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.

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 [...]

Terry Walls wanted to know the truth; the ugly, racist truth.

In 1950, his mother, Mary Jean Price, became the first African American applicant to Missouri State University (then a white’s-only institution known as Southwest Missouri State College).

The college failed to respond to her application, and a Greene County judge ruled against her when she filed suit against the school for their inaction. Denied the opportunity for an education, Price moved on with her life, but the scar of the racially-motivated denial have never really healed.

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.

by Zach Becker
As the campus community continues to react to the startling resignation announcement by MSU President Michael Nietzel, one can’t help but wonder what role the upcoming budget crisis had in his decision.
In any case, we need the leader of our college to have his or her full attention and energy directed toward the [...]

Smoking is a vile, disgusting habit with no real positive benefits.
That said, we recognize each individual’s right to destroy their own body if they so wish.
However, develop lung cancer on your own time and on your own property! Stop polluting campus for the rest of us!
Recently, talk of a smoking ban at Missouri State University [...]

by Jason McGill
Welcome to the discussion! Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning or just picked up The Underground for the first time, thank you. You’re the reason we do what we do.
Since you’re reading an alternative newspaper, I don’t have to convince you of the sorry state of the news media.
If they aren’t [...]

by Jason McGill
Missouri State University President Michael T. Nietzel discussed his intention to step down as president at a press conference on November 3.
Nietzel, 62, said he would remain in the post through December 2010 to allow adequate time for the Board of Governors to find his successor.
Nietzel began thinking of leaving the presidency early [...]

by Adam Hammons
For most sports lovers across the nation, Missouri State isn’t exactly well known. Besides a couple great showings in the dance in both men’s and women’s basketball, we haven’t really proven ourselves to be a top quality sports school.
MSU alum and Phillies first basemen Ryan Howard, though, may help change that as he [...]

by Adam Hammons
Budget cuts coupled with scheduling conflicts caused MSU’s intramural co-ed flag-football champions to punt on the opportunity to compete for the regional title.
MSU student Justin Drane’s team won the intramural championship at MSU and normally would have competed at the regional tournament at Oklahoma State University.
In years past, MSU paid the $300 entry [...]