Feb. 22. RHA called the special session of Congress...

UM System faces $8 million in proposed cuts

Amos Chen • February 23, 2016

Missouri House of Representatives Budget Chairman Rep. Tom Flanigan, R-Carthage, proposed a budget for the 2017 year on Tuesday that would potentially cut $8 million in funding from the UM System and $402,059...

Proposed bill could diversify Board of Curators by profession

Nancy Coleman • February 23, 2016

A proposed bill in the Missouri House of Representatives that could tackle the issue of occupational diversity on the Board of Curators is one step closer to passing in the House after being referred to...

Bus ad helps to spread the word about Green Dot

Madison Plaster • February 23, 2016

The Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center is creating awareness about sexual assault prevention in a new way: They have a bus with Green Dot advertisements. An RSVP Center supervisor had...

Student Life seeks to implement Greek fee

Tess Vrbin • February 23, 2016

In the 19 years Director of Student Life Mark Lucas has worked in the department, he has struggled to find ways to support one of MU’s most active communities. Only two people, fraternity leadership...

Hoodie Allen’s loyalty to fans shows in his concert performance

Grant Sharples • February 23, 2016

As I made my way to The Blue Note to interview pop-rapper Hoodie Allen before his show last Monday, I saw countless fans already queued up for the show four hours before it started in relatively cold weather....

Mizzou Alternative Breaks celebrates 25th anniversary

Andrew Frein • February 23, 2016

The popular student organization Mizzou Alternative Breaks has grown tremendously since its beginning 25 years ago and now organizes over 100 service-based trips each year locally, nationally and abroad. “The...

Listen to This: How to create a diary playlist

Katherine White • February 23, 2016

Music has the magical ability to transport its listener back to certain times, places or events in their life. Certain songs evoke not just the memory of being in a specific situation, but also the feeling....

Q&A: FAFSA changes for the 2017-18 award year

Lily Cusack • February 23, 2016

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is implementing new changes for the application in the upcoming filing year. Student Financial Aid Director Nathan Prewett outlined why the FAFSA is important...

Human rights activist Romeu Monteiro speaks on how he came to love Israel

Alyssa Bessasparis • February 22, 2016

Human rights activist Romeu Monteiro grew up in a middle-class Catholic family in Portugal, where he developed a negative view on Israel through frequently viewing news coverage of the second Intifada. Monteiro...