ESPN ran a pretty funny article online Tuesday about different college football programs and why they’re hated by other teams.
MU and the University of Kansas, two schools that might have been overlooked in an article this time last year, have put their programs on the map and were mentioned in the article. ESPN reporter Mark [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Football season is coming, so get ready to hate!
Posted in 32974, tagged college football, Columbia Missourian, hate, Kansas Jayhawks, Michael Sewall, Missouri Tigers, MU football, sports on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rain, rain, go away
Posted in 32974 on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Truman State University Index is reporting that a 24-hour period of heavy rain has caused damage to the Truman campus in Kirksville. From the story:
The National Weather Service reported a total of 8.6 inches of rain between July 24 and 25 in Kirksville. Scott Watson, a hydrologist at the weather service office in Pleasant [...]
MU students getting higher salaries after graduation
Posted in 32974, tagged Columbia Missourian, employment, Michael Sewall, MU graduates, University of Missouri on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A survey of 3,000 MU graduates, who graduated in the 2006-2007 academic year, shows that they are finding more jobs, making more money and staying at a higher rate in Missouri to work.
The numbers from the survey weren’t too significantly increased, but still pleasing to administrators.
“It is encouraging to see that so many students are [...]
Sustain Mizzou announces new class option
Posted in 32974, tagged Columbia Missourian, environmental studies, Michael Sewall, Sustain Mizzou, sustainability, University of Missouri on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sustain Mizzou, a student organization at MU, announced that it will be leading a new class this fall that aims to promote sustainability.
The class, Environmental Studies 2150, is a 3-credit hour course and will be taught by professors Jan Weaver and Chris Starbuck and former Sustain Mizzou president Adam Saunders.
Environmental Studies 2150 is typically an [...]
McCain says he is against affirmative action
Posted in 32974, tagged affirmative action, Columbia Missourian, DREAM Act, John McCain, Michael Sewall, Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, presidential race on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sen. John McCain on Sunday came out against affirmative action during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.”
McCain said in the interview that he supported state ballot measures to end affirmative action, which is a reversal of his previous views. McCain has long opposed quotas, but hasn’t supported state ballot initiatives before. A ballot initiative in [...]
ASUM: override Blunt’s curator bill veto
Posted in 32974, tagged Associated Students of the University of Missouri, ASUM, Board of Curators, Columbia Missourian, Gov. Matt Blunt, Matt Blunt, Michael Sewall, student curator, UM system on July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Associated Students of the University of Missouri on Monday released a response to Gov. Matt Blunt’s veto of a bill that would have given the student representative to the UM System Board of Curators a vote on the board, if Missouri loses a congressional district in the 2010 census.
Here is Blunt’s reasoning for vetoing [...]
MU library to help fund For All We Call Mizzou
Posted in 32974, tagged Ellis library, For All We Call Mizzou, MU library on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who says libraries are only good for shy, glasses wearing librarians, large echoing rooms, and mounds of encyclopedias? Not here at MU!
The University of Missouri Library Campaign has now raised $8.1 million as of June 30 for the For All We Call Mizzou Campaign. They are being celebrated today in the Grand Reading Room of [...]
Textbooks, cost less books
Posted in 32974, tagged college costs, e-books, open source, textbooks, university business on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Everything about college is getting more expensive. Tuition, housing, even the burgers in the commons. But one normally hefty cost IS likely to decrease. Textbooks.
Textbooks? Yes, textbooks. Me, you, your parents…your pets…we never thought we’d see this day. But due to recent laws and programs, you may actually be able to spend less than a [...]
The little conference that could
Posted in 32974, tagged Big 12, Chase Daniel, footbal, Heisman Award, MU, tigers on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Big 12 football conference is experiencing turn around with the help of Missouri’s unexpected success, according to an Associated Press article that ran in the Missourian today.
The rather young conference, only 12 years old, is now counted among such prestigious fellows as the SEC, Big Ten and Pac-Ten.
The Big 12 has always contained powerhouse [...]
The search is on…
Posted in 32974, Faculty and Staff, tagged Columbia Missourian, Gary Forsee, Michael Sewall, Missouri University of Science and Technology, UM system, UM-Kansas City, UM-St. Louis, University of Missouri on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…for a new University of Missouri System Vice President for Academic Affairs.
The position was vacated in August 2007 when Stephen Lehmkuhle, and Steve Graham currently fills the interim chair. UM System President Gary Forsee announced on Monday the search committee for the new vice president:
· Thomas George: search committee chairman; chancellor and professor of chemistry [...]
