March 1, 2013
Posted to On Campus by Cassa Niedringhaus at 8:57 p.m. March 1, 2013 (0 comments)
Freshmen Jackson Farley and Shannon Dawson were announced the next president and vice president of the Residence Halls Association on Friday at the annual RHA Ball. The vote count totaled 737 people, Lindsay Weber, current RHA vice president and elections chair, said. Voting was open to all students currently living in residence halls. Farley thanked the other slates and the current executive board in his speech. “Thank you to everyone on exec board right now,” ...
Posted to On Campus by Jill Deutsch at 12:46 a.m. March 1, 2013 (0 comments)
The court date between the UM Board of Curators and the National Council on Teacher Quality, originally scheduled for Friday, has been postponed. Mary Schultz, the NCTQ’s attorney, postponed the court date because she fell ill, Schultz said in an email. The lawsuit will determine whether the curators must release teachers’ syllabi as a public document under the Missouri Sunshine Law or if teachers’ syllabi are considered intellectual property. The NCTQ filed the lawsuit Oct. ...
Feb. 20, 2013
Posted to On Campus by Jill Deutsch at 9:59 p.m. Feb. 20, 2013 (0 comments)
The Missouri Students Association elected Budget Committee chairwoman McKenzie Morris as Senate Speaker at full Senate on Wednesday night. Morris won with 86 percent of the total vote. Morris ran against MSA senators David Wettroth, Matt Kalish and Gabby Rodriguez. Morris won with 43 out of 50 votes. Kalish received 5 votes, Rodriguez received 2 votes and Wettroth received 0 votes. Morris will take over for Senate Speaker Jake Sloan on March 6. Morris said ...
Feb. 18, 2013
Posted to On Campus by Nassim Benchaabane at 5:48 p.m. Feb. 18, 2013 (0 comments)
Correction: The original version of this blog post attributed the survey and proposal to the MU Faculty Council. The proposal did not originate with the council, nor did they write or help disseminate the survey. The MIssouri Students Association is considering whether or not to pursue a proposal to alter the MU academic schedule for future fall semesters. The proposal suggests shortening the week-long break students receive for the Thanksgiving holiday to three days and ...
Feb. 17, 2013
Posted to On Campus by Nassim Benchaabane at 4:13 p.m. Feb. 17, 2013 (2 comments)
MU students joined the "Forward on Climate" protest in Washington D.C. on Sunday to urge President Barack Obama to oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Protesters opposing the pipeline, which would distribute crude oil from Canada to several states in the U.S., argue the pipeline might cause environmental damage by causing oil spills in sensitive areas and emitting greenhouse gases in the Canadian tar sands where the petroleum is being extracted. The Huffington ...
Feb. 15, 2013
Posted to On Campus by Nassim Benchaabane at 5:19 p.m. Feb. 15, 2013 (1 comments)
In a letter sent to MU College of Education faculty and staff, Dean Daniel Clay said he decided not to fill the position of division executive director at this time, The Columbia Missourian reported Friday morning. The possible hiring of one of the candidates considered for the position, Larry James, was the subject of protests due to his connection to the abusive interrogations at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons. Matthew Burns, of the University ...
Feb. 11, 2013
Posted to On Campus by Cassa Niedringhaus at 6:54 p.m. Feb. 11, 2013 (0 comments)
Missouri Students Association President Nick Droege spoke at the Capitol on Feb. 5. He spoke to the House Appropriations Committee on Infrastructure and Job Creation, which was created by Minority Caucus Vice Chairman, Rep. Chris Kelly, R-District 24. The committee was created specifically to address House Joint Resolution 14, a bill that would authorize the state of Missouri to borrow about $900 million for anything laid out in the text of the bill, said Ben ...
Feb. 6, 2013
Posted to On Campus by Jill Deutsch at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 6, 2013 (0 comments)
The Missouri Students Association full Senate meeting featured no legislation. MSA President Nick Droege presented 18 project ideas to the Senate. Droege and his cabinet compiled these ideas after their recent trip to the SEC Exchange. “The reason we’re listing these projects off is not because we want to tell you what we have in the works, it’s because we trust you to get this stuff done,” Vice President Zach Beattie said. “We know we ...
Jan. 27, 2013
Posted to On Campus by Nassim Benchaabane at 7:05 p.m. Jan. 27, 2013 (0 comments)
A Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial replica statue will be unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Richard Wallace atrium in Ellis Library on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The event, hosted by the MU Chancellor's Diversity Initiative and the University of Missouri LIbraries, will take place from 2-3:30p.m. and is open to the public, according to a MU News Bureau press release. MU alum Ty Christian, a 1997 graduate, will present the statue to MU Ellis LIbrary, ...
Dec. 28, 2012
Posted to On Campus by Nassim Benchaabane at 3:33 p.m. Dec. 28, 2012 (0 comments)
Freshman Cole Patrick, 18, of St. Joseph, Mo., died Friday morning when the 2007 Chevrolet pickup truck he was traveling in left the road and hit a tree off of U.S. Highway 169 and Cook Road, according to the St. Joseph News-Press. Patrick, who had been riding in the backseat passenger seat and had not been wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead on the scene shortly after 3 a.m. The driver of the pickup, 17-year-old ...
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