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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,”...

Budget cuts cause tutoring changes at Student Success Center

Thomas Oide • September 24, 2015

When the 2015 fiscal year began July 1, various departments across MU’s campus received a two percent decrease in operating funds. One of those departments was the Student Success Center, and those...

Student leaders speak out on AAU survey

Morgan Magid • September 23, 2015

New results from a campus climate survey from the Association of American Universities concerning sexual assault have prompted a strong response from many MU student leaders. The [Campus Climate Sexual...

Not Anymore training reveals need for education

Lily Oppenheimer • September 17, 2015

Only 41 percent of MU freshmen who took the MU Title IX Office’s Not Anymore sexual violence prevention survey correctly answered a series of questions regarding defining consent. “Unfortunately,...

Chancellor Loftin addresses campus climate

Thomas Oide • September 17, 2015

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin released [a statement](http://chancellor.missouri.edu/news/please-join-me-in-standing-against-acts-of-bias-and-discrimination/) Sept. 17 denouncing hatred and discrimination...

MU Title IX office releases annual report

Taylor Blatchford, Katie Pohlman • September 17, 2015

There were 332 reports of sex discrimination to the Title IX Office during the 2014-15 academic year, according to an annual report released by the office Thursday. The report detailed the different types...

MU grad student parents voice their opinions on the question of child care

Emily O’Connor • September 17, 2015

A graduate student parent at MU pays about one-third of their income solely in child care fees. The high cost of childcare in Columbia has taken a toll on MU graduate student parents. A plea for affordable...

MU graduate donates to MU libraries and the School of Health Professions

Brian Consiglio • September 17, 2015

New York Times best-selling author William Trogdon, also known as William Least Heat-Moon, donated $1.5 million to the MU Libraries and $100,000 to the School of Health Professions. Chancellor R. Bowen...