_The diary entries you are about to read depict the experience of a 19-year-old female MU student on her first summer home from school. **Warning:** The experiences described in the following are extremely...

Nelson Mandela said, "A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest." The United States has the biggest gap between the rich and the poor compared to any other industrialized...

It may be politics as usual or it may be a relatively recent development in the function of Columbia’s city government, but we have been repeatedly disappointed this year with the failure of city leaders...

A few days ago, I stumbled upon the ["Deport the Statue" video](http://deportthestatue.us/) created by Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, an organization created to raise awareness about...

The humidity in the District of Columbia triumphs any I've experienced before. The muggy, nasty air almost always accompanies me on my walk to work like a friend I don't really want around and leaves only...

In the past few days, we have all seen American media coverage of the current political state, or lack thereof, in Egypt. However, the media might be making the situation seem a little misguided or confusing...

In the United States, the only commodity that has outpaced inflation is education. A bachelor’s degree is now becoming mandatory even for menial jobs. It often leads students into low-paying jobs and...

With the LGBTQ community shattering quite a few glass ceilings lately, be it Jason Collins or Robbie Rogers, it’s high time the straight populace does something that it isn’t used to doing – checking...

Dating is complicated. College is a time to experiment, meet new people and potentially find that person you can see spending the rest of your life with. But let me tell ya, the path isn’t a bed of roses....

University Bookstore, which has been operating under that name and serving as an essential academic provider for MU students since 1899, announced its rebranding as The Mizzou Store last week. The name...

If you’ve been following the gun control debate during the past few months, there’s a good chance you’ve seen the thought-provoking ads put out by the lobbyist organization Moms Demand Action for...

The summer before I moved here to start my freshman year, I did a Google search to find out if Columbia was a gay-friendly city. Coming from Nebraska, the “we bleed red” ideology can apply both to...