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 “The Week of the Scholar” is a National Panhellenic Conference-sponsored celebration of scholarship within the sororities on campus.
According to Katy Schwartz, Panhellenic president, this is an opportunity to focus on the organizations’ core value of scholarship and create a network of scholarship within the group. It will run from Nov. 12-16, and several events are [...]

I never would have thought that college would change everything in my life. Especially my friendships. I mean the administrators and counselors all said that once we get into college, the people that we call our best friends now will not be someone that we want to look at let alone be friends with.
Of course those [...]

Student Government Association election for president and vice president will be held Nov. 14 and 15 for the up and coming school year.
The candidates that are running are Luke Herrington and Harold Calloway for president, and Emily Feger and Jennifer Kohler for vice president. This election will also permit students to vote on constitutional issues [...]

There has been a steady number of transfer students choosing to attend Western in the last decade.
Western has had an average of 332.8 transfer students every fall semester since 1997. In the fall of 2007, there were 312 transfer students.
Western puts its main focus on articulation agreements and scholarships in order to make the transition [...]

We made a mistake.
Our editorial “Have some respect” printed Oct. 30 pointed out a series of events that have occurred recently that are, frankly, embarrassing to the university student body — our mistake was wording the editorial in such a way that it appeared we were blaming all problems on the entire campus minority population.
That [...]

After many years of being involved with College Media Advisers, English professor Dr. Kenneth Rosenauer has been elected president of the national organization.
Rosenauer is former chair of the Missouri Western English Department and has been a member of CMA since 1980. He has also had numerous positions for CMA such as the on site critiques [...]

The Griffons are playoff ready as they closed out a close game, against a good team, in the fourth quarter. The defense made key plays in critical situations and the offense scored at least 30 points for the eighth time this season. i> 
 With post-season play hanging in the balance, Missouri Western (8-2 overall, 6-2 conference) [...]