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Fall’s best shows revealed

Kelly Scanlon • October 14, 2011

We’re well into the new TV season now, which of course means that it’s time for your complimentary list of the top five best new series. And don’t say you’re too busy stressing out over who next...

Downtown restaurants make special plans for centennial Homecoming weekend

Daniel Shapiro • October 14, 2011

Columbia restaurants and bars have decided to spice up their traditional weekend plans for the centennial MU Homecoming celebration. Locations such as Shakespeare’s Pizza, Tropical Liqeurs and Harpo’s...

Occupy Wall Street localizes movement to Speakers Circle

Matthew Flores • October 14, 2011

MU students taking part in Occupy Mizzou gathered in Speakers Circle and raised homemade signs, wielded hula-hoops and even played an African drum to voice their solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Occupy...

Comedy, Drama atop veteran pyramid of TV sitcoms

Bradley Babendir • October 14, 2011

**"How I Met Your Mother" (Mondays, 7 p.m. on CBS)** This show is everything an archetypical sitcom should be, but the characters feel like they were cultivated in a much more particular type of way....

Police Blotter

Turner Johnson • October 14, 2011

1. CPD arrests two after money dispute gets out of hand Two men were arrested Tuesday night after getting into a money dispute. Columbia Police Department officers were dispatched at 10:18 p.m. Tuesday...

New self-guided audio tour creates cellphone visits to MU

Cait Campbell • October 14, 2011

For MU visitors during Homecoming week, a tour of the historical sites on campus is now only a cellphone call away. A collaborative project by the MU Pride of Place Campus Heritage Network, the new audio...

MeP3: When iPods are more than just iPods

Brandon Foster • October 14, 2011

It’s been about a week since Apple founder Steve Jobs died, and while there is some debate as to how good a guy ol’ Steve actually was, there's an undeniable consensus that this man had a tremendous...

‘Father of Homecoming’ represented by family members this weekend

Hunter Woodall • October 14, 2011

When Chester Brewer asked alumni to come back to MU in 1911 for the first Homecoming celebration, he worried there wouldn’t be enough room for all the alumni coming to town. He canvassed around Columbia,...

Coal Free Mizzou creates flash mob

Lizzie Johnson • October 14, 2011

Coal Free Mizzou swarmed Lowry Mall at exactly 12:21 p.m. Thursday afternoon to the phrase, “Let’s get ready to rumble,” in a surprise flash mob. Clothed in matching yellow “Beyond Coal” T-shirts,...

It’s time to show up Homecoming

Alex Smith • October 14, 2011

Concerning this week’s hullabaloo surrounding the 100th anniversary of Homecoming at the University of Missouri, I have two words: “So what?” This week was pumped up as an epic centennial celebration...

Curator Don Downing recalls being crowned first Homecoming King

Tucker Moore • October 14, 2011

While students across campus are looking forward to the centennial Homecoming celebration, UM System Board of Curators member Don Downing is instead taken back 44 years to when he was nominated as MU’s...

MSA Senate approves new classroom rights resolution for students

Hunter Woodall • October 14, 2011

In response to the Faculty Council reviewing the statement on academic freedom given by the UM System, the Missouri Students Association passed a resolution during its full Senate meeting earlier this...