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Southeast Missouri still feels levee explosion impact six months later

Abigail Geiger • November 11, 2011

Southeastern Missouri is still feeling the effects of the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ controversial breach of the Birds Point-New Madrid levee six months ago. Late last spring, the Army Corps...

BEC announces election results after investigation

Hunter Woodall • November 11, 2011

Minutes before the results of the Missouri Students Association presidential election were to be made public Wednesday night, the Board of Elections Commissioners made the decision to postpone announcing...

City Hall art project in final stages

Lizzie Johnson • November 11, 2011

The public art project initiated by Columbia City Hall in 2007 is nearing an end, as two artists will be selected toward the end of the year. They will be commissioned to design pieces of artwork for the...

Residents accuse police of racial bias in civil rights suit

Kay Yeung • November 11, 2011

Three police officers pointed guns at two men sitting in their car listening to music while in possession of alcohol, and arrested them on charges of suspicious behavior and failure to follow verbal command. The...

Highway Patrol sweeps awards in quality and production

Amanda Svoboda • November 11, 2011

The Missouri State Highway Patrol won two awards in Efficiency/Process Improvement and Technology in Government categories of the 2011 Governor’s Awards for Quality and Production. Two initiative projects,...

MU hosts Transgender Awareness Program

Nassim Benchaabane • November 11, 2011

Transgender Awareness, a series of events meant to raise awareness of the transgender community on campus and educate students, began Tuesday with the rocking vocals of Lucas Silveira of The Cliks. Silveira...

Kansas rivalry seem to be lost in the SEC shuffle

Brandon Grammer • November 11, 2011

MU's impending switch to the Southeastern Conference is old news by now. The highly anticipated conference switch has been the focal point of many ESPN segments for months, and people are now anticipating...

Mizzou Climate: transgender at MU

Nassim Benchaabane • November 11, 2011

The transgender community at MU is larger than most would expect, said LGBTQ Resource Center Coordinator Struby Struble. “It ranges from students to faculty,” she said. “We interact with transgender...

Batman finally gets his ideal game

Robert Mecchi • November 11, 2011

For a pop culture icon that’s seen success in a multitude of media forms, Batman’s history with video games has been relatively hit or miss (with an emphasis on the miss). In fact, until 2009 saw the...

New MU email upgrade gives students more memory

Tucker Moore • November 11, 2011

In order to improve functionality, the Division of Information Technology is upgrading the campus’s email system in the next few weeks. MU currently uses the 2007 version of Microsoft Exchange and is...

Eleven wishes for music in 2012

Alex Smith • November 11, 2011

**1. I wish the Grammy’s would get it together.** The main difference between the Oscars (a good awards show) and the Grammys (a bad awards show) is that most nominees in the former make sense, and...

Columbia Imagined enters second phase

Katie Yaeger • November 11, 2011

The City of Columbia will hold ward-based public meetings during the next two months to help make ideas outlined in Columbia Imagined, the city's new comprehensive plan, become realities. These meetings,...