Archive for January 2007

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Minimum wage increase sends campus scrambling

The state-level increase in the minimum wage has sent school officials and budget makers rushing to cover an unexpected shortfall for the semester and year.

Dean search is over

After a search process that went through five attempts and as many committees, Steven Estes has been appointed dean of professional studies.

Throw the ball to Berrian

Peyton Manning is a choke artist and will choke in the Super Bowl.

Manning will rise to the occasion

Peyton Manning may finally be able to shake the title of “CHOKER!”

Student broadcast themselves, watch others, on YouTube

Andy Warhol once said that in the future, everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. While this may have seemed unheard of in the 1960s, with the recent popularity of YouTube, people are finding ways to make the most out of their fifteen minutes.

Title IX concerns cited in dropping Ohio U.

By Matt O’Donnell & Michelle Munoz
ATHENS, Ohio - One of the main reasons Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt gave Thursday for eliminating lacrosse, men’s swimming and diving and men’s indoor and outdoor track and field was the athletic program’s inability to comply with Title IX.

Western’s Board of Governors holds first meeting of 2007

BOG discusses several issues in first session
At the January Board of Governor’s meeting, Western’s first master’s degree program, Western’s increase in state funding and the minimum wage increase for Missouri were topics of discussion.