Archive for February 2010
Feb 13th, 2010 |
By Zach |
Category: Entertainment, Music Reviews, Top Story
by Victoria Branch Well, it’s Valentine’s Day again. And I don’t know about you, but I’m a little tired of the worn-out love songs put on EVERY mix on February 14th. I’m not saying Etta James and Journey don’t have their merits, but I’ve taken the time to put together a more independent playlist for […]
Tags: playlist, songs, valentines day Posted in Entertainment, Music Reviews, Top Story |
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Feb 5th, 2010 |
By Mike |
Category: Featured Articles, Top Story
Brandon Mashburn is known nationally as one of the creative minds behind works by such artists as Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, DC Talk, and Papa Roach. Mashburn works his edge from the friendly confines of his own home recording studio in Springfield.
Tags: Brandon Mashburn, Breaking Benjamin, DC Talk, Hootie and the Blowfish, Machina, music producer, Papa Roach, rock, Shinedown, Springfield, Starlume, Tom Whitlock, Top Gun, TRUST Company Posted in Featured Articles, Top Story |
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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: Columns, Featured Articles, Opinions
I would like to take to task an opinion article written by Gabriel McLaughlin published Jan. 19 in Missouri State’s The Standard. In it, McLaughlin questions whether taxpayer resources should be given to Haiti without the citizens voting on it and whether we should even maintain our relationship with Haiti at all.
Tags: earthquake, foreign aid, Gabriel McLaughlin, Haiti, The Standard, United States, vote Posted in Columns, Featured Articles, Opinions |
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Feb 5th, 2010 |
By Zach |
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. […]
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 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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