Monks at Assumption Abbey in Ava, Mo., fill their lives with quiet prayer, studies and fruitcake. Though the Trappist monks spend much of their time in religious activities and contemplative thought,...

The Missouri Students Association Senate is considering a new piece of legislation designed to set a legislative platform for the 2013 school year. The legislation was tabled at the last full Senate meeting,...

The last time you got a text that read, “Hey, we’re throwing a party, and by the way, there will be singing and playing instruments at it," it was probably from your wanna-be musician friends who interpret...

The MU Law School cut entering class sizes from 150 to 135 students for the fall 2011 school year, according to the _Transcript_, a biannual magazine for law school alumni. A huge factor to the cuts is...

Ray Sanders says Columbia is full of musical gems. [RVS](http://thervsmusic.com/) may just be one of them. Sanders, aka local hip-hop artist RVS, says his musical roots reach back to his elementary school...

Twenty minutes south of campus, in Ashland, Mo., the MOFLUX project literally towers above the deciduous forest. Delicate instruments are perched 106 feet in the air, constantly collecting data, looking...

Local band [Coward](http://cowardband.tumblr.com/) is anything but fearful. In fact, fearless might be a better term for the group. Five years ago, the members of Coward were all part of a different band...

It's been three years since R&B artist Alicia Keys has released any new music, but the wait is finally over. Since her last album, _The Element of Freedom_, released in 2009, Keys has gotten married, had...

The Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center is currently sponsoring a two-week White Ribbon Campaign on MU’s campus in an effort to include men in the initiative to end violence against women. According...