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Starved and constrained, MU Libraries turn to students for funding

Hailey Stolze, Quinn Malloy, George Roberson • March 18, 2015

Power cords are strewn about the floor of the Grand Reading Room on the second floor of Ellis Library. These cords are a jury-rigged solution to the enduring problem of providing power to study stations...

Loftin discusses challenges to campus climate, faculty retention

Quinn Malloy • March 18, 2015

When Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin assumed office on Feb. 1, 2014, MU’s campus climate was temperate, if not benign. Michael Brown was still alive and race relations had not yet grasped this campus’...

MU temporarily suspends student accused of making racist remarks

Covey Eonyak Son • March 18, 2015

MU will temporarily suspend a student who allegedly made “harassing and hostile remarks” toward another student, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin [announced Wednesday in a statement](http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2015/0318-statement-from-mu-chancellor-r-bowen-loftin-5/). According...

Provost Garnett Stokes brings experience with faculty morale and Title IX

Taylor Blatchford • March 18, 2015

When Garnett Stokes arrived in Columbia as MU’s second female provost ever, she immediately noticed similarities to Athens, home to the University of Georgia, where she’d spent more than 30 years as...

Pass the Popcorn: Thankfully, “Run All Night” isn’t “Taken 4”

Caleb Bishop • March 18, 2015

There are few things more frustrating than when a movie has a misleading title. The movie does take place over a single night. The characters are fleeing from some pretty angry dudes. However, when I...

Bill hopes to address gender pay gap

Jennifer Prohov • March 18, 2015

The Missouri State House Committee for Workforce Standards and Development held a hearing March 9 on a gender pay equity bill put forward by State Rep. Stephen Webber, D-Columbia. The bill, House Bill...

CPD continues to receive forfeited assets through ‘federal equitable sharing’ loophole

Hailey Stolze • March 18, 2015

The Department of Justice recently released its report detailing many problems within the Ferguson Police Department and city government. One key issue the report unveiled was a policing-for-profit, more...

Administration criticized for lack of action in race relations forum

Taylor Blatchford • March 18, 2015

Students called out administrators for not taking concrete action to address race relations problems on campus in an open forum Tuesday night. “Everything you’re talking about is reactive,” one...

Faculty committee finds large differences in raise distribution across campus

Taylor Blatchford • March 18, 2015

A Faculty Council committee reported last week they have discovered large discrepancies in faculty raise distribution. The committee, chaired by Bill Lamberson, professor of animal sciences, presented...

Beats and Eats: No hoity-toity folk at D. Rowe’s

George Schramm • March 18, 2015

So, when is spring break? Next week? That is crazy. While I have recently become so chubby that I sat on my roommate's iPhone and it turned into an iPad, I trust that all of you are well along on your...

Dear Netflix: Mental illness misrepresented in ‘United States of Tara’

Elana Williams • March 17, 2015

_Dear Netflix,_ There’s this funny thing about mental illness: What is very real to the person experiencing it is only as real to his/her loved ones as they allow it to be. Enter “United States...

Vom Saal explores ‘Wild West’ of consumer chemicals

Hannah Black • March 17, 2015

The receipts clogging up your wallet or purse may very well contain high levels of bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical that can be absorbed into the bloodstream via touch, a recent MU study found. Published...