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ResLife introduces first gender-neutral housing for fall 2015

Esther Seawell • January 28, 2015

Residential Life is introducing the first ever gender-neutral housing option at MU. Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor said four gender-neutral suites will be available on the first floor of College...

Berkley Hudson brings life’s work to race relations committee

Taylor Blatchford, Quinn Malloy • January 28, 2015

The walls of Berkley Hudson’s office are cluttered with photographs. Some of them capture joyous occasions — weddings, birthdays, anniversaries — but most of them don’t. Most of them are candid:...

ASUM continues lobbying legislators for student curator vote

Taylor Blatchford • January 28, 2015

Student leaders and Missouri lawmakers are in talks to introduce a new bill that would place a voting student member in university leadership this legislative session. Missouri Students Association President...

Faculty Council discuss race relations, trouble rolling out Title IX training

Quinn Malloy • January 23, 2015

Faculty Council discussed race relations and issues with the current Title IX faculty training program during its first meeting of the spring semester Thursday. ####Race relations Faculty Council Chairman...

Webber appointed ranking member of Higher Education Appropriations Committee

Taylor Blatchford • January 22, 2015

State Rep. Stephen Webber, D-Columbia, announced Monday he was appointed the ranking member of the [Higher Education Appropriations Committee](http://www.house.mo.gov/CommitteeIndividual.aspx?com=1257&year=2015&code=R)...

Spain-Johanson report targets Missouri tuition

Taylor Blatchford • January 21, 2015

Missouri legislators are making higher education a lower funding priority and causing students to contribute more to increasingly expensive tuition, based on recent research by an MU administrator and...

ProtoCall enables after-hours counseling, crisis intervention

Alana Saad • January 21, 2015

The MU Counseling Center launched a new after-hours crisis hotline Tuesday to make assistance available to students 24 hours a day. The center is contracting with ProtoCall, a company that specializes...

Faculty Council spring agenda eyes diversity, Title IX, raises

Quinn Malloy • January 21, 2015

Faculty Council will kick off the spring semester at its first public meeting of the year Thursday. Council members said they plan to continue discussions on a myriad of issues impacting faculty and students...

Steines named MU Health CFO

Marilyn Haigh • January 16, 2015

MU Health Care and School of Medicine named Brian Steines as the new chief financial officer Thursday. As CFO, Steines will be responsible for MU Health System’s financial management, financial planning...

Curators discuss supplemental fee increases

Covey Eonyak Son • January 15, 2015

MU will be seeking several supplemental fee increases when the UM System Board of Curators convenes in February. UM System President Tim Wolfe told the board during a special session Thursday that the...

Nixon appoints two new members to Board of Curators

Taylor Blatchford • January 3, 2015

Gov. Jay Nixon appointed two new members to the UM System Board of Curators on Friday. The appointees, Maurice Graham (D-Clayton) and Phillip Snowden (D-Kansas City), were tapped to replace [outgoing...

‘Bitcoin Baron’ claims credit for City of Columbia, KOMU DDoS attacks

Carlie Procell • December 29, 2014

An individual is taking credit for the distributed denial of service attacks on the websites of the City of Columbia and KOMU-8 on Friday. KOMU posted about the attack on its [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/komu8/posts/10152888535007557)...