The Missouri Students Association elections officially got underway Monday night, and with it came the implementation of a slew of bylaw changes. Board of Elections Commissioners Chairman Tyler Ricketts...

We are running out of time — greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere due to our unprecedented burning of fossil fuels, [securing global warming in the short term](http://www.edf.org/climate/global-warming-facts)...

J. Christopher Stevens was killed on Sept. 11, 2012. A high-ranking ambassador to Libya, he was working in the main consulate building when it came under attack by Muslim protesters. The protesters stormed...

No, those are not birds that fly around Jesse Hall at night. And you are not imagining that high-pitched noise when you walk past parking garages. Oh, and just to keep things straight, this includes the...

He’s called “The Comeback Kid” for a reason: Bill Clinton has made another comeback. After a riveting speech at the Democratic National Convention, Clinton has been the talk of the political establishment....

Fellow students, I want to first express my deep concern over the series of violent and criminal incidents on our campus over the past few weeks. Through my role as student body president, I’ve been...

The Columbia Missourian just took a step away from being a resource for student journalists toward acting as a potential hindrance to job opportunities. Last week, the Columbia Missourian implemented...

In typical backward fashion, the Missouri legislature attempted to counter an invasive law, but only passed a more invasive one. The general assembly voted Wednesday to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto...

Everyone has opinions, but at what cost are they worth expressing? A U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed Tuesday [in an attack on the Benghazi consulate in Libya](http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/13/world/africa/libya-us-ambassador-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews). Reports...

Going to a big university like MU instead of a small college comes with many tradeoffs. MU gets big football games; the small college gets parking actually available on weekends. Small colleges have intimate...

Saturday marked MU’s inaugural Southeastern Conference football game, and though the media’s opinion of Tiger fans has been positive in some respects and [negative in others](http://www.redandblack.com/opinion/classless-missouri-tigers-have-no-place-in-sec/article_3d6fd828-fab5-11e1-aa74-0019bb30f31a.html),...

Earlier this week, a [meta-analysis released by Stanford University](http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1355685) concluded that organic foods are not any more nutritious than conventionally grown...