Features
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, pits the recycling [...]
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 msuunder |
Category: Campus Events, Features, Personal Features
By Evan Pennington
Rebels kidnapped the group of children who were innocently playing soccer, blindfolded them, and cut a deep gash in their wrists, rubbing a mixture of gunpowder and cocaine into the wound to induce hysteria.
Then, rebel soldiers handed the still-blindfolded five-year-old Michel Chikwanine an AK-47 assault rifle and ordered him to fire. Chikwanine obeyed [...]
Tags: Carrington Auditorium, child soldier, Democratic Republic of Congo, Free the Children, Me to We, Michel Chikwanine, peace Posted in Campus Events, Features, Personal Features |
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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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Oct 3rd, 2009 |
By Jason |
Category: Features, News, News Feature, Springfield News
Jonathan Stratman’s Roberto and the Robot, a film produced from MSU’s Electronic Arts program in spring 2009, is released on DVD.
Tags: American Psalm, Circumvolve, DVD, Electronic Arts, filmmaking, Isaac Crawford, Jonathan Stratman, movie, Moxie, Roberto and the Robot, rock and roll, Roommate Wanted, soundtrack, Springfield Posted in Features, News, News Feature, Springfield News |
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Sep 10th, 2009 |
By Zach |
Category: Campus News, Features, News, Top Story
Finding a tutor on campus has never been easier. Thanks to the new Bear Claw (Center for Learning and Writing), students needing assistance in writing, math, or any subject taught on campus can find tutors quickly, easily, and all under one roof.
Located conveniently on the first floor of Meyer Library, the Bear Claw is designed to be “a comfortable place for students to come together and work,” according to Mike Frizell, Director of the Bear Claw.
Tags: Bear Claw, Center for Learning and Writing, Diana Garland, Kelly Bextermueller, Meyer Library, Mike Frizell, Missouri State, MSU, opens, Rachelle Darabi, Rebecca James, Sarah Viehmann, tutoring, tutors, Writing Center Posted in Campus News, Features, News, Top Story |
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Aug 21st, 2009 |
By Zach |
Category: Community Features, Features
For hikers and lovers of the outdoors, the Springfield Conservation and Nature Center can provide a welcome respite from the busy collegiate lifestyle.
Tags: Back to Class, hiking, Kim Banner, Missouri, Ozarks, snorkeling, Springfield Conservation and Nature Center, wildlife Posted in Community Features, Features |
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Aug 21st, 2009 |
By Jason |
Category: Awareness, Featured Articles, Features
“A year of my life is gone,” Mike said, describing how he has trouble remembering what happened outside the game world during 2007, when he played 25 to 30 hours just on weekends. “I know how, but I don’t really remember why I did those things. That’s what’s scary.
Tags: 2009-2010, Addiction, Back to Class, Counseling and Testing Center, Dorothy Warner, Doug Greiner, Freshmen, Gaming Addiction, Liz Woolley, Missouri State University, MSU, On-Line Gamers Anonymous, Online Gaming, www.olganon.org Posted in Awareness, Featured Articles, Features |
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Aug 21st, 2009 |
By Jason |
Category: Awareness, Features
Liz Woolley, Founder of On-Line Gamers Anonymous, communicated with The Underground Assistant Editor Jason McGill via email about online counseling, defining gaming addiction, and the risks to freshmen of online gaming addiction.
Online Approach
Jason McGill: Please discuss your experience with doing counseling online. What unexpected challenges have you met and overcome?
Liz Woolley: When we started [...]
Tags: Gaming Addiction, Interview, Liz Wooley, olganon, olganon.org, On-Line Gamers Anonymous, www.olganon.org Posted in Awareness, Features |
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Aug 21st, 2009 |
By msuunder |
Category: Features, Personal Features
Welcome fellow students of Missouri State University. As an expert of living in residence halls – yes, residence hall (your home away from home isn’t a dorm) – I’m here to tell you a few secrets about your “res hall”.
Missouri State University provides more comforts than you can possibly imagine, and has more rules too. [...]
Tags: alcohol, Back to Class, Dorm, Missouri State, MSU, RA, Residence Hall, Resident Assistant, Rules, Survival Guide Posted in Features, Personal Features |
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Apr 6th, 2009 |
By Zach |
Category: Campus Group, Features
Students organize a Beer Club at MSU.
Tags: Beer Club, Durr, Kimmich, Kyle Snow, Meuller, Missouri State University, MSU, Sam Adams Irish Ale, Smithwicks, Souza, unofficial Posted in Campus Group, Features |
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