The Griffon News

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This year’s Convocation on Critical Issues will be headlined by long time ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, Oct. 23 at 9:30 a.m. in the Looney Complex.
Sam Donaldson is a 40-year Veteran of ABC News, hosting such shows as “World News Tonight” and “Prime Time Live.” He also served two appointments as ABC’s White House news [...]

The women of Alpha Gamma Delta are going to be having fun while raising money for a good cause at their fundraiser this week.
The annual Teeter-totter-a-thon will begin on Thursday Oct. 18 and continue through the night in order to raise money to the charitable foundation of their choice.
All 31 women of the Kappa Beta [...]

Apparently there is no longer a First Year Programs department. If you asked anyone in the administration, you probably wouldn’t be able to find that out. I sure haven’t. As of press time the administration had not replied to questions on this issue.
I heard it from students.  
While trying to find out the details of [...]

There’s a television commercial explaining the need for art and literature in the world that shows a little girl handing her daddy something to read for the goodnight story; it’s some sort of technical manual.
Now we don’t dispute the value of technology. It’s important that our students learn how to specialize in the world, and [...]

In a world full a superstar athletes who love to talk about how many highlights they have, one Griffon athlete simply lets her 1,000 highlights do all the talking for her.
Alyssa Berg, a senior at Western, recently became  the 13th Griffon in 32 years of Missouri Western volleyball to record 1,000 career kills.
She has become [...]

Sometime in late August, we were handed our assignments for the Griffon News, and I had to pick up and move to the sports desk. I was actually enthused to be on one of the best positions on the paper. If anything, I could at least show this to my dad in hopes of easing [...]

Over the last weekend, the area of St. Joseph has undergone its own zombie apocalypse and it all took place at the Horseshoe Lake Drive In theatre. The undead roamed about without fetter through the woods for the entertainment of locals looking for some Halloween fun.
Jay Kerner, owner and operator of the Horseshoe Lake Drive [...]