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Mar 20th, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: Community Features, Features
Fair City News is a tabloid newspaper that pokes fun at local events through fake news articles.
Tags: Chad Harris, Fair City News, farce, newspaper, satire, Springfield Posted in Community Features, Features |
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Mar 20th, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: Campus Events, Featured Articles, News, Top Story
Featuring a live orchestra, five singers, and 10 dancers, this year’s Spring Dance Concert should provide an engaging and fun experience for the audience.
The performance, titled Fault Lines, features student and faculty performers and will be held March 25-28 at Coger Theatre located in Craig Hall.
Tags: A Divine Majority, Amy Mchnick, Bertolt Brecht, Coger Theatre, Cynthia Winstead, Darryl Kent Clark, Emily Brown, Fault Lines, Kurt Weill, Matthew Wilson, Missouri State, MSU, performance, Random Acts of Joy, Renee Simmons, Ruth Barnes, Sara Brummel, Spring Dance Concert, The Seven Deadly Sins, Theatre and Dance Department, Tsiganes Posted in Campus Events, Featured Articles, News, Top Story |
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Mar 1st, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: Columns, Opinions
With the emergence and rapid growth of digital media distribution, the days of going to the store to rent or buy a movie (or book, music album, or video game) are numbered.
Tags: bankruptcy, blockbuster, Blu-Ray, closing, DVD, media, movie gallery, SACD Posted in Columns, Opinions |
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Mar 1st, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: Editorials, Featured Articles, Opinions
We are about to face major budget cuts, yet we are still chugging along about to build a superfluous facility that the majority of students will probably never use and which will cost untold amounts in the future to properly staff and maintain.
Tags: budget cuts, construction, Editorial, higher education, lazy river, McDonald Arena, Missouri, Missouri State, MSU, University Recreation Center Posted in Editorials, Featured Articles, Opinions |
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Mar 1st, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: Features, News Feature
by Evan Pennington RecycleMania is running wild on the Missouri State campus. Students better say their prayers, take their vitamins, and separate their glass from plastics if Missouri State is to have any chance of taking home the coveted RecycleMania trophy, along with a year’s worth of bragging rights. The contest, which ends Mar. 27, [...]
Tags: green, Jennifer Cox, Missouri State, MSU, RecycleMania, recycling, Residence Life, trash Posted in Features, News Feature |
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Feb 5th, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: Editorials, Opinions
The technology exists now to do away with costly textbooks altogether. Instead, the university could prompt professors to create free e-textbooks using wiki technology to work collaboratively.
Tags: cost, e-textbooks, Editorial, education, expense, Missouri State University, MSU, prices, textbooks, texts, Wiki, wikitexts Posted in Editorials, Opinions |
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Feb 5th, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: Campus Events, Featured Articles, News
Students volunteered their help to many local non-profit and service groups present at the 9th Annual Community Volunteer Fair held on Jan. 27 in Plaster Student Union.
Tags: Alzheimer's Association, American Heart Association, CASL, Citizenship and Service-Learning, Community Volunteer Fair, Heart Walk, Karl Schmidt, Lori Street, Ozarks Public Television, PBS, Plaster Student Union, Tiffany Warriner, volunteer Posted in Campus Events, Featured Articles, News |
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Feb 5th, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: Campus Group, Featured Articles, Features
SMASH – Students of Missouri State Against Smoking Hazards – hopes to extinguish cigarettes on campus to protect student health.
Tags: anti-smoking, Ozark Public Health Institute, Sarah Durnbaugh, second-hand smoke, SMASH, smoking, surgeon general, tobacco Posted in Campus Group, Featured Articles, Features |
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Jan 7th, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: National Sports, Sports, Sports Commentary
by Zach Becker Bang. You’re dead. Pointing at his teammates with his hand in the shape of a gun, Washington Wizards’ guard Gilbert Arenas smiled and laughed as cameras flashed before putting up 19 points in a win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday. With potential gun charges looming against Arenas, though, NBA Commissioner David [...]
Tags: basketball, David Stern, Gilbert Arenas, NBA, suspension, Washington D.C., Washington Wizards Posted in National Sports, Sports, Sports Commentary |
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Dec 22nd, 2009 |
By Zach |
Category: Blogs, Entertainment, Movie Reviews, Opinions, TV Reviews, Top Story
by Zach Becker I read a blog post written by one of my relatives, Nels Lindahl, in which he rated his favorite Star Trek iterations, including both television and movies. As a Trekkie myself, I was surprised by his rankings of the various Star Trek endeavors, specifically how low DS9 and First Contact rated on [...]
Tags: Bones, borg, Cochrane, Deep Space Nine, Dominion, DS9, Enterprise, ethics, films, First Contact, Gene Roddenberry, Generations, Insurrection, Kirk, Klingons, McCoy, moral, Nemesis, Picard, prequel, reboot, Riker, Sisko, Spock, Star Trek, television, The Final Frontier, The Motion Picture, The Next Generation, The Original Series, The Search for Spock, The Undiscovered Country, TNG, TOS, Troi, villains, Voyager, war, Worf, Wrath of Khan Posted in Blogs, Entertainment, Movie Reviews, Opinions, TV Reviews, Top Story |
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