I came out in the woods, but really it was in a whisper. It was dark, and I sat on a bridge surrounded by my closest friends. My voice shook when I told them, and when I was done, I was engulfed in a...

Just because mental disorders are becoming less stigmatized and more accepted as an actual disease in our society doesn’t mean it is easy to admit you have one. And just because you’ve revealed that...

As the executive director of Athlete Ally and an activist focused on ending homophobia and transphobia in sports, I have been encouraged by all the progress in athletics in the last few years. Jason Collins,...

Music is not subjective. That phrase, those four words, have caused me so much trouble over the course of my music analysis conversations. For making this claim, I’ve been called a hater, an idiot...

"University officials have a moral responsibility to take action on University Village Apartments" Columbia lost a true hero on the morning of Feb. 22, 2014, when a walkway collapsed at University Village...

I was out driving late one night last semester when I wrecked into a memory. I was the only car in sight on College Avenue that fall night, so nobody had to see this but me. I pulled up to the light...

Here at MU, we respect diversity, from race and ethnicity to sexual orientation and gender identification. As proven at Saturday’s “Stand for Sam” counterprotest, we can be One Mizzou. Unfortunately,...

To the students of the University of Missouri, Congratulations to those who utilized and supported a nonconfrontational method to block out a Westboro Baptist Church protest. As a member of the Patriot...

It’s not a secret that with the public coming out of Mizzou defensive end Michael Sam, the topic of LGBTQ rights has been on, in and around the minds of most, if not all, MU students. I’m not going...

I was exposed to an abstinence-only sex education ten years ago when I was in eighth grade. My high school was among many that opted to take advantage of federal and state funded sex education programs,...

Over the last seven months, the parents, students and residents of Aspen Heights-Columbia has formed a Facebook social media community page, called Aspen Heights-Columbia Parents and Tenants’ Forum. We...

“Death Penalty 4 Fags,” “God H8’s Fags” and “Fag Enablers,” complete with the Mizzou logo on it, were just some of the hateful signs that the Westboro Baptist Church held up Saturday as it...