Posts Tagged ‘ MSU ’

Please wash your hands

Sep 10th, 2009 | By msuunder | Category: Columns, Opinions

By Joel Hahs Refuse to wash them? Then stick em in your pocket. Keep your filthy hands away from my school! I have noticed many Missouri State students feel it unnecessary to wash their hands after using the restroom. This is also a problem to those who are around individuals that do not wash. I [...]



New printing limit stifles student needs

Sep 10th, 2009 | By Zach | Category: Editorials, Opinions

SGA members just get to sit back, vote to impose a printing quota on the rest of us, and make it appear they are doing something for the environment and the school’s budget.



Students battle video game addiction

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.



Residence Hall Survival Guide

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 [...]



Editorial; Ride more, drive less

Aug 21st, 2009 | By Nate | Category: Editorials, Opinions

Back to class does not have to mean back to futilely searching for a parking spot everyday. We have a suggestion; leave the car parked at home or at the dorms and ride a bike instead. Simple, convenient, and non-polluting, it will not cost you a dime in gas money. Plus, you can tone those [...]



Editor welcomes students to contribute to The Underground

Aug 21st, 2009 | By Zach | Category: Commentary, Opinions

by Zach Becker Greetings, readers. To all of you, from freshmen to grad students, I’d like to extend to you an invitation to contribute to this publication. We’d love to add your name to our list of contributors. As a completely independent student newspaper, we want to comprehensibly cover the MSU campus. But we need [...]



Make this year the best ever

Aug 21st, 2009 | By Nate | Category: Columns, Opinions

by Nate Bassett Welcome back to school. You’re probably excited about finding a routine, whether it’s one that you had before, or a whole new one. Numerous clubs, organizations, and sporting groups would love for you to join their ranks. After all, college is about more than just getting a degree, it’s an experience. So, [...]



Why I support concealed carry (on campus and otherwise)

May 4th, 2009 | By Zach | Category: Columns, Opinions

Zach Becker Editor-in-Chief Mutually assured destruction. That’s the best way I can sum up why I support the legal right to carry concealed firearms, both on campus and otherwise. Remember the Cold War? We had two super powers, vying for power and supremacy, both with an arsenal of nuclear warheads capable of destroying the world [...]



Musings of a freshman

May 2nd, 2009 | By msuunder | Category: Blogs

Raymond Lehnhoff Webmaster So here I am, my first year of college solidly under my belt, and as I sit here thinking to myself, I realized that I’d done things that I never thought I would a year ago. I decided to compile a small list. 1) Jumping out of an airplane. Let me start [...]



Students stage ‘Empty Holster’ protest of campus concealed carry ban

Apr 20th, 2009 | By Zach | Category: Campus News, News

Zach Becker Editor-in-Chief The message on the signs are clear. Firearms are not allowed on the Missouri State campus, concealed or otherwise. But will those signs stop a maniacal gunman? Not according to MSU non-traditional student Andrew Simpson, who believes tragedies like the shooting at Virginia Tech could have been averted had law-abiding students been [...]