Even though National Coming Out Day was Oct. 11, the MU community celebrates all week long. This year, the 11th was a Saturday, so Coming Out week was celebrated October 13-18. On Tuesday, the LGBTQ Resource...

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Oct. 6 he will not appeal Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Dale Youngs’ Oct. 3 ruling on same-sex marriage. Youngs ruled in _Barrier v. Vasterling_...

Due to a shortage of law enforcement officers, the Columbia Police Department has had to implement a “triage system” in order to manage and respond to non-emergency calls. This system gauges the level...

[Kanakuk Kamps](http://kanakuk.com/), a Christian summer-camp company that has recruited workers from MU for years, returned to campus Oct. 8 and 9 to attract students for upcoming summer sessions. Employees...

Human rights activist Albie Sachs opened with a joke. “Would you say your court in South Africa is an activist court?” Sachs said, recounting a question an old friend of his asked him. Sachs replied,...

As students walked through the MU Student Center last Thursday, Oct. 9, they encountered a wall defaced with phrases MU students wished to banish from their campus. Derogatory terms such as “slut,”...

Columbia City Council voted Oct. 6 to give MU the rights to extend its smoking ban to certain city streets on campus. This is the next step in a timeline designed to eliminate smoking on campus. In...

In 2007, professor Anthony Glise began the classical guitar program in the MU School of Music. Seven years later, he’s taking the program to Chartres, France, in the school’s first faculty-led international...

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a column that talked about grammar and communication online. In it, I briefly mentioned GIFs as the Internet’s favorite form of visual communication — or, at least, my favorite...

It’s true: Seoul Taco will soon be joining the ranks of Columbia’s beloved downtown. The Korean-Mexican food-truck-turned-restaurant is slated to open downtown sometime before the spring semester. Established...