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Paola Savvidou tours the world with music

Dun Li • March 17, 2015

Paola Savvidou’s life has always been filled with music, and through teaching and mentorship as an associate professor of piano pedagogy at MU, she has aimed to share the music with others. Savvidou’s...

Student brings ‘Zaching’ back

Karlee Renkoski • March 17, 2015

Twenty-year-old Zach Lederer of Maryland lost his life to brain cancer on March 11, 2014. He left his mark on the world, in the form of a pose known as “Zaching.” “The purpose of ‘Zaching’...

Student Life ends readership program due to budget cuts

Elizabeth Loutfi • March 17, 2015

In 1997, Pennsylvania State University started a partnership with USA Today to provide access for students to newspapers on campus. The program is called the Collegiate Readership Program, and in 1999,...

MizzouThon continues record-breaking streak

Whitney Matewe • March 17, 2015

As the 13.1 hour mark drew closer, the MU Student Recreation Center basketball courts-turned-dance floor was crowded with dancers, decked out in black and gold, powering through the last hour, or the "Power...

Permanent daylight saving possible for Missouri

John Morrisroe • March 17, 2015

State Rep. Mike Kelley, R-Lamar, proposed a referendum to the Missouri House of Representatives that could make daylight saving time permanent in the state, even in the winter months that currently operate...

Who they are: MU’s prominent women leaders

Marilyn Haigh • March 17, 2015

There is no single way to define leadership. The MU community turns to peers and professors for leadership, as well as our professors and administrators. Leaders don’t always have a title, a paycheck...

Single Girl Diaries: Eurotrip: Love games in the lives of 20-somethings

Ellise Verheyen • March 17, 2015

Taylor Swift asks an important question in her oh-so-catchy song “Blank Space” that I feel the need to address: “Love’s a game, wanna play?” The answer? Hell no. I don’t want to play your...

MizzouThon breaks yet another record

Whitney Matewe • March 15, 2015

The seventh annual MizzouThon had another successful record-breaking year as dancers rallied to continue raising funds for the MU Children’s Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit throughout the 13.1...

Columbia Police Department releases 2014 Internal Affairs Report

Paige Lalain • March 14, 2015

The Columbia Police Department released new data concerning information including arrests, number of household and individual emergency calls and number of complaints filed against the station in the past...

Campus demonstration ends at Loftin’s doorstep

Katherine Knott • March 13, 2015

The words ran together as rain splattered on the paper posters laid down in front of the chancellor’s house. Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin did not come out to greet the demonstrators gathered at his front...

Richmond band builds energy through relentless touring

Morgan Magid • March 13, 2015

Ripping guitar, aggressive drums and fast tempos all fashion People’s Blues of Richmond’s raucous sound. PBR, who is playing at Rose Music Hall alongside The Main Squeeze on March 14, is a rock band...

MSA won’t cancel ‘American Sniper’ screening

Elizabeth Loutfi • March 13, 2015

The Missouri Students Association is still hosting a public viewing of "American Sniper," despite receiving “numerous letters from students asking for the film to be cancelled,” according to a press...