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RSVP Center promotes stalking awareness

Tony Puricelli • January 21, 2011

President Barack Obama declared January to be National Stalking Awareness Month, according to a news release from the White House. The Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center added stalking...

Columbia’s galleries counter the college town culture

John Gehringer • January 21, 2011

Downtown Columbia offers a wide assortment of entertainment opportunities for a wide variety of patrons. While many residents are more than content to funnel out of the bars on Friday night, vomit on the...

MU makes accommodations for international students over winter break

Caitlin Kerfin • January 21, 2011

In the 2008-2009 academic year, more than 1,839 international students attended MU representing 101 different countries and 8 percent increase from the previous year. With about 1,627 international students...

Noce prepares to hand off MSA leadership to Woods

Amanda Capua • January 21, 2011

Missouri Students Association President-elect Eric Woods is in the process of transitioning into his new position as he gradually takes the job's responsibilities from MSA President Tim Noce. "The transition...

Police encourage residents to protect their property

Steve Cassidy • January 21, 2011

As students settle back into their Columbia homes, police suggest that students do a thorough inventory of their belongings and call the Columbia Police Department if they notice anything missing. Over...

MU pledges to eliminate carbon emissions by 20 percent

Allison Prang • January 21, 2011

MU officials submitted the university's climate action plan to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment last week, pledging MU’s next goal to eliminate its carbon emissions...

MSA further delays constitutional convention

Kelly Olejnik • January 21, 2011

The Missouri Students Association has yet to hold its constitutional convention that was expected to happen this past semester, before MU’s winter recess. The convention will happen between March and...

MSA strives to ‘stay in touch’ with students

Kelly Olejnik • January 21, 2011

The Missouri Students Association will aim to make itself more visible to students through a project called MSA Outreach. “We are trying to make sure we are staying in touch with students,” Multicultural...

Council votes to enforce three tenants rule in rental properties

Nichole Ballard • January 19, 2011

The Columbia City Council voted 5-2 on Tuesday to amend the city code regarding rental properties by inspecting properties more frequently and requiring compliance certificates when a property changes...

Keeping the dream alive

Ethan Colbert • January 19, 2011

A candlelit celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday attracted nearly 200 Columbia community members to St. Luke’s United Methodist Church Monday evening. With representatives from 14 different...

Ricky Gervais wages war on Hollywood

Dylan Chapman • January 19, 2011

When the stars of Hollywood meticulously dressed in designer gowns and tuxedos, draped themselves in borrowed diamonds and stepped lightly into their limos to go to the 68th Golden Globe Awards ceremony,...

Ring in the new year with the best Columbia has to offer

Kari Paul • January 19, 2011

As we turn the corner into the last half of our academic year, we have a long stretch of break-free, uninterrupted winter slump to make it through. A lot of upperclassmen think they’ve seen and done...