It doesn’t take a few pints of Guinness for the Irish to be utterly incomprehensible. I hear conversations on the street that I know are in English, but between the rapid-fire muttering and lilting pitch,...

As you are well aware, the student visa program, officially known as the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), is a centerpiece of our nation's legal immigration system. This program provides America...

For any student who’s ever held a job, the words "minimum wage" probably sound familiar. Obviously, most young workers start out earning this base salary. In Missouri, the minimum wage is $7.25 - identical...

Since we realize we’ve beaten discussion on the proposal for a voting student curator to a pulp, we’ll only briefly touch on it here. An amendment to House Bill 174, which created the voting student...

President Barack Obama met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on March 2 and March 3 to discuss the relations between the two countries. In their fifth meeting, the two presidents discussed the recent...

You know what would be a good idea? If we spent the night under a tarp with people we hate and then we can all sleep in body bags, fermenting in each other's odor, providing feast for infectious insects...

Tuesday's string of sexual assaults across Columbia and the rape reported outside Laws residence hall have invoked both anger and fear from the student body, but this also provides a new time for discussion...

One of the most important parts of my job is visiting with and hearing from Missourians across the state. That's why I love coming home to Missouri every weekend, and it's why I enjoyed a recent opportunity...

Sleep studies take place all the time. Pharmaceutical companies, universities, the military and just about every important institution has put in time and money to figure out how people best recharge their...

Missouri State Sen. Rob Mayer, R-25, has dug up an old issue he says was a shallow grave. According to him, Missouri has lost businesses to bordering states, such as Arkansas and Tennessee, for not being...

Right to work laws are the biggest misnomer in this nation's history of naming things. What are they? You may be aware of the labor strife going on in Wisconsin, where bag Republican Gov. Scott Walker...

I am 6-feet, 2-inches tall, 74 inches if you think that way, 188 cm if you're not an American, 160 pounds if I've actually eaten much that day, 32-inch waist if you care, size 13 shoe and incalculably...