Dear Editors, Perhaps I am naïve – or out of touch – but despite my best efforts, I do not understand the student demands at the University of Missouri. From the published reports, the students...

This week, the student body will vote between funding their library facilities themselves through a proposed fee, or letting them continue to decay and fall behind in comparison to our peer universities’...

To all students at MU: I want to thank all of you who have attended the several open forums held by MSA and GPC to learn about the proposed student library fee. Having attended most of the forums, I have...

The Missouri Students Association is on an upward trend, owing much of its current momentum to the work of President Payton Head. In order to continue this trend, MSA needs another strong executive leadership...

To Jonathan Butler and the larger MU student body, I’m a University of Missouri alumni and fellow graduate student, albeit currently at a different university. I want to initially point out that I respect...

I thought my first women’s and gender studies class would be an hour and a half of complaining about men twice a week and an easy A at the end. I was wrong. I walked into the classroom where all the...

“Stop worrying so much.” This advice is both annoying and infuriating. When you are trying to achieve anything — be it winning a competition, finding a girlfriend/boyfriend, getting a job or passing...

When I was younger, I never used the word nigga. My dad told me that using this word was perpetuating the oppression we suffered from the hands of white men, and it was too close to the word nigger. When...

Sex is far too complex to be given a single definition. For instance, since I identify as a heterosexual woman, the fundamentals of sex for me are much different than for a homosexual man. However, sex...

An ideal Missouri Students Association presidential election would include candidates competing with one another to impress students. Unfortunately, it seems to us that this year's election has become...

For those of you who aren't aware, I am from Las Vegas. Now, Nevada was named the Mississippi of the West quite some time ago due to the fact that it was the only West Coast state that took Jim Crow laws...

Anywhere you go in America, it’s not hard to find an assorted array of red, white and blue paraphernalia. From T-shirts to phone cases to dog collars, there are multiple ways to show that you’re patriotic....