To my lovely, (maybe) devoted readers: I thought, in honor of this past weekend’s True/False Film Fest and 86th Academy Awards, that I’d pay homage to the last thing remembered from the Oscars. It’s...

The Odyssey Chamber Music Series and Missouri Contemporary Ballet have never collaborated before. Both based in Columbia, the nonprofit music organization and professional dance company hold several performances...

**Shelby Creek** _New to MU and loving every minute_ Shelby Creek just started her first semester at MU with sophomore standing and an on-campus job that offers access to the Hatch Hall kitchen and rehearsal...

It’s late February, and we all know what that means. No, not Mardi Gras. It’s time for the Oscars! Yes, it’s already time to sit back, relax and watch the three-hour award ceremony that honors the...

Michael Middleton remembers a time when walking through MU’s campus as a young black man often meant hearing racial slurs shouted by other students and dodging objects thrown from cars. This was during...

Adjusting to the Midwest was a process for Jonathan McElderry. McElderry, the director of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, was an undergraduate in Fairfax, Va., attending George Mason University,...

Cyndi Frisby is a mother and an instructor at a dance studio, but she’s also an MU professor, an author and a researcher on sex and race in the media. In 2010, Frisby got a first-hand look at how the...

When Legion of Black Collegians President Marnae Chavers was a freshman, she left her hometown, which she said, was very homogenous with a strong African American community. In search of the same on campus,...

During its Feb. 27 meeting, Faculty Council passed a resolution to amend procedures regarding resigning or rotating members, proposed by Vice Chairman Tony Lupo. The council unanimously voted in favor...

Even after former Missouri Students Association President Nick Droege [set a deadline for discussion with the Columbia Missourian in December](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2013/12/12/msa-asks-missourian-remove- paywall-students/),...