Missouri legislators are making higher education a lower funding priority and causing students to contribute more to increasingly expensive tuition, based on recent research by an MU administrator and...

The MU Counseling Center launched a new after-hours crisis hotline Tuesday to make assistance available to students 24 hours a day. The center is contracting with ProtoCall, a company that specializes...

Faculty Council will kick off the spring semester at its first public meeting of the year Thursday. Council members said they plan to continue discussions on a myriad of issues impacting faculty and students...

I can’t think back to the first time wanderlust struck me. I’ve always dreamed of adventure and the big world that few attempt to see. I’m from a small town in southern Missouri, so I grew up knowing...

Long johns, bismarcks, and fritters, oh my! Columbia is finally getting its own local doughnut shop — make that two. Though Harold’s Doughnuts and the St. Louis-born Strange Donuts became staples of...

_Welcome back to the books, and school, and studying. We are now working towards spring break and fighting for those spring break bodies. To me, it sounds like the perfect opportunity to start writing...

“American Sniper” is a profoundly poignant character study on Chris Kyle, a bear of a man from Texas credited with over 160 kills as a Navy SEAL. Not to spoil anything, but it should be mentioned that...

Last year was quite a year for music. We heard established artists like Sun Kil Moon and The Antlers growing stronger, but we also caught a glimpse of new artists such as Hozier and Benjamin Booker striding...

Under a haze of pot smoke, Joaquin Phoenix wanders about Southern California as P.I. Doc Sportello trying to piece together the conundrum of a missing ex-girlfriend, a brainwashed real estate fiend and...

Hello, I’m Elana, your lovely TV columnist, and each week I’ll be writing a letter to Netflix, a dear friend of mine, about a new TV show I’ve seen that week. Pretty simple, right? Dear Netflix,...