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Student parents voice concerns about Student Parent Center’s future

Crystal Duan • March 18, 2014

When MU announced it would demolish the Student Parent Center along with the University Village student apartment complex, student parents were indignant about the uncertainty of the day care’s future. A...

Columbia band We Live In Public will play at Wakarusa

Maya Garnaat • March 18, 2014

We Live In Public is a local band made up of five of the chillest dudes in Columbia. They sat down with MOVE to discuss their band and their opinion of Columbia’s local music scene. **[MOVE]:** When...

CoMotion brings collegiate and professional improvisers together

Covey Eonyak Son • March 17, 2014

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 brings social awareness to MU

Ellie Papadakis • March 17, 2014

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...

Campus Facilities will present updates to MU future plans

Covey Eonyak Son • March 15, 2014

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,...

Delta Gamma lectureship hosts Elizabeth Smart at Jesse Auditorium

Tracy Cook • March 15, 2014

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...

Panel discusses feminism in journalism and everyday society

Jacqueline LeBlanc • March 15, 2014

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...

Faculty Council hears vice chancellor appointments

Crystal Duan • March 14, 2014

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...

Elizabeth Smart talks abuse education at Friday press conference

Claudia Guthrie • March 14, 2014

Before speaking in front of a crowd in Jesse Auditorium, activist Elizabeth Smart held a press conference where she spoke about the importance of preventing sexual abuse, domestic violence and kidnapping. When...

MU to close and demolish University Village, Student Parent Center

Kevin Graeler • March 13, 2014

Eighteen days following the fatal building collapse at University Village, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced that the University Village apartments and the Student Parent Center will be closing by June...

Task force continues community policing discussion

Jackie Olson • March 13, 2014

The Mayor’s Task Force on Community Violence spent the majority of its meeting time Wednesday discussing the idea of community policing in Columbia, carrying over the debate from its Feb. 26 meeting. Community...

Album review: September Girls’s “Cursing the Sea”

MacKenzie Reagan • March 13, 2014

After receiving generally positive reviews in their native Ireland, noise-pop group September Girls’ debut album is sure to make waves this side of the Atlantic. Still underground enough to be lumped...