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MU Athletics and student volunteers prepare for Homecoming game waste

Marilyn Haigh • October 9, 2015

In addition to a win for MU, the Mizzou-UConn football game yielded 9,820 pounds of recycled trash. A total of 46.1 tons of waste was recycled during the 2014 football season. Tony Wirkus, director of...

Chancellor announces campus-wide diversity and inclusion training

Elizabeth Loutfi • October 8, 2015

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced the development of a diversity and inclusion training for students, faculty and staff starting in January 2016, according to a [news release](http://chancellor.missouri.edu/news/diversity-and-inclusion-training/)...

MU jolted by LBC discrimination

Lauren Wortman, Elizabeth Loutfi • October 7, 2015

Traditions Plaza filled with students and members of the Columbia community Oct. 6 for the performance of “The Mis-Educated,” a play created by the Legion of Black Collegiates and performed by members...

Vargas’ promise to return inspires MU undocumented students

Lily Oppenheimer • October 7, 2015

MU students approached microphones, their voices often shaking because of the emotional weight of revealing their undocumented status to the crowd at Jesse Auditorium. In response, American journalist...

“Racism Lives Here” organizer Reuben Faloughi looks to change race culture at MU

Thomas Oide • October 7, 2015

One only had to listen to Reuben Faloughi’s voice to understand his pain, anger and frustration. During the second “Racism Lives Here” protest, Faloughi, one of the organizers of the movement, stood...

UM Board of Curators address mental health on campus

Thomas Oide • October 4, 2015

MU has seen a 35 percent increase in requests for mental health services from 2014 to 2015. The UM System Board of Curators met Friday in Kansas City to address mental health issues facing colleges across...

MU celebrates 100-year anniversary of Ellis Library

Brian Consiglio • September 30, 2015

Ellis Library is quite possibly older than your grandpappy. The Library was around for the rise of the Internet, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. Now, it’s celebrating...

Professor Steven Watts featured in PBS documentary on Walt Disney

Emily O’Connor • September 30, 2015

History professor Steven Watts’s interest in Walt Disney began with a trip to the “Happiest Place on Earth.” “To tell you the truth, it was sort of an accident,” Watts said. This accidental...

Low reporting numbers highlighted in AAU campus climate survey

Morgan Magid • September 30, 2015

The Association of American Universities’ study on sexual assault and sexual misconduct has prompted many to compare MU’s results to other universities and has driven the conversation surrounding sexual...

Violence spurs MU freshman Razia Hutchins to start “I Am For Peace” movement in Chicago

Thomas Oide • September 30, 2015

Violence. Murder. Poverty. These are all words that are associated with the South Side of Chicago; they are realities that kids who live there must face on a daily basis. But Razia Hutchins, now an MU...

MU Health Care unanimously votes to discontinue ‘refer and follow’

Waverly Colville • September 25, 2015

The executive committee of the medical staff of MU Health Care voted unanimously to discontinue “refer and follow” as part of the MU Health Care facilities, according to a Sept. 24 MU News Bureau [release](http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2015/0924-mu-health-care-ends-refer-reviewing-other-proposed-changes-to-credentials-procedure-manual/)....

Protest reminds students, faculty that ‘Racism Lives Here’

Emily Gallion, Thomas Oide • September 25, 2015

Graduate student Danielle Walker prefaced her speech by warning those assembled that she was going to use profanity and racial slurs. “The University of Missouri does not care about its black students,”...