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In case you haven’t heard, Margaret Truman Daniel, the only child of former president and Missouri native Harry S. Truman, died on Tuesday.
A Reuters story about the life of Margaret Truman Daniel also shed some interesting light on the fiercely paternalistic nature of the former president, after whom the MU School of Public Affairs is [...]

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Not Just Another Lecture

Sitting through an hour long lecture is usually not the most exciting aspect of my day. In fact I don’t think sitting through an hour long lecture has ever excited me at all (don’t get me wrong, lectures are great and a very important aspect to University curriculums, just not exciting). Except for today.
Today Cardinal [...]

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Master of His Domain?

Late last week, I reported the developments involving a disagreement between MU and a fan blogger, Richard Lozano, who owns the domain name missouritigers.com. The university took issue primarily with Lozano’s sale of unlicensed T-shirts, but it also asked in a letter that he cease using the domain name. Originally, the angle of the story [...]

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Next week MU will hold a Chancellor’s Forum, open to the public, titled Battle of the Pentagon Papers to discuss the Pentagon Papers and relevant issues related to them.
It is the latest in a series of forums on global issues sponsored by the Chancellor’s Office and the MU Difficult Dialogues Program which is funded by [...]

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