“Sí se puede” isn’t just the famous line from a Disney Channel original movie; it means so much more. It’s a motto by which Mexico has been striving to achieve for the past couple decades. The...

As a columnist, I get paid to share my opinions on politics. However, I'll be the first one to admit that sometimes people should keep their opinions to themselves. Such was the case on Sunday night,...

When my little brother was four years old, he and my dad had a nightly routine where they would do some father-son bonding in front of the TV right before bedtime. One night, likely sometime in December,...

I checked my email this morning (Dec. 5) to find a an email from the MSA about "Speak[ing] Up for a Safer Mizzou" in light of the recent Dixon rape accusations. While I am completely behind treating sexual...

What is the purpose of a student government, acting in the name of a body of students, if it is unwilling to stand up for its students? We have been lucky in recent years. Our representatives in the Missouri...

This year, the Missouri Students Association has given students a new option for getting around campus. The Mizzou Bike Share program offers bicycle rental for no more than 24 hours for students to ride...

We’re students, not economists, but if you had to choose, do you think our global economy should serve as an instrument for short-term profit or one for long-term prosperity? Hopefully most of us would...

Does anyone remember when Rush Limbaugh labeled Sandra Fluke a slut? Does anyone remember when five males and zero females walked into the Republican hearing on birth control one month later? In April,...

Let’s admit it. Where would we be without Wikipedia? Known as “the lifesaver” in terms of writing paper and “unscholarly” when referenced by professors, it is a universally viewed website among...

Military spending is perhaps one of the most sacred institutions of the American federal government. Having more than doubled during the past decade with two wars and increased counterterrorism and security...

Anyone who has ever walked across thin ice can attest to how fragile it is, and how terrifying watching the ice splinter around your feet as you walk across can be, because everyone knows that it could...

We like to think we attend a school that is conscious, empathetic and welcoming to all. We like to imagine ourselves in the company of students who see the world in true color, who stand up when they see...