On Friday — or Thursday night, if you go to movie premieres the day before like I do — “Divergent” comes out in theaters. I have been waiting for this moment since they played the trailer during...

The Wellness Resource Center has hosted its Safe Spring Break fair for more than 20 years, promoting safety as students travel during break. Acknowledging that most students go home — rather than to...

If you fell asleep during English class reading “Pride & Prejudice,” don’t disregard the fact that it’s still a pretty good story. And if you’ve been following the Creative Arts Emmy Awards over...

Remember in elementary school when an anonymous note would end up in your desk or binder from a secret admirer? (Yeah, me neither.) But it did happen on rare occasion to someone, I’m sure. Cheesy poems...

I’ve never been a fan of car movies. I never felt compelled to see any of the “Fast & Furious” movies — I only saw “Fast & Furious 6” because it was the second movie at the drive-in, and I...

The idea of a 16-year-old, a Yale graduate and a professional biochemist all coming together to discuss various themes of entrepreneurship and life seems ludicrous to nearly anyone — except for Matt...

Collegiate improv teams from around the country gathered at the 2014 CoMotion, a festival that celebrates improvisational comedy. The six collegiate teams — Paperback Rhino from the University of Iowa,...

MUggles For Change is MU’s new chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance, an international organization that uses “nerdy mediums” to raise awareness for a variety of social issues. MUggles For Change...

MU Campus Facilities will hold the 2014 Master Plan and Climate Action Plan open forum to present the updates made to each plan. The forum — which will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. March 17,...

Elizabeth Smart remembered sitting on an overturned bucket, thinking how long of a time 30 years would be. She figured 30 years would be long enough to outlive her kidnapper and maybe one day return to...

MU alumnus Struby Struble, Ann Friedman and MU journalism professor Mary Kay Blakely have accomplished a lot in their lives. Struble, the current LGBTQ Resource Center coordinator, taught English in...

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin named UM System Vice President Hank Foley as the new senior vice chancellor for research and graduate studies during Faculty Council’s March 13 meeting. Leona Rubin, who is...